Apple has rolled out a new update to the Apple Support app for iPhone and iPad. The update brings a new search tab that makes finding support articles from the Cupertino company faster and easier. The update is in the App Store now so you should have it available to update to on your devices.
Previous to this update to the Apple Support app, you had three tabs: Discover which is aimed at helping you discover basic information about Apple and Apple products, Get Support which showed you a list of all of your devices associated with your iCloud account where you could get specific support for them, and the Account tab where you could get an overview of your account and check your AppleCare+ coverage. In the new update, the Account tab has been replaced by Search. This allows you to search by keyword or phrases for any support article from Apple.
You can still access your account information in the app. If you go to Get Support or the Discover tab, you will see your avatar in the upper-right corner which you can tap to gain access to that information.
The new Search tab will be handy if you are looking for something a bit more obscure from Apple and not necessarily attached to one of your devices. It is a welcome addition to the app and certainly makes it a bit more usable while you are on-the-go.
If you haven't downloaded the app, you can do so in the App Store. It is free.


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In March 2018, "Ready Player One" directed by Spielberg was released in mainland China. The topic of the universe has never appeared before. The characters shuttle between the real world and virtual games. Upon wearing the VR, you will then enter a virtual world namely "Oasis" and become the protagonist in the world.
Once the movie was released, it caused a hot discussion. At that time, a word called " Metaverse " appeared.
The concept of Metaverse was first proposed by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in the novel "Snow Crash" published in 1992. In the book, Neil Stephenson described a virtual world which is parallel to the real world and named it as "Metaverse". It is a state in which three modes of physical reality, augmented reality and virtual reality merge with each other in a shared cyberspace. All people in the real world have a "Avatar" in Metaverse.
In a nutshell, the metaverse is a virtual mapping version of the human real world, an artificial virtual parallel world. In this parallel world, it will be projected one by one with the real world. To become a metaverse, at least eight key characteristics must be met: identity, friends, immersion, wherever, diversity, low latency, economy, and civilization.
At the end of June this year, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly stated that the company's future plans are far more than social media, but to build a metaverse. In a long interview with technology blog, The Verge, Zuckerberg delved into the future vision of the metaverse and the role that Facebook might play in it. It shows that Facebook will devote itself to the development of the metaverse in the next 5 years and build it into the next Internet.
Interestingly, according to Facebook's organizational structure, the metaverse department he established is a secondary department under its VR business. Therefore, in the eyes of many insiders, Metaverse is nothing but Zuckerberg's new packaging for the VR business.
Hence, is VR really the entrance to the metaverse? Not necessarily so.
In order to achieve the realistic experience in the movie of "Ready Player One", it required at least a mature VR, AR hardware and more stable blockchain technology are needed.
In order to support identity, digital assets and economic systems, Metaverse needs to use blockchain technology. In essence, whether it is VR, artificial intelligence or blockchain technology, they are all used as infrastructures to provide technical solutions for new technologies, information, and the Internet.
The operation in the metaverse required economic activity generation. The generation of activities must have identities, transactions, digital assets and etc. At this point, NFT has become a new value carrier. It capitalizes the virtual goods in the metaverse, thereby realizing the value circulation of data content. By mapping the digital assets, all online equipment, decorations as well as land and property rights have tradable entities.
Of course, in addition to NFT, DeFi's efficient and reliable financial system can accelerate the construction of the metaverse. Users' financial operations are not restricted by geography, economic level, and trust. Through smart contracts, it can execute automatically and avoid black box operations.
Therefore, blockchain technology is indispensable in order to reach the world of metaverse. It is an infrastructure of the core data layer, information layer, and transmission layer in the metaverse.
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Typical. The SC screwed up everything with Barron in 1833. All the Bill of Rights except the First bind the States, as Rawle remarked in his texts, under the supremacy clause. Hamilton in the Federalist 84 pointed out that the feds have absolutely NO authority to legislate in any of the areas covered by a Bill of Rights providing solid evidence that ALL federal gun laws are unconstitutional. The feds punish for firearms violations without authority. Specific police powers are granted in Article I Section 8. The inclusion of those explicit grants provided unassailable evidence that ungranted police powers are not within the purview of the federal government. Thus all punishments for firearms laws (unconstitutional to begin with) are also unconstitutional since no grant to punish anything except counterfeiting, treason, felonies on the high seas, piracies on the high seas, offenses against the law of nations, violations of the 13th, and copyright/patent security was ever granted.
If Congress obeyed the Constitution, then all of us as members of the militias would be provided with military weapons as is done in Switzerland and Norway.
Why exactly is the Supreme Court allowed to keep cert votes secret?


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A NONPROFIT BACKED with money from Michael Bloomberg is paying the salaries of 14 lawyers who are working on environmental and climate change issues for Democratic attorneys general around the country, including Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the NYU School of Law, created in 2017 with $6 million in funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, has raised concerns in a handful of states about a private organization funding the pay of employees at a public law enforcement agency.
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'"It looked inappropriate to me, that someone could go to the AG and say, 'Hey I want to fund two positions to bring lawsuits in an area I'm interested in,"' said Cameron Macdonald, executive director of the Government Justice Center in New York, a conservative taxpayer watchdog group.
Macdonald filed a complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, an oversight and compliance agency in New York, but heard nothing back. "This is like a workaround, allowing for AGs offices to bypass their legislatures to get funding for pet projects," he said.
IN-DEPTH: ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY HAS FILED 44 LAWSUITS AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
In Virginia, the Republican-controlled General Assembly in Virginia responded to news reports about the program by inserting an amendment into this year's state budget requiring those working for Attorney General Mark Herring to be paid solely with public funds.
A spokesman for the State Impact Center said the organization selected Herring's office to participate in the program in December 2017, but he hasn't actually hired any fellows yet.
In Oregon, a Republican state senator initiated an inquiry into Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum's participation in the program, prompting the Legislative Counsel Committee, which conducts oversight of executive branch agencies, to declare that hiring a staff lawyer with third-party money violates state regulations.
In Massachusetts, Healey's office is being sued by the nonprofit Energy Policy Advocates in Suffolk Superior Court over unreleased documents pertaining to the fellowships. The group is claiming the state's public records law covers documents exchanged between Healey's office and the State Impact Center. The group appears to be seeking the documents in connection with its interest in lawsuits involving Healey and ExxonMobil over climate change.
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Sarah received a 2018 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for her role in the ProPublica/NPR story, "They Got Hurt at Work and Then They Got Deported," which explored how Florida employers and insurance companies were getting out of paying workers compensation benefits by using a state law to ensure injured undocumented workers were arrested or deported. Sarah attended Emerson College for a Bachelor's Degree in Political Communication, and Columbia University for a fellowship and Master's degree with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
Healey's office says the fellows who work in her office are paid $72,450 and $94,500 by the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center. (They don't show up on state payroll records.)
Healey said the fellows make quarterly reports back to the center, and her office is in communication with the organization regularly. "I would hope there is some sort of accounting or reckoning going back and forth on how various people are doing on their litigations," she said, saying the fellows have worked out well. "They're free. The fact that Michael Bloomberg and others came together through NYU Law School to provide additional resources in this space is a good thing," she said.
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CEO Shufti Pro Victor Fredung Speaks at US Congress Hearing on Digital Privacy
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Originally Published on Market Watch.
London, 26 July 2021 – A congressional virtual hearing was held on the 16th of July 2021 by the US Financial Services Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, examining key points related to digital privacy.
Speakers at the hearing included experts in the field of digital technology and security. Victor Fredung, the CEO of Shufti Pro, was invited to give his testimony at the hearing and emphasized how Shufti Pro is making the financial structure secure through the use of AI technology for identity verification.
The hearing entitled "I Am Who I Say I Am: Verifying Identity while Preserving Privacy in the Digital Age" discussed a variety of issues, including the future of digital identity, how best to protect data and digital privacy, making AI more inclusive and diverse, and the use of technologies, such as blockchain.
At the hearing, Victor Fredung mentioned his support for the "Improving Digital Identity Act of 2020" and explained how a unified framework is needed in the United States due to vast variations in ID document types and regulatory requirements across the country.
"We strongly suggest the pursuit of a universal framework that each state (in the US) needs to follow when it comes to the selection of ID documents and a unified requirement when it comes to what information needs to be verified and how verification should be performed in all states," stated Fredung.
The hearing also highlighted the emerging threat of identity theft in the US, where Rep. Bill Foster stated that the FTC received over 1.3 million complaints related to identity theft from US consumers in 2020.
Responding to this, Fredung added that since 2017, Shufti Pro has been combating identity theft by utilizing AI and ML models in its identity verification solutions. With the help of document authentication, anti-spoof checks, liveness detection, and optical character recognition (OCR) technology, fraudulent documents and identity thieves are detected with an accuracy rate of almost 99%.
Fredung further added that while the use of blockchain for data sharing and storage is in its early stages at the moment, "it is definitely something to look out for in the future".
DiRoma Eck & Co. LLP., the Washington-based advisory and government relations firm that assisted Shufti Pro in getting the opportunity to speak at the hearing, commended the issues raised by Fredung. "Shufti Pro's CEO, Victor Fredung, provided the Financial Services Committee with valuable and insightful testimony from the perspective of the AI-powered digital identity verification industry. The U.S. Congress will benefit from Shufti Pro's testimony as it continues to legislate and conduct oversight of the banking and financial technology industries," said Michael DiRoma, Co-founder and Partner, DiRoma Eck & Co. LLP.
Shufti Pro is globally acclaimed for providing a rapid, secure, and compliant means of performing digital identity verification. Its AI-based IDV services have one of the highest rates of accuracy and are offered in 230+ countries and territories. By supporting 3000+ identity documents in 150+ languages, Shufti Pro has proven to be ideal for eliminating the risk of digital fraud while maintaining regulatory compliance with GDPR and AML/KYC obligations.
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Hungary will block and veto Ukraine's EU integration as education law maltreating minorities is signed
Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the President has just signed a law which deprives minorities of their rights and leads down a blind alley instead on the path to the European Union
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Hungary will block and veto all moves in the EU which would advance Ukraine's European integration process, Hungary's foreign minister said following Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signing the country's new education law.
Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the President has just signed a law which deprives minorities of their rights and leads down a blind alley instead on the path to the European Union.
The law also violates several international agreements which Ukraine had promised to fulfil as part of its European Union accession plans, including making education and training available in the mother tongue at all levels.
"Hungary's constitutional obligation is to raise its objections to the law at every international forum in the interest of protecting national minorities, including the Hungarian minority," Hungary's Human Resources Ministry said in a statement.
The Human Resources Minister has called on his Ukrainian counterpart to hold talks with the representatives of Hungarian communities in Transcarpathia (Kárpátalja) who have been left out of the legislative process.
The Hungarian government said it would continue to be open for talks with Ukraine in the interest creating fair regulations governing minority language education. Furthermore, Hungary continues to offer humanitarian aid to the country.


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Lumber Capital Athletics, home of CrossFit Lumber Capital, is an open-concept, functional training facility located at 575 East Third St. in Williamsport. The facility opened in October 2022 and is owned by Ben Wise and Stacey Kadenas. They offer group CrossFit classes, individualized programming, personal training, and performance programs for athletes ranging from middle & high school to college age.
Wise and Kadenas got into the fitness field through slightly different paths. While competing as a collegiate wrestler, Ben Wise earned his degree in Health and Physical Education. During his time wrestling for Messiah College, however, it became clear that he loved training even more than competing. After graduating, Wise needed a competitive outlet which ultimately led him to the sport of CrossFit. For him, it was the best of both worlds as it combined competition and training. While working as a Health and Physical Education teacher, Ben began competitive CrossFit and coaching at an affiliate. Eventually, he left teaching to pursue CrossFit coaching full-time. In 2018 he founded ZOAR Fitness and began remote coaching CrossFit athletes. Now he coaches athletes from around the world at all levels.
Kadenas is a Williamsport native and has a passion for health and fitness that has transformed over the years from hours and miles of running on roads to training competitively in the sport of CrossFit under ZOAR Fitness. Shortly after discovering CrossFit, she joined a local affiliate, and within a few months, she knew that this was where she wanted her career in the fitness world to be. Stacey received her CrossFit L1 certification and then shortly after opened and owned her own affiliate in 2013, continuing down that path for the next seven years.
While working closely with members each day, Stacey realized that the missing piece for many people was nutrition. Properly fueling the body and coaching nutrition became her next step. Not long after, Kadenas received nutrition coaching certifications which enabled her members to fully realize their fitness goals both inside and outside of the gym. In 2020 Stacey expanded her nutrition services by offering a meal prep service. Macros from Ma were formed, preparing and delivering meals to clients, complete with a well-balanced macro-nutrient breakdown.
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When asked why they wanted to open a facility, Wise responded, "Before 2022, I had a very healthy hesitation to open a gym…it's a ton of work. But when you see a hole in the market, you have to jump on it, and thankfully I have a great partner to share the workload with, and our strengths complement each other."
Opening a new business is difficult in a good economy but opening right before a global pandemic made the process exponentially more difficult. Still, Wise and Kadenas were able to make it work. "Thankfully, Stacey and I were already established fitness professionals in this area even though we didn't have a building to offer our clientele at the time," said Wise. "So, while the physical location and building was brand new, we had a group of dedicated people waiting for us to open our doors."
When asked about their plans for growing their business, Wise responded, "Our primary focus will always be serving our current clients better by meeting their needs first. For example, many members were asking about a CrossFit Kids program, and since Stacey was already certified to teach that we recently added that offering for children between 7 and 11."
For more information about Lumber City Athletics, you can go to their website, lumbercapital.fit or catch Ben & Stacey's Podcast, The Fitness Movement, on YouTube.
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Information published on 4 July 2017 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 555.
Latvia-China: Latvian Railways and DHL join forces to boost Baltic-China trade
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Baltic and Nordic exporters can look forward to faster, cheaper and more reliable logistics connections to China's immense export market, following the signing of a new agreement between Latvia's State Joint Stock Company Latvijas dzelzceļš (LDz) and DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international provider of air, sea and road freight services.
The Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MUC) signed last week between both companies will see both organisations focus on establishing multimodal rail connections between China and Latvia, including both freight connections and consolidation services centered in Riga City. Under the MUC, new connections will include guaranteed transit times and simplified customs and handling procedures for inbound and outbound cargo, as well as support for more flexible shipments such as Less-than-Container Load (LCL) freight.
"So far, very few Baltic or Nordic businesses have fully tapped into the immense market opportunities that China and the broader Asia Pacific region currently offer," said Steve Huang, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding Greater China. "The two regions' exports made up only 0.7% of China's imports on average between 2011 to 2015, despite China's demand for overseas goods which both regions excel in – like high-quality food products, textiles, and pharmaceuticals – growing rapidly in this time. "
"With the economies of Latvia and its neighbors expected to grow faster than the rest of the European Union, businesses in the region will need to look to new markets like China to fuel their expansion. By building rapid, reliable logistics connections between the Baltic and Asia Pacific, we hope to give the region's businesses a strong foundation for ongoing growth."
The MUC comes as DHL begins service along its newest Asia-Europe multimodal route connecting Shenzhen to Minsk via rail. DHL holds similar agreements with national rail providers in Belarus, Chengdu, and other major hubs along China's proposed "Belt and Road" trade routes.
"DHL has led the way in realizing the Belt and Road's opportunities for numerous countries, including the Nordic states that its Shenzhen-Minsk route will directly service," said President of LDz, Edvīns Bērziņš. "This new agreement will give Latvian businesses the flexibility and confidence to engage in freer trade with Chinese and Asian markets, as well as establish Latvia as a strategic gateway along the Belt and Road to other parts of Europe – a twofold boost to the country's production and logistics industries."
The MUC also includes provisions for ocean freight and intermodal shipping between Latvia, Scandinavia, and the UK and Ireland, as well as air and road freight connections to major cities across continental Europe.
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Financial institution managers and directors are top of the pay league in the Dorset and Wiltshire area for full time average annual earnings. In April 2017 they had annual average earnings of £63,337. At the bottom of the pay league for 85 occupations, are elementary services occupations, with average earnings of £14,805.
These figures are from a new study by GMB Southern of the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) from the April 2017 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE).
The other highest earning positions in the South West include; health professionals on £60,613, functional managers and directors on £59,934, production managers and directors on £51,712, legal professionals on £45,706, quality and regulatory professionals on £43,280, and research and development managers on £43,270.
Meanwhile, some of the lowest paid positions in the South West also include; childcare and related personal services on £15,271, hairdressers and related services on £15,952, elementary sales occupations on £16,356, elementary cleaning occupations on £16,885, cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors on £17,550, and sales assistants and retail cashiers on £18,085.
Data for five occupational groups for the Dorset and Wiltshire area are suppressed due to accuracy of the sample size or reasons of confidentiality.
Paul Maloney, GMB Regional Secretary said: "This league table for the annual average earnings for full time workers in the different occupational groups working for employers in the Dorset and Wiltshire area is very instructive.
"It shows the sheer range of pay from the top to the bottom of the pay league. At the top are financial institution managers and directors on £63,337 and at the bottom, elementary services occupations on £14,805.
"It is not the full picture as it does not include part time workers or those in the gig economy who most of the time earn much less than the full time shop workers at the bottom of the pay league.
"What these figures show is the importance of income support and housing benefits for those at the bottom of the pay league. As Universal Credit which replaces these benefits is rolled out GMB will continue to monitor the impact on the take home incomes of workers who depend on it to make ends meet".
1] Source: 2017 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings – residence based for all employee jobs. Source: Tables 2 and 15, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics. Crown Copyright Reserved.
2] The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on a 1% random sample of employee jobs (approximately 300,000 employees) taken from HM Revenue and Customs PAYE records. Information on earnings and hours is obtained from employers and treated confidentially. It covers all employee jobs in all industries and occupations across the whole of the United Kingdom. ASHE does not cover the self-employed nor does it cover employees not paid during the reference period.
3] The occupations listed in the table of official data provided by the Office of National Statistics include 3-digit codes. These codes group occupations, identified by the 4-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code, into further occupational groups.


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Q: How does linking to OS C libraries under Windows and Linux work? I understand Linux ships with a c library, which implements the ISO C functions and system call functions, and that this library is there to be linked against when developing C. However, different c compilers do not necessarily produce linkable code (e.g. one might pad datastructures used in function arguments differently from another). How is the built-in c library meant to be linked to when I could use any compiler to compile my C? Is the story any different for static versus dynamic linking?
Under Windows on the other hand, each compiler provides its own standard library, which solves part of the problem, but system calls are still in a single set of DLLs. How are C applications linked to these DLLs successfully? How about different languages? (The same DLLs can be used by pre-.Net Visual Basic, etc.)

A: Each platform has some "calling conventions" that each C implementation must adhere to in order to be able to talk to the operating system correctly. For Windows, for example, all OS-based functions have to be called using stdcall convention, as opposed to the default C convention of cdecl.
In Linux, since the standard C library (and kernel) is compiled using GCC, any other compilers for Linux must make sure their calling conventions are compatible to the one used by GCC.

A: Compilers do come with their implementations of the standard library. It's just that under Linux it's assumed that any compiler will follow the same conventions the version of GCC that compiled the library had.
As of interoperability, it can be easier than you think. There are established calling conventions that will allow compilers to produce a valid call to a function, even if the function wasn't compiled with the same software.
As of structures and padding, you'll notice that most frameworks work with opaque types, that is, pointers to structures. Often, the structure's layout isn't even available to clients. As such, they never works with the actual data, only pointers to the data, which clears the padding issue.

A: Standards. You'll note that stdlib stuff operates on primitive values and arrays - and the standard for that stuff is pretty explicit on how things are to be done.

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Elections to the Assam Legislative Assembly were held in 1991 to elect members of 126 constituencies in Assam, India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and a majority of seats and Hiteswar Saikia was appointed as the Chief Minister of Assam for his second term. The number of constituencies was set as 126, by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Result

Elected members

See also
List of constituencies of the Assam Legislative Assembly
1991 elections in India

References

Assam
State Assembly elections in Assam
1990s in Assam

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Learn to draw a custom path for Motion Path animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
Select the slide object that you want to animate. You can select any object on a slide although animation works best on text and shapes.
Alternatively, if you just want to follow this tutorial step-by-step, launch PowerPoint 2013. Within the Presentation Gallery, select the Blank Presentation option. PowerPoint will open a new presentation with a Title slide. PowerPoint 2013 users can change the slide layout to Blank by selecting the Home tab | Layout | Blank option. Then, insert a shape and select it.
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Whichever path you are drawing, make sure you establish the starting point of the custom motion path exactly at the position of your slide object. Remember the start point will have a green arrow, and the end point will have a red arrow.
As soon as you finish drawing the motion path, your selected slide object will animate along the path. Once the animation preview stops, you can see your drawn motion path. Figure 3 shows one such custom motion path.


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Pseudopod 399: The Wriggling Death
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Bdoomed
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Mmm. Tiger.
by Harold Gross.
"The Wriggling Death" is a Pseudopod original. The author says: "Best listened to with a cuppa and biscuit? This piece would not exist were it not for a tour of the Monterrey Aquarium by friend and fellow author, Pat McEwan, whose explanations of the strangest of sea life inspired the story."
HAROLD GROSS has previously published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, other magazines, and several anthologies. Currently, "The Song Giveth…" is serialized in issues 9-12 of the online magazine, [ur=http://www.aethernetmag.com/]Aethernet[/url], based in the UK but also available electronically in the US. While he appears most often as Harold Gross, his collaborative alter-ego, Gordon Gross, appears in several venues. In addition to writing, Harold has also been caught in live and recorded performances on stage and screen. His blog at The 5 a.m. Critic currently contains a wide range of non-spoiler movie reviews as well as links to available reprints and current publications.
Your reader – Veronica Giguere – is a narrator of many genres, most notably for the Secret World Chronicle podcast novel series (which she narrates, produces and writes along with Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin and Dennis Lee) and the cyberpunk noir podcast novel, Broken, co-written with Cedric Johnson. She can be found at www.voicesbyveronica.com and at Amazon and Smashwords. When not behind a microphone or slaving away on words, she works to release her soul from higher education in the pursuit of her doctorate.
"After finding the dell, we walked homeward in a more subdued fashion. After only a few steps, the contemplative silence was broken by the rustling of leaves behind us. We stopped in our tracks. We'd outrun Deaths all our lives and, in high Season, had even gone off into the desert to protect ourselves. More than enough females were willing to accept them into themselves and breed for as long as their accelerated aging would allow. There were always those that wanted to bear young. But that wasn't Chalen or myself, thank you. We had our voices and our music and our fans. That was enough.
Something about that sound in that place, though, froze us. Then, as we listened more carefully, we could hear that there were more on both sides of us boxing us in. We began to run toward the house and the hedges. Sanctuary."
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Listen to this week's Pseudopod.
I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds? Six pounds? Seven pounds?
adrianh
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Re: Pseudopod 399: The Wriggling Death
I liked the story on a first listen. It reminded me a bit of Charlie Stross's Equoid, which has another portrayal of alternative reproductive strategies.
Although, for a change, I didn't agree with some of Alasdair's comments at the end. Yes body horror — but body horror around sex and pregnancy. Not rape.
For me rape is about violence, power and dominance more than sex and reproduction. It's an intentional act. That's not what our narrator went through. The males don't have that kind of relationship with her. The wriggling deaths aren't sentient. What Chalen did was an act of panicked escape. At worst she threw our protagonist to the wolves — acting through fear. The underlying cause was accidental, not deliberate.
That "wresting of control" Alasdair referred to at the end… if anything that's the rape. Using sex and penetration for revenge — and the sister Chalen is the victim.
TimWB
Author "The Flesh Sutra", 2015 Stoker Prelim Nom
This made me wonder about the larger society. In cities, are penises herded into zoos or are they running amok in subways with the rats? Do the penises grow back?
I thought it annoying that the manner of movement was not described. Then I realized that describing the movement would have pushed the visualization into absurdity.
The writer struck a good balance.
SpareInch
Will there be sugar after the rebellion?
Quote from: adrianh on August 18, 2014, 05:54:42 PM
I have to say, I saw that as the rape too. The running from the Wriggling Death (Sorry, it just sounds too ridiculous to say penises) made me think of that old joke about why Arctic explorers always set out in pairs... "You can't outrun a polar bear, but you can outrun the other guy!"
Right, so she lost the race, but if she'd spent more time looking after the old house and garden, and it seems she was rich enough to see that that happened, she'd have been fine. Taking it out by raping her sister is just... Well... Sick? Petty? Spiteful?
Quote from: TimWB on August 20, 2014, 01:29:43 AM
This made me wonder about the larger society. In cities, are penises herded into zoos or are they running amok in subways with the rats?
Those are just the funniest images!
Do the penises grow back?
From what was said about males not living long, I got the impression that sex was a One Shot Deal. Once your, Umm, Wriggling Death comes off, you die.
« Last Edit: August 20, 2014, 03:05:06 PM by SpareInch »
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bounceswoosh
Matross
Meh. I somehow couldn't help but see this story as a metaphor for human sexuality, which made it very sex negative, which meh.
Also, with the litters and blonde hair, how did you visualize them? I pictured humanoid cats with human style hair.
Quote from: bounceswoosh on August 20, 2014, 05:31:55 PM
I didn't see that myself — much more about reproduction than sex for me. In fact the story explicitly drew that distinction:
"It was then she finally talked to us about sex. Not the reproductive rape of the wriggling death, but the love of a willing female partner. The perpetual support that endless life together could bring. If… if… you avoided the wriggling death."
ElectricPaladin
Holy Robot
The thing is, they obviously weren't human. They were some other strange species with their own, odd, reproductive strategies. Any similarities to human sexual behavior is based purely on the bad behavior of human males... which is kind of our own problem to solve, now, isn't it?
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This is one of the few stories that really "disturbed" me. So much so that I was compelled to come and comment.
I was disturbed by Chalen's actions, abandoning her sister, then actively trying to keep her out of the house (whatever her reasons at the time). I was disturbed by the images of violation, of the lack of control for how and when reproduction would occur. I was very disturbed by Chalen's rape by her own sister at the end of the story.
But I think what disturbed me most was that the thing attached itself inside her body and just kept forcing her to have more children. Once a Wriggling Death gets you, its over. It is control of your reproduction from then on, mindlessly or not. There has to be an ointment or procedure or something to cure that.
In the end I was immensely cheered by Alasdair's pronunciation of "tacos." Say it again, Al....please?
Quote from: Rhonda on August 24, 2014, 02:14:14 PM
...There has to be an ointment or procedure or something to cure that.
Here on Earth, we humans have got some simple and reliable procedures to prevent or terminate a pregnancy, and we can't seem to get any cultural agreement about making them available. Maybe it's the same way with these creatures? I can see some of the same stupid arguments between females who have decided that it's every woman's duty to reproduce and females who would rather let it be a personal choice. Sharon Shinn (author, most relevantly, of Heart of Gold) could write an alternate version focusing on the politics of this world... but the short story we listened to was body horror, not political sci-fi.
lisavilisa
Quote from: ElectricPaladin on August 24, 2014, 04:36:47 PM
or some men could argue their choice to reproduce is taken away if a woman kills their wriggling death members.
*note: I would not agree with them.
Reply #10 on: August 25, 2014, 01:17:44 AM
Quote from: lisavilisa on August 24, 2014, 11:00:35 PM
I get the feeling that men are not choosing or arguing members of this society.
Quote from: ElectricPaladin on August 25, 2014, 01:17:44 AM
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Reply #12 on: August 25, 2014, 01:48:37 PM
Wow. And ew. And wow again. This story should've been disgusting and absurd. Okay, it was disgusting and absurd, but it was also very powerful. I don't know how that got pulled off the way it did.
The initial reveal catching the brother's Wriggling Death detaching in the woods was done very well, because it was staged as the end of naivette at the discovery of sex. I mean, I already knew they were very humanish but weirdly inhuman at the same time with all the litters and whatnot, but suddenly at that moment when the Wriggling Death detaches, the whole story suddenly turned about 90 degrees. And while the image of the inchworm penis pursuing them into the bushes was absurdly funny, it was simultaneously freaky.
I liked how the differences in how the sexes work here was explored with the consentual sex all happening between the women, and the men holding no social power because of their lifespan and limited function (kind of like bees, I think).
I thought the ending was pretty horrifying. I'm not sure what I think about that, to me it made the character take a sharp twist in personality that didn't seem to match what came before. I think the story works better without that.
Interesting comments by Alasdair. Personally I didn't think it was so much about rape (though there were certainly elements of it, especially as she's staggering to the house with them crawling all over her, that could've been a gang rape). Personally, to me, it reminded me of how in many time periods and settings women have been treated as reproductive vessels and little else. Especially the TV image of 50s housewife whose purpose is to be a mother and to clean and etc, but also to some extent noblewomen who are expected to produce heirs for their husbands. In these settings, an unmarried woman can hold a fair amount of power as she's being wooed and courted, but once the marriage happens and she becomes pregnant, everything is expected to change. She can't be an object of sexual desire anymore! She's a mother! Think of the children! Which is of course, absurd--after all, unless we're talking about adoption or modern medical technology, having sex is a prerequisite to becoming a mother, and the desire doesn't turn off just because a baby has happened. (Not that a new baby can't provoke a dry spell, mind you, caused by sleeplessness, the woman's physical and emotional healing from the pregnancy and birth, shifted focus in the relationship from each other to childcare, but I mean that a mother doesn't stop having sexual desires just because she's a mother) So to me the fact that her sex organs are now blocked and unusable made me think of how a woman might feel after becoming pregnant where she felt social pressure to completely devote herself to being a mother and suppressing sexual aspects of herself.
I think ElectricPaladin could be right.
Also, with the species depicted here, it might actually be important for the survival of the species to not take any medical action once a coupling has occurred. Even though males are apparently born at a much higher rate than females, the males only get one shot at reproduction, and it's apparently a pretty common occurrence for the Wriggling Deaths to get smashed with shovels and the like. But the equation has so far worked out because one coupling produces many children who are mostly male, and because the coupling can happen occasionally. If medical technology also offered a way to detach them, then there might be danger of not having a next generation.
Also, I got the impression that the coupling would be irrevocable no matter how badly you tried--that the organs actually fused together, so that to cut the Wriggling Death out would involve necessarily mutilating what it was attached to and rendering those parts either scarred and insensate or so raw and painful as to either way be useless for sex. And, given that even to try to do this would be horribly risky for the mother, and would prevent the birth of her inevitable children that may be necessary for the continuation of the species, there would not be much incentive for the medical research for this to happen--except perhaps in cases where something goes wrong and the litters don't appear to be viable anyway, but that's outside the scope of this story.
The males in the story (I wouldn't call them men), really get the shaft in this one. They start out with the same intelligence as the females, only to lose their freedom and future once they give up their death. Its another aspect of the horror in this piece, that they get treated as slaves. Of course, I would wonder why they wouldn't just lock them up from birth. I also wonder how unintelligent they really are. Historically, slaves were always considered stupid so the slavery could be excused as "caring" for them. There is also a cold aspect to the females consideration of the males, as they have no consideration for their feelings or thoughts. This can lend itself to the ability of Chalen to so coldly leave her sister to her fate and leave her without caring, applying the feelings to the protagonist as she can to the males.
The part where Chalen can betray her sister was disturbing, and I can understand the protagonist's actions. She feels left behind and wants her sister to suffer her own fate. If you have been betrayed by someone so close to you, her anger can be understood. The problem is it won't resolve her situation and it shows the cancer of her hatred. She needed to look at her life and reexamine her priorities, instead of focusing so much on her sister. It's hard to let go of the anger, and the final act will only cement the bitterness as she passes on. Add in the aspect of rape, it becomes a much more disturbing view of revenge and how it only furthers the hatred, not releases it. Very complex piece, very disturbing. Good horror.
The males in the story (I wouldn't call them men), really get the shaft in this one. They start out with the same intelligence as the females, only to lose their freedom and future once they give up their death. Its another aspect of the horror in this piece, that they get treated as slaves. Of course, I would wonder why they wouldn't just lock them up from birth.
Slaves? Where did that come from? From what I remember they were educated in the same establishments as the females and the narrator and her sister treated them as peers (indeed, couldn't really tell the difference) — and the story doesn't reveal what happens once they release their death (or — indeed — whether it's just the one). They're mortal, so ephemeral to the non-reproducing females, but they didn't seem to be a slave race from what I remember, or lose their intelligence — or did I miss something?
From the intro I'm guessing the author came up with the idea from the angler fish's odd lifecycle (http://mudfooted.com/deep-sea-anglerfish-bizarre-reproduction/), but with the males living on after releasing their deaths. I'd assumed with the mention of the "season" and the numbers of deaths that must be around that it was an annual event for mature males.
And from immortal female perspective "short lived" might be a pretty long time (since the narrator of the tale talks about the 20 year odd period of raising her children as if it was no time at all).
I thought they mentioned that after their coming of age, the males become less intelligent and serve the females for the rest of their lives. They were discounting the males rather quickly, at an early age. The males also did their wriggling death thing rather early, as the scene in the story wasn't that much later in their lives from when they were playing. Guess I will have to read it again an double-check, maybe I misinterpreted some parts.
Checked and early on in the story, they indicate the status of males as servants, so maybe I used too strong a word, but they are similar to slaves after:
"Chalen and I were the only two in our litter, not including the males, but they were never counted anyway."
"I look at them (the males) and wonder why so many of us found them frightening at that age. Only a few years later they would all just be silent servants."
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Quote from: Dwango on August 26, 2014, 03:03:08 PM
that was what I thought too. I think the wriggling death separates at puberty, as you'd guess. She didn't realize there was a difference when they were very young, before her brother came of age, but she never interacted with him again after that.
Ahhh. You're right. I read that the first time around as an individual cases, those particular males became servants, not a general case. But you're right — it makes more sense that it's a general thing.
Reply #19 on: September 01, 2014, 12:06:11 AM
I second the "meh" for similar reason as mentioned by bounceswish.
It has a very... well, is there a female version of the word misogynistic?
Sgarre1
"Let There Be Fright!"
Misandrist. Sorry it didn't work for you.
But the weren't andros. You can't have misandrisy without the andros!
What I mean by that is this: why does everyone insist on seeing these characters are people. They are obviously not. I don't know about you, but my penis hasn't broken off to become a wormlike rapemonster while my brain experiences some kind of accelerated cranial neuropathy, leaving me a pliable but barely intelligent slave creature. This is not the mating behavior of humans. It's the mating behavior of things. It's a horrible biological limitation, to be sure, and fascinating to examine and consider the implications of, but it's not human.
If you couldn't look past the fact that technically their sperm-producing "males" were called "males" or "men," well... that says a lot more about you than it does about the story, and I invite you to examine that.
albionmoonlight
Reply #22 on: September 01, 2014, 01:47:54 PM
I liked this story. I agree with Unblinking's take on this. I saw the story as a metaphor about the choices women have to make, and how our society treats women once they choose to reproduce. And the zombie-like pressure of the deaths fits into that. It made me think of Mrs. A's female friends who have chosen not to marry of have kids in order to pursue their careers. They definitely feel pressure, both overt and subtle, to settle down and have kids. That does not seem to go away.
And then what she does to her sister at the end strikes me as a comment on how it is not just men who enforce these gender norms and expectations. Both men and women have bought into this system of how things should work and will do their parts to enforce it. Nowhere do I see "mommy-shaming" as prevalent as on the Mommy Blogs written by other women.
My only issue with this story (and it is more with me than with the story) is that I read it as such a strong metaphor that I did not pay enough attention to it as a story. I think that it works well on that level, but I'd have to listen again to see.
Quote from: ElectricPaladin on September 01, 2014, 05:39:24 AM
What I mean by that is this: why does everyone insist on seeing these characters are people.
I think that is a commentary on the creativity level of Pseudopod listeners. It would seem that we are a group with a very good imagination and as such, it does not take much to see the social commentary that lays just below the thin veil of this stories setting.
Like with the fable of the Fox and the grapes - Sure, it's a story about a fox and some grapes but I know that it is not really a story ABOUT a fox and some grapes.
Here's something that I had been thinking about since I posted my first comment on this story.
Writing about the possible "negative aspects" of having a family is not a subject our society really wants brought up. It goes against the popular "American Dream, 2.5 kids and a dog" narrative. So disguising that sort of commentary as an allegory would seem the best way to go about broaching the subject without seeming like you were some radical just out to kick society's dog.
I have seen how having children can sometimes result in rapid aging and physical degradation in the parent and how it can end the life that the parent may have had before kids. A life that they were really enjoying.
That was what I saw in this line -
It's that guy you knew who was the life of the party in his 20's. He was always getting "the gang" together for something or another. Then he got married, had kids and no one saw him much anymore as he became just a silent servant for his wife and kids.
Quote from: Gary on September 01, 2014, 08:28:58 PM
Social commentary? Sure. In our world, we assume that because women have the biological ability to reproduce, they have an obligation to do so, that they belong to the world of reproduction, the private sphere, and they are harassed and maltreated if they dare to venture into the public sphere, and that's pretty lousy.
But I think "it's a story uses metaphor to bring up the way we treat women in our society" and "the things they call 'men' aren't being treated the way men should be treated and that makes the story misandrist" are very far apart. The latter requires a dearth of imagination, not a surfeit of it.


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1990. 7 - 1994. 2 Hoechst Celanese Corp., New Jersey, U.S.A.
1. FTIR and Raman spectroscopic studies of polymer structure and orientations.
2. Polymer applications in LCD components and materials.
3. Photo-reactive liquid crystal molecules for optical films.
4. Polymeric materials studies for organic thin film transistors.
1993-1994 Kent State Univ., Post Doc.
Department of Applied Chemistry,KHU/Associate Prof.


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Consciousness Raising: Martha Rosler at the Jewish Museum
by Karen E. Jones
Martha Rosler: Irrespective at the Jewish Museum
November 2, 2018 to March 3, 2019
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York City, jewishmuseum.org
Installation view of the exhibition, Martha Rosler: Irrespective, November 2, 2018 – March 3, 2019, The Jewish Museum, NY. Photo by: Jason Mandella
Martha Rosler consistently challenges power structures, particularly in relationship to class and gender. To paraphrase Michel Foucault, power passes thorough the powerful as well as through the powerless. Her long overdue New York City mid-career retrospective embraced the breadth of her oeuvre with works that ranged from sculpture, installation, video and photography. It should be said, however, that while opening wall text states that the show is in close chronological order, the visitor's path is not clearly defined, nor is chronology followed.
One gallery, for instance, dedicated to text related pieces contains works from 2006 to the present. "Reading Hannah Arendt" (2006) is an installation consisting of clear plastic ceiling-to-floor panels with large black text excerpts from Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" set up as a maze-like structure. Opposite is a wall of large-scale photographs of bookshelf groupings with titles such as "Debt," "The "Anatomy of Fascism" and "What Really Happened in the 1960s." These book images range from 2008 – 2018 and serve as an archive of Rosler's artistic and pedagogic research. The photographs pay homage to the book form, employing a constructed documentary strategy. The labyrinth piece is difficult to navigate or make sense of in a gallery setting. The book photographs do inspire one to take notes for future reading, underscoring the theoretical and historical foundation of Rosler's artistic practice.
Martha Rosler, Cleaning the Drapes, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, c. 1967—72. Photomontage. Artwork © Martha Rosler; image courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
It is evident that Rosler occupies a feminist position in many of her works. Vital Statistics Simply Obtained (1975), for example, a video depicting the artist's body being measured in a regimented manner, equates raw statistical data to an idealized female body type. This objectification highlights unequal power relationships within gender politics. However, to label Rosler solely as a feminist artist delimits her prescient and powerful contributions to both art history and theoretical discourse. The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems (1974), for example, challenges the photographic gaze of the social documentary genre and the asserts the force of Conceptual Art strategies.
The groundbreaking work of well-meaning historical figures such as Jacob Riis, Louis Hine and Dorothea Lange, at times, debase the lower-class subjects through the photographic gaze. Rosler critiques the photographer's power position by substituting cliché images of skid row alcoholics with images where there is a deliberate absence of human subjects, deliberately frustrating viewer expectations. The unpeopled spaces are paired with derogatory descriptive terms of that malign the individuals and their inebriated state with words in two different font styles. Pejorative terms such as "drunk, derelict, bum" questions the objective stance of the social documentary project that at once brings attention to social ills while concurrently objectifying subjects that lack social agency. In an ironic historical twist, the current gentrified Bowery renders the piece an historic document much like Atget's photographs of Old Paris. This theme reoccurs in Rosler's recent project that records the transformation of her Brooklyn neighborhood from a working-class community to a bourgeois enclave.
Greenpoint Project (2011), the city exemplifies the role of gentrification in the rise in income inequality. She photographs and interviews numerous local merchants creating photographic portraits that are juxtaposed with quotes from the interviewees. As an inverse to the word text of The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems the subjects here speak for themselves. One notable tension within the artwork is the artist Carlos Valencia, a barista at Five Leaves restaurant. His words reveal a conflicted role as he states that he is a "Friend of the Owner, not an Owner."
Martha Rosler, Still from Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975. Single-channel video with sound, 6 min., 33 sec. Artwork © Martha Rosler
Rosler's landmark early video work, Semiotics of the Kitchen, (1975), inadequately displayed on a small television monitor in the corner of a gallery, parodies TV cooking shows and essentialist definitions of women's domestic roles. Rosler wryly invokes semiotic theory to explode the limitations of such social constructs. In this black and white video, the artist boldly addresses the camera reciting the alphabet, pairing each letter with a corresponding kitchen implement.
The elegiac series, Bringing the War Home (1967-72) utilizes home decor magazine editorials combined with Vietnam War news images in a photomontage format. Rosler reproduces the phenomenon of the horrors of this unpopular war entering American homes through the mass media in using those same print materials in a remarkable example of both image appropriation and recontextualization. Notable is the photograph of Pat Nixon within an ornate interior, dressed in a ballgown, where in a picture frame on the wall of the White House drawing room Rosler inserts the image of a war victim.
Overall, this exhibition rightfully situates Rosler as a standout visionary figure who perpetually interrogates the social and political dynamics of contemporary culture. She often highlights the manner in which the mass media manipulates and reinforces social norms by utilizing the same source material to bear witness to social and political inequality. In an age of the #metoo movement, Time's Up and gross economic inequality with the rise of the 1% "Martha Rosler: Irrespective" speaks volumes to the perils of our current state of affairs. Rosler forcefully challenges viewers to adopt an activist consciousness.


Does it seem like it should be the Holiday Season yet? It sure does not to me. But, all the stores are advertising for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, decorations are showing up and I still haven't even planned what to have for Thanksgiving yet! What does the Holiday Season mean to you? Is it a time for family and friends, giving thanks for all the good and bad from the past year? Is this a religious time for you or commercial? For me it is somewhat all of these things. With a 7 year old at home, well the big feast, as she calls it, on Thanksgiving is a big thing for her and all about the turkey and the chocolate pie. Christmas well what more can be said, Santa and Rudolph, a christmas tree, glittery things and most of all her request for BIG presents. She even told me she did not care what was in them so long as they were BIG! Funny and sad at the same time.
Well MBA Body Essential is trying to take all of this into consideration. With some specials for the holidays and in honor of the season, I will also offer an additional Free Surprise to all clients who order by December 15, 2011. Something to enhance the season and tantalize the senses. I hope to have sufficient orders that MBA Body Essential can contribute a portion of the year's income to a charity to help those in need. We should all help those in need and not only at the Holidays don't you think? Most times giving is forgotten in this commercialized society and it should not be. I will admit that I am as guilty as you by forgetting that while my month may be tight or I can't get that cute pair of shoes for my daughter, there are others who can't eat and are desperate to just feed their children.
So back to the new stuff. For those that have been checking out the web site www.MBABodyEssential.com you already know that I have created some special blends for the holidays like Cinnymint, Candied Fruit, and Chocolate Frosting. I have been playing around with some others as well. One of the newest made for a friend's girlfriend is Mystic Rose. A body butter that is a combination of Rose Otto, Cedarwood, and sandalwood. It is just perfect. What was surprising was that even without Cinnamon in the blend it gives off a slight Cinnamon base note. Not too flowery either. This may end up as a standard product.
Another new blend was made with kids in mind. Yes kids LOVE the sugar scrubs. The blend consists of Anise (smells like liquorice) with a touch of Apple and Cranberry. May have to turn this one into a bath bomb for more fun in the tub.
The final fun blend was made for those men that still use a regular blade razor. This blend is a Foaming Body Butter scented with Bay and Lime and a touch of a secret scent. It is really all male but certainly useful for women as well. Leaves the skin soft and moisturized. Simple soap and water only leave the skin feeling dry and tight.
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