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Greasy Lake
All Themes Danger Nature vs. Development Action vs. Inaction Memory, Reminiscence, and the Pull of the Past
All Characters The Narrator Digby Jeff The "Bad Character" (Bobbie) "The Fox" The Blond Men Older Girl
All Symbols Greasy Lake Cars The Narrator's Keys
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T. C. Boyle
Nature vs. Development
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The Narrator
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Greasy Lake Study Guide
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Greasy Lake: Introduction
A concise biography of T. C. Boyle plus historical and literary context for Greasy Lake.
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Greasy Lake: Detailed Summary & Analysis
In-depth summary and analysis of every of Greasy Lake. Visual theme-tracking, too.
Greasy Lake: Themes
Explanations, analysis, and visualizations of Greasy Lake's themes.
Greasy Lake: Quotes
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Description, analysis, and timelines for Greasy Lake's characters.
Greasy Lake: Symbols
Explanations of Greasy Lake's symbols, and tracking of where they appear.
Greasy Lake: Theme Wheel
An interactive data visualization of Greasy Lake's plot and themes.
Brief Biography of T. C. Boyle
Raised in Westchester County, New York in the 1960s, T.C. Boyle weathered a rebellious youth (he describes his younger self as "a maniacal, crazy driver [and] a punk pure and simple) and a drug-addled early adulthood before landing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied with American masters of the short story John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Inspired by writers of the grotesque and the fantastic such as Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Flannery O'Connor, Boyle's work melds satire and dark comedy, moral inquiry, and observations on humanity's role in the destruction of nature. The author of sixteen novels and eleven short story collections, Boyle's starry career spans four decades. He has won awards from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the O. Henry Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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Historical Context of Greasy Lake
A child of the 1960s, T.C. Boyle is a member of the Baby Boomer generation. "Greasy Lake" explores the tensions that grew out of the prosperity of the period, as well as the failures of the American dream despite the appearance of boundless opportunity and great fortune. The narrator and his friends think it is cool to be "bad"—context clues within the story tell the reader that these boys are financially comfortable and middle-class, but they reject their cushy position in life in favor of seeking thrills and danger in places like Greasy Lake. They're tourists in the land of "badness," just as were many members of the counter-culture of the sixties and seventies.
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T.C. Boyle was inspired during his time at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop by the work of mentors like John Cheever ("the Chekhov of the suburbs"), John Irving, and Raymond Carver. From these teachers, the authors of acclaimed works such as Bullet Park, The World According to Garp, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Boyle inherited an interest in writing dark humor, "dirty realism," and stories that investigated the failure of the American dream. Boyle's work is often described as lush and "maximalist," where the work of Carver and Cheever pioneered a "minimalist" writing aesthetic. Boyle's rich language and highly imaginative plots have roots in the work of Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Great Expectations), and even noted American satirist Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
Key Facts about Greasy Lake
Full Title: Greasy Lake
When Written: Early 1980s
When Published: 1985, as the title story of the collection Greasy Lake and Other Stories
Literary Period: Postmodernist
Genre: Literary fiction; short fiction; realism; Americana
Setting: New York State
Climax: After brawling with a "bad character" on a visit to Greasy Lake, the unnamed narrator, hiding at the lake's edge finds a dead body.
Antagonist: "The Bad Character;" industry; stasis
Point of View: First person
Extra Credit for Greasy Lake
Dangerous Characters. In 1988, "Greasy Lake" was adapted into a short film starring Eric Stoltz as the narrator and James Spader as Digby. Lasting just under thirty minutes, the film remains true to the story's brevity and simplicity.
Sprits in the Night. T.C. Boyle named "Greasy Lake" for Bruce Springsteen's song "Spirit in the Night," written and recorded for Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973). This song tells the story of a group of teenagers, "all duded up for [a] Saturday night," who take "a bottle of rose" and drive "a mile down the dark side of route eight-eight" to "Greasy Lake."
Tanner, Alexandra. "Greasy Lake." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 1 Nov 2017. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Tanner, Alexandra. "Greasy Lake." LitCharts LLC, November 1, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2019. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/greasy-lake.


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Q: Looking for a 50 pin connector name I'm trying to find some use for a laptop with a dead motherboard here and reusing the LCD panel seems quite doable.
I bought a LCD controller board and it works just fine with its provided cable.
However, I would like to use the original ribbon cable because there are some extra functions on it and that's where I'm a bit stuck.
Indeed, the connector used on the "motherboard" part is quite thin and I'm having a hard time finding the name for such a connector.
It has 50 pins on tow rows, each pin appearing to be spaced by 1/32 of an inch from its neighbor.
Here are two pictures:

The background is a paper sheet with a 5mmx5mm grid and what I'd like to be able to find is the male connector, the one on the motherboard.
Do any of you have any idea what brand/kind of connector this is?

A: The problem with interconnects is that there are literally thousands of them - thousands of modern ones, and thousands of "old" ones which are no longer used and are unavailable. Jake is onto the answer here... try to get a schematic or parts list for the motherboard and/or display. If you can get that, it will likely have the part number on it.
Technically this is known as a board-to-board or mezzanine connector. That particular one is keyed, which isn't uncommon, but may make it more difficult to locate. Maybe you can find something similar at Digikey (200,000), Mouser (16,000) or similar but there are many, many to search through.

A: As @rdtsc points out, these are mezzanine type connectors, and there are a great many different ones. A quick browse on DigiKey (parameterised search for 0.8mm pitch, 50pin mezzanine connectors), the following look like likely candidates:

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But it is really difficult to know that they are the exact ones, especially without accurate dimensions.

A: If the motherboard is indeed dead, you can easily remove the connector that you want to salvage by using a product known as "Chip Quik".  This is a low-temperature solder alloy that is specifically designed to contaminate the existing solder on the board so as to reduce the melt temperature to a very low value.
Note that you don't need a hot-air rework station to use this product - a standard soldering iron is all that you need.  The contaminated solder remains molten for a very long time and you simply float the connector off the board.
Normally, neither the part being removed OR the PCB is damaged using this process.
I'm not sure if they still offer free samples (they used to) but it's worth checking out.  The product page at the website has full details on how to use this product.
After you have removed the connector that you are salvaging, simply flood the connector pins with regular solder so as to wash off the low-temp alloy.  The connector should be completely usable.

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Jojo Rabbit cautions audiences against societal manipulation
Max McCormick, Staff Writer|April 29, 2020
Photo via The New Yorker
Jojo Rabbit is a film that strikes the difficult balance between terrifyingly real and terrifically hilarious. Going into this film, I had no clue what to expect. Making Nazis silly, funny, and innocent was (and still is) something I am wholly against. No comedy should be made out of a genocide – unless said comedy grapples with the true inhumanity of the time as well. Taika Waititi hits all the right notes in this movie, earning a 9/10 rating from me. Just make sure you don't go into this movie expecting all fun and jokes – it gets dark.
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This movie is as great as it is because of the expert writing and direction of Taiki Waititi. Waititi knows when to poke fun at Nazi beliefs and ideals and when to create a sense of dread, bleakness, and hopelessness. He strategically plants each scene, never having light-hearted fun and desolation too close to one another. Every scene that addresses the tragedies of war and Nazi Germany takes itself seriously and scenes that deal with the day to day life in Nazi Germany take every chance possible to fire shots at how mindlessly the society that followed Hitler acted. Every character is exaggerated in order to point out obvious flaws in their thought processes while providing comedic relief. None of this, however, is done in a way that treats the audience like children. Each joke is clever, none falling flat. If we look deeper into this film, we can see Waititi's underlying message: society can be manipulated into committing terrible actions. In the end, we need to solve the problems within ourselves before anything else, and love will get us there.
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It is the final year of WWII and the Nazis are not winning. Jojo Betzler, a 10-year-old boy, is a fanatical Nazi who wants to fight for his country and make his hero, Adolf Hitler, proud. Jojo looks up to Hitler so much that they are always by each other's sides – Hitler is Jojo's imaginary friend. While at Hitler Youth Camp, Jojo has an accident that gives him a scar and forces him to go home. With his mother at work, Jojo encounters a teenage girl, Elsa, who was being hidden by Jojo's mother. Elsa, a Jewish girl, is everything that Nazism has told Jojo to fear and despise. Throughout the film, Jojo tries to learn about Elsa's "kind" so that he can write a book about it and become famous. As he interacts more with her, however, he learns that she is nothing like what he was manipulated to think she would be, and is in fact just as human as anyone he knows.
Nazi traditions are always the butt of the joke in Jojo Rabbit. Whether they are speaking about the outrageously inaccurate news from their Fuhrer or taking comically long to salute one another, Waititi knows how to make the audience feel that Nazis were always ridiculous in their thought processes. After finding out that there is a Jewish girl in the house, Hitler suggests that Jojo should "burn down the house and blame Winston Churchill!"
At the point in the film where Jojo has accepted Elsa as another human being and decides to share his house with her, Nazi Germany is shown to Jojo for what it has always been. This is where the film makes sure no comedy is present. Germany is desperate to fight off the Allies to the bitter end. This section allows the audience to take in the cost of ignorance. People who we have seen throughout the film fight for a man who preached genocide. The color scheme of the movie switches from vibrant and saturated to dark and gray.
Each member of the cast is phenomenal in their role. Roman Griffith Davis, the 13-year-old who plays Jojo, has great comedic timing while still being able to carry the more emotional moments convincingly. His chemistry is great with Elsa, who is played by 19-year-old Thomasin McKenzie. McKenzie is able to show the brutality and destitution that her character has felt while still being able to make fun of Jojo's misguided and nonsensical ideals. This is my favorite Scarlett Johansson role I have seen. Playing Jojo's mother, Rosie (Johansson) sees the world for what it is. She is the bright light that guides Jojo's character growth. She is confronting being a single mother in a time when her nation is committing atrocities. Despite her world being a depressing place, she is able to confront it and give every day her best effort. Finally, Taika Waititi as Hitler- I've always had a certain view of Waititi since watching Thor: Ragnarok. He wrote in a role for himself in Ragnarok that I felt could be played by someone else, and thus my view of him was tainted. Here, however, no one else should have played Hitler. Waititi provides a caricature-like representation that shows the absurdity of everything his character stands for. Most importantly, Hitler is never humanized. The audience always knows that he is ignorant and sinister, as he turns on Jojo when Jojo stops believing in Nazi ideals.
I think that Jojo Rabbit is a film that should be remembered. In a time where cries of fake news echo throughout the nation and civil rights are contested, we need to be reminded as a people that societal manipulation exists. We have a responsibility to better ourselves so as to create a better world- a world where we do not repeat the outrageous choices of the past.
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Intergenerational income mobility:
access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework
Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan, Claudia Vittori
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Studies of intergenerational mobility have typically focused on estimating the average persistence across generations. Here, we use the relatively new unconditional quantile regression technique to consider how intergenerational persistence varies across the distribution of sons' earnings. We find a J-shaped relationship between parental income and sons' earnings, with parental income a strong predictor of labour market success for those at the bottom, and to an even greater extent, the top of the earnings distribution. We explore the role early skills, education and early labour market attachment in shaping this pattern for the first time. Worryingly, we find that the association with childhood parental income dominating that of a high level of education at the top of the distribution of earnings. In this sense, education is not as meritocratic as we might hope, as those with the same detailed educational attainment still see a strong association between their earnings and their parental income. Early labour market spells out of work have lasting effects on those at the bottom, alongside parental income.
Journal of Population Economics
Intergenerational mobility, children, education, nonlinear estimation, quantile regression
Quantile regression
Nonlinear estimation
Gregg, P., Macmillan, L., & Vittori, C. (2019). Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework. Journal of Population Economics, 32(2), 501–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0722-z
Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework. / Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey ; Vittori, Claudia.
In: Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 32, No. 2, 01.04.2019, p. 501–528.
Gregg, P, Macmillan, L & Vittori, C 2019, 'Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework', Journal of Population Economics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 501–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0722-z
Gregg P, Macmillan L, Vittori C. Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework. Journal of Population Economics. 2019 Apr 1;32(2): 501–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0722-z
Gregg, Paul ; Macmillan, Lindsey ; Vittori, Claudia. / Intergenerational income mobility: access to top jobs, the low-pay no-pay cycle, and the role of education in a common framework. In: Journal of Population Economics. 2019 ; Vol. 32, No. 2. pp. 501–528.
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