For a long time everyone has asked me to do a write up on how Linux works with the Revo 1600. I am not a huge Linux fan so I went straight for Windows 7 and Windows Media Center for my Revo. However since I built a new HTPC my little Revo has just been hanging out waiting for some love, so I decided to install my age old enemy Linux and see what happens. The goal in mind was to first simply get a system installed that would play back my media and perhaps get some streaming video. There are a lot of options out there including XBMC, Boxee, and of course Hulu Desktop for streaming. I will eventually want to expand this to include Linux powered DVR, but let's start small.
There are a lot of Linux distributions out there, however the most popular by far has to be Ubuntu. Not only is it the most popular, but it is really easy to install. You can run Ubuntu straight off a USB drive, install it side by side a Windows install, or just install it fully. I like Ubuntu for data retrieval, but this is the first time I will be using it as the OS. All you need to do is head over to the download page and download it. I selected USB stick and that I will be creating it with Windows. It will guide you through the process, but it is extremely easy. Once you have it installed you are good to go. It is important that you remember your password because every time you install something you will be prompted to enter your credentials. You will also want to install the latest NVidia drive for Linux. A nice little guide is located here.
I decided to give three different pieces of software a try. The first install is the easiest by far, which is Boxee, all you need to do is download the Linux .deb file and double click to install it inside of the Ubuntu Software Center. Let's keep is simple again by installing Hulu Desktop by just selecting Ubuntu 32-bit to download the .deb file and again simply install it inside of Ubuntu Software Center. Now it is time to get all difficult and install XBMC, alright not that difficult. All you really need to do is follow the first step on their wiki page, which is to bring up the terminal and follow what they tell you.
While XBMC might not have my favorite user interface in the entire world, it seems to play back content great on Linux. You can add content in tons of different ways including local content, network content (mine was on my windows home server), and even through plugins. There are a ton of plugins for XBMC including Revision 3, Grooveshark, NPR, Engadget, TWit, Trailer Addict, Youtube, Facebook photo, flicker, picasa and so much more. The plugins can all be installed straight from the user interface as well. I will say that media playback was great streaming across my network. Music, standard DVD rips, and even 720p video files played back very smooth. The install is a bit odd, but overall I really enjoyed the experience.
Boxee is great because it is an all on one solution and has great streaming potential. Boxee is also great because it automatically grabs all of the meta data for all of your music, movies, and television episodes for you. Streaming music across the network was just fine, however when it came to video it was a different story. Stand DVD quality movies played just fine but when I through 720p content at it the choppiness started right up. Even after a few minutes the video seemed to improve but just wasn't as good as XBMC. Boxee still has a lot of plugins however. I tested out Revision 3 and Onion News and overall the quality was good and playback was pretty smooth, but XBMC still did it better. As for streaming content, what a disaster. Just like the Revo on Windows 7 with Boxee nothing worked at all. The video seemed to buffer and play but it kept to a small tiny box in the corner. Perhaps this could be fixed, but I am not sure.
Oh Hulu how I love you for being able to play back the latest episodes of my favorite shows for free (some ads of course). When flash 10.1 came out it was a revolution for the Revo as Flash content finally played back smooth on the low powered Revo. Hulu Desktop worked pretty well on Windows, but on Linux it was a different story. Usually I am able to play back High quality, but it was just choppy as it could be. I tried Medium and the story was the same. If I brought it out of full screen mode then it seemed to play better. The UI was about as responsive as it was on the Windows, which isn't saying much so overall fail for Hulu Desktop.
Doesn't work at all from what I can tell.
I wanted to give Youtube a try on Linux since thing thing came pre-installed with Flash 10.2 & Firefox. I tried out the same video that I tested with the Revo which was the Nvidia 1080p test video and it was all over the play. 1080p completely chugged so I tried 720p and it was the same. Lowering the quality down to 480p seemed to work just fine. I tried out southparkstudios.com and after a few attempts and a lot of buffering it kind of worked… Let's just say it had a lot of problems as did vimeo. I thought perhaps it was Firefox so I decided to give Google Chrome a try. After a short download and install I tested out the sites again. First off Chrome on Ubuntu is way better then Firefox even for browsing. It was faster and oh my goodness flash videos actually played. Southparkstudios.com was able to stream all sorts of videos even at full screen just like it should. Vimeo seemed to play back just fine as well if HD was not on, after buffering of course. HD youtube still didn't play and I had to go down to 480p to get it streaming smooth.
Overall I am really impressed with XBMC on the Linux powered Revo. I feel as though I need to go out and get a wireless dongle for it to put it under my television in the bedroom. I still need to test out some remotes with it for it to become a true HTPC. I also plan on testing out mythbuntu for a Linux powered DVR. I still think that while the Windows Media Center interface might have been a bit slower overall it was a better HTPC compared to this setup. However if you just have a lot local files and music and don't want to purchase Windows 7 this might be a pretty good route to go. Hey it is free, so give it a try if you want!


Operational costs for truckers ticked up slightly in 2014 when compared to 2013 findings, according to findings released by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).
The 2015 update to An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking, using financial data provided directly by motor carriers throughout the country, documents and analyzes trucking costs from 2008 through 2014. The research provides motor carriers with a high level benchmarking tool, and government agencies with a baseline for future transportation infrastructure improvement analyses.
The average marginal cost per mile in 2014 was $1.70, an increase from the $1.68 found in 2013. Despite falling fuel prices, the rise in average operating costs in 2014 is attributed to an increase in equipment purchases, as well as driver wage increases driven by the ongoing driver shortage and the need to retain the industry's most experienced professional drivers.
"ATRI's release of its annual Operational Costs of Trucking research is among our association members most eagerly anticipated. They understand and appreciate the value of ATRI's operational cost analysis to their own fleet benchmarking and as such, are always willing participants when ATRI issues its call for cost data," said Brenda Neville, President and CEO of the Iowa Motor Truck Association and a member of ATRI's Research Advisory Committee.
Since its original publication in 2008, ATRI has received nearly 10,000 requests for its Operational Costs of Trucking report, which continues to be among the most popular of ATRI's research studies. In addition to average costs per mile, ATRI's report documents average costs per hour, cost breakouts by industry sector, and operating cost comparisons by region of operations.
The ATRI findings come as some in Washington are trying to allow larger and heavier trucks on U.S. highways.
Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI) submitted the SAFE Trucking Act, which would allow 91,000-pound trucks.
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) opposes Ribble's proposed legislation, saying that it would result in expensive trailer retrofitting costs, more expensive tractors and trailers, lower fuel economy and higher maintenance spending.
"While this provision attempts to improve trucking productivity on our highways, it clearly would only benefit a minority of the industry," wrote TCA Chairman Keith Tuttle and policy committee chair Jim Towery.
TCA says the truck retrofits would up to $25,000 per tractor-trailer and would "yield little to no return" for a large majority of U.S. carriers. Carriers likely wouldn't see rate increases with 91,000-pound loads, says TCA, but all carriers would face "market pressure" to equip their entire fleets with the necessary upgrades to haul heavier loads.
"TCA urges you to reconsider this proposal and find a freight productivity solution that will help to support all segments of an industry that has proven to be the backbone of the U.S. economy," TCA wrote in a letter to Ribble.
Rep. Ribble said increasing weight limits in the U.S. would reduce congestion, boost highway safety and help U.S. freight transportation be more efficient.
The American Trucking Associations generally supports increased size and weight limits too.
The National Private Truck Council also supports increasing the federal vehicle weight limit to 91,000 pounds for tractor-trailers equipped with a sixth axle.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is working on a long over-due transportation bill. Rep. Ribble hopes his SAFE Trucking Act will become part of the larger bill.
Congress passed a three-month extension of highway funding authorization before the summer recess but it will run out on Oct. 29. The Senate passed a $50 billion, six-year highway bill in late July but the House has yet to act.
If Congress cannot come to terms on highway funding, it will have to consider another short-term extension.
Transportation advocacy group Transportation for America has problems with the Senate's six-year bill.
"The Senate's recently passed multi-year bill failed to tackle the hard choices required to raise new, sustainable revenues … in order to truly put the nation's transportation trust fund on stable footing," says Chris Rall, a Pacific Northwest field organizer for the group.
"The Senate cobbled together $46 billion in non-transportation-related funds, fees and accounting maneuvers to keep the nation's transportation trust fund solvent for the next three years — in some cases, by relying on funding from sources 10 years in the future to pay back the next three years of spending.


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The Redemption of Hester Prynne
Gregory Wolfe | Issue 96
BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN A STAPLE of the high school classroom, it is nearly impossible to approach The Scarlet Letter with the sort of wonder and respect it deserves. Somber and at times melodramatic, The Scarlet Letter is an altogether quieter book than, say, Moby Dick, which can make it feel tame by comparison. But that is an unfortunate misperception. In this tale of American origins and purposes, Nathaniel Hawthorne found the form that he had sought for so long: a historical tale of "human frailty and sorrow," tinged with tragedy, rich in ambiguity and symbolism, and supported by a profound understanding of the philosophical undercurrents running beneath the surface of American life—a book that continues to speak with urgency to us today.
The tendency has been to reduce The Scarlet Letter to a morality tale pitting a passionate feminist heroine, Hester Prynne, against the repression and hypocrisy of theocratic Puritanism. This view looks upon the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, with whom Hester committed adultery, to be at worst a cowardly hypocrite and at best a romantic poet trapped in Puritan garb. And it largely ignores Roger Chillingworth, a scholar whose dabblings in the murky zone between science and magic are overlooked in favor of his conventional role as elderly cuckold.
But in the story of Hester Prynne it is possible to see how Hawthorne, a writer with a deeply theological imagination, responded to the cultural conflicts of his time, particularly in the ways that nature and grace had been riven from each other.
In most readings of the novel, Hester's tale is about liberation: "nature" breaking free from the bonds imposed by "grace," insofar as grace is defined as a transcendent force of spiritual or civil law. This is made clear in the most startling change that the 1995 film version makes to the novel's plot. At the end of the film, Hester, her daughter Pearl, and Dimmesdale ride out of town in a carriage whose wheels grind the discarded scarlet letter into the mud. In this vision, Hester becomes Huckleberry Finn, lighting out for the territories, rather than the protagonist of Hawthorne's novel, who voluntarily chooses to live out her life within the community that once condemned her.
The Scarlet Letter has been misinterpreted for a host of reasons, but perhaps the most salient is that Hawthorne intended it to be misinterpreted. He was aware that, even in the relatively strait-laced world of 1850, Hester would be viewed as the heroine of the novel. But for all the language that conveys her beauty, passion, and independence, there are hints that she is flawed, given to temptations far more insidious than sexual desire.
This is not to suggest that Hawthorne's indictment of religious fundamentalism isn't a central part of the story, nor that he lacked sympathy with Hester. But as poisonous as Hawthorne believed Puritan fundamentalism to be, he was equally preoccupied with the rise of modern ideologies. In particular, he became a searching critic of transcendentalism, a form of philosophical and political idealism epitomized by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. These writers inherited the Enlightenment belief in the self-sufficiency of human thought as the organizing principle of society, but they couched their vision in romantic rather than neoclassical terms. Instead of extolling reason, they used words like soul, intuition, and spontaneity.
In his public statements, Hawthorne treats Emerson with deference and lightly veiled irony, but in his notebooks and fiction, the sage of Concord looms as his most significant antagonist. Emerson's gospel of nature freed from the dead hand of human history is evident in the opening words of "Nature": "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"
Like the early British romantics, Emerson saw nature as a truer source of wisdom than the biblical revelation that underpinned western civilization. "In the wilderness," he wrote, "I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages."
One of the most famous scenes in The Scarlet Letter takes place in the wilderness. Hester takes Pearl into the forest in an attempt to intercept Dimmesdale and tell him of Chillingworth's plot to uncover him as Pearl's father. As they set out, they move into "the mystery of the primeval forest," which Hester feels is an apt metaphor for the "moral wilderness" in which she has wandered for years. When she and Dimmesdale spot each other, they "questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted their own," looking to one another like ghosts. But as they talk, Hester overcomes Dimmesdale's moral self-criticism and self-doubt with the single-mindedness of her passion. Having returned to the scene of their lovemaking, they warm to their subject, transforming from ghosts into embodied beings. They agree that Chillingworth's sin is worse than theirs, because he has attempted to violate "the sanctity of the human heart," whereas they have not. "What we did," Hester says, "had a consecration of its own. We felt it so!"
As she makes her declaration, all nature seems to approve the choice: a flood of sunshine illuminates the forest gloom. Hester removes the scarlet letter for the first time and throws it away. Letting her hair down, she removes the last vestige of social restraint.
But just at this moment the action begins to shift. The narrator's comment on the sunbeam contains a hook: "Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits!" In addition to the reminder that we are in the realm of nature untouched by law or grace, Hawthorne uses the word "spirits" to refer to Hester and Dimmesdale. They are souls as well as bodies.
The next step in the conversation is also perfectly modulated. For just as Hester reveals her womanhood in all its sensuality, she immediately thinks of the fruit of their love, Pearl. Hawthorne reminds us that Pearl is herself the embodiment of their love. And it is Pearl who, for all her wildness, remains adamantine that her mother put the scarlet letter back on. Hester explains to Dimmesdale that it is merely because Pearl has never seen her without the letter, but the perceptive reader senses that something else is going on. In the previous chapter, Pearl created her own letter A out of green things, a symbol of hope that nonetheless acknowledges the "higher truth" that nature has in some mysterious fashion been marred by sin and error.
Hester has become a disciple of Emerson. What she says in the forest is what Emerson says in "Self-Reliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius." Hester wants the private truth of the passion she and Dimmesdale shared to be true for all. Because the world seems to resist her, her only alternative seems to be escape.
In joining with the spirit of the emancipated intellect, Hester assumes "a freedom of speculation." But the positive aspect of this freedom—the need to reconstitute society in a way that is more just to women—is shadowed by a darker problem. In withdrawing from society, Hester moves away from her embodied nature and becomes an abstracted intellect, ironically becoming like her estranged husband.
Emerson separated nature and grace in a way that mirrored what the Puritans had done before him. As Hawthorne makes clear, the Puritans look upon nature as not only wild and heathen but inherently evil. In denying the natural world the goodness that enables it to become the sacramental bearer of grace, the Puritans fell into the ancient gnostic heresy, which sees the created order as evil, trapping the pure spirit in matter. Alienation from nature led them to elevate industry as the highest civic virtue, paving the way for the rise of pragmatism as a powerful force in American thought and culture.
According to the critic Marion Montgomery, Emerson shared with the Puritans a type of "inverted Platonism": the belief that the world is the shadow of the mind. Emerson, according to Montgomery, "transfers Calvinistic election from the province of God to that of Nature." Dispensing with evil, the past, and human institutions, the Emersonian "great man" divinizes himself. But to maintain his divinity, the "great man" must abandon passive faith and engage in a constant round of activity and domination. In this sense, Melville's Ahab is a better portrait of the Emersonian superman-gone-bad than the parasitical Chillingworth. But there can be little doubt that Hawthorne sees Chillingworth, a Faustian figure who has sold his soul to reductionistic scientism, as the kind of monster that the mild-mannered Emerson would unleash on the world.
Hawthorne sensed that the Puritans and transcendentalists split nature from grace. Did he also have an inkling that both schools of thought would feed directly into the frenetic pace of modern life, our worship of technology, our desire to manipulate the environment, our preoccupation with moralistic, ideological posturing, our temptation to idolize the great man as conqueror or redeemer?
More to the point at hand, why does Hawthorne tempt us to misinterpret his story and side with the Hester Prynne of the forest scene, the Emersonian heroine who would liberate nature from the clutches of grace? Perhaps it is because, as R.W.B. Lewis writes in The American Adam, the constant pattern of Hawthorne's novels is one of attempted escape and the absolute necessity of return. But return does not necessarily mean capitulation, the triumph of the social order over the individual. The Scarlet Letter makes it clear that social and ecclesiastical institutions can and will become repressive and unimaginative. What Hawthorne opposes to this is not rebellion or revolution, but art, penance, and sacrifice.
Even while Hester is dreaming about becoming the prophetess of a new social order, she is experiencing an inward change, and she is already bringing about change in her society, albeit in a quieter way. Her needlework is described in terms that suggest consummate artistry. Her "rich, voluptuous" nature becomes incarnate in handkerchiefs, collars, baby clothes. It shows up in the least likely of places: scarves worn by soldiers, the ruff of the governor himself. Domestic though this form of artistry may seem, it nonetheless becomes a pervasive influence, in daily contact with human flesh.
Then there is penance. When Hester meets Dimmesdale in the forest she tries to assuage the guilt that gnaws at his heart. She tells him that he has exorcized it through good works. But Dimmesdale points out that for all his works, nothing has changed within his soul. So long as his sin is concealed, he is unable to achieve the spirit of penitence. His death on the scaffold, after his public confession and embrace of Hester and Pearl, takes place in accord with the Puritan tradition he represents.
Hester's way will not be so conventional. The model she decides to follow is not the single moment of conversion, so beloved of our American religious culture, but a lifetime of quiet sacrifice. By choosing to remain in the community and wear the scarlet letter, she does not merely capitulate to society; rather, she brings about change in the only way lasting change can ever be achieved: in her daily, ordinary encounters with others. She will not be self-reliant but will exist in a web of mutual interdependence. "Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence."
In Hester's return, her refusal to escape from the flawed community she inhabits, and her infusion of beauty into the mundane, she weaves nature and grace back into the seamless garment they were always intended to be.
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Kamala's mother left a telephone message that her daughter died on August 18th at 2 a.m. She sounded overwhelmed, having to make so many calls and at the same time grieving the death of her 45 year-old daughter. Either mother or father visited Kamala every day for 5 years, bringing healthy, delicious food, physical and spiritual support, exhausting all potential remedies for her condition. I sensed they were experiencing a mixture of relief that her suffering had ended, grief for their loss, and a void that was once filled with caregiving.
Kamala, whom I introduced in the last Living/Dying Project newsletter, had a chronic, debilitating illness, Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration, a rare condition that occurs in less than 1% of cancer patients. The impact on her life was sudden and devastating. Within a few months she could not move her body from the waist down, had double vision, tremors, difficulty swallowing. She was confined to a nursing home bed. Her vibrant, joyful, loving self was trapped in the prison of her physical body. There was no cure.
Yet she invited me and Ken, her other Living Dying Project volunteer, into her space, into her life. She looked forward to our visits. In the midst of what at times seemed like a dark desert landscape, our connection and friendship was an oasis.
We said goodbye 2 days before she died – she had a premonition that her death was imminent. There were other signs – she said parts of her body felt cold, she was having flashbacks. She seemed to be in a deep state of grief and longing. I grieved with her, both of us on the edge of joy and sorrow. We acknowledged our gratitude for the time we had together. I told her we would always be connected, and that she had been a teacher for me.
Kamala showed me how much I take for granted – my mobility, my capacity to make adjustments and alignments, that being alive in a physical body is a gift. She taught me that physical illness is impersonal, that I can only make it personal by finding meaning. She taught me how to sit with helplessness, hopelessness, and look into the void of no meaning. She taught me that there is value and love in being present to human connection without conditions or expectations.
I have a reliable source who told me they saw Kamala dancing among the stars, joyful and free. I'd like to believe that is true.


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Huawei wins contract to develop German 5G network
Telefonica Germany, the second biggest operator after Deutsche Telekom, said it was giving Huawei and Finland's Nokia an equal role in the project, calling the two companies "proven strategic partners".PTI | December 12, 2019, 08:41 IST
A Huawei employee talks on her cellphone as she stands next to a sign at Huawei's campus in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong Province, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Chinese tech giant Huawei is asking a U.S. federal court to throw out a rule that bars rural phone carriers from using government money to purchase its equipment on security grounds.Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Berlin, Dec 11 (AFP) Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Wednesday won a contract to supply 5G infrastructure in Germany but the politically sensitive deal is subject to government approval following US concerns about snooping. Telefonica Germany, the second biggest operator after Deutsche Telekom, said it was giving Huawei and Finland's Nokia an equal role in the project, calling the two companies "proven strategic partners".
"This cooperation... will be subject to successful security certification of the technology and the companies in accordance with the legal regulations in Germany," Telefonica Germany said in a statement.
The company, a unit of Spanish giant Telefonica, said it was "thus responding to the ongoing political process of defining these security guidelines without delaying the start of the 5G roll-out".
It said it would begin the 5G upgrade next year and was hoping to supply 30 cities by the end of 2022.
The US and other international powers have voiced concerns that Huawei could be used by Beijing for spying -- a claim the company strenuously denies.
Germany has so far defied pressure to exclude Huawei from taking part in the bidding process, insisting that it would set stringent security conditions.
But critics have accused Berlin of trying to appease China, its largest trading partner, and putting economic interests first.
Last month, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier sparked US anger by drawing a parallel between alleged Chinese and US snooping as part of the debate.
Altmaier referred to the allegations that began emerging in 2013 of US spying on German soil. Even so, he said: "We didn't boycott them".
Altmaier also pointed out that the US required its own telecoms companies to provide information "that is necessary in the fight against terrorism". US Ambassador Richard Grenell said there was "no moral equivalency between China and the United States". (AFP) PMS PMS
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>will potentially be created by 3-10 people as they grow.
Ah, so this can't really be authored by a non-admin.
on their hard drive like everyone else does with every other article.
just wanted to say that. i'm done.


Effect of different technological approaches on the optical properties of ZnO sol-gel thin films - Ivanova T.
Abstract : [en] The work presents a sol-gel approach with two types of solvents for ZnO films deposition in view of varying the films' structural and optical properties. The ZnO films were characterized by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and found to have a polycrystalline wurtzite phase structure. The grain sizes and the lattice parameters were determined; it was established that the ZnO crystallites' size increases with the annealing temperatures from 25 nm to 36 nm. The ZnO films possess high transmittance in the visible spectral range. Further, the optical band gap values were estimated. The material's vibration properties were analyzed by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The two technological sol-gel approaches for deposition of ZnO films, using two different solvents, proved to be successful in producing structures with different structural and optical properties. The thin films fabricated were very smooth and uniform and exhibited a high transparency in the visible spectral range.
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Locke on Consent, Taxation and Representation
Edward Andrew
This article examines Locke's slippery notion of consensual taxation. Locke insisted that property right entailed that all taxes be voluntary, requiring the consent of the taxpayer or the consent of a majority of representatives. However, Locke did not think that everyone who paid sales taxes was entitled to vote for the government to which they were subject but claimed that these taxes were passed on to, and borne by, landowners. Taxes on land were voluntary in that they were subject to gentlemanly agreements between landowners, whereas excise taxes fell on all without their consent. Locke did not specify a property qualification for the franchise in his Two Treatise of Government, as he did in other writings, but indicated that political representation should be proportionate to tax burdens. Although Locke's doctrine of taxation and representation is far from clear and unambiguous, the legacy of voluntary taxation continues to haunt us.
In Theoria
Intersectionality and the Substantive Representation of Migrant Interests in Germany
The paper uses the concept of intersectionality to examine the experiences of politicians with migrant backgrounds in Germany. The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of persons with migrant backgrounds integrating into political parties and winning elections to both federal and regional legislatures. Do the migrant experiences of these persons shape their politics? Theories of substantive representation have suggested that gender shapes representation. What about the racial and ethnic identities that often coexist with immigrant status? Moreover, how do those identities and experiences interact with the prerogatives of party, partisanship, and regional representation? This study uses data gathered from both the federal and regional level to explore and explain the role of migrant-related concerns in the political behavior and articulated preferences of politicians with migrant background in Germany. It further explores how these relate to gender, careers, representational roles, and partisan identification. The article concludes that a consideration of the interaction of migrant identity with other factors allows us to see multiple dimensions of representation in Germany today.
In German Politics and Society
Rethinking Political Representation from the Perspective of Rhetorical Genres
Kari Palonen
This article is a thought experiment. It constructs ideal types of political representation in the sense of Max Weber. Inspired by Quentin Skinner and others, the aim is to give a rhetorical turn to contemporary debates on representation. The core idea is to claim an 'elective affinity' (Wahlverwandschaft, as Weber says following Goethe) between forms of representation and rhetorical genres of their justification. The four ideal types of political representation are designated as plebiscitary, diplomatic, advocatory, and parliamentary, corresponding to the epideictic, negotiating, forensic, and deliberative genres of rhetoric as the respective ways to plausibly appeal to the audience. I discuss historical approximations of each type of representation and apply the combination of representation and rhetorical genres to the understanding of the European Union's unconventional system of 'separation of powers'. I conclude with supporting parliamentary representation, based on dissensus and debate, with complements from other types.
Spatial Representation in Cognitive Science and Film
Daniel T. Levin and Caryn Wang
Levin and Simons (2000) argued that perceptual experience in film and the real world share a deep similarity in that both rely on inferences that visual properties are stable across views. This article argues that the perception and representation of visual space also reveal deep commonalities between film and the real world. The article reviews psychological research on visual space that suggests that we not only attend to similar spatial cues both in film and in nonmediated settings, but also that the rules for combining and selecting among these cues are similar. In exploring these links, it becomes clear that there is a bidirectional relationship between cognitive psychology and film editing that allows each to provide important insights about the other.
In Projections
Common Democracy
Political Representation beyond Representative Democracy
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
At a time when representative democracies are in deep crisis, this article examines the debate over representation as it appears in contemporary Marxist and poststructuralist political thought. The article discusses, more specifically, Ernesto Laclau's defense of political representation and pits this against Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's vision of an "absolute democracy" beyond representation, in order to chart a path between and beyond both contrasting positions. The crux of the argument is that in participatory democracies political governance becomes a common affair: a public good accessible to all members of a community on the basis of equality. Such a democratic regime contrasts with both representative democracies, where the assembled demos is excluded from any effective participation in the everyday exercise of major political power, as well as direct democracy, where the collective sovereign would be fully present to itself, total and undivided. Common political representation is open to all, inclusive, participatory, and accountable.
In Democratic Theory
How Participatory Institutions Deepen Democracy through Broadening Representation
The Case of Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Laurence Piper
At the same time as democracy has 'triumphed' in most of the world, it leaves many unsatisfied at the disjuncture between the democratic ideal and its practical expression. Participatory practices and institutions, as exemplified in the participatory budgeting process of the local government of Porto Alegre in Brazil, claim to embody a more substantive version of democracy that can settle this deficit. This article interrogates this promise through examining closely the case of Porto Alegre. In addition to demonstrating clear democratic outcomes, this examination also reveals that the meaning of democratic deepening is not cashed out exclusively in terms of participation but in terms of representation too. More specifically, participatory budgeting serves to broaden representation in the budgeting process as a whole, by better including and amplifying the voice of marginalised groups in aspects of the budgeting process, albeit through participatory practices and events. On reflection this should not be surprising as participatory budgeting introduces new decision-making procedures that supplement rather than replace existing representative institutions, and reform rather than transform expenditure patterns. Thus although termed participatory, at the level of the municipal system as a whole, participatory institutions assist in better representing the interests of marginalised groups in decision-making through participatory means. Deepening democracy, therefore, at least as far as new participatory institutions are concerned, is about new forms of representation and participation, rather than replacing representation with participation.
Representation and Ontological Self-Knowledge in Sartre's Drama
Jeremy Ekberg
Because Sartre's theatre is one of representation and authenticity, plays like The Victors offer Sartrean philosophical explorations of subjects pushed to the limits of existence by torture and oppressive social edicts. It is in extreme situations that a subject most clearly exercises or fails to exercise his freedom and therefore his authenticity. But Sartre's interest in a complete explication of this process wanes before he fully outlines his project of self formation, which leaves the present paper to prove: (1) the unattainability of any final or permanent authenticity, since each subject represents itself alternately in authentic and inauthentic ways and because the representations of a single subject are constantly in flux; (2) the primacy of representation as the force by which the self is formed and authenticity achieved or avoided; and (3) the criteria for the assessment of authenticity levels and how these processes come to light in plays like The Victors.
In Sartre Studies International
Sociopolitical representation of workers in Luxembourg and in the Greater Region
Franz Clément
The article aims to define what is meant by "sociopolitical representation" and shows how, in a country like Luxembourg, many crossborder workers have become a mainstay of the labor market alongside resident workers. The text then focuses on institutional opportunities offered to workers to ensure their sociopolitical representation in Luxembourg. The article also tries to show how this form of representation can be achieved in the Chambre des salariés, labor unions, and other institutions of the Greater Region.
Spanish Este artículo intenta definir el concepto de "representación sociopolítica", y muestra cómo muchos trabajadores transfronterizos que ejercen sus actividades profesionales en un país como Luxemburgo, se han convertido en un pilar del mercado de trabajo junto con los trabajadores residentes. El texto se centra en las oportunidades institucionales que se ofrecen a los trabajadores para garantizar su representación sociopolítica en Luxemburgo. El artículo también trata de mostrar cómo esta forma de representación puede alcanzar espacios en la Chambre des salariés, sindicatos y otras instituciones de la Gran Región.
French L'article tente de définir ce que l'on entend par « représentation sociopolitique » puis montre comment, dans un pays comme le Luxembourg, les nombreux travailleurs frontaliers qui y exercent leur activité professionnelle sont devenus un véritable pilier du marché du travail aux côtés des travailleurs résidents. Le texte s'intéresse ensuite aux possibilités institutionnelles offertes à ces travailleurs a find'assurer leur représentation sociopolitique au Luxembourg. L'article tente encore de montrer comment cette forme de représentation peut se faire au sein de la Chambre des salariés, des organisations syndicales et des institutions de la Grande Région.
In Regions and Cohesion
The Female Immigrant Stereotype Representation in Two Selected Israeli Plays
Ester Levanon-Mordoch
This paper examines the presentation of female characters in dramatic roles, in which they appear as representatives of marginalized Jewish immigrants to Israel (olim hadashim, to use the Hebrew term). The two plays examined here were written as criticisms of Israel's double standards concerning the actual acceptance and assimilation of the 'welcomed and longed-for' immigrants, and have hitherto been examined from this perspective. A reading of these plays from the perspective of feminist critique shows that the representation of the central female characters suffers from a pattern of double stereotypical characterization; these characters are stigmatized and stereotyped both in the category of 'women' and in the category of 'unwelcome immigrants'. Thus, in some cases, counterproductively to the playwright's attempt to criticize Israeli institutions and hegemonic society, these representations reveal the stereotypical tendencies inherent in the playwright's own 'transparent' or 'unconscious' world view when it comes to female representation.
In Israel Studies Review
The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics
Remembering the Civil War and Francoism in Panels
Juan Carlos Pérez García
The graphic representation of traumatic memory of war disasters constitutes a broad tradition that can be traced back to Francisco Goya. Comics, with the resources provided by their textual-visual narrative, have been part of that tradition especially since the 1950s. However, representing traumatic memory of war disasters is troublesome, in regard to the artists' strategies and public reception – as shown by the conflicts between memory, history and myth posed in these works. This article develops a comparative study of traumatic memories in Spanish comics and presents an analysis of the modes of representation in works such as Carlos Giménez's Paracuellos, Francisco Gallardo Sarmiento and Miguel Gallardo's Un largo silencio, Antonio Altarriba and Kim's El arte de volar and Paco Roca's Los surcos del azar.
In European Comic Art


This is a program for families with children under 12 years (from 0 to 11 years old), in which kids do not pay anything for their acoommodation provided they use the existing beds in the room. All the rooms of the hostel have private bathroom, bedding, gel / shampoo, have 3 or 4 beds and can be with or without views.
Minimum number of adults per room 1, maximum number of adults per room 3. There is no maximum number of children under 12 years old that can stay in the room. Several siblings can share a bed, or the little ones sleep with their parents.
If the placement of extra beds or cribs is required, an extra fee will be charged, the program only applies when using existing beds in the room.
The parents' beds are made, the children's beds are not, you will find the bedding in the room and they must make their bed.
Families have a towel included per adult in the price of the program, if you need more towels you can rent at reception for 2 euros per towel.
There is no daily room cleaning service although you can hire a part in reception if you wish for 10 euros / day.
The entire establishment has free Wi-Fi and the use of all common areas of the hostel is included in the price.
When booking, nothing is charged on the card, the stay is paid upon check-in on the day of arrival.
This program is not active during bunk or special holidays like the Holy Week or Christmas.
Cancellation Policy: if you cancel 48 hours before the arrival day there is no charge. If you cancel with less than 48 hours, the total amount of the first day of stay is charged.
We also offer many activities that can be contracted directly through the hostel such as Arab Baths, excursions to the Sierra Nevada, flamenco nights, adventure activities such as rafting, canyoning, climbing, paragliding, paintball, bike tours, segways ... We are also starting some culinary workshops and we hope to have fun workshops for children soon.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO RESERVE?
And tell us dates and the type of family you are (number of adults and children and their ages). We will inform you about availability, prices and the best accommodation option for the family. To make your reservation effective, we will ask you for your full name, phone number or email address and a credit card number + expiration date + CVV code (the three-digit code on the back of the card). Once confirmed you will receive an email with all the information of the reservation and 72 hours before your arrival a mail reminder with the information of how to get to ECO Hostel.
We are a family of 2 adults and 2 children (one of 8 years old and another of 6 years old). What room should I book?
You must reserve a triple or quadruple room with or without views and you will pay the rate for only 2 adults in that room.
We are a family of 2 adults and 3 children (one of 14 years old, another of 10 years old and another of 8 years old). What room should I book?
You can reserve a quad room or a quintuple room with or without views. The price you will pay will be 3 people in that room.
We are a family of 1 adult and 2 children (one of 8 years and another of 6 years) what room should I book?
You must book a triple room and pay only the double room rate since the room price is the same for single and double occupancy. For the children you will not pay anything.
We are two families with small children and teenagers. What room should I book?
You must reserve a room for each family. Depending on the number of members of each family and the age of the children you can choose a triple or quad with or without views.


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14/03/2014 · This Mo' Creatures mod for pocket edition. This adds some mobs that aren't in the game, etc into the game. This adds some mobs that aren't in the game, etc into the game. Mobs that are added will spawn every once in a bit, and feature a Name-Tag above their head. how to make mms video Sky Runner Mod Overview Sky Runner is a modded parkour map for minecraft pocket edition with a total of eight levels (start level included). While testing the map we found that the emerald block included a special jumping effect, but other than that we didn't discover any other modified blocks.
In this Minecraft Mods video today we will be testing out to see if we can instantly make our own mobs, especially ones that can protect us. See how we add Pigs Cows Witches and even Enderman and combine them together.
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Rediscovering Culture In The Penang Islamic Museum
The Penang Islamic Museum was once hailed as the Syed Alatas Mansion and belonged to an Acehnese merchant under the Arab descent, namely Syed Mohamad Alatas. He resided in this house with his wife, a royalty under the Malay descent, and in the year 1993, the government decided to reinstall this two-storey bungalow under a funded pilot manifestation with some French technical assistance.
In past history, also dubbed the 'Rumah Besar', or rather, The Grand House, Syed Alatas had always been the centre of attention for celebrations, like the annual Boria, a customary type of vocal entertainment that takes place during the Awal Muharram.
Before the house has been restored and after the residency of Syed Alatas, it was a site for collection of second-hand materials like scrap metals and used containers. It was lodged by a group of Indian Chettiars, part of Penang's active recycling industry. During that period of time, a coffee shop and 2nd-hand timber dealers were also sub-tenants to this house. Despite the many occasions that have occurred in this house, the structure was maintained with minimal alterations only with the sole purpose of preserving the framework.
Today, it has been converted into an Islamic museum that displays the olden times and legacy of Penang's Muslim community. This two-storey bungalow exhibits the various artifacts in relation to the Islam community and the rich culture of Malays.
The Penang Islamic Museum also shows evidence of a few of the mosque fittings that are predicted to be over a hundred years old, some 17th century ceramic tiles, grinding stones, drinking vessels and as well as Arabic calligraphy.
This Islamic Museum would be an eye-opener for visitors to Penang that wish to know more about the Islamic customs and Malay society. Although a minimal admission fee is charged for adult and children, it is never too costly to gain vast knowledge, especially when it involves a cultural factor. Also, this museum opens at as early as 9.30 am, and closes at 6 pm, with the exception of it being closed on Tuesdays.
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Mom's Musings: Halloween is Creeping (ugh) Up!!
Halloween is Creeping (ugh) Up!!
Is this the same dog??
My kids are talking all about Halloween right now. What are they going to dress up as, how much candy are they going to get, who are they going to trick or treat with?
PET TIP #1 - Of all candy, chocolate is one of the most toxic for pets – which also happens to be very popular around Halloween. Keep your pets away from the candy bowl and trick-or-treat bags off the floor to avoid choking hazards. It's also important to inform your children of how dangerous tasty Jolly Ranchers and Kit-Kat bars can be to their furry friends. If you have this chat in advance, kids might be more cautious and won't be tempted to share their treats.
My older girls are doing something special with the youth group at our church. Instead of asking for candy, they are going to ask for a donation to the food bank! I think this is a great time to plan this, just in time for the Christmas Hamper season!
I know that I have talked about my kids, pretty much all the time, but I haven't talked much about our pet. We have a dog named Lady, she is a Jack Russel/Poodle mix, and as much as I am not a pet person, she has grown on me! We have had her on and off for just about 6 years now, and she has ALWAYS been a barker. Halloween is a bit stressful here, because Lady is a barker...we usually try to keep her in the back hall to keep her from scaring the trick or treaters away.
PET TIP #2 - With the door opening and closing all night, animals might take this as an opportunity to run away. Make sure to keep pets in a safe and enclosed area – even turn on a radio or TV to help suppress knocks at the door and outside sounds. If you plan to let your dog or cat in on the excitement, don't forget they might be frightened by people in costumes. To keep them calm, say things such as "it's OK" or "don't be scared" in a soft and sympathetic voice.
PET TIP #3 - If you choose to dress your dog or cat up this year, make sure costumes aren't too tight. A sailor hat may look cute on your cat's head but the string attached may be irritating its neck. Just like people, pets need to be able to breathe comfortably and move safely without tripping or being unable to see and hear.
PET TIP #4 - Candles and jack-o-lanterns should be kept at a safe distance or up on table tops. The flames or hot wax can cause burns on your pets and even a fire if knocked over. As an alternative, use flashlights and LEDs to safely spook-up your house. If your jack-o-lantern or other decorations has a power cord, make sure your pet can't chew them.
Feel free to share your pet dress up pictures with the Iams family on Twitter.
You can also find safety tips for your pets year round at: SPCA, OSPCA, Iams or on the Iams Facebook Page.
Disclosure: I received compensation for this blog post, all thoughts and opinions are my own.


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'Creator' of Novichok Says 'Only an Idiot' Would've Used It in Salisbury
© AP Photo / Andrew Matthews
A man who claims to have been involved in the creation of a deadly toxic agent allegedly used in a recent poisoning plot in the UK attempted to explain why the chemical apparently did not work as intended.
Vil Mirzayanov, a Soviet chemist who moved to the United States in the 1990s and who is touted by the Western media as a member of the Novichok chemical weapons program, told media that the substance which was allegedly used in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury has one critical flaw.
© Photo: Yulia Skripal/Facebook
Constant Info Leaks on Skripal Case Are Absolutely Deliberate - Moscow
Commenting on the recent OPCW investigation related to the Skripal affair, Mirzayanov explained that Novichok is apparently very unstable and vulnerable to water. And since the weather in England on March 4, the day Skripals were allegedly poisoned, was humid and foggy, the chemical's potency was greatly reduced.
"Only an idiot would've used this substance in humid conditions," he declared.
Previously, Moscow repeatedly pointed out that there was no chemical weapon program code named Novichok in the Soviet Union, and that Mirzayanov himself wasn't even involved in chemical weapons development in the first place.
READ MORE: OPCW Confirms Skripals Poisoned With Novichok — Reports
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on March 4 on a bench at a shopping center in Salisbury. London promptly accused Moscow of orchestrating a deadly attack with what UK experts claim was the A234 nerve agent. Moscow has denied having any involvement in the poisoning, pointing to the lack of evidence provided by London to substantiate its accusations.
Shortly after the incident, London expelled 23 Russian diplomats, with a number of other European countries and the United States following suit, prompting Moscow to respond in kind.
UK 'Manipulating' Yulia Skripal as Poisoning Narrative Collapses – Academic
Russian Embassy: London Failed to Give "Verifiable" Info on Yulia Skripal Health
Russia's UN Envoy: Skripal Case 'Attack on Country's Role in Int'l Arena'
vulnerability, claim, water, chemical agents, Yulia Skripal, Sergei Skripal, Salisbury, United Kingdom


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Tester Announces More Than $20 Million to Upgrade Airports Across Montana
(U.S. Senate) - As part of his ongoing effort to #ConnectMT, U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced more than $20 million in federal funding to upgrade 15 airports across the state.
"Air travel is a critical part of our state's infrastructure, and these grants will make flying safer, quicker, and more comfortable," Tester said. "These grants will help boost our economy and keep folks in Montana connected year-round."
In addition to the five grants that he announced yesterday for airports in Billings, Great Falls, Kalispell, Bozeman, and Missoula, Tester also secured funding for the following airports:
Bowman Field (Anaconda) - $300,000 to rehabilitate the runway and taxiway.
Bert Mooney Airport (Butte) - $600,000 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway.
Deer Lodge City-County Airport - $255,384 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway.
Big Horn County Airport (Hardin) - $98,666 to purchase new snow removal equipment.
Jordan Airport - $158,000 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway.
Mission Field (Livingston) - $150,000 to widen the taxiway.
Sher-wood Airport (Plentywood) - $171,548 to purchase snow removal equipment and improve the runway guidance system.
Roundup Airport - $225,000 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway.
Sidney-Richland Regional Airport - $786,000 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway, and improve the runway guidance system.
Terry Airport - $219,330 to rehabilitate the apron, taxiway, and runway.
The grants were awarded through the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP)-which provides grants to airports across the country in order to expand and improve America's air travel infrastructure-and comes after Tester secured more than $8 million for airports in Montana last month.
As a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Tester worked hard to reauthorize the Airport Improvement Program through last year's FAA Reauthorization Act. And then, as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Tester secured an additional $500 million in funding for the Airport Improvement Program in the 2019 budget bill.
Tester's #ConnectMT initiative seeks to connect folks across Big Sky Country-both online and in person-by investing in Montana's physical and digital infrastructure. Tester helped secure more than $20 million in AIP grants for Montana's airports last year and has already secured more than $30 million in AIP funding this year.
Tester also recently secured Essential Air Service funding in the February budget bill and he is pushing members on both sides of the aisle to pass a comprehensive infrastructure package to repair roads, invest in air travel, and improve access to broadband in Montana.
Broadband Coverage Maps Must be More Accurate, Tester & Bipartisan Group of Senators Tell Federal Communications Commission
More than $1 Million Awarded to Great Falls for Affordable Housing Thanks to Tester
Tester Announces More Than $1 Million for Billings Logan International Airport


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Q: Tasklets and Listeners: Some times they can be implemented interchangeably. What are the guidelines to distinguish a tasklet from a listener I am writing a spring batch application which consists of the following functional steps:

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*Pick the latest xml file from staging area

*Validate the XML against a schema

*Write contents of the XML into a DB.

*Send mail to stakeholders providing job status.

This is a trivial scenario of a job.
In this case #3 is chunk oriented step and remaining can be executed in one shot as tasklets or listeners.
Questions: Are there any guidelines that distinguish a tasklet from a listener.
(Ex: #4: send mail can be implemented as a listener or a step.)

A: when considering the use of a tasklet or listener, you need to consider them from a potential retry perspective.
if you put a listener on step 3, it will be run every time you rety the job.  so, should you have a failure in step 3 (say half way through your processing and the whole job stops), when you retry the entire job, your listener will be invoked again.
if you use a tasklet, by default it will not be re-run.  that is, step 1 and step 2 were successful, so no need to execute again, just go to the failed step (#3) and retry.
so, a simple way to look at it,
- tasklet == run once if successful
- listener == run every time (including retries)

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Christoph Woloszyn
Christoph Woloszyn (Photographer)
I belong to the artist group "Künstler-Initiative Gelsenkirchen", "Art in the City."
My view and interpretation of art is very different. I use standard photography and at the same time image modification. I have been told many times that I create unusual but also expressive images. These are pictures with both visible and hidden messages for the viewer.
However, the essence of art is to look beyond the borders, instead of just staying in creative development. Creating one's own kind of art, following one's own thoughts, using one's own intellect and representing the real in a different way, that's my kind that will always follow.
In my experimental visual language I work as a surrealist. In my motifs I go beyond the real and the substantial.
I alienate my photographic motifs through light, through technical effects, through materials to bring it closer to the viewer, but in a different constellation and perspective.
In 2010, I studied "photo design" at the art academy IBKK in Bochum with a degree in photo design. For many years I have been engaged in art photography. Self-developed photo projects, are worked out and converted by me. Numerous art exhibitions and art fairs, both national and international mark my artistic path.
Art fairs:
Berlin List 2016
Art Innsbruck 2017
Spectrum Miami Art Fair 2018
ArtExpo New York 2019
Rome, Miami, New York, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen, Varel/Obenstrohe, Wiesloch, Bochum, Herne, Fröndenberg, Mülheim, Münster.
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Body-Structures
The Worlds of Alienation by Christoph Woloszyn
"Beyond reality" – that was the objective of many artists in the 1920s who dedicated themselves to surrealism, a movement that reacted to (among other things) the new dream interpretations and psychoanalytical insights of Sigmund Freud. They realized that, alongside and outside of the real, subjectively experienced world, there had to at least be another plane in the field of human experience and knowledge – the subconscious. The window was thus opened to a seemingly unendingly vast landscape of emotions and experiences. Today's artists continue to benefit from this – like the Hagen-based photographer Christoph Woloszyn.
As Max Ernst, one of the prominent representatives of surrealism, once did, he combines things, observations, traumatic events and dreams into unconventional metaphors for life where, in one of the first photo series of this position he's developed over nearly ten years, he concentrates on two themes: the human body and nature. Tree, vein, mist, rock formation, fin, palm branch, bark, seasonal impressions, forest provide us with the associations for a new, grotesque, bizarre, adventurous, or even mind-expanding relationship with the phenomenon in our evolved, familiar, but also endangered surroundings. In these digital photo fantasies, human and nature coalesce into a masterfully composed, creative alienation technique.
In these metamorphoses and transformations, Woloszyn is very close to the religious pantheism philosophy of one Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. God shows Himself through and in nature as the Maker and Ruler of our visible cosmos. Man, in his haughtiness and drive to subjugate all, endangers this intrinsically harmonious connection between nature and the homo sapiens, who unfortunately conducts himself again and again as if he were unaware. Japan's unbelievable disaster in the nuclear power plant of Fukushima, but also the wars and oppressions flaring in many unpacified regions of the world, could potentially cause Mother Earth to lose her patience for good. Man should and must actually relentlessly and consistently advocate protecting the earth, preserving it, appreciating the divine in everything about it, and finally gratefully accepting creation as a gift. It would be wonderful, and save the world and humanity, if this realization were at least to gain long-term acceptance. Approaches were and are discernible time and again – and then comes the self-induced catastrophe, the man-made chaos, the knowingly initiated process of exploitation and depletion. We all have to bear the consequences. It is an intergenerational contract when we care for our earth, our natural surroundings, and live with it and in it. There is no better argument for man's future prospects.
The surreal image motifs of Christoph Woloszyn move about in this meshing of responsibility and insight, of present and future. A native of Poland born in 1959, he came to Germany in 1987. He has already worked in photography for several years – although in the classical sense, he previously stood in the tradition of landscape painting. However, the combinatorial possibilities of digital technology drew him like a magnet to photography. His work has many facets – one of which we will get to know here in this exhibition titled "Body Structures". Woloszyn restricts this pool of motifs, which he collects and constantly expands like an archaeological archivist, to these differently sized formats. As has been said:
The naked, that is the uncovered, radically stripped body, mostly that of women as an homage to the feminine and the aesthetically grounded projection of man, mutates into a natural landscape.
It becomes stony and jagged, augmented by the cloudiness of a dream, enlarged into a visual adventure, reinterpreted into emotional inspiration. Nature clothes the body that was previously totally exposed. Plants, branches, leaves, and stones structure the human mass and the human dimensions. A union, a marriage takes place: between the fundamental, protective, even foreign habitat and the individual abilities of the human mind, the senses and the act. In this interplay, the soul reveals its true nature. Woloszyn's photographs carry us away into the paradisal primal state, when man and nature still mutually and equally tolerated and accepted one another. His variations on surrealism turn to utopia and vision: in dreams, man and nature are one sumptuous, but mutually supportive unit. He himself would have to explain the extent to which his photo collages, with their luxurious color palette, convey religious themes and ideological content.
All the same, we can enjoy these freely conceived, yet strictly conceptualized fantasy impressions, indeed staged by light and color choice as well as object components – as messages of a newly created, intimate dialogue between all of us, between the photographer and the inner and outer world, between heaven and earth, between existence and supernaturalism. In a sense, Woloszyn gives us a corridor that we can walk with our eyes, from which we can step out in the various directions of an image and thought architecture, if we so choose. The photographer emphatically and fantastically opens for us these structures he has sketched out which, nevertheless, lead back to ourselves. For this loop that first starts with us, in order to lead back into our own areas of imagination after a spiritual co-view with the artistic ego, has an innovative and magical effect on the dreamer of the image. Woloszyn suggestively drags us into his phantasmagoria. A fascinating process, by which we are occasionally also surprised and provoked.
That is the nature of art, however; that it leverages laws and rules, that it realigns our view to the magic of the unknown or even the innocent, that we have to reorient ourselves in order to set out with this visual experience in an unknown land, where – as an ironic commentary – the people grow on trees.
With this first presentation of Christoph Woloszyn (his imaginative artist's name: Xelix), Jenny Canales is exhibiting renewed proof of how richly the cultural region on the Ruhr, the Emscher, and the Lippe continues to reveal and renew itself. And: the joy of discovery with which the gallery owner appreciates her voluntary office and gives a myriad of artists a platform as a chance.
The exhibiting artist may therefore forgive me if I quickly incorporate the city of Hagen, his main place of residence with lots of green and the most beautiful, real experience of nature, in this context of the Ruhr area.
I would like to wish this exhibition and the "Kunst in der City" (Art in the City) forum many more such discoveries. Old Goethe, as I am quite sure, would likewise enjoy this, at times skeptically roughened and critically reflective, joy of nature with which Christoph Woloszyn confronts us. In light of these unknown and unforeseen impressions, he would presumably write a Faustian, demonic, mythical ballad. But all other natural poets will also search out new fuel for their own literary work in these motif disassociations.
Jörg Loskill
(Art historian, author, and editor)
"In The Net Of Dreams"
"Red Vision"
"Fog Maker"
"Tree-Man"
"Captured In A Tree"
"Red Fog"
"Metamorphosis 2"
"Slow Transformation"
"The Angel In Hell"
"Red Veins"
"In The Rock"
"Anger Of Nature 1"
The Scream
"The Scream" - What we scream
The cry is a vocal utterance of man. Screaming serves a communicative purpose and is often an expression
of pain or dissatisfaction and then serves, for example, to gain dominance, intimidation of the dialogue partner or defense.
Screaming makes an intense call to action. The expression of the cry is different in each person, as are the different
faces of the screamers.
People of different backgrounds from Gelsenkirchen and the surrounding area were asked to scream,
asked to speak in a form of a scream. Through their facial expressions that arise during the screaming,
they show clear feelings that affect the viewer with full force and energy. One has the feeling of being shouted
one feels called to act.
The photographed faces scream for more attention, for peace in the world, against poverty, against violence,
against xenophobia, for equal rights of all people, against social exclusion.
Germany is a multicultural society, where people of different nationalities, languages, religion and origin live together.
People of different cultures can have different traditions, lifestyles or notions of values and ethics.
Skin color and origin in Germany today is nothing unusual, but you can still find that there are people who avoid the
foreign fellow citizens, avoid them. Such reaction is unfounded, contemptuous and humiliating at the same time to the
foreign fellow citizens and to ourselves. We must not only watch, we must act.
The violence in the world is constantly growing, every time you hear in the news, what people do to each other.
Terrifying acts happen on a small and large scale, actions that bring death and suffering. The old principle of "an eye for an eye"
finally makes everyone blind.
The art scene should not remain indifferent to the suffering of people worldwide.
The artists, authors and citizens of Gelsenkirchen and the surrounding area took part in the photo project "The Scream"
What we are screaming for: The images cry out for more attention and more understanding and acceptance from person to
person in order to strengthen in ourselves the good human side.
We scream:
"Man, stop it"
" Why?"
"No room for poverty"
"Not hungry"
"No social exclusion"
"Living in peace"
"From human to human"
In The Boundaries Of Tomorrow
My picture compositions address the topic of pollution.
They visualize the suffering of the people as a consequence of environmental poisoning.
"Polluted air", "chemical toxins" and "nuclear radiation" are part of the most dangerous kinds of pollution.
The pictures scream, protest and warn about the consequences of increasing industrialization.
In the visions of the future the human being breathes in the toxic air "in the boundaries of tomorrow" and
causes much environmental damage in his environment by industrialization. How far these visions of the future
are from reality we will surely soon experience.
The series of pictures is a protest and at the same time a warning to every person about what will happen in
future if we do not change our attitude towards the environment. Every person has the right to clean air to breathe.
We are not indifferent to our environment, are we? We want to live healthily and conscious of our environment.
Is that really so?
For many pollution is a difficult topic. Surely everyone is asking themselves if we cannot change anything? – Definitely.
Many know about it, but some just don't care. "The boundaries of tomorrow" symbolize the catastrophic consequences of pollution.
The human being recognizes the deadly danger that has done him so much harm. Pollution by industrialization will accompany us
to the limits of pain. Has our fate already been sealed?
The unstoppable path of humankind leads us up to the "boundaries of tomorrow" where pain, illnesses,
resignation and our end is awaiting us.
The series of pictures raises the following questions:
•	Have we reached the limit of what the environment can take?
•	When will the limit of what the environment can take be reached?
•	When won't we be able to breathe anymore?
•	Why are we doing this to ourselves?
•	Is our end unstoppable?
•	Do we have to continue to live like this?
Insidious poisons that surround us and that we carry in us make us ill. Industries,
especially nuclear power and chemical industries burden us with poisonous waste.
The increasing pollution of the soil by heavy metals which is caused by industrial plants
is a deadly burden for the people. The production of chemicals is steadily increasing.
Chemical industry is developing new chemical substances which are not examined systematically
for damage they might do to people. Interaction between various chemicals can hardly be examined.
More accurate test methods are not used for financial reasons or because of the time they take.
Only standard methods are applied.
Fine dust is one of the greatest causes of pollution. It is alarming that the number of respiratory diseases
is steadily increasing. We have already strained our environment with toxic waste to an extent that makes
the risks unmanageable. The worst of it is that the results of the damage are not immediately evident,
but that it will take years to show how ill mankind have become. Ultimately it will show what we have done to ourselves.
New and unexpected illnesses might develop from the mixture of poisons.
Time will tell what scary surprise is awaiting us.
"Painful Connection"
"Super-GAU"
"Ways Of Poison"
"Industrial Nation"
"At The Limit"
"Standstill "
Almost everyone has probably already asked themselves the question: what is "art" actually?
Art is an expression of thoughts that can be made visible in unlimited different ways.
The philosopher Immanuel Kant said, "Have the courage to serve you of your own mind."
This core sentence is applicable on every artist and is aimed to all creative minds who want to create their own
kind of art. I belong to those who move away from standard photography and pursue new approaches.
My view and interpretation of art is very different.
I use the standard photography and at the same time the image alienation.
I have been told many times that I create unusual but meaningful pictures.
These images contain visible as well as hidden messages for the viewer.
However, the essence of art is the ability to look beyond the boundaries instead of stagnating in the own
Creating own art, following the thought of Kant,
using the own mind and representing the true different is my "artistic path" I will always follow.
"Heart Repair"
"Shape_2"
"Lights Storm"
"Time_1"
"Light Machine"
"Lights curtain"
"B_G"
"Foreign Dimension"


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Girl with autism kicked off plane because captain didn't 'feel comfortable' flying with her
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KATU reports Donna Beegle was returning home from Disney World with her family, including her 15-year-daughter Juliette, when Juliette got hungry.
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