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The Passing of Zephaniah Phiri, September 1st, 2015
September 1st, 2015
Nevertheless we did not forget the inspiring ideas of our leaders at that time, like the water-man Zephaniah Phiri, or abandon the research skills we had learned. Nor did we lose our desire to understand and improve the special place that is Mazvihwa. Our sense of the vitality of the indigenous ran strong. Through the 1990s we continued to document social, ecological, welfare and economic change in our community, and we built up a very detailed understanding of our situation, and we continued to observe the power of innovation amongst us to find new ways of tackling long-standing and contemporary challenges.
All this work involved many members of the Mazvihwa community and our people became our great asset. Many in our community used the ideas being generated to improve life and look after soil, woodland and seeds, and the need to do that became even clearer during the economic crisis of the 2000s when we had to become more self-reliant. But it also became clear that what we needed to do this was to have our own institution to advance local change on our terms and put these ideas to work more effectively.
The Muonde Trust itself therefore emerged in the late 2000s as the vision of two leading members of this community—Mr. Abraham Mawere Ndhlovu and Dr. Billiards Mukamuri—and a Malawi-born Englishman, Dr. K.B. Wilson. Mr. Mawere had been a leading member of the action-research team since 1986, and was the elected councilor of Mhototi Ward in the 2000s, while Dr. Mukamuri who had been raised in Mazvihwa was then with the Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile Dr. Wilson had first visited in 1980 when a school teacher at Dadaya, when he tried to support a small-scale irrigation project at Mhototi, subsequently doing his doctoral work in human ecology in Mazvihwa (1985-90), since which time he has been enjoying visiting the area until today.
In 2012 Abraham Ndhlovu spent several months as a "Visiting Organic Intellectual" at the University of California Berkeley with the generous support of the Canadian IDRC. Here he shared with many the power of community-based research and of indigenous innovation, and from this The Friends of Muonde was formed at Earth Island Institute in 2013 to support these efforts. Dr. Wilson runs Friends of Muonde in a voluntary capacity, raising friends and raising funds, and providing advice and assistance if and when necessary. Finally, and in 2014, The Muonde Trust was registered in Zimbabwe under the leadership of Mr. Abraham Ndhlovu. This website, established by Muonde volunteer, Robert Hickling, shares the work done by the Muonde team since 2013.
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What you need
- A big cardboard box
- 2 x tea towels
- Masking tape
- Scissors
Optional extras:
- paint/textas
- tinsel
- fairy lights
Cut out the base and back panel of the box so that you just have a stand-alone stage frame: one long side and two short sides as flaps to keep it upright.
Out of the long side, cut a proscenium arch (the frame of a stage) leaving about 10cm around each side and top. There should be no bottom edge, just a square opening like an archway.
The two side panels should allow the proscenium arch stand up by itself.
Attach curtains to the backstage side of the arch by using your two tea towels. If you want to be fancy, you can pleat them along the top to create nicely draped curtains. Use masking tape to stick them into place, or if you have a large stapler, use a stapler.
Use a black marker or paints to write the name of your puppet theatre across the top in fancy theatre writing.
Prop your puppet theatre on the dining table and put on a show.
The puppets should perform in front of the curtain, with the curtain as a backdrop.
- An ironing board with a tablecloth over it also makes a good puppet theatre base as it can be adjusted to any height.
- String fairy lights or tinsel around your stage arch to make it really fancy.
- Make proper red velvet curtains using remnants of fabric (Spotlight usually has a bin of cheap remnants)
- Get tips on how to stage your own puppet show.

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Interview With Mark Crispin Miller
May 30, 2002
May 29, 2002, Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon,
took part in an exclusive online discussion at Democratic
Underground, answering questions from members of our message
board. This
is the transcript of that discussion. The original discussion
thread can be found here.
Skinner: The staff of Democratic Underground is
pleased to welcome Mark Crispin Miller to our message board
for this online discussion.
Mark is the author of The Bush Dyslexicon, a funny,
razor-sharp critique of George W. Bush and his treatment by
an increasingly superficial and conservative newsmedia. Published
in hardback in summer 2001, The Bush Dyslexicon has
been recently released in paperback and has been substantially
updated to include new developments since 9/11. The paperback
edition, which includes approximately 100 pages of new material,
is available here
at Amazon.com.
Mark is a professor of media ecology at New York University,
where he also directs the Project
on Media Ownership (PrOMO). He is well known for his writings
on all aspects of the media and for his activism on behalf
of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In:
The Culture of TV and Seeing Through Movies.
Mark, tell us about your book.
Crispin Miller: This is a new edition of The
Bush Dyslexicon, including about 100 pages of new material
concerning W's first year in office, with particular attention
to 9/11 and the myth of his extraordinary transformation at
that time.
In the first edition, I argued that Bush's broken language
is not really laughable, because it actually reveals a lot
about him (and, as well, a lot about the media system that
keeps sucking up to him). Sad to say, the horrors of 9/11
and the "war on terrorism" have only reconfirmed the points
I made about the man a year ago. Far from bringing on a marvelous
change in character, this crisis has just reconfirmed that
Bush is still the same man that he always has beenshallow,
ignorant, unscrupulous, thin-skinned and mean. And the media
continues to be just as bad as ever.
Jack Rabbit: Welcome to DU, Dr. Miller. From The
Bush Dyslexicon, pp.51-53: "Bush, despite his many
howlers, is not always inarticulate. There are in fact two
kinds of speech at which he does quite well. First, he can
be good at talking policy, albeit not at length. When he is
entirely confident about his subject and wholly comfortable
with those around him, he can be just as clear and well-informed
as any other politician . . . . Secondlyand more commonlyBush
is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example,
when the subject is punitive infliction of great pain, there
is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even
if he happens to be lying . . . . Like all the rest of us,
however well or badly educated, Bush can talk quite clearly
on the subjects that most interest him: baseball, football,
campaign tactics, putting men to death."
Since September 11, Mr. Bush has styled himself a wartime
leader. In addition to inflicting casualties on civilians
in Afghanistan, many of his actions have taken on a cruel
and even sadistic character, for example, holding detainees
from the battlefield in Afghanistan in what might be described
as kennels at the Guantanamo Navel Base.
To what extent is Mr. Bush's ability to be articulate when
cruel account for his present popularity? To phrase the question
another way, are average Americans who had doubts about him
before putting aside these doubts because he seems more sure
of himself in a time of violence?
To what extent do you believe that naturally sadistic tendencies
in Bush account for his ability to be articulate when cruel?
Do you know of any psychological studies on Bush that address
this subject and are available to the public?
Mark Crispin Miller: This is an excellent question.
That Bush speaks clearly when he speaks maliciously is surely
pertinent to his success last fall. (I'm referring to his
success post-9/13. Before then, as I'm sure you will recall,
he did a pretty rotten job behind that bully pulpit.) It was
not so much that he spoke clearly in his ad-libbed statements
on the threat of terrorismhe was often incoherent even then,
as my new book makes clear. Rather, it was his bearing
that was strikingly improved by his new role as Kick-Ass President.
In promising terrific payback far and wide, Bush was speaking
from the heart, and so he radiated an unusual assurance. It
was that quality in his demeanor that so thrilled the national
audience, whose members were in desperate need, back then,
of a strong father-figure, and took from him what they could
get. Although Bush was never as popular as Rudy Giuliani (or,
for that, Tony Blair), he still stood taller in the public's
estimation than he ever had before, and that had everything
to do with the improvement in his style, which was a consequence
of his intense enjoyment of his role as God's Appointed Punisher.
And yet often Bush still tended to speak incoherentlyespecially
when trying to talk about our history, or foreign policy,
or any other serious subject. When he was simply making threats,
or saying no, on the other hand, he was always pretty clear.
And he's continued to speak clearly when he's spoken straight
from his choleric heart. Just the other day, for example,
when he made that resentful crack about NBC's David Gregory,
who had spoken to Chirac in French, Bush spoke perfect English.
That's typical. It's mainly when he tries to feign idealism
or compassion that the man stops speaking his own native language.
There's fresh proof of this tendency of his nearly every day,
it seems.
Lithos: Do you think the press is capable of accurately
serving as an impartial judge of Bush? How much critical analysis
is being shunted aside by the press?
Crispin Miller: Obviously notand they never were.
And if I were to do your second question justice, we'd both
be here for many hours.
There is a worlda universeof major revelation re: Bush/Cheneyrevelation
that the US journalists, with few exceptions, just refuse
to make. The same folks who went nuts, day in day out, hyping
(or concocting) Clinton's crimes say nothing whatsoever about
Bush's big-time sins. The double standard is breath-taking.
trumad: Do you think Bush is stupid, or playing
stupid as some sort of political strategy?
Crispin Miller: Bush is no Dan Quayle, who is a
genuinely stupid man, but something else entirely. On the
one hand, he is every bit as ignorant as he appearsthat is
no act, although such emptiness of head is often something
of a plus for him with quite a few of his supporters. So while
Bush's ignorance is real, his knack for flaunting it as if
it were a sign that he's just folks is pretty artful. And
as Bush knows very little about anything (except baseball),
neither is he capable of reasoning in any complicated way.
Despite those limitations, however, Bush is not an idiotand
it's a grave mistake to write him off as one. He has very
sharp political instincts (unlike the hapless Quayle). To
laugh at him for his stupidity is actually to do him a big
favor, since it helps him with that pose of commonness. (It
helps him here, in the United States, with that plurality
who voted for him. It doesn't do him any good at all beyond
our borders.)
Bush's problemor rather, our problem with Bushis not so
much that he's an idiot as that he is contemptuous of thought,
complexity, ambiguity. He's proud of his closed mind. That
makes him far more dangerous than he'd be if he were merely
Which malapropism do you think best reflects the
"true" Dubya? Have you had any problems with threats from
right-wingnuts since publishing your book?
Crispin Miller: "I know how hard it is for your
to put food on your family."
That one, which he said on the campaign trail up in New Hampshire,
is quintessential Busha perfect example of his inability
to sound as if cares about the have-nots in this world.
(There are a lot of new ones in the new edition. When he's
tried to sound the note altruism vis-à-vis his war
on terrorism, for example, he's offered up some howlers. In
January, e.g., he said, about Afghanistan: "We helped save
women and children from incredible impression!")
I'm not making that up.
As for the bilious right, I've heard from quite a few of
them. I wrote an essay on that very subject: "Brain Drain,"
which you can find on-line.
Great book! You are on the mark with that "cruelty"
comment...it was about this time last year when Dubya actually
giggled aloud at a press conference while a reporter was asking
about children being killed in the Middle East.
This may be outside the bounds of your expertise, but I'd
like to hear what you have to say about Bush's body language
and facial expressions. It is noticeable that he is always
hanging on to the podium for dear life at press conferences.
He also is a man whom the camera detests...even the AP and
Reuters seem to have given up trying to publish pictures of
him composed. He tends to smirk, glare, and otherwise look
either out of touch or dangerously demented.
Crispin Miller: I've heard from a number of professionalsshrinks
and others who have dealt extensively with addictsand all
of them have told me that, in Bush, they see a man who's barely
keeping it together. Two of them have told me that Bush fits
the profile of the "dry drunk"the alcoholic who's too macho
to go through the 12-step program, and who thinks that he
can keep from drinking through sheer willpower. The problem
with that approach is that such drinkers have to dedicate
their every ounce of energy, and all their waking moments,
to not drinking.
That diagnosis would, perhaps, help to explain not only Bush's
frequent public stiltedness, but the fact that he is always
in the gym or out there jogging.
Dr. Miller, any thoughts on what allows such a
large section of the American people to be so deceived by
Bush, or politicians like him. Just bad judges of character?
The press?
Crispin Miller: All skillful politicians know exactly
how to get around a certain bloc of voters: Clinton, Reagan,
Nixon, JFK, Roosevelt, whoever. In every case, the target
audience will forgive everything, believe anythingespecially
if they learn nothing of the contradictory truth.
Thus this Bush knows exactly how to push the buttons of the
people in his base. (It's a talent that his father always
lacked.) Those who are most fervent in their faith in him,
it seems to me, are those most likely to identify with him.
They like his thin skin, his resentfulness, his animus against
the Europeans and the US coasts.
But Bush received as many votes as he received not just because
Fox-viewers voted for him, but because a lot of other people
voted for him, toopeople who might not have voted for him
if they'd known a little more about his far-right ties, his
business dealings, and a number of other very damning things
that "the liberal media" sat on all along. Just one example:
throughout the presidential race, Bush carefully hid his true
intentions vis-à-vis abortion. If the media had blown
his cover on that one alone, he would have lost support. He
did as well he did, finally, because of the timidity and laziness
of US media.
Why were the Press so tough on every nuance of
Gore's? If Gore runs again, will they once again be tough
on him and let Bush slide? Would they be the same in your
opinion if another Democratic candidate were to run, such
as John Kerry?
Crispin Miller: They certainly will, because Gore
is still Gorea man whom people just don't like, and one who
lacks the skill and/or the inclination to soft-soap the press.
(Bush's genius for this kind of thing is on full display in
Alexandra Pelosi's documentary "Journeys with George," which
will air on HBO this fall.)
Any Democrat will have a problem with the press, albeit not
as grave a problem as Gore had. Despite the loony whining
of the right, the media are steeply biased against Democrats.
So whichever of them runs is going to have to work quite hard
against that bias.
One noticeable thing about Bush is that he often
refers to government in the first person. "My government will
do this." "Arafat must satisfy me..." "My White House is unyielding..."
"I will pursue those terrorists."
This could be interpreted many ways. Either 1) all presidents
have done this, and it is just more grating to those who dislike
the current president anyway, 2) it is a harmless quirk, or
3) it represents his true attitude that it really is his
government, his White House and the U.S. actions are
his actions. How do you view this habit?
Crispin Miller: The correct answer is #3. I've
noticed that too"my administration," he likes to say. This
marks a significant departure from all previous presidential
practice (and, I'd say, a significant adoption of a speech
tic common among dictators).
In the new edition of the Dyslexicon, I have some
good examples of GWB's unwonted clarity of speechindeed,
his eloquencewhen talking about his property in Crawford.
I think it's pertinent to note that the president who blows
it every time he tries to talk about democracy give us near-poetry
when going on and on about his spread.
Atrios: I'm sure you don't have the complete answer,
but do you have any suggestions for how to put pressure on
the media to do its job more completely, consistently, and
Crispin Miller: Where the US right has it all over
everybody else is in their single-mindedness and discipline,
which have helped them wield an influence quite out of proportion
to their numbers.
Everybody else, meanwhile, tends either to seethe in silence,
or waste their energies in fratricidal quibbling. (That's
still going on here on the so-called "left," with Democrats
persisting in their shots at Nader, sometimes with more venom
than they vent against the GOP. The Democratic wrath is understandable,
perhaps, but it's now time to put that past us.) We need to
emulate the right up to a pointnot, that is, to act
like still more ditto-heads (God forbid!), but to collaborate
on pressuring the media to pressure Bush.
That's a short-term solution. We need a radical and comprehensive
program of real media reform, if anything progressive
is to be accomplished. But the short term is important, too;
and so, for now, we must go after the reporters, and
insist that they fulfill their civic and professional obligations
by asking Bush the questions that he does not want them asking
Several people [whose questions we unfortunately did not
have time to post during the discussion Ed] have asked
what Bush's major weakness is, and how best to exploit it.
He's a malignant narcissisthe can't stand any challenge,
any contradiction. It makes him testy, bringing out the worst
in him. There is another Nixon just beneath that chummy surface.
The best way to expose it is to get the press to do its joband
the only way to do that is to join with others and exert the
necessary pressure.
Let me add that sites like this are indispensable.
If it weren't for the Internet, and sites such as DU, we'd
be completely finished. So we ought to take advantage of this
awesome gift.
The Bush Dyslexicon is an excellent resource. It packs
a lot of information into a small place. What's the next project
you're taking on? We can't wait.
Crispin Miller: Thanks for that. I'm going to write
a short book about the Marlboro Man, of all things, for a
new series that I'm editing for Yale University Pressa series
called "American Icons." It's quite an interesting subject
(and it'll be a big relief not to be writing about You-Know-Who).
BTW, there will be two books yearly in this series, and the
other oneI'm really thrilled about thiswill be a book about
the Founding Fathers, by Gore Vidal.
After that, I will return to a project I've been working
on for yearsa study of war-propaganda (whether martial or
electoral), and its pathological foundation. It will, I hope,
shed light on all the rightist bile that has been flooding
our political culture for the last twelve years (at least).
Its title is Mad Scientists: Paranoid Delusion and the
Craft of Propaganda.
Skinner: Thank you, Mark. This has been a really
great opportunity for all the members of DU. We appreciate
your taking the time to answer a few of our questions. Good
luck with the paperback. We hope it is a big success. Thank
you also to everyone who submitted questions for Mark. Sorry
we could not post all of them.
Crispin Miller: No, thank youI really appreciate
your setting this up, and I'd like also to thank everyone
who asked a question (they were all terrific questions), as
well as everyone who just dropped in.
new paperback edition of The Bush Dyslexicon is available


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Prisoners tortured in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
February 4, 2013
Testimony of Abu Yasin one of the former prisoners who was tortured whilst in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious and Most Merciful.
My name is Abu Yasin. I lived in Saudi Arabia in Madinah having valid official papers; I was arrested by Saudi Authorities in 2006.
People in four vehicles came to arrest me, they were all dressed unofficially, I didn't know they were from the security service.
During my arrest I asked to see their identities – according to the norms – they said 'later', nobody told me why I was arrested or showed me his identity, I remember seeing some of them later in the interrogations.
While they were transferring me to the interrogation center I asked one of the soldiers what they wanted from me, he said, "We have some questions to ask you and you will return (home) after half an hour", I didn't know that I will stay with them for months and that this was the beginning of my suffering and deprivation of freedom and rights.
They threw me in a solitary cell, I was deprived of my simplest rights. They started interrogating me after leaving me there for 2 days, I was thinking of the reason of my arrest, I was not allowed to talk to prisoners in other cells.
When I asked them to allow me to call my family – who didn't know what happened to me – the soldiers said,"You're not allowed to make calls unless the interrogator permits", and he never permitted that during all my imprisonment period.
Two days after being arrested without charge, I was taken to the interrogation block, blindfolded, my hands and feet were shackled. Five interrogators came in, I knew that from their voices, after some time they all left except one who removed the blindfolds and I saw him, he is the same person in the photo provided, I am not sure of his name because he didn't introduce himself to me. Later on I learned that the names of interrogators are hidden from the prisoners in order to protect them from attributing crimes to them so they won't be judged.
Since I and my fellow inmates – who were with me after 2 months of solitary confinement – didn't know his name, we used to call him 'the monkey' due to the similarity between the two. That so called monkey was my main interrogator, others interrogated me too, one of them was the one who searched my house during the arrest, and others who were probably four, I didn't know their names but I knew they were interrogators because other prisoners described them as such.
When I was shown the printed photo above I knew instantly and without thinking that this was my interrogator, and I bear witness that this person has tortured me a lot during interrogations.
Interrogations lasted more than 2 months, there was no particular time for it, sometimes at day sometimes at night, I was physically and psychologically tortured and here I mention some of what I have suffered:
1) The person in the photo slapped me with his hand so hard on many occasions.
2) The person in the photo used to kick me on my body so hard, I remember he came one day wearing a training suit and said, "I put that one to make it easier for me to beat you", he normally wore the Saudi clothes (thawb).
3) The person in the photo used to beat me with a thick gray electric wire that was less than 1 metre in length, that wire is well known and it is used to deliver electricity to houses, he used to beat me with that wire while my hands and feet were shackled and sometimes my hands were tied to a high place that I cannot move. He beat me on my back while my hands were tied behind my back and my feet were also tied, he lashed me with all his power, he beat me so hard. That severe beating and lashing left marks on my hands and they became swollen, those marks would last for a whole month, I asked for a doctor due to the severity of pain and swelling of my hands, but nobody answered.
4) The interrogator mentioned above once threw a pen at my face and it was about to hit my eye and pierce it.
5) That interrogator in the photo used to make terrible threats to me such as: I will never get out of prison and I shall remain under torture forever. He brought other interrogators while he beat me and they threatened me saying, "you will stay in prison till your hair turns white…you won't see your family till you die" and once one of the interrogators other than the one in the photo above threatened me that they will send me to Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. The interrogator in the photo above used to threaten me of using electric shocks and other things that I don't remember.
6) That interrogator in the photo used to order soldiers to bring me to the interrogation room late at night, and I remained in that room waiting on my nerves for the interrogator to come and torture me at any time, after long hours the soldier comes and takes me back to my cell, that was a way of psychological torture, the effects of that psychological torture lasted for a long time even after I was released, and till now I feel afraid and unsafe even if I am among my family.
7) The living conditions in the prison were so hard, I didn't have any clothes other than the ones I was wearing when I was arrested, I was not given any personal hygiene products for a month I couldn't wash except after a month of my arrest, I was not given a pillow to sleep on, I used to put my head on my shoes so I could sleep, whenever I wanted to go to the bathroom to ease myself the soldier came late and I was not let in except after a long time, such things were the orders of the interrogators, no soldier can override the orders of the interrogators. I was deprived from making calls although I had requested that many times during my imprisonment period.
I remained in the prison for five months, I was not put on trial, I was not able to hire a lawyer, I was innocent and they offended me by taking away my freedom and torturing me.
In the end I wish that whoever reads this testimony strives for taking oppression off the oppressed ones in the Saudi interrogation prisons, pleads for them and helps put that interrogator mentioned above and anyone who offended me and other prisoners on trial.


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For some people Sunday is just another day of the week. Nowadays certain people end up having to work on a Sunday on a regular basis.
There are many more things that you can do on a Sunday these days than there were when I was growing up. However for me Sunday has always been a special day of the week.
It was the day which I always tried my best to visit a church on, to attend a service of worship. Usually it was my local church, but if my family was on holiday, we always tried to attend a church near to where we were staying.
Later on when I tended to be actively involved in leading worship,
I still very much appreciated the occasions when I got the opportunity of listening to other people taking services.
For those people who attend church regularly there are some Sunday which are very special. This coming Sunday is one of them, as it is Mothering Sunday.
It used to be the Sunday of the year when the people who worked away from home used to make a special effort to attend worship in their home or mother church.
However, nowadays it is seen by most people as the day of the year when they make a special effort to do something nice for their mothers.
Wherever possible people try very hard to see their mothers in person, to tell them how much they appreciate all that they have done for them.
Now while most people enjoy receiving a card or a telephone message from an important person in their life, they are usually even more delighted if that special someone makes the effort to see them in person, to that they can celebrate this special occasion together.


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With festivities beginning at LIV Organic & Natural Food Market on Bold Street, everyone from city dwellers to office workers can enjoy two hours of organic freebies including cups of coffee, smoothie shots and tasters of delicious breakfast bites.
The LIV Eatery, with its usually chilled morning vibes, will transform into a hustling hub at the centre of the exciting and innovative Wake Up To Organic campaign, to promote the benefits of organic foods to current and could-be fans.
Ashleigh Coleman from LIV's Brand & Marketing team said: "The event will be really open and informal for people to come and grab a free cup of coffee on-the-go or join colleagues for a casual networking event. We want to open up and allow people to learn about the benefits of an organic lifestyle for themselves."
The team behind LIV will be joined by some of the store's most popular brands, as well as representatives from the initiative, which has been created by the Organic Trade Board. As the revolutionary organic movement continues to grow, LIV Organic & Natural Food Market will be pioneering the way to make an organic lifestyle more accessible to all.
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My brother captured the Orange Abomination in his true form snaking around the den late one night. I'm surprised he lived to tell the tale.
Back to my deathbed to snuggle up to a bottle of Nyquil.
Hack snort snot sneeze. Bleah. Ick.
Yeah, I hauled my carcass off the sofa just for that.
Updates: I finished the red woolly knickers (smokin'!) and I'm too grouchy to take photos of them today. I also discovered that the Corset Pullover had to be frogged after all. I didn't have enough of the eBay eggplant cotton yarn to get beyond knitting the front and back, so I'll have to redo it in some other yarn. Dang it all to heck.


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Ambient vs. Lit
I'm very much a photographer of the lighting orthodox. I come prepared with a vehicle full of gear, lug what I need to where I'm taking a photo, and then spend the next 20+ mins getting set up for the shot. That's what I do, and that's how I get the results that I get.
But sometimes you have limited or no ability to carry large amounts of gear. Perhaps you have a very rushed job which allows you only a few minutes to "get the shot" or perhaps you are travelling and are living out a couple of bags, one of which has to travel on your back with ALL your gear in it?
Well I recently did a shoot where I had limited gear because of the hike to get to the place on foot. I took my standard camera backpack, a light stand, a brolly and a reflector.
Of course, being me, I started out with the light stand and a flashgun on it. Taking control of ambient light and pushing it down into submission as subtle fill, and I got this image:
You can see that the flash is providing the harsh light from the left of camera, with distinct shadows (under her chin etc.), while ambient light is providing a little gentle fill. Don't get me wrong, it isn't a "bad" image, but it doesn't really inspire me.
So I decided that I could either flog the dead horse, or try changing things up a little. This is normally where I'd hit the kit bag and drag out some more gear and play in ever more intricate ways, but in this case, I was out of gear! You'll note I was in a woodland area, so I decided to make more use of ambient light for the shot, so I turned her round about 90 degrees, and brought her more into an open area, to take this shot. Still a harsh light hitting her hair to bring out colour and texture, but a very soft skylight to give nice light on her face. Suddenly we've gone from the flash doing all the hard work to ambient doing all the hard work, and flash just adding a detail of light.
Now, things were improved significantly in the look of the image, but I still wasn't that taken with the smoothness of the light on her face, aside from the glaring issue of an overexposed flash on camera left.
So basically, I had an ambient light large softbox "on a sky hook boom arm" above the model and slightly to the right and a hard kicker light on camera left. So thinking on those terms, I could move the kicker light, move the model, but couldn't move the softbox (not being god and all), so I opted to move the only two things I could. I wanted the "softbox" above and behind me for a nice soft full look, and I wanted the kicker to be more of a high hairlight. So I got the model to crouch down and look up towards the sky, and positioned the flash to the left and behind her, to become effectively a hair light. This was the result:
Beautiful soft catchlights bringing out her awesome eyes and a nice little kick of flash to bring out the tones and texture in her hair. Sorted!
So moral of the story I guess is to think about what is around you - windows, open areas with trees and any limited area of soft light can be a great softbox, while sunlight can be a great kicker light or hair light when working with ambient light. Sometimes you have to control it, and sometimes you can mix it up with flash, but have a good basic understanding of handling ambient light is just as important as knowing how to light things with your own gear!
Take a look at Mitchell Kanashkevich's work for example - just sit and study the images slideshow on the front of his website:
Think about how he's using limited gear and a lot of understanding of ambient light in order to create these stunning images, even using a fire torch as a keylight in one image. Control of light that you'd be proud of if you set up the lighting gear yourself, but showing great understanding of his surroundings and light sources "to hand" to make these images.
You'll notice he has some ebooks - one of these "Seeing the Light" which I haven't read yet, but from the information provided about it, has some beautiful images and explanations on how he gets his results.
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CK Free for men by Calvin Klein is a classy masculine fragrance with a very nice green and aromatic woody composition. It opens with an exquisite top notes fusion of absinthe, jackfruit, Thailand star anise and juniper berries. The top notes composition subtly evolves into a sensuous heart of tobacco leaves, coffee absolute, and South African buchu. The finish is sensual and explicitly masculine. It includes patchouli absolute, oakwood, Texan cedarwood and ironwood.
CK Free for men by Calvin Klein belongs to Woody-Aromatic olfactory group. The perfume was created by Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Ellen Molner and launched in August 2009.
Top notes: absinthe, jackfruit, Thailand star anise, juniper berries.
Heart notes: tobacco leaves, coffee absolute and South African buchu.
Base notes: patchouli absolute, oakwood, Texan cedarwood and ironwood.
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Klaas Vanhee (1982, Mechelen, Belgium) currently lives and works in Ghent. A graduate of the city's LUCA school of arts in the painting department, he recently completed the postgraduate residency programme at HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent. Over the past several months he has exhibited at PHOEBUS Gallery, Rotterdam, De Garage, Mechelen, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Galeria Silvestre, Tarragona, Z33, Hasselt, Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels and Rodolphe Janssen Gallery in Brussels. Drawing is the core of his artistic practice. From within the drawing images, sentences, thoughts, video work, paintings, sculptures and even guitars arise. Often dealing with the power, definition and meaning of drawing itself. "In general I live with the idea that drawing tells me how to look, to look better, and to see more."
Karel Verhoeven (1982, Gent, Belgium), lives and works in Ghent. He graduated in Visual Arts, media art at the School Of Arts in Ghent, has a bachelor in Performance and Media Studies at UGent and a bachelor in Graphic and Digital Design at Artevelde Hogeschool. He has been a resident artist at the Masereelcentrum in Kasterlee (BE, 2016), Isola Comacina (IT, 2015), M HKA (BE, 2015), Lanzarote (ES, 2013). Verhoeven is mainly interested in the formal and social use of public and shared places. Project-wise, he adapts existing places in a playful, sculptural and architectural way. Next to that, he observes, analyses and reconstructs specific demarcated places. Like an archaeologist he is looking for hidden material: artefacts, sound and videomaterial. This material becomes restructured and filtered resulting in a videowork, book, exhibition or performance. His most recent solo exhibition and performances include: GRAVEN at the BANK Gallery, Topos Sonos with Emi Kodama and Elias Heuninck (premiere in June at Mu.ZEE), Unedited Architecture (Performatik / Beursschouwburg, Campo), Föhn Le Fenêtre (Vooruit). Recently he created a commissioned permanent art integration at the Westerbegraafpark in Gent, currently he is busy with a permanent art integration project at De Lovie in Poperinge.Last updated : 08/06/2018


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Osinbajo, Emefiele for made-in-Nigeria festival on Sept. 26
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is one of the dignitaries expected at the 2016 edition of the Made-in-Nigeria festival in Eko Atlantic City, the emerging new smart city being built by South Energyx Nigeria Limited (SENL).
Vice Chairman of the firm, Ronald Chagoury Jr., pledged that it would be an event Nigerians would be proud of, adding that it would begin from September 26 to October 1.
Chagoury said that Senate President Bukola Saraki, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele, Chairman, First Bank Nigeria Plc, Ibukun Awosika, amongst others, are to grace the event.
He explained: "At SENL, the commitment to promote the local content can be seen in the construction methods applied in the building of the Eko Atlantic project."
Chagoury described the Eko Atlantic as a visionary project achieved by a team of major local and international partners, with the aim of becoming Africa's main business hub.
Other activities lined up include exhibitions, featuring made-in-Nigeria products and services, as well as a Tech Exposition and Hackfest, a special technology symposium and 'hackaton' featuring about 150 young Nigerian inventors.
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On Thursday 2nd March year 5 and 6 had a tag rugby tournament at Lympstone Primary School. Each team played twice and the top three teams got through to the final. We played Marpool first and we won 5-4. Next we played St Peters and we won 5-2. After all of the matches we went to see who had got into the final; Otterton, Brixington and Bassets Farm.We played Brixington and drew 1-1 then we played Bassets Farm but lost 6-3. We came third but everyone played exceptionally.
Josh Smith Rugby Captain.
Tag Rugby tournament organised by Exeter Chiefs at Sidmouth Rugby Club training pitches.
Congratulations to everyone who played so brilliantly and with so much energy and enthusiasm. We drew our first match and won all of the others.
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Whenever we have a parish pilgrimage to Rome, we always visit the magnificent but charming Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, better known as the Chiesa Nuova, or New Church. This served as the center of operation for St. Philip Neri, the fun-loving saint who combined humor with holiness, and whose work resulted in the foundation of the Oratorians.
O God, who didst exalt thy blessed Confessor St. Philip Neri to the glory of thy Saints: mercifully grant that we, who rejoice in his festival, may learn to follow rightly the pattern of his godliness; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.


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Archive for October, 2013
Hooked on beads
After tatting a million versions of my own pattern, I sat down to make this a few weeks ago, missed off a ring and ended up with a more open wreath shape than I was expecting. I stuck with it though, and I think it's fine (not perfect, but fine). I added the beads to […]
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Bearly there
This is just a speedy post as I should be doing about five other things. Its seems like today has been really busy but I'm not even sure I've got anything done… Gah. Never mind. Anyway, this is the little bear I crocheted the other week. He's quite small… He fits into the palm of […]
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Cheshire is a beautiful county in north-west England, close to two of the country's largest cities – Manchester and Liverpool. Its county town is Chester and it is home to more than one million people.
The western edge of Cheshire forms part of England's border with Wales, meaning the eye-catching beaches of north Wales and the rugged terrain of Snowdonia are never too far away. Other major settlements in Cheshire include Crewe, Congleton, Warrington, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn and Wilmslow.
In years gone by, the county included some areas that are now part of Merseyside and Greater Manchester, but border changes has meant a reduction in size. Nonetheless, links to these towns remain excellent, making Cheshire an incredibly well connected county.
As well as a number of charming and historic towns, the region boasts vast areas of countryside. Many rural communities still maintain a traditional way of life, with Cheshire historically famous for the production of Cheshire cheese, chemicals, silk and salt.
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by Joanne Shenandoah/Lawrence Laughing
(this poem translates Lawrence Laughing's language verbatim)
"In respect to our home the earth, we say thank you to the earth
For everything she gives us, nourishing us every day.
We give thanks to all the water in the world, everything within that water.
We give thanks to all the grass that lives on the land.
We give thanks to all the berries, the fruits, the medicines.
We give thanks to the animals that keep the forests clean.
We give thanks to all the trees for their different uses that they give to us,
For shelters, for fires that we make in the winter time keeping us warm.
We give thanks to the birds who sing their beautiful songs.
We give thanks to the four winds.
We give thanks to the grandfathers, the ones that bring rain.
We give thanks to our oldest brother, the sun, who shines his light every day.
We give thanks to our oldest grandmother, the moon,
For she is the one that has been charged with the duty
To make sure that light has a continuance.
She is the one that watches over all the movements
Of the water and also the water within us.
We give thanks to the stars, her helper.
And we give a special thanksgiving to the four sacred beings
That watch over the human family.
Sometimes we notice them when we are traveling in dangerous places.
They are the ones that come to our minds
And say go around, don't go further
To protect us and steer us away from danger.
So that's what we do.
We start right from the earth and we climb the ladder
Right to the special place beyond the heavens
Where there's a special spirit that lives there,
The spirit that makes it possible for us to be here
And everything that we have mentioned.
And so with collectiveness of our hearts and minds
We send a special thanksgiving and greeting to the spirit of us all."
Happy Thanksgiving!
Prayer for Peace, Lawrence Laughing
Lawrence Laughing
Mother Earth, Joanne Shenandoah


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One month after joining PRX as a Web Application Developer, I'm happy to report that I'm having a great time, learning rapidly, and already beginning to make some improvements on prx.org. I'm Rebecca Nesson, PRX's newest technical staff member.
The PRX offices are only a short distance from my old digs in the Computer Science department at Harvard from which I am receiving a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics on Thursday. (Really, who doesn't want computers to learn to speak English?) And I feel right at home sharing space with the Berkman Center where I studied cyberlaw when I was a law student at HLS and worked on educational technology as a research fellow after I graduated. After many years in academia I wanted to work in a production environment where I could improve my engineering skills. But I didn't want to go just anywhere. It had to be an organization that was doing something really cool. Enter PRX…
PRX is leading the way in helping public radio to flourish at a time when many other forms of media are struggling to remain current. In my view, the key to our success is figuring out how to streamline the best parts of what public radio already does and envision new ways that public radio can serve and grow its audience. We do that by building the technology to make it happen. As a programmer at PRX my work is to build the media environment I want to live in. That is cool.
In the near future I'll be contributing to PRX by working on the core web application. As I get more experienced here I hope to be able to bring some of my computational expertise to bear on our technology and to help integrate PRX content creatively into online educational experiences.
When I'm not at PRX I'm generally hanging out with my family, which has grown from two to four people in the last year and a half. I'm also a big supporter of local farming and I volunteer as a board member at Waltham Fields Community Farm.


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SMV Reunited Episode 2 Recap(In Case You Missed It)
The ladies of SWV are back in episode 2 of SMV Reunited!
First and foremost! Coko is Cancer free!
Now that we have that praise break out of the way, let's get right to it! So after Coko finds out she is Cancer free, she decides to treat herself to tummy tuck in order to keep up with the current R&B girls. LeLe also decides to have a Brazilian butt lift. Doesn't sound like a bad idea you say? Wrong! The ladies have a tour date at S.O.B's in NYC in two weeks. There is clearly no way to properly recover from major surgery in that short amount of time. Coko & LeLe decide to go through with their surgeries, and also decide to leave Taj and Cory(their manager) in the dark about the whole thing. This is all bad, but hey Queen Bey and Sia said it best, "Pretty Hurts"
Fast forward to after the surgery, Taj and Cory are waiting on Coko and LeLe to arrive for rehearsal. They both arrive looking like who done it, and why? Coko and LeLe reveal to Taj and Cory that they both have had surgery, and of course Taj is not pleased and reacts in her dramatic way(can't be mad with her), and Cory says he ain't canceling shit!(our words). This whole plastic surgery idea wasn't thought out at all. Did they really think they would be recovered enough to perform. Mind you the performance is 5 days away.
The group jet to New York for the concert, and Coko and LeLe arrive in pain after the plain ride. While in NY the group has a meeting with Jeff Robinson about possibly coming on as manager of SWV, without giving Cory the heads up. This right here was shady! While I see why the group may want new management this could have been done in more civilized and less secret manner. The meeting goes off without a hitch, and the ladies decide to take Jeff on as their new manager. Coko works out an agreement for Cory to stay on as road manager(
After the meeting we discover that the ladies are obligated to do one more album with the label that put out " I Missed Us" but they don't want to do business with the label, because of the way the last album was handled. Their last album was excellent, but not really promoted the way it should have been. There were at least two more singles and videos that could have come from that album. The group meets with the label head, and he is not letting the group out of the deal. They are forced to call their lawyer, who states that it shouldn't be hard to get them out of the deal.
Performance night arrives in NY. Coko is still in pain and heavily medicated. She has to go on stage with a cane, and she is visibly out of it during the performance. Coko is a trooper, and she digs deep belts out the high notes in "Weak" they pull it off. Now this is where it gets good. The group decides to inform Cory that they have decided to bring on Jeff Robinson as manager, and he has been demoted to road manager(
SHADE BUT NO SHADE). Cory is not happy, and rightfully so, and he proceeds to "Queen Out" He knocks the glasses off the table and storms out of the room. Now let's not forget that Cory and Coko are "close friends".
Coko is not feeling the way Cory reacted, and essentially ends their friendship. Keep in mind the group has several upcoming tour dates. This is not looking good at all. Check back next week!
Whut say you?


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a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
Ancient A·ver·nus.
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a crater lake in Italy, near Naples: in ancient times regarded as an entrance to hellLatin name: Avernus (əˈvɜːnəs)
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from Latin, from Greek aornos without birds, from a- 1 + ornis bird; referring to the legend that the lake's sulphurous exhalations killed birds
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Title: Memorabilia and Other Useful Things
Author: Illwynd
Summary: Remember Pippin's little pouch where he kept a spare pipe? Here's all the other things he kept there.
Disclaimer: Tolkien takes the credit for the good. I take the blame for the bad.
Notes: Written for Exercise 6 at LJ comm There n Back
In the ruin of Isengard, the Three Hunters sat with the two hobbits, taking their ease and talking together while they could. Gimli puffed thoughtfully on the pipe that Pippin had given him, and suddenly turned to the young hobbit.
"What other treasures do you keep in that pouch of yours, if I may be so bold as to ask? I had never seen it on you before."
Pippin smiled at this. "Well, it's just… things. Sometimes useful things like that pipe I gave you, and nothing of any great value to anyone else… most of it, I guess, you would wonder why I carry. My cousin over here," he gave Merry a playful shove, "calls me a pack-rat. Once when we were younger, he stole it from me, just to see what I would do without it."
"And I do recall you wailed about it until I took pity and gave it back, then you huddled away with it in a corner to make sure nothing was missing," Merry said with a grin. By now even Strider and Legolas were curious, and they all prodded Pippin with questions until he gave in. He set the little pouch down on the rock in front of him, and spread its soft fabric out carefully, touching each object within as if counting them. The others leaned close to look. Some of the objects were identifiable, some not. A small clear blue stone carved into the shape of a mushroom, a little piece of torn yellow fabric, a button, a little dried thing that looked like it might have once been a flower, an unidentifiable grey-brown dried thing, a twig, a grey pebble, a folded slip of paper. Also there was a bit of flint, a needle and thread, and a knife smaller than a hobbit's little finger in a worn leather sheath. These last he set aside.
"Useful things there, obviously. Now, let's see…" He picked up the little blue stone, rubbed it briefly between his fingers. "Old Bilbo gave me this, I suppose it was one of his treasures from his adventure, but I can't imagine who made it or why. He gave it to me when I was quite young, and would always manage to appear at his door whenever he was cooking mushrooms, or so he said. He told me that if I kept it with me, I would always have at least one mushroom, and so never be completely deprived. I think this was the first of my collection." He set it back down on the cloth reverently.
Next he picked up the scrap of yellow fabric. "You probably won't believe me about this, but this was once part of the loveliest dress I have ever seen. A sweet lass who tumbled with me in the fields, my first and only, gave me this. She tore it straight from the hem of her dress. 'So you'll never forget me,' she said. I haven't. Someday I think I will marry her," He said with a wistful sigh.
His face grew a wide smile as he touched the unidentifiable dried thing. "This here is a memorial of the first time I had a too much to drink. I vaguely recall having a bit of supper at the Green Dragon, and I remember there were mushrooms, but I don't remember sticking one of the mushrooms in my pocket, probably thinking I'd save it for later. Apparently I did, though, for I found one there the next morning, and I dried it and kept it as a reminder to myself that there is such a thing as too much ale."
"And this," He continued, picking up the little twig, "is a twig I found on the ground in Fangorn. All this stuff is to remember people and places I don't ever want to forget. This pebble here is from Hollin, and this is one of those pretty little elanor flowers from Lothlorien." He didn't even touch the withered flower, just pointed to it, as if afraid it would crumble, though it had survived whatever jostling it had endured in the little pouch in all his travels.
"This one…" he paused, picking up the button and gazing at it, a smile and a frown fighting for control of his expression, "This was one of Boromir's buttons. I found it on the ground one morning… two months ago now, I guess… I suppose I should have given it back to him, but I… I wanted it for my collection." He looked down, the frown finally winning.
The others sat in silence uncomfortably until Legolas asked, "What about that slip of paper? What is written on it?"
Pippin looked up, coming back from far away. "Oh, that." He smiled mischievously. "That is the prize of all prizes. It's my list of all the times I have ever pulled a prank on Merry and gotten away with it!" He barely managed to close up the pouch again before Merry pounced.


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One day tour to Uzgen town that was one of the capitals of the Karakhanid State in the 11th and 12th centuries. Visiting of famous minarets that are considered to be one of the best preserved monuments of Karakhanids period in Kyrgyzstan.
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Connect Your IoT Devices to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform
By Naveen Balani, published on June 2, 2016
When you connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices (devices that support Intel® microcontrollers such as the Intel® Edison board, Intel® Curie™ compute module, and Intel® IoT gateways) to the IBM Watson IoT* platform, you can rapidly build IoT apps that realize your IoT use case. This article provides guidelines to help you make just such a connection to your Watson IoT* Platform environment.
IBM Watson IoT* Platform and IBM Bluemix*
The IBM Watson IoT* Platform is a fully managed, cloud-hosted service that makes it simple to derive value from IoT devices. The platform provides device management capabilities as well as data collection and management in a time series format. As part of IBM's Platform as a Service offering, IBM Bluemix*, you can use the IBM Watson IoT* Platform to rapidly build IoT apps from the catalog of services available in IBM Bluemix*. You can choose from such IoT app options as storage services, rules, analytics services, stream analytics, machine learning, visualization, and user apps (web or mobile). You can also embed cognitive capabilities in your IoT apps by using IBM Watson services available in IBM Bluemix*.
Communication Strategy
The IBM Watson IoT* Platform supports the MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol, which is the foundation for all communication between Intel or other IoT devices and the IBM Watson IoT Platform. MQTT is lightweight message-oriented middleware based on a publish-subscribe model. The protocol was designed for machine-to-machine communication that involves a small data footprint. The publish-subscribe model relies on a message broker, which mediates interactions between interested clients based on the topic of message. Clients can act as subscribers, consuming messages from topics, or as publishers, publish messages to corresponding topics. In the context of the IoT, IoT devices connect to a central MQTT broker over TPC to send and receive messages. MQTT is widely used in resource-constrained devices and networks where high bandwidth is an issue. For details about MQTT, see A Comparison of IoT Gateway Protocols: MQTT and Modbus.
The IBM Watson IoT* Platform provides device client libraries that make it easier to connect devices to the platform. Client libraries are available in the Python*, Java*, Embedded C, Node.js*, and C# programming languages. For details about the client library application programming interface (API), see IBM Documentation and Reference Material.
An alternative to connecting Intel devices to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform is using the open source Eclipse* Paho MQTT Library, which provides a client implementations of MQTT. To use Paho, you'll need to pick up a supported Paho MQTT library—for example, Microsoft .Net for Windows® 10 devices or a C client for devices that support that programming language.
Figure 1 illustrates how Intel® IoT devices can communicate with the IBM Watson IoT* platform.
Connecting the Intel® Edison Board to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform
For connecting Intel® Edison boards to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform, you have your choice of C or C++, JavaScript*, or the Java library that the IBM Watson IoT* Platform provides. You can also use the Paho MQTT Library directly to connect the devices to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform.
To interact with sensors and actuators on boards, Intel provides the libmraa library. This library provides an abstraction layer on top of supported hardware so that you can read data from sensors and actuators in a standard way and create portable code that works across supported platforms.
When the sensor data is read, it is transmitted to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform using the MQTT protocol over the supported network. You typically convert the data into a format like JavaScript* Object Notation instead of sending the raw data over MQTT using the device client library. The device can connect directly to the Internet and to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform by using Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection, or it can connect to an Intel gateway that then connects to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform.
To connect to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform, you must register your device with the IBM Watson IoT* Platform. Then, you receive an organization ID—a unique six-character identifier for your account. A IBM Watson IoT* Platform Organization acts like a domain, where data is accessible only from devices and apps in that domain. When you have registered your devices, those devices and API keys are bound to that Organization. When an application connects to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform by using an API key, that connection registers with the Organization that "owns" the API key. The combination makes it impossible for devices and apps that aren't part of the same Organization to communicate with each other. For detailed instructions on registering devices, see How to Register Devices in IBM IoT Foundation.
Connect the Intel® Curie™ Compute Module to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform
The Intel® Curie™ module is a system on a chip (SoC) that uses an Intel® Quark™ processor. It provides a complete low-power solution that's designed for wearable devices and consumer and industrial edge products. The Intel® Curie™ module has a built-in six-axis combo sensor and features a Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth® LE) radio and low power usage, making it the perfect board for "always-on" projects like health and fitness monitors.
To start prototyping and developing apps, you can use the Arduino 101*/Genuino 101* development board, which ships with the Intel® Curie™ module. The Arduino* IDE lets you write a program (called as sketch in Arduino) that reads values from sensors. The sensor data is then transmitted to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform over MQTT using the supported network. The Intel® Curie™ module provides support for Bluetooth® LE, and one option is to connect the Intel® Curie™ module to a smartphone over Bluetooth®, using the smartphone's cellular or Wi-Fi connectivity as a hub to connect to the Internet. The Intel® Curie™ module provides dedicated Bluetooth® LE libraries which make it easier to communicate with other devices that support Bluetooth® (read the Intel® Curie® Bluetooth® Reference Guide for more details). Another option is to connect the Intel® Curie™ module to an Intel gateway by Bluetooth®; the gateway then connects to the Watson IoT* Platform. Other options are available, as well, such as using a Wi-Fi shield with an Arduino 101* board to enable the development board to connect to the Internet directly. The network strategy you choose depends on your use case and how the end product will be used.
Note: Stay tuned for Intel® System Studio for Microcontrollers, an Eclipse-integrated software suite that eases development and helps you create exciting consumer and industrial solutions with the Intel® Curie™ module.
Connect an Intel® Gateway to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform
An Intel® IoT Gateway is required when devices are unable to connect directly to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform because of protocol-incompatibility issues or require that existing data from the device pass through a central entity for various requirements. Typical requirements include filtering out the data at the edge and transferring the relevant data to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform, performing local analytics for real-time insights, or ensuring network security and compliance.
The protocol-incompatibility issues are particularly common when connecting and integrating with legacy industrial devices or home automation devices (for example, smart building solutions), which typically employ protocols like ZigBee* or Z-Wave*. Employing an Intel® IoT Gateway device gives you the option of connecting these smart devices to your gateway and collecting the data using the protocol that these devices support. The gateway then transfers the data to the cloud using the protocol that the cloud platform supports.
IBM Watson IoT* Intel Device Recipes
To start connecting Intel® IoT devices to your IBM Watson IoT* Platform, IBM* provides a set of recipes (running code and documentation) as part of the IBM developerWorks* Recipe community. The following recipes are currently available for Intel® IoT devices:
Connect your Intel® Edison Board to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform and visualize your data
Connect an Intel® Galileo Board to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform
Build IoT Apps with the IBM Watson IoT* Platform and Bluemix*
When device data is available to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform, you can start to visualize the data. The data from devices is available in a corresponding topic for consumption and apps (that is, Bluemix* services) can subscribe to the topic to consume the device data. For instance, you can create a Node-RED* Bluemix service that you would invoke when the message arrives on the corresponding topic. In the Node-RED service, you can create an application flow based on your requirements to invoke other Bluemix* services (for example, MongoDB* to store the device data), create rules to filter and process the data using rules service, and invoke IBM SPSS* machine learning services to analyze the data and predict an outcome. Finally, you could use the IBM* Push Notification service to send notifications to mobile devices.
In this article, you learned how to connect Intel® IoT devices to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform. When data is made available to the IBM Watson IoT* Platform, you can consume it and rapidly build IoT apps by composing corresponding Bluemix* services, realizing your IoT use case.


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Nicholson Museum Post-Lesson at Kogarah Public School
15 September 2011
Twenty eight students from Years 5 and 6 at Kogarah Public School recently spent an hour of their school day talking about Ancient Egyptian mythology and amulets as part of their Nicholson Museum post-lesson. The one hour post-lesson was delivered by two Compass volunteers, Georgie and Veronika, and covered topics including the Eye of Horus and the role of the god Anubis in mummification. Georgie and Veronika were very impressed by how much the students had remembered from their visit to the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum - well done 5/6E!
The post-lesson was delivered as part of Compass' new 3-Phase Program, an enriched learning program piloted this year. The core of the program is an excursion for students to visit a University of Sydney museum or event, and their experiences during this visit are consolidated during a teacher-led pre-lesson and the volunteer-led post-lesson. There is a particularly emphasis throughout the program on drawing connections to higher education. Compass volunteers are able to deliver post-lessons through the Classroom Activity Facilitators volunteer program.
The teacher's feedback about the Nicholson Museum 3 Phase Program was very positive: "Great idea to make extra links with the university activities". Kogarah Public School is one of a number of schools who have chosen to participate on the 3-Phase Program and we look forward to delivering more post-lessons soon.
Thanks to Kogarah Public School for welcoming our volunteers so warmly and thanks to Georgie and Veronika for doing a great job on the day.


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