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Marx: “The Political Importance of Philosophical Work” – Lucien Sève

Translated Sunday 9 November 2014, by Gene Zbikowski

The philosopher’s new book (1) invites us to understand, in profoundly renewed terms, Marx’s famous “exit” from philosophy. That time, which is both dated and decisive in a revolutionary process, opened the way to a labor of philosophical development of the major categories of understanding and action, which has proved to be of incomparable political fecundity: “Marx’s thought.”

So, here we have the third monumental volume of your tetralogy Thinking With Marx Today, which is dedicated to Marx’s relationship to philosophy. Does this mean that this question had not yet been explored sufficiently?

Lucien Sève: Not in a truly satisfactory way, at least in my opinion. To say the main thing in a word: Marx’s philosophical contribution continues to be broadly under-estimated. Hence the scandalous fact that until now he has never been put on the program of the written exams for the agrégation competitive exam in philosophy, whereas Nietzche, for example, has appeared nine times. The subprime crisis forces one to admit the pertinence of Marx’s economic critique – my book endeavors to get the unequalled importance of his philosophical work finally recognized.

In writing this volume, did you have the feeling of having discovered new things yourself?

Lucien Sève: Yes indeed. In writing a big book, you always learn, as you go, part of what you want to say in it. I learned more than one thing, for example about Marx’s materialist attitude.

The question mark in the title of the book – “Philosophy?” – is to be taken very seriously. Is there a misunderstanding in speaking, as one often does, of “Marx’s philosophy”?

Lucien Sève: Worse than a misunderstanding – a real quid pro quo. Beginning as a student excited by Hegel’s idealist philosophy, although contesting it from the start, and then as a political exile in Paris, he went over to materialism and communism on the eve of the 1848 revolutions and came to understand that all philosophy, even Feuerbach’s materialist philosophy, is in the final analysis a speculative discourse on the world which comes down to legitimizing the world, when it is urgent to change it. Hence his radical and definitive exit from “philosophy.” But – and this is fundamentally different from a positivist – Marx thinks that the work of elucidating the categories of thought and action remain of capital importance – what exactly does one have in view when one aims at the essential, when one says that the world is material, that a different policy is possible, that we want to be truly free? Marx’s work is of irreplaceable fecundity in learning to do the indispensable philosophical work of fundamental clarification.

Hence the formidable temptation – from which, moreover, Marxism has not entirely escaped – of a philosophy that pretends to tell the truth about the world in the place of science, but every bit as much the approach of science, which thinks it can do without this philosophical work. And yet, isn’t this exactly what science often does?

Lucien Sève: Certainly, but that exactly is what never happens without causing serious damage. Isn’t it blatant in this political economy that wants to bullshit us into thinking that labor is a cost, whereas what is a cost for capital is not labor, the sole source of its profits, but something quite different: the private appropriation of labor power, the hen that lays the golden eggs? Or again, research into the brain that mobilizes enormous resources to seek all too often what it will surely never find: the social sources of human consciousness – for lack of having reflected on this major philosophical category? All the more remarkable, on the other hand, are these scientific theories of quantum physics or of biology whose power is inseparable from their philosophical pertinence – among others, I refer you to these great books: le Boson et le Chapeau mexicain, by Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji and Michel Spiro (2), and la Structure de la théorie de l’évolution, by Stephen Jay Gould (3).

You dedicate 200 pages to a tight study of categories that Marx himself very often uses without clarifying them. Was this work of clarification necessary?

Lucien Sève: Affirmative, and unless I made a mistake, I prove it. Moreover Marx himself wanted to expound on what he meant by setting Hegelian dialectics back on its feet in a materialist way, and though he did not do it, he at least gives partial hints – I quote the texts. But his deep-rooted allergy to “philosophy”, combined with the mass of tasks which never ceased to overburden him, resulted in this being rather infrequent. Now, this really is a pity, not only for us but also for him, because what remains unexpressed always remains more or less un-thought-out. One example: He was enough of a genius to see that, next to the surmountable contradiction of Hegelian logic, there is also the insurmountable contradiction of real history. But, for not having conceptualized this discovery in terms of categories, he fails to sketch out the overall panorama that results from this possible transition from a limited dialectic to a general dialectic of immense significance. My book indeed gives other examples, which have become more easily perceptible thanks to the historical perspective that we benefit from. With a number of contemporary philosophers, the declarative exceeds by far the effective content, with Marx, the opposite is true…

So you study two dozen philosophical categories – things like knowing, being, and practice. Can you give an example of the useful use that can be made of one of them by someone who has not studied philosophy?

Lucien Sève: Presupposition. Hegel showed that every concept stands in opposition to another which it presupposes – thus, no negative that does not presuppose a positive, which itself presupposes this negative – you can’t be a father without having a son or daughter. Here, as elsewhere, Marx re-uses Hegelian knowledge while conferring on it a groundbreaking materialist meaning: nothing happens in history without having things that presuppose it – thus capitalism was unable to develop until the laying-off of the lordly suites and the eviction of the land-owning peasants flooded the cities with people who had only their arms to work. Thus every social form has to have social forms that presuppose it, and it itself produces, without intending to, the things that presuppose a possible later social form. Here is something to which Marx attributes – and incites us to attribute – crucial importance. A utopian dreams of another world, which is better than not dreaming at all, but this can hold many tragedies in store for us. A person who thinks with Marx imposes upon himself the study of the real presuppositions of a post-capitalism which even today are being generated by the worst of all capitalisms – an unheard-of productivity of labor, thanks to which the following are no longer inconceivable: “to each according to his need”, a demand for workers’ responsible initiative which can make their managing the economy inevitable, a multiform deployment of human individuality which will ring the death knell of class alienation… People ask themselves anxiously how they can exit this death-generating capitalism; the Marxist answer is: take account of and work to enlarge all the already-existing things that presuppose a communist post-capitalism. Presupposition: Now there’s a category of prime political importance for each and every one of us.

You contrast what you call “Marx-thought” with the great thinkers of philosophical tradition, from Plato and Aristotle to Kant and Hegel, and also with contemporary authors – with, it would seem, more attention to idealists than in your previous books – from Husserl to Wittgenstein, from Nietzsche to Sartre, and from Heidegger to Deleuze… Does this mean that there is philosophical matter to be meditated on among all these thinkers?

Lucien Sève: It depends, but in a general way, yes, among all the great thinkers, from Plato to Hegel. Over the centuries, they developed these super-precious philosophical categories, which Hegel systemized in his Logic, whose materialist reversal Marx undertook, thus producing a theoretical culture that is indispensable to anyone who wants “to change the world.” But at the same time, persisting in philosophizing as before lost all meaning. We’ve long since entered the epoch of the “end of philosophy,” an epoch in which great writers continue to think but no longer have as their object great “philosophical” works in the accepted meaning of the word. For example, I can’t see how you can avoid being very severe with many of the approaches of a Nietzsche or a Heidegger, or with a book like “What Is Philosophy” by Deleuze and Guattari. This does not prevent one from being attentive to what may enrich categorical thought in work that remains more or less a prisoner of the “philosophical” illusion, including, of course, among many of the idealists – with regard to Marx’s concept of “essence”, for example, I contrast his views with those of Husserl, on whom I had only worked in my youth, and who I re-read seriously.

In the big chapter that you dedicate to Marx’s “materialist attitude,” you contrast his attitude to the naturalist materialism that is very widespread today, for which nothing more than Darwin is needed and which, in the name of biology, proclaims itself scientific. What is it that you object to in naturalist materialism?

Lucien Sève: That it is unaware of the vast difference between social and natural materiality, which is a catastrophic confusion. The result of raising a homo sapiens in Nature alone is a feral or wild child. The thing that changed everything is the production by human labor of an immense cultural, material and socio-historical world, from which point on everything is reversed: it is no longer through the genetic inside that our superior hominization is produced, but through the social outside. This precisely is the crucial dispute with bourgeois ideology concerning “you can’t change human nature” – as if it had not already changed immensely in the course of thousands of years. More broadly, I criticize this naturalist materialism for being terribly reductionist, because it is philosophically unsophisticated. For a materialist like Mario Bunge, nothing exists except the tangible, such that he is incapable of accounting for the virtual, the potential, the cultural, the conceptual, or the mathematical… I attempted, on the contrary, starting from Marx and going further in Marx’s direction, to develop a materialist categorization that makes it possible to think all of reality in its immense diversity. In my opinion, this is being “scientific” in the philosophical domain…

You dedicate your last chapter to dialiectics. It’s a question to which you have insistently returned for many years and in several books… Why?

Lucien Sève: What is dialectics? The logical mastering of contradictions – in thought, in nature, in history. Frankly, in today’s formidably contradictory world, is there a more flagrantly important mode of thought? And do you believe that it’s an accident if there has been such a total suppression of dialectical culture since the enthronement of neo-conservatism? First they tell us that, after the implosion of the U.S.S.R., History has come to an end, hence dialectics has come to an end. And then, since today there are contradictions everywhere, there’s another Thatcherite turn of phrase: there’s no solution to all these contradictions, you’ve got to live with them. And continuing censorship of dialectics. I’m one of those who say no, who persists in working on dialectics – there’s an immense deal to be done – and in making dialectics known. In my book, I dedicate 20 pages to a presentation of dialectics “for beginners.” I say to each and every person: learn to think dialectically because it’s vital.

In the final analysis, if we ask you “what’s the point of philosophizing?”, what’s your answer?

Lucien Sève: If by philosophizing you mean going in for merchandized and media-hyped “philosophy,” I don’t answer “that serves no purpose” but worse: that serves to mystify oneself and to mystify other people. If, on the other hand, what you have in mind is the high culture of thinking and acting logically, I repeat with Diderot: Let’s hurry to make philosophical knowledge popular.

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On dialectical materialism: Lucien Sève, who passed the competitive ‘agrégation” exam in philosophy in 1949, published his first works in the mid-1950s, which he dedicated to French academic philosophy, a merciless adversary of dialectical thinking and of dialectical materialism. In later decades, the history of materialism, dialectics, natural sciences and bioethics, anthropology and religion are the subjects of a considerable portion of his research, the other portion being dedicated to studying Marx’s philosophy, the theory of the State, and the question of communism.

(1) Penser avec Marx aujourd’hui. Volume  III, La philosophie ? Published by Éditions la Dispute, 2014, 708 pages, 40 euros.

(2) Gallimard Folio, 2013.

(3) Gallimard, 2002.

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Is your energy gel actually slowing you down?

August 24, 2017

As an active runner and Naturopathic Doctor, I hear a lot of talk about energy gel and goo’s especially from my running and cycling clients. The challenge they find is that there is so much information and marketing out there, they don’t know which ones to choose? And what if that little package of power was causing more harm than good?

I remember the first running convention I went to and how excited I was to check out all the products on the market.  My excitement slowly diminished as I went from vendor to vendor reading labels and claims. It seemed that every gel or energy supplement included maltodextrin in its ingredient list…even the organic name brands!  Perplexed, I made a mission to find a healthier alternative.

Maltodextrin is most commonly derived from corn or wheat depending on the manufacturing origination.  It is a polysaccharide starch.  This carb is attractive. It’s glycemic index far surpasses that of white sugar which makes it easily and quickly absorbed into the system without dehydrating endurance athletes.  This coupled with it’s affordable manufacturing costs leaves it a very desirable ingredient in everything from energy gel to, nutrition bars, and many meal replacement shakes. While it can have big benefits for quick energy, it can also be harmful to the digestive system with major performance side effects.

When a patient comes to see me, my goal is to help them improve their health complaints.  Through physical examination and consultation, I often find that the digestive system is overlooked when it comes to athletic performance and that what we ingest can be a major contributor to our symptoms.  When an athlete thinks of becoming stronger, faster and preventing injuries it is essential to look at their musculoskeletal system, but what will really drive results is looking at their health in the context of their entire body, specifically the neurophysiological connections and the health of the gastrointestinal system.

Many people in today’s world are sensitive to genetically modified corn and wheat.  When these foods are consumed, inflammatory pathways are stimulated.  This can both hinder our absorption and performance.  A 2015 study by Nickerson, Chanin and McDonald stated the additive maltodextrin “impairs cellular anti-bacterial responses and suppresses intestinal anti-microbial defense mechanisms”.  This study was geared towards those with irritable bowel syndrome, but what does this mean for the general public? Part of the anti-microbial defense system that is being suppressed is our natural gut flora, or probiotics. These warriors help to modulate inflammatory cytokines IL-1 and IL-2. Without this regulation, our inflammation levels are harder to control, leading to increased injuries and longer healing times.

Instead of relying on the claims on the package, monitor your own performance. The next time you pop an energy gel, pay attention to your symptoms, especially your digestive system:

  • Do you feel gassy or bloated?
  • Has your energy changed?
  • Do you have a mental or physical crash shortly after?
  • Has your mood changed?
  • Do you have a headache?
  • Has your performance changed?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider other options, such as making your own energy supplement.  It isn’t as hard or time consuming as one might think.  Simply adding 2 tbsp’s of 100% Maple Syrup to your water or even putting it in a ziplock bag, or reusable squeeze pack.

Why maple syrup?  Not only is it Canadian, but you can check out the nutritional charts from

Many people report, that 100% pure maple syrup provides energy support with less of a crash.  It proves vitamins and minerals such as manganese, riboflavin, zinc and in lesser quantities magnesium, calcium and potassium and upwards of 65 antioxidants!

You can get creative with your energy gel recipes.  Try adding lemon or lime, a pinch of Himalayan Sea Salt and a pinch of Turmeric!

The point is, we need to look beyond the symptoms and look for physiological connections.  I can help you assess your environment for performance limiting factors like maltodetextrin. Improving your gastrointestinal absorption will allow your body to circulate the tools it needs to recover and excel!

Dr. Jennifer Tanner, has a broad, evidence based practice with a focus on sports and performance based medicine. Being a marathon runner and having been a competitive equestrian, an active lifestyle is important. Dr. Tanner uses a variety of tools including Acupuncture and Clinical Nutrition, putting an emphasis on “food as medicine” and addressing the root causes of inflammation . In conjunction with the Integrative Health team, Dr. Tanner is thrilled to help people achieve an optimal state of health and pursue their performance based health goals!

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Texas town that's the title of Waylon Jennings' 1977 hit subtitled "Back To The Basics Of Love"
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Show #1525 - Friday, March 29, 1991

Dan Avila game 1.

Richard Dial, a security inspector from Carson, California

Bennett Crocker, an apartment building manager originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dan Avila, a photographer from Los Angeles, California

Jeopardy! Round

(Alex: And something new for us. [*]. You'll find all about that in a moment.)
    $100 1
After hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, this city's Olympic Stadium became the home of the Expos
    $100 11
In 1978 B. Mandrell was "Sleeping single in" one of these, "thinking over things I wish I'd said"
    $100 16
It's believed his association with the North Pole & reindeer came from Scandinavian legend
    $100 20
This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions
    $100 30
His Feb. 11, 1990 release from a South African jail after some 27 years made world headlines
    $100 6
You say it to a sneezer to wish him or her "good health"
    $200 2
Buildings in this Italian city don't stand on solid ground, but use wooden posts driven into the mud
    $200 12
These 2 singers were the original co-hosts of TV's "Hee Haw"
    $200 17
It's the northernmost region of the Earth & the North Pole is in its center
    $200 21
The first major U.S. company to publish solely paperbacks, it's named for where their books could fit
    $200 29
Congress established this National Park in Arizona February 26, 1919
    $200 7
As Wayne Newton could tell you, it means "thank you"
    $300 3
After London and Birmingham, this Scottish city is Great Britain's third largest
    $300 13
This singer's short story collection, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", was named for his 1979 hit song
    $300 18
The Soviet North Pole station set up in 1937 drifted away & was rescued 9 months later off this island
    $300 22
They claim to run "the tightest ship in the shipping business"
    $300 28
It was founded in Feb. 1941 to serve the social, religious, educational & welfare needs of our servicemen
    $300 8
Brand of beer that means "lion's brew"
    $400 4
Once called Philadelphia, this capital of Jordan assumed its present name in the 7th century
    $400 14
Texas town that's the title of Waylon Jennings' 1977 hit subtitled "Back To The Basics Of Love"
    $400 19
Regular job of the first surface ship to reach the North Pole
    $400 23
This company introduced the Band-Aid to America in 1920
    $400 27
On February 10, 1943 he started a 21-day fast
    $400 9
The name of this flower which grows in the Alps means "noble white"
    $500 5
When first founded, this capital of the Bahamas was known as Charles Towne
    DD: $500 15
Roy Acuff, the 1st living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, had a big hit with the following song:
    $500 26
In an 1818 novel he pursues his creation to the North Pole where they both die
    $500 24
This peanut-packed candy bar, the 1st successful one by Mars, is the current top seller
    $500 25
On February 11, 1960 he walked off his late night television show while on the air
    $500 10
In the name of a popular veal dish, Vienna style, it means "slice" or "shaving"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Dan Bennett Richard
$0 $1,500 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Bennett Richard
$1,200 $2,200 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

    $200 16
In 1877 Henry Flipper became the first black graduate of this military academy
    $200 6
In Sir Walter Scott's poem, it precedes "when first we practice to deceive"
    $200 20
Its alpha & beta stars are called the pointers because they point to the North Star
    $200 1
The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests
    $200 7
If your frozen seafood dinner's from Mrs. Paul's, it's a product of this soup company
    $200 25
Though Ben didn't approve of parts of it, he urged the Convention to unanimously adopt it
    $400 17
Birdland, a jazz palace of the '50s, was named for this sax player who was nicknamed "Bird"
    $400 12
Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high"
    $400 21
This constellation named for the son of Poseidon & Euryale is known as "The Hunter"
    $400 2
The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots
    $400 8
This British coastal town has a lot of sole named for it
    $600 18
In 1958 this contralto was an alternate U.S. delegate to the UN
    $600 13
The title of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was suggested by this author of "On the Road"
    $600 22
Associated with the onset of spring, this constellation is first in the zodiac
    $600 3
This unit of currency was first worth 6 iron cooking spits
    $600 9
In song, Sweet Molly Malone sold cockles & this shellfish "Alive, alive O!"
    $800 19
For supervising the Arab-Israeli armistice, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
    DD: $1,000 14
Poetess who wrote "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you--nobody--too?"
    $800 23
The constellation Corona Borealis is called this in English
    $800 4
Greek literature is said to have begun with this poet
    $800 10
"Joy of Cooking" says, to have "a real nice" one, "dig a sand pit about 1 ft. deep & 3½ ft. across"
    $1000 15
Edmund Waller wrote a poem "To Phyllis" & Ben Jonson wrote a "Song" to her
    $1000 24
Other than the sun, the closest star to the Earth is located in this southern constellation
    DD: $1,200 5
The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians
    $1000 11
"Colorful" smoked fish, used to throw hounds off a fox's scent, that's become a figure of speech

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Bennett Richard
$5,400 $2,600 $1,300
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Final Jeopardy! Round

Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions

Final scores:

Dan Bennett Richard
$5,300 $2,000 $0
New champion: $5,300 2nd place: Bassett entertainment center & Symphonic's TV/VCR combo 3rd place: Cazal 951/955 sports sunglasses & a Nintendo Entertainment System with Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune games

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Dan Bennett Richard
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(including 2 DDs),
8 W
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11 R,
1 W
13 R,
7 W

Combined Coryat: $9,400

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This very clever 16 min film is SO worth the time it takes to watch!

It is a great reminder of the power our words have on others.  Remember your mom used to say, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”?  Well, mom was right.  We have the ability to literally make or break a person.

The correction, criticism, and negative feedback we are bombarded with throughout our lives can be destructive.  People lose their joy and passion when they lose sight of their own greatness.  As humans we have a deep a need to be seen, heard and valued.

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(Optimization) The RETURN of GOSUB
« on: January 02, 2007, 09:47:20 AM »
There is a small sentence in the Powerbasic help file, which I read once like a sidenote:

For time critical or high-performance code, using a GOSUB to perform a repetitive task is almost always faster then performing a call to a Sub or Function, since there is no overhead in setting up a stack frame for a GOSUB.

More and more I realized, that this is not just a side-note.
Its one of those small sentences which may need a closer look.

Some time ago I tried to make everything insde a SUB or FUNCTION.

Lastly I realized that in time critical code GOSUB is better then using Sub's or Functions and still clean.
It can even be faster then to write code with a MACRO, so far the code is often called at multiple places.
Because shorter code fits entirely into the CPU-Cache.

GOSUB makes SHORT. Its faster, its smaller. :-)

Its one of those small Optimization possibilities, easy to overlook.
Just a Subroutine-Call, no new stack-frame.

Code: [Select]
Function XY() as LONG
' Here is a good place for the Subroutines

' Here's a good place for an error-handler
GOTO enx
' Finally we jump back to the EXIT to be shure we
' don't have multiple exit-points.

There is one thing, you should know when using Labels in PowerBasic.

A LABEL with Name "XYZ" will conflict with any other variable of this name in your whole Powerbasic program.

The help file says it like this:

..., it should be noted that symbol names must be unique: a label may not share the name of any other symbol (Sub name, Function name, user-defined type or union definition, variable name, etc), and they are local to the Sub or Function in which they appear.

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Re: (Optimization) The RETURN of GOSUB
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The fastest approach is sequential coding without any deviations. But sequential coding is very limited, because it means avoiding branching, and this required the limited use of IF - THEN, SELECT CASE, FOR - NEXT, DO - LOOP, and WHILE - WEND structures.  It is often not very practical.  However, you will see cases where attempts are made to reduce decisions trees as much as possible to speed through determination points.

The use of GOSUB - RETURN is a branching instruction which actually happens
twice - first you branch to a separate body of code and execute, then you
branch back.  But for repeated tasks, it means much smaller code might be
possible, and it can make it much easier to follow how the code works.  So for
the small penalty of time involved, the use of GOSUB is often worthwhile.

Some people prefer the concept of using a MACRO instead, which can also
represent a body of code, but now that body of code is not separate, but
included in the current sequence of code during the compile stage.  Yet the
Macro allows the same ease of being able to read how the code works as most
GOSUBs, FUNCTIONs, and SUBs allow.  So it represents an attempt to get the
maximum speed out of code that is kept sequential and allowed to grow quite
large in some cases.  The advantage of GOSUB - RETURN is that for a very
small penalty in time, it actually helps shrink overall code size.

SUBs and FUNCTIONs can be thought of as GOSUBs on steroids.  They offer
a number of substantial benefits in terms of capabilities, but come at a major
sacrifice in performance speed.  First, they allow a number of parameters to be
passed when they are called.  These have to be prepared and placed on the
stack prior to the call, then the return address has to be placed on the stack
then the call is made.  This takes up time and space on the stack, and the
stack has to be purged of the added parameters and the return address
recovered on exit.  Again, there is a time penalty involved.

So what is the Stack?  Well, it is actually just a part of your main memory, your
RAM, and it is used in conjunction with a special register called the Stack
Pointer, or SP.  In newer processors, it is probably the ESP, or Extended Stack
Pointer.  The SP, or ESP, works with a certain group of instructions built into
the processor for certain stack-oriented operations, such as with GOSUB,
where the return address is automaticall stored at the current stack address
and the SP, or ESP, is decremented.  On the RETIRN instruction, the stack
address is incremented, and the return address is automatically copied from
the current stack location and moved into the IP (Instruction Pointer) register,
which sends you back to the point in the program where the next instruction
is to be executed.

It may seem complicated, but it comes down to this:  When something is put
on the Stack, using a stack-oriented instruction like GOSUB or PUSH, it is
stored in the current stack location and the stack pointer is decremented; when
something is taken from the stack, using an instruction like RETURN or POP, the
stack pointer is first incremented, then the value previously stored it returned
to one of the designated registers in the processor.  The stack then is a
top-down temporary storage mechanism that is automatically associated
with the actions of some commands, such as GOSUB, RETIRN, PUSH and POP.

The question is, what if you push or pop the wrong thing?  That can and does happen on occasion, particularly when just developing or modifying a low-level
(assembler) program, and the result is almost always an immediate program
crash.  So it has to be avoided, and it explains why most high level languages
do not have PUSH and POP in their syntax.  Those that do probably support a
pseudo-stack, which would actually be an array structure with some
safeguards against incorrect use.

PowerBasic, on the other hand, does support PUSH and POP via the built-in
FASM Assembler and inline statement capability.  The PUSH and POP here are
the real thing.  You can certainly use them, but remember this rule:  PUSH
comes before POP, and there should be a POP for every PUSH.

So now you understand that FUNCTIONs and SUBs both involve more use of
the stack than just simply using GOSUB and RETURN, and more use means more
instructions and more time as well.

But PowerBasic goes the extra mile with FUNCTIONs and SUBs.  As mentioned,
there is a Stack Frame, which involves some extra overhead.  First, the
processor has only a few registers available that have to be used everywhere
for everything, and yet when you enter a Function or Sub, you want some (or
most) of them available for your own purposes.  So how do we save the content
of registers temporarily?  Simple:  We put their content onto the stack.  Only
we don't have to do it, PowerBasic does it for us, automatically.  So between
the bottom of the stack and the point where the return address is, there is now more things on the stack - the content of all the registers that need to be saved.

Second, PowerBasic takes responsibility for restoring the content to all the registers when we exit the Function or Sub, and to do that, it directs the EXIT
statement to a routine that it embeds in the Stack Frame that handles that
job.  But it also takes responsibility for removing all the paramters that were
placed on the stack during the call to the Function or Sub.  All this activity and
use of the stack make for a fairly sizeable Stack Frame, but it also means that
you can call and use Functions and Subs without concern for what lies outside
that Function or Sub.

GOSUB and RETUN are essentially the same at the high level as the CALL and
RET instructions found in low level assembly language.  They are not fully
separated from the variables and labels and other things found in the main
body of the program.  In fact GOSUB can only be used within the same function
or sub, and jumps to a line label in that function or sub, whereas a call to a
function or sub would be to code elsewhere outside the immediate function or
sub (except in the rare case or recursive programming, where the same function
or sub would continue to call itself until a task was complete).

So you do not pass anything when you call a GOSUB statement, you just
continue working with the same variables as used elsewhere in the function or
sub, and you do not return any results.  You just do what you do, and whatever
changes you made to the variables are retained.

Not so with FUNCTIONs and SUBs.  There, you get to define which variables
are GLOBAL, STATIC, or LOCAL.  Global references apply to all functions and
subs.  Static references are preserved as they were within a given function
or sub (and are not initialized on entry).  Local references are always set to
zero, (strings are marked as empty) each time that function of sub is called (and require a nulling operator be passed on the stack, which PowerBasic does
automatically during the call).

Because functions and subs can be written to work with specific groups of
global, static, and local references, and because the variable and label names
used within a given function or sub do not conflict with identical names that
are used in other context, there is good reason to resort to the use of a function or sub where it is deemed appropriate.  It is really a question of what best serves in a given situation.

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 that was a really good explanation, for those beeeing new to this topic, Donald!


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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Bacon Drippings Scalloped Potatoes and Ham

Bacon grease.

Not the healthiest of topics - especially during the time of year when many are focusing on resolutions of health and wellness.  I apologize.

I grew up with grandmothers who always saved the grease after frying up bacon.  It was like, liquid gold to them.  They used it to flavor green beans later in the week or as the base for country gravy.  My Kentucky-raised granny would buy bacon sometimes just for the purpose of using the leftover drippings that week for a specific dish.

My husband is a bacon fanatic.  Whenever he grocery shops with me, I know it's inevitable that he'll wind up browsing the bacon section and throwing some in the cart.  We have bacon with our weekend breakfasts - thanks to him - a couple of times a month.  I always save the leftover grease.  (Blame it on my upbringing.)

So, when I was working recently on a scalloped potatoes and ham recipe using leftover Christmas ham, I had this insanely crazy idea to toss in a few dollops of our solidified bacon grease.  The idea wasn't so crazy to me at the time - I always top my scalloped potatoes with some pats of real butter.  Butter is fat.  Bacon grease is fat.  But, bacon grease equals tons of flavor.  It all made perfect sense.

The result was the tastiest scalloped potatoes I've ever had.  I've tested the recipe twice since then and I have simply come to adore it.  The bacon grease not only imparts flavor, but it creates almost a velvety texture when it comes to the "mouth-feel" of the sauce.

Obviously, this isn't "diet food."  Besides testing for the blog's sake, this isn't something I'd make repeatedly in a short period of time.  But, the next time you're craving classic scalloped potatoes and ham or needing something to take to a potluck, I urge you to give this recipe a whirl.

This makes enough to feed an army.  If you're not serving an army, that's okay.  In my household of five, we make sure we have leftovers of this.  The leftovers may even be better actually.  Just spoon some into a large coffee mug or ceramic bowl the next day, splash in a little milk and heat until bubbly in the microwave.  There is nothing better.  I pinky swear!

5 pounds potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1 - 2 cups chopped ham
3/4 - 1 cup flour
2 - 3 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons butter, cut into small cubes
4 tablespoons leftover bacon grease (cooled)
5 1/2 cups (approximately) whole milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a large casserole dish - mine was a 4-quart ceramic roasting dish.  Set aside.

Place all of the sliced potatoes and chopped ham in a large mixing bowl.  Sprinkle on 3/4 - 1 cup of flour (enough to coat potatoes thoroughly).  Add in the salt and pepper.

Pour potato mixture in the prepared baking dish.  Add in the milk - use enough to come 3/4+ of the way up the sides of the dish.  Gently stir a bit.  Top with pats of batter and dollops of bacon fat.  Lid, if possible.  Otherwise, cover tightly with foil.

Bake for around 3 hours.  (Baking time can vary depending on the thickness of your baking dish and how spread out your potatoes are.)  I stir my potatoes a couple of times during baking - just to ensure that the butter and bacon fat blend into everything.  (I, also, taste partway through baking to see if I need to add any additional salt or pepper.)  Towards the end (and once you know your potatoes are tender), you can remove the lid/foil if things need to thicken and brown up a bit.  Alternately, you can add in a few splashes of milk along the way if you think things become too dry.

Remove from oven and allow to rest a few minutes prior to serving.

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  1. How do you store your "saved" bacon drippings? Do they need filtering or refrigeration? This may be a stupid question but just wanted to know as I have seen other recipes use saved bacon drippings. Thank you!

    1. You can strain it if you'd like - it's kind of a preference thing. You can use cheesecloth, a fine mesh strainer or some people use paper towel. I keep mine in a mason jar with a tight lid in the fridge.

    2. Thank you for the feedback. Nancy

  2. You know, you can just buy the bacon grease. I just bought some about 3 weeks ago. I cook with it a lot, and don't eat enough bacon to have a good supply of it.


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Wondaland's Deep Cotton Releases Visual for their Jam "Let's Get Caught"

Janelle Monae and her Wondaland crew have dropped some real jams in recent months. They are coming in and taking over your radio, and I for one welcome it. It's refreshing! Every artist on the team has a unique sound and offering that they bring to the table. This is evident with one listen to their EP, The Eephus. The team is super talented.

This week the two fellas we all call Deep Cotton released the visual for my favorite jam on that EP, Lets Get Caught ft. Jidenna. The song is such a groove that you can't help but cut a step to it. Nate Wonder and Chuck Lightning who make up the duo are super funky rock stars, and the visual for Lets Get Caught mirrors that. These two are definitely keeping the funk alive.

The visual consists of the two performing the song at home and at a masquerade while surrounded by a whole lot of eye candy. While the guys are rocking out the party, their boy Jidenna shows up super fly with his crew for his part in the song.  The rest of the Wondaland family can be seen making their cameos as well. I spy Janelle Monae &  Roman GianArthur rocking out. I also spy their trainer (and mine) my Morehouse brother JC in the cut! Fresh!

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