Some 80 percent of cities in China cannot strike a balance between growing the economy and protecting the environment, but mid-sized cities are in best stead to achieve sustainable growth, reveals Accenture report.
Some 80 percent of Chinese cities are unable to achieve a balance between economic growth, resource efficiency, and sustainable development.
According to a study released Tuesday, conducted by Accenture and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 25 cities in China were placed in the "conventional" category, facing the greatest danger, given their underdeveloped but resource-based economies, high emissions, reliance on heavy industry, and a tendency to "grow first, clean up later".
The study covered 73 of China's 287 large cities, assessing their performance in economic performance, resource and environmental sustainability, and dependence on natural resources. It also categorized Chinese cities in to four groups: wealthy, balanced, potential and conventional.
Beijing and Tianjin were classified as "wealthy", along with cities in the Bohai Rim and Yangtze River Delta regions. The cities enjoyed leading rates of economic growth but faced deteriorating environments--characterized by rising levels of congestion, smog and waste, coupled with shortages of water and other resources.
The "balanced" group of cities, which included smaller cities along with megacities in southern China--Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen--achieved strong economic performance, environmental quality, and managed emissions.
The study found that China's mid-sized cities, within the "Potential" category, were in the best position to achieve the balance in the future. Cities in this category had the greatest chance of becoming champions of the new resource economy, due to strong growth coupled with a lack of existing environmental degradation. They also were dominated by medium-sized cities with populations of 1 to 3 million or GDP per capita of 50,000 to 70,000 yuan (US$7,738 to US$10,833).
According to the study, the new resource economy was based on a model for achieving sustainable growth with less resource consumption and less environmental impact through technology, management and institution innovation.
"Our analysis shows that a focus on developing mid-sized cities rather than megacities provides the greatest chance of making the New Resource Economy a reality," Gong Li, chairman of Accenture Greater China, said in a statement.
Companies often faced pollution allegations in China. Last month, Taiwan-based Apple suppliers Foxconn and UniMicron were accused by environmental groups for releasing toxic waste into rivers near their Kunshan plants . RiTeng, an Apple supplier in China was also charged with pouring untreated metal-cutting liquid and greasy, waste water into Shanghai's rain water drainage system in February.
In a bid to raise awareness on pollution in the country, Chinese netizen Liu Chunlei in June created a crowdsourced mapping project, Danger Maps , which indicates pollution hotspots in China.


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The National Association of Free Will Baptists is a fellowship of evangelical churches that adhere to the Bible as the foundation of faith and practice. The denomination began in 1727, and for nearly 300 years has contributed to the moral and spiritual fiber of the nation. Bound by common beliefs, common worship, and a common mission, nearly 300,000 individuals from 2,500 congregations across 40 states have come together voluntarily to extend their impact throughout the world.


It's ideal use is to be able to create a template document in a way that reports don't. For example, we wanted to provide an executive summary when our C-level execs were going in to talk to prospects or customers. Rather than having the exec dig around in Salesforce, we identified the key fields that would provide the proper executive summary of an account, created a template, and used Conga Composer to create those summaries when we needed them.
Merge fields for the documents can be cross-object. As long as you can create a report that links between the object where the cConga action is being called and the object housing the fields you need, you can pull in those fields onto the document. Breaks all limitations that standard Salesforce email templates have.
Seamless integration with E-Sign apps such as DocuSign and Adobe Sign. This makes the document generation and signing processes a lot easier and 100% virtual.
Conga Workflow was a game changer for us. Originally we had to manually click custom buttons in order to generate the Conga documents, however with Conga Workflow we were able to automate these processes completely. Essentially you can set up the documents to be generated and/or emailed when certain actions are triggered in Salesforce.
Supports many different output formats; PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, etc.
Template error reporting could be a little better. Sometimes a generic error message is displayed and it's difficult to pinpoint where the error is in the template.
I had a difficult time setting up hands on signing to allow customers to hand draw their signatures on documents on their iPads via Adobe Sign. It's possible that these bugs have been fixed since then as it was an extremely new feature at the time.
We will never use this product again!
Conga was always the standard when first evaluating, it has the track record over others and was most used and felt it would handle our needs.
Conga reduced the need to hire additional FTEs in departments with the highest amount of document generation.
Conga decreases the time spent generating and sending invoices to customers so the payments are received faster.
Conga allows more advanced functionality than standard Salesforce email templates. This allowed the business to automate emails that could not have been done previously.


I hope you appreciate that i died for this article! Twice.
Correct, a bunch of painted polygons (luckily they are forged together to a very beautiful world). But you can see (or can't see) another detail: No hard edges between the trees and the ground. Since computers are able to render a lot of grass, flowers and bushes we can hide sharp polygon edges very well.
At least, if you don't look from above.
In WoW this isn't a problem since you don't look very often like this at the game. But there other games out there – and some of them use exactly such a top-down-perspective! So how do they handle this problem (expect from just accepting it)?
On the left you see a tree out of Dungeon Siege and it's more or less just a 6-sided cylinder with a wood texture (at this time this was more than enough! I loved the graphic back in 2002)! The interesting part is, that they widened the cylinder at the bottom and faded it out smoothly. So they avoided a hard 6-sided-tree-ground-cut and blended nicely into mother earth.
…you'll see that it's not grass which covers the tree. The stump itself has some alpha1-cutouts and let you see though!
In my eyes, this is a very nice trick! I mean really…they render less to show more. This is almost philosophic!
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Kodak Investment Helps Westdale Press Step Up Efficient Operation
Improved speed and operational efficiency as well as the ability to enable two departments to oversee smoother workflow prompted Westdale Press to invest in a number of solutions from Kodak.
The Cardiff business is currently completing the installation of a KODAK MAGNUS Q800 Platesetter, KODAK PRINERGY Workflow System, KODAK INSITE Prepress Portal and KODAK COLORFLOW Software.
The £19m turnover litho operation with 140 employees runs two sheetfed Heidelberg XL perfectors and a Heidelberg M600 web press. It produces a wide range of material from report and accounts and journals to catalogues and books, for large UK retailers and department stores.
"The decision to invest in the KODAK Systems was part of a long overdue upgrade of our prepress and repro facility," comments Managing Director Alan Padbury. "A big driver was to introduce decent online proofing capabilities via KODAK PRINERGY Workflow System and KODAK INSITE Prepress Portal. So many clients now do not see a hard copy proof and Kodak provided one of the better online proofing options. It ticked all the boxes."
Colour control with KODAK COLORFLOW Software was also a vital investment he states: "It is of paramount importance these days. You have to be able to accept proof from anywhere in the world and be able to match it on the press. You need colour control to ensure you are among the best in the world."
He continued: "There were a number of factors that limited our existing system. We examined all the alternatives on the market and Kodak's was the absolute best. A platesetter was on the cards too and it seemed sensible to buy that from our new workflow provider."
Some may consider the introduction of a new prepress workflow a daunting prospect but not Mr. Padbury: "I know people approach upgrading their prepress in the same way they would regard transferring their banks accounts. They would be worried it would be a hassle and problems would arise. We have changed our prepress before and when we did we found it helped make improvements. We improved the way we and the business worked. Because there are changes in the technology it is a good way to sweep things clean and make positive changes to housekeeping."
As for the decision to pick Kodak's CTP he said: "I have been talking to Kodak on and off for years. The KODAK MAGNUS Q800 Platesetter is one of the most rounded and effective systems in the market place. It has a good reputation."
Mr. Padbury is pleased with the results so far: "The solutions are installed and going very well. While it is still in its early days I expect to see two gains – the first will be in sheer speed, efficiency, ease of use and less general hassle. The second will be a spill over of this. Because it is so simple and easy to use we are hoping to be able to integrate certain production areas and day-to-day functions with the previously separately run reprographic department melding with prepress. This means it will be possible for both departments to carry out the same jobs and will ease the stress with more people able to handle fewer jobs better."
The eagerly anticipated addition of KODAK PRINERGY Rules-Based Automation Software will also have a significant impact, he says: "We are looking forward to introducing RBA to help reduce costs and increase productivity."
The key benefits of KODAK PRINERGY Workflow is its ability to enhance productivity in any printing environment for large or short runs. It uses JDF to share job data, imposition, and page assignment information with content preparation, production planning, prepress, and business systems. It helps reduce costs and build a more efficient environment with improved control and automation based on industry-standard specifications.
Working with Kodak has also been a positive experience says Mr. Padbury: "The thing I found extremely pleasant was the friendly and helpful way all the staff have been over the installation."
Martin Mayo, Cluster Director UK & Nordic Vice President Kodak, EAMER, says, "As one of the UK's flagship brochure and magazine printing houses that serves numerous well respected High Street names, Westdale Press knows only too well how important it is to offer a high-quality, efficient service. Kodak has a number of solutions that can help business such as Westdale effectively achieve just that while also improving their day-to-day operation. Once they fully integrate our software, particularly RBA, we look forward to helping them make even further improvements."
Published by Will Farrel on Thursday, January 30, 2014
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On the heels of Paris Fashion Week Men's, the venerable Lanvin maison announced the appointment of Bruno Sialelli as its new Creative Director after an "extensive" application process which involved "an incredible array of talented fashion designers," according to the statement.
"I am delighted and honoured to join Lanvin, a house founded by a visionary woman who among the first French couturiers dared to offer a global universe with a very wide field of expression," said Sialelli in a statement.
Most recently the menswear design director at Loewe, Sialelli also honed his skills at Balenciaga womenswear, Acne Studios and Paco Rabanne. He sees his new post as "bringing emotions through compelling stories and defining a modern attitude are going to be exciting challenges in continuing this legacy," as Sialelli explained in the same statement.
"[Sialelli's] proven ability to seamlessly transition between menswear and womenswear will stand Lanvin in great stead as luxury fashion increasingly blurs the boundaries between the sexes," read the label's statement.
From that, it's an easy jump that Sialelli's experience in both menswear and womenswear, and his taking of Loewe towards a more gender-fluid direction, are what caught the company's eye.


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CDC Reports Flu Widespread, Google Search Trends Alarming
January 15, 2013 | by Walter Jessen
According to new surveillance statistics released on Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), forty-seven states in the U.S. are now reporting widespread influenza activity [1]. The virus, which first appeared in the Southeast, has reached epidemic levels.
Safety and Distribution of the H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
November 2, 2009 | by Walter Jessen
Know What to Do About the Flu is a webcast series launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to hlep distribute timely and accurate information about the flu. Their goal is to distribute the latest facts and medical guidances so we can all be more effective in combating the spread of the flu and be better prepared should our families, our communities or our workplaces become affected.
In this edition, moderator Lark McCarthy discusses the level of testing prior to the H1N1 influenza A vaccine distribution and the subsequent monitoring that's planned during and after the phases of distribution with Dr. Bruce Gellin, Director of the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) within the HHS, Dr. Jesse Goodman, acting chief scientist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Dr. Anne Schuchat, Director of the Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Details of Critically Ill Patients with H1N1 in Mexico and Canada
October 22, 2009 | by Walter Jessen
Two studies, which are available online as early release articles and will be published in the November edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), detail the characteristics, treatment and outcomes of critically ill patients with H1N1 in Mexico and Canada [1-2].
Although the death rate in each of the studies is quite different, it nonetheless is as high or higher than that of seasonal flu. Furthermore, although seasonal flu typically affects people of older age — the average annual rate of influenza-associated hospitalizations over the last 20 years for people age 65 and older is 70% [3] — these studies show that H1N1 is striking many who are much younger. In both studies, the majority of critically ill patients with influenza A H1N1 had rapidly progressive respiratory failure and required mechanical ventilation.
H1N1 Vaccine Study Summaries: Single Dose Provides Protection
September 15, 2009 | by Walter Jessen
Preliminary results from two studies published online last week by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) show that a single dose of the H1N1 vaccine will offer protection for most adults within three weeks of vaccination [1-2]. This is good news in the fight against H1N1, since the vaccine won't be ready until the start of flu season. On Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that some vaccine may be available as early as the first full week in October [3].
Put Your Hands Together and Fight the Flu
May 7, 2009 | by Walter Jessen
Although the immediate threat of H1N1 — the swine flu — appears to be benign, experts say that the emerging strain could return in a more virulent form in future flu seasons [1]. And with increasing reports of the swine flu close to home, hand washing is more important than ever. Indeed, hand washing is the best way to prevent infection and illness. Some scientists estimate that as much as 80% of all infections are transmitted by unwashed hands [2]. Hand washing is the single most important thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection and to stay healthy. As simple as it may be, there's a trick to effectively washing your hands with soap and water.
Kids learn early on in preschool that to truly prevent the spread of germs, you've got to wash your hands. Nevertheless, a dab of soap and a quick rinse isn't effective. The key is to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds to ensure that you've removed the microbes. By rubbing your hands with soapy water, you pull dirt and oil from your skin. The soap lather suspends any germs trapped inside and are then washed away when rinsing.


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Анто́нио Мари́я Алько́вер-и-Суре́да, также известный (на каталонском) как  (2 февраля 1862, Санта Кирга (), Манакор, — 8 января 1932, Пальма) — писатель-модернист из Майорки, который писал по широкому кругу вопросов, включая католическую церковь, фольклор и лингвистику. Он главным образом связан с усилиями по возрождению интереса к каталанскому языку и его диалектам. Среди его работ каталанско-валенсиано-балеарский словарь.

Жизнеописание

Альковер родился в Санта Кирга, небольшой территории между Манакором и Порто-Кристо; сын рабочих. В 15-летнем возрасте он переехал в Пальма-де-Майорка, где продолжал учебу в семинарии. Он стал быстро известен как упрямый полемист.

Хотя его первые литературные опыты были на испанском языке, он обратился к каталонскому языку после 1879 года. Начиная с этого года, он начал собрать басни и фольклор Майорки, который начал публиковать в 1880 году в различных журналах под псевдонимом Jordi d'es Racó. Эта коллекция состоит из около 430 народных басен, которые были переведены на несколько языков.

В 1886 году он был рукоположен и стал приходским священником в Манакоре. В 1888 году он стал профессором церковной истории в семинарии в Пальме. В 1898 году, новый епископ Майорки, Пер Джоан Кампинс и Барсело, назначил его генеральным викарием епархии Майорка. Антонио оставался в этой должности до 1916 года. В 1905 году он также получил должность каноника собора Майорка.

В 1906 году по его инициативе и под его председательством был проведен первый Международный конгресс каталонского языка. Он был назначен президентом филологического отделения Института изучения Каталонии, но довольно быстро лишился поста после разногласий с другими членами института.

Творчество

Его литературная работа была сосредоточена на лингвистических исследованиях, истории, народных обычаях и фольклоре, различных биографий, туристических рассказов.

Книги
 Antoni M. Alcover i Francesc de B. Moll, La flexió verbal en els dialectes catalans, 4 vols., Barcelona, Biblioteca Balmes, 1929—1933.
 Antoni M. Alcover, Aplec de rondaies mallorquines d'en Jordi d'es Racó, 24 vols., Palma, Moll, 1968—1975.
 Antoni M. Alcover, Per la llengua, ed. a cura de Josep Massot i Muntaner, Mallorca-Barcelona, Secció de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat de Palma-Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1983.
 Antoni M. Alcover, Dietari de l'excursió filològica (1906), edició a cura de Francesc de B. Moll, Barcelona, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 1983.
 Diccionari català-valencià-balear: inventari lexicogràfic i etimològic de la llengua catalana en totes les seves formes literàries i dialectals, obra iniciada per Antoni Maria Alcover, redactat per Francesc de B. Moll, amb la col·laboració de Manuel Sanchis Guarner i d'Anna Moll Marquès, 10 vols., Palma, Moll, 1993.

Исследования
 Juli de Carsalade du Pont, Epistolari del bisbe Carsalade a Mossen Alcover, ed. a cura de Francesc de B. Moll, Mallorca, Impr. Miramar, 1964.
 Lluís Gimeno, Mossèn Alcover i les comarques centrals del territori lingüístic: correspondència epistolar amb mossèn Joaquim Garcia Girona, Barcelona, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2004.
 Jaume Guiscafrè, «Una bibliografia de les edicions i les traduccions de les rondalles de mossèn Alcover», Randa 38 (1996), 151—221.
 Gabriel Janer Manila, Com una rondalla: els treballs i la vida de mossèn Alcover, Palma, Moll, 1996.
 Joan Julià i Muné, Mossèn Antoni M. Alcover i l'obra del Diccionari a la llum dels epistolaris de Barnils, Griera i Montoliu, Tarragona, Diputació Provincial de Tarragona, 1986.
 Antoni Llull Martí, Bruixat per la llengua: paraules de mossèn Antoni M. Alcover per l'enaltiment de la llengua i l'Obra del Diccionari, Mallorca, 'Sa Nostra' Caixa de Balears, 2001.
 Joan March Noguera, Mossèn Alcover i el món de la ciència: la creació del llenguatge científic català modern, Palma, Muntaner, 2001.
 Josep Massot i Muntaner, Antoni M. Alcover i la llengua catalana, Barcelona, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1985.
 Francesc de B. Moll, Un home de combat: mossèn Alcover, Mallorca, Moll, 1981.
 Francesc de B. Moll, Aspectes marginals d'un home de combat, Barcelona, Curial, 1983.
 Maria Pilar Perea, «La metodologia de l'enquesta dialectal d'A. M. Alcover i de F. de B. Moll aplicada a La flexió verbal en els dialectes catalans», Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 14 (2001), 98-127.
 Maria Pilar Perea, Antoni M. Alcover, dialectòleg, gramàtic, polemista, Barcelona, Fundació Germà Colon Domènech-Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2005.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Сайт института, посвящённого творчеству Альковера

Родившиеся в 1862 году
Умершие в 1932 году
Родившиеся в Манакоре
Каталанские писатели
Лингвисты Каталонии

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La Brigham Young University Women's Volleyball è la squadra di pallavolo femminile appartenente alla Brigham Young University, con sede a Provo (Utah): milita nella West Coast Conference della NCAA Division I.

Storia

Record

Conference
 Western Athletic Conference: 1990-1998
 Mountain West Conference: 1999-2010
 West Coast Conference: 2011-2022
 Big 12 Conference: dal 2023

National Player of the Year
 Mariliisa Salmi (1986)

National Freshman of the Year
 Heather Gneiting (2018)

National Coach of the Year
 Shawn Olmstead (2014)
 Heather Olmstead (2018)

All-America

First Team

 Lisa Motes-Connolly (1981)
 Sari Virtanen (1986)
 Mariliisa Salmi (1986, 1987)
 Jill Sanders Plumb (1987)
 Dylann Duncan (1988)
 Michele Fellows (1993)
 Charlene Johnson (1993)
 Amy Steel Gant (1997)
 Nina Puikkonen (2000)
 Jennifer Hamson (2012, 2014)
 Alexa Gray (2015)
 Amy Boswell (2016)
 Lyndie Haddock (2018)
 Veronica Jones (2018)

Second Team

 Karen Doane (1984)
 Sari Virtanen (1985)
 Dylann Duncan (1987)
 Tea Nieminen (1990, 1992)
 Michele Fellows (1992)
 Charlene Johnson (1994)
 Amy Steel Gant (1995)
 Gale Oborn Johnson (1996)
 Korie Rogers (1997, 1998)
 Anna-Lena Smith (1998, 1999)
 Nina Puikkonen (1999)
 Alexa Gray (2014)
 Mary Lake (2018)

Third Team

 Chelsea Goodman (2007)
 Alexa Gray (2013)
 Amy Boswell (2015)
 McKenna Miller (2016)
 Veronica Jones (2017)
 Heather Gneiting (2018)
 Kennedy Redding (2020)
 Kenzie Koerber (2021)

Allenatori

Pallavoliste

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Photo by Sky's Victory Photography.
"Jr" is our up and coming Section A Stallion. As a yearling, he was Champion Section A Youngstock in 2013. Althought not shown in 2014 and 2015, he sired Reidell Ovation, the 2015 Ontario High Point Champion Section A Foal and a Champion of Champions qualifier for the 2015 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
JR is a fine example of section A type and can trace his pedigree back to several champions. We expect great things from this flashy boy, who will continue his show career in 2016!


Abstract: One of the major energy consuming tasks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the task of data transmission. The lifetime of such a network can be significantly enhanced by, minimising the in-network transmissions and dividing the transmission load symmetrically over the network. To overcome the issues of non-uniform energy dissipation and network's lifespan, a novel hierarchical compressive sampling (HCS) scheme is proposed. On the basis of the well-known hybrid compressed sensing (CS) scheme, the proposed HCS aims at minimising the overall in-network communication during the data gathering process by obtaining correlated sensor readings through a hierarchical clustering scheme. The proposed HCS is able to identify the optimal position for the application of CS in the routing structure, to achieve symmetric load distribution in a randomly deployed network. The equal distribution of transmission load is validated through a heat map generated for showing the receiving and transmission activity at each node. An energy consumption model, based on the energy required by the radio, the processor and in the CS process, is proposed and the lifetime of the network is simulated for different sink positions. Simulations prove the efficacy of the proposed HCS over various CS-based data processing schemes.
Keywords: hybrid CS; energy conservation; in-network transmissions; large-scale sensor network; symmetric load distribution.


Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, this exhibition brings together unique treasures associated with voyages of scientific discovery to the South Seas. See navigational instruments from the Endeavour and Resolution, and letters from James Cook and Matthew Flinders. Discover the key role the Royal Society has played in Australia's history.
by Nathaniel Dance, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Orrery (mechanical planetarium) demonstrating the transit of Venus,about 1760, made by Benjamin Cole, London. The Royal Society.


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Is zinc sulfide fluorescent or phosphorescent?
The purchasing pace at the demand end of the international thermal coal market continues to slow down and the international thermal coal price continues to decline. Prices for thermal coal at major international ports continued to fall last week as buyers in Europe slowed in recent days for April, coupled with weaker-than-expected import demand from End users in China. According to China Coal Market net monitoring: Australia Newcastle port thermal coal price index was 253 USD/ton, compared with 309.02 USD/ton, down 56.02 USD/ton, down 18.13%. South Africa's Port Richards thermal coal price Index was $264.5 / mt, down the US $62.72 / mt or 19.17% from US $327.22 / mt. The European ARA Tri-port thermal coal price Index was $281.8 / ton. Does the price of thermal coal in major international ports continue to decline to affect the price of the Zinc Sulfide ZnS?
Overview of Zinc Sulfide ZnS power
Zinc sulfide ZnS is a white to off-white or light yellow powder, which becomes darker when exposed to light, stable in dry air, and gradually oxidized to zinc sulfate when stored for a long time in humid air or containing water. Soluble in dilute inorganic acid, soluble in alkali, insoluble in water. Relative density 3.98 (alpha type), (d25) 4.102 (beta type). irritating.
Zinc sulfide ZnS is one of the most common phosphorescent materials. Phosphorescence is a special type of photoluminescence. Unlike fluorescent substances, phosphorescent materials emit absorbed energy immediately.
Zinc sulfide ZnS is white or slightly yellow powder. Turns into crystals when burned in H2S gas. Its α variant is a colorless hexagonal crystal with a density of 3.98g/cm3 and a melting point of 1700°C. Its beta variant is a colorless cubic crystal with a density of 4.102 g/cm3, which transforms to the alpha form at 1020°C. Zinc sulfide ZnS is present in sphalerite. Insoluble in water, soluble in acid. See the daylight dim.
Zinc sulfide ZnS is converted to zinc sulfate in humid air for a long time. It is generally derived from the action of hydrogen sulfide and zinc salt solution. If a small amount of Cu, Mn, and Ag are added to the crystalline ZnS as activators, different colors of fluorescence can be emitted after being illuminated. Zinc sulfide ZnS can be used as analytical reagents and coatings. Can be used to make paints, opaque glass, rubber, plastics and phosphors.
Application of zinc sulfide ZnS power
Zinc sulfide ZnS is often made from scrap and used for other purposes. Typical sources include smelters, slags, and pickling liquors. It is also a by-product of ammonia's methane synthesis, where zinc oxide is used to remove hydrogen sulfide impurities from natural gas.
High-purity crystalline zinc sulfide powder is an important basic material, which is widely used in civil, military, aerospace and other high-tech fields. It is also an extremely important window material for medium and long-wave far-infrared precision guidance and far-infrared imaging, especially in frontier technology fields such as national defense and military. The applications of zinc sulfide are as follows: Luminescent material.
Zinc sulfide ZnS, with a small amount of a suitable activator, is highly phosphorescent and is currently used in a variety of applications from cathode ray tubes to X-ray screens to glow in dark products. When silver is used as the activator, the resulting color is bright blue with a maximum wavelength of 450 nm. The use of manganese produces a red-orange color around 590 nm. Copper glows for a long time and has the deep green glow we are familiar with. Copper-doped zinc sulfide ("ZnS+Cu") is also used in electroluminescent panels. It also exhibits phosphorescence due to impurities in blue or ultraviolet light.
Optical material
Zinc sulfide ZnS is also used as an infrared optical material, which transmits from visible wavelengths to just over 12 microns. It can be used as the plane of an optical window or the shape of a lens. It is made of hydrogen sulfide gas and zinc vapor microchips and is sold as FLIR grade (forward looking infrared), in which zinc sulfide is creamy yellow and opaque. When hot isostatic pressing (HIPed), the material can be transformed into a transparent water form known as Cleartran (trademark), an early commercial form sold as Irtran-2, but this name is now obsolete.
Zinc sulfide ZnS power price
The price of zinc sulfide ZnS products will vary randomly due to factors such as production costs, transportation costs, international conditions, exchange rates, and market supply and demand of zinc sulfide ZnS products. Tanki New Materials Co., Ltd. aims to help industries and chemical wholesalers find high-quality, low-cost nanomaterials and chemicals by providing a full range of customized services. If you are looking for Zinc Sulfide ZnS products, please feel free to send an inquiry to get the latest Zinc Sulfide ZnS product prices.
Suppliers of Zinc Sulfide ZnS power
As a global supplier of zinc sulfide ZnS products, Tanki New Materials Ltd. has extensive experience in the performance, application and cost-effective manufacturing of advanced engineered materials. The company has successfully developed a series of powder materials (molybdenum disulfide, tungsten sulfide, bismuth sulfide, etc.) high-purity targets, functional ceramics and structural devices, and provides OEM services.
Technical Parameter of Zinc Sulfide ZnS Powder :
Particle size ZnS Water Fe,mg/kg Cu,mg/kg Pb, mg/kg Ni, mg/kg Cd,mg/kg Mn, mg/kg PH
3-5μm 99.99% ≤0.8% <10 <0.3 <2.0 <5.0 <0.3 <0.2 6.0-7.0
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Heres a link to the live site http://www.laithazzam.com/work/nukes/indexnew.php
Clicking the red yes will skip the video, and go straight to the instagram feed.
I'm currently using Christian Metz's solution found here, https://gist.github.com/cosenary/2961185
I am also having an issue with posting the date, in the first initial load, as well in the ajax loads. I was previously able to use this following code, before trying to implement Christian's php/ajax solution.
var date = new Date(parseInt(data.data[i].created_time) * 1000);

"+(date.getMonth()+1)+"/"+date.getDate()+"/"+date.getFullYear()+"

I guess what I don't understand, is how the ajax loading function, is actually functioning. How would I also pull the name, and date through the ajax loading success function as well?
$.ajax({
      type: 'GET',
      url: 'ajax.php',
      data: {
        tag: tag,
        max_id: maxid
      },
      dataType: 'json',
      cache: false,
      success: function(data) {
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        $("#instafeed").append('');
        });

        // Store new maxid
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      }
    });
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A: The data parameter of the success handler function is populated from whatever JSON ajax.php returns and the structure will match accordingly. It looks like the images attribute of that object only has an array of URLs for the images and no other data.
You'll need to update this section of the PHP script to return more than just the array of URLs for the images and also include the additional data retrieved from the Instagram API.
Try updating the last part to this:
echo json_encode(array(
    'next_id' => $media->pagination->next_max_id,
    'images'  => $media->data
));

Then you'll have full access to all the media data, not just the URL.

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How can a lottery ensure a good harvest?
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Doesn't this remind you of The Hunger Games?
Anyway, once a family draws the slip of paper with the black mark, the members of the family must draw to see which one of them gets a slip of paper with a black mark.
Once a family member draws a slip of paper with the black mark, they become the scapegoat or the sacrificial lamb that will cleanse the town of its bad doings. The townspeople gather around the unlucky person and stone them to death.
If you travel to one of the districts from The Hunger Games, the dates on the tombstones might be close, but probably not exactly the same day.
How would you like to browse a cemetery and realize that someone died on the same day every year for many decades? What would you think about that?
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Enterprise Singapore
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1 April 2018; 21 months ago (2018-04-01)
Preceding agencies
International Enterprise Singapore
SPRING Singapore
Government of Singapore
230 Victoria Street, Level 10, Bugis Junction Office Tower, Singapore 188024
1 Fusionopolis Walk, #01-02 South Tower, Solaris Singapore 138628
Peter Ong Boon Kwee, Chairman
Png Cheong Boon, Chief Executive Officer
Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)
www.enterprisesg.gov.sg
Enterprise Singapore (Abbreviation: ESG; Chinese: 新加坡企业发展局) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in Singapore. It was formed on 1 April 2018 to support Singapore small and medium enterprise (SMEs) development, upgrade capabilities, innovate, transform, and internationalise.[1][2] It also supports the growth of Singapore as a trading and startup hub, and continues to be the national standards and accreditation body.
2 Responsibilities
2.1 Developing trading cluster
2.2 Quality and Standards
2.3 Support for businesses
3 Internationalisation efforts
3.1 Overseas markets
3.2 Plug and Play Network
3.3 Bilateral Business Forums
Enterprise Singapore was formed through the merger of International Enterprise Singapore (IE) and SPRING Singapore. It is an integration of IE Singapore and SPRING Singapore's functions.[3] SPRING Singapore was responsible for helping startups and SMEs in financing, capability and management development, technology and innovation.[1] It was the national body for standards and accreditation, responsible for helping companies achieve international standards and conformity requirements.[4]
International Enterprise Singapore promoted international trade and helped Singapore companies expand internationally.[5]
On February 5, the Singapore Parliament passed a bill to officiate the new statutory board. During the second reading that occurred on the same day, Minister for Trade and Industry S Iswaran said "the goals of capacity building, innovation and international expansion are deeply intertwined and reinforced one another. A company must innovate and deepen its capabilities to successfully expand into overseas markets. Equally, venturing overseas will itself create the scale, impetus and opportunity for businesses to gain new capabilities and expertise… so it is necessary and timely to merge the functions and operations of IE and SPRING to form Enterprise Singapore".[2]
Responsibilities[edit]
Developing trading cluster[edit]
The agency attracts global commodity traders to establish their global or Asian home base in Singapore. Singapore is currently the trading hub of the three clusters of metals and minerals, agri-commodities, and energy and chemicals.[6]
Quality and Standards[edit]
Enterprise Singapore governs the national standards of Singapore. Through the industry led Singapore Standards Council, it administers the Singapore Standardisation Programme, which develops and promotes standards to meet industry needs and government policy objectives.[7] The Council consists of representatives of various stakeholders including industry representatives, professional bodies, trade and consumer associations, academia, and government agencies. It develops a consensus based Standards in Singapore and promotes them to be accepted and adopted by stakeholders.[8]
The agency is also the national accreditation body. Enterprise Singapore manages the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC)[9] that looks at developing and managing accreditation schemes to support Singapore's strategic initiatives such as market access, security, and safety and health.[10] It also manages the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Compliance Programme that ensures facilities' processes and laboratory studies meet international standards. Studies conducted in Singapore under GLP complaint conditions have been accepted in more than 30 OECD and non-OECD countries.[11]
Support for businesses[edit]
Enterprise Singapore supports enterprises of all sizes and stages of development, including startups, SMEs, and large corporations.
For startups, it partners with incubators, angel investors, and government agencies to develop the startup ecosystem in Singapore through the slew of programmes managed by Startup SG.[12]
For SMEs, it provides assistance in improving business capabilities through various grants and programmes, as well as access to technology and research institutes. It also supports SMEs that expand overseas through tax deductions, grant funds, the Plug and Play Network, and over 22 Free Trade Agreements.[12]
Large corporations receive assistance from Enterprise Singapore in expanding their global market reach and source for new opportunities. There are also initiatives such as the PACT programme where they lead smaller companies in joint projects.[12]
Internationalisation efforts[edit]
Enterprise Singapore has built a global network for SMEs.
Overseas markets[edit]
Enterprise Singapore maintains overseas centres in various markets to support the internationalisation of Singaporean businesses. There are a total of 36 overseas centres in 21 countries. China alone hosts 9 centres. The centres are clustered in the geographical regions of Southeast Asia & Oceania, North & South China, East & West China, North and South Asia, Middle East and Africa, North America & Europe, and Emerging Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean.[13]
Plug and Play Network[edit]
The agency has 9 Plug and Play partners in 6 countries.[14] It provides specific market research into the target markets, provides a global database to help search for business partners overseas, provide in-market support such as matching suppliers and distributors, and source for workspaces.[15]
Bilateral Business Forums[edit]
Business Forums are organised for delegates and officials of both Singapore and partner countries to discuss business partnership opportunities, domestic opportunities, business trends and future directions. Thus far Enterprise Singapore has organised Business Forums with India,[16] Latin America,[17] Bangladesh,[18] Germany,[19] among others.
Ministry of Trade and Industry
Economy of Singapore
^ a b Yahya, Yasmine (2017-09-05). "IE Singapore, Spring Singapore to merge to better help local firms go global". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
^ a b Heng, Janice. "IE and Spring merger timely, given global changes: Iswaran". The Business Times. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
^ Chuang, Pek Ming (2018-04-03). "Enterprise Singapore: One-stop help hub". The Business Times. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
^ "ESG". Retrieved 2018-06-28.
^ "International Enterprise Singapore". Archived from the original on 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
^ "Commodities trading". Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Singapore Standardisation Programme". Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Standards Development". Enterprise Singapore. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Accreditation". Enterprise Singapore. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Other accreditation schemes". Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "GLP Compliance Monitoring". Singapore Accreditation Council. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ a b c "Enterprise Singapore formed to grow stronger companies". Enterprise Singapore. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Overseas Centres | Enterprise Singapore". www.enterprisesg.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Enterprise Singapore formed to grow stronger companies". www.enterprisesg.gov.sg. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Plug and Play Network". Enterprise Singapore. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "India-Singapore Business Forum promotes opportunities for holistic growth and partnership - Singapore Business Federation | Apex Business Chamber". www.sbf.org.sg. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ Luo, Stephanie (2017-09-30). "S'pore, Latin-American and Caribbean businesses in tie-ups". Enterprise Singapore. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
^ "Speech by Minister Lim at the Bangladesh-Singapore Business Forum". www.mti.gov.sg. Retrieved 2018-08-02. [permanent dead link]
^ Shiao, Vivien. "Singapore firms to partner German firms in manufacturing push". The Business Times. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
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Building and Construction Authority
Casino Regulatory Authority
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
Civil Service College
Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore
Council for Estate Agencies
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Energy Market Authority
Government Technology Agency
Health Promotion Board
Health Sciences Authority
Housing and Development Board
Home Team Science and Technology Agency
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Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore
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Workforce Singapore
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Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore
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Singapore Telecommunications
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Telecommunication Authority of Singapore
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Battery exhaustion a looming issue with TPMS sensor units
Kathy McCarron
While tire technicians have been dealing with broken sensors and corroded valve stems since tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) became a federally mandated feature on all U.S. passenger vehicles since the 2008 model year, another issue is looming—sensor battery exhaustion.
The batteries in the closed-system sensors are expected to last five to seven years or 50,000 to 70,000 miles, but several tire dealers Tire Business spoke to said they haven't seen a high rate of battery failure—yet.
There are more than 75 million TPMS-equipped vehicles in North America with an estimated 300 million installed sensors, according to Schrader International Inc., a TPMS sensor maker. The company referred to an independent study that forecast that the amount of sensor replacements due to battery expiration is expected to increase over the next few years.
"We're not seeing a tremendous amount of failing of batteries at this point," said Dominic Umek, general manager of Cleveland-based Conrad's Tire, echoing several tire dealers' comments on the subject.
"I think the original estimate time of battery life was a little aggressive and now they're finding that real world usage is probably not quite so optimistic," said Kevin Rohlwing, senior vice president of education and technical services for the Tire Industry Association (TIA). "Originally they were talking 10 years/150,000 miles, and it's turning out to be less than that. And it depends on a lot of factors, but it definitely isn't turning out to be what they thought it was.
"We haven't heard a lot of complaints from dealers about it," Mr. Rohlwing added. "I'm sure consumers are going to be the ones to complain about it the most. For the dealers themselves, it's an opportunity for them to sell them new sensors. So it's probably not as big of an issue for them but certainly there are a lot of consumers out there that were expecting those batteries to last longer."
Mr. Rohlwing said sensor batteries appear to be lasting until the second, or even the third set of tires mounted on a vehicle.
"A general guide on battery life is 10 years or 100,000 miles as an OEM-designated specification. However, individual battery life varies from vehicle-to-vehicle based on individual driving behavior and driving patterns," according to Paul Wise, director of product management and marketing for Schrader. "When the vehicle is in motion, the sensor will transmit more frequently (typically once per minute) than when not in use. So if a vehicle is driven heavily, the sensor battery life will, of course, be consumed faster than a vehicle driven only occasionally."
TPMS sensors may be covered under the OE manufacturers' vehicle warranty and possibly an extended warranty.
"We encourage a pre-service check, period," TIA's Mr. Rohlwing said. Technicians should assess if the TPMS is operational when the vehicle enters the shop and before it leaves.
If a system is inoperable before it gets to the dealership, "that needs to be documented and communicated to the customer so that the customer has the option of paying for the repairs or not paying for the repairs—but the dealer is not responsible," he said.
Some TPMS batteries indicate only whether they are working or not while others provide an indication of the battery power level. Some sensors can transmit battery life readings to certain handheld scan tools.
"You can assess the status of the sensor power by looking at how many miles are on the vehicle and how long they've had the vehicle," Mr. Rohlwing said. "Certainly, if you've got a vehicle that's over five years old and over 100,000 miles on the original sensors, then you're probably looking at a system that will start failing in the near future."
According to Schrader, sensors should be replaced when inoperable but not on a specific interval if still working. However, if the mileage of the vehicle is close to the 100,000-mile mark, "it is worth suggesting to the vehicle owner that all four sensors can be replaced at once so as to save them time. The benefit is that the owner does not have to return to the shop several times to replace sensors as they electronically fail due to end of battery life," Mr. Wise said.
"The key for service and repair facilities is to 'test before you touch,' which means identifying the health status of each sensor (using a handheld tool) prior to doing any work on the vehicle," Mr. Wise said. "This will allow the technician to relay to the consumer what TPMS-related action needs to be done and why. This will help the consumer understand what's being done, why it's important, and soften the reaction to the cost of this repair."
"We recommend, due to the battery life being between five years or 50,000 miles, whenever a retail tire store examines a vehicle that has original sensors in it and it exceeded those two numbers, that they replace the sensors," said Russ Fuller, president of Revolution Supply Inc., maker of Oro-tek aftermarket TPMS sensors. "It will alleviate them from having to pay for a new mount and balance if their sensors go defective within the life of the new tires they're putting on the vehicle."
Schrader promotes the use of its service packs when servicing the TPMS during tire changes and rotations. The company said each time a clamp-in sensor is removed from the rim hole, the grommet, nut, nickel-plated core and cap should be replaced. Snap-in sensors also should have their valves replaced each time the sensor is removed from the rim hole.
"The snap-in sensor valve should be replaced just as a standard valve stem is today," Mr. Wise said.
The reasons service pack replacement is "critically important," according to Schrader, include:
* Rubber grommets replace old seals that may have taken permanent compression set;
* The valve stem nut replaces the old nut which may have damaged threads caused by over-torqueing or other mistreatment;
* Nickel-plated valve cores are used to prevent galvanic corrosion between non-similar metals (brass and aluminum), causing a brass core to seize into an aluminum stem;
* The valve cap with seal prevents dirt and moisture from entering the sensor and also acts as a secondary pressure seal. Old valve caps may have a seal that is compressed set or missing; and
* The washer replaces the old washer, which may have been deformed during initial installation.


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    "Product": "Juggling Chainsaws"
    "Price": 94,
    "Stores": ["Sport Shack", "Joe's Sport Supplies", "Sports and More","The Outdoor Shop"]
},
{
    "Product": "Chainsaw"
    "Price": 5,
    "Stores": ["Labor Store", "The Outdoor Shop", "Fish n Woodchips"],
}]

There are thousands of different products that have the same values for the "Stores" field.
Is there a way to remove the need for repetitively storing these same values without affecting search performance for queries like: 'Find a chainsaw from Labor Store'
This is kind of what I am thinking:
[{
    "Product": "Boomerang"
    "Price": 42,
    "StoreGroup": "NoveltySportsStores",
},
{
    "Product": "Juggling Chainsaws"
    "Price": 94,
    "StoreGroup": "NoveltySportsStores",
},
{
    "Product": "Chainsaw"
    "Price": 5,
    "StoreGroup": "OutdoorsStores"
},
{
    "NoveltySportsStores": ["Sport Shack", "Joe's Sport Supplies", "Sports and More", "The Outdoor Shop"]
},
{
    "OutdoorsStores": ["Labor Store", "The Outdoor Shop", "Fish n Woodchips"]
}]

Edit:
The example is completely made up. For my real use case, the groups will stay constant and be repeated about 5000 times each, with a total of about 50000 groups.

A: you are thinking of Solr/Lucene as a RDBMS, which it is not. Even if it looks to you too much repetition and a loss of resources, it's not. The first way is the natural and best way to index your data.
You could make it work as your second way too, but first is just better, and much simpler.


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Will pharma discovery be quantum computing's first killer app?
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A 1923 statistic machine by Fredrik Rosing Bull (L), the BulllSequana X1000 supercomputer (C) and the Atos Quantum Learning Machine (R), at the Atos headquarters in Bezons, near Paris. (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP)
How quantum computing could help find a COVID-19 cure
Pharmaceutical research has always been a growth area, driven by pressing demand for cures and treatments that makes it an extremely lucrative business. With such high stakes, drug companies are always looking for ways to improve efficiencies while reducing costs (who isn't?), and it appears the emerging field of quantum computing might be helpful in that regard.
In January, the world's largest private drug producer, Boehringer Ingelheim, revealed that it would work with Google to harness the power of quantum computing in its pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Shortly thereafter, the world's largest pharma firm Roche announced it was collaborating with Cambridge Quantum Computing to design quantum algorithms for early-stage drug discovery and development.
According to a report by McKinsey, quantum computers have four fundamental capabilities that differentiate them from today's classical computers: quantum simulation, in which quantum computers model complex molecules; optimization (that is, solving multivariable problems with unprecedented speed); quantum artificial intelligence (AI), utilizes better algorithms that could transform machine learning across industries as diverse as pharma and automotive; and prime factorization, which could revolutionize encryption.
Using quantum simulation and algorithms to improve the complex and time-consuming simulation models required to test a litany of molecules and chemical reactions, is what makes quantum computing's application interesting in the drug manufacturing sector. "Google's view is that chemistry is the near-term application for quantum computing, and I buy that as well," says Chad Edwards, the head of strategy and product at Cambridge Quantum Computing in England.
Cambridge Quantum Computing does not build or operate quantum computers itself, but instead develops software to match such advanced hardware. "We sit at the interface of big corporations like Roche, that want to use quantum computing but don't know how to fit it into their organizations, and the IBMs, Honeywells, Microsofts, and Googles of the world, that are not sure how quantum computing might be deployed inside different organizations," Edwards explains. "We've engaged with five of the top 10 pharma companies."
The main algorithm used in quantum chemistry research is the variational quantum eigensolver, which is "the workhorse everyone in the industry uses now for quantum chemistry," according to Edwards. But the new algorithm that Cambridge Quantum Computing uses is a more resource-efficient one known as imaginary time evolution, which Edwards says reduces the likelihood of the algorithm pursuing promising solutions that turn out to not be the desired result.
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Tate Etc.
Tate Etc. issue 37: Summer 2016
The Hidden Hand
Tate Etc 25 June 2019
The Hidden Hand Marco Pasi
Art is usually made by the 'hand of the artist', but for centuries artists, from William Blake and Georgiana Houghton to Matt Mullican, have been 'guided' by forces beyond their control
Ethel Le Rossignol, detail of Wisdom, Harmony, Unity, Omnipresent God 1920-33, No 30 of the Goodly Company series of psychic drawings, watercolour and gouache on paper, 72 x 53 cm
Collection of the College of Psychic Studies, London
When I began writing this article I did the usual thing: I opened a new Word file and wrote what I thought might be a good title (it's still the same one you're seeing here). Then I left my computer to get a cup of coffee, while pondering a convenient opening line. When I returned to my desk, I noticed something had changed on the screen. Under the title, where earlier there was just an empty page, there was now a sign. It was a zero. Clearly, when I moved away from the desk I must have pushed some papers or a book against the keyboard. But what do I know? Am I sure that it was not my hand that inadvertently touched the 0 key? And if that were the case, should I interpret the 0 as a possible unconscious attempt at writing my text? And would it really matter, from a psychological point of view, to determine what it was that touched the key? No such questions would have come to my mind if it were not that they seemed close enough to the subject of my article, which is the seemingly strange situation of creating a work without having the perception of being its author. In this case, being dispossessed of agency and authorship becomes not an obstacle, but a condition for creation.
The intuitive idea most people have of artistic creation is that artists are able to turn their fantasies and ideas into concrete, perceptible objects by following a more or less elaborate technical process. Whether the artistic establishment will recognise the value of these objects is of course another matter. This is a very rational way of looking at the whole process, a perspective that has been largely predominant in the history of modern art. After all, acknowledging that a particular person is the ultimate 'author' of a work implies such a linear view of artistic creation. But the history of Western culture (not to mention those of other cultures) is full of moments in which this simple paradigm has been challenged, whether metaphorically or literally.
after William Blake
The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (counterproof) after c.1819–20
What are we to make, for instance, of the famous series of Visionary Heads that William Blake produced in his late years for the astrologer and artist friend John Varley? The story goes that he drew them as if he were actually seeing them in real life, while Varley was observing him (and seeing nothing). Many of these heads belong to historical figures, such as Julius Caesar, Roger Bacon and John Milton. But one of them seems to be of a different kind, personally closer to Blake. It purports to be the portrait of The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams after c1819–20.
For those who are familiar with the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg and know how important they were for Blake's own visionary work, there is nothing strange here. Swedenborg's writings are full of references to spiritual beings who, he claims, taught him about the mysteries of heaven, and it is only logical that Blake would want to receive a similar kind of teaching in relation to his art. Some critics have argued that the artist was not too serious when he was drawing these portraits, and that he just wanted to amuse himself a bit at the expense of Varley's naivety. Perhaps there may have been a humorous aspect in the situation, but when one is familiar with the rest of Blake's work one can hardly doubt that he honestly believed in the spiritual power of his imagination. More than that, with this portrait he was prefiguring a model in which not just the content but also the technical side of artistic creation would be outsourced to a different world from the physical one, and to personalities other than one's own conscious self.
Heinrich Nüsslein, Untitled (Grey Angel) 1930–40s, oil on wood, 50 x 37.6 cm
© Courtesy Sammlung Zander/Collection Zander, photo Alistair Overbruck
Blake's aesthetic model was far from popular in his own time, at least before Romanticism would open new doors to its appreciation. But in earlier times, at least until the age of the Enlightenment, it had been normal to think that human beings are subjected to all sorts of influences from non-human entities, but also from astral bodies and occult properties of natural objects. This was clearly relevant for artistic creation, as it was common for a poet or an artist to invoke inspiration from the Muses or other divine beings. After all, the very etymology of the word 'inspiration' is based on the idea of a person becoming the receptacle of such a subtle, aerial, but nevertheless overpowering presence. Starting from Plato's Phaedrus, artistic genius has been associated with madness and visionary states, which were supposed to be concomitant with real inspiration from divine entities. With the modern concept of a solidified, monadic self, such a vision of creativity became increasingly problematic and the old tropes of inspiration could survive only as literary metaphors.
Spirit drawing by Victor Hugo, 26 July 1854
There is, however, no linear evolution in this story, and what seems to be the modern paradigm of human personality, and therefore also of artistic creation, is constantly questioned and challenged after the Enlightenment. During the 19th century, the doctrines of mesmerism first, and of spiritualism later, offered to these alternative views a theoretical and ideological backbone. Not only improvised artists, but sometimes also well-established ones were attracted by the new theories. Exemplary in this respect is the case of a talented artist such as the French sculptor Théophile Bra. He follows a trajectory that seems to be modelled on that of Swedenborg and prefigures that of Hilma af Klint: after a successful career and a large number of public commissions, Bra goes through a mystical crisis in 1825 and retires to spend the rest of his life in relative isolation, filling thousands of pages with extraordinary drawings and revelations about the spiritual world. If we look at some of his drawings, it is hard not to recognise geometrical patterns that will be seen again later in spiritualist art.
Victorien Sardou, untitled mediumistic ink drawing, c1860, ink on paper, 21 x 14.5 cm
In 1848, while Europe was aflame with revolution, upstate New York was seeing the birth of another kind of revolutionary movement. All of a sudden, spirits began to talk. They had been silent for too long, because now they clearly had many things to say. Not just to new prophets or future religious leaders, but to anybody who cared to listen. Political regimes had been shaken and democratised through popular revolutions, and something similar happened to the old regimes of consciousness through spiritualism. It was not just about the thrill of hearing new revelations about the other world. Whether the spirits were real or not, they made it possible for people who did not have a voice suddenly to have one. A method had been found to plumb the depths of human consciousness, and it was suddenly within anybody's reach. This method led to a widespread outburst of creativity, as the mediums were channelling the literature, music and art that purportedly the spirits did not have the time to create while they were still alive. These works remain today largely a lost continent, in part because of the decline of popularity of spiritualism towards the end of the century, but also because much that was produced in that context was merely either boring or kitsch.
But not all of it was. French literary celebrities such Victor Hugo and Victorien Sardou experimented with spiritualism, and they let the spirits guide their hands in producing mysterious landscapes and fairy palaces. And then we have the almost forgotten gems. When we look at the watercolours that British medium Georgiana Houghton produced between the early 1860s and the late 1870s, for instance, we immediately realise that there is a whole artistic dimension of spiritualism that still deserves our attention. There is something unreal about these drawings, as it is hard to connect them to the period when they were produced. They show a consistent non-figurative pattern, as if they were objects from a reverse time capsule that had been projected back 40 years from the period of the avant-gardes. Like many other mediums, Georgiana practised a form of automatic drawing, working in a state of mild trance and with her hand controlled by her spirit guides. She claimed that even famous artists from the past, such as Titian and Correggio, came from time to time to visit her and help her to produce new works.
Georgiana Houghton, Flower of Catherine Emily Stringer 1866, watercolour on paper, 33 x 24 cm
Houghton's work could be easily compared with that of Hilma af Klint, who began her artistic career in the 1890s. There are interesting differences of course: af Klint had received a more formal artistic training, and she produced many more paintings than Houghton, mostly in larger formats. But for the rest, analogies abound, starting with the most obvious one: they went abstract before abstraction even existed. In recent large exhibitions of af Klint's paintings it has been easy to present her as a precursor of one of the most important developments in the history of modern art. It would be just as easy to do the same with Houghton. But one wonders whether it is really so important to determine who won the race. What is perhaps more interesting is to determine under which conditions was it possible for Houghton and af Klint to develop a visual language that was obviously so very much at odds with the existing canons of artistic expression. Since agency in the production of the work of art was not claimed by themselves, but was handed over to the spirits, they could afford more radical freedom.
Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 4 1915, oil on canvas, 152 x 115.5 cm
Courtesy Foundation of Hilma af Klint
The creative techniques of automatism, based on spirit communication, were formalised by 19th-century spiritualism. Their use did not ensure artistic quality, but they could at least facilitate radical experimentation and innovation. This potential was seen and interpreted positively by early psychologists of the unconscious, such as Frederic WH Myers and Théodore Flournoy. It was the subliminal self that was speaking through the artist, not the spirits, and could express itself in ways that could lead to the development of real artistic genius. The same potential was perceived by the surrealists, who, as in the case of André Masson, were keen to experiment with automatic drawing and other similar techniques. The belief in the spirits had vanished; the new interpretive framework was now wholly secular and based on the insights of psychoanalysis, but the basic techniques were adopted from spiritualism.
Matt Mullican's Memory Jam: Retrospective Performance Series, Artists Space, 16 May 1985
Courtesy Artists Space, New York
a few contemporary artists have been interested in experimenting with these psychological processes, working with dissociation and alienated agency. Matt Mullican's odd relationship with 'That Person' is as close as postmodern consciousness can get to the experiments of 19th-century mesmerists and spiritualists. In other artists, such as Sigmar Polke with his famous Higher Beings Command: Paint the Upper Right Hand Corner Black! (Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!) 1969, we find the same potential ambiguity we had seen in Blake's Visionary Heads. Is it tongue-in-cheek? Is it serious? Probably a little bit of both. Hardcore spirits have been exorcised with the vacuum cleaner of secular psychology, but what can we do if their invisible hand sometimes still wants to reach out to ours and shake it?
Marco Pasi is Associate Professor in History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-curator with Lars Bang Larsen and Simon Grant of Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings, Courtauld Gallery, 16 June – 11 September. An exhibition of art and artefacts from the College of Psychic Studies Archives, London, runs from 14 to 20 August.
Sigmar Polke, Higher Beings Command: Paint the Upper Right Hand Corner Black! (Höhere Wesen befahlen: Rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!) 1969, laquer on canvas, 150 x 125.5 cm
Estate of Sigmar Polke/DACS 2016, courtesy Froehlich Stuttgart