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Brand Mascots: Procter & Gamble's Mr. Clean (AKA Don Limpio, Maestro Limpio, Monsieur Net)
CREATORS: Harry Barnhart (concept), Ernie Allen (art direction)
AGENCY: Tatham-Laird & Kudner, Chicago
CORPORATE OVERSEER: Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati
AD SPEAK / SPIEL: "Mr. Clean leaves a sheen where you clean"
TAGLINE: "When it comes to clean, there's only one Mr."
A Cleaning Solution: "Mr. Clean was created by Linwood Burton, a marine ship cleaning businessman with accounts throughout the east coast of the United States. In the past, ships had to be cleaned using abrasives or solvents that were able to cut successfully through embedded grease and grime; however, past solvents were so dangerous to workers that Burton was motivated to finding a solution that was effective and less caustic. Burton, with fundamental knowledge in chemistry, developed Mr. Clean in an effort to clean ships without having to pay significant premiums in disability claims for his workers. He later sold the product to Procter & Gamble in 1958." (SOURCE: Wikipedia-Mr.Clean)
Birth Of A Mascot: "The product's mascot is the character Mr. Clean. In 1957, Harry Barnhart conceived the idea and Ernie Allen in the art department at the advertising agency Tatham-Laird & Kudner in Chicago, Illinois, drew Mr. Clean as a muscular, tanned, bald man who cleans things very well." (SOURCE: Wikipedia-Mr.Clean)
Cultural Precursor: It would appear that Mr.Barnhart and Mr. Allen's 1957 conception of a "muscular, tanned, bald man" standing arms akimbo might have been influenced by Yul Brynner's character of The King from Rodgers and Hammerstein 1951 production of The King and I, which was based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. Which was in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of the actual fourth monarch of Siam, King Mongkut — AKA Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua — in the early 1860s.
Make A Wish: "According to Procter & Gamble, the original model for the image of Mr. Clean was a United States Navy sailor from the city of Pensacola, Florida, although some people may think he is a genie based on his earring, folded arms, and tendency to appear magically at the appropriate time. Hal Mason, the head animator at Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, California modified the existing artwork in print advertising to be more readily used for the television commercials written, produced, and directed by Thomas Scott Cadden. The first actor to portray Mr. Clean in live action television commercials was House Peters, Jr." (SOURCE: Wikipedia-Mr.Clean)
Just One Word–Plastics: The Graduate by Charles Webb was published in 1963. That summer Mr. Clean became the first liquid household cleaner sold in a plastic bottle. Coincidence? Or conspiracy Hmm…
Obligatory Apocalypse Now Reference: Larry Fishburne was cast at age 14 to play Tyrone "Clean" Miller in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now alongside Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms and a very Mr. Clean looking Marlon Brando.
International Aliases: Bulgaria: Mister Proper; France: Monsieur Propre; French Canada: Monsieur Net; Germany: Meister Proper; Holland: Meneer Proper; Italy: Mastro Lindo; Mexico: Maestro Limpio; Poland: Pan Proper; and Spain: Don Limpio.
Jingle: Original lyrics by Thomas Scott Cadden
Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and grime
And grease in just a minute
Mr. Clean will clean your whole house
And everything that's in it
(SOURCE: Wikipedia-Mr.Clean)


text: Soon after Microsoft showed off project Natal, Sony introduced their own motion controllers they've been working on. Both seem very cool and just from watching these videos it seems to me that the Microsoft technology is more sophisticated but the Sony controllers would be more fun to play with. And like they said in the video below, sometimes it feel more natural to push a button.

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Gadget Review: INCIPIO Universal 1 Port 750mAh Backup Battery
I got this at the till while buying socks in San Mateo for 5 dollars.
- What is it?
A small prism with a male foldable USB socket on one end, a female USB socket, a battery in the middle, a tiny button and tiny led.
- How does it work?
When you are plugging stuff to charge via USB, you plug this in the middle, so computer -> backup battery -> gadget. That charges the gadget and the backup battery. Then you throw it in your pocket/bag when you leave home.
- What does it do?
It lets you recharge roughly half a phone's full charge, when you inevitably run out of battery, so unless you forget to charge both things, you'll manage to survive.
- What could be better?
It could come with a micro-usb male instead of a USB female, because that means you also have to carry a cable (no big deal)
- What does the button do?
It stops/starts the current flow into the gadget.
- What does the LED do?
Tells you if current is flowing (green) or if it's charging (red).
- Can you charge anything?
Yes, but 750mAh is enough to keep a Nexus 7 working for about 30 seconds ;-) Does a decent job on a Kindle though!
- Are you going to lose it?
Oh yes, the thing is tiny.
Not a bad 5 dollar gadget. However, you can find it in Amazon for $30 at some places, and that's robbery.


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my scrap philosophy
I scrap for me. I would love to do every page and look at it saying "wow, I'm proud of that"...but sometimes pages get done and are just okay.....that's okay! I don't have perfect days everyday, I'm not a perfect mom all the time, and perfect wife...LOL, let's just say I'm no June Cleaver ;) And those last 10 pounds I lost keep finding their way back...life isn't perfect, and neither is every scrapbook page :)
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Maya Road new release
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After not seeing the word patent in my daily information routine for a few weeks, I saw it twice today – first in an article titled Turning Patents Into 'Invention Capital' (in the NY Times) and then in Region Sustains Robust Patent Production in the WSJ. Both stirred me up early this morning, but for different reasons.
If you are interested in patents, I encourage you to read Turning Patents Into 'Invention Capital' as I'm very interested in your reaction. I'd love to hear what you think in the comments (anonymous is fine if you are concerned about attribution on this one.) I have an opinion and this article didn't add anything to my thoughts (which is partly why I'm looking for yours as I'm curious what others think.) So I hit Ctrl-W and went to the next tab in Chrome.
The title of Region Sustains Robust Patent Production was fine (and yes it refers to Silicon Valley), but the first sentence in the article made me nuts:
"The economic slump has yet to damp innovation in Silicon Valley, at least not by one widely followed measure: patent production."
It's a short article that basically states that Silicon Valley received a similar percentage of utility patents granted in the US in 2009 that it did in 2008 and 2007.
"Silicon Valley denizens received 13,231, or 7.9%, of the total 167,350 "utility" patents granted in the U.S. in 2009, according to IFI Patent Intelligence, a unit of Wolters Kluwer Health that analyzes patent data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. That is on par with Silicon Valley's share of patents nationwide in 2008 and 2007, according to IFI."
Other than the factual statement, there is no possible way the conclusion made in the first paragraph can be extracted from this data. The primary flaw here is that patents take many years to be granted. The number of patents granted in 2009 has nothing to do with the innovation activity in 2009!
Now, I don't believe that patent activity correlates to innovation. While this might have been true in the 1970's, there are so many factors in today's broken patent system that undermine this. The article even points one out in the list sentence:
"Like many tech firms, Cisco offers some financial incentives to employees who file and receive patents, he (Tony Bates, SVP at Cisco) says."
The "pay to file" dynamic is a mechanism that undermines the integrity of the patent system. Here's the issue: assume I am a huge company that pays my engineers on average $100k / year. I offer $1k for every patent filing they make during work time. So, as an engineer, you can increase your compensation by 1% for every patent you file (forget about whether it actually gets granted). As the large company, I've got a huge legal machine in place to file the patents – all you need to do as an engineer is going through a prescribed process, write up a bunch of stuff that gets dropped into the patent application, and come to a few meetings to review the patent application. Is that worth an additional 1% of your comp regardless of the quality of the application? Sure!
Regardless of whether you think patents are useful, this is just such a crummy indication of "innovation".


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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Throwing a Child is like Cleaning a Dish
Sean's SO, THIS IS DRINK is easily among my favorite pieces ever published online, or elsewhere for that matter. Read it. Subscribe to his blog, it's been highly entertaining already.
I want to challenge Sean to a nacho consumption throwdown but I don't think I'm in good shape for it yet. Plus he clearly has a strong nacho mind.
Nachos are the Kool Keith of food.
I feel my energy is shifting. I am fully back in my loft again. It feels new. It feels clean. New bed. New sofas. A wonderful person sleeping beside me.
They say if you say your energy is shifting, if you write it down, it can help make it so, but I actually believe it is.
I don't know if I believe that thing about the saying it making it happen more, but ok. Did I just negate the possibility? I am a negator. That's ok with me too.
I did not just lose two huge poker hands so I'm not being negative and talking about pussy in this post, that's good.
I am going to see two of my favorites in the next 6 weeks, both of which I have tickets for now: David Byrne is playing here, doing the BUSH OF GHOSTS stuff and some Heads stuff and some solo I'm sure. I think that may almost complete my list of people I need to see play live before I die, though I still need some incarnation of Michael Gira at least.
Also seeing Crispin Glover when he comes here for two nights to show WHAT IS IT? and do a q&a and read from his books. Man. It's been a long wait for him to finally come out this far. The preview makes my face softer.
32 comments:
- jereme said...
eh saying something doesnt' mean much to me
words are nothing
actions are concrete
let me know how crispin glover is
i am jealous i could observe that
guy for weeks without sleeping - July 23, 2008 at 4:46 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
yeah i am with you on that i think, i think i was trying to trick myself, it didnt work
but i still hope this is a shift
i will report on glover, it will make me want a sandwich i am sure - July 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- DOGZPLOT said...
yeah, i like sean's stuff alot, if you haven't checked out the journal he edits along with rachel hartley-smith, CELLA'S ROUND TRIP, you should stop reading this now and check it out.
- July 23, 2008 at 6:36 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
what's the deal with that flick? is it ever going to be released? i need to check karagarga to see if it's on there. it looks insane. deliciously insane.
the only bogus thing about nachos is when regal cinemas calls a $6 plastic tray of them SUPER NACHOS -- when they're regular, stale round nachos with a bunch of cheese. bring on the toppings. or don't sell them for $6.
that's my stance at least. - July 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
karagarga has it, but it's over a gig. i don't want to mess up my ratio. unless it's really necessary. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
- July 23, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- Josh Maday said...
only a couple weeks and sean's blog is killer. the nacho reviews are my TV Guide. i don't know what that means. but i do know that i like sean's blog a lot.
i just got WILD AT HEART today and am looking forward to experiencing crispin glover. i am going on a lynch binge soon.
thanks for the lead, dogz.. checking now - July 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM
- Brandon Hobson said...
Wait, you get to see David Byrne AND Crispin Glover? Oh. Ah. If that don't make your scrotum pucker, nothing will.
I'd like to know what Talking Heads songs Dave does. - July 23, 2008 at 9:45 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
keith, can u send me the link to the download? i never even thought to d/l it..
wait, is that the members only joint? if so, i will pay you to burn it for me
josh, wild at heart is unlike any of the others... a strange one even for him, but fun
brandon, yeah i'm gonna shit at both. i'll let you know what he plays - July 23, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
unfortunately i don't have any invites, and yes, it's a member only site. my ratio, since i never actually upload flicks there, has just grown a bit for the uploading that folks are download on my end... if that makes any sense.
i asked my friend if he has any invites. if he DOESN'T, then i'll download it and try to figure out a way to get it to you via the net, so you have a copy on your computer. maybe instant messenger or something? at any rate, we'll make it happen. i'll let you know when i know.
i hope he has an invite because you'll go fucking nuts downloading all kinds of crazy shit... - July 23, 2008 at 11:40 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
wow, check this shit out -- http://phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-06-12/news/the-bird-needles-crispin-glover-over-his-alleged-meltdown-at-chandler-cinemas/full
he seems like a real asshole. but not a cool asshole.
apparently this dvd rip is super shitty, since he only has one 35mm print of it and it's apparently never going to be released on dvd. i haven't seen it yet, but the guy who uploaded was warning everyone that it's certainly not the best way to watch it, though it may be the only way at this point... - July 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
i appreciate the check out. i probably wont watch it until the theater anyway, just to get it best i can. but yes, anything is awesome.
i dont think glover should be frowned on. having toured with bands for years, i know from more than a few firsthand fuckovers you have to act a certain way in that spot or you;ll get fucked. i dont blame him one bit. in fact, i would be disappointed were it any other way.
biz iz biz - July 24, 2008 at 2:11 AM
- jereme said...
i think glover comes off as an asshole quite a bit
the guys brain functions are 1000 x higher than most every one else including krang from tmnt
plus he probably is an asshole - July 24, 2008 at 2:49 AM
- Keith Montesano said...
shit i realized you are gonna see it in the theater. well this rip looks shitty. i didn't download it yet. seeing if i snag the invite.
i know, he's eccentric. all that jazz. but it sounds like he tried to fuck them on purpose, and that ain't cool. just because someone divorces you that doesn't mean you need to be an asshole to your next five spouses because you got screwed the first time.
that doesn't make any sense. it's late.
either way, the full report is necessary after that shit happens. - July 24, 2008 at 3:09 AM
- Adam R said...
That trailer, whoa, hey, yeah.
Not making a DVD version of so-called art films make sense to me. No one expects painters to make lower quality copies of their own work to sell for $14.95. - July 24, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- Josh Maday said...
WHAT IS IT? looks like one crazy mufuckin film. i want to see it.
- July 24, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
i guess crispin glover could come splash tired baby juice on my mom and i'd still like him
i like assholes if they make good stuff, i dont care - July 24, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- jereme said...
yes, i concur
long live assholery
and all the little
times we share - July 24, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- Darby said...
re adam's comment on non-dvd release... I disagree. I made a similar point about the non-dvd release of Cremaster Cycle. Art films are in a different class than paintings. In fact, everyone can view any painting they want at lower quality, for free, online. You can by a poster of a Picasso painting for 14.95 probably. The difference is that with an art film, the experience of the art is being withheld along with the authenticity of it. You can still experience the genius of a painting whenever you want, without purchasing it. You can check out a book out from a library. It's more difficult to do with a film. There's no other medium whose availability is analogous to withholding a dvd release.
Man I never realized all this stuff was going on with Crispin Glover. - July 24, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
it's a weird debate. on one hand, seeing cremaster in the theater 'on tour', knowing it only exists in that incarnation in the world, definitely added some level of aura to the experience. i would not have had the same reaction if I had watched it elsewhere, especially downloaded in poorer quality online.
looking at the poster of a dali painting just will never touch you in the same way, and i can respect someone's want to make people see it as they intended or not at all.
at the same time also, i don't fully understand NEVER releasing the items, esp when they have been around enough that people have had their chance to see them in the intended form. it seems too limiting, but some things should be limited?
eraserhead was one of these for so long, to the point that the film was getting altered in that people watched it on shitty replicated vhs tapes and really weren't even seeing the same film, it became so run down. the eraserhead dvd was an art object in itself, and i think most people understand that watching it at home is much different than the theater experience, but they will take what they can get.
i'd love to own cremaster and what is it. i hope it happens one day, regardless. - July 24, 2008 at 5:29 PM
- Darby said...
It might be that I live in a shitty city, where I have to drive three hours to the nearest theater willing to play anything interesting. I've almost completely stopped seeing films in theaters these days. The eraserhead dvd was my first experience of it and that was enough to floor me. I'm still waiting for a decent lost highway release that isn't UK. I agree though, it's about taking you can get.
With paintings, I think the medium determines the experience more than film. There's a much more meaningful distinction between seeing a painting in a museum as opposed to a digital copy than seeing a film in a theater as opposed to a dvd. You can almost set up a similar 'movie' experience with a dvd these days (certainly with inland empire, which was completely digital anyway). The problem I have with all of this is that the decision to not release a dvd seems like a conscious decision to me, a deliberate withholding, when there's nothing deliberate about withholding the experience of seeing a painting. There's no intention to withhold, the nature of the medium dictates it.
Should some things be withheld? I don't know. On a micro level, it makes the experience more meaningful (but is that extra-meaning part of what the artist intended? or exclusive to the viewer. Do artist intend to limit distribution as part of the overall effect of the art?), but on a macro level, there are too many people who don't have time to go and hunt for good art and will settle for whatever's hanging around. Some people need art film dvds pinned to their garments. - July 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
Darby, lost highway is out in US on dvd now. it came out 2 or 3 months ago, but there wasn't much mention of it around. it's a pretty good cut, you should check it out.
i dont know, i guess if someone made something and decided they wanted people to see it only under certain terms, isn't that their choice?
Yeah, it sucks for those who don't get to do it, but i don't think there has to necessarily be a definitive demand that all things are made wide release available.
it's an interesting thought, and certainly the motivations of such a move are questionable, but in the end i think it is up to the creator? - July 24, 2008 at 6:16 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
is there any bonus shit on lost highway? i guess i don't mind really, especially if the widescreen cut's good. just curious.
i need to buy that asap. - July 24, 2008 at 7:14 PM
- BLAKE BUTLER said...
no extras unfortunately. def worth buying though, for the first 45 min alone
- July 24, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Darby said...
I bought the uk version with the bonus stuff on it. There's good stuff on there. I'm only able to watch it on my laptop though because of the format.
- July 24, 2008 at 9:07 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
you mean naked patricia arquette?
that ain't no fohty fahve minutes, my friend. - July 24, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Keith Montesano said...
darby, don't they have all region dvd players now? i have one that's 10 years old -- and can't play PAL or other regions either -- so i'm not being a dick, but i was wondering if that's what you mean...
- July 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM
- jereme said...
welcome to the 21st century. i am joking.
you can get an all region dvd player for about 50 bucks at wal mart.
if you are into movies like i am, i suggest you get one. - July 25, 2008 at 12:01 AM
- jereme said...
also, i am not sure if you are familiar with bit torrent but i just checked and there are several versions of it available for download.
- July 25, 2008 at 12:05 AM
- Keith Montesano said...
i don't need an ARP when i have karagarga.
into movies indeed, my friend. yet at this point i've never needed one. i'm wired to this motherfucker until it bites the dust. they don't make 'em like this no mo'. - July 25, 2008 at 1:17 AM
- Darby said...
I didn't know there was such a thing as an all region dvd player. Thanks! I guess I'm not really into movies enough to know these things. I should be more into movies though. It's something I'm working on.
- July 25, 2008 at 2:29 AM
- Keith Montesano said...
blake, your KG invite should have arrived. check your spam folder if it's not in your inbox.
i seriously hope your harddrive's massive or you have an external. there's so much good shit to see. - July 25, 2008 at 1:37 PM
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Each country leads the world in different things, from good to bad things to awkward ones.
According to the map above, France leads the world in tourism, India in making movies, Saudi Arabia in oil reserves, the United States in producing Nobel laureates, Greece in olive oil consumption, Switzerland in the rate of employment, Norway in democracy, Brazil in FIFA world cup titles, and Costa Rica in happiness, to name a few.
Other countries lead in not so positive things. For example, Russia leads in the number of nuclear warheads, China in carbon emissions, Afghanistan in opium production, North Korea in censorship, and Yemen in gender inequality.
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For several warm summer days in the year 3E 407, a young, pretty Dunmer woman in a veil regularly visited one of the master armorers in the city of Tear. The locals decided that she was young and pretty by her figure and her poise, though no one ever saw her face. She and the armorer would retire to the back of his shop, and he would close down his business and dismiss his apprentices for a few hours. Then, at mid-afternoon, she would leave, only to return at precisely the same time the next day. As gossip goes, it was fairly meager stuff, though what the old man was doing with such a well dressed and attractively proportioned woman was the source of several crude jokes. After several weeks, the visits stopped, and life returned to normal in the slums of Tear.
It was not until a month or two after the visits had stopped, that in one of the many taverns in the neighborhood, a young local tailor, having imbibed too much sauce, asked the armorer, "So whatever happened to your lady friend? You break her heart?"
The armorer, well aware of the rumors, simply replied, "She is a proper young lady of quality. There was nothing between her and the likes of me."
"What was she doing at your shop every day for?" asked the tavern wench, who had been dying to get the subject open.
"If you must know," said the armorer. "I was teaching her the craft."
"You're putting us on," laughed the tailor.
"No, the young lady had a particular fascination with my particular kind of artistry," the armorer said, with a hint of pride before getting lost in the reverie. "I taught her how to mend swords specifically, from all kinds of nicks and breaks, hairline fissures, cracked pommels, quillons, and grips. When she first started, she had no idea how to secure the grips to the tang of the blade... Well, of course she was green to start off with, why wouldn't she be? But she weren't afraid to get her hands dirty. I taught her how to patch the little inlaid silver and gold filigree you find on really fine blades, and how to polish it all to a mirror sheen so the sword looks like the gods just pulled it from their celestial anvil."
The tavern wench and the tailor laughed out loud. No matter what he alleged, the armorer was speaking of the young lady's training as another man speaks of a long lost love.
More of the locals in the tavern would have listened to the armorer's pathetic tale, but more important gossip had taken precedence. There was another murdered slave-trader found in the center of town, gutted from fore to aft. That made six of them total in barely a fortnight. Some called the killer "The Liberator," but that sort of anti-slavery zeal was rare among the common folk. They preferred calling him "The Lopper," as several of the earlier victims had been completely beheaded. Others had been simply perforated, sliced, or gutted, but "The Lopper" still kept his original sobriquet.
While the enthusiastic hooligans made bets about the condition of the next slave-trader's corpse, several dozen of the surviving members of that trade were meeting at the manor house of Serjo Dres Minegaur. Minegaur was a minor houseman of House Dres, but a major member of the slave-trading fraternity. Perhaps his best years were behind him, but his associates still counted on him for wisdom.
"We need to take what we know of this Lopper and search accordingly," said Minegaur, seated in front of his opulent hearth. "We know he has an unreasonable hatred of slavery and slave-traders. We know he is skilled with a blade. We know he has the stealth and finesse to execute our most well-secured brethren in their most secure abodes. It sounds to me to be an adventurer, an Outlander. Surely no citizen of Morrowind would strike at us like this."
The slave-traders nodded in agreement. An Outlander seemed most likely for their troubles. It was always true.
"Were I fifty years younger, I would take down my blade Akrash from the hearth," Minegaur made an expansive gesture to the shimmering weapon. "And join you in seeking out this terror. Search him out where adventurers meet -- taverns and guildhalls. Then show him a little lopping of my own."
The slave-traders laughed politely.
"You wouldn't let us borrow your blade for the execution, I suppose, would you, Serjo?" asked Soron Jeles, a young toadying slaver enthusiastically.
"It would be an excellent use for Akrash," sighed Minegaur. "But I vowed to retire her when I retired."
Minegaur called for his daughter Peliah to bring the slavers more flin, but they waved the girl away. It was to be a night for hunting the Lopper, not drinking away their troubles. Minegaur heartily approved of their devotion, particular as expensive as the liquor was getting to be.
When the last of the slavers had left, the old man kissed his daughter on the head, took one last admiring look at Akrash, and toddled off to his bed. No sooner had he done so then [sic] Peliah had the blade off the mantle, and was flying with it across the field behind the manor house. She knew Kazagh had been waiting for her for hours in the stables.
He sprung out at her from the shadows, and wrapping his strong, furry arms around her, kissed her long and sweet. Holding him as long as she dared to, she finally broke away and handed him the blade. He tested its edge.
"The finest Khajiiti swordsmith couldn't hone an edge this keen," he said, looking at his beloved with pride. "And I know I nicked it up good last night."
"That you did," said Peliah. "You must have cut through an iron cuirass."
"The slavers are taking precautions now," he replied. "What did they say during their meeting?"
"They think it's an Outlander adventurer," she laughed. "It didn't occur to any of them that a Khajiiti slave would possess the skill to commit all these 'loppings.'"
"And your father doesn't suspect that it's his dear Akrash that is striking into the heart of oppression?"
"Why would he, when every day he finds it fresh as the day before? Now I must go before anyone notices I'm gone. My nurse sometimes comes in to ask me some detail about the wedding, as if I had any choice in the matter at all."
"I promise you," said Kazagh very seriously. "You will not be forced into any marriage to cement your family's slave-dealing dynasty. The last scabbard Akrash will be sheathed into will be your father's heart. And when you are an orphan, you can free the slaves, move to a more enlightened province, and marry who you like."
"I wonder who that will be," Peliah teased, and raced out of the stables.
Just before dawn, Peliah awoke and crept out to the garden, where she found Akrash hidden in the bittergreen vines. The edge was still relatively keen, but there were scratches vertically across the blade's surface. Another beheading, she thought, as she took pumice stone and patiently rubbed out the marks, finally polishing it with a solution of salt and vinegar. It was up on the mantle in pristine condition when her father came into the sitting room for his breakfast.
When the news came that Kemillith Torom, Peliah's husband-to-be, had been found outside of a canton, his head on a spike some feet away, she did not have to pretend to grieve. Her father knew she did not want to marry him.
"It is a shame," he said. "The lad was a good slaver. But there are plenty of other young men who would appreciate an alliance with our family. What about young Soron Jeles?"
Two days nights later, Soron Jeles was visited by the Lopper. The struggle did not take long, but Soron had had [sic] armed himself with one small defense -- a needle dipped in the ichor of poisonplant, hidden up his sleeve. After the mortal blow, he collapsed forward and stuck Kazagh in the calf with the pin. By the time he made it back to the Minegaur manorhouse, he was dying.
Vision blurring, he climbed up to the eaves of the house to Peliah's window and rapped. Peliah did not answer immediately, as she was in a deep, wonderful sleep, dreaming about her future with her Khajiiti lover. He rapped louder, which woke up not only Peliah, but also her father in the next room.
"Kazagh!" she cried, opening up the window. The next person in the bedroom was Minegaur himself.
As he saw it, this slave, his property, was about to lop off the head of his daughter, his property, with his sword, his property. Suddenly, with the energy of a young man, Minegaur rushed at the dying Khajiit, knocking the sword out of his hand. Before Peliah could stop him, her father had thrust the blade into her lover's heart.
The excitement over, the old man dropped the sword and turned to the door to call the Guard. As an after thought, it occurred to him to make certain that his daughter hadn't been injured and might require a Healer. Minegaur turned to her. For a moment, he felt simply disoriented, feeling the force of the blow, but not the blade itself. Then he saw the blood and then felt the pain. Before he fully realized that his daughter had stabbed him with Akrash, he was dead. The blade, at last, found its scabbard.
A week later, after the official investigations, the slave was buried in an unmarked grave in the manor field, and Serjo Dres Minegaur found his resting place in a modest corner of the family's opulent mausoleum. A larger crowd of curious onlookers came to view the funeral of the noble slaver whose secret life was as the savage Lopper of his competitors. The audience was respectfully quiet, though there was not a person there not imagining the final moments of the man's life. Attacking his own daughter in his madness, luckily defended by the loyal, hapless slave, before turning the blade on himself.
Among the viewers was an old armorer who saw for one last time the veiled young lady before she disappeared forever from Tear.


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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Large numbers of people must be fed and kept reasonably warm and dry. Trash has to be removed; medical care and rudimentary security provided -- to which ends a dozen or more committees may toil night and day. But for the individual occupier, one problem often overshadows everything else, including job loss, the destruction of the middle class, and the reign of the 1 percent. And that is the single question: Where am I going to pee?
Some of the Occupy Wall Street encampments now spreading across the U.S. have access to Port-o-Potties (Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.) or, better yet, restrooms with sinks and running water (Fort Wayne, Indiana). Others require their residents to forage on their own. At Zuccotti Park, just blocks from Wall Street, this means long waits for the restroom at a nearby Burger King or somewhat shorter ones at a Starbucks a block away. At McPherson Square in D.C., a twenty-something occupier showed me the pizza parlor where she can cop a pee during the hours it's open, as well as the alley where she crouches late at night. Anyone with restroom-related issues -- arising from age, pregnancy, prostate problems, or irritable bowel syndrome -- should prepare to join the revolution in diapers.
Of course, political protesters do not face the challenges of urban camping alone. Homeless people confront the same issues every day: how to scrape together meals, keep warm at night by covering themselves with cardboard or tarp, and relieve themselves without committing a crime. Public restrooms are sparse in American cities -- "as if the need to go to the bathroom does not exist," travel expert Arthur Frommer once observed. And yet to yield to bladder pressure is to risk arrest. A report entitled "Criminalizing Crisis," to be released later this month by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, recounts the following story from Wenatchee, Washington:
"Toward the end of 2010, a family of two parents and three children that had been experiencing homelessness for a year and a half applied for a 2-bedroom apartment. The day before a scheduled meeting with the apartment manager during the final stages of acquiring the lease, the father of the family was arrested for public urination. The arrest occurred at an hour when no public restrooms were available for use. Due to the arrest, the father was unable to make the appointment with the apartment manager and the property was rented out to another person. As of March 2011, the family was still homeless and searching for housing."
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets -- not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping. While the laws vary from city to city, one of the harshest is in Sarasota, Florida, which passed an ordinance in 2005 that makes it illegal to "engage in digging or earth-breaking activities" -- that is, to build a latrine -- cook, make a fire, or be asleep and "when awakened state that he or she has no other place to live."
It is illegal, in other words, to be homeless or live outdoors for any other reason. It should be noted, though, that there are no laws requiring cities to provide food, shelter or restrooms for their indigent citizens.
The current prohibition on homelessness began to take shape in the 1980s, along with the ferocious growth of the financial industry (Wall Street and all its tributaries throughout the nation). That was also the era in which we stopped being a nation that manufactured much beyond weightless, invisible "financial products," leaving the old industrial working class to carve out a livelihood at places like Wal-Mart.
As it turned out, the captains of the new "casino economy" -- the stock brokers and investment bankers -- were highly sensitive, one might say finicky, individuals, easily offended by having to step over the homeless in the streets or bypass them in commuter train stations. In an economy where a centimillionaire could turn into a billionaire overnight, the poor and unwashed were a major buzzkill. Starting with Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York, city after city passed "broken windows" or "quality of life" ordinances making it dangerous for the homeless to loiter or, in some cases, even look "indigent," in public spaces.
No one has yet tallied all the suffering occasioned by this crackdown -- the deaths from cold and exposure -- but "Criminalizing Crisis" offers this story about a homeless pregnant woman in Columbia, South Carolina:
"During daytime hours, when she could not be inside of a shelter, she attempted to spend time in a museum and was told to leave. She then attempted to sit on a bench outside the museum and was again told to relocate. In several other instances, still during her pregnancy, the woman was told that she could not sit in a local park during the day because she would be 'squatting.' In early 2011, about six months into her pregnancy, the homeless woman began to feel unwell, went to a hospital, and delivered a stillborn child."
Well before Tahrir Square was a twinkle in anyone's eye, and even before the recent recession, homeless Americans had begun to act in their own defense, creating organized encampments, usually tent cities, in vacant lots or wooded areas. These communities often feature various elementary forms of self-governance: food from local charities has to be distributed, latrines dug, rules -- such as no drugs, weapons, or violence -- enforced. With all due credit to the Egyptian democracy movement, the Spanish indignados, and rebels all over the world, tent cities are the domestic progenitors of the American occupation movement.
There is nothing "political" about these settlements of the homeless -- no signs denouncing greed or visits from leftwing luminaries -- but they have been treated with far less official forbearance than the occupation encampments of the "American autumn." LA's Skid Row endures constant police harassment, for example, but when it rained, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had ponchos distributed to nearby Occupy LA.
All over the country, in the last few years, police have moved in on the tent cities of the homeless, one by one, from Seattle to Wooster, Sacramento to Providence, in raids that often leave the former occupants without even their minimal possessions. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, last summer, a charity outreach worker explained the forcible dispersion of a local tent city by saying, "The city will not tolerate a tent city. That's been made very clear to us. The camps have to be out of sight."
What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering, at least every time they contemplate taking a leak, is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals," facing prohibitions on the most basic activities of survival. They are not supposed to soil public space with their urine, their feces, or their exhausted bodies. Nor are they supposed to spoil the landscape with their unusual wardrobe choices or body odors. They are, in fact, supposed to die, and preferably to do so without leaving a corpse for the dwindling public sector to transport, process, and burn.
But the occupiers are not from all walks of life, just from those walks that slope downwards -- from debt, joblessness, and foreclosure -- leading eventually to pauperism and the streets. Some of the present occupiers were homeless to start with, attracted to the occupation encampments by the prospect of free food and at least temporary shelter from police harassment. Many others are drawn from the borderline-homeless "nouveau poor," and normally encamp on friends' couches or parents' folding beds.
In Portland, Austin, and Philadelphia, the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking up the cause of the homeless as its own, which of course it is. Homelessness is not a side issue unconnected to plutocracy and greed. It's where we're all eventually headed -- the 99 percent, or at least the 70 percent, of us, every debt-loaded college grad, out-of-work school teacher, and impoverished senior -- unless this revolution succeeds.
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There's a pile-up of Britishisms here: arse (=AmE ass), Mummy (=AmE Mommy), footy (=AmE soccer--or whatever informal equivalent of soccer there is. Socky?). But the sore thumb sticking out here is bollocks (click link to see its Word of the Year discussion). Yes, bollocks sometimes--sometimes--is an equivalent to AmE bullshit in the sense of 'nonsense, (BrE) rubbish' But calling bullshit on (something/someone) is an American idiom, and you just can't stick new words (especially new words with not-quite-the-same-feel) into idioms. Kicking the pail is not the same as kicking the bucket; a bird in the hand is not worth two in the shrub, etc.
Who knows, maybe call bollocks on will catch on among the readers of the Daily News, and then we'll have yet another case where borrowing a word from one dialect to another brings a reduction in meaning and a change in usage with it. But I'm betting that British readers are hoping otherwise...
P.S. my arse! or my ass! also qualifies as an idiom, but the two dialects share it, albeit with different forms of the word. (See the link at arse above for more of the arse–ass story.)
P.P.S. Yes, there are a few examples of it on the internets. In those cases, taking the US idiom and replacing 'bullshit' with 'bollocks'. But the facts that (a) Urban Dictionary hasn't noticed it, and (b) two Brits on Twitter pointed it out to me as a bad translation underscore that it's a weird usage.


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Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering why mysterious men are packing him off to Paris.
Author: Lynn Povich
Subjects Discussed: The Henry Luce "tradition" of men working as writers and women working as researchers, well-educated women being exploited in a two-tier system, Janet Flanner, the influence of the Civil Rights Act, the old boys' network, the contrast between Oz Elliott's civil rights conscience and Newsweek's treatment of women, Anna Quindlen, Otto Freidrich's 1964 ridicule of the fact checker (and Friedrich's condescending description of women), "office maidens," the importance and accountability of fact checkers, how people viewed women reporters in the 1960s, Businessweek hiring women straight out of college, Reader's Digest's paternalistic form of "respect" towards women, Flora Lewis in The New York Times, whether Kay Graham and The Washington Post's support of the lawsuit was sufficiently commensurate at the time, women reporters not being invited to lunch meetings, the second Newsweek lawsuit, Gloria Steinem vs. Graham, being a feminist vs. being a businesswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton and the importance of having the right attorney, Harriet Rabb, Margo Jefferson, black reporters who didn't organize at Newsweek, inquiry into efforts to unite black and women reporters, income disparity, why the journalism industry is a good medium to examine income inequity, women and education, journalism school, Povich's editorship at Working Woman, women managers, tryout sessions for women and writer training programs, office affairs and rampant recreational sex within newsrooms, Hanna Rosin's recent claims about hookup culture being empowering, how women didn't get ahead even when promiscuous, sexist stereotypes in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, Sorkin's "silent bearers of sexism," the 2011 Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, the American inability to consider work vs. family balance, why it's important to worry about men, and men as stay-at-home dads.
Correspondent: When Oz Elliott, the Newsweek editor-in-chief, initially responded to the lawsuit that you filed against Newsweek — and this is sort of my question to get you to talk about that lawsuit, but let's go ahead and get the background first — he said in his statement that the reason that most of the researchers at Newsweek were women and virtually all of the writers were men was, in his words, "because of a newsmagazine tradition going back almost fifty years." Now he said this, despite what you describe later in the book as "a WASPY social conscience." So why was this tradition, which originated from Henry Luce and Brit Hadden, tolerated for so long? Especially when you had some women who had to settle for this second-tier treatment and often give the best years of their lives? Let's talk about the origins of this problem.
Povich: Well, yes, in fact, when Henry Luce created this system of all of the researchers being women, and all of the writers and reporters being men, Oz, who worked at Time Magazine at the time, said this was great for women because it got them out of the steno category and they could actually do editorial work. So at that point, which was in '29 I think, it was considered more liberating than being a secretary. And Newsweek copied Time. However, by 1960, it was pretty clear that well-educated women coming out of the same schools as men with perhaps no prior experience, as many men did not have, and some prior experience, as some men had, were hired into this entry level category and couldn't be promoted out of it. And women who really wanted to be journalists that young and knew it, like Nora Ephron and Jane Bryant Quinn and Ellen Goodman and Susan Brownmiller, they saw the lay of the land pretty quickly and they left. And the rest of us "good girls," as I call us, were probably, first, happy to get a job. Especially in a place that was so interesting, about the news, working on the matters that really were important and having this special pipeline to the truth. As one of the writers said, we were all blind in many ways. I mean, the women bought into it. The men certainly bought into it. Until one day we didn't. And I think the fact that the women's movement happened as many of us in the mid-'60s were coming into the workforce helped us realized, certainly helped me realize. I was reporting and writing at the time. I was a junior writer. And I started covering the women's movement. And I suddenly realized this isn't just about those women. Hey, there's something wrong with this picture for us at Newsweek. And that's when a bunch of us started organizing.
Correspondent: Were there any other efforts at organization before yours that fizzled out? That you were aware of when you were organizing with your fellow women reporters or women researchers at Newsweek, aspiring of course to be reporters? I mean, were you aware of any other cues or efforts to rebel against this? I mean, I'm really curious as to why such a "tradition" lasted for so long and why good old Oz actually upheld that for a while, who was eventually forced to turn back. What was the impulse to, number one, cause him to change? And, number two, the other question is is: Why weren't women revolting against this?
Povich: It's a good question. Well, first of all, during World War II, there were women writers, as there were in many professions, where women took over men's jobs. But by the early '60s, they had all left. And there was one women who managed to get out of research and into writing in the early '60s and was promoted to being a correspondent in Paris. So she was already writing in Paris when we were back in New York.
Correspondent: This is at Newsweek.
Povich: At Newsweek. There were still no women writing.
Correspondent: It's interesting. They sent the women from New York. Just like Janet Flanner at the New Yorker.
Povich: (laughs) Right. Exactly. Paris.
Correspondent: Somehow women could understand Paris, right?
Povich: And she was a brilliant write and reporter. She was fabulous. She just didn't happen to be there when most of us were hired. She had left to go to Paris. So we were presented with this situation of all of us being researchers and the guys being our bosses. It's interesting. Because even though the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, when the person who actually first started our revolt, Judy Gingold, who was a Marshall Scholar, who came back from England and could not find a job. Except as a fact checker at Newsweek. When she was talking to a lawyer, who told her that our situation was illegal, she couldn't believe it. And she said, "Well, you know, I don't think the guys know it's illegal. I think we should just tell the guys." And the lawyer said, "Call the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and you'll find out." And so she called them. They said, "Yes, this is illegal." And she said, "Well, shouldn't we just tell the men?" And the women at the other end of the line said, "Are you crazy? People in power don't want to give up power. If you tell them, they will promote two women, co-opt your movement, and it will be finished. You have a clear-cut case and you have to sue." So my feeling is that they didn't know it was illegal or realized it was illegal. Because it had been accepted as a woman's job for so long. It had been a tradition. And, of course, it benefited men. And their circles were men. I mean, they hired guys right off the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Daily. Because that's where they were from. And their circle, as we know, in corporate America still — if it's a boy's club at the top, your sources are guys.
Correspondent: Do you think these men were conscious of the fact that they were playing into this sexism? Or that this was an automatic power structure that they fell into? I mean, we were talking about Oz Elliott changing his mind. How difficult was it to get other men who were in positions of power to change their mind? Even before you filed a lawsuit. Or was it fairly steeped in the culture?
Povich: I mean, I have to say that many of the men at Newsweek were supporters of ours. Certainly the writers we worked with and who knew how smart and talented many of the women were, they supported us from the very beginning. And Oz Elliott, as you said, got it right away. He told me that Monday he realized we were right. Now this is a man who put Newsweek on the map because of his civil rights coverage. And they were very proud of their progressive views on civil rights and Black Americans.
Correspondent: A great irony.
Povich: Yes. And at the same time, they hadn't realized that in front of their noses, there was this horrible injustice happening to the women who worked for them. Oz Elliott also has three daughters. And my pet theory is that men with daughters are far more open and respectful of what women can do. But like all organizations, or many organizations, the actual discrimination came in middle management. For us, it was the senior editors and the top couple of editors under Oz. That happens a lot in corporate America. And many of those guys were against affirmative action. Anna Quindlen has a wonderful quote she told me. I always say I'm an affirmative action baby and I'm proud of it. I wouldn't have gotten where I was without it. And she feels the same way. And she says when people look at her strangely about that, she says, "If you think affirmative action is promoting a second-rate talent just because they're female or black, you're looking at one." And so I do think a lot of people were against affirmative action. They thought that this was not a good idea. And they also didn't look at women, frankly, as capable professionally. Either because of their own backgrounds, because of power. Whatever it was. But I was told that promoting me was one of the worst decisions that the editor ever took at the time. We were told when we filed the suit — one of the top editor said, "Why don't we just fire them all? We don't need them." It's complicated. I call it our little Rosa Parks moment. Everybody went to the back of the bus until one day you didn't. And one day, we didn't.
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1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 ounces dark chocolate – chopped
1/2 cup cashews or your favorite nuts, chopped (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Item 265 | First Year - FY2005 | Second Year - FY2006 |
Financial Assistance for Educational and General Services (11000) | $11,959,899 | $11,959,899 |
Medical Education (11005) | FY2005 $11,959,899 | FY2006 $11,959,899 |
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General | FY2005 $11,959,899 | FY2006 $11,959,899 |
Authority: Chapter 454, Acts of Assembly of 1991.
A. Out of this appropriation, state aid for educational and general activities of the Eastern Virginia Medical School is provided in the amount of $4,248,708 the first year and $4,248,708 the second year from the general fund. Funding is provided on the basis of an average enrollment of 290 in-state students. As long as the actual enrollment includes not less than 284 in-state students the full appropriation will be provided to the Medical School. Actual enrollment below 284 in-state students shall result in a per capita reduction in the appropriation for each in-state student or vacancy below 284 in-state students. Funding is provided based on support of $14,047 per in-state student the first year and $14,047 the second year. The Medical School shall submit, to the Department of Planning and Budget on September 30 of each year, a report on in-state enrollment.
B. Out of this appropriation, a state grant in an amount not to exceed $894,298 the first year, and $894,298 the second year from the general fund is designated for the operation of the Family Practice Residency program and Family Practice Medical Student programs. This appropriation for Family Practice programs, whether ultimately implemented by contract, agreement or other means, is considered to be a grant.
C.1. Out of this appropriation, $566,785 from the general fund and at least $200,000 in nongeneral funds the first year and $566,785 from the general fund and at least $200,000 in nongeneral funds the second year is designated for the "generalist initiative" to sustain the successful increase in generalist output from Virginia medical schools and generalist residency training programs. Eastern Virginia Medical School, in conjunction with the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University, shall jointly collect and report the yearly outcomes of the Virginia Generalist Initiative to the Secretary of Education and the State Council of Higher Education biennially by October 1. The State Council shall report on the status of the Generalist Initiative to the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees at their regularly scheduled meetings in November.
2. The amounts appropriated shall be used for recruitment and admissions, curriculum enhancement and graduate medical education.
3. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the goals of the Virginia Generalist Initiative shall be as follows:
a. Based on a three year average, at least 50 percent of Virginia medical school graduates shall enter generalist residency programs;
b. Based on a three year average, at least 50 percent of Virginia generalist residency graduates shall enter generalist practice upon completion of residency training and at least 50 percent of those graduates shall practice in Virginia.
4. Further, it is the intent of the General Assembly that:
a. Generalist initiative recruitment and admissions programs shall be designed to actively recruit and retain Virginia medical students with an interest in generalist medicine from medically underserved areas of the Commonwealth; and
b. Generalist initiative education programs shall be designed to sustain educational experiences in community settings in general, and in medically underserved communities in particular, for both medical students and generalists.
c. In addition to the statistical goals specified above, the Virginia Generalist Initiative program shall be evaluated for its quality based on: 1) Virginia graduates' responses to the annual survey of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); 2) Student evaluation of the program conducted by the individual institution; and 3) Faculty and community preceptors' evaluation of the student learning and skills.
D. Out of this appropriation, $92,000 the first year and $92,000 the second year from the general fund is designated to support the Eastern Virginia Area Health Education Center.
E. This appropriation provides state aid of $6,158,108 in the first year and $6,158,108 in the second year from the general fund for treatment, care and maintenance of indigent Virginia patients through the medical school; the aid is to be apportioned on the basis of a plan having the prior written approval of the Director, Department of Medical Assistance Services.
F. The Medical School will account for financial activities based on generally accepted accounting principles for the health care industry and will report expenditures for indigent, medically indigent, and other patients. The Medical School shall report by October 31 annually to the Department of Medical Assistance Services on expenditures related to this Item.
G. It is the intent of the General Assembly to assist the three Virginia medical schools as they respond to changes in the need for delivery and financing of medical education, both undergraduate and graduate.


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Inverse, numerical precision, simulation dynamical system
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg77211] Inverse, numerical precision, simulation dynamical system
- From: kristoph <kristophs.post at web.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:01:17 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Experts, I am quiet new at the subject and would be grateful for a hint. I'm simulating a stochastic dynamical system which includes calculating the inverse of (for now) a 2-by-2 matrix. At each iteration these values are inputs for the next. Simply using Inverse[.] does a very poor job considering timing. To speed up the process I used N[Inverse[.],1000]. It is better but sometimes even a precision of 1000 is not enough resulting in an "significant numerical error". The dynamical system consists of 1000 iterations and I'm simulating it 500-800 times for statistical reasons thus, time is an issue. Instead of using N[Inverse[.],1250] and so on for all iterations it would be great if there is a way to speed up time and avoiding the error. Thank you very much and all the best. Kristoph


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