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Alison Luterman's collection of poems "Desire Zoo" connect associatively and sequentially at times and share many of her passions. Alison Luterman also writes prose but that hasn't prevented her from writing narrative poems; many in this collection tend to be narrative. The stories tend to be daily occurrences where some event, image, or person caught her attention and wrapped it around a question she had.
Three prose poem pieces, "Love Shack", "Dust", and "What About God" are structured like prose but are tighter in presentation. They focus on the universal or ideal behind the day to day.
In "Love Shack", the poet conveys her connection with her lover as the connection from lover to mother to child with the implication that is passes on through the generations.
In "Dust", she is told a story by a student in her class and it impacts her so much that she can't help but see death even in life around us. My summary is rather simplistic compared to the poem, but the metaphor of dust to dust carries through the piece.
In "What About God", a rabbi comes to visit and they share their perceptions of God and find they all fit in a manner or not. These poems don't use line breaks or stanza breaks or end rhyme to provide the poetic sense to the poem. Instead, she uses the ideal sense of moments or words to raise the poem into greater meanings that extend beyond her personal experience.
Other poems are also narrative, but use poetic devices such as form or line breaks or italicized words to emphasize or order.
In these poems, there is usually an immediate moment, such as noticing herself in relation to other persons, like in the poem "Arrow" where she "refuses to believe Carla's dying" and who she places in a given moment, "the punching of a button on her wheelchair", to deal with the eventual death of a loved one. The title and the use of the arrow are consistent with the mythic tale of Eros shooting love into someone. The conflict is stated in terms of circumstance, how will she deal with the loss and the resolution comes about out of love.
In looking at the collection, you see instances of death of a loved one showing up (death is dealt with several poems), as is the love of a child through a series of poems at the zoo, for example, as well as the love she shares with her husband(s) in varying forms. These provide additional cohesiveness to the collection.
In the case of non-narrative poems, that moment of conflict-resolution is missing and is replaced by a element of emotional growth such as occurs in the case of "Cashmere" where the poet relates to the material and "Amber" where she connects to the wearing of her mother's earrings. What is conveyed is more a changing depth of emotion without an attempt to resolve it; the appreciation is what is mattered or the feeling at the moment. Another non-narrative poem is "Citizen's of a Broken City" and what she is conveying is the changing of detail, in this case different people and how they all feel connected even in their disconnect.
What ties the pieces to each other is a fairly honest, uniform voice that shares her emotion as but doesn't attempt to badger, sell, compete etc. that would imply a different tone of voice. Details are shared about body, love, people and their reactions with enough sensitivity that the reader believes that she says it occurred; there's no sense that she is adding drama for the sake of making the story better.
In reading her poems, our task in my poetry class as part of my multi-genre option in the Creative Nonfiction program at Ashland University was to discuss narrative poems. I wasn't sure what the definition of narrative poem was but used what I knew from my coursework in fiction. On Wikipedia, which offers excellent examples of more classic narrative poems, one element is plot. The University of North Carolina at Pembroke runs the All American: Glossary of Literary Terms also has an entry for narrative poetry, but they use the more modern or post-modern definition of a story must have occurred and it explains the more common forms of narrative poetry such as ballad.
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Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to the country this week. Vatican-based Fides News Agency reported that four processions of young people will converge upon the "Garden of Mary" in Beirut's Museum Square on Wednesday. At 8 p.m. local time the vigil will begin, with Christian and Muslim readings and prayer asking God to bless the Sept. 14-16 papal visit.
.- Christians and Muslims will come together for a prayer vigil on Sept. 12 to invoke the protection of God and the Virgin Mary overThe Secretary of the Commission of the Lebanese Bishops' Conference for Dialogue with Islam, Father Antoine Daou, told Fides that the title of the initiative is "Together in peace, love, freedom and security.""It will be a national and popular holiday, to show to the world that Lebanon can be in this moment in history the Country of coexistence between Christians and Muslims," he noted. Representatives and leaders from all the religious communities in Lebanon, as well as thousands of the faithful, are expected to participate in the vigil.
A number of organizations devoted to Christian-Muslim dialogue are promoting the event, including the group "Together Around Mary," which in recent years has organized joint Muslim-Christian celebrations on the feast of the Annunciation. Since 2012, the Annunciation has been a national holiday in Lebanon to help promote better relations between the members of the two faiths. Fr. Daou said the processions are among numerous events taking place in dioceses across Lebanon in preparation for the Pope's visit."All the Lebanese, all the political and religious leaders – including the Hezbollah, Druze, Sunni political leaders – are waiting for the Pope's visit as a grace for Lebanon, which can favor a moment of true national unity, beyond division, and show the whole Middle East world that Lebanon can be a model of coexistence," the priest said.


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The team at nonolith labs announced their CEE, a device for billed as, "an analog buspirate" that is meant to control, experiment, and explore the world of analog electronics. Nonolith labs started a kickstarter campaign for the CEE.
The CEE is capable of sub-millivolt and milliamp sampling at 44.1k samples/second, and sourcing 2 channels of 5V @ 2A with a little bit of soldering. This allows for precise control of motors and sensors with the web-based UI. We're thinking this would be a great way to teach high schoolers the art of electronics, and would be great combined with a few lectures from Paul Horowitz.
The CEE ties into nonolith labs Pixelpulse, a pretty handy tool for visualizing analog and digital signals. You can check out a demo of Pixelpulse simulating a charging capacitor here.
We're hoping this focus on education on analog electronics catches on – you can learn a lot more by building a 555-based mini Segway than you can slapping a microcontroller in every project. This would go under the same theory as, "any idiot can count to one."
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When it comes to marketing for a small business, staying up-to-date on the latest trends is an integral component of successful lead generation. Whether it's a recent social media app, a trending topic or an online marketing campaign, a business continues to grow when it stays current with new technology and marketing ideas.
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Once you've grabbed the viewer's attention and connected with them emotionally, use your marketing video to share a compelling story. Every video should share something worth value to the client; for instance, the company's story, a product's story or a customer's story. Why should customers care about what you have to say? Use the video time to expand and go in-depth on the narrative's critical points. The goal is to gain viewers' trust and empathy, while still allowing time to share details surrounding the story and leading viewers into your next major point.
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Once you've established a storyline for the marketing video, try incorporating your values throughout it. This is the most important part of the video, and should be restrained to one concise sentence. Up until this point, the entire video has been leading to this moment; now, your value statement is the main takeaway viewers will remember. Keep the statement focused, to the point and true to your brand in order to maintain viewers' attention and encourage them to remember the product or service.
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A new, small study of low-income, depressed Latinos finds that those who stigmatize mental illness are less likely than others are to take medication, keep scheduled appointments and control their condition.
The findings could help physicians develop a series of question to identity patients who might especially be resistant to care and then help them understand how treatment works, said lead study author William Vega.
"Unfortunately, mental-health stigma turns out to be one of the most serious barriers for people receiving care or staying in care," said Vega, professor of medicine and social work at the University of Southern California.
Many cultures have stereotypes about depression and mental illness, he said, with some viewing it as something that will brand a family for generations. Latinos, in particular, value resilience and think, "it's a cultural value to be able to handle your own affairs," he said. "If you can't, it implies that you're weak."
While it might not be surprising that Latinos stigmatize mental illness, "like many things, it's all anecdotes and innuendo until you do something more solid, like a research study, and start finding out what the issues are," said Vega, who worked on the study with fellow researchers while at the University of California at Los Angeles.
In the new study, published in the March/April issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, researchers surveyed 200 poor, Spanish-speaking Latinos in Los Angeles. They all had visited local primary care centers; 83 percent were women. All had shown signs of depression in an initial screening.
Another screening found that all but 54 of the 200 individuals were mildly to severely depressed. Researchers deemed 51 percent as those who stigmatize mental illness, based on responses to questions about things like the trustworthiness of a depressed person.
The researchers found that those who stigmatized mental illness were 22 percent less apt to be taking depression medication, 21 percent less likely to be able to control their depression and about 44 percent more likely to have missed scheduled mental-health appointments.
The findings "shows evidence that stigma does exist, and it's related to things that are important to provide as part of proper treatment," Vega said.
Jamie Walkup, a Rutgers University associate professor of psychology who studies mental health and stigma, said the key is to find ways to "push back against these negative ideas, hoping that a person with depression will no longer let an aversion to being a person with depression stop them from doing what they may need to do to get help."
It might be worth asking, he said, "whether it may sometimes make more sense to switch gears with a patient who, for whatever reason, finds it intolerable to think of themselves as having depression."
In such cases, doctors could find other ways to work with these patients without insisting that they acknowledge their diagnosis.
Source: Vega W, Rodriguez MA, Ang A. Addressing stigma of depression in Latino primary care patients. General Hospital Psychiatry 32(2), 2010.


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Exodus Chapters (English Bible : Douay – Rheims Catholic Bible – Challoner Revision – DRB)
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,
3 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:
4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things that are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with its lamps,
5 And the altar of gold whereon the incense is burnt, before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,
6 And before it the altar of holocaust:
7 The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with water.
8 And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry thereof.
9 And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified:
10 The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:
11 The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.
12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,
13 Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood.
14 And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.
15 So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.
16 And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,
17 And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.
18 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.
19 And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfill the commandment of the Lord.
20 And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony at the north side without the veil,
21 Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the table on the south side,
23 Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.
24 He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony over against the veil,
25 And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
26 And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
27 And the altar of holocaust of the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.
28 And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.
29 And Moses and Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet,
30 When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
31 He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,
32 The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.
33 Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.
34 If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:
35 If it hung over, they remained in the same place.
36 For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.


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Tex-Mex meatballs in a chipotle-tomato sauce
Sundays in October might be my favorite days of the year. The leaves are starting to put on their annual show, the air is crisp, and there are so many choices on how you can spend your day.
For instance, on Sundays you can be lazy and sit on the couch all day reading the paper and a good book; or you can be busy, and visit flea markets and tag sales. You might choose to go to church in the morning and then come home for a Sunday roast; or you might save your eating for later that day when your football team plays a game.
The latter is how many of my friends spend their Sundays this time of year, and it's always fun coming up with some good game-day grub. Things that always work for me are dips, chile con queso, and other easy foods that can be eaten with your hands. Of course, Texas chili, stews and soups are also good choices, but the nice thing about finger foods is you don't have to mess with utensils.
Enter this skillet of Tex-Mex meatballs swimming in a spicy chipotle tomato sauce. This recipe is inspired by recipes from Rick Bayless and Diane Kennedy for Mexican albondigas, which is just the Spanish word for meatball. I've taken their lead but goosed up my meatballs with more spices and herbs, along with a bit of chili powder. And in a nod to old-fashioned Texas meatballs, have used crushed saltine crackers as a binder instead of the more traditional rice.
These don't take too long to make, especially if you use a cookie scoop to form your meatballs. (Though if you have young helpers hanging around the kitchen, forming the meatballs is a good way to put them to work.) To get a nice crisp outer layer, I bake the meatballs for a few minutes before adding them to the sauce. And after a half hour of simmering, they're done.
While you can enjoy these Tex-Mex meatballs any day of the week, I find them especially suited to Sundays, as they are indeed perfect game-watching food. Though if you have other plans on a Sunday, there's certainly no reason why you couldn't enjoy them after church or a visit to the flea market (or when reading page proofs to your latest book, as they were by this particular cook last Sunday).
I like to serve them with crusty pieces of bread, as I find that's the best vehicle for sopping up some of the smoky, spicy sauce, but they're just as good with warm tortillas or even toothpicks. Just know the most important thing is to make sure you have enough for everyone, as they will go fast. Yep, you probably won't have any leftovers as these Tex-Mex meatballs are definitely crowd-pleasing food.
Tex-Mex meatballs in a chipotle-tomato sauce
Ingredients for the meatballs:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/2 cup shredded zucchini
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, plus more for garnishing
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup cracker crumbs
- Cotija cheese crumbled, for garnishing
- Bread or tortillas, for serving
Ingredients for the sauce:
- 1 (14-ounce ) can diced tomatoes
- 2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
- 1/4 medium yellow onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- Salt
- To make the meatballs, place in a large mixing bowl the ground beef, zucchini, onion, garlic, cilantro, salt, black pepper, cumin, oregano, chili powder, allspice, egg, and cracker crumbs. Either using your hands or a spoon, mix all the ingredients until well combined.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F and lightly grease a large baking sheet or 2 large cast-iron skillets. Form the meat into tablespoon-sized meatballs and place on the sheet (you should get about 28). Bake the meatballs for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Meanwhile, in a blender mix together the tomatoes, chipotle chiles, onion, garlic, cumin, oregano, allspice, chicken broth, and lime juice. Blend until a smooth puree is formed. Adjust the seasonings and add salt to taste.
- Pour the tomato-chipotle sauce into a large pot, but wait until the meatballs are done before turning on the heat. When the meatballs are done, bring the pot to a boil and then turn down the heat to a simmer. Add the meatballs to the pot and continue to simmer covered for 30 minutes.
- Serve warm with bread or tortillas, garnished with cilantro and crumbled Cotija cheese.


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The city of roses
Situated on the island of Gotland, Visby is known for its well-preserved medieval city. With beautiful scenery and historical attractions, Visby is an ideal summer holiday destination.
Visby was an important Hanseatic town in the Middle Ages. The old centre is still encircled by a 3,4-kilometre-long stone wall built in the 13th century. To celebrate the city's heritage, Medieval Week is held every August, complete with markets, jousting, street theatre, craft courses and more.
Enjoy a day strolling around the colourful streets and sip a coffee in one of the many small cafés. Visby is a lovely sight in the summer – so many different types of roses grow throughout the city, that it is sometimes referred to as the "the city of roses." The flowers bloom until late autumn, and even up until the end of the year in the botanical gardens.
Visby Airport (VBY)
The airport is located just outside the city.
- Check-in opens 2 hours before departure.
- Check-in closes 45 minutes before departure.
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Paul McCartney Recorded a Christmas Album, but You Can't Hear It
Paul McCartney is already king of pop-rock holiday radio with his synth-driven 1979 staple "Wonderful Christmastime." But it turns out he also dominates his home stereo around Yuletide with a full album of Christmas carol instrumentals he recorded "just for the family."
"Years ago, I thought, 'There's not very good Christmas records,' so I actually went into my studio over a couple of years and I made one," the former Beatle told BBC Radio 4's World at One. "It gets brought out each year, I've just got a little demo of it, but the kids like it. It's kind of traditional — it's something they've heard through the years, and now it's the grandkids getting indoctrinated with my carols record."
While it's not technically an original Christmas album in the traditional sense, McCartney did assemble a goofy, holiday-themed recording as a present for his Beatles bandmates in 1965. Throughout the extremely rare set, which surfaced online in 2017, he impersonates an American DJ and plays cuts from artists like the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.
More recently, as part of Record Store Day's 2019 Black Friday event, McCartney issued a picture-disc vinyl single of new songs, "Home Tonight" and "In a Hurry," recorded during the sessions for his 2018 LP, Egypt Station. He also recently played bass on Ringo Starr's cover of the John Lennon tune "Grow Old With Me"; the track includes a string section inspired by George Harrison, rounding out the closest possible thing to a Beatles reunion in 2019.
McCartney also announced a Netflix adaptation of his 2005 children's book, High in the Clouds. He will provide original songs and music to the project, which features direction from Oscar nominee Timothy Reckart and a script by Jon Croker.


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Dr. Seth Shonkoff, Executive Director for Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, and his colleagues say that operations to produce natural gas from formations such as shale sometimes occur "close to human populations", but efforts to understand the potential impacts have fallen short, focusing on regulations rather than on health outcomes.
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Logo is best known as the language that introduced the turtle as a tool for computer graphics. In fact, to many people, Logo and turtle graphics are synonymous. Some computer companies have gotten away with selling products called "Logo" that provided nothing but turtle graphics, but if you bought a "Logo" that provided only the list processing primitives we've used so far, you'd probably feel cheated.
Historically, this idea that Logo is mainly turtle graphics is a mistake. As I mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 1, Logo's name comes from the Greek word for word, because Logo was first designed as a language in which to manipulate language: words and sentences. Still, turtle graphics has turned out to be a very powerful addition to Logo. One reason is that any form of computer graphics is an attention-grabber. But other programming languages had allowed graphics programming before Logo. In this chapter we'll look at some of the reasons why turtle graphics, specifically, was such a major advance in programming technology.
This chapter can't be long enough to treat the possibilities of computer graphics fully. My goal is merely to show you that the same ideas we've been using with words and lists are also fruitful in a very different problem domain. Ideas like locality, modularity, and recursion appear here, too, although sometimes in different guises.
I've been assuming that you've already been introduced to Logo turtle graphics, either in a school or by reading Logo tutorial books. If not, perhaps you should read one of those books now. But just in case, here is a very brief overview of the primitive procedures for turtle graphics. Although some versions of Logo allow more than one turtle, or allow dynamic turtles with programmable shapes and speeds, for now I'll only consider the traditional, single, static turtle.
Type the command cs
(short for clearscreen
), with no
inputs. The effect of this command is to initiate Logo's graphics
capability. A turtle will appear in the center of a graphics window.
(Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an
actual animal with a head and four legs or--as in Berkeley Logo--it may be
represented as a triangle.) The turtle will be facing toward the top of the
screen. Any previous graphic drawing will be erased from the screen and
from the computer's memory.
The crucial thing about the turtle, which distinguishes it from other metaphors for computer graphics, is that the turtle is pointing in a particular direction and can only move in that direction. (It can move forward or back, like a car with reverse gear, but not sideways.) In order to draw in any other direction, the turtle must first turn so that it is facing in the new direction. (In this respect it is unlike a car, which must turn and move at the same time.)
The primary means for moving the turtle is the forward
abbreviated fd
. Forward
takes one input, which must be a
number. The effect of forward
is to move the turtle in the
direction it's facing, through a distance specified by the input. The
unit of distance is the "turtle step," a small distance that depends
on the resolution of your computer's screen. (Generally, one turtle
step is the smallest line your computer can draw. This is
slightly oversimplified, though, because that smallest distance may be
different in different directions. But the size of a turtle step does
not depend on the direction; it's always the same distance for
any given computer.) Try typing the command
forward 80 |
Since the turtle was facing toward the top of the screen, that's the way it moved. The turtle should now be higher on the screen, and there should be a line behind it indicating the path that it followed.
The first turtles were actual robots that rolled along the floor. They got the name "turtle" because of the hard shells surrounding their delicate electronic innards. A robot turtle has a pen in its belly, which it can push down to the floor, or pull up inside itself. When the pen is down, the turtle draws a trace of its motion along the floor.
When talking about the screen turtle, it's customary to think of the screen as a kind of map, representing a horizontal floor. Therefore, instead of referring to the screen directions as "up," "down," "left," and "right," we talk about the compass headings North, South, West, and East. Your turtle is now facing North. Besides fitting better with the turtle metaphor, this terminology avoids a possible confusion: the word "left" could mean either the turtle's left or the screen's left. (They're the same direction right now, but they won't be the same after we turn the turtle.) To avoid this problem, we use "West" for the left edge of the screen, and reserve the word "left" for the direction to the left of whichever way the turtle is facing.
Logo provides primitive commands to raise and lower the turtle's pen.
The command penup
(abbreviated pu
) takes no inputs; its
effect is to raise the pen. In other words, after you use this
command, any further turtle motion won't draw lines. Try it now:
penup forward 30 |
Similarly, the command pendown
) takes no
inputs, and lowers the pen. Here's a procedure you can try:
to dash :count repeat :count [penup forward 4 pendown forward 4] end ? clearscreen dash 14 |
The command back
(or bk
) takes one input, which must be a
number. The effect of back
is to move the turtle backward by
the distance used as its input. (What do you think fd
will do if you give them noninteger inputs? Zero inputs?
Negative inputs? Try these possibilities. Then look up the commands
in the reference manual for your version of Logo and see if the
manual describes the commands fully.)
To turn the turtle, two other commands are provided. Left
(abbreviated lt
) takes one input, which must be a number. Its
effect is to turn the turtle toward the turtle's own left.
The angle through which the turtle turns is the input; angles are
measured in degrees, so
left 360
will turn the turtle all the way around. (In other words, that
instruction has no real effect!) Another way of saying that the turtle
turns toward its own left is that it turns counterclockwise.
The command right
(or rt
) is just like left
, except
that it turns the turtle clockwise, toward its own right.
»Clear the screen and try this, the classic beginning point of Logo turtle graphics:
repeat 4 [forward 100 right 90]
This instruction tells Logo to draw four lines, each 100 turtle steps long, and to turn 90 degrees between lines. In other words, it draws a square.
There are many more turtle procedures provided in Logo, but these are the fundamental ones; with them you can go quite far in generating interesting computer graphics. If you haven't had much experience with turtle graphics before, you might enjoy spending some time exploring the possibilities. There are many introductory Logo turtle graphics books to help you. Because that part of Logo programming is so thoroughly covered elsewhere, I'm not going to suggest graphics projects here. Instead I want to go on to consider some of the deeper issues in computer programming that are illuminated by the turtle metaphor.
Earlier we considered the difference between local variables, which are available only within a particular procedure, and global variables, which are used throughout an entire project. I've tried to convince you that the use of local variables is a much more powerful programming style than one that relies on global variables for everything. For one thing, local variables are essential to make recursion possible; in order for a single procedure to solve a large problem and a smaller subproblem simultaneously, each invocation of the procedure must have its own, independent variables. But even when recursion is not an issue, a complex program is much easier to read and understand if each procedure can be understood without thinking about the context in which it's used.
The turtle approach to computer graphics embodies the same principle of
locality, in a different way. The fact that the turtle motion
commands (forward
and back
) and the turtle turning commands (
and right
) are all turtle-relative means that a
graphics procedure need not think about the larger picture.
To understand what that means, you should compare the turtle metaphor with the other metaphor that is commonly used in computer graphics: Cartesian coordinates. This metaphor comes from analytic geometry, invented by Rene Descartes (1596-1650). The word "Cartesian" is derived from his name. Descartes' goal was to use the techniques of algebra in solving geometry problems by using numbers to describe points. In a two-dimensional plane, like your computer screen, you need two numbers to identify a point. These numbers work like longitude and latitude in geography: One tells how far the point is to the left or right and the other tells how high up it is.
This diagram shows a computer screen with a grid of horizontal and
vertical lines drawn on it. The point where the two heavy lines meet
is called the origin; it is represented by the numbers
[0 0]
. For other points the first number (the
x-coordinate) is the horizontal distance from the origin to the
point, and the second number (the y-coordinate) is the
vertical distance from the origin to the point. A positive
x-coordinate means that the point is to the right of the origin; a
negative x-coordinate means that the point is to the left of the
origin. Similarly, a positive y-coordinate means that the point is
above the origin; a negative y-coordinate puts it below the origin.
Logo does allow you to refer to points by their Cartesian coordinates,
using a list of two numbers. The origin is the point where the turtle
starts when you clear the screen.
The primary tool for Cartesian-style graphics in Logo is the command
(for set
ition). Setpos
requires one input, which must be a list of two numbers. Its effect
is to move the turtle to the point on the screen at those
coordinates. If the pen is down, the turtle draws a line as it moves,
just as it does for forward
and back
. Here is how you
might draw a square using Cartesian graphics instead of turtle
clearscreen setpos [0 100] setpos [100 100] setpos [100 0] setpos [0 0]
Do you see why I said that the Cartesian metaphor is global, like the use of global variables? Each instruction in this square takes into account the turtle's position within the screen as a whole. The "point of view" from which we draw the picture is that of an observer standing above the plane looking down on all of it. This observer sees not only the turtle but also the edges and center of the screen as part of what is relevant to drawing each line. By contrast, the turtle geometry metaphor adopts the point of view of the turtle itself; each line is drawn without regard to where the turtle is in global terms.
Using the turtle metaphor, we can draw our square (or any other figure
we can program) anywhere on the screen at any orientation. First
I'll write a square
to square :size repeat 4 [forward :size right 90] end
Now here's an example of how square
can be used in
different positions and orientations:
to face pendown square 100 penup forward 20 right 90 forward 25 pendown forward 50 penup back 75 left 90 forward 65 right 90 forward 20 pendown square 15 penup forward 45 pendown square 15 penup back 15 right 90 forward 20 left 45 pendown square 20 end |
The head and the eyes are upright squares; the nose is a square at an angle (a diamond). To write this program using Cartesian graphics, you'd have to know the absolute coordinates of the corners of each of the squares. To draw a square at an unusual angle, you'd need trigonometry to calculate the coordinates.
»Here is another demonstration of the same point. Clear the screen and type this instruction:
repeat 20 [pendown square 12 penup forward 20 right 18]
You'll see squares drawn in several different orientations. This would not be a one-line program if you tried to do it using the Cartesian metaphor!
From a turtle's-eye point of view, drawing an upright square is the same as drawing a diamond. It's only from the global point of view, taking the borders of the screen into account, that there is a difference.
From the global point of view how can we think about that
difference? How do we describe what makes the same procedure
sometimes draw one thing (an upright square) and sometimes another (a
diamond)? The answer, in the most general terms, is that the result
of the square
command depends on the past history of the
turtle--its twists and turns before it got to wherever it may be
now. That is, the turtle has a sort of memory of past events.
But what matters is not actually the turtle's entire past history. All that counts is the turtle's current position and its current heading, no matter how it got there. Those two things, the position and the heading, are called the turtle's state. It's a little like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube; you may have turned part of the cube 100 times already, but all that counts now is the current pattern of colors, not how you got there.
I've mentioned the setpos
command, which sets the turtle's
position. There is also a command setheading
) to set the
heading. Setheading
takes one input, a number. The effect is to turn
the turtle so that it faces toward the compass heading specified by
the number. Zero represents North; the heading is measured in degrees
clockwise from North. (For example, East is 90; West is 270.) The
compass heading is different from the system of angle measurement used
in analytic geometry, in which angles are measured counterclockwise
from East instead of clockwise from North.
In addition to commands that set the turtle's state, Logo provides
operations to find out the state. posPos
is an operation
with no inputs. Its output is a list of two numbers, representing the
turtle's current position. headingHeading
is also an
operation with no inputs. Its output is a number, representing the turtle's
current heading.
Remember that when you use these state commands and operations, you're
thinking in the global (Cartesian) style, not the local (turtle)
style. Global state is sometimes important, just as global variables
are sometimes useful. If you want to draw a picture containing three
widgets, you might use setpos
to get the turtle into position
for each widget. But the widget
procedure, which draws each
widget, probably shouldn't use setpos
. (You might also use
extensively in a situation in which the Cartesian
metaphor is generally more appropriate than the turtle metaphor, like
graphing a mathematical function.) As in the case of global
variables, you'll be most likely to overuse global graphics style if
you're accustomed to BASIC computer graphics. A good rule of
thumb, if you're doing something turtleish and not graphing a function, is
that you shouldn't use setpos
with the pen down.
»Do you see why?
Very young children often begin playing with Logo simply by moving the
turtle around at random. The resulting pictures usually don't look
very interesting. You can recapture the days of your youth by
alternating forward
and right
commands with arbitrary inputs.
Here is a sample, which I've embodied in a procedure:
to squiggle forward 100 right 135 forward 40 right 120 forward 60 right 15 end |
This isn't a very beautiful picture. But something interesting happens when you keep squiggling repeatedly:
repeat 20 [squiggle] |
Instead of filling up the screen with hash, the turtle draws a symmetrical shape and repeats the same path over and over! Let's try another example:
to squaggle forward 50 right 150 forward 60 right 100 forward 30 right 90 end |
turns into a sort of fancy square when you repeat it;
turns into an 18-pointed pinwheel. Does every possible
squiggle produce a repeating pattern this way? Yes. Sometimes you
have to repeat
the procedure many times, but essentially any
combination of forward
and right
commands will eventually retrace
its steps. (There's one exception, which we'll talk about shortly.)
To see why repetition brings order out of chaos, we have to think about a simpler Logo graphics procedure that is probably very familiar to you:
to poly :size :angle forward :size right :angle poly :size :angle end
Since this is a recursive procedure without a stop rule, it'll keep running forever. You'll have to stop it by pressing the BREAK key, or command-period, or whatever your particular computer requires. The procedure draws regular polygons; here are some examples to try:
poly 100 90 poly 80 60 poly 100 144
A little thought (or some experimentation) will show you that
the size
input makes the
picture larger or smaller but doesn't change its shape. The shape is
entirely controlled by the angle
»What angle would you pick to draw a triangle? A pentagon? How do you know?
The trick is to think about the turtle's state. When you finish drawing a polygon, the turtle must return to its original position and its original heading in order to be ready to retrace the same path. To return to its original heading, the turtle must turn through a complete circle, 360 degrees. To draw a square, for example, the turtle must turn through 360 degrees in four turns, so each turn must be 360/4 or 90 degrees. To draw a triangle, each turn must be 360/3 or 120 degrees.
»Now explain why an angle
input of 144 draws a star!
Okay, back to our squiggles. Earlier, I said that the only thing we
have to remember from the turtle's past history is the change in its
state. It doesn't matter how that change came about. When you draw a
, the turtle moves through a certain distance and turns
through a certain angle. The fact that it took a
roundabout path doesn't matter. As it happens, squiggle
right through 135+120+15 degrees, for a total of 270. This is
equivalent to turning left by 90 degrees. That's why repeating
draws something shaped like a square.
»What about squaggle
? If repeating it draws a figure with
18-fold symmetry, then its total turning should be 360/18 or 20 degrees. Is
»Here's another bizarre shape. See if you can predict what kind of symmetry it will show before you actually repeat it on the computer.
to squoggle forward 50 right 70 forward 10 right 160 forward 35 right 58 end |
Suppose you like the shape of squiggle
, but you want to draw a
completed picture that looks triangular (3-fold symmetry) instead of
square (4-fold). Can you do this? Of course; you can simply change
the last instruction of the squiggle
procedure so that the total
turning is 120 degrees instead of 90. (Go ahead, try it. Be careful
about left and right.)
But it's rather an ugly process to have to edit squiggle
order to change not what a squiggle looks like but how the squiggles
fit into a larger picture. For one thing, it violates the idea of
modularity. Squiggle
's job should just be drawing a squiggle,
and there should be another procedure, something like poly
that combines squiggles into a symmetrical pattern. For another,
people shouldn't have to do arithmetic; computers should do the
To clean up our act, I'm going to start by writing a procedure that
can draw an arbitrary squiggle but without changing the turtle's
heading. It's called protect.heading
because it protects the
heading against change by the squiggle procedure.
to protect.heading :squig local "oldheading make "oldheading heading run :squig setheading :oldheading end
This procedure demonstrates the use of heading
and setheading
. We remember the turtle's initial heading
in the local variable oldheading
. Then we carry out whatever squiggle
procedure you specify as the input to protect.heading
. (The
command takes a Logo instruction list as input and evaluates
it.) Here is how you can use it:
protect.heading [squiggle] protect.heading [squaggle]
Notice that what is drawn on the screen is the same as it
would be if you invoked squiggle
or squaggle
directly; the
difference is that the turtle's final heading is the same as its
initial heading.
Now we can use protect.heading
to write the decorated-poly
procedure that will let us specify the kind of symmetry we want:
to spin :turns :command repeat :turns [protect.heading :command right 360/:turns] end
»Try out spin
with instructions like these:
spin 3 [squiggle] spin 5 [squiggle] spin 4 [squaggle] spin 6 [squoggle] spin 6 [fd 40 squoggle] spin 5 [pu fd 50 pd squaggle] |
Isn't that better?
I mentioned that there is an exception to the rule that every squiggle will eventually retrace its steps if you repeat it. Here it is:
to squirrel forward 40 right 90 forward 10 right 90 forward 15 right 90 forward 20 right 90 end |
»Try repeating squirrel
20 times. You'll find that
instead of turning around to its original position and heading, the
turtle goes straight off into the distance. Why? (Squiggle
four-fold symmetry because its total turning was 90 degrees. What is
the total turning of squirrel
?) Of course, if you use
in the second input to spin
, it will perform like the
others, because spin
controls the turtle's heading in that case.
I've been using random squiggles with silly names to make
the point that by paying attention to symmetry, Logo can make
a silk purse from a sow's ear. But of course there is no reason not
to apply spin
to more carefully designed pieces. Here's one I
to fingers :size penup forward 10 pendown right 5 repeat 5 [forward :size right 170 forward :size left 170] left 5 penup back 10 pendown end spin 4 [fingers 50] spin 10 [fingers 30] |
I'd like to write a procedure to draw this picture of a tree:
The trick is to identify this as a recursive problem. Do you see the smaller-but-similar subproblems? The tree consists of a trunk with two smaller trees attached.
So a first approximation to the solution might look like this:
to tree :size forward :size left 20 tree :size/2 right 40 tree :size/2 end
If you try running this procedure, you'll see that we still
have some work to do. But let me remind you that an unfinished
procedure like this isn't a mistake; you shouldn't feel that
you have to have every detail worked out before you first touch the
keyboard. The first obvious problem is that there is no stop rule, so
the procedure keeps trying to draw smaller and smaller subtrees. What
should the limiting condition be? In this case there is no obvious
end, like the butfirst
of a word becoming empty.
There are two approaches we could take to limiting the number of
branches of the tree. One approach would be to choose explicitly how
deep we want to get in recursive invocations. We could do this by
adding another input, called depth
, that will be the number of
levels of recursion to allow:
to tree :depth :size if :depth=0 [stop] forward :size left 20 tree (:depth-1) :size/2 right 40 tree (:depth-1) :size/2 end
The other approach would be to keep letting the branches get smaller until they go below a reasonable minimum:
to tree :size if :size<4 [stop] forward :size left 20 tree :size/2 right 40 tree :size/2 end
Either approach is reasonable. I'll choose the second one just because it seems a little simpler. The cost of that choice is somewhat less control over the final picture; I'm not sure if it'll have exactly the number of branches I originally planned.
The modified procedure does come to a halt now, but it still doesn't
draw the tree I had in mind. The problem is that this version of
is not state-invariant: it doesn't leave the turtle with
the same position and heading that it had originally. That's
important because when tree
tree :size/2 right 40 tree :size/2
the assumption is that at the end of the first smaller tree the turtle will be back at the top of the main trunk, in position to draw the second subtree. We can fix the problem by making the turtle climb back down the trunk (of each subtree):
to tree :size if :size<4 [stop] forward :size left 20 tree :size/2 right 40 tree :size/2 left 20 back :size end
Voila! If you try tree 50
you'll see something like the
picture I had in mind.
You're probably thinking that this "tree" doesn't look very tree-like. There are several things wrong with it: It's too symmetrical; it doesn't have enough branches; the branches should grow partway up the trunk as well as at the top. But all of these problems can be solved by adding a few more steps to the procedure:
to tree :size if :size < 5 [forward :size back :size stop] forward :size/3 left 30 tree :size*2/3 right 30 forward :size/6 right 25 tree :size/2 left 25 forward :size/3 right 25 tree :size/2 left 25 forward :size/6 back :size end |
We can embellish the tree as much as we want. The only requirement is that the procedure be state-invariant: The turtle's final position and heading must be the same as its beginning position and heading.
Because I chose to use a minimum length as the stopping condition, the shape of the tree depends on the size of its trunk. That's slightly unusual in turtle graphics programs, which usually draw the same shape regardless of the size.
A recursively-defined shape (one that contains smaller versions of itself)
is called a fractal. Until the 1970s, hardly anybody explored
fractals except for kids learning Logo and a few recreational mathematicians.
Today, however, fractals have become important becase movie producers are
using computer graphics as an alternative to expensive sets and models for
fancy special effects. It turns out that programs like tree
are the
secret of drawing realistic clouds, mountains, and other natural
backgrounds with a computer.
»If you want another challenging fractal project, try writing a program to produce these fractal snowflakes:
If you're interested in an intellectually rigorous exploration of turtle geometry, continuing along the lines I've started here, read Turtle Geometry, Abelson and diSessa (MIT Press, 1981). I learned many of the things in this chapter from them. It's a hard book but worth the effort.
The standard reference book on fractals is The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandelbrot (W. H. Freeman, 1982). Dr. Mandelbrot gave fractals their name and was the first to see serious uses for them.
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Industrial metal
Industrial metal is colloquially described as the fusion of Death Metal and Techno into a form of 'music' enjoyed mostly by avid video gamers, sissy goth freaks, and S&M enthusiasts. In modern times, the term obviously refers to any metal within a certain technology or industry required for completion of a given erection or project.
Origins[edit | edit source]
Industrial metals were invented to remedy the necessity of contemporary life in a technological-driven society to master meltable, moldable, and remalleable building materials and casings; also to serve as advanced (and sometimes microscopic) electrical conductors. The entymology of 'industrial metal' the term, however can be traced back to the early 1700's. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, industrial metal was very popular in Communist countries such as East Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, North Korea, Cuba, and China. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 70's and the Cuban invasion of Assyria in the 80's helped spread this genre of music to underdeveloped countries despite how unimpressive technology was during this era. Interestingly, industrial metal remains notably popular in both Communist countries and countries with cold climates.
Lyrical Content[edit | edit source]
The majority of industrial metal songs lack significant lyrical content because vocals are usually diminished to a sequence of sounds, groans or flatulences. Nevertheless, some modern industrial songs contain in-depth lyrics about the merging of humans, machinery, and meat products. Sample titles of typical songs include: "Hot-Dog Kiss '65" by White Zombie, "I Suck Starfish Water" by Limp Bizkit, and "Pork Soda Remixed" by Primus. Although many mainstream industrial songs have lyrics that can be formulaic in nature, it is the kind of mediocrity that is celebrated in the Electronic music world.
German band KMFDM is a seminal industrial metal group. Although not a metal fan, KMFDM leader Sascha Konietzko's "infatuation with ripping off metal licks" stemmed from his experiments with a can of vienna sausages. He told Uncyclopedia that,
" | It was just interesting to use aluminum as a kind of reinforcement for our industrial metal. All of a sudden our music was free from all that heavy iron and steel it had always been weighed down by. What I always hated most about our heavy metal was that our best riffs came only once and were never repeated. So my fascination, actually, was to sample a great riff, loop it, and play it over and over again until it became either an earworm or a hit. Hopefully both. | " |
Fans[edit | edit source]
The fans of Industrial Metal are a weird bunch. Not like the Brady Bunch, mind you, but the kind of kids that powder their faces and wear all black. They are usually hermetic, often caking on layer upon layer of black eye makeup and either spiking their hair with massive amounts of Elmer's glue or matting it down with the natural grease from their unwashed scalps.
Industrial metal mosh pits are often frowned upon at live shows, as most concert-goers are too worried about scuffing up their expensive Doc Martens. Head banging is a widely acceptable practice and is therefore encouraged.
The essential industrial metal is, of course, iron. One cannot find a harder, more elemental, more affluential, or otherwise indisputable way of expressing oneself than through the hardcore industrial metal of cast iron ore.
The steel and copper that has been introduced to industrial metal over the years has only added to the hardness of the original metal of death and rock decadence. Stainless steel, with its advancements in cleanability made industrial metal accessible to a younger audience, and spurred an outbreak of underground industrial metalheads known as hardcore extremists. These industrial metal fans are known for liking faster techno beats, more prominent guitar riffs, and have a penchant for the beverage Mountain Dew. They often hang out at vampire-themed nightclubs, collect vintage weapons and live in their parents' converted basement.


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Big endian, little endian
The article read:
"Note that unless otherwise noted, all multi-byte fields use the network byte order (big endian)."
To which Qqq responded on November 20, 2007:
- Portable players are usually ARM, which is usually little-endian. The Macintosh is now little-endian. Obviously the PC is little-endian. Clearly there is a winner. It's long past time to stop putting the bytes in an order that makes both programmers and computers do extra work for no good reason. Don't try to hold back the tide.
- Perhaps so, but factually people do use OggPCM on big-endian machines. Having big-endian as an option makes sense then, and what is suggested above would then become a recommendation on how to use the format, not a necessary limitation on it. Decoy 04:07, 19 December 2007 (PST)
- I am convinced by Qqq's arguments. Default should be changed to little endian. Martin Leese 11:42, 19 December 2007 (PST)
- If Qqq's argument happens to be true, I'd agree with this change as well. Since I am unsure, I'd like to propose to bring this issue up in the ogg-dev mailing list.--Ivo 11:16, 29 December 2007 (PST)
This issue was discussed on the mailing list and we decided it was best to leave it as it is.--Ivo 09:42, 25 January 2008 (PST)
Fractional sample rate
The article read:
"32 [uint] Sampling rate [Hz]"
To which Qqq responded on November 20, 2007:
- -- this should be a rational with at least a 22-bit numerator and 10-bit denominator
- An integer sampling rate is trouble. Audio does not always come that way. For example, audio is sometimes tied to the NTSC frame rate of 30000/1001. That 1001 can show up in the sample rate, and thus needs 10 bits. Rates with a 3 in the denominator are common too. Super Audio CD needs 22 bits to represent 2.8224 MHz. So 22 bits and 10 bits will do the job. Better would be 32 bits for both numerator and denominator of course. A float will never be quite right, though it sure beats an integer and will in fact hold exact values into the MHz. One can't express 1/3 or 1/10 as a float, so 12345.6 and 12345.6666... are undoable that way. BTW, allowing for subsonic recording would be nice.
- DSD does not have to be supported, because while technically it can be viewed as high rate PCM, in practice OggPCM aims at supporting the most common forms of conventional PCM, not much more. DSD content is rare, there is no obvious reason why it would be generated by any of the free/open source software projects like Xiph, it would also need its own sample format tag, we would need to go into the specifics of bit packing, and so on. It seems like a whole lot of extra work and complexity for very little gain.
- The physical header has already been finalized, so touching the sampling rate parameter is not really an option. Fractional sampling rates would again add complexity for little real benefit, and the option would be difficult to ignore if implemented. That's bad for embedded devices. The point about NTSC, drop-frame and the like is valid, granted, but given how imperfect such sources usually are, addressing the mismatch by simple resampling techniques should be sufficient.
- Subsonic recording, that's IMO unnecessary generality for something intended for multimedia work.
- Decoy 04:07, 19 December 2007 (PST)
Question: will this thing be lossy or lossless or both
This uncompressed codec: will it be lossy or lossless or kinda both?
- It is uncompressed. Lossy is compression that removes pieces of data to chunk more the file size. Lossless is compression without loss of quality.--Ivo 09:42, 25 January 2008 (PST)
- I'll assume it's thinkable as lossless like OggUVS.
- As Ivo said, OggPCM is uncompressed. That means there is no compression, neither lossless nor lossy. OggUVS is also uncompressed. Martin Leese 12:15, 26 January 2008 (PST)
zip archive
Could compressing it in a zip archive, which is playable without unpacking the whole thing, make for relative small but playable files. Unpacking on the fly possible?
- ZIP compression (also called LZII and flate/deflate) was designed for English language text. It works poorly on audio data. Martin Leese 11:42, 25 January 2008 (PST)


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The white colonialists have never forgiven Haitians for the revolution of 1804, the first successful revolt against white supremacy. "The slander and degradation against us about our poverty, alleged political incompetence, and poor educational infrastructure is tied to the persistent desire of our historical enemies to wipe our revolution from our minds and the rest of the world's."
"My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block forever the march of the blacks in the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte
These words by Napoleon Bonaparte prior to his embarking to crush the revolution sparked by African slaves in what he then considered his French Colony, now known as Haiti, are of significant importance for several reasons. The most telling importance is that what Napoleon is sharing, as a man who is considered to this day as one of the greatest military minds in the history of Western Civilization, is that the his ultimate motivation was purely White Supremacy. The Haitians had already decimated a huge British military expedition, killing over 10,000 British soldiers in less than two months, and repelled incursions by the Spanish Crown. Napoleon was determined to keep over 500,000 Black people in bone crushing bondage in order to keep the lie of justified White domination over the affairs of the world alive.
The importance of Haiti in choking the life out of that lie forevermore has not ceased. What Haitian people must understand is that our existence and history as a people is rooted in being a painful and uncomfortable reminder to the Western world that on January 1, 1804, White Supremacy died a humiliating death, if at least for one day.
In 2014 our identity as Haitians should be grounded in knowing that the slander and degradation against us about our poverty, alleged political incompetence, and poor educational infrastructure is tied to the persistent desire of our historical enemies to wipe our revolution from our minds and the rest of the world's. Every Haitian child that goes unfed, woman that goes uncared for, or school that goes unbuilt results from the persistent need to delegitimize our history, undermine our sovereignty, and destabilize our governments. The loss Haiti caused to the Imperial masters of the world has not ceased their undying need to punish us for our daring to be free. We cannot believe that merely because our revolution seems so removed from history that they have forgotten.
Western powers will always chide us and say we Haitians need to "take accountability." Yet when have they taken accountability for the treachery and perfidy they've sponsored within our governments? What accountability have they taken for the countless destabilization efforts over time? The accountability we must take is for not neutralizing the cowards and traitors who have denied us our completing the job that was started in 1804.
"On January 1, 1804, White Supremacy died a humiliating death, if at least for one day."
To further humiliate us, some of our enemies may ask: Why are you in America, France, Canada and not back in Haiti if you care for it so much? To further remind such voices that we know our worth we should tell them that the reason the greatest of these nations, The United States, exists is because our ancestors mercilessly destroyed Napoleon's army so thoroughly that, in economic desperation, he had to sell much of the land west of the Mississippi to Thomas Jefferson for less than 10 cents an acre. That sale doubled the size of this nation and allowed its westward expansion.
To be Haitian in 2014 is to know the world will try to write our obituary as a nation every January, the month that marks both our independence and the great earthquake of 2010. However, we cannot be distracted. An earthquake in time can be forgotten, but Haiti's independence can never be.
To further mock us, scurrilous publications written by our enemies take the glorious day of our anniversary to stigmatize Haiti for the tragic consequences of the West's global choke hold: child poverty and servitude. Such strategic attempts on their part remind us how dedicated the enemies of Haitian liberty are to blotting out our victory. Throughout the world even lions of economic development like India still have child servitude rates that eclipse our own. It is doubtful that their independence day will be used for such mockery.
One of the ironies of being Haitian in 2014 is to know that while they always start off conversations about our country by saying how poor we are, contracts for billions of dollars of natural resources are being signed while luxury hotels and whole Islands are being turned into multi-million dollar tourist destinations. Of course, almost none of this will go to benefit our people. Robbing the poor is still quite in fashion.
While Western media always ramble on about how horrid and destitute life is in Haiti, narcissistic do-gooder White Savior types flock to our country to live in the lap of luxury – and then publish articles about how guilty they feel. We wish these same people could have lived in the time of our founder, Jean Jacques Dessalines, so they could know how he would greet them.
Therefore, our identity as Haitians in 2014 should be a continuation of what it has always been. For, in truth, to be Haitian is to be a combatant against White Supremacy. It is our birthright and obligation. We can never again abdicate that responsibility because of external oppression or collusion from within.
L'Union Fait La Force
Pascal Robert is an Iconoclastic Haitian American Lawyer, Blogger, and Online Activist for Haiti. For years his work appeared under the Blog Thought Merchant: http://thoughtmerchant.wordpress.com/ You can also find his work on the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pascal-robert/ He can be reached via twitter at https://twitter.com/probert06 @probert06 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Our wonderful Daily Bulletin editor, Suzi Subeck, will be producing a Daily Bulletin each day. The full pre-bulletin will be available in hard copy in the Hospitality Suite at the tournament. Subsequent bulletins will also be available there. You can also read the bulletins online. The bulletins are listed here; click on the one you want to download it in PDF format.
Although it looks as if there are links for future bulletins, they will only work after Suzi has uploaded each bulletin to the website, probably sometime in the middle of the night before the Bulletin's date. If you click on a link and are taken to a page saying Error - page not found, that means the bulletin isn't yet available; try again later.
Monday, May 8th
Tuesday, May 9th
Final Bulletin, Friday, May 12th
Event Photos on our Facebook page


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Tags: community, connection, goalie, hockey, ice hockey, meditation, mindfulness, prayer, worship
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Initial Leadership Team
May 13
Founding Pastor: Rev. Glenn "Mac" Frazier – experienced entrepreneur and preacher. (See bio elsewhere.) Provides vision, leadership, and executive management. Duties:
- Congregational leadership.
- Preaching.
- Teaching.
- Executive management of staff.
- Board chair.
- Volunteer recruiting and management.
- Program development.
- Outreach and marketing.
Worship/Music Leader:
Ethan Daum – talented musician and dedicated church member, currently working in Stuart Hall. Current studies show that successful church plants are started by two full-time staff, assisted by one or two volunteers in leadership positions. The failure rate of church planters is significantly reduced when they have a full time partner to rely on. In addition, the culture of Austin is deeply rooted in music—the city's claim of being "Live Music Capital of the World" is not hard to justify. One of the early challenges for New Way Church will be to build and maintain excellence in its worship services as quickly as possible. In this town, sub-par music is unacceptable.
Ethan is not only a talented musician and budding composer with a successful history of collaborating on worship services with Mac Frazier (e.g. the 2009 Academy Charter Day Sunday service at the Asplundh Field House), but he has a proven track reccord of successfully recruiting and leading a wide variety of young adult musicians in worship settings.
Duties will include:
- Leading worship music.
- Leading and managing musicians.
- Directing technical aspects of worship gatherings.
- Co-developing worship programs with founding pastor.
- Writing original worship music.
- Recruiting volunteers.
- Outreach.
- Assisting founding pastor as appropriate.
Teen Program Leader: Ethan Daum (see above). Ethan will be doing double-duty as both Worship & Music Leader and Teen Leader. Ethan is a half generation younger than Mac, and so extends the demographic outreach of the leadership team. He has worked with teens at both the ANC Secondary School and at the Laurel church camps.
Duties as Teen Program Leader include:
- Developing teen programs.
- Directing the overall teen ministry.
- Recruiting volunteers.
- Co-developing and sometimes leading service projects.
- Outreach.
- Advising the founding pastor.
Volunteer Children's Program Leader: Heather McQueen Jackson, experienced educator, life-time New Church member, and Austin resident. Duties:
- Develop children's programs, including Sunday morning.
- Liason with General Church Office of Education.
- Recruit and manage volunteers.
- Advise founding pastor.
Volunteer Community Leader: Still under consideration.Duties:
- Direct worship service environment systems (signage, greeters, welcome table, communication cards, etc.).
- Direct assimilation and followup systems (followup emails, newcomer gifts).
- Co-manage small group programs with founding pastor.
- Recruit and manage volunteers.
- Outreach.
- Advise founding pastor.
Part-time paid administrative assistant: Duties:
- Office management tasks.
- Administrative assistance to founding pastor.
- Support for Worship/Teen/Children/Community program leaders.
- Miscellaneous outreach and marketing tasks.
[This is from the Launch Plan for New Way Church in Austin, TX. Yesterday: Target Demographics. Next: Advisory Board.]
The Most Effective Means
Sep 23
The most effective means of helping people find a path to God is a motivated community of people who recently discovered a path themselves.


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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in many industrialized countries. Most deaths are due to long-term exposure to cigarette smoke, but non-smokers account for 10 — 15% of cases.
Dr. Toshihisa Ishikawa and his team analyzed the DNA of patients with primary lung cancer and found that non-smoking Japanese women with two copies of the SNP (-617A) in the NFR2 gene had a markedly higher incidence of adenocarcinoma of the lung, as compared with non-smoking, homozygous males.
Furthermore, they find that both male and female lung cancer patients homozygous for the same SNP in the NRF2 gene survive lung cancer much better.
Nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2 (NF-E2)-related factor (NRF2) controls cellular adaptation to oxidants and electrophiles by inducing antioxidation and detoxification genes, and protects normal cells from external toxic challenges and oxidative stress.
Their study also suggests that lung cancer patients harboring a SNP (-617A) allele in the NRF2 gene in combination with the wild-type allele of the MDM2 gene have better prognosis.
"This is the first report providing clinical evidence that homozygous alleles for the SNP (-617A), one of the intrinsic genetic polymorphisms in the NRF2 gene, are associated with the overall survival of lung cancer patients," explains Dr. Ishikawa.
"The study strongly suggests that the presence of homozygous alleles for this SNP is a good prognostic biomarker for the assessment of the overall survival chances of patients with adenocarcinoma, as well as a practical tool for personalized cancer therapy," he concludes.
source : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912091659.htm