7/15/2023 0 Comments Put me to sleep nowIt’s probably well worth the effort to make some changes now to improve your sleep. It can reduce your life expectancy and increase your risk of heart problems, compromised immunity, obesity, diabetes, seizures, and asthma. Try some of the tips below to rule out lifestyle factors that may be behind your sleeplessness. So a little detective work is your first step. The causes of insomnia range from a variety of underlying medical or psychiatric conditions to medication side effects to simple lifestyle factors. Overview of common sleep disorders and intersection with dermatologic conditions. Insomnia can be acute (lasting one to several nights) or chronic (occurring three times a week for at least three months). It's time to put woke to sleep.Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get the amount of sleep you need to wake up feeling rested. Let's promise to leave a word that's past its prime in 2018. But at the same time we're quick to evolve and adapt because we need to in order to survive." "It's sad to say but we're used to being taken advantage of and to have things stolen from us. "We made jazz, we made rap, we made all these different things," Watson said. He compares the co-opting of woke to the way music steeped in black tradition moves through mainstream culture. " was something that we were taking seriously and then it kind of transformed into something ironic and then it became a meme and then it became a trademark," Watson says.Īfter writing a definitive history of the word for OKPlayer, Watson says he no longer uses the word woke. "She was saying 'I'd,' like I would stay woke," Watson says, "but it sounds like it's a declarative 'I stay woke.' "Ī word meant to imply a constant state of striving, course-correcting and growth has been heard now, for almost a decade, as a static and performative state of being. But, in a recent interview with OKPlayer, songwriter Georgia Anne Muldrow told Elijah Watson, news and culture editor for the site, that we all heard it wrong. In that song, Badu and others repeat the refrain, "I stay woke," over and over again. You are going to think about how the words impact an audience that is maybe, maybe not the audience that you first imagined when you are saying something or creating something." "At its most sincere," Brewster says, " is a kind of caretaking of the people around you. Emily Brewster, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster sees parallels with the phrase "politically correct," which is defined as "conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated," but at this point usually means something pretty different. Of course, this way in which words cycle through the culture is nothing new. By then, Holliday argues, that word is done. Their parents hear it, and before you know it, a buzzword ends up in a corporate board meeting. "They interact with other young people and people a little older than them."Īnd then, Holliday says, people in their 20s grab hold of it, as do white liberals, and so on and so forth. "Some group of young people - usually young people of color - start popularizing a word," Holliday says. No matter how well-intentioned, when Jill Stein and the cast of Will & Grace are name-checking the term, ironically or not, it's no longer anything new. One of the arguments Kelley presented in the piece was that once black words, like "cats" or "dig it," used to define certain aspects of blackness, became adopted by a white mainstream, they were officially done. It's most famously traced to an essay published in the New York Times in 1962 called "If You're Woke You Dig It," by William Melvin Kelley, though some have traced its use as far back as the 1940s. But the word goes further back than that. Woke became shorthand for a mindset and a worldview that values black lives. BLM activists have been striving, for years now, to convince people of all races to value and respect blackness, to take issues like the deaths of black people at the hands of police seriously. Its resurgence in this decade can be most closely linked to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. In order to make this argument, it's important to define the word as accurately as possible, because the muddling of the definition of woke is really what killed it.Īccording to Merriam-Webster, woke means, "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." The last street sweeping at the end of a long parade, that final reminder that the party is really over. The argument I am making is not new, or revolutionary, or profound.
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7/15/2023 0 Comments Hal 9000 iconsUnfortunately, in his haste to retrieve his friend, Bowman had not bothered to don the helmet of his life-support suit because he had not believed he would need it, making it very difficult to enter the emergency airlock, as he would have to travel through the vacuum of space in order to do so. So Bowman has to maneuver the pod over to the emergency airlock. However, while Bowman is out on his excursion, Hal shuts off the life support systems on the three astronauts in hibernation, which kills them all.Īfter Bowman returns to the Discovery I, Hal denies him reentry into the pod bay. As he drifts through space to the satellite dish, Hal takes control of the pod and rams it into Poole, disconnecting his oxygen hose and venting the air in his suit, killing him.īowman, obviously distraught by the loss of his friend, goes out to retrieve Poole's body. Poole goes out to replace the supposedly malfunctioning AE-35 unit. For he (has) never slept, and therefore he (does) not know that one (can) wake again." To Hal, this (is) the equivalent of death. Translating their lip motions, Hal learns of their plans for his disconnection according to Clarke, "he (will) be deprived of all his inputs, and thrown into an unimaginable state of unconsciousness. Unbeknownst to them, Hal read their lips through the window of the spacepod. Bowman and Poole suggest disconnecting Hal if he is wrong about predicting the fault. Poole states that he has "a bad feeling about him". They climb into one of the EVA pods, out of earshot of Hal. Frank Poole and Bowman are becoming suspicious of Hal's behavior. Then it should be a simple matter to track down the problem." But by this time, both Dr. Noting that this kind of thing has always been because of human error when it has occurred before, Hal suggests that they go out and "replace the malfunctioning unit and allow it to fail. This is a bit of a surprise, as the 9000 series has a perfect operational record. They radio Mission Control about the problem, and Mission Control says that Hal is in error predicting the fault. But when he brings it back and runs it through diagnostics, they can find no problem with the AE-35. David Bowman goes out and retrieves the unit. He suggests that they go EVA and replace the faulty unit with a new one. About three weeks into the flight, HAL identifies a fault in the AE-35 unit, the system responsible for keeping the communications antenna aligned with the Earth, and states that it will go one-hundred percent failure within 72 hours. HAL also has several "eyes" placed periodically around the spacecraft. HAL is built into the Discovery One spacecraft, and is in charge of maintaining all mechanical and life support systems on board. 2 2010: Odyssey Two/The Year We Make Contact.Mission Control did not want the crew of Discovery to have their thinking compromised by the knowledge that alien contact was already real.) With the crew dead, HAL reasons he would not need to lie to them. In every person tested, a deep-seated xenophobia was revealed, which was unknowingly replicated in HAL's constructed personality. (This withholding is considered essential after the findings of a psychological experiment, "Project Barsoom", where humans were made to believe that there had been alien contact. The novel explains that HAL is unable to resolve a conflict between his general mission to relay information accurately, and orders specific to the mission requiring that he withhold from Bowman and Poole the true purpose of the mission. HAL speaks in a soothing male voice, always using a calm tone. HAL is capable of many functions, such as speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on Discovery. HAL is a HAL 9000 computer with a human personality. He is the hidden main antagonist of 2001 and returns as a-soon-to-be-redeemed villain in 2010. HAL 9000, more commonly called "HAL", became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1992. The HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 9000 computer is an artificial intelligence and the onboard computer on the spaceship Discovery One. 7/15/2023 0 Comments Mars panorama videoThe cables were then severed and the rocket crane flies away, landing safely some distance from the rover. The rover swayed a bit as it hung suspended under the crane, which was expected.įinally when the rover touches down, it sent a signal to the crane letting it know the wheels had made contact. The view splits, showing that descent on the right, while at the upper left you see footage from the upward-looking camera that shows the sky crane itself, and the downward-looking camera from the crane of the rover. then plumes of dust twisting and flowing violently as the sky crane's rockets ignite, slowing the descent. You can also see craters, hills, rippling sand dunes, then boulders, then smaller rocks. That delta can be seen for a few moments as the rover descends. It was chosen because it was clearly once a lake filled with water, and there's a huge sediment delta in the northwest of the crater, where a river dumped silt as it flowed into the crater billions of years ago. Perseverance landed in Jezero crater, a 45-kilometer wide impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The heat shield was ejected and falls freely where it impacts the ground (which we don't see here, but it's in an image below).Īfter that you can see the surface approaching, taken by a downward-looking cameras on the rover. This is the bottom of the descent package, the part that protected the rover from the heat of entry into the atmosphere, as it plunged downward initially at 20,000 km/hr. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechĪfter that, there's footage from the heat shield ejection once its job was done. The locations of various cameras on the Perseverance landing assembly. 7/15/2023 0 Comments Brain freezeSince then we have heard from many others that inducing “brain freeze” (sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia) can often interrupt a migraine attack. “After popping pain pills all day with no relief, why does eating spoonfuls of chocolate peanut butter ice cream take the pain right away?” Eleven years ago we first heard from a reader with weather-related migraine headaches: I skipped to the kitchen where I have stocked up on orange sherbet and literally doused my headache out with a couple of cold scoops. Today, sitting at my desk at home, I started to feel the tension on my head and neck that’s a migraine warning. Well wouldn’t you know, within 10 minutes of having my cold dessert, my headache was almost gone. I got a scoop of orange sherbet, hoping that it might somehow help. Last week I was at the drugstore to pick up a prescription when I developed one of the typical precursors to my migraines.Īfter receiving my meds at the pharmacy counter, I stopped at the ice cream counter on the way out. I’ve been experiencing migraines for years and years, with little help from medications. Could there be a scientific explanation for this phenomenon? Ice Cream Against Migraines? Nonetheless, readers kept telling us that suffering an ice cream headache or brain freeze could often stop a migraine in its tracks. Could an ice cream headache help interrupt a migraine or a cycle of migraines? For years, doctors thought there was no relationship whatsoever between the two types of headaches ( Bird, MacGregor & Wilkinson, Headache, Jan. 7/14/2023 0 Comments Launchcontrol xl midi mappingI paid for it, but I noticed right now it is FREE ! Perhaps somebody could take over this plugin and improve it. If somebody uses Live 9 it will still work and I strongly recommend. I could do all the things I mentioned plus many more with this brilliant tool. I contacted the developer, but they seem to abandoned Ultimap (that's a pity). I was quite happy with M4L ULTIMAP plugins until M$L released newer version and this plugin stopped working as expected throwing lots of errors. If somebody deals with the orchestral type of sound, most of the time will almost not need them in contrary to one who works with ambient or electronic sounds. The need for the encoders is base often on a type of music one creates. I asked Novation to implement this by default, and they promised to do so, but obviously after 2 yrs they did not. In Live9 and XL script from Isotonic I have had this nice red frame moving through the grid showing selected tracks. There is a tiny message shown at the bottom of the screen which on my monitor is unreadable (unless I put my face really, really close). The is especially painful when I scroll Left/Right through the tracks. So it is not an issue with using to many knobs but rather how to make them automatically assigned when I switch the track.Īnother annoying drawback of XL is that I never know which track is selected. 24 parameters for me is sufficient and most likely I will use only up to 16. I do not need 128 of them so no need to use banks. I can for example keep the same template and switch among plugin1, 2 and 3 but then I would like to have those same encoders assigned to different parameters. The problem arise when I need to recall the setup in Live. I have similar setup for knobs for all 3 plugins, so I can use the same template on XL. I created some settings for 2-3 commonly used plugins. Yes - for the most part I agree with you, and I do not think I overcomplicating this. Don’t let the technical thrills stop you from being musically expressive and creative. And on that particular device, you never will. You don’t see the details of what you’re controlling. But it’s hardly a device that gives a lot of feedback. The Launch Control XL does have a lot of encoders and faders. And maybe only control what you need to control in the moments you need to, simply by mapping them real quick in that set. Decide how much control you Really need at any given moment. Decide on a few favorite plugins/devices. And accept that some functions might be easier to control either with a mouse or just mapped ‘in the moment’ rather than buried in a myriad of complex controls. It’d be a good idea to write down a super basic formula. And even if you got to that point, it’d be very difficult to remember what does what on your controller. You do not need to be always able to control any and every parameter of every device just because it’s theoretically possible. So much work that you are perhaps not willing to do that work because the payoff might not actually be as great as how you imagine. It sounds like you’re trying to do a lot at once, or have great expectations, when there is actually a lot of work involved. If you guys have ideas and concepts, please share so we can figure this out. I was also considering Behringer but this device with knobs is sooo obsolete. I am not very anxious to spend $1k on a Presonus because I care mostly for the knobs to control-automate the sound, but if there is no other choice I would do that. This was however one of the best M4L plugins I have ever seen. I also used in the past a product for M4L called ULTIMAP which was excellent but for some reason the developer dropped it and there are some bugs which have not been fixed. Novation seem to be very limited in the software and I am surprised they still did not develop better software (despite they promised to do this when I purchased the device 2 years ago). I have found a way to do this but it is to slow and time consuming (which is Saving the preset). My Main concern is to program the knobs into one instrument at the time so when I switch among tracks I can have my knobs change their assignments. Now I'm looking for some alternative, either to purchase PRESONUS interface or getting Novation to work the way I want. They claimed nobody has problems but me, so I just ended up in a dead end with this. Asked Isotonic for help but all I got was a bunch of questions which (when answered did not help in any way). That have added some installation program and some new methods of configuring it, whe user has no control of where the stuff gets installed or how and I ended up with nothing working. I just purchased an upgrade of this same script but it is not working at all. I worked somewhat OK, but then I upgraded to Live10 and it did not work anymore. I tried the scripts from ISOTONIC STUDIO (with Live9). 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Dedoose is an option in Linux since it is browser based, but sometimes requires some tweaking to get Flash running properly. While there are great projects like RQDA which are still supported, TAMS Analyzer and Weft QDA have not been updated for Linux in many years, and are pretty much impossible to build these days. Supporting Linux is really important to us, and we are proud to be the only major commercial qualitative software company creating a Linux version, let alone one that is fully feature and project compatible with the Windows and Mac builds. Now Quirkos should run out-of-the-box for a vast majority of users. They were required to install 32 bit libraries for many common packages (if they did not have them already), creating duplication and huge install requirements. While we initially wanted to provide maximum compatibility with older computers, this actually creates a headache for the vast majority of Linux users with 64 bit installations. Secondly, we have also moved to a 64 bit release for this version of Quirkos. Since an AppImage is essentially a ‘live’ filesystem contained in a single file, there is no installation needed, and if you want to create a Desktop shortcut to the software stored in a different location, you will have to create one yourself. Then you can start Quirkos from the command-line, or by double clicking on the file. This step can also be done with a File Manager GUI like Nautilus (the default in Gnome and Ubuntu) by right clicking on the downloaded file, selecting the Permissions tab, and ticking the ‘Allow executing file as program’ box. You can do this at the command-line just by typing ‘ chmod +x Quirkos-1.4.1-x86_64.AppImage’. AppImage file, you will need to give the file executable permissions (a standard procedure when downloading binaries). This should improve compatibility across different distros, and also remove some of the dependency hell involved in the previous installer. However, this was based on 32 bit libraries to provide backwards compatibility, and required a long list of dependencies to work on many systems.įrom this release forward, we are releasing Quirkos as an AppImage – a single file which contains a complete image of the software. Previously our releases had a binary-based and distro independent installer. There are some major changes to the way we release and package our Linux version, so we want to provide some technical details of these, and installation instructions. It concludes by looking at some future directions for software-assisted qualitative research and by noting contradictions in the qualitative marketplace that will likely shape what will be available to qualitative researchers.A little later than our Windows and Mac version, we are happy to announce that we have just released Quirkos 1.4.1 for Linux. 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