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Sotheby's To Offer Most Valuable Charles Darwin Autograph Manuscript
by Sothebys
Sotheby's To Offer the Most Significant Autograph Manuscript Document By Charles Darwin To Ever Appear on The Market. Estimated to Achieve $600,000 – $800,000
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) is inarguably one of the most influential texts ever published. Much more than just the basis of evolutionary biology, On the Origin of Species reshaped not only scientific thought but also the very foundation of humanity's understanding of life on earth. Today Darwin's theories are a pervasive and transformative force driving everyday life.
An extremely rare manuscript containing a passage from Charles Darwin's revolutionary text will be offered with an estimate of $600,000 – $800,000 at Sotheby's this November, marking the most significant autograph manuscript by Darwin to ever appear at auction. The manuscript leaf will be sold during the Age of Wonder (25th November – 9th December), an auction dedicated to exploring the intersections of 19th-century science and culture.
Alongside the leaf, the sale will feature other extraordinary works, such as the first edition of On the Origin of Species (est. $300,000-$400,000), and the incredibly scarce "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties" paper, by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace (est. $250,000 – $350,000).
While some of Darwin's notes and manuscript leaves have survived over the last hundred or more years, he was known to obsessively revise his publications, often discarding pages from working drafts and treating them as scrap paper, making any autograph manuscript extremely rare.
The present document was previously mischaracterized as a leaf from the working draft of the third edition of On the Origin of Species but was in fact a note carefully prepared by Darwin in response to a request from Hermann Kindt, the editor of the "Autographic Mirror." Kindt had written to Darwin, soliciting a sample of his handwriting for the purpose of reprinting it in his magazine, which focused on the preeminent figures of the age.
Darwin gladly answered and provided him with the present leaf, a rare gesture from a man with notoriously inscrutable handwriting, and who would often sign his name in abbreviated letters such as Ch, Ch. Darwin or just C. Darwin.
The text Darwin chose to write to Kindt was in essence his definitive statement—the passage most closely associated with himself and his legacy. He writes, "I have now recapitulated the chief facts and considerations which have thoroughly convinced me that species have been modified, during a long course of descent, by the preservation of the natural selection of many successive slight favourable variations."
He confidently continues with assertions that only appeared in the third, revised edition of On the Origin of Species: "I cannot believe that a false theory would explain, as it seems to me that the theory of natural selection does explain, the several large classes of facts above specified. It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life…"
The correspondence between Darwin and Kindt dates to the autumn of 1865, four years after the publication of the 3rd edition of Origin of Species, making this document all the more significant as it encapsulates Darwin's complete thinking on the subject.
The auction of Darwin's authorized summative statement on his prolific theories follows a tradition of prominent auctions of scientific manuscripts at Sotheby's, including the highest price achieved for a manuscript leaf from On the Origin of Species, which sold for £490,000; Isaac Newton's Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light—the first appearance of Newton's important optical discoveries, featuring his explanation of the rainbow—which sold for $1,330,000, a record for the title; and a letter by Gregor Mendel to his parents—a remarkable rarity by the father of modern genetics—which achieved $300,000.
The online sale will be open for bidding from 25th November – 9th December, with an exhibition at Sotheby's York Avenue galleries open to the public from 30th November – 8th November.
Tags: Alfred Russel Wallace, ART, AUCTION, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Hermann Kindt, Sale, SOTHEBY'S
Sotheby's has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Sotheby's became the first international auction house when it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973), India (1992) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sotheby's has a global network of 80 offices in 40 countries and presents auctions in 10 different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris. Sotheby's offers collectors the resources of Sotheby's Financial Services, the world's only full-service art financing company, as well as the collection, artist, estate & foundation advisory services of its subsidiary, Art Agency, Partners. Sotheby's also presents private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the gallery arm of Sotheby's Global Fine Art Division, and three retail businesses: Sotheby's Wine, Sotheby's Diamonds, and Sotheby's Home, the online marketplace for interior design.
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Q: Slow download with HttpURLConnection I'm trying to make a method that download a webpage.
First, i create a HttpURLConnection.
Second, i call the connect() method.
Third, i read the data through a BufferedReader.
The problem is that with some pages i get reasonable reading times, but with some pages it's Very slow (it can take about 10 minutes!). The slow pages are always the same, and they comes from the same website. Opening those pages with the browser takes just a few seconds instead of 10 minutes. Here is the code
static private String getWebPage(PageNode pagenode)
{
    String result;
    String inputLine;
    URI url;
    int cicliLettura=0;
    long startTime=0, endTime, openConnTime=0,connTime=0, readTime=0;
    try
    {
        if(Core.logGetWebPage())
            startTime=System.nanoTime();
        result="";
        url=pagenode.getUri();
        if(Core.logGetWebPage())
            openConnTime=System.nanoTime();
        HttpURLConnection yc = (HttpURLConnection) url.toURL().openConnection();
        if(url.toURL().getProtocol().equalsIgnoreCase("https"))
            yc=(HttpsURLConnection)yc;
        yc.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB;     rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
        yc.connect();
        if(Core.logGetWebPage())
            connTime=System.nanoTime();
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream()));

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
        {
            result=result+inputLine+"\n";
            cicliLettura++;
        }
        if(Core.logGetWebPage())
            readTime=System.nanoTime();
        in.close();
        yc.disconnect();
        if(Core.logGetWebPage())
        {
            endTime=System.nanoTime();
            System.out.println(/*result+*/"getWebPage eseguito in "+(endTime-startTime)/1000000+" ms. Size: "+result.length()+" Response Code="+yc.getResponseCode()+" Protocollo="+url.toURL().getProtocol()+" openConnTime: "+(openConnTime-startTime)/1000000+" connTime:"+(connTime-openConnTime)/1000000+" readTime:"+(readTime-connTime)/1000000+" cicliLettura="+cicliLettura);
        }
        return result;
    }catch(IOException e){
        System.out.println("Eccezione: "+e.toString());
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

Here you have two log samples
One of the "normal" pages
getWebPage executed Size: 48261 Response Code=200 Protocol=http openConnTime: 0 connTime:1 readTime:569 cicliLettura=359
One of the "slow" pages http://ricette.giallozafferano.it/Pan-di-spagna-al-cacao.html/allcomments
looks like this
getWebPage executed Size: 1748261 Response Code=200 Protocol=http openConnTime: 0 connTime:1 readTime:596834 cicliLettura=35685

A: What you're likely seeing here is a result of the way you are collating result. Remember that Strings in Java are immutable - therefore when string concatenation occurs, a new String has to be instantiated, which can often involve copying all the data contained in that String. You have the following code executing for every line:
result=result+inputLine+"\n";

Under the covers, this line involves:

*

*A new StringBuffer is created with the entire content of result so far

*inputLine is appended to the StringBuffer

*The StringBuffer is converted to a String

*A new StringBuffer is created for that String

*A newline character is appended to that StringBuffer

*The StringBuffer is converted to a String

*That String is stored as result.

This operation will become more and more time-consuming as result gets bigger and bigger - and your results appear to show (albeit from a sample of 2!) that the results increase drastically with page size.
Instead, use StringBuffer directly.
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
{
    buffer.append(inputLine).append('\n');
    cicliLettura++;
}
String result = buffer.toString();

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The time is nearly upon us. The end is nigh. But apocalypse aside, much more is at stake as the NUEL Summer Tournament approaches Finals Weekend and the Wildcard Tournament. If you missed last week's recap, here's all the details you need for the post-season.
After one more week of games in the main season, the 13 teams with the most championship points will be invited to continue playing in the postseason. The top 3 teams will automatically qualify for the finals weekend. The next 10 will move into the Wildcard Tournament where they will be competing for the final slot in the semifinals.
The finals will be take place over the space of a weekend with best of three semifinals on Saturday 5th September and the best of five grand final on Sunday 6th September. Don't miss it, because it's going to be explosive.
It was another active week at the top of the standings as a host of new faces have climbed their way up the leaderboard. Some are familiar, some are less so, but they've all arrived to spoil the party. Huddersfield White's win in the final shifts them up to second in the standings, but Amir Is Toxic remains on top. The new faces in the top eight include Spring's winners the Nottingham Bears while the Sunderland Sneakbeards and Icey Dead People are new additions. We'll see if they can hold it together as the competition enters its last week before finals.
With the competition ramping up there have been some surprising results combined with a number of no-shows meaning a lot of movement up and down the table. However, there have been some teams that have gained considerable ground. In particular, Too Long; Didn't Reading made an appearance in last week's final gaining them a large number of points.
There were also three teams that gained four places in the rankings after impressing last week They were Huddersfield White (University of Huddersfield), Sunderland Sneakbears (University of Sunderland), UoB Sebbe (University of Birmingham) and Team Same (University of Plymouth).
The game started off with standard lanes, neither team particularly committing to anything fancy early on, but with ignite being carried by both supports an aggressive bottom lane matchup looked on the cards. Sure enough, with both duo lanes looking to secure early advantages, a fight broke out resulting in an early kill for Armour onto ViraL's Jinx, Braum's passive stacks hitting harder than a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball.
With all the action happening in the bottom lane, Koper was quietly building a fifteen creep lead as he used his Shen to bully Stratus Lyte's Maokai. However, with Nocturne hitting level six, the roam was bound to come in. Sure enough, he swept in to finish Maokai off, but good anticipation from InSec led to a two for two trade under turret.
With the other lanes looking rather quiet, the bottom lane took it upon themselves to provide a more spectator friendly game. An engage from Armour went sour and Huddersfield beat a hasty retreat. With Nidalee closing in, they manage to disengage the fight, Braum able to apply his stacks and save Kriz.
Meanwhile, little seemed to be happening in the middle lane. With scenes reminiscent of Farmville, the gameplay being only slightly more scintillating, it was all about the roaming. Nocturne's ultimate allowed him to have more global pressure and good use of it meant that he secured another kill onto Maokai ten minutes in. However, this came at the price of Reading's middle tower, Azir deciding if he couldn't roam as well he'd happily get on his tractor and just keep farming.
Yet again directed camera spotted a ruckus in the bottom lane, as Sivir went down to Braum after another stun, Alistar headbutting Jinx towards her while not fully taking into account the two stacks already placed on his AD Carry. Simultaneously a Nocturne roamed to the top lane for a kill on Maokai prompting the casters to compare the tree to a "buffet". Immediately afterwards the two fights became one as, despite a teleport from Shen, Alistar went down as Huddersfield White collapsed on the support and jungler in the bottom lane. This resulted in the first dragon for Huddersfield, though Reading still had the gold lead due to Shen and Nocturne.
It seemed every time Nocturne's Paranoia came off cooldown, Maokai opened the doors to his five star restaurant. This time the Twisted Treant had pushed up too far and was punished again.
In response, four members of Huddersfield sieged the bottom lane. As soon as the turret went down, Armour engaged with Glacial Fissure. Though Alistar managed to get his Pulverise down, he ended up dying for his team. Azir managed to just about chase down Sivir, the heal not quite enough to survive. With Nocturne lacking a way to join the fight, he rotated and took a tower in the middle lane. While the fight had ended Koper decided he wanted some vengeance, but went down after overcommitting onto Jinx.
Reading seemed to be playing around Nocturne's ultimate as an engage on Jinx at nineteen minutes resulted in her death. A neat flash by Frozen Dawn dodged Braum's ultimate and though the shieldbearer tried his best to disengage, Alistar picked up the kill with an ignite. However, having just won the fight before dragon respawned, some poorly timed recalls, led to Huddersfield White picking up an uncontested dragon.
After dragon, Reading seemed overly eager. A catch onto Tract after some rather poor pathing choices in the middle lane led to a full-blown brawl. Reading used the Nocturne and Shen ultimate combination, deleting Kriz. However, the rest of the team were soaking up damage. While ViraL was pretty much untouched, Nidalee pounced in to execute Braum but immediately regretted her decision, the cougar being put down by Azir's Sand Soldiers. The fight continued, but with the Alistar still low from the initial engage, it was effectively a three on three despite the man advantage. Huddersfield kited back well, SharpeyX on Azir with some great positioning and while dishing out the damage. He managed to take down Nocturne with Stratus Lyte peeling perfectly. As a result Azir and Maokai cleaned up the teamfight, leaving only Shen alive for Reading. It was a four for three trade in favour of Huddersfield. They took the next middle inner turret for their troubles.
Having lost the last teamfight, Reading rotated to the bottom lane to take Huddersfield's inner tower with only the "meal on wheels" Maokai protecting it. However, this left a quick and easy Baron open for Huddersfield White who managed to take it comfortably. As the Baron was secured, Koper taunted the team to buy time for the rest of Reading. Sivir sounded the horns and boosted her team into range and Nocturne used Paranoia to continue the fight, but with no Eye of Twilight to back him up, he was focused down very quickly. All the while, StratusLyte on Maokai had been sowing chaos in the backline of Reading, tanking up three members and preventing them from joining their jungler. They managed to disengage the fight, but the cost was a Baron and two kills to Huddersfield. The gold lead remained close with only a four hundred lead for Huddersfield, but with a Baron buff to boot.
With Huddersfield claiming Baron, Reading looked for another opening and in a moment of genius sent Nocturne to the bottom lane to split push. In response Huddersfield sent Maokai down and sieged the top inhibitor. While they succeeded in securing the inhibitor, Frozen Dawn was able to completely ignore StratusLyte. Having taken down the inhibitor, he turned his attention to the slightly perplexed Maokai and cut him down to size. With the possibility of Nocturne backdooring, Huddersfield were forced to make a hasty retreat, but their recalls were interrupted. Only Azir was able to make it back and prevent the second nexus tower from falling as Reading cleaned up another three kills for one. A dragon was secured by Reading off the back of that.
With both teams lacking an inhibitor the game slowed down leaving the teams waiting for the second coming of Baron Nashor. As the inhibitors respawned Baron made its theatrical entrance and action returned to the Rift. Reading had set up a one-three-one push in their lanes while Maokai had been sent by Huddersfield to deal with Shen in the bottom lane. With four Huddersfield members in the middle lane, they managed to force a fight by engaging onto Nidalee. While Nidalee managed to escape, Alistar died for her sins. Yet, the underpowered Maokai could not keep Shen at bay and was forced to retreat, losing the bottom inhibitor in the process.
With Huddersfield forced to retreat to defend their base, Nocturne and co. made a beeline for Baron, but without a tank to absorb the damage, they were forced off it by the persistence of InSec's Elise. This opened Baron up for Huddersfield. Nidalee pounced into the pit only to find a missing Baron and the Huddersfied team waiting for her. While Frozen Dawn continued to split push, Huddersfield minus their top laner forced their way down the middle lane taking the tower and inhibitor. A panicked fight broke out with Nocturne attempting the recall. Yet, StratusLyte was able to interrupt it and, after a touch and go fight under tower, was able to secure the kill while surviving on double digit health. But all the action was happening in the other base as it all went wrong for Huddersfield. ViraL was able to lay down the pain securing a triple kill onto the opposition. Alistar became the metaphorical cow in the ointment as he picked up Elise, denying the quadra kill. Nidalee picked up the dragon in the aftermath leaving it two apiece.
Both teams were now down an inhibitor and nexus tower resulting in another lull as the teams cleared their respective lanes. A lengthy pause in proceedings had spectators worried, but this Clash of the Titans was not to be halted by technical issues and, with action more exciting than said film to follow, it was worth the wait.
With inhibitors respawning, Huddersfield decided to start shoving the bottom lane with Reading still committed to the middle lane. However, Frozen Dawn attempted to position himself for another assassination attempt but was found out by Braum and Elise resulting in a quick kill for the blue team. With Nocturne down, Reading could not contest their bottom and middle inhibitors. As Frozen Dawn respawned, the third inhibitor came under siege. This was the time for a do or die engage. They managed to force them off their inhibitor but did not secure the all important kills they needed. With two lanes pushing, it was an easy Baron for Huddersfield, ArrestedPie again pouncing over the wall to find a missing Baron and some unfriendly faces. Dract attempted to buy some time but it was not enough. An exhausted Nocturne found his damage neutered and without a way to get meaningful punishment onto the carries, the rest of Reading fell in quick succession. The nexus went down and Huddersfield emerged victorious. A close game throughout it was definitely the one to watch.
It was tough picking an MVP for this match as many players stood out. Frozen Dawn exploited his roaming potential to great effect during the early and mid game and Armour saved Kriz on numerous occasions. Meanwhile, InSec2GDragonDBZ (please let that be the last time I have to type that out in full) was a constant thorn in the side of Reading on Elise. However, the MVP award has to go to SharpeyX on Azir for his outstanding teamfighting. While he did not have the same map presence as Frozen Dawn, as soon as the game reached a point at which he could contribute he did not disappoint. With impeccable positioning (only dying once) he was able to lay down the pain, ending the match with an impressive 8/1/10, a kda of 18.


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The Next Picture Show, Dixon's Evolving Masterpiece
By Janine Pumilia, managing editor / Winter 2011/12
Discover a nonprofit art gallery on a mission to celebrate art and music at every turn. Meet the dedicated volunteers who make this Dixon venue spin, and discover how it impacts the region.
Lovely original tin ceilings and wooden floors, in this 1854 building, mix comfortably with a changing array of artwork at The Next Picture Show.
Is it accurate to call the Mona Lisa "a painting"? Sure. But that hardly captures the essence of the masterpiece.
Likewise, the Next Picture Show (TNPS) in Dixon, Ill., 113 W. First St., is a nonprofit fine arts center serving the Rock River Valley. But it's also a group of people on a mission to create, show, study, celebrate and teach art. And, it's a beautiful art gallery that benefits artist and art lover alike. It's also a place where folks come together, and an intimate venue for live performances. Finally, TNPS's vintage space is a lovely backdrop for special events, from corporate dinners to wedding receptions.
"Everyone's welcome here," says Bonnie Kime, director. "It's a community space where different kinds of people connect. Some people drop in just to relax and soak up the beautiful artwork and background music. Sometimes they bring their laptops and just hang out."
Other times, people actually do come in to buy paintings, photographs and sculptures. Artists love exhibiting at TNPS, because it charges no commission on art sales, due to its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. It does, however, encourage artists to donate back a portion of their sales.
"And they do donate back to us, but we never know if it will be 5 percent or 20 percent or what," says Kime. "It makes the budgeting process a challenge, but we find a way." Private donations, fundraisers, membership dues and venue rental keep the organization afloat.
The gallery is unique in another way, too. It's accessible, and keeps regular business hours. Children roam the space, discover art and chat about it, without being hushed. Doors are open Tuesday through Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and at other times for classes and special events. They're even open on days when new shows are being hung, a miracle that happens about 10 times a year, thanks to a cadre of devoted volunteers.
"They operate like clockwork," says Kime proudly. "It's a big job, carrying out the old artwork, bringing the new art up the stairs to the main level, laying it against the walls to see what does and doesn't work where. One group cleans, another hangs, another levels. At noon we stop and eat lunch together." The whole process is a bit like a barn raising, as the seemingly impossible is accomplished, through teamwork, in one day.
"We never close our doors when we hang a show," says Kime. "We want the public to understand what it takes, and to witness what can be accomplished through cooperation. It's like history in the making. And people do come in just to watch."
The 10 annual juried shows at TNPS attract artists from Chicago, the Midwest and beyond; they represent a wide array of styles.
"We solicit different judges for each show, mostly from Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, other parts of Illinois," explains Kime. "Artists submit CDs or small photographs of their work. Just because one piece is accepted doesn't mean another by the same artist will be. Each show has a theme, like 'Your Best Friend,' 'Great Expectations,' 'Shades of Grey,' 'Farms and Barns.' It's all about the way the artist interprets that phrase."
The jury sends out letters of acceptance and artists bring or mail their work to Kime. Among the 10 shows is an open event sponsored by the Illinois Watercolor Society, which attracts artists nationwide.
"Whenever artists come here for the first time, they're impressed by the space, by how we operate, by the genuine passion we have for art," says Kime. "The awareness seems to spread by word-of-mouth among artists, and that helps us to receive very high-quality submissions."
That a small-town gallery should have such an enthusiastic following doesn't surprise Kime. "There's been a strong artists' presence in our region forever," she says. "Art colonies existed in Grand Detour and at the Eagle's Nest near Oregon in the 1910s and '20s. That's one of the neat things about this place – it brings together local artists from different generations." In fact, one local artist recently chose to spend his 100th birthday at the gallery.
A faithful and efficient crew of volunteers hangs a new show about every six weeks.
Because art is viewed so subjectively, the question of what's tasteful and suitable lingers in the air wherever it exists. The same holds true in Dixon, the hometown of conservative President Ronald Reagan. Kime does her best to bridge the chasm between artists and their critics.
"We're a nonprofit charged with a mission to teach," she says. "Some subjects, such as nudes, can present a dicey situation. The Sistine Chapel depicts nudes. The body is art, but you have to be very gentle in the way you present it."
Kime was recently reminded of just how subjective art appreciation really is. "I can usually place a piece of art in a room, in my head. I can mentally decorate around it and visualize the kind of room I would like to see it in," she explains. "But we had one piece of art in a show, not too long ago, that I thought was just awful. I could not imagine it anyplace, had no capacity to see it in any room.
"Wouldn't you know that a woman walked through the door and immediately gravitated to that piece of art and bought it on the spot. She adored it. That was a great reminder to me about the way we all differ in our perspectives."
Just as Kime learns from the artists she befriends, they learn from her as well. "The fact that someone paints and can sell a piece for $10,000 doesn't mean they know everything," she says. "Artists like to receive feedback. They want to know what people are saying, and so I tell them. I feel that I represent that artist to potential buyers."
A natural-born people connector, Kime enjoys forging connections between art lovers and artists.
"About 99 percent of the time, artists bring their work to us in person, so I have a chance to get to know them a little bit," she says. "The more I know about the artist, the more I transfer to the potential buyer. I get the biggest thrill out of selling a piece of art for an artist. It especially tickles me when an artist brings something in and says, 'This isn't for sale,' but we find just the right buyer anyway. All artists need to sell their work."
The 7,700-square-foot vintage building that's home to TNPS was built in 1854 and completely renovated in 2003, thanks to local philanthropist Ralph Edgar, whose artist wife, Jane Cress Edgar, maintains a studio on the second floor. Along with open, airy spaces, the gallery features original wood floors and tin ceilings. Edgar supplied partial operating funds for three years after TNPS opened in 2004, and today the organization pays rent to Edgar. Kime credits the center's first director, Colleen Logston, with working hard to attain 501(c)(3) status.
"Mr. Edgar generously helped us to get on our feet," says Kime, who came to TNPS in 2007, after many years spent as director of Dixon Main Street, a downtown business organization. Especially in light of the bad economy, we've done very well."
But success hasn't come without challenges. Kime's calendar is chock full of fundraising events for TNPS, from golf outings to vintage wine tastings, a Christmas boutique and much more.
Rental fees help to keep TNPS in the black, too. For concerts, the space comfortably seats 125 guests at bistro tables, 80 at larger round dinner tables. "Business After Business" gatherings welcome 200 to 300 local professionals, who cluster around cocktail tables in standing room only.
"It's a space you don't need to decorate for an event," says Kime. "It's already beautiful because of all the art."
Openings for new shows attract 250 to 300 guests. Held about every six weeks, from 6 to 8 p.m. on Fridays, they involve live music, hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Regarding the latter, TNPS recently embarked on a mission to obtain its own liquor license.
"We had no idea how to go about that, so we spent a day in Chicago and learned the ropes," says Kime. "Serving liquor isn't our main function, but the license is an important asset when it comes to events. It's a learning curve, but the gallery needs it, so we're figuring it out."
The Lynchpin
This can-do attitude is typical of Kime's devotion to the gallery. As the only paid employee at TNPS, she spends most of her waking moments there, and then some. The TNPS board of directors wasn't surprised when she asked to have a shower installed at the gallery, along with an inflatable bed.
"During one funding crunch, it was suggested that we cut back on the hours we're open, but I said we just couldn't do that," says Kime. "We've all worked very hard to make it what it is, and we want forward progress."
Kime's also deeply involved with Viva!, The Next Picture Show Performing Arts School, which offers music lessons and performance opportunities to young people. Faculty members include director Kathy Hann King, who specializes in piano instruction; Tim Boles, the current artistic director of regional choral society Canterbury Singers; and Robert Campbell, who's widely experienced in vocal solo performance, choral conducting, musical theater and teaching.
Kime has a life outside TNPS, too. Married to Edward Lynott, she has two sons, a daughter and a stepdaughter. The couple sometimes plays host to the likes of Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, because of Lynott's 37-year career in marketing and promotions with NRG Media. But the gallery is never far from Kime's mind. "I try to sell them art when I see them," she says of the country music luminaries. "They're just people, like the rest of us. They enjoy art, too." In fact, Kime has sold art to Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn, who owns Arrington Vineyards in Tennessee and collects great wine as well as artwork.
The long hours don't seem to discourage Kime. "I'm with these wonderful pieces of art each day, and each time I walk down the stairs and enter the space, I catch something new in one of them," she says. "It's one thing to come in and view art. It's another thing entirely to live with it. I have the best job in the world. I'm blessed."
More than a few paintings have called her name over the years. "You begin to lust after a lot of paintings," she admits, adding a bit sheepishly, "I had to add a room onto my house to gain more wall space for paintings. I've always had a passion for art."
Her passion doesn't stop with collecting art; she also collects friends. Her talent for connecting people to each other and to needful projects is formidable. "Believe me, this place exists only because of all the people who have their fingers in it – from Mr. Edgar to the board members, volunteers, the judges who jury our shows, everyone," she says. "It takes everybody to make it work, in anything that we do."
TNPS takes its education mission seriously, hosting programs and classes for all ages, and working with K-12 schools. Student work is always on display in the lower gallery at TNPS.
"I recently sent out 57 letters to schools [K-12]," says Kime, who spent 11 years running an arts-rich home day care when her own children were young. "Exposure to art at a very young age enhances the whole thinking ability of a child."
Kime also believes it benefits children to see that their communities value art and artists. "One of the neatest things I get to see is the pride a child has when he comes into the gallery and points to a piece of work on display that was made by his grandma, or dad, or someone he knows," she says.
TNPS awards a total of $3,500 per year in savings bonds to local art students. "We use savings bonds, because we want children to see how money grows over time," Kime explains. "It's another aspect of our teaching mission."
She also enjoys seeing teens and young adults come to the gallery in search of original art. "They're making the distinction between a mass-produced, printed poster, and original art," she says. "It's fantastic that they want what's original. I think there's a real yearning for original things right now. We're all getting tired of the mass-produced."
Along with nurturing art lovers, TNPS is good for its city.
"This has been a huge jump-start for Dixon's downtown," says Kime. "Because the openings are always downtown on Friday nights, people often combine their attendance with a dinner out. Dixon has some excellent restaurants these days – Italian, Mexican, Thai. Also, when artists from throughout the region bring their paintings to us, they often grab a meal, fill up their gas tanks, browse some local shops."
Margie Wildman agrees. She owns neighboring Baker Street Restaurant, a 7-year-old café that offers freshly roasted coffees and homemade baked goods, salads, soups and sandwiches.
"It's always good when people have a special reason to come downtown," says Wildman. "Our customers stop in next door to see what's new, and people going to The Next Picture Show often stop in here for coffee or a bite to eat. The more foot traffic downtown, the better it is for all of us."
TNPS is exhibiting "Architecture and More" through Jan. 7, 2012. The show highlights architecture in all its variations – from straight line to cupola.
"Great Expectations" will run Jan. 13 to Feb. 28, exploring common themes found in favorite books and movies.
We instinctively know there's much more to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa than meets the eye. And it's more than just a painting. The same can be said for The Next Picture Show, where vitality and joie de vivre – not just artwork – fill the space. ❚
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The center will be having a social on this day. Staff and students are encouraging the parents to visit the classroom and get to know another child and their family this day. Caring is sharing!
For the month students are showing interest in dinosaurs so they will be exploring different types of dinosaurs, how they lived and what they ate.
The two year olds will be involved in making hearts for their parents.
The toddler class is focusing on Dr. Seuss book about showing love and they will make a special board to display in the class of their art work.


On Saturday Cavalier Soccer Club lifted the Cayman Airways U-14 Invitational Youth Cup after beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in an entertaining final at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
Tottenham Hotspur and Cavalier Soccer Club will face each other on Saturday to determine the champion of the Cayman Airways U-14 Invitational Youth Cup. Each advanced from the semi-finals after thrilling matches at the Ed Bush Stadium in West Bay against rivals from their home countries.
Tottenham Hotspur and Cavalier Soccer Club both recorded their third consecutive victories in the Cayman Airways U-14 Invitational Youth Cup on Thursday. In doing so, both teams finished atop their respective groups and advanced to the semi-finals to be played on Friday at the Ed Bush Stadium in West Bay. Also making it through to the semis are Harbour View FC and Gillingham FC.


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High level praise for undergraduate paper on space debris research
Published: 12 November 2012Origin: Engineering
MEng student Chantal Edwardes has been praised for delivering an academic paper at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples. It was based on her third year individual project examining ways of removing small space debris down to around a centimetre in diameter.
Around a hundred delegates from leading international companies and organisations and government agencies were in the audience; many gave positive feedback. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin was also at the conference.
"This was the first time I have presented an academic paper," says Chantal. "I was nervous because it was such a distinguished audience but everything went well and I really enjoyed it." Leading expert on space debris research Darren McKnight said he was impressed by her presentation.
Chantal's supervisor, Dr Hugh Lewis comments; "Chantal showed great enthusiasm for her project throughout the year and this was reflected in an assured presentation at the conference in front of a very knowledgeable audience. To receive such positive feedback from some of the leading international experts on space debris is testament to the quality of her work and her commitment to it. It was great to see one of our undergraduates making such a positive contribution."
Chantal, who is now in her third year, has ambitions to join the Royal Navy as a test engineer.
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Click Here to watch a short video with Hebron spokesman David Wilder. In this clip he talks about The Roots of Hebron.
Click here for the full LandMinds audio interview with David Wilder.
It's percolating there, just below the surface. Hebron. The Masters of Political Correctness have succeeded in conveying the sense that Hebron is an Arab town deep in the West Bank. Hard to tell the truth - to separate out the facts from the "spin." Until the Arab riots and massacre of 1929, Hebron was perhaps the longest settled city of Jews in the world. They worked in business, trade, prayed, shopped, celebrated, and mourned much as Jewish communities everywhere did. They by and large got along with their Arab neighbours - with the intermittent attacks being the exception rather than the rule. Yes, even in the 1920's and '30s - long before the establishment of the modern State of Israel, Arabs attacked - and killed Jews.
For the British it was easier to banish the Jews from the city - there were fewer Jews than Arabs after all. So instead of trying to civilise the Arab masses, they forced transfer on the victims. Jewish homes and businesses, Jewish banks and hospitals - hospitals that then - and today - treat both Arabs and Jews were shuttered and closed. Soon Arab squatters would take over these empty testaments to a once thriving community. And with nary a smidgen of embarrassment would claim them as their own.
If one has their ear close to the ground, if one can break through the cacophony of noise that surrounds anything related to the State of Israel, if one choses to look, it is still possible to see through haze and to gaze at reality. The Jewish people live today in Hebron. They work, they pray, they serve in the Israeli army. Their numbers are not large - about 300 brave souls. But they have returned to their patrimony. They live in buildings and apartments that were once bustling with life. Beit Romano, Beit Hadassah - every building and apartment that can be demonstrated once belonged to a Jewish owner is being reclaimed - one at a time, with patience and perseverance. The challenges are inevitable - often by left wing Jewish organisations more eager to side with the squatters than with the legal owners or their descendants.
If one continues down the road from the Cave of the Patriarchs (and Matriarchs) - Ma'arat HaMachpela - one comes to a short turn in the road and a steep incline. This is Tel Rumeida - Tel Hebron - the most ancient part of the city of Hebron. Near the top, an excavation is currently under way, to try and understand the archaeology of this ancient city. In the last few weeks I've visited twice. When I visited yesterday (Sunday February 9, 2014), the archaeologist in charge showed us a find he had dug up that day. I don't have his permission yet to publicise the find, but it is a First Temple period artefact from the time of the Kings of Judah. I get chills just typing those words.
Maybe I'm naive but I believe that it is still possible to right a terrible wrong. The roots of the Jewish people are long and deep. Longer and deeper than any others. We need to reclaim our own narrative - for not all narratives are equal and we must work to discover and to reveal the truth. To find just solutions and to respectfully disagree with those that would deny our connection to the Land of Israel is our responsibility. It's definitely easier to look the other way - to chose a path of no resistance. We've tried that - and it doesn't work. Every inch of this land that we chose to ignore or pretend is not our responsibility becomes a club wielded against us with terrifying ferocity. A club that would either evict us from everything or would destroy us.
So start your journey here... Follow the links and meet the spokesman - David Wilder - of Hebron. And then start sharing what you've learned with others. And slowly, we can let a little truth, a little dose of reality, inform our understanding.
Torah & Archaeology week coming to San Diego in November '14.
...A NEW POINT OF VIEW!
My hosts in Philly had graciously invited me out to dinner at a wonderful restaurant in Lower Merion. The meal was all too brief as they were off to the theatre, and I had a plane to catch.
Returning the rent-a-car at Philly Int'l Airport, I had managed to navigate my way through check-in and security and still had about 20mins before my flight started boarding. My headphones hadn't been working well, so as I said in the Part I, I headed over to the Brookstone Store just past the security area. The store was relatively empty, so I started checking out headphones - and price stickers.
A sales girl came over and offered to help. I looked up - and noticed over her shoulder a large box that said "AR Drone 2.0 Power Edition," just as she finished saying "can I help you?" Without missing a beat I said "YES! I'll take one of those!" "What about the headphones?" she asked. "The drone will be sufficient," I answered. She rang up the sale, put the box in a large Brookstone bag, which worried me that it would not fit in the overhead compartment. She assured me that it would likely just fit, and not to worry. I didn't want it being put down with the luggage.
I called Barnea to tell him the good news - that Foundation Stone was now the proud owner of a genuine AR Drone 2.0 Power Edition with two 18 minute batteries. He was quick to remind me to make sure I declared it at customs when arriving in Israel.
With one hand rolling my carry-on, another holding my Brookstone bag with the AR Drone 2.0 Power Edition, and my shoulder slinking my laptop I headed toward the gate. Still 10 minutes before boarding.
Flights to Israel are somewhat different than flights to pretty much anywhere else on the planet. Airport security is for everyone else. Flights to Israel have an additional layer of security, and there was a nice line formed waiting to get into the boarding area. I took my place in line, already strategising my coming assault on the overhead bins.
Once through security I entered the closed off waiting area. It was packed. At least 3 tour groups on the flight. Red shirts, yellow shirts and blue shirts - all eagerly awaiting their imminent arrival in the Holy Land. For me, it was starting to look like space in an overhead compartment was highly unlikely. To make matters worse, and i'd been assigned to Zone 5 boarding - which meant I'd be boarding last.
So I did something I rarely ever do. I went over to the counter where the good folks from US Air were busy being busy, and asked if I could use my mileage and get bumped up to business class. "We're very sorry," she answered brightly and with a modicum of feigned sincerity, "there simply are no empty seats - not in business class or any other class."
Disappointed I sat back down, as they started calling the privileged class for Zone 1 boarding. Like a bolt of lightning I was graced with inspiration. I'm a member of the Star Alliance, Premier Silver - that's gotta be good for something. I grabbed my gear and readied myself with passport, boarding pass, and my very plastic Mileage Plus Star Alliance Premier Silver membership card prominently displayed on top. As they called the Zone 2 people I was ready - and the steward was only to happy to allow me to board along with the rest of the Zone 2 privileged class. First mission accomplished.
I now had the back of the plane almost entirely to myself - at least until they started boarding the Zone 5 red, yellow and blue shirted pilgrims. I put the time to good use. I arranged my various bags and parcels as conveniently and as handily as I could. The overhead compartment was barely able to fit the Brookstone Bag with the AR Drone 2.0 Power Edition - and I settled myself into my seat in the back of the US Air direct flight to Tel Aviv. The plane quickly filled up, and I started to hibernate - happily amused as we took off that the only empty seat anywhere to be seen, was right next to me.
End of Part II - Stay tuned for Part III.
Not too long ago, Foundation Stone received a grant to buy equipment. A month or so earlier we had heard about a start-up company on Kickstarter that was offering to sell drones equipped with high-res video and still capabilities. "Wouldn't it be great to be able to photograph and shoot video from the air," said I to Barnea.
The price was right as advertised on Kickstarter, but by the time our grant came along it had increased in price by a $100 - and wouldn't be available until later December '13. I was also a little nervous about plunking down cold hard cash on a start-up. So, despite my compulsion for some cool gear - I balked.
Fast forward a few weeks and I'm winding up an emergency visit to the US to line up all the ducks for our upcoming program in Baltimore. I'm heading down 5th Avenue towards the Apple Store at Grand Central and a Verizon Store catches my eye. Foundation Stone has a small box called MiFi that gives us an internet signal while we travel in the US. It's a little buggy so I figure I've got a few minutes, let's see if Verizon can help out with one of their devices.
The store is empty - except for the sales staff standing around bored. I walk over to the counter and explain my issue, and the helpful guy says - no problem - we can fix that.
He takes the WiFi and disappears to the back, and I notice on the counter a box that says, "AR Drone." I ask one of the other Verizon dudes to come over and tell me what the deal is on the drone. $299 he tells me, and brings over a tablet and starts showing me video clips of the drone in action. I'm hooked. Only one snafu - 12 minutes flying time. Not very much. Time to call Barnea in Israel. One ringy dingy later and he's on the phone with me like he's there in Manhattan.
Barnea does some quick research on line (as only he an do) and says, "...get the Power Edition. It's got 36 minutes of flying time." Sounds good to me. Short story - Verizon doesn't carry it. They tell me that I should try the Apple Store at GCS a few blocks away. Just came from there, and did not like the experience. Crowded, noisy - not conducive to making a deliberate and informed decision. Time in NYC is tight and I'm leaving the next night back to Israel. I have to catch my flight on US Air from Philly so I figure I'll hit the Apple Store in Lower Merion where things are little more civilized. I grab my now working MiFi from the ever-so-helpful Verizon dudes and head for the door.
The next morning I jump in the car and head back to Philly. My flight home is that evening and I'm more than ready to abandon the Diaspora and get back to Efrat. I get to Philly two hours later and head for the Apple Store. "Whoa - we don't carry that here. You need a "big" Apple Store like they have in NYC. Disappointed, I figure the drone story will have to wait until my next visit to the US. Taking advantage of the free minutes available, I start checking out headphones. I can't believe how incredible some of them sound. My cans are on the fritz but parting with $400 bucks for the Bose noise cancelling headphones that wowed me is outside my meagre budget. I head out the door not knowing that Drone Tales were just getting started.


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A Fan Motor Television Receiver For Experimenters (Mar, 1931)
A Fan Motor Television Receiver For Experimenters
by L. B. ROBBINS
Here is a simple and easily-built type of television receiver with which you can pick up the television images now being transmitted over the air from a number of stations.
THE time is now ripe for radio fans who build their own sets to construct a television receiver. Several broadcasting stations are on the air transmitting on both long and short waves, and have so perfected their apparatus that a simple receiver like that illustrated in the accompanying drawings will bring out the pictures with a fair degree of clarity and brilliancy.
The construction of a television receiver is actually not so complicated as the construction of a broadcast receiver, and the expense is probably less. The one herein described utilizes the simplest of parts, and constructional details are simplified as much as possible. Many dimensions are not given because the builder may wish to use certain parts which he has on hand, that are well suited for the purpose.
First, build a cabinet of inch soft wood about the dimensions shown in Fig. 1. The top is shown in three sections, the ends of which cut with a miter box to make a good joint. These joints are glued and nailed to cleats underneath. Such a top adds much to the appearance of the cabinet, but may be discarded if simplicity is desired, and a flat top substituted instead. The back can be made from a sheet of stiff wallboard or from boards. You can finish the cabinet in any manner you desire.
The front door should consist of one single piece of plywood 30 in. square if possible, reinforced along the back edges with thin battens.
Hinge it to the right hand edge of cabinet and supply a pair of hooks for closing it. Two cleats nailed to the inside of left hand edge of the cabinet keep the front flush with the edge.
The viewing apparatus is then attached to the face of this hinged front as shown in Fig. 1. First strike a point on the hinged front of the cabinet representing the exact center. From that point draw a horizontal line across the front to the right hand edge. This is the center line for three holes, which are 1-1/2 in. square and 1-1/2 in. apart as shown, cut in the front. The left hand hole should be 4-1/4 inches from the center spot on the front of the cabinet.
Now over and below these holes attach two stiff brass slides, as shown, into which can easily slide the movable observation panel. This panel is 12 in. long, 6 in. wide and in. thick. In the exact center of this panel is cut a 1'%-inch square hole. Over this hole is mounted the vision hood, which is made of thin wood of the dimensions specified in Fig. 1. An attachment plate serves to hold the hood to the panel as shown. Now, scribe a short vertical line under the exact center of each hole in the hinged front and the single hole on the panel. Then when the mark under the panel hole coincides with that under one of the front holes, the hood opening and the hole in the front are properly aligned for viewing. Number the hinged front mark nearest the center with a 24, the next, 36, and the right hand hole, 48. These designate the portions of the scanning disk to be viewed over those numbers. Finally, finish the inside of the hinged front, the back of the movable panel and the inside of the hood in dull black and paint the outside to match or to contrast nicely with the rest of the cabinet.
Power for turning the scanning disk is furnished by an ordinary fan motor of suitable power, one that will give varying speeds under the control of the operator. A repulsion induction motor is of course best because of the absence of sparking at the brushes, but any good motor can be used and a fan motor seems to give good results.
First, build a "table" for it in the exact center of the bottom of the cabinet so that the motor shaft lines up exactly opposite the center mark on the hinged front. Clamp the motor in position solidly and be sure the table front is far enough back so the scanning disk will easily clear it.
The disk is attached to the motor shaft by the steel hub and stud shown in Fig. 5. The hub should fit snugly over the motor shaft, fastening with a set screw, while the smaller stud, turned down from the hub diameter, is threaded and is of a size to fit tight in the center hole of scanning disk. A wide flange or washer on each side of the disk and a wing nut help to secure the disk solidly to the hub so it will turn without wobbling. Any machinist will turn out this hub and the attachments for a small sum.
This receiver is planned to utilize a scanning disk of sheet aluminum 24 in. in diameter. It must be procured in a perfectly flat sheet and be free from hollows or humps which would tend to give it a wobbling effect when rotating. Use a sharpened steel punch for scribing, good light and a pair of accurate dividers. Lay the aluminum on a flat table or bench and measure a center spot, which should be lightly punched. Then drill through at this point with a drill exactly the the size of motor shaft. Next saw off a section of round rod the same diameter as the disk hole, drive it easily in this hole and center punch the plug, as illustrated in Fig. 4. Using this punch mark: as the disk center, scribe a 24-inch circle with the dividers, and saw out the circle with a jeweler's saw, afterwards filing the edge of the disk smooth.
This disk is to be designed to carry spirals for 24, 36 and 48 hole vision. Fig. 4 shows the method of scribing the spirals. The 24 hole spiral will be described and the other two can be made in the same manner, with the exception of the radial line count. First lay off 24 points about the circumference of the disk, making them exactly the same distance apart. Connect all points with lightly scribed lines passing through the center mark. This will give 24 radial lines issuing from the center. Planning for a l^-inch square picture, find a point between two radii l1/^ inch apart. This point will lie approximately 5.75 inches from the center and represents the outer point or end of the spiral.
The spiral is scribed with a sharp steel point inserted in a loop of fine, strong wire, as shown in Fig. 4. The other end of the wire is then inserted in a hole in a metal spiral scribing stud as illustrated. The stud is 15/32 in. in diameter and turned down if necessary to make a driving lit in the disk center hole.
Remove the center plug from the disk, insert the scribing stud, and wind on the wire until the scriber point rests on the point on the disk just obtained. Then, holding the scriber steady and vertical and pulling on the wire at an even tension, move the scriber from left to right over the disk surface. This winds up the wire, and when the 24th radial line is reached—the line next the starting point—a perfect spiral will be scribed, its end 1-1/2 in. nearer the center than the starting point.
Drill carefully with a No. 50 drill at each intersection of the spiral with the radii. The holes should, of course, be centered with a punch previous to drilling and cleaned carefully of all burrs afterwards.
The other two larger spirals are fashioned in the same manner as the 24-hole spiral, except that there are 36 and 48 radii respectively. Of course one is drilled with 36 holes and the other with 48 holes. Use a No. 56 drill for the former and a No. 65 for the latter. The outer hole of the 36-inch spiral is 8.6 inches from the center, and the outer hole of the 48-inch spiral, 11.45 inches.
When finished drilling the three spirals, polish off both sides of the disk with very fine emery paper. Remove the centering plug, and clamp the disk to the motor shaft permanently as shown.
The controls are the next step in the process of assembly. First drill holes in the lower right hand side of the cabinet, near the front, for attaching a power clarostat to control the motor speed. Beside it, to the rear of the cabinet, fit a toggle switch and then a single receptacle, as shown in Fig. 1.
Above these three appliances comes the neon tube slide and placement control. This consists of a bracket made of flat metal with one short leg which fastens to the inside of the cabinet and one long leg which attaches to the side of the motor table. The horizontal portion should be at such a height that it will support the tube plate exactly opposite the vision holes in the front. In planning the height, take in consideration that the tube is to be mounted in a socket which is supported by a wooden block sliding along the horizontal metal support just back of the disk, as shown in Fig. 3.
In the base of the block are two pins consisting of brass bolts inserted vertically from the bottom and so arranged that when they are in the slot of the slide plate the plate of the neon tube will face flatly opposite the vision holes. Nuts on the pins prevent the block from coming off the slider. A long rod goes horizontally through the block and out through a hole in the side of the cabinet, fitted with suitable bushing. Any serviceable knob is attached to the end of the rod. File three notches in the top surface of the rod to indicate when the tube is opposite any one of the three vision holes. Then attach a spring to the side of the cabinet that will snap down into a notch and hold the rod at that point, as desired.
Some additional disk speed control besides the line rheostat will always be found necessary, and the friction brake shown in Fig. 2 has proved ideal. It is fashioned after the scheme used in governing the speed of phonograph records. The sketch explains it clearly enough without much further comment. It can be made from any cast off stiff metal and workshop parts.
A soft felt brush is held in the end of a clamp on the lever which pivots in an angle iron support screwed to the inside of the cabinet. A light spiral spring is attached to the bottom of the lever and to the cabinet and holds the felt against the edge of the scanning disk. A long, fine threaded bolt is filed down at the end and passed through a hole in the lever, where it is held by a cotter pin against a washer. The other end of the bolt passes through a nut soldered to a brass tube in the side of the cabinet and a facing disk on the outside. By turning this bolt with the knob the pressure of the felt on the disk can be nicely altered and slight variations of speed obtained.
With all controls installed and the motor working to suit, the next task is to wire up the device. Attach the output of your high power radio or power amplifier to the arm of the double-throw double-pole switch screwed to the left side of the cabinet. Then connect one side to the loud speaker. The other side should be connected direct to the two terminals of the neon tube. If there is no voltage control on your set or if the output is small, then insert a voltage control clarostat and "B" batteries or "B" eliminator as shown in Fig. 5.
Wire the receptacle to the switch and to the power clarostat, placing each in series as shown. That's all there is to wiring a television receiver of this sort.
In bringing in television images, throw the D.P. D.T. switch on the speaker, turn on your radio receiver and tune in on the television signals. When they are heard plug in the power to the receptacle, throw the toggle switch and turn on the power control clarostat until the motor picks up to nearly maximum speed. Release the brake entirely. If the announcement says a 48 line picture will be broadcast, pull the slider rod out until the neon tube is opposite the hole marked 48 and slide the vision hood along opposite it. Then throw the D.P. D.T. switch over to the opposite side. The tube plate will light up pink as the power is increased, and when the disk is in step with the transmitting disk the picture will appear. It is best to advance the power clarostat so the motor speed is slightly fast and then reduce the disk speed with the friction brake. The speed will then hold steady. Thirty-six and twenty-four line pictures are handled in the same manner. If the picture appears upside down do not worry, but simply take off the scanning disk and turn the other side out. If the picture is wrong side to, that is, if printing in the picture shows backwards, it will then be necessary to reverse the rotation of the motor. This can be done by having the brushes readjusted by an electrician.
For best results the receiver voltage to the neon tube must be high and the amplifier of the receiver of good design. Most of the present day sets use the best of amplifier equipment and the power runs up to 450 volts. Have the room dark and look quite close into the vision hood. It will take a little time to learn to control a television receiver, but once you have the "hang of it" you will find plenty of amusement and a chance to do a bit of experimenting to further the cause of television, which is bound to improve with time.
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hwertz says: December 20, 20108:25 pm
Too bad it didn't improve with time, just more detailed.
But seriously, were there mostly experimental broadcasts on these systems, or was there some actual entertainment? And if I'm not mistaken, wouldn't this be visual-only with no audio?
Andrew L. Ayers says: December 20, 20109:09 pm
If I remember right, it depended on "market" – some places, it was just experimental, other places there was "entertainment", though I bet for most if they managed to get a test image, that was wonder enough. As far as audio, I think some stations actually broadcast a separate audio channel on a different frequency (if needed). Someone else on here probably has better info, though…
Hirudinea says: December 21, 20108:05 pm
Hey this was Grandads Hi-Def! @Hwertz – From what I know the signal was for the video only, audio was broadcast on another channel, so if you wanted sound you'ed need a radio siting next to your TV. As for entertainment, well this is mechanical television and the BBC first broadcast mechanical television in the early 30's, and if you had a good enough set up you could even catch the AM signals in North America.
Jayessell says: December 23, 20108:33 am
At YouTube subscribe to "aptsarchive".
There are several documentaries of the development of television.
The mechanical television system is shown, then the all electronic.
RSweeney says: December 24, 20102:33 pm
I built one of these as an electro-geek kid in the late 60's.
Used LP records for the input/output scanning discs. A large neon bulb for the illuminator and a photoeye tube I found at a yard sale for the input. Looking back, it's possible the photoeye was from a theater movie projector. But it had a long photo cathode, so it could easily see the holes.
Since it was just an experiment, I used one AC motor with shafts coming out of both ends to attach the LP records with parts from my Erector set, so synchronization was not a problem.
The image was fuzzy, I mean REALLY coarse, but it worked. You could definitely see rough patterns if not great images. I think I was better on the electronics than the optics.
Geeky fun times.


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Calumet was seven weeks late filing its financial results for the third quarter of 2017 and, in that filing, announced two material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting ("ICFR").
Calumet's ERP implementation issues and material weaknesses in ICFR continued into March 2018. On March 1, Calumet's independent auditor identified a potential additional material weakness in the company's ICFR with respect to the financial statement closing process.
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On March 19, Calumet filed a Form 8-K with the Commission disclosing that it expected its 2017 Financial Results to differ from what had been reported in the March 8 earnings release. Calumet's shares declined over eight percent that day.
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Q: How to get enums from restful GET I have a simple restful service that return a vehicle. The vehicle contains Enums, and I should get them all to my client. I need the collection of enums for POST the specific vehicle.
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A: You can create several Enumeration(s) in the client, each of them describing the values for the different fuels, gears, etc.
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public enum FuelTypes {
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}

Then, by invoking FuelTypes.valueOf("HIBRID") you will receive the Object FuelTypes.HIBRID.
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Freedom vs. Liberty: How Subtle Differences Between These Two Big Ideas Changed Our World
By Sam Jacobs - August 29, 2019
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity. Out of liberty, then, stem the glories of civilized life.
Murray Rothbard
The terms "freedom" and "liberty" have become clichés in modern political parlance. Because these words are invoked so much by politicians and their ilk, their meanings are almost synonymous and used interchangeably. That's confusing – and can be dangerous – because their definitions are actually quite different.
"Freedom" is predominantly an internal construct. Viktor Frankl, the legendary Holocaust survivor who wrote Man's Search For Meaning, said it well: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way (in how he approaches his circumstances)."
In other words, to be free is to take ownership of what goes on between your ears, to be autonomous in thoughts first and actions second. Your freedom to act a certain way can be taken away from you – but your attitude about your circumstances cannot – making one's freedom predominantly an internal construct.
On the other hand, "liberty" is predominantly an external construct. It's the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The ancient Stoics knew this (more on that in a minute). So did the Founding Fathers, who wisely noted the distinction between negative and positive liberties, and codified that difference in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The distinction between negative and positive liberties is particularly important, because an understanding of each helps us understand these seminal American documents (plus it explains why so many other countries have copied them). The Bill of Rights is a charter of negative liberties – it says what the state cannot do to you. However, it does not say what the state must do on your behalf. This would be a positive liberty, an obligation imposed upon you by the state.
Thus in keeping with what the late Murray Rothbard said above, the liberty of the individual is the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other "goods" that mankind cherishes. Living in liberty allows each of us to fully enjoy our freedoms. And how these two terms developed and complement one another is important for anyone desiring to better understand what it means to be truly free.
Etymology of Freedom and Liberty
To better understand what freedom and liberty mean, it's helpful to look at the respective etymologies of these words, digging into their histories and how they developed.
Freedom comes from Old English, meaning "power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance." There were similar variants in Old Frisian such as "fridom," the Dutch "vrijdom," and Middle Low German "vridom."
Liberty comes from the Latin "libertatem" (nominative libertas), which means "civil or political freedom, condition of a free man; absence of restraint, permission." It's important to note that the Old French variant liberte, "free will," has also shaped liberty's meaning. In fact, William R. Greg's essay France in January 1852 notes that the French notion of liberty is political equality, whereas the English notion is rooted in personal independence.
In an interview with Lew Rockwell, Professor Butler Shaffer makes some interesting distinctions between freedom and liberty. Shaffer argues that freedom is the "condition that exists within your mind, within my mind. It's that inner sense of integrity. It's an inner sense of living without conflict, without contradiction, without various divisions and so forth."
This point of view is in line with the philosophy of the Stoics. They believed that a person's body can be physically imprisoned, but not his mind (much like Viktor Frankl famously said in his Man's Search for Meaning). Shaffer adds to the distinction:
Liberty is a condition that arises from free people living together in society. Liberty is a social condition. Freedom is the inner philosophical and psychological condition.
In short, freedom is inherent to humans. It exists within them by virtue of their humanity. Liberty is a political construct that allows people to enjoy freedoms such as property rights, free speech, freedom of association, etc.
Sadly, liberty has not been the natural state of mankind. History has shown that liberty – particularly of the individual – has been a distinguishing feature of Western societies, especially in the early years of the United States.
Negative Rights vs. Positive Rights
One of the structural problems with American politics since the advent of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century has been the emphasis on positive rights (aka "positive liberties," a misnomer at an individual level if there ever was one) at the expense of negative ones. What are the differences between negative and positive rights?
Philosophy professor Aeon Skoble provides a good summary:
Fundamentally, positive rights require others to provide you with either a good or service. A negative right, on the other hand, only requires others to abstain from interfering with your actions. If we are free and equal by nature, and if we believe in negative rights, any positive rights would have to be grounded in consensual arrangements.
For example, private property, free speech, and freedom of association are negative rights. In other words, these are rights that prevent others – above all, the state – from transgressing on you personally or on your property.
Along with these rights come responsibilities. In other words, you must bear the consequences of your actions as you exercise them. This is why you can't "falsely shout fire in a theatre and cause a panic" without bearing the consequences of the panic you caused, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted in Schenk v. United States in 1919.
Like all negative rights, free speech comes with responsibility; if you use that speech to spread information which is false and causes harm, then you're not protected carte blanche. Others can petition the court for the panic you've caused as a result of your exercise of free speech.
On the other hand, positive rights are granted by the government and involve the trampling of an individual or another class of individuals' rights. These kinds of rights – like state-funded healthcare or public education – are justified on abstract grounds, such as the "public good" or the "general will." By their very nature, they require the state to take from one group in order to give to another, usually in the form of taxes.
Appeals to the general will originate from the famous 18th century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who emphasized that a strong government makes individuals free and that individuals submit to the state for the sake of the greater good. If that sounds backwards to you, you're not alone.
Author James Bovard highlights some of the follies behind Rousseau's thinking:
Rousseau's concept of the general will led him to a concept of freedom that was a parody of the beliefs accepted by British and American thinkers of his era. Rousseau wrote that the social contract required that 'whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free.'
In other words, if you don't want to go along with the "will of the people" (or as Rousseau defined it, "the general will"), then the state can compell you to do so – even if that means trampling your individual rights and responsibilities.
Bovard also noted how Rousseau's concept of freedom had nothing to do with the independence of the individual:
C. E. Vaughan, in a 1915 study of Rousseau's work, correctly observed that, for Rousseau, 'freedom is no longer conceived as the independence of the individual. It is rather to be sought in his total surrender to the service of the State.'
Rousseau (1712-78) was the first of the modern intellectuals, and one of the most influential Englightenment thinkers. He died a decade before the French Revolution of 1789, but many contemporaries held him responsible for it, and so for the demolition of the Ancien Regime in Europe.
One can see how Rousseau's ideas translated into actions when comparing the French Revolution to the American one. After all, ideas matter – especially in revolutionary politics.
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