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With the arrival of spring comes the exodus of college students from their stressful, dreary campuses to the soft, sandy beaches of the tropics. Most travel to places like Mexico and the Dominican Republic where they can lounge in the sun and forget about their schoolwork. However, though they are traveling to exotic places with interesting cultures, they are not necessarily authentically interacting with the people they meet and the places they see.
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Have you told your body thank you lately? When was the last time you did? Have you ever thanked your body? How about sending it a Thank You Note?
Gratitude is a powerful elixir and it can transform your life. Imagine if we woke up every morning and before we got out of bed, you thanked your body? This could even be done before going to sleep at night.
Your body is the most amazing machine ever built! The human body is highly adaptive, more so than any robot or computer will ever be. No man-made systems can be compared to human body in its inherent complexity and perfection! We have a tendency to take it for granted instead of being grateful for it. I think if we moved to a place of gratitude about our bodies we would see a new level of beauty emerge.
Thank you for sticking with me while I sleep, for breathing for me, digesting my food, moving my muscles without me even thinking.
Thank you for knowing how to heal when I get cut, or when I get sick.
Thank you for knowing when I need to eat, letting me know and for processing my food efficiently and effortlessly and sending the nutrients where they need to go.
Thank you for the amazing brain, for all the neurons, pathways and storage centers and for helping me store and retrieve information when I need it.
Thank you for sticking with me while I exercise and sending the energy where I need it to keep running, jumping, swimming or hooping.
Thank you for my vision and my beautiful eyes and for knowing what to do so that I can see the beautiful world around me.
Thank you for my awesome nose and allowing me to smell the beautiful scents of the world.
Thank you for continuing to regenerating yourself and creating new cells, hair, organs in a magical cycle of restoration.
Thank you for knowing how to release waste and toxins when it is necessary.
Thank you for my hand and my ability to create art with them.
Thank you for being the home to my spirit and soul while I am here.
Thank you for being strong and healthy all of these years.
Thank you for knowing what to do when I hop on a bicycle.
Thank you for warning me when danger is near.
Thank you for giving me the means to express love and give comfort with hugs and kisses.
Thank you for recovering from serious illness and returning to your healthy state.
Thank you for knowing how to heal a broken bone.
Thank you for my womb and reproductive organs and for being able to create a child and give it birth.
Thank you for my smile and my ability to laugh.
Thank you for giving me a vehicle for speaking, expressing myself and talking to others.
Thank you for giving me a way to feel my kitties soft, cotton fur and hear his fabulous purr.
Thank you for give me a way to listen to music.
Thank you for letting me feel the warmth of the sunshine and bask in it.
Thank you for helping me lift weights and jump on the tramp.
Thank you for letting me feel the sensations of making love.
Thanks for helping me drive the car and giving me quick reflexes when I need them.
Thank you for being able to dance, sing and express joy.
Thank you for the ability to feel my emotions.
Thanks for letting me read and write.
Thank you for letting me breathe deeply and for breathing me without my having to think about it.
Thank you for all the behind-the-scenes thing you do like keeping my heart pumping, my kidneys working, my digestive system functioning, my nervous system balanced and my liver working. | 2019-04-18T18:39:12Z | https://dimensionsofbeauty.wordpress.com/tag/body-meditation/ | Porn | Health | 0.329926 |
wordpress | 1677 G. Mitelli’s “A Baroque “Cabinet of Curiosities.” Lorenzo Legati, Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall’illustrissimo Signor Ferdinando Cospi. “One of the first full-fledged demonstrations of this interpretative strategy was Eilean Hooper-Greenhill’s Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, several times reprinted since its appearance in 1992. “[I]nstead of attempting to find generalisations and unities,” Hooper-Greenhill proposed “to look for differences, for change, and for rupture.”15 This “effective history” as distinct from the “normal history” of progressive development would clear the way to a full appreciation for the array of alternative practices that the old teleological accounts had glossed over or suppressed. On the model of Foucault’s templates of successive formations of power and knowledge (the famous discursive formations-discourse-epistemes), Hooper-Greenhill discussed a succession of sites of collection and display—the Medici Palace in Florence; the Renaissance Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities (see Fig. 1) the natural history collections of the seventeenth century, particularly the Repository of the Royal Society in England; and the modern “Disciplinary Museum” for which the postrevolutionary Louvre was the prototype. The result is not a connected museum history, let alone a history of “the” museum. It is rather a kind of genealogical chart of the shifting constellations of epistemology and authority governing the collection of material objects” (Starn 2005).
1783 An image depicting the monument to Friedrich II in Kassel’s Friedrichsplatz. The Museum Fridericianum proudly claimed that it was the first museum in Europe. Cassel had galleries, parks, gardens and palaces that imitated the magnificence of Versailles. The Langraves of Hesse-Cassel were dealers in men for centuries. Hessian mercenaries had defeated the agrarian peasants in the area and took their lands. Napoleon III was imprisoned in Cassel, Northern Germany. See Crimp ‘The Art of Exhibition’ (OMR:236). 1845 William Peale’s Museum in Philadelphia closed because of competition from P. T. Barnum’s Grand Colossal Museum and Greatest Show on Earth (Boon 1991:259).
1828 In his plans for the Berlin Museum, Schinkel preserved the world of classical perfection in his rotunda which was also the visitor’s first encounter with the museum.”The sight of this beautiful and exalted place must create the mood for and make one susceptible to the pleasure of judgement that the building holds in store throughout.” [. . . ] “First delight, then instruct.” This sanctuary as Schinkel called it, would contain the prize works of monumental classical sculpture mounted on high pedestals. This was to have the effect of preparing the visitor for a “march through the history of man’s striving for Absolute Spirit. Schinkel planned a gestalt in which all relationships among objects were fixed. He paid close attention to Hegel’s notion of aesthetics as they were elaborated in his lectures from 1823-29. Hegel declared that, “The spirit of our world todat appears beyond the stage at which art is the supreme mode of our knowledge of the Absolute. The peculiar nature of artistic production and of works of art no longer fulfills our highest need. We have got beyond venerating works of art as divine and worshipping them. The impression they make on us needs a higher touchstone and a different test. Thought and reflection have spread their wings over fine art.” (Hegel, Introduction to Aesthetics). Hegel was speaking of the Owl of Minerva which was to be exhibited in the museum’s rotunda. The Owl of Minerva prepares the viewer for a contemplation of art which “has lost for us genuine truth and life, and has rather been transferred into our ideas instead of maintaining its earlier necessity in reality . . . Art invites us to intellectual consideration, and that not for the purpose of creating art again, but for knowing philosophically what art is.” Crimp continues, “It is upon this wresting of art from its necessity in reality that idealist aesthetics and the ideal museum are founded; and it is against the power of their legacy that we must still struggle for a materialist aesthetics and a materialist art (Crimp 1993:302).
1845 P. T. Barnum’s Grand Colossal Museum and Greatest Show on Earth (Boon 1991:259).
1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition was one of the first great world fair’s which were a great nationalistic invention in the 19th century based on the theme of European’s progress (Errington 1998:18). Colonized peoples were represented as sources of raw materials. The disciplines of folklore and archaeology were used for nationalistic purposes. The Crystal Palace unintentionally represented Britain’s colonial transgressions (Boon 1991:259). The world’s fair, the museum of science and technology, the fine arts museum, the natural history museum are examples of public sites for mass education in the idea of progress (Errington 1998:19).
1861 Edward Belcher wrote an paper entitled ‘On the manufacture of works of art by the Esquimaux’ which is archived in the Department of Ethnography in the British Museum in London. See J. King Franks and Ethnography. This may be the first paper written on Inuit art (Belcher 1861).
1892 Henry James (1892) described Venice as a beautiful tomb, a museum city with its gondoliers, beggars and models as custodians and ushers and objects of the great museum. (James, Henry. 1988. Henry James on Italy [Selections from Italian Hours] New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988:10 cited in Boon 1991:255). Crimp (IMR 1993:109) referred to a ghost tale by Henry James which played on the double, antithetical meaning of the word presence. “The presence before him was a presence.” In his ghost stories James uses a notion of presence as a ghost that is really an absence. It refers to a presence which is not there. Crimp added the idea of a presence as a kind of increment of being there. It is a ghostly presence that is its excess of presence even when the person conjured is absent. Crimp compared this to Laurie Anderson’s presence at Documenta 7 (1982) in Cassel as an uninvited but powerfully present contemporary artist.
1893 Boas has collected data for this book while gathering ethnographic material in preparation for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition which he hoped would be a potential for public education about other cultures through the use of culturally sensitive and intelligent ethnographic displays. Boas, a Jew devoted his life to dismantling racist notions that had impregnated the social sciences in the 19th century. He was so disgusted by the final displays of human culture in the world fairs that he refused any further collaboration. At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Inuit wore their fur clothing in the heat of Chicago summers. They demonstrated the art of snapping whips and exhibited their kayaks. Franz Boas’ (1858-1942) book entitled The Central Eskimo was reprinted. Boas has been called the father of American Anthropology. Boas promoted the concept of cultural determinism. His students including Margaret Mead founded university departments and/or directed museums of ethnography. See also The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World’s Colombian Exposition, Chicago (Hinsley 1991) Columbia Exposition was the origin of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (Errington 1998:20).
1904 Exposition in St. Louis displayed Philippine natives. The US had recently annexed the Philippines.
1905 Franz Boas resigned after ten years with the American Museum of Natural History because he was convinced that it was impossible to adequately represent cultural meaning on so slim a basis as physical objects. (8) He turned his attention to analysis of oral traditions, hoping to find in texts recorded directly from native speakers a more objective method of addressing the issues preoccupying the anthropology of his day — race, language, and culture. (9) Some of his followers, though, continued to argue for the superior objectivity of material culture; Alfred Kroeber, for instance, saw archaeological data as ‘the purest [data] there are.’ (10) This penchant for trying to abstract evidence about ‘traditional’ culture from embodied words and things, while ignoring the turmoil engulfing Native peoples at the time collections were made, has retrospectively been interpreted as a serious shortcoming of early anthropology, but it established patterns. “In the short history of anthropology, analyses of spoken words and of material objects have usually been compartmentalized. In North America this dichotomy reflects the way the discipline was originally constituted.
1910 National Gallery of Canada Collection moved to east wing of theVictoria Memorial Museum building.
1923-42 Frederick Keppel was the president of powerful Carnegie Corporation. At that the Corporation were interested in creating elitist consensus building and in cultural development in places like Australia. The Corporation’s ideals, values, prejudices, interests and assumptions tended to support business-orientated, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant men (Lagemann 1989:6-8,104). Keppel’s aim was to the transmission of “traditionally elite culture…[through]… enlightening public taste directly”. In regard to the arts it was clear that “the goal was to elevate the “best taste” rather than “improve the average”. Under Keppel, classical styles in the fine arts, great literature and the sensibilities and habits associated with them, were seen as “essential to character and taste especially as culture became more susceptible to commercial standards and interests”. Keppel’s goal was to be achieved, not just through schools, but also via the diverting of popular interest in education to agencies like the library, adult education center and the art museum. E. Root (president of the Carnegie Corporation until 1932) echoed 1920 sentiment, when he directed that Corporation policy would follow the trend “for art education and art appreciation… to unite all of the arts in the common endeavor to educate the publics tastes and to train men and women who may interpret the arts to the body of the people” (Lagemann 1989:95,102,115,117).
1923 Le Corbusier held up an image of a pipe as an image of pure functionalism. See Foucault (OT 1982:60) See Magritte (1926).
1926 Réné Magritte (1898-1967) entitled a painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe. See Foucault (1973).
1930 Canadian Handicrafts Guild organized an exhibition of Eskimo Arts and Crafts at the McCord Museum in Montreal. The exhibition attracted the attention of the New York Times (Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec 1980:11).
1936 Walter Benjamin wrote his influential essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (1936) the aura is the source of all value in a deteriorating world. Aura as used by Walter Benjamin refers to “the associations which, at home in the mémoire involuntaire, tend to cluster around the object of a perception”(186). Its place in memory reveals that the aura is what has made the objects of the collector, the translator and the storyteller seem so meaningful “Once you have approached the mountains of cases in order to mine the books from them…what memories crowd in on you!”(66), he writes of his collection. He connects storytelling explicitly to memory. “Memory is the epic faculty par excellence”(97) and even employs the term “aura”The storyteller is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story. This is the basis of the incomparable aura about the storyteller….The storyteller is the figure in which the righteous man encounters himself (108_9). The aura is elsewhere defined in these telling terms. Experience of the aura thus rests on the transportation of a response common in human relationships to the relationship between the inanimate or natural object and man….To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return. This experience corresponds to the data of the mémoire involontaire (188). As one can see, before the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (1936) the aura is the source of all value in a deteriorating world. It grounds the practice of the collector, the storyteller and indirectly the translator for it lends to their activities a purposefulness they would otherwise not have, becoming only allegories of market strategies. It makes sense that he would have to declare war on this concept given the way those activities resemble market strategies even with their aura__ given, in fact, the resemblance of aura to ideology. Experience of the aura thus rests on the transportation of a response common in human relationships to the relationship between the inanimate or natural object and man….To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return. This experience corresponds to the data of the mémoire involontaire (188). Crimp (OMR 1993:112) argued that art history adopts an approach modeled on kunstwissenschaft wherein art historians attempt to prove or disprove the aura or presence of the authentic, unique original aspects of works of art. Using chemical analysis or connoisseurship art historians can prove or disprove the authenticity of a work of art which assures its place in a museum. Museums reject copies and reproductions. The presence of the artist must be detected through the work of art or the claim of authenticity cannot be made. See Crimp (OMR 1993:112).
1941 The Museum of Modern Art in New York “staged a major exhibition called “Indian Art in the United States”, a seminal show which demonstrated that scholars and curators had recognised the unstoppable force of a key area of aesthetics and felt obliged to say: “Yes, we recognise this art, these artifacts, for the divinely inspired wonders which they often are.” One man who summed up what the American public was seeing, in many cases for the first time, was the ethnographer and anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. “Before long,” he noted, “these works will appear in museums and galleries of fine art.” (Hensall 1999) See 1999 “The Back Half – Visions of another America” The New Statesman.
1941 The exhibition entitled the “Art of Australia” traveled to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York and the National Gallery of Art Washington and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The exhibition in Canada displayed different works of art than those shown in the US. The MoMA and the US National Gallery of Art were considered to be the most significant. Canada is a commonwealth country whose civic structure and population size is roughly similar to Australia’s. “These three venues set the parameters and context of the exhibition as a public event, configuring the show in a sequence of events in a bigger cultural picture that reveals the relationship of alliances that exists between governments and the deployment of culture as a tool of propaganda (Ryan, Louise 2002)”.
1947 André Malraux introduced his notion of the musée imaginaire or Museum Without Walls. “In his well known Museum Without Walls of 1947, André Malraux commented on the “fictitious” aspect of art books and observed that reproductions not only change the scale of original works, they also make them lose any sense of relative proportion when gathered together in such a way. Enlarged details, lighting, angle of shots, colour, everything metamorphoses the works. Furthermore, reproduction can bring side by side works of art that could never be seen together simply because they are housed in various institutions or scattered in different locations, indoors and outdoors, all over the world. The end result for Malraux was nothing less than an “imaginary museum”, an ideal art museum, as opposed to a real one, one that transformed the way art was experienced, appreciated and understood” (Malraux, 1956).
1949 In his 1949 publication La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II, Fernard Braudel irreversibly transformed the way history was written. The social science turn in historiography was propelled forward by Braudel’s methodology based on “la longue durée”. Braudel examined white writings on the surface of the profound oceans to explore societies in relation to their geographic environments, social structures, their trade routes and their intellectual histories. Braudel examined the geography, political economies and sociology of the cities, Venice, Milan, Genoa and Florence in the age of Phillip II. Images of the immobility of time in Borges map contrast with the rapid acceleration of time in traditional history where centuries and millenia were encapsulated into the lives of singular heroic figures from Alexander the Great, Caesar, Gengis Khan, Louis XIV to Napoleon (Braudel 1949).
1950s Whitney committed to MoMA orthodoxy-the preference for European modernism. Prior to 1950s the Whitney was committed to realist art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA) was considered to be an elitist, right of center museum dedicated to exhibiting the aesthetic tastes of the New York establishment.
1953 James Houston met with his friend Eugene Power to discuss ways of marketing Inuit Art in the United States. Power, who owned and operated University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, established a non-profit gallery in Ann Arbor called Eskimo Art Incorporated to import the work. He encouraged the Cranbrook Institute of Science to host an exhibition of the work in 1953, the first exhibition of Inuit Art in the United States. In 2004 The Dennos Museum Center holds a collection of nearly 1,000 works of Inuit art from the Canadian Arctic. It is believed to be one of the largest and most historically complete collection of Inuit sculpture and prints in the United States. James Houston visited New York and Chicago to sell Inuit carvings and talk about their experience in the Canadian Arctic. Houston’s friend Eugene B. Power at the university at Ann Arbour, Michigan invited some colleagues including museum director Dr. Robert Hatt and anthropologist Bruce Inverarity, who began collecting Inuit art. Power began Eskimo Art, Inc Power’s foundation Eskimo Art Inc offered to purchase the entire Guild inventory of Inuit art although the Guild declined the offer. Guild president Jack Molson had informed James Houston that even though the quality of the works was improving the Guild did not have a large enough clientele to sell the work. Eskimo Art Inc later helped organize exhibitions of Inuit art including a travelling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Houston described other early exhibitions at the Field Museum in Chicago and at the Museum of Natural History in New York. There were exhibitions in the States before Canadian galleries noticed (Houston 1995:146-8).
1960 Michael Spock director of the Boston Children’s Museum adopted a missionary zeal in development and implementation of hands-on visitor-centred learning experiences in museum display. Based on his own learning experience as a dyslexic in a well-known and politically liberal family, Spock focused on a concept of aesthetics which was linked to comfort in learning. He used interactive materials in the museum space prior to developing the exhibition to ask viewers what they wanted to know about the exhibition content. He and Oppenheimer were among the pioneers in hands-on museum display (Gurian 1991:180 in Karp and Levine).
1960s and 1970s Canada experienced a major expansion of museums through the late 60’s and 70’s, an expansion often inspired and led by volunteers.
1960s Photography was ‘discovered’ as an art form. Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol began to silkscreen photographic images onto the canvases. Through this process photography contaminated the purity of modernism’s separate categories of painting and sculpture. See Crimp, (On the Museums Ruins 1993:77).
1964 The artist Marcel Broodthaers held an exhibition at the Galerie Saint-Laurent in Brussels. He explained that until that time he had been good for nothing so he decided to try to create. His admission of bad faith, of the commodization of art, made of him a creator of ‘museum fictions’. “Fiction enables us to grasp reality and at the same time that which is veiled by reality.” See Crimp (1993:201).
1965 Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) signed the Declaration of Independence. Museums in Rhodesia reflected the anti-black stance of the government. Africans were discouraged from patronizing museums. The cultural heritage of Africans of Zimbabwe was very rich. Material culture included numerous objects that were aesthetic, sophisticated, innovatice, original and ingenious. Artifacts were collected by third parties, such as farmers, missionaries. These collections were then acquired by museums so that there was no relationship between the ethnographer and the object. The original environment and social context of the object were of no interest to the museum since their was no value assigned to the entire culture of Africans of Zimbabwe. A policy of centralization of research collections was adopted and implemented between 1979 and 1981. No African traditions of Zimbabwe were collected in the archives until 1977. They had clearly set up museums as white culture houses. When Robert Mugabe, first black prime minister of Zimbabwe first came to power in 1981? he called for a reconciliation of the political, economic, cultural identities of Zimbabwe. Cultural institutions through collections and galleries are the central artery of communication as providers of education and information. Some argued that cultural institutions in Rhodesia, like museums, were a European concept that could not be adapted to the needs of a pluralistic society like Zimbabwe. See Munjeri in Karp and Lavine.
1967 Federal and provincial governments built historical parks. Students wore period costumes and took on roles of their forefathers as a summer job. Canadians were learning to be proud of being Canadian. Tourism was on the rise.
1968 But in Krauss’ narrative, by the late 1960s video and television were rendering film obsolete; Broodthaers’ Musee d’Art Moderne signaled a loss of confidence in medium in retooling the readymade to embrace the entirety of commercial dross. In so doing Broodthaers further registered the classifying and collecting functions of the museum as a practice heading toward obsolescence See EndNote entry under Krauss (1999).
1970 Museum workers including Leah Inutiq, at the newly founded institution Nunatta Sunaqutangit organised an exhibition of Inuit Art during the Royal Visit to Frobisher Bay, NWT.
1970s According to d’Anglure (2002:227) new generation of educated Inuit, including the founders of Igloolik Isuma like Paul Apak and political leader Paul Quassa, began to visit archives, museums and libraries to learn more about the past and about shamanism. Research into the past intensified along with negotiations for Nunavut and self-government. (D’Anglure 2002:227).
1970 Minimalist artist Richard Serra moved his work outside museum walls by building Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
1971 Doris Shadbolt was one of the curators of the exhibition “Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic” which opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
1971 The Multiculturalism Policy and its attendant Canadian Multicultural Act were adopted. “The federal multicultural program formalised support for the idea of Canadian identity as constituted in its diversity of cultures, an idea that was only implicit in Massey-Lévesque. Multicultural diversity was designed to be the basis of the cultural pillar of Canada’s foreign and domestic policy. In many ways, its logic is the inverse of Massey-Lévesque. The aim of Massey-Lévesque was about building institutions that would unify a compartmentalised nation and about underlining Canada’s historical roots in Europe, primarily Britain and France, as a means to deflect Canadians from the pernicious influences of American culture.” See Ken Lum (1999).
1971 Duncan Cameron published his article distinguishing between the museum that plays a timeless, universal functions as a structured sample of reality, an objective model of reality (Cameron 1971:201. The museum as forum is a place for confrontation, experimentation and debate (Cameron 1971:197 cited in Karp 1991:3).” “In 1971 the Canadian museologist Duncan F. Cameron pointed out the museum’s need to develop both the functions as a temple and as a forum. Twenty years later he once more offers a critical analysis of the museum and the museum profession. Cameron still thinks the museum profession can form part of the vanguard for positive social change. One of the biggest problems, he finds in the conflicting values within the individual, who is constituted as an unholy trinity of private, professional and institutional persons. Each professional person will have to re-examine himself, the academic disciplines and the museum institution. To meet the challenges of tomorrow it is necessary with a change of heart, not only intellectualism.” (Gjestrum 1994).
1973 Daniel Buren published his influential article in Artforum entitled ‘Function of the Museum’.
1973 Marcel Broodthaers, produced a film entitled A Voyage on the North Sea.
1974 The Museum of Modern Art held a controversial exhibition entitled ‘Eight Contemporary Artists’ including the highly politicized Conceptual and Minimalist work. Minimalist artist and museum critic Daniel Buren cynically argued that works of art might as well be locked up in vaults to protect them since they are already so isolated from the world framed, encased in glass in museums. Burin’s contribution to the exhibition was striped panels and fragments representing these frames affixed to nearby corridor and garden walls. Vogue magazine’s Barbara Rose vented her anger against this complicity between the dominant bourgeois cultural institutions and politically-motivated critics of these institutions. She argued that artists like Buren were disenchanted and demoralized artists who sabotaged museums of prestigious museums like the MoMA. focused their aggression against art greater than their own. See Crimp (Museum Ruins:85).
1970s Museology became more professional as money increased. Their staff’s professional credentials trumped experienced volunteers.
1977 Michel Foucault’s 1977 essay “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” provides his most programmatic and most influential statement on the genealogical method is the essay. See Starn (2005).
1978 President Carter established a commission, chaired by professional “survivor” Elie Wiesel, to create a national museum in Washington memorializing Jewish suffering in Europe (Finkelstein 2000).
1979 U’mista Cultural Centre is located in Alert Bay on Cormorant Island near the northern tip of Vancouver Island. It adjoins the former residential school, St. Michael’s Residential School. The objects now on display U’mista Cultural Centre and the Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Centre (opened 1979) were part of major 1921 potlatch hosted by Dan Cranmer from Alert Bay. Potlatch ceremony was criminalized against harsh criticism by Franz Boas. These objects were all confiscated by the Indian agent at Alert Bay, William Halliday who was a ‘former Indian residential school administrator imbued with civilizing zeal’. In the 1950s and 1960s there was a general cultural resurgence. The movement for repatriation emerged. The Museum of Man in Hull (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) and the Royal Ontario Museum agreed to their repatriation. At this time the two museums were built with private and government funding. Objects in these museums have an evocative power that includes a sense of ‘here’ as well as formal, aesthetic power. See James Clifford in (Karp and Lavine).
1980s Marcel Broodthaers’ controversial work led to a series of publications including a special edition of the journal October (1987) devoted to his role in the unsettling the role of museums. Broodthaers registered the classifying and collecting functions of the museum as a practice heading toward obsolescence See EndNote entry under Krauss (1999).
1982 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the Rockefeller Wing of Primitive Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is considered to be a politically right of center museum, an establishment or elitist organization (Gurian 1991:178-9). The opening of the Rockefeller Wing was the culmination of “institutional validity” of the Primitive Art (Errington 1998 cited in Phillips 2002:46). Phillips summarized Errington’s argument that by the time Metropolitan Museum of Art opened this wing the distinction between purely authentic primitive art forms and cultural productions transformed by contact with the Other, that is, contaminating cultural (technological) influences leading to acculturation was already waning.
1982 Hans Haake participated in the Documenta 7 exhibition which was held at the Museum Fridericianum in Germany. Haake Oelgemaelde, Homage a Marcel Broodthaers in the Neue Gallery not in the Museum Fridericianum. His work was confrontational. On one wall was a detailed oil painting of Ronald Reagan which was in a gold frame and surrounded by classical museological framing devices. On the other was a gigantic photomural of a peaceful anti-Reagan demonstration protesting the deployment of cruise missiles to German soil held in Bonn a week prior . Artistic Director Rudi Fuchs presented a contradictory image. See Crimp (MR:238-9).
1984 The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York hosted an exhibition entitled Primitivism in 20th Century Art which juxtaposed modern artworks with masks from Zaire, Nigeria and Inuit masks. McEvilley (1984) criticized the premise of the exhibition and inaugurated debates on representation of culture. Danto (1987) argued that the juxtapositioning was false and inane. The Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition entitled “Primitivism in 20th Century Art” which was attacked by critic Thomas McEvilley, who called for a rejection of Eurocentricism in cultural history. This opened debates on representation of cultures with a more sophisticated approach to discussions of Self and the Other that continued throughout the 1980s.
1984 The MOMA held an exhibition in 1984 entitled “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, in which curator McShine excluded many important artists. AT&T Corporation sponsored the exhibition. Their interests were in accord with the exhibition’s. Innovation and experimentation were valued in business, industry and the arts. One of the new acquisitions of the Architecture and Design Galleries at the MOMA was a Bell 47D helicopter which was considered to be a coup de théatre. These helicopters are manufactured by the same corporation Textron, that builds the Huey model used against civilians in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. “Contemporary art of exhibition has taught us distinguish between the political and the aesthetic. A New York Times editorial described how, “A helicopter suspended from the ceiling, hovers over an escalator in the Museum of Modern Art . . . . The chopper is bright green, bug-eyed and beautiful. We know that it is beautiful because MOMA showed us the way to look at the 20th century.” See Crimp (1993:272-5).
1987 The exhibition catalogue (1987) was published for The Spirit Sings, an ethnographic exhibition of 106 artifacts sponsored by Shell Canada. The exhibition included cultural productions of the Tlinglit, Salish, Haida, Tsimshian (including the mate of the famous Musee de l’Homme prehistoric mask), Gitksan, Iglulik, Netsilik, Mackenzie Inuit, Copper Inuit, Qairnirmiut, Caribou Inuit, Sadliermiut, Southern Baffin, Labrador Inuit, Slavey, Kutchin, Athapaskan, Tahltan, Cree, Chipewyan, Tanaina, Ojibwa, Assiniboin, Sioux, Plains Cree, Blood, Blackfoot, Sarsi, Red River Metis, Late Missippian, Ottawa, Cayuga, Iroquois, Huron, Woodlands, Mohawk, Montagnais (Innu?), Naskapi, Micmac, Maliseet and Boethuk spanning centuries. The goal of this exhibition was to enhance understanding and appreciation of ‘the spirit of Canada’s Native peoples. It was dedicated to the ‘people who produced the objects included in the exhibition. Eighty-five institutions loaned works for the exhibition which was shown at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the Lorne Building in Ottawa. The voluminous preparatory research undertaken by a team of anthropologists and ethnographers produced a vast archives of slides and text that remains as an invaluable lasting resource for all researchers. In her Introduction Harrison (Harrison 1987:7) grouped together all the native populations in Canada at the time of contact suggesting a unified and unifying pan-Aboriginal world-view informed by myths and legends.
1987 In his publication Museums of Influence, Kenneth Hudson described how he had visited 37 museums that made significant changes in the 200 years of museology. He dismissed ethnographic museums as those that exhibited objects from exotic cultures without attempting to communicate essentials features of the societies more easily conveyed through film, video or even lectures. He laments the absence of ambitions, fears, poverty, disease, climate, cruelty, brutality, blood, sense, smell and therefore cohesion to the exhibits. “Ethnographical museums collect widely but do not dig deeply” (Hudson 1987:vii) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1988 Marybelle Mitchell wrote an article entitled “Current Issues Facing Museums” published in the Inuit Art Quarterly. In 1988 200 delegates met.
1989 In 1989, “the editors of the first book on history museums in the United States complained about a “blanket of critical silence” surrounding the subject. In 1992, the British museum specialist Eilean Hooper-Greenhill observed that the museum as a historical institution had not received “any rigorous form of critical analysis.” Other scholars and critics chimed in around the same time.1 As it happened, a tidal wave of museum studies was just beginning to crest, many proclaiming critical agendas while complaining about their absence. The problem these days is how to navigate a flood of literature on the theory, practice, politics, and history of museums” (Starns 2005).
1989-90 Dr. Jeanne Cannizzo curated an exhibition mounted by the Royal Ontario Museum entitled “Into the Heart of Africa.” It was the most controversial show in the history of the ROM. A vocal opposition arose against cultural racism and appropriation. Cannizzo stated that the goal of the exhibition was to represent the impact of colonialism on Africa. However the 375 artifacts from central and west Africa used were donated around 1889 and onwards to the ROM by Canadian missionaries and military personnel who spent some time in Africa and fully supported Britain’s colonial campaign which imposed “Christianity, civilization and commerce” on Africans. Cannizzo misread her audiences and attempted to use the postmodern trope of irony to draw attention to racist terms such as ‘barbarous customs.’ In fact there were at least two divergent audiences. A misinformed general public read the exhibition as a uncritical cultural exhibition of primitive Africa and the good work of Canadian missionaries and soldiers. The large African-Canadian population of Toronto interpreted the exhibition as a racist assault. A slide show lecture containing highly derogatory, culturally racist, and paternalistic language played framed with a critical introduction and conclusion to situate viewers within the racist colonial context. But most people read it as ‘real’ without the critical postmodern lens of irony. Tour guides had no training in colonial histories or cultural sensitivities and presented the exhibition literally without understanding the critical ironic trope. The guide explained to Grade five children how missionaries taught Africans to carve wood and described African barbaric acts. “This case study crystallizes many of the issues related to cultural racism and cultural appropriation. Nourbese Philip (1993) suggests that at the heart of the ROM controversy are changing beliefs about the role and function of museums and other cultural institutions, especially the issue of who should have the power to represent and control images created by “others.” The traditional values and practices of institutions such as museums are difficult to change. One analyst poses an important question about the ROM controversy: Would the institution have supported a more critical approach to the subject? Would it have risked offending its important patrons, some of whom donated artifacts to the collection? (Butler, 1993:57).”(See the Colour of Democracy).
1990s There has been an exponential growth of the number of local museums and the expansion of large museums in the 1990s has been referred to as the big bang by former ICOM director Hugues de Varine.
1991 This is a performance art piece by poststructuralist artist. Her work is situated under institutional criticism. In it Andrea Fraser toured an exhibition of the work of contemporary artist Allan McCollum shown at the American Fine Arts Gallery in New York City. She presented the tour in two voices, her own and that of Ms. Jane Castleton), a fictional character, Fraser’s alter ego who was a museum volunteer docent with little understanding of modern art.
1991 Rabbi Michael Berenbaum was project director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Public awareness of the holocaust had heightened since 1978. Jewish suffering was once considered to be a footnote of WWII. This was changed and the horrendous crime was acknowledged.
1991 Ayanna Black (1991:27 in Creane cited in Barrett 2004) critiqued the Royal Ontario Museum’s infamous exhibition “Into the Heart of Africa.” She described the situation as follows, “They used the propaganda of the period without proper explanation or preamble. [The curator] did not want to manipulate the material, but she ended up implanting racist images because the critique of ‘intellectual arrogance’ did not come through. People missed it.” Cannizzo, a contract curator who had trained as a social and cultural anthropologist had done fieldwork experience in Sierra Leone misread her audience.
1991 Lee-Ann Martin submitted her commissioned report to the Canada Council entitled “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada.” It was the catalyst for the Visual Arts Section’s Acquisition Assistance Program (1996-9) offering monetary incentives to encourage Canada’s fifty-six public galleries to purchase contemporary art by Canada’s First Peoples (Jessup 2002:xxv).
1992 “In 1992, the British museum specialist Eilean Hooper-Greenhill observed that the museum as a historical institution had not received “any rigorous form of critical analysis.” Other scholars and critics chimed in around the same time.1 As it happened, a tidal wave of museum studies was just beginning to crest, many proclaiming critical agendas while complaining about their absence. The problem these days is how to navigate a flood of literature on the theory, practice, politics, and history of museums” (Starns 2005).
1992 Assembly of First Nations [AFN] and Canadian Museums Association [CMA], Task Force Report on Museums and First Peoples, Turning the Page: Forging New Partnerships Between Museums and First Peoples (Ottawa: 1992).
1994 The Heard Museum hosted a conference entitled “Navajo Weaving since the Sixties” attended by forty weavers and who presented detailed statements about their work. M’Closkey (2002:230-3) noted a sharp contrast between the presentations by the weavers and those made by dealers, museologists and textile experts who spoke of gallery aesthetics, the history of Navajo weaving and the quality of market-friendly rugs. Gloria Emerson of the Centre for Cultural Exchange at a New Mexico art institution commented on the chasm between the weavers and the scholars. She argued that the weavers should be generating the questions discussed at these conferences (M’Closkey 2002:233).
1994 Today “there are several reasons to stress the importance of local museums. At the same time we find big museums growing even bigger and observe an explosion in the number of small museums all over the world . The former ICOM director Hugues de Varine calls this a big-bang in the museum world, which makes it necessary to separate museums in two very different types: the process-museum and the institution-museum, the latter being the traditional museum” (Gjestrum 1994).
1996 A conference organized by the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum entitled “Imagining the Arctic: The Native Photograph in Alaska, Canada and Greenland” was held in London, UK. Guest speakers included George Quviq Qulaut (Commissioner for Nunavut), Hugh Brody, Nelson Graburn, Elizabeth Edwards of Oxford’s Pit River Museum, Kesler Woodward, Alan R. Marcus who “explored the relationships between government policy and images of the Ahiarmut, as backdrop to the disastrous arctic relocations of the 1950s, Peter Geller presented hia paper on “Archibald Lang Fleming, first Anglican Bishop of the Arctic, as he disseminated a fascinating view of the “Eskimo” through his publications and lantern slide lectures; this was followed by a contemporary example of northern image-making, as Zebedee Nungak presented a series of slides documenting the recent political history of northern Quebec, as carried out by photographers for the Makivik Corporation of the Inuit of Nunavik.” See Peter Geller’s report.
1998 The first exhibition entitled “First Peoples, First Contacts” at the Museum of Man’s Gallery of North America at its new location at Bloomsbury opened. It was sponsored by the powerful Chase Manhattan Bank. The exhibition tells the story of the interaction of native Americans with the outsiders. The First Nations peoples represented in the Gallery are for the most part unfamiliar even to North Americans. They are represented as “half-forgotten, disgracefully patronised, different and enduringly fascinating peoples.” The story of curious Columbus is depicted without the usual overly romanticized sentiment. He is portrayed as the first of an onslaught of the “blatantly greedy and bigoted arrivistes, colonialists, sharks and expropriators.” Gallery of North America will feature rotating temporary exhibitions and will stay in situ for at least five years. See Henshall (1999) and J. C. H. King (1998) First Peoples, First Contacts, Museum of Mankind, London, UK: Chase Manhattan Gallery.
1999 Meanwhile, the museum was also being thoroughly absorbed by the markets and industries of culture under late capitalism.” See EndNote entry under Krauss (1999).
1999 Rosalind Krauss (1999) published a book entitled A Voyage on the North Sea criticizing art forms like his that had in her view, become fashionably vacuous, a shibboleth– installation art. “Krauss reflects that the notion of the specificity of medium as a foundation of the modern was shaken by Broodthaers ‘s practice and by the introduction of video technology in the 1960s. She anchors her historical narrative in the writing of Greenberg and Fried (in the latter’s reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty) and in paintings by Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters, the sculptures of Richard Serra, and the structuralist films of Michael Snow, all of which registered a ‘new idea of aesthetic medium’ in new artistic conventions of opticality, which Krauss describes as foregrounding a ‘phenomenological vector’ in art that connects an object to a viewing subject. She forwards the notion that the construction of physical structure, even within the making of film, is constitutive of modern art: “For, in order to sustain artistic practice, a medium must be a supporting structure, generative of a set of conventions, some of which, in assuming the medium itself as their subject, will be wholly specific to it, thus producing an experience of their own necessity” (26). See EndNote entry under Krauss (1999).
2000 Izzie Asper became Canada’s new media lord as head of Canwest Global Communications. “After acquiring most of Hollinger’s newspapers and magazines, including half of the National Post, Asper now stands to be the most powerful figure in the history of Canadian media. A relentlessly tough businessman, he made a rather unexpected power play to dethrone Conrad Black and, although he might not be as grandiose about it, he now has more clout within Canada than Black ever did.” (Pundit Magazine). “Today, CanWest is one of Canada’s most profitable communication companies. In fiscal 2000 its net earnings were $162 million, with revenues totalling $1.08 billion and operating profits of $263 million. In July 2000, CanWest acquired most of Canada’s leading newspapers, as well as a 50 per cent stake in one of the country’s national dailies, The National Post. Earlier that month, federal regulators approved CanWest’s purchase of eight television stations, an acquisition that created Canada’s second-largest private television network under the banner of Global TV. Long before that, the corporation had forged an international broadcasting presence in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland” (Manitoba Government).
Transformation: Information to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom?
Yerushalmi began his text with a Kakfaesque description of the archives’ doorkeeper. It is a thinly disquised reproach for the exclusivity of access to Freud’s archives, particularly to series Z. Yerushalmi was dismayed to find that access to Series Z, Freud’s archives in Washington, was severely limited to a group of insider scholars.
Although Yerushami, the historian, has done research in archives in Lisbon, Madrid, Valladolid, Salamanca, Venice, Verona and Jerusalem but rarely in the Freud Archives.
Yerushalmi illustrated the persistence and continuity of the archivist as gatekeeper through the 1909 case of Robert Ross. Ross presented Oscar Wilde’s original manuscript of De Profundis to the British Museum on condition that it be sealed for sixty years to prevent it from falling into the hands of Lord Alfred Douglas, the agent of Wilde’s ruin. Through a 1913 libel suit Douglas, received a copy which he intended to publish. Ross speedily had his own copy published in New York which secured copyright. In 1949 Wilde’s son published the full and correct text but the British Museum respected Ross’ agreement and access is still denied.
Yerushalmi questions the logic behind restricting or forbidding access to certain documents well into the 21st century! He was not alone. Janet Malcolm’s 1984 publication “In the Freud Archives” made the inaccessibility une cause celebre.
Meanwhile, attacks against psychoanalysis, fused with assaults against the personal integrity of Freud himself, have by now reached an unprecedented crescendo of vilification. One result is a widespread belief that the real truth, for better or worse, is in the Archives, and that once they are fully accessible the truth will out. What both attackers and defenders of Freud have in common is a faith in the facticity of archives, in the archival document as somehow the ultimate arbiter of historical truth.
By the late 20th century historians were more sophisticated; recognized the limitations of archival documents. And at that time series Z is unlocked. leading to anothfureur de l’inédit’. Yerushalmi questioned what that will change.
It should be naive, created for other purposes than research: the production, storage and maintenance of personal correspondence, tax records, contracts, deeds.
It should be dusty from lack of handling. Half a century after the French Revolution a Prussian historian finally opened the dust-laden papers regarding the Reign of Terror, a proof of their legitimacy.
The researcher recognizes that all archives are incomplete: not all documents are collected, archived and/or preserved. And any document requires contextualization by data both in and outside the archives and even the field of study.
The zealous guardians of The Freud Archives including Anna Freud, Freud’s devoted daughter protected Freud’s reputation in the creation and maintenance of the archives. Yerushalmi compares these documents to “… André Gide’s journals, where one senses that as he writes one eye is gazing at posterity.” This contrasts with Kafka’s diaries, whose publication he never dreamed.
I come finally to the vexing question of Freud’s biography and here I am prepared to abandon my parable. I am only certain that the men and women from many countries will not find anything of significance about Freud’s childhood and adolescence. That stumbling block to biographers, especially those who are psychoanalytically oriented, will remain. Some information about Freud’s parents may perhaps yet be found in Moravian and Viennese archives. As for Freud’s mature life, for reasons already given I doubt that very much of a sensational nature will be found in Series Z, though of course one cannot be sure. Once again, however, I feel that the really important issues extend beyond the archives.
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“How does information become transformed into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom? (Yerushalmi 1994)? This commitment to rereading history from papyrus to hypertext parallels the commitment to philosophy from a cosmopolitical point of view. It is not merely theory for theory’s sake. Gatekeepers of the archives (and collective memory) wield power. Access to information is more than a legal right: it becomes an indicator by which effective democracies can be measured. (Derrida 1996a: 4). The mapping of archives of the infosphere needs to be concerned with uncompromised inclusivity as constitutive of a renewed, unbound, effective democracy in which plurality can co-exist with social cohesion. It requires a consistent and constant vigilance against complicity and complacence. It involves nurturing and encouraging diverse ways of seeing, knowing and remembering. The architecture of deconstruction facilitates the round-tables of discussions which invite, welcome and propel rather than discourage, exclude, dismiss and prevent convergences of divergent thoughts. The sparks of discord can illuminate the ashes and dust of the (missing) archives (Flynn-Burhoe 2000).
This is a blog version of a html webpage entitled “Mapping Memory: from Papyrus to Digitization: The Great Flood and the Arkh“. In 2000 (?) it was presented to a small eclectic group of dazzling student super-geeks and hackers brought together by a shared interest in the virtual and Carleton University star professor Rob Shields.
Abstract: This paper and webpage examines intersections between Jacques Derrida’s Archives Fever and texts, objects and events that informed Archive Fever: Plato’s Phaedrus, Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and Yerushalmi Freud’s Moses. (How) Is the authority of the archonte transformed by the digitization of archives? How can conceptual tools developed by Jacques Derrida enhance understanding of the concept of archives in this period of transformation? (How) can the structure of the archives allow for the co-existence of social cohesion and pluralism? To what extent is archival meaning co-determined by the structure of the archives? (Derrida 1996a: 16) To what extent is our access to knowledge, to collective memories barred by inadequate maps and ideological obstacles?
With the digitization of data, archives have been inundated with a tidal wave of information. The great flood of the archives is both cause and effect of an expanding collective electronic memory and an enlarging field of inquirers and inquiries. Cultural groups resisting the homogenous mass culture of globalization, an increasingly informed citizenry insisting on accountability in governance and grass roots movements involved in risk management excavate the archives to legitimize claims and trace memories (Wallot 1996: 23).
In this complex infosphere of ‘…shifting nationhood, evolving governance, mutating organizations, and changing forms of records’ archivists attempt to maintain a creative tension and complementarity between their hybrid roles as gatekeepers of evidence and map-makers of society’s ‘…long-term memory, identity and values formation and transmission’ (Wallot 1996: 23). This involves nothing less than a re-examination of the theoretical roots and conceptual framework of the professional roles of archivists (Wallot 1996: 24).
In 1994 an international conference in London, organized by the Freud Museum and the Société Internationale d’Histoire de la Psychanalyse, focussed on ‘Memory: The Question of Archives.’ Derrida’s presentation Archives Fever which lasted over three hours was dedicated to Jewish historian, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi whose ‘handsome’ book Freud’s Moses provided a catalyst for his own. Yerushalmi’s frustrated attempts at accessing certain exclusive archives while conducting his research on Freud, led to his paper ‘‘Series Z: : An Archival Fantasy’ presented at the same conference.
Derrida juxtaposes reflections on memory and archives with Freud’s psychoanalysis. Freud’s archives in Freud’s Museum, London and in the Library of Congress consist of thousand of items collected and stored under protective guardianship. Yet the archons of the corpus of the most-quoted man of the twentieth century seem to break all the rules of archival practice: the archived items are neither innocent, accessible nor dusty. Freud’s archives were not naive: they were self-conscious, wary of censorship therefore self-censored and incomplete. Freud’s own secrecy rivaled that of Goethe who was a ‘… great self-revealer, but also in the abundance of autobiographical records, a careful concealer’ (Freud 1930: 212). But then all archives are incomplete repositories, containing only those objects and artifacts that have survived the past (Yerushalmi 1994).
Even with the best archival practice the archival documents cannot be historical facts. Vital archival objects are articulated or constructed as historical in an interpretive process through the mind and imagination of the historian. History is constructed from documents retrieved from archival storage. And archival material can be constructed to contradict memory (Yerushalmi 1994).
‘Psychoanalysis aspires to be a general science of the archive, of everything that can happen to the economy of meaning and to […] its traces.’ The science (or art) of psychoanalysis depends on memory as data. Freud’s human subject achieved freedom from neurosis through memory management. In the economy of psychoanalysis memories can be called up, evoked, transmitted, named, categorized and relativized.
What is the nature of transmission of memories? Freud suggested ways of remembering that were relevant to psychoanalysis and inaccessible to ordinary histories. But he only once used the term ‘archives’ as a metaphor for memory. In 1898 he imagined memory as an open, accessible archive that was subjected to the will. He discarded the inadequate metaphor: memories can be stored but not all can be retrieved. (Yerushalmi 1991 Freud ) Yerushalmi concluded that Freud abandoned the term ‘archives’ as a metaphor for memory since they have ‘…nothing in common. Memory is not an archive, nor is archive a memory bank’ (Yerushalmi 1994).
Archives, even Freud’s official Archives were not ‘the ultimate arbitrar of historical truth’ about Freud as it was widely believed by both his defenders and his attackers (Yerushalmi 1994). In spite of the sophistication of contemporary historians who recognize the limitations of archival documents, the unlocking of Freud’s most secretive archives, Series Z, led to a ‘fureur de l’inédit.’ This fury to publish previously unpublished archival documents was reminiscent of the 19th century heyday of scientific history informed by the cult of the archives. In the 1830s through the 1860s national governments opened their archives to research in an effort to protect their collective histories. Lord Acton proclaimed, ‘To keep one’s archives barred against the historians was tantamount to leaving one’s history to one’s enemies’ (Yerushalmi 1994).
Derrida’s impressions of l’actualité have left their mark around the globe. Situating himself as one who lives between two worlds, a world citizen who is Jewish-French but also Algerian he argues for a philosophy from a cosmopolitico view point where transmission and alterité become the centre. In international conferences spanning three decades with diverse groups: arabo-islamic intellectuals, UNESCO, the Société Internationale d’Histoire de la Psychanalyse or at John Hopkins University, he challenges complacency and complicity. He reveals how philosophy is not shackled by an exclusive, solitary memory or language: it is stereoscopic, polyglot, multi-linear even bastardized, crossbred and spliced. He calls for a new role for philosophy, one in which a rereading of Plato, for example, becomes as urgent a task as new scientific results (Derrida 1996b). He adds a third space to columns of binary opposites: a space of tension, of sparks generated from divergent viewpoints (1981:73).
Derrida cites and questions Plato’s separation of live memory mneme from hypomneme. Archives are hypomneme along with inventories, citations, copies, lists and genealogies (1981:107). The archives are an extension of writing, commodified by power brokers, the sophists. Socrates’ words written by Plato, upheld the ‘art of memory.’ Writing was imperfect memory or even forgetfulness, dependent on signs; it was nonknowledge (1981:105). The recital of 25,000 lines of Homeric verse over several days was a manifestation of the living word, of knowledge, of the promise of limitless memory. But Socrates, “he who does not write” was written. When Derrida came upon a 14th century Italian print from the Bodleian Library, reproduced mechanically as a postcard he was enchanted. It became a visual metaphor for the archival object: in the scriptorium Socrates is writing with Plato standing behind him. By examining the relationship between the two fathers of meaning in Western thought, Derrida opened a space for a rethinking of transgenerational patriarchal transmission. He brought Freud’s ghost, his archives and his historian into the discussion. He reveals how secret archives and powerful archons dissimulate.
Derrida speaks and writes in a ‘scriptless’ hypertext, where intertextualitity can either enrich or confuse. Derrida’s reflections on Plato, Freud, Yerushalmi are constructed into complex layers of texts that defy a linear structure such as this paper. Its content is better adapted to the nonlinear format of the webpage. Fascinating and thought-provoking connections can be extrapolated following Derrida’s lead from papyrus to digitization. Both Plato and Freud circuitously lead us to the Black Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton who introduced a form of monotheistic religion c. 1379 – 1362 BCE with Aton the god of the universe subsuming both Thoth the moon god and Amon-re or Amen the sun god. Plato as scribe for Socrates used a myth to discredit myth over logos. In Socrates’ version of the myth Thamus disparaged Theuth (Thoth) for inventing writing along with alchemy, geometry, astronomy and calculations. Theuth not only writes and represents Amon-Ra; he effectively replaced the god himself.
Freud investigated Egyptian monotheism as possible source of Moses’ monotheism. To these layers I would suggest another, accessible through archives that are still underused by western inquirers. Questions of intellectual genealogy and inheritance can be enriched (although not answered) by accessing Islamic archives. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Ptolmeac corpus influenced Islamic thought. Islamic law was informed by Solomon’s judicial system. Further in these archives monotheism is traced to the Patriarch common to Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Abraham. How would Socrates hypothetical journeys to Palestine and Syria and the possible influence of Hebrew sages on Socrates himself impact on the concept of bastardized, hybridized and spliced philosophies? Answers as evidence are not the issue. The answers to Freud’s question ‘Was Moses Egyptian?’ like Yerushalmi’s ‘Is psychoanalysis a Jewish science?’ take second place to the open-ended questions themselves.
Derrida’s papyrus and postcard connection led to the Bodleian Library. While reading my library copy of Postcards, the ghostlike presence of the postcard became so tangible, I almost expected ‘a missing letter’ scratched on the back of Plato and Socrates to fall out from between the pages. Following Derrida’s trail electronically I accessed the Bodleian Library’s medieval print section. The Bodleian Library seemed elusive, even exclusive: it is the main research library of the University of Oxford used by scholars from around the world. However, a number of their collections of medieval manuscripts are now available around the globe on-line. The mechanical reproduced images that appeared on my screen leaving their impressions were from Dante’s Divine Commedia. In a northern Italian 14th century illustration Dante and Virgil observe Mohammed and Ptolemy, both condemned to inferno for their heresies. The same medieval censorship that suppressed Ptolemy’s Geographia, and denied the monotheism of Islam, had also misread Socrates and Plato.
Was Artaud referring to Ptolemy when he proclaimed: ‘The library at Alexandria can be burnt down. There are forces above and beyond papyrus: we may temporarily be deprived of our ability to discover these forces, but their energy will not be suppressed’ (1981: 53). Instead the secret archives becomes a spectre, a ghost, a phantom protecting itself from detection, repression, censorship and destruction.
An entire corpus of Greek knowledge was rejected by early Christians fearful that the spherical globe violated their fundamental religious beliefs. Navigation and cartography are inextricably interwoven. Yet the historiography of cartography of our biosphere is one of ransacked, missing, secret and recovered archives. In 391 AD Christians mobs sacked the Alexandrian library including Ptolemy’s research. As Librarian of the Alexandrian, he had inherited centuries of Greek scholarship which he published in the Geographia. Arabo-Islamic scholars, unbridled by Christian fear of ‘Greek science’ translated and developed Ptolemaic maps for their journeys to India, Tibet and China. In 1154 Al-Idrisi, Arabo-Islamic geographer in a Sicilian court created a world map influenced by Ptolemy. The European period of world-wide expansion took place only after Medieval maps were replaced by Ptolemy’s science. McLuhan suggested that without maps as a means of communication “the world of modern science and technology would hardly exist” (McLuhan 1964: 157-8). What will be the suppressed memories, the missing links on the maps of the infosphere, on the maps of the archives? Who decides the grid and the structure?
Digitized, indexed and linked image, stills and motion, sound and text can be mapped by one author then unwrapped and re-mapped by an active reader. Virtual objects seem to float dislocated from space and time connected only by links, those ‘arrows frozen in time’ (Shields 2000). Once reproduced electronically, an urn, an 11th century map, a postcard letter or the Bodleian’s 14th century version of Dante’s Commedia are wrenched from the structure, context and content. John le Carré stated, ‘Nothing exists without a context.’ Descriptions and explanations can be lost leaving ‘vast holes in memory.’ Or the opposite can occur: Navigational tools, maps and charts can reintegrate structure to context and content (Wallot 1996: 14). Through electronic embedding, for example, virtual images of Inuit sculptures, those silent ambassadors of a dynamic living culture, can hyperlink context and content in rich layers of information.
Concept maps are not innocent; they become tools for data interpretation and ways of assigning value and meaning. Maps are not draped over reality; they exclude. They are like Derrida’s archontes, the archivists who wield authority (and power) over data, its interpretation, its storage and its accessibility. The archontes of electronic archives decide what is collected, described and classified or ignored, destroyed or virtually left hanging, unmapped and disconnected. What happens to the ‘other’ in cyber archives? If categories are not created, do they no longer exist? If there are no pointers, can they be found? Could the holocaust have happened in the age of electronic mail? Would there have been electronic traces of the crematoria?
“But of the secret itself, there can be no archive, by definition. The secret is the very ash of the archive. . .” Derrida’s concept of archives bridges the technical, political, ethical and judicial with poetry and ghosts. In Feu le cendre the holocaust ashes of the crematoriums contain traces of memories, names, letters, photos, personal objects and even keys. The ashes become the pharmakon. They are both cure and poison; they remain but are gone. They are the incomplete archives, traces of the disappeared, traces that speak of that ‘other’ memory.
The censorship of psychoanalysis, ‘a Jewish science’ led to an ethos of protective secrecy about Freud’s archives which continued throughout the 20th century. In 1885 and again in 1907 Freud completely destroyed all his correspondence, notes, diaries and manuscripts (Yerushalmi 1994). He wrote Moses and Monotheism, his only work specifically on a Jewish theme on the eve of Nazi occupation of Austria. Shortly after Freud’s forced exile to England and the completion of his manuscript, Freud died. His inquiry into the history of monotheism was a questioning of the role of religion itself. Was it possible to trace suppressed memories of a people as one can with individuals? Would such a project reduce religion to that of a social neurosis caused by deeply embedded and suppressed trans-generational memories? Freud wrote his first manuscripts knowing that censorship would prevent it from being read, at least in his lifetime. Catholic authorities were critical of psychoanalysis: this manuscript would provoke even greater antagonism. After his death any literature on psychoanalysis uncovered by the Nazis was incinerated as ‘Jewish literature.’ But Freud’s psychoanalysis of Jewish history and Judaism also sent a shock wave through the Jewish community. He hypothesized, like Otto Rank in 1909, that Moses was born to a Egyptian princess not to a Hebrew woman. Freud suggesting that Moses’ monotheistic religion was actually based on an existing Egyptian monotheistic religion, Aten. Further he sought out clues to Moses’ murder. In effect Freud was dismantling the Jewish claim to uniqueness. Freud died before the manuscript was published, without ever knowing the holocaust. He wrote for a secret archives, knowing readers were not ready, nor would they be until sometime in the future. Derrida describes the writing that seeks dissimulation as anarchives, the ‘other’ archives, the secret archives hidden from the flames of repression.
Was Freud being loyal to Judaism, through disloyality? Was he recognizing its weaknesses without rejecting it outright? Was he refusing alienation and victimization? Was he protecting his own true subjective freedom by refusing to accept in its entirety an inherited ethnicity, religion, culture or nationality (Derrida 1996c)?
Yerushalmi did not expect the archives to provide evidence of Freud’s relationship to Judaism. But did he perhaps hope that Freud’s collection of antiquities would reveal some specifically Jewish objects? None were exhibited in a traveling exhibition of Freud’s antiquities in 1989. However, a year later exhibition curator Dr. Gamwell informed Yerushalmi, after he had sent off his manuscript, that at the Freud Museum in London, objects had been found “which are related to Freud’s Jewishness.” Included in the list of items was a Hanukkah Menorah which was in Freud’s study during his lifetime and a 1913 postcard to Karl Abraham which shows the arch of Titus. On the image depicting the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE with soldiers removing the Menorah from the Temple, Freud wrote, “The Jew survives it!” (Yerushalmi 1991).
Freud used his vast collection of antiquities from Greece, Rome and Egypt to illustrate his remarks during his therapy sessions. He compared the relatively unchanging nature of the unconscious to the antique objects in the study which had been entombed and preserved, then uncovered, unchanged.
The pivotal object however was the rebound bible which Freud’s father had presented to Freud on his thirty-fifth birthday in May, 1891. Yerushalmi became the first guardian, reader, doctor and the only legitimate archon (Derrida 1995:22) of Jacob Freud’s Hebrew dedication, which Derrida himself analysed in detail. Derrida described the law makers who create and maintain the archives: Freud’s father, Freud, Yerushalmi and the “arch-archiving of the family Bible of the arch-patriarch of psychoanalysis in the arca, cupboard, prison cell, cistern, reservoir.” (Derrida 1995:23) Using this specifically Jewish artifact Derrida ties together strands that had been threading through Dissemination, Feu le cendres, Postcards and Archives Fever. The impression is left by the Jewish father on his son. The one who writes is written by the father in the pre-Socratic language. The new skin of the Bible is covered with scar-like traces as reminders, as ways of remembering. The Bible as gift to the son continues to be the gift to Yerushalmi who yearned for the spectral presence of Freud.
The archives provide a deluge of information. But haunting questions remain: how does information become transformed into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom? (Yerushalmi 1994)? This commitment to rereading history from papyrus to hypertext parallels the commitment to philosophy from a cosmopolitical point of view. It is not merely theory for theory’s sake. Gatekeepers of the archives (and collective memory) wield power. Access to information is more than a legal right: it becomes an indicator by which effective democracies can be measured. (Derrida 1996a: 4). The mapping of archives of the infosphere needs to be concerned with uncompromised inclusivity as constitutive of a renewed, unbound, effective democracy in which plurality can co-exist with social cohesion. It requires a consistent and constant vigilance against complicity and complacence. It involves nurturing and encouraging diverse ways of seeing, knowing and remembering. The architecture of deconstruction facilitates the round-tables of discussions which invite, welcome and propel rather than discourage, exclude, dismiss and prevent convergences of divergent thoughts. The sparks of discord can illuminate the ashes and dust of the (missing) archives.
CC 2000Maureen Flynn-Burhoe for comments, corrections and copyright concerns. | 2019-04-18T19:30:34Z | https://oceanflynn.wordpress.com/tag/archives/ | Porn | Arts | 0.18568 |
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wordpress | Once I discovered Zumba, I was hooked. Not only did I feel better because I was working out, but I felt sexier. It gave me the confidence boost I needed to get over my ex and realize that it really wasn’t me that was the problem.
Upon graduation from college, I started taking dance classes at Dance Austin Studio. I LOVED it and my boyfriend saw how happy it made me. The only thing was that the cost wasn’t really in my budget and I was already paying for a gym membership on top of that. So instead, I immersed myself in the gym and Zumba when I wasn’t at work or doing organization events.
When my grandfather passed away in September 2012, I stopped going to the gym. I started to gain weight and was so upset that he had to go that I started to go through depression. My boyfriend hated being around me and on top of that I started hating myself. I would find any reason to fight. I would cry all the time and I would eat to make myself feel better. I was baking a lot and eating almost everything I baked.
In January 2013, I promised my boyfriend that I would go back to the gym because he was convinced that that would make me feel better. The gym helped me, but honestly Zumba saved me. I was dancing again while working out and I felt so GOOD. I couldn’t wait for the next class. Slowly I started getting back into shape and along with that I started eating healthier. 2013 was my “comeback” year and I knew how much Zumba meant to me.
I found out that I could eventually become a licensed Zumba instructor and made it a goal for me to become one one day. I finally became a licensed instructor on February 28, 2014. I was so happy and ready to get started. I wanted to be that person to make a change in someone’s life for the better.
After months of looking for a Zumba gig, I finally found my place at a local YMCA and am so happy to be there!! I love my students and hope that they will love my class. I plan on posting more of my Zumba Journey soon. | 2019-04-19T12:29:15Z | https://20somethinglatinadotcom.wordpress.com/zumba-3/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.594448 |
wordpress | How you get Google to value your online presence and award you a coveted high ranking is a source of sustained hot debate. With its cryptic algorithm updates dubbed Panda and Penguin, Google can seem impossibly picky. Cue desperation.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) analyst Robert McAnderson likens the dozens of rivals liable to scrap for a top-10 spot on Google’s page one to “seagulls fighting over a chip”.
Here is some intel on how to wow the likes of Google by coolly applying classic and cutting-edge SEO. Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald..
So you want to get on the front page of Google? What business does not want to get there – ideally ranking in the top-ten?
One secret of getting on Google’s front page is simple. Splash the cash – and keep defending your spot by continually outbidding your competitor, irrespective of cost. Or, there is a far more frugal solution, according to Sydney-based small business strategist Robert McAnderson, author of the new book DNO the SEO Revolution: a how-to-guide for achieving permanent page-one rankings for under $100.
Even Google has misfires. The search giant is killing off Google Desktop and Blogger, among 10 underachieving apps, in a purge tech journal Techcrunch describes as a “bloodbath”.
But Google’s ruthless focus may merit respect. It is so easy to go into denial about a dud and keep it on for sentimental reasons – a really bad idea now. According to credit agency Dun & Bradstreet, business failures in Australia rose 12.1 per cent in the June quarter, compared to a 4.1 per cent rise in the previous quarter, with businesses stretched by the high Australian dollar and high interest rates. Read more at the Age.
A recent survey by software provider MYOB found that just a fraction of Australian businesses – 35 per cent – had a website. More should make the leap and broadly build a strong web presence, according to serial online entrepreneur Matt Mickiewicz. | 2019-04-18T18:32:00Z | https://davidwilsonjournalism.wordpress.com/tag/google/ | Porn | Business | 0.865479 |
wordpress | FINE GAEL & PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM – THE TRUE STORY | Michael Creed T.D.
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wordpress | The first thing I notice in the quote is the terminology chosen. “Society”, not government. I also would note the period form which this quote is taken. If we accept the implied stretch of your post that society is government, then the government Paine was talking about consisted of perhaps 3% of GDP. Is that the depth government you support? I doubt it. Not even Rand call for that.
But the fact is that civilization and government are independent constructs and in conflating the two you do yourself a disservice. You are smarter than that.
I think this reflects the full 10 minute speech by Obama taken in context. If you want to slice and dice, you can conclude anything…….
Obama was not talking about society; he was talking about government. That said, to a Marxist the two are one in the same.
As one can easily tell from the context, Paine was using the words interchangeably in this passage, “bonfire.” Now take your sock puppetry elsewhere, son.
Based on several recent letters and columns in the News & Record, a segment of our population apparently is convinced that those owning a house on our North Carolina coast, or multiple automobiles, or a business are all “rich.” And that they either inherited this wealth or acquired it at the expense of others, and that they do not pay “their fair share” of taxes.
Who really are the so-called “rich” in North Carolina and how did they become so?
I knew a family that lived in Greensboro during World War II. The husband and both of his brothers served in the armed forces. He was a high school graduate and a new father with so little income that his wife and young son lived on her father’s farm near Concord until he returned from the war.
He became a salesman, and, after years of hard work and sacrifice, he and his wife accumulated enough funds, combined with loans from their parents, so that they were able to open a small supply business in 1958 on Lee Street where Greensboro Urban Ministry now is located.
After their son graduated from a state university (the first in this family who had an opportunity to accomplish this) and served in the Marine Corps, he joined the family business as a salesman. These three worked six days each week (and often nights and holidays) for years. But like Chick-fil-A, they never opened on Sunday. They drove used cars and seldom vacationed.
In the 1960s, they invested in beach property in Brunswick County. And in the 1980s, two of the family’s third generation joined and expanded this family business with the same dedication to hard work and self-sufficiency as their parents and grandparents.
During its first 50 years, this family and its small business have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in state and federal taxes. And in the early 2000s, when the founders passed away, the state and federal governments came calling (estate/death taxes). Raleigh and Washington confiscated enough money from this family that it would have college-educated the five fourth-generation children … because their great-grandparents died. Had its owners not spent tens of thousands on legal estate planning, this small family business would have been forced into a fire-sale/liquidation to pay these taxes.
We’re not paying our “fair share,” you say?
As you’ve probably surmised, I am familiar with this example of the “rich” because I am the second-generation son in this third-generation family business.
Yes, the families that founded and expanded this business have a beach house, nice homes in Greensboro, more than one car, etc., because they all earned and deserve it.
Are folks like us really the “rich” that some resent? You’ll not witness a Paris Hilton-type episode from these “rich” families.
When I was growing up in North Carolina, starting your own business was the American Dream that many aspired to. It was an honorable goal — not to be ridiculed or even condemned as it is by some today.
It is honorable not to expect assistance from Raleigh or Washington. It is honorable to start a business and operate it successfully based on Judeo-Christian principles.
Yes, it is our personal responsibility and obligation to assist those who, through no fault of their own, experience hard times. But it is immoral and dishonest (and mostly unconstitutional) for the state to confiscate earned income from producers in order to “redistribute” it to nonproducers.
When I consider all of the taxes I pay (income, corporate, gasoline, property, sales, estate, etc.) it is nearly 50 percent of my salary.
Just how much more of “our fair share” do the progressives expect from the producers, particularly when almost 50 percent of our citizens pay zero federal income taxes!
Clyde Hunt Jr. lives in Greensboro and is a News & Record Town Square community columnist.
Yeah, I read that. Entire Midwestern states perished to provide the straw he uses here. | 2019-04-24T06:54:54Z | https://blogontherun.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/you-didnt-build-that-thomas-common-sense-paine-edition/ | Porn | Business | 0.875841 |
wordpress | The new year is supposed to be a time of renewal, beginnings, starting over, etc. In many ways, this proves true – I always find myself more motivated once the holidays are over, and a little less frenzied and hopefully calmer, with a brighter outlook on things. Of course, considering I am now neck-deep in preparations for my daughter’s Sweet 16 party, this year is not starting out as calmly as others.
Last year was in general a good year – I had two book releases and made significant progress on two other works. However, I also got royally kicked in the teeth by one of my publishers.
Anyone who’s following this blog probably doesn’t need an introduction to this mess, so I’ll keep the recap short. Noble Romance Publishing has screwed me, as well as other authors, and is now infringing on my copyright. When Jill Noble abruptly left and started her smear-campaign against the authors she left in the lurch, I had my eyes opened in a really big way. When the new CEO, Jean Gombart, took over and asked authors to contact him regarding issues, etc., I did so. Got no response. So I waited a week or so to send the contractually obligated certified letter outlining what I viewed as breaches of contract. Most of those items listed were relatively minor, and I could have lived with them if the CEO had acted professionally and responded to me. But one issue was a major breach – I am still owed royalties on each of my books. We’re going on near 18 months on one of them now. Anyway, the certified letter giving them 90 days to correct the breaches went ignored, never mind unanswered. I doubt they even opened the envelope. My numerous follow-up emails have also been ignored, as has the second certified letter I sent stating that I exercised my right to terminate the contracts and that they no longer have the right to sell my books.
Still – not even an acknowledgement of my existence. Oh, I get a royalty check each month – but so far, nothing on what’s owed me. I went so far as to comment on their Facebook page, but my comments are deleted, because we wouldn’t want to hurt the other authors they are promoting and acknowledge to the public that there are unhappy (and furious) authors. WTF? In other words, the ones who either are (un)lucky enough not to have any issues, so they are stuck waiting out their contracts, or are genuinely happy there. Hey it happens, I get that. But as long as Noble keeps stealing selling my books, I’m a Noble author too, so why do I get ignored as if I’m not even real? The one person who did respond to me assured me they would forward my email to Mr. Gombart. I don’t believe that ever happened, and even if it did, it didn’t change anything. This person who calls himself a CEO refuses to respond to me in any way. I’m trying to recall if maybe I ran over his kid, or his puppy, or something heinous like that to deserve such ill treatment at the hands of someone who claims to want to grow the business and its authors. Ha!
Then I hear they opened up a new author’s loop, but authors are not allowed to comment in or participate in any way. It’s only for Noble staff to pass along info. They don’t want to hear about issues authors have, only the happy good thoughts. Give me a break. I didn’t get an invite for quite a while anyway, not until I made a fuss with someone who hadn’t yet gotten the memo to ignore me, claiming they didn’t have my email address – um, hello? Does anyone on Noble’s staff communicate in any way? I do get those statements each month via email – just because someone’s in a “different office” doesn’t mean you can’t get my email address. The more I hear from these people, the more disgusted I become.
The best one is the latest – I made a comment on Twitter to their @NRP_Submissions timeline. I was immediately unfollowed. At first I thought I was blocked too, since I could no longer reply to tweets, but I actually can do that by typing in their Twitter name and making my post. Which I will continue to do. Since they don’t see fit to respond to me otherwise, proving again how childish and unprofessionally they are behaving.
I just don’t understand why. My books with Noble are not selling well, so why go to all this trouble to keep them up for sale, and infringe on my copyright? Why not just let it go – give me my rights back and it’s done. They never have to hear from me again. I will take my titles and publish them elsewhere, and do a whole lot better.
I have no qualms about sharing this over and over and over again as publicly as I can and need to. I’m not stating anything untrue – I have adhered to the terms of the contract, Noble has not, and clearly has no intention of doing so. Anyone thinking of signing a contract with them, trust your gut when it tells you it’s not a good idea. If Noble hadn’t been my last shot at getting published a few years ago, I would have listened a lot more closely to that inner voice.
In the meantime, I continue to battle on. | 2019-04-22T00:19:29Z | https://giannasimone.wordpress.com/category/contracts/ | Porn | Business | 0.418567 |
wordpress | Shown above is the general painting process I used. It started with a rough sketch on a 11×14 light gray Fredrix Pre-toned Canvas Pad I bought from an art store in Spokane. Excellent quality almost like hardboard, on sale with a pack of 3 for under $8.00. I blocked in the composition with mostly medium values, added dark and light values, and began working on the details and refining the painting.
I drew a detailed pencil sketch of the covered bridge that I would use as a reference. I try not to paint something that looks complex before drawing it first. After painting in acrylics for a while and taking a long break from oil paint, I decided to use my Winton-Newton water soluble oil paints. The main reason was that it seemed to me that a lot of blending would be needed on the wood structure, and oil paint lends itself to working slower and painting in layers. I made sure that I got out the right tubes of paint and medium and had all of the acrylic paints and supplies put away so I wouldn’t mix the tubes up. I once did that so I know what bad results can happen!
I usually work on a ground which is a preparation done on a white canvas that has been painted over lightly with a neutral warm or cool color. I use gesso with a bit of acrylic paint of yellow ochre or pale umber to tint it. Will Kemp of willkempartschool.com explains why using a ground is important and how to apply it to a canvas. Basically, a ground is a paint procedure resulting in a tinted canvas or toned canvas pad as the Fredrix one I used for the first time. The reason for using a ground on canvas is that all of the white is covered and no white parts or even specks of white canvas will show through your painting. Over ground, paint colors and values appear with better clarity. It can make a difference between a good and a better painting and tones down acrylic paint that dries darker than it appears when you brush it on your canvas. Try it if you’ve never done so before and you will see what a difference it can make in ‘seeing’ your colors correctly. But whether using oil or acrylic, I use a toned surface for painting all the time.
In an earlier post or two, I mentioned that the art process is even more important than the completed painting. The reason is that the joy and satisfaction of engaging in art making should be the main motivator for all true artists. That is what we all have in common as artists, not whether we are amateurs or professionals, or keep our paintings, sell them, or give them away, or whatever. Doing each piece of art work is a new challenge all the time, with the good parts and not so good parts of the experience; also there are the lessons to learn on how to do better the next time, whether it’s improving perspective skills in drawing buildings, or spending more time observing nature like how evergreen trees are shaped and how they grow, etc. Or it may be on how to crop and simplify compositions that have clearer focus of interest or an interesting narrative.
In the covered bridge painting, I tried to create an actual setting and establish a winter day mood; it was about a personal experience near Mt. Spokane State Park. I saw this place and stood near the bridge. I hoped to impart the atmosphere and temperature of the day with tall trees looming over the unique old wood covered bridge; paint some remaining large and small chunks of snow visible; show a part of the creek below with water running underneath it, etc. The biggest challenge was spending too much time with the trees on the right side. The big problem is that I invariably worked over the dark shadow areas of the foliage on the right, whereas I had less of a compulsion to do that on the left side of the painting! It leads to overworking the paints. I should also have had fewer trees painted in a looser, less distinct and more impressionistic style. Hope I remember my lessons and not repeat the same mistakes again. So that’s my critique. . . and now on to the next painting! | 2019-04-19T00:57:26Z | https://artwithaloha.wordpress.com/2017/12/ | Porn | Reference | 0.312307 |
wordpress | of ease that only the broken know.
you never saw and you never see.
Did you ever see the chrysalis?
of the butterfly I would become.
deepest red of a dying heart.
Will she ever stop falling?
Will the soft breeze ever catch her?
Eyes closed, eyes wide open.
I transformed, i grew, more beautiful by the day.
That went so very fast.
that is truly a blessing. | 2019-04-21T15:06:54Z | https://blossomsworld.wordpress.com/tag/transformation/ | Porn | Arts | 0.193856 |
wordpress | A few months ago I shot several workout DVDs that I intended to sell online. Thanks to my partnership with TEA REXX fat burner, I am now able to distribute ALL the workouts for FREE (via my youtube page) instead of selling them!
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What are your thoughts about crossfit?
Hello Brandon,any tips/advices for bringing up a lagging chest. It’s been 2 year i’ve been training and my chest isn’t growing.
Is it better to do chest twice a week? One day with pushing movements(flat, inc, dec) and the other day with more isolate movement (flat flyes, inc, dec)? Any tips?
What do you think about a thin guy ( about 185cm tall, 61kg ) can get in a good shape ’til the end of June?
My first goal for the summer is to put on as much muscle mass as i can, as fast as possible. This is my main goal for now, but after I want the body you had last year.
I know that’s a lot of hard work and takes month, so at the moment I want back my abs, and more athletic body.
So I want to get as close as possible to the body you had. <- this is my goal.
One other question (unfortunately, because of the time zones I can’t watch your Live Q&A :/). So, what do you think a thin guy (like me, details: 185cm,61kg) can get a 6pack abs in 4weeks? Thanks for your hard work man!
So if I started Monday doing Push, Tuesday doing Pull, and Wednesay doing Legs and Rest on Thursday do I start Push again on Friday?
Yo Brandon, what up ?
I’ve got some questions for you, please take the time to answer them mate.
1. How can I bring up the inner pec AREA (I know there is no such a thing like inner pec).
2. How can I burn fat without losing muscle mass ?
just do it. if it was easy, everybody would be ripped.
2) on low-carb days, we get the rest calories from healthy fats?
Ey bbc can you make a video with team inkredibles about calisthenics like how to start and how long do we need to master the basics ( push ups , pull ups , dipa,squats) etc… And ty.
I have read your e-book… but I’m a vegetarian and I also avoid protein powder because there’s often rennet in it. What’s your nutrition recommendation for us veggies?
Hey Brandon my name is Jose and I live in Queens, N.Y. like you.
I’ve been watching more of your videos on YouTube lately as you’ve been putting more out. Quality stuff! Yours is sure to be even more of a top channel. Anyway I’m writing to you looking for advice (not really fitness related but life/career related).
I’m tired of what I’m doing.I want to do what really interests me—fitness/training/helping others, and making GREAT money while doing so. In the past (2004-2006) I was a Personal trainer but in retrospect I feel I lacked certain skills to make it so that I had a good income doing that. I now see I needed more nutrition knowledge and the ability to “sell” myself. Also I want to learn more internet marketing to sell services and products online (eventually), because we both know that the big bucks are not made while working endless hours in the gym but by reaching a wider audience via, books, products services, etc.
What should I do, get recertified? I used to have NASM and ISSA. I know I’ll need them for some level of credibility. I’m also beginning to work out again and using a log but with more details like you mention in your videos.
I also have some similar interests to you like the self help books, fitness books and marketing. I’ve also worked out at that park in your intro, next to the Forest park track.
I really want to succeed, and I know I have to hang with winners (or at least get advice from them—YOU) who are doing what I want do. What tips could you give me, I don’t like to be a taker without having something to offer (so I gave your Facebook page a like, lol!). So your advice is really appreciated.
Also I’m currently writing a mass gain e-book.
Hey Big Brandon Carter, I have some questions. What do you think of energy drinks like monster or redbull? Are they really bad as people think or over exaggeration? Secondly, what do you think about the belief of constantly eating healthy and good. There are other that believe the body needs to be balance so sometime good food and sometime bad food. Thanks for reading. I enjoy your work and you are really a motivational person!
hey brandon. hope u doing well. ive started watching your videos and bought your high life workout plan. Everything is clear and concise and has been great help. All i need to get is some good quality resistance bands and a pull up bar! Im really confused about calories. Alot of calorie intake information on the net relates to people who are allready active. Im overweight at 27% bodyfat, not been active at all due to leg injury. Whats a good starting point for calorie intake if im looking to really lean up and build some muscle. My BMR is 1700 calories. Kind regards and keep up the good work! respect!
I got a problem with eating. I have a sweet tooth and I love to eat sweet things. And I stay late, when I stay late I am getting hungry and I tend to eat whatever I can find around me. In my mind although I said, i will do workout at night but I end up eating staying late without doing anything. I am 35 years old, 5′ 10″ around 180lb working as a programmer. Even if I do exercise, it doesn’t last long, I stop doing or I skip exercise after 1 week or so by giving all kind of excuses. And While I am doing weight training, I think hiit is good for me try HIIT next day then end up doing nothing. I need your precious advice.
Thank you so much for your time bro.
How many times a week do you recommend doing this? Also, will this be a better fat burner than for exampel, running?
I’ve been following u for about half a year now.. xD u got big over that period ! I am from halfway round the world.. but I will be coming in USA this summer in cape cod MA( i am a professional bartender.. ) If you do any fan meetup in NYC i might be able to come ! keep up the good work ! helped me a lot mentally and physically.. (i lost my father too but due to cancer (12 years ago). i will always remember your video where u explain about ur father.. Helped me stay true and motivated.. and no matter how hard it gets, always keep on pushing! Ty BBC !
I am right now 16 years of age and in full time instruction so I discover consuming throughout school a colossal issue. I thought this would be the best place to discover how others like me adapt. I weight 150lbs and am 175cm tall and as per a Body Fat number cruncher I am at 10% muscle to fat quotients.
My point in preparing is to beef up whilst staying at a low muscle to fat quotient, which will permit me to advancement in my game, rugby. At present I prepare 2-3 times each week just on weights. No cardio throughout the season, would it be a good idea for me to be doing cardio in season?
Right now I just take My Protein Impact a Whey as a supplement. Are there any possible things that I ought to be taking? Much obliged concerning the answers ahead of time, mean a considerable measure.
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wordpress | The following are the “core” add-ons and about:config settings for using Firefox with speech recognition and/or the keyboard. I mentioned them in various posts, but thought it would be a good idea to have them in one place.
If you don’t want to use about:config, the go-to add-on for accessing links and fields is Mouseless Browsing. For ways to tweak its behavior a little bit, see Opening links in new tabs and Bypassing text fields.
However, you can make Firefox a lot more flexible and/or efficient by using about:config and changing the accessibility entries there. To access about:config, enter that term in the address bar and go there. Ignore the message about voiding the warranty – it’s programmer humor. You will then see a long list of entries and values. Here are the most relevant ones.
Accessibility.tabfocus allows you to specify where the blinking cursor goes when you press the Tab key. To change the value, press Shift F10 or right-click and choose Modify. 1 to 3 will cycle through drop downs, text fields, buttons, and checkboxes in the order in which they appear. 4 and above will focus everything, including links and images – what Tab would do normally, in other words.
Accessibility.typeaheadfind highlights text on the page as you say, spell, or type it. Press Enter or double-click to set it to true.
Accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly will focus links as you say, spell, or type part of the link word. You can then say “Go there” or “Press Enter.” Press Enter or double-click to set it to true. In order for this to function, accessibility.typeaheadfind must also be set to true. You can also press the apostrophe for temporary use. To open links in new tabs this way, press Control Enter.
Accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout will allow you to adjust the time the Find bar stays visible. Press Shift F10 or right-click and choose Modify.
intl.enable_tsf_support may enable Windows Speech Recognition users to dictate to some extent. Press Enter or double-click to set to true.
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wordpress | School shootings need to stop.
I think that’s something that everyone can agree on. The issue only becomes complicated when people start to discuss how they need to stop.
No doubt you’ve heard arguments for all of these things, and each of them does play a part in this. Some of you may advocate for one or many of them. Let me also mention this. I’m all for 2nd Amendment rights. I get why they exist, and I think that everyone in this country has a right to own and operate a firearm, provided they are properly trained, licensed, and vetted.
What I am not for is regular citizens being able to gain access to military grade weapons (or if they aren’t, then they’re a small step below it), automatic machine guns, extended clips, stocks, and other such accessories that would indicate to me that someone is not using this for self-defense or hunting, but rather to inflict harm on someone.
In just the beginning of this year alone, there have already been 30 mass shootings (defined as a shooting where 2 or more people have been killed or injured by firearms intentionally). That isn’t a made up number. All of these statistics are readily available on http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/. Something needs to change. No 19 year old should be able to purchase an AR-15, much less a 19 year old who holds a grudge and was expelled from school. Frankly, no one needs that kind of firepower.
As a future father, I’m horrified that I can’t feel entirely safe sending my future son to school. Nothing is guaranteed anymore. As a teacher, I understand the safeguards that we try to put in place. We do lockdown drills, which essentially amounts to locking the doors of the classroom, turning off the lights, and getting the students away from the door. They tell us it’s effective because “a shooter wants to inflict as much damage as possible, and a locked door will only slow him/her down,” but it’s really used for the same purpose that kids in the 50s were told to hide under their desks in the event of a nuclear strike. It won’t really save you, but at least it’s better than doing nothing.
Security at schools vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. A low-income area might see metal detectors and police officers regularly at the entrance of a school, whereas a more affluent area will have employees of the school buzz visitors in the front door and make them sign in before having access to anything further. In most cases, if someone wants to come in and do some damage, we’re really powerless to stop it anyway. But should we really ramp up our security at schools? Won’t that just escalate the situation further? Or will it really be a deterrent to any delinquents thinking of making terrible decision?
We won’t know until we try. That’s the big thing though. We haven’t really tried much else. We’ll mourn the deaths of those that we lost after a major school shooting, listen to the rabble go back and forth blaming the wrong things and the wrong people, nothing will happen legislation-wise, and then we’ll repeat the cycle a month later and still be shocked how nothing has changed. This is the only country where this happens regularly. I’ll repeat that for those of you clutching your precious guns as though they were more important than your family.
THIS IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY.
For place that spends 57% of its budget on military expenditures, we do a pretty poor job of policing ourselves and making sure our own people aren’t taking out each other. But therein lies another problem. People will cry “mental health,” which it is sometimes, but what about the rest of the time? Could it be linked to terrorism? Is it white supremacy on the rise? Both solid thoughts, but I think it goes beyond that.
I mentioned that I’m going to be a dad next month. I think that the biggest deterrent to all of this is good parenting and just being there for your kids. Granted, I understand that you can’t control everything that your kids will end up doing, but a little care and attention goes a long way. I would never dream of the day that I failed that much in instilling the right morals and values in my son, to the point where he thought that it would be okay to seek revenge by taking 17 lives. Imagine where the shooter would be if a parent had reached out to him, taken an interest in his thoughts, his feelings. It should never have gotten to that point. I get that this isn’t a real deterrent, but it’s a great preemptive strike to nip whatever COULD happen in the bud before it escalated this far. Be involved in what your kids are doing. Don’t just throw up your hands in frustration and get angry because you don’t understand what they like. Take an interest. It’s a small price to pay honestly.
Let’s not make this a politics issue. Let’s make this a safety issue. Action NEEDS to be taken. It’s clear that what we have already been doing does not work. The worst case scenario is that less people have guns in the world, albeit people who shouldn’t have access to guns in the first place, and is that really a bad thing? | 2019-04-23T12:22:19Z | https://bigtuna185.wordpress.com/tag/parenthood/ | Porn | Society | 0.180583 |
wikipedia | The Doblhoff/WNF 342 was the first helicopter to take off and land using tip jets to drive the rotor.
The WNF 342 was designed for a German Navy requirement for an observation platform for use from small ships and submarines.
The conventional piston engine drove both a small propeller (to provide airflow across a rudder) and an air compressor to provide air (subsequently mixed with fuel) through the rotor head and hollow rotor blades to combustion chambers at the rotor tips.
V1/V2: The first helicopter was initially powered by a 60 horsepower (45 kW) engine (V1) and then a 90 horsepower (67 kW) engine (V2)—both by Walter Mikron. It first flew in 1943, and was captured with V4 at Zell am See.
V3: The second WNF 342 had a larger rotor and was destroyed during testing.
V4: The last unit produced was a two-seat variant with new collective and cyclic controls.[clarification needed] After 25 flight hours it was captured by United States forces and on July 19, 1945, shipped to the US under Operation Lusty on HMS Reaper (D82).
^ "Doblhoff". Hubschrauber Museum. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
^ Ford, Roger (2013). Germany's Secret Weapons of World War II. London, United Kingdom: Amber Books. p. 224. ISBN 9781909160569.
^ Apostolo, Giorgio. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Helicopters, pp. 18, 126. Bonanza Books, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-517-43935-2.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.
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wordpress | Basic Plot: This is the story behind the photograph of the earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts back in 1968; and how such a photo led to a different view of our world.
1) I love that the illustrations evoke the 1960s. They are wonderfully done!
2) I love photography, so I found this story particularly interesting. It’s a little behind-the-scenes “snapshot” at how one of the most famous photographs of all time came to be.
3) The story juxtaposes a tumultuous time (1968) with a photograph that is anything but tumultuous. It’s simple and beautiful and serene.
1) I feel like this could be made for older children with a little more text. Maybe explaining a few things. History-wise. This was the year that Martin Luther King was shot. And Robert Kennedy. And a war in Vietnam. They didn’t have to go into extreme detail, but maybe at least mention MLK.
My rating is 4 Stars (out of 5) – A wonderfully illustrated book about this moment in history. I’d recommend for 1st through 3rd grade. Maybe Kindergarten?
My Basic Plot: This is the story of three Allied pilots during World War II… who all happen to be women. Hazel is from the U.S., Marlene is from England, Lilya is from the Soviet Union.
1) I loved the illustrations! Nicely done.
2) This is a history book that tells you the little things about history. (Like the fact that the women were given uniforms that were too big for them. Makes sense since the uniforms would have been originally made for men.) They had to use their sewing skills to make the uniforms wearable!
4) I did like that we get three different experiences with these three different women, each from a different part of the world.
1) At times I was a little confused about which woman was from where. Especially at the beginning of the story. It starts with Hazel and then moves on to Marlene and for some reason, I thought they were the same girl. I wish there had been tags or something to remind us that Hazel was from the U.S., Marlene was from England, etc.
2) Hazel is of Chinese heritage, however, this wasn’t very clear in the book. It’s only hinted at when she and her friend (who happens to be black) are thinking of joining the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots). One of them says: “A Chinese American and an African American want to join? They will think us crazy and laugh in our faces.” I’m pretty sure the term African American would not have been used in 1942-3. Little things like that do bother me, especially since it’s in dialogue of people from the era. If it had been the narrator, I’d be okay with it.
My rating is 4 Stars (out of 5) – I enjoyed this look into the history of women pilots in World War II. I’m pretty much a sucker for anything to do with WWII, so this was right up my alley. It’s a picture book, but it’s definitely meant for older kids (as there’s a lot of text).
I’m on a bit of a non-fiction kick at present. Below are three non-fiction books (for adults) that I finished recently.
My Thoughts: This is a book full of fun-filled facts about all things space. I particularly liked the historic parts that dealt with the Space Race, from the Russian cosmonauts to the Mercury and Apollo astronauts. But the modern stuff is also good. Like the origami-folding tests given to Japanese astronaut hopefuls! Origami? Really?! (How interesting!) Roach also asks questions that most people would be too afraid to ask (like detailing the challenges of using the bathroom in space). I particularly like the story she tells of her own experience to try to “pass the test” to become an astronaut. She’s told she’s going to get a phone call from Europe. The call comes in at something like 3:00 in the morning and she’s quite grumpy at being woken up from a sound sleep. But it’s only later that she realizes that that was part of the test. Oops. Obviously she’s not cut out to be an astronaut! | 2019-04-23T10:38:46Z | https://ofmariaantonia.wordpress.com/tag/history/ | Porn | Kids | 0.353281 |
wordpress | How many times have you heard your flute students play sharp when the dynamic is forte and flat when the dynamic is piano? I’m pretty sure it is one of those examples where you would say, “If I had a nickel for every time I heard……., I’d be rich”. So how can you help your students learn to play in tune regardless of the dynamic marking? The answer lies in helping them understand how to change the direction of the air at the different dynamic levels, rather than rolling in and out, as is commonly taught in school music programs.
The first aspect you need to address with the students is developing a consistently fast air stream regardless of the quantity of air one is blowing. I explain it by saying that when we first start playing, air speed and quantity are like a married couple going hand in hand. Air speed and air quantity need to get a divorce, go their separate ways. The air speed (and the size of the aperture) is pretty consistent regardless of dynamic or register. What changes with different dynamics is the quantity of air and the direction of the air stream. How can you teach this kind of steadiness of the speed of the air stream? I like slow melodies (like the chorales so many bands use to warm up), Remington intervals and slow scale exercises. Pay particular attention to not just blowing on the notes but blowing between the notes.
Here’s an example of a simple scale exercise you can use with all your winds. You can adapt it for keys your students know and/or use it for teaching unfamiliar keys (for flutes in band, that would be sharp keys). I believe the only way you can really learn to blow with steady air is to play slowly. Finger technique is a distraction to learning to blow steadily, so remove it and encourage your students to pay attention to how the air moves through the line and between the notes.
Secondly, the guidelines for staying in tune through all dynamics are for loud dynamics, blow down more by reaching forward with the top lip, and for soft dynamics raise the air stream by pushing the bottom lip out more. Remember Independence for Lips? Getting good control of the direction of the air takes attentiveness and practice. Here is an exercise I recommend doing with a tuner. First, have the student establish a good baseline pitch for the given note at mezzo forte. Then have them start the same note as softly as possible, with a light and fast air stream, gradually get louder and then diminuendo again while maintaining the pitch center. Do this exercise first with a tuner, but with more experience, try it by ear to further train your ear. Finally, have the student try diminuendos of different lengths, first longer duration and then gradually shorter note values.
Helping your students learn to play in tune at any dynamic level is about making sure they understand the necessary physical skills and helping them developing their ears.
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What you have outlined ties in well with the Moyse tone exercises and the sets that Trevor Wye has for working on tone. Even beginners can get the idea of getting a really good sound from a long tone on “B” and then keeping that good sound on other pitches around there. Lots of times you see the lightbulb go on when they hear themselves make that really good sound. Like on any instrument, the good sound is what hooked the student into that instrument to begin with, so if they can make “that sound”, even on one pitch, they will keep practicing to hear it more.
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The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. (Senate Document No. 103?6). (Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello, Eds.). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Dean, John (2002年). “The Telling Tale of the Twenty Seventh Amendment”. Findlaw's Writ. Eagan, Minnesota: Findlaw. 2005年8月27日閲覧。 Includes an interview with Gregory Watson.
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wikipedia | "Racecourse" redirects here. For other uses, see Racecourse (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Race track (disambiguation).
A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Racetracks are also used in the study of animal locomotion. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.
A racetrack is a permanent facility or building. Racecourse is an alternate term for a horse racing track, found in countries such as the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. Race tracks built for bicycles are known as velodromes. Circuit is a common alternate term for racetrack, given the circuit configuration of most race tracks, allowing races to occur over several laps.
A race course, as opposed to a racecourse, is a non-permanent track for sports, particularly road running, water sports, road racing, or rallying. Many sports usually held on racetracks also can occur on temporary tracks, such as the Monaco Grand Prix in Formula One.
There is some evidence of racetracks being developed in several ancient civilizations. The most developed ancient racetracks were the hippodromes of the Ancient Greeks and the circuses of the Roman Empire. Both of these structures were designed for horse and chariot racing. The stadium of the Circus Maximus in Ancient Rome could hold 200,000 spectators.
Racing facilities existed during the Middle Ages, and there are records of a public racecourse being opened at Newmarket in London in 1174. In 1780 the Earl of Derby created a horse-racing course on his estate at Epsom; the English Derby continues to be held there today. Racecourses in the British Isles are based on grass, known as turf tracks. In the United States, the race tracks are dirt.
With the advent of the automobile in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, racetracks were designed to suit the nature of powered machines. The earliest tracks were modified horse racing courses. Racing automobiles in such facilities began in September 1896, at Narragansett Park in Cranston, Rhode Island. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was opened in August 1909.
Beginning in the early 1900s, motorcycle races were run on high, banked, wooden race tracks called board tracks. During the 1920s, many of the races on the AAA Championship circuit were run on such board tracks. Modern racetracks are designed with spectator safety being paramount, following incidents of spectator and track marshals fatalities. These often involve run off areas, barriers, and high fencing.
Some racetracks offer little in the way of permanent infrastructure other than the track; others incorporate spectator facilities such as grandstands, hospitality or facilities for competitors, such as pit lanes and garages, paddocks and stables. Several racetracks are incorporated into larger venues or complexes, incorporating golf courses, museums, hotels, and conference centres. Some racetracks are small enough to be contained indoors, for sports such as motocross, cycling, and athletics.
Many racetracks are multi-use, allowing different types of sport on the same track, or incorporating many tracks in one venue. Commonly running tracks are incorporated within general use or soccer stadiums, either permanently visible or covered by stands or pitches.
Many horse and motorsport tracks are configurable, allowing different routes or sections. Some venues contain smaller tracks inside larger ones, with access tunnels and bridges for spectators. Some racetracks incorporate a short course and a longer course which uses part of the shorter one, usually the main straight, such as Brands Hatch. The Le Mans road race venue is centred on a smaller permanent circuit within its complex.
Race tracks are primarily designed for road racing competition through speed, featuring defined start-finish lines or posts, and sometimes even a series of defined timing points that divide the track into time sectors. Some sports merely measure endurance, or how long a competitor can race. Race tracks can host individual or team sports. Racetracks can feature rolling starts, or fixed starts, with associated equipment (starting blocks, cages, wheel traps etc.) They invariably feature a pit lane, and usually timing equipment.
Some race tracks are of an oval shape, often banked, which allows almost universal spectator views or high speed racing (cycling, stock cars), but are often criticised for lack of excitement; these predominate in North America. A famous one is Nardò where high-speed manufacturer testing often takes place, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Some oval tracks are variations on an oval shape, for practical reasons or to introduce varying difficulties such as Talladega (a tri-oval). Most race tracks have meandering circuits with many curves, chicanes and changes in height, to allow for a challenge in skill to the competitors, notably motocross and touring car racing - these tend to predominate throughout most of the world, but especially in Europe.
Photograph from space of Nardò Ring in Italy, it is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) long and is perfectly round – the image was taken at an angle making it appear elliptical.
Flatter meandering motorsport courses are sometimes called 'road circuits', originating in the fact that the earliest road racing circuits were simply closed-off public roads. True road circuits are still in use, e.g. the Australian GP has been run in Adelaide and continues to be in Melbourne on regular city streets. The most famous of these are the Monaco GP, and the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Some racetracks are specifically configured in a long straight, namely drag racing. Some races will be held only over the straight portion of a track (some horse racing and sprint athletics).
The boom in motorsport flared after WW2, when many airfields particularly in Great Britain were left without further use. The most famous British track - Silverstone - is one after being a WW2 Class A Airfield, as are Castle Combe and Goodwood Circuit's. The long runways were perfect for drag strips such as at Santa Pod Raceway, and circuit layout usually creatively combined parts of the runways and the surrounding perimeter taxiway. This type of track also appears on the popular motoring show Top Gear, which is filmed at Dunsfold Aerodrome, in Surrey, England.
In 2015, Maurice Hamilton published "Grand Prix Circuits: Maps and statistics from every Formula One track", which covered over 70 Grand Prix racing circuits. It provided maps, pictures and a brief history of each track. Each course map is accompanied statistics including circuit lengths, lap records and even the names of corners and straights.
^ "2015 IFMAR Yatabe Worlds: Astrogate". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
^ Maurice,, Hamilton,. Grand prix circuits : history and course map for every formula one circuit. London. ISBN 9780008136604. OCLC 951146691.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Racing venues.
AudioTrackGuides.co.uk Audio walkthroughs of motor racing circuits, for use with games.
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salon | Amazon may be hosting the biggest — and most economically important — reality show ever as city mayors compete to snag the retailer’s second headquarters. And just like TV, it has a diversity problem.
More than 230 cities made the initial bid, and just recently Amazon whittled that list down to 20 that will go on to the next stage of the competition. Contestants have gone to great lengths to woo the tech giant. Newark, New Jersey, for example, promised over US$7 billion in tax breaks over the next decade.
The winning community, to be announced later this year, will see billions of dollars in new investment and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs as an award. Such a long-term investment naturally would be welcome news for any city, particularly those like Philadelphia and Indianapolis that have seen decades of economic divestment.
However, there will almost certainly be drawbacks as well.
As scholars of gender studies and geography, we believe it’s worth taking a closer look in particular at who would fill the jobs Amazon’s new headquarters would create and how it would affect local quality of life.
In its search for “HQ2,” Amazon set out a few simple criteria for its city selection: a metropolitan area with more than 1 million people, a stable and business-friendly environment and the ability to attract and retain strong technical talent.
A mayor of a city like Atlanta or Chicago, hoping Amazon fills many of those jobs with a diverse selection of its skilled denizens, might be disappointed. That’s because Amazon — and tech companies more broadly — have long had a diversity problem.
The company’s latest diversity data show that 66 percent of its managerial and professional employees are white. While that may seem normal in overwhelmingly white Seattle, almost four-fifths of its employees are based elsewhere.
While Amazon has sought to highlight its diversity, for instance, by noting that 21 percent of its total workforce is African-American, most of them are concentrated in nonprofessional “administrative, labor or helper” roles. In fact, African-Americans held only 3.7 percent of Amazon’s mid-level managerial, professional or technical jobs in 2016, and zero executive or senior management roles.
Given these hiring trends, it is not clear that Amazon will do much for high-skilled minority workers in heavily African-American candidate cities — let alone help their most economically disenfranchised populations.
Even though it’s within Amazon’s best interest to invest in hiring more women, the gender and pay equity numbers are bleak.
Sixty-one percent of Amazon’s global workforce are men, as are 75 percent of its managers. Though Amazon touts its gender pay equity (noting that women make 99.7 cents to every dollar that men make for similar positions), female employees are concentrated in lower-tier jobs.
This gender gap is reproduced across the technology industry. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the share of women in information technology occupations has not only decreased since 1990 by nearly 5 percent, but women continue to cluster in less prestigious “front-end” jobs and not in the highest paying occupations like network architects or software development. A 2017 study by the tech-heavy job board site Hired shows that even when men and women were offered the same position in the same company, women were offered lower salaries 63 percent of the time.
Tech hiring trends are even less favorable for women of color. For example, while Asian women are considered well-represented in the tech workforce overall, a revelatory 2017 report from the nonprofit Ascend Leadership revealed that they were the least likely to become managers and executives. Equally as troubling, the numbers of black women in tech actually declined by 13 percent from 2007 to 2015.
Beyond the jobs, however, cities are also hoping for investment and an economic boost. But there are downsides to letting a giant take over your city. Just ask Seattle.
With the intention of supporting local economies, Amazon has established its growing headquarters in downtown Seattle, even encouraging employees to spend money at local shops by limiting on-site dining options.
As a consequence, the city has been swallowed by the company’s offices, which occupy 19 percent of all office space in downtown Seattle, making it not only the city’s largest employer but also its largest user of land, roadways and public space. Traffic and congestion have outstripped the city’s existing infrastructure. Almost 57,000 residents spent at least 90 minutes on their daily commute.
Rents and housing prices have skyrocketed, homelessness is now the third-highest in the country, and the rapid growth of new office buildings and condos is replacing the older, smaller spaces needed for small business and entrepreneurship. Mahmoudi’s research has shown that rapid changes like this can uproot or displace existing residents, reducing both diversity and equity.
To be sure, Seattle has benefited a lot from Amazon’s presence. Our point is that there are lots of costs too.
Cities have long been known for “smokestack chasing,” or offering lucrative tax incentives and other subsidies to lure companies or factories from elsewhere. These policies often don’t work.
Yet all of the presumed economic benefits are problematically predicated on the companies’ continued growth, which is never a sure thing. The negative impacts, however, are much more certain. | 2019-04-24T08:37:34Z | https://www.salon.com/2018/02/14/white-men-may-be-biggest-winners-when-a-city-snags-amazons-hq2_partner/ | Porn | Business | 0.782245 |
livejournal | Max at 7 weeks. I have been told that all babies look like Winston Churchill.
I went vege shopping (yes I got broccoli) with Charlotte and Max, and then had lunch with the two of them and Glyn. Lunch was mini quiche followed by custard squares, which were advertised as being the best* custard squares in Wellington. This lead to musings as to where the custard square originated.
A custard square is baked custard between two layers of pastry with coconut icing on the top. The idea of custard in pastry seems pretty common in French cooking, but the actual product - a wobbly yellow square lump on a plate - seems somehow (apologies to UK foodies, I'm sure it's not all like this) more quinessentially British. The possibility does exist that this is actually a purely New Zealand phenomenon, but I wouldn't put it past the Aussies to have nicked it and claimed it as their own at some stage.
So, here I am calling for Custard Square Sightings. Are they to be found, dear reader, in your neck of the woods?
*Our verdict was probably not. The custard itself was excellent, heavy and creamy, but the pastry resembled weetbix in texture, the icing was not coconut and there was an inexplicable fake cherry on the top. Actually, come to think of it, the cherry may be partially explained by it being a German bakery.
I hate custard squares. They look disgusting and taste even worse!
The Aussies have custard squares too, but call them "vanilla slice".
Which sounds distressingly like a washed-up rap artist.
Not content with the outcome of the entire debate about who originated Pav, the Aussies simply provided another name for a different dessert, which probably originated in another part of the world entirely.
Who knew- it's an NZ twist on a French dessert.
Lovely pics of our wee Winston btw.
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wordpress | This is for sure going to be a super quick post because I’m nearly on my way to Fantasy Filmfest Nights. Its about Sparkle, the second nail varnish from Diorsnow 2019. Again we have the frost finish but this time with a peach – and slightly pink – base.
It’s ok on my nails but not my kind of shade. Shown below is two coats.
Close-up; the shimmer is indeed pretty!
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wordpress | The real problem and only one if we’re being particular, with the Garmin 610 running watch is the ANT + connection. Fundamentally, it is to great detriment of the good folk at Garmin and a colossal oversight that they did not think to include a hardware connection between the watch and it’s receiving computer. ANT + is a fine gadget when it works, but this is choice and seemingly more temperamental than a girl with her arms crossed on date night who is very definitely “fine”. I cannot tell you how many countless occasions I have sat by my watch coaxing it into cahoots with my macbook, only to languish after the most recent episode of pavement pounding I have undertaken. Today the problem was defined by its absence – i.e. not ANT + stick altogether which meant no workout to upload and hence share with you. It is beguiling that there is no other means to access that workout but that’s the way the world works. There are greater injustices in the world but right now I can’t think of them.
The following chart is taken from walkjogrun, a fine application that is well worth looking into for route planning. My older brother and I rose with the dark dawn skies for our long run.The plan was to cover a looping 19km from Ealing, through Brentford (where these industrial monochromes are taken) via Kew back to Ealing. I strapped my GoPro head mount on using a time lapse which didn’t bear much fruit but I’ll have to look into that to see if there was anything worth salvaging. Halfway through it turned itself off and I reverted to film which itself turned out to be a staccato and irritating affair.
The final route didn’t quite resemble this but it did serve a fantastically sad meander through industrial London as it previously stood. I will touch on this again in the future but we shared some interesting conversations as we coursed quietly through this decaying Kingdom. A total of 15km were realised together and I completed the final 4km on my own. At points he wanted to walk and I would be lying if I said that my legs didn’t feel thankful for the respite. This only really occurred at the 10-11th split. The pace was very gentle and overall settled at 6:05min/km, incorporating the shameful walking. A total running time of 1hr 56min was observed.
I returned home weary and fatigued. The run had been enjoyable but was the signature on a seemingly heavy week on the legs, a total of 77.6km banked in earnest. In conversation the other day I mentioned that I felt exhausted and I was met with the appropriate reminder that exhaustion is not tantamount to improvement and indeed does not corroborate a healthy running lifestyle. I thought about this and realised that I both understood this completely and not at all. While I assured myself that exhaustion would be in keeping with near collapse – I was by no means close to this point, but that said, I had no idea how I should feel if I were.
In the same manner in which someone might point at a sky and comment on how blue it is, I often wonder if our blues are of the same spectrum. When I say I am tired, I don’t really know if I’m as tired as I should be, or even as tired as you. I don’t know if I’m tired enough. These circular arguments often repeat within me and are as confusing to me as they are comforting. When the lights go out and I let myself slumber I wonder, does anyone feel as tired as me and realise that there are people who don’t and somewhere in this peculiar world of ours, some of those will be running.
My mother was upset so whilst I was gardening (guerilla) I collected some little white flowers with thorns in their stems, chopped them up and put them in a vase for her. Not because I’m nice, but it is apparently a nice thing to do. I think she liked them but I can’t be sure because I had my earphones in.
They smell pretty darn good too people. If you have a friend, or significant other, or a mother, perhaps you could do the same. Also, if anyone knows what flowers these are – please tell me. | 2019-04-21T00:46:00Z | https://dustyfeetphilosophy.wordpress.com/tag/16-by-9/ | Porn | Sports | 0.532072 |
wordpress | Before I mention St. John’s gospel, here are a few things one should know about the other three gospels. For some of you, this is a review, of course. I don’t know about you, but I always find that a review reminds me of things I thought I’d remembered!
St. Matthew’s gospel, being written primarily for the Jews, begins with many well-known (to them!) prophetic scriptures over the centuries, shown to be perfectly fulfilled in the life of Jesus the Messiah, Son of Man and Son of David. This gospel will contain many teachings of Jesus in story form, parables which often frustrated and humbled Jewish religious leaders who were less than hospitable to this popular rabbi, even from the very beginning of His ministry among them.
St. Mark, on the other hand, is a book filled with action giving the impression of being an overview of what perhaps Peter remembered most vividly when relating the story of what it was like to be a disciple of Jesus the Christ. In Mark’s narrative eighteen miracles are highlighted but only four parables. Scholars believe he wrote primarily for the Romans while he was in that city, people for whom vividness of description as well as action would grab and hold the attention.
St. Luke’s gospel (continued in the Acts of the Apostles) is a carefully detailed exposition of Jesus’ life, which one would expect from a physician. He emphasizes from the beginning that Jesus Christ is the Divine Savior and Redeemer Who has come to save the lost, the poor, the oppressed…..the whole world. It is not surprising then that his narrative includes Mary’s Magnificat and Zechariah’s great Song.
These three gospels are called the Synoptics (“seeing-together”) because there is enough overlap in the narratives to make those who study them conclude that the three writers used some common orally-transmitted remembrances, ordering and highlighting them to inform and appeal to the various groups with whom they were in contact.
And this brings us to St. John’s gospel, recognized as being written some time after the others (AD 69-90). John lived longer than the other Apostles, and was in close touch with Jesus’ mother in Ephesus, tradition tells us, before he was exiled in old age to the island of Patmos and received the Revelation which is the very last book of our New Testament. St. John’s narrative is quite different in style from the synoptic gospels, and relates in detail many events and teachings (primarily in Jerusalem) from the standpoint of an eyewitness, a disciple and very close friend of Jesus. It is obvious that John was intense and passionate (a “son of thunder” is how Jesus described him!) and deeply spiritual. His gospel is often referred to as a book of signs, because he was able, at least in recollection, to penetrate the meanings or significance of the actions, words and miracles of our incarnate God and Lord.
In the First Letter of John, situated in the Bible immediately after St. Peter’s letters, he reminds his readers that “what we have seen with our eyes….and our hands handled….” is still the very Word of Life. It is interesting that John is the one who relates the very physical encounter of the doubter Thomas with Christ about a week after His Resurrection. It makes one speculate that these two disciples with such different temperaments finally came to a heart-and-mind oneness through their Lord’s glorified real presence with them. One also can imagine how the very facial features of Mother Mary became in later years a consoling touchpoint for John of Jesus Himself, while both Mary and he received news of the imprisonments or deaths of Apostles and other Christians. Something to ponder: After reading the accounts of “the cleansing of the temple” in Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17, and Luke 19:45-46, look again at John 2:13-25 and ask yourself how St. John’s description of this incident gives us hints of his own spiritual perceptiveness and his lively interest in the significance, or deeper meaning, of what Jesus did. | 2019-04-18T22:37:42Z | https://stfrancissji.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/a-little-background-to-ponder-for-our-book-study/ | Porn | Reference | 0.110248 |
wordpress | I wonder why is that? Is it only a coincidence, or it’s from some reports to FaceBook to complain about KMP’s page? Or more over, is it from the Philippine government’s report to cancel some functions of KMP’s link, or even to remove it totally?
Is there really a internal analysis mechanism on FaceBook to filter and examine the reports and feedback? How does it work? What is the reason that KMP’s page was partly blocked?
KMP is a strong organization of farmer and farm workers in the Philippines. They organized farmers and workers to fight for their rights and dignity, for the genuine land reform that all farmers and farm workers can have their land. KMP’s demand is legal, reasonable and justifiable, but it contradicts the interests of the landlords and corporations.
KMP’s official websitge has been totally blocked, its facebook page might be the next.
Members of KMP are among the easy targets of the brutal extrajudicial killings. Standing with KMP means standing with the toiling masses in the Philippines; on the contrary, standing with the informants who reported KMP’s page to FaceBook means standing with the landlords and corporations that always exploit everything they can from the farmers and workers, as well as the brutality and extrajudicial killings to the people.
As a popular social media, FaceBook should take its corporate social responsibility. It should promote the democracy, sovereignty, dignity, survival and struggles of the oppressed people and make it as a neutral platform.
I urge FaceBook to explain for the ban on KMP’s page, and remove the ban immediately, and I ask all who read this do the same, too. | 2019-04-24T13:57:28Z | https://ydwong.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/why-i-cant-forward-kmps-facebook-link-on-facebook-is-there-a-ban-on-it/ | Porn | Society | 0.456533 |
vintage-erotica-forum | This is a scan of the original magazine page. The images are very large and sharp. All you Photoshoppers can crop & get a few nice RP & Trio images! Enjoy the great Roberta!
Large scan of a page of Roberta images. Some you don't see so often. A Photoshopper's crop & cut prize! | 2019-04-25T01:47:28Z | http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?s=0f5de021cfec4298a780baa69079b9b7&t=938&page=2 | Porn | Reference | 0.742577 |
wordpress | Christmas with Chris Bosh in Miami 2012. | Full. Body. Transplant.
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homestead | Thank you for your donation and ongoing support of the Beverly Hills Athletic Alumni Association and the student atheletes at BHHS. Your contribution will provide much need supplies and repairs for our sports programs.
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sex-lexis | 1. Big Ugly (Fat) Fucker(s).
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wired | The Department of Justice has given its stamp of approval for five oil companies along with the Universtiy of Texas at Austin to develop nanotechnology that would explore oil and gas reserves.
According to a press release from the DOJ, the subsurface nanosensors would crawl into oil and gas well bores, where they would explore every nook and cranny of the hydrocarbon reservoirs. The goal is more efficient exploration – an expensive endeavor that only big oil companies can now afford.
Services. The university will own all inventions that come out of the project. The companies will get "royalty-free, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide perpetual license to use the invention for noncommercial internal purposes," but they won't license out, produce, market or distribute anything.
engages in research efforts that would not be undertaken by individual firms, the joint venture may have the pro-competitive effect of promoting innovation." | 2019-04-19T02:43:55Z | https://www.wired.com/2007/08/five-oil-compan/ | Porn | Business | 0.94911 |
faqs | RE: The tariff classification of gift-wrap embellishments, of paper and other materials, from China.
In your letter dated January 27, 2004, you requested a tariff classification ruling on behalf of Leisure Arts, Inc. (Little Rock, AR).
The applicable subheading for all of the above printed embellishments will be 4909.00.4040, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for printed cards bearing personal greetings, messages or announcements, whether or not illustrated, with or without envelopes or trimmings: other (than certain enumerated kinds). The rate of duty will be free. | 2019-04-18T20:24:41Z | http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings2004NYK82787.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.609812 |
wordpress | How well do you know your lenses ? If you want to test yourself, Watch this short video and see which lens family you like most.
You can choose between A, B or C, but which is the Panavision Primo, which is the Zeiss CP and which is the SLR Magic APO ?
I’ll reveal below in case you want to try and test your knowledge of lens characteristics.
In this short test I had a subject lit using a 12k Tungsten Maxi Ultrabounce wedge with a light grid. I actually added a daylight S60 syk panel to get the white balance to exactly 3200K.
I shot this using an Ursa Mini 4.6K shooting RAW. You can download the camera original files here. Be warned, they’re very large !
I applied a simple LUT form the show I’m shooting right now. Thanks to my crew who volunteered their time to help me with this and especially to Akeria for modeling for me.
This is my standard way of testing lenses, starting with a lens flare which I then pan across to show it moving through frame to a Kino tube which I find is a good way to test for CA, and for veiling flare. You can see the veiling flare change as the camera pans through it.
I SHOULD have frozen the pan instead of what I did, so it’s hard to gauge in this version how the CA is. I’m an idiot for forgetting this crucial step!
I then land on some skin tone, before racking to minimum focus for each lens and then through to infinity to check for focus breathing.
There’s some xmas lights there for looking at the Bokeh.
All shot at T2 1/2 and you do see some exposure variation between them but I’ve left that as is.
I’ve had the SLR Magic APOs in daily use now for a couple of months and I’ve been finding they match really well alongside the Primos that I’m shooting, much more so than the Zeiss CPs which tend to be very sharp and contrasty. The SLR MAGIC APOS are indeed sharp but they don’t pop as much as the zeiss, they’re more flattering to skin. Breathing is good and sometimes you can get an unusual flare which I wasn’t able to provoke here.
There was also a small bump in the focus on the SLR Magic 25mm as it went towards minimum. I haven’t noticed it in practice on set, but it’s there in this test. They have been remarkably well built though aside from this anomaly, and in daily use on high torque focus motors they’ve stood up perfectly well.
So how did you go ? Where you able to pick which lens family was which ?
Now for which is which ?
Lens family B is the Zeiss CP2 primes, the 28mm, the 50mm and the 85mm.
Here are the DNG frames from each lens. Smaller downloads of single frames.
These are two pieces I shot earlier in the year while working in Dallas shooting a USA series Queen of the South.
I wanted to try out the new Olympus EM1 Mark II video capabilities and by coincidence, I’d also just gotten a full set of the brand new APO primes by SLR Magic.
With the introduction of the Olympus EM 1 Mark II Olympus upped their video game greatly with their new top-of-the-line pro micro four thirds camera body. As well as being a wonderful top flight stills camera Olympus have been working hard to up their video shooting credentials, introducing for the first time, 4K and UHD shooting options, as well higher data rates for their video shooting.
With that in mind and the new APO Primes from SLR Magic, I wanted to shoot something handheld and minimal in order to try out the improved IBIS or In Body Image Stabilizing.
One of the main reasons I like shooting Olympus so much in this platform is that their stabiliser is really world class. And the best thing is that because it’s built into the body itself, any lens you mount on their can be turned into a stabilised lens. Any vintage lens, and cinema lens I happen to adapt. Or the wonderful new APO primes from SLR Magic.
Currently available as a 25mm, 50mm and 85mm T2 prime set, these lenses are easily adapted to MFT by SLR Magic’s own MFT adaptor. They can also be adapted readily to EF or PL. They’re actually really well made, very precise and optically are top notch from what I’ve seen so far.
Shot in a great carpark location in downtown Dallas with Hula expert Roxanna and master parkour fire-breather Jenin Gonzalez. Most of this is shot at ISO 200 for daylight and ISO 800 for dusk and evening using the flat video profile. Many of the wider day scenes are shot with the Olympus 7-14 Pro Zoom, but some selected daylight close ups and dusk and evening shots are mostly SLR Magic APO primes.
Anything realtime is shot 4K, anything slow motion is 1920.
Fire is one of the most difficult things to shoot. The brightness of the flame itself is always an incredibly difficult test of dynamic range for any camera. I think considering the EM1 Mark II is only recording 8 bit video internally, it does a great job in this very brutal dynamic range test.
I tried very hard to split the exposure and tried to protect the highlights when shooting Jenin, hoping I could lift the shadows later. A few times Jenin’s fireballs did catch me by surprise, but I think I found the best exposure compromise I could.
Roxanna’s LED hoop was also a challenge as super saturated LED colour is always problematic for almost any camera.
I do wish that Olympus would make the leap to 10 bit video, it would help a lot with dealing with high contrast and high dynamic range images like this. But considering this is an incredibly difficult subject to shoot, I’m really impressed with the pictures I was able to grade in available light.
I have mastered these as a UHD / 4K files. You can download your own un-graded versions here if you’re up to the 32Gb ProRes files, or you can watch the 4K version on vimeo here or here.
Huge extra special thanks to Jessica Clarke-Nash and Kyle Novak for their help in the shooting and editing of this piece.
*This is a kind of spontaneous look at a camera I tried out a while ago. All these photos are from a 6 hour walk on Venice beach with my first time shooting the X1D.
**Here’s a big 5GB collection of camera originals and processed stills from this article. There are JPEGS, Camera original X1D RAW files and DNG’s with my corrections added.
NOTE !! These are large resolution photos. They don’t reproduce well at this scale so be sure to click the LARGE version.
I didn’t really intend to write this experience up, but I found when doing my research on this very interesting intriguing new camera from Hasselblad, the X1D, there wasn’t a lot of information out there that was relevant to what I was interested in.
I’m not a commercial photographer nor a studio and strobes guy. I’m a cinematographer that takes photos on the side. Mostly it feeds my insta account and I like sending photos out weekly to production as I shoot to remind everyone of what we’re up to on set.
So here’s my walkthrough of the X1D by Hasselblad. I’m going to assume you know the basics of this one of a kind unique camera.
It’s a mirrorless medium format camera. What really got me interested was the small size of the body compared to the humongous sensor it’s packing. It’s remarkable how simply and elegantly Hasselblad have jammed such a large sensor into such a beautifully machined and simple to use body.
So now to me and my needs. I’m glad you asked.
Mostly photography is an aside for me. I do it as a creative part of my process as a cinematographer, as a way of pre visualising lighting as I’m working and to keep me in the zone. But I have to work very fast. I’m often shooting a still as the clapper board is going on, there’s only seconds to get a shot and then I kind of drop the camera and go back to my day job as the cinematographer, often operating a much larger camera instead, sometimes with the smaller stills camera still on my shoulder !
For last few years I’ve been shooting with Leica M rangefinders or Olympus OMD cameras.
What I like about both of these systems is their compact size and discretion. I can steal a lot of photos when working with these cameras because people just don’t notice you using them as much.
And even if they are, they don’t feel as intimidated by the act of being photographed.
An optical rangefinder like a Leica M camera is a kind of anachronism. The act of using a rangefinder to focus your camera manually means it forces you to SLOW DOWN. You have to think about your photography more. Until very recently, even the digital M’s weren’t very capable of motorised shooting either. It’s strictly one photo at a time.
Your whole process and relationship to taking a photo changes with a rangefinder style of shooting. The viewfinder never blacks out when you shoot. On a DSLR you have a mirror that pops up when you take a photo.
If, like me, you’re a right eyed user, the camera doesn’t really cover your whole face like a DSLR does. Your face is more exposed to your subject and you never break eye contact through the optical viewfinder.
With rangefinders and especially with the Leica M series, the whole experience of taking a photo, of how you get to that moment, changed for me. It changed my process of taking a photograph.
I find I get nearly the same experience using an Olympus PEN or even the Olympus EM series bodies. Though they have a digital or electronic viewfinder, they are small and discreet enough that they don’t get in the way like the dinosaurs that are cameras with mirrors.
I mostly shoot the Leica M-E, the little known last CCD sensor camera Leica make / made before they changed to CMOS. I could talk a lot about why I stubbornly refuse to update, but for me the simple version is, I like the colour you get from a CCD sensor, well, from THAT Leica CCD sensor.
I tell you this as a backstory to the type of photography I’m seeking to emulate with a medium format camera instead of the smaller sized sensors I’m currently using.
I want to know… Can I use a medium format camera kind of like an observational street shooter setup in mixed and low light conditions, be fast and discreet with a small footprint ?
In order to try the X1D out I decided to rent it from my friends at Sammy’s camera while I was in Los Angeles. As much as you can play with one in a store, it’s always in shooting that you’ll find the pro’s and cons. I actually initially requested a demo though the Hasselblad website but it just seemed to put me on a mailing list rather than give me a chance to get hands on. So my grateful thanks to Ben Traves at Sammy’s for organising this.
With an X1D in my hand along with two spare batteries and the 45mm F3.5 for wides and the 90mm F3.2 as a kind of portrait lens I headed down to Venice to walk the beach.
Sammy’s kindly supplied me with a Lexar 64GB SD card and I bought a second 128GB card just in case. And a nice surprise to find there’s two card slots in the side of the camera.
I started in the mid afternoon, hoping to shoot into evening. Another thing I wanted to look at with the camera was how useful it would be in low light and in mixed lighting too. Often on set, I am shooting at low light levels and the slower speed of the Hassy primes had me worried. I know that some users have reported ISO1600 being pretty good.
The downside of my Leica M-E is that it’s pretty much topped out at ISO800 for me. With an F2 or maybe F1.4 prime and a bit of luck around the 1/30th of a second mark I can get most of the shots I need at that kind of light level. There’s a beautiful thin envelope of a little underexposure on the M where the noise only seems to add and the colour is beautiful and nuanced.
So here’s a camera with a stop faster sensor (untested yet) but primes that are more than a stop slower means I have a shortfall.
These photos are the sum total of about 6 hours of shooting with me just having picked up the camera in the morning and just playing around. I know it’s not the same as any kind of controlled test but for me, it’s the very best way to find out if it’s going to work.
Since I started shooting Leica a few years ago, I’ve moved towards manual everything. I find it slows me down and makes me think more about what I’m doing, it’s changed my process. So now even on digital cameras, I tend to turn the dial to M and set everything myself and I also almost always manually focus.
My first instinct with the X1D was to do the same thing. I set the dial to M and pretty much left it there. I always used the EVF, I hate live view. I found it remarkably easy and quick to change my settings on the fly.
The EVF is very nice. It’s sharp and clear. I could tell roughly what was over and what was under by eyeballing the image in there. I really do wish you could have blinkies in the EVF BEFORE you take the shot. An easy and much needed firmware feature fix /add.
I do also wish you could have some look around for the overlays. Then you could have the full image up and have the information you need, but not overlayed over the image itself. The only option then is to cycle through the info overlay options. I want to see the shooting information AND what I’m shooting at the same time in the EVF without it potentially covering the image.
In bright sun walking along Venice, I didn’t struggle at all to see the image and make pretty informed exposure choices. I used the meter too of course in CWA to help guide me.
With the lens in manual focus there was a very good peaking system which I found worked well. I also really like the punch in feature activated by pressing the star button while looking through the EVF. I ended up using that a lot for critical focus work.
So while looking through the EVF I could easily change the shutter and aperture, pick focus with focus peaking or by punching in with the star button, and toggle to the ISO / WB button on top easily too.
I can’t emphasize enough how big a deal this is to me. I want to be looking through the EVF full time and not have to leave it to change a setting.
There’s another button on the top near the ISO / WB button that seems to have something to do with focus. It’s the AF / MF button of course, I say this facetiously because as I mentioned I never use AF on motion or stills cameras…until now.
I accidentally found a really really cool feature. There’s a small button on the back marked AF-D. This button meant I could leave the camera in manual focus mode, but I could also hold the button in and AF on the box. Genius. So simple. This became something I did often, especially on the wider lens, because it’s often harder I find to pick critical focus on those wider lenses when shooting at shallow-er stops.
By having it decoupled from the shutter itself it meant I could more easily select when I wanted to AF or or not, instead of it happening every time I woke the camera up to work.
The AF won’t set the world on fire for sure. But after being so used to always going manual focus it was a little reassuring to have the backup or confidence check of AF if I needed but it didn’t change my manual focus process.
For most of these shots I worked in MF, occasionally checking with the AF-D button or using a combination of peaking and magnification using the star button, all while still looking through the EVF. Big tick.
Skaters are especially hard to shoot when manually focusing ! Again I really love the colour here, especially as his yellow shirt heads towards clipping, the colour still looks great and saturated. The sky is just hanging in there as it heads towards clipping where the sun is setting. 1/750th @ F4.8 at ISO 100. Click here for a large JPEG.
This is where I did find the camera was sometimes behind me. First of all the EVF has to be activated by the act of looking through the EVF. Maybe in future, like on the Olympus OMD’s we can have a menu option to have the EVF permanently on by choice. I know it saves battery and all but I’d rather just leave the EVF active so I can quickly pull the camera up and get it working.
I found most of the time I was lifting the camera to my eye and madly pushing the shutter release to half way to get the camera to wake up. Once awake the camera is fast and quick to change settings with a minimum of fuss.
The camera itself is a delightfully easy thing to wield. It’s small and reasonably easy to manipulate. I had little trouble changing lenses one handed with it strapped around my neck though the mount is pretty tight. I had no trouble holding it for hours straight and liked the way it handled very much.
I had two batteries with me. I took over 400 shots and used completely one battery and then about 50% of the second battery. I didn’t ever turn the camera off for the first battery. I slowed down taking photos for the second half of the day once it got dark and I think once I was caught once when the camera auto-powered off.
Start up time for me was about 7 seconds. I can live with that. Especially once they give me the option to leave the EVF powered on at cost to power consumption and EVF burn in.
Let’s talk about the act of taking a photo. Mostly, the camera kept up with me. I’d read about the annoying three click shutter sound. I can live with that too. It wasn’t loud enough to draw attention to me in the ambiently noisy environment I was in. Admitted that it wasn’t exactly a silent place to be, but I was very close to some subjects and the shutter sound never seemed to draw anyone’s attention. I was close enough that peripherally in their vision they were more likely to notice me lifting the camera to shoot than the sound of the shutter itself.
However, the blackout time is borderline unacceptable. Once you take a photo it’s a good second at least, maybe more before you get your live image back in the evf. It’s terrible. I really really struggled with wanting to keep watching what was going on through the EVF. Now this is the true advantage of a rangefinder, where you are always seeing the subject while shooting and you have zero blackout time. So even if the camera isn’t quite ready to fire again, you can at least observe and see what’s going on so as to be ready to anticipate the next time you want to shoot.
I have no idea if this is something that can be addressed in the current build or in firmware. I suspect it might not be that simple. But it was a bit of a show stopper for me. I’d have to shoot with it a bit longer to see how much of an issue it turned into, but it definitely felt like I missed a few moments because the image was blacked out, and reduced my situational awareness.
From what I can see in the images they are very neutral and flat. I understand that the Phocus software has the lens geometry “fixes” dialed in. I certainly saw minimal CA and they had a “modern” look that was clean and crisp without too much contrast. The Bokeh was kind of interesting, I probably need to explore that more as I didn’t specifically look to test it.
I was manually focussing most of the time and I was expecting to be more annoyed by the focus by wire native lenses. I would be really interested to try some of the older H series Hassy lenses available with the adaptor as well.
So returning home I then got to see what I’d caught. I know these aren’t the greatest of candid moments but I was pretty impressed with what I was able to get in the 6 hours of shooting that I had with the camera.
I shot RAW and after offloading, I came across a slight speed bump in my desire to augment or maybe replace my current setup.
Post processing of these Hasselblad files can only be done through Adobe Camera RAW or Hassy’s own freely available software, Phocus.
My problem is that I know and love Capture One. I’ve been using it for several years. And now I’ve just learned what perhaps many of you know. Capture One only process their OWN medium format cameras, the Phase one series and do not speak Hasselblad.
So a major down-tick for Capture one and by collateral extension Hasselblad.
And as an aside, the market can’t be that big. Surely it makes NO SENSE to have these kinds of petty proprietary file and software approaches. Protectionism like this is bad for the customer.
I don’t really like the Adobe debayer of the Hassy RAW files. Every software application has their own algorithm or recipe for creating the image and it’s something that C1 is known for. Phocus also seems to do a great job for what it’s worth.
I did a very quick compare by doing a default JPEG output and the Phocus images had a very lovely Capture One like feel to them. The problem is that Phocus lacks some of the sophistication of Capture One’s local adjustments.
For example, the local adjustments you can do in Phocus are limited, where as C1 pretty much let’s you do almost any of the full suite of it’s controls within a local adjustment, and has some very good colour hue isolations tools for when you want to just grab a particular colour and swing it somewhere else but use the local adjustment to isolate where it’s applied.
Still, I got the idea and managed to start to get things where I wanted within Phocus. And I must say, it was often hard to argue with where Phocus wanted to start with the image.
How do the pictures look ?
That’s what matters right ? Right out of the gate the images are rich and thick. The colour for me is very bold, especially the red / yellows and blues. And yet the skin tones still look quite natural and warm. It’s not a neutral camera by any stretch, but that’s a good thing for me. I love contrast and saturation. And this thing does it in spades.
Some camera files you turn up the saturation and the color starts looking lurid and unrealistic. Not so the X1D. It’s strong bold color look never looked over the top. In most of these files I only added a minimal amount of saturation, usually around +10 in Phocus and no vibrancy.
Again the blues are so strong. 180th @ F5.6 ISO 100 Click here for a larger JPEG.
Perhaps it’s the 16 bit files, but they’re damn hard to break. I didn’t really run into any banding on those skies. In some of the later dusk shots there LOOKS like there is some banding in the sky, but it’s really just the cloud pattern.
At ISO 100 the dynamic range is a huge improvement over the CCD I’m used to. And the noise is very low too, I found I could deep dig into the shadows.
I went to ISO 1600 and then finally to ISO 3200 as the sun dropped. The noise wasn’t terrible. And in full daylight at 100 I could pull those shadows up a lot. A whole lot ! I feel like I seemed to get better results from a ETTL or an underexposed image rather than my usual ETTR exposed right up to clipping style approach. It’s hard to tell exactly when shooting though cause there’s no way to see clipping till after you’ve taken the shot !
The dynamic range is a big improvement over the CCD of the M-E that I’m used to. And the noise is pretty low too. In many ways it reminded me of the stills from my amazing Olympus EM1 mark 2. Rumor is Olympus use a Sony made sensor in there, and it turns out so the same rumor exists for the X1D. I have to say it kind felt to me like there were similarities in the way the noise and underexposure pulled up. Maybe there’s truth to those rumours.
I have included a copy of both the original files, DNG’s of my corrections in Phocus, and then JPEG files HERE and in the link below. You may be able to get better results than me as I’ve only had an afternoon getting to know Phocus.
Is the X1D a viable alternative to the Leica M rangefinder style of shooting ?
There’s a heck of a lot to like. The images are very robust, come right out of camera looking pretty good and needing minimal post. The body is so small for such a larger sensor. It’s reasonably priced compared to the eye watering Leica S series, and it’s just too large to be considered the same style of shooting.
I have actually shot a bit with the Leica S TYP 006, which is a medium format version of the same CCD sensor I love from the M-E but it never really grabbed me in the same way the M does and the staggering price for a camera that is not a bread winner can’t really be justified. Beautiful images no doubt, but the size and price make it a no.
Now, the big $15 000 question is….will I buy one ? I’m still undecided on that, the major thing for me is the damn amount of blackout time. As it is I probably will crumble, but it’s a heck of a lot of coin to spend on a camera that doesn’t earn me anything back.
To really decide I need to shoot a bit more with it and see if I can’t test it on my next set.
The XD1 is an unmitigated joy of a tiny beautifully designed medium format camera that’s smaller and lighter than a lot of DSLR’s. It easily creates beautiful large resolution images that look great right from camera and are thick enough to take a lot of post work and still look unbroken.
So far the colour is pretty close if not equal to the exquisite colour I’m used to from the Leica CCD sensors that I’ve been shooting the last few years. With a few little tweaks to the firmware the XD1 will mature into a milestone camera.
I wish I could customise it more, for example reverse the dials and reverse the actions, make the aperture the shutter and the shutter the aperture.
I wish phocus would do better local adjustments.
I wish C1 would read RAW Hassy files.
But it’s a pretty small wish list. I think my biggest wish, to vastly reduce the blackout time, will be more difficult to grant.
Perversely, it’s still a lot cheaper than the Leica S (by maybe 50%??), so there’s always the satisfaction you’ve gotten a bargain I guess.
Hats off to Hasselblad for their innovative design and it’s great to feel like this marque brand is back on the right path after some rocky times recently. It sure makes nice pictures and so far the colour gamut the camera captures is pretty close if not equal to the exquisite colour I’m used to from the Leica CCD sensors that I’ve been shooting the last few years.
So here’s a side bar question…Is it medium format ?
The smallest medium format camera is a 6 x 4.5 camera which is close to 56mm x 42mm.
It’s medium format lite really. Even the smallest of the medium format film sizes is a fair bit bigger than the X1D and Leica S sensor size. It’s somewhere in-between 135 and 645.
You may have noticed I’m a DP and cinematographer. I did note that the X1D shoots video. I did shoot a little bit because I can, but the rolling shutter looked pretty bad, and the native lenses have a terrible noise whenever you change iris while rolling that makes them hard to imagine using in a professional environment. Perhaps with an adapted cinema lens with clickless iris we might revisit this.
While in the middle of production on a remake of Beaches for Lifetime with director Allison Anders, we started talking about the use of video split and she reminded me that the DGA have rules about the use of the video split.
In other words, those watching a video split do so at the discretion of the director.
A monitor or video split or video assist on set these days showing the “shot” is so ubiquitous, it’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t have them.
Considering the 100+ year history of cinema, the video split is a relatively new innovation. It used to be that a director would simply stand or sit near the camera and simply watch the performance.
There was this seemingly perverse idea that the operator (often the DP) would be entrusted with the framing altogether.
When I first started out in the early 90’s they still weren’t all that common, the camera rental company where I started out used to rent a video tap for the camera as an additional hire. From memory a super 16 camera was $650 a day and if you wanted a B&W split it was another $450 and if you wanted a colour split it was another $550 on top of the camera body hire.
It wasn’t unusual at all for a shoot to go without a split and the director would just occasionally look in the camera’s viewfinder and generally trust what the DOP / operator was doing.
Walk onto any set today and you’ll see many many images. There are sometimes multiple monitors on the cameras themselves, many focus pullers now have their own monitor for camera, then there’s the video village and the gallery village.
The series I’m in pre production on now has 12 monitors including camera on-board monitors.
The first splits I was working with were simple security cameras that were modified to show a grainy image from inside a film camera that could at best approximate the framing of the shot. You couldn’t really judge lighting and it was even a stretch to really be able to judge performance.
Jerry Lewis operates what appears to be a Mitchell 35mm cameras with an RCA video camera above the viewfinder. Notice he’s not using the split but is still looking through the film camera itself.
According to Wikipedia, Jerry Lewis was the first to really make use of the video split. He has also made claims to being the inventor of the video split.
I find this story pretty interesting because 1960 is VERY early days for the recording of video. Video recording had only been demonstrated as being possible in a laboratory in 1953 and the most plausible video recorder that Jerry Lewis would have access to would have probably been an AMPEX QUAD system, which was only introduced as a prototype at NAB in 1956.
It’s possible the first time quad video recording was used for drama in TV was on a few select episodes of a series called “The Twilight Zone” in 1960. Video cameras were still pretty exclusive and expensive items made primarily for Television broadcasters. Video recording was even more of a unicorn, requiring a lot of infrastructure and equipment just to run.
There’s also this interesting article that would seem to dis-credit the Lewis claim to inventing the video split.
Around the turn of the millennium, that is, the year 2000, things started changing. High Definition cameras started to genuinely compete with film as a medium for narrative drama orgination.
And then something that had never happened before in the history of cinema transpired…Those at the video split had a better picture of the action than those operating the camera.
After nearly 100 years of cinema history where the operator always had the best sense of what was in the frame, we had a reversal.
Now the director would see a high definition and large image while the first electronic EVF’s on those HD cameras were usually crummy black and white images or at best 720p LCD colour images.
And it wasn’t just the director. Around the same time, the invention of the video village crops up. And just as the name implies, the “village” means a lot of people. Script supervisors, make up, wardrobe, standby props, art department.
Even the name “Video Village” implies it’s a village! It invites democratic opinion. And going back to my discussion with my director Allison Anders, filmmaking really isn’t a democratic medium. But when you have a “village” of people back there watching, it seems to give some of those watching permission to make comment or pass judgement.
Which is a long winded way of me getting to the point.
For me the video split is a modern necessity. At the pace we work at today, especially for Television production it’s the only way to stay on top of production. But I have become very particular about the way I like to have video splits arranged on set. I usually try to set this up with my directors and almost all of them seem to like doing it this way.
The first one I’m talking about here is what I call the director’s split.
The most important first point for me to is to have this director’s split in the same room as the actors wherever possible. Or at least be able offer this to the director. There’s nothing worse than an actor and director yelling at each other across the set or between rooms for notes about a scene. Having the director in the same room shortcuts a lot of discussions about minutiae and again, having the whole crew hear about it !
Now, not all directors like to be in the same room as the actors doing the scene and some will prefer the separation, often because they want the thinking “distance” and prefer to chat to the script supervisor or producers / showrunners between takes and form a view about notes before coming into the actors space with those notes rather than workshopping them with the actors within earshot. But mostly I find directors prefer to be as close as possible to the actors and will always almost always take the chance to be in the same room. It’s immediate and fast and inherently more collaborative.
Directors are also more situationally-aware when they’re in the same room. This is something I often see as an operator as the scene evolves, the actors make discoveries about the blovking as they work in the space and through the scene. If the director is there in the room they’re a part of that journey and choose to incorporate or not, those new discoveries.
The beauty of the directors split in-the-same-room model is that at any point or for differing scenes the director can choose to be in the room, or can also retreat to the larger video village split.
2. Set this split up first before anything else.
Cameras and focus pullers aside, this should be set up before the Village get’s built. That way I can be shooting faster and I’m not waiting for a village to be constructed.
3. Still set it up even if the director doesn’t use it.
As I mentioned, some directors won’t want to use it. But it should always be there in case they want to use it and be in the same room. Sometimes they can switch between the split in the room and the village.
4. Keep it small and agile.
One thing I do for this split is try to keep it small and portable. I see all these rigs for directors that are somehow meant to sling and carry the split in their hands.
It never works past the first take because no one wants to carry that thing around!
So I try to find a sturdy stand, something with wheels if possible and then fit the monitors to that stand and create a small directors split that the director can watch. And they watch from a standing position. Again, the key is be mobile and agile.
Film sets aren’t a democracy. They are highly hierarchical and for good reason. Unfortunately, when you stand at a monitor and look over a director’s shoulders, it can sometimes invite a conversation about what’s on the monitor.
Often on long running shows at the big village you find there’s all sorts of conversations about what someone did on the weekend or an upcoming event. Stop! Don’t stand in someone else’s office and yammer away about something that’s not to do with the scene that’s being shot right now.
Smaller monitors, means only a few can watch and it keeps everything more intimate. Larger monitors at “the village” mean more feel like they can voice an opinion and because you’re displaced from the set it means you’re less connected to the tone in the room coming off the actors.
For years now I’ve been using the Convergent Design Odyssey 7Q and 7Q+. I bought two and they have paid for themselves many times over. For a long time time for me they’ve been the benchmark for image quality and they have some very customisable exposure tools and the ability to apply LUTs as well.
Only now years after they were launched are others starting to compete with their feature set and screen quality. One other nifty feature I’ve been relying on is their ability to slave record, that is, to record automatically when the camera connected rolls. This was a feature likely intended to be used for backup recording from a camera, but I’ve been setting it to the lowest quality ProRes Proxy setting to maximize the record time and I can get many many hours of material recorded for later reference.
Director Glendyn Ivin with his customised frontbox style table fitted. Yes, that’s cheese on the table.
So I go for these small Odyssey monitors on a small wheelable stand. The directors often wheel it around themselves. Some even add tables but most all use it standing.
I’ve used almost all the wireless systems out there from BOXX down, and I’ve ended up settling on the Teradek 2000 as the most reliable / best value. (Yes, I’ve tried the 3000).
The BOXX are great but very much larger and very expensive.
Mostly I like the Teradek 2000 because it’s one of the few wireless systems that pass the SDI record flag. That means the trigger record or slave function of the Odyssey works. Many other transmitters DO NOT pass the record flag, including some of the lessor Teradek transmitters. The other big plus is that they work fairly reliably.
Right now the setup I have is 3 x TX units and 10 x RX units. With that much WiFi floating around, a lot of other systems get hung up. The Teradek 2000 seems to be pretty resilient in these situations. By the way, don’t go adding those mushroom polarised antennas to the TX unless you also add them to the receivers.
You’ll notice that I’ve added little noga arms to the RX units. Teradek themselves say you should always have about a meter or 3 feet of separation between the RX units. The noga arms help separate them and also to orient them broadside to the TX source, which dramatically improves reception.
So there it is, a long winded piece about the politics of the video split, complete with the way I like to have it run.
I have no commercial relationship with any of the vendors mentioned in this post. It’s just the gear I use and the way I like to use it.
I thought it might be interesting to share these tests with you.
I was invited to join the second season of Queen of the South, a successful FOX21/ USA network series which had already had a great first season. It’s based on a very successful Mexican / Spanish language novel called La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
It had already been done as a Spanish language telenovela and this would be the second season of the US version of this epic narco cartel story.
I’d worked with showrunner Natalie Chaidez before on her show for SyFy, Hunters. David Friendly was the other EP who’d been with the show since the beginning.
Natalie originally described this story to me as a kind of cartel version of the classic All About Eve. In the first season Alice Braga plays Teresa Mendoza who just barely manages to survive a trial by fire as she’s forced to flee from her comfortable and insulated life after her cartel pilot boyfriend Guerro is assassinated by cartel boss Epifanio Vargas (Joaquim de Almeida). Forced to flee for her life she crosses the border illegally into the US from mexico and comes to the attention of Epifanio’s estranged wife Camilla Vargas (Veronica Falcón) who’s established her own Dallas based cartel stateside.
Learning the ropes and starting off as a drug mule, Teresa starts her journey to one day becoming a drug queenpin in her own right.
In the first season Teresa was really only barely surviving episode to episode and this season would see a gear change and really begin to explore her rise. By season end she will start to challenge Camilla herself and we wanted to find ways to offer more of what Natalie describes as the aspirational drug cartel boss lifestyle !
Our plan and remit was to bring more bling to the second season and to show the trappings of what success in a drug distribution world look like. Aspirational locations and lifestyle, richer surroundings and more obvious wealth. We would still have the gritty counterpoint and action that marked the first season as well, hopefully just adding on a layer of wealth and glamour to mask the ugly down and dirty side to her world.
This test was among the first I shot for Queen of the South, using Alice Braga’s stand-in Jamie Buckley.
Along with producing director David Boyd ACS, we tested a few ideas. One was to shoot the more punk locations and scenes using a Super 16 sized cutout on the Alexa or maybe a RED. We’d also use super 16 lenses for this to make sure it was a bit rougher and uglier looking, making it a bit more raw and unpolished. Then we’d use the full sensor width / Super 35 for the richer and more lush locations and we wanted to see how that looked when shot. You’ll also see a few different ideas for lenses as well.
The first season was shot using Panavision pVintage / Ultraspeeds and I was leaning towards keeping that choice, as I’m already a fan of those lenses.
We also looked at anamorphic lenses with the idea maybe of doing a 1.78 cut out but with the signature anamorphic look and flares on the glitzier locations.
We also came up with a simple idea that we used to do back on the old days on film where you simply stretch the frame by 5%. This is a simple way to create anamorphic like bokeh.
If you listen to the sound on this, you’ll hear my candid views and discussion as I narrate this test to the show runner Natalie. Normally we’d watch this together in a grading suite, but she was in LA at the time and David and I were in Dallas.
In the second longer clip here you’ll see me auditioning a few different looks for the show. One would be the basic dallies look which I’d strike a LUT from for Dallas. Then we tried a few different looks for whenever the show moves to Mexico.
Season 1 had already established a very heavy tint for scenes in Mexico, the typical yellow brown wash that is almost a cliche these days and I wanted to try and do something a little more sophisticated and subtle. So you’ll see me auditioning those looks as well.
The second clip also has some practical tests of a few ideas from the first tests. There’s a couple of “16mm” shots that re executed using a BM micro. There’s also some auditioning of some techniques for shooting in a car. I had my patient key grip Kerry Rike go for a drive with me as I tried a few ways of shooting him in motion.
There are some cool tests for an obscure device called an Arri Varicon and a newer version of the same thing made by Panavision, the Panaflasher. The idea here is that you use a kind of veiling flare on the lens to alter the contrast in the image, or essentially, flare the blacks a little, sometimes with white light, and sometimes using coloured light. If you watch you can see me adjusting it to eye as we’re shooting. Let me know what you make of that !
The second season of Queen Of The South is currently airing on USA.
You can also watch the first season on Netflix.
I recently shot a movie of the week in Vancouver and was lucky enough to get some early samples of the new Panavision IR ND filters. I tested them here on both the Alexa and the Ursa Mini 4.6K.
You can see the Ursa Mini 4.6K is much more susceptible to IR pollution in this torture test under tungsten lighting.
I also compared the Schneider IR filters and you can see in the above link they really don’t measure up, whereas the Panavision IR’s look really great and were very consistent across their range. I went onto use the Panavision IR ND filters for the movie and I thought they were great and really consistent.
Up until using them on this film, I’ve pretty much only used the wonderful Mitomo TRUE ND’s, but as some will know these are obscenely expensive and hard to come by.
Well, I recently discovered, much to my pleasant surprise, that you can now BUY the Panavision IRND filters, because they’re made by Lee, and Panavision own Lee. And they’ve just started to sell them to us the general public !
Lee call these “ProGlass Cine IRND filters”.
Here’s the official page from LEE.
And here’s the official Panavision page.
And just to make sure they’re the same filters I checked by camera testing them!
So here’s a quick exterior IR filter test. I shot using the Alexa Mini, shooting ProRes 4444 Log C 1920.
I shot the Panavision IR filters, my new LEE IR filters (which should be the same) and some Tiffen IRND’s as a comparison, along with the Alexa Mini’s own internal ND.
Below is a little edit of the 2.1 ND in all situations, so you can compare. I was surprised how well the Tiffen did actually, as I’ve seen them be a lot worse. The 2.1 ND is a real test because at that density you generally see lot’s of variation in colour and consistency. As an extra check I’ve also shot using no filters at all.
Or watch here on Vimeo.
All I’ve done here is apply the Resolve / Arri default REC 709 LUT and I just used a curve to open the blacks up a little bit more. I then applied this grade to all the clips.
I used shutter angle / shutter speed to regulate light levels and used false colour on the grey chip to maintain exposure. It was all shot over about a 40 min period with very little cloud, so it should be consistent. All the exposures are noted on the slate.
As expected, there are little variations in exposure and most surprising to me was that I found the Arri Alexa Mini internal ND’s to be a little green and differing in density on this default grade.
But if you want to check for yourself, go ahead and download the original camera files here courtesy of my friends at Digital Pigeon.
I’d be really interested to hear if anyone sees anything different, feel free to leave a comment if you do.
There are some tiny differences in the way the edges are finished on the LEE filters compared to the PV filters but the glass is the same, as are the pouches. I really like the little notches on the PV filters to let you know by touch how many stops they are. I would pay extra to have my filters engraved with my name the way the Panavision ones are, I wonder if that’s hard to do?
Intrigue – How far will you go ?
I’ve been flat out in pre production on a new Telemovie I’m shooting in Vancouver, but I wanted to share this little short film project from earlier in the year.
Following on from the launch video I did for the Olympus EM-5 Mark II, I thought it was time to put some of the newly updated features to the test on an actual short narrative style shoot.
I’ve been doing a lot of testing of the new FLAT video profile for the Olympus E-M5 Mark II and I was really keen to find out how far I could take the image if it was recorded to a more robust codec using an external recorder.
After the initial launch of the E-M5 Mark II Olympus have been taking feedback from video users and have included some of that feedback into firmware updates to further improve the video capabilities. Most significantly they’ve created a FLAT profile for shooting video and the thinking is to try and squeeze a little more DR into the image by starting with a lower contrast and flatter picture profile. This then allows you to put the colour and contrast back in during the final grade.
I wanted to see how the camera and new profile would produce in a very minimal environment. For me, this is when using a mirrorless camera really excells. I can be very discrete and shoot without any requirement for permits. With just two crew and the two actors, I was keen to try the camera in a few scenarios where I knew it might shine.
So I had three days. Luckily I had some friends in LA on a recent trip to California that I was able to rope in for this shoot.
Now who hasn’t thought about driving the open highway in a classic car like a nice ’65 Mustang ?
So I had in mind to shoot some in-car work and also to visit some of the more iconic locations of California.
Starting at a wonderful standing “movie version” of an American gas station, we set the scene between our couple who meet for the first time.
After some initial frisson over the bowsers he leaves before they can talk, but she eventually finds a little surprise he’s left her. A ring !
Later she realises that he’s left her a message inside the ring, it’s an Instagram handle. Looking it up she realises he’s left her a picture clue for where he might be next, so she takes off to track him down. After arriving at the beautiful Joshua Tree, she again finds another ring. Checking in on Instagram, he’s left yet another clue, and she’s off again, this time to the snow capped mountains of inspiration point, about 90 mins outside of LA.
Once in the beautiful mountains she finds a third ring and it points her towards Santa Monica Pier where she finally meets up with the mysterious stranger. They have a dance by the sunset before he finally offers her a final ring.
I had no tripod. This is all shot handheld. No gimbal, no monopod. There are a couple of shots where I had the camera mounted using a suction mount when it was on the car, but that’s IT ! So everything you see here is done using the amazing 5 axis image stabiliser.
With a grand total of four people, three days and 600 miles of driving this is what we got done !
Everything was recorded on an external recorder over HDMI using the “clean feed function” of the camera. I used a 5″ Blackmagic Video Assist recorder to record the HDMI signal to 1920 ProRes HQ on it’s internal SD card.
If you’re interested in what the visual differences are with the flat profile, you can get a sense of where the grade started to where it ended up by looking here. The first image is the final grade and the second is the ungraded shot.
I used a combination of lenses, mostly the outstanding Olympus 12mm F2, and the Olympus 9-18mm F4-5.6. I love these lenses because they are so lightweight ! For ND I used the SLR Magic Vari ND and in addition to these lenses I had some PL mount Zeiss MK 3 Superspeeds from my friends at Blacklist Digital and an MFT–> PL lens adaptor from Hot Rod Camera.
Special thanks to the awesome Jane Harber, Armen Taylor on acting duties and especially to Jessica Clarke-Nash, who helped shoot and cut this for me. My good friend Hook did the grade.
I also really want to thank Kristy Galea and Olympus Imaging Australia for her awesome support and making this shoot possible, and Quett Lai for his masterful technical support.
For direct viewing in vimeo go here.
If you want to download some juicy large ProRes files to try editing and grading your own clips then go here.
Very special thanks to my friends at Digital Pidgeon for making these files available for download, it’s not easy doing such fast hosting of large video files. | 2019-04-24T04:16:19Z | https://johnbrawley.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.486487 |
wordpress | Moving back scares and excites me at the same time. I’m in Spain now but I’m at my summer house not where I’ll end up living and going to school. Surely things are great here but I don’t know how they will be two cities away. I’m going to be visiting the place I’ll call home on Monday. They should show me around the school one day, and well then I have two other days when I will be completely free. What does that mean? I get to see my “friends” from 6th grade or whatever whom I haven’t spoken to in a while.
It’s not like I’m socially awkward or anything but the thought of this scares me. It’s like first impressions all over again. I feel sort of lost, in a way. I don’t know what to expect of people and I don’t know what they expect of me. I don’t really know the place very well or the customs. Yes, I know I’m technically Spanish but I haven’t lived in Spain for a very long time; I haven’t grown up here. I just don’t know things very well. And since I’m Spanish, coming here reminds me that there’s a part of me that I’m missing; my culture. That is how people interact with each other, their habits, their customs, their social behavior, their expectations, etc. It could even be the way they dress! I know that’s ridiculous. But we need to admit that the society we live in today is quite judgmental. That’s it. It’s fear of the unknown. But what is there to fear if I don’t know?
I think that this is just a part of the moving back process I have to deal with, face, adapt to and whatnot. I suppose that going there for a couple of days will make the whole moving back (when that fully happens in September) a little easier. It’s all a process of getting to know my culture and adapting my life to it to make the best of my life there. This is just the beginning. I need to keep the right attitude to get on with life and all the things it’s giving me.
So, after thinking about it, I realized that my summer can’t be filled with worries and fear, but instead, change, flexibility, strength, initiative, love, wisdom, creativity, and FUN. I mean, who doesn’t love a little fun?
I continue enjoying reading your posts. But, overall, I enjoy your positive feelings. Your adaptation will be successful. I´m sure. | 2019-04-21T14:46:25Z | https://thejourneyofmythoughts.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/fear-and-worries-moving-back/ | Porn | Society | 0.574902 |
wordpress | At times the show was visually stunning.
House of Five Leaves was easily my favorite show, not only of the season, but of 2010 so far. The artwork was excellent, if unusual. In fact its unique sense of proportion and color palette gave the show a sense of elegance that the saturated colors and traditional proportions of most recent anime cannot achieve. The music was also interesting, and supported the show well. I really enjoy these shorter series when they feel like they have accomplished something. House of Five Leaves managed to create a rich atmosphere, develop some engaging characters, and tell a satisfying story. It did an excellent job living up to the expectations of the Noitamina block, and I look forward to an announcement about a DVD release from Funimation.
Otake (and cat) in lamplight.
One indicator of the quality of this show is that, instead of reveling in the the euphoric buzz of the conclusion, or feeling a pang of emptiness now that it is over, my thoughts turn to the question of what it was all about. To me, House of Five Leaves felt like it was about something, not just a vehicle for entertainment. I said before that House of Five Leaves is a study in darkness, in fact I wrote about this in the context of episode 3, The darkness operates on three levels: physical, social, and psychological.
Sources of light are very physical and localized.
The physical darkness is the simple absence of light. William Manchester wrote a book about the European pre-Modern period called A World Lit only by Fire; in House of Five Leaves we see what such a world looks like. Night scenes, of course, are pitch black, and lanterns and candles barely have the power to to illuminate the nearest surfaces, but even days are dark inside, where where only indirect light depicts a gloomy scene.
Masa is finding out that it isn't easy to earn a living while holding fast to one's ethical standards.
The social world is just as dark. From home to city street, social relations are undependable. Parents show contempt for the lives of children. Business men rely openly on hired swords; they horde food to drive up prices and steal from their competitor. Honest work is difficult to find. Extortion is common. Simply walking down the street can lead to a fight. Even the social group at the heart of this show is shown as fragile and susceptible to shattering at any time.
In the end it’s the darkness within individuals, especially the darkness we impose on ourselves, that seems to drive this story. Several of the main characters are wracked by guilt. None of the main characters is without problems of some sort. But, however prevalent, this darkness is not an unalterable fact. This darkness is just as subject to banishment as physical darkness is subject to the power of the candle.
I found the potential for change in the characters compelling. Not only do we get a glimpse into the psychological wounds they are nursing, we also see several of them struggling against that inner darkness. Yaichi says at one point that he wants each day to be better than the past; even this optimism quietly acknowledges the darkness that engulfs yesterday. In the end, House of Five Leaves reminds us of the nobility of lighting a single candle and walking bravely forward into the night.
Very nice commentary. You made me wonder wonder if spiritual darkness is also encountered, or perhaps I am reading too much into “Saint” Soji’s title? Mmm. I might have to re-watch the show and get my hands on the manga before I could accept or reject that possibility.
If I could have my way there would be at least a 13th episode, perhaps to flesh out Otake more and/or perhaps to allow Yaichi’s healing to progress a bit more slowly? Still I really enjoyed the quietness of much of the final episode, that heroic excess was avoided (tho’ the temptation to see Masa in action remains).
I don’t think you are reading too much, because I thought about that some myself. Although I think he might be a saint in a Buddhist sense.
They did a great job considering they had to work within 12 episodes, but I agree that more on Otake would be nice. Psgels says there is still half the manga that didn’t get adapted.
Thank you for this very insightful commentary. You have given me a lot to think about and helped to illuminate why I love this anime so much. | 2019-04-26T02:09:23Z | https://abandonedfactory.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/saraiya-goyou-%E2%80%93-house-of-five-leaves-final-thoughts/ | Porn | Society | 0.472738 |
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typepad | I'm calling this dish Thai Scallop Ceviche. The "Thai" descriptor here is for the ceviche, as in Thai-style ceviche. And not for the scallops, as in, these scallops are not from Thailand. They are from the Northeast, actually, Nantucket Bay Scallops, to be precise. Yes, yes, I know full well ceviche is a Peruvian preparation, but we do a very similar thing in Thailand. We call it Yum. Or Yum Talay. And true to the name, it is quite yummy too, and easy besides.
The idea here is the same as the regular ceviche, that is to say the seafood takes a nice, long bath in lemon or lime juice to "cook". Let us not be confused though. There's no cooking happening here. The citric acid in lime or lemon juice just change the texture and look of the seafood so they appear opaque and slightly firm and generally look like they've been "cooked". So I wouldn't suggest this dish if you're afraid of germs or parasites or all that peevish nonsense. I read somewhere that if you're afraid of raw ceviche you could get away with cooking the seafood very breifly in boiling water just to "cook" them slightly before making your ceviche. Frankly I'm more than a bit dubious about this advice. To a germ or parasite, passing just a few seconds through boiling water is like having a day at a Japanese Onsen. I don't know about you, but I don't want to deal with germs that have just had a restorative day at a germ spa.
If you are a true germaphobe, you probably want to stop reading now. Or if you hate fish sauce, you might want to stop here too, because the key difference that makes this dish a Thai ceviche is the use of fish sauce and Thai birdeye chilli. If you're bottle of fish sauce is overwhelmingly strong, you could get away with using just a drop or two, and then adding a bit of salt to balance out the acidity in the dish. I wouldn't skip fish sauce completely though, because the savory umami quality of fish sace gives this dish the boost it needs to lift it from the bland to the extraordinary.
So you start by taking the scallops, oh about 2 cups or so worth, 3-400g or 8oz I'd say. Put them in a small bowl and juice lime or lemon over them until the scallops are submerged in the juice. You'll need about 3 lemons or perhaps 5 limes. Give them a gentle stir once to make sure all the scallops are in direct contact with the lime juice, then cover and let sit for about an hour. While the scallops are marinating, cut up thin slices of cucumber, say about 1/4 cup worth, and one or two shallots, yes, in thin slices too. Take one or two birdeye chillis, or four of five if being macho is that important to you, and cut them each lenthwise and scrape the seeds off. Chop one of them finely, and set the other (or 3-4 other) aside.
When the scallops are almost ready, you can make the dressing. Take about two more limes and juice them into a bowl, you should get about 3-4 tablespoons there. Add a pinch of sugar and stir to mix. Then take your fish sauce and add 1-2 tablespoons, just until you can smell the fish sauce but don't let it get overwhelming. Taste the dressing, if it's still too acidic for you (which is likely), add more fish sauce (if you like the stink) or good sea salt (if you think it's stinky enough) until the dressing is balanced. I can't really tell you how much lime juice or fish sauce to use here, as a balanced dressing for me may be too acidic for you. You just have to trust your own instinct and palate. Once you got the flavor you like, add the chopped chilli, a little bit at a time, until it's spicy enough for you. I like to add the whole chilli here too, as it's really quite pretty in the final dish. The whole chilli will add a bit of heat, but not nearly as much as the chopped ones. So factor that in too. Then add the shallot slices and toss to mix.
After the one hour mark, take the bowl with the marinating scallops and drain the lime juice from it. Add the drained scallops to the dressing, toss well. Add the cucumber slices and toss well too. Taste it, see if you need a bit more fish sauce, or salt, or lime juice. Transfer to a pretty bowl to serve, a handful of cilantro will do very well as garnish, or just skip them if you're one of those who think they taste like soap - yes Wiley, I'm looking at you. | 2019-04-25T18:17:09Z | https://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2009/03/thai-scallop-ceviche-yum-hoy-shell.html?cid=6a00d83451bc0669e20112793f0bc228a4 | Porn | Reference | 0.17603 |
wordpress | The idea for this blog was born in a moment before a funeral liturgy began. Interesting, how from dying there comes life.
So much of what can be labeled “holy things” might elicit a similar reaction. Once we know the back story, the reason why, the veil is lifted from our eyes and we see things differently.
I grew up in a era in which what were considered the “trappings” of a more formal time were being abandoned left and right. To be sure, many had seen and experienced those trappings as a means of oppression, and as such they deserved to be abandoned. But I think we are coming into a time now when we long deeply for meaning in what we do. Drawing one another into the dance that is our life together, telling that back story, has become very important.
Certainly, different circumstances call for different approaches. Worship with Eucharist at camp is going to have a very different feel than a joint Eucharist with the local Episcopal diocese, at which the respective bishops preside and preach. But understanding what “holy things” are and what they mean informs the whole process in a fascinating way.
I mentioned the pall. It’s not just a pretty cover so we don’t have to look at the coffin. No indeed. As a reminder of the baptismal garment, the pall states clearly whose we are. No need to fear. God’s got this. There are lots and lots of other “holy things” – let’s talk about a few of them.
In the “Gather” portion of the liturgy, there might be a procession. Some parishes do this every Sunday; others save it for festival days. The processional cross goes first – Christ goes before us – then the torches/candles – Christ brings the light into the world – then the lectionary or Bible, reflecting John’s gospel “in the beginning was the Word…” and that the Word of God is life – and finally the presider and assisting minister. The presider is ordained – the ordination vows speak of the pastor as a “steward of the mysteries of God” and presiding at Eucharist is the most immediate of those stewardship moments.
In the transition from Word to Meal, the presider may prepare the elements (bread and wine) for communion, and in the process remove the corporal from the bread. Some parishes use a corporal – a square of white cloth – to cover the vessel that contains the bread. The root word for ‘corporal’ is, of course, the same as for ‘body’ – corpus. Using a corporal may hold meaning for some congregations, and may simply be confusing for others – but its symbolism is that of the shroud as well as the baptismal garment, death and life. That juxtaposition of death and life is classically Lutheran; we live in constant tension between opposite ends of a spectrum.
Our baptismal font is another holy thing. It is anchored at the intersection between the sanctuary (seating area) and the chancel (table area) and you always pass by it as you come to communion. That is intentional. We aren’t trying to clutter up the place! Martin Luther offered great advice: “Remember your baptism.” It is said when he was troubled or afraid, he would splash water on himself and proclaim: “But I am baptized!” True that, Martin. To remember our baptism as we receive communion – to dip our fingers in the font, and then make the sign of the cross – says with utter conviction that we are children of God, claimed and gathered, fed and sent.
In his book Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology Gordon Lathrop, professor emeritus of liturgy at the Lutheran School of Theology at Philadelphia, makes a strong case for the liturgy and its attendant theology. But he does not permit the mindset of “we’ve always done it that way” to remotely permeate the discussion. Careful consideration and thought are encouraged. We are reminded of the exhortation from Amos: “…I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.” (5:21b). Going through the motions, doing something because that’s how we’ve always done it, is not life-giving. It’s essential that we be able to answer the question “why?” at every turn.
And if we can, in our answers to those “why” questions, always point to Jesus, it will be a good start. | 2019-04-21T18:43:10Z | https://maryshaima.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/holy-things/ | Porn | Reference | 0.373332 |
wordpress | Alas, I am getting ahead of myself which I often do. In any case an update is long overdue.
We spent the remainder of February at the Elks RV Park just north of town. It has made a great vacation spot for us before and this time it made a great base of operations for house hunting.
We spent the month of March here at Woakink Lake RV which is a very nice park just a few miles south of Florence that backs up to the famous Oregon Dunes Recreation Area. We did a lot of house hunting, took a few very pleasant drives into the valley, and went to a wood-turning symposium (see previous post) . None of the properties jumped up and said “buy me” which was disappointing and then it was time to take a break and honor our commitment to host at Tugman State Park south of Reedsport, OR near Lakeside, OR.
We spent the month of April working at Tugman where we had good time and met a number of great people. We did some house hunting but mostly just worked and relaxed.
Lake Creek Falls, and a return trip to Shore Acres were on our agenda along with a few other side trips. We had pretty much given up on the Florence area and now had to decide what to do. We considered a number of options and finally decided to make a trip up to Port Angeles, WA, an area we had always enjoyed in the past that has a great rural feel, plenty of local shopping, is on the water and is only an hour or so from the big city for those major shopping trips. We liked what we found and one trip became two so at the end of our tenure we traveled to the Sequim / Port Angles area to start looking again.
We broke the 400 mile trip into two days which allowed time to spend a nice afternoon at Champoeg Oregon State Park. The grounds were covered with blooming wild roses and the park store/museum was a delight. Tomorrow we will be at Rainbows End RV and it will be time to get back into searching mode.
It isn’t the destination, it is the trip. | 2019-04-20T08:27:56Z | https://randomrovers.wordpress.com/2015/06/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.950376 |
wordpress | My sister took this little gem over the weekend. She wanted a picture of my brother wearing that shirt….I seized the opportunity.
Photo-bombing lesson: The element of surprise is key.
Any words of wisdom to fellow photo-ruiners?
I know… I have so much to catch up on in the blogging aspect of things. This weekend was Strides for James and it was so much fun! I’ll be doing a post that details a little bit of everything… but I honestly haven’t had a moment to sit and collect my thoughts. So, to keep you until then, it was awesome. Our first year was a success.
So, I’ve been taking a lot of random pictures on my phone lately. Mostly of food and some other things…but mostly food.
So here’s a look at what I’ve been eating and doing lately.
I have a serious weakness for scallops…and margaritas.
Cinco de Mayo Seafood Paella…totally not local, but so good.
Crock-pot Mexican chicken over rice with avocados, sour cream and NY Cheddar.. Yum.
This is what happens when you are planning a fun run and go to the grocery store at 6:00 am…you leave with two cases of free bananas and one discounted case.
Banana Split Ice Cream Cake!
I’m also happy to report, after taking home about a half case of bananas, we are down to seven. Farmer Ben and I are a great team in the kitchen!
A mid-week run past a neighbor’s house… somehow we came home with two dozen eggs!
What?! It’s warm enough to wear shorts?! And we got free eggs?!
And this last piece… just made me chuckle.
So…this is my first post… not that I am nervous or anything, I just haven’t blogged in quite some time…..not since Myspace…and I deleted my Myspace a long time ago.
Picture it. August 20, 2011. A winery. An absolutely gorgeous day, after a summer of flooding, humidity and endless rain. It was sunny, warm and the vineyard was in full bloom. A happy couple exchanging vows and beginning their lives together, posing for the photographer. A relative who drank too much (sorry, Chris). That was my wedding day…but that’s not what this story is about.
Now… fast forward a month or two. Photos of this wonderful day have been posted on facebookdotcom. But the actual photo CD has not yet been received. If you are a bride, you know how frustrating this is. I emailed our awesome photographer (Shout-out to Jona!) and found out that she had mailed the disc weeks before. No big deal, she would resend. I mean, she only lives two hours away, so ideally I’d get the copy in a day or two.
A week later the photos were at the back of my mind, as I was still in recovery mode from a nasty cold and a bit of a rough trip to Philly (you’ll read about that, too). I got home from work-it was a Monday night- and headed to the mail box. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the envelope with Jona’s address on it! YES! The photos were finally here! I hurried inside, dropped everything I was carrying in a heap on my dining room floor and ripped the envelope open. I pulled out a note from Jona and…nothing else.
WHAT?! There was nothing in the envelope?! What sort of cruel joke was this? I looked down and noticed a small tear in the corner of the envelope.
“No…. that doesn’t actually happen,” I thought, but my mind was already racing, jumping to conclusions and envisioning some punk kid with a mohawk tearing into the envelope to get out the thumb drive. What a bum!
I went over to the heap on the floor and proceeded to examine it carefully-just in case I had dropped it in the rush-but there was nothing. I even went back outside and retraced my steps to the mailbox, just to double check. Still nothing.
“Ugh! Why does this stuff always happen to meeeeee?!” I thought, because clearly, nothing worse can happen than having to wait for a thumb drive or a CD. Feeling quite discouraged, I emailed Jona and felt a bit better knowing that she was as shocked and frustrated as I was. We planned to make an exchange that weekend (Ben and I would be in her neck of the woods)…unfortunately, Ben and I had a change of plans so Jona mailed us another copy of the photos, third time is the charm, right? And it would only take a day or two, right? I gave Jona my work address, just to be sure.
That was a week ago. Still no photos. I’ve been checking my mailbox and the work mailbox like a mad woman-hoping against hope that today will be the day!
And for once, it was…but not in the way that I expected.
I was sitting at my desk typing away when my phone went off (apparently “silent” means buzzing loudly and moving around on my desk). I scrambled to hit the ignore button, but not before noticing that Mary, from the Amazing Grace Winery was calling me (She’s the best!).
“That’s weird,” I thought, but I knew she’d leave a message so I waited. I then called myself, itching to find out what was up.
Basically, she had received a small package and a note from the post office. It was a thumb drive. The note said that the contents of the package had been separated from the original envelope and that they had looked at the contents of the thumb drive to try and determine where to send it. Luckily, there were lots of photos of the winery, their logo, and their front lawn sign. Mary remembered me telling her that I was waiting for photos and was rushing home to double check that they were indeed mine.
Yeah, I almost fell out of my chair. All I can say is that God has a great sense of humor. I will be calling Mary immediately (as soon as a I get out of work, shh!) and hopefully going to pick up that thumb drive! Keep your fingers crossed that she wasn’t playing a joke on me!
So, in closing, My name is Noelle, and this is my life. Hopefully, you’ll tag along.
Wanna take a drive with me? | 2019-04-22T12:02:54Z | https://noellesnotebook.wordpress.com/tag/photos/ | Porn | Reference | 0.455551 |
imdb | Mr. Winfield: [to Jim] Hello, what's your name? I guess we're going to be neighbors.
I've seen this Doris Day-Gordon Mc Rae film a number of times. Actually I first saw it as a little boy when it premiered in 1951. I thought it was a fairy tale then and I still do now. But it's a delightful fairy tale and last night I shared it with my twelve and a half year old son.
A combination of "Father Knows Best" and "Dennis the Menace" with music, "On Moonlight Bay" gave American audiences during a Cold War and a hot Korean conflict the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. All the characters are witty and caring and there's mischief without mayhem. The only violence is a snowball fight and the sole injury is a twisted ankle. The sweetness of the courting couple is what we all want for ourselves but rarely if ever experience. With the mad senator from Wisconsin searching for communists everywhere, the script allowed its male lead to express extravagantly immature ruminations about the evils of patriotism before he, of course, awakened to his duty. This film is from Warner Brothers, the same folks who gave us the Department of Defense funded "Red Nightmare" with Jack Webb.
I wasn't surprised that my son liked the movie a lot. Even at his age he needs and appreciates a good escape from a world less gorgeously delightful than the screen version. Doris Day is very good although her real age is hard to disguise as she acts the teenager.
They don't make musicals like this any more. They can't. Our sensibilities and experiences demand the exotica of films like "Moulin Rouge." "On Moonlight Bay" is a great trip back to an increasingly questioning and insecure America that could imagine a past as happy as that portrayed in the film. I'll see it again. And again. | 2019-04-19T16:38:48Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043880/ | Porn | Arts | 0.926996 |
wordpress | LOS ANGELES – Tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders, Korean Americans and Southeast Asians lack health insurance according to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum on April 1.
These ethnic groups “are doing much worse than other subgroups in terms of health insurance and access to health care,” the study said.
Korean Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are less likely to be insured than other Asian American groups such as Japanese or Asian Indians and twice as likely to be uninsured as whites, according to an analysis of national health data from 2004-2006.
Cara James, the foundation’s senior policy analyst for race and ethnicity, stated that the disparity is particularly acute in California, home to a third of the nation’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Nationwide, 24 percent of non-elderly native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders don’t have health insurance, compared with 21 percent of Vietnamese, 14 percent of Filipinos and 12 percent of Japanese and Asian Indians, according to the study.
Korean Americans, as a group, are not perceived as low income, but 31 percent of non-elderly Koreans have no insurance, James said, compared with 12 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 17 percent of all Asian Americans.
Many uninsured Asian Americans are eligible to get care at community clinics or through a California program that funds children and families above the federal poverty rate, Jang said.
“Either they don’t know how to access it or are afraid to access it because of their immigration status,” she added. | 2019-04-26T00:12:27Z | https://asianjournal.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/countless-asian-americans-without-health-insurance/ | Porn | Health | 0.973413 |
wordpress | I am not ready to transfer my domain name until later (after a new website is created).
Do I check transfer domain name now?
You can create a free site. The address you choose won’t be critical if you expect to upgrade to a paid plan and use a custom domain name with the site in due course. | 2019-04-19T21:12:43Z | https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-name-2177/ | Porn | Reference | 0.309506 |
typepad | I am getting a bit of my energy back, so there is no time like the present to give a bit of a crafty update.
My Christmas craft-giving list consisted of four projects, two of which I have photos of, two of which I do not because I forgot to take them before wrapping them up (I'm blaming my pregnancy brain on that!).
Second, a scarf! Well, actually an ascot. I made the Huckleberry Ascot from IK Holiday 2007 (ravelry link) using yarn I picked up at Rhinebeck - Ellen's Half Pint Farm, 50/50 merino and silk, 220 yards. I used one skein, and had just a few yards left over. I did alter the pattern a bit by completing 5 repeats instead of 7. In the end I still ended up with an ascot that was slightly wider and longer than the finished dimensions of the pattern.
Third, another scarf! And one I forgot to take a picture of. It was a stockinette scarf with garter stitch edging made from Artyarns beaded silk. It turned out beautifully and was a great gift for my grandmother that lives in Palm Springs.
And finally, a crocheted cape. More specifically Chanson En Crochet from Wrap Style (ravelry link), which is also available for free from Knitting Daily. I'm pretty disappointed that I neglected to take a picture of it. I crocheted this for my MIL using Lion Brand Wool Ease in Mushroom. It took a little less than two skeins. I picked up a really pretty green button at Joann's as the closure. I made no changes to the pattern, except to change my crochet hook size to accomondate the change in yarn.
Believe it or not, that's it. Not a lot of craftiness over the last few months. I do have a couple of things currently on needles - DH's Tribal Sweater (I'm making my way through the first sleeve), a Lace-Edged Women's Hat (ravelry link) to be used as a chemo cap for my grandmother, and a sock that I've had sitting around for months.
I do have some sewing planned as well - I'm just itching to make these really cute burp cloths. I have the supplies and everything, it just that my sewing room is currently in transition. More on that later.
I was soooo close to being done when I ran out of beads!
I guess there is no guarantee that there will be enough beads in the kit to complete the optional tie finishes. So, I contacted Earthfaire and ordered more beads.
The necklace is pretty heavy, but there are a lot of beads. It turned out beautifully.
Pattern: Double Drop Leaf Necklace, purchased as a kit from Earthfaire.
Yarn: A metallic copper thread that came with the kit. As far as the bead go, I picked the copper leaves and asked Earthfaire to coordinate the rest of the beads.
Needles: Innox US00, Double Pointed.
At this rate, it will be 52" long unblocked. It looks like Cj's grew 15" when she blocked her's, so with any luck mine will be over 65" long when finished - perfect for the recipient!
This is the Double Drop Necklace kit that I purchased from Earth Faire last week. Talk about a speedy knit! Including stringing all 1800+ beads, I have spent about seven hours on this baby, and the knitting is officially done. I'm a little stuck on the casting off / finishing directions, but perhaps I'm just over-thinking it (no, not me!). I could not find any errata or clearer direction, so I might just give it a whirl - and if it is wrong and the whole thing comes apart, that's okay - I only spent seven hours on it, right? | 2019-04-19T02:17:16Z | https://onebyone.typepad.com/one_by_one/beads/ | Porn | Arts | 0.494416 |
wikipedia | Early Bronze Age tae ?
Aššur (Akkadian; Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ 'Āšūr; Auld Persie 𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼 Aθur, Persie: آشور: Āšūr; Ebreu: אַשּׁוּר: Aššûr, Arabic: اشور: Āšūr, Kurdish: Asûr), an aw kent as Ashur an Qal'at Sherqat, wis an Assirian ceety, caipital o the Auld Assirian Empire (2025–1750 BC), o the Middle Assirian Empire (1365–1050 BC), an for a time, o the Neo-Assirian Empire o 911–608 BC.
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indiana | Archives Photograph Collection - "Fencing"
Albrecht Kronenberger is wearing all white in the front row, far left. He was not only the coach but also served IU as it chemistry librarian. E.V. Smith wearing white in front row, far right. | 2019-04-23T11:00:19Z | http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/archivesphotos/results/item.do?itemId=P0023980 | Porn | Sports | 0.982428 |
wordpress | Cold, so very cold. Not the kind of day anyone should venture out without proper preparation. It goes beyond being uncomfortable, it’s not just that you can harm your body, it’s the kind of cold that can kill the unprepared. Take it seriously.
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wordpress | Death with Dignity: The Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Dying and Euthanasia, by Robert Orfali. Mill City Press, 2011. ($14.95, softcover, ISBN 9781936780181, 254 pages).
Death with Dignity: The Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Dying and Euthanasia was written in the aftermath of the death of author Robert Orfali’s beloved wife, Jeri, after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. Jeri was unable to find a legal way to end her life on her own terms–peacefully, painlessly, without undue anxiety and stress, and at a time and place of her choosing. Since witnessing his wife’s death, Orfali has become a fervent advocate of the legalization of physician-assisted dying. He argues that a dying patient should have the right to actively end his or her own life at a time of his or her choosing, not only by the removal of life support systems and the withholding of nutrients, but by the physician-assisted administration of the drug Nembutal, the drug of choice for those wanting a swift and painless death. Orfali’s volume, Death with Dignity, is a non-scholarly treatment of the legal, philosophical, and practical issues surrounding assisted suicide. It is suitable for all libraries, but law school and law firm libraries would certainly want to supplement this book with more heavily researched treatises on the topic of end-of-life treatment.
In Chapter 1, Orfali explains that for most of human history, death usually came fairly swiftly, after a traumatic injury or brief illness. Today advancements in medical technology have made it possible for a human being with many chronic conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and kidney and brain failure, to be kept alive for years but often with an inexorable decrease in quality of life. Chapter 1 also includes anecdotal evidence of the horrible suffering that can accompany a slow, lingering death. The accounts of dying patients begging to be relieved of their suffering are both heartbreaking and frightening, including the one by television commentator Keith Olbermann. Olbermann recounts the truly terrible ordeal of his dying father, in intractable pain, begging Olbermann to smother him with a pillow. Orfali compares this to ancient Greece and Rome, where citizens had the option of an “easy death” (the literal meaning of the word “euthanasia”), either by administering poison to themselves or by requesting the assistance of a physician. His opinion is that in America, dying pets receive more compassionate treatment than dying human beings.
Chapter 2 relays the experience of the author’s wife as she tried to take measures to ensure that she would be in control of the timing and circumstances of her death. However, she had no legal access to Nembutal, and obtaining the drug underground was not a suitable solution for many reasons that Orfali explores. In Chapter 3 Orfali explains the limits of palliative care, hospice, and pain management. Despite his praise for hospice and palliative care, he likens much end-of-life treatment to torture. Chapters 4 and 5 explore the evolution of end-of-life care from a legal standpoint. In detail, Orfali compares legal end-of-life options in Oregon, Washington, and the Netherlands. Orfali embraces the system in Oregon, with its multiple requirements that safeguard the patient’s autonomy, the integrity of the medical profession, and the well-being of the vulnerable. Chapter 6 and 7 discuss the moral, ethical, and philosophical debates surrounding assisted suicide. Anti-euthanasia arguments (the “slippery slope,” health care rationing, possible discrimination against the vulnerable, the sanctity of life) are dissected and refuted to Orfali’s satisfaction. In Chapter 8, Orfali makes an impassioned and emotional plea for the legalization of physician-assisted dying, presenting strenuous arguments in favor of his views.
The book concludes with a bibliography of books, articles, and websites on both sides of the issue. An index would have been helpful as would have more consistent use of footnotes and better documentation of certain sources. Death with Dignity is an emotional and subject book, but this slim volume is nevertheless a good introduction to a complicated and difficult subject.
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wordpress | A while back I prototyped a ublox GPS unit with an Arduino Nano on a breadboard. I wrote up some thoughts here. The ublox GPS unit streams messages on a serial line that contain a variety of time, date, location, altitude and speed fields. So one obvious application is to make these parts into a desk clock. The big advantage of a GPS clock is that it never has to be set. Just power it with 12v and you know the time is correct. Well at least until the next Carrington Event.
Last week I built up the GPS ublox module onto an Arduino Uno in an Altronics K9675 prototyping case. I bought this nice perspex case and matching LCD for my teenage son as a way of demoing Arduino. Once you have an Arduino with an LCD connected, a lot of things become possible.
I made up a Veroboard ‘shield’ to get access to the Uno pins I needed, and soldered on a 7805 regulator for the LCD. I ‘mounted’ the Ublox 6m GPS breakout on four Vero tracks and wired them up to Uno serial tx/rx and power. I connected up the LCD in the usual way. I see from the pictures that the GPS antenna is supposed to sit on the bottom of the GPS PCB, but I put the pins in the other way. Oh well, I’ll just have to work out how to physically support it. That’s about it for melting solder.
Time in UTC is present in every NMEA message header, regardless of whether the unit has a GPS position fix. So I used the header timestamps for my time display. I initially thought to write code to apply the Daylight Savings Time offset. Do the EST/DST transitions happen on the same date every year? Of course not. I left it displaying Eastern Australian Standard Time (EST) for now. A push button could be used to apply the DST offset, with the state stored in EEPROM.
There is code for some other functions in my script as well. Gridsquare is one. Distance to a hard coded lat/long is another. Again, a push button could be used to cycle through various data on the lower row of the LCD. To keep it simple I added code to cycle the data displayed on the lower row, changing every 10 seconds. My unit shows lat/lon; gridsquare, speed and altitude; distance to home, school, Melbourne GPO, Sydney and London.
The rough wiring diagram below illustrates how it is wired. The row of numbers across the top are the LCD pins. The parallel vertical rows of small squares and labels are a subset of the Uno connections available on the 0.1″ headers running down either side of the Uno. A 7812 regulates 12VDC to 5V for the Uno and LCD including the backlight. The 470 ohm series backlight resistor was reduced to 33 ohms on experimentation. The script will be available on github.
I’m interested in this project. Could you measure the power drain? Wondering how long it will run if powered from one of those single 18650 cell phone boosters.
You can make the assembly much smaller by using one of the Arduino clones that have enough I/O pins to solder the processor directly on to the back of the LCD. I have used a Teensy, but I think the Adafruit feather would work also.
Hi again, sorry for the delay, just saw your comment. It draws over 100mA but most of that is the LCD backlight. I agree that you could make it much more compact and lower power. Let me know how you go if you proceed. My code on github will get you going . 73 VK3HN. | 2019-04-18T11:17:14Z | https://vk3hn.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/diy-arduino-gps-clock/ | Porn | Computers | 0.619474 |
wordpress | spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.
9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had commanded them. The Lord showed favor to Job.
10 The Lord also restored the prosperity of Job, after he had prayed for his friends; the Lord even gave to Job twice[f] as much as he had before.
each one gave him a piece of money[g] and a gold ring.
the land no other women were as beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance[i] among their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; and he saw his children, his grandchildren, and even his great-grandchildren.
17 Then Job died, old and full of years.
30:19) or to Job’s ash heap (2:8).
for a black powder used like modern mascara.
Behemoth-Leviathan passages is that only the Lord, not Job, can control the cosmic evil which these forces symbolize.
beyond the capacity of Job. Out of the storm: frequently the background of the appearances of the Lord in the Old Testament; cf. Ps 18; 50; Na 1:3; Hb 3:2–15.
and the rumble that comes forth from his mouth!
with his light, to the ends of the earth.
he does not restrain them when his voice is heard.
he does great things beyond our knowing.
likewise to his heavy, drenching rain.
and remain quiet in their dens.
from the north winds, the cold.
and the broad waters congeal.
the storm-cloud scatters its light.
14 Listen to this, Job!
Stand and consider the marvels of God!
and makes the light shine forth from his clouds?
the marvels of him who is perfect in knowledge?
we cannot, for the darkness, make our plea.
20 Will he be told about it when I speak?
Can anyone talk when he is being destroyed?
abundant in justice, who never oppresses.
37:12–13 The translation of these verses is uncertain.
the usual rain failed to fall on the earth (cf. Lv 26:19; Dt 28:23).
37:21 Elihu argues that even though God seems not to know our circumstances, he does know them, just as surely as the sun shines behind the clouds.
37:22 Zaphon: the mythical mountain of the gods; cf. note on 26:7.
37:24 The concluding remark of Elihu is ironic in view of the appearance of the Lord in the next chapter and Job’s claim in 42:5.
for there are still words to be said for God.
and for my maker I will establish what is right.
one perfect in knowledge is before you.
his strength of purpose is great.
He does not preserve the life of the wicked.
and how arrogant are their sins.
and tells them to turn back from evil.
they perish for lack of knowledge.
their life[a] among the reprobate.
and opens their ears through oppression.
what rests on your table is rich food.
judgment and justice will be maintained.
nor great bribery lead you astray.
or all your exertions of strength?
for this you have preferred to affliction.
22 [c]Look, God is exalted in his power.
23 Who prescribes for him his way?
Who says, “You have done wrong”?
everyone views it from afar.
the number of his years past searching out.
and they rain down on all humankind.
the thunderings from his tent?
it covers the roots of the sea.
and he commands it to strike the mark.
and incites the fury of the storm.
36:14 Life: a miserable life before death or a shadowy existence in Sheol. Reprobate: cf. Dt 23:18–19.
36:16–20 The Hebrew text here is obscure. Although each verse makes some sense, they do not constitute a logical sequence.
36:29–31 The translation of these verses is uncertain.
“I am in the right, not God”?
and your friends as well.
behold the heavens high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you do to God?
Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?
and your justice, only a fellow human being.
because of the pride of the wicked.
or that the Almighty does not take notice.
the case is before him; with trembling wait upon him.
nor does he show much concern over a life.
35:1 See note on 34:1.
35:4 A reply to you: Elihu refers to Job’s statement that the innocent suffer as much as the wicked, and especially to Eliphaz’s words in 22:2–3.
but God has taken away what is my right.
and brings home to them their way of life.
the Almighty cannot pervert justice.
or who set all the world in its place?
16 Now you[b]—understand, hear this!
20 in a moment they die, even at midnight.
29 If he is silent, who then can condemn?
his words make no sense.
34:1 Elihu replies, although no one else has spoken. This connective phrase (see also 35:1 and 36:1) may indicate that these speeches of Elihu are a secondary addition to the book (see note on 32:2).
34:16 Now you: Elihu turns to Job and addresses him directly.
34:26, 29–30 The extant Hebrew text of these verses is obscure.
listen to all my words.
my tongue and voice form words.
nor should I weigh heavily upon you.
I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.
for God is greater than mortals.
that he gives no reply to their words?
as they slumber in their beds.
his life from passing to the grave.
his throat rejects the choicest nourishment.
his life to the place of the dead.
he shall be again as in the days of his youth.
for he restores a person’s righteousness.
yet I was not punished accordingly.
to the light, in the light of the living.
31 Be attentive, Job, listen to me!
Be silent and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, then answer me.
Speak out! I should like to see you justified.
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.
33:6 Pinched from clay: a reference to the tradition that human beings were made from clay; cf. Gn 2:7; Jb 10:9; Is 64:7.
33:10 Enemy: see note on 1:1; cf. 13:24.
33:14 Elihu asserts that God speaks through warning in dream and also through pain. However, his presupposition is that the restored person admits sinfulness (v. 27). This of course is not relevant to Job’s situation.
33:23 Divine messenger: or “angel,” one of the thousands who serve as mediators. | 2019-04-22T06:05:40Z | https://taipobiblemarathon.wordpress.com/2015/09/ | Porn | Reference | 0.070651 |
msn | AN ASPIRING J-pop singer who describes herself as a “pink icon” has dressed in nothing but her favourite colour since 2016. Idaho-based art student Alison Jones loves the colour pink so much, that she has made it an integral part of her life and style. The 22-year-old says that everything she owns is pink and has worn the colour every day for three years. Her style follows “Harajuku” and “Kawaii” fashion trends, which originated in Japan in the 1980s. | 2019-04-23T14:52:09Z | http://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/watch/the-girl-who-only-wears-pink/vi-BBUKYLG | Porn | Arts | 0.971722 |
livejournal | I just about died when Retta shot that guy’s foot, her reaction was perfect.
Same. I had to rewind and watch it again. It was her eyes that killed it.
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wordpress | This entry was posted in Travel and tagged gems, Geneva Switzerland, Lucinges, travel. Bookmark the permalink.
I have definite travel envy. Folks say I move around a lot but compared to you apparently I am a home body. Enjoy!
Thanks Sue! Not every trip is as hectic as this one. Looking forward to hearing about your travels.
O the joys of finding treasures. I was looking online at sites that used WordPress for jewlery and photography and I ended up at your blog. I was on a mission at the time but when I started to read your blog posts, I got hooked. Time stopped and I went on some of your adventures with you. Thanks for taking the time to write, it was a treat.
I love the ring with the raw black diamond. I imagine sipping some exotic something from its cup. A medicinal tincture of some kind perhaps, or water collected from the petals of wild roses on a foggy morning in summer.
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adultwebmasters | CHATSWORTH, Calif.—Hussie Auditions, the content production arm of talent agency Hussie Models, has signed a deal with Exile Distribution to start releasing its pro-am fare on DVD. The first title under the deal, Hussie Auditions Petites, debuts June 19. The movie stars Lily Rader, Alex Blake, Cali Sparks and Kylie Quinn. As the box touts, Quinn performs her first interracial scene in the production—an event captured by the cameras of controversial Netflix docu-series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On. In addition, the title boasts the first boy/girl scenes of Rader, Blake and Sparks. Hussie owner Riley Reynolds, who makes his DVD performing debut in the movie as well, told AVN, "We are super excited for our first release with Exile Distribution. We're gearing up for monthly DVD releases and lots of other huge projects including a relaunch of HussieAuditions.com." To order Hussie Auditions Petites, contact Howard Levine at [email protected]/* */. | 2019-04-21T05:14:37Z | https://www.adultwebmasters.org/dir/cskin/2017-06-65440-hussie-auditions-comes-to-dvd-via-exile-distribution-.html | Porn | Business | 0.430166 |
wordpress | So here’s this week’s question: How much does that definition relate to elaborate food, a perfectly clean home, and ready-to-converse information on the hottest news events? If you answered, “Very little,” then you and I are on the same page.
Steve and I spent many years opening our home to young people. They never cared if the carpet needed vacuuming. (In fact, it made more sense to vacuum after they left.) As for food, we called them the locusts (sorry, guys!), because any sort of leftover was fair game. No matter what we set out on our counters, they swept in and ate it all. And as to conversation, they didn’t care so much about what we said as they did about what we asked and how closely we listened when they answered. I thought the ease of entertaining them had to do with their youth. Now I’m not so sure. Perhaps adults would be just as pleased with an invitation to enjoy simple, relaxed hospitality as all those teenagers were.
Am I suggesting that we welcome guests into a dirty home and serve whatever falls out of our refrigerators when we open them? Not exactly, but how about this. Let’s help revive a culture of hospitality within our circle—and open that circle widely whenever possible. Let’s stop allowing “I’m busy” to reduce our connections to a quick voicemail or two. What if we were all more willing to tidy up one room, ignore the dust bunnies, and welcome a friend, neighbor or lonely teen to come and play a game of cards? Or perhaps we could share a simple supper without chagrin. Nobody cares that much about what’s on the table when guests are received with respect and a desire for relationship.
This sort of hospitality requires a certain degree of humility, a willingness to let friends and neighbors peek around the corners of our busy lives into our imperfections. So what if they see a haphazard stack of bills, laundry, or dishes? So what if all we have to offer is a can of soup or some scrambled eggs? There is a time for well-planned parties, but we can practice hospitality even when time is short. Chances are that those we welcome into our own kitchens and living rooms aren’t leaving behind circumstances much different from our own.
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wordpress | No way Jose` – the hose is mine!
For me it`s definitely real because it`s my own.
There`s a garden, something more than 100 years ago it was a small park. You know, that old fashioned one, with a stone pool, a fountain, few palm trees… But until recently, it use to be just a small part of the green area in town, surrounded by stone walls and covered only with grass and weed.
Well, few weeks ago, I`ve decided to become a Green guerilla, and to plant there some vegetables. The soil was so damn hard, dry and almost lifeless (if you forget the weed) that I have literally worked my a… off to make it gentle and tender again. Oh, And how soft it is! Even our cats love to lay down there, turn on it and tap it with their little paws!
So I bought tomato, cucumber, carrot and lavender seeds, placed it with love and affection prepared for that warm feeling of growing green life to come. And it did.
Not so much for other, but tomatoes…. From one small bag of seeds, now I have more than 300 nice, aromatic tomato plants! Am I happy? Of course I am! 300!!! You can you imagine it! Bravo me and bravo tomatoes! What a team!
So what`s the problem? Well, for all this time I haven`t managed not even once to take the damn hose and water the bloody tomatoes!
I don`t know if you have tried it but actually it`s like a reward after all this work. You take the hose, this lovely gift of nature called water stars running and you feel…. so relaxed. And happy. Beautiful feeling.
But howcome the others have discovered it too, some how they always manage to do it before me. It`s incredible!
Yesterday I got up at 5 (yes five, can you bealive it?!?), had my coffee, bathroom ritual and off to the garden. After few hours, when the work was done and I was preparing to finally water it, there goes my mother with the hose! Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! OK, I realized now I really have a problem. So today I said, „Mom, at 5 pm I (and I have underlined that I) will water the garden“. You know what happened? At 16:45 she came to my door saying that she wants to feed the „poor cats, they must be starving“.
20 minutes later she was on my door again with „I fed the cats, and oh, I have watered the garden!“. Jesus Mary and… What a woman must do over here to water her own garden!
I have decided – I still don`t know how and when but I`m gonna take the hose into my own hands! Me, not others. No way Jose`! The hose is mine!
P.S. I just remembered, maybe I should use, for those 300 plants, the approach „This is Spartaaaaaaaaa!“ line. Or „back off from the hose Jose`“. You never know. Or to take the hose and arange them a nice cold shower.
Because I deserve it, 44.
i was laughing the whole way through!
hope you get to water it soon! | 2019-04-19T17:00:41Z | https://aquatella.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/no-way-jose-the-hose-is-mine/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.435897 |
wordpress | Is a pandemic of anti-Semitism about to sweep Scotland? Probably not, but things aren’t good up there (in more ways than one).
First West Dunbartonshire council votes for a full boycott of Israel and, not to be outdone, Dundee Council is due to consider the same.
Liberal Democrat group leader Fraser Macpherson is asking councillors to condemn the Israeli government for its “illegal occupation of east Jerusalem and the West Bank and illegal blockade of Gaza.” The motion was due to be discussed on Monday night, but has been postponed until mid-June.
The motion also likens the treatment of the Palestinians to that of non-whites in South Africa under apartheid.
Apparently, a petition with 2500 signatures calling for a boycott of Israeli goods had been submitted by Macpherson’s constituents and a request made that the Palestinian flag be flown from the City Chambers.
Meanwhile, the Office for National Statistics has just revealed that the adult life expectancy rate in Glasgow is on a par with the Palestinian territories and Albania. When conditions are so bad at home there is no better way to divert attention than by falsely accusing Israel of apartheid.
Maybe the Palestine Solidarity Campaign could arrange a humanitarian aid flotilla for Scotland, although, hopefully, any medication won’t be out of date like that the “humanitarian aid flotilla” wanted to deliver to their Palestinian bothers and sisters in Gaza last May!
No one is naive to think that this sudden upsurge in boycott talk is limited to Scotland.
Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester Bob Russell and three Lib Dem colleagues have just returned from a trip to the West Bank at the invitation of the Council for Arab-British Understanding and Russell now wants the EU and UN “to force Israel to comply with UN resolutions”.
Judging by that last sentence Russell seems to be calling for the destruction of the Jewish state through the return of the so-called Palestinian refugees to Israel, 95% of which have never lived there.
The Liberal Democrats reneged on virtually every pre-election promise and in coalition are ineffective in this Conservative-led government. Again, what better way to divert attention and to raise one’s own profile than by callously hitting out at Israel.
My main reason for blogging is to expose the hypocrisy amongst so many of our elected politicians and the so-called intellectuals in this country.
The talks I attend are so vociferously anti-Israel and, initially, I was curious to find out why.
Was it all really because the speakers at these talks felt such an injustice had been done to the Palestinians, when looking back the Palestinians have wasted so many opportunities to create a thriving country?
Then I started to notice interesting slips by some of the speakers.
One such slip was when academic Ghada Karmi spoke at SOAS and called for “the end of the Jewish state in our region”, only to be reprimanded by the Naturei Karta’s Yisroel Dovid Weiss for referring to “Jewish state”, as opposed to “Zionist state”. Karmi duly apologised and went on to say that she had nothing against Jews or Judaism.
Then there was Lord Andrew Phillips of Sudbury who said that “Many Jews may be deeply prejudiced” at a Middle East Monitor event.
On each occasion, apart from Weiss, both audiences remained unmoved. Now imagine the uproar had a member of the BNP called for the end of the Muslim state of Pakistan or had that BNP person claimed that “Many Muslims may be deeply prejudiced”. You get the gist.
Add to these slips another one, this time by Councillor Jonathan McColl, the West Dunbartonshire councillor and main proponent of a total boycott of Israel by his council (see my original piece Not so Bonnie Scotland).
So Mr McColl doesn’t like using labels for people, except to label them if they are “Jewish”.
and you start to sense a heartlessness in Scottish politics, a heartlessness that was already there when the Scottish government released the Lockerbie Bomber in August 2009.
Are councillors McColl and Bollan really who the voters of West Dunbartonshire Council want to represent them? Can there really be any justification whatsoever for the slashing of baby Hadas Fogel’s throat?
The Scots are generally lovely people but some of the people they are now voting for are not.
Bollan is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party, while McColl is a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party. The Scottish Nationalists are now, sadly, the ruling government in Scotland.
Bollan and McColl are councillors for Leven ward in West Dunbartonshire Council. Maybe there’s something nasty in the Leven air. | 2019-04-23T12:50:57Z | https://richardmillett.wordpress.com/2011/06/ | Porn | Home | 0.413327 |
wordpress | Eric Zelman has just added Part 4 to his ongoing video series documenting the restoration of his Michigan Fiberglass Company-made 1962 Lake ‘n Sea 14′ Caribbean (5030). This is only one of six total 14’ Caribbeans I have documented from this manufacturer. Eric acquired the boat in 2016 and has been diligently restoring the boat using materials new to the boat that should make it last another 50 years. Check out Part 1 from 2017, and Part 2 and Part 3 from early this year, too! | 2019-04-25T14:54:07Z | https://lakenseaorg.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/restoring-a-1962-lake-n-sea-14-caribbean-part-4/ | Porn | News | 0.355564 |
google | A small bit of honesty- don't call a general contractor to assess your window needs. They will always advise you to replace the whole window which may cost you thousands. Call Northern Glass Company. Maybe you don't need new windows, perhaps your glass just need to be replaced. If your windows are fogged up or have moisture in between the panes the glass unit may just have to be replaced. This could save you thousands of dollars. | 2019-04-20T02:59:09Z | https://sites.google.com/view/northern-glass-co/glass-replacement | Porn | Business | 0.891472 |
wordpress | Since you’re asking, I would like to ask a few questions about your question. What is “where” and what is “I?” Oh, you just mean like in general, what’s happening on this blog? Sorry.
Soulsin.space is my attempt to answer the question of who we are and what we are doing here without trying to sound like I live at the library or like I’m having an LSD trip. I’m convinced my words should be simple and address real life, avoiding some “what if,” pie-in-the-sky, ivory tower worship of knowledge. I’m no Emerson, I’m Rambo.
Relationships are the absolute value of our human existence.
Diversity is the greatest asset of the human race.
Belief is the fundamental difference between ape and human.
Love is a daily choice that leads us to paramount joy.
In summary, we are spiritual/relational beings in a physical world.
We are souls in space.
Whether you believe in the soul or not, I hope you find insights that help get your life together.
You should know where I get this stuff. I follow Jesus. By that I mean I don’t just go to church or follow what someone else says about Jesus. Hell, I’m one of the least “religious” people I know if that’s what religion means. By “follow Jesus” I mean I actually read for myself about his life, what he did, and try to live the same way he did. He helped me understand God so much better than I did sitting in church every weekend since age 3. He’s like my Sherpa guide up the spiritual Everest (which is fifty times as high as the one in Nepal) where God sits at the top. Without Jesus I’d be lost. | 2019-04-23T17:50:19Z | https://smurtagh.wordpress.com/in-space/ | Porn | Reference | 0.212895 |
imdb | Actors were all great, definitely very creepy and engaging story. But lots of plot holes and things that just plain don't make sense. Get Out was better in my opinion. | 2019-04-24T19:39:05Z | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=e65ebbc8-a141-46be-9b45-a3a207fa23eb&pf_rd_r=HSJYX1WEHBHE7QYKSNVH&pf_rd_s=center-7&pf_rd_t=60601&pf_rd_i=imdbpicks&ref_=m_fea_pks_pks_febfilm_lk1 | Porn | Arts | 0.969969 |
tripod | Ann married Joe Boulie, a brick mason and the son of William Boulie who owned the Lawrenceburg Pressed Brick Company. He was born November 7, 1892 and died in August 1966. They lived at about 335 Berger Street in Lawrenceburg on the south side of the street, across the street from their daughter Sis and just west of Andy Rosier. Joe Boulie was the brother of Lena Boulie Feldhaus who married Ann's brother, Henry Joseph Feldhaus.
Ann made this beautiful wedding dress.
Anna Feldhaus Boulie with her husband Joe Boulie and two of their children, William and Sis.
The oldest son, William, lived in Lawrenceburg and was a bricklayer after returning from service in the CB's during WWII. He was an outdoorsman and hunted and fished all his life. He was born on February 27, 1915 and died on March 21, 2004. His wife, Chapple was born September 21, 1916 and died December 3, 2002. They had one son, Michael who resides in Lawrenceburg.
The oldest daughter, Anna (Sis) married Tom Kemper and lived across the street. She was born on September 27, 1916 and died on May 7, 1997. She had three sons and two daughters. The two youngest sons, about 20, left town eary one morning to go fishing and ran into a bridge outside of town. One sustained serious head injuries, but lived for several years. The other sustained a broken leg, but died in the hospital from a blood clot. I believe their names were Buddy and Jimmy. The oldest son, Tommy, became a fireman, and like his father, died in mid-life from a heart attack.
Sis Boulie married Tom Kemper in Lawrenceburg at the Sacred Heart Church on 31 May 1938. Left to right: Sis's Uncle Barney Boulie, George Niedergeses (or maybe Buerlein), Tom's nephew Philip Kemper in front, Tom's brother Henry Kemper, Sis Kemper, Sis's sister Josephine Boulie, Mary Margaret Niedergeses, Sis's sister Clara Boulie in front, Barney Boulie's wife Gertie Boulie.
George ended up in Las Vegas.
Clara lives in North Carolina.
Charles retired from the Army and lives in Anniston, AL with his wife Edith. They have two children, Henry and Ann.
The youngest, J. B. lives in Keller, TX with his daughter Georgia. His wife died several years ago.
Taken about 1926 - Left to right: Katie Boulie (age 22), Katherine Boulie (age 55), Mary Feldhaus (age 36), Clarence Orth (age 2), Head in back may be my Dad, Lawrence Feldhaus (age 19), Cate Feldhaus Orth (age 40), William Boulie (age 60), Clara Feldhaus (age 22), Charlie Feldhaus (age 31), Mary Margaret Boulie (age 20), Henry Feldhaus (age 76), Mary Feldhaus (age 61), Henry Orth (age 12), Lena Boulie Feldhaus (age 27), Henry Feldhaus, Jr. (age 1), Barney Boulie (age 13) , Henry Feldhaus (age 38), little girls in front - on left: Josephine Boulie (age 5), on right: Josephine Orth (age 6).
This picture was taken about 1940. Back, left to right, Joe Boulie with wife Ann holding J.B. Boulie, Henry Feldhaus, Dad, Mother, Clara Feldhaus holding Jack Feldhaus, Lena Feldhaus holding Billy Feldhaus, Charles Orth, Cate Orth, Clarence Orth, Elizabeth and husband Charlie Feldhaus. Front, left to right, Rose Feldhaus, Charles Boulie, John Schneider, Larry Feldhaus, Mary Schneider, Mary Catherine Feldhaus, Clara Boulie, Marian Feldhaus.
I'm guessing the below picture of Ann and her brothers and sisters was taken between 1945 and 1950.
The two pictures below came from the estate of Charles Orth through his nephew Lawrence Niedergeses. We believe these pictures were taken about 1952 based on the ages of the people in the pictures. They were taken at the same reunion based on the people wearing the same clothes in both pictures.
Ann held several family reunions at her house. The one pictured above was held in 1980 after her death. They were large affairs with all the children from all the brother's and sisters there. Sis is the one with the white hair sitting down and William is the one sitting down nearer with the bald head.
I spent quite a bit of time at Ann's house. Charles Boulie used go with me down to the area on the other side of Buffalo Road rabbit hunting and swimming.
There was often wild game on the dinner table at Ann's house, as there was at ours. | 2019-04-23T12:16:28Z | http://lfeldhaus.tripod.com/feldhausfamilygeneology/id11.html | Porn | Society | 0.223453 |
wordpress | 2011 was a bad year.
However, in 2012 I got married, honeymooned in Barcelona and moved into a new house in Sheffield, UK. Above is a 3-shot HDR taken out of the window in the spare bedroom.
We didn’t buy the house for the views, but it is at the top of a hill, the garden is south-facing and the front room looks out over Sheffield, our chosen home city. From the point of view of a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist, things could be worse.
What’s more, 2012 started with an amazing couple of sub-freezing temperatures that gave me a rare opportunity to shoot the Sheffield Roundwalk in very frosty conditions.
So here’s to 2013. Expect more lots HDR photography and timelapse video, some of it shot from the comfort of my own home. | 2019-04-23T07:03:55Z | https://richardbolam.wordpress.com/tag/uk/ | Porn | Home | 0.669678 |
typepad | Is the Justice Dept. Attempting to Usurp OGIS's Role as FOIA Ombudsman?
Earlier this week, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Cornyn (R-TX) wrote a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, urging the Justice Department to clarify its recent notice of proposed changes to the Department's Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) system of records.
DOJ’s proposed modifications included several references to the Department’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) serving as “Ombudsman” in disputes between federal agencies and individual FOIA requestors. This designation would seem to clash with Leahy and Cornyn’s OPEN Government Act of 2007, which specifically established the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) within the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as FOIA ombudsman.
When Senator Cornyn and I drafted the OPEN Government Act, we intentionally placed this critical office in the National Archives, so that OGIS would be free from the influence of the Federal agency that litigates FOIA disputes–the Department of Justice.
DOJ’s new modifications would cause unnecessary confusion among agencies and requestors while undermining OGIS’s authority as ombudsman. OGIS currently serves as a bridge between requestors and agencies, particularly in situations where clear, direct communication has been lacking. Under the law, OGIS has a clearly defined mandate to review agency FOIA compliance and policy and mediate disputes between persons making FOIA requests and agencies.
DOJ’s new proposal isn’t an isolated incident—time and again, DOJ’s actions have been at odds with President Obama’s directives for increased government openness and transparency. This is especially troubling because DOJ is responsible for setting the standards for FOIA compliance throughout the federal government.
For instance, on March 15, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued his report card on the federal government’s efforts to track and manage FOIA requests. The report found that “The majority of the entities that did not produce logs were located within the Department of Justice, where only 3 out of 40 entities submitted their logs to the Committee.” OIP received special mention in the Committee’s negative evaluation—of the 1,843 FOIA requests OIP received in 5 years, only 253 received either full or partial grants of records. The Committee concluded that the FOIA logs at DOJ are inadequate. DOJ earned a letter grade of D, indicating that the agency is unwilling or struggling to demonstrate transparency about their own efforts to manage and respond to FOIA requests.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FOIA during Sunshine Week, Sen. Grassley (R-IA) pointed out that the National Security Archive, a research institute at George Washington University, gave DOJ the infamous Rosemary Award for worst open government performance in 2011. Grassley also noted that OIP had proposed a dozen regressive FOIA regulations, including a rule revision that would authorize government agencies to lie to FOIA requestors by denying the existence of sensitive records altogether, which POGO strongly opposed.
In addition, POGO and our partners have raised concerns that some in DOJ have discouraged other agencies from participating in the innovative multi-agency FOIA portal that OGIS, EPA, and the Department of Commerce are spearheading. In a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing last week on moving FOIA into the 21st century, OMB Watch’s Sean Moulton said the EPA portal features “far outstrip” those being developed by other agencies. Director of OIP Melanie Pustay defended FOIA.gov’s usefulness as a “comprehensive FOIA website” during the first panel.
POGO thinks FOIA.gov is useful in that it educates the public about FOIA, but is not currently designed as a viable alternative to the centralized multi-agency portal. It is time for DOJ to get on board with a portal that can provide broad public access to any previously released documents and one location for filing and tracking all FOIA requests.
POGO, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), OpenTheGovernment.org, and other partners will soon submit comments on DOJ’s system of records notice, echoing Sens. Leahy and Cornyn. We strongly urge the Department to reconsider and clarify the purpose behind this proposal to effectively rewrite the rules and remove references to OIP as ombudsman in FOIA disputes.
We are also still waiting for DOJ to correct its practice of claiming that records don’t exist. While the Department abandoned the proposed rule authorizing agencies to lie to requestors, it also admitted that it is a current and long-standing practice to respond with this untruth to avoid disclosing sensitive investigations. DOJ needs to get this and its FOIA practices right before attempting to expand its role, creating unnecessary overlapping authority with another agency, and injecting even more confusion into the FOIA process. It is time for DOJ to do more to strengthen, rather than hinder, the President’s policies of openness.
Suzanne Dershowitz is POGO’s public policy fellow. | 2019-04-21T22:16:51Z | https://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/03/is-the-justice-dept-attempting-to-usurp-ogiss-role-as-foia-ombudsman.html | Porn | Reference | 0.295797 |
salon | Many people think of the right's Obamacare hatred as an outgrowth of straightforward partisan and ideological truths. Movement conservatives broadly oppose the idea of taxing wealthy people to subsidize the lower and middle classes. They don't like regulating the private sector very much either. Add in the political incentives they faced to uniformly oppose President Obama's agenda, the zero Republican votes for the Affordable Care Act, and you've planted seeds of lasting hostility.
But the hostility has become so deeply rooted that it now stands on its own, detached from the ideological and partisan antipathies that gave rise to it.
It has forced conservatives to blind themselves to the law's positive, unobjectionable qualities, and police those within their ranks who dare to acknowledge them.
Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall called this reactionary phenomenon Obamacare McCarthyism. It ensnared Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., who's running for Senate in 2014 and had the temerity to suggest that Republicans shouldn't just idly mock the law when it stumbles. A few years ago, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wy0., said he liked the concept of insurance exchanges -- which are crucial components of GOP-backed Medicare privatization proposals and other conservative reform ideas -- and now a hardline super PAC is using his words against him, as if he'd called for the creation of a public option.
But on the battlefields of partisan warfare, this sort of post-principled contempt, combined with the inception of benefits, has turned the fight over Obamacare from a dispute over first principles, into a culture war, in which signaling matters more than tactical victories.
The repeal campaign -- once marked by earnest and sustained efforts to wipe the law off the books -- has all but burned itself out. But the law remains a potent political organizing force -- a rallying cry Republicans believe they can use to channel the right's Obamacare obsession into voter turnout.
An astute friend remarked to me on Tuesday that the GOP's position on Obamacare is coming to resemble its position on abortion in one key way: loudly, consistently, uniformly opposed, but ultimately not really driven to eliminate it. The backlash they'd face would be brutal, but they might stand to gain by fighting it on the margins and keeping the issue alive.
The comparison holds at a state level too. The most effective Obamacare saboteurs have been GOP governors and legislatures who resisted the opportunity to create their own exchanges and have refused to expand Medicaid with federal dollars, as the law allows.
More generally, conservatives are wielding Obamacare the way they wielded culture war issues in the 1990s. The particulars are enormously different, but the political objectives are similar: pick an issue that both unites conservative voters and appeals to the discontent of moderates and use it first and foremost to fracture the Democratic coalition.
I don't think they're going to fracture the Democratic coalition. But I can imagine the issue remaining an effective mobilizing tool for an otherwise agenda-less party through the end of Obama's presidency.
Of course, the culture wars of the '90s didn't all unfold the same way. Abortion and gun rights have proven to be more durable polarizing tools than immigration and gay rights.
My suspicion is that over time, as Affordable Care Act beneficiaries become friends, neighbors and family members of the law's most ardent foes, hostilities will wane. The word "Obamacare" will have much less unifying power on the right when the law has 30 million beneficiaries than it does with 1 million; and liberals will protect it from broader attacks on social insurance programs with relish, just as they use conservative Medicare and Social Security privatization proposals to their political benefit.
But the bitterness won't just disappear. We're a long way from Southern governors clamoring for the Medicaid expansion, or building their own exchanges, let alone directing their own constituents to enroll on Healthcare.gov. And that's a huge bummer for uninsured people in those states who hoped Obamacare would work as well for them as it's likely to work in the rest of the country. | 2019-04-20T02:42:40Z | https://www.salon.com/2013/12/04/how_obamacare_became_its_own_culture_war/ | Porn | Reference | 0.184361 |
wordpress | Jitendra Singh has resigned as the dean of Nanyang Business School in Singapore just two years after his appointment. The official reason given for Professor Singh’s departure was that he “faced considerable challenges on the personal front”. Indeed, The Economist understands that the professor’s family had trouble settling in Singapore and that this was a key consideration behind his return to the US. However, it was not the only reason for the decision. Professor Singh was also known to be unhappy with the paucity of funds being allocated to the school by Bertil Andersson, provost of the parent institution, Nanyang Technical University. A particular sticking point appears to be professor Singh’s desire for a new, dedicated building to house the business school.
Despite heading back to America, Professor Singh will continue his association with the business school in an advisory capacity, returning to Singapore several times a year. Gillian Yeo, currently the school’s Executive Vice Dean, has been appointed Interim Dean until a full-time successor has been identified.
This entry was posted on May 5, 2009 at 11:30 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. | 2019-04-19T04:45:22Z | https://whichmba.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/homeward-bound/ | Porn | Business | 0.974243 |
wordpress | I have found through working the steps that I had a pride and ego problem. Me? Have a problem like that? Of course not. But as I soon got closer to the Third Step in the Big Book and 12X12 I realized it was so true. Releasing ego is not a simple step but it is a step that I can work on in my life on a 24 hour period. If I find myself getting defensive or feeling some type of guilt and refusing to face it, I’m full of ego. When I feel these feelings today I know there is some type of step work I must do to get through the process of releasing my ego and then letting go. When I’m aware of my character defects I can work on them. So when I find myself feeling selfish, self centered, self seeking, self pity, I most likely use the third step prayer to follow with letting go. This is not easy but with practice it become 2nd nature. I had to be willing to want to change because I was desperate enough. Besides, it’s really not just all about us. We must help another alcohol to truly be free. I love the zeal that new comers have when they have finally gotten it. You see a new freedom and happiness in them and they have no idea they have made changes. So with ego comes much practice learning that you are NOT the center of attention and not always is everything about you so dont take it too personal if you are a new comer around the tables.
Early on in my sobriety I was going to meetings and I wasn’t much of a talker. I would just sit and listen to the people talk and then all of a sudden I heard them speaking about situations I had been in and I thought “How do they know this about me”, “Did they call my family and get all this information on me”?
I was convinced that they were speaking to my family and friends and they were sharing all this information in the meetings when in fact they were speaking from their experiences, strength, and hope. So remember if you are a new comer, dont worry, no they did not contact your family or friends, they are just sharing from what they have experienced. Now you can relate.
For the past couple of years I have heard the word “Christian” used way too loosely. Too many people are using the Christian excuse for their bad behavior and I don’t agree with it at all. I have been attacked on certain social networking sites for speaking my opinion on the Chick Filet Scandal and I was told that if I don’t agree with one certain persons beliefs that I don’t believe in the bible. Now all I want to know is who made that person judge and jury? Just because I have compassion for others does not make me a bad person, matter of fact I have the gift of discernment. I’m a sensitive and can feel when others are in pain. Look by no means do I want to be a lesbian but did Jesus treat Mary Magdalene like a criminal and attack her and tell her that God does not believe in prostitution? Of course not! He lead by example.Your not the one responsible for their actions, are you going to be punished by God for not changing their opinion, No. So have some compassion for others and stop being so afraid. Too many people want to force their opinions on others by using knowledge and it’s not about what I can remember in a book, it’s about my actions and the way that I live today and everyday. Yes I have been baptized, and yes I have knowledge of the bible, but beating people over the head with this information by no means helps anyone. What does help is me living the bible not talking it. People can see another persons actions and then hear what they are saying if they don’t match how are they to help another person? No, I have not attended church recently and you would think after 2 years of attending someone would be checking on me but this story is for another day. Does this mean that I don’t believe in God and that I should judge others? No. Does it mean that I have no relationship with God and that I’m not a Christian? No, I was told by the church that I have been forgiven. Does it mean because a person that attends church every Sunday is more Christian then I’am? Well I hope not. I have a relationship with God even more now. Look all I’m saying is that if you call yourself a Christian apply the actions from the bible into your life and live it, don’t go around throwing bible verses at others lives that you don’t believe in. Why spend time hating and judging and not getting to know that person as a humane being and not some stereo-type you have thrown on them. Fear drives many people and we are all humane.
Know one on this earth is perfect. I’m so sick and tired of people who call themselves Christian behave worse then a non Christian. Stop using the word as a scape goat and be a humane being and relate to people. You never know who’s life you may change by your actions.
Gratitude can change all situations for the positive.
Gratitude is the most powerful tool for growing abundance and creating wealth.
Gratitude is the most significant tool for enhance and building relationships.
Gratitude effects your physical and mental health in positive ways.
Gratitude is a strong tool for changing self-defeating or negative behavior.
Gratitude aids significantly in the recovery of abuse and neglect.
Gratitude actually changes the way your brain processes information.
Gratitude is available for anyone who knows how to harness it.
Most people do not yet use gratitude to its full potential. | 2019-04-20T13:29:36Z | https://turkeyboneheaven.wordpress.com/tag/pride/ | Porn | Society | 0.124681 |
google | 아메리칸 사이언스 앤 엔지니어링, 인크.
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A system and methods are provided for imaging an object, based on activating an array of discrete X-ray sources in a prescribed temporal pattern so as to illuminate the object with a beam varying in spatial orientation, and detecting X-rays of the beam after interaction with the object and generating a detector signal. An image of the object may then be constructed on the basis of the time variation of the detector signal. The discrete X-ray sources maybe moved during the course of inspection, moreover, the prescribed temporal pattern may constitute a Hadamard code. The discrete sources may be carbon nanotube x-ray sources.
본 발명은 투과성을 갖는 방사선을 이용하여, 이에 한정되지는 않지만 사람을 포함한 사물을 검사하는 방법 및 시스템에 관한 것으로, 보다 구체적으로는 개별적으로 활성화될 수 있는 다수의 X-레이 공급원을 이용한 사람에 대한 검사 방법 및 검사 시스템에 관한 것이다. From the present invention using a plurality of X- ray source to be in, but are not limited to use radiation having a permeability, and thus, to a method and system for inspecting objects, including humans, it can be more specifically activated separately It relates to a method for testing and inspection systems.
종래의 X-레이 공급원은 금속 타깃에 충돌하는 전자를 생성하기 위해 통상적으로 열 이온 방출 기구(thermionic emission mechanism)를 이용하며, 이로부터 X-레이는 제동 복사(bremsstrahlung) 처리를 통해 방출된다. Conventional X- ray source, and using a commonly thermionic emission mechanism (thermionic emission mechanism) to produce the electrons that hit the metal target and from which the X- ray is emitted through the damping radiation (bremsstrahlung) process. 열 이온 방출은 가열된 필라멘트에 의한 전자의 방출을 수반한다. Thermionic emission is accompanied by the emission of electrons by the heated filament. 열 관성(thermal inertia)은 열 이온 시스템의 시간 해상도를 100만분의 1초(microsecond)로 한정하고, 전자 방출기의 공간 해상도는 필라멘트의 치수에 의해 결정된다. Thermal inertia (thermal inertia) is limited to the time resolution of the thermionic system in 1-second (microsecond) millionth, and the spatial resolution of the electron emitter is determined by the dimensions of the filament.
또한, X-레이 공급원은 열 이온 공급원과 비교하여 공간 및 시간 해상도 모두에 장점을 제공하는 전계 방출 음극(field-emission cathod)에 기초할 수 있다. In addition, X- ray source may be based on a field emission cathode (field-emission cathod) as compared with thermionic sources that provide advantages in both spatial and temporal resolution. 전자의 전계 방출이 강한 전기장에 의해 발생되기 때문에 가열을 필요로 하지 않으 며, 이로 인해 이런 전자 방출기를 일반적으로 냉음극(cold cathod)이라고 한다. It is referred to as said, do not require any heating due to field emission of electrons is caused by the strong electric field, which causes generally a cold cathode (cold cathod) for this electron emitter. 이런 장치로부터 방출된 전자 빔은 낮은 디버전시(divergence)를 가질 수 있기 때문에 용이한 초점 조정(focusing)을 제공한다. The electron beam emitted from such a device provides ease of focus adjustment (focusing) because it can have a low debug display (divergence). 또한, 공급원의 실질적인 순간 반응은 제어 회로의 시간 해상도와 비교될 수 있는 타임 게이팅(time gating) 능력을 제공하며, 통상의 기술을 이용하여 10억분의 1초(nanosecond) 만큼 빠를 수 있다. In addition, substantial time of reaction source may be earlier by time gated (gating time) and provides the capability, 1 second (nanosecond) billionth using conventional techniques, which can be compared to the time resolution of the control circuit.
"Medical Imaging 2006"(2006년 3월 2일자 제6142권 Proceedings of SPIE)에 기재된 장(Zhang) 등의 "A Multi-beam X-ray Imaging System Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters"에는 노오스 케롤라이나의 리서치 트라이앵글 파크(Research Triangle Park)에 소재하는 "Xintek, Inc."에 의한 다섯개의 X-레이 공급원을 갖는 선형 배열체의 제작에 대해 기재되어 있으며, 각각은 탄소 나노튜브(CNT) 전극에 기초하여 200 내지 300㎛ 사이의 초점을 가진다. There's no-Austrian Carolina "Medical Imaging 2006" (March 2, 2006 Date of the 6142 Proceedings of SPIE) chapter (Zhang), such as "A Multi-beam X-ray Imaging System Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters" for according to Research Triangle Park, are described for the production of a linear arrangement with a five X- ray source by "Xintek, Inc." located at a (Research Triangle Park), respectively, on the basis of the electrode the carbon nanotube (CNT) It has a focal point of between 200 to 300㎛. 0.1 내지 1㎃ 범위의 전류는 40 내지 60 kVp의 가속 전압으로 알려져 있다. 0.1 to current 1㎃ range is known as the acceleration voltage of 40 to 60 kVp. 냉음극의 수명은 2000시간을 초과하는 것으로 예측되고 있다. Life of the cold cathode has been estimated that in excess of 2000 hours. 가속 전압이 200 kV인 경우, 빔 전류는 13㎃로 측정된다. If the accelerating voltage is 200 kV, the beam current is measured by 13㎃. 전술한 장 등의 문헌은 본 명세서에서 참고 문헌으로 인용된다. Literature of the above-described sheet and the like are incorporated by reference herein. 10㎒의 펄스 반복 주기와 미터당 1000 픽셀을 갖는 장치는 본 기술분야의 공지 기술과 더불어 계획될 수 있다. Device having a pulse repetition period of 10㎒ with 1000 pixels per meter may be designed with the well-known techniques in the art.
또한, X-레이 공급원 분야에서의 CNT 냉음극의 사용은 2004년도판 "Rev. Sci. Instruments"의 3264면에 기재된 청(Cheng) 등의 "Dynamic radiography using a carbon-nanotube-based field-emission X-ray source"에 기재되어 있고, 스캐닝 분야에서의 CNT 냉음극 공급원 배열체의 사용은 2005년도판 "86 Appl. Phys. Lett" 의 184104면에 기재된 "Stationary scanning x-ray source based on carbon nanotube field emitters"에 기재되어 있다. In addition, the use of CNT cold cathodes in the X- ray source field plate 2004 "Rev. Sci. Instruments" "Dynamic radiography, such as blue (Cheng) described in the 3264 face of using a carbon-nanotube-based field-emission X -ray source "are described, the use of CNT cold cathode source arrangement in the scanning field of 2005 plate" 86 Appl. Phys. Lett "according to 184 104 of the side" Stationary scanning x-ray source based on carbon nanotube field It is described in emitters ".
또한, 단층 촬영에서의 CNT 냉음극 공급원 배열체의 사용은 2005년도판 "Rev. Sci. Instruments"의 94301면에 기재된 장(Zhang) 등의 "A nanotube-based field emission x-ray source for microcomputed tomography"에 기재되어 있다. In addition, the use of CNT cold cathode source arrays in tomography of the body is 2005 edition "Rev. Sci. Instruments", such as a chapter (Zhang) described in 94 301 side "A nanotube-based field emission x-ray source for microcomputed tomography "it is described in.
공항에서의 사람용 검사 장비의 동선(footprint) 및 처리량(throughput)은 보안 감사가 복잡해질수록 그 중요성이 증가된다. Copper (footprint) and throughput (throughput) of the person checking equipment at the airport are become more complex security audits increased in importance. 통상적으로, 임계 치수는 교통 흐름에 따라 가파르게 증가하며, 현재 사용되는 금속 탐지기는 비교 기준으로서 사용된다. Typically, the critical dimension is increases steeply according to the traffic flow, metal detectors currently used is used as a basis for comparison. 미국의 공항에서, 소정의 처리량은 두 개의 인접한 수화물 시스템의 공급량과 일치한다. In US airports, the predetermined amount is consistent with the supply of two adjacent baggage system. 이는 시간당 대략 400명의 처리량을 처리한다. It handles about 400 people per hour throughput.
사람의 후방산란 X-레이 스캐닝이 밀수품 또는 잠재적인 위험 요소를 감지하기 위한 가장 효율적인 방법으로 생각되지만, 이런 기술의 현재 실행은 임의의 적용시에 부적절한 처리량을 제공할 수 있고, 또한 공항과 같은 임의의 현장에 의해 부과되는 크기의 제약에 부합되지 않을 수 있다. Backscatter of the person X- ray but scanning is considered the most effective way to detect the contraband or the potential risks, these technologies are currently running may provide inadequate throughput during any application, as well as any airport in may not be consistent with the size of the constraints imposed by the site. 본 발명은 유리하게 이들 단점들에 대한 해결 방법을 제공한다. The present invention advantageously provides a solution for these disadvantages.
단일 측면 후방산란 스크리닝보다 처리량을 향상시키기 위한 현재 시도는 다양한 단일 지점 초점 조정 X-레이 공급원에 의존한다. Current attempts to improve throughput than the single-side and back-scattered screening depends on various single-point focusing X- ray source. 이들 공급원의 X-레이 빔은 팬 빔 형상의 X-레이 라인으로 시준되기 때문에, 스크린되는 사람에 대한 입사각은 이미지 데이터에 뒤틀림 현상을 야기할 수 있다. X- ray beams of these sources because the collimated X- ray line of the fan-shaped beam, the angle of incidence for the person that the screen can give rise to distortion in the image data. 뒤틀림 현상은 소프트웨어에 의해 보완될 수 있지만, 데이터는 여전히 입사각이 다른 X-레이로부터 얻어진다. Distortion, but can be supplemented by the software, the data will still be obtained from an incident angle different X- ray. 입 사각이 급한 경우에, 이는 (숄더와 같은 본체로부터) X-레이 입사 섀도우를 야기하여 밀수품에 대한 감지를 놓칠 수 있다. When the input square hurry, which (from the body, such as shoulder) X- ray causes the incident shadow may miss the detection of contraband. 다양한 종래의 X-레이 공급원이 이런 현상을 감소시키기 위해 사용되면, 장비의 크기는 대형화되고 장비의 비용 역시 증가될 것이다. When various conventional X- ray source used to reduce this phenomenon, it will be larger the size of the equipment and increasing the cost of the equipment as well.
c. c. 감지 신호의 시간적 변화(time variation)에 기초하여 사물의 이미지를 구성하는 단계를 포함한다. Based on the temporal change of the detected signal (time variation) to a step of constituting the image of the object.
본 발명의 다른 실시예는 회전 또는 병진 운동, 또는 양자 모두에 의해 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체를 이동시키는 단계를 포함할 수도 있다. Another embodiment of the present invention may include the step of moving the arrangement of the individual X- ray source by rotation or translation, or both. 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체는 배열체 축에 의해 특징지워 지며, 배열체의 병진 운동 단계는 배열체 축에 대해 대체로 횡방향으로 배열체를 병진 운동시키는 단계, 또는 배열체 축에 대해 대체로 평행한 축을 중심으로 배열체를 회전시키는 단계를 포함할 수 있다. Arrangement of separate X- ray source is are characterized by the arrangement that the axial translational movement of the step arrangement is generally parallel to the stage, or the arrangement that the axial translational motion generally the arrangement transverse to the axis arrangement It may include rotating the arrangement around one axis.
몇몇 실시예에서, 본 발명의 미리 정해진 시간적 패턴은 하다마드 코드(Hadamard code)를 구성할 수 있다. In some embodiments, the predetermined temporal pattern of the present invention can configure the Hadamard codes (Hadamard code). 또한, 사물과 상호 작용한 후에 X-레이를 감지하는 단계는 사물에 의해 산란된 X-레이를 감지하는 단계를 포함할 수 있고, 개별 X-레이 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계는 전계 방출 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계, 보다 구체적으로 반사 타깃(reflective target) 또는 전달 타깃(transmission target)을 각각 포함하는 복수개의 전계 방출 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계를 포함할 수 있다. Further, the step of detecting the X- ray after the objects and the interaction may include the step of detecting the X- rays scattered by the object, activating the individual X- ray sources is to enable the field emission source phase, may comprise more specifically, reflection target activating a plurality of field emission sources comprises a (reflective target) or transfer target (transmission target), respectively.
본 발명의 다른 실시예에 따르면, 사물을 검사하기 위한 검사 시스템이 제공된다. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, the inspection system is provided for testing the object. 검사 시스템은 투과성을 갖는 방사선의 개별 공급원의 복수개의 선형 배열체와, 검사된 사물에 의해 산란된 투과성을 갖는 방사선의 감지에 기초하여 산란 신호를 발생시키도록 구성된 적어도 하나의 산란 감지기와, 산란 신호를 수신하여 사물의 이미지를 생성하는 프로세서를 포함한다. The inspection system comprising: at least one scatter detector configured on the basis of the detected radiation to generate a scattered signal that has a scattering-transmitting by the plurality of the linear arrangement of the individual sources of radiation having a permeability, the test object, the scattering signal It receives a processor for generating an image of the object. 보다 구체적으로, 투과성을 갖는 방사선의 개별 공급원은 탄소 나노 튜브 X-레이 공급원일 수 있다. More specifically, an individual source of radiation having a permeability can be a carbon nanotube X- ray source.
본 발명의 전술된 특징들은 첨부한 도면을 참조하여 이하 발명의 상세한 설명에 의해 보다 명확하게 이해될 것이다. The foregoing features of the invention will be clearly understood by the following detailed description of invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
도1은 전계 방출에 기초한 종래의 X-레이 공급원의 개략적인 도면이다. 1 is a schematic view of a conventional X- ray source based on field emission.
도2는 본 발명의 바람직한 실시예에 따라, 후방산란 이미지화 적용시 개별 공급원의 일차원 배열체의 사용을 도시한다. Figure 2 illustrates the use of a one-dimensional arrangement of the individual source when, backscatter imaging application in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
도3은 본 발명의 바람직한 실시예에 따라, 후방산란 이미지화 적용시 개별 공급원의 이차원 배열체의 사용을 도시한다. Figure 3 illustrates the use of two-dimensional arrangement of the individual source during imaging backscatter applied in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
도4는 본 발명의 바람직한 실시예에 따라, 후방산란 이미지화 적용시 개별 공급원의 일차원 배열체와, 고정된 후방산란 감지기 세트의 사용을 도시한다. Figure 4 illustrates the use of a one-dimensional arrangement, and a fixed set of backscatter detectors at the time, backscatter imaging application in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention each source.
도5는 본 발명의 바람직한 실시예에 따라, 다수개의 일차원 공급원의 배열체가 단일 실린더에 장착된 이미지 생성 장치를 도시한다. Figure 5 illustrates an image forming device equipped with a single cylinder body, the arrangement of the plurality of one-dimensional source in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
도6A는 위로부터 X-레이가 방출되는 본 발명의 실시예의 정면도이다. 6A is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention in which X- ray is emitted from the top.
도6B는 위로부터 방출된 복수의 X-레이 빔을 가로지르는 사람의 연속적인 위치를 도시하는, 본 발명의 실시예의 개략적인 측면도이다. 6B is a diagram showing the successive positions of a person crossing the plurality of X- ray beams emitted from above, an embodiment of a schematic side view of the present invention.
도7A는 대향 측면으로부터 X-레이가 방출되는 본 발명의 실시예의 정면도이다. Figure 7A is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention released the X- ray from the opposite side.
도7B는 위로부터 방출된 복수의 X-레이 빔을 가로지르는 사람의 연속적인 위치를 도시하는, 본 발명의 실시예의 개략적인 측면도이다. 7B is a diagram showing the successive positions of a person crossing the plurality of X- ray beams emitted from above, an embodiment of a schematic side view of the present invention.
탄소 나노튜브(CNT)에 기초한 냉음극 기술(cold cathod)은, X-레이의 전달(transmission), 후방산란(backscatter), 또는 전방 산란(forward scatter) 등, X-레이를 이용한 이미지화를 위한 새로운 양상의 가능성을 제시한다. CNT cold cathode technique (cold cathod) based on the (CNT) for the new, imaged by the X- ray transmission of X- ray (transmission), and back-scattered (backscatter), or forward scattering (forward scatter), etc. It suggests the possibility of a pattern. 본 발명에 따라 이하 설명되는 방식에 따라 적용되는 개별 냉음극 공급원은 (10억분의 1초 단위로) 저지연율(low latency)을 실현함과 동시에 유리하게는 연속 방식으로 공급원의 전자적 턴온을 제공할 수 있고, 이에 따라 X-레이 이미지화 분야에서 종종 실시되는 펜슬 빔(pencil beam)을 형성하거나, 또는 다르게는 소정 시간에 공급원의 패턴을 선택하여 부호화된 빔을 형성한다. Advantageously the individual cold cathode source to be applied in accordance with the manner described below in accordance with the present invention and at the same time preventing realizing the annual rate (low latency) (in 1-second units billionth) is to provide an electronic turn-on of the supply source in a continuous manner and can, thereby forming a pencil beam X- ray imaging (pencil beam), which is often performed in the field, or alternatively to form a beam encoded by selecting a pattern of sources at a given time. CNT의 개발은 전류 안정성 및 음극의 수 명과 관련한 중요한 기술적 문제의 해결을 가능하게 하였다. Development of the CNT is made possible to solve the major technical issues can name of the current stability and cathode.
도1에 전반적으로 도면부호 10으로 지시된 냉음극 X-레이 공급원의 일반적인 작동은 본 기술분야에 주지되어 있고 도1을 참조하여 설명된다. Overall, the reference numeral the general operation of a cold cathode X- ray source indicated by 10 in Figure 1 is described with reference to well known in the art, and Fig. 냉음극 장치는 유리하게는 고도의 제어를 가능하게 한다. Cold cathode device advantageously makes it possible to control the height. 제어 회로(13)에 의해 제어되는 음극(14)과 게이트(12) 사이의 전압(V gc )은 전자(15)의 흐름을 제어하고, X-레이 타깃으로서 기능하는 양극(16; anode)과 음극(14) 사이의 전압(V ca )은 타깃(16)에 충돌하는 전자 에너지를 제어하며, 초점 조정 전극(18)에 인가된 전압은 전자 빔 스팟 사이즈(electron beam spot size)를 결정한다. Control circuit 13, the cathode 14 and the gate 12 voltage (V gc) is an anode (16; anode) which serves to control the flow of E-15, as X- ray target between which is controlled by the voltage (V ca) between the cathode 14, and controls the electron energy impinging on the target 16, the voltage applied to the focusing electrode (18) determines the electron beam spot size (electron beam spot size).
도1은 X-레이가 반사 타깃(19)에 의해 발생되는 조립체를 도시하고 있지만, 본 발명의 범주 내에서 전달 타깃이 채용될 수도 있다. Figure 1, but shows the assembly of the X- ray generated by the reflective target (19), may be employed delivery target within the scope of the invention.
본 발명에 따라 X-레이 이미지화를 위한 개별 X-레이 공급원의 사용은, X-레이 공급원 배열체의 차원과(1차원, 2차원, 또는 3차원), 스캐닝 모드[레스터(raster) 또는 패턴]와, 상이하거나 변화하는 에너지의 동적 사용과, 타임 게이팅(time gating)의 사용에 따라 변경된다. The use of separate X- ray source for X- ray imaging in accordance with the present invention, dimensions of the X- ray source and the arrangement (one-dimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional), the scanning mode [raster (raster) or pattern; and it is changed in accordance with the use of dynamic and used, the time-gating (time gating) of energy to different or change.
시간 해상도 능력은 공기 산란이 신호 대 잡음비(SNR)에 강한 영향을 미치는 장기간 사용시에 특히 유리할 수 있다. Time resolution ability can be particularly beneficial to the long term use of air scattering on a strong influence on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
본 발명의 제1 실시예가 도2를 참조하여 설명된다. First embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. X-레이 공급원(22)의 일차원 배열체(20)는 후방산란 감지기(23)와 함께 배열체의 종방향(통상적으로 수직방향) 축(21)의 하나 이상의 측면에 배치된다. A one-dimensional arrangement (20) of the X- ray source 22 is disposed on at least one side of the longitudinal (typically vertical) axis 21 of the arrangement with the back-scattered detector (23). 전체 장치(24)는 라인 바이 라 인(line-by-line) 원리에 따라 이미지를 생성하도록 횡방향(25)으로, 통상적으로는 수평 방향으로 병진 운동할 수 있다. The entire device 24 is in the cross direction 25 to produce an image in accordance with the line-by-line-(line-by-line) principle, and typically may be translated in a horizontal direction. 다르게는, 배열체(20)는 X-레이 빔(26)이 횡방향(즉, 통상적으로는 수평 방향)으로 스윕(sweep)하도록 종방향(통상적으로 수직 방향) 축(21)을 중심으로 회전될 수 있고, 이에 의해 전체 장치의 이동 없이 라인 바이 라인 이미지를 생성한다. Alternatively, the arrangement 20 includes a X- ray beam 26 is laterally (i.e., typically the horizontal direction) in the longitudinal direction so as to sweep (sweep) rotates around the (typically vertical) axis 21 It can be, and generates a line-by-line image, without moving the entire apparatus thereby. 이런 시스템은 예를 들면 밴(van) 내에 배치될 수 있는 전체 이미지 시스템의 이동 없이 X-레이 이미지가 단시간에 생성되어야 하는, 예를 들면 폭파물 감지 용도로서 적합하다. Such a system is for instance suitable as a van full X- ray image that should be generated in a short period of time, for example, blowing water use is not detected movement of the imaging system that may be disposed within (van). 이미지 라인은 하나의 공급원(22)을 연속적으로 동시에 턴온하여 배열체를 수직방향으로 래스터 스캐닝(raster scanning)함으로써 생성된다. Image lines are successively turned on at the same time by a single supply source (22) it is generated by a raster scanning (raster scanning) the arrangement in the vertical direction.
본 발명의 다른 실시예에 따르면, 하다마드에 기초한 부호화된 빔, 또는 그 밖에 다른 부호화된 빔이 사용된다. In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, it is a coded beam, or else other beam based on the Hadamard encoding is used. 빔의 부호화에 대한 논의는, 예를 들면 1994년도판 제141권 "IEE Proc. Sci. Meas. Technol."의 179-84면에 기재된 추(Chou)의 "Fourier coded-aperture imaging in nuclear medicine"와, 1986년도판 제3권 "J. Opt. Soc. Am. A"의 2167-70면에 기재된 메르츠(Mertz) 등의 "Rotational apeture synthesis for x rays"와, 1982년도판 제9권 "Med. Phys."의 324-39면에 기재된 진디(Gindi) 등의 "Imaging with rotating slit apertures and rotating collimators"에 개시되어 있으며, 이들 모두는 참고 문헌으로 인용된다. Discussion of the coding of the beam, for example, the plate 141 1994 "Fourier coded-aperture imaging in nuclear medicine" of the weight (Chou) according to 179-84 side of the "IEE Proc. Sci. Meas. Technol." and a plate 1986, Volume 3, "J. Opt. Soc. Am. a," such as Mertz (Mertz) disclosed in 2167-70 surface "Rotational apeture synthesis for x rays", and a plate of claim 9 in 1982 " Med. Phys. and is disclosed in Imaging with rotating slit apertures and rotating collimators "" of such as aphids (Gindi) according to 324-39 surface ", all of which are incorporated by reference.
전계 방출 X-레이 공급원은 상당한 빠른 속도, 통상적으로 30 ㎑ 만큼 빠른 속도로 전자적으로 온 및 오프 전환될 수 있다. The field emission X- ray source can be switched quite rapidly, typically electronically on and off as rapidly as 30 ㎑. 이는 부호화된 빔이 전환되거나(switched; 일 패턴으로부터 다른 패턴으로의 변화), 주기화되거나(cycled; 동일 한 회전), 또는 무효화(negated; 근거리 이미지에 대한 인위성을 감소시키기 위해 마스크로부터 안티마스크로의 변환)될 수 있음을 의미한다. This coded beam is switched, or (switched; one change in a different pattern from the pattern), periodized or (cycled; same rotation), or invalid (negated; anti mask from a mask to reduce the artificiality of the local area image It means that to be converted). 하다마드 부호화된 빔 또는 패턴화된 빔은, X-레이 플럭스가 방출되는 경우 특히 유리하게 사용될 수 있다. Hadamard coded beam or patterned beam, X- ray may be used to advantage, especially if the flux is emitted.
도3을 참조하면, 이차원 공급원 배열체(30)는 기계적으로 가동하는 부품을 구비하지 않고, 단시간 내에 [공급원(32)의 총 개수와 공급원의 디버전스에 의해 결정되는] 미리 정해진 입체각의 적용 범위를 허용할 수 있다. 3, the two-dimensional source array body 30 is not provided with a part movable mechanically, [which is determined by the divergence of the total of the number and source of supply (32) in a short period of time the coverage of the predetermined solid angle It can be accepted. 이는 CRT 또는 패턴 빔(하다마드 또는 부호화 기구)과 유사한 래스터 스캔 기구를 이용할 수 있다. This can be used to raster scan mechanism similar to a CRT or pattern beams (Hadamard or coding mechanism).
본 발명의 다른 실시예에 따라, 전체적으로 도면부호 40으로 지시된 제어된 속도를 갖는 시스템이 도4를 참조하여 설명된다. According to another embodiment of the invention, as a whole the reference numeral will be described with a system having a control the speed indicated by 40 with reference to FIG. 하나 이상의 후방산란 감지기(42)는 고정되지만, 공급원 배열체(44)는 감지기(42)에 인접하여 또는 감지기들 사이에서 방향(45)을 따라 전진 및 후진하면서 일정한 속도로 병진 운동한다. Fixing one or more backscatter detectors 42, but the supply arrangement (44) is translated in a constant rate, while moving forward and backward in a direction (45) between adjacent sensors (42) or sensor. 또한, 이런 시스템은 이하 설명되는 비월 모드(interlaced mode)에 사용된다. In addition, these systems are used in the interlaced mode (interlaced mode) is described below. 도4의 실시예는 도2의 실시예의 단점, 즉 시스템 속도의 변화로 인한 이미지의 뒤틀림 현상을 방지하기 위해 사용된다. Embodiment of Figure 4 is used to prevent the distortion of the image due to a change of an disadvantage, that the system speed is carried out in two. 배열체(20)의 속도에 따라, 사물은 압축되거나 신장되어 나타난다. Depending on the speed of the arrangement 20, the objects are displayed is compressed or stretched.
또한, 다용도성(versatility)은 도5에 도시된 실시예, 즉 둘 이상의 일차원 X-레이 공급원 배열체(51, 52)가 실린더(54)에 장착되는 실시예를 이용하여 달성될 수 있다. In addition, versatility (versatility) can be achieved using the embodiment which is mounted in the embodiment, that is, two or more one-dimensional X- ray source arrangement 51, 52 of the cylinder 54 shown in FIG. 배열체가 고속으로 전자적으로 턴온 및 턴오프될 수 있기 때문에, (도시되지 않은) 타깃을 조명하는 X-레이 빔(55)을 발생시키는 배열체만이 온 상태가 되 고 다른 배열체는 오프 상태가 되며, 이에 따라 하나의 배열체를 다른 배열체로부터 차단할 필요가 없게 된다. Because they can be electronically turned on and off by the body is high-speed arrangement, only the arrangement for generating an X- ray beam for illuminating a target (not shown) 55 is turned on is being different arrangement in the OFF state and, thus it is not necessary to block one of the array element from the other array body. 이런 모델의 다용도성은 설명되는 바와 같은 비월 모드를 포함하고 이미지를 연속적으로 축적하기 위해 이의 고유 성질에 존재한다. Including interlaced mode as multi-purpose of this model castle described and present in the intrinsic properties thereof, in order to accumulate the images continuously.
비월은 디자인의 기술적 한계로 인해 두 공급원들 사이의 최소 간격이 1㎝ 이지만 특정 용도를 위해 요구되는 해상도는 4㎜ 이격된 공급원을 필요로 한다. Interlace is a minimum distance between the two source 1㎝ due to technical limitations of the design, but the resolution required for a particular application will require a 4㎜ spaced source. 실린더에서, 3개의 일차원 배열체는 서로에 대해 120도 각도를 이루고 3.33㎜씩 수직 방향으로 이동되어 배치된다. In the cylinder, a three dimensional arrangement at an angle of 120 degrees with respect to each other are arranged is moved in the vertical direction by 3.33㎜. 각각의 배열체는 1㎝씩 이격된 라인들을 스캔하지만, 수직 방향으로의 이동으로 인해 실린더의 회전이 완료된 최종 이미지는 3.33㎜의 해상도를 가질 것이다. Each arrangement is the final image rotation is complete, the cylinder because of the movement in, but the scanning line spaced apart by 1㎝ vertical direction will have a resolution of 3.33㎜. 이런 작동 모드를 "비월 모드"라고 한다. This mode of operation is called "interlaced mode". 도4에 도시된 시스템에서, 비월 모드에 의한 이미지는 각각의 수평 패스에 대한 배열체의 수직적 병진 운동에 의해 제공될 수 있다. In the system shown in Figure 4, the image by the interlace mode may be provided by a vertical translation of the arrangement for each horizontal pass.
도2 및 도4에 도시된 실시예들에 따른 병진 운동 배열체는 (병진운동 속도에 따라) 정해진 시간에 타깃의 단위 면적당 동일한 X-레이의 조사량을 전달하는 일 패스를 라인 바이 라인 원리에 따라 이미지를 구성한다. FIG translation arrangement according to the second and the embodiment shown in Figure 4 (in accordance with the translation speed) along the work path to deliver a dose of the same X- ray per unit area of the target at a specified time in a line-by-line principle constitute the image. 도5의 회전형 실린더(54)는 일차원 배열체의 각각의 패스에 의해 낮은 통계적 이미지를 생성할 수 있고, 이를 전체 이미지(global image)에 추가한다. Figure 5 of the rotatable cylinder 54 may generate a low statistical image by each of the path of the one-dimensional arrangement, and add it to the whole image (global image). 이런 개념을 "연속성 축적 이미지(continuously-accumulated image: CAI)"라고 한다. This concept of "continuous accumulation of images (continuously-accumulated image: CAI)" is called. CAI 개념은 타깃에 대한 양이 제한될 필요가 있거나 패스 당 플럭스가 불충분한 경우에 유용하다. CAI concept or need to be the amount of the target restriction is useful in the case where the flux per pass insufficient. 작업자는 타깃 이미지의 디테일(detail)이 만족스러우면 스캔을 중지시킨다. The operator stops the scan you are satisfied with the detail (detail) of the target image. CAI가 유용한 일 용도는 급조 폭발물(IED)을 포함하는 것으로 의심되는 수화물을 X-레이 활성 트 리거(X-raty activated trigger)를 이용하여 이미지화하는 것이다. CAI is a useful one purpose is to imaged using an X- ray luggage active trigger (X-raty activated trigger) suspected of containing an improvised explosive device (IED). 이런 작동 모드에서, 픽셀 당 초기 전류는 낮다. In this mode of operation, the initial current per pixel is low. 이미지는 트리거는 회피되지만 중요한 디테일은 충분히 확인될 수 있도록 다수의 패스에 의해 형성된다. Image is avoided, but the trigger is an important detail is formed by a plurality of paths to be sufficiently confirmed.
스캔 시간의 비용 측면에 있어, 실린더형 시스템은 단순한 래스터 스캔이 사용되는 경우 일 배열체에서의 파손 공급원을 보상할 수 있다. In the cost of the scanning time, cylindrical systems have a simple raster scan to compensate for damage to the source in a case that is used one arrangement.
마지막으로, 전술된 바와 같은 개별 X-레이 공급원은 유리하게는 표면의 즉석 재료 인식을 생성하기 위한 X-레이 형광 맵핑화 또는 분광 이미지화를 위해 사용될 수 있다. Finally, each X- ray source as described above advantageously can be used for the X- ray fluorescence spectroscopy or imaging screen map for generating an instantaneous recognition of the surface material. 이런 용도는 형광 라인을 인식하기 위해 적절한 에너지 해상도를 갖는 감지기를 필요로 한다. These applications require a detector with an appropriate energy resolution to recognize the fluorescent line.
본 발명의 다른 실시예에 따르면, 선형 또는 이차원 배열체로 구성된 탄소 나노튜브 X-레이 공급원은 전술한 바와 같이 순차적으로 트리거된다. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a linear or carbon nanotubes X- ray source configured body two-dimensionally arrayed it is triggered sequentially as described above. 현재 사용되고 있거나 앞으로 개발될 다른 개별 X-레이 공급원은 실질적으로 동일한 방식으로 채용될 수도 있으며, 이들은 본 명세서와 첨부한 특허청구범위에 기재된 바와 같이 본 발명의 범주 내에 있다. Other individual X- ray source to be used or the current developed in the future are employed may be substantially the same way, these are within the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims and the specification.
이런 용도로서 이런 유형의 X-레이 공급원 배열체의 사용은 특히 다음과 같은 이유로 유리하다. As for this purpose the use of these types of X- ray source arrangement is particularly advantageous for the following reasons.
· X-레이 공급원은 특히 X-레이 방출의 라인에 따른 치수로서 초소형일 수 있다. · X- ray source may be very small, especially as the size of the lines of the X- ray radiation.
· X-레이 빔의 선형 배열체의 사용은 유리하게는 단일 지점 공급원과 관련된 이미지 뒤틀림을 감소시킬 수 있다. · The use of a linear arrangement of the X- ray beam is advantageously possible to reduce the image distortion associated with single point sources.
· X-레이를 발생시키기 위한 방법은 통상의 단일 지점 X-레이 공급원에 기반을 둔 시스템보다 월등히 우수한 이미지 획득, 형상 및 동선의 유연성을 제공한다. · How to generate the X- ray provides a significantly better image acquisition, geometry and copper flexibility than systems based on the conventional single point of the X- ray source.
· X-레이 공급원의 선형 배열체의 순차적 트리거를 이용함으로써, 후방산란 이미지는 공급원들 사이의 혼선(cross-talk) 없이 획득 가능하다. , By using the sequential firing of the linear arrangement of the X- ray source, a backscatter image can be acquired without cross-talk (cross-talk) between the supply source.
· 스캔될 사람을 둘 이상의 관점에서 동시에 포획하는 구조에 사용되는 경우, 본 발명은 유리하게는 검사되는 사물의 처리량을 향상시킨다. , When used in a person to be scanned in structure to take at the same time at more than one point of view, the present invention improves the throughput of the inspection is to glass objects.
본 발명의 다른 실시예는 도6A를 참조하여 설명된다. Another embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to Figure 6A. 선형 배열체(111) 또는 이차원 배열체로 구성된 탄소 나노튜브 X-레이 공급원(110) 세트는 스캔될 사람(112)의 (도시된 바와 같이) 상측 또는 측면에 배치된다. Linear array element 111, or a carbon nanotube composed of two-dimensional array body X- ray source 110 is set is arranged on the upper side or on the side (as illustrated) of the person (112) to be scanned. 사람이 검사의 대표적인 사물로서 도시되어 있지만, 본 명세서에 개시된 장치 및 방법은 생물이든 무생물이든 임의의 사물에 유용하게 적용될 수 있다. While a person is shown as a representative object of inspection, or the device and method disclosed herein or non-living organisms can be applied usefully in any object.
후방산란 또는 측방 산란 검출기일 수 있는 산란 검출기(114)는, 예를 들면 산란된 X선을 포획하도록 위치 설정될 수 있다. Scattering detector, which may be backscatter or side scatter detector 114 is, for example, may be positioned to trap the scattered X-rays. 사람은 X-레이 빔(116)을 걸어서 이동하거나, 또는 컨베이어(118) 또는 피플무버(people mover)와 같은 수단에 의해 이동함에 따라 스캔된다. One is scanned as it moves by a means such as a moving walk the X- ray beam 116, or conveyor 118 or the people mover (people mover). 손잡이(119)가 제공될 수도 있다. It may be provided with a handle (119). 개별의 공급원(110)은 공지된 알고리듬에 따라 공간 해상도를 제공하기 위해 순차적으로 활성화될 수 있다. A source (110) of the individual may be activated sequentially to provide spatial resolution in accordance with known algorithms. 도6B는 전체적으로 도면부호 100으로 지시된 검사 스테이션을 가로지르는 피실험자(12)의 연속적인 위치를 도시한다. 6B shows the successive positions of the subjects (12) across the inspection station, indicated generally by reference number 100. 검사 스테이션(100)은 전방 공급원(160)과 후방 공급원(162)을 가지며, 각각의 공급원은 도6A에 도시된 공급 원(111)과 같은 선형 배열체를 포함할 수 있고, 각각의 공급원은 도면을 가로지르는 축을 따라 배열된 다수의 개별 X-레이 공급원을 포함한다. Inspection station 100 may comprise a linear arrangement, such as a front source (160) and has a rear source 162, each source of supply source 111 shown in Figure 6A, each source of the drawings the comprises a plurality of individual X- ray sources disposed along an axis transverse. 피실험자(112)는, 검사 스테이션을 가로질러 이동하는 동안 각각의 공급원(160, 162)에 의해 피실험자의 상이한 부분들이 스캔되도록, 걸어서 이동하거나 컨베이어(118)에 의해 이동된다. Subject 112 while moving across the inspection station so that scan different portions of the subject by a respective source (160, 162), is moved or is moved by the conveyor 118, by foot.
본 발명의 다른 실시예가 도7A 및 도7B에 도시되어 있고, 이 구조는 현재 사용중인 금속 탐지기의 구조와 비슷하다. It is shown in another embodiment of FIGS. 7A and 7B according to the present invention, and the structure is similar to the structure of the metal detectors currently being used. 도7B의 평면도에 도시된 바와 같이, 그리고 도2A의 정면도에 보다 명확하게 도시된 바와 같이, X-레이 공급원 배열체(210)는 X-레이(212)를 방출한다. A, and as more clearly shown in the front view of Fig. 2A, X- ray source arrangement 210, as shown in the plan view of Figure 7B will emit X- rays 212. X-레이(212)는 전반적으로 도면부호 200으로 지시된 검사 스테이션을 피실험자(112)가 지나갈 때 상기 피실험자와 충돌한다. X- ray 212 as a whole by reference number subject to the inspection station indicated at 200 112 passes collides with the subject. 피실험자(112)에 의해 또는 상기 피실험자가 휴대하거나 착용한 사물에 의해 산란된 방사선은 산란 감지기(220)에 의해 감지된다. The radiation scattered by the object or by the subject to carry, or worn by the subject 112 are detected by scatter detector 220. 산란 검출기(220)는 산란 감지가 감지한 투과력을 갖는 방사선에 기초하여 산란 신호를 발생시키고, 산란 신호는 공지된 알고리듬에 따라 위험성 재료와 사물을 감지 및 인지하거나, 또는 검사된 사물에 대해 적절하게 처리된 이미지를 디스플레이 모니터(240)에 표시하도록 프로세서(230)에 의해 처리한다. Scattering detector 220 generates a scatter signal based on the radiation having the permeability detected scattering detection, the scattering signal as appropriate for the perceived sense the risk of material and objects according to a known algorithm and, or inspection objects the processing by the processor 230 to display on the monitor 240 displays the processed image. 어느 경우에나, 이미지는 생성되고, 본 명세서 및 특허청구범위에 사용된 용어 "이미지(image)"는 검사된 사물의 공간적 특정 요소에 상응하는 정렬된 배열체의 값들을 의미한다. In either case, the image is generated, the description and the patent claims, the terms used in the "image (image)" means the value of the aligned arrangement corresponding to a particular spatial element of the inspected object. 이런 기하학적 배열이 이미지 데이터의 뒤틀림(distortion) 및 섀도잉(shadowing)을 최소화하기 때문에, 형상 인식(shape recognition)에 의존하는 자동화된 감지 기술은 감소된 이미지 뒤틀림과 섀도잉으 로 인해 상당한 장점을 갖는다. This because of the geometric arrangement is to minimize the distortion (distortion), and shadowing (shadowing) of the image data, automated detection techniques that rely on shape recognition (shape recognition) has a significant advantage due to the reduced image distortion and a shadow ingeu. 이런 장점들은 종래의 전달 및 후방산란 수화물 시스템에 적용될 수도 있다. This advantage may be applied to conventional transmission and backscatter baggage systems.
지금까지 설명된 본 발명의 실시예들은 단지 예시이며, 무수한 변형예 및 변경예가 가능함은 본 기술분야의 당업자에게 자명하다. The embodiments of the invention described thus far are merely illustrative examples, numerous variations are possible examples, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. 이런 모든 변형예 및 변경예는 첨부된 특허청구범위에 한정된 바와 같이 본 발명의 범주 내에서 의도된다. All such modifications, and variations are intended to come within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
c. c. 감지 신호의 시간적 변화에 기초하여 사물의 이미지를 구성하는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. Based on the temporal change of the detection signal by way imaged object comprising the steps that make up the image of the object.
제1항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체를 이동시키는 단계를 더 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1 wherein the imaged object further comprises the step of moving the arrangement of the individual X- ray source.
제1항에 있어서, 축을 중심으로 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체를 회전시키는 단계를 더 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1, wherein the center axis of the imaged object, which method further comprises the step of rotating the arrangement of each X- ray source.
제1항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체를 병진 운동시키는 단계를 더 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1 wherein the imaged object further comprises the step of translation of the arrangement of the individual X- ray source.
제4항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원의 배열체는 배열체 축에 의해 특징지워 지며, 배열체를 병진 운동시키는 단계는 배열체 축에 대해 대체로 횡방향으로 배열체를 병진 운동시키는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 4, wherein the arrangement of the individual X- ray source is a step of are characterized by a shaft arrangement, translation of the arrangement comprising the step of substantially translational motion the arrangement transverse to the axis arrangement how to imaged objects.
제1항에 있어서, 미리 정해진 시간적 패턴은 하다마드 코드를 구성하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1 wherein the imaged objects that make up the predetermined temporal pattern Hadamard code.
제1항에 있어서, 사물과 상호 작용한 후에 X-레이를 감지하는 단계는 사물에 의해 산란된 X-레이를 감지하는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1 wherein the imaged object for sensing a X- ray after the objects and the interaction comprises a step for detecting the X- rays scattered by the object.
제1항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계는 전계 방출 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of activating a separate X- ray source is imaged object method comprising the step of activating a field emission source.
제8항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계는 반사 타깃을 각각 포함하는 복수개의 전계 방출 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of activating a separate X- ray source is imaged object method comprising the step of activating a plurality of field emission sources comprises a reflective target, respectively.
제8항에 있어서, 개별 X-레이 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계는 전달 타깃을 각각 포함하는 복수개의 전계 방출 공급원을 활성화시키는 단계를 포함하는 사물 이미지화 방법. 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of activating a separate X- ray source is imaged object method comprising the step of activating a plurality of field emission sources comprises a delivery target, respectively.
c. c. 산란 신호를 수신하여 사물의 이미지를 생성하는 프로세서를 포함하는 검사 시스템. Receiving scattered signals by the inspection system comprising a processor for generating an image of the object.
제11항에 있어서, 투과성을 갖는 방사선의 개별 공급원은 탄소 나노튜브 X-레이 공급원인 검사 시스템. The method of claim 11, wherein the individual sources of radiation having a permeability CNT X- ray inspection system supply source.
c. c. 사물의 이미지를 생성하도록 산란 신호를 처리하는 단계를 포함하는 사물 검사 방법. Objects inspection method comprising the step of processing the scattered signals to produce images of an object.
제13항에 있어서, 복수개의 선형 배열체에 의한 조명을 진행하는 동안 사물을 이동시키는 단계를 더 포함하는 사물 검사 방법. The method of claim 13, wherein the test object further comprises the step of moving the objects during the illumination by the plurality of linear arrangement. | 2019-04-22T02:23:16Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20090015929A/en | Porn | Arts | 0.101331 |
wordpress | We may have just wrapped up with the holidays, but apparently everyone’s favorite non-denominational winter holiday has put on its best vintage suit with matching fedora, poured itself a late-morning Scotch, lit up a Lucky Strike, and come ridiculously early! No no, hipsters have not overtaken the nation’s IHOPs for hangover-fueled yet nonetheless ironic feasts of All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes (though you’d better believe they knew All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes before All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes were big). Rather, AMC’s Mad Men blog has already announced that season three of Mad Men is out on DVD March 23rd! SQUEEE!
Given how season two didn’t come out ’til the middle of last July, getting more Mad Men on DVD so soon certainly comes as a surprise, but that’s not a bad surprise. Just a surprise that’s going to have me breathing into a paper bag for the next several minutes. | 2019-04-19T11:14:19Z | https://nobodyputsbabyinahorner.wordpress.com/category/dvds/ | Porn | News | 0.929933 |
wordpress | I made this cake for a wedding on the Gold Coast yesterday!
The top tier is a 10″ Hummingbird Cake filled with Cream Cheese Frosting and some Decorator’s Buttercream to go directly under the sugarpaste.
The bottom tier is a 12″ Dark Chocolate Jaffa Mud Cake filled and coated with Dark Chocolate Ganache and covered in sugarpaste.
Making and using black sugarpaste can be a nightmare and so for this special cake I purchased ‘Satin Ice’ Ready Made black sugarpaste. The white sugarpaste is Bakel’s.
Three of the sketches used in the design stages.
Preheat the oven to 160C (Fan Forced). Grease the tin and line the base and sides with a collar that extends 2 cm above the top of the tin. Add baking strips (made from damp cloths wrapped in tin foil) around the outside of the cake tin.
Put the butter, chocolate, coffee, water and fresh orange juice in a saucepan and stir over low heat until melted, then remove from the heat.
Sift the flours, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar and make a well in the centre. Add the combined egg, orange zest, oil and buttermilk and the chocolate mixture, stirring with a large spoon until completely combined.
Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 2 hours or until a skewer poked into the centre of the cake comes out clean, though it may be a little sticky.
A 250ml measuring cup was used for this recipes.
one and a half tablespoons of ‘Pavlova Magic’.
If using a can of crushed pineapple, empty the contents into a strainer over a medium bowl. Set aside to drain.
Grease a deep 10” square cake pan and line the base and sides with baking paper.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Celsius fan-forced). If you are not using a fan-forced oven, adjust the oven rack to the lower half of the oven so the centre of the cake will be in the centre of the oven.
Stir or whisk self-raising flour, plain flour, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon together in a large bowl until combined.
Measure 62ml (1/4 cup) pineapple juice/syrup and 110g (1/2 cup) pineapple flesh.
Place eggs, oil, banana, brown sugar, pecan nuts, crushed pineapple and pineapple juice in a large bowl. Stir the ingredients together until well combined.
Add banana mixture to flour mixture and stir until combined.
Pour batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface with a spatula or the back of a spoon.
Bake cake for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, until a thin-bladed knife or wooden skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out without any batter attached.
Allow cake to cool in pan on a wire rack. Remove from pan.When cool cut in half and fill with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Place icing sugar in a mixer and mix on high speed for a few seconds to remove any lumps. Add butter, cream cheese and lemon juice to the food processor. Process on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Stop the machine and use a spatula to scrape down the side of the bowl. Process for a further 15 seconds, or until the frosting is smooth and creamy. Make a dam of Decorator’s Buttercream around the edge of the cake and fill in the middle with the frosting.
Melt/soften the copha (make sure soft all the way through, or just melt) (Solite is already soft, so just add straight to the bowl).
Add copha/solite and softened butter to mixer, start mixing, add lemon juice.
Add the icing sugar a cup at a time, once combined add pav magic, and water. Leave to mix for about 10 minutes.
Smooth over the sides and top of the cake and leave till firm.
Knead some white icing to a pliable dough and roll it out to 3 mm (1/8 in) thick, using a large rolling pin.
Cut out 3.5 cm wide strips of black and white sugarpaste the height of the cake. You will need 20 black strips and 16 white strips plus 4 white corner strips which you can custom cut to fit once all the other strips are in place. Start off each side by marking the midpoint and sticking the first black strip right in the middle.
Let the cakes sit for a couple of hours to allow the icing to dry before you make the lids. Brush the top of the cakes with a little water (or syrup) and run the brush around the top inch of the side of the cakes. Knead 700g of the white icing for the top box lid and 900g for the the bottom box lid.Once the dough is pliable, roll out each piece till they are at least 8 in larger than the width of each box. Roll the icing over your rolling pin, lift it up and roll it over the cake. Smooth the top and sides with a flexi-scraper. Use a ruler to mark the edge of the lid on all 4 sides. Trim the lid with a sharp knife.
Knead 500g of the black sugarpaste to a pliable dough and roll out. Measure length of ribbon needed. Cut out 4 strips of the required length by 3.5 cm wide. Trim one end of each ribbon into a point to help fit the ribbons together on top of the cake. Stick to the cake with water or edible glue and trim excess ends with a knife.
To make the bow simply follow this video.
Once the bow is completely dry use edible glue to stick it to your cake.
I hope you enjoy making the cake as much as I did. | 2019-04-24T20:07:31Z | https://cutesweetthings.wordpress.com/tag/wedding/ | Porn | Science | 0.265217 |
wordpress | When I didn’t watch the most recent GOP presidential candidate debates, I thought I was safe. I didn’t even watch Chris Matthews’ take on the event, opting instead for a rerun of Vera on my local OPB station. But GOP debates are like Doritos: they’re irresistible if they are just there on the counter—just like all the articles about the debate.
Candidates’ predictable answers were building walls, fighting Planned Parenthood, supporting more guns, throwing more money at the military, and, naturally, repealing “Obamacare.” Rand Paul threw out some red meat about giving blank checks to the intelligence agencies that trample American rights and the questionable approach of fighting ISIS while trying to overthrow the group’s biggest enemy, Syrian president Bashar Assad. Nobody took his bait.
Trump won because he avoided the fray.
Ted Cruz failed when his attempt to his Trump boomeranged. Flip-flopper Marco Rubio attacked him by saying, “The truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you’ve been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes.” Cruz’s awkward explanations left him looking like a loser.
Rand Paul and Jeb Bush showed much better than the past without Trump’s insults, but their performance won’t help their single-digit ratings.
Ben Carson was notable for his soporific style and his customary absurd statements. Vladimir Putin “is a one-horse country: oil and energy.” His quoting of the preamble to the Constitution got part of it wrong.
Chris Christie typically brags about his decision-making and accountability, but his defense about Bridgegate is that he fired people for politically-motivated crimes because he didn’t know anything about what they were doing. Not accountable, Christie. He closed with complaining about not being able to find his wife for several hours after the World Trade towers went down on 9/11.
Since the debate, the media is having a field day with Hillary Clinton’s emails, stressing her “lies.” Much of the media doesn’t stress the fact that Ashton Carter, Secretary of the Defense, relied on a personal email account to conduct a portion of his government business during his first months at the Pentagon. Or that the GOP lies so much that fact-checkers are becoming more indifferent. Among the lies on the debate state, these five stood out.
False: The Affordable Care Act has forced millions into joblessness and part-time work. True: Since the ACA’s employer mandate went into effect at the beginning of last year, the U.S. economy added over 2.4 million jobs.
False: “Last year there were 81,000 pages of government regulations.” True: The Federal Register has over 82,000 pages of regulations but a massive number of these pages don’t contain regulations or rules.
False: Rubio never supported blanket amnesty. True: Rubio keeps saying this to save his skin, but his record shows that he backed a limited path to citizenship in 2013.
False: Trump never asked for Megyn Kelly to be removed. True: Trump did claim that he didn’t once ask that Kelly be removed, but he did ask for this many times.
When candidates weren’t outright lying, they were “stretching” the truth.
President Obama said that the January 7 shooting of a Philadelphia police officer may have been connected with terrorism but that he would let the city police department make that decision.
President Obama also didn’t kill the 2007 comprehensive immigration bill supported by George W. Bush when the president was a senator. The only influential part he played was to argue that workers should remain on the payroll during appeals to not being on a database of those legally authorized to work.
When John Kasich defended his Medicaid expansion with reducing prison recidivism in Ohio, he used numbers of inmates released well before he permitted the expansion. He also bragged about the 400,000 jobs gained in Ohio during his term, but that rate is well below the national average.
Cruz claimed an amendment he offered to the 2013 immigration bill “didn’t say a word about legalization,” but the effect of the amendment would have been to allow legalization of those in the country illegally.
Fact-checkers may need to change to a different process. For a shorter list, they could determine which statements in each GOP are true.
With Trump absent from the Fox debate, moderator Megyn Kelly picked Ted Cruz as the scapegoat. To destroy his credibility, she showed four video clips of his speeches in which he was working toward legal status for undocumented immigrants, something that Cruz denies ever having supported. Believing themselves to have knocked off the top GOP competitor, the conservative network is going for the next one. The question is which presidential candidate that the network will promote for top dog.
My Doritos chip bag is now empty. I’ll have to get another one to survive the first primary of 2016. On Monday, February 1, 2016, 120,000 voters in Iowa will determine their preference for president within each party in a non-binding caucus. That’s 0.00082017073 percent of the registered voters in the United States supposedly giving direction to the rest of the country, but the preoccupation with this primary has created a lot of jobs.
Jane Mayer, writer for The New Yorker, has just published Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Her personal adventure with the Koch brothers began five years ago when she learned about private investigators digging into her background. She had just published an in-depth piece chronicling the rise of the “Kochtopus,” headlined “Covert Operations,” which brought the Koch brothers in the limelight that they avoided for decades. Her depiction of them as secretive bankrollers warring against President Obama and environmental safety measures enraged the Koch brothers.
Mayer was first accused of plagiarism when David Strong, reporter at the conservative Daily Caller, asked David Remnick, New Yorker editor, this allegation and sent several pieces that attempt to back up his allegation. New York Post reporter Keith Kelly, who received the same allegations, asked the Daily Caller’s editor Tucker Carlson, about the origins. He couldn’t support the information and dropped it, but Strong refused to talk to Kelly about the story. When the purported victims stated that there was no plagiarism, the accusation collapsed. It took Mayer three years to track the origin.
The general counsel of Koch Industries also sent a letter to the American Society of Magazine Editors tried to keep the New Yorker from receiving a National Magazine Award for Mayer’s writing about the Koch brothers. That also failed.
It’s understandable why the Koch brothers would want to smear Mayer’s book. She tells about how their father helped build a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany. Fred C. Koch became successful in business in the years immediately preceding World War II. The oil refinery, third largest in the Third Reich and vital to Hitler’s war machine, came from his partnership with U.S. Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis. Fred Koch admired German discipline so much in the 1930s that he hired a fervent Nazi as a governess for his eldest boys.
In 1938, the same year that Hitler’s new laws seized assets and confiscated property from Jews, Fred Koch said, “Although nobody agrees with me, I am of the opinion that the only sound countries in the world are Germany, Italy, and Japan, simply because they are all working and working hard…. When you contrast the state of mind of Germany today with what it was in 1925 you begin to think that perhaps this course of idleness, feeding at the public trough, dependence on government, etc., with which we are afflicted is not permanent and can be overcome.” Conservatives can trace their current philosophy back to Nazi Germany.
Mayer also writes about the oldest Koch brother, William, participating in blackmail with Charles and David to force David’s twin, Frederick, to relinquish any claim to the family business. If he had not, the other three said that would tell their father that Frederick is gay. This information comes from the 700-page book Stealth: The History of Charles Koch’s Political Activities, that William commissioned to describe Charles’ secret plan to manipulate U.S. politics.
In the 1990s, Koch Industries admitted that it had pocketed millions and millions of dollars by mis-measuring oil from Indian reservations and stealing it. The Koch brothers said that it was an accident, but no other companies had this problem.
Twenty years ago, Koch Industries environmental technician Sally Barnes-Soliz revealed that their Texas refinery was releasing 15 times more than the legal limit of benzene into the atmosphere. When Koch falsified a report by 1/149th of the amount she calculated, she reported that also. Barnes-Soliz got an empty office with no email access, and Koch Industries paid $20 million. She quit in 1999 with an undisclosed settlement.
Dark Money chronicles how a small sect of the ultrarich—Richard Mellon Scaife (heir to the Mellon banking fortune) and Harry and Lynde Bradley (brothers wealthy from military contracts) among them—were largely creators of the current conservative movement, now controlled by Charles and David Koch. With others, these political donors poured hundreds of millions of dollars, usually with little or no public disclosure, into supposedly non-profit organizations for anti-government and anti-tax purposes under the veil of promoting public interest.
The Koch brothers are known for their heavy investment in fossil fuels and their leadership in funding climate change denial. Their “crown jewel” is the Pine Hill Refinery in Rosemount (MN), polluting the air with emissions from heavy “garbage” crude from Alberta’s tar sands by daily importing 25 per cent of the 1.2 million barrels of oil into the U.S.
Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute which issued reports such as “Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, Environmentalism and the Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Global Warming.” A non-peer reviewed study claiming that climate change was not endangering polar bears came from Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation with funds from ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute. Other climate denial reports came from funding provided by Scaife, heir to the Gulf Oil fortune, and John Olin, whose companies have manufactured DDT.
The nucleus of the Koch donors comes from an owner of coal reserves, two fracking pioneers, and a variety of oilmen and coal company owners. Between 2003 and 2010, climate denial groups colleged over one-half billion dollars which came from self-identified tax-exempt, philanthropic endeavour,” according to Robert Bruelle, Drexel University professor of sociology.
The Koch brothers attack on climatologist Michael Mann was more successful than the one on Jane Mayer. Co-author of a 1999 study showing the way that the earth’s temperature shot up in the 20th century, Mann was briefly discredited by a hacker who gained access to internal emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Misconstrued wording in one email about Mann and his research led to congressional Republicans investigating Mann and sending threatening letters to Penn State about their tenured professor. A self-described CIA officer offered Mann’s departmental colleagues $10,000 for any dirt they could find on him. State GOP legislatures withheld Penn State’s funding until the university took action against Mann. He received death threats and opened a letter with white powder. Mann was exonerated, but the episode left a trail of terror for other researchers.
The Koch’s vast network was designed to persuade other wealthy business owners to donate to the Koch-controlled political groups. Scaife, who died in 2014, joined Koch’s cause with over a billion dollars to prevent his inheritance tax by donating its net income to charity for 20 years. Koch-financed groups provided strategies to oppose the Affordable Care Act and climate change mitigation while supporting cuts to Social Security. Mayer reports that in 2011 about then House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) visiting David Koch for help in resolving a debt ceiling stalemate.
“The Kochs have built kind of an assembly line to manufacture political change. And it includes think tanks, which produce papers. It includes advocacy groups, that advocate for policies. And it includes giving money to candidates. And you put those three together, and they’ve pushed against doing anything about climate change on all those three fronts at once. So you get papers that look like they’re real scientific opinions doubting that climate change is real, you get advocacy groups saying we can’t afford to do anything about it, and you get candidates who have to sign a pledge that—their largest political group is Americans for Prosperity.
Charles Koch was a member of the John Birch Society that his father helped found, and both brothers thought that President Eisenhower was a communist and Ronald Reagan was too liberal to be a president. Their attempt to reform the criminal system is based on getting rid of crimes related to pollution, corporate crime, and tax crimes. And they control billions of dollars to push their agenda. That’s what the progressives are facing in this year’s election.
Insurgents at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are in their fourth week of occupation since a small group of armed white people came to central Oregon with the original intent to get two ranchers, in prison for a variety of charges including arson on public lands, released. Occupiers then transferred to a goal of getting all the public land in Harney County given back to ranchers. To accomplish this end, they are keeping the public from using the refuge and rummaging through 4,000-year-old Native American artifacts. Other illegal acts are tearing down a federally-built fence and surveillance cameras while stealing federal vehicles—wrecking at least one of them.
The debacle took a bizarre turn last weekend when Glenn Palmer, sheriff of nearby Grant County, said he wants the government “concede” to the occupiers by releasing the ranchers from prison and send the FBI away. That action would be just “a start,” according to Palmer. According to the Oathkeeper’s website, Palmer offered occupier leader Ammon Bundy a sanctuary in Grant County if he would leave the Refuge. Palmer has been very definite about not having spoken to Bundy personally, but he has texted him.
Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe, who has been helping Harney County Sheriff David Ward in Burns, said that Palmer “doesn’t help the cause. If anything, it hampers the effort to end this.” Wolfe, president of the Oregon State Sheriffs Association, said the state’s other sheriffs are concerned with Palmer’s conduct.
Palmer’s discussion with the occupiers started almost two weeks ago when he met in John Day with three insurgents and ten Grant County residents. John Day is 100 miles north of the refuge. After meeting privately with the sheriff, occupier Ryan Payne said, “[Sheriff Palmer] has a practical plan for helping unravel the federal government.” Palmer is a part of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a national nonprofit which interprets the constitution to severely limit federal government powers. Founder Richard Mack urges officials to overthrow county governments one by one to pursue a right-wing agenda.
Logger Tad Houpt, whose complaints about federal land management are promoted by the Koch-backed American Lands Council, has advertised a meeting in Grant County to learn about the Constitution and consider a Committee of Safety. Occupiers used the “committee” in Harney County to first establish credibility and then control the committee. Lead occupiers plan to attend the Grant County meeting. Grant County may provide fertile ground for the dissidents with residents unhappy about the slowness in restoring logging on the Malheur National Forest and plans to close forest service roads.
The occupiers have voted to convene a “common law grand jury” overseen by Tea Party activist and so-called “sovereign citizen” Joaquin Mariano DeMoreta-Folch. Earlier illegal “grand juries” have resulted in government officials being kidnapped and beaten. Jury members have also filed fraudulent liens against officials’ homes and stalked or harassed them for years afterward. Typical indictment from extralegal grand juries is usually treason that carries a death penalty.
The FBI refuses to allow media to tape its “negotiations” with the occupiers, but the insurgents have taped and released them to the public. Insurgents have said they will leave only after investigations into a large number of federal agencies and the complete turnover of public lands throughout the nation to private citizens. Law enforcement have allowed armed infiltrators throughout Harney County, creating danger for all residents. Ryan Payne has voiced the opinion of the occupiers that they have the legal authority to kill police officers who, according to the occupiers, are “unlawfully trying to arrest” them.
The Paiute tribe is requesting that occupiers be blocked from free access to come and go from the refugee. Tribal chair, Charlotte Roderique, also told U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch that the government that it is obligated under its treaty with the Northern Paiutes to inflict punishment for “any crime or injury…perpetrated by any white man upon the Indians.” Roderique is concerned that the insurgents will finance their occupation by selling valuable Indian artifacts, especially if they can continue to mail materials. Videos have shown the occupiers rifling through these artifacts.
Drone hobbyist Mark Cooper made this video of the refugee last Saturday.
The peaceful life of the occupiers of federal property is a huge contrast to another occupation over 40 years ago. While the occupiers can come and go from the refuge whenever they want, shopping at local stores and eating at local restaurants, Leonard Peltier, leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), has been imprisoned since the federal government’s armed raid on Indian land at Wounded Knee in 1973. Peltier was convicted on the word of Myrtle Poor Bear who retracted her statement 16 years ago, explaining that FBI agents had abused her to get the testimony. The FBI admitted that they didn’t know who was responsible for the deaths of two FBI agents, but Peltier is not scheduled to be released from prison until 2040 when he will be 96 years old.
Beatings, deprivation of medical care, inadequate nutrition, and a disregard for his failing health are causing Peltier to die a slow isolated death. A stroke left him almost blind in one eye, he can barely walk because of untreated bone spurs, and an ever-worsening jaw condition from a prison beating causes difficulty in eating. Peltier has had a heart attack, a severely inflamed prostate condition, and diabetes. Early this month he was diagnosed with a serious abdominal aortic aneurism requiring immediate surgery, but nothing has been done about it. White insurgents, several of them at Malheur, have never been charged for pulling guns on federal officials last year on Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada.
Native American activist Morningstar, a member of the Pit River Tribe that shares a boundary with the Paiute, also commented about the people whose land has been “occupied again by armed white people,” this time white ranchers and cattlemen. They claim “sovereignty” over land that has been inhabited by these tribes for thousands of years, calling themselves the “original caretakers of the land.” She is highly concerned about the occupation of the refuge that contains sacred burial grounds of their tribes’ ancient ancestors and extensive personal records about the community and its people.
Whenever unarmed black people are killed, conservatives are fond of saying, “If you don’t comply, you die.” They become enraged when President Obama trades prisoners with Iran. Yet the current conservative position is that the lawbreakers at the refuge should be given everything they want.
Cries for free expression inundate the media amid complaints about “political correctness,” but where is the free expression in the fundamentalist Christian religion?
Academia is denigrated by conservatives as a liberal environment brainwashing students’ minds, yet evangelical and Catholic schools are praised for controlling female clothing, dating and social life, and even behavior of faculty members in their own homes that are subject to unannounced inspections. One teacher reported that her vanilla extract was confiscated for its alcohol content. Heaven forbid that any students are openly LGBT, transgender professors transition, women get pregnant out of wedlock, and couples divorce. At least 35 schools received federal waivers allowing them to discriminate against LGBT, female, and pregnant students and faculty while taxpayers continue to send funding to the colleges.
Student clubs for nonbelievers can be restricted, and Liberty University banned the student Democratic club. Katha Pollitt wrote that she was required to sign a statement promising that she wouldn’t offend Catholic doctrine before her speech at two Catholic colleges. Larycia Hawkins was suspended from Wheaton College for stating on Facebook that Christians and Muslims “worship the same god.” The school also requires that faculty sign a faith statement declaring their belief in the literal Adam in Genesis. John Schneider, professor of theology at Calvin College, was forced into retirement after he published an article questioning the story of Adam and Eve.
All the GOP presidential candidates express opposition to Sharia law but want to mandate Christian law. The worst of these candidates may be Ted Cruz, as he continues to pick up endorsements from religious right activists. The most recent is Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer labeled by some as a cult and known for its nonstop 24-hour-a-day prayer in preparation for the End Times and its anti-gay activism in Uganda. According to Bickle, LGBT marriage is “rooted in the depths of hell,” homosexuality “opens the door to the demonic realm,” and Oprah Winfrey is a forerunner of the Antichrist. He called her “one of the clear pastors, forerunners, to the harlot movement.” Earlier in his campaign, Cruz shared a state with Kevin Swanson, who demands the death penalty for homosexuality.
He claims that “the purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan” and closes with “I try to allow [his religious belief] to influence me in everything that I do.” In between, he says much more about how Christianity should lead the country. There was once a time when a president’s religious views were personal and private—even a time when a presidential candate’s religion made voters question whether they should vote for him. No more. It’s all on the table now: vote for [fill in the blank] because he’s the most Christian.
The recent accusation of Christian victimization comes from their sense of extreme entitlement and their fundamentalist creed “do as I believe.” For example, in a case before the Supreme Court a church claims that Missouri illegally excluded their playground from a state program that provided safer play surfaces.
Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia wants state funding to replace the pea gravel in its day-care center’s playground with recycled tires. The letter of refusal stated a section of the state constitution that “no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion.” A judge agreed with the state position, and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals panel split 2-1 on its decision after the church appealed.
The church’s attorney claimed the case is about “religious hostility.” He said, “This case [Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley] has huge implications for state constitutional provisions across the nation that treat religious Americans and organizations as inferiors solely because of their religious identity.” In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that states offering college scholarships can deny them to students majoring in theology. Churches want “equality” but pay no taxes while demanding handouts.
While Kansas suffers from disastrous financial problems, one GOP legislator is more concerned with what women are wearing. Mitch Holmes, chair of the state Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, has announced a dress code for women who come to testify. Not men, just women because women’s dress can be “distracting.” His 11-point code of conduct includes inappropriateness of “low-cut necklines and miniskirts” because he says there are “provocatively clad women” at the Capitol. According to Holmes, men don’t need fashion guidance.
Even other Republicans were appalled at Holmes’ mandates, saying that they haven’t noticed any problems. Sen. Vicki Schmidt said, “Who’s going to define low-cut? Does it apply to senators?” Sen. Carolyn McGinn said that people without clothes that meet Holmes standards might e deterred from testifying.
Mesa Valley School District 51, a public school district, used its email system to advertise a Christian event using Bible lessons to encourage girls as young as 11 to stay “pure” while looking for husbands. Announcing “Wake Up Sleeping Beauty: Worship At His Feet,” the flier includes the silhouette of a girl’s face with a Bible verse from Luke 7:38.
Right-wing Christians believe that they know the only path for people to follow and they should be able to pass laws to force everyone in the United States to follow them. That’s the supreme form of entitlement.
Presidential candidate debates from two political parties last week demonstrated a world of difference.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In the first of two presidential candidate debates last week softball questions gently thrown by Fox Business facilitators turned into a knock-down, drag-out fight among seven GOP candidates. Donald Trump came out on top, Marco Rubio failed, and all the others except Ted Cruz disappeared. Several of them complained about the lack of release of ten sailors who were released the day before, after only 16 hours.
The real fight, however, started as Bush talked about “backbench senators” and Trump’s “unhinged comments” and Rubio attacked Christie as a liberal. Then they got serious, delving into birther and flip-flopping accusations toward their candidate colleagues. GOP solutions were more guns, more income inequality, and more anger and violence. Marco Rubio actually said that everyone needs to buy guns because ISIS is coming to your house.
Both debates took place in South Carolina where black people comprise 27 percent of the population. Both debates occurred the week before Martin Luther King Jr. Day and were staged just one block from the historic church where a white man killed nine black people during a prayer service less than seven months ago. Yet the word “black” was uttered only twice among GOP candidates: black lung and black market. Also missing during the GOP debate was any reference to issues of specific concern to over half the population—women. The result was a pack of jackals in a cage where they were tossed red meat from laissez-faire moderators and wild audience applause.
The fact-free approach has become so blatant that full-time fact-checking would result in volumes rather than articles. They even lie about falsehoods easily checked, for example Cruz’s answer to a question about his not disclosing a $1 million loan from Goldman Sachs, his wife’s employer at the time, for his 2012 campaign. He first talked about how hateful the New York Times is and then launched into pretending he had done so. The problem was Cruz’s failure to list any bank loans on his FEC report. All his publicity about how he and his wife had scraped the bottom on their financial barrel to fund the campaign was bogus. So was Chris Christie’s claim that he didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice, a claim disproved by a New Jersey Star-Ledger headline.
Even Mitt Romney is disgusted with the candidates. He called the Republicans “nuts” for not raising the federal minimum wage, something he calls part of GOP orthodoxy. “As a party, to say we’re trying to help the middle class of America and the poor and not raise the minimum wage sends exactly the wrong signal,” Romney said. None of the GOP candidates pays attention to Romney, however, some of them suggesting that this wage should be $0. Fiorina thinks that the law is unconstitutional.
Rand Paul boycotted the “also-ran” table, but Carly Fiorina tried to carve out a place for her by abandoning her promise to make no personal comments about Clinton. Fiorina’s attack: “Unlike another woman in this race, I actually love spending time with my husband.” Mike Huckabee wants to train poor people as if they were dogs. The comments just came coming.
“Politician turned reality show star endorses reality show star turned politician.” That’s Ari Melber’s response to Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump. The newest NBC/WSJ poll shows that almost two-thirds of Republican voters could vote for Trump, an increase of 42 percent in the past ten months from 23 percent to 65 percent. The same NBC/WSJ poll shows that 42 percent of voters view the GOP less favorably compared to 19 percent who like it better.
University of Massachusetts PhD candidate Matthew MacWilliams conducted a poll to determine what lies behind the “Trump phenomenon.” His research showed that education, income, gender, age, ideology and religiosity had no significant bearing on a GOP voter’s preferred candidate—only authoritarianism trailed by the less significant fear of terrorism. Authoritarians obey, rally to, and follow strong leaders while responding aggressively to outsiders. Trump promised to “make America great again” by building a wall on the border and closing mosques through iron-fisted solutions to sometimes manufactured dismay, agitation, and fear.
Another reason for the possibility of Trump becoming president is ignorance. Jimmy Kimmel honored MLK Day in his Lie Witness News segment to interview people what they thought about the announcement that Martin Luther King, Jr., who was murdered in 1968, was endorsing Donald Trump.
One woman answered, “I figure if he’s going to endorse Donald Trump for president, then maybe he thinks he will be a good president,” one woman said. Some people thought King should have voted for President Obama, and others believed were surprised when they were told that King didn’t vote for Barack Obama, and others thought that Malcolm X and Hillary Clinton vacation and play golf together at Martha’s Vineyard.
In the Democratic debate, two leading candidates and one polling at two percent argued about how to improve the country. Bernie Sanders is mad at the system, wants universal healthcare, and doesn’t get paid by Wall Street for speeches; Hillary Clinton wants to improve the health care law, thinks that Sanders doesn’t fight enough for gun safety laws, and supports President Obama’s policies. Martin O’Malley complained about not getting enough questions. Discussions were intense as they criticized each other’s positions, but the event was nothing like the free-for-all cage fight of the GOP candidates just three days earlier. It was the “best of times” because it was opposite of the GOP debate.
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carleton | This program is offered through the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering which combines the research strengths and resources of Carleton and the University of Ottawa. We offer two PhDs programs in this field: a Doctor of Philosophy Aerospace Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering. Learn more about Ottawa-Carleton Joint Institutes.
Research collaborations and funding arrangements exist with several Institutes of the National Research Council of Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, National Defence, the Ottawa Hospital and the Canadian Space Agency. Major industry partners include Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., United Technologies, Siemens Corp., Deloro-Stellite, Indal Technologies, Liburdi Engineering, Magellan Aerospace, Augusta SpA., Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Rolls-Royce Canada and the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, among many others. These strong relationships offer our students diverse research and career opportunities.
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wordpress | Back when we were first scoping out locations for our integrated research and education project, my collaborator had mentioned that some colleagues she knew had good luck working with libraries, and that they were sometimes easier to work with than schools. I decided to contact one of the libraries local to the school where I’d wanted to work to see if we might do an after school or weekend science program. I was directed to work with one particular administrator, and we set a meeting for later that week.
I came in, and we hit it off. The administrator seemed thrilled with the idea of the educational program, and we had a great conversation where she provided feedback on what would be most effective with this age group in terms of timing and content. I was careful to make sure I frontloaded our interest in research and that we would want to see if any of the education participants also wanted to be research participants – if so, we would want to collect saliva. The administrator breezed through this and showed me around the library, pointing out various rooms we could use and resources to which we would have access.
We hashed out a plan for when the events would occur, and made a plan for a follow up meeting after this administrator talked with the director of the library. I already had Human Subjects approval and would only need a change of research location amendment, so was eager to get started. I had an army of undergrads who had waited patiently through a semester of Human Subjects paperwork and back and forth with the school that eventually turned us down. I did not want to lose all these students because they waited too long to actually get to do anything.
It seemed as though a door had been cracked open, only to be closed again, with a dresser pushed up against it on the other side to really make the point.
What devastated me about this second door was not the amount of time I’d invested – it had only been a few short weeks of effort. What hurt was that I was beginning to feel like I was letting my team down: my collaborators and the students I mentor. I was the face of the project, and apparently it wasn’t a very winning face. It was hard to not take the second defeat personally.
I don’t think there are always lessons in failures, but I do think that through these first two experiences I was learning that I had to be knocking on a lot of doors at the same time for one to really open. And as a junior professor, I didn’t have the bandwidth to be doing all that work myself, but I also didn’t have a senior grad student or postdoc to whom I could pass it. I was stuck with a funded yet homeless project and a team of undergrads stuck twiddling their thumbs.
What are other ways to build relationships with gatekeepers that might save time or allow for more opportunities to meet more of them?
Are there ways to distribute workload among a fairly new team of researchers?
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wikipedia | The Baga massacre began on 16 April 2013 in the village of Baga, Nigeria, in Borno State, when as many as 200 civilians were killed, hundreds wounded, and over 2,000 houses and businesses worth millions of Naira were destroyed. Refugees, civilians officials, and human rights organizations accused the Nigerian Military of carrying out the massacre; some military officials blamed the insurgent group Boko Haram.
Thousands of people have died in fighting in Nigeria since the beginning of 2009 Boko Haram uprising, which began in northern Nigeria. The leader of the uprising, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in Maiduguri of Borno State in 2009.
According to The New York Times, the Nigerian military has employed "scorched-earth standards" in their fight against Boko Haram, with civilians routinely killed during operations in poor neighborhoods. Massacres prior to the Baga massacre were commonly employed as punitive measures against the civilian population, without legal consequences in Nigeria.
The commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force Brigadier General Austin Edokpaye accused residents of Baga of shielding Boko Haram members prior to the attack.
Baga is a small fishing village on the banks of lake Chad, near the borders of Chad and Niger.
On the evening of 16 April, members of Boko Haram engaged government soldiers at a military post outside Baga, killing one of them. According to residents, soldiers returned with reinforcements supported by armored vehicles. Soldiers then allegedly doused homes in Baga with gasoline and set fire to the village, shooting villagers who attempted to flee. Some attempting to escape into Lake Chad drowned there, while others were able to escape into the surrounding bush. According to residents, the soldiers continued burning homes in Baga on April 17.
Brigadier General Austin Edokpaye stated that only six civilians and one soldier were killed, while the army killed 30 "Boko Haram terrorists." He further stated that only 30 "thatched houses" were burned and that the fires were started by Boko Haram's weapons. Residents and civilian officials alleged that as many as 200 people were killed and more than 2,000 homes were burned. Casualties were reported to be especially high among children and the elderly. By April 17, 193 wounded victims had been admitted to a local health clinic. Satellite images analyzed by Human Rights Watch indicate that at least 2,275 buildings were destroyed and another 125 buildings were severely damaged.
Following the massacre, the Nigerian government came under intense pressure from international governments and media, leading the Nigerian national assembly to call for an investigation. Journalists attempting to independently access the village were blocked by the Nigerian military.
Brigadier General Chris Olukolade stated that anyone blaming Nigerian soldiers sympathized with Boko Haram, which he said was responsible for the massacre and had shot at government soldiers from the village.
The United States's acting deputy State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell, on 22 April 2013, condemned the clash between the Nigerian security forces and Boko Haram militants in Baga, urging authorities to respect human rights.
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan through his special adviser on media and publicity, Reuben Abati, ordered a full-scale investigation into the civilian casualties in the war between Boko Haram and Nigeria’s soldiers at the weekend.
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cnn | Newsela is using journalism to help students improve reading abilities.
Some may consider news cut and dry, but one entrepreneur wanted it to actually help kids improve their reading skills.
"[I thought], what if we used news stories as a teaching tool to change the way kids learn?" said Matthew Gross, founder of Newsala. "It could [even] help them to become better readers."
The concept became the formula for Newsela, a New York-based startup that collects timely stories from a variety of sources and rewrites the content at multiple reading levels.
Launched in 2013, Newsela is tailored for students in grades 2 through 12.
After a teacher signs up a class for Newsela and sets a reading level for each student, the platform gives them access to corresponding articles. Students can adjust their reading level on each article by choosing a simpler or more complex version.
Newsela's proprietary technology tracks each student's progress, identifies who may need more help and tweaks the content accordingly. It also serves up quizzes and other interactive activities tied to articles.
While the service is free for students, a premium version with deeper insights is available for schools for between $4,000 to $6,000 annually, depending on the size of the school.
Beyond boosting comprehension, the goal is to provide more relevant and meaningful information.
"Textbooks and workbooks are static," Gross said. "We are losing kids' [attention] that way. We need to captivate them in classrooms."
But Newsela isn't just for current events. For example, students may read an article about Black Lives Matter, and the platform will connect that content to information about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Newsela has 104 full-time employees and 140 freelance journalists from publications like Vanity Fair and Bloomberg who curate and prepare daily content in categories like science, money, law, health and sports.
"Students in earlier grades might find it harder to read one long block of text," said Gross. "We rewrite the story, sometimes adjusting paragraph lengths, adding subheads, changing the headline and taking out complicated terms in order to make the content easier for them to understand."
Newsela's content is grouped into two buckets: news from the last 30 days and evergreen stories. Articles are sourced through licensing agreements from 40 content providers, including the Associated Press, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Gross started his career in Teach for America, but he narrowed in on his passion to change education after his son Curtis, a second grader, struggled with reading in school.
"He was falling behind, and his teacher was very dedicated but had no specific ideas on how to help," he said.
Matthew Gross, CEO and founder of Newsela.
When the principal said the teacher couldn't be expected to have the right solution for every single student, he sought a better way.
Gross, 44, initially invested $30,000 of his own money to get Newsela off the ground, but the company has since raised $21 million in funding.
Three years later, Newsela is already having an impact. The platform has 9 million users; 800,000 of whom are teachers across the U.S.
Most recently, the company tracked students using the platform below the 50th percentile in reading. In only three months, those students moved up a reading level in their reading ability.
"The platform's most important function is to enable teachers to assess students' abilities in real time, and then adjust their instruction right away," said Gross. "We're just getting started." | 2019-04-23T02:10:44Z | https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/19/technology/newsela-edtech/index.html | Porn | News | 0.5724 |
wordpress | This well-executed, politically-minded graffiti made me smile when I snapped it on Saturday in a back alley near the Museo Diocesano in the Centro Storico in Naples. The skeletal figures are taken from the workers on strike in the famous painting Il Quarto Stato – The Fourth Estate (1901) by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo which is in the Museo del Novecento, Milan.
More on Naples graffiti, love it or loath it, here. There is even a Napoli Street Art Twitter feed you can follow here.
C’è un momento in ciascuna alba in cui la luce è come sospesa, un istante magico dove tutto può succedere. La creazione trattiene il suo respiro.
‘There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath’.
The New Napoli Shirt arrives!
Earlier this year, Kappa, the Italian sportswear company, became SSC Napoli’s new kit supplier. The shirt for the new season, in the famous blue as befitting the colours of the Bay and of the sky overhead, was launched recently. Kappa marked the occasion with a lovely video (no English subtitles) nicely capturing the importance of the club to the city and the passion for football (or calcio) in general.
A girl puts a camera in her grandfather’s car to see what he says as he drives through Naples. You don’t need to speak Neapolitan to get the gist as he speeds along, sometimes even with a hand on the wheel.
The video’s payoff is that we spend on average 7 years of our lives stuck in traffic, six of them angry, and we should all go by bike. Fortunately there is the new Bike Sharing Napoli now to get you out of the car and get around the city in a calmer manner.
As long as you don’t meet Gramps coming the other way.
You may have missed, as I did, that yesterday, March 20th, was International Day of Happiness, established in 2012 by the United Nations to recognise that the ‘pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal’.
To mark the 3rd anniversary of the Day, Voices from the Blogs, an Italian project that studies online tastes, preferences and opinions, published its report (in Italian) of the state of Happiness in Italy, based on an analysis of millions of tweets during 2014. There was bad news for Naples: it languished in second from bottom spot in the list of happiest cities in the country and was the most unhappy place in Campagna. August 8th was identified as the unhappiest day last year. Overall, Italy grew slightly unhappier during 2014 in comparison with 2013.
How can this be? As Pope Francis stated today as part of his visit to the city during his open air Mass to the faithful in the benighted area of Scampia, Naples faces serious problems. High unemployment, exploitation, crime, drugs, discrimination, and especially corruption which he said ‘stinks’, using the Neapolitan slang term spuzza, all undoubtedly impact on happiness. But the Pope also said that Naples remains a place of hope; ‘although life in Naples was never easy, it was never sad’.
Dear Neapolitans, be open to hope and do not allow hope to be stolen from you! Do not give in to the lure of easy money or dishonest income. This may be bread for today but hunger for tomorrow. It cannot bring you anything. React firmly to organizations that exploit and corrupt the young, the poor and the weak, with the cynical drug trade and other crimes. Do not allow hope to be stolen from you. Do not allow your youth to be exploited by these people. May corruption and delinquency not disfigure the face of this beautiful city! Moreover, may it not disfigure the joy of your Neapolitan hearts.
I consider quality of life to be the ability to eat simple exquisite things anywhere and at low prices, which elsewhere would be unreal. I consider quality of life to be the sea which wanders into the room of the gulf between Capri, Sorrento and Posillipo. I consider quality of life to be the wind that sweeps the gulf from the four cardinal points and makes the light air. I consider quality of life to be the excellence of Neapolitan coffee and pizza. I consider quality of life to be courtesy and a smile when entering a shop, the music on the street. I consider quality of life the history that emerges everywhere.
Certainly the young people in the video are Happy from Naples. I am. Are you? | 2019-04-25T04:28:50Z | https://brokencolumns.wordpress.com/tag/napoli/ | Porn | Sports | 0.78059 |
typepad | Source: AACSB BSQ Finances Module. Note: The movement types shown represent only those that were actually reported, versus all possible types.
According to the data from Table 1, the absolute amount of operating funds spent on technology rose for over 56 percent of reporting schools from the 2013-14 year to the 2014-15 year. However, contrary to what might be expected, the proportion of the total operating budget devoted to technology uses either went down or stayed flat in over 57 percent of cases.
Source: AACSB BSQ Finances Module.
While the vast majority of reporting schools’ overall operating budgets rose year over year no matter who controls IT functions at the school, there appears to be a positive correlation between the level of independent control the business school has over IT functions and the absolute amount of funds expended on technology. Over 64 percent of schools that reported that they themselves control their IT functions also reported an increase in the absolute amount of funds expended on technology over the previous year, whereas a slim majority of the schools reporting that their IT functions are controlled by their parent university did not.
At the same time, there appears to be a negative correlation between the level of independent control the business school has over IT functions and the percentage of operating budget expended on technology. Nearly 53 percent of reporting schools indicating that their IT functions are controlled by their parent university also reported an increase in the proportion of their operating budget spent on technology, whereas only about 36 percent of schools that reported that they themselves control their IT functions indicated the same.
Since we have only a couple of years’ worth of data for the Finances Module, it is impossible to determine if these fluctuations represent any sorts of trends as yet, but we will definitely continue to monitor the data we receive to see if any such patterns emerge.
Note: For Udacity and the Canvas Network, courses were frequently offered by instructors as individuals, many with no university affiliation. Those that did have such affiliation are included here.
Of those business faculty who were involved in MOOC provision, generally strong majorities were affiliated with AACSB-accredited schools, though this varied both by provider and by month. Business faculty providing MOOCs on Coursera, for example, were over 90 percent likely to be affiliated with an AACSB-accredited school when I looked in February, versus 61 percent in November as more non-accredited business schools became involved in MOOC provision. Canvas Network, by contrast, saw the percentage of faculty affiliated with AACSB-accredited schools rise from two-thirds to 70 percent.
Once again, while I expected that the number of faculty involved in MOOCs would grow over this period, particularly since there are now more institutions involved in MOOC provision, the pace of that increase is less than what I anticipated on most of the platforms I looked at. I'll be interested to see if the pace picks up if MOOCs become normalized as part of the higher (and management) education landscape.
Notes: For Udacity and the Canvas Network, courses were frequently offered by instructors as individuals, many with no university affiliation. Because the British MOOC consortium Futurelearn had yet to begin offering MOOCs in February, schools who contribute to the Futurelearn platform were counted only in Figure 1 for that month, but were counted in both Figures 1 and 2 for November.
While I expected that there would be more institutions involved in MOOC provision now, the pace of that increase is less than what I anticipated, particularly given the press that MOOCs have received in the interim.
Back in February, less than 29 percent of all institutions found to be offering MOOCs through one of the above platforms did so in the area of business and management education. Indeed, while the actual number of institutions offering business MOOCs has almost doubled over the past nine months, the percentage of institutions offering business MOOCs actually dropped to less than 21 percent of the total number of institutions offering MOOCs through one of the above platforms. Nevertheless, as the "flipped classroom" becomes more popular as a pedagogical tool, I expect the growth of business education MOOCs will continue. What will be interesting to watch is how (and if) more business schools use them to increase access to management education.
Recently, I have been assisting with preliminary research involved in the preparation for an event in April: the Redesigning Undergraduate Curriculum Symposium (RUC). Much like its predecessor, Redesigning the MBA: A Curriculum Development Symposium, RUC aims to provide its participants with an understanding of the changing undergraduate business degree landscape and the ensuing challenges and opportunities, along with implementation strategies and best practices. Throughout our initial research phase, I was struck by the inventiveness of many of the experiential programs and centers we had the opportunity to learn about.
The experiential programs we learned about can be categorized into several distinctive buckets, including service learning, cultural immersion, business planning/new venture creation, simulation, and internship/live case. A small sampling of these programs is listed in the table below. The majority of these experiential courses aim to equip students with the skills that are increasingly becoming an important factor in the work place. Their goal: to make their graduates even more competitive in the job market, and provide opportunities to refine critical skills such as leadership, communication, thinking and reasoning skills, and global awareness.
Often, undergraduate programs combine experiences in two or more categories, as is the case at the University of California, Berkley's Haas School of Business, which embraces both simulation and service learning in its undergraduate curriculum. The Center for Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH) coordinates an integrative capstone experience for seniors called Leading Strategy and Implementation. This experience has two distinctly different yet interconnected components. Students first engage in a simulation where they are teamed into an account management group. Students make a series of business decisions and submit a report on their proceedings to the faculty. Subsequently, a selection of these students take the follow-up course, where they redo the simulation but as the CEO of their team. The wrinkle? Their team is made up of five local, at-risk high school students from the Bay area. The high school students make their own decisions under the supervision of the facilitating Haas undergraduate, who acts as both boss and mentor. This experience is designed to serve the community while providing hands-on leadership and team building opportunities for the participating Haas senior.
Yonsei University's Creative Leadership Curriculum focuses on a series of six programs designed to instill students with the school's three core values: creativity, global perspective, and integrity. Through this curriculum, Yonsei delivers a blend of cultural immersion and live case to its students through uGET (undergraduate Global Experience Team-project). uGET involves significant field work with students receiving sponsorships from overseas companies. The students travel to their designated company overseas for four to eight weeks, perform research and analysis, and then complete a report and presentation for their sponsoring company.
One other particularly unique program which adopts the cultural immersion category for experiential learning, still in its infancy but with very ambitious goals, involves a partnership between three universities (The University of Southern California, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Bocconi University in Italy) where students will study on at least three different continents and subsequently earn three bachelor's degrees, one from each of the participating institutions. This program, called the World Bachelor in Business (WBB), will admit its first cohort in Fall 2013. The WBB's worldwide approach aims to broaden its students’ global awareness through immersion in three divergent cultures.
The internship experience still remains one of the fundamental ways for undergraduates to gain real-world experience before graduating into the work force. Many schools noted that their students continue to engage in internship programs to supplement their academic experience. In particular, the Trulaske College of Business' BA 4500 requires an internship experience. BA 4500 is the final component in the college's Professional Development Program (PDP), a requisite for graduation. The PDP offers seminars from top level executives, skill-building workshops, and a professional development course focused on business communication and presentation.
As evidenced, the variety in undergraduate experiential coursework abounds, fueling our desire for rewarding dialogue over the future of the undergraduate curriculum. RUC aims to explore this topic of experiential learning, including the dissection of several innovative programs, but will also encapsulate a much wider range of emerging undergraduate curricular trends, including topics such as the development of critical thinking skills, the integration of the business disciplines, and various pedagogical advancements. | 2019-04-26T06:12:40Z | https://aacsbblogs.typepad.com/dataandresearch/technology/ | Porn | Business | 0.152844 |
wordpress | If things look a little different around Yard Work these days, it’s because we (along with the rest of the MLB blog world) have made the switch over to Word Press. While the new platform offers a lot of great new options for us, it is also exposing my rudimentary HTML skills for what they are. So forgive us if it takes a couple weeks to get all of our archives updated so they all look pretty. You know, we’ve got that whole Opening Day thing coming up, so we’re kinda busy.
After a flight delay, a missed connection and a rental car line that looked more like the wait for an amusement park rollercoaster, I finally stumbled into Scottsdale Stadium unfashionably late. Of course, arriving in the bottom of the second inning of a Dodger game is pretty much par for the course, just not for the Giants.
Of course, there will be no DH, and Tim Lincecum will be toeing the rubber for the defending World Champs, but otherwise it looks pretty close.
By the seventh inning, however, that Opening Day lineup was all but departed from the field, leaving something that looks a lot like what Grizzlies fans will see at Chukchansi Park on April 7th. At that point, the Giants had Jackson Williams behind the plate, Brandon Belt at first, Emmanuel Burriss at second, Conor Gillaspie at third, Brandon Crawford at shortstop and Thomas Neal in left field. While that may be a projection into the future for Giants fans, it was very much a picture of the present for the Grizzlies.
Gillaspie made a nice play at the plate to gun down a runner trying to score from third on a ground ball, but later committed an error that opened the flood gates on reliever Javier Lopez, leading to a four-run inning for the Dodgers. Only one of the four runs was unearned, though, as the Dodgers turned a 6-3 deficit into a 7-6 advantage. But the Giants survived a double-play ball from Williams in the ninth and compiled a two-out, two-run rally to send the crowd home happy with an 8-7 win.
Hopefully I’ll get a closer look at our future Grizzlies today as the Giants take on Texas out in Surprise. I’ll also hopefully have some audio from Steve Decker (whoI ran into while checking in to the hotel) on his thoughts so far this spring and for the upcoming season.
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wordpress | Actually this shot is very nice indeed (and I don’t usually like HDR, Timo).
Now I can check out your Portfolio……..I hope.
I know HDR is not everyone’s cuppa, especially when they are more “painterly-like”.
Portfolio links and pages should work. Please let me know when you find something odd/not working.
That building is really great. I went up to the roof and took some nice shots from above (coming soon).
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wordpress | Family justice in the US is a race to the bottom, with, I long thought, New York State family justice as unbeatable at crushing fathers’ lives.
One question that Fox News does not ask is why did Judge Millard sentenced Clifford Hall to pay his ex’s lawyer fees. It sounds like it’s a just the stuff that fathers have to do when they end up in family courts. | 2019-04-19T21:00:01Z | https://fearlessfathers.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/ | Porn | News | 0.851847 |
wordpress | No, these three little words are not “I love you”, though that is important to say and to hear – I just wanted to get your attention.
When we look at New Years, and as we sit in the beginning of January, looking out into the horizon that makes up next year, we make all sorts of grandiose challenges. We dare ourselves to run faster, jump higher, be better.
Inevitably, when we don’t measure up, we either give up or feel guilty as we continue to push towards this unattainable goal that in itself, becomes a prison. Are our goals designed to help us live with more freedom? Or do we become a slave to the goals themselves instead of freeing ourselves of the unhealthy habits? Do we just switch masters?
I’m sure you’re wondering where my “three little words” title comes into play.
What are three words that describe how you want your New Year to be?
No resolutions, no unattainable goals, no slaving away until you become the perfect person, have the perfect body, have the best prayer life in your small group.
Three words that describe how you want to live and grow in the year of 2019. I used a bit of alliteration with mine so I’d remember.
I’ve asked a couple different people this, and the answers you get are just lovely. I’ve heard beautiful words like faithful, grateful, loving, optimistic, disciplined, growing.
I’m curious now, what are yours?
Previous postWalk if You Can’t Jump.
Joy, life, light. I want to live life this year, find joy in the Lord, and be a light to others.
I love questions like that, but they really do make you think 😄 hm, I think my words for this year would be – sharing, contentment and growth.
They really do XD My mom took a while to come up with hers.
Oooh, this is a great idea! I think my three words would be Creative, Brave, and Meaningful.
Fantastic, actually! Although goals I think are less something that you have to do or be guilty about failure, but more things you want to try to do when you can. My words… hum. Centered, hardworking, accepting. Centered because right now I need internal quiet to deal with everything, hardworking because I want to do well, accepting because I need to accept myself and others more fully.
Thanks for your comment! 🙂 And yes, I totally agree that’s what goals should be, but I find myself feeling guilty when I don’t fulfill them.
For me it’s stress and expectation that I should be able to do more than I can. That’s my biggest issue with goals. I want to do it all at once. So I’m working now on priorities and taking one day at a time.
I love this. :)) Hm. Unworthy. Go. And I’ll leave the third word open for now.
To remind me of perspective- I don’t deserve this. I am unworthy of grace. And to fill the last spot, it’s going to be masterpiece because God calls us that. | 2019-04-25T22:23:21Z | https://singingtothesea.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/three-little-words/ | Porn | Arts | 0.148861 |
wordpress | Much easier today in that I was going to cycle to a meeting anyway!
So the ride on Day 3 was to a committee meeting of CTC Northampton, the local member group of the UK’s Cyclists’ Touring Club. And via a little bit of shopping at my local supermarket, Waitrose in Kingsthorpe.
I’m having a little bit of an argument / complaint / polite discussion with the supermarket. They have reduced the number of cycle-racks and moved them away from a window where they could be seen from the café inside the store. I’ve now had a couple of conversations with the customer service people and their manager.
I took a photo and posted it on social media.
1 That’s a bit disappointing. I would have thought that Waitrose had a sustainability officer who should be encouraging and incorporating green efforts from their customers. Better signage might help and also better bike racks. CCTV, space for cargo bikes,panniers etc (I saw better examples of units at The London Bike show so will go check my blog for a reminder) Also removing the trolleys rather than the allocated space would be my expected approach, not the other way round. Waitrose do listen to their customers so perhaps if enough peeps requested cycle storage they might consider it? Here’s hoping…!
2 My local branch knew all about the free bike-trailer scheme operated by their Chichester branch!
4 No bike racks. No trolley scheme. Not up round ours, Nothing on the plans for the new store either, and it will be ‘wrong’ side of town centre race track DC too. grrr.
5 Bike parking at my local Waitrose is ropey as well. I don’t give a damn because I park my bike IN the trolley. Actually, if they were really serious about the sustainability thing, they should launch guarded bike parking.
The assistant brought the manager to me and said to him, “This gentlemen always cycles here. Sometimes he brings his foldy bike in. Sometimes he parks a proper bike. He’s a regular customer.” To be honest, I hadn’t noticed the lady before! Loved the foldy/proper distinction she made!
Today, I was on the foldy bke. Spoke to the manager (he was excited by the bike; I don’t think he’d seen a Brompton before; he was really interested!). The store was empty.
And then it was on to my meeting where another member is taking a different approach. Instead of complaining to Waitrose, he’s been complaining to the County Council as the planning authority. When the shopping centre was built, he wondered, did planning permission include the provision of a certain number of bike racks? Can they be reduced by the supermarket without consultation? Have they broken the planning agreement? I hadn’t thought of that line of reasoning!
Really the meeting is about planning weekend rides and social events – and seeking opportunities to promote cycling. But, once in a while, our campaigning side comes out!
Summary Day 3 – Bike: Brompton, Distance: 4 miles, Total: 8 miles. Weather: cloudy evening with hint of rain after the meeting. Route here on RideWithGPS. I did ride home afterwards! | 2019-04-19T06:31:10Z | https://ianmac55.wordpress.com/tag/kingsthorpe/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.889733 |
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google | Picking up where typical field guides leave off, this handy reference takes an ecological approach, providing complete descriptions of 85 plants found in fields, open meadows, and along roadsides--from Ailanthus to Yucca--as well as wildlife communities associated with them. Written in an engaging manner, this book helps readers identify dryland plants, discusses what other organisms, plant and animal, might be found in the same area, and explains why.
Page iii - Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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wordpress | ← The Habits of Bilinguals: Why Have I Never Heard of ‘Translanguaging’?
Silence is a fortress, a means of defense, a retreat from the confusing world of multiculturalism.
speaking was looked at as a revolutionary act outside of the house, rather than a means of success.
In the socialist society, “reading and writing were taught through memorization and imitation also encouraged me to reduce concepts and ideas to simple definitions” (Lu 441). She learned a political language, one intrinsically tied to the ideas disseminated by the government. Standard Chinese became the language of a loyal “Worker,” yet English became one of expression and emotion.
However, Lu’s story really stuck with me because she was not only unable to keep the languages separate, she was unable to keep the identities of the two separate. She developed an uncertainty in her handling of the languages. “…my reading and writing in the ‘language’ of either home or school could not be free of the interference of the other” (Lu 443).
This was something that I had never thought about before. Reading about bilingualism opened my eyes to the fact that bilinguals choose from one language repertoire, not two separate ones. However, Lu’s article made me realize that languages can hold different connotations in one’s mind. The way a language is taught can affect how one uses the language and thinks in the language. Lu struggled because she found her “English ideas” blending with her “Standard Chinese ideas,” which made her doubt her own thoughts, especially because the two languages have such differing ideologies.
This idea that reading and writing can be such a struggle, that one has to make difficult choices while using language. Because I live in a place with relatively free speech, I have never had to worry about government or class-related backlash to what I write. I can express my own opinions, not just the ones my government and teachers wanted to hear. Knowing that language can be such a source of confused identity made me appreciate my own, relatively easy relationship with my language.
Lu fell silent for much of her childhood, but was eventually able to see the benefits of growing up within a world split in half. “For it was this complexity that kept me from losing sight of the effort and choice involved in reading or writing with and through a discourse” (Lu 447). Language is a gift, but it is not one that always comes easily.
Richard Rodriguez tells a similar story about his own childhood, but the identity crisis was more related to his educational experience. He felt he had to “keep separate the two very different worlds of my day” (Rodriguez 194). He describes himself as a “scholarship boy,” one that “must move between environments, his home and the classroom, which are at cultural extremes, opposed” (Rodriguez 196).
Rodriguez began to feel more at home among his books and teachers than his own family.
Again, I had never thought about the consequences of living in two extremely different cultures all in one day. Navigating between a relaxed, noisy home life and the strict, regulated side of school could not have been easy. This even caused Rodriguez to develop shame for his family’s “uneducated” actions and praise for his teachers habits. “I heard my father speak to my teacher and felt ashamed of his labored, accented words. Then guilty for the shame. I felt such contrary feelings” (Rodriguez 200). Because of this shame, he drifted apart from his parents in order to pursue an education.
Rodriguez also retreated into a silence with his family, barely talking to them and delving into books. He turned into a “great mimic; a collector of thoughts, not a thinker” (Rodriguez 203).
Unfortunately, both Rodriguez and Lu had trouble with their own opinions. Lu felt guilty for switching between two ideologies, and Rodriguez felt the need to copy other people’s thoughts. Language and culture clashing throughout one day can create a difficulty in forming one’s own opinions. Knowing this will help me a lot when working with multilingual writers if they request help brainstorming ideas. I will be able to encourage them and explain how they can use their language(s) as a tool for expression, not just a tool for survival.
know now of some of the difficulties they face.
This is why telling stories can be so vital to the human experience, and why I will always keep my ears open to others’ stories.
Lu, Min-zhan. “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle.” College English, vol. 9, no. 4, 1987, pp. 437-448.
Rodriguez, Richard. “The Achievement of Desire.” pp. 194-206.
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wordpress | Joy of Displays: Where The Hobbit, history and poetry live together.
This blog has been quiet as this year has been busy and complicated for me. A major project that I recently finished is creating the Library’s website, which is linked here and in the sidebar, over time, it will change to reflect how it’s used by students.
A large part of what I’ve done this year has been about the physical space, how do students use it and think about it. To connect with them even when I’m not there, I’ve done a lot of work on the bulletin board at the front. From what I observed when I began the job, it didn’t look like it had been used for much other than school announcements and a few posters. My first display was put together with posters I found on citations and with the help of my fellow librarian at the other campus, it gave me a sense of how I could use the space. It also showed me how students react to what I put up, one of the posters I had posted was from World Book and about internet myths. In truth it was better suited to middle school or possibly elementary school then my shared middle/high school library but I didn’t realize how much so until I student wrote a note under it. Now the note was a little sarcastic but showed me that to make my displays work, they needed to hit the right level for all the students who entered my library.
I decided for my next display to focus on Halloween, in preparation I got in touch with English teachers to find out what authors were being read and how I might post some works that connected with current classes. In the end, I got a few ideas and then had the chance to make the space mine by going shopping at Michael’s for ways to transform the bulletin board. My collection was a wonderful mix of fall and Halloween decorations and my major find, a Hobbit poster. Below you can see what the display looked like, the first day it went up, a student asked me where I found the Hobbit poster and all the time the display was up it sparked conversation about the upcoming movie.
After Halloween, I altered the display to go from Halloween to Tolkien based in celebration of the upcoming movie. Most of the visuals remained the same but I switched out the Halloween chosen pieces for works of Tolkien’s such as ‘The Washing Up Song’ and ‘Song of the Misty Mountains’. As both these pieces were featured in the movie, it was wonderful to be able to have the originals up on the bulletin board for students to find. When the movie came out, the board helped to create dialogues about it as students knew that I had an interest. It was interesting to me how well many of them knew the Lord of the Rings but weren’t familiar with The Hobbit, which led to talking about issues with tone between the movies.
As the month of January was a strange one, my next display didn’t go up until February but I decided for it to work as much as possible with the parts of the community that worked on diversity activities. An interesting part of this process involved figuring out who were the best people and groups for me to work with. In the end, the club UMOJA chose the elements of the display. I provided a poster while they told me that they wanted to highlight the work of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois. Once I had that information, I explored to find powerful visuals for the display, along the way I was reminded how complex the subject of book covers can be. One of the requests had been for a focus on The Souls of Black Folks and I was able to find a variety of cover interpretations which became part of the board. Looking through my pictures, it turns out I don’t have a picture of that board.
March didn’t come together as I’d hoped, I had talked with the art department about a display but due to a number of events in and around the library, our timing didn’t come together. For April, I put together a poetry display that has generated some great responses. I took a risk with this one because I put up a whiteboard and invited students to write their own works on it. To provide a beginning, I wrote a poem on the board myself and since then, two other poems have been added. You can see the display below.
Displays have represented a wonderful way for me to connect with the community at Roeper as the bulletin board draws the eye when someone enters the library. I love looking up and spotting a student reading a book that they’ve taken down from the display or seeing someone reading what’s been posted. Planning the displays has given me a way to talk with faculty and student groups about how I’m trying to integrate the library within the community. I’ve found it challenging since the bulletin board is a large space and I’m constantly looking at ways to fill it and make it an engaging spot.
What’s missing in some of these pictures is the other about quarter of the display which is taken up with school signage. I have a lot of kids who won’t check the books out, but instead just take them down and read them. It always gives me a nice warm feeling that I’ve chosen something interesting. | 2019-04-25T11:47:48Z | https://nurturingstories.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/joy-of-displays-where-the-hobbit-history-and-poetry-live-together/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.677621 |
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