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One Sunday afternoon at Kelly Writers House, Jake Marmer, Frank London, Al Filreis, and Maria Damon ducked into the Wexler Studio to talk about Jerome Rothenberg's Poland/1931. The group chose to focus on the section of that book entitled "Galician Nights, or a Novel in Progress" — on, in particular, a 2002 performance in which Rothenberg chanted the text while backed by the Klezmatics (the band including one of our interlocutors, the Hasidic New Wave eminence Frank London, on trumpet). The recording — which lasts six minutes and twenty-six seconds — can be found at Rothenberg's extensive PennSound page.
On December 23, 2015, in San Diego, Jake Marmer interviewed David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg. Today the recording of the interview has been added to the Marmer, Antin, and Rothenberg author pages at PennSound. Here is a direct link to it: MP3 (1:35:55). Here is Jake Marmer's introduction to the interview:
Imagining a Poetry That We Might Find: Conversation with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin
Jake Marmer, improv klezmer poet and teacher, performs Frank Lima's "Plena" in front of Palo Alto Creamery in Palo Alto, CA, January 16, 2016. Here is a link to the text of Lima's poem.
The "First Readings" series continues with five initial takes on Cecil Taylor's poem "#6.56" from his album Chinampas (1987). Each entry in the series consists of five such short first readings; we have asked Michael Farrell, Gillian White, Tsitsi Jaji, Donato Mancini, and Jake Marmer to respond to the Taylor piece. First Readings coeditors Brian Reed, Al Filreis, and Craig Dworkin are pleased now to present short essays by Michael Farrell and Jake Marmer, with three others to follow.
Harvesting in Cecil Taylor's Chinampas
1. Fred Moten had it: "I've been preparing myself to improvise with Cecil Taylor." Or something like that. I'm not looking it up. Have I been preparing, and with what? That, perhaps, is the quintessential question that comes up when one listens to Cecil Taylor, kids are climbing walls downstairs and I need the question, that comes up, is who you be, listening — not so much, as Baraka had it, "how you sound" but who you be, or more precisely, pass/assist how, listening, to INCARNATE THYSELF.
2. Overdub is palimpsest in heat. My headphones are not blocking out the noise enough. I am having a good time. I am easy.
3. There're two voices in this poem, one is melancholy, musing, marveling, fingering some dictionary, the other is more demonic easy more detonated, more disintegrated. Are they talking to each other absolutely not but TO INTERSECT well then if that's the case, it's something to aspire to.
Here is a video-recording of a performance of "Facts," performed by Jake Marmer, Frank London, Greg Wall and Uri Sharlin at Cornelia Street Cafe at the release party of the Hermeneutic Stomp CD, October 14, 2013. Watch and you'll hear the refrain, chanted by the audience: "We're not of this world." For more about the CD, see this comment at Jewish Currents; the piece includes a link to an audio recording of "Bath House of Dreams." Frank London is of course the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter who performs with the Klezmatics. Marmer's first book of poems is Jazz Talmud, published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2012. He left a small provincial town in the Ukraine at the age of 15. He is co-founder of North America's first Jewish Poetry retreat at KlezKanada Festival.
Back in April 2013, I featured in this commentary an instance of Jake Marmer's improvisational work, under the title "Improvised poetry: palimpsest of drafts." Recently, Marmer recorded an another poetic improvisation. The improvisation is based on one of his poems — and is a departure from it, "a new radical spontaneous draft." It was remixed by Israeli bassist Jean-Claude Jones, who also recorded an improvised a bass track for it. Above is the handwritten "shape poem" version (to borrow Hank Lazer's phrasing) which Marmer says he found specifically helpful in the improvisatory process.
Here is the recording, as composed and performed by Jake Marmer and then remixed by Jean-Claude Jones (with added bass): MP3.
Below is a short essay written by Andrew Levy about improvisation, first published published in W Magazine at the Kootenay School of Writing some years ago (which we here gratefully acknowledge: W #12 "ALL MUSIC," 2007). He revived the old note after having read Jake Marmer's piece made available recently in Jacket2 in this commentary: "Improvised poetry: palimpsest of drafts." Levy's original note had been inspired by something Anthony Braxton had said: the idea that some people believe jazz improvisers are simply making it all up in the moment, that they are somehow tuned in via a form of trance or something, that it's an expression of their personal genius. He dismissed that notion of spontaneity. For him improv is a form of hearing and thinking. It is making measure in the familiarity of one's attention. "If I were to revise my essay today," Andrew wrote me recently, "I might search for a different word than 'constructivist' with which to counter the notion of spontaneity. It has an art historical resonance that might be unnecessary."
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jake Marmer, who has consented to the publication of this essay here. — A.F.
I remember listening to Marc Ribot's band Ceramic Dog, thinking: My entire brain — the main line and the back corners — is burning to grasp this music. That night, the avant-garde guitarist played what was likely an entirely improvised set with three fellow musicians. I tried to follow each new direction the music took, each new interaction that erupted; I was fully consumed in some new state of attention, witnessing all the multiple levels of the work coming together in front of me.
I wanted to improvise poetry as Ribot had improvised his music. It's not a new idea. Jack Kerouac, like a number of other poets of the Beat era, wrote ecstatic, unedited compositions that felt raw and spontaneous. Kerouac famously explained that he wanted to be known as the "jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jazz session…" But his improvisation was limited to the writing process. Once finished, these poems remained more or less static throughout the publications and poetry readings that followed.


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I.e. if I move an object that has a parent to the top level (root of the scene), then the position in the scene of this object (relative to "world") does not change. This is the behavior that I was hoping for.
But if I use the function sim.setObjectParent, then the position in the scene changes: E.g. I run the following code:
I noticed that the relative position to its parent is preserved if I use sim.setObjectParent, but if I use the GUI to drag the object to a new parent, then the absolute position is preserved.
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CuboidHandle=sim.getObjectHandle('Cuboid') -- Cuboid has a parent objects, that is not located at (0,0,0)
sim.setObjectParent(CuboidHandle,-1,True) -- This "moves" the object in the scene
I want to use sim.setObjectParent to change a parent, but preserve the absolute position in the scene.
The only solution I came up with is to store the absolute position of the object before changing the parent, then restore the absolute position. Is there a better way?

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Value of business
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During the past year, Stacy Mcgill planted a new vineyard on 150 acres of land that she leases for $30,000 a year. She has asked you as her accountant to assist her in determining the value of her vineyard operation.
The vineyard will bear no grapes for the first 5 years (1-5). In the next 5 years (6-10), Stacy estimates that the vines will bear grapes that can be sold for $60,000 each year. For the next 20 years (11-30) she expects the harvest will provide annual revenues of $110,000. But during the last 10 years (31-40) of the vineyard's life, she estimates that revenues will decline to $80,000 per year.
During the first 5 years the annual cost of pruning, fertilizing, and caring for the vineyard is estimated at $9,000; during the years of production, 6-40, these costs will rise to $12,000 per year. The relevant market rate of interest for the entire period is 12%. Assume that all receipts and payments are made at the end of each year.
Dick Button has offered to buy Stacy's vineyard business by assuming the 40-year lease. On the basis of the current value of the business, what is the minimum price Stacy should accept?
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Yes, it is official a Diablo III expansion is in progress. Mike Morhaime of Blizzard Entertainment confirmed the expansion during an earnings call.
The details are limited at this time and we don't have any hints towards how much progress has been made on the new expansion, but knowing Blizzard's reputation for releasing games when they are "ready", it's probably safe to say it's going to be a little while. Opinion of Diablo III is split down the middle as many fans were disappointed in some aspects of the game. The lack of an offline gameplay mode was disappointing for long time Diablo fans who didn't want to have to deal with server issues just to play the game by themselves.
The controversial real money auction house (RMAH), has some gamers claiming that is takes away one of the major incentives to keep playing the game, finding loot. Diablo III has seen some improvement through the release of patch 1.0.5, but something still feels likes it's missing. I think that Blizzard should move their focus away from some of the previously mentioned features and really fine-tune the gameplay experience itself. Hopefully we will see this next expansion reinvigorate Diablo with not only new lands and lore to explore but adding or removing, some key features.
Regardless of how you feel about Diablo III, Activision has stated that the game is the #1 bestselling game in dollars and units on the PC in the U.S. and Europe since it's launch. I had a feeling the game would sell well considering how many players still love Diablo II and it's expansion, Lord of Destruction. The real question is whether or not those same people who originally bought the game will continue to stick with Diablo and purchase the new expansion.
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Why I Extra Life: For Will.
This summer, I met an incredible young man named William Miller who changed my life, and the lives of everyone who got to know him. I want to tell you about him because I want to make sure his spirit lives on in the efforts of Extra Life players all over the world, this November 3rd. I think Will would be very into that.
If you are able to donate, know that goes towards funding life-saving equipment, and for funding crucial patient support programs like Streetlight, ChildLife, and Arts in Medicine. I work as the Assistant Director for the Streetlight program. Streetlight is a peer support program for adolescents and young adults who have to be in the hospital for long stretches of time, or who have to come in often.
A lot of patients we see have cancer, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell, or are waiting for an organ transplant. Our goals are to help patients endure long hospital stays, whether it's through watching movies, playing games, finding any excuse to have a party, or if it's just hanging out and helping people pass the time, vent, or just be.
We say in Streetlight, "We Get To Carry Each Other", and believe that life's ultimate privilege and joy is getting to live it with the folks you love. Streetlight normally only sees patients 13 and up, but we were told by multiple doctors, nurses, and specialists about a 12-year-old boy who was years beyond his age. His mom described him as a 25-year-old stuck inside a 12-year-old's body… and because I'm basically a 12-year-old in a 25-year-old's body, we hit it off pretty quickly.
Will had just about played through every video game he could get his hands on. He knew the backstories, the intricate plot details, even the "conspiracy theories" behind all the video games we both loved, and we'd talk for hours about them. It wasn't long after I introduced Will to Streetlight that he had a following of Streetlight volunteers who loved hanging out with Will, goofing around, and listening to all the hilarious and often profound things he had to say.
Will was actually the first person to join the Streetlight Gaming League, our online video game community in Streetlight that allows patients and volunteers to connect through gaming, text, and voice chat whether they are here at Shands or back at home (I'm repping our Gaming League Shirt in the photo, which patients get upon induction to the league). Will had his own YouTube channel where he made game reviews and hospital life vlogs. I remember seeing his intro for the first time. "Ripped Pheonix" was his name. The title shook on the screen to the sounds of dubstep video game music. I loved it.
His friends at Streetlight made sure he got a never-ending supply of great games to try out and review on his channel. He also had a habit of getting them into all sorts of shenanigans. Ask me sometime about our volunteers Logan, Michael, and Chris walking miles around hospital units to catch a Pokemon for Will on Pokemon Go. He wasn't always the most eager to hang out, though. Sometimes we'd swing by and he'd be in terrible pain, or he'd be extremely down. He was going through more pain, complications, and struggles than most adults would ever have to bear in their lifetime.
Throughout it all, though, I could not for a second imagine a more perfect family for him to have at his side. His mom, dad, and sisters sat with Will through all his pain, heard his frustrations, and had an incredible way of letting the hope inside Will shine through even in the darkest times. We'd all talk about the crazy stories his parents had about Will– all his memories, his jokes, his plans for his YouTube channel, his favorite gamers. Even on his roughest days, we'd hear him say a sarcastic comment or some words of love and knew Will was still in there.
This post was written by second-year Extra Lifer Drew Walker playing for UF Health Shands Children's Hospital. You can learn more about Extra Life at extra-life.org.


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Newton Township: December 2019
These pictures form part of the Township Project – a focus on Craven Arms, Shropshire.
The Township Protect is a record of the changes and evolution of the Shropshire town of Craven Arms (once known as Newton Township) – subtle changes – human change, changes in nature and the changing of the seasons…
Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're likely to discover…
Photographer Ray Metzker
*These images represent and uncurated collection of images. At the end of the project, I will curate a collection of photographs that, when considered together, best represent the project.
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By John F. Di Leo
What can today's patriots learn from Cato the Elder?
The year is 150 B.C. Cato the Elder has been a Roman senator for some forty years. He's a good senator, and a heck of an orator. Old he may be, but he can't retire; he has a mission: He must convince Rome to go to war with Carthage. Again.
There have already been two Punic Wars, and they have been taxing for the Senate and People of Rome. There are many reasons to go to war again, some very good, some bad. Carthage remains a rival on the seas, a rival in trade… and Carthage still engages in the horrible practice of feeding children to a furnace, as food for their satanic "god." All this must stop. But the people don't want war; only Cato does.
So Cato has made it his mission in life. Every speech he gives – on agriculture, on the budget, on taxes, on spending, on requisitions for the troops, on cobblestones for the roads, no matter the topic – he always ends the exact same way, with conviction: "…and furthermore… Carthage must be destroyed!"
It took years. Years and years and years. But eventually, Cato won. He had to gather up all the good reasons, and all the bad reasons, and slowly win over the Senate and People of Rome to the idea of a Third Punic War. He was dead by the time it finally took place, but at least he went to his deathbed secure in the knowledge that his life's work was a success. Rome would soon defeat Carthage, would win her productive lands and trade routes, and would burn the city to the ground, to ensure that its ghastly death cult – the worship of "Baal of the Furnace" – would never rise up to consume human sacrifices again.
We have such an issue in Illinois, and perhaps our battle to defeat it would benefit from a study of our Roman stateman.
Illinois' Most Famous Crop
Illinois is a great agricultural state. We produce corn, some wheat, oodles of soybeans... outside Cook County it's farmland from border to border. But our most famous crop doesn't get popped and munched at the cinema, or ground into flour, or pressed into oil. Our most famous crop is generated at polling places all over the state, on the first Tuesday in November, in every even year.
The Democratic Party creates votes. No, there's no fear of accusations of slander or libel here; it's a well-known fact. Everybody knows it; they've known it for a century or more. The most common jokes in Illinois (besides our governors, that is) concern the stealing of elections.
- Every Election Day, we greet our neighbors with the words "Vote Early and Often!"
- When a friend announces the birth of his newborn baby boy, the response is "Is he registered to vote yet? Twice?"
- If Mayor Daley and three aides were stuck in a crashing plane with only one parachute and they had to vote on who gets to use it and survive, the mayor would win… twelve to six.
But it's no laughing matter. Vote fraud is deadly serious. Every illegal ballot cancels out the ballot of some honest voter; a thousand cancel out a small town, ten thousand cancel out a city. There is no way to know how much it occurs, but we do know it's huge. All told, hundreds of thousands of ballots are likely stolen in Illinois, using the many different methods familiar only to the practitioners.
- There are the multiple registrations – you've moved three times without cancelling your old registrations, and you vote two of them by absentee ballot – or unknown to you, your old registrations get voted by the old precinct captains.
- There are the faked registrations – the made-up names registered by ACORN, or the tombstone names added to the rolls by the precinct captains – so that the party can file absentee ballots on their behalf.
- There are the poor addled thousands in the nursing homes; robbed of their minds by senility or painkillers, their nursing home staffs cast their ballots "on their behalf" – whether they know it or not.
- There are the illegal aliens, and legal aliens too, who nevertheless have no right to vote, but they do anyway, casting ballots as if they were citizens. No one dares question them at the polling place; the fear of a discrimination lawsuit, or even just the fear of being called "prejudiced," is overwhelming.
- Even the felons get into the act. Banned from voting by so many states, convicted felons are actually recruited in Illinois – as enforcers, as registrars, as voters. They may not be the best-educated voters, but not to worry; there's always somebody to show them how to vote, and for whom. And how often.
This is of course just the tip of the iceberg; there are as many forms of vote fraud in this country as there are occupations. And for your garden-variety Chicago pol, vote fraud all-too-often is an occupation.
Famously, the faked votes of Chicago won Illinois – and therefore the election – for John F. Kennedy in 1960. So everyone knows about it. But what's worse is the residual effects of this widespread fraud. There are whole towns, even whole congressional districts, in which no Republican bothers to run, as a result. The race would be stolen so completely, what would be the point? So, neighborhoods, towns, even counties are full of Americans who don't know what it's like to have conservatives to choose from on Election Day. These voters have never even heard a conservative position argued.
This unchallenged domination of a community makes both parties worse. The GOP abandons these districts (no Republican ran for mayor this year, for example, in the first open Chicago mayoral race in twenty years)… and the Democrats neglect the districts as well; if you don't have to do any work to get the votes, why work at all?
The Democrats love their system; they're proud of it. With their patronage army, their computer skills, their city services to divvy up and distribute like a privilege, they're a force to be reckoned with.
No Republican presidential candidate has made a serious play for Illinois in twenty years, though Ronald Reagan won it comfortably in 1984. Like California, Illinois is assumed to be impenetrable, so when Republicans do win the White House, and do so without California or Illinois, why should they bother to consider the issues and legitimate desires of these states in their policies? Without any hope of being considered in a state or locale, the savvy politician disregards it, and moves on to the desires of the next state over: the competitive one.
Tilting at Windmills
Paddy Bauler, the old Depression-era Chicago alderman, is known for only one thing: that once upon a time, he wisecracked "Chicago ain't ready for reform."
It's still true, 70 years later, but so what? Must we wait until the city is willing to face the 21st century, or can't we strike a blow for freedom before Hell freezes over, for once?
The problem is that Illinois, and particularly Chicago, is stuck in a vicious circle: crooked politicians won't reform the election system, and without a reformed election system, you can't replace the crooked politicians. We've been caught in this loop forever.
But there are ways to move mountains. Chicago reversed the course of a river, reclaimed miles of swamp to expand eastward, became the transportation hub of the nation. Nothing is truly impossible, if you have the will, and if right is on your side. It just might take awhile, that's all.
The public doesn't know how much fraud there is, so educate them. They don't know how many votes are stolen, so educate them. They don't realize that vote fraud robs the black and Hispanic districts of their rightful representation just as much as it robs the Republicans… and on that note… consider how much the blacks and Hispanics who also happen to be Republican are robbed! Why, they're left with nothing at all!
Anyone would say that to stand up to the problem of vote fraud in Illinois would be tilting at windmills, to recollect Cervantes' famous image of an addled hero's pointless effort.
But the comparison is flawed. Don Quixote had no real enemy; his quest was imagined, so the windmills he fought were of no consequence. Not so in Illinois, where vote fraud steals – from millions of people every cycle – the very right to share in the honest selection of our government. Vote fraud is a worthy foe indeed.
The theft of our very republic – by precinct captains and ward committeemen, by judges and legislators – can be stopped… and therefore must be stopped. It may not happen in a day, but it must happen someday, even if that means wearing down the opposition one by one, day by day, hour by hour.
Joining the Wave
A wave of republican principles is sweeping across the nation. From the tea party rallies of the past two years to the stirring electoral upsets of November 2010, the nation is awakening at long last. After a century-long slow descent into socialism, the American people are invigorated. They're studying the Founders, and especially the Framers. They are learning the founding principles of our nation and realizing how much we have lost, how far we have fallen. And they are demanding a return to those very principles.
Illinois may well be behind the times – we failed to join our neighbors in flipping the governor's mansion or the legislatures this time. But it can be done someday, if we eliminate the vote fraud. That's the critical first step. Outside Cook County, we can be competitive already. We may need 53 or 55 percent to win, instead of the traditional 50% plus one, but we can do it; it's within reach. The problem is Cook County itself; that's where the ability to steal is nearly unlimited. We have no prayer at an honest chance in Cook until the fraud is at least mostly contained.
And this is where the tides of time are on our side. Wisconsin passed a Real ID requirement for voting four times in eight years, only to see it vetoed each time by its corrupt ex-governor, Jim Doyle. Now that he's gone, though, it passed at last, and was signed by their new governor, the great Scott Walker.
Indiana had already enacted its Voter ID law, and had already done the heavy lifting of getting the Supreme Court's blessing, removing one of the left's principle excuses for opposing it: the ridiculous claim that it would be unconstitutional. Rick Perry signed it in Texas; Nikki Haley signed it in South Carolina. Arizona and Georgia have joined the bandwagon; Kansas has arguably accomplished the most in this cause, with the most wide-ranging protections for the honest voter.
There has been vote fraud in every state – certainly hundreds per election in some, thousands in others, tens of thousands in others. But Illinois is likely the home of the most widespread fraud, using the most different methods from precinct to precinct, from criminal to criminal. Illinois, one could easily argue, needs this reform the most.
Illinois has a hostile governor, hostile legislative leadership, an incredibly hostile judiciary. Far too many of the incumbents in these offices owe their careers, their current offices, and their political futures, to vote fraud and, where it still exists, to the Chicago Machine, a complex mechanism powered by the steam engine of systematic vote fraud for as long as the city has been on the map.
But Illinois also has good politicians – conservatives in the state assembly and senate – who do the best with what little power minority status grants them. They do rise to speak in the assembly and senate. They do host town halls, visit civic groups, grant interviews to local papers, radio and television stations. Our Republican politicians have the same dream that others do: remaining in office to represent their constituents, competing for higher office, making a name for themselves.
Like ancient Rome, we have plenty of issues to debate in Illinois. Agriculture, spending, taxes, the budget. We have a pension system in crisis, a manufacturing environment that bleeds jobs like a gusher, an overwhelmed criminal justice system that leaves whole cities as war zones. All these are important, but none will truly be solved until the right people are elected. So breaking the stranglehold of the Democrat party's vote fraud machine is the solution not just to some questions, but quite literally, to all of them.
When will Illinois politicians grab the ballot by the horns and make this his life's work? When will some Illinois representative, senator, or treasurer speak to the multi-level wickedness of vote fraud in his speeches, not just once but again and again and again, until it sinks in at last?
As in the experience of Cato the Elder, it may take awhile. Ending every speech – every speech, press release, and op/ed – with "And furthermore, vote fraud must stop!" may not be exciting; it may even get tedious… but it is imperative to hammer this critical point home.
First we must remind the public that it is there, then inform them of the damage it does, as widespread as it is. We have seen Silver Shovel, Operation Greylord, and so many other probes result in the conviction and imprisonment of Illinois' officials. How many of these crooks would ever have held office in the first place, were it not for the enabling nature of the fraud machine? If we educate the public, remind the public, and perhaps shame just enough of the Democrats in office to cobble together a majority on the issue, it can be done!
It is time to join the 21st century. To join the wave of honesty and patriotic fervor now sweeping our country.
We must join the rest of our nation and cut taxes, cut spending, cut the red tape, cut the size of our overgrown bureaucracy.
And furthermore, vote fraud must stop!
Copyright 2011 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicago-based Customs broker and international trade lecturer. A longtime precinct captain in Maine, Ela, and Palatine townships, he served as County Chairman of the Milwaukee County GOP in the mid-90s. His semi-fictional series on vote fraud, "The Tales of Little Pavel," has appeared in Illinois Review over the past year, in an effort to raise awareness about how widespread and varied vote fraud is in America. Regarding the rumor that he sleeps with a copy of John Fund's "Stealing Elections" under his pillow every night, he will say only "not every night…"
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AmsterdamMonday, April 22, 2013
It's 420 week! So I decided to write something about Amsterdam. I have always pictured Amsterdam as a very cool city - with all th...
It's 420 week! So I decided to write something about Amsterdam.
I have always pictured Amsterdam as a very cool city - with all the parties, smoking with mary jane legally, and wild crowd. So for these, I had been wanting to go to this place. -- I was young. ;) This was last November 2011.
From Frankfurt, we took the train to Amsterdam. You can choose from Thalys, Eurail, ICE, and Bahn.
It's our first euro city where we traveled by ourselves. I mean no tour guides, no relatives, no help at all. So we dragged our 20 kg baggage and heavy laptop backpack on the city's cobblestone roads to find our hotel. Good thing I printed a map! Although, my baggage was screaming "bog, bog, bog. a.hole I'm not made for this!". It's already night when we finally settled in.
Where to stay? We chose the hotel near the train station so we can leave our heavy bags before we tour around. We stayed at Hotel CC. It's not at the center of the red district, but close.
It's accessible to trams, cafes, restaurants. The room was very small, but cozy and modern. We had the awesome view of the canals. The reception staff were polite, friendly, and very helpful. Plus there's sort of a mini maze getting to the room we were in. The standard room costs EUR130+ per night. More Reviews of Hotel CC
First impression of Amsterdam? The hotel, the toilet, the streets, everything smells weed. At first, I was so cool about it. After some days, I realized it's no longer pleasant if you would smell it day and night. But kinda expected it. We stayed near the red light district. :)
Coffee Shops
Amsterdam is famous for its vibrant and unique nightlife. Amsterdam has many cafes (bars) - bars which sells hundreds of varieties of weed including pre-rolled joints. I was in awe of the selection. There's actually a category of joints - from happy high to crazy high. They sell the pre-rolled joints (tobacco mixed with weed) for as low as 4 euros.
Coffee shops are always in "hot box". Rolling papers are free! :)
Fact: Coffee shops don't sell alcohol. There's a law which dictates shops may only sell either alcohol or cannabis products.
Red Light District
Amsterdam is also popular for its red light district. You will find girls standing behind the red-lit glass doors dressed in lingerie. They look beautiful and sexy to me (Asian standards).
If the curtain is closed, it means customer is "in". Taking pictures is not really advisable. Bad things will happen to your camera. Plus some curses. :)
Alright enough of cafes and red light. Anyway, I found the other side of Amsterdam! Surprisingly, I thought Amsterdam is just for parties, live sex shows, coffee shops.. but big BUT! It's a beautiful city with all the lights, amazing architecture, museums and lovely canals and bridges.
Let's start with the train station
We went at two museums: Rembrandt and Van Gogh
These are all walkable from our hotel.
Funny thing: We saw a nude woman's bronze sculpture, and a drunk man was pouring beer all over her body. I have no idea why, maybe giving her a bath. :P
Canals, canals, bridges and bridges
Amsterdam has been called the "Venice of the North"
One thing to be careful of are the bikes. They don't stop, they will kill you.
Houseboat. Our tour guide said, there are only limited houseboat permits given away. You can only get one when someone sells his slot or if someone's houseboat vanished somewhere. :)
We paid for the hop on hop off tour. Since it was late, we tried the tram.
I love this part of the city
Overall, I had a great time in Amsterdam. I was happy and high of funny adventures and misadventures.
That's a check on my bucket list. :)
PS. The funniest thing, there was a fire alarm at the hotel after midnight. We were shocked and didn't really know what to do. "Should we run, should we pack, should we go outside?" We were panicking!!! I was putting back all my clothes in my bag. Then after few minutes, there was an announcement from the speakers "Please calm down. There is no fire. Somebody has just smoked tremendously in his room."


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A Baltic Beer Journey, Part 2
Other than the beer festival, Riga is not overflowing with craft beer – with one shining exception (or two, depending on how you count). This is the S.Brevinga "empire" which consists of a pub and restaurant in the Old Town of Riga (right near Dome Square/Doma Laukums, here's a map) with a bottle shop next to it, and then another bottle shop/bar in Berga Bazars, a trendy mall in downtown Riga (here's another map). The pub is S. Brevinga alus un viskija bars (S. Brevinga Beer and Whisky Bar, for those of you Latvian-challenged), the bottle shop/bar is S. Brevinga Alus Salons, and they are both essential visits for the craft beer fan in Riga.
A Taste of Sweden
I would normally be reluctant to plug particular beer shop sites on the blog (I use several of them and they all have their strengths and weaknesses), but this I feel has the character of a public service message. I've remarked before that I'm sorry Swedish craft beer is not widely available (or available at all) in the UK, so I was very pleased to discover that Beers of Europe had a number of beers from renowned Swedish craft brewery Nils Oscar among their new releases for May. EDIT: just found out that BeerRitz also have the same Nils Oscar beers in stock. Nils Oscar was founded in 2006 which makes it quite an established player on the Swedish craft beer scene. They're based in Nyköping, around 60 miles southwest of Stockholm, and they also have a distillery where they produce small-batch, craft aqvavit.
A Christmas Present: The Beer Club of Britain
My sister-in-law gave me a couple of months' worth of subscription to The Beer Club of Britain for Christmas, which was very kind of her. This is what was included in the first batch (four bottles each):
I hardly know any of these breweries (I know of Adnams, of course, and I've heard good things about Oakham but have yet to try any of their beers) so I have no idea what to expect. With the first batch you just get what you get, apparently, but with the following batches you'll get the option to make changes to the selection. Judging from their web page, The Beer Club seems to have a fairly limited selection but it may be that they just don't update their page very often – certainly the contents of the "Welcome Pack" they list on their web page bears no resemblance to the Welcome Pack I got.
My first impression is that the selection seems a bit… safe. Still, I'm looking forward to sampling the Bishop's Farewell by Oakham. Maple-flavoured beer also sounds interesting (Maple Moon by Joseph Holt Brewery), as does "Dark bitter" (Stocking Filler by York Brewery).
Anyone have any experience of The Beer Club of Britain who would care to comment? Or comment on any of the beers?


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Driver Assistance > Connected Eco-Driving
Implementation of a connected eco-driving traffic signal system can lead to fuel savings of up to nine percent for heavy-duty diesel trucks.(07/31/2019)
Greater adoption of CAV may result in long-term benefits but mid-term fluctuations for costs and congestion, according to predictive model.(01/11/2019)
CAVs are expected to decrease congestion up to 50 percent, increasing the effective capacity of urban networks leading to a new equilibrium with more users but with negligibly less congestion than the current system.(01/11/2019)
CV-based adaptive signal control has potential to increase mainline arterial speeds by an average of 5 percent and reduce maximum intersection queue lengths by 66.7 percent even with low market penetration (5 percent CV).
The benefits of eco-guidance extend to other cars on the road, offering comparable emissions reductions to following vehicles.(11/01/2018)
Connected eco-driving for drayage operations on signalized networks can reduce diesel truck energy consumption by 4.4 to 8.1 percent.(1/13/2018)
Simulated use of dynamic eco-driving speed guidance strategy in vehicles shows an emissions reduction of 25 percent.(12/21/2017)
GlidePath Prototype application reduces fuel consumption by an average of 17 percent by improving compliance with suggested speed profiles.(11/03/2017)
Eco-Approach and Departure (EAD) techniques for connected vehicles can save six percent energy for trip segments within range of DSRC enabled signal controllers.(01/11/2017)
Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control field test yielded fuel consumption reduction of 37.4 percent and travel time reduction of 8.6 percent.(January 2017)
Transit eco-driving strategies can reduce fleet bus fuel consumption by five to seven percent.(April 2016)
Simulations show that an eco-speed control algorithm can reduce fuel consumption up to 18 percent in the vicinity of signalized intersections.(02/12/2016)
Eco-driving applications for automated vehicles can reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent, and decrease CO, NOx, and HC emissions by over 60 percent at intersections.(January 2016)
Eco-driving strategies can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 10 percent, and decrease CO, NOx, and HC emissions by approximately 30 percent at intersections.(January 2016)
A simulation analysis demonstrated that connected vehicles using intersection SPaT data and Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control algorithms to regulate speed profiles can reduce fuel consumption up to 40 percent on signalized arterials. (January 2016)
The GlidePath Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system installed on a partially automated vehicle improved its fuel economy by 22 percent at a test track in Virginia.(January 2016)
Low Emissions Zones concept can potentially reduce emissions by 15-18 percent.(January 2015)
Eco-Speed Harmonization and Eco-Connected Adaptive Cruise Control applications show results of up to a 22 percent reduction in energy and a 33 percent reduction in travel time.
Fuel optimization framework has ability to reduce fuel use in the vicinity of signalized intersections by up to 32 percent.(10/01/2014)
Eco-driving can reduce emissions by more than 50 percent at signalized intersections.(01/12/2014)
Eco-speed control applications for connected vehicles can reduce fuel consumption 30 percent at urban intersections.(12-16 January 2014)
Applications that recommend optimal speeds for specific road segments can yield emissions and fuel consumption savings of 5.3 percent and 11.6 percent, respectively, for cars.(2014)
Eco-cruise control application reduced fuel consumption by 27 percent on a section of I-81 in Virginia.(January 2014)
Eco-cruise control reduced travel time by 8.5 percent and delay by 23 percent on a segment of I-81 in Virginia.(January 2014)
On-board eco-driving applications that encourage optimal shifting and acceleration rates can improve fuel economy up to 12 percent.(06/01/2013)
Eco-cruise control (ECC) systems that use topography information to maximize engine performance can reduce fuel consumption 5 to 15 percent.(02/19/2013)
Automated vehicles can save more than 1000 lives annually with 10 percent market penetration.(12-16 January 2013)
Automated vehicles (AVs) can reduce congestion and save $1,400 per year per AV with 10 percent market penetration.(12-16 January 2013)
2012 European trial study confirms eco-driving feedback tool results in up to 6 percent reduction in vehicle CO2 emissions.(01/07/2013)
Cooperative vehicle intersection signal control systems can reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 36 and 37 percent, respectively.(09/06/2012)
Autonomous vehicles with full market penetration can use intelligent intersections to manage approach speeds and reduce fuel consumption and emissions up to 50 percent.(9/1/2012)
Connected eco-driving applications can improve fuel economy 10 to 15 percent.(05/01/2012)
Connected vehicles that receive future state intersection signal control data to support predictive cruise control functions can reduce fuel consumption 24 to 47 percent.(05/01/2011)
Eco-driving can improve truck fuel economy by up to 22 percent(2011)
Traffic-light-to-vehicle communication systems can help drivers avoid braking and accelerating maneuvers and reduce fuel consumption 8 to 22 percent.(November 2010)
In-vehicle driver speed advisory systems that use broadcast signal timing information can reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 12 and 14 percent, respectively.(3-7 October 2009)
NHTSA estimated that onboard units (OBUs) supporting V2V communication functions would cost $350 per vehicle by 2020. (January 2018)
Estimated capital costs to equip 10 intersections with DSRC radio communications and backhaul needed to support V2I applications can range from $443,000 to $644,000.(06/01/2016)
The average cost to upgrade backhaul telecommunications to support a DSRC roadside unit for V2I applications is estimated to vary from $3,000, if the site has sufficient backhaul and will only need an upgrade, to $40,000, if the site requires a completely new backhaul system.(09/01/2015)
DSRC On-board Unit (OBU) - Capital cost/unit - $2500(07/01/2018)
In-Vehicle Equipment for DSRC - Capital cost/unit - $341(09/01/2015)
In-Vehicle Equipment for DSRC - Capital cost/unit - $341(09/01/2015)
Cybersecurity, reliability, and shared cars are the top public concerns regarding Autonomous Vehicles in Austria.(09/20/2019)
Study finds that over time using advanced assistive driver technologies can increase unsafe driving behavior.(01/01/2019)
A Federal report highlights best practices for ITS programs that plan to implement connected vehicle (CV) technology.(07/01/2018)
USDOT Identifies Effective Ownership and Governance Model Areas of Interest for a Full-Scale SCMS deployment for Connected Vehicles.(06/22/2018)


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Make ahead meals don't need to take up your entire day. You can easily be that mom with a stockpile of ready to eat meals in her freezer! Prepping freezer meals starts with a good recipe and a little planning. If you're looking for some delicious recipes to fill your freezer this month, check out these 31 Freezer Meals You Can Make Ahead Of Time.
31 Freezer Meals You Can Make Ahead Of Time
These 31 freezer feals you can make ahead of time will have you organized and ready for the followiing weeks cooking time. It will also help you keep a budget on your weekly grocery shopping. Without overspending or overchooking for your family.
- Ravioli Lasagna
- Teriyaki Chicken
- Baked Ziti
- Lasagna Roll Ups
- Cheesy Tortellini with Meatballs
- Lemon Pesto Chicken
- Beef Enchiladas
- Simple Meatloaf
- Chicken, Broccoli, Bacon, and Potato Bake
- Fajita Kit
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- Vegetarian Garden Vegetable Soup
- Italian Wedding Soup
- Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Freezer Friendly Breakfast Burritos
- Creamy Chicken and Gnocchi Soup
- Easy Freezer Pancakes
- Texas Roadhouse Pot Roast
- Chicken Parmesan
- Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti
- Easy Broccoli and Cheese Soup
- Chicken Noodle Soup
- Turkey Chili
- Lazy Day Stew
- Hamburger Pie
- Bean and Cheese Burritos
- Sweet Fire Chicken
- BBQ Ribs
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Medlock got his first start at quarterback after playing half of two games. He played the entire game and accounted for four touchdowns, two rushing and two passing. Jones added three touchdown
"It doesn't matter if I'm starting or doing a two-QB"It doesn't matter if I'm starting or doing a two-QB system, you have to get ready for every game and prepare like you're the starter no matter what," said Medlock who has split time at quarterback with Matt Behrendt.
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An anon asked on tumblr:
Boyd's answer:
I love art supplies but rarely do anything with them. I was rereading ICoS making notes for future editing and in Fade, a quote stood out to me. I've been feeling emo and I thought I could try to use it as inspiration.
I've had an oval piece of paper for years that I kept aside for the day I might finally have a purpose for it, and last Sunday I realized this was it. I used oil pastel crayons for the words and then used watercolor to wash over it. I taped it over a big art piece that happens to have the same coloring, because it's the only space I have above my computer.
If you can't read it, this is the quote:
"But that was the way it went anytime a person was on the precipice of change. The fear of the future mixed with the loss of the past. At those times, all a person could do was step forward."
More Ais' Terrible Art! This was inspired because I was catching up on youtube subscriptions and this video got me thinking about how it would be funny to have an advice column featuring the different stages of Boyd in ICoS.
Here you go! I named it #1? because I don't know if I'll do more. If you want to give me fake (or real) questions for advice to keep in a prompt list for future Boyd's (Bad) Advice comics, let me know! This one I got from searching for advice column questions lolz
Somehow, I had never done any Dead Rain excerpts here?? Is that right? I was looking for them just now and could only find them on my livejournal.
In case anything ever happens to lj, I'm adding the excerpts here as well. Sorry that this is four in one post but I thought it would be easier to have all in one place to catch up. If I did already have these here and didn't tag them properly, I apologize for the repeat and scroll down to "EXCERPT FOUR" which is newly released today.
Since this book is still being written, nothing is edited properly.
This is the summary for Dead Rain, by the way, which is an LGBT fantasy book I started for NaNo in 2012/2013:
Magic can change a person, twisting them into something they weren't before. Some kill for this, some try to slow it down, but there is no cure. Not one that's known, anyway.
And now we're up to date with the latest Ais' Terrible Art, that I'm crossposting today to tumblr.
This is actually unrelated to ICoS. I bought a program and wanted to test it out by doing a shorter drawing. I decided to try doing an art piece inspired by something I wrote in writing group on April 2, 2012. We were given a randomly generated word and had to write something in 7 minutes based on it. I got the word 'stonework.'
Here is the video of me drawing it:
This is what I wrote:
And here is the final product on its own:
Continuing the Ais' Terrible Art dump posts…
May 19, 2014: Happy Anniversary
I decided to try a different program for recording my screen. It turned out to not work AT ALL. I did get it to record but it's super jacked up. The video is first, and beneath it is the final product.
I was inspired by giuliabo1's art prompt of Boyd making Hsin a birthday cake. I ended up doing something a little different so it was easier.
I got super lazy the last couple of months and wasn't crossposting over here when I posted Ais' Terrible Art. I'm sorry 😦 😦
Recently, I've been trying to record when I draw on Paint, and making them into speed videos for fun. Below is a dump post of the Terrible Art I did since my last post in March.
May 9, 2014: funfire
I accidentally typed 'funfire' instead of 'gunfire' while editing Evenfall for Director's Cut Volume I, and I was amused/inspired by that. This is what I drew below:
May 10, 2014: How to Make a Terrible Art Comic
The first attempt I got to work for making a video, although it has its problems.
….DAMN THING. I just discovered that it doesn't let me do multiple youtube videos in one post. I'm sorry, I'm going to have to do multiple posts at once to get up to date 😦


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Moral Ambiguities
Some of this has been discussed in other threads, but I am interested in the whole picture.
Several moral or ethical messages that I thought Rowling was trying to convey through the first 6 books and part of DH seemed to fall apart by the end.
"For the greater good" is presented as a cover slogan for a totalitarian tyranny. Yet bythe end of DH, it seems to be Dumbledore's working motto.
Dumbledore seemed to show exemplary respect for others, even when he strongly disagreed with their choices. Courtesy was a matter of principle, even at the point of death. And then he turned out to be using the others as tools, even Harry -- not respectfully at all.
Killing is bad, unnatural, and highly dangerous because it rips the soul apart. Dumbledore tries to protect Draco from such a disaster. Yet, everyone goes at it happily in the Big Battle, with no apparent concern for their souls.
Harry took a principled stand against the incarceration of Stan Shunpike without due process. Yet in the end, it appears that Stan may have been a Death Eater -- at least the matter is left very unclear, so that people on this forum are arguing about it. Was this an unimportant matter to Rowling after all, or did she mean Harry was wrong?
Harry wouldn't cause Stan's death just because Stan was in the way. He stood up to Lupin about it. "That's Voldemort's job." At that point, I was thinking Harry has the strength of ten because his heart is pure. But later events make me doubt it.
Harry chose to lie to Griphook. (He had alternatives, at least he could have tried them. He could have made it a condition that Griphook would lend him back the sword for a specified period, for instance.) If Griphook had actually been faithful, Harry would have, essentially, cheated Griphook. Is Rowling condoning that too, "for the greater good"?
Harry uses the Unforgiveables. And he "means them." Maybe he had no choice at Gringotts, but after that? Is "meaning" an unforgiveable curse a good thing to Rowling? Are they so unforgiveable after all?
In Rowling's world, in short, do the means justify the ends after all? Were the principles I thought so meaningful for Harry's character just plot points or just qualmish scruples to be overcome?
Is Rowling giving us a Henry V, where these are the lessons of leadership?
Did anyone else wonder what is going on here?
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I find it amusing...there was just an entire thread about people becoming bored at Harry's journey of unwavering good in DH. Obviously not everyone feels that way-
JKR wrote books about in depth characters that fought for good. By the time DH rolls around there is a WAR. She proves many points and offers lessons learned from past generations using war as a context, very successfully i feel. One point being that morals become very distorted in combat, or in a life or death situation. (all is fair in love and war) JKR didn't write a book on how to develop good moral character- she herself said the series was about death.
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True, in a life or death situation I think all of our morals would change a little. Besides JK has stated that she never meant for Harry to be a saint, all of her characters are flawed.
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Shades of gray, friend, shades of gray...
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Perhaps all of the moral/ethical messages in book 1-6 seemed to (in the OP's own words) "fall apart by the end" because DH represented Harry's extreme loss of innocence. You could argue that his loss of innocence occurred in GoF, but I don't really think it hit home until DH.
In DH we were forced to view many characters who we loved or hated in contrasting ways. We were forced to view a beloved character like Lupin as thoughtless, impulsive, and irresponsible, we were forced to view a beloved character like Dumbledore as cruel and manipulative,and we were forced to view a hated character like Snape in a sympathetic, tragic light.
Our previous conceptions of those characters were blown to pieces, so it stands to reason that the same would happen to the moral/ethical messages of the series as well.
I am a proud Rose/Scorpius shipper.
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I guess my perspective on this was covered in the other thread:
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As Tromos said in his post-within-a-post (), "The saintly perception of Dumbledore was shattered. And even Harry, whom Dumbledore celebrates as a much more honorable wizard than himself, has his significant faults - arrogance and anger among them." I think this brings up a great point in that there will always be shades of grey when dealing with very realistic characters. No one is perfect, and to have any character be the infallible embodiment of perfection would be absurd.
The morals aren't provided within one character, they're provided throughout the series. And JKR has said that she never set out to make Harry Potter a book of morals, they just kind of happened.
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I like that the books make morality so ambiguous. Because morality is ambiguous. Here we have a series of tales about Good vs. Evil, Hero vs. Villain, completely with a ridiculously idealistic Power of Love concept, and yet, the morality is portrayed with brutal realism.
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Honestly, the characters aren't saintly. They are human and they are flawed, some more than others. Lupin was guilty because he felt he sentenced his wife and unborn child to being outcasts. I think that was a natural response for his situation.
Dumbledore made mistakes in the past. Dumbledore learned from those mistakes, that's why he never trusted himself with power.
There is moral ambiguities in HP but that's what makes it an interesting series. Not everything in the world is black or white: people change, make mistakes, do things for the wrong reasons and hurt the people they love.
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Ahem. Point worth mentioning: "murder" rips the soul apart, but it doesn't say anything about merely "killing." I think the damage to the soul depends upon one's intent when one strikes the ending blow. Killing in self-defense or defense of others would probably not be so bad... outright murder, though? Definitely bad. Bad to the tenth power.
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I don't think those fighting in the final battle were too concerned about the morality of what they were doing. They were fighting to survive. There is a difference in murdering someone and someone being killed on battle. If I am a solider in a war and I kill my enemy- who is trying to kill me- is that murder? Should I be concerned with my soul? My soul would be the last thing on my mind, my life and the life of those fighting with me would be the only thing I would think about.
All the characters, as mentioned above, are flawed. I think the progression of the books show the progression of Harry's innocence being lost.
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Actually, I think this quote puts the whole question of moral ambiguity into a very clear light. 'You alone know...' You alone. It is not for anyone else to say. There is no clear, definitive, absolute answer. Is Dumbledore permitted to choose his manner of death? Will Snape choose to heed those wishes? It all comes down to choice.
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I don't think the word "flawed" actually covers what happened in this book. I really felt that the moral of the story went from "love conquers all" to "the end justifies the means". Thank you, Fruitia, for giving voice to what I also felt. I had several problems with the breakdown of morality in this book. First of all, Harry did not just mean the curses, he actually started to like them. Second, using people, for any reason, is wrong. Third, NOBODY returns from the dead. I cant count the times that Harry has been told that, yet, we get a resurection.
All that said, as an adult, I loved the book and understand that it is fiction. I know right from wrong and I pride myself on trying to have strong moral values. However, this book was written for kids. I have made the decision not to allow my nine year old to read this book. He is very impressionable and I do not feel that this book sends him the right moral lesson. I am dissapointed and was honestly shocked as I read.
I do not believe the the end always justifies the means, and the motto "for the greater good" just seems evil to me. I think I was a little "too" reminded of Hitler and WWII. Hiroshima was deemed "for the greater good" also. Hitler claimed that the extermination of the Jews were "for the greater good". I don't like that it turned out to also be the motto of a children's book hero.
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Shrug, the book was very true to life. Sometimes good people have to do inherently wrong things to achieve the greater end and sometimes you have to violate your own morals to achieve an end. I knew the book was going to be like that from the moment Lupin was yelling at Harry about how their battle wasn't child's play.
Having said that I think the moral ambiguity in this book, and the adult theme of the acceptance and understanding of death, would probably be a bit too confusing for a nine year old.
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I would agree that Harry's almost casual use of crucio is problematic. But the other issues seemed quite coherent to me.
First of all the issues is that of choice. Dumbledore insisted to Harry repeatedly that the prophacy did not control him, that it was up to him to choose to act. He stressed that it was our choices that define us, not our abilities. In the end it is clearly Harry's choice to follow Dumbledore's plan. It is his choice to sacrifice himself to save the others. And he spent half the book complaining that Dumbledore had told him what needed to be done, but not how to do it. He wanted his guidance.
Dumbledore knew Harry. He knew what Harry would say about pursuing Voldemort if he was ignorant of the prophacy. He knew that Harry would complete the quest. But there was much Harry still needed to learn, and Dumbledore was not there to teach it himself. His Socratic teaching technique needed adaptation to function beyond his death. So Dumbledore had to arrange things so that Harry would learn what Harry needed to learn through the quest. Dumbledore felt Harry needed to be wiser than he was when his sister died. In a way, Dumbledore wanted Harry to have the benefit of his own experiance, for Harry's sake.
Dumbledore felt responsibility for HArry, but also for the whole world. And so he needed to make sure that Harry would acquire the wisdom he would need. He treated Harry pretty much as he always had, leaving him to try to figure things out himself, while doing what he could to protect him.
He set Harry upon the horcrux quest knowing it would kill him, but that Harry would know it was coming, and would choose to die. But he also set him upon the quest of the Hallows, with the hope it would help him to survive the first quest. Snape questions Dumbledore's use of Harry, as merely a means to Voldemort's fall. That is the criticism which seems to be directed at Dumbledore. But Snape doesn't know about the Hallows. Implicitly, JKR is telling us that sort of criticism misses much of what happened. In the fullness of the story, Dumbledore trys as hard to help Harry to survive as to vanquish Voldemort. He does not merely use Harry as a means to their common end, but also as an end in himself.
Stan Shunpike is clearly depicted and discussed as under the Imperious. He is not a Deatheater, so the earlier issues of the denial of Due Process are moot. Harry refuses to punish Stan for choices not his own. Lupin is warning that Harry may not always have a choice of how to react. In those cases, where there is no choice, perhaps there is no culpability. But Harry will always look for that choice, while others may not. This seems consistant with Dumbledore/Harry's standard, even if Lupin shows that the Order are not entirely of one mind ethically. In the end Lupin backs down to the idea that if Harry's spells can be predicted, he is at a tactical disadvantage, in a sense the same as Snape's last "lesson" in HBP. In a sense, he has declined to challange Harry's ethical argument. JKR seems to be saying that Harry is right, and so the position remains consistent, despite Lupin's challenge.
Dumbledore's conversation with Snape makes it clear that he sees the issue as more complex than simply "Killing=Tear in Soul". We have never had a real discussion of this concept in the text, only the tip of the iceberg. And he seems to recognize the right of individuals to make their own ethical judgements. So perhaps the defenders of Hogwarts are making there own choices, as to whether their soul would be scared for their choices in battle. Or perhaps they demonstrate part of what Dumbledore was about atop the tower with Draco. He wanted Draco to be calm, knowing that with the flush of battle he might do something he would not do if he had a chance to consider it. And perhaps this is Harry's problem as well.
The defenders of Hogwarts also differ from the Deatheaters in that the latter use the AK, because they want to kill, where as the defenders are in theory using what is necessary to defend themselves and others from death. I think the point is, that each acts on their own, as JKR expects they will, but doesn't mean them all to stand for her moral voice. Only that she will not criticize them, because it is their lives, and their choices, and tehy will have to live with them.
"For the Greater Good" is an interesting slogan as it has so may meanings. In this context I immediately was reminded of Spock in The Wrath of Khan. There he asserts that the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, or the one. In his case, and in Harry's it is an argument for self sacrifice. It is a maxim which in this case they each find appropriate, and choose to accept it as wisdom. For Grindelwald, it was a justification for coercion, no free choice required. For Churchill, the Battle of Britain meant the survival of the nation, and the pilots were mostly volunteers who died to protect their families. For Truman at Hiroshima, the calculus was more complcated still.
While I think JKR has suggested people have to find their own way on the ethical front, I don't think that by offering competing notions of morality she is being inconsistant, but rather realistic. Just as people have argued on these board as to what sorts of killings would harm the soul, JKR knew that not mentioning popular competing notions would weaken the story. Mentioning them, and then challenging them is simply more persuasive, and makes for a better story.
Finally, it is worth remembering that Hermione tells us that the key to healing a wounded soul, even if torn as Voldemort did, is remorse. If those defenders of Hogwarts come to wish there had been another way, to wish their spell had not killed, they can regain their humanity. But to the extent they do not regret, have no remorse, then their souls will suffer, as we know traumatized soldiers do. In offering Voldemort this option, JKR is again being consistant by having Harry give Voldemort a choice, just as she does in having Harry use Expeliramus.
Ultimately, people are not perfect. An so it is fortunate that one need not be perfect to be heroic. If Harry were perfect, the message would be that people need such a perfect hero to save them. Instead the message is that anyone can be heroic, if they are willing too make the right choices. Neville in the first book, and consistantly Neville in the last.
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I noticed this too...particularly the Unforgivables.
Imperius I could deal with because it CAN have good intentions. Harry used it to make sure he was able to get the horcrux, not to make people commit horrible crimes against others or even themselves.
I didn't think Harry would have to use Avada Kedavra but when McGonagle said "we duel to kill" i was pretty shocked. I know that its the art of war to kill and attack so perhaps that can be justified as well. After all, It's self defense against the DEs. Harry and the gang are just young and naive to some extent despite what they have seen...........
The biggest problem for me was the Cruciatus Curse. Harry could have stunned Carrows but he instead causes horrible pain? That does not sound like the same boy that couldn't even cause pain on the woman who killed his godfather. that was the biggest thing that bothered me.
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Just in terms of Stan Shunpike...I thought there are two options:
1. He was Imperiused/Confunded/etc. and didn't know what he was doing. He was freed along with the Mass Breakout that was hushed up, Imperiused, and set to work for the Death Eaters. Harry acted justly, if rashly in terms of the situation.
2. He became a Death Eater. No, I am not kidding. "What?" you say, "didn't he have the blank face of the Imperius charm? Wasn't he the poster child of Harry and DD's rejection of the Ministry's methods? How can Harry have acted wrong in doing Expelliarmus?"
Face it, Stan Shunpike was not the rosiest apple on the tree. He was stupid. His blank face could have been just that - a characteristic of his personality. Yes, he was imprisoned wrongly, for not being a Death Eater...originally. But that is just the point. How do you think he felt being imprisoned, framed by the very government he had trusted? Do you think he felt warm and friendly? Or, do you think that since he was freed due to Voldemort's interference he...switched sides? He very possibly saw protection from the Death Eaters and only more misery from the Ministry. Stan Shunpike turned - and that is one of the poignant tragedies of the novel.
Number one may still be right, but I prefer the second option.
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Bawarshi, Anis. "Genres as Forms of In(ter)vention." In Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism. Eds. Eisner and Vicinus. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2008. 79-89.
Blanket accusations of plagiarism don't account for the complexities of genre, culture, and discipline: the knowledge of how much is appropriate to imitate, recontextualize, and cite is local and contextual. This knowledge is something Bawarshi describes as "uptake" – the space, actions, and relationship between invention and imitation. Bawarshi advocates teaching students about source use by addressing it locally: discipline by discipline, genre by genre. He gives two examples – the uptake of writing prompts to student essays and the uptake of the testimonio I, Rigoberta Menchu – as situations when there was a misread of the uptake and the understanding of the space between imitation and invention.
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"Imitation and invention exist on a genre-defined continuum and thereby have a variable relationship that we must acknowledge if we want to understand imitation's inventive power – that genre-differentiated point of transformation where imitation becomes invention" (80).
"ideological interstices that configure, normalize, and activate relations and meanings within and between systems of genre."
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takes uptake from speech-act theory: how an illocutionary act is taken up as a perlocutionary effect


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