In memory of John Machado.
Location: Chacaracual environmental conservation area. El Horcón sector, peninsula of Macanao. Island of Margarita, Venezuela.
I recall that morning, last June, for its flawless, cloudless blue sky and its atmospheric overhead light. I left home with my father, who offered to take me from Pampatar to Macanao, where we would meet with José Manuel Briceño, an ecologist and cardinal member of PROVITA organization. Once assembled in the Marine Museum of Boca Del Rio, we boarded his car and rolled along the serpentine and precarious road of the peninsula. José drove with great confidence, as one walks across the courtyard of one's house. We talked about his ecological work and about the environmental conditions of the place we were going. He warned me of the sand-pit exploitation activities that were taking place in the area, and spoke of other interesting details regarding the flora and fauna that make the region unique. Suddenly, we crossed over to a dirt road channeled to the foothills of the mountains. A gray dust storm began to appear, carried to the air by the tumbling trucks and heavy machinery, omens of another nature.
As usual, I was wearing jean shorts, a tank top, a local straw hat, boots, and my notebook, nothing more. I was there by the guidance of architects John Machado and Rafael Pereira's ideas; in the context of the community-oriented art project at the VectorVerde building, they had entrusted me with the mission of doing exploratory research in this area, to take some photos, and to record curious data about the bowels of my island.
Once in the dry ravine that continues to be industrially transformed into an undercutting pit more than 15 meters deep and covering several square kilometers of extension, my initial impression was followed by a nefarious feeling that intermittently kidnapped my body. This made my senses more acute. There were several elements that seemed to be in an extemporaneous struggle against the work of the trucks and the noise of the machines: one was the presence of a pair of Guayacán¹ trees, probably bicentennial, that were baptized "the titans of Chacaracual" due to their extraordinary size and opulence. By an apparent miracle, they had been left in peace on a mound of earth that isolated them. On the other hand, there was the orderly presence of magnificent guarataras² on one side of the road. I immediately identified with the volumes of these monolithic specimens since, as a sculptor, my work is fundamentally defined by research on the stone as a symbol and permanent matter in art.
I asked for some information about the stones and learned that they were the byproduct of the sand industry. Because of their size they are useless for commerce, they cannot be dynamited, and they are very heavy, so they are used to mark crossings between the roads. As Hermes, the Olympic deity in ancient Greece, would have arranged.
I decided immediately to do something with the powerful presence of the rocks, and formulated something experimental. Above all, it was important to record the transitory presence of my ideas, expressed upon this panorama. I had no tools; the measuring tape I could have used to obtain caliber data was left behind in the workshop. I had only my anatomy to figure out the scale. Some Land Art antecedents come to mind, where artists used their bodies to modify the image of the landscape. This memory motivated me to carry out, intuitively, a kind of happening, and for that reason I asked Joseph and my father to document the actions, each from his point of view, by pressing the button of the camera.
On my way back home, I was trapped in a light dream. The images collected that day were archived without being revealed.
This year I received an invitation from researcher/curator Ruth Auerbach to present a project in a young artists' salon. I considered it the right occasion to resume my work on these images. Little by little I invested my savings, which I gathered from the sale of a piece through BVAC; I used them to buy white oil painting, paintbrushes, masking tape, and thus, get to color tests. I kept searching for a technique that could give a sensible and lucid turn to my research. I needed a material out of the ordinary, and found an ochre-looking, dry, pale, and fibrous straw-board that I considered appropriate. I ordered half-sheet prints of 8 photographs in high contrast. When I received them, the glimpse had become a reality; as I analyzed them I noticed that the material absorbed enough ink to leave the texture, hue and values clearly in sight. Also, I can translate a symbiosis effect between the organic temperature of the color of the straw-board and the light sensation experienced on site.
Beyond its documentary or autobiographical nature, my process contains a sort of stratagem in its character. I glazed the image with white oil in horizontal strokes until the limits of my figure –my interaction with the stones. I intend to decontextualize myself behind an abstract stain, to be ethereal and sublimated, to evoke a notion of rhythmic and temporal magnitude. The original landscape of the photographs has been celebrated by its absence; I focus absolutely on the conceptual and aesthetic materiality of the content, a primary and symbolic bond with the earth.
I titled this work "Aesthetic estimation of natural magnitudes" (Estimación estética de las magnitudes naturales), influenced by Kant's Critique of Judgment. I enjoy other people's inquiries about my reasons. In Caracas, on September 11, a jury made up by Lorena González (Banesco art curator), Patricia Velazco (director of Sala Mendoza) and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (CPPC's curator of contemporary art), decided to grant this 24-year-old novel from Porlamar the first prize of the XVII Salón Banesco Jóvenes with FIA (2014).
Recently, an 8-ton guaratara was rescued from the site and will be integrated as a sculptural work in the VectorVerde building, which has LEED³ international certification, as part of a proposal that seeks to generate environmental awareness through the para-disciplinary relationship between art, architecture, and projection to the community.
[¹] Emblem tree of the State of Nueva Esparta. Guaiacum officinale L.
[²] An autochthonous name with which the rocks that detach from the Guarataro peak are designated.
[³] Acronym for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, a system of sustainable building certification developed by the US Green Building Council.


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What Are Indie Games – Why You Should Know About It
November 23, 2022 September 30, 2021 by samchy25
How widespread is now such a concept as "indie games", or rather, not even a concept, but this very combination, because many perceive its essence in different ways. What was born as a definition of the form of publishing a game has turned into a whole conventional genre, which is actively used in everyday life. And it is misused.
What are we now used to consider an indie game? Visually unpretentious projects that do not pretend to be the hit games of the entire generation, but conquering with their special, specific, I would call it "old", beauty, their, as they say, soul, interesting ideas in terms of mechanics, and sometimes very serious subjects. But does an indie game have to be like this?
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I'm afraid I'll have to start with the duty phrase about the definition of the word "indie" itself. Indie is an abbreviation for the English "independent", that is, "independent", and thus we get the main aspect that separates indie games from non-indie – is it whether the developer studio has a large publisher behind the back or takes the entire marketing routine to me. And dependence here should be taken not as a metaphor, but in the most direct sense. Why? Let's start with who is a publisher?
A publisher is a company that a developer comes to, presents his idea, and if the publisher likes it, he takes this developer under his warm wing, feeds him, and pleases him. This continues until the developer brings his idea to life in the form of a new game, and then the publisher helps to promote this game so that as many people as possible learn about the game, and most importantly BUY it. And the publisher himself receives a large percentage from this and depending on the contract concluded with the developer, also the right to publish all subsequent games in the franchise, if any.
It follows that the more successful the game is, and the success is always measured by the number of copies sold, the more profitable the publisher. Therefore, the publisher will do everything to not only advertise and launch it to the masses, but also make it interesting for the mass player, and not for individual groups of interested parties. And this is done in a very, let's say, "unpleasant" way: the publisher begins to invade the developer's "personal space" and dictate his own terms.
The game development company understands that without a feeding trough, his idea will not reach the final, and therefore he has to make compromises with the publisher:
cut off everything that he doesn't like;
add what the publisher considers necessary.
And this directly affects the concept of the game, starting with the plot and ending with specific mechanics. And it happens even worse: the publisher begins to demand an urgent release of the game, tying its release to a certain date or event, and as a result, the games come out raw, bugged, or with a bunch of cut content.
New ideas are scary
And so it turns out that games with the grind, towers, etc., which, it would seem, everyone hates so fiercely, turn out to be the most successful. The mass audience is much more willing to buy grind games, rather than story-driven, deep-in-concept projects. Publishers love money, and can they be blamed for that? I think no, this is the business.
Among the developers, there are many talented guys who hatch brilliant ideas and dream of translating them into their games. But ideas are not always met with enthusiasm, no matter how unique they may be. Everything is subjective, and the players in their masses are capricious and not always ready for "updates" in the usual scheme.
A good example is Resident Evil 4: it is objectively excellent but met by many fans of the previous parts very coolly for the bias towards the shooter and the overall increased dynamism of what is happening. And I know that the game is now considered a great part and paid off handsomely, but it cannot be denied that many refused to accept it in the years of its release only because of the innovation.
I just want to say that not everything that is indie that is a pixel, like not everything that is pixelated, is indie. Indie games are, on the one hand, a simple concept, but on the other hand, it has very blurred boundaries, so it becomes not so easy to say that there is an indie game and an indie game development outsourcing.
A huge number of cheap (in terms of budget) pixel-style game crafts that have flooded into Steam in recent years, prompted the players to select a special category for these games, somehow generalize them, come up with a common name for them so that in one word it would be worthwhile whether their attention is playing or not, and that word has become "indie games".
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High altitude mountain tourism
Ak Sai (Ala Archa National Park)
To the south of Bishkek lies the Kyrgyz Ala Too. (Too, or Tau, means range I Kyrgyz.) with the highest summit Simyonov Tien Shan (4875m). There are several good climbing areas here, but in Ala Archa Park the walls of Ak Sai "White River" glacier are the most popular. This region has some of the best rock and ice climbing in the country. With almost 150 established routes, it is the country's best documented climbing area. There are routes of every level, from hiking to extreme mixed climbs. But even with its proximity to the capital city, this is a region of almost no bolts and no guidebooks.
Getting there/services
Ala Archa Park is located 40 km south of Bishkek. From the trailhead (2100m) to Ak Sai a well-worn path rises 4-5 hours to the Ratsek cabin (3200m). This stone cabin at the foot of the Ak Sai glacier was once the pride of the local climbing community, but now is a trash dump. Most climbers choose to set up tents in a flat area outside the cabin. A two-hour hike past the Ratsek are two Soviet era metal climbing huts; one on the northwest side of Peak Korona, the other on the south. These huts are used for approaches to peaks Free Korea and Korona.
Free Korea (4749m)
Free Korea boasts the classic wall of Ak Sai. First climbed in 1959 the north face has about 15 routes from Russian Grade 5a to 6a/b. The two most often climbed are the Barber (5b) and Lowe (5a), 800m ice couloirs that were established and soloed respectively by Henry Barber and Jeff Lowe in 1976. The remaining climbs on Free Korea go through bands of rock. More recently, in November of 2000, spending 11 days on the wall in a testament to suffering, a group of Bishkek climbers put up the hardest route to date, Grey Rocks Girdle (6a/b).
Korona (Crown) (4810m) – Korona can be seen from the Ala Archa valley and is aptly named "Crown" after the six separate towers that comprise the summit. There are several classic climbs on the south side of Korona. The approach involves a 1000m 35-40-degree snow slope that ends at the base of a wide choice of 100-200m routes to any one of the six towers. The routes vary in difficulty from a 60-degree 2b ice gully to 5b rock. These towers are convenient acclimatization routes for climbers traveling through Bishkek on their way to high altitude objectives elsewhere in the country. The west face of the fifth and sixth towers host several rock routes up to 900m that start right off the glacier at Bear corner.
Bachichiki (4515m) – Bachichiki is a one-day climb from the Ratsek cabin. There are only three standard rock routes on the main wall, but with many other variations and new routes to be claimed. The classic rock route is on the east end of the face, Schwaba, an eight-pitch (560m) 5.8 – 5.9 (with an optional 5.10 exit). The granite is easy to protect, has large ledges for belays and is a comfortable day trip. On the western end of the face is a 440m route, mostly 5.8 with a 5.10 itch near the end of the route. The center route, rarely done because of loose rock, is 480 m, 5.8 – 5.10 A1. In the winter a thick 300m pencil of 60-80 degrees ice forms on the west end of the wall and remains solid all winter.
The time to climb rock in Ala Archa is July – October. June brings rain, and by November cold weather has set in. For ice and mixed climbs the best season is January – March, the days are longer and the sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures of December subside.
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Understanding Loan Aversion in Education: Evidence from High School Seniors, Community College Students, and Adults Although prior research has suggested that some students may be averse to taking out loans to finance their college education, there is little empirical evidence showing the extent to which loan aversion exists or how it affects different populations of students. This study provides the first large-scale quantitative evidence of levels of loan aversion in the United States. Using survey data collected on more than 6,000 individuals, we examine the frequency of loan aversion in three distinct populations. Depending on the measure, between 20 and 40% of high school seniors exhibit loan aversion with lower rates among community college students and adults not in college. Women are less likely to express loan-averse attitudes than men, and Hispanic respondents are more likely to be loan averse than White respondents…
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Harry Anthony Patrinos is a Manager at the World Bank's education sector. He specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He managed education lending operations and analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of Latin America's Indigenous Peoples, published as Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is one of the main authors of the report, Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy (World Bank, 2003). Mr. Patrinos has many publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than 40 journal articles. He is co-author of the books: Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (St. Martin's, 1999), Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing (World Bank, 1997), and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos (World Bank/Ashgate, 1994). He has also worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. He previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. Mr. Patrinos received a doctorate from the University of Sussex.	View all posts by Harry Anthony Patrinos
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Sukhothai (thai: สุโขทัย) és una petita ciutat situada a les províncies de Kamphaeng Phet i Sukhothai, a Tailàndia. A una distància de 427 km al nord de Bangkok sobre el riu Yom, un tributari del riu Chao Phraya. La població és de 37.000 habitants. La ciutat actual està localitzada 12 quilòmetres a l'est de la ciutat històrica, que era la capital del primer regne tailandès, en general anomenat regne de Sukhothai, d'aquí que sovint es diu Nou Sukhothai a la ciutat moderna i la capital de la província homònima i ciutat històrica de Sukhothai a l'antiga ciutat.

La ciutat històrica de Sukhothai va ser declarada com a Patrimoni de la Humanitat de la UNESCO des de l'any 1991, al costat d'una sèrie de ciutats associades:

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Antony asks for Fresh Report on VVIP Chopper Deal
By Dr. Ankit Rajvanshi April 27, 2012
The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony on Wednesday directed his ministry officials to get a fresh report from the Indian Embassy in Rome following a media report alleging malpractices in the procurement of 12 helicopters for the VVIP Communication Squadrons of the Indian Air Force from Ms. Agusta Westland.
There were media reports also in February 2012 about investigations undertaken by Italian authorities into alleged unethical dealings by M/s Finmeccanica Italy. Following this, information was sought by MoD from the Indian Embassy in Rome. The Indian Embassy reported that Italian authorities were conducting preliminary investigations on allegations of financial malpractices occurring within Finmeccanica and its subsidiaries in general. There was no specific probe being conducted on India-related transactions. There is no clear indication at this stage whether the India related deal would be probed on the strength of preliminary investigations.
It may be recalled that the contract for the procurement of the helicopters contains the standard provisions against use of undue influence and employment of agents and payment of agency commission. A Pre-Contract Integrity Pact has also been signed between Agusta Westland and MoD.
Any such complaint or allegation received will be investigated and the contractual provisions invoked, in case any wrong doing is established, in addition to action that may be required under law.
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This is a guest post by the Rev'd Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark's Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and media relations, and was Parliamentary Chaplain to the Bishop of London 2007-2013. He tweets at @seheard and is author of the Unheard Melodies blog.
"The mood of Church of England bishops judging by Twitter was, by and large, glum." So reported the Church Times post election. To be fair, this overall glumness of mood was inferred from the responses of the small handful who felt moved to comment publicly on the outcome. Among them was the Bishop of Sheffield, who blogged a personal sermon to the Prime Minister, urging him to "read and ponder" the lessons about accepting and weighing advice in the story of Rehoboam in 1Kings 12. The moral of the story – that the new King should reach out to his father's enemies, rather than punish them for their opposition – will not have been lost on the Prime Minister, were there but the smallest chance that he had read the Bishop's blog and had a few moments to ponder its import. He almost certainly – predictably – will not have done so; and we realise that the sermon is really for us, the voters. We are the ones who, rather surprisingly (one imagines a raised episcopal eyebrow) have returned him to power, and whose duty it is to keep up the pressure on him – to "listen to all the people, to lighten burdens, and to build one nation, for the benefit of all". This is advice so unexceptionable that I'm sure the Bishop would have offered it in the same spirit if Ed Miliband had squeezed into No.10, as predicted.
The Bishop of Leeds wondered rather gloomily if what we have "settled for" is "a market society (as opposed to a market economy)". For "if we have, we are stuffed". I take "stuffed" in this context to be synonymous with "doomed", pace Private Frazer in 'Dad's Army'. I never argue with bishops, but I doubt we are doomed. In similar mood, the Bishop of Chelmsford tweeted: "All manner of things may not be quite as well as some of us hoped" – respectful, evidently, of the many others for whom things had turned out better than they could have dreamed. The Bishop of Sodor & Man confined his comments to the need for a change to the voting system, which I imagine he has called for at previous elections.
Now I daresay that these few responses do not capture the feelings of all CofE bishops, some of whom may even have voted Conservative. But they throw an interesting light on the Church's ability to step up to the plate and take on the mantle of semi-official Opposition, now that the LibDems have a much smaller voice in Parliament and while Labour is preoccupied with appointing a new leader. This is a call made persuasively by Gillan Scott, who wants the Church to provide "a level of external conscience watching over the new Conservative Government". We have to consider how well-equipped the Church is to fulfil this unexpected calling (presumably the 'conscience' bit would have been less demanding if Labour had won) and how likely it is to be able influence Government policy and behaviour.
After the 2010 election, things looked modestly bright for a new relationship between Government and Church. Coalition ministers were not encumbered by New Labour's allergy to 'doing God'; some of them were unapologetic Christians, naturally attuned to the pastoral work that the churches do in ordinary communities, and keen to recognise their role in the big society. They dared to hope that the Church did not hate them as they had feared. Bridges were tentatively built. It is difficult to overstate how hard this tender shoot was frosted by the remarks of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in his editorial in the New Statesman published on 9 June 2011. Under the headline 'The government needs to know how afraid people are', Archbishop Rowan complained about "radical, long-term policies for which no-one voted". It was by no means an unreasoned attack, but it did appear to come out of nowhere, and ministers were genuinely wounded by it. They felt they were doing a difficult job (rescuing a comprehensively crashed economy) under difficult circumstances (a coalition between parties which by nature had little in common) and making a reasonable fist of it. But the damage was done. The temperature dropped a few crucial degrees, and it was back to business as usual: bishops and other Church leaders writing open letters critical of government policy to national newspapers, making other public interventions in the same vein, and then in the run-up to the 2015 General Election issuing a report that was widely received as endorsing Labour (including by Labour itself). This is how the Church does politics these days, and it is, as we see, largely ineffective.
When you want to influence someone, it is generally a good a idea not to start by publicly attacking them. You embarrass them, force them on to the defensive, give comfort to their critics, and make them less likely to listen to you next time. And in the political context, if you keep doing it, you become just another reliably hostile voice among many. You generally achieve little. A good deal of the work that is done in Parliament is done not in its debating chambers, but in its corridors, tea-rooms and bars. The people who make and implement policy and those elected and appointed to hold them to account are often enough under the same roof, and they are allowed to speak to each other. "A word in your ear, Minister?" is a perfectly proper way of bringing a concern to the person who has responsibility for the policy that relates to it, and is likely to be better received than a letter to the Times (or even a letter to the person). By means of face-to-face contacts, relationships can be built and a measure of trust established. The Church of England is unique in having bishops in Parliament: they walk the same corridors as government ministers – who generally do not bite.
Fewer speeches, open letters and hostile blogs, and more conversations – this is the surest route to influencing policy. To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war, even between bishops and Tories. We wait to see whether this is a plate the Church can step up to, and whether the lesson of Rehoboam is one it, too, can hear.


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Sydney Institute for Astronomy
Astronomy facilities
Astronomy surveys
Looking to the stars and beyond
The University of Sydney operates three major facilities (MOST, SKAMP and SUSI) as listed below. In addition, members of SIfA regularly use other major Australian and international facilities.
The University of Sydney is also a member of Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL), whose core business is to manage programs that provide astronomers with access to national optical/infrared and radio astronomy infrastructure.
Sydney Astrophotonic Instrumentation Laboratory (SAIL)
SAIL is currently composed of about 9 laboratories that focus on different aspects of Astrophotonics, and is located in the basement of the School of Physics.
Researchers at SAIL are working on both the development and modification of existing photonics technologies as well as their direct implementation to astronomical instruments.
Fiber fabrication
Historically most advances in photonics technologies have been made within the telecommunication industry.
Because astronomical instrumentation has unique requirements in terms of performance and precision, one important field of research at SAIL is the development of the core technologies, such as optical fibers.
SAIL enjoys an optical fiber fabricating and testing laboratory which enables SAIL researchers to custom made waveguides that meets their needs for astronomical instrumentation.
Fiber Bragg Grading and Hexabundle are two examples of unique fibers developed at SAIL.
Controlling the flow of light
One of the prominent features of photonics is the fine control of light and of its different properties. This is highly relevant for astronomy where the careful detection of photons is crucial to the elaboration and validation of complex astrophysical models.
Laser combs, scramblers, 3D lanterns are all examples of the type of devices that are being studied at SAIL.
One key aspect of astrophotonics is the integration of photonics technologies into real instruments used for astronomy.
At SAIL there are two main instrumentation techniques being researched: spectroscopy and interferometry.
Observing facilities
In addition to the resources at the University of Sydney, SAIL has strong collaborations with other Australian Universities and facilities.
For instance, SAIL works closely with the Anglo Australian Observatory which can provide access to facilities such as the 4m Anglo Australian Telescope. With such a unique test bench with real scientific outcomes, the development of instruments and technology is largely stepped up.
SKA technologies at the Molonglo Radio Telescope (SKAMP)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international project to build a radio telescope which will be 100 times more sensitive than any existing radio telescope with about one million square metres of collecting area. In order to design and build this new generation radio telescope major new technology is needed. SKAMP is a joint CSIRO/University of Sydney project, largely funded through the Australian Government's Major National Research Facilities (MNRF) program, to develop and test new technology for the SKA.
The telescope at Molonglo will be equipped with new wide-band feeds, low-noise amplifiers, digital filterbanks and FX correlator, and demonstrate 300-1420 MHz continuous frequency coverage and multibeam mode operation. This will allow us to develop new capabilites for low-frequency radio astronomy in Australia, enabling exploration of the distant universe.
Collaboration at CSIRO is with engineering and science teams at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) and the ICT division of Wireless Technology. This collaboration is integral to the success of the project; the final design and implementation will be jointly achieved.
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)
The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) is operated by the School of Physics of the University of Sydney. The telescope is located near Canberra, and was constructed by modification of the East-West arm of the former One-Mile Mills Cross telescope. Construction of the original telescope was begun in 1960 by Emeritus Professor Bernard Y. Mills; in recognition of this pioneering work and other innovative contributions to radio astronomy Bernie Mills was awarded the 2006 Grote Reber medal.
The MOST consists of two cylindrical paraboloids, 778m x 12m, separated by 15m and aligned East-West. A line feed system of 7744 circular dipoles collects the signal and feeds 176 preamplifiers and 88 IF amplifiers. The telescope is steered by mechanical rotation of the cylindrical paraboloids about their long axis, and by phasing the feed elements along the arms. The resulting 'alt-alt' system can follow a field for +/- 6 hours (necessary for a complete synthesis with an East-West array) only if the field is south of declination -30 degrees. For fields near this limit the signal-to-noise ratio is lower for the first and last hour or so due to the lower gain of the system at large 'meridian distance' angles.
The main specifications of the telescope are given in the Table below. The quoted noise level is larger than the thermal noise (which is about 0.2 mJy for a 23' image) because weak sidelobes from nearby strong sources are frequently important in setting the minimum reliable flux density (i.e. limiting the dynamic range). The precise effect varies from field to field depending on the sources present.
Although the telescope uses the well-known principle of rotational synthesis by an East-West array, the method by which this is realised is a novel one. Sixty-four fan beams spanning 23' are formed in real time by a hardware beam-forming device, and the responses added progressively into the image. At the end of a 12h observation the process produces a complete aperture synthesis image. The continuous uv coverage from 15m to 1.6 km results in good response to complex structure, and low sidelobe levels.
The 23' field covered by the beams may be enlarged by time-sharing the beams within the sampling interval. The resulting increase in noise level is often less than expected, because the sensitivity is often limited by side lobe confusion. The wide field project was completed in 1997, extending the available field of view to 161' x 161' cosec |dec| (see 'Increasing the Field Size of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope', Publ. Astron. Soc. Australia v11, p44, 1994) . Most observations are now made in this mode, although greatest sensitivity is still obtained with 23' fields.
The telescope was recently awarded funding by the Australian Government under the MNRF scheme to prototype technologies relevant to the next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Trials of the Molonglo Protoype (SKAMP) are being undertaken concurrent to the existing operation of the MOST.
Some further details concerning the MOST are given by Mills in Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust., 4, 156, 1981 and 6, 72, 1985, and Robertson in Aust. J. Phys., 44, 729, 1991. The MOST has a complementary role to the Australia Telescope Compact Array, in that the MOST can survey large and complex fields to a low flux density limit in just a single 12 hour period, but at a fixed frequency and with modest angular resolution (somewhat under 1').
For more information on the MOST, contact the Director, Prof. Dick Hunstead. Information is also available on the Surveys page.
PLEASE NOTE: Since mid-2009, MOST has been off the air as development work on an FPGA-based digital backend came into full swing. The reconfigured MOST, known as SKAMP (SKA Molonglo Prototype), will have full spectral capability over an expanded band at 843 MHz. SKAMP is an approved SKA demonstrator. Commissioning of SKAMP2 at 843 MHz with a 30 MHz bandwidth began in 2012.
Specifications of the MOST
Centre frequency 843 MHz
Polarization Right Hand Circular (IEEE)
Declination range for full HA -90 deg to -30 deg
Synthesised beam 43" x 43"cosec |dec|
Field size (unmultiplexed) 23' x 23'cosec |dec|
Field size (multiplexed) 161' x 161'cosec |dec|
Effective noise after 12h 0.5 - 1 mJy/beam (1 sigma)
Surface brightness sensitivity 0.4 - 0.9 K (1 sigma)
Dynamic range (typical) 100:1
Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI)
The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) is a long-baseline optical interferometer located approximately 20km west of the town of Narrabri in northern New South Wales, Australia. SUSI is operated by staff from the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. It is located at the Paul Wild Observatory, alongside the Australia Telescope Compact Array radio interferometer, and approximately 20km from Narrabri in northern New South Wales, Australia.
SUSI has been developed to tackle a range of problems in stellar astrophysics. In its current configuration observations are made with a single baseline selected from an array of fixed north-south baselines covering the range from 5 to 160m. Hardware is ready to be installed to enable baselines up to 640m, but installation is not a current priority as current science drivers do not require such extreme (<1 nanoradian or 0.2 milli-arcsec) spatial resolution. Small apertures, wavefront-tilt correction and rapid signal sampling are employed to overcome the effects of atmospheric turbulence, while optical path equality is maintained by a dynamic optical delay line.
SUSI is currently funded through to the beginning of 2013. In 2008, the beam-combination system was being upgraded to the Precision Astronomical Visible Observations (PAVO) beam combiner, with an expected limiting magnitude of 7, 10 simultaneous wavelength channels and spatial filtering that will enable ~1% precision observations. A version of this combiner has also been commissioned at the CHARA array, led by SUSI group member Dr Michael Ireland.
In addition, we are in the process of automating SUSI. One of the important first steps is a sky monitoring camera. See here for animations of previous nights (the stripes are an artifact that will be removed in Feb 2009). Both SUSI and CHARA can be operated from the new Remote Observing Center Sydney (ROCS).
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The year-end examinations go off without a hitch, although Harry fears that Voldemort will burst through the door at any second. While he is a guest at Hagrid's, Harry learns that while drunk and playing cards, Hagrid revealed to Voldemort that anyone can get past the three-headed guard dog, Fluffy, by playing music to him. Harry and his friends rush to find Dumbledore to tell him this news, but they run into McGonagall, who informs them that Dumbledore has been called off to London by the Ministry of Magic. Harry convinces Hermione and Ron that they need to grab the stone that night. As they are heading out, Neville tries to stop them. Hermione immobilizes him with a spell, and they proceed.
When they reach Fluffy, Harry, Hermione, and Ron notice a harp by his feet and realize that someone has already passed by Fluffy. Harry plays a flute he has brought, putting Fluffy to sleep and allowing his gang to go through the trapdoor. They land on some sort of plant with twisting tendrils that wrap around Harry and Ron. Hermione gets out immediately and uses fire from her wand to stave off the plant. Next, they encounter a large locked door in a room full of birds that are actually keys. Harry uses his Quidditch skills to catch the right bird and unlock the door. They then must play a violent game of chess in which each of them is a chess piece. Ron masterfully leads them through the game, but he must allow himself to be captured—and severely beaten—by the opposing queen to win. Harry and Hermione then come upon a series of potions and a logic puzzle. Hermione figures out which potions to drink and then goes back to help Ron and Harry move forward to find the stone.
Harry's breadth of wisdom is shown when he is forced to choose between obedience and fame on one hand and courage on the other and he opts for the latter. Hermione, who generally likes to follow rules, believes that Harry's plan to find the Sorcerer's Stone is crazy. Her fear that he will get expelled reflects her general concern about academic reputation. Harry, on the other hand, cares less about his status at school and more about the seemingly unavoidable battle between good and evil over the Sorcerer's Stone. In a memorably brave response to Hermione, Harry shouts, "SO WHAT? . . . If Snape gets ahold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming back! . . . There won't be any Hogwarts to get expelled from! . . . Losing points doesn't matter anymore." Harry is able to see beyond the limits of Hogwarts and glimpse the cosmic dimension of Voldemort's threats. He sees that the points system that dominates everyone's thinking in the school is trivial compared to the prospect that Voldemort will unleash evil upon the world. In this respect, Hermione's book-learning is contrasted with Harry's practical wisdom. Hermione receives a grade of 112 percent on her final exams and has read every textbook backward and forward, but she lacks Harry's key ability to view the broader consequences of facts. While Hermione has progressed a great deal, she fails to realize the full implications of the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry, by contrast, seems wise beyond his years, recognizing that at a certain point the glory and fame that come from being crowned house champions are less important than the battle between good and evil.
The obstacles that Harry, Hermione, and Ron encounter on their quest for the Sorcerer's Stone force each of them to use his or her individual talents and skills. Harry, for example, is an excellent broom-flyer, and his aerial agility enables him to grab the bird key that unlocks the door for them. Ron is a good chess player, and he willingly sacrifices his own body to win, allowing Harry and Hermione to advance. Hermione is an expert in logic, and she successfully picks out the right bottle for Harry so that he can advance toward the stone while she goes back to help Ron. Rowling thus emphasizes the importance of teamwork over individual accomplishment.
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[Second edition], identical to the first of 1824 but with subtitle added, and plates in different order. Folio (14 7/16 x 10 1/2 inches; 367 x 266 mm.). Engraved title-page and twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates with accompanying unpaginated text to each. Interleaved throughout. Plates watermarked 1825, 1827 and 1828.
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Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet (1851-1925) was a scientific author and barrister. He produced several prolific scientific works and pamphlets. He was a J.P., D.L. and Sheriff (1880) of Kent, Mayor and Alderman of Tunbridge Wells, County Councilor for the Tonbridge division of Kent for 15 years and J.P. for London. Middlesex, Sussex and Westminster. (Wikipedia).
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Name: Henry De Percy 1 2
Birth: 3 Feb 1392 in Northumberland, England 3 b
Death: 23 May 1455 in St Albans In Battle, 4 c
Burial: Hertfordshire, England. 5
Person Id: I5851
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Henry "Harry Hotspur" De Percy: Birth: 20 May 1364 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. Death: 21 Jul 1403 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Elizabeth De Mortimer: Birth: 12 Feb 1371 in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales. Death: 20 Apr 1417 in Kings Stanley, Lasboro, Gloucestershire, England
Married: Eleanor De Neville on Oct 1414 at Berwick, England.
Eleanor De Neville: Birth: 1399 in Raby England,. Death: 1463 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England
Joan De Percy: Birth: Abt 1415 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England.
Eleanor De Percy: Birth: Abt 1415 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England.
Henry De Percy: Birth: 25 Jul 1421 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England. Death: 29 Mar 1461 in Towtown England,
Thomas Percy: Birth: 29 Nov 1422 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England. Death: 10 Jul 1460 in Battle Of Northhampton,
Katherine De Percy: Birth: 18 May 1423 in Leckonsfield. Death: 1504 in Denbighshire, Wales
George Percy: Birth: 24 Jul 1424. Death: 1474
Ralph De Percy: Birth: 11 Aug 1425 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England. Death: 25 Apr 1464 in Hedgeley Moor, Northumberland
Elizabeth De Percy: Birth: 1426 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
Richard Percy: Birth: Abt 1426. Death: 1461
William Percy: Birth: 7 Apr 1428.
Ann Percy: Birth: Abt 1436. Death: 5 Jul 1522
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Note: Warden Of The East March And Constable Of England RESTORED TO THE FORFEITED EARLDOM AS 2ND EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND; FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT; MADE LORD HIGH CONSTABLE OF ENGLAND BY HENRY VI; SLAIN IN BATTLE; HAD A TOTAL OF 9 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS Earl of Northumberland killed in battle The complete Peerage, V, pp715-6 RESEARCH NOTES: 1st Earl of Northumberland, of Earldom cr 1416 [Ref: CP IX p715] Earl of Northumberland [Ref: Weis AR7 #3, Weis AR7 #19, CP II p427] 5th Lord Percy, of Barony cr 1299 [Ref: CP X p464] Warden of the Marches of Scotland [Ref: Weis AR7 #3, Weis AR7 #19] K.G. [Ref: Weis AR7 #19] Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, so created 16 March1415/6, with the same remainder as his grandfather; born 3 Feb1392/3, had his grandfather's estates restored to him and wasknighted; on military service in Normandy 1416 and 1417, Wardenof the East March 1417, Member of Council of Regency on death ofHenry V, commissioner to negotiate peace with the Scots Fewb1423/4 and 1452, Jt commissioner to monitor violations of trucewith Scots 1433, Constable of England May-Sep 1450; married ashort while after Oct 1414, as her 2nd husband, LadyAlianore/Eleanor Nevill(e), daughter of Ralph, 1st Earl ofWestmorland of the 1397 creation, and was killed fighting onHenry VI's side at the Battle of St Albans against the Yorkists22 May 1455. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------------------------------ Sir Henry de Percy KG, b. 3 Feb 1392/3, slain at St Albans 22May 1455; 2nd Earl of Northumberland; 1408 KB; 1400 Warden ofthe Marches of Scotland; m. shortly after Oct 1414 Eleanor deNeville. [Magna Charta Sureties] ------------------------------------------ Henry de Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, who m. Lady EleanorNevil, dau. of Ralph, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, and Joan deBeaufort, dau. of John of Gaunt, and aunt of King Henry V. Ofthis nobleman and his countess, and their issue, the followingaccount is given in a very curious MS preserved in the BritishMuseum, and there said to be extracted Ex Registro Monasterij deWhitbye; -- 'Henry Percy, the son of Sir Henry Percy that wasslayne at Shrewsbury, and of Elizabeth, the dau. of the Erle ofMarche, after the death of his father and graunsyre, was exiledinto Scotland, in the time of King Henry V; by the labour ofJohanne, the Countess of Westmerland (whose dau., Alianor, hehad wedded in coming into England), he recovered the king'sgrace and the county of Northumberland, so was the 2nd Earl ofNorthumberland. And of this Alianor, his wife, he begat IXsonnes and III daughters, whose names be Johanne, that is buriedat Whitbye; Thomas (created) Lord Egremont; Katheyne Grey, ofRuthyn (wife of Edmund, Lord Grey, afterwards Earl of Kent); SirRaffe Percy; William Percy, a byshopp; Richard Percy; John, thatdyed without issue; another John (called by Vincent, in his MSBaronage in the Heralds' office, John Percy, senior, ofWarkworth); George Percy, clerk; Henry, that dyed without issue;besides the eldest sonne and successor, Henry, 3rd Erle ofNorthumberland.' His lordship, who was at the battle ofAgincourt, was made lord high constable by King Henry VI, andfell at St. Alban's, 23 May, 1455, fighting under the banner ofthat monarch, and was s. by his eldest surviving son, HenryPercy, 3rd earl. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 424, Percy, Barons Percy, Earls of Northumberland, &c.]
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Christabelle Lefebvre
Coordinator, 2016 – present
Christabelle Lefebvre holds a civil law degree (baccalauréat en droit, LL.B.) from Université de Montréal. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management (master's level) from McGill University. Prior to LSU, she worked for the National Bank of Canada as an analyst (legal technicians' department). A native of Montreal, Canada, she is fluent in French and has lived in Baton Rouge since 2013. Christabelle is also Executive Managing Editor of the Journal of Civil Law Studies.
Mariano Vitetta
Research Associate, 2020 – present
Mariano Vitetta obtained a degree as a certified legal translator (English-Spanish) and a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and an LL.M. in Comparative Law from LSU. As a Research Associate for the CCLS, he is primarily responsible for the translation of the Louisiana Civil Code from English into Spanish. He has taught English-Spanish legal translation, legal writing and drafting in Spanish, and introduction to the common law tradition for law students. Mariano has been working for more than 15 years as a legal translator for law firms, companies, and academic institutions. He plans to complete a Ph.D. in Law focusing on the legal foundations of a right to understand to support plain-language campaigns as a matter of human rights.
Contributing Fellows
Jason Maison-Marcheux
CCLS Research Associate, 2015 – 2016
Jason Maison-Marcheux holds an LL.B degree (licence en droit, 2013) and a two-year academic degree in Common Law (2014) from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He received a master in Comparative Law from the same University after a two-month research visit at the LSU Law Center and the redaction of a paper, under the supervision of Dr. Olivier Moréteau, on an historical, linguistic, and cultural approach of the Louisiana Civil Code. Jason Maison-Marcheux was a Managing Editor of the Journal of Civil Law Studies and worked at the completion of the French translation of the Louisiana Civil Code.
Matthias Martin
Visiting Researcher Summer 2014
Dr. Matthias Martin (Université de Lorraine, France) is a scholar in legal theory and comparative civil law, working on codification and codes' annotation. During his six-month post-doctoral visit to the Center of Civil Law Studies, he worked on the Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project and revised the translation of 850 code articles, and conducted research on the supplements and comments in the Louisiana Civil Code. Dr. Matthias Martin serves on the CCLS Translation Validation Committee.
Alexandru-Daniel On
CCLS Research Associate 2012 – 2014
Alexandru-Daniel On received his LL.B. degree from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2010. He holds an LL.M. in Private Law (Babeş-Bolyai University, 2011) and an LL.M. in Comparative Law (Louisiana State University, 2013). He is the recipient of the first A. N. Yiannopoulos Endowed Scholarship (for the academic year 2011-2012). His research and publications are focused on the law of torts, the law of obligations, and legal translation. Mr. On contributes to the Journal of Civil Law Studies, as a Ph.D. candidate at Maastricht University.
Agustín Parise
Dr. Agustín Parise received his LL.B. and a doctorate in law at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also holds an LL.M. from the Louisiana State University Law Center. Dr. Parise is currently a member of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a widely published scholar of comparative law. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law Studies.
Michel Séjean
Dr. Michel Séjean was Assistant Professor at Université Paris 2 when he visited the Center of Civil Law Studies. He is currently a full professor (agrégé) at the Université de Bretagne-Sud (France), and Editor-in-Chief of the Henri Capitant Law Review. A trained expert in legal translation, he contributed to several translation projects from English into French during and after his time at the CCLS: Principles of European Tort Law (Commentary) and Louisiana Civil Code (Obligations). Prof. Séjean serves on the CCLS Translation Validation Committee.
Dan Stigall
Dan E. Stigall is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs. Mr. Stigall received his J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 2000 and holds an LL.M. degree from George Washington University Law School. He has extensive international experience through his current work with the U.S. federal government, and through his previous active duty service in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, during which he served in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. His research is focused on issues related to international law, comparative civil law, and transnational crime. His articles have appeared in the Louisiana Law Review, the Military Law Review, and numerous other publications, and he is the author of Counterterrorism and the Comparative Law of Investigative Detention (2009). Mr. Stigall also publishes in the Journal of Civil law Studies and mentors LSU law students with international interests. He is a member of Juris Diversitas, an international network of Comparative Law scholars and practitioners. Any opinion expressed in his writing is solely that of the author and not necessarily that of the Department of Defense or the Department of Justice.


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Ontario reported over 900 new COVID-19 cases and six more deaths on Friday, the highest single-day case count in nearly three months.
The province logged 927 new infections today, up from 748 yesterday and from 793 a week ago.
Today marks the highest daily tally since Sept. 4 when 944 cases were logged.
The gradual rise in cases over the past month continues to push the seven-day rolling average up.
The average hit 711 today, a number not seen since Sept. 20, and a notable increase from 625 a week ago.
Among the latest COVID-19 cases, 467 of the individuals are unvaccinated, 27 have received only one dose, 378 are fully vaccinated and 55 have an unknown vaccination status.
To date, 89 per cent of Ontarians 12 years and older have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and over 86 per cent have received two doses and are considered fully vaccinated.
This week, health officials began administering shots to children between five and 11 years old after Health Canada approved Pfizer's pediatric vaccine last week.
Yesterday, Ontario's top doctor said it's too early to consider applying the province's vaccine certificate system to children aged 11 and under.
The program came into effect across the province in September and requires patrons 12 years and older to show their vaccine certificate at restaurants, gyms, sporting venues and other indoor spaces to prove that they are fully vaccinated against the virus.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, infectious diseases specialist at Toronto General Hospital, said it's reasonable not to apply the certificate system to the province's youngest residents right now.
"We know some parents are jumping in with two feet and might get their kids vaccinated. But others still have hesitations and questions, and that's reasonable, it might take some time," he told CP24 on Friday.
"Listen, I think at some point in time that might be revisited and I don't know at what point in time that is, but at least for the 2021, and probably much of the 2022 calendar year, I think that's a very reasonable statement," he added.
Another 666 people recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours, resulting in 5,807 active cases across the province.
The Ministry of Health said five of the deaths reported today occurred in the last month and the other death occurred more than one month ago.
Of the latest deaths, one individual was between 40 and 59 years old, three were between 60 and 79 and two were 80 and over.
One of the individuals who died with the virus was a long-term care home resident.
The province's virus-related death toll stands at 9,991.
Provincial health officials said 33,901 tests were processed in Ontario labs yesterday, producing a positivity rate of three per cent, up from 2.6 per cent a week ago.
In the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto logged 129 new cases, while 54 infections were reported in Peel Region, 52 in York Region, 41 in Durham and 33 in Halton.
Elsewhere in the province, 73 infections were reported in Simcoe Muskoka, 62 in Windsor-Essex and 53 in Ottawa.
The ministry said 268 people with the virus are currently in Ontario hospitals and 140 are in intensive care units.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said 130 of the ICU patients are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and 10 are fully vaccinated.
To date, there have been 615,197 lab-confirmed coronavirus cases and 599,399 recoveries in Ontario since Jan. 2020.
The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what is reported by the province, because local units report figures at different times.
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Category Archives: Mine Wars
Announcements, Labor History, Mine Wars, Nonfiction
Whiting Nonfiction Grant
My book-in-progress, Disunion: West Virginia Coal Miners and America's Other Civil War, was selected for a 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, given yearly to eight writers completing books of "deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction." fWhiting curated a chapbook with excerpts and descriptions of each of the winners' projects, which include a history of policing in Oakland, CA; a collection of interwoven diaries from Nazi-occupied Netherlands; a biography of the mother of modern Black nationalism; and an argument for the decriminalization of sex work.
Tagged labor history, Mine Wars, nonfiction, west virginia, whiting award
Appalachia, coal, Labor History, Mine Wars, Nonfiction, Print, West Virginia History
Public Scholar Award
This year I was awarded a grant from the Public Scholars program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities, written for the broad public by authors without academic affiliation. I'll use the funds to finish researching and writing my book-in-progress, a narrative history of the West Virginia Mine Wars.
Events, Labor History, Mine Wars, Print
Greensboro Bound
I'm headed to the Greensboro Bound literary festival next week, where the novelist Wiley Cash and myself will talk about contemporary Appalachian voices, the representation and the role of writers/journalists as witnesses, and other fun stuff TBD. Musician Laurelyn Dossett will open. Cash's novel The Last Ballad, is a fictionalized account of the life of Ella May Wiggins, a North Carolina textile worker who tried to unionize and was murdered in 1929.
Tagged appalachia, events, writer
Appalachia, Audio, Mine Wars, Nonfiction, West Virginia History
#Ojeda4Congress on NPR
Went down to Pineville, WV, to record a meet-and-greet with U.S. House candidate Richard Ojeda, sponsored by the United Mine Workers of America, for NPR News. It was lots of fun talking to Wyoming County voters about what they're thinking about going into the election; many were teachers who had been galvanized by Ojeda during the spring's big strike action in Charleston.
Announcements, Appalachia, coal, Economic Transition, Labor History, Mine Wars, Nonfiction, Print, West Virginia History, Women's History
In September 2017, I sold two nonfiction books to Random House. One is about the history and legacy of the Battle of Blair Mountain; the other is an essay collection. Here's the announcement from Publishers Marketplace:
University of Montana MFA graduate, Best American Essays 2017 writer and producer of public radio documentaries Catherine Venable Moore's two works of narrative non-fiction set in Appalachia, exploring events in the past of America and of that region, from the violent West Virginia Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, up to the politics of today, to Kate Medina at Random House, in a pre-empt, by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at DeFiore and Company (World English). UK rights: decronin@penguinrandomhouse.com . Translation: linda@defliterary.com.
Announcements, Appalachia, coal, Mine Wars, West Virginia History
WV Mine Wars Museum Wins NEH Grant
On August 2, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is the recipient of a $30,000 challenge grant for The Blair Centennial Project, our long-term plan to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 2021!
The NEH grant committee called the Blair Centennial Project "A bold and collaborative effort to use the humanities to foster cultural tourism and give a challenged community hope for the future through respect for the past." Read More…


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Fujifilm X-Pro3 designs leaked! Unusual tilting screen, but no D-pad?
See the Fujifilm X-Pro3's shiny new design in these leaked sketches – but where's the D-pad??
(Image credit: FujiRumors)
We've been hearing a lot of noise about the Fujifilm X-Pro3 recently, so we're not surprised to see that a comprehensive set of sketches detailing the X-Pro3's design has been leaked. While the sketches are drawn roughly in pencil, they do seem to line up with what we're heard about the Fujifilm X-Pro3's design so far.
Leaked via rumor site Fuji Rumors, these drawings show that the front of the X-Pro3 remains fairly similar to the Fujifilm X-Pro2, with minimal adjustments to the design. However, the back of the camera is where the real changes have been made.
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One fairly significant change is that there is no D-pad, but it does appear to have been replaced by a joystick instead. However, the biggest alteration to the Fujifilm X-Pro3 is its screen. Within where the LCD screen would usually sit will be a smaller E-ink-type display that will show your camera settings - just like the small top screen on other cameras would usually do.
The back of the LCD screen will house a small screen for camera settings (Image credit: FujiRumors)
However, this isn't the only screen the X-Pro3 houses. You can actually open up a second LCD screen behind the E-ink-type screen and flip it down. Not only will this protect the LCD screen from any errant knocks or scrapes, but it also means that you only need to worry about the LCD screen when you actually want to use it.
However, we do wonder how this design will hold up when photographers are actually using it. We can see this being a hit with purists due to its clean design, but how popular will this design really be with the average photographer? While we like the idea that you can just simply hide away the screen if you like, would it really have been that much harder to do a vari-angle screen design like the Panasonic GH5?
We're definitely interested to see how this particular flip screen design works in real life, but until the Fujifilm X-Pro3 is officially released you can check out the rest of the sketches of the leaked design below.
The Fujifilm X-Pro3's LCD screen will tilt down to keep the screen hidden unless you want it (Image credit: FujiRumors)
Reportedly, there are no significant changes made to the front of the X-Pro3 (Image credit: FujiRumors)
On the ISO dial on the top of the camera, the 'H' has been replaced with 'C' instead (Image credit: FujiRumors)
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