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What is Luxury?
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Combs, Hair Highway, Studio Swine, 2014© Studio Swine
A dissection of the notion of luxury, seen through the prism of the V&A's new show
TextOlivia Singer
On 25 April, the Victoria & Albert Museum opens a new exhibition, What is Luxury?, exploring and interrogating the concept of luxury and its cultural cachet. With over 100 objects – from mechanical timepieces to Iris van Herpen's laser-cut haute couture – it offers a wonderfully diverse range of seemingly disparate objects, united by their role in a nuanced exploration of what the term means. What is particularly interesting about the range of items on offer is that they extend beyond a conventional understanding of the luxury market and, rather than focusing on a fashion-led aesthetic, the exhibition incorporates pieces like chandeliers made from dandelions and human hair set in resin to inform a broader conversation, questioning what luxury truly means in a world saturated by the term.
As co-curator Leanne Wierzba explains, "luxury isn't something new, it's as old as civilisation, but in the exhibition, we argue that it is a particularly prescient topic at the moment because it's so much a part of the vocabulary of our time." With everything from fashion houses to soap employing a rhetoric around luxury, exclusivity and authenticity, Wierzba and her fellow curator Jana Scholze challenge our perceptions of what the term might actually mean in an increasingly fast-paced, instant-access consumer culture. Here, Wierzba talks us through some of her favourite pieces on show.
Fragile Future by Ralph Nauta & Lonneke GordijnCourtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Fragile Future Chandelier by Ralph Nauta & Lonneke Gordijn and Jellyfish Installation by Steffen Dam
"The first section of the exhibition has a focus on the making, on craftsmanship, on motifs and motivations of luxury. Within that, we compared two objects under one term to create juxtapositions, commenting on how there are multiple interpretations of any definition of luxury. Under the term Extraordinary, we have Steffen Dam's jellyfish and a Fragile Future chandelier featuring real dandelion heads."
Jellyfish Installation, 2010, Steffen Dam
"What we though was so interesting about these two pieces together is that they both use nature as a motif. The chandelier uses real dandelion seeds that have been individually harvested and it's quite extraordinary thinking about all of the time that was invested and the research that went into producing the dandelion seeds – for example, if they were harvested at a certain time then they were a little more yellow. And the jellyfish installation uses no natural materials; it's an illusion of nature created out of silver foil, carbon and glass."
Hair Highway, Studio Swine, 2014© Studio Swine
Studio Swine, Hair Highway
Studio Swine are a conceptual design group who started experimenting with their Hair Highway project in 2001. An assortment of their pieces, from their large-scale, art-deco dressing table to their boxes and combs, are on display at the exhibition and, while their appearance conjures an assumption that they are made from tortoiseshell or maybe an exotic wood, on closer inspection they are actually created with human hair set in resin.
As Wierzba explains, "The argument around the project is that, as the human population continues to grow, we have an increasingly exhausting impact on our natural resources and one of the few that will continue to flourish is anything related to human growth – in this case, human hair. When you get up close, you can really see the strands of the hair that have been combed through the resin. Some people get really disturbed by that, which is particularly interesting when you consider that authentic materials have a real cachet in the luxury sectors – and, for example, you'd never want synthetic hair extensions. I think that, in the 20th century, arguably because of the emergence of so many synthetic materials, we have become completely divorced from the idea that anything we consume can actually come directly from nature, from an animal or from death or harvesting. This project forces us to address that, in a beautiful and poetic way."
Luxury skimming stone, Dominic Wilcox, 2009© Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox's Luxury Skimming Stones
"Another one I really love is Dominic Wilcox's Luxury Skimming Stones, which is a great commentary on value, and values that aren't related to the material gold but rather to the memories and experience of a simple and humble pleasure like skimming a stone. The stone itself is a regular stone that has been found in nature, identified for its ideal skimming properties like its flatness, but then it's been covered in gold leaf and Dominic made pouches customized to the shape of each individual stone. It talks about so many things about luxury: that it's not about the cost of something, it's about how you value it. And it's a fleeting thing; the principle of a skimming stone is that you throw it away! Would you throw it away, would you hold on to it… it really questions ideas of value."
What Is Luxury? opens at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 25 April, in partnership with Crafts Council and sponsored by Northacre.
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ELVIA DIAZ
Diaz: Legalizing marijuana is easy (but not really the solution)
Elvia Díaz
opinion columnist
Legalizing recreational marijuana is just hard to swallow – or inhale – politically and personally.
For some of you, the issue may come down to moral values. For others, it's a matter of compromise for the greater good of society. And to many others, it's about a justice system that unfairly targets marijuana users, especially minorities.
As the debate over taxing and regulating the sale of cannabis gains steam in Arizona, I framed some questions to help me shape my stance -- and perhaps yours as well.
What would the initiative do in Arizona?
Under the proposal, which likely will be on the November ballot, anyone 21 or older could possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in their homes without obtaining licenses. The plants need to be in a secure area.
The plan would create a distribution system similar to Colorado's, where licensed businesses produce and sell marijuana and pay a 15-percent tax on retail sales. The money would go toward public health and education, including full-day kindergarten.
Am I OK selling drugs to pay for public education?
Washington and Colorado, the first two states to legalize pot, have indeed collected tens of millions of dollars from marijuana sales tax. So, sure there is a lot of money in the drug business.
And in Arizona, there could be as much as $113 million in new tax revenue, according to a recent study by the non-partisan Tax Foundation. The money would come from the 15-percent levy on the drug.
"These are dollars that no longer go to drug cartels but instead help our schools and local governments provide important services," wrote Barrett Marson, a campaign spokesman for the Arizona initiative.
OUR TURN:Legal pot will hurt education
Some proponents of the Arizona initiative point to the fact that state government has implemented tax cuts for many years and thereby reducing tax collections. Thus, they say, a new revenue stream is absolutely necessary.
I agree we must inject more money into public schools, but I can't support selling drugs as the answer. Following the logic, there are other drugs that could generate a lot more money to pay for everything from schools to cops and firefighters.
Will ending prohibition get rid of drug dealers?
Getting rid of underground sales and freeing cops to focus on more serious crimes is one of the cornerstones for marijuana proponents.
But anyone who can read knows that the black market is thriving in Colorado and Washington where recreational marijuana has been legal since 2012.
If approved in Arizona, drug dealers will merely drop the price of marijuana to compete with licensed shops where sales of the drugs would be taxed at 15 percent.
In a free market, users looking for a bargain will turn to their known dealers to buy as much as they need and shop owners themselves may become exporters to make a profit.
The justice system unfairly punishes users, especially minorities. Will legal marijuana fix the problem?
The American Civil Liberties Union has long argued that police disproportionally target African-Americans, even though they consume marijuana no more than Whites.
It turns out, arrests for marijuana possession dropped by 98 percent in Washington and 95 percent in Colorado, according to a recent article in The Atlantic.
Top law enforcement officials in Arizona and elsewhere say that regulating marijuana like alcohol result in more arrests, increased traffic fatalities and complicate their jobs.
Well, the issue is not about making it easier for cops to do their jobs. But I'm not sold either on the notion that we must legalize drugs as a way to fix a justice system where racist cops and prosecutors go after minorities.
Would legal pot burden employers?
The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce is opposing the initiative, saying it would "cause significant ambiguity for businesses to regulate a drug-free workplace."
The group's vice president of public affairs, Mike Huckins, argued that legalizing pot would hurt employees' productivity, would create safety concerns and more of them would skip work.
MY TURN: Legal pot will lead to more crashes
I'm not a human resource specialist. But aren't businesses supposed to offer a drug-free environment already?
Mechanisms should already be in place to test employees for drugs. Otherwise, how do employers ensure now workers don't show up drunk or high on drugs?
Saying legalizing marijuana would negatively impact businesses and hurt the state's ability to attract new companies isn't going to cut it. I'm not buying that argument. We need to hear specifics on what legalizing pot would mean for employers.
What's the big deal anyway?
I've asked myself that question many times. And my first instinct is to side with proponents who say smoking pot is really not a big deal because it doesn't have the same health risks as cocaine, heroine, meth and other drugs.
I don't condone marijuana users and I don't believe legalizing it would mean people would smoke it around me. I know it would be regulated just as tobacco smokers are now at workplaces.
POLL:Marijuana initiative would fail today
I agonized over the pro and cons because both sides have valid arguments. But in the end, I simply can't embrace legalizing any kind of drug – even marijuana – that has triggered the failed war on drugs in this country and Mexico, and which has cost the lives of more than 100,000 people in recent years.
Nor am willing to turn to drugs to solve our financial ills and problems with the legal system. And you shouldn't take the easy way out either.
Elvia Díaz is editorial columnist for The Republic and azcentral. Reach her at 602-444-8606 or elvia.diaz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her @elviadiaz1.
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Twitter takes out McCain
The thought police at Twitter are ramping up their activity:
Robert Stacy McCain is an American success story. He has built a nationwide, dare I say worldwide following presenting his viewpoint and highlighting the public viewpoints of others who would rather keep their actual words and opinions under the radar because Robert Stacy McCain is loyal to his family, his God, his friends and the Truth.
I know this because I'm proud to say he is my friend. I've learned an awful lot from him the most important thing being there is no substitute for actually being there, gathering factual evidence, seeing for yourself and reporting the truth.
I guess that's why Twitter's new Star Chamber has decided to Suspend him sometime yesterday evening:
I'm Robert Stacy McCain. I've been a journalist since 1986. My account @rsmccain was suspended tonight. #FreeStacy #tcot @ToniMZ81
— Sex Trouble (@SexTroubleBook) February 20, 2016
"@citznsoldier: This account suspension stuff is getting stupid. @twitter @rsmccain pic.twitter.com/dlckr17fsw" Very stupid
— headnev (@headnev) February 20, 2016
Ironically this caused the hashtag #freestacy to trend on twitter overnight until it suddenly no longer was able to autocomplete
The hashtag associated with McCain's suspension (#FreeStacy) was actually allowed to trend, at one point, but as Mike Cernovich points out, now it won't even autocomplete. That's one of the tools Twitter has been using to slow down hashtags, as of late. GamerGate no longer autocompletes, either, even though several anti-GG hashtags do.
#FreeStacy is trending. @instapundit pic.twitter.com/y4C2azmWzr
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 20, 2016
Now in fairness Twitter is a private company and they do have the right to run their business as they see fit.
But I submit and suggest to twitter & their investors that the way to success is not to alienate half of your potential customer base particularly in an election year, furthermore as anyone who knows anything about tech can tell you today's popular site can become tomorrow's AOL & Compuserve in a heartbeat.
Glenn Reynolds is not the only one losing patience with Twitter.
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Cecil Henry February 20, 2016 9:26 AM
Twitter: Say what you like, but get our approval first!!
After all, diversity means everyone MUST think alike about 'diversity'
We need alternative platforms. Deplatforming is the very basis of SJW institutional tactics, and it works. Let's use it ourselves, on our own platforms.
A related question: why haven't conservatives built their own platforms? I've worked for a number of startups. They were all hard left to the core. Why so few conservative entrepreneurs?
Josh February 20, 2016 9:51 AM
Y'all see sparkle punter get absolutely shived by clay travis?
David of One February 20, 2016 9:58 AM
"in fairness" shit!
Marxists by any other name worked long and hard convoluting the right of Free Speech and freedom of association.
From "Yelling 'Fire' in a movie theater" to private business being "public", Marxists and their varied flavors continued to fashion a single edged sword of their own wielding.
So we have a public businesses based on communication between varied individuals but the people of colored and varied opinions are being kept from full public access.
It is one thing if they don't like certain thoughts and ideas, but they don't want others to to have the freedom to associate and discuss amongst themselves in a forum specifically designed for communication between people and groups of people.
Only their thoughts and their ideas will be permitted ... so their private business aims to control very public thoughts, ideas and speech for profit and marxist political agendas.
Fuck that. So were the Alabama lunch counters. Twitter is a public acommodation/utility and they need to be paying every AltRighter they suspended on ideological grounds.
Mastermind February 20, 2016 10:17 AM
I once asked RS McCain how many votes his and the GOP's anti-raycissm campaign got him and he called me a troll and blocked me. I dismissed him as a grifter ever since.
The other robot February 20, 2016 10:23 AM
I for one would be happy to see Twitter go down the shitter.
Indeed, the whole VC pro-SJW crap can go with it.
After all, diversity means no one is allowed to think.
There, FIFY.
ScottD February 20, 2016 10:26 AM
I know you guys are busy and all, but someone needs to take a serious look at Allison Shea (now known as Dell Harvey) the head of Twitter's Trust & Safety gestapo. She has a very interesting past with "To Catch a Predator", and now protects pedophiles on Twitter?
David of One February 20, 2016 10:26 AM
One quick note ... I was watching a movie called "Child 44" based on a novel by Tom Rob Smith about the 1950's Soviet Russia.
I found the movie extremely disturbing as what was being done then is the beginning of what is being done here and now.
The movie is supposed to be a "mystery" but that is very much secondary to the depiction of the depravity and perversity of Marxism and Totalitarianism.
There are no good Marxists ... not dead, not alive and not yet born.
OT, but a German Mayor reveals his tastes.
On second thoughts, since Twitter seems to be all about sexual deviancy, maybe my item was not off topic.
fisher man February 20, 2016 10:37 AM
I am working in a twitter like replacement that will be encrypted at the distribution level, so an admin cannot filter out messages.
I am not sure when this project will see the light of day, as it is more of a hobby, experiment than business idea. It is something that would avoid all these issues though. Perhaps a proof of concept.
Slowpoke February 20, 2016 10:41 AM
Hey vox. Now that twitter has taken editorial control of all they publish, they're responsible for any libel/slander against anyone that is tweeted. Lawfare anyone?
I haven't been shadow banned yet.
I can't help but be disappointed by that.
I really need to up my game.
Lawfare anyone?
Slowpoke indeed.
Instasetting February 20, 2016 11:00 AM
I learned the statement ---Racism has Five A's, as in someone screaming, RAAAAACISM-- from RSM.
So if Mastermind got banned, he probably deserved it.
Then there is RSM's Rules of Feminists.
1. She's Crazy.
2. She's Evil.
3. If in doubt, assume #1 and #2 are correct.
He argues, from reading a very large stack of Feminist books, that Feminism was founded on helping mentally ill women deal with their illness by creating a political problem out of it.
I didn't get banned, it was on twitter. McCain has always skimmed the edge of Establishment respectability while lifting a lot of his content from the alt right (any interesting idea you saw on McCain's blog was probably written somewhere else first) and sanitizing it for a broader audience so it's amusing that Twitter SJWs didn't even bother with any shadowbanning like they do with actual alt-right writers and simply rolled the bulldozer over his skull like that.
BigGayKoranBurner February 20, 2016 11:13 AM
A related question: why haven't conservatives built their own platforms?
Leftists are willing to lose money to hold all the platforms. If a conservative made a twit alternative Soros would offer more stolen money for it, than it was worth. As seen here Twitter is only worth losing money with if you can silence your enemies.
tweeted. Lawfare anyone? You can try but if you get a jewish judge and a jewish opposing attorney how do you think it will play out even with an obvious clear cut case?
Fuck that. So were the Alabama lunch counters
Unless if twiter is blocking pictures of gay wedding cakes I doubt any judge would side with free speech.
After all, diversity means no one is allowed to think die verse city now means conformity.
There are no good Marxists ... not dead, not alive You have to admit they are far better dead
Hostem Populi February 20, 2016 11:29 AM
@18 They aren't that smart. McCain was harmless to them in the long run, but now they've managed to alert the big establishment conservatives. They could have just banned the entire alt right and gotten away with it.
The people running the Twitter secret police are not strategic thinkers.
It's an interesting question. Early on in the computer revolution, it was people comfortable with change that were at the distinct advantage, and this meant liberals and (more so) libertarians. Liberals tended to dominate that group for the same reason why they dominate libertarianism politically: when one side's version of fighting is to not fight, that side is gonna have a bad time. See O'Sullivan's Law.
What is interesting about today is a couple of things:
First off, the SJWs are overplaying their hand badly and (better) don't even really recognize it. The complete dominance of the left in the mental space of the media/tech complex makes them blind to the fact that they are alienating normies at a terrific rate.
Second, we are entering/have entered a period of stasis on the technology front: Moore's law is coming to an end, computers do what they do about as well as they can do it, cell phones are about as interesting as they can get for now. Famous last words, I know, but consider: is a laptop you buy today that much better than one you bought five years ago? Compare that will a laptop bought ten years ago, or fifteen. The pace of change has dramatically slowed. Of consider Facebook. Is it that much different than MySpace or Friendster? No. So it wasn't a technical advance that made Facebook Facebook, but rather sociological/zeitgiest changes.
So the good news is that conservatives, on the technology axis, can simply copy the existing technologies, perhaps with small innovations and with better implementations, which are conservative strong points. The hard part is the mixed technical/non-technical aspect of getting normies to find value in these alternative platforms and move over. Obviously in The Project Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken, this is a major focus.
Us peons can help by taking a split approach: provoke, agree and amplify The SJW Signal (worse is better) and then defend the people attacked by the SJW machine with rhetoric aimed at normies. When the time comes, a sad tweet or two about free speech and how this new apolitical platform appears to be the best alternative will be our contribution to The Big Switch.
Oh what a day! What a lovely day!
Mr.MantraMan February 20, 2016 11:40 AM
Mastermind I doubt RSM believes Anti-racism is anything more than anti-white, but then again conservatives being bag holders for lefty stupidity is possible
Derrick Bonsell February 20, 2016 11:42 AM
Twitter is arguably a "public space," this "It's a private company" argument needs to stop being used as an excuse for Twitter's bad behavior.
Dexter February 20, 2016 11:45 AM
Why should they care? They're winning.
Just look at the even-more-dead countries like the UK, Canada, and Australia. The SJWs have shit all over the normal people and all that happens is grumbling online comments in newspaper articles (which are often as not quickly deleted). SJWs will not care until they get some serious, real-world pushback.
That "you can't (falsely) shout fire in a crowded theater" line comes from a SCOTUS decision upholding the imprisonment of a Socialist who made pamphlets opposing the draft during WW1. It's not from Marxists, and that ruling was overturned in Brandenburg vs. Ohio.
@20 the big establishment conservatives are all geriatric boomer+ cucks who can barely use a computer and I doubt most of them even know who McCain is.
the pro establishment hordes might whine a little but they won't do anything just like they don't do anything against any of the other countless indignities inflicted on them by the left, they're too busy crying about how mean Trump is to their enemies.
antipater_1 February 20, 2016 11:52 AM
Commenter #6 Mastermind says: "I once asked RS McCain how many votes his and the GOP's anti-raycissm campaign got him and he called me a troll and blocked me. I dismissed him as a grifter ever since".
Boy are you right Mastermind. I remember 7 or 8 years ago the late Laurence Auster demolished RS McCain in a "comment war" about McCain's useless "movement conservatism".
McCain was left sputtering and shrieking like the typical cuckservative.
Chris Mallory February 20, 2016 11:54 AM
R.S. McCain is a big government, big war loving, Israel Firster NeoCon. He hasn't been worth reading since 12 Sept 01.
Ron February 20, 2016 12:04 PM
rcocean February 20, 2016 12:14 PM
When they go after a Cuck like RS McCain things are really getting bad on twitter.
Just Sayin' February 20, 2016 12:19 PM
Any idea if he did something stupid to get himself banned?
I wouldn't think they'd go after him yet, he's too establishment / anti-racist.
Conan the Cimmerian February 20, 2016 12:25 PM
On R.S. McCain.
At first liked him. He actually was accused of being a NeoConfederate. That right there put him on my good side.
He posted about how the NSA spying on us was good and how that Snowden was a traitor.
I posted the definition of traitor and asked him how exposing what our government was doing to us is being a traitor (violating the 4th, etc.).
Never had a rebuttal. Ran away.
He is up there with Ilana Mercer as interesting people, that when taken to task on their errant views, runs away or blocks. (Added David Limbaugh to the list recently via Twitt).
His attacks on feminism are great, but he is an edgy cuckservative.
To note.
Ilana was taken to task that "Clinton balanced the budget". I asked her to explain how he did that. Was it not just the economy growing due to the hard work of people, credit/tech economic bubble, and, of course, how the govt. accounts as well (soc. security being put in the general fund ad infinitum). No response and blocked.
D. Limbaugh accuses anyone that supports nationalism as being a Nazi. When asked to show what conservatives have conserved (while giving examples of what they have not conserved and how our demographic changes will end up in a non English Common Law supporting electorate) he non responded and blocked.
BGKB February 20, 2016 12:32 PM
Someone asked him if he ever meet a black in real life as smart as seen on TV
But Twitter is/are SJWs, and they always lie, and they should be destroyed.
Thucydides February 20, 2016 12:41 PM
I have not partaken of social media, and now see that clearly my choice was the correct one.
Can't wait to see how Vox and his army of minions, ilk etc will stick a fork into them. More popcorn please.
paradox February 20, 2016 1:27 PM
Twitter needs to be slapped with a discrimination lawsuit. If gays can force Christians to bake cakes, then Milo can sue for gay discrimination and Robert can sue for religious discrimination.
Cecil Henry February 20, 2016 1:40 PM
How can you tell if you;ve been banned, blocked or shadow banned on Twitter??
I suspect when it says my tweets were sent that sometimes they are NOT sent.
I think I've been blocked by the diversity loving Premier Wynne of Ontario. But can't tell.
She just hates thoughtcrime.
Considering that Spike Lee literally sent an angry mob to someone's house using his twitter account but was never banned for it, should tell you what kind of jackasses run twitter.
Conan the Cimmerian February 20, 2016 1:43 PM
Was that you doing the akin', Biggie?
1337kestrel February 20, 2016 2:03 PM
Ultimately, it has to be an open platform, p2p like RSS and bitcoin, with identities verified by keys rather than central servers.
A robust cal based tagging system and ratings system will have to be used to simultaneously flag abuse and identify those who flag abuse fraudulently- i.e., your user end will learn who you trust and who you don't, and treat flags accordingly. Also this will allow crowd sourced porn and spam filtering.
Xml not cal gonsarnit
Steve February 20, 2016 3:38 PM
Stacy's card has been marked by Twatter ever since he started criticising the tranny paedo known as "Sarah Butts".
Doom February 20, 2016 4:00 PM
I don't know about Stacey. He was just as policing of incorrect thought as any of the others. He is a died-in-the-wool GOP, maybe GOPe, frontman with no tolerance for doubt. I broke ranks hard when he was pushing McCain, or was it Romney. No room for those who doubt, or outright are against, the party favorite. Nice to see him getting a taste of his own soft-serve. Here I broke ranks with almost every one of your picks, but wasn't kicked off the site. Fuck him.
Quartermaster February 20, 2016 4:18 PM
RSM has been suspended before. This is the first time he's had an account closed, however. He's gotten there by daring to quote leftists and holding them up to ridicule. Quoting a a leftard is harassment in leftard coin.
The people I've seen banned over the TOM are those that tend to be abusive to others in the comments. Simple disagreement doesn't get you banned. Wombat is th4e guardian of the comments section and doesn't tolerate abusive behavior when disagreeing.
LP9 Rin Integra S.I.G. Burnin' Up, Dune soaked, 80 svedka - The Lord overrides all! February 20, 2016 4:33 PM
Hell no! "Don't you dare think, fear, stress is hypnotic and good, just obey, consume, turn into a beast" (very well known music video protest message; Disturbed)
Expect LP didn't load for me at all. I try again later - I was ending the account.
Aeoli Pera February 20, 2016 4:49 PM
Dexter wrote:First off, the SJWs are overplaying their hand badly and (better) don't even really recognize it. The complete dominance of the left in the mental space of the media/tech complex makes them blind to the fact that they are alienating normies at a terrific rate.
You're thinking too small. SJW was always destined to fail because it is an ideology of losers. Their temporary success was predicated upon the tolerance of better people. Anyway, losers always find a way to lose because success, to them, happens by some kind of magic.
In contrast, the reason Nazism was so dangerous was that it was an ideology of winners. Still evil, but a more effective form.
It's a demographic thing. Every great programmer is an aspie named Erik. Three in four Scandinavians are retarded liberals living in cities, breeding below replacement and building virtue-signalling apps for Web 2.0, but one in four is a schizophrenic conservative kook living innawoods. See also: Temple OS.
Anyway conservative entrepreneurs prefer concrete, "normal" businesses.
Snidely Whiplash February 20, 2016 5:34 PM
Doom wrote:I broke ranks hard when he was pushing McCain, or was it Romney.
No, RSM never did that. His disparagement of "Cousin John" was legendary.
Many things, but not GOPe
Just Sayin' wrote:Any idea if he did something stupid to get himself banned?
In his last article before the suspension, he embedded some of his recent tweets, and in one of them he used the full title of Milo's latest project, which is the Dangerous Faggot Tour. That's the only thing I can think of that they could possibly use as a pretext.
He said in the comments that he's taking a deliberately hands-off approach to the primaries this time; he's completely focused on taking down Democrats in general and Hillary Clinton specifically. And I would guess that he's tacitly anti-anti-racist, given that his "police blotter" entries are enough to make anyone a race realist without any commentary required.
@RSM's sole crime was being anti-feminist. HYe gtook on Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcott, Sarkeesian, John Flynt, and Zoe Quinn on his blot and on twitter.
He was one of the few mainstream journos to actually get gamergate.
BGKB February 20, 2016 7:52 PM
No I am BigGaySteve528, that was BigGaySteve526, I can understand how it could be confusing.
Snidely,
I'd have to look. I do know that for one of them my posts disappeared. I tried to contact him to no avail. All in all, fuck him. No friend of mine or open discourse.
dfordoom February 20, 2016 9:34 PM
I'm not sure I believe that any more. Given the immense power and influence that companies like Twitter wield, given their ability to undermine or civilisation, to trash everything that is worthwhile, to enforce their world-view - given all those things does it really make sense to say they can go on with their work of destruction with impunity?
Does it make sense that mega-corporations can destroy our society and face no consequences?
Charlie Martel 7359 February 20, 2016 10:29 PM
If they are going down the tubes this fast, it might be a save-the-furniture operation by hyping the hugbox features for SJW projects. They are doing a good job pushing people away. I haven't used my regular account for a few years and my shit posting one @VFM7359 if I'm really bored.
One other thing: I always make a tweet featuring $TWTR, @safetu and @sec_enforcement on every new account, and pin it. Theory is the SEC frowns on limiting investors talking about a publucalkt traded stock and policies.
And remember Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy.
Eric the Red February 20, 2016 10:42 PM
'Now in fairness Twitter is a private company and they do have the right to run their business as they see fit.'
I don't believe this. Most large corporations have taken federal money in one form or another. If they have, it can be argued that they are extensions of fedgov, and therefore the First Amendment directly applies.
Grouse February 21, 2016 1:11 AM
"Does it make sense that mega-corporations can destroy our society and face no consequences?"
IM not sure a banning of an individual amounts to the destruction of our society.
Anyway, taking the position that Twitter is anything less than a private company means you must be in favor of their assets being controlled either by the federal or a state government. And I don't think you mean that. So, you are dismissed
Snidely Whiplash February 21, 2016 1:22 AM
So were those lunch counters in Alabama. Didn't make any difference for them. Sorry, but that dog won't hunt anymore. He was executed by act of Congress with the concurrence of the Supreme Court.
The rules were changed decades ago, it's time we started playing by the rules in place on the field, not the ones we wish were in place.
Young Heaving Bosoms of Confederacy February 21, 2016 10:34 AM
Grouse was Tad.
Tad, you are not welcome to comment here. Please stop.
http://www.infowars.com/twitter-bans-conservative-blogger-kill-trump-account-still-active-6-months-later/
Update: alternate book promotion account (he self-published) now also suspended, main account will not be restored, "explanation" raises more questions than it answers


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Many high-performing real estate professionals are on the secretive side, hesitant to share how they became successful. That is not the case for Jeff Cook from Jeff Cook Real Estate in South Carolina.
Cook has been in business for over 16 years. His team includes 150 agents in nine locations across the state. And just last year, they closed 1,635 transactions.
"Our difference is simple: we know how to create a winning formula and we repeat it," he said. Which is why CINC CEO Alvaro Erize asked Cook to join him for another episode of CEO Unscripted to talk about how he launched and grew the high-performing teams.
"Success is a catch-22," Cook explained. A top producing agent might actually have more business than she can handle. "You say, 'I want to list all these homes!' but then all these sellers also want to go buy homes. And it's really hard to get all these contracts accepted, especially in today's climate for multiple offers in most parts of the country. And so the natural thing to do here is to say. 'Well, how can I get some help?'"
That help should start in the form of administrative assistance, but then it means you need to find another agent who can do what you do, as well as you do it. But this, Cook told Erize, is where many agents get tripped up.
"When you go to replace yourself, you don't replace yourself with just one person. Because they aren't as skilled as you. You need to bring in two people to do the job of the one person you are."
"Right, you can't just work harder, you have to work smarter," Erize agreed. "And now you're making your people successful—which is also a full-time job."
Growing a team isn't about simply adding headcount and watching the money roll in. For Cook, it starts with recruiting, which includes everything from a simple email signature link to candid videos.
"We call them Day in the Life videos," he said. "We'll find a top producer on our team and follow them around for an hour or two, working with a client in the conference room or making their phone calls or what their family life looks like. We'll create a 45-second video from this. A lot of people think it's got to be very perfect, but actually the more unperfect it is, the better!"
Cook has also created a custom onboarding training program so the agents recruited to the team are best positioned to succeed.
"It's called 100 Days to 100K, and it is a completely online course," he described. "We figured out the ideal schedule for a brand new agent for the first 100 days of their real estate career." This course covers everything from how to access the database to scripting practice to actual lead conversations and contracts. "Through that 100 Day program, the agent completes 15 to 20 contracts, and then they're on track to make $100,000 in that first year."
"That's the same thing top management consulting firms like Bain and McKinsey do," observed Erize. "You're proactive on your recruiting and training, so what happens three years down the road when an agent wants to grow their own wings?" he asked.
Cook agreed team leaders fear their top producers moving on. But it's not a concern he has, because his team offers options for growth.
"I would challenge people to think outside the box. What else could you offer them?" he asked. "Don't believe just because you're a team or team leader that you don't have anything to offer them. Let's figure out a way for them to get some additional help. Don't be scared of their growth. Actually, propel their growth, because that's what's gonna keep the top producer really long term."
"I think the beauty of your system is that you get production out of them in the first year, and then you are confident that it's a healthy relationship, which in turn makes a lot of them either stay or if they do leave, then they come back," Erize said.
Watch the full interview for more insight into having success in launching and building your own team.
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The skyscrapers of Pudong lit up in technicolor at night.
After five days of enjoying the beautiful Beijing spring, I headed out to the airport one evening and boarded a flight to Shanghai. As I stood on the tarmac waiting to ascend the plane's steps, I looked around and thought to myself how absolutely perfect the weather was.
Two hours later, I de-planed into the Shanghai Swamp. Even after years of living in the city, I had conveniently forgotten just how hot, humid, and oppressive late spring in Shanghai can be. I checked into the Astor House, as usual, and quickly found that the hotel had not yet turned on its central air conditioning system. I'm not saying that I'm the one who convinced them to do so, but … well, I voiced a strong request.
My first day in Shanghai was intensely sunny and hot, and as I walked along the Bund in the morning I felt sympathy for the many young couples having their wedding photos taken there that day. They must have been broiling under all those layers of fabric.
The following two days were foggy, humid, and rainy. As I walked on the southern end of the Bund one morning, I noticed that the old mixed-use buildings on Jinling Road (shops below, apartments above), under whose distinctive arcades I had often passed, appeared to be prepped and ready for a date with the wrecking ball. I had heard that this was in the works, but it still jolted me to realize that the shops and apartments are now vacant, and that the next time I come through Shanghai this once-familiar area will likely look very different.
Jinling Road—likely the last time I'll see these buildings intact.
The French Concession, however, looked mostly as I remembered it. I love how the neighborhood's signature London plane trees grow toward each other to form a tunnel of green in the spring and summer months. It almost made the weather feel cooler.
My primary reason for being in Shanghai is something that I will be writing about elsewhere, so stay tuned for that.
The old buildings on the Bund never fail to impress me, even in the rain.
Three days is never enough time in the city that I consider my second home … except when it turns itself into the Shanghai Swamp. In that case, three days is more than enough time—especially when more good weather awaited me back in Beijing.
Your delightful article on swampy Shanghai reminded me of living there in pre-air conditioning days when monsoon/typhoon rains made for circumstances where the local English-language papers would print photos of Chinese using row boats to maneuver the flooded streets near the Bund. Another memory was of not being able to sleep through the heat of the night and listening to drunken Japanese soldiers celebrating their night off, singing and dancing the tanko bushi.


ICAR-CIWA Assessed Capacity Needs of Extension and Advisory Service Providers in Odisha by conducting two days workshop under the ICAR-CIWA-IRRI collaborative project "Increasing Productivity of Rice-based Cropping Systems and Farmers Income in Odisha" at ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneswar from 3-4 July 2018. The workshop was jointly organized by ICAR-CIWA, IRRI and CRISP. The objective of the workshop was to assess existing capacity gaps among Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) providers at different levels and identify mechanisms to develop new capacities among EAS providers. Thirty four senior level officials from State Govt. of Odisha, ICAR, Private organizations like Reliance Foundation, LWSI, Pragati, Pradhan, etc. participated in the workshop. Dr. S. K. Srivastava, Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneswar was the chief guest during the inaugural session of the workshop. Dr. Srivastava in his inaugural remark emphasized to identify core competencies for EAS existing capacity gaps and formulation of a capacity development plan for EAS providers in Odisha. Dr. Mukund Variar, State Coordinator, IRRI –Odisha Project, briefly introduced about the Project activities and enlighted on additional challenges of ensuring quality, providing technical backstopping, and ensuring collaboration and synergy among diverse EAS providers. Dr. Rasheed Sulaiman V. and his team from Center for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP), Hyderabad conducted the two days workshop for the participants. The Programme was coordinated by Dr. A. K. Panda, Pr. Sci. & PI and Dr. Jyoti Nayak, Pr. Sci and Co-PI of ICAR-CIWA-IRRI collaborative project.


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Exploring Scotland's Secret Places: A Journey of Discovery
From remote peninsulas, secluded beaches and spectacular coastlines to the ancient pinewood forests and rugged peaks of the Highlands, the most beautiful places in Scotland are often tucked away and not necessarily the ones signposted. Why not join us on one of our small group tour adventures exploring versatile and dramatic landscapes and hiking in some of our favourite spots in Scotland off the beaten path.
Nature is inarguably what pulls people to Scotland year-in, year-out. Peaceful lochs, fjord-like coasts, tumbling waterfalls and roaring rivers meet the wilderness of rolling green hills, vast moorlands and tall mountain ranges. Nestled among these seemingly untouched landscapes are bustling small villages and thriving island communities. Wildlife roams land, water and the skies in abundance.
Venturing off the beaten track in Scotland rewards you with discovering places above and beyond the more famous sites where you are more likely to find the idyllic scenery, real adventure and the pure tranquillity these amazing landscapes promise. Take the unexpected turn, slow down and find your eyes open and appreciate more intensely nature's diversity, grandeur and beauty. These are special places to relax, reflect and reconnect.
Here we would like to share some of our favourite hidden gems in Scotland which we think all nature lovers, wildlife enthusiasts and wilderness explorers would treasure, indeed any traveller with a taste for wild landscapes, slow travel and authentic cultural experiences. Many of these secret places are in fact regular locations on our small group walking holidays (8 persons or less!) throughout the year.
Scottish National Parks
Exploring Scotland's national parks has always been at the heart of Walk Wild Scotland. Did you know that we started our tour company as Scotland's first national park was established?
Read up on the Walk Wild journey here!
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs
In the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, water is as integral a part of the landscape as are the rugged mountain peaks and magical woodlands. No trip to the national park in the southern Highlands is complete without one or two boat rides. Small cruise boats connect the villages along the shores of Loch Lomond and sail to many of the islands in the loch. A few miles east, the historic steamship 'Sir Walter Scott' explores the tranquil Loch Katrine.
Our Southern Highlands walking tour lets you spend 6 days in the national park. Together, we explore some of the easier trails this landscape has to offer, experience the mountain views from the water and hike along one of Scotland's most famous trails – the West Highland Way. There are also more challenging walks around Loch Lomond, though, and over 20 Munros to choose from.
Even though most people drive through the national park and along the loch, slowing down for a deeper experience in nature makes Loch Lomond one of our favourite hidden gems in Scotland.
The Cairngorms National Park is the largest park in the UK and has been extended twice since it was first established in 2003. It covers parts of Aberdeenshire, Moray, Perthshire, Angus and Kinross, and holds more than half of all surviving ancient Caledonian pinewood forest.
Its mountain ranges, plateaus, woodlands and wetlands offer versatile habitat for many rare species of plants, birds and animals, and are a true playground for adventurers.
The Cairngorms are home to four of the five highest mountains in the UK and where you find the longest linear walk uninterrupted by roads. The national park is known as one of the best ecotourism destinations in Europe and is leading the way for sustainable tourism in Scotland.
Experienced hikers, in particular, will find that the Cairngorms National Park provides one of the best areas for walking holidays in Scotland.
Scotland's Unesco Biospheres
Unesco Biospheres are designated environments that incorporate their focus on enhanced biodiversity and landscape conservation with the needs of the people who live in and nearby the area.
Their approaches unite people with nature, rather than keeping them apart for separate development and protection.
There are two Unesco Biospheres in Scotland:
Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere
There are few places that offer a better experience hiking in Scotland off the beaten track than the south-west. Even though the region has recently launched the South West Coast 300 road trip (SWC300), Galloway & Ayrshire remain by far still little explored places to visit in Scotland.
The Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere covers a huge part of this area. It reaches from its protected core zones in the Galloway Hills to the coastal communities, such as Wigtown, Kirkcudbright and Girvan, and inland towards Cumnock and Thornhill.
Rich history and cultural heritage meets remote hills, tumbling rivers and an abundance of wildlife. The biosphere has supported the development of sustainable tourism initiatives and visitors can book many nature-based activities offered by locals, from guided hillwalking and hire bikes to canoeing, river-kayaking and coasteering.
The biosphere is also home to the first Dark Sky Park in the UK. The incredibly dark nights are best experienced through a walk and stargazing picnic with a local Dark Sky Ranger in Glentrool or by visiting the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory near Dalmellington.
Walk Wild Scotland offer customised private tours to literally any area in Scotland – so do get in touch to discuss your destination and activities wish list with us!
Wester Ross Biosphere
Arguably less off the beaten path, the Wester Ross Biosphere spans from Ullapool and the Summer Isles in the north to Kintail and the Glenelg peninsula in the south.
Huge numbers of visitors come through the biosphere on their way to the Isle of Skye or tackling the famous North Coast 500 route through the north-west of Scotland.
However, the biosphere also offers beautiful hidden places of untouched nature, spectacular coastal views and rugged mountain ranges.
Our Western Highlands & Skye walking tour spends several days in Shiel Bridge, a small community nestled among the Kintail mountains, in the southern part of the Biosphere. The fjord-like sea views always by our side, we explore some of the most beautiful places in Scotland. We climb to the top of the wide river valley Glen Licht, discover the remote Glenelg peninsula and hike towards Scotland's most beautiful valley: Glen Affric.
We keep our eyes peeled for otters, seals, eagles and other seabirds, and take plenty of time to stop & smell the yellow gorse in May or purple heather in August.
Small Scottish Islands
Touring the Scottish islands is a fantastic way to discover hidden gems in Scotland.
The Small Isles
The Small Isles are the perfect place for off the beaten path holidays in the Scottish islands.
Just south of the Isle of Skye and easy to reach by ferry from Mallaig, the archipelago is a great remote getaway off the beaten track.
It is made up of the Isles of Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna and Sanday. The latter two are connected via road and causeway at low tide and well known for their high basalt cliffs and puffin colonies.
While Rum is the largest island, Eigg is the most vibrant and populous of the group, where visitors are able to experience a thriving and welcoming island community.
Our brand new Sail + Hike tour of the Scottish islands visits two of the Small Isles. Together, we visit Eigg to discover early Christian monuments, hear about Vikings and Clans and listen to more stories than you could have imagined for such a small island.
At night we anchor near Muck and will hopefully have time to explore this very different island, its sandy beaches and rocky shores.
Isle of Colonsay
Nestled between Islay, Mull and Jura, the Isle of Colonsay is a unique island getaway in Scotland. Despite its modest size, there is surprisingly a lot to do and see on Colonsay.
As visitors make their way off the ferry, they are greeted by locals and handed a welcome pack with information about local businesses to visit, activities to join and other things to do on Colonsay.
Browse a well assorted bookshop with books about the local area and history, visit the local brewery or learn about the gin making process at one of the two gin distilleries on the island. Choose a sandy beach for a picnic or enjoy a sundowner at one of the west coast's secluded bays.
Bag a MacPhie – one of Colonsay's hills over 300 ft – or walk from Kiloran Bay to Balnahard Bay and see two of Scotland's most beautiful beaches in one day.
The nearby tidal island Oronsay can be reached from Colonsay during low-tide. Visit the ruins of Oronsay Priory, which is often associated with St Columba, and look out for seals and other marine wildlife off the coast.
Nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts will find Colonsay to be one of the best Scottish islands to visit – and yet have it all to yourself.
Treshnish Isles
Famous for being one of the best places to see puffins in Scotland, the Treshnish Isles off the west coast of Mull are a must see in Scotland during the summer.
After a scenic boat ride from Tobermory or Fionnphort, visitors land on the Isle of Lunga, the largest island in the archipelago. After a short walk to the top of the cliffs, it barely takes a minute until the first puffins arrive on land. Humans tend to keep the much larger seagulls at a distance – an opportunity the delicate puffins love to use to work on their burrows and feed their young.
Soon you will be surrounded by puffins from all sides. While shy, they will happily pose for photos. Here it is easy to connect with nature and develop a deeper understanding of the kind of environment these birds need to thrive.
Our Hebridean Journey walking tour to Mull and Iona includes a day trip to take in the magic of these beautiful remote Scottish islands and spend time on Lunga and also Staffa, home of the famous Fingal's Cave.
Scotland's remote places
The best chance to experience Scotland off the beaten path is by choosing the road less travelled – or rather, a longer journey than most are willing to take.
For true wilderness and a taste of warm Scottish hospitality, look no further than the Outer Hebrides. This island group sits quite literally on the edge of Europe. Apart from a few rocky outcrops like St Kilda, there is nothing but ocean between here and North America.
The Outer Hebrides, also called the Western Isles, are as different from the mainland as they are different from each other. The varied landscapes of Lewis and Harris, the Uists and Barra offer a glimpse into island life at a gentle pace. Traditions play an integral role in the local culture – whether you visit crofting farms, tweed weavers or peat-cutters.
Each island has its own speciality – from the moorlands of Lewis and the rocky hills of Harris to the scattered islands and endless sandy beaches of the Uists to the rugged outposts of Barra and Vatersay.
The Gaelic language and culture are alive and thriving in the Outer Hebrides, giving visitors an opportunity to experience this part of Scottish identity in a meaningful way.
Our Outer Hebrides walking tour combines several days of island hopping in Scotland. Together we hike across these islands, discover ancient historic monuments and immerse ourselves in the vibrant island communities.
In a world in which natural habitats are increasingly threatened by climate change, over-tourism and other human activities, it is incredibly important to take care of the biggest asset Scotland has to offer – it's natural environment.
At Walk Wild Scotland we strive to offer a sustainable and responsible way to explore Scotland. On our tours you will meet locals to hear their stories and have meaningful cultural experiences while connecting with nature, reconnecting with yourself and discovering hidden gems in Scotland.
Take a look at our walking holidays and cultural tours and join us on a journey around an off the beaten path Scotland.
Kathi Kamleitner is a travel writer and adventurer. When she is not working on inspiring travel guides for her Scotland travel blog Watch Me See, you can find her on a long-distance trail or on top of a Scottish Munro.
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With November just around the corner, here's a quick look at what's going on with OMG Hospitality Group.
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Q: Why does git say 'Changes not staged for commit' and indicate the submodule folder? I have a git submodule inside another module, added via git submodule add <...> (command issued from parent repo), so the .gitmodules file is automatically generated inside the parent repo.
Suppose I make a change to the submodule (edit: and do not commit those changes) and then navigate back out to the parent and do git add -A and then git status, it says "Changes not staged for commit: submodule dir name ... etc".
I thought git would read .gitmodules file (which the parent git generated!), realise its a git submodule directory and therefore not mention its unstaged status when I ask the parent for its status?

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and therefore not mention its unstaged status when I ask the parent for its status?

It would still report changes in the submodules, unless you are using (with Git 1.7.2 or more):

*

*the --ignore-submodules[=<when>] option:
git status --ignore-submodules=dirty

*the configuration status.submoduleSummary
You can see the original discussion (back in 2010, for Git 1.7.x) here, which lead to that feature:

By the way, I think that route of action would make the resulting git internally consistent in that everything by default will report submodules with untracked paths in its working tree as dirty.

*

*In the "Untracked" section of "git status" output, we list an untracked path in the superproject (i.e. the one in which "git status" was run) to remind the user that the path might be a new file forgotten to be added (unless of course it is ignored).
  But it does not make the working tree dirty.

*When you have an untracked path in a submodule:

*

*the submodule is listed in the "Changed but not updated" section.
  This also makes the working tree of the superproject dirty, even though the working tree of the submodule is not.

*"git diff" output at the superproject level shows that the submodule has modifications (i.e. "-dirty" is shown), but when run inside the submodule, there is no change shown.
I think this is a misdesign at the UI level; reporting an untracked and
  unignored path as potential mistake to remind the user is a good thing,
  but the current way "status" and "diff" does so does not make much sense
  to me.

A: What's going on here is that your submodule repository is on a different commit than the hash ID recorded in the superproject.  Your git status, run in the superproject, is telling you this, without changing it, and your git add -A apparently did not change it either.
This last part seems wrong.  When I do something similar, and then use git add -A, I get:
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        modified:   [submodule path]

If I then run two more commands, it goes back, as I expect:
$ git reset
Unstaged changes after reset:
M       [submodule path]
$ git submodule update
Submodule path [path]: checked out '[hash]'
$ git status
On branch ...
nothing to commit, working tree clean

(I suspect that you've made some change(s) in the submodule but never committed them there.)
What's going on, in fine grained detail that will let you diagnose the problem
We have one Git repository, called the superproject, that is controlling a second repository, called the submodule.  The superproject actually has three separate control knobs, one of which is present in each commit, and is therefore also found in the index (since the index controls what will go into the next commit).
One of these control knobs is the file you mentioned, .gitmodules.  It tells the superproject how to clone the submodule if the submodule is not yet git cloned.  Once the submodule is cloned, its main job is done.
The second is your .git/config file.  It contains information copied out of the .gitmodules file, which you can update if needed, if the .gitmodules file is not quite right for your own purposes (which might differ from those of whoever's in charge of the .gitmodules file).  Any settings in your .git/config override those in .gitmodules.  Otherwise these two places to put settings are essentially equivalent.
The last is the one causing the issue.  For a submodule to become checked out into your work-tree, and hence to be useful to you, the Git that's in control of the superproject spins up a second set of Git commands.  In general, you might run:
git submodule update --init

to get the submodule checked out (though if you use git clone --recursive, Git does this for you).
At this point, the superproject Git has made an almost-empty directory with the correct path.  (The directory contains a .git file naming the path to the cloned repository, or in the old days or using the old style backwards-compatibility mode, contains the actual .git directory itself.)  The superproject Git chdirs into this directory and tells the submodule Git:

*

*run git checkout hash
Once that's happened, the path is full of files extracted from the commit whose ID is hash, which mostly makes the outer Git (the superproject) "done" with the files.  But there is a side effect, because the submodule is itself a full Git repository, with everything that this means.
In particular, the subproject has its own HEAD.  This HEAD is now detached and the submodule's repository's current commit is hash, so that this is in the index and work-tree of the submodule, which is of course what we wanted: the work-tree of the submodule is the path in the superproject where all the submodule files go.
But there's an interesting question to answer: Where did the superproject Git get the hash ID?  The answer is: it's stored in every snapshot—well, every snapshot that uses the submodule—in the superproject, the same way every snapshot has a full, complete copy of every file.  To make that happen, the index for the superproject contains a special entry of type gitlink.
This gitlink entry in the superproject index tells the superproject which hash ID to give to the submodule Git whenever the superproject tells the submodule Git: check out some particular commit.
If you, manually, navigate into the submodule, and git checkout a branch name, or any other commit by hash ID, the submodule repository's HEAD changes.  It either becomes attached to the branch name, or it points to the other commit, still in detached-HEAD mode.
At this point, the submodule and the superproject are out of sync.  The superproject Git does not do anything about this yet.  You are in control, you choose which commit you want.  You can even make new commits and git push them to some upstream.  Once you've done all of the committing and git checkout-ing that you want, and have everything arranged correctly, you should climb out of the submodule work-tree back into your superproject.
Now git status and git diff will, by default—there are a ton of control knobs here too—tell you that the superproject is calling for some hash H, but the submodule has some other hash S checked-out.  (They may or may not also tell you if the submodule itself needs a commit made, if you set the control knobs for this.)  If you wish your next superproject commit to record, in the gitlink for this submodule, this new commit hash S, you run:
git add path-to-submodule

(or git add -A should do the same thing, which is why this is puzzling).  That will update the gitlink in your index to record hash ID S rather than H, so that the next superproject commit will, on a git submodule update command, tell the submodule Git: check out commit S, as your detached HEAD.
Once the index in the superproject matches the HEAD in the actual checked-out submodule, the submodule won't be listed in the changes not staged for commit section.  If the hash in the gitlink in the index does not match the hash in the gitlink in HEAD, git status will list the submodule's path in changes to be committed.

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As temperatures climbed high into the triple digits on Saturday, authorities discovered the body of an elderly man on a hiking trail in the La Quinta Cover area.
As temperatures climbed high into the triple digits on Saturday, authorities discovered the body of an elderly man on a hiking trail in the La Quinta Cove area.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department received a phone call about the man's disappearance around 1 p.m.
Although the cause of death was not immediately known, deputy Armando Munoz, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, said there were no signs of foul play.
The coroner's office is expected to release the name of the man after the autopsy is complete and the next of kin has been notified.


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The foundation of the Ak-mosque ("White Mosque") was founded in 1647 with the bath Anush Khan. There are inscriptions on the doors of the mosque, reminding that the building dates from the years 1838-1842, as well as the names of Khiva woodcarving masters: Nur Muhammad, the son of Adin Qalandar, Kalandar, the son of Seyid Muhammad.
The mosque consists of a domed hall with three galleries. There is a mihrab-nich on the south side, orienting religious persons to Mecca. The decoration of the mosque has a lot of interesting elements with elegant and original carving. Domed room (6,35X635m) is surrounded by multi-column ayvans with mihrab niche. Carved wooden columns are the main element of the decoration, which were made by the most prominent masters of Khiva. The walls of the building are decorated with beautiful carved alabaster. But the name of the mosque is associated not only with that but also with the fact that the building occupies the commanding position among the other buildings in this quarter.
According to historical data, the origin of the name of the mosque is due to the fact that once there was a mosque, the remains of which can be found under the niches of the modern Ak-mosque.
Other sights of Khiva
Khiva Travel guide
Kalta Minar Minaret
Islam Khoja complex
Ichan-Kala settlement
Museum of Applied Art and Life
Pahlavan Mahmud Complex
Caravanseray Allakulikhan
Kunya Ark Fortress
Palvan Darvaza
Muhammad Rahimkhan madrasah
Anush-khan Baths
Dishan-Kala
Said Alauddin Mausoleum
Shergazi Khan Madrasah
Said Muhammad-khan Madrasah
Juma Mosque
Kurnysh-khan Palace
Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasah


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Crafts: Indie makers get creative with yarns, dyes
By KIM COOKJanuary 4, 2022 GMT
This photo provided by Ravenswood Fibre Co. shows some of their wool. Ravenswood Fibre Co's Sam Myhre celebrates the fall with her Autumn Grandeur colorway, a mix of softly-blended golds, rusts, greens and browns. (Ravenswood Fibre Co. via AP)
When you see a nice handmade sweater, you know it took a while to make.
The knitting or crocheting is just part of it. (A fun online calculator at www.lovecrafts.com estimates how long anything from a basic scarf to a blanket, baby booties or patterned garment would take you; figure on 20 to 80 hours.)
Before that, however, there are those who make the yarns. Indie craftspeople are doing new things with wool and other fibers, including recycled plastic, as well as with dyes.
Samantha Myrhe, owner of RavensWood Fibre Co. in Nova Scotia, Canada, began a dozen years ago with a few sheep, and her third generation of lambs was shorn this fall. She sells her yarns online and at local markets, and gives her original dyes original names, like Sea Glass, a blend of dreamy water hues; Fireflies, with starry, night sky colors; and Autumn Drive, evoking a ride through a fall forest.
"Dyeing is chemistry," she says. "Although the process we use is a simple, heat-and-acid-vinegar process to set the colors, the chemistry behind it involves the binding of a color molecule to a wool molecule. More or less molecules, more or less intense color."
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She found that using water from the local municipal system created unpredictable colors, so she turned to well water instead. Still, there's an element of chance: more rain means more minerals in the water. "More minerals mean my reds may be more orange, my blacks break and go to gold. It's crazy," she says.
Myrhe has a good group of reliable, "stable" colors, but also what the indie dye world refers to as OOAKs: One of a Kinds.
"The magic of what the dye gods give me that day," she says.
Different fibers take dye in different ways. Alpaca hues tends toward pastel, as it doesn't absorb as much color. Nylon and silk soak up dye, and when blended with merino wool, give beautiful color depth.
Some dyers are exploring other types of wool, including yak, cashmere, and Australian Polwarth sheep, which has a strong, silky character good for many woven projects.
Wool gets high marks for sustainability; as the International Wool Textile Organization notes, it's renewable, biodegradable and recyclable. Around the world, many farms, studios and workshops are producing yarns and other textile products using techniques with a gentle environmental impact, including recycling water and using few if any additives.
Britt-Marie Alm, who runs Love Fest Fibers in San Francisco, offers small-batch yarns sourced from sustainably operated workshops on the West Coast, Nepal and Tibet. Alm has had a decades-long love for Tibetan culture since joining a high school community service project in the region. She has learned spinning and weaving techniques from Tibetan artisans, and now supports several women-run collectives there and in the U.S.
Her soft, chunky yarns include Color Core, in which she spins ethically sourced merino wool around a colorful organic cotton fiber; the result looks like a woolly Twizzler. Alm came up with the idea during the pandemic.
"I was spending more time inside, as we all were, and I became captivated by the incredible weavings made by customers who were exploring the inside of our yarn," she says. "Their techniques centered around cutting yarns to show the inner cross-section, and it was fascinating — the textures and color gradations were just stunning."
With her Washington State mill partners — a mother-daughter team who also raise a few alpacas — she developed seven Color Core colorways.
Love Fest also has a naturally shed, downy yak yarn called kullu, which feels like cashmere, without the sheep shearing.
"Recent years have seen a reimagining of what yarn can make," Alm says. She cites a range of knitted and crocheted home goods, from baskets and rugs to pillows and poufs. The chunky yarn and huge stitches that makes these projects possible, she says, is more than visually striking.
"It's also very gratifying to be able to make a project so quickly. This has captured the imagination of a new generation of fiber artists who learn the skills to knit a chunky basket and then continue on to explore macrame and weaving," she says.
Sustainable options for yarn now also include upcycled linen and plastic fiber.
"I grew up crocheting and knitting so much polyester and acrylic yarn; it seemed such a shame that more recycled materials weren't being utilized," says Alm.
She worked with her mill to create ReLove, a fiber that blends plastic water bottles with merino to make a soft, chunky yarn available in colors like denim, curry, fog and leche. Sets contain 40 yards of yarn, which rescues about 10 plastic bottles from landfills, she says.
Other notable independent operations include farm/mill combos like Red Hill Fiber Mill in Taswell, Indiana, which raises alpacas, gives educational tours, and spins and sells yarns and wool products gleaned from their herd. Lydia Christiansen's Abundant Earth Fiber, on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, includes wool spun from East Friesian sheep that graze just down the road from her mill.
Yarn enthusiast Michelle Thymmons has compiled a list of popular Instagram yarn dyers across North America and Europe on her website www.vamicreations.com. They include a multi-generational family at Bumblebee Farm in Davis, Illinois, who raise sheep and rabbits, dye and make their own knitting fibers, and host yarn clubs themed around Harry Potter, "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones."
Knit and pattern designer Norman Schwarze in Munich, Germany, has a globe-spanning compilation at www.nimble-needles.com that includes Vivid Wool outside Reykjavik, Iceland; Wishbone yarns in South Africa, and The Blue Brick in Ontario, Canada.
The company Yarnspirations has developed a new format for the yarn ball itself – a Lifesaver-shaped ring called an O'Go that it says is less prone to tangles. O'Go is available under various brands and in a range of colors.
Myrhe and Alm say indie-made dyes and yarns tell stories that make a knitted piece feel more precious to its wearer.
Myrhe loves the journey the dyes take her on. Often her best finds, she says, are "happy accidents," and she tries to write everything down promptly. "I've lost many a treasure thinking I would remember and record later. I didn't remember, and the most beautiful copper red eluded me for years, only to be found accidentally once again a few months later."


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UCSF Celebrates Second Annual All-School Alumni Weekend
Approximately 2,000 alumni from the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as other programs, converged at the Palace Hotel and throughout the UCSF campus for the second annual All-School UCSF Alumni Weekend from April 25 to 27.
The festivities began on Friday, April 25, with The Last Lecture, delivered by Professor Dan Lowenstein of the Department of Neurology. This annual lecture series, started in 2012, asks a professor nominated by the student body to reflect upon the prompt, "If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?"
Lowenstein advocated for "great compassion and great concentration" in his lecture, and illustrated the principle of justice by recounting a story about the "Basement People" (janitors, nursing aides and cafeteria workers) at UCSF, who were some of the first advocates for civil rights on campus.
Many of the original Basement People were in attendance at the lecture and were acknowledged during the talk. The lecture was attended by over 600 people and was simulcast online and around the UCSF campus.
"Dr. Lowenstein did a phenomenal job addressing our audience, which consisted of students, faculty members, patients, alumni and the larger UCSF community," said medical student Neha Joshi, founder of the Last Lecture series.
"His ability to captivate and engage the audience with carefully selected poignant stories was remarkable. Dr. Lowenstein's lecture had the audience laughing in some moments, in tears in others, and left with great reflection on his life lessons."
The Last Lecture was followed by the inaugural Zero Year Reunion, a student-alumni mixer honoring the UCSF Class of 2013, in the Millberry Union Gymnasium.
The School of Medicine Class of 2013 elected to volunteer throughout Alumni Weekend as part of their class gift to the university.
Musical entertainment for alumni included a live performance by percussionist Pete Escovedo and his Latin Jazz troupe at the All-Alumni Kickoff Reception on April 26. Following the reception, alumni were invited to hear Christoph Eschenbach conduct the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall.
Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellman hosted a breakfast on Saturday, April 27, where she provided alumni with updates on the state of the school and recognized distinguished alumni across all disciplines. Alumni were also treated to campus tours of the Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses.
Service opportunities included donation of unused medical supplies through the REMEDY (Recovering Medical Equipment for the Developing world) program, training of GLIDE Health Services clinicians, and advising undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in health sciences.
Each school scheduled several lectures, panels and continuing education events. One such event included Discovery Talks, where UCSF innovators, including Mark Anderson, Jeff Bluestone and Victoria Hale, discussed their transformative research and new discoveries.
Alumni weekend culminated with school and reunion year galas at the Palace Hotel, where alumni were able to reconnect with fellow classmates, faculty and students.
"I've enjoyed seeing old friends and classmates this weekend," said Phil Sapunor, an alumnus from the School of Medicine Class of 1958. "I ran into one of my original anatomy lab partners today, and we both agreed that the current anatomy labs are much cleaner than they were back when we were in medical school."
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The Internet of Things is changing how commercial buildings operate — here's where the technology is going
The Internet of Things is helping to make commercial buildings more energy efficient.
One solution is doing so by monitoring usage carefully —where, when, and how much.
5G will make it easier to create smart, efficient buildings.
Many of today's commercial buildings predate modern energy-saving tools and techniques. That means they waste a lot of energy — up to 30% of it, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
With climate change becoming more and more of a reality, and the cost of commercial electricity up 43% from 2000 to 2017, it's time to think about how to make our buildings smarter. Thanks to the Internet of Things, we can.
One company is tackling commercial building efficiency on several levels, and it starts with understanding energy usage. The system uses sensors in office buildings and factories to monitor data including occupancy, temperature, lighting, and energy use. It allows executives to monitor how much energy they're using, where, and how.
The system also measures less tangible aspects of buildings. It can gain deeper insights into building usage by using video to monitor things like foot traffic volume and usage based on the time of day. This video tracking not only makes buildings more secure by securing keyless access, but also makes them smarter by using big data and AI analytics to sense the hidden life of the workplace. They can then mold energy usage and improve occupants' everyday experiences by altering workplace layouts and adjusting staff schedules.
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This company has already worked with Western Australia's Curtin University to saturate it with sensors and deliver insights that can make its campus smarter, safer, and more sustainable. These sensors tell staff how different facilities like lecture halls and libraries are being used so they can "right-size" room designs and class sizes, better using those spaces and energy resources more often. The data provided by the sensors can even extend sustainability outside the university by helping it cut demand for parking spaces and encourage carpooling. The idea is to allow students to opt into a program that will match them up with other students if the system sees them entering class together and knows they live close to each other.
Inside buildings, executives can integrate the system's IoT sensors with building management systems to control energy-consuming systems like lighting, airflow, and HVAC. Making these IoT-based improvements together is more efficient. Companies can save 30% to 50% of their energy with integrated smart-building systems, compared to just 5% to 15% when upgrading individual systems, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.
By connecting to cloud-based analytics systems, companies can build out these efficiencies across multiple facilities, saving costs at scale and contributing to more energy-efficient cities overall.
The next evolution for smart buildings
Boosting efficiency savings is one of the things 5G technology promises to do. And 5G is poised to support the tsunami of new devices that will populate tomorrow's networks — whether that's a smart building or an entire smart city.
Also, 5G is the foundational platform for "fog" computing that marries cloud infrastructure with high-powered computing at the network's edge. This enables 5G-based IoT infrastructures to process data close to its source for fast decision-making, while sending back data to the cloud where necessary to manage multiple buildings as a single ecosystem.
This technology will make it easier to create smart, sustainable buildings by enabling consultants to deploy the right computing power and connectivity in the right place, both inside buildings and out. Edge-based computing devices could process data about water and energy usage in factory production lines and configure equipment to conserve it.
It's about time we updated buildings to learn from what's happening inside and around them. The Department of Energy says that commercial buildings account for 36% of all electricity usage in the US and cost more than $190 billion in energy each year. IoT requires a bit of energy to operate, but it can save much more than that while improving the quality of life for building occupants in the process.
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1st up Lost Alone from Derby. A trio who at times reminded me of a less catchy manic Street Prechers mixed with a more noisy Muse. Not too bad though.
The Used played next. I could hear that they might be quick good on albums and at times their talents got through the cacophony of the arena sound. I was almost tempted to play Angry birds on my phone but didn't.
Evenesance only played for 1 hour 20 minutes and some songs seemed to sound much like the others. Amy Lee's vocals acme through clear enough most of the time but didn't always impact me on my seat at the back.
It was ok. I think the gothy kids scattered around the arena liked it more than me.


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Is All Scripture Inspired? – A Review by Brian Garrard
Author Garrard, Brian
John Charles Ryle (JR), was born in 1816 and after his conversion served as a minister of a number of Anglican parishes. He was appointed as the first bishop of Liverpool in 1880 and remained in this office until shortly before his death in 1900. He is probably best known for his Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, but his other books have also proved to be very popular. Many of these are still published by the Banner of Truth and continue to provide spiritual benefit. The above1 first appeared in JR's Old Paths in 1878, while the present edition in this format first appeared in 2003. The book has five chapters including the introduction, plus two appendices.
In the introduction JR sets out to examine the subject of the inspiration of Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16) and does so in two main ways. First, by showing that the Bible is given by God and is, consequently, miraculous. Secondly, he demonstrates the extent of this and shows that it not only covers all the Bible but the very words as well. Certain quotations and references may be a little dated and some modern arguments be unanswered here but, for all that, the essential truths are present. Indeed, what is written sounds remarkably up to date.
With Chapter Two, 'The Bible is Inspired,' JR endeavours 'to show the general truth that the Bible is given by inspiration of God' (page 5). As proof of this, he maintains that 'the Bible itself fairly examined, is the best witness of its own inspiration' (page 6). Six facts are drawn together to ably demonstrate this and include the great fulness and richness of Scripture's wisdom, the Bible's unity and harmony, its accuracy, and its remarkable effect upon people and nations who receive it.
In chapter 3, 'Every Word of the Bible is Inspired' (pages 24-36), the author examines the extent of biblical inspiration. Its origins are divine and miraculous and cover each word. 'Every book,' JR writes, 'and chapter, and verse, and syllable of the Bible was originally given by inspiration of God' (page 28). In an age that saw the emergence of the Higher Critical movement, he refused to move an inch in their direction, asserting plainly the verbal inspiration of God's Word. To him the Bible is the perfect rule of faith and practice, especially as it makes internal claims to be inspired. Besides, important scriptural principles can turn on 'precise wording' and this could not be true if the Holy Spirit did not give the very words of the Bible. In addition, it settles all controversies in religion, is the 'instrument of public preaching and instruction' (page 34) and is a source of comfort to God's people. If the words were not from heaven then none of this could be true.
Turning to Chapter Four entitled, 'Objections Answered,' it is worth acknowledging that objections to the Bible's inspiration have increased over the last century and become more subtle. Yet JR's defence is still relevant despite being written more than 130 years ago. Christians will doubtless find his reasoning helpful even in answering modern errors. Of course, biblical scholars have carried out more work since JR's time and readers may do well to consider the books mentioned at the end of this review.
Chapter Five concludes the main body of the book (pages 48-53) and consists of practical, and what the author calls, 'plain' application. He urges his readers not to neglect the Bible and does so with a sense of urgency. Pressing for the need for reverent and fervent Bible reading, JR writes, 'God has given us the Bible to be a light to guide us to everlasting life. Let us not neglect this precious gift. Let us read it diligently, walk in its light, and we shall be saved' (page 53).
There are two Appendices. The first contains quotations from theologians of earlier centuries namely, Bishop Jewel, Richard Hooker, John Owen and Thomas Chalmers. Appendix Two is entitled, 'Not corrupting the Word' and is a chapter taken from another of JR's books, Warnings to the Churches. He cautions against corrupting and dealing deceitfully with God's Word. This can be done by throwing doubt on its full inspiration, failing to adequately preach its doctrines, and giving 'defective practical application of it' (pages 66-70). Finally, he urges preachers to speak God's Word as those who truly believe it and are commissioned by God. They must also remember that they are in God's sight and presence and are called to declare Christ to their fellow sinners.
This little book is an excellent introduction to the subject of the Bible's inspiration. For those who desire to progress further then the following (amongst others) might be helpful: The King James Version Defended by E. F. Hills (The Christian Research Press), Thy Word is Truth by E. J. Young (Banner of Truth), The Lord Gave the Word by M. H. Watts (TBS) and Three Modern Version by A. Macgregor (Bible League) or the author's expanded work, 400 Years On — How does the Authorised Version stand up in the 21st century? (Visionsolutionsni).
Taken with permission from the Bible League Quarterly, July-September 2013


The Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs certainly will understand what to expect from each other when they play the second of back-to-back games against each other on Friday at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tenn.
The Grizzlies just hope they can find a way to reverse the results of their recent game against the Spurs. If they do, they would end their longest losing skid in eight years, nine games.
The Spurs beat Memphis 104-95 on Wednesday in San Antonio behind a season-high 41 points from LaMarcus Aldridge, nine of which came down the stretch when San Antonio was able to put away a determined and desperate Grizzlies team.
Aldridge's performance was his best in the regular season in the three years he has played for the Spurs and his fourth 30-plus-point game of the season. Aldridge had 41 points in a playoff game in 2016 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in his first year in San Antonio.
"It's been the same all year -- LaMarcus has been an All-Star," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. "The defensive end, the offensive end, being a leader, everything combined. He's been fantastic, and he did it again tonight."
The Spurs (14-7), who won their third straight game and fifth in their past six outings, also got 13 points form Patty Mills and 10 points apiece from Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker.
"We've shown in patches this season how well we can defend and how we can guard," Mills said. "The challenge is always to see how consistent we can be over 48 minutes. We get ourselves in some holes and we make some errors, but the best thing about it is we can fix it, because it's on us."
Meanwhile, the Grizzlies have not won since a road victory at Portland on Nov. 7. The swoon led to the firing Monday of coach David Fizdale, who has been replaced on an interim basis by J.B. Bickerstaff.
"I think we are a group that won't give up," Bickerstaff said about his team. "They won't give; they won't give in. They're fighters by nature. Every night we show up you can guarantee they're going to give you what you got. That's the only way we will get out of this (slump). We'll band together, go keep competing, and the opportunity will come and we'll get our win."
Tyreke Evans led the Grizzlies (7-13) with 22 points on Wednesday, with James Ennis III and Andrew Harrison contributing 15 and 13 points, respectively, off the bench. Ben McLemore and Marc Gasol scored 10 points each.
"It's tough right now, but we continue to play hard as a team every game," Evans said. "Things just didn't go our way, but we have to fight through it. It's my job to provide positive energy on the bench and keep everyone focused so that we can get back on track."
Memphis is 0-7 without point guard Mike Conley this season after going 7-6 without Conley last year. Conley is sidelined due to an Achilles injury.
Gasol (3,732) passed Zach Randolph (3,731) as the all-time franchise leader for field goals made. All eyes were on Gasol because of the perception that he had a hand in Fizdale's firing, a notion that Gasol disputed on Wednesday.
"This game was something we can build on," Gasol said. "Some of the mistakes that were made, now you can coach them. In the previous games, a lot of the mistakes we were making were hard to coach. It's a lot of indecisive doubt among guys, and when guys have doubt, it seems like they're not giving the effort. But (Wednesday) everybody was on the same page."
The Grizzlies failed to score 100 points for a sixth straight game and for the seventh time during their skid. All five Memphis starters finished with a negative plus/minus rating.