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Masterworks from Budapest. From the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde
From 18 February to 28 May 2017
This interesting pair of canvases depicts the model of a ship seen from the stern and bow. The two paintings were acquired from Mallett and Son on the London art market in 1984, the only information available on their history known to date.
Such paintings of ship models were part of the construction process of a vessel. These rigorous, technical images were evaluated by the naval authorities and their decision determined whether the vessel would be built. Models and paintings of models allowed experts to detect defects or decide on improvements and also obliged shipbuilders to use the materials specified in the project and to build the vessel as shown. The result was to avoid fraud and modifications to the structure that might make the ship weak and unsafe. From 1649 in Britain it was specified that models had to be made for all ships prior to their construction and be approved by the Admiralty. These models were known in their time as "Admiralty models" while in Spain they were termed "construction or shipyard models".
As can be seen in the present examples, the model shows part of the hull and its woodwork. This allowed for an examination of details such as the keel, timbers, stem and stern-post and other elements below the water level. Also left visible are part of the decks in which the construction and the interior accommodation could be checked. Such details allowed the relevant authorities to check the resistance and strength of the hull, the ship's navigability in manoeuvres and its behaviour in combat, all with the intention of ensuring its seaworthiness and performance in order to avoid defects that would prevent it from carrying out its intended function.
These two technical paintings have dark backgrounds, against which the bright colours of the different parts of the vessel stand out clearly. The model stands on thick plinths on metal stands that allow it to be correctly supported and seen from all sides. The ship has two bridges and sixty-four cannons. The canvas depicting the bow from the starboard allows for an examination of elements such as the stem, keel and timbers, as well as the screen with a door that leads into the accommodation. The figurehead is a lion rampant, which was frequently used by the British Navy at this date. Running along the sides of the ship are two lines of potholes painted in red for the cannons. The view of the rounded stern is less well depicted with regard to its perspective, but offers details of the timbers, transom, rudder-post and rudder. Two red portholes frame the rudder and open into the rudder-hole. Above this area is the double gallery of the stern with a line of closed, glazed windows and above it an open, inset one. This more elaborate part of the vessel housed the quarters of the commander and officers and is adorned at the top by a line of carved cresting. Among the decorative motifs are carved drapes of curtains and military trophies that stand out in ochre against the blue background.
These two canvases are a good example of paintings of ship models produced prior to their construction, in this case of ships of the Dublin type.
Mar Borobia
© 2009 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid, España
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By: Ameliapt
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April 08, 2014
attention grabbers but sole is cheap
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Open Letter to Your Boss
Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending several sessions in the business track at the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC). One of the most interesting panels, entitled, "Enterprise and Virtual Worlds: The Value Proposition," happened on Saturday morning. The entire room joined in on a lively conversation about how to address our collective bosses' common misconceptions about Second Life and convince them that it's not a game or a place filled with inappropriate content, but a powerful virtual workspace and collaboration platform.
Yes, we understand your need, as a virtual world and Second Life champion within your organization, to have more ammo to counter some of these arguments. In addition to the new Second Life Work microsite, focused exclusively on enterprises and governments in Second Life, we havet 5 case studies that showcase how IBM, NOAA, Navy, CIGNA, and Intel are benefiting from working inworld today, I've also crafted an open letter to your manager that tackles these misperception issues head on and helps to dispel the "fear factor" about Second Life.
Hello <insert your manager's name here>,
Yesterday, when I mentioned that we should explore how working in Second Life can benefit us as a collaboration, learning, recruiting, and marketing tool, you raised several concerns that many enterprises and government organizations have about Second Life. I would like to share with you more information about how Second Life is a safe, secure, and powerful business tool we should consider using.
Second Life Solves Real Business Problems: Companies are using Second Life with good reason. With the drastic reduction to our travel budgets, and our teams scattered across many different locations, we need to look at more powerful collaboration technologies. Teleconference calls, video conferences, and web-based presentation sharing technologies are important, but they can't do what Second Life can. In fact, the Wall Street Journal published a story today on "The Second Chance for Second Life," focused on how large enterprises are working in Second Life and realizing tremendous ROI. I believe that we can yield a very positive return on our Second Life investment, as these companies have.
We Can Keep our Workspace and Data Secure: If we decide to get a private region, then we have complete control over who enters our area by tightly managing our access list. And, we can also keep our data secure. If you're worried about putting our data on Second Life servers, then we can stream our presentations and content into Second Life instead of placing the data directly in the workspace. And, if we want to put a life-size prototype of our super-secret product in Second Life, then there are many creative ways we implement extra layers of security such as making it invisible unless we're in the room. And, you might not know that nearly every branch of the U.S. military is using Second Life in some capacity and if they are comfortable working in Second Life, then that should ease our minds considerably. You can also check out articles on security in the Second Life KnowledgeBase: overview of Second Life security, voice chat privacy, configuring your corporate firewall for Second Life access, and how to create a secure space for a meeting
Second Life is the De Facto Leader in Virtual Worlds: There are several virtual world companies that are creating solutions for enterprises , but Second Life is the safest and best choice. Second Life is not only one of the oldest virtual worlds, originally launched in 2003, but it's also the largest, most successful, profitable, stable, and growing at an impressive clip.
Roughly 20% of the Fortune 1000s are Working in Second Life Today: Second Life is not a game. Large, multi-national organizations such as Manpower, Microsoft, Amazon, and many others, are all working in Second Life right now—holding meetings or events, conducting training, creating simulations and prototypes, recruiting, marketing, and selling products or services. There are currently 5 case studies on the new Second Life Work microsite that detail how these companies have saved money, increased revenue, enhanced innovation, and raised brand awareness. You'll also find some great recent articles in the news section of the microsite.
The Adult Content is Contained: Second Life is a 3D technology platform that can accommodate all kinds of activities—for both work and play. Yes, there is some sexual content in Second Life, just as there is on the Internet or in any major city, but that doesn't mean that it will inhibit our professional virtual lives or impact our reputation. In fact, Linden Lab has recently taken steps to move Adult content from the mainland to a separate continent and to filter Adult search results. These initiatives mean that those who wish to avoid Adult content in Second Life can do so just as easily as they can on the Internet at large.
Let's Start Small and Build on Our Success: The good news is that getting started in Second Life is relatively inexpensive. We can start by renting space and when we're ready, we can purchase our own private or public region for about the cost of a few days' rental of a real world meeting room. Then, we can purchase content already available from many sources in Second Life or get help from a Solution Provider to create a customized, branded space. Based on what we typically spend on travel in a given month, we'll recoup our costs many times over very quickly. I have some ideas about how we can use the space to work on our current and upcoming initiatives. Once we get a pilot project started in Second Life, I have the feeling that we'll find additional ways that we can use our 3D work environment.
Defining our Success Metrics is Critical: I understand that every dollar that we spend needs to quantifiably benefit our business. As you can imagine, there are different things that we can measure to track our success in Second Life. For example, if we decide to produce a virtual event, then it's easy to calculate cost and carbon emission savings. In fact, ThinkBalm, an industry analyst firm, recently published a report about the Business Value of Virtual Worlds that has many examples of what different organizations have used as metrics. Take a look and then let's discuss how we can define our own metrics of success.
I hope that I've addressed your primary concerns about working in Second Life, but I'm sure that you have plenty of questions. Feel free to explore the new Second Life Work microsite and then let's contact the team at Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, and find out how we can start working inworld, too.
Of course, this letter just highlights a few points about how we can work together to dispel common misperceptions and successfully champion Second Life as a place where real work gets done. So, let's use the comments area to continue the dialogue and suggest other ways we can help you get the good word out.
Big thanks to everyone who attended the session at SLCC and contributed to this post. More specifically, I would like to call out: June Peoples from Involve, Doug Thompson (SL: Dusan Writer) from Remedy and Metanomics, Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services, Robert Bloomfield (SL: Beyers Sellers) from Cornell University and Metanomics, Peter Haik from Metaversatility, Glenn Fisher from Linden Lab, and Dan Parks from Virtualis.
I am going to use this on some of my clients. I know they can benefit from Second Life, but are afraid of it. Thanks
Great info, I'll pass it on to some people I know maybe they can bring their company in to second life...
Let's see LL do more about the problem of third party clients designed for stealing content. It is no secret.
I look forward to the day when the following paragraph can be included in the letter:
You can use your real name in Second Life: You've spent your whole life building a good reputation around your real name: building businesses, giving speeches, and supporting your community. It's only right that you should be able to use your real name in Second Life, just like you can with other popular online services like LinkedIn and Facebook. Until recently, you had to choose from a list of currently-available last names for your Second Life avatar, but a recent change made it possible for you to use your real name.
"We Can Keep our Workspace and Data Secure"
Yes, very secure. Who needs to fix the well known XSS, encryption bypassing (cookie leakage) and CSRF vulnerabilities when the people who warn about them can be banned.
3 month and counting for a vulnerability with a trivial fix that allows websites to link real life and avatar names (including things like sexual preferences and religious beliefs) together.
okay so since this is a common charge against a thrid party client
list here right now the clients that in fact are 'designed to steal content" i want client names website addresses (with download links) and proof that they can in fact steal content
oh and btw neither of meerkat nor emerald are valid responses (the export features require you as creator and full perms to function)
Citation: "The entire room joined in on a lively conversation about how to address our collective bosses' common misconceptions about Second Life and convince them that it's not a game or a place filled with inappropriate content"
Please, define "inappropriate content". Not that I really need you to define it, since it is pretty obvious now, after the "adult" segregation debacle, that Linden Lab ultimately wants to ban "adult" stuff from the grid to try and attract corporate users.
Fact is that SL is a game !... 80% of your user base is using it as such, be it via "adult" role-play (should I remind LL themselves that all residents on the main grid *are* adults or should be banned ?), or via other forms of role-play (combat, etc).
Keep ignoring the 80% of your user base and making the 20% others believe that the former do not even exist, and you will soon experience a dramatic decrease in your active users base... In fact, it has started already, 18 months ago, like shows the stagnating "logged in last 60 days" figure on the login screen which peaked at 1 500 000 in November 2007 after an exponential increase; and stayed below this figure since.
We Can Keep our Workspace and Data Secure:
Everything we put on the grid, however, can be photographed and copybotted.
Second Life Solves Real Business Problems:
In fact, the only problem it's not solving is the fact that next to no computer in a business setting has the processing power or the graphics card to run SL. But don't let that stop us from putting the program on 100 computers that are unable to run it.
Second Life is the De Facto Leader in Virtual Worlds:
Except for WOW. Or Everquest. Or... oh why go on?
Roughly 20% of the Fortune 1000s are Working in Second Life Today:
Not that we know any of their names or can see their islands. We just have to trust LL on that. After all, they've never obsfucated facts or bent the truth to suit their own needs before.
The Adult Content is Contained:
And we can rest assured that our property-rights for any land that we "Buy" will be just as good as those of the people who are now "contained". Expect to be treated exactly the same in a year or two when the labs decide that our Small Business isn't what they want anymore.
Let's Start Small and Build on Our Success:
We are successful now without SL. Let's build on that and stay the course.
Defining our Success Metrics is Critical:
And we can hide metrics that are embarrasing to our shareholders by saying our website is "under repair." If it's good enough for LL, it's good enough for us.
Had you treated your current customers properly with the Voidsims debacle and the Trail of Tears goosestepping of the "contained" off their legally owned property and into a ghetto, I'd be more inclined to believe you have a place in the businessworld. But any businessman worth his salt is going to see how you've torn up the US commercial code and force-substituted property without legal grounds to do so. And any businessman will know that how you are treating us today, is how you'll be treating him tomorrow. Thus you yourselves by your own actions have trapped yourself in the realm of Games because you treat your customers like it's just a game.
And it's not like we didn't warn you, in so many ways and oh so many times.
This is an interesting idea, if we use this as a training tool, our company get all of our department heads together from the different satellite distribution hubs for hazmat and safety training. I cannot imagine the branch manager being so accepting of any inappropriate material interrupting one of these meetings. I will present her with this open letter and we shall see.
The current biggest reason I could not bring a letter like this to my management is SVC-4616. A meeting of something like 10 engineers costs us US$1000/hour. A meeting of management types goes far higher. You're going to make people like this wait around for the sim to stabilize? No - they're going to all go back to something that's not as cool but does not waste their time. If it's a meeting with customers, especially pissed-off existing customers or potential-new customers, having the entire region lock up for 30 seconds every time anybody enters the region would not be acceptable. If people are chatting instead of using voice, you just cannot say "Oh.. SL must have eaten what you tried to say - type it again."
Something like a virtual trade show, with people coming and going all the time would be nearly impossible with this bug. People would get frustrated, people would leave, people would remember what we made them go through.
After SVC-4616, I'd want text-on-a-prim for collaborative development. It doesn't need to be full HTML. It doesn't need to have tons of fonts. Just something basic that works. llSetText does not cut it. Having to write text with an offline image editor then upload it and slap it on a prim does not cut it. Also being able to map an external web image to a prim would be very useful (and may be coming with viewer HTTP textures work.. dunno.)
After that, big things on my wish list would be local intranet caching so everybody in the company doesn't need to hit the LL servers up for the same resources, over and over - our IS people would have kittens if a whole bunch of people started using SL at once. And import/export tools that would let us easily develop locally and publish globally.
I could go on and on about what I think LL needs to do to make SL a viable platform for where I work. Oh.. Wait.. I have gone on and on about it. A bunch of times. I actually joined SL nearly 3 years ago because it looked like a new and interesting way to do some of my RL work projects.
I know LL is very, very focused on getting more business customers. What you don't seem to know is that a whole lot of people already in-world are business people - it's the adult grid and many adults have day jobs, ya know. We see the way you treat existing customers. We see how stable things are. We see what we ask for and we see what you actually do.
It really is a good letter, Courtney - a big two thumbs-up for it - but LL still needs to actually make this stuff actually work reliably. Things that do not work stick in peoples mind more than things that work do. I feel like a broken record here but, again, please get an ongoing dialog going with residents and start knocking down the pain points. I guarantee that my boss will care less about there being adult content available than she will about suddenly flying off into space as she tries to look around or what she says being lost or mis-ordered or why people are asking her why she is all gray when she looks fine to herself or any of the 97 other reasons why so many people think that SL isn't ready for prime time.
And it's not like we didn't warn you, in so many ways and oh so many times.
Some good stuff in there, I'd steer clear of mentioning the adult content, not only because it puts the heebie jeebies up some people but because the way LL handled the situation is a glaring example of how not to perform customer service and it's not over yet.
Plus points are defenitely the linked news stories and examples of fortune 100 companies, government departments and other examples of business using the world.
Concentrate on the plus points and avoid dragging in points that will only undermine the whole sales pitch.
Im getting more and more sad, where is the normal ordinary personel creator in SL's mind.
All is about bussiness and cooperates and education. That what makes SL great for a person
like me is to create and explore, enjoy SL. And over the last period its just been more and more
bad. Slow rez.. Sim Cross there spoil all travel in vehicles, and not mush to find about what
SL will do about so the individuel persons can have a great SL again. I dont belive or see any
bussiness comes to SL for the sake of support or help to the individuls. They come becourse
of there income and to use SL for there own use. But maybe SL isent for people like me, even
I spend a lot of my little money to have the options for creating and build my dreams. Sad that
dont seem to count.
All the fuzz wiht change of PG Mature and Adult, to move sex and stuff like that to a isolated
place far away, yes. What wiht mainland now? So much for sale and unused. I dont think it
was so big a proplem that it have to split SL even more up. And i dont think its a good idea
make a place like zindra. If it works at all, 7 avatar in a sim and its laggy. Linden Lab should
work more on get the things to work. Better rez.. Better Sim Cross... Better sim perfomance,
I cant see how a company can use SL for say training 40 avatars.. How on earth will they
be able to move and create things in same sim.
Bertram Merlin
former dreamer and beliver in SL for all....
Yay! Just what we have been waiting for. Now the RL Corps can try to sell us their garbage in the virtual world as well. Welcome JoeMcWhitebread and his wife Frigid. Enjoy your more predictable, "uncontained" experience.
LOL I guess we know the REAL reason behind the new adult ghetto now! They are hoping that we are going to try to con our employers into using the unstable grid for RL business! Well, let Re/Max and the rest have their little sims. Those of us who are ADULTS and do not have our lips pressed against every corp around, will continue to igore the BS. Brenda, feel free to drop by! I like your attitude! :-)
It ain't just about people trying to push their products on you everywhere you go in-world. That type of corporate involvement has, I think, been deemphasized a lot lately.
It's more about holding your meetings in-world, on your private island. It's more about being able to work with peers in SL by slapping together prims and doing some scripting, on your own private island. It's more about being able to put on a trade show for US$20k instead of US$200k.
if that were the case, then there would have been need for the Adult Ghetto. Private Land can be set so only those on an access list or even a specific group can enter.
It's just LL caring more about corp $$ then its PAYING CUSTOMERS. When all they have are corp customers, maybe they will see what they have done. Judging from its past fiascos, it probably won't!
Private Islands for the Corps are fine, they've had that option all along. It means they are contained, and I can avoid them as easily as people can avoid adult conntent. But I think the goal here IS to get the marketing and advertising back out on the mainland proper, in all of our faces.
if that were the case, then there would have been need for the Adult Ghetto.
The adult content stuff was, IMO, purely about cleaning up search and cleaning up SL's image.
It's just LL caring more about corp $$ then its PAYING CUSTOMERS. When all they have are corp customers, maybe they will see what they have done. Judging from its past fiascos, it probably won't!
As I've been saying, over and over and possibly much to various Lindens displeasure: it's not their going after corporate cash that I'm concerned about. It's doing it at the expense of residents.
The would be foolish to NOT go after corporate cash. There are tons and tons of good reasons to do it. Like, for instance, CASH! And SL has huge potential to make it a good fit, too - I personally have a bunch of projects that I've been wanting to do for some time.
These things, corporate cash and happy residents, are not mutually exclusive. It can be made into a win-win-win situation.
But I think the goal here IS to get the marketing and advertising back out on the mainland proper, in all of our faces.
Not to the extent you mean. The ban on ad-farming would make it hard to spam people like those types of customers would want to do.
I think the number of potential business customers who would want to do things like in-world meetings dwarfs the number of potential business customers who want to mass-spam residents.
/me could be wrong. I doesn't think so, though.
The ban on adfarming can easily be circumvented. Easiest way is to just change the rules, we've seen that happen enough. Besides, all the Corps have to do is open up shops, give away or sell dirt cheap, nice little logo emblazened items that the predictabele experience seekerswill clamor for, and they can adspam all they want. There are probably half a dozen other ways to do it without running afoul of the policy as well. This along with the recently unveiled Content Creator Certification scheme could help put some psky little resident businesses in the toilet.
Does this tin foil hat make my butt look big?
Does this tin foil hat make my butt look big?
Nope. It does make it look shiny, though...
Corps having their own place means I don't have to go there if I don't want to. If they want to sell branded stuff then I really don't care, as long as it's good stuff. I would continue to proudly wear my IoW or Loco Poco avatars if they had logos on them. Not a ginormous logo all over my wing but a Nike Swoosh (tm, c, r, etc, et al) on a paw would be fine, if it was an otherwise cool product.
That is where we differ. I don't want their junk in my SL. I don't want a lot of it in my RL. If they come, I will not associate with them or their products or services inworld. I will choose a "rea"l residents product over a RL corporate one every time,
Such angry and hateful people in here.
Corps can bring a lot of money into SL. New ideas and improvements.
LMAO at the image of my Boss in SL Big business is the future.
You are right. The new idea for the improved SL will probably look a lot like AOL3D
Ok, miss shiny, tin-foil bum.
I still think it can be done in a good way. Coke is a good example, one that I wouldn't mind seeing LL do a "success story" on. (er.. are they still in SL? that'd probably be good to check first)
/me is always a prim critter. Got tons of 'em and some are quite nice. I was at a club in a my polar bear avatar the other day (big nod to the talented Wynx Whiplash!), wandering around and asking any girl in black leather or latex if she was a seal, and had several people ask me if I had any Coca-Cola on me. I put on my Coke drinking hat (random google example of a beer version) and passed out a few cans. Laughter ensued.
Coke, if I understand their SL policy correctly, basically allows anybody to use their material as long we're not dorks about it. It's fine for me to make a drinking hat with 'real' Coke cans in it. It's fine for me to pass out their stuff without having to ask lawyers or sign a stack of stupid paperwork. I get to be silly, they get a little free advertising. Everybody's happy.
Would I also put some Nike shoes on my paws, if I liked the way they looked? Sure! Why not? It adds a nice little touch to the realism (once you get past the idea of a big polar bear hitting on girls at a club) without being in peoples faces. They get a little bump in recognition and I get to be a goof.
And the stuff companies have in-world are almost always made by "real" residents.. You don't think the suits come into SL and build this stuff themselves, do you??
The Coke thing is a bit different in it is more of a passive "Product Placement" type of thing. I will wave my tinfoil underpants at them for at least doing it in a benign and good natured way.Unfortunately, most RL corporations are not as good natured and benign, they are ruthless and predatory.Even if "RL shoesmaker" does employ residents to make their shoes, they will have the resources as well as sway with "The Government" to make sure things go their way, and any possible competition can be eliminated. The SL Mom and Pop shoe store will stand about as much of a chance as the RL ones have.
We'll never agree on this, I am 100% dead set against any actively visible coporprate presence in SL. I don't want it.If they stay contained on their islands, fine.
And that is my final answer.
And that is my final answer.
Is it really?
No, I'm sorry.
The correct answer was "Fava Beans." But thank you for playing on our show tonight. You've been a wonderful contestant.
Now let's see the next Fastest Finger Question...
Once again, I have to agree with Miss Tin Panties. If the big corporations start putting out loads of their own crap, it will put anyone that sells that type of produt out of business. LL is kissing their butts at it is! Look at the fiasco of an Adult Ghetto! Why? Become some corp $ may be offended. So they shove people that PAY into a ghetto.
Do you really think that LL, which seems to be totally mismanaged, disorganzed and disjointed, will give one flying crap about us? They will do whatever their corporate masters want. They have shown time and time again they don't listen to us. The open sim fiasco showed how us how little they care about their PAYING CUSTOMERS.
They are dressing a pig (or in this case an unstable, laggy grid) in a prom dress and expect US to get it dates!
Sorry, but LL needs to get its collective head out of its butt and start paying attention to the REAL ISSUES effecting their CURRENT customers.
For all the cheerleaders ... sit and rah rah all you like. it doesn't make it any easier to TP ... it doesn't make the lag go away. It just makes you look like a lemming.
I'm beginning to think LL is run by a bunch of part-timers that just do whatever little project they like and disappear. They certainly don't bother posting replies to ANY complaints. If they post at all its in reply to a cheerleader.
If they don't like hearing the truth, stop pretending to want our opinions and close down the blog.
To quote Ms Connelly ... "And this is my final answer." Cheerleader, start your snarking!
Dear Amanda,
That's an interesting and cogent set of talking points that some people could use to their advantage.
It's all good, all part of working towards your goal, to make SL appealing to business.
But you will have to stop agitating us to change, us to put our adult content somewhere, us to be shaken lose by your pricing Tilt O' Whirl, us to "not get attached to our shacks on the frontier because New York City is coming" but YOU must change.
YOU must change.
Your change must start *at home, in your code cave*.
That means giving up the addiction and the sectarian obsessiveness with opensource and hacked clients.
That means giving up the big huge pass you give to griefers, when you do something like have *Lindens* allow the vandalism of *your own building* with chalk saying BAN PROK and putting the names of banned residents as somehow "heroes" and putting names of other frequent-flyer griefers you never seem to deal with. That was open, conscious incitement to continue griefing me inworld, and since then I've been under continuous assault. Shame on you.
The picture of your vandalized doorway -- vandalized with your own consent and inciting hatred against me who is a tier payer taking care of hundreds of your customers -- speaks volumes.
It says you are not ready to grow up and change. You are not ready to leave aside the ways of a child. You keep telling *us* to do that, but we're not the kids here.
It's not about sealing a company behind a hundred firewalls, bunkers, and dedicated streams. It's about changing *your internal attitude* toward security which currently simply stinks, as it is an open sieve for content theft with the most malicious cynicism and a porous border for griefers on hacked clients that evade estate bans.
Most people griefed -- like all those crying now in the Concierge group -- won't talk about. They think if they don't talk about it, it won't get worse. That you will finally do something to stop the groups with dedicated frequently-flyer griefing like Woodbury University which you yourself have dealt with by banning first the island, then the owners, then the new alts. But you keep letting them back on obvious alts because...your code cavers are friends with them.
Grow up, Linden Lab. The rest will follow then.
There is a lot of merit to this letter and the ideas contained within it. I like the idea of a virtual office and saving myself the 2.5 hour commute each day to the workplace. I will have to go with the earlier posters who pointed out the mention of adult content. I think this is a bad idea. My Supervisor would either not show any interest or look for himself what type of content that the letter is referring to. I would not want him associating me with the types of adult content that he would find in the search. I will have to pass on this even though the idea is good.
How to have a virtual office:
Have the office phone forward to your computer VOIP with a Keystroke.
Have the VR office space on a private walled off server in the company.
Have the walled server code come complete with basic office furnishings.
Have a P2P program integrated that allows whoever is on the land to have a window to the company documents. This above all else needs to be done so I can access the materials I need at home just as I would at work.
When LL does this and sells the product to companies, they'll revolutionize the workplace and eliminate the need for companies to build giganto buildings when they expand. So the bottom line for the company is improved - no more 10,000,000$ buildings required. But as it stands right now, there is no way to forward an office phone to your computer phone, and no access to a certain directory in the company network based on land settings. So while this dream _can_ become a reality within a year if LL wanted to pursue it, it's not happening today.
Have the VR office space on a private walled off server in the company.
This is of course being developed now (both as an LL offering and an OpenSource offering)
Have the walled server code come complete with basic office furnishings.
I would go so far as to have the included "Library" have avatars and the other stuff
You could have various vendors provide import packs to mirror real world items
Have a P2P program integrated that allows whoever is on the land to have a window to the company documents. This above all else needs to be done so I can access the materials I need at home just as I would at work.
This could involve the new media plugin api but any "cloud" service would work
I have to agree with Meade in regards to RL corporations within SL. I understand your concerns that a RL corporation most likely has enough resources and "pull" to put most of the competition out of business. However, it's not the companies eliminating the competition. Every business within SL functions like a RL business. They provide product to CUSTOMERS. As customers, we choose where we purchase a product or service. Therefore, customers are eliminating the competition directly. Businesses indirectly eliminate the competition by providing superior goods to their customer base. Make a product of higher quality and provide better customer service if you want to remain at the top. It's that simple.
This trend already exists in SL even with the absence of major RL corporations getting involved in product sales. Toss out a name like Armidi, Snatch, or Redgrave and almost everyone on the GRID has heard of them. In my eyes, they are just a few of the corporations of SL. Mom and Pop stores are shops that generally suffer from a sub-100 traffic rating. I typically only go to stores with an extremely high ranking and reputation since their quality is excellent more often than not. Of course, there are most definitely hidden gems with no/low traffic creating products of amazing quality. I have quite a few landmarks of Mom and Pop stores I love and visit frequently. I also do everything in my power to spread the word about them as well since reputation and popularity means everything to the growth of a business.
So what if RL companies come into SL and start merging with the market? Existing residents already have an upper hand since they have experience with the design platform of SL. RL Corporations would most likely hire existing residents to create products. Please tell me why this is bad. Why would we love existing residents already creating products any less if they start affixing a logo and creating new designs to fit a RL corporation? Oh that's right, because large corporations are scum (/sarcasm). Large corporations are also the biggest players in the global economy (even though it is struggling currently). Large corporations have the most cash flow and the largest sum of money readily available to invest. Linden Labs would be insane to not take advantage of the benefits getting involved in the corporate world would provide.
They just need to stabilize the Grid and correct EVERY existing security/copyright concern before they do so. They can also utilize private servers and techniques listed in the above couple comments to ensure corporations have a separate and safe place to conduct business. This will provide an atmosphere suitable to corporations while also minimizing the impact on residents who use SL for personal enjoyment. I'm one of the latter and truly hate the Adult Content changes. That was a completely ridiculous move in my opinion. A better move would've been to create a separate continent for professional business owners that want a business-oriented environment free from any Adult Content whatsoever. To this day, I still fail to see why they didn't go that route.
And my closing statement is this... If a "RL corporation" provides a higher quality product than a "real resident" you better believe I'm purchasing the higher quality product. I don't spend my hard-earned money to buy a mediocre product when a better one is currently available. I, like everyone else, either earn my Lindens or convert RL money to them. I'll be buying the best of the best as long as I'm spending money that I have to work for. I could care less if the product I'm buying has a Hot Topic logo or a Snatch logo as long as it's high quality.
@Amanda Linden: Great article, but I did notice one spelling mistake as I was skimming over it. You may want to edit it and change "havet" to "have" in the second paragraph of the article right before the link to the 5 case studies. Besides that, it was very well written.
>So what if RL companies come into SL and start merging with the market? Existing residents already have an upper hand since they have experience with the design platform of SL. RL Corporations would most likely hire existing residents to create products. Please tell me why this is bad. Why would we love existing residents already creating products any less if they start affixing a logo and creating new designs to fit a RL corporation? Oh that's right, because large corporations are scum (/sarcasm). Large corporations are also the biggest players in the global economy (even though it is struggling currently). Large corporations have the most cash flow and the largest sum of money readily available to invest. Linden Labs would be insane to not take advantage of the benefits getting involved in the corporate world would provide.
This was done already, and it was indeed bad, in part because it was thoughtless and stupid -- but the good news is that when corporations did this, for the most part, they didn't succeed in displacing local designers' brands. The guy selling his own jalopy on his own sim with a bunch of friends that liked socializing and drag racing on their own sim was not displaced by Nissan, and Nissan didn't seek to displace him.
What sought to displace him was an attitude that was beligerent and ideological on forums, not in practice, whic tried to create a slash-and-burn setting for corporations that was not even coming form the corporations, but coming from their sherpa consultants who wanted to exploit the situation.
This sort of attitude is destructive in RL; it's destructive in SL. Capitalism is a good system, in fact, despite the clucking and even outright violent malice you get in resistance to it from some of the gangs in SL. It's a system that enables modifications and remedies and adjustments in much better ways that centralized socialism systems, or even decentralized communist collectivizing systems.
But you cannot keep the capitalist system free if you only have the large economic units in it (with their high-paid geek sherpas making the most money of all), and you wipe out your customers' ability to have small businesses and secondary markets.
So inviting in giant corporations and siphoning off the best labour, creating an overpriced market of sherpa services, and having the designers build branded products as work-for-hire might seem like the wave of the future, but it can be destructive and in fact it doesn't even work to build the RL corporate brand because SL is not mass media. SL is a prototyping machine and a community building machine; it is linkable to mass media but in itself is not a mass media tool such as to use old-fashioned mass eyeball advertising techniques with it.
I debated this issue back in 2007 when the corporations began coming in (there was an article in the New York Times about it back then). I felt that the idea that they would be in an outside economy or unrelated to the inworld economy wasn't true, because they would hire away the best labour -- and they did. Those builders and designers *did* create their products but then...they didn't sell them for the most part but merely gave them away. Or merely set them around as eye candy on no-show sims. So it was a bust -- glutting the market with more freebies and not adding but subtracting, and not even helping themselves in the end. It was as if a trade fair came roaring into town, sucked all the oxygen out of the air, grabbed all the best laborers, drained the resources out of the local economy for advertising and such, glutted the market with free useless items -- and then...left the fair to the tumbleweeds.
What can be done about this? Well, it's like when Wal-Mart comes to town -- not an awful lot, unless you are a hard left extreme "communitiy organizer" bent on destroying a successful national business that creates jobs and cheap products for people -- and I'm not interested in doing that in RL or SL. But, even without some legislative protective maneuvers, you can create more ecology of balance with policies in virtual worlds. Big corporations can sponsor local designers, too -- Nissan provided a model for that by hosting a sim where there wasn't only just their branded cars, but people had their own stores with their own original content related to the car theme. It can be nested and cultivated and made into an ecology that both sustains community and individual small businesses and sustains the big corporation as well. It just takes care and thought. I'm not sure that it can last forever; Nissan ran it as an experiment for a year or so then retired it. The cost of staffing is a factor. But so is starting a website or magazine.
Hey all, I really appreciate all of the thoughtful comments. Terrific discussion. I would love for all of you to come to our office hours tomorrow at 9am - 10am PDT/SLT where we'll be talking about this post and other tools that you need your Second Life evangelist toolkit. Direct slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cirano/106/29/25
Mark your calendars and come join.
Hi Troy,
You are right on. I have this problem (real names of people, at least name of function/job position) ALL the time with various clients. The problem can be avoided through attachments and such. We have the data about how much this means to corporate/federal customers. In fact right now, Federal agencies are shifting to US Nexus and this is one of the 'reasons' mentioned...While this looks like a trivial issue, it has a weight especially for customers who do not know the technical superiority of SL yet. There is no reason to exclude people who want to use their real names.
Yes by all means I also want to see your snippet regarding names.
Good stuff this Amanda - thanks.
I'ts a bit late for me to convince the behemoth organisation I work for though. One concern that isn't addressed here is intellectual property. One of the ways our IS guys blocked us in SL was to say that it would be easy for another individual to claim to be us, and to start "trading" in our name - as a bank that's a bit of a risky scenario.
Perhaps some stuff about the DMCA process would be helpful too.
Of course, back then we didn't have the option to have the "behind the firewall" stuff, and adult content was placed willy-nilly around the grid (another of our IS guys obejctions). So it's good to see LL strategy is constantly improving...now if i could get a time machine......
Linden lab should have the "custom name" thing a lot more exposed and have a way for a company to fax/mail letterhead (or other proof of name) so that you can have a Real World Name inside SL
(oh and the pricing is goofy)
Great letter to upper managment, Amanda. Unfortunately, full of fluff, hype, and unprovable overstatements. But lets take a look at your talking points, shall we?
Second Life Solves Real Business Problems
And exactly how does SL solve real business problems? SL is at best a tool that can be used to augment the business process (such as reducing travel costs). However to state SL solves real business problems is hype and would be recognized as such by most upper managment. Furthermore, most will question how this platform is better than say, using skype with its encrypted voice, text/video chat, and file transfer capability. And that's not to mention skype is far superior when it comes to stability and reliability.
We Can Keep our Workspace and Data Secure
Considering that your very own viewer sends user login information over an unsecured channel along with the plethora of 3rd party viewers that bypass such simple things as ban lists, change data under the auspice of "backup" and involve coders who appear to be more interested in playing "hax0r" games (such as copy botting, key loggers, etc) than they do serious development, I would hardly refer to your platform as secure.
Second Life is the De Facto Leader in Virtual Worlds
Why oh why are you using uneducated and unproved "catch phrases" such "de facto" to promote your product? Are you writing to upper managment or is this a high school project?
Roughly 20% of the Fortune 1000s are Working in Second Life Today
Data please. In fact, how about a report from an objective 3rd party such as gartner group?
The Adult Content is Contained
And this needs to be in your letter to upper managment, why?
Let's Start Small and Build on Our Success
Yes. Lets do. For example. Let's see a track record of reliability, maintainability, scalability, etc. Let's see the industruy standard 95% fault coverage and fail over data recovery. And how about some load balancing, instead of having sims simply go off-line and/or crash. Let's see your QA implement true regression testing instead of this perpetual beta test that involves repeatedly foisting broken software upon paying customers.
Defining our Success Metrics is Critical
Indeed, it is. Until, however, your product has a provable (not a, "because I say so") track record in the very basic "ilities" it is not a viable business solution. When your company starts taking this product seriously, then just perhaps, others will too.
That means giving up the big huge pass you give to griefers, when you do something like have *Lindens* allow the vandalism of *your own building* with chalk saying BAN PROK and putting the names of banned residents as somehow "heroes" and putting names of other frequent-flyer griefers you never seem to deal with. That was open, conscious incitement to continue griefing me inworld, and since then I've been under continuous assault. Shame on you.
Indeed. That Linden Lab apparently, not only approved of such sophmoric vandalism of their building, but, if sources are correct, promoted it, speaks to a mindset that is not ready for mainstream products. That one of their very own employees created a group whose intent was to grief another resident is appalling. That employee should be fired. Period. That is, assuming Linden Lab sees their platform as a serious contender for business as opposed to a playground for malfeasance and childish acting out.
To point out that "adult content" is contained is both not necessary and not true. There is still adult content all over the grid.
If LL is so hellbent on getting corporations waste money in SL why aren't they setting up PRIVATE grids for them? Then they won't have to worry about 'adult content'.
The more you see from LL the more it seems like there is NO direction in that company at all. Some LL pet gets an idea and talks to a Linden and that employee goes off and does it without any thought of what it will mean to the rest of the company.
There are bugs that haven't been fixed and when they are mentioned it's "well that's not my department". SO? It's YOUR company! FIX THE PROBLEMS!
And honestly, how professional will LL look if they can't bother contacting these companies themselves and instead us a blog to get people to do it for them!
Sorry LL, do you own dirty work. You have people you pay, let them recruit, don't push it off on people that pay you for a service that you fail to provide.
We are CUSTOMERS not employees.
And honestly, how professional will LL look if they can't bother contacting these companies themselves and instead us a blog to get people to do it for them!
Sorry LL, do you own dirty work. You have people you pay, let them recruit, don't push it off on people that pay you for a service that you fail to provide."
its the "boots on the ground" principle if you have a need for what SL has you can ask people you pay and trust
if tis something that could work or you could trust Marketing to be Honest (and if you can't really trust your own Marketing then why would you trust somebody elses??)
A better way to sell this is to say that Second Life is not JUST a game. It is, in fact, a game, by definition and practice. However, people like Shockwave Yareach are really narrow minded. While I agree with you, Amanda, that this is a very exciting opportunity for SOME kinds of businesses, you must also realize that some people (in fact, MOST people, from what I have seen) use Second Life as a means of escaping the real world, a way of letting go of concerns and worry which plague real life. Having the real world be part of their game will not necessarilly make them feel as at ease as they have been in the past, playing this game.
Check out the Custom Name Program. It CAN be done.
yes is CAN be done but
1 how many CxOs know that it can be done
2 you are expecting a business to forklift a GRAND to do this and have a bill of US$500 a year for this
3 then you have to setup a portal (requiring some Vodoo) to access your new name which might be availble in 14 days
me i would have a nice note in the Business Welcome Kit about this
I'm sorry, Amanda. SL has the potential for business use, but it's too glitchy to use yet. If only we could rely on it to perform the same way every day!
I already know how it could be used to revolutionize my husband's business. Currently all his employees work from home; they would benefit from a virtual "main office" where their avatars could work side by side and talk as a group about the day's projects etc....
However, look at your Grid Status record. Real-world businesses cannot possibly rely on an environment that constantly has something out of order. Usually, whatever's broken today was working yesterday -- it's ridiculous.
Stabilize the product first, then invite businesses to join in.
"We Can Keep our Workspace and Data Secure: If we decide to get a private region, then we have complete control over who enters our area by tightly managing our access list."
Every person accessing the private region is sending their chat unencrypted over the public internet, using an eminently spoofable UDP-based protocol.
To get to my workplace I have to connect using two-factor authentication, a tamper-resistent dongle and a password, using a VPN. I need a separate digital certificate to authenticate me to certain servers even once I'm on the intranet.
I can see us using this kind of technology, but not one that involves logging in over the public internet or using public asset servers at any point.
It is hardly narrowminded to point out that business is based upon rules and trust. I expect any of my contractors to follow the Commercial Code of the US and fulfill their contracts, with me and with their subcontractors. Likewise, they expect me to fulfill my end of any business arrangement as well. Any business that believes it has the authority to take people's property without legal due process and substitute another property for no other reason than they want to do so (their words, not mine) is not one I'll allow my company to do business with. Linden Labs is too prone to unilaterally changing sales agreements after the fact. Nobody can do business like that; a contract is a contract and a sale is a sale.
They could have easily avoided the entire problem by simply designating the current mainland as "The Wild West" and begun their new approach with a new mainland. Instead, they showed everyone how worthless the concept of "Ownership" in Second Life actually is. They had a number of solutions open to them that did not require bait and switch tactics. That they chose the path they did proves their organization cannot be trusted with something as crucial as business applications. You may call it narrowminded if you like, but facts are still facts.
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Had no any other choice and Shane has not done bad. But yeah thats a fair thing to say that Howe_zat has a good team there.
Had no any other choice and Shane has not done bad. But yeah thats a fair thing to say that Howe_zat has a good team there.
CricZo XI - 6 Draft Winner
Scorecard Draft (2010) V Sehwag, D Amiss, D Bradman (c), C Cowdrey, P Umrigar, A Faulkner, R Marsh +, M Marshall, W Hall, M Hughes, B O'Reilly
Alphabetical Draft (2011) S Watson, G Kirsten, D Bradman (c), K Sangakkara +, C Cowdrey, K Pietersen, A Flintoff, M Marshall, B O'Reilly, F Trueman, T Alderman
The Eras Draft (2014) V Trumper, A Morris, N Harvey, J Kallis, S McCabe, F Woolley, Imran Khan (c), J Dujon +, J Briggs, D Steyn, J Snow
kingkallis to get a point removed after voting for himself.
"truth has been permanently banned." - Prince EWS
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Voted for Masud's team. Hard to look past the team that has Bradman, Marshall, O'Reilly, Trueman and Sangakkara in it. KingKallis always comes with the LUCK of a 'Dhoni's-opponent-captain-in-tosses' in these draft threads.
Thanks Sam for voting for my team, though I believe that my team lacks a champion spinner (someone like Muralitharan, O'Reilly, Warne, Grimmett, Laker or Verity).
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"Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism."
- C.L.R. James
I think all teams probably have one or two weak points. Still, liked that pace attack of Kapil, Proctor, Adcock and Snow. Additionally its a fantastic batting lineup and has a top notch keeper as well.
"I will go down as Darren Sammy, the one who always smiles" - Darren Sammy
Yes, you are right. In this draft almost all teams have one or two weak links. My weak link is the spin department. And because most of the teams have a hole or two, the team with Bradman, Marshall, O'Reilly, Trueman and Sangakkara in it can be voted for without even having a look at the other 6 players. I believe 11 very good players is better than 5 great and 6 good players. But when no team has 11 very good players, why not vote for the one with 5 greats. And Bradman himself is equal to 2 greats, so that makes it 6. That was my logic. Of course, I am glad that you voted for my team (and I'm not arguing against it ).
By the way, I love the idea of 3 all-time great all-rounders like Miller, Imran and Kallis in the same team. Leads me to ponder how a team of 11 all-rounders will look like.
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Wilfred Rhodes, Vinoo Mankad, Wally Hammond, Jacques Kallis, Garry Sobers, Keith Miller, Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Jim Parks+, Richie Benaud*, Richard Hadlee
Not sure what counts as a wicketkeeping allrounder. I suppose you could have Gilly or someone as the best wicket-keeper-batsman, I went for Parks as wicketkeeper-batsman-legspinner.
I tried to bat everyone in their natural position or below, though I'm not sure Hammond would be an allrounder or not at Test level. If not, near misses were Kapil, Wooley, and Wasim Akram.
No votes for my team.
Yeah, somewhat surprising. Its not that bad.
Probably got my Marketing and publicity wrong and small, tbh
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You have a fantastic bowling unit but seeing Javed Miandad opening turns me off!
Did that team lineup in a hurry ,tbh.
Just out of hand thought Miandad would have done a good job there.
Thinking about it again i would probably have Alec Stewart opening who did a very decent job opening in his career.
Yeah thats the problem. Should have opened with Azhar
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The Elk Grove Historical Museum provides a look at pioneer living from the mid 19th to early 20th century. The Museum specializes in the history of the Elk Grove and its development over time. Open year round, the Museum offers tours, educational programs, exhibits, and assistance with research on Elk Grove Village and the surrounding area.
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This full-service library presents a variety of arts events throughout the year.
Highland Park Historical Society
This museum is a 12 room, two story Italianate Victorian house donated to the Society in 1969. The Society's mission is to discover, preserve, provide access to and disseminate the history of the general area and of Highland Park, in particular.
CITY:Highland Park
Morton Grove Historical Museum Haupt-Yehl House
Located in Harrer Park, this 1888 Victorian farmhouse features period furnishings and a museum on its lower level with rotating displays.
CITY:Morton Grove
Explore rare architecture in this historic district, made up of 667 homes, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Don't miss the house walk in September.
Elgin Area Historical Society & Museum
Experience the history of Elgin, from the Elgin Watch Factory to the first settlers. Everyone will walk out with a better understanding off Elgin's history.
Learn about the history of Wilmette, the North Shore area and Gross Point. Housed in the former Gross Point Village Hall, the museum also offers a research library.
Hands-on interactive exhibits introduce the history of Lake County in a fun learning environment. The Museum also displays the nation's largest permanent exhibition on the history and significance of postcards. Changing exhibits throughout the year.
Elgin Area Historical Society Museum
Housed in an 1856 landmark building, permanent exhibits include artifacts from the Elgin National Watch Co. and Elgin Road Race memorabilia.
Representing a variety of downtown restaurants, an array of shops and services and entertainment. Stroll downtown and enjoy shopping the unique stores, visiting the art galleries, eating at one of the many restaurants and end the day with a show at the famous Genesee Theatre, Three Brother's Theatre or enjoy live entertainment at one of the downtown eateries. Join the fun at one of the many events throughout the year, including the monthly ArtWauk. Waukegan has something for everyone.
The Glen Rowan House is the perfect setting for weddings, social parties, private, and corporate events. An estate on the North Shore designed by renowned architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, this significant landmark is named for its impressive rowan oak trees and is a part of the Lake Forest College campus.
CITY:Lake Forest
A Victorian town square, complete with bandstand and gazebo, is the setting for many unique shops, eateries, antiques stores and art galleries. The square is home to many events, and was the film site for the hit movie Groundhog Day.
A state of the art history museum dedicated to collecting and sharing the history of the greater Grayslake area. The Grayslake Heritage Center offers programs, exhibitions and special events all year round and includes two galleries, a community room and classroom.
The Sumner home, along with two others, features historical displays and replicas. One of the houses is restored as a 1920's working-class home.
Guided tours (by reservation only) of Ragdale, a nationally renowned artists' community built by noted architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, include a walk through the historic house and gardens as well as a studio visit with an artist-in-residence.
CITY:Lake Forest
Elgin Fire Barn No. Five Museum
Get caught up in the history and spirit of firefighting. View the 1929 American Lafrance Fire Engine and 1869 Horse Drawn Silsby Steamer.
The growth and history of Winnetka since 1830 is chronicled in this museum, which includes the Carlton Washburne Library.
In beautiful Lord's Park, this museum features over 15,000 specimens of natural history with newly expanded family focused hands-on exhibits.
Arlington Heights Historical Museum
The Coach House, a replica Log Cabin, the 1882 home of F.W. Muller and the 1908 Banta House tell the story of Arlington Heights over the last 150 years. Tour guides introduce you to the life of early residents. Tours: Sat. & Sun. 2pm & 3pm Heritage Gallery & Gift Shop: Fri.-Sun. 1:30pm-4:30pm
CITY:Arlington Heights
Northbrook Historical Society Museum
Enjoy the main floor museum with antiques and a replica of an 1890s home. Open the first Sunday of every month, or by appointment.
The residence of the founder of the City of Zion, Dr. John Alexander Dowie, is a stately 23-room mansion that was built in 1901-02 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The oldest farmhouse in Elk Grove Village. Restored to reflect life during the civil war. The home of Heinrich and Maria Schuette. School and scout programs available. Open year-round.
CITY:Elk Grove Village
This historic non-denominational chapel served as a house of worship for thousands of servicemen and women passing through this military base. After the Glenview Naval Air Station closed, the building was moved from its original location and painstakingly restored by the Village of Glenview and Kimball Hill Builders. Now owned by the Park District, it is available for rental by groups, individuals and organizations.
Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home
Adlai Stevenson II was an important and influential figure in the political history of the United States. Stevenson was Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and ran twice for President as the Democratic National Candidate in 1952 and 1956. He also served as Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 - 1965. The grounds are open daily for self-guided tours. The peaceful setting allows visitors to experience the historic landscape similar to when the family lived in the house. The house has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Group tours can be arranged through the Forest Preserves - 847-968-3422.


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Jamie Hood and Alexandra Baldwin, British Museum
With the Iron Age Chiseldon cauldrons excavated and cleaned to expose the metal surface we are beginning to see interesting technological features and evidence of manufacture revealing them to be sophisticated and high status objects.
Although they're over 2,000 years old, different tool marks from shaping and thinning the copper alloy are preserved on the surface of the metal. These suggest the careful and deliberate use of specific tools for different jobs, indicating that the objects were made by a craft specialist skilled at working sheet metal.
Other features likely to relate to construction are the lines, faintly incised into the surface of the sheet copper-alloy and only visible in raking light. These appear to mark the overlap of plates making up the sections of the cauldron, and the regular distribution and position of rivets indicating that the cauldrons were carefully designed and made.
Examination is also showing that, while the 12 cauldrons are broadly similar in their design, there are variations in their size, shape and construction. We have already identified three different types of rim construction. These differences are extremely intriguing and suggest that the cauldrons were made by different makers and/or at different times.
Another intriguing feature we are encountering is a high number of patched repairs. Some repairs appear to have been applied at the time of construction and placed over fatigue cracks caused by raising the metal. Others quite clearly cover areas of damage caused during the useful lifetime of the cauldrons, indicating that they were used and repaired over a period of time and were already old and well-loved items at the time of their burial.
Preserved details like this mean that while the cauldrons are in relatively poor condition there are minute pieces of evidence that allow us to build up a wider picture of how the cauldrons were designed and made, and really bring the objects to life by allowing us to see the craftsman's thought process and the practical application of their art.
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Directions to Accommodation PlitviceAddress: Tomislava Jakovljevica 20, Korenica, Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
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It is very easy to find our accommodation: Arriving by car: Korenica and Plitvice lakes are on the national road D1. That is the main road that connects Zagreb with Zadar. From the adriatic cost from Dubrovnik ,Split or Zadar you can take off the highway A1(E71) at Gornja Ploca in direction of Udbina to reach D1 to Korenica. From direction from Zagreb the best way is to take highway to Karlovac and to take D1 to Korenica. Arriving by bus: Bus from Zagreb takes 2-3 houres to Plitvice an Korenica. From Zadar it takes 1-2 houres. The best practice is to check at the bus stations in the city where you are taking from to check out bus schedules and ticket prices. Frequency is usually 1 hour. In Korenica there are 2 BUS station and you should use bus station in front of hotel Macola in city center. This one is only 150-200 from our accommodation and please get out from BUS on this station. Second bus station is in front of RESTAURANT MACOLA ( ca 800 m from our accommodation). How to find us in Korenica In Korenica center (on bus station in front of hotel Macola) you will find our marks; ROOMS, ZIMMER, Tomislava Jakovljevica No.20 and just follow this marks in order to easy find us.


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Hugo Chapman, Exhibition Curator
As curator of the soon-to-open exhibition, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance drawings I'll be writing weekly about what's happening behind the scenes as the show takes shape before it opens to the public on 22 April.
The exhibition consists of a hundred of the greatest Italian fifteenth-century drawings from the British Museum and the Uffizi in Florence.
The process of selection from the two best collections of Renaissance drawings came close to fulfilling my childhood dream of being locked in a sweet shop… the difference being that I was picking out Leonardos, not sherbet dib dabs.
For the last three years I've imagined how the drawings would look in the soaring space of the Reading Room. This week we've started to hang the drawings, so finally the waiting is over.
Will the drawings that I thought would work so well together turn out to be good neighbours? Time will tell.
Next week I'll be back with an insider's peek at the exhibition installation.
Hope you enjoy following our progress.
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And while Forest City Ratner is neither named nor indicted, the investigation is ongoing and, at least as presented by federal prosecutors, the developer's conduct seems suspect. (An indictment, of course, is an allegation based on evidence, not a conviction.)
Update: FCR says it's not a target
"Forest City Ratner Companies has cooperated fully with the U.S. Attorney's Office during the course of its investigation and will continue to do so. In addition, Forest City has been advised by the U.S. Attorney's Office that neither the company nor any of its employees is a target of the investigation," said Ed Tagliaferri, Senior VP, Dan Klores Communications, in a statement.
Note that the U.S. Attorney's Office would not comment when I earlier asked the same question. After I received the statement from Tagliaferri, I asked the U.S. Attorney's Office to confirm that "neither the company nor any of its employees is a target," and was told there was no comment.
As for what "not a target" can mean, consider this from TPM Muckraker:
The phrase makes the politician sound practically exhonerated [sic], when really, prosecutors tend to wait to send out a "target" letter until shortly before an indictment is issued.Or this from the Chicago Sun-Times:
By saying Daley is not a target, it means they don't have a case against him, which isn't the same as saying they aren't trying to build one.Contract in exchange for influence to change vote
FCR is cited as agreeing to provide Zehy Jereis, the former head of the Yonkers Republican Party, a $60,000 consulting contract after he got Yonkers City Council Member Sandy Annabi once a fierce opponent of the Ridge Hill project, to change her vote.
She once said that Forest City Ratner was "probably richer than God" and was "robbing the city blind," and served as the lead plaintiff in a 2005 lawsuit objecting to the city's approval process--but then did an about-face a year later.
According to prosecutors, the sequence of events that included the changed vote mean Annabi, the former Democratic Majority Leader of the Yonkers City Council, has been charged with conspiracy, bribery, extortion, false statements, and tax crimes. Also, Jereis, the former head of the Yonkers Republican Party, and Anthony Mangone, a Westchester County attorney, were charged with conspiracy, bribery, and extortion.
(Mangone was apparently not involved with Ridge Hill. Here's coverage of the case on LoHud.com.)
From the press release
The Ridge Hill Development Project
The "Ridge Hill Development Project" was a project proposed by a large developer ("Developer No. 2") to develop an 81-acre tract of land to establish retail shopping, restaurants, office space, hundreds of residential housing units, and a hotel and conference center. ANNABI was an outspoken critic of the proposed Ridge Hill Project and voted against both the project and legislation that would allow the project to move forward despite her opposition. ANNABI, with two other City Council members and others, also filed a civil lawsuit to effectively block the Ridge Hill Project. As the City Council was considering the Ridge Hill Project, Developer No. 2 made repeated and unsuccessful efforts to convince ANNABI to vote in favor of the project.
On June 2, 2006, JEREIS was introduced to representatives of Developer No. 2, after which JEREIS told representatives of Developer No. 2 that he could arrange a meeting between them, ANNABI, and JEREIS to discuss the Ridge Hill Project. JEREIS and representatives of Developer No. 2 also had an agreement in which Developer No. 2 would give JEREIS a consulting job sometime after ANNABI formally voted in favor of the Ridge Hill Project. After two meetings held in less than two weeks, ANNABI reversed her opposition to the Ridge Hill Project and issued a press release -- drafted by JEREIS and representatives of Developer No. 2 -- informing the public of her support for the project.
Specifically, at a City Council meeting on July 11, 2006, ANNABI voted in favor of the zoning change necessary for the Ridge Hill Project. Shortly after ANNABI changed her vote on the Ridge Hill Project, JEREIS received the promised consulting contract from Developer No. 2 worth $60,000 over one year.
Secret Payments To ANNABI And Efforts To Conceal The Crimes
...Since at least 2004, ANNABI has received from JEREIS, MANGONE, and others more than $160,000 worth of secret payments designed to influence and reward her for favorable official action or inaction on matters pending before the City Council as specific opportunities arose.


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The newest set of young entrepreneurs are changing up the way we dress on the job. From interviews to daily life in the office, swapping ironed slacks for a crisp pair of jeans is becoming more acceptable by professionals around the world. Right now Refinery29 and Levi's are pairing up to track down and interview some inspiring young minds who are making big strides in their fields. Some of those highlighted include Katie Amour of Matchbook Magazine, Emmett Shine of Gin Lane, and Kevin Systrom of Instagram.
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Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also the chief international columnist for El País and La Repubblica, Spain's and Italy's largest dailies, a columnist in the Financial Times's "A-List," and a contributing editor to the Atlantic.
His weekly columns are carried by all the leading newspapers in Latin America, and in 2011 he was awarded the Ortega y Gasset Prize, the most prestigious award in Spanish journalism. Naím is also the host and producer of Efecto Naím, a weekly television program on international affairs that airs throughout the Americas via DirecTV (NTN24) on Sunday nights.
Before joining Carnegie, Naím was the editor in chief of Foreign Policy for fourteen years. During his tenure, the magazine was relaunched and won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence three times. He is author of many scholarly articles and more than ten books on international economics and politics, including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy (2005) and The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be (2013).
Naím's public service includes his tenure as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry in the early 1990s, director of Venezuela's Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He was also a professor of business and economics and dean of IESA, Venezuela's main business school. He is chairman of the board of the Group of Fifty as well as a member of the Boards of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, International Crisis Group, and the Open Society Foundations.


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Fall Harvest Arts and Crafts fair Nov. 12
The Lions club of Huntington will be holding their annual Fall Harvest Arts and Crafts fair on Nov 12 from 11 a.m.-5p.m. It will be in the auditorium of the Huntington Elementary School. There will be flu shots available also through CNS nursing facility. Come join us for a day of fun and find some special gifts for that fussy person on your Christmas list. There will also be a Thanksgiving dinner ready for any who are hungry in the cafeteria that evening. The cost of that will be posted that day.
Emery County Recreation Youth Recreation Survey
Emery County Recreation is conducting a survey. The survey forms will be distributed at each school or can be picked up at the Emery County Recreation office. Each student will be given a survey form to take home. Please fill out the survey form and return it to your school or they may be dropped off to the Emery County Recreation building located at 45 S. 400 E. in Castle Dale between 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The survey is also available on-line at www.emerycounty.com/rec.
For more information call the rec. office at 381-2108.
Festival of Trees
For 41 years, the Festival of Trees has ushered in the Holiday Season in Utah. More importantly, every penny raised helps children at Primary Children's Medical Center. Join us as we give "A Gift of Love" to children at Primary Children's Medical Center. Festival of Trees - Nov. 30- Dec. 3, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. - South Town Expo Center, Sandy, Utah.
Millsite Dam public meeting
A public meeting to discuss proposed modifications to Millsite Dam will be held in the Ferron City Hall on Nov. 10.
Time of meeting is 5:30- 6:30 p.m. Alternatives addressing the spillway, raising the dam and earth quake stabilization will be discussed.


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there has been statues of tengu, thats like saying in marvel comics that the avengers mustve had abe lincoln in it because you see pics/ statues of abe in the comic book. the reason there is statues is because that is a part of japanese culture.also you also see buhda's statue but you dont say that budha started the amakichi clan or anything.
it was never stated that it's chakra was darker. it is called sinister. sinister means "bad evil or wicked, threatening or portending to evil harm or trouble, ominous.
tengu: they arent evil in japanese culture either. they are protectors of mountains and forests.
uchiha madara: tell me where he is mentioned beside when the kyubi says he had more sinister chakra than itself, and where tobi says kono uchiha madara. even if he is the founder of the uchiha clan and is the statue its never stated yet. if the spoilers are true then he may be.
have you noticed that this theory is purely one of english speaking countries?
my friends who live in japan havent heard of it before. and they are narutards. they freaking dress up in cosplay for conv there
also put credit to where credit is due. this is yasha's theory on naruto fan. its called the dark history of the uchiha
to how the uchiha was created without tengu. the same way as the byakugan was created i would think. evolution or tampering with chakra. if the only way the sharingan could be developed was the tengu then how would you explain any of the kekkei genkai


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Accidents of Nature
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- Brief Synopsis:
- A fictional account of a young girl's experience at a summer camp for people with disabilities, that contains a strong dose of reality for anyone who grew up with a disability in the '60's & '70's.
- Long Synopsis:
- Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to "Crip Camp" and nicknames her Spazzo. Sara has radical theories about how people fit into society. She's full of rage and revolution against pitying insults and the lack of respect for people with disabilities. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever.
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 234 Pages
- 9780805076349
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 10/09/15
- Copyright Date:
- 2006
- Copyrighted By:
- Harriet McBryde Johnson
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- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Outdoors and Nature, Disability-Related, Literature and Fiction, Teens
- Grade Levels:
- Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
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Reviews of Accidents of Nature (1 review)
Reviewer: Debee Norling
This is a young adult novel by famed disability rights activist Harriet McBryde Johnson. It's simply wonderful. I've never read anything that captures the disability experience better. Basically a simple story about Jean, a teen with C.P. who spends two weeks at the mythical, but all too real summer camp courage. There she pals around with a group of other disabled teens, whose ringleader, Sarah is the author's alter-ego. Sarah by contrast is a troublemaker, who speaks out against the conventional wisdom of treating disabled people as brave cripples who we must only pretend can contribute to society. Like many coming-of-age characters, Jean must confront herself, realizing that up until now she's been the crip that Sarah decries. Jean has always gone to school with non-disabled kids, pretending that she isn't any different. Confronting her own differences at the end of the novel, she knows she has to forge a unique path towards her adulthood. If you like fiction about disabled people, this is a must read. There is no politics, no lecturing, no strident voices or grating tone. The characters are so breathtakingly real you will feel like you went to camp with them too when the novel is over.