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Videos on a shoestring
Video has become one of the most powerful forms of communication. Every day, one billion videos are viewed on Facebook, 12 million videos uploaded to Vine and hundreds of millions of hours of YouTube videos watched.
With these stats in mind, charities cannot afford to overlook this medium as a vital tool to engage existing supporters and reach new audiences. Creative Concern, Christians Against Poverty and University of Manchester all shared their top tips for producing engaging video content.
Chris Dessent, managing director, Creative Concern
Chris has been producing films for charities for over fifteen years both in-house and as managing director of Creative Concern. His presentation showcased good practice, explored the pros and cons and demonstrated how ideas and planning make all the difference in making moving pictures a powerful part of your brand message and content strategy.
Chris Haldane, multimedia designer, Christians Against Poverty
In 20 years Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has gone from one man with ten pounds to a nationwide poverty relief charity, with 1200 staff and volunteers and an annual income of over 10 million pounds. Chris looked at the key role video has played in engaging both supporters and service users, and the journey CAP has been on – from agencies, freelancers and iPhones to having an established in-house video team.
David Gennard, film and imagery co-ordinator, University of Manchester
You could spend £10,000 on a video, but if you're not telling a story then you will quickly lose your audience. Make the most of the emotive power of video, weave a compelling narrative through your film and a £100 video can be a success. Drawing on his experience as a video journalist, lecturer in filmmaking and now producer of film and imagery for The University of Manchester, David explored what makes a compelling story and how to construct one for video.
About the North West Group
The North West Group is a network of comms professionals working in UK charities and not-for-profit organisations in the North West of England.
Meeting three times a year in Manchester, each event focuses on a different comms topic with presentations, group discussions and networking. These events are a great opportunity to meet your peers, compare notes on workplace practices and share successes, ideas, challenges and inspiration. The group is designed to encourage networking and peer-to-peer support, sharing issues in a 'safe' and relaxed environment.
Topic to be confirmed early 2016.
Please contact Harriet Smith if you'd like to be added to the North West Group mailing list.


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28. What clothing should I pack? What else should I pack for travel to the Greek islands?
Due to three to four scheduled transfers between the islands, we recommend that you pack light for your True Greece trip.
Informal clothing such as khakis, light denims and drip-dry cottons is appropriate. You may also bring a combination of shorts and long pants for your personal comfort. Even though you will probably be able to wear t-shirts or shirts on most summer nights, evenings may get relatively chilly and the wind may be strong, so a light jacket, windbreaker, or sweaters may come in handy. Even though rain is unlikely to occur during the season that True Greece offers scheduled trips, you may also bring a hooded jacket. Lightweight or jogging shoes are recommended for walking in the island villages.
During your True Greece experience, you will at times dine in upscale restaurant settings, or have a cocktail in a charming bar under the Aegean sky. For such occasions, a good rule of thumb is to bring clothing that you would normally wear if you were to dine in a relatively upscale U.S. restaurant.
For entrance to the various churches and monasteries, long pants (rather than shorts) are required for men, and a skirt or dress of at least knee-height is required for women (rather than short skirts, shorts, or pants). Women are also required to wear tops that cover their shoulders (a t-shirt, shirt, or sweat shirt would suffice).


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A Glocal Network of City-States?
This one should probably be in a fictive mode, maybe even in a science-fiction genre. In fact, I'm reconnecting with literature after a long hiatus and now would be an interesting time to start writing fiction. But I'll still start this as one of those "ramblings" blogposts that I tend to build or which tend to come to me.
The reason this should be fiction is that it might sound exceedingly naïve, especially for a social scientist. I tend to "throw ideas out there" and see what sticks to other ideas, but this broad idea about which I've been thinking for a while may sound rather crazy, quaint, unsophisticated.
See, while my academic background is rather solid, I don't have formal training in political science. In fact, I've frequently avoided several academic activities related to political science as a discipline. Or to journalism as a discipline. Part of my reluctance to involve myself in academic activities related political science relates to my reaction to journalism. The connection may not seem obvious to everyone but I see political science as a discipline in the same frame, and participating in the same worldview, as what I find problematic in journalism.
The simplest way to contextualize this connection is the ("modern") notion of the "Nation-State." That context involves me personally. As an anthropologist, as a post-modernist, as a "dual citizen" of two countries, as a folklorist, as a North American with a relatively salient European background, as a "citizen of the World," and as a member of a community which has switched in part from a "nationalist" movement to other notions of statehood. Simply put: I sincerely think that the notion of a "Nation-State" is outdated and that it will (whether it should or not) give way to other social constructs.
A candidate to replace the conceptual apparatus of the "Nation-State" is both global and local, both post-modern and ancient: a glocal network of city-states (GNoCS).
Yes, I know, it sounds awkward. No, I'm not saying that things would necessarily be better in a post-national world. And I have no idea when this shift from the "nation-states" frame to a network of city-states may happen. But I sincerely think that it could happen. And that it could happen rather quickly.
Not that the shift would be so radical as to obliterate the notion of "nation-state" overnight. In this case, I'm closer to Foucault's épistémè than to Kuhn's paradigm. After all, while the "Democratic Nation-State" model is global, former social structures are still present around the Globe and the very notion of a "Nation-State" takes different values in different parts of the world. What I envision has less to do with the linear view of history than with a perspective in which different currents of social change interact with one another over time, evoking shifts in polarity for those who hold a binary perspective on social issues.
I started "working on" this post four months ago. I was just taking some notes in a blog draft, in view of a blogpost, instead of simply keeping general notes, as I tend to do. This post remained on my mind and I've been accumulating different threads which can connect to my basic idea. I now realize that this blogpost will be more of a placeholder for further thinking than a "milestone" in my reflection on the topic. My reluctance to publish this blog entry had as much to do with an idiosyncratic sense of prudence as with time-management or any other issue. In other words, I was wary of sticking my neck out. Which might explain why this post is so personal as compared to most of my posts in English.
As uninformed as I may seem of the minutiae of national era political science, I happen to think that there's a lot of groupthink involved in the way several people describe political systems. For instance, there's a strong tendency for certain people, journalists especially, to "count countries." With relatively few exceptions (especially those which have to do with specific international institutions like the United Nations or the "G20") the number of countries involved in an event only has superficial significance. Demographic discrepancies between these national entities, not tio mention a certain degree of diversity in their social structures or even government apparatus, makes "counting countries" appear quite misleading, especially when the issue has to do with, say, social dynamics or geography. It sounds at times like people have a vague "political map of the World" in their heads and that this image preempts other approaches to global diversity. This may sound like a defensive stance on my part, as I try to position myself as "perhaps crazy but not more than others are." But the issue goes deeper. In fact, it seems that "countries" are so ingrained in some people's minds and political borders are so obvious that local and regional issues are perceived as micro-version of what happens at the "national level." This image doesn't seem so strange when we talk about partisan politics but it appears quite inappropriate when we talk about a broad range of other subjects, from epidemiology to climate change, from online communication to geology, from language to religion.
An initial spark in my thinking about several of these issues came during Beverly Stoeltje's interdisciplinary Ph.D. seminar on nationalism at Indiana University Bloomington, back in 2000. Not only was this seminar edifying on many levels, but it represented a kind of epiphany moment in my reflections on not only nationalism itself (with related issues of patriotism, colonialism, and citizenship) but on a range of social issues and changes.
My initial "realization" was on the significance of the shift from Groulx-style French-Canadian nationalism to what Lévesque called «souveraineté-association» ("sovereignty-association") and which served as the basis for the Quebec sovereignty movement.
While this all connects to well-known issues in political science and while it may (again) sound exceedingly naïve, I mean it in a very specific way which, I think, many people who discuss Quebec's political history may rarely visit. As with other shifts about which I think, I don't envision the one from French-Canadian nationalism (FCN) to Quebec sovereignty movement (QSM) to be radical or complete. But it was significant and broad-reaching.
Regardless of Lévesque's personal view on nationalism (a relatively recent television series on his life had it that he became anti-nationalist after a visit to concentration camps), the very idea that there may exist a social movement oriented toward sovereignty outside of the nationalist logic seems quite important to me personally. The fact that this movement may only be represented in partisan politics as nationalism complicates the issue and may explain a certain confusion in terms of the range of Quebec's current social movements. In other words, the fact that anti-nationalists are consistently lumped together with nationalists in the public (and journalistic) eye makes it difficult to discuss post-nationalism in this part of the Globe.
But Quebec's history is only central to my thinking because I was born and Montreal and grew up through the Quiet Revolution. My reflections on a post-national shift are hopefully broader than historical events in a tiny part of the Globe.
In fact, my initial attempt at drafting this blogpost came after I attended a talk by Satoshi Ikeda entitled The Global Financial Crisis and the End of Neoliberalism. (November 27, 2008, Concordia University, SGW H-1125-12; found thanks to Twistory). My main idea at this point was that part of the solution to global problems were local.
But I was also thinking about The Internet.
Contrary to what technological determinists tend to say, the 'Net isn't changing things as much as it is part of a broad set of changes. In other words, the global communication network we now know as the Internet is embedded in historical contexts, not the ultimate cause of History. At the risk of replacing technological determinism with social determinism, one might point out that the 'Net existed (both technologically and institutionally) long before its use became widespread. Those of us who observed a large influx of people online during the early to mid-1990s might even think that social changes were more significant in making the 'Net what it is today than any "immanent" feature of the network as it was in, say, 1991.
Still, my thinking about the 'Net has to do with the post-national shift. The 'Net won't cause the shift to new social and political structures. But it's likely to "play a part" in that shift, to be prominently places as we move into a post-national reality.
There's a number of practical and legal issues with a wide range of online activities which make it clear that the 'Net fits more in a global structure than in an "international" one. Examples I have in mind include issues of copyright, broadcast rights, "national content," and access to information, not to mention the online setting for some grassroots movements and the notion of "Internet citizenry." In all of these cases, "Globalization" expands much beyond trade and currency-based economy.
Then, there's the notion of "glocalization." Every time I use the term "glocal," I point out how "ugly" it is. The term hasn't gained any currency (AFAICT) but I keep thinking that the concept can generate something interesting. What I personally have in mind is a movement away from national structures into both a globally connected world and a more local significance. The whole "Think Local, Act Global" idea (which I mostly encountered as "Think Global, Drink Local" as a motto). "Despite" the 'Net, location still matters. But many people are also global-looking.
All of this is part of the setup for some of my reflections on a GNoCS. A kind of prelude/prologue. While my basic idea is very much a "pie in the sky," I do have more precise notions about what the future may look like and the conditions in which some social changes might happen. At this point, I realize that these thoughts will be part of future blogposts, including some which might be closer to science-fiction than to this type semi- (or pseudo-) scholarly rambling.
But I might still flesh out a few notes.
Demographically, cities may matter more now than ever as the majority of the Globe's population is urban. At least, the continued urbanization trend may fit well with a city-focused post-national model.
Some metropolitan areas have become so large as to connect with one another, constituting a kind of urban continuum. Contrary to boundaries between "nation-states," divisions between cities can be quite blurry. In fact, a same location can be connected to dispersed centres of activity and people living in the same place can participate in more than one local sphere. Rotterdam-Amsterdam, Tokyo-Kyoto, Boston-NYC…
Somewhat counterintuitvely, urban areas tend to work relatively as the source of solutions to problems in the natural environment. For instance, some mayors have taken a lead in terms of environmental initiatives, not waiting for their national governments. And such issues as public transportations represent core competencies for municipal governments.
While transborder political entities like the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU), and the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are enmeshed in the national logic, they fit well with notions of globalized decentralization. As the mayor of a small Swiss town was saying on the event of Switzerland's official 700th anniversary, we can think about «l'Europe des régions» ("Europe of regions"), beyond national borders.
Speaking of Switzerland, the confederacy/confederation model fits rather well with a network structure, perhaps more than with the idea of a "nation-state." It also seems to go well with some forms of participatory democracy (as opposed to representative democracy). Not to mean that Switzerland or any other confederation/confederacy works as a participatory democracy. But these notions can help situate this GNoCS.
While relatively rare and unimportant "on the World Stage," micro-states and micro-nations represent interesting cases in view of post-nationalist entities. For one thing, they may help dispel the belief that any political apart from the "nation-state" is a "reversal" to feudalism or even (Greek) Antiquity. The very existence of those entities which are "the exceptions to the rule" make it possible to "think outside of the national box."
Demographically at the opposite end of the spectrum from microstates and micronations, the notion of a China-India union (or even a collaboration between China, India, Brazil, and Russia) may sound crazy in the current state of national politics but it would go well with a restructuring of the Globe, especially if this "New World Order" goes beyond currency-based trade.
Speaking of currency, the notion of the International Monetary Fund having its own currency is quite striking as a sign of a major shift from the "nation-state" logic. Of course, the IMF is embedded in "national" structures, but it can shift the focus away from "individual countries."
The very notion of "democracy" has been on many lips, over the years. Now may be the time to pay more than lipservice to a notion of "Global Democracy," which would transcend national boundaries (and give equal rights to all people across the Globe). Chances are that representative democracy may still dominate but a network structure connecting a large number of localized entities can also fit in other systems including participatory democracy, consensus culture, republicanism, and even the models of relatively egalitarian systems that some cultural anthropologists have been constructing over the years.
I still have all sorts of notes about examples and issues related to this notion of a GNoCS. But that will do for now.
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Defending Quebec's Cegep System
Disclaimer: So far, I've taught at six universities and one college in Indiana, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, and Quebec. In Quebec, I've taught at Montreal's Université de Montréal (French-speaking) and Concordia University (English-speaking). This entry is mostly about my teaching experience in Montreal in contrast to my teaching experience in the MidWest and Northeast regions of the United States. Having spent some time in Mali, Switzerland, and France, I do realise that many education systems outside of Canada and the U.S. work pretty much like Quebec's.
It's partly my bias as a Québécois, I'm sure. Or it's the weather. Yet I can't help but being amazed at how well-prepared my students at both Concordia University and Université de Montréal have been, so far. Though personal characteristics could conceivably play a part, I usually see my Quebec students' preparedness in relation to the Cegep system that we have here in Quebec.
"So," I hear you ask, "what is the Cegep system anyway?" Well, it's the educational system that we have, here in Quebec. It includes Cegeps.
Yeah, I know. 😉
"Cegep" or "CEGEP" (pronounced "sea-jep" or "say-jep") is a Quebec French acronym which stands for «Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel» ("College of General and Professional Education"). A Cegep is a post-secondary institution («Collège») which serves both as a comprehensive («Général») transitional period between secondary school and university as well as vocational («Professionnel») training («Enseignement») in fields like nursing, robotics, or computer science. People in the U.S. could think of it as a blend of a vocational school, a community college, a prep school, a continuing education program, and a two-year liberal arts college. A Cegep's degree («diplôme d'études collégiales» or "DEC," pronounced "deck") can be compared with things like the French «baccalauréat» or the Swiss «maturité», but less Euro-hierarchical. (Please note that «baccalauréat» (or «bacc.», pronounced "back") is used in Quebec to refer to the bachelor's degree.)
Though I haven't been in direct contact with many Cegep students for quite a while, I find the Cegep system to be one of the best features of the Quebec education system.
Of course, I tend to idealise things a fair bit and I know many people whose opinion of the Cegep system is much less enthusiastic than mine. Still, through both informal and formal discussions with many university students and faculty in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United States, my positive perspective on the Cegep system keeps being reinforced.
One reason this issue keeps being relevant is that provincial politicians, school board administrators, and some other members of Quebec society occasionally attack the Cegep system for different reasons. On the other hand, I have yet to meet a university professor who has very negative things to say about the Cegep system. They might come out with this blog entry, but it would take a fair bit to get me, as a university instructor, to see Cegeps in very negative a light.
Cegeps were an effect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution (late 1960s through the 1970s). They're a somewhat recent phenomenon, so we can't really see all of their social effects, but have existed for long enough a period of intense social change that they have really taken roots in the fabric of Quebec culture. (I love mixing metaphors! 😉 )
I'm a little bit unclear as to whether or not the requirements have remained the same since my own time as a music student at Cégep Saint-Laurent (1989-1991), but here's a description in the present tense of how Cegeps worked when I went to one almost twenty years ago. All Quebeckers younger than 21 who wish to go to a university in Quebec need to complete at least two years' worth of Cegep courses after secondary school (grades 7-11, here). "Professional" (vocational) programs last three years and also work for university requirements if a Cegep graduate wants to go to a university. For those 21 or older, life experience usually counts as equivalent to the Cegep requirement for applying to Quebec universities (at least, that's the way it was, way back when). Even then, most university applicants go through Cegep even if they are old enough to enter a university program without a DEC as Cegep is an efficient way to prepare for university. Many programs at Quebec universities use representations of Cegep grades (kind of like a normalised GPA) as admission criteria. It wasn't the case for my B.Sc. in anthropology at Université de Montréal (1991-1994). Unlike the United States where standardised tests are so common, Quebec students don't take SAT-like general exams before going to university. To an extent, comprehensive training in a Cegep achieves some of the same goals as SAT scores do in the United States.
As far as I know, non-Quebec students need to go through specific requirements before they can begin a Bachelor's degree at a Quebec university (B.A. and B.S. programs usually last three years, here). I'm not really clear on the details but it implies that even non-Cegep students are specifically prepared to go to university.
Even with students who never went to Cegep, the existence of Cegeps makes a large difference in the Quebec education system as it raises the bar for university behaviour. In Quebec, the kinds of mistakes college students tend to make in their "college years" in the U.S. are supposed to have been done during Cegep years in Quebec. So Quebec's university students are less likely to make them
Unlike pupils in secondary schools, Cegep students enter a specific study program. On paper, course requirements in a typical Cegep program look quite a bit like freshman and sophomore requirements at a North American university or college outside of Quebec. Students choose their own courses (possibly with an advisor, I can't remember) and usually get a fair bit of "free" time. At Saint-Laurent, my weekly scheduled only included 15 hours of classes but I also had 15 hours of Big Band rehearsal every week and would usually spend thirty hours of individual instrument practise as well as thirty hours of study every week. Yes, that was a bit much but I feel it really prepared me for an academic career. 😉
The equivalent of "General Education Requirements" in Cegeps include philosophy and physical education courses. The philosophy courses are quite basic but they still prepare students to think about issues which tend to be very important in academic contexts. And, at least in the courses I've had at Saint-Laurent, we did read primary texts from important thinkers, like the complete text of Nietzsche's Zur Genealogie der Moral (translated into French).
As compared to most North American universities, Cegeps charge almost nothing. When I was at Saint-Laurent, we had administrative fees of about $80 and no tuition fees. It has probably changed since that time, but I'm quite sure Cegep fees are nothing like the outrageous tuition fees paid by college and university students in many parts of the United States. What this means to students is that the financial cost of a Cegep program is fairly minimal. Of course, there are many costs associated with going through school during that time. For one thing, a good proportion of Cegep students live in appartments, which can be fairly expensive. And it's difficult to work full-time while doing a Cegep degree. But, as compared to the typical situation in the U.S., the stakes in dropping a Cegep program or switching to a new one are low enough that students use this time as an opportunity to get to know what they want to do with their lives.
In other words, Cegep students who may look like they're "wasting their time" are going through the period of socialisation associated with late adolescence in different parts of the world. If, as is quite common, they find out that they don't necessarily want to get a university degree or that their original degree program was nothing like they planned, they still got something out of their Cegep experience at little cost. Given the functioning costs of universities, such shifts in learning orientation carry very high social and individual costs if they happen in universities. "Wasting" a DEC in Natural Sciences by then moving on to become an artist is nothing as compared to dropping a pre-Med degree to join the Peace Corps. In cases where public funding to universities is important, the difference is extremely significant, socially.
For many people, Cegep is in fact a way to experience student life to see if they like it. As painful as it may be for some academics and prestige-hungry parents to learn, many people don't really want to spend that many years (and that much money) as college/university students. In fact, there are those brilliant students who, one day, realise that they just want to learn on their own while working as, say, a cashier at a university cafeteria. My guess is that social pressure and diploma prestige are the only reasons such people ever go through post-secondary education in the first place. I also feel that they should have a right to choose the life that they want. You know: "Pursuit of Happiness" and all of that…
As some would be quick to point out, there are some people who spend years and years in Cegeps, unsuccessfully looking for the perfect program for them, and end up working at low-paying jobs all their lives. These may sound like lost souls but I really think that they are more likely to contribute to society as a whole than the equivalent long-term "undecided majors" in U.S. universities.
Because Cegeps' individual costs are relatively low, Cegep students often do experiment a lot with courses in different fields. It may seem like a stretch but my hunch is that this experimental tendency might be one of the reasons is so productive in creative domains like musical productions and circus shows. If it weren't for Cegeps, I would never have spent two years of my life in intensive training as a musician. I already (since age 13) that I wanted to become an anthropologist and my DEC in music wasn't necessary for anything I ever did. But it greatly enhanced my life more than many university programs ever do.
Cegeps often count significant numbers of what U.S. college people tend to call "non-traditional students" (older than the "typical" post-K-12 undergrad). These include fascinating people like mature women who are getting a Cegep degree as part of a life-changing experience (say, after a divorce). Because of this, the average age in a Cegep can be higher than in the typical U.S. graduate school. It also means that Cegep students coming directly from secondary schools are getting accustomed to interacting with people whose life experience may involve parenthood, career development, and long-term personal relationships.
For diverse reasons, Cegeps are the locus of most of the active student movements in Quebec, some of which have led to important strikes and other forms of student protest. Student strikes have had a deep impact in Quebec's recent history. Not that students have forced long-lasting policy changes by themselves but many members of recent generations of Quebeckers have gotten a taste for political involvement through student protest. Though I was living in Indiana at the time (2004-2005), I have seen important effects of the most recent student strike on some dimensions of Quebec society. At the time, around 200 000 Quebec students went on strike in protest of the provincial government's changes to the financial aid system. At one point, 100 000 students had taken to the streets to march as part of the student movement. The government eventually backed down on the changes it was implementing and people still talk about the effects of this strike. It is likely that the strike will not have any effect on any specific political party and political scientists would probably say that the strike failed to produce a "political class." Yet, and this is an important point, the target of the strike wasn't a political party but a perceived discrepancy between the ideals of two generations. In my personal opinion, such a social movement is much more important than partisan politics. In such a context, it isn't surprising to see many young Quebeckers become social activists, may it be for environmental causes or to fight some global inequalities. They become like this in Cegeps. Since the majority of secondary school students eventually go to Cegeps, this social involvement has nothing to do with the elitism of "Revolutions" of the early nationalist era. Cegep students are the perfect example of individualistic (one would say «libertaire») social engagement.
Not only are Cegep students socially involved but they are usually considered to be socially mature.
Quite significantly, many young adults in Quebec learn how to drink by the time they finish Cegep. Drinking age is 18 here and people usually start Cegep at age 17. As has been happening in different parts of the world for the longest time, cafés and bars around Cegep and university campuses tend to be important meeting space for students. Coffee is the drink of choice for many students during the day but alcoholic drinks (including craft beer, nowadays) bring students together for long discussions in the evening and nights. Because student alcohol consumption is widely accepted, students never feel the need to hide in residence halls or "greek houses" to enjoy each other's company.
In such a context, it's easy to understand why university students in Quebec are very generally seen as responsible adults. In the U.S., I've heard both students and professors describe university students of any age as "kids," a term I find very symptomatic of tricky educational and academic issues. As I see universities as a place to do serious academic work and not as a place for parents to drop their kids until they grow up, I have many reasons to support Quebec's Cegep system or anything which may achieve the same results. 🙂
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Europe and Open Access
Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results
GUARANTEE PUBLIC ACCESS TO PUBLICLY-FUNDED RESEARCH RESULTS SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION
The petition itself is clear, straightforward, honest, easy to read, and important.
Michael Geist is suggesting the same thing for Canada.
So? Who will be first in adopting an Open Access policy for publicly-funded research? More importantly: who will be last?
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Whereami
(It's me, a couple of months ago.)
Was editing some older entries with ecto to add categories and tags. Saw this old one (from late March, 2k5) which was meant as an introduction/blurb. Was teaching at IUSB then. Time for an update or three.
Since then, been teaching in Massachusetts (BSC and Tufts, during the Fall 2005 semester) and Montreal (Concordia during the Winter/Spring 2006 semester). Came back to Tufts to teach during the first summer session. Currently (06-06-14 13:19:34) in Cambridge, at a condo that belongs to some friends who are spending some time in Paris for academic reasons.
So, many of us, in academia, end up moving around quite a bit. Been moving more than twice a year for the last six years. Looking forward to a bit more stability. In fact, because my wife is in Northampton, MA (doing a post-doc at Smith), my time in Massachusetts has typically been divided between the Western part of the state and the Boston area.
Speaking of my brilliant wife, she's in Montreal right now to defend her dissertation! Can't go myself, because of my course, but it'll very likely be an extremely good defence (Catherine knows her stuff in and out!).
Whew! It's weird to post entries like these but it's probably what people expect from blogs. Even wanted to start blogging while in Fredericton, NB, in 2003. Kept sending messages to my wife instead (she was in Moncton, NB at that time). Should eventually report back on some places where my semi-nomadic lifestyle has led me in the past (Somerville, Lausanne, Baguinéda, Bloomington, Sienna, Northampton, Kassela, Zinal, Bamako, Fredericton, Mandelieux, Markala, Edimburg, Moncton, South Bend, Brockton, Hyères, Montreal, and, of course, Poggibonsi).
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Data on Beer in Europe
European Beer Guide: Pubs, Bars, Beerhalls, Beer Gardens and Breweries throughout Europe
Quite impressive set of data about beer in different European countries, including very detailed information about production, number of breweries, etc.
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For a long time before John Berger's defining BBC television series Ways of Seeing, followed by his publication of the same name in 1972, the concept of the innocent eye was being challenged. Berger, of course, buried it once and for all. The very title of his series prioritised how we see over what we see, and made it clear that the act of seeing is subject to many factors, including the artist-client relationship, wider cultural influences such as the art tradition out of which the thing seen emerged, the conditions of its manufacture/creation and, after all that, the dominant ideas in the mind and heart of the person doing the seeing, including their own place in history and society. Whatever kind of neutrality the art object might claim to have is then processed through the mind of the spectator; whether they are "experts", competitors, engaged critics, consumers, workers on the project or random spectators, they all bring personal as well as cultural baggage to the encounter.
Not enough art or design history has been informed by these considerations, and certainly, despite remarkable recent writing from Linda King, Lisa Godson, Elaine Sissons, Ellen Rowley and others, not enough at all of the design history of Irish objects and buildings.
That picture has just changed with the publication of Sorcha O'Brien's Powering the Nation. Not to, in any way, diminish the achievements of those other writers, this scholarly book is devoted to the visual representations of a single project, the Shannon Hydro-Electricity Scheme at Ardnacrusha, which is examined forensically. O'Brien looks at everything from the evidence of the power station itself to corporate, private and public collections in archives in Germany and Ireland, from technical drawings to academic art, and from there to postage stamps and cigarette cards, and the result of that study is comfortably positioned within a theoretical discourse of visual culture and comparisons with international models. Having done all that, O'Brien uses her material to make assertive and well-founded comments on Ireland and modernity, on nation-building and "imagined communities" in the new Irish Free State, on the very different needs of the German engineering and technical corporations and on the diverse ways in which the images of the project lead to multiple narrative outcomes.
There is no shortage of writing about the Shannon Scheme and its relationship to the development of the newly independent state, by both Irish and German writers, but the focus is almost entirely on its technological and industrial challenges and solutions and the economic impact it had on the country. But despite a cursory discussion of the work of Sean Keating to celebrate it by Andy Bielenberg, Maurice Manning, Moore McDowell and others in their histories of the ESB and by Eimear O'Connor, writing on Keating from an art-historical perspective, the wider visual importance of the scheme has not been analysed. O'Brien's book makes up for that lacuna, at the same time presenting a clear sense of what each form of visual representation could add to the wider understanding of the scheme in the context of Irish and German developments between the two world wars. Her democratic and rigorous handling of all those different forms of representation make this book a model for future projects, and outlines a wealth of information contained in hitherto overlooked aspects of visual expression.
In short O'Brien widens John Berger's assertion that "[w]e never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves" to embrace not only ourselves but the whole spectrum of society, avoiding the kind of visuality that Donna Harraway claimed emphasises social difference and assumes "hierarchies of class, 'race' gender, sexuality and so on – while itself claiming not to be part of that hierarchy and thus to be universal" (Gillian Rose, Visual Methodologies). Furthermore, O'Brien orders her material into a structure that is clear and logical, beginning with the initial proposal and working through the ideological frameworks, the working practices, the official publicity and promotion and the popular response to the scheme, providing summary conclusions at the end of every chapter, with an efficiency that is as stalwart and functional as the project itself. Most challengingly, it is democratic, to the point of providing the contextual background, not only of the images but of their media and the audiences they catered for.
The Shannon Scheme has an international and conflictual history. The brainchild of Tom McLaughlin, an Irish engineer working for the German firm Siemens in Pomerania (now in Poland), it was quickly adopted by Patrick McGilligan, minister for industry and commerce, despite the overall conservativism and cautiousness of the Cumann na nGaedheal government and accusations from Fianna Fáil that it was a popularity-seeking ploy by the government. McLaughlin put the idea forward in 1924, and persuaded the minister that Siemens was the firm for the task. Work began in 1925 and was completed by 1929. O'Brien is at her best negotiating the intellectual spaces between the Free State's search for an identity for the fledgling state that ran in two opposing directions, back to a not entirely convincing Celtic heroic past on the one hand, and a need to display its openness to modernity on the other. If that weren't challenge enough, there was the pressing need for the German companies contracted to deliver the scheme, to prove to the world that Germany was back in business after a punishing world war and an even more devastating peace agreement. Schemes like this work because they offer something to all the interests involved. Two Siemens companies, Siemens Schuckertwerke (electrical engineering) and Siemens BauUnion (civil engineering) embraced the opportunity to take on the biggest hydro-electric project in post-WWI Europe and from the outset were determined to record and communicate their achievements. Ireland, impoverished following the impact of the same war and a civil war at home, needed energy, it needed to boost industry in a predominantly agricultural country, and it needed to provide employment at home in the hope of stemming an unending flow of emigration.
It is fair to say that 1920s Ireland, still coming to terms with independence, had neither clear industrial or aesthetic models at home and so it is hardly surprising that the design and technological achievements of Ardnacrusha were predominantly German. Even the final grey concrete face it offers the world was the outcome of established German principles of truth to function and local materials, which saw the grey concrete as more at home in the landscape than the brick or ceramic facades of other Siemens power stations, which would not have sat easily within the vernacular traditions of rural Limerick and Clare. The design then, and the technologies were all German, as not too surprisingly, were the senior staff and management of the project; the vast majority of the unskilled labour force was Irish. The German propaganda machine swung into action, with its own staff sending photographs to trade and industry journals around Europe. O'Brien tells that story but she tells another one too. The unskilled workers, some of whom had cameras, and the tourists who started to flood in from about 1927 on, took photographs of a different kind. They took the photos of the men and the machines they worked with, generally framing them in the landscape. Her research shows that 42 per cent of the German photos focus on canals, power lines, turbines and machinery, others on the accommodation and facilities provided for the German workers, but only 18 per cent show the workers themselves. A feature of German modernity was to show the modern world, using modern technologies of seeing; even the cameras they used incorporated the latest technology from home. But the anonymous Irish workers photographed each other. As O'Brien is quick to point out, "this is where these photographs differ from their German antecedents – the great building project of the Shannon Scheme is recorded as being the product of man's labour, rather than springing from the ground fully formed and shining, without human intervention". In keeping with the Irish tradition, they incorporated more of the landscape too, making this giant machine for electricity appear less foreign, less at odds with the human and natural environment. The two different approaches ask if man is merely a cog in the mechanical system, or a powerful agent in its making.
As the Electricity Supply Board began to take over ownership of the project, (which miraculously was completed in three years), they, like Siemens, developed a publicity strategy. O'Brien takes us through the ESB's poster campaign in the national press in 1928. This began with a poster containing a lot of text and a tentative landscape with factory emerging, then moved to a mythologising poster of horses (horse power) racing through a barely defined space at the behest of a Cuchulain-like character in the top right corner, playing on Patrick Pearse's dream of harnessing energy from the rivers, and gradually giving way, triumphantly, to the fully productive power station and its loyal workers. The story is Irish now, and these poster visualisations by the Dublin freelance illustrator Gordon Brewster are an important but neglected part of it. O'Brien reminds us of the significance too of the name Shannon scheme as part of the bigger mythology of Irishness and a past that includes Fionn mac Cumhaill's strength and hopefully the wisdom to be got from Irish salmon.
If we think this is all a bit fanciful, it is important to reimagine the Ireland of the 1920s, where industry barely existed outside of the Henry Ford factory in Cork and Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the latter of course not in the Free State's control. What did it mean to place an industry, indeed an industry which itself had the potential to be the beating heart of future development as well as a transformative power in domestic and agricultural life in a strictly rural location? The ESB's publicity department ran tours of the facility, securing discounts on trains and buses. The site speedily becoming a new type of national monument. O'Brien points out the significance of a monument that offered a future in the context of the thousands of historic sites that sang of what had been lost in the past.
The impact of all of this is evidenced again and again in tourist photos, family outings to the site and very quickly in the form of personalised postcards (where photographers turned their own images into postcards), commercial postcards and finally albums of cigarette cards. By examining all of these types of images, especially those lovingly placed in dedicated albums and even given to local history societies and museums, as distinct from random snapshots, she recognises their value as cultural icons across social divides all over the country. And it wasn't just the natives who came. Lord Leverhulme, the archbishop of Westminster and the chairman of the New York Power Board were just three of the distinguished foreign guests who visited Ardnacrusha in 1928, alongside German boy scouts and Irish workers and their families.
O'Brien quotes Tom Garvin who argues that "the central problem facing the creators of a new state is that of creating a new sense of community" and this purpose underpins the visual activities of the new Free State. Be that as it may, the state did not commission Sean Keating to paint the Shannon Scheme. The impetus for this was the artist's own, and was entirely in keeping with Keating's mission to both document and historicise the project, signalling that progress towards a modern Ireland was more likely to come from the new men, the engineers and industrialists, than from the warring nationalist and religious factions of the War of Independence and Civil War. Nor did the state invite his colleague George Atkinson, another senior figure in Irish art education and in the Royal Hibernian Academy to make his very different, more landscape-oriented prints of the scheme. Atkinson was returning to print after a fallow period and may have felt that because of its wide hold on the popular imagination, the work at Ardnacrusha would offer a perfect outlet for his medium. O'Brien tracks down two watercolours by Brigid O'Brien Ganly, whose visits to the site were more likely to have been informed by her family connections to the area than to any encouragement from the state. Official patronage of visualisations of the Shannon Scheme were, instead, almost entirely German. O'Brien gives considerable space to Anton Scheuritzel, sent by Siemens to document their first big project since 1918. Scheuritzel's sixteen offset lithographs concentrate almost exclusively on the engineering and technological feats and position the project as a great German one to bring power to homely, romantic Irish cottages.
Where art-historical writing generally prioritises the single artist/genius and the grand statement, and facilitates a hierarchy of media as well as subject categories or genres, it all too often fails to address the stories that are not aimed at the grand statement but present no less truthful, equally valuable and often more personal accounts. Some of the visual documents emerging from the Shannon Scheme tell stories of technological achievement, others spell out the pressures of nation-building and, thanks to Sorcha O'Brien, still others tell of personal and collective experience and aspiration. The unfailingly democratic nature of books like Powering the Nation reminds us of the importance of all of those accounts and opens up opportunities for vastly more expansive and democratic ways of seeing, and therefore knowing, in the future.


内容 This activity should come after Part 1 or as a lesson for students who are ready to explore improper fractions and mixed numbers. This lesson helps students Identify and generate simple equivalent fractions and explain why the mixed numbers and improper fractions are equivalent. Students will use different models and representations to compare fractional parts. They will use ideas of fraction equivalence and ordering to 1) Explain equivalence of improper fractions and mixed numbers using drawings and models, 2) Recognize and generate equivalent improper fractions and mixed numbers.


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Reframing Care: Sexual Violence, Mental Health, and Feminist Activism, 1971-1997
posted on 01.08.2021, 00:00 by Elizabeth Hearne
This dissertation investigates the changing conversations around rape and sexual assault in the United States during the 1970s through the 1990s, and examines two groups who were particularly important in shaping these changes: feminist mental health professionals and activists in the women's movement, especially those involved in anti-rape activism. These two groups, working separately and together, created new paradigms for understanding the effects of sexual violence and how best to address the needs of the victims who sought their assistance. These groups helped spur profound new developments in psychological and psychiatric research, practice, and professional knowledge. Exploring this era reveals an important moment of collaboration between the licensed and unlicensed, between clinician and patient, and between activist and establishment. While lay activists were instrumental in driving this sea changes within the mental health world, they also brought their own ethics and strategies to their work with victims of sexual violence. Their strategies were often shaped by, and sometimes were inseparable from, advocacy for women, an attunement to racial and class injustice, and a belief that personal, group, and community considerations had to infuse their anti-rape activism and their approaches with victims. Cultural and spiritual practices—and activism itself—could offer unique forms of meaning and solace as well. This dissertation explores the women who found powerful ways to change existing narratives about sexual violence and the treatment of victims, and offers a model for how individuals and groups can change powerful and persistent cultural and psychomedical narratives.
Johnston, Robert
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Hoppe, Kirk Moruzzi, Norma Jacquet, Catherine Schultheiss, Katrin
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Suicide bombers stage attacks in Bali
On October 1, 2005, suicide bombers strike three restaurants in two tourist areas on the Indonesian island of Bali, a popular resort area. The bombings killed 22 people, including the bombers, and injured more than 50 others. This was the second suicide-bombing incident to rock the island in less than three years. (In 2002, a series of three bombs killed 202 people, many of them foreign nationals in Bali on vacation, including 88 Australians.)
The blasts occurred nearly simultaneously, hitting two outdoor restaurants in the Jimbaran beach resort and a third in Kuta, a tourist center about 19 miles away. The attacks, like those in 2002, were thought to be the work of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an extremist Islamist militant group with links to al-Qaida. JI is also believed to be responsible for the bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003 that resulted in the deaths of 12 people and of the Australian embassy in Indonesia in 2004, in which 10 people died.
Though Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world, the island of Bali is mainly Hindu.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/terrorists-strike-again-in-bali
Gunman opens fire on Las Vegas concert crowd, wounding hundreds and killing 58
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opens fire on a crowd attending the final night of a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800. Although the shooting only lasted 10 minutes, the death and injury tolls made this massacre the ...read more
Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus
A combined Arab and British force captures Damascus from the Turks during World War I, completing the liberation of Arabia. An instrumental commander in the Allied campaign was T.E. Lawrence, a legendary British soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence, an Oxford-educated ...read more
Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg
On October 1, 1946, 12 high-ranking Nazis are sentenced to death by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of ...read more
Yosemite National Park established
On October 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees. Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by ...read more
Roger Maris breaks home-run record
On October 1, 1961, New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. The great Babe Ruth set the record in 1927; Maris and his teammate Mickey Mantle spent 1961 trying to break it. After hitting 54 ...read more
Jimmy Carter is born
On October 1, 1924, future President James Earl Carter is born in Plains, Georgia. Carter, who preferred to be called "Jimmy," was the son of a peanut farmer and was the first president to be born in a hospital. Carter was raised a devoted Southern Baptist and graduated from the ...read more
Scientific American reports that radio will soon be used to transmit music to the home
In an 1888 novel called Looking Backward: 2000-1887, author Edward Bellamy imagined a scene in which a time-traveler from 1887 reacts to a technological advance from the early 21st century that he describes as, "An arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, ...read more
Johnny Carson makes debut as "Tonight Show" host
On October 1, 1962, Johnny Carson takes over from Jack Paar as host of the late-night talk program The Tonight Show. Carson went on to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for three decades, becoming one of the biggest figures in entertainment in the 20th century. John ...read more
Natural Disasters & Environment
Earthquake rocks Southern California
An earthquake in Whittier, California, kills 6 people and injures 100 more on October 1, 1987. The quake was the largest to hit Southern California since 1971, but not nearly as damaging as the Northridge quake that would devastate parts of Los Angeles seven years later. Whittier ...read more
A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building
A massive explosion destroys the Los Angeles Times building in the city's downtown area, killing 21 and injuring many more. Since Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Otis, a virulent opponent of unions, believed that the bomb was directed at him, ...read more
A 12-year-old girl is kidnapped, leading to California's "three strikes" law
Polly Klaas is abducted at knifepoint by an intruder in her Petaluma, California, home during a slumber party with two friends. Despite a massive manhunt and national attention, there was no sign of the missing 12-year-old or her abductor for two months. Eventually, investigators ...read more
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes head of Soviet Union
Having forced the resignation of Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko, Mikhail Gorbachev names himself head of the Supreme Soviet. Within two years, he was named "Man of the Decade" by Time magazine for his role in bringing the Cold War to a close. Beginning in 1985, when he became ...read more
Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic of China
Naming himself head of state, communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People's Republic of China; Zhou Enlai is named premier. The proclamation was the climax of years of battle between Mao's communist forces and the regime of Nationalist ...read more
Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow dies
Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns off the North Carolina coast when a Yankee craft runs her ship aground. She was returning from a trip to England. At the beginning of the war, Maryland native Rose O'Neal Greenhow lived in Washington, D.C., with her four children. Her ...read more
Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen ...read more
Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald
On October 1, 1944, the first of two sets of medical experiments involving castration are performed on homosexuals at the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany. Buchenwald was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazi regime. Constructed in 1937, ...read more


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The research activities of the Leonhard Obermeyer Center cover a broad range of digital methods which are being developed for sensing, analyzing and shaping the built environment. They are driven by the scientific expertise of the individual chairs as well as by joint research projects. A particular emphasis is put on researching digital methods which are able to bridge the multiple scales involved with modeling and simulating the built environment – from the scale of a few millimeters to the scale of a whole country.
The design of a building is a complex process in which the solution is developed in an iterative manner in order to fulfill objectives and boundary conditions of multiple designs and engineering disciplines involved. If the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology is applied, the planning process starts with a coarse model, which is gradually developed into a more and more detailed model. These refinement steps are described as levels of development (LOD). Due to the increasing application and high potential of semantic BIM models for subsequent simulations and analyses, the implementation of a multi-LOD model seems essential for the future of digital planning and is thus the topic of this research project.
Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, is a generic term for the production of artifacts by successively adding material in layers. There are numerous methods for this. The Chair of Computation in Engineering focuses on modeling the process of laser power bed fusion. In this process, a highly focused laser selectively melts powder. Once a powder layer has been selectively treated, a new powder layer is added.
The focuse of the project is on the development of methods for visual representation and exploration of simulation and analysis results for process-integrated presentation and comparison of different design variants. In order to gain insights from the datasets and support the decision making process of the designer, methods from the areas of visual analytics and visual representation are investigated, and concepts are developed based on a requirement analysis in order to interactively filter, link and visualise tendencies and multiple multi-dimensional data situation- and role-specifically from the simulations and analyses.
More than 50% of the world population is living in cities today. No matter if looking at environmental noise, air quality and particulate matter, energy usage and production, or traffic flows - in order to achieve or maintain a high quality of living in cities, municipalities and companies must take into account many different concerns. The concept "Smart District Data Infrastructure" (SDDI) provides planners with the necessary set of flexible tools. Entire cities or city districts are represented by 3D virtual city models which are linked with dynamic data, for example, on the traffic density or energy consumption. These models are used for monitoring and evaluation of the current situation, and especially for simulations of future developments and an early impact analysis.
Within this project, an interactive simulation tool for risk assessment and real time prediction of floods in complex environmental settings, like urban environments, shall be developed. Floods and impact of floods on infrastructure will be predicted within a multiscale framework reaching from the river down to the scale of the built infrastructure, such as railway, subway, tunnels, waste water channels, buildings, and building infrastructure.
The last 20 years clearly show more frequency of extreme weather conditions with an increased summer heat waves in Central Europe. This is particularly evident in metropolitan cities, as the effect is intensified by contribution of Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI). These changing conditions will intensely influence planning both in the building sector and urban development scenarios. The Urban Microclimate modelling project is a software development based on TRNSYS simulation engine, where the model will be able to assess the transient behavior of outdoor spaces and microclimate effects.
In this subproject of the joint project For3D of the Bavarian Research Foundation, new methods for change analysis in point clouds are to be developed. Point clouds from different sensors or evaluation methods will be merged and compared with images taken at different times.
USP aims to generate interactive tools to support the development of inner-city planning strategies. By monitoring key building codes and providing visualizations and simulation results in real-time they serve as an informed basis for debate and argumentation in the political decision-making and planning process and in turn support the development of inner-city planning strategies that are well-suited to their urban context.
The aim of this research is to provide the architect with IT support in the early design stages. In essence, the project extends two of the architect's primary tools – the sketch and the use of case study references – through the use of information technology, the data storage capacity of the computer and the ability to rapidly transport information in data networks.
Using a computer in order to realize creative design tasks is still cumbersome an inefficient. One of the most challenging problems is the inadequate Human-Computer Interaction of most of the current computer systems. Within an interdisciplinary project a collaborative design platform has been developed on a scale of 1:1.
A key issue is the automatic monitoring of the progress of the construction site to detect deviations and to forecast delays. This project concentrates on matching 3D point clouds recorded in a changing environment to an as-planned 3D model for change detection, object extraction, estimation of occluded building parts with integration of construction process knowledge or on-site changes of the planned construction process.
The project serves two principal goals: (i) to extract and interpret non-visible features of buildings from thermal infrared (TIR) data based on image analysis and (ii) to update and enrich the 3D building models with the information derived from non-visible features.
The award winning 3D City Database is a free 3D geo database to store, represent, and manage CityGML-compliant city models on top of a standard spatial relational database. The database model contains semantically rich, hierarchically structured, multi-scale urban objects facilitating complex GIS modeling and analysis tasks, far beyond visualization.
The international OGC standard CityGML is a common information model and XML-based encoding for the representation, storage, and exchange of virtual 3D city and landscape models and especially takes care of the representation of the semantic and thematic properties, taxonomies and aggregations. These Semantic 3D City Models are used in projects for Urban Information Fusion and City Lifecycle Management.
The research group aims to investigate and develop methods and techniques for the collaborative planning of infrastructural construction projects using 3D urban and building models. The 3D model shall be linked to a spatiotemporal database, to external geodata sources and GIS analysis methods. Using an augmented reality system planners on site will be able to localize the 3D planning model.
The chair for Computation in Engineering (CiE) has been involved in research in the field of mesh generation since the early 1990ies with developing a surface mesh generation algorithm for discretizing arbitrary freeform surfaces with triangular and quadrilateral elements (DoMesh). In more recent stages of research the surface mesh generator has been enhanced to a mesh generation framework discretizing arbitrary BRep-volumes with curved high-order tetrahedral elements and thin walled shell-like structures with curved high-order hexahedral elements (TUM.GeoFrame).
This project deals with the possibilities and challenges of utilizing airborne decimeter resolution InSAR data for the analysis of densely built-up urban areas. In this context, multi-aspect as well as multi-baseline approaches are investigated to derive surface models as well as to extract building models. The specific properties of SAR imagery have to be taken into account: shadowing, foreshortening, layover areas and scatterers show a completely different behavior dependent on the viewing direction of the sensor. This is a big challenge in combining images from different viewing directions, but allows the reduction of areas with shadows and layover.
The BIMsite project is focused on the transition from construction planning to construction process. Until recently, building layouts and construction drawings have been designed and delivered in 2D, leading to problems and delays on the construction site due to insufficient depth of planning. The BIMsite project is dedicated to the question of how digital building models can be used for relevant questions in work preparation and during construction.On the one hand, it is to be examined which requirements building models must fulfil with regard to information content and level of detail so that a direct further use for the corresponding project phases is possible.
The Energy Atlas Berlin is a tool supporting the strategic environment and energy planning in Berlin and London. It comprises the representation of the actual state of the environment, energy-related objects and parameters in the sense of an urban inventory. Furthermore, different options for measures such as the comparison of the estimated energy demands and the production and savings potential, e.g. by renewable energy sources and energetic retrofitting of buildings, can be both analyzed and visualized.
In this project, we concentrate on constructions and built infrastructure with special interest in providing information at a varying and dynamically changing depth. We develop a system that provides the possibility of receiving detailed information (even on very fine-grain levels) about constructions in real time still preserving interactive information steering despite a huge data advent.


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Ellen Gives Andre 3000 The Best Gift Ever!
The best part about Andre 3000 playing Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side is the recluse rapper has to do press, which means fans get more three stacks.
On Wednesday (Sept. 24) Andre Benjamin stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres show to promote the John Ridley film. The two spoke about the film, the 20 year reunion of Outkast and tour as well as Andre's amazing on-stage performance costumes.
Now, we all know Ellen loves giving her guests gift, and awesome gifts at that. Take a look at what Ellen gifted three stacks with.


Plan your trip to St. Lucia (South Africa). Start by getting to the destination from your hometown. Then figure out where to stay, find things to see and do, and research places to eat.
Cape Town: Where to spend 3-5 days after Cape Town and a safari?


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Euthyneura zijn een infraklasse van slakken (Gastropoda).

Taxonomie
De volgende taxa zijn bij de infraklasse ingedeeld:
 Familie Tjaernoeiidae , 1991
 Subterklasse Acteonimorpha
 Subterklasse Ringipleura
 Subterklasse Tectipleura

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Маскил Мозес Гиршель () (13 сентября 1754 — 24 июня 1818) — немецкий писатель и шахматный публицист.

Биография
Являлся представителем Хаскалы в Прусском королевстве в конце XVIII века. Он опубликовал первый немецкий перевод шахматных сочинений Джоакино Греко вместе с переизданием труда Филиппа Стамма в «Das Schach des Herrn Giochimo Greco Calabrois und die Schachspiel Geheimniße des Arabers Philipp Stamma übersezt, verbeßert und nach einer ganz neuen Methode zur Erleichterung der Spielenden umgearbeitet» (Бреслау, 1784; Цюрих, 1979 и 1987). Перевод им двух шахматных классиков был значительным, поскольку их публикация помогла популяризировать алгебраическую запись в Пруссии. Он также написал «Ueber das Schachspiel, dessen Nutzen, Gebrauch und Mißbrauch, psychologisch, moralisch und scientisisch erörtert» (Бреслау, 1791). Разочарованный отсутствием реформ в Бреславском раввинате в то время, крестился в католицизм в 1803 или 1804 под именем «Кристиан Мориц Гершель».

Публикации
 Гиршель М. М. Unterricht für Schachspieler. Лейпциг, 1795.
Опубликовал следующие полемические работы, которые оказали влияние на внутренние еврейские дебаты конца XVIII века: «Kampf der Jüdischen Hierarchie» (Бреслау, 1789); «Judische Intoleranz und Fanatismus in Breslau» (1789); «Patriotische Bemerkungen» (1790); «Ueber die Allzufrühen Ehen der Jüdischen Nation» (Бреслау, 1790); «Biographie des Jüdischen Gelehrten und Dichters Ephraim Moses Kuh» (Цюрих, 1791); «Apologie der Menschenrechte» (Цюрих, 1793); «Vier Briefe über Schlesien» (Бреслау, 1796).

Примечания

Источники
 Еврейская энциклопедия Брокгауза и Ефрона

Ссылки

Писатели Германии
Переводчики на немецкий язык
Публицисты Германии
Шахматисты Германии


My daughter is getting to that stage where she's starting to ask the Big Questions. Actually, she hit the stage some months ago, around the time I became pregnant again. I'm a fan of Dr. Spock's advice on these matters, which is to offer no more information than a child is requesting.
At first, the questions about how babies are made were answered with things like, "From a mom and dad's love." Oddly enough, she seemed satisfied with that type of Helen Steiner Rice drivel. I might as well have told her that babies are three parts magic, two parts wonder, and just a pinch of heaven.
This explanation only lasted so long. She eventually became concerned about how a baby in my tummy could already have an egg in its tummy, which would in turn also have an egg in its tummy, and on and on down the line. This notion of some sort of infinite set of Russian nesting dolls was torturing her sense of logic, so I finally got down to brass tacks.
Well, hello there, great-great granddaughter!
I waited for her to process this new information. That took exactly three seconds, judging by the way her expression changed from curious to horrified. I had no idea that I, personally, could disgust her so much.
Technically, no. No, we don't. I mean, two people can't be on top of each other at the same time, right? I've been getting by on such technicalities in my explanations for a long time now. And I could have dodged the truth just this one more time. Instead, it finally occurred to me that I don't have to answer every single question she asks exactly when she asks it. So, this time? This time I said, "Who wants to play My Little Pony!?" And to my surprise, it worked.
Originally published 2009 JLF and the Momplex Blog.
This entry was posted in daughters, death, mood issues, motherhood, preschoolers, sexuality. Bookmark the permalink.
HA! I don't remember this one, but it made me laugh out loud.


Response: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) is a modality of hemodialysis commonly used to manage renal failure in critically ill patients who have significant hemodynamic compromise. However, it is also resource-intensive and costly and its usage is highly variable and lacks standardization.
Our institution organized a multidisciplinary task force to target high value care in critically ill patients requiring CRRT by standardizing its process flow, promoting cross-disciplinary discussions with patients and family members, and increasing visibility/awareness of CRRT use. After our interventions, the mean duration of CRRT decreased by 11.3% from 7.43 to 6.59 days per patient. We also saw a 9.8% decrease in the mean direct cost of CRRT from $11642 to $10506 per patient. Finally, we also saw a decrease in the proportion of patients expiring on CRRT, and an increase in the proportion of patients transitioning to comfort care.
Response: There are many strategies that we can use to target high value care. Resource utilization in the Intensive Care Unit is a prime target to address value-based care interventions. In our case, our experience with CRRT serves as an example of how physicians from multiple specialties can collaborate together and promote meaningful use of an essential, but costly treatment for renal failure.
Response: A prospective trial with a control group for comparison would better support a causal relationship between our interventions and our findings.
This entry was posted in Author Interviews, Cost of Health Care, Critical Care - Intensive Care - ICUs, JAMA, Kidney Disease and tagged critical care, health care costs, ICU, kidney disease by Marie Benz MD FAAD. Bookmark the permalink.


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