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Netflix Movie: I Care A Lot
by Cristina | Last Updated: March 10, 2021
Nutshell: (Netflix) Rosamund Pike (Girl from Gone Girl), Peter Dinklage (all hail Tyrion Lannister) and he is strong AF, a bunch of unlikable people doing shitty things, and I think it's just an OK movie. I think you're better off using the time to watch Thank You For Smoking, oldie but a goodie, about some unlikable people but at least it had more of an arc.
CB Rating: 4.8
The story seems pretty straightforward. Marla Grayson cares a lot about hijacking the elderly and stealing all of their money. It's disgusting and you are watching in utter horror that someone can be so terrible. Then you think you might not even like this show, and then boom. Enter Peter Dinklage and you're done. Hook. Line. Sinker. It is now impossible not to finish a movie where Tyrion Lannister is balancing on steady rings like a gymnastics prodigy. However the more of this movie you watch, the more you will just want it to end.
A marvel to witness
Rosamund Pike is a badass. That is not up for debate, but even her amazing performance and bob cannot save this movie from being just, well, meh.
Her bob is on point though
I bring up Thank you for Smoking (2005, Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes) in the Nuthshell for two reasons. One, I hadn't seen that movie in a long time and it's amazing. Anyone reading this who has not seen it, would be better off watching it instead of this movie. The second reason, is I Care A Lot has a lot of the same storyline as Thank You For Smoking. Both follow characters who are despicable, and do horrible things for money. However at least in the Katie Holmes movie, there is an arc. The main character tries to change. Here in this movie, you have no idea who to root for, and it ends the only way it can. Predictably.
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Q: Web servers that support Mutual SSL and FastCGI Do you know any web servers that support both Mutual SSL and FastCGI?
I would like to establish a secure connection using the web server software and then route the request via a FastCGI socket (on the same machine of course).

A: Apache Httpd supports both.
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*http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/HelpOnInstalling/FastCgi

*http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html

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Q: Writing a highly performant Cache I wrote a stock market simulator which uses a ConcurrentHashMap as a cache.
The cache holds about 75 elements but they are updated and retrieved very quickly (~ 500 times a second).
Here is what I did:
Thread 1:
Connected to an outside system which provides me with streaming quotes for a given stock symbol.
Thread 2 (callback thread):
Waits till data is delivered to it by the outside system. Once it gets the data, it parses it, creates an immutable DataEntry object, caches it and sends a signal to thread3.
Thread 3 (Consumer thread):
Upon receiving the signal, retrieve the DataEntry from the cache and uses it. (It is part of the task to not let thread2 push data directly to thread3).
public final class DataEntry{

      private final String field1;
      private final String field2;
      //...
      private final String field25;

      // Corresponding setters and getters

}

public final class Cache{

        private final Map<String, DataEntry> cache;

        public Cache( ){
           this.cache = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, DataEntry> ( 65, 0.75, 32 );
        }

        // Methods to update and retrieve DataEntry from the cache.
}

After running it through a profiler, I noticed that I am creating a lot of DataEntry object. And therefore eden is filling up very quickly.
So, I am thinking of tweaking the design a bit by:
a) Making the DataEntry class mutable.
b) Pre-populating the cache with empty DataEntry objects.
c) When the update arrives, retrieve the DataEntry object from the map and populate the fields.
This way, number of DataEntry object will be constant and equal to the number of elements.
My questions are:
a) Does this design have any concurrency issues that I may have introduced by making the DataEntry mutable.
b) Is there anything else I can do to optimize the cache?
Thanks.

A: It sounds like you're using a ConcurrentHashMap when what you really need is something like a concurrent queue — say, a LinkedBlockingQueue?

A: *

*a. Yes, it does. Mutable DataEntry objects could be updated without the reader noticing, which will lead to inconsistent states.

*b. Yes, you can: make a mutable DataEntryCache that returns immutable DataEntry on request. This way you'll create new DataEntry objects on reads, not on writes. DataEntryCache could internally cache the immutable DataEntry that it constructs and returns, and invalidate that "cache" on mutating calls.

Edit: I am assuming that the reason you are caching (as opposed to creating a queue between threads 2 and 3) is that the consumer thread may read other entries in addition to the one of which thread 2 sends the notification. If this assumption is incorrect, you may not need a cache at all.

A: I wouldn't worry about the speed of ConcurrentHashMap
Map<Integer, Integer> map = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
long start = System.nanoTime();
int runs = 200*1000*1000;
for (int r = 0; r < runs; r++) {
    map.put(r & 127, r & 127);
    map.get((~r) & 127);
}
long time = System.nanoTime() - start;
System.out.printf("Throughput of %.1f million accesses per second%n",
        2 * runs / 1e6 / (time / 1e9));

prints
Throughput of 72.6 million accesses per second

This is far beyond the access rate you appear to be using.
If you want to reduce garbage you can use mutable objects and primitive.  For this reason I would avoid using String (as you appear to have far more strings than data entries)

A: a) In my code object creation often manifests itself as bottleneck, so I think your own idea of reusing DataEntry objects is worth implementing too. However, as kdgregory commented, simply overwriting current elements will lead to inconsistent entries being read. So, when updating an entry, instead write to a new or a if available a reused idle (say idle for a couple of minutes) entry and put that into the map. After putting the new entry into the map, put the old entry on some kind of idle list. To be totally safe, reading threads must not be allowed to access the DataEntry delivered by the cache, after e.g. 1 minute. If the threads may block, they should copy the DataEntry objects, perhaps reusing own objects for this.
b) Your current design is modular but involves many context switches because the threads reflect the modules. I would try a design where a single request is served from beginning to completion by a single thread. A request could be the full processing of a new DataEntry object. Concurrency design patterns achieving this are Leader/Follower and Half-Sync/Half-Asynch.


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Q: how to make holes in file to erase data by c in linux Updated: This FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is not originally supported by 3.0.0-17, I think I need to patch it.
I know linux have this hole feature, and I am wondering if I could make a hole in a existing file.
For specific, I have created a file named hole_test by these codes:
 18 #include <stdlib.h>
 19 #include <sys/types.h>
 20 #include <sys/stat.h>
 21 #include <fcntl.h>
 22 #include <unistd.h>
 23 #include <errno.h>
 24
 25 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 26 {
 27     int fd;
 28     char a[7]="happy!";
 30     fd = open("hole_test", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666);
 31     if(fd == -1)
 32             printf("error, %s\n", (char *)strerror(errno));
 35 //  fallocate(fd, 0x02, 0,0);
 36 //  pwrite(fd, a, sizeof(a), 0);
 37 //  pwrite(fd, a, sizeof(b), 65536);
 38     close(fd);
 39     return 0;
 40 }

firstly, I user L36 L37 to create a file. the stat hole_test shows that:
  File: `hole_test'
  Size: 65540       Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d  Inode: 1052101     Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   bxshi)   Gid: ( 1000/   bxshi)
Access: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800
Modify: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800
Change: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800

Then I use L35 and comment L36 L37 to make a hole in my file.(0x02 equals to FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, I did not find where it is defined so just use its value)
and then, by stat hole_test, the Blocks is still 16.
  File: `hole_test'
  Size: 65540       Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d  Inode: 1052101     Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   bxshi)   Gid: ( 1000/   bxshi)
Access: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800
Modify: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800
Change: 2012-04-03 23:02:35.227664608 +0800

I want to know if I could make new holes in this hole_test file to erase existing data?
How could I make a hole in hole_test at offset 0 to 7, in that way I think the Blocks could become 8 and the string I wrote would disappear.
Hope you guys could know what I said and give me some advice.

A: You use fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, offset, len). (Supported since Linux 2.6.38) See https://lwn.net/Articles/415889/ for behind-the-scenes details and accompanying patches.

A: According to the man page for fallocate(2):

The FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag must be ORed with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE
         in mode; in other words, even when punching off the end of the file,
         the file size (as reported by stat(2)) does not change.

At least on ext4, if you just pass FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, fallocate() will return Operation not supported.
Also note that:

The FALLOC_FL_* flags are
         defined in glibc headers only since version 2.18.

So you may need to manually define them if you're using a supported kernel with an earlier version of libc:
// Constants are defined in glibc >= 2.18
#define FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE    0x1
#define FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE   0x2


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Islamabad Paralysis Syndrome(IPS): Thanks to fanatics & Incompetence
Shiffa Yousafzai
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The residents of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan were already worried and disturbed about the possibility of dealing with the smog that has plagued Lahore and other parts of Punjab, now they are also suffering from IPS – Islamabad Paralysis Syndrome. Everyone is so agitated about the paralyzed state of their capital city that they don't know how to react and keep themselves composed especially when you're stuck in traffic due to barricades for hours.
I was buying fruit from a local street vendor (mobile-stall) and I had bought some apples and bananas but while I was paying him I asked the vendor if the apples were fresh since they didn't look fresh. The man started yelling at me right away, however, what he said gave me an idea of how frustrated he is. He said, "You don't even know how the hell I got here to sell fruits and you don't know how difficult it is for us to get back home.
The government has agreed to make the recommendations of Raja Zafar ul Haq's committee public. We still have to wait and see how it goes but one thing that seems certain is that these people aren't going anywhere.
I have to look for a place to park my trolley safely because the police didn't allow me to go and park this trolley where I usually do. I don't know if I will be able to eat tonight and if I will be able to reach back home crossing these barricades. You have a car, you have money. Things don't affect you the way they affect us."
For a moment I got furious and was almost about to explode like a volcano but then it suddenly occurred to me that he's not mad at me, he's mad at the police, the protestors, the government, and his poverty but not me. He's not the only one on the road that was all set to resort to violence. I asked a man on a bike if the road ahead is blocked and if he knows any alternate route to get to F-7 from Murree Road, Rawalpindi.
Read more: Faizabad still in lockdown despite IHC's order
What he said amazed me yet made me feel really guilty. He said, "You're a woman, you're in a car, these people will let you go but they won't let a man on a bike pass through these barricades, so its people like me looking for alternate routes not people like you." – and of course, he did not answer my question. Almost everyone driving and covering his or her usual distance to work and back home in twice as much time, as usual, would react the same way.
Where did it all start?
The finality of Prophethood – it was a settled issue. What made the government feel that they needed to make any kind of amendment in this provision? And what made them feel that after doing so they could get away with it?
The Government didn't take this sit-in seriously and they thought these people would soon disperse. There are people blaming the protestors for paralyzing the city at the time when the country cannot afford instability.
Actually what I assume is that they knew they won't be able to get away with it and they needed a chaotic situation to turn the attention away from the NAB references and proceedings against the House of Sharifs. Or it could be just another attempt of the eldest Sharif to please the masters abroad – as several political analysts have said in the last couple of days in various talk shows.
The government now after reverting the amendments, is trying very hard to sort this issue out with the clerics of Tehreek e Labaik Ya Rasoolullah – at least they claim to be doing their best but they certainly haven't tried hard enough. Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, could go and breathe in some fresh air in the mountains and address a public gathering in Abbottabad but he couldn't come and meet Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of TLYR, and convince him to call it off.
Since the beginning of their protest, they have been treated as if they are children of a lesser god. Nobody paid attention towards them, nobody went to talk to them and nobody tried to know what their demands are, this is also a reason for them being aggrieved.
Read more: Faizabad Dharna: A view of both sides
At first, the Government didn't take this sit-in seriously and they thought these people would soon disperse. There are people blaming the protestors for paralyzing the city at the time when the country cannot afford instability. But if we think long and hard about it, then we will all get to a conclusion that the government is equally responsible for this paralyzed stated of living in the capital for more than two weeks now.
The government now after reverting the amendments, is trying very hard to sort this issue out with the clerics of Tehreek e Labaik Ya Rasoolullah – at least they claim to be doing their best but they certainly haven't tried hard enough.
But what got me confused is that there are other religious political parties who have been involved in politics for decades, winning elections in the name of religion? Do they not find any religious or political implications of what the government just tried to do? Why did they not join this sit-in? Let's hope that these people protesting do not have any vested interests here.
The government has asked the protestors to move to another location and clear the roads but they have denied the offer giving out the reason that if they move and everything gets back to normal, they won't be able to pressurise the government for resignation of the person behind this amendment – who, for now at least, is believed to be Law Minister Zahid Hamid.
Many have started to surmise that the government wants to ask Zahid Hamid for his resignation but they cannot ask him fearing that he would break his silence and disclose the name of the actual person who tried to make the amendment.
For a moment I got furious and was almost about to explode like a volcano but then it suddenly occurred to me that he's not mad at me, he's mad at the police, the protestors, the government, and his poverty but not me.
Syed Shah Abdul Haq Gillani of Golra Sharif said that Government has played dirty politics and conspired against this clause of Finality of Prophethood, thus people should not vote for such conspirators.
Meanwhile, the government has agreed to make the recommendations of Raja Zafar ul Haq's committee public. We still have to wait and see how it goes but one thing that seems certain is that these people aren't going anywhere. They are going to stay there as long as they get the resignation of the person responsible.
Read more: Rawalpindi-Islamabad residents helpless as police fail to dislodge protesters from Faizabad…
We could just hope that the government sorts this out soon and peacefully, for we as humans also feel for those on the roads in these chilly days and nights. And if sorting out this problem is just a resignation or two away, then government must go for it.
Shiffa Yousafzai is a freelance writer; She is an International Alumni Ambassador for Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she studied Multimedia Journalism. Earlier, she graduated with business and marketing at Air University, Islamabad. She had been vice-president Air University Cultural Society; She is a singer and has performed in cultural events. Shiffa could be followed on twitter @Shiffa_ZY and on facebook @Shiffa Z. Yousafzai. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Global Village Space's editorial policy.
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Colours of Our Community Float Confirmed in 2018 Parade
Continuing it's momentum as a celebration of diversity, equality and LGBTQI love, Colours of Our Community is now an organisation of champions for the cause, who have come together to arrange a community float during the 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. Expect to see a modern showing of the Rainbow Flag and tributes to the late Mardi Gras Lifetime Achievement recipient, Ron Muncaster.
Colours of Our Community Float Secures Sponsor
The Colours of Our Community Float, a centrepiece of the 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) Parade has secured a financial sponsor. And it's a natural fit for XYZ Company as CEO Dale Smith explains.
"Ever since we established XYZ Company in 1998, we have been serving the LGBTQI community, providing our products and services to them. Coupled with our diversity and equality charter for all our employees, we are ....read more on this link
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Colours of Our Community Float is a community organisation that celebrates and champions the values of Diversity, Equality and LGBTQI Love.
The Colours of Our Community Float is a proud recipient of the 2018 Google Mardi Gras Parade Grant. Our $2,000 Grant will put the "WOW Factor" into our float costumes.
Colours of Our Community Float Confirmed for 2018 SGLMG Parade
"Colours of Our Community" is an art project that began in 2006 by Sydney photographer Markham Lane. The project aims to highlight and champion the values of celebrating diversity, equality and LGBTQI love.
In 2017 a 10-year retrospective of the collection was exhibited as a Premier Event of the 2017 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Later that year, a book of the same name was launched and subsequently sold out.
In 2018, the "Colours of Our Community" becomes a Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade Float, bringing all these value to life!
With 195 Parade Floats confirmed in the 2018 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, Colours of Our Community has been assigned the middle position of the Parade order, as the 96th entry.
Float Elements Match the Festival Theme
Applicants for the 2018 SGLMG Parade had to demonstrate how their float matches the SGLMG Festival theme "40 Years of Evolution". The Colours of Our Community Float was selected to join the 2018 Parade based on it's ability to match the set criteria.
Our Community Float is made up of three elements:
1) Two "Rainbow Heroes" to lead
2) The float vehicle
3) A marching/dancing "LGBTQI Army of Light and Colour"
With a maximum capacity of 80 participants and with our charter to celebrate diversity, equality and LGBTQI love, our float contains a representation of races from Australia and 22 other countries; of all gender identities; and representation from the whole community, being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex.
55% of our participants are in committed relationships.
30% of our participants are female.
72/80 people in the float are marching in the LGBTQI Army of Light and Colour.
Army participants will be divided into 6 groups. Each group will be assigned a colour from the Rainbow Flag and the Groups will be parading in the order of the flag being Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red. This will be achieved through the use of LED outfits supplied by sponsor Breedwell out of NYC.
6/72 people in the Army are "Community Heroes" with one representation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex. Each hero will be wearing a unique elaborate Ron Muncaster (Mardi Gras Lifetime Award winner) inspired costume incorporating LED outfits supplied by sponsor Breedwell.
2 parade participants will lead the float, as "Rainbow Heroes" wearing a unique elaborate Ron Muncaster (Mardi Gras Lifetime Award winner) inspired costume incorporating LED outfits supplied by sponsor Breedwell. These participants are Founder and creator of the "Colours of Our Community" Markham Lane and Community Hero Costume Designer, Victoria Riveria Martin, who represents the Trans, Deaf and Asian communities.
Our Float vehicle will house a 4 speaker system, pumping out a mash-up of iconic gay anthems, masterfully created by DJ Hamo Tevita. The six minute mix includes tracks from;
"I Will Survive" (1978) by Gloria Gaynor
"I Feel Love" (1984) by Donna Summer
"Express Yourself" (1989) by Madonna
"Queen of the Night" (1992) by Whitney Houston
"Born This Way" (2014) by Lady Gaga.
Onboard the Float Vehicle, international cabaret and performance artist Sheba Williams will be our MC, adding her sassy charms and vocal performances over the top of the tracks to really rev-up the crowd.
And on the ground, our choreographer Jean Paul JR, will be leading the Army through the routine as we march and dance our way along the parade route.
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World Cup heroes return to action with La Liga
The Serie A is among the most competitive leagues in the world and will see FIFA World Cup winners Angel di Maria and Paulo Dybala battle it out for Juventus FC and A.S. Roma respectively…reports Asian Lite News
World Cup heroes from France, Argentina, Brazil and other footballers that represented their respective nations in the month-long extravaganza in Qatar will return to action when the Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 will resume their matches after a short winter break.
After locking horns in the FIFA World Cup final, Golden Boot winner Kylian Mbappe and Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi will come together alongside several other sensational players for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the Ligue1. The French club's fixture on the December 29 is likely to also feature World Cup stars like Brazil's Neymar Jr. and Morocco's Achraf Hakimi.
Viacom18 Sports, India's newest premier sports network, will continue bringing the biggest stars of the recently-concluded FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 to Indian viewers on JioCinema and Sports18. La Liga, Ligue1, and Serie A will be streaming live on JioCinema for free as club football action returns to Europe. Matches from these leagues will also continue to air on Sports18.
The La Liga will see the return of 2022 FIFA World Cup winners like Rodrigo De Paul for Atletico Madrid and Alejandro Gomez for Sevilla FC, along with members of the silver medallist French squad like Ousmane Dembele for FC Barcelona and Antoine Griezmann for Atletico Madrid.
The Serie A is among the most competitive leagues in the world and will see FIFA World Cup winners Angel di Maria and Paulo Dybala battle it out for Juventus FC and A.S. Roma respectively. French stars like Adrien Rabiot will return to action for Juventus while Theo Hernandez will kick off for A.C. Milan on January 4, 202,3 as they vie to conquer Italy through the second half of the season, the broadcaster informed in a release on Tuesday.
Ligue1 will return to our TV, smartphone, and tablet screens first, as competition will resume on December 28 with AC Ajaccio facing Angers. La Liga will kick off on December 29 with a match-up between Girona and Rayo Vallecano. The Serie A resumes in the New Year on January 4 with a clash between Salernitana and reigning champions A.C. Milan. Sassuolo faces Sampdoria at the same time.
Viewers can continue to watch their preferred leagues by downloading JioCinema (iOS & Android) and can also catch all the action on Sports18-1 and Sports 18-1 HD.
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Fake Malibu Sign Regarding Sanctuary Cities Posted
MALIBU—On Tuesday, April 4, a California state employee at 7:30 p.m. reported a fake placard bolted to an existing marker located at the city's northern limit on a shoulder of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
The sign read: "Official Sanctuary City 'Cheap Nannies, and Gardeners Make Malibu Great!' (Boyle Heights Not So Much)."
The prank was in reference to the city's recent decision to declare itself as a sanctuary city, becoming a haven for immigrants from deportation who crossed the border illegally. The Malibu City Council passed the measure in March 2017 with a 3-2 vote. By the time officials came to investigate, the sign was taken off.
Another fake sign had popped up on another city marker, "Official sanctuary city – because our beach community needs cheap labor, dude."
The Hollywood Reporter reported that a social media website claimed responsibility for the prank indicating the act was part of the Republican art movement to defy the left's hold over the Los Angeles scene.
"Some friends of mine put those up last night." He explained, "They aren't big on getting attention seeing they work in the Hollywood industry and as we all know there is a serious black list in full effect focused on those of us who aren't on the Left, politically speaking," an artist known as Sabo told the THR.
Some community members started a petition to change the city's status as a sanctuary city. Commenters took to Twitter to discuss the controversy over the sign. David Webb (@davidwebbshow) tweeted: "What the sign really says is that liberal, wealthy #Malibu @California city pays its illegals cheap wages. @WilkowMajority @seanhannity."
Facebook user Lady Liberal posted: "In spite of the perceptions and the snark it has provoked, good on Malibu for becoming a sanctuary city."
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By now, everyone's fluent in the universal language of emoji – but how are different countries speaking it? A study conducted by UK developers SwiftKey has shed some interesting light on emoji usage in all corners of the world. British emoji users are an emotional bunch, and largely a content one too: happy faces make up 44.8 per cent of all emojis sent in the country.
In terms of different countries' habits, it's the French who have the most feels. They use the heart emoji four times as much as any other nation, proving that there's something in the myth that they're a romantic old lot. Canadians are the biggest bros, using a lot of money, sports and violent emojis.
Australians, clearly undeterred by the sky-high price of drugs in the country, are the filthy raving hedonists of the emoji world. They use double the amount of booze symbol than any other country and 65 per cent more drug-related emoji. Aussies also are also number one in emoji use for junk food and holidays.
Unsurprisingly, given the size of the country, Americans lead the way for emoji usage in several different fields – they're top of the league for LGBT-related emoji and the characters for birthday cake and... skulls. Inevitably, Russians use the most cold weather emoji.


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 A CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to the 8th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., sits on the flight line at Nellis AFB, Nev., on Oct. 10, 2019. Air Force photo by A1C Bryan Guthrie.
AFSOC Looking at Future CV-22 Replacement
Air Force Special Operations Command is looking forward to a future replacement for the CV-22 Osprey, a revolutionary capability that is still new to the command, AFSOC's head of requirements said.
Brig. Gen. David Harris, the command's director of strategic plans, programs, and requirements, said the Osprey's advancement changed how the Air Force is able to insert special operators by being able to fly faster and higher, and carry more. An Osprey's top speed of about 240 knots, for example, is faster than helicopters such as H-60 variants and CH-47 Chinooks. The Osprey can get "above the clouds" and fly on an instrument profile before dipping through a hole in the clouds to drop troops in a small landing zone.
"They're getting people to the target area that we weren't able to get to the target area before," Harris said during a Nov. 18 AFA Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Event in Arlington, Va.
So AFSOC is looking at: What's next? A future Osprey replacement could have improved cargo-carrying capability, such as three pallet positions, to serve a larger logistics role. It could have low-observable technology to be more stealth. It could fly much faster, at a speed of 450-500 knots, he said. All capabilities that could help AFSOC "get into places we haven't seen before," Harris said.
These capabilities will help provide more dilemmas for a capable adversary to face, he said. While it can be easier for an enemy to deny a larger mobility aircraft's ability to land at austere locations, a vertical lift capability is harder to counter.
"If our adversary is targeting every 5,000-foot runway that is out there, every 6,000-foot runway that is out there, can they target every batch of grass that's out there?" he said.
The Osprey has been a "workhorse" in current operations, especially in Afghanistan, Harris said.
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At the weigh-in, these books appear mismatched: The Lazarus Project is a wiry 15.2 ounces versus Shadow Country, a brick in my shoulder bag at 2.2 pounds. But once in the ring, they have a surprising amount in common.
For one thing, both Peter Matthiessen and Aleksandar Hemon take actual historical figures as protagonists. (Matthiessen's E.J. Watson even merits his own Wikipedia mention.) And these books share a time period: the early years of the last century. When Matthiessen's planter and suspected "desperader" Watson was backed into a corner in Florida, Hemon's immigrant egg-packer and suspected anarchist Lazarus Averbuch was meeting his end in Chicago.
In plot and theme, too, the books go blow-for-blow. Each opens with its protagonist dying at the hands of other men (perhaps wrongfully? Well, it's complicated.) Each boasts a gut-punch ending. Both books take on the American struggle between progress and the people whose sweat and toil made that progress possible.
Even from the cheap seats, it's clear both combatants are the product of obsession. Matthiessen first began work on his "Watson project" more than 30 years ago. He initially turned in a 1,500-page manuscript which, when his publisher balked, he crudely hacked into three books. All three chunks were published and well-received, and yet he couldn't leave Watson, a complicated and magnetic suspected murderer, alone. He spent "six or seven" more years sewing the three severed books back together, molding them into a new, trimmer whole.
While Matthiessen worked and reworked Watson for years, Hemon was so obsessed with Lazarus that he went ahead and wrote himself into the story as Vladimir Brik, a Bosnian writer (like Hemon) landed in America, uneasily straddling two continents, and suddenly flush with grant money (Hemon's MacArthur) to fuel his quixotic quest to figure out just why Lazarus Averbuch was murdered on the doorstep of the Chicago's Chief of Police in 1908.
Lazarus has many charms. Brik's companion following Lazarus's roots to the farther reaches of Eastern Europe is Rora (based on Hemon's real life photographer friend Velibor Bozovic), whose self-deprecating "Muja" jokes mocking a doltish Bosnian everyman give Brik's quest an undercurrent of dark mirth and were a highlight of the book for me.
However, though Hemon has crafted an adventurous and engaging book, it feels, as its title suggests, like a "project." Hemon has written the book that Brik may one day write, and the book is about Brik trying to write that book. It is a testament to Hemon that he largely pulls off this ever-circling effort, but the inward tilt of Lazarus cannot hold its own against the weightiness of Matthieson's storytelling.
In the end, Matthiessen's obsession carries the day. In a story as deep and complex as history, Matthiessen meticulously maps the backwater of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands and traces tangled threads from Calusa Indian shell mounds to Jim Crow work gangs to the Florida statehouse.
Moreover, Matthiessen writes Watson in the voices of his enemies, his apologists, and finally himself, an impressive feat of polyphonic narration that is every bit, in its way, as experimental as Hemon's time-jumping, circular references, and black-and-white photographs. The reader sees Matthiessen's Watson from every angle and knows well his flaws and cold cruelty but also feels sympathy for his lifetime of terrible luck.
At first, I bridled hitting the book's third part 500 pages in, realizing I would have to relive Watson's life a third time. But I soon found Matthiessen's Watson to be perhaps one of the great unreliable narrators, and, though I still chew on questions of his guilt, the Watson charisma seduced me (as it clearly seduced Matthiessen).
Shadow Country is not without flaws. The middle section focusing on Watson's son Lucius takes us too far from Watson, the book's gravitational center, and thus drags in parts, making this reader antsy during an already long book. Hemon's book is larded with humor, while Matthiessen's doesn't waver much from its overpowering seriousness.
But these are fairly minor quibbles. The Lazarus Project is a commendable effort by Hemon and certainly worth reading, but a heavyweight like Shadow Country only strides into the American literary ring from time to time. Shadow Country wins the round.
Today's WINNER
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions, a popular literature and culture web site with several regular contributors and frequent guest appearances by literary all-stars. He has appeared on NPR's "Weekend Edition" and Minnesota Public Radio's "Midmorning," and has written for Poets and Writers and various other online and dead-tree publications. He and his wife live in Philadelphia. Known connections to this year's contenders: I've corresponded via email with Mark Sarvas with some regularity over the last five years. We've also met at two or three boozy book parties. Joseph O'Neill contributed a brief piece to my blog last year. This was arranged by my colleague and I didn't have any contact with O'Neill.
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It's certainly curious that Max owns a scale that measures things in ounces. Kevin John If any of the sections of Shadow Country were in the tournament individually, would they have even sniffed the semis?
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I'm currently working with my dad to completely rebuild a 8'x24' deck in the backyard. We are looking to finish the second half tomorrow.
I also just picked up a Jeep Wrangler from a neighbor down the street. 4.2L straight 6 with a 5-speed manual transmission, 23 years old, and 124k miles. It's going to be a lot of work for sure. I'm pretty excited.


Sweet and spicy and incredibly addictive – you'll never want to go back to a normal pickled jalapeño after trying these Candied Jalapeños.
When my husband and I bought our first house after we got married, we both had this dream of a large garden and lots of produce. We had a decent sized area in the backyard, so that's what we did. We planted. There were only the two of us at the time, but that garden could have easily fed 5 times that many people. Yes, we were a little overly ambitious. So I thought I'd get into canning as a way to address the extra produce. My mom did it when I was a kid, my husband's parents are avid canners – surely I could do it too, right?
So I started canning. But then I quickly realized that once I had those canned goods, they just sat in the pantry because I had no idea what to actually do with them after they were canned. So after that first year, I kind of gave up on canning.
So when I first heard about Rebecca Lindamood's cookbook – Not Your Mama's Canning Book – I was very excited, because it is definitely different than the other canning books out there. In the book, Rebecca (from the blog Foodie with Family) shares modern canning recipes PLUS recipes to actually use those canned goods. It is simply a brilliant idea. All of a sudden, my excuse for not wanting to can anymore is solved with this one book.
Number of Photos: lots. It looks like there is a photo for each recipe.
Difficultly Level of Recipes: Easy to Medium. If you are a beginning canner, no need to be intimidated! I think the instructions are laid out clearly, so both beginners and experts will find something they love.
Availability of Ingredients: Easy to Medium. I'm going to include equipment on this as well. The ingredients themselves should be fairly easy to find. But you will need canning equipment to make these recipes. Some of the recipes call for a pressure canner, which I don't have, so right now, I wouldn't be able to make everything. But I do want to add a pressure canner to my kitchen now!!
Buy Not Your Mama's Canning Book on Amazon.
Now, this post is actually a long time coming. I originally made these back in August. Rebecca says to let them sit for at least 2 weeks, but preferably a month. I wanted to make sure and get the full effect, so I wanted to make sure they sat for at least a month. And then the holidays came, and then moving prep started, so it has taken me way too long to share this recipe and this book with all of you.
I didn't have a lot of crazy pregnancy cravings, but when I was pregnant with my first, all I wanted were jalapenos. Not fresh jalapenos, but pickled jalapenos. I would eat them on everything. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, that craving has settled down a bit, but I still always have a jar of pickled jalapenos in the fridge because I love them so much.
Well, move aside, regular pickled jalapenos, because you've been replaced. By these Candied Jalapenos. Seriously – if you love the sweet and spicy combination, you'll be eating these like candy.
I have actually wanted to make these ever since I first saw these Candied Jalapenos on Rebecca's blog. I was so happy to see that they were included in this cookbook, so of course it was my first recipe to try.
If you are new to canning, these Candied Jalapenos are a really good place to start. Because they are very easy. And inexpensive. And addictive. We'll be able to have a garden again in our new house, and I've already planned on growing some jalapenos just so I can always keep these canned and on hand!!
In the book, Rebecca adds these Candied Jalapenos to an antipasto plate, and then to top tortilla soup. My favorite way to enjoy them so far (besides straight out of the jar) was actually on pizza. Canadian bacon, pineapple and candied jalapenos – a new favorite!!
It's time to make your canning game strong, and this book is going to turn you into a rockstar!
Looking for more ways to use those jalapenos? They would go great on these Smoky Tex-Mex Sloppy Joses, these Smoky Pork BBQ Sandwiches or these Bold Ranch Spicy Chicken Tacos.
Or how about these recipes from other blogs: Slow Cooker Cuban Tortas, Filthy Burgers, or Poblano Braised Beef Tacos.
Remove the stems from all of the jalapeños. (You'll want to use disposable rubber or latex gloves to avoid burning your hands.) Dispose of the stems and slice the peppers into uniform 1/8 – to 1/4-inch rounds. Set aside.
Combine the cider vinegar, sugar, granulated garlic, cayenne pepper, turmeric and celery seed in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the jalapeño slices, bring back to a boil, and boil for exactly 4 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the peppers into clean, sterile canning jars to within 1/4-inch of the upper rim.
Turn the heat up on the syrup and bring to a rolling boil. Boil hard for 6 minutes. Use a ladle to pour the boiling syrup into the jars with the jalapenos. Insert a cooking chopstick to the bottom of each jar a few times to release any air pockets. Add more syrup if necessary. Wipe the rims of the jars clean with a damp paper towel and place lids on the jars. Fasten appropriately.
Place the jars in a canner and cover with water by 2 inches. Bring the water to a full rolling boil. When the water comes to a boil, set a timer for 10 minutes for half-pint jars or 15 minutes for pints. Use canning tongs to transfer the jars to a cooling rack. Leave them to cool, undisturbed, for 24 hours. When cool, wipe the jars clean with a damp washcloth and label.
Allow the peppers to mellow for at least 2 weeks, but preferably 1 month before eating.
Total time doesn't include time for the jalapenos to sit.
Okay. You seriously rocked me with this review! Thank you so much, Deborah!! And I fully get the desire to plop these little things into and onto everything. My husband can go through half a pint jar in a meal. Eep. He's tougher than I am. Thank you a million times over for this beautiful review!
This is a great recipe, Deborah! I will definitely give it a try!


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The New Yorker: Profile of Peter Sloterdijk
Posted on February 20, 2018 by Max West
In The New Yorker, Thomas Meaney has a profile of Germany's gadfly public intellectual Peter Sloterdijk ("A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency").
Of Sloterdijk's slightly pomo brand of pastiche philosophizing:
This profligacy makes Sloterdijk hard to pin down. He is known not for a single grand thesis but for a shrapnel-burst of impressionistic coinages—"anthropotechnics," "negative gynecology," "co-immunism"—that occasionally suggest the lurking presence of some larger system. Yet his prominence as a public intellectual comes from a career-long rebellion against the pieties of liberal democracy, which, now that liberal democracy is in crisis worldwide, seems prophetic. A signature theme of his work is the persistence of ancient urges in supposedly advanced societies. In 2006, he published a book arguing that the contemporary revolt against globalization can be seen as a misguided expression of "noble" sentiments, which, rather than being curbed, should be redirected in ways that left-liberals cannot imagine…
He has decried Merkel's attitude toward refugees, drawn on right-wing thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Arnold Gehlen, and even speculated about genetic enhancement of the human race. As a result, some progressives refuse to utter his name in public. In 2016, the head of one centrist party denounced him as a stooge for the AfD, a new far-right party that won thirteen per cent of the vote in last year's federal elections.
Of how, in contemporary Germany, everything to the right of Angela Merkel is called "fascist":
In Germany, where the very word "selection" is enough to set off alarms, Sloterdijk's essay invited antagonism. Was he making a plea for eugenics? Jürgen Habermas, the country's most revered philosopher, declared that Sloterdijk's work had "fascist implications," and encouraged other writers to attack him. Sloterdijk responded by proclaiming the death of the Frankfurt School, to which Habermas belongs, writing that "the days of hyper-moral sons of national-socialist fathers are coming to an end." German intellectuals mostly sided with Habermas, but Sloterdijk emerged from the scuffle with his status considerably enhanced. He was now a national figure who stood for everything that Habermas did not.
On the AfD and those he refers to as "rage entrepreneurs":
When I brought up the AfD, Sloterdijk sank his head in his hands, and his expansive manner gave way to something more cautious. For years, the German media have been making connections between Sloterdijk's thought and new right-wing groups, and he's become used to rebutting the charge of harboring far-right sympathies. In my conversations with him, his political preoccupations seemed closer to libertarianism than to anything more blood and soil, but he has a habit of saying things that, depending on your view, seem either like dog whistles to the far right or like the bomb-throwing reflexes of a born controversialist. When Sloterdijk said, of Merkel's refugee policy, that "no society has the moral obligation to self-destruct," his words called to mind Thilo Sarrazin, a former board member of the Bundesbank, who, in 2010, published an anti-Muslim tract with the title "Germany Abolishes Itself," which became a huge best-seller and made racial purity a respectable concern of national discussion…
Sloterdijk deplored the rise of the right, but he couldn't resist seeing something salutary in the spectacle. "It's been coming for a long time," he said. "It's also a sign that Germans are more like the rest of humanity than they like to believe." He started talking about "rage banks," his term for the way that disparate grievances can be organized into larger reserves of political capital.
The piece ends with Sloterdijk giving a talk, and getting courteously heckled by the Usual Suspects:
"You sound like the right-wingers when you speak of the refugees," an elderly doctor stood up and declared. "We cared about refugees after the war and we can do it again."
Sloterdijk replied impatiently. "The Americans gave us this idea of multiculturalism that suited their society fine, but which, as software, is not compatible with our German hardware of the welfare state," he said. "There's this family metaphor spreading everywhere: the idea that all of humanity is our family. That idea helped destroy the Roman Empire. Now we're in danger of letting that metaphor get out of control all over again. People are not ready to feel the full pressure of coexistence with billions of their contemporaries." He went on, "In the past, geography created discretionary boundaries between nations and cultures. Distances that were difficult to overcome allowed for mental and political space." Space and distance, he argued, had allowed for a kind of liberality and generosity that was now under siege—by refugees, by social media, by everything.
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Warning Paycheck Protection Program Lenders! Limitations on Permissible Loan Applicants Lead To Class Action Lawsuits
Posted by Jeff Novel on April 15, 2020 in Banking Law, COVID-19
In an effort to manage the huge volume of loan applications being received under the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, H.R. 748 ("CARES Act"), some banks have placed limitations on those eligible to apply for PPP loans. Commonly, banks are requiring that PPP applicants have a relationship with their institutions preceding February 15, 2020 (a date specifically set forth in the CARES Act) which includes having (i) a small business checking account, operating account or other depository relationship or (ii) an outstanding loan. Over the past few days, plaintiffs have filed class action lawsuits asserting that these limitations are discriminatory and violate the CARES Act by imposing restrictions on PPP loans that are not expressly stated in the CARES Act. Despite their assertions, it does not appear likely that these plaintiffs have a private cause of action that would allow them to prevail in these lawsuits.
The first court to issue an opinion relating to these claims was the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. On April 13, 2020, in Profiles, Inc. v. Bank of America Corp., No. SAG-20-0894,2020 WL 1849710 (D. Md. Apr. 13, 2020), the court denied the plaintiff's request for a temporary injunction and held that the CARES Act does not expressly provide a private right of action. Moreover, the court found that even assuming that Congress had intended to provide PPP applicants with a private right of action, the conduct challenged in the lawsuit did not run afoul of the CARES Act.
In the CARES Act, Congress provided that lenders "shall consider whether the borrower…was in operation on February 15, 2020," and "had employees for whom the borrower paid salaries and payroll taxes." Based on this language, the U.S. District Court for Maryland observed that the statutory language of the CARES Act does not prohibit banks from considering other information when deciding from whom to accept applications, or in what order to process the applications they accept. The court further noted that in a previously introduced version of the bill leading to the CARES Act, the relevant section stated, "a lender shall only consider "the date in which the business was operational and whether it had employees "for whom the borrower paid salaries and payroll taxes." CARES Act, S. 3548, 116th Cong., §1102(d)(2)(B) (emphasis added). This particularly relevant legislative history bolsters the already-plain meaning of the CARES Act's existing text. The fact that Congress considered including the world "only" in a previous version of the law that failed to win approval in a Senate committee, suggests, at the very least, courts should not read that word back into the statute that both houses of Congress enacted.
Accordingly, it appears that banks can continue to place reasonable restrictions on PPP loan applicants in order to determine from whom they will accept applications and the order in which such applications will be processed.
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Q: How to use mutiple attributes (including a partial string match) with find_elements in Selenium for Python Currently I have this line of code which correctly selects this type of object on the webpage I'm trying to manipulate with Selenium:
pointsObj = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME,'treeImg')

What I need to do is add in a partial string match condition as well which looks in the section "CLGV (AHU-01_ahu_ChilledWtrVlvOutVolts)" in the line below.
CLGV (AHU-01_ahu_ChilledWtrVlvOutVolts)

I found online there's the ChainedBy option but I can't think of how to reference that text in the span. Do I need to use XPath? I tried that for a second but I couldn't think of how to parse it.

A: Refering both the CLASS_NAME and the innerText you can use either of the following locator strategies:

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*xpath using the classname treeImg and partial innerText:
pointsObj = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,"//span[contains(@class, 'treeImg') and contains(., 'AHU-01_ahu_ChilledWtrVlvOutVolts')]")

*xpath using all the classnames and entire innerText:
pointsObj = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,"//span[@class='treeImg v65point' and text()='CLGV (AHU-01_ahu_ChilledWtrVlvOutVolts)']")


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MLB Rumors: Bryce Harper, Phillies Finalizing Contract Agreement
By Alex Pavlovic	• Published February 28, 2019 • Updated on February 28, 2019 at 12:01 pm
This was not supposed to be a disappointing moment for the Giants.
With a new front office in place and a new plan for the future, the Giants didn't spend their offseason anticipating having Bryce Harper in their lineup. But then the market slowed to a glacial pace, Larry Baer and Farhan Zaidi set up a meeting, and executives, coaches, players and fans started dreaming of the former MVP playing the next decade at Oracle Park. The dream won't come true.
MLB Network's Jon Heyman reported that Harper will join the Phillies.
Breaking: Bryce to the Phillies— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) February 28, 2019
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Multiple other outlets confirmed the report that Harper is finalizing a deal with Philadelphia.
Free agent outfielder Bryce Harper is finalizing an agreement on a deal with the Philadelphia Phillies, league sources tell ESPN.— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 28, 2019
The Giants were a late entry into the Harper chase, but immediately became one of the perceived favorites. Harper turned down a reported $300 million from the Nationals at the end of the season and had the Phillies and White Sox after him all offseason. As he waited for the right offer, the Padres flew in for a meeting, followed by the Giants.
This is an organization that doesn't want to hand out any massive deals right now, with a goal to build the roster incrementally and clear some payroll after years of extensions for homegrown contributors and spending in free agency. But Zaidi is also opportunistic, and the Giants sensed a chance to try and sway Harper. It is thought they were focused on a short-term deal that would allow Harper to play near his Las Vegas home, in a city he has always been open about liking.
"There's obviously mutual interest on both sides so we thought it made sense to get together," Zaidi said before FanFest earlier in February. "We had a good conversation over a few hours. He's obviously got a lot of suitors and a lot of interest and has some decisions to make, but again, I think it's fair to say that was an expression of our interest level, to make the trip out there."
The Giants were only willing to go so far, though, and Harper and his agent, Scott Boras, have long sought a deal that would be a benchmark for years to come. They had a number in mind, and after months of waiting, finally got it.
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Discussion in 'General Music Discussion' started by bulb, Dec 25, 2008.
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Maybe my perspective is just different because I don't really listen to metal, but I honestly couldn't care less even if the guy wrote songs and had other people play them. He would still be in my top 5 current musicians.
Technical proficiency is pretty far down there for me in terms of how I 'judge' people. Technical proficiency is, however, great when you are a writer because you can use those techniques as you write which is very intuitive and conducive to the creative process. But if you can't play your own stuff, so be it. Think of the entirety of classical music. Do we ever listen to pieces as played by the composer? No, not usually. Heck, I program the drums in my music. Do I feel guilty? No. I still wrote every note.
And @Addison90, I understand your sentiment but I'd just keep in mind that that isn't every AAL fan... Maybe I just say that defensively because (not trying to toot my own horn) I myself have a good grasp of a fair amount of music theory, and I listen primarily to jazz, classical, etc. But Tosin really is a talented composer.
And people talking about musical complexity and the ability to pick apart and analyze vs. 'emotional content'..... I can't believe people still compare these like they are mutually exclusive.
For me at least, the nuance and (music theory-wise) complexity in songs is what makes them emotionally strong.
Emotions aren't simple, and music isn't either. Coincidence? Think again. To make a generalized observation: if I listen to a song that is of the sort that I can come back later and pick apart and analyze all of the nuance, complexities, etc., it's much more likely that I derive true enjoyment from listening. It doesn't require that I pick apart the song, but I'll do that anyways because, heck, it's one of my favorite things to do in the world.
Anyways, sorry for the rant.
AugmentedFourth, Apr 24, 2014
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will_shred said: ↑
Personally, I think people hate on players to justify their personal stagnation in playing.
They say "Oh, he can play well. But man I play with so much more SOUL" and by soul, he means a telecaster.
Hey, now, take it easy...
Blasphemer, Apr 24, 2014
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wankerness SS.org Regular
Who's that last guy? Reverse image search didn't work on that one.
wankerness, Apr 24, 2014
InHiding SS.org Regular
Addison90 said: ↑
I appreciate Tosin a lot, it just annoys me when people go "I love jazz/fusion/prog like Tosin Abasi/Animals as Leaders! Their music is so complex and obscure! Wait, you don't like it? I think you should learn some music theory!",
when they couldn't tell you what jazz harmony, swing feel, rhythmic phrasing or static chord vamps are, let alone know people like Chick Corea or Keith Jarrett
In my opinion a lot of music theory is "flawed" and I don't pay attention to it. If you know intervals and maybe the names of the notes that's pretty much everything you need. Most (all) of the time signature theories/discussions are useless in my opinion. I guess Meshuggah was the first band to truly realize this as far as I know. I don't really even think time signatures exist, but that's just my approach.
InHiding, Apr 24, 2014
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wankerness said: ↑
Thats me hahahahahaha (hence why I took such offense at the tele jab)
Wings of Obsidian Banned
I saw John 5, Jo from The Safety Fire, and Stephen Carpenter on the last page and just started laughing like an idiot.....and I didn't even read the post or know what it's about.
(Of course I went back and read everything later.)
Wings of Obsidian, Apr 24, 2014
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Okay now I've definitely struck a chord with this album.
I've been studying for my finals and today I decided to leave this album playing as I focused on my 3rd final. There's so many intriguing moments in the album that I'd just be boring everyone by listing them all. These guys are just monsters, and even if you can't appreciate what they're doing now I can't imagine what they're going to be putting out next.
Also, interestingly enough, while I was consciously giving the album a listen the groove in The Woven Web didn't catch me like a lot of people did. However when it was playing in the background today, that part really pulled me from what I was doing.
Jonathan20022, Apr 24, 2014
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ROAR said: ↑
Audio mastering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can start reading here, and dig deeper if you want.
My knowledge comes from being around music row and getting to know people whose job this is.
Just stop already.
jmeezle, Apr 24, 2014
afaultinthecrust Member
So has anyone figured out what the little sweep thing he's doing during mind-spun is?
afaultinthecrust, Apr 24, 2014
ScottyB724 SS.org Regular
Not that anyone in this thread has specifically said his leads have no soul, but if the leads in Ka$cade, Air Chrysalis, Another Year, TFTAM, etc. have no soul, then I sure as fuck hope I am soulless.
ScottyB724, Apr 24, 2014
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Does anyone know how Nolly achieved any clarity on the low E in Trilian? Nolly if you read this, a response from you would be great! Whenever I try the low E, you can kinda hear the note, but it doesn't really pound through like it seems to on the album. Obviously there is a limitation to the instrument itself in this regard, but there's probably some Trilian tricks as far as getting that low E.
fungwabus117, Apr 24, 2014
First video of him playing this. Pretty tight!
Alicat SS.org Regular
This album is great. I can't decide what I'm looking forward to hearing live more - TJOM or Weightless - I just need to wait for AAL to tour in the UK to find out!
On that note, does anyone know when they last came to the UK? I remember seeing them supporting BTBAM in Birmingham, maybe in 2010.
Alicat, Apr 25, 2014
InHiding said: ↑
Well I'm glad you've attempted to intellectually justify your willful ignorance?!
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I kind of see where he's coming from.. though I don't agree that music theory is flawed. rather, it's a mechanism that helps us quantify it's concepts so they're easier to learn and then apply to music. yeah, I totally agree that rhythm is innate in humans; after all our brains reward us every time a pattern is recognized.
I think of music theory and it's relationship to 'music' like any language and it's grammatical infrastructure. English for example, can be learned and spoken without the ability to read or understand grammar; just ask your parents when you started talking and think back to when you finally learned to read. most likely, you were able to communicate your ideas (albeit rather crudely) pre-literacy. thankfully once we became literate we gained an overall optimal awareness and mastery of English as a whole. right? it's because of this we can express sarcasm, catharsis, joy, levity and a myriad of other complex ideas at will. theory allows musicians to do the same, but unfortunately it isn't conventionally taught as a language. furthermore I think the lack of theory is what keeps a lot of us as musicians from progressing. how many of y'all have ever been stuck in some kind of creative void? or been lost during a jam session? if you had a massive musical vocabulary and a grasp of theory, its likely you'd be able to interpret what's being 'said' and reply to the musical conversation in kind and even lead it in another direction.
larry, Apr 25, 2014
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This doesn't make any sense....Theory is not a set of rules you HAVE TO USE once you know them, its like knowing how to do complicated math. Sure, you may rarely ever use it, but when the time comes its a lot easier to figure something out when you know how everything needs to line up to get the "answer" you're looking for. Rhythmic theory is even more important. If you can't count, you can't play, period. Even guys who don't know they are counting are doing it if they are actually playing in time with another musician. Guitarist often get so stuck in "guitar music" and playing patterns and licks that they forget its a chromatic instrument with all of the notes, not just the scale shapes you can memorize. I know I'd rather play a riff off the top of my head and go "Oh, shit, thats in A minor with a flatted fifth and a raised seventh" and already have a stream of possible next parts than go "Huh, fifth fret, eighth fret, sixth fret on the A string, ....what comes after that?"
GunpointMetal, Apr 25, 2014
WildBroskiAppears SS.org Regular
I love watching Tosin play. Sometimes you can see him questioning why he writes such technically difficult music
Seriously though, sometimes you can see him struggle a little; the whole secondary tapping section of that Woven Web playthrough (before the slap) seemed like he was just barely holding it together, and I actually really dig that. It's cool to see him actually TRYING to pull off ridiculously hard riffs. Everyone here can relate to that
WildBroskiAppears, Apr 25, 2014
GunpointMetal said: ↑
I don't have to use anything I don't like and I know music theory and rhythm theory. It's just a language to communicate things to other musicians. Only a handful of music rules are comparable to mathematics, most are not. You can do math wrong, but you can't do music explicitly wrong.
I haven't learned that many scale shapes though, but I do learn them once I try to compose something on top of some rhythm I've created. Sometimes I do jump from one scale (or mode if you will) to others depending on what the background is. I forget of lot of the patterns I've learned because I do not use them that much. I don't play as much as I used to I guess. I think getting used to scale patterns limits you, because you can also "play out" sometimes and it does not always sound bad.
I do not consider myself willfully ignorant, but there's a stuff I've seen in music theory that I personally consider useless and not very logical. Like the whole theory behind naming chords. It works a lot of times, but not so well when your chord is composed for example the root, 4th, 6th and 9th. It simply makes no sense to me seeing chords like that named with a different root (i.e. not the lowest note) just because we have no marking for that chord (at least that I know of). It's not logical to me. I don't know if that made any sense.
JoeyW SS.org Regular
No offence man, but you seem to have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. If you actually understood the application of chord inversions you would understand that there's nothing illogical about it. Do yourself a favor and read up on the topic since your "brilliant deduction" suggests you only see music through a very narrow lens.
JoeyW, Apr 25, 2014
Zalbu More time than skill
The album sure is great, but it hasn't really clicked with me yet. I think it's because the production is so different from the previous two albums.
Zalbu, Apr 25, 2014
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Born in New York City, he transferred from high school at the age of 16 to the Chase Art School. He then went on to the National Academy of Design, and finally, to the Art Students League, where he was taught by Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. Rockwell's early works were done for St. Nicholas Magazine, the Boy Scouts of America publication Boy's Life, and other juvenile publications.
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