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Q: Drop Event not firing with IDropHandler in Unity3D I have 2 prefabs objects consisting in a panel with UI.Text inside. One contains the class for dragging and the other the dropping. However, even if the drag works fine the OnDrop() function is never executed. I have also set the blockRaycasts to false in the CanvasGroup that I added to the main Canvas.
 GetComponentInParent<CanvasGroup>().blocksRaycasts = false;

Are there any reasons why the method OnDrop() implemented from the interface UnityEngine.EventSystems.IDropHandler may not be firing while I'm dragging an object into it?
public class ItemDropHandler : MonoBehaviour, IDropHandler
{
    public void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("Drop detected over the UI.Text"); //this is never shown
    }
}

A: The problem is maybe caused by the fact, that you add the CanvasGroup to the MainCanvas and then set blocksRaycast to false for the complete MainCanvas itself. So basically all your inputs are going through your canvas without any effect.
The solution for the problem:

*

*Remove the canvas Group of your main canvas

*Add the Canvas-Group-Component to the Prefab or GameObject you want to drag

*Then you can use GetComponent for the CanvasGroup to change the blocksRaycast-property in OnBeginDrag(...)

*Don't forget to set the blocksRaycast-property to true in OnEndDrag(...) to make it draggable again

Here is some example code for the DragHandler:
public class DragHandler : MonoBehaviour, IBeginDragHandler, IDragHandler, IEndDragHandler
{
    public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnBeginDrag");
        GetComponent<CanvasGroup>().blocksRaycasts = false;
    }

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        gameObject.transform.position = Input.mousePosition;
    }

    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        GetComponent<CanvasGroup>().blocksRaycasts = true;
        Debug.Log("OnEndDrag");
    }
}

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Fausto 5.0 is a fantasy film made in Spain and released in 2001.

Fausto 5.0 is the last part of a trilogy dedicated to the figure of Faust. The first two instalments were F@ust 3.0 (originally a play) and The Damnation of Faust (originally an opera).  All three films were developed for the screen by La Fura dels Baus, an experimental theatre group from Barcelona.

Plot
A doctor – Fausto – on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meets a former patient – Santos Vella – who promises to grant his every wish. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control.

Awards
 Méliès d'Or Award, 2002 (among others) for the best European fantasy film
 International Fantasy Film Award (Best Film), Fantasporto 2002
 Grand Prize, Gérardmer Film Festival 2002

See also
 List of Spanish films of 2001

References

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Spanish fantasy films
Spanish horror films
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Films based on European myths and legends
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Royal blood: Queen Victoria and the legacy of hemophilia in European royalty
Carys O'Neill
Portrait of Queen Victoria with her husband, Albert, and nine children at Osborne circa 1857. From left to right: Alice, Arthur, Prince Albert, Albert Edward, Leopold, Louise, Queen Victoria with Beatrice, Alfred, Victoria, and Helena.
Known for restoring the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her predecessors and reigniting a faith in empire through an embrace of civic and diplomatic duties, the legacy of Queen Victoria (1819–1901, r. 1837–1901) shaped a new role for the position of queen and the idea of her kingdom. At just five feet tall, she was a towering presence as a symbol of Britain, of ideal queenship, and of family. Together with her husband Albert and their nine children, Victoria came to symbolize a new, confident age of connection and progress throughout Europe. But this legacy was not limited to politics and high culture; when Victoria ascended to the throne in 1837, she brought with her a new kind of royal marker that would be passed down for generations, spreading from the beloved "Grandmother of Europe" through her own family to the farthest reaches of the German, Spanish, and Russian courts. Highly misunderstood in Queen Victoria's day, hemophilia not only altered the trajectory of the queen's own motherhood but heavily influenced the course of European history in the decades following her death.
When Victoria was born in 1819, there were no outward signs of hemophilia in the British royal family. Neither her mother nor her father were known to be carriers nor exhibited any outward symptoms of the disease. Following a healthy childhood, the young queen married her beloved cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. It was not until 1853 and the birth of their eighth child and youngest son Leopold that the first signs of illness hit the royal household.
Leopold was described as a delicate child who bruised easily, particularly as he learned to walk. On 2 August 1859, Victoria shared an anxious exchange with King Leopold of Belgium, writing, "Your poor little namesake is again laid up with a bad knee from a fall — which appeared to be of no consequence. It is very sad for the poor Child — for I really fear he will never be able to enter any active service. This unfortunate defect . . . is often not outgrown & no remedy or medicine does it any good."1 The prince continued to have accidents and was diagnosed by the queen's physician, Dr. James Clark, with the bleeding tendency "haematophilia."
Despite the diagnosis, little was known about the intricacies of blood-related illnesses in the nineteenth century. The phenomenon had been described by Philadelphia physician John Conrad Otto (1774–1844) as a familial bleeding disorder that affected male members, but his study was largely genealogical in nature, intending to trace the transmission of the disease back through families rather than explore its manifestations. He wrote in 1803, "If the least scratch is made on the skin of some of them, as mortal a hemorrhagy will eventually ensue as if the largest wound is inflicted."2 Doctors largely believed that the blood vessels of those with hemophilia were simply more fragile. In fact, the term "haematophilia" was not coined until 1828, when Zurich University student Friedrich Hopff devised the term to describe the phenomenon Otto and others had brought to light. But as Victoria herself lamented, there was no treatment for the disease that severely limited the lifestyle and lifespan of her young son. Medical knowledge focused almost exclusively on the treatment of wounds and the prevention of life-threatening bleeding; from ice and poultices to splints and periods of indefinite bed rest, the management of symptoms was equally as ineffective as it was maddening. Victoria lived with continuous guilt, once writing, "No one knows the constant fear I am in about him."3
Early attempts at management included the administration of lime, bone marrow, hydrogen peroxide, and gelatin to wounds, particularly in instances of surgery, but as the "defect" was in the blood itself rather than at the wound site, these treatments were almost always unsuccessful. The first transfusion to treat hemophilia was performed by English surgeon Samuel Armstrong Lane (1802–1892) in London in 1840, but transfusions remained incredibly risky and were largely dismissed by the medical establishment. The status quo for hemophilia research and treatment would not change until the Argentinian physician Alfredo Pavlovsky's (1907–1984) discovery of different types of hemophilia over a century later.
In Leopold's day, most people with hemophilia did not make it to adulthood. Those who did were usually crippled by the long-term effects of internal hemorrhages, particularly in the joints, making it one of the most painful diseases known to medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. Thanks to a careful upbringing under the watchful eye of his mother and access to some of the best doctors in Europe at her court, Leopold surpassed the average life expectancy of just thirteen. In 1882 he married Princess Helena (1861–1922) and the couple had a daughter, Princess Alice (1883–1981). She too was a carrier of the gene, passing it to her son Rupert (1907–1928) who died in a car accident at the age of twenty and a second son, Maurice (1910), who died in infancy. In 1884, Leopold died of a brain hemorrhage after a minor fall, leaving behind a pregnant Helena. Her second son, Prince Charles (1884–1954) was not afflicted.
Through Victoria's daughter Alice (1843–1878), who married the future Louis IV of Hesse in 1862, seven more children were exposed to the potentially deadly inheritance that plagued her family. Two sons were born with the disease, one dying at the age of two, and two daughters were carriers. Alix, the future Tsarina of Russia (1872–1918), and Irene carried on Victoria's legacy in the Russian and German courts. Through Victoria's daughter Beatrice (1857–1954), at least one of three sons, Prince Leopold (1889–1922), was born a hemophiliac and a daughter, Victoria Eugenie, who married the Spanish King Alfonso XIII (1886–1941) in 1906, was a carrier. It is likely that hemophilia contributed to the untimely death of a second son, Prince Maurice (1891–1914), during the First World War.
As this lineage indicates, and as John Conrad Otto noted in 1803, hemophilia was more prevalent in males. We now know that the disease is a genetic disorder located on the sex-linked X chromosome. The trait is recessive, meaning that women, with two X chromosomes, must inherit the mutation from both mother and father for the disease to appear. Otherwise, they remain silent carriers, increasing the likelihood of passing the disease down to their sons, who only have a single X chromosome and thus incur a fifty percent chance of contracting hemophilia even if their father is not a carrier, as was the case with Victoria and Albert. As Victoria's family showed no symptoms of the disease, it is believed that a spontaneous mutation on an X chromosome in either a parent at the time of the queen's conception or the queen herself during her lifetime led to the introduction of the disease into the British royal family. Tests conducted on the remains of the Imperial Romanov Family of Russia, related to Victoria through her daughter Alice, in 2009 showed that Victoria's great-grandson Tsarevich Alexei (1904–1918) suffered from the relatively rare hemophilia B, while his sister Anastasia (1901–1918) was a carrier.4
The deadly combination of a silent carrier and a tradition of political marriages and large royal families contributed to one of the most prominent transmissions of a genetic disease in medical history. From Victoria's introduction of the "royal disease" to the British court, her daughter Alice's passing of the gene to the German court, Alice's daughter Alix's marriage into the Russian royal family, and Victoria's granddaughter Victoria Eugenie's marriage into the Spanish royal family, four new strains of the disorder were spread across the Europe. The inheritance of the throne through Victoria's eldest son Edward VII (1841–1910), who was unaffected, and the assassination of all of Alix's children during the Russian Revolution of 1917–1918 spared the British and Russian courts from generations of future inheritance, but the Spanish lineage saw two more sons with the disease and another carrier daughter.
The last known descendant to suffer from the disease was Infante Don Gonzalo (1914–1934), who died in a car crash at nineteen. Today, no living members of reigning dynasties are known to have symptoms of hemophilia. However, with the possibility of silent carriers in many of Victoria's great-granddaughters, there remains a small chance that the disease could appear again, especially in Princess Beatrice's Spanish line. Although the disease weakened royal lineages and compromised the political stability of several prominent European houses, the attention brought by its prominent carriers encouraged the medical community, particularly in Britain, to learn more about the roots of the disease and its prevalence in the royal lineages of Europe and had a significant impact on the foresight surrounding royal marriages in the years following Victoria's death. As Alan Rushton writes, "Public discussion of hemophilia transformed it from a rare medical phenomenon to a matter of national news. Practicing physicians, the royal family, and the general public all came to understand the clinical features and the hereditary nature of the problem [and] utilized this information to guide the marriages of their own children to prevent the spread of this dreaded bleeding disorder."5 The legacy of hemophilia as the "royal disease" no longer captivates public memory as it once did, but as researchers and physicians continue to work toward a cure, the encouragement of a particular European matriarch and her hundreds of royal descendants is fuel for the fire.
Quoted in Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria: A Personal History (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 402.
John C. Otto, "An Account of an Hemorrhagic Disposition Existing in Certain Families," The Medical Repository Vol. VI, No. 1 (1803), 1. https://genmedhist.eshg.org/digitised-resources/. Accessed 4 January 2020.
Moniek, "Queen Victoria and Haemophilia," History of Royal Women, 21 July 2019. Accessed 5 January 2020. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-year-of-queen-victoria- 2019/queen-victoria-and-haemophilia/.
Evgeny Rogaev, Anastasia Grigorenko, Gulnaz Faskhutdinova, Ellen Kittler, and Yuri Moliaka, "Genotype Analysis Identifies the Cause of the "Royal Disease," Science Vol. 326 No. 5954 (6 November 2009): 817. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5954/817. Accessed 5 January 2020.
Alan R. Rushton, "Leopold, the "Bleeder Prince" and Public Knowledge About Hemophilia in Victorian Britain," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. 67, No. 3 (July 2012): 457.
Franchini, Massimo and Pier Mannuccio Mannucci. "The History of Hemophilia." Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis Vol. 40, No. 5 (2014): 571-576. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0034-1381232. Accessed 4 Jan 2020.
Hibbert, Christopher. Queen Victoria: A Personal History. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Moniek. "Queen Victoria and Haemophilia." History of Royal Women. 21 July 2019. Accessed 5 Jan 2020. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-year-of-queen-victoria- 2019/queen-victoria-and-haemophilia/.
Offner, Susan. "Royal Hemophilia." The American Biology Teacher Vol. 75, No. 9 (November/December 2013): 652-656.
Otto, John C. "An Account of an Hemorrhagic Disposition Existing in Certain Families." The Medical Repository. Vol. VI, No. 1 (1803), 1-4. https://genmedhist.eshg.org/digitised-resources/. Accessed 4 Jan 2020.
Rogaev, Evgeny, Anastasia Grigorenko, Gulnaz Faskhutdinova, Ellen Kittler, and Yuri Moliaka. "Genotype Analysis Identifies the Cause of the "Royal Disease." Science Vol. 326, No. 5954 (6 November 2009): 817. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5954/817. Accessed 5 Jan 2020.
Rushton, Alan R. "Leopold, the "Bleeder Prince" and Public Knowledge About Hemophilia in Victorian Britain." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. 67, No. 3 (July 2012): 457-490.
Public domain; original photograph by Leonida Caldesi in Royal Collection, Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 2106422, Albumen Print Mounted on Card, from the collection of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, https://www.rct.uk/collection/2106422/queen-victoria-and-prince-albert-with-their-nine-children-at-osborne
CARYS O'NEILL is a public historian working at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. She holds a bachelors degree in history from Furman University and recently completed a masters in public history and heritage management at the University of Central Florida. Her work critically evaluates the nature of representation in public spaces, particularly with reference to women, gender, and sexuality, as well as issues in historical interpretation, the production of heritage, and the formation of collective memory.
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Q: Laravel Eloquent, How to define tables relation with formula? On Laravel Eloquent,
How can I define relation condition with something that not exist on the table but calculated from a value in the table.
For example :
quarters                transactions
 _________ _________    _________ ___________
|   name  |  desc   |  |   id  |  date        |
 _________ _________    _________ ___________
|     1   | Jan-Mar |  |     1   | 2016-04-01 |
|     2   | Apr-Jun |  |     2   | 2016-05-01 |
|     3   | Jul-Sep |  |     3   | 2012-07-21 |
|     4   | Oct-Dec |  |     4   | 2014-01-31 |
 _________ _________    _________ ___________

It's work fine with this
SELECT
FROM transactions tx
INNER JOIN quarters q ON q.name = ((MONTH(tx.date)+2)/3)

Quarters.php
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Quarters extends Model{

}

Transactions.php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Transactions extends Model{

    public function quater(){
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Quarters' , '????', 'name') ;
    }
}

What should I define in my model in order to be able to do:

Transactions::where("some_field", "some_value")->with("quater")->get()

note: I want to do this without modify table structure.

A: In order to do Eloquent Relationship you need another column in Transection table. Example:
      quarters                    transactions
 _________ _________    _________ ___________  ____________
|   name  |  desc   |  |   id    | quarter_id |    date    |
 _________ _________    _________ ___________  ____________
|     1   | Jan-Mar |  |     1   |      2     | 2016-04-01 |
|     2   | Apr-Jun |  |     2   |      2     | 2016-05-01 |
|     3   | Jul-Sep |  |     3   |      3     | 2012-07-21 |
|     4   | Oct-Dec |  |     4   |      1     | 2014-01-31 |
 _________ _________    _________ ___________ ______________

In this schema quarter_id is the catch for table quarter_table. Now you can define eloquent relationship in model like this:
Transactions.php
public function quarter(){
    return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Quarters') ;
}

Quarters.php
public function transactions(){
    return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Transactions') ;
}

Controller
$transactions = Transactions::where('quarter_id', $someValue)->get()

or

$transactions = Transactions::with('quarter')->get();

A: I end up created my own Relation class
<?php

namespace App\Models;

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
use App\Models\Quarter;

class HasManyQuarter extends HasMany {

    public function __construct($localKey, $object){
        $instance = new Quarter;
        $query = $instance->newQuery();
        $foreign_key = "name";

        parent::__construct($query, $object, $instance->getTable().'.'.$foreign_key, $localKey);
    }

    public function addEagerConstraints(array $models)
    {
        $keys = $this->getKeys($models, $this->localKey);
        $_keys = array();
        foreach($keys as $idx => $k){
            $_keys[$idx] = ( date("n", strtotime($k))+2 ) / 3; // Transform the Key
        }

        $this->query->whereIn($this->foreignKey, $keys);
    }

    public function match(array $models, Collection $results, $relation)
    {
        $dictionary = $this->buildDictionary($results);

        foreach ($models as $model) {
            $key = $model->getAttribute($this->localKey);

            $month = ( date("n", strtotime($key))+2 ) / 3; // Transform the Key

            if ( isset($dictionary[ $month ]) ) {
                $value = $this->getRelationValue($dictionary, $month, 'many');
                $model->setRelation($relation, $value);
            }

        }
        return $models;
    }
}

And my model have:
public function quarter(){
   return new HasManyQuarter('date', $this);
}

I extends HasMany because it's suite my case where my real class are not transaction/quarter. but this can get anyone idea of how to implement it.
The idea is overide addEagerConstraints to alter the query and also match() to match the results back to each records.
Relations/HasMany.php


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A MATTER OF FEELING.
by RACHEL ARMSTRONG
Posted by spng on Monday, August 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A Matter of Feeling. Introductional essay for the Meta.Morf 2012 conference.
The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image. Meta.Morf is a reflection on a new kind image, which is evolving in a diverse set of arts practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Intriguingly, its portrait of our universe is far more autonomous and sensitive than the one that has historically relied on human reason for instruction. All matter squirms. This is the fundamental reality that underpins our cosmic fabric.
All matter squirms. This is the fundamental reality that underpins our cosmic fabric.
Our ideas of 'brute' materiality that required rational instruction, were forged during the Enlightenment when Galileo and Newton set out the mathematical principles of the universe world, which became known as the 'natural laws,' while Rene Descartes cleaved our understanding of the world into an ephemeral mind and mechanical body. Currently the modern world wrestles with these imposed polarities of being where natural events are explained in terms of geometrical functions and displayed on computer screens. Recently Markus Covert compiled data from more than 900 scientific papers to account for every molecular interaction that takes place in the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium – the world's smallest free-living bacterium – to create a digital model of how it works [[1]]. This follows in the wake of J.C. Venter's exploration of this same 'minimal life form' where a 'host' body was activated by an artificial genetic code using a form of biological computing called 'systems genomics' [[2]]. Both Covert's organizational topology and Venter's 'Synthia' embody an Enlightenment view of matter, which is inert, insensitive to its environment and requires external instruction to perform tasks. It is symbolized by the machine worldview, which imagines that the world is made up from component parts of fundamental particles, called atoms, which can be instructed by 'code' that may be digital or analogue. Attempts to vitalize this brutal image of matter such as, Hans Driesch's notion of 'entelechy' or Henri Bergson's 'élan vital' only plays to the machine metaphor, rendering the vitality of the material world as an afterthought.
We can be in two places simultaneously, or inhabit different characters without confusion and although it does not matter if you are a dog, a tin man, or a chat bot – it does matter just how well we're connected.
We are currently witnessing a change in the way we imagine the ordering of the world away from the Enlightenment ideals. Boundaries that were once consolidated by duality –machine/human, man/woman, and organic/inorganic – are now incontrovertibly blurred. We live in a world of definable probability that is entangled in networks of continuous exchange in which life and matter evolve continually. This is more than an intellectual fashion but has been precipitated by infrastructural changes in the way we live. We find ourselves at the event horizon of a generation of globally connected, digital natives whose day-to-day understanding of reality is complex, strange, disobedient and full of paradoxes. The Internet has provided us all access to a reality enframed by complexity, in which abstracted representations have created the language of possibility of a new way of imagining the world. Online, contradictions seamlessly coexist and are an extension of our natural selves. We can be in two places simultaneously, or inhabit different characters without confusion and although it does not matter if you are a dog, a tin man, or a chat bot – it does matter just how well we're connected. The scientific understanding of these networks has been termed 'complex systems' and has developed over the course of the twentieth century in the disciplines of theoretical physics, mathematics, cybernetics and ecology. Yet its significance has only burst through the fabric of our mechanistic reality with the rise of modern computing. The information highways of cyberspace have provided the infrastructure that made complexity 'real' by enabling us to describe, diagram, image and imagine how this new world is constructed. With advances in processing power and speed we've documented network topologies and have started to observe recognisable structures such as, veined mushroom clouds of connections that explode upwards to the megascale and downwards to the nanoscale. Complexity can be seen in the mapping of many kinds of everyday systems, which may be as diverse as – the metabolism of cells, air traffic flight patterns or the movement of people around cities. Its unique qualities are more than simply speculative connections between things – they are embodied in these relationships. Theoretical physicist Albert-László Barabási has characterised the behaviour of complex systems as being surprisingly stable, conservative, robust and resilient. Yet they also have the capacity to be ceaselessly creative and unpredictable. Complexity is a conservative force with revolutionary potential.
While the tools of cyberspace allow us to glimpse at the information structures of this world, quantum physics has facilitated an understanding of how complexity functions in material terms. At very small scales, atoms do not always behave according to Newtonian mechanics. Quantum physics provides a new understanding of the behavior of matter through an appreciation of the qualities that made up the atomic substance. The consequence of this new perspective has enabled the possibility of materials that behave unpredictably, are lively and even entangled with the measuring equipment they are observed with. Quantum physicist David Bohm proposed that 'elementary particles are actually systems of extremely complicated internal structure, acting essentially as amplifiers of 'information' contained in a quantum wave'. He called this universal, connected network of matter the 'Implicate Order' where fundamental particles such as, electromagnetism, neutrinos, gravitons, gluons, muons, quarks, bosons provide the adhesive material of the universe and are bound up in strong, weak and strange forces. Bohm's Implicate Order with its milieu of networks creates an undivided flowing movement of matter without borders that permeates reality at many scales of operation. When its fabric is disturbed the vibrations ripple out in waves that are enfolded into each other. Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmnalysis explores the notion of rhythms underpinning the mundane world where everyday happenings are connected and interwoven in events such as, the circadian rhythm of a cell, the sound of the street or the diurnal variation of a city. Although the Implicate Order implies that we are potentially connected to everything, in practical terms our sphere of influence is more limited. We can shape our local surroundings by editing the connections of complex systems in which we're embedded and imbue these processes with meaning.
Living organisms are therefore compelled to collaborate, by varying degrees, with non-living actants and material assemblages from the mineral world. Ultimately these collective forces impact on the genetic identity of creatures that subsequently forge new relationships with their environmental actants and are enjoined in the process of evolution.
Jane Bennett has coined the phrase 'vibrant matter' to appreciate the importance of non-human and inanimate matter in shaping our connected world and seeks to elevate its status. She draws inspiration from Bruno Latour's notion of 'actants' – bodies that can exert influence on their surroundings, which may or may not be human and may or may not be alive. Non-human actants have a relatively weak influence on our everyday experience but their effects are amplified through recruitment. Bennett uses Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's term 'assemblage' to describe the cumulative pressure that materials or bodies can exert independently from, or participating within our realm. Although matter is not autonomous as it depends on other actants to exert its effects – it becomes creative and convincing through bottom-up forms of interaction, whose outcomes – according to the laws of complexity, can be surprising. Bennett's proposition enables material to operate in a lively manner, which escapes the Newtonian tenet of vulgar materiality and allies their influence with biological systems. These materials exhibit life-like qualities being capable of unlikely characteristics such as, movement, innate intelligence, environmental sensitivity and change with the passage of time. These 'living' systems work in concert with the biological world so that, as Richard Lewontin observes, organisms and their environments 'co-evolve'. Indeed, Vladimir Vernadsky argued that no living organism exists in a free state on Earth. He proposed a conception of Nature that combined geochemistry and biogeochemistry, which embraced both non-living and living systems that continuously connected them to the biosphere through processes such as, feeding and breathing. Although minerals are more limited in their capacity to generate change by forming new compounds or making assemblages when compared with biotic materials, they still offer a portfolio of choices from which Charles Darwin's notion of Natural Selection, can operate. The mineral world also possesses a kind of memory through the production of crystals and compounds that also have the capacity to shape events. Sometimes these find stable configurations and postpone Erwin Schrodinger's notion of life by evading the decay towards thermodynamic equilibrium. For example, Stuart Kauffman's notion of 'autocatalytic sets' described groups of chemicals that are capable of forming a closed loop of interactions where the by product of one chemical reaction becomes the substrate for the next. Stephane Leduc [[3]], who coined the term 'synthetic biology,' also used a variety of mineral systems to demonstrate their potential for dynamic growth that he called 'osmotic' structures, which he likened to the growth of fungi. Physical chemist A. Graham Cairns-Smith, proposed an even more intimate connection between the mineral domain and living matter by proposing that the first life forms originated from clay minerals [[4]] and contemporary research has confirmed that clays, such as montmorillonite, may have been key to biogenesis [[5]]. Soil scientist William Bryant Logan observes how little of the potential of the mineral world we've explored and regards 'the clay code' as being 'more complex than either the genetic code or human language'. [[6]] Minerals have contributed significantly to setting the conditions for life to flourish and continue to do so. The role of iron pyrites in removing sulphur from the ocean and producing atmospheric oxygen has recently been established as being much more important than was previously thought [[7]]. Living organisms are therefore compelled to collaborate, by varying degrees, with non-living actants and material assemblages from the mineral world. Ultimately these collective forces impact on the genetic identity of creatures that subsequently forge new relationships with their environmental actants and are enjoined in the process of evolution. These relationships are completely compatible with the complex infrastructures that underpin the biosphere, despite the diversity of these relationships or the variety of material configurations they may adopt.
The incredible parallel processing capabilities of biology provides technologies that bind us to our ecology in a similar way to how the Internet has connected us to each other through cyberspace.
From a technological perspective, embodied complexity offers the potential to forge systems that behave in ways that are different to modern machines. Martin Heidegger regards technology in a way that is not strictly bound to its instrumentality but considers how its interventions reveal truths about the world. At the heart of Heidegger's quest is an ecological project where he seeks a 'free' relationship between technology and human to promote a relationship with the world that is not ultimately self-destructive. When complex systems are positioned in the role of Heidegger's 'technological truth' and orchestrated through human intervention they provide a platform, or milieu for the development of new kinds of technology. In particular the new science of synthetic biology, which involves the design and engineering of living things, can forge new kinds of 'actants' using a variety of methods based on the principles of physical network interactions. These have not evolved spontaneously from biological processes but include new technological expressions of complex systems such as, the synthesis of novel genomes or life-like chemical assemblies that harness the force of molecular interactions. The incredible parallel processing capabilities of biology provides technologies that bind us to our ecology in a similar way to how the Internet has connected us to each other through cyberspace. Yet, to date, we have not witnessed the full extent of the technological novelty that synthetic biology is capable of since it has been subsumed within industrial modes of production that have confined its unique qualities within centralised manufacturing processes.
When a new model of the material world enables technology and nature to be reconciled and not opposed through binary divisions, then functional unity with the biosphere is possible, which is embodied in synthetic processes. However, these new technological configurations will only perform according to their potential if the appropriate infrastructures support their development such as, liquid environments that can enable the free movement of molecules around complex, organizing structures. When maintained by new systems of organization, complex technologies will perform differently to modern machines since they possess fundamental complexity – being uniquely robust, responsive to their context, operate flexibly and are capable of unpredictable behaviours.
My research explores the formally unclassified 'interzone' between materials that are 'inert' and those that are formally recognised as being 'alive'. Their remarkable behaviour seems more familiar to the realm of science fiction such as, J.G. Ballard's Crystal World, where a strange forest transforms organic matter into minerals, however their qualities are real, not imaginary. Although these systems are not technically alive they possess striking life-like characteristics such as, the Traube Cell, which converts violet crystals into a brown, expanded, seaweed-like mass, or Stephane Leduc's 'osmotic' structures that are twisted into crystal-skinned balloon sculptures and the stunning Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction, which behaves like an embodied Julia Set by constantly changing colour and pattern. Perhaps the strangest chemical systems in this twilight zone are 'protocells' [[8]] [[9]], which offer a striking example of what kinds of possibilities exist within a universe of lively elements. These incredibly simple chemical assemblages consist of few different chemical species yet they behave in the most remarkably life-like way – despite not possessing any DNA, or centralised organizing chemical code. Instead they exhibit a unique 'distributed' agency around which they self-organise as a consequence of their molecular properties. Protocells are compelled to explore their environment in search of food and energy sources, yet this is no simple reflex. The dynamic droplets possess sufficient complexity to succumb to temptation along the way – especially with respect to their desire and affinity for each other. When droplets are drawn into proximity they ceaselessly explore each other with liquid interdigitations. First the probing is timid but becomes bolder and more relentless. However, they remain conservative in their boundary exploration and generally, the droplet bodies resist fusing with each other. It is also uncertain whether the droplets are exchanging small amounts of matter at the interface, or whether the chemical boundaries remain in tact. The exact nature of this compulsive exploration, curiosity and sensitivity that these non-living entities display towards each other is not clear.
Observing the spectrum of protocell behaviours is compelling viewing and it is impossible to resist anthropomorphising their interactions. For example, the constantly squirming droplets seemingly 'sense' their surroundings by following invisible trails of unidentified chemicals in the medium and when they collide, they exchange a strange kind of 'kissing' action, devouring each other with the fervour of Salvador Dali's 'Autumnal Cannibalism'.
Although protocells do not break any physical or chemical laws with their seemingly social behaviours, their phenomenology cannot simply be reduced into discourses about concentration gradients, or positive and negative feedback loops because from time to time the behaviour of the system changes entirely – to display flocking behaviours and swarming colonies that change their shape in concert with their form. Protocells are embodied examples of emergent phenomena, which cannot be neatly collapsed into empirical observations, or reduced into linear narratives that for example, relate amplitudes to frequencies. These strange chemical assemblages appear to be uniquely sensitive to the presence of each other, which speculatively – due to the reluctance of droplets to move far from each other, seek each other out and circle one another neurotically – might even hold some kind of intrinsic 'protocell' meaning. Observing the spectrum of protocell behaviours is compelling viewing and it is impossible to resist anthropomorphising their interactions. For example, the constantly squirming droplets seemingly 'sense' their surroundings by following invisible trails of unidentified chemicals in the medium and when they collide, they exchange a strange kind of 'kissing' action, devouring each other with the fervour of Salvador Dali's 'Autumnal Cannibalism'.
Meta.Morf 2012 proposes that at the end of an industrial, mechanised age of separation, it is time to reconnect with the uniquely quivering expanse of sensitive matter that makes up our universe to facilitate these new fusions and midwife a Cambrian Explosion of technological species into existence.
Protocells may be considered as a model system that indicates how the performance and environmental impacts of other advanced combined technologies may differ should they be coupled through complex infrastructures. This is new experimental ground where fresh forward-looking perspectives are effectively dealing with an empirically un-testable future, which is the traditional strong-hold of science fiction. For example, the 'cyberplasm' project combines synthetic biology and robotics to produce a programmable device with a metabolism [[10]]. Yet already, hybrid scientific disciplines are emerging from these fertile environments of shared ideas, such as 'morphological' and 'unconventional' computing practices. Even funding infrastructures appear to be changing to support the development of these eccentric research partnerships. A NSF (National Science Foundation) sponsored report has been particularly influential in precipitating a new kind of scientific approach suggesting unification of the sciences as a common goal through converging NBIC (Nano, Bio, Info, Cogno) technologies with a brief to greatly benefit humanity and industry. Centrally supported funding initiatives through the EU (European Union) are also encouraging traditional scientific disciplines to adopt this more openly speculative approach to scientific research in ambitious "sand pits" of expert exchange. This has opened up new avenues for further exploration as research groups from non-scientific disciplines share equal stakes in the outcomes of these new fusions. The Meta.Morf 2012 artists are part of this new exploration, working with new material possibilities within the structure of complex systems to explore alternative entanglements of technology and being. Some investigate the connections between bodies and environments using multiple materials and approaches such as Stelarc, while others reconfigure the relationships between biological systems and the environment as in the work of Kianoosh Motallebi, Guto Nobrega and the open source Protei project (Cesar Herada, Etienne Gernez, Gabriella Levine, Kasia Molga and Sebastian Müllauer). Other exhibitors such as, Philip Beesley, Ralf Baecker, Xandra van der Eijk, Jessica De Boer, Øyvind Brandtsegg and Wim Delvoye explode the notion of a sensitive environment using different kinds of computation and material performance and artists such as, Markus Kison, Zimoun, Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen, Antony Hall and Peter Flemming examine complex machine actions that display a unique kind of sensibility.
Meta.Morf 2012 proposes that at the end of an industrial, mechanised age of separation, it is time to reconnect with the uniquely quivering expanse of sensitive matter that makes up our universe to facilitate these new fusions and midwife a Cambrian Explosion of technological species into existence. Accompanying the exhibition is a series of talks that discusses the reinvigoration of matter. Stelarc, Neil Harbisson and Takashi Ikegami explore how Entangled Bodies inspire creativity, while Philip Beesley, Rachel Armstrong and Klaus-Peter Zauner discuss how Inconstant Contexts shape the performance of complex, living systems.
The magic of our reality is not that absolutely anything is possible – but that there is a great deal of untapped potential that already exists that can be experienced through new arrangements of existing technologies as well as de novo syntheses. By framing our understanding of matter we may be able to get a whole lot more from it, not as a dead or inert things to be controlled or consumed by machines, but by co-evolving our future in partnership with sensitive matter that works alongside us.
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Crystal Lake South's Jessica Schoenfeldt (4) celebrates her first goal during the first half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Schoenfeldt scored 2 goals in the Gators 4-1 win over the Blue Streaks. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
Crystal Lake South's Jessica Schoenfeldt (right) celebrates her first goal with Katherine Siavelis (2) during the first half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Schoenfeldt scored 2 goals in the Gators 4-1 win over the Blue Streaks. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
Crystal Lake South's Courtney Sengstock (left) reaches for a ball in front of Woodstock's Emma Dorn (7) during the first half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The Gators defeated the Blue Streaks 4-1. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
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Crystal Lake South's Jennifer Luken (17) and Woodstock's Mollie Thill (14) jump to head a ball during the second half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The Gators defeated the Blue Streaks 4-1. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
Crystal Lake South's Courtney Sengstock (9) and Woodstock's Taylor Adams (right) chase a ball during the second half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The Gators defeated the Blue Streaks 4-1. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
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Crystal Lake South's Jessica Schoenfeldt (4) takes the ball between Woodstock's Emily Furlano (10) and Brecken Overly (right) during the second half of their game at Woodstock High School Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The Gators defeated the Blue Streaks 4-1. John Konstantaras photo for the Northwest Herald
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Botnek
Gordon Huntley & Erick Muise joined forces as Botnek back in 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia through a shared love for house music. With a shortage of inspiration in the form of nightclubs and generally an unlikely scene for the quiet seaside Canadian town, Gordon & Erick bonded over Ableton tips, dance music blogs and late night radio shows on BBC Radio 1. Soon after forming a strong friendship through similar musical interests, the project was formed, which led to a string of releases with a number of up & coming fidget & electro house labels. The guys landed a couple of key remix opportunities from this early buzz around the project from names including Crookers, AC Slater, Felix Cartal & Jack Beats. In this first chapter of their careers, the duo toured first in Europe and Asia, in clubs such as Fabric, Sub Club, and Bootshaus.
It wasn't much longer until Dim Mak Records & Steve Aoki were interested in signing the project to the label. From the signing to Dim Mak came a number of singles & EPs, tours in America, and their viral edit of Martin Garrix's hit "Animals". The duo gained far more attention from this than ever expected, and started the next chapter in their career. Shifting styles into more main stage ready Electro House and Big Room, the duo began touring internationally. More singles for Dim Mak followed, along with another viral remix. This time for The Chainsmokers' "#SELFIE", which really put Botnek on the map. Collaborations with Zedd, 3lau, Loudpvck & Snails soon followed as well as an even heavier touring schedule. Since then, Botnek has toured the globe in almost every continent, have played on some of the biggest festival stages in the world including Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival & more, and have done a Las Vegas residency with Steve Aoki.
Almost a decade later, in the summer of 2017, the Botnek boys reached a major turning point. The once dance music class clowns felt an urge to evolve their sound; to shift the project away from the festival Big Room sound, and back to the roots of the project. After years of touring, both Gordon & Erick realized they had almost subconsciously stopped creating the kind of music that had originally fueled the formation of Botnek in the first place, all those years ago in Halifax. It was time for the next chapter in their careers and they decided to take a leap. They released a song called "Don't Need U" on their own independent label imprint World Famous Headquarters. The track had the quirky house sound they bonded over when they first met and shared such a deep love for. From there, the duo has released a number of tracks in this musical vein, each one a deeper dive back into the diverse & ever-expanding world of house music.
In 2018, Botnek decided to take things a step further with this World Famous Headquarters imprint by launching a monthly radioshow. They launched World Famous Radio in partnership with SiriusXM's Insomniac Radio, as a sort of homage to the radio shows they first loved on BBC Radio 1. After fully realizing the amount of talent existing amongst their peers and the next generation of young producers, the guys opened up the doors of the World Famous Headquarters label to outside artists for the first time in the fall of 2018. The label's sound will consist of Botnek's filter of wacky house music inspired by those early fidget & electro house days Gordon & Erick are still so inspired by today.


This entry was posted on May 27, 2014 by Jessica Anderson.
Another school year is coming to a close, with the anticipation of lazy summer days ahead. Now is the time to recognize learning and leadership excellence at your school for the past year. What awards will you be giving to your students? How much can you spend on the awards? Here are some tips and ideas for school academic awards; we have seen many come through our doors for the past 20+ years.
I split academic awards into two categories: Contests and Achievement.
Tiger resin trophies for this school's "Paws Reading Club"- one for each grade level winner. The engraving says "Top Tiger Readers" - so cute!
Common contests we see include Spelling Bees, Science Fairs, Reflections, Eager Reader, and Field Day. Below are ideas for awards.
Certificates: These work for any contest and any budget. Just design and print on your computer. Easy and inexpensive!
Ribbons: Relatively inexpensive and fun. You can customize these to your school colors and print them with your event info. Ribbons make great participation awards for your Reflections Art Contest, Science Fair and Field Day. However, ribbons do require additional time to produce; order at least 3 weeks before your event for customization; stock ribbon orders need less time.
Trophies: Theme trophies exist for many events, such as spelling bees and science fairs. Also, mascot resin trophies are a popular choice for Eager Reader winners and Field Day.
Medals: A variation on trophies, scholastic medals are inexpensive and easy to store at home. They are great for events where you have a first, second or third place winner. We have many medals with inserts for science fair, spelling bee, and school mascots, or design your own!
Many schools have awards for Graduation, Students of the Month, Students of the Quarter, outstanding attendance, scholarship winners, etc. What do you give these students to honor them for their achievement? Depending on the age of the student, I would recommend different awards. Below are our most popular.
For Preschool, Kindergarten and Elementary Schools: The most popular type of academic award for younger students is a Lamp of Learning. These come in many different shapes and styles, depending on your need and budget. Resin mascot trophies, especially bobble heads, are also popular with younger kids.
An example of a school themed plaque, popular for middle and high school scholastic achievement (and sports).
For Middle and High Schools: The most popular academic awards for older students are school plaques. Using metal in school colors, these plaques usually have the school mascot engraved on top with the winner's name, achievement and date below. These are popular for Students of the Month, Citizen of the Year, Class Officers, and other larger scholastic and leadership achievements.
In addition to awards, many schools host an assembly to honor students. This peer recognition is just as, if not more, important than the tangible award.
Many schools publish the names of their award winners in the school or district publication. This can be online, in an Eblast, or in a hard copy newsletter. For larger community awards, such as scholarships or national recognition, students may be published in the local community newspaper as well.
I hope this gives you some ideas of how to award academic achievement. Here's to another great school year! Wishing you a relaxing summer, full of fun!


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Carper Statement on Voluntary Agreement between California and Four Automakers on Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
Top Democrat on Senate EPW Committee urges other automakers, Trump Administration to adopt the deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After repeatedly urging the Trump Administration to work with automakers and the state of California to strike a deal on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards, and following his office's participation in the discussions that led to today's announcement, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, commended the state of California and Ford Motor Company, Honda Motor Company, Volkswagen and BMW for their leadership in reaching an agreement that will protect clean air, promote American jobs and support the development of cars of the future.
"I commend California and these automakers for working together in good faith to find a principled compromise that will support the development of the clean cars of the future," said Senator Carper. "I urge all automakers to embrace this responsible path and seize this important opportunity. It remains my hope that this administration will abandon its efforts which are reckless, illegal and bound to send the automotive sector into years of litigation and economic disarray, and instead adopt the terms of this agreement."
The agreement announced today with automakers which together account for about 30 percent of US vehicle sales will achieve continuous annual reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants while saving consumers money. If adopted broadly, compliance with these principles would deliver more greenhouse gas emission reductions than under the bifurcated system that could result from the finalization of the Trump proposal to roll back the federal rules, which would lead to one set of vehicle greenhouse gas emissions rules in California and 13 other states and a second, weaker set of rules in the rest of the country.
Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, Senator Carper has met repeatedly with Trump Administration officials and urged them to seek common ground with all stakeholders:
In May 2019, Senator Carper and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) wrote a letter to Administrator Wheeler demanding documents explaining numerous comments from Administrator Wheeler about EPA's fuel economy rollback that plainly contradict data presented to him by EPA's own experts.
In December 2018, Senators Carper and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) demanded disclosure of the administration's contacts with the oil industry regarding the fuel economy rule, after reporting revealed details of a covert lobbying campaign driven by fossil fuel groups to weaken fuel economy rules and increase demand for oil consumption.
In an October 2018 letter, Senator Carper urged Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to abandon plans to dismantle the clean car standards, highlighting a non-exhaustive list of 10 major legal deficiencies in the administration's proposal.
Senator Carper led an October 2018 letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and then-Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler with Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) releasing documents proving that Congress rejected legislative efforts to preempt or limit California's authority in 2007.
In an August 2018 hearing, Senator Carper questioned then-Acting Administrator Wheeler about the proposed clean car rollback's flaws.
After EPA and DOT released their proposal to dismantle the clean car rules in August 2018, Senator Carper blasted the plan, saying that if finalized it would create additional uncertainty for American automakers and represent a step back in the fight against climate change.
After Senator Carper's office obtained a leaked copy of the draft clean car rollback, the ranking member in May 2018 sent a letter to then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and DOT Secretary Elaine Chao expressing alarm at a plan that would weaken standards and preempt states' authority.


Moana Maui Costume is Worthy of a Demigod « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Started with cardboard and support pieces, then used expanding foam. Spent this morning carving it out. Wrapped it in packaging tape. Next steps: paper mache, seal in rubber, paint, add carving art, final seal, add rope.


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Political Correctness; the death of Satire and critical thought
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"What are the effects of this new protectiveness on the students themselves? Does it benefit the people it is supposed to help? What exactly are students learning when they spend four years or more in a community that polices unintentional slights, places warning labels on works of classic literature, and in many other ways conveys the sense that words can be forms of violence that require strict control by campus authorities, who are expected to act as both protectors and prosecutors?"
"There's a saying common in education circles: Don't teach students what to think; teach them how to think. The idea goes back at least as far as Socrates. Today, what we call the Socratic method is a way of teaching that fosters critical thinking, in part by encouraging students to question their own unexamined beliefs, as well as the received wisdom of those around them. Such questioning sometimes leads to discomfort, and even to anger, on the way to understanding.
But vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way. It prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong. The harm may be more immediate, too. A campus culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers is likely to engender patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes of depression and anxiety. The new protectiveness may be teaching students to think pathologically."
GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT – SEPTEMBER 2015 ISSUE
Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in "that violates the law") lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Educationdescribing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she'd sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. "I'm a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me," the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan's article in this month's issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can't take a joke.
[VIDEO] A SLAVOJ ZIZEK RAPE JOKE
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"In the good old days of Really-Existing Socialism, a joke was popular among dissidents, used to illustrate the futility of their protests. In the 15th century Russia occupied by Mongols, a farmer and his wife walk along a dusty country road; a Mongol warrior on a horse stops at their side and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife; he then adds: "But since there is a lot of dust on the ground, you should hold my testicles while I'm raping your wife, so that they will not get dirty!" After the Mongol finishes his job and rides away, the farmer starts to laugh and jump with joy; the surprised wife asks him: "how can you be jumping with joy when I was just brutally raped in your presence?" The farmer answers: "But I got him! His balls are full of dust!" This sad joke tells of the predicament of dissidents: they thought they are dealing serious blows to the party nomenklatura, but all they were doing was getting a little bit of dust on the nomenklatura's testicles, while the nomenklatura went on raping the people… Is today's critical Left not in a similar position? Our task is to discover how to make a step further – our thesis 11 should be: in our societies, critical Leftists have hitherto only dirtied with dust the balls of those in power, the point is to cut them off"
–Slavoj Fuckin Zizek
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The Dalai Lama of Mountain Goats
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The above quote may or may not be authentic. It really does not matter. Most feel-good kumbayaa (m'lawwwd) clap-trap does not really need to prove its provenance…as the masses nod along, hug and feel 'inspired' to another juicy apocryphal morsel.
…But, I used to wonder about Mountain Goats.
Do THEY know that life could be easier on flat ground? Were they meant to just wander on 75 degree sloped surfaces eternally; with 1 or 2 kids falling to their deaths every now and then?
I decided, on the latter; that was indeed just their experience, their reality, their 'nature'…and then they die–perhaps never realizing life was easier grazing on a prairie–perhaps even only a few hundred metres away– as other 'prairie' goats.
So perhaps homo sapien sapiens are just supposed to live the way we always have lived–and evolved–for millennia? Our worry and stress and lack of vision involving complex internal chemistry…our very own 'nature'…and billions of us (in every corner of the world) are the same way about these things…most of which, only in hindsight do we realize to have been for nought.
But maybe that just IS life.
When death or illness comes close, we ponder things, but otherwise we go back to our perceptual myopism–very much as mountain goats…but there be no mountain goat dalai lama.
Our 'not having lived' IS life.
[VIDEO] SAM HARRIS DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THE DALAI LAMA OF MOUNTAIN GOATS AT ALL
[FILM] "15 REASONS TO LIVE" – DIRECTED BY ALAN ZWEIG
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Alan Zweig Q&A, Toronto October 2013
[VIDEO] Ze Frank's 'Invocation for Beginnings' – FUCK IT, LET'S DO IT – "Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done."
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"Don't call it a comb-back; I'll have hair for years.
I'm scared. I'm scared that my abilities are gone.
I'm scared that I'm going to fuck this up.
And I'm scared of you.
I don't want to start, but I will.
This is an invocation for anyone who hasn't begun, who's stuck in a terrible place between zero and one.
Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance.
They're just healthy little fires that are going to warm up my ass.
If my FILDI (fuck it let's do it) is strong, let me keep him in a velvet box until I really, really need him.
If my FILDI is weak let me feed him oranges and not let him gorge himself on ego and arrogance.
Let me not hit up my Facebook like it's a crack pipe Keep the browser closed.
If I catch myself wearing a too-too (too fat, too late, too old) let me shake it off like a donkey would shake off something it doesn't like.
And when I get that feeling in my stomach — you know the feeling when all of a sudden you get a ball of energy and it shoots down into your legs and up into your arms and tells you to get up and stand up and go to the refrigerator and get a cheese sandwich — that's my cheese monster talking.
And my cheese monster will never be satisfied by cheddar, only the cheese of accomplishment.
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me… I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them.
Let me extend that generosity to myself.
Let me find and use metaphors to help me understand the world around me and give me the strength to get rid of them when it's apparent they no longer work.
Let me thank the parts of me that I don't understand or are outside of my rational control like my creativity and my courage.
And let me remember that my courage is a wild dog. It won't just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
Let me remember that the unintended meaning that people project onto what I do is neither my fault or something I can take credit for.
Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes but he's a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.
Let me remember that the impact of criticism is often not the intent of the critic, but when the intent is evil, that's what the block button's for.
And when I eat my critique, let me be able to separate out the good advice from the bitter herbs.
(There are few people who won't be disarmed by a genuine smile A big impact on a few can be worth more than a small impact)
Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is, let me become fascinated with the shape of the stone.
Let me take the idea that has gotten me this far and put it to bed.
What I am about to do will not be that, but it will be something.
There is no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. My pencils are sharp enough.
Even the dull ones will make a mark. Warts and all.
Let's start this shit up. And god let me enjoy this.
Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done."
–Ze Frank is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based inLos Angeles, California. He is currently the EVP of Video at BuzzFeed.
[AUDIO] 'Descending' – by Thomas M. Disch: "It's so much easier to go… down"
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Click to the right to hear the 1964 short story by Thomas M. Disch.
"Descending" by Thomas M. Disch: An Appreciation by John Schoffstall
Gentle reader beyond the screen: if you have not read this story, do so before reading on, for here there be spoilers."Descending" is a horror story. Superficially, it is about a man who takes the 'Down' escalator in a department store and finds he can't get off. More deeply, it is about credit and debt, and the lure of jam, jam, jam today. Credit cards, second mortgages and other easy ways to leverage ourselves into trouble are common nowadays. But in the early 1960's, when "Descending" was written, many people didn't even have one credit card. Easy 'revolving credit' was a new element in the interface between the individual and the world of commerce and consumption. Like the psychological manipulation by advertising that Kornbluth and Pohl explored in the 1950's, and the intellectual property, privacy, and bioscience issues that crop up in sf stories today, easy consumer credit was an interesting and potentially dangerous new social force in the early 1960's. In this sense, "Descending" can be seen as social science fiction. It is significant that the protagonist reads Thackeray's Vanity Fair through much of the story, a novel whose anti-heroine, Becky Sharp, is also an unprincipled exploiter of credit, much to the damage of those around her.But on its deepest level, the theme of "Descending" is more general than social criticism: it is tragedy, the story of a fall, of an individual who tumbles out of society for any reason, and the lies he tells himself to ease the pain of falling. The protagonist's descent, first socially and economically, later physically, down the endless escalators, mirrors any behavior that has escaped from our control: alcohol or drug abuse, sexual or gambling addiction, pathological collecting, and so forth. Like the addicted individual who loses friends, jobs, alienates his family and ultimately may wind up homeless, the protagonist of "Descending" has exploited others to maintain a dysfunctional existence, and now finds his links with the rest of humanity broken beyond repair. His own brother won't return his letters; he is unable to find employment: "He had been a grasshopper for years. The ants were on to his tricks." Every contact with other human beings he has in the course of the story
is purely economic. He is the economic man gone awry, and he meets his doom in the temple at which he has worshiped, a department store.The prose is flawless. Often it is simple and transparent, but sometimes it rises to elegance: "He whitened the sepulchre of his unwashed torso with a fresh, starched shirt and chose his somberest tie from the rack." This sort of bold wordplay is typical of Disch, and one of the things that makes his prose, as well as his storytelling, so enjoyable. The storytelling is relentless. First strangeness, then menace, then fear, then horror, no let-up, no relief, no requiem, no cavalry at the end. Disch tramps all over the motherhood statement. The emotion of 'hope', as a response to crisis, is frequently lauded in popular media; Disch shoots it dead. At the end we find the protagonist, near death, still lying to himself that he might have escaped.One of the reasons for this story's impact is that Disch always takes his protagonist seriously, and always respects him. This does not mean he likes him or admires him. Disch makes it clear the protagonist is an awful failure, who has made bad, self-indulgent life choices. But Disch never makes fun of him for it. Fate is cruel to the protagonist, but the author never is. This reduces the distance between the reader and the protagonist. We are not led to sneer at him, but to sympathize with him, and perhaps see aspects of ourselves in him, disturbing as that may be to us. "Descending" can be taken as a morality tale, a series of Hogarth paintings of the Spendthrift's Progress, in which the true horror is that with little effort we may imagine ourselves in the Spendthrift's place."Descending," published in 1964, was among Disch's first professionally published stories. For the product of a writer in his early years, it is astonishing in the excellence of its prose and structure. Its unrelieved bleakness is typical of Disch's early work. His later stories and novels would find at least a few rays of light in the world, but in the clarity and cleverness of this story's prose, its lack of sentimentality, its clear-sighted, unblinking look into character, "Descending" is a fine specimen of Disch's work, and points the way towards the future of his writing.
by Thomas M. Disch
Catsup, mustard, pickle, relish, mayonnaise, two kinds of salad dressing,
bacon grease, and a lemon. Oh yes, two trays of ice cubes. In the cupboard it
wasn't much better: jars and boxes of spices, flour, sugar, salt—and a box of
raisins!
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[VIDEO] EVER MAINARD – 'HERE IS YOUR RAPE!'
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John Engler is expected to a resign as interim president at Michigan State University, according to reports.
Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported that Engler will step down from his position after a special meeting was scheduled to take place on Thursday morning by the board, with the intent to fire him. He's been under heavy criticism since stepping in for former president Lou Anna Simon.
According to the Detroit Free Press' report, Engler was given the option to resign by the board. It also says that the board notified Engler that if he refused to resign, he would be fired during Thursday's meeting.
There was a motion to fire Engler over the summer, but it did not succeed. He's continued to face criticism following the scandal involving disgraced doctor Larry Nassar and some of the comments he's made in the aftermath.
Per the report, a new interim president for Michigan State is expected to be named during Thursday's meeting.