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Oil falls on rising output from OPEC and U.S.
Oil prices fell on Monday amid rising supply from OPEC and the United States, outweighing concerns that falling Iranian output will tighten markets once U.S. sanctions bite from November, Reuters reports.
International Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $77.43 per barrel at 0222 GMT, down 21 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last close.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $69.62 per barrel, down 18 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last settlement.
Output from the producer cartel of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose by 220,000 barrels per day (bpd) between July and August, to a 2018-high of 32.79 million bpd, a Reuters survey found.
Output was boosted by a recovery in Libyan production and as Iraq's southern exports hit a record.
Meanwhile, U.S. drillers added oil rigs for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes reported on Friday, increasing the rig count by 2 units to 862.
The high rig count has helped lift U.S. crude oil production C-OUT-T-EIA by more than 30 percent since mid-2016, to 11 million bpd.
Despite the price dip, Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia-Pacific at futures brokerage OANDA said Brent was "supported by the notion that U.S. sanctions on Iranian crude oil exports will eventually lead to constricted markets", which he said would likely push up prices.
"Iranian production is already showing signs of decline, falling by 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) last month ... (as) importers of Iranian barrels will already be moving away from taking shipments," said Edward Bell, commodity analyst at Emirates NBD bank in Dubai.
Many analysts have warned that an economic slowdown because of trade disputes between the United States and other major economies including China and the European Union would drag on oil demand.
Amid rising trade tariffs raised by Washington and Beijing, China's manufacturing activity grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in August, with export orders shrinking for a fifth month and employers cutting more staff, a private survey showed on Monday.
Despite this, OANDA's Innes said it was too early to say whether an economic slowdown would put a serious dent on oil prices.
"While the analysts continue fretting that $200 billion in tariffs could drag down oil demand, it isn't at all clear that such type of economic headwinds will topple oil prices given ... the constant barrage of supply outages," he said.


All BBMRI.at partner biobanks attended the Europe Biobank Week. Biobanks and the BBMRI.at consortium partners presented the achievements of its work in lectures, presentations, posters and on the BBMRI.at exhibition stand. They used conference for networking with the biobank community and for exchange of experiences with other BBMRI-ERIC National Nodes.
BiBBoX - "Biobank Software in a Box"
Is a biobank fairly recognized by the scientific community?


Kiwi baby's vest & shorts by "Le son des grelots"
The blog "Le son des Grelots" tested for us our Kiwi baby's vest & shorts sewing pattern!
We love the pattern description on her blog and the very pertinent remarks she gave us back.
She chooses to reverse the front and back of the baby's vest to show the wrap-over-top side which gives a nice variation.
Is it not a lovely version?


Just got a new puppy and my adult Aussie is nipping and being aggressive over toys towards the new Aussie. The new one is a puppy 9 weeks old and is annoying like all puppies are.
How do I stop my adult male from being possessive over his toys?


One of the reasons I love living in Rome is because life is all about the neighborhood. The mentality of Rome is that everything needed should be within a 500 meter radius. Here's my mental neighborhood checklist anytime I move - outdoor produce market? Around the corner. Good butcher? Three within a four-minute walk. Alimentari? Maximum 5 minutes by foot. And the more one gets involved in the neighborhood, more amazing necessities can be found. My local black book book puts me on a first name basis with a magical cheese guy, an incredible tailor, a funny plumber, the entire Roscioli trifecta, my flower guy, gym and contact lens gal. And since this is Rome, I also get to enjoy a 2200-year-old archaeological site at my bus stop and a bizarre crypt on my bike path. Essentially, I have no need to ever get out but when the time calls, I love a good adventure. This time it's Parioli and new neighborhood hub Ercoli al 28.
A hybrid delicatessen-restaurant, Ercoli is an intensely curated food specialties boutique that first and foremost offers counter service much like the local alimentari where my zio Romano gets due etti di prosciutto e un po' di pane every single day. Note to the wise: a good alimentari is fundamental to any neighborhood- it becomes not just your food shop, but part of your daily social routine. You can be having an incredible crap day, and Luca, the guy behind the counter, will ask how you are and remember to slice your prosciutto incredibly thin, turning a bad day into better.
Counter service. Check. Ercoli's huge wrap-around banco is an overstuffed cornucopia of Roman and Italian expectations and delights- prosciutto, cheese, bread, caviar, and more, that can be packed up up for porta via (to-go service) by the white-cloaked staff. I counted at least six white cloaks and chatted up two of them who will happily talk about lunch and dinner plans. For them, porta via also includes advice.
Turn away from the banco and you've walked into a restaurant - a Roman version of a gastro-bistrot- clean design with a "home" feel. Wall are lined with regionally organized bottles of wines (instead of books, but that's better) and an each table is unique, creating an overall charmingly mismatched ensemble that is less hipster and more nonna chic. Chef Andrea di Raimo plays around with Roman recipes and literally has the home team advantage with all of the banco at his disposal along with seasonality. In other words, thanks to seasonality and di Raimo's flare, expect variations of Roman favorites. So far, my favorite dish has been the carbonara (as above) with fried artichokes.
Did I mention the vermouth bar?
Head to the far back, and say hi to Federico Tomaselli, one of Rome's original mixology revivalists. Standing over a huge wooden plinth, Federico has set up a delicious vermouth bar. As Fede says, vermouth is Italy's signature drink, so it's about time Rome celebrates it. His bar menu lists at least nine different Vermouth labels from the expected Martini e Rossi to Cocchi, Carpano and Mainardi, and each vermouth has at least two variants. 25 different vermouth cocktails make the menu, with several created specifically by Fede for Ercoli. And if you don't like vermouth, it's okay, the bar tome has classic cocktails, artisanal beers and bubbles, lots of bubbles.
Je sais, je sais, je sais what you are thinking. Ercoli isn't anything new. Nope, the gastro-bistrot concept has been present in Rome for ages, but one is never enough. I personally love to see a great gastro-hub in every neighborhood. And technically, Ercoli is old news. The uber-gastro group helmed by Gino Cuminale and Dany Di Giuseppe acquired the original Ercoli, a Prati food institution (which was immortalized by artist Giacomo Balla in his 1942 La Fila per l'Agnello, a painting that is coincidentally found down the road in Parioli at La Galleria Nazionale) and decided not just to renovate the original Ercoli but to bring its little sister, or better yet, granddaughter to the Parioli scene. Great job, Ercoli.
Pro tip: take a walk around the newly-opened Balla exhibit at La Galleria Borghese, and then head to Ercoli for aperitivi and dinner.


The Matterhorn is renowned around the world as a symbol of Switzerland where snow can be found 365 days a year.
Directly at the foot of this striking jagged rock there is a marvelous ski resort – the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, home to Europe's longest piste. It runs from the Klein Matterhorn to the village of Zermatt.
Passengers carrying a Swiss Pass or Swiss Half Fare card are entitled to a discount.
No discounts apply to Eurail pass holders.
Fares are valid until 31st Dec 2019.
Eurail Pass or without a rail pass: Children aged 6 to 15 years inclusive purchase the discounted 'Child' fare.


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Q: When the Lights Out puzzle vectors over elementary abelian field of dimension $n^2$ form a basis Assume we have a $n\times n$ matrix, where $n$ is odd. The elements in this matrix are either $0$ or $1$. We can change the values of the elements in the matrix as follows: changing the value of position $\{i,j\}$ from $0$ to $1$ or vice versa also changes the values in positions $\{i-1,j\}$,$\{i+1,j\}$,$\{i,j-1\}$ and $\{i,j+1\}$ respectively. If any of these falls outside the matrix, we ignore it. Call these the basic operations.
For example, if $n = 3$ and the matrix is all zeroes, changing the value of $\{1,2\}$ would result in $$ \left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
 1 & 1 & 1 \\
 0 & 1 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 \\
\end{array}
\right) $$ and so on.
We can turn the matrixes into vectors so that position $\{i,j\}$ of the matrix is the element $(i-1)n+j$ of the vector. The above example is thus the same as adding vector {1,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0} to zero vector of length $9$. The addition is done modulo $2$.
These vectors are elements of a $n^2$-dimensional vector space over the elementary abelian field of order $2$. The vectors associated with the basic operations form a basis of some subspace of this vector space.
If we look at the set of these vectors when $n=3$, we have the following, written as matrix: $$\left(
\begin{array}{ccccccccc}
 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 \\
\end{array}
\right)$$
These vectors are linearly independent and there are $9$ of them and thus form a basis of the whole space. This means that we can reach any configuration of zeroes and ones in the matrix by basic operations.
What if $n=5$? We have, again, a set of $25$ vectors associated with the basic operations, very similar to the case $n=3$: $$\left(
\begin{array}{ccccccccccccccccccccccccc}
 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 \\
\end{array}
\right)$$
However, thse vectors are not linearly independent and thus do not form a basis of the whole space. In fact, they span a subspace of dimension $23$. This can be interpreted so that we can reach any configuration of zeroes and ones using basic operations, apart from two positions which are out of our control and may or may not have the desired values.
If $n=7$, the set of vectors associated with the basic operations are again linearly independent. If $n=9$ or $n=11$, the vectors are not linearly independent, but are again independent if $n=13$.
The question is why in the case of $n=3$ or $n=7$ we can reach all possible configurations of zeroes and ones in the matrix with the basic operations but not in the case of $n=5$. And further, for which values of $n$ are the vectors associated with the basic operations linearly independent?
Testing some values of $n$, the list of such values of $n$ begins as $$\{1,3,7,13,15,21,25,27,31,37,43\}.$$  Looking the list up in OEIS returns only one result: A209839, which seems to have very little to do with this problem.
There is really no reason to restrict ourselves with odd $n$s. For general $n$, the values for $n$ that produce vectors that span the whole space begins $\{1,2,3,6,7,8,10,12,13,15,18,20,21,22,25\}.$ This is sequence A076436 at OEIS.
Edit: I had made an error in my program which resulted in wrong sequence and wrong dimensions of the subspaces. I have fixed that now. See comments for the correct differences in dimensions.

A: Let me reformulate the problem to get an interesting description of which board sizes have unique Lights Out solutions. Let $A_n$ be the adjacency matrix for the path graph $P_n$. Then instead of $n^2$-dimensional vectors, we will simply represent configurations by $n\times n$ matrices over $\mathbb{F}_2$. Now, to determine for what $n$ we have a unique solution, we will look at solutions to the zero configuration.
If $X$ is an $n\times n$ matrix representing a set of moves, then $A_nX$ represents the result from applying vertical adjacencies. And $XA_n$ represents the resulting configuration from applying horizontal adjacencies. And so, $X$ is a solution to the zero configuration iff: $$A_nX+XA_n+X=0$$
which we may simplify to $$A_nX+X(A_n+I_n)=0$$
This looks like the Sylvester Equation $AX+XB=0$ where $B=A+I$. It is a well known result that the Sylvester Equation has unique solutions iff the characteristic polynomials of $A$ and $B$ are relatively prime. This result applies to all fields, including $\mathbb{F}_2$. So your question has been transformed to "For what $n$ do the characteristic polynomials of $A_n$ and $A_n+I_n$ share a common factor?"
It is not hard to prove inductively that the characteristic polynomial $p_n(\lambda)$ of $A_n$ satisfies the recurrence relation:
\begin{align*}
p_0(\lambda)&=1\\
p_1(\lambda)&=\lambda\\
p_n(\lambda)&=\lambda p_{n-1}(\lambda)+p_{n-2}(\lambda)\
\end{align*}
Then we have the following result about the characteristic polynomials $p_n^+(\lambda)$ of $A_n+I_n$:
$$p_n^+(\lambda)=\det(A_n+I_n+\lambda I_n)=\det(A_n+I_n(\lambda+1))=p_n(\lambda+1)$$
therefore an $n\times n$ Lights Out board has unique solutions iff $p_n(\lambda)$ and $p_n(\lambda+1)$ are relatively prime.
But wait, there's more!
The recurrence relation for $p_n(\lambda)$ is exactly what defines Fibonacci polynomials $f_{n}(\lambda)$ over $\mathbb{F}_2$ except that the initial conditions are shifted once. That is, $p_n(\lambda)=f_{n+1}(\lambda)$. Now, there are some very useful properties of Fibonacci polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_2$, and a particularly useful one in our case is that for all $n$, $$f_{2n}(\lambda)=\lambda (f_n(\lambda))^2$$
What does this mean for your problem, you might ask? Well, it is easy to see that $$p_{2n+1}(\lambda)=\lambda (p_n(\lambda))^2$$
and $$p_{2n+1}(\lambda+1)=(\lambda+1)(p_n(\lambda))^2$$
so let's suppose that for a certain $n$, $p_n(\lambda)$ and $p_n(\lambda+1)$ are relatively prime. Suppose also that $(\lambda+1)\nmid p_n(\lambda)$. Then $p_{2n+1}(\lambda)$ and $p_{2n+1}(\lambda+1)$ are relatively prime. Repeating this, we see that for all $k$, $p_{(n+1)2^k-1}(\lambda)$ and $p_{(n+1)2^k-1}(\lambda+1)$ are relatively prime.
This means that if an $n\times n$ Lights Out board has unique solutions, and $(\lambda+1)\nmid p_n(\lambda)$, then every board of size $(n+1)2^k-1\times (n+1)2^k-1$ also has unique solutions.
If we try to search for some $n$ that satisfy this requirement, we get a few values $0,6,10,12$ (these are just a few examples). So every number of the form $2^k-1$, $7(2^k)-1$, $11(2^k)-1$, and $13(2^k)-1$ will appear in A076436.
Hopefully this gives you a good intuition for your problem. Most of this answer is based on the following paper, which you may want to read for more details:
$\sigma$-game, $\sigma^+$-game, and two-dimensional additive cellular automata

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As was inevitable, the commentary on Israel's raid / high seas piracy / legal blockade enforcement / call-it-what-you-will has degenerated into a polarized flame-war between the blind and the deaf, which although very entertaining is also pretty useless*. By far the best analytical article on this issue I've found that really cuts through the partisan BS is The Limits of Public Opinion: Arabs, Israelis and the Strategic Balance, a free Stratfor article by George Friedman**.
The most fundamental point is that the current situation suits everyone just fine. The Arab regimes (and the Palestinians themselves) are weak and disunited and no longer represent the strategic threat to Israel that they did during the Cold War. Israel's actions give them a chance to vent their fury to satiate the "Arab street", but it is not in their interests to push the envelope any further. In turn, Israel is big enough to accept the verbal lashing in return for keeping its enforcement of the Gaza blockade credible. However, this Flotilla Affair may also presage much more significant long-term developments.
The most significant threat to Israel would, of course, be military. International criticism is not without significance, but nations do not change direction absent direct threats to their interests. But powers outside the region are unlikely to exert military power against Israel, and even significant economic or political sanctions are unlikely to happen. Apart from the desire of outside powers to limit their involvement, this is rooted in the fact that significant actions are unlikely from inside the region either.
The first generations of Israelis lived under the threat of conventional military defeat by neighboring countries. More recent generations still faced threats, but not this one. Israel is operating in an advantageous strategic context save for the arena of public opinion and diplomatic relations and the question of Iranian nuclear weapons. All of these issues are significant, but none is as immediate a threat as the specter of a defeat in conventional warfare had been. Israel's regional enemies are so profoundly divided among themselves and have such divergent relations with Israel that an effective coalition against Israel does not exist — and is unlikely to arise in the near future.
Given this, the probability of an effective, as opposed to rhetorical, shift in the behavior of powers outside the region is unlikely. At every level, Israel's Arab neighbors are incapable of forming even a partial coalition against Israel. Israel is not forced to calibrate its actions with an eye toward regional consequences, explaining Israel's willingness to accept broad international condemnation.
Now for more detail on the internal Palestinian divisions between Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.
To begin to understand how deeply the Arabs are split, simply consider the split among the Palestinians themselves. They are currently divided between two very different and hostile factions. On one side is Fatah, which dominates the West Bank. On the other side is Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip. Aside from the geographic division of the Palestinian territories — which causes the Palestinians to behave almost as if they comprised two separate and hostile countries — the two groups have profoundly different ideologies.
Fatah arose from the secular, socialist, Arab-nationalist and militarist movement of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser in the 1950s. … Hamas arose from the Islamist movement. It was driven by religious motivations quite alien from Fatah and hostile to it.
Hamas and Fatah are playing a zero-sum game. Given their inability to form a coalition and their mutual desire for the other to fail, a victory for one is a defeat for the other. … Though revolutionary movements frequently are torn by sectarianism, these divisions are so deep that even without Israeli manipulation, the threat the Palestinians pose to the Israelis is diminished. With manipulation, the Israelis can pit Fatah against Hamas.
And on why the Arab elites don't really care that much for Palestinians, despite their rhetoric.
The split within the Palestinians is also reflected in divergent opinions among what used to be called the confrontation states surrounding Israel — Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Egypt, for example, is directly hostile to Hamas, a religious movement amid a sea of essentially secular Arab states. Hamas' roots are in Egypt's largest Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian state has historically considered its main domestic threat. … For this and other reasons, Egypt has maintained its own blockade of Gaza. Egypt is much closer to Fatah, whose ideology derives from Egyptian secularism, and for this reason, Hamas deeply distrusts Cairo.
Syria is far more interested in Lebanon than it is in the Palestinians. Its co-sponsorship (along with Iran) of Hezbollah has more to do with Syria's desire to dominate Lebanon than it does with Hezbollah as an anti-Israeli force. Indeed, whenever fighting breaks out between Hezbollah and Israel, the Syrians get nervous and their tensions with Iran increase. And of course, while Hezbollah is anti-Israeli, it is not a Palestinian movement. It is a Lebanese Shiite movement. … So Syria is playing a side game with an anti-Israeli movement that isn't Palestinian, while also maintaining relations with both factions of the Palestinian movement.
… the Saudis and other Arabian Peninsula regimes remember the threat that Nasser and the PLO posed to their regimes. … And while the Iranians would love to have influence over the Palestinians, Tehran is more than 1,000 miles away. … But Fatah doesn't trust the Iranians, and Hamas, though a religious movement, is Sunni while Iran is Shiite. Hamas and the Iranians may cooperate on some tactical issues, but they do not share the same vision.
And now on why Israel feels it has a free hand in the short-term to carry out what it views as its optimal security policy.
Given this environment, it is extremely difficult to translate hostility to Israeli policies in Europe and other areas into meaningful levers against Israel. Under these circumstances, the Israelis see the consequences of actions that excite hostility toward Israel from the Arabs and the rest of the world as less dangerous than losing control of Gaza. The more independent Gaza becomes, the greater the threat it poses to Israel. The suppression of Gaza is much safer and is something Fatah ultimately supports, Egypt participates in, Jordan is relieved by and Syria is ultimately indifferent to.
Nations base their actions on risks and rewards. The configuration of the Palestinians and Arabs rewards Israeli assertiveness and provides few rewards for caution. The Israelis do not see global hostility toward Israel translating into a meaningful threat because the Arab reality cancels it out. Therefore, relieving pressure on Hamas makes no sense to the Israelis. Doing so would be as likely to alienate Fatah and Egypt as it would to satisfy the Swedes, for example. As Israel has less interest in the Swedes than in Egypt and Fatah, it proceeds as it has.
A single point sums up the story of Israel and the Gaza blockade-runners: Not one Egyptian aircraft threatened the Israeli naval vessels, nor did any Syrian warship approach the intercept point. The Israelis could be certain of complete command of the sea and air without challenge. And this underscores how the Arab countries no longer have a military force that can challenge the Israelis, nor the will nor interest to acquire one. Where Egyptian and Syrian forces posed a profound threat to Israeli forces in 1973, no such threat exists now. Israel has a completely free hand in the region militarily; it does not have to take into account military counteraction. The threat posed by intifada, suicide bombers, rockets from Lebanon and Gaza, and Hezbollah fighters is real, but it does not threaten the survival of Israel the way the threat from Egypt and Syria once did (and the Israelis see actions like the Gaza blockade as actually reducing the threat of intifada, suicide bombers and rockets). Non-state actors simply lack the force needed to reach this threshold. When we search for the reasons behind Israeli actions, it is this singular military fact that explains Israeli decision-making.
And while the break between Turkey and Israel is real, Turkey alone cannot bring significant pressure to bear on Israel beyond the sphere of public opinion and diplomacy because of the profound divisions in the region. Turkey has the option to reduce or end cooperation with Israel, but it does not have potential allies in the Arab world it would need against Israel. Israel therefore feels buffered against the Turkish reaction. Though its relationship with Turkey is significant to Israel, it is clearly not significant enough for Israel to give in on the blockade and accept the risks from Gaza.
At present, Israel takes the same view of the United States. While the United States became essential to Israeli security after 1967, Israel is far less dependent on the United States today. The quantity of aid the United States supplies Israel has shrunk in significance as the Israeli economy has grown. In the long run, a split with the United States would be significant, but interestingly, in the short run, the Israelis would be able to function quite effectively.
This is my major quibble with this article. I wouldn't be so sanguine about the longer term consequences of this Israeli-Turkish spat. While Douglas Muir would interpret Erdogan's grandiose theatrics as a function of internal Turkish politics, this does not mean it is not part of a larger "declaration of what Turkish identity has become", as suggested by commentator Yigit Karabak. Mubarak might be risk-averse and friendly with Israel, but he is getting old and his successors will probably be more adventurous and in sync with Egyptian national sentiment (which is anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian).
In the meantime, the Turkish economy is growing, its military is rapidly modernizing and it is expanding its influence in the Near East. Turkey is now (arguably) already conventionally superior to Israel. It is also a de facto nuclear power. There are 90 US nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base, of which 40 are slated to pass unto Turkish control if it is ever attacked by non-NATO nukes. Though it is true that the US has recently began to make noises about withdrawing its nukes from Turkey and Europe, the Turks have also recently – and perhaps not entirely coincidentally – made deals with Russia about massively expanding its nuclear power capacity. Now I'm not saying that Turkey's sole or even main goal here is to provide a justification for pursuit of nuclear weapons, as argued in The Real Israeli Raid Fallout: Turkey with a Bomb? by Thomas Barnett***. Nonetheless, in a region with a nuclearizing Iran and intense all-round rivalries, it is a possibility that should not be immediately dismissed.
What emerges is a disquieting prospect for Israeli strategists, one in which Turks throw them down the river in their quest for regional dominance while successfully staying the moral high ground and mobilizing the Arab states in their support.
Israel does, however, face this strategic problem: In the short run, it has freedom of action, but its actions could change the strategic framework in which it operates over the long run. The most significant threat to Israel is not world opinion; though not trivial, world opinion is not decisive. The threat to Israel is that its actions will generate forces in the Arab world that eventually change the balance of power. The politico-military consequences of public opinion is the key question, and it is in this context that Israel must evaluate its split with Turkey.
The most important change for Israel would not be unity among the Palestinians, but a shift in Egyptian policy back toward the position it held prior to Camp David. Egypt is the center of gravity of the Arab world, the largest country and formerly the driving force behind Arab unity. It was the power Israel feared above all others. But Egypt under Mubarak has shifted its stance versus the Palestinians, and far more important, allowed Egypt's military capability to atrophy.
Should Mubarak's successor choose to align with these forces and move to rebuild Egypt's military capability, however, Israel would face a very different regional equation. A hostile Turkey aligned with Egypt could speed Egyptian military recovery and create a significant threat to Israel. Turkish sponsorship of Syrian military expansion would increase the pressure further. Imagine a world in which the Egyptians, Syrians and Turks formed a coalition that revived the Arab threat to Israel and the United States returned to its position of the 1950s when it did not materially support Israel, and it becomes clear that Turkey's emerging power combined with a political shift in the Arab world could represent a profound danger to Israel.
… The Israelis can't dismiss the threat that its actions could trigger political processes that cause these countries to revert to prior behavior. … It is remarkable how rapidly military capabilities can revive: Recall that the Egyptian army was shattered in 1967, but by 1973 was able to mount an offensive that frightened Israel quite a bit.
The Israelis have the upper hand in the short term. What they must calculate is whether they will retain the upper hand if they continue on their course. Division in the Arab world, including among the Palestinians, cannot disappear overnight, nor can it quickly generate a strategic military threat. But the current configuration of the Arab world is not fixed. Therefore, defusing the current crisis would seem to be a long-term strategic necessity for Israel. [AK: But defusing the crisis is not in the Turks' interests].
* I've also gotten some pretty hilarious email feedback about my post on The Geopolitics of Israel vs. Flotilla in which I got called both a "antisimite in objectivist [you mean objective?] apeasement cloth" [sic] and a Zionist extremist. I guess that's what you get for stepping into this debate, it is every bit as binaried as the Russophile vs. Russophobe one and ten times as vitriolic.
** Yes, I know, Stratfor is a varied quality. Some of their analyses are downright loony, like the nonsense about Poland or Mexico becoming superpowers. But occasionally they are right on the ball (see 1, 2). This time it is one of those latter cases.
Here is my wacky theory. Turkey believes that Israel will not accept a nuclear Iran. The Israelis have said as much. Eventually it could come to an Israeli or US-Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear capabilities, followed by incredibly damaging fallout. The US and Israel will become completely delegitimized in the lands of Islam. The ground will be cleared for Turkey to fill in this space, the Arab rulers either following in its wake or being marginalized or overthrown. Three birds with one stone. Iran out as a regional power – its military will have been decimated should Israel and the US launch serious strikes against its nuclear capabilities and its regime internally discredited – bringing to the fore Azeri (Turkish) separatism. The US influence sidelined out of the region as the resulting oil shock ripples through its debt-loaded economy. Third, this shock and resulting siege mentality may finally spur on the Arabs to recover a united front towards Israel, at which point a Turkey (with latent nuclear capabilities) may offer Israel a deal in which it accepts becoming a client state in exchange for security guarantees.
(Of course, causal chains work in various ways. Fear of exactly this scenario may explain why Israel will not attack Iran after all; perhaps the Israelis consider it better to manage their way though a deteriorated balance of power in the Middle East rather than face the specter of a far superior hegemon in Turkey. And this also, in turn, may explain why the Iranians in turn can feel so confident in getting away with the provocations they do. And why the Americans may be, contrary to all conventional wisdom, secretly seeking some kind of grand bargain with Iran).
PS. This footnote is almost becoming a post in its own right. I'll probably expand on it a later post.


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Janet Wilson and Tom Vasich
F. Sherwood Rowland (left) and Mario Molina, here in their UCI lab in the early 1970s, discovered how the ozone layer was being destroyed.
On Jan. 9, a United Nations-backed panel of experts announced that Earth's protective ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, closing an ozone hole over the Antarctic that was first noticed in the 1980s.
But it was research conducted at the University of California, Irvine in the 1970s that made this good new possible.
Back then, chemistry professor F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland and postdoctoral student Mario Molina made a shocking discovery: A single chlorine atom byproduct from aerosol hairsprays, deodorants and other popular consumer products could chew up 100,000 ozone atoms in the stratosphere. The stratospheric ozone layer, 12 to 30 miles above Earth, protects life on the planet from harsh solar radiation.
"Isn't it a responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn't it your responsibility to actually do something about it, enough so that action actually takes place?" Rowland said. UCI
"Mario and I realized this was not just a scientific question, but a potentially grave environmental problem involving substantial depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer," Rowland said later. "Entire biological systems, including humans, would be at danger from ultraviolet rays."
He and Molina published their findings in the peer-review journal Nature in 1974, and their lives – and the world – would never be the same.
They decided they had to advocate for a ban on consumer products using chlorofluorocarbons that were earning billions of dollars annually. Industry representatives fought back: At one point, Aerosol Age, a trade journal, speculated that Rowland was a member of the Soviet Union's KGB, out to destroy capitalism. Even some fellow scientists grumbled that he was going overboard with a hypothesis.
Rowland calmly stayed the course, working to convince everyone from Margaret Thatcher to Al Gore to reporters from hundreds of news outlets of what was at stake. Scientists doing similar research stuck by him, and consumers stopped using the sprays. One who believed him from Day One was his wife, Joan. When he told her the results of his and Molina's calculations in 1974, she searched the house and threw out every spray can.
It took far longer for others to act – 13 years and the discovery by British scientists of a gaping hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic before an international treaty was signed prohibiting sale of the harmful chemicals. Ratified by 196 nations, the Montreal Protocol is widely viewed as the single most successful worldwide environment agreement to date. Since the protocol was put into action, the production and use of ozone-depleting substances has been reduced by more than 95 percent.
"We really sort of stumbled onto a problem of global proportions. [Sherry's] impact and his legacy are extraordinary," said Molina in 2012. "He was a superb scientist, and he worked with a very important problem affecting society. He always persevered and kept his values; he always did it with honesty and with all the qualities a scientist should have. He's a wonderful example of good scientific behavior, unlike some today, and he did not have any inclination to exaggerate or abuse the media."
After the ozone war, Rowland and his team researched and publicized the risks of cook stove pollution over cities, the alarming build-up of methane and other greenhouse gases, and even hydrocarbons over the Gulf of Mexico.
And in 1995, Rowland and Molina received the ultimate acclaim, the Nobel Prize in chemistry, for their work on stratospheric ozone depletion.
"Is it enough for a scientist simply to publish a paper? Isn't it a responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn't it your responsibility to actually do something about it, enough so that action actually takes place?" Rowland said at a White House climate change roundtable in 1997. "If not us, who? If not now, when?"
Rowland came to UCI in 1964 as the first chair of the Department of Chemistry. He served as the Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science until his death in 2012. Molina, who went on to join the UC San Diego faculty and head an environmental center in Mexico City, died in 2020. But their contributions to science and the environment will live forever.
F. Sherwood Rowland (left) receives the Nobel Prize in chemistry from the king of Sweden in 1995. Nobel.org
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Olszewski named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week
/ by Dave Green
For the second straight week -- and the third time in five weeks -- a New England Patriot has been named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
And it's no surprise which player was honored for his performance in Week 13 against the Chargers.
Gunner Olszewski earned the honor for his exploits on punt returns where he returned one kick 70 yards for his first career touchdown and later returned another punt 61 yards, setting the Patriots up in prime field position. The score was especially sweet for Olszewski, who had a touchdown wiped off the board in Week 12 thanks to a penalty.
Gunner wanted that punt return TD.@Gunnerolszewsk1 | #GoPats
📺: @NFLonCBS pic.twitter.com/m44GxKTz77
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) December 6, 2020
With those two returns, Olszewski became the first player in team history to have two punt returns for at least 60 yards in the same game, and his 145 total punt return yards are the second-most in a single game in franchise history, trailing only Patriot Hall of Famer Mike Haynes, who racked up 156 punt return yards in a game in 1976.
Olszewski reacted to the honor on Twitter, where he made sure to credit his teammates for making his returns possible.
PR unit of the week . Sure as hell didn't do it on my own . Good job fellas https://t.co/8kxwkjbCRS
— Gunner Olszewski (@Gunnerolszewsk1) December 9, 2020
Olszewski's teammates salute his efforts on Twitter
And if his exploits on special teams weren't enough, Olszewski also added another touchdown, a 38-yard reception from Jarrett Stidham that capped the scoring in New England's 45-0 victory.
It's Gunner's world, we're just living in it.@Gunnerolszewsk1 | #GoPats
📺: @NFLonCBS pic.twitter.com/wPhlTAer2X
Olszewski's honor comes on the heels of Nick Folk being named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week in both Week 9 and Week 12 for his buzzer-beating game-winning field goals from 50+ yards against the Jets and Cardinals.


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Trump's Democrats
jhanley
While many Democrats are eager to deny that Trump is drawing support from their party, the data show a different story. That data also reveals the falsity of the pretense that Republican party leaders could somehow have prevented their party from being largely captured by an ugly populist contingent.
It's important to remember that both parties have traditionally had their reactionary factions. While the GOP had the John Birchers, the Democrats had their boll weevils—socially conservative and racist southern Democrats, but who often supported populist initiatives, such as rural electrification. Not only did the Democrats have that group, that group was the foundational core of the Democratic Party, with its Jeffersonian origins in anti-nationalism and defense of a racially stratified society.
The boll weevils are mostly forgotten now, but not wholly gone. The South has shifted from being overwhelmingly Democratic to being highly contested territory where Republicans win regularly. In 1960, 100% of the U.S. Senate seats from the Confederate states were held by Democrats. In 1980 they still held 55% of those seats. Today, the Democrats only hold 18%. But Democrats are often more successful on the local level, where politics is more personal and party label less significant…and where people can know that Candidate Smith isn't a liberal, but an old time Democrat. Many of these voters still identify as Democrat, even as they vote Republican at the state and national levels. Think, for example, of Kim Davis, the Tennessee County Clerk who refused to give out marriage licenses to same sex couple—a Democrat, not a Republican.
And those folks are often Trump supporters. Other than his home state of New York, Trump's best states are in a bundle of the old South states plus West Virginia, another state where the old southern Dems long dominated. Out west in the intermountain states, which have always been predominantly Republican, )his support fades.
OK, one might say, they're not real Democrats (although they are what Democrats predominantly once were), because they're really conservatives. But as reported by RealClearPolitics, 20% of the Trumpenproletariate identify as liberal. True, a strong majority of 65% describe themselves as conservatives, but only 13% say they are very conservative, and less than 1/3 say they are Tea Partiers. Trump's supporters are not the radical right-wing revanchists liberals claim are taking over the Republican Party.
All of this helps explain why over 2/3 of Trump's supporters say they would vote for him if he left the GOP. A lot of them aren't strongly committed to the party—they are in fact not the mythical Republican base.
Liberal and establishment Democrats don't want to admit that many of these people are still Democrats. But many of them are, or they are about as much Democrats as they are Republican, willing to vote for either party depending on the candidate.
And this is the reason it's ridiculous to talk about how the GOP establishment should have kept these people from taking over the party. First, they haven't; that's largely a different group of people. Second, parties don't choose their supporters as much as supporters choose the party. If we think in spatial terms, on a left to right continuum, many of these people find themselves to the right of the median Democrat, so they're going to take a look at the party that's also to the right of the median Democrat. If they find that they're also to the right of the median Republican, they'll be more attracted to the Republican Party, not necessarily because it is welcoming to their extremist views, but because it's median is less far away from their views than the Democratic median. Those folks will pull the party away from its establishment, but there's precious little the establishment can do to stop that.
But those aren't the Trumpa Loompahs (hattip Steve Horwitz). Those folks tend to support Cruz or Rubio, because they recognize the liberal elements in Trump's message.
So suck it up, Dems. Trump's your party's phenomenon, too.
Tags: Boll Weevils, Confederacy, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, James Hanley, Primary Elections, Republican Party, The Old South, Trumpa Loompahs, Trumpenproletariat


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Then do using JetBrains.Annotations; if the code doesn't have it already.
Alternatively, just remove them from your code.


Special thanks to Dan Gearhart for permitting me to share this….
A funny thing has happened to me lately, I have been growing physically and emotionally stronger every day fighting a disease that only takes and takes and never gives. I hate that I have this disease and will always wonder what would be different if it weren't my fate. The answer is probably not as difficult as I think and really quite simple, I wouldn't be the man I am today. I wrote last year on my birthday about not knowing how good you have it until it's gone; that couldn't be anymore truthful then it is this very moment. As I watch all my years of hard work and personal investments unnecessarily fade into the black hole of divorce, it's hard to find any positives.
If I hear one more person say how much better off I will be I'll just scream! It just stings too deeply, I still believe divorce is such a selfish act, children deserve so much more than what they are being given.
When I look at their innocence in all of this dysfunction – is when I feel the most helpless. Communication is the key to any broken lock and very much still is. Text, email, tweet, instant message, does anyone communicate verbally anymore? We even break up on line with the hidden messages meant to hurt each other. My wife recently removed our anniversary date from her social profile in a final attempt of petty abuse, further trying to nullify the 3 blessings our union created. I simply hate non verbal communication with all the drones staring at their phones texting because no one can truly function speaking to one another anymore. I am just as guilty typing one thought at a time and trying to read body language through a glowing screen and trying to fix something that doesn't want to or can't be fixed.
Even with everything that I have gone through lately, I still remain blessed with so much more than many others. I have so many praying for me and my family, not to feel blessed. I know my children's love for me and mine for them is an unbreakable bond in which at this point can never be compromised and will prevail. I've owned nice things, lived in a nice warm house and have a great job all while raising 3 beautiful and innocent children. BUT….. there's always a but……I have Parkinson's and it's teaching me how to be stronger than I ever thought and who my true friends are. In turn, my legacy to my children will be that 'I Never Gave Up' and I taught them how to be strong, compassionate humans in the face of adversity. That is so much more than the majority of the world will ever have. I just will always ask myself over and over what could I have done differently? The answer is nothing; which doesn't really answer my question but makes me want to fight even harder at this part of my story. Hopefully, all this is making me into a better and stronger man. If you're not growing spiritually, physically or emotionally your just not growing at all and at times my growth has been stunted.
Whatever you can do, I will try to do better. I may not always succeed, but I promise you I won't quit until someone can prove me wrong or I'm just not capable anymore. Determined is a word that is very powerful to me, and I don't use it lightly. I have felt a calling to help people in pain and this may be the next doorway that I must walk through. I live with Parkinson's everyday as I awaken from bed and start my daily routine, simply for the love of my children. You see, I'm still learning and living with it even while it's being used against me in divorce.
takes work. You have to become an expert at your body, figuring out triggers while at the time trying to remain calm and peaceful inside. The natural reaction when hurt is to hurt back. What would you do if you hit someone and they didn't hit you back? Does that make you weaker or stronger? At this point I would have to answer a little bit of both. As this disease keeps pushing me the only option I have is to push back and live with it. It's made me stronger than I ever thought I could be but has also hurt me significantly. Recently a new friend gave me T-shirt that simply reads, "Hurt people hurt people, Blessed people bless people". I'll let you try and figure out which one I identify with.
Even though I struggle to find the blessing of a broken heart and family I question what good can come of this? My children don't deserve this type of upbringing because my wife and I couldn't figure it out, the difference is I can look into their eyes and say I tried with every fiber in my being to make it work. I really don't hate anybody except those who intentionally try to hurt me or my family and pray to the Lord to forgive them as they can't know what they do. I can only pray for her salvation as the bond we share is our children. Jesus died on the cross for our sins and I wouldn't hesitate to lay down my life for one of my children to protect them from this ever increasingly evil world.
The thing is, this earth is just a pit stop and I am still the spiritual leader of my family. I've questioned my own religious beliefs in the past, struggling to get over my individual faith and hurdles. I still believe everything is part of God's grand plan and if I am wrong at least I lived a life I could be proud of. My moto is 'I always try to do the right thing'! If I'm guilty of sometimes being wrong, at least I admit it, but I try to never make the same mistake twice. One mistake I can not afford to make is with the salvation of my children, we have eternity to look forward to together. For now, I will love them as much as I can and be the best father and example I can be along this brutal pit stop.
I have been afraid to write much because of pending divorce proceedings, but my story will be told and my testimony will be that much stronger as the truth ultimately reveals itself one day at a time! I can only try to be a better man with Parkinson's than without. Fight Parkinson's, it's what I do!


Varony is not the best fiddle player, but he tries!
Again, Chezhnian and I will be Livestreaming this Sunday starting at 6pm (EDT). You don't need an account to watch or join the chat. I'll be taking sketch requests (for Patreon patrons first if they want them, then for anyone else), and then maybe doing some digital coloring. The stream will probably go till 9 or 10. Come say hi and hang out with us if you're so inclined!
Well, even though she can turn into animals, Kip is the worst at secrecy. Hopefully, she's lucky instead of screwed.
Anyone with half a brain would realize that she said "king" not "prince". The reward is for the return of a kidnapped Prince, not a king.
Meaning that if the supposed kidnappers are calling the prince the king, something's not right and odds are, they ain't kidnappers at all.
Oh certainly, but if this guy is an agent of the false patriarch, he did a wonderful job of getting her to blab as to the whereabouts of her allies. If he's been completely honest so far, this information would make him even less likely to turn them in; if he was suspicious of the new king paying up before, he certainly wouldn't trust the guy now. This is the sort of job where the reward is a retroactively enforced nondisclosure agreement.
Honestly, he's got more of a freelancer air to him… or is a damned good actor. Though I'm pretty sure that the latter would still have put a knife in Kip's back by now.
Oh and I meant that in terms of characters listening, not insulting you Baufen. Just realized that it sorta reads that way. >_> woops.
Oh Kip for the Dragons' Sake, there is a difference between suspicion and certainty! You don't just say stuff like that!!!
Kip lives in Kip-world, a realm only loosely connected to reality. Things that drag her closer to the ugly truths of the world seem to give her one hell of a tilt.
It makes me wonder what sort of training Morphyx actually get- clearly real-world experience and common sense don't count so highly to a people who literally live in their own little world.
I think Kip-world connects to reality at the points where Kipnerys can actually _see_ that reality first-hand. Look at how calm, focused and intent she is in Chapter 4 pp. 14-17, where she is treating the deep, bloody knife wound in Nashua's back. In Chapter 3, pp. 20-22 she has no problem at all dealing with the ugly truth of six murderous thugs closing in on herself and her two allies, where one of the thugs actually has Kipnerys in his grip; she turns into a poisonous snake, and despite his best frantic efforts, that's the end of the thug. When the seyelive tries to tear her owl-form wing off, and Nashua has to reset her human-form shoulder afterwards (Chapter 10 p. 29) the danger, and the pain afterwards, don't seem to faze Kipnerys at all, it just intensifies her snarkiness. And when the Genisai is crushing her in bird-form within a cage of branches (Chapter 12 p. 15) she isn't nearly as upset about her impending doom then as she is in the inn now; on the contrary, you see this little wry bird-voice coming out of the rapidly compressing ball of branches: "This is — gh — JUST the way I wanted to go …".
Where Kip-world departs from reality is where she doesn't have an immediate concrete situation to address with immediate concrete action. Her problem here is that she's presented with second-hand information about bounty hunters in the city and can do nothing but watch her overactive imagination spin out of control and magnify the unseen threat. She would behave much more effectively if the bounty hunters were actually in the room. Also, we must not forget that she has an appreciative Tu Naul audience for her dramatics, and Kipnerys is not one to pass up such an opportunity.
Also you shouldn't judge all the Morphyx by Kipnerys. Look at the businesslike and efficient ferocity of the assassin black panther in Chapter 6 pp. 26-30. We know the panther is a Morphyx, since when Nashua kills it, one of the other assassins (the panther's Companion, I assume) receives an immediate psychic shock. Consider also Chapter 10, p. 31 when the traitor Captain Owings of the Zharus Guard is called away from the report he is writing to the false Patriarch; he matter-of-factly delegates the report's completion to his cobra. That cobra is a bureaucrat Morphyx.
We really don't know much about Morphyx yet.
The cobra Morphyx could hold the pen by coiling the tip of its tail around the pen and could thus complete Captain Owing's report.
(It should not have been necessary for me to explain that to you).
He can grip a pen, sure, and maybe scrawl out words if he really has to, but the dexterity and precise, multidirectional control required to write legibly in small, close letters like that are probably a little beyond him. Especially using a dip pen, where you need pretty tight control of the angle and pressure to control the ink flow. I'm pretty sure he's given it a good try, but even with practice he wouldn't be able to write anywhere near as quickly or efficiently as with a human hand. So dictation would be the way to go if the Captain wanted a readable report finished anytime soon.
At any rate, the joke was more along the lines of, "Here you go, buddy. Be a pal and leave your nice, warm, hard-earned bath to do this awkward, boring thing that you don't want to do. Have fun!" But it's not really important at that point in the plot whether it reads as a joke or not.
Well, you know best. I look forward to learning more about Morphyx.
It would be funny if our suspicious Hunter was actually a good guy all along and its innocent Miss What's Her Name with Varony was the real trouble…but that couldn't possibly happen…right?
Crazy speculations aside, I like how the music notes are a little shaky on a few. Nice little detail.
Wouldn't be surprised honestly. Would not be surprised.
Wow really Nice web comic, I love the art, and the story has been better so far then many more popular web comics cant wait to see more.
No worries on the repost. We'll take care of it.
So either he cares, and it is the lady we should fear for, or he's trying to get all at once.
I will still go for everyone being an enemy and start conspiracy theories for everything they say being a trap.


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Android News / All News / Rumor: Verizon To Update Nexus 6 To Android Nougat Sep. 12th
Rumor: Verizon To Update Nexus 6 To Android Nougat Sep. 12th
By Justin Diaz
The Nexus 6 for Verizon is seemingly being prepared for a September 12th update to Android 7.0 Nougat, according to Droid Life who points out that Verizon's support page for software updates details that the Google Nexus 6 shows that the device was "last updated" on September 12th of 2016. Since this coming Monday is September 12th, it looks like Verizon is preparing an update for the device following the weekend. Having said that, the support page does not list any details for the update other than the date itself, so it's also reasonable to assume that it may not be the update to Android 7.0 Nougat and it could instead be the update to the most recent Android Security Patch.
For now, there will be no way to know, so users of the Nexus 6 on Verizon's network will simply have to wait until Monday rolls around and Verizon starts pushing out the software that's dated for that time on their support page. As far as the unlocked Nexus 6, Google began pushing the Nougat update out to the Nexus 6 over-the-air back on September 6th which was just a few days ago. This was also alongside the OTA update to Android 7.0 Nougat for the Nexus 6P which went out at the same time, although it's only been a few days so it's possible that not all users on either device have the update just yet.
If it is Android 7.0 Nougat, Verizon Nexus 6 owners will be greeted with a stack of new changes to the software and interface as well as functionality, including things like the multi-window app use which will allow having two apps open on screen at any one time. Android 7.0 Nougat also further improves battery life by making improvements to Doze Mode, which will work while a phone is moving, say, in a pocket, instead of just when the device is stationary on a tablet, desk, or counter top. For those on a Verizon Nexus 6 patiently waiting to be bumped up to the latest Android software version, there's only a few more days to go until the possibility of moving off of Marshmallow arises.
Justin Diaz
Justin has written for Android Headlines since 2012 and currently adopts a Editor role with a specific focus on mobile gaming and game-streaming services. Prior to the move to Android Headlines Justin spent almost eight years working directly within the wireless industry. Contact him at [email protected]


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Q: PHP preg_replace string within variables I am using PHP 7.2.4, I want to make a template engine project,
I try to use preg_replace to change the variable in the string,
the code is here:
<?php
$lang = array(
    'hello' => 'Hello {$username}',
    'error_info' => 'Error Information : {$message}',
    'admin_denied' => '{$current_user} are not Administrator',
);

$username = 'Guest';
$current_user = 'Empty';
$message = 'You are not member !';

$new_string = preg_replace_callback('/\{(\$[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)\}/', 'test', $string);

function test($matches)
{
    return '<?php echo '.$matches[1].'; ?>';
}

echo $new_string;

But it just show me
Hello , how are you?

It automatically remove the variable...
Update:
here is var_dump:
D:\Wamp\www\t.php:5:string 'Hello <?php echo $username; ?>, how are you?' (length=44)

A: You may use create an associative array with keys (your variables) and values (their values), and then capture the variable part after $ and use it to check in the preg_replace_callback callback function if there is a key named as the found capture. If yes, replace with the corresponding value, else, replace with the match to put it back where it was found.
Here is an example code in PHP:
$values = array('username'=>'AAAAAA', 'lastname'=>'Smith');
$string = 'Hello {$username}, how are you?';
$new_string = preg_replace_callback('/\{\$([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)}/', function($m) use ($values) {
        return 'Hello <?php echo ' . (!empty($values[$m[1]]) ? $values[$m[1]] : $m[0]) . '; ?>';
    }, $string);

var_dump($new_string);

Output:
string(47) "Hello Hello <?php echo AAAAAA; ?>, how are you?"

Note the pattern charnge, I moved the parentheses after $:
\{\$([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)}
    ^                                        ^

Actually, you may even shorten it to
\{\$([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][\w\x7f-\xff]*)}
                        ^^

A: Do you want something like this?
<?php
    $string = 'Hello {$username}, how are you?';
    $username = 'AAAAAA';
    $new_string = preg_replace('/\{(\$[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)\}/', $username, $string);
    echo $new_string;

The result is:
Hello AAAAAA, how are you?

The more simple way would be to just write
<?php
$username = 'AAAAAA';
$string = 'Hello '.$username.', how are you?';

A: I'm a fan of keeping it simple so I would use str_replace since it will also change all instances which may come in handy as you go forward.
$string = 'Hello {$username}, how are you?';
$username = 'AAAAAA';
echo str_replace('{$username}',$username,$string);


Q: So, everything is fine you would think?
Q: Hasn't there been criticism of this fallacy right from the start?
Q: People didn't hear a positive story anymore?
Q: But true scientists will not be stopped, will they?
Unfortunately, it did at first. Their critical articles were no longer welcome and, even worse, their research was excluded from funding. For these dissidents a cordon sanitaire was laid by official bodies and mainstream media. The only sound that the general public has heard in recent decades was: 'human CO2 heats up the Earth! '.
Q: You hear it all around, do you?
Sure, that message was and is being rammed into the audience. The discussion is no longer about climate change, but about CO2 reduction. A sad narrowing down of a very complex issue. Fortunately, we now see a tipping point on the horizon. Because science can measure better and better, we find out that the predictions of climate models do not match measurements. That is scientifically unacceptable. And we also see that the costs are definitely going to pass bearing. Everything suggests that costs will exceed many hundreds of billions in The Netherlands alone. And hardworking citizens are now rightly asking themselves: 'But what are the benefits of this billion-dollar circus?
Q: Why does one CO2 camp find more support in left-wing politics and another more support in right-wing politics?
I regularly give lectures on climate and environment and before the beginning there are always people coming to me with vicious remarks such as: "So, you are the one who wants to screw-up our Earth".
The cutting down of forests and the subsequent production, transport and incineration of wood pellets are issues that go against everything the environmental movement stands for.
These three are the classic concerns of the environmental movement and are more topical than ever in this day and age! But unfortunately, these noble concerns have now been completely overshadowed by the monomaniacal CO2measures. The environmental movement is now beginning to realise that they made a cardinal mistake.
Q: Where do you stand in all this?
I am a geophysicist and in my research I make the history of the Earth's climate visible, which is called 'geo-imaging'. After all, to understand the present you need to know the past. The geological archive contains rich climate information and tells us the primeval story of climate change: it is of all times. The archive shows very nicely that hot and cold periods have alternated regularly. This happened in fits and starts, two steps forward and then one step backward. For an illustration, we really do not have to go back to the great ice ages.
Q: We are getting harsh winters again?
Q: Is a misleading image created?
In the last 20 years the CO2 increase has thundered on, but the observed temperature does not show any increase anymore. That is an important indication that there must be much more going on than CO2warming.
Q: Which group do you belong to?
(Laughing) In short, my message is as follows (Berkhout counts).
One: Since the small ice age, the LIA, the Earth has been warming up again with fits and starts, nothing new in the Earth's climate history. In the past 150 years, we can distinguish six different climate periods.
Secondly: The general public is rightly asking the climate movement for hard evidence that after the small ice age Mother Nature suddenly has no effect whatsoever on the Earth's climate. They also ask the climate movement what according their wisdom the correct temperature of the Earth should be?
And, very important, number three: CO2 certainly has a warming effect, but how much exactly is still very uncertain. This is also evident from the enormous margin in the warming factor that the IPCC itself maintains: 1.5-4.5 degrees. That's 300%!
Four: In the past century the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has steadily increased, but in none of the natural disasters do we see that an increase has taken place. On the contrary, we are even at a time period we often observe a downward trend.
Five: Within the last 20 years the CO2 increase has thundered on, but the observed temperature does not show any increase anymore. This is an important indication that much more is happening than CO2 warming.
Q: But if we reduce CO2, don't we also reduce air pollution?
Q: Doesn't science start with measurements?
The difference between science and religion is that scientific statements must always be verifiable with observations. Theoretical models should therefore always be validated by critically comparing model results with real measurements. If that has not happened, you may not apply theoretical models. The more complex the issue, the more important it is to make measurements. Information in the measurements shows the way how further develop these models. The history of science shows time and again that major theoretical breakthroughs were inspired by breakthroughs in measuring instrumentation.
The climate system is so complex that it is pre-eminently in climate science that measurements must show the way. But so far, theoretical models have played far too big a role in climate research. The course has to change now. Large-scale funding should be provided for scientific projects to drastically accelerate the development of new measuring instruments and measurement facilities.
By constantly telling that 97% of scientists confirm the story of the climate movement, the general public thinks it is the truth. The opposite is true.
Q: These poorly validated computer models describe a dreamworld. Yet, these climate models have an enormous impact, is't that right?
The power of the climate movement is the simple message: 'Human CO2 is the cause of warming; warming is causing a catastrophe; if we turn the CO2 button everything will be fine again'. I said it before, that message is being hammered into the public. Not knowledge but fear is used as an emotional driver.
What they have also smartly done is to regularly use climate change as a scapegoat. For example, the cause of much misery in Africa is attributed to climate change, even though the problems are of an ethnic, religious and political nature. But unfortunately that is not all. By constantly telling that 97% of scientists confirm the story of the climate movement, the general public thinks it is the truth. However, the opposite is true.
This consensus strategy is not new. For example, in the start to the financial crisis in 2007, everyone told everyone that the economy could grow indefinitely if everyone was making debts. If you didn't agree with that message, you would be called a fool. Of course, nobody wanted to be judged as such. Even if you didn't understand anything about the theory of 'growth by making debts'. They just parroted each other. Even the solid Dutch Rabobank, at that time the only bank in the world with a triple A rating, bought debt securities. At the time, the consensus was almost complete: if you want to grow, you have to get into debt! But we know how it ended.
Now we are in the same situation with the earth's climate. When I ask critical questions, it turns out that very few people know anything about the climate system. Everyone parrots everyone. Conclusion is that history shows time and again: 'Beware of people who use consensus as a truth argument'. The same also applies to activists who put small children forward.
Q: How do we move forward? The Netherlands would like to be an example country, wouldn't it?
If Mother Nature alone is responsible for climate change, mankind has only one thing to do: adapt to change. Life on Earth has always been confronted with changes in the natural system. Darwin's theory of evolution shows that inventive adaptation is the best answer and has also led to ever-higher forms of life. This applies not only to plants and animals, but also to humans. Wanting to stop natural change is not only arrogant and naive, it is also negatively charged and it sets the clock back. Adaptation challenges give positive energy and stimulate innovation.
If only human CO2 were responsible for terrestrial climate change, then humans would have to implement sensible CO2 reduction measures. The top priority in this scenario is to ban wood burning and close the most polluting coal-fired power plants in the world. Coal-fired power plants are still being built all over the world, particularly in developing countries. Starting to close the relatively clean power stations in The Netherlands is downright stupidity. It costs the Dutch citizen an extremely large amount of money and it is of no benefit to the climate.
If we are dealing with a complex mixture of natural forces and human influences, then we must first determine which part is caused by Mother Nature and which part is caused by humanity (decomposition). However, today we do not yet have this knowledge at all. So, in this scenario we must acquire this knowledge with high priority. If it turns out that both causes have a comparable influence, it should lead to a mixed adaptation-reduction policy.
Political and commercial interests are becoming an increasingly important part of scientific research. Today, many scientists have lost their independent position in society.
Q: And what role do you expect science to play in this?
Q: it seems nobody cares about?
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is the guardian of integer scientific practices in our country. Particularly this organization should know that history of science tells us time and again that scientific progress never came about through consensus, but through stubborn scientists who dared to question existing concepts. It is in the interests of both science and humanity that these very dissidential thinkers are not silenced, as is currently being done by the IPCC, public media and commercial lobby clubs.
Academies of Sciences, we want to know what the real truth is, don't we? Moreoever, if politics misuses scientific results – with major consequences for society – then science should sound the alarm bell, should it not?
Q: Despite everything, are you still optimistic for the future?
Everything is like it always has been. @heutejournal via @zdf has invented the relationship of the polar vortex split with climate change. The American weather services writes the opposite: 'It has happened often…' https://www.noaa.gov/infographic/science-behind-polar-vortex … Why make it up? Isn't the real threat already enough? Why, @zdf?
Herr Lauterbach, who has no meteorological background, is probably just parroting talking points handed to him by the ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute, which is desperate to keep the alarmism among the public at a high level.


What is the Snake River Salmon Society?
The SRSS is a regional Political Action Committee, with the specific goal of advancing political leaders who support, or will support recovery of wild salmon populations in the Snake/Columbia River systems.
Our members are fishermen and women, many of whom grew up fishing with parents and grandparents from Astoria, Oregon, upriver to Stanley, Idaho. We are workers, business owners, students, doctors, dentists, commercial and sport fishers, attorneys, professionals, military people, and retirees. We are members of pro-salmon conservation and fishing groups; we live in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, and other states.
We want to take our kids and grandkids fishing for wild salmon in future years, in our home states.
SRSS membership and donor dollars are pooled to make direct contributions to political candidates in Pacific Salmon States. Priority goes to federal campaigns – for the US Congress and US Senate – since federal policy is the key in salmon recovery plans.
We are governed by a Steering Committee that supervises the organization, affirms organizational goals, and approves political contributions.
We comply with rules and regulations of the Federal Election Commission.
The Snake River Salmon Society seeks members throughout Pacific Salmon States, solicits donations, and makes political contributions to candidates who support wild salmon recovery and who work to address more fully the lethal impact of four lower Snake dams. The Snake River Basin is a key salmon stronghold which now comprises about 70% of the region's salmon recovery potential, and is, potentially, the most significant opportunity in all Pacific Salmon State to restore wild runs.
Through direct contributions to office-holder and candidates, the SRSS rewards wild salmon allies in the most important elections.


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using System;
using Ccr.Core.Extensions;
using JetBrains.Annotations;

namespace Ccr.Core.TypeSystemInfo
{
  internal abstract class BuiltInTypeBuilder
  {
    protected const string minValueFieldName = "MinValue";

    protected const string maxValueFieldName = "MaxValue";

    protected internal abstract BuiltInTypeInfo BuildBase(
      [NotNull] Type systemType);
  }

  internal abstract class BuiltInTypeBuilder<TTypeInfo>
    : BuiltInTypeBuilder
      where TTypeInfo
        : BuiltInTypeInfo
  {
    internal TTypeInfo Build<TSystemType>()
      where TSystemType
        : struct
    {
      return BuildBase(
        typeof(TSystemType)).As<TTypeInfo>();
    }
    protected abstract TTypeInfo BuildImpl<TSystemType>();
  }
}


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Swords and Plowshares
: American Evangelicals on War, 1937-1973
by:Timothy D Padgett
Evangelicals are warmongering nationalists-right?Many assume that evangelicals have always shared the ideology and approach of the Moral Majority. But the truth is much more complex. Historically, evangelical rank and file have not held to one position about war; instead, they are strewn across the spectrum from love of peace to glorying in war. Timothy Padgett presents evangelicals in their own words. And in so doing he complicates our common perceptions of evangelical attitudes towards war... Show More
Evangelicals are warmongering nationalists-right?Many assume that evangelicals have always shared the ideology and approach of the Moral Majority. But the truth is much more complex. Historically, evangelical rank and file have not held to one position about war; instead, they are strewn across the spectrum from love of peace to glorying in war. Timothy Padgett presents evangelicals in their own words. And in so doing he complicates our common perceptions of evangelical attitudes towards war and peace. Evangelical leaders regularly wrote about the temporal and eternal implications of war from World War II to the Vietnam War. Padgett allows us to see firsthand how these evangelicals actually spoke about war and love of country. Instead of blind ideologues we meet concerned people of conviction struggling to reconcile the demands of a world in turmoil with the rule of the Prince of Peace. Show Less
Publish Date Nov. 7th, 2018


Quetzal Palace is an angelic sky themed village, with classical Grecian elements. Legend says this village was once home to angels.
Quetzal Palace's mayor is an angelic wolf named Ana. She is also the leader of the Guardian Angels and sees to it that every villager gets their own guardian for protection.
Angelic Craftables is owned by Telephone, a Dutch Angel Dragon. Customers love to play with her, encouraging her to replicate the sounds they make.
Angelic Craftables sells three types of blueprints and a sewing set to Quetzal Palace villagers. These items can be used by a Crafter.
Heaven's Warriors is owned by a ram named Tea Arie. Customers are welcomed by Tea Arie's deep and almost menacing voice. He might seem tough at first, but he is actually quite the friendly guy!
Heaven's Warriors sells five types of schemas, 3 types of reagents and a sword and shield to Quetzal Palace villagers. These items can be used by a Blacksmith and a Warrior.
Miracle Cures is owned by a unicorn named Celeste. She has a passion for dancing and can be often found gracefully dancing, while checking inventory of all the lotions, salves and bandages. She sometimes happens to bump into one of these shelves though, causing the bottles and boxes to fall on the floor.
Miracle Cures sells five types of recipes and containers to Quetzal Palace villagers. The recipes can be used by doctors and the containers by doctors and alchemists. Celeste also offers one free doctor's appointment per day!
Divine Concoctions is owned by a Dutch Angel Dragon named Nimbus. She often squeaks with surprise the moment a costumer enters her shop, after which she proudly shows off her selection of potions available.
Divine Concoctions sells seven types of morphing potions to Quetzal Palace villagers. These items can be used by an Alchemist. Nimbus is also available to assist in stabilising a morphing potion for 5000 FC. This will allow you to select a specific color to morph your villager into, instead of it being totally random.
Garden of Uneathly Delights is owned by a dragon named Lullaby. No matter what time you visit his shop, he is always tired and always says it is probably time to lay down for a nap.
Garden of Unearthly Delights sells three types of pattern books and fabric to Quetzal Palace villagers. These items can be used by a Tailor.
Feathery Familiars is owned by a cobra named Pleiades. Squawking and chirping comes from inside the building and as soon as a costumer walks in, they are watched by all the different kind of birds this shop sells.
Feathery Familiars sells two types of animals. These items can be used by an Animal Husbandrist.
Much like every other village on Furvilla, Quetzal Palace has it's special species. This is the Dutch Angel Dragon, The Dutch Angel Dragon comes in three color variations and has two wing variations.


text:
const capitalMatcher = /([A-Z])/g;

function addSpaceAndUpper(char: string): string {
  return ' ' + char.toUpperCase();
}

function addHyphenAndLower(char: string): string {
  return '-' + char.toLowerCase();
}

export function _titlecase(name: string): string {
  return name.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + name.slice(1).replace(capitalMatcher, addSpaceAndUpper);
}

export function _hyphenate(name: string): string {
  return (name.charAt(0).toLowerCase() + name.slice(1)).replace(capitalMatcher, addHyphenAndLower);
}


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Former Bulls guard Chris Duhon joins Illinois State's coaching staff
By Associated Press Jun 19, 2018, 12:42pm CDT
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Chris Duhon played for the Bulls from 2004-08. | Tom Cruze/Sun-Times
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Former Chicago Bulls point guard Chris Duhon has joined the staff of Illinois State University as an assistant coach.
Illinois State coach Dan Muller announced Duhon's appointment Monday, saying he brings "a high level of on-the-court experience and success" to the university's basketball program.
Duhon resigned as an assistant coach at Marshall in January 2017 after his arrest for driving on a revoked license. His driver's license was revoked for driving under the influence in 2015.
Duhon starred in college at Duke and helped lead the Blue Devils to the 2001 national championship, leading the team in steals and minutes played. He was selected by the Bulls in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft and played four seasons in Chicago. He averaged 6.9 points and 4.5 assists per game as a member of the Bulls.
The 35-year-old retired from the NBA in 2013 after also playing for the Knicks, Magic and Lakers.


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Malleus primer: Faction Paradox coverage, Doctor Who spin-off audio drama companies
March 19, 2009 By Chris Dueker
Hello everyone, I've been gone for a long, long time, but I'm gearing up for a big comeback. Over the next several weeks I will be running a series of articles on the strange history of the Faction Paradox audio dramas, featuring a critical overview of the series, transcribed interviews with directors, and audio excerpts. Faction Paradox isn't a typical sci-fi audio serial. While it isn't flawless or easy, however, it is as beguiling as it is bewildering. If working your way through a … [Read more...] about Malleus primer: Faction Paradox coverage, Doctor Who spin-off audio drama companies
Malleus Review: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, read by Stephen Lang (English Audiobook)
December 18, 2008 By Chris Dueker
8 out of 10 A literate literary patricide. … [Read more...] about Malleus Review: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, read by Stephen Lang (English Audiobook)
What was Hörspiel USA? Erik Bauersfeld's 1984 KPFA Folio essay on "The Project"
September 12, 2008 By Chris Dueker
Greetings all, My wife recently had surgery for appendicitis, and between doing my work, taking care of her, and looking after my 4 year old son, I'm just too beat to write from scratch this week. My essay on Gordon Bok's "Peter Kagan and the Wind" will therefore be postponed to next week. However, I'm not too tired to type up someone else's words, so today I'm proud to present a lost piece of radio drama history. After my review of his dramatic adaptation of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" … [Read more...] about What was Hörspiel USA? Erik Bauersfeld's 1984 KPFA Folio essay on "The Project"
Malleus Bonus: "Space Oddity / Major Tom (Coming Home)" by the 1989-90 Tufts Beelzebubs – the Classic Winter Invitational recording
September 5, 2008 By Chris Dueker
Sometime in 1990, I was a pathetic high school student getting my heart slowly and painfully broken during an ill-advised Smith College visit to my first girlfriend. The relationship was clearly dying on the vine, and I was wretched. Things went from bad to worse, and then we went to see a visiting a cappella group, the Tufts Beelzebubs, perform in a campus lounge. A dapper bunch of fellows took the stage and proceeded to rock the house with a polished, harmonious set including Peter Gabriel's … [Read more...] about Malleus Bonus: "Space Oddity / Major Tom (Coming Home)" by the 1989-90 Tufts Beelzebubs – the Classic Winter Invitational recording
Ballads part 1: Julius Lester's "Stagolee" (English)
August 19, 2008 By Chris Dueker
10 out of 10 This week Malleus kicks off a 3-part look at ballads that blur the boundaries between song, storytelling, and the spoken word. First up is the bad man, Black folk anti-hero Stagolee, in what I guarantee is the best and most wildly imaginative retelling of his legend that you are ever going to hear. Julius Lester's "Stagolee" is lightning in a bottle: drink deep, and be electrified. … [Read more...] about Ballads part 1: Julius Lester's "Stagolee" (English)
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