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Hello, good evening and gleetings.
Gravesend has won the 'Lympics, it was the Bottle Green Batman's manly chin wot did it.
See, the ToniBlairTroll has been shrieking at the Bottle Green Batman for 38 hours about this, and that, a farage of half truths and obfuscations and NOT ONCE did the Bottle Green Batman's chin quiver, nor did a tear slide slowly down his cheeks. That's because the Bottle Green batman is able, temporarily, to cauterize his own tearducts, one of many super-powers he has, which are secret, so, you know. Hrrm, ha ! Taps nose.
The ToniBlairTroll farted, as well, which was sly, but the Bottle Green Batman even overcame this, and so he gets all the medals.
Walk Tall !
Devoxx 2018 - Var with Style - Local Variable Type Inference in Java 10
Java 10 introduced a feature called Local Variable Type Inference, which lets programmers declare local variables using 'var' instead of using an explicit type. This feature enables one to write code that is more concise and more readable. However, it's also possible for this feature to be misused, obfuscating code instead of making it more readable. The Java Team has published a set of style guidelines that help direct programmers toward uses of 'var' that improve code quality and that help them avoid uses that detract from code quality. This session gives an overview of the new 'var' feature and describes these style rules. The presentation is liberally supplemented with code examples of both good uses and misuses of 'var'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=786iemaCJHU
( Devoxx 2018
Tous les slides sont proprietes de leurs auteurs.
All slides are properties of their authors. )
Reading (Non-White) Women’s Desire: From Feminine to Post-Colonial Condition
Image Credit: Shua Lea, Chang © 2019
‘Woman’ has never been able to fully define her desire whilst resting under the dominant male gaze, often obfuscated and muffled in the discourse of desire. This dissertation thinks about feminist approaches to desire, as a path building toward future curatorial practice.
Challenging notions of desire often located in its bare sexual meaning and impulse, the in-depth case studies in this dissertation expose the multiplicity of subjective positions opened up by woman in relation to desire. Alongside these studies of gender run fundamental psychoanalytic theories enhancing the interrogation of the theme. This thesis proposes to ask: how is desire gendered, in order to raise awareness of whose desire is discussed and occupied?
The aim is to unlock women’s desire through women’s gaze; to ascertain what has not yet been articulated, and
Ko-Fan, Lin (b.1991, Taipei, Taiwan), graduated from Yuan Ze University with a major in Information Communication in 2013. Whilst working at Taipei Contemporary Art Centre (TCAC), Lin engaged in a key research project and art exhibition Portrait Portrait (2016-2017) which explored our relationship to history and memories, supporting three Taiwanese curators.
Since moving to Glasgow, Lin curated an art exhibition Zone with artist Ruth Switalski (2019). Her practice continues to look into and develop feminist and post-colonial perspectives on art in relation to the archive. Through a reading of (non-white) women’s desire, she attempts to raise awareness of whose desire is formed and occupied in the case of both feminine and postcolonial circumstances.
lininfo8085@gmail.com
"FANGØ" is a defense weapon against surveillance capitalism. Disguised as a mobile phone charger, it operates as a microcontroller that takes control of the smartphone in which it is plugged into. Making random searches and liking random posts on popular social platforms, it aims to deceive data brokers and disrupt the data capturing process.
Photo: Michel Klehm at Werkleitz Festival in 2021
My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
A replica of the One Ring, the ring to rule them all, forged in the fires of Mount Doom. The One Ring is the ring of power that Bilbo Baggins find during the story, The Hobbit, and is then taken on an epic journey to be destroyed in The Lord of the Rings.
This shot took a bit of work to get right - I used my monopod stretched in front of my book case to hang the ring from, then used a Maglite, obfuscated by fingers to try and get a pinpoint light source to avoid getting a background. The flash on the iPhone 4S was not fired.
This Weird Place, new work by Lane Hagood, Alika Herreshoff, Cody Ledvina, Lee Piechocki, Anthony Record & Eric Shaw. All six artists engage the unsteady ground between figuration and abstraction using diverse, unique means. Through the flaying of representation through abstraction (and vice versa), both are dissected, and we are allowed a teetering view between revelation and obfuscation.
Anthony Record’s images are wrung from the awkward pixels of primitive computer drawing programs, and re-rendered with fastidious care into paintings and needlepoint rugs, which both counter and exalt their origins. Both Eric Shaw and Cody Ledvina work impulsively, in an elemental and pseudo-psychedelic re-examining of the familiar figure through rhythmic amalgamation and deconstruction. Lee Piechocki and Alika Herreshoff’s work serves as a counterbalance, meditative and responsive to the inherent concerns of painting, color, and line (and hinting at, rather than blatant in relation to figuration and intent). Lane Hagood’s approach is scholarly, and rooted in cavernous literary reference which leads to work that both contradicts and acknowledges the post-modern paradox of inescapability from quotation and never-ending intellectual reiteration.
I shoot fucked things
that obfuscate my
vision some what
like a foolish stupid
fisherman i wonder
what the fuck i have
caught the poor
mans fate the poor
mans fucked lot
i sometimes add
poetry to my
fucked thoughts
like the actors
in my street skit
destined to rot
puppets on a
string ..playing
their parts ..
sometimes cold
sometimes hot
on the map of
my fucked
imagination
little dots
what god did not want me to see
i cosmically I shot ..a street photographer
using my camera as a karmic robot ..
My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
Whatever Hallucination is, I want some. The advertising is beautiful. The posters show ethereal, dreamy imagery full of white fluffy clouds, serene blue oceans, carefree sea gulls, and mysterious, half-dressed, vaguely occidental women whose faces are obfuscated billowy, wind-swept hair. Usually, a hot cuppa appears somewhere in the image, often floating in clouds, so maybe Hallucination is instant coffee.
Or this advertising for billboard space.
www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/blog/news/have-you-seen-be...
Light armor jungle-camo walking tank.
S.C.O.R.P.I.O.N.
Specialized Covert Operations Robotic Pilot Integration Obfuscated Neutralizer
-1 high power sniper cannon 80mm rds
-Dual 50 cal chainguns with 50,000 rd. Drums
-8 grenade option slots - 2 smoke, 2 flash, 4 HE rds
-6 missile option slots in rear battery - 4 blackarrow warheads, 2 splitfire rockets
Work in progress
Law’s Notes
9-24-XX
Like the Old Man – my progenitor, I suppose you can say – I have decided upon recording my adventures in this electronic format. The benefit to Laz was fairly substantial, and, despite my personal lack of understanding toward posthumous efficacy, I suppose I should do the wise thing and take the lesson before I even understand it.
I should start with this: Who am I?
My name is Lawrence Lowtide. I’m a courier, carrying less than legal parcels to parties who prefer discretion and obfuscation. Danger, distance, and time are typically not obstacles.
That said, you may be curious as who I really am… I guess I’ll dig in. This gets confusing, so let me paint you a timeline:
20XX: Lazarus Lawrence Lowenstark was born.
20XX+14 years: Lazarus was entered into a special training program for covert operations, eligible due to his unnatural IQ. The school was top notch, but had less than ethical motivations.
20XX+15 years: Lazarus’ cover ID was chosen, and he was programmed with/trained in advanced… domestic skills.
20XX+16 years: The training program was scrubbed, though Laz (nor his parents) were ever told why. Due to the sensitive nature of the information gleaned by the students in this program, memory suppression techniques were put into play. Laz’s own memory was covered, and for the rest of his born life, he would never recall what actually happened during those two years.
20XX+35 years: Lazarus is in Midian, and starts to pick up “Skills” – domestic skills – from “nowhere.” – he can’t place exactly why or from where. www.flickr.com/photos/30756377@N04/3102793810/
20XX+36 years (Regression Week): “Regression Week” as it’s called, hits Midian. Population majorities memories are reverted to the age of “16.” Lazarus’ identity is reverted to the age he was finalizing covert ops training. Due to this discrepancy, and young-Laz’s awareness of himself and his own mortality, young-Laz took on his own identity – philosophically separating himself from his older self, and calling himself “Lawrence.” Understanding that Laz would soon gain control of his body once more, Lawrence plants himself in Lazarus’ cryo-chamber, continually recording and re-cording his own consciousness into a “Brain Tape” – technology pioneered by the cloning industry. When Lazarus’ full memories returns, he takes the most recent incarnation of Lawrence’s memories, and saves them in the League of Engineer’s database.
www.flickr.com/photos/30756377@N04/3516751046/
“Regression Week” + 3 weeks: Volpe Nico, or as her reverted self was called, Two, broke into League Labs, and stole Lawrence’s “Memory Tape.” In an attempt to avenge past wrongs, Two brings the memories to a cloning farm for Alpha Labs, and gives young Lawrence a body generated from Lazarus Lowenstark’s DNA. This body is advanced, both physically and chronologically. To date Lawrence is not fully aware the full ramifications of this engineering. Two and a confused, newly constructed Lawrence, destroy Alpha Labs and kill everyone inside (See picture above).
“Regression Week” + 3 months: Lawrence and Two have separated ways, and now Lawrence lives in Leviathan, plying his physical and mental attributes, advanced combat and covert op training, and overall luck to the trade of illegal courier.
“Regression Week” +4 months: Current date. Lawrence is now in Midian, seeking to help out with the old League of Engineers, on a limited, non leadership basis, and to try and connect with his humanity…. Not the least of which is the woman he fell in love with the one week he had in Lazarus’ body: Niobe, now head of the League of Engineers.
* * * * *
There, that clears it up some, right? I’ll let that sink in a while before I bother adding much more. For now, I have business to attend to.
- Law.
No, not really. "Balance" implicitly refers to an equalization, an evening out, a middle ground, not more of one or the other but having things be equal. To balance yourself on a beam is to not fall over to the left or right, but to stay in the middle, equally centered.
"an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady."
"a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions."
The problem is when simply stating "it's all about balance", it simply means all, everything, to "balance everything". As if "all" things need to be balanced and brought to the middle; not sometimes choosing one over the other; not putting more weight, value or importance in one polarity or the other. Just be "balanced" and follow a "middle-path" towards everything, making them even and equal.
On a scale, you can indeed balance two things equally if they weigh the same, but if they don't weigh the same then the balance shows which one weighs more as a proportion or ratio of the other, and it's not an equal balance. Scales and balancing can show if two things are equally measured, but that's not to say everything should be brought to equal measure.
In life, there are things that matter more, that have more weight, value and importance inherently. Truth and falsity, and right and wrong, are examples of what not to equally balance or go to the middle ground with.
To balance out right and wrong or good and evil in our actions is foolish thinking. It's not always "balance" that is what "it's all about". There can be the dissolution or disintegration of one polarity towards more actualization of the other. The proportion or ratio of right to wrong that we do -- or good to evil that we do -- should not be 1:1, 2:1, or 5:1. The goal is not to have proportions of how much right to wrong we do. The goal is to be at no proportion or ratio, where we don't do wrongs. There is no imaginary "balance sheet" where we can keep doing wrongs to others so long as we do "good" deeds in other parts of our lives...
How to we work towards that goal of removing the wrong or falsity in our lives?
Truth is a synonym for reality and existence, the universe. All that is gets put into the universal grouping concept of "the Truth". Truth and moral truth are one way, non-contradictory, and don't unite with their opposite or falsity or immorality. 1+1=2 can't unite with 1+1=3. It's contradictory.
Similarly, not stealing from some people but stealing from others doesn't make for a real cohesive and united moral way of living, but rather a disunited, disharmonious and contradictory state of being. True moral ways don't unite with false moral ways, as they are incompatible. People who deny the justness or legitimacy of murder, rape, etc. do not want to unite with those who support those wrong-doings.
You don't unite falsity with truth, or obfuscation with clarity. The absence of clarity can tend to create obfuscation of what is really there, and also leads to confusion rather than true understanding. This can lead to chaotic behavior in attempts to make sense of reality while still lacking the clarity to see what is really happening.
For example, due to a lack of understand our world, many people champion centralized authoritarian systems of rulers to rule over everyone else, playing dichotomous games of voting for others to solve our problems for us. When one party doesn't work out for us, the majority votes in the others party, and back and forth we swing in an infinite pendulum, stuck in a false dichotomy for our way of life.
Removing one polarity of falsity we accept or believe to be "true" will provide us with more clarity to see a truth we previously ignored or overlooked. Rather than not being able to see it due accepting falsity, now we can see it. Removing falsity and the negative manifestations of behavior (like immorality) is where the balancing -- of what is more important; of what weights more in our lives; and of what is of greater value -- can happen. So long as falsities, obfuscations or confusions are accepted, they will prevent acceptance of greater truths, clarity and vision of what to do.
We are supposed to apply a "balance" scale measure to our actions and behaviors, not to balance right and wrong action, but to put more weight, value and importance to align ourselves -- to balance ourselves -- with the polarity of truth, good, right, morality, justice, order (Maat), not to blindly "balance" and accept to do right and wrong actions "equally", to speak with truth and falsity "equally", to be "centered" in doing both right and wrong, etc.
We can also balance our knowledge of truth and falsity, good and evil, right and wrong. This is to know the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsity, so as to not fall for evil, wrong or falsity in our lives and the way we live it. With the knowledge and understanding gained, we can balance ourselves (actions, deeds, desires) against the feather of truth and see if we measure up to various truths (like moral truth), and then change our behavior in accordance to "revive", "rebirth" or "resurrect" ourselves into better versions of who we can be.
In terms of the implicit balance, middle, equal, unity, etc., there are indeed valid aspects of life where this can be applied. We can balance and bring unity to our expressions of consciousness, to balance the "mind and heart" or the "left" and "right-brain"; thought, emotion and action; and the body (action), mind (thought) and "soul" (emotion). There is unity of "dualities" or "opposites" that need to be complements to each other forming a unified whole ("mind/heart", "left/right" brain); and the unity of multiple categories like the trinity of thought, emotion and action that will also complement each other when unified. We unite and are "balanced" based in non-contradiction of our own capacities, where what we think, feel and do is not conflicting or contradicting.
It's not a "perfect" or fixed static middle or balance when some opposites are united (like left and right-brain thinking), but a fluctuating dynamic use of the capacities we have within us. Rejecting certain capacities in consciousness -- like someone who is more "left" or "right" brain thinking/being that rejects the opposite -- comes from not understanding who we are.
Of course certain people may have more propensity or aptitude at using certain functionality of consciousness. We have similar or different personality types compared to others, but we all have a near infinite potential within us. We all have consciousness that has the same capabilities at the core, but we all grow up different, engage in things differently, and gain different knowledge and experiences to shape us into who we are and what consciousness functionalities we develop more of.
Some of these capacities in consciousness within us need to be used and developed for greater harmonious unity within ourselves. It leads to creating and manifesting actions in the world that better reflect an understanding of what shouldn't be created into existence, like wrong-actions that may seem right. Being more emotional and denying logical critical processing can lead people to be manipulated more easily and believe something wrong is "right"; while being more logical and denying the significance of emotional salience and feeling harms/wrongs can lead to justifying wrongs and manipulating people. In either case, wrong-actions result from not being a more fully developed being that uses complimentary capacities to navigate life.
We balance our modalities of consciousness -- "left-right" brain, "mind-heart", thought-emotion-action -- in order to be unified in ourselves, and this allows us to be more balanced and aligned with truth, right, good, etc. That's how we get in an "upright" position of "balance".
Thank you for your time and attention! I appreciate the knowledge reaching more people. Take care. Peace.
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I kept seeing what I think is a little brown Finch entering and leaving a potted hydrangea we have. Turns out she's been feeding these three little ones.
Couldn't get on with the changes in GMail so I spent a little time hacking their obfuscated CSS to generate this "light" userstyle
Two years on from the start of the full scale Russian barbarity, when Ukraine seemed on the brink of being snuffed out entirely, even as people protested in London, the mood today was one of grim determination burdened by the fear that NATO will fail to supply the necessary means to achieve a victory over Putin.
The equation has been quite simple, if crudely horrific: the West supplies the means to vanquish Putin whilst Ukraine supplies the blood, guts and human misery so that EU/NATO nationals do not find themselves back in the trenches.
A harsh political truth and one which entitles the people of Ukraine to expect nothing less than all the shells, bombs, missiles, rockets, F16s and everything else needed to get the job done with the least suffering for them; they have endured more than enough.
There are 1000+ Patriot Batteries idling in America today; there are TWO in Ukraine. A dozen more might stop Russian bombers flying with near impunity and keep Ukrainian civilians a little safer. The War is now and won only if we commit.
NATO and the US could wipe Russia's conventional forces off the face of the earth with conventional munitions in a few weeks and rout them back to the stone age. It is well beyond time that NATO committed all its materiel resources to Ukraine so they have the means to do that before tens of thousands more Ukrainians are murdered and maimed. The West's delays, obfuscation and handwringing are unconscionable and inhuman. Only military defeat and death will stop a monstrous psychopath like Putin.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
In Typographic Obfuscation, 2014 OCAD U Graphic Design medal winner Chris Lange explores ways to defend the privacy of day-to-day personal communication using low-tech and accessible tactics as an alternative to encryption.
In Typographic Obfuscation, 2014 OCAD U Graphic Design medal winner Chris Lange explores ways to defend the privacy of day-to-day personal communication using low-tech and accessible tactics as an alternative to encryption.
Resolutions inform both machine vision and human ways of perception. They shape the material of everyday life ubiquitously. They do this not just as an “interface effect”* but as hyperopic lens, obfuscating any other possible alternative resolution from the users media literacy.
Millie had neutered yesterday so rather than visit and get her too excited, we had a chat on windows messenger ;)
She is seen here reclining/recuperating on Oli’s bed! (It should be noted that Oli is in fact allergic to cats :D )
This was going to be my 365 for the day, but at the last minute I veered off and choose this shot I took earlier in the day. I rejected it (if you're interested) because I had cropped it... and with a fisheye that's kinda cheating ;)
Lightroom: crop and rotate slightly, auto levels, push brightness and contrast saturation, use the punch preset, saturation +35, sharpen, use the spot tool to obfuscate any email addresses visible, save to JPG
Found this review copy, vintage 1996. From the Michael Wolff stable. Amazing that so much of the infrastructure of net paranoia - surveillance, anonymity, databases, ID hacking, obfuscation - was in place so early.
(C) Isabelle Adam
Please note Dawkins acknowledging the presence of Dawkins acknowledging the presence of God. As seen, without mike stand obfuscation, here
I hesitated on whether or not to do this but I ended up at the conclusion that putting a face to a healthcare story would make it more meaningful. Though, out of respect, I darkened his features for this photo.
The radio waves and blogosphere have been all abuzz concerning the Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama and the Democrat Party’s Healthcare plan. (www.healthcare.gov/)
In due fairness, I tend to travel in a more conservative-than-liberal social pack. I haven’t, yet, had anyone come to me, “High Five! It Passed!” In fact, I’ve heard a myriad of friends, coworkers and relation bellyache about it. Not to mention the non-stop end-of-the-world antics of Talk Radio.
I don’t particularly support this legislation, by the way. But, the legislation itself isn’t why I’m writing today.
There are a lot of very sterile words and phrases being bandied about by both parties. Healthcare exchanges, actuarials, health savings accounts, physician reimbursement percentages and increased accountability. Leave it to lawyers, politicians and accountants to find terms in describing the situation that obfuscate the real underlying topic with capitalist terminology.
Human life and wellness. People.
This photo is of a person. My Dad. 1 year ago today I snapped this photo (and a myriad that I will not share outside my family) of my father in his final days of life. He was a veteran, at one time a business owner and in recent times very much an example -case-scenario of a person using “government money.”
He and mom, died within 3 weeks of each other from complications related to being smokers. Some complications, I as a non-smoker also face but thank the lord – to a lesser degree, so far.
Mom had Asthma, COPD and dad had full-on Inoperable Lung Cancer. His cancer was treated by the VA Hospital in Biloxi. His medicines were largely paid for by the Veteran’s Administration and Medicare. Mom, was a SSI/Medicaid recipient for at least the last 20 years.
The treatments that dad received from the VA most likely did nothing to extend his life. His experience was that of confusion, frustration with a smattering of a few undignified moments.
Not to be construed as an indictment of the VA They did.. something… A doctor there,.. tried.. something.. But as a poverty-level Veteran, certainly Dad’s level of care wasn’t equal to that of what Steve Jobs received.
Free markets are great, if you have the money to participate. Cancer is evil.
During the last week of June, 2011, dad found himself in an awkward place. He was unable to care for himself but he had run out of “covered” days for his inpatient stay. Some of the many “cracks” in our existing low-income healthcare safety net. They sent him home, knowing he was unable to care for himself. He went from receiving around-the-clock care to a once-a-week caseworker.
That lasted one night.
I moved the kids into one bedroom of my .. then.. quite modest home and called some friends. We moved dad in and I began to care for him while my mom’s health further declined.
Hospice provided.. some.. support but their level of support was limited by classifications and the potential for reimbursement of the service they could provide.
Not to be construed as an indictment of hospice, either. The nurses were tender and special people – tons of respect for what they do but an accountant stands between you and the nurse. Therein lays the problem.
The Chief argument I hear is that you don’t want the Government making healthcare decisions based on monetary policy. My thing is.. I don’t want ANYONE making healthcare decisions based on monetary feasibility. These are peoples’ lives. Fathers, mothers, sons & daughters. In the capitol of the free world, I agree that healthcare should be available to all (citizenry) but I can’t help but wonder if sacking the economy with more taxes is the worst possible solution.
I suppose this is the age-old debate. Everyone wants the services to be available but no one wants to pay for it.
What I do know is… Government-assisted healthcare, in my Dad’s case… did provide medication reasonably cheap or free. He didn’t receive top-notch care but he received some attention from a physician, who tried. Eventually he fell into fiscal and legal loopholes that left him confused and out in the cold.
In mom’s case, a “hospice level of care” document she signed, eventually led a nursing facility to withhold vital treatments that lead to her death.
You could say that bureaucracy, as much as smoking, killed both of my parents last summer.
You can also say that the free market didn’t help them either.
When I hear of a healthcare reform plan that I like, I’ll let you know. Meanwhile, I’m still listening.
Copyright 2011
The nuclear reaction that takes place in a nuclear power plant is the same reaction that took place when the first atomic bomb was blasted off above ground at Los Alamos, part of the Manhattan's Project to eventually drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The difference between the two boils down to controlling the reaction.
In the good old days, nuclear waste was discipated into the atmosphere by above ground and south pacific atoll blasts, or into the ground by underground and into the sea by undersea blasts.
Of all the above ground nuclear tests that USA performed on continental North American almost half of the tonnage was blown off in an approx. one year period 1961-1962. Where did the waste go?
It took billions of dollars and about 3 years for the Manhattan Project to claim success at building a nuclear reaction in the form of a devastating bomb. In the Interim 65 years no solution has been found for dealing with nuclear waste accumulating at powerplant and military sites.
In Canada, funds have been set aside for the NWMO, Nuclear Waste Management Organization to find a solution with accumulated nuclear powerplant waste. NWMO is largely an English Language Obfuscation organization, the English Language being their only tool and with that tool they search for a "Willing Host Community" under which to construct a Nuclear Waste Repository. Translated to non-NWMO English, what this means is a community that is poor, remote, disadvantaged (by education, connectedness, access and facility), and ill-informed community. NWMO have already given $1 Million to FSIN to explore opportunities for it's member communities/reserves in the field of Nuclear Waste Management. Some opportunity?
Remember:
1. Nuclear Waste is Forever! Half life of components are so long that the will outlive language and society as we know it.
2. Nuclear Waste presupposes political and economic stability.
3. Nuclear Waste presumes that administrators in perpetuity will watch over the waste..replacing deteriorating containments and structures.
4. Nuclear waste contains a high percentage of usable Uranium, but currently contaminated by a host of 200 or so toxic substances. Allowal of a nuclear waste dump, leads to eventual allowance of a Reprocessing Facility. Nuclear Waste processing is politically unpopular as it isolates the plutonium, weapons grade villain of the mix. It is conceivable that a desparate nuclear industry will come looking, or greedy (you can only get rich in your lifetime) entrepreneurs will see opportunities to reprocess for use of Uranium in powerplants.
Assuming that labor standards will not remain the same (read Open Veins of Latin America by Galeano) you can bet the voice of greed and desperation will long forget the need to think about humanity.
5. As we have no solution for making nuclear waste/toxic ingredients into butterfly dust/grandmas biscuits, we should stop producing waste, no?
We have many solutions to a world gone mad with overpopulation. The sun, the wind and moving water offer magnificent solutions to our energy needs. What we need is the will to invest and move in the right direction now. Our biggest energy saviour is conservation! That is, less consumption, better buildings, strategic use of resources. etc.
Thanks for reading. Speak to your politicians and representatives.
PS: The lamp in the picture was built from a smoke bomb shell, bought at an auction, I don't know the history. During WW II RCAF pilot training used smoke bombs to train pilots. A smoke bombing and aerial gunnery range existed beside my Grandmother's farm. After the war, a salvage operation came to dig up the ground and salvage the scrap steel. My uncle went out to dig one out (it was made into an ashtray stand)..where it struck the earth, he dug 3 feet down to where the steel head was stopped by a large rock.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Found a beautiful facet polished glass plate, perfectly fitting the vitrine. There is a nice distortion that makes you aware of the view angle as it breaks up the image, also obfuscating the view a bit.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
I developed a recently-unearthed roll of film today-- view the results in the subsequent upload.
For those rooted in historicity/contextual relevancy, I extend an accommodating guide:
1) The individual pictured is discussed here in considerable depth.
2) A former, high school-epoch associate--
3) Chubby (blonde) me and the former best friend-type figure--
4) Contemporary (if obfuscated) me--
"FANGØ" is a defense weapon against surveillance capitalism. Disguised as a mobile phone charger, it operates as a microcontroller that takes control of the smartphone in which it is plugged into. Making random searches and liking random posts on popular social platforms, it aims to deceive data brokers and disrupt the data capturing process.
Photo: Martin Nadal
Culvert Report at Beaverdale Rd at Beaver Lake Road
GPS Coordinates: 48°30'28.88"N 123°24'1.18"W
This location could also be described as the southern trailhead to the Elk/Beaver Lake Park section of the Interurban Trail
We visited Elk/Beaver Lake Park to checkout reports in the Time-Colonist (TC) of April 9, 2013, stating a beaver dam & lodge was obstructing waterflow from the lake causing flooding of an unidentified section of trail. We saw no evidence of any beaver activity during this trip nor have we ever seen any in all the years we have frequented this park.
We did find the flooded section of park trail which was the location of the TC's published photo accompanying Sandra McCulloch;s article. The resulting backup of water has flooded an area known as the retriever field, as well as other nearby grassy areas. The flooded trail section is directly west from the Elk/Beaver Lake Park Equestrian Centre parking lot. This area is named CRD Regional Park Beaver Lake Ponds. The nearby ponds can be used for retriever-dog training, or the Equestrian Centre to exercise and train one's horse(s).
"The root of the problem is a culvert that is supposed to drain water at the south end of the lake. The culvert, which passes under a path, is blocked by wood debris." stated Larisa Hutcheson, senior manager with CRD Environmental Services.
This is one of the most blatant examples of obfuscating the facts which I have ever encountered. Beavers are not fish and do not have gills and do not live under water. Beavers are mammals who breathe air and build their lodges above water. There is no doubt said culvert is blocked with debris -- and probably has been for many years -- but it has nothing to do with beavers and everything to do with poor maintenance by those responsible.
Clearing this pathway culvert is only the start: The next culvert -- which passed underneath Beaver Lake Road -- has received equally poor maintenance and is equally blocked with debris. Some of this debris was placed here by maintenance persons who felled trees right into the ditch and just left them there!
So there you have it -- in my opinion:
1.) Clear debris from the weir at the headwaters of Colquitz Creek and get the flow in that river back up to its seasonable norm
2.) Clear the debris from the pathway culvert near Beaverdale Road
3.) Clear the culvert underneath Beaver Lake Road at Beaverdale Road
Conclusion: Problem solved. No more flooding in the Beaver Lake Ponds Park area.
GPS Coordinates Flooded Footpath Beaver Lake Ponds: N48°30.651', W123°23.914'
Actress Vera Day, December 1960. Born in England in 1939, she worked in films throughout the fifties and sixties. Her most famous film was Quatermass 2 - a sci-fi film about an alien invasion - sublimally a cruel satire of British bureaucracy and obfuscation. However, the film works best on a pure horror level. Brian Donlevy played Professor Quatermass. She also appeared in the film The Prince and The Showgirl. which starred Laurence Olivier and Marylin Monroe. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea From Getting Shot Down
Authors: John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead
Publication Date: September 21st, 2010
Description: You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Those who would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company. Perhaps even the country.
It doesn't have to be this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time and time again. Then engage these adversaries with tactics tailored to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea--and being prepared for them--you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution.
The book presents a fresh and amusing fictional narrative showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined--including:
· Death-by-delay: Your enemies push discussion of your idea so far into the future it's forgotten.
· Confusion: They present so much data that confidence in your proposal dies.
· Fearmongering: Critics catalyze irrational anxieties about your idea.
· Character assassination: They slam your reputation and credibility.
Smart, practical, and filled with useful advice, Buy-In equips you to anticipate and combat attacks--so your good idea makes it through to make a positive change.
Author Bios:
John P. Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and is widely considered the world's foremost authority on leadership and change.
Lorne A. Whitehead is Leader of Education Innovation at the University of British Columbia, where he has also been a professor and the NSERC/3M Chairholder in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Also by John P. Kotter:
A Sense of Urgency
The Heart of Change
Contact: publicity@hbr.org
In Typographic Obfuscation, 2014 OCAD U Graphic Design medal winner Chris Lange explores ways to defend the privacy of day-to-day personal communication using low-tech and accessible tactics as an alternative to encryption.
Joe Hanson gave me an obfuscate method of finding the references for the larger octagon. I found an easier way, though. Start with a square and fold it in half in all directions. Then take the bottom right corner and fold it up to the middle of the top edge. Crease only between the radial lines. Unfold and take the bottom left corner and do the same. Repeat six more times, twist fold the octagon, and you're finished. Now to fold the rest of the model...
o is for outdoors, open, and overjoyed
No need to obfuscate this one, it's completely obvious! I love open air and open spaces. I need these things in my life, like I need food and water.
The shot would have been better standing on the top of a mountain, but I'm here on a Sunday for a reason. I'm teaching the rest of my family, my wife and son, to ski so that we can all share my passion for the outdoors as a family.
And the plan is working magically :)
P.S. this is a selfie, in that I am fully responsible for artistic direction (or misdirection, you decide), but I did have a human bipod and shutter trigger assist in this one!