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Woman Thor: How Marvel Got In Wrong and Right
Marvel announced that they'll be gender-swapping one of their most popular heroes-but have they missed the point?
"This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe. But it's unlike any Thor we've ever seen before."
Jason Aaron, series writer for the Marvel Thor comics, seems beyond excited about the gender-swap one of Marvel's most recognised characters will be going through over the next year. And why wouldn't he be? He gets to helm a whole new era, and pilot one of the most prominent plot twists in Marvel comic history.
But, unfortunately and predictably, not everyone has been as impressed with the news. Some fans have dubbed Thor's new look as "Whor", while others have hit Marvel with accusations of pandering to a feminist audience. It won't take more than five minutes of trawling through the internet to find scores of passionate, furious hysteria over the upcoming gender change.
But something that's coming up again and again- more quietly, but just as often- are questions about how valid the decision is. Sure, it's great to see a woman taking a bonafide starring role in a high-profile comic like this-especially when you consider the fact that Marvel found the time for three Iron Man movies, two Thor movies, two Captain America movies, an Avengers ensemble movie, a S.H.I.E.L.D TV series, an Incredible Hulk movie and Guardians of the Galaxy before the Black Widow film was announced. But giving us a female version of a character who established his popularity and fanbase when he was a man feels like kind of a backhand- especially when you consider all the great superheroines who are left to languish solely in print form at best.
Captain Marvel, AKA Carol Danvers, has her own brilliant series and backstory to explore. She-Hulk gives an interesting, unique spin on a story that's been adapted a bunch of times before. Mockingbird is just really damn cool. And, to be honest, I would much rather have seen an announcement surrounding their stories- some big twist, a TV series, a reboot- than see much of the comic-loving world up in arms over Thor becoming a woman (in ways that are yet to become clear, but do not involve gender reassignment surgery). My point is basically that Marvel deserve kudos for trying to expand the great women in their universe, but they didn't really need to- they've already got so many waiting in the wings as it is.


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Notice issued to Govt of Maharashtra over its decision to close down 1300 Zila Parishad schools due to lack of students and poor education standards
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Published on January 3, 2018 January 3, 2018 By Saba
National Human Rights Commission: The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Government of Maharashtra through its Chief Secretary after taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that its Education Department has decided to close down Zila Parishad schools with less than 10 students and shift them to other nearby schools. The State Government has been given four weeks for a detailed report in the matter.
The Commission has observed that the reported decision of the State Education Department would adversely affected the students, particularly, those coming from the rural background and cannot afford education in private schools. The Commission is of the opinion that before implementation of this decision, a thorough study on the issue is required to be conducted so that the right to basic education of the children is not violated.
Reportedly, this decision is likely to affect about 1,300 schools. The State Education Minister is of the view that the low number of students in these Zila Parishad schools, means that the quality of education is poor there. The decision may increase the distance of the School from the house of a student, which should be less than 1 KM till Class V and less than 3 KM for class VI to VIII, as per the provisions of the Right to Education Act.
According to the media report, carried on the 21st December, 2017, there is a school in the Raireshwar area which will be closed in pursuance of the latest directions and the students studying in the school will go to another school situated in Rairi area, which is 35 KM away. The journey to the school will take at least two hours.
The teacher, posted at the Raireshwar school, has stated that it will be impossible in monsoon for the students to attend school. Two other schools, situated in Malwadi and Keshavnagar, would also meet the same fate. Another teacher has mentioned that he parks his motorcycle at Kankwadi village at the base of the cliff and walks for an hour up the path, which passes through a forest. He has added that you cannot expect a Class I girl student to walk through the forest for one or two hours daily; their parents would never allow them.
Reportedly, the teachers and the parents have criticized the education department's decision, calling it absurd, unjustified and disastrous for the children. They have stated that a number of students would not be able to continue their studies due to this decision.
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GREY CARTERET WOKE in a foul mood.
One generally did when one woke lying face-down in a gutter reeking of things best left unmentioned, with no idea of how one arrived in said gutter. Particularly when one also woke feeling as if all the angels in heaven and the demons of hell had spent the entire previous night fighting across each of the 206 bones in one's body. Even more particularly when such rude awakenings had been occurring with increasing frequency.
He groaned, which made the pain in his head crescendo with unfortunate familiarity, and he rolled over, which was worse. Every one of his battlefield of bones shattered.
Or they felt like it. Grey supposed they must still remain fastened together, since he could, after a fashion—the fashion of an ancient crone—move. He brought a hand to his face and wiped away the worst of the stinking muck, so that he dared open his eyes.
Nothing seemed to offer imminent catastrophe, given what his blurred vision could tell him. Little, save that he was in a dark, narrow, and more important, empty alleyway. So he shut them again.
He thought he ought to pause for a moment and count his blessings, since he apparently wasn't in danger of dying in the next few moments. Not that he could stop it—death—in his current condition. Which led him back around to blessings and the counting thereof.
One, he was alive. Two, he was still reasonably well clothed, as it seemed he had retained his frock coat, which was a true blessing in the damp chill of a London October. Three, his bones were not actually—he didn't think—broken, though his head felt decidedly shattered. The odd thing was, he didn't remember drinking. Not last night.
Grey had decided, after too many recent mornings waking up like this, that he wouldn't have any alcohol to drink. Not even a single "off to bed" brandy. He wouldn't go out. He wouldn't toddle around to any of his clubs. He would stay at home and work in his workroom. Had he changed his mind?
He would reason all that through later. The time had arrived to assemble himself and get the hell out of wherever he'd landed this time.
He crawled up the rather slimy brick wall beside him to a more-or-less sitting position, cracking an eye open again. He hoped the state of his vision was due to the lack of light in the alley, and not the state of his eyes. "I've lost another damned hat," he muttered.
"No, you ain't."
Grey winced at the piercing voice right next to his aching ears, and turned to see his hat hovering a scant few inches beyond the end of his nose. Good thing he hadn't opened both eyes. They'd have crossed.
He took the hat and settled it gingerly on his head. It hurt even his hair, but perhaps it would keep all the pieces of his head contained in a single whole.
"I got your stick, too," the same agonizing voice shrieked. "I watched 'em for ya, wouldn't let no one pinch 'em, nor your coat neither. An' I wouldn't let 'em cosh ya nor shiv ya. I been watchin' out for ya, guvnor."
Grey cracked open his other eye to acquire an accurate view of his walking stick. It took a moment for the two images to swim their way together and become one, so that he could know which stick to reach for.
The stick was attached to a surprisingly clean hand that sprouted from a wrist positively black with dirt. Grey squinted, trying to see the person beyond the hand and wrist. There was a checked cloth cap with a blurred face beneath. "Who the bloody hell are you? And where did you come from? You weren't there before. I looked."
The silver-headed stick vanished, pulled back beyond Grey's admittedly meager reach. "Wot kind o' gratitude is that? After all I done for ya?"
The lad had a point. Grey assumed the creature was a lad, given the high-pitched voice and the trousers.
"Sorry," he said, since a gentleman never failed to offer apology when one was due—though everyone agreed Grey wasn't much of a gentleman. "Foul mood. Bad head. Makes one a trifle cranky and forgetful of good manners." He took a deep breath so he could go on. "Thank you very much for watching over my person and my belongings."
"Weren't nuffink."
"Now, give me my bloody stick and tell me who in blazes you are!" Grey couldn't roar as he'd have liked to, given his head and the rest of his aching bones, but he did his best. It wasn't as if he really wanted to know the boy's name, except it seemed as if he ought to know who had done him such a favor.
"Cor, you ain't got 'alf a temper." The boy eased a fraction closer and held the stick out, tip first, as if afraid to get any closer. Smart lad. Even if Grey wasn't quite up to snuff at the moment.
"Foul mood. Remember?" He used the stick to haul himself to his feet. "Your name, young sir."
"Parkin."
"Ah. Parkin. Yes, thank you." Grey's eyes were beginning to focus more effectively. The lad was tall for eleven, or maybe twelve. He had delicate features beneath the grime coating his face. Poor lad.
Grey had suffered the same affliction at the same age, though he'd finally grown out of it. Mostly. These days, women called him beautiful.
Men gave him a wide berth. Partly because he'd long ago taught himself to fight viciously with any weapon at hand, and to hell with so-called "rules of honor." Primarily, though, they left him alone because as magister of the conjurer's guild, he was the most powerful conjurer in all of England.
Who couldn't keep from waking in odd places with no memory of how he arrived there. At least this time he'd acquired a protector.
Grey searched his pockets, but they were empty of coin, as well as wallet or watch. He sighed. "I suppose it was too much to expect that you might have guarded my pockets as well as my person."
"If your pockets're empty, they was emptied 'fore I found ya."
"Ah." Grey frowned. Parkin did deserve a reward for his faithful service. More than just a coin or two, if the lad was willing. "Whereas after I arrived and fell, literally, under your care, I lost nothing. Perhaps I should hire you to escort me back to my home."
"P'raps you should." Parkin swaggered a little. "But it ain't coin I want. Wot I want is for you to make me your apprentice so I can learn magic."
"I don't take apprentices." The instinctive response was out before Grey recalled that just this past summer in Paris, he had considered breaking his longstanding rule against apprentices. But that had been in special circumstances.
He turned to start hobbling down the dark, narrow alley, unable to stride away as he wished, due to his crumbled-up bones. "Go to the council hall. Take the test. If you pass it, they'll admit you to the school."
The boy followed, offered support on the side opposite Grey's cane. "No, they won't," Parkin said. "Even though I have enough magic to have kept you hidden and safe half the night, they won't let me in."
Grey gave the lad a sharp look. What had happened to his speech? "Of course they will. You'll be admitted straightaway. That's quite a good talent."
"I've been hiding myself for years now. It was simple to hide you as well. And they won't admit me because—" Parkin tugged Grey to a halt—an easy task—and looked around. A broad-backed laborer stomped past the end of the alley. Otherwise the street was empty.
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Goodbye Jazz FM! Toronto radio station JAZZ.FM91 cut four hosts this week, including two high-profile personalities who were on air every weekday, and has made changes to its board structure as the not-for-profit, listener-supported station grapples with the public relations fallout of an investiga see more... tion into its workplace culture.
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Swiss financial services company converts original data to anonymized test data
24 Jul., 2019
A well-known Swiss financial services provider, which also issues credit cards, needs to test its own software on a regular basis. Its application is a complex, in-house development that has to comply with the most stringent laws and regulations, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). That's why the company needs to ensure that its test data comprises 16-digit credit card numbers that are linked with the corresponding security numbers, encoding and tax information. It then has to convert the original data to anonymous test data so that nobody can infer anything about the real data.
However, the company's biggest challenge was that the solution had to be compatible with its system and also support web applications, files and databases like DB2 and Oracle. By using the eperi pseudonymization solution, the financial services provider is able to adhere to all legal and compliance-related requirements. A flexible tokenization process ensures that no information can be inferred from the original data, but still allows the data to be tested in real-life conditions. The company is also able to configure the test data to suit its exact requirements and modify individual parameters as necessary. Another plus point is that the solution is seamlessly integrated with the firm's existing systems – no changes were required. The eperi test data generation solution is used as a transparent proxy that is installed in front of the test systems, such as databases, applications and file systems. This ensures that integration work is kept to a minimum and the customer can generate test data in real time that remains consistent across all systems.
Let's look more closely at what pseudonymization and tokenization actually mean – and where anonymization fits into the picture.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stipulates that personal data must be pseudonymized or anonymized, and this is just as crucial in test environments as elsewhere. But how do these techniques differ?
The GDPR defines pseudonymization as a way of processing personal data "in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information" (Art. 4, Para. 5, GDPR). This means that the original value is replaced by another value and the correspondences are stored in a specific table. That enables the original to be restored whenever required. The table of correspondences can be stored separately from systems, applications and databases. Tokenization – the generation of replacement values for certain original values – is a part of pseudonymization. In the eperi solutions, the original values are encrypted once they have been tokenized and only then are they stored in the solution's own token database.
Anonymization is stricter and goes a step further than pseudonymization. Personal data is rendered anonymous "in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable" (Art. 4, Para. 26, GDPR). In contrast to pseudonymization, this therefore precludes the storage of the original data and the table of correspondences. The stringency of this data protection approach means that anonymization is ideal for test data generation as it is no longer possible to infer anything at all from the original data.
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CHATTANOOGA – An investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in a former employee with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office being charged with official misconduct.
At the request of 10th District Attorney General Steve Crump, on August 30, 2016, investigators with that office and TBI Agents began investigating allegations of official misconduct by Austin Byrum, Jr. At that time, Byrum was a captain at the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. During the course of the investigation, Agents developed information that indicated Byrum was responsible for sexual contact with an inmate, and introducing contraband into a penal institution. He is no longer an employee of the Sheriff's Office.
On June 6th, the Monroe County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Austin Benton Byrum (DOB 06/26/1952) with one count of Official Misconduct, one count of Sexual Contact with an Inmate or Prisoner, and one count of Introduction of Contraband into a Penal Institution – Telecommunication device. On June 8th, Byrum was booked into the Monroe County Jail and released after posting a $5,000 bond.


Thanks to a new Newspaper archive at Google News, we can go back in time 30 years to read what one food critic in Pittsburgh had to say about the fast food burgers available then.
The article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dining Out section by Mike Kalina was called "Wendy's Grinds Out Foes in Burger Taste Test."
Today, 30 years later, a Whopper costs $2.59. That's up 238% in 30 years.
Other things were different then, too. McDonald's was the old stand-by, all the other chains were "feisty newcomers:"
"For years, McDonald's hamburgers dominated the fast-food scene, but in recent years the firm's success has been challenged by feisty newcomers."
The Post-Gazette's taste test "revealed unequivocally that Wendy's puts out the best hamburgers."
Also noted, as Wendy's has been promoting heavily of late, Wendy's hamburger meat is "ground fresh daily, which greatly enhances its taste (most chains use frozen patties)."
About McDonald's, Kalina wrote: "The burgers...contained fewer garnishes than any others we sampled and were the poorest-tasting. The sesame-seed rolls, however, were very good...The patties...had the texture and look of shoe leather."
30 years later and 4 of the restaurants Mr. Kalina reviewed are even bigger national chains.
Wendy's still doesn't freeze their meat, BK still flame-broils theirs, and some would still agree that a McDonald's hamburger patty has the look and taste of shoe leather!
A side note... I thought I'd see if Mr. Kalin might still be doing restaurant reviews in Pittsburgh and discovered that despite a successful career with columns and TV shows about food and travel and a popular cookbook, he committed suicide in 1992.
When I started working at Burger King in '71,the price for a Whopper,fries and a medium sized drink was 99 cents.
Hard to believe you could get a whole "meal" for under a dollar.
Whoppers cost LESS NOW!!! Adjusted for inflation a Whopper that cost $1.09 in 1978 would cost $3.43 in today's money.
Sharondp, 99 cents in 1971 is $5.02 in today's money when adjusted for inflation.
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LEOMINSTER'S LOW-COST PET VACCINE & MICROCHIP CLINIC HOSTED BY REP. HIGGINS A SUCCESS!
On Saturday, Oct. 28, Leominster hosted its first low-cost Pet Vaccine and Microchip Clinic at the Leominster Office of Emergency Management.
State Rep. Natalie Higgins worked with Sophie's Mission, Friends of Fitchburg Dog Park, Be PAWSitive and the Massachusetts Animal Fund to bring the clinic to the city. Dozens of families and more than 100 pets participated in the clinic.
The low-cost vaccines and microchips were provided by veterinarians and staff from Second Chance Animal Shelter. Second Chance Animal Shelter has been helping animals since 1999. It is a no-kill shelter and 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has helped more than 26,000 pets through adoption, low cost spay/neuter, subsidized veterinary care, community outreach, educational programs, training, a pet food pantry, and other services.
If you are interested in participating in the future, the next vaccine and microchip clinic will be held March 24, 2018 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Fitchburg Fire Department, 33 North St., Fitchburg.
Higgins is working to secure a date to bring the clinic back to Leominster in the fall of 2018. If you are interested in helping organize the next clinic, email Higgins at Natalie.Higgins@mahouse.gov or call (978) 227-5278.
HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION BANNING BUMP STOCKS
Contact: Natalie.Higgins@mahouse.gov, 978-602-3772
Strengthens Massachusetts' Nationally-Recognized Gun Safety Laws
BOSTON- Representative Natalie Higgins (D-Leominster) joined her colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives to pass an amendment sponsored by Representative David Linsky to the 2017 Supplemental Budget banning the sale, purchase, or ownership of a "bump stock" and similar devices.
The amendment adopted by the House bans the possession, ownership, or sale of any device that attaches to a rifle, shotgun, or firearm, other than a magazine, which is designed to increase the rate of fire of said weapon. The legislation carries a punishment of imprisonment in the state prison by not less than three years nor more than twenty years, and goes into effect six months from the passage of the bill.
"I am proud and encouraged that the House's 2014 gun law has resulted in Massachusetts having the lowest rate of gun deaths per capita," said House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo. "There's no doubt about it: The stronger the gun laws, the safer the state. Today's vote to ban bump stocks is a responsible, commonsense action to protect our citizens and make our laws even stronger. I thank Chairman Linsky for his initiative and I urge other states and Congress to take action on gun safety."
"What we saw last week in Las Vegas was horrific," said Representative Jeffrey Sánchez, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Ways & Means (D-Boston). "While we cannot bring those precious lives back, today's bump stock ban prevents another tragedy from taking place in Massachusetts, and builds on our progress promoting sensible gun safety in the Commonwealth."
"This legislation will ensure that no one in Massachusetts can legally possess a 'bump stock,' a device designed to increase the deadliness of these already deadly weapons," said Representative Linsky (D-Natick). "These devices were created by gun manufacturers as a work-around of the federal law banning the sale and possession of automatic weapons, and there is absolutely no place for them in a civilized society."
"When I woke last Sunday to the news of the tragedy in Las Vegas, I was distraught to learn that the devices the gunman used to help his semi-automatic guns mimic automatic weapons may fall under a loophole of Massachusetts law," said Representative Higgins. "I knew we had to take action in the Massachusetts legislature and I am proud to stand with my colleagues to protect the safety of Massachusetts residents."
A "bump stock" is a device that uses the recoil of a semiautomatic firearm to file several shots in succession, mimicking automatic gun fire. While the weapon still fires one bullet for every pull of the trigger, the "bump stock" automates the trigger-pull process, allowing shooters to fire at a rate of 400 to 800 rounds a minute. Twelve of the rifles the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting were modified with a "bump stock," allowing him to increase the fire rate of his weapon.
"Congress has continued its failure to act in the wake of yet another gun violence tragedy, but I applaud Speaker DeLeo and the rest of my colleagues in the Massachusetts House for their willingness to take a stand on this issue of public safety," said Representative Linsky. "We must continue to take the initiative at the state level to improve our state's gun laws, and ultimately save lives."
The Amendment, which passed 151-3, now goes to the Massachusetts Senate for debate.


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Demonstration Project for Power Supply to Telecom Stations through FC technology
FC and H2 may represent an enabling technology for a wider diffusion of Radio Base Station "energized" by renewable energy sources. While the expected higher energy efficiency already has an attractive potential for these applications, the energy storage potential of H2 (either locally produced or stored in bottles) is even more interesting as it could extend significantly the number of hours of unattended operation which very much determines the overall energy cost for these installation. This is an instrumental feature of H2 and FC which could favour the further diffusion of mobile applications in remote sites. To clearly demonstrate this potential a minimum of 17 sites of really operating off-grid Radio Base Stations will be equipped with an integrated power generation system using Fuel Cell technology and H2 and tested for a significant period. This very large demonstration program will be used to assess the readiness of available technological solution to make the potential viable and demonstrate the industrial readiness of the fuel cell technology in this early market. These units will demonstrate a level of technical performance (start-up time, reliability, durability, number of cycles) that qualifies them for market entry, thereby accelerating the commercialization of this technology in Europe and elsewhere. The RBSPoweredFCH2 Project consortium integrates different EU FC and H2 related technology maker with a market leader for Telecom Systems and with R&D institution. This peculiar opportunity is also fundamental to pursue a bottom-up approach which allows to modify the energy requirements and load profile of the energy utilization to fit in an optimum way the performances expected for the Fuel Cell system. The demonstration project will involve the benchmarking of different technical configurations for fuel cells integrated with other local Renewable Energy sources (mainly PV but also wind). One of the key factor for this off-grid application market
Type of project : Demonstration
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Project Budget : 10.591.649 €
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Project Id: 965


bedroom design ideas bedroom decorating with what you have! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIT9y2qoYwI YouTubes most watched Interior Design channel, Robeson Design presents "ChristyABell" A surprise bedroom design plan. San Diego Interior Designer Rebecca Robeson walks you through the ideas and suggestions she would make in order for Christy to update her bedroom without breaking the bank! Simple things like grouping her existing bookcases, relocating her bed and saving her cherished hand painted wall are just some of the ideas Rebecca makes as she reveals the new design plans on her 3D model of her new room.
Just found you a few weeks ago, love you and your family!
wow, so long ago now.. wonder what Chiristy is doing these days.. Wish her all the best!
I have just discovered your videos and I have had the greatest time watching one after another. I didn't realize how important leaving a comment was. I have subscribed after watching your first video. Thank you for packing a lot of information in your videos.
This is so perfect. It's so mature. I love it.
Thanks for sharing. I learned a few things.
Thanks for the tips. It's lovely to find ideas that are, as you said, affordable. I learn something every time I watch a video, even if it's that I don't like something!
AH i'm so happy you said what program you use to create the drawup! I'm going to download it!!
It's great to see you walk through the process with a client this way! Many people do not understand the process and product knowledge that goes into design, this illustrates it well. Bravo!
What is the design program you are using to set up your 3-d room plan on the laptop in this video?
say if i win [witch i wont lol] do u make the design and then do u fly to me and do my room and buy every thing cause i dont really understand the idea?
The location of the bed is good for a warm country but in Scandinavia for example, the convection from the windows will make it a really uncomfortable position.
@robesondesign how do you get on makeover mondays?
Beautiful Ideas!!! I really appreciate you taking the time out to show us all your designs and walking us through the process. Thank you so much!!!
I really think that people click dislike by accident–there should be a question asking "Are you sure you want to dislike this video?" or a way to un-dislike a video!! If I didn't care for a video, I would just stop watching it and move on to another video. To actually click the dislike button is like you are really trying to make a statement or something–it just seems so rude when the person who made the video did nothing to you–why be so mean?
There will be people who do thumps down for no reason what so ever or jealous they cannot do what you are doing. Don't worry your likes are increasing everyday.
I found your videos thru recommendations from youtube as something I would like.
Take heart I am introducing to my daughter and others who wud appreciate them.
You should see her painting of her mural wall she did its excellent. Wish you could see. Best wishes always.
what 3d program do you use on your mac?
Could you do a tutorial on how to use google sketch up its so hard for me..
Another great video Rebecca!!! Love what you did with the room.
@robesondesign How much does this all cost?
I like it, very nice! Christy seemed very pleased ;-). Also a little bit of advice do be careful not to overwhelm the file cabinet drawers i.e. don't keep books, like my Aunt did, bless her, she is an avid reader and reads a lot before bed and did the same idea of putting a file cabinet as a bedside drawer or a storage system in the bedroom, but yeah heavy object in the upper drawers can ruin it, even the bottom draw is a little risky, all the best. Lovely to see awesome vids, please keep it up!
@robesondesign So true about the click out if you don't like it, some people are just negative for the sake of being negative so long as I'm informed about your uploads I'm happy! I'm spreading the word about you and your amazing work! Heaps and heaps of my friends and their families who renovate, build, decorate.. (for some reason it always crops up in general conversation) I always drop your name ;-P I tell them to look you up and your ideas, I sometimes give them tips I learnt from you too!
i LOVE how you always use curtains for walls. I have a weird little window in the corner of my master bedroom, next to my king bed. Would I have to cover the blank wall on the other side of my bed with long curtains to fake another window?
oooh! please make a video on how to make a headboard!! i would really like to make one myself.. a big white headboard with buttons.. like an old leather sofa, do you know what i meen? THX!
till a few weeks ago, I had used google skecht up just to make buildings for google earth. Even once i said to my friends thar it was unuseful to create interiors spaces, then when I saw your Maybabytumbler video I could see how wrong I was. I could not wait to build my bedroom with it :), and a few days later, I already had redecorated all my bedroom… now i love it!. All thanks to you and your great videos and tips.


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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.
With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Hayek's enduring masterwork.
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F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of London, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg.
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Warren United is created by Men Behaving Badly's Simon Nye.
ITV is building up to the 2014 Brazil World Cup with a new animated football comedy from Simon Nye, the writer of Men Behaving Badly.
Warren United follows the fortunes of Warren Kinglsey, an overweight kitchen salesman and dedicated football fan. It will air on ITV.
Written by David Quantick and Dominic Holland, the show will feature the voices of Darren Boyd (Spy), Morgana Robinson (House of Fools), Morwenna Banks (Peppa Pig), Johnny Vegas and Eleanor Lawrence (Common Ground).
The production comes from Baby Cow (Uncle, Gavin and Stacey, Mighty Boosh and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa) and Canadian animation house Smiley Guy.
The show will launch on April 22.
Henry Normal, co-founder of Baby Cow productions, said: "New animated narrative series in this country are so rare. So are comedies about football, while those about fans even rarer. On several counts, therefore, we're trying something unusual."
ITV's director of digital channels Angela Jain said: "ITV4 fans love their football and boasting a stellar cast, Warren United is aimed squarely at them. It is about the tricky balance of being a committed fan and a family man - which will strike a chord with many football followers.
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Technical Comment on "Saccadic eye movement performance as an indicator of driving ability in elderly drivers"
Paul Vauchera, Christophe Pascheb, Bernard Favrata,b
a Unit of Psychology and Traffic Medicine, University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
b Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Extrapolation is defined as the process through which estimation has gone beyond the original observations. Schmidtt et al's [1] conclusion on the clinical usefulness of eye saccade movements for detecting aged drivers who are unable to drive safely is a perfect example of such an extrapolation. Given their observations and the methodology they used, the risk of this assumption been wrong is high. This type of claim could nevertheless lead to dramatic consequences on people's lives and should clearly be avoided in a peer-reviewed paper without clear scientific evidence.
In this study, the published information suggests this study suffers from selection bias, misclassification, confounding, observer bias, and possibly of random error.
When studying the screening properties of an innovative test, we expect a sample of participants representing the entire spectrum of the target population to be included and not only extremes. This principle will avoid what is called "spectrum bias" [2]. We also expect a clear definition of how participants were classified as fit or unfit to drive (gold standard) and of the instrument's ability to correctly classify drivers as fit or unfit to drive. In this study, the authors simply assumed that all patients who were referred to the Institute of Legal Medicine were unfit to drive and all those who attend the University of Zurich's Senior Citizens' University were fit to drive. The authors themselves state that this led to a misclassification of 8 of the 21 (38%) drivers from the Institute of Legal Medicine, given that these drivers had successfully passed their on-road test and were deemed fit to drive. The authors were, however, unable to classify other drivers correctly as none of the remaining 123 study participants performed an on-road evaluation. The study design therefore makes it impossible to link eye movement to driving performance.
During the analysis phase, two important limitations need to be accounted for: the failure to adjust for confounders and to account for missing data. When analysing group differences, the authors should have adjusted their analysis for the level of education or age given that university participants were five years younger than those attending the Institute of Legal Medicine. This could help to assure readers that the small observed differences between groups were not solely due to these confounders. There were also important discrepancies in the amount of eye saccade movements that were excluded from the analysis (52% in the Legal Medicine group vs 31% in the university group). Apparently, missing data were not replaced. This makes it difficult to justify comparing the total number of correct eye movements (table 4) rather than the proportion of correct eye movement (figures 1–4). Therefore, the only significant differences that can be accounted for were those for anti-saccades and visuovisual interactive saccades when comparing the youngest group (mean age 30 years, n = 34) with the eldest group (mean age 79 years, n = 21). In other words, this study only showed a significant association between eye movements and age.
At most this study could suggest that anti-saccades are affected by cognitive decline as suggested by other studies [3]. In other words, those performing well during the anti-saccade task are more likely to be free from cognitive impairment. The opposite is, unfortunately, not necessarily true given that many "healthy" participants also performed badly at this task. Furthermore, cognitive impairment is not necessarily associated with reduced driving performances [4, 5] and reduced eye movements in laboratory settings do not necessarily transpose to the real world [6]. Assuming that those who perform badly at the anti-saccade test are unfit to drive would therefore lead to an important number of people been unjustly deprived of their right to drive.
This study therefore does not have enough scientific foundation to support the claim that eye saccade movement can serve to screen older drivers and detect those that are unable to drive. Further studies are undeniably needed before applying such criteria for legal decisions.
Correspondence: Paul Vaucher, Ph.D, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Unit of Psychology and Traffic Medicine, Rue Saint-Martin 26, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland, paul.vaucher[at]gmail.com
Reply to this Letter to the Editor:http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2015-14195/
1 Schmitt KU, Seeger R, Fischer H, Lanz C, Muser M, Walz F, Schwarz U. Saccadic eye movement performance as an indicator of driving ability in elderly drivers. Swiss Med Wkly. 2015;145:w14098 http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2015-14098
2 Willis BH. Spectrum bias – why clinicians need to be cautious when applying diagnostic test studies. Fam Pract. 2008;25(5):390–6.
3 Seligman SC, Giovannetti T. The Potential Utility of Eye Movements in the Detection and Characterization of Everyday Functional Difficulties in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Neuropsychology review 2015.
4 Mathias JL, Lucas LK. Cognitive predictors of unsafe driving in older drivers: a meta-analysis. Int Psychogeriatr. 2009;21(4):637–53.
5 Vaucher P, Herzig D, Cardoso I, Herzog MH, Mangin P, Favrat B. The trail making test as a screening instrument for driving performance in older drivers; a translational research. BMC Geriatr. 2014;14(1):123–123.
6 Dowiasch S, Marx S, Einhauser W, Bremmer F. Effects of aging on eye movements in the real world. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2015;9:46.


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Wisdom on Brand
On Episode 91, we take a different approach–collecting wisdom on brand, creativity, the words we use, and the value of a good creative brief from some our our guests over the past two years.
We're joined by Elle Wolfe talking about her secret weapon during a rebrand at Path Factory, Tony Temple on how to approach the work, Alex Withers on creativity throughout an organization, Ben Afia on the power of words and and how it's really about culture, he says. And then there's the dreaded creative brief. Greg Quinton has an idea on the purpose of the brief and how to write it.
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Gordon Price is a Canadian urban planner and a former politician, who was an NPA member of Vancouver City Council, serving six terms from 1986 to 2002. He was the first openly gay member of Vancouver City Council. Since retiring from politics, Price writes, teaches and consults on urban development and planning issues.
Price first became prominent when he organized a campaign involving citizen street patrols against street prostitution in his West End Vancouver neighbourhood. As a politician, he also served on the board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro Vancouver) and the board of TransLink.
After retiring from politics, Price became a writer and public lecturer on urban renewal and transportation planning issues. He writes a column for the magazine Business in Vancouver. He is currently director of the CITY Program, a continuing education program in urban planning and sustainable community development at Simon Fraser University. In 2009, he was appointed by Gregor Robertson, the Mayor of Vancouver, to the city's "Greenest City Action Team".
^ a b "Mr. Price's neighbourhoods: City Councillor Gordon Price has been a driving force behind several Vancouver development success stories". Vancouver Sun, September 14, 2002.
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Google Goes InZayn: How Malik's Different Direction Broke the Internet
May 5th, 2015 by Amanda Ball
Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know by now that Zayn Malik has left One Direction. This was news that affected not only fangirls like myself and some coworkers, but also the world. On March 25, 2015, the news broke, and the Internet went into a frenzy.
According to Google's trending searches on March 25, more than 1 million searches were made related to his departure.
Between the desperate tweets of devastated fans, tearful Tumblr reactions and tributes, dads completely trolling their daughters, and millions of Google searches, it's clear that Zayn dominated the search engines and the Internet that day.
@presley_breigh We mean no harm… just love! 🙂 Trying to get smiles during these difficult times.
— J-Si Chavez (@JSi5) March 26, 2015
*quietly weeps about Zayn* pic.twitter.com/RjN7voQpyU
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) March 25, 2015
Using Google Trends, we are able to see how his searches progressed over time throughout his 1D career:
Google Trends is a great tool to find out what people are searching for at a given moment in time. You don't have to be a complete fangirl to check it out, either. Businesses and marketers alike can use this tool to research and leverage relevant search topics for ideas on content, videos, infographics, etc.
Or, if you're a fangirl like me, feel free to use the tool for things of utmost importance, like figuring out which One Direction member gets searched most often. Let's be clear about one thing: Harry is steadily searched more than Zayn, minus the spike during his attempt to abandon his fellow band members and launch a solo career in March. It's an outrage.
Please comment on how Google Trends helps your day-to-day life and/or if you were one of those who were affected by Zayn leaving One Direction.
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Juan Marsé is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
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The 65 metre Heesen motor yacht Galactica Star has been listed by Josh Gulbranson at Fraser to be auctioned by May 19 this year.
Galactica Star is an all-aluminium motor yacht based on the Fast Displacement Hull Form (FDHF) developed by Dutch naval architects Van Oossanen & Associates and delivered in 2013. Powered by twin 4,300kW MTU 20V 4000 M93L engines, this truly innovative hull design increases the overall performance of the yacht by around 30 per cent. To ensure guest comfort, she is fitted with zero speed stabilisers.
Galactica Star has an exterior design by Omega Architects and an interior by Bannenberg & Rowell accommodating 12 guests in a full-beam master suite on the main deck, a VIP suite on the upper deck and four double cabins on the lower deck, all with en suite bathroom facilities. Special features include an aft duplex beach club comprising a 10 square metre side balcony, a 22 square metre swim platform, bar, sauna and a hammam, lit with natural light coming through the glass bottom of the main-deck swimming-pool.
Forward on the bridge deck a spacious seating and table area leads to a large area that acts as a dancefloor as well as a touch-and-go helipad. The upper aft deck offers outside dining, while the sun deck includes an aft spa pool, bar and dining area amidships under the radar arch, a buffet station and forward seating and sunning spot.
Available to view in Palm Beach, Florida, Galactica Star is offered for auction with a bidding floor set at $42,000,000.


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Q: Adding an element to the middle of a malloc array I've created a function that allows an element to be deleted from my malloc(ed) array (a list of struct triangle coordinates). That works fine.
But when I tried to create one that adds an element (after position i) it just won't work...
For example, if I had an array of [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and wanted to add a new value after [3].
Here is my code: (this is a snippet of inside my while loop)
totaltri++;
addtriangle(trilist, totaltri, i);
i++;
secondtriangle(p, &t1, &t2, &t3, v, i);
i++;

My code deletetriangle(....):
for (int c = i; c < totaltri; c++)
{
     trilist[c] = trilist[c+1];
}

tmp = (triangle *) realloc(trilist, (totaltri-1)*sizeof(triangle));

trilist = tmp;

And my code addtriangle(....): Which doesn't seem to work..!
tmp = (triangle *) realloc(trilist, (totaltri+1)*sizeof(triangle));

for (int c = totaltri; c > i; c--)
{
    trilist[c-1] = trilist[c];
}
trilist = tmp;

I then proceed to assign values to the second triangle that has just been added in this code:
    int p1, p2, p3;
    p1  = whereisthepoint(p, *t1, v);
    p2  = whereisthepoint(p, *t2, v);
    p3  = whereisthepoint(p, *t3, v);

    triptr=&(trilist[i]);
    triptr->corner=(point *) malloc(3*sizeof(point));
    pt1ptr=&(triptr->corner[0]);
    pt2ptr=&(triptr->corner[1]);
    pt3ptr=&(triptr->corner[2]);

        pt3ptr->x=t3->x; etc etc

A: *

*You have to assign the value of previous element to the next element. Your assignment is reversed.

*trilist is invalidated via realloc() so you should use tmp for shifting.

*You have to assign the new value to add that.

*Casting results of malloc() family is considered as a bad practice.

addtriangle(....): should be like this:
tmp = realloc(trilist, (totaltri+1)*sizeof(triangle));

for (int c = totaltri; c > i; c--)
{
    tmp[c] = tmp[c-1]; /* correctly shift the elements */
}
tmp[i] = new_value; /* assign new value (replace new_value with proper thing) */
trilist = tmp;

A: Assume you have a pointer p of type T declared as such: T *p; and you also have an object that you want to add declared as T x;
Then just do like this:
T *p = malloc(sizeof *p * size);
T x;

...

// Reallocate to make room for one more element
T *tmp = realloc(p, sizeof *p * (size + 1));

// Error checking
if(!tmp) { /* Handle error */ }

p = tmp;

// Move the elements after the insertion spot
memmove(&p[index+1], &p[index], sizeof *p * (size - index));

// And insert
p[index] = x;

If you don't care about recovering on an allocation error, you don't need a temporary variable. Then you can just do:
p = realloc(p, sizeof *p * (size + 1));

if(!p) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

A: tmp = (triangle *) realloc(trilist, (totaltri+1)*sizeof(triangle));

for (int c = totaltri; c > i; c--)
{
    trilist[c-1] = trilist[c];

in your code you modify (if realloc was successful) the invalid pointer. trilist may not point to the valid memory location. You should use tmp instead or assign trilist with tmp.
Universal function to add to an array.
void *addToArr(void *array, size_t arraysize, size_t pos, size_t elemsize, void *element)
{
    unsigned char *ucarray;
    array = realloc(array, (arraysize + 1) * elemsize);
    if(array)
    {
        ucarray = array;
        memmove(ucarray + (pos + 1) * elemsize, ucarray + pos * elemsize, (arraysize - pos) * elemsize);
        memcpy(ucarray + pos * elemsize, element, elemsize);
    }
    return array;
}

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Sometimes there is that car meet or event that you always want to go to, but can never make it. Last year, I had planned to go to h20i but had a family event that I could not get out of. Now that I think about it, I can't even remember what it was. I hope it wasn't a wedding….anyways…this year it seemed that I wasn't going to make it again. Having just come back from a Europe vacation (pics will be up soon, i'm slacking!) and buying a few car parts, I was a bit low on funds. A lot of my friends and people I had met this year were going so I figured I would just see the pictures when everyone got back. A buddy asked me if I wanted to go for the day and I thought, that wasn't such a bad idea! I made sure I could move some plans around and before I knew it, I was up at 7am on the way to Ocean City.
If you have never attended H20i, the best word to describe it is…'insane'. People start arriving Wednesday or Thursday with more arriving Friday and even more arriving Saturday. A buddy of mine who had been there since Thursday said that night time was crazy. I was only there for about 7 hours and took as many pictures as I could. We hit the boardwalk for about about an hour just to get some fried oreos…then headed to the Flipzco/SoTrendy Meet. People doing burnouts, police, nice cars….Damn I wish I could've stayed the whole weekend!!! But, after just a couple hours we had to make our trip back to VA.
Oh well, until next year…..Enjoy!


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Views had been made during the daguerreotype era and quite regularly after the introduction of collodiotypes in the early 1850s. However their sale did not become an industry until the mid 1860s. From that time on most of the major towns and cities were provided with views of civic monuments, public works and local scenery, and their citizens with cheap carte-de-visite portraits. Both the daguerreotype and ambrotype had been displaced by the now standard albumen print.
The large albumen prints of the 1860s were characteristically rich brown-purple in tone and glossy. They were sold for framing or, more frequently, for compilation in albums. Bound albums of views were commonly advertised from the mid 1860s. Stereograph views remained popular in the early 1860s but the availability of large paper views seems to have dampened the market in the later years of the decade. However, by 1865 Hobart photographer Samuel Clifford (1827-1890), who had begun work with the 1858-1859 generation of collodion photographers, had some seven hundred stereograph views in stock 'taken in all parts of the island'(1).
The new views trade supported a subsidiary industry in the production of albums, both for views and portraits, and novel display stands which could be concertinaed or fanned out to show a number of portraits. The albums, which were often elaborately tooled and gilded, could be bought as stock items or specially made to the client's design.
In the late 1860s as paper photographs became more common, the private album became something of a work of art in its own right. Collectors could express their own taste, not only by their choice of pictures, but by their arrangement and embellishment of them. Benjamin Greene's album of photographs collected on his travels in the 1860s is superbly bound in green leather with gold clasps, and sections are decorated with calligraphy and watercolours(2).
Helen Lambert, the wife of Commodore Rowley Lambert, who was head of the Australian Naval Station, appears to have been an amateur photographer. A number of photographs attributed to her are included in albums compiled by English amateur photographer Viscountess Frances Jocelyn (1820-1880) and titled "Who and what we saw in the Antipodes"(3). In addition to exhibiting her own prints, Jocelyn assembled them, and those of other professional and amateur photographers, into collages with witty painted decorations. One tableau shows the daughters of Edward Deas Thompson in fancy dress after attending the Sydney ball to celebrate the visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Australia in 1867.
The group was photographed on the portico of Elizabeth Bay House with a view of the harbour behind. Viscountess Jocelyn added some decoration appropriate to the costumes and with a flick of the brush the scene was transformed into an eastern fantasy.
Such irreverent playing with paper photographs must have been quite liberating. A contemporaneous album of Queensland views by an unknown photographer and compiler, contains portraits of members of the Deas Thompson family. Several pages show elaborate collages of photographs of Aboriginals with garlands of floral decoration and even a poem. It is one of the few images to suggest an arcadian life for the Aboriginal people. In painting, Aboriginals were often shown as they had lived before the white man's conquest but few photographs attempted such imagery(4).
Mosaics had appeared in the late 1850s although the 1860s-1870s efforts were far more ambitious than these first attempts. Melbourne photographer Thomas F. Chuck (c. 1844-1898) produced a huge mosaic of over one thousand portraits titled Explorers and early colonists of Victoria in 1872(5). Townsend Duryea made a giant mosaic in 1871 of 520 men attending a banquet given in Adelaide by the merchant E. Solomon. Henry Jones followed with another of men of South Australia(6). These are not as amusing however, as the expediency shown in a painting by James Shaw (1815-1881) of Adelaide, who stuck tiny photographic portraits on the faces of all the guests photographed while attending a major ball in Adelaide in 1866(7).
Without doubt the greatest mosaic of the nineteenth century was made later in 1885 by B.C. Boake (1838-1921) on the occasion of the return of the Australian Contingent from the war in the Sudan. Portraits of some of the men swirl around the main expedition leaders like the rings of Saturn, and the photographs are stuck onto a black and gilt banner some 175 by 200 centimetres. It was Boake's finest hour as a photographer(8).
As the private and commercially produced albums developed in the 1860s, original prints were also used to illustrate printed books. Most of the Australian books in this genre are modest affairs with portrait photographs in the frontispiece(9). One of the earliest and most ambitious was produced by Louisa Anne Meredith in Hobart in 1866, titled, Souvenir of the Masques of Christmas, and of The Old and New Year, 'written and designed by Louisa Anne Meredith'. Presented at Government House, Tasmania, January 18, 1866. Eight original prints by Charles A. Woolley (1834-1922), a Hobart photographer and Major Thomas Wingate (d.1869), an amateur painter and photographer from Sydney, recorded the costume tableaux(10).
An unknown photographer staged or recorded a series of tableaux from 1867 to 1868, illustrating the work of the Benedictine monks at the New Norcia Mission in Western Australia. The brothers are shown teaching their Aboriginal charges various trades, and participating in religious rites. Some of these photographs were used in later publications but their original purpose is not clear. Bishop Salvado who founded the Monastery seems to have encouraged the recording of the mission work through photography, and his brother, Santos, had been a photographer in Spain before arriving in New Norcia in the 1870s(11).
Townsend Duryea in Adelaide included a tiny portrait of himself as an advertisement for his studio in J. Boothby's Adelaide Almanac and Directory for South Australia of 1865(12). In general the use of photography for advertising was rare in the 1860s.
The visit of Prince Alfred, the first member of the British Royal Family to visit the Australian colonies, produced souvenir books illustrated with original photographs from his visits to Adelaide and Melbourne in 1867-1868(13). Royalty was already popular as subjects in commercial cartes but the actual Royal presence caused fierce competition between photographers who were eager to secure rights to photograph the Prince. Duryea was successful in Adelaide and thus earned the distinction of making the first Australian photographs of British Royalty.
A cartoon n the Sydney Punch of 5 October 1867 by cartoonist and photographer J. Montague Scott (w.1861-1885) satirised the less fortunate photographers trying to get pictures. The image suggests that the press photographer was a phenomenon of the 1860s but this is perhaps misleading. Events were difficult to capture because of movement, especially with crowds. Samuel Clifford, an official photographer in Hobart took a series of the Prince outdoors including a crowd scene, and even his bedroom, but most images of the Prince were the official portraits(14). Other celebrities made their appearance in the 1860s, and production of their portraits as cartes became a genre in its own right.
Charles Nettleton (1826—1902) who had come from England in 1855 in search of a better climate and to try his luck on the goldfields, was able to photograph the first English team to visit Australia in 1861(15) and another ambitious photographer took a picture of the tumultuous crowds outside the Café de Paris in Melbourne awaiting the team's arrival(16). The Australian public however, did not appear very well in photographs until later developments in the 1880s considerably shortened exposure times.
The infamous were popular early subjects. Henry Pohl of Wangaratta sold large numbers of his grisly cartes-de-visites of the dead bushranger Mad Dog Morgan in 1865, having improved the photograph by putting a gun in the outlaw's hand and propping his eyes open(17). Various murder cases were also covered such as the Kinder case of 1861. A pamphlet account could be had for a little extra, with photographs of the parties involved(18). A complete album of cartes related to the long-running trials concerning the claim of Arthur Orton, butcher of Wagga Wagga to be the heir of Lady Tichborne in England, was also available(19).
Photographs of specific events probably had little sales value as prints but served to advertise the photographer. The photographs were placed in his street showcase or provided to the newspaper for use in illustration(20). Whereas painting in these years seems predominantly landscape or portraiture the views trade subject matter tended to parallel that of the illustrated papers and journals and include more topical matters. This market exploded after the introduction of photomechanical reproduction in books in the 1880s and newspapers in the 1890s.
Commissions became an important source of income in the 1860s with politicians being among the earliest to perceive the value of becoming immortalised in photographs. Twelve members of the South Australian Legislative Assembly were photographed for a special album in 1868. While the settings remain simple: a desk and chair, each man has been given a character of his own. The large size and rich tones of the albumen prints support the self important air of the public figures(21).
Groups also began to be photographed on location. Founding Father of Melbourne, John Pascoe Fawkner, was photographed with other members of the Fitzroy Police Court on 3 November 1862(22). One of the most striking efforts is the portrait of Professor George Halford conducting an anatomy class in 1864 at the Melbourne Medical School - complete with cadavre whose head is some distance from the body.
Hand-colouring of paper photographs became part of most portrait studios and often featured in exhibitions. In 1864, an unusual process was introduced by Charles Wilson who claimed to hold the patent right from Mr Senno. The process, called sennotype, involved making two identical prints, the top one being waxed and the bottom broadly hand coloured. The effect, when both prints were in register, was to give an appearance of considerable solidity and relief. Only half a dozen photography studios offered sennotypes and not always with a licence from Wilson, who found like previous patent holders, that a good deal of time was spent defending his rights(23).
Alfred Bock in Hobart was an official user of the process and his claim to fame as a photographer really rests on the quality of his sennotypes. These usually have a green label with his name and a description of the process on the back.
Albums of views both large and small steadily increased from the mid 1860s. There seems to have been a slight hiatus after the first burst of productions on a grand scale in the late I850s. Stereograph views were more popular than cartes as commercial sets. As with the Royal Tour, gaining commissions was one means of securing an edge over the competition from the ever-increasing numbers of studios. The bigger studios attracted government contracts to provide views for major exhibitions and to document the exhibitions as well(24).
In Adelaide, Townsend Duryea had entered the collodion trade by 1855 when he advertised 'all the new Processes on Glass and Paper,'(25) and was offering an album of views for sale, including a 4.3 metre panorama of Adelaide taken in 1867(26).
Charles Nettleton was one of the most prolific and accomplished of the new generation of views photographers. He reputedly photographed the first train journey in Melbourne in 1854(27) and thereafter developed connections with work for government departments. By 1868 Nettleton had released an album of views of Melbourne containing twelve photographs(28). He had already had considerable success with his views exhibited at the Intercolonial Exhibitions of 1862 and 1866. By the mid 1870s Nettleton had established a reputation for urban views, particularly those of public works. He seems to have had an aptitude for industrial subjects and improved his technique to the point of delineating these with great clarity and precision.
Nettleton produced a number of panoramas in the I860s, one of which was used as the basis for a lithograph by De Gruchy and Leigh(29). In his large album prints of the mid to late I870s of views of shipping at Queens Wharf, the Drops at Caliban waterworks and the waterworks at Geelong, Malmsbury and Yean Yan. Nettleton's ability to handle complex structures with great depth of field and fine detail is clear(30).
Nettleton's classical approach to photographs of construction is similar to that of his counterpart in Sydney, Charles Pickering (w, 1856-1870s) although Pickering's works are simpler and more direct with less of Nettleton's fondness for deep diagonal divisions of the space. In 1870 Pickering was commissioned to photograph public works for the Government Architect James Barnet. The prints were for the London Exhibition of 1873(31). He had previously been official photographer to the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870. The Government Printing Office acquired the negatives and made up an album of the views in 1872, thus beginning the development of an archive still in existence at the present premises of the Office(32).
Pickering's architectural and urban views are austere documents in which the city of Sydney looks rather like a Renaissance town as new buildings in this style rise. By the time John Sharkey (w, 1863-1888), the head of the Photographic Branch of the Printing Office began a large series of views of Sydney buildings and streets, the Printing Office equipment included a wide-angle lens camera. It was used, a little indiscriminately it seems to make more dramatic views. In contrast to Nettleton and Noone in Melbourne, Pickering and Sharkey in particular favoured more atmosphere.
These photographs were not for sale but for presentation to distinguished visitors and other appropriate persons, such as government officers and politicians. Direct sale to the public would have caused controversy with photographers.
Survey offices and Lands Departments were among the first government departments in the 1860s to include photography in their work. By the I880s it was common practice for departments to use photographs, and Melbourne and Sydney as the largest urban centres were the most active.
In little over a decade from its introduction in Australia, the collodiotype had facilitated the rise of the views trade to such an extent that by the mid 1860s some photographers like Captain Sweet in Adelaide and Charles Walter in Victoria could advertise as specialist landscape photographers. Photographers had been travelling around the country making both portraits and views from the earliest years, but their income rested on the portrait.
City-based studios specialising in urban views, local scenery and pastoral properties such as Samuel Clifford in Hobart, Townsend Duryea and George Freeman (1842—1910)(33) in Adelaide, Charles Pickering in Sydney, Charles Nettleton in Melbourne and Geo P. Wright (w. 1874—1883) in Queensland, developed by the mid 1860s, with portraiture as an equally important part of their work.
as a most important branch of an interesting and valuable art, which but seldom calls forth in these colonies the powers of a critic's pen, or attracts the attention of art worshippers. We should like to see here the foundation of a photographic society, which would keep this accomplishment more prominently before the public, and bring us more closely into communication with the followers of the art in England and America.
Samuel Clifford's stereographs gained Sol's warmest appreciation as 'delightful representations of nature being full of atmosphere yet true to nature in their details and perspective'(34).
At the beginning of the review, Sol expressed the opinion that photography provided an overview of the growth of settlements without the expenditure of time and money on a personal visit. Perhaps it was just such a spirit that supported the views trade. It is also at this time that illustrated magazines began to include articles and illustrations by travelling landscape photographer Charles Walter and serious efforts were made to provide photographs of remote regions and expeditions.
The small size of the stereograph camera and consequent faster speed of the plates made it particularly suited to outdoor work and for excursions beyond the city streets. In addition, various preservative processes enabled photographers to dispense with carrying chemicals to coat the wet plates. Short expeditions into the bush could thus be made by amateurs and professionals in search of views of remote scenic features. Many photographers continued to be itinerant or to make extended tours from their city bases selling portraits and views in regional areas. The carte-de-visite was used to make urban views and a new form of portrait in front of one's home or shop.
One studio which became famous for its specialisation in house by house, shop by shop and town by town photography was the American and Australasian Photographic Company formed by English immigrant showman, Beaufoy Merlin (1830-1873) in 1866.(35) Whilst making house-front portraits Merlin attracted the attention of young Charles Bayliss (1850—1897) who had come from England as a child. Bayliss joined the firm as an apprentice and travelled with Merlin up through Victoria and New South Wales to Sydney where the A & A Co established a studio in 1870(36).
photographed almost every house in Melbourne, and the other towns in Victoria. Within the past few months they have photographed all Yass, Braidwood and Queanbeyan, Goulburn etc, and they have just now completed taking nearly 800 views of Parramatta alone(37).
They claimed 'street photography' as their invention. Figures certainly appear in earlier photographs but were either posed or sitting still through the long exposures, but most photographs before the 1870s could not easily register moving figures. In 1872 the A & A Co moved operations to the goldfields at Hill End.
A particular extension of the views trade, that of press photography, is often traced to reporting of the capture of the gang of bushrangers led by Ned Kelly at Glenrowan, Victoria in 1880(38). Journalists, artists and photographers commissioned by the newspapers were permitted to join a special train of troopers and the official Victorian Government Photographer Mr Burman, sent in pursuit of the gang. By the time the train arrived Ned Kelly had been captured, having been seriously wounded in the early hours of the day. Joe Byrne, a member of his gang, had already died in the burning of the pub in which the gang was trapped.
The journalists could recreate the action they had missed by interviewing those present. The official photographer was occupied recording the grisly remains, including the body of Byrne that was slung up on the door of Benalla Police Station to facilitate photographic records. J. W. Lindt (1845—1926) was among the agents dispatched to the scene by the Melbourne newspapers(39). He chose to make an image recording Burman photographing Byrne and being watched by a group of onlookers. The artist Julian Ashton was also caught leaving the scene having already sketched Byrne in the cells.
The Lindt picture is a mystery for it seems to point to his understanding of the role press photography (although it was not published)(40) would have in the future or to the development of what today would be called 'a media event'.
Perhaps he was simply testing an exposure for his wet plates, however this process was not one that naturally encouraged haphazard shooting. A decision to take a picture preceded each image rather than a quick response to events unfolding in front of the camera. The first dry plates had already been imported into Australia and Lindt had been among the first to test the new plates as he also ran a supplies service in addition to his photographic work(41). Dry plates were made using gelatin as the medium for the light-sensitive salts and were faster than the wet collodion process and far less contrasty.
Press photography did not grow as a trade until after the introduction of direct photomechanical reproduction in the late I880s and 1890s. At first photographs were transferred to the woodblocks for the guidance of the engravers. Then, by the late 1890s, halftone photoengravings were being used in the Sydney Mail, and after 1894 specialist photomechanical firms called process works were being used by newspapers. The Electric Photo Engraving Co in Sydney supplied the illustrated paper the Sydney Mail until 1902, when the firm set up its own photographic department(42).
Government photographers supplying the printing offices had functioned a little like press photographers but it was not till after the turn of the century that journalists were sent out as correspondents to report and illustrate events. A.B. (Banjo) Paterson (1864-1941), for example, was dispatched to the Boer War in South Africa as the Mail's official photographer and journalist.
P.35: Album of cart-de-visites. 1860s-1880s.


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Treat Yourself to a Fright Night: Give your brain a good scare
By Aileen Keown Vaux
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As a 10 year-old I stood in a line that wrapped around the Mercy Movie 6-Plex in Yakima waiting to see Jurassic Park on its opening night. I didn't know then that Steven Spielberg's "Jaws on Land" would kickstart my lifelong obsession with scaring myself silly at the movies. As the line inched toward the ticket counter and we shuffled over the worn carpet, I felt a surge of equal parts dread and excitement for the moment when the lights dimmed and the dinosaur rampage began.
Aileen Keown Vaux
In their article "The Science of Fright: Why We Love to Be Scared," Arash Javanbakht and Linda Saab, assistant professors of psychiatry at Wayne State University, describe the brain as splitting into two when watching a scary movie. The "thinking" mind reassures us that we are safe while allowing us to enjoy the adrenaline high that corresponds with the "emotional" mind's fight-or-flight response.
In fact, fear is an excellent focusing agent. It sharpens our senses and asks us to stay in the present moment. In other words, horror movies are a type of dopamine-fueled meditation. Therefore, as a matter of promoting public health and as an alternative to yoga, I'd like to recommend some of my favorite horror movies for you to enjoy this Halloween season.
A word of warning: Being a horror movie fan is not a universal experience. There are as many horror subgenres as there are ways to die in the Saw franchise. I've divided my recommendations into a few different categories so that you can choose your own adventure.
For the Newbie who is a sensitive flower and prone to nightmares, consider an entry-level movie that is low on terror, but high on ambiance. Crimson Peak will certainly encourage you to keep the lights on, but won't leave any lasting damage. Unless you have pre-existing phobias of gothic set pieces and Tom Hiddleston.
If you're a Romantic who believes Children of the Corn is a good first date movie, then queue up Shaun of the Dead, which balances slapstick zombie splatter with the age-old question: Is it possible to rekindle a failed relationship during the middle of an apocalypse?
Maybe you've dug a cement bunker in your backyard or stocked an entire basement with canned goods. If so, you are a Prepper and should see It Comes At Night, a tale of two families defending a single house during a devastating plague when they discover paranoia may be more of an existential threat than a planet-decimating virus.
When a friend and I recently saw Hereditary, a movie that was developed around the premise "How many beheadings are too many beheadings?" I turned to him and said, "Hmmm, that's a mood." If that sounds like a familiar reaction to seeing a terrifying movie, then you might be an Art House Enthusiast who likes horror with a high production value. Check out The Witch or It Follows, two movies that don't compromise their aspirations for being "serious films" while also being seriously disturbing.
Finally, for my Horror Nihilists who have scorched their amygdalas with an increasing escalation of cinematic terror, I suggest The Descent, a movie that has it all: monsters, spelunking, found-footage, and also shares Game of Thrones' strategy of trying to kill every single character when you least expect it.
Now, remember, the brain rewards people who can regulate their fears, so whichever fright plan you create for yourself this spooky season, feel satisfied that you are embarking on a self-improvement journey that will be worth the night terrors and pay dividends long after the calendar flips past Oct. 31. ♦
Aileen Keown Vaux is an essayist and poet whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published by Scablands Books in 2018.
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