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Wall fountains are also known as single face or faade fountains. It is not possible to ascribe the invention of wall fountains to an individual.
garden fountains,water fountains,outdoor fountains,indoor fountains
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Wall fountains are also known as single face or faade fountains. It is not possible to ascribe the invention of wall fountains to an individual. However, it can be said with certainty that wall fountains did not originate in the western world. The hot and dusty climes of the ancient Middle East led to the development of garden and wall fountains. The ancient architects drew inspiration from the serene surroundings of the oases that dotted the desert landscape. Walls of ancient Egyptian tombs have sketches of gardens with fountains.
Wall fountains were placed both indoor and outdoors; although their objective was primarily decorative, they were also used for daily washings and ablutions. Another interesting use of wall fountains was to prevent eavesdroppers from listening to sensitive conversations. The water speed could be manipulated to achieve different sounds such as trickles, gurgles, etc. Public water systems were usually the water-source for outdoor wall fountains.
The ancient Greeks and Romans too had wall fountains as an intrinsic part of their culture. The outdoor fountains had multiple tiers of basins on elaborately sculptured walls. However, only the wealthy could afford indoor fountains. The most commonly used materials for wall fountains were rock, marble, bronze, limestone, etc. Gravity was used to power the fountains. In medieval Europe, wall fountains were found in the gardens in monasteries. Decorative masks added a visual appeal and helped to conceal the plumbing. These wall fountains drew from Greco-Roman as well as Persian influences.
In the present times, wall fountains are popular with homeowners across all economic segments. They are easily available, easy to install, and do not require any major maintenance. Wall fountains on decks and patios offer homeowners the opportunity of sitting back and relaxing to the soothing sounds of flowing water. Some homeowners prefer to place a wall fountain along their walkway.
Wall water fountains are available in a variety of designs that can create an ambience that can be either rustic or sophisticated. Stone wall fountains have been firm favorites over the ages and continue to enamor enthusiasts with their feel and look that can encompass the range from earthy and antique to designer contemporary.
Lion head waterfalls have been traditionally well accepted and those crafted in antique stone style are an inexpensive and popular wall fountain option even today. Steel wall fountains are an alternative for those on the look-out for something contemporary. The 100% stainless steel reflects the water to produce a beautiful effect. Steel wall fountains are lightweight and do not stress the walls too much.
Wall fountains made from copper are extremely beautiful and hardy. They blend with any d cor and are available in a wide variety of sizes and styles. Among the various wall fountain materials, glass is a relative newcomer but is already very popular. Frosted-, etched-, beveled-glass are some of the design options available with glass. Glass wall fountains are available in different colors and can be combined with other materials such as wood to provide a unique look.


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As someone who participates in many "social Q&A" sites and who runs one, I'm always interested in seeing people talking about them. I'm much more interested in this whole phenomenon than I am in Library 2.0 generally, even though I think they're package and parcel of the same thing: computer-mediated and -assisted interaction between people who are geographically dispersed but share other common interests. As librarians we think about this a lot. Our patron base is becoming more dispersed even as our funding basis remains, in most cases, local.
First Monday has an article this month about these sites with some hard data, "Exploring characteristics and effects of user participation in online social Q&A sites†They use data from 55,000 Yahoo Answers questions (as an aside, Ask MetaFilter just reached its 100,000th question which was sort of exciting) and do a good survey of the existing literature. It's an enjoyable read and really comes down to an elucidation of one of the first things I learned in library school: people ask their friends to help them with their information needs before they ask experts or professionals. Getting more granular about why this may be, and shifting the arena slightly to encompass the online world, this paper examines why.
Gazan (2006) divided questioners into Specialists and Synthesists. Specialists are more like knowledge experts who provide answers without referencing other sources, while Synthesists are the ones who do not claim any expertise and provide answers with references. Gazan (2007) identified two roles of answerers as Seekers and Sloths, depending on whether they have continuous conversation/interaction with other members after posting questions. Seekers demonstrate active engagement with the community and pursue communication regarding their questions. Sloths do not pursue further interaction with community members after receiving answers to their questions.
The article also looks into the Google Answers model for some insight into why it failed while Yahoo Answers succeeded.
Overall, it appears that Yahoo! Answers has developed a responsive community in which users voluntarily participate as both consumers and contributors. In comparison, Google Answers featured many one–time consumers and a small number of contributors who could only cover one–third of questions. Based on these observations, we suppose that Google's approach of controlling the quality of answers, by not allowing users other than pre–approved 'researchers' to answer queries, led to a failure of the service. Yahoo! Answers' open participatory model, on the other hand, appears to be successful, with a strong community in place.
Meanwhile, remember ChaCha? Apparently it's not doing so well.

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How a Low Credit Score Can Cost You
A low credit score hurts your ability to get loans, and raises the cost of credit when you can get it. Credit scores are also used for insurance rates, renting and even employment.
A poor credit score can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your life. Enter in a FICO score and a Loan Principal below to see how much a poor FICO score can cost you on just your mortgage. If you are a home owner or looking to buy, raising your FICO score is the most important thing for you to do. A better score not only means lower payments, but can mean a bigger house, the chance to take out more money on a re-fi, or even the difference between being able to buy.


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mint flatbread with green onion pesto
- 2 cups (300g) self-raising (self-rising) flour
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cups grated haloumi
- 1 cup (250ml) boiling water
- 1 cup round mint leaves, plus extra, to decorate
- sea salt flakes, to serve
green onion pesto
- ½ cup chopped green onions (scallions)
- ½ cup chopped round mint leaves
- ¾ cup (185ml) olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- To make the green onion pesto, place the green onion, mint, oil, garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl and stir to combine. Set aside.
- Place the flour, oil, haloumi, water and mint in a bowl and mix well to form a soft dough. Set aside for 15 minutes to rest. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 8 pieces. Roll each piece out to 30cm long. Top with extra mint leaves. Brush with the pesto.
- Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook bread, in batches, for 1–2 minutes each side or until golden and crisp. Brush with the remaining pesto and sprinkle with salt to serve. Makes 8.


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12/31/12 New Year's Resolution for Life!
Animal Friends invites you to join global positive changes for the planet and all creatures
- Starting the new year with the "strongest animal rights speech ever" and most influential life decision
Have you already decided on your new year's resolution? Would you like your resolution this year to have far reaching consequences not only for your life, but also for other creatures and the world we live in? Animal Friends invites you to use your new year's resolution to help yourself, the animals and save the planet!
The number of people in the world on vegan diet is growing all the time. In the USA, where meat demand is dramatically falling from year to year, the number of vegans exceeds the number of vegetarians. In Croatia over 160 thousand people have a veggie diet. There are over 600 million vegetarians in the world. That number is greater than the whole population of United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada and Australia together. If vegetarians were one nation, they would be greater than twenty-seven member states of the European Union.
The best decision in the new year is to join the growing global vegan movement and change your diet. Think about this decision not only to improve your own health and appearance and keep the desired body weight, but also for the sake of the environment and hungry people in the world, and primarily for ethics and animals. There is no need to wait to be forced to change our diet due to lack of food and water and misery, but compassion and common sense.
By making this important decision you can change your outlook on life, save thousands of animals and participate in specific and the most effective change that this planet needs. If for some of you this decision seems too hard, start by becoming a vegetarian or to start with don't eat meat at least once a week. Almost all of us are reluctant to change our habits, but at the same time we like to see the positive changes once we manage to do it.
Animal Friends invites everyone to take ten minutes and watch the inspiring speech of Philip Wollen, that was translated into Croatian and published in order to prompt as many individuals as possible to make a new year's resolution to change their diet. The video called "What Should We Change?" many people call the strongest animal rights speech ever, and it is published on Animal Friends' web site. In the video Wollen summarizes reasons to change our attitude towards our own species and animals: "The animals are not just different species. They are a different nation. And by killing them we harm ourselves. The peace map is charted in the food menu."
Animal Friends will celebrate the New Year on Trg kralja Tomislava in Zagreb, on December 31, 2012 starting at 5 P.M., by showing on their stall "the best speech for those who have no voice," through Philip Wollen's thoughtful honest arguments against cruelty and seeking of justice for all creatures.
Philip Wollen is an Australian philanthropist and distinguished member of the animal rights movement. He carries out programs for saving abused animals and finances animal welfare activities. Through his main project, Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, he carries out a global initiative in around 30 countries whose goal is "to promote kindness towards all living creatures." He emphasises ethics, compassion and cooperation and opposes cruelty towards people and non-human animals. Every year he gives an award to individuals who dedicated their life to protecting all living creatures, and Sir David Attenborough got the award in 2012.


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As the sole provider of the Title: Universal Service Description: Postal products and associated minimum service standards that must be available to all addresses in the UK. Universal Service in the UK, Royal Mail Group delivers a six-days-a-week, one-price-goes-anywhere postal service to more than 29 million addresses across the UK. We are a vital link connecting communities, businesses and customers. In 2012-13, we collected and delivered more than one billion parcels and 14 billion letters across the country.
On 15th October 2013 Royal Mail was listed on the London Stock Exchange and in December 2013 became a FTSE100 company. This marked a significant step in the history of Royal Mail.
Delivering increasing numbers of parcels through our common UK network and capturing the benefits of the new regulatory regime will help us to mitigate the impacts of structural decline in the letters market. The amount of mail sent on a daily basis decreased from around 63 million items in 2011-12 to 58 million items in 2012-13.
Achieving our strategic priorities, together with becoming a more customer-focused company, underpins our vision to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.
We are making good progress. However, more remains to be done to ensure we can complete the transformation of our business from one that predominantly handles letters, to one that handles an increasing number of parcels.
A key component of economic and social infrastructure
The Group is a key component of the UK's economic and social infrastructure, providing services to private individuals, companies, and communities. For the 2012-13 financial year, Cebr estimated that we made the seventh largest contribution to the UK economy out of all UK corporations. We had a total economic impact of more than £9.6 billion, made up of direct and indirect contributions to the wider economy.
General Logistics Systems (GLS) is the Group's European parcel business and is focused on the deferred parcel market. The GLS network is one of the largest ground-based deferred parcel delivery networks in Europe. It covers 37 European countries and nation states with services provided through a combination of wholly-owned members of the GLS Group, network and service partners of the GLS Group, franchisees and agents.
Royal Mail Group is number one in the UK parcels market. In 2012-13 it had one-third of the market share in revenue terms and more than 50 per cent of the market share for parcel volumes. Express parcels are delivered through the Parcelforce Worldwide UK network, which supports the delivery, primarily, of express and larger parcels throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. In 2012-13, Parcelforce Worldwide handled approximately 71 million items in the UK using a "hub and spoke" model. This comprises the network's national hub in Coventry and 54 depots located around the UK.
In addition, we also design and produce the UK's stamps and other philatelic products.
Group structure
Royal Mail Group Limited is the principal trading entity of Royal Mail plc.
Royal Mail Group Limited includes UK Parcels, International & Letters (UKPIL) which comprises the Group's UK and international parcels and letters delivery businesses operating under the "Royal Mail" and "Parcelforce Worldwide" brands.
Through the Royal Mail Core Network, the Group delivers a "one price goes anywhere" service on a range of parcels and letters products to more than 29 million addresses in the UK, six days a week (excluding UK public holidays).
Parcelforce Worldwide operates a separate UK network which collects and delivers express parcels.
The Group also has significant operations in continental Europe through its General Logistics Systems (GLS) business
GLS is one of Europe's largest ground-based deferred parcels delivery networks.
GLS handled 380 million parcels in 2012-13.


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Charles II, Duke of Parma, engraver, fonts, geometry, Giambattista Bodoni, Greek, hydraulics, Isaac Newton, Italy, mathemathics, matrices, musical notation, ornamental devices, Parma, Piedmont, Pietro Giannini, printer, printshop, publisher, punchcutter, punches, Roman, Russian, Saluzzo, Seville, Spain, type designer, type foundry, typographer, Vincenzo Riccati
"…the function of our Art is to put before our eyes…representation of anything which the human mind can split up and divide into a definite number of different parts, not infinitesimally small, which frequently recur in exactly the same form to play a part in that representation." — Giambattista Bodoni, Manuale tipographica (1818)
Opuscula mathematica
Pietro Giannini (1740-1810)
Parma: Ex Typographia Regia, 1773
First edition
This scarce mathematical work on hydraulics and geometry was printed by Giambattista Bodoni. Bodoni was born in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy in 1740. He died in Parma, Italy in 1813. An engraver, type designer, printer and publisher, Bodoni was invited by the Duke of Parma to set up and run a printshop. In 1779, Bodoni opened his own type foundry. In 1782 Charles II of Spain named Bodoni his court typographer.
Bodoni is still recognized for his roman, Greek, Gothic, Asian and Russian fonts, and lines, borders, symbols, numbers and musical notation. He was the most prolific punchcutter in the history of printing: an inventory of his shop, compiled by his widow, revealed 25,491 punches and 50,283 matrices, each cut by hand. He was friend to kings, ministers and others in power, dubbed by them as "Re dei tipografi, tipografo dei re" (king of typographers, typographer of kings). He basked in popularity, receiving numerous high honors.
This plain edition, with simple yet gracious chapter-heading ornamental devices, is a great example of the beginnings of Bodoni's signature style: wide margins; clear, solid type; and exquisitely designed and printed mathematical figures all point to Bodoni's typographical genius.
Oh, yeah. And then there's the math. Pietro Giannini was a student of Vincenzo Riccati (1707-1775) who urged Giannini to publish Opuscula Mathematica (1773). Opuscula is divided into three parts. In the first part, Giannini studied water falling through a hole. Isaac Newton had addressed this in his Principia, but Giannini's work is less experimental, more mathematical. Giannini was appointed a professor of mathematics in Seville, Spain.
This edition contains ten engraved folding copper-engraved plates, each with multiple diagrams. It is illustrated with a woodcut device on title-page. Our copy is bound in original wrappers with an old manuscript spine label.


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I hereby officially TENDER MY RESIGNATION as an adult.
I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6-year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers' day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know, and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset. I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible.
Somewhere in my youth . . . I matured and I learned too much. I learned of
nuclear weapons
abused children
unhappy marriages
pain and death
I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country and returned only to end up living on the streets, begging for their next meal. I learned of a world where children knew how to kill... and did.
What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball?
I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence, and deceit.
I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was. I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find. I would spend my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike. I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out.
I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of
computer crashes
mountains of paperwork
depressing news
how to survive more days in the month than money in the bank
doctor bills
loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of
a kind word
making angels in the snow.
I want to be 6 again.
[Author unknown. Submitted by Becky Germany
Fiction Editor, Barbour Books]
Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"


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Recently, Microsoft's Defender ATP Research Team issued guidance relating to defending against attacks that target Exchange servers.
They are coming under increasing attack based on the latest Microsoft statistics, which show a marked increase in the use of web shells on on-premises Exchange servers.
The company is currently tracking multiple ongoing attacks, some of which are using fileless techniques. That adds an additional layer of complexity when it comes to detecting and preventing attacks.
According to the advisory issued by Microsoft, the recent campaigns:
"…exploit a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the underlying Internet Information Service (ISS) component of a target Exchange server.
…This is an attacker's dream: directly landing on a server and, if the server has misconfigured access levels, gain system privileges…In many cases, after attackers gain access to an Exchange server, what follows is the deployment of web shell into one of the many web-accessible paths on the server."
Web shells are versatile, highly customizable tools hackers deploy on compromised servers to not only gain, but also to maintain their access. They are used to remotely execute arbitrary commands and code, deliver a wide range of malicious payloads and to move laterally within the network to other devices.
Microsoft said that the most recent spate of attacks are specifically targeting vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-0688. If there's a silver lining to be found, it lies in that there are already security patches available that protect against the most commonly used exploits in the recent string of attacks.
Unfortunately, those patches are unevenly applied across the Enterprise landscape, which leaves a significant percentage of corporate Exchange servers vulnerable to attack. Based on the latest company statistics released at the time this piece was written, although the patch has been available for some weeks, 82.5 percent of all Exchange servers were as yet unprotected. If yours is among that number, the fix is easy.


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Whole Foods Market recalls packaged raw macadamia nuts due to possible salmonella
Whole Foods Market voluntarily recalls packaged raw macadamia nuts due to possible Salmonella contamination. Recalled items were sold in AR, AZ, CA, CO, HI, KS, LA, NM, NV, OK, TX, and UT Whole Foods Market Stores. No illnesses have been reported to-date. Based upon routine testing conducted by an FDA-contracted laboratory, it was determined that the raw macadamia nuts tested positive for Salmonella.
Beech-Nut Nutrition recalls Sweet Potato & Chicken Baby Food Product due to possible glass contamination
Beech-Nut Nutrition recalls approximately 1,920 pounds of baby food products that may be contaminated with small pieces of glass… The baby food product was produced on December 12, 2014: 4-oz. glass jars containing "Stage 2 Beech-Nut CLASSICS sweet potato & chicken. The problem was discovered after the firm received a complaint from a consumer who found a small piece of glass in the product. The company has received a report of an oral injury associated with consumption of these products. FSIS has received no additional reports of injury or illness from consumption of these products.
Beech-Nut responds: "At Beech-Nut, we strive to make baby food with the best ingredients nature has to offer – freshly prepared and packaged in clean, safe and environmentally-friendly packaging. So, when any product of ours falls short of those standards, we take swift action to correct it."
B & R Meat Processing recalls 2000+ pounds of pork due to possible processing deviation and staphylococcal enterotoxin contamination
The cured and uncured pork items were produced on various dates between August 7, 2014 and April 1, 2015… The problem was discovered when an FSIS inspector was conducting a Food Safety Assessment and observed a processing deviation.
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There are sure to be more blog postings on this and future hearings soon. We all need to keep up with government activities related to DTC genomic testing and be ready to contact our congressmen and senators to let them know how we feel. Last summer I contacted all of the congressional representatives on Rep. Waxman's committee to let them know, among other things:
In a free society each person has an absolute right to information about her own genome from a source of her own choosing. Please help preserve our individual right to this information by avoiding any unnecessary regulation.
Do you know who your state and national representatives are and how to submit your opinions to them? If not, look it up and keep the information handy. After all, they are supposed to be public servants, serving the people, not serving their own interest or the interests of the richest lobby. When notice of a hearing or a bill comes up that might affect DTC genomic testing, be ready to let your elected representatives know how you feel. For those of us who have in the past and who will in the future break through a genealogical brick wall using DNA tests, the right to our own genetic data is important.
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a few more snippets of some pretty things i spotted at bennett galleries in knoxville....
isn't this nailhead trim to die for?
i love how it almost takes on an organic/floral feel.
and THIS detail is one of my faves. i love how little details like this can really add some serious awesomeness to a room.
i really liked this lamp, but what really caught my eye is the shade...
i adore the subtle sheen difference between the shade and the trim. it's uber sophisticated
and so subtle.
i adore the subtle sheen difference between the shade and the trim. it's uber sophisticated
and so subtle.
i have to admit that there are times when i get tired of seeing so much chevron, but this pillow
is in a class by itself. that linen! that velvet ribbon! SO pretty!
i think i NEED a pillow like this.
not want. NEED.
another beautiful pillow---although i kinda chuckled to myself when i saw it.... and chuckled even harder when i saw the price tag.
i LOVE this fabric, it's one of my favorites. but as gorgeous as it is, it only runs about $30 a yard.
i could have bought 4 yards of fabric and then paid someone to make my pillow for the cost of this one.
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The BMW 3 Series is a compact executive car manufactured by the German automaker BMW since May 1975. It was the successor to the 2002 coupe, and has now been produced in five different incarnations and a no less than five different bodystyles. The 3 Series is BMW's best selling automobile, accounting for nearly 40% of all automobiles sold by the company in 2005. The 4 series is the new 2 door 3 series starting in 2012.
(1975 - 1983) The original 3 Series. Known for its unique body styling and racing heritage, the E21 3 Series is a light, nimble, tail happy sports sedan with classic late 70's lines offering a connection to the road that few newer cars can match.
(1983 - 1991) Born from the sporty character of the 2002 and the sharp design lines of the E21, the E30 was a blend of the best of BMW's heritage. The second generation 3 Series provided a thrilling driving experience that used the best technology available.
(1991 - 1999) The first modern 3 Series, the E36, was the model that paved the way for the 3 Series to be named "Car of the Year" every year since the model was driving off showroom floors. Radically redesigned in 1992, the E36 was not the same 3 Series as the E21 and E30. Larger, less boxy in design, and equipped with a dual overhead cam engine, multilink rear suspension, and a more finished interior, the E36 balances sport with luxury.
(1999 - 2006) Starting in 1999 the E46 3 Series picked up where the E36 left off. Larger, with smoother lines, and with more advanced engines than its predecessor, the E46 easily held the title of "Best Car of the Year" throughout its life.
(2006-2012) With a powerful 255 hp engine featuring Valvetronic technology, a 5-link/5-beam rear suspension, performance and luxury are perfectly blended in a more powerful, more agile sedan.
(2012) The sixth revision of the iconic 3 series. Starting new installation of the 4 series which a lower, wider and sportier 2 door 3 series.
The seventh generation of the BMW 3 Series range consists of the BMW G20 (sedan version) and BMW G21 (wagon version, marketed as 'Touring') compact executive cars. The G20/G21 has been in production since mid-October of 2018 and is often collectively referred to as the G20.


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Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
[edit]- Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.
- Nobel lecture (12 December 1938)
- Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country... The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.
- On the Hydrogen bomb in a minority annex (co-authored with I. I. Rabi) to an official General Advisory Committee report for the Atomic Energy Commission (30 October 1949)
- Where are they?
- Variant: Where is everybody? : The Fermi paradox spoken in 1950 regarding the lack of evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence. As quoted in "Where are They? Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all" by Ian Crawford in Scientific American (July 2000), p. 38-43 (PDF document); also in "Our Galaxy Should Be Teeming With Civilizations, But Where Are They?" by Seth Shostak at Space.com (25 October 2001)
- I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.
- When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common. As quoted in Physics Today (October 1994), p. 70.
- I hope it won't take long.
- Comment to Eugene Wigner, ten days before his death from cancer, as quoted in The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner (1992), p. 108
- If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
- As quoted in Hyperspace (1995) by Michio Kaku
- There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
- As quoted in Nuclear Principles in Engineering (2005) by Tatjana Jevremovic, p. 397
Quotes about Fermi
[edit]- Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration...
- Albert Einstein, in the famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt which prompted attention to what eventually became the Manhattan Project. (1939-08-02; delivered 1939-10-11)
- He was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.
- As astronomer Carl Sagan thought about what Fermi said [Fermi paradox], he began to be alarmed. ...This could only mean that advanced civilizations destroy themselves before they get that far, a viewpoint Sagan published in 1966.
- Stanley A. Rice, Life of Earth: Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle-aged Stressed-out World (2011) Referencing Intelligent Life in the Universe by Iosif S. Shklovsky and Carl Sagan
- If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole.
- There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
- Luis Alvarez, in Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science, 1967, p. 43
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Brief biography at the official site of the Nobel Foundation.
- Brief biography at FermiLab
- The Time 100
- The American Experience (PBS)


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【转自high peaks pure earth/高峰净土网站。感谢译者Elliot Sperling(艾略特·史伯岭)先生翻译我的博文我们的拉萨快被毁了!救救拉萨吧!!。感谢高峰净土网站】
"Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction! Please, Save Lhasa!" By Woeser
High Peaks Pure Earth is very grateful to Elliot Sperling for his translation of a blogpost by Woeser originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia on May 4, revised on May 6 and posted on her blog on May 7, 2013.
The blogpost is an appeal to save Lhasa from destructive modernisation and has already attracted media attention. It was reported by Associated Press in Beijing in December 2012 that Lhasa's government had started a seven-month, 1.2 billion RMB project to "help preserve Lhasa's ancient heart". As a place that Woeser considers to be her home, Lhasa is often written about in both poetry and prose. Previously,Woeser has expressed her concern about the pace of changes taking place in Lhasa today.
Please note that nowhere in the blogpost is the claim made that Tibet's holiest temple, the Jokhang, is being demolished.
Please scroll to the bottom of the post to see 20 more photos.
The space in front of the Jokhang, which has borne witness to so much change over the ages, has no more of the pilgrims from Kham and Amdo who prostrate themselves all the way from the far borders to Lhasa; no more lamp pavilions in which thousands and tens of thousands of butter lamp offerings were lit every day. Only snipers poised on the roofs of Tibetans' homes, and fully armed military sweeps; only the opening of one massive government-business sector joint venture shopping mall after another, each with inflatable blood-red plastic columns before their doors, flaunting the vulgarity and invasiveness of these new upstart operations.
"Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction! Please, Save Lhasa!"
By Woeser
Our Lhasa is on the verge of destruction; this is absolutely not a case of crying wolf!
A tourist who's been to Lhasa wrote on Sina Weibo: "Today I can understand clearly that the original intended objective for Lhasa has been the construction of an extravagant tourist-city monstrosity along the lines of Lijiang. All the Old City's street stalls, guest houses, and its low-end service sector have to move out, to be replaced by high-end art and antique shops, and hotels. Moreover, all the buildings along the old streets have to have uniform facades and uniform signboards. So is it that China's cities are to have only this one type of dumbass Korean-style beauty makeover?"
Note that among the photographs that this tourist posted, the "Construction Survey" for the Barkhor Shopping Mall (originally the site of the Chengguan District Government Headquarters; located in the northeast section of the Barkhor, the circumambulation route around the Jokhang, and located very close to what is generally called Barkhor Street, also within the Old City of Lhasa) presents the scope of the project as encompassing 150,000 square meters, with an underground parking garage alone containing 1,117 parking spaces. Moreover, last year, because the colossal "Spiritual Power Plaza," a government-business sector joint venture built at the edge of the Old City of Lhasa, which had yet to open, was constructing an underground parking garage, it was pumping out groundwater day and night for over two years, causing anxiety among Lhasa residents as well as worries about cracks ripping through the Old City of Lhasa and depressions that could reach the dangerous point of forming sinkholes. Actually, cracks have already appeared in many places, while excavated sites have no water. And now the authorities want to construct a huge shopping center with an underground parking garage in another part of the Old City. Does this mean that we've reached a point at which it is now nigh impossible to prevent Lhasa from falling into the destructive clutches of hungry ghosts?
Remember: in 1994, UNESCO placed the Potala Palace on the World Heritage List. But then, in 1996, the village of Shol, which had stood for 1100 years at the foot of the Potala Palace was moved and relocated. At the same time, the Potala Palace, now deprived of Shol, was fatally disfigured with a public square: a replica of all those identical squares found throughout China, that are meant to display and project supreme power and authority. In 2000 and 2001 UNESCO listed the Jokhang and the Norbulingka on the World Heritage List as extensions of the Potala, making Lhasa, already a sacred place in terms of its value for religion, history and the humanities, a part of the world's cultural heritage. Nominally then, it ought to receive protection simply as a matter of course. But in 2002 Tibetans received a deep wound to their hearts: an artillery shell-shaped "Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" was put up to tower easily over the square, facing off against the Potala Palace in the distance. In 2007 the Potala Palace received a "Yellow Card Warning" at the World Heritage Conference, with criticism leveled for the excessive and gross pursuit of tourism profits, for unrestrained exploitation and for failing to uphold its responsibilities and commitments. The Potala Palace was put at risk of losing its "World Heritage" designation.
What is regrettable is that now, not only does the Potala continue to be subjected every year to excessive exploitation for purposes of tourism, but, under the feet of several million tourists whose numbers continually increase, even Lhasa's Old City is precariously and dangerously changing its appearance as it follows the trajectory of becoming an "International Tourist City." Not only have its guts been opened, things have become drastic. It's just as the Tibetan artist Kuang Laowu judged: "Faced with the lure of material goods and the seductions of power, cultural distinctiveness loses out and urban uniformity is imposed. Behind this seeming burst of prosperity the Old City of Lhasa, its substance, long since depleted, is yesterday's faded lily; none of its ancient simplicity, with the traces of ages past, is to be found there."
Years ago, between 1996 and 2002, Andre Alexander, a German who had devoted himself to restoring the Old City of Lhasa, in concert with the Tibet Heritage Foundation which he founded, rescued 76 traditional structures in and around Lhasa and revealed the true state of affairs, stating that "starting in 1980 the construction process within the city has wrought unceasing destruction on the Old City's ancient structures and quarters." "From 1993 on, each year an average of 35 historic structures have been demolished. At this rate the remaining historic structures will have vanished in less than 4 years." Because their remarkable restoration work and the witness they bore went totally against the intentions of the powers that be, in the end they were expelled from Lhasa by the authorities in Tibet—authorities who single-mindedly pursue only what is in their own interests.
From the "Engineering Survey" for the "Barkhor Shopping Mall" we can see that the goal of the renovation of the Barkhor quarter is to "cleanse, disperse, transform and elevate." And the reality that is to be understood by this is that the reconstruction of the Old City is to be divided into several large parts: the heart of the Old City, the circumambulation path around the Jokhang is to be thoroughly cleared. All the street peddlers are to be moved inside the newly-built "Barkhor Shopping Mall." All of the residents originally living along the street are to be moved to Tolung Dechen County in the western suburb of Lhasa; those households that move quickly can get a subsidy of between 20,000 and 30,000 RMB. Not moving will be a political problem. It's said that one old person in Lhasa who was unwilling to move has gone completely mad. As for the empty homes and courtyards, they'll be used to draw investment bids. Stores, restaurants, bars, art galleries and the like are to be established here. And on other streets and allies in the Old City, such as the space in front of the Ramoche temple, big public squares are to be opened up. The surrounding households will similarly be moved to the suburbs. In the northeast corner of the Old City, the site of the former Chengguan District Government Headquarters, the Barkhor Shopping Mall has already been erected. And so it goes, on and on…
Of course, the Barkhor, which was originally a place of religious significance, won't turn into a deserted street. On the contrary, it will become a bustling street, existing only for the benefit of tourists. But it will never again be the street of those Tibetans who circumambulate, come on pilgrimage, and prostrate themselves. Even if there manage to be pilgrims making prostrations there, they will simply serve to liven things up as background for the tourists, as one disaster follows another, winding down to a pathetic and miserable end for Lhasa. Historically, Lhasa has never had a mining cave-in. And now, it has had a mining cave-in. Historically, the Kyichu has never been blocked and dried up. Now it is drying up to the point that the fish are all dying. Historically, the Old City of Lhasa has never existed solely as a backdrop for tourists. And now it's being changed into a replica of Sifang Street in Lijiang and Daka Dzong in "Shangri-La." Might it be that one day, perhaps very soon, entry into the mountain fortress version of these tourist traps, "Old City Lhasa," will require the purchase of tickets?
No place has disappeared so quickly; no place has been inundated so quickly. Sick at heart, Andre Alexander wrote; "Each time I go, the old houses are clearly fewer, stone by stone, brick by brick, alley by alley, street by street; even the dogs are going missing." And today it's being relaced by a new Lhasa City that is being commercialized by those in power. From here on in, it's not just me, one individual, it's many people who are losing the few remaining bits of the Lhasa cityscape that they so deeply love; from here on in, it's not just my life, one individual life, it's the lives of many people, all mixed together with memories of Lhasa, that are being covered over. It's just as one internet friend bitterly put it: "Dismantling the old structures, excavating tunnels, building crossover bridges, stopping up the Kyichu, draining the groundwater: these people are truly the incarnations of hungry ghosts! Whatever they can carry away, they carry away, and what they can't carry away they destroy!"
I should point out that over the last several years the self-immolations of 121 Tibetans have become the most conspicuous manifestation of the Tibet Issue. It matters little that the international community is only paying limited attention to it, it is still the focus of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile; everything is concentrated around it and other catastrophes and dangers faced by Tibetan society are getting scant notice. For example, right now the looming destruction of Lhasa's Old City is staring us in the face. If this were taking place in the past, UNESCO could still issue a "Yellow Card Warning." However, now no one is paying attention, no one is concerned.
But the Chinese Government is taking the Tibetan self-immolations very seriously. On May 27 last year two Tibetans committed self-immolation in the space between the Jokhang and the Barkhor police substation. The Barkhor police substation was immediately elevated to the level of "Barkhor Ancient City Public Security Bureau." The Mandala Hotel in which the two Tibetan self-immolators had taken lodgings was seized by the authorities and turned into the "Lhasa Barkhor Ancient City Management Committee." The Old City of Lhasa was renamed the "Barkhor Ancient City." But the large-scale rebuilding of the Old City by the authorities that resulted from this was actually a case of killing two birds with one stone; it was even more suited to the goals and plans for "maintaining stability." And now, the area in front of the Jokhang, which has borne witness to so much change over the ages, has no more of the pilgrims from Kham and Amdo who prostrate themselves all the way from the far borders to Lhasa; no more lamp pavilions in which thousands and tens of thousands of butter lamp offerings were lit every day. Only snipers poised on the roofs of Tibetans' homes, and fully armed soldiers on patrol; only the opening of one massive government-business sector joint venture shopping mall after another, each with inflatable blood-red plastic columns before their doors, flaunting the vulgarity and invasiveness of these new upstart operations.
Forty years ago, when UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, it recognized "the importance, for all the peoples of the world, of safeguarding this unique and irreplaceable property, to whatever people it may belong…" noting that the "deterioration or disappearance of any item of the cultural or natural heritage constitutes a harmful impoverishment of the heritage of all the nations of the world"… and asserting that "it is incumbent on the international community as a whole to participate in the protection of the cultural and natural heritage…"
For these reasons I call on UNESCO and its affiliated organizations world-wide to stop this sort of frightful "modernization," which constitutes an unpardonable and incalcuable crime against the ancient city of Lhasa's landscape, human culture, and environment.
I call on the many Tibetologists all around the world, the people and organizations studying and researching the Tibet Issue: please pay close attention to the unredeemable misfortune that is befalling the Old City of Lhasa right at this very moment.
I hope people from all walks of life will launch actions to save the Old City of Lhasa!
Our Lhasa is on the Verge of Destruction!
Please, Save Lhasa!
Originally Written: May 4, 2013
Revised: May 6, 2013
Revised: May 6, 2013
The photographs below, showing the state of affairs in the Old City of Lhasa have been taken by tourists travelling to Lhasa as well as Tibetans in Lhasa:


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Livestock Donations in Zambia Yield Better Income, Diets
US - Some humanitarian organisations facilitate livestock donations to poor households in developing countries, but does giving a cow, a pair of oxen, or a herd of goats to a poor household really benefit the recipients? A recent University of Illinois study says it does."Our findings show that livestock transfers significantly increase peoples' incomes. We saw a large, rapid, sustained increase in consumption expenditures," said Alex Winter-Nelson, agricultural economist and director of the Office of International Programs in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at U of I.
"For poor households in Zambia, it means spending $1.25 per day rather than just $1 per day. That's enough to change the quality of what they are able to consume," Mr Winter-Nelson said. "Their household budget increases about 25 per cent, which is a remarkable boost in income."
Not surprisingly, the study also shows that people who receive animals change their diet in favour of higher-nutrition foods, mostly milk.
"Dietary diversity is a pretty good indicator of general nutritional intake," said Mr Winter-Nelson. "We don't know the quantity of foods eaten, just the number of foods that are present in the diet. People tend to add new food groups as their income increases and they are getting enough of one food group."
For the study, 300 households in five communities in the Zambian Copperbelt province were interviewed five times over a three-year period. Three of the communities receive livestock from Heifer International and two other communities for comparison are eligible, but have not yet received animals.
"What's significant is that animal products become available to everyone in the community when they were previously absent," he said. "Even the families who didn't receive an animal suddenly have access to milk that can improve their diet and their children's diet."
Households in each of the three communities received for a different type of livestock: dairy cows, draft cattle, or goats, depending on the local conditions. Mr Winter-Nelson says the increased income and improved diet are similar across the three different animals. The difference is in the timing.
"Households that receive a dairy animal begin benefiting almost immediately because of the milk.
"Those who receive draft animals take longer to see the benefit because the need for ploughing fields is seasonal, but because they are also female cows, those households have milk available to them.
"Goats provide the slowest effect. They receive seven female goats and one male but cannot sell them for meat right away."
Mr Winter-Nelson says the delayed benefit shouldn't dissuade people from donating goats because it's typically the poorer households who qualify for only smaller animals and the goats do provide some milk.
Mr Winter-Nelson says introducing livestock is controversial because corn is fed to animals rather than people and there are environmental concerns about large amounts of manure near open water systems. He added that Heifer International, which did not fund this research, is sometimes criticised for its high overhead costs.
"Heifer is a very high-touch program, which is why the costs may be fairly high, but it's extremely effective, in large part because they give communities the knowledge and skills they need to succeed on their own."
Mr Winter-Nelson explained that there is at least a year of preparation from the time a community is accepted into the program until they receive animals. In that time, Heifer provides entrepreneurship training, community development, veterinary services, and marketing - all with group accountability.
Heifer also requires a commitment to pass on the firstborn female offspring.
"The group has to have a degree of cohesiveness so the process won't become conflict-ridden," he said. "There has to be an agreement about who receives animals in the first, second, or later distribution, for example.
"The bottom line is that income significantly increases and diets improve when livestock is introduced to a community in the context of a well-developed support system, like the one Heifer establishes. If you give poor families an animal without this kind of support, the outcome is less certain."
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I took Oregon Movies, A to Z down today.
Yesterday I attended the mini-ceremony welcoming James Blue's papers and films to the University of Oregon's Knight Library.
When I started Oregon Movies, A to Z, I was alarmed that no one was paying attention to Oregon's film history. I no longer have that feeling. James Fox, the head of Special Collections at Knight Library, has collected the papers of three Oregonians who made significant contributions to American film history: James Ivory, Ken Kesey and James Blue. The Cinema Studies department faculty were present and fully engaged in celebrating the acquisition of James Blue's papers and films.
Oregon Movies, A to Z is no longer needed.
I will continue advocating for support for Oregon film history scholarship. I want to see one of the Oregon University System schools choose to develop a specialty in animation studies, including animation history, and for that school to begin a scholarly collection of books on that subject. It is not possible today to research Oregon's animation history with the teachers and the library resources we currently possess. I am interested in changing this.
If we have world class artists, we should have world class scholars.
Speaking of which, thank you to the people who wrote in with information which helped deepen my understanding of Oregon film history!


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Macy's Cooking Demo: The Food Gal Makes Joong with Chef Alexander Ong
Last Saturday afternoon at Macy's Union Square in San Francisco, I wrapped my first Chinese rice tamale ever — before a standing room-only crowd.
I couldn't have done it without the good cheer and great instruction from Executive Chef Alexander Ong of the popular Betelnut restaurant in San Francisco.
Though I'd grown up eating these glutinous rice tamales stuffed with pork belly, mung beans and salted duck egg yolks, I'd never made one myself.
But what better time to try my hand at it than last weekend, when the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival took place off the waters of Treasure Island.
The rice tamales (known as joong in Cantonese or zongzi in Mandarin) are the food most associated with the sport of dragon boating, which originated more than 2,000 years ago in Southern China.
According to legend, a popular poet and statesman was wrongly accused of treason. So despondent was he that he committed suicide by jumping into a river. Local fishermen, who admired the statesman, paddled out in their boats to try to rescue him to no avail. They beat drums and threw rice dumplings into the water to try to scare away fish and sea dragons from his body.
Each year, dragon boat festivals take place all over Asia, Canada and the United States to commemorate the poet's death.
Yours truly even competed on dragon boat teams for years in the Bay Area. I even still have my trusty paddle, which I brought to Macy's to demonstrate the aggressive rowing motion it takes to propel a dragon boat in a race.
Twenty paddlers sit side by side down the length of a boat that has a dragon's head at the front and its tail at the back. You row to the beat of a drummer who sits at the head of the boat. A race takes about three minutes. And believe you me, three minutes have never seemed so long.
Then, it was on to making the joong, the tamales of soft, gooey, custardy rice. Normally, these glutinous rice tamales have a big piece of fatty pork hidden inside its center, as you know how the Chinese love their succulent pork. But since Kaiser Permanente sponsored the cooking demo (ahem), Chef Ong decided to make a more healthful version — with roasted portobello mushrooms instead. Shhh, he did sneak a few pieces of pork belly and Chinese pork sausage into a few of the joong — just for tradition's sake. At his restaurant, he's even made them with a filling of foie gras. Oh my!
The tamales are wrapped inside dried bamboo leaves that are soaked in water overnight to make them pliable. It does take a few tries to get the method down just right so that the filling doesn't end up leaking out during the cooking process.
But believe me, if I can do it, anyone can.
It's kind of like origami, with the leaves folded this way and that, before the entire "package" is tied with kitchen twine to ensure a tight seal.
Ong has provided helpful two video links below that describe the folding method better than any written text could.
Try your hand at making a batch. And enjoy a delicious taste of Chinese tradition.
The photos pictured here were taken by Ben Seto, one of my former colleagues at the San Jose Mercury News, who now works for Kasier and blogs at the wonderful CookingWithTheSingleGuy; and by Barry and Eva Jan, regular attendees at the Macy's cooking events. Just put your cursor over any photo to see the captions and credits for each.
Chef Alexander Ong's Roasted Portobello Mushroom "Joongâ€
(Makes about 20 pieces)
For the rice:
3 cups long grain sweet rice
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
For the stuffing:
1 pound portobello mushrooms, cleaned, dark gills removed and cubed
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon minced ginger
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce (non-MSG type)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon black pepper, freshly cracked
3 tablespoons water
40 pieces dried bamboo leaves, soaked in warm water overnight
4 pieces lop cheong (Chinese sausage), cut in half lengthwise and then cut into 6 pieces
To prepare the rice: Rinse rice in water two to three times. Drain excess water. Place rice in a bowl, add 2 teaspoons kosher salt and 2 tablespoons vegetable oil.
To prepare the filling: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix portobellos, vegetable oil, ginger, garlic, low sodium soy sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar, black pepper and water in a bowl. Place mixture on a roasting pan lined with parchment or foil (for easier clean-up). Roast in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Cool, then strain any liquid that has accumulated.
To assemble the joong: Since it's so difficult to explain in writing how to fold the leaves around the filling to form the tamales, the only way to really understand how to do it is to watch someone do it. After a few trials and errors, you will get the hang of it.
Here are a couple of video links, illustrating two different methods of wrapping joong:
This is the Cantonese-style of wrapping joong.
And this is the Singaporean/Malaysian method, which I remember my family doing.
Once you assemble the joong, place them in a big pot of boiling water and simmer for about two hours. You may have to replenish the water in the pot periodically. Once cooked, the joong can be unwrapped and enjoyed as is or with soy sauce or chili sauce. Once cooled, the cooked joong also can be frozen in an airtight bag in the freezer. Thaw in the refrigerator, then heat in a steamer.
Recipe by Chef Alexander Ong of Betelnut in San Francisco
Plus: Photos From My First Demo at Macy's
And: A Video of Me Demonstrating How to Make Tomato Beef Chow Mein at Macy's


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Sony brings Cyber-shot DSC-HX10V 18.2 MP Exmor R CMOS Digital Camera.This camera features with 16x optical/32x Clear Image zoom gets you closer for detailed 18.2 MP pictures, while optical stabilization provides for smooth Full HD videos and high speed AF plus capture every moment and its GPS location automatically. There are more features to increase your Photo Creativity like preview exposure, white balance, and Picture Effects before you shoot and lot more. This is an Amazon's product review. Checkout more details bellow.
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- Capture 18.2 MP ultra-high definition images
- High speed AF improves focus speed
- Get up close with 16x optical/32x Clear Image zoom
- Full HD 1080/60i with dual record of stills and movies
- Capture the decisive moment with up to 10fps
- Optical Image stabilization with improved active mode4
- 3D still image and 3D Sweep Panorama mode
- Picture Effect for more expressive photos
- Photo Creativity allows easy photo adjustments
- Background Defocus highlights your subject like a DSLR
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- Brand Name: Sony
- Model: DSCHX10V/B
- Optical Sensor Resolution: 18.2 MP
- Optical zoom: 16 x
18.2 Megapixel Exmor R CMOS Image Sensor
The 18.2MP Exmor R CMOS sensor captures ultra-high definition images that take full advantage of the camera's sharp Sony G lens. The sensor enables advanced processing that reduces noise levels, resulting in stunning low light images with incredible details.
High speed AF
To improve focusing speed and sensitivity, the Exmor R CMOS sensor uses its rapid throughput to deliver high-quality image signals to the camera's BIONZ processor. The result is fast, DSLR-like focusing speeds, even in low light.
Optical zoom plus Clear image zoom
Most digital zooms use electronic cropping to get closer to the subject, resulting in unsharp images. With Clear Image Zoom the powerful processor compares patterns found in adjacent pixels and creates new pixels to match selected patterns, resulting in more realistic, higher-quality images. Clear Image Zoom doubles optical zoom for closer photos.
Full HD 1080/60i
Record crystal clear movies at the highest resolution available with capabilities for 60i in 1080 AVCHD video.1 This provides stunning, fast motion video with less distortion for playback on your HD TV.2 With dual record of stills and movies, you can shoot both at the same time.
Capture the decisive moment with up to 10fps
Capture full 18.2 megapixel resolution images at up to 10 frames per second, helping to ensure that the decisive moment is captured such as the soccer ball flying into the goal. In addition, a mechanical shutter helps reduce distortion when continuously shooting moving subjects.
Optical SteadyShot with Active Mode
Optical SteadyShot with Active Mode for blur-free movies even while walking.4 Camera-shake compensation using Optical SteadyShot/Active Mode has been improved with the addition of new electronic image stabilization.Now it's easier than ever to obtain sharp, blur-free movies even when zooming in unsteady situations, such as shooting with one hand while walking.
3D still image and 3D Sweep Panorama mode
Produce awe-inspiring images with 3D still image and 3D Sweep Panorama capabilities.3 Photos will take on a new dimension of creative capabilities for viewing the world in a whole new way.
Background Defocus
DSLR photographs are often beautiful because they blur the background, putting the emphasis on the subject. Now our point-and-shoot cameras can deliver this signature DSLR benefit. The system takes two shots, identifies the background and applies a defocused background keeping the subject crisp and clear.
Picture Effect for more expressive photos
Picture Effect adds a new level of expression to photos, making ordinary landscapes and portraits come to life by heightening mood and emphasizing certain attributes. Select camera models have up to nine different effects.
Photo Creativity
Photo Creativity allows you to fine-tune your exposure settings, such as brightness, color, and vividness, and quickly choose the right enhancement for your subject. Now you can view Picture Effects and Photo Creativity effects in real time on the camera's monitor or in the viewfinder before shooting.
Superior Auto mode
Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed shots. The DSC-HX10V automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then quickly shoots and combines up to six shots to produce images with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range using backlight correction HDR technology and lower image noise using 6 shots layering technology. Superior Auto intelligently detects 33 scenes for still images and movies, making it easy to get the best shot.
Face Detection technology
Face Detection technology recognizes faces and optimizes camera settings for both video and still images, so faces are captured more clearly and skin tones look more natural.
Smile Shutter technology
Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply press the Smile Shutter button and the camera does the rest. You can also select adult and child priority andindicate the degree of Smile Detection sensitivity. Intelligent Scene Recognition can now be used together with Smile Shutter mode when the Intelligent Auto mode is on. This means that beautiful smiles can be captured with settings optimized for the particular scene, even in difficult conditions such as twilight and backlighting.
GPS and Compass
GPS and compass record location data and camera direction as you shoot movies and photos. GPS Log lets users track a photographic journey and later view the path and images on a map. Map View in "PlayMemories Home" software, allows users to view images on a map showing where they were taken. The logged path and images can also be displayed on Google Earth.
Anti-blink Function
It's frustrating to capture the perfect shot, only to review it later and discover subjects blinked during the photo. The Anti-blink function works to help counter blinking and squinting. When the camera is set to Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two images, recording only the photo with less squinting. If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.
Soft Skin mode
Portrait subjects will love the results. Soft Skin mode recognizes skin tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles without affecting the rest of the shot.
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode automatically detects 33 different types of scenes and, within just 1/30th of a second, selects the appropriate camera settings. iSCN has two modes: Auto and Advanced. In Auto Mode, the camera takes a single shot using the optimal settings. In Advanced Mode, the camera takes a photo with the optimal settings and, if in difficult lighting (low light or back light) immediately takes a second photo with another optimized setting so you can choose which to keep.
Natural Flash
Conventional point-and-shoot camera flash shots just don't capture colors the way the eye sees them. Natural Flash mode takes a reference shot without flash and then uses that reference to correct the color, for far more lifelike images.
Motion Detection
Motion Detection, along with Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO sensitivity and increases the shutter speed when movement is detected, reducing blur in moving subjects and faces.
Sweep Multi Angle mode
In Sweep Multi Angle mode, the DSC-HX10V takes 15 images at different angles as it sweeps across the scene. By tilting the camera during playback, the camera's Gyro Sensor detects motion and displays the image in a 3D-like view on the camera's LCD.
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I met Jacquie Courtney when I was cast as Rachel on Another World.
During the years the show was at it's all time height, and set industry-wide standards, it was due in large part to Jacquie Courtney's indelibly romantic incandescence.
Alice and Steve...and mean and jealous Rachel. That was a triangle with edges...and like the show during the time the great Agnes Nixon was Head Writer, it had an edgy, unpredictable quality to it.
Jacquie's Alice had grace and beauty, delicacy and strength, that made her a joy to watch.
She was still going to High School when we met, but she was already a seasoned professional, having worked as a child.
She would do her own make-up. She had fabulous bone structure, those cheek bones, her perfect nose and full lips. And the bluest eyes...she could connect immediately with her emotions, and I'd envy that she could cry and still look pretty, pretty, pretty.
She was the girl you wanted to be...if only. She was the sister/daughter you wished you had. She was the friend you wanted to have.
I am grateful to your website for posting this significant tribute, which gives her fans, and former colleagues the chance to recognize and celebrate the life and contributions of this wonderful woman.


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User Experience: imc STUDIO
The imc SPARTAN is configured and operated through the included imc STUDIO software package. Offering a comprehensive solution to configuration, visualization and reporting, imc STUDIO is designed to adapt to your needs in interacting with your test and measurement instrumentation, and is fully integrated with imc SPARTAN.
imc STUDIO is far more than the limited "one-size-fits-all" software included with most data acquisition devices. Through an easily customizable user interface, imc STUDIO eliminates the need for time consuming and complex programming, debugging, and software maintenance chores.
Whether you are a mechanical engineer gathering your own development data in the field, a test engineer creating a multi-user test cell operator console, or an engineering manager responsible for enterprise level measurement and control strategy, imc STUDIO provides a multi-purpose, multi-use & scalable solution all under one umbrella.
Ready to Meet Your Requirements
At its heart, imc STUDIO is a complete toolbox, combining many separate tools in a seamless and entirely integrated environment:
- imc SETUP governs the configuration of the data acquisition, triggering, data display and storage aspects of the instrumentation. In addition, synchronously captured video/audio and position (GPS) data is also available.
- For the test rig applications, an additional real time control system including closed-loop control and signal output is available.
- imc PANEL provides the visual interface ("GUI") for the configured system, including:
- Familiar 2D and 3D data displays of imc CurveWindow, where any arrangement of curves is possible, including the ability to change the scaling even during a running measurement.
- A wide range of easily configured graphical I/O devices, the imcControls (or Widgets), a library of pre-defined input and output elements such as gauges, meters, tapes, indicators, switches, etc.
- Complete test programs are realized through interactive elements of the imc PANEL, by semi-automated sequencing of measurement steps with the imc SEQUENCER, and/or through an entirely autonomous measurement and control environment of the imc AUTOMATION.
- The integrated measured data analysis program (imc FAMOS) and convenient report composition capability complete the measurement process. This can even be automated as an event-driven routine using a freely programmable sequence generator triggered automatically by the measurement process or user controls.
- Administration of measured data and project management by means of metafiles in various formats ensure gap-free traceability of the course of a test program.


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PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins fired general manager Ray Shero on Friday while the status of coach Dan Bylsma will be evaluated.
Team co-owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle said it was time to take the franchise in a new direction after the team's latest playoff flameout. The Penguins lost to the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference semifinals this week.
Assistant general manager Jason Botterill will serve as general manager on an interim basis while the team searches for Shero's replacement.
The Penguins rolled to the Metropolitan Division title this season but failed yet again to produce a bookend to the championship they won with stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in 2009. Pittsburgh is just 4-5 in playoff series since raising the Stanley Cup after blowing a 3-1 series lead against New York.
"We share the disappointment of our fans that we have not had success in the playoffs over the past five seasons," Lemieux and Burkle said in a joint statement. "We believe that new leadership in the general manager's office will bring a new approach and new energy, and help us return to championship form."
Penguins President and CEO David Morehouse didn't blame the 51-year-old Shero's ouster on one specific failure.
"This is a decision that's been in the works for a long time since we've won the Cup," Morehouse said. "We wanted to get back to the Stanley Cup finals and we haven't and we're going to make some changes."
The Penguins hired Shero in 2006 and tasked him with building a foundation around Crosby that could turn Pittsburgh into a dynasty. The Penguins reached the finals in 2008 and won it all the following season thanks in part to Shero's ability to find the right supporting cast to build around Crosby and Malkin's otherworldly offensive talent.
Shero remained aggressive in investing in a "win now" mode as the ensuing disappointments piled up. He wasn't afraid to go "all in" as he put it last year after trading for Jarome Iginla, Jussi Jokinen, Brenden Morrow and Douglas Murray at the deadline. The moves often created headlines but little else, and splashy moves and a sellout streak seven years and counting proved no longer enough for Shero to keep his job.
Morehouse believes Shero's replacement won't need to make an overhaul. It's why the team started what will be a busy offseason by focusing on who will call the shots, not take them.
"What we wanted to do first is address the situation at the top and the leader of the organization is the general manager," Morehouse said. "It's not a complete rebuild. This is a team that has had a level of success. What we're trying to do now is get from good to great."
Whether Bylsma will be along for the ride remains unclear.
The affable, open-minded Michigan native was a revelation when the Penguins promoted him from their American Hockey League affiliate in the spring of 2009, hoping his optimism would help a loaded team break out of a midseason funk.
It worked brilliantly. Four months after taking the job, the former NHL nomad who spent nine seasons as a gritty fourth-line forward was raising the Cup in triumph. Considering Crosby and Malkin were both in their early 20s at the time, more parades were expected.
Five years later, the wait continues. While Pittsburgh enjoyed nearly unparalleled success in the regular season [—] including easily capturing a division title this year despite losing more than 500-man games to injury [—] the Penguins again struggled to adapt in the postseason.
Morehouse said the new general manager will determine whether Bylsma and the rest of the stack gets another shot. The 43-year-old Bylsma has two years remaining on his contract, the product of an extension he received last June as a vote of confidence from Shero following a four-game sweep at the hands of Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The extension came with a promise to adopt a more defensive-minded approach. The Penguins even brought in longtime NHL coach Jacques Martin as an assistant, an old-school yin to Bylsma's new-school yang.
It led to a similar destination: the Penguins watching the final stages of the two-month slog to the Cup go on without them. Now they'll try to get back to the top with a new architect.
"A lot of teams would like to be where we are," Morehouse said. "However we do have high expectations and we do want to get to them."
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Sikh community calls for gun reforms after FedEx shooting
Published 11:29 pm Saturday, April 17, 2021
By Casey Smith and Rick Callahan
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Members of Indianapolis' tight-knit Sikh community joined with city officials to call for gun reforms Saturday as they mourned the deaths of four Sikhs who were among the eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse.
At a vigil attended by more than 200 at an Indianapolis park Saturday evening, Aasees Kaur, who represented the Sikh Coalition, spoke out alongside the city's mayor and other elected officials to demand action that would prevent such attacks from happening again.
"We must support one another, not just in grief, but in calling our policymakers and elected officials to make meaningful change," Kaur said. "The time to act is not later, but now. We are far too many tragedies, too late, in doing so."
The attack was another blow to the Asian American community a month after authorities said six people of Asian descent were killed by a gunman in the Atlanta area and amid ongoing attacks against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
About 90% of the workers at the FedEx warehouse near the Indianapolis International Airport are members of the local Sikh community, police said Friday.
Kiran Deol, who attended the vigil in support of family members affected by the shooting, said loopholes in the law that make it easier for individuals to buy guns "need to be closed now," and emphasized that anyone who tries to buy a firearm should be required to have their background checked.
"The gun violence is unacceptable. Look at what's happened … it needs to be stopped," Deol said. "We need more reform. We need gun laws to be harder, stronger, so that responsible people are the ones that have guns. That's what we want to bring awareness to."
Satjeet Kaur, the Sikh Coalition's executive director, said the entire community was traumatized by the "senseless" violence.
"While we don't yet know the motive of the shooter, he targeted a facility known to be heavily populated by Sikh employees," Kaur said.
There are between 8,000 and 10,000 Sikh Americans in Indiana, according to the coalition. Members of the religion, which began in India in the 15th century, began settling in Indiana more than 50 years ago.
One of the victims of Thursday night's shooting was Amarjit Sekhon, a 48-year-old Sikh mother of two sons who was the breadwinner of her family.
Kuldip Sekhon said his sister-in-law began working at the FedEx facility in November and was a dedicated worker whose husband was disabled.
"She was a workaholic, she always was working, working," he said. "She would never sit still … the other day she had the (COVID-19) shot and she was really sick, but she still went to work."
In addition to Sekhon, the Marion County Coroner's office identified the dead as: Matthew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jasvinder Kaur, 50; Jaswinder Singh, 68; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74.
Kuldip Sekhon said his family lost another relative in the shooting — Kaur, who was his son's mother-in-law. He said both Kaur and Amarjit Sekhon both began working at the FedEx facility last year.
"We were planning to have a birthday party tonight, but now we're here instead. This … this is tough for us," Sukhpreet Rai, who is also related to Kaur and Sehkon, said Saturday. "They were both very charming."
Komal Chohan, who said Amarjeet Johal was her grandmother, said in a statement issued by the Sikh Coalition that her family members, including several who work at the FedEx warehouse, are "traumatized" by the killings.
"My nani, my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere. Enough is enough — our community has been through enough trauma," she said in the statement.
The coalition says about 500,000 Sikhs live in the U.S. Many practicing Sikhs are visually distinguishable by their articles of faith, which include the unshorn hair and turban.
The shooting is the deadliest incident of violence collectively in the Sikh community in the U.S. since 2012, when a white supremacist burst into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and shot 10 people, killing seven.
In Indianapolis, police said Brandon Scott Hole, 19, a former worker at the FedEx facility killed eight people there before killing himself. Authorities have not released a motive.
Hole was in possession of two assault rifles, which he purchased legally in July and September of 2020, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Police said Hole was witnessed using both rifles during the assault.
Hole's family said in a statement Saturday they are "so sorry for the pain and hurt" his actions caused.
Paul Keenan, special agent in charge of the FBI's Indianapolis field office, said Friday that agents questioned Hole last year after his mother called police to say that her son might commit "suicide by cop." He said agents found no evidence of a crime and that they did not identify Hole as espousing a racially motivated ideology.
Samaria Blackwell, of Indianapolis, was a soccer and basketball player who last year graduated from Indy Genesis, a Christian competitive sports organization for homeschooled students. Her parents said Saturday in a statement that she was an outgoing "people person" who will be missed "immensely" by them and her dog, Jasper.
"As an intelligent, straight A student, Samaria could have done anything she chose to put her mind to, and because she loved helping people, she dreamed of becoming a police officer. Although that dream has been cut short, we believe that right now she is rejoicing in heaven with her Savior," they said.
Matthew Alexander, of Avon, just west of Indianapolis, was a former Butler University student and a 2007 graduate of Avon High School. Relatives and several of his former teammates on Avon's baseball team attended a game Saturday in his memory. They carried his former uniform, No. 16, onto the field, where they hugged and cried.
Albert Ashcraft, a former FedEx driver, said Alexander dispatched drivers to locations for deliveries, prepared their paperwork and was well-liked because he looked out for the drivers, even making sure they got treats.
"People would bring doughnuts in and he was always sticking doughnuts back for his drivers," he told The Indianapolis Star.


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Jezreel, Valley of
Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal victory gained by the Israelites under Gideon over the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the "children of the east" (Judg. 6:3). Two centuries after this the Israelites were here defeated by the Philistines, and Saul and Jonathan, with the flower of the army of Israel, fell (1 Sam. 31:1-6).
This name was in after ages extended to the whole of the plain of Esdraelon (q.v.). It was only this plain of Jezreel and that north of Lake Huleh that were then accessible to the chariots of the Canaanites (comp. 2 Kings 9:21; 10:15).
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