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An Honest Obituary For A Wicked American
Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine amd empire, died at age 91 last week. In contrast to the accolades paid him by most, Ross Douthat of the New York Times penned a true appraisal of Hefner's life here.
Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain's hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying mansion where porn blared during his pathetic orgies.
Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself ......
.... But in every way that mattered he made those changes worse, our culture coarser and crueler and more sterile than liberalism or feminism or freedom of speech required. And in every way that mattered his life story proved that we were wrong to listen to him, because at the end of the long slide lay only a degraded, priapic senility, or the desperate gaiety of Prince Prospero's court with the Red Death at the door.
Now that death has taken him, we should examine our own sins ......
..... that only prudish Christians and spoilsport feminists are willing to say that the man was obviously wicked and destructive, is itself a reminder that the rot Hugh Hefner spread goes very, very deep.
Rachael Lu echoes that perspective here.
Ladies, don't let your sons grow up to be Hefner. If your boy turns into a lecherous porn-loving Playboy, you screwed up.
In the wake of Hefner's death, it's been interesting watching admirers try to gin up a few not-completely-laughable phrases to present Hefner in a positive light. We are told that he was a social justice warrior and an entrepreneur, who graced the public square with his intellectual firepower. If true, these observations should only serve to deepen our disgust at what Hefner became. He stands as an ominous illustration of an important truth about the lives of men. Just like women, men have to make choices .....
..... Across nine decades, he relished nearly every conceivable advantage, and then passed from this life with all the manly gravitas of a pimply fifteen-year-old. This was not a life well lived.
The Hefnerian credo is a manifest failure. Aspiring playboys should take note. No matter how much lipstick you put on the bunny, it is not possible to indulge every appetite and still be a man of sophistication and substance. Dirty old men are dirty old men, even in million-dollar bathrobes.
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Rebel Wilson has announced that she is only about 6 pounds away from hitting her target weight. The actress is calling 2020 her "year of health" with a commitment to losing weight with a new diet and exercise routine. Wilson has also jokingly announced that she would like to be called "Fit Amy" from now on, thanks to her weight loss and exercised dedication. She played a character called Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect trilogy. Rebel announced at the beginning of the year that she wanted to get down to 165 pounds.
Rebel Wilson ended the weekend with some social media posts updating followers on her weight loss journey. "Happy Sunday everyone! Gearing up for a great week ahead," she wrote on Instagram. "This week was super busy, but I got up super early 3 times (6am ) and went on a hike… even did a couple of 100m sprints to get the heart rate even higher… Now only 3kgs away from my goal weight!" 3kgs is about 6 pounds. Wilson also posted a picture of her hike and some more photos of her in a new dress.
While Rebel Wilson had dedicated 2020 to losing weight, she did reveal that there has been some cheating along the way. "Remember though girls, you still gotta treat yourself," Wilson advised in another social media video of her eating some dessert. "I just do it with food now only once or twice a week… and substitute bubble baths on alternate nights." The actress has been very open about her weight loss on social media and has been sharing her tips to keep it up for anybody else who is attempting to do the same thing.
A source close to Rebel Wilson recently revealed some secrets behind her weight loss. Wilson is reportedly following the Mayr Method diet plan, which focuses on foods with a high alkaline content. Vegetables, fresh fish, and sheep's milk yogurt are just some of the changes that she has introduced, while also being instructed to chew slowly. "It's an approach that eliminates food intolerances, reduces sugar, encourages eating whole foods slowly, boosts the immune system and reduces inflammation," the source said. "I know she's also been working on conquering her emotional eating patterns of behavior."
Rebel Wilson previously gave out some advice on social media to her followers who were looking to lose weight on their own. "Even if you have to crawl towards your goals, keep going x it will be worth it," Wilson said. "Try and give a little bit of effort each day… I know some days are frustrating as hell, you feel like giving up, you get annoyed at the lack of progress… but good things are coming your way." She has stuck to her pattern and the results are obvious. You can check out the latest weight loss update above, thanks to Rebel Wilson's Instagram account.
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OPINION | REX NELSON: Caddo and the captain
by Rex Nelson | October 13, 2021 at 3:43 a.m.
Once my parents were no longer living, my sister and I sold the family home. That meant I had to do something I had never done--find a place other than the house at 648 Carter Road to spend the night when visiting Arkadelphia.
Returning several years ago for a high school reunion, I knew where I wanted to stay. I even knew the room in which I would spend the night. The Captain Henderson House, located where Henderson Street meets U.S. 67, had attracted my attention since childhood. The 9,000-square-foot mansion, which was privately owned when I was a boy, seemed both grand and mysterious.
In late 2000 and early 2001, the home was restored to its original state by Henderson State University. It became one of the finest bed-and-breakfast inns in the South. It was even featured in the March 2005 edition of Southern Living.
I vowed that if I ever stayed there, it would be in the upstairs room with a balcony looking east toward the Ouachita River and Ouachita Baptist University's campus. While back for the reunion, I rented that room and spent my mornings that weekend drinking coffee and reading the newspaper on the balcony.
HSU, whose financial problems were discussed in Sunday's column, later closed the inn. The house needed extensive upgrades, and there was no money in the university budget. To the rescue came the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council. Full disclosure: I once served on ANCRC.
The council was established by the Legislature in 1987 to invest the state's real estate transfer tax proceeds to protect and maintain state-owned historic sites and natural areas. It's a wonderful use of those funds.
A $586,688 grant from ANCRC allowed the school to address such issues as deteriorated roofing, gutters, wooden porch columns, siding, porch flooring and trim. Repairs also were made to an adjacent carriage house.
On a Thursday morning in September, I toured the house with Rita Fleming, HSU's vice president of finance and administration, to see the renovations. Fleming, who was hired two years ago to get the school's finances back in order, is now looking for a private operator to run the bed-and-breakfast inn.
There are eight guest rooms with six upstairs and two downstairs. The first floor also has an office, commercial kitchen, parlor, music room, sunroom, conference room and dining room.
Work was completed in August. In addition to housing overnight guests, Fleming also would like to host weekly luncheons to allow more people to see the home's interior woodwork and other features.
About 1870, Charles Christopher Henderson's mother moved to Arkadelphia to be near her brother and sister. Henderson, who had been born in Scott County in 1850, moved there in 1879.
"Henderson worked in multiple industries after arriving in Arkadelphia, including cotton and dairies," writes HSU historian David Sesser. "He began investing in timber and sawmills in the early 1880s and became a partner in a number of firms, including Arkadelphia Lumber Co., Nashville Lumber Co. and Brown-Henderson Improvement & Timber Co.
"The investments in timber led to additional interest in 10 railroad companies, including the Memphis, Paris & Gulf Railroad. Henderson also became active in banking in order to finance various projects, serving as president of Elk Horn Bank from 1905-16."
What had begun in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College was renamed Henderson College in 1904 to honor Henderson for his support.
In 1903-04, Henderson transformed a cottage built in 1876 into the current mansion. The house was sold to HSU in 1978, and the school placed a museum inside. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Our next stop on campus is the Caddo Center, a former cafeteria. ANCRC also helped fund the renovation of that building, which was constructed in 1965. The front entrance is now used to exhibit the Hodges Collection, among the greatest collections of Caddo artifacts in existence.
Artifacts were collected during the 1930s and 1940s by Thomas and Charlotte Hodges of Bismarck. The collection of almost 50,000 objects includes everything from ceramic vessels to stone tools that were found mostly in Clark and Hot Spring counties.
The collection was acquired by the Joint Educational Consortium of Arkadelphia in 1977 and has been curated by the Arkansas Archeological Survey's research station at HSU.
According to a survey publication: "Thomas and Charlotte Hodges' interest was shared by Arkadelphia residents Robert Proctor, Vere Huddleston, Richard Reid and Charlie Richardson. In addition to visiting archeological sites and collecting artifacts, these early avocational archeologists left a legacy. They were among the founders of the Arkansas Historical Association and early version of the Arkansas Archeological Society.
"Thomas and Charlotte Hodges were active participants in early Caddo conferences, and they and Huddleston wrote several articles for publication. Proctor donated his collection to HSU's museum. ... Since they were visited by Thomas and Charlotte Hodges and Vere Huddleston more than 75 years ago, many of the Caddo mounds along the Ouachita River have been washed away by flooding, plowed for farming and bulldozed for construction."
The university plans to move its admissions, financial aid and housing offices into the building, creating a consolidated center for student services. Once the Henderson House reopens as a bed-and-breakfast inn, the Hodges Collection can serve as an attraction within walking distance.
Senior Editor Rex Nelson's column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He's also the author of the Southern Fried blog at rexnelsonsouthernfried.com.
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Q: Two different Symbols for the "same" project I just saw that at a checkout with cvs, the projects have 2 different symbols. Strangely, most of the projects are the same. A few, however, are only to be found under a Project-symbol. Does anyone know what these symbols means?

A: Not from the top of my head but you can probably figure this out by looking inside of the .project file. Usually, such overlays are added by project natures.
Compare the natures of the two projects, that should give you an idea.

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April 14, 2016 by steelef
The Evolution of an Idea, Part 4
…you didn't think I was just going to GIVE it to you, did you? You'll need to listen to the episode to find that out! If you're interested in more, though, check out our website for the pre-show notes!
April 13, 2016 April 13, 2016 by steelef
Essay, Uncategorized
adam lance garcia, audio, audio drama, mini-bible, queens of the sapphire sea, radio drama, Radio Room, scripting, tyrant rex
We rejoin our narrative after two previous installments for this penultimate episode, in which we discuss my show, Queens of the Sapphire Sea, and how it went from nothing to something. And it only took five years!
Fun times.
Things came to a head last summer after a reading of radio shows between myself, Tyrant Rex, and Adam Lance Garcia. These two rapscallions and I put on a small performance in Park Slope, Brooklyn, of some of our work. Wouldn't you know? It went over really well! The fact that it was free didn't hurt, but hey! We thought we had something. So we began brainstorming and came up with what would become Radio Room.
Now, how/where/when/why Radio Room came together could be a whole series in and of itself, but–in short–it would aspire to be a writer's room for our various projects: Rex's established Tales of the Halloween Team, Garcia's anthology series Smoke Without Flame, and my own…
…whatever that might be.
I had dozens of ideas, of course, but something about Queens stuck out to me. It was adventurous, fun, and featured the kind of stylizations we were looking for. Radio Room was to be a loving homage to serials of the 40s and 50s, but with updated storytelling techniques. Romance, patter, a focus on thrills… Queens seemed to fit the bill, and when I pitched them the logline, they wanted to see more.
Which required a whooooooole lotta work.
The first thing that was required was a mini-bible. Not only would this sell my partners on the idea as well as it's potential for longevity, but it would function as a foundational piece for their own writing. I don't recommend writing a mythology or bible for every project that you work on–there's always the opportunity that you'll never stop world-building–yet when you work with others, there should always be ground rules. This includes:
A basic overview
A rundown of the characters, particularly with regards to personalities
A pilot episode treatment
Springboards for future episodes
Other extra stuff (locales, magic, etc.) that feature heavily into your property.
That's it! Don't go nuts! You'll overthink it. Your producers will change it. Your actors will finagle it. And you'll have spent a lot of time hammering stuff into stone that could emerge organically!
This was then workshopped outside of the group. I feel that this is an important step that not enough writers get: go to someone outside of your social circle for advice. They won't have the same kind of connection to you, personally, that might temper their opinion. It might not be nice (in fact, it shouldn't be). It might not be fun. It will show you what's wrong before you get too far down the rabbit hole.
Next came the recrafting of the property. This was done in a series of emails and in-person meetings, in which Tyrant, Adam, and I honed the episodes. From my work before, I knew what I was trying to say with the piece and what couldn't be changed. At the same time, I was willing to allow the guys to shift the tone and characters so that they would find a spark that would inspire them. This was to be collaborative. I had to allow them to collaborate on this.
Most of all, I had to shift the property into something that worked via audio. Don't make the mistake in thinking that your great idea can transfer media without work. There's a reason why most video games-turned-films are terrible, and why most films-turned-video games are also just as bad. Interactive media has a whole different rule set than traditional media. Ignore these at your risk! If you don't understand the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen platform, you're doomed to failure from the start.
Auditory storytelling is the oldest form of art, and it is a mixture of both passive and active media. It is passive in that the audience listens to a linear story that is told to them. It is active because the audience must construct the world inside their minds and envision what is being told to them. That means you have to give the audience juuuuuuuuust enough to set the picture, but allow their mind to fill in the blanks.
For Queens, I had to do more spelling out than I'd like to do. A lot of subtlety that I had planned on was made more overt (again). Belle and the newly-renamed Madeleine had to play much more grandiose, much more like cartoon characters: the audience had to understand everything from their vocal range, since facial expressions and body language don't translate to the airwaves. At the same time, I had to pull back the villains even more. They couldn't become too outlandish, or else the entire piece would seem like a send-up.
The only problem was that I couldn't quite wrap my head around it until I dove in, head-first.
I'd written small bits for radio and audio comedy before and full television scripts, video games, and screenplays, but this was something entirely. My co-producers liked my pilot treatment but wanted to see it on the page. This was a gamble: I would have to produce 30-pages of material in the hopes that it would impress, but with the chance that it'd be terrible and I'd have to start all over again.
So, how did it all turn out? That's for tomorrow's installment, the first in Radio Room's series on Show Notes. Tune in then!
New Fiction and Old
Prose, Uncategorized
elephants, esoterica, fiction, Prose, science fiction, ultra-violet light
We're taking a short break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you new fiction by yours truly: a science fiction piece found in Esoterica, entitled "Under Ultra-Violet Light." The ruins of Miami, UV tattoos, and a struggle to maintain one's sense of morality when confronted with the evil of one's heroes. Plus, there's a whole slew of other great stories, writers, poetry, art, and music… all for the low, low price of "pay what you want!"
https://gumroad.com/l/esoterica_volume5_ink
And just in case you missed it, here's the link to the last piece I had published in Esoterica, "Self-Herding, in Deference." The editor called it "elephantpunk," and I won't disagree: set in the far, far future, discover how matriarchal pachyderms solve their differences in life, science, and social standing.
https://gumroad.com/l/esoterica_vol4_behaviour
Essay, Transmedia
Multiplatform, Passive Media, Podcasts, queens of the sapphire sea, radio, radio drama, Radio Room, Transmedia
As explained in my last post, I'm doing a series on my series, Radio Room, specifically how the idea for my piece, Queens of the Sapphire Sea, evolved over time to the point where it could go into production. My first attempt at pitching the idea hadn't worked, but I liked the core of the piece and wouldn't let it go.
How long do you think I worked on Queens before it came up again? A year? Two? Try four… with another thrown in for writing and production. It wasn't that I ever stopped working on it, but that it went into the background, along with my many, many other projects that will hopefully see the light of day but (as of this writing) have yet to emerge from the fertilizer that is my subconscious.
And you know what fertilizer is made of, right?
I knew that something was there, but considering that it was so niche, where could I pitch it? I worked on versions that were designed to be YA fiction, a video game, a feature-length screenplay, and more. Each wasn't really working, however, because I was so focused on the pitch that I'd forgotten about the fundamentals. For any franchise, those fundamentals come down to message.
I'm not talking about didactic Aesop stuff. I'm talking about the emotional impact that a piece has on someone who experiences it. What was Queens of the Sapphire Sea saying about our world? How were the characters going to express it? What was it really all about?
For me, that boiled down to the basic nugget of an idea: a tough-talking older woman and her wide-eyed young niece. Experience vs. youth. Pessimism vs. optimism. The past vs. the future. The natural conflict in each episode (or issue or whatever) would emerge from how these characters viewed the world, as well as how they dealt with each other in the process.
That meant that I had to explore who these characters were. If a whole series was going to be built on them, I had to know just who they were. I looked into Regina and Beatrice, and found them… not quite as deep as I needed them to be.
This has more depth.
It wasn't shocking (I was just pitching an idea at first) but if there was going to be growth, both characters would need a place to grow from. That is, they needed to be flawed and retain some of those negative attributes throughout the course of their adventures. Regina couldn't just be the lovable cigar-chomping grandmother-type. Beatrice wasn't going to be the sweet, capable, spunky young upstart with something to prove. I tempered the personalities of both so that I could bring other aspects to the front, fleshing them out so that there would always be something new to explore.
I'd argue that this is an issue that every creator deals with. Like in life, we all want our heroes to be perfect. Like in life, this is does a disservice to them and to us. The people we look up to–our parents, political idealists, sports figures–are not superior because they never make flaws but that they can grow from their flaws. From a narrative perspective, this makes them interesting. From a human perspective, it makes them believable.
Because I wanted to focus on this believability, I dropped the high fantasy angle. It was a bit too off-the-wall anyway, and besides, there are real eras in history that were just as fun to explore (and didn't require nearly as much world-building, to boot). I tamed the villains, roped in the overt themes of sexism, and focused on airplane combat rather than grandiose political intrigue, too. All of those elements are still there but they are much less on the nose. Like in life, the more insidious aspects of them are those elements which are unspoken, that people can pretend to ignore.
When I say believability, I don't mean hyper-realism. I still wanted this to keep the swashbuckling adventure that bent the rules from time to time. I chose to keep a certain rose-colored romance and humor because I simply didn't have the time to do as much in-depth research into pre-WWII France as I would have liked. It also allowed for emotional exploration and a reflection of that conflict between "idealism vs. realism" that I was talking about earlier.
Finally, I tapped into this via the framing device: having Beatrice reflect on her past by telling stories to her granddaughter, decades after her adventures in France. It allowed for a little fudging of the facts–is this real or just her memory of the event?–and gave a mirror for the older/younger dichotomy that was central to the story.
With that in place, I finally had something that I felt could hold together over the course of a series. You can find the near-final logline here:
The French Riviera is protected from high-flying brigands by the finest seaplane bounty hunters in the world: Belle Bernassi and her niece, Beatrice. The pair escaped the suffocating social mores of Paris to set up shop with the rest of the oddballs that roam from Genoa to Barcelona, but trouble is afoot. Suitors, mercenaries, the mafia, gun runners, and the rising tide of Fascism all threaten to rob the Bernassis and their comrades of the freedom and peace they've found in the air, but if there's anybody who can stave off war, it's the Queens of the Sappire Sea!
There were still issues that needed to be ironed out. I wound up renaming Beatrice (her name was just too similar to Belle) and would touch up some of the history as I worked on the actual stories, but the touchstones are all there. Adventure, society vs. individualism, romance, a hint of outlandish humor, and a real world setting that reflects bits of our own without being a direct mirror. Plus, I managed to keep the sky pirates.
Because who doesn't like sky pirates?
Did I manage to pull it off? Find out this week, as I continue this series and head towards April 15th and the release of episode one! Next up: construction of the series and scripts themselves!
April 7, 2016 April 7, 2016 by steelef
Development, Fun, Ideas, Intellectual Property, iTunes, Pocket Casts, Podcasts, queens of the sapphire sea, radio drama, Radio Room, Steele Tyler Filipek, Stitcher, Transmedia
As some of you may have gathered, I have been working on an audio drama. You can find it here on iTunes, or here on Soundcloud, or here at its own website. You can also find it on Pocket Casts and Stitcher and a whole host of other podcast catchers. But you didn't hear about it here, because I'm lazy.
Very, very lazy.
So, in return, I'm going to be doing a series on the evolution of my piece, Queens of the Sapphire Sea, which is being broadcast on April 15th. This is an old, old idea of mine from back in the Antediluvian Era, so I figured it might be fun to show you how it transformed from a seed of something into a full-fledged thingiemawhatzit.
That's a technical term.
Here is the original pitch piece I did for it, back when Starlight Runner was first accepting ideas for the development of internal IP.
Queens of the Sapphire Sea
Trouble is brewing on the Range Territory, but it has nothing to do with the criminals and outlaws that waft on the breeze this far from law and order. After all, none of them are a match for seventy-five year-old Regina Oliotone or her teenaged grand-niece, Beatrice. The two of them control the Range Territory from the sights of their seaplanes' gun scopes. They've become the two best (and richest) pilots along the Sapphire Sea.
All of that is about to change.
The Commonwealth of Liberi is set to annex the Range, and bring with it its code of laws, including a prohibition against women from legally owning property. What has taken a lifetime to build up may be washed away with a signature from the High Council. Suitors are lining up outside Regina's door just as political machinations threaten to rip the Range apart at its seams.
Regina and Beatrice aren't giving up, though. The two each have a plan to save their business, their farm, their nation, and their way of life. It will take daring, but if there were ever a pair of bounty hunters that could topple a nation, it would be the world-famous Queens of the Sapphire Sea.
I was rather proud of the piece back then, and there are certainly elements to it that strike me now. It was steampunk fantasy set in a different world, with engaging and unusual characters that weren't TOO off the wall. It had easily recognizable goals with plenty of room to grow, too. In fact, as you will see if you listen in…
Please, please listen in.
…the main thrust of the piece hasn't changed all that much.
That being said, I can understand why it was turned down at the time:
It's too niche – As that pitch stands, it would appeal to a sub-demographic of a sub-genre, and was written by an inexperienced and unknown writer. I'm not saying that this kind of thing shouldn't be written, but I've learned a lot in the five years since I first wrote this piece. Stuff like it has to be grand slam material or, at the very least, come from a recognizable name that people will be willing to follow to an uncertain place.
It's too expensive – With something as fantasy-driven as that piece, it would have had to function as a comic book or piece of animation. Even then it would have been too expensive to produce. I was imagining water colored pages, farflung locales, and high-flying action. It would've required top-end talent to pull off and that doesn't even get into the actual hard costs of production. I probably could have gotten away with a novel, but then again, I was too inexperienced to get it picked up.
It's too on-the-nose – It seems to me that the themes were too direct and overt, particularly for something that was supposed to be all about the fun. You can chalk this up to changing tastes but back then, I wanted to make deliberate statements that could not be misconstrued, whereas now, I want more moral ambiguity. My opinions haven't changed all that much but my dedication to allowing the audience to pull the themes they find has.
I didn't expect to create something that–out of the blue–would wow my bosses (there are some quality issues there that you can definitely tell could use a bit more thought), but still, I felt disappointed when this came back with a "pass," but it was a learning experience nonetheless. I could have tossed it aside. Instead, I realized that there was something there. I just had to think it through more. It was also a little similar to another property I was working on, so I decided to differentiate it a bit more, as well.
That was the key for me, and what should be the key for you, the creators reading this. Don't throw anything away. Keep it socked in a drawer if you must, but better yet, get a Mega.co.nz account and store everything there. Who knows what amazing stuff you'll find there when you're cooking your way through in prep for a pitch years from now? Your patience, aided by experience, will show you the why's and wherefore's of your previous struggles to set you up for the successes of tomorrow.
Failure is the fire that tempers our talent. Or, it can be, if you don't let it get you down.
January 26, 2016 by steelef
Announcing Radio Room
I can finally announce that Radio Room–the audio drama project that I've been co-producing with Adam L. Garcia and Tyrant Rex–will be airing on 94.3 FM WBMB this upcoming Spring!
The skinny: each Thursday at 8 PM, we'll be broadcasting a new episode of one of shows. First up is Tyrant Rex's amazing "Tales of the Halloween Team," a sit-com about supernatural-powered superheroes solving crimes in our fair city. Silly, gross, horrifying, and hilarious: everything you could want in a great show! Check out our Facebook page for more information on my adventure serial ("Queens of the Sapphire Sea") and Garcia's steampunk anthology ("Smoke without Flame").
Most important with regards to this website, I'll be updating our adventures, trials, and tribulations here! You'll hear all about the tears, fears, chills, and spills of our adventure bringing this to the air.
We're launching our first episode on February 25th, but don't worry: if you miss one, you'll be able to catch up at either WBMB's own site (wbmbbiz.com) or on our own (soon to launch!). It's gonna be an exciting spring, so stay tuned for more info!
Platform Atheism
hulu, Multiplatform, Netflix, Nostalgia, Passive Media, Platform Agnostic, Platform Atheism, Platform Atheist, Samsung, Telecommunications, The Bachelor
When I was a kid, I saved up a lot of money to buy a crappy Samsung handheld camcorder with which to shoot my high school movies. The battery barely ever worked. The onboard mic sounded like it was caught in a rainstorm. The video screen gave everything a greenish tint. The final product always came out looking like some Indonesian Soap Opera due to the frame rate.
…as well as my storytelling sensibilities at the time.
My new Samsung Galaxy S6 can do the following things:
Play video games (just downloaded Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
Shoot movies and films
Play/download music
Control a GoPro
Edit together visual and audio media
Save things automatically to the cloud.
Display directly to my television or computer
Schedule my air conditioning cycle
You can tell where my priorities lie.
In short, it's a one-stop-shop for all things entertainment and/or comfort related. A smartphone allows anybody with an internet connection to create content that can reach billions of people. That this has happened alongside the rise of the YouTube celebrity is not a coincidence: people are seeing themselves in the PewDiePie's of the world because the set-ups are almost exactly the same. Quality means less than the expression of ideas.
Some people would say that this is platform agnostic-ism taken to the consumer extreme. That is, it ignores the platforms for which elements of media and temperature control were created. Software integration is so widespread, now, that anything from a Keurig to a music editing suite can talk to one another. Developers have designed code that runs equally well across multiple distribution channels so that the consumer can access it regardless of their preferred device.
This is just the beginning, though, because of that last issue of preference. Some human beings will always prefer their films on the big screen. Some will always want to game with a keyboard and mouse. Some will always want their books made from pulped wood. These are not just people who grew up with that method of media delivery: Urban Outfitters is the number 1 venue for vinyl in the world, and I doubt their target demographic is aging music lovers.
Of course, most people aren't lovers of all media. We are alternately film buffs, hip-hop heads, cookbook collectors, and air conditioner . Most of the time, however, we want to be entertained, and if we are not an aficionado of a particular artform, we're okay with basic service, so long as it has decent quality.
Hulu HD? Not sure I need that for The Bachelor.
This also has an effect on our buying habits. Why spend $21.99 on a Blu-Ray/DVD combo of Monsters University unless we're desperate to complete our John Goodman voice-over collection? We all know consumers are switching over from physical goods ownership to subscription-based models. This is a solid play for the average audience member and for producers of content: the former pays less for more content, while the second gets a steady stream of income.
Meanwhile, producers of traditional media are getting back to the roots and language of what made their platform unique in the first place… even if the old platforms are having to adjust. Radio channels are struggling, but radio dramas are hotter now than they've been since the 50s. Movie theaters are having to justify $20 ticket prices with spectacle… or they're going the customer-first route by providing higher quality food and beverages in order to make the evening a "night out." Comic books are reaching out to audiences that have traditionally been underserved, while the split between Indie Games and AAA-titles grows ever larger by the day.
Some people bemoan this split. Somehow, they argue, we're losing out on the magic of a certain kind of mass experience while shackling ourselves to contracts that sell our information to third-parties via EULA's. There's definitely an element to consumerism and corporatism there that is too deep for this particular essay to handle, but I think if we put aside the "ownership v. leasing" argument for the moment, this is not necessarily a bad thing. For less than $30 a month, people can get a Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime membership: all the couch potato fertilizer you could ever want. This model is forcing producers to compete, to produce better ideas. Some of us want spectacle, but most of us want fun, regardless of how we get it.
Our phones are leading the way, but soon, even that delineation is going to fade. What makes a phone a phone except it's ability to call? My computer does that. When I can fling from my iPhone to my Mac to my Apple TV to my tablet, the distinction is largely academic.
Modern consumers want experiential entertainment rather than ownership. This generation is loaded with debt; we're shifting our priorities to accommodate this. We are buying fewer cars, houses, and extraneous "stuff." We're buying more trips, time shares, and entertainment packages. We want something that speaks to our ideas, and when we find something we love, we're willing to go the extra mile to hold it in our hands. Otherwise, a screen–any screen–will do.
We don't believe in platforms because, ultimately, they don't affect us unless we choose to allow them that access. We have agency in our choice of media. We control how we want to participate. So, for the most part, we are platform atheists.
Except when it comes to climate control. That platform is immutable.


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Q: Recording date of an input value in a different sheet(Same Workbook), where input cell is on a different sheet I'm trying to record Timestamp/Date of values entered in a specific column of one Sheet of the same workbook(Ex : Sheet 2) in a specific column of another sheet of the same workbook(Ex : Sheet 1).
Both these columns have headers where the sheet recording the Input Data has it's header in Row 3. Have tried searching for multiple solutions but none work, using the following code currently.
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*I do not have Scripting knowledge/JavaScript knowledge

*I am simultaneously running two codes(Time Based Trigger & the time stamp is to run onEdit)**
Will be thankful for some help here :)
function TimeStamp(event)
{
var timezone = "GMT+5.5";
var timestamp_format = "MM-dd-yyyy"; // Timestamp Format.
var updateColName = "Folder ID for Link TS";
var timeStampColName = "Actual date of Link Shared";
var sheet = event.source.getSheetByName('Probe Sheet'); //Name of the sheet where you want to run this script.

var actRng = event.source.getActiveRange();
var editColumn = actRng.getColumn();
var index = actRng.getRowIndex();
var headers = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn()).getValues();
var dateCol = headers[0].indexOf(timeStampColName);
var updateCol = headers[0].indexOf(updateColName); updateCol = updateCol+1;
if (dateCol > -1 && index > 1 && editColumn == updateCol) { // only timestamp if 'Last Updated' header exists, but not in the header row itself!
var cell = sheet.getRange(index, dateCol + 1);
var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), timezone, timestamp_format);
cell.setValue(date);
  }
}


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Q: can i force the user input in login or signup screen to be only in english i'm traying to force the user input to be only in English so if the user sign up prevent the user from sign up with other language
I don't know if firebase have already prevent the users from that behind the seen but if they didn't do that, is there any programmatic way in code , or this is not a really a problem in developing app and i'm just freaking out
func textField(_ textFieldToChange: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    if textFieldToChange == username {
        let characterSetNotAllowed = CharacterSet.whitespaces
        if let _ = string.rangeOfCharacter(from:NSCharacterSet.uppercaseLetters) {
            return false
        }
        if let _ = string.rangeOfCharacter(from: characterSetNotAllowed, options: .caseInsensitive) {
            return false
        } else {
            return true
        }
    }
    return true
}

A: You can start subclassing UITextField and add a target for editing changed UIControlEvents and filter your the string entered by the user when it changes:
class EnglishLettersField: UITextField {
    override func willMove(toSuperview newSuperview: UIView?) {
        addTarget(self, action: #selector(editingChanged), for: .editingChanged)
        editingChanged(self)
    }
    @objc func editingChanged(_ textField: UITextField) {
        guard let text = textField.text?.englishLetters else { return }
        textField.text = text
    }
}
extension CharacterSet {
    // create your own set with the allowed characters to filter your string
    static let englishLetters = CharacterSet(charactersIn: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ")
}

extension String {
    // create a computed property to separate the original text using the custom character set inverted, join it again and return it
    var englishLetters: String {
        return components(separatedBy: CharacterSet.englishLetters.inverted).joined()
    }
}

You can add it programatically to your view or using the interface builder
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let englishLettersField = EnglishLettersField(frame: CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: 50, y: 50), size: CGSize(width: 200, height: 50)))
        view.addSubview(englishLettersField)
    }
}

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Pollution Kills 1.7m Children Each Year – WHO
Each year, environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under five, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) reports released Monday.
The causes include unsafe water, lack of sanitation, poor hygiene practices and indoor and outdoor pollution, as well as injuries.
The new numbers equate to these pollutants being the cause of one in four deaths of children between one month and five years old.
One new report highlights that the most common causes of child death are preventable through interventions already available to the communities most affected. These causes are diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia, which can be prevented using insecticide-treated bed nets, clean cooking fuels and improved access to clean water.
"A polluted environment is a deadly one, particularly for young children," Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, said in a statement, adding that, "Their developing organs and immune systems, and smaller bodies and airways, make them especially vulnerable to dirty air and water."
Infants exposed to indoor or outdoor air pollution, including secondhand smoke, have an increased risk of pneumonia during childhood as well as an increased risk of chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma, for the rest of their lives, one report states.
The global body also highlighted the increased risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer from exposure to air pollution.
More than 90 percent of the world's population is thought to breathe air that violates quality guidelines set by the WHO.
The report listed top environmental causes of deaths among children under five to including, respiratory infections. For instance, it says: "570,000 deaths in children under five is linked to indoor and outdoor air pollution and secondhand smoke; 361,000 deaths in children under five is also linked to diarrhea contacted from poor access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
The next are deaths in first month of life. WHO says that 270,000 deaths which occur in children under one month could be prevented by access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene in health facilities, and by reducing air pollution.
The apex global health body further said that malaria which causes 200,000 deaths in children under five could be prevented by environmental improvements, including reducing mosquito breeding sites or covering drinking water storage. It also says that 200,000 deaths among children under five is linked to their environments, including poisonings, falls and drowning and others classified as unintentional injuries.
The reports further listed ways in which these risk factors can be removed to prevent disease and deaths.
"Investing in the removal of environmental risks to health, such as improving water quality or using cleaner fuels, will result in massive health benefits," said Dr. Maria Neira, director of the WHO's Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. "A polluted environment results in a heavy toll on the health of our children."
The growth of electronic and electrical waste is also a concern, according to the report. If not disposed of correctly, waste can expose children to toxins that can harm intelligence and cause attention deficits, lung damage and cancer.
Also among the fears: an increasing risk of climate change, due to rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, boosting pollen growth and possibly asthma. An estimated 44 percent of asthma cases among children worldwide are thought to be related to environmental exposures, the reports said.
In addition to highlighting the burden borne by young children, the new reports suggest ways in which risk factors, and therefore death rates, can be reduced.
These include reducing air pollution, improving access to clean water and sanitation, protecting pregnant women from secondhand smoke and building safer environments in order to reduce accidents and injuries.
"Both indoor and outdoor air pollution have an important effect on the health and development of children, and not just in the stereotypical 'polluted cities' context but also for very poor rural families who cook indoors," said Joy Lawn, professor of maternal reproductive and child health epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
"Clean water is taken for granted by families in high-income countries, and yet those children in the hottest climates, facing the greatest risks of infectious diseases, are the very ones with least access to clean water."
But Lawn added that pollution is not the only risk factor when it comes to child mortality.
"We also need to be careful in attributing these deaths just to dirty water or pollution," she said. "To prevent deaths from pneumonia, we also need vaccines and antibiotics; from malaria, we also need bed nets and anti-malarials. It is not just about pollution."
Other potential solutions mentioned in the reports are removing mold and pests from housing, removing lead paint, ensuring sanitation and good nutrition at schools and using better urban planning to create more green spaces in cities. Safe management of industrial waste by industries is also highlighted, along with stopping the use of hazardous pesticides and child labor in agriculture.
The report "highlights the scale of the problem of how environmental pollution affects the health of children across the globe," said John Holloway, professor of allergy and respiratory genetics at the University of Southampton. Holloway recently authored a report on the lifelong impact of air pollution.
"We must also remember that it is not just the acute effects of pollution on children's health mentioned in the report that we need to be concerned about, it is also the potential long-term effects of exposure to pollutants in early life that can have lifelong effects on health and well-being," he said.
Holloway also stressed that this is not a concern solely for developing countries. "Exposures such as air pollution and secondhand tobacco smoke affects the health of children in developed countries such as the UK as well," he said.
But, like the WHO, he also stressed that things can be done to help solve the problem and said authorities and individuals should act now — as well as think long-term — to protect the health of future generations.
"We all have a responsibility for reducing environmental pollution," he said. "This is going to require changes in society such as better monitoring of pollution and taking into account the true long-term economic cost of pollution when assessing the cost of measures to reduce environmental pollution."
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The oyster lives in coastal waters that have highly variable water quality (e.g., low dissolved oxygen, high pH) and substantial pollutant loadings (e.g., metal and organic pollutants). Like other filter-feeding bivalves, oysters harbor and concentrate pathogens that occur in their marine habitat and transfer them to humans when the oysters are eaten. Postdoctoral fellow Brett Macey develop an in vivo assay that quantifies the persistence and degradation of live bacterial pathogens in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica , as well as externalization of live bacteria from the oyster to the environment. He found that water quality factors such as pH and O2 levels and seasonal variation can impact the ability of oysters to inactivate bacterial pathogens, in this case Vibrio campbellii , within the tissues of the animal (Macey et al., 2008). He also led a team of researchers at the Hollings Marine lab to reveal the impact of metal contaminants on the physiological status of oysters (Macey et al., in preparation). Graduate student Heidi Williams employed a similar assay to evaluate what tissues of the oyster are involved in the inactivation and elimination of internalized bacteria. Surprisingly, while major organs such as the mantle and hepatopancreas play an important role in these processes, gonadal tissues displayed the greatest antibacterial activity in the oyster (Williams et al., 2008). Gonadal tissues develop and are resorbed seasonally, suggesting that disease resistance might be predicted to fluctuate with factors that influence gonadal development. All three of these studies lead to new and exciting questions, as we attempt to model the complex interaction of the oyster with its environment and its potential to serve as a vector for disease in humans and other marine organisms.


HOUSTON — With all the out of towners coming to Houston for Super Bowl 51, the colorful accents converging on NRG Stadium are in for one super showdown.
You don't have to graduate from Harvard to recognize a Boston accent— just ask Hollywood and Broadway dialect coach Joel Goldes!
Now Atlanta's Georgian and Houston's Texan accents are both southern, so a lot people just try to wing it — but there is a distinct difference between the two dialects.
Joel said the Georgia accent is by far the most dope— it's just generally the easiest to learn.
But there's still hope for you yet, if you haven't quite mastered the Texan twang, it's not too difficult.
But trying to pull off a Boston accent without any training? That`s a nope!
"I think the people of Boston, if I can generalize, are tired of people attempting and doing it badly," Goldes said.
Houston voted worst city for NFL fans— say what?!
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The Age of Incompetence
Kim Priestap February 5, 2009 Democrats, Economics, Politics 8 Comments
A few days ago I wrote that Obama's presidency had ushered in the Age of Insanity. Add to that the Age of Incompetence.
He said that no lobbyists would find jobs in his administration. Since then he's appointed at least 12 former lobbyists to various positions. He has had four other appointments turn into debacles. First Governor Bill Richardson had to bow out because of an investigation into a pay-for-play scheme, something the administration knew was ongoing but nominated him anyway. Three appointments were exposed as tax cheats, two of which were forced to drop out of consideration. Tim Geithner was approved by partisan Democrats and spineless Republicans in the senate for Treasury Secretary because, they argued, he was too important and had to be approved even if he's a tax cheat. President Obama was forced to go on five different news channels on Tuesday in an attempt to stop the hemorrhaging. He also said that he doesn't want to give the impression that there are two rules for two different Americas, to borrow a phrase from John Edwards. Well, if Obama wants to prove that there are not two Americas, one for the privileged and one for the rest of us, then he needs put his money where his mouth is and ask Geithner to resign. Shawn Mallow agrees. Be sure to read his post.
On top of all that, we're now hearing that Leon Panetta has a few issues.
In addition to the Obama Administration's vetting bungles, they have other problems with offering and then un-offering Anthony Zinni the Ambassadorship to Iraq. This is how Zinni said the whole episode went down:
"Jones had called me before the inauguration and asked if I would be willing to serve as ambassador to Iraq or in one of the envoy jobs, on the Middle East peace process," Zinni told Foreign Policy. "I said yes."
"Then two weeks ago, Jones called," Zinni continued, "and said, 'We talked to the secretary of state, and everybody would like to offer you the Iraq job.' I said yes.
"The [vice]* president called and congratulated me," Zinni said.
Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked for a meeting last Monday night, Zinni said. He said he went to the meeting in her office at the State Department, where Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Williams Burns were also in attendance.
"She thanks me, asked me my views on Iraq," Zinni recalled. "She said to Burns and Steinberg, 'We've got to move quickly, Crocker is leaving, we've got to get someone in there and get the paperwork done and hearings… Lots to do to get ready to go."
Zinni said he expected a call from Burns the next day. Not hearing from him, he called him.
"To make a long story short, I kept getting blown off all week," Zinni said. "Meantime, I was rushing to put my personal things in order," to get ready to go.
"Finally, nobody was telling me anything," Zinni said. "I called Jones Monday several times. I finally got through late in evening. I asked Jones, 'What's going on?' And Jones said, 'We decided on Chris Hill.'"
Obama confidently told us he was ushering in a new era of responsibility. Instead, he's brought us the Age of Incompetence.
RFK Jr says that hog farmers are more dangerous than Osama
There goes another conspiracy theory…
You know it's going to be bad, but you just can't prepare yourself
Exhausting a metaphor
Kim Priestap
Wife. Mom. First and Second Amendment enthusiast. Gun owner. I train often. ***** He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.


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  def write_configuration(output_filename, output_content)
    file = Tempfile.new('config_file')
    file.sync = true
    file.write(output_content)
    upload_configuration(file.path, output_filename)
  ensure
    file.close
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  end

  def upload_configuration(configuration_file, upload_file)
    copy_to_server([configuration_file], upload_file)
  end

  def remove_configuration
    delete_from_server(configuration_files)
  end

  def remove_logs_and_demos
    delete_from_server(logs_and_demos)
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  def log_copier_class
    RemoteLogCopier
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A track-only variant of the 12C has been announced ahead of its premiere this weekend at Goodwood.
This isn't the first special edition 12C. In fact, it's not even the first exclusive track toy of the British marque's supercar. Dubbed the 12C GT Sprint, the latest track-only variant is said to bridge the gap between the stock 12C and the all-out racing GT3 and Can-Am Edition models. McLaren GT, the carmaker's race car building arm, designed and developed the 12C GT Sprint, which has been built around a lightweight carbon-fiber MonoCell chassis. There's no boost in output from the 616-horsepower 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8, which is mated to the 12C's seven speed twin clutch box.
But it does come with a unique oil system and a cooling system featuring a 12C GT3-developed central front radiator. Chassis upgrades extend to a recalibrated suspension to match the 40 mm lowered ride height and Pirelli racing slicks, carbon ceramic brakes, and center-locking 19-inch OZ alloys. Drivers also get three handling modes that alters damping, roll stiffness and ESP settings. Optimized aeros and cooling upgrades feature on the exterior. There's a more aggressive front bumper, GT3-inspired hood and front wing louvres, while inside the GT Sprint comes with a rollcage, six-point harness, and carbon-fiber dash housing a race-developed digital display and McLaren GT steering wheel.
If that's not enough, a range of optional extras are available such as an aero package consisting of carbon-fiber rear wing and front splitter and polycarbonate windscreen. Finished in heritage McLaren Orange as standard, the 12C GT Sprint will premiere at the Goodwood FoS. An initial batch of 20 cars will be delivered in 2013 priced at just under £200,000.


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Child support bolsters Minnesota children, families
Awareness month recognizes importance to children's well-being
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Katie Bauer
Katie.Bauer@state.mn.us
Minnesota is recognizing August as Child Support Awareness Month, providing an opportunity to reaffirm the state's commitment to the well-being of children.
Minnesota ranks in the top five states nationally for collection of monthly child support payments and overdue payments. Child support is a consistent source of income and security for families across the state. Minnesota's child support programs serve more than 245,000 children and more than 352,000 parents.
"For many children and families, the financial resources provided by child support plays a crucial role in their well-being," Human Services Commissioner Emily Piper said. "Our goal is to work with parents to make sure children have the support they need."
State and county child support professionals work collaboratively with parents and partners to administer child support programs and help families access services. They can help parents facing financial difficulties get back on track with their child support. Assistance is available in some counties to help parents reinstate driver's licenses that have been suspended for nonpayment of child support.
A task force created by the Minnesota Legislature in 2016 is currently reviewing child support guidelines and policy issues and advice DHS on how to maintain an effective child support program. For information on the task force and upcoming meetings, visit the department's website.
Gov. Mark Dayton has proclaimed August as Child Support Awareness Month (PDF) in Minnesota to highlight the importance of child support to families.


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SUBTLE GROUNDS
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Girl with an Oar. 2017. 200х120 сm
Freedom. 2010. 120х200 сm
Cavalry. 2010. 200х300 сm
Moscow. 2010. 180х300 сm
Victory. 2010. 130х200 сm
Walk. 2017. 200х130 сm
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Bright Future or Soviet Nirvana
by A. Gankevich
I grew up in a country where people built communism – a bright future for all humanity. I couldn't really understand what it was, couldn't imagine the behavior of people that creates a universal equality around… There would be no money, no division to poor and rich. Everything is equal. Everything would be available to everyone. "When communism comes to our life… everyone will be happy!" the adults said. "You just have to be conscious." This meant having a conscience when you go to the shop and take any goods for free. Not to take anything extra, to live the present day, and let the government take care of tomorrow. This is how I defined "communism" and "bright future" as a child.
I asked, "But when will that communism come?". The parents looked at each other and whispered, they said they wouldn't make it until that time, but I was sure I would. At least I believed it for some time. But after I looked around, I realized it was impossible.
I understood that people couldn't change for the better a second after the communism comes… But I still like the idea of communism because it's a very Buddhist-like illusory.
Now I can compare my childhood idea of communism only to my current view of paradise or nirvana, as an ideal conscious afterlife society.
One of the important features of the "conscious" socialist realism is balancing out all the attitudes.
In my imagination, I pictured a "prosperous Soviet society" in which I stabilized the political situation and balanced all the needs and desires of people. It is a society with no wars, repressions, negative emotions and stereotypes, shortly speaking – a "Bright future", but which would correspond to the system of values in our modern society, where people want to live a life being healthy, rich, successful and play golf. I pictured a "Soviet Nirvana".
And if it's a sport theme, then, without a second thought – all well-known respectable sports are important.
My childhood illusion of communism has been transformed and reinvented by me. But yet it still remained as bright as it was in childhood.
I came up with the "Fizcult-Respect" and "Military-roleplay games" series.
In addition, my childhood experience of working for my father, an artist, and a designer, helped me a lot. He worked at the art factory "Hud-Fond" and every spring, since the 50s, traveled with the brigade to Moscow, designed the exposition pavilions of the VDNKh (Russian Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy). I helped him since the age of 12 – I drew visual agitation. These projects I dedicate to the memory of a father and an artist A. Deineka.
NEP doesn't end
by Alisa Lozhkina
When the bus
through the dust,
passing wax-like chapels,
I can see them clearly –
two of them,
there's two of them in Moscow –
Moscows.
("Two Moscows" by V. Mayakovsky)
A city, which stands at the crossroads of the past and the future – this was how Mayakovsky saw Moscow in 1926. A crowded, "old deaf woman", where the "mat of the pawn" is expanding, and at the same time a completely new space is being built – another Moscow, a futuristic Stalin utopia, in which there is no place for an ordinary person from the past. And exactly to that second Moscow, and the esthetics of the early Soviet futurological optimism, the new project of Anatoly Gankevich "Fizcult-Respeckt" is devoted to.
A new series of large-format paintings is painstakingly made in the traditional for Gankevich art technique of mosaic imitation. In addition, in this exact series that pseudo-mosaic texture, referring to the classics of world sacred art, is as appropriate as possible. The new works of Gankevich are "fizcult-privet" to the esthetics of the early Soviet "spaces of rejoicing", successfully described by Mikhail Rykin in the same-named essay. The new picturesque series by Anatoly Gankevich is a real set of quotations from the history of art of the 20th and the 30th centuries. It makes us remember the classic of the genre – the bright monumental mosaics of the Moscow metro, this communist temple-like complex, anticipating the coming happy and unbothered Tomorrow; utopian monumentalism of the VDNKh, happy faces smiling from the posters of early Soviet time and all the endless optimism of post-revolutionary culture, which has not yet managed to completely digest the avant-garde, survive the 1937 and proclaim a course for the triumph of bureaucracy and gerontophilia. In this utopian city, illustrated by Gankevich, perhaps, still live Chuk and Gek, somewhere here Timur collects his team, it is here, where all the favorite Soviet films take place – this mirrored side of totalitarianism, the ideal city of Giants, the dream, which is still feels so acutely in the Moscow architecture and monumental art of the Stalin period.
Anatoly Gankevich's artworks are left without the typical for modern art social pathos – the artist deliberately immerses the viewer into the utopian space, dwells him with a fairy tale about the city that didn't exist. In his traditionally pan-esthetic work, Gankevich is far from a critical position. He prefers to feed the viewer with a positive cocktail from the elements of modern culture and the era of the rebirth of the Russian avant-garde into socialist realism. "The USSR is the birthplace of my dreams" – once Ryklin said. In Gankevich's "beyond time" sleep, Nabokov and his beloved Lolita play tennis on the VDNH lawn, Mayakovsky carries a stick for the "bourgeois" golf on the Red Square, races on the racetrome are accompanied by a synchronous parade of air bombers, and all of the space in the paintings is lit up with not usual Moscow-bright, life-affirming light, distinctive for the artworks of early social realists, inspired by the idea of a bright communist future – such as Alexander Deineka.


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Q: What object types can be used for fetures in decision trees? Do I need to convert my "object" type to another type? I imported a table using pandas and I was able to set independent variables (features) and my dependent variable (target). Two of my independent variables are "object type" and my others are int64 and float64. Do I need to convert my "object" type features to "class" or another type? How can I handle these in Sci-kit learn decision trees?

A: Based on the documentation (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/tree.html):

Able to handle both numerical and categorical data. Other techniques
  are usually specialised in analysing datasets that have only one type
  of variable. See algorithms for more information.

So you can run it with object type and int64 and float64. This is one of the benefits of the decision trees, that it can also work with non-numeric data.

A: I used one hot encoding to convert my categorical data because the scikit-learn decision tree packages do not support categorical data.


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Each year we have a committee of parents who kindly volunteer their time to help maintain the running of the toy library. Their role includes coordinating fundraising activities, purchasing new toys, publicising our services and producing quarterly newsletters to keep our members informed.
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Q: set of points with max distance I have a set with 6000 vectors (n dim). I calculated the distance matrix to collect all the distances. Suppose I want to spot the 10 points that are more distant each other, i.d. they are the subset in which the sum of distances is the highest between every other possibilities in that set.
If I want to discriminate also with a threshold avoiding two points too close, what should be the fastest algorithm that can do that?
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DEATHSTARS Begins Mixing New Album
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