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Saturday, July 31, 2010 | 8:55 p.m.
Not only is Lady Gaga's hair and wardrobe dangerous, but apparently her music can be, too.
"Our kids are taking sound!" laughs Brad Smith, aka The Nurse during his talk at Def Con 18 on Friday at the Rivera. As an informatics nurse and Director of the Computer Institute of the Rockies, he's well-versed in a rage of studies such as neurohacking and psychosonics and educated a room full of hackers, wanna-be hackers and generally really, really smart people on the various ways sound and music is used for good and evil. Anything from the military, businesses located near high schools and possibly Vegas casinos can use their effects.
Music as a Weapon
Smith says every culture has sounds and things that they're afraid of. Using long range audio devices, opposing forces can fake putting "the word of God" into the heads of enemies, i.e. drive them to do things believing they're hearing an otherworldly voice because the source of the sound is nowhere to be located. Or recording of eerie, ghostly sounds can play tricks on the minds as well. Audio of tanks and weaponry can also be used to trick those in battle their enemies are approaching.
- From the Archives
- Defcon 17 hacks into Vegas (4/17/09)
- Beyond the Weekly
- Def Con
Particular songs can be used as torture, too. Smith cites when Neil Diamond's "America" was blasted on repeat at Guantanamo Bay. He presented a list of the top 10 torture songs which included the Barney theme, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. Lady Gaga isn't on the list … yet. But her music—or any other sound for that matter—can be used in a variety of ways.
Can you hear something, anything, now?
Psychosonics as a basic definition are sounds that affect the brain. For anyone that's had trouble sleeping, binaural beats may have been one solution to lull yourself off to sleep by listening to a low frequency sound almost like a subtle hum, perhaps masked by the sound of the ocean, crickets chirping and the like (yeah, there's an app for that). Without getting too technical, a frequency of about four hertz or Delta waves can produce deep sleep ranging up to a frequency of 40 hertz or gamma waves stimulating the listener in to reaching that "ah-ha moment" of inspiration.
Smith also discussed such devices as mosquito speakers and mosquito ringtones. The former is a frequency typically used by those who want to keep those meddling teens off their lawn, so to say. At 17khz, younger people can hear an annoying sound that Smith finds laughable in the product's description to "disperse troublesome teens," though most teens can hear it anyways regardless of their temperament. Older adults however, thanks to the aging process, typically can no longer hear sounds in that range, so it doesn't bother them at all. The same thing goes for the phenomenon on "mosquito ringtones" advertised as being inaudible to parents and teachers.
i Dosing on sound, the newest drug
According to multiple news reports, including one Smith played for the packed ballroom of people, parents should be alarmed that kids are listing to sounds! Laughter encompassed the room, but the latest trend is something called iDosing. As panic spreads throughout Middle America, kids are plugging in and listening to these psyhchosonic sounds that can supposedly produce a variety of effects. Smith joked that he's sure as soon as the report aired, teens ran to Google it and try in for themselves. You just might do the same. Good job, News 9 in Mustang, Oklahoma. However, Smith adds it could just be one of those thing like back in the '70s where he and his buddies thought they were getting high by smoking banana peels: If you think you're having an effect, then you could be.
Which brings us back to Lady Gaga
Smith himself uses psychosonics as an aid to relax, or energize himself before dealing with in-laws. And it's not that difficult to embed underlying frequencies in any mp3. He did so with Gaga's "Poker Face," but admitted the mediocre sound system during the conference was less effective than wearing ear buds. However, he did says he's been walking around Vegas, recording various sounds in the casinos such as the digital slot machine to dissect later and see if there's anything subliminal going on to keep people gambling. Either way, it's definitely something to think about. Now who wants to turn "Paparazzi" into a study aid?


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- Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:38 am
- Forum: Shipyards
- Topic: various questions and stuff
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Re: various questions and stuff
Looking at the 'angry' functions. (objGetProperty theObj 'angry) sometimes returns a number regardless of theObj being angry/not angry at the player. I can't detect any pattern. Is this meant to be a countdown? And if so is it broken? Many versions ago stations would return to being friendly after a...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: Announcements
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Re: 1.8 Beta 3 is Ready!
Thanks for the options on objHas/RemoveItem. That'll make working with items much easier. And a thanks to NMS for the objSet/GetProperty 'explored contribution. Already tried it out. It works great. New Corporate shipyard looks excellent. Images that use thin transparent girder-like parts always loo...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:00 am
- Forum: Official Extensions
- Topic: The Backroads — an alternate route
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Re: The Backroads — an alternate route
Tried the Naginata. The intro screens where you select ship devices are very clever. Nice one. (I'm gonna try and use that code too, TIA :D). Also seen the device extensions (two anyway). Great idea. And I see why you want 'broadside' attack now as well. That ship is devastating (not sure which one ...
- Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:17 am
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Item Information List
SOTP, CC and EP. A mod which adds items to a tabbed list as they are seen in the game. This list can be seen by selecting "Item Information" in the Ship's Interior dockscreen. Designed to let beginners check back on items they have seen previously. Requires game version 1.7 or higher. http://xelerus...
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:27 am
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Adding a zip file containing three .rtf files called, CRITERIA, NAME FLAGS AND PROPERTIES. CRITERIA.rtf contains a list of functions from the function list which use criteria and which criteria these functions accept. Same with NAME FLAGS.rtf and PROPERTIES.rtf. I got tired of scrolling down the who...
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Re: Transcendence Version Archives
Another bump. This would be good for all the reasons mentioned by members previously but also to help bugtest Vachtra's problems with 1.8b2.
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:09 am
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I'd say this needs to be fixed. Absolutely. But realistically this requires much more info. This game has been unplayable for some time now (months). Way too vague to be of much use. Unable to initialize universe. Single most important bit of info here. This means the game can't find something it n...
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 3:58 am
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wingman dock services example
From an idea in the ministry topic "Allow dock services to work on non-player objects" https://ministry.kronosaur.com/record.hexm?id=79374 The image shows one possible way of allowing dock services for wingmen. Two EI freighter autons, an EI100 and an EI7000, are docked at Starton Dry Dock. The play...
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:40 am
- Forum: Shipyards
- Topic: adding Benedict to other adventures query
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adding Benedict to other adventures query
With the trading computer lag fixed I'm working on updating the Network mod again. I would like to add the Benedict missions to this adventure but can't find an easy way to do it. Copying all the Benedict xml modules into the mod and adding the module filenames works but a simpler way would be nice....
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:22 am
- Forum: Shipyards
- Topic: finding lists in lists code help please
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finding lists in lists code help please
The inventory mod I'm working on has a "Find" feature as seen in the Captain's Log mod. Items are listed on the screen in the system where they are so players can find them again if they aren't in that system. It use screen input text to search for matches in the item name. But the code is a little ...
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- Forum: Ideas & Suggestions
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Re: Looking for comment/suggestions: Tinker redevelopment WIP
Great idea. It makes sense that tinkers can offer a range of widely different services. Borocarbide paste barrels option. Either sell or apply. Could be even more expensive than now. It would make these useful as they never are in the standard game because they are so rare. Pre recent changes tinker...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:03 am
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- Topic: various questions and stuff
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Re: various questions and stuff
OK. Second go. Wrong XML element. You had already spotted it. It's <OnGlobalPaneInit> doing it.
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:42 am
- Forum: Shipyards
- Topic: various questions and stuff
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Re: various questions and stuff
Attached is a text doc of minor stuff I was going to put on git. Time constraints prevent me from doing this so if someone wants to use them feel free. Otherwise I'll get them done eventually.
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:56 am
- Forum: Shipyards
- Topic: exclusion distance when adding stations help please
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Re: exclusion distance when adding stations help please
There's a chance it'll end up too close to something ... because it picks the radius at random first That was, I think, the info I was missing. Thanks. So using a single value for radius will stop the erratic placement. So easy when you know how! I do however want to keep the randomness of the radi...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:02 am
- Forum: Modding Reference
- Topic: Adding an XML attribute
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Adding an XML attribute
1.8b2 A basic example mod of using ' xmlAddAttrib'. 'xmlSetAttrib'. (Apologies: I messed up the function name) (xmlSetAttrib xml attrib value) -> value We use xml functions to add a background image to a dockscreen. There are two dockscreens in the attached mod. They are the same dockscreen but we w...


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Please permit me to share with you what a great Christmas season I had. I haven't sung a solo role in a stage production since I was in college in 1988, and I haven't been in any kind of stage production since 1992, but this season I sang King Kaspar in Roswell Presbyterian's production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, with a full 23-piece professional orchestra. We performed two concerts, December 8 and 9, in front of a total paying audience of 1,100. It was a benefit for the Christian charity Music Mission Kiev in the Ukraine.
I got to work with the fabulous 26-year-old opera singer Shellee Wilson as Amahl's Mother. I call her "the next Jessye Norman". She's headed to London for the next year. Ralph Griffin, a member of the church and the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, is a retired professional operatic bass-baritone, and played King Balthazar. King Melchoir was played by Roswell Pres. music director Bruce Graham's son Andrew, who has a master's in choral conducting and is a high-school choir director. Amahl was played by 13-year-old Sarah Clements, who amazingly is as much of a classical ballet dancer as she is a singer and actress. It was a professional-calibre production and the best production of Amahl you could ever hope to see in a church in this town.
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I'm at the age where career professional opera tenors are retiring. I have no illusions about getting many more opportunities like this one, let alone making any money at it, but it's gratifying. Circumstances made it difficult for me to devote much energy to singing for many years. Only in the last three years have I been able to get serious about it again, and it feels good.
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The Sunderland Portfolio Business Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Make It Sunderland.
Winner - Berghaus.
It is 50 years and it is nice to have recognition for it. We have been a North East company from the beginningJohn Carver
For 50 years, one Sunderland-based company has been at the forefront of outdoor clothes development.
Berghaus began life as a small shop on Newcastle's Dean Street, set up by two climbers who decided to import and sell outdoor gear. It was so successful that they soon began to design, test and make their own.
In time, the company began to manufacture rucksacks from a new factory in Washington. Now, it has a suite of innovative products which it develops from its head office on Sunderland Enterprise Park.
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So, an update on the last post, when LOKI'S DAUGHTERS was free on Amazon. By the time it was finally removed from the Free Reads list, it had downloads just shy of 50,000 copies, in about 13 days. And then it moved to the Amazon and Kindle top Sellers list!
Its first re-listing, or the first I saw since I was out with the guys to see Harry Potter, was at #10,072. Really disappointing. But I should have realized that was just a starting point. It quickly moved to #1472, then #375, then up to #271. The next morning it started at #171 and moved rapidly up to #103, and then onto the Top 100 Sellers, getting as high as #90. Since then it's been lurking in the mid 100s range and gained some this morning to be at #140. But I'm pretty sure a lot of its potential market was sapped by staying on the Free Reads for so long,
All in all, that's fine. It's a book I always loved and so I love it when new readers find it and love it. And even more so when they let me know it caused them to go looking for my other books.
Right now, yes I'm still being a bad blogger (almost wrote blooger, which seems oddly fitting). There 's not enough time in the day. I barely make it to Face Book and forget Twitter regularly. It seem so me when I'm being very productive with writing and cover work, that's an inward thinking process, and it's hard to shift back out to the outer, more social networking process.
Here's what's happening:
1. Amazon kicked back The Mudlark for bad formatting. Duh, didn't we have it fixed exactly right yet again? I saw it and even read through on the Kindle again. It was fine. Then suddenly it has all those crazy double indents again. This time we got some hexa-digital software and went through it line by line, and there are NO hidden codes, no thing that could possibly be triggering those ugly nasty double indents. The book looks just perfect with every other format except Amazon's Kindle.
But this time someone wised me up, and pointed to html format. At first I gagged- you know, the whole eye-rollling head-pounding "No! Don't make me learn it!" thing. But it's easy to just save as an html web page. In Word, it's called "Web Page", and you do it exactly like saving in rtf format. Then you put it into the Kindle Generator in exactly the same way you would a Word doc file. You just choose the file from your computer files with an extension of .htm
I hope this works. It looks great in the preview, and I went through the whole thing. This isn't totally adequate, and now I'm finding that in spite of my desire to avoid learning html, it's what I'm going to have to learn next if I want my books to be really professional. Funny thing, that the tool I really needed was right there all along. But it took the really good explanations of Guido Henkel for me to understand why and how to do it. I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS! My brain says it hurts, just thinking about it! But I'm telling you, if you want a really professional book that looks great in any ebook format, this is what you have to do. Go check him out. I'll blog more about my learning experience as I go along.
2. I'm still not finished getting FAERIE in publishable state. I'm disappointed but I can't put it out until the last problems are resolved. While all books have problems, I've found those are the places where I have real opportunities to make a book great instead of just good. So it's best to keep looking for the things a book needs to be unique instead of taking the first reasonable way to finish it. I hate putting it down again, but other things now must be done first.
3. I have to finish BELOVED STRANGER (was IN THE ARMS OF A STRANGER), which is aimed at an invitation-only series of novellas through a publisher. I may still self-publish it instead if I think it would work better for me, but I'm still aiming to get this book done and sent off by August 14.
4. And cover art is really keeping me hopping. I'm going to have to cut back on that, even though I love doing it. I've been getting a lot of multiple requests from authors, and often they want to bring out several books at once. Sometimes I can't accommodate them. But it is fun to develop a series style for their books.


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Check out my new blog - Nonviolence 3.0
Twitter - @nonviolence30
Strategic nonviolence has the potential to empower citizens, thwart coups, overthrow dictators and defend nations. This section includes historical accounts of nonviolent civilian resistance in the Philippines and Czechoslovakia, an essay on civilian-based defense and a book review of The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Dr. Gene Sharp. There is also some additional material by and about Dr. Sharp, including a magazine article he wrote, a lecture he presented (available as an mp3 download) and an interview I did with the man himself.
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Topic: iPod
Apple stores upgrading from Windows-based EasyPay to iPod touch
10/28/2009, 04:10 pm
Multiple sources have noted that Apple will be transitioning its retail store EasyPay handheld checkout systems from Windows-based PDA devices to iPod touch hardware for the 2009 holiday season.
Apple's 'illegal' Boston billboard at center of political controversy
10/23/2009, 10:10 am
A giant iPod touch billboard in Boston deemed illegal due to its size and location is at the center of a political controversy involving the city's mayor.
Apple's iPod touch sales up 100% as iPhone units set new record
10/19/2009, 07:10 pm
Apple's Q4 2009 conference call revealed that iPod touch sales were up 100% year over year, despite essentially flat sales of all iPods over the previous two years, and that the company achieved a new record in iPhone sales as well, with 7.4 million units sold in the quarter ending in September 2009.
Apple says cheaper new products in the pipeline
10/19/2009, 05:10 pm
After announcing spectacular Q4 results, Apple's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer explained to analysts that the company is projecting lower growth in future revenues and profit margins due to cheap new products in the company's pipeline.
Apple ranks among top in social media influence
10/17/2009, 08:10 pm
In an analysis of the world's most valuable brands, Apple ranked among the top companies in generating social media interest on services such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter.
Apple criticized over iTunes LP development costs
10/09/2009, 04:10 pm
Critics are lambasting Apple over its new iTunes LP format, charging that the company has priced indies out of the game by charging a production fee of $10,000 to develop the interactive titles. Content authors are likely to view the fees as absurdly low, however.
Microsoft considers extending Zune services to Apple users
10/07/2009, 12:10 pm
Some services currently exclusive to Microsoft's Zune platform, such as subscription music downloads, could be extended to Apple products like the iPod in the future, a new report has suggested.
Interest in iPhone high as iPod, iTunes dominate teen market
10/06/2009, 08:10 pm
A majority of teens own an iPod, many use iTunes, and more than one in five intend to purchase an iPhone in the next six months, a new survey has found.
New standards to limit Apple iPod volume in Europe
09/28/2009, 02:09 pm
Media players like Apple's iPod will be set by default to a new, lower, "safe" volume level in Europe, thanks to a new rule passed by the European Commission Monday.
Microsoft uses adware model to pay for Zune HD apps
09/17/2009, 05:09 pm
How can new competitors rival Apple's existing library of 75,000 mobile apps and installed base of 50 million users? Microsoft's approach with the Zune HD relies on overt adware, an approach Apple has deliberately avoided.
New ARM chips offer glimpse of future Apple products
09/17/2009, 10:09 am
Chip designer ARM announced this week new dual core Cortex-A9 processors capable of breaking the 2GHz barrier, perhaps foreshadowing the muscle behind Apple's future mobile devices.
Review roundup: Zune HD plays catchup to iPod touch
09/17/2009, 08:09 am
Though the new Zune HD portable media player from Microsoft is garnering mostly positive reviews, critics say it's likely too little, too late against Apple's dominant iPod touch.
Users report iPod classic issues after iTunes 9 update
09/16/2009, 03:09 pm
Numerous iPod classic users have reported problems with the latest update to iTunes, released last week, with claims of crashes when attempting to sync the media player.
Apple, Microsoft trade places selling iPod touch and Zune HD
09/15/2009, 03:09 pm
Apple makes its money selling hardware while Microsoft's revenues are from software. Yet in the mobile device war heating up between the iPod touch and the Zune HD, Microsoft is focusing on hardware features while Apple is shifting its marketing attention toward the iPod's vast library of third party software, particularly games.
iPhone predicted to drive Apple stock to $235
09/15/2009, 08:09 am
A new report predicts Apple stock will break past the $200 milestone, riding high on the successful and profitable iPhone, even as the company's other businesses are predicted to lose value.
From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HD
09/14/2009, 07:09 pm
Just when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new multi-core Tegra graphics processor and support for high definition radio. The problem is that none of those things are actually true.
Apple creates worldwide NAND flash shortage; China Mobile deal
09/14/2009, 09:09 am
Apple's iPhone and iPods use so much NAND flash memory that there is a worldwide dearth of memory chips; and negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone are ongoing.
802.11n, space for camera hidden in Apple's new iPod touch
09/12/2009, 01:09 pm
A look inside the latest iPod touch hardware reveals the device has space to fit an iPod nano-style video camera, and also sports a wireless chip that supports 802.11n.
Review: Apple's fifth-generation iPod nano (2009)
09/12/2009, 12:09 pm
The glossy-finished new fifth-gen iPod nano builds upon last year's tall and slim form factor by adding video recording, FM radio with iPod tagging and Live Pause, VoiceOver navigation, a built-in Nike+ step counter, and a slightly larger and improved 2.2" display, all packed into the same thin aluminum tube.
First look: iPod nano 09 unboxed
09/11/2009, 05:09 pm
Apple's new iPod Nano sports a larger screen, video recording, a built-in Nike+ pedometer, VoiceOver, and an FM radio with a Tivo-like live pause feature in last year's slim package. Here's what's in the box.


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Alena Rumiantceva, swimming, CBU: The sophomore out of Russia placed second in the 200 breast at the NCAA championships to earn All-American honors.
Dimitra Tsambasis, soccer, MSJC: Named PCAC North Division Offensive Player of the Year after scoring 17 goals and adding eight assists.
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Savannah Vilaubi, golf, UCR: The senior was named first-team all-Big West and became the first Highlander woman to earn a berth to the NCAA regionals.
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Born in 1912 B.W. Robinson (although christened Basil, he not unsurprisingly preferred to be known as Robbie) spent his childhood years within a stone's throw of the museums in South Kensington.
From an early age he was taken on visits to them by his mother and his aunt: the Natural History Museum was an early enthusiasm; then the Oriental collection and the Arms and Armour collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum quickly became the areas to which he returned again and again, and it was in the V & A that he first developed his life-long love of Persian miniatures and manuscripts.
He then "graduated" to the British Museum where he was taken under the wing of Dr. Lionel Barnett who allowed him to see the Shahnama (the 1486 Book of Kings) and he was also taken to the Royal Asiatic Society where he was introduced to the Secretary, Ella Sykes.
At the same time he put his theoretical knowledge into practice - when he was nine years old, he asked for, and got, a pair of 18th Century Belgian Cavalry pistols as a Good Conduct Prize. When he was at preparatory school his library included Persian Self-Taught by Shaykh Hasan, Tales of Old Japan by A.B. Mitford, and at the age of thirteen his interest in Japanese prints was kindled when he was given a copy of E.F. Strange's Victoria and Albert Museum Handbook.
At the age of fourteen he went to Winchester College as an exhibitioner: during his time there he purchased his first Japanese sword for four shillings and sixpence, and continued adding to his library with works such as A Persian Caravan by A. Cecil Edwards, and all the volumes of Arthur and Edward Warner's translation of The Shahnama of Ferdawsi: the flames of his enthusiasm were further fanned by frequent visits to the Burlington House Exhibition of Persian Art in 1931.
Following Winchester he went up to Oxford to read Greats (Literae Humaniores) at Corpus Christi and it was here that some people might think that they can discern a slight blemish on his academic career: it is just possible that being in great demand at parties to sing and play the banjo, spending time composing humorous verse, drawing cartoons for Isis, playing the guitar in a dance band and a host of other enjoyable extra- curricular diversions may have contributed to the fact that he only achieved a Third, but he privately regarded this as a rather honourable medal in the circumstances.
Despite this minor setback he was allowed to stay on for a further year to write a B.Litt thesis on the Bodleian Museum's collection of Persian miniatures. Although initially turned down twice by the V & A, he eventually was appointed in 1939 to the Museum as Assistant Keeper and moved into the Metalwork Department
He was called up for military service in 1942 and following a spell as a corporal in the Royal Sussex Regiment, he was commissioned into the 2nd Punjab Regiment after passing the examination in Urdu which was the working language of the Indian Army, and subsequently served in India, Burma and Malaya; during this time he had the good fortune to find an Indian bearer who taught him how to read and write Nastaliq script.
Following the Japanese surrender he was posted to Singapore where he was given the task of evaluating some eighteen hundred surrendered swords: feeling unequal to doing the job properly by himself, he went to the Prisoner of War camp to enquire if anyone had a good knowledge of swords; there he found an Air Force officer, Colonel Yamada Sakae, who had previously been a member of the military sword-judging committee. Together they worked on cataloguing these swords for several months, and the typically meticulous notes which Robinson made at the time were later to form the basis for his first published book, A Primer of Japanese Sword Blades, which appeared in 1955.
In 1946 he returned to England and the Metalwork Department of the V & A, becoming the Deputy Keeper in 1954 and then heading the department from 1966 until 1972 when he became Keeper Emeritus responsible for the formation of the new Far Eastern Department until his retirement in 1976.
During this time he published:
1955 - A Primer of Japanese Sword Blades
1958 - The Persian Miniature Collection of the Bodleian Library
1961 - The Arts of the Japanese Sword
1961 - Kuniyoshi
1960 and 1962 - The Persian Miniature Collections of the Chester Beatty Library
1967 - Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles
1976 - Persian Paintings in the India Office Library: A Descriptive Catalogue
1980 - Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library: A Descriptive Catalogue
l982 - Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints which was awarded the Uchiyama Memorial Prize of the Japanese Ukiyo-e Society
1998 - Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society
2002 - (at the age of ninety) The Persian Book of Kings: an Epitome of the Shahnama of Ferdawsi
All of these to this day remain as essential reading for both scholars and collectors.
In between all this he organised the V & A's Kuniyoshi Centenary Exhibition in 1961, and the V & A's Persian Miniature Exhibition in 1967, and at various times was President of the Royal Asiatic Society, a Council member of the British Institute of Persian Studies, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary President of the To-ken Society of Great Britain.
These are just the dry and dusty chronicles of a distinguished academic career, but it is not for these achievements that his many friends will remember him: it will be the man himself who will be remembered, for he was at all times the very essence of Chaucer's "Verray parfit gentil knight"
A tall distinctive figure, almost invariably with a pipe and dressed in a tweed jacket with a waistcoat and a watch-chain, he looked like a benevolent uncle who had just stepped out of a sketch by Ardizzone.
Born into an Anglo-Catholic family, his religious beliefs were deeply founded, and throughout his life the Book of Common Prayer was constantly to hand, and it was this steadfastness of belief that shaped his entire life: he never pushed himself forward, he was always modest, he was utterly without malice or vanity, invariably courteous to everyone.
Never pompous - one of the more frequent failings of academics - he imparted his knowledge with a light and gentle touch; the twinkle in his eye showed us that we were having fun, and it was this cheerfulness that encouraged so many beginners and collectors to venture into what initially appeared to be difficult and forbidding areas. He was always accessible to his colleagues and to the general public, and always happy to share his knowledge - it did not matter whether one's question was recondite or irritatingly obvious, we all received detailed written replies in that distinctive meticulous Victorian handwriting of his.
His gift for friendship was extended to everyone who knew him, not leastly Colonel Yamada Sakae with whom he remained in contact until the Colonel's death.
Outside the groves of Academe his life was quite extraordinarily full. He was devoted to his family, to his wife Oriel who was an essential part of his family life and who assisted him in photographing many outside collections, and to his children William and Alicia, and to his grandchildren, who all have nothing but happy memories of him.
He had a liking for the companionship and good fellowship of pub life: he was fond of beer (as opposed to the modern aberration of lager) and also brewed it at home, and this enthusiasm led him to become an early member of The Campaign for Real Ale.
In between all this he managed to find the time to be an enthusiastic amateur cook (casseroles a specialty), a jazz fan (Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and that period of the Twenties and Thirties before it all went wrong); he loved music and was a collector of songs and ballads - on his travels around England he visited many cathedral libraries in his search for manuscripts of early songs, and in 1989 several hundred of these were published in the Aldrich Book of Catches which he edited jointly with Ray Hall: he took particular pride in the Aldrich Catch Club which he had founded some years previously which used to meet every month at his house to sing rounds (songs), in addition to old traditional English songs some of which were splendidly vulgar, nursery rhymes and music hall favourites (and drink beer)
A happy life, lived to the full, rich with a warmth and enjoyment that he shared with all he met. He will be missed by everyone who knew him.
"He was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again"
Christie's gratefully acknowledges the permission of the Editors of Andon to reproduce this article.
Like many a Japanese specialist, Robbie had been captivated by the romance of the Japanese feudal era in his early boyhood. He owns to having been "bowled over by Kuniyoshi's Skeleton Spectre" (Lot 586) at the age of 14, in an exhibition at the British Museum, although he was by then already a devotee of the artist. He had been born within five minutes walk of the Victoria and Albert Museum and was already at a young age conversant with the joys of both that museum and of those of the Natural History Museum. He must have been naturally receptive to all the wonders freely available to the enquiring mind in those institutions, and certainly to the great Japanese collections in the V & A. Robbie's writings and reminiscences on his life with Japanese swords and the heroic colour prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi read as a Who's Who of both Japanese historical characters and the happy band of dealers and collectors who were active in and around London between the wars and the decades which followed. It was a wonderful time for collecting Japanese art. The passionate involvement of Robbie and his contemporaries in ancient Japanese culture seem almost to blur the distinction between imagination and reality, or perhaps to indicate a greater reality than the mundane rule of modern confused society.
For Robbie's hobbies were his daily work - a lifetime of devoted application. His research was the stuff of a different and distant world, and in a way, beyond time. He was still researching avidly the works of Kuniyoshi, annotating his own 'Working Copy' of his book 'Kuniyoshi', and corresponding with people who sent him enquiries from all over the world, including publishers hoping for permission to use illustrations from his great collection, when he was into his tenth decade.
His memory of his formative years was impressive. Many will recall with affection his talk to the Tokenkai of Great Britain (the national society for the study of Japanese swords) in the summer of 1974, and of hearing how, at his Surrey prep school between the ages of seven to nine, he and his friends would fence with 'Japanese Swords' fashioned from the broken curved branches of pine trees in the local woods. It is not a great step of imagination to place the young Robbie in context with Kuniyoshi's print of the young 12th century hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune being taught fencing in the pinewoods by the king of the 'Karasu Tengu', those supernatural winged mountain dwelling creatures who were to be avoided by more cautious mortals (lots 540, 625). It was in those schooldays that Robbie encountered Lord Redesdale's book 'Tales of Old Japan' of which he said "It is one of the most marvellous books on Japan ever written. This book was owned by another boy in the school - I can still remember that dreadful picture of poor Chobei in the bath, being speared and all the blood coming out. Very soon afterwards the book was confiscated by the Headmaster, as he thought it wasn't quite suitable for us to read". But however unsuitable for young boys they might have been, Lord Redesdale's stories are the very stuff of Kuniyoshi's prints, and the world of scholarship has benefited greatly from Robbie's early but foreshortened introduction to those stories.
The young BW Robinson visited the 1924 British Museum exhibition several times, getting to know the dealers Shozo Kato in New Oxford Street, and the "extremely English" Mr Tommy in Sicilian Arcade, who attended auctions invariably wearing a bowler hat. He bought several triptychs from these specialist dealers for "ten and sixpence", generally after Christmas when he could afford it. One wonders how the price was kept so constant for the boy collector from Christmas to Christmas, and which of the triptychs in the present collection came from those early collecting days. Robbie was always ready to share the enjoyment of his collection with others in private and in public. Who could forget the exhibition of 'Kuniyoshi's Cats' in the transepts of Robbie's local church in the 1970's.
Robbie's work on swords paralleled his study of prints, and his first purchase of a sword was for the sum of "four and sixpence" when he was at school at Winchester. His studies continued when he was appointed as a curator, eventually to become Keeper of Metalwork, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he found Japanese books from which he learned how to read the inscriptions on swords. He was horrified to find that a 'Disposals Board' had sold a number of fine Japanese swords shortly before he joined the Department, and he was to leave a written record clearly naming the members of that board and expressing in inimitably gentle but unmistakeable reproof his disapproval of what they had done. At the end of the war as a young captain he had been put in charge of a project to sort out 1800 swords surrendered at Singapore, enlisting the help of a sword specialist one Colonel Yamada, with whom and with whose family he remained in contact until long after. Robbie must have handled further thousands of swords since then, and many thousands of Japanese prints. His two great works 'Arts of the Japanese Sword' and 'Kuniyoshi-The Warrior-Prints' are thus the result of a the combination of field work and table work over a lifetime.
Both the sword and the warrior print engender those qualities of loyalty, fidelity, courage and heroism which Robbie admired, and the absence of which in modern times he regretted. In the introduction to 'Kuniyoshi' Robbie likens Kuniyoshi's window into the exotic world of 'warriors, monsters, and fair ladies' to the excitement of first reading from the ballads of 'Sir Patrick Spens', or 'Kilmont Willie', or the 'Unquiet Grave', in the mixture of heroism, romance, and chivalry on the one hand and vice, treachery, and rebellion on the other. We are fortunate that Robbie chose to study and collect the works of Kuniyoshi from among those of all other Japanese artists, since in them we find not only the highest pictorial art but the greatest range and depth of Japanese emotion and imagination, and all
the great heroic tales of Japanese History depicted in as wild and gripping manner as in any work from that nation.
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
A group of actors on their way to the Oji (Inari jinja) Shrine on New Year's Day, signed Kuniyoshi, kiwame seal, good impression and colour, some rubbing and wear; and pilgrims at the Roben Waterfall at Oyama, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi, published by Azumaya Daisuke, kiwame seal, good impression, colours faded, some soiling
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SNOWY SHAW Featured On MAD ARCHITECT EP
Swedish metal project MAD ARCHITECT will release a three-song EP, "Dreamworld", featuring mukti-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw (THERION, KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL, DIMMU BORGIR) on vocals. According to a press release, the EP contains "20 minutes of brutally beautiful melodic metal" and will be made available on April 10 at iTunes and Spotify.
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There is something to be said about a relationship between a father and a daughter. I am not a "Daddy's girl" by any means, but my experiences with my father have made me into the person I am today, perhaps moreso than my experiences with my mom.
My dad taught me how to be strong. My parents divorced with I was five years old due to my father's adultery and alcoholism. I learned of this as a fact only recently, but there were many instances where I knew things were not right. I remember standing on the side of the freeway with my brother, waiting for my mom to come pick us up because my dad had gotten pulled over and was being arrested for his third DUI. While my dad was in handcuffs and being carted off, I was calming my brother and telling him that everything would be okay. By the time I was twelve, I had learned the signs of drunkenness vs. sobriety, and I knew when to call my mom to pick us up instead of risking mine and my brother's life by getting in the car with my father.
My dad taught me how to drive. He fell asleep behind the wheel once when I was ten, and I had to steer us over to the side of the road whilst frantically trying to wake him up. To this day, he refuses to believe this really happened.
My dad taught me independence. As I aged, I realized that I didn't have to see him every Tuesday, Thursday, and every other weekend like the courts had agreed upon so many years ago. I learned that I had a say in my visits with him, and I chose to take a hiatus from his presence for a few years.
My dad taught me how to stand up for myself. I learned that sometimes, it's okay to say no. It's okay to go against the advice of an elder, especially if you don't think they know what's best for you. And mostly, it's okay to talk back and stand your ground if you don't believe in what they are preaching.
My dad taught me forgiveness. Despite his shortcomings, he is my father. There is nothing I can do to change his actions of the past, but I can do anything I want about the future. I learned how to forgive nights spent entertaining myself while he was passed out on the couch. I learned to forgive the fact that he slept with my babysitter while my brother and I were waiting for him to take us home. I learned to forgive his faults, his past actions, all the things he has said and done. But I will not forget.
Happy Father's Day, Dad. Despite everything, I still love you.
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Rape has become one of the most frequently reported crimes against women in India. To battle this scourge, a group of engineering students in Chennai have designed lingerie that gives electric shocks to sexual offenders.
According to a report published on NDTV, the outfit would be just like any other brassiere that would insulate the user from shocks but when the offender touches the victim, he would receive 82 electric shocks. Also, the bra has a built-in GPS in it that would "alert the exact location to police and intimate one pre-set family member".
The engineers, students of SRM University in Chennai, said the user can turn off the features if she so desires.
"The team says their aim is not to make profit but to ensure this reaches every woman in the country," the report said. "Many companies have already approached them."
The team's innovative idea has won them The idea and the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation awards.
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Karachi: Former Pakistan batsman Mansoor Akhtar has been forced to step down from his senior position in a leading bank after being charged in a corruption case.
According to a report, Mansoor had to step down as head of the United Bank sports complex after being charged with committing fraud and corruption.
Mansoor, regarded as one of the most stylish batsmen produced by Pakistan, appeared in 19 Tests and 41 one-day matches in a career spanning from 1980 to 1990.
The report in "Jang" newspaper said Mansoor was accused of depositing cheques directly into his own account which were given by departments, banks and organisations as rental for the complex ground.
He is also accused of keeping salaries of "ghost" employees at the complex.
"He had a front man, an umpire named Ejaz Zaidi who worked for and collected the cheques and money and organized tournaments for him," the report said.
The report said that after receiving a complaint, the UBL which used to have its own first class team and produced many leading players like Rashid Latif, Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sikander Bakht, Basit Ali, Azhar Mahmood, conducted a departmental inquiry against Mansoor.
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When Apple confirmed the iPhone 5 would come with a smaller Lightning dock, the company missed a huge opportunity to perform a nice gesture by offering its $30 adapter for free. After all, there are thousands, if not millions, of accessories out there that are now incompatible with Apple's latest handset. But according to a CNN report, an adapter might not make a difference for some accessories anyway.
The new adapters apparently lack support for video and iPod out, which means the iPhone 5 is initially going to be a huge headache when it's released. The iPod out functionality is more for controlling your library of music through your car's nobs and dongles, for example, so now you'll likely be forced to pick your next song on the iPhone itself. As for video, it looks as though your only alternative is using AirPlay.
During Apple's iPhone 5 unveiling, the company failed to mention any sort of lack of functionality, but its website clearly admits the missing feature. It's dumb, and will probably lead to plenty of returned adapters this holiday season when customers realize it lacks compatibility for their accessory.
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The full moon in Libra peaked this morning at 2:30 a.m. PST.
Considered one of the most potent full moons of the year, the unique planetary arrangement happening this week creates a powerful play we can take part in here on earth.
How to harness this enormous energy in your life? Here are 5 energetic concepts in full swing during the full moon in Libra. Tune into them closely and choose to interact with them positively.
Release what is no longer serving you. What are you holding onto that is over and done? What is still weighing you down that you have no use for? Relationships, objects, grudges, clutter?
Start Your Psychological Spring Cleaning (Huffington Post)
Take responsibility. The full moon is historically a time of harvest. A time to reap what you sow. Take responsibility for what has happened in your life and what is happening. Good or bad, own your part. This empowers you to move forward courageously and clearly.
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Review and rejuvinate your relationships. Your relationship to yourself and your relationships with others. The full moon is a time of illumination. The clarity that comes from introspection can reveal uncomfortable truths. Let them be a catalyst for change.
4 Reasons We Stay in Bad Relationships (Care2)
Conflict is more possible during this full moon. Bring awareness to anger and choose harmony over harming with every word you say and every action you take.
How Conflict Can Create Love (Yahoo Shine)
Change is the only constant with this moon. Things are highly charged and in a high state of flux. Soften to the waves of change. Draw on your flexibility. Break yourself open and set yourself free.
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I'm sure this story will resonate with everyone here… our photographer posted this wonderful photo today… but as I read the caption my heart sunk 🙁
"Sometimes life does not make sense.
As some of you know I photographed Katie & James's wedding on the 22nd of February.
Katie was tragically killed last Thursday when a truck hit the scooter she was riding on in Vietnam. Katie and James were at the end of their honeymoon and I'm still shocked and lost for words at this horrible news. Katie, you will be remembered as a beautiful woman 'inside and out', your infectious smile and laugh, I will always remember. RIP gorgeous. Thank you to those who have called and showed their support. Life is so precious."
There's more photos from their wedding day in this news article 🙁 http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/newlywed-geelong-nurse-dies-in-horror-honeymoon-accident/story-fnjuhovy-1226850763113
I can't even come up with words to describe the feeling in the pit of my tummy right now. It's just so tragic 🙁 And I can't begin to imagine how her poor husband is doing.


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"There are fine things which you mean to do some day; under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present; hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life – significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will."
~Grenville Kleiser
He slumbers peacefully and his eyelids flutter. Soft warm breaths come out in a slightly rhythmic pattern. Little fingers curl around a lock of hair, and the other hand curls around mine. These are moments I wish would last forever. Alas, they are only moments, moments to be timelessly imprinted in my mind. Sometimes late at night, as I observe my son sleeping, like many times before; I sit and realize that I will not always have these times, and everyday needs to be treasured.
I find Grenville's words full of wisdom. He made a purpose to make his life worth living, and I strongly hold that concept to be true. Life is a precious gift given to us. We are truly a wonderful creation that was formed to leave legacies, and to fulfill prophesies. Life is too short to just live it comfortably. Sure, it is nice to breeze through each year, but what happened to purpose? We, as humans, need to develop a strong sense of morality and virtue. How selfish of someone not to give a little extra effort, and show another that you care.
Everyday is a chance to make a difference, whether it is by teaching a child, or giving your neighbor a helping hand. The beauty of being human is that we have to ability to love, cry, desire, and to feel so many other emotions. We are the only living creature that records our lives, and therefore shares our lives with each other. Isn't that a miracle in itself? Even if we do not feel that we lived a meaningful life, our story may be told one hundred years later. What do you want your story to tell? I want mine to be that I was victorious, that I overcame adversity. I want children and grandchildren to laugh at funny times, and to miss who I was. It would be nice if I can contribute something to the medical society, and be a spiritual guidance for all who cross my path.
So now when I look at my son I see myself. Everyday I try to take the time to teach him, and show him what the essence of life is. We are always in a hurry, running from some place to the next. Cell phones are attached to our sides, and grande lattes in our hands. Stop and listen to the birds, smell the air, and look at what's around you. Not everybody has the privilege to have choices. Tell yourself that you are going to do something special every time you walk out the door, for none of us know when our hourglass is going to run out of sand.
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Today I'm excited to share a new feature called "I've Never Seen that Dress Before!" which is partly a chronicle of my not-so-secret obsession with dresses, cardigans and other furbelows….and partly a contribution to the conversation about 'fashion' and apparel that is happening in the online blogging community.
(Dress-Fat Face, Sandals-White Stuff, Flower Clip-H&M UK, Earrings-City People's)
These photos were taken last summer in Riomaggiore, Italy. One afternoon we picked blackberries and made homemade sangria. In the evening, we walked down to the beach for a picnic dinner.
Over the last few years, I've really enjoyed reading fashion blogs that allow us to see how regular people dress everyday. It may not be couture, but I find it a lot more interesting to see what folks can put together with what they have on hand. Bringing more D.I.Y. and individuality into our apparel enriches our sense of self.
Furthermore, I find fashion blogs far more inspiring than certain magazines which promote a harmful and narrow-minded ideal of beauty. People come in all shapes and sizes, and it's important that fashion be a reflection of who we are rather than of what the fashion industry would make of us.
I hope you'll enjoy this feature over the next few months and send me any questions or comments you may have.