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June 2013

“Mental illnesses in general are regarded as intrapsychic problems, so it is troubling that, in a homophobic society, the effects of oppression and marginalizing would be labeled a mental illness. Voting on what is a mental illness is bizarre, as is the fact that that one day the APA called homosexuality a mental illness, and the next day, it did not.” —Paula J. Caplan

Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
(Via Dr. Hans Ulrich Gresch)
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Terrifying Robot Bird Drones May Join U.S. Air Force

If Air Force researchers have their way, the military’s next flying robots of doom will be tiny, and indistinguishable from the naked eye from small birds, bats or even insects. And they’ll take their first flight in a freaky “Micro-Aviary” in Ohio, where engineers make mini-machines modeled on those creatures of the sky.

Miniaturization is a major trend in drone tech. The Army’s new Switchblade drone is a semi-autonomous missile shot out of a mortar tube for kamikaze missions. Some robotic aircraft manufacturers, like the micro-machinists at AeroVironment, have even started experimenting with super-small drones that look like hummingbirds - and even dragonflies.

The Navy took the next step. Rather than merely modeling a drone chassis on a bird or insect, the Navy started studying the behavioral and migratory patterns of birds, fish and bats to develop a more realistic robot facsimile. The Air Force, however, is taking the step beyond that.

At the Micro-Aviary at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, researchers rig the walls with super-sensitive motion capture sensors that track a tiny plane or helicopter’s position “within about a tenth of an inch,” according to researcher Greg Parker. Information from those sensors helps engineers develop “flapping-wing flight” drones - “very, very small flapping-wing vehicles,” in Parker’s phrase.

And how. One of the vehicles on display in the video above, released by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Pat, is a robot dragonfly. It doesn’t appear to be much more than a circuit board, a super-tiny motor and two insect-like wings. And it fits, like a bug, on the tip of someone’s finger.

Fitting a camera on a drone that small is a the next hurdle that miniaturization tech will have to clear if the “Micro-Aviary’s” birds are to be practical. Another option: Engage in a little insect vivisection to create a swarm of spying cyborg bugs.

That extremely gross goal is the point of Darpa’s Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program. To “provide control over insect locomotion” One researcher in 2008 inserted a mechanized system into a moth’s thorax during its larval stage. Insect tissueactually grew around the machine.

Still, that’s, er, gross. (Seriously, don’t click this link if you have a weak stomach.) The Air Force’s Micro-Aviary is a lot less creepy and arguably more practical. In a few years, the chirp you hear from the bird perched on the telephone line outside your apartment might be the whir of a robotic hummingbird as its camera adjusts its aperture.

Jun 18, 2013
Camera 'Can See Through Walls' By Turning Plain Surfaces Into Mirrors

Huffington Post UK  |  By Michael Rundle 

Posted: 16/07/2012 09:43 Updated: 26/07/2012 16:00

Researchers have found a way to see through walls by turning normal surfaces into ‘mirrors’ with natural light.

The breakthrough could one day lead to cameras which can see the stars through heavy cloud, watch a chick grow inside an egg or see around corners.

Normally when light hits an opaque surface it scatters in all directions.

Because the light is scattered, it’s not possible to see through or around the surface.

But a research team from the Ultra Fast Optics Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel say they have found a way to turn that scattered light back into an image, in real time.

The technique uses natural light - a first for such attempts to see through walls, which in the past have relied on lasers and time-consuming computeristion.

The team found a way to take the diffuse scattered light, and reform it into an image using a spacial light modulator, and allowing a computer to fine-tune the image.

The result is that a plain white surface can effectively be turned into a mirror, with the image displayed on a normal LCD screen.

“In a preliminary demonstration we have been able to image a distant object just by recording the light reflected from a piece of regular white paper,” said lead researcher Yaron Silberberg to Cosmos magazine.

“This is analogous to seeing your own reflection from a piece of white sheet paper.”

Other successful attempts to see around corners have been made previously - but all relied on laser light or pulses.

Further research will be needed to take the technique and made it practical for real-world applications. But expect it to turn up in the back pages of comic books eventually, if it ever makes it out of the lab.

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Settings by Tim Allen

seT 1

Elves as I was are not strong enough to do the heavy labouring required 

to get this gleaming monster on the road to the Earls Court Motor 

Show before I vomit fish cakes on the bus home from the Boat Show. 

JCBs are difficult to drive and get dirty quickly it doesn’t come off ever. 

Decisions decisions who’s turn is it to rain today who’s going to scat sing 

the phonemes and what shall we put in the hangman’s lunchbox no we 

gave him that yesterday? My psychic judge pops up again he must have a 

love-hate relationship with every accused wretch popping up before him 

but this time he’s telling some wretched company what they can and 

can’t put in our water to make us wistful. The Contemplation Exhibition 

visits this very town you can witness with your very own eyes how the 

twins Imagination and Luck are not just not identical but don’t even 

have the same father.official though not famous 

Talking about writing about football with off the mainland referee. 

At Argyle I countered Norman’s constant referring to past particular 

games against so and so on such and such a day when the weather was 

this or that and the score was one-all or whatever with my own cloudy 

recollections where all the matches just congeal into one memory mass. 

Everything is frightening, even language that arranges itself into silence. 

If a last phrase is removed to make the preceding phrase the last and the 

process continues until only the first phrase is left making it both the first 

and last phrase what claustrophobic line has the agoraphobic poet put 

his autistic arse on?

Eavesdropped dirt doesn’t disappear it just gets dropped somewhere else 

but in my book that’s disappearing for if as I believe it does the Eternal 

Return means that life as a whole is meaningless but life not as a whole 

has meaning and I give you the book of my life to back this up the results 

will all be there including any soft-hearted sophistic draws with whoever 

disagrees. If you think the opposite is the case where is your book of 

life to prove it and if you haven’t got one then you had better start one 

pronto Tonto.

A brook sneezes out of the hillside like the type of person they call a 

small time criminal. 

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“… there cannot be a poetry of pure saying; the saying must
exist in the said, as ghost to its host.”
—Robert Sheppard (The Poetry of Saying)
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TriAl seTTing Settings by Tim Allen

I do not subscribe to the idea that the eye breathes

The eye breathes

I subscribe to the idea that the eye breathes

The breathless eye

Do not subscribe to the idea that the eye breathes

An eye breathes

Subscribe to the idea that any eye breathes

Breathless eye

The idea that the eye breathes

Eye breaths

A jury’s say-so scribbled out doodle and paper aeroplaned an erased wig

Jun 18, 2013
An Anabranch With Slug Robotic Pastoral in honour of Raymond Roussel

metal hands are weak pastoral produce 

 pleasure of insects rich them insects 

night falls at the feet of the emperor 

 beneath my warped jacket i the prize 

pleasure of insects rich them insects 

 modified his humble other staged stag 

beneath my warped jacket i the prize 

 a little singing naturally violent and abrupt 

modified his humble other staged stag 

 the man horse oz was so tender so he was 

a little singing naturally violent and abrupt 

 towards that sponge beard men - advance 

the man-horse oz was so tender so he was 

 sick girl compressed inside her shoulders 

towards the sponge beard men - advance 

 grape counts on exiting delightful basket 

sick girl compressed inside her shoulders 

 like a bear on a racecourse the talent scout 

grape counts on exiting delightful basket 

 sensitive window fitted with more senses 

like a bear on a racecourse the talent scout 

 remember to stand up and be embarrassed 

sensitive window fitted with more senses 

 all eyes were on the young chief 

remember to stand up and be embarrassed 

 melancholic creep wrote outrageous letter 

all eyes were on the young chef 

 i remembered to stand up and be embarrassed 

melancholic creep wrote outrageous letter 

 imagine away for years in the British Library 

doctor protector and heckler 

 fairground mannerisms of broad toad 

imagine away for years in the British Library 

 dizzle dazzle prostrate 

fairground mannerisms of broad toad 

 pretty penetration cramp dizzle dazzle prostrate 

 the plants contemplate the corpse 

pretty penetration cramp 

 the couch turned to face us 

the plants contemplate the corpse 

 the public know the rules 

the couch turned to face us 

 gala club go gaga institute bulk gala 

the public know the rules 

 the sleepers head to the place behind their pills 

gala club go gaga institute bulk gala 

 memory is a scent a complete performance 

the energy pill was placed inside a sleeper’s hind head 

 script imitated my travelling compendium 

memory is a scent a complete performance 

 jumping ahead my travelling companion jumped on my head 

script imitated my travelling compendium 

 the electric supply was illusory 

jumping ahead my travelling companion jumped on my head 

 electric supply was illusory 

the electric supply was illusory 

 there was a fantastic hole 

electric supply was illusory 

 duration and identification 

there was a fantastic hole 

 hot-house flower gave me a Chinese burn 

duration and identification 

 got so engrossed writing the tea got as cold as the cup 

gave the hot-house flower a Chinese burn back 

 eye battery 

got so engrossed writing the tea got as cold as the cup 

 just before she deserted him she turned silver all over 

eye battery 

 gloomily rod the middled distance similar runner 

just before she deserted him she turned silver all over 

 just before he deserted her his face turned gold 

similarly rod the middle distanced gloomy runner 

 thick fountain 

just before he deserted her his face turned gold 

 dripping cylinders full of cinders in the garden thick fountain 

 a curiously empty Eden in freefall 

dripping cylinders full of cinders in the garden 

 shrewdly play The House of Love’s Shine On 

a curiously empty Eden in freefall 

 the curio’s empty existence feint 

shrewdly listen to little Jesus’s goggles 

 respiration 

the curio’s empty existence feint 

 the doorway to France is just a phrase 

respiration 

 lucky necessary information is just a phase 

the doorway to France is just a phrase 

 felt in her waistband for the whistle 

lucky necessary information is just a phase 

 dumb overcome begloved 

felt in her waistband for the epistle 

 mob come over to your house to moan 

dumb overcome begloved 

 the amplification was savage 

mob come over to your bombed house 

 mouth border blubbered with lippy 

the amplification was savage 

 flash angel chemist shuttle in Buenos Aires 

referee lumbered with daughter’s lippy 

 on the side of the zebras 

flash angel chemist shuttle in Buenos Aires 

 flounder at the proper time o horror in borrowed disguise 

on the dice of the zebras 

 a well-known dance can still shock 

flounder at the proper time o horror in borrowed disguise 

 quietly counting the money away from the noise and bustle 

a well-known shock can still shimmy 

 grace on the common 

quietly counting the money away from the noise and bustle 

 provoke a scene in the lab scene 

grace on the common 

 an intelligent and attractive child is almost a new world 

provoked by a split screen 

 tremble when painting the narrow strip an intelligent and attractive child is almost a new world 

 between the rapids 

tremble when painting the narrow strip 

 henceforth all shall call me Jim the Anemone 

between the rapids 

 belief is an interior over-stimulation 

henceforth all shall call me Jim the Anemone 

 no nurse 

belief is an interior over-stimulation 

 now its a nurse apparition 

no nurse 

 poised 

now its a nurse apparition 

 evaporated 

poised 

 vessel 

evaporated lamp 

 flaxen container whips indefinitely 

alembic lava sinks 

 subtle play isn’t always successful but when it is it is bound to be private 

vixen container whips indefinitely 

 the fire on board had an eerie silence 

subtle play isn’t always successful but when it is it is bound to be private 

 one horse overhung two exhausted mules 

the fire on board had an eerie silence 

 the sun is screaming at the anabranch 

one horse too overhung to be luminary 

 that sundial should be reigned in now 

the sun is screaming at the slug 

 now the solitary ordinary 

that sundial should be reigned in now 

 uncover motion and discover naked representation 

now the solitary ordinary 

 large and gentle like the sky 

uncover motion and discover naked representation 

 his hands were large and gentle like the sky 

large and gentle like the sky 

 spilled all the obstacles onto a canvas where they congealed like me 

his hands were large and gentle like the sky 

 the sky is sometimes small and violent spilled all the obstacles onto a canvas where they congealed like me 

 the sky can be tiny and rough 

the sky is sometimes small and violent 

 robot with a blood clot 

the sky can be tiny and rough 

 wolves playing tennis are detached from their wolfishness 

what robot with what blood clot? 

 the spirit of a remote region 

wolves playing tennis are detached from their wolfishness 

 thumb in a shaft of light 

the spirit of a remote region 

 birthmark shield mockery relic magnification and adopted adapted scissors 

shaft in a thumb of light 

 second relic 

birthmark shield mockery relic magnification and adopted adapted scissors 

 magnified apocryphal jaw in the inkwell 

second relic 

 some days its hard to be jealous yet other days it comes easy 

magnified apocryphal jaw in the inkwell 

 the scientist remained placid while he discovered something dangerous and 

exciting 

some days its hard to be jealous yet other days it comes easy 

 it seems to be resinous said the union’s specialist 

the scientist remained placid while he discovered something dangerous and exciting 

 truncated ocean 

it seems to be resinous said the union’s specialist 

 a wild woman on the shore turned square around and ranted about Euclid 

truncated ocean 

 the disciples had many questions 

a wild woman on the shore turned square around and ranted on thin paper 

 the wild woman on the shore that turned circles ranting about contraception 

the disciples had many questions 

 aim for those strange and beautiful buttons 

the wild woman on the shore that turned squares around renting contraptions 

 fat welsh fox 

aim for those strange and beautiful buttons 

 apply dull velvet to the wound opened up by the missionary 

false wax foe 

 inflamed gestures under contracting lenses 

apply dull velvet to the wound opened up by the missionary 

 plug into my guardian’s sumptuous sex technique 

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