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I Support my Brothers (and Sisters) in Arms
29. August 2020 Bob Politics Comments (0)
Years ago I saw the following statement, which - as a veteran - I thought was entirely accurate: "A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount up to and including their life." It goes without saying that military life is not for everyone; it requires a willingness to sacrifice selflessly for others. Together with my brothers-in-arms, we missed countless holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, births, and deaths - all in the name of preventing those who would do harm from reaching the shores of our nation. I can't say that we always did this without complaint, because sooner or later the sacrifices weigh heavy on everyone's conscience. Even still, the military is an honorable profession; we collectively chose to make sacrifices so that others might live in peace, and often for less pay than someone makes flipping burgers at McDonalds. In the end, we all sacrificed something, although some - tragically - sacrificed everything. The number of spouses, children, fathers, mothers, and siblings who will grow older with a void in their lives where a loved one used to be is incalculable.
But I'd like to shift gears for a moment. A couple years ago I shared on Facebook that my wife - who is a registered nurse - saved someone's life on a flight that was about to take off from Phoenix. The man had a heart attack and lost consciousness, but thankfully my wife and an EMT were both on the flight, and the two of them took turns administering CPR. They managed to revive the man, who had been legally dead for several minutes, and he lived without complications. But that's not the end of the story. Several months later, the Phoenix Police Department invited my wife to an awards ceremony, where they presented her with a certificate to commemorate her for her lifesaving skills and willingness to save the lives of others.
It was quite the honor, but the evening wasn't only about my wife; it was an annual ceremony for the Police Department, wherein the sacrifices of police officers from the Phoenix area were officially recognized for their outstanding achievements. As the ceremony progressed, I was amazed at what I heard. For example, several officers prevented a terrorist attack at the Phoenix Comic-Con, which otherwise would have resulted in an unknown number of casualties. Story after story of personal sacrifice and heroism had me enraptured, and over time I grew angry - because I never heard any of these stories on the news. Apparently it just isn't newsworthy when a police officer stands between a crazy person with a loaded weapon and an innocent civilian. The more I heard, the more I realized that these police officers made the same deal on behalf of their fellow citizens that I once did. They made all the same sacrifices as my brothers-in-arms: they missed countless holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, births, and deaths - all in the name of preventing harm from reaching the homes of their communities. And - tragically - some of these officers sacrificed everything, too. It was abundantly clear to me that these officers had also written a blank check made payable to the citizens of Phoenix for an amount up to and including their life. And like my fellow veterans, these officers do so for a terrible paycheck, all the while having to endure the constant scorn and contempt of those dregs of society who are incapable of policing themselves.
I cannot count the number of times in my life I have heard people complain about "some jerk police officer" who wrote them a ticket for speeding, or running a red light, or driving under the influence. I almost never hear any personal culpability from these people about their own guilt in their situation; it's always the police officer's fault. I'd like to take a moment to set the record straight - if you're pulled over for speeding, it's your fault if you get a ticket. If the police officer decides to let you off with a warning, that's his prerogative - and it might just be your lucky day. But if you have to pay a fine for something that you did wrong, it's not the officer's fault; get down off your self-righteous horse, take responsibility for a change, and shut your mouth about it. You don't have to like it, but maybe next time you'll remember to obey the law.
However, I'd like to take this train of thought a step further - there are some people in this world who do not share your sense of right and wrong. I've traveled around the world, and I've met all sorts of people who think that cheating, or stealing, or killing are perfectly acceptable ways of life. In our society, we have collectively decided that those behaviors are unacceptable, but not everyone agrees. We have our own collection of moral degenerates who still believe that cheating, and stealing, and killing are perfectly acceptable ways of life - regardless of what laws we pass or what we teach in our schools. When that happens, who is left to prevent these moral degenerates from reducing society to a maelstrom of anarchy, chaos, and suffering?
We are often told not to judge a segment of society by the transgressions of a few. We are told not to hold all African Americans responsible for the crimes of a few. We are also told not to judge all Hispanics for the crimes of a few. In a like manner, we should not judge all Caucasians for the racist stupidity of a few. Nor should we judge all Muslims for the crimes of a few. Nor should we judge all Christians for the stupidity of a few. The same follows true for police officers; we MUST NOT judge all police officers for the bad actions of a few. Because when all is said and done, and regardless of your opinion on the matter, when society starts to fall apart, sometimes the only line of defense we have is an underpaid and underappreciated police officer, who will still put himself or herself between you and a bad guy.
If you take everything that I have said into account, and you still want to destroy an institution that consistently sacrifices everything so that others can live in peace, then I suggest the following: you should join the police. If you're a good person and you think they're all bad, then join up and change them from within. On the other hand, if you can't bear the thought of living on the trivial amount of pay that police officers receive, or you can't handle the level of selfless sacrifice that is required to be a police officer, or you can't handle the thought of having to step into a domestic dispute or robbery or even a traffic stop where someone might be armed and pull the trigger before you have a chance to draw your own weapon to protect yourself, then you have no right - and I mean that sincerely - you have NO RIGHT to act as judge and jury and executioner where our police officers are concerned. Despite their many faults, most police officers are better than their peers, because these officers typically serve their communities - unthanked and unrewarded - for days on end, in harm's way, making sure that the rest of us are safe. So if you still feel the need to denigrate and defund the men and women in blue, whom I honestly regard as my fellow brothers-in-arms, then let me make this clear - you are a wicked, evil, twisted person. And yet, I hope the day never comes when you need a police officer to save you from another wicked, evil, twisted person who wants to do you harm.
#DefendThePolice #BackTheBlue #BlueLivesMatter #ThinBlueLine
Movie Review: Radioactive
29. August 2020 Bob Reviews Comments (0)
Marie Curie is one of the most-brilliant physicists and chemists in the history of science. She was a pioneering woman who was years ahead of her time, and her life deserves a biopic in tribute to her genius that is equally as brilliant as she was. Sadly, Amazon's 2020 release of Radioactive is not that biopic.
To be perfectly honest, I looked forward with great anticipation for this film to be released. Marie Curie's many contributions to science and humanity are almost legendary, and Rosamund Pike is a brilliant actress who is capable of reading the dictionary and making it sound wonderful. However, this movie isn't terrible because it lacks a strong female role model from history, nor is this movie terrible because it lacks an equally strong actress to play the lead character, nor is this movie terrible because it lacks an impressive set of actors to play the periphery characters, nor is this movie terrible because it lacked an acceptable script. The primary reason this movie is terrible is because it was guided by a director, Marjane Satrapi, who was apparently preoccupied with trying to create a work of "art" at the expense of the story that she should have been telling.
Here is one perfect example of useless "artsy" direction: after the tragic and untimely death of Marie's husband, Pierre, there is a long dream sequence with bizarre imagery that resembles one of the many LSD/acid trip scenes from Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic The Doors. While I admit that it was essential to Marie's story to include various scenes that depict her extreme grief after Pierre's death, this dream sequence had no place in the film. For this travesty of screen time I fully blame the director.
Here is another example of useless "artsy" direction: at several times throughout the film, the scene would suddenly jump several decades into the future from Marie's timeline in order to show how radiation was used after her death. Examples shown were both for good (e.g. radiation therapy for cancer patients), and for evil (e.g. atomic bombs and Chernobyl). These scenes were supposed to convey the eventual impact of Marie's discoveries, but the jarring way in which the story jumped around on screen made no sense at all. All of those scenes would have been better suited as some sort of visual epilogue that discussed the long-term results of Marie's efforts, which should also have included nuclear power as one of the many positive benefits. (See FOONOTE below.)
And here is yet another example of useless "artsy" direction: near the end of the movie, Marie finally succumbs to her years of radiation poisoning, and viewers are treated with a nonsensical scene of Marie walking through various hospitals of the future to visit the eventual victims of radioactivity's many ills. However, this scene wasn't as "artsy" as the director undoubtedly intended. On the contrary, this scene was just... silly. It had no emotional impact, it didn't serve the plot, and it really had no place in this film.
One of the main arguments that I have with this movie is the fact that far too many scenes play fast and loose with history. As with all Hollywood biopics, scenes are added, or shown out of order, or lack their historical impact. For example, the movie depicts Marie being offered her late husband's teaching position at the University of Paris, which was a first for a woman and certainly significant from a historical perspective. However, Marie had already been teaching for several years at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris; a position she earned through her own merits, which is far more impressive than assuming the position that her deceased husband had previously occupied. An emotionally gripping scene from the film is a vicious argument that ensues after Pierre travels to Stockholm to accept their Nobel Prize without Marie, which is notoriously and negligently inaccurate; both Pierre and Marie traveled to Stockholm, therefore the entire argument scene is nothing but a fabrication for dramatic effect, and grossly unfair to Pierre's public memory.
Another point of contention is that this movie begins too far into Marie's career, and completely glosses over her early years of struggle to enter a university and earn her degrees at a time when such things were nearly impossible for a woman to achieve. These are important pieces from Marie's story that should have been portrayed, but those parts of her past were completely ignored by this film in order to advance scenes that were ridiculously unnecessary - such as Pierre's obsession with spiritualism and séances. (Those scenes were useless to the story and had silly-looking and unnecessary special effects; e.g. ectoplasm portrayed as green electrical sparks. This movie wasn't supposed rip off scenes from Ghost Busters.)
If I were one of Marie's descendants, I think I would have been offended at the consistently selfish behavior that Marie's character consistently displayed. Granted, I never met Marie Curie, nor have I read any correspondence from her, nor have I met anyone who met her. Perhaps she was a selfish person who spent her entire life obsessed with nothing but personal gain. However, this movie had a scene in which Marie's children entered her bedchamber while she was having an affair. In this scene, Marie's only reaction was to ask her children if they wanted her to feed them, otherwise they needed to get lost. This scene and several like it destroy the chances that today's young women would look to Marie as any sort of heroic figure to emulate.
To give benefit of the doubt, this film's portrayal of Marie as a selfish and combative creature might have been someone's half-hearted attempt to show a strong female character. However, there is a world of difference between showing strength and being a narrow-minded, self-absorbed jackass, and this movie tended to lean way too far toward the jackass side of the behavior spectrum where Marie was concerned.
In a way, this movie has a hard time finding an audience; the history is far too bad to be useful to anyone who is interested in studying about the life of Marie Curie. In addition, if I were an educator, the protracted scenes of sex and nudity would prevent me from being able to display this movie to students. Which is too bad, because the world needs more girls to be interested in STEM subjects, and this movie threw away a perfect opportunity to help out in that endeavor.
With another director at the helm, and with a better script that delved more into Marie's history, Amazon might have been able to produce a wonderful mini-series about Marie Curie's life. Instead, this director and the accompanying script produced little more than a two-hour gap in my life that I will never get back.
On a personal level, I found it morally reprehensible that the director, Marjane Satrapi, kept jumping back and forth between Pierre's acceptance speech for his Nobel prize to scenes of the Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The director's intention is perfectly clear: each time Pierre suggests how a "criminal" might use radioactivity, the story jumps to the scenes of the Enola Gay. There is no mistaking the director's meaning here: she is accusing the United States of war crimes.
I find it highly doubtful that anyone involved with this film was alive when World War II had been raging for six years, (or eight years if you include Japan's bloody invasion of China). By 1945, the war had already cost the world around 70 million lives. (See Fallen.io for a breakdown of how the number of deaths were obtained and how casualty estimates were distributed across the planet.)
If Japan hadn't surrendered, the war would have raged on for years, costing millions of additional lives. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of Japanese lives. (See Operation Downfall for details on how costly the inevitable invasion of Japan would have been in terms of casualties; both allied and Japanese.)
This miniature history lesson is outside the scope of a movie review, although it is certainly indicative of the director's continued obsession with playing it fast and loose with history, while also taking a moment to cram her close-minded and naïve opinions down her viewers' throats. Shame on you, Marjane Satrapi. You're not just a bad director and bad student of history, you're apparently a pretty rude person, too.
To sleep, perchance to dream...
4. August 2020 Bob Health , Work Comments (0)
I have never had a time in my life where I lived with a schedule that resulted in a traditional, eight hours of sleep. For starters, I am what most people would call a "Night Person." I love staying up late working on this project or that. Adding insult to injury, I am also a workaholic; I have no concept of what a decent work/life balance should look like. (I never have; even when I served in the military I overdid everything.)
However, once I finish my career-oriented tasks for the day, that's when I work on my hobbies. Late nights are my "Me Time," and I love getting involved in something that might take me days or weeks to complete. That being said, I also have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), so I rarely finish most of the hobby projects that I begin. (But that's another story for another day.)
Anyway, as someone who has spent their entire life routinely abusing themselves where sleep is concerned, I thought that my life could serve as a warning to others of what they might have in store for their futures if they follow my example of habitual late night activities and poor work/life decisions.
This might seem counter-intuitive, but sometimes I work so much that I am too exhausted to sleep. I drag my sorry self around the house and eventually collapse into bed, but sleep never comes. I am genuinely tired, but I cannot bring myself to fall asleep. After an hour or so, I give up and drag myself back to my desk to continue working.
Another type of insomnia that I battle is caused by a combination of stress, workaholism, and ADD. When these three factors intersect each other in my life, they create a perfect storm of sleepless days and nights. I might lie down now and again, but my brain is constantly racing - I'm thinking of this detail or that, or this deadline or that... I think of a thousand things that I should be doing, and I cannot force my brain to rest.
I once participated in a sleep study (at the request of my doctor). The testing facility had several rooms, and I am convinced that everyone else in the facility was asleep by 10pm at the latest. In my room, however, 2am rolled around and I was still working on my laptop, reading reports from work, and watching a series of documentaries on the TV in my room. I was still wide awake and easily could have been up for a few more hours. The technicians from the sleep study eventually had to come to my room and inform me that if I didn't go to sleep, my entire test would be voided. I regretfully packed up all my things and climbed under the covers, but I still didn't fall asleep until 4am or so.
This is one of the most-terrifying experiences that you can imagine: you wake up, but you cannot breathe, you cannot speak, and none of your muscles will work. This scenario has happened to me on more occasions than I can remember, and based on what I have read about it, this condition is caused by a combination of stress and sleep deprivation. (Both of which are constant fixtures in my life.) What causes this condition is that our human bodies are paralyzed when we sleep, and this happens in order to prevent us from physically acting out during our dreams. (e.g. Sleepwalking, etc.) However, if you constantly impede your body's attempts to sleep naturally, you can run into a situation where the paralysis does not go away as you awaken, which quickly leads to panic.
As I mentioned earlier, I have lived through this experience more times than I can recall, and my method of breaking out of the situation feels like it takes a great deal of effort - both mentally and physically. When I wake up paralyzed and unbreathing, I immediately feel as though I am suffocating, and I panic. However, I cannot call for help, nor can I move any of my limbs. I have to force myself to think through the panic and concentrate on moving just one finger, and when I am able to do that, I work on a second finger, then a hand, then an arm, and eventually the paralysis begins to fade. All of this takes place in a matter of seconds, but it is a horribly agonizing period of time that seems like several minutes of intense suffering.
Thankfully, my sleep paralysis is not accompanied by hallucinations, but that appears to be a common problem. (See 15 People On Their Experience With The Sleep Paralysis Demon.)
Nightmares/Night Terrors
A direct result of terrible sleep patterns and living with constant stress is that your brain will inevitably take out its frustrations on your sleep time. Sometimes this will simply result in less sleep or poor quality sleep, while at other times you will be tortured by nightmares or night terrors. People with PTSD tend to experience these same sleep disorders, and in my experience - living with constant stress and constantly changing sleep patterns eventually leads to a form of low-scale PTSD.
I used to be plagued with nightmares of falling, or drowning, or being the victim of a heinous crime, or being attacked my monsters. Thankfully, I learned to master Lucid Dreaming, wherein a person who is dreaming becomes aware that they are in a dream, and then learns how to control their dreams. It might sound like make-believe or a hokey fantasy, but Lucid Dreaming has helped me put an end to all of my nightmares. I can now fly in my dreams, I can breathe underwater, and I can pick and choose what gets to stay and what has to leave when I'm dreaming. (I wish I could teach others how to dream lucidly, but the truth is - I'm not sure how I learned to do it myself; all I know is that Lucid Dreaming forever changed my life for the better.)
Narcoleptic Behavior
I do not have actual narcolepsy, and I genuinely feel sorry for those who suffer from that disorder. However, I have - on occasion - experienced some of its symptoms.
For example, I was working on a project a few years ago, wherein someone had promised someone else far too much work for me to complete in far too short a time period. As a result, I was working around the clock for a whole week. I would work for hours until I would suddenly lose consciousness, then I would sleep uncomfortably for a few minutes wherever I was located and in whichever position I collapsed. When I awoke, I would continue to work for several hours until I lost consciousness again, and then I would repeat the whole process. When the project was over, it took me weeks to recover from the abuse, and I had to drop out of a Master's Degree program that I was attending outside of work. (As of today, I have yet to return to that degree program.)
Trust me - that was a horrible way to live.
Inverted Circadian Rhythms
After several intense work projects that have required me to put in a lot of long hours, I have eventually realized that my body clock was completely upside down. I wanted to head off to sleep around 6am, wake up around noon, and work until 6am the next day. Believe it or not, I can thrive and be extremely productive with that work schedule. The trouble with this scenario is that people keep scheduling meetings at 9am (or earlier), so even if I head off to bed around 6am, I'm still getting up in a couple hours to go back to work.
Sleep-Deprived Hallucinations
Thankfully I have not experienced this situation recently, but when I stay up for three days or more, I begin to hallucinate.
A story that I occasionally tell dates back to a time in the military when I was required to be awake for more than four days. After I had been up for around 90-100 hours, I was driving a HMMWV down the German autobahn with a friend in the passenger seat. As I looked at the road in front of me, I asked my friend, "Do you see dogs all over the road?" He replied, "No... maybe you should let me drive." We pulled over and changed seats, then we got back on the road. When we arrived at our destination, I managed to get two hours of sleep, then I went back to work.
There have been a few other times that I have suffered from sleep-deprived hallucinations, but that story was the worst.
When working on a few intense projects, I have sometimes experienced all of the conditions that I listed earlier at the same time. Needless to say, this is awful when it happens. I quickly feel out of control, and utterly helpless to rectify the situation. On occasion I have gone to see my doctor, who prescribes something that will knock me out at night and force my body back onto a 'normal' sleep schedule, but I hate it. I feel as though I am losing half my life unless I can stay up until 2am or 4am. When I fall asleep at 10pm, I have no time for hobbies; I lose my precious "Me Time," and I sink into depression. So even though I can be forced through medication into a traditional sleep pattern, I will quickly fall back into a "Night Owl" schedule as soon as I am done with my medication.
It's after 4am. I should probably head off to bed soon.
ADDITIONAL THOUGHT: I have written in other blogs that I suffer with a disorder called Essential Tremor, which is exacerbated by both stress and a lack of sleep. In other words, my chosen lifestyle contributes to my unwelcome tremors. However, one question has recently occurred to me: my lifestyle currently contributes to my condition, but did my lifestyle originally cause my condition? I may never know the answer to that question, but it's something to think about.
Star Trek Continues to Disappoint
23. July 2020 Bob Entertainment , Television Comments (0)
I don't know about you, but I was extremely disappointed with Star Trek: Picard. I thought the plot was poorly designed, I thought most of the actors were poorly cast and therefore their characters were poorly acted, and worst of all I thought that the writing was terrible.
And it is with those same sentiments in mind that I shuddered with trepidation when I read the following announcements:
Future Star Trek Television Series
Two animated and two live-action television series are currently in development.
Animated: Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Lower Decks was announced on October 25, 2018, by CBS All Access as a two-season order for a half-hour adult animated comedy series created by Mike McMahan, the head writer and executive producer of Rick and Morty. It focuses on the support crew of "one of Starfleet's least important ships", and shares a name with a Next Generation episode. The first season is scheduled to premiere on August 6, 2020, and will consist of 10 episodes.
Animated: Star Trek: Prodigy
In February 2019, it was announced that an animated series developed for young viewers was in development. The series is being co-written and created by Dan and Kevin Hageman and will air on Nickelodeon as a joint-venture with CBS. It focuses on a group of teens who embark on an adventure upon an abandoned Starfleet ship. On July 23, 2020, it was announced that the title would be Star Trek: Prodigy and that it will premiere in 2021.
Live-action: Untitled Philippa Georgiou series
Announced in January 2019, a live-action television series will focus on the mirror universe's Philippa Georgiou and her adventures as a member of Starfleet's Section 31 division. Michelle Yeoh will reprise her role from Discovery, with Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt serving as co-showrunners. The series is reported to feature an ensemble cast.
Live-action: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Announced in May 2020, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will depict the early days of the Enterprise and feature Discovery actors Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn reprising their roles as Pike, Spock, and Number One, respectively. It will be released on CBS All Access. In June 2020, Jonathan Frakes confirmed he had been asked to return as a director for the series.
The people in charge of the Star Trek vision appear to have lost their way. They are turning Gene Roddenberry's original vision - which was once ground-breaking Science Fiction - into a horrible, hollow caricature of itself.
Gary Numan - Forerunner of the Emo Genre
15. July 2020 Bob Music Comments (0)
If you'll indulge me for a moment, I thought it would be fun to look at some music history and give you a laugh at a particular subgenre that used to be enormously popular, why it was important decades later, and where it's at now.
During the late 70s/early 80s, British New Wave and Synth Pop rose from the ashes of the quickly collapsing British Punk era. For what it's worth - I hated 1970s British Punk. I thought that the bulk of what that genre produced was absolute crap. However, several extremely popular bands emerged out of British Punk's decline; for example: U2, The Police, The Cure, Joy Division, and a host of other artists. Part of what made the British New Wave scene enormously successful was a heavy dependence on an explosion of new synthesizer technologies during the advent of the digital age. These new types of synthesizers were extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but British Synth Pop bands used them differently than their American counterparts. For example, see bands like Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Yazoo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Erasure, etc.
FWIW - the following Synth Britannia documentary is an excellent expository about the British Synth Pop genre. It's long, but it's amusing, and it's pretty nostalgic for those who listened to British New Wave during its heyday.
However, there was one artist who had a slightly different take than his musical contemporaries, and that was a vocalist named Gary Numan. He had a string of hits, and I will freely admit that his style is probably not most people's cup of tea. That being said, for a good example of Numan when he first hit the music scene in the late 1970s, see the following performance of his "Are Friends Electric" on BBC's "Top of the Pops," which was the TV show that you were invited to play in England when you had "arrived" as a musician. (PS - A lot of British artists became superstars overnight after playing on "Top of the Pops.")
As I said, Numan probably isn't many people's style, but that video is really funny when you think about it from an 80s perspective; the weird costumes, the strange lyrics, Numan's odd voice, and a plethora of synthesizers. And this is where Numan seemed to create his own subgenre that was a departure from his fellow synth-based colleagues, which we liked to refer to as "Science Fiction Rock" at the time, because there was something otherworldly about his approach.
However, recently Numan revealed that he has Asperger syndrome, which makes his success even more amazing. Performances like "Top of the Pops" might have been somewhat easier for Numan, because they were in a tightly controlled environment. Yet Numan was required to tour to sell albums, which makes performances like the following example all the more spectacular when you consider how hard it was for someone with Asperger syndrome to be in front of thousands of people.
I still freely admit that this additional video is probably even less appealing to many people. Although it's interesting, because it shows something that happened at a lot of his shows: he would spontaneously start laughing, but not lose his place. I think I heard Numan laugh on every live recording of him from back in the early 80s. I had always assumed that he was simply enjoying himself as a performer, but now I wonder if it was more of a coping mechanism of Asperger's.
Jumping ahead a few years in the music world, you can see how Numan was the progenitor for the later Emo genres. For example, here is "Are Friends Electric" in 1989, which is ten years after his "Top of the Pops" performance.
And the same song in 2003, which 20+ years later than his TOTP performance.
Note that I am using live versions of the same song simply to illustrate Numan's evolution over the years, and how he was always "Emo" before the industry caught up with him.
A good friend of mine from my late 70s/early 80s high school days just sent me the following video of Numan performing "Are Friends Electric" from a few years ago.
All of that brings us today's world. Numan's music has continued to change over the years, and the following video shows Numan performing "Are Friends Electric" with the Skaparis Orchestra.
I find it admirable that Numan is still performing despite his having Asperger syndrome; although to be honest, his more recent live videos have seemed as though he's a little less socially awkward in front of a crowd. Regardless, it's clear that he's still willing to evolve musically. But if it hadn't been for artists like Numan (and a few artists like him - e.g. Morrissey), we probably wouldn't have had the Emo genre. (That could be good -or- bad, depending on whether you like Emo. Personally, I think it has it's place.)
UPDATE: I mentioned earlier that I wanted to use Numan's performances of "Are Friends Electric" over the past 40 years just to chart how Numan changed and evolved musically, but I think it's worth taking a complete departure and showing some of the cool things that Numan has done more recently; like last year for example. To see what I mean, take a look at the following videos.
Personally, I think Emo music with Middle Eastern themes and an orchestra/choir works for Numan. His music is probably not most people's style, of course, and it's not necessarily my style, either. That being said, I still think it's... interesting.
UPDATE: The Synth Britannia documentary was the first video that I shared in this blog post, and I should mention that the program has a section that highlights Numan's importance to the British Synth Pop scene; here is the relevant excerpt from that documentary.
01/04/2022 UPDATE: The Produce Like A Pro channel on YouTube just posted the following video, which has additional information about Gary Numan and his contributions to electronic music that people might find interesting.
Happy Treason Day 2020!
4. July 2020 Bob History , Humor Comments (0)
In honor of today's date - July 4th, 2020 - I posted the following meme to social media.
Most people appreciated the humor as it was intended. However, to understand the funniest part about that meme, you have to study American History. And by doing so, you learn that the early American colonists REALLY WERE a bunch of ungrateful colonials.
The "Taxation Without Representation" that the American Colonists were so quick to condemn was really England asking the colonists to pick up the financial burden for their recent freedom from French rule. The King of England had recently pushed the French out of the American colonies, but the average British citizen was sick of having to foot the bill for bailing out those pesky American colonials. So the King of England shifted the financial burden of freeing the American colonies back onto the American colonists, who resented the thought of having to pay for their own freedom, so they kicked the British out of America. The King of France, still licking his wounds from France's loss to England, gave the American colonists the money to do so. However, the average French citizen resented having to foot the bill for bailing out those pesky American colonials, so they overthrew their monarchy and killed the king.
And all of this was because the American colonists were a bunch of selfish jerks.
With that in mind, I say once again: "Happy Treason Day - You Ungrateful Colonials!"
Just Shut Up and Wear the Darn Mask
29. June 2020 Bob Health , Rants Comments (0)
I've been trying to refute a great deal of bogus information that I've been seeing in social media about wearing masks in public, and I'd like to consolidate some of my responses from a few different posts into a single, standalone narrative.
I see a lot of people complaining about having to wear a mask, which is actually a pretty easy thing for people to do. But the point of wearing a mask these days has less to do with preventing people from catching the disease if they don't wear a mask; it's more about preventing people who are asymptomatic from spreading diseases to others. Quite often people with COVID-19 do not show any symptoms until long after they have acquired the disease, but they are still highly contagious. With that in mind, wearing a mask demonstrates your concern for other people's health, rather than a concern for your personal health. (And conversely, failing to wear a mask demonstrates your lack of concern for other people's health, rather than a lack of concern for your personal health.)
Think of it this way: when surgeons put on masks before entering an operating room, it's not because they're afraid of catching something from the patient - it's because they're afraid of of passing something to the patient. It's the same thing when you wear a mask; you may not be protecting yourself, but you're protecting everyone around you. Since most people do not show symptoms for over a week, you could infect an untold number of people before you even realize that you're the problem. So, out of courtesy for your fellow humans, you should wear a mask when you're around other people.
If you don't want to take my word for it, here's the CDC's latest verbiage from their website at https://bit.ly/3fAp0Jo:
"CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States. We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms ('asymptomatic') and that even those who eventually develop symptoms ('pre-symptomatic') can transmit the virus to others before showing symptoms. This means that the virus can spread between people interacting in close proximity - for example, speaking, coughing, or sneezing - even if those people are not exhibiting symptoms. In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission."
And one more thing: people tend to post images they find that reinforce their personal opinions without checking for accuracy. But don't be so quick to believe an image that fits a narrative that you want to hear; you should treat everything with skepticism and always check for accuracy before posting. For example, one of the following images was posted to social media, and all it took was five minutes in Photoshop to completely alter the meaning and create the counterfeit image.
It's not perfect, of course, but the results would convince most people. If I bothered to spend another ten minutes editing, I could have made the alterations fool-proof. So don't believe something you see just because you want it to be true, because it's far too easy to create a false 'reality' these days.
The Racist Roots of Popular Product Names
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There has been a great deal of public outcry in the wake of several companies' decisions to drop objectionable marketing identities from their advertising, most notably the characters of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth, etc. (Note: I consistently use all three of those products; I hope that these companies' decisions do not alter anything but the product names.)
In any event, someone I know posted the following image to social media. As you might expect, several people responded to this image by claiming that the companies' decisions to rename their products and drop the marketing identities are an overreaction. And in the case of Aunt Jemima, their assertion was that it would erase the image of a successful African American woman.
There was a great deal of banter about erasing history in the name of social justice on the thread, which one person paraphrased as, "people are gonna see what they wanna see." What is ironic, however, is that most of the people failed to read the rest of the Wikipedia article about Nancy Green at https://bit.ly/2AGB6C6. Here's an excerpt to illustrate some of what they missed:
"Biography: Nancy Green was born into slavery on November 17, 1834, near Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky.[4] She was hired in 1890 by the R.T. Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph, Missouri, to represent 'Aunt Jemima', an advertising character named after a song from a minstrel show.[3] Davis Milling had recently acquired the formula to a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour from St. Joseph Gazette editor Chris L. Rutt and Charles Underwood and were looking to employ an African-American woman as a Mammy archetype to promote their new product.[6]"
Now look up the "Mammy Archetype" at https://bit.ly/2zHHI2n:
"A mammy, also spelled mammie, is a U.S. stereotype, especially in the South, for a black woman who worked in a white family and nursed the family's children. The mammy figure is rooted in the history of slavery in the United States. Enslaved black females were tasked with domestic and childcare work in white American enslaver households. "
So here's the real story: while the actress herself, Nancy Green, may have found a modicum of success, she did so by portraying a racist caricature of herself. However, the text that is appended above the Wikipedia excerpt isn't true; Green was only hired as a spokesperson, and she was not a millionaire. The actual pancake product was created by Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood, not Green. When Rutt and Underwood couldn't make their product a success, they sold their recipe to the Davis Milling Company, who renamed their company after a racist stereotype from vaudeville shows of their day (see https://bit.ly/2YdmRO7).
So in deference to the original image that was posted, the Aunt Jemima character has extremely racist roots in history. With that in mind, it's not a question of people only seeing what they wish to see, it's a question of people choosing what they wish to ignore.
Following up on the B-17 image that I posted yesterday, here's a quick animation that illustrates how I added successive layers of color to create the finished image.
FYI - a few layers were combined to make the animation a little shorter, and the images in the video are not necessarily in the order that I colored them. I created a series of images based on the layers that I had created, but I did so after I had finished the image.
Freedom, Fanaticism, and Flags
10. June 2020 Bob Politics , Ponderings Comments (0)
Today I'd like to tackle what seems to be an uncomfortable topic these days: freedom of speech. The impetus for my discussion is that one of my family members recently posted a link to the following petition:
Remove the Confederate Flag From All Government Places
For me, the Confederate flag represents a failed attempt by a group of rebellious traitors to secede from the Union in order to keep their slaves, and I largely feel that way about statues of Confederate Generals like Robert E Lee. The Confederate Generals were traitors, and they do not deserve our adoration. There's a reason why we don't keep statues of Benedict Arnold around; despite his heroism and triumphs as a General for the Continental Army, Arnold sold out his country and fled to England, and his name has become synonymous with traitorship.
I say all of this in order to reinforce the point that if the Confederate flag went away tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it any more than I miss the Swastika. But here's some food for thought: the predominant argument that I see against the Confederate flag is that racist idiots use that flag as a symbol; but think about it - these same idiots also use the United States flag, and they also use the Christian cross. What should we ban, then? Should we also ban the flag of the United States? Should we also ban crosses? Where should we draw the line on what we allow in our society? When will enough be enough?
For some people, the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate, whereas for other people it represents their cultural origin. I personally think those people are misguided, but still - we do not complain about people who fly a Mexican flag to show pride in their heritage. Or a German flag. Or a Canadian flag. At my house we fly an Irish flag on St Patrick's Day in honor of my Irish roots. Let's make this more personal - should we deny someone the right to display an Iranian or Chinese flag just because our nation is upset with their nation of origin? Or should we respect their freedom of speech and allow them to display their pride in their heritage?
At the end of the day, the racist idiots of our society can use any emblem they choose as they spew their toxic filth, but that doesn't make the emblem itself a bad thing. If we're not banning Christian crosses, which have been used by the KKK and other stupid domestic terror organizations for over a century, then I think we can let the misguided people who think that the Confederate flag is a representation of their cultural heritage have their freedom of speech. That is what living in a free society is all about.
Once you start banning every symbol of cultural heritage that offends you, then you might as well start banning books next. And when banning books isn't effective enough, you might want to start burning books. And when burning books isn't effective enough, you might want to start locking up the people who write or say things that offend you. And when locking up the people who offend you isn't effective enough, then you're one short step away from becoming the very evil that you despise. Returning to my earlier thought, I have no love for the Confederate flag; to me, it is a symbol of cowardice, greed, immorality, and rebellion. But to ban the Confederate flag would deny others their Constitutional right to freedom of speech, and therein lies one of the fundamental dilemmas of living in a free society. Sometimes the problem with an idealistic goal like banning a flag is that it fails to take the full picture of its ramifications into account.
Let me close with an apropos thought from Adlai Stevenson: "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Where it's safe to say what's on your mind, especially when everyone disagrees. Where it's safe to believe what you believe, especially when everyone else's beliefs stand elsewhere. Where it's safe to swim against the current and be perfectly safe from the other fish."
With that in mind, my personal objections to the Confederate flag are secondary to others' right to freedom of speech, and that's exactly how it should be. Freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from offense; to have freedom, you must accept its consequences.
UPDATE: I occasionally watch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, and a few years ago he posted the following video, wherein he presented some of the same feelings that I have about Confederate symbols; namely that most of them belong in a museum. We should not attempt to erase all symbols of darkness from our sordid history, but we should place some of those symbols in the proper context, and I think that a museum is the best way to do that.


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Newfoundland's Fogo Island Inn isn't even a year old. Yet it's won a ton of prizes in the worlds of hospitality, tourism and dining.*
How can a 29-room hotel built on the rocks of Joe Batt's Arm draw all this heat and light? And even more intriguing — how did it become a community-owned, social enterprise?
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Gold nudges down as strong US data boosts rate rise view
By Amwal Al Ghad English	 On Oct 11, 2018
Gold prices inched down on Thursday as robust U.S. data potentially bolstered the chances of multiple U.S. interest rate hikes over the next year, but a weaker dollar curbed losses
The marginal decline came even as Wall Street suffered its worst drubbing in eight months.
Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,192.58 an ounce at 0430 GMT. U.S. gold futures edged up 0.2 percent to $1,195.90 an ounce.
"Rising interest rates is not good news for gold. People are preferring U.S. Treasury bonds as they are more attractive in the current environment over gold, despite the sell-off in equities," said Ronald Leung, chief dealer, Lee Cheong Gold Dealers, Hong Kong.
Data on U.S. producer prices, which rose in September after declining the previous month, and a revision to wholesale inventory estimates for August, added to a hawkish outlook on interest rates.
"The Fed is expected to raise interest rates in December but we are not sure about the future hikes as we have to see how the trade war will affect the U.S. economy. The upcoming mid-term elections in U.S. will also be very crucial," Leung said.
The Fed can likely stop raising U.S. interest rates once they reach about 3 percent, as long as inflation remains around 2 percent and the economy is doing well, Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans suggested on Wednesday.
Asian share markets, meanwhile, sank on Thursday following steep falls on Wall Street. U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday's stock market sell-off was a long-awaited "correction," and the Federal Reserve, which has been raising U.S. interest rates, had gone "crazy".
"The sentiment that we have seen this morning with the Wall Street and Asian markets tanking is a chance for gold prices to reintroduce as a safe haven again, especially at this time of poor risk appetite," OCBC analyst Barnabas Gan said.
"That is something investors will be looking at very closely if the dollar falls further."
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was down 0.3 percent.
Spot gold may break a resistance at $1,195 per ounce and edge up to the next resistance at $1,200, as it has temporarily bottomed around a support at $1,182, according to Reuters technical analyst Wang Tao.
Holdings in SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, rose 1.21 percent to 738.99 tonnes on Wednesday, for its first gains since July.
Meanwhile, spot silver was flat at $14.26 an ounce and palladium was little changed at $1,067.24. Platinum slipped 0.9 percent to $811.49 an ounce.
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ELTON, LA (KPLC) - After being knocked out in the quarterfinals last season by district foe Merryville, Elton has their sights set on making an ever deeper postseason run. And with a 19-3 overall record and a number two ranking in class 1-A, the Lady Indians are well on their way to do so.
And while most teams look to the seniors to provide leadership, junior Summer Ceaser has been the cornerstone for this Elton bunch. The center is the glue and helps create a chemistry that makes a difference on the court.
"Summer has matured wonderfully. I've seen her relationships improve with the other players. There's not so much friction between everyone, it's more welcoming and she's taking them under her wing and sharing this program with everyone," said LaComb.
Ceaser along with a cast of seniors that include the James twins recently took down rival Merryville to end the Lady Panther's 49 game winning streak in district play. It was also the first victory for Elton over Merryville in 13 games.
The Lady Indians hope to make that run on the back of the upperclassmen leadership.
"The twins carry a big load here and I think there's going to be a gap and I think I'm going to have to fill that gap and that's a big gap to fill. It's going to be hard but I'm ready to take on that challenge," added Ceaser.


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Doreen Sewell Montegut
May 14, 1931 ~ October 3, 2020 (age 89)
Doreen Sewell Montegut, 89, passed away peacefully Saturday, October 3rd, lying next to her husband of 66 years, Max.
Doreen was born at home at 305 – 10th Ave. N., Texas City, Texas, on May 14, 1931 to the late Homer Woodson and Hazel Matthews Sewell. In addition to her parents, she was welcomed to the world by her older sister, Mary Sue and her beloved Grandmother, Mary Ekelund Matthews.
On February 26, 1954, she married Max Montegut, Jr. at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mary Sue and Derrest Williams in Texas City, TX. During their 66 years of marriage, Max and Doreen forged a life of love and friendship while making memories with their sons and their families along the way. Their first photo together was taken when they were in kindergarten in 1936 and they were still holding hands when she passed in 2020.
Prior to marriage, Doreen graduated from Texas City High School, class of '49, where she was active in drama, cheerleading and attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College where she was active in theatre. A fun tidbit, she competed against (and beat) Katherine Helmond of 'Soap' and 'Who's The Boss' fame for a part in a Galveston play. Doreen had a love of learning throughout her entire life. She was fluent in Spanish and practiced it on every olive complected person she met, played the piano, and had an exceptionally large vocabulary, something she loved sharing with her young grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Homer Woodson Sewell and Mary Amelia Matthews Sewell; daughter, Kathy Michelle Montegut; sisters, Mary Sue Williams, Ruby Jean Birdsong and brother, Sonny Sewell, sister-in-law Sister Mary William (Maxine Marie Montegut) and brother-in-law Charles Madden.
She is survived by her husband, Max J. Montegut, Jr., sons; Max Montegut, III (Toni) of Missouri City, TX, Matt Montegut, Marcus Montegut (Tracey), Michael Montegut (Rita) and Miles Montegut (Monica) all of Texas City, TX; grandchildren, Tiffany Morgan (Montague), Max Montegut, IV (Monica), Matthew Montegut, Jr., Maris Montegut, Michelle Rojas (Stephen), Myla Nickerson (Terry), Jackie Schwertz (Justin), Maggie Williams (Eric), Marcus Lee Montegut and Michael Joseph Montegut; and great-grandchildren, Jackson & Austin Montegut, Montague, Vaughn & Quinn Morgan, Parker Lopez, Iris & Lily Jewel Montegut, Drake Biscamp, Riley & Ryan Rojas, Tucker Nickerson, Jordan & Josie Schwertz and Eric Jr. & Erion Williams. She is also survived by her twin sisters, Avis Sewell Rogers (Kevon) of Granbury, TX and Amie Sewell Chandler of Spring, TX, sister-in-law Billy Madden, and brother-in-law Derrest Williams of Corpus Christi, TX, along with numerous nieces and nephews whose accomplishments she took great pride in following.
A private burial will be held for the family at Galveston Memorial Cemetery, 2:00 Wednesday. Pallbearers are grandsons, Max Montegut IV, Matthew Montegut, Jr., Terry Nickerson, Stephen Rojas, Michael Joseph Montegut, and Marcus Lee Montegut. Honorary pallbearers are Montague Morgan, Jr., Justin Schwertz and Eric Williams.
Friends, please come attend a celebration service any time after 5:00pm, at 21 – 13th Ave. N, Texas City. We'll all be there in our mother's memory (we all know how she loved to visit) and we'd all like to see you and catch up.
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Nazi Germany tested nuclear device?
The Nazis tested a crude nuclear device a few months before the end of the second world war, killing hundreds of people in a massive explosion in southern Germany, a new book has claimed.
Hitler's Bomb - written by Berlin academic Rainer Karlsch and published on Tuesday - suggests the Nazis may have been closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb than previously thought.
No independent corroboration of the claims was available, and some experts have voiced scepticism.
But Karlsch says in the book that "Hitler's bomb - a tactical nuclear weapon with a potential for destruction far below that of the two American atomic bombs - was tested successfully several times shortly before the end of the war".
What Nazi Germany lacked was enough fissile material, such as enriched uranium, to make a full-size, functioning nuclear bomb, he adds.
The book cites post-war witness accounts and Soviet military intelligence reports to back up its theory of a 3 March 1945, experimental nuclear test blast at the Ohrdruf military training area - then run as a concentration camp by the Nazi SS - but offers no first-hand documentary proof.
Gerald Holton, a professor of physics and the history of science at Harvard University, said the main scientists in the Nazi atomic bomb programme never mentioned a test blast or having built a working nuclear reactor.
Allied intelligence eavesdropped on the scientists - including the effort's leader, Walther Gerlach - while they were interned at Farm Hall manor in England after the war.
"Hitler's Bomb - a tactical nuclear weapon with a potential for destruction far below that of the two American atomic bombs - was tested successfully several times shortly before the end of the war"
Any claims of a Nazi test blast "would have to have a lot of documentary evidence behind it", Holton said.
"It also would have to be checked against the remarks that Gerlach made during his period at Farm Hall ... where none of that sort of planning was discussed by him or anyone else," he added.
Russian officials said they were unaware of any such test. "We do not have information that something of this kind happened," said Nikolai Shingaryov, a spokesman for Russia's Federal Nuclear Agency.
"Of course we don't know everything, but we don't have data about this."
Ohrdruf, located in the southeastern state of Thuringia, was a Soviet military base after the war.
"There was no German atomic bomb," said Mark Walker, a historian at Union College in Schenectady, New York, who also has written on the topic.
A US mission that arrived in Germany with American troops in 1945 to investigate the German atomic bomb programme and seize its leaders concluded that the Germans were nowhere near making a nuclear weapon.
The German device probably was a two-tonne cylinder containing enriched uranium. The amount of uranium was too small, meaning the conventional explosives used to trigger the device did not set off a vastly more destructive nuclear chain reaction, Karlsch said.
Witnesses reported a bright flash of light and a column of smoke over the area that day, and residents said they had nausea and nosebleeds for days afterwards, Karlsch says.
One witness said he helped burn heaps of corpses inside the military area the next day. They were hairless and some had blisters and raw, red flesh.
Soil samples that Karlsch had analysed for his book found the presence of radioactive elements not found in nature, such as cesium 137 and cobalt 60, he said.
German government officials could not immediately be reached on whether the site still posed a radiation hazard.
Karlsch, an economist, concludes that the blast killed several hundred prisoners of war and Nazi inmates forced to work at the site.
Two months later, on 8 May 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered after the Soviets captured Berlin.


Launched at Wikimania, Wikimedia Foundation's annual conference, Histropedia's ultimate goal is "to create the world's first fully interactive timeline for all of history from the big bang to the present day".
That's a pretty lofty aim, but the beta version is now live at Histropedia.com and it's beautifully simple.
Search for existing Wikipedia articles and you can add them to the blank timeline with a photo and different coloured line to represent each timespan.
Simultaneous events are stacked on top of one other and you can zoom in or out to vary the overview – from millennia to day-by-day detail. Right now there are one million Wiki articles in the Histropedia database, but if the entry you want to add doesn't have dates specified, an easy editing tool lets you add them. The interface is clean, clutter-free and a doddle to navigate.
Once you've got a timeline set up, that's when the educational advantages of Histropedia really kick in – and why it's better than similar existing timeline sites like Tiki-Toki.
A side panel contains more resources on each entry, including relevant Twitter pages, books and movies (with links to buy them) and, of course, the corresponding Wikipedia page.
Having the page embedded is really handy, as you don't have to keep swapping between windows to find out more.
Histropedia is set to get even better, too.
The authors, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie, are now working on the next phase, with the aim of using Wikidata (the data-driven arm of the Wiki stable) as the main source for each event.
They also want to enable ready-made timelines by bringing entire Wikipedia categories on board. So a pupil studying the American Civil Rights movement, for example, could see all the major milestones of the period in just a couple of clicks.
It won't surprise you to learn, then, that Evans trained as a teacher, and that his idea was borne out of a desire to create more engaging lesson plans.
"We have already seen first-hand the impact the tool can have in the classroom after Navino used Histropedia to teach two trial lessons to year six students," McBirnie said, adding that the visualisation of dates "definitely helps students to grasp history more easily."
If Histropedia takes off like Wikipedia has (the crowd-sourced encyclopaedia averages about 11 million edits a month), it will become a hugely valuable resource for students and teachers alike.
The long-running dispute between Amazon and publishing house Hachette over eBook pricing shows no sign of nearing an end if a full-page ad in the New York Times is anything to go by. The open letter from Authors United, a group of nearly 1,000 writers formed by US novelist Douglas Preston, urged Amazon to "stop harming the livelihood of the authors" by halting pre-orders of their books. Meanwhile, it looks like another spat has sparked in the movie world, with copies of some Disney DVDs unavailable for order on Amazon.
If you've so far resisted Facebook's attempts to make you install its standalone Messenger app on your iPhone, you're going to like this. A trick has been discovered to stop the app downloading and carry on chatting as usual. Here's how. When the app prompts you to download Messenger, hit install, then immediately switch to the App Store and stop the installation before it completes. Switch back to the old app and it'll be the same as before.
Have you ever gone on holiday and inadvertently ended up in a dodgy part of town? The makers of a new smartphone app want to help you avoid just that. SketchFactor lets users pinpoint 'sketchy' experiences on a map, from something dangerous to just plain weird, and describe what happened. It's only available in America so far.


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Privacy Commissioners Adopt Resolutions, Plan Future Direction
Meeting in Tirana, Albania, the 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners adopted resolutions on privacy as a fundamental right, human error in data breaches, and social media and violent extremist content online. The Commissioners also adopted resolutions on strategic direction, cross-border enforcement, and regulatory cooperation between data protection agencies and consumer protection and competition authorities. Civil society has urged the data protection commissioners to support a moratorium on facial recognition technology. A petition organized by the Public Voice received support from more than 80 organizations and 500 individuals (including leading experts) in more than 40 countries. Privacy International and the Open Markets Institute were among the civil society speakers at the conference. The 2020 conference will be held in Mexico City. The ICDPPC will also be renamed the "Global Privacy Assembly."


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VIDEO: Vehicle Carrier Ship NYK Begins Monthly Service At Port Canaveral
By Port Canaveral // October 14, 2015
ABOVE VIDEO: Industry leader NYK, operator of the world's largest fleet of vehicle carrier ships, brought its Neptune Leader into Port Canaveral on October 11. (PortCanaveral Video)
BREVARD COUNTY • PORT CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – Industry leader NYK, operator of the world's largest fleet of vehicle carrier ships, brought its Neptune Leader into Port Canaveral on October 11.
The maiden visit in a new monthly service that will collect used vehicles from throughout Florida and the Southeast U.S. for export to Central and South America.
The ship will arrive in Central Florida each month from Baltimore and Newark on its way to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rico, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.
NYK's premier Leader class of vessels is capable of carrying up to 7,500 standard cars and engineered also to handle heavy-duty cargo such as plant equipment, agricultural and construction machinery.
Port Canaveral To Host 'Paws and Pints' Oct. 17, Will Benefit SPCA and Brevard Humane Society
The Port's Cargo Business Development team is working to bring vehicular imports into Central Florida via this service in the future.


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Boutique art, hygge fashion and more
The Innovation Group, 18 November 2016
Friendsgiving, Airbnb Trips, year of mezcal
–Soho's newest boutique isn't a store. "Laundromat," a chilling new installation from Ai Weiwei, is a display of possessions from a European refugee camp. Via W Magazine.
–Marks & Spencer's new line focuses on statement pieces, streetwear and the ever-trendy "hygge". Via the Guardian.
–Ikea and Uber are bringing NYC customers a "Friendsgiving" package, tapping "a new cultural phenomenon" among city dwellers, Retail Dive writes.
–"If you have a passion, an interest, or a hobby, you can share your community with others in the world:" Airbnb moves into travel planning with the launch of Airbnb Trips. Via The Verge.
–Is mezcal poised for a breakout in 2017? The spirit, dubbed "tequila's sexy cousin," is making waves in the US. Via Bloomberg.
–Less shopping, more turkey: Major retailers, including Office Depot and the Mall of America, will not open on Thanksgiving this year, the New York Times reports.
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Can Infant Massage Help Your Baby Sleep?
You are probably always on the lookout for ideas or products that will help your baby sleep better, right? Most of our readers are. I was the same way when my kids were babies – I would try anything (within reason), if there was even a chance that doing so could result in better sleep for my baby!
If you are the same way, then the topic of today's blog article may interest you. We're talking about infant massage today. What is it? Why try it? And (most importantly, in our readers' opinions), will it help your baby sleep?
What Is Infant and Baby Massage?
In truth, infant massage is nothing new. The practice of gently massaging babies has been around for centuries, in many cultures (in Indian culture, for example). However, infant massage is a relatively new practice in the West. That's due largely to the work of a woman named Vimala Schneider McClure.
While working at an orphanage in India, Vimala watched as a 12 year old girl routinely massaged all the children. Although the children lacked proper nutrition, they all thrived; McClure came to believe this was thanks to the regular massages they received. Returning to the United States in the mid-70's, McClure set out to spread the word about infant massage. Her message received attention, and now, infant massage is widely recognized as a beneficial practice.
McClure's approach to infant massage includes the Indian massage strokes she learned while working there; it also includes Swedish massage strokes and reflexology techniques.
According to moms and dads who've used infant massage, the benefits are numerous. And here's the thing: infant massage is good for both you and your baby!
…improved digestion. Believe it or not, infant massage can actually aid a baby's digestion, thereby reducing gas and bloating. So if your baby suffers from gas, this could be a way to help him feel comfortable.
…relief of stress and tension. This works for both you and your baby. Gently massaging your baby can help calm and relax her, and it will help calm and relax you in the process. This may be especially welcome information for parents of babies who are especially fussy, or who are suffering from colic.
…increased bonding. Nurturing touch conveys love to a baby in a way that nothing else can. So massaging your baby is a great way to strengthen the bond between you both. This, in turn, will promote healthy emotional development in your baby.
…improved sleep! That's right, parents – infant massage really does help babies sleep well! Studies show that infants who are massaged by their parents before bed tend to fall asleep faster, sleep more deeply, and stay asleep longer. Good news indeed, for all you tired moms and dads out there!
We cannot teach you all the ins-and-outs of infant massage in a blog article. Infant massage is not a complicated process, but it does require that specific techniques be applied in specific ways to specific points on your infant's body.
Always use an edible oil. Organic coconut oil makes a good choice.
Don't try to massage your infant when he is fussy; wait until he is calm and relaxed.
If, at the start of the massage, your baby fusses and doesn't seem to want it, stop. Massaging your baby when she does not want a massage will only make her fussier. Plus, this will help teach your baby, from an early age, that it's always okay to say no if she doesn't want to be touched.
Before massaging your baby, remove any jewelry, and trim your nails, if they are long.
Always start your massage with the "least invasive" body parts – the feet and the legs. From there, progress upwards.
Do not massage your baby if he is ill with a fever, or if he has a skin rash or lesions. It's also recommended that you avoid massaging your baby for 48-72 hours after he's had an immunization.
You can start infant massage early – even newborn babies can benefit from massage techniques!
Massage is something that both parents can do, so be sure that dad gets the chance to offer a massage!
If you'd like to learn how to perform infant massage, visit the Infant Massage USA website, to see if there is a class in your area. Or, check with your local hospital to see if they can recommend a trained infant massage specialist.
For answers to frequently asked questions about infant massage, visit this website.
If you would like to read more about the origins of infant massage, and to learn more about Vimala McClure's infant massage techniques, check out her book, Infant Massage: A Handbook for Loving Parents.
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Good blog on how to massage your baby! Thankyou for the video. I would also add that IF new parents aren't sure how to massage their baby … they can always get a licensed Massage Therapist to teach them ?
A few years ago, my granddaughter was around 4 or 5 months old. I was holding her and lightly caressing her under her jaw line. She fell asleep sitting up. I didn't know why. Recently I saw a video of someone doing the massage technique with a baby to get them to sleep. Last week I had my grandson that is now 7 months old. He is a good baby, but was getting a bit fussy and was rubbing his eyes. He was sitting on the floor in front of me. I gently started rubbing his head and face. I couldn't see his eyes. It appeared as if he was bending over to pick up one of his toys, when in fact, he was sound asleep. I picked him up and put him over my shoulder (which he has never done). He was sound asleep and snoring. It seemed like it took a while to get him awake when his mother came to pick him up. I was a little worried that he was hypnotized or something. Did I do anything wrong?
Hi @Kim – Thank you for writing to us! I would guess that your grandson was just quite tired, and that the rubbing of his face and head only helped soothe him to sleep a little. If you or his mom are at all concerned about how deeply he slept, I would recommend speaking to his doctor. From what you explain, I do not think that rubbing his face would harm him, but better safe than sorry if you are concerned about anything!
@ Skylersmom — sounds like you're doing things just right, even if you don't have any special massage skills 😉 So glad to hear that massage has worked well for you and your little guy!
Hello … I am a Vimala McClure-school trained Certified Educator of Infant Massage. I would like to thank you for posting this article about the many positive benefits to both baby and parent, of learning Infant Massage. The bonding is so incredibly important. The sleeping patterns are greatly improved because of the total relaxation from a stressful day that the baby will experience (not unlike adults. I teach new mom-plus-massage classes and, when we've completed the 3-sessions I require, I urge the parents to continue a form of massage for many years. I have an almost 4 y.o. who still asks me to massage his face when I sit for him. His brother is 7 y.o. and asks me to massage the story of the 'Growing Tree' on his back when I have him overnight. They sleep like rocks afterwards.
The total trust a child puts in the adult who is making him feel this good is so important. It ripples out to include trust and bonding in their whole relationship. Ohhhh… there is so much good that comes from it.
I would advise against coconut oil as a massage oil. I have had 2 babies who were allergic to it. I have my mom's use either cold pressed pure sunflower oil or cold pressed pure grape-seed oil.I advise this over any and all the popular oils in the baby departments, since they have added ingredients which are unnecessary.
We don't put up a video since a little information and not the whole story, can sometimes be a dangerous thing. New parents need to be observed and assisted with pressure in certain areas and understand why certain areas are done the way they are and how.
Sigh …. too much information, right?
I don't have any massage skills, but I regularly massage my 15mo especially on the legs, ankles, and feet. He is very active and I figure I would need a massage if I stood all day like that. If he seems stressed from the day, I focus on the temples and the "Chakra" point and he really calms when I stroke his cheek. On nights when he is tossing and turning (either at bedtime or on later awakening), I will give him a massage, and it is amazing how quiet he gets and how quickly he goes to sleep.


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MIAMI, FL - APRIL 21: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers adjusts his facemark during a break in action in the third quarter against the Miami Heat during Game Four of Round One of the 2018 NBA Playoffs at American Airlines Arena on April 21, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
Pretty much everyone around the NBA was just as surprised as the average fan was when news of DeMarcus Cousins signing with the Golden State Warriors broke. It was a shock to everyone.
Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid, who is always quick on his feet on social media, decided to use the Cousins news for a last-second pitch to LeBron James. James has agreed to a four-year $154-million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.
However, James hasn't signed on the dotted line officially yet, and Embiid figured why not try and convince him to change his mind?
Now, LeBron isn't going to back out on Los Angeles the way DeAndre Jordan did on the Mavericks three years ago. He seems to be locked in on the Lakers for basketball and non-basketball reasons.
But it is worth considering how this move makes it even less likely James can contend in the West next year. Many thought he'd have Cousins playing alongside him, but now that's not the case.
On paper, Embiid certainly appears to have a better shot at reaching the NBA Finals next year than James does.
He just wishes they could get there together.


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French website & news about game localization!
By NQ-Nyzaltar, November 19, 2018 in Rules & Announcements
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Today we have two exciting news topics to share with you. After today's maintenance, the official website has now a French language option! You can access it by clicking on the French flag in the top left corner of the website (or access it directly by this link: https://www.dualthegame.com/fr/). In addition, we have begun the development of localization tools within the game. The game will be released in French in addition to English.
Why is this good news for non-French speaking players?
It's the first step toward additional languages. Maintaining a website in multiple languages isn't just a matter of translation, it's also a matter of web development. We were tasked with developing a structure that allows us to easily add new languages without modifying a page's core code each time we alter its text.Without this structure, translation-related tasks become far more difficult and time consuming.
We are starting with French for several reasons:
French is the native language for the majority of our team, so it's easier to recognize issues relating to that language, making it more efficient to test the website.
With the launch of a website available in multiple languages, there is expectation that questions and concerns from players will be addressed in that language via Customer Support and Community Management. This may take additional time for internal approval and hiring the right candidate to fill these positions. In French, we can already manage these responsibilities.
We plan to add several other languages in the future, though we aren't able to release an ETA for those at this time. However, we will definitely make an official announcement to the community when we are ready to add more language options!
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