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I was surprised when I received a Kindle for Christmas. But even more surprising was that I liked it. I appreciated it's simplicity.
Given that I'm a bibliophile, people are surprised that I didn't already own an e-reader. With an e-reader I can possess a ridiculous amount of books in one little device.
The Weekly Writing Challenge posed the question: if you were a bibliophile, wouldn't you love the ease of carrying around hundreds of books in a small device?
For me the answer is no. Rarely do I want to carry around hundreds of books with me, just one.
Carrying around an iPod with thousands of songs on it makes sense. I don't know what music I might want to listen to on a bus ride home from work.
But if I'm on a bus reading a book, I will only read whatever book I'm reading at the time. Why would I carry around novels I read two years ago?
I take great pleasure in holding a physical book in my hands. It's more than just a love of reading. There is a love of the physical object itself and the form it takes. It comforts me that they fill my home.
True to my bibliophile nature there are bookshelves in almost every room in my house. When I answered the poll for the Daily Post Challenge there was no question that I prefer paperback books to e-books.
E-books cannot fill that sacred space. A thin, electronic device doesn't evoke the same comfort as a bookshelf.
But I now own an e-reader, so why not try it? I was eager to experience it for myself and understand the other side of the argument.
The first book I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. There was something comfortable about reading this simple book on a simple device.
Then there are the ten pound tomes I pick up from time to time. Game of Thrones series? Going on the e-reader.
But I think the biggest advantage will be the accessibility of magazines. On any given month I may pick up Harper's, The Atlantic, or the New Yorker. Downloading issues on the Kindle will broaden what I read without building up the clutter.
Two of my nephews received Kindle's for Christmas as well. As the aunt who always buys them a stack of books as gifts, I find myself wondering what their experience will be. Twenty years from now when they are asked this question, will they be devoted to their e-reader, or will they still have a love for the book?
Among us bibliophiles there is a fear that the book as an object will one day be extinct. When I thought about my nephews with their Kindles, I understood that their was a place for both.
People will use whichever form they need to read. If it takes an e-reader for my nephews to read, then so be it. But you know, whenever I go to Powell's I'm still standing in a line of people who are all buying books.


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Friday, 6 December 2013
A sleeping city, a storyteller and some simians... Updates!
There are some details up now on the Big Finish site for my next Doctor Who play The Sleeping City. They include a rather lovely cover, an intriguing trailer, a little bit of teaser synopsis and the all important 'click on the button and buy it' option. Buying direct from Big Finish naturally gives them more profit than buying their productions elsewhere on-line does, so do please buy from the site if you can.
As the trailer and synopsis reveal, it's a science fiction story about a futuristic city where everyone's being encouraged to think and feel the same way. The story's framed by Ian Chesterton, back on Earth, telling the story of this adventure to an interrogator who, quite understandably, thinks the way Ian, Barbara and one of their pupils vanished from Coal Hill School is distinctly suspicious.
I always thought Ian and Barbara would have a hell of a time fitting back in once they got home. I suspect 60s England changed nearly as much as they did in the couple of years they were away. Ian seems to have learned at least one Beatles song released in their absence, but did they even know Kennedy was assassinated?
After Remembrance of the Daleks was screened, in which we discover Coal Hill School and the missing pupil's home address were overrun by warlike aliens almost straight after the three of them disappeared, I became convinced there'd be a lot of hard questions awaiting them on their return. Reworking an idea that had started as a notion for a Rachel Jenson based Counter-Measures story that never quite gelled, it suddenly occurred to me who'd be the first to be ask Ian those hard questions!
Hopefully, the paranoid 60s Cold War plot and the Science Fiction fable cross-fertilise a little. I guess both strands are about social control and fear of outsiders to a degree. I'm really looking forward to this coming out.
Still available is the collection of short stories for charity in memory of the rather fantastic writer Matt Kimpton, a friend who lived with Cystic Fibrosis but not long enough for my liking.. It is now available in hard cover form as well as an ebook.
It's an entirely not for profit thing done by a lot of smashing authors (and me), that is trying to do a tiny bit of good, so I'd really love it if a few of you bought it.
Still not quite available, because we had to sort out a few tech things with microphones and levels and people being in the same room and things, but coming jolly soon is RiffTrax Presents... King of Kong Island. That's me and writer Matthew J Elliot helping you through a rather challengingly odd movie by talking in the quiet bits and it's something I hope a lot of you will have fun with when it's released. It contains many several jokes and good bits and Northern English accents.
Those are the definitely happening now/soon things. I need to go off and make some other things happen now.
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My T Tauri image needs a lot of love to bring out the nebulosity surrounding it – my images have always been noisy and I'm not entirely sure how much of that is just how the sensor is and how much of it is the processing. Anyway – the nebulosity around T Tauri actually goes by the name of NGC 1555/Hind's Variable Nebula. Since T Tauri varies in brightness, so does the the visibility of the nebulosity. I think if you wanted to be able to see the nebula vary in brightness with as long of an exposure as this you'd have to come back to image it after at least a season, if not a couple years. The shorter term period of 2.81 days wouldn't let you get nearly as deep of an image with your average scope, although you might be able to see changes in the bright part right next to the star. NGC 1555 is a reflection nebula – the light from T Tauri is enough to illuminate the nearby dust, but not enough to ionize it to the point of becoming an emission nebula. I really want to come back to this in a few years and see how it might change.
Noise Reduction
Next thing I need to do is reduce the noise in the RGB and Luminance images with TGVDenoise. The first few times I processed this data, I did all these steps after combining RGB + L, but while searching for information on how to use TGVDenoise with linear RGB images I saw a lot of people saying that RGB and Luminance should be processed separately as long as possible. Even with just the TGVDenoise step, I've seen that I've had to use slightly different settings for the RGB and Luminance image so I have high hopes that this version will turn out better than the first time(s).
The default TGVDenoise settings are way too aggressive for my images. Strength starts out at 5.0, and edge protection starts out at .002. The default of 2.0 for smoothness works pretty well though. I also increased the number of iterations to 350. Entering the values for this process can be done one of two ways – either by entering the full value in the left side box, or by entering the significant figures in the box on the left side of the slider and the exponent on the right. Kind of useful for the edge protection value, since that is apparently quite sensitive to changes in the value and is usually a pretty small value.
Since the image is still linear I used the RGB/K mode for both RGB and Luminance.
I didn't use the Local Support because it wrecked the image – from what I've seen it's supposed to use a clone of the image to help protect it, but in my image it just made rings of all the stars regardless of playing with the settings. Kind of looks like what happens with water drops on paper…
Here's the before and after of the process applied to the RGB image:
And here's the before and after with the luminance image:
For the luminance I had to reduce the strength from .9 down to .7 – if I had tried this process with RGB+L I would have probably had to stick with the lower value and not reduced as much noise as possible for the color.
Stretching Images
I decided to go with Masked Stretch this time for no other reason than I hadn't used it before and saw it pop up often in the processing steps listed on several Reddit r/astrophotography posts. Usually I use the Histogram Transformation process and clip the histogram that way, but this is definitely easier. These are the default settings for Masked Stretch and they worked great on my luminance image. I did have to increase he target background to .150 for the RGB image, but everything else was good. The stretch makes the darkest parts of the background kind of noisy looking for the luminance image, but even playing around with the settings I didn't see a result I liked better. Most of them cut out too much detail.
Reducing star sizes
I tried to do the LRGB combination next, but the star sizes in the luminance image were so much bigger than in the RGB image that it was making things look weird – the image was really washed out and seemed to lose a lot of the color. I followed a tutorial from Light Vortex Astronomy here on how to reduce star sizes. Basically you create a contour star mask and use Morphological Transformation to reduce the stars a bit. The contours should match the shape of the stars as closely as possible, and cover only stars, not background noise.
I used the same settings as the tutorial, except I had to reduce selection from .20 to .10 to reduce the stars by the amount I wanted – .20 wasn't quite aggressive enough.
LRGB Combination
Combining the luminance with the RGB is pretty straightforward with the LRGBCombination process – set the L option to the view that contains your stretched luminance image, adjust the channel weights as needed, and drag the triangle to apply it to the view with the RGB image. Since I did my color calibration already (and this is only adding luminance anyway) I left the weights all as 1. I did reduce the value of the saturation transfer function to try to get a bit more color though (50/50 on whether that was a good idea or not).
Reducing Bright Stars
The 3 brightest stars could still be a little smaller, especially T Tauri itself since it's creeping up on the reflection nebula. To do this, create a range mask instead of a star mask and use HDRMultiscaleTransform on the image. The settings for the range mask will depend on your image – basically what I did was mess around with the upper and lower limit on RangeSelection until I got spots that corresponded to my brighter stars, and then increased the smoothness to 30 or 40 to get blurrier edges. I then repeated the RangeSelection process on the range mask itself (2 more times), tweaking the smoothness and the limits until it looked like this:
The diffraction spikes made one of the stars kind of square but I think it still worked. Apply the mask to the image and apply these HDRMultiscaleTransformation settings:
It's pretty subtle but it tightened up T Tauri and kept it from blurring into the adjacent nebula.
Local Histogram Equalization
The last thing I did was increase a tiny bit of the contrast with the LocalHistogramEqualization process. I used the range mask from above, but inverted to protect the star areas. I increased the kernel radius to give a better sampling of the image and reduce the contrast limit and amount way down to keep the result from creating too harsh of a boundary between the nebulosity and the background. This one is 50% of the new result and 50% of the original image, anything more than this and it was just too harsh.
At this point I'm having a hard time figuring if this image has been overprocessed, underprocessed, or if there was a better way to do this, so I'm calling this one done for now — constructive criticism pending. I'll probably come back to it sooner than later since I have so much data on this pretty little star and I really want to see what it looks like when it's at its best. One thing I really want to figure out is how to make this thing less splotchy and noisy – it seemed like the more I did to try to fix it the worse it got. There were actually other processes I tried but they either didn't solve whichever problem I was trying to solve or made it worse. Another issue is the color – the RGB image was much redder than this, and that matches some of the other images I've seen of T Tauri. I'm not sure why the combination with the luminance image made it look like this. The red is still there since you can see it in some of the stars, but it's not quite what I think it should be.
I was playing around with some of the scripts available in PixInsight and found this cool one called Annotate Image. You can pick from almost any useful catalog of objects (or add your own if needed) to find and label objects in your image. There's an option to remove duplicates, so if you have them, make sure to sort the catalogs used in your annotation to match your own order of importance – I had to move the GCVS catalog above the TYCHO-2 catalog so T Tauri would be labeled T Tau and not some TYC-blah-blah name.


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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The cook and I were the only ones in the rectory at the time of the quake. I was on the second floor and didn't know what was going on when the place started shaking. I sat on the floor until a break in the shaking, at which time I went part of the way down the stairs with laptop in hand, only to be stopped by lots of dust rushing up the stairway and concrete blocks crumbling at the doorway. I returned and looked out the upstairs porch to hear screams from nearby hillsides, indicating that it probably was an earthquake rather than a structural problem or some sort of attack on the building where I was.
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We sit on the bench in the hospital corridor
next to the cafeteria, and we wait.
You know what waiting is.
If you know anything, you know what waiting is.
It's not about you.
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(From: "What Waiting Is," by Robert Carroll, 1998)
We are all forced to wait many times in our lives, and this week, I'll be in the role of the loved one, the spouse, who will likely be experiencing the toe-tapping, check-my-wrist watches moments where I am rendered powerless to do anything but wait. As my husband's surgery date has drawn closer, the undercurrent of worry and restless nights has increased. By day, I am calm and supportive, by night, the concern and anxiety rise to the surface as I lie in the dark. Anyone who is living, as the patient undergoing surgery or the family member restlessly sitting in the surgical waiting room, knows the tension and anxiety of waiting intimately. This kind of waiting, whether patient or family member, is torment, as writer Susan Gubar describes:
Hurrying up to wait is, of course, the fate of most patients, whether or not they have cancer and no matter how impatient they may be. But for cancer patients, waiting entails being enveloped in heightened fears about harmful protocols and the difficulty of eradicating or containing the disease. While I'm waiting, who knows what appalling cells are conspiring within my body to destroy my being? (From: Well, "Living With Cancer: Hurry Up and Wait," The New York Times, December 3, 2015).
But for the family members confined to the surgical waiting room, the experience of waiting during the surgery and for the news of the surgical outcome, the hands of the clock on the wall move slowly, despite how many times we check it or our watches. It's a different kind of agony.
"Here, stress, anxiety, uncertainty and fear serve to make even the shortest of waits seem unbearable. Families sit crouched forward in their uncomfortable chairs watching the door in hopes of preservation of a life or, unfortunately, sometimes by a less desirable outcome." –Kevin Campbell, MD, "The Psychology of the Surgical Waiting Room: Personal Adventures in Waiting," 2012)
It's been decades since I waited for more than an hour in a hospital waiting room for anything more than a loved one's minor surgical procedure. Thursday's surgery will be much longer; a two-hour pre-op process, the actual surgery estimated to be three and one half hours. Time will, I know, seem elongated, as if it stands still. "Every watch is broken in the waiting room, " Nurse Sonja Schwartzbach writes in a recent Huffington Post article, "better to count your blessings than to measure the seconds." Kevin Campbell, MD, notes there are four common themes to the psychology of waiting:
- Unoccupied time feels longer than occupied time. I'm armed with novels and my computer to help the time pass. Weather permitting, I may take a walk.
- Anxiety makes waits seem longer. Like it or not, we feel anxiety when a loved one is under the knife. Endurance may be the only solution–that and deep breathing.
- Uncertain waits seem longer than finite waits. I have an estimate of the total time before my husband is out of surgery from the moment he is admitted for the pre-op procedure. That helps, but I doubt it will have only minimum impact on the monotony, anxiety and fatigue of waiting.
- Solo waits seem longer than group waits. I expect this may well be true for many people. I'm not one of them, preferring to keep my worry quiet. The well-intentioned concern expressed as questions about next steps, treatment options, referrals to another specialist tend to exacerbate the anxiety I feel.
"For family members…the moment my patient is wheeled into the operating room is when loved-one-limbo begins," Schwartzbach states. "Everyone feels like an uninvited guest in an unfamiliar residence…the element of the unknown prevails…" She describes the difference in the way strangers interact in a hospital waiting room: some share laughs and jokes; some sit still and lifeless, waiting for a surgical update. Others, and I am in this category, sit, observing the dynamic, waiting for what has been unraveled in one's life to be stitched back together. "Doctors use sutures and glue. Writers use moments and moods. One heals the body…the other heals the soul."
Waiting has never been easy for me. I am action-oriented, even impatient at times, yet I know that while time may seem unending on Thursday, I will have no choice but to accept what I cannot control, to let things unfold as they will. It's life– it requires I learn to wait.
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
(From The Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot, 1943)
Writing Suggestions
- Write about an experience of having tests, biopsies, or surgeries as part of your treatment for cancer. Describe the waiting, what you felt and why. You might try writing a poem that also captures the experience of waiting for results when the outcome could be either positive or negative.
- If you are the partner or family member of a person who has undergone serious surgery, write about the waiting, the waiting room, the emotions that accompanied your wait in either narrative or poetic form.
- If you have any advice to those who are going through treatments, tests and surgeries and waiting for the outcomes, what would it be. Try writing an open letter to these individuals.


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Ford GT40 Race Car Fetches $11 Million at Auction
The idea of a 1960s Ford car and a multi-million-dollar price tag appearing in the same sentence or even on the same page seemed far-fetched — until now. A 1968 Ford GT40 race car sold for $11 million at RM Auctions' California sale last night.
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Tachi, Guns. are all fake shuris.
Wiz, 400% cdmg to support razor wind + ice glyph(-def with out extra time)
Time to fox pounce!
Please don't ever compare two of the most fun and real classes that take some thought and play in a game where there is already so little needed to the classes that play themselves (Shuriken, Lancer, and Holy Sword; I'll just barely give Ravager a pass these days which should let you know what I think about you calling the Ravager weak too).
Tachi is many times better than Shuriken in both skills of the class, play of the class, and even theme (Tachi did the ninja theme thingy first AND better; the Shuriken only has it's brokeness ruining any potential unique and fun factor, much like the Ravager of old which had a kit with potential made boring by overwhelming strength making the game even more overly easy than it already is).
As for Wizard, no. That actually makes no sense. I know the theme these days is to just throw Shuriken subclass on everything and effectively make yourself a weaker Shuriken that uses you "other" class skills between your tornados, but it still makes no sense to make this a special mention because a Shuriken main is going to do a lot more damage than a Wizard just because it has a 400% crit damage cap (which is also a strain on the class to begin with) so your point doesn't even make sense anyway. A Shuriken is a stronger Shuriken than a Wizard with it as a subclass.


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The card I chose for my inspiration had a gradient glitter star. I chose to do a heart, cut from Wplus9's Heart Stacker die set, and used four different pink glitters. I popped it up with foam, and added a vellum strip, heat embossed using Kiss from the Kiss Me set.
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Ninth-Inning Rally Lifts Bruins to 4-3 Win Over Pepperdine
May 13, 2003
Sean Carpenter scored the game-winning run on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth to give UCLA (25-28) a 4-3 win over Pepperdine (34-19) on Tuesday afternoon.
Ryan McCarthy got the ninth frame started with a lead-off walk, before Brandon Averill followed with a single. Adam Simon followed with a bunt single to load the bases with no outs. A sacrifice fly from Preston Griffin would bring McCarthy home. After a strikeout, Billy Susdorf extended the inning with another walk. Carpenter would prove to be the game-winning run as he scored on a wild pitch from Steve Kleen.
Bruin reliever Doug Silva earned his third save of the season as he kept the Waves from tying the game in the bottom of the frame.
UCLA got on the board early as three consecutive singles from Brett McMillan, Susdorf and an RBI-single from Wes Whisler brought a run across home plate.
Starter Hector Ambriz would keep the Waves at bay until the fourth inning. A lead-off home run from designated hitter Ty Harper started the rally before two more Wave runs would score.
Averill brought the Pepperdine lead down to one run with his eighth home run of the season in the top of the sixth. After six innings, UCLA trailed 3-2.
Reliever Mike Castillo retired nine straight batters in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to keep the Bruins in striking distance. His brilliant performance would give the right-hander his first win of the season in his first decision.
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ATLANTA & ST. LOUIS -- Two of the best-selling packaged beverages in convenience stores are receiving packaging makeovers this summer.
Anheuser-Busch is bringing back a patriotic look for its Budweiser beer, while Coca-Cola has launched a chill-activated can for its flagship cola.
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Just in time for the Memorial Day holiday and summer barbecue season, the limited-edition red, white and blue Budweiser cans and bottles have arrived on shelves. This year marks an even larger commitment to helping military families—with Budweiser and its wholesaler family donating more than $3 million dollars to the Folds of Honor Foundation.
Now through Aug. 15, beer drinkers can enter a code contained inside specially marked packages of Budweiser on Budweiser.com/donate to trigger a $1 donation to Folds of Honor, accounting for up to $1 million combined with wholesaler contributions for a more than $3 million total donation to Folds of Honor in 2014. With each educational scholarship valued at $5,000, Budweiser and its wholesaler network's estimated more than $3 million donation will provide more than 600 scholarships to families of soldiers killed or disabled in action.
Budweiser, with the help of its wholesalers, also plans to honor this year's recipients with a series of personal scholarship deliveries via the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales, The Clydesdales will also help Anheuser-Busch honor military veterans at the 115th VFW National Convention, taking place in Budweiser's hometown of St. Louis on July 22.
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Long ago, King Sayet banned violence in Miraland and decreed that all disputes be solved by style competitions. That's why, in this crazy world, great stylists win respect and appreciation even above governors and royals.
As stylist of rare talent, Nikki will play a important part in Miraland's future. I, of course, will advise Nikki through her trials.
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Well, it looks like a very dull Synod. Hugely significant, but dull. The significance is that we have reached the end of the road on the King's Great Matter, and we will pass the final amending Canon Number 33 today. The dullness is the rest of the agenda, which is basically ecclesiastical Polyfilla, justifying the time and cost of hauling us all up to London by spinning things out to a day and a half of business.
The Women Bishops document is just two sides of A4. But it is the distillation of years of work, debate, anguish and a little peace-making along the way. The impact will be huge, affecting not just the church, but the wider community that has seen this issue as something of a symbol of how out of touch the church can be. Hopefully, now the 'stained glass ceiling' has been broken, those opposed will find they are still loved and valued, and that the processes now in place will be enough to enable them to flourish. I really don't expect to see lots of triumphalist noises made after the vote, though there will be quiet satisfaction and some discreet celebratory gatherings tonight. Archbishop Justin is giving a Presidential Address after the vote, so watch out for some significant signals in that.
What will happen next in the public domain is that there'll be huge speculation about who will be the first woman to be consecrated Bishop. Or, if these things can be stage-managed, which two or three women. There'll be unhealthy and unhelpful pressure on the supposed likely candidates. I pondered on the unhappy role of speculation a while or so ago, and take the liberty of cutting and pasting my thoughts in again in blue.
What have we learned?
I do worry about people's simplistic approach to how women will actually be appointed when the time comes. They all seem to forget there is a discernment and nomination process that requires the diocese or the Crown Nominations Commission to sort out a role description first. Only then can they look at individuals who might meet that description. It's not like politics. Or the X Factor. We believe in discerning God's person for a post – and there is a process, immersed in prayer to help us do that.
We might spare a prayer for a number of prominent women in ministry, who – whether they feel called to episcopal ministry or not – are going to be the subject of endless speculation and profiles in the papers over the next few months.
- I can see the Daily Mail headlines now "IS THIS BRITAIN'S FIRST WOMAN BISHOP?" (which would be both unfair and inaccurate, other Anglican churches having got there first).
- Or, worse, "ENGLAND'S FIRST LADY BISHOP: SHE BUYS HER CLOTHES AT M&S".
- They will also know they are being talked about in diocesan gossip parlours and synodical tea-rooms.
- I am privileged to know some of these people reasonably well. They don't deserve the treatment they may get which, however well-meaning, will embarrass them. So let's pray for them in these next few months, that they may have extraordinary reserves of grace and resilience.
What about the dull stuff?
Back to November. If you dig deep there are one or two little nuggets. I expect some hoo-hah about the draft Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy. This is not a rulebook, but (as it says on the tin) a set of guidelines. However, we have been caught out when it comes to safeguarding matters. There is an apparent contradiction between what is popularly known as 'the seal of the confessional' (i.e. what happens in the confessional stays in the confessional) and the (obvious) moral and Christian duty to act when sex abuse is disclosed by someone.
Actually, the C of E does not have much in the way of rules about confession, other than a Canon of 1603 (which is probably not actually about confession as it is practiced today anyway. So the lawyers are going to have to crawl all over this four hundred year old law and try to see how to amend or remove it in the light of twenty-first century concerns, The whole document is up for 'taking note' and it will have to be revised in the light of legal advice which is being commissioned. Don't hold your breath.
There is a heap of other legislative stuff. Probably more significant is the presentation and debate on Tuesday morning about the persecution of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. It's a subject that exercises many of us – in this modern age we know about these things but can do little about them, save supporting people like Canon Andrew White in Baghdad. We have, for the first time ever, an address by an Islamic scholar, and it's interesting (and painful) to see that some very conservative commentators have already had a go at us for inviting him. In the afternoon there is a major debates on progress in Anglican-Methodist relationships in the light of the covenant that exists between our two churches.
You can follow the whole thing here and read the papers on the C of E website here
Let us pray?
As is increasingly the case, Synod will be bathed in prayer. There is a continuing praying presence within Church House while we are in session; we begin and end each day with prayer (and, tomorrow, a Communion service. And we'll pause to pray after the Iraq/Syria item. You can join in if you want to…
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Gagarinskii, Iurii
Gagarinskii, Iurii Vladimirovich
Born Feb. 16 (Mar. 1), 1915, in the village of Petrovka, now Gadiach Raion, Poltava Oblast. Soviet inorganic chemist; corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1942. Graduated from Moscow University in 1937.
Gagarinskii's main research deals with the thermodynamic properties of halides, oxides, and other compounds of uranium and with the crystalline structures of inorganic compounds and chemical bonds in them, particularly in raremetal fluoride crystals. His main works are Uranium Tetrafluoride (with L. A. Khripin) and Chemical Shifts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonances in Ionic Fluorides (1970; with S. P. Gabudo). He has been awarded two orders as well as medals.


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Doubling Attendance: Clearing the Air for Worship
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"Double the number of churches in our mission territory, double attendance."
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Forensic Architecture refers to the presentation of spatial analysis within contemporary legal and political forums. The project undertakes research that maps, images, and models sites of violence within the framework of international humanitarian law and human rights. Through its public activities it also situates forensic architecture within broader historical and theoretical contexts.
Forensic Architecture is a European Research Council funded project (2011-2014) hosted by the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London, within the Department of Visual Cultures.
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Field and Forum
Forensic Architecture is organised in two distinct ways:
Field – deals with the provision of spatial analysis for organisations promoting international humanitarian law and human rights. Our multidisciplinary team of specialised researchers examine sites of violence that bear upon legal questions of human rights violations using a host of new imaging, mapping, and modelling technologies. Research methods include site visits, the use and analysis of satellite imagery, ground penetrating radar, GPS data, photography, audio, activist media, and eyewitness interviews. Our current projects — in collaboration with organizations such as Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, FAFG (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala) and Migeurope — are organised around providing spatial evidence and technical reports for international legal processes emerging in relation to events in Libya, Gaza, Guatemala, the Mediterranean Sea, former-Yugoslavia, Pakistan and more.
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Forum – includes a series of seminars, conferences, publications, and exhibitions undertaken at the Centre for Research Architecture and in prominent institutions worldwide. Within these contexts we investigate forensic architecture theoretically, historically, politically, and aesthetically. We have published on the history of forensics and its theoretical implications in a number of books and leading journals, including a special issue of Cabinet magazine. We have collaborated with MSF (Physicians without Borders), the House of World Culture (HKW) in Berlin, Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt, DAAR in Bethlehem, and with the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York on a number of public programmes.
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Forensics and Architecture
Forensic architecture typically refers to the practice of building-surveyors who assess building damage and structural integrity in legal contexts, often providing expert testimony in court. However, extracted from the specialized context of property and insurance disputes, the term could designate a general strategy for architectural research and enquiry, expanding the scope of what architecture can achieve in the world today. In order to mark out the possible stakes of forensic architecture we should examine the meaning of both words that constitute the term – excavating the genealogy of the first and projecting the possibilities of the second.
As derived from its Latin source (forensis), forensics is the art of the forum; the practice and skill of presenting an argument before a professional, political or legal gathering. As the art of the forum forensics included the presentation of objects as subjects-of-debate. This aspect of forensics was structured around a shifting triangulation between a contested object or site, the social space of the forum, and the interpreter (now the expert witness) with the authority to speak on behalf of material things.
Forensic truth is thus not a product of "positivism" – the desire to overcome language through materiality and holds reality knowable without any intermediaries – but the making of facts through narrative presentation. The aesthetics of forensic architecture employs various imaging and modelling technologies along with new techniques of visual presentation.
Architecture is rapidly becoming the pathology of our contemporary era. With the urbanization of conflict, violations of human rights and the laws of war often take place within cities. Frequently these violations are produced by the very means of architecture itself – both by its construction and destruction. Consequently architectural representations – maps, plans, satellite imagery, aerial-footage, physical and digital models – are consistently called upon as evidence in tribunals and international courts. Todays' forums – such as international tribunals, fact-finding missions, and multilateral organisations, those that regulate the laws of war or draft environmental accords – are undertaking political and juridical processes based on ever new ways of imaging and modelling spatial problems. Space necessarily emerges as a legal construct at the intersection between multiple modes of capture, representation, and calculation. Forensic architecture is thus not only concerned with the spaces in which war crimes are committed and registered, but also with a set of political/juridical decisions that use techniques for the imaging the earth's surface.
The on-going debate around the environment is a good example of this convergence between law and image, as this debate is structured around new ways of sampling, analysing, and imaging vast territories that extend from the deep core of the earth to the atmospheric realm. Geospatial data, high-resolution aerial photographs, maps and models of cities and territories, the "enhanced vision" of satellite imagery, 3D scans of the terrain and the depth of the subsoil, air and ground sampling – shape the way we interrogate, understand and debate the material issues of contemporary politics. As the built environment becomes informationally enriched, new sites and states of contestation also start to appear.
This thick surface of the earth is not an isolated, distinct, stand-alone object; rather, it is a dense fabric of complex relations, associations and chains of actions between people, environments, and artifices. It always overflows any map that tries to frame it, because there are always more connections to be made.
Forums are themselves complex sets of spaces. They are not always unitary, housed in arena-like buildings. Today's forums rather tend to become structured assemblages of entangled institutions woven by communication technologies and the media.
Forensic architecture frames a new field of spatial thought-practice that takes the contemporary forum as its main subject of enquiry. The "architecture" in forensic architecture would thus designate, not the product of building design, but rather an expanded field of spatial investigation, imaging and representation, while the word "forensic" should be understood as the very condition that enables architectural research to perform politically, that is, to enter a complex political or juridical calculus.
Forensic Architecture is thus grounded in both field-work and forum-work; fields being the sites of investigation and analysis, and forums the network-assemblages of political spaces in which analysis is presented and contested. Each of theses sites presents a host of architectural and political problems.
Spatial Evidence
International courtrooms, tribunals and human rights councils, are of course the most obvious sites of contemporary forensics. Internally, they are also complex spaces operated by multiple medias. Equipped with video cameras and screens they function (as Laura Kurgan has explained) much like broadcast studios recording and archiving historical events. In the contemporary spaces of international tribunals, material evidence is almost always presented as a static or moving image and viewed on screens. The presence of media technology is so central to their functioning that their protocols are now extensively dictated by the requirements and limitations of media recording and storage.
Within the space of international courts and tribunals, spatial evidence itself emerged at the intersection of two prevalent forms contemporary media: activist imagery, primarily in the form of citizen journalism using mobile phone videos shot at close range and uploaded at the risk of their makers and different types of satellite imagery captured at a higher altitude than the vertical extension of state sovereignty (national air-space is capped by the lowest possible orbit a satellite can travel upon) and presented in before-and-after sequences.
The intertwined, almost simultaneous emergence, and increasing circles of availability of these two different forms of media, allow alternative political groups and advocates of human rights to circumvent state restrictions on data circulation and demonstrate their growing influence to reveal and arbitrate situations unfolding in areas that are difficult if not impossible to access.
Forensic architecture and its analytic methods might also be understood as engaged in a kind of spatial cryptography. The quasi-archaeological methodologies of forensic architecture are based upon the close reading and interpretation of photography and of other types of imagery. If it is an archaeology, it is one not concerned directly with matter, but with matter as captured by different forms of media, a certain archaeology of pixels that registers the different band width of new imaging technologies.
To a great extent before and after images are the very embodiment of an emergent "forensic time". While activist videos capture the event itself, the stereoscopic montage of before and after leaves a lacuna at the heart of the event. Whether taken by orbiting satellite systems or on-the-ground by handheld cameras, it sees images of the built and natural environment become the depository of political and military processes.
The Locard "exchange principle" — the cornerstone of forensic science — posits that every action or contact leaves a trace. This principle turns architecture and its environments into sensors in which political events register directly as material inscriptions and spatial transformations.
Image credit Antonio Zazueta Olmos, 2009.
However, attempting to read and interpret events from the residual images of the trash and rubble left behind is a highly complex and indeterminate process. Does a freshly dug earth mound in eastern Iran signify – as claims made in its name – the construction of a new subterranean bunker in which banned weapons are produced? Can we directly connect earthworks and nuclear capacities? Do similar earth mounds now captured by satellites orbiting over Libya, Syria, Darfur or Sri Lanka connote sites of mass extermination in common graves? Was a destroyed building visible in a photograph taken "after" a conflict occurred, destroyed by people from the ground, or by their enemies in an aerial attack? Can satellite mounted sensors, capable of detecting the fractional temperature variations of changing vegetation patterns in previously cultivated fields, now fallow in absence of their farmers, register a genocide, ethnic cleaning or other crimes against humanity?
New Forums
In the task of registering political forces, architecture is only a weak sensor, in that events do not register themselves directly or fully within spatial structures. Consequently forensic architecture must work rigously to bring different kinds of information — human and machinic — together in a complex assemblage to bear upon questions of space, human rights and international law. It is precisely because the past will forever remain uncertain, discontinuous, lacunar, appearing to us only in momentary fragments and ruins that public forums are necessary in which multiple pieces of evidence or the artefacts of spatial products can be brought together, interpreted, debated, and calculated as to their relevance and evidentiary value.
Because of the unique demands that these new forms of spatial evidence take, from physical objects to satellite images over Dafur, spatial evidence continuously demands the assembly of new forums to supplement the protocols of existing ones. Indeed, the forum does not always predate the things that are brought to it. Contemporary forums gather around the very spaces and places that are in need of debate, precisely because they are in dispute. This condition has, for example, seen the rise of purpose built courts to truth and reconciliation procedures located in the very spaces out which the conflicts that organised their forums took place.
International criminal tribunals, in particular, exemplify this principle. Within these juridical spaces the evidence precedes the forums in which it is debated. Special tribunals – such as the ICTY for the former Yugoslavia and ICTR for Rwanda – were established only after the remnants of acts of violence and war (destroyed cities or mass graves) had been discovered and in order to arbitrate on them.
Every forum ultimately draws its frame around the limits of what can be said and the manner in which it can articulate its specific concerns. Each of the multiple political and legal forums in use today – professional, scientific, parliamentary and legal – operates by a different set of protocols, and each instrumentalises forensics in some way as part of its particular political ideology.
Forensic Architecture as we have conceptualised it is, thus not only about the interpretation of past events as they are registered within the material strata of differentiated spaces, but also equally about the production of future forums induced by the complex demands of the present. Demands that range from the development of new modes of scientific testing and analysis, the evolution of new visualisation systems and thus new interpretative techniques, the emergence of new categories of evidence, to a distributed ecology of forums linked globally by key issues such as climate change. In short, Forensic Architecture is constituted both by acts of claim-making and the practices of forum-building. Teaching us that architectural research cannot be opposed to architectural construction, but in fact depends upon it for producing the spaces (forums) in which research (fieldwork) can resonate.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will keep aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority, but future help depends on the new Palestinian government, the State Department said on Thursday.
One day after a unity deal between rival Palestinian factions, the State Department said roughly $400 million in annual U.S. funding would be reassessed as the policies of the new leadership emerge.
"The current Palestinian government remains in place and our assistance programs continue," State Department spokeswoman Heide Bronke-Fulton said in an email.
"If a new Palestinian government is formed, we will assess it based on its policies at that time and will determine the implications for our assistance based on U.S. law."
U.S. lawmakers from both parties have warned that the reconciliation deal between the western-backed Fatah party and the Islamist Hamas could imperil U.S. aid if Hamas continues to spurn demands that it renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist.
The top Republican and Democrat lawmakers on a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee wrote a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday urging him to reconsider the Hamas deal and to stop moves to seek U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.
"Our ability to support current and future aid would be severely threatened if you abandon direct negotiations with Israel and continue with your current efforts," Republican chairwoman Kay Granger and senior Democrat Nita Lowey said.
"Your current courses of action undermine the purposes and threaten the provision of United States assistance and support."
The Palestinian deal comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to visit Washington next month and U.S. officials weigh the chances of restarting direct peace talks which collapsed shortly after their launch last year.
"U.S. taxpayer funds should not and must not be used to support those who threaten U.S. security, our interests and our vital ally, Israel," Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a staunch defender of Israel, said in a statement.
The Obama administration has reacted coolly to the Hamas-Fatah announcement. It insists that any future Palestinian government must renounce violence, respect past peace agreements and recognize Israel's right to exist.
Hamas, founded on a charter that calls for Israel's destruction, appeared unlikely to comply with these demands. Hamas has been in control of the Gaza Strip since 2007 and it remains unclear exactly what role it might play in a unity arrangement with President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah that governs the West Bank.
Since 1994, the United States has given more than $3.5 billion to the Palestinian Authority now headed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, much of it aimed at strengthening governance and security in preparation for eventual statehood.
"Our current support for the Palestinian Authority, as led by President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad, serves as an important contribution to U.S. efforts to support the building of Palestinian institutions," Bronke-Fulton said.
But with many details of the Palestinian agreement not known, it was unclear if this would continue.
A Congressional Research Service report last year said a potential unity government could drop the development and reform objectives set by the Fayyad administration, which are used as major justifications for current U.S. aid levels.
It also said that as long as Hamas refuses to agree to the basic benchmarks on renouncing violence and accepting Israel, the United States could not legally continue assistance to any government of which it is a part.
Palestinian suggestions that the new interim government would be made up of technocrats without party affiliation may allow some legal room to maneuver, but Israel's vocal allies in the U.S. Congress were unlikely to be appeased.
"The Palestinian Authority has chosen an alliance with violence and extremism over the democratic values that Israel represents," a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers said on Thursday after a meeting in Tel Aviv with Netanyahu.
The questions over Palestinian aid come amid a broader debate over U.S. foreign aid levels, which many Republicans have vowed to cut to help rein in the U.S. budget deficit. (Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Doina Chiacu)


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We know that lower frequencies vibrate at longer wavelengths and that higher frequencies vibrate in shorter, faster waves. But when you watch a guitar or bass play, you really can't tell.
There are two different ways to see what's going on. This upright bass was shot with a high-speed camera and played back at a normal rate, which allows you to see the strings vibrate. They look like spaghetti.
The other way to see the effect is to backlight the strings. This guy put an iPhone 4 into the soundhole of his acoustic and filmed. I'm guessing it was mounted on something to minimize the vibrations of the guitar, and the relatively cheaper camera introduces some artifacts. But you can actually see the waveforms. Notice how the bass strings at the top have longer, slower waves, while the treble strings at the bottom have more peaks at closer intervals.


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