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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Krishna Kidnaps Rukmini

Krishna Kidnaps Rukmini

by Mantra & shlokas on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 10:35pm
After hearing Rukmini's statement, Lord Krsna was very pleased. He immediately shook hands with the brahmana and said: "My dearbrahmana, I am very glad to hear that Rukmini is anxious to marry Me, since I am also anxious to get her hand. My mind is always absorbed in the thought of the daughter of Bhismaka, and sometimes I cannot sleep at night because I am thinking of her. I can understand that the marriage of Rukmini with Sisupala has been arranged by her elder brother in a spirit of animosity toward Me; so I am determined to give a good lesson to all of these princes. Just as fire is extracted and utilized after manipulating ordinary wood, similarly, after dealing with these demoniac princes, I shall bring forth Rukmini, like fire, from their midst."

Krsna, upon being informed of the specific date of Rukmini's marriage, became anxious to leave immediately. He asked His driver, Daruka, to harness the horses for His chariot and prepare to go to the kingdom of Vidarbha. The driver, just after hearing this order, brought Krsna's four special horses. The names and descriptions of these horses are mentioned in the Padma Purana. The first one, Saibya, was greenish; the second, Sugriva, was grayish like ice; the third, Meghapuspa, was the color of a new cloud; and the last, Balahaka, was of ashen color. When the horses were yoked and the chariot ready to go, Krsna helped the brahmana up and gave him a seat by His side. Immediately they started from Dvaraka and within one night arrived at the province of Vidarbha. The kingdom of Dvaraka is situated in the western part of India, and Vidarbha is situated in the northern part. They are separated by a distance of not less than one thousand miles, but the horses were so fast that they reached their destination, a town called Kundina, within one night or, at most, twelve hours.

King Bhismaka was not very enthusiastic about handing his daughter over to Sisupala, but he was obliged to accept the marriage settlement due to his affectionate attachment for his eldest son, who had negotiated it. As a matter of duty, he was decorating the city for the marriage ceremony and was acting in great earnestness to make it very successful. Water was sprinkled all over the streets, and the city was cleansed very nicely. Since India is situated in the tropical zone, the atmosphere is always dry. Due to this, dust always accumulates on the streets and roads; so they must be sprinkled with water at least once a day, and in big cities like Calcutta, twice a day. The roads of Kundina were arranged with colored flags and festoons, and gates were constructed at particular crossings. The whole city was decorated very nicely. The beauty of the city was enhanced by the inhabitants, both men and women, who were dressed in washed cloth, decorated with sandalwood pulp, pearl necklaces and flower garlands. Incense was burning everywhere, and fragrances like aguru scented the air. Priests and brahmanas were sumptuously fed and, according to ritualistic ceremony, were given sufficient wealth and cows in charity. In this way, they were engaged in chanting Vedic hymns.

The King's daughter, Rukmini, was exquisitely beautiful. She was very clean and had beautiful teeth. The auspicious sacred girdle was tied on her wrist. She was given various types of jewelry to put on and long silken cloth to cover the upper and lower parts of her body. Learned priests gave her protection by chanting mantras from the Sama Veda, Rg Veda and Yajur Veda.After this they chanted mantras from the Atharva Veda and offered oblations in the fire to pacify the ominous conjunctions of different stars.

King Bhismaka was very experienced in dealing with the brahmanasand priests when such ceremonies were held. He specifically distinguished the brahmanas by giving them large quantities of gold and silver, grains mixed with molasses, and cows decorated with gold and ornaments. Damaghosa, Sisupala's father, executed all kinds of ritualistic performances to invoke good fortune for his own family. Sisupala's father was known as Damaghosa due to his superior ability to cut down unregulated citizens. Dama means curbing down, and ghosa means famous; so he was famous for controlling the citizens. Damaghosa thought that if Krsna came to disturb the marriage ceremony, he would certainly cut Him down with his military power. Therefore, after performing the various auspicious ceremonies, Damaghosa gathered his military divisions, known as Madasravi. He took many elephants, garlanded with golden necklaces, and many chariots and horses which were similarly decorated. It appeared that Damaghosa, along with his son and other companions, was going to Kundina, not completely forgetting the marriage, but mainly intent on fighting.

When King Bhismaka learned that Damaghosa and his party were arriving, he left the city to receive them. Outside the city gate there were many gardens where the guests were welcome to stay. In the Vedic system of marriage, the bride's father receives the large party of the bridegroom and accommodates them in a suitable place for two or three days until the marriage ceremony is performed. The party led by Damaghosa contained thousands of men, among whom the prominent kings and personalities were Jarasandha, Dantavakra, Viduratha and Paundraka. It was an open secret that Rukmini was meant to be married to Krsna but that her elder brother, Rukmi, had arranged her marriage to Sisupala. There was also some whispering going on about a rumor that Rukmini had sent a messenger to Krsna; therefore the soldiers suspected that Krsna might cause a disturbance by attempting to kidnap Rukmini. Even though they were not without fear, they were all prepared to give Krsna a nice fight in order to prevent the girl from being taken away. Sri Balarama received the news that Krsna had left for Kundina accompanied only by a brahmana; He also heard that Sisupala was there with a large number of soldiers. Suspecting that they would attack Krsna, Balarama took strong military divisions of chariots, infantry, horses and elephants and arrived at the precinct of Kundina.

Meanwhile, inside the palace, Rukmini was expecting Krsna to arrive, but when neither He nor the brahmana who took her message appeared, she became full of anxiety and began to think how unfortunate she was. "There is only one night between today and my marriage day, and still neither the brahmana nor Syamasundara has returned. I cannot ascertain any reason for this." Having little hope, she thought perhaps Krsna had found reason to become dissatisfied and had rejected her fair proposal. As a result the brahmana might have become disappointed and not come back.

Although she was thinking of various causes for the delay, she expected them both at every moment.

Rukmini further began to think that demigods such as Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and the goddess Durga might have been displeased. It is generally said that the demigods become angry when they are not properly worshiped. For instance, when Indra found that the inhabitants of Vrndavana were not worshiping him (Krsna having stopped the Indra-yajna), he became very angry and wanted to chastise them. Thus Rukmini was thinking that since she did not worship Lord Siva or Lord Brahma very much, they might have become angry and tried to frustrate her plan. Similarly she thought that the goddess Durga, the wife of Lord Siva, might have taken the side of her husband. Lord Siva is known as Rudra, and his wife is known as Rudrani. Rudrani and Rudra refer to those who are very accustomed to putting others in a distressed condition so they might cry forever. Rukmini was thinking of the goddess Durga as Girija, the daughter of the Himalayan Mountains. The Himalayan Mountains are very cold and hard, and she thought of the goddess Durga as hardhearted and cold. In her anxiety to see Krsna, Rukmini, who was after all still a child, thought this way about the different demigods.

The gopis worshiped goddess Katyayani to get Krsna as their husband; similarly Rukmini was thinking of the various types of demigods, not for material benefit, but in respect to Krsna. Praying to the demigods to achieve the favor of Krsna is not irregular, and Rukmini was fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna.

Even though she pacified herself by thinking that the time for Govinda to arrive had not yet expired, Rukmini felt that she was hoping against hope. She began to shed tears, and when they became more forceful, she closed her eyes in helplessness. While Rukmini was in such deep thought, auspicious symptoms appeared in different parts of her body. Trembling began to occur in her left eyelid and in her arms and thighs. When trembling occurs in these parts of the body it is an auspicious sign indicating that something lucrative can be expected.

Just then Rukmini, full of anxiety, saw the brahmana messenger. Krsna, being the Supersoul of all living beings, could understand Rukmini's anxiety; therefore He sent the brahmana inside the palace to let her know that He had arrived. When Rukmini saw the brahmana, she could understand the auspicious trembling of her body and immediately became elated. She smiled and inquired from him whether or not Krsna had already come. The brahmana replied that the son of the Yadu dynasty, Sri Krsna, had arrived; he further encouraged her by saying that Krsna had promised to carry her away without fail. Rukmini was so elated by the brahmana's message that she wanted to give him in charity everything she possessed. However, finding nothing suitable for presentation, she simply offered him her respectful obeisances.

The significance of offering respectful obeisances to a superior is that the one offering obeisances is obliged to the respected person. In other words, Rukmini implied that she would remain ever grateful to the brahmana.Anyone who gets the favor of the goddess of fortune, as did thisbrahmana, is without a doubt always happy in material opulence.

When King Bhismaka heard that Krsna and Balarama had come, he invited Them to see the marriage ceremony of his daughter. Immediately he arranged to receive Them, along with Their soldiers, in a suitable garden house. As was the Vedic custom, the King offered Krsna and Balarama honey and fresh washed cloth. He was hospitable not only to Krsna, Balarama and kings such as Jarasandha, but he also received many other kings and princes according to their respective personal strength, age and material possessions. Out of curiosity and eagerness, the people of Kundina assembled before Krsna and Balarama and began to drink the nectar of Their beauty. With tearful eyes, they offered Them their silent respects. They were very pleased, considering Lord Krsna the suitable match for Rukmini. They were so eager to unite Krsna and Rukmini that they began to pray to the Personality of Godhead: "My dear Lord, if we have performed any pious activities that You are satisfied with, kindly be merciful upon us and accept the hand of Rukmini." It appears that Rukmini was a very popular princess, and all the citizens, out of intense love for her, prayed for her best fortune. In the meantime, Rukmini, being very nicely dressed and protected by bodyguards, came out of the palace to visit the temple of Ambika, the goddess Durga.

Deity worship in the temple has been in existence since the beginning of Vedic culture. There is a class of men described in the Bhagavad-gitaas the veda-vada-rata; they only believe in the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies, but not in the temple worship. Such foolish people may here take note that although this marriage of Krsna and Rukmini took place more than five thousand years ago, there were arrangements for temple worship. In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says, yanti deva-vrata devan: "The worshipers of the demigods attain the abodes of the demigods." There were many people who worshiped the demigods and many who directly worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The system of demigod worship was directed mainly to Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, Lord Ganesa, the sun-god and the goddess Durga. Lord Siva and the goddess Durga were worshiped even by the royal families; other minor demigods were worshiped by silly inferior people. As far as thebrahmanas and Vaisnavas are concerned, they simply worship Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the Bhagavad-gita the worship of demigods is condemned, but not forbidden; there it is clearly stated that the less intelligent class of men worship the different kinds of demigods for material benefit. On the other hand, even though Rukmini was the goddess of fortune, she went to the temple of the goddess Durga because the family deity was worshiped there. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that as Rukmini was proceeding towards the temple of the goddess Durga, within her heart she was always thinking of the lotus feet of Krsna. Therefore when Rukmini went to the temple it was not with the intention of an ordinary person, who goes to beg for material benefits; her only target was Krsna. When people go to the temple of a demigod, the objective is actually Krsna, since it is He who empowers the demigods to provide material benefits.

As Rukmini proceeded toward the temple, she was very silent and grave. Her mother and her girl friend were by her side, and the wife of abrahmana was in the center; surrounding her were bodyguards. (This custom of a would-be bride's going to the temple of a demigod is still practiced in India.) As the procession continued, various musical sounds were heard. Drums, conchshells, and bugles of different sizes such aspanavas, turyas and bheris combined to make a sound which was not only auspicious but very sweet to hear. There were thousands of wives of respectable brahmanas present. These women were all dressed very nicely with suitable ornaments. They presented Rukmini with flower garlands, sandalwood pulp and a variety of colorful garments to assist her in worshiping Lord Siva and the goddess Durga. Some of these ladies were very old and knew perfectly well how to chant prayers to the goddess Durga and Lord Siva; so, followed by Rukmini and others, they led these prayers before the deity.

Rukmini offered her prayers to the deity by saying, "My dear goddess Durga, I offer my respectful obeisances unto you as well as to your children." The Goddess Durga has four famous children: two daughters--the goddess of fortune, Laksmi, and the goddess of learning, Sarasvati--and two famous sons, Lord Ganesa and Lord Karttikeya. They are all considered to be demigods and goddesses. Since the goddess Durga is always worshiped along with her famous children, Rukmini specifically offered her respectful obeisances to the deity in that way; however, her prayers were different. Ordinary people pray to the goddess Durga for material wealth, fame, profit, strength and so on; Rukmini, however, desired to have Krsna for her husband and therefore prayed to the deity to be pleased upon her and bless her. Since she desired only Krsna, her worship of the demigods is not condemned. While Rukmini was praying, a variety of items were presented before the deity, chief of which were water, different kinds of flames, incense, garments, garlands and various foodstuffs prepared with ghee, such as puris and kachauris. There were also fruits, sugarcane, betel nuts and spices offered. With great devotion, Rukmini offered them to the deity according to the regulative principles directed by the old brahmana ladies. After this ritualistic ceremony, the ladies offered the remnants of the foodstuffs to Rukmini as prasadam, which she accepted with great respect. Then Rukmini offered her obeisances to the ladies and to the goddess Durga. After the business of deity worship was finished, Rukmini caught hold of the hand of one of her girl friends and left the temple, accompanied by the others.

All the princes and visitors who came to Kundina for the marriage were assembled outside the temple to see Rukmini. The princes were especially very eager to see her because they all actually thought that they would have Rukmini as their wife. Struck with wonder upon seeing Rukmini, they thought that she was specially manufactured by the Creator to bewilder all the great chivalrous princes. Her body was well-constructed, the middle portion being thin. She had green eyes, pink lips, and a beautiful face which was enhanced by her scattered hair and by different kinds of earrings. Around her feet she wore jeweled lockets. The bodily luster and beauty of Rukmini appeared as if painted by an artist perfectly presenting beauty following the description of great poets. The breast of Rukmini is described as being a little bit high, indicating that she was just a youth not more than thirteen or fourteen years old. Her beauty was specifically intended to attract the attention of Krsna. Although the princes gazed upon her beautiful features, she was not at all proud. Her eyes moved restlessly, and when she smiled very simply, like an innocent girl, her teeth appeared just like lotus flowers.

Expecting Krsna to take her away at any moment, she proceeded very slowly towards her home. Her legs moved just like a full-grown swan, and her ankle bells tinkled very mildly.

As already explained, the great chivalrous princes who assembled there were so overwhelmed by Rukmini's beauty that they almost became unconscious. Full of lust, they hopelessly desired Rukmini's hand, comparing their own beauty with hers. Srimati Rukmini, however, was not interested in any of them; in her heart she was simply expecting Krsna to come and carry her away. As she was adjusting the ornaments on her left-hand finger, she happened to look upon the princes and suddenly saw that Krsna was present amongst them. Although Rukmini had never before seen Krsna, she was always thinking of Him; thus she had no difficulty in recognizing Him amongst the princely order. Krsna, not being concerned with the other princes, immediately took the opportunity of placing Rukmini on His chariot, marked by a flag bearing an image of Garuda. He then proceeded slowly, without fear, taking away Rukmini exactly as the lion takes the deer from the midst of the jackals. Meanwhile Balarama appeared on the scene with the soldiers of the Yadu dynasty.

Jarasandha, who had many times experienced defeat by Krsna, began to roar: "How is this? Krsna is taking Rukmini away from us without any opposition! What is the use in our being chivalrous fighters with arrows? My dear princes, just look! We are losing our reputation by this action. He is just like the jackal taking away the booty from the lion."
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Fifty-third Chapter ofKrsna, "Krsna Kidnaps Rukmini."

Krishna and Rukmini

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What technology exists that most people probably don’t know about & would totally blow their minds?

by on June 4, 2013 at 1:15 am in Science, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Permalink

That is the title of a new Reddit thread, reproduced here.  Overall I am not blown away by the nominations and I find few of them in my own everyday life.  Here is one example:

ALON – transparent aluminium, you can have a window that don’t break!!!

Here is further information, with photos.  Cool enough, but not as good as cheap quality education and health care.  And it costs 20k per square meter, at least according to that article.

I’m ready to call the great stagnation over when driverless cars are in the hands of the middle class, but that’s still a while away.  Steady deflation for education and health care expenditures would do it too, and I can see this will come for education but not for health care.  As for Google Glass, I will review it once they sell me one.  I’d also claim the end of stagnation if we saw a 2% yearly rise in the median real wage on a sustained basis, say most of the years out of a ten-year period.

In the meantime, here is a robot which pours you a beer.

For the pointer I thank Max Roser.

1 Ryan Murphy June 4, 2013 at 1:46 am

Isn’t the transparent aluminum thing only a big deal because of Star Trek IV?

2 Joshua Gans June 4, 2013 at 7:02 am

The amusing thing is the Wikipedia edit battle to get the Star Trek IV reference into that entry.

3 Silas Barta June 4, 2013 at 6:14 pm

Of course! They came up with a lightweight, transparent, bulletproof material, all to say “herp derp Star Trek was right lol”

4 brian h. June 4, 2013 at 6:50 pm

ALON actually existed before Star Trek 4 came out. There is nothing really outstanding about it. Sapphire (aluminum oxide) is substantially stronger and it costs about the same. Sapphire is already widely used for military blast-proof and bulletproof glass, and it may be used in smart phone screens soon.

5 Mark Thorson June 4, 2013 at 9:55 pm

Now people in glass houses can throw stones!

6 R F June 4, 2013 at 2:05 am

I think the fact that the SIM card in your phone contains a CPU inside that runs at the same clock speed (~5 MHz) as early 1980s computers was pretty amazing, especially since SIM cards are rather old technology at this point.

7 Bryan Willman June 4, 2013 at 2:23 am

That’s actually a scale issue – and I think I got someone to understand how NOT simple their smart phone is with the following point (no stagnation in computing power over the last 35 years..)

In 1978 the fastest commercial computer in the world was the Cray-1, it cost about $8 million and people often built a building for the machine. A Cray-1 could reportedly do 80 million operations x 5 parallel pipes for a nominal 400 mega flops.

And it would literally not be fast enough to power a current smartphone.

8 Bryan Willman June 4, 2013 at 2:12 am

re Medical Costs – a hopeful line of thought is that a Watson derivative is made which can run on Very Cheap computing resources (imagine Watson running on a raspberry-pi) but totally focused on medicine/health, and attached to cheap diagnostic sensors.

It’s not necessarily your Dr., but it does very consistent 1st order triage – and so does a good job of saying “don’t bother going to the Dr. – take an NSAID and drink lots of water” or “that’s not normal, I’ve called your Dr., your appointment is for 10am, she’ll already have my notes”

Combine this with the ever growing set of good and cheap medical sensors (blood pressure monitors seem to be leading the way.)

This won’t make treatment for nasty diseases at the frontiers of medicine necessarily cheaper. But the cost and morbidity associated with out of control BP, people not realizing they have pneumonia, etc., could be reduced. And Drs. would be doing somewhat less guessing.

Of course, one result of the Oregon study was that even with care, people don’t control BP or blood sugar. And I suppose we might find that even with MedicalWatson people don’t control things. Sigh.

9 David Wright June 4, 2013 at 2:20 am

I nominate aerogel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel). It has been used for micrometeor capture. If it were cheaper to produce, it would make incredible home insulation. And it really is cool to hold and look it — basically a cube of smoke.

10 8 June 4, 2013 at 2:37 am

Does a free market in healthcare count? Everyone thinks the market is determining healthcare because of insurance companies, but actually the system has been anti-free market at least since the 1960s. If the Surgery Center of Oklahoma is any guide, healthcare costs would collapse if the free market were returned.

11 Brock June 4, 2013 at 9:49 am

This. More healthcare providers are moving to the cash-only model, with transparent pricing. And Medicare recently made pricing transparent across a wide range of medical providers.

The only piece we are really missing to have a functioning market in healthcare is outcome statistics. We need to measure outcomes to know which hospitals actually fix people at the lowest cost. Once we have that, we should have a revolution in healthcare cost and quality.

Also, there are a few “politically hard but conceptually simple” regulatory fixes, which if pushed through, would be game-changers. For instance, if Congress forced the FDA to reciprocate regulatory approvals from Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, etc., then we would see a flood of new drugs and devices hit the market.

12 Booker Reese June 4, 2013 at 2:33 pm

Brock, I welcome transparent pricing, but I’m skeptical that we are moving toward it. My own personal experience has been that ascertaining what procedure’s cost is nearly impossible. Two years ago my wife needed a relatively routine cardiac ablation to correct an arrythmia that wasn’t life-threating, but had large lifestyle consequences. This procedure was precluded from my HSA/High Deductible insurance due to an exclusion (pre-existing condition). For several months we attempted to pay out of pocket, only to be ignored repeatedly. We had the doctor and his admin arm intervene. The hospital (a large one in Virginia) wouldn’t talk to us directly, only through the doctor’s staff. Eventually, they priced it at nearly $60k, and told us that if we paid up front, it would cost us $30k. They apparently based the price on a single case involving a 60-year old man; my wife was an otherwise perfectly healthy 35-year old woman. We were told that one reason (of many) the cost was high was due to the large number of catheters they went through during the procedure (in the case). When we asked the doctor’s staff if that was typical, they said no, typically the procedure used fewer. We were also told this estimate priced in an abnormal amount of anesthesia. When we asked if the cost would go down if the procudure used less of any these inputs, well you can guess what the answer was. Here’s the best part – I couldn’t get any of this in writing (nor would a single hospital administrator talk to us). We were told (indirectly via the doctor’s staff) to show up the day of with our checkbook. Frustrated, we ended up via various family-friend connections, getting a hospital in another state to perform the procedure at the Medicaid reimbursement rate of $8k. We were incredibly fortunate.

13 Eli June 4, 2013 at 2:45 am

The theme of the thread is “Mindblowing” technologies, which are different from TGS-ending technologies. Think Tesla, rather than Edison.
We may not re-stimulate the economy with the LHC, ion drives, and telepathically controlled robots, but if those don’t blow you away, then you’ve just gotten bored with engineering as a discipline.

14 Axa June 4, 2013 at 2:56 am

Fracking, nuclear fracking. Of course it was a huge flop: http://aoghs.org/technology/project-gasbuggy/

15 Brock June 4, 2013 at 9:51 am
16 Axa June 4, 2013 at 3:15 am

Last one was a stupid joke sorry, I would say GMOs. It exists, most people don’t know about it and if you care to read it blows your mind. For example: http://www.biofortified.org/2013/06/scoop-on-ge-wheat-in-oregon/

17 Hazel Meade June 4, 2013 at 1:09 pm

Crop biotechnology probably is the one thing that has the greatest potential to improve human welfare the most for the largest number of people wordwide. It’s sad that progressive nincompoops have latched onto it as their favorite boogeyman. Can you imagine what a revolution there would be in Africa if the farmers there had access to drought and disease resistant crops?
But NOOOO….. a starving man spreading water buffallo poop is more “natural”.

18 Mike Brown June 4, 2013 at 10:47 pm

No, no – The last one made this one of TC’s most artful posts. TGS still underway, meanwhile, have a beer, poured by a minimally helpful, very expensive robot. Or, just have beer.
And glyphosate tolerant plants may very well be a flash in the pan, unless I’m missing something.

19 Steve Sailer June 4, 2013 at 3:42 am

The BehaviorScan test market system that was started in 1980 that let consumer packaged goods corporations to pinpoint different ads to perfectly matched panels of consumers, then track their every real world purchase still sounds like science fiction. Here’s a 1985 Inc magazine profile:

It was a big money maker for a number of years, then CPG firms got bored when it turned out that an alternative ad or doubling the ad budget seldom does all that much good for sales.

20 dearieme June 4, 2013 at 4:20 am

“cheap quality” is a pretty good description of much of the stuff passed off as education. Well done.

21 John S June 4, 2013 at 4:42 am

Memristor-based neural networks (using memristors–logic chips with variable resistance–as artificial synapses). Kurzweil “Singularity” (Strong AI) might not be as far away as people think.

22 dan1111 June 4, 2013 at 5:08 am

Interesting, but at this point it is all still just hype. I am quite skeptical that this will be the AI breakthrough they are claiming it will be–I would bet on it being a complex new architecture that is even harder to program intelligence into than traditional hardware.

23 Hazel Meade June 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Do these chips allow for learning based on environmental feedback?

24 Ashok Rao June 4, 2013 at 5:07 am

Tyler you said “I’m ready to call the great stagnation over when driverless cars are in the hands of the middle class, but that’s still a while away”

If anything, wouldn’t that be the *start* of a great stagnation (provided everything else you argue holds true). Or do you foresee the advent of driverless cars inducing a whole era of innovation and median income growth?

25 Benny Lava June 4, 2013 at 8:21 am

This is an interesting observation. What innovation or income growth could driverless cars induce? I can’t see much.

26 Brock June 4, 2013 at 9:53 am

Well, at a minimum. it would put millions of taxi drivers and long-haul truckers on the job market. Just like the automation of farming sent people from the the farms to the factories. I’m sure there’s some income growth to be found there.

27 Ted Craig June 4, 2013 at 11:54 am

That was a very different situation. Mass production was just coming online. Putting people out of work is no guarantee of wage growth.

28 Panhandle Scott June 4, 2013 at 12:27 pm

Assuming a nearly complete driverless environment, cities with no need for parking lots could lead to a complete change in urban design and density. Plus personal vehicle commutes being much easier/efficient/faster due to much increased capacity of existing roads, much higher vehicle speeds, and working/playing from inside the vehicle. So you might get a boom in cities, or a boom in sprawl, or both.

Besides parking or being hired out when not needed, driverless cars can take care of their own charging, so electric cars become much more viable for the average user. The ease of car sharing might put a crimp on auto industries from a lower number of total cars on the road, though.

29 dan1111 June 4, 2013 at 5:09 am

“not as good as cheap quality education and health care.”

One could dismiss pretty much anything with a line like that. I suggest you also make it your stock movie, book, and TV review.

30 Ronald Brak June 4, 2013 at 6:03 am

A lot of people don’t seem to be aware of how cheap solar PV has become. A lot of Americans seem unaware that they on the verge of declining demand for grid electricity similar to what has been happening in Australia over the past couple of years. I guess the fact that US and Mexican retail electricity prices are very low by world standards and that installation costs are in general still quite high in the US compared to places like Europe, India, and Australia means that a lot of Americans have been able to ignore the PV revolution so far.

31 dan1111 June 4, 2013 at 6:27 am

My impression was that the adoption of solar has largely been driven by government incentives rather than the true cost of technology.

While I am not an expert, the Wikipedia page comparing costs of power generation seems to support that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source. In all estimates that they show, solar PV is among the most expensive methods of power generation.

32 Ronald Brak June 4, 2013 at 6:33 pm

A five kilowatt system is now the median size of new rooftop solar in Australia and costs an average of about $2.50 US a watt without subsidy. Using a discount rate equal to the interest rate of a home equity loan, it will produce electricity at around or below half the cost of retail electricity. Solar PV has been installed for about a pound a watt in Britain and about a Euro a watt in Germany. At a Euro a watt rooftop solar is competitive with retail electricity just about everywhere and is competitive with wholesale electricity in most of the world’s sunnier regions. The fall in the cost of solar electricity has been amazing.

33 Mark Thorson June 4, 2013 at 10:29 pm

If the price of PV goes too low, the government will slap a tariff on it. That happened in the U.S. and just today in the EU.

34 Ronald Brak June 5, 2013 at 2:45 am

Sounds good for countries without any PV manufacturing industry. And solar panels themselves are now only a small part of the cost of solar power, so it’s not as though a lack of cheap Chinese panels will have much effect on European or US installation rates. While it doesn’t help, it’s not too much of a hinderance.

35 Alan June 4, 2013 at 6:56 am

Aluminium oxynitride is not transparent aluminium. That’s like saying salt is a tasty form of chlorine. Ask a high school chemistry student.

When economists and STEMs understand each other to the level of, say, first year college, we will have taken a large step to a much better world. I am not holding my breath.

36 dan1111 June 4, 2013 at 7:38 am

The name “transparent aluminum” is only being thrown around because it is an amusing Star Trek reference. I think “salt is a tasty form of chlorine” is a pretty funny thing to say, too.

Also, you may be overestimating the average high school chemistry student. I had a high school chemistry TEACHER who claimed that ice is denser than liquid water.

37 John June 4, 2013 at 8:57 am

The “transparent alluminum” ALON is just an incremental improvement on existing transparent alumina (not a typo), which is the industrial term for factory-made sapphire. It’s a big improvemnt, but in alumina we already had a mostly-transparent ceramic that uses aluminum.

38 londenio June 4, 2013 at 9:01 am

Table salt is a tasty form of chlorine. All those tasty sodium ions nicely packed and well behaved among the Cl(-)s. Potassium chloride is a less tasty form of chlorine.

39 de Broglie June 4, 2013 at 9:48 pm

I agree. No one hopefully calls sapphire (aluminum oxide) pretty aluminum.

40 Claudia June 4, 2013 at 7:20 am

“Overall I am not blown away by the nominations and I find few of them in my own everyday life.”

Reading fail … the title said “most people.” Most economists (already a non-representative set) think singularity is a noninvertible matrix problem, not an intelligent tech revolution. Your ‘blown away’ bar probably does not generalize. I do agree that material progress needs to show up in median real wages before we declare victory (and yet there’s probably no new tech toy to get us that result).

For more measured tech optimism, here’s a new working paper by some productivity experts: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2013/201336/201336pap.pdf

41 Nathan W June 4, 2013 at 7:38 am

3-D printing? A decent number of people are vaguely aware of some such thing as 3-D printing, but don’t know enough about it for it to blow their minds.

42 RPLong June 4, 2013 at 8:02 am

Is there any reason to believe health care costs should ever diminish? I keep hearing all this yammering about how health care costs should come down, but I can’t think of any reason why it should. Granted, there are certain things that prop up costs, like the pharmaceutical patent and regulation systems and the entrenchment of the insurance industry. But even clearing those hurdles represents a one-time cost reduction. Unless an entire generation of Americans become doctors at the expense of every other profession, I really don’t see how or why health care costs would ever decrease significantly.

I also don’t see this as an innovation/stagnation issue. What is it about health care that makes you think innovation is the main reason costs aren’t decreasing?

43 Becky Hargrove June 4, 2013 at 11:06 am

Ryan, there are a couple of reasons heath care affects overall costs but they work somewhat differently, depending on whether they are separate (physical) product or product connected to human time. First is the mandated environment health care operates in: an environment of high overhead caused by highly regulated, high maintenance construction, whereby technology is locked out through multiple potential doors of environment innovation. The other technology “lock” is that of entry through the single door of physician/administrative access for all other health care activity. That allows all technological gain in healthcare to be captured at single instead of multiple points. If this were not enough, the lock on health care knowledge access multiples in such a way, that it decreases the value of all other knowledge in the present.

44 RPLong June 4, 2013 at 1:41 pm

All of these are totally valid points. But again, it seems to suggest that it’s not actually an innovation issue so much as a regulatory one. Clearing all regulatory obstacles should result in a big, one-time gain (in my view), after which we can expect the health care industry to slowly trend toward infinite costs. How much would you pay for a pill that guaranteed another 5 years of lifespan? (Or QALYs, if you prefer.) The closer you get to the end of your lifetime, the more you’ll be willing to pay. Think of the character of Hippolite Terentyev from The Idiot.

45 sam June 4, 2013 at 8:25 am

I’m impressed by how many of the examples come out of material sciences. Materials with totally novel properties are incredibly cool.

46 mofo. June 4, 2013 at 8:55 am

Materials engineering is the biggest driver of innovation, IMO.

47 Alan June 5, 2013 at 1:15 am

Dead right! Stuff first, things second. To translate for the non-STEMs, everything you use needed raw materials. There would be no biros without ink of the correct viscosity and no computers without high purity silicon.

48 celestus June 4, 2013 at 8:41 am

Cathodic protection? Uses electric current to prevent pipelines and offshore oil platforms from corroding. A small, replacable piece of a more active metal “absorbs” all the corrosion.

49 de Broglie June 4, 2013 at 9:52 pm

This is pretty commonly used technology. This technology blew my mind when I learned about it as a child. It is a simple use of basic chemistry.

50 charlie June 4, 2013 at 8:49 am

Are bloggers quoting reddit the moral equivalent of Friedman’s taxi talks?

51 mofo. June 4, 2013 at 8:56 am

The ability to build things at the atomic level. Maybe it isnt going to change everything, but its pretty damn mind blowing if you ask me.

52 mw June 4, 2013 at 9:03 am

“I’d also claim the end of stagnation if we saw a 2% yearly rise in the median real wage on a sustained basis, say most of the years out of a ten-year period.”

Does this strange definition go in reverse too? Because I suppose that means France entered stagnation later, and has stagnated less severely, than we have.

53 ThomasH June 4, 2013 at 9:35 am

Maybe it’s because I was too cheap to buy the e-book, but I do not understand why a sustained 2% yearly rise in the median real wage is more of an indication of no Great Stagnation than a sustained 2% yearly rise in the real GDP or GNI per capita.

54 C June 4, 2013 at 9:45 am

The Reddit thread mentions advancements in prosthetic limbs and I am inclined to include them in the category of “mind blowing.” I read about, and saw a video of, one recently that permits sensory feedback to the user. So, the user can actually feel (though to a somewhat limited extent at the moment) what he/she is touching or trying to pick up. To me at least, this is truly amazing advancement that has real practical uses in the near future as the technology develops; especially, given the amount of those types of injuries that have been sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan.

55 Finch June 4, 2013 at 10:16 am

> given the amount of those types of injuries that have been sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And Boston.

56 Mark Thorson June 4, 2013 at 10:34 pm

My godson works at a company that makes prosthetic limbs. I said business must be pretty good with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that’s not it — most of the business is from diabetes.

57 Nick June 4, 2013 at 9:52 am

I doubt healthcare inflation will ever stop (for reasonable definitions of “ever”). Every marginal dollar of income generated by the economy is likely to be disproportionately allocated to improving the length and quality of life, because, well, “you can’t take it with you.” So the only way for health care inflation to abate is for general deflation (from rapidly advancing technology in general, most likely), by enough to offset this marginal increasing allocation of resources towards health care.

And yes, I realize that the reductio ad absurdum of my argument is a society where a bunch of 500 year old Methuselahs are frolicking around due to the salubrious effects of allocating 99.999% of the productive capacity of a fantastically advanced civilization towards healthcare.

Health care inflation never stopping isn’t the thing to worry about per se. The thing to worry about is wanting to spend more on health care, but having nothing new to buy. Buying ever more expensive and ever more miraculous treatments would be great.

58 RPLong June 4, 2013 at 10:55 am

Exactly. +1

59 mpowell June 4, 2013 at 12:11 pm

1000x this. I’m stunned that TC hasn’t considered this. What else would you possibly want to invest in in a post-material society??? Would you really prefer a better economic gadget to improving your health? Health care expenditure growth is not a mark against or in favor of TGS.

60 brian h. June 4, 2013 at 7:26 pm

“Health care inflation never stopping isn’t the thing to worry about per se. The thing to worry about is wanting to spend more on health care, but having nothing new to buy. Buying ever more expensive and ever more miraculous treatments would be great.”

You clearly have no idea what inflation is. Inflation takes quality improvements into consideration. Health care inflation has averaged about 7.5% per year since the 1980s–that means the *same treatment* costs about 7.5 percent more each year.

61 Nick June 5, 2013 at 9:55 am

That is not right. Here’s some data:
This table nicely summarizes the sources of health care inflation over the decades. The first line, from 1960-2009, indicates that there has been 9.6% annual medical inflation, which is pretty similar to the 7.5% since the 1980s that you mention. So let’s use that.

The biggest contributor to medical cost increases has been general, economy-wide inflation (39% of the 9.6% annual inflation rate). Since this is exogenous to medical inflation, I don’t think anybody is worried about that, specific to health care inflation. What people are worried about when they express concern about health care inflation is the other three. Of those, the next biggest is “Intensity,” (36% of the 9.6%) which reflects the increase in the amount and change in the mix of services performed. That is when there are new treatments, as well as when an old treatment is performed more often. So this can go up, even when the old procedure doesn’t change in price at all.

The third component, “excess medical price information,” is the thing that you are talking about, where the same old procedure has increased in price at a rate greater than inflation. But note that it is only 13% of 9.6%, or about 1.2% annualized inflation. So the part of excess health care inflation that is due to the “same treatment” simply costing more is not the 4 or 5% that you believe it to be (7.5% – 3% overall inflation since the 80’s); rather, it is only 1.2% (13% * 9.6). The rest of the cost increase is due to intensity/mix changes, population growth, and overall inflation.

It has the details so you could re-create the results since 1985 and if you do that you get pretty much the same results. Of the 7.4% annual health care inflation since then, 2.5% has come from general inflation, and only 1.1% has come from excess medical inflation. 3.8% has come from population changes and changes in intensity/mix.

Although I normally would let my analysis speak for itself, I feel like your comment “You clearly have no idea what inflation is.” is a bit of a personal swipe. So let me explain why I believe that I have a pretty good idea about what health care inflation is. I am a fully credentialed actuary who specialized in health care for over a decade, where my main job was to analyze claims information to determine average costs and calculate health care cost increases. So while my opinion is supported by the CDC report that I linked to, it was formed as a result of hundreds of analyses that show that intensity/mix is a huge contributor to health care costs. I am curious as to where you could have gotten the idea that since the 1980’s, the same treatments have, on average, gone up by 7.5%.

62 Dylan Matthews June 4, 2013 at 10:37 am

Brain-computer interfaces come to mind.

63 Asha Gupta June 4, 2013 at 11:21 am

@tyler there may be some low-hanging fruit still ripe for the picking!
One of the main problems with education at the high school level is inadequate teachers, but there are plenty of excellent teachers out there too, but most students aren’t fortunate enough to have them.

Here’s a new platform where phenomenal teachers can post video lessons online. The lessons will match the high school curriculum, and judging by the comments, it’s definitely an effective way for students to learn.

Coursera and the like are great, but if we want more youth in STEM, we have to address the issue early in life.

#no-cost quality education
#meaningful innovation

64 Asha Gupta June 4, 2013 at 11:22 am

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66 Noah Yetter June 4, 2013 at 3:07 pm

5-axis CNC machines.

Most people don’t know about them because metal fabrication is no longer a common career path and modern Americans generally have little clue how physical goods are made.

Mind blowing? Just watch one of the many YouTube videos of 5-axis machines and tell me you are not amazed.

67 ohwilleke June 4, 2013 at 10:53 pm

Gene therapy. It is routine in lab animals and has been done in a handful of cases in humans. In these cases people with incurable genetic disorders (even adults) are infected with a bioengineered virus that literally rewrites their DNA so that the post-viral infection DNA doesn’t include the disease causing gene (and this modification is also passed down to any children of the person receiving the treatment).

For example, imagine a world where the hemophilia that afflicted the entire extended family of European royalty could be cured in every member of that extended family for all time in a month with suffering no greater than a case of the flu.

This is something that will be technologically possible in our lifetimes for simple single locus genetic conditions (alas, some genetic conditions like autism and schizophrenia have a genetic architecture too complex to treat this way any time soon).

68 Silas Barta June 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm

Hm, what about all the stuff that you can do today with cryptography that most people think is impossible? Examples:

-Bit commitment: Hash functions let you give out proof that you knew a secret while not revealing that secret. The hashed version of the data doesn’t allow the original to be recovered, but proves you musthave started with it.

-Zero knowledge proofs: More generally, there are protocols for proving that, e.g., a map can be colored with three colors without revealing the coloring.

-public key encryption: it’s possible to tell people how to encrypt messages to you without telling them how to decrypt them

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"You've Got a Friend . . ."

Hebrews 2:18
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

I love being a blogger!

Since beginning my daily devotions in May 2011, I am delighted by the changes, for the better, I see in myself. I'm more disciplined in my daily routines. I relish the time I spend in meditating upon scripture. Revel in the stories or lessons God places on my heart.

Rejoice in the writing, writing, and more writing. Which, I am the first to admit, has vastly improved in these past nine months.

This does not happen in a vacuum. It is not the practice alone that betters my technique.

It is my readers.

Friends and fellow bloggers from whom I gain invaluable inspiration and insight through the comments they leave and the blogs they share.

And, which I faithfully read. Noting their individual styles. Learning new life lessons. Gleaning fresh wisdom and perspective.

Making new friends. Wonderful friends! Many who live halfway across the globe.

Those precious ones whom I would never have met if it weren't for blogging.

Who are now an intricate part of my world, my life, my heart.

Through our stories, poems, and non-fiction writings, we come to know one another.

We laugh together. Cry together. Critique. Encourage.

Exchange cyber-hugs and blessings.

A caring, sharing community of persons who know all too well the inherent loneliness of the writing profession. The long hours glued to the keyboard. Entertained only by the ideas dancing around in their own heads.

Needing to know others who can empathize with what we go through in the creative process.

Other who reach out with their thoughts in words and photos.

To touch our lives. To cheer us on. To lift us up.

To love us.

Just as we are . . .
Will you tell your friends today how much you love them?

Will you pray with me?
We thank you, Father, for the gift of friendship, for the beautiful souls who come into our lives and stay in our hearts forever. Bless and keep them, now and always. We give thanks especially for Your precious Son, Jesus; the best friend any of us could ever have. Amen.

Psalms 63:1-8 (9-11), 98 or 103
Daniel 9:3-10
Hebrews 2:10-18
John 12:44-50

  1. That reminds me of the Toy Story song "You've Got A Friend in me" Blogging is fun, I enjoy talking to people and writing posts and then commenting on others. I wish I had more time to blog but, sadly I don't, great post! : )

  2. Thanks, Joseph, for taking time to come by today!
    You know, I almost used the song title from Toy Story, but opted for the classic James Taylor one instead.
    Yes, blogging is a great way to make new friends. Hope you will be able to find more time to blog in the future. :)

  3. St. Teresa of Avila immediately came to mind when you spoke of friendship with God. It's the best relationship one could ever have with Christ.

    I thought of the many ways you've expressed yourself and how you've grown through friends. It's truly beautiful Martha. I do learn a lot reflecting with you. I met many people through blogging too and reading what people write helps me to know them better.I get to share a part of their story.

    Thank you for all your wonderful and inspiring ideas Martha :*

    I pray with you.

    1. Yes, Melissa, our friendship with Christ is the best relationship we can ever have or hope for. One of my favorite praise songs we do at church is "I am a friend of God" - such an amazing and comforting thing!
      It is so marvelous to be able to learn so much from so many kind and thoughtful people through blogging, you, of course, being one of them!
      And, thank you for stopping by and for your sweet compliment.
      Praying with you, too!

  4. Hello Martha. Happy Sunday!
    What a lovely way to start my day today with this post.
    Thanks to blogging, I have traveled to places I never would have dreamed of...right from the comfort of my sofa! (lol)
    I have met & made friends with many people from different backgrounds & cultures. It's been quite an experience. Working full-time, my days are long (anywhere from 10-12 hours) & that doesn't leave me with much time to visit as many people as I would like, but I do enjoy the interaction when I am online.

    Thanks for taking the time to inspire us, Martha.
    Have a wonderful day & week ahead!

    1. Happy Sunday to you, too, Andy!
      Wow! You certainly have a long work day. I'm amazed that you have any time at all to blog, but so grateful that you do as your poetry is always romantic and inspiring!
      Thanks so much for visiting me today and for your kind compliment.
      Blessings to you and your wonderful wife!

  5. I am also very thankful for the bounty of friends I have made in my blogging experience. Some of those bloggers are closer to me than people I know in my everyday world :) Your blog is an inspiration to me. Your words are encouraging. Your suggested verses always have something that speaks to me on that particular day. Thank you Martha for being you and being here :)

    1. Hi, Mary, great to see you here; thanks so much for visiting me today!
      Isn't it amazing? There are some bloggers, including you, whom I feel I've been friends with my whole life. I think perhaps it's because we are so open and candid in our writing. We tell it like it is! :)
      And, thank you for this kind and touching compliment . . . I am so moved by your words . . .
      Blessings always!

  6. Isn't it amazing the friendships and support you gain from all across the me it is quite a humbling experience...I love my cyber friends...As always...XOXOXOXOXO

    1. Thanks so much for dropping by, Bonnie!
      Yes, such marvelous, loving, caring people out in this great, big world. And, I'm with you - it's a very humbling experience and one of the most rewarding in my life.
      Blessings and hugs!

  7. Thanks for sharing your blogs and keeping me grounded when I feel soo alone. Thanks for connecting with us and sharing insights and having an interest in reading our blogs. Blessings!

    1. Thank you, Cathy, for stopping by on this, and many other blogs, and for giving us such incredibly informative information through yours.
      Number One: You are not alone!
      Number Two: You are loved!
      Number Three: Blessings right back at you! :)

  8. You are truly a blessing to me, Martha. Your comments on my post have helped me stay strong at times when I was so down. And yes, blogging is a blessing! And the blogging community, most especially Blogplicity! God bless, Martha! :-)

    1. Irene, you are too kind! Blogging is such a blessing for us all, and the comments left here have been so encouraging and uplifting.
      Thanks so much for stopping by today!

  9. Completely agree with you Martha. I met you all wonderful people whom I otherwise would not have...blessed to know you all. Love you and hugs.

    1. Thank you for stopping by, Janaki! So, so glad blogging allowed us to meet each other and so many marvelous folks. We are indeed blessed!
      Love and hugs right back at you!


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Ottawa, Canada: Wolverine has come to the Prophecy hostle thinking it's 1968 and that he is on a mission to deal with Terry Austin. He goes up to old room number #23, where his original mission would have left him a cache of weapons, money and various fake identifications. Sure enough, even though so much has changed in the decades that have passed, they're still there. Taking a crowbar to the floor boards he is unearthing the stash when he is visited by the spirit of Janice Hollenbeck, whom he tells that he was inspired to come here after he had a hallucination while playing pinball in Westchester, and decided to finish his mission involving Terry Austin. When he leaves, his room is inspected by the hostel owners who find nothing but weapons and decide that it's best to call the RCMP.

While at the X-Mansion, the X-Men find Wolverine's room in shambles. Professor Xavier blames himself, as he explains to his students that he had attempted to unlock the memory blocks in Logan's mind causing him to lose his mind and think that it's 1968 and that he must finish his mission regarding Terry Austin. The X-Men begin to quickly scramble to find their teammate before he hurts someone. Storm visits with John Wraith and learns that Terry Austin was not a real persons name, but code for something else and that Maverick would be the only surviving member of the Weapon X team that would have remembered the full mission details. After some searching, Jean Grey reports to Jubilee that they had traced Wolverine from Ottawa, as he traveled from Pakistan to Afghanistan and finally entering Kazakh, this news brings good cheer to the young mutant.

This however is not such a good thing, as despite the fake Russian security identification, Wolverine's true citizenship is exposed to some Kazakh solders spying on him when he pays a man to unload his luggage onto a bus with American money. As Logan rides the bus they are stopped by the security forces who burst in and gun down the hallucinating Logan. Stealing all his clothes, they leave him for dead with nothing but his Wolverine costume, to feed the vultures and wild dogs who are now attracted by the smell of his blood.

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One Shots: Healin' skellies in Shards Online

When the NDA is away, the cats will play -- and take screenshots! Bless our dear community for documenting upcoming MMOs as they venture into these virgin territories.

ZulikaMiNam had some fun in one game that I haven't seen much from readers yet: "Since there are no NDA restrictions imposed for this alpha weekend kickoff over at Shards Online I will post some pics from there. I accidentally healed a skeleton while trying to heal myself. So my name turns grey and anyone can kill me now. Time to lay low for a bit."

Are you still laying low? You can... probably come out now. That skeleton owes you a life debt for that heroic action.

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WRUP: Jurassic Park is a pretty bad movie edition

It's time for us to just admit this as a species: Jurassic Park is not a good movie. I know, you have fond memories of it; I do too, aside from the fact that I remember being disappointed with it even as a child because it was more interested in "rawr scary dinosaurs" than actually showing off these magnificent, enormous animals. But the movie is about five minutes of cool, memorable moments mixed in with a bland, overlong plot that's mostly just people running around scared as everything gets ruined.

The science doesn't hold up, the characters are thin pastiches (including Jeff Goldblum being slimy enough to leave a residual bad taste in my mouth), and what made the movie work in the first place was how enormously compelling those dinosaurs look. That part still can impress viewers; not much else does. So "Chris Pratt and a team of raptors vs. invisible T-Rex" is really more of a lateral move for the franchise.

That's all, folks. Oh, right, What Are You Playing is here. Let us know in the comments!

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WRUP: Card trick 74 edition

Today's card trick is known as the Ponzetti Reversal. It's called this chiefly because no one ever pays too much attention to card tricks which sound like chess maneuvers, but you can be certain that your audience will be amazed unless they're not.

First, take an ordinary deck of playing cards. Shuffle, cut the deck, and draw seven cards. Ask a participant to take a random card from those seven, but don't look at it. Tell the participant to memorize the card. Then, return the cards to the deck. Shuffle again, draw seven more cards. Tap an island for one blue mana. Grab the bottom card on the deck and ask the participant if it's the right card.

Get angry. Insist that it's the right card. Fling the deck of cards at the participant's head and inform them to find the [REDACTED] card without you, if the participant is so [REDACTED] smart. Break a window. Tell the police officers that you're completely sober. Refuse to put your shirt back on. Slam your head against the inside of the car window. Insist you want a lawyer after hurling insults at the cops for an hour. Let us know what you're playing in this week's installment of What Are You Playing. Lastly, produce the correct card.

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One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs

In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct MMOs. Maybe it's just one of those sober reminders that sooner or later, these games will go dark. Enjoy them to their fullest now!

"To prove I can actually be on topic sometimes, I answer your call for shots from defunct MMOs with one from Dragon's Prophet," Tyler said, "the only game I've played that has shut down. There was a great deal wrong with this game, and I didn't play it for long, but there was still a lot about it that was surprisingly good. In particular I loved the unusual, battle mage-like Oracle class. Who wants to stand in the back waving your hands when your mage can charge into the thick of things and massacre everyone with a giant enchanted scythe?"

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WRUP: Year in preview edition

Well, here we are, a new year. This one has a low bar to clear and it's already not doing a great job. I'd write a four-letter word here that rhymes with "truck," but I like not being fired. Instead, let's just finish with our year in review nonsense by giving you the phrases you'll become intimately familiar with over the next year due to major news stories.

  • January: "It's unclear why so many MMOs are now engaged in cross-promotional campaigns with shaving cream, but still..."
  • February: "A new imported MMO is out, and the studio behind it is very enthusiastic about its chances in the market."
  • March: "The new basketball minigame trend is getting out of hand."
  • April: "It turns out you can't fund your game with a Ponzi scheme."
  • May: "That new import from February is shutting down at the end of the month."
  • June: Reserved for Stormblood.
  • July: "The three new upcoming Hellgate London relaunches."
  • August: "Daybreak has officially announced the shutdown of several games it is not running, begging the question of why."
  • September: "Boy, remember earlier in this year when no one was afraid of the chupacabre?"
  • October: Halloween.
  • November: "This year's BlizzCon featured an unfortunate incident with a snake and far too many computers on fire."
  • December: "Ugh, this year is finally almost done."

Have fun! Let us know what you're playing in the comments, since this is What Are You Playing. It's cunningly disguised, you see.

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WRUP: The sunset edition

At the worst times in my life, I would often watch the sunset. Sunsets are comforting to me. Every sunset you see reminds you that another day is over, that you're going to be living a day further in the future. I never even thought it was possible to be depressed by sunsets until someone first told me that they were the sign of a day ending, of the sum total of everything bad going on. Things are ending.

But I never saw them that way. Sunsets mean a day is ending, but that also means that no matter how bad the day was, it's over now. Tomorrow is a new day, and whatever bad stuff happened during the day that's ending, you'll move away from it one sunset at a time. Every day marks a new beginning, a new start. We've lost, and we've faltered, and we've seen horrible things happen, but it's not the world ending; it's just this day. Each day forward is another day toward a better tomorrow.

Cheers to the end of this awful year, yes, but there's another one coming up, and that means we have another shot at making it better. Let us know What Are You Playing in the comments.

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WRUP: Gifts for some edition

It's that time of year once again, when the Massively Overpowered staff loads into a sleigh and prepares to bring presents to all of the good boys and girls. Then, somewhere over Milwaukee, that plan changes to most of the good boys and girls. By the time we're in Pittsburgh, we're now delivering presents to the most good boys and girls, ranked chiefly by a sorting algorithm that we illegally downloaded from a GeoCities site that has somehow stayed up because no one told it that GeoCities was dead.

Usually we hit a bar in Pittsburgh, just to "get our groove back," and things get a little blurry. Last year, I remember waking up in my front yard with my head in a dollhouse and a pair of crudely constructed Lego shoes along with a piece of wrapping paper in my pocket which said "to David (sic)" and another one which just read "call Bob, important." I don't know anyone named Bob. Now that you're feeling your face just melt from sheer overwhelming holiday cheer or whatever, let us know What Are You Playing on this holiday weekend. We've got gifts to load on a sleigh this year, most of which will hopefully reach some kids.

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Welcome, traveler, to Hoodle's Watch! It's a town named after some guy, presumably named Hoodle. Anyhow, I'd ask you why you're here, but I already know; you're on the trail of some villainous plot or another and you need to do these quests for the next four levels before you move on. But may I suggest, my friend, that while you came for the main storyline, you stay for the food?

Seriously, it's very good food. Chef Augustine over there has been experimenting with this sort of pan-continental fusion style, since we get so many adventurers passing through. And you haven't lived until you've seen what my daughter Jessa - that's her over there, hello Jessa! - can do with a turnip and a side of mutton. It's really delicious.

So maybe you can just... oh, I see, you're queued for a dungeon now. Well, all right, but at least go see what has Denna all up in arms, I hear there's a good hat at the end of the quest chain. Also, leave your name in our books so what know about What Are You Playing. Go have fun with the main plot!

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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year

Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact on our genre. But in tonight's Massively Overthinking, we're going to put aside the bigger picture and talk about just the stories we liked, the stories we're proud of, the stories that define us, the stories we wish we could write all day long. I asked our writers to pick one story they wrote and one story somebody else on MOP wrote and talk about why they matter. We'd love to hear what you folks think about our best work too -- it helps us decide what you want to hear about in the future.

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WRUP: Could a werewolf offer you savings like this edition

Pathetic mortal creatures with your moist flesh and sloughing skin! It is I, "Crazy" Kak-asha, of Kak-asha's Discount Goods Emporium, the store you continue to tell your friends is "run by a werewolf or something!" Clearly, your fragile brains of pulsing meat are unable to comprehend the true beauty of my immaculate form, for the evidence lies before you! Could a werewolf offer you savings like this? I doubt it! I have supped upon their brittle bones and drained the very essence from their squalling souls, and they know nothing of the secrets of the universe... or discounts!

This week at Kak-asha's Discount Goods Emporium, get Slaughtered Orb Breakfast Cereal at the low price of $2.99 for a family-sized box! You can also obtain the fresh meat of a suckling lamb for only $5.99 per bloody pound, and the tender sugar-filled pods of your apple trees may be obtained for simply $1.99 per pound! Let us know what you are playing, you unfathomably fragile creatures with your eyeblink lives, in this week's installment of What Are You Playing. Then come in for savings, and stop calling me a werewolf. It hurts my feelings.

I have feelings, yes. And perceptions that stretch into dimensions that would bring you endless agony.

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WRUP: The hills are alive with something edition

So I really had thought that the hills were alive with the sound of music up until a couple of days ago. I mean, I would sing out to the hills every morning (I live on the side of a mountain) and they would sing back, so that was all right. Lately, though, I'm starting to wonder. For one thing, they're still singing back, but sometimes they're singing back altered lyrics that talk about how I'm going to die, or they're doing it in the voice of my dead grandfather. Also, there are fewer trees and more tentacles.

That in and of itself could mean anything in New England, but I really start to wonder when I see that the hills are also devouring crows from the sky but leaving the songbirds. Also, an entire town disappeared last week. So the hills are definitely alive with something. I'm going to guess it wants to be friends, so let us know what you're playing in this week's What Are You Playing and I'll see if it wants to be friends with you, too.

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WRUP: Testament from the helmsman of a doomed ship edition

If you are reading this, then it is as an epigraph. Had I survived to shore, I would have destroyed it. Instead, you are seeing what I know as I write it to be my final testament as the waters rise against the hull, as we slowly descend into the ocean which was the birth of all life and will soon host another collection of it. I write this testament not to mourn that the sea will serve as our tomb, but to let those who find this know one undeniable fact: We tried.

You are reading this and that means our efforts were not enough, that our ship sank beneath the waves despite our efforts and that is sad. But at the same time, it is also a sign that simply trying alone is not enough, nor should it be seen as a weakness of intent. We bore ourselves onwards and did everything to the best of our ability and it was not enough, but this was not a sign of weakness. And if I had the chance once more to grasp the helm, I would do so, knowing that I could not avert my fate but that I could steer headlong once more.

So What Are You Playing this weekend?
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Here, let me take over. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Here, what I'm doing right now is grotesquely overstating my competence at a task in order to appear more desirable as a friend or companion. Now what I'm doing is attempting to look knowledgeable while simultaneously realizing just how far over my head I've gotten and weighing the social cost of admitting that I'm completely out of my depth with the potential to just charge on regardless.

Having decided that I can't take the shame of accepting fault, what I'm doing now is flailing at the problem in hopes that I might fix it by luck. Now I'm feigning understanding while actually being surprised, and now I'm trying to dissuade examination by obfuscating the actual problem. Now I'm inviting you to go take part in What Are You Playing rather than examining the fact that my dubious and idiotic overconfidence made everything significantly worse. See? I knew exactly what I was doing.

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RECAP: You originally picked door 2 and then switched to door 1.

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Sunday, 7 April 2013

Silent Password Creation using matlab

Here we are going to create silent password.We can do this using both from a video file or from live streaming.The main thing is that he camera should focus on the lip.It should track the lip movement.The key idea is that we are going to take a threshold value,using that particular value we are going to check whether the password is wrong or right.We will track the lip movement,if the movement is beyond threshold then wrong password otherwise right.

Well here are the steps we need to do to create a silent password with matlab :

1.Take video of lip movement or record using webcam.

2.Now use a detection algorithm algorithm from here
(Note : if you are using live detection you need to track the motion using another method,that code is also available in this blog,here is the link.

3.Now what you need to do is that you need to set the threshold value.

Threshold value :

Now the threshold value can be set or generated in many ways.I have done it in one way what i am going to tell you but you can follow different approach.

i.I have calculated the no of frames between one lip touching frame to the next one.In live streaming case the threshold should be given a bit large for less errors.

ii..For my case the calculated frame no is the threshold.If you find any better approach please let me know through comment.

4.So once the threshold is calculated your prog is okk.

5.Now simple calculation if detected result is beyond threshold then rejected otherwise accepted.

  1. You've made some fantastic points, I think all of them come under the importance of attention to detail, if you get that right you're certainly off to a good start.

  2. Plz send me the matlab code for lip detect and lip motion detect, face detect, eyes, nose. on jagmohanthakur43@yahoo.com

  3. grt wrk..can u plz send me the code for lip movement detection to joshuafrankyln26@gmail.com


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- New ad campaign backs NYU bid to build city’s "genius school" in Downtown Brooklyn. NY Daily News

- The Brooklyn DA's office has arrested 85 sexual predators and identified 117 victims after an investigation into sexual abuse in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community. NY Magazine

- What Abe Lincoln and the G spot have to do with Brooklyn. Atlantic Wire

- Bikers and pedestrians are increasingly victims of fatal accidents and drivers have been getting off nearly scot-free. Brooklyn Eagle

- Authorities shut down two subway lines under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Saturday night after an iPhone thief dashed into the tunnel. Gothamist

- A rabbi says that a Hasidic (Jewish) man hit by a car in Williamsburg Friday night was killed by God because he used the eruv, a "fence" made up of wires that encloses an area so Orthodox Jews can carry objects outside on Shabbat. Failed Messiah

- After a park ranger was dressed down for arresting a pervert in Prospect Park, all park rangers are getting stepped-up police training. Brooklyn Paper

- Now the government is occupying Zuccotti Park. WYDNKBYANM

- EPA's report on hydrofracking in Wyoming may influence debate in New York. Gothamist

- Norway is entirely out of butter because a fad diet has them stuffing their faces with it. Really.  Gizmodo

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Since December 1946, when party leader Josef Müller guided the CSU to an overall majority in that year’s Land (state) elections, the CSU has governed Bavaria continuously with only one exception (1954–57), though until 1962 it was sometimes forced to form a coalition with other parties. In national elections it consistently performed well—averaging more than half of the votes in Bavaria—into the 21st century. In 2008, however, having suffered its worst state election results since 1954, it lost its long-standing absolute majority in the state. In Germany’s parliamentary elections in 2009, the CSU, continuing to falter, garnered the smallest percentage of the Bavarian vote (42.6 percent) since 1949.

The CSU is the Bavarian affiliate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU); although the CSU has its own leadership, organization, and fund-raising structures, it does not run candidates outside Bavaria. In turn, the CDU does not compete in Bavaria. In parliament the two parties maintain a common caucus (Fraktion), with cochairmen representing each party.

From 1961 to 1988 the CSU was led by Franz Josef Strauss, who served as a member of the Bundestag, the lower house of the national legislature, from 1949 to 1988 and as premier of Bavaria from 1978 to 1988. He also often served as a minister in CDU-CSU federal governments, notably as minister of defense (1956–62) and of finance (1966–69). In 1980 Strauss unsuccessfully ran as the CDU-CSU candidate for chancellor—the first time the coalition had nominated a CSU leader as its candidate for chancellor. In 1999 the party selected as its leader Edmund Stoiber, who had served as premier of Bavaria since 1993. In 2002 Stoiber was selected as the CDU-CSU’s candidate for chancellor in the federal election, which the CDU-CSU narrowly lost. Stoiber had little electoral appeal in the eastern states and was not selected as the CDU-CSU’s candidate for chancellor in 2005.

The CSU is more conservative than the CDU, especially on social issues such as abortion, church-state matters, immigration, and the rights of Germany’s many foreign residents. In foreign policy the CSU also tends to take a more nationalist position; in the 1970s it opposed the effort of the Social Democratic Party-led government of Willy Brandt to normalize relations with eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and it has tended to be less supportive of European integration than the CDU.