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Because government has the ability to create debt, it has the ability to create money, as all money in our corrupt fascist system is a function of debt.
The answer to the post title question of "How do we eliminate the paradox of poverty & privation amid plenty & abundance?" is - we simply eliminate government.
I think families who have the time and space should try growing some of their own food. That's production at one of its most efficient levels. You pay no shipping, taxes, etc, and save money while giving yourself a reason to get fresh air, exercise, and sunlight.Is that silly? =(I've often wondered why the Fed would rather that people sit on their butts in the inner city projects when we have so much workable land going to waste. Instead of letting the Bush family and other people buy everything up, our gov should be PROTECTING public lands and putting them to use. Who is going to end up in prison first, the thug on the street or the federally funded sodbuster working with his hands?
In the inner city you literally get punished when you even show a twinkle of self reliance, its scary, if you speak english too clearly people treat you strangely and call child protective services on you LITERALLY, anybody you see in the city, if they are acting in a way that appears stupid and crazy, its a defense mechanism
The only way to solve this paradox is to eliminate all the negatives of human nature rendering us a totally benevolent species and we know that's not going to happen.
The other venue is to the best we can, deal with the greed, malice, indifference and multiple other disagreeable attributes we possess, and press on never giving up in trying to do good.
get rid of capitalism
…according to the liberals, the notion that Obama's plan for America was socialistic was itself just crazy.
After all, everyone knows that America has a free-enterprise system, one that was saved by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, an economic program that Obama, like other liberals, extols and wishes to build upon.
First of all, let's talk about the economic system that existed in the United States from the inception of the nation to the latter part of the 19th century. The principles are simple to enumerate: No income taxation (except during the Civil War), Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, economic regulations, licensure laws, drug laws, immigration controls, or coercive transfer programs, such as farm subsidies and education grants.
In mocking that claim of socialism, however, what the SSA doesn't tell you is where Bismarck got the idea of social security and, for that matter, the whole idea of a paternalistic welfare state. He got the idea from German socialist intellectuals, who saw social security as an ideal way to use the state to implement the Marxian principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
As the years went on, the German people became accustomed to having the government care for them, with their own money of course. Thus, by the time that Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the paternalistic welfare state had become a permanent feature of German life. Given Hitler's devotion to National Socialism (abbreviated by the term "Nazi"), it was hardly surprising that he embraced such socialist programs as social security, national health care, and public (i.e., government) schooling.In fact, Hitler embraced not only socialism but also fascism, an economic philosophy that leaves property in private hands but subjects it to government control and regulation. Another feature of Hitler's fascism was partnerships between government and private industry, whose aims were to further the interests of the nation.As Jonah Goldberg points out in his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, in principle there was no difference between socialists and fascists…
For what Roosevelt actually did was adopt the principles of socialism and fascism that were spreading across the world, including the premier examples of Benito Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany.
So lately conservatives, and especially the most hard right wing of conservatives, have been on the lookout for other terms they can use rather than the dreaded "R" word when describing themselves. Some of them have jumped on board the Glenn Beck self-promotion tour. Considering that it's an artificial movement generated around a cheap media persona, declaring yourself a supporter of the Tea Party is a bit like being a proud member of a Monkees Fan Club (and you don't even get to hear "Last Train to Clarksville"), but hey, it plays better than being a part of the George W. Bush legacy.Other conservatives have jumped in a different direction and declared that they're really "small government Libertarians."
Ah, the 1880s....A golden age in which people kept all that they earned. Of course, what they earned in the absence of those debilitating minimum wage laws could be nothing more than worthless tokens from the company store. What they earned from twelve hours of work seven days a week could be actually be a bigger debt to the company that sent you into a mine or factory and made you pay for the wear on your tools, the water you drank, the fuel for your lamp, even the blasting powder you used.Still, a lifetime of debt wasn't so bad in a golden age without OSHA and its safety laws, since lifetimes could be quite brief. Mining accidents didn't kill a piddling 29 men, they killed thousands every year. Over 3 miners out of every 1,000 died on the job each year (twice the rate of Great Britain with it's freedom-robbing concern for safety). But miners were pikers compared to folks on the railroad. Trainmen fell at a rate that made each year of work roughly equal to the risk of being among the troops on D-Day. Now that's freedom you can feel (well, briefly). It was an age where any construction project worth its salt could measure progress by body count and factory workers were privileged to know that they really were valued far less than the machines they tended. And death wasn't all that this golden age had to offer! It was an age when American workers could look forward to the liberation of being disabled for life, and know that they wouldn't be burdened by the crushing burden of worker's compensation or government aid....It was a golden age without labor laws in which only 5% of people faced the awful restriction of an 8 hour work day while 3 times that many were blessed with a workday that was 12 hours or longer. Many industries, breweries for example, had a standard workday of 15 hours. And with all the extra freedom of that age, many children were able to experience the blessings of back-breaking labor starting every day by the time they reached the age of 10, with more than a third generating freedom dollars before they turned 15.
Even the tiniest frontier village rarely went long without a school, many states had organized school districts, and in a good number of areas the ratio of teachers to students was actually higher than in our own socialistic era. Perhaps what Hornberger meant to say was that there were few schools available to minorities.
However, white literacy remained about the same -- not surprising since whites were already suffering from those socialistic public schools well before 1880.
It truly was a golden age where there were "no immigration controls" as long as, you know, you were white and European. Oh, and wealthy.
Of course Hispanic, Black, and Asian-Americans were all stimulated by the freedom that comes from having your home burned, your community ransacked, your wife and daughters raped, your belongings stolen, and your body left to turn as "strange fruit" in trees that sprouted across the country.
It was a golden age when the last bands of Native Americans still struggling along under the illusion that they were free, were invited into the real liberty that is life on the reservation. And an age where they got to see the lands their ancestors had occupied for centuries or tens of centuries handed over for destruction. Imagine the liberty you get from seeing your lands taken away, your children beaten for speaking their own language, your religious practices used as an excuse for slaughter, and your entire culture erased.
A golden age, free from money-grubbing FEMA, where 400 people could die in a snow storm... then 400 more could die in the next. An age when Florida didn't need no stinking assistance in picking up the thousands who died in hurricanes and Midwestern states laughed off the hundreds who died in tornadoes -- all without warning from a communist government weather bureau.
An age without communist limits on commerce or immoral government tests, where thousands of Americans each year died from tainted food.
It was a golden age of rights for women in which... oh, wait. Sorry. I forgot for a moment that women don't count when measuring freedom. Good thing, since in 1880 they couldn't vote
Of course, what Hornberger was likely envisioning was the flip side of all this liberty. The freedom of being a rich in a society where those with money enjoyed tremendous advantage. The freedom that factory owners and robber barons enjoyed in treating workers as they wanted,
employing private armies to beat or kill those who opposed them
and indulging any whim in the sure knowledge that a large enough bribe could smooth things over.
It doesn't require a time machine and a trip to the 1880s to experience all the joys of this golden age he so longs for. You can reach this land of paradise with a couple of flights and a short boat ride. It's called Somalia.
Real advocates of the free market realize that term has no meaning unless the market is free from coercion and the law is not defined by "might makes right."
They know that individual freedoms are incompatible with a system where corporations are treated as super-citizens
Sumner's response contains all the standard stuff....like the stuff that suggests that our American ancestors hated their wives and children, as reflected in their sending them into dangerous factories to work long hours.
You know, like the stuff that suggests that liberals love the poor, needy, and disadvantaged while advocates of the free market just love the rich, greedy, and selfish people in life.
You know, like the stuff that suggests that without the coercive apparatus of the welfare state, poor people and old people would just be dying in the streets.
As I have long pointed out, the problem with liberals is their dismally poor understanding of economics, and Sumner's article is just the most recent example of this phenomenon.
In their purported concern for the poor, liberals never ask the important question: What is it that causes wealth and prosperity to come into existence? The only question they ask themselves is, "What is the cause of poverty"?
But the latter is a ridiculous question because poverty has always been the natural state of mankind.
You would think that those would be important questions for a liberal, especially since liberals have long purported to be concerned about the poor.
Instead, he points out all the bad things that were taking place in, say 1880, and then concludes that all those statist programs that our American ancestors rejected, and which are so beloved to Sumner, should be embraced. In other words, he's suggesting that the absence of the statist programs is the cause of the bad living conditions in American society that he laments. But his logic and his conclusions are faulty and fallacious.
No one denies that economic conditions were bad for many people in 1880. No question about it. No dispute there.
But in focusing on those bad conditions, Sumner makes a common mistake. He is comparing those conditions to conditions in which we live today or at least to some sort of ideal economic utopia. In doing that, he misses the important point, which is this: What were conditions for ordinary people prior to the Industrial Revolution? Answer: As Hobbes put it, life was nasty, brutish, and short — that is, much, much worse than it was in 1880 America.
As bad as things were in 1880 America, it was a golden era compared to the pre-industrial age.
This point was made as long ago as 1954 in a book entitled Capitalism and the Historians, which was edited by libertarian Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek.
Austrian economist Murray Rothbard stated, "Hayek contributed to and edited a series of essays that showed conclusively that the Industrial Revolution in England, spurred by a roughly free-market economy, enormously improved rather than crippled the standard of living of the average consumer and worker in England. In this way, Hayek led the way in shattering one of the most widespread socialist myths about the Industrial Revolution.
Fact is the banking system couldn't exist without government regulations
if i tried to do what they do, create money out of thin air, lend out more money than exists, or than i actually have, i would go to jail. Counterfeiting, fraud or something. But they'd get me.I am in the subservient position because i have to go to the bank and ask permission from them for the money to be created. They are in the dominant position. They are also in the predatory position because they get to charge interest on that money.
Its got nothing to do with freedom
Keep falling for the blaming freedom ruse and we go backwards not forwards.
Although I do not share either her one-sided view of the Founders or her apparent preference for pure democracy over constitutional republicanism, I nevertheless agree with much of what Vi Ransel has to say in the following article -- particularly her assessment of the Gilded Age (which is certain to make Austrian School ideologues cringe) and her point about how "slavery" -- despite being officially abolished in the 19th century -- was never truly eliminated, but simply transformed into more sophisticated, less obvious guises, and how it thrives to this day.
I have some problem with the idea of "working hard". In the 1990s were coined the phrase "work smarter not harder." I think that is a better notion. And if you divvy up the available jobs among the population you might just wind up a 10 hour work week for everybody (similar to India when I visited there). Of course people will say they wouldn't make enough money to survive in "this" economy. That is the problem as "this" economy is quite artificial and has been built over the last 30 or so years on credit. The best solution is to wipe the blackboard and start over again. That is kind of what Gerald Celente suggests we're headed for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you support a land value tax?
Regarding the poor and rent-seeking, I agree, it's pretty much every ordinary person's biggest expense. The irony I've noticed is that people supporting welfare to "help the poor" are often the same people that allow rampant property speculation\the current parasitical monetary system.
Yes, and only that tax: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=160421.0Indeed they are. That's why they're called "poverty pimps." http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=163559.0
So what happens if the landowners refuse to pay up, and what does a legitimate government use the income for?I also haven't seen any explanation of how this would work in the United Kingdom with its much higher population density on a small island.
That was precisely why, in my last post, I linked to the thread to which I devoted that topic.Here it is again: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=160421.0
I read that, but it doesn't answer my specific question about what you think legitimate functions of government are.
We can't really work on abstractions...obviously the current level is too high and it needs to be scaled back but by how much exactly?
Although I do not share either her one-sided view of the Founders or her apparent preference for pure democracy over constitutional republicanism, I nevertheless agree with much of what Vi Ransel has to say in the following article -- particularly her assessment of the Gilded Age (which is certain to make Austrian School ideologues cringe) and her point about how "slavery" -- despite being officially abolished in the 19th century -- was never truly eliminated, but simply transformed into more sophisticated, less obvious guises, and how it thrives to this day.-------------------------------------http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-american-workplace-sweatshop-usa/18524The American Workplace: Sweatshop USA Workhouse Nation: Part Three
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Read: Colossians 4
Key Verse: "Devote yourself to prayer, being watchful and thankful." - Colossians 4:2
Have you ever been devoted to prayer? What would that look like in your life? We see tremendous devotion in our culture: commitment to watching certain television shows, drinking coffee, gaining the next level with video games, following sports teams, and spending time on social media are some examples. Have you ever intentionally stopped a hobby or habit to spend additional time in prayer? Any urgent situations in your life that need additional intercession?
Being watchful includes seeing the needs around you, aware of the spiritual condition in people's lives, sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and avoiding laziness. Being thankful will keep your heart healthy, your mind fresh, and your relationships positive. Christians are called to be leaders in prayer, not simply watching news headlines and being discouraged. There is nothing wimpy about dropping to your knees; it is where you will find real power.
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sobhadhyam ptavastram sarasijanayanam sarvadå suprasannam |
pånau nåråcacåpam kapinikarayuta, bandhunå sevyamånam
naumiyam jånakisam raghuvaramanisam puspakårudharåmam ||1||
Lord Ram on the Puspak Viman
I respectfully salute Lord Råma without cease. The husband of Shri Janaki and chief of the Raghu Dynasty is mounted on the Puspak, an aerial car. He has a greenish blue hue very much like the gleam of a peacock's neck. The fact that He is adorned with the impression of the Brahman's (Bhrigu) lotus foot endorses that He is supreme amongst the gods. Richly radiant, He is clad in yellow robes, is lotus-eyed and always blissful. Holding a bow and arrow in His hands, Ram is accompanied by a herd of monkeys and served by Lakshman, His brother. (1)
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Brahma & Shiva Honour the Lotus Feet of Lord Ram
The charming and delicate lotus-feet of Lord Råma, the master of Kosalapuri, are adored by both Brahma and Shiva. Caressed by the lotus hands of Janak's daughter, they are constantly allied to the bee-like mind of the worshipper. In other words, the capricious black bee of such a devotee's mind forever dwells in these lotus feet. (2)
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Brian, the Aftermath
After posting what is being described as a suicide note/goodbye letter to his wife and daughters on FaceBook Sunday night, the former TAPS member and star of Ghost Hunters went missing...sparking a manhunt that not only involved family and friends, but local law enforcement and ghost hunters/paranormal enthusiasts over the country.
Luckily, Brian was found safe and sound Monday evening, and the Twitter Tweets from wife, Michelle, along with Chip Coffey and Jason Hawes all reported that he was on his way to receive treatment. Yesterday, Brian was apparently released from a local medical facility, and put back on his medication for bipolar disorder. Here, in his own words, as posted on his FB account is a letter to his fans, family and friends:
Addendum, because some people are CLEARLY missing the message of this post:
In no way, shape or form, have I ever intended, or blatantly said, that I think it was a waste of time for people to look for this individual and to make sure he gets the help he needs. The only thing I said was that perhaps police resources could possibly have been put to better use--and I say that because I know that if it were me personally, I would feel terrible knowing that my actions had caused precious time away from helping someone who was in a worse situation than myself. I don't pretend to know this individual personally, and I sure as heck cannot begin to fully understand his actions and the issues behind them.
I wish him nothing but the best, but I am disappointed overall with how the situation was handled. I don't truly think all was done in the aftermath to ensure that he WILL receive the medical and psychiatric support needed to combat this type of diagnosis, but hopefully the outpouring of love and concern by those who have never met him will help show him that there are people who care and who will be there during the darkest times.
I also think its perfectly healthy from a psychological standpoint to be angry when someone engages in this type of behavior. Survivors of loved ones lost to suicide always go through an angry phase, as this act is seen as selfish. Fortunately, most realize that people who make claims like Brian did, or who actually go through with self-harming acts are NOT in their right minds and that there is no selfish intent. However, speaking from personal experience, I do know its also selfish to go off medications or deny myself treatment when its needed....I have lived this personally, so those out there judging me but worshipping Brian like an idol are a bunch of hypocrites. This is very common with bipolar...feeling like you're fine, you don't need meds, then bam. I can only hope that this experience is enough of an eye opener for Brian to recognize this as well and take more responsibility in monitoring his situation. Again, this is all going on what he himself has publicly said.
Please, if you don't agree with me, at least be intelligent enough to READ and comprehend before telling me what a terrible person I am.
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The Leaders and youth members of Air Scouts Canberra invite you and your friends to a Park Party celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the opening of the Scout Hall in Latrobe Park, Deakin. The occasion will also promote the Scout Group, its focus on Air Scouts, and its achievements from initial establishment in Barton in 1925.
The Park Party will be a gathering of Scouting members and leaders, parents and the community with food stalls, historical displays, music, burying of a time capsule, tethered balloon flights, and adventure activities promoting Scouts.
Can you set Sunday 24 November 2013 to join us? If you're interested you could participate in the event by attending with friends and family. Here is the program
A Park Party from 1300 h, Sun 24 November
Celebrating 50 years since the opening of the Scout Hall in Latrobe Park.
Raising funds for Hall maintenance and in particular roof repair
1. Food supplied stalls from 1300h
sausage sizzle and steak sandwiches
campfire scones and tea from Scout Troop (donation box)
icecreams by Gelato Palace
coffee from a vendor
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bring a folding chair or picnic blanket if preferred
2.Scouting activities and stands from 1400h
Adventure challenges and skills testing for youth
Flying Fox
Pioneering / construction
Water rockets and paper aircraft
Make your own pet rock
3. Events and displays
4. History and photos in the Hall
Description of origin of the Group
Baden Powell walking stick
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meeting of former leaders and parents
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Supplied by former Rovers
The Baden Powell walking stick given to 2nd Canberra (the group's predecessor) will be on display. It and the visit of BP recently featured in an article in the Canberra Times
Roof repairs
We are also using the day to receive donations for the hall maintenance fund. The floor and roof would benefit from a makeover. Contributions can be made by donating goods and services, or directly to the Scout account. Scout Association of Australia ACT Branch Air Scouts
Bank Account BSB: 032-719 Account no: 46-8516.
Please keep the date. It would be helpful if you could let us know by email of your intention to attend.
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Hello Mildrilyn,
Your Napper family genealogy is becoming more and more interesting. This morning while browsing on FamilySearch I ran across a death record for a Charles William Napper who deceased in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio on 31 Oct 1924. The death certificate was a WOW!!!
I was born 10 years after Mr. Napper's death in the same hospital where he died, Piqua Memorial Hospital. I lived no more than three (3) blocks from his listed address of 524 College Ave until I was 18 y/o and left Piqua to go to college. Mr, Napper was in business with a Mr. Rudd making embalming fluids. The informant on the Napper DC, Mrs. John Rudd, (the former Dollie Patterson), is the wife of John Rudd who was the uncle of Thelma Rudd, a 2C x 2R of mine. Thelma Rudd's mother was Harriett "Hattie" Adams the niece of my great-great grandfather, William Francis Adams.
Genealogy & Family History, what a wonderful, but confusing world it can be.
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Depression & Exercise
Depression is a disease that nearly 1 in 5 Americans have, and it costs us $30 billion a year. It is the leading cause of disability in the United States, ranking ahead of cancer, stroke and coronary heart disease. And while it's hard to know exactly how many people try to commit suicide, we know that in America someone successfully takes their own life every 17 minutes.
Depression is a major problem. Thankfully, exercise can be a key part of the solution.
Depression is a disease for which there is no blood test. It comes in many forms, making it so some people can't get out of bed, can't eat or sleep, or use food, alcohol and medication as coping mechanisms. Many people with depression are often inactive, feel hopeless and have little to no motivation.
The stigmas surrounding depression often keep many suffering in quiet and shame. Despite immense struggles, they mask their disease so well that their own family members, friends and coworkers don't know they have it.
The good news is that whether you are simply just stressed out, have a mild case of depression or you have been diagnosed as clinically depressed, exercise can help with any mood disorder. That's because exercise unleashes a cascade of neurotransmitters and other important chemicals in the brain and body that can help reduce or even eliminate depression. .
We have known since 1965 that depression is caused by a deficit of three important chemicals in the brain: norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin. These are powerful and important chemicals we need to function every day, and exercise helps produce all three in the brain at the right quantity.
So how does it work? Exercise activates a section of the brain known as the locus coeruleus, which is the main producer of norepinephrine in the brain. This chemical is vitally important because it wakes up the brain and keeps it running smoothly, in addition to increasing self esteem.
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Exercise also increases the secretion of a second very important chemical called dopamine. Dopamine not only enhances mood, it increases feelings of wellbeing and jump starts motivation. Just starting something, or getting moving at all, is a big challenge to someone who is depressed. But with exercise, you make more dopamine, which helps break the vicious cycle of lower dopamine due to inactivity.
Research has even shown that prolonged exercise helps increase dopamine storage and can make more enzymes that need dopamine to work specifically in the reward center of the brain. This reward center, known as the nucleus acumens, triggers feelings of satisfaction when we accomplish something. With extra dopamine produced through exercise this process is stabilized, something that also helps reduce addictions to food, alcohol and medications.
Exercise also increases the production of serotonin in the brain and body. Serotonin is a crucial chemical when it comes to the brain communication. It helps relay messages from one area of the brain to another and keeps your brain activity under control. In addition to sending messages throughout your brain, serotonin is also vital for mood, impulse control, and self-esteem.Beyond the production of chemicals, there are numerous researchers who believe that depression can shrink many parts of the brain, including the frontal cortex and the hippocampus. That shrinkage starts to erode connections between brain cells, making it more difficult for the brain to function. But exercise can reverse that shrinkage.
In addition to helping produce important chemicals, exercise also helps reduce stress by counteracting cortisol and primes the cellular connections in the cortex and hippocampus that are important for learning. In short, exercise is the ultimate antidepressant pill. And it comes with no negative side effects.
Back in the 1970s, hospitals in Norway and the United Kingdom offered patients suffering with depression the option of treatment with antidepressants or daily exercise. Today, more and more doctors are aware that exercise has direct effect on mood disorders and can help their patient with depression, anxiety and countless other mental health issues.
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I'll start with a quick revisit of the criteria for my year of reading dangerously (myord). First, in order to acknowledge the future of the book, it must be available online – as a download, whatever. Second, the book must be one I haven't read. Third, in order to be dangerous, the book must have been banned at some stage, somewhere. Fourth, I'll write a review of the book with the url so you can go mad with your year of reading dangerously too.
I chose Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903) as my dangerous book for March. Free download from Project Gutenberg, or, why read when you can listen to it from LibriVox?
A quick synopsis: Big lapdog becomes a sledge dog in Alaskan gold rush. Discovers if you're not the lead dog the view's always the same. Meets nice guy who meets nasty end. Men!?! Who needs 'em? Dances with wolves, and becomes leader of the pack.
A tale about a dog, and it's banned? Yes, according to the Online Books Page (Banned Books Online), banned in Italy (1929), Yugoslavia (1929), and burned in Nazi bonfires (1932). Apparently the rationale for the Yugoslavians was that the book was 'too radical'. It's kind of hard to imagine that 'Call of the Wild' represented such a deep threat to society that it was banned, with all the logistical issues that banning would entail … perhaps it was less about the book, per se, and more about London's pro-socialist leanings.
Anyone who has spent any time with a dog would probably know that deep inside their beloved Poochie, the whispers of the wolf, (albeit little more than echoes on the wind) still stir. Watch a dog sleeping – they twitch and lurch and run and hunt – wild and free in their dreams and the call of the wild. London built on that familiar knowledge and presented a story that's readable and enjoyable on the first level – indeed, it was originally written as a serial for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in early 1903, before elaboration into a full novel, published later in the year.
I took a slightly different message from the book, perhaps the kind of message that would lead towards banning. I was reminded of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra (available at Project Gutenberg) – the person needing to vault over themselves to become übermensch, the new person that was better, more human than before. Nietzsche's perspective was man not needing god, to become a god. In Call of the Wild, Buck, the dog, is initially torn away from his lapdog existence and becomes a successful sledge dog. He's torn from that world over a series of events, and eventually becomes leader of a wolf pack – the alpha male – in what is most rightfully his own world – that of wolves. Dogs descended from wolves, having been tamed, domesticated, and selectively bred – effectively created by gods – humanity. By becoming himself – in his true nature – his authentic self, and in the process, overcoming and literally throwing off the shackles of his past, for Buck, god was dead.
I was interested to learn that London himself wouldn't have had a bar of my postmodernist interpretations. According to wikipedia,
Jack London dedicated both his novels The Sea-Wolf and Martin Eden to criticizing Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch and his radical individualism, which London considered to be selfish and egoistic.
My, don't I feel foolish? Despite this, I'm still inclined to believe it's not possible, and not desirable, to take all of the wolf out of the dog. To do so, in some sort of reductionist refinement, would mean to be left with a creature neither dog nor wolf, and something completely without need of God. And it is possibly this that was the concern to the Italians, Yugoslavians, and Nazi Germans. Their respective societies were, in the 1920-1930s, thoroughly bound by the shackles of the State, and the last thing that the leaders would've wanted was the people finding their authentic selves. Clearly Call of the Wild was, and remains, a very dangerous book. You'll love it.


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I have spent my weekend in a cabin in the mountains with a dear friend and her family. It has been a nice time of R&R, adventures, and just good things: Homemade apple pies… crisp fresh air… Imaginary Jumprope with little sisters… Bonfires… Secret family recipes… YAh-TZEES!…. naps… hot tubs… and yeah just real good things. I am thankful.
And, one of these good things taught me something. Let me explain..
I think that hot tubs outside are one of the greatest things man has ever captured. I say captured, because we cant take credit for the original idea. God did a real great job making natural hot springs, and I am very thankful that we humans recognized it. Because my gosh. I love hot tubs. They are simply the ultimate moment of comfort, and relaxation. Two great, yet extreme elements in the same moment. Everyone should get to appreciate hot tubs. I would love to own a hot tub.
I wish could stay in them forever. But I can't. You can not stay in a hot tub forever. It gets somewhat miserable and is a fight to stay in. It looses the enjoyment. It just gets too hot! You get dizzy. You get uncomfortable. Our bodies were not made for 104 degree temperatures, and our bodies were not made to live in water.
Our bodies work best on land and in average weather. This is where we spend most of our time and should. Even though hot tub moments are real nice, and needed! We can not live there. We were meant to go out. My time with Jesus, is oh my gosh so nice and most definitely needed. We cant just stay at the church, or in a prayer closet, or in a conference high. We have to get out of the hot tub. Too much of a good thing, it just isn't good for us or others.


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8 P.M. (13, 49); 10 P.M. (21) THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT 2014 Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna host this 25th-anniversary broadcast from the West Lawn of the United States Capitol, which will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World War II D-Day invasion on the beaches at Normandy. The "American Idol" winner Caleb Johnson will sing the national anthem. Danielle Bradbery, Megan Hilty, Jackie Evancho and Anthony Kearns will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra, above, conducted by Jack Everly. Other participants include former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the actress Dianne Wiest, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Army Herald Trumpets, the Army Chorus, the Soldiers' Chorus of the United States Army Field Band, the Navy Band Sea Chanters and the Air Force Singing Sergeants.
7 A.M. (NBC) BIGGEST DAY IN MOTORSPORTS The networks will cover important car races from the world's three largest series, starting with the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, with prerace coverage at 7 and a starting time of 7:30, on NBC; the Indianapolis 500, above, with prerace coverage at 11 a.m. and a starting time of 12:12 p.m., on ABC; and the Nascar Sprint Cup Coca-Cola 600, from Charlotte, N.C., with prerace coverage at 5:30 p.m. and a starting time of 6, on Fox.
10 A.M. (ABC) THIS WEEK The scandal surrounding the Department of Veteran Affairs makes the round of the morning news shows, with Paul Rieckhoff, the founder and chief executive of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, leading the discussion here. It continues with Derek Bennett, the chief of staff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, and Dr. Margaret Moxness, a former employee of the Huntington VA Medical Center in West Virginia, on Fox News Sunday, at 10; and Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, on "Face the Nation," at 10:30 on CBS.
6:30 A.M. (13) MOYERS & COMPANY Bill Moyers interviews the journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about "The Case for Reparations," his cover article for The Atlantic in which he suggests a national dialogue on whether the United States should compensate African-Americans for slavery and the prejudice and discrimination that followed.
9 P.M. (AMC) TURN Anna (Heather Lind) hunts for enemy intelligence at a gentlemen's party hosted by the British spymaster John Andre (J. J. Feild).
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Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, Kuwait's idyllic resort, has appointed two new chefs to its culinary teams behind its Italian restaurant Olio, and the fine dining Steakhouse, Pepper.
Chef Rosario Seminatore has been appointed as the Italian Chef de Cuisine, with Chef Daniel Irvine joining the team at Pepper Steakhouse as its Junior Executive Sous Chef. The new additions to the luxury resort's culinary team bring with them considerable years of experience in the kitchens.
Chef Seminatore is a master of Italian cuisine with over 33 years' experience gained from prestigious hotels, resorts and restaurants across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The Italian national began his culinary training at an early age of 17 working as a commis in the northern Italian commune of Caselle Torinese, close to the city of Turin. Over the past three decades he has refined his flair for traditional Italian cooking.
His appointment at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa marks the 50-year-old chef's return to Kuwait having held the position of Executive Sous Chef and Manager at another five-star hotel in the city.
Chef Irvine, originally from Devon, UK, began his culinary career in 21 years ago in his native county working as a Commis. He has since worked at a number of restaurants across the UK before moving to Egypt. He joins the Kuwait property from sister hotel, Jumeirah Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, where he worked across four of the iconic hotel's restaurants as a Sous Chef for more than four years, most recently as part of the pre-opening team at Pearls by Michael Caines.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
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Successfully implementing Agile takes time and effort and is rarely an easy process. Do you go SCRUM or Kanban and what about Extreme Programming (XP)? There is a plethora of information on Agile methodologies, sometimes logical and sometimes conflicting. What is right for your current project may not be the same for the next. Agile is simply a way to show your client a vision of what they may want as "people don't know what they want until you show it to them." ― Steve Jobs
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Scrum is the leading Agile development methodology and is used by Fortune 500 companies around the globe. When Jeff Sutherland created the scrum process in 1993, he borrowed the term "scrum" from an analogy put forth in a 1986 study by Takeuchi and Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review. In that study, Takeuchi and Nonaka compare high-performing, cross-functional teams to the scrum formation used by rugby teams.
All of our Agile courses are taught by qualified Certified Scrum Trainers (CST), and upon successful completion delegates will be officially certified through the Scrum Alliance. Agile courses are also eligible for SEU points, which you can earn towards the Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) qualification. Here at Learning Connexions we adopt an agile approach to our own working methods; all our learning advisors are qualified Certified Scrum Masters (CSM).
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Education with a holistic perspective seeks to engage students in the teaching/learning process and encourages personal and collective responsibility. The teacher is seen less as a person of authority but rather as "a friend, a mentor, a facilitator, or an experienced traveling companion" (Forbes, 1996). [1] Open and honest communication is expected and differences between people are respected and appreciated. Cooperation, rather than competition, is the norm. All of our courses focus on applying the principles highlighted by the holistic approach.
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Sharath has a book that's trickling out of Mysore, Astanga Yoga Anusthana, hope to have something on that soon, let me know what it's like if you've seen a it, or indeed send me on a copy or some pictures. Is it just a picture book with a collection of short conference notes or more in-depth treatments of some of these topics and other elements surrounding practice.
Here's JY's promotion.
|NB Led intermediate & Pranayama
Jois Yoga Greenwich have this to say about the book on their fb page
"It is a primer on ashtanga yoga philosophy and practice. It offers the correct vinyasa count and drishtis for the primary series, a few therapeutic postures, and some mantras".
A few therapeutic postures? That's interesting no?
I asked my friend Joy about Sharath's book as she's just picked up a copy
She says...
"It's a lovely book, only $12 (about 6 Quid for you), starts out with a beautiful dedication to Guruji, great description of all 8 limbs, sutras and why we do what we do, there is a focus on Yama and niyamas, notes on practice: Tristhana & Vinyasa, then full Primary (looks like same pics from Yoga Mala and Lino's book), opening mantra, asanas for therapy, magala mantra and shanti mantra".
Thanks Joy.
|I'm curious about how much it differs from Yoga Mala in it's presentation of Ashtanga
If you've seen a copy, or indeed have one, let us know in comments how you find it? Why do you think it was released now? Is Yoga Mala a little out of date, I happen to love Yoga Mala just as it is? If your only going to buy or recommend one Ashtanga book, would it be this one or yoga mala?


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Monday, July 16, 2012
SSSC163 Thanks a Bunch
I made this card for Sweet Sunday Sketch #163 using my With Gratitude set from Flourishes. Papers are Summer Fresh (yes, I really do love them and use them a lot), the tab die is from MFT, and the blue floral panel is up on foam tape. The pearls (colored with a YR21 Copic marker) and lime plisse ribbon are also from Flourishes, and the image was colored with Copics (Green Grass Collection, YR21, YR23, YR24, and W3). I totally forgot about the flower element in the sketch, but oh well. Oh, and the corner is bent a little....because this card took a nose dive off my deck...oops!....it happens. :)
Have a really great day, everyone!
16 comments:
- Jackie Pedro said...
Beautiful, Denise! Hope your Mom makes a speedy recovery!
- July 16, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Carol L said...
This is such a beautiful image, and you've colored it beautifully! I love that tabbed sentiment and ruffled ribbon too!
- July 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM
- Alexandra said...
Gorgeous card and perfect colouring again. Sending well wishes too for your mum or I should say mom. I hope she's pain free and feels the benefit from her surgery very soon.
- July 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM
- My Crafting Channel said...
Such a stunning card. I love it.
- July 16, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Danni said...
Beautiful card! Love the ribbon--brings a happy burst of color to the gorgeous flowers!
- July 16, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Leslie Miller said...
Very pretty! Love your coloring and the lime pop! Good luck to your Mom. Hope she mends quickly.
- July 17, 2012 at 2:49 AM
- ~ Jo ~ said...
Very pretty card Denise. I love those blue patterned papers... they are really pretty... and i love the green trim!
Hope your mom is doing well!
- July 17, 2012 at 4:38 AM
- Shannon White said...
Soo Petty Pretty Miss Denise! Love your Wonderful coloring on these beauties and Super take on the sketch too! 8-)
- July 17, 2012 at 4:46 AM
- Andrea L - EnchantINK said...
You have such an eye for detail, Denise! That ribbon is the perfect finishing touch! Hugs xxx
- July 17, 2012 at 7:15 AM
- Amy Johnson said...
So beautiful! Love the pearls and the bright touch of ribbon!
- July 17, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Riet said...
So gorgeous card,I love the image and the colours.
Hugs Riet.xx
- July 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- Susan (rainy) said...
Hope everything went well for your mom and that she is on the road to recovery.
Your card..*gasp*..is beautiful!!
- July 19, 2012 at 3:49 AM
- Dawn Easton said...
Ok seriously....HOW did I miss this post? Sorry!!!!
Love what you've done with this card! Love those beautiful flowers!!!
- July 22, 2012 at 9:35 AM
- Monika/Buzsy said...
Lovely card Denise. I love the sunflower images, the coloring. Kraft looks great with the pretty papers... lovely ribbon treatment!
- July 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM
- JD said...
Beautiful card!
- July 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Wendy Ramlakhan said...
So pretty!!! Love that ribbon!!
- July 26, 2012 at 2:12 PM


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|Brittney Johnson
WSOC (Channel 9) has hired Brittney Johnson, who will join the reporting staff on March 30.
Johnson, who grew up in west Charlotte, comes from the NBC station in Little Rock, Ark., where she worked for the last five years and is weekend anchor. Before than, she worked at a station in West Monroe, La.
She is a graduate of Howard University with a master's degree from the University of California/Berkeley.


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Royal Roads University members acknowledge that we learn, work, and live on the traditional lands of the Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) and Lkwungen (Songhees) ancestors and families. We also acknowledge the traditional lands and the history, and knowledge sharing with the neighbouring Nations, Scia'new (Beecher Bay) and T'Sou-ke (Sooke).
At Royal Roads University, we welcome Indigenous students and we've created a number of programs designed specifically to support our shared respect for the value of community, and customized training programs to allow prospective students to discover meaningful and practical tools to help preserve the cultural significance and manage community resources. The office of Indigenous Education and Student Services (IESS) offers academic, financial, and cultural support to assist and guide Indigenous and Metis students throughout their studies and time with Royal Roads.
IESS assists and helps guide program curriculum and development for Indigenous and Metis students, community members, and to support RRU faculty and students to also engage in a number of different research projects related to Indigenous and Metis culture and history.
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Play Theory is a game company that designs and develops games scientifically with extensive user testing and feedback loops. We make casual games that play in web browsers on computers. Our games use mathematics extensively.
We are targeting consumers as well as game publishers.
We are looking for a logo that communicates on the computer screen as well as print. It should also work at a very small scale since it will be used on games as a watermark. Please also provide a black and white version of your logo.


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I fell in love.. with a banana cake, a certain banana cake only. My friend's dad bake a mean one indeed, one so yummy that I will ask to pack leftover slices home in a really thick-skinned manner. and I'm not the only one, almost all present salivate at the thought of that cake.
It's a recipe from Aunty Yochana, which I've since bookmarked and it must have been at least 3 years! It may be weird that I love it so much, yet never attempt to bake this. It's always been at the back of my mind but since it calls for use of whipped or thick cream, an ingredient I do not usually have it on hand readily nor is keen to buy since I never ever finish even a small carton within 3 days of opening. At last, I found use for some thickened cream and bought a huge 1L pack. Immediately, this banana cake came to my mind to make use of the opened pack.
Its really very easy to make this with a few adaptations to the original recipe, cutting half the sugar, and browning the bananas in their skin before using them. All it took was half an hour to mix everything together and bake for an hour. The aroma of the banana cake filled the house and I simply could not wait.. Tried one immediately from the oven; soft and moist, it was not bad, could be a tad sweeter I thought. Waited a few hours and had a small slice that night at room temperature, it was good, the sweetness settled in a little and the texture turned slightly more hefty. One day later, I tried another slice..wow the cake taste even more strongly of banana. I heated up this slice and it resumed the moisture of day before and was a little crumbly. 2 days later, 3rd day of the bake, WOW the banana fragrance has been absorbed or infused throughout the cake. Cool from 2 hours out of the fridge, the cake is slightly on the dense side, with the crumbs holding together quite nicely. My friends and hubby pretty much love it, proclaiming it as just sweet enough. Hubby is already requesting for repeats this coming weekend! I'm loving it too!
Ingredients, recipe source from here:
3 medium sized bananas, ripened and mashed
180g unsalted butter, cubed and soft
90g brown sugar
3 small eggs
50g whipped or thickened cream
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
250g cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup roasted walnuts
2 medium sized bananas, riped and sliced
Preheat oven to 200C
1. Toast walnuts for 5 minutes until brown and crunchy
2. Bake 3 banana in their skin for 10 - 15 minutes until skin is totally black. The flesh would have caramelised and realised its sweetness.
3. Remove the skin, mash the banana. Leave to cool until its warm and not hot.
Reduce oven temperature to 180C.
4. In a mixer, cream butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and incorporate fully into the mixture.
5. Add whipped cream, vanilla paste and banana. Beat until well-blended.
6. Fold in the flour/baking powder/soda.
7. Stir the walnuts into the mixture and pour into an 8-inch lined circular baking pan. Top with banana slices.
8. Bake for 60 minutes. If top is becoming brown, tent it with baking paper or aluminium foil.
9. Remove and cool.
Yummy. I'm gonna make another one this Saturday!


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What's It To Me?
So enough already, I don't want to hear. They say you've got answers, well, I just don't care.
You talk about love, forgiveness and faith but what have you done to stop all the hate?
What of the sorrow, the pain all around? What have you done to make laughter sound?
What about fighting and wars in your name? Is this what you brought, is this why you came?
You haven't caused change, so why should I pray? You're not for me, I'll go my own way.
I'll find my own answers to suffering and strife, The meaning of death, the value of life.
The rabbis reject you, so why shouldn't I? What's it to me if you lived or died?
They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son." (Zechariah 12:10.)


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In the end, I ran up Fiddler (the web browser tool) and accessed the web service in the browser, the header came back telling me that the web service was expecting "Negotiate/NTLM" authentication and I was attempting to authenticate using basic. It now works and here is the code I had to use:
MyWebService service = new MyWebService();
CredentialCache myCredentials = new CredentialCache();
myCredentials.Add(new Uri(service.Url), "Negotiate", new NetworkCredential("MyUserName", "MyPassword"));
service.Credentials = myCredentials;
service.PreAuthenticate = true;
// Call functions etc
Note, I did not require any special certificate code which some people have suggested and this works on an HTTPS connection. I also did not need to specify the domain in the Add() function, just the username and password.


text: I just moved into a new home and want to install a bathtub door for our tub/shower. The walls to our shower are relatively newly installed acrylic panels. Our home has low ceilings (below 8 feet) and the panels in the shower are super low - without touching the current set up, we would need a short door (55-56 inches) and i feel like my husband will have to duck every time he walks in and out. I would like to install tiles above the panels to the ceiling to allow the accommodation of a taller shower door and also in an effort to brighten and "elongate" the space. (We currently have a shower curtain hanging on a tension road (left by previous owner).) My concern, however, is that the tiles available are slightly thicker than the acrylic panels themselves, making a seamless shower door installation theoretical tricky. Is there anyway to successfully execute this project and even out the panel and tile? Or will we need to replace the panels and skip out on the tile? Any info is greatly appreciated!


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Despite not officially being available for the original iPad, the new iPhoto iOS app and iMovie can be manually copied to the original iPad.
Apple Insider details the steps you need to take to install the apps on the original iPad, which is presumably not officially supported by the apps due to the lack of a camera.
You'll need Apple's free iPhone Configuration Utility, which is available for Mac or Windows. Once this is installed, connect your iPad via USB to your system and select the apps you want to manually install by adding them to the library.
Once you've bought the apps in iTunes, you can find them in your Music folder under iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications.
In the Configuration Utility library, click on the Install button for each app under the Applications tab. The utility copies the app and by all accounts it will work normally on your first-generation iPad.
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The Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras use a totally different autofocus method than traditional SLR and DSLR cameras. The M4/3 cameras use a technique called Contrast Detection Autofocus (CDAF), whereas SLR systems typically use Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF), also called Phase Difference Autofocus.
CDAF relies on jogging the autofocus back and forth to find the setting with the most contrast, in which case the camera assumes the image is in focus. For still images, this works very well. My study shows that both the GH1 and GH2 feature very fast autofocus, especially with the kit zoom lenses. I don't think that SLR cameras can do this much faster, at least not faster in a noticeable way.
The GH2 can sample the contrast 120 times per second (120fps), which allows for a faster autofocus, given that the lens is also capable on reacting fast enough. The GH1 could only sample at 60fps.
The Panasonic GH3, due to be available late 2012, further improves upon this by allowing for 240fps CDAF readout. However, Panasonic says that at the moment, only one lens supports this, the Lumix X 12-35mm f/2.8, and only after firmware update, which was announced today, coincidentally.
Continuous autofocus during video recording, though, is one area where the Micro Four Thirds cameras currently do not perform very well.
One thing to keep in mind, is that when taking still images, the sensor is free to be used for AF before you snap the image. When recording video, though, the sensor is busy scanning your video stream, and cannot be used for high speed CDAF sampling in the same way.
The GH2 can record videos at three different rates: 24fps, 25fps and 50fps (24fps, 30fps and 60fps for American versions). The 24fps, 25fps and 30fps modes are popular for their progressive image stream, and high bit rate. However, keep in mind that in these modes, the camera can only sample the contrast at a low rate, hence, I guess that autofocus during video will also be slower.
The interlaced 1080i mode, 50fps for the European version and 60fps for the American version, can scan the image scene twice as fast, and hence one can guess that the AF is also faster.
The test
I have tried to test this with a controlled case. I rigged up a picture which moves back and forth (using a LEGO Technic mechanism). This is used to test the autofocus performance in both the 50i and 25p modes of the GH2, using three different lenses, the Lumix X 45-175mm f/4-5.6, Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/4-5.8 and Olympus 45mm f/1.8. All of these lenses are marketed as video optimized.
Here is a video showing the test setup, and the outcomes of the tests:
By looking at the videos, I think it is quite clear that the focus is kept better when recording at 50fps, compared with 25fps. To be more sure, I looked through the first full cycle when using the Lumix X 45-175mm f/4-5.6. The cycle from the rear position, moving forwards and then backwards again to the same position takes 140 frames, or 5.6 seconds.
At 50fps, I counted 71 frames in focus (51%), while at 25fps, the number of frames in focus was 59 (42%). This is hardly a scientific analysis, but I think it confirms that my theoretical guess also holds in practice: When recording at a higher frames per second rate, the continuous autofocus works better.
When the continuous autofocus performance is important, you could consider video recording at a higher frames per second rate. This gives the camera a better chance of keep up the focus, given that there is sufficient light.
On the other hand, the GH2 camera can only provide the interlaced mode at 50fps/60fps at 1080 lines resolution. The interlaced mode probably gives slightly less perceived sharpness anyway.
Future cameras are expected to provide the progressive mode at 1080 lines resolution (1080p) at 50fps/60fps. With this capability, I would certainly recommend using 1080p at 50fps/60fps when the autofocus performance is crucial, and when there is sufficient light.
Technical improvement potential
One could imagine improvement potential within the technical limitations of the autofocus system. As I have demonstrated in this article, the frames per second rating affects the autofocus effectiveness. As the sensor is used to record the video stream, it cannot at the same time be used for autofocus at a faster rate.
However, it is quite often that you don't use a 360° shutter. A 360° shutter means that the shutter stays open all the time. Hence, at 25fps video recording, the shutter speed is 1/25s. At this fps and shutter speed combination, the sensor is always busy reading the video stream.
However, what if you use a 180° shutter? At 25fps, that would correspond to 1/50s shutter speed. At this rate, there is a 1/50s gap between each frame which could be used for reading out CDAF information, see the illustration below:
Using this method, there is room for one exposure, and two additional CDAF readouts per frame when using a 180° shutter. Perhaps the GH2 uses this technique today, I don't know. These technical details tend to be secrets.
Alternative techniques for AF during video
The Micro Four Thirds cameras so far only use CDAF for autofocus, both for still images, and during video. There are some other techniques out there as well.
The Sony Single-Lens Translucent (SLT) cameras use a permanent (non-flapping) mirror which is semi-transparent. This mirror allows for using traditional SLR style PDAF sensors, meaning that the camera can operate the focus very quickly also during video recording.
This has an additional advantage over CDAF: There is no need to jog the focus back and forth to find the maximum contrast, as the Micro Four Thirds cameras do. Hence, you will see that the cameras do not "overshoot" the focus. When needed, the focus changes to the correct distance at the first attempt, given that there is sufficient light.
The disadvantage of the SLT system is the requirement for a traditional mirror box, making the cameras larger and more complicated, as well as requiring the lenses to be designed for a longer register distance, resulting in larger and heavier lenses.
The Nikon 1 system has an alternative approach. It uses an imaging sensor where some of the photosites are PDAF sensors. This allows for a hybrid CDAF and PDAF system: The camera can choose which system to use depending on the situation. In theory, this is the best of both worlds, as it can keep the register distance short, while allowing for faster autofocus during video recording. I have not tried the Nikon 1 myself, though, so I don't know the real world merits of the system.
According to interviews with designers and engineers, there are no plans to change the autofocus system of the Micro Four Thirds cameras. In theory, it should be possible to improve the CDAF system with better and faster image processing. Hence, we can expect the continuous autofocus to gradually improve with newer cameras.
This blog is a user's perspective on the Micro Four Thirds camera system. Read more ...
Lens Buyer's Guide. Panasonic GH4 review.
My lens reviews: Olympus 9mm f/8 fisheye, Lumix G 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6, Leica 25mm f/1.4, Lumix X 12-35mm f/2.8, Lumix X 35-100mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm f/2.8, Sigma 19mm f/2.8, Lumix X PZ 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6, Lumix X PZ 45-175mm f/4-5.6, Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8, Panasonic Lumix G 100-300mm f/4-5.6, Panasonic Leica Lumix DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro, Panasonic Lumix G 45-200mm f/4-5.6, Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 pancake, Panasonic Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 pancake, Panasonic Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/4-5.8, Panasonic Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6, Panasonic Lumix G 8mm f/3.5 fisheye, Lumix G 7-14mm f/4, Samyang 7.5mm f/3.5 fisheye, Tokina 300mm f/6.3 mirror reflex tele, Lensbaby 5.8mm f/3.5 circular fisheye lens
Lens Buyer's Guide. Panasonic GH4 review.
My lens reviews: Olympus 9mm f/8 fisheye, Lumix G 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6, Leica 25mm f/1.4, Lumix X 12-35mm f/2.8, Lumix X 35-100mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm f/2.8, Sigma 19mm f/2.8, Lumix X PZ 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6, Lumix X PZ 45-175mm f/4-5.6, Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8, Panasonic Lumix G 100-300mm f/4-5.6, Panasonic Leica Lumix DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro, Panasonic Lumix G 45-200mm f/4-5.6, Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 pancake, Panasonic Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 pancake, Panasonic Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/4-5.8, Panasonic Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6, Panasonic Lumix G 8mm f/3.5 fisheye, Lumix G 7-14mm f/4, Samyang 7.5mm f/3.5 fisheye, Tokina 300mm f/6.3 mirror reflex tele, Lensbaby 5.8mm f/3.5 circular fisheye lens
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Continuous AF during video with the GH2
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- Anonymous28 October 2012 at 08:51
Thank you for your excellent test!ReplyDelete
When first announced the Nikon 1 showed a lot of promise for video recording but did not achieve that promise due to low measured video resolution (line skipping?) and slow lenses.Replies
That is quite interesting to hear. I think the Nikon 1 system has some real potential. So far, however, I think the camera bodies have been a tad large, given the sensor size. Also, the ergonomics do not appear to be very good. But I like the direction the new Nikon 1 V2 takes.Delete
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Did you ever write a post that connected with people in a way that motivated them to apply the theme or topic in a post of their own? Last week, I published a little post called Can You Name 99 Things You Love in 10 Minutes? This week I was delighted to see friends (and several 'strangers') step up to that very challenge.
My friend Gini Dietrich of the popular Spin Sucks blog heard about this little game and said this on Twitter:
I took the @judyleedunn challenge and tried to list 99 things I love in 10 minutes http://t.co/IR05EHif3V
— Gini Dietrich (@ginidietrich) November 26, 2013
In a spirited post, Gini wrote about The 82 Things I Love (she said her timer buzzed her before she could get to 99). The resulting list was funny and warm and quintessential Gini. But the comments were even more delightful because they showed how much her readers enjoyed getting to know her better, and how quick they were to run with the idea themselves. A sample:
Spreading the word:
Bonding over shared interests:
Starting a new tradition:
If you want to read Gini's complete list, go here.
And my Canadian pal, Kaarina Dillabough, of the decide2do blog, said on Facebook:
Kaarina got all the way to 99 Things I Love, ranging from familiar ("Books…lost and lots of book," and "the Beatles) to surprising ("champagne and strawberries"?, and "jumping in puddles"?). Kaarina's readers jumped in with enthusiasm, too. A sample:
Feeling inspired:
Finding common ground:
Wanting to know more:
Go here to read Kaarina's full list.
Cannot wait to see what other people come up with in their posts.
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When I saw this I nearly wept because the other side of the world is definitely too far to go for a mark-down.
Yes it's an Acne pre-sale at Acne Studio in New York. There's also one at Opening Ceremony in LA. Sigh. (For those who have not been following the story, I am currently consumed with lust for everything Acne related. No, not the skin condition, the clothing label. Yes, I know it's an unfortunate name, but have you seen those wedges? And the pearl collar t-shirt. And the amazing collection of little black dresses... ok, I'll stop now.)
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Jazz at Lincoln Center has not only been commissioning new music but also assembling new, high-concept ensembles. For the New Jazz Standards quintet, which made its debut on Friday night in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Room, melody was paramount. The quintet is an all-star group of composers whose daunting task was to come up with 21st-century jazz standards.
The quintet includes Carla Kihlstedt from Tin Hat on violin, Reid Anderson from the Bad Plus on bass, Bill McHenry on tenor saxophone, Guillermo Klein on piano and Eric Harland on drums. Some had collaborated previously, some had not, but they shared an adventurous refinement.
With 10 pieces in the set, two by each member, the emphasis was more on composition than extended improvisation. Yet part of the concept was also how the writing could spark the playing, and it did. These composers had written for one another as well as, potentially, for a wider jazz repertory.
Jazz standards — tunes that every full-fledged jazz musician is expected to know — offer both legibility and challenge, a distinctive melody underpinned by harmonies that musicians find stimulating. Standards have entered the canon both from within jazz — Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter — and from outside it, as musicians have latched onto show tunes, pop songs, even bossa novas. That canon, like so many others, has splintered in recent decades, with jazz musicians now embracing Radiohead and Nirvana and looking to hip-hop and world music. Current jazz composers write their own melodies too, but few of those travel beyond the composers' groups.
The extended harmonies and flexible meters of Mr. Shorter's compositions were the foundations for the new quintet. Pieces usually stated their melodies upfront, mostly balladic ones like the meditative "An Unintended Question" by Ms. Kihlstedt, the not-quite-a-waltz "Plastic Melody and Recovery" by Mr. McHenry and the hesitantly sultry "Si Vos Me Quieres" by Mr. Klein. A persistent bass line skulked through the odd meters of "Compay" by Ms. Kihlstedt; with violin and saxophone in a pas de deux and transparently voiced piano parts, it conjured late-night Latin elegance.
Mr. Anderson's pieces, "Odds" and "Masses," cultivated the quintet's dynamics, from tranquil colloquy to roiling crescendos. In Mr. Harland's compositions, simple gestures — a descending scale in "Columbus Circle," repeated notes in "Contrast" — grew into distinctive melodies. "Buo," by Mr. McHenry, was ingeniously comic, using short, sliding phrases that added up to a tune like a dance on banana peels.
The concert's crowd-pleaser was Mr. Klein's "El Santo," which harked back to hard bop with a rolling piano vamp, a tersely phrased theme and a solo by Mr. Harland that summoned one cresting cross-rhythm after another — a more forceful version of what he did continuously and subtly throughout the set.
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LUDA Approach
LUDA stands for: "Large Urban Distressed Areas". It is a methodology, developed under the 5th Research Framework of the EU by four academic research institutes and twelve city partners, as described in this scheme:
The main LUDA product, its e-Compendium, was first publicly announced in Brussels on June 22, 2006.
For an introductory description of LUDA and the Compendium, see the e-urban Journal Post "LUDA e-Compendium: A Diamond found in the Rubble" (22.6.06)
On pp 54-56 of its 2nd on-line Handbook, the LUDA team defines the specific benefits of their methodology as compared to former approaches:
For a PDF-version of this text, click here: LUDA HB2.7 pp 54-56
Contribution of the LUDA approach to improving quality of life in distressed urban areas
The LUDA approach outlined above in many ways contributes to improving quality of life in areas of urban deprivation . Backing on lessons learnt from the experiences with different regeneration programmes as well as with individual cases of LUDA regeneration [see handbook E6] the main benefits of the LUDA approach can be described as follows:
1. LUDA is an integrative quality of life approach.
It puts emphasis on the five dimensions of the
'Diamond of Quality of Life':
In this it is clearly discernable from other integrative approaches oriented towards urban regeneration, such as URBAN.
2. The LUDA approach puts high emphasis on the participation and inclusion of stakeholders from inside the area as well as from outside
It includes stakeholders into the planning and improvement activities right from the beginning. Therefore their active participation, their ideas and perceptions play an important role in the LUDA approach.
3. The LUDA approach distinguishes different perceptions on quality of life.
- A first perspective is related to the objective situation as it may be represented by statistical data.
- A second perspective takes into consideration the perception of insiders, i.e. those who live and work in the LUDA area, such as inhabitants, owners of businesses, employees.
- The third perspective respects the perception of outsiders, such as political decision makers, planners, investors etc. who may have an image of the area but who do not necessarily know the area.
This differentiation helps to discern the different stakeholders' views.
4. The LUDA approach adds a functional view definition of distressed areas.
Distressed areas are not seen as homogeneously problematic but they are recognised as having both pockets of problems and pockets of potential . These need to be uncovered from the beginning as they form the basis of the improvement activities. The art of LUDA im provement is then to find solutions for the problems and make best use of the area's potential.
5. The LUDA approach is a strategic approach.
Strategic planning plays an important role. The typical LUDA improvement process includes the identification of distressed areas through quantitative techniques; the selection of the regeneration programme and the evaluation of it. Although there may not be a specific procedural order, the individual elements of the approach are all relevant in improvement process.
6. The LUDA approach strongly promotes a call for institution building.
Institution building is necessary because it is crucial for making municipalities prepared for the complex work of LUDA improvement. Within the traditional sectoral channels of municipalities there is little room for comprehensive approaches. Therefore it is recommended to form inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary working teams for LUDA improvement within or outside of municipal administrations. They should have enough freedom to move and enough authority and capacity to establish stable links between the different stakeholders.
7. The LUDA approach strongly promotes a comprehensive quality of life monitoring.
In this it can be discerned from other monitoring activities in urban regeneration which concentrate on sectoral activities or on the progress of programme activities only without taking into consideration potential negative (or positive) side-effects, such as gentrification or displacement of inhabitants due to sharply increasing land values and rents. The LUDA monitoring takes into consideration all five dimensions of quality of life and it identifies potential negative or positive side effects during the improvement process within the LUDA.
8. The LUDA approach is an approach which is not primarily oriented towards funding.
Although money is the fuel which makes the engine of LUDA improvement run, it is not the only ingredient in driving the improvement into the best possible direction and to spend money wisely. Many urban regeneration activities are heavily oriented towards certain funding channels which may lead to the situation that the identification of problems is not based on the actual or perceived situation of an area but is oriented towards the availability of funds (funding priorities determine actions instead of a situation where problems call for solutions ). LUDA demonstrates that the improvement task exists independently from funding programmes and that improvement activities can be initiated irrespective of their existence.
9. This all shows that the LUDA approach is an approach calling for good governance.
Good governance is necessary in order to involve the different stakeholders (public, private) in a way which brings them in early and which keeps them interested in the improvement activities over a long time. Moreover, it contributes to the qualification of municipal staff by widening their traditional sectoral and administrative perceptions into a more comprehensive understanding of LUDAs, and by creating a network of multipliers within and outside of cities which decide to start LUDA improvement processes in the described way.