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Documenting Kate Moss : fashion photography and the persistence of photojournalism
Hartley, John (2007) Documenting Kate Moss : fashion photography and the persistence of photojournalism. Journalism Studies, 8(4), pp. 555-565.
In the early 1990s a new image of British national identity emerged on the pages of The Face, Dazed and Confused and Vogue. Fashion and style photography created an aesthetic out of the lives of young Londoners and the places they lived in, including second-hand markets, the rave scene and shared flats. Corinne Day's seemingly private photo-diaries became the basis for her fashion magazine work. In these pictures she featured her friends, her flat, her sofa and fairy lights, and also a girl called Kate Moss who "didn't look very much like a model." For Day and other innovators, new ways of documenting contemporary reality were achieved through fashion and women's magazines, rather than by classic photojournalism.
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Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Keywords: | archives, citizen paparazzi, Corinne Day, fashion, Kate Moss, photojournalism, Picture Post |
Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING (190000) > JOURNALISM AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING (190300) |
Divisions: | Past > Research Centres > ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty |
Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 Taylor and Francis |
Copyright Statement: | First published in Journalism Studies 8(4):pp. 555-565. |
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Question: Why was your program's treatment of the period before the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki not intellectually honest enough to include references to the ethical opposition, notably on the part of Leo Szilard, to using the atomic bomb at all, and to the recommendation of a "committee of social and political implications" (three physicists, three chemists, and one biologist) that, in order to avoid "a wave of horror and repulsion sweeping over the rest of the world" that would "outweigh the saving of American lives" -- a demonstration of the new weapon be made "before the eyes of representatives of all the United Nations on the desert or a barren island." My quotations are from The Day Man Lost: Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, Tokyo: Pacific War Research Society, Kodansha Ltd., 1972. Conceivably, if any of you associated with producing the program had read and taken to heart Chris Hedges' trenchant discussion of nationalist distortions of truth (inWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning), you might have avoided the complacent chauvinism that ran through your treatment of one of the most hideous of all historic episodes. -R. C. S., Newton, Masssachusetts
Answered by Austin Hoyt:
The question we asked in producing "Victory" was "what happened and why" not "what might have happened." We looked at history the way the participants saw it at the time, not the way it might be viewed after the fact. Our treatment of Truman's decision making on the use of the atom bomb noted, in the words of Stanford historian Barton Bernstein, that there were "no sustained or serious doubts about using the bomb" on the part of Truman's advisors. Leo Szilard was not one of his advisors. There were scientists advising the Truman administration on the so called "Interim Committee", including Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project, and they did not share Leo Szilard's opposition to the use of the bomb.
The Interim Committee did consider the idea of a demonstration of the bomb and rejected it. They feared a demonstration would not be as effective a way to end the war as the actual use of the bomb. They were also concerned that if the demonstration bomb were a dud, it would embolden the Japanese resistance. Mr. Sterne, like many over the decades, may wish that the committee had recommended otherwise, but it did not.
Mr. Sterne feels that dropping the atomic bomb is "one of the most hideous historic episodes." It may well be, although the alternative to the bomb would likely have been starving a nation into surrender, something we explore in a supplemental feature on our DVD. It is not clear to me how mass starvation, which might have killed millions, would have ranked in the annals of "hideous historical episodes." What I found interesting in researching the bomb was that at the time it was considered a terrible weapon but a useable one. Only after the war did its use become such a morally charged issue. As I said our interest was to examine what happened and not what might have happened.
It is not clear to me what Mr. Sterne means by "complacent chauvinism" that pervades the program. We tried to represent fairly the mindset of both the Americans and the Japanese.
Question: Although it is often overlooked in debates on the justification of using nuclear weapons against Japan, the very first night of the firebombing of Tokyo caused more deaths than either of the nuclear attacks, as was correctly pointed out in the film. It seems likely to me that this precedent of massive civilian deaths must have made it easier for the Truman administration to approve the use of nuclear weapons, knowing that this would unavoidably kill large numbers of civilians. One could have rationalized, with some justification, that nuclear weapons were not fundamentally more destructive than the extensive use of conventional explosives, but that they were simply much easier to deliver to a target.
However, the film implied that the low-elevation napalm bombing was initiated because of the inability of the B-29 crews to hit industrial targets with conventional bombs dropped from an elevation of 30,000 feet. If that was the problem, why wasn't low-elevation, conventional bombing of those industrial targets the solution? There must have been a simultaneous shift in thinking that made civilians legitimate targets.
If so, shouldn't LeMay's firebombing campaign be considered a significant step in the decision to use nuclear weapons? -R.W., Encinitas, California
Answered by Herbert Bix:
Good question. Yes, LeMay's firebombing campaign helped pave the way for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should also not be forgotten that LeMay tested out his low altitude fire-bombing technique on Chinese cities in Japanese-occupied China, at a time when China was an ally. Unfortunately, the PBS program Victory in the Pacific glorified the B-29 bomber and treated LeMay uncritically.
Question: Did any American leader or political consultant understand the extreme dominance of the Emperor when they made the Potsdam ultimatum in July of l945? -Douglas Hedlund, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Answered by Herbert Bix:
Grew and Ballantine certainly understood the ideological importance of the Emperor to the Japanese people, though neither grasped the role he was playing in actual decision-making.
Question: Do you believe that Japanese civilians on the island of Okinawa sacrificed their lives in caves and jumped off cliffs were brainwashed by Emperor Hirohito in believing that American soldiers would rape and kill them as the Japanese military had done in Nanking? -R. D., Virginia Beach, Virginia
Answered by Herbert Bix:
Some undoubtedly believed, not unrealistically, that U.S. soldiers took no prisoners and mutilated the wounded on the battlefield. Whether Japanese civilians fighting on Okinawa in May and June were influenced by rumors of what their soldiers had done in Nanking seven years ealier I cannot say. Both sides of course practiced "brainwashing."
Question: I was a member of the Fourth Marine Division in August 1944 and our Division was packed, on notice to ship out for Japan on 36 hour notice. what were the plans for the 4th division as far the as the November invasion? -C. A. B., Northville, Michigan
Answered by Edward Drea:
The Fourth Marine Division was not scheduled for the November 1945 invasion. As part of III Amphibious Corps, however, the 4th Division was to assault the Tokyo Plain in the spring of 1946. The 4th, along with the 1st and 6th Marine divisions, would assault the Kujukuri beaches, a long, flat coastline on the Boso Peninsula east of Tokyo Bay. The plan was for the main push to advance northwest along the northern rim of Tokyo Bay and attack Tokyo from the east. Other units would secure the peninsula. Simultaneously U.S. Eighth Army divisions, which had landed on the southwest side of Tokyo Bay, would attack the city from the west.
Question: I found it very interesting the way U.S. military and political leaders would invoke the will of the "public" when they pushed for a particular war plan, saying that the public didn't want a drawn out war, and the public wanted unconditional surrender...etc. To what extent was the bombing of civilian targets like Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki prompted by what our leaders thought was the public desire for revenge and punishment for the harm inflicted on US troops? -Stan Clark, Los Angeles, California
Answered by Edward Drea:
It's difficult to say for certain how much the desire for revenge played in decisions to destroy cities and civilian targets. No doubt for some planners the more destruction they could wreak on Japan the more they could settle scores for Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, and other Japanese atrocities. There was a degree of hatred against Japanese that is not evident against the Germans. On the other hand, British, and at times, U.S. bombers destroyed scores of German cities and killed thousands of civilians. There were also commanders and planners who regarded attacks on any target with any weapon as a legitimate means of warfare. And there were also those who recoiled at the attacks on cities. Certainly the desire for revenge was present, but other factors also influenced the commanders who decided who lived and who died.
Question: What was the estimated Japanese troop strength that could have met the planned invasion by U.S. troops at Kyushu in 1945? How many possible Kamikaze suicide bombers could have been unleashed at the invasion forces? My dad was with 33rd Div slated to spearhead at Kyushu. -Chuck Sharp, Darien, Illinois
Answered by Edward Drea:
The 33d Division, as part of I Corps, was scheduled to assault the beaches at Miyazaki on the east coast of southern Kyushu. I Corps would land the farthest north of the three corps involved in the invasion. Three Japanese divisions, the 212th, the 154th, and the 156th were located on the coastline of Miyazaki. The 154th and 156th were to fight in place and the 212th, deployed further north, was to move to reinforce them within 48 hours of the landing. The Japanese 57th Army, which commanded the Miyazaki divisions, also had 150 suicide boats available to attack landing craft and small boats close inshore at night. Prime targets were LSTs and transports.
In August 1945 the Japanese navy had about 2,700 aircraft available to use as kamikaze and the army another 2,100, with more projected to be available in the coming months. Plans were incomplete for employment against specific beaches. Most likely the landing area considered most vital to Japanese plans would see the most kamikazes thrown against the attackers.
By November U.S. air and naval strikes would likely have eliminated hundreds of would-be kamikaze aircraft. Aircraft were also of poor quality and far inferior to U.S. aircraft which would have knocked hundreds more from the skies. By this point Japanese pilots were also poorly trained and far less skillful than earlier in the war. So on paper the Japanese might have 4,000 or 5,000 potential kamikaze aircraft, but by the time of the invasion might be able to muster about half that number or less. Still, they would have a lot of suicide planes to attack the beachheads.
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4. It wastes 20 minutes of my time explaining
5. You ask to be proactively notified next time someone has to undo something silly you do
Given the circumstances, the answer is no. If its a big enough deal, you'll get a formal warning, an infraction, or a ban. If its a minor deal, the staff has the right to change anything they want any way they see fit - that also includes not sending a friendly message to you after you waste 20 seconds of their time over something trivial. That's a privilige entrusted to them in exchange for their time and effort spent dealing with issues on the site.
The mods are encouraged to communicate to users when posts are edited or there are problems, and its not always consistent. We try and we are volunteers. We are all here to enjoy the forums - it is not a job and when others try to make it a job its generally really annoying from a moderation perspective. There might be other forums out there who do it better than us though.
The bottom line of all this is that you may need to realign your expectations if you think you can put rocks into the system and expect to get gold in return. You generally get out of things what you put into things. So you are expected to be a grown up, you are expected to understand the world doesn't revolve around Ben, and you are expected to know that sometimes when you kick rocks some rocks might get kicked back in your direction. This whole discussion over nothing is a great metaphor for the way the world and life in general works. You could take something out of this rather than pointing fingers and complaining about what other people are doing.The OC Forums Way
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Well this obviously means a lot more to you than it does to me. This thread doesn't need to be getting so personal, if my input is going to be so problematic to your perfect system then I can keep it to myself. If this is the way your world turns, good for you. Mine doesn't stop for something small. 20 minutes of your time doesn't need to be wasted, I took about a minute per each post of mine and if that's going to cause you problems I can keep out of topics like this. If you don't want me in your "world", you have all the power and position to take me out. This place isn't like it used to be.
Jeremy, thanks for the reply. I don't demand anything but some communication is nice. I wasn't only talking about this case but in other cases too.Last edited by Ben333; 09-09-10 at 04:08 PM.
This whole discussion was a waste of time for you then. Fortunately it was only a couple minutes of your time.
Since its relevant, I also find that the ability to accept and be introspective regarding constructive criticism is a reflection of ones own personal level of maturity and intellectual development. There's been no shortage of criticism leveraged in my direction and I don't expect that to end anytime soon, but fortunately, I've always got my eyes open for things I can do better. Criticism is often the fastest path to improvement - I say that a lot.
Next time around I'll probably not bother offering a bit of helpful criticism or insight. Maybe I don't know much of anything useful with regards to getting along with people or what reasonable expectations are within social communitites.
Or maybe I'm being cutting and abrasive. Hard to say, its been a full day of work. Either way, I don't think I've been unfair with anything I've said, but I'm sorry you've taken offence. My last post did mention that we aren't perfect and other places might do things better. I'm certainly not suffering from any delusions of perfection.
Sorry I don't have time to write up such a polite and politically correct statement that makes me look like the better person. I'll keep out of your business, I don't have a problem with you.


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"You are not here to convert the Chinese; you are here to make yourself available to God."
This was the advice Father Edward Galvin gave to the first Columban priests and Sisters in China in the early 1920s. His words go to the very heart of who we are as Columban missionaries. As missionaries, we simply make ourselves available to the Holy Spirit.
Since the mission of the Catholic Church is the work of God or, as St. Luke puts it, the work of the Spirit, it is the Holy Spirit who is the source of our missionary vocation as individuals and as a missionary society of priests.
Nothing but the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit can explain our individual missionary calling or how we as a foreign mission society began, the countries where we have chosen to work or what we have been able to accomplish.
As the Bishops of the Second Vatican Council stated in the Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity:
"The Holy Spirit … implants in the hearts of individuals a missionary vocation and at the same time raises up institutes in the Church who take on the duty of evangelization, which pertains to the whole Church, and make it as it were their own special task."
In his encyclical on missionary activity, Pope John Paul II, describing the first evangelizers, wrote:
"The coming of the Holy Spirit makes them witnesses and prophets. It fills them with serene courage which impels them to pass on to others their experience of Jesus and the hope which motivates them. The Spirit gives them the ability to bear witness to Jesus with 'boldness.'
"When the first evangelizers go down from Jerusalem, the Spirit becomes even more of a 'guide,' helping them to choose both those to whom they go and the places to which their missionary journey is to take them. The working of the Spirit is manifested particularly in the impetus given to the mission that, in accordance with Christ's words, spreads out from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the farthest ends of the Earth."
As it was in the beginning, it is the Holy Spirit who directs the Catholic Church's mission in every succeeding generation. Through a mysterious but providential set of circumstances, the Columban Fathers began with Father Edward Galvin of Ireland.
Before going to the seminary in Ireland, Fr. Galvin seriously considered becoming a missionary but, in deference to his parents' misgivings about missionary life, he entered the seminary in Maynooth, Ireland, where young men were trained for their home dioceses.
In 1909, the day he was ordained, Fr. Galvin's bishop, having no opening for him in the diocese, advised him to go to the United States and return home in three years. Fr. Galvin went to New York City and became an assistant in the Holy Rosary Parish in Brooklyn, New York.
It was there he met Fr. John M. Fraser, a Canadian missionary, who was then returning to China.
Fr. Galvin told Fr. Fraser that he had long been haunted by a desire to be a missionary and that he had read every book in the Brooklyn public library that had anything to do with China. Although Fr. Fraser discouraged Fr. Galvin's enthusiasm for China, he finally said, "If you want to go with me, you'll have to hurry. You'll need permission from your bishop."
Fr. Galvin wrote immediately to his bishop and, within a few weeks, received the permission he sought. On February 25, 1912, he was on his way to China.
In those days, the Catholics of the English-speaking world played a minor part in the foreign mission work of the Catholic Church. Of the 17,000 priests in the United States, less than 50 were in the field as missionaries.
In China, Fr. Galvin was shocked at the poverty and wretchedness he found. He was even more appalled by the spiritual poverty. Here were millions of friendly and industrious people who, because of the lack of missionaries, knew nothing of Jesus Christ.
But what could one priest do on his own? Bringing in more missionaries was the answer, he thought, but who would recruit them?
Fr. Galvin bombarded his friends with letters seeking help, and, in 1916, two priests joined him: Frs. Patrick O'Reilly and Joseph O'Leary.
They soon realized that if they were to have any lasting effect, they needed to set up some kind of an organization. The two new arrivals urged Fr. Galvin to return to Ireland and organize a new mission society. He hesitated. A novena of Masses was suggested.
"When the novena was completed," Fr. Galvin later wrote, "we knelt down in my room facing each other. I cut the leaves of our Bible and on the top of the right-hand page read the following verse:
'I command you: be firm and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go'" (Joshua 1:9).
Fr. Galvin broke the tense silence by saying, "I have my orders. I'll go."
In June 1916, Fr. Galvin returned to the United States and visited priest friends and bishops from San Francisco to Brooklyn. He shared his plans with them, and they encouraged him.
In August, Fr. Galvin sailed to Ireland, to Maynooth, where he got his first recruits. An able young professor, Fr. John Blowick, joined Fr. Galvin to help establish a mission to China. By October, the new society numbered eight priests.
With the blessing of Pope Benedict XV, Frs. Galvin and Blowick spent 1917 planning and laying the foundation. On June 29, 1918, the Society of St. Columban was formally approved. The first Columban seminary was opened in Ireland.
A few months later, the American headquarters was established south of Omaha, Nebraska, in a rural area that now an unincorporated area within the city limits of Bellevue, Nebraska. In a few years, a seminary was opened there, too, and the campus became known as St. Columbans, Nebraska.
By 1920, the Society already had 40 priests and 60 seminarians. That was when Fr. Galvin led the first pioneer band of missionaries to China, and Fr. Blowick devoted his energies to forming the new Society. The Columban Fathers were on their way.
The Holy Spirit continued to blow in unexpected quarters. Six Sisters of Loretto from Kentucky arrived in China two years later to staff a school, started by Columbans, and open an embroidery school for young women.
An interest in China led a group of young Irish women to establish the Columban Sisters. In 1926, six Columban Sisters arrived in China to work with Fr. Galvin.
But dreams rarely follow the dreamer's blueprint.
The priests and Sisters encountered unexpected problems and extremely difficult situations in China. Even though they were well-received, they had more than their share of hardships. It was usual for annual floods, droughts and plagues of insects to bring starvation to the provinces.
Relief boats, sent by charitable organizations, were looted by bandits who themselves were starving. Poverty and ignorance intensified the daily distresses of hunger, leprosy and tuberculosis. Such tribulations were part of the experience of each missionary. But the worst was yet to come.
From 1921 to 1950, China was in constant chaos. In the 1920s, the Nationalist Chinese Army fought the Communists. Warlords, many of them vicious brigands, fought anyone who got in their way.
Adding to this, freelance bandits fought for no cause except their own, often seeking trouble for its own sake. They held individuals ransom and would loot a city unless it paid to be left alone. In the midst of all this chaos, Fr. Galvin was consecrated bishop of Hanyang in 1927.
When bandits attacked Columban priests in remote mission stations, they made such serious threats and demands that, sooner or later, something tragic was bound to happen.
On July 15, 1929, Communist Army bandits captured Columban Father Timothy Leonard. After a few days as a prisoner, they murdered him. Other Columban priests were taken captive and released. But one, Columban Father Cornelius Tierney, died after three months in harsh captivity.
In the fall of 1932, Chiang Kai-shek's troops began attacking the Communists with a vigor never seen before. The Communists fell back on all fronts, and, once more, people could move about with relative safety.
"The reign of terror," wrote one Columban, "far from weakening the appeal of the Catholic Church in this area, seems to have strengthened it." It was an extraordinary time as thousands expressed a sincere desire to enter the Church.
In 1933, the Holy See designated a new territory for the Columbans and Columban Father Patrick Cleary was appointed in charge of the Vicariate of Nancheng, south of Hanyang.
In the following year, the relative peace that began the year before was shattered by the disastrous flood of the Yangtze River that left thousands homeless. Columban priests and Sisters exhausted themselves in caring for sick and dying refugees.
On the night of July 7, 1937, China began its war with Japan, which would in time become a part of the Second World War. Columban priests and Sisters were called on to care for thousands of wounded Chinese soldiers as well as countless refugees afflicted with cholera.
Of frequently recurring disasters, Bishop Galvin said, "Calamities are forerunners of waves of grace." He recalled that when the Columbans arrived in 1920, there had been 17,000 Catholics in Hanyang Vicariate and, in 1932, there were 55,000.
World War II followed in 1940 and a new era of turmoil and destruction began. Cities and towns were bombed and reduced to rubble. American and Australian Columbans, regarded as enemy aliens, were repatriated to their home countries in exchange for Japanese civilians. Those who remained had their movements restricted.
The war had just ended when it became clear that Communist forces under Mao Tse-tung would soon defeat the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek. In 1946, the Holy See entrusted a new mission, known as Huchow, to the Columban Fathers.
Three years later, the Communists took over this area, and, before long, they were in control of all of China. Several Columbans were thrown into jail and eventually all the Columban priests and Sisters were expelled. Bishop Galvin and Bishop Cleary were expelled in 1952.
By 1954, every one of the 146 Columbans serving in China was "expelled forever." On September 19, 1952, a weary, haggard man stumbled across the Communist China border into Hong Kong. Forty years of heroic missionary service had ended-Bishop Galvin was even branded a "criminal." Three-and-a-half years later, death came quietly for this great Catholic missionary.
In spite of the nightmares of banditry, war, bombings, destruction, death, disease, flood, famine and suffering, the China venture begun by Bishop Galvin was one of the most heroic and successful mission apostolates in modern times.
When the Columban Fathers celebrated their golden jubilee in 1968, someone asked Bishop Cleary, "If Fathers Galvin and Blowick had foreseen the catastrophe in China, would they have stopped in their tracks?"
The bishop, then age 81, considered this for a few moments before answering, "Probably not. The harvest that was garnered was immense. The good seed remains in the ground for a second spring."
That good seed not only remained in the ground in China, it put down deep roots and bore splendid fruit during the years of cruel persecution of every Chinese Catholic-bishops, priests, Sisters and laity without exception. An account of Chinese Catholics' fidelity and heroism reads like that of the Christians who suffered and died during the persecutions of the early centuries of the Church.
Today, the Church in China is experiencing a second spring in spite of restrictive and controlling efforts of the Communist government. Plus, relations between the Vatican and the government in Beijing have made progress.
Columbans today have a limited presence in China, working primarily as English teachers and in formation, unable to openly evangelize, but able to talk privately to students about Jesus and the Gospels.
The Holy Spirit had more than China in mind when He stirred up a missionary vocation in the heart of Fr. Galvin and in those who followed his dream for China.
"The wind blows wherever it pleases; you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. That is how it is with all who are born of the Spirit" (John 3:3-8).
When you make yourself available to God, you can be taken in new and unexpected directions and find yourself making unforeseen decisions. As St. Columban said, "A life unlike your own can be your teacher."


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Turnaround may be imminent for center Biedrins
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The clamoring from the owner, media and fans for rookie Ekpe Udoh to eat into the minutes of unproductive Andris Biedrins were amplified so much last week that Warriors coach Keith Smart couldn't hear himself think.
So right in the middle of practice, Smart muted the echoes of bouncing balls and the deafening squeaks of sneakers on the hardwood. He removed the voices swirling in his head and all but three players from the court.
In that silence, the Warriors might have found some answers.
"Coach kicked everybody else out of the drill. It was just me, Monta (Ellis) and Biedrins," point guard Stephen Curry said. "We produced a lot of trust between the three of us. We believe that Biedrins will finish plays when we give him the ball, and he believes that we're going to look to get him the ball."
The Warriors' center position has been the center of attention for all of the wrong reasons the past couple of seasons. Production dipped so much that the position was headed toward becoming a center of contention.
Since that three-man drill last week, however, Biedrins has responded with consecutive double-doubles for the first time since January 2009. At least for the present, he has staved off the quick-charging Udoh, who continues to show glimpses of the rim-protecting, back-to-the-basket scorer for which the franchise has longed.
"I've shared with Biedrins that his minutes were going to start getting cut," said Smart, though he didn't waver about Biedrins starting. "I'm going to be true to him about keeping his position, but it could have gotten to a point where he was not playing well, so he jumps the ball and was out of the game."
Start of a turnaround?
It doesn't look like it's going to get to that point. After averaging 4.1 points and five rebounds in his first 11 games of 2011, Biedrins has averaged 10.5 points and 11 rebounds the past two.
After having two double-doubles in his past 71 games heading into Thursday, Biedrins accomplished the feat in consecutive outings.
More important than numbers, Biedrins has started to play the active style that made him a double-double machine from 2007 through '09. He's acting as a defensive presence without getting into foul trouble, rebounding with more passion and making himself available to receive passes on offense.
During the three-man drill, Biedrins was able to show Curry and Ellis where he wants the ball - the ghost positions under the basket and posted up on the right block, where he can use his dominant left hand to get into the lane. The center was able to work on the timing of the pick-and-rolls that used to come so naturally with Stephen Jackson.
"He's such a huge plus for us when he plays that aggressive style and fights for the ball off the glass," Curry said. "He made a vow to us that he would find spots on the floor and make himself available, and we've made an emphasis to find him."
Putting in extra time
Biedrins wasn't able to build that trust with Curry last season because the center, dealing with abdominal injuries, played only 33 games. The confidence level between Smart and Biedrins has been there since the beginning, and Smart twice has spent time during the summer months with Biedrins at his home in Latvia.
"I want him to understand that I'm behind him," Smart said. "I didn't waste my time. My kids play basketball, and I want to see them. But I was in Latvia because I'm committed to him, too."
They did two-a-day practices during a three-week span last summer. One day, Smart and Biedrins found the gym's equipment closet locked, so they did a full agility session with tennis balls.
"He has always been there for me, and he's always making sure that I'm doing all right," Biedrins said. "After good games or bad games, he texts me or calls me. I think it's really a special relationship when a coach can call you after a game and can honestly communicate with you."
Flashes from rookie Udoh
Smart has communicated his intentions for Udoh just as clearly, and has begun playing him mostly with the starters "because that's his future." The coach, though, is trying to allow the rookie to develop in his own time, being careful not to put Udoh in situations in which he'll be overmatched by an experienced opponent.
It can be tough to play the waiting game because Udoh already can do some of the exact things that the Warriors so desperately need. He patiently backed down All-Star David West and scored in the clutch moments of the Warriors' victory at New Orleans in early January, and he had three straight games with three blocks in December.
"It's tempting, because he's moving quickly," Smart said. "We're getting to that stage where he has to come even faster so we can move him faster. But it's easier to lose confidence than it is to gain it."
Especially with the selections for the Rookie-Sophomore game just around the corner, it's natural to compare Udoh to others from his draft class. Among the top 10 picks in the league - Udoh was taken sixth - the Warriors' rookie ranks last in scoring and second to last in rebounds, assists and minutes.
"It comes down to how long he wants to be in the NBA," Smart said.
"Does he want to play a long time and get it done the right way? Or does he want to look at the numbers and wonder why a guy drafted after him is playing more?"
Adjusting to the pros
Udoh accepts that his playing time is in his hands. Smart said Udoh has to rebound more to play more, and to rebound more, he has to carry his hands higher.
"Rebounding is effort," Smart said. "He has to go get it. The ball belongs to anyone who is willing to go up and get it."
At Baylor, Udoh was able to use his lower body to block off opponents and could rebound with his long arms. In the NBA, he is getting outleaped and drops his arms before his thrust to jump.
As a result Udoh averages just 8.4 rebounds per 48 minutes. That ranks him No. 198 in the league, just behind Corey Maggette, a consistently poor rebounder.
"We don't have room for error," Smart said. "You can't just try to develop a guy in a game when you have veteran big guys who deserve to play. What would that communicate to the team?"
Probably something as loud and clear as a three-man drill on a random midseason afternoon.
Rookie results
How the top 10 picks of the 2010 draft have fared (stats through Sunday):
Player, Team | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast |
1. John Wall, Wizards | 37.2 | 15.0 | 4.0 | 9.3 |
2. Evan Turner, 76ers | 24.7 | 7.4 | 4.5 | 2.0 |
3. Derrick Favors, Nets | 19.3 | 6.6 | 5.0 | 0.4 |
4. Wes Johnson, T'Wolves | 27.3 | 9.4 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
5. DeMarcus Cousins, Kings | 26.3 | 13.5 | 7.7 | 1.8 |
6. Ekpe Udoh, Warriors | 12.1 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
7. Greg Monroe, Pistons | 23.7 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 0.8 |
8. Al-Farouq Aminu, Clippers | 17.6 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 0.8 |
9. Gordon Hayward, Jazz | 11.6 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 |
10. Paul George, Pacers | 16.5 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 0.9 |
Centers by comparison
The top 10 centers in Western Conference All-Star fan voting:
Player, Team | Min | Pts | Reb | Blk |
1. Yao Ming*, Rockets | 18.2 | 10.2 | 5.4 | 1.6 |
2. Andrew Bynum, Lakers | 24.6 | 11.4 | 7.3 | 1.8 |
3. Nene Hilario, Nuggets | 30.5 | 15.0 | 7.4 | 0.8 |
4. Marc Gasol, Grizzlies | 33.2 | 11.7 | 7.2 | 1.7 |
5. Emeka Okafor, Hornets | 32.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 1.8 |
6. Brendan Haywood, Mavs | 17.7 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 1.0 |
7. Marcus Camby, Blazers | 28.7 | 5.9 | 11.3 | 1.8 |
8. Chris Kaman, Clippers | 26.5 | 10.5 | 7.1 | 1.2 |
9. Andris Biedrins, Warriors | 26.4 | 6.1 | 8.5 | 1.0 |
10. DeMarcus Cousins, Kings | 26.3 | 13.5 | 7.7 | 0.8 |
*Played four games before season-ending injury.


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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Vintage Dinosaur Art: I-Spy Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals
(I am a bit tired though, so forgive me if it's a short 'un...)
I-Spy Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Animals is the natural successor to I-Spy with David Bellamy: Dinosaurs. (Sometime around 1990-91, Michelin - they of the tyres - acquired the rights to the I-Spy series.) However, it is also a completely different book - while the Bellamy book featured original illustrations, much of the artwork here has been cribbed from other places, some of it even dating back to the 1950s. As in many early '90s dinosaur books, this can result in some bizarre juxtapositions, where archaic-looking art from the likes of Zdenek Burian is placed directly opposite a much more modern-looking restoration - as below.
While the Corythosaurus restoration on the left was hopelessly obsolete even by 1990 (even if it remained a superb artistic accomplishment), the juvenile Parasaurolophus sculpture on the right remains astonishing. In fact, it looks like a taxidermy specimen. Typically, there is a strange, uneasy mix of old and new at play here. 'Strange' is certainly the best way to describe some of the dinosaurs on show. The grotesque, if beautifully painted, zipper-mouthed man-in-suit tyrannosaurs on the cover are one thing, but inside we are treated to the likes of this:
Ignore the very Bakkerian Deinonychus (with only three toes) and feast your eyes on that gangly, pin-headed Struthiomimus. Still, while the animals' anatomy looks very suspect, the artist has skillfully created a stirring scene, with ominous, billowing dark clouds and a threatening tyrannosaur that is the focal point of a pale, haunting glow (which certainly increases its resemblance to Godzilla). I often think that what's missing from a lot of palaeoart today is this sort of invocation of mood, perhaps because finding someone with the required artistic and scientific talents is very rare.
Of course, some illustrations are a little more light on the redeeming features. Quite why this artist saw fit to give Protoceratops a mouth full of pointy teeth, I guess we'll never know (maybe they were inspired by bargain bucket dinosaur toys?). At least the animal is recognisable. Some of the most old-fashioned illustrations in this book - that aren't used in an historical context - enter a terrifying Twilight Zone of saurian mutants that pretty much defy explanation. Which is where the Bizarro-world ankylosaurs come in. Oh yes, them again.
Once upon a time, certain scientists thought that ankylosaurs might have had sprawling limbs. Somehow, this was transmuted into them having very short limbs. And a stumpy tail, and no neck. Either that, or they were just confused with glyptodonts. In any case, the Ankylosaurus in the above illustration looks utterly, utterly weird, and pretty much defies explanation. How did anyone ever think that they looked like this? That said, it's hard to fault the artist's technical skill - these spiky little bundles of fun look worryingly plausible as real animals. It's easy to imagine them curling up to hibernate in a bonfire.
And finally - old and new ideas in the same image.
The plesiosaur launching its snaking neck through the air to grab a Pteranodon looks hopelessly out of date, but the Pteranodon itself has a covering of pterosaur fuzz in keeping with more modern restorations. Neatly sums up popular prehistory books in the early '90s, I think.
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"...finding someone with the required artistic and scientific talents is very rare." This is a good point. In a world of increasing specialization, it is still important to find and encourage the "Renaissance people" who can bridge the gap between sound science and good art.
www.itsbraintime.blogspot.comhonestly, I'll take good art over perfect science in these restorations. I understand if others feel differently, but we've seen what perfect science representations look like in books today with their cold, dead, computer graphics look. I'd like it to have a little bit of flash. How are you supposed to get kids interested in a boring image? Even if it's a dinosaur.
BTW I love the cover of this book. It reminds me of the Aww Yea Guy meme (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/aww-yea-guy) and I concur with Niroot, that ankylosaur is very adorable.I think Raul Martin is an example of paleoartist who create good atmospheric scenes with accurate dinosaurs, though compared with pictures such the ornithomimid above they still might look a bit flat and "shiny". But yes, I dont understand why nobody produces more of this moody backgrounds anymore; maybe the arstists believe they don´t look realistic for today standards? its part of the post-JP syndrome? I´d like to draw some piece with that style myself, If I only had the skill..
Oh, and that protoceratops freak the sh*t out of me! :O almost glad I didn´t own this book back then...


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The Best of The Web Honored as Finalists for the 4th Annual GII Awards
December 14th Gala Awards Ceremony to Feature Leaders in the Internet Economy;
Peter Boit, Vice President, eCommerce, Business Solutions Group Microsoft
Corporation to keynote, Comedienne Paula Poundstone and Jazz Great David
Sanborn to Entertain
Dec 07, 1999, 00:00 ET from ZD Events Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet industry's premier awards program -- the prestigious Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards -- will recognize organizations that are utilizing the Internet to create a profound effect on the way that people live, work, learn and play. This year's winners will be announced at the 4th Annual GII Awards ceremony on December 14th at the Westin, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA in conjunction with the ZD Internet.inc. Nextravaganza conference. The gala awards ceremony will be emceed by comedienne Paula Poundstone, and a special keynote address will be delivered by Peter Boit, vice president, eCommerce Business Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation. Additionally the awards will be celebrated on Monday, December 13th with a special concert by world-renowned jazz artist, David Sanborn. More than 500 total entries were received in ten categories which include Arts & Culture, Children, Commerce, Community, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, Netpreneur and News & Media. Sixty awards finalists were recognized for their innovative use of technology to improve business, and society. The finalists and semifinalists were selected by a panel of 350 judges who are recognized experts in their respective fields. The final round of judging will narrow the field to one winner in each category. The 60 finalists represent the very best in web-based applications and other networking technologies. "The GII Awards honor people in all areas of society and industry who use the Internet to create extraordinary results, from making money to making a difference," said Melanie McMullen, general manager of the GII Awards and The Standard for Internet Commerce. "The GII Awards are the world's leading forum to define, recognize, and promote best practices and new models in the application of Internet and network technology." "The GII Awards confirm our own brightest hopes: that the positive uses of high technology will truly open up new opportunities for all Americans and improve our quality of life," added Al Gore, vice president, United States. Finalists include the following organizations, which are all linked from www:gii.com: Arts & Culture: JustOriginals.com; The Museum of Web Art, Philly2nite.com; Solemates: The Century in Shoes; The Turing Game: Exploring Cultural Identity Online; and TURTLETRACKS: Native American Youth Newsletter. Entertainment: Beatnik.com; Comedy Central's World of South Park, GalaxiWorld.com; Hollywood Stock Exchange; Kodak Picture Playground online; and Quokka Sports. Children: AllowanceNet; Children of the Moon; GirlsAreIT!; Interactive Educational Internet Journeys; MaMaMedia; and MY HERO. 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Whether your customers are hunters (looking for something very specific), browsers (just poking around your site) or "howsers" (hunting for something but must browse to find the right product) — filtered navigation can be very useful to your site visitors. Filtered navigation:
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- Gives browsers an idea of what you carry
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There are infinite ways to present filtered navigation and they are often product-specific. You'll find different filter options in the Cell Phones and Service category than the Home Audio categories of Amazon.com, for example. The following are examples of filtered navigation (also called faceted navigation) that I found interesting:
Filter by Form
Action Envelope and Like.com use icons to illustrate the sub-category which is helpful for English as second language or those who are not familiar with industry jargon like "remittance" or "hobo". Showing shapes makes menus far more usable in these cases.
Off-topic, but Action Envelope also has a shop by use page which is very helpful.
Filter by Fit
MyShape matches clothes to different body shapes, and Eddie Bauer lets you filter by how you want the garment to fit you.
If you need a narrow or wide fitting shoe, Endless lets you find shoes available in special widths and sizes:
Filter by Problem
Taking a solutions-approach to selling, several cosmetics shops allow you to filter by "concern" (a kinder way of saying "problem"):
Left to right: Sephora, Mensbizshop.com, Skinstore.com
And Land's End lets you filter swimsuits by "anxiety zone" (again, a slighly less brash way of saying "problem area"):
Filter by Customer Review
Reviews can be a powerful way to learn what attributes matter to customers. For example, GPS shoppers may want the unit for driving or hiking. They may be rural or urban dwellers. They may be dissatisfied with their current unit and want to find products that have faster route calculations or more reliable satellite service.
Buzzillions (by Power Reviews) does a great job collecting consumer reviews from a number of sites and presenting useful filter options:
Filter by Color
Target shows that filter by color is not just for fashion retailers:
Shop by color is particularly helpful since most category pages use one default color in the thumbnail image. If a customer is dead-set on a particular color, the ability to hone in on products available in that color is very important.
Filters for a Tough Economy
Fingerhut's tagline is "Now You Can" (have something you really can't afford?), and as such allows customers to make smaller monthly payments instead of all up front:
Altrec lets you filter by % off:
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1. Scope out your competitors' filters.
2. Read customer reviews, are there common keywords or features customers express are important?
3. Read expert reviews. They often influence customer purchase decisions. For example, I read a buyer's guide for portable GPS recommending the 2 essential features are text-to-speech and a 4.3″ display. In my mind, I've eliminated any unit without these attributes, and would prefer to filter GPS results to products that fit that criteria.
4. Use your keyword referral reports and search logs. How do customers search for your product? What product attributes do they search for? Example: "nickel-free earrings"
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Congratulations! Your Explorer made it onto my desk for reading and not directly into the trash. I like the magazine style instead of the fold out. It fits on my desk and there's no messy re-folding. In addition the crossword is extravagantly spacious and easier to see. If you're wondering why I haven't noticed all this, before; on the way to the trash bin The Explorer fell out of my hands and opened up. I read it and really like it.
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All current PAC memberships expire on November 30, 2016 to renew 90 day prior to the November date. The ACA will be send out auto generated renewal notices starting at the 90 day renewal time frame until the PAC's membership is renewed. Please click here for renewal instructions.
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Before participating in the program, review the ACA's Paddle America Club Agreement & Insurance Procedures below. This document lists the requirements and procedures for participating in the PAC program. It also includes the forms you will need to obtain insurance for your activities through November 2016. In addition, review the ACA's Risk Management Requirements document.
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Next (or simultaneously), submit a schedule of your club's activities for the year to the ACA's Insurance Coordinator. You may submit your schedule by email, fax or U.S. Mail. Once you submit your schedule, those activities will be covered. You may update your club's schedule any time during the year, so long as the ACA receives notification by 4pm eastern time on the business day prior to the start of the activity.
If, during the year, your club needs a Certificate of Insurance for a specific activity, or needs to name an additional insured for a specific activity, you should submit requests at least 10 days prior to the start of the activity. Requests submitted less than 10 days prior to the event will incur a $25 rush fee. Payments must be made when you submit the club's request. Payment may be made online or by check or credit card.
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The ACA's insurance program requires Paddle America Clubs to satisfy three requirements on the day of the activity:
Post-Event Reporting Upon completion of the event / activity (within 30 days of the last day of the event), be sure to submit:
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Companies and investors need clear policies that reward sustainability performance. our capital market structures are biased towards short-term financial performance. The lack of carbon-reducing regulations in the U.S. for example has allowed companies to emit greenhouse gases at no cost, thus rewarding big emitters and penalizing more efficient businesses. Far greater sustainability gains can be achieved if smart policies are adopted that send clear market signals encouraging clean solutions with a long-term perspective.
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- Nine years ago, Ceres identified the colossal insurance industry as a key target for climate action. As the only NGO engaging with the industry on climate risk, we have mobilized leading insurance companies to move more aggressively on climate change.
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- Institutional investors are key drivers of the global economy. Their decisions about how and where to deploy capital can shift company behavior and the broader economy in profound ways towards a more sustainable future. Since 2001, Ceres has worked with dozens of leading institutional investors to press companies on the risks and opportunities from climate change and broader sustainability issues.
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Our son was three years old when Prop 8 passed, too young to understand what was going on but just the right age to articulate his thoughts about those "Yes on 8" signs. They were, he announced, "the color of pee-pee." On some level, he got what was happening to his family.
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.
One might even argue that Schubert's selective use of religion as a weapon against a minority may itself be considered a violation of the AAPC Code of Ethic regarding religious intolerance.
During the Yes on 8 campaign, Mormons got used like an ugly chick by a sleazy rock band--it was fine for her to pay for rent, food and gas, and provi...
OMG! Elton John, you're breaking my heart. And getting used by Yes-on-8 fundraisers. Elton may be happy with his civil union, but that's because the UK version is very different form California's.
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It seems a pretty certain bet that most of the LGBT community will vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden, though with curtailed enthusiasm after numerous missteps.
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THE State Government will probe shock claims girls at an Islamic high school in Melbourne's west have been banned from running in case it caused them to lose their virginity.
A former teacher at Truganina's Al-Taqwa College alleged that principal Omar Hallak stopped girls from running in cross country events in 2013 and 2014, Fairfax Media reported.
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Mr Hallak previously drew the ire of Mr Merlino when he reportedly told some students that Islamic State was a Western plot.
He claimed Islamic State was created by Israel and the US.
Bad enough to have such radicals in the wider community, but to have one of them poisoning the minds of school children is terrible. The State Government should stop all funding for his school.


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EPC: n/a
Course Description
Operation, diagnosis and service of hybrid vehicles, including technician and responder safety. Discussion of ethanol, propane, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), fuel cells and other alternative fuels. Covers operation, diagnosis and repair of diesel engines in the automotive market.
Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: AT 100 or 107, AT 121, 131, 205, 210 and 212.
Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)
Lecture: 44
Lab: 88
Other: 0
Systems: 0
Clinical: 0
Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:
Vocational Preparatory Required for certificate
Equivalencies At Other Institutions
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
General Education Learning Values & Outcomes
Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.
0. Application and Integration
Definition: Applying information from one or more disciplines and/or field experiences in new contexts (Outcome 0.1); developing integrated approaches or responses to personal, academic, professional, and social issues (Outcomes 0.2-0.5).
Outcomes: Students will be able to . . . 0.4 Integrate concepts and analytical frameworks from multiple perspectives to develop one or more of the following: more comprehensive descriptions, multi-causal explanations, new interpretations, or deeper explorations of issues. 0.5 Analyze and reflect upon insights gained from integrating multiple perspectives in a purposeful project or experience.
2. Critical Thinking
Definition: The ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge within a discipline and about the ways in which that knowledge is constructed and validated and to be sensitive to the ways these processes often vary among disciplines.
Outcomes: Students will be able to . . . 2.3 Identify, interpret, and evaluate pertinent data and previous experience to reach conclusions.
3. Communication
Definition: Understanding and producing effective written, spoken, visual, and non-verbal communication.
Outcomes: Students will be able to . . . 3.1 Recognize, read, and comprehend academic and/or professional writing.
6. Individual Awareness & Responsibility
Definition: Understanding, managing, and taking responsibility for one's learning and behavior in varied and changing environments.
Outcomes: Students will be able to . . . 6.2 Demonstrate standards of professionalism in manner, appearance, and setting appropriate to the context, including the classroom, workplace, and community.
10. Technology
Definition: Understanding the role of technology in society and using technology appropriately and effectively.
Outcomes: Students will be able to . . . 10.3 Use technology appropriate to the context and task to effectively retrieve and manage information, solve problems, and facilitate communication.
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