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The term refrigerator mother was coined in the 1940s as a label for mothers of autistic children. These mothers were often blamed for their children's atypical behaviors, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation.
The 'refrigerator mother' label was based on the assumption, now discredited among a majority of medical professionals, that autistic behaviors stem from the emotional frigidity of the children's mothers. As a result, many mothers of autistic children suffered from blame, guilt, and self-doubt from the 1950s throughout the 1970s and beyond, when the prevailing medical belief that autism resulted from inadequate parenting was widely assumed to be correct.
Origins of 'refrigerator mother' theoryEdit
Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and other mental health professionals championed the notion that autism was the product of mothers who were cold, distant and rejecting, thus deprived of the chance to 'bond properly'. The theory was embraced by the medical establishment and went largely unchallenged into the mid-1960s, but its effects have lingered into the 21st century.
As early as 1943, Leo Kanner, who first identified autism, called attention to what appeared to him as a lack of parental warmth and attachment among the mothers of autistic children. In a 1949 paper, he suggested autism may be related to a "genuine lack of maternal warmth." In a 1960 Time magazine interview, Kanner bluntly described such mothers as "just happening to defrost enough to produce a child."
Although Kanner was instrumental in framing the 'refrigerator mother' theory, it was Bruno Bettelheim, a University of Chicago professor and child development specialist, who facilitated its widespread acceptance by the public and the medical establishment cognoscenti in the 1950s and 1960s. Many articles and books published in that era blamed autism on a maternal lack of affection, but by 1964, Bernard Rimland, a psychologist with an autistic son, published a book that signaled the emergence of a rational counter to the established misconceptions about the causes of autism. His book, Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, attacked the 'Refrigerator Mother' hypothesis directly.
Soon afterwards, Bettelheim wrote The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self, in which he compared autism to being a prisoner in a concentration camp, "The difference between the plight of prisoners in a concentration camp and the conditions which lead to autism and schizophrenia in children is, of course, that the child has never had a previous chance to develop much of a personality." Some authority was granted to this as well because Bettelheim had himself been interned at Dachau during World War II. The book was immensely popular and Bettelheim became a leading public figure on autism until his death, when it was revealed that his claims for success were greatly inflated if not wholly fabricated, and that Bettelheim himself had been involved in various cases of violent actions towards children in his clinic.[How to reference and link to summary or text]
In 1969, Kanner addressed the 'refrigerator mother' issue at the first annual meeting of what is now the Autism Society of America, stating "From the very first publication until the last, I spoke of this condition in no uncertain terms as 'innate.' But because I described some of the characteristics of the parents as persons, I was misquoted often as having said that 'it is all the parents' fault'." In reality, this was somewhat a whitewashing of his own history—in many of his articles Kanner does explicitly and clearly blame autism on parental behavior—but the renunciation of the idea by the person who originated it was seen as a decisive blow in any event.
Other notable psychiatristsEdit
For Silvano Arieti, who wrote his major works from the 1950s through the 70s, the terms autistic thought and what he called paleologic thought are apparently the same phenomenon. Paleologic thought is a characteristic in both present-day schizophrenics and primitive men, a type of thinking that has its foundations in non-Aristotelian logic. An autistic child speaks of himself as "you" and not infrequently of the mother as "I." The "you" remains a "you" and is not transformed into "I".[1]
For Margaret Mahler and her colleagues, autism is a defense of children who cannot experience the mother as the living primary-object. According to them, autism is an attempt at dedifferentiation and deanimation.[2] The symbiotic autistic syndrome used to be called the "Mahler syndrome" because Mahler first described it: The child is unable to differentiate from the mother.
Arieti warned that an autistic tendency is a sign of a kind of disorder in the process of socialization, and that when autistic expressions appear it should be assumed that there is a sort of difficulty between the child and his parents, especially the schizogenic mother. Children who use autistic expressions, Arieti observes, are children who cannot bond socially.
In Interpretation of Schizophrenia Arieti maintained that for a normal process of socialization, it is necessary for the parent-child relations to be normal. Loving or non-anxiety parental attitudes favor socialization. Arieti not only maintained that the parent-child relations are the first social act and the major drive of socialization, but also a stimulus to either accept or reject society. The child's self in this view is a reflection of the sentiments, thoughts, and attitudes of the parents toward the child. Autistic children show an extreme socializing disorder and do not want any sort of relationship with people. They "eliminate" people from their consciousness. For Arieti the fear of the parents is extended to other adults: a tendency to cut off communication with human beings.
New explanations: filling a theoretical voidEdit
There are many contenders to replace the 'refrigerator mother' theory. After the 'refrigerator mother' theory gradually lost credibility within the medical community, autism research has focused primarily on establishing a genetic cause for autistic spectrum disorders. A twin study by Folstein and Rutter in 1977 found much higher concordance for autism in identical twins compared to fraternal twins.
However, one controversial new theory is bringing renewed life to Kanner's initial observations about the parents of autistic children. It derives from the observation that people with superior technical ability, but poor social skills, are meeting and mixing genes in high-tech enclaves, producing offspring susceptible to disorders whose traits mirror our computerized culture. Researchers have noted parents in fields such as engineering and computer science, with their particular talents and quirks, may have a greater chance of having children with autism or its high-intellect variant, Asperger's Syndrome. Now, this link is becoming a matter of public debate, resonating through the high tech corridors of Silicon Valley, New Jersey, Ottawa and the on- and off-line networks of Cambridge, Dublin and Boston's Route 128. This has been referred to as 'geek syndrome'. But there is no evidence that high incidence of autism among 'geeks' is due to their deficient parenting skills. A much more likely explanation is based on genetics; in fact, some 'geeks' clearly display a broader autistic phenotype, and many of them could even be undiagnosed high-functioning autistics.
Medical authorities, while continuing to focus on possible genetic vulnerabilities to autism since abandoning the long-held notion of refrigerator mothers, generally attribute the staggering increase of autism diagnoses to changes in diagnostic criteria and a growing awareness of the disorder.
Bernard Rimland was among the first healthcare professionals to articulate the premise that vaccines may have been the principle cause of autism, stirring controversy as a result. Critics of more recent environmental trigger theories have suggested widespread concerns about vaccines as the likely environmental triggers are simply hoaxes fostered by lawyers anxious to profit from litigation, and that such theories promote and prey upon feelings of guilt among parents, much as the discredited refrigerator mother theory fostered guilt among mothers decades ago.[1]
Aftermath: escalating controversyEdit
A growing number of parents, and a limited number of healthcare experts, reject the notion that autism is strictly an innate genetic disorder, noting there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic. Instead, parents seeking alternative explanations often link vaccines to the onset of autism, among a variety of other possible environmental causes.
Not satisfied with explanations offered by medical authorities, a number of parent led advocacy groups have sprung up seeking better explanations for the causes of autism. Some are loosely allied with the medical establishment, including the National Alliance for Autism Research and the M.I.N.D. Institute. Some advocacy groups, including Safe Minds, Generation Rescue and the Autism Research Institute (founded by Rimland), have stirred controversy by openly questioning the conclusions of medical authorities, calling for more extensive research examining possible environmental triggers, particularly vaccines and mercury exposure.
In response to demands for research into possible environmental causes from parents and these controversial advocacy groups, it has been suggested vaccine theories simply promote and prey upon feelings of guilt among parents, much as the discredited refrigerator mother theory fostered guilt among mothers decades ago.[2] Most observers, meanwhile, are mystified by the conflicting explanations for the explosion in autism diagnoses.
Persistence of the theoryEdit
According to Peter Breggin's Toxic Psychiatry, the psychogenic theory of autism was abandoned for political pressure from parents' organizations, not for scientific reasons. For example, some case reports have shown that profound institutional privation can result in quasi-autistic symptoms.[3] Clinician Frances Tustin devoted her life to the theory. She wrote:
One must note that autism is one of a number of children's neurological disorders of psychogenic nature, i.e., caused by abusive and traumatic treatment of infants.… There is persistent denial by American society of the causes of damage to millions of children who are thus traumatized and brain damaged as a consequence of cruel treatment by parents who are otherwise too busy to love and care for their babies.[4]
Alice Miller, one of the best-known authors of the consequences of child abuse, has maintained that autism is psychogenic, and that fear of the truth about child abuse is the leitmotif of nearly all forms of autistic therapy known to her. When Miller visited several autism therapy centers in the United States, it became apparent to her that the stories of children "inspired fear in both doctors and mothers alike":
I spent a day observing what happened to the group. I also studied close-ups of children on video. What became clearer and clearer as the day went on was that all these children had a serious history of suffering behind them. This, however, was never referred to.… In my conversations with the therapists and mothers, I inquired about the life stories of individual children. The facts confirmed my hunch. No one, however, was willing to take these facts seriously.[5]
Like Arieti and Tustin, Miller believes that only empathetic parental attitudes lead to the complete blossoming of the child's personality.
The refrigerator mother theory, widely discarded in the United States, still has some support in Europe and is largely believed in South Korea to be the cause of autism.[6]
Modern alternatives Edit
The modern consensus is that autism has a strong genetic basis, although the genetics of autism are complex and are not well understood.[7] Although recent studies have indicated that maternal warmth, praise, and quality of relationship are associated with reductions of behavior problems in adolescents and adults with autism, and that maternal criticisms are associated with maladaptive behaviors and symptoms, these ideas are distinct from the refrigerator mother hypothesis.[8]
See alsoEdit
See alsoEdit
- For a (very critical) discussion of the history of the "refrigerator mother" theory, see Edward Dolnick, Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), chapters 10-13.
External linksEdit
- AutismConnect.org - '"Refrigerator Mother" Tosh Must Go Into Cold Storage' Adam Feinstein (editor) Autism Connect
- Autism-Watch.org - 'The "Refrigerator Mother" Hypothesis of Autism' James R. Laidler, MD
- ExpressHealthCareMgmt.com - 'Positive trends in the treatment of autism', Dr. N.P. Karthikeyen, Subathra Jeyaram
- FanLight.com - 'Refrigerator Mothers', David Simpson, J.J. Hanley, Gordon Quinn
- PBS.org - 'P.O.V.: Refrigerator Mothers'
- WashingtonPost.com - 'Refrigerator Mothers: With Mary Flanagan, June Francis and Maria Mombille' (July 17, 2002)
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How do you let go? I am training my friend's gelding, and for the most part it has been a rewarding experience. But at this point I almost view it as a rescue. This was a mishandled horse, who was afraid of having his feet touched and ambles around without using his brain. He wasn't allowed to. I've gotten in his head, and finally know what he is thinking, and boy, was I delighted to find a pretty decent horse. He still is flaky by nature, but he is a natural born follower and wants to please. Not only does he think now, he also looks much better. Since being here he's had his feet trimmed twice, and been wormed twice. (He hadn't had his feet trimmed since being a weanling, so years, and when that happened it was fairly traumatic.) I love him, but he isn't the kind of horse I want. My horses are all notoriously difficult due to being so smart and wanting to test their boundaries. My gelding is the worst of them all, but that is why I love him. They have so much potential. Get them working with you, and it is a dream. It isn't really a matter of me wanting to keep him, it is more of me not wanting him to go back to being neglected. I visited my friend the other day, and all three of her horses were in pretty rough shape. Two of them are 20+ and just racks of bones, and one is in her late teens and has a breathing disorder. (You can hear it from quite a distance away.) I understand money is tight for them, but that is when you get rid of horses. They've had all their horses as pets, for a very long time. I think my main motivation for training her horse was to give him a chance if they had to sell him. But their is a worse alternative - them keeping him even though they can't afford it. I would never want to have a horse in that environment if I could prevent it. When it comes down to it, I will send him back. I'm not going to be that way, and I certainly can't afford to keep him forever on a whim. He was given to them for free because he was a paint without any color. If he had color, he'd probably be a stud, which is disturbing to me considering his typical halter build. We both like horses, but to her they are just animals in her backyard that she has mild interest, to me, they are what my word revolves around. (Similar to my interest in chickens; they are there, I love them, and I have big plans for them, but yet have to train any of them to do tricks.) Her parents don't help much, and don't get the vet out. My parents are certainly more understanding, and I know my horses better than anyone. I know when something is wrong, and usually what it is. If I don't, I know what isn't characteristic for my animals and my parents trust that it is serious enough the vet needs to come. They don't have a vet, or a farrier. The gelding got his shots before coming over, and that was the only vet out for the horses in years. To add to it all, the thin, geriatric horses are being limited on food. I'm sorry for ranting, but it bothers me when people so blatantly ignore problems that are right in front of their noses. They are accustomed to having horses, whether they care for them or not. I love these people, but they are stubborn and believe what they will. I do my best to teach my friend more and more with every lesson, and she has started listening to me since she has seen what I can get that horse to do. She has started to get her own money to pay for some stuff, but she will not be able to care for four horses on her own. Right now we pay for this horse completely, which we did willingly. Perhaps when she gets a job I could propose she continue to board him here on a rate enough to pay for hay; that way she could ride him more often when the time comes? |
When a situation has deteriorated to the point where the animals are emaciated and they aren't getting even basic care, sh** needs to change. Like, yesterday. Can you sit them down and have a heart-to-heart with them? Make them understand that, as their friend, you're very concerned about the shape their animals are in and you're worried that they're overwhelmed. Give the overall impression that you're only trying to help them and that you're not there to judge. Maybe try to talk them into parting with some horses and offer to help find homes for them. If that don't work, it's time to stop being nice. Those animals can't call for help. Alert the Humane Society or whatever animal control you have in the area. Your friends don't have to know who reported them. I know that's probably the last thing you want to do and it's easier said than done, but you gotta do what you gotta do. When it comes down to it, the animals' welfare is more important than your friends' feelings. PS, stubborn ignorance does not excuse them. PPS, a big round of applause to you for helping them as much as you already have. :thumbsup: |
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It's worse than I thought Yesterday I got my husband to video me riding, as I haven't had a lesson in over six years nor had any videos taken since I was showing, and that was in 2002. From what I could feel, the horse has been going pretty well and has felt nice and balanced and engaged. The video evidence I now have indicates otherwise. It was pants. Dammit. My feel and reality do not seem to be the same thing, not to mention that my eq is fairly atrocious. I don't think it's the best I've ridden, as I rushed her through the warmup as husband was standing around looking a bit bored and I was feeling guilty for roping him into this, and I was a bit stiff as we had gone to the barn straight after rock climbing at a local crag. Still, disappointed. Not looking for advice, really, just moaning. Hubby isn't horsey so he doesn't quite understand, and I don't have any barn friends these days with whom I can kvetch. |
730 Attachment(s) Be nice to yourself. There's always ways to improve.. doesn't mean you suck. Horses begin to misbehave when their riders suck.. so I doubt you do missy! Maybe not olympian level but not too bad either. I loathe that feeling where non horsey people begin to slip into boredom. Breaks my heart they cannot experience the joy and entrancement that we do. |
That or I have a very patient horse! Hubby's not bad for a non-horseperson. He likes grooming her and playing with her on the ground. He just gets bored watching me ride. |
730 Attachment(s) Noo haha! That's good.. my mom refuses to help groom or watch much. Just no interest. You should post the video! |
I tel that myself whenever I see some pictures of me riding... |
I promise we'll be nice! I think everyone understands that feeling. Its hard when you ride on your own, and thats why getting lessons as regularly as possible is really important, it just straightens you out and points you back in the right direction. Sometimes I'll be riding and think it feels really good, then look back at the video and feel mortified! Usually run to my coach at those points screaming HELP ME I SUCK!!!!! |
It's really quite a humiliating video. Doesn't make me look like I know what I'm doing at all. I have been doing dressage for over fifteen years, taken thousands of lessons (just not in the last six years), I should be better at it than I am. |
Oh god, I thought I was the only one. I haven't taken lessons in years, I felt balanced and perfect, my horses act fine, but looking at pictures and videos, OH GOD!!! >_<; |
384 Attachment(s) I love when someone videos me & I see how bad I look, but I also see where I want I need to work on. My instructor will take vids of me at shows, I am hoping the next show's vid will be better than the last one. I will post that one, if you post yours? Deal:wink::?: |
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Wow: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Review by Cruisejames
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Destination: Cruise to Nowhere
Embarkation: Rome (Civitavecchia)
From the moment you walk onto the Silhoutte and are met with a glass of fizz from a white gloved waiter you know you are going to be truly pampered.
We were lucky enough to be staying in a balcony cabin on deck 6. The cabin itself was beautifully decorated in soft tones with striking artwork and accents of red.
The cabin consisted of a large sofa, wardrobe with plenty of hanging space and lots of hangers, dressing table with powerful hairdryer under it in a draw, large flat screen TV, mini bar, safe, coffee table, over bed storage, lots of lighting and a full length mirror.
The bathroom has a large corner glass enclosed shower cubical with a great hot powerful shower and lots of storage.
After checking in we went around the ship to look at all the amazing facilities this floating resort has to offer and below is an overview of the different areas on the Ship.
The Atrium
This truly More is the heart of the ship with an amazing soring 11 deck high Atrium the full size living tree suspended 33 decks above the lobby. There are a bank of glass elevators zooming up and down the atrium. The area is like the rest of the ship truly awe inspiring, understated elegance.
Crush and the Martini Bar
This was the place to head after dinner to watch the world go by. The area was again beautifully decorated in what I would call an Ice Palace theme with whites, blues and silvers being the main colours used. The Martini bar itself is ice topped and located next to the walk way. Behind the bar are some alcoves which had comfy sofas and lounge chairs and the Crush section was a high tabled are with an ice ridge down the centre for you to put in a bottle of your favourite tipple. This area was my favourite bar on the ship.
Cellar Masters
This is something I have never seen before. The wine bar reminded me of a country house Library with comfortable sofas, subtle lighting and attentive staff. The wine selection here is amazing and I'm sure if your a wine drinker many a happy hour would be spent in this lounge.
Michaels Lounge
This area reminded me of a gentleman's club with high back chairs around fireplaces decorated in dark woods. This was a lovely bar for an after dinner drink.
Fortunes Casino
This was a nice size casino big enough to have all the facilities you would expect from a modern cruise ship casino. The area was unobtrusive on the rest of the ship.
This was a great spot to end your night. The night club was one of the hottest at sea with a spectacular DJ box. The feel was very modern and so was the decor with lots of private areas, amazing lighting and a large dance floor that spilled out into the small Atrium next to it.
Sky Lounge
With its floor to ceiling windows on three sides this place was light and airy during the day and packed and happening on a night. This was the 2nd nightclub venue on the ship with everything from live music to Karaoke. The seats were all set up in small groups perfect for going with friends or for making them. The decor in here was ultra modern with white furnishings.
The Lawn Club
This area was a real surprise to me. When I read the brochure I thought it would just be a waste of space gimmick but I was pleasantly surprised this was my favourite outdoor space on the ship. Curling up with a good book in this area would be spectacular in one of the over-sized chairs or on a picnic blanket. This area also housed the Lawn Club Club (an area to get involved and you can even grill your own meal) and the Porch an area for light breakfast and during the day they had a great selection of paninis etc. Just behind the lawn club is the sunset bar which is also outdoors but with great aft views.
Adult only Indoor pool
This area was a great retreat whilst there were very few kids on our sailing I bet when the ship is busy with kids this would be a welcome retreat. The area was large and airy with a large pool and two whirpools/ hot tubs. The main focus of this area is a large waterfall effect water feature on the main wall. The Aqua Spa cafe was also in this area and seemed very popular.
Main Pool Area
This was very large with comfortable padded loungers and very attentive staff we were offered Ice cold towels and sorbet several times around the pool to freshen up and bar service was attentive but un-obtrusive. My only criticism of the entire ship is that the sun loungers were to close together for me but it certainly wouldn't put me off sailing on her again.
Speciality Dinning
Celebrity really has outdone itself on the speciality (extra charge) dinning. Unfortunately apart from attending a tasting at the different venues we didn't get the opportunity to try the full experience but from the tasting I know I would definitely dine at these on my next cruise. The speciality dinning consisted of -
Qsine - modern venue where you use I-pads to order and create you food
Tuscan Grill - Italian steak house with great aft views very cosy
Bistro on 5 - Light bites and crepes in a lovely venue
Cafe al Bacio - Home made ice cream and cakes yum
Murano - High class European dinning experience menu looked amazing
Blu - This is healthy bites for Aqua class passengers only. I loved the feel of this restaurant and wished I was in an Aqua Class cabin.
The ocean view cafe is the main buffet on this ship we ate lunch here every day and were really surprised with the quality and variety of food on offer. There was a huge array of stations, Pasta, Pizza, Grilled Chicken and Meats, Salads, Stir-frys, Indian foods, Breads, Cheeses, Desserts, home made ice cream plus so much more to mention.
The buffet was also open late at night for those midnight munchies
Main Dinning Room
We had dinner here every night the food and service was very good and the decor was modern but welcoming and that amazing wine tower was truly a talking point on our table.
In Summary
There are so many facilities on this ship that I can not mention everything I have seen but as I am sure you can tell I was incredible impressed. I have cruised ten times this being my first Celebrity experience and I can honestly say that this has been my best cruise ship experience.
This ship is truly spectacular and really lived up to all the hype I had heard and read about the ship and its planned facilities. It was so good we are looking to book our next Celebrity Cruise already.
This ship is very large but has been built and furnished in such a style that it never feels crowded and there are lots of little corners and bars to escape into. Less
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Netflix is a legitimate streaming movie service that I use daily, but I've been unimpressed with its selection of indie movies, which is why I've been seriously taking a look at Fandor. This service seems to be the best online destination for watching and sharing indie and foreign films and now it has a Roku channel. Apparently, there is an iPad app in the works too. More on that in the coming weeks.
Fandor announced this week that its channel is available immediately on Roku streaming players. The Fandor channel on Roku is another way for fans of the genre to discover a long list of the world's best movies from its curated collection of independent narrative and documentary films. Better yet, Roku owners new to Fandor get a free unlimited seven-day pass to try out the streaming service.
For existing Fandor users, the subscription is still $10 a month for access to more than 2,500 indie films. This is exciting news for indie and mainstream film fans as Fandor, until now, has been available only via a web browser. This marks a welcome step in bringing access to the service to other devices we're already used to such as the Roku and as mentioned above, soon the iPad.
"Fandor connects movie lovers with thought-provoking entertainment, helping them discover hidden gems and share them with their friends," said Fandor founder and CEO Dan Aronson. "Fandor on Roku allows members to easily watch on their TVs, providing them with another way to enjoy these great films."
The new Roku channel will allow users to watch the large library with ad-free viewing on TV, watch featured, popular and recently added films as well as manage their film queue. Another great aspect of the service is that Fandor is committed to supporting indie filmmakers, encouraging members to share the films that they enjoy with friends through social media networks. Under Fandor's unique distribution model, the company shares a portion of its subscription fees with independent filmmakers and distributors so that they can continue to make outstanding films.
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My son's dog Oxy is a lot of fun. When I saw him dragging stones around in circles and drawing with them I decided to get him some soft ochre and natural chalks, and hey presto, his drawings became manifest on the patio.
He specialises in circles and he has covered the entire patio in his drawings. This video is of his latest work, which has since washed away in the rains of 9th July 2013.
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The MetLife Study of How Aging Homeowners Use Reverse Mortgages
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Control Your Desktop PC with a Remote Using LIRC
Walking to your computer to change a song or to skip to the next PowerPoint slide isn't ideal. Instead, use LIRC to control any application on your Linux or Windows PC with any infrared remote.
We've covered controlling your XBMC with a variety of apps and remote controls, but if you already have a universal remote and you want to control more than just XBMC center you'll need to do some customization—this is where LIRC comes in. LIRC is a set of tools that will enable nearly any infrared remote control to communicate with your PC. Not only does it have built-in support for media programs like XBMC, but you can configure it to do almost anything in a given program—switch tracks in Amarok, give a presentation with OpenOffice, or watch a video in MPlayer without having to get near your mouse and keyboard.
LIRC was originally for Linux, though a Windows port is available (known as WinLIRC). This particular how-to will be for Linux, but where appropriate I will note the differences between the Windows version and the Linux version so Windows users can follow along—all my field testing is with the Linux version, so Windows users trying out WinLIRC should post their results and tips in the comments below.
If you're setting up LIRC on Linux, be forewarned: there is a lot of command line work involved. Most Linux users will be pretty familiar with this, but I will say it's the most command line and configuration file editing work I've done for one particular project, so prepare yourself.
Get Your Hardware Together
LIRC is extremely popular with homebrew IR receivers, but if you're not quite the electronic DIY whiz, you have a few options. If you're running this on Linux, the IRA-3 from Home Electronics has worked very well for me, and does not require recompiling the kernel which most receivers do. If you're going for the Windows approach, you're more or less stuck with homebrew receivers, since it's usually hard to find receivers on their own for sale. Your best bet is to search eBay for serial IR receivers—in the past, I've actually found a few good-looking options there that will even tell you if they work with WinLIRC or not.
Note also that WinLIRC requires the IR receiver to be a serial device—USB won't work, whether direct or with an adapter; you'll either need a free serial port on your computer or use a built-in compatible IR receiver such as the one on Hauppauge TV tuner cards (you could do this on Linux, too, but you'd have to recompile the kernel, which is unnecessary if you go with the aforementioned IRA-3).
As far as remotes go, pretty much any infrared remote should work fine. I use, for my TV, media center, and other related devices, the One For All urc6131n, which is a fantastic remote that is dirt cheap. If you don't already have a remote to control your devices, this is a simple yet awesome one to look at.
Installing LIRC and Checking Your Connections
LIRC (version 0.8.6 at the time of this writing) should be in the Ubuntu repository, so assuming you're using Ubuntu you can just install lircd from Synaptic (otherwise, you'll have to download and install lircd manually from their web site). In addition, if you're using an Irman device (such as the IRA-3 suggested above), you need to install libirman-dev as well. On Windows, just download the zip file and extract it somewhere.
First, you'll need to figure out in which port your device is plugged—the first serial port on a Linux PC being /dev/ttyS0, the second being /dev/ttys1, and so on. To check if it's plugged into the right port and if it's communicating with your remote, open up Terminal and type: cat /dev/ttyS0
, replacing ttyS0 with the serial port you're hooked into. You should see the red light on the device light up, and if you're lucky, pressing some buttons on your remote should cause the terminal to barf up some nonsense, as seen below.
On my remote, only one or two buttons actually caused this, so if it doesn't work by just mashing buttons, don't fret—carefully go through and press every button on your remote. It's likely one of them will cause a whole string of gibberish to fill up your terminal window, and that's what we're looking for—it means you've defined the correct port and that everything is communicating properly.
Now you need to get your hardware.conf and lircd.conf set up. You'll need root privileges to do this, so type sudo gedit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
in Terminal to edit the it). A hardware.conf for an Irman device hooked up to /dev/ttyS0 should look something like this:
REMOTE="Irman / UIR"
Of course, you'll need to replace the location of your device, the type of device and driver above with the attributes of your own hardware should you be using something different than I have suggested.
For Windows users, the configuration will all be done within the GUI for WinLIRC. Launch WinLIRC and it will give you a popup telling you it failed—click OK and it'll bring you to the main window. Choose the COM port in which it's installed, and leave the rest of the settings as their default, as that should be okay. If you click the browse button next to the config line and choose sample.cf, which came with WinLIRC, you should be able to test if it's working. Hit the Raw Codes button and point your remote at your receiver. If you see codes, you're all set and you can move on.
Configure LIRC with Your Remote
Next, you'll need to create an lircd.conf file for your remote—the most important part of the process. This is what translates the button codes on your remote into commands for your other software to interpret. There is a list of lircd.conf files on lirc's website that correspond to different remotes, but I haven't had good luck with these—I prefer to create my own using irrecord
(a process that is built-in to WinLIRC if you're on Windows). I've just gotten much better results doing it myself; the pre-made config files always gave me errors.
You'll likely need to run irrecord
with some options that tell it what you're using. For an Irman device hooked up to /dev/ttyS0, your terminal command to launch it would look like this:
irrecord -H irman -d /dev/ttyS0 lircd.conf
Once again, replacing irman
and /dev/ttyS0
with your respective driver and port if you're using your own hardware. After that, it's just a matter of following the instructions. The new version of LIRC requires that you use button names from their pre-made list, which can be found here. It doesn't particularly matter which ones you use for which buttons; it's just a way for LIRC to turn code into English so you can help it communicate with your desired software.
Most buttons on your remote will have an obvious counterpart on that list, but if they don't, you can just use one of the other names that correspond to a button you don't have (for example, my remote has a "Guide" button for which I saw no similar name on that list, so I just used KEY_YELLOW). After you're finished with irrecord
, your lircd.conf file will be in your home folder. Copy it over to /etc/lirc with root permissions (by typing sudo cp ~/lircd.conf /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
in Terminal), replacing the old lircd.conf that was there. You'll also want to open it up and, next to "name", replace "lirc" with the name of your remote (for my examples, I will use "urc6131n" as that is the name of my remote). Below is a picture of a typical lircd.conf file.
To test if your configuration works, run irw
in Terminal. It will give you the illusion of a terminal hang, but if you press buttons on your remote, it should spit the names of the buttons out at you. If it does, congratulations, you rule at UNIX.
Windows users will follow pretty much the same process. From the main WinLIRC window, hit the Learn button to start up WinLIRC's built-in version of irrecord. Just follow the directions; it should be the same as above with the exception of the first two steps (give it an error margin of 25 and just leave the custom gap length blank) and the fact that you can use whatever names you want for the buttons, you don't have to use LIRC's new naming system (so you can just type "Fastforward" for the power button if you prefer). When you've gone through all the buttons, just leave the input box blank and hit enter. When you're done with everything, hit OK in the main window and it will minimize to the taskbar, awaiting input.
Getting LIRC to Communicate with the Software of Your Choice
Setting up your remote is only half of the equation—the other half is getting LIRC to communicate with the software you want to control. Some software (such as XBMC) has built-in support for LIRC with just a bit more configuration (the process for XBMC is very well described here, so I won't go through it myself). For most programs, though, you'll want to create a global .lircrc file, and map it to keyboard shortcuts or application commands to get it to do what you want. As an example, we'll use Amarok, although the possibilities are pretty much endless if you put your mind to it.
Create a text file in your home directory called .lircrc and open it up in gedit. The basic format looks like this:
prog = irexec
remote = urc6131n
button = KEY_PLAY
config = dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Play
prog = irexec
remote = urc6131n
button = KEY_STOP
config = dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Stop
prog = irexec
remote = urc6131n
button = KEY_PAUSE
config = dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Pause
Repeat that block for each button you want to have a function. Basically, you're mapping your buttons to specific terminal commands that control your program—in this case, dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Pause
is the terminal command for Amarok to pause music (if it's not working for you, you may need kdelibs4c2a installed). You can make slightly more complicated commands as well (incorporating multiple buttons, delays, etc.)—more information is available here. If you choose to configure it this way, you must have irexec running in the background for your remote to work (you can either launch it in Terminal beforehand or set it up to run when your computer launches in System > Preferences > Startup Applications if you're running Ubuntu).
Another way to go about this would be to use keyboard commands using irxevent instead of irexec (for controlling X applications in Linux). You'll need to install lirc-x (available in the Ubuntu repositories as well) first, and then form your .lircrc file like this:
remote = urc6131
prog = irxevent
button = KEY_PLAY
config = Key space CurrentWindow
In order to do keyboard combinations, you'd need more knowledge of batch scripting, but since lots of programs have local, one-key shortcuts that you can configure (as shown below in Amarok), you're better off just assigning specific functions within the application to keys. The above example presses the spacebar in the current window when I press play on my remote—effectively telling Amarok to play if it's my frontmost window. It's not perfect if you want to have multiple things running at once, but it works pretty well if you're not actively using the PC at the time (though keep in mind that you'll have to have irxevent running for your remote to communicate with the program in question, just as you would irexec in the example above).
For Windows, you can use Lifehacker's favorite keymapping utility AutoHotKey to do essentially the same thing. You can get a template for the AutoHotKey script here, editing the middle section to your liking. The script has instructions inside it, so if you're at all familiar with AutoHotkey, programming it shouldn't be a problem—it's the same as mapping keyboard keys, except using the button names that you defined during the setup process.
These are just a few of the ways you can use LIRC to control your favorite programs. It's extremely open-ended, so I've only presented you with a few basic examples, but with a little bit of research, you can figure out how to do just about anything. For more information on LIRC and doing some more advanced things with the configuration files, as well as other software that works with LIRC, you'll definitely want to check out LIRC's web site and documentation. Windows users should definitely peruse WinLIRC's web site as well.
For mapping a specific program, your best bet is to use the irexec method if possible, so you'll need to either look through that program's documentation or Google around to find terminal commands that correspond to functions within that program.


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BF and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. There were the traditional gifts that we exchange with one another. As you know, I always knit a pair of cashmere socks for BF. This year, I designed a lovely pair of striped socks using up the odds and ends of leftover yarn from the other socks I have knit him in the past few years. In fact, we had dinner in the city and I managed to use the train ride to weave in all those loose ends.
When I started knitting these leftover socks, I thought they would be practical but not that appealing.
Now that they're complete, though, I'm really pleased with them. I like the look of the thick stripes and the random color repeats.
And as tradition would have it, I also knit a matching miniature sock ornament.
Happy anniversary my dear BF. You warm me heart and soul. I hope I do the same - heart, soul and footsies.


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I feel a sense of paranoia sinking in, Without reason, a fear that sinks deeper than the skin. An anxiety of overwhelming power, It grows in strength; hour after hour. Debilitating as a morning after migraine, The sole difference being that I feel no pain. This melancholic strife is nothing new to me, Living under the weight of social dystrophy. Feeling isolated, feeling lonely, feeling hopeless. Experiencing emotions of self-apathy and self-loathing. A pity thought reserved for third world orphans, Now without merit, has been cast upon mine self. Desolate and barren, The future renders bleak. I've disappeared for years behind a mask of contentment, Lacking autonomy until acceptance of this internal resentment. It would be easier to stop. To just end it all, But I have stayed strong to this point, For I could never betray my soul.
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Stacy Summary: WTF? More deadly than a blowfish restaurant.
The so-called "Lagarde List" – the name given by the Greek press to a list containing 1,991 names of wealthy, Swiss-bank-account-possessing Greeks who are being investigated for corruption and tax evasion – is causing a major stir in Greece right now.
Since Friday, two men on the list have turned up dead in apparent suicides.


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Posted on 08/25/2011 10:03:57 AM PDT by BobZimmerman
Want to mine an asteroid? Rather than travel to it with all their mining equipment, three Chinese scientists have proposed a better way. In a paper published today on the Los Alamos astro-ph preprint website, they have calculated the energy required to shift the orbits of the six thousand near-Earth asteroids and place them in Earth orbit for later mining. Of these, they found 46 asteroids that had the potential for such an operation, and two likely candidates for a space mission. One 30-foot-wide asteroid, 2008EA9, will actually be in the right place for this technique in 2049.
(Excerpt) Read more at behindtheblack.com ...
gee, what could go wrong?
In before the 'we are doomed' crowd.
wow, my thoughts exactly. This is a terrible idea, we can't even put a satalite into orbit 100% of the time, do we really want to risk the extinction of the entire planet on a silly idea like this?
30' wide? They propose doing something like this for a rock that will fit in a big mining loader with room to spare?
That thing better be made of solid gold to justify the price.
Trying it on a thirty foot wide asteroid would be almost risk free to try.
And what benefit does this 30 ft lump of rock have over any other 30 foot lump of rock already on the surface of the earth? Typical space cadet stuff. Spend a 100 million dollars and get nothing for it but a rock.
Is a 30 foot wide asteroid of sufficient value? Most houses are bigger. However, it does underscore the revolutionary effect of starting to get stuff from outside the Earth.
"gee, what could go wrong?"
Too much too even contemplate.........
I've heard the Chinese have more gifted students than America has students. Just sayin'...
Here's the benefit: not having to launch raw materials into orbit for later construction of space stations and space faring vehicles.
Launching stuff is very expensive per pound. If, instead, you could launch a small metal producing factory, that could produce hundreds of times it's own weight in metal from mined asteroids, it would have astronomical savings.
Pun intended.
Shhhhhhh......don't let Obama learn about it!
Some of these rocks are almost solid nickel for one and contain even more valuable elements. Another reason would be that it offers possibilities of becoming a building block for a better space station. It would offer much more protection from solar radiation and space junk. It could also be used to block or deflect an incoming asteroid - saving the planet from serious catastrophe or the life on earth from annihilation. How much would that be worth? ;)
If something bad happenned women and minorities would be disproportionately affected.
Just another mass extinction. No big deal.
What good is a spece station- economically speaking? (BTW that does have an answer, just not one that most people think of)
Nothing new here... The problem, as they will find, is safety. If the rock gets out of control, do you want to be the one to tell the earths population that they're now a possible target for an extinction level event?
About two-thirds of all known meteorites contain iron-nickel (FeNi) metal.
Even if the asteroid is a carbonaceous chondrite, I estimate weight at 500 tons. It is nickel-iron it cold weigh over 1000 tons.
When used to fill reentry vehicles with individual guidance systems and reentering at 7 km/sec. you have the equivalent of several thousand tons of TNT delivered anywhere on Earth and without warning.
The NKs could not bury a facility deep enough to escape such a weapon.
The Chicoms have plenty of good engineers. The physics are simple.
He who controls the High Ground will win. It had better be America!
Oops, typos made in haste. Cold = could. It = if.
Anyway, Earth still has plenty of resources. Mining asteroids could be more economical hundreds or thousands of years from now when resources are more scarce and technology is more reliable.
Oh, yeah. "Oooh, ahhh", that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
For comparison, the hole in the AZ desert, Meteor Crater, was made by an object about 10 feet in size I believe...
30 feet is big enough to turn a lot of real estate into glass.
You could kiss a city the size of NYC goodbye.
Here's a fun little site!
On costs however, what is the cost per pound to put something into earth orbit? I'd bet it would be more economical to manufacture some items on-site from basic materials available from asteroids.
Er no... There are lots of iron meteors out there. Here are a few that have impacted the earth:
Largest iron meteorites found on Earth not have craters?
Ambassador Greg Shanos and iron meteorite at McDonald Observatory.
Hold my pi jiu, and watch this!
"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey! That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary."
- George Bailey, "It's A Wonderful Life"
I've heard talk and speculation about that very idea, you have the speed and all you need is the mass and guidance.
Still, if you're going to weaponize space it would be a lot cheaper to just build a stealth weapons platform with nukes than go through all that trouble, its not like you could do it quietly enough that the world wouldn't know what you're up to.
Have you priced gold vs. platinum lately? A couple of days ago when gold peaked it was only about $25/ounce under platinum. If I had a few ounces of gold laying around I would have traded it for platinum in a heartbeat.
Asteroids are not all simple rocks, as spectrum analysis has revealed. Some have high concentrations of iron.
My guess is that scientists are going after the metallic asteroids and NOT the rocky ones. I mean, duh! Right?
Next up is the economic benefit of a space station, which I will answer in the simplest, most abstract fashion possible:
Historically speaking, few things enrich a country more than exploration (The New World, Manifest Destiny, etc). OK, "war" is up there, too, but exploration is pretty high on the list. There is *a lot* to explore out there if we can do it in an economically viable fashion.
(I'm not even going to go into the scientific advancements that can enrich a country from a healthy space program.)
Metaluna needs these resources!
Kinetic energy penetrators don't create radioactive fallout. Nukes don't penetrate underground as well or as far as KE either.
With KE you can dial up what you need for TNT equivalent by using the right size projectile.
Nukes require regular maintenance or they fizzle.
Dropping rocks on their heads is way cheaper in the long run.
Or by varying the speed.
Agreed not all asteroids are simple rocks, but consider the earth and the asteroids formed form the same solar nebula, and look at the fraction of the earth that is something other than rocks. BUT let's say that 10% are nickel iron. Something - robot probe? - has to go to each and tell which class it falls into. So then you have to get the right ones into orbit, and then what do you do with a mass of nickel iron? You can make structural shapes out of it IF you have the right processing machinery. Any idea how much a plant to convert a lump of iron into structural material weighs? - A LOT!
There is *a lot* to explore out there if we can do it in an economically viable fashion
The key to your statement that keeps it from being hogwash is the phrase "economically viable fashion". Just how this can be done is a mystery that has eluded everyone on the earth so far. You are correct in that it is economics that drives exploration, but at the "astroomical" cost of returning space stuff to earth there literallly isn't any substance that makes it even close to break even. A giant boulder of pure platinum sitting on the moon would be too expensive to exploit (consider how much it cost to get the moon rocks.)
And as far as technological advances from the space program, These are few purchased at great lost opportunity cost. Private industry innovates ceaselessly (look at Apple) by diverting funds that would be spent in research on things that people actually want to space exploration,you DECREASE innovation in the private sector - trading it for giant engines and fuel tanks that shed chunks. (And alligator habitat)
The space program is just another form of corporate welfare.
Er no yourself. more meteorites are mostly iron because the carbonaceous chontrites (rocks) don't survive the journey through the atmosphere very well.
Being generous here say 10% of all asteroids are solid nickel iron. A. nickel and iron aren't all that valuable and B. What do you do with them once you get them into orbit assuming that they don't come crashing down and flatten the odd city?
You can make structural steel out of them. ANy idea how much mass a steel fabricating plant plant represents?
Wow - a robot probe? Really?
Apparently you've never heard of Spectrum Analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analysis) and - given that it is pretty basic stuff - *maybe* you shouldn't be commenting on scientific matters...?
Robert Heinlein covered this decades ago in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
You wouldn't need the crucibles or any large handling equipment as a benefit of the weightless environment. You need a means of induction or solar heating, mixing and metal forming equipment - all relatively minor in size and weight.
Also, by processing in space and just returning the end product, we could avoid quite a bit of pollution.
If the metal on asteroids is mined and shipped off somewhere, the mass decreases. would not the decrease make it lose altitude and then impact earth?
I am one of Mr. Heinlein's misguided children.
Actually sat by him at the L-5 Society Banquet one time.
I guess you'd better educate the NASA folks who sent the rovers to mars. Better tell them about Spectrum Analysis and save us the money and them the effort of sampling the planet babyboy.
And you know this from reading what science fiction author? Lack of weight doesn't mean lack of mass.
Wiki has Meteor Crater being caused by an object 50 yards in diameter, but that's just wiki. The crater is about 4000 feet in diameter.
I know this because of many years in heavy industry, a stint in manufacturing and aviation and the capacity for abstract thought.
The beams, angles, bars, and plates being made from nickel steel, an outstanding material, would be very thin (as thin as .050" or so in some cases). Since the smelter is operating in a vacuum, oxidation isn't a problem and the molten metal can be rolled from a semi-liquid state into thin sheets. Maybe even extrusion would be possible.
For beams, angles and etc, equipment based on off the self cutters, shears and formers will do the job. Many only weigh a few tons and some even less than a ton and these are made of steel. Have you ever heard of "Seamless Gutters"? The forming principle is the same.
Why not lighten up on vitriolic rhetoric FRiend? We're just trying to have a friendly discussion here.
You lucky bastard. He's one of the few people I'd like to have been able to have a long conversation with. He was an amazing writer. My workstation at the office is called "tanstaafl". :-)
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Taeyeon Says She Cant Sleep As a result of Sasaengsjun2yng July 9, 2016 0 At the morning of July 10, Girls' Generation's Taeyeon posted a photo on her Instagram of a screenshot of the call log from her phone, which presentations shout after call from unknown numbers. The calls continue neatly into the morning, the ultimate two calls being made at 3:57 a.m. and 6:39 a.m. KST.
Taeyeon, frustrated, left a simple caption: "I would like to sleep."
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Troy or Todd, Are any of you available to practice/play?
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