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"Faithmouse" is a painfully sincere cartoonist who specializes in incomprehensible images of fetuses doing cutesy things, in the apparent belief that the morality of abortion is determined by the wisdom of Little Jeffy from The Family Circle. But occasionally he makes himself clear enough that you can understand what he's saying. Here's an example:
If you can't see it clearly in the reduced-size image, a cute pink fetus is lounging in a wingback chair, reading "Modern Fetus" magazine, inside a soft, red, squishy-walled apartment with the sign "Womb Sweet Womb" hanging on the wall. The fetus is plugged into the wall through an umbilical cord that terminates in an electrical outlet. Its baseball cap is hanging from a peg on the wall, a ventilator duct appears on the other wall, and – displaying a worrisome grasp of anatomy – a heart-shaped heart and other organs are visible through a huge gap in the side wall, next to a set of large, coin-operated binoculars like you find at outdoor public attractions. (?) A gloved hand is bursting through the screen door and slamming down the front door of the apartment, holding an "Eviction Notice".
Yep. Your uterus is the home of a fetus. Your cervix is merely the front door of its "apartment", and your bodily organs are merely the walls, floor, wiring, and ventilation ducts of its abode. Acting on your own body, or having a doctor do so on your behalf, is equivalent to bursting down the door of someone else's home. (I admit, I have no freaking idea what the binoculars are for.) And, of course, it's a violent invasion – tearing through the screen, ripping off the door, and dragging the little wobbly-head-doll fetus out into the cold, like a thug or a home invader, or at best a slumlord. You don't, of course, have the right to treat your own body as your own body if someone else is living in it – that would be cruel.
Amazingly enough, also, the cartoon manages to show the inside of a woman's body without ever implying that there's actually a woman present. The fetus is fully characterized – it not only looks like a typical cartoon image of a fully-developed child, but it has intellectual interests, possessions, and a home with little domestic touches hanging on the walls. The woman is represented only by the grossly distorted image of the walls of her uterus, which actually belongs to the fetus as its dwelling place. (When you see someone's apartment, you don't think "Oh, here's the landlord's real estate investment" – you think "Oh, here is this person's apartment". Here, the woman's entire body, including the internal organs visible through the "window" in her uterus – it's a "womb with a view" – get it? – are the dwelling place of this fetus; they are its home, not her body.)
So, if you want to know what you are to the right wing, there you have it. You are the property of your own fetus – its home, its "castle". Your uterus is as sacrosanct against "home invasion" – by you – as a citizen's home is against thugs or intruders. You have no right of "trespass" on your own body. And your fetus is a fully-developed person with its own tastes in home decoration; you are nothing but some walls and tubing. Do be sure to keep the yard picked up, though; it's your obligation as landlord.
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1. A lot of prolifers find the "sentient fetus" them pretty revolting, too. I've blogged about it.
2. No, the woman isn't an apartment building. She's a mother. An abortion isn't an eviction; it's killing. Her own child. Which makes even the worst slumlord look like Ghandi by comparison.
the woman isn't an apartment building. She's a mother.
That's precisely not what the cartoon above says.
An abortion . . . [is] killing. Her own child.
The fetus isn't a "child". We use the word "child" to denote an independent, fully delivered, young person usually well past birth. "Child" connotes intellectual growth and personality development, not the state of a fetus.
Calling a fetus a "child" equates a true child with a fetus – which is insulting to the child. A child is much more than a zygote, or an embryo, or even a developing fetus with no thoughts, no interests, and no personality. A child has all those in abundance, which is what makes children so vital and engaging. If you think no more of children than that they are purely metabolic clumps of cells, that betrays a gross hostility to children. To say the same of an embryo or early fetus is no more than an accurate description.
hello, i like your cartoon description. cute fetus. what is the fetuses name?
I am speechless.
Asshats like this are the very reason I currently sport an I.U.D. (until it's made illegal, because if I don't have a penis, I'm clearly not competent to make decisions about my body), and why I'd have my tubes tied were I able to find a doctor who'd do it.
Words cannot accurately convey how tired I am of these idiots.
The unborn baby's name is 'Neverborn'.
I just discovered 'faithmouse' and love his cartoons.
I am a lesbian and used to be liberal and pro-choice but began to have concerns because it seems like the 'pro-choice' movement was only defending one choice— the one that gives you a dead fetus and, 90% of the time, a woman who regrets having an abortion.
If faithmouse's cartoons get one woman to avoid having an abortion that will make her future life miserable, he's helping the 'pro-choice' cause. After all, choices other than abortion are choices too.
And, of course, it's a violent invasion – tearing through the screen, ripping off the door, and dragging the little wobbly-head-doll fetus out into the cold, like a thug or a home invader, or at best a slumlord.
Violent is the right word, only it's not the door that gets ribbed off, it's the unborn child's arms and legs.
Abortion is violent. Yes, it's your womb, but it's his/her little arms and legs that get ripped off. When it's your arms and legs, then you'll have cause to complain.
When it's your arms and legs, then you'll have cause to complain.
Loss of freedom, then, is not "cause to complain"? Loss of the right to control your life, your body, your future – those aren't worth complaining about (if you're a woman). But the loss of nothing it is actually aware of – the experience of . . . nothing at all that it can notice or comprehend – that's enough for the least-developed embryo to override any "complaints" any mere woman might have about her own life, her body, her interests.
What, exactly, do you mean by "yes, it's your womb"? If you're aware of that, what moral significance does it have to you? It obviously gives the woman whose "womb" it actually is no standing in the decisions you're making about her body and her life, so why mention it at all? What moral equation is it that recognizes – grudgingly and in passing – that a woman's body is her own, "but" then moves directly from that point to her complete helplessness to say what will happen to it?
It would be fascinating to know how such a mind, and such a moral sense, comes to be the way it is.
Loss of the right to control your life, your body, your future
Your body? Once again, are those your arms and legs that are ripped off?
When I am pregnant, I don't have 4 arms and 4 legs, nor will I have a penis and two testes if my child is a boy. My child has its own body and has a right to not have that body dismembered simply because I regret my decision to become pregnant based on risks I willingly took.
I maintain the right to control my life, my body and my future. After I get pregnant, there is another life, body and future besides my own. A fetus has a right to bodily integrity.
"A fetus has a right to bodily integrity."
Why? Why does a fetus' body have a greater right to bodily integrity than the host?
"simply because I regret my decision to become pregnant based on risks I willingly took."
Of course, it always seems to come back to controlling women's sexuality.
Nice analysis, Kevin. You do a good job of pointing out how every small detail of the cartoon reflects the cartoonist's misguided concept of pregnancy.
I'm glad to see (via Christina) that even some anti-abortionists reject the "sentient fetus," because it is patently ridiculous. I would even say it undermines the argument, because if you feel that you have to depict a being as cute, intelligent, and self-aware to argue for its right to life, you're actually not arguing in favor of the sanctity of all life.
Now that I am actually a parent, I feel even more strongly that it's a complete fallacy to assign fully-human status to a fetus. We don't begin being human until well after birth. Yes, we're homo sapiens, but our sentient mind and self-awareness take a long time to develop.
in the apparent belief that the morality of abortion is determined by the wisdom of Little Jeffy from The Family Circle
Hee. I love this.
Thank you for this great analysis, Keith. As a woman who has had an abortion before (and yes, I was pro-choice long before my personal experience with abortion), it sickens me to see so many in the anti-choice camp reduce women to mere 'housing' for fetuses.
To the anti-women's reproductive rights Lesbian:
Where are you getting your statistics? Stating that 90% of women regret their abortions is not accurate, nor can its accuracy be measured due to the Religious Right's blockage of studies regarding abortions by Government funded researchers.
Second, what this image does and what so much of the Radical Religious Right does is distort the issues. Reproductive rights are about the individual's self-determination of medical decisions–privacy in decision making as when to become a parent. The Radical Right, and their anthromophism of embroys and fetus' through saccharin advertisments such as above seek to dumb down the discussion to pre-adolescent understandings of human anatomy and the social/economic realities of human pregnancy. This dumbing down of the conversation is winning the Radical Right a place of legitimacy in the public forum that would hardly be considered relevent if all the factors were actually discussed on this crucial issue for WOMEN & MEN.
[…] Abortion, She Wrote I've been reading a lot of debate online about abortion again lately, in part because of the headlining newly implemented South Dakota ban on abortion, and in part because of an outcry in the feminist blogging world about a strange anti-abortion cartoon. It seems this particular hot-button debate never gets old. Here's another, slightly less condemning take, no matter which side you belong on. I think the biggest problem with this issue is the extreme sides of it. Neither side has any intention of negotiating with the other – it's an all-or-nothing war that will end only when a majority of the populace can come to s definite conclusion and beat the opposing side into submission. This is exactly what our founders DIDN'T want – the will of the majority to overpower the rights and wills of the minority, whatever that minority may be. (Obviously I'm using their ideal ideologies, not their actual ones.) Regardless of which side is "bigger", the fact of the matter is that both sides have very valid points. This debate is neither wholly scientific or wholly moral, nor has either side kept from indulging in rhetoric and science-bending to try and prove their point. In the end, we get the whole population yelling at each other. What it comes down to is this: balancing the rights of the mother with/against the rights of the child/fetus/embryo/cellbundle/whatever. It is less a definition of when and where life begins, and more a question of what to do when two sets of rights overlap and conflict. When life begins and its inherent value is important in this debate, in order to establish when the rights of the "chembrytus" begin. I think many pro-choice advocates would have a hard time convincingly arguing that an eight and a half month stage pregnancy is NOT a human being, nay a child, without looking stupid. Likewise, it's difficult for pro-life advocates to convincingly argue that a two week old cell-bundle is a human child, even a month old embryo. It's very hard to make a scream of "Murder!" at that stage not sound ridiculous. The problem is more the stages in between, when humanity is tenuous. In the end, however, that argument is just another red-herring, regardless of who's making it. The question is not when life begins, but who's rights and life are more important, when, and why. And that is not a question for the government or for society as a whole…it is a question for each individual. And it's something that should be discussed and decided BEFORE that crucial decision making needs to happen. Abortion is not the original issue, though many are being sidetracked into thinking it is. It's the result of a phenomenon that should be addressed. And I think both sides should agree on that particular problem, though their solutions may differ. Simply put, the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies that result in an abortion that is NOT medically required to save the mother's life or sanity (I'm talking in cases of rape and incest, here) is to prevent unwanted pregnancies, period. To me, that means an increase in sexual education so people (not kids, but PEOPLE…not all sexual ignoramuses are teens) know exactly what they're getting themselves into and what the consequences are. Education is the solution to minimalizing "accidents", including reproductive ones. Knowing the consequences will help individuals make informed decisions…isn't that true of ALL things, sexual and not? Hell, my eighth and ninth grade Sex Ed classes had all the students chanting "ABSTINENCE!!!" at the end (Full color illustrations of STDs and a video of a live birth will do that to 13 and 14 year olds, regardless of contraceptive reassurances. Teenagers are not stupid – dumbasses, perhaps, but not stupid – and today's batch are an inherently suspicious lot. It takes a few years and a lot of hormones for that fear to wear off, and the message itself still sticks.) That means an increase in the availability of contraception, to when couples DO make the leap they can control what results. That means encouraging both males and females to take responsibility to ensure their own protection. Above all, that means encouraging people to THINK and develop a set of standards about having sex. Be they teenagers or older, sexually active or not. Such standards will differ from person to person, and would probably evolve and grow over time, but it means the decision making happens out of the heat of the moment. It means encouraging people to ask, realistically: what would need to happen to make me comfortable having sex? What kind of person would I need my partner to be? What circumstances would it need to happen in for my first time? For any time? What will I do if these circumstances and standards are not met when the situation arises? I would theorize that early on, this would mean a lot of girls had mental images of model-style men who are devoted to their every whim and fancy, and for males a sensual woman who catered to his every sexual desire. This is speaking in stereotypes of course, but stereotypes exist for a reason, and aren't unjust as long as a provision for exceptions is made. Over time, these highly unlikely expectations would change into more mature ones, with personality clauses as to the types of people that the individuals want and need. And I think that encouraging people to think in marriage terms is not nessessarily bad: If you wouldn't be willing to spend the rest of your life with that person (even if it doesn't end up that way), do you REALLY want to have sex with them? Probably not. All this boils down to is making sure that people make individual, concious, informed, healthy choices about sex. That will ultimately reduce the amount of young people having sex before their ready, make the age of devirginization later and more ready and deliberate, and most importantly, reduce the number of abortions. Because both sides know that most abortions are the result of a bad decision, a mistake (ignoring, of course, those nessessary beause contraception flat-out didn't work). If we fight to end that mistake in the first place, the rest will follow. […]
yeah, you know, I have been wondering about some peoples' fixation on the beings that are, essentially, somewhere between alive and…not. The "preborn" (always makes me think of "prebaked") and, at the other end, the likes of Terry Schiavo.
and especially "ew" over the saccharine sweetness of the "snowflake babies" business, for instance.
I mean, I see the argument that it's 'cause they're helpless and can't speak for themselves
…and I think, you know, taken to an extreme, that in itself, is…suggestive.
I mean, being protective of the helpless is one thing.
But what does it say about someone if the brunt of their passion is reserved for beings that clearly have no autonomy?
I mean, the great thing about someone/something that can't speak for hirself is that you never have to worry about him/her/it talking back. Sort of like a teddy bear, only…not.
The thing I don't get about anti-choicers: apparently in their view, life begins at conception and ends at birth. Otherwise they'd show a little more substantive compassion for post-born children… like, say, universal healthcare, abolishing "no child left behind", or even (heaven forbid) rebuilding New Orleans…
Oh yeah, and the binoculars totally and completely freak me out. EEEwww.
I'm seven months pregnant and I've never been more pro-choice than now. Pregnancy takes a huge toll on one's body and life, and if you aren't up for it, you shouldn't have to go through with it.
If God REALLY wanted every fetus to live, he would have found a foolproof way for humanity to procreate.
I am a lesbian and used to be liberal and pro-choice but began to have concerns because it seems like the 'pro-choice' movement was only defending one choice— the one that gives you a dead fetus and, 90% of the time, a woman who regrets having an abortion.
You've got to be kidding! The reason that the pro-choice movement only defends the choice to abort is that nobody is trying to amend the freaking constitution to remove your right to not abort! I mean, duh. Only things under attack require defending.
In answer to #1 Christina "She's a mother. An abortion isn't an eviction; it's killing. Her own child. Which makes even the worst slumlord look like Ghandi by comparison."
Most women are capable of bearing a child, BUT, many of them are NOT Mothers. Be careful of pinning
the word "Mother" on anyone because we can point to thousands of children who are maimed, neglected
or killed AFTER they're born. Where's the pro-life cartoon for that?
[…] Posted by Jack Stephens on June 13th, 2007 The blogger at Unapologetically Female, Tracy, posts: Apparently, the situation is worse than I thought. Tigtog of Hoyden About Town has noticed that this anti-choice technique of personifying fetuses is not just an isolated event, but a trend.* She points us to another recent instance of this phenomenon described by Kevin T. Keith, and the comments from that post lead to one of his older posts showing yet another (maybe even creepier) fetal cartoon. […]
[…] This week, however, Muir joined the creepy talking-fetus brigade of conservative 'toonists. It's been discussed before, but it's apparently a growing meme on the right wing – fetal "personhood" taken to such a bizarrely literal extreme that they imagine fetuses as having fully-functional adult personalities, and sometimes adult bodies (and why not? – with all the retrograde scientific claptrap the right wing has latched onto, the homunculus theory is hardly out of place). This can't be a coincidence. Literalizing the claim of fetal personhood distinctly changes the relationship between, and relative moral standing of, a woman and her fetus, to the detriment (need it be said?) of the woman. That this delusional characterization of pregnancy has become so common and so widespread of late signals another move in the ongoing assault on the effective moral personhood of women. Here is Muir's contribution to the war: […]
Well, you're the one who put the fetus there in the first place! However, let's assume your landlord wants to evict you. If he does it by ripping you to shreds and dragging your lifeless bits out the door, he has murdered you, even though he owns the apartment. The intended end of an abortion is a dead fetus, not an empty womb.
The hole in the uterus and the general misplacement baffles me. A botched abortion, perhaps?
The woman is not pictured because the view is from the inside.
This one shows the woman:
[…] latest entry in the "creepy personified fetus" category: the "Feti" – weird/cutesy Christmas-tree […]
[…] That it does reflect and promotes the right-wing vision of women goes without saying: women as pregnant vessels who are not even named or acknowledged, and certainly have no interests or needs that deserve to be […]
Thanks for the cartoon- I'm using it on the invites for my baby shower!
– Pro-Choice Mommy
[…] There are many more examples of this flavour of woman-erasure. Pro-life propaganda often depicts an embryo or fetus floating in a black void, the woman not even existing as a uterus, but completely absent. Sufficient Scruples wrote in "You Are a Housing Project for Fetuses": […]
Because most abortion happens during second and third trimester. No! Most of it happens during the 1st trimester, and when it does happen later term it's usually because of life threatening health reason. There's no body to cut up or anything and all they do though is suck that little sucker out.
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Economy tops in Congressional race
Tonko, who seeks third term, and Dieterich take sides on Obamacare
Published 8:23 pm, Thursday, November 1, 2012
Job creation and economic recovery are the primary issues in the race for the 20th Congressional District.
Incumbent Rep. Paul Tonko is running on the Democrat, Independence and Working Family Parties lines for his third term against Bob Dieterich, 44, chief financial officer of First National Bank of Scotia, who is running on the Republican and Conservative lines. Compared to other contests, the race has been relatively quiet, and largely focused on economic issues. The race is not considered to be in play by national pundits.
In their only debate, the two tried to connect each other to Washington politics. Tonko repeatedly attacked Dieterich's support of the budget plan sponsored by Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP vice presidential nominee, which would restructure the Medicare program from a system of fee-for-services to one based on vouchers. And Dieterich tied Tonko to his support for Obamacare, the president's revamped health care system widely criticized by Republicans.
Tonko wants to spur job growth through energy innovation and renewable technology. He advocates for training at area community colleges to take advantage of high-tech industries. Tonko supports President Obama's proposal to raise taxes on those earning over $250,000 annually.
Tonko said he believes in investment in the middle class, which can be achieved by ending a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans and bringing back troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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"I want people to understand, if you don't do it sooner, rather than later, you're going to have to cut more," he said.
Dieterich said he has been careful in his campaign not to smear Democrats, because he believes the solution to economic woes are going to come from both sides. He has said he supports hydrofracking, if done safely, and believes it can help the state's economy.
Dieterich, who lives in Glenville with his family, has a bachelor's degree in management from SUNY Plattsburgh. He served in the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard.
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A little more than a month ago, Joe Loftus adjusted his stance in the batter's box.
Last weekend, the sophomore outfielder stood a little taller than anyone else in the Southeastern Conference when he led Vanderbilt to a series victory at LSU. Loftus had six hits (four of them for extra bases), seven RBIs and five runs scored as the Commodores won two of three against the reigning national champion.
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More than two dozen residents of St. Paul's Skyline Tower high-rise underwent follow-up blood screenings Saturday, nine days after officials warned that a testing error put patients at some risk for disease.
University of Minnesota health officials warned May 28 that about 300 people who participated in blood-sugar screenings faced an elevated disease risk, after students used shared finger-stick devices on multiple patients. While the device's lancet was replaced after it was used on each patient, the practice no longer meets federal guidelines and poses a risk, the U said.
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text: Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed https://www.eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse Community Forums how can I expand the editor in eclipse? https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/393260/933482/#msg_933482 I want to expand an existing eclipse editor. To do this, I have followed below site www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseEditors/article.html : simple editor example www.vogella.com/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html : simple plugin example I could do well both example and I thought I have to combine those example to do what I want. so I made some combined example with the template: plug-in with a view. but I couldn't see the custom editor in original eclipse editor. I am not sure how to attach the custom editor to the original eclipse editor I couldn't find an example or tutorial for this until now. there was an example for creating simple editor. but I want to extend the original eclipse editor. The attached screenshot is what I want. not in java perspective. it's going to be in a different named perspective. Wonjun Choi,]]> Wonjun Choi 2012-10-05T03:43:42-00:00


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The National Climate Assessment Says We're in Trouble. This Chart Shows Why. (via Moyers & Company)
This animated chart from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences shows the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Note the spike? Measuring CO2 in parts per million (ppm), the chart shows, first, how the amount of the gas…
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Write data to data store
Signal Routing
The Data Store Write block copies the value at its input to the named data store. Each write operation performed by a Data Store Write block writes over the data store, replacing the previous contents.
The data store to which this block writes is determined by the location of the Data Store Memory block or signal object that defines the data store. For more information, see Data Stores and Data Store Memory. The size of the data store is set by the signal object or the Data Store Memory block that defines and initializes the data store. Each Data Store Write block that writes to that data store must write the same amount of data.
More than one Data Store Write block can write to the same data store. However, if two Data Store Write blocks attempt to write to the same data store during the same simulation step, results are unpredictable.
Obtaining correct results from data stores requires ensuring that data store reads and writes occur in the expected order. For details, see Order Data Store Access and Data Store Diagnostics.
You can log the values of a local or global data store data variable for all the steps in a simulation. For details, see Log Data Stores.
The Data Store Write block accepts a real or complex signal of these data types:
Floating point
Built-in integer
Fixed point
The block does not support variable-size signals.
For more information, see Data Types Supported by Simulink.
You can use an array of buses with a Data Store Write block. For details about defining and using an array of buses, see Combine Buses into an Array of Buses.
Specifies the name of the data store to which this block writes data. The adjacent pull-down
list lists the names of Data Store Memory blocks that exist at the same
level in the model as the Data Store Write block or at higher levels. The
pulldown list also includes all
Simulink.Signal objects in
the base and model workspaces. To change the name, select a name from the
pull-down list or enter the name directly in the edit field.
When Simulink® software compiles the model containing this block, Simulink software searches the model upwards from this block's level
for a Data Store Memory block having the specified data store name. If
Simulink does not find such a block, it searches the model workspace
and the MATLAB® workspace for a
Simulink.Signal object
having the same name. If Simulink software finds neither the Data Store Memory block nor the
signal object, it halts the compilation and displays an error. See Symbol Resolution for more
information about the search path.
If Simulink finds a signal object, it creates a hidden
Data Store Memory block at the model's root level having the properties
specified by the signal object and an initial value set to a matrix
of zeros. The dimensions of that matrix are inherited from the
property of the signal object.
This field lists the Data Store Memory block that initialized the store to which this block writes.
This parameter lists all the Data Store Read blocks with the same data store name as this block that are in the same (sub)system or in any subsystem below it in the model hierarchy. Double-click any entry on this list to highlight the block and bring it to the foreground.
Specify the sample time that controls when the block writes
to the data store. A value of
-1 indicates that
the sample time is inherited. See Specify Sample Time for more information.
Use the Element Assignment pane to assign a subset of the bus or matrix elements defined for writing to the associated data store. The Data Store Write block icon reflects the elements that you specify. For details, see Accessing Specific Bus and Matrix Elements.
For bus signals, lists the elements in the associated data store. The list displays the maximum dimensions for each element, in parentheses.
For data stores with a bus data type, you can expand the tree to view the bus elements. For data stores with arrays, you can write the whole data store, or you can assign one or more elements to the whole data store.
You can select an element and then use one of the following approaches:
Click Select>> to display that element (and all its subelements) in the Assigned element(s) list.
Use the Specify element(s) to assign edit box to specify the bus or matrix elements that you want to select for reading. Then click Select>>.
To refresh the display to reflect modifications to the bus or matrix used in the data store, click Refresh.
Enter a MATLAB expression to define the specific element
that you want to write. For example, for a data store named
DSM that
has maximum dimensions of
[3,5], you could enter
expressions such as
DSM(2, 4) or
3], 2) in the edit box. Then click Select>>.
To apply the element selection, click OK.
Displays the elements that you selected for assignment. The Data Store Write block icon displays a port for each element that you specify.
To change the order of bus or matrix elements in the list, select the element in the list and click Up or Down. Changing the order of the elements in the list changes the order of the ports. To remove an element, click Remove.
Data Types
Double | Single | Boolean | Base Integer | Fixed-Point | Enumerated | Bus
Sample Time
Specified in the Sample time parameter
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EVERETT — A 16-year-old mentally ill boy on Thursday made his first court appearance since prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder.
Brad George is accused of bludgeoning his guardian Gina Latshaw while she slept in their south Everett apartment. Latshaw, 37, had been raising the boy since he was a toddler.
Prosecutors allege that George planned the deadly beating and later took a series of steps to hide his involvement. He was arrested Saturday night and allegedly confessed to the Feb. 7 killing. He faces up to 28 years in prison if he is convicted.
George on Thursday appeared in an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles. The teen looked to his attorney for several seconds, seemingly confused, before he quietly pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charge.
Veteran public defender Natalie Tarantino tried to comfort her young client, placing her hand on his back.
Relatives and friends of both the teen and Latshaw were in the courtroom. They became emotional at the sight of the boy in the courtroom, surrounded by corrections officers.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wilson ordered George to remain at Denney Juvenile Justice Center on $500,000 bail.
In keeping with state law, George is charged as an adult because of his age and the seriousness of the allegations.
Tarantino plans to argue that the case belongs in juvenile court. She told Wilson that she intends to file a motion to ask a judge to decide if the case should continue to go forward in adult court.
Trial is scheduled for April 4.
The boy's mental health history is expected to be raised. Court documents show that George was diagnosed with conduct and mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The boy reportedly told detectives that he had stopped taking his medications about a week before the killing.
Latshaw sought treatment for the boy when he was just 5. He has been hospitalized in the past, including one stay in 2010 for hallucinations. During that stay, George was diagnosed with homicidal ideation. He threatened a nurse with a piece of wood he'd pried loose from a chair.
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Ostblockschlampen recently released their newest EP on Crux Records titled Cubic Circle. The EP is comprised of three original tracks and three remixes done by Roby Howler & Sunko, the Rox, and Aerotronic. The work has already received attention from many international DJs and for good reason: techno at its best.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.Dorothea Lange
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspirationSadakichi Hartmann
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.Gene McSweeney
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.Ken Rockwell
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.Ken Rockwell
the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our headsóas an anthology of imagesRick Steves
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good cropAnsel Adams
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.Unknow
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than thatMary Baker Eddy
Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.Larry
Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in betweenGeorge H. Harrison
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lensKarl Heiner
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed foreverGeorge Tice


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Why Linux is Better than Mac (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love apt-get and debuild)
First, I am a Mac user; I am a Linux user, and I was a Linux user before I was a Mac user. I manage two Linux servers, and I run Linux on my desktop.
For my laptop, I bought a high-end Mac almost three years ago. At the time, I had just started using Linux regularly, and was dual-booting my desktop with XP. I was maintaining a Linux Samba Server (for a very small office), and I wanted something with Bash and X11 without running cygwin.
I wanted everything on my laptop to "just work" without running into the issues good laptops have had running Linux at the time. I was suduced by iTunes and the cool ads, and I wanted to run World of Warcraft without dual booting (in the cold, dark days when Wine didn't work as well for games).
I spent $2000 on a laptop, and I must say I have been quite pleased… until today.
I have resolved to make (and always make) everyone I give "free" support to (friends, family) buy a Mac or Linux box, mostly because I don't want to hear the phrase, "I think I have a Virus" ever again! Usually they don't – what they have is a lousy Windows driver.
However, if you know what you are doing, Macs Stink! This is really true if you are into open source software, because it is almost impossible to compile someone else's code on a Mac, even if they wrote it for Mac.
For example, I found a bug in FreeOrion while I was playing it on my MacBook Pro. I looked at the revision logs, and sure enough someone had fixed it. I didn't want to completely update to the Trunk, because I was concerned new features would add new bugs. All I wanted to do was play the game.
I downloaded the file with the fix I wanted, and downloaded the FreeOrion source code for the version I was using. I patched the source code with diff, and then opened it up in XCode to compile it.
10 errors.
Ok, so there are library dependencies…
It has taken me three hours to find the various dependencies online and install or compile them for mac. After you find and install them, you have to tell XCode they exist one at a time, where they are, and make sure the version matches EXACTLY with the one the xcode maker was using when he first complied the software. I'm still not done with this process, and honestly don't know if I will ever get it working right (or if it is worth the time).
Compare this to Linux. I use Ubuntu. A year and a half ago, I needed a feature for mod_auth_kerb (a web-server authentication module) that someone had posted a patch for online. I ran
apt-get source mod_auth_kerb to download the source code, patched the file, changed the version number in the deb file, and ran
errors. Ok, so there are library dependencies…
I ran
sudo apt-get build-dep mod_auth_kerb. It installed all of the libraries for me. Then I ran
debuild again and, presto, I had new debs (software packages) ready to be installed with the new feature. The whole process took about 20 minutes, ten of which was spent waiting for the computer to compile or download a dependency.
Did I mention that the Linux example above was the first time I had ever compiled a package from source to make a change? With a process that easy, it certainly wasn't the last. There were instructions on how to do it online – all I had to do was intelligently follow them.
On a Mac, it is easy to do the small things, but once you become a little more savvy, the Mac is harder to use and harder to learn.
Macs have this weird, non-liner learning curve that starts very low and stays shallow for a while, but then gets "super-steep" – it is very difficult to be in the tech-savvy but non-pro middle ground.
Linux's learning curve starts a little higher – you really have to be able to install your own operating system and brave enough to try (even though I think it was Jono Bacon who once said, "you can stick an Ubuntu CD upside down in a 5&1/4 inch disk drive and it will install").
However, Linux gives you a much smoother transition from novice to native, with very helpful people to guide you on the way. You don't even notice how much you have learned about software (without books, and without some ridged corporate dictated curriculum) until someone you are talking to (not from the Linux world – usually a Windows IT guy) says, "You mean you modified and compiled your own software? You know how to program C – I could never (read: don't want to) learn how to do that… I'll just stick to Windows."
Wait, I'm not a programmer – I just modified someone else's program – it took all of twenty minutes!
I am tired of people telling me that Linux is, "Of the programmers, by the programmers, for the programmers". No it isn't.
It also isn't like commercial software, which is "Of the 'design department', by programmers, for Stupid People" or "of the MBAs, by the programmers, for the IT staff".
Linux is "Of the User, By the User, For the User". It doesn't assume you already know everything (or anything) – it only assumes that you are a human, and as such, you are capable of learning.
In Linux, moving from novice to expert is a natural progression, without the sharp, ridged lines that separate different types of "Power Users" (IT Staff, Designer, Web Manager, Developer, Home "Enthusiast") in Windows or Mac. This is not because you must learn all about your computer to use Linux, but because you can learn a little bit more about your operating system and use that small, little bit of new knowledge in a meaningful and useful way. You can make changes, starting with small changes, to your Linux, no matter what your interests are.
Sooner or later, some little thing will piss you off, no matter what operating system you are using. In Mac or Windows, you just have to live with it (or shell out big bucks for an entirely new system or piece of software).
In Linux, you can (have legal right and the tools needed) fix it. So you go online and read a little – maybe post your issue to a mailing list and subscribe to one to listen for a reply. Someone sends you a command to run that solves that little issue, and you find yourself looking at a blinking cursor on a black screen for the first time ever (or at least since you installed WINDOWS 3.1). It's not so bad – you start doing little things here and there when it's faster or more convent.
You edit a config file to add an apt repository, or pull open the
smb.conf file, because you want to let your son access one set of files, from his computer, but not another set. You start hosting a blog on your own computer and, while setting it up, learn about firewall rules.
Then you patch a simple piece of software from the command line and write your own BASH script with a
for loop to do a backup a particular way, and write a macro in OpenOffice. You start answering more questions than you ask on the mailing lists, and people start admiring your whatever-fu. Family members (parents, aunts, cousins) start asking you all sorts of computer questions, many dealing with Windows, and you start answering them because you actually do know – not the particular Windows issue, but the networking/hardware/software principal behind the problem.
Then someone says to you, that inevitably fateful day, "Linux is fine for someone like you, but I'm not a programmer."
Someone like me? The first time I touched Linux was in college… as a Political Science major. A Libertarian friend of mine introduced me to it (we did an internet radio show – he was the "techie"). I got my MA in Economics, and fell into IT as a graduate student job: my landlord's IT guy quit while I was in the office paying my rent, and I said, "you know, you can do that with Linux".
The thing I hate about Mac and Windows is that they think you are stupid, or pigeonhole you into a "marketing category" which they then create and sell software to. That is why there is no "easy" way to patch and build software in Mac (or Windows). "Why would you want to?" they ask, "What is the market for that?"
Linux makes it easy to grow, because that is what people do when you don't actively seek to stop them from growing. In Linux, there are wonderful tools that make it easy to fix "that first nagging problem", and a huge community that is willing to give if you are willing to learn and try a little. Users don't start fixing things because they "have to", bugs get fixed and features added in Linux by other people all the time, so just like in Windows and Mac, and you are free to just sit and wait a little. Users start fixing/tweaking things in Linux because they can!
I think all users of any system would prefer to fix at least one little thing themselves rather than submit a feature request/bug report (if they can/know how) and wait for someone else to fix it for them. In Linux, the user can.
Windows is a little better than Mac in this respect. Apple goes to the community and shouts, "Hey look, we are based on an Open Source kernel – want to see Darwin?" That doesn't help anyone, especially someone that isn't already an advanced programmer interested in kernel design.
Windows at least has the tools to write your own macros in MS Office, where you can start out, and then move to the free and easy to use Visual Basic Express when you want to write your first big Application.
That natural path is only there for advanced Excel users, because they are the only people who start wanting to write macros in VBA for that "something that pisses them off". The path is narrow and not very smooth, with people jumping off when the next step is "too big" and outsourcing their desire to the corporate VBA department. And there is a big hump from messing with a VBA macro to writing an application from scratch in VB.NET.
Game modding can be another road for teens running Windows, but that knowledge is focused on interface design. Some games have Python, and that knowledge can progress, but it grows only in one direction – to programming, and not to a general knowledge of Windows, or networking, or operating systems.
(Windows also has so many problems that someone in the family or office will start digging around in the registry when something isn't working – the law of large numbers guarantees at least some progression into "Power Users", simply because the printer isn't working from that computer.)
Windows used to be better – around version 3.1. DOS came with QBASIC, and there were lots of apps you could modify and play with (anyone make the banana explosion bigger in the gorilla program?). You could also modify the
autoexec.bat file and graduate to writing your own batch files to do things. But I was the last year of that generation, and today I turn thirty. When Windows95 started coming pre-installed on every PC, those that grew up with QBASIC and batch were there to program for it, but there were no new generations of natural tinkerers becoming programmers and IT architects to replace them. The new generation came up on Windows9X, and they don't know squat outside of what is taught in their MIS classes.
Microsoft recognizes the need for "natural new blood", and they have responded with free developer tools. But they still don't have a reason for a user to cross into a little programming, or networking, or system design.
Mac doesn't have that at all (the programming bit, not the problems bit, though both apply). Even though they come with a free compiler, BASH, X11, and XCode, all of these things are buried in the "Utilities" section, and there aren't any little programs to play with that jump out at you. They don't get it, and they never will. They are firmly convinced, as a company and culture, that "we know what's best for the customer and we always will". And, to their credit, they have made a ton of money with that attitude.
But the programmers going to Mac are doing it for one reason – money. People learn XCode when they get (or are expecting to get) paid to do it. Mac programmers learn from Linux or Windows.
And there it is – the Mac tools are hostile to new users and discourage them from ever becoming something more. Linux is inviting to intelligent people, offering smooth movement up the knowledge ladder with marginal increases that people take because they want to do some small little thing – they want fix something, and they can.
Linux is a lifelong learning journey which you can take at your own speed, choose your own path, and rest when you want to. And, there are always friendly fellow travelers – people who have been there before and are willing to point you in the right direction.
So tell your mom to get a Mac (so you don't have to fix it all the time, and she can have her iTunes), but buy your daughter a Linux machine, and let her learn and love the learning.


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Review by Salex
Living in San Francisco, I spend a great deal of my daily life on public transit, so I've always got my headphones on listening to tunes. Riding on Muni can be an interesting adventure in and of itself, and finding the perfect "soundtrack" can be key in whether or not the experience will be tolerable, let alone even enjoyable. The evening I got "The Search Engine" the K train was packed with a particularly strange menagerie of characters, and listening to this record actually made the time quite interesting. Between the loud teenagers and crazy crack-head banter while listening to these tracks had me covering my face, because the samples ironically fit perfectly with what was happening around me, and I was having a difficult time refraining from laughing hysterically. This is the first full-length release from the DJ Food series, comprised of previously released material from other EP's which I liked a lot, and I have to say, I really enjoy them even more all together. Strictly Kev is very skilled at pumping beats full of unique music, and spoken word samples. I have been listening to this record over and over, and mixing tracks into my DJ sets ever since I got it. The collaborations with Matt Johnson, Natural Self, DJ, J.G. Thirlwell, and 2econd Class Citizen add to the diversity of sounds and genres on "The Search Engine".
Genres: Hip Hop, RPM, Funk
For Fans of: DJ Shadow, Kid Koala
Track Picks:
# 2 Giant featuring Matt Johnson
# 5 Sentinel (Shadown Guard) featuring DK
# 6 Prey featuring J.G. Thirwell
# 7 In Orbit Every Monday
# 10 Magpie Music featuring 2econd Class Citizen
# 11 A Trick of the Ear


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Rakeim Regan, 20, appeared at court in Leeds charged with the murder of the 53-year-old, who was stabbed to death on Sunday.
Dressed in a grey sweatshirt and blue track suit bottoms, Regan looked disorientated as he stood before magistrates mumbling and fidgeting.
He spoke only to confirm his name and address during the five-minute hearing.
Regan was remanded to June 11 when he will appear at Leeds Crown Court. He is also accused of wounding with intent following the stabbing of a railway worker at Leeds station on Sunday.
Grahame Stowe, defending, made no application for bail.
Following the news of Mrs Regan's death, tributes poured in from friends, family, politicians and campaign groups.
Mrs Regan had campaigned against guns and violent crime since her son, Danny, was shot dead in St Helens, Merseyside, in December 2002.
She founded her own organisation, Mothers Against Violence, in Leeds and visited schools giving talks about the dangers and consequences of getting involved in crime and carrying weapons.
The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith led the tributes from politicians, saying she was "shocked and saddened" about Mrs Regan's death.
"I had met Pat on several occasions and have been greatly impressed with her dedication to tackling gun crime," she said.
"Her death is a great loss."
Friends and family held a candle-lit vigil close to the scene of her death.


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Effective SEO Shift for Long Term Success!
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We the people, who own a business and believe in online presence, are making a big Mistake!
Aren't we still depending on the old SEO Practices? We update the content on our websites and blogs, but follow the same rules as in 2010 or so – Yes or no? Ahhh, we know the answer very well, right? It's high time to make a Shift in our SEO, search and Social practices.
For long term business and online success we need to have more effective and sustainable SEO as the web has changed, evolved and getting better and SMARTER day by day!
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Happy surfing/searching! 🙂


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My kitchen giveaway has turned into a kitchen/kitchen organization giveaway, which is perfect for National Get Organized Month!
This is the last heads up for the giveaway next week. Shelf Reliance will be giving away their Cansolidator Pantry to 3 different winners! Since we got back from our holiday vacation, I've also been really focused on getting more food storage, and this pantry organization product from Shelf Reliance has been great.
Because I'm really focusing this year on building up some food storage for our family, I will be sharing with you some great things I've learned. I just learned this week how to preserve cheese and it's really easy, so I'll be writing a little tutorial soon so you can learn how and do it yourself.
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lol of course he is bullshitting us. He has not seen it I can assure you.
29 is approaching , be patience And remember ! TF3 is NOT the end of the franchise in cinemas and from 2007 was the big start ! The end will never come i think and we all hope so
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Mirage look wicked badass
could you send me the full sized image? I really love t.
where did you get your sentinel prime avatar?
I known right it doesn't get more badass then that but when hear that soundtrack HOLY SHIT best trailer soundtrack ever.
can't stop watching the trailer TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially that soundtrack.
Well fingers cross hopefully we won't see a railgun or a super weapon in this movie just let the bots kill him.
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July 24, 2013
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The identification of a single gene critical for yield of the oil palm, a crop that accounts for nearly half of world-wide edible vegetable oil, is reported along with the plant's genomic sequence in a set of papers published online July 24, 2013 ahead of print in Nature. The findings have implications for enhancing the future production and sustainability of palm oil, including a reduction in the pressure this productive tropical crop exerts on the footprint of wild rainforests. The work was authored by investigators from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics."Our team identified an oil yield-related gene called Shell and discovered mutations in this gene that explain the single most important economic trait of the oil palm: how the thickness of its shell correlates to fruit size and oil yield. This discovery may help balance the competing interests of meeting increasing world-wide demand for edible oil and biofuels on the one hand, and of rainforest conservation on the other," notes author Rajinder Singh, Ph.D., Head of the Genomics Unit of the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, MPOB.
The African and S. American oil palms, Elaeis guineensis and Elaeis oleifera, produce palm oil and together account for 45 percent of the edible vegetable oil worldwide. The new research identified the gene, Shell, responsible for the three known shell forms: dura (thick), pisifera (shell-less) and tenera (thin), a hybrid between dura and pisifera palms. Tenera palms contain one mutant and one normal Shell allele, an optimum combination which results in 30 percent more oil per land area than dura palms.
Until now the mapping of Shell has been extremely challenging because of the plant's large genome and long generation times as well as the difficulty in typing the widely distributed experimental oil palm populations.
The discovery of the Shell gene and its two naturally occurring mutations highlights new molecular strategies to readily identify those seeds or plantlets which will become high yielding palms before they are introduced into plantations, the authors note.
For example, seed producers and plantation owners can now use the genetic marker for the Shell gene to distinguish the three fruit forms in seeds and seedlings long before they are field-planted. Currently, it can take six years to identify whether an oil palm plantlet is of the desired shell type. The genetic marker will also be an important quality control tool in commercial seed production as up to 10 percent of plants may be the low yielding dura form due to uncontrollable wind and insect pollination.
"Accurate genotyping for enhanced oil yields will optimize and help stabilize the acreage devoted to oil palm plantations, providing an opportunity for the conservation of rainforests," says primary author Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator and Professor of plant genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
"As the second largest producer of palm oil in the world, Malaysia has a responsibility to make advancements that will improve the sustainability of oil palm agriculture, while improving yields for growers. The genome mapping of the two oil palm species will pave the way for many more breakthroughs. Together, this will help meet the increasing global demand for food and biofuels worldwide while simultaneously preserving wild lands," said Datuk Dr. Choo Yuen May, Director General of MPOB, which funded and led the research reported in both papers.
Over five decades, MPOB has amassed more than 100,000 wild oil palm plants. The investigators used this collection, along with carefully designed genetic crosses to identify the Shell gene and its two mutations.
The researchers, as reported in a second paper in Nature, also mapped the genomes of both oil palm species. "The oil palm genomes are a rich resource for palm breeders, geneticists and evolutionary biologists alike and will facilitate future identification of genes responsible for important yield and quality traits such as fruit color, disease resistance and height," explains primary author Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, PhD, who heads the Oil Palm Genome Program and is the Director of MPOB's Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre.
One of the reported maps is the 1.8 gigabase sequence of the E. guineensis African oil palm, tallying nearly 35,000 genes, including the full set of oil biosynthesis genes and other transcriptional regulators highly expressed in the oil-rich palm fruit. The researchers also created a draft sequence of the South American oil palm E. oleifera. Both palm species are in the Arecaceae family of flowering plants, which dates via fossils to the Cretaceous period, an estimated 140 to 200 million years ago. The investigators' comparison of the two maps enabled them to estimate that the oil palm species diverged at the old world- new world split.


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A couple of nights ago I was laying on the floor, on my face at Resting Place House of Prayer in New Jersey ( lots of Nyack College students and ATS students visit this place). And I was crying. I was crying over the fact that God is a high and lofty God. He is unapproachable light. His power could crush the universe. I was saddened by this amazing truth, because I realized that this same unapproachable God, is my Father and as much as I would want to approach Him, hug Him, run and sit on His lap in the throne room one day, I can't.
It's safe to say that my sentiment moved God's heart. And instantly I was overwhelmed by a deep sense of love and longing, which were not my own. I felt the affections of this powerful God towards me. I felt a love that saw all of my dirt, all of my sin, all of my mistakes, all of my past, present and future failures but loved me the same. I felt this love wrap around me like a tight, strong, passion-filled hug.
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A few months ago, I attended a fabulous Marathi show called Sangeet Bari that spoke about a little-known, yet widely prevalent, subculture of traditional singers and dancers in Maharashtra who perform only at private gatherings.
A few months ago, I attended a fabulous Marathi show called Sangeet Bari that spoke about a little-known, yet widely prevalent, subculture of traditional singers and dancers in Maharashtra who perform only at private gatherings. It gave me a glimpse into the dancing halls of dancing girls, popularly known as 'nautch girls', would have been, before they were termed dirty, condemned by British colonisers and many puritan Hindus in the 19th and 20th century. It was in these private performing spaces that the arts flourished in India: Where song and dance was cultivated, way before the modern classification of folk, popular and classical. This was the world of the 'nat', the performer, a special kind: not one who was attached to a temple, not one who sought audiences like a migrant performer, but one who got audiences to seek him/her out. During the performance, the Sangit Bari performer said, "But we don't have audiences. We have customers!" And with that one sentence, I realised she was revealing one of the deepest secrets of Natya-Shastra, the Indian theory of performing arts that makes Indian performance art rather unique. She revealed the two-way relationship between the performer and audience, which is not just sensory, emotional or intellectual, but also commercial.
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I have noticed that a Western classical music or dance performance, the presence or absence of quality of audience makes no difference to the quality of the performance. It is 'one way'. But in an Indian classical music and dance performance, the artiste blooms as the audience responds to the performance. The artiste churns rasa (aesthetic juice) in the senses and the heart of the audience through the performance. She offers bhoga (food) to satisfy his craving. His attention and adulation contributes to the quality of the performance. Finally, he 'burps' in satisfaction. Then he pays her with appreciation, adulation, praise, and of course, money. A 'two-way' relationship is thus concluded.
The word 'customer' bothers us. When a dancing girl says 'customer', we automatically assume that she is a prostitute. An artiste can have audiences, not customer. An artiste strikes a commercial transaction with buyers, but somehow art is not seen as 'consumption' for a 'customer'. Art is made ethereal by differentiating 'commercial art' from 'pure art'. This is an outcome of Puritanism, a mixture of Victorian as well as Buddhist/Jain/Hindu monastic values, where money is seen as bad, a corrupting influence. Even worse is the idea that pleasure can be part of transactions.
Yet, pleasure is also a commodity that can be sold in the market. The performer exists to satisfy sensory, emotional, intellectual, and even physical, cravings of the audience. Which hunger is appropriate hunger? The performer not only satisfies hunger, but is also obliged to refine the taste of the consumer. Thus there are 'low' performers, who only give what the audience wants. There are 'high' performers, who also uplift the audience, making them crave not just more, but better quality. But how does the performer survive? Through payment! Patronage. Before the British introduced 'tickets' and the Americans introduced 'sponsorship', there was reward (bakshish), in exchange for a satisfactory artistic meal.
The principle of exchange, the completion of the circular loop, the two-way relationship, is also found in the rituals of yagna and puja. In yagna, the devata is invoked and given food to the chant of 'svaha' and the yajaman expects wish fulfillment to the chant of 'tathastu'. In puja, the devotee offers bhoga and expects the deity to give prasada. Likewise on stage, the performer needs to satisfy the customer to survive. The artiste is expected to survive somehow, thrive even, despite the dissatisfaction of the audience.
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