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"Are you still reading that book?" My fiancé asked me after she had seen 'The Rule of St. Benedict' travel with me on various journeys. I had to try to explain to her that it was one of those books which one never finishes. I became an Oblate in 1996.
Last year I got married. Two forms of vows; different, but compatible. Surely the criteria of the call is similar: 'Is there anyone here who years for life and desires to see good days?' (Ps. 34.13). The married Oblate is also a coenobite; he/she lives in a community. I have a few reflections.
1) Before I was married, in my bachelor days, I was free to do what I liked with my holidays and when I came back from work. In that sense every bachelor is a sarabite: 'Their Law is what they like to do, whatever strikes their fancy' (Rule Ch.1). To be married is 'to love not our own will, nor take pleasure in the satisfaction of our desires' (2nd Step of Humility, Ch. 7). One has to take into consideration what the partner wants. My wife does not fancy a holiday in an Ashram in India.
2) In that sense to be married is to be under obedience. I have to listen to my partner. It is not just me anymore. 'Constraint wins a crown', as St. Benedict reminds. That crown is the ability to live beyond our ego and its desires; being able to live with others. My wife is Christ to me, in that sense she is also my Abbot.
3) If the root of obedience is to listen and respond, that is key to marriage. If I am asked to do something ("Can you hoover the house/ take the dog for a walk/answer the door, etc.") – unless I have some real reason why I can't – then why not assume that this is what I am called to do. So I try to respond promptly. I don't quite match those who 'immediately put aside their own concerns, abandon their own will, and lay down whatever they have in hand, leaving it unfinished' (Ch. 5). At least I should not annoy my wife by leaving undone, or postponing without reason, what has been asked.
4) "Let's go to Venice for our summer holiday!" In this I have to be like the monastic cellarer: 'If anyone happens to make an unreasonable demand, the cellarer should not reject that person with disdain and cause distress, but reasonably and humbly deny the improper request' (Ch. 31).
5) I don't have children yet but reading the qualities needed for an Abbess or Abbot i get some idea of the demands of parenting: 'They must know what a difficult and demanding burden they have undertaken: directing souls and serving a variety of temperaments, coaxing, reproving, and encouraging them as appropriate' (Ch. 2). And change nappies!
6) What about the teaching on silence (Ch. 6)? Well, in my experience, it doesn't work in marriage. However 'Speaking and teaching are the teacher's task; the disciple is to be silent and listen'. In my experience marriage and teaching do not go together. My wife does not want to listen to my theological opinions at breakfast or at any time. I have to climb down off my retreat-giving pedestal before I am ready for an evening cuddle. There are no Zen Masters in the bedroom. For me silence is the silence of heavy opinions.
7) What about sex? In marriage is to 'love chastity' (Ch. 4) really a tool for good? 'Do not gratify the promptings of the flesh'. Well, it plays more of a role in marriage than just getting children. Maybe the rule has taught me a little that sex is more about giving than getting. Sex may be part of that 'good zeal' which Benedict sees as 'fostering fervent love' (Ch. 72): 'No monastics are to pursue what they judge better for themselves, but instead, what they judge better for someone else'. It gives meaning to Benedict's injunction to remove one's knives before going to bed! (Ch. 22) In sex we are all vulnerable and joyful, it is not a place for power or moralising.
8) Getting married normally (and certainly in my case) goes hand in hand with becoming a householder. Setting up house has its demands. For an academic like me I am reminded that in manual work (cleaning, shopping, cooking, gardening, D.I.Y) we are living like real monastics (Ch. 48). Cooking for one another, according to the rule, is a way of 'fostering love' (Ch. 35). 'Consequently no members (husband or wife) should be excused from kitchen service'. For me 'toiling faithfully' in the house and its life and stability in the marriage is the 'workshop' where love flowers (Ch. 4).
9) I certainly give more dinner parties than I used to. With house and home, especially in the country, hospitality plays a new role. 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ' (Ch. 53). Though my wife does not meditate in a formal sense, we share the same faith. For me this is nowhere more clear than in trying to 'show every kindness' to our guests. In welcoming them we welcome more than them and realise that our home is more than our home: 'God, we have received your mercy in the midst of your temple' (ps. 48:10)
10) Before getting married I reflected on Benedict's 'Procedure for Receiving Members' (Ch. 58) as parallel to the commitment of marriage. As Benedict says it is not to be taken too lightly. Dating is a sort of postulancy (though a bit more fun!). Engagement is a sort of novitiate even, in Benedict's view involving moving in to see whether things really work. Then we get our 'marriage preparation' meetings where we were told 'all the hardships and difficulties that will lead to God' on this path. Then the vows: 'For better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.' Or as Benedict puts it: 'They must be well aware that, as the law of the rule establishes, from this day they are no longer free to leave the monastery, or shake from their neck the yoke of the rule which, in the course of so long a period of reflection, they were free either to reject or accept.'
11) Marriage is a sharing. In the house things are no longer labelled 'yours' or 'mine'. Even our bodies belong to each other. Benedict's description of profession fits the self-giving of marriage; 'without keeping back a single thing for themselves, well aware that from that day they will not have even their own body at their disposal' (Ch. 58).
12) Marriage is an enclosure; 'faithfully observing God's teaching' we are 'in the monastery until death' where 'we shall through patience share in the sufferings of Christ that we may also share in the eternal presence' (end of Prologue). Commitment. Patience. Monogamy. Monotony. But also depth. Deepening love. Unconditional love. Unending love. As Leonard Cohen puts it: 'The bed is kina narrow, but my arms are open wide, and here's a man still working for your smile' (from the song 'I tried to leave you').
Twelve steps of humility. I am sure those who have been married longer than me will have more experience. I would do better 'to be silent and to listen' (Ch. 6). Still Benedict wrote his rule so that 'by observing it in monasteries, we can show that we have some degree of virtue and the beginnings of monastic life' (Ch. 73). In the monastery of marriage I am still a junior. I have many venerable elders under this profession for whom I rise and offer them a seat (Ch. 63). I ask for their blessing. But my wife is my Abbot and prioress. Her orders take precedence (Ch. 71).
I have recently taken up, with my morning and evening meditation, chanting the Office to myself. "Go into the garden if you are going to make that racket". I obey, and have built myself a little garden Oratory. 'Nothing else is done or stored there', I am not 'disturbed by the insensitivity of another (!)' and if I 'do not pray in a loud voice' then I figure 'I will not interfere with anyone else' (Ch. 52). The moral of the story is that we should all 'walk according to another's decisions and directions, choosing to live in monasteries and to have a prioress or abbot over them' (Ch. 5). Or as they said in the sixties: 'Make love not war'.


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Lance Armstrong Will Not Get the Chance to Cheat in Swimming
Now that his cycling career is over and he's finished wasting everyone's time by giving up claims he didn't dope, Lance Armstrong needs to find new ways to keep busy.
The man who suffered the indignity of having his seven Tour de France titles stripped from him for doping was planning on making a comeback in the water by competing this weekend in at the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas.
And just like his biking times sans PEDs, all we can say is "not so fast."
It seems FINA, the international governing body for swimming, had some issues with Armstrong's involvement and, as a result, he won't compete. FINA says since Masters Swimming falls under its "umbrella" as a governing entity, it has to abide by the World Anti-Doping Code and forbid Armstrong from racing.
Armstrong, 41, was going to appear in the 40-44 age bracket, swimming in the 500-, 1,000- and the 1,650-yard freestyle events.
Armstrong has been banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency, which essentially put the kibosh on plans he had for taking part in triathlons in his post-cycling career. He spent years telling anyone who would listen he didn't dope before finally coming clean in an interview with Oprah Winfrey back in January.
Masters Swimming does not drug test, so it seemed like a great fit for Armstrong, who could've zipped through the water like the Flash, while making Michael Phelps look like Louie Anderson.
Armstrong had qualified for the race by finishing with the second-best qualifying time. Second-best? Sounds like he needed some better juice.

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Part 1
Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong are talking crop maturity and the frost timing with Agriculture Meteorologist Greg Soulje who also notes a wetter pattern is emerging. And there's news that four previous Secretaries of Agriculture who came together to push for passage of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, replacement for NAFTA. Orion and Max talk markets with Jerry Gulke, Gulke Group, who is keeping an eye on the unknowns for this crop market.
Part 2
Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong continue their market conversation with Jerry Gulke, Gulke Group. . In Colby Agtech, Chad Colby shares some farm safety insights ahead of the bulk of the 2019 harvest season. Max talks with Tom Brand, executive director, National Association of Farm Broadcasting, who discusses the continued value of local radio stations. And Orion and Max shares information about the "Nominate your Harvest Hero" by Mosaic MicroEssentials. Learn more at facebook.com/microessentials
Part 3
Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong open this segment with a look back at vintage technology. From the Half Century of Progress Show, there's a report of steam equipment at work with a report from Dave Gentry, WDWS Radio.
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Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong talk farm safety in light of the recently passed National Farm Safety Week. Orion and Max talk about the dangers of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, which can be a debilitating disease and it's spread by mosquitoes. And they discuss Michigan families impacted by the disease. Orion talks about his most recent fair visit – the Clay County Fair in Spencer, Iowa – which has a hardy focus on agriculture. Ag Meteorologist Greg Soulje looks at weather for the week ahead.
Part 5
Ag Meteorologist Greg Soulje offers his extended look at the weather including his four-week forecast.
Part 6
In Max's Tractor Shed, Max shares the story of a 1966 Minneapolis Moline M670 owned by Brad Eike, Plainfield, Ill. The tractor has an interesting innovation to provide an improvement in operator comfort. Orion Samuelson profiles Los Banos FFA in Los Banos, Calif., which has a fund-raiser that supports an interesting cause. Member Emmanuel Marquez shares some benefits he sees from being part of this active chapter. In Samuelson Sez, Orion Samuelson shares his thoughts on "Big Oil vs. Corn" where the oil industry is fighting against ethanol in gasoline, yet farmers are big oil users too. His advice: "Quit picking on corn farmers."
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Robin Good: X-Events, as I like to call them, are events that extend beyond the physical time-bound reality of a conference or workshop arena, into the time before and past the event to create an ongoing wave of interest and discussion around a specific topic.
Donna Kastner, on the blog site of Cvent, an event company, brings forward a simple set of ideas that can help any conference organizer or promoter to understand how to leverage and "curate" event assets and opportunities to extract lots more value and ROI.
Key suggestions:
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2) Edit: Invest time to glean the most valuable nuggets and serve them up in bite-sized chunks, one piece at a time. How about a series of 2-minute videos that weave together to form something no one else can match? How about a Cliff-Notes outline of key discussion points from workshops?
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Retirement Is a Beginning
How do you know you are psychologically ready to retire? As a start, ask yourself four questions.
One, is your work meaningful?
If it is emotionally and psychologically fulfilling, if it gives you a strong sense of purpose and identity, then there may be a voice inside your head telling you not to retire yet. You may want to listen to it.
It can be tempting to see retirement as a "finish line": no more long workdays, long commutes, or stressful deadlines. But it is really a starting line: the start of a new phase of life. Ideally, you cross the "finish line" knowing what comes next, what will be important to you in the future.
Two, do you value work or leisure more at this point in your life?
If the answer is leisure, score one for retirement. If the answer is work, maybe you need a new job or a new way of working rather than an exit from your company or your profession.
An old saying says that retirement feels like "six Saturdays and a Sunday." Fantastic, right? It is, as long you don't miss Monday through Friday. Some people really enjoy their careers; you may be one of them.
Three, where do your friends come from?
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Creating a financial strategy for retirement is important. But there are also other important factors, including your physical health, your mental health, your relationships with family and friends, your travels and adventures, and your outlets to express your creativity. Building a life away from work can be a plus.
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If you think it will be spectacularly different from your current life, ask yourself if your expectations are realistic. If after further consideration they seem unrealistic, you may want to keep working for a while until you are in a better financial position to try and realize them or until your expectations shift.
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By Tom Whipple
There are many zigs and
zags, twists and turns, and unintended consequences along the path to higher
priced and scarce oil. Only three months ago it seemed we were headed towards
an aerial bombardment of Syrias armed forces which would likely send oil and
gas prices towards the sky in anticipation of a response. Well, the AAA reports
that the current average price of regular gasoline is $3.18 and its spokesperson
is saying we should be seeing $3.10 a gallon by Christmas and maybe even $3.
Whats happening?
First let me disabuse you
of the idea that we are seeing more than a temporary blip and that sub-$3
gasoline will become a permanent feature of life in America. The underlying
forces that will cause oil production to peak i.e. oil fields depleting
faster than new ones are being found and developed at affordable prices is
still with us as will become apparent one of these days.
This fall, however, there
are several factors that have come together to force oil prices down. One major
factor, higher U.S. production, is unlikely to last more than a few years,
while others such as steadily weakening demand may be with us for a while.
When oil prices got high
enough five or six years ago, it became profitable to drill and hydraulically
fracture tight oil formations in North Dakota and Texas. What made fracking
feasible was that oil prices in the last decade rose from $20 a barrel to circa
$100 making the drilling of very expensive fracked wells with a very short
productive lifetime feasible.
From about 5 million b/d in
2007, U.S. domestic production has climbed by 2.5 million barrels a day (b/d)
to 7.5 million this summer. For a time the oil industry had difficulties moving
this oil to market as it was coming from regions without sufficient pipeline
capacity so that a big glut of crude built up in the mid-West where the fracked
oil came from. This glut drove down the value of domestic crude until at one
point it was selling at $25 a barrel below world prices.
While this oil was making
its way to refineries in the mid-West, it was not getting to the Gulf or East
Coast. We in the East were buying our crude at world prices which have been
hanging around $100 a barrel for the last four or five years. Thus while the
great fracked oil boom was helping consumers in the middle section of the
country it was not doing much for the coasts where most of the people live.
North Dakota where nearly a
million of our 2.5 million b/d of fracked oil is coming from was, and still is,
not deemed worthy of building expensive pipeline collection systems because of
the rapid depletion of its wells.
The solution to this
dilemma turned out to be railways which America has in abundance. It took some time
to build the terminals along rail lines, but once on board trains the oil could
be directed to the highest bidder anywhere in the country. Movement of oil by
rail costs some $5 a barrel than that moved by pipeline, but when it still
costs less than imported oil it is going to be used.
The next factor behind our
cheaper gasoline prices is lower demand. Since the U.S. economy went south in
2008, demand for oil has been weak. While the average consumption of oil
products in 2007 was 20.7 million b/d, by 2012 it was down to 18.5 million with
an increasing share being exported. While some of this decline was due to more
efficient cars and trucks, the bulk of it was simply less driving due to hard
economic times.
Our next factor is a little
more complicated and has to do with what happens when oil is refined. To make
the story short, when you refine crude, among other products, you end up with
roughly two barrels gasoline for every barrel of distillates (diesel, heating
oil, kerosene, etc.) that you produce. Now this is very nice when your demand
for these products is equal to your consumption, but when they get out of
balance you have to import or export to avoid shortages or gluts. Now Europe
taxed itself into a lot of more efficient diesel cars years ago so European
refiners had been ending up with large surpluses of gasoline which they were
happy to sell to America where we really love the stuff.
Currently Europe has a lot
more energy problems than we do here in America. North Sea production has been
dropping for decades; the economy is really bad so that oil consumption is
down; refineries are closing; and to top it off Libyan oil production of 1.3
million b/d, most of which went to Europe, went down the tubes this summer
amidst political chaos.
The solution to this was
for Europe and other Libyan customers to import diesel and other distillates
from the U.S. which led to a rapid growth in U.S. exports of finished oil
products. The U.S. of course was set up to refine more oil than we currently
are using, but this summer our refineries hummed at record rates cranking out
distillates for export.
The problem was that for
every barrel of diesel that we shipped out of the U.S., there were two barrels
of gasoline left behind. The export statistics tell the story. In 2007 the U.S.
exported 120,000 b/d of gasoline and 260,000 b/d of distillates. By the summer
of 2013 gasoline exports had climbed to 380,000 b/d, but distillate exports
were up to 1.4 million b/d.
So there is the story of
our cheap gasoline in a nutshell. We are refining some 1.4 million b/d of
distillates for export and are ending up with 2.8 million b/d of extra gasoline
as a result of which we can only export 380,000. Welcome to lower gasoline
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One in five manufacturers says it has experienced intellectual property losses due to security breaches.
That's a staggering statistic, but it's also the age in which we live. After all, cybercrime hits the global economy to the tune of an estimated $400 billion per year.
Fortunately for manufacturers, OEMs around the world are working hard to enhance their own cybersecurity and protect end users against potentially devastating cyber attacks.
Here are three key learnings from a sampling of OEMs and their security approaches.
Remote Access and Security Go Hand-in-Hand
Remote access enables OEMs to quickly respond to end users' critical situations or provide ongoing maintenance support without the travel costs. But remote access is only viable if the connection is secure and customers have peace of mind that their data is safe.
Loccioni, an Italy-based producer of measurement, testing and assembly equipment, is helping manufacturers balance the benefits of remote access with its security demands.
"Remote access is more and more subject to strict customer control," said Gianluca Battistoni, key account manager for Loccioni. "We have to interface with the customer's security infrastructure. Five years ago, we could have stored our preferred system on the machine. Now, the customer controls access more."
Better Proactive Than Reactive
Quebec-based Wulftec International Inc., a producer of stretch wrappers and pallet machines for food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries, is among the companies that joined the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. The public-private partnership program is voluntary for businesses seeking to strengthen their international supply chains.
"We chose to take an active role in helping protect our customers' sensitive information," said Priscille Tremblay, sales director for Wulftec International. "Becoming a C-TPAT partner assures our customers and the authorities that we are a secure company, and that our employees and vendors are secure."
Wulftec International also maintains a database of machine serial numbers, allowing the company to track any changes made to a machine during its warranty period.
Security Equals Safety
Equipment security and reliability is especially important in the mining industry. Cyberattacks that affect the equipment can jeopardize lives.
"Applications are safety critical, particularly in deep-shaft mining for coal, copper, uranium, gold and silver, because you are bringing possibly 50 to 60 metric tons of material up from a mile deep," said Vladislav Hermann, president of HSP Inc. and U.S. representative for INCO Engineering, a producer of transport equipment for underground mines. "People and materials being transported must absolutely be kept safe."
To help keep such underground operations safe, INCO Engineering developed a remote-monitoring system that allows its service experts to monitor customers' equipment from a central facility in the Czech Republic, where the company is based. INCO Engineering service engineers can view real-time machine data and alert local service personnel if they see any abnormalities or critical status information.
Keeping Pace With Threats
Given that the threat landscape is constantly evolving, these global OEM examples serve as valuable reminders that aggressive and flexible approaches to fighting cyber threats are perhaps the best way to protect both OEM and manufacturers' critical data.
For more on the steps OEMs are taking to help protect customers' data in the fight against cybercrime, check out the latest issue of Security Matters
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Do your shoes stink? Sorry, that was a bit forward, but...do they? Really, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. You can solve the problem pretty easily with a coffee filter and baking soda.
Blog with a self-explanatory name Free Shipping has discovered you can de-stink your shoes by taking a coffee filter, filling it with a little backing soda, and binding the baking soda inside. Just toss your home-made baking soda bomb inside the smelly shoe and let it sit overnight. In the morning things should smell a whole lot better.
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Sixth 'Taste' Discovered - Calcium
Here's the new taste sensation — your tongue might be able to taste calcium.
The capability to taste calcium has now been discovered in mice. With these rodents and humans sharing many of the same genes, the new finding suggests that people might also have such a taste.
The four tastes we are most familiar with are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Recently scientists have discovered tongue molecules called receptors that detect a fifth distinct taste — "umami," or savory.
"But why stop there?" asked researcher Michael Tordoff, a behavioral geneticist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. "My group has been investigating what we believe is another taste quality — calcium."
So assuming the human palate can detect calcium, what does the mineral taste like?
"Calcium tastes calcium-y," Tordoff said. "There isn't a better word for it. It is bitter, perhaps even a little sour. But it's much more because there are actual receptors for calcium, not just bitter or sour compounds."
One way we might regularly perceive calcium is when it comes to minute levels found in drinking water.
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"In tap water, it's fairly pleasant," Tordoff said. "But at levels much above that, the taste becomes increasingly bad."
There may be a strong link between the bitterness of certain vegetables and their calcium level. High-calcium vegetables include collard greens, bok choy, kale and bitter melon. One reason some people might avoid these veggies, Tordoff suggests, is because of their calcium taste.
Ironically, while milk and other dairy products are loaded with calcium, the mineral tends to bind to fats and proteins, which prevents you from tasting it in these foods.
A taste receptor designed specifically for calcium makes sense for our survival, since the mineral is key to cell biology and good bones. Low calcium intakes have been implicated in several chronic diseases in people, including osteoporosis, obesity and hypertension.
"Many animals have a specific calcium appetite, which implies they can detect the mineral and consume sufficient quantities of it to meet their needs," Tordoff said.
To investigate how this calcium appetite worked, Tordoff and his colleagues gave 40 different strains of mice a choice between water and a calcium solution to drink.
"Most mice dislike calcium, but we found a very unusual strain that drinks it avidly," Tordoff said. "The PWK strain drank about four times more calcium than water."
By analyzing the DNA of this unusual strain, the researchers were able to identify two genes linked with consuming calcium.
One is a gene for a calcium-sensing receptor called CaSR, which has been found by other researchers in the kidney, brain and gut.
"We didn't know it was on the tongue before," Tordoff said.
The other is a gene known as Tas1r3. This is a component of the "sweet-taste" receptor — a finding that researchers described as "very unexpected."
By measuring the electrical activity of nerves linking the brain and tongue in mice, "we can now say with some certainty that calcium is tasted," Tordoff said.
While it remains to be seen if this discovery in mice also holds true for humans, "there are some tantalizing reports that suggest it does," Tordoff said. "We know people have the sweet-taste gene, Tas1r3, and the gene involved with the calcium-sensing receptor, CaSR. We don't know if we have the same forms of genes as the mice have, but it seems pretty likely they have the same function."
Confirming the existence of calcium taste receptors in people will require scientists to look at fresh human tongues. Tordoff said, tongue in cheek, that "hopefully we won't have to be sitting by as somebody dies to wait to chop their tongues off — we're not ambulance chasers. There are cases where people have cancer of the tongue and have to get them removed."
If calcium taste receptors are found in people, future research could then investigate whether it is possible to bypass these molecules, Tordoff told LiveScience.
"People don't consume as much calcium as nutritionists would like, and one reason for this is that foods high in calcium don't taste good to many people," Tordoff said. "Tweaking its taste could encourage a calcium-deficient population to consume more of this key nutrient."
Tordoff and his colleagues detailed their findings Aug. 20 at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia.
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Beautiful, selfish and spoiled are the three words most commonly used to describe Princess Eliza. Common people are expendable in her world, there only to serve her needs. Betrothed to the most handsome prince in her land and adored by her father, Eliza had little thought for others or their feelings. An unkind word directed at the wrong person brings down a curse on Eliza, marring the perfection of her physical beauty making it so her outside now reflects what is within her. Horrified by her own reflection and tired of the whispers of everyone around her, Eliza flees the safety of her father's castle, seeking out the solitude of the outlying forests.
Greysen James spends his days hunting and gathering in the forests that fall between the kingdoms. In his small no-man's land, he owes no one fealty and he likes it that way. His life is all about keeping himself and his younger sister, Cornelia alive and fed. When Eliza comes stumbling into his path, he has two choices: let her flounder on and drag every royal guard searching for her through his forest or take her in and teach her to survive on her own. Neither option is appealing to him but once his sister meets the prickly princess, Cornelia won't let him leave Eliza out in the cold.
Greysen finds himself at odds with the princess almost immediately; he can't stomach her entitled attitude. As far as he can tell, Eliza has no grasp on the true realities of life outside the castle and she isn't overly fond of Greyson's seeming indifference to her. With Cornelia urging them to coexist they're finally forced into a grudging respect for one another.
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The Girl With the Golden Touch
Metroid is a legendary franchise and one that has created many imitators. However, few have ever reached the levels of greatness that Metroid as a series has obtained. While many Metroid fans find the greatest height of the franchise being the Super Nintendo's excellent Super Metroid, others find the first fully 3D Metroid game, Metroid Prime, as the best Samus Aran has to offer. This reviewer sides with the latter argument. Metroid Prime isn't just the best Samus Aran has to offer, it's simply one of the best games in modern gaming history.
Metroid Prime begins with Samus Aran investigating a Space Pirate frigate in the quiet of space. The crew had been decimated by the experiments being manufactured on board. Inside the ship she uncovers a grotesque Parasite Queen, one such experiment gone awry. After defeating it, she comes across a genetically altered version of her nemesis, Ridley, who quickly retreats and heads for the nearby planet of Tallon IV. As Samus retreats from the then-self-destructing frigate, she makes chase in her Gunship of the new Meta Ridley creature. Little does Samus know that there's more to Tallon IV than meets the eye.
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The world is incredibly well put together. Tallon IV is a living, breathing world full of things to see, do, and discover. You really feel like you are on a mysterious planet-- a bold new world. Tallon IV is split up between multiple areas: you have the Tallon Overworld; the footprint of the Chozo tribe, the Chozo Ruins; the underworld of Tallon IV where molten magma and blazing beasts call their home, the Magmoor Caverns; the eerily tranquil and icy areas of the Phendrana Drifts; and the radioactive quarries of the Phazon Mines. Each area is connected by elevator from one area to another, and each area has multiple elevators. With all of these areas you might think that getting lost is easy. Thankfully, it's not too terribly bad, despite the addition of a new dimension. Metroid Prime has its own fully rotatable map with every room and hallway having its own name. Uncovering map stations allows you to reveal the lay of the land. Rooms in blue are not yet entered while orange rooms are. Meanwhile, save stations allow you to obviously save your game, and are routinely placed in convenient locations around Tallon IV.
Tallon Overworld is the main hub
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A big part of discovering the back story to Metroid Prime is done through the Scan Visor, which allows Samus to scan objects, items, and enemies. Nearly everything in the game can be scanned. These scanned items go into Samus's log book where players can read up on the history of Tallon IV, the Chozo, various enemies, Space Pirate data entries, and much more at any time. Players can honestly go through the game without knowing much of anything regarding what is happening if they don't bother to read the various scan information around Tallon IV.
Discovery is indeed an important part of the Metroid franchise, and it is remarkably well done in Metroid Prime. As new upgrades are acquired, new areas are able to be entered, opening up new sights and sounds for Samus to see and hear. Hidden in the game are an immense amount of helpful expansions. These increase the amount of missiles, power bombs, and health Samus can hold. In order to obtain that often heralded 100% completion percentage, not only do all of the expansions need to be found and received, but all of the pages in Samus's log book must be filled through scanning the necessary objects and enemies.
Perhaps something that will turn off some players is the copious amounts of returning to previously explored areas. You will be backtracking a lot in Metroid Prime, and while that is an accepted part of the genre, some players may get tired of trekking through old haunts just to reach one new room. That said, Metroid Prime limits needless backtracking to a great degree, and it's one of the better examples of the genre archetype to be had. One other issue that relates to backtracking is a quest that needs to be done at the end of the game. That is, twelve Chozo Artifacts must be found before you can reach the final area of the game. Their locations are given in cryptic hints, and they require returning to past areas to find them. Again, this is something that might drain the enthusiasm of some players.
Tallon IV's so dangerous that even the
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There was one dish that immediately came to mind. By the time the 80's rolled out it was something most people laughed at. That dish is the ubiquitous "Prawn Cocktail" the sight of which used to scare me, with it's combination of sad iceburg lettuce, forlorn shrimp and lurid orange sauce.
Delia Smith in her "Winter Collection" revisits this dish and re-creates the original which didn't sound too bad and once assembled it actually looked appetising - hopefully you'll agree!
Prawn Cocktail For 2
6 raw prawns (these are Queensland Tiger Prawns)
2 Cos Lettuce leaves, shredded
¼ Avocado, diced finely
Cocktail Sauce:
½ cup mayonnaise (home-made preferred)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon tomato ketchup (I used tomato paste)
salt and freshly ground pepper
Prepare the Prawns:
Shell the prawns leaving the tail tip intact - then de-vein the prawns.
Heat a little oil in a pan and quickly sear the prawns, grinding over with salt and pepper as they cook. This should only take a minute or two at the most. Remove from the pan and set aside to cool.
Make the sauce:
In a small bowl add the mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lime juice & tomato ketchup/paste. Mix and then season to taste with salt and finely ground pepper.
Cover and keep in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
Assemble the dish:
Keep two prawns aside to garnish the top of the dish. Slice the remaining prawns into a small dice.
Take two martini glasses.
Place some shredded cos lettuce at the base of the glass then top with half the diced avocado. Sprinkle over the diced prawns then spoon over with a little of the sauce. Repeat with another layer of lettuce and avocado then top with a whole prawn. Serve the extra sauce on the side.
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Thankfully it took me less than 5 minutes to produce a new gedcom file from my Family Historian database and upload it to my site. My online tree once again resembles the trees in my garden that are covered in leaves.
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home-a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father's authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
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When it comes to creating a successful portrait, there are a lot of moving parts! We talk often about finding the light, composition, and camera gear when it comes to portraits. While all three of those things are important in creating your final image, they aren't the only variables at play.
Another important aspect in capturing portraits is angles. Understanding and making good use of angles in portrait photography, allows you to capture images of your subjects in the most flattering way, unique to each person you're photographing.
Under the umbrella of "angles" are two different aspects – facial view, and camera angle. Facial view simply refers to how much of a person's face is visible in the photograph. Whether or not you recognize the term facial view, you probably understand that there's a visual difference between a photograph of someone looking directly into the camera, and a photograph of them in profile. These are examples of both ends of the facial view spectrum. In addition to facial view, you'll also want to learn to utilize camera angle in portraiture. Camera angle refers to whether you're holding the camera at eye level, or above or below the eye level of your subject.
The concepts themselves are pretty simple, right? However, the difficult part is learning how each of these variables interact with each other, and your subject. Let's walk through some visual examples of different facial views and camera angles using the same gear, subject, location, and same time of day, while observing how different angles change the look and the feel of each image.
Camera Angles
Eye Level
One of the most common camera angles for portraits is to place the camera at the subject's eye level. This camera angle results in a final image that is balanced, and proportionate between head and body. It also allows for the subject to look directly into the lens, which tends to create the feeling of connection in a portrait. This is a flattering camera angle for most people.
High Camera Angle – Above Eye Level
Shooting from a high camera angle (with the camera above the subject's eye level) is another great option to try in your portrait photography. With this angle, the focus is on the face rather than the body and can be a very slimming angle for adults. I'm not at all concerned with making children seem slimmer than they really are, but find that I use this angle a lot when photographing children because I like the way that it emphasizes the childlike qualities of kiddos. I find that parents tend to really enjoy photographs of their children taken from a high camera angle, and I believe that's because parents see their children from this angle quite often in their day-to-day life, so it feels very natural and candid.
As a bonus, shooting from a high angle makes it really easy to achieve good catch lights in their eyes, and can also help to camouflage a less than desirable background. On the other hand, this camera angle may not be to your advantage in some situations; if your subject is very thin, shooting from above can sometimes make your subject look like a bobble-head, which is very rarely flattering.
Low Camera Angle – Below Eye Level
Shooting from a low camera angle (with the camera placed below the subject's eyes and tilted up) can make people seem tall and authoritative, but can also tend to make people (their body in particular) look larger than they really are, which is not very flattering for most people.
This is particularly important to keep in mind if you're photographing someone who is taller than you. If you're 5'2″, and the person you're photographing is 6'4″, you may need to be creative to make sure that you're not photographing the whole session from a low camera angle. Have your subject sit, crouch, or find something that you can climb on to create a more even plane, for at least some of the photos – it really will make a difference.
I've used this camera angle a handful of times with newly walking babies, and could envision using it with a wider angle lens (to capture more of the body) if I were photographing a politician, a football player, or someone who wished to appear particularly powerful. Overall though, this is usually not the most flattering angle for portraits.
Don't be afraid to experiment. Try capturing the same image from two different camera angles. The image above demonstrates how the same subject and pose appears from eye level, as well as from a high camera angle. If you did a poll, I bet you'd find that some people prefer the eye level shot, and some prefer the high camera angle. This is largely a matter of taste and preferred aesthetic, so I frequently make a point to include both sorts of angles in my portrait sessions.
Facial Views
Photographing a subject full-face means that their face is pointing directly towards the camera lens – you can see both ears, and both sides of the face in equal amounts. Full-face portraits often convey a sense of confidence and assertiveness, especially when the person being photographed is looking directly into the camera with their eyes also.
Other facial views include 3/4 view, 2/3 view, and profile view. With 3/4 view, the subject has turned just enough so that one of their ears is no longer visible to the camera. With 2/3 view, the subject has continued to turn so that their nose is just about to break the plane of their back cheek. For a true profile portrait, the subject's face is turned 90 degrees, and is perpendicular to the camera.
Shooting with the subject's face turned to 2/3 view or 3/4 view tends to convey a more casual, and less assertive portrait. Images shot with a 3/4 facial view, and the subject looking just off camera, are often the most successful candid images, because the facial expressions are still easily visible to the viewer. Similarly, shooting in profile allows for portraits that feel unposed, while also being graceful and demure (particularly when shot in silhouette).
The best way to begin to learn, and really understand angles, is to grab a friend and go experiment. Take photos from every camera angle you can think of, including non-traditional angles like a bird's eye or worm's eye view. Then, take a photo with every facial view – full face, 3/4 view, 2/3 and profile. If you're really feeling ambitious, try combining facial views and camera angles – does the feel of the portrait change if you shoot full-face from eye-level versus from a high camera angle?
Chime in below, do you find that you gravitate towards images with a particular facial view and/or camera angle? What tends to be your preference and why?
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Tuolumne River inflow to New Don Pedro Reservoir
The Tuolumne River, as a tributary of the San Joaquin River, is an important input into the California State Water Project, operated by the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR). In 2013-2014, David Meko and Ramzi Touchan (University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research) developed a reconstruction of the Tuolumne River, and along with a reconstruction for the San Joaquin River, Four Rivers Index for the CDWR.
Klamath/San Joaquin/Sacramento Hydroclimatic Reconstructions, Final Report to CADWR from Tree Rings
Water-year-total flows for the Tuolumne were reconstructed by locally weighted regression, or Loess from subsets of 61 chronologies screened for Sacramento/San Joaquin basin reconstructions. A Loess reconstruction was defined as an interpolation of estimated flow from a smoothed scatterplot of observed flow on a single summary tree-ring variable. The tree-ring predictor was an average standard chronologies that were filtered and scaled to accentuate their statistical signal for the target flow gage. A time-nested-modeling approach was used for reconstructions, using progressively longer but smaller subsets of chronologies going back in time to calibrate subsets of reconstrutions. The percentage of flow variance accounted for by the "median-accuracy" model ranges from 68% for the Sacramento River (Sacramento River above Bend Bridge) to 78% for the San Joaquin River. Because these reconstructions are done with time-nested models, accuracy varies over time depending on the quality of the available tree-ring chronologies.
Statistic | Calibration | Validation |
Explained variance (R2) | 0.78 | |
Reduction of Error (RE) | 0.77 | |
Standard Error of the Estimate | 407 KAF | |
Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) | 429 KAF |
Note: the calibration and validation statistics above were computed during the model development and reflect the relationship between the log-transformed observed flows and the tree-ring predictors. The scatterplot below in Figure 1 shows the relationship between the back-transformed observed flows and the reconstructed flows, which has a lower R2 than that reported in the table. Also, the Standard Error of the Estimate and Root Mean Square Error reported above are in log units, and the RMSE can't be used to compute the confidence intervals.
(For explanations of these statistics, see this document (PDF), and also the Reconstruction Case Study page.)
Figure 1. Scatter plot of observed and reconstructed Tuolumne River annual flow, 1901-2012.
Figure 2. Observed (black) and reconstructed (blue) annual Tuollumne River annual flow, 1901-2012. The observed mean is illustrated by the dashed line.
Figure 3. Reconstructed annual flow for the Tuolumne River (900-2012) is shown in blue. Observed flow is shown in gray and the long-term reconstructed mean is shown by the dashed line.
Figure 4. The 10-year running mean (plotted on final year) of reconstructed Tuolumne River flow, 900-2012. Reconstructed values are shown in blue and observed values are shown in gray. The long-term reconstructed mean is shown by the dashed line.


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OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino insisted Friday that Ottawa is working on a plan to help dozens of Afghans who are facing Taliban arrest or worse for having worked with Canada, but he stopped short of saying when that plan will become reality.
The federal government is under mounting pressure to help dozens of former interpreters, translators and cultural advisers who aided the Canadian military and development efforts during the war in Afghanistan.
Canadian veterans in particular have been sounding the alarm with growing concern, noting the Taliban's rapid gains over the past couple of weeks after the sudden withdrawal of most U.S. forces from the country.
Those veterans say the risk of torture or death that their former colleagues and their families are facing grows every day they remain in the country, especially in the southern province of Kandahar.
Mendicino, in response to a reporter's question while announcing a new refugee program to help people threatened for defending human rights, acknowledged the "tremendous urgency" of the situation in Afghanistan.
"I know even in the last number of weeks that the situation has gotten worse, that lives are on the line," he said.
"Everybody within government is doing everything in our power to try and put the final strokes to this plan so we can put into action."
Immigration officials are currently working with the Canadian military and Global Affairs Canada to identify Afghans who provided "essential support" to Canada, he added, including translators, interpreters and people who worked at the embassy in Kabul.
Yet Mendicino did not give a timeline for when help would actually arrive.
"The most important thing I want to convey with regards to this operation is that we know that Afghans put their own lives at risk by helping the Canadian effort in the war there, and we want to do right by them," he said. "We hope to have more to say about that in the very near future."
News that work is underway was greeted with cautious optimism from retired lieutenant-general Guy Thibault, chair of the Conference of Defence Associations, which counts numerous retired military officers and diplomats among its membership.
While recognizing the challenge of screening and processing visas for those who helped Canada's war effort, Thibault pointed out that the federal government was able to screen and resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in 100 days more than five years ago.
"Our shared sacrifices must not be forgotten nor should we forget those who came to our aid during this dangerous mission," Thibault said in a statement.
"They were friends, allies and heroes. They deserve our greatest respect for the risks they took. Sheltering them from immediate danger is the least we can do. We urge the prime minister and his government to act swiftly and decisively."
Three retired major-generals who previously commanded Canadian forces in Afghanistan have said there are 115 people in Afghanistan who need help.
Retired corporal Tim Laidler, who served in Afghanistan in 2008 and is now executive director of the Institute for Veterans Educations and Transition at the University of British Columbia, said Ottawa should simply restart a previous program to help Afghans.
While more than 800 Afghan interpreters and their family members were resettled in Canada under that program in 2009 and 2012, Laidler says many others wanted to stay in Afghanistan to help rebuild the country.
Laidler, who ran for the Conservatives in the 2015 federal election, said he and other veterans are now in touch with many of those former Afghan colleagues who have received death threats from the Taliban, but have no way to escape.
"These interpreters are a very special, unique group within the hearts of Canadian soldiers and definitely deserve the full support of the Canadian government," he said.
"If we ever want to go into a conflict again, this needs to happen. Or else any time Canada goes overseas ... people are going to look back at this. They're watching us right now. They're saying: 'Canada is going to turn its back on us if we put our necks out.'"
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2021.
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version incorrectly stated the year Tim Laidler ran for the Conservatives and the organization he is executive director of.


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This edition is a fully illustrated reprint of the 1904 publication by Aleister Crowley and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. This edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon the King contains all of the over 150 seals, sigils, and charts of the original lesser book of Solomon. Beware of other editions that do not contain the Lesser Key of Solomon seals; they were painstakingly researched by Mathers and Crowley, and Solomon's lesser key is enhanced by their inclusion. This edition also contains Crowley's original comments located in over 35 annotations to help the reader understand the lesser keys of Solomon the king.
In this work, Crowley and Mathers assemble descriptions and directions for the invocation of over 72 demons or spirits. Included are: illustrations of Solomon's Magic Circle & Triangle, Enochian translations of the Goetia book, step by step guides for invocation, as well as definitions and explanations for the ancient terms seen throughout the Lesser Key of Solomon book.
The Lesser Key of Solomon, or the Clavicula Salomonis Regis, or Lemegeton, is a compilation of materials and writings from ancient sources making up a text book of magic or "grimoire." Portions of this book can be traced back to the mid-16th to 17th centuries, when occult researchers such as Cornelius Agrippa and Johannes Trithemisus assembled what they discovered during their investigations into their own great works.
As a modern grimoire, the Lesser Key of Solomon has seen several editions with various authors and editors taking liberty to edit and translate the ancient writings and source material. In 1898, Arthur Edward Waite published his The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, which contained large portions of the Lemegeton. He was followed by Mathers and Crowley in 1904 who published The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon. Many others have assembled their own version of this ancient material since, and it is important to realize that it is the contents rather than the book itself that make up the Lesser Key. Traditionally, the source material is divided into five books: Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria. Mathers and Crowley indicate their edition is a translation only of the first book: Goetia.
In the preface to this edition, it is explained that a "Secret Chief" of the Rosicrucian Order directed the completion of the book. The original editor was a G. H. Fra. D.D.C.F. who translated ancient texts from French, Hebrew, and Latin, but was unable to complete his labors because of the martial assaults of the Four Great Princes. Crowley was then asked to step in and finish what the previous author had begun. Traditionally, S. L. MacGregor Mathers is credited as the translator of this edition, and Crowley is given the title of editor. Although impossible to verify, it is often claimed that Mathers did not want to publish this work, but Crowley did so anyway without his permission.


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Just as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and attractive people, we have a screaming reprise of the "Salisbury incident" dominating the British media. Two people have been taken ill in Amesbury from an unknown substance, which might yet be a contaminated recreational drug, but could conceivably be from contact with the substance allegedly used on the Skripals, presumably some of which was somewhere indoors all this time as we were told it could be washed away and neutralised by water.
Amesbury is not Salisbury – it is 10 miles away. Interestingly enough Porton Down is between Amesbury and Salisbury. Just three miles away from Muggleton Road, Amesbury. The news reports are not mentioning that much.
"I am all out of ideas Inspector. What can possibly be the source of these mysterious poisonings?"
Neither Porton Down nor the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has any idea where the substance to which the Skripals were allegedly exposed was made. Boris Johnson's great "coup" of obtaining a majority vote at the OPCW to expand its powers to place blame for chemical attacks, has proven rather otiose as the OPCW has no evidence on which to base any blame for Salisbury. In fact, four months on, May and Johnson's shrill blaming of Russia remains entirely, 100% evidence free.
I do however wish to congratulate the neo-con warmongers of the Guardian newspaper for verbal dexterity. They have come up with a new formulation to replace the hackneyed "Of a type developed by Russia", to point the finger for a substance that could have been made by dozens of state or non state parties. The Guardian today came up with "Russian-created novichok". This cleverly employs a word that can encompass "developed" while also appearing to say "made". It also again makes out that novichok is a specific substance rather than a very broad class of substances. The Guardian's Steven Morris, by this brilliant attempt deliberately to mislead his readers, runs away with this week's award for lying neo-con media whore of the week. His achievement is particularly good as the rest of his report is largely a simple copy and paste from the Press Association.
I most certainly hope that the couple in Salisbury hospital recover from whatever is afflicting them. The media is, by making this the lead story on all broadcast news after last night's football, inviting us to make the connection to the Skripals. In which case I assume the couple were perfectly well for five hours after contact, able to be very active and even to eat and drink heavily, before being mysteriously instantly disabled at the same time despite different ages, sexes, weights, and metabolisms and random uncontrolled dosages.
Replicating that would be quite a feat.


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Ezra Pound (1885-1972) is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and especially T. S. Eliot.
His own significant contributions to poetry begin with Imagism, a movement in poetry which derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. It stressed clarity, precision, and economy of language, as well as abandoning traditional rhyme and meter in order to "compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome." Pound's later work, for nearly fifty years, focused on the encyclopedic epic poem he entitled The Cantos.
Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. He completed two years of college at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree from Hamilton College in 1905. After teaching at Wabash College for two years, he travelled abroad to Spain, Italy and London, where, as the literary executor of the scholar Ernest Fenellosa, he became interested in Japanese and Chinese poetry. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914 and became the London editor of the Little Review in 1917.
In 1924, he moved to Italy; during this period of voluntary exile, Pound became involved in Fascist politics, and did not return to the United States until 1945, when he was arrested on charges of treason for broadcasting Fascist propaganda by radio to the United States during the Second World War. In 1946, he was acquitted, but declared mentally ill and committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. During his confinement, the jury of the Bollingen-Library of Congress Award (which included a number of the most eminent writers of the time) decided to overlook Pound's political career in the interest of recognizing his poetic achievements, and awarded him the prize for the Pisan Cantos (1948). After continuous appeals from writers won his release from the hospital in 1958, Pound returned to Italy and settled in Venice, where he died, a semi-recluse, in 1972.


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22 11 2006
Free Software Commons between North and South
by Felix Stalder (AT)
Can the freedom inherent in free and open source software (FOSS) foster greater freedom in diverse societies, including people who are not expert users of computers or do not have access to them at all? Or is FOSS, as empirical studies seem to suggest, something that is produced and used primarily in the technological centers of the global North, in Europe and North America specifically?
Before addressing this question, it is important to stress that freedom in the context FOSS is a legal concept, with a clearly defined and limited meaning. Software is said to be free (or open source), when the user has the irrevocable right to run, distribute and modify the software according to his or her intentions. If these conditions are given, software is free, even if forces the users up a (too) steep learning curve, or does not provide essential functionality. Thus, there is no necessary connection between the freedom inherent in FOSS and the actual freedom of people who might be using it, or be affected by its use more indirectly. However, the freedom that is built into FOSS is an important precondition to support freedom in a broader, social sense.
This for two reasons: transparency and distributed development. The first is mandatory, the second is a mere possibility, but one that is realized often, even if the distribution in terms of geography is still limited. In order to make the right to modify software practicable, the source code of the software that is the code as written by programmers, rather than just the ones and zeros read by the machine needs to be accessible. This means that a skilled programmer can read the entire code base of the program and thus see exactly the functionality built into it. In effect, it's impossible, or very difficult, to hide something. Knowing that functionality which allows, for example, back door access, or spying on users, can be seen by anyone who knows how to look, the temptation to put such features into the software in the first place will be much smaller. Thus, free software functions the very foundations our the technically-enabled societies, the software, is open to ongoing, public scrutiny. This can be likened to the archives of parliaments or courts, where citizens can go and see what the officials have been doing. Even if only few might actually go there, knowing that records are available to everyone interested already makes a big difference. Because, sooner or later, someone will go and look. In free software, the archives, so to speak, are heavily used, because the source code is scrutinized not just be investigative journalists or historians, but by everyone who contributes to the development of the software, which can be dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people, depending on the particular project. Thus, in effect, open source software is probably the most transparent, accessible body of complex technology ever created, even if the vast majority of people in practice don't know how read it.
The second feature of open source software, distributed development, builds on this in important ways. Because everyone can access the source code and make changes to his or her liking, but cannot, in virtually all cases, develop a program alone (advanced programs are far too large and complex for that), developers tend to collaborate, which is supported by a range of custom-built, internet-based tools, which can be used at little, or no, costs to the individual developer. Thus most open source software is the result of a collaborative effort of different people who each pursue diverging personal and collective agendas when participating in this process.
By "agenda" I mean simply someone's reason(s) to do a certain thing. Some of the reasons to engage in open source development are peer recognition, efficiency, aesthetic pleasure, financial gain or a particular social/political belief. Proprietary software is also developed by a number of different people, who arguably work on it for many different personal reasons (being paid is but one of them). However, there is and this is the difference to the open source process a single dominant collective agenda: the agenda of the company that owns the software and hires the programmers. For a publicly traded company, this agenda has to be to maximize value for its shareholders. At the end of the day, this single collective agenda overrides all others.
The combination of a single agenda that lies outside of the software itself and opaque source code makes it easy to put features into the software that are controversial, or even unpopular, but serve the agenda which dominates the developmental process. If Microsoft (or Sun, or Oracle, or Apple, or...) reaches the conclusion that its interests are best served by working against the users, then the necessary work will be implemented by the programmers, no matter if they personally belief this to be a good thing or not. The examples for such behavior range from the banal low quality software released with great hype in order to conform to a marketing schedule to the politically unacceptable, such as back doors which allow security agencies to access computers without their owner's consent or even knowledge. Both problematic examples reflect overarching agendas of the commercial companies which are unchecked, and cannot be checked, by outside developers or users. Open source software is very unlikely to contain such hidden features. Not only because it is open, hence the features would be visible to literate users, but also because the agendas of the people working on the development of the software are very diverse. It would, mos likely, be impossible to get an agreement of such features, or, they would cause so much discussion, that they were no longer hidden. Even more important is that in the open source development there is no mechanism by which someone could force someone else to adopt something against his or her own personal conviction, no matter what this convictions is. Given the impossibility of imposing an overarching agenda it is unlikely that there will be features embedded in the code that clearly promote any particular non-technical goal, such as gathering data for marketing purposes, or improving relations to government agencies through secret deals.
Does this matter? It does. Software needs to be clean and it needs be accessible to the full range of social actors. Computers and software can be thought of as amplifiers. They amplify the user's agenda by giving her access to means of, say, communication that she would not have otherwise. But computers and software also amplify the agendas of their makers. For example, the software that enables people to listen to music online allows million users to listen to whatever they personally find worth listening to. The software amplifies their power to gain access to recorded sounds. On the other hand, these players also promote the agenda of their developers. In case of open source developers, the overall agenda (that on which all developers can agree) is to develop the best player. Commercial software, on the other hand, the overall agenda is to make money. There are many ways of doing that, apart from creating good software. One is to collect data about what the users are doing and sending that secretly back to a central server where it can be aggregated and acted upon to the benefit of the company. There are numerous cases of software that has just done that. In such cases, we can say that now millions of users are amplifying the agenda of the developing company, creating an imbalance that is not in their own interest. Tracking music use might be a benign thing, but imagine the same functionality built into a word processor. Open source software reduces this imbalance. The various agendas of the developers cancel out one another as they meet on a relatively restricted common ground: the development of technically superior software. Consequently, open source software empowers the user vis-à-vis the developer for the simple reason that the nontechnical motivations of each individual developer become less important because they are checked by others who can not be assumed to share these motivations. Checked from a wide ranges of angles, the software becomes not only more stable, but also more clean or neutral.
Paradoxically, this political neutrality is a radical political feature in a context where software that is biased towards the interest of the commercial company is the normality. These are usually located in the global North and address needs of rich customers there. The recent wave of outsourcing to places like Bangalore has not changed this much. Indeed, despite the large number of skilled programmers, India is only a minor contributor to free software projects. Software needs to be cheap. While clean software addresses the imbalance of amplifying power between the developer and the users, cheap software allows more social groups to use that power than simply those with money. At the centers of technological development this is not such an important point because the connection between knowledge and money is more direct. The situation is different in developing countries where knowledge is more abundant than money. Open source software, because it is much cheaper, allows more people to use the amplifying power computers. Here, however, open source software has to compete with pirated commercial software, which is also very cheap, if not free of costs. But the costs factor is, perhaps, not even the main issue here. Commercial software, even if pirated and hence free of costs, is still software developed with a commercial agenda, dividing people in developers and users, sellers and consumers, and so on, and not addressing any need that cannot be fit into this framework. This is important from the point of view of the South, because it effectively prevents the possibility of skilled users to ever become skilled programmers, even if they wish to do so, for financial or non-financial reasons. Thus, proprietary software effectively creates, maintains and enforces knowledge monopolies residing in the North.
Finally, open source allows to create software outside the domain and the imperative of the market. In effect, open source software is a high-tech product that is developed outside of capitalism, neither reflecting buying power of clients, nor in-house commands of managers. It is not anti-capitalist in any political sense, rather it's a-capitalist. Now, there is considerable debate whether is should be likened to pre-competitive collaboration (as in basic research) thus stands in the chain of development before capitalism, or, if, in fact, it represents some new form of post-capitalist production. Given the heavy involvement of major publicly-traded companies (such as IBM) which are, by law, required to put the financial interests of their shareholders above all other interests, I would be hesitant to claim the latter. Nevertheless, within open source, the boundaries between for-profit and not-for-profit are becoming blurry, which at least gives the possibility, and we see evidence of this, of strengthening the non-commercial sector by catering to their particular needs regardless whether these constitute a profitable market or not. If only, by giving NGOs and other non-market, non-public actors powerful tools at their disposal, effectively leveling the playing field in regards to communication, between the rich and poor, large and small organizations. And this, I think, will also benefit a wide range of people irrespective of their computer literacy.
Thus, FOSS even though still mainly developed and maintained in the North, offers on numerous levels opportunities for developing countries to develop skills and functionality that can address their unique needs in ways that proprietary software will never allow for. Opportunities are there, in the heart of the technology, but to realize them, social, educational and political efforts are necessary. Technology on its own is but a promise not kept.
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