At a glace from the Macro to the Micro

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/05/paul-krugman-on-debt-but-are-s.html

Debt ratio, inflation, and so forth...all seems a bit of a mystery to me here.  It seems if economies were working and functioning more smoothly, value and production of industries, workforce were more measurably in keeping accurately to their transparent assessments.  More tangibly, however, if the misappropriation or perception of this has fallen out of line, the crisis of debt is more present...honestly though I am bored, this is merely talk, and I have little experience as to knowing the functions of economy.  Of course, it seems more obvious with higher unemployment that a larger pool of resources aren't being used, and that sometimes, merely it takes good investment potential to create what creates yet again by its own virtue.  If people are employed, they can, for instance, more likely afford to go to Walmart to support, in theory, the employees of that Walmart buying consumer goods, or for this matter any business selling goods and services, and then those that are likely employed for any length of time, more likely to live less from day to day, build equity, less likely to rely on credit or having amassed debt in the first place, squaring the needs of house and family away.  Of course, this is a macroscopic view on the whole if considered to the vast pool of peoples in terms of a country (even if oversimplified here).  One might be chided in saying neither to invest so poorly in something that were doomed in some way.  Then how long does economic restructuring mean that psychologically speaking the risk of debt exists such to say that while lending did exist, providing something viable for establishment or foothold in gaining business required higher scrutiny then it ever did in so far as small business loans were concerned?  Recalling here only a year ago, this sort of complaint that while money should exist for lending scrutiny for lending were much higher for small businesses in general.  Not sure if its improved somewhat.  While the lending revolution of places of Startup.com seem another venue for public investors to hedge their bets, it seems less a place of micro loans relative to a place where someone has given in some manner of charity, or at least if giving, I'd imagine this were with the hope that the money were put to good honest use, but likely I'd expect neither to see the money again...of course, while one hopes for self accountable use in the postings, more likely the social and financial expectations are looser in definitions to how one details for starting a business relative even the micro loan processes?!  Still another side of me likes the freedom of presenting ideas, neither having to deal with the investment/business modeling aspects here...we hadn't needed MBA s or other things, to ask for investment money to sell something, although knowing product placement, consumer market targeting, studying demographics, understanding how to reach the the right investment audience, and so forth could help?!  Could anyone be a successful inventor/marketer/business start up?  I still sympathize with a dreamer that has really good ideas, and who might have all the technical expertise here, bad timing and less financial know how shouldn't be the end of a dream really.  If we could only work on the cooperative social networking side of things better, in helping each other, the inventor might be tied even better to free lance product marketers, or even those with strong business administration skills to understand those taking on some inset risk.  Its one thing to buy into the tools allowing one to fabricate in mass products, its another thing to make sure those products get sent to good markets for sale, and its yet another thing to manage human resources.  What I hope is that what doesn't seem a good thing, turns south, over poor mismanagement of resources regardless.  Maybe if the startup sites also provided even stronger business prototyping structures, alongside linkedin style cross networking for aiding a would be inventor/entrepreneur chances for successful business ventures would only increase?!  I imagined a site that can amply provide projected product data analytic s, and likewise giving entrepreneurs survey information on the types of products of invention that showed strong potential or at least a potential within some consumer niche.  Of course, to some degree these sorts of tools are available at present in so far as internet site traffic, and then adding to this some sort of investment rating system showing the strength of the targeted start up.  It seems where knowledge could be power applies here.  I'd imagine nothing of the old mainstays of brick and mortar concepts behind our public and private market systems applied any different...just that technology made it easier for more to get involved.  While on the economic downsides, I'd imagine there is still yet tempered liberation here.

More in series:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html?_r=0

     I wonder how much more our culture is changing on these points illustrated.  I  find myself fascinated by the self-motivated explorers.  I've been following a guy by the name of Ben Krasnow on Youtube, for instance, because of innate curiosity in discovery and research, but its more of a self home brewing sort of project, not the stuff that would be specific in the area of concentric research but more so along the aims of popular science and technologies exploration.  At times generalized, and varied in techniques and approach to any number of subject matter.  This is refreshing given today's environment that at times has one in doctoral studies at aimed at highly refined areas of research, and this were one's gateway into the professional science industries.  Of course, why it seems important outside of other popular science shows such as How Its Made and the like is providing an audience as to a familiarity with the things that at times must seem like magic to us in terms of the technologies and inventions that we readily take for granted, but also providing exposure to any audience in the sense of education.  On the other hand, it seems having at times very lightly dabbling into the arenas of woodworking, would lead me to appreciate that fabrication of ideas themselves, at times seems more like alchemy, art, skill and craftsmanship.  Its not always easy, and practice, skill and experience don't readily come just because of thought alone but through experience.   Experience is learned through apprenticeship, sometimes through trial and error, and research.  Sometimes expectations, or at least that worldly knowledge and experience are valued before self motivation alone.    Of course, then I hold out with the idea that someday, more commonly people may be able to acquire the tools that would assist in the matter of fabrications.  For instance, maybe in our lifetimes, people will be able to create simple rigs to routers, allowing for precision decision uploading 3 dimensional models, and then 3 dimensional printing now is already now becoming more and more accessible for things like production prototyping....the next bridge is these in series for cheap and affordable mass production models, or somewhere down the road, it may not be long before one could reasonably, manufacturer relatively cheap high quality home furnishings that weren't beyond the micro loans process.  It may seem an anathema to larger production industries, but I wonder as to the viability of a potential new cottage industry?!  Then there is also in Blade Runner esque fashion the other concern, that any cottage industry regarding fabrications might become so cheap and affordable, that side street vendors were selling self produced medical products themselves...hard to imagine that this industry would face wholesale de regulations here.  As to inventors in our past, in hindsight, only in the slight appreciable sense, inventions say by Buckminster Fuller come to fruition at times, construction designs generally ignored here.  Being an inventor and thinker, doesn't come without something of inherent lifetime risks?!  I'd personally find myself at a loss, for instance, when it comes to the idea of thinking of re inventing something like designs of social media, or design presentation in so far as graphics designs were concerned, or more progressively I like to imagine something completely different.  Often times, though I wonder where progressive design and invention occur and how they manage to gain popular foothold in so far as mass consumption and usage are concerned.  For instance, is there a generational gap between media usage embracing technologies that use video conferencing versus more traditional telecommunications methods (e.g., voice)?!  Likely if this is so, this illustrates one of the great challenges at times for new technologies to take foothold.  Many could be reticent to the notion of video phone technology because they hadn't grown up in a culture having used this more commonly, and then problems that hadn't occurred before in so far as presentation should occur....you might not after want to be naked chatting with another friend that were a work associate, or at least you might have wanted to look more so your best, and then these days often times, video cams on cell phones and laptops were cheap enough so that imaging quality should seem quite poor relative to much higher quality video shows that we commonly take for granted.  If we find ourselves liking smooth video pans,  smooth aerial shots, and well sequenced footage, then it seems the fixed screen interview is something of a cultural let down in a way....someday, though it seems we might be doing interviews with multi cam drones hovering around us helping to professional frame our self presentations?!  Imaging technology seems to be on the rise in any event, and its not hard to imagine, that cultures change in so far as usage, more and more of younger people these days maybe embracing things like video hangouts on google +, and then I've only used this a handful of times...mostly if for the sake of testing screen shares for presentation purposes, but enough frequency in video latency has made this less desirable relative to more old fashioned desktop recorders for me at least.  For most though, if you hadn't been able to afford good light rigging, or at least hadn't much the know how, I've found natural light the best for me in so far as taking pictures even with the cheaper video cameras.   Lastly ending on another note, personally neither having stepped into the world as even an apprentice, I recall talking sympathetically to some having little experience in so far as the professional marketing world, it takes a lot to be a successful inventor these days doesn't it?!

Sleep Disorders

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2013/05/29/5-bizarre-sleep-conditions?google_editors_picks=true

For recurrent sleep paralysis, I've experienced this in the past more in higher frequency given the following:

Unnaturally disrupted sleep relative to previous sleep patterns.  For example, I set my alarm clock to wake me up  in intervals of two hours, this was occurring otherwise at a time when I were to sleep for a full sleep schedule.   It seemed relative to any other time prior I had these sorts of experiences.  While I couldn't directly attribute this to the direct onset of the alarm clock, for instance, as in hearing the noise of the clock mentally being awake while physically suffering.  Often times what I found instead were that I were either imagining myself awake, or feeling mentally awake (as in the recurrent dream of waking up yourself but then somehow feeling that you aren't awake and the dream repeating itself), but I couldn't move my body (as in paralysis) and when attempting to move a limb (as in thinking it), I'd feel the sensation not unlike being electrically shocked.  I hadn't intended to sleep in these sorts of odd sleep intervals, but because of circumstances, inadequate parking access in a urban neighborhood that were metered during the day time coupled with second shift work (I just started back then a job too), I then went to set the alarm clock so that I could wake up to feed parking meters change.  Thus in my anecdotal experience having a regular solid sleep schedule is important.  Even if you are at times a bit more erratic on sleep, it may be better that this isn't acoustically or physically disrupted in some unnatural way.  Also trying to keep environmental stresses down help, and reduction if not abstinence from stimulants usage or control and monitoring of these may help...wise to consult a doctor I'd imagine here if yours is severe.

I've experienced some of the others at times, but sleep paralysis probably ranks the top as the scarier of ones.

To my understanding, naturally the body produces, during certain periods of sleep, inhibitors which literally physically paralyze aspects of nervous system/muscular movements to prevent things like sleep walking or at least inhibiting movements...probably a evolutionary trait so as to prevent someone sleeping from injuring themselves...sleepwalkers on the other hand may have deficiencies in these sorts of movement inhibitors released during a normal sleep schedule.

State repression and genocide essay

This is re iterated post, on a topic that I've considered in the past regarding the subject of repression in the
political and cultural context.  At the moment I wanted to state at the outset I hoping to write this neither in the accusatory sense, or having resorted in any manner of emotional hysteria. At least writing this with some attempt at thoughtfulness, the pursuit here were with some attempt of composure in writing.  Secondly, I'd indicate that I am neither an expert with respect to this matter, or formally having had extensive dealings otherwise.  Mostly this comes from some readings and exposures to the idea of political repression through writings...everything thing from an Amnesty International diary, for instance, of an individual having lived in a Soviet era timeline of present day Russia or those imprisoned and exiled to the Soviet Gulags of Siberia, or others having lived and survived through then Nazi Germany (see Ellie Wiesel's Night), or Khmer Rouge's then Cambodian Killing Fields, or Chilean dictatorship under Pinochet, or the Dominican Republic during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (see In the Time of Butterflies), or then Bosnian genocide, or genocide in Rwandan  and others.

Of course, this is also a difficult and complex subject matter at times in its discussion.  I'm nearly hesitant to
discuss the detailing of ideas at an in depth view but would like to more generally speak regarding the subject of repressive governments and cultures ..mostly the topic is of consideration to me for the following question:  What signs does one look for in delineating a healthy democracy from a system that is culturally and politically repressive?  Of course, it seems more in some ways this could be telling of my mindset in some ways (subjective viewpoint) versus a truly objective and critical position, but on the other hand, because often we as individuals are often neither afforded the same positions in life, as doctors, law enforcement, politician, human rights worker, and so forth, we are still empowered much decision in the course of some level of self determination regarding how we choose to live.  Even in the more repressive
systems, for instance, I believe while self determination may be extremely difficult alongside existential problems, we still have choices to act and decide in many instances regarding individual survival.  And it seems often times, on the other hand, I am not sure exactly who might have clearly written a survival manual, or afforded the sorts of psychological advice as to what exactly to do in any given number of circumstances.  Thus, my attempt in writing maybe is with some effort of sanity, or at least in the promotion of reason which hopefully prevails above fear, in the course, of some self guidance.

Firstly, it seems to me in most of the cases (if not all), cultural and political signs seem to be embedded in the
growth of these systems...whether by nature of political and cultural trending, alongside the rise of hate crimes that could be associated otherwise.  Often at the individual level if we relied upon our own senses alone, the unfortunate circumstance is that we may not be able to clearly see or decide when thresholds may be met that gives rise to concerns of such repressive systems alone.  If, for instance, we weren't in a position to witness a crime committed against homosexuals, how could we know that a cultural trending rise in hate crimes might be occurring.  And added to problems of this, as cited in a recent study done in continental Europe, more problematic were reporting of incidence of such crimes by those victimized in some manner.  At least in this particular study, it were estimated a fairly high percentage of potential incidents went un reported because of fear (30 + percent of respondents from what I heard), or that law enforcement wouldn't take a case seriously enough.  The under reporting of statistics also makes more difficult in the governmental and humanitarian sense of finding address, for instance, through laws, help and support infrastructure.  What we don't know and how we fail to act in addressing these concerns are certainly a strong point in the consideration of how we decide our systems may be failing.  Fortunately as in the case of the study, though at least some form of open discussion is also a positive sign regarding the nature of a given civilization, country, culture, peoples.  Which raises in part some thoughts in mind to the nature of a repressive system alone.  In the modern context, census manipulation is yet a modern issue because more information apparently does exist and more in many ways maybe likely to report, or at least in the instance above, neither omission which is at least a healthier sign as opposed to census which either mis report or are neither willing to ask questions.  Another aspect of a repressive system, is that groups defined on the basis of religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender, age, and much else may often be deliberately marginalized, neither served political power (as in power sharing), or in the worst of cases face dehumanization.  If resorting to history, remember at one time suffrage were defined not only on the basis of gender but
socio-economic status...rich white landowners might have enjoyed the most of political empowerment while much else were marginalized in terms of a vote.  It would be worth noting, that in some cases, the rise of genocide, though may have been cited in the opposite context of long standing political marginalization s and having been used in the citation and orchestration of social hysteria alongside significant changes in military political leaderships have aided and abetted para military populations with arms (see Rwandan genocide), or in other words, sometimes the opposite may occur...another example, of this were also the nature of governments engaged in wholesale re distributions of society itself (in the case, having gone from, for instance, a situation of apartheid to a situation where wealthy white landowners were murdered, raped, terrorized, and having lost much in terms of equity and wealth... see Zimbabwe).  At least in the case of Rwandan genocide there may be some greater relation to this sociological model relative to a class of people having used long standing historical marginalization as excuse, and having seized power and having stripped away the auspices of a democracy that once existed...arguably though some have argued that WWI presented much sociological problems for the Germany that would come to pass during WWII, but then I have read to the opposite, marginalization and economic issues are often distorted and excused for the sake of marginalizing subset populations even more.  As in the more modern case, I might also argue, that then defined 'power' axioms and ideological drives might have been destabilizing pre cursors in their own right.  If America considered its interests vested in promoting alliances on the basis of political naming alone, the rise of problems through South east Asia, Central America, South America, and Africa, clearly having sided
and defined itself so strongly and solely on the basis of historical ties would lead to its own set of problems?!

Wholesale American bombing runs especially at the height of the Vietnam war throughout South east Asia might not have helped the situation that would later arise in Cambodia (although this perhaps may be an extremely narrow point alone regarding the complexity of social and political developments in this region), nor the alleged military training received by American western allies have helped regarding the atrocities that would later take place in then Honduras   Similarly, then Soviet ideological power axioms wouldn't have helped in Cambodia either (if help were given) to the exclusion the basis of human rights and the rule of democracy.  Or (my apologies to you Noam Chomsky if you feel that this were off in opinion) we find that the machinery and industry of large political systems instead of promoting 'democracy' had lead to the opposite of circumstances.  But why is this?  It seems in a nutshell power axioms which excluded principles of democracy would have the opposite effect, because who were there to ensure democracy but by those whom were given the weapons, money and power, and  the insurances were not there.  As Clinton, apparently would note decades ago, mistakes were made in backing the then dictator in Honduras  and finally a week or so ago, that dictator were convicted of war crimes.

Some of the key components of mention here in the social organization of both state repression and alongside this are the roles played both in terms of social media alongside military or generally some securities arrangement.  Consider a country like Egypt and generally for a long time, securities administered by then president Hosni Mubarak were seen as generally decoupled from Egyptian military, so not all repressive systems could be considered one in the same in terms of security and military power.  More crucially though greater divisions between military and police security in Egpyt are probably why to a greater extent massive genocide would be very remote in a country like this in my opinion.  This isn't to say that political violence doesn't exist, or that Egyptian people suffered as a result of state repression, police corruption, and much else.  But in the case of state repression and genocide for the examples outside of Egypt indicated above decoupling by example, a military directly or indirectly seems to be non existent...separation of powers may be, in my opinion, a strong component here, and often times as in the cases indicated above, every single instance, involves some military dictatorship in some shape or form.

 - Hate speech coupled with Hate crimes may generally represent a large part of the red flag equation of repressive systems.  It were true in the sociological escalations of violence in Rwanda as it were Nazi Germany, as it could be linked in many cases of genocide...but especially when it is on the point of dehumanization of individuals, and especially when speech is in the promotion of violence towards others.  Often times, when hate speech is wide spread and systemic, it is also in my opinion, a large red flag of potential problems that may follow, as evidenced in many of the cases of repression and genocide cited above.  Here something of the important questions that I could discern are as follows:
    a.  How many generally engage openly this way?
    b.  How many ignore and neither address those engaging in this behavior?

- Those empowered and armed.  First and foremost, one would hope that an embodying force/military were representative in some ways of the democratic systems themselves.  Demographically this would include mixed population compositions irrespective of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and political persuasions.  The problem often times of military involvement in genocide could be related to ethnic/religious and political cleansing themselves which could strong future indicators of major problems ahead.  Who polices military but the military themselves.  Who polices are those whom come from different ethnic, religious, racial, and gender backgrounds, more likely to report in a chain of hierarchy when they see something wrong occurring.  While we give rise to the notion of the ideal that anyone irrespective of background should see clearly right and wrong here, on the other hand added insurances of perspective
backgrounds makes for a less sympathetic populations to the wrongs of a genocide.  Despite training and social cohesion which have military acting under orders, there is also evidence, in my opinion, of those who would stand down if they felt that actions were unconscionable   More critically if enough defect, stand down, or provide help to address what shouldn't occur, there is a greater likelihood that a genocide could be averted.  A military should be a reflection in many ways of this in terms of equality and the democracy it serves.

Though I might also feel these sorts of address only superficially consider the problems of repressive regimes.
If you were to look at the sorts of violence demographically speaking over the course of history though, political violence ranks the highest, and how might this relate to state repressions?

Of course, the more obvious answer that likely a well enough educated reader might guess could relate to stereotypes, and scapegoats.  I won't expound into social political theory much other then to say that often these links are disastrously mis related to principles of economics, as in the case of immigrants that 'steal jobs' from its citizens, or that in some cases, the often un scientific view of superiority by way of race...I heard this theory growing up more so when I were growing up, that went along the lines...why did Africa remain the way that it remained while Europe advanced in ways in the technological sense, or that populations of already marginalized people were somehow draining to a society (for this I'd suggest a nice reading called Guns, Germs, and Steel).  As of late though, more clearly it seems that political distortions/misdirection aid the rise of intolerance if this is all that people hear through a given subjective lens.  The other crucial component to a democracy are arts, and literature, or at least as
Bradbury's fictional lens, the discomforting of ideas themselves could be a danger to a given society, the idea a sort of internal of repression of the ideas of repression itself.  Here I find myself nuanced in the manner of speech, a democracy isn't always pretty, there will be those that use hate speech in a test to the notion of freedom of speech itself alone.  Critically the difference between actions and speech are drawn. Maybe its not the nature of belief alone, but how widespread and controlling the people are that espouse their given sets of beliefs.  If a professed neo nazi, is small in number relative the backdrop of those of varied beliefs, perhaps, the idea that they in their own right might be threatening isn't the same, and that is the crucial difference.  As in the case, of a legally immigrated New York resident whom died as a result of a gang of high school students whom may have been inspired by then growing right wing debates (on illegal immigration) a few years back (covered in a NPR documentary Not in Our Town), it would seem the more
complex problem of speech and hate crimes are illustrated.  Of course, while Hate Speech has begun to emerge in legal circles over in Europe, America on the other hand, is more reticent to consider the notion of backing away from nationalized media attention to subject matter that seems more loosely defined in stirring up sentiments (whether the reporting were entirely objective or not), even if those engaged in the debate are at times sounding to the tune of hatred and anger.

 A lot though that could be lacking in presence were the sorts of objectivity in reporting data.  Mindful that as has been argued by some, Rwandan bureaucratic did much to ignore a festering problem in their country.  The complex aspect of American culture to the greater differences found in the instances above are that American media at times is represented by a complex structure...as represented by at times media consolidations and generalized monopolization of media air waves (especially to certain demographic populations) where the dissenting and arguably objective voices are less seldom heard.  It wouldn't be fair to make equivalent the voices of radio similarly to the voices found at times in once repressive or ongoing repressive systems, but on the other hand, this presents an at times difficult and challenging view to the nature of our democracy and the voices that are able to reach others.  Arguably though and hopefully to a
future, social media through the internet is changing the nature of how we hear and see others.  The more challenging aspect of information in this modern age though is the nature of how statistical information is used and manipulated.  For instance, consider past accusation by human rights groups that Russian officials have deliberately distorted census figures, for example, in Chechnya inflating population numbers to make a long standing war in this region look more benign.  Often times, the difficulty with our democracy is that we might be buried in information, or that sophisticated ways may be used in concealment of activities, or that ruling classes themselves are merely colluded with in some way in suppression of information.  As I witnessed one ABC correspondent relay, during the heights of the second Iraq war, the problem in describing violence reporting violence comes either by way of finding proportionality in relaying in events, or that the correspondent more euphemistically would relate in so many words, the American public wouldn't like the images they were seeing.  As it turns out, while Freedom of Speech supposedly abounds with respect to what we say and do hear, this may not exactly be so.  If local businesses fear that reporting crime in a certain area over loss in business, would they seek imperatively to have local media censor likewise?  Of course, this merely indicates more along the lines of pure speculation and conspiracy, and with this comes some level of faith with the nature of reporting, or at least those given larger authority to disseminate information to a given public.  The boundaries of a democracy are always being challenged in terms of technology, and  there may be examples of how governments operate in and around the expectation of basic human rights.  Certainly technology is part of this.

On a personal note that engages a bit on speculative side, if a group of people very well know the thresholds and lines of crossing, do you see transparently the defined thresholds that could be concerning if they have acted inter cooperatively working around or shielding themselves from the more obvious of implications?  As it were in Rwanda, for example, if military officials were more clearly and directly implicated in the slaughter of innocent peoples more quickly a genocide might have been averted I wonder.  It would seem while the more obvious case through enough witness testimony in retrospect eventually did lead to the outcome of implications made toward senior Rwandan military leaders, Rwandan military at the outset managed to engage enough in shielding themselves from the more obvious by arming people that couldn't immediately be directly implicated to Rwandan military which changed the nature in which United Nations at that time would deal in the legal context (secondly the arms were machetes generally speaking not guns...which also changed the nature of implication by way of proxy)...or in other words a tactic at stalling actions and complicating diplomacy, I'd imagine here.  While the UN did have some presence at such time, they idly sat by and retreated once they evacuated non Rwandan nationals.  The excuse that senior Rwandan political s and military alike had falsely given were that the genocides were a result of a civil war that extended beyond their securities grasp, but this were anything but the truth.  It would seem statistically speaking at least, some of a given population would be likely to break away from a  conformed social consensus, but would you or I of concern clearly ever hear something?  One would be inclined to say that from the sociological perspective larger groups of people should in theory make for more difficulty in social conformity here.  Someone somewhere might be inclined to say something, whether those having the power to censor in technology like it or not.  One would wonder whether it were just a matter of time.  I remember the days around the Rwandan genocide hearing some saying that the genocide merely reflected something of Africa as a whole, a sort of resort to the stereotypes that would have likened this as a form of savagery that might have existed only a century before like Zulu culture that might have been imagined in some days centuries before, but in truth the choice of weapons merely reflected enough sophistication and careful coordination...this weren't a cultural problem of violence throughout in the un organized sense.  And often this is a reflection of both genocide and repressive regimes themselves.  They are products of our modern industry, technology, communications, and often times they operate in complex ways around international legal systems to buy enough time to carry out atrocities.

  While we may think often of the social consensus of peoples alone in the submission to repressive governments, it usually isn't direct act of civilian peoples alone that leads to the coordination of violence or attempted securities arrangement that a regime would engage in...this is to say, that while sporadic violence might occur at the outset of a civil war, if it is between civilian populations, the levels may be typified well below the levels seen in the more massive cases of genocide alone.  A combination of social orchestrations alongside organization in violence are probably the two key critical components to genocide, alongside a given security apparatus working in complexly organized communicative ways to ensure lists of enemies to a given state are dealt with, and civilian populations alone are usually neither equipped with this sort of administration, technology, and information to carry out actions alone.    

Equalization and mastering tips

Equalization and mastering tips

Definitely is an art more like alchemy to me it would seem.  Vocals sometimes seem to be the more challenging aspect in mixing relative most other things.  Generally agreed with the tips seen.  Have found generally shelving or rolling off female vocals lower then 1k seems to have a 'feminizing' effect.  I've tried to work a bit differently with male vocals here.  A lot of it depends on music style, context, and desired effect too I'd imagine. 

A lot of muddy sounds seems to be oriented in the high mid ranges...sometimes with too much roll off translates into instruments (especially guitars) sounding like flies...so there's an art and balance to rolling off/cut off here.

High pass filtering can make stuff sound like old time radio productions, but can also make stuff sound as if produced in a tin can.  If you find yourself resorting to this consistently much for breaks in music, ask yourself is this a production/writing crutch?! 

Generally if you attempting to achieve sound clarity:  address immediate annoyances which would include notch filtering annoying frequencies, and use spectrum analysis if need be if you can't hone in on this in the auditory sense, work mixing from the de constructive sense and then re build sound in the additive sense.  Rhythm cadences when too layered and cadence dissonant can really make a mix sound really muddy.  Try to avoid too much novelty here, or forcing a recording to be something that it isn't...then there is balance to painting yourself into a corner of cliche.  Try working minimally, then work in the additive sense from here.  If you find a good minimal sound that you like, consider going with it.  Work with time instead of adding more to an existing set of sound over a given time interval.  This is to say maybe it helps to remove an element while adding another over the series of time in a recording.  It also maybe also important to ask the question: what elements need to be consistent in the recording throughout as a backbone to rhythm and overall flow of the song?

Part of this cultural residence is likely based on accumulated experience as a listener I'm sure...for instance when I am inclined to hear a guitar in a folk recording.  Its hard to imagine vacating the acoustic guitar completely for the song after it has established something...not to say that it isn't possible to remove it, but normative expectations in instrumentations from a perspective make for interesting psycho acoustic expectations.  

   Meanwhile a thoughtful discussion on the extrovert versus introvert.

Apparently being a quiet trauma were enough these days.

Anti American Globalist conspiracy plot

Anti American Globalist conspiracy plot


 Yes unfortunately the bow down to Aqua Buddha, while being a cute side note weren't exactly the equivalent of the death and destruction Dean scream, or political suicide exactly, but really the sit in before congress because the Obama administration hadn't responded to your every demands...I mean we are talking about conspiracies on the basis of potentialities, not of distinct tangibles, like the appropriated budgets for the clear use of drones in the assassination attempt of the 'Butcher of Bakersfield' while sitting in his cafe drinking tea?!  No kidding though, complaining about the pain automations operating at times gives some concern, tangibly the sell job turned big fiasco s down the road.  By the way the Bush administration supposedly set up any number of legal infrastructure/rules through its presidential invocations way back when for Guantanamo that it could scarcely care to abide by...sort of hinting that the political charade that place has become, is more football then for anti terrorist operations.  Really last I'd heard three convictions in the decade since its inception, the rest in legal limbo.  If neither characterized as a ghoul/zombie/vampire/alien and so forth to the general masses by reasoning of extra legal basis anything goes as far as some might be concerned, it seems the more sensible would have it 'anti American globalist', or to more overtly politically orchestrated and outlandish claims: 'pedofile, serial killer, Obama lectured for bestiality(? :) ), and so forth' ... likely better suited to the tabloids.

Thoughts on a Year without the Internet

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet

I find myself moving back and forth at times between older lifestyle habits versus cultivating new habits.  I've found consistency in habit process sometimes is an act of doing consistently so that habits are more easily en grained.

While I set myself to the task of programming and educating myself on topics like mathematics, I decided about a few months to take a rest doing this.  Why?!  As to the important aspects of life, is it essential that we need specialize our minds to task and training in one thing, a few selection of things, do we need to make life long pursuit of specific careers?!  Seems that careers do change as our minds are changing.  I needed a rest.  In the meantime, I relished the idea in spending time doing some home improvement projects.  I've let stuff idle though...I weren't wholly professional in terms of time considerations to pursuits, but I've generally allowed myself psychologically speaking the freedom to move at my pace, as long as something of effort is made, this is a constructive and creative effort and that were most important relative to the criteria and assessment that might otherwise be made which judges failure by:  efficiency, comparisons...and other aspects.   Anyways, it terms of production and engineering DYI might be the next boon displacing old cultural notions of how we consume and what exactly we are able to produce on our own.  Why not attempt something new in terms of a craft even if you aren't as good as you might have hoped?!

In recent years, I've felt like I've wanted to pursue other things.  I like snapping photos...not obsessively, more selectively especially if a camera on hand provides for something that seems noticeable are unique enough to me.  I used to think that be something meant having the rights sorts of access or pursuits...this is to say if you wanted to be a landscape photography, you might have thought of the worldly traveler?!  Then more practically I might have found myself searching for anything that could have potentially been overlooked.  How many times have I traveled down the same familiar path, and never having turned right or left down another path that I were always curious about.  Oh, no...self help guru :)  .... neither to add so much to the dystopia of self help here otherwise, but I am practical too...I still like to relax on a sofa, watch television, not think so much, sleep, nap, and do anything that would defy so much exertion.  Anyways, we spend how much of our lives resting relative to much else?  Honestly not even remotely a cleanly person here, or attentive to organization in person.  I like book clutter, stacks of gadgets and everything strewn about coffee tables, desktop monitors adding to the negative energy of clean space.

What I've learned though for years of formerly being more so the loaf and jobless for years...is that you get bored, honestly as to desensitization, I've felt mixed in opinion on these matters...on the one hand I think a society so sensitively obsessed that it can scarcely tolerate much of anything that were deviant to socially conformed notions...while on the other hand, I wouldn't spend my time defending bullying/taunting/harassing behavior.  Then some years ago, recalling a psychologist whom expressed the concern that the online existence were changing personal social psychology in so far interpersonal relationships.  Likened in principle to the notion of that neighbors might have their spate of squabbles and disagreements but eventually might find ways to come around to longstanding silent feuds, but much different relative to being 'blocked' or censored.  Sort of disagree here however...after all don't people check to see if they've been un friended  from facebook, or get concerned with whether or not they are or aren't being heard?!  More commonly, though it seems the converse for social networking, which could be a like a lingering party that just hadn't ended at the sixth hour but continued at times into the hell of screaming polemics...only tiring after the hundredth time of what no longer were debate, discourse, argument.  Surely there were something else right, however, in that all the proclivities to social etiquette in personal meeting were different relative to online communication.  Of course, I've shared in my politics at times, but generally have kept to a level of refrain in recent years...thinking more sensitively at least of the graffiti that I put up, and anyways, its another time investment being highly active writing on these matters in its own right.

I feel like I were on the break of something with my online connection here, but mostly it were in the way of being able to share something socially even if most hadn't really related, and I were lucky enough to be heard or well read, and at least if adding something in publication, this were with some purpose of merely adding, I am greatful for what I 've been able to surround myself with online also...

feel sorry for younger generations that aren't as nuanced in the art of finding the culture that supports them...hopefully they'll mature sooner rather then later and find kindness and support.

As to the other world that I've live in offline...I've spent more time in more introspective ways.  Its there, I've gone out...I can't say that it hadn't felt any more contrived then the first time I felt like awkward signing up for facebook or any other social networking site.  I am not sure if the audience is the same or different.