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In this tutorial I will give some general instructions and explain step by step how to;
- shoot the images,
- make a left and right eye panorama with PTGui 9,
- make an anaglyph panorama,
- make an interactive 3D panorama,
I also tell a bit about the shape of the mask for PTGui and at the end of the tutorial is a Links section for the download of software, the tutorial with screenshots, and some examples.
I suggest that you read all steps of the workflow and download the tutorial with screenshots before you start making your own 3D panorama.
General instructions:
Use a fisheye lens with a FOV of 180 degree with the camera in portrait position.
Take care that there are no objects in the scene closer then 1 m to the lens.
Only shoot outdoors when there is no wind at all.
Avoid dynamic scenes, you really need a static or "frozen" scene.
Use a sturdy tripod, a good panohead and level the panohead carefully.
If your rotator has a little wobble, or your tripod or pole isn't really stable, then the tilt and roll can vary between shots and then you have to use a different method for optimizing then described in this tutorial, this is because the method I describe is based on a linked tilt and roll for all images for optimizing.
How to shoot the images:
1) Set the upper rail of your panohead in the horizontal position (zero tilt) and shift your camera forwards on the upper rail out of the NPP of the lens.
When shooting in a room with objects relatively close by then shift approx. 30 mm forwards, when shooting in a larger space then shift between 30 and 60 mm and when shooting outside shift 60 mm or more.
I suggest that you start with a small shift to get familiar how to make 3D panoramas and try out larger shifts later when you are more experienced.
The more shift you use the more 3D depth you will get in your panorama. Having to much 3D depth in a panorama is always a bad thing, on the opposite, when having not as much as is possible 3D depth this will be accepted by most people.
2) Set your rotator to the proper number of images.
Use the table below as a guide for the number of shots needed for a given lens shift, using to much images is never a problem, using not enough images will cause stitching errors.
When shooting closer then 2 meter to objects you really need more images then stated in the table to avoid stitching errors, f.i. when shooting at 1 meter distance limit the forward shift to 4 cm and shoot 50 instead of 25 images.
shift 2 cm > 15 images
shift 3 cm > 20 images
shift 4 cm > 25 images
shift 5 cm > 30 images
shift 6 cm > 35 images
shift 7 cm > 40 images
shift 8 cm > 45 images
shift 9 cm > 50 images
shift 10 cm > 55 images
3) Set the camera in M mode for a fixed exposure of all images, set the white balance to a fixed setting and the focus of the lens to Manual with a fixed distance setting.
Shoot all images around and take care that you don't move the gear by accident (use a remote control).
Process the images for removing CA, enhancing sharpness and all other stuff you normally do with your fisheye images.
How to make a left and right eye panorama (equirectangular) with PTGui 9:
4) In PTGui Pro 9 you load all images, apply a lens calibrated template and setup your template for advanced use.
Let PTGui automatically place the cp's.
Optimize for lens shift parameters "d" and "e" and image parameters yaw, pitch and roll in steps with linked roll and pitch for all images and remove all cp's with errors of 8 px or higher.
Avoid optimizing for the image parameter pitch and the vertical lens shift parameter "e" in the same step when you start optimizing as it will give issues with high and wrong values.
When the cp errors are all below 8 px and the pitch and the vertical lens shift parameter are more or less normal then the optimizing is done.
5) Open the Mask window and the Panorama Editor window, select the first image in the Mask window and draw a red mask with a large unmasked part that looks like a half moon shape in the right half of the fisheye image.
You can see the result of your drawing in real time in the Panorama Editor, please keep in mind that the shape of the mask is more important then fine tuning of the edges of the mask.
When the mask looks fine then save the mask as "left_mask"
Instead of drawing your own mask from scratch you can also download the default mask that I used for this tutorial (see the Links section at the end of this tutorial), resize it to the image size of your camera and modify the shape of the mask in a graphic application (f.e. Photoshop), after saving the mask you load it in the first image.
6) Open to the Source Images tab.
Control-click (right mouse click) on the first image and copy the mask with the mouse menu.
Select all images and paste the copied mask to all images with the mouse menu.
Important, if there are moving objects in the scene you have to manually mask them out of the image, this can be a lot of work as you have to check -every- image for moving cars, people, birds, etc.
7) Go to the Create Panorama tab and set the settings just as you normally do for your camera and lens.
Now save the template and name it whatever you like as long as the word "left" is in it.
Create the panorama, this will be the left eye image (equirectangular).
8) Open the mask that you saved earlier in step 5 in a graphic application, flip the mask horizontal and save the mask as "right_mask" in PNG format.
BTW, you can re-use the masks for other 3D projects as long as you use the same camera and lens (and the same zoom setting if you are using a zoom fisheye lens).
9) Go back to PTGui's Mask window, select the first image again and load the "right_mask" image.
Repeat step 6 and 7 but this time you save the template and the image with the word "right" in it.
Create the panorama, this will be the right eye image.
How to make an anaglyph panorama (equirectangular):
10) For making a red/cyan anaglyph you use the application StereoPhoto Maker (Windows only - free), for making an amber/blue anaglyph you use ColorCode 3D Editor (Windows only - not free).
On OSX you can run StereoPhoto Maker with Wine for OSX (free) but for ColorCode 3D Editor on OSX you need a emulator, f.e. Parallels or Bootcamp
See the Links section for download links.
To avoid stereo window violation the left and right eye images must be to set to the proper zero parallax point, this is the point where you will not see a colored edge at the left and right side of an object when viewing the anaglyph without a viewer.
The setting of the zero parallax point is done by aligning the left and right eye images to objects in the foreground of the scene, the aligning procedure is different for StereoPhoto Maker and ColorCode 3D Editor and therefore described in different steps..
Continue with step 11 for making an amber/blue anaglyph panorama with ColorCode 3D Editor.
Skip step 11 and go to step 12 for making a red/cyan anaglyph panorama with StereoPhoto Maker.
11) Aligning and making of an amber/blue anaglyph with ColorCode 3D Editor.
When using ColorCode 3D Editor you have to align the left and right eye images in a graphic application, this is because ColorCode 3D Editor is designed to work with rectangular images and can not wrap-shift images over the 0/360 border when aligning a 360 degree panorama.
When you use Photoshop for aligning then open the left and right eye equirectangulars, copy one of the images on top of the other one in a separate layer and reduce the Opacity of the new layer to get both layers visible.
Select the background layer (make sure that it is highlighted !) and with the menu option "Filter", the option "Others" and the sub menu "Offset" you align the background layer in such a way that objects close to nadir are on top of each other (only shift in a horizontal direction !).
After deleting the copied layer and after flatten the image you save the aligned panorama.
In ColorCode 3D Editor you open the aligned left and right eye images and set the gamma (try 1.2 for a start).
Don't use any other option unless you know what you are doing, the reason for this is that most options of ColorCode 3D Editor can't be used for making 360 degree anaglyph's !
Inspect the anaglyph with your ColorCode 3D viewer on and save the output as stereo image in PNG format when you are happy with the result.
Continue with step 13.
12) Aligning and making of a red/cyan anaglyph with StereoPhoto Maker.
In StereoPhoto Maker you open the left and right eye images with the File menu option "Open left/right images, choose in the View menu the option "Panorama Mode (360 degree)" and the option "Fit panorama height to screen".
With the menu option "Stereo", the option "Color Anaglyph" and the submenu "Ghost-reduced Anaglyph" you get a window with 2 histograms. Set the slider of the Contrast of the upper histogram to -20 [Lab] and the slider of the Contrast of the lower histogram to +10 [RGB] and apply the settings.
Now the images must aligned in such a way that objects close by in nadir don't have colored edges.
Important, don't put your red/cyan viewer on (otherwise you can't see the colored edges) and only align the images in a horizontal direction with the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard.
After aligning the images you put on your red/cyan viewer and check the overall brightness of the anaglyph.
If the image is a little to dark then you need to compensate the gamma, you do this with the menu Adjust and option Color adjustment, adjust the gamma for the left and right image with the same numbers.
After this you save the anaglyph panorama with the "File" menu option "Save Stereo Image …".
Important, do not save the anaglyph panorama as a normal JPEG image because this will cause color ghosting in the anaglyph, only save as PNG image (preferred) or as special ghost reduced JPEG file.
How to make an interactive 3D panorama (Flash, HTML5, WebGL):
13) Use the anaglyph panorama as input in your panorama software and process the image just as you do with any other panorama.
Important, if your pano software have an option to disable color subsampling for JPEG tiles then use this option to avoid color ghosting in the output.
When using Pano2VR v3.1 (or later version) color subsampling is automatically disabled when setting the compression quality of the JPEG tiles to 90% or higher.
If your pano software dousn't have an option to disable color subsampling of the JPEG tiles then use the workaround as described in the tutorial "How to avoid color ghosting in anaglyph panoramas" (see Links section).
About the shape of the mask for PTGui:
The default mask with a simple large half moon shape will do fine in most situations but to get more or less 3D depth or to get 2D in nadir and zenith you can use small shaped masks (see the Links section for examples).
Be careful when using a different mask then the default mask, with small shaped masks it can happen, depending on the width of the mask and the contrast of objects in the scene, that you get stains, brightness or contrast errors in the output caused by the blender of PTGui (PTGui blender, Enblend and Smartblend all have the same issues).
When you have blender issues and really needs to use a small shaped mask it is best to output the panorama as layered Photoshop image (ignore the 2 or 4 GB warning of PTGui), open the image in Photoshop, enlarge the canvas approx. 10% at one side (left or right side), copy and shift the layers to the enlarged part to get a seamless image, blend the panorama with Auto-blend, flatten the image, reduce the canvas to the original size and shift the image if you want to get the original position (see step 11 if you need to know how to shift the image over the 0/360 border).
The enlarging of the canvas and the copying of the layers is needed to avoid a visible 0/360 seem as Auto-blend is not capable to wrap-blend over the 0/360 degree borders of the image.
Although the result with Auto-blend is most times very good even then it still can happen that the output has blender artifacts, if this is the case then you have to modify your masks or manually retouch the output.
Bottom line, first try the default mask before you use a smaller shaped mask.
Links section (all files with short URL's are stored on my website):
The 3D panorama I used for this tutorial:
red/cyan http://tinyurl.com/3b3zu2z
amber/blue http://tinyurl.com/3kzxuew
Photos of the setup:
The tutorial "How to make a spherical 3D panorama with a single camera and a fisheye lens" (PDF 2,9 MB):
The tutorial "How to avoid color ghosting in anaglyph panoramas" (PDF 1 MB):
The left eye mask I used for the tutorial:
Example of a mask with more 3D depth:
Example of a mask with less 3D depth:
Example of a smart mask for a 3D panorama with a 2D part in zenith and nadir:
ColorCode 3D:
StereoPhoto Maker:
Wine with Winebotler for OSX (only for StereoPhoto Maker, not for ColorCode 3D)
Here is a video of my talk at the PanoTools Meeting 2011 in Vienna about the making of 3D panoramas with approx. the same info as this tutorial.
Beware it is a 50 minute talk ;-)
I appreciate your feedback about this tutorial, if anything is unclear then just let me know by using the Reply button of this posting.


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How many different rectangles (in terms of area) can fit in a 20-unit-wide square? The rectangles can be squares, and their dimensions are integers.
If you're looking for the number of different areas realizable by fitting rectangles in a 20x20 square with (integer-length) edges parallel to the coordinate axes, the answer is the number of elements in {$ \{ x \times y | x,y \in \{ 1..20 \} \} $}. In Haskell,
The answer is 27. The 28th triangular number is 406, so 28 is out, but you can fit rectangles in the square so that 1+...+21+24+25+27+28+30+35=400. 1-20 are 1xn rectangles, and you can arrange them so that you get a 10x19 rectangle left over. Cut off a stripe with 3x9 and 3x10, so you have 7x19 left. Chop off the other direction with 3x7 and 4x7. The remaining 7x12 rectangle is partitioned into 2x12, 5x5, and 5x7.
If the unclear question means "how many ways can you partition the 20x20 unit region into multiple subregions each of which is a rectangle integer unit dimensions, with widths and lengths greater than zero?" then you've got a different answer.
There is $1$ way to partition it into $400$ different 1x1 squares.
There is $1$ way to partition in into $1$ large 20x20 square.
There are $0$ ways to partition it using $399$ {1x1} squares, because using $399$ {1x1} squares leaves a {1x1} area to be filled, which can only be filled by a {1x1} square yielding $400$ {1x1} squares, which is already counted above.
Using $398$ {1x1} squares, there are $20\times 19 \times 2 = 760$ ways to partition it: with $398$ 1x1 squares and $1$ 2x1 rectangle. The 2x1 rectangle can be posed vertically at $20$ different $x$-positions by $19$ different $y$ positions, or it can be posed horizontally at $19$ different $x$-positions by $20$ different $y$ positions, yielding $20 \cdot 19 \cdot 2$.
You can do similar combinatorics for using $397$ unit squares = $397$ {1x1} + $1$ {3x1}. Placing the long rectangle vertically yields $20 \ times 18$ ways, horizontally also yields $18 \times 20$ ways, totalling $720$ ways.
It gets more fun at $396$ unit squares, because the four squares you've removed from the first part of the solution above can be drawn as just $1$ {2x2} square, or as $2$ {1x2} squares (both of which can take on vertical or horizontal orientations), or as $1$ {4x1} square drawn either vertically or horizontally. The total number of these combinations can be calculated in a similar manner.
And keep going on up to using $0$ (zero) {1x1} squares: the single $1$ {20x20} square fitting in the area.
If you mean how many differently dimensioned rectangles could be drawn, one at a time, into a region of 20x20, then let
yielding $20\times 20=400$ different size rectangles if orientation matters. Orientation matters if a vertical {1x20}-sized rectangle is considered as being different from the horizontal {20x1}-sized rectangle.
If orientation does not matter, then in this manner of counting each rectangle is counted twice as an $m \times n$ rectangle and as an $n \times m$ rectangle, so divide that in half resulting in $200$ different dimensioned rectangles could be drawn, one at a time, into a region of 20x20, if orientation does not matter.
There is also Scott Carnahan's approach in this question, which yields the answer $27$ using triangle numbers.
If that is the correct answer, my answer above should match it, however, my answer is in the form of a heuristic rather than in closed form.
Notice that the {1x2} rectangle is duplicated vertically in the first line and horizontally in the 10th and 11th lines (marked with an asterisk). This yields $29$ different rectangles, with only one duplication, whereas Scott Carnahan's approach has much more than one duplication of the {1x1} square}
So of course, the answer depends exactly on what you mean specifically by the question.


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Is it possible to cover $Z^\infty$ (the infinite direct sum of $Z$'s with the $l_1$-metric) by a finite set of collections of subsets $U^0,...,U^n$ such that each collection $U^i$ consists of uniformly bounded sets $U_j^i$ that are 4-disjoint (the distance between any two subsets $U_j^i$, $U_k^i$ in each $U^i$ is at least 4)? The motivation is here: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1008.3868 .
The answer is NO even if we replace $4$ by $3$. Let me sketch a proof. This is based upon the following lemma.
Lemma. Fix $S>0$ and for an integer $k$ conisder in $\mathbb Z^k$ sets $X$ of diameter at most $S$. Denote by $Vol(X)$ the number of points in $X$ and denote by $X1$ the set of points of distance at most $1$ from $X$. Now let $\delta(S,k)$ be the supremum over all $X$ of diameter at most $S$ of the ratio:
$$r(S,k)=sup_{X\subset \mathbb Z^k}\frac{Vol(X)}{Vol(X1)}.$$
I claim that for a fixed $S$, $lim_{k\to \infty}r(S,k)=0$.
Let us skip the proof of the lemma and instead deduce the claim. Suppose by contradiction that the answer is positive. Then for every $k$ we will get a solution to the problem in $\mathbb Z^k$ with the fixed number of sets ($U^0,...,U^n$) such that each $U^i_j$ is of the diameter at most $S$. Now, chose such $k$ that $r(S,k)<\frac{1}{2n}$ and let us deduce the contradiction.
From Lemma it follows that the supremum of asimptotic density of each set $U^i$ in $\mathbb Z^k$ is less than $\frac{1}{n+1}$. Indeed, since the distance between different components of $U^i$ is $4$, every point of $U^i1$ that does not belong to $U^i$ is on distance one from at most one component of $U^i$. And lemma gives us the inequality (that should be understood as assymptotic in $\mathbb Z^k$) $$Vol(U^i)<\frac{1}{2n} Vol(U^i1)\le \frac{1}{2n}Vol(\mathbb Z^k)$$ Hence $\mathbb Z^k$ can not be covered by $U^0,...,U^n$.
It is clear where this proof breakes if we conisder $2$-disjoint sets. In this case one point of $U^i1$ can be on distance $1$ to many components of $U^i$ and the above inequality will not hold. But for $3$-disjoint sets this works.
As for the proof of the lemma, I think, it should be rather standard.
In fact there is also a negative answer (again with 3 instead of 4) in the case of the countably infinite sum of Z_2. View the direct sum with the $\ell_1$-metric as being the collection of all finite subsets of N with the metric which counts the symmetric difference. Let $[N]^k$ denote all of the k-element subsets of N. Observe that it suffices to demonstrate that, for each k, if $[N]^k$ is partitioned into finitely many pieces, then there is a piece of the partition containing a sequence $a_i$ $(i < k)$ such that $a_0$ is disjoint from $a_{k-1}$ (thus $a_0$ and $a_{k-1}$ are 2k units apart) and $|a_i \Delta a_{i+1}| = 2$ of all $i < k-1$. But this follows easily from Ramsey's theorem: given any such partition, there is a subset b of N of cardinality 2k, all of whose k element sets are in one piece of the partition (in fact we can find an infinite b if we like). From this one can now easily construct the sequence of $a_i$ $(i < k)$: if $b = \{m_i : i < 2k\}$, then set $a_i = \{m_j : i \leq j < i+k\}$.


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I wouldn't argue that this shouldn't be the case, but I find no warning or mention of this when I do these actions. I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't desire anonymity on SO but would like at least pseudonymity on some places I might share a SO link, such as on a random blog.
As a user, I would not expect sharing a permanent link to leak my identity. Unless you are familiar with StackExchange links or your own userID, it's certainly not obvious by looking at the link that it includes your personal info. It'd be nice to have fair warning that using that feature will do so, and perhaps provide/describe the workaround: to simply remove the user-id segment from the URL. Other features would be a preference that formats future permanent links to exclude the user id.
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My last beer went through a normal 10-day fermentation process and afterwards there was no activity. I assumed that most of the sugars had been consumed. But after I bottled my beer and let it carbonate in the bottle for 6 weeks - the taste was still too sweet. Did I use too much base malt or perhaps the yeast gave up too soon?
I'm guessing this was actually an extract brew, so it's likely the wort was mostly fermentable. In the future you can use a hydrometer to measure how much sugars are left in your beer... then you can compare that number to an expected final gravity to make sure it really is time to bottle. If you've got an underattenuated beer sitting in the bottle, you might prepare for a few bottle bombs should the fermentation kick back up. It's amazing the loud explosion they make when they go.
I wouldn't recommend bottling based solely on time and activity (or lack thereof). You never know if you've gotten a stuck fermentation.
Until you post a recipe and hydrometer readings all I can do is guess that you didn't add enough hops to offset the malt sweetness.
The end of fermentation is not marked by the lack of activity in an airlock. Its determined by the arrival at terminal graivty.
The rule of thumb is to check the gravity a few days consecutively until it doesn't change anymore.
It could be too sweet because it wasn't actually done.
I bet you added more dextrose or malt then the recipe called for and your beer stopped fermenting because it reached its max ABV for the yeast you used. certain yeasts die at a max AVB and to continue fermenting you must usedifferent yeast such a champagne yeast to obtain higher AVB...made that mistake myself early on and ended up with sweet malty beer that would not carbinate sufficiantly.
It depends on a number of factors, beginning with the malts you choose. Sounds like this was an all-grain brew, no?
Definitely post your recipe, including the yeast strain you used. In addition to everything suggested in the previous answers, note that different yeast strains have different levels of efficiency (known as attenuation). Some ale yeasts will convert as much as 85% of the available sugar, some as low 60%. Lower-attenuation yeast will give you a sweeter beer.
As was mentioned, the only way to know for sure is to take gravity readings. If your current gravity is within the range you'd calculate based on the starting gravity and the attenuation of your yeast strain and it hasn't moved for a few days, it's done. If you're currently showing that, say, only 40% of the fermentables have been consumed, you don't want to bottle it yet.
As others have said, posting the recipe and hydrometer readings (starting gravity and terminal gravity) would be very useful for a diagnosis.
I'm also going to make the assumption, since you didn't stipulate otherwise, that your beer carbonated in the bottle, which indicates that the yeast is still active.
I can think of a few reasons why the beer tastes too sweet.


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Who was responsible for the partition of India? Did it happen due to Mohammed Ali Jinnah or Mahatma Gandhi? Or were the British of the view that the country needed to be divided?
According to Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (I have a link to Wikipedia but have read the book multiple times), the idea for Pakistan came from Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a student studying in England who pitched the idea to Mohammed Ali Jinnah at a dinner. Choudhary Rahmat Ali is also credited with coining the name "Pakistan". Jinnah wasn't receptive to the idea but warmed to it when the Government of India Act of 1935 saw most of the spoils go to Hindus.
Convinced that Muslims had no place in an independent India, he became a strident proponent of a separate Muslim state. Despite a great deal of diplomacy and attempts at persuasion by many, including Gandhi and Viceroy Mountbatten, he remained steadfast to this idea, threatening violence and predicting civil war if the division wasn't allowed to happen. The other leaders of Congress, tired of fighting and wanting to get the transfer of power over with, accepted his demands reluctantly. Gandhi was reportedly saddened, but powerless; he couldn't be seen to be feuding publicly with the other leaders of Congress (mostly Nehru and Patel) by breaking ranks.
The actual decision of how to divide the country - how to draw the partition line - was the work of, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, chair of the Border Commissions.
There were two border Commissions. One for Punjab and the other for Bengal. Each commission had 4 representatives. Of which, 2 were from the Indian National Congress and the other 2 were from the Muslim League. Radcliffe had just 5 weeks to decide the border - before 15 August 1947 (though it was actually published on the 17th).
The whole task was a dreadful mess. The resulting ethnic cleansing saw some 25 million refugees and an estimated 1.5 million dead. Border disputes, particularly in Kashmir, continue to this day.
The partition of India was undertaken per the Indian Independence Act of the British Parliament, taken after consultation with the main interest groups.
Gandhi agreed to the partition reluctantly; other groups, such as the Muslim League, enthusiastically.
Of the three answers Jayaraj's answer is the most appropriate. Other answers are purely technical. Those answers are akin to saying the US President is elected by the state electors ignoring the fact that the election by state electors is mostly a formality after the people of the United States have voted.
Jinnah didn't stop with just threatening violence. His call for "Direct Action Day" on 16th August 1946 was indeed a call for foreceful action to get what he wanted, the partition of India. Read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Action_Day.
Read Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah. You will learn that Sardar Patel, Nehru and Gandhi were actually responsible for dividing India. Simply, because they were fearful that Muslims would be nearly half of the population in a united India, making it hard for the Hindu counterpart to dominate. Hence, their desire to divide India. The English grabbed the opportunity to weaken the subcontinent. Muslims' plight in today' India is a testimonial to what would have happened to them in an undivided India.
I fully agree that a united India would have been a mess for the Muslims, as they would have been subjugated by the Hindu majority, which was unwilling to grant proportionate representation to minorities in a united India. After all, Jinnah was a member of Congress till 1913, and Iqbal had written saarey jehaan se piara Hindustan hamaaraa.
We can set aside out hate and respect oneanother as good neighbors, who have a shared heritage.
Hindi urdu controversy and quota system controversy and illiteracy problem of india were the factors responsible for partition of india in 1947.
Friends,I am weak in English.The slogan of Hindu mahasabha & RSS - "Hindu ,Hindi, Hindustan" slogan and their demand for prohibition of cow slaughter in India annoyed the muslims of British India.On the other hand hindus suspected the patriotism of muslims for their love of Arab land and Afghanistan.The question about future national language of India was also a great factor in the partition of India.Hindus opposed the quota system for minorities.Absence or Lack of great leaders like Abraham Lincoln & Garibalidi in India was also a great factor. The role of local rulers of princely states was full of communalism and partiality in nature. Crores of illiterate poor people were easily influenced by communal leaders and by rumours.


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So, the closed beta is starting soontm for Planetside 2, and I'm pretty excited. For those who never played or heard of the first one, think something like Battlefield 3, but with three factions, more vehicles, more bases, and on a persistent map large enough to hold 2,000 players. The three factions are the Terran Republic, an authoritarian regime who want to unite humanity and return home, specializing in low damage, high rate of fire weapons and the fastest vehicles. The New Conglomorate, a loose affiliation of rebels and freedom fighters who'd like to abandon the old world and make a home on this new planet, specializing in having the toughest armor and the strongest weapons. And the Vanu Sovereignty, a tech worshipping theocracy that wants to use alien technology to elevate humanity to the next stage in evolution, specializing in the most maneuverable vehicles and plasma weaponry.
Parts 1-3 of TotalBiscuit's livestream of the gameplay from the floor. A lot of things in the videos are going to be changed since this was a special E3 build and let MAX suits pilot vehicles and such. Days 2 and 3 are a much better representation of the teamwork you can expect to see with Galaxy dropships dropping troops onto the objectives. And the walls racked up fewer kill streaks.
So yea, I'm super excited for this one, it's looking great. I only played a little bit of Planetside 1 since I joined far past the prime (2009-ish) but what I did play was pretty fun. Looking forwards to getting back into a splatter MAX.


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Metabo LF724 Paint Remover
Metabo's LF 724 has four four-sided carbide blades: two on the bottom of the head (left) and two on the sides (right). The side blades are staggered high and low on the head and are normally hidden behind spring-loaded plastic doors.
To change the depth-of-cut, the author raises or lowers the head by locking the spindle and using a spanner wrench to turn a screw in the bottom of the tool.
It took multiple passes with the LF 724 to remove the thick paint buildup on this siding (left). The freshly planed surface is smooth but will require some sanding to remove the swirl marks left by the cutters (right).
A vacuum can be attached to the tool to collect fine dust, but many of the larger chips will escape and fall to the ground, where they can — and should — be collected on a drop cloth.
Last year one of my remodeling projects involved stripping the paint off a large area of wood siding. It was the perfect job for trying out Metabo's LF 724 Paint Remover — because I really didn't want to do the work with a heat gun and a scraper.
The tool I tested was the second-generation model of a product that came out in the 1990s. Designed to remove paint and other finishes from flat wood surfaces, it consists of a motor, an aluminum base, and a cutter head that contains carbide blades — two on the bottom and two on the sides. To use the tool, you place it against the surface and move it around while the blades plane off the finish.
Metabo LF 724 Specs
Weight (including cord): 6.6 pounds
Speed: 10,000 rpm
Motor: 6 amps
Cord length: 13.5 feet
Street price: $379
Blades: 10 for $40
Operation and Features
You can adjust the bottom blades' depth-of-cut by locking the spindle and using a spanner wrench to turn a screw on the tool's head. An arrow — also on the head — points to a scale that indicates how deep the blades will cut. The blades can be set to cut between 0 and .3 mm deep — about three times the thickness of a dollar bill.
For this particular job, we had to remove six to eight layers of oil and latex paint from redwood siding, some of which was cupped. It was more material than the tool could remove in a single pass, so we made multiple passes at the deepest setting and then, when we got down to the wood, reset the drum for a shallower final cut.
The tool worked best when we moved it back and forth as if it were an orbital sander. The blades planed cleanly but left swirl marks that had to be sanded with medium-grit paper.
According to Metabo, the LF 724 removes paint 70 percent faster than other methods. Although I can't vouch for that number, I can say that the tool removes paint much faster than you can remove it by heating and scraping — and there's no need to constantly clean and sharpen a scraper.
Dust collection. By connecting a powerful vac to the hose adapter at the rear of the tool's base, we were able to collect virtually all the fine dust created during the paint's removal. Many of the larger chips escaped, but they were heavy enough to simply fall to the ground, where we could collect them on drop cloths. Even though there was almost no dust in the air, I wore a mask. I didn't want to breathe any lead.
If I owned this tool, I'd buy a smaller, lighter hose than the one I normally use with my vac. My hose threw the tool out of balance and occasionally got in the way.
The hose adaptor accepts a standard 1 1/4-inch hose fitting.
Side cutters. The two side blades are staggered high and low on opposite edges of the cutter head, allowing you to cut a 1-inch strip along the inside of a corner. I didn't like the side cutters: We never needed them, and the doors that cover them are flimsy. It was only a few weeks before one of the three doors broke off, leaving a spinning blade exposed along the side of the tool.
Blades. I used to own a rotary stripper that took abrasive disks; they worked fine on oil but quickly gummed up on latex. The Metabo, by contrast, works well on all kinds of paint.
The carbide blades are four-sided, which means that when an edge gets dull you can switch to a new one. We removed about 250 square feet of paint and had to flip the blades only once. They would have lasted even longer if we hadn't run over nails we'd missed setting before we stripped paint. Hitting these nails chipped — but didn't break — the blades.
Bottom Line
Using the LF 724 is much faster than heating and scraping. The tool is powerful and — except for the flimsy doors over the side cutters — well-made. And it does a good job collecting fine dust (though not large chips). For those reasons, I've decided that the next time I'm faced with having to strip a lot of paint from a flat surface, I'll probably go out and buy one of my own.
Roberto Ramirez is a remodeler in Moraga, Calif.
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Believe it or not, PowerPoint.
I know you may laugh, and I definitely did at first, but there are a lot of great things about PowerPoint that make it a good prototype tool.
You can get add-on tools like this to make it look better.
For me hands down it is Balsamiq I love it for a number of reasons.
SketchFlow in Blend is a neat idea:
The main problem with it is that it's not purely visual drag-and-drop like Balsamiq, PowerPoint prototype tools or other visual tools, so you need to know at least the basics of Blend/XAML.
I'm a big fan of MS Paint. I like that the poor quality of the doodle makes it easy to throw away and start over. Having used more sophisticated diagramming and visualization tools, I found myself spending too much time trying to figure out how to represent a complex idea when the idea itself should have been simple enough to sketch.
I think it's the same dynamic as a napkin - just getting a rough glyph of the idea is enough to set things in motion. For me, I don't want to touch a diagramming tool until the diagrams are already well thought out.
But may be just me and my strange ways.
Probably depends on what platform you're going to build the app with (A web app? Desktop? C++? Java?), but I usually go directly from paper to the actual platform. Benefits: looks like the real thing because it is, and after you've figured out how to lay out the GUI, just add the needed functionality, and your app is done.
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Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, Poetry as not, with singing
Launch Date: April 16, 2015
Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi have been working together since they met in 1998 while enrolled in art school at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. While Mauss and Okiishi maintain individual artistic practices, they often cocurate exhibitions.
Iñaki Bonillas, Words and Photos
Launch Date: June 12, 2014
Taking the digitized J.R. Plaza archive as a point of departure for this new commission, Bonillas creates an extensive index of associated words that "mirrors" the image database. The relation between these two levels unfolds as the visitor explores the possibilities of matching text and image. Starting with a set of about 400 core images, the work will progressively expand until the entire archive (approximately 3,800 images) is mapped out.
Daniel Lefcourt, Modeler
Launch Date: October 3, 2013
Commissioned by Dia, Daniel Lefcourt's web project, Modeler, focuses on systems of signs and interferences. The starting point is a grid composed of grayscale stock images of industrial objects and spaces, a seemingly infinite dataset suggestive of what Lefcourt deems "The pleasure of sameness and repetition." Extending from his current body of work, which emphasizes observation and detail, Modeler invites the visitor to investigate the complex nature of virtual perception.
Laylah Ali, John Brown Song!
Launch Date: June 20, 2013
As evinced in her darkly suggestive gouache-on-paper paintings, Laylah Ali's work often engages with questions of oppression, heroism, and emancipation. With undeniable wit, Ali crafts visceral narratives that evoke culturally and historically referential moments. For her Dia commission, Ali gives focus to the radical abolitionist John Brown by composing a portrait of associations to consider the contemporary impact of this complex and elusive historical figure.
Shannon Ebner, Language Is Wild
Launch Date: April 12, 2012
Dia has invited Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner to develop an original project that will be hosted on Dia's website. Ebner is most frequently identified with photography-based works that mine the meaning and form of language.
Sue Tompkins, My Kind Book
Launch Date: December, 2011
In My Kind Book, Tompkins will put the energy and playfulness of her signature performances in the hands of visitors by sharing her writings as a web-based book with audio that will be triggered by the audience's exploration of the text.
Cecilia Edefalk, 24-Hour Venus
Launch Date: September 21, 2010
For this project, Stockholm-based artist Cecilia Edefalk photographed an outdoor scene at Västeraspa, near Stjärnholm, Sweden, over a full day near the summer solstice. This series of images will be turned into a time-lapse for visitors to interact with to see how light alters the landscape, giving different dimensions to the scenery.
Lisi Raskin, Warning Warum
Launch Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
Enter target address, select weapon, accept, fire shot, wait.
Dorit Margreiter: alphabeth
Launch Date: 5/19/09
Dorit Margreiter presents two animations utilizing her zentrum typeface, which she designed in 2005 based on the signage of Bruehlzentrum, a modernist housing project in Leipzig. One will feature the letters of the alphabet broken down into their modular pieces, the other will channel information from Dia's press office, transforming it from information into something more abstract.
Liliana Porter: Rehearsal
Launch Date: 11/6/08
For Liliana Porter's first web-based project, a chorus of chicks sing "La donna è mobile" from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
Barbara Bloom: Half Full — Half Empty
Launch Date: 6/26/08
Barbara Bloom presents a video still life that does not remain still. On a table are a gift, book, keys, paper, grapes, candle, wine glasses. These objects have movement without any visible agent. One can switch between three parallel running versions of a conversation between a male and female voice in the present, future, or past.
Rosa Barba: Vertiginous Mapping
Launch Date: 5/29/08
In "Vertiginous Mapping", Barba presents a collection of film, images, texts, and audio that she compiled and created about a fictional country, Forgotten, whose story is woven together and presented via five locations.
Ezra Johnson: Wrestling with the Blob Beast
Launch Date: 4/17/08
Ezra Johnson presents a collection of screensavers. Animated explorations of painting, Johnson's works range in theme from romantic landscapes or figurative vignettes to meditations on color relationships.
Wilfredo Prieto: A Moment of Silence
Launch Date: 6/30/07
For his first web-based project, Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto invites visitors to participate in a moment of silence.
Maja Bajevic: I Wish I Was Born in a Hollywood Movie
Launch Date: 3/30/06
Maja Bajevic's I Wish I was Born in a Hollywood Movie presents images of locations reminiscent of cinema noir -- melancholic and bleak, yet compelling. Bajevic set out to contemplate the impact of the "dream machine" by weaving together this collection of scenes that serve as real-world counterpoints to Hollywood's glamorized representations of life.
Dorothy Cross: FOXGLOVE: digitalis purpurea
Launch Date: 12/5/05
For her first web-based artwork, Irish artist Dorothy Cross considers the condition of altered vision— seeing in blue and white— that can be a side-effect of the drug digitalis, which is derived from the wild foxglove flower found commonly in Ireland and Europe.
Ana Torfs: Approximations/Contradictions
Launch Date: 12/2/04
For Approximations/Contradictions, Belgian artist Ana Torfs focuses on the Hollywood Songbook, a collection of very brief, powerful songs written by the German-Austrian composer Hanns Eisler in 1942 and 1943 while he was in exile in California. She elicited powerful performances from a group of very talented, diverse people singing the songs, and weaves them together into something entertaining and beautiful yet deeply disturbing and compelling.
Allen Ruppersberg: The New Five-Foot Shelf
Launch Date: 3/30/04
Allen Ruppersberg's The New Five-Foot Shelf offers visitors fifty volumes of texts compiled during two decades of artistic practice accompanied by images of the physical contents of the studio he occupied for fifteen years. The original Harvard Five-Foot Shelf proffered readers early in the last century the "equivalent of a Harvard education." Ruppersberg's version is similarly encyclopedic incompass, but personal and poetic in nature.
Marijke van Warmerdam: And then the chimney smokes
Launch Date: 10/30/03
Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam's first project for the web is centered around a short film that uses the motif of a house as a vehicle to chart the potential of drawing to conjure the world. And then the chimney smokes offers the visitor a uniquely numbered edition of the film to download for burning to CD, and an accompanying CD cover to print and assemble.
Glenn Ligon: Annotations
Launch Date: 3/30/03
For his first web-based project, Ligon brings an interest in questions of juxtaposition, collage, and the accidental to his ongoing practice of exploring issues of historical memory and the construction of race. Annotations explores the format, conventions, hidden histories, and serendipities found in the family photo album.
Olia Liliana and Dragan Espenschied: Zombie + Mummy
Launch Date: 10/31/02
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied collaborate for this series of weekly comic strips, available on Dia's website and for download to a personal digital assistant (PDA), that chronicles the adventures of the title characters.
Jeanne Dunning: Tom Thumb: Notes Towards A Case History
Launch Date: 5/16/02
In her first web-based project, Jeanne Dunning follows the adventures of Tom Thumb as he travels between the inside and the outside of the body. Tom is swallowed by a cow, a fish, and a wolf, feeds himself through a hole leading directly to his stomach, and reaches his hand inside the stomach of another.
James Buckhouse in collaboration with Holly Brubach: Tap
Launch Date: 3/1/02
For Tap, James Buckhouse and Holly Brubach offer animated characters for your handheld device that learn to tap dance. A dancer will practice, make mistakes and eventually master a series of sixteen moves, which can be recombined and exchanged to create virtually limitless choreography.
Shimabuku: Moon Rabbit
Launch Date: 10/11/01
The core of Moon Rabbit is a screensaver that presents exaggerated depictions of figures imagined on the surface of the moon -- a rabbit, a face, a donkey, a crab, a frog with a rabbit. While gradually shifting between these interpretations, the image of the moon slowly increases and then decreases in size in reference to theories that postulate the moon was once very close to Earth.
Feng Mengbo: Phantom Tales
Launch Date: 6/14/01
Feng Mengbo has created three animations for Phantom Tales: One Silver Dollar, Three Bloody Stones, and The Technology of Slide Shows, each approximately five minues in length. The Beijing-based artist, whose early childhood coincided with the height of the Cultural Revolution, chose to examine two widely popular picture books from his childhood. The third component illustrates technologies espoused by the People's Liberation Army for creating animation effects using slides.
David Claerbout: Present
Launch Date: 11/9/00
For Present, his first computer-based work, David Claerbout offers viewers the choice of three flowers, an amaryllis, gerbera, or red rose, to implant on their computers for approximately one week. With its progression from bloom to decay, and eventual disappearance, the flower manifests the rhythms of a natural lifecycle in a virtual environment where time normally lacks organic reference.
Stephen Vitiello: Tetrasomia
Launch Date: 9/14/00
Stephen Vitiello's first solo project for the web, Tetrasomia presents intriguing web-based archives of sounds from the natural and physical world, including such sounds as a fruit fly courtship, an underwater volcano, and poison frogs, as the source for an interactive sound project. Tetrasomia also features four new sound compositions by Vitiello: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
Gary Simmons: Wake
Launch Date: 2/16/00
For Wake, his first project for the web, Gary Simmons has photographed empty ballrooms and other dance spaces redolent of an earlier era. As the viewer moves the mouse over the screen, image fragments appear then quickly fade, making it impossible to view any of his nine haunting scenes in its entirety and at one time. Mediated by a soundtrack comprised of the humming of old but well-known songs that are still popular favorites, these sites seem generated as much by involuntary memory as by tech
Francis Alys: The Thief
Launch Date: 3/11/99
For his first project for the web, Alÿs has created an animation, available as a screensaver, as his response to the computer, the network, and the ubiquitous Windows metaphor. The process by which he came to this emblematic clip has been documented in a series of short arguments where Alys investigates the parallels between contemporary interface design and "Alberti's Window," a method of linear perspective drawing encoded and canonized during the early Renaissance through Leon Battista Albert
Arturo Herrera: Almost Home
Launch Date: 11/19/98
Arturo Herrera's work is known for its exploration of our psychological relationship to narrative. For his first project for the web he created a series of 100 collages which are presented as an interactive diptych. The collages, some of which are animated, combine cartoon imagery with other formal elements, creating playful and surprising juxtapositions and associations.
Diller + Scofidio: Refresh
Launch Date: 10/1/98
For their first art work for the web, Diller + Scofidio have created a project centered around a dozen live office webcams from around the world. For each location they fabricated a narrative in text and imagery to create an investigation which reflects on the effects of live video on everyday life.
Kristin Lucas: Between a Rock and a Hard Drive
Launch Date: 8/13/98
For her project for Dia's site, Lucas created a series of waiting rooms for the internet. For anyone who has experienced chat, this "lullaby for the indiscriminate," as the artist calls it, will ring with familiarity, albeit it a strange one.
Claude Closky: Do you want love or lust?
Launch Date: 12/11/97
Claude Closky presents thousands of questions taken from popular magazines quizzes, ads, and billboards. While sometimes superficial or absurd, they entertain and enlighten while suggesting the inconclusive and futile tenor of the questions we are confronted with daily.
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Prometheus Bound
Launch Date: 9/18/97
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), have created a series of "dialogues" which weave together excerpts from Aeschylus' play, studio discussions, and outside commentary. The outcome is pages or "scrolls" which are works of art that, as with all of their work, has been produced collectively.
Cheryl Donegan: Studio Visit
Launch Date: 3/20/97
Cheryl Donegan, an artist who works with painting and video, took as her starting point a mainstay of art practice, the studio visit. In Studio Visit, Donegan put together a visually rich and playful interface constructed from imagery she has utilized in her work.
Molissa Fenley: Latitudes
Launch Date: 11/14/96
A choreographer since 1975, Molissa Fenley's work is marked by a highly personal movement vocabulary, inspired in part by ancient and southeast Asian sculptural artifacts. In Latitudes, choreographed specifically for Dia's website, Fenley explores these sources of inspiration in concert with a detailed examination of a suite of movements.
Susan Hiller: Dream Screens
Launch Date: 7/3/96
Susan Hiller, an American-born artist living in London, is widely known for works that explore through a variety of media the margins of consciousness. In this project, created especially for Dia's website, Hiller maps her long-standing interest in dream states onto the nebulous realm of the web using interactive colorfields and a soundtrack in six languages.
Komar + Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings
Launch Date: 9/5/95
This project, created by the dissident Russian artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, attempts to discover what a true "people's" art would look like. Through a professional marketing firm, a survey was conducted to determine what Americans prefer in a painting; the results were used to create the painting America's Most Wanted.
Tony Oursler, Constance DeJong, Stephen Vitiello: Fantastic Prayers
Launch Date: 3/31/95
Fantastic Prayers premiered as Dia's first artists' project on the world wide web. This web project, by writer Constance DeJong, artist Tony Oursler, and musician/composer Stephen Vitiello, describes a kind of urban landscape, which is inscribed with memories of lives lived, objects possessed or discarded, and places inhabited.


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Eye on the Environment
Changing the way we see and manage resources
By David Goldstein 07/25/2013
What is in a word?
Some recycling advocates hate the word "waste." They might tolerate the word if its use is limited to the verb form, meaning "to use, consume, or expend thoughtlessly …" (American Heritage Dictionary), but don't tell them the cart in front of your house is full of "waste." Instead, your discards are "resources," and any effort to manage these potential commodities should focus on recovery.
Following this line of thought, a few years ago the California Integrated Waste Management Board was abolished and its programs transferred to the new California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). Similarly, the city of Oxnard's Solid Waste Division became the Environmental Resources Division.
While this linguistic shift may be useful for changing the way we all think about the materials we throw away, it can sometimes confuse the public. Anyone walking into the Ventura County Government Center for an issue related to garbage wants to quickly identify where to go. Consequently, the public agency I work for is called the Ventura County Integrated Waste Management Division.
Nevertheless, when people come into the office to submit recycling plans needed for approval of construction or demolition permits, these plans must be completed on a form listing items such as cardboard, drywall, wood and metal. There is not a heading on this form for "waste." When we think about what we are wasting, we should keep in mind that waste is just resources not yet recovered.
Local conversion technology projects may change waste, energy
In official renderings of its name, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, mentioned above, does not separate the words "resources" and "recycling" with a comma. It seems to be listing two environmentally beneficial options as the alternatives for waste management.
That vision of the future, where resources are either recycled or recovered in another way, may be coming a step closer to current reality in Ventura County, as conversion technology projects are planned. Conversion technologies have the potential to turn many of our unrecyclable discards into products or energy. Unlike incineration, which uses fire to reduce garbage to ash and has often been conducted without significant energy recovery, conversion is a non-burn set of options, including gasification, pyrolysis, distillation and anaerobic digestion.
On Aug. 8, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Del Norte Regional Recycling and Transfer Station in Oxnard, local public and private sector managers of waste will gather to review the status of many of these projects. The public is invited.
Focusing on recycling
Until our materials-consuming-based economy converts into a harmonious system fueled by resource recovery, we need to focus on conventional recycling. In some ways, we are doing great. Recycling programs are widely available for the most easily recycled materials.
These recycling programs, however, are not always used. For example, according to the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), the national recycling rate for beer and soda bottles is just 41 percent. Even worse, GPI estimates national wine bottle recycling at just 34 percent.
Fortunately, some public policy measures can make a difference. For example, here in California, we have a "bottle bill," and the recycling rate for glass bottles covered by the "California redemption value" system is 84 percent, according to CalRecycle.
Although California's 84 percent recovery rate may be inflated by some bottles receiving payments even though they did not pay into the system, there is no doubt that bottle bills boost recycling. The difference between beer bottles and wine bottles can be attributed mostly to bottle bills. You can sell any empty beer bottle to a local recycling center for 5 cents (or 10 cents for bottles of more than 24 ounces), but most recyclers will not pay you anything for wine bottles.
Not overdoing it
The answer to boosting recycling is not simply to put more of everything into recycling containers. Bill Sorokes, the plant manager for Strategic Materials, where Ventura County's glass is prepared for recycling, says, "Leave out the Pyrex, ceramic, light bulbs, leaded glass and other nonrecyclable glass." Strategic Materials has automated systems to remove most contamination, but when glass with different melting temperatures gets through the system and ends up in the molten glass formed into new bottles, those new bottles are weak and can explode on the filling line of bottlers shooting liquid into the glass.
Recycling right is important for the environment and the economy. Making glass from recycled glass cuts energy consumption and air pollution while creating 36 times more jobs than making glass from raw materials, according to a 2011 report by the Container Recycling Institute.
Keep your eye on the environment for big upcoming changes to resource management, and in the meantime, recycle right.
Eye on the Environment is a public service of the Ventura County Public Works Agency.
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Commenting on the same interview with Justice Scalia to which Molly draws our attention below, David Carr in today's NY Times discusses how people today tend to self-select the information and commentary to which they wish to subject themselves. Some quotes:
The polarized political map is now accompanied by a media ecosystem that is equally gerrymandered into districts of self-reinforcing discourse. Justice Scalia and millions of news consumers select and assemble a worldview from sources that may please them, but rarely challenge them. ...
Data from Pew Research Center for the People and the Press on trends in news consumption released last year suggests people are assembling along separate media streams where they find mostly what they want to hear, and little else. Fully 78 percent of Sean Hannity's audience on Fox News identified as conservative, with most of the rest of the audience identifying as moderate and just 5 present as liberal. Over on MSNBC, conservatives make up just 7 percent of Rachel Maddow's audience.
It isn't just politicians that are feeding their bases, it is the media outlets, as well. The village common — you know, that place where we all meet to discuss our problems, relying on the same set of facts — has shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, surrounded by the huge gated communities of like minds who never venture into the great beyond.
But if you look past cable, talk radio and traditional media, there is another layer of self-reinforcing messages that may be having an impact. As Eli Pariser described in "The Filter Bubble," search companies rely on algorithms to predict what users want to see based on past clicks, meaning that users are moved farther away from information streams that don't fit their ideological bent. ...
To take that one step further, think of your Facebook feed or your Twitter account, if you have either. When you pick people to follow, do you select from all over the map, or mostly from among those whose views on culture and politics tend to align with your own? Thought so.
Unless you make a conscious effort to diversify your feeds, what you see in your social media stream is often a reflection, even amplification, of what you already believe. It's a choir that preaches to itself.
I think a similar self-selection also occurs with regard to Church-matters.
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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Truly an irony. At the time of the Second Vatican Council, there was a view that with increased modes of travel and exposure to other cultures and perspectives, it would not be possible to retreat into Catholic ghettos. This meant we had to engage and understand the broader world outside of Catholic enclaves.
When the internet came to be widely used, there was great optimism that we would be wired to the world and would interact with a wide variety of people.
The polar opposite has happened. We have never been more global or had access to global trends, ideas, images and people. And yet, at the same time, people can now increasingly self select media, associations and the public square is diminishing and becoming less and less evident.
The future will be (or is), at best, a kind of association of various groups and interests who come together for a specific purpose and there may be occasionally appeal to global or national interests. But increasingly, it seems, all of us will retreat to our comfortable enclaves.
Because we have no right to be wrong about some things, I think it's incumbent on us to overcome what the moral theologians used to call "vincible ingnorance". (Do RCIA courses and high school religion classes still go into that notion and what it means for our consciences?) The problem is to find the most rational among our opponents.
I find that Rod Dreher and David Frum are the two most reasonable Republican writers, though Frum has quit his blog. Dreher tries to give both sides and refers his readers to both his colleages and opponents on the net. And his blog has both conservatives and liberals commenting. Yesterday I was happy to discover that Nate Silver's 538 blog has returned. He does try to be fair, and his thinking is so, so brilliant. No to mention his data.
I've never known a great deal about poltical philosophy, and I don't know any theorists worth reading these days who is good both good at theorizing and good at applying his/her theory. No James Madison or Thomas Jefferson or Hannah Arendt anywhere in sight. Jacques Maritain did have a good bit to say, but he's been dead for 40 plus years. And JOhn Courtney Murray is long gone too. Sigh.
David Carr seems to be talking largely about the "echo chamber" effect, but I wonder to what extent it's worse than in days of yore. It would be interesting to know how many liberals Buckley's National Review back in the 1960s or 1970s. Or how many conservatives read The Nation.
The suggestion that people do the same thing with Church matters is interesting. I'd be interested to know more about things you've observed that indicate this is going on. Do you think it's worse than it used to be? And what's the effect on the Church?
(Students have been discussing the echo chamber in my class lately--about politics, or at least certain political policies--so it would be interesting to hear more about this.)
Sorry: ... how many liberals READ Buckley's ...
Jean --
I'd say that in the Church up until the 50's you wouldn't find "liberal" and "conservative" Cathois because in those days it was generally considered sinful to disagree with "the Church" (i.e., the Vatican) about dogma. In the 50's, I'd say with the advent of the pill, Catholics started to voice their opposition to the contraceptive teaching, and dissent has mushroomed ever since.
One problem with that, I think, is that we were taught that all doubt was a sin -- it has only been with Benedict (yes, Benedict, not Francis) that even admitting problems with "the Faith" has been recognized as part of mature faith journeys. But there are still many, many older people ("conservatives") who still strongly believe that to question/doubt/dissent is in every case to sin, and so they think that all disagreement with Rome is a blow to the foundations of the Church and a serious sin. (I think the whole question of questioning/doubt/dissent/heresy has to be reconsidered. But even Francis might not allow that.)
Of course there were liberal and conservative Catholics before the 1950s. For anyone unfamiliar with the 19th and early 20th centuries, Jay P. Dolan's The American Catholic Experience is a good introduction.
Some search terms: (Archbishop) Ireland, Mundelein, liberals, conservatives, secret societies, McQuaid, Spalding, Keane, Hecker, etc., etc., etc.
"The future will be (or is), at best, a kind of association of various groups and interests who come together for a specific purpose and there may be occasionally appeal to global or national interests. But increasingly, it seems, all of us will retreat to our comfortable enclaves."
If I may be quasi-surly, so what? I don't want noxious philosphical/religious propaganda wafting into my peaceful and serene domicile. If I decide to investigate, say, Islamic writings - the Koran and it's most popular hadith - I will do so on my own terms, quietly in my rooms without having to listen to demented imams raving about islamophobia, or liberal commentators telling me yet again that Islam is the religion of peace...
And why would I want to watch that poor Maddow woman earnestly demanding that conservatives just shut up, or go away, or just disappear, or whatever she believes will pacify her churning and troubled heart...
And why (I know, I'm going on and on...and on) would I want to question my Christian beliefs in order to satisfy liberal Catholics who think that doubting one's beliefs is the way to the great marmalade skies, the great land of Oz, the great...whatever.
I'll take my serenity over your questions and doubts any day of the week.
Gerelyn --
Of course there were academics and people with special interests who could be called liberal or conservative about some matters, but by and large the people in the pews didn't disagree with Mother Church, or, if they did, they didn't say so publicly unless they had "lost their Faith". It was a bit different here in south Louisiana where there was some typically French anti-clericalism , but even here people typiccally didn't air their misgivings about the dogmas, if they had any, until the pill appeared in the mid-50's.
Even when I was at Catholic U. in the 50's and knew people from all over the country, the words "liberal" and "conservative" just ween't part of people's everyday vocabulary. They weren't needed/
Do you think a lot of people are just afraid of people who think/look/act differently than they do?
Before looking at the Commonweal blogs this morning, I opened my email. And found a 45-page mishmash about the Common Core curriculum and attached prayer cards for urging the Blessed Mother and the Little Flower to work on killing it. We get a lot of things from right-to-lifers. (What has Common Core to do with right-to-life? It is the Communist-Bill Ayers-ACORN-junk science nexus, of course.) Anyway, this mishmash is by a person who lists no affiliations or qualifications, although she produces 60-something footnotes. Among her assertions is that Horace Mann was brainwashed in Leipzig with Marxism five years before Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Now, Common Core is not one of the great hidden mysteries of 2013. The newspapers have been full of it. But the folks who spread this "research report" don't read the newspaper and wouldn't believe it if they did. So how can I allay their fears of the communist takeover of Catholic schools? (Which, by the way, is almost complete.)
I have my own problems with Common Core, but there's no sense discussing them with its most fervent opponents because I'd wind up as loony as they are. I don't even want to be in the same hearing room with them.
Jean Raber, during the 1960s I did have simultaneous subscriptions to National Review and The Nation. Both of them became predictable, so I don't subscribe anymore. In the '60s both were interpreting the same facts. Now, not so much. I peek on-line.
I don't think the divide is quite as bad within the church on strictly Catholic matters. The pastor is still allowed to lead. (Although the folks who sent this morning's email think our pastor doesn't talk about abortion often enough, which, to them, would be every Sunday.) Bible study classes around here accommodate fundamentalists and those who can see no way the beloved disciple could have written Revelation, and everyone seems to get along cheerily.
Carr misses something basic. The mainstream media, which self-identifies as overwhelmingly left of center, ensures that everyone hears the liberal point of view. Only those who seek out the conservative point of view get to hear it. I think that's why those on the far left so often resort to name-calling ("troll" seems to be the latest fashion) and such when they try to engage in debate. When their views are credibly challenged, they simply have no reservoir of facts or ideas to draw on to support their view. They simply refuse to believe that others can be so stupid as to need to have "what everyone already knows to be true" explained to them.
I think this happens to a lesser extent on church matters. There, I think the bigger problem is that too many people don't hear any view.
"I'd say that in the Church up until the 50's you wouldn't find "liberal" and "conservative" Cathois . . ."
"Even when I was at Catholic U. in the 50's and knew people from all over the country, the words "liberal" and "conservative" just ween't part of people's everyday vocabulary. They weren't needed/ . . ."
It's a mistake to attempt to extrapolate from your own experiences/notions. And it's disrespectful to the memory of American Catholics who were proudly and passionately liberal or conservative.
Again I suggest Jay P. Dolan. Try search terms like "parochial schools," "slavery," "labor," "Maurice J. Dorney," etc., etc.
John T. McGreevy (who writes for Commonweal and blogs here) is another great scholar whose books could enlighten you.
"[McGreevy] has written the best intellectual history of the Catholic Church in America."—Commonweal
Try search terms like "liberal," "conservative," "reformers," "Chicago," etc., etc., etc.
Commonweal and Catholic New York both come to our mail box. Which one is more carefully read? Why?
"Among her assertions is that Horace Mann was brainwashed in Leipzig with Marxism five years before Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto."
Wonderful! it reminds me of a website I came across a few years ago denouncing the Papist Church, and giving as evidence the "fact" that Stalin had once been a student in a Jesuit seminary in Georgia.
And before Wikipedia began to crack down on the more obvious hoaxes, I remember reading an article there pointing out that Thomas Jefferson's ancestors (or was it James Madison's?) had emigrated to North America from New Zealand. But that was obviously just someone trying to see how much he (or she) could get away with.
I think many, if not most, people tend to follow their leaders or party when it comes to basic policy directions. I include myself in this. It is just not possible to understand the details and minutia of every issue. And there are usually at least three sides to any given issue.
But I am a harmony guy. I tend to be fairly leftist when it comes to economic matters. My siblings in the US are totally right wing Republicans. So when I am there I watch Fox News, etc. And driving with them have to listen to Patriot radio and I do learn things but some people do get on my nerves. Sean Hannity - enough already but Mark Levin I am laughing out loud. He has a sharp wit and some good ideas.
I was always impressed with Van Jones and make it a point to listen to him when he is on. He seems like a man of the left but a good heart and listener.
To me, the issue is public and civil virtue. I am not a fan of the "take no prisoners" approach in so much of modern politics. I much prefer the Chinese notion of trying, as much as possible, to have solutions that allow all parties to "save face".
I think we should follow St. Ignatius saying that is repeated in the catechism of the Church
Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another's statement than to condemn it. But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it. And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love. If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved
If we, as Christians, were able to actually do this, then we would truly be seen as different and as salt and light.
N. Gregory Mankiw has another POV related to political self-gerrymandering in the NYT today. A Republican who teaches at Harvard, Mankiw extolls the virtues of seeing both sides of an issue.
Wonder if there are applications to self-gerrymandering and religious matters. Or whether, in trying to see both sides of church matters, you simply become a confused, doubtful, and, ultimately, a non-practicing Catholic.
"Commonweal and Catholic New York both come to our mail box. Which one is more carefully read? Why?"
Well, I tried to figure it out. Both are mostly by men about men for men.
(The CNS video at CNY about St. Therese's writing relics called her pen a "fountain pen," which it isn't, but sloppy editing wouldn't account for your preference, would it?)
I think a similar self-selection also occurs with regard to Church-matters.
But most Catholics do not select not to listen to the pope, so he provides the common ground, the voice that all will listen to if not necessarily agree with.
Commonweal and First Things both come to our mailbox.
Both are carefully read (and occasional letters written to both :-)!)
See the articles by Cavadini and Huetter in their current issues for the reason why.
I think a similar self-selection also occurs with regard to Church-matters.
Then there is the problem of being in contact with only a biased sample, in spite of one's efforts. I try to be in contact with a diverse set of Catholics who have a broad range of opinions on Church-matters, yet I don't know anyone who puts Humanae Vitae into practice. One can find them on the internet, but in real life they are as rare as the white unicorn. Is that a sign that I am in contact with a non-representative set of people? Or is it a giant internet hoax, and is there in real life not a single person who applies Humanae Vitae to their sex life? How do you know whether the people you know form a good sample of contemporary Catholic sensibilities?
I confess to self-gerrymandering myself right out of the Catholic church. I am not an "official" Episcopalian but I have gone to mass on Sundays in an Episcopal church for the last five years because I was so tired of the attacks on "progressive" Catholics, the continued insistence on keeping women "second-class" citizens of the church and blaming it on Jesus instead of patriarchy, and because of the "leadership" who refused to hold accountable the bishops who enabled priests to move from parish to parish and molest kids. I was worn down and found some peace in the Episcopal church, in spite of their own internal problems, which, fortunately, have settled down now that the most unhappy 10% have left. The rise in the "nones" should not be a surprise. It is a logical consequence of the turmoil in the churches that so mirrors that in the secular society. Maybe some of the self-selected gerrymandering is actually a survival mechanism for those weary of the arguments, especially in the church and in politics.
Claire, you wrote:
"But most Catholics do not select not to listen to the pope, so he provides the common ground, the voice that all will listen to if not necessarily agree with."
Even when I was still a very active and involved member of the Catholic church I knew very few Catholics who paid even the slightest attention to what the pope said unless it grabbed headlines in the secular media or was on the nightly news. Very few Catholics read Catholic publications, or websites or even the (usually heavily censored) diocesan newspapers, much less books, "popular" or academic. Fighting through the dense prose of someone like Benedict does not interest most Catholics who did not bother to read his encyclicals. The readership of academic journals of theology, ecclesiology, biblical history etc seldom includes anyone beyond professionals (mostly academics) in the field - they are not read by many in the laity. The total circulation even for publications targeted to the non-professional such as America, Commonweal, First Things, the two NCRs etc is in the tens of thousands. Nominally, there are more than 60 million Catholics in the US. Most Catholics pay less attention to what the pope says than to what Bono says. This may be changing with Francis, though, because it seems a whole lot of the world, Catholic and not, are listening to what he has to say - for now, anyway.
I stopped listening to the last pope. He did not provide much common ground, relentlessly going after progressive theologians, priests and religious sisters who dared "dissent" from the official Roman line and silencing them, even excommunicating a few. And for many, all of the ivory tower academic theology he is famous for meant nothing because he could not act on simple black and white morality and remove the worst offenders among the bishops. Instead he removed a bishop who suggested dropping mandatory celibacy and revisiting the subject of opening the door to the seventh sacrament to all Catholics. Money mattered too - he removed several bishops because of financial impropriety. But he never removed bishops who enabled priests to molest kids. Why listen to such a man? Academic theology is fun for the intellectuals in the church, but when it came to "real" life, he failed miserably in the minds of millions of ordinary Catholics.
I am still vested in what happens in the Catholic church which is why I still read Commonweal, America etc. I am listening to this pope. But not every pope provides common ground and a voice that all will listen to. Even the few who start out listening may eventually be so disillusioned that they stop paying attention to someone who to them is pretty much only a distant figurehead sitting on a throne in a foreign country anyway. I stopped listening to John Paul II after his sucker punch in the gut to women in the form of his letter claiming that it is God's will that women be subservient to men - to be passive while men are active daring to call this updated version of ancient patriarchy "complementarity".
Claire, maybe the reason so few follow Humanae Vitae is because it does not represent the sensus fidelium. The (all male celibates) have ignored Newman's counsel to "consult the faithful on matters of doctrine". It's a settled issue for the vast majority of Catholics and few pay the slightest attention to 'official" teaching on this. You will find few adherants in "real" life because very few Catholics follow this teaching if they have other choices (for example, assuming they have access to modern contraception which many do not in the third world). Most of those who live the sacrament of marriage (unlike the male celibates who devised it) understand how false a teaching it is. And I have had to suppress smiles when the one or two that I have known who claimed to follow HV mentioned that "unfortunately" they "had" to go on the pill because of an irregular cycle or other "female" problems.
I have met one or two couples in real life who practice NFP in accord with Church teaching and they believed that it enhanced their relationship and furthered their intimacy. This was in marriage prep. many years ago. Now, there was not a big emphasis on it and it was presented as an option. I assume that others who were teaching did not adhere in the same way but they did not share their experience.
I met two other as well though but interestingly they were not Catholic but more on the Wiccan, new agey, spiritualist, organic farming side of the spectrum. They were ideologically opposed to pharmaceuticals and the dangers they might have. So, yes, they did practice NFP with their partners.
I think it is far better when church teaching is presented as proposals to consider based on experience and reflection.
On the point of self-gerrymandering in church matters. Frankly, I see it much more in the US than I do elsewhere. Maybe that is a reflection of the broader culture. But you don't need to have advanced degrees in social science to predict which political party, in the main, the following groups will likely vote for.
1. A parish with Latin mass, traditional devotions, and traditional liturgies.
2. A parish with a huge social justice emphasis, progressive styled liturgies, lots of lay participation as EHMC's etc.
I embrace the gerrymandering by seldom leaving San Francisco .. this way my Church, friends, relatives information, politics remain pure and getting toxic infections is rare.. (-: I watch regularly the conservative cable guys [no woman seems to be an authentic conservative] much like I watch the African safari travelogues, to be somewhat familiar with strange doings. SF is like living in Sweden with a multi-racial cast.
Ed, Oh, come on. There are Michele Malkin and Ann Coulter. And the other one with stringy blond hair. And Gretchen, the couch bouncer who now has a show of her own (something her male former sidekicks will never get). Just to name four. And Phylis Schafley still shows up for the big events. And Lynn Cheney will be a player when gets her residence straight. And what about Michele Bachmann and the divine Sarah? What are you talking about with "no woman"?
1. A parish with Latin mass, traditional devotions, and traditional liturgies.
2. A parish with a huge social justice emphasis, progressive styled liturgies, lots of lay participation as EHMC's etc.
George - I know you were making these as stereotypical as possible to make a point. But even so, I don't think the world of Catholics divides as neatly as we might think. The people of our parish probably would strike most folks here as a bit staid, conservative and certainly suburban, but we don't do Latin masses and we're not actually very strong on traditional devotions. We do have a pretty strong outreach to the poor, so on at least that part of social justice, I'm very proud of us. (But as I tell my wife, it is sort of a Republican outreach; the people in the ministry are not notably progressive in their overall outlook, and are known to counsel our clients to take greater personal responsibility). Our liturgies might strike some folks as a bit on the progressive side, particularly the music, which intentionally leans to the new, the contemporary and the lively (without neglecting the classics). We have pretty strong pay participation in all the liturgical ministries. We push the envelope a very little bit in the sense that women will offer reflections a couple of times per year.
My sense is that this is all pretty mainstream. It's a large community (something like 3,000 registered families), so there is some diversity of outlook. Mostly, I think what we do here is what Catholics do, and we work at not veering too far to the left or right so as to ensure that people feel welcome and at home.
Sure there are women so called conservatives out there. but they need to walk around the block at least 5 times and get familiar with the neighborhood. And all being on the Fox payroll looks to me that they are really actors on a set.and there are too many are bottle blonds. Blond libs like Matthews and Redford were born that way.. it's really about genetics. .
In looking back at this conversation, It strikes me that it's really hard to get away from the "liberal"/"conservative" dichotomy when talking about the Church. Looking at Church matters through the lens of gerrymandering seems to demand that we maintain, voluntarily, some kind of distinction between ourselves and "the other" type of Catholic, no?
Big difference between the echo chamber of the world and poltiics and the "self-gerrymandering" to the teachings of Christ. If only we were all in the echo chamber of Christ, the one were living in His love meant obedience to the faith and fully living the faith, nothing else would matter. Sadly, the worldly self-gerrymandering merely reflects our own will, not God's.


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