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Australian Instagram model called her mum crying before her death
Parents of 20-year-old Australian Instagram model Sinead McNamara have spoken for the first time, saying Sinead rang her mother in tears about an "incident with a crew member" the night of her death and are also demanding more answers from Greek authorities.
The Instagrammer was found unconscious on the back of a billionaire's superyacht and had called her family in tears just before she died, it was revealed.
According to reports, Sinead rang her mum Kylie to tell her about an incident with another crew member on board the $190million Mayan Queen IV, which was docked in Argostoli, Kefalonia.
She also spoke to her brother Jake during her last distressful phone call in the early hours of last Friday, the family's lawyer Charalampos Triantafyllopoulos has revealed to media.
While there have been conflicting reports about the circumstances around the 20-year-old's death, the head Coroner in charge of the investigation into her death said there is no evidence of foul play and it is being treated as a suicide.
Reports surfacing also claim the model was struggling with a bad breakup, as officers review photographs and messages on her phone to piece together her final hours.
Prior to that, the family claim Sinead was content and loved working on board the six-storey yacht, which is owned by Mexican billionaire Alberto Baillères.
Her mother and sister, Lauren Carr, were on route to Kefalonia from their home in Australia when she died. They had been due to meet her the following day and are believed to have been informed of the news while in transit.
The family is now demanding answers as to why there was an apparent delay in airlifting her to a hospital in Athens. A doctor on board the yacht is understood to have tried to resuscitate Sinead before paramedics arrived.
"For these reasons, the family finds it crucial to thoroughly investigate both the conditions of death and the events and incidents that preceded this event in order to reveal the full truth and learn what actually happened and led their 20-year-old daughter to death."
She was there for several hours, Mr. Triantafyllopoulos told Greek media, until a helicopter could transfer her to a private clinic in Athens.
"Expressing their trust in the Greek authorities, they hope that the critical issues above will be thoroughly explored and that they will receive appropriate answers for the sudden and unexpected death of their daughter," added Mr. Triantafyllopoulos.
According to reports, Sinead had visited a bar in Argostoli on Wednesday night and drank two vodka-based cocktails and was also seen dancing on a chair.
Bar manager Makais Chaliodis said, "I saw the news and recognised her picture. She had came to the bar with five of her friends, they were having a good time."
Australian Instagrammer's cause of death revealed by Greek Coroner
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Death Road to Canada – Switch Review
William Murphy May 31, 2018 No Comments	News, Switch
You'd think I'd be sick of zombie games… but then along comes the joyfully macabre and silly pixel-art Death Road to Canada, previously released on mobile. The Switch version came out a while back, and I finally got enough time with the title to put down some thoughts to keyboard. At only $15, is DRtC worth the download? If you like fun roguelite action RPGs with a great dark sense of humor, then yes.
The game begins with a simple tutorial showcasing how you scavenge for items and weapons, fend of the undead, and partner up with AI-controlled allies as you strive to drive to the chilly north of Canada. The game's sense of humor is dark and hilarious, never taking itself too seriously given the deadly subject matter. This ties perfectly with the 8-bit pixel art style, top-down view, and general sense of controlled mayhem you play around with.
Once you start the game proper, with either random characters or customized ones a la The Escapists, you're off in your car, stopping for food, random world events, and trying to find fuel and other survivors as you keep going. DRtC is fun a solo game, but it's even better with a friend or partner on the couch next to you. There's something just hilarious about hacking and slashing your way through these pixel undead, looking for cheeseburgers and spare fuel while slamming zombies with a frying pan.
On the road, the action is text-based, making decisions about where and when to stop, and who to send out on random events that happen as you go. Supplies are used as you drive, meaning each stop is crucial to keep the car and the characters going. Party members need to keep their spirits up with the role-playing aspects balancing each party member's emotions and the events that happen. Each random character you find has their own personalities and skills they can bring to the trip, so it's worth giving everyone a fair shake.
John Lennon penned "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans". In Death Road to Canada's case, death is what happens. You'll be so busy plotting out who does what, what supplies you need, who goes where, and when to stop, that a sudden random encounter can throw off all your best-laid plans. In this way, DRtC is frustrating at times like all roguelikes, but the fact that the game never feels the same twice is enough to keep you going.
Death Road to Canada is another in a long line of solid indie titles on the Switch. Great fun on the go, loads of replay value, and lots of fun as a 2-player co-op game give this one the legs that'll make the cheap $15 worth the spend.
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Some events repeat too often
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A: Problem solved. The solution was to disable lighting and lights. But there is a new one. If I disable lights and lighting a model is painted in uniform color it looks like that normals are not used when drawing.

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Life behind closed doors in the Arctic is.....fun!
By Kate Baklitskaya
Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one.
'Just think of it - 170,000 people working for one idea. And I'm trying to get to understand that idea'. Pictures here and below: Kate Baklitskaya
From deep in Soviet times, it was 'closed' to outsiders, and currently remains exceptionally hard to visit for foreigners. It appears on lists of the top ten most polluted cities in the world, and yet has no road or rail connections to the 'mainland', as the rest of Russia is known here, and the sea port Dudinka, which is 100 km from Norilsk is closed for nine months a year. Yet, intriguingly, the 177,000 people living in Norilsk - which accounts for two per cent of Russia's entire GDP - seem more contented than many others in Russia.
On a Saturday night, local photographer Nadezhda Rimskaya, 32, goes to OverTime bar to see the local rockabilly band. Nadezhda graduated from a college in St Petersburg but decided to return home and has been working here for the last four years. The concert finishes after midnight and the group of young people decide to go for a late dinner.
Luckily there are places where the kitchen remains open after midnight - for example Maxim pub. Indeed, Moscow-level restaurants and night clubs, bars and coffee shops, are increasing in Norilsk powered by the high demand, surprising as this may seem.
'Norilsk misses just two things - oxygen and the internet', says Nadezhda on her night out, referring to the general lack of oxygen in the air in the north and the absence of the high speed internet in the city. Everything else is fine here and in many ways much better than in many Russian cities. I'm honestly surprised when I hear people say that Norilsk is 'horrible'. That's just a misinformed stereotype.'
Nadezhda Rimskaya, local photographer: 'Norilsk misses just two things - oxygen and the internet. Everything else is fine here and in many ways much better than in many Russian cities'.
And indeed the existing stereotypes can really scare people off, drawing an image of Norilsk as a freezing, dark and polluted former Gulag camp. True enough, Norilsk did originate from NorilLag, the biggest Gulag labour camp set up in 1935. Inhumane work conditions, freezing cold, and a lack of food were the reasons of the high mortality rate in this Stalinist hell. The last year of NorilLag - 1953 - became the first year of Norilsk as a city.
'NorilLag is a tragic page of our city's history,' acknowledges Lada Shebeko, head of the literature section of the Norilsk drama theatre, who was born and lived all her life in Norilsk. '17,000 people died in the Gulag here. But the north was always a struggle even after the camp was abolished.
'Man coming to the empty Arctic and building a city here cannot do it easily in any case. And Norilsk accepts only the strong and beautiful souls.
'Back in those days as well as in our time, there always were and are people whom the north doesn't accept and it's good that nowadays they can leave for the mainland. But there are others who not only adapt to the north but fall in love with this land and are not willing to leave it. Our theatre invites a lot of actors and stage directors from the mainland.
'Our main director is from Omsk and the leading actors are from Krasnoyarsk and other cities. They see the opportunities for themselves here and like the company.'
'Man coming to the empty Arctic and building a city here cannot do it easily in any case. And Norilsk accepts only the strong and beautiful souls'.
Natalia Fedyanina, project curator at a local media holding, is one such professional who came to Norilsk from the 'mainland'. Working in Moscow, she got an offer in Norilsk from the Prokhorov Fund, a private charity foundation, and when it moved to Krasnoyarsk, she stayed.
'It was my deliberate choice to come to Norilsk, and I have spent already seven years here, and love it. I don't see this city as an obstacle to my professional life since I am implementing a lot of social projects here that would be impossible to do on the mainland. Like 'Sowing project'. It wouldn't make sense anywhere but in such an Arctic city as Norilsk, that lacks greenery.
'Every time I hear something bad about Norilsk, I feel very sad as it's doesn't depict the reality here. The Gulag era is in the past and now people gladly come to work and grow as professionals here. Last year, for example, my 34 year old brother moved to Norilsk and now works as a history teacher at school. It's not a prestigious job, but here he got a chance to do what he likes, and to be paid for it. First I thought that I would need to help him to adapt, but soon he found friends and now I rarely see him as he socializes and has a life of his own.'
Natalia herself shines with joy telling about how she brings the best Moscow experts to Norilsk to give lectures, and how the citizens welcome guests from the 'mainland'.
'The only thing that felt uncomfortable for me was the lack of cultural life. You do not have the variety of the workshops or lectures here like in Moscow, so I decided to create a monthly lectures by bringing people from Moscow. And it's created big interest. We brought famous Russian designers ... and all the seats for such lectures are booked in advance.'
Natalia Fedyanina, project curator at a local media holding: 'Every time I hear something bad about Norilsk, I feel very sad as it's doesn't depict the reality here. The Gulag era is in the past and now people gladly come to work and grow as professionals here'.
Nevertheless, Norilsk will always remain among the coldest on the planet with the average annual temperature not rising above minus 10C. The winter lasts for nine to ten months a year and people who live here long enough can distinguish up to 13 shades of white.
Norilsk is also in the top five most windy cities in the world and combined with the temperatures dropping as low as minus 50C in winter, it explains why you might want to call a taxi to go just 50 meters to the grocery store and back, as people do.
'It's not as cold as you might think', comments Natalia. 'I personally have just one warm sweater here. As the climate is not as humid as on the mainland. Honestly, I was freezing more in Moscow than in Norilsk. Yes, there are times when the temperature drops down under minus 50C and there's no other way to move around the city but by car, but it doesn't last long.'
Nadezhda also prefers the Arctic climate too, in her case, St Petersburg's. 'My son who is 5 years old was always getting a cold in St Petersburg and his nose was running constantly, so that I even had to give him antibiotics, though I'm very much against them.
'But here because of the low temperatures, and almost no humidity, he feels much better and almost never gets sick. The viruses do not live in such low temperatures.'
Raising children in the most polluted Russian city is another question: but it seems most mothers are not rushing to leave Norilsk because of this problem.
'Pollution is concentrated in the 'old city' - the industrial part of Norilsk, where no one lives right now,' says Nadezhda. Since the residential city was moved away from the industrial part in the 1950s, the ecological situation doesn't feel so bad, especially in winter when the fumes rise up in the sky. In summer the situation is worse. You can actually smell the plants's fumes but most people leave the city for the mainland in summer. I make sure that my son spends three or four months on the mainland and we live here only during the cold time, so he gets to see a proper summer and enjoy it.'
Still, last summer temperatures in Norilsk reached a record of 32 degrees C in a heat wave that highlighted the changing climate, and left Norilsk as warm or warmer than the Mediterranean.
'Maybe Norilsk doesn't go through its best times now and the buildings might look shabby but it's not the exterior that matters here. The north has been and will always be about people. Strong, devoted and kind, they know what support and humanity means, and not from books and movies'.
Despite the grave ecological situation, and the high amount of sulphur dioxide in the air, locals take grave exception to Norilsk being referred to as the Russian Chernobyl.
'The ecological situation in many big cities in the world is far worse than in Norilsk,' says Elena Anpilova, 56, the deputy principal of School Number 1, who raised her two daughters - now aged 24 and 27 - here. 'I personally cannot breathe when I go to Moscow. At least we live in a very windy city which doesn't allow for the fumes to settle, but rather blows them away.
'Needless to say: any mother would take her kids away from the city if it was as polluted as the media often says.
'Yes there are official statistics like the emission of almost 2 million tons of pollutants into the atmosphere by industrial enterprises of Norilsk, which is 5 times more than any other industrial city in Russia and it is horrible, but actually you have to come and see the city by yourself to judge on the situation here. Once you see the kids playing in the school yards and the moms strolling around with their babies, you will never compare Norilsk with Chernobyl.'
The ecological situation is something that does need to be addressed more in Norilsk but meanwhile the city lives it's life and does it's best to create a comfortable situation for people who choose to conquer the North.
The city is home to Norilsk Nickel, the world's top producer of nickel and palladium, and also in the top ten copper producers. The company is associated with business tycoons Vladimir Potanin, Oleg Deripaska and Roman Abramovich.
'I always say that we are like a polar bear that molts,' says Lada Shebeko. 'Maybe Norilsk doesn't go through its best times now and the buildings might look shabby but it's not the exterior that matters here. The north has been and will always be about people. Strong, devoted and kind, they know what support and humanity means, and not from books and movies. Norilsk accepts only such people into its family for whom money is not everything.
'Norilsk is not an airport where people wait for the plane to a better life. Those who do take it this way leave fast.
'Norislk will live as long as the people who think of it as a home stay here, and I'm glad to see that with all the working opportunities open to the younger generation, many choose to live here rather than quit for another life elsewhere.'
'Yes there are official statistics like the emission of almost 2 million tons of pollutants into the atmosphere by industrial enterprises of Norilsk, which is 5 times more than any other industrial city in Russia and it is horrible, but actually you have to come and see the city by yourself to judge on the situation here. Once you see the kids playing in the school yards, you will never compare Norilsk with Chernobyl.'
Norilsk and its port Dudinka are two of 46 Russian cities that remain officially 'closed' or restricted outsiders, Russians as well as foreigners. Neither of these two are formally closed, unlike 33 towns and settlements linked to the Defence Ministry and ten connected to nuclear production.
Still, getting permission to come here is cumbersome. Canadian film director Francois Jacob, 35, had to battle for several years with authorities to travel to Norilsk to make a documentary.
'This city is like no other in the world,' he said. 'I've seen industrial cities but they have one mine or three mines, not 13 mines. Just take a cab and go around the city. You'll be fascinated. It's ginormous. All the Russian nickel and cobalt comes from here. If these places shut down, there will be no iPads or iPhones or most of the things you use daily.
'Moreover the city is of great importance to the military industry. And as there are no roads leading to Norilsk, the enemy can bomb the airport and the port and there will be no way to supply the country with nickel.
'That's why it is effectively a closed city. I've been dreaming of coming here for several years. To see what the life is here, how people live as all their lives are connected with the nickel plant.
'There is no-one in the city who's life is not connected with the nickel production in this or that way. Just think of it 170,000 people working for one idea. And I'm trying to get to understand that idea.'
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Hey! Glad I found this article since every comment I ever read about this city was in terrible way! This adds some perspective, thank you! A foreigner like me doesn't have much chance to get to visit your closed city but if ever you want to have "pen pal" from another place feel free send me mail! postelquentin@gmail.com
Quentin, Paris, France
I'd love to visit if it wasn't near impossible. Anyone from there or nearby? Add me on Facebook, Tim Holtze. Can translate using Google translate. Love to all good people around the world, God bless you all.
Timmie, Whyalla South Australia
I wish I could go there and see it for myself. Can anyone tell me how I can communicate with people there? How can I find someone to talk to who lives there? judasschwarz@gmail.com is my email. Thanks.
Chris, Asheboro North Carolina
In may of 2000 we adopted a baby girl from Norilsk, we met some amazing people. Our girl is now 20 thank you Norilsk.
Dick, WA. State USA
Fascinating article.
Also, here's the IMDB for those wondering about the documentary:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6436254/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
MikeyC, Downtown
Life in this city is wonderful. I loved your photos. Congratulations, this is the joy of the city of Norilsk.
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Anastasia Norilsk, Norilsk
I am so disaapointed that whoever made the decision as to shut out the rst of the world think that no one does drucgs have HIV and are into criminal behaviour but that all 'outsiders' are HIV positive criminal drug abusers! That is a real shame! Tourists also have MONEY that can help the economy and to pay for cleaning up the air from that nasty pollution! To shut out 'outsiders' to the most northern city on this planet is a REAL disservice as well!
Sato, Hakodate, Japan
People will live anywhere. I know what that cold is and that is cold! Those apartment buildings are very basic and simple living conditions more so for the very poor or temporary housing of workers. There may be criminal ex cons and others alike there,stories of sickness,poor medical and possibly why the government controls who goes there. Who knows but one thing for sure its all about the money.
douglas, usa texas
I was researching 4G in Russia and stumbled across this article - wow I'm struck buy the harsh beauty of this city thanks for sharing the photos. Most interesting and beautiful. :)
Benny, Melbourne, Australia
Great article and makes me want to visit the "closed" city. Also very surprised to see a native Norilsk person writing fluent English in a comment on this page.
Malcolm, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
This is my native city! I had been living there untill 17 years old. Now I'm 27, I visited it last year. I can say that it's developing, becomes more modern. Iwill always love it. It still has no high speed internet, that prevents it from the up to date life. But probably this fact gives the opportunity for the city to save its' unique soul, its'charm. I visited theatre, the performance was unusual and nice, not calssical at all. I really enjoyed. The city has obtained a first big shopping mall Arena, with walking avenues inside, lots of small restaraunts and bars. It's very popular among citizens because it let's you to meet friends and walk, to eat something together, have shopping even in -50. It would be good to develop a touristic rout for foreign citizens to Norilsk, may be (hope) sometime in future it will be possible.
Thanks for such a nice and positive article about my native city.
Evgeniya, Moscow
...I worked in Norilsk two times! I miss the town and all peoples also!
Jürgen , Germany
Well, I'm glad people are positive about the city, but there must be a reason why they don't want you to go there.
Giorgio, Italy
Anyone knows where the documentary by Francois Jacob can be found? Thanks.
Paolo, Italy
This is a great story about true hard working people. For someone like myself that has traveled, this is a place I would like to visit next. The heart of hearts, the soul of a country.
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"Battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars" is a line from Wordsworth that Thomas de Quincey approvingly quotes in regard to his opium-induced "architectural dreams," and, aptly enough, immediately after a page devoted to Piranesi, the etcher, architect, and visionary. You may find this page in The Confessions of an English Opium Eater, that book of terror, beauty, mystification, and fudge (De Quincey deluded himself quite as much as his readers in this autobiography, which, like the confessions of most distinguished men, must not be taken too literally): "Many years ago," he wrote, "when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist, called his Dreams, which record the scenery of his own soul during the delirium of a fever. Some of them (described only from memory of Mr. Coleridge's account) represented vast Gothic halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery expressive of enormous power put forth and resistance overcome. Creeping along the sides of the walls, you perceived a staircase, and upon it, groping his way upward, was Piranesi himself. Follow the stairs a little farther and you perceive it to come to a sudden, abrupt termination, without any balustrade, and allowing no step onward to him who had reached the extremity, except into the depths below. Whatever is to become of poor Piranesi? You suppose, at least, that his labours must in some way terminate here. But raise your eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher, on which again Piranesi is perceived, by this time standing on the very brink of the abyss. Again elevate your eyes, and a still more aerial flight of stairs is beheld, and again is poor Piranesi on his aspiring labours, and so on, until the unfinished stairs and Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall."
This plate was evidently one of the Carceri set-sixteen in all-which the etcher improvised after some severe cerebral malady. What would we not give to have heard the poet of Kubla Khan describing the fantastic visions of the Venetian artist to the English opium eater! The eloquence of the prose passage we have transcribed has in it some faint echoes of Coleridge's golden rumble. That these two men appreciated the Italian is something; perhaps they saw chiefly in his work its fantastic side. There was no saner craftsman than Piranesi apart from certain of his plates; no more solid construction in a print can be shown than his various interpretations of the classic ruins of Rome, the temples at P?stum. He was a great engraver and etcher whose passion was the antique. He deliberately withdrew from all commerce with the ideas and art of his own times. He loved architecture for architecture's sake; not as a decoration, not as a background for humanity, but as something personal. It was for him what the human face was for Rembrandt and Velasquez. That he was called the Rembrandt of Architecture is but another testimony to the impression he made upon his contemporaries, though the title is an unhappy one. Piranesi even in his own little fenced-off coign of art is not comparable to the etcher of the Hundred Guilder print, nor are there close analogies in their respective handling of darks and lights.
It might be nearer the mark to call Piranesi-though all such comparisons are thorns in the critical flesh-the Salvator Rosa of architecture, for there is much of Salvator's unbridled violence, fantasy, and genius for deforming the actual that is to be encountered in some of Piranesi's works. His was not a classic temperament. The serene, airy, sun-bathed palaces and temples which Claude introduced into his foregrounds are seldom encountered in Piranesi. A dark Gothic imagination his, Gothic and often cruel. In his etching of public buildings at Rome or elsewhere, while he is not always faultless in drawing or scrupulous in observation, such was the sincerity and passion of the man that he has left us the noblest transcriptions of these stately edifices and monuments. It is in the rhythmic expression of his personal moods that his sinister romantic imaginings are revealed, and with a detail and fulness that are positively overwhelming.
It should not be forgotten that in the eighteenth and in the early part of the nineteenth centuries Piranesi achieved widespread popularity. He was admired outside of Italy, in England, in France, and Germany. A generation that in England read Vathek and Mrs. Radcliffe, supped on the horrors of Melmoth and Frankenstein, knew E.T.W. Hoffmann and t
he German romantic literature, could be relied on to take up Piranesi, and for his lesser artistic side. Poe knew his work and Baudelaire; we see that for De Quincey he was a kindred spirit. The English mezzotinter John Martin must have studied him closely, also Gustave Doré.
The Carceri (1750) of Piranesi are indoor compositions, enclosed spaces in which wander aimlessly or deliriously the wraiths of damned men, not a whit less wretched nor awful than Dante's immemorial mob. Piranesi shows us cavernous abodes where appalling engines of torture fill the foreground, while above, at vertiginous heights, we barely discern perilous passageways, haunted windows peering out upon the high heavens, stone-fretted ceilings that are lost in a magic mist. By a sort of diabolic modulation the artist conducts our eye from these dizzy angles and granitic convolutions down tortuous and tumultuous staircases that seemingly wind about the axis of eternity. To traverse them would demand an eternity and the nerves of a madman. Lower barbaric devices reveal this artist's temperament. He is said to have executed the prison set "during the delirium of fever." This is of the same calibre as the clotted nonsense about Poe composing when intoxicated or Liszt playing after champagne. It is a credible anecdote for Philistines who do not realise that even the maddest caprice, whether in black and white, marble, music, or verse, must be executed in silence and cold blood. Piranesi simply gave wing to his fancy, recalling the more vivid of his nightmares-as did Coleridge, De Quincey, Poe, Baudelaire, and the rest of the drug-steeped choir. We recall one plate of Piranesi's in which a miserable devil climbs a staircase suspended over an abyss; as he mounts each step the lower one crumbles into the depths below.
The agony of the man (do you recall The Torture by Hope of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam?) is shown in his tense, crouching attitude, his hands clawing the masonry above him. Nature is become a monstrous fever, existence a shivering dread. You overhear the crash of stone into the infernal cellarage-where awaits the hunted wretch perhaps a worse fate than on the pinnacles above. It is a companion piece to Martin's Sadak searching for the Waters of Oblivion. Another plate depicts with ingenuity terraces superimposed upon terraces, archways spaced like massive music, narrow footways across which race ape-like men, half naked, eagerly preparing some terrible punishments for criminals handcuffed and guarded. They are to walk a sharp-spiked bridge. Gigantic chains swing across stony precipices, a lamp depends from a roof whose outlines are merged in the gray dusk of dreams. There is cruelty, horror, and a sense of the wickedly magnificent in the ensemble. What crimes were committed to merit such atrocious punishment? The boldness and clearness of it all! With perspicacity George Saintsbury wrote of Flaubert's Temptation of Saint Anthony: "It is the best example of dream literature that I know-most writers who have tried this style have erred, inasmuch as they have endeavoured to throw a portion of the mystery with which the waking mind invests dreams over the dream itself. Any one's experience is sufficient to show that this is wrong. The events of dreams, as they happen, are quite plain and matter of fact, and it is only in the intervals that any suspicion occurs to the dreamer."
Certainly Piranesi remembered his dreams. He is a realist in his delineation of details, though the sweep and breadth of an ideal design are never absent. He portrays ladders that scale bulky joists, poles of incredible thickness, cyclopean block and tackling. They are of wood, not metal nor marble, for the art of Piranesi is full of discriminations. Finally, you weary. The eye gorged by all the mystic engines, hieroglyphs of pain from some impossible inquisition-though not once do we see a monkish figure-all these anonymous monkey men scurrying on what errand Piranesi alone knows; these towering arches, their foundations resting on the crest of hell (you feel the tremendous impact of the architectural mass upon the earth-no mean feat to represent or rather to evoke the sense of weight, of pressure on a flat surface); the muffled atmosphere in these prisons from which no living prisoner emerges; of them all you weary, for the normal brain can only stand a certain dose of the delirious and the melancholy. This aspect, then, of Piranesi's art, black magic in all its potency, need no longer detain us. His Temples of P?stum sound a less morbid key than his Carceri, and as etchings quite outrank them.


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CzechNanoLab provides open access to a comprehensive set of interconnected areas of tools & expertise in nanoscience
CzechNanoLab consists of two sites, CEITEC Nano located in Brno, and the Laboratory of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials (LNSM), located in Prague. Researchers from academic and industrial institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad may access this infrastructure. Basic technologies and devices are available on both CzechNanoLab sites, in advanced and more demanding equipment the sites complement each other.
CzechNanoLab Infrastructure Nodes
CEITEC Nano enables the user to fabricate nanostructures, determine their shape and chemical composition and measure their often unique properties. CEITEC Nano also opens up ways to collaborate with nanobiology and nanomedicine research teams, for example in the area of biosensors and nanostructures for cell and tissue culture.
CEITEC Nano laboratory units
Nanofabrication laboratory
The Nanofabrication lab features an 800 m2 class 100 cleanroom equipped with over 35 pieces of the process and analytical instrumentation for complex research projects that require micro and nanoscale fabrication using different substrates ranging in size from small pieces to 150mm wafers. The primary scope is on electronics, optics, and MEMS. Equipment is available for metal deposition, dry and wet etching, electron beam, and laser photolithography.
Nanocharacterization laboratory
Nanocharacterization laboratory offers a broad range of analytical equipment, allowing to perform a variety of electrical and magnetic measurements with magnetic fields up to 9T and temperatures down to 1.6K. Also, multiple optical, X-ray, ion and electron spectroscopies can be performed. Everything is complemented by multiple scanning probe, electron, ion and optical microscopy techniques.
Laboratory of Structural analysis
Allows imaging, as well as chemical and crystalographic characterization of various types of materials. Avilable techniques include electron microscopy - both transmission and scanning - including EDS, WDS, EBSD, EELS microanalytical techniques, focused ion beam and X-ray diffraction/scattering.
Chemical laboratory
The new chemical laboratory is intended to serve users interested in chemical synthesis, analysis, and sample preparation. It is possible to measure basic chemical parameters (pH, temperature, mass, etc.) and prepare chemical mixtures and solutions. The laboratory is equipped with a microwave and thermal reactor for synthesis. We offer the measurement of the pore distribution of the material or to verify the specific surface area of powdered substances using BET analysis. The NMR instrument can be used to study the structure of molecules, their interactions, the dynamics of molecules, and the kinetics of mixture composition.
X-Ray computed tomography laboratory
The laboratory offers research services in the field of computed tomography (micro and nano CT). Research includes the development and application of tomographic methods in various fields. It works closely with industry to help address R&D issues in various manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors through non-destructive testing.
LNSM mainly produces semiconductor and spintronic materials and nanostructures as well as composite materials. LNSM also includes support for theoretical groups that design new types of materials.
LNSM laboratory units
The molecular beam epitaxy system is designed for growing thin-film semiconductors of III-V type. Besides classical GaAs and AlGaAs based structures, it is capable of growing films of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga, Mn)As and other materials for spintronics. The lab comprises also a system for thin-film growth by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy.
Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
Metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) is suitable for the preparation of heterostructures containing layers with their thickness in the range of monoatomic layers to several micrometers.
Carbon and silicon nanostructure deposition
In the laboratory of Diamond Layers and Carbon Nanostructures, there are two unique deposition systems designed for microwave plasma equipment supporting chemical vapor deposition. It allows to prepare thin layers of nanocrystalline diamond and / or silicon from chemical vapors in plasma for use in optoelectronics, nanoelectronics and bioelectronic applications.
Lithographic material structuring
The laboratory of material structuring is a set of instruments placed in clean rooms that are designed for preparation and characterisation of nanostructures. The system is used to define lateral micro- and nanostructures by optical and electron beam lithography.
Theoretical support
The theory group performs a whole range of calculations from analytical to sophisticated numerical first-principles calculations. The employed numerical tools are specifically chosen to match the requirements of a given physical problem.
Multimode scanning probe microscopy
The laboratory includes a set of four scanning probe microscopes (SPM) and one scanning electron microscope (SEM). The scanning probe microscopes can be combined with other techniques and offer a correlation of morphology and different local physical properties.
The Structural Analysis focuses on the development and application of modern crystallographic methods for the analysis of crystal structures from X-ray, neutron or electron diffraction data. Classical crystallography provides the positions of atoms within crystalline chemical compounds, as long as they are available as reasonably sized crystals thus yielding a sufficiently strong signal on X-ray sources.
Laboratory of electron microscopy
The laboratory of electron microscopy (LEM) focuses on the complex characterization of inorganic materials at micro/nanoscale. LEM operates transmission and scanning electron microscopes with a wide range of analytical techniques as well as instruments for advanced sample preparation.
Low temperature UHV STM/AFM
The Laboratory combines experimental and theoretical tools to explore novel material properties of nanostructures artificially built on surfaces. We use ultra-high vacuum low-temperature scanning probe microscopy to investigate their physical and chemical properties at the atomic scale.
Laboratory of optospintronics
The laboratory performs basic optical characterization (absorption, reflection and photoluminescence spectroscopy), magneto-optical characterization (MCD, MCB, MLD and MLB spectra), time-resolved ultrafast laser spectroscopy (pump and probe method) and characterization by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TR-MOKE).
The management structure of CzechNanoLab
Scientific and Technology Board
Scientific and Technology Board is composed of representatives of research groups affiliated to CzechNanoLab. The Board's primary responsibility is to oversee the general scientific and technological scope of the joint CzechNanoLab infrastructure and to make sure that the scope complies with modern trends and stimulates new research and development avenues.
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It is composed of 10 members and a chair. Members shall recruit from the following four scientific areas: Preparation of advanced materials and nanostructures, Characterization and control down to ultimate spatial and temporal scales (subdivided into Static and Dynamic nanocharacterization), Production and functionalization of components and devices, and Theoretical support. For each area, two representatives - one nominated by CEITEC Nano and the other by LNSM - are present.
CzechNanoLab International Advisory Board provides advice in the field of scientific and infrastructural strategy as well as any other areas as demanded by the Management Committee. The Board meets at least once every year. It is composed of 5-7 members, renowned international experts in the scientific and technological field relevant to
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Lars Montelius
INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
Gottfried Strasser
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Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany
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Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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CzechNanoLab. Board members are nominated and approved by the Management Committee with a mandate of 3 years with the possibility of prolongation. CzechNanoLab International Advisory Board replaced the initial international scientific advisory bodies of CEITEC Nano and LNSM. The current members of the CzechNanoLab International Advisory Board are the following:


Phylogenetic comparative methods have become one of the most important tools in evolutionary biology and ecology. Yet, accounting for uncertainty in phylogenies, species sampling our data can be difficult. Our new R-package tries to remedy that by providing a simple, easy-to-use set of tools to perform sensitivity analysis of comparative methods.
The associated paper has finally been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution recently and you can download the most recent CRAN release directly from R.
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500,000 new users each month? $76 million just closed in second round funding? Maybe not quite all in a day's work for JustFab's chief executive Adam Goldberg, but it is in character for an entrepreneur who started his first company at age 16.
"We think we're the next evolution of fast fashion," Goldberg said when I spoke to him earlier this week.
I chatted with Goldberg just a few days ago to get the inside story on JustFab, which has rocketed out of nowhere to be legitimate competition for noted fashion labels such as H&M or Forever21.
JustFab is not exactly a book-of-the-month club for fashion, but there are similarities. The company creates new and updated fashions at a furious rate, curated, selected, and designed by fashion celebrities and stylists. Women sign up at a monthly $39.95 to receive new items regularly, based on their preferences.
Every month there are new collections — new "lookbooks," as JustFab calls them. Sign up for the service and you might find six new shoes in styles and colors you like, or seven new bags.
Goldberg says that it's like re-merchandizing a retail store dozens of times a year — that's the "fast fashion" part. No traditional label or store replaces its styles so quickly.
The company owns its own fashion label and designs its products in-house, sourcing products in Asia. Inventory and logistics are always issues, says Goldberg, but not as much as you might think. The subscription model makes the business much more predictable.
So it's an interesting business. But why is it growing at 500,000 users each month?
In fact, 25 percent of JustFab's six million sign-ups are "socially influenced." But a large portion are from paid online advertising and — in an unusual move for internet startups — traditional TV spots. In addition, JustFab is very dialed into the fashion scene and is visible in magazines like People and 17. Add it all up, and the company has created a very unique blend of a traditional category and an innovation company.
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Now that the company has raised $76 million in funding from Rho Ventures and other participants, Goldberg has turned his sights overseas.
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Panchromatic emulsion is a type of black-and-white photographic emulsion that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light.

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A panchromatic emulsion renders a realistic reproduction of a scene as it appears to the human eye, although with no colors. Almost all modern photographic film is panchromatic. Some older types of film were orthochromatic and were not sensitive to certain wavelengths of light. As naturally prepared, a silver halide photographic emulsion is much more sensitive to blue and UV light than to green and red wavelengths. The German chemist Hermann W. Vogel found out how to extend the sensitivity into the green, and later the orange, by adding sensitising dyes to the emulsion. By the addition of erythrosine the emulsion could be made orthochromatic while some cyanine derivatives confer sensitivity to the whole visible spectrum making it panchromatic. However, his technique was not extended to achieve a fully panchromatic film until the early 1900s, shortly after his death. Panchromatic stock for still photographic plates became available commercially in 1906. The switch from orthochromatic film, however, was only gradual. Panchromatic plates cost two to three times as much, and had to be developed in total darkness, unlike orthochromatic—which, being insensitive to red, could be developed under a red light in the darkroom. And the process that increased the film's sensitivity to yellow and red also made it oversensitive to blue and violet, requiring a yellow-red lens filter to correct it, which in turn reduced the total amount of light and increased the necessary exposure time.

Orthochromatic film proved troublesome for motion pictures, rendering blue skies as perpetually overcast, blond hair as washed-out, blue eyes nearly white, and red lips nearly black. To some degree this could be corrected by makeup, lens filters, and lighting, but never completely satisfactorily. But even those solutions were unusable for additive color motion picture systems like Kinemacolor and Prizma color, which photographed on black-and-white stock behind alternating color filters. In those cases, negative film stock after it arrived from the manufacturer had to be passed through a color-sensitizing solution, a time-consuming process that increased the film's cost from 3 cents per foot to 7 cents. Eastman Kodak, the supplier of motion picture film, introduced a panchromatic film stock in September 1913, available on special order for photographing color motion pictures in additive systems. Photographers began using it for black-and-white films too in 1918, primarily for outdoor scenes. The company introduced Kodak Panchromatic Cine Film as a regular stock in 1922. The first black-and-white feature film photographed entirely on panchromatic stock was The Headless Horseman (1922). But early panchromatic stock was more expensive, had a relatively short shelf-life, and was more difficult for laboratories to process because it required working in total darkness. Not until the prices were equalized by competition in 1926 did it become used more widely than orthochromatic stock. Kodak discontinued manufacturing general-purpose orthochromatic motion picture film in 1930.

Digital panchromatic imagery of the Earth's surface is also produced by some modern satellites, such as QuickBird, Cartosat and IKONOS. This imagery is extremely useful, as it is generally of a much higher (spatial) resolution than the multispectral imagery from the same satellite. For example, the QuickBird satellite produces panchromatic imagery having a pixel equivalent to an area , while the multispectral pixels represent an area of .

See also
Black and white
Orthochromatic
Monochromatic color
Pansharpened image

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Photographic film types

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On Behalf of The Foster Group | Jun 3, 2020 | Firm News
Arizona employees have the right to continue working after pregnancy. In fact, there are many protections in place. They aim to keep workplace discrimination from targeting pregnant individuals.
Unfortunately, even these measures do not stop all instances of workplace discrimination. Today we will look at signs of discrimination against pregnant workers. This way, you can keep an eye out for them.
Signs of harassment against pregnant workers
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discusses pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. It is often "hard to spot". This is especially true in comparison to other forms of harassment. For example, most people understand they are facing sexual harassment when it occurs. But harassment against pregnant workers is often more subtle.
People doing the discriminating may disguise it as concern for the pregnant worker. Let us say they are trying to create social isolation. They may do this by refusing to invite the pregnant worker to events and activities off the clock. But they may claim they do this to keep stress on the mother low. It is also common to claim it is for their comfort. This way, they do not have to feel guilty about not drinking at social events with alcohol.
Actions pregnant workers can take
When a person feels targeted for their pregnancy, what can they do? They should pay attention to the actions of their coworkers and superiors. Are they left out of things more often? This does not just include social events. It includes meetings, promotional opportunities and more. This could be an attempt at making life easier for them, or it could be a sign of discrimination. Do not be afraid to act on suspicion and inquire investigations.
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