text:
The Carbon Challenge
Member Impact
« Back to Member Impact
Member Impact – March 2022
What are you and your company doing to help reduce embodied carbon emissions?
Kayleigh Houde
Computational Community Leader, Buro Happold
From a very early age, I loved solving puzzles. By two years old I had amassed a puzzle collection large enough to tote around in a suitcase. In fact, my parents allowed me to board an airplane with that suitcase once were my most precious and necessary accessories for a family vacation in Florida. My erudite appetite naturally led to a career in engineering — solving puzzles on a grand scale, designing and coordinating MEP systems for supertall buildings in New York City. Early in my career, I found that solving puzzles within AEC was made much easier while wielding and shaping computational tools: pushing Revit to its maximum capability, utilizing visual programming for the tasks that Revit was not commercially suited to provide, and writing code for solutions that visual programming did not yet provide out of the box.
During my 8 years with Buro Happold I discovered something very important: you can pursue technological innovation to your heart's content, but if you're not bringing others along the way, what's the point? My role as the Computational Community Leader for Buro Happold has been just that, tackling problems for a collective rather than for an individual or a single project.
In 2018 my team was approached by a colleague to take on a new kind of problem: climate crisis. My first question (naturally) was "what data are you working with?" This was my first foray into understanding the data structure behind Environmental Product Declarations, which are consistently structured, metric documents describing the environmental impacts of manufactured products over their lifetime. Much to my colleague's delight, we were able to integrate EPDs into our computational framework in the same way that we had integrated steel section sizes, occupancy guidelines and lighting power densities: by understanding their underlying objects and how to apply their associated data. By exploiting the power of computation, we have been able to slowly chip away at making better, more climate conscious choices in our building designs.
Computation has also allowed us to assess less-developed areas of environmental impact in building design: MEP systems. With my background in mechanical engineering, I was drawn to understanding the impacts of the systems that I was most familiar with: ducts, pipes, cable tray, equipment. Thankfully, due to the nature of being part of a transdisciplinary practice, I have been able to work with a great group of individuals performing shoebox studies on the effects of material selection, routing optimization, system selection and system lifespans. I have also had the great fortune of being part of the MEP2040 steering committee—a collective effort to specifically target the environmental impacts of MEP systems. The wicked problem of climate change has been the most challenging puzzle of my life—and I look forward to getting out of bed each morning to tackle it, one piece at a time.
"From a very early age, I loved solving puzzles. By two years old I had amassed a puzzle collection large enough to tote around in a suitcase. In fact, my parents allowed me to board an airplane with that suitcase once- they were my most precious and necessary accessories for a family vacation in Florida."
Chris Uraine
Senior Project Manager, Energy Solutions
I count myself as lucky for having had a variety of opportunities throughout my youth to enjoy the outdoors through camping, visits to national parks, and other outdoor activities. I grew up taking for granted that I had easy access to nature and all its benefits. The older I got, the more I realized that climate change was threatening access to nature for current and future generations. I was motivated to take action as I continued to see increasing negative climate change predictions coming to fruition with seemingly insufficient mobilization around climate action.
My career started at municipal utilities where I ran efficiency programs. Wanting to have a bigger impact and further my education, I went to graduate school (shout-out to fellow Brennies!) to deepen my understanding of environmental issues and to find viable solutions. In my current role at Energy Solutions, I search for large-scale impacts through my work in codes and standards – mostly through development and updates to building efficiency codes.
Energy Solutions is a mission-driven, clean energy implementation firm that focuses on market transformation to deliver large-scale environmental impacts for utility, government, and private sector clients. Our mission is to identify beneficial technologies, accelerate their adoption in the market, and then develop codes and standards that amplify and lock in those benefits. Having been first introduced to embodied carbon during my graduate school studies, I've been searching for opportunities to apply that knowledge into the work we complete at Energy Solutions.
This has been realized in our work in building codes. Currently, Energy Solutions is leading an effort to develop a package of measures on behalf of the California Statewide Utility Codes and Standards Team that aims to reduce embodied carbon through industrial efficiency in California's building energy code. Wanting to abate embodied carbon more directly, we are also coordinating with California state agencies to understand how embodied carbon can be better addressed within other parts of California's Building Standards Code, as well as examining opportunities directly with municipalities.
"Our mission is to identify beneficial technologies, accelerate their adoption in the market, and then develop codes and standards that amplify and lock in those benefits."
What are you and your organization doing to help reduce embodied carbon emissions?
Erik Bowden
Lead Embodied Carbon Analyst and Application Developer at Builders for Climate Action
The perpetually renewable sources of my motivation are a love of nature, a fascination with the ingenious designs that have evolved over 3.5 billion years, and the privilege of being connected to the web of life. I was fortunate to have discovered what deeply inspires me in my early career – bio-based building materials, collective action, and ecological design. I have spent the better part of a decade collaborating internationally on building projects using mostly local, non-toxic, and low-impact biogenic building materials. These projects were designed from a sustainability lens, focused on net-zero energy, contained substantial amounts of carbon-storing materials, and often demanded innovative solutions.
To foster more inclusive work environments for marginalized builders, I founded two LGBTQ-owned sustainable building companies. Driven by the desire to realize the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, I returned to university to earn a B.Eng. in Building Engineering, a modern engineering discipline that combines mechanical, civil, electrical, and specialized fields of engineering to understand the design of all building systems. With the advent of emerging technologies and advancements in LCA, biology, and material science, I believe the time is ripe to rapidly transform the built environment into one of the world's great carbon sinks.
Inspired by the Carbon Leadership Forum catalyzing collective efforts to reduce embodied carbon, I leaped at the opportunity to work with Chris Magwood at Builders for Climate Action (BfCA). A project of the Endeavour Centre, BfCA is a Canadian not-for-profit focusing on the embodied carbon impacts and opportunities in the low-rise residential sector. We undertake research, produce reports, provide education, and consult on carbon reduction strategies from individual projects to various levels of government policy.
This past fall, BfCA released the report Achieving Real Net Zero Emission Homes. A new report is soon to be released, concluding a year-long study I lead that analyzed the material carbon emissions of over 500 new homes in the GTHA, Canada's largest urban metropolitan area. I also spearhead the development of the BEAM tool, a free carbon calculator for the low-rise residential sector, set to be released in early April 2022. We hope it will serve communities large and small in achieving climate-equilibrium for generations to come.
"I was fortunate to have discovered what deeply inspires me in my early career – bio-based building materials, collective action, and ecological design."
What excites you most about what your organization is doing to help reduce embodied carbon emissions?
Ken Levenson
Executive Director of The Passive House Network (PHN),
I've been leading an effort that just launched the PHribbon for the US market. The PHribbon is a tool that allows Passive House designers to calculate the embodied carbon emissions of a given design within the Passive House (PHPP) energy model. With the PHribbon, operational energy use is converted to emissions, and embodied emissions are calculated and added. Passive House designers can now easily optimize integrated decisions for the most significant climate impact with embodied and operational results tallied in one interface.
It has been a journey. Back in 2009, as a practicing architect, I was freaking out over the climate crisis, and I stumbled upon Passive House. It hit me like a thunderbolt: a methodology that dramatically reduces carbon emissions and improves occupant health and comfort through a very energy-efficient integrated design. It provides a resilient, affordable, high-quality building. Passive House achieves this by focusing on the enclosure first and empowering the architecture. Buildings of all types, scales, and climates – both new build and retrofit – are possible.
So, I got to work on Passive House retrofits of 19th Century townhouses. Yet gaps in building knowledge and product supply existed in the US, making execution unnecessarily difficult. So, in 2011, I co-founded 475 High Performance Building Supply—with the mission to catalyze industry transformation by supplying essential high-performance products and knowledge resources across the US and Canada. It was then easy to see the intersections emerge with toxicity and embodied carbon concerns.
In 2019, I discovered Extinction Rebellion, a group that understands that runaway global warming is just a tipping point or two away if we don't shut down business-as-usual. Participating in nonviolent mass civil disobedience, I was arrested twice in 2019, and I look forward to doing it again. While recognizing my privilege, I recommend it.
Today, at PHN, we provide core Certified Passive House Designer training that changes your vocabulary and your conversations. Passive House training changes how you look at buildings and what you expect from buildings. It changes our building culture. And nothing less is required.
To support this culture change, I've also found it rewarding to volunteer with the US Architects Declare carbon working group – bringing together the priorities of embodied and operational building emissions.
It's easy to see building embodied and operational carbon emissions as a tag-team climate-demolition crew. We can master both. We see the PHribbon as a simple and accessible way to make that happen. We can't afford to leave any carbon on the table.
"Back in 2009, as a practicing architect, I was freaking out over the climate crisis, and I stumbled upon Passive House. It hit me like a thunderbolt: a methodology that dramatically reduces carbon emissions and improves occupant health and comfort through a very energy-efficient integrated design."
Member Impact – January 2023
Member Impact – December 2022
Member Impact – November 2022
Member Impact – October 2022
Member Impact – September 2022
Connect with the Carbon Leadership Forum
Follow @CarbonLeadForum Follow @KateSimonen
Did you know? Your membership connects you to our Online Community and Informative Newsletter.
Join the Carbon Leadership Forum
The Carbon Leadership Forum mission is to eliminate embodied carbon in buildings and infrastructure by inspiring innovation through collective action to create a just and thriving future.
We pioneer research, create resources, foster cross-collaboration, and incubate member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero.
We are architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners and policymakers who care about the future and are taking bold steps to decarbonize the built environment, with a keen focus on eliminating embodied carbon from buildings and infrastructure.
Carbon Leadership Forum
© Copyright 2023, Carbon Leadership Forum | Privacy Policy | Careers | Contact Us
French German Italian Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) English

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


2 : IMR, N-5817 Bergen, Norway.
We propose a random effects model for disentangling population abundance and capture efficiency effects on bottom-trawl catches. The spatial distribution of individual fish is assumed random leading to a Poisson distribution for the number of individuals in the trawl path (no schooling). Capture efficiency, i.e. the proportion of individuals in the trawl path being retained by the gear, is modelled as a random variable. We propose model extensions that include the effects of body size on haul efficiency. We applied the models to several species from the Celtic Sea groundfish community based on small-scale repetitive hauls. The resulting abundance estimates allowed us to study population abundance ratios; the estimated capture efficiencies were comparable between species and showed that generally gear efficiency increases for larger species with the exception of haddock (Melallogrannnils aeglefinus), which had low estimated gear efficiency despite its large body size. Model identifiability was studied using simulations and an independent trawl data set from the same area.


New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS): Retail giant Amazon that rode on its growing Cloud business to log $72.4 billion sales in the fourth quarter ending December last strongly believes that traditional databases that companies like Oracle provide are gone and customers are now seeking data compute and storage solutions to solve specific problem sets.
According to Amazon's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Werner Vogels as the Cloud continues to drive down the cost of storage and compute, a new generation of applications has emerged, creating a new set of requirements for databases.
"Unlike traditional databases which claim to solve every possible scenario, we believe in giving more choices to the customers who are constantly looking for databases that can solve a particular problem set for them," Vogels told IANS in an interview.
The new generation of applications has created a new set of requirements for databases which Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's Cloud arm, is ready to meet.
These applications need databases to store terabytes to petabytes of new types of data -- like the one coming from space -- to provide access to the data with millisecond latency, process millions of requests per second, and scale to support millions of users anywhere in the world.
"To support these requirements, you need both relational and non-relational databases that are purpose-built to handle the specific needs of your applications," Vogels noted.
The relational databases are for transactional applications while non-relational databases cater to big data and real-time web applications.
AWS offers the broadest range of databases (total of 16 to date), purpose-built for specific application use cases.
AWS saw sales up 45 per cent from the prior year to $7.4 billion in the fourth quarter. The company now provides 60 Cloud Availability Zones across 20 infrastructure regions globally, with another 12 Availability Zones and four regions coming online by the first half of 2020.
The company launched AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region with two availability zones in 2016 and has seen stupendous growth in adding new customers in the region.
"We believe in giving more choices for customers. If the reasons are compelling enough, customers will shun traditional databases and come to our databases," said Vogels.
Amazon will be completely off Oracle databases by the end of 2019.
"The whole debate is about who innovates better and currently, we are at the forefront to bring more purpose-built databases in the market," the Amazon CTO announced.
On security, he said "encrypting everything" from the privacy point of view is the way to go.
"We need to safeguard critical business data as cyber attacks are getting very sophisticated. Security is the top reason enterprises are moving their workloads to AWS Cloud," said Vogels.
Hundreds of thousands of customers have embraced AWS database services because these perform and scale better, easier to manage, cost effective, and more reliable than old-guard database offerings.
"Security is top priority for us. We have made massive innovations in and around security, building tools that are not available on-premises for our customers. Amazon clocks over 600 billions records every day so you can imagine the kind of security layers in there. And we are constantly innovating on security," informed Vogels.


We received an order from a young man to create an umbrella with a flurry of cherry blossoms. We painted each petal, one by one, to make it seem as if the cherry blossoms were dancing.
It is possible to paint on plain Jyanome (Slender) and Bangasa (Sturdy) umbrellas.


text:
Q: Ruby on Rails - Locomotive for version 2.3.8 -- is there such a thing? I am looking for a piece of software that will allow me to use Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 on top of MACOSX - basically, I teach at a college where students are not able to get terminal acccess to the rails built into OSX so I am looking for a piece of software like "Locomotive" that is an app that allows students to use rails without administrator access to the computer itself.
Any one have any ideas?
We will be using Rails 2.3.8
thanks.

A: I encourage you to teach 3.0, but each to their own. If your materials only cover 2.3.8 then it's missing out on a lot of goodies associated with 3.0 (such as Bundler). Anyway:
My primary fear with this is that you're going to have an un-upgradable version of Rubygems if you don't have system privileges. Some gems require a Rubygems version >= 1.3.5 or even better, 1.3.6. Latest is 1.3.7. Thankfully, there's a way around it.
You can do this by installing the rvm gem:
 gem install rvm --install-dir ~/.gems

RVM is "Ruby Version Manager" and does what it says on the tin: manages different versions of Ruby on your system. It'd be helpful in your case because it works without modifying the system Ruby.
This will install the gem to the user's home directory rather than the default system path. Then you'll need to run the rvm-install command which, as of this writing is:
 ~/.gems/rvm-1.0.14/bin/rvm-install

Your version of RVM may be different. To install a new version of Ruby which people can (ab)use run:
 rvm install ruby-1.9.2-p0

1.9.2 is the latest stable version of Ruby and I highly encourage you use it rather than the older 1.8.7.
This should come with the latest Rubygems and, for bonus points, won't muddle about with the existing ruby installation on the machine (which is probably impossible if you don't have admin rights).
From this point, you'll be able to use
 rvm use ruby-1.9.2-p0

to "switch" to that specific ruby. From there, you'll be able to do run gem install rails -v 2.3.8 which will install Rails somewhere in ~/.rvm. The location is not important. What is important however is that now you'll have a rails command that you can use and then you can go from there.
Good luck!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Egypt, represented by the Egyptian Olympic Committee, competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece from 13 to 29 August 2004. 97 competitors, 81 men and 16 women, took part in 48 events in 17 sports. Egypt's anthem, Bilady, Bilady, Bilady ("My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland") was played when Egypt won a gold medal.

Medalists

Archery

Athletics

Egyptian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).

Men

Women

Boxing

Egypt sent six boxers to Athens.  They competed in the six heaviest weight classes, with no competitors in Lightweight or below.  Five of the Egyptian boxers won their first bouts on the team's way to a silver medal and two bronzes.  Their combined record was 10-6, with two of the losses coming from walkovers.  Egypt was 7th in the medal ranking for boxing.

Equestrian

Show jumping

Fencing

Mauro Hamza coached the team.

Men

Women

Field hockey

Men's tournament

Roster

Group play

9th-12th Classification Semifinal

11th-12th Place Final

Handball

Men's tournament

Roster

Group play

11th-12th Classification Final

Judo

Men

Women

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Men

Women

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; R=Repechage

Shooting

Men

Women

Swimming

Men

Women

Synchronized swimming

Taekwondo

Water polo

Men's tournament

Roster

Group play

7th-12th Classification Quarterfinal

11th-12th Place Final

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman

See also
 Egypt at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

References

External links
Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
Egyptian Olympic Committee

Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004
Summer Olympics

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Q: VBA lookup value from column and if matches on other workbook, copy corresponding cell value into other workbook? I have 2 Excel workbooks with the same name but one is opened via a url:
Workbook 54.xlsm
Column A       Column B      Column C
--------------------------------------
01/12/2016     12345         Notes
03/12/2016     23456         Notes
01/12/2016     78643         Notes
03/12/2016     12345         Notes

Workbook 54.xlsm
Column A       Column B      Column C
-------------------------------------
01/12/2016     12345
03/12/2016     23456
01/12/2016     78643
03/12/2016     12345

I am trying to open the latest version of Workbook 54 online and essentially want to be able to copy the notes out of column C from the 1st (older) version of Workbook 54 and paste these into the latest version of workbook 54 where the number in column B matches and where the date in column a matches.
Here's my code so far, for some reason what I've put together doesn't seem to do anything.
'Download File - Check URL
Sub File()

    Dim wb As Workbook
    Dim dt As Date

    dt = Now

    Const sURL As String = "https://intranet-uk.lidl.net/info-centre/docsdb/Document%20Database/08.%20Buying/8.3%20Food%20Specials/Current%20Information/Food%20Specials%20and%20Seasonal%20Depot%20Memos/"

    On Error Resume Next
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        Set wb = Workbooks.Open(sURL & "Food%20Specials%20Rolling%20Depot%20Memo%2045%20-%2052.xlsm")
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
    On Error GoTo 0

    If wb Is Nothing Then
        Set wb = Workbooks.Open(sURL & "Food%20Specials%20Rolling%20Depot%20Memo%2046%20-%2001.xlsm")
    End If

    Set GetCFWorkbook = wb

    Dim Dic As Object, key As Variant, oCell As Range, i&
    Dim w1 As Worksheet, w2 As Worksheet

    Set LookupWB = Application.Workbooks("Food Specials Rolling Depot Memo 46 - 01.xlsm")
    Set Dic = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
    Set w2 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
    Set w1 = Workbooks(LookupWB).Sheets("Sheet1")

    i = w1.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row

    For Each oCell In w1.Range("J6:J" & i)
        If Not Dic.exists(oCell.Value) Then
            Dic.Add oCell.Value, oCell.Offset(, -3).Value
        End If
    Next

    i = w2.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row

    For Each oCell In w2.Range("J6:J" & i)
        For Each key In Dic
            If oCell.Value = key Then
                oCell.Offset(, 2).Value = Dic(key)
            End If
        Next
    Next

End Sub


text:
Q: How to pass parameters to Node's Q library's (denodeify) promise handler In the below code I would like to have variables a, b, c to be passed as parameter when processhttprequest() gets called.
    var q = require("q");
    var request = require('request');

    function myfun()
    {
        var a, b, c;
        //do some work here
        var httprequest = q.denodeify(request);
        var httprequestpromise = httprequest(httpoptions);
        httprequestpromise.then(processhttprequest);
    }

I tried httprequestpromise.then(processhttprequest.bind([a, b, c])); but no luck. Is this supported by Q, or any other promise library.

A: You can use .bind() like this:
httprequestpromise.then(processhttprequest.bind(null, a, b, c));

This creates a dummy function that will add the arguments a, b, and c before calling processhttprequest().

Or, you can do it manually with your own stub function like this:
function myfun()
{
    var a, b, c;
    //do some work here
    var httprequest = q.denodeify(request);
    var httprequestpromise = httprequest(httpoptions);
    httprequestpromise.then(function(result) {
        return processhttprequest(a, b, c, result);
    });
}

A: Function.prototype.bind doesn't take an array. Once you fix your usage of bind, your code should work as you described.
Try
httprequestpromise.then(processhttprequest.bind(null, a, b, c));
or
httprequestpromise.then(function(){
  processhttprequest(a, b, c);
});


Welcome to 205 Eyebrows & Beauty Bar - our eyebrow and beauty bar opened a few years ago and since then, has satisfied many clients. Our trendy and chic crew present different styles for different customers, so whether it's a drastic makeover you're after, or you simply want to have your split ends trimmed, you can sit back and relax while we tend to your tresses. Our hairdressers are super-welcoming and down to earth who listen to exactly what you want. Just relax and watch the magic happen!
From pedicures to facials we do it all!
Here at our venue, you'll find open spaces and magnificent workshops - unlike any others you've been to! We believe in providing deluxe features so customers can relax from their busy lives. With traditional décor designed to make you feel like you're in paradise, to comfy seating areas and revitalizing pedicure rooms, you won't want to leave!
Our beauty process is a simple one. We provide no obligation quotes, so just get in contact with us today and we'll listen to your needs, recommend a course of treatment and provide you with a price list. Once we've pencilled you in for an appointment, just turn up ten minutes before your booking and we'll get you prepared for your treatment. All you need to do is relax and loosen up!
I travel from Shaftesbury to get my eyebrows threaded. We'll worth the trip!
It takes a lot for me to trust someone with my eyebrows, and the lady here does them perfectly and virtually pain free.
Please note that 205 Eyebrow & Beauty Bar may not be able to honour booking requests made.


text:
Justia Patents Combined With Diverse Art Device (e.g., Audio/sound Or Entertainment System)US Patent Application for SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REOCCURRENCE DISPLAY OF COMMERCIAL MOBILE ALERT MESSAGES Patent Application (Application #20130344800)
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REOCCURRENCE DISPLAY OF COMMERCIAL MOBILE ALERT MESSAGES
Jun 26, 2012 - Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
A commercial mobile alert message (e.g., without limitation, a WRITE-REPLACE message), delivered by a CMSP to one or more targeted mobile devices, specifies one or more reoccurrence display parameters adapted to invoke multiple reoccurrent displays of the CMAM by targeted mobile devices. The reoccurrence display parameters may comprise, for example, a mandatory or optional advisory; a number of displays condition; a time interval between consecutive displays condition; and a compliance time interval condition.
Latest Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. Patents:
Techniques for improving discontinuous reception in wideband wireless networks
Temperature estimation
METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TRANSFER BLOCK INDICATION IN UPLINK GRANT-FREE TRANSMISSIONS
Optical Communication With Low Temporal Coherence Light
Modular optical device and modules therefor
This invention relates generally to wireless telecommunication systems and, more particularly, to providing public safety alerts and other alert notifications to mobile units in an indicated alert area.
A variety of alert notification systems are known for providing weather alerts and other alerts, such as police, fire and emergency alerts to the public. Typically, the alert notification is generated from a public authority (e.g., community, state or national authority) and is targeted to the public located within an indicated geographic area. Historically, alert notifications have been delivered by modalities such as warning sirens and warning tones broadcast over radio and television channels. In recent years, a need has been recognized to extend alert notification systems to wireless telecommunication systems, so as to deliver public safety and other alert notifications to mobile units operated by wireless subscribers present within an indicated geographic area.
Current practices and standards for mobile alert messages are set forth in the following documents, each of which is fully incorporated herein by reference:
"Commercial Mobile Alert Service Architecture and Requirements," Version 1.0, dated Oct. 12, 2007 (describing general requirements of a United States Commercial Mobile Alert Service);
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical specification TS 22.268 version 11.3.0, dated December 2011 (describing general requirements for a Public Warning System (PWS) in a 3GPP communication network);
3GPP TS 25.419, dated September 2011 (describing parameters of a Service Area Broadcast Protocol (SABP) in a 3GPP communication network);
3GPP TS 48.049, dated March 2012 (describing parameters of a Cell Broadcast Service Protocol (CBSP) in a 3GPP communication network);
ETSI TS 102 900, version 1.2.1, dated January 2012 (describing general requirements of a European Public Warning Service).
Generally, in accordance with the foregoing documents, a Commercial Mobile Service Provider (CMSP) receives an alert message from an alerting entity (e.g., an alert initiator, gateway or aggregator). The CMSP formats the alert in a manner consistent with the appropriate delivery protocol (e.g., SABP, CBSP) and delivers it via one or more cell sites/paging transceivers (e.g., depending on delivery protocol, radio network controllers (RNCs) or base station controllers (BSCs)) to targeted mobile devices. The alert may be delivered to all or a subset of the CMSP's coverage area and/or all or a subset of mobile devices supported by the service provider.
Current practices and standards allow for repetitive rebroadcast of mobile alerts by the RNC/BSCs serving the affected mobile devices so as to increase the likelihood that mobile users will receive and display the alert. In particular, according to current practices and standards, a broadcast commercial mobile alert message (e.g., a WRITE-REPLACE message in the SABP/CBSP protocols), delivered by a CMSP to one or more RNC/BNCs, includes a "number of broadcasts requested" and a "repetition period" parameter so as to instruct the RNC/BNCs as to how many times and how often they are to rebroadcast the message. However, the current practice of repetitive rebroadcast of mobile alerts can create network congestion and may adversely affect performance of the CMSP network resources. Accordingly, it is desirable to provide for reoccurrent mobile alerts at the mobile unit in a manner that reduces or eliminates repetitive rebroadcasts from the RNC/BNCs.
These problems are addressed and a technical advance is achieved in the art by a feature whereby new parameters in a commercial mobile alert message (e.g., without limitation, a WRITE-REPLACE message), delivered by a CMSP to one or more RNC/BNCs and passed to targeted mobile devices, provide for the mobile devices to display reocurrent mobile alerts without relying on repetitive rebroadcasts from the RNC/BNCs.
In one embodiment, a CMSP gateway node receives a CMAM (Commercial Mobile Alert Message) from an alerting authority; selects one or more reoccurrence display parameters adapted to invoke multiple reoccurrent displays of the CMAM by targeted mobile devices; augments the CMAM with indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters, and delivers the augmented CMAM to the targeted mobile devices. Optionally, the augmented CMAM may comprise an amended or appended WRITE-REPLACE message, or a counterpart message including indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters.
In another embodiment, a mobile device receives a CMAM (e.g., an augmented CMAM from a CMSP gateway node) with indicia of reoccurrence display parameters, and displays the CMAM in compliance with the reoccurrence display parameters. The reoccurrence display parameters may comprise, for example, a mandatory or optional advisory; a number of displays condition; a time interval between consecutive displays condition; and a compliance time interval condition.
The foregoing and other advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a functional reference model of a Commercial Mobile Alert Service in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented;
FIG. 2 shows a nominal message sequence for a text-based Commercial Mobile Alert Message (CMAM) according to current practices and standards;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing steps performed by a CMSP Gateway to specify CMAM reoccurrence display parameters for targeted mobile devices according to embodiments of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing steps performed by a mobile device to execute specified CMAM reoccurrence display parameters according to embodiments of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)
For ease of reference, the detailed description is divided as follows. Section I provides an overview of a Commercial Mobile Alert Service. Section II describes a solution for achieving reoccurrent mobile alerts at target mobile devices without relying on repetitive rebroadcasts from the RNC/BNCs.
I. Overview of a Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS).
FIG. 1 is a functional reference model of a CMAS system 100 as set forth in the above-referenced "Commercial Mobile Alert Service Architecture and Requirements" document for the distribution of mobile alerts to mobile units operating within the coverage area of a Commercial Mobile Service Provider (CMSP).
Under this exemplary model, a Federal Government entity, a Government Alerting Network 102 includes an "Alert Aggregator" 104 and an "Alert Gateway" 106. The Alert Aggregator 104 receives, aggregates and authenticates alerts originated by one or more alert initiators (as shown, federal agencies, local and state Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs)) and transmitted across reference point "A."The alerts may comprise, for example, new, updated or canceled Commercial Mobile Alerts (CMAs) comprising, for example, Presidential-level; Imminent threat to life and property; and Child Abduction Emergency or "AMBER" alerts. The Alert Aggregator 104 forwards the alerts to the Alert Gateway 106 across reference point "B." The Alert Gateway 106 may reformat the alerts, if necessary (e.g., to conform with supported technologies, service profile or the like) and delivers the alerts across reference point "C" to a Commercial Mobile Service Provider (CMSP) Network 108.
The CMSP Network 108 includes a CMSP gateway 110 and one or more cell sites/paging transceivers 112 (e.g., depending on delivery protocol, radio network controllers (RNCs) or base station controllers (BSCs)). Upon receiving the alert, the CMSP gateway 110 formats the alert in a manner consistent with the appropriate delivery protocol (e.g., SABP, CBSP) and sends it to one or more of the cell sites/paging transceivers 112 across reference point "D." The RNCs/BSCs then broadcast the alert to targeted mobile devices 114 across reference point "E." Ultimately, the alert is delivered to targeted mobile devices "in whole or in part," including all or a subset of the CMSP's coverage area and/or all or a subset of mobile devices supported by the service provider.
FIG. 2 shows a nominal message sequence for a text-based Commercial Mobile Alert Message (CMAM) delivered via the above-described CMAS system 100 according to current practices and standards. In particular, FIG. 2 depicts a message sequence between the Government Alerting Network 102, CMSP Network 108, Mobile Device 114 and end user 116 (not shown in FIG. 1). FIG. 2 corresponds generally to FIG. 4-1 of the above-referenced "Commercial Mobile Alert Service Architecture and Requirements" document.
The message sequence of FIG. 2 includes the following steps:
At step 201, an alert is created and sent to the Government Alerting Network 102 over reference point "A."
At step 202, the Government Alerting Network 102 validates and authenticates the received alert request.
At step 203, the Government Alerting Network 102 converts the received alert message into the text profile based CMAS format supported by the CMSP.
At step 204, the Government Alerting Network 102 sends the text profile based CMAM to the CMSP over reference point C.
At step 205, the CMSP validates the received CMAM.
At step 206, the CMSP sends an acknowledgement to the Government Alerting Network 102 that a valid CMAM has been received.
At step 207, the CMSP performs geo-targeting to translate the indicated alert area into the associated set of cell sites/paging tranceivers for broadcast of the CMA.
At step 208, the CMSP broadcasts the CMAM to the set of cell sites/paging transceivers identified by the geo-targeting process of step 207. The CMAM is broadcast from the cell sites/paging transceivers to targeted mobile devices via a CMSP selected technology.
At step 209, mobile devices 114 monitor for the broadcast of the CMAM via the CMSP selected technology.
At step 210, the CMAM is received and presented to the end user 116 according to the capabilities of the mobile device 114. In one scenario, the CMAM is presented with a CMAS audio attention signal and/or a special emergency alert vibration cadence (if mobile device has vibration capabilities) and the CMAM message text is displayed on a visual display of the mobile device.
II. Problem Statement and Solution
As has been noted, current practices and standards allow for repetitive rebroadcast of mobile alerts by the RNC/BSCs serving targeted mobile devices so as to increase the likelihood that mobile users will receive and display the alert. Thus, at step 208, a broadcast commercial mobile alert message (e.g., a WRITE-REPLACE message in the SABP/CBSP protocols), delivered by a CMSP to one or more RNC/BNCs, includes a "number of broadcasts requested" and a "repetition period" parameter so as to instruct the RNC/BNCs as to how many times and how often they are to rebroadcast the message. However, the current practice of repetitive rebroadcast of mobile alerts can create network congestion and may adversely affect performance of the CMSP network resources.
To address this problem, embodiments of the present invention are directed to provide for targeted mobile devices to display reocurrent mobile alerts without relying on repetitive rebroadcasts from the RNC/BNCs. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by new parameters in the commercial mobile alert message (e.g., without limitation, a WRITE-REPLACE message), delivered by a CMSP to one or more RNC/BNCs and passed to targeted mobile devices. In one embodiment, the new parameters will allow the government agency (or any valid agency who initiates the commercial mobile alert message) to force reoccurrence of public safety alerts or other agency alerts and specify the number of reoccurrences to be displayed by the mobile devices and the reoccurrence period
Turning now to FIG. 3, there is a flowchart of steps performed by a CMSP Gateway 110 to specify CMAM reoccurrence display parameters for targeted mobile devices according to embodiments of the present invention.
The CMSP gateway 110 is generally defined as any hardware device, server, platform, system, application or function, logically connected to the Government Alerting Network 102 and nominally operated by a CMSP, that is operable to receive, format and broadcast alerts to targeted mobile devices 114 according to current practices and standards such as described in relation to FIG. 2 and further, according to embodiments of the present invention to specify reoccurrence display parameters to the targeted mobile devices.
The logical hardware configuration (not shown) of the CMSP gateway 110 includes a processor and memory, an input interface (logically connected to reference point "C") and an output interface (logically connected to reference point "D"). The steps of FIG. 3 may be performed, for example and without limitation, by the processor executing program code (e.g., including but not limited to operating system firmware/software and application software) stored in the memory.
At step 302, the CMSP gateway 110 receives a CMAM from an alerting authority (e.g., government agency or other valid agency) via the input interface. Coincident to receiving the CMAM, the CMSP may perform validation and acknowledgement of the CMAM, and geo-targeting to identify a targeted set of cell sites/paging tranceivers for broadcast of the CMA, consistent with current practices and standards. For convenience, steps of validation, acknowledgement and geo-targeting are omitted from FIG. 3.
At step 304, the CMSP gateway determines whether it will specify any reoccurrence display parameters associated with the received CMAM. For example, it is contemplated that the CMSP may specify reoccurrence parameters for some but not all CMAMs received from an alerting authority. If no reoccurrence display parameters are to be specified for a particular CMAM, the CMSP gateway at step 310 broadcasts the CMAM to targeted mobile devices according to current practices and standards, i.e., without reoccurrence display parameters.
If reoccurrence display parameters are to be specified for a particular CMAM, the CMSP gateway selects reoccurrence display parameters at step 306 that are to be associated with the CMAM. In one embodiment, the CMSP gateway 110 selects one or more of the following reoccurrence display parameters at step 306:
Reoccurrence: mandatory or optional. Mandatory reoccurrence indicates that targeted mobile devices must display a designated alert message multiple times. Optional reoccurrence indicates that reoccurrence parameters may be suppressed by the targeted mobile devices.
Number minimum number of times an alerting message should be displayed at a targeted mobile device. For example and without limitation, a government agency may request a targeted mobile device to display a hurricane warning message no less than 3 times.
Display interval: maximum time interval (e.g., in seconds) between consecutive displays of a reoccurrent message. For example and without limitation, a government agency may request a targeted mobile device to display a terrorist warning message multiple times with a time interval of no greater than 60 seconds between consecutive displays.
Compliance interval: minimum whole time period (e.g., in hours) under which reoccurrent message displays should be executed by a targeted mobile device. For example and without limitation, a government agency may request a targeted mobile device to display reoccurring earthquake warning messages for at least 8 hours.
At step 308, having selected one or more reoccurrence display parameters associated with a received CMAM, the CMSP gateway augments the received CMAM message with indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters, yielding an augmented CMAM. For example and without limitation, the augmented CMAM may comprise an amended, appended or proxy CMAM that includes the message content of the original CMAM but which further includes indicia of reoccurrence display parameters not present in the originally received CMAM. Alternatively or additionally, the step of augmenting the CMAM at step 308 may involve composing a counterpart message associated with the CMAM that includes indicia of the reoccurrence display parameters.
Finally, at step 310, the CMSP gateway broadcasts the augmented CMAM to targeted mobile devices according to embodiments of the present invention, i.e., for display in compliance with the specified reoccurrence display parameters.
Now turning to FIG. 4, there is a flowchart of steps performed by a mobile device 114 to process received CMAMs according to embodiments of the present invention. The mobile device 114 may comprise, for example and without limitation, a cell phone, personal digital assistant (PDA) or any mobile computing device that is subject to receive and display CMAMs, among other content, generated or forwarded from the CMSP gateway 110.
The mobile device 114 is logically connected to the CMSP gateway by wireless resources, comprising, for example, cell sites/paging transceivers 112 (e.g., depending on delivery protocol, radio network controllers (RNCs) or base station controllers (BSCs)). The wireless resources may implement air interface technologies including but not limited to, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, UMTS or IEEE 802.11.
The logical hardware configuration (not shown) of the mobile device 114 includes a processor and memory, a network interface (logically connected to reference point "E") and a user interface. The user interface may comprise, for example and without limitation, a text display, video display and/or an audio speaker. The steps of FIG. 4 may be performed, for example and without limitation, by the processor executing program code (e.g., including but not limited to operating system firmware/software and application software) stored in the memory.
At step 402, the mobile device receives a CMAM (e.g., an augmented CMAM (with reoccurrence display parameters) or "standard" CMAM (without reoccurrence display parameters)) forwarded from the CMSP gateway 110 via the network interface.
At step 404, the mobile device processes or inspects the CMAM for the presence of reoccurrence display parameters. If the CMAM does not specify any reoccurrence display parameters, the mobile device at step 406 displays the CMAM according to current practices and standards, i.e., without reoccurrence display.
If the CMAM specifies any reoccurrence display parameters, the mobile device at step 408 displays the CMAM in compliance with the specified reoccurrence display parameters.
For example and without limitation:
If the CMAM specifies a mandatory reoccurrence display, the mobile device must display the CMAM a designated number of times, display interval or compliance interval as specified in the received CMAM. If the CMAM specifies an optional reoccurrence display, the mobile device may allow the user to suppress the CMAM display (e.g., after the user takes an affirmative action to do so). It is contemplated that an optional reoccurrence display may be implemented in part with a specified mandatory minimum number. For example, the mobile device may allow the user to suppress further reoccurrent displays of a CMAM after displaying the CMAM at least 2 times.
If the CMAM specifies a parameter for minimum number of reoccurrence displays with value X, the mobile device shall display the received CMAM at least X times.
If the CMAM specifies a parameter for maximum interval between reoccurrent displays with value Y, the mobile device shall support display of the received CMAM with no greater time interval than Y (e.g., Y seconds) between consecutive displays.
If the CMAM specifies a parameter for minimum whole time period for reoccurrence displays with value Z, the mobile device shall execute reoccurrent displays of the received CMAM for at least the time interval Z (e.g., Z hours).
If the mobile device receives a command to replace a previous CMAM, or to replace a reoccurrence display parameter associated with a CMAM, the mobile device should discontinue the display of the previous CMAM and ignore all previous reoccurrence display parameters (including stop all relevant timers associated with previous reoccurrence display parameters) and begin to execute the new parameter(s).
The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its spirit or essential characteristics. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is, therefore, indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
For example, embodiments are described herein with reference to emergency and/or public safety alerts promulgated by a government alerting authority. However, it is to be appreciated that embodiments of the present invention, while applicable to emergency and/or public safety alert messages, are not so limited. Rather, embodiments of the present invention are generally applicable to the communication of any message type or format, originating from any messaging authority. For example and without limitation, embodiments of the present invention may be applied toward the distribution of weather alerts, news or sports messages or advertising.
Thus, the term "commercial mobile alert system" as used herein may apply generally to any communication topology that utilizes a commercial mobile service provider gateway node for promulgating messages to targeted mobile devices served by a commercial mobile service provider; and the term "commercial mobile alert message" or CMAM may apply generally to any message delivered to a CMSP by an alerting authority for distribution to targeted mobile devices.
1. In a commercial mobile alert system including a gateway node controlled by a commercial mobile service provider (CMSP), defining a CMSP gateway node, the CMSP gateway node logically connected to an alerting authority that promulgates commercial mobile alert messages (CMAM) for distribution within the commercial mobile alert system, a method comprising the CMSP gateway node:
receiving a CMAM from an alerting authority;
selecting one or more reoccurrence display parameters adapted to invoke multiple reoccurrent displays of the CMAM by targeted mobile devices;
augmenting the CMAM with indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters, yielding an augmented CMAM; and
delivering the augmented CMAM to the targeted mobile devices.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of augmenting the CMAM comprises amending the CMAM to include indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of augmenting the CMAM comprises appending the CMAM with indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of augmenting the CMAM comprises forming a counterpart message including indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters, and wherein the step of delivering the augmented CMAM comprises delivering the CMAM and the counterpart message to the targeted mobile devices.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of delivering the augmented CMAM comprises sending a WRITE-REPLACE message to the targeted mobile devices.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the reoccurrence display parameters are selected from the group consisting of:
a mandatory or optional advisory;
a number of displays condition;
a time interval between consecutive displays condition; and
a compliance time interval condition.
7. A commercial mobile service provider (CMSP) gateway node, in accordance with a commercial mobile alert system including an alerting authority logically connected to the CMSP gateway node, the alerting authority adapted to promulgate commercial mobile alert messages (CMAM) for distribution within the commercial mobile alert system, the CMSP gateway node comprising:
an input interface;
an output interface;
at least one processor operably coupled to the input interface, output interface and memory and configured to:
(a) receive a CMAM from an alerting authority;
(b) select one or more reoccurrence display parameters adapted to invoke multiple reoccurrent displays of the CMAM by targeted mobile devices;
(c) augment the CMAM with indicia of the reoccurrence display parameters, yielding an augmented CMAM; and
(d) deliver the augmented CMAM to the targeted mobile devices.
8. The CMSP gateway node of claim 7, wherein the processor at part (d) is configured to send a WRITE-REPLACE message to the targeted mobile devices.
9. The CMSP gateway node of claim 7, wherein the processor at part (b) is configured to specify reoccurrence display parameters selected from the group consisting of:
10. The CMSP gateway node of claim 7, wherein the processor at part (c) is configured to amend the CMAM to include indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters.
11. The CMSP gateway node of claim 7, wherein the processor at part (c) is configured to append the CMAM with indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters.
12. The CMSP gateway node of claim 7, wherein
the processor at part (c) is configured to form a counterpart message including indicia of the selected reoccurrence display parameters, and
the processor at part (d) is configured to deliver the CMAM and the counterpart message to the targeted mobile devices.
13. A mobile device for displaying commercial mobile alert messages (CMAM), in accordance with a commercial mobile alert system including an alerting authority logically connected to a CMSP gateway node, the alerting authority adapted to promulgate commercial mobile alert messages (CMAM) via the CMSP gateway node for distribution within the commercial mobile alert system, the mobile device comprising:
a user interface;
at least one processor operably coupled to the network interface, user interface and memory and configured to:
(a) receive a CMAM and indicia of associated reoccurrence display parameters; and
(b) display the CMAM in compliance with the reoccurrence display parameters.
14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the processor at part (b) is configured to display the CMAM in compliance with reoccurrence display parameters selected from the group consisting of:
Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ)
Inventors: Suzann Hua (Lisle, IL), Yigang Cai (Naperville, IL)
Current U.S. Class: Combined With Diverse Art Device (e.g., Audio/sound Or Entertainment System) (455/3.06)
International Classification: H04W 4/06 (20090101);


6/25/11 - If you want to find Small Business Insurance in Memphis, you should talk to me. Memphis Small Business Insurance is one of my specialties. Besides Memphis Small Business Insurance, I can help you with other insurance in Memphis besides Memphis Small Business Insurance. If you found this page because you searched for "Small Business Insurance in Memphis", you should check out my website.
Then, if you really want good Small Business Insurance in Memphis, call me.
Remember, for Memphis Small Business Insurance, think Small Business Insurance Memphis.
Business is great. Insurance is great. Small Business Insurance is great. But you can also say, insurance, Small Business Insurance, and business are all important.


text:
Home News Lenovo Smart Display Takes on Amazon's Echo Show; Goes On Sale For...
Lenovo Smart Display Takes on Amazon's Echo Show; Goes On Sale For $200
IANS -
Google has partnered Chinese technology company Lenovo to manufacture a new category of devices called "Smart Displays" which are interactive screens for smart home devices with Google Assistant.
"With the Google Assistant built in, the Lenovo Smart Display brings you the best of Google services, including Maps, YouTube, Calendar, Duo and Photos, in a visual and helpful way," Chris Turkstra, Product Management Director, Google Assistant wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
With the interactive touch-and-voice combination, "Smart Display" would enable users to multitask and control their smart home devices with simple voice commands and touch gestures. With "Smart Display," Google is also offering three free months of YouTube Premium service for new subscribers.
"Your Assistant can even help you prepare a great meal on 'Smart Displays' with step-by-step hands-free guidance on screen. Of course, you can set timers and play music while you cook," Turkstra added. The "Lenovo Smart Display" is first being made available in the US in two display sizes– the 8-inch HD version for $199.99 and the 10-inch Full-HD version for $249.99.
"We'll expand the Smart Display options with other partners, including JBL and LG. While there are over 1 million actions already available for the Assistant, we're excited to see what developers will design for 'Smart Displays' too," said Turkstra.


text:
The 2700 and 2750 Classes (nicknamed "Sparrows" [Spanish Arrows]) were two related types of diesel multiple unit operated by Iarnród Éireann. The 2700 Class units were 2-car sets; 25 cars were built by GEC Alsthom in 1997 and 1998, and began entering service in December 1998. Each car weighed  and was fitted with a  underfloor Cummins engine with a maximum service speed of .

History
From July 2004 to April 2005 they were used in six-piece sets on the Dublin-Rosslare InterCity services, before being replaced by newer units. The entire class was then based in Limerick, with one set outbased in Ballina to operate the Ballina - Manulla Junction shuttle, while it also operated an Athlone - Galway service on Fridays. A further set operated morning and evening Athenry - Galway commuter services during its layover from Limerick - Galway services. Otherwise the class operated all services from Limerick (save direct Limerick-Heuston trains) and services from Limerick Junction to Waterford.

They were capable of operation in consists of up to 10 cars. In addition to the 2-car units, two single car units were constructed. These units were classed as 2750 Class, and had a cab at each end so that they could operate either singly or as part of a set.

Even numbered cars had 62 seats while odd numbered cars contained 55 seats and a toilet. There were some exceptions however; the two 2750 Class units had 53 seats each, due to having cabs at both ends, while 2719 and 2721 had 50 seats each and included a bicycle storage area. The original black and orange Arrow livery was replaced by the newly introduced Commuter livery in 2004, upon the start of the sectorisation of Iarnród Éireann's operations.

In 2010, Iarnród Éireann began major overhauls of the 2700 and 2750 Classes, the most prominent feature of which was the removal of the end gangways, which had been unused for some time. This coincided with the addition of a new livery based on the 22000 Class colour scheme.

2716 suffered collision damage on 3 June 2000. Following repairs, it was coupled with 2609, part of the 2600 class.

In July 2012, the majority of the class was withdrawn and put into storage; by September 2012 the entire fleet had been withdrawn and was put up for sale. As of 2018, the entire 2700 fleet remains decommissioned at Inchicore Works in Dublin and in the sheds at Cork Kent.

In October 2017, Irish Rail put out to tender the reactivation and refurbishment of 10 2700 sets, which were due to re-enter service in early 2019 in order to free up ICR sets for busier Dublin area services. However, this plan was cancelled in 2018.

During 2022, the 2700s stored at Inchicore were removed from the rails and stored off-track to make more space for other rolling stock.

Fleet details

Models
Bachmann produced a model of 2715/2716 in Commuter livery. However, this was a repainted BR Class 158 rather than accurate tooling for the 2700 class.

References

External links

 Irish Rail Fleet Information page

Iarnród Éireann multiple units
Alstom multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1997


text:
Behind the winning ways of Jacque Vaughn
By Net Income Dec 25, 2022, 9:47am EST
Share All sharing options for: Behind the winning ways of Jacque Vaughn
Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images
As Kyrie Irving said the other night, there is "no cap" in Jacque Vaughn. It's all authentic and it is also predictable: you don't know what he wants, aren't accountable, he will make sure you know it ... and not the next day, the next hour, the next minute. Now, right now.
It shows in a lot of the way he has coached the Nets, as Kristian Winfield writes Sunday, whether it's calling a quick timeout, even when winning; letting players know how they're doing in the most basic of basketball duties like boxing out, or making full use of coaching analytics, "eye in the sky" video on the team's iPad.
As a result, the Nets are on a roll: eight straight wins, tying the record for franchise's longest winning streak in Brooklyn, winning 12 of the last 13 overall and posting a 19-7 record in Vaughn's tenure. In each of those stretches, the Nets record is best in the NBA.
Truth be told, Vaughn had been passed over twice during his six-year Nets career, once when Kenny Atkinson was canned and despite his job in the "Bubble," Sean Marks went with Steve Nash, then after Nash was let go, Marks — and Kevin Durant — wanted Ime Udoka, then and now the suspended head coach of the Celtics, his tenure interrupted by allegations of inappropriate relations with female staffers. Wise heads ultimately prevailed and the self-described "write-in candidate" surprisingly won the election eight days after Nash departed. Call it a recount.
Winfield spoke with Mike Budenholzer, the Bucks coach who worked with Vaughn (and Marks) back in their San Antonio days.
"As a player, his work ethic and his attention to detail was just off the charts," he said on Friday. "He's about as sharp as anybody I've ever been around as a player, and his thirst for game plans and little moments where he can make a difference and impact winning, it was high-level.
"And as a coach, it's kind of the same thing."
No one ever doubted the Pasadena, California native's smarts. Vaughn earned a 3.72 GPA at Kansas, was named Academic All-American and the GTE 1997 Academic All-American of the Year. And not his enthusiasm either. That was a given during his playing days too, but just as he was a back-up to Hall of Famers John Stockton and Jason Kidd as well as future Hall of Famer Tony Parker as a player, he was relegated to the perennial role of assistant coach following a disastrous turn as the Magic head coach during Orlando's fitful rebuild a decade ago.
His humility, perhaps honed in secondary roles, has helped. Talking about how he understood he wasn't the organization's first choice, he recounted a conversation he had with his wife.
"But I'm OK with that," Vaughn said. "I said to my wife, I might have not been her first choice and we've been together 20 years, so you know, it could all work out. So off we go."
That theme came through recently in Meghan Triplett's interview with him on YES when he talked about his commitment to Brooklyn.
"I wanted to continue to add value to the organization," he told Triplett recently. "with the relationship I had within the organization. So my mind was wrapped around, 'Can I help and aid in bringing a championship to this organization."
Putting aside the most obvious difference with Nash — the propensity to use the quick timeout — the most telling thing that's changed has been in basic analytics and accountability. Winfield writes about the most recent example: box-out data. With a small team that often goes even smaller, that most basic basketball move becomes critical. And what Vaughn found and shared with his players was not pretty. To some, it was shocking.
"Who's making these stats?" he jokingly recalled in an initial reaction. "You want to talk about holding people accountable?"
It worked. Irving is averaging 6.6 rebounds in December.
"When I'm able to hold myself accountable and Jacque's able to hold me accountable and my teammates are able to hold me accountable, then it makes it easier for us to hold each other accountable by doing the little things," he said. "These are things that we have to do every night to win."
Ben Simmons had a similar reaction, as Winfield notes.
"It wasn't great," admitted Simmons with a smile, noting, "It's right in front of your eyes, it's not a made-up thing. It's a real stat."
"A lot of guys didn't like where they were," Durant said. "I think since then we've been making a conscious effort."
Vaughn is all about "real stats," taking advantage of the team's coaching analytics team, lead by Logan McPhail and Rohan Jaitley who often sit with arm's length from Vaughn, armed with the iPad that's filled with real-time data and up-to-date video the coach uses to show his players what's going on ... and what's not.
"We didn't have that previously," said Vaughn. "So that communication part, whether it was a clip guys wanted to see at halftime that we talked through, I think that's where the trust is growing: to be able to communicate, to be able to ask questions, have a little psychological safety where you can ask and not be reprimanded and we try to figure this thing out together."
Kevin Durant who had an odd relationship with Nash defending him in April, asking that he be fired in August has been most supportive of Vaughn.
"He's (Jacque Vaughn) been huge. Just keeping it simple. We have high expectations for our team, but the process is more important than the end result. Each day matters and Jacque has been preaching that since he got the job," said KD a month back.
"As a player, you like to simplify the game and what you're doing and that's what he's been doing this whole time. Guys have been learning on the fly, but also picking up things quick and applying it quickly so Jacque has been doing a great job for us."
Contrast that with what Durant had said about his last year under Nash and what he told Joe Tsai, per an interview with Chris Haynes.
"I went to them and was like, 'Yo, I don't like how we are preparing. I don't like shootarounds. I like practices. I need more. I want to work on more s–t. Hold me accountable. Get on my ass in film if that's going to help you get on everybody else's head. I want to do more closeouts. I want to work on more shell drills at practice.'"
Monday night will be the Nets next challenge, in Cleveland vs. the surging Cavaliers. Expect a playoff atmosphere and if things don't go right, some accountability. It's the Vaughn Way.
Jacque Vaughn held the Nets accountable. Now they're rolling - Kristian Winfield - New York Daily News
Cam Thomas: 'I have a better understanding of the NBA game'


text:
Artists' Index
Artists' BiographiesCurrently selected
Encyclopedia of Modern Art and Arab World
موســــوعة الفـن الحديـــث والعالــم العربـــي
Artists' Index Select... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All
Written by Dina Bangdel
بقلم
مقبول فدا حسين
Houssein; Hussain; MF; M. F.
Born on 29 November 1913 in Pandharpur, India; died on 9 June 2011 in London, United Kingdom.
<img alt="" src="/BioPics/Signatures/signature-MFH.jpg" style="BORDER: 0px solid; ">
'; document.getElementById('sharePage').className = 'shareSelector shareEng'; document.getElementById('sharePage').innerHTML = 'Share this article'; document.getElementById('hpden').style.display = 'block'; } if (window.location.href.indexOf("/ar/") > -1) { document.getElementById('sharePage').className = 'shareSelector shareAra'; document.getElementById('sharePage').innerHTML = 'شارك هذا النص'; }
Biography
Born on November 29, 1913 in Pandharpur, Maharashtra in western India, Maqbool Fida Husain was the son of Fida and Zaineb Husain, a Sulemani Muslim family who traced their ancestry to Yemen. After his mother died when he was a year old, his father moved north to Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a town rich with the cultural and religious diversity of both the Hindu and Muslim traditions of India. He began his career as a self-taught artist, exploring his interests in Islamic calligraphy, Urdu poetry, and the Hindu epics. He briefly enrolled at the Indore Art College before moving to Bombay (Mumbai) in 1937. There, he worked as a billboard painter for the popular Indian cinema, and in 1941 was hired as a designer of toys and children's nursery furniture. Subsequently, he joined the prestigious Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai for one year. In early 1947, he exhibited at the annual exhibition of Bombay Art Society, where his painting Sunhera Sansar received favorable notice from his contemporaries.
The socio-political conditions of the pre- and post-Independence India had a significant influence on Husain's early career as a modernist artist. Art, prior to Independence in 1947, had been either deeply rooted in the colonial past or in service of Indian nationalism. For instance, nationalist Bengal School artists like Abanindranath Tagore (1871 - 1951) and Jamini Roy (1887 - 1972) had deliberately rejected western academic styles and realism in favor of native Indian aesthetics and iconography. The aftermath of India's Independence, however, brought radical changes, with the partition of India into two nations based on their respective religious majorities. Husain chose to stay in India, identifying himself with this newly independent nation, rather than the Islamic state of Pakistan.
In December 1947, a group of young avant-garde Indian artists formed the Bombay's Progressive Artists' Group (PAG), and Husain joined this collective as a founding member, along with F. N. Souza (1924 - 2002), S. H. Raza (b.1922), K. H Ara (1914 - 1985), H.A. Gade (1917 - 2001) and S. Bakre (1920 - 2007). The PAG artists were conscious of their diverse cultural backgrounds—Christian, Hindi, Muslim, and dalit ("untouchable")—as a collective coming together in search of new modernist idioms to represent the "independent India as a democratic, secular, and multi-ethnic nation." Therefore, Husain's career is representative of Indian modernity, focused on pluralism and secularity. Even though he was a Muslim, he identified himself as an Indian artist, basing his visual language on the roots of the rich Indian civilization, including Hindu mythological narratives. In short, Husain represented the ideal of India as a nation-state: modern, secular, and multicultural.
In 1950, Husain held his first exhibition in Bombay, and in 1954, he was nominated to join the prestigious fine arts academy, Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi. The following year, his painting Zameen, or" The Land" (1955), which depicted the human condition in the wake of the Bengal famine, won the national Lalit Kala Akademi's prize. Already in these early works from the 1950s and 1960s, Husain defined the trends of modernism in India—a desire to create a new visual metaphor, which combined international modernist conventions with themes that were local and culturally derived. From his iconic paintings such as Man (1950) and Between the Spider and the Lamp (1956), Husain established himself as figurative artist with a modernist twist using a cubist visual language derived from European modernism. In contrast, his subjects of mythology, politics, and history were intimately connected to his Indian roots and his personal interests. Eager to explore the idiom of modernisms in the West, Husain travelled extensively, participating in exhibitions and familiarizing himself with international modernist movements. His first overseas visit was to China in 1952, where he was inspired by the expressionist horse paintings of Xu Beihong. He left for Europe in 1953, where he discovered the modernist artists who would have a significant impact in his own style: Cubists such as Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906), and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973); the "Fauve" (1905 - 1907) artists, particularly Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), and German Expressionists, including Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980), Emile Nolde (1867 - 1956), and Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950). He states: "I saw Picasso, Matisse, but Paul Klee was the big influence, because he was so steeped in Indian philosophy he had made himself almost an Indian painter." His introduction to the Abstract Expressionism was initiated during his visit to America in 1959.
In the 1950s, Husain began exhibiting internationally, in galleries in Paris, Zurich, and Prague, as well as in all three Venice Biennials. In the 1960s, he had solo shows in Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome, Baghdad, Kabul, New York, and Ghent. His first exhibition in the United States was in India House, New York in 1964. He received special recognition in major international biennials, including Tokyo, Berlin, and Sao Paolo. In 1971, Husain and Picasso were the two artists especially invited to the Sao Paolo Biennial, where Husain exhibited his figurative works of the Mahabharata series, which even now have never been exhibited in India. He notes his unenthusiastic reception at Sao Paulo: "Critics found too much aggression in my work. The local artists were disinterested…Avant-garde was at its peak. The human image had become an anathema." By this time, Husain had established himself as the most famous living Indian artist, earning the label the "Picasso of India." Nationally, the government of India recognized his significant contributions to the formation of modernism in India, and awarded him the three highest civilian honors: Padma Shree (1968), Padma Bhushan (1971), and Padma Vibhushan (1989). In 1986, he was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and received the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for lifetime achievement in 1997.
Husain's prolific artistic explorations extended beyond paintings, prints and drawings to a variety of media, including photography, public mural projects and film-making. Husain's interest in film had begun during his early days as a painter of billboards for the Bombay cinema industry. In the late 1960s, Husain's foray into film directing resulted in a critically acclaimed film, Through The Eyes of a Painter (1967). It won the Golden Bear award at Berlin Film Festival. The film was subsequently awarded the National Film Award for Best Experimental Film in 1968. Two subsequent films, Gaja Gamini (2000), Meenaxi: The Tale of Three Cities (2004), received critical acclaim for their cinematic exploration of popular Indian cinema.
Over the years, Husain continued his artistic experimentations in figurative abstraction and cubism, yet his subjects were deeply connected to his Indian roots and his own self-identity as both a Muslim and Indian. He is said to have painted over 30,000 works in a range of media. Husain's pluralism is evident in his range of subject matter, often addressing religious and political themes, from the Hindu epics of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, his calligraphic Sufi series from the 1970s and 1980s, to his Christian series of the Last Supper, and his later commissions on Arab/Islamic civilization and history, Last Supper in the Desert (2008) or Cross-Cultural Dialogue (2008). He is the pre-eminent Indian modernist artist, whose work Empty Bowl at the Last Supper (2005) sold for $2 million in 2005, setting a world record for any South Asian modern and contemporary artist.
Nevertheless, the mid-1990s also marked the beginning of political controversy and criticism regarding Husain's paintings on Hindu subjects by Hindu and Muslim groups in India. In 1996, his nude figurative paintings of two Hindu goddesses, Saraswati and Durga caused "offence to the religious sensibilities" to Hindu nationalist groups. Public outrage escalated quickly, fueled by the already intense communal tensions and violence during this period, and as a result, his works were burned, the galleries closed or vandalized, and criminal lawsuits ensued. Again in 2006, one of his best-known paintings, commonly referred to as Bharat Mata (Mother India), which depicted the nation-state of India in an allegorical representation of a nude female figure, triggered further protest from nationalist Hindutva activists. Husain was charged with blasphemy. The campaign against Husain, a secular Muslim artist, included acts of vandalism and threats of violence against the artist, as well as legal prosecution. In September 2008, however, the Supreme Court of India dismissed all criminal charges against the artist, declaring: "Husain's 'Bharat Mata' is a work of art."
Following the aftermath of this controversy in 2006, Husain left his native India in a self-imposed exile, traveling between in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and London, finally settling in Doha, Qatar in 2007. This last phase of Husain's life-journey is represented in new work that he began in Doha, when he was commissioned by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, to create a series of 99 paintings, symbolic of the Asmaa' Allah al-Husna ('the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah'), on the theme of Arab/Islamic history and civilization. By 2008, 19 paintings had been completed, and among them, the large-scale painting Cross-Cultural Dialogue (2008), The Last Supper in Red Desert (2008), and Khaa-Meem-Ain-Seen-Qaf (2008) were exhibited at the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. In an unprecedented move, the State of Qatar offered him Qatari citizenship, which he accepted in 2010. Subsequently Husain lived in Doha, and continued to work on this major undertaking, completing 34-35 paintings of the series before he died. Between 2008 and 2011, he was involved in another major commission, entitled Indian Civilization, for the Indian steel magnate, Lakshmi Mittal. The completed nine paintings of series were exhibited for the first time in Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2014. This extraordinary figure of Indian modernism, often called the "barefoot artist" due to the fact that he had reportedly not worn shoes since 1964, died in London in 2011, at the age of 98.
Select Group and Solo Exhibitions
M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote.
M. F. Husain: Master of Modern Indian Painting, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2012 Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
____ Iconic Processions Sacred Stones to Modern Masterpieces, Icon Gallery, New York, United States of America
2009 Signs Taken for Wonders: Recent Art from India and Pakistan, Icon Gallery, New York, United States of America
2009 Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
2006 M. F. Husain: Early Masterpieces 1950s-70s, Asia House, London, United Kingdom
____ The Moderns Revisited, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, United Kingdom
2005 Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art, Gallery Arts, India, New York, United Kingdom
2000  New Works, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany
1995 River of Art, Art Today, Inaugural Exhibition; New Delhi, India
1991 National Exposition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
1988 Takoka Municipal Museum of Art & Meugro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Coups de Coeur, Halles de I'lle, Geneva, Switzerland
1986 Indian Art Today, The Philips Collection, Washington D.C. United States of America
____ Indian Art Today, The Philips Collection, Washington D.C. United States of America
____ Contemporary Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York, United States of America
1986 Sista's Art Gallery, Kala Yatra, Bangalore, India
1985 100 Jahre Indische Malerei, Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany
1982 Modern Indian Painting, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington,DC., United States of America
____ Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom
____ India: Myth and Reality: Aspect of Contemporary Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom
____ Six Indian Painters, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
____ Indische Kunst Heute, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
1973 Retrospective Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, India
1971 São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. Special invitee together with Pablo Picasso
1970 Art Today -II, Asoka Art Gallery, Calcutta, India
1969 21 Years of Painting, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1966 Art Now in India, Newcastle, United Kingdom and Ghent, Belgium
____ Commonwealth Art Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
____ Oberoi International Hotel, New Delhi, India
1965 Exhibitions in Baghdad, Iraq and Kabul, Afghanistan
1960 Tokyo Biennial, Japan
1960 Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, organized by Hanna Bekker vom Rath
____ Exhibition in Rome, Italy
1959 São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
1958 Eight Painters, International Culture Centre, New Delhi, India
1956 Zurich, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic
1955 National Exhibition, Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi
____ Venice Biennial, Italy
1953 Indische Kunst, Rautenstrauch- Joest –Museum, Cologne
____ Venice Biennial, Italy
1952 Solo exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland
1951 Salon de Mai, Paris, France
1950 Bombay Art Society's Salon, Bombay, India
1948 - 1956 Group exhibitions with Progressive Artists' Group (PAG)
1947 Bombay Art Gallery, India
Husain, Maqbool Fida. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities. Directed by M. F. Husain. New York, NY, USA: Yash Raj Films. 2004.
Husain, Maqbool Fida. Gaja Gamini. Directed by M. F. Husain. New York, NY, USA: Yash Raj Films. 2000.
Husain, Maqbool Fida. Through the Eyes of Painter. Directed by M. F. Husain. India: Films Division, 1967.
Raja Ravi Varma Award by the Government of Kerala
Lalit Kala Ratna, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Padma Vibhushan Award
Nominated to the Rajya Sabha
Padma Bhushan Award
1967
Awarded the Golden Berlin Bear for short film 'Through the Eyes of a Painter' (produced 1966), Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
Padma Shree Award
India, Indian modern art, Indian modernism, Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, art and controversy, film.
Adams, Tim. "M. F. Husain: The Barefoot 'Picasso' of Indian Art. The Guardian. June 1, 2014. http://www theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/01/mf-husain-barefoot-picasso-indian-art-civilization.
Brown, Rebecca M. Art for a Modern India: 1947-1980. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Dalmia, Yashodhara. Journeys: Four Generations of Indian Artists in Their Own Words. Vol. I. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Dalmia, Yashodhara. and Salima Hashmi. Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemorary Art of India and Pakistan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Barefoot across the Nation: M. F. Husain and the Idea of India. Delhi: Routledge India, 2010.
Bagchee, Shyamal. "Augmented Nationalism: The Nomadic Eye of Painting M.F. Husain." Asianart.com. June 19, 1998.
Bartholonew, Richard and Shiv. S. Kapur. Maqbool Fida Husain. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972.
Bean, Susan. Timeless Visions: Contemporary Art of India from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection. Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 199.
Bean, Susan. "Now, Then, Beyond: Time in India's Contemporary Art." In Indian Contemporary Art: And Other Realities, 46-57. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2002.
Brown, Rebecca M. Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. Atlanta, GA: Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, 2010.
Chandra, Pradeep. M. F. Husain: A Pictorial. New Delhi, India: Niyogi Books, 2012. Kapur, Geeta. "Modernist Myth and the Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain." In Barefoot across the Nation: M.F. Husain and the Idea of India, 21-53. Delhi: Routledge India, 2010.
Kabir, Ananya. "Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artists." In Barefoot across the Nation: M.F. Husain and the Idea of India, 100-115. Delhi: Routledge India, 2010.
Kapur, Geeta. Contemporary Indian Artists. New Delhi: Vikas, 1978.
Lawerence, Bruce. "A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile." In Barefoot across the Nation: M.F. Husain and the Idea of India, 253-273. Delhi: Routledge India, 2010.
Metcalf, Barbara Daly, and Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of Modern India. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Nadkarni, Dnyaneshwar. Husain, Riding the Lightning. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1996.
Sanyal, Bhabesh Chandra. Lalit Kala series of Contemporary Indian Art: M. F. Husain. India: Vakil & Sons Ltd., 1961.
Zitzewitz, Karin. The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India. Oxford Press, 2014.
Zitzewitz, Karin. "On Signature and Citizenship: Further Notes on the Husain Affair." In Towards a New Art History: Studies in Indian Art. Essays Presented in Honor of Prof. Ratan Parimoo, 276-287. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2003.
Fisherman and the Falcon, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 91.2 x 61.2 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Haza min Fadhle Rabbi (My Doors are Wide Open), 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Arab Image, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 182 x 122 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Khaa-Meem-Ain-Seen-Qaf, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
The Last Supper in Red Desert, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 199 x 302 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Battle of Badr, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 199 x 310 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Jabir Bin Hayan and Ikhwan as-Safa, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 194.5 x 235 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
الفنان م. ف. حسين وهو يرسم لوحته "حوار بين الثقافات" خلال إقامته في الدوحة، قطر، ٢٠٠٨. بإذن من مكتب المستشار الثقافي- مؤسسة قطر، الدوحة.
معرض م. ف. حسين "خارج الحدود: الفن الإسلامي عبر الثقافات"، متحف الفن الإسلامي، الدوحة، قطر، ٢٠٠٨. بإذن من متحف الفن الإسلامي.
م. ف. حسين بمناسبة إطلاق كتابه "حافي القدمين عبر الوطن"، متحف الفن الإسلامي، الدوحة، قطر، ٢٠١٠. بإذن من متحف الفن الإسلامي.
م. ف. حسين وابنه عويس في حفل إطلاق كتابه "حافي القدمين عبر الوطن"، متحف الفن الإسلامي، الدوحة، قطر، ٢٠١٠. بإذن من متحف الفن الإسلامي.
م. ف. حسين في حفل إطلاق كتابه "حافي القدمين عبر الوطن"، متحف الفن الإسلامي، الدوحة، قطر، ٢٠١٠. بإذن من متحف الفن الإسلامي.
By visiting this website, viewing, accessing or otherwise using any of the services or information created, collected, compiled or submitted to our website, you agree to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions of Use. You understand, agree and acknowledge that these Terms constitute a binding agreement and that your use of our website shall indicate your conclusive acceptance of this agreement.
© Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Tel: +974 4402 8855 or +974 4402 8830. P. O. Box 2777, Education City, Doha, Qatar. All rights reserved.
Contact Us Terms of Use


What is Olaplex and why do you need it?
"Imagine if you could prevent your hair from breaking and repair damaged strands by linking the bonds back together again? Well the Holy Grail has happened. It's thanks to a treatment called Olaplex and it's got nothing to do with big hair brands selling you stuff and everything to do with science.
Already a huge hit in America, Olaplex is now taking UK salons by storm and transforming the texture of clients' coloured hair. The magic works from the inside out to strengthen, condition and literally reconnect the hair strand structure where broken. It's amazingly simple and it's how Kim Kardashian's hair wasn't totally ruined by 'platinumgate'. "When your hair is really damaged, if you sleep in that, it really works. I notice a huge difference!" Kim said recently – without officially endorsing the ad-free brand.
The art of balayage can give a softer, more natural look than traditional foil highlights and as the dip-dye trend dies down, provides an alternative way for clients to wear graduated colour.


It's that time of year where clubs and courses are starting their tournament calendars. And that puts your game on another level. Bobby Jones said that there was golf and tournament golf, and they're not much alike. I think he's right.
Pressure does strange things to people, and it is best illustrated when you put your game on display with something on the line. Some people like to gamble on the golf course. It's totally different playing a friendly game for a few dollars than it is to have a hundred or more on the line. And some people rise to the pressure better than others.
We saw that on television on Sunday. The best players in the world hit some shots that probably made you scratch your head.
How does Tiger Woods hit a pop-up dead pull on 14? Then follow it with a clutch birdie? How do these guys dunk short 9-iron and wedge shots on 17? Even at their level, the nerves can tighten and put you all out of sorts.
If you like to play tournaments, just understand that your game will be under a different kind of pressure than your regular daily game, even if you play for considerable wagers. There's just something about it. But playing for something every time you are on the course does help prepare you for the pressure of tournament golf. If you don't like gambling on golf, find other ways to put pressure on yourself. Challenge your performance with something you like or dislike ... mowing the grass, doing dishes, household chores, etc.
The key is that you have to subject yourself to pressure in order to get comfortable with it.


text:
Warwick and Stratford vote in favour of South Warwickshire merger
Councils vote in favour of South Warwickshire merger
By David Lawrence
COUNCILLORS at Warwick District Council have voted in favour of a merger with their counterparts in Stratford to create a new South Warwickshire District Council.
Following a two-hour meeting held at Warwick University's Slate building, 23 councillors voted in favour of the proposal, 12 against with five opting to abstain. Stratford councillors also voted in favour and both councils will now make a request to the Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.
Leader Cllr Andrew Day (Con, Bishop's Tachbrook) urged members of the council to vote in favour.
He said: "If we are going to face the real challenges then we can't sit on our hands – the bigger risk here is to do nothing. To be successful now in a fast-changing environment with a county council that has put very clearly on the table the absolute abolition of district and borough councils, we need to lead. We need to say what we want for our communities. We can't wait for all the detail.
"We have enormous qualities and assets in common with Stratford. South Warwickshire is a gem and we should work together to polish it to make it an absolute beacon of democracy, of highly intelligent, bright businesses and enterprise.
"As long as I am leader, I am determined that we will work on this project together and it is with no hesitation that I emphatically implore colleagues here to support the motion before us to become South Warwickshire District Council."
Even though councillors were allowed a free vote, the majority of Conservative and Labour members voted in favour while Labour and the Greens largely voted against.
Cllr Jacqui Grey (Con, Warwick Myton and Heathcote) was one of four Tories to vote against the proposal though and was among those calling for a delay in any political merger.
She said: "We've been told that if we don't merge politically now, none of the operational savings will be delivered – in fact we face Armageddon in January. This is simply untrue and we shouldn't feel forced into believing this is the case.
"It has always been possible to deliver the majority of the benefits without the political merger, effectively working in what would be a joint venture arrangement with Stratford District Council – a globally accepted and successful way of working."
Cllr Ian Davison (Green, Leamington Brunswick) likened the potential merger to a shotgun wedding where divorce would be impossible and Cllr Colin Quinney (Lab, Leamington Clarendon) admitted he was concerned that residents across the district remained uninformed about what the proposal would mean.
But Cllr Sidney Syson (Lib Dem, Leamington Milverton) questioned whether services could be shared without a full merger, adding: "No man, or woman, can serve two masters which is why, in my opinion, a political merger is the logical next step and now is the time to seize that initiative."


This wooden bear is always smiling, but he's happiest when fully dressed! Getting dressed won't be such a puzzle once zipping, buckling, snapping, lacing and tying, and other dressing skills are mastered. Each skill is contained on a separate, removable wooden puzzle piece for easy practice. Develop fine motor and life skills with this great activity.
Have kids name each of the skills that will be mastered -- snapping, buttoning, buckling, zipping, lacing and tying.
Have kids name the color(s) of each puzzle piece.
Show kids that the puzzle pieces on the bear's arms are interchangeable. Ask them to place the pieces in a specific order from left to right. For example: Place the snap piece first, then the button, etc. Repeat the activity using the predominant color of each piece.
Time kids to see how quickly they are able to complete each of the skills and then undo them.
Place four or more pieces in front of kids, asking them to study the pieces before closing their eyes while you remove one piece. Have kids identify the piece you removed.


This entry was posted in Shooting and tagged abandoned, architecture, Arizona, AZ, building, camera, D700, desert, HDR, nikkor, Nikon, Paint Shop Pro, park, Phoenix, photography, Photomatix, Scorpion Gulch, South Mountain, storm, Topaz. Bookmark the permalink.
Great composition and post-processing work! All the tones look perfect!
I love your photos! Every time I see one I feel inspired to grab my camera! I would like to add you to my blogroll if that would be ok?
Thanks, I would be honored to be added to your blogroll!
I saw this link via #photog hashtag on Twitter. I've been peeking at a lot more HDR…I like it though I do not create it. I've used Topaz, but not with actual bracketed photographs, only to add effects to individual ones.
This is really cool, I like the texture.


At the national level, housing affordability is down from a year ago and for the month of April as higher prices continue to outpace incomes and as home sales continue to ramp up for the spring-summer selling season.
Housing affordability is down from a year ago in April as the median price for a single family home in the US is up from a year ago. Regionally, the Midwest had the biggest increase in price at 11.6% while the Northeast experienced slower price growth at 4.9%.
The median single-family home price is $221,000 up 10% from April 2014. April's mortgage rate is 3.95, down 44 basis points (one percentage point equals 100 basis points) from last year. Nationally, affordability is down from 168.6 in April 2014 to 164.9 in April 2015.
Affordability is down from one month ago in all regions, and the Midwest had the largest drop of 5.8% while the South fell only 2.2%. From one year ago, affordability is down in all regions except the Northeast which increased 2.6% as price growth slows down. In other regions, the decline from a year ago was relatively small as mortgage rates lower than a year ago helped but could not completely offset increases in home prices. The Midwest saw the biggest decline in affordability at 2.4 %. The South had the smallest decline of 1.1% followed by the West at 1.7%. Both the South and West have recently experienced healthy job growth.
Positive factors: Low mortgage rates, job creation, less investors, and less competition.
Mortgage applications are currently up and rates are expected to rise. This may be a good time for return and first time home buyers to surge back into the housing market before rates climb higher, further reducing affordability.