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Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed by Poetry Foundation!

Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear at first so plainly not plain that a reader may wonder if the book’s title is ironic. Grennan, an Irish poet who taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence, remains beautifully “knacky”—artful, cunning—about the miraculous abundance of the world, but his intention here is as “bright and see-through and hard at once” as the window-shaped form of these poems. As with the liturgical music called “plainchant,” he seeks an unaccompanied line, a “hoist of song,” to express the inexpressible: the “pure worldliness” of two horses, the “single thing of wonder” that is a gannet’s flight, a memory of his mother’s “simple solid nearness,” “the day I’m passing through that’s passing right through me.”


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Making a Rhythm Game With LÖVE

Recently I’ve been learning how to use LÖVE, a 2d game framework, to make a rhythm game that I’m calling osu!vim.

osu!vim is an idea I’ve had for a while now. As you might guess, it was inspired by two things: osu!, a rhythm game where you click circles to the beat of the music,

and vim, a terminal text editor program.

Unlike other text editing programs like Microsoft Word or even other programming IDEs, vim encourages you to use only the keyboard for every possible command. For example, instead of using the mouse to move the cursor, you can press the j key to move the cursor down, k to move up, h to move left and l to move right.

When you want to start typing text into your file, you press the i key to bring vim into insert mode, which lets you insert text like a regular text editor. Pressing the esc key brings vim back to normal mode, where you can execute commands like before.

Pretty much every key has a different command mapped to it, which lets you form sequences to do cool things. For example, yyp will copy the current line and paste it below, 0v$~ will flip the case of every character in the current line, and 3i osu! [esc][esc] will type osu! three times.

I started learning vim while taking 6.009 (now known as 6.101) to code more efficiently. Since your hands almost never have to leave the home row, you can keep typing uninterrupted and also avoid injuries from repetitive motions. I’m definitely not a vim expert yet, but after getting past the learning curve using vim feels natural—enough so that I get sad when I use Google Docs and have to type the old-fashioned way.

In osu!, the circles pop up in different locations on the screen to form various patterns. Players use mice or tablets to move the cursor to the circles and click them. What if there was a rhythm game where you used vim keybindings to move the cursor to different locations on the screen? Voila—the osu!vim idea was born.

I started working on a prototype this week during some spare time. I was curious about LÖVE (which uses the Lua scripting language), so I decided to try it out.

At first glance, Lua’s syntax looks like a modern version of BASIC (tangent: BASIC holds a special place in my heart since I started seriously learning how to program with it).

if key == "h" and cursor.x > 0 then
    cursor.x = cursor.x - 1

While other languages might use curly braces and parentheses to denote an if-statement block, Lua uses the if...then...end structure.

At the same time, Lua also has many more powerful features that were missing from my BASIC experience, such as a hash table data structure. Interestingly, instead of having lists or arrays, Lua uses tables that map indices (1, 2, 3, etc.) to values.

cursor = {x = 0, y = 0}
cursor.x = 1
cursor["y"] = 2

myList = {"a", "b", "c"} --this "list" is actually just a table
print(myList[1]) --a --oh yeah, lua is 1-indexed btw

Some additional features I found quirky:

  • You call an object’s function using a colon: hitSound:play() (this is shorthand for passing the object into the function as an argument).
  • You concatenate strings with two periods:
print("hello ".."world!") --hello world!
  • For some reason, there’s no built-in function for splitting strings (i.e. turning "a,2,hi" into a list {"a", "2", "hi"})! I had to find a solution on StackOverflow

I followed an online tutorial to get started with LÖVE. LÖVE games have three different parts:

  1. a love.load() function where you initialize variables, load in resources, and set up the game’s starting state.

For osu!vim, I needed to set up the player’s cursor’s starting location, load in audio files, and prepare the “beatmap”—the timings in the song that the player must hit. Mapping songs isn’t easy and is an art form on its own. I wanted a way to play osu! beatmaps in osu!vim, so I created a procedure to extract timings from an osu! beatmap file and use it in osu!vim.

  1. a love.draw() function that continually updates the graphics on the screen.

I decided to keep things simple for the first iteration of osu!vim. The cursor is a white filled-in square, and the targets are a white-outlined square. If you hit the target on time, a blue square gets drawn on top of the cursor; if not, it’s a red square.

The game field consists of a grid of # characters (to mimic a text file), and the game prints the percentage of targets hit in the corner.

  1. a love.update() function that is continually run to update the game state.

For osu!vim, in each update the game checks the beatmap to decide whether its time to show the next target. If so, the game checks to see whether the player hit the current target, and then chooses a random location for the next target. Right now, the next target is always in an adjacent square, but I’m hoping to add in more complicated patterns later on.

osu!vim also has a love.keypressed() function to move the cursor whenever the player presses h, j, k or l.

Here’s a demo of my current progress!

There is a lot of room for improvement, but I’m happy that this concept now exists out in the world! Here are some of my plans going forward:

  • I want to work on a better system for telling the player when to move, because currently you kind of have to guess what the rhythm is (you can see me struggling in the video). osu! has “approach circles” that close in on the circle right as you’re supposed to hit it, so I might make something similar for osu!vim.
  • I’m considering porting the game to the web. Experimenting with LÖVE has been fun, but a web app version of the game would be more accessible to people wanting to try it. I’m also much more comfortable with JavaScript, so development will also be faster.
  • osu! has a system for creating custom rulesets. This means I could create a ruleset that allows people to play osu!vim using the osu! client. I want to do this eventually, but developing in C# (the language osu! is written in) is very new to me.

If you’re interested in LÖVE, the tutorial I followed was very helpful (and is beginner-friendly as well, if you don’t have prior programming experience). You can also check out the LÖVE website.

The source code for osu!vim is available on GitHub.

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deb and dad prego

Nurturing that first little life within me, getting ready to bring Yael into this world. The first granddaughter.

April 20, 2015. That is the day that I lost my Dad. Nine months ago, a phone call came that he was gone & my journey through the wilderness of grief began.

Nine months seems to weigh heavily on me. The number of months I so strongly associate with life, is today intermingled with death & loss. For nine months, I nurtured life within me. My beautiful daughters, hearts dependent upon mine, sustained by my body, growing within my womb.

For nine months I watched my belly grow bigger, and waited with eager anticipation for the chance to meet that little human being growing inside of me. The birth of a child, a time filled with so much hope & so many dreams.

But today, nine months feels very different. It is laden with sorrow & disbelief still.

My father is gone. And his death by suicide shattered me. The work of gathering up the pieces is done. And now comes the task of creating myself anew. The life I now nurture and tend to, is my own. What parts of me remain and what parts of me are newly shaped and formed by the trauma and loss that I’ve experienced? And where do they all fit?

I reflect back upon those ultrasounds with each of my children, watching them grow, cell by cell, muscle by muscle and limb by limb. The miracle of it all took my breath away. Every stage of their budding lives & selves, captured in black & white.

Is that what is happening to me?  It feels as if it is.  And yet, it doesn’t feel miraculous. It is hard, it is strange and it hurts. If I were to capture the images on film, would I even recognize parts of the me I was before? Or would they be too muddled, lost in a fuzzy haze of gray?

And what about the life that I lost? The father that is no longer with me. How do I hold onto him? Over these nine months I have struggled to let go of the trauma, the pain & the questions that ruminate. I do not want to carry them inside me. I do not want them to grow & fester. And as I try to let go of all of that, I fight to hold on to the essence of who my father was to me.

Nine months later, I look to find him in life, not by looking forward. Now, I can only find him in the looking back. That is a strange and painful contrast. There will be no more firsts, no more milestones, no more pictures or memories made. There is only what was. So in my heart, I nurture that. With each photo, each remembrance, each story or recollection, I breathe oxygen into the embers and I sustain within me, the life that I shared with my father. The love that we shared is and will always be a part of me, though it must now be in different form. It is only in spirit that I can touch him now.

The man who helped to bring me into this world, is no longer here. The person that I was before he left, will never be the same. But nine months later, a new me is taking form. I carry within me the best of who I was, and the hard & painful lessons of loss. Scars are still so fragile, a little nick, a tiny scratch, a gentle bumping into… and the wounds reopen. But I know it won’t always be so. I will create a new mosaic, a reflection of self that will be at once familiar and different.  Grief will not define me, but it will, it must, redefine parts of me. Like the formation of a new cell, like blood coursing through my veins, it is now a part of me. And so too is the resilience that strengthens me and restores the very fiber of my being.

Nine months. Today it signifies life and loss. It is a reminder of all that was and what can no longer be. It holds both pain and promise. He is gone, but I am here. I am still his daughter, he is still my father. I must learn to live with his final footnote. But our story will not end. It is in me. It is in my children. It is in my mother, my brother and every sacred memory I cleave to.  A life sustained, tucked deeply in my soul for safekeeping. And a life, my life, recreated, built from the wreckage and held together by love, by memories and the ties that will forever bind us.

Once I heard the sound of my children’s heartbeat, beating within me. Perhaps, if I listen closely now, I’ll be able to hear my father’s as well.

Birth is a beginning and death a destination;
But life is a journey, a sacred pilgrimage,
Made stage by stage… To life everlasting. (Rabbi Alvin I. Fine)

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What exactly is Board Record?

If you’re pondering, what is a table report? It’s an important report that explains the results of a business operations. Mother board members ought to know what to expect and why they will made a specific decision. Board accounts should make clear the financial impact belonging to the company and recommendations for the future. They can have accomplishments, this sort of as KPIs and goals come to. Using a format to create a board report can save you time and pressure.

Depending on what you would like to accomplish together with your report, this of the report will vary. The goal should be to present relevant information within an entertaining fashion. It is also important to show both sides of an issue. The aboard won’t value presenting just one single side of an story, so supply the facts for the reason that fully as is possible. Don’t over do the data, even though. Whether it’s economic forecast or maybe a review of past performance, a board article https://swrc2.info/ must be readable.

Once writing a board article, remember that the reason from the document is always to inform and guide the provider’s leadership staff and its stakeholders. Make sure to employ visuals in the report, and KPIs and also other measures. Ensure that you take the projected audience into consideration. In the event something raises a lot of questions, you should explain this in a way that the audience can easily better figure out. With these pointers, you’ll be soon on your way a great plank report format.


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My Extended Blogging Break

I did not expect to take such a long break, but with all the changes in my household it was a natural outcome. I am still reading, but will not return to blogging just yet.

I am making my way back by slowly checking in on your blogs. I know I have missed a lot and can’t wait to see what everyone has been up to!

I have just finished my 9th Edith Wharton novel, I’m in the middle of book 6 (The Return of the Native) of my Thomas Hardy year and my readalong year of the “Horrid Novels” from Northanger Abbey continue to fascinate me. My slow read of Purucker’s, The Esoteric Tradition and new attempt at Rudolph Steiner’s, Theosophy continue…er, slowly and I can’t wait to get to the library now that it is open, for some contemporary fiction.

Wishing you all a happy and safe summer full of fun and the joy of good books!

I caught an Osprey right in the middle of the sky!

14 thoughts on “My Extended Blogging Break

  1. The blogging muse comes and goes for me too, at the moment she’s gone!
    It’s lovely to read your posts however often you’re able to write. Have a lovely summer and look forward to reading from you soon!

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  2. My break has been very much longer than yours, Laurie and I fully appreciate the challenges which can make it difficult to resume a regular pattern again or even just post the occasional few thoughts. For myself, I’ve just recently realised that I’m seeing the possibility of returning more fully. After many months of trying and failing to motivate myself I find the blogging muse, and the space to explore it, has crept up of its own volition. I didn’t need to try at all. Of course, all may change again. I shall look forward to seeing your posts as and when they appear and hope that is all going well as you adjust to your new circumstances.

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    1. Yes, that’s it! The blogging muse used to be so strong and when she hides it is hard for me to find the motivation. And then she starts poking at me, which is what is happening now. Hopefully, as you suggest, this is an organic process with it’s own time frame that we just have to accept and be patient with. Thank you…<3

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  3. Yes, a steady regimen of blog posting takes its toll, as I’m finding myself, and I don’t blame you for taking a (hopefully temporary) break, Laurie. Thankfully you’re continuing to read — I know several bloggers who’ve found the stresses and strains of the last year and more has dulled their appetite for this usual consolation. Take your time, and we’ll see you here when you’ve regained the urge!

    How lovely you have ospreys there, even at a distance I can see the telltale wing silhouette familiar only from the screen, not in real life. Lucky you!

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    1. (I just moved this comment to its proper place. Gee, I am rusty at blogging)!

      Yes, I think for all of us, even those like me who stayed physical well, the pandemic has taken a toll in one way or another that we are only now beginning to understand.

      That Osprey sighting was so special. They are a bit shy, so when spotted it’s a great day!

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Moving through J.’s vinyasa sequences again. The post-Covid restrictions class is full but it’s also permitted to use the space at full capacity, so it isn’t a race to get a spot anymore. I have this odd sense that things are falling into place again. I recognize this moving body. This tight-tight hamstring. This good balance and grounding on the right leg.

Getting some self-confidence back. Headstands and bridges. Running. Though everything requires a push now. Every run or class or yoga session is still prefaced by an argument with myself. A frantic little search for good excuses not to.

Extended side angle and J. comes behind me and gently adjusts my ribcage, fingers, head. Somehow even in the hot room, sweating, her touch is like being nudged softly through pillows. A touch that is barely a touch, but full of connection. I think that is what makes us all fall in love with her. We love her like we love Mary Poppins. If Mary Poppins escaped from her sharp exoskeleton.

I do a half-bridge, and she sits behind my head, feet on my shoulders, and guides my ribcage upward.

I miss my morning flows. Alone. And have no good reason to not be doing them. These mornings, though, I am so aware of time. The time I have – and don’t have – all to myself. From four to seven. Yet every day I find it’s not enough.

R.’s best friend died last night. The man he has called his brother, whose parents will bury their child. Young is relative. But he was young in the “natural order” of things. I look at the calendar and am surprised to see we are halfway into March. More than halfway. And I think about B. The week of chemo she’s been through. The next one she has coming. Not that there is hope for a cure, only hope for more time. Weeks. Months. Days.

It’s never going to be enough.

I feel both greedy and wasteful. And maybe this is all the more reason to get on my mat every morning. J. asks us what we dedicate each practice session to. At the beginning and then again just before heart-openers. Is it narcissistic to dedicated it to doing the best I can? To yoking all of the aspects of the physical reality of my being in this world, to make it work somehow for the best I can do in the world, for the world?

All those platitudes: fill your cup so you can fill another’s cup. I am self-conscious of the triteness. But I keep asking my students: are we done with the irony, the sardonic attitude of post-modernism now? Can we finally be earnest again?

Maybe we need to be?

Pirandello said life is so painful we have only to laugh at it. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe life reaches a level of pain where we break through the l’umorismo and stop laughing. Where we take off the exoskeletons and are soft with one another.

Leonard is stretched out on the floor next to me.

And barking at the neighbor’s voices squeezing in through the windowsill. His concern is unconvincing. I suppose it’s nice that he feels a sense of duty.

He hasn’t moved in a half an hour.

I expect this morning’s exceptional walk along the trail was too much for his hound-sized brain. I still can’t run with this achilles tendon, so we walked this morning and took him with us. There were more exciting smells than he knew what to do with. The trail used to frighten him, so this was a big deal. He’s getting over whatever trauma he had as a pup. Slowly.

I didn’t smell stoat this morning, but I am sure Leonard did. Birds don’t interest him, but anything small and furry, or small and spikey does. Some evenings I have to play the guardian of the hedgehog while he does his business in the front yard.

I wanted to say “garden”. The front garden. As though that were a real thing in my life. Garden goes with words like cottage, and teapot. I have an A-frame house built in the 1970s and an electric water cooker. I have a mossy yard with half-hearted flower beds and derelict greenhouses. I wrote neglected first. But derelict relieves me of responsibility.

Time. I think the reason I spend so much of it trying to understand what it is, is because I do waste it. Or spin in place as it passes. All these “free” hours open up like sinkholes in the days. They don’t feel like freedom. They feel free of substance, actually. And inescapable.

Some days I can only get the work done when there is no time in which to do it. To get outside with a plan of some sort. To get upstairs and work with the paints. To fold the damned laundry.

Instead, I have an open afternoon – another open afternoon – and sit here brooding. And chiding myself when E. can hear me.

And it is not very convincing.

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Life balance- is it a myth?

With the new year right around the corner, like so many of you I find myself thinking about goals for 2021. Something I come back to eternally is how to balance it all- family, work, etc. How can I get it “right”? Is there even a perfect mix for me?

A friend of mine said the most profound statement the other day: “There is is no balance in this moment but in our lifetime” -Dalit S. My mind was blown!!

How true is that?!

I wanted to share this concept with you on New Year’s Eve. What if each moment isn’t perfect in life but within the course of the year it is overall what you want?

What if you don’t lose a bunch of weight in January but you stick with it and lose maybe 20-30lbs over the course of the year and repeat until you get to your goal?! Could success look really different?

I encourage you to keep that thought in mind that there is no balance right in this moment but in our lifetime. For right now, you get to decide what you do in the shorty term. In the next week, month, year.

What are your New Years goals? Comment below to let me know.

My goal is to keep doing daily written thought downloads and plan to lose another 30-40lbs. I really I have overall a little over 100lbs to lose but plan on losing it slow as my overall motto is to lose it for the last time. I’ve learned it takes learning as I go and not being radically different that doesn’t stick. It’s so different then what I have done in the past! If it happens quicker fine but I find we don’t celebrate enough sustained progress.

Happy New Years everyone! Let’s make it a great 2021! ❤

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As Operations Continue in Bala Murghab of Badghis, Taliban Group Attack on Ab Kamari District Repulsed

Local officials announced the repulse of Taliban attack on Ab Kamari district and continuation of operation in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province.

Speaking to Reporterly, Jamshid Shahabi, the Badghis Governor’s spokesman said on Saturday that last night Taliban attacked on three security outposts in Ab Kamari district and the clashes continued till late last night as a result of which 8 Taliban insurgents were killed and 5 others were wounded.

Shahabi added that 3 security forces were also wounded in the clash and Taliban insurgents retreated. He stressed that the district is currently in control of the security forces.

Badghis Governor spokesman added that, in Bala Murghab district, there is a sufficient force including the commandos, and operation on hideouts of Taliban insurgents has been ongoing since past two days.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense says that 20 Taliban insurgents were killed and 30 others wounded in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province.

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Parliamentary candidates protest to invalidate ballots cast in Kabul, call for sacking IEC officials

Some 15 unsuccessful Wolesi Jirga candidates and hundreds of their supporters on Tuesday closed four gates to Kabul demanding an invalidation of votes cast during the parliamentary polls in the capital.

The candidates, along with their 350 supporters, blocked the road with containers in Qala-i-Mirdad area of Shakar Dara district north of the capital city, urging the dismissal of corrupt election officials.

Earlier, the IECC had announced invalidation of votes cast at all polling stations in Kabul due to fraud and rigging which was supported by many candidates.

However, shortly after the announcement was made, IEC rejected IECC’s decision as “hasty and politically motivated” and later it was together decided by the two bodies that the decision would be reversed and worked upon later.

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During a time of opposition in life when tragedies seem to be accumulating, it can be easy to feel like we are spinning out of control. If we feel powerless, we can end up in a constant flight or fight state that can lead to the body becoming diseased. When we meet challenges in life, especially the big ones, it is vital to keep the nervous system running efficiently. The goal when in high stress times is to raise our vibration, so the body and mind can rest and digest all that is happening around it. One way to accomplish this is to circulate more energy, also known as prana, throughout the body. When energy flows efficiently, all body functions work at top levels from healthier digestion to deeper personal connections to increased resilience to stress. Allowing energy to flow easily through the body can increase your ability to deal with stress and increase wellbeing. Try this sequence to ground yourself and calm the mind before moving through the other poses to invigorate by connecting breath with movement. To seal this practice, set an intention for your day, breath deep, and let the energy flow.

Energy Flow Boosting Poses

Forward Rocking Flow

  • Place your feet hip width apart
  • Bend your knees and fold with the belly resting on the thighs
  • Clasp the opposite elbow with the opposite hand and take 5 slow breaths, inhaling and exhaling to the count of 5
  • Sway side to side or shift forward to the top of your feet and back to the heels
  • When ready, roll up to stand in

Empty Coat Sleeves

  • Stand with feet slightly wider than the hips
  • Extend the arms straight out to the side with open palms
  • Sway side to side, twisting at the waist while the arms swing freely like empty coat sleeves
  • Allow the hand in front to tap the heart region and the one in back to tap the kidney region
  • Connect your breath to slow, smooth swings
  • Inhale when twisting right, exhale to the left
  • After 10-15 rotations, allow the swinging to stop and observe the sensation

Breath of Joy

  • Stand with the feet a little wider than the hips and bend the knees slightly
  • As you inhale, float straightened arms forward with a gentle fist, then out and up
  • Exhale as you fold and let your arms drop
  • Enjoy 5-10 cycles

High Lunge Kicks

  • Start in a high lunge allowing the front leg to bend at about a 90 degree angle, knee above the heel
  • Keep the back leg straight and strong on the ball of the foot, heel up
  • Raise your arms above with palms facing one another
  • On inhale, shift the weight forward balancing on the front foot as the back leg is brought up
  • Hug the lifted leg to your chest with the foot remaining flexed
  • Exhale as soon as you touch your chest and push the arms down as you kick the lifted leg straight, hands in loose fists
  • Repeat five times

Victory Pose

  • Stand tall with feet hips width apart
  • Root down with all four corners (heels, big toes, little toes)
  • Smile sightly and lift your arms up and wider than the shoulders, palms facing
  • Lift the chin from the chest slightly and lift the chest victoriously
  • Stand tall for 10 slow breaths, focused on your power and strength

  • Stand with feet hips width apart
  • Root down with four corners
  • With chin gently lifted, invite the spine to grow tall
  • Palms facing forward, let your arms rest by your side
  • Breath deeply from the belly and focus on energy flow
  • Close your eyes and set an intention for your day

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By: Meta Research

In this monthly interview series, we turn the spotlight on members of the academic community and the important research they do — as partners, collaborators, consultants, or independent contributors.

For February, we nominated Bart Knijnenburg, assistant professor at Clemson University. Knijnenburg is a 2019 UX-sponsored research award recipient in improving ad experiences, whose resulting research was nominated for Best Paper at the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Knijnenburg has also been involved in the Facebook Fellowship Program as the adviser of two program alumni, Moses Namara and Daricia Wilkinson.

In this Q&A, Knijnenburg describes the work he does at Clemson, including his recently nominated research in improving ad experiences. He also tells us what inspired this research, what the results were, and where people can learn more.

Q: Tell us about your role at Clemson and the type of research you and your department specialize in.

Bart Knijnenburg: I am an assistant professor in the Human-Centered Computing division of the Clemson University School of Computing. Our division studies the human aspects of computing through user-centered design and user experiments, with faculty members who study virtual environments, online communities, adaptive user experiences, etc. My personal interest lies in helping people make better decisions online through adaptive consumer decision support. Within this broad area, I have specialized in usable recommender systems and privacy decision-making.

In the area of recommender systems, I focus on usable mechanisms for users of such systems to input their preferences, and novel means to display and explain the resulting recommendations to users. An important goal I have in this area is to build systems that don’t just show users items that reflect their preferences, but help users better understand what their preferences are to begin with — systems I call “recommender systems for self-actualization.”

In the area of privacy decision-making, I focus on systems that actively assist consumers in their privacy decision-making practices — a concept I have dubbed “user-tailored privacy.” These systems should help users translate their privacy preferences into settings, thereby reducing the users’ burden of control while at the same time respecting their inherent privacy preferences.

Q: What inspired you to pursue your recent research project in improving ad experiences?

BK: Despite recent efforts to improve the user experience around online ads, there is a rise of distrust and skepticism around the collection and use of personal data for advertising purposes. There are a number of reasons for this distrust, including a lack of transparency and control. This lack of transparency and control not only generates mistrust, but also makes it more likely that the user models created by ad personalization algorithms reflect users’ immediate desires rather than their longer-term goals. The presented ads, in turn, tend to reflect these short-term likes, ignoring users’ ambitions and their better selves.

As someone who has worked extensively on transparency and control in both the field of recommender systems and the field of privacy, I am excited to apply this work to the area of ad experiences. In this project, my team therefore aims to design, build, and evaluate intuitive explanations of the ad recommendation process and interaction mechanisms that allow users to control this process. We will build these mechanisms in line with the nascent concepts of recommender systems for self-actualization and user-tailored privacy. The ultimate goal of this effort is to make advertisements more aligned with users’ long-term goals and ambitions.

Q: What were the results of this research?

BK: The work on this project is still very much ongoing. Our first step has been to conduct a systematic literature review on ad explanations, covering existing research on how they are generated, presented, and perceived by users. Based on this review, we developed a classification scheme that categorizes the existing literature on ad explanations offering insights into the reasoning behind the ad recommendation, the objective of the explanation, the content of the explanation, and how this content should be presented. This classification scheme offers a useful tool for researchers and practitioners to synthesize existing research on ad explanations and to identify paths for future research.

Our second step involves the development of a measurement instrument to evaluate ad experiences. The validation of this measurement instrument is still ongoing, but the end result will entail a carefully constructed set of questionnaires that can be used to users’ reactions toward online ads, including aspects of targeting accuracy, accountability, transparency, control, reliability, persuasiveness, and creepiness.

A third step involves a fundamental redesign of the ad experience on social networks, reimagining the very concept of advertising as a means to an end that serves the longer-term goals of the user. We are still in the very early stages of this activity, but we aim to explore the paradigm of recommendations, insights, and/or personal goals as a vehicle for this transformation of the ad experience.

Q: How has this research been received so far?

BK: Our paper on the literature review and the classification scheme of ad explanations was accepted to HICSS and was nominated as the Best Paper in the Social Media and e-Business Transformation minitrack. We are working on an interactive version of the classification scheme that provides a convenient overview of and direct access to the most relevant research in the area of ad explanations.

We are also working with Facebook researchers to make sure that our ad experience measurement instrument optimally serves their goal of creating a user-friendly ad experience.

Q: Where can people learn more about your research?

BK: You can find a project page about this research at www.usabart.nl/FBads. We will keep this page updated when new results become available!


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July 7, 2019 by Infosec

Penetration testing experts are those who understand how to protect a network and find flaws in network security. You’ll need to know how to use the tools of the trade, but you’ll also need to understand how hackers access private systems and what you can do to prevent unauthorized access to network systems. When you have an interview, here are some questions you might get asked in the field.

1. Do you filter ports on the firewall?

A: You can filter ports on the firewall to block specific malware and protect the network from unnecessary traffic. For instance, some companies block port 21, the FTP port, when the company does not host or allow FTP communications.

2. How does tracerout or tracert work?

A: traceroute and tracert work to determine the route that goes from the host computer to a remote machine. It’s used to identify if packets are redirected, take too long, or the number of hops used to send traffic to a host.

3. What are the strengths and differences between Windows and Linux?

A: This question can also mean that they are looking for any biased with one system or another. Linux has some commands that Windows does not, but Windows is not open source and does not suffer from recent hacks such as Heartbleed.

4. How can you encrypt email messages?

A: You can use PGP to encrypt email messages or some other form of a public private key pair system where only the sender and the recipient can read the messages.

5. What kind of penetration can be done with the Diffie Hellman exchange?

A: A hacker can use the man in the middle attack with the Diffie Hellman exchange since neither side of the exchange is authenticated. Users can use SSL or encryption between messages to add some kind of security and authentication.

6. How do you add security to a website?

A: The HTTP protocol allows for security behind authenticated pages and directories. If the user does not enter the right username and password, the server returns a 403 authentication HTTP error. This protects from unauthorized users.

7. What are some ways to avoid brute force hacks?

A: You can stop authentication after a certain amount of attempts and lock the account. You can also block IP addresses that flood the network. You can use IP restrictions on the firewall or server.

8. Do you do any scripting?

A: A good penetration tester knows how to write scripts that automate some of the testing. You can use almost any language to write scripts. Describe the script you wrote and the languages you used. Get ready for the interviewer to ask more details.

9. What type of tools are there out there for packet sniffing?

A: Wireshark is probably the most common packet sniffing tool. This program can help you find odd traffic across the network or identify a program that is sending traffic silently from a host.

10. What is the difference between asymmetric and symmetric encryption?

A: Symmetric encryption uses the same key for decryption and encryption. Asymmetric uses different keys.

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Here are Buddy and Stacey singing Shotgun – with a very young Jimi Hendrix back left moving and a grooving to the kicking track!

Recorded live on Night Train July 1965

And here is mad bad Sarah Palin – she likes a shotgun I heard – to shoot moose and make stew out of it? Perhaps she has some McCain Oven Fries on the side? Here she is with her friends dressed up as moose-seeking Vikings – please no – tell me she doesn’t have a chance in hell.

Now where did I put that shotgun?

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  1. Momentary Madness permalink

    With regards to ……… "GREEN INK ON …. ….

God how do I miss them. I check your blog quite a lot but you always mange or maybe I manage to miss the post.
I said it before, you???re a natural born writer rock mum: write that fucking book; start now or I???ll clip your ear. You make Carrie sound dull or perhaps you???ve got more soul, yes maybe that???s it.
Hope you enjoyed you day.
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??????????????? if that (forgive the thought) gets in I???m killing my self. I might even collect names now for a collective suicide in the likelihood.
???I read the news today O boy??? ??????. what a drag. I think I???ll become a heroin addict just to take my mind away from it all. I guess I did enough talking about what may happen and now that it actually has begun to unfold I???m freaked.
I guess my spouting was rally a hope it don???t come, but come I knew it would.
Fuck it Mum I???m off for a drink, if I don???t come back I???ll write.
At least you???ll have another letter to read on the train and keep your mind off other possibilities;-) 😉 😉

  2. Arabella permalink

    If you haven’t seen ‘The Daily Show’, try the You Tube link below: Samantha Bee doing her thing at the Dem Convention last week, when the news was out about the Rep. VP choice:

  3. Geoff permalink

    Palin in a very Pythonesque setting.

  4. rockmother permalink

    Momo Madster – agh – I can’t take compliments – I just write how I think – but thank you – you are most kind with your encouragement. Postcards Form the Edge – one of my favourite books. Re: Pallid Palin – luckily her daughter’s soon-to-be ‘shotgun’wedding will put paid to Palin actually being taken seriously. Ever.

Would you like moose with that?

Don’t kill yourself – it’s boring. Hope you had a good drink. x

Arabellakins – am going to check it out now

Geoffster – absolutely!

  5. Planet Mondo permalink

    Now that’s a tune.

PS you at the Pistols tonight?

  6. rockmother permalink

    Mr Mondo Bongolian – that is a well tune! I was offered a ticket for the Pistols tonight but couldn’t go – I would rather go back to The Roxy or the 100 Club in a time machine though if truth be told…is that bad? I was worried I would be dreadfully disappointed and in Lydon’s immortal words ‘feel like I’d been cheated’. Ah shit – perhaps I should have gone? Hope you had a good time. Do one of your brilliant reviews – I know you will.

  7. Momentary Madness permalink

    does anyone know what’s up with isvanski blog?

  8. rockmother permalink

    Momodarling – yes – he has committed a sort of online hari kiri. He has stopped blogging for the moment. I sort of blame myself as we were talking at the Iggy gig about how blogging was becoming quite hard of late. Next thing I know he has flipped his blog. I texted him and he confirmed that it was intentional and very cathartic. I will let him be and then start operation shock and awe in a bid to get him to return. It’s not the same without Ister. Lots of love x

  9. L??st Jimmy permalink

    I’ve neglected to call by your blog for a few weeks Mother – my apologies. Thanks for posting the youTube video, I hadn’t seen that footage before.

  10. rockmother permalink

    Lost Jimmy – don’t worry – I have been neglecting my blog for a while now hence no readers! I’ve been busy and had loads of family stuff going down – one (non-fatal)car crash, one death and an imminent separation. Tra la la. Glad you liked the clip and thank you for dropping by.

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    Sarah Palin is quite alarmingly mental. The idea that someone who only got a passport last year could soon be one step away from Probably The Most Powerful Job On Earth is ludicrous. I hear she likes to shoot wolves from planes. She’s in a plane shooting the wolves with a gun, not firing them out of planes. Which you probably got. I’ll stop now.

How you been anyway??

  12. rockmother permalink

    Violet – Violet Violet Violet oh how I’ve missed you. I’ve been mournfully checking your blog only to see the same post for months and then worrying about you and hoping you are all right! Glad to see you are. Sarah Palin is a moosemunter, an old dodgy dodgepot that needs dodging at all cost. Do you know she called her children Trig (presumably after the trigger on a gun not Trigger the horse or trigonometry), Bristol (presumably because she has big baps or after Harveys Bristol Cream), Track (track and field evidently seeing as she is uber-mad marathon hockey mom), Piper (shit US name) and Willow (no doubt weeping with parents like that). She has the mad stare of an alien being and I am very worried that she appeals to more people than we think. I see Obama has gone quiet. What IS the world coming to?

  13. Robert Swipe permalink

    You mean the way Istavanski’s blog just comes up with a, like, completely blank screen, MoMa?

Might just be me, but I thought it was probably his most interesting post in quite some time…

;?

xxx
Bob

  14. rockmother permalink

    Bobalicious – you are so rude!

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    I would like to get a viking helmet. I will try to get it for the next Halloween and a jar that fit with that helmet.

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Statistical Software Foundation Qiun et al. 2016 were among one hundred and eighty-six British scientists who were invited to participate in one of a two-day poster competition. Two other scientists, S. Chentler, D. C. Rekvivie and A. Linnert, won the first prize in the competition for the first time. Three types of scientists collaborated: Scientist Science and Science Development Research Scientist Science and Science Development Research (SCSTR) is a series of single-person, four-person, four-legged research projects, or “science experiments”, that were drawn from a one-person science creation, the Science Creative Lab (SCVL), a public-private partnership with Science Direct Network (SIDN), a consortium of leading scientists and universities to develop long-range science, mathematics, computer science, biochemistry, medical science, and economics. This was the first such work to be publicly released on the Web in less than 15 years – and has led to a revolution in the scientific communication. A scientist with a PhD in science generally performs research on a scale greater than its theoretical or moral costs, usually of the order of some 2000 dollars per month. This development study was done twice (in 1989). The 2003 and 2004 citations of the Science Creative Lab, including the award of a PhD in physics, are cited by 28 scientific journals. Scientific journal articles can also be authored in several scientific papers as a form of journal or journal issue.

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Rudolf Steiner Archive

Calendar of the Soul

Northern Hemisphere
Week 19

In secret to encompass now
With memory what I've newly got
Shall be my striving's further aim:
Thus, ever strengthening, selfhood's forces
Shall be awakened from within
And growing, give me to myself.

Southern Hemisphere
Week 45

My power of thought grows firm
United with the spirit's birth.
It lifts the senses' dull attractions
To bright-lit clarity.
When soul-abundance
Desires union with the world's becoming,
Must senses' revelation
Receive the light of thinking.

—Translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch

See GA 40 for full calendar and German text.

The Foundations of Esotericism
GA 93a

Lecture XIX

Berlin, 17th October 1905

Yesterday we saw how in a certain way man is connected with astral powers. When he dies he first enters the astral world. But even now he stands in a continual relationship with the astral plane. It is actually the case that on the astral plane beings are constantly becoming visible which would not be there if the human being did not exist. Through people, and even more so through animals, these beings make their appearance on the astral plane. They are not of the same nature as its other beings. On the astral plane there becomes visible what man in the first place experiences only as feeling. Pleasure, sorrow, passions are actually present, just as physical objects are on the physical plane, as for instance, a chair or a table. Things are so, that a being which appears to us as pleasing works upon our feeling when the astral substance of which it is composed is still quite thin.

What makes its appearance on the astral plane is usually present as a mirror picture when compared with the physical plane; for instance the number 563 is there 365. A feeling of hatred also appears as if it came from the person to whom it was directed. This fact holds good for everything on the astral plane. Feelings of the soul appearing on the physical plane from the astral plane can be experienced as their opposites. For instance if feelings of soul-warmth press in from the astral plane on to the physical plane they are experienced here as their reflection; that is as a peculiar feeling of cold. These are things about which we must be perfectly clear.

On the other hand it is important to keep in view that the beings of the astral plane have as their substance what we call feeling. They find their expression in this feeling. If these beings are not yet very strongly present we can only experience them through a sensation of cold. If however they become stronger, if their substance is intensified, they become visible as light-beings. This explains why, when materialisations occur during spiritualistic seances, a light-phenomenon appears (the mollusc-crab for example). This is a natural process under such conditions. Anyone who observes something of this kind without this knowledge, speaks of something miraculous. The miraculous is nothing other than the penetration of a higher world into our own. It is simply a natural process. Thus it is, when other beings from higher planes intervene in human life.

We understand that a merely cool, dry thought is less effective on the astral plane than a thought that springs from the soul in an impulsive way. When a person in the present stage of civilisation has come so far as not to be at the mercy of his passions — our civilisation has a certain sophisticated cunning — when cold thoughts about the affairs of the world rise from him into the astral plane, they show themselves there as hollow spaces, they drain the substance away. Ordinary space can be filled with substance. One can bring into ordinary, space substance that fills it. It is not so in the case of substance which, coming from thoughts, streams into astral space. It works in the opposite way from physical matter. It displaces what is there in much the same way as, for instance, one makes a hole in dough. So it is, when our thoughts stream out into astral space. The higher substance is the opposite of the lower; instead of filling out space, it displaces what is in space.

When a thought penetrates into astral space it forms a denser layer around the hollow brought about by the thoughts. Around this hollow, coloured phenomena make their appearance. A glimmer begins to light up. It is the thought-form which we then see. The astral substance surrounding it becomes denser and thereby brighter. The added brightness which arises around the thoughts soon disappears; but if the thought is connected with an intense impulse of passion, it has a relationship with the densified astral substance and gives it life. Thus people who are still very undeveloped but very passionate create living beings in astral space when they think. This ceases later; when people evolve and become calmer such beings no longer arise when they think. But now you understand that there are beings on the astral plane which originate from human beings and also from animals; for in the case of certain animals too, such beings are formed, and indeed with far greater intensity. The animal however presses its own impulses into its own astral form, so that it usually creates its own form, its own image in astral space.

Every animal leaves a sort of trace behind in astral space; this has, it is true, only a short life, but nevertheless it remains for a time. But through the strongly passionate thoughts of human beings there arise new elemental inhabitants in astral space. Gradually however man reaches the point where a kind of neutral elemental being arises. When this point of neutrality is finally past, he progresses to the stage when he ennobles his passions and desires to an ever-greater degree. This leads him to impart to his thoughts a noble enthusiasm which also has the power of creating life in the surrounding astral substance. Through the development of patriotism, for instance, beings of noble form also arise and the elemental beings created in this way play their part in the furtherance of what lives in astral space. The ignoble beings produced by man through thoughts which are filled with passions are hindrances and act in a retrograde way. Everything however which he achieves in freedom from what is sensual, through enthusiasm and so on, works progressively.

The substance in astral space which is pressed together by passionate thoughts is the same as that which surrounded the previous planet, the Old Moon, out of which the Moon has developed to a higher stage. Thus wherever such substance exists, a certain danger is present. We human beings are created in such a way that we are obliged to incarnate in the physical matter of today. On the earlier planet there was not as yet physical matter of this kind; it was more highly developed than that of present day animals and less so than that of present day man. This substance in which Jehovah seeks to incarnate provides, as such, no favourable habitation. But the beings which are so far advanced that they reached their proper stage on the Old Moon will cause no harm. They have no liking for this substance.

It is not the substance in which man is now incarnated. But certain retrograde beings who had fallen behind on the Old Moon had discovered in this astral substance — food for their gluttony. They want to feed on it; it has for them a great force of attraction. This shows that we are continually surrounded by beings whose higher nature is related to our lower. When someone produces egotistical thoughts, this is very welcome to these beings. In other respects they are actually more advanced than man, but they have the craving to embody themselves in the astral forms which we ourselves create. They are the so-called Asuras. Through our baser thoughts we provide nourishment for these asuric beings.

When people whose nature is not yet purified, not yet free from passions, meditate, creating strong thought forms, they conjure up around themselves a powerful aura of desires. In this incarnate asuric beings of this kind which are then able to draw such people downwards. If a person drowsy with sleep meditates and in so doing does not rise clearly enough into thoughts, he creates this substance, and because he has no counterbalance, such beings incarnate in his thought forms. These are higher beings because they had completely developed Manas on the Old Moon, before the coming of the Buddhi impulse; they therefore do not possess this impulse. Hence with them Manas is egotistical. Had not the human being on Earth, from that point of time at which Manas came to him from outside, also received the impulse of Buddhi, had he only developed further the forward urge of Manas, he would have become in the strongest sense of the word an egotistical being. Manasic evolution is one tending to egoism and independence. Its task was to make man independent, but then the Buddhi nature was necessary. The asuric beings already referred to, because they developed Manas too early, have missed this impulse of the Buddhi nature. On the one hand therefore they stand at a higher stage and on the other hand they cannot progress, but go on developing the Kama-Manas, which is egotistical.

Halfway through the Lemurian Race Kama-Manas appeared on the physical plane in the duality of the sexes. The God who brought about Kama-Manas was Jehovah. This is why Helena Petrovna Blavatsky called him the Moon God; he is rightly called the God of Fertility. He caused the external working of Kama-Manas to reach its ultimate limit. The sexuality which made its appearance in the Lemurian Age, when we trace it backwards, when we see it in its ever higher and higher nature, becomes the Second Logos. Through the descending Kama-Principle it was the manifestation of Jehovah; through the ascending Buddhi-Principal it was the manifestation of Christ.

Now if we submerge ourselves into the Kama of the pre-earthly period we are drawn down by the asuric beings. The higher forces of these our spiritual predecessors stand occultly bound up with the passions and forces of our own lower nature. 53See lecture 24.10.1915 in The Occult Movement in the 19th Century ... Wherever there are dissolute excesses, there the substance is given in which powerful asuric forces pour cunning intellectualism into the world. In the case of decadent tribes similar powerful asuric forces are to be found. The black magician draws his most powerful forces out of the morass of sensuality. The purpose of sexual rites is to introduce such magic into these circles. A battle is continually taking place on the earth, the one side striving to purify the passions, the other side striving to intensify sensuality. The beings who are guided by the Christ-Principle seek to win the Earth for themselves, but there are also the other antagonistic beings who seek to usurp the Earth.

These embodiments of asuric beings in the out streaming of passion-filled human thoughts are one kind of astral beings. They are called artificial elemental beings because they are brought forth artificially by man. There also exist in astral space natural elemental beings. They proceed from the Group Souls of animals. For each animal group a being exists on the astral plane which unites what is present in the single animals. We meet these also in astral space. Every animal draws its own nature after it astrally like a trail. What is thus formed can however not work so harmfully as what the human being creates in the way of elemental beings. This astral trail is rendered harmless because it is annulled by the Group Souls of the animals. This is not so however with the beings created through man, because in this case nothing is annulled and hence these elemental beings remain.

When an animal is tortured, the amount of pain inflicted on it recoils immediately on the astral body of the human being. Here certainly it is reflected as it's opposite; hence the sensual pleasure in cruelty. Such feelings bring about a lowering of the human astral body. When a person destroys life, this has for him a tremendous significance. 54... Compare with Rudolf Steiner's comments on Mabel Collins novel Flita in Luzifer-Gnosis (not translated). [Gap in text ...]. In no way can one so readily assimilate destructive astral forces as by killing. Every killing of a being possessing an astral body evokes an intensification of the most brutal egoism. It signifies a growing increase of power. In schools of Black Magic therefore, instruction is first given as to how one cuts into animals. Cutting into a definite place, accompanied by corresponding thoughts, induces a certain force, in another place it induces another force. (What corresponds to this in the case of the White Magician is meditation.) Something comes back to the physical plane when it is accompanied by physical thoughts; without thoughts it comes back to the Kamaloka plane.

The overpowering of a human being by means of hypnotism is a still stronger killing, for it destroys the will. The occultist therefore never intrudes into a person's freedom; he only relates facts.

Lying is, from the astral standpoint, murder and at the same time suicide. It deceives the other person and creates in him a feeling that is related to a non-existent fact, to a nothingness. On the astral plane appears the counter picture of the nothingness, the killing. You therefore kill something in a person when through a lie you direct his feeling to something that does not exist, and you commit suicide because [Gap in text ...].

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