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December 26, 2022[gossip board] incredible! James has played the last five games with a maximum of 35 points and a minimum of 30 points January 11, 2023The night of the Rockets' old general is coming, the magic shot joins the Lakers + the best rookie renews the Magic + Xiaoli renews the Rockets January 10, 2023Media person Liu Baojie, Wang Han's lungs are inflamed and his voice is hoarse. Tonight's game will be directed by assistant coach Ding Wei January 10, 2023Can you go back to the Rockets?Ariza and Paul gathered in Los Angeles, but Tucker gave a warning January 3, 2023Total score this season: Dongqi 984 points 1 & KD 2 before today's game, both men are 934 points January 10, 2023Wei Meng, why can't you leave with dignity? January 18, 2023Little Wukong Lin Wei, super high level? January 22, 2023Shen Jing averaged 25.3 points, 14.3 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1 steal and 2.7 blocks in the last 3 battles January 31, 2023Leonard averaged 29.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists in the last 10 battles, shooting 56% January 21, 2023The Magic has recalled Isaac from the Development League
News Reid talks about the last attack: Jayden is an excellent corner shooter, so it's no problem for him to shoot
Reid talks about the last attack: Jayden is an excellent corner shooter, so it's no problem for him to shoot
January 17 News Today's NBA regular season Timberwolves home game against the Jazz has ended
After the game, the Timberwolves lost to the Jazz 125-126.
After the game, team center Naz Reed was interviewed by reporters and was asked about the team's last attack. Reed said:
"We like the finish, Jadon (McDaniels) in the corner, I think Edwards made a great decision, Jadon is a great corner shooter, you can't ask for a better chance, big empty
Bit, you know what I mean? It was a good shot, Jaydon was confident and looked great. No complaints about it."
Holiday: The Pacers played very fast, just like what the Warriors tried to do and what the Rockets did
Bain reposted a funny photo of Brooks: This photo was taken too well
Zhao Rui is 23 years old this year, Guo Ailun is 23 years old, Liu Wei is 23 years old, and Xiao Ding is 23 years old. The gap is surprising
Kuzma supports James: Some guys flopped very softly, making free throws 8-9 times a night
Nominations for the best of the week: James, Kajiao, Kuzma, Randall are on the list
Review of the first game of the NBL finals and the preview of the second game–one staring four-way comeback
Cole: It is possible to delegate Wiseman to the development league again, but it has not been finalized
37 years old, 356 days! James scored 30 cents in five consecutive games, setting a record for the oldest in history.
The guy is steady!No. 6 show Marcelin contributed 20 points and 6 rebounds in 7 of 13 stably
Westbrook is recovering well and is out for the first time in his career due to injury
God!Mitchell scored 71 points, 8 rebounds, 11 assists and 1 block
what do you think of James? Stanley Johnson: GOAT 🐐
The Hawks adjust the starting lineup Capela replaced Okongwu as the starting center
Silas: I want to control Tate's playing time, Ethan keeps grabbing offensive rebounds
Old Li: Maxi and Milton have a close relationship but different personalities. One is active and the other is low-key
ignite the team coach: the world is paying attention to the liberal arts class, but I think Henderson's career will be better.
All-Star starting lineup: LeBron James and Duo were selected together


Usually Kenny opens his live chai time show with innocent banter to entertain and warm up his crowd.
He starts off by asking their names but THIS TIME, Just the names were enough for him to go on a spree.
Is this video from the year 2500 or are they making up some cool names?
'Perseus Johnson'. Anybody think of 'Peter Johnson' or 'Percy Jackson'?
Perseus Johnson? Parents may be Percy Jackson fans.
Nisha N of course! The best compliment a comedian could give you is to make fun of you! And, it was extremely amazing!
Anshu Gaur, ok then you used to live under a rock till a week ago.


hmmmm jack...I dont know where on the chart to look, is it the magenta/cyan bar @ 85?
VO, how often do you trade Globex?
thx for that chart- another question regarding projection. since the abc you just charted is more recent than the earlier abc in the 15 min chart, is it correct to presume that the more recent abc is the more accurate projection?
jack what is adv get??
Gotta run, c ya tomorrow!
Einstein what I said is valid, but I think this is what your asking. What abc do you use? You use both - for the same reasons...you dont know what cycle its working off of.


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Entrepreneurs Feel Closer to God Than the Rest of Us Do
The study: Mitchell J. Neubert and three colleagues at Baylor University investigated the connection between faith and the propensity to start a business, by examining data from a survey that queried 1,714 U.S. adults about their religious habits. They found that entrepreneurs prayed more frequently than other people and were more likely to believe that […]
Mitchell J. Neubert
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The study: Mitchell J. Neubert and three colleagues at Baylor University investigated the connection between faith and the propensity to start a business, by examining data from a survey that queried 1,714 U.S. adults about their religious habits. They found that entrepreneurs prayed more frequently than other people and were more likely to believe that God was personally responsive to them.
The challenge: Do people who launch companies really feel a deeper connection to their deity than non-entrepreneurs? Professor Neubert, defend your research.
Neubert: Entrepreneurs seem to be more religious in a couple of small—but statistically significant—ways. They pray more—several times a week, on average—and are more likely to believe in an engaged, responsive God who takes a personal interest in them. You can see how the two might be related: If you think God cares about you, you're more likely to talk to him. Entrepreneurs also are more apt to worship with a congregation that encourages business activity. On other measures—church affiliation, belief in God, and service attendance—they seem to be as religious as everyone else: Nearly nine out of 10 are affiliated with some religion. They attend church monthly, on average, and two-thirds say they have no doubt that God exists. But even those findings might surprise people who assume that hard-driving businesspeople are too busy or greedy to make time for religion.
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34% of entrepreneurs pray several times a day, compared with 27% of non-entrepreneurs.
HBR: Are you studying this because Baylor is a Christian university?
My colleagues, associate professors Kevin Dougherty and Jerry Park and graduate student Jenna Griebel, and I are studying it because entrepreneurs play a critical role in the American economy, so it's crucial to understand what drives them. Yet research on their religious practices has been pretty sparse. A 2004 study of 44 Brooklyn entrepreneurs found that religiosity was positively correlated to personal ambition and innovation, and a 1985 study on first-generation Japanese-American men linked self-employment to family religious tradition and participation. But those were small samples, and other research, on workers in the UK and entrepreneurs in Colorado, has yielded contradictory findings.
We wanted to examine a random national sample—using the Baylor Religion Survey—and to look beyond affiliation and attendance into beliefs and behaviors. Just because someone goes to church doesn't mean it's salient in their lives. This was part of a multiphase project on religion and entrepreneurship supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Did you look at Judaism, Islam, and other faiths too?
Our sample included respondents from all major religions. But in the U.S., even with a national sample, you're talking about Christians predominantly, since the numbers of Muslims, Jews, and people of other religions, as well as atheists and agnostics, are so small.
So what do these entrepreneurs pray for?
Unfortunately, we don't know the content of their prayers. Are they asking for energy, insight, success? They're exposed to a lot more uncertainty and risk than the rest of us, so maybe they feel a need to pray more. Perhaps the pressure of starting and running a business to put food on the table heightens their spiritual leanings.
Or maybe people with greater faith in God are more willing to take risks.
Yes, I think there's a confidence that can come from your religious beliefs. And maybe the individualism and autonomy associated with entrepreneurship are reflected in the idea of a more personal, direct relationship with God.
Your findings on congregations present another chicken-or-egg question: Do entrepreneurs gravitate to churches that are pro-business, or do those churches spur people to start companies?
We don't know the direction of the relationship. Maybe entrepreneurs find a place where their mind-set is affirmed. Or maybe they're influenced by their church peers and leaders. A community of faith surely provides social capital; it can be a source of customers, investors, employees, and encouragement and ideas. And some of these congregations really emphasize the integration of work and worship and financial planning, as well as running their churches in more innovative, businesslike ways. But, all that said, when we've asked entrepreneurs in follow-up interviews why they chose their churches, most have said location or friends and family. They haven't said, "This is the most pro-business congregation in the area."
Perhaps your findings explain the growing popularity of social entrepreneurship.
Well, we know social entrepreneurs have a purpose beyond profit, and that could certainly come from spiritual beliefs. But among the 28.6% of people in our sample who had started or were trying to start a business, the vast majority had traditional motives: They wanted to work for themselves or sell a product or service that would earn them a good living.
You've shown a link between faith and entrepreneurial activity. But what about entrepreneurial success?
We did include some open-ended questions about profitability and other performance measures in a follow-up national survey, but a lot of people left those blank. Still, I think the issue merits further investigation, and we'll explore it in future research. In another study that Baylor assistant professor Steve Bradley and I did on participants in microfinance programs in Africa and Indonesia, we found that the value people placed on their relationship with God and the way they treated others as a result—what we dubbed their "spiritual capital"—was associated with more innovation, higher revenues, and more employees in their businesses, even when controlling for skill sets and connections. We have another paper under review that delves a bit deeper into congregation characteristics and shows that members of groups that emphasize integrating faith into work are more entrepreneurial in, satisfied with, and committed to their jobs. Clearly, those sorts of employees contribute to the success of organizations.
So your findings hold true not just for entrepreneurs but also for entrepreneurial thinkers in established organizations?
Yes, we have found that people with religious beliefs are more engaged and entrepreneurial at work. Yet we don't know specifically how this plays out. In the latest phase of our research, we've spent time with churchgoers in four areas of the U.S.: black Protestants in Texas, mainline Protestants in New Jersey, evangelicals in Michigan, and Catholics in California. Targeting two churches (one pro-business, one less so) in each locale, we interviewed 10 entrepreneurs and 10 full-time working professionals from all eight congregations, asking more specific questions about the impact that faith has on their work: Does it contribute to their success? How does it affect their behavior? Although we're only starting our analyses, we have some confidence that people's religious beliefs do play a role in how they work. The tendency for business leaders might be to ignore, dismiss, or discourage religion at the office. But that could mean missing out on a significant source of employee engagement and dedication. The challenge is to tap into people's spirituality while still being inclusive of everyone.Interview by Alison Beard
A version of this article appeared in the October 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Read more on Entrepreneurship or related topic Organizational culture
Mitchell J. Neubert is the Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business and an associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at Baylor University.

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use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Paginator;
use istore\gomlaphoneBundle\Entity\Store;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Session;
use istore\gomlaphoneBundle\Controller\AuthenticatedController;
use Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;

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{
    public function __construct()
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    public function indexAction(Request $request)
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            'action'          => 'index',
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Peatbog Faeries – Dust
The Scottish band The Peatbog Faeries: Peter Morrison, Peter Tickell, Tom Salter, Graeme Stafford, Innes Hutton, and Stu Haikney, have another great release with their 11-track instrumental CD, Dust, which features original material written by Peter Morrison and Peter Tickell. The award-winning band takes a bold stance on this release with Celtic fusion music that crosses genres and inspires listeners.
Peatbog Faeries - Dust
Peatbog Faeries - Dust: Calgary Capers, The Naughty Step, Dun Beag, Spigel and Nongo, Passport Panic, Abhainna A' Nathair, Marx Terrace, Bunny For Breakfast, Ascent Of Conival, Fishing at Orbost, Room 215
Personnel: The Peatbog Faeries – Peter Morrison – Pipes and Whistles, Peter Tickell – Fiddle and Effects, Tom Salter – Guitar, Graeme Stafford – Keyboards, Innes Hutton – Bass, Guitars, Bodhrán, Stu Haikney – Drums and Percussions; Brass: Rick Taylor Trombone, Nighel Hitchcock – Saxophones; Special Guests: Jarlath Henderson – Uilleann Pipes, Paul Templeman – Steel Guitar
Recorded and mixed in Cumbernauld College and Peatbog Studio in Orbost, Skye. Produced and mixed by Calum Maclean on the Peatbog Records label in the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Dust, the seventh release by the Peatbog Faeries opens with Calgary Capers with nice fiddle work and the haunting and bewitching sound of the bodhrán. The band writes in the liner notes of the song written by Peter Tickell, "Calgary Capers marks a night of cathartic celebration following 2010's epic summer tour of Canada, much enjoyed by the whole band," which definitely comes across in the song.
Next in the line-up is The Naughty Step, written by Peter Morrison, which has a contagious percussion rhythm and new-age tech feel that will have you on your feet dancing, because as the liner notes read, "We've all been there."
Dun Beag, written by Peter Morrison, is a gorgeous instrumental piece that recalls the highland with wonderful pipe work. The band writes about the song, "Dun Beag is the remains of a broch in Struan, Skye. In Gaelic folklore brochs, or Duns as they're known locally, are the houses of the Sithe – the faeries. However, more popular history has them as late Iron Age structures." I prefer the Gaelic folklore meaning.
Peter Tickell wrote, Passport Panic, after he "almost missed out on a trip to the States due to his somewhat lax approach to visa regulations." The song is slow, sexy, and delicious. Abhainn A' Nathair, written by Peter Morrison, will have you stepping lively especially after the reading the liner notes. "The River of Snakes. In the book, 'Skye, the Island and it's Legends,' (published 1952) by Otta Swire, who lived in Orbost, she tells of the high population of adders on the river bank there. She writes that deaths by snake-bite among sheep and sometimes dogs was commonplace, and that children, running barefoot to school, were also regularly bitten. Our studio is only yards from the river but the snakes have all but disappeared."
Other great songs on the release are Spiegel and Nongo, written by Adam Sunderland and Peter Tickell, Marx Terrace written by Peter Tickell, and Bunny For Breakfast written by Peter Morrison, with its slight Jazzy feel, and great percussion and pipe work.
Ascent of Conival written by Peter Tickell has Jazz overtones and stellar horn work. The Peter Morrison song, Fishing At Orbost follows, and opens slowly with interesting keyboard work, then layers in distant pipes, and melodic harmonies. Room 215, written by Peter Morrison, closes out the release with traditional Celtic music, of which the band writes of the song, "Every good festival should have a party room." I readily concur!
The Peatbog Faeries release, Dust, proves the band's talent and their versatility to cross genres and go beyond traditional Celtic folk music, yet fully embrace their Scots heritage through their music. Slàinte mhath (pronounced SLANJ-JA VAH), which in Gaelic means "cheers!" or alternately, "to your health!" on a stunning release.
For information on upcoming gigs, please visit the Peatbog Faeries website: www.PeatbogFaeries.com
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As Omicron Spreads, Older Americans Display a Mix of Worry and Resolve
Dr. Catic faced a version of that situation herself at home in Houston, where she lives with her parents and her husband's parents — all in their mid-70s — after the couple's 9-year-old daughter tested positive on Sunday. "She was symptomatic and she was with them. We tested immediately," Dr. Catic said. "If we did not live with them, would we be canceling plans, absolutely."
For the former mayor of Prairie View, Texas, a small town outside of Houston, planning for Christmas has been focused on minimizing risk because of the Omicron variant.
The former mayor, Frank Jackson, 70, said he still planned to deliver bags of gifts to dozens of families on Christmas Eve, albeit with some changes: Santa would be seated on top of a fire truck, said Mr. Jackson, who is also the fire marshal, and he would have helpers on the ground to walk gifts to porches, in order to keep a safe distance.
As for his usual Christmas party, that is off. "Only immediate family that are fully boosted are invited for lunch on Christmas Day," Mr. Jackson said.
Wesley Boots, 77, a retired schoolteacher, said he still planned to see his son's family for the holidays since they live just next door in New Stanton, Pa. And the Omicron surge would not force him to put off plans to fly to a second home in New Mexico in January, though he did say he would be making some changes out of caution.
"In the past, I've often taken very circuitous routes to save a few bucks," he said. "But this time, I'm ticketed for a flight that has only one change."
By contrast, Carmen Scott, 67, said that she and her husband would usually go to Florida to see one relative, or to Houston to see others, but that this year they would be doing "absolutely nothing." Instead she planned to cook for people in her town of Oshkosh, Wis., who did not have anyone to do it for them on Christmas. "Food is love," she said.
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Juan Stafford + whoever is tossing the ball for the Trojans=entertainment. It's a formally that has rung true for all the 2018 season. No exception against their arch rival Trojans, as Stafford takes the Hesne pass all the way for six.
A District Title was on the line during the Tioga-Leesville game Friday night, and the Indians came out strong, taking it to the Wampus Cats. Blak McGeehee found Ethan Christman across the back of the endzone and helped knot thins up early in the first. They would take a lead into the half but eventually fall to Leesville.
Richard Chark was a load all night long, and this run in the first half helped give the Trojans some distance. Chark takes this one to the house and only added to his monster day in the second half. ASH went on to win big over Pineville.
Another game with district title implications, Many taking on Red River. Many has lived on this list all season, and this play may be their best of the season. Josh Carrol sacrificed his entire body for this one, and the Tigers would get the victory and the district championship.
Menard took down Bunkie behind Cam Miguez and this phenomenal throw and catch to his man Scully. Menard would get the victory and improve to 2-2 in district play.
Another week, another exciting edition of the Top Five Plays. Next week is the last week of the 2018 regular season, and should provide us with even more phenomenal plays. See ya next week!


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By Darren Allan published 7 December 21
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla is one of that trio, sadly
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Intel's Alder Lake processors stumbled out of the gate when it came to gaming, having trouble with the DRM countermeasures implemented in some titles – but now all these issues have been fixed, fortunately, aside from a few.
Three games still fail to run (or they run, then crash) with Alder Lake chips, thanks to its hybrid tech (mix of cores) causing DRM software to not recognize a 12th-gen product as a single processor, seeing the performance and efficiency cores as two separate systems instead.
Therefore the DRM thinks something fishy is going on, and doesn't play ball, but solving this is just a matter of patching Denuvo to correctly identify Alder Lake silicon.
And as Tom's Hardware spotted, going by Intel's official list giving the status of incompatible DRM-toting games, fixes have now been implemented for all of the 90+ games which had trouble with Alder Lake, except for three: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Fernbus Simulator, and Madden 22.
Analysis: Almost done now – and there's that workaround, too
For the remaining trio of misfiring games, there is a workaround to side-step the DRM issue which Intel points out on its website. However, it does involve a trip to the BIOS (but not a difficult one – you simply have to enable 'Legacy Game Compatibility Mode', following the instructions here). This works with certain motherboards, and is essentially just turning off the efficiency cores to get around the problem that way (so you may have somewhat lesser performance levels, too).
Given the timeframe in which the best part of 100 games have been fixed, it's probably a fair guess that the remaining three holdouts – which disappointingly still includes Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – should be sorted in pretty swift order.
So hopefully we can put all this behind us very soon, and buyers of Alder Lake chips can simply enjoy their shiny new CPUs without having to worry about certain games requiring some BIOS fudging (and maybe performance loss) to actually work.
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K. N. Srinivasan was an Indian politician who served as mayor of Madras city from November 1956 to December 1957. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.

Early life

Born in Chingleput district on 20 September 1914, Srinivasan studied at the Madras Christian College and Madras Law College. Srinivasan enrolled as an advocate of the Madras High Court in 1945.

Political career

From his early years, Srinivasan was a member of the Indian National Congress. He served as a member of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee for ten years. He was also a member of the Chingleput District Conference. On 29 November 1956, he was nominated mayor of Madras and served till December 1957, when he was succeeded by Tara Cherian.

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DVB-T2 () — европейский стандарт эфирного цифрового телевидения второго поколения из группы стандартов DVB. По сравнению со стандартом первого поколения — DVB-T, DVB-T2 призван увеличить на 30—50 % ёмкость сетей, сохраняя основную инфраструктуру и частотные ресурсы.

Техническое описание
DVB-Т2 принципиально отличается от DVB-T как архитектурой системного уровня (МАС-уровня — Media Access Control), так и особенностями физического уровня, вследствие чего приёмники DVB-T несовместимы с DVB-T2.

Для DVB-T2 были разработаны следующие характеристики:
 Модуляция OFDM с группами QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM или 256-QAM.
 OFDM режимы 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k и «32k ext». Длина символа для режима 32k составляет около 4 мс.
 Относительные длины защитных интервалов: 1/128, 1/32, 1/16, 19/256, 1/8, 19/128 и 1/4. (Для режима 32k максимум 1/8).
 Прямая коррекция ошибок (FEC) с каскадным применением корректирующих кодов LDPC и БЧХ (как в DVB-S2 и DVB-C2).
 DVB-T2 поддерживает полосы пропускания канала: 1,7; 5; 6; 7; 8 и 10 МГц, причём, 1,7 МГц предназначена для мобильного телевидения.
 передача/приём в режиме MISO () с использованием метода Аламоути, то есть приёмник обрабатывает сигналы с двух и более передающих антенн.

Сравнение DVB-T и DVB-T2
В следующей таблице приведено сравнение доступных режимов в DVB-T и DVB-T2.

Максимальная скорость передачи данных при ширине полосы 8 МГц, 32K поднесущих, с защитным интервалом 1/128, схема размещения поднесущих PP7:

Структура системы

Стандарт DVB-T был предназначен исключительно для передачи транспортного потока MPEG-TS, но в отличие от DVB-T, в DVB-T2 заложена возможность передачи нескольких независимых разных по природе и структуре транспортных потоков. Каждый цифровой поток помещается в свой магистральный поток — так называемый канал физического уровня PLP (). Для этого введена функция предварительной обработки входных данных.

Входная предварительная обработка
Создание канала физического уровня (PLP), который может содержать один из следующих потоков:
 транспортный поток (TS) — последовательность пакетов фиксированной длины
 обобщённый инкапсулированный поток (GSE) — пакеты переменной или фиксированной длины, которая указана в заголовках этих пакетов
 обобщённый непрерывный поток (GCS) — последовательность пакетов без указания их длины или максимальной длиной 64 кбит.
 обобщённый поток, объединённый в пакеты фиксированной длины (GFPS) — формат для совместимости с DVB-S2, может быть заменен на GSE.

Входная обработка
Данные собираются в группы, называемые потоковыми () кадрами (BB-кадры), определяемых параметрами модуляции и кодирования (MODCOD), в версиях «нормальной» или «короткой» длины. Возможна передача одного или нескольких потоков PLP

Однопоточный PLP (режим 'A'):
 Адаптации режима
 Входной интерфейс
 Свёрточное кодирование CRC-8
 Добавление BB-заголовка
 Адаптация потока
 вставка заполнения
 скремблирование BB-кадра

Многопоточный PLP (режим 'B')
 Адаптации режима
 Входной интерфейс
 Синхронизация входного потока
 Компенсирующая задержка
 Удаления нулевых пакетов
 Кодирование CRC-8
 Добавление BB-заголовка
 Адаптация потока
 планирование PLP
 задержка кадра
 внутриканальная сигнализация
 скремблирование BB

Кодирование и модуляция с битовым перемежением (BICM)
 Прямая коррекция ошибок (FEC): каждый BB-кадр превращается в FEC-кадр из Nldpc битов, путём добавления данных о чётности. Нормальные FEC-кадры содержат 64800 бит, в то время как короткие FEC-кадры содержат 16200 бит. Отношение эффективного кодирования 32 208/64 800 (1/2), 38 688/64 800 (3/5), 43 040/64 800 (2/3), 48 408/64 800 (3/4), 51 648/64 800 (4/5), 53 840/64 800 (5/6)
 Внешнее кодирование: код Боуза — Чоудхури — Хоквингема (БЧХ), способен исправить 10 или 12 ошибок в FEC-кадре. Используется для вычисления чётности данных информационного поля. Полином генератора БЧХ имеет следующие степени: сто шестидесятую (160), сто шестьдесят восьмую (168) или сто девяносто вторую (192).
 Внутреннее кодирование: код с малой плотностью проверок на чётность (LDPC)
 Битовое перемежение
 Перемежение блока битов чётности
 Перемежение страниц
 Демультиплексирование битов по ячейкам кодовых слов
 Преобразование Грея ячеек кодовых слов в сигнальное созвездие: используются преобразования QPSK (4-QAM), 16-QAM, 64-QAM или 256-QAM.
 Вращение созвездия и циклическая квадратурная (Q) задержка: дополнительно, поворот созвездия против часовой стрелки может достигать 30 градусов. Кроме того, квадратурной (мнимой) части ячеек циклически сдвигается на одну ячейку
 Перемежение ячеек
 Временное перемежение — применяется для устойчивости к импульсным помехам, различные компоненты информации перемежаются с периодом около 70 мс.

Формирование кадра
Передаваемый поток организуется в суперкадры, которые состоят из кадров DVB-T2 (до 255) и частей кадра перспективного расширения (FEF). FEF используют для резервирования места для информации, которая может появиться в будущем и передаваться в OFDM.
 Преобразование ячеек: ячейки преобразуются в OFDM символы. Кадр DVB-T2 состоит из:
 символа P1 — используется для синхронизации
 одного и более символов P2 — передает параметр конфигурации сигнализации L1
 символов регулярных данных — содержат данные PLP (существует три вида: общие PLP, PLP типа 1 и PLP типа 2), вспомогательные потоки и фиктивные символы для заполнения
 символа закрытия кадра (для некоторых параметров)
 Частотное перемежение: случайное чередование делается для каждого символа OFDM (кроме P1)

Генерация OFDM
 Режим MISO ( — много входов, один выход) введён для одночастотных сетей: предварительная обработка Аламоути дополнительно применяется к парам ячеек OFDM-символов.
 Внедрение пилот-сигнала и резервирование ложного тона. Добавляются три класса пилот-тонов: постоянные (с фиксированным положением), рассеянные (циклически движущееся положение) или краевые (граничное положение). Есть 8 различных конфигураций для рассеянного пилот-тона (PP1 … PP8). Кроме того, ряд фиктивных поднесущих не модулировано и зарезервировано, чтобы уменьшить динамический диапазон выходного сигнала DVB-T2 (это уменьшает нелинейные искажения в усилителях мощности во время передачи).
 Обратное дискретное преобразование Фурье (IDFT): классическое IDFT используется для перехода из частотной области во временную область, смещая положение поднесущих относительно средней несущей частоты. Доступно от 1k (1024) до 32k (32768) поднесущих. Существует также расширенный режим, который позволяет заполнить дополнительные данные в доступной полосе пропускания, используя больше активных поднесущих и сокращая количество нулевых поднесущих защитного диапазона.
 Уменьшение отношения пиковой мощности к средней (PAPR) — повышает КПД передатчика по мощности.
 Добавление защитного интервала: циклический префикс вставляется перед символом IDFT, чтобы выделить сигнал при наличии эхо-сигналов в канале передачи. Допускаются интервалы длиной от 1/128 до 1/4 от длины IDFT .
 Добавление символа P1: символом P1 является отдельно созданным символом 1k OFDM, всегда вставляется в заголовке кадра. Она передает несколько бит информации (распространение, скремблирование и DBPSK модуляцией), служит для синхронизации (по времени и по частоте) и идентификации потока на приёмной стороне.
 Цифро-аналоговое преобразование (ЦАП) : отсчёты DVB-T2 преобразуется в аналоговый комплексный BB-сигнал (I и Q). Частота дискретизации зависит от пропускной способности выделенной полосы частот. Например, при ширине канала 8 МГц, интервал дискретизации комплексных отсчётов 7/64 мкс.

Сервисные возможности

DVB-T2 позволяет предоставлять различные цифровые сервисы и услуги:

 Многоканальное мультиплексирование;
 Телевидение стандартной чёткости SDTV в форматах соотношения сторон экрана 4:3 и 16:9;
 Телевидение высокой чёткости HDTV;
 Телевидение сверхвысокой чёткости UHDTV;
 3D-телевидение в стандарте DVB 3D-TV;
 Интерактивное гибридное телевидение в стандарте HbbTV;
 Видео по запросу;
 Телегид;
 Телетекст;
 Субтитры;
 Стереозвук;
 Объёмный звук;
 Звук Dolby Digital;
 Мультизвук (выбор языка вещания);
 Цифровое радио;
 Синхронизация времени и даты с цифровым телевещанием;
 Передача данных в стандарте DVB-DATA;
 Прямой и обратный каналы связи для интерактивных сервисов в стандартах DVB-RCS и DVB-RCT;
 Широкополосный доступ в Интернет;
 Система оповещения.

В списке представлены все цифровые сервисы и услуги DVB-T2. Многие цифровые сервисы и услуги являются интерактивными.

Приём цифрового сигнала DVB- T2
Приём цифрового сигнала DVB-T2 осуществляется эфирной коллективной или индивидуальной (наружной или комнатной) антенной, подключаемой к различным приёмникам:
 цифровой или универсальный телевизор с поддержкой DVB-T2;
 ресивер (ТВ-приставка) DVB-T2 для телевизора или монитора;
 ТВ-тюнер DVB-T2 для компьютера.

Использование

Европа
 Германия: один мультиплекс (HD), пробный запуск 31 мая 2016 г. Регулярное (коммерческое) вещание начнётся с 29 марта 2017 года.
 Великобритания: один мультиплекс (HDTV), пробный запуск в декабре 2009 года, полностью запущен в апреле 2010 года.
 Италия: один мультиплекс, пробный запуск в октябре 2010 года.
 Швеция: два мультиплекса, полный запуск в ноябре 2010 года.
 Финляндия: пять мультиплексов, пробный запуск в январе 2011 года, полностью — в феврале 2011 года.
 Испания: два мультиплекса, полный запуск в 2010 году.

Россия

DVB-T2 определён как стандарт цифрового эфирного телевидения в рамках Федеральной целевой программы «Развитие телерадиовещания в Российской Федерации на 2009—2018 годы». 16 марта 2012 года решением Государственной комиссии по радиочастотам для вещания в стандарте DVB-T2 приняты к использованию радиочастоты метрового (174—230 МГц) и дециметрового диапазонов частот (470—790 МГц) на 6—12 и 21—60 частотных каналах соответственно.

Единственным исполнителем работ в рамках ФЦП «Развитие телерадиовещания в Российской Федерации на 2009—2018 годы» определена «Российская телевизионная и радиовещательная сеть» (РТРС). Данным государственным оператором организовано вещание двух мультиплексов в стандарте DVB-T2 — РТРС-1 и РТРС-2, осуществляется расширенное вещание (региональный мультиплекс) в Республике Крым и Севастополе. Пакеты каналов, сформированные РТРС, являются бесплатными и открытыми для приёма (FTA), система условного доступа для шифрования сигнала не применяется. В соответствии со стандартом DVB-T2 реализованы бесплатные, социальные цифровые сервисы и услуги: телевидение стандартной чёткости (SDTV), цифровое радио, стереозвук, субтитры, телетекст, телегид, синхронизация времени и даты с цифровым телевещанием. К концу 2018 года РТРС обладала более 5 тысяч объектов и 10  тысяч передатчиков DVB-T2, на 2019 год было запланировано отключение аналогового вещание и переход на DVB-T2, что и произошло 14 октября.

Украина

В 2010 году «Одесский ОРТПЦ» организовал тестовое вещание одного мультиплекса в стандарте DVB-T2, тогда же «Одесский ОРТПЦ» претендовал на общенациональную лицензию провайдера. Однако в 2011 году лицензию оператора цифровой телесети с использованием стандарта DVB-T2 получила лишь одна компания — «Зеонбуд». В 2011—2015 годах данным оператором применялась СУД Irdeto Cloaked CA в рамках концепции Free-to-view. Осуществляется вещание четырёх общенациональных FTA-мультиплексов — «МХ-1», «МХ-2», «МХ-3» и «МХ-5». Мультиплексы состоят из 32 телеканалов, из них — 28 общенациональных и 4 региональных, 10 высокой (HDTV) и 22 стандартной (SDTV) чёткости; стандарт сжатия — MPEG4.

Белоруссия
РУП «Белтелеком» и РУП «Белорусский радиотелевизионный передающий центр» в 2013 году реализовали совместный проект коммерческого цифрового вещания в стандарте DVB-T2 — «2-го мультиплекса» и «3-го мультиплекса» под маркой «ZALA». Эфирная трансляция началась 1 августа 2013 года в городах Березино и Крупки, последние аналоговые передатчики отключили 4 января 2016 года, обеспечив общее покрытие цифровым сигналом 99,45 % домохозяйств страны. В 2016 году РУП «БРТПЦ» реорганизовано путем присоединения к РУП «Белтелеком», которое с этого момента является естественной монополией в эфирном телерадиовещании.

Армения
В ноябре 2014 года в Ереване и близлежащих городах запущено тестовое вещание DVB-T2.

Киргизия

В г. Бишкек и на остальной территории республики осуществляется цифровое эфирное вещание в стандарте DVB-T2.

Таджикистан
На цифровое вещание перешли четыре государственных телеканала Таджикистана — «Шабакаи Аввал» («Первый канал»), «Телевидение Сафина», «Джахоннамо», детский телеканал «Бахористон», а также каналы «Синамо» («Кино») и «Варзиш HD» («Спорт HD»). Эфирное вещание в стандарте DVB-T2 осуществляется в городах Душанбе, Курган-Тюбе, Худжанд, Куляб и Хорог, зона охвата составляет порядка 51 % страны. Кроме того, к цифровому вещанию приступали два независимых телеканала города Худжанда — «Азия» и «СМ-1», позднее отказавшихся от цифрового вещания.

См. также
 DVB-T

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Информация о стандарте DVB-T2 на официальном сайте консорциума DVB
 Информация о стандарте DVB-T2 на официальном сайте ROHDE&SCHWARZ

DVB
Цифровое телевидение
Стандарты телевизионного вещания


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—Richard Nilsen
Tag Archives: drawing
Rock Show
In the summer of 1853, painter John Everett Millais and writer John Ruskin traveled to Brig o'Turk, a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands, with their friend Sir Henry Acland and Ruskin's wife, Effie. The purpose was for Millais to make a portrait of the writer in the rugged landscape.
While Acland held the canvas steady on the rocks and swatted away midges, and Millais painted al fresco, Ruskin himself took to drawing rock formations along the freshet where the painter worked. The large drawing of Gneiss, With its Weeds was the poster art for a 1993 Phoenix Art Museum exhibit, "The Art of Seeing: John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye." I fell in love with the drawing on sight.
It had everything I respond to: texture, detail, close observation and an attention to the world as it is that is as close to love as is possible to hold for the inanimate world. Ruskin was an astonishing draftsman and many of his drawings and watercolors are part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford University. I much prefer his visual art to his writing. Ruskin was probably the most important and influential art critic of the 19th Century, and I find his writing truly insightful, but I would rather crack gravel in my teeth than have to read his prose, which is the heaviest most tedious sort of Victorian fustian possible. Sentence by sentence, lightning flashes; paragraph by paragraph, he is soporific; chapter by chapter, he makes you want to point a pistol at your uvula.
Here is a chapter opening from his Stones of Venice:
You better rehydrate after reading a paragraph like that. Best to take Ruskin in wee small doses and think him a genius. His shorter sentences can be memorable — in a good way.
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance."
And rocks. Stone carved and molded, left striated and torn by time and weather. Many of Ruskin's drawings are of stone, or rocky outcrops.
"It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture," he wrote in Modern Painters. "No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared for his hand by Nature."
Ruskin believed that close attention paid to the things of this world reaped benefits intellectual and spiritual. That a minute inspection of a piece of turf, such as Durer painted, contained all the seeds of a spreading universe. Indeed that questing after spiritual rewards through oneiromancy, divination, crystal ball or thumps under the table, would lead away from the genuine sense of transcendence available from simply paying close attention to the here and now.
He wrote in Modern Painters: "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, — all in one."
Hence his willingness to spend weeks on a simple drawing of an outcropping of gneiss in a watercourse clumped with weeds.
(And weeks not paying attention to Effie, who received her attention from Millais, who also made numerous sketches of her. He painted her sitting beside a waterfall, or quietly sewing, with foxgloves tucked into her hair. He also helped Effie with her own drawings, took long walks with her in the evenings and sheltered with her under a shawl, waiting for the rain to stop. In turn, she read Dante to him. She eventually left Ruskin and, after an embarrassing annulment, married Millais. Embarrassing in that it turned out Ruskin had never consummated his marriage and was actually panicked, on his wedding night to discover that his bride had hair "down there." His beloved Grecian marble goddesses did not. Ah, but they were stone. As for Effie and Millais: They had eight children.)
But back to that 24-by-28-inch drawing. It has stuck with me for all these years. There is something about that smooth-weathered gneiss that ticks a sympathetic spot in my psyche, purely sensuous. I can feel its surface in my imagination, its hardness and texture. The roundnesses of its protuberances. The very temperature of the stone under my fingers.
And in my own work, I have often attempted to mimic its sense of texture and quiddity. I have photographed many a stone face.
Actually, I have been photographing rocks for long before I saw the Ruskin drawing. Some of my earliest remaining images are of rocky landscapes, and the first show I had, almost 40 years ago, was titled, "Rock Water Green."
At first, when I was young and ignorant, I wanted to make stunning landscape photographs. Inspired by the work of Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Paul Caponigro, I wanted to capture the sublime in black and white.
But over time, I became much more interested in using the camera to focus, not the lens, but my attention, and more often, on details rather than grand compositions. That aspect had always been there, but now, it became predominant.
But, because I was working in silver and chemicals, almost all of it was in black and white. The advent of digital gave me an opening to a different way of seeing — in color. Color and black-and-white are completely different things; monochrome emphasizes form and texture while color almost makes you forget the form. Shadows are the jewel of black-and-white and the bane of color — they can leave shapes impenetrably confused. It took a while to become comfortable with the added dimension and new way of seeing. (I haven't given up black-and-white, but now use them for different purposes. I still love the range of grays from glare to inky black.)
And the new dimension changed my approach to photographing stone. At first, I sought out the garish, like these rocks along the Blue Ridge Parkway, stained with iron rust.
And I had the 20th-Century prejudice towards lining things up parallel with my picture plane. I thought of the rock faces as if they were abstract paintings.
These are from Schoodic Point in Maine. I have always been attracted to the textures of the rocks, even when thinking of them as if they were paint on a canvas.
But visiting the Mendenhall Glacier north of Juneau, Alaska, I found the rocks to be, not paintings, but sculptures. The shapes advanced and receded, jutted and sunk, rounded and jagged. And I found myself spending the better part of a morning making a series of images emphasizing their three-dimensionality.
And, instead of the garish color of the rust, I delighted in the subtle blues and grays of the stones, cooler and warmer shades of the stone.
And the texture, wrinkled or scratchy, matte or glossy, is something I don't only see, but feel, as if on the tips of my fingers. Shelley wrote: "The great secret of morals is a going out of ourselves," and art, even so minor a one as my gleanings on the surfaces of stone, is a form of sympathy. When I watch dance, I feel in my muscles the twisting of the dancer's legs. When I hear the swelling of strings in Brahms, I feel it in my chest. When I see the colors in a Monet waterlily, I recognize the world I inhabit. It is not enough to see or hear the art as something separate from oneself; one must not merely recognize oneself in the art, but rather one must feel the unity.
This rock I photograph is me. I don't mean that in any vague New-Age way, but in the real sense that the shapes and colors we share are the stuff of my own realization of myself as part of the cosmos.
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see."
Click on any image to enlarge
What does the world look like?
What does the midday sun look like?
That may sound like a simple question, but it's not. You can't really look at the sun: If you try, the result is sensory overload, like the distortion of loud music on cheap speakers. You can even go blind, rather quickly.
Yet, everyone thinks he knows what the sun looks like. It's everywhere in art, beginning with the tempera paintings kids make in elementary school: They so often put a wedge of sun in the corner of the painting, with rays spread out below like sea urchin spines.
But the sun doesn't look like that: The child's version of the sun is a symbolic representation of the solar disk.
But then, so are all adult representations.
So we also recognize the gilt centrifugal rays of Louis XIV's Sun King symbol and the terra cotta sun face of Mexico and the red ball and rays of the World War II Japanese "Rising Sun" naval ensign.
The sun is the paradigm of art problems, because it can never be portrayed accurately as it looks. Paint cannot be so bright.
But that doesn't stop artists from attempting it. Van Gogh painted the solar disk over and over in his landscapes. Usually, the sun is a yellow circle surrounded by concentric brushstrokes in a darker ocher. The only way he could make the sun seem bright was by making the sky unnaturally dark.
Ansel Adams had a photograph he called The Black Sun, in which a long exposure caused the image of the sun to solarize, making it a dark dot in the picture, surrounded by a halo of rays. It looks almost like an eclipse photo.
Ansel Adams' "Black Sun"
In Picasso's Guernica, the sun is an edgy elliptical disk with spiked rays, in the middle of which is a light bulb.
Each of these is an attempt to portray something that cannot be portrayed.
On a piece of paper or a canvas, the brightest white is no more than 40 times brighter than the deepest black. In the Arizona summer, the sun is thousands of times brighter than the shadow under a mesquite. A canvas just cannot accommodate that brightness range. We compress that range and accept it.
But the emotional effect of the sun's brightness is just as hard to portray. When artists attempt it, they have to leave the realm of naturalism and create a fiction, a symbol for the sun instead of its snapshot.
So, what does the world look like? The sun is only one minor example of the complexity of this question. It is a question that has been at the core of art for 30,000 years and has still not been answered in any finality.
The problem in formulating an answer is that human perception is both so complex — scientists keep finding more astonishing whirligigs in the brain's apparatus — and at the same time, so universally believed simple. We all have eyes; and seeing, after all, is believing.
We see with our eyes, most people think. The world looks the way a photograph makes it look.
But of course, we don't see with our eyes, but with our brains – and even more difficult, with our minds, which means we see through the haze of emotions, culture and individual life experience. We so thoroughly process the data that our eyes collect that the final result barely matches the patterns on the tickled retina.
Seeing doesn't just happen; it is a complex mental process. And it is a learned process, as any of hundreds of studies have confirmed. One of the ways it is learned is through art — or, to use the more modern term, through media.
Which is why, until the Modernist revolution in this century, artists concerned themselves with attempting to accurately depict the world around them.
It was to this end that such men as Leon Battista Alberti and Filippo Brunelleschi attempted in the 15th century to devise a mathematical formula for creating the illusion of three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional canvas. The linear perspective they created became the mother tongue of European painting for four centuries.
But perspective wasn't the only question: We've all seen the obsessive drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, attempting to get down on paper the swirl of water in motion.
Or Michelangelo's attempts to show every anatomical muscle under the marble skin of his statuary.
The Italian Renaissance was so thorough in its quest for realism, and so successful, in contrast to the Romanesque and Gothic art that came before it, that we have on some level considered the question answered ever since: This is what the world looks like.
Yet, it isn't so. There are gross distortions built into perspective: Its grid of parallel lines is pure fiction. Leonardo's water looks more like masonry than fluid, and Michelangelo's muscles are a little too manic to be visually true.
Yet, the schematic system of image-making they came up with was so persuasive that we still accept the look of it.
Photographs, for instance, which are often taken for the ultimate in realism, are actually made through lenses carefully designed to mimic Renaissance perspective. Rectilinear imagery doesn't happen naturally.
No art is ultimately realistic. What we tend to call realistic art, whether it is 200 years old and hanging on a museum wall, or hanging in the "starving artist" corner of your shopping mall, is more properly called "conventional" art. It partakes of the conventions of art that we have, for the moment, accepted.
But those conventions are just as stylized – just as unrealistic – as the "King Tut" angular figures on an Egyptian frieze, or the misty landscapes on Chinese scrolls.
Take any so-called realistic piece of art and ask just how like life it might be.
When a British cleric, Dr. Thomas Church, visited Rome in 1816, he sat to have his portrait drawn by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, one of the leading French artists of the time. The 6- by 8-inch pencil drawing Ingres made is now owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It is a drawing almost everyone would call a realistic likeness. Certainly, if you knew the drawing, you could have picked out Church from a police lineup.
Ingres' Dr. Thomas Church
Yet, the drawing is realistic in only a conventional sense; we are so used to those conventions, we don't even think about them. We are fish, the conventions are water. It almost seems silly if I point them out. But it isn't silly; it is profoundly important for us to think about them.
First of all, I doubt the good reverend was only 15 inches tall, as he is in the drawing, or would be if he stood up and his legs hadn't been cut off by the edge of the paper. We have no trouble believing that a small likeness is realistic, any more than we have trouble with Georgia O'Keeffe's larger-than-life flowers.
Second, Church probably had a little more color in his cheeks than in this monochrome drawing. We accept black and white as realistic.
We even accept his high-collared coat as black because we know such coats, even though in the drawing, it is the same blank-paper color as his nose and cheek.
Third, the real doctor was three-dimensional; the drawing is not. We could walk around the real person and see his back; the verso of the drawing is just blank paper.
Then, too, the real person moved and the drawing is frozen still.
The real person moved through time, too. It should also be noted that the drawing still exists; the same cannot be said for the good cleric. Ars longa, vita brevis.
The real person made noise — I cannot imagine such a cleric not talking constantly, even prattling. The only noise the drawing can make is a crinkling sound if you were to crush it in your hands — a sound to draw the immediate attention of the museum guard, no doubt, but not exactly conversation.
The drawing also has no odor of humanity about it. Then, too, the drawing is made up of pencil lines. Examine as you will the world around you, you will not discover lines in it that outline the borders of objects. The use of line in drawing is one of the most persistent, and least realistic conventions.
And the last thing I'll mention: There is a frame, an edge of the picture that cuts off the bottom half of the good reverend. Real experience does not come with a frame line.
All these things we look right past and accept the drawing as an accurate rendering of reality. I'm sure you can come up with a dozen other hidden conventions I have passed over. But that is the power of convention. And it is all the more reason we should be concerned with the question: What does the world look like?
A century of Modernism has taught us not to ask such a question, and we have largely bought into the propaganda. Instead of asking the question, "What does the world look like, from the time of Cezanne on, art has primarily asked, "What does art look like?" When a visitor looked at one of Jackson Pollock's swirls of paint drippings, he asked, wondering what the picture's subject might be, "What is it?" Pollock answered, "A painting." He wasn't just being cute. All of art critical theory at the time asked us to consider the effects of colors against other colors, forms against form, line against line.
But as great as some of the century's art is, the overall effect is of a mirror held up to a mirror. It is intentionally mute: "Music can express nothing," said the arch-Modernist composer Igor Stravinsky. He was wrong, but he summed up this century's own unacknowledged provincialism.
Art must regain its connection with the life we live. There is no better way to do this than attempt to answer the basic question about the appearance of the world.
For seeing is active, not passive. It is something we do, not something that happens to us. Each generation must keep up this dialogue with the world.
It is still a noble goal of art: to discover the difference between the schematic and the mimetic, between convention and experience — between what is and what has to be.
To parse it all out.
What is called Postmodernism doesn't effectively do this. If Modernism is a mirror looking at a mirror, what has followed is a TV set looking at a TV set.
A generation of media-savvy savants has created an art that is self-referential, and its main reference is The Brady Bunch.
I am certainly not calling for artists to imitate the look of Norman Rockwell. I hope I have made clear that Rockwell is not realistic.
I am calling for artists to take a really close look at the world around them — actually, I am calling for them to love the world, to caress the things of the world with their eyes.
The most effective way of doing that is to draw. Not until you have drawn something have you really seen it, felt its texture in your mind, tasted its color on front and back of tongue, known its shape and the shape of the air around it.
You can see this in Ingres' drawing again. The coat, the pose, the chair arm — they are all merely conventional. But look at the eyes. They fairly swell with life, there is a softness to the bags underneath, a bristliness to the eyebrows and a live intensity to their gaze. The eyes are the animated center of the drawing, a jewel in a supportive setting.
In the coat, one sees the artist's training; in the eyes, his connection with the world. There is no doubt which is more important.
So I ask the question of artists, what does the world look like?
Take take just one of those issues: motion, for instance. In the early Renaissance, it was not unusual to repeat a figure several times in a painting, depicting action as it is shown in the frames of a comic strip – showing the same figure in different parts of the frame at different moments in the action.
One depicts Salome dancing in one part of the picture and John the Baptist in his cell in another. Another corner of the picture shows John bent over the block with an executioner's ax raised over his head and a final portion has Salome watching John's head on a platter.
Even God appears twice, from front and back, in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Creation.
An entire century of art grappled with this problem as Baroque artists painted violent action at its most unstable point in time, suggesting the motion even when the figures are still as statuary.
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase is an attempt to portray the motion itself.
Jackson Pollock's action paintings are visually active with the result of the painter's own motion.
Jean Tinguely created kinetic sculpture that actually did move.
Which of these is most "realistic"?
The depiction of visual reality is only one of the purposes of art, but it is a great and noble purpose that has been in eclipse as artists have been seduced by the cleverness of conceptual art.
As though the problem of mimesis in art had somehow been solved, freeing us for other endeavors.
But every time an artist picks up a pencil and tries to get the proportions of a figure right, every time an artist mixes a rose madder with an alizarin crimson to match the color of a landscape, she is tackling the biggest and most intractable question of art.
Looking is hard work, worthy work for an artist.
The sun streams in through the window, I go to it, look out at the world beyond and wonder what it looks like.
Astonish us.
About Richard Nilsen
Richard Nilsen made a living out of having opinions. He was born in New Jersey and handed down one of his first significant opinions by leaving.
He was art critic with "The Arizona Republic" from 1986 to 2012 and is proud of the fact that he was never shot at, although he was once hanged in effigy by "Western Horseman" magazine after a nasty review of Cowboy Art. Since 2005, he was also the classical music, opera, dance, architecture and back-up movie critic.
"It's all connected," he says.
But newspaper work is only one of a long and eclectic series of jobs and "life positions."
He has been a truck driver, a book packer, a sales clerk. He has taught crime-scene photography to police cadets. He has worked at the Seattle zoo and as writer and editor on a Black weekly newspaper in Greensboro, N.C. He has been both a bum and a department head in a 2-year college, where he taught photography and art history.
He once lived for a year in a coal bin.
He graduated from Guilford College in North Carolina in 1970, but when asked about his credentials, is more likely to mention the zoo.
He now lives in Asheville, NC.
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