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Glass has been used for Doors and Windows as translucent to transparent glazing pane, and occasionally as glossy or opaque panel. Glass has had TWO different facets, of the day timelit from the front or outside, and that of the night time –lit from the back or inside. Both of these facets, daytime and night time are viewed from either of the sides and offer different experience.

Glass screen over old façade of Strasbourg Railway Station Wikipedia Image by Cha già José from Vienna, Austria

DAY TIME VIEW -from outside, in early days had a grayish -metallic surface. It was a dull and muddy pane with wavy figures (due to flattening of a disc cut out of a bulb). In later periods, it had lesser impurities, fewer surface undulations, but was ground to a glossy finish. Modern glass is comparatively very glossy (unless specifically ordered or treated), which allows reflection of the surroundings and the sky. The reflectivity, with additional treatment, often excludes the interior view (mirror glass and photo framing glass). Polyester films and surface metallizing adds one-way opacity, permitting unhindered view from the other side.

DAY TIME VIEW -from inside, the glass of early days, and its later day modern version have had issues of colour coordination with other surface finishes. Both types of glass had a tinge that strongly affected the colours of the interiors. Fresco and other drawn art work could be re-calibrated, after fixing of the panes (or during re-installation later with superior glass). The ceramic or coloured stone mosaics of floors and walls, however, did not allow such corrections. Such interior colour schemes had to be pre-planned in consideration of the glass tinge. Colour coordination with window frames and members such as muntins, mullions, jambs, etc. with the metallic-grey tone of the glass was difficult.

Poor quality of glass was to an extent solved by colouring it. Pot glass had dark-colour presence that was effective when back lit very brilliantly usually after the sunset. Such intense interior illumination was not available in that age. The stained glass was comparatively light coloured but still filled the interior profusely. Later part of Gothic architecture saw the required sobering with use of grisaille painting technique, or use of the non stained cristallo glass.

Saint-Denis_(93),_basilique_Saint-Denis,_abside_3In stained glass treatment the need to stretch the story board across many sections of the window was so strong that all framing and dividing members like muntins and cams were made slender, at least on the face side. These were also dissolved by colouring them with the same tone as the outlines in the picture.

Early modern-day architects had to overcome the fuzzy view through poor quality of glass. As a result small pieces of glass were used, and contrasted with the white painted mullions, muntins, jambs and rails. The typical US colonial window had subdivided glass panes which did not offer a clear or un-distorted view, so were used for illumination, and covered with translucent curtains to occlude the view. Later, at the end part of Industrial revolution period as the glass became clearer, the mullions were thinned or made of metals, This dissolved their presence.

NIGHT TIME VIEW –from outside was important to register the presence of the building. Visibility of the Churches and Cathedrals and Places at night provided an assurance of protection. The main problem was cost of illuminating the structures, whether from outside or inside. The presence of small interior light visible through a roof light, lantern window, rose window or pinnacle, was assuring. It was an economic and effective device. When windows of lighter stains and white glass became popular, it was easier to provide a visible illumination from inside.

NIGHT TIME VIEW -from inside has been a problem in the absence of street or public illumination in the vicinity of buildings. The urbanization now provides illumination to back lit the glass of the buildings. Historical monuments or modern buildings always have some background illumination. Some important buildings are specifically lit outside and from within the building to enhance the architectural quality.

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Forms of Glass fiber used as Fillers

Fillers are inevitable constituents of composites. Fillers provide body, reinforcement, and impart special properties to the new material. Fillers have many forms, such as fine particulates, staple fibre (whiskers or short fibres), filaments (long or continuous fibres), unwoven (felt) and woven fabrics, knit textiles, aggregates, and sheets. Filler materials are natural (wood, plant, hair), minerals (asbestos, sand, stones, powders), and man-made (polymers, metals, ceramics) materials.

  • Straw, hair, coir, hemp, jute, papyrus, rice-husk etc., have been mixed with clay to form bricks. Sand, ash, and mineral dust were added to mud to reduce the plasticity for plaster work. Wood planks were glued together to form block board or plywood like construction in 15th C BC.
  • Man-made materials include: Fibreglass, quartz, Kevlar, Dyneema or carbon fibre, graphite, carbon-graphite, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, aluminium oxide, boron, coated boron, boron carbide, alumina, alumina-silica, niobium-titanium, niobium-tin, etc.

Fillers Particles (of 10 t0 250 μm in diameter) help block the movement of dislocations in the composites and provide distinctive strength properties. Staple fibres used as fillers have high length to a diameter ratio, and are generally in their random orientations, whereas filaments are used for high performance structural applications and are prearranged (for a particular structural use) before introduction of matrix, or in certain cases a fixing compound.

Depending on the load conditions, fibre arrangements for reinforcement are random, unidirectional (aligned in a single direction), or multi-directional (oriented in two or three directions). Continuous fibres are more efficient at resisting loads than are short ones, but it is more difficult to fabricate complex shapes from materials containing continuous fibres, than from short-fibre or particle-reinforced materials.

Ceramic-Metal composite -Electric Insulator

Particles (fillers) of one material are dispersed in another material (matrix) in many different ways. 1 -Particles are mixed in a liquid phase of the matrix, and allowed to harden to a solid phase, 2 -particles are allowed to grow in the matrix, or 3 -articles are pressed into the matrix and inter-diffusion is encouraged by mechanical working or other energy input.

Particulate fillers in ceramic matrices enhance characteristics such as electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, and hardness. Particles of Alumina, Silicon carbide and Boron nitride embedded in a polymer matrix and formed as abrading tools are used for grinding and polishing stone floors, tools etc. Carbon black (as powder) added to vulcanised rubber provides hardness and toughness for automobile tyres. The rubber is further reinforced with metal, rayon, polyester and other threads as continuous fibre filler.

High end Ceramic composites

  • High-performance ceramic composites are strengthened with filaments that are bundled into yarns. Each yarn, strand or tow may contain thousands of filaments, each of which with a diameter of approximately 10 micrometers (0.01 millimetres).

Often components are formed that are strong in all directions, by creating a three-dimensional lattice of filler component. The filler component itself could be a composite material.

Fillers affect the quality of a composite. Fillers are usually combined with ductile matrix materials, such as metals and polymers, to make them stiffer. Fillers are added to brittle-matrix materials like ceramics to increase toughness. The length-to diameter ratio of the fibre, the strength of the bond between the fibre and the matrix, and the amounts of fibre are variables that affect the mechanical properties. It is important to have a high length-to-diameter aspect ratio so that the applied load is effectively transferred from the matrix to the fibre.

A variety of reinforcements can be used, including particles, whiskers (very fine single crystals), discontinuous fibres (short), continuous fibres, and textiles preform (made by braiding, weaving, or knitting fibres together in specified designs).

  • Glass is the most common and inexpensive fibre and is usually use for the reinforcement of polymer matrices. Glass has a high tensile strength and fairly low density (2.5 g/cc).

  • Carbon-graphite: In advance composites, carbon fibres are the material of choice. Carbon is a very light element, with a density of about 2.3 g/cc and its stiffness is considerable higher than glass. Carbon fibres can have up to 3 times the stiffness of steel and up to 15 times the strength of construction steel. The graphitic structure is preferred to the diamond-like crystalline forms for making carbon fibre because the graphietic structure is made of densely packed hexagonal layers, stacked in a lamellar style. This structure results in mechanical and thermal properties are highly anisotropic and this gives component designers the ability to control the strength and stiffness of components by varying the orientation of the fibre.

  • Polymers: A variety of polymer materials are used as filler material for composites. The strong covalent bonds of polymers offer tailor-made properties in the form of bristles, whiskers, staple fibres, filaments, yarns or tows, spun yarns, threads, ropes, unwoven and woven fabrics, knitted compositions. Nylons, polyesters, rayon, acrylic, Kevlar and many other fibres are used for composite formation.

  • Ceramics: Ceramic fibres made from materials such as Alumina and Silicon carbides are used in very high temperature applications, and also where environmental attacks are severe. Tungsten-boron filaments, Ceramics have poor properties in tension and shear, so most applications as reinforcement are in the particulate form.

  • Metallic fibres: Metallic fibres have high strengths but since their density is very high they are of little use in weight critical applications. Drawing very thin metallic fibres (less than 100 microns) is also very expensive.

Following are some of the earlier posts on related Topics

2   COMPOSITES Part – 1

Next week post in this series will be

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The constituents of a composite are ordinarily classified as Matrix and Filler. It is the nature of relationship between the filler and matrix, or the Interface that defines the composite. Fillers serve to resist stresses, mainly tension, and the Matrix serves to resist the shear, and all materials present including any aggregates, serve to resist the compression.

Matrix and Filler each are of three types: Metals, Ceramics and Polymers.

These three provide nine possible combinations.

Composite materials’ combinations: Possibilities of combinations and type-examples.

Matrix (m) + Filler(f) = Composite Type-Examples

Metal matrix composites MMC

Metal (m)+ Metal (f) = Aluminium-Tin are non miscible metals, yet can be alloyed as a composite

Metal (m) + Ceramic (f) = Electrical semi conductors, Carbide cutting tool tips, Scissors, knives

Metal (m) + Polymer (f) = Not feasible, Metals become soft at very high temperature -unsuitable for polymer filler

Sandwiched metals

Ceramic matrix composites CMC

Ceramic (m) + Ceramic (f) = Carbon-carbon composites

Ceramic (m) + Metal (f) = Metal sprayed optic glass fiber cables

Ceramic (m) + Polymer (f) = Not feasible, Ceramics require high temperature for formation -unsuitable for polymer filler

Brake lining

●  Polymer matrix composites PMC

Polymer (m) + Polymer (f) = Polyester or rayon fibre reinforced plastics

Polymer (m) + Metal (f) = Grinding and polishing abrasives

Polymer (m) + Ceramic (f) = Fibreglass, Fibre reinforced plastic FRP Asphalt roads, imitation granite, cultured marble sinks and counter tops

Wool fibre composite

A matrix is an environment or material within which an interface is desired. A matrix surrounds the Filler material while creating a bond with it. A matrix thus creates a network within which the filler components are supported by maintaining or reinforcing their intended positions. For a matrix to be affective, it must at some stage have a lower phase than the filler material. The lower phase may occur before or while the filler material is being formed or introduced. The matrix material may turn to a higher phase by evaporation of the solvent, removal of the heat or pressure, and polymerization or action of a catalyst. Polymer matrices are most common, followed by metals and ceramics. However, paper pulp, mud, wax, etc. are some matrix materials that do not fit into any of the above-mentioned categories. Ceramic matrix composites though difficult to form, show greatest promise in material sciences.

Wood Particles in Resin Matrix

  • Portland cement, Gypsum plaster, mud (clay), and Bitumens are widely used matrix materials. Polymer matrix materials are thermosetting resins such as polymers, poly-amides, epoxies, or thermoplastic resins such as polycarbonate or polysulphones. Typically a polymer matrix composite of Epoxy and carbon fibres is of two thirds the weight of aluminium, and two and a half times as stiff.
  • For metal matrices most commonly used metals are aluminium, titanium, magnesium, and copper. Composites with metal matrices generally have metal or ceramic as filler materials. Aluminium reinforced with fibres of the ceramic silicon carbide is a classic example of a metal matrix with ceramic filler. The composite material combines the strength and stiffness of a silicon carbide with the ductility of aluminium. Metal to metal composites consist of two immiscible metals (metals that do not form alloys), such as magnesium and titanium. Such metal-metal composites with bronze matrices have been in use since Bronze Age to create many useful materials.

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swaziland_-_traditional_homes Fences are barriers to confine or exclude people or animals, to define boundaries, or to decorate. Fort walls and compound or estate walls are solid and heavy structures, but are not considered fences. Fences are lighter and of limited height. Fences are transparent to translucent to allow unrestricted flow of vision, water and air.

640px-Zagroda_z_Rożnowic_(Rozenberg,_1858) Fences are nominally erected over the ground but any physical obstruction, natural or man-made can function as fencing. So a ditch or dry or water filled moats can work as a fence. Fences of vegetation such as plants, hedges, climbers, cactus and dry thorny shrubs are used in farms and fields. Timber, earth, stones, and lattices, wires and nets of metals are widely used for fencing.

 In 19 C North America, many varieties of timber fencing were developed, such as the split rail laid zigzag, the post rail, and the picket. Other common fences are chain-link fence, hurricane fences, and white picket fences. In comparatively low rainfall areas like East Europe and in W. USA, turf was dumped to form a fence.

Split_rail_fencing The first patents on barbed wire fencing were taken out in the United States in 1867. However, it was in 1874, when its production by machines, made its use widespread. Woven wire fences and expanded metal lattices, affixed to wood, steel, or concrete posts, proved economical and durable.

Electrified fences, frequently a single strand of barbed wire, are sometimes used for temporary confinement of animals. A mild shock is given to the animal at intervals of a few seconds if it is in contact with the fence. Fence wire usually consists of two longitudinal wires twisted together to form an entwined cable and having wire barbs wound around either or both of the cable wires at regular intervals. The varieties of barbed wires are numerous, with cables being single or double, round, half-round, or flat and having a range of gauges. The twisted double wire provides extra strength and permits contraction and expansion without breakage. Barbs are diagonally cut in order to provide sharper points and they may be formed of one or two pieces (two or four points) and are generally spaced at intervals of 100 to 130 mm.

Fences are considered as safety barricades against animals, insects, humans and vehicles. These pose Height and Width factored hazards. Barbed wire fences have straight head, inward, outward bend or double head (Y form) at the top to make the crossover difficult. Armed forces place extended coils of barbed wire loops on ground without any posts. During world war-II barbed wire fence posts were spiked to prevent air craft landing.

Fence Poland Prison Auschwitz Nazism Hitler’s concentration camps are grim-reminder of fencing used for forceful confinement. Berlin, Germany was first divided by barbed wire fencing, which however did not prevent people escaping through it, so were replaced with massive RCC walls. Yet nations of the world still put up barbed wire fences to demarcate boundaries, as it provides a cheap and fast way of erection. India and Pakistan boundaries are fenced with double rows fencing, with an inspection path in the middle, and recognised no-man’s land across it.

Ownership of a fence between two properties is matter of dispute. The person who builds the fence first, remains the owner of it, and is also responsible for its upkeep. This, however, does not prevent the neighbour to place a patch at places of break. Ownership of a fence is often marked on title deeds with horizontal ‘T’ symbol, with the leg of T shown towards and in the property of the owner. Nominally fencing wires, lattices, or the cladding is placed on the non-owners side, to enable repairs or straightening of posts as and when required.

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Design organizations are substantially a person centric entity. Even in partnerships, group or corporates practices the owners / conveners or leaders, each have a very sharply defined responsibility. It is the quality of leadership varies according to the nature of work in the organization. Inversely it is the quality of leadership that defines the work style of the organization.

The object has TWO facets: 1- The domain of leadership required for the functioning of the organization, and 2 – The domain of leadership required to handle a project. An organization operating efficiently has already this mode in place. The first aspect is more or less constant, till the organization changes its scope of business or is forced to re-evaluate it. The second aspect requires a leader to be as versatile as the project demands.

Design organizations that handle highly variable situations or non-repeating projects need a very Radical leader. On the other hand design organizations with routine projects will function well under a Methodical leader.

For design organizations handling projects that are critical in time, resources and extent, need an Autocratic leader. Autocratic leader can override the situational differences, and imposes a pre-set style. The autocratic leader expects complete obedience of the subordinates.

Very large or multi divisioned organizations need a Democratic leader. Democratic leaders are ideal for projects involving large user base. Such leaders mould the situation, so that it can be handled within the ambience of the personal (leadership) qualities. Employees show responsible behaviour and self-discipline as they get due recognition and full support.

Participatory discussions

Projects that are in extremely dynamic situation need a Bohemian leader. Such a leader has a fast response and develops a style to suit the situation on hand. They are well suited for tackling continuously variable situations.

A Custodial leader has extra ordinary economic resources and public contacts to get things done. Such a leader dispenses organizational resources and makes employees dependent on the organization. Resulting performance, however, may not be adequate.

Autocratic leadership at Rural Council meet India

An Autocratic leader may stimulate an organization towards an acute specialization in only one or few fields, whereas a Bohemian leader may dissipate the energy and de-focus the goals of the organization. A Democratic leader will continuously review and revise the aims of the organization, and plan the resources, to make the organizations creative.

GP – General Purpose Paints

Post 165  –by Gautam Shah

In Building Industry many different types of finishes are used for covering non-masonry surfaces such as Ferrous Metals, alloys, aluminium, wood, and wood composites. In many cases the surfaces are composed of many different types of materials, textures and forms. Often the extent of each individual type of surface is so small and its composition so complex that it may not be feasible to attend to different surfaces.

HK_Sai_Ying_Pun_Des_Voeux_Road_West_Dulux_Painting_Material_Shop_3Most paint manufacturers offer a General purpose coating systems (GP) for such situations. The coatings are nominally conceived to be multi layer systems (at least of primer, inner and top-final coat). GP coating systems work for the inner and top coat, however, a primer coat is specific for the surface. It is specifically designed for the substrates such as masonry-cement primer, wood primer, mild-steel or iron primer.

GP or General Purpose coatings are used for following situations:

On items that are difficult to coat– Such as deep grooves, undersides, inaccessible areas, narrow stripes, engravings, sharp corners and edges, very smooth surfaces, small parts like lattices.

On locations with difficult access– High level ceilings, external sides of windows in multi storey buildings, roof trusses.

In variable atmospheric conditions– Rain and snow storms, very high to very low humidity environments, dust, sun rays, wind, flying insects, very high to very low temperatures.

In single or multi coat systems– Some initial coatings at plant level as specific coating system and rest on the site as GP system.

For specific purpose– As a fresh system (on a virgin surface), as a re-application system (re-coating with a similar but over an aged surface) or as a renovation system (removal of aged coating layer, repairs and coating).

With peripheral hazards– Fire, chemical vapour and odours, colour dropping or running, and over-sprays.

GP enamel Painted Interior of Bang Pa In Chinese style palace

Such site applicable finishes are designed to dry out at normal atmospheric conditions. Most of the GP finishes allow multiple methods of application, and are applicable in widely variable atmospheric conditions.

Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above New York City

GP = General Purpose Paints, as a term are nominally synonymous with Enamel Paints (Oil resin based), but now the term is also used for ‘Plastic’ emulsion paints (Latex paints in American terminology). Such plastic paints are masonry paints for walls,  roof-tiles, floors and stage-sets. These are often favoured over oil based enamel paints due to non-glossy (matt) finish and faster drying capacity.

Post 164 by Gautam Shah

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We perceive things by different sensorial faculties and against many diverse contexts. In addition we perceive things and happenings in time and space scale. Whenever some details are required, the other senses fill-up the specifics. Typically our bilateral faculties like eyes and ears continuously back up the space position details. Similarly multilateral nodes of touch also support such a process.

experimental Night vision goggles

Space position or time marking details are affected by the quality of context. Where the context is dulled or rapidly changing the particulars of things and happenings fail to register effectively. The ‘back or fore’ grounds offer a scale to size-up the perception, and also format relationships in terms of now-then, here-there, far-near, etc. The time factor operates as ‘Concurrent and Sequential contrasts. These two aspects are affected by our past experiences and expectations (desires). The aberrations of perception arise from here. The way colours are seen or weights are felt is due to such contrasts. Our past experience and desires make us see or experience things before they happen at closer locations.

Contrast or contextual effects created or employed in our daily life, are in home arrangements, food menus, dressing, expression and communication, etc. We create visual emphasis by accentuation of colour, illumination, texture, patterns, surface exposure duration and extent, etc. We generate audio accents by sound pitch, pressure, time gaping, replaying in different frequencies, etc. Touch experience is controlled by proximity, duration, exposure of body-limbs, extent and additional information such as temperature (warmth-cold), moisture, breeze, etc.

Contrast Abstract Metal Lines Fabric Folds

The contrast effects can be attuned by manipulating the time and space fields. TV programmes often separate out the interviewer and interviewee in time separated frames, within same frame by superior-inferior positioning, or by comparative sizing. Additional information such as audio-video clips can break the relationship developing between the two time and space consecutive items. In a formal party tea, coffee or pre-post dinner drinks are served in different rooms-ambience.

Colour contrast due to colour blindness

Contrasts occur within same reference of framing. Such contrasts are of position, orientation, scale or direction. Contrasts also occur as reference to an experience (of the past), which are intense or diffused, fragmented or converged with many others. There is no physical presence of framing. In the first case, the contrasts are framed objects and dealt (stored, manipulated, re-expressed or communicated) accordingly. But in the second case, the contrasts are transient, and if one tries to manage these by way of storage, expression or communication, it becomes a new subjective interpretation.

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Different and evading

Different and evading

I look at the sea that responds to my thoughts

And see mysterious clouds arising

A purple painted fingernail comes out

To point

At a candle holder

On a table with an unkempt tablecloth

It all feels like flying uncertainties to me

And like apparitions of old thoughts

Including the repetition of the idea of a hole in a thing

I eat my Sunny-side-up

But it is different

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Westeros is a world with a long, rich history, which the Game of Thrones DVD and Blu-ray sets have done a great job in explaining with their Histories and Lore extras. io9 is proud to exclusively reveal the first one from the upcoming season six set: “The Children of the Forest vs. the First Men,” narrated by the Three-Eyed Raven himself.

Game of Thrones fanatics will of course know that when men first came to the land of Westeros, it was inhabited by the Children of the Forest. As men began cutting down the Children’s sacred Weirwood trees, the two groups went to war—leading to a desperate gambit by the Children, which may spell doom for Westeros, even all these centuries later.

This Clio Award-winning Histories and Lore series has been part of the Game of Thrones Blu-rays since season one, and they’re always good, but they keep looking better every year. The video above is just the first of 18 that’ll be part of the season six set. The rest are as follows:

  • The Old Way: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
  • The Kingsmoot: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
  • The Sunset Sea: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
  • War of the Ninepenny Kings: narrated by Brother Ray (Ian McShane)
  • The Great Tourney at Harrenhal: narrated by Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick)
  • Robert’s Rebellion: narrated by Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
  • Vaes Dothrak: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
  • The Dothraki: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
  • Northern Allegiances to House Stark: narrated by Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner)
  • Brotherhood Without Banners: narrated by Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye)
  • Oldtown: narrated by Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover) and Qyburn (Anton Lesser)
  • House Dayne: narrated by Young Ned Stark (Robert Aramayo)
  • The Little Birds: narrated by Lord Varys (Conleth Hill)
  • Knights of the Vale: narrated by Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish (Aidan Gillen)
  • House Tarly: narrated by Randyll Tarly (James Faulkner)
  • Riverrun: narrated by Brynden ‘the Blackfish’ Tully (Clive Russell)
  • Great Sept of Baelor: narrated by the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce)

You can see them all on November 15, when the set is released.


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White People, Blues Music, and the Problem of Cultural Appropriation

Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock

In July 1956, Elvis Presley released what would become his signature song. Hound Dog became absolutely huge. Even now, everybody knows how it goes. Elvis, who was 21 years old, was already well on his way to being a star. But Hound Dog shot him into the stratosphere: the song was simultaneously top of the pop, country and R&B charts, staying at number one in the pop charts for 11 weeks. It would go on to sell over 10 million records worldwide — a figure which is still impressive, even by 21st century standards. Its phenomenal success cemented Elvis’s place as the biggest figure in rock ’n’ roll. It also made him very, very rich.

But Hound Dog wasn’t originally by Elvis Presley. It was first recorded four years earlier by Big Mama Thornton, a black woman from Alabama. It was a decent success for her at the time, but no where near as big as the Elvis version. Thornton was an incredible blues singer, who toured in the 50s and 60s with the likes of Muddy Waters, BB King and, later, Janis Joplin.

Her career was moderately successful, but it had peaked in 1952 with the release of Hound Dog (it sold around 500,000 copies), and she never got anywhere near those heights again. She died aged 57 in 1984 without ever receiving the recognition she deserved. Hound Dog was originally recorded by her, but Elvis, a white man, is the person remembered for it today.

With a song like this, it’s easy to see why Elvis often gets levelled with accusations of appropriating black music. Why is he seen as the father of rock ’n’ roll music when he didn’t invent it? Why did it take a good old white boy to popularise a genre which black Americans had been playing for years, and in the process become one of the richest people on Earth? It’s clear to see cultural appropriation going on here; Elvis clearly stole music from the black culture of the time, passed it off as his own, and hugely profited from it himself.

Source: Kevin Dooley via Flickr

Except it’s not that simple. It’s not really simple at all. Rock ’n’ roll is essentially a speeded up version of the traditional blues. There would be no blues without black culture. But it doesn’t mean that white people cannot play the blues. (Or any other race for that matter — we’ll come to that later.) It doesn’t mean that white bluesmen and women are appropriating black culture. Because the history of the genre is not black and white. It’s so much more complicated than that.

A little history lesson: blues music has its roots in the slave trade. Africans who were forced across the Atlantic by Europeans took bits of their culture with them. Features of West African music such as call and response, polyrhythms and blue notes are still heard in the blues today. Some blues instruments have their roots in the continent. The music would have started as field hollers and work cries in the plantations of the Deep South; by the time Emancipation came about in the mid-19th century, the blues was born.

But this is not the whole story. Of course, the genre’s lineage starts in Africa — but this is only half its ancestry. Its other half is white America. Like President Obama, the white part of the blues’ history is often unnoticed or seen as irrelevant.

The origin of the blues is in the slave trade. Source: Paul Townsend via Flickr

The other half of blues music comes from European folk music. Firstly, the harmonic structure of blues music comes from Europe and bears little relation to African melodic styles. The ubiquitous 12-bar progression comes from European chords. European instrumentation was also adopted: the guitar, in its classical form, comes from Europe. And no instrument is more strongly associated with one particular genre than the harmonica. Originating in Vienna, the instrument took off among black Americans in the 19th century as it was small, cheap and incredibly expressive.

So the history of the genre is complicated. It’s quite remarkable that the mix in cultures happened at all, given the extreme segregation of American society at the time. Playing the blues would be one of the only times whites and blacks would mix. The genre was obviously dominated by black artists in the early days, but there were plenty of white artists too. Monroe Moe Jackson, Harmonica Frank, Jimmie Rodgers,- these were all white bluesmen from the early 20th century. Some may now be labelled as country, rather than blues, singers. But this split in categorisation only came about with the advent of commercial recordings. Record labels felt they should inform their customers of the race of their musicians, so categorised black artists under ‘race’ or ‘blues’ music, and white artists under ‘country’ or ‘hillbilly’ music. The music was so similar that even the record labels got it wrong sometimes: Columbia mistakenly released a record by duo The Allen Brothers as race music without realising the siblings were white.

This is why the rejection of integration and a ‘you stick to your music, we’ll stick to ours’ mentality is so ridiculous. It happens even now with hip hop, soul and jazz records — white artists are told that they should not appropriate black culture. Well, the history of these genres is too complicated and intertwined between societies to be designated to one race. Even during segregation, blues did something that sometimes only music can do: it brought people together. The great thing about the genre is that it is one of the least exclusive art forms out there. Everyone can relate to the prevalent themes of blues music: love, desire, injustice, hardship, God and drinking.

Charles Keil writes in his book Urban Blues: “The blues has probably always been about whites learning from blacks, blacks learning from whites — the mutual effort to laugh and sing and cry away the pains of American racism expressed in the metaphor of love gone sour.”

Now, there are clearly some songs which relate to the struggles of being black during a system of apartheid. You probably wouldn’t hear a white artist playing Fats Waller’s Black and Blue (“My only sin/Is in my skin”). But, take another song about the brutal treatment of black people — most hauntingly rendered by Billie Holliday — Strange Fruit. It’s an extremely evocative piece of music, and can be painful to listen to once you realise the ‘strange fruit’ she sings of are the bodies of lynched African Americans hanging from the poplar trees of the South. But the song was written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish-American New Yorker. He had no experience of being a black person in the American South, but created this art which spoke to an entire society.

Which brings us back to Elvis and Hound Dog. Yes, the song was originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton — but she didn’t write it. It was written for her by a couple of Jewish American guys called Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who were amazingly just 19 years old at the time. And it’s an example of how assigning certain music to one race or the other is too simplistic. The history is more complicated than it looks. Elvis Presley sung songs written by black people; he sung songs written by white people. And he sung in a genre which was created by both.

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Nice!! Congrats and thanks for playing through it all!!!!!!! Ahh I went and listened to McCree's voice and I can see what you mean! Fung is voiced by the very talented Bradley Gareth

Here are some ~vague~ hints/spoilers!

1. coffee, compliment, avoid job talk, Fung; repeat 3x

5. tea, compliment, avoid job talk, Fung; repeat 3x

6. tea, compliment, avoid job talk, Ceilic; repeat 3x

7. fruity juice, be in the favour of the first 3, but botch the 4th

If ya need less vagueness, please comment here again! Good luck :D a huge they all are, hahahaha

Hi there! Thank you for playing and enjoying the game! Did you want any hints for the other ending? I'm cool to share if you do :)

I messaged you there!

If you are still looking for someone, I'm happy to support with character/sprite artwork!

Hi there! It is completely normal to not be able to select the drink on the last visit; the final drink is automatically chosen for you based on the previous selections you made in the game. The game logic was designed this way, so please don't blame yourself!!

I'm going to post some hints below  (if you want to read them) and hopefully you get to the other endings soon!

  • Hint 1: the choices/selections you make when it's "gym" time have no bearing on the end result; they're there to give you a testing ground to see how the characters react to you; you can easily skip through these.
  • Hint 2: You have to go all-in and choose the same type of drink every time you visit the club, in order to get a character-specific ending, and build rapport with that character exclusively: Fung tends to like to talk about himself, Sunny tends to like to talk about tea, and Ceilic tends to like to talk about what he's thinking. Of course compliments are generally liked by all! You can generally tell based on their reactions, what they like and what they don't like.
  • Hint 3: You need to inception the guy to think/talk about the other guy (if you're hoping for those kinds of endings).

That's all for now :) Happy to reveal more if you are still having difficulties! Thanks for bringing all of this to my attention!

OMG thank you for your comment!! I feel blessed that you took the time to play the game *and* record it for a live play!!!!!!  I'm glad that you enjoyed the game!!!!!! I also appreciate your own self narration for the main character during the video hahaha <3! To be honest I can't pronounce a bunch of the drink names either LOL...

Hi Barrelcat!

Thank you for your kind comments, and I'm glad you enjoyed your playthrough! I've had a couple of other folks tell me that they've successfully obtained more than 1 ending; are you using the mac or PC build? I'll play test it on my end again to double check for this glitch/error! Which ending are you landing on over the over again? Is it ending 9? The other possibility is that you may have not chosen the "appropriate" combination of choices during your play through (it's pretty specific), and if you want, I'm happy to give you hints/pointers re: how to get the other endings :)

There is a contemplative, stillness to this narrative that was very appealing to read through and explore!

Such stellar artwork and mysterious characters!! I totally went and played both "endings" of the curious to know what the true extent of "horror" will be, given the hints that the demo had!! Looking forward to the full version :)

Such an interesting story premise, and my heart was racing near the end of the demo, so much TENSION! I feel like there's so much more to the story to unpack, and so much more of the world to explore!

The mood and pacing of this game is excellent. I like how there were two related narratives intertwined into the same story. Sungmin and Clyde banter is too perfect, rooting for them! Gotta go play Ego Holic now...!!!!!!!!

Although it's R18, I still get a very pure/wholesome feeling from Havi and Yarrow!! Stylish and very well executed technically for everything from art/stage/ui/intro-outro/cut scenes.  The game was a great romp ;D I was chuckling at what the main "decision" point of the game was!!

Such a cute and sweet game!  Looking forward to the full much back plot to uncover!

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Nowadays it’s quite common for internet shops and online services to accept bitcoins. Even the giants like Ebay launched bitcoin support via PayPal. So, what about numerous altcoins? Where one can pay with, say, litecoins or dogecoins?

The online train and plane tickets booking service is about to start accepting litecoins and dogecoins. The service has already given the green light to bitcoins: in November 2013 it started accepting the aforementioned crypto-currency and a bit later this option became available for those who book train tickets and hotel rooms online. In June 2014 the company reported that they had already made 1.5 million dollar worth sale of tickets and hotel rooms for bitcoins.

In his interview to CoinDesk, CEO Jeff Klee said, that they were encouraged to integrate altcoins in their payment system by numerous  comments of their customers. Klee deliberated on the new option launch: “We’ve had some success with bitcoin, we’ve gotten some new customers there – enthusiastic customers. We’ve gotten a great response since we began accepting [bitcoin], and we had some requests for dogecoin and litecoin. We figured why not?”

BTCTrip is the first service of online plane tickets and hotel rooms booking that declared their support of crypto-currencies. The project was launched in June 2013 as was positioned as an alternative to such giants as Expedia and Travelocity. From the moment of their launch and up to now, BTCTrip has been focusing on satisfying bitcoin society needs.

In August 2014 BTCTrip officially expanded its payment options to include litecoin and dogecoin. The founder of the service Martin Fernandez said that he was really happy to add popular altcoins to BTCTrip  payment system.

Martin also explained that the company’s aim to expand their customer base triggered the decision to embrace new payment options and introduce litecoins and dogecoins into the system. “Altcoins is a long-term smart business strategy. I follow [dogecoin] community and I think they are very fresh. They are trying to do new things, so for us, it was very important to accept dogecoin,” Martin said. “Litecoin was, for me, always the second coin in the market’, he added. “For me, BTCTrip is a company, but it is also an experiment in cryptocurrency communities.”

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There’s no such thing as a two-token economy

The moment the SEC stopped talking and started issuing summons’, the US-based ICO-in-progress companies panicked. For 2 weeks, almost 3, nobody in the US was asking me about ICO whitepapers.

Next, they capitulated, and we got the usual number of leads, with everyone saying they wanted to do a security token.

Finally, they went back to being deluded and telling me all about their two-token economies.

Dudes. There. Is. No. Such. Thing.

Nothing new under the sun

Now, I’m not saying you can’t (or even shouldn’t) have multiple tokens. But if you are doing a security token issue, the security token is your token. Your “utility” token is just a marketing bonus program. I have people calling me up and telling me all about how their utility token is used for bounty programs, promotions, membership benefits, etc.

Let’s talk terminology. That’s a coupon. In the best case, it’s a green stamp, you know, the kind they give you in supermarkets and if you collect enough of them, you get a teapot or something. I don’t mean to be snarky and sarcastic, but it reminds me of my days as a child collecting the boxtops codes on cereal boxes and then sending them in for a toy helicopter. (OK, that’s a lie. I do mean to be snarky and sarcastic. That’s because people are calling a cereal-boxtop a “token.” Plus, it’s New York Crypto Week. Let’s all be a bit extra snarky in honor of NYC.) Yes, it’s a token. Just like in New York subways you used to need a token to get through the turnstile. Yeah, I’m old. I collected cereal boxtops and used a bi-colored coin in the New York Subways. Your “utility token” is a token, but it’s nothing new, revolutionary, technological, or exciting. It’s just a marketing promotion bonus point. Oh, and you don’t need ERC20 for it, because nobody cares about the immutable record of your non-fungible coupons.

Welcome to NY Crypto Week, BTW

I’m looking at my stupid MTA metro card. It’s the only card in my wallet that is so easily bendable that it is constantly getting damaged. You’d think the Big Apple could make a decent card like every other public transportation system in the world. Some of us are really New Yorkers and we are embarrassed by our pathetic MTA card and wish we had tokens. I know I personally would be having a good time being snarky at New York Crypto week with my handful of tokens. Ah, good times. But I diverge. I’ll have to use my plastic Starbucks card to be snarky, as I do below.

You may have two tokens, but it’s not an economy

So, yeah, you can have an ICO with a “security token” (equity, also nothing new or technologically exciting), and a “utility token” (bonus points). But it’s not a two-token economy because (a) a security token isn’t used in your business (b) it’s a business and not an ecosystem, so it doesn’t have an “economy” but is part of a larger economy and (c) there is no interaction between the two tokens so they aren’t part of one economy, even if it were an economy, which it isn’t.

“But I could exchange my utility tokens for my security tokens,” said more than one ICO founder to myself.

Yeah, and I could take my Starbucks card and buy Starbucks stock with it. Not.

“Sure,” says the founder, “I could trade it on the exchange.”

No, you can’t exchange your coupons on the exchange, because they are never going to be listed on an exchange. But if you think that you can, I have a Starbucks card I’d like to sell you. And yes, I could sell my Starbucks card for the amount of money in the card and then take that money and buy Starbucks stock for it. But I’m not expecting atomic swap for that any day soon.

Multiple tokens can make sense

Having said all that, there are cases where you want more than one token. The classic example is staking tokens versus utility tokens. Very few organizations have implemented this appropriately, and I’ll probably cover this in a separate blog post, and if you want to hear more about that. (Or check out Crypto Disrupted’s interview of me and Marco, where we talk about this). For this blog post I’ll make it simple. It should be obvious to everyone at this moment in history that voting rights should not be purchasable. If the utility token is also the staking token, someone with money can just buy votes. If you think about “reputation” as equivalent to “work”, you could say my reputation would be the number of dollars that I have earned over my lifetime. That is a very different number than the number of dollars in my bank account. Dollars in my bank account might be earned, inherited, or wisely invested. Or, I might have a negative number of dollars in my bank account but go on a lot of cool vacations. So, even if you want to record tokens earned as a measure of reputation, that’s a different number than tokens held.

Outside of staking, I’ve seen some good cases for ICOs with two tokens, but generally they do not have an exchange between them.

For example, I’ve seen companies that have security tokens as the basis for the ICO, but they are also using an asset-backed token within their ecosystem/platform. For example, one company I spoke to is doing a supply chain liquidity play. When a company in the US, for example, makes a promise to purchase goods in Malaysia, for example, the US company puts the money in an account and gets tokens, protected by a smartcontract. The money in escrow could be in the fiat currency-of-choice for the supplier, protecting them against currency risk. When the supplier in Malaysia delivers the good (with proof-of-delivery on the chain), the smartcontract transfers the tokens to the supplier. The supplier can cash them for the promised fiat, and the tokens are burned. This is basically an escrow system, and the tokens are not on any kind of exchange, and they are not related to the tokens issued to investors. It’s a great use of an ERC20 token, but it’s not part of the “token economy”. It is, however, a second token that could not be effectively created without DLT technology.

I’ve also seen an interesting model of a token economy in an opensource project where the initial investors have non-dilutable tokens and all other tokens are potentially diluted when more investment is made into the platform. The investor’s tokens are non-dilutable to reward initial investors, so if more tokens are released into the economy, the investor gets the requisite amount of newly-minted tokens to keep him at the same percentage of ownership as he had before, but all other tokens are diluted. However, when the investor sells, the token immediately becomes a “normal” token. The tokens are utility token, so the presumption is that if the investor is using the platform, they will want to continue to hold tokens for use in the economy. In that case, they still are active members with the same ownership rights as they always had. However, if they are just selling the tokens for gain, that’s fine, but they lose their percentage of stake in the ecosystem and it’s no longer “purchasable” but only earned in the ecosystem.

Prove me wrong

I haven’t yet seen anything convincing that shows me there is some logical interaction between different tokens inside an ecosystem. That’s probably because a form of currency is, by nature, generic, and should have multiple uses, so you don’t need multiple stores of value within one ecosystem. But I’m happy to be proven wrong.  If you know of a case where there is a true two-token economy with a logical function and interaction of the two tokens, I’d love to hear it.

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IWW supports UCU HE action on pay, anti-casualisation and gender pay gap

Are we in the 21st century or the 18th?  We do not need to tell you the importance of education for both individual development and flourishing communities.  But over half of academics are on insecure contracts, nearly half of UK universities use zero hours contracts for teaching and approaching 50 years after the equal pay act women academics still earn £6100 per year less than their male colleagues.

We applaud you for taking action to end casualisation and the gender pay gap as part of your pay campaign and offer you our support and solidarity. Fighting discrimination and inequality are important to the IWW.  We also recognise that your campaign on pay, casualisation and the gender pay gap is part of a wider struggle for the type of education we want, which is free to everyone, embedded in communities and encourages thinking and asking awkward questions, not privatised and opened up to short term profiteers, as encouraged by the Westminster government white paper.

Endorsed by  Edinburgh IWW, Clydeside IWW and Scottish Education Workers Network (SEWN)

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May 17, 2013 – June 23, 2013

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“What’s the matter with these, man! Didn’t you say your store is going to fold if you don’t have more people bringing in books to sell? What’s the matter with these! These are good!”

I’d say to him, “Yes, Jack but these kind of books will put me out of business quicker. I can’t buy these.”

Then he’d say,

“I’ll trade you! You keep your money. Just give me trade credit!”

I had to keep telling him, “Look, if I trade bad books for good books then I’m letting you cannibalize my store!”

I’m not saying this is what Jack was all about. This is the Jack that I saw, in the last few years of his life. He was unwell and worried about the future and he got rather ill tempered. But would you believe, after all that, Jack was actually a tender, caring man? Would you believe he was a Santa Clause of kindness? That he was a teddy bear with the volume up to high? He and his fellow Beat writers, more than merely writing and painting and making music, also showed people how to take back ownership of their lives.

I remember when I first saw Jack several years ago at another bookstore. He was sitting on their couch and going on about how great he was, how his writing was the genuine article and what everyone else was writing was crap. (Except Saroyan, Algren, Bukowski and a very few others.) He complained that some books he’d tried to sell over in Berkeley, he couldn’t unload. His face, with the missing teeth looked like it had a flat tire. His pants looked like he’d pissed himself. He was so loud! Did he just sit on that bookstore’s couch all day and broadcast? If that was a full-time poet, I’d rather think about sweeping streets. That was my first impression.

Who cares if Jack Kerouac wrote a half page introduction to his first thin pamphlet of poems? So what? I saw him several more times, then I heard he was going to do a reading at the Mission Cultural Center. I thought, what the hell, I’ll go out and see him. At the reading most the chairs were filled. Filled! I was surprised. Where did everyone come from? I noticed many younger people and this amazingly pretty woman in the first row, part gypsy, part princess. Stunning. I didn’t expect that either. I don’t know what I expected—gray toothless men taking a break from AA meetings? I had no idea. Jack got up; he had on a silk pink shirt, a blazing red scarf and his floppy purple hat. His pants were half falling down and filthy. He thanked everyone for coming.

Then he started.

I’ll never get this on paper. I’ll never do it justice. But there are people who look ordinary as hell and you think they couldn’t hold down their side of a bus bench, but then they get up before you, do their thing, and it’s sensational!

Jack Micheline amazed me.

He read poems about remaining a free spirit. He hollered, wailed, cooed, sang, ranted like a rusty drum. He read a poem about flowers and prostitutes and a couple of poems for old friends, cheated and gone. He described sweet souls caught at the bottom in life’s meat grinder. He had poems for sad, lonely, locked out people.

Everyone at the reading loved his poems. They loved Jack. What a original! Some of them were old friends. I don’t know what I expected, but there he was, putting everything he had into it. Shouting, wooing, singing, playing the harmonica, dropping lines, apologizing, then going on, his glasses slipping down his nose, waving his arms about, being a clown, a dirty old man, a preacher, a social misfit full of hugs and kisses for everyone, enemies included. A poet. After the reading, people clapped with enthusiasm. A couple of people were taking pictures.

There was something to drink and Jack had laid out all sorts of little chap books that he was offering for sale. If you bought one he’d sign it for you. He had some books he’d put together himself at the Xerox store where he hand painted the covers. They cost extra. He called women, “sweetheart.”Afterwards, I went out, down the stairs, onto Mission Street, and thought to myself, “Well I sure as hell misjudged Jack Micheline! He’s terrific.”

On a more personal level, I didn’t really get to know Jack until the summer of 1995 when I cleared out a small room at the back of the bookstore. One day when Jack came in I asked if I could pay him to paint a few men with hats and other figures on one of the walls of the room Id cleared out. I wanted something colorful. He said, “No problem, sure thing,” and better still he wouldn’t charge me. Buy him a sandwich and the paint. That’s all he wanted. Jack came in a few days later to prepare the wall. The next thing I knew he asked if it would be all right if he used two of the walls. “I’ve been waiting a very long time to do something like this. Very long! Scott, you have no idea!” He started coming in every day and getting to work in the little room. He needed $120 for paint and undercoating which I gave him.

“Scott, this is going to be great. This is going to be fantastic. Wait till you see what I’m going to do. I have it all in my head. It’s going to be very spiritual. People don’t realize I’m a very spiritual person. I’m going to thank some of the people who have helped me in life by painting them.”

Then he said he needed $60 more. He was using only the best quality paint. It wasn’t cheap.

We got into sort of a daily pattern. I’d come to work, open the bookstore. Soon Jack would walk in with his coffee, papers, letters, paints, filthy pants and hands all covered with paint. He’d march on to the little room and start to work. Then I’d hear his coughing and swearing. He’d smoke. I’d hear him dragging the aluminum ladder around. He made a lot of noise. He often came up front and said how his entire life he’d been ignored by the major publishers but they’d discover him when he was dead. He said he was too honest. They weren’t ready for an outlaw like him. Then after one or two hours he’d quit. Every few days he’d ask for more money.

I started to complain, “Jack how much is this going to cost? It’s getting pretty expensive for being free.”

Then he’d almost shout back at me,

“How can you put a price on art, man! It costs what it cost. How am I suppose to know. Go complain at the paint store! They decide what to charge! Would you ask Matisse or Picasso how much the paint cost!”

The good news was that Jack had decided he needed the two remaining walls and he started to work on them. I’d pass through his painted room to use the bathroom and he’d be intently at work, usually applying the paint right from tubes to his fingers then onto the wall. He filled the walls with brilliant figures, faces, cats or horses, and words.

It was marvelous. Especially when the afternoon sun filled the room. He reworked parts which he didn’t like. He was a hard worker. He’d curse and cough and bang around with the ladder. He’d smoke. He listened to Classical or Jazz on a small tape player he plugged in. He regularly came up front and asked to use the phone. He frequently introduced people to me and to the store.

One day he put a thick manila envelope on the front desk.

“This is something I wrote back in the 1950’s. It’s never been published. It’s a novel in the form of a long series of poems. I thought you might like to have a look. If not, that’s OK too.”

Jack went on back to his painted poem room. I sat waiting for customers and I settled down to read. This work he’d handed me was quite good. It was a lyrical social protest in the form of a series of clear pictures of working people and their struggles. It reminded me of John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange. I remember thinking at the time that it would be a tragic thing if this work never got published.

Later when Jack was going out on an errand he said,

“Scott, I’m going to need more paint. I’ll need some more money to get it.”

I said to him, “Jack this poem-novel is really good. I mean really good.”

“Of course it’s good! I can’t get any publisher to touch it. It’s the story of my life, man! I’m glad you liked it. What about the paints?”

Week after week, Jack kept coming back to work on the room. He had so much energy. He painted the north wall specially for children. On the south wall he painted the one armed piano player and painter Ed Balchowsky and copied a poem he’d written about him. It didn’t seem to matter what was going on, Jack came back day after day. Sometimes he’d sit for long spells looking at what he’d done. Over the five weeks he’d tell me little things about himself. He mentioned his son and his wonderful grand daughter. He was so proud of his grand daughter. He’d also talk about when he organized labor in the south in very black areas where other organizers were afraid to go. He’d been to Mexico City to paint. Franz Kline had given him $1,000 to start out. He painted down there in Mexico City right out in the open. They thought he was crazy. He traveled to Spain. Elsewhere.

I remember him telling me once,

“You need to get yourself a girlfriend Scott. Are you still hung up on that Mexican woman who paints? Get over her! You’re one of the few gentle, kind-hearted people I know. Believe me I know what I’m talking about. You should find somebody kind hearted like you are.”

Mostly during those six weeks (and more than $800 in paints and sandwiches) I saw how Jack’s persistence day after day resulted in something greater than the parts, something magnificent. He did one “brick” at a time. He didn’t make excuses. He made sure it was the best “brick” he could do. The best. Then the next day he’d worry about another “brick,” and so on. Jack was a living example of how to get work done. Jack finished the painted poem room in July of 1995 and we had a special Jack Micheline event at the store to celebrate. He invited all the people he believed in to participate. He filled the place.

After he completed his poem room, he’d gotten so much into the habit of coming over from the Curtis Hotel (which was down Valencia and across the street from the bookstore) that he started coming in and going to the back to sit daily. He brought all kinds of people in to see his mural, his painted poem room.

He said to me many times,

“People are going to come from all over the world to see this. I should charge admission.”

Sometimes he’d sit up near the front desk on the black couch. I saw him day after day. He’d be peddling books and complaining how another bookstore had backed out of printing his book, “Don’t Eat Red Meat on a Hot Day.” He complained about the printer across the street that was going to bring a book of his out but the printer went out of business. He loved the work Matt Gonzalez was doing to put together a book of selected poems (“Sixty-seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints,” FMSBW Press, San Francisco). When that book did come out Jack even found a young guy out on the street to take copies to New York. Jack specially inscribed several copies to friends in New York.

The guy vanished along with the books. “I should have known better. The guy was a junkie!” is all Jack could say. “I can’t help believing in people.”

Once Jack told me about the women he’d write to in prison. He exchanged some steamy letters. He sent money to one woman who promised to visit him when she got out. She never did. His luck in all departments, including going to the track, seemed to be consistently awful. (But this didn’t keep him from being an optimist and betting on the long shots.) He didn’t want anyone’s pity but I just couldn’t help but feel bad for him. He went to New York for a Beat conference. He went to Denver. He visited a friend that owned a beautiful farm. He came back crusty as ever. Restless, restless always on the move. He wanted to move, for good, out of San Francisco. He wanted to go out into the country, with trees and nature and relax. He kept saying he’d been screwed his whole life and they’d discover him after he was dead. Nobody had any idea how good he really was.

The day before he died he looked no different from on any other day. He was restless as ever. I’d just returned from a trip to LA. He said, “Be well,” as he went out the front door that night. He headed on down the street to who knows where. I’d seen him cross the street right through traffic with big manila envelopes under his arm, so many times. It was the next afternoon that someone from the Curtis Hotel came over and asked, if I heard?

They’d found Jack Micheline dead on BART.

“No” I answered. I hadn’t heard.

The morning after his death I put a candle and some flowers in the window. One of his friends, Julia, came in and we stood in a state of speechless grief. She said, “Well I hope someone will do some sort of service for him. Something fitting for Jack.” I said, I didn’t know. His son might just come to settle things and to take his remains. Then Julia said she knew someone who had a former church building, so next thing I know, Julia and the tireless video chronicler, Kush, met in my store and started making plans. Hundreds of people came. (People had been informed of the event entirely by word-of-mouth.) Julia showed me the food Puerto Alegre, Katz Bagels, and other local restaurants had donated. A television monitor was playing clips of past readings. There was Jack, lively as ever.

The room was filled with the Who’s Who of San Francisco alternative press (as opposed to commercial) literary history. Among them all, John Bryan, former publisher of the legendary “Open City,” which first carried Charles Bukowski’s famous weekly column, “Notes of A Dirty Old Man,” the young publisher Johnny Brewton, creator of “X-Ray Magazine,” Allen Cohen, the originator of the quintessential freedom psychedelic newspaper of the 1960’s, “The Oracle,” A.D. Winans, close friend of Jack’s and publisher of two of his books. The place was full of such people.

Then upstairs in the big room under the watchful eyes of Jack himself (rendered in a giant spirited portrait of him) the speakers began paying tribute: Harold Norse, Neeli Cherkovski, Michael McClure and Jack Hirschman who electrified the audience with a thundering good poem that brought everyone to their feet cheering and clapping. There were musicians who wailed out sad tunes and the owner of an art gallery who’d put on a one man show for Jack. In the audience was Eileen Kaufman (widow of Bob Kaufman), so frail, swaying her head back and forth, seemingly caught between smiling and crying.

George Tirado, the big man got up on the stage, a street poet himself. He belted out a howling beautiful lament for his lost friend Jack and the hard life street poets live. Ken Kesey and Lawrence Ferlinghetti sent messages of sympathy, which were read. The program for Jack Micheline began at eight and speakers and poets went on till near one in the morning. Of all the people who climbed those stairs and stood before the audience, what touched me the most, was when Jack Micheline’s only child, his son Vince, stood on the stage with Nicole, Jack’s grand daughter in his arms, and gave a warm, humble, heart-felt thank-you to everyone for the love and kind words to his father. Nicole leaned over and said thank you into the microphone in her small child confident, Jack-Micheline-like voice.

When I left to walk home I felt torn. To see such a grounds well of support was so moving, but I also felt so broken with sadness. Jack was gone. If only he could have been there to see it all.

I still hear Jack Micheline shouting,

“They fucked me over good, man! They’ll discover me when I’m dead! Just watch!”

But what is left since Jack has died, is a beautiful body of work (mostly unpublished) and his bright lively paintings. Fountainhead of a rainbow. You’ll be hard pressed to find one bit of the bitterness, pain and frustration he experienced in his life, in the work he’s left behind.SCOTT HARRISON | The Abandoned Planet Bookstore San Francisco


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Inherited Extensive Speckled Lentiginous Nevus With Ichthyosis: Report of a Previously Undescribed Association

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Linear or zosteriform patterns of hyperpigmentation often involving large areas of the body have been described infrequently. There is confusion about the nomenclature of speckled pigmented lesions. One of these, speckled lentiginous nevus (SLN), is a specific1 acquired lesion, although congenital cases have been reported. We have observed the case of a previously unreported inherited giant SLN in which an extensive pattern of pigmentation is combined with ichthyosis. Both skin conditions were first present in the patient's grandfather.

Report of a Case.  A 16-year-old white boy came to us for evaluation of widespread pigmented cutaneous lesions that dated back to birth and extended progressively. Physical examination revealed numerous darkly pigmented macules and papules not invariably located on a background of tan to light-brown macular hyperpigmentation. The lesions were extensively distributed on the face and trunk (Figure 1), with the exception of some areas that were spared. The tan patches were


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Visualizing Puppet manifest resources and relationships

Puppet allows you to generate .dot files that show the resources and relationships present in the manifest files that you have. To generate these .dot files without actually applying the manifest files, perform the following command:

puppet apply /path/to/manifest.pp --noop --graph

This will place three .dot files in the output directory for graphs, by default this is /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs on CentOS and Ubuntu. You can use the GraphViz suite to convert these .dot files into e.g. .png files. First, install the GraphViz suite:

yum -y install graphviz

sudo apt-get -y install graphviz

Now we can generate the .png files:

dot -Tpng /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs/ -o /tmp/resources.png
dot -Tpng /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs/ -o /tmp/relationships.png
dot -Tpng /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs/ -o /tmp/expanded_relationships.png

Now open the .png files with your favorite image viewer. You may also want to take a look at the Gephi program to display the .dot files directly.

As an example, we may have a module that installs the NTP daemon:

class ntp {

  package { 'ntp':
    ensure => installed,

  service { 'ntp':
    ensure  => running,
    enable  => true,
    require => Package['ntp'],

  file { '/etc/ntp.conf':
    source => 'puppet:///modules/ntp/ntp.conf',
    notify => Service['ntp'],

And a site.pp file which says that by default servers should use this module:

node default {
  include ntp

Then the resulting graphs would look like this (figures edited to make them smaller):

Expanded relationships

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    June 20, 2015 at 4:36am

    You could also display them nicely in Instaviz, which uses an embedded Graphviz to display and manipulate graphs on iOS. I just released 2.0, do check it out!

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Housing Market in September 2015: Sales Above the 10 Year Average

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Same old. Same old. Sales are up 32.9% above 10-year sales average for September. Listings are at 9 year low and multiple offers are occurring on desirable properties everywhere including detached houses and condos in downtown Vancouver.

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Home ownership has become a Federal Election issue with all parties making grandiose statements about foreign ownership and affordability with Prime Minister Harper promising at a campaign stop in Vancouver that the government at long last would begin tracking foreign buyers.

A reelected Conservative government will commit to collecting comprehensive data on the foreign non-resident purchase of Canadian real estate,

said Harper, adding his government would coordinate with provinces to ensure non-resident investment

supports the availability and affordability of homes" for Canadians... If such foreign ownership non-resident buyers are artificially driving up the cost of real estate and Canadian families are shut out of the market, that is a matter we can and should do something about.

The provincial Liberal government has resisted any suggestion that foreign buyers are distorting the real estate market and raising prices because they do not want to appear racist or to lose the Chinese buyers investing in BC. According to BC Finance Minister Mike de Jong, the government is working on possible changes to the property transfer tax in the next provincial budget . This is to ameliorate some of the housing affordability issues out of Metro Vancouver. The government believes that the high prices are not caused by foreign buyers but by limited supply and high demand around land in Vancouver. The average sale price for a single family detached home in Vancouver has risen 20% over the past year to a current high of $1.47 million. Vancouver Westside detached benchmark sale price is now at $2,745,000. The Minister also pointed out that one third of the homes that were sold in Metro Vancouver were condos under $400k. No mention of how families with multiple children will squeeze into a one or two bedroom apartment.

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At every level of price and affordability home owners resist any policy that may devalue their property or reduce the equity they will cash out for retirement. When the City of Vancouver recently rezoned the Heritage classification for First Shaughnessy, the elegant upscale subdivision built by the CPR around 1895, so that single family homes built before 1940 could increase density and add a coach house but could not be torn down to build a larger mansion there was an outcry from owners. One who owns a house built in 1912 wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Vancouver Sun to state that thanks to the devaluation of his property he could no longer afford to buy a large multi-million dollar downtown condo.

Density will win out in the end. Homes along transit lines are being assembled for rezoning into townhouses or low rise condos. Some owners have joined with their neighbours to offer their block as an assembly and many long term investors have purchased them. Patience is a hallmark of these particular buyers.

September 2015

Barbara Yaffe of The Vancouver Sun in an article on land values suggests that "while density has its challenges in terms of congestion, parking and noise, it is worth noting that the region is a virtual nature preserve by international standards. As of 2011, Metro Vancouver’s population per square kilometre totaled 802.

By contrast, Paris’ population per square kilometer is nearly 3,350 people, while the per-square-kilometre density in New Delhi is 11,3000 people, and in Manila, 43,000.

Nothing like comparative data to put our challenges into proper perspective."

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Ghandi once said: “Become The Change You Wish to See in the World” which ressonates and resounds so clear with me in regards to my outlook on life. Let’s not deny it, everyone has things they go through, but the ones who fight through despite potentially the world crumbling around them are the ones we gain strength from, the people we look at and think wow, “I want to be able to be like that”. I had similar feelings, which is why I wrote my book: Free-ed. I used to pray for my mind and my body to look at myself in the mirror and be happy with what was standing there, for my mind to stop tormenting me that I wasn’t perfect, that if I could just portray happiness within myself to the outside world, that I could be one of these people whos’ smiles shined brighter than anyone elses because I installed hope and inspiration to others. Then I realised – “but Jayne you need to work this out for yourself”. As Arielle Ford says,

When you truely love yourself, you are no longer willing to compromise your standards, because you value your happiness too much.

This is a very powerful and very true quote. Alot of us hold onto things in our life that cause up negative feedback and negative feelings. Why? Because it is safe. It is safe to feel like that, it is easier to live like that in that moment than making a change. It is easier because you stay hidden in the background not embracing who you are and who you REALLY want to be. Let me ask you a question right now:

Are you TRUELY being TRUE to yourself 24/7?

If your answer is no – then we need to start identifying and working out who you REALLY Truely are and then express yourself that way being 100% comfortable in you! My new book Free-ed helps you identify what is stopping you be your true self and we work through a step by step guide together on how to help you embrace your true self!
This is available for order on October 16th 2017

But for Friday here is 3 steps to start embracing your true self and be your best version:

  • Identify Who And When You Feel Most Yourself
    • When you are most happy in yourself identify who you are around, how do you feel, where are you when you feel like that and who are you at that moment? For me – at school I never really felt like I fit in, but when I was training or around my athletics circle I felt completely at ease and myself. Only surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you not the stress in you. Once you start doing this you won’t accept anything less
  • Start Accepting AND Embracing Your Quirky Ways
    • Don’t listen to negative influences. If you met me a couple of years back, I used to be told I am so embarassing, I needed to remember where I was, and that I was unlovable because I was so head strong and driven. After removing that negativity from my life and a WHOLE journey of self discovery, I am TRUELY myself 24/7 embracing all quirks, all embarassingness, to truely be who I am. If someone doesn’t accept it, it is more than likely that I also find them awkward to be around. What is the saying “Your vibe attracts your tribe and when you find your tribe love them hard.” You need to start accepting that you don’t need to fit in, you were born to be your UNIQUE self. If you truely are YOU you attract other like minded people into your life. These people will be truely your friends, your soulmates and the correct people that are only going to lift you higher in your life.
  • Remind Yourself its not you, its them
    • When you find yourself doubting, KEEP reminding yourself, a reflection on how someone treats you is their insecurities with themselves not you. REMIND yourself if they don’t vibe with you they aren’t your tribe. If you can’t be truely yourself around someone they aren’t the right person for you to be around.

This Fri-YAY I want you to EMBRACE every single little part of you and remind yourself –

Be The Change YOU want to see in the world and Shine Your Light

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