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Blind Read Through: H.P. Lovecraft/August Derleth; The Shuttered Room
"That was what his grandfather had meant when he had written 'you have gone forth into the world and gathered to yourself learning sufficient to permit you to look upon all things with an inquiring mind ridden neither by the superstition of ignorance nor the superstition of science.'"
Welcome back to another Blind Read! Here we have a combined sequel to both "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Dunwich Horror" all at the same time. If you don't think those stories jive too well together you'd be right; one is about Dagon and the other about Yog-Sothoth. It seems, however, as though Derleth decided that he liked Cthulhu and Dagon (the fishy ones) so much more that he'd focus all of his energies on slowly phasing out of Lovecraft's Yog-Sothothery and into his own more popular Cthulhu Mythos.
We begin the tale talking about the backwoods of Massachusetts and I was immediately excited: "At dusk, the wild, lonely country guarding the approaches to the village of Dunwich in north central Massachusetts seems more desolate and forbidding than it ever does by day."
The Dunwich Horror is one of my favorite Lovecraft tales because he packs so much into it and not only is it a wonderful horror tale, but it also expands his mythos in such a wonderful way. The Whatley's are farming folk and Lavinia Whately, a strange albino woman, becomes pregnant. No one seems to know who the father is, but mad old Whately mentions in passing about some strange theory that she was impregnated by someone named Yog-Sothoth, but that's just in passing, and he's crazy anyway, so we move forward. Lavinia gives birth to Wilbur, who is strange in and of himself, he ages prematurely, he's described as a "dark, goatish infant," he has an odd musty odor, and under the tutilage of old man Whateley he's drawn to Arkham to study the Necronomicon. While at Miskatonic University he turns into a beast and dies, but the doctors are curious as to how that's possible so they head to Dunwich to investigate, only to come across a terrible Shoggoth as it rampages across the country side.
Depiction of Lavinia Whatley
That is as simple an explanation as I can give, but the story is significantly better. In Derleth's tale the only real connection to Dunwich is the Whately name. Our protagonist is Abner Whately which is confusing because in the original tale we're led to believe the line of Whately's died off. We're given a brief description: "The Whatleys has a curse on 'em…and thar's what happened on Sentinel Hill that time-Lavinny's Wilbur" but that isn't really a connection. We can only assume that there were cousins to the branch that died off in Lovecraft's tale living somewhere nearby and took over the farmhouse. That new Whatley, Grandfather Luther as named in this new story, had a few children. Our protagonist Abner meets Zebulon, his uncle and speaks of his Aunt Sarah, who their grandfather Luther locked away in her room after she visited…wait for it…Innsmouth.
At the mention of Innsmouth we lose all thread of Dunwich and suddenly the story becomes a sequel to Lovecraft's doomed "Shadow Over Innsmouth" instead.
You might ask why Sarah decided to go to Innsmouth? Well Derleth hashes that reasoning out in dialog:
"'What was Aunt Sarah doing in Innsmouth?'
'Visitin' kin.'
'Are there Whatleys there, too?'
'Not Whatleys. Marshes. Old Obed Marsh that was Pa's cousin.'"
If you remember from "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" Old Obed Marsh was a sea captain who took a strange island wife whom was not seen much afterward. She was, in fact, one of Dagon's Deep Ones; a fish creature who worships from the underwater city just off Devil's reef off the coast of Innsmouth called Y'ha-nthlei. Innsmouth itself was peopled by hybrid Deep Ones, as the people of that coastal town were breeding with the Deep Ones for years.
Depiction of Deep ones
And that's what happened to Sarah. She met her cousin Ralsa Marsh and apparently had a tryst. When Grandfather Luther heard of it, he locked her away in her room.
So we've been weaving back and forth between stories, but lets focus on what happens in Derleth's, shall we? The reason Abner arrived at the house is because his Grandfather Luther died and asked him to go there and burn down the mill and everything above it. In his letter, Luther tells Abner "It is my wish that at least the mill section of this house be destroyed. Let it be taken apart, board by board. If anything in it lives, I adjure you solemnly to kill it. No matter how small it may be."
Then there is a post script, "If I seem to have the sound of madness, pray recall that worse than madness has spawned among the Whatelys. I have stood free of it. It has not been so of all that is mine. There is more stubborn madness in those who are unwilling to believe in what that know not of and deny that such exists, than in those of our blood who have been guilty of terrible practices, and blasphemy against God, and worse."
If you blink you miss it. Obviously Luther is speaking of his daughter Sarah here. She's the one touched by madness, because she had an affair with her fishy Deep One cousin, Ralsa. She's the one whom was locked in the room, presumably with her offspring…locked in there until she died.
But that isn't what could be missed in that paragraph. Lovecraft was very careful to God out of his works. Actually that's probably a mis-statement. He didn't believe in god…or the devil. So Lovecraft's horror was cosmic, because in his world there wasn't truly evil, there was only incomprehensible horrors. Derleth, conversely, was very religious and he mentions God in nearly every story I've read so far. That's not necessarily a bad thing…well it is if you're a Lovecraft fan…but what he seems to be saying here is that because Sarah was "guilty of terrible practices" namely having sex with her cousin, that she was rightly entombed with her spawn. It is meant, I'm sure, to mean that because Ralsa was a Deep One and Sarah's judgment was so poor that she hooked up with him, that had to be kept safe from herself. The issue seems to be Derleth's however because he's the one who made Ralsa her cousin. There's no precedence for that in Lovecraft, so its almost like it's Derleth made him a cousin because in his's eyes, sex with your cousin is the same as being an evil otherworldly creature. Not saying it's right, but it sure doesn't warrant a death sentence.
family of Deep Ones
So Abner is there to destroy the room and the mill. He goes about the story working to do this task, and while doing so heads to Sarah's room. To get rid of the musty smell he "...kicked the shutters out to let in a welcome blast of fresh, damp air." When he turns to inspect the room he "caught sight of a long-legged frog or toad" vanish behind a bureau. What we come to realize is that Sarah's and Ralsa's offspring was full Deep One and apparently in Derleth's part of this shared universe when Deep Ones don't eat they become diminutive. Abner's act of kicking out the shutter, gives the creature a chance to escape. The dead cattle? That's the escaped Deep One eating and growing to regular size. If you remember from "The Dunwich Horror" this is what the Shoggoth did, so much so that the old man Whatley and Wilbur had to keep rebuilding farmhouses to house it.
Depiction of a Shoggoth
But Abner doesn't realize this at first. It isn't until Abner heads to the shuttered room late in the story and sees "There, squatting in the midst of the tumbled bedding from the long-abandoned bed, sat a monstrous, leathery skinned creature that was neither frog nor man, one gorged with food, with blood still slavering from it's batrachian jaws and upon it's webbed fingers…" with limbs "grown from its bestial body like those of a frog, and tapering off into a man's hands, save for the webbing between the fingers."
He throws the lantern at the creature, immolating both it and the room, thus ending the horror.
Derleth tries to include some aspects of "The Dunwich Horror" into this tale, but he makes small changes. The odor which pervades the story is fishy instead of musty, the dead cattle are because a Deep One is on the loose instead of a Shoggoth. He uses tools like this to bring his tale together and separate himself from Lovecraft. He obviously wants things to be more connected with Cthulhu, potentially making that eldritch god a much larger aspect of the whole mythos…but then again he's stepping on his own toes.
A few weeks ago we covered a few stories, Namely "The Peabody Heritage" and even further back "The Survivor." In both of these stories the creature whom we can only understand as an aspect of Dagon or Cthulhu, were Saurian, I.E. reptilian. However in this story he seems to be changing that to batrachian, or fishlike, amphibian. Why is he changing up his own rules between stories? Could there be a connector I haven't seen yet? Could Derleth be trying to connect more of the world and make it cohesive for all his new readers? By the title we have a great read next week to find out!
Join me as we dive into "The Fisherman of Falcon Point!"
Derleth is cherry picking to fulfill the needs of his current tale.(The ancestor, the peabody heritage)
May 27, 2021 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: #analysis, #blog, #critique, #cthulhu, #derleth, #essay, #horror, #hplovecraft, #lovecraft, #shortstory | 1 Comment
Blind Read Through: H.P. Lovecraft/August Derleth; The Ancestor
"There was no question but that my cousin had found some way to tap the stream of memory; he had established beyond doubt that everything that happened to a human being was registered in some compartment of the brain, and that it needed but the proper bridge to it's place of storage in memory to bring it to consciousness once more."
Welcome back to another Blind Read! This week we travel back into time alongside Derleth's characters to view a fairly Lovecraftian Tale, which quixotically, doesn't hold enough of Lovecraft's themes.
Here's another tale told in Vermont and (at least as far as I could tell) is absent of any of Derleth's predilections of adding in little details like names of old characters to get readers excited, but instead holds to the trope of a man in trouble calling on a friend to help them in their research as Lovecraft did in tales such as "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Colour out of Space."
We begin with a description of the man in need, the narrator's cousin, Ambrose Perry. He's apparently an old retired medical doctor whom "went into virtual seclusion at his home, which he had built in the middle of a dense wood, and outfitted with as complete a laboratory as money could buy."
Ambrose calls on our narrator, a man who's without a job. Ambrose sends him a letter, "offering me a handsome emolument if I would accept the position of secrecy." A theme which was not, I believe, intended was the unreliable narrator trope. The narrator is a man who's probably in his mid to late thirties and jobless without prospect. This tale was written in the fifties, so the idea of a man of that age without prospects generally leads me to the idea that the narrator is a vagrant, and is possible of anything if he thinks it will get him a little further… or possibly to get another fix (more on that later)? The two men are cousins that's true, but why would the narrator be reached out to first? And why the emphasis on the importance of secrecy? Probably because vagrancy lends itself to being disposable, so it wouldn't matter the secrets learned, because the narrator was never meant to leave the property. Something to think about as we move throughout the story.
Why was this the first thing that came to my mind? Because when Ambrose answers the door, "he was thin and gaunt; the hale, ruddy man I had last seen almost four years ago had vanished, and in his place stood a mere travesty of his former self." Ambrose had come across something profound. He either wanted someone who wouldn't say anything because they understood, or he wanted someone disposable when things got too deep.
Ambrose brings the narrator into confidence and tells him the job is to transpose his notes from shorthand into a narrative, then proceeds to tell our narrator that he's developed a method of, "a combination of drugs and music, taken at a time when the body is half-starved induces the mood and makes it possible to cast back in time and sharpen all the faculties to such a degree that memory is regained." The point of this vision quest is to "recapture all my past, down to the most minute nooks and crannies of human memory, and I am now further convinced that, by the same methods, I can extend this perceptive process to hereditary memory and recreate the events of man's heredity." He's even said that he's recaptured memories from his own time in the womb.
The narrator lives in this strange abode for weeks with his host disappearing for half of every day to do his strange experiments. His only companionship are the Reeds, "man and wife, who were both in their sixties, were subdued. They made little conversation, not only because Mrs. Reed both cooked and served her dinner, but because they were plainly accustomed to carrying on an existence apart from their employer's…"
The creepy but innocuous Mrs. Slydes
Why is the only thing he mentions the fact that she cooks him dinner? Why doesn't he mention the butlery duties of Mr. Reed? Initially this would seem like it's an important designation. In fact I wrote in my notes that they were characters to watch. I thought they might be devious, possibly nefarious characters, but they turn out to be just an old couple who have seen too much and decide they just need to put their heads down and do their job. In fact they turn out to be much like The Slydes from "House on Haunted Hill." They're atmosphere. They're not really characters, but a backdrop to give off a creepy vibe.
So the atmosphere is in place and the narrator is curious about what's going on, until finally Ambrose grows to weak from his food abstinence. He calls the narrator in and we finally get a glimpse. "The atmosphere of the laboratory, ill-lit with but one low red light near to the operating table, was eerie. My cousin looked far more like a corpse than a man under the influence of drugs. Moreover, there was playing in one corner an electric phonograph, so that the low, discordant strains of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps flowed through the room and took possession of it."
Stravinsky's dark classic
This is an area of prose where Derleth is sound. His writing is simplistic and over-run with contextual errors (not to mention lazy. There's a part of me that after reading Lovecraft for years and bathing in his beautiful exposition, to be laden with Derleth just outright saying "it was eerie" is a bit troublesome), but he gives off a much more visual contextualization. It's almost as though because Derleth wrote after TV became popular and Lovecraft didn't, that his tales are more direct…as though they're stories meant to read like a show, rather than Lovecraft who was more cerebral. It's an interesting juxtaposition, but it's probably not the right time for that.
Getting back to the story, the narrator is now privy to the lab and takes notes of Ambrose going even further back in time, back to before he was born in fact, back to memories that couldn't possibly be his own and eventually he broke into the strangest of phrases:
"Forest sunk into earth…Great ones fighting, tearing. Run, run… New trees for old. Footprints ten feet across. We live in cave, cold, damp, fire…"
Ambrose thinks he may have gotten somewhere, but strangely, he kicks our narrator out. He locks the door leaving the Reeds and the narrator to wait outside and listen to the odd sounds coming from the laboratory. Ambrose's dog starts to get upset; "Whereas hitherto he had been a singularly well-behaved dog, now he began to bark often at night, and day by day he whined and moved about the house and yard with an air of alarm."
They would leave food on a tray outside of the laboratory door, and always when they weren't looking the food would disappear. The notes became more difficult for the narrator to decipher. "He seemed to have difficulty properly holding a pencil, and his lines were scrawled in large letters over all the sheets of paper without any sense of order, though this was not entirely unexpected in one heavily dosed with drugs."
But then the music, what Ambrose touted as heavily important for the process, suddenly stopped right about the time, "a pervasive and highly repellent musk, clearly an animal odor, which seemed to emanate from the laboratory." The narrator also thinks he "...saw some unpleasantly large animal scuttling into the woods."
The narrator finally gets into the lab and finds what to him looks like "a primal animal's abode." With parts of game, obviously caught and devoured strewn about the lab. The lab itself was destroyed, but the door leading to the woods was wide open.
The narrator followed the trail until he came upon Ginger, Ambrose's dog, with a fresh kill in the woods:
"For the thing that lay below Ginger's bloody jaws was a sub-human caricature of a man, a hellish parody of primal growth, with horrible malformations of face and body, giving off an all-pervasive and wholly charnel musk – but it was clad in the rags of my cousin's mouse-colored dressing-gown, and it wore on it's wrist my cousin's watch."
So we come to find that the set up of the story had a Lovecraftian tint; a man searching for knowledge, taking part in obscure or arcane rituals, but the payoff is different than anticipated. He goes back in time and because of the rituals he executed, he gained aspects of his prehistoric ancestors. It's a shocking ending sure, but Derleth lost quite a bit along the way. There was plenty of drama he could have infused with Ambrose looking like his actual ancestors, much like in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." There's also the mention of the Great Ones, which didn't actually pan out.
What Ambrose would have looked like in a Universal Horror flick.
Ultimately the story reads much like the narrator is…unreliable. I mentioned earlier that the narrator was a confusing personage. Is he a man looking to do the most and just down on his luck? It doesn't seem so because of all the previous things mentioned, and also his vast knowledge of drugs. There's a portion of the text where the narrator gives a scientific description of the Marijuana Ambrose "uses." I've seen this in people I know, where they are so enamored with Weed that they get into the scientific aspects of it, sometimes to the detriment of everything else in their lives. Could that be what the narrator was looking for? Easy access to weed?
Even if that is the case, he's unreliable. What's more Derleth is unreliable as well and I'm slowly coming to the understanding that there may be a metafictional dichotomy here. Derleth was using Lovecraft's name to sell his horror fiction and where… yes… he coined the phrase "Cthulhu Mythos" and supposedly expanded Lovecraft's world, it feels like he's using key words of Lovecraft to get some of his weirder tales out there.
Derleth himself is unreliable because I keep going into these stories expecting a Lovecraftian payoff, but he pulls the rug out from under us just as we get to the end. Is this how the rest of the experience will go? Fun stories, but not nearly Lovecraftian? Based on the title I think we're going to find out next week!
Read along as we cover "The Shadow out of Space!"
May 6, 2021 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: #blog, #critique, #cthulhu, #derleth, #essay, #horror', #lovecraft, #shortstory | 5 Comments
Blind Read Through: H.P. Lovecraft/August Derleth; The Peabody Heritage
"For at the base of the wall, behind the baseboard, there lay, among long yellowed papers half gnawed away by mice, yet still bearing on their surfaces the unmistakably cabalistic designs of some bygone day, among wicked implements of death and destruction – short, dagger-like knives rusted by what must surely have been blood – the small skulls and bones of at least three children!"
Welcome back to another Blind Read! This week we're unraveling Derleth's complex love of Lovecraft while trying to understand his religious overtones thrust upon the conversely amoral Lovecraft Universe.
The first note I feel I have to hit is the overarching hope in Derleth's horror. This is now the third story I've read by him and all the while there has been a niggling itch that I just couldn't reach. These types of stories could have been written by Lovecraft, but there is something so utterly different about them and until now I just couldn't put my finger on it. The language is slightly different, but for a reader who is only looking for story and isn't going to dig any deeper, I'm not sure if they would notice a difference. The stories themselves are absolutely horror with fantastic elements, and similar terrifying hopeless situations the protagonists find themselves in. So what is it?
There is a subtle nearly imperceptible change. Lovecraft was depressed and that comes off in his writing style. The characters are dreary, people stuck in cycles of destitution and despair. Nearly every story has an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness.
In Derleth's stories (thus far at least) the protagonists not only survive, but they aren't thrust into a horrid spiral of depression and fear. It's much more light hearted as if they're stories told by a college buddy over drinks about an escapade, rather than a drunk recounting the horrors that led him to the bottom of the bottle to a bartender in some run down dive.
That's an extreme statement but the sentiment is real. Lovecraft is serious, his tales have bite and nuance, whereas Derleth's stories seem to be written more for fun.
That being said, let's check out what fun can be had in The Peabody Heritage!
It starts out with an immediate reference to the old Lovecraft tales, "I never knew my great-grandfather Asaph Peabody…" If you'll remember from Lovecraft's story "In the Vault" there's a character named Asaph (known for his angry, bucolic disposition) who's buried in a tomb. There are things that happen in that story which echo this one, and unfortunately I knew within that first sentence what was basically going to happen at the end of this one…but more on that later.
The fabulously strange Winchester Mystery House
The first chapter is about the protagonist slowly moving back into his ancestral home. It's a fascinating description which recalls the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA: "The dwelling itself was the product of many generations. It had been built originally in 1787, at first as a simple colonial house, with severe lines, an unfinished second storey, and four impressive pillars at the front. But, in time, this had become the basic part of the house, the heart, as it were. Subsequent generations had altered and added to it-at first by the addition of a floating stairway and a second storey; then by various ells and wings…"
This is a wonderful way to introduce the detective story the tale becomes as the narrator works to renovate this house so that he can live in it. He even finds the family tomb and enters it, curious about his lineage. He finds various cubbies and caskets in the tomb with the names of his family etched upon them, but then he finds Asaph's disturbed tomb:
"Moreover, it seemed as if someone had lifted or attempted to lift the cover, for one of the hinges was broken, and the other loosened."
Curious as to what happened he lifted the cover and, "I saw that through some hideous error, he (Asaph) had been buried face downward – I did not want to think, even at so long a time after his death, that the old man might have been buried in a cataleptic state and so suffered a painful death in that cramped, airless space."
It's a strange thought with the evidence of the tampered sarcophagus lid to go immediately to the idea he may be buried alive, but seemingly because of this sentiment he flips the skeleton over before putting the lid back on the coffin. Derleth handles this with deft skill because altering the remains is obviously thematically dangerous, but the way it's written feels almost as if it's done with a religious reverence instead of a horrible precognition.
The next chapter begins with our narrator dreaming, a theme which continues along though the entire story that connects to a major Lovecraftian concept – dreaming. The question immediately is, what does dreaming mean to Derleth? As we've talked about in previous Blind Reads, Lovecraft seems to consider dreaming as travelling or dimension hopping. So many of his stories held the precedent that the "dreamers" like Randolph Carter were actually time travelers who went through gates of consciousness and dimension to instantly find different areas of time and space. Derleth, starts down that road, but then seems to take a different approach here.
A priests hole
After finding what they consider a "priests hole" (a place to hide runaway slaves) in one of the strange void spaces in the house, the narrator, "Though ordinarily not at all given to dreams, I was literally beset by the most grotesque phantasms of sleep, in which I played a passive role and was subjected to all manner of distortions of time and space, sensory illusions, and several frightening glimpses of a shadowy figure in a conical black hat with an equally shadowy creature by his side."
So initially this seems to indicate that because of the "distortions of time and space" that we might be getting some of that dimensional hopping, but as we get deeper into the tale we find that there is a distinct difference between dreaming and possession.
The protagonist goes into "…a space unaccounted for along the north wall upstairs, in the oldest part of the house" and found "The door to it (was) hidden in the finely-wrought carvings which decorated that entire wall," and that "…the door which had no knob and worked only by pressure upon one of the carvings."
I mean who doesn't want a secret office which has a secret door with a pressure plate lock carved into a cedar relief on a wall? It's still a dream of mine!
They go into this room and found, "...it's angles seemed to be awry," and there "…were curious drawings on the floor." and all manner of strange texts (including such gems as the Malleus Maleficarum) and news stories of missing children.
Having read through Lovecraft we know instantly that this is a witches room. The odd angles, much like in "Dreams of the Witch House" and other stories, are there because they present a bend in the fabric of reality and make witchcraft easier to practice; spells more potent. The fact that there are stories of missing children lend a malevolence to the room.
Intrigued our narrator continues doing work on the house and begins having more and more prevalent dreams of this Black Man (as in color not race) and his nefarious familiar. The narrator heads to town and finds that the townsfolk are despairing of him, though he tries to be friendly. When he inquires as to their demeanor, he's told that his family name, Peabody, has a terrible history. His ancestors were thought to have stolen children whom they killed to be used in some kind of witchcraft.
Discouraged, he goes home but finally gets a construction crew to go through that secret wall and renovate the hidden office. Through the construction he dreams of Walpurgis night (which, if you remember from Lovecraft, that's a night of witchcraft) where he walks through the woods to a Black Mass out in the woods. There's a group of witches along with his Black Man and large black cat which stands beside him. When the narrator wakens, he finds that his feet and legs are dirty.
Depiction of Walpurgis Night
Seemingly ignoring this outlandish event, he finds that the crew renovating have fled the house in disgust. When he goes to investigate, he come across the quote at the beginning of this essay. Panicked, he takes the children's remains and puts them into one of his ancestors coffins. Then to make matters worse, three more children go missing.
And still he dreams. His somnambulant excursions take him back to the Black Mass again and again, and there's some strange Christian iconography there which was always absent in Lovecraft. We hear of the devils, Balor, Beelzebub, and Sathanus. While Lovecraft went a long way to divest himself from any kind of religious deities, Derleth is leaning into them, seemingly in an effort to add horror from these Christian call backs.
We also find that these Devils are trying to bring him into the fold of their coven and that these nightly excursions are actually happening, they aren't actual dreams. This is a theme that we've seen in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" as well, where an ancestor of a character begins to take over the living relative because they accidentally took part in reviving the ancestor. We get confirmation of this when the narrator goes to the crypt and checks on Asaph's grave and finds that the bones have begun to grow skin, and there are three bodies of children in the coffin with Asaph's remains!
Fantasy depiction of Balor
And here is that call back from earlier. Remember when I said we'd see how the story ended? in the tale "In the Vault" Asaph was a corpse who came alive and tried to kill one the characters of that tale. Asaph as corpse bit into his leg and tried to make him fall to his death on the stone ground. In this story, the disturbed body is what actually causes the Demon Balor to come back, as turning him over reinstated the machinations of the Devils.
The fact is that the narrator wasn't dreaming, but because he turned the body over, he allowed Asaph to come into his body and use it to go to the Black Mass. It was possession, not dreaming.
So in the end we have the narrator fighting these forces and wondering, "Who, I wonder, after I am dead, if I am buried as the others were, will turn me over?"
Initially this seems like a dark and twisty ending, but in reality Derleth just leaned into it. Lovecraft would have had the narrator telling us how he went insane, how he fought and did everything he could to stop the coven, and whether he succeeded or not he would have been irrevocably changed. The tone would have been much more desolate.
Here Derleth's character just gives in and decides he wont fight. That he will just take part of the coven with the Devils and do their bidding. It's a dark ending, but in a weird way it's not as dark as Lovecraft would have been, because at least here the narrator has hope that he will live on, though in a twisted way. Lovecraft's character wouldn't have wanted to live on, because of the strange and utterly devastating knowledge he had gained.
Will all Derleth be this way? Join me next week with "The Gable Window" to find out!
April 22, 2021 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: #analysis, #blog, #critique, #derleth, #essay, #horror, #hplovecraft, #lovecraft, #scary, #shortstory | 2 Comments


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Battle of Lundy's Lane
The Battle of Lundy's Lane, during the War of 1812, was fought between American troops and British regulars assisted by Canadian fencibles and militia on the sultry evening of 25 July 1814, almost within sight of Niagara Falls.
Battle of Lundy's Lane National Historic Site of Canada
Battle of Lundy's Lane National Historic Site marks the 25 July 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane, the fiercest and bloodiest land action during the War of 1812.
Battle of Mackinac Island
There were two Battles of Mackinac Island during the War of 1812, fought in 1812 and 1814; both were British victories over American forces. Mackinac Island is located at the confluence of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
Battle of Medak Pocket
In 1993, during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, Canadian peacekeepers with the United Nations (UN) advanced into disputed territory in Croatia with orders to implement the Medak Pocket ceasefire agreement between the Croatian Army and Serbian irregular forces. Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (2 PPCLI), came under Croatian attack for more than 15 hours. In the firefight that ensued – the most significant combat experienced by Canadians since the Korean War – 2 PPCLI held its ground and preserved the UN protected zone. UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said the Canadian soldiers brought credit to their profession, saved lives, and enhanced the credibility of UN peacekeeping forces.
Battle of Mississinewa River
The first significant American, and perhaps First Nations, victory of the War of 1812, the Battle of Mississinewa River was a reprisal action against the Miami Nation villages in December 1812.
Battle of Mons
On 11 November 1918, the last day of the First World War, Canadian forces captured the Belgian town of Mons — liberating a place that had been under German occupation since 1914.
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815) has the unique distinction of being the last major battle of the War of 1812; it took place after the war was officially over.
Battle of North Point
Since March 1813, British naval forces under the command of Rear Admiral George Cockburn had positioned naval forces in Chesapeake Bay in order to draw US forces back toward defending the capital on the northeastern seaboard instead of pressing attacks into Canada.
Battle of Ortona
In December 1943, as part of the Allied advance through Italy during the Second World War, Canadian forces fought one of their toughest battles of the war in a bid to capture the town of Ortona. The month-long campaign — first at the Moro River outside Ortona, then with vicious street fighting in the town itself — cost more than 2,300 Canadian casualties, but eventually won Ortona for the Allies.
Battle of Paardeberg
The Battle of Paardeberg was the first major British success in the South African War since "Black Week," 10-15 December 1899. Faced by a reorganized British offensive directed at their capitals, the Afrikaners made a stand at Paardeberg, a point on the Modder River some 130 km from Bloemfontein.
Battle of Plattsburgh
The Battle of Plattsburgh (also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain) was a joint land and naval invasion of upper New York State and the last major British operation of the War of 1812 (not including the battles after the Treaty of Ghent), and is largely remembered as a debacle.
Battle of Queenston Heights
The Battle of Queenston Heights was fought during the War of 1812 on 13 October 1812. One of the most famous battles of the war, the Battle of Queenston Heights was the struggle for a portion of the Niagara escarpment overlooking Queenston, where more than 1,000 American soldiers crossed into Upper Canada. Part of the American force reached the top, circled the British artillery position and forced the British from the Heights. General Isaac Brock, one of the most respected British military leaders of his day, was killed leading a counter-attack. Mohawk chiefs John Norton and John Brant and about 80 Haudenosaunee and Delaware warriors held back the Americans for hours — long enough for reinforcements to arrive so that the British could retain the crucial outpost.
Battle of Queenston Heights National Historic Site of Canada
The Battle of Queenston Heights National Historic Site commemorates a battle fought on 13 October 1812, when the British army and Canadian militia, assisted by First Nations allies, defeated an invading American army on the Niagara Escarpment overlooking the village of Queenston.
Battle of Restigouche
After the fall of Québec in 1759, an urgent appeal was sent to France for 4000 troops and food supplies. Not until Apr 19 did 5 merchant ships and a frigate leave Bordeaux with 400 troops and some supplies.
Battle of Ridgeway
The Battle of Ridgeway is also known as the Battle of Lime Ridge or Limestone Ridge. It was fought on the morning of 2 June 1866, near the village of Ridgeway and the town of Fort Erie in Canada West (present-day Ontario). Around 850 Canadian soldiers clashed with 750 to 800 Fenians	— Irish American insurgents who had crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York. It was the first industrial-era battle to be fought exclusively by Canadian troops and led entirely by Canadian officers. It was the last battle fought in Ontario against a foreign invasion force. The battlefield was designated a National Historic Site	in 1921.
Battle of Sackets Harbor
During the WAR OF 1812, British troops led by Lieutenant General Sir George PREVOST conducted a raid on Sackets Harbor, NY, having learned that the American naval squadron was at the western end of Lake Ontario supporting an American army in the NIAGARA PENINSULA.
Battle of Seven Oaks
The Battle of Seven Oaks, or the Victory of the Frog Plain (la Victoire de la Grenouillère), took place 19 June 1816. The battle was a culmination of the Pemmican Wars and the escalating fur trade disputes between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC). Pemmican was the food supply that the fur traders depended on to carry out operations. On the day of the battle, a party of about 60 Métis and First Nations men, led by Cuthbert Grant, was heading west of the Forks to deliver pemmican to the NWC canoe brigades on Lake Winnipeg. They were confronted at Seven Oaks by HBC Governor Robert Semple and 28 men (mostly HBC officers and employees). The gunfire and hand-to-hand combat that resulted left Semple and 20 of the HBC party dead. On the Métis side, 16-year-old Joseph Letendre died, and Joseph Trottier was wounded.
Battle of St-Charles
On the morning of 25 November 1837, 2 days after Francis Gore's defeat at the Battle of St-Denis and the retreat to Sorel, the troops of Colonel Wetherall (about 350 men) left St-Hilaire and marched on the camp at St-Charles, Manoir Debartzch and its surrounding entrenchments, south of the village.
Battle of St-Denis
Two army detachments came from Montréal to attack St-Charles, the one led by Col Wetherall taking the south route via Chambly and the other led by Colonel Charles Gore taking the northern route through Sorel.
Battle of St-Eustache
The rebels' morale had suffered badly from the news of the defeat at the Battle of St-Charles and the influential William Henry Scott soon concluded that the resistance had no further chance of success.

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This Greek Web Entrepreneur Wants To Vote For The Conservatives, And Then Wants To Do Something Very Violent To Himself
Joe Weisenthal
Photo: Business Insider
ATHENS, GREECE — Not all hope is lost in Greece, despite the economic collapse you read and hear so much about.Tonight I got to meet with a group of 20 or so men and women who are building Athens' startup ecosystem, either as founders, VCs, or active participants are larger media and tech companies.
I'll have more on my meeting later, but one conversation with Sotiris Papantonopoulos, the founder and CEO of Insurancemarket.gr really stood out.
Insurancemarket.gr is a platform for people to find car insurance in Greece. Soon it will offer health insurance as well.
Papantonopoulos, who used to work for one of Soros' funds in London and Greece, says he has 20 employees, and is serving 3000 quotes per day. He cites the crisis as an opportunity to disrupt the existing business models, because people who used to just go to the local insurance agent now are eager to save money, and are willing to shop online.
He hopes the conservative candidate Antonio Samaras will win this Sunday's election, as the left-wing that promises a bigger public sector is "delusional."
But he certainly understands people's frustration with Samaras.
"I'm going to vote for the right… and then I'm going to cut off my arm," he says half jokingly, referring to how dirty he'll feel voting for an establishment character.
If Samaras is going to win, he'll need the support of a lot of folks like Papantonopoulos… people who aren't necessarily fans, but are eager to stop the leftists who risk getting Greece ejected from the Eurozone.
Now for some people who are really excited about Samaras, see here >
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HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital company, has announced the launch of the Ultrastar C15K600 family of hard drives.
The C15K600 family is positioned as high-performance, high-capacity, enterprise-class range of drives. It is aimed at enabling higher density and higher performing servers, blades and network storage arrays, whilst reducing space requirements and costs.
Ultrastar C15K600 drives are 2.5-inch 15K RPM devices that HGST claims deliver the highest 15K HDD performance in the industry. The company says that the drives provide, "two times better random write performance than current generation 2.5-inch 15K drives and two and a half times better performance than 3.5-inch 15K drives."
It also claims that the Ultrastar C15K600 range is unique in featuring an SAS 12Gb/s interface and a 128MB cache buffer.
HGST has rolled out the line based on it own market projections. It suggests that, by 2016, the total available market for Performance Enterprise (15K and 10K) HDDs will be more than two times the size of the Enterprise SSD market.
"A couple of factors are keeping the demand strong for 15K HDDs,"said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing for HGST. "First, our customers continue to use 15K HDDs along with a complement of SSDs in tiered pools of storage, depending on their performance, capacity and power efficiency requirements."
Collins continued, "Also, we see that the industry is transitioning away from 15K 3.5-inch hard drives to smaller 2.5-inch drives to help reduce space requirements, while offering comparable capacities to the legacy 3.5-inch 15K products."
WD recently announced a new high-capacity HDD line for surveillance use.


Christine joined the Center's staff in March 2013. She earned a B.A in education from the Université Pédagogique Nationale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and an M.A. in administrative studies from The Wood's College of Advancing Studies at Boston College.


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Share this Story: RBC supports entrepreneurship in Huron County
RBC supports entrepreneurship in Huron County
Lorna McKercher, Vice President Agriculture and Agribusiness with RBC (left), and Martin Vanderloo, President, Huron Commodities Inc., and a member of the Huron Entrepreneur Fund committee, celebrate RBC's support for the Huron Entrepreneur Fund. Submitted jpg, SE
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has made a significant contribution to the new Huron Entrepreneur Fund, which supports entrepreneurs in the county while funding charities in the region.
The new fund, launched earlier in 2021, was developed by a group of business leaders in Huron County.
RBC supports entrepreneurship in Huron County Back to video
"This is an opportunity for donors to support charitable activities in Huron County, and at the same time, to foster new businesses and grow existing businesses," explained Martin Vanderloo, president of Huron Commodities Inc. and a founding member of the Huron Entrepreneur Fund committee.
Donations to the fund will be held permanently with grants made to charities from the investment income.
The fund's capital will be invested in Community Futures Huron, which provides small business loans to enterprises in Huron. Community Futures, in turn, will provide a return to the fund.
"At RBC, we have a long history of uplifting entrepreneurs and supporting charities in communities across the country," said Lorna McKercher, vice-president, agriculture at RBC.
"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to make a positive impact in Huron County through this fund and we can't wait to see what ideas and change its recipients will spark in our communities."
The fund will be held within and administered by the Sunset Community Foundation, which was originally called the Grand Bend Community Foundation. It represents two decades of experience in working with donors to realize their goals and make grants based on deep community knowledge.
"We are thrilled that the Huron Entrepreneur Fund has received this landmark contribution from RBC," admitted Deb Gill, chair of the foundation.
"It's wonderful to see a major financial institution reaching out to support innovation and entrepreneurship, and in the process, helping local charities as well."
Vanderloo agrees, adding that he hopes other businesses in Huron County will be inspired by RBC's generosity and vision.
"This fund is a unique opportunity, one that will make a real difference in the lives of people in our region," Vanderloo added.


This section is dedicated to the most common words of everyday Russian language, which greatly enhance your ability of speaking in Russian. Learning of all languages on earth, including Russian, begins with an acquaintance with words like these. Such words are very important because they widely used by most people in everyday life. This number of commonly used words can provide more support during the period when you are not able to socialize in Russia freely.
These words contribute to pick up popular phrases and somehow keep the conversation going; because any language serves only in order that people understood each other. And namely frequently used words help to establish the very first communication. The study of a small number of common words gives you the opportunity to understand any Russian-speaking person much deeper than you could ever before!


Welcome home to desirable Highland Falls! This well maintained one level unit features an open floor plan, large windows, tons of natural light, central air, gas heat, new hot water tank, french doors, new flooring and much more. Spacious and open living room and dining area are perfect for entertaining and the kitchen includes all appliances, including a new dishwasher. Two bedrooms, including a master suite with full bath. Also available in the building are a fitness room, community center and storage unit in the basement. One assigned parking space and great location next to the Blackstone River and bike path. Easy for commuters and close to shopping. Professionally maintained. Don't miss this one! Approved for FHA financing. Taxes do not reflect 35% Homestead Exemption.


00005 *     and University of California, Berkeley.
00011 *     .. Array Arguments ..
00026 *  (upper trapezoidal if m < n). L and U are stored in sub( A ).
00037 *  and memory location.
00039 *  Let A be a generic term for any 2D block cyclicly distributed array.
00040 *  Such a global array has an associated description vector DESCA.
00042 *  "of the global array".
00047 *                                 DTYPE_A = 1.
00052 *                                 value) may vary.
00058 *                                 the rows of the array.
00060 *                                 the columns of the array.
00062 *                                 row of the array A is distributed.
00067 *                                 array.  LLD_A >= MAX(1,LOCr(M_A)).
00070 *  and assume that its process grid has dimension p x q.
00076 *  its process row.
00080 *          LOCc( N ) = NUMROC( N, NB_A, MYCOL, CSRC_A, NPCOL ).
00085 *  This routine requires square block decomposition ( MB_A = NB_A ).
00092 *          of the distributed submatrix sub( A ). M >= 0.
00096 *          columns of the distributed submatrix sub( A ). N >= 0.
00099 *          local memory to an array of dimension (LLD_A, LOCc(JA+N-1)).
00104 *          ments of L are not stored.
00108 *          row of sub( A ).
00112 *          first column of sub( A ).
00114 *  DESCA   (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN_.
00115 *          The array descriptor for the distributed matrix A.
00118 *          This array contains the pivoting information.
00119 *          IPIV(i) -> The global row local row i was swapped with.
00120 *          This array is tied to the distributed matrix A.
00127 *                INFO = -i.
00128 *          > 0:  If INFO = K, U(IA+K-1,JA+K-1) is exactly zero.
00131 *                it is used to solve a system of equations.
00144 *     .. Local Scalars ..
00149 *     .. Local Arrays ..
00152 *     .. External Subroutines ..
00157 *     .. External Functions ..
00161 *     .. Intrinsic Functions ..
00164 *     .. Executable Statements ..
00230 *        Apply interchanges to columns JN+1:JA+N-1.
00235 *        Compute block row of U.
00242 *           Update trailing submatrix.
00251 *     Loop over the remaining blocks of columns.
00265 *        Apply interchanges to columns JA:J-JA.
00272 *           Apply interchanges to columns J+JB:JA+N-1.
00277 *           Compute block row of U.
00285 *              Update trailing submatrix.


Aged 25, textile surface designer Rianna Phillips is on a mission to bring manufacturing back to the U.K. Each piece is lovingly hand crafted in her home country England, Manchester. We love the way she incorporates digital prints infused with soft pastels and prints to her designs. Here are some of Rianna's fabulous creations.
We recently printed these photographs by Australian photographer Jacob McFadden onto t-shirts. The final products were then given away as gifts. If you have any of your own photographs or artworks you would like to print onto fabric contact us to brainstorm and bring to life your creative ideas.
Fashion designer Michael Angel has a fantastic grasp of digital printing. Check out his examples below from his collection Resort '12.
This is a great overview and insight into the designers that work at Liberty Art fabrics and how they came up with their inspiration for their collection.
Harvest Textiles is a team of women who share a passion for quality handmade textiles, the joy of learning, community and sustainability. There are two facets of their business: – Screen printing / workshops- They offer an extraordinary amount of workshops, seminars and events at their Brunswick location. – Their label- Which is Harvest textiles and they make clothing, homewares, accessories, yardage and DIY contemporary kits. Below are some examples of their beautiful work and designs.
We stumbled upon this lovely Melbourne business, Funky Wombat Textiles recently and couldn't wait to share their beautiful designs. The designer behind the prints is Tamara Schneider, surface pattern and textile designer. Each design, print and product is oozing originality and style!


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(What's Left of) Our Economy: Overseas Deflation Threats Over the Horizon
Posted by Alan Tonelson in (What's Left of) Our Economy
deflation, economic development, exports, Global Imbalances, globalization, India, Indonesia, industrialization, manufacturing, {What's Left of) Our Economy
Whoever the winners in the midterm elections in the United States, their top challenge would have been the same: strengthening the U.S. recovery and extending its benefits to the vast majority of Americans who have seen their incomes fall even as growth has resumed. One of the main obstacles would have remained the same, too: unusually weak growth in wages and prices, which keeps signaling that the economy's paramount source of growth – the demand for goods and services – is likely to remain weak, too.
More alarming, the wage and price stagnation could well turn into deflation – a situation of falling wages and prices that tends to worsen and plunge growth itself into a nosedive. Consumers put off purchases in the expectation of better bargains, businesses therefore sell less and less, they hire fewer and fewer (if at all), wages sink further, and a race to the bottom is on.
Deflation of course will need to be fought on the home front. But its deep rooted international roots will need to addressed as well, in particular the impact of literally hundreds of millions of workers from gigantic but very poor developing countries who began flooding world labor markets at the beginning of the 1990s whose capacity to produce was orders of magnitude greater than their capacity to consume.
It's now become a commonplace that what I once called this worldwide worker explosion – epitomized by the rise of China – has undermined pricing power throughout the world economy, and especially in segments whose output could be readily traded, like manufacturing. Less commonplace, but just as important, is that the persistence and even strengthening of deflation since means that the uber-prediction advanced to sell expanded trade with these countries has so far proven completely bogus. At least in a relative sense, consuming power in the developing world hasn't grown nearly fast enough to rebalance supply and demand.
In recent weeks, however, some news has emerged indicating that deflationary forces are about to get stronger still. I'm not talking about the worsening of economic stagnation in the European Union – the world's largest single economic unit. I'm talking about the renewed determination of two other third world population giants – India and Indonesia – to become major manufacturing powers along the lines of China.
I'm actually surprised that it's taken them this long. But contrary to my expectation – as expressed in my book The Race to the Bottom – Indonesia focused on exploiting its oil and other natural resources. India's industrialization has famously been slowed by the dreadful state of its infrastructure and its choking bureaucratic red tape and, paradoxically, by its success in computer software and high tech services.
Both countries recently elected new leaders, and both of them have decided that promoting manufacturing can fill crucial national gaps and promote crucial national needs. India has concluded that even the most advanced services sector offers no hope of providing decent employment for the vast majority of its people living on subsistence wages – at best. Indonesia believes that it will never approach first world levels of prosperity by continuing to rely on commodity production.
Unquestionably, industrialization remains the best long term bet for meaningful third world economic progress. Over the shorter term, though – if it works – it could inject a huge new deflationary shock into a world economy at exactly the wrong time.
Consider some of these figures. Indonesia's population is 250 million. Even after an excellent, commodity-led growth run over the last few years, only 13 million households have annual disposable incomes greater than $10,000. In large measure, the explanation is that, as one analyst puts it, "Compared with other countries in Asia Pacific, Indonesia…has the most attractive hourly wage." Meaning of course, the lowest wage. India has 1.25 billion people. Its average hourly manufacturing labor cost of 92 cents is just over one-fourth of China's.
Of course both countries are hoping – and need – to serve export markets, especially in higher income countries, where the world's critical mass of purchasing power is still found. But both are also hoping to supply their own internal markets from within. So export opportunities for U.S. and other workers from the developed world could be even less lucrative than suggested by these two countries' low living standards.
As a result, their big-time entry into global manufacturing markets stands to bring not only deflation, but greater international imbalances like those that triggered the financial crisis six years ago. Figuring out how to harmonize worthy and entirely legitimate third world hopes for progress and prosperity on the one hand, and the global financial stability that benefits everyone on the other, is the greatest international economic policy challenge of our time. Is there any reason to think it's even close to the screen of either the Obama administration or Republican leaders in Congress?
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We are an independent trade union who have their roots in representing migrant workers and have evolved to taking on the bosses of the so called gig economy and government regulators.
Workers in the so-called "gig economy" from Uber drivers to Deliveroo couriers are having their minimum wage, holiday pay and other employment rights systematically denied by being bogusly classified as independent contractors.
The IWGB is fighting and winning their rights as workers through campaigns and strategic legal action.
Outsourced cleaners, receptionists and security officers suffer from worse pay, terms and conditions than directly employed staff. These workers, who tend to be predominantly migrants, are also more likely to suffer from discrimination and bullying. The IWGB fights to right these wrongs, and where possible, to end outsourcing so that these workers can work directly for the client organisation.
Foster care workers in the UK have traditionally been denied all employment rights, from minimum wage to holiday pay and whistle-blowing protection. Consequently they have faced years of bullying and harassment on the part of their employers.
The IWGB is fighting in the courts and in Parliament to establish the employment rights of foster care workers and ensure a brighter future for all those in this vital profession.
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Q: Double parse JSON data (or use another method to split) Wondering what the best way is to break a large data object coming from AJAX apart.  If I send just one portion (says paths) I use JSON.parse(data)  What I'd really like to do is split the object apart first into it's individual blocks, then be able to do something like JSON.parse(data['paths']).
Here's a clipped sample of the JSON data
{
    "paths": {
        "type": "FeatureCollection",
        "features": [{
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "MultiLineString",
                "coordinates": [
                    [
                        [-122.32074805731085, 47.634990818586026],
                        [-122.32074412999432, 47.63497931696752],
                        [-122.32107629703529, 47.63465666282262]
                    ]
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "path_name": "Woodland path"
            },
            "id": 2
        }]
    },
    "beds": {
        "type": "FeatureCollection",
        "features": [{
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "MultiPolygon",
                "coordinates": [
                    [
                        [
                            [-122.32073753862116, 47.6347629704532],
                            [-122.32071585642394, 47.63470617810399],
                            [-122.32073753862116, 47.6347629704532]
                        ]
                    ]
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "bed_name": "Azalea Triangle"
            },
            "id": 1
        }]
    }
}

Here's what I have in javascript
   $.ajax
    dataType: 'text'
    url: 'map.json'
    success: (data) ->

Here's the Rails code that generates the call
    data = { buildings: @geopaths, lawns: @geobeds }

respond_to do |format|
  format.json { render json: data }
  format.html
end

UPDATE:
I had sort of avoided explaining what I was wanting to do because I thought it would confuse the issue.  In a nut shell - I am collecting data from a database, and sending it to Javascript to be displayed as layers on a map.  Each layer has a name (paths, beds, etc), and gets encoded as GeoJSON in Rails before being sent to Javascript with an AJAX command.  If I only send one layer I have no trouble parsing the data and getting it onto the map.  A typical line of code would look like pathMarkers = L.geoJSON(JSON.parse(data)).
I now need to pass multiple layers to the map.  My understanding is AJAX can only handle one object so I combine both paths and beds into one object.  When I get to the Javascript side I don't know what to do.  In other words I need to get only that portion of the object that has path data for the pathMarkers, and only that portion of the object that has bed data for the bedMarkers.
Graphically this is what I'm trying to do:
paths = a bunch of GeoJSON data
beds = a bunch of GeoJSON data
Use AJAX to send paths and beds to javascript
build pathMarkers with JSON.parse for the paths data
build bedsMarkers with JSON.parse for the beds data

I could build a sample and post it to bitbucket if it would help.

A: I've run into this problem before with incredibly large payloads on mobile devices (iOS with Phonegap, to be precise). You may want to look into a library named OboeJS, at http://www.juancaicedo.com/oboe.js-website/.
Essentially, that library streams the JSON request so that you can process it in chunks. You should be able to use this to suit your needs.

A: Assuming that I understood correctly and your concern is bringing in distinct data layers into a geo library like Leaflet.js, a single AJAX request is fine unless the JSON payload is so large that it crashes the browser.
As you don't provide much of your code, the following is a general example of how you would do it.
First you create the map object. Obviously :)
const map = L.map(id).setView([1.2345, -1.2345], 10);

Start the AJAX request to fetch the geoJSON file.
$.ajax({
  dataType: "json",
  url: '/json/lives/here.json',
  data: {} /* any props you'd like to pass as query string to your server */,
  success: success
});

And the crux of the issue: "How do I access each feature collection?"
The sucess or done callback is where you can be sure you received the data, and can add it to the map.
jQuery's AJAX method, when called with dataType: 'json', automatically runs JSON.parse() for you (and a couple of other things). Once the JSON is parsed, it can be accessed as any other object in JS.
At this point the success callback receives the JSON-turned-into-object, which you can access with traditional JS methods. Like so:
function success (data) {
    // data is the parsed JSON. It is now just a JS object.
    // Below: for every "key" in the data object, pass its data to L.geoJSON() and add it to the map.
    for (var geojsonFeatureCollection in data) {
        if (data.hasOwnProperty(geojsonFeatureCollection)) {
            L.geoJSON(geojsonFeatureCollection, {/* options */}).addTo(map);
        }
    }
}

To answer your point about AJAX and a single object: AJAX is a just like any other browser request.
Yes you do send one request at a time. And likewise you receive one response from the server. But what is contained in the response can be absolutely any data. So what you are doing server side is totally OK!
In your case the data consists of a JSON text file, which is later parsed and turned into a JS object for you to actually do something with. The object contains a bunch of "keys" (beds, paths) and all you need to do is iterate over each of those keys and pass each one to Leaflet's geoJSON method for rendering.

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India talks terror; Beijing & New Delhi plan to set up hotlines to reduce tension along Line of Actual Control
Updated Aug 23, 2018 | 21:34 IST | Srinjoy Chowdhury
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday met her Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe at the South Block in New Delhi. The two sides agreed to set up hotlines to reduce tensions along the LAC.
Nirmala Sitharaman received her Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe/ Twitter: Nirmala Sitharaman | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspTwitter
New Delhi: A meeting between the Defence Ministers of China and India, and that too after the tense 71-day face-off between the two armies in Doklam would naturally include references to the border, the line of actual control. During the discussions today between Nirmala Sitharaman and her Chinese counterpart, Gen Wei Fenghe, the border certainly did feature, but the Indian Defence Minister had another important issue to bring up: terrorism.
Sitharaman suggested a united front against terror. The Indian line was unequivocal: there's no such thing as a good terrorist; all terrorists, whoever they are and wherever they are, cannot be anything but terrorists. And strong action needs to be taken against all of them. India, it had to be said, were the actual victims of terror. 'Pakistan' may have been the elephant in the room, but the issue was diplomatically brought up. And the Chinese, sources said, for all the help they have given to Pakistan, in terms of weapons, aid, nuclear technology and support for Maulana Masood Azhar of the Jaishe Mohammed, agreed in principle. The Chinese believe they too have problems: in Sinkiang.
The Indian Ocean came up for discussion and less surprisingly, India brought up issues that relate to free passage on the high seas. Indian merchant ships and warships go all the way to Japan and Korea of course, the ASEAN countries. They have to go through the South China Sea and Beijing and the artificial islands it has created has changed the geography to an extent.
As for the border, the hotline issue came up. The line is likely to be at the level of the army commanders-- on the Indian side, clearly the eastern and the northern. There was, as expected, a reference to "the maintenance of peace and tranquility" all along the line of actual control and the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jin Ping.
There will be port calls: Chinese warships will come to India and Indian naval vessels, to China. There was the talk of working together on training capsules.
The joint war-game-- Exercise Hand In Hand can resume in the near future. And the defence secretary-level talks could begin in the last quarter of this year. The official press release also mentions working towards a new memorandum of understanding to replace the one signed in 2006.
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Restaurateurs, manufacturers devise creative culinary solutions to deal with pervasive trend.
According to Chicago-based Mintel Research, the group that's most strongly acquired a preference for powerful flavors is millennials — those individuals born between the years 1980 and 2000. Why? Because this young and adventurous swath of society has grown up in culturally diverse neighborhoods, schools and workplaces. It's second nature to them.
New York-based NPD Group showed evidence that this is happening in restaurants when it released the results of its 2015 SupplyTrack research. The firm found that the number of cases of hot sauce shipped to foodservice outlets has increased by double digits over the past two years.
As a result of this shift, chefs and restaurateurs are turning to versatile ingredients like hot sauce to amp up new menu items and satisfy their customers' craving for more exciting preparations. However, the key, experts say, is to make certain that such flavors complement one another without overwhelming the other ingredients in the dish.
"Hot sauce is clearly part of the American diet, and it's a food that crosses gender, age, ethnicity and income," says Annie Roberts, vice president of NPD SupplyTrack.
Guillermo Pernot believes it. As corporate chef for four-unit, Philadelphia-based Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar, he sees millennials choosing aggressively seasoned items, and often spicy ones.
It's increasingly common to accomplish that by delivering a bottled pepper sauce to the table, but chefs say millennials want to be surprised and impressed by the kitchen's skills. Malaysian-born chef Peng Looi, owner of Asiatique restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, says since heat in food is a personal preference, he finesses dishes with strongly flavored ingredients first, and then customizes the heat levels.
Looi also believes increased international travel has exposed restaurant customers to different cuisines they crave and want replicated when they return home.
Manufacturers are also responding to millennials' love for bold, intriguing flavors. Cholula Hot Sauce, for example — the third largest hot sauce brand in the U.S. — puts flavor first with its unique blend of peppers and spices that enhances food flavors while never overwhelming them with heat. Recognizing the bold flavor trend heating up, Cholula has devised many easy-to-make recipes for sauces, dressings, appetizers and drinks. For example, combining it with maple syrup and vinaigrette yields a sweet heat vinaigrette that's perfect for a slaw or a shrimp and spinach salad. Lacing sour cream or crema with Cholula and lime creates a Santa Fe Buffalo sauce for fish tacos and wraps.
The brand has expanded its 64 ounce product line to include Cholula Green Pepper, Chili Garlic and Chili Lime and Chipotle. Operators are devising exciting new flavor experiences by combining these sauces with current ingredients to create new signature items such as Chili Garlic Veggie Lasagna, Honey Jalapeño Wings and Icy Hot Vodka Lemonade. And their millennial patrons are loving all of it!
Cholula Original has proven to be a tasty complement to other bold flavors at MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes, a 100-unit fast casual concept based in Plano, Texas. In addition to being offered by name as one of MOOYAH'S regular sauces, it also is blended into its popular Spicy Ranch sauce.
Looi uses a highly flavorful sambal oelek chili paste similarly at Asiatique, adding it to marinades, meat rubs, salad dressings and more.
Sonya Coté, chef at Austin, Texas-based Coté Catering, sees things a little differently. She says that behind the heat lies an amazing amount of flavor, and so she chooses an array of locally grown habanero, Scotch bonnet and paper lantern chiles to create her own smoked pepper sauces.
Clearly, Americans — and millennials in particular — are demanding bolder, more adventurous flavors in the dining out experience. Unquestionably, using the right ingredients in the right balance can make all the difference in the final product.


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Drawing basic shapes
Drawing Basics: Simplifying Shape and Form
Use basic shapes and forms to simplify the subject to get a better general sense of the subject before moving on to the structure and the detail. Understanding and finding the basic shapes will make drawing easier.
The Basic Shapes The basic shapes are the two dimensional shapes; these are the circle, the triangle, and the square. All other shapes can be viewed as variations and combinations of these shapes.
Looking for the flat shapes is a great way to simplify the structure of the subject into its most basic of elements. This way you can capture the overall sense of the object you are drawing without worrying about volume.
The Basic Forms The basic forms are the three dimensional equivalents to the basic shapes. In a sense the basic forms combine elements of the basic shapes to create form. For example, the cylinder combines a rectangle or square shape with the circle to get at its form.
The basic forms are the sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder. All other forms can be viewed as variations of these forms.
After finding the basic shapes, to add volume or three dimensional form, look at those shapes and find the forms the basic shapes are part of.
Below you will find two examples of how to apply the concept of using basic shape and form to guide your drawing.
The Example of Drawing a Pencil
The Shapes
Starting to draw a pencil by finding the most basic shapes.
The shapes used for this drawing are the triangle and rectangles.
The Forms
Adding form to the drawing of a pencil by finding the most basic forms.
Basic forms used in the drawing are the cylinder and cone.
Here I have added the values and details to the pencil. You can still see the shapes used to draw the object.
The Example of Drawing a Leg:
This is an example of finding the basic shapes in a leg of someone sitting down.
Then, here is an overlay of those shapes to make it easier to see what I am looking for.
In the next example, the shapes and forms have been refined from the basic shapes into the structure of a leg.
This overlay shows that even though I have refined the shapes of the leg, the basic shapes that guided me are still there.
The leg now has shadow and value added following the structure in my drawing.
One more overlay to show the drawing started from very simple shapes and was built up from there.
Keep in mind that you can visualize the basic shapes of complex structures to help understand the form you are drawing. This will make it easier to draw a complex subject by breaking down the complexity into more simpler stages to build on. -
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Question: What Are Some Examples Of Social Engineering?
What is quid pro quo in social engineering?
What is social engineering and how does it work?
Is social engineering illegal?
What is social engineering attack example?
What is the most common social engineering attack?
What are the types of social engineering attacks?
What is your best Defence against social engineering attacks?
Why is social engineering dangerous?
What are the common goals of social engineering?
Which is an example of social engineering Mcq?
What social engineering means?
What is social engineering and its types?
Similar to baiting, quid pro quo involves a hacker requesting the exchange of critical data or login credentials in exchange for a service..
Social engineering is a technique used by criminals and cyber-crooks to trick users into revealing confidential information. The data obtained is then used to gain access to systems and carry out actions to the detriment of the person or organization whose data has been revealed.
How Are Social Engineering Crimes Handled? Social engineering is illegal, so this crime can lead to serious legal penalties to any criminal caught in the act. Engaging in social media engineering can lead to charges classified as misdemeanors, which can attract fines, jail sentences, and other unpleasant consequences.
Examples of social engineering range from phishing attacks where victims are tricked into providing confidential information, vishing attacks where an urgent and official sounding voice mail convinces victims to act quickly or suffer severe consequences, or physical tailgating attacks that rely on trust to gain …
phishingThe most common social engineering attacks come from phishing or spear phishing and can vary with current events, disasters, or tax season. Since about 91% of data breaches come from phishing, this has become one of the most exploited forms of social engineering.
The following are the five most common forms of digital social engineering assaults.Baiting. As its name implies, baiting attacks use a false promise to pique a victim's greed or curiosity. … Scareware. Scareware involves victims being bombarded with false alarms and fictitious threats. … Pretexting. … Phishing. … Spear phishing.
1. Educate yourself. "Our first mitigation is security through education," Hadnagy said. "If people aren't educated to the types of attacks being used, then they cannot possibly defend against them."
The core of social engineering is human trust and confidence. Ample time and resources are spent by attackers to research about the victim. … Social engineering is so dangerous because of the element of human error by legitimate users and not necessarily a flaw in software or operating systems.
The goal of a social engineer is to fool someone into providing valuable information or access to that information. In most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim, but they get the information or the access they need to commit fraud nearly 100% of the time.
Explanation: Calling a help desk and convincing them to reset a password for a user account is an example of social engineering.
Social engineering is the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information.
Social engineering is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of malicious activity. For the purposes of this article, let's focus on the five most common attack types that social engineers use to target their victims. These are phishing, pretexting, baiting, quid pro quo and tailgating.
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The legacies of Colonialism are far-reaching and long lasting. Scholars and historians have noted that many of today's conflicts are the direct result of colonialism; processes of decolonization did not end with the withdrawal of empires from occupied territories and the creation of new nation states.
The recent academic discipline of Postcolonial Studies has revealed the limits of the political "decolonization" process by highlighting the persistence or reproduction of Western systems of knowledge, which often marginalize the non-Western world. In particular, Postcolonial Studies has questioned the basic assumptions of modernity, including ideas of progress and development, while encouraging the search for non-Eurocentric, non-corporate and more social ethics.
Although calls to facilitate more South-South exchanges between previously colonized countries go back to the Konferensi Asia-Afrika (1955), there is still much that could be done. Facilitating dialogue in the cultural field between actors from different Global South contexts is essential for more intellectual and artistic cooperation. This applies especially to Southeast Asia where Postcolonial discourse seems to be less developed than in other regions.
The public forum "Postcolonial Perspectives from the Global South" brought together curators, sociologists and historians from South America, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. They explored the various trajectories of modernity as understood and experienced from a range of philosophical, cultural, and historical perspectives. The presentations not only examined Eurocentric claims of universality but also looked in-depth at perspectives that focus on global particularism and cultural relativism.


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Japan Gets Best Seller Version of Bayonetta
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Kenneth Richardson
August 5, 2010 7:00 PM EST
SEGA is producing a new version of the critical grenade Bayonetta. This new version will feature a reversible cover with new art and a collection of trailers for both Bayonetta and the upcoming Platinum Games title Vanquish (goody!).
There will be both Best Hits and Platinum Collection versions for the PS3 and Xbox 360 respectively. This new version will also be available at a reduced price point, which in itself is enough of a reason for gamers who haven't played it yet to pick it up.
While this version does not seem to add any notable content, barring the cover art and trailer collection, it's cheaper than the ordinary version. So you would technically pay less to get more. Currently, the best seller version of Bayonetta is for Japan only. Enthusiasts can take solace in the fact that the game performed well enough to warrant a re-release.
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When remodeling your bathroom, it can be too easy to go down the simple and plain path just to get the job done. All-white lavatories can be painted quickly, and you know that you can find a bathroom vanity in this nondescript shade. However, bolder amateur designers should stray from the norm and consider an industrial-style bathroom for something a bit more funky and interesting.
If you're looking to marry an industrial vibe with something a bit more vintage, you might consider a claw foot tub. According to Decoist, which profiled one Brooklyn-based industrial bathroom, you can find a model in monochrome colours, which will eliminate the old-Hollywood feeling of a more traditional tub with this kind of feet. If you're looking for something entirely industrial, seek out a stand-alone bathtub or one in an unusual shape. To find the perfect place to bathe, stop by a kitchen and bath showroom so professionals can show you what is possible within your budget and space constraints.
Look for a granite or black tub for an industrial feel.
Anything steel can lend an industrial aura to your bathroom, so feel free to look for vanities and cabinets that have brushed steel handles – or that are actually made of the material. In terms of the rest of the decor, Houzz featured several bathrooms decked out in black and white. Subway tile around the room was paired with large glass panes in the shower. These panes were square in shape, and each one was surrounded by black trim. The overall effect presented a curious starkness that evoked a city or former factory. If possible, you can couple this look with a granite sink.
Go ahead and pair up this kind of tile with any black trim or a black marble countertop to complete the industrial feel. You can also look for shower curtain rods in a brushed black metal to complete the utilitarian vibe, like some of the others highlighted by the source.
An industrial-themed bathroom can look extremely modern and polished. Take your inspiration from the geometry of the city, a refurbished factory, and other utilitarian edifices, and your room will certainly shine.


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