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You can rent an internal combustion engine forklift, which runs on a petroleum fuel and can be used outside, such as in a lumber yard or dock. If your forklift will be utilized outside on uneven surfaces, you may consider renting a forklift that is equipped to work on rough terrain to help you safely move any loads between sites outside.
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After you have decided what type of forklift you need for your circumstances, decide on the length of time you will need it. When you arrange to rent a forklift, the rental company will want to know if you need it short-term for a few days or week, or long-term for weeks and even months or years. You can usually get a discount rate when you arrange your rental time upfront and know exactly how long you will need the equipment.
Also make sure to take advantage of the maintenance service the rental company provides along with the forklift's use. This will ensure your forklift is kept running in good condition and any repairs can be taken care of on the equipment while you are renting it. Regular maintenance and tune-ups can also cover you in the event the equipment malfunctions or breaks down so you can have it repaired or replaced during the time you need the use the equipment.
To rent a forklift with a capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 pounds, you can expect to pay anywhere from $250 to $350 each week or $750 to $1,000 each month. For a more heavy-duty forklift that has a capacity of 6,000 to 10,000 pounds, expect to pay anywhere from $350 to $700 each week or $1,000 to $2,000 each month.
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It is also important to make sure the individual that will be working the forklift, whether it is you or an employee, is trained in how to operate it. OSHA requires an individual to be trained and certified to operate a forklift, and as their employer, you will need to have a record of this training and certification.
If you are using a forklift for your own personal needs, make sure you have a good understanding of how to operate the machinery, as you can cause serious injury to yourself or another person if you cause an accident. You can hire a forklift operator who is trained and certified if you are unable to operate the machinery. Or you may have a friend or acquaintance who can do this for you, or you can talk to a recruitment company about hiring a trained operator.
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… "I don't like voyeurs, people who don't experience the experience, who view life from the outside."
This is from the essay 'Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe' by Arthur C. Danto in Mapplethorpe (1992):
… It is interesting to contrast Mapplethorpe's art with that of another artist of the period, one who found favor, even great favor, with the arbiters of photographic taste, namely Garry Winogrand. Toward the end of his life, in an interview with Janet Kardon, Mapplethorpe observed that his pictures were "the opposite of Garry Winogrand's." This is nowhere more apparent than in the albums each produced of photographs of women.
[line break added] Women are Beautiful was published by Winogrand in 1975. Some Women, by Mapplethorpe, was published posthumously in 1989, but was put together in consultation with his friend and colleague Dimitri Levas before his death. The difference between the visions of these two artists, made palpable in the two collections, lays bare a number of the basic variables of photography as an art.
Women are Beautiful shows anonymous women bent on private errands, crossing streets or striding down sidewalks, singly or in pairs, alone or as part of an urban crowd. It is an exceedingly personal book, even if, or perhaps because, the subjects are all perfect strangers to the artist, for it is dense with longing and what the viewer senses is a kind of sexual desperation.
[line break added] It may someday serve as a document of how women dressed in the Sixties; how they wore their hair and made up their faces, but it also documents the role they play for Winogrand as a photographer, his yearning for them. None of the subjects consented to being photographed. The camera caught them in mid-trajectory, and their expressions are uncomposed and natural, as the photographs themselves seem uncomposed and natural. … "Winogrand was uninterested in making pictures that he knew would succeed," John Szarkowski wrote in evident admiration. "One might guess that in the last twenty years of his life, excepting his commercial work, he never made an exposure that he was confident would satisfy him."
"In general, women disliked the book," Szarkowski added, and it is not difficult to see why. Winogrand was as much interested in the tactics of getting the pictures as he was in the pictures he got. He may have been more interested in that. And for his own ends he violated a certain code of civility — the right of privacy. The women are fully clothed, but they are seen as female flesh. "He finally admitted," Szarkowski observed, "that women impaired his critical faculties. He as an easy mark for the rhetoric of women's bodies." At the same time, the images are extremely aggressive toward the women for whom the artist hungers.
… The women in Mapplethorpe's Some Women, by contrast, are not anonymous.
… The trust that was a morally and artistically indispensable component of these sessions is palpable in the images in Some Women that explicitly provoke. Lara Harris, for instance, bares one breast, underscoring its visibility with her lowered arm. And she stares out at the viewer, as if to say, "Is this what you want to see? Here, have a look."
… The people in these photographs are demonstrating something they have allowed the artist to witness not as a voyeur, but as the agent through which the ordinarily hidden is revealed in art. the images are disclosures of sexual truth.
It might occur to someone that the formality of Mapplethorpe's photographs of women is a metaphor for his detachment from women as sexual objects, in the way that Winogrand's agitated approach is a metaphor for his own yearning. It is true that Mapplethorpe confessed to finding women unexciting as subjects, and this doubtless can be explained by the fact that they had ceased to engage him sexually. But the relationship Mapplethorpe entered into with his female subjects is not that different from the one entered into when his subjects were male …
… "Doing things to people who don't want it done to them is not sexy to me. The people in my pictures were doing it because they wanted to. No one was forced into it. For me, S&M means sex and magic, not sadomasochism. It was all about trust."
… It is this that finally sets him apart from photographers like Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson, or even Diane Arbus. With Arbus, one feels, over and over again, that she found ways of betraying the trust that permitted her to get the pictures we see. There is something vaguely exploitative about her work.
[line break added] Cartier-Bresson was primarily a stalker, an eye attached to a marvelous set of reflexes, which enabled him to pounce when reality disclosed something truly extraordinary — when reality opened up, one might say, with the speed of a shutter, to reveal a glimpse of some kind of underlying objective magic, or what his artistic peers designated surréalité. In order to do that, one feels, Cartier-Bresson had to make himself virtually invisible. He was almost metaphysically an outsider, and the men and women in his photographs don't acknowledge that he is there.
… Mapplethorpe was never outside the human reality of the photographic transaction. For him the transaction was a bond and presupposes a bond. That is what enabled him to produce some of the most shocking and indeed some of the most dangerous images in modern photography, or even in the history of art — for the kind of relationship he succeeded in realizing would have been unavailable before the invention of photography.
… In a sense, Mapplethorpe undertook to establish the kind of relationship with others that he had toward himself. His photographs in both cases were explorations and revelations and risks.
… At the same time it is important to stress that Mapplethorpe, even early on, had no illusions about the power of certain images to arouse sexual excitement, in contrast with the power of art to elicit whatever feelings of aesthetic transport it is alleged to be capable of arousing. His ambition was to create work that really was pornographic by the criteria of sexual excitement, and really was art. And it incorporated the "edge."
… "I recorded it from the inside … I guess all photographers are in a sense voyeurs. But I don't like voyeurs, people who don't experience the experience, who view life from the outside."
I don't agree at all with what Danto has written about Winogrand or Arbus. Nevertheless, I am interested in the point he is using them to make about Mapplethorpe.


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Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited (BEWGL) announced on 9 April 2010 that it had acquired a 50% equity interest in Aqualyng China Limited. Norway-based Aqualyng Holding AS, which has many years of experience in design, construction and installation of seawater desalination facilities, holds the other 50%.
Saudi and South Korea sign desalination deal
Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a water desalination agreement and a memorandum of understanding for technology transference to Saudi.
Sumitomo backs off Ras Azzour desalination bid
A consortium led by Japan's Sumitomo Corporation has "put on hold" its plans for the Ras Azzour independent water and power project (IWPP) in Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters.
New nanotech company will benefit desalination, says prince
Desalination is likely to be one of the first sectors to benefit from a new nanotechnology company launched in Saudi Arabia.
Privatization advisor contracts signed by SWCC
The contracts for advisors to the programme to privatize the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia were signed on 29 November 2008 in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Water & Electricity, HH Eng Abdullah Alhusayyen, who is chairman of the SWCC board, and the SWCC governor, Fehaid Al-Shareef.
Doosan awarded latest Jeddah contract
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the third stage of the Jeddah desalination plan in Saudi Arabia on 1 December 2008.
Escobar appointed as editor-in-chief of IDA journal
Dr Isabel Escobar of the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, has been appointed by the International Desalination Association (IDA) to succeed Dr Jim Birkett as editor-in-chief of the IDA Journal of Desalination & Water Reuse.
SWCC privatization 'on track', says governor
The governor of Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), Fehied F Alshareef, issued a statement on 13 October 2009 saying that the SWCC privatization and restructuring implementation program remained on track, and that there was no intention to cancel or postpone it.
CDM and Miahona in Saudi water partnership
US consultant CDM and Miahona (Our Water), a subsidiary of ACWA Power Development, have announced a new partnership to execute water projects in Saudi Arabia. The partnership will manage engineering and consulting for water sector projects, including providing studies, designs, construction management, operations, and management consulting services.
Saudi poised for sevefold hike in water reuse
Unveiling a white paper highlighting government policy options for addressing water scarcity in Saudi Arabia, GE Power & Water said the kingdom was in a position to up its reuse of wastewater sevenfold to more than 240 million m³/year.
Saudi government to take back Ras Azzour desalination
The giant Ras Azzour desalination plant in Saudi Arabia, which was to have produced 1 million m³/d, is now unlikely to be built be private enterprise.
Degrémont wins brackish-water contracts in Riyadh
Suez Environnement subsidiary Degrémont has been awarded two contracts worth EUR 40 million to supply reverse-osmosis (RO) brackish-water desalination plants at 14 sites in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ionizable hydrophobes behind new IBM desalination membrane
US computer giant IBM, Tokyo-based Central Glass and the King Abdul Aziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) unveiled a novel desalination membrane technology at the World Water Forum in Turkey on 16 March 2009.
Go small and local on desalination warns Saudi water expert
President of the Saudi Water and Power Forum (SWPF) Dr Adil Bushnak, has warned that Saudi Arabia must end its rising dependence on "costly" centralised desalination plants.
Saudi brings on 2.5 million m³/d in desalination capacity
Saudi Arabia's General Establishment for Water Desalination (GEWD) is, over the next four years, implementing new projects with a total production capacity of up to 2.5 million m³/d in the Makkah region and the eastern province.
Saudi deal gives Toray fourth membrane‑making base
A new joint venture to sell desalination and water treatment membranes in the Middle East has been set up between Toray Industries of Japan and Abunayyan Holding, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Shuaibah IWPP set for operation in February
ACWA Power International told lenders attending a status meeting in Dubai in late October that the Shuaibah independent water and power project in Saudi Arabia was on schedule with initial commercial operations date set for 5 February 2009.
Doosan Hydro wins Al Jubail membrane treatment contract
Florida-based Doosan Hydro Technology has been awarded a US$ 10 million contract by Daelim Industrial Co Ltd for the industrial wastewater treatment and reuse package on the Saudi Elastomers Project (SEP) located in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
New technical services company set up in Saudi
A new company to offer specialized technical services to the oil and gas, petrochemical, energy and water desalination sectors has been set up in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, by Stork Technical Services of the Netherlands and Saudi Industrial Services Co (SISCO).
Saudi takes delivery of giant desalination unit
Saudi Arabia has taken delivery of the second second of six units to be installed at the water desalination plant in Yanbu in the third phase of the plant's expansion. The multi stage flash distillation unit weighed 3,836 tonnes and measured 135 m in length. It will produce 94,000 m³ of potable water a day.
X-Flow UF modules to treat Saudi hospital wastewater
Pentair X-Flow's Airlift MBR Megablock ultrafiltration (UF) system is treat 8,000 m³/d of hospital wastewater at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi boosts desalination output 10%
Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) upped its desalinated water output during the past last year by 10% on the previous year to more than 1.1 billion m³ .
KAUST hosts EMS desalination/reuse school
The European Membrane Society has announced a week-long Middle East school of membrane technology at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
Oman desalination workshop to look at red tides
Experts from the Middle East and Australia are organizing a joint expert workshop on the dangers for desalination plants of harmful algal blooms (HABs), commonly called "red tides" in Oman on 8- 9 February 2012.
SWCC deputy governor elected as IDA president 2013-15
Dr Abdullah Al-Alshaikh, deputy governor for planning and development of Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will become president of the International Desalination Association (IDA) on 24 October 2013 serving for the 2013‑15 term.
Saudi forum discount for IDA members
The International Desalination Association (IDA) announced on 17 November 2011 that its members would be eligible for a 10% discount on delegate fees for the 2011 Saudi Water & Power Forum (SWPF 2011), which will be held 4-6 December 2011 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
SWCC lets systems contract for RO training room
Cyprus-incorporated Hyperion Systems Engineering announced on 16 September 2013 that it would supply a generic operator training simulator (OTS) system for the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia.
German/Saudi JV to make ceramic membranes for RO pretreatment
German nanotechnology investment company Nanostart announced on 20 October 2011 that one of its holdings, ItN Nanovation AG, had finalised a joint venture (JV) agreement with Saudi Arabian company Jaffali to produce ceramic flat membranes (CFMs) primarily for pretreatment for reverse-osmosis.
BEL wins Saudi pressure-vessel contract
BEL Composite Ibérica, Spain, has been awarded the supply contract for glass-reinforced plastic pressure-vessels for the 11,000 m³/d water treatment plant at Princess Noura bint Abdul Rahman University for Women, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hyflux wins Saudi deal for Yanbu
Desalination specialist, Hyflux, has won a US$ 48 million contract to build a containerised desalination system for Saudi Arabia.


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I have heard that there really is no such thing as "the Church" in Scripture, and that the Hebrew and Greek terms used in the Bible can support this. Can you help me with this issue?
Some form of this summary appears in a wide array of articles and publications by Outreach Israel Ministries and Messianic Apologetics
In the Apostolic Scriptures no reader can deny how ekklēsia is used as a term to define the Body of Messiah, and so by extension it is rendered as "church" in most English translations of the New Testament. But whether this is an appropriate rendering or not is something critical to ask, because when many people encounter the word "church" they think not of a living and breathing group of Messiah followers, but instead of a building with a steeple.[1] TDNT offers some rather important remarks on the term ekklēsia:
"Since the NT uses a single term, translations should also try to do so, but this raises the question whether 'church' or 'congregation' is always suitable, especially in view of the OT use for Israel and the underlying Hebrew and Aramaic…'Assembly,' then, is perhaps the best single term, particularly as it has both a congregate and an abstract sense, i.e., for the assembling as well as the assembly."[2]
This Christian commentary says that "assembly" would be the best, consistent translation for the word ekklēsia.[3] The Septuagint, or ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible dating three centuries before Yeshua, frequently translates the Hebrew word qahal, or assembly/congregation, as ekklēsia. Qahal is one of the main Hebrew terms for "assembly" or "congregation" used in the Tanach, which almost exclusively refers to Israel. TWOT informs us that "usually qāhāl is translated as ekklēsia in the LXX."[4] When the martyr Stephen speaks of "the church in the wilderness" (Acts 7:38, KJV), tē ekklēsia en tē erēmō, "the church" here he is speaking of is actually the assembly/congregation of Israel.
The Hebrew word qahal is used in the Tanach to describe the people of Israel. TWOT indicates that "qāhāl may…designate the congregation as an organized body. There is qehal yiśrā'ēl (Deut 31:30), qehal YHWH (Num 16:3, etc.), and qehal ělōhîm (Neh 13:1) and then at other times merely 'the assembly' (haqqāhāl). We encounter…'the assembly of the people of God' (Jud 20:2). Of special interest is the phrase 'congregation of the Lord' (qehal YHWH) of which there are thirteen instances (Num 16:3; 20:4; Deut 23:2-4; Mic 2:5; 1 Chr 28:8). It is the nearest OT equivalent of 'church of the Lord'"[5] (emphasis mine).
When the Apostolic writers used the Greek word, often rendered as "church" in our English Bibles, they did not see the ekklēsia as a separate assembly or group of people removed from Israel. They considered the ekklēsia to be Israel, perhaps better viewed as an Israel maximized by the arrival of the Messiah, the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16).
It is not surprising by any means that one of the lexical definitions given for the word ekklēsia does in fact include "Israel." Thayer states that "in the Sept. [ekklēsia is] often equiv. to [qahal], the assembly of the Israelites."[6] BDAG further summarizes that not only does ekklēsia correspond to the "OT Israelites assembly, congregation," but asserts how it was used by the early Messianic Believers "in Greek-speaking areas for chiefly two reasons: to affirm continuity with Israel through use of a term found in Gk. translations of the Hebrew Scriptures, and to allay any suspicion, esp. in political circles, that Christians were a disorderly group."[7] This is because in an entirely classical context ekklēsia could have been used to describe a civil assembly, such as that of the Athenians,[8] or even the Roman Senate. It is unfortunate that ekklēsia in most Bibles has been translated as "church," whereas it would be best rendered as either "assembly" or "congregation," with people able to have an easier time seeing that when Yeshua said that He came to "build" His assembly (Matthew 16:18), it is undoubtedly connected with the Father's promise to "rebuild" Israel (Jeremiah 33:7).[9]
There are many references one will find in a diverse array of technical commentaries on the New Testament, where linguistic and theological connections between ekklēsia and qahal are made.
[1] Note how there are various people one will encounter in the Messianic community, who will not use the term "church" because they somehow think it has pagan origins. But we do not readily use the term "church" to describe God's people on theological grounds, and the confusion it frequently can cause. When "the Church" is typically referred to in the editor's writings, it is primarily to refer to a religious institution.
Consult the FAQ,"Church, word of pagan origin."
[2] K.L. Schmidt, "ekklēsía," in Geoffrey W. Bromiley, ed., Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, abrid. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985), 397.
[3] Christian translations that render ekklēsia as "assembly" include Young's Literal Translation and the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by Jay P. Green. The Complete Jewish Bible by David H. Stern often uses phraseology like "Messianic community."
[4] Jack P. Lewis, "qāhāl," in R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, eds., Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), 2:790.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Joseph H. Thayer, Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003), 196.
[7] Frederick William Danker, ed., et. al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, third edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 303.
[8] H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 239.
[9] Consult the editor's article "When Did 'the Church' Begin?", appearing in Introduction to Things Messianic, which includes discussion on the linguistic connections between the verbs banah and oikodomeō, employed in Jeremiah 33:7; Matthew 16:18; and Jeremiah 33:7 (LXX).


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Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ~Stephen King
Today in the lounge of Spacedock 19 is paranormal romance author, Christine Rains. She wrote the fabulous Fearless for the A to Z Challenge last April and recently published it so we can enjoy it again from start to finish. Christine is a fresh and original new voice in fantasy. If you haven't read her yet, you're missing out.
Can Craze get you a drink, Christine? I'd still avoid the chocolate for now …
CR: Just a water will be fine, please. I'm not much of a drinker. Chocolate, on the other hand, well, yeah, I'll keep my hands to myself.
MP: Great. It's filtered as well as it can be.
The whole realm of the paranormal fascinates me. I watch Ghost Adventures a lot. I love that original episode where a brick is thrown … anyway, I'm sure there's more to the paranormal genre than ghosts. What makes a story paranormal?
CR: Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters are great shows. I count them as part of my "reality" show watching! A story is paranormal when it has an element of the supernatural, something that can't be explained by science. Where the seemingly impossible becomes possible. It's what makes writing in this genre so much fun.
MP: So, it may not necessarily have magic in it?
CR: It does not need magic in it to be paranormal. Magic is a common theme in many paranormal books, but it can be just as extraordinary without it. Psychics and superheroes are great ways to get a paranormal slant without using magic.
MP: Do you have a favorite paranormal creature?
CR: Do I have to pick only one?! All paranormal creatures fascinate me. Okay, I'm going to sound like a stereotype and say vampires. I've always loved vamps. Maybe it goes back to the fact my favorite Sesame Street character was The Count. What about you?
MP: I'm partial to ghosts and such. Did you ever read Amityville Horror? Jodi with the pig eyes scared the crap out of me. To this day, whenever I see two red lights together I think of Jodi and his pig eyes. lol Have you ever had a paranormal encounter?
CR: I did read it! Amityville Horror was the first horror movie I saw too. I've never had a paranormal encounter even though I would love to have one. Years ago, I owned an Ouija Board that I had bought at a garage sale. My friends and I would blindfold ourselves use it. One person would sit to the side and read the replies. We believed it worked, but I think it's only because we really wanted it to. Nothing it said ever came true. Which is a good thing because I couldn't handle having seven kids!
MP: Wow, seven. That'd be a horror unto itself. lol So what are you working on now?
CR: I'm barely surviving one! *laughs* Right now I'm working on a series of paranormal romance novellas called The 13th Floor. Each will be loosely linked together, but the stories will be able to stand on their own.
MP: I'm definitely intrigued and definitely a fan, so I look forward to reading your novellas. Thanks for stopping in, Christine. I hope you'll come back again in the future. We've barely scratched the surface of this topic.
CR: Thank you so much for having me. It's been so much fun being on the Spacedock. I love talking about the paranormal. I've been hearing a few weird noises out here, though. Just normal sounds for this place… right?
MP: Hmm. I heard a rumor there's a possessed spaceship in dock. Probably just a story though …
Download and read Christine Rains' fantastic Fearless.
Abby White was seven years old when she killed the monster under her bed. Now she slays creatures spawned by the fertile imaginations of children, and the number of these nightmares are on the rise. Neither she nor her guide – a stuffed hippo named Tawa – know why.
When she rescues Demetrius from an iron prison, he pledges his life to protect hers until he can return the favor. She doesn't want the help. And how can she concentrate on her job when the gorgeous wild fae throws himself in front of her during every fight? No matter how tempting, she can't take the time to lose herself to him.
To save the children and all she loves, Abby must be truly Fearless.
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Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and geek mom. She has four degrees which help nothing with motherhood, but make her a great Jeopardy player. Her first published paranormal romance novella, FEARLESS, has been seeing great reviews. She also has sixteen short stories published and three forthcoming.
Visit Christine at her BLOG
Are you into the paranormal?


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Cabrillo College: Contemporary Trends in Photography
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Cabrillo: Contemporary Trends in Photography since 1945
Instructor: Sheila Malone
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Compare and contrast distinct movements and current trends in photographic image in the context of the history of photography since the middle of the 20th century.
2. Critically assess examples of contemporary photographic imagery and their impact on evolving trends in the visual arts, mass media and contemporary culture.
Course Objective:
This course will address contemporary trends, theories and applications of photography since 1945. Students will analyze current trends and compare distinct movements in photographic image making in the context of the history of photography since the middle of the 20th century. In addition, students will critically assess examples of contemporary photographic imagery. By the end of the semester students should be able to evaluate the role of visual language and photographic imagery within a fine art practice and in contemporary media culture.
Prerequisites: None
Student Expectations: Independent Study Weekly –
Regular weekly online participation is required. Participation in the course includes contributions to the discussion board based on weekly reading assignments. Also students are responsible for listening to podcasts, viewing slideshows and other weekly assignments.
Grades: Grades will be based on class participation in on-line discussions and meeting assignment deadlines. Late assignments (see due dates on-line and in course schedule), without a valid excuse, will be docked half a letter grade per day. A final exam will be released the week of the final exams.
40% -Participation based on weekly reading questions, and discussion questions.
20%- Assignments
20% -Midterm
20% -Final Exam
Texts: Suggested: Crisis Of The Real: Writings on Photography Since 1974 by Andy Grundberg: ISBN-10: 0893818550 available at Amazon and Aperture Books.
Other readings will be provided throughout the semester.
Hardware and Software Requirements:
This course will be taught using a combination of reading, reading questions, discussion of reading questions, podcasts and original essay compositions. The Computer Technology Center at both the Aptos and Watsonville campus has computers for students to do their assignments on.
You will need regular access to a computer and one of the following browsers. Be sure you are using a supported browser and your browser settings are correct for WebCT, our course shell. Browser tune-up page.
Mozilla Firefox, 3.0+
Internet Explorer 7.0+
Safari 5.0+
The QuickTime video plug-in is used
Adobe Acrobat reader is used to open PDF files
iTunes is used to listen/view weekly podcasts(lectures) on the Cabrillo iTunesU site.
To access weekly podcasts:
1.You must have a DSL or Cable web connection (modems are too slow)
2. You must download the latest version of iTunes from:http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
3. You need to open your browser and go to https://www.cabrillo.edu/itunesu/
4. Click on the "Login" area section of iTunes U. (For your username and password creation, go to https://student-accounts.cabrillo.edu/
5. Choose the class by title.
Students With Disabilities: Students needing accommodations should contact the instructor ASAP. As required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), accommodations are provided to insure equal opportunity for students with verified disabilities. If you need assistance with an accommodation, please contact Disabled Student Services, Room 810, (479-6379) or Learning Skills Program, Room 1073, (479-6220).
Academic Honesty: All students are responsible for knowing and observing Cabrillo College policies regarding academic dishonesty.
Course Schedule
Week 1: Welcome/Overview/Expectations, Intro to Modernism (readings, goals, learning modules)
Week 2: Modernism (cont.) Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams , Minor White, Robert Frank, Crisis of The Real (COTR)
Week 3: Postmodernism:Semiotics, Culture, Politics, Walker Evans, Gary Winogrand, Lee Friedlander,
Week 4: New Topographies: Robert Adams, Misrach, Joel Sternfeld
Week 5: Reframing Feminism and Photography, Nan Goldin, Sophie Calle
Week 6: Feminism : Sherman, Simmons, Kruger
Week 7: Conceptual Art, Sugimoto, Bernd and Becher, Baldessari,
Week 8: Pop Art: Warhol, Avedon, Prince, Samaras, Midterm Review
Week 9: Midterm
Week 10: Spring Break
Week 11: Boundaries: When Borders Blend: Fischli, Weiss, Polke
Week 12: Documentary Dilemmas I
Week 13: Photojournalism: Old and New:Capa, Bresson, Burrows, Clark, Nixon
Week 14: Mapplethorpe, The Starn Twins, Hype and the Art object
Week 15: Out of the Ordinary, Playacting, Chimera & Grotesque, Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Notes on the Sacred
Week 16: Photography at the Millennium, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky
Finals Week: Final Exam
Weekly assignments and content are released on Sundays at 9 a.m. and are due the following Sunday at 11: 30 p.m. (one week to complete weekly assignment readings, viewings, posting to discussion and assignment submissions of the reading questions).


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4 Ways Mindfulness Can Improve The Quality of Your Life
Mindfulness is a practice which involves concentrating on the here and now without judging the present moment. Rather it encourages acceptance of whatever is happening while we avoid going over the past or worrying about what might happen in the future.
This technique, which sounds quite simple, but which actually requires a continuous commitment to develop can actually improve your quality of life over time. That sounds like a pretty big statement, but there is much scientific evidence to back it up.
Here are 4 ways mindfulness can improve your life:
1. Encourages peace of mind
Many studies have shown scientific evidence that mindfulness decreases stress, perhaps the biggest impediment to quality of life in the western world today. The process of focusing the mind on the present moment reduces one's ability to enter into the stressful way of thinking that we are used to.
It can be difficult to train yourself to be mindful but with practice, it becomes an easier, more natural mode of being than our default stress-ridden state.
"Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally." – Jon Kabat-Zinn
2. Assists in letting go
If you are prone to brooding over things you might have said or done then mindfulness can probably help you. Whether it is a small concern, such as Baby from Dirty Dancing regretting telling heart-throb Johnny that she 'carried a watermelon' or something more serious such as worrying that a decision you made at work was warranted, ruminating the process of running events over and over in your mind never helps us to get any closer to a sense of closure on the topic.
In fact, it does the exact opposite, drawing us further and further into self-criticism. The practice of mindfulness meditation can involve placing all of your attention on a constant phenomenon, such as the breath. When you do this you have to let all other thoughts go, in doing so, over time you become adept at letting the little stressors go.
3. Aids focus & concentration
As mentioned above, mindfulness meditation involves focusing on one particular thing and letting all other thoughts pass you by almost like a leaf being carried along on a river. While you let those thoughts pass you by, some of which may be extremely engaging, your power of focus is increased as you place all your attention on the breath or whatever focus point you are using.
Luckily, this benefit of mindfulness extends to the rest of our daily lives. Research has found that those who practice mindfulness have better focus and concentration levels. This comes in very handy in the late afternoon when we start to get tired and our minds start to wander.
"The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments." – Thich Nhat Hanh
4. Improves decision making ability
If you are not stressed, have a clear, focused mind then surely decision making becomes easier. Mindfulness can increase self-awareness as you notice more and more what thoughts draw you into negative thought patterns. We also learn to understand in greater detail how we respond to stressors.
Armed with this information and an ability to look at situations from a remove without getting caught up in the heat of the moment we can stand back and make the best decision for us without being negatively influenced by negative thought processes.
Do you practice mindfulness? What benefits have you noticed? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below!
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I have been trying to practice mindfulness meditation.
However, I feel sleepy after doing it in the morning.
I tried to do it in the morning after I got up.
Is this the right effect and should I continue with it?
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Well, well, well, there's a whole lotta backflippin' goin' on over boats. Whaleoil has already reported on Labour's "significant change in policy", suddenly flipping from touting for asylum seekers detained on Manus and Nauru to be sent to New Zealand, to allocating tens of millions of dollars to stopping more boatloads arriving.
Labour's Australian counterparts, if they are to be believed (always a long reach), are outdoing Lees-Galloway and Ardern with a double-backflip-and-twist on boat policy.
Andrew Giles, the second half of Labor's new-look home affairs and immigration team, has walked away from his previous view that boat turnbacks were "inherently unsafe".
"I now support boat turnbacks," Mr Giles told The Australian after the opposition's first frontbench meeting in Brisbane.
Putting Giles and Kristina Keneally in charge of border policies is slightly less ridiculous than putting monkeys in charge of a banana plantation.
The Victorian Socialist Left MP, named by Anthony Albanese as Labor's assistant spokesman for immigration and citizenship, once represented Tampa asylum-seekers trying to be heard before an Australian court so they could seek protection and has vowed to inject compassion into one of the most controversial policy areas.
While he moved a motion against boat turnbacks at the ALP's 2015 national conference, he says his views have changed.
Changed suspiciously in sync with Labor losing an election it was absolutely certain it was going to win.
Mr Giles has also been outspoken against temporary protection visas, which the Coalition considers a key plank of its border protection policies, describing them in 2015 as creating "cruel uncertainty".
He remains in favour of Labor's plan to abolish TPVs, which was confirmed at last year's national conference but left open to review.
The new frontbencher will work with home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally who, on day one in the job, was forced to repudiate her earlier stances against boat turnbacks and offshore processing.theaustralian
They might have to appoint a parliamentary chiropractor, to cope with the inevitable strain from all these policy gymnastics.
Who is Lushington D. Brady?
Well, a pseudonym. Obviously.
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As Relations w/ Trump Bottom Out, Pelosi Says Dems Still Lack Goods to Impeach
'The House Democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment—and that's where he wants us to be…'
(AFP) After a week defined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusations that President Donald Trump was engaged in a "cover up," which led to a canceled meeting an promise of legislative gridlock to come, some have said relations between the political adversaries have bottomed out.
Still, Democrats are not yet ready to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, the California Democrat said Thursday, warning that such a course of action would be "very divisive."
Pelosi, whose high-profile rivalry with Trump spilled into open warfare this week, said the president himself is "disappointed" that Democrats have not launched formal steps to remove him from office.
She has claimed previously that Trump was attempting to goad Democrats to act because such a move could fire up his conservative base and help his re-election effort.
But she reiterated her position that impeachment was not presently the path forward for holding Trump to account.
"We can get the facts to the American people through our investigation," she told reporters, referring to ongoing fishing expedition of congressional probes.
Democrats hope to extend the investigations through the 2020 election season in order to further the drip of dubious post-Russia narratives that will deflate Trump's agenda and counter the booming economy that might otherwise coast him to re-election.
"It may take us to a place that is unavoidable in terms of impeachment or not," Pelosi claimed, without evidence, "but we're not at that place."
Trump, however, has grown increasingly annoyed with the probes, particularly after the Mueller Report revealed no Russian collusion and appeared to have been orchestrated, in part at least, by corrupt operatives within the Democratic party and Obama government.
He has vowed not to cooperate with an onslaught of invasive, partisan motivated subpoena requests into his personal affairs, contending that they have no bearing on the legislative matters that Congress is charged with overseeing.
Democrats have pressed on, holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress and threatening jail time, while moving to withhold the pay of White House staffers who refuse to cooperate.
Pelosi accused the president of a "cover up" shortly before a scheduled bipartisan meeting on infrastructure Wednesday.
After canceling the meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Trump said that cooperation on legislative issues would not be possible while the House was continuing its games.
"The Democrats are getting nothing done in Congress," Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday. "… It is not possible for them to investigate and legislate at the same time."
Increasingly, partisan Democrats—even those in vulnerable, conservative districts, have been veering closer toward the impeachment push being led by radicals in the party's far Left.
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., became the first to support the effort from the right this week as well, saying other Republicans privately agreed with him.
But there are concerns the impeachment tactic could backfire, energizing Trump's base ahead of the election.
On Thursday, Pelosi reaffirmed her claim that Trump is engaged in a "cover-up" related to alleged efforts to obstruct justice regarding the special counsel's probe of Moscow's election interference and Trump's connections with Russia, but she cautioned that "impeachment is a very divisive place to go in our country."
"The House Democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment—and that's where he wants us to be," she said.
"The white House is just crying out for impeachment," Pelosi added.
Liberty Headlines' Ben Sellers contributed to this article.
© Agence France-Presse


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The facelift for Ferrari's V12 grand tourer, the F12 Berlinetta, has been spotted testing in Europe for the first time. The mid-life facelift, or 'Modificato' in Ferrari's terminology, looks near identical to the current model except for a few tweaks in the rear section.
The F12 M, as it is being called tentatively, sported sparse camouflage at the rear, indicating that the new model might feature a new rear fascia. As of now Ferrari seems to have left the front of the car untouched, though we might see a few changes as the testing advances. Mechanically, we can expect Ferrari to retune the 6.3-litre V12 engine to extract more power out of it. The current F12 Berlinetta produces 731bhp; Ferrari might bump this figure up to 750bhp to surpass the Aventador LP 750-4 Super Veloce's power figures.
The Ferrari F12 M is expected to be unveiled at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, before going on sale in 2017. Besides the Aventador, the F12 also competes with other big tourers like the Aston Martin Vanquish and the Bentley Continental GT.


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Daniel Arzani is targeting breaking into the Celtic team and proving to the world the hype should be believed.
Big things were expected of the prodigious Aussie when the Scottish champions signed him on loan from Manchester City on a two-year deal.
But disaster struck when he ruptured his ACL on his debut against Dundee back in October 2018.
However, he is fit again and ready to go as he told Fox Football Podcast of his ambitions.
Arzani said: "I've set my eyes on next season being a big one for me.
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Arzani will join his Celtic team-mates next week for pre-season training ahead of the Champions League qualifiers in mid-July.


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Greenspan says economy has regained some traction
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday the economy has "regained some traction" after a late spring slowdown that was triggered by a sharp spike in oil prices.
Greenspan's moderately upbeat forecast came as the nation entered the final two months of an election battle in which President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry have widely different views on how the economy is performing at present.
Normally, incumbent politicians are unhappy if the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates close to an election.
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In his testimony before the House Budget Committee, Greenspan said that two key indicators, consumer spending and housing construction, bounced back in July after a weak performance in June.
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