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Which of the following is true about computer generated imagery CGI?
Ben Davis September 10, 2020
Was a popular technique used by animator Tim Burton with this animation technique objects puppets are made by the artist and each time they are moved the artist photographs them instead of drawing them?
Are transparent sheets of film on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional hand drawn animation?
What is the meaning of value?
What is the shortest meaning of value?
What is values in simple words?
What is values in your own words?
What are examples of value?
What is value and example?
Why are values important give 5 reasons?
What is the value in math mean?
What are the 6 core values?
What are your values in life?
What are core values of a company?
What are your most important values?
Why is it important to value human life?
What is the importance of value education?
Which of the following is true about Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)? The computer automatically generate the images in between each frame, Even with CGI, animators still need to use and understand basic animation skills, The final product is provided by the computer in the form of pixels.
The correct answer is D. stop motion animation. It's called stop motion because you make an illusion of a motion by moving and stopping the characters and then reshooting.
A cel is a transparent sheet of film on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional hand drawn animation. With cel animation , Individual cels are drawn for every one or two frames of motion.
Value has to do with how much something is worth, either in terms of cash or importance. As a verb, it means "holding something in high regard," (like "I value our friendship") but it can also mean "determine how much something is worth," like a prize valued at $200.
Values in a narrow sense is that which is good, desirable, or worthwhile. Values are the motive behind purposeful action. value = worth
Values are individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or another. They serve as a guide for human behavior. Generally, people are predisposed to adopt the values that they are raised with. People also tend to believe that those values are "right" because they are the values of their particular culture.
Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions. They help us to determine what is important to us. Values in a narrow sense is that which is good, desirable, or worthwhile. Values are the motive behind purposeful action
Here are some examples of core values from which you may wish to choose:
Dependability.
Reliability.
Loyalty.
Commitment.
Open-mindedness.
Consistency.
Honesty.
Efficiency.
Familiar examples of values are wealth, loyalty, independence, equality, justice, fraternity and friendliness. Familiar examples of values are wealth, loyalty, independence, equality, justice, fraternity and friendliness.
Our values inform our thoughts, words and actions. Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience. The decisions we make are a reflection of our values and beliefs, and they are always directed towards a specific purpose
In math, value is a number signifying the result of a calculation or function. So, in the example above, you could tell your teacher that the value of 5 x 6 is 30 or the value of x + y if x = 6 and y = 3 is 9. Value can also refer to a variable or constant. A constant is a fixed or well-defined number
Six core values of the social work profession
Social justice.
Dignity and worth of the person.
Importance of human relationships.
Competence.
Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work. When the things that you do and the way you behave match your values, life is usually good – you're satisfied and content. But when these don't align with your personal values, that's when things feel… wrong.
In essence, your company values are the beliefs, philosophies, and principles that drive your business. They impact the employee experience you deliver as well as the relationship you develop with your customers, partners, and shareholders
29 Most Important Values To Life By
Courage. Courage is about doing what you believe needs to be done — not in the absence of fear but in spite of it.
Kindness. Kindness is about treating others the way you want to be treated.
Gratitude / Appreciation.
Forgiveness.
Growth.
Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience. Every individual and every organization is involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. That purpose is the satisfaction of our individual or collective (organizational) needs
Value-based education is essential to develop an individual and help him/her lifelong in many ways: It gives a positive direction to the students to shape their future and even helps them to know the purpose of their life.
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United States Manchester City FC Premier League Tottenham Hotspur FC West Ham United FC Canada Olympic Team FC Girondins de Bordeaux Ligue 1 Brazil National Soccer Team Christine Sinclair Sophie Rhys-Jones Deanne Rose Ashley Lawrence Nichelle Prince Allysha Chapman Janine Beckie Jessie Fleming Kadeisha Buchanan Shelina Zadorsky Desiree Scott Sophie Schmidt Sports Women's soccer Soccer Women's sports Olympic games Professional soccer Men's soccer Men's sports International soccer
Christine Sinclair leads Canadian team for the Olympics
By ANNE M. PETERSON - Jun. 23, 2021 02:53 PM EDT
Thorns forward Christine Sinclair (#12) scores on a penalty kick to give the Portland Thorns a 2-0 lead over the Chicago Red Stars in an NWSL match at Providence Park on Sunday, May 16, 2021. (Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP)
Christine Sinclair, who holds the all-time record for international goals among both men and women, leads Canada's roster for the Olympics.
Coach Bev Priestman named her 18-player squad for the Tokyo Games on Wednesday. The Canadian women are making their fourth straight Olympic appearance and have won back-to-back bronze medals.
As captain of the Canadian team, Sinclair is making her fourth Olympic appearance. She has appeared in 15 overall Olympic matches, scoring 11 goals.
At the 2016 Brazil Games, Sinclair scored the game winner in a 2-1 victory over Brazil for the bronze.
"The Olympic Games have played an important part in the history of Canada Soccer's Women's National Team, and I am looking forward to do whatever I can to help take this team back to the podium and make history again," she said in a statement. "Our team is in good spot, we are excited, we are hungry, and we are ready to go."
Sinclair, 38, has 186 goals in 299 appearances with the national team. Her club team is the Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League.
Included on Canada's roster is Quinn, a midfielder who came out as transgender and nonbinary last year. Quinn is making a second Olympic appearance.
Priestman also named four alternates to the roster: Jordyn Huitema, Sophie Schmidt, Gabrielle Carle and goalkeeper Erin McLeod.
"Ultimately, what it came down to for me is that good feel of who I think can go and change the color of the medal," Priestman said during a conference call with reporters. "And that's the team that I got to. But as you can tell, it definitely wasn't easy, which is a credit to all the players."
Canada's Olympic roster by position, with club affiliation:
CANADA ROSTER
Goalkeepers: Stephanie Labbé (Rosengard), Kailen Sheridan (Gotham).
Defenders: Kadeisha Buchanan (Lyon), Vanessa Gilles (Girondins de Bordeaux) Shelina Zadorsky (Tottenham Hotspur) Allysha Chapman (Houston Dash), Ashley Lawrence (Paris Saint-Germain), Jayde Riviere (University of Michigan).
Midfielders: Jessie Fleming (Chelsea), Julia Grosso (University of Texas), Quinn (Reign), Desiree Scott (Kansas City NWSL).
Forward: Janine Beckie (Manchester City), Adriana Leon (West Ham United), Nichelle Prince (Houston Dash), Deanne Rose (University of Florida), Christine Sinclair (Portland Thorns), Evelyne Viens (Gotham).

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I've decided to start something new this week for Meal Pinning Monday. Instead of just linking up meal plans I'd love for you to link up your recipes! I'll pin them to my boards and feature the recipes I cook the following week on Meal Pinning Monday.
I'm going out of town to Women of Faith in Houston this weekend, so Jeremy is going to be left to fend for himself. Not that he can't, he often reminds me I don't have to cook so much. Anyway, that's why this is a short meal plan week.
I've wanted to make these two recipes forever, especially since I rarely make pasta anymore and rarely eat bread. Sunday's are always so crazy so Saturday night I just had to get Jeremy to agree that I could cook and we wouldn't go out. Y'all I'm not kidding you when I say I've been dying to make the Hot Tomato Oil since I saw it on Food Network.
Monday - Sausage, Sweet Potatoes, Bell Pepper, and Onion Skillet. (no recipe just tossing it together.
Saturday - Coming back late so who knows.
I haven't made my hummus recipe since Jeremy and I were engaged (the man doesn't like hummus) and I've got a massive hankering for it. If I get it just right I may post it... but like I said it's been almost 5 years.


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package org.apache.toree.magic.builtin

import java.io.OutputStream
import java.net.URL
import java.nio.file.{FileSystems, Files}

import org.apache.toree.interpreter.Interpreter
import org.apache.toree.magic.dependencies.{IncludeConfig, IncludeOutputStream, IncludeInterpreter, IncludeSparkContext}
import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.toree.plugins.PluginManager
import org.scalatest.{Matchers, FunSpec}
import org.scalatest.mock.MockitoSugar
import org.mockito.Mockito._
import org.mockito.Matchers._

class AddJarSpec extends FunSpec with Matchers with MockitoSugar {
  describe("AddJar"){
    describe("#execute") {
      it("should call addJar on the provided SparkContext and addJars on the " +
         "provided interpreter") {
        val mockSparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
        val mockInterpreter = mock[Interpreter]
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        val mockPluginManager = mock[PluginManager]
        val testConfig = ConfigFactory.load()

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeConfig
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSparkContext
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockInterpreter
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
          override lazy val pluginManager: PluginManager = mockPluginManager
          override val config = testConfig
          override def downloadFile(fileUrl: URL, destinationUrl: URL): URL =
            new URL("file://someFile") // Cannot mock URL
        }

        addJarMagic.execute("""http://www.example.com/someJar.jar""")

        verify(mockSparkContext).addJar(anyString())
        verify(mockInterpreter).addJars(any[URL])
        verify(mockPluginManager, times(0)).loadPlugins(any())
      }

      it("should raise exception if jar file does not end in .jar or .zip") {
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeOutputStream
        {
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
        }

        intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
          addJarMagic.execute("""http://www.example.com/""")
        }
        intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
          addJarMagic.execute("""http://www.example.com/not_a_jar""")
        }
      }

      it("should extract jar file name from jar URL") {
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeOutputStream
        {
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
        }

        var url = """http://www.example.com/someJar.jar"""
        var jarName = addJarMagic.getFileFromLocation(url)
        assert(jarName == "someJar.jar")

        url = """http://www.example.com/remotecontent?filepath=/path/to/someJar.jar"""
        jarName = addJarMagic.getFileFromLocation(url)
        assert(jarName == "someJar.jar")

        url = """http://www.example.com/"""
        jarName = addJarMagic.getFileFromLocation(url)
        assert(jarName == "")
      }

      it("should use a cached jar if the force option is not provided") {
        val mockSparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
        val mockInterpreter = mock[Interpreter]
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        var downloadFileCalled = false  // Used to verify that downloadFile
                                        // was or was not called in this test
        val testConfig = ConfigFactory.load()

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeConfig
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSparkContext
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockInterpreter
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
          override val config = testConfig
          override def downloadFile(fileUrl: URL, destinationUrl: URL): URL = {
            downloadFileCalled = true
            new URL("file://someFile") // Cannot mock URL
          }
        }

        // Create a temporary file representing our jar to fake the cache
        val tmpFilePath = Files.createTempFile(
          FileSystems.getDefault.getPath(AddJar.getJarDir(testConfig)),
          "someJar",
          ".jar"
        )

        addJarMagic.execute(
          """http://www.example.com/""" + tmpFilePath.getFileName)

        tmpFilePath.toFile.delete()

        downloadFileCalled should be (false)
        verify(mockSparkContext).addJar(anyString())
        verify(mockInterpreter).addJars(any[URL])
      }

      it("should not use a cached jar if the force option is provided") {
        val mockSparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
        val mockInterpreter = mock[Interpreter]
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        var downloadFileCalled = false  // Used to verify that downloadFile
                                        // was or was not called in this test
        val testConfig = ConfigFactory.load()

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeConfig
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSparkContext
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockInterpreter
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
          override val config = testConfig
          override def downloadFile(fileUrl: URL, destinationUrl: URL): URL = {
            downloadFileCalled = true
            new URL("file://someFile") // Cannot mock URL
          }
        }

        // Create a temporary file representing our jar to fake the cache
        val tmpFilePath = Files.createTempFile(
          FileSystems.getDefault.getPath(AddJar.getJarDir(testConfig)),
          "someJar",
          ".jar"
        )

        addJarMagic.execute(
          """-f http://www.example.com/""" + tmpFilePath.getFileName)

        tmpFilePath.toFile.delete()

        downloadFileCalled should be (true)
        verify(mockSparkContext).addJar(anyString())
        verify(mockInterpreter).addJars(any[URL])
      }

      it("should add magic jar to magicloader and not to interpreter and spark"+
         "context") {
        val mockSparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
        val mockInterpreter = mock[Interpreter]
        val mockOutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        val mockPluginManager = mock[PluginManager]
        val testConfig = ConfigFactory.load()

        val addJarMagic = new AddJar
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeConfig
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSparkContext
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockInterpreter
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mockOutputStream
          override lazy val pluginManager: PluginManager = mockPluginManager
          override val config = testConfig
          override def downloadFile(fileUrl: URL, destinationUrl: URL): URL =
            new URL("file://someFile") // Cannot mock URL
        }

        addJarMagic.execute(
          """--magic http://www.example.com/someJar.jar""")

        verify(mockPluginManager).loadPlugins(any())
        verify(mockSparkContext, times(0)).addJar(anyString())
        verify(mockInterpreter, times(0)).addJars(any[URL])
      }
    }
  }
}

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Borgata Costa 17 33090 Castelnovo del Friuli (PN) +39 328 6681 121 spcvs@libero.it 1 Dom 15:30-18:30; 3 Sab 15:30-18:30
Raccolta archeologica di Villa Sulis
La ceramica di Castelnovo
The archaeological collection of Villa Sulis
La Raccolta
Villa Sulis
L'associazione Scuola per la ceramica di Villa Sulis
Fiesta des Scugjelutes
The Establishment of the Archaeological Collection
The first official report of the discovery of ceramic finds around the area of the Crûz hill near Madonna dello Zucco, in Castelnovo del Friuli, dates back to the Seventies. After meticulous research, the Friulian scholar Luigi Ciceri found a series of pottery fragments which subsequently became the collection which bore his name when it was on exhibit at the Civic Art Museum of Pordenone. Because of this find, and thanks to a renewed climate of interest in the scientific community towards post-medieval archaeology, the then Soprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali, Architettonici, Artistici, Archeologici e Storici of Friuli Venezia Giulia decided to investigate the Crûz area with a series of archaeological exploratory trenches. Between October 26 and November 2, 1982, the operations directed by the archaeologist Paola Lopreato brought to light over 5000 fragments of ceramic artefacts, datable to the period between the middle and the end of the sixteenth century. The excavation and study of the finds allowed the discovery in Castelnovo to be qualified as one of the most significant archaeological pottery finds linked to a context of production in this period in the Pordenone foothill area.
Sgraffito slipware basins and a sherd decorated with a female portrait
The vision of Castelnovo del Friuli's municipal Administration and the fruitful collaboration with the Soprintendenza have made possible the exhibition of Scodelle, La ceramica di Castelnovo del Friuli, or "Ceramic bowls. The Ceramics of Castelnovo del Friuli" in the Cultural Center of Villa Sulis in Costa. The volume Magistri Scodelari. Produzioni ceramiche a Castelnovo del Friuli nel Cinquecento, or "Master Potters. Ceramic Production in Castelnovo del Friuli in the Sixteenth Century" edited by Serena Vitri and Paolo Casadio, came out in 2001. That year there was also the fifth conference of "Ceramics Archeometry: the production of lead-glazed pottery in Italy" (IRTC – CNR Faenza; Soprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali, Architettonici, Artistici, Archeologici e Storici of Friuli Venezia Giulia; Municipality of Castelnovo). It wasn't until 2018, however, thanks to the current municipal Administration and with the consent of the Soprintendenza of Friuli Venezia Giulia, that the ceramics of Castelnovo were in fact returned to their community, through the establishment and formalization of the Raccolta archeologica di Villa Sulis, La ceramica di Castelnovo "The Archaeological Collection of Villa Sulis, The Ceramics of Castelnovo". The Collection is regularly open to the public and is at the center of numerous cultural initiatives.
Not Just Discarded Pieces
The archaeological Collection of Villa Sulis is deeply representative of the territory of Castelnovo because it describes the cultural soul and the historical identity of the community, which has traditionally been linked to the various aspects of pottery production for centuries. It is a unique example of a homogeneous collection that is inextricably part of the land itself, giving it a rightful claim to be the pride of the community and taken care of by the people themselves .
The archaeological excavations allowed archaeologists to identify a substantial deposit of ceramic material of over 5000 fragments, of which only a part could be recovered. The abundance of material found can be attributed to manufacturing waste, that is to objects in a finished or semi-finished state, identifiable as waste produced by the activity of craft workshops. The finds are but a small part of a broader context of pottery production, which currently cannot be defined as to its precise location or scale of production, given that no traces of productive structures have been found, but only elements that make it possible to recognize the Crûz deposit as a probable dumping ground of discarded material. Based on the data obtained from the study of the materials, the finds can however be considered representative of local production active between the middle and the end of the sixteenth century.
The Castellan production seems to have specialized in tableware and items for domestic use made on a potter's wheel. The presence of flatware is predominant, such as plates, bowls and basins.
Discarded bowls and spacing tripod
The scientific value of the findings included in the collection and, in general, of the entire ceramic corpus found, is considerable. These materials provide us with valuable information not only about the technical aspects of the activity of production of a craft workshop, but also about the diffusion of formal and decorative typologies and the characteristics of local production, which has helped to develop the area of Castelnovo.
Le foto dei reperti di proprietà dello Stato sono pubblicate su autorizzazione del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Sito realizzato con il contributo del Consorzio dei Comuni del Bacino Imbrifero Montano del Tagliamento appartenenti alla Provincia di Udine e Pordenone
Borgata Costa 17 - 33090 Castelnovo Del Friuli (PN)
email: spcvs@libero.it
La raccolta archeologica di Villa Sulis è visitabile:
la prima domenica del mese per tutto l'anno;
il terzo sabato del mese da aprile a settembre;
Sono disponibili visite guidate e laboratori.
Venerdì medievale
Il Gno Ort 2019
L'orto in tavola


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HomeAuckland Fringe FestivalPREVIEW: Basement Theatre Season of Duration (Auckland Fringe)
PREVIEW: Basement Theatre Season of Duration (Auckland Fringe)
by Nathan Joe
February 25, 2020 Nathan Joe Auckland Fringe Festival, Theatre Preview
[Time Lords]
Critic and practitioner Nathan Joe previews the five 4-hour long durational shows taking place at Basement Theatre for Auckland Fringe 2020.
With the official announcement of Nisha Madhan as the new programming coordinator of Basement Theatre, it seems appropriate that the 2020 Auckland Fringe Basement Programme (her first Fringe in this position) has her artistic fingerprints all over it. In a continuation of Gabrielle Vincent's established legacy of the annual Basement provocation, Madhan has stepped up to the plate with what might be the fringiest challenge yet: a season of durational theatre.
For those drawing a blank, previous years have included the Basement Salon, 1-on-1 shows, and the Ghent Manifesto. And even if these provocations weren't always about targeting huge audiences, they more than made up for the lack of bums on seats with a sense of artistic risk-taking. And, as someone who has participated in many of these provocations, I think it's safe to say it has become a space where the right provocation acts as a powerful catalyst to create a work that might never have existed otherwise. My own work I Am Rachel Chu certainly would not have been made without the aforementioned Ghent Manifesto.
Our finest and most experienced practitioners of duration-based work are probably Binge Culture, most notably with their six hour Break Up (We Need To Talk). It was a sprawling, adventurous and visibly exhausting piece of theatre, drawing out a semi-improvised (as per the title) break up. I remember witnessing it and responding to it with bewilderment. But, despite my initial reactions, it remains one of the most memorable theatre experiences I've had the pleasure of sitting through. In the gentlest, unexpected ways, it challenged my young theatre-going brain and my notions of what theatre should look, sound and feel like. It "went pretty unnoticed in New Zealand," as Madhan notes, "but blew up in Edinburgh earning a TOTAL theatre award nomination." (Yes that is sort of a big deal.)
The prospect of sitting through that much theatre may seem intimidating to some, but these particular duration-based works are designed for audiences to come and go as they please. Madhan insists that "you quickly become absorbed and addicted to the game. Time runs away with you, believe me. You can barely bear to leave just in case you miss out on something!"
She also hopes that the makers, as much as the audience, get something rich and rewarding out of the experience: "I hope that they find something new. I hope that they take their work around the world. I hope that they come out as bigger, stronger artists that just give zero fucks. I hope that they come out empowered, backing themselves 100%."
If in conventional playwriting narrative is king, because it's about controlling audience expectation, durational performance is about letting go of control entirely. "Exhausting yourself so that you get out of the way of yourself," as Madhan beautifully puts it. "It encourages the kind of vulnerability that you can only experience after running a marathon or arguing all night long. It's more akin to a piece of art in a gallery. The challenge is to let it be. Leave it alone."
And it's safe to say that none of the performances indulge in the expectations of traditional narrative. At most, we have micro-narratives (apologies or infomercials) on repeat. Or a single action stretched out over a period of time (cleaning).
So, what about the shows? There are five of them, all for one night only, that take place over the two week window of Auckland Fringe, all upstairs in the Basement Studio. I briefly interviewed each of the teams for some more details and insights about their productions:
Just One More – Thursday 27 Feb, 6-10pm
Last seen together in Red Leap Theatre's Owls Do Cry and currently featuring in The New Zealand Dance Company's Fragile Planet, performer Arlo Gibson and choreographer Ross McCormack team up again for the amusingly titled Just One More.
It is based on Gibson's experience "practicing art in Auckland and from those around me who feel as though they are stuck in a never ending grind." He describes it as a "cross between a call centre and a motivational conference."
As the team with what might be the highest pedigree, Just One More ensures that the season of duration starts off with a bang. Gibson is one of my personal favourite performers, who has flexed his acting muscles with an impressively broad body of work. He can dance (Owls Do Cry), he can play killer and lover all in one (Court Theatre's The Events), and he is one helluva clown too (Thomus). McCormack has an even more embarrassingly rich CV, being an arts laureate and having worked with the legendary Douglas Wright.
An Open Apology – Friday 28 Feb, 6-10pm
Now I get to introduce my own show, the concept which is taken from my co-creator (and one of the performers) George Fenn's own show How to Apology. I'm directing the show and have a pretty decent track record as an award-winning playwright. And Fenn is a talented improv artist with more than a handful of solo shows under his belt.
The premise is simple: using a series of prompts, three actors attempt to apologise for any and every scenario you can think of over four hours. The situations I've composed are a little outside the box, containing some of the usual suspects as well as some left-field ones. The result is a sort of guided improvisation. I almost guarantee it is going to be funny, moving and even a little bit shocking. At worst, you will leave the show with a better insight on how these three people tick. At best, you might leave inspired to pick up the phone and call an old friend. Come for the catharsis or stay for the schadenfreude.
The other performers, Ravikanth Gurunathan (A Fine Balance, Take the Crown) and fellow Theatre Scenes critic-director Rachael Longshaw-Park (An Organ of Soft Tissue, Dr Drama Makes a Show) are also no slouches either.
Jelly Baby – Saturday 29 Feb, 6-10pm
Featuring a bath full of jelly and a confrontation with fatphobia, Alice Kiker's Jelly Baby has the distinctly rebellious and experimental nature of the fringiest of Fringe shows. It's performance art meeting theatre in the ways that the Basement has become more well known for over the last few years, moving further and further away from the programming of narrative dramas.
Kirker promises an "insight into the fat experience. And hopefully some glorious fat folk will get to see themselves represented and feel great about that… I think people have responded really well to the idea of making a show about Fat. That word is still a controversial one, and carries a lot of weight, and so for people to see it used in such an outright way has definitely created a little buzz."
Her company The Oddballs, premiered their work Fleshies last year. Jelly Baby strikes me as a continuation of that work, though zoomed in on Kirker's specific experience and body, then elongated over a four hour period for added effect. The body as an autobiography.
The Infomercial Project – Friday 6 March, 6-10pm
Suzanne Paul meets Julia Croft
If that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will. The Infomercial Project was originally devised under the mentorship of genre-shaping theatremaker Julia Croft during the team's time studying at The Actor's Program. What originated in a ten-minute format has now been stretched into a delicious four hours. It sounds simple enough: two actors perform an infomercial over and over for four hours.
The effect repetition has on performance might be the most exposed and exciting element here. Like watching an acting exercise on crack, it probably invites before and after photos of the cast the most of any of the duration shows. Director Jordan Dickson says audiences should expect to see "two individuals surrendering to the monotonous chaos of capitalism and relishing in the madness.
As someone who gets intensely nostalgic flashbacks to late nights watching infomercials, I can't wait to see how his cast unravel.
Cleaning the Room – Saturday 7 March, 6 to 10pm
I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write… and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning… it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.
Inspired by the Clarissa Pinkola Estes' quote above, Cleaning the Room has a meditative sounding quality to it. If the preceding duration performances seem to invite chaos or confrontation, this one seems absolutely Zen Buddhist by comparison. The ideal palette cleanser to anyone brave enough to do all five shows.
Olivia Mahood (co-creator alongside Poppy Serano) says, "In some ways, the audience faces a similar challenge to that of the performer. It is an exercise in staying with something for a long time, sometimes beyond comfort."
Think Youtube cleaning montage videos with a deeply existential twist.
Talking to some of the artists, concerns over the sellability of the four hour duration has proved somewhat tricky. This is art that is inherently anti-profit and anti-clickbait. This is art that asks you to sit down, slow down. It might not have the bells and whistles of a big theatre event, but it certainly feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Who knows when a provocation like this will come again? I certainly have concerns that it'll simply pass audiences by unnoticed, but maybe I'll end how I began, by calling on Basement Programming Coordinator Nisha Madhan's very own words:
"I hope that Auckland audiences don't do that Auckland thing where they only watch their friends, or sit at home lamenting a lack of cool, interesting stuff to go to and experience, when it's right here. It's under your nose. Get out of the house, support independent artists, experience something new. What's the worst that could happen?!"
Basement Theatre Season of Duration begins this Thursday 27 March. Each show runs from 6pm to 10pm, and audiences can come and go as they like.
An Open Apology
Auckland Fringe 2020
Basement Theatre
Cleaning the Room
Jelly Baby
The Infomercial Project
REVIEW: My Kuia (Basement Theatre)
REVIEW: Homeless Economics (Auckland Fringe)


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Life after Radford with Hamish Podger (Class of 1995)
"The world changes so rapidly (such as what we are experiencing now), don't think that Year 12 is your year to have your whole life sorted out – it isn't. You need to have an open mindset, be flexible and passionate about your choices", says Hamish.
This week the Radford College teaching team were fortunate to have Hamish Podger (class of 1995) take them through the functionalities of Microsoft Teams due to the increased demands for online learning. If you do not know what Microsoft Teams is, it is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines workplace chat, video meetings, file storage, and application integration.
In light of the current circumstances, the move to online has not been more important than it is at the moment, not just for our teachers and students but for organisations globally.
Hamish shared that Microsoft globally reported a 40% increase Microsoft Teams usage over the last few weeks due to the global pandemic caused by the Coronavirus. This information was shared Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella who Hamish says is a person that is continuously on a mission to help people and is the person that inspires him the most, he added that Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer, Amy Hood is formidable in her role and is one of the most passionate speakers.
Hamish said that it was not easy to decide what he wanted to do when he completed his final year of study at Radford. Hamish attended University but found the first-year difficult navigating from what was a structured environment at Radford to a "it's your choice whether or not you do the work" environment. His advice to current students is: The world changes so rapidly (such as what we are experiencing now), don't think that Year 12 is your year to have your whole life sorted out – it isn't. You need to have an open mindset, be flexible and passionate about your choices.
Hamish shared that he wasn't the kid that liked going to school but developed great friendships with the Facilities and Radford teaching staff – he shared a story about Mr Willets. Hamish recalls when he was in Year 7, Mr Willets (French and German teacher) would say to disruptive students "half a page" which was his punishment to the students, the next student that was disruptive would be told "one page", then the next, "one and a half pages" and so on and so on until the students finally got the message that they would be completing a number of pages on a topic that Mr Willet decided on should their behaviour not improve. Hamish was so surprised to see that Mr Willet's had actually filed all those "disruptive" written essays and returned them to the students on their final days at Radford in Year 12. "The fact that Mr Willets kept those essays was extraordinary", said Hamish.
Hamish said that he remains in contact with many of his Radford friends, naming just a few Matthew Potter, Elizabeth White and Gajanan Ravichandra (all class of 1995).
Pictured is Hamish and I having our chat for this news article – you can see that Hamish is in the Oval Office which is just one of the many cool features of Microsoft Teams that will be available soon. Other features of Microsoft Teams is being able to blur the background when you are conducting face to face meetings and that the platform Hamish added can be used on any device making our communication and connection with others just that little bit easier whilst we are all in isolation.
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While strategic analysts in India are debating the extent and consequences of the Chinese presence in Gilgit Baltistan (Pakistan occupied Kashmir – PoK), a legal battle is being waged across the Line of Control (LoC), which is relevant to India's claim on PoK. A petition recently filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan challenges the authority and jurisdiction of the Government of Pakistan on Gilgit Baltistan. The petition has been filed by Dr. Ghulam Abbas, a resident of Gilgit and chairman of the Gilgit Baltistan National Movement.
The current crisis began after the appointment of a retired Judge, who is not a native of Gilgit Baltistan, as the Chief Justice of the Gilgit Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court. This was the second such instance where the local population had objected to the appointment of a judge to this position. The petitioner demanded that Article 60(5, 6) and 60(8) of the Self Governance Order be declared null and void. These specific clauses invest absolute authority in the Chairman of the Gilgit Baltistan Council, i.e. the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and virtually the Government of Pakistan, to make such appointments.
The Supreme Court not only admitted the petition, but also in very clear terms asked the Attorney General whether it was possible for the President of Pakistan (under Article 248 of the Pakistani constitution) to issue such political orders for Gilgit Baltistan. To this the Attorney General replied that since Gilgit Baltistan does not have a direct representation in the federal government, the President issued the order on behalf of the government.
Gilgit Baltistan (till 2009 it was referred to as the Northern Areas by the Government of Pakistan) does not find mention in the Constitution of Pakistan and it is neither independent nor has a provincial status. This huge territory, part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, has been under Pakistan's control since 1947. It is currently governed by the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order introduced by the Pakistan government in August 2009. The package was introduced mainly to assuage the prevailing feeling of neglect among the people of the region, and made nominal changes in the political system such as restoring the original nomenclature of Gilgit Baltistan, which was one of the long standing demands of the local population. Currently, the region has an elected assembly and a council headed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. This council wields all the powers and controls the resources and revenue accrued from the region. Added to this, the government of the region is under the overall control of the federal ministry of the Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan (KAGB).
It was in this context that the petition was filed and the Supreme Court bench asked the federal government and the Ministry of KAGB to provide a report on the political status of Gilgit Baltistan within a period of 15 days.
The petition has unleashed an animated debate in the political circles in Gilgit Baltistan. The issue dominated the proceedings of the region's Legislative Assembly in the following days. Legislators articulated their views by putting forward two viable options: either the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order be given some kind of a legal cover, or the region be given the status of the so-called AJK (Azad Jammu & Kashmir) which is ruled under a separate constitution. Some expressed their apprehension that the Empowerment and Self-Governance package order was provisional, and until it is legalised it may be repealed anytime to suit the whims and fancies of successive governments in Islamabad. Some went to the extent of calling Gilgit Baltistan a fake province with no constitutional endorsement. A basic point which emerged from the discussion was that till the time Gilgit Baltistan remains 'disputed', it cannot be assimilated as an additional province of Pakistan.
The Law Minster of Gilgit Baltistan, Wazir Shakil, tried to downplay the whole issue by stating that since the order was a presidential order, it could not be abolished. The Chief Minister, Syed Mehdi Shah, however tried to build consensus by urging political allies to insist upon the federal leadership to take up the matter in Islamabad's parliament pursuing permanent status for Gilgit Baltistan.
This political deadlock is not a case in isolation. The people of Gilgit Baltistan are disillusioned with the way Pakistan is administering the region and the local leadership has rejected the political set-up provided under the empowerment package. This order, they feel, has failed to meet their political demands and address the socio economic problems. Earlier, the State Subject Rule was abolished by former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to facilitate outsiders acquiring land and assets in the region. Later, the ethnic composition of the region was tampered with by the Zia-ul-Haq-sponsored anti-Shia forces; the number of Shias in this otherwise predominantly Shia region was reduced drastically. The attack on Shia pilgrims in Kohistan on February 28, 2012, while they were on their way back to Gilgit Baltistan, is a pointer to the continuing threats the Shias face even today. In this particular case, at least 16 people were forced to disembark from the bus and were brutally shot to death.
Political problems in Gilgit Baltistan have existed for long, and today the situation is further complicated by growing external interference from China and innumerable instances of resource-drain organised by Islamabad. People in Gilgit Baltistan have expressed their resentment over the increasing Chinese involvement in the region and view it as an unwelcome intrusion. The Gilgit Baltistan diaspora has, in recent years, played an active role in creating awareness on these issues via the electronic media, dedicated websites and blogs, etc.
What appears to be of interest here is the claim by the people of Gilgit Baltistan that the region does not belong to Pakistan. If Pakistan concedes that Gilgit Baltistan is a disputed territory, it will have to give it a separate status like AJK. This is the moot point emerging from the ensuing political debate in the entire PoK. This is in congruence with an earlier statement issued by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) terming the territory as "disputed" in response to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs of India statement objecting to the building of the Diamer Bhasha dam in PoK in 2006. India has for long being insisting that Chinese involvement in Gilgit Baltistan is unwarranted since the territory is disputed, to which the Chinese (encouraged by Pakistan) pay little heed. Hence, the current debate in PoK, in a way, validates India's position and claim on PoK.
A fresh debate in India needs to be initiated from this point. India's position that Gilgit Baltistan is disputed stands corroborated by developments in PoK. Gilgit Baltistan and the so called AJK are parts of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. After a span of more than six decades since the princely state of J&K acceded to India, this Indian state has evolved with its political processes progressing well. This is so because India has allowed political freedom in J&K. In comparison, Pakistan has failed to address the aspirations of the people under subjugation in PoK leading to frequent political outbursts as being witnessed now. These outbursts are only likely to grow given Pakistan's indifference towards PoK as a whole in combination with its internal security dynamics and external preoccupations.


Well, I plead guilty to all of the charges. Know what else? I don't feel guilty, not even a little bit. I do it. I like it. I feel good about it. Now I will speak in my own defense – as a dog breeder.
Animal rights people can't seem to grasp that people can feel that way about their work, too. It's how I feel about the very hard work of being a dog breeder. It makes me happy. Another way of putting it is that both my dogs and my own example provide proof that life is not pointless drudgery and exploitation. We provide living proof that joy, beauty and personal fulfillment are possible in life.


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Der Niedrigwasser-Informationsdienst (NID) des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt in Augsburg ist nach dem Vorbild des Hochwassernachrichtendienst Bayern beim gleichen Landesamt angelegt. Er stellt seine Informationen für eine frühzeitige Reaktion auf durch Niedrigwasser verursachte Sachverhalte und Zusammenhänge in Flüssen und Seen Bayerns sowohl der Öffentlichkeit als auch der Wasserwirtschaft zur Verfügung.

Aufgabe
Der Informationsdienst hat sich zur Aufgabe gestellt, die aufgrund der sich derzeit abzeichnenden Klimaänderung zu erwartende veränderte Niederschlagsverteilung im Hinblick auf Trockenperioden zu prognostizieren und dokumentieren. Darüber hinaus wird auf mögliche Auswirkungen von Niedrigwasser hingewiesen. Der NID stellt beispielsweise für Nordbayern Wassermangel fest. Dem wird durch Talsperren und Überleitung von Donauwasser in das Maingebiet entgegengewirkt.

Datengewinnung
Zur Gewinnung der Daten wird hauptsächlich auf das automatisierte Messnetz der 550 Pegel zur Messung der Wasserstände und Abflüsse in bayerischen Flüssen und Seen zurückgegriffen. Ergänzt werden diese durch die Auswertung der Daten von weiteren 320 Niederschlags-Messstationen und den Messnetzen für Wasserqualität in Bayern.

Veröffentlichung der Daten
Seit 2008 werden die erfassten Messwerte vom NID aufbereitet und im Internet sowohl kartografisch als auch tabellarisch nach zehn Regionen gegliedert veröffentlicht.

Abrufbar sind für die einzelnen Pegel aktuelle Messwerte, Statistiken, Stammdaten zu den Messstellen mit Lageangabe sowie Informationen zu besonderen Werten bei Niedrigwasser am jeweiligen Pegel. Als Grundlage für die Klassifizierung von Niedrigwasser werden Perzentilwerte herangezogen:

Als "niedrig" wird ein Stand bewertet, wenn er unter 75 % aller erfassten Messwerte der jeweiligen Messstelle liegt. Ein "sehr niedriger" Stand liegt dann vor, wenn er unter 90 % aller erfassten Messwerte an dieser Stelle liegt.

Ebenfalls publiziert werden Daten zu Grundwasser, Wassertemperatur und hydrologischem Abfluss.

Entwicklung
Der NID dokumentiert in anschaulichen Dossiers Trockenperioden. Die ältesten Dossiers über Niedrigwasser-Ereignisse finden sich aus dem Jahr 1947, das jüngste Dossier behandelt die Trockenperiode des Jahres 2007.

Das Messnetz wird bis 2011 schrittweise ausgebaut.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Webseite des Niedrigwasser-Informationsdienst Bayern beim Bayerischen Landesamt für Umwelt

Wasserstandsmessung
Geographie (Bayern)
Hydrologische Organisation (Deutschland)
Datenbank

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GIS Library Outreach Liaison/Instructional Assistant Professor [R-004672]
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The Jack K. Williams Library at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) invites applications for a full-time, 12-month GIS Library Outreach Liaison with joint appointment as an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences. Academic Professional Track Faculty are full and valued members of the professorial community whose contracts offer stability after promotion. The campus policy on promotion and tenure that identifies professional track faculty can be found at: http://www.tamug.edu/AcademicAffairs/pdf/TAMUG_FacultyEvaluationGuidelines-Feb2017-LinkUpdatedOct2017.pdfhttp://www.tamug.edu/AcademicAffairs/pdf/TAMUG_FacultyEvaluationGuidelines-Feb2017-LinkUpdatedOct2017.pdf
The successful candidate will have earned a master's degree in a GIS-related discipline or field. The position will report to the Director of Williams Library with input on teaching responsibilities by the Head of the Department of Marine Sciences. The successful candidate will teach three (3) GIS courses per academic year in the Department of Marine Sciences and provide support for GIS in that department. The successful candidate will provide collection, research and discovery support for students, faculty and staff through the Library. The individual selected is expected to:
demonstrate a solid understanding of GIS theory, applications, software, and emerging technologies;
acquire and provide support in the discovery, use and management of locally created and externally available GIS data, collections and tools in collaboration with data creators and researchers;
work with others to develop scalable, sustainable and domain-appropriate GIS services in support of research, support data visualization activities by promoting techniques associated with specialized, evolving data visualization tools for spatial applications, and;
provide support for GIS services through reference, research consultations, online help guides, websites and other outreach efforts.
The appointment is at TAMUG, a branch campus of TAMU College Station, with comprehensive emphasis on education and research related to the ocean. With approximately 2,300 students, the campus offers a wide spectrum of ocean-based programs to students, including Marine Biology, Marine Sciences, Maritime Administration, Maritime Transportation, Marine Engineering Technology, Ocean Engineering, the Texas Maritime Academy, and a small fleet of vessels devoted to supporting ocean-related programs.
Applications should be submitted via the Workday system and should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a list of three references (including postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses).
External applicants: https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMUG_External
Internal applicants: https://jobs.tamu.edu/internal-applicants/
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is January 2nd, 2019. We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of TAMUG's academic community. All individuals, including individuals with disabilities and veterans, are encouraged to apply. For more information about the position, contact the Director of the Library, Dr. David R. Baca, by email (bacad@tamug.edu).
All non-tenure track positions are subject to budgetary availability, student enrollment needs, programmatic needs and turnover rates. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. The Texas A&M System is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer committed to diversity.
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From Wikiquote
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.
See also: Leaves of Grass
1.1 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
2 Disputed
3 Misattributed
4 Quotes about Whitman
Quotes[edit]
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. Who would not mourn that an ample palace, of surpassingly graceful architecture, fill'd with luxuries, and embellish'd with fine pictures and sculpture, should stand cold and still and vacant, and never be known or enjoy'd by its owner? Would such a fact as this cause your sadness? Then be sad. For there is a palace, to which the courts of the most sumptuous kings are but a frivolous patch, and, though it is always waiting for them, not one of its owners ever enters there with any genuine sense of its grandeur and glory.
"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 1851) and printed in the Brooklyn Daily Advertizer (3 April 1851)
Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell'd. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude.
"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839)
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment.
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass
In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.
Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127
I have just this moment heard from the front — there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen.
O Mother, to think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again — for that is what we certainly will, and before very long. I see all the little signs, getting ready in the hospitals, etc.; it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other.
Letter to his mother (22 March 1864)
Looking over my scraps, I find I wrote the following during 1864. The happening to our America, abroad as well as at home, these years, is indeed most strange. The democratic republic has paid her to-day the terrible and resplendent compliment of the united wish of all the nations of the world that her union should be broken, her future cut off, and that she should be compell'd to descend to the level of kingdoms and empires ordinarily great. There is certainly not one government in Europe but is now watching the war in this country, with the ardent prayer that the United States may be effectually split, crippled, and dismember'd by it. There is not one but would help toward that dismemberment, if it dared. […] Are we indignant? alarm'd? Do we feel jeopardized? No; help'd, braced, concentrated, rather. We are all too prone to wander from ourselves, to affect Europe, and watch her frowns and smiles. We need this hot lesson of general hatred, and henceforth must never forget it. Never again will we trust the moral sense nor abstract friendliness of a single government of the old world.
"Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War", The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), volume 1, part I: Specimen Days.
We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake.
"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality," letter to the Philadelphia Press (20 July 1883), later published in The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), part V: November Boughs
Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. … Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!
Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. I
I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II
I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined.
Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Complete Prose Works (1892), III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme, p.324
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)[edit]
Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Starting from Paumanok, 6
I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.
Starting from Paumanok. 7
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Starting from Paumanok. 12
I loafe and invite my soul.
Song of Myself, 1
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Song of Myself, 48
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country—I now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
Salut au Monde, 6
Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
Salut au Monde, 11
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.
Song of the Broad-Axe
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
Song of the Universal, 1
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
Roaming in Thought, 1
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Drum-Taps. Rise O Days from your fathomless Deep, 3
O Banner!
Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East, the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.
Drum-Taps. Dirge for Two Veterans
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
Drum-Taps. Reconciliation
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Memories of President Lincoln, 1
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death.
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Praised be the fathomless universe
For life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;
And for love, sweet love—But praise! O praise and praise
For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!
The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
Memories of President Lincoln. O Captain! my Captain!
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
To a Foiled European Revolutionaire
Peace is always beautiful.
The Sleepers, 7
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?
Laws for Creations
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;
I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
Night on the Prairies
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
To think of Time, 9
The paths to the house I seek to make,
But leave to those to come the house itself.
Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood, 1
Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.
Thoughts, 1
Now obey thy cherished secret wish,
Embrace thy friends—leave all in order;
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
Now Finalè to the Shore (To Tennyson)
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;
I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
So Long!
Disputed[edit]
Be curious, not judgmental.
While consistently attributed to Whitman, this popular motivational quote has no source. It is occasionally listed as occurring in Leaves of Grass, but the closest phrase found in that collection is "Be not curious about God."
I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair those losses and be a blessing to us.
This has been widely attributed to Whitman, and no one else, but without definite source. It has sometimes been cited as being from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (sometimes with a date of 23 July 1846), where Whitman had been an editor, but its presence on that date is not apparent in the online historical archives of that publication.
Brian Cronin, in "Did 'Bull Durham' misquote Walt Whitman on baseball?", Los Angeles Times (28 March 2012), suggests that this is (loosely) paraphrased from a remark of September 1888 reported in Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 2:
I like your interest in sports ball, chiefest of all base-ball particularly: base-ball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character. Sports take people out of doors, get them filled with oxygen generate some of the brutal customs (so-called brutal customs) which, after all, tend to habituate people to a necessary physical stoicism. We are some ways a dyspeptic, nervous set: anything which will repair such losses may be regarded as a blessing to the race. We want to go out and howl, swear, run, jump, wrestle, even fight, if only by so doing we may improve the guts of the people: the guts, vile as guts are, divine as guts are!
"Sports for a Dyspeptic Race", Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel, p. 261
Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forward for a quarrel, American knows how to crush, as well as expand!
Editorial comment identified as from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (11 May 1846)
Misattributed[edit]
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Quotes about Whitman[edit]
I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "LEAVES OF GRASS." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world. ~ Randall Jarrell
Whitman's masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul. ~ Rob Riemen
Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both—as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Whitman...a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes.
Gerald Bullett, "Walt Whitman", in Alfred Barratt Brown, Great Democrats, 1934.
I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "LEAVES OF GRASS." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were making our western wits fat and mean.
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a letter to Whitman, thanking him for a copy of Leaves of Grass (21 July 1855)
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, in a letter to Robert Bridges (18 October 1882)
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
Randall Jarrell, in "Some Lines from Whitman" in Poetry and the Age (1953), p. 119
I know the formal element in Walt Whitman's poetry found and enormous echo throughout the world. Yet Walt Whitman's significance lies elsewhere. He combined the contemplation of nature and of civilization which are apparently either contradictory, into a single intoxicating vision of life, because he always had sight of the transitoriness of all phenomena. He said: "Living is the little that is left over from dying." so he gave his whole heart to every leaf of grass. I admire in him the reconciliation of art and nature. When the war between the Northern and Southern States in America, which first really set in motion the power of our present machine world, first broke out, Walt Whitman became a medical orderly. He did what all of us ought to do, particularly today. He helped the weak, the sick and the defeated. He was a Christian and–with a close affinity to us Jews–he was therefore an important measure of the status and worth of humanity.
Franz Kafka qtd. in Gustav Janouch Conversations with Kafka (1971), p. 167
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line
Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine;
Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,
And copies Ovid's filth without his grace.
In his rough brain a genius might have grown,
Had he not sought to play the brute alone;
But void of shame, he let his wit run wild,
And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.
Averse to culture, strange to humankind,
He never knew the pleasures of the mind.
Scorning the pure, the delicate, the clean,
His joys were sordid, and his morals mean.
Thro' his gross thoughts a native vigour ran,
From which he deem'd himself the perfect man:
But want of decency his rank decreas'd,
And sunk him to the level of the beast.
Would that his Muse had dy'd before her birth,
Nor spread such foul corruption o'er the earth.
H. P. Lovecraft, in an "Essay on Modern Poets" this was published as a "Fragment on Whitman" in The Ancient Track (2001) edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 192
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — I have detested you long enough.
Ezra Pound, "A Pact"
Whitman's masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul.
Rob Riemen, recalling a conversation with Joseph Goodman, Nobility of Spirit : A Forgotten Ideal (2008), p. xxvii
Whitman to me is the most fascinating of American poets. Whitman started to write the great poetry from scratch after he had written all that junk for newspapers, the sentimental lyrical poems. All of a sudden he wrote Leaves of Grass. When I was teaching at the University of Nebraska, my friend James Miller was chairman of the English Department. He wrote the first book attempting to make a parallel between the structure of Leaves of Grass and the steps of the mystical experience as in St. John of the Cross. I was completely bowled over by this, not having been able to explain how Whitman came to write "Song of Myself," which is unlike anything not only in American literature, but unique in all the world. The parallels to it are mystical literature. Miller tried to show that there was actual evidence for this kind of experience, which evidently happens at a particular moment in someone's life. … When I saw the negative reaction to Whitman with the great ruling critics of the time, I couldn't believe it. Eliot never really gave up hammering away on Whitman, neither did Pound. Although Pound makes little concessions. Whitman, you know, didn't have any influence in this country until Allen Ginsberg came along.
Karl Shapiro, in "Karl Shapiro, The Art of Poetry No. 36", interviewed by Robert Phillips in Paris Review No. 99 (Spring 1986)
I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.
Karel Appel, as quoted in 'Karel Appel – the complete sculptures', eds. Harry de Visser / Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York 1990, p. 93
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I use a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 laptop, running Debian wheezy. It has a 2.6 GHz CPU, 16 GiB RAM (twice the official maximum, thanks to ThinkWiki), and both a terabyte spinning drive and a 240 GB SSD.
I'll be upgrading the Debian version to jessie in the coming months, now that Debian has frozen jessie in preparation for the next release.
Having two storage devices in the laptop is very nice. I get the benefits both of SSD (very fast) and a spinning disk (cheap per gigabyte). I have the operating system, my home directory, and some virtual machines on the SSD, and a Debian mirror, music and other media files, and other virtual machines on the spinning disk.
I don't use an external keyboard or mouse. The X220 keyboard is very nice, for a laptop keyboard, and I've used it and the trackpoint mouse emulator so much over the past several years that they fade away. I don't need to look at, or think about, using the keyboard, and they don't limit or slow me down. It's also very convenient to not have to attach, detach, or carry extra input devices.
Sometimes I do use an external monitor, but it's not my usual mode. I'd like much more screen real estate, and someday I'll arrange that, but in recent years that's been excluded by other life choices.
I don't have a desktop machine at all at this time, which is dictated by the same life choices: we've moved to a different country several times in recent years, so having as little stuff as possible is important to me.
I use GNOME3 as my desktop environment, with Xmonad as the window manager. I like the GNOME desktop in general, but I have fallen for a tiling window manager. I chose Xmonad over the options, because my Yakking colleague Daniel likes it. Also, it's another reason for me to learn Haskell.
I use Emacs as my text editor, with a little vi for quick edits. This is not a fanatical choice: I've used a number of text editors over the years, including several I've written myself. Currently, I seem to like Emacs best, but I may change again some day.
My preferred login shell is bash. I don't do a whole lot of configuration of it, mostly about the prompt, which is in bold face so I can more easily spot prompts in tall windows.
For virtualisation, I use libvirt, virt-manager, and KVM. I sometimes generate the virtual machine disk images with vmdebootstrap. I use virtualisation a fair bit, which makes the 16 GiB of RAM on my laptop a nice thing to have.
I browse the web with Firefox. Chromium is nice, too, but I find the Mozilla Foundation's commitment to freedom and openness to be more credible than Google's.
I follow RSS/Atom feeds with Liferea. I IRC with irssi. I handle e-mail with a combination of mutt, offlineimap, and notmuch. Files get synchronised across machines with git-annex.
Backups are done with Obnam (of course; I wrote it).
My web sites are made with Ikiwiki, and hosted on Branchable.
Documents are mostly written in Markdown, and processed with Pandoc.
I also use a bit of C, and the usual assortment of shell, awk, and other Unix command line scripting tools.
Version control is handled by git. My git server runs gitano.
I don't use much office software.
I don't use Facebook or Twitter, though I am on LinkedIn for professional reasons. I keep in touch with my people mostly by means that do not result in profiling information sold to advertisers.
I don't use integrated development environments. I prefer a traditional text editor, and to do things on the command line: this lets me pick and choose between various tools and doesn't tie me to one specific megatool.


0:11Skip to 0 minutes and 11 secondsHi and welcome back. In today's lecture, I would like to explain the refined process mining framework. So we can use this to categorize the different process mining activities that we can actually execute. And you've already seen the more generic process mining framework that relates the world, how it interacts with an information system, how the information system is modeled by using process models, and the data created by this information system, and then how process mining bridges the data with the models. However, we can detail this a bit further. So on the top of the refined process mining framework, we still have the world's information system and the data that's created.
0:52Skip to 0 minutes and 52 secondsBut in the middle, we have three categories of process mining activities that we can execute, and on the bottom we have the process models that are used both to configure the information system but also that we can discover using process mining. And there are actually two types of process models. So let's go in a bit more detail and explain how all these things are related. So on the top of the refined process mining framework we have the world, humans, all the services, and machines that interact with our information system. An information system has to record certain activities and events being executed. And we can distinguish two types of event data, historic event data and current event data.
1:38Skip to 1 minute and 38 secondsSo historic event data contains the cases that are completed, and you could call them archived. Current data are those cases that are still running and that we could still influence using our analysis. Then on the bottom of the refined process mining framework are the models. And we can divide them into two categories, the de facto models and the de jure models. The de facto models are descriptive, so we could have discovered them or observed them in another way. And we can distinguish them into three types of models.
2:11Skip to 2 minutes and 11 secondsWe can have control flow models, relating how the activities should be executed, we can have data or rules-- data rules-- that distinguish or mention how particular data can influence other aspects, or we can discover a resource or organizational perspective on the process. Then we also have the same types of models as de jure models, which are actually the normative or prescriptive models. These were made when configuring the system. These are rules and regulations that need to be adhered to. So using these two types of models, we can do performance checking or compliance checking, for instance, or auditing. Then in the middle of this refined process mining framework are the several categories of activities that we can execute.
3:01Skip to 3 minutes and 1 secondOne of these categories is cartography where you describe history. So you're taking the historic data and you're creating de facto models. And cartography contains three types of activity. You can discover. So using the data alone, the output is a de facto model on either the control flow data or resource perspective. Using enhancement, we can enrich a model, which is either a de facto or a de jure model, using the historic data. And that, again, creates a new de facto model. Lastly, we can also diagnose or analyze a model in a bit more detail. The second category is auditing where you're actually confronting the models with reality. And here we see four types of activities.
3:47Skip to 3 minutes and 47 secondsDetection uses current data and de jure models to provide online alerts, and this is important because there you can still act. It's current data-- active cases-- so things can still be fixed. Compliance checking uses the historic data with the de jure models to see where rules are violated and also maybe why. Comparing uses both de jure and de facto models to compare them-- where do they differ. And finally, promote means using de facto models. So the models that you discovered-- you can update the de jure models. So change your rules and regulations to update with your new findings. So you could recommend a particular resource to work on a particular case because it's close to the deadline.
4:37Skip to 4 minutes and 37 secondsSo these are three of the main process mining categories that we distinguish. And you see how they relate to the different types of data that can be recorded and the different types of process models that exist. And I hope this gives you an understanding of how different processes mining activities exist and the different types of things they can do. However, this is not the final list of process mining activities that exist. There can be some more that don't fit this framework, but it gives you an overview of the general idea. In the next lecture, I'll show you what you need for particular process mining activities. So I hope to see again in the next lecture.
In this step we refine the process mining framework to detail the different types of process mining activities.


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