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Chris Mouncey
Artist | Watercolours and Limited Edition Prints
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Please view the gallery categories to see examples of original artwork currently available.
Please visit the shop which offers limited edition giclee prints taken from original watercolour paintings by Chris Mouncey. You are dealing directly with Chris as artist and supplier.
Chris was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, in 1954 and has been painting watercolours professionally since 1980. He now lives in Weardale, Co. Durham and specialises in landscape, seascape and architecture. Many of his paintings are in public and private collections in this country and abroad.
Chris draws inspiration from the landscape surrounding his home in the Pennines, and from the Lake District , especially from the effects of light and changing weather. He finds watercolour the perfect medium for his subjects.
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3 Sprouts is a company founded in 2007 by 3 friends who worked with companies, like Kate Spade and Barney's, New York. Their commitment to provide well-designed products for children and mums has continued to shine as does their love for their babies and kids!
3 Sprouts is a company that believes that kids' products don't have to be boring in order to be functional. Whether you're looking for wall organisers, storage bins and boxes, laundry hampers for the kids' room or pram organisers to make being out and about with baby easy-peasy, you'll find adorably cute and fully functional products for kids and mums!
The 3 Sprouts brand brings to you pram organisers, wall organisers, storage solutions for kids rooms, including storage caddies and laundry hampers. You'll also find hooded towels and mobiles, all with a distinctive, animal theme.


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NMC tells Graphic Group to live up to billing
Kwasi Gyan Apenteng – Chairman, NMC
The National Media Commission (NMC) has called on the Graphic Communications Group Limited to live up to its billing and begin the process of redefining the role and the future of the newspapers industry in West Africa.
Nana Kwasi Gyan-Appenteng, the NMC Chairman, said the Graphic had done it before; adding that "Graphic can set the pace once again, as it did nearly 70 years ago to set the newspaper industry in Ghana on a new course".
He said the singular event that changed the cause of the newspaper business and elevated the status and practice of the press in Ghana was the establishment of the Daily Graphic in 1950.
He said the introduction of the Sunday Mirror as a Sunday sister paper of the Daily Graphic even raised the bar higher and created a new realm of quality news reporting in the country.
"The Daily Graphic and the Sunday Mirror set a benchmark for news quality that ever since then the word Graphic has become the generic word for newspapers," Nana Gyan-Appenteng said on Monday at the induction of the Board of the Graphic Communications Group (GCGL) in Accra.
The nine member Board is under the Chairmanship of Professor Kwame Karikari, a journalism and communications expert, and the founding Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa.
Other members of the Board include Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, outgoing Managing Director, GCGL; Ms Ajoa Yeboa Afari, Chairperson, Editors' Forum of Ghana.
The rest are Mr Osei Afriyie and Dr Rita Larsen-Reindorf, Nana Otuo Acheampong, Dr Mawuli Adjei, Mr Mohammed Yusuf Twumasi and Mr Bismarck Emmanuel Badu.
Nana Gyan-Appenteng administered the oath of office to the new Board; however, Mr Osei Afriyie was not available to part take in the induction ceremony.
Nana Gyan-Appenteng said: "Today, the newspaper business both as a business and a format for the dissemination of news is facing its biggest challenge in several centuries. The certainties that we have taken for granted are fast disappearing."
He said today, newspapers were at a disadvantage compared with other channels of communication.
"Newsprint is expensive, newsgathering is even more expensive, delivery of newspapers is not only expensive but incurs a carbon footprint that makes environmentally unfriendly, audience are declining, and newspapers are losing the prestige that it previously enjoyed," he said.
Nana Gyan-Appenteng said newspapers in Ghana were fast losing the plot because they were unable to excite their audience.
"And, I am not referring to excitement through sensationalism and titillation. I am referring to speaking the mind of the people and speaking truth to power," he said.
He said: "Today, newspapers are either too politically partisan or paralysed by timidity and fear of the owner or the state. Secondly, newspapers and many journalists have traded in their ethical and moral authority for personal and political gain."
"The net result is that newspapers have lost the powerful voice with which they spoke with for centuries," Nana Gyan-Appenteng said.
He urged the Board to position ethics at the centre of the work that goes on in the GCGL.
"As a company and as individuals we must strive to do the right thing at all times. We must choose to do what is right over what is wrong. The fact that we have done the wrong thing in the past does not justify doing the same thing again. This is the charge for the Board to keep," he said.
Mr Ashigbey, who would be leaving the GCGL at the end of this October, expressed gratitude to the NMC for giving him the opportunity to serve the company and mother Ghana.
He said they were in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding with Mega Choice Network to start the Graphic TV project and that should be pursued.
Mr George Sarpong, the Executive Secretary, NMC, said the 1992 Constitution enjoins the NMC to insulate the state-own media from governmental control.
Prof Karikari lauded the stability of the GCGL as compared to other public service organisations and appealed to the management and staff of the Company for their cooperation with the Board to enable them deliver on their mandate.
Prof Omane Antwi, immediate past Board Chairman, GCGL, said one of the challenges facing the Company was the huge indebtedness of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in terms of newspapers supplied to them and their placement of adverts in the newspapers.
He called on the new board to pursue an aggressive Digital Media Strategy, which would ensure engagements with the youth and attain market leadership in audience share within the digital media space with a profitable business model.
Pensioners plead for increase in monthly pension
Government urged to resource CSIR

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La Orden Civil José Cecilio del Valle es una condecoración que entrega el Gobierno de la República de Honduras y que fue creada en fecha 3 de octubre de 1957. El nombre lo lleva en honor del abogado José Cecilio del Valle que fue un estadista hondureño, que también se desenvolvió como representante de Honduras, Guatemala y fue diputado en el Primer Imperio Mexicano.

Descripción

La Orden Civil José Ceciclio del Valle fue regulada el 14 de noviembre de 1978, por resolución de la Junta Militar de Gobierno de la República de Honduras, en cumplimiento del Decreto 121 del 2 de febrero de 1971, del Congreso Nacional de la República.

El decreto establece que "La Orden Civil "José Cecilio del Valle" se concederá a nacionales y extranjeros, mediante Resolución del Consejo de la Orden y por Acuerdo emitido por medio de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Tiene por objeto significar el reconocimiento de la Patria a aquellos hondureños que hayan enaltecido a la Patria con su aporte a la Ciencia y la Cultura, o por el ejercicio ejemplar de virtudes ciudadanas; a los jefes de Estado, Diplomáticos y demás funcionarios extranjeros cuyas actuaciones tiendan a fortalecer la estructura y los propósitos del Sistema Interamericano; y a los intelectuales extranjeros que hayan hecho relevante labor en pro de la Solidaridad Continental o hayan defendido la dignidad soberana y el prestigio internacional de Honduras.

La Orden comprende los siguientes grados:
 Gran Collar
 Gran Cruz Placa de Oro
 Gran Cruz Placa de Plata
 Gran Oficial
 Comendador
 Oficial
 Caballero

Las insignias de los diferentes grados son descritas en el Decreto de la siguiente manera:
 Gran Collar: Formado por varias piezas entrelazadas por eslabones en cadena que unen, alternos, escudo de Centroamérica y pensamiento de Valle, terminando con una
Cruz en dorado y con esmaltes que tienen por fondo un mapa de América y la figura de Valle.
 Gran Cruz de Oro: de 75 mm de diámetro, teniendo igualmente, por fondo el mapa de América y la figura de Valle. La Cruz tendrá 5 estrellas doradas.
Venera para la Banda, de 50 mm de diámetro, toda en dorado. La Banda será de color verde con bordes dorados de 10 mm de anchura.
 Gran Cruz de Plata: igual a la anterior. Únicamente las estrellas serán plateadas y la Banda, siempre de color verde, tendrá los bordes de 10 mm de color plata.
 Gran Oficial: Placa igual a la de la Gran Cruz diferenciándose de ella por las ráfagas que van en Plata.
 Comendador: Cinta verde de la que cuelga una Cruz, igual a la venera de la Banda.
 La Cruz de Oficial: es igual a la Venera de la Banda toda en verde, con estrellas doradas.
 La Cruz de Caballero: es igual que la anterior pero llevando las estrellas en plata.

El otorgamiento de esta condecoración en cualesquiera de sus grados, corresponde al Presidente de la República, a propuesta del Consejo de la Orden, que él presidirá y que estará formado por tres miembros propietarios y tres suplentes, siendo su Canciller el Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores y su Secretario el Director del Ceremonial o Jefe de Protocolo, por ausencia del Presidente de la República, presidirá al Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores.

Condecorados
 Miguel Antonio Alvarado Ordóñez Premio Nacional de Ciencias "José Cecilio del Valle",
 Carlos Morales Troncoso
 Leonel Fernández
 Luis Landa Escober
 Víctor Cáceres Lara (1979)
 Isabel Gutiérrez de Bosch
 José Antonio Velásquez
 Rebeca Arias
 Armando Valladares
 Alejandro Peña Esclusa
 Juan Zaratiegui Biurrun
 Anne Chapman
 George Alleyne
 Nadine M. Hogan
 Miguel Ángel Ruiz Matute
 Julissa Reynoso
 Monseñor Rómulo Emiliani
 Miguel Manzi
 Jorge Hernán Miranda Corona
 Alfonso Fortín
 Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Notas

Enlaces externos
Registro Medallas del Reino Unido
Registro Sociedad Americana de Órdenes y Medallas
Registro Medallas del Reino Unido
Registro Sociedad Americana de Órdenes y Medallas

Órdenes de Honduras

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A referendum on austerity
The Greeks will be allowed to vote on their austerity package. A curious idea; will they vote for lower social spending, public sector wage cuts and reduced pensions? Or will they go with a fantasy that Greece is richer than it really is?
How would Britain vote if such a referendum were held here?
I think, at last, that the turkeys are going to vote against Christmas.
About time too, I won't bet on it though.
Lionel said...
I would vote for austerity. Yeah, make me poor, bring it on.
Michael Fowke said...
Socialists always vote for fantasy.
Osbourne argues that we did have such a referendum here and that we voted for a coalition.
The truth is that I think Britain would vote for severe cuts in things which are holding us back and which are causing offence to ordinary people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=suaclcVQdeA
This chap reckons that we owe his country around $6bn in royalties.
I have to admit that he does have a point.
Why would they vote for more austerity? It hasn't worked.
Take this post:
http://ukhousebubble.blogspot.com/search?q=insanity
and replace "quantitative easing" with "austerity", and "Bank of England" with "ECB/IMF". Same logic applies. Austerity hasn't worked and doing it once more won't work. The haircut can work, and it is important that the haircut is not manipulated by banks and hedge funds.
Here's an aticle which explains why this move will put pressure on the bankers who are trying to hustle a better deal for themselves:
http://prospect.org/article/bravo-papandreou
If Greece had its own currency austerity could have some impact on the whole crisis. But in the case of Greece the austerity is not leading them out of the mess. The Euro will hold strong and they will have an increasingly weaker economy to pay an increasingly more expensive debt.
At least the Greeks are getting a vote. We were promised one by all 3 main parties, who promptly ratted on their 'cast iron' assurances.
Shouldn't the Germans be paying Greek debt ?
It was they, after all, who invaded in WWII, massacred many of their people, took Jews away to death camps and left the rest to starve after forcing the Greek govt to 'lend' money at zero interest rates.
The Germans have never atoned nor paid back the debt said to be in the order of 90bn Euros in today's money.
The Germans are said to have 200bn in gold btw.


Trust: An agreement that describes how assets will be managed and held for the benefit of another person.
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The beneficiary is the person benefiting from the trust. The beneficiary can be one or more parties. Multiple trust beneficiaries do not have to have the same interests in the trust property. Trust beneficiaries DO NOT have to exist when the trust is established.
This person is typically the grantor of the trust – The person who has passed.
Every trust has one. This special person is the creator and the one who has the legal capacity to transfer property held under the trust.
Money, securities, real estate, jewelry, etc. is what is put inside a trust. Property can be any asset and can be transferred during the life of the grantor or under the will of the grantor after death.
The trustee of the trust can be any legal individual/corporation that can take title to property on behalf of a beneficiary. The trustee is responsible for managing the property according to trust & must always act in the best interest of the beneficiary. The trustee must be prepared to be held accountable to the grantor and/or beneficiaries.
The spouse who survived the decedent.
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We are very proud of our Belleville students! High school, middle school, and elementary school work is shown showcased at Livingston Mall during PRIDE (March 2018) along with proud work from area Essex County students! Proving we are PROUD of our STUDENTS and of our SCHOOLS!
Belleville Middle School hosted Family Literacy/ Cultural Night, April 2018. We thank PRIDE for their sponsorship of the event!


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The Four Year Itch
When I was playing MUDs/ MUSHes I had a theory that after about 3-4 years, a game would have to fundamentally change or else it would inevitably die.
There were/ are two main types of reason for MUDs to start flailing after a few years. The first is down to game mechanics; more complex systems have been added to keep current players occupied, it's harder and harder for a new player to catch up with people who have already played for awhile, help files and tutorials fall hopelessly out of date. The second is down to the player community; existing players already have their cliques and are unwelcoming, key people who shaped the community have gotten bored and left an unfilled vacuum, staff who helped make the game have moved on.
I think the 4 year mark just tended to be a perfect storm for all of these things coming to a head at once. The community turned in on itself, all the main evangelists had moved on, and the game itself became less friendly to newbies. And the result was that people looking for a new game would find one with fewer barriers.
You could tell when a game was in its death throes – you'd log in, there wouldn't be many people around and they would mostly be talking about how great things used to be. Staff would be miserable and frustrated. Player communities would be cliquey and unwelcoming to newbies. Whole areas of the grid (i.e.. the game world) would be empty, some of them would obviously have belonged to players who once put lots of time and energy into running them but now were derelict wastelands.
I was very curious when I began playing MMOs about how these huge, commercial, graphically rich games would get past the 4 year hump, or whether it was simply some peculiar law of virtual worlds and virtual communities that no game could deny. This came to mind recently because a few popular WoW bloggers have hung up their virtual pens this year. And it does happen to be at around the four year mark.
Despite all that is said about MUDs vs MMOs, the MMOs have genuinely brought something new and special to a moribund genre. The factors that might send a MUD into decline may not affect an MMO in the same way. But I thought it was a good opportunity to go through the list and see whether our MMOs are aging gracefully and if so, how.
Bear in mind, the sole reason for a game to close is because there are more players leaving than joining, and therefore the people running the game no longer find it viable. Because MUDs were generally non-commercial, staff tended to let them run until the community fell below critical mass. An MMO will have commercial constraints (ie. may be forced to close when it stops turning a profit.)
What can happen to a game after 3/4 years?
Mudflation: I love the word mudflation. Basically it represents what happens when people keep wanting their characters to progress via gear). You get to a point where old players have several years of progression represented by their character, which may have all the latest gear. And new players can't compete, and can't really catch up either. The old gear (which new players can get) becomes worthless. It has become totally outclassed by something else.
Using expansions to reset the end game will let newer players catch up to the original ones, but the old gear and mobs who dropped it still remain as a relic of the past.
In some ways it's interesting that games keep these relics in place. It means you can embark on your own virtual archaeology dig. But it's likely to be difficult to persuade anyone else to come with you.
Even though games like Everquest are still going, can you imagine recommending a new player to start with them? Can you imagine playing it now, if you didn't know a single other person in the game? But if you did, imagine what you could unearth as your own personal relic of one of the original MMOs.
Increased complexity: Games tend to start small and focussed. As time goes on, more and more complex subsystems are added to keep players amused. Think of all the new reputation grinds, different types of advancement experience, dual spec capabilities, cosmetic gear, etc.
If you are there from the beginning, you'll experience the game as it grows organically. You can grow with it. You can see easily what it adds to what you already know. But as a new player in an old game, you can be faced with a mountain of complex sub games and no easy way to know which ones came later and are more significant. When help files or breadcrumb quests are written, it's usually with existing players in mind, not people in a year's time who can't be assumed to automatically have the same base knowledge,
Outdated tutorials and in-game help: It is a basic rule of software development that no one ever remembers to update the help files unless they are forced with FIRE!
And this is also why although player-generated websites and tutorials are brilliant, they're not the automatic answer. People get bored of websites. They stop updating guides. Worse still, it may be difficult to tell when information is out of date.
And even if they do, are those help files aimed at new players, or at people who had been playing for a year, or at people who had been playing for two or more years? The older the game, the tougher this problem becomes.
Outdated graphics/ technology: The game just looks or feels dated. Maybe this goes beyond the looks to the actual design. Modern MMOs don't require players to spend hours camping a rare spawn any more, it's considered old fashioned (and not very fun).
Stratified (mature?) community: When a game is new, people are very focussed on forming social connections. Guilds are made, people group with each other for the first time, the community on a server develops. As the game gets older and players settle into their community, the drive to keep recruiting tends to fade. After all, the whole point of having a settled guild is that you no longer need to look outside.
As a new player, you're looking to break into an established community. It's not impossible, but on WoW, for example, the only guilds who regularly recruit are tradechat guilds who will take anyone and focussed raid guilds who need hardcore recruits. If you're looking for a friendly social guild it may not be so easy to find any more. I know we only recruit people who are friends of current guild members, for example, and that's quite common.
Other games won't have the same issues. But still, the focus of the community does shift away from meeting and training new players as the game gets older.
Player turnover: I don't know what the average length of a subscription is these days. Players who try a game and don't like it will stay for a month. Players who do like it will stay for a few (call it 6 months). More hardcore players or those who make strong social ties will stay even longer.
But in any case, after the initial social rush of people meeting for the first time in a new game, things settle down, and then you have the first proper wave of player turnover. This is where people who made significant communal ties start to leave. And if, for example, a guild leader or raid leader leaves and cannot be replaced then that guild or raid struggles to keep going.
A new player will notice that people in older guilds will spend more time talking about people they've never met and probably never will meet. You may get a sense of 'the good old days' from about six months into the game.
And if any of these older players come back, they may be treated better than newer ones, for no real reason other than that they were there at the start. So as a new player, it's easy to get the impression that not only is it hard to catch up in the game, it's also hard to catch up socially.
Of course, guilds split and reform all the time. And forming a new guild gives newer players a chance to get in at a community from the beginning. This is where MMOs, with their vastly higher numbers of players, can really win out over MUDs. If a community becomes too moribund, too unwelcoming, there's a good chance that newer players have other options.
Staff turnover: As well as players drifting in and out of the game, staff also burn out or find other jobs. So eventually you will end up with a development team who had almost no input into the original game. They may not share the same vision. They don't share the same sense of creative ownership. They may implement new features that don't really fit the original game.
The game drifts.
How MMOs have approached these problems
My original question has been answered many times over. Successful MMOs have found ways to address all of these issues.
Often, this kind of longevity wasn't designed in from the start. For a start, your game has to survive 4 years in the first place before this is even an issue. For example, I remember being shocked when WoW announced their first expansion. Stupid as it sounds now, we hadn't seen that as being inevitable.
Expansions: Love them or hate them, being able to reset the endgame opens up the game to people who weren't there from the beginning. There's also a risk that a new expansion makes all previous content obsolete and moves the game away from the themes and playing styles that people have learned to like. But them's the breaks.
I was particularly impressed that EVE revamped the starting experience recently. This is the kind of thing you really have to do to help new players get off the starting blocks.
Massive games: The more players in the game, the more chance a new player has to find either other newbies or a newbie-friendly guild to hook up with. If one guild breaks up, players have more opportunities to move on and keep going.
In a MUD which had maybe 30 people online as a max, that wasn't so much of an option.
Player driven support: There are a lot of help files and websites provided by other players. There's no guarantee that these will be kept up to date, of course, but they're likely more reliable than buying books.
Some games do seem to generate more helpful communities. I guess this is partly a function of the game being complex anyway and also whether it benefits old guilds to have new players. For example, EVE has an awesome amount of player-generated help available. People have written helpful programs, people run guilds/ corps designed purely to help newbies, etc. And it's amusing that this is the same game which also contains some of the most cutthroat play in the business.
WAR was also fairly newbie friendly. Bringing more people to a PvP raid was always helpful so guilds and public warbands were motivated to help newer players because they needed the manpower.
Tale in the Desert rewarded players for mentoring newbies.
City of Heroes makes it easy for players to group with higher level people. I'm not entirely sure how the rewards work out but certainly they removed barriers that might have stopped people from doing it.
In MUSHes, we encouraged faction based play so that players in a faction would be motivated to help others new players in the same faction. This actually did work quite well. We even flagged new players at one point so that older ones could see who might need help. But those were profoundly social games, so we could make some assumptions about player behaviour.
Breaking the four year mark!
Eventually, the game will stop being so appealing to newbies and most new players will either have friends in the game or will have picked it because they had no better choices. And that presents a different set of challenges.
But in any case, many of the original players will no longer be there. If they are even still playing MMOs, chances are they will be playing something else. Others will have moved on – four years is a long time, their lives will have changed. People may have gotten married, gone abroad, had babies. A lot can happen in four years and no game is forever.
At that point, the game needs to cater for the longterm players who do stay on, or else it will die. So devs need to really listen to what current players want, and watch what they are actually doing, and respond appropriately.
If WoW is changing, becoming more casual friendly, becoming more accessible, becoming more funnelled, then it's because this is what devs perceive that players want. It may not be what the original players wanted, but they had their fun.
So it's OK if people decide that they've had enough, the game is no longer the one they loved, and they want to move on.
Everything changes in life. Virtual worlds too. Is it arrogant to design for this from the beginning? Look at WAR, they originally spoke about a 5 year plan. They may well still be on course for it. Now all they have to do is to survive for 5 years …
Posted in general mmo | Tagged accessibility to new players, complex systems, everything changes, four year itch, mud, mudflation, mush, newbies, outdated help, player communities, resistance to change, surviving longterm | 17 Comments


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Joakim Henberg är en svensk handbollsspelare som spelar för HK Country. Han kom tillbaka till sin moderklubb till säsongen 2010/2011 från elitserielaget IFK Skövde.

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It wasn't that long ago that having access to cameras was a luxury. Nowadays, anybody with a smartphone can take at least passible pictures with ease. But even when we still had to rely on Kodak to commemorate our vacations, it was still a massive improvement over the early days of photography.
Long before traditional cameras, people employed camera obscuras. Images projected using this natural phenomenon were larger than normal but inverted. Functionally, it was like our modern projectors. Some artists would use the projected image as a guide or even trace the image, much like a lightbox. This was the only way to preserve the image after turning the device off.
In 1816, Nicephore Niepce successfully made a partial photograph using a camera he built, and a paper coated with silver chloride. Unfortunately, he hadn't figured out how to remove the untreated silver chloride, meaning the image was eventually darkened completely by the light needed to view it. In the mid-1820s, Niepce used a new sliding wooden camera (created by Charles and Vincent Chevalier) to experiment with Bitumen of Judea. Only one of the photos from this experiment, View from the Window at Le Gras, has survived.
Louise Daguerre continued to experiment with cameras after Niepce's death in 1833, resulting in the first practical photographic process in 1837. Dubbed the "daguerreotype," it used silver-plated copper treated with iodine vapor to create images. It was wildly successful after debuting to the public in 1839, where both it and the calotype began introducing photography to the masses. Normally, having portraits taken was an activity exclusive to the upper classes. The cost and amount of time needed to produce such works were unreasonable for most working-class people. The speed of the camera, which only increased as time went on, made it possible for anybody to have quality portraits.
When photographic film hit the market in 1888, cameras truly began to resemble the ones we know today. George Eastman began selling his Kodak cameras, which were affordable and small enough for the average consumer to consider. The film inside could hold up to 100 photos, and the entire device would have to be sent back to the factory for processing and printing. In 1900, he introduced the Brownie camera, introducing the snapshot to the public. It was during this time that movie cameras went from expensive toys to tools with legitimate commercial use.
Another common type of film was 35mm. Typically, cheaper cameras used roll film, whereas higher-end would utilize 35mm. Eventually, even lower-grade cameras were equipped with 35mm film, although the least expensive cameras would still use roll film. Famous camera company Canon had its start during this period, gaining popularity with other Japanese cameras after the Korean War. Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras were also gaining traction with the public as the technology made them less bulky. Both SLR and twin-lens reflex (TLR) cameras were available previously, but mostly appealed to professionals due to both size and cost.
Instant cameras, such as the famous Polaroid, first appeared on the market in 1948. The simple nature and ability to print and view photos within minutes made them popular with families, even with higher prices at launch. Automatic exposure followed a similar story: expensive at first, but quickly catching on among consumers and lowering in cost as time went on. All of these elements combined would lead to the earliest digital cameras. Unfortunately, the history of the digital camera is far too dense to cover in its entirety here, but to give you a rough idea of where they started: the very first digital cameras stored their images on floppy disk.
It's hard to imagine where cameras will go from here when now professional-grade images can be produced with nothing but a timer button and a selfie stick. At the same time, however, it's fascinating to think that just over 200 years ago, photographs, as we know them, were still experimental. Technology can change drastically in a short amount of time; maybe in ten years' time, we'll have camera eyes.


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Hardware idiot check - there is 1.3 volts on pin2 at idle. I am using Analog In pin 2.
And modded the display as you suggest.
Press is displaying 0.1 at 1.3 volts, rising to 0.9 max when driving. Maybe a display issue?
InstMPG is zero for any value of "us per gallon" and currentMPG is 999. It looks like it thinks no fuel is being used. Instant raw data shows a "random" value for injus. Could it be that the value is out of range for calcs and for displaying a sensible number?
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Well the displayed mpg has been making some sense, so I think I escaped this particular mistake! It did take me many attempts to get the right wire for Vss: as they say, measure twice, cut once. Not so easy to measure something that needs the wheel to turn though.
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That looks pretty good actually We avoid floating point math on these little chips so instead the display routine assumes every number you pass it is 1000 times larger than it is.
So multiply the pressure number by 1000 before displaying it if you want to see it as a whole number.
Oh I see! Why didn't I think of that Good news.
My breadboard is looking dangerous so I'm taking time out for an enclosure, decent connections and tidying up. This is my daily driver so I can't afford any mistakes. Besides my partner thinks I've lost the plot, what with filling the car with bare wires!!
I got as far as multiplying pressure by a thousand for the mpg calc, and at that stage mpg was kind of making sense. I get the impression that pressure has a far bigger effect on fuel burnt than injector duration.
I have read that 1350 bar is unlikely to be seen- since there is only a small window at 4000 rpm where it's called for. And in any case my pump is 120 000 miles old!!
Note the analogRead*1000 reading and the pressure gauge reading at minimum pressure.
Note the analogRead*1000 reading and the pressure gauge reading at maximum pressure.
Graph and determine linearity or if curve function needed to predict pressure from analogRead.
the injectorDelay is probably a lot less than the typical 500. That initial pulse probably isn't 500us long. Might just be 100 us. How long is the pre-pulse?
The flow is a function of time and differential pressure. You have the input pressure, might need to guess at the BMEP (150.8 x TORQUE (lb-ft) / DISPLACEMENT (ci) ). Given that your injectors are at like 3000 psi at idle, and bmep is maybe 300 psi at full throttle? It won't represent more than a %10 error, should be much less. But worth thinking about.
What is redline on that anyway?
Thanks. The analogread is all I have for pressure, I was going to assume linearity. Non-linearity is not a problem I had anticipated!
I also agree that the cylinder pressure should not significantly affect injection, I'm not going to worry about 10% effects.
I have read that the "pilot injection" is a few us long, I could not separate it from the main injection last time I scoped it. So for my purposes I hope I can treat the injection as a single event. I'm thinking that running a scope whilst driving would be illuminating at this stage.
Redline is about 4500rpm; but I rarely exceed 2200 as peak torque is 184ft-lb at 1750rpm. Nice and relaxed!
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I would check linearity with the system pressure gauge and the analogread just to be sure, simple enough test.
Sounds like at 72 volts and tons of pressure you can just about turn injectordelayUS to 0.
I'm looking at building an MPGuino to put into my 2001 A2 1.4TDi - am I looking at similar challenges in getting things to work as you are with your HDi? Or can I use the standard code with the VSS & injector control signals?
I'm in the UK too - can I ask where you bought your bits from?
Hi eamon, I would direct you to the TDI guino thread, it looks like a different animal but I'm no expert on diesels. dremd has been preoccupied with hurricanes, but he has a TDI and is looking to figure it out also, as is wyatt and tas and I'm sure more than few others for whom a scangauge won't work.


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Q: How to animate current Activity (not transition)? I wonder how to animate current Activity, not transition between activities. For example, I want to shift the activity slightly to the left and then move it back, so that it looks like a little shake effect. Any ideas? Thanks

A: Finally I have found a solution:
    Animation animation = new TranslateAnimation(
            Animation.RELATIVE_TO_PARENT, 0.0f,
            Animation.RELATIVE_TO_PARENT, -0.05f,
            Animation.RELATIVE_TO_PARENT, 0.0f,
            Animation.RELATIVE_TO_PARENT, 0.0f);
    animation.setDuration(100);
    animation.setInterpolator(new AccelerateInterpolator());
    animation.setRepeatCount(1);
    animation.setRepeatMode(Animation.REVERSE);

    View viewActivity = findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    if (viewActivity != null)
        viewActivity.startAnimation(animation);

A: you need to create animation instance like below
 Animation startAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, R.anim.shaking_animation);

then u need to start that animation with your parent layout
   parent_layout.startAnimation(startAnimation);

you can get shake animation here shaking / wobble view animation in android
finally you can clear animation like below
parent_layout.clearAnimation();

A: The basic idea is to get access to the root layout of the activity and then do some animations on it, e.g. if you use DataBindung it is just like this (but not the best idea for the kind of animation you want):
    binding.getRoot().animate().rotation(-5).setDuration(500).setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
            binding.getRoot().animate().rotation(5).setDuration(1000).setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() {
                @Override
                public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
                    binding.getRoot().animate().rotation(0).setDuration(500);
                }
            });
        }
    });

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Q: Is it possible to not output the raw object when dealing with GMock EXPECT_CALL? I've got the following matcher
class HorizonFileFormatInlineCrosslineMatcher : public MatcherInterface < const HorizonFileFormat& >
{
public:
    HorizonFileFormatInlineCrosslineMatcher(int inline_col, int crossline_col) : inline_col_(inline_col), crossline_col_(crossline_col)
    {}

    virtual bool MatchAndExplain(const HorizonFileFormat& hff, MatchResultListener* listener) const
    {
        *listener << "inline and crossline are (" << hff.inlineColumnIndex() << ", " << hff.xlineColumnIndex() << ")";

        return
            hff.inlineColumnIndex() == inline_col_ &&
            hff.xlineColumnIndex() == crossline_col_;
    }

    virtual void DescribeTo(::std::ostream* os) const
    {
        *os << "inline and crossline match expected (" << inline_col_ << ", " << crossline_col_ << ")";
    }

    virtual void DescribeNegationTo(::std::ostream* os) const
    {
        *os << "inline and crossline do not match expected (" << inline_col_ << ", " << crossline_col_ << ")";
    }
private:
    int inline_col_;
    int crossline_col_;
};

inline Matcher<const HorizonFileFormat&> MatchInlineCrossline(int inline_col, int crossline_col)
{
    return testing::MakeMatcher(new HorizonFileFormatInlineCrosslineMatcher(inline_col, crossline_col));
}

When it fails, it successfully outputs
    [ RUN      ]
    DecisionSpaceHorizonImporterTests.when_the_survey_is_crossline_a_crossline_format_importer_is_used
    unknown file: error:
    Unexpected mock function call - taking default action specified at:
    decision_space_horizon_importer_tests.cpp(87):
        Function call: createPointSoupHorizonImporter(@000000000023EC40 88-byte object <20-A3 92-00 00-00 00-00 B0-16 1B-10 00-00 00-00 20-D3 18-10 00-00 00-00 CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC 21-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 2F-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC 00-00 00-00 03-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 01-00 00-00 FF-FF FF-FF FF-FF FF-FF 02-00 00-00 01-00 00-00>, @000000000023EBD8 {})
              Returns: 000000000E850660
    Google Mock tried the following 1 expectation, but it didn't match:

    decision_space_horizon_importer_tests.cpp(137): EXPECT_CALL(*importer_factory, createPointSoupHorizonImporter(MatchInlineCrossline(1, 0), A<const HorizonImport::Attributes&>()))...
      Expected arg #0: inline and crossline match expected (1, 0)
               Actual: 88-byte object <20-A3 92-00 00-00 00-00 B0-16 1B-10 00-00 00-00 20-D3 18-10 00-00 00-00 CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC 21-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 2F-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC CC-CC 00-00 00-00 03-00 00-00 00-00 00-00 01-00 00-00 FF-FF FF-FF FF-FF FF-FF 02-00 00-00 01-00 00-00>, inline and crossline are (0, 1)
             Expected: to be called once
               Actual: never called - unsatisfied and active
    decision_space_horizon_importer_tests.cpp(137): error: Actual function call count doesn't match EXPECT_CALL(*importer_factory, createPointSoupHorizonImporter(MatchInlineCrossline(1, 0), A<const HorizonImport::Attributes&>()))...
             Expected: to be called once
             Actual: never called - unsatisfied and active
    [  FAILED  ]
    DecisionSpaceHorizonImporterTests.when_the_survey_is_crossline_a_crossline_format_importer_is_used (6 ms)

Note the hex pairs that, while technically describing the objects passed in, aren't exactly useful and distract the eye from the actual useful data of "inline and crossline are (0, 1)" vs "inline and crossline match expected (1, 0)"
What can I do to exclude these objects from the output?

A: You need to define a printer function for your class. Make sure you define it in the same namespace where your class is defined.


You have probably heard about Theresa May's program to propagandise the British people with their own money.
The M in M&C stands for Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi (Arabic: موريس ساعتجي).
The C stands for Charles Saatchi (Arabic: تشارلز ساعتجي). Maurice and Charles, according to Wikipedia, are two of "four sons born to Nathan Saatchi and Daisy Ezer, a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq. The name "Saatchi" ساعتچی (sā'ātchi), which means "watchmaker", originates from Persian. ساعتچي This name has a long history in Iran and its bearers are mostly Jewish. Famous for owning antique shops, watch shops, gold and jewellery."
The Guardian has an article about the initiative, which is markedly enthusiastic in tone. You would think the Left might at least raise an eyebrow at a nominally conservative government funding a large-scale advertising campaign to influence unapproved political perceptions. But not a trace of reserve can be seen.
The article also seems to suffer from some unfortunate reality inversion. "Think different" it suggests. But the "Alt Right" are the ones who do think different. What this propaganda programme will propose is that those who already think different give it up and get back in line: stop taking those red pills, take this shiny new blue pill and clamber back into your pod.
Among the complex of ideas that comprise the ideology of the Alt Right are that 1) Governments abuse their power to foster the perception that immigration and ethnic diversity are desirable things; and 2) Jews work to promote immigration within majority European societies and stigmatise opposition to it. The campaign itself then, financed by a government, run by a Jewish agency, will clearly validate core elements of the Alt Right belief system. But although overt propaganda would be sinister enough, what is proposed goes far beyond that.
The agency is reticent about discussing the details of its government brief. It says its role is not to deliver a national ad campaign, but rather to support the work of civic groups around the country that are already working in communities to steer people away from extremist ideas. It is assisting in various ways, from straightforward logistics, such as helping small organisations to build websites, to strategic advice on how to identify and engage with particular audiences. Its job is not to define the message, but to offer creative advice to others where needed. It might be as simple as helping with how to word a headline on a leaflet or a post on Facebook.
"It will be under-the-radar stuff," says Benedict Pringle, editor of the website PoliticalAdvertising.co.uk, who has studied in detail M&C Saatchi's past political work. "If we see their work, then they will probably be doing something wrong." In other words, the agency will be an invisible hand, guiding the communications of various other groups involved in the fight against extremism.
So here we will have a Jewish "invisible hand" guiding communications, pulling strings and monitoring conversations. As far as validating "traditional antisemitic tropes" is concerned, this might as well have been taken straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The idea of paid government agents monitoring conversations and intervening in them, without revealing who they are, posing instead as ordinary members of the public, in order to "change behaviour" is, self-evidently, profoundly sinister and subversive of democratic norms. But there's not a sign of any mainstream dissent on this issue. This, too, is one of the costs of diversity: the continuous erosion of European freedom, cheered on by an out-of-control elite, brought to a state of derangement by its obsession with "racism", which, after all, is really just a reification of the resistance of the European peoples to their own extinction.
Ah, Charles Saatchi, the wife-strangler (remember Nigella Lawson?). Obviously the best tool for the state to crush non-state-approved data from entering the public consciousness...have to wonder if his culture drove his actions, which led to his divorce.
Propaganda sionista con el dinero de los contribuyentes.
Looks like the first hasbara/ state troll has made his appearance under the name of johnny ropata on youtube and twitter. Despite only two videos he has attracted a wide number of supporters. Strangely, many from brand new accounts.
Someone should set up a website exposing these fake IDs.


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Yaky Yosha is a film director from Israel, known for realism. Yosha's films have often stirred social controversy in his homeland and outside of it. About his work Yosha once said: "Art only as Aesthetics is meaningless. As an artist, I am trying to grasp the meaning of life. I ask questions related to myself and to the country in which I was born. I am trying to make movies and thus to find the answers. God knows if I'll ever find them…" His films were shown at Cannes, IDFA, Locarno and other international film festivals.

Biography
Yaky Yosha was born in Tel Aviv in 1951. In his youth, he created several shorts including The End (1968) with The Doors epic as its soundtrack, and The Killers (1970), based on a story by Hemingway.

In 1972 Yosha directed Shalom, his first feature film. The movie was independently produced and most of the cast and crew were personal friends. Young Yosha acted in the lead role while his wife, Dorit, who produced the film, played the female lead. Due to financial difficulties, the production extended for over a year. A similar period was needed for editing, and finally "the first and probably last Israeli hippie film," was completed. Shalom was considered prophetic, and regarded as the first political Israeli film ever made. Released immediately following the Yom Kippur War (1973), the film was a flop at the box office.

Yosha's second film, Rockinghorse (1978), is considered one of the masterpieces of Israeli cinema, and was the first film to represent Israel in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival. The movie went on to premiere in film festivals around the globe, and took home the special jury prize and best actor award in the Oxford International Film Festival.

The Vulture (1981) dealt with the problematic "Industry of Death that lies behind Israel's wars". The film provoked great controversy among the Israeli public, which felt the film has crossed a blood-red line. The Israeli censors cut "The Vulture", but when selected to represent Israel in the Cannes Film Festival, it was screened abroad in its uncut version.

A year later, Yosha directed Dead End Street, inspired by the true story of a young prostitute who took part in the making of the documentary about her efforts to abandon the streets, only to commit suicide hours before the film was broadcast. Bruce Springsteen agreed to contribute three songs to the soundtrack for free.  Like Yosha's previous two films, Dead end Street also represented Israel at Cannes. The

Summertime Blues, released in 1984, is a movie about youth, about the last summer vacation right before the army, in the dawn of the Lebanon war, about the beach, bikes, girls and rock and roll.

In the mid-1980s Yosha landed in Los Angeles, and in 1992 he directed the erotic-thriller Sexual Response, starring Shannon Tweed and Catharine Oxenberg, distributed by Colombia TriStar.

In 1995, upon his return to Israel, Yosha focused on writing and directing for television. He wrote and directed the drama series, Night Fare, as well as two movies made for television Joint and Junky. In 1997, he returned to the big screen with Bloodguilt, a dark tale of a dangerous romantic triangle based on the biblical story of Jacob, Rachel and Leah. The following year, Yosha directed Shabazi, a feature film based on the television series Night Fare. In 1999 he joined police patrol cars, documenting pursuits, arrests, and all the moments in between. Those nights became the Israeli version of Cops.

In 2000 Yosha directed a feature-length documentary, Inherit the Earth, narrated by Liam Neeson, about the preparations for the Pope's historic visit to Israel. During the making of Inherit the Earth, Yosha met major general Alik Ron, the Israeli northern district police chief, who became the subject of his next documentary The Main Suspect (2002), selected to the International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam) in 2003.

Between the years 2003-2005 Yosha directed four documentaries about a Christian sect that lives according to the principles of Christ's first followers.

"Still Walking", Yaky Yosha's first novel was published in Hebrew in March 2008. His latest feature "Walking" premiered in 2010. According to Yosha: "Still Walking is going to be Shalom's older brother, and show the same youngsters pondering over the social and political state they live in, when they're a generation older. The film, following the book, will track them down when all is without hope." Yaky yosha said that he does not intend to bring social change with this film and that he had long forsaken the idea that art can fix anything. He was also cited calling this film mere lament to a country that has lost its path to militarism and cruelty.

Filmography
1968 "Peace and…" 15 Min. (director, writer, actor)
1969 "The End" 20 Min. (director, writer, actor)
1970 "The Killers" 45 Min. (director, writer)
1973 "Shalom" 80 Min. (director, writer, actor, composer)
1978 "Rocking Horse" 90 Min. (director, writer, editor)
1981 "The Vulture" 92 Min. (director, writer, editor)
1982 "Dead End Street" 90 Min. (director, writer)
1984 "Summertime Blues" 90 Min. (director, writer, editor)
1992 "Sexual Response" 90 Min. (director)
1995-1997 "Night Fare" TV Series 25 Min.X13 Ep. (Series 1: director, writer. Series 2: director, writer, editor)
1997 "Joint" 30 Min. (director, writer)
1997 "Junky" 50 Min. (director, writer)
1998 "Bloodguilt" 85 Min. (director, writer)
1997 "Shabazi" 90 Min. (director, writer, editor)
1999-2000 "Israeli Cops" Documentary TV Series 30 Min.X12 Ep.(director, editor)
2001 "Inherit the Earth" 80 Min. (director, writer, editor)
2003 "The Main Suspect" 60 Min. (director, writer, editor, narrator)
2003 "God Provides" (director, writer, editor)
2004 "For the love of my brothers and friends" (director, editor)
2004 "Salt of the Earth" (director, editor)
2006 "Lior" 15 Min. (director, writer, editor)
2010 "Walking" 90 min. (director, writer, editor)

Books
Still Walking

References

External links

 Yaky Yosha's official website
 About Yaky Yosha on Cannes Festival's Director's Fortnight's website
 about Yosha on Cinema South International Film Festival's website
 "A matured hippie", an interview with Yaky Yosha by Nirit Anderman, "Haaretz"
 "Prince of tides", an interview with Shmulik Kraus about the movie "Rockinghorse"

1951 births
Living people
People from Tel Aviv
Israeli Jews
Israeli film directors
Israeli novelists


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IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD DOWN ON THE DAIRY FARM.
Just ask the Larson family of Okeechobee, Florida — worthy of our salute and respect during National Dairy Month!
Aerial View of JM Larson Dairy Farm, Okeechobee, Florida (Photo By: Cole Verano)
June is National Dairy Month, and that's a perfect time for me to turn the spotlight on some personal heroes of mine — U.S. dairy farmers. Specifically, I want to share with you just one astonishing example of the amazing technological innovations that future-focused, hard-working dairy folks are up to. And this story is a personal one for me.
Dairy farmers have always been known as stewards of our land and water. In fact, nobody is more committed to the environment than farmers. But what's happening on four farms in Okeechobee County in central Florida — in terms of a commitment to sustainability — is remarkable.
Members of the locally famous Larson family have been dairy farmers since 1947, and are now into the fourth generation on the farm. Most recently, they have been working on implementing a groundbreaking new way to recycle waste manure — one of the biggest environmental challenges of dairy farmers. J. M. Larson, Inc. has partnered with Brightmark Energy to convert 230,000 tons of manure per year into renewable natural gas. Yup — from poop to power.
The Larsons will provide this fuel directly to Florida Power and Light for use by their customers — and it all starts with cow manure.
I won't get into the technical details of how anaerobic methane digesters work, but the result is (1) significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, (2) the creation of renewable natural gas and electricity to replace fossil fuels, and (3) jobs and improved environmental benefits to the local Florida community.
I recently spoke with one of America's most passionate and dedicated dairy farmers, John Larson, who not only happens to be a tireless leader among the Larson Family in advancing the importance of the dairy promotion checkoff, but represents so many of the values that are important for future generations to understand about the intersection of agriculture within their daily lives. You might have seen my Instagram Live interview with John earlier this month — and like me — was extremely humbled to learn that his family's legacy in the Florida dairy industry goes back half a century. I learned from John, and his family, that modern dairy farming isn't just about sustainability, it's about ethics.
Woody, Red and John Larson in conversation on-site at JM Larson Dairy Farm, Okeechobee, Florida
"My dad was part of the 'greatest generation,' a World War II bomber pilot, who educated himself on the G.I. Bill and founded our family farming business," Larson says. "He always said to me, 'If there's an opportunity to do the right thing, you've gotta do it.' To me, our energy partnership with Brightmark is just that. I'm so proud of what we're doing. In recycling our cow manure into energy on our four farms, it's the carbon-footprint equivalent of planting 71,000 acres of forest, or powering up 4,000 homes," Larson explains. Of the four farms involved, two are owned by Larson Dairy, Inc. and two by JM Larson, Inc.
This kind of innovative and transformational thinking is what the dairy industry is about now, and some of the change actually happened because of the pandemic.
During that challenging time, dairy farmers redirected supply-chain resources; engaged with hunger organizations and school nutrition programs; re-designed and re-thought packaging of products such as cheese for food banks; provided new trucking and refrigeration solutions; and developed partnerships with schools that included raising significant funding for emergency meal delivery to students during school shutdowns.
But it's through dairy's Net Zero Initiative that U.S. dairy is working with commercial and NGO partners to identify, implement, and scale new technologies and economically-viable practices in feed production, cow care, energy efficiency, and manure management on farms of all sizes. This will enable progress toward greater greenhouse gas reductions and improvements in water quality and quantity, as well as in farmer livelihood. And there's no better example of that than the Larson family and their colleagues at Florida Dairy Farmers.
On a very personal level, I've always felt a heartfelt connection to the Larson family, and have admired their deep allegiance to the dairy industry, their passion for their work, and their dedication to our youth and the health of future generations. John's beloved dad "Red" Larson passed away in 2020 at the age of 96 after a life well lived, and his death was a loss not only to the family, but to American agriculture. He leaves quite a legacy. My four kids and I are wiser about, and more appreciative of, the importance of dairy in our lives because of the sacrifices made by John and the several generations of his family that have pioneered, and are continuing to pioneer, a industry they love. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.
On a professional level, as the CEO of a youth-wellness organization, I like to encourage the young people with whom we work to consider careers in this ever-advancing world of scientifically-savvy, environmentally-committed agriculture. Youth can and should be part of the game-changing next generation of American and global food systems professionals that today and tomorrow's dairy farmers represent — doing fantastic things that are so crucial to life on Earth, and prospering in a new era of global caring — for people and the planet.
Join me in celebrating National Dairy Month by saluting forward-thinking farm families like the Larsons, and encouraging young people to emulate them by building on their innovations for the greater good of all!
Alexis Glick is Chief Executive Officer of GENYOUth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing child health and wellness through programs presented in partnership with the National Football League and the National Dairy Council. Glick also serves as a frequent contributor to CNN, MSNBC and many other global news networks, providing her perspective on domestic and international business topics of importance, the financial markets and CEO leadership trends. Glick is a frequent, strategic advisor to CEOs for some of the largest international, blue-chip and Fortune 500 companies on issues relating to media strategy, business development, investor relations and communications and advises professional athletes on social media, branding, and public speaking. Glick, a graduate of Columbia University, is currently completing a book on the intersection of profit and purpose, which highlights her insights and experiences from the board room, finance, media and philanthropy, describing what leaders and companies can do to support the causes and issues of greatest importance, not only to their current employees and customers, but to those of future generations.
Mom of 4 with Oren. CEO of GENYOUth. Strategic adviser. Former news anchor and financial analyst.
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Concerns about the effects of magnetic fields on human health require careful monitoring of our exposure to them. Mandatory exposure limits have been defined for electric and hybrid vehicle architectures, in domestic and work environments, or simply to shelter sensitive devices from unintended sources of magnetic disturbance. In a new study published in EPJ Plus, physicists Jose Manuel Ferreira and Joaquim Anacleto from the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University in Portugal develop a method for deriving an approximate value of the circulation around a loop of the magnetic field generated by the flow of electric current in an arbitrarily-shaped wire of a given length.
Magnetic fields are not only ubiquitous; they can also move around. For example, each time an electric current passes through a wire, it generates a magnetic field that changes in tandem with the wire's shape. This was proven by the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted in 1820. Subsequently, Jean-Marie Biot and Félix Savart gave their names to a law describing the magnetic field away from an electric current, which depends on the distance and orientation relative to the direction of current, and the strength of the current.
In this study, the authors set out to adapt Biot-Savart's law, which describes the magnetic field generated by finite wires, to evaluate the circulation of such fields around a closed path or loop. This led the authors to a mathematical formula that, as the finite wire thickness decreases to zero, becomes identical to one of their recent research results expressing the magnetic field circulation as a function of the wire current and of the solid angles between the circulation path and each of the conducting wire's endpoints.
The authors found that the circulation around a closed path of the magnetic field generated by a non-closed portion of circuit was identical to that resulting from the interchange of the portion of circuit with the closed path. The next step would be to produce simple approximations of the magnetic fields generated by a variety of finite-length conductors of various shapes.


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The Heidegger Review
"The most thought-provoking thing about the times we live in is that we still are not thinking." Martin Heidegger
Contents, Heidegger Review no 1
A Comment on 'Why Heidegger is interesting
Editorial: (2) Technology — the Radio and the Clone
Heidegger's Philosophical Notebooks 1939-1941 – a selection
Ireland needs an intellectual life
Philosophical Notebooks
Tom Kettle and the War against Nietzsche
Why Heidegger is interesting
'Third Rome, Third International, Third Reich' – Alexander Dugin and the 'Fourth Political Theory'
Editorial 1 — Heidegger Review 1
Heidegger Review No 2. Editorial: On the Poet-Philosophers of Greece, a Few Notes
Heidegger Review No 2
Heidegger Review 2 — Table of contents
What I want to do in this presentation is to say, in a few sketches, why I think this philosopher is interesting. I'll begin by saying where I think he was coming from and why he became a star in European philosophy in the late 1920s. I'll go on then to his political evolution, how he became a member of the Nazi Party and what kind of Nazi he was. After that, I'll say something more about the later notebooks, including some that he wrote during the first two years of the war. The main ideas that he defended for 30 years after the war are taking shape already in these notebooks.
Heidegger's background was rural German Catholic. To begin with, he was a Catholic philosopher. But like a great many others, his thinking changed in the early 1920s. There are arguments over how this happened. I can only guess, and my guess is that what happened was that he read Nietzsche, and he took in Nietzsche's idea that Christianity was dead, historically burnt out, and he was shaken to the core. But if the Christian way of thinking about the human being and the world wouldn't do, what would do?
Heidegger came up with an answer to this in his book called Being and Time which appeared in 1927, and which made him famous. To see why it caused such a stir, I think we have to look at what the other philosophies of the time were like. The cult of science was already very strong by then. Some philosophers were reducing the human being to a function of science or a scientific problem.
In my opinion, this is what Wittgenstein's philosophy amounted to, insofar as it was philosophy rather than mysticism. Wittgenstein wanted to remove everything that was vague and incorrect and unscientific from ordinary human speech. Then when we were all speaking clearly and
correctly like well-programmed little machines, we would come up against the really important thing –
but it couldn't be spoken about, there was nothing at all we could say about it! Of course, you could have
this sort of philosophy without the mysticism – Bertrand Russell's philosophy was something like that.
Marxism preferred to consider the human being as a force of production or as a member of a class pursuing its class interests. Also, Marxism was very much influenced by the theory of evolution. When this was applied to human beings it often led to the view that human beings as they currently existed were hopelessly inadequate and unsatisfactory, and it was necessary to change them completely, maybe even into a different and superior type of being. Nietzsche was a long way from Marxism, but it was he who came up with the idea of the Superman: as the ape was to man, so man would be to the superman. This idea of the superman made a big impression and came up again in different forms. We find Trotsky expressing it in the 1920s, when he said that the average man of the future would be on the level of Aristotle, Goethe and Marx. And that would only be one peak of achievement, he said, there would be higher peaks rising up beyond it.
In Russia of the 1920s there were people who were speculating very freely on getting beyond the unsatisfactory human being as we know him. Bogdanov, for example, had the idea of transforming the population by blood transfusions. (Like Francis Bacon before him, he martyred himself to science: he died of a transfusion experiment which he was carrying out on himself in 1928.) Svjatogor and Jaroslavskij wrote about abolishing death and producing human immortality. Mouravjev had the idea of a population policy which wouldn't rely on haphazard sexual intercourse and messy childbirth: instead, populations would be scientifically produced in laboratories.
Heidegger came up with some totally different ideas which countered all of this. He gave a description of basic human experience. He said: you come into a world which you did not make and which was not made for you. And you don't come in gently or smoothly. You're flung into it, hurled like a projectile. But immediately you begin to discover that you can respond to your situation and keep your flight going. And just when you're starting to get good at it, when you feel it is possible to have some element of control, you realise that you're not going to have enough time, because this flight of yours, which had a beginning, will also have an end. You're on the way towards death. And what you have to do, in the time that you've got, is to try to live the life that is proper or authentic for the special You that you are. This is very difficult, because from all sides there are pressures on you to live a standardised, average, line-of-least-resistance life. But as far as possible you must try to live your authentic life and then die your authentic death.
In effect, Heidegger was putting it up to the evolutionists and the scientists: this is what human life is about – tell me how you're going to evolve your way out of that! Maybe his description doesn't sound very cheerful. I should say that I'm not at all sure I can do him justice: I find most of Being and Time quite unreadable, there are just some sections that spring to life. No doubt that was also the experience of Albert Camus, who got what I think is a one-sided impression: he said that Heidegger showed the human being as humiliated and wretched.
But whether or not we are wretched, according to Heidegger we are definitely special. In the world we're surrounded by all kinds of other Beings, or Things-that-are-in- Being: animals, plants, hills, the sky and the stars. But none of those other Beings relate to their own Being. We do. And we do it all the time, it's inseparable from life. And that is what makes us special.
As Heidegger describes us, we are Beings that worry and Beings that care. Life is about certain people and things mattering to us, making us care about them. We live in a context, and we're committed. Living means being involved, or engaged. And likewise knowing. There's the well-known proverb that says, "What you don't know won't worry you" – Heidegger would turn that round and say, "What you don't care about, you'll never know". Or in his language: "Awareness of reality is itself a way of being-in-the-World". He even found an ancient Latin fable which makes the point for him. Care (Cura) was the first to shape a human being out of clay, before Jupiter (at Care's request) put a soul in it. Afterwards there was a dispute about how the human being should be named and who he belonged to. The gods held court proceedings on the matter, and it was decided that Jupiter should recover the human's soul when he died and the Earth should recover his body. But as long as he lived he would always be possessed by Care.
These ideas are all around us, they've gone into the atmosphere via French existentialism and any number of other routes. But there's another aspect of Heidegger's thinking in Being and Time that's not so easy to tune in to, though it's central to his philosophy and to his life. Heidegger argues that roughly for the past two and a half thousand years, there has been a tendency in western thinking to forget Being. Instead we have developed the artificial kind of thinking called Metaphysics, which was pioneered by Plato. This has now reached a crisis point. If we carry on thinking platonically, the results for mankind will be very destructive. We need to make a new start. In fact we need to reconnect with the thinking of the Greeks before Plato, and in doing so reconnect with Being.
What does he mean, "forgetting Being"? How can we forget Being? Or what does he mean by Being? People have cracked their heads on that question. Rather than go into academic arguments, I will suggest my own answer. Being is what people had a sense of in traditional country life. Platonism, by contrast, is a type of artificial, urban thinking. And if Platonism has become a serious problem and danger, that is connected with the fact that one European nation after another has found that all of a sudden most of their people live in towns and cities – a prospect that anyone down to the time of Marx and Engels would have said was impossible, the vision of a lunatic.
Anyhow… in Being and Time there's certainly a social element. But it's expressed in abstract language, and some of the most memorable things that are said about social relations are negative. For example, there's das Man. Das Man could mean "one" as in "one usually prefers…", or alternatively "decent people", "the neighbours", "democrats", or (a favourite expression of my uncle in Boston) "regular guys". But ultimately das Man is an It, not a he, she or they, and It is constantly dragging us down from our authentic life to its own average, standardised conformity.
By the late 1920s Heidegger seems to have felt disappointed that his thinking wasn't making more impact. In the early '30s he certainly felt that. The notebooks begin in 1931, and one of the first things he says is: "Even today I still don't have enough enemies! Being and Time hasn't brought me a great enemy". Not having enemies – that was a problem he wouldn't have forever! Anyhow, in those early notebooks he still seems to be narrowly focused on philosophy, but he keeps writing slogan-like sentences: "We must philosophise our way out of "Philosophy"!"; "Unerringly into the Unaccessible!"; "We must get ourselves back into the Great Beginning!" At this stage he sounds a bit like an agitator without a movement.
Then suddenly, I presume at the beginning of 1933, he starts writing about "the magnificent wakening popular Will" of the Germans. And he says that the most important thing is to "tie the most deeply-hidden Mission of the German People back into the Great Beginning". Up to May 1933, when he took the position of rector of Freiburg University (which he says he was pushed into unwillingly), he writes nothing about National Socialism. Becoming rector also involved joining the Nazi Party. During the year when he was rector he does have many entries about National Socialism. But if there's any entry which is purely uncritical or which just expounds conventional Nazi ideology, I've missed it.
For that peculiar year Heidegger is an enthusiastic Nazi, no doubt about that. But he's enthusiastic only about Nazi potential. Everything he writes is about what the Nazi Party could be or should be, but obviously isn't; or alternatively, what it may become if it isn't careful (there's a danger, he says, of bourgeoisification). For example, "National Socialism is a genuine power-in-becoming only if, behind all its doing and saying, it still has something to keep secret – and operates with a mighty force-in-reserve that works upon the future. But if what currently exists is the sum of of all that is achieved and willed, then it is only a horror that will crumble away." And again, " (We cannot take) National Socialism as a finished eternal truth fallen from Heaven – taken like that, it would only be confusion and stupidity. So, as it has come into being, it must itself become a process of becoming and shape the future – that is, itself as an image step back before this future".
As I understand these statements, this is how a German philosopher in full philosophical armour says: the Nazi Party as it is today is a sow's ear, but I'm planning to make a silk purse of it. At some time in the late months of 1933 or early 1934 he writes, "Today one can speak of a "Vulgar National Socialism"; by that I mean the world and the criteria and demands and attitudes of those journalists and culture-makers who are currently installed and approved. From these sources, which naturally make a brainless appeal to Hitler's Mein Kampf, a quite definite doctrine of history and man is transmitted to the people. This doctrine could best be described as Ethical Materialism". – What this ethical materialism amounts to, in Heidegger's view, is empty bourgeois respectability and conformism.
Furthermore, "there is now a gloomy biologism, which produces the right "ideology" for Ethical Materialism. People are spreading the deluded notion that the spiritual-historical world ("culture") grows plant-like out of the "People", if one simply clears away the impediments…"
There are several similar comments in the notebooks on the biological notions which the Nazis applied to society and culture. He thought all of this was rubbish. But what would the Nazi Party be if it rejected its biologism? Surely, it would no longer be Hitler's Party! As further proof that Heidegger was a very odd Nazi, he doesn't even mention the word Jews in his notebooks during this period when he was an active party member, so far as I can see. At least twice he says, "We must settle our accounts with Christianity". But there's no mention of settling accounts with the Jews.
His "rectoral speech", delivered in May 1933, is often described as anti-Semitic. In fact, it never mentions Jews or Judaism. (An English translation of the full text can easily be found on the internet). There's nothing in it which could be understood as incitement to racial hatred. Even Hitler isn't mentioned explicitly. Granted, there's a lot in it about the importance of the leadership principle. But it seems that the leader whom Heidegger thought it most important to follow was none other than Martin Heidegger.
The central idea in the speech is the need for the German people to set out on a great spiritual adventure. They must face the fact that the Christian-Platonic thinking of the last two and a half thousand years is now exhausted, as Nietzsche pointed out when he said that "God is dead". The Germans will need to link up with the thinking of the older Greeks of two and a half thousand years ago, who were in touch with Being. This will demand heroic virtues, and not least from people in the German universities. – The regular Nazis in Freiburg who were listening to all of this, what can they possibly have made of it?
In April 1934 Heidegger, unable to do whatever he wanted to do, resigned his rectorship. In his notebooks he tried to see it as part of a learning process. –"A failed year – a lost year – if Failure wasn't the highest form of human experience, etc." Actually, it took him about four years for the lesson to sink in. During that time he doesn't say very much about National Socialism, and he gradually begins to tackle some other issues, and especially technology: what the roots of modern technology are, and what effect it is having on life and thinking. He was still a formal member of the Nazi Party and he kept his professorship, but officially it seems he was gradually sliding into the "That fellow's no use!" category.
Then, in 1938, he made a judgment on his Nazi adventure. He had thought of National Socialism as "the possibility of a transition to a new beginning". But this was a mistake. Far from pointing towards a new beginning, it was an ending, the culmination of the existing modern trend. "What is beginning here is much more (and in a far deeper, more comprehensive and intensive manner than in Fascism) the completion of the Modern Age (despite the fact that this began in "Romanticism") –with the Dehumanisation of Man in the self-assured Rationality of the Historical-Technical, i.e. the thoroughgoing "Mobilisation" of all the Capability of a focused-upon-itself Mankind." And nonetheless, he said, I was right to make my attempt.
We might ask: what's wrong with that? What is outrageous or unreasonable in this explanation? Why can't we accept it now? And why should Heidegger have been expected to say something drastically different after the still-to-come World War? (As we know, he didn't.)
There had been a basic misunderstanding between Heidegger and the Nazi movement. Heidegger was a failed Nazi, but only because the Nazis failed as Heideggerians. They were supposed to become the political wing of his philosophy. Deep down in their depths, in their unseen potential, in the hidden historic element which they didn't rant about when they ranted (as he himself said, more or less in so many words), they were thought to be somehow capable of facilitating a major spiritual change in the Germans, a change that would go much deeper than any revolution.
Now if Heidegger believed there was actually a chance of this, surely he was justified in trying to become the intellectual guide of the Nazi movement? In fact, surely it was his duty? I think it's a tragedy that he didn't succeed. It is hard to imagine what a Heideggerian state would have been like. But I think, at the very least, it would not have had a culture of biological racism, which ran totally against Heidegger's thinking and which he despised. And without a full-blown, state-backed culture of racism, would something like the Holocaust have been possible? Apart from that, the German people were supposed to achieve an intensive renewal of the spirit. Military adventures could not have helped in this, they could only have been disruptive.
So I think the Heideggerian Nazi state would have been averse to any wars except defensive wars. It would simply have waited for Russia to become Russian again, if Russia had allowed that. (Bolshevism was seen as something totally non-Russian, a west-european metaphysical deviation.)
Bringing intelligent direction to raw barbaric energy – isn't this a theme that goes a long way back in Europe? Hadn't popes and bishops, poets and philosophers done this through the centuries, and been praised for it? And how obvious was it in 1933 that this couldn't be done with Hitler and the Nazis? If we look at the contemporary press, we will see that the larger body of opinion inside and outside Germany did not regard Hitler as the kind of political monster who could never fundamentally change.
I'm not so much thinking of Hitler's enthusiastic admirers, such as the editor of the Irish Times. On March 6, 1933 he wrote in his editorial: "In reasoned warfare against the Communists Herr Hitler will have the support of all civilised nations. At the moment he is Europe's standard-bearer against Muscovite terrorism, and although some of his methods certainly are open to question, nobody doubts his entire sincerity." I am thinking more of people like Daniel Binchy, who was an Irish diplomat in Germany from 1929 to 1932 and whose article "Adolf Hitler" was published in Studies in March 1933.
This article was republished two years ago in the Studies anthology. The editor, Professor Bryan Fanning, called it "astute". This, because Binchy had actually read Mein Kampf and had familiarised himself with Nazi policy. And Binchy had an uneasy feeling about Hitler and the raw Nazi energy, no doubt about that. But when he considered the current political situation, he said that one of the possibilities was that Hitler would follow policies fundamentally different from Nazi policy, in response to pressures from his coalition partners. He didn't think that was inconceivable. So why was it inconceivable that Hitler and the Nazis might respond to the intellectual energy of a great philosopher?
My conclusion from all this is: the explanation of his Nazi involvement which Heidegger recorded in his notebook in 1938 makes sense. It's basically the same explanation that he gave after the war, and it's adequate.
As I said earlier, I can't find anything about Jews or Judaism in the notebooks written between 1931 and 1938. But there are a number of mentions of Jews and Judaism in the later notebooks, written between 1939 and 1941. Almost invariably these come up in the course of expressing oppositional attitudes towards Nazism and Nazi policies. He does see Judaism as a current of thinking with some sharply negative features. But he insists that this isn't a biological problem, this isn't a racial problem, it's a metaphysical problem – like the problem of Americanism, the problem of Bolshevism, the problem of Christianity. But Judaism doesn't have anything like the importance that these other negative forces in thinking have for Heidegger.
You'd never guess that from the anti-Heidegger press campaign that was drummed up lately, where these references to Jews and Judaism were torn out of context. (In the selection I've made I include all the references I can find in their context.) I would say that some of these press campaigners can't think, some of them won't think, and some of them want to stop anyone else thinking. Certainly, their recent activities won't have encouraged people in Germany to read these notebooks. And they won't have spurred anyone in Ireland, say, to look for translations. And yet these notebooks have some of the richest food for thought that a person interested in thinking is likely to find.
I've produced a fairly wide-ranging selection from what Heidegger wrote in the early years of the war, so I won't say too much about that now. The most important idea is that metaphysically, there is nothing to choose between Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy. All of them leave the human being in the grip of technology. All of them are systems unresponsive to the world, responsive only to complexes of artificial human aims and interests, and increasingly destructive (the ecology movement in past times took some ideas from Heidegger). And all of them degrade the mind and make it ever more difficult to find conditions for a new beginning.
In fact, if you have to compare Bolshevism and Americanism, then it's Bolshevism that's relatively harmless. It doesn't get its hooks so deep into its human beings. There's a zone of the Russian mind that it doesn't get to and that will survive it with rich potential.
In the immediate term, what's in store for the West, Heidegger says, is "a Prussianly-restrained unconditional hyper-Americanisation". So: was he wrong? It seems to me that that's what I've experienced in my own life in Ireland and anywhere else I've lived. There's some Prussian restraint on raw Americanism, meaning for example a social welfare system, a bureacratic system of care, but basically the moving force is Americanisation. And what he says about country life, the prospects of country life, and the implications of the radio for country life – I can confirm all that from experience too.
About two years into the Second World War, Heidegger wrote that it was "a war over the Nothingness of Nothing". And after the war, he believed that it made no basic difference that Tweedledum had been defeated by Tweedledee and Tweedledoo (who now began their own Cold War over Nothing). None of them were capable of getting western thinking out of its dead end. All of them were letting technology get out of control.
As we know, liberal democracy was an impressive winner in its Cold War. Professor Fukujama immediately announced that it was the only game in town – the only game that was ever going to be in town. (Though it seems to miss its enemies.) And technology has got so far out of control that we only have occasional sentimental controversies about it, for example regarding privacy – as if the satellites are going to let you have any such thing.
The question arises: can there possibly be any alternative? That question is being explored, for example, by the Russian writer Alexander Dugin, with his idea of the Fourth Political Theory. (The first three are Heidegger's metaphysical triplets, Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy.) But here I'm more interested in the current picture of things. I am interested in hearing the thoughts of others on the issues raised in the notebooks.
(This is a version of a talk given in Belfast on May 25, 2014.)
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What is Vedic Astrology: Introduction
by Curtis Burns | Sep 16, 2015 | Astrology, Vedic Astrology
Vedic astrology, which is also known in India as Jyotish, has been gaining popularity in the Western world in the last few years. Yet, it is still very much out of the awareness of the western consciousness. This series of articles will give some helpful background and a basic understanding of the main concepts and techniques of Vedic astrology.
A Vedic astrology square horoscope
Vedic astrology is a very powerful and useful form of astrology for natal chart character analysis, forecasting future trends, and in relationship compatibility; and it is very similar in nature and presentation to the Western school of astrology, sharing the same planets, signs, and houses. We won't strive to go into exhaustive technical details, but after reading this series you should have a good understanding of Vedic astrology, what it does and how it works.
With the use of some of its Indian or Hindu phraseology, Vedic astrology has reputation of being very complex and hard to learn, but that is not so at all. As a matter of fact, it is much simpler in many ways than the Western system; then again in other ways it will get a bit more complicated.
Vedic astrology differs from Western astrology in it's use of the sidereal zodiac, a zodiac which is based more on the actual positions of the stars in the sky, as opposed to the seasons as does Western astrology. Vedic astrology is steeped in the Vedic Hindu traditions of India, which claims to have a very, very long history attached to astrology; some of which Western scholars would disagree with.
Vedic astrology is similar in interpretation to the planets, signs, and houses of horoscopes, but has unique takes on and some minor differences with the same Western interpretations. It also uses a lunar system of 27 Moon mansions, called nakshatras; and it is a more simplified version of reading planetary aspects from the Western style. Horoscope interpretation involves the use of yogas (planetary configurations), planetary strength measurements, and divisional charts (called varga charts) which add more flavor and depth to natal chart interpretation.
For Forecasting, in addition to transits, Vedic astrology also uses a very powerful planetary period system (called dasas), which helps form a more comprehensive and relateable story for the individual, while also adding depth and richness to the astrological reading All of these points and more of Vedic astrology I will be covering in greater detail in this article series:
The Rishis, the Vedangas, and the Vedas of Vedic Astrology
The Vedic Scheme of the Universe and Time
Use of the Sidereal Zodiac
Planetary Rulership System
Use of Divisional (Varga) Charts
Use of Nakshatras (Moon Mansions)
The Vedic Aspect System
The Vedic House System
The Dasa Predictive System (Planetary Periods)
Systems of Planetary and House Strength Measurements
Use of Planetary Yogas (Configurations)
The Vedic Square Chart
Use of Remedies: Mantras, Yantras, and Gemstones (Upayas)
Hindu Names of Planets and Signs
The intent of this series is to help the western reader better understand some of the Vedic astrology concepts used on a regular basis in this Star World News website, possibly stirring them to investigate and learn more on their own.
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