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My Fair Lady is now playing at Westchester's premiere theater, The Broadway Dinner Theatre.
Perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950s, My Fair Lady, is based on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a coarse little peddler of flowers in Covent Garden who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to fulfill her dream of working in a flower shop. Henry Higgins bets his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can pass the common girl off as a society lady. Eliza succeeds so well, however, that she outgrows her social station and even and manages to become an indispensable part of Higgins' life. The musical features an award-winning score, with hits such as "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Get Me to the Church on Time."
The original 1956 production of My Fair Lady featured Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza. The production helped define the modern musical theater. My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956 and enjoyed a run of 2,717 performances, which lasted more than nine years. It won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Rex Harrison. The national tour began on March 18, 1957 and ran for several years, and broke box-office records in city after city. The 1964 film which won several Oscars, including Best Picture, starred Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Audrey Hepburn.
The WBT production, stars Jennifer Babiak as Eliza Doolittle, Tom Galantich as Henry Higgins, and William McCauley as Colonel Pickering. Bill E. Dietrich will play Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle, Joe Chisholm will play Freddy. Kathleen Huber takes on Mrs. Higgins.
The multi-talented ensemble features: Gabriel Beck, Brittany Bohn, Gina Duci, Glenn Giron, Jordan Grubb, Jennifer Hatzes, Cort Larson, Robin Lounsbury, Megan Marod, Karen Murphy, J.P. Qualters Tara Sweeney, Joe Torello, and Michael Warrell.
The Production is Directed by Charles Repole who had been at the helm for several WBT productions including I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and Sugar. Choreography is by Michael Lichtefeld, Set Design is by Steven Loftus, Costume Design by Gail Baldoni, Lighting Design is by Andrew Gmoser, Sound Design by Jonathan Hatton. Properties are by Grumpy's Props, Wigs/Hair by Gerard Kelly, Production Stage Manager is Victor Lukas and the Assistant Stage Manager is Ron Rogell.
Jennifer Babiak (Eliza Doolittle) Returns to Westchester Broadway Theatre after appearing here as Emma in Jekyll & Hyde. Previous credits include:
Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Anya/ Chava, Shprintze, Bielke u/s and performed). National Tours: West Side Story (Maria), Evita (Mistress) and Grease (Sandy). Regional: Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), Green Gables (Diana), and North Shore Music Theatre's A Christmas Carol (Meg). Jennifer is a Graduate of New York University's Steinhardt School of Music and Performing Arts Professions.
Tom Galantich (Henry Higgins) Broadway: Boeing Boeing, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mamma Mia!, The Boys From Syracuse, City of Angels, Into The Woods. Off-Broadway: Distracted (Roundabout), Ghosts and Biography (Pearl Theatre). He has toured nationally with starring roles in White Christmas, Company, and Dracula. Among his many regional credits are his most recent as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at North Carolina Theatre and here at WBT in City of Angels, 42nd Street and Jekyll & Hyde. Tom was seen as recurring character Joe Chappell, on Law & Order. Other TV: Ed, Law &Order, Chappelle's Show, The Cosby Mysteries, All My Children, One Life To Live, Another World. Film: Julie & Julia, Watching TV With The Red Chinese, and The Chosen One. Tom is a veteran of numerous commercials and has sung at Carnegie Hall in a salute to100 years of Broadway.
William McCauley (Colonel Pickering) You may remember him as R.F. Simpson in "Singin In The Rain" and Mr. Potter in "A Wonderful Life," Bill returns for his 10th show for WBT. Named LA Actor of the Week for "Autumn Canticle," he was also Scrooge in LA's musical "Christmas Carol." He replaced Jerry Orbach in "Chicago," playing Billy Flynn for three years. He has played Henry Higgins, Harold Hill, Daddy Warbucks, and Dick Cheney. Broadway debut in Zefirelli's "Saturday Sunday Monday" with Sada Thompson and Eli Wallach.
Tyrone in PBS's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," a year on "Loving," "Law & Order: CI," and "30 Rock." One of New
York's finest cabaret performers, he was resident entertainer at the St. Regis Hotel for two years.
Charles Repole (Director) City Center Encores! Series: Dubarry Was a Lady starring Faith Prince and Robert Morse and Call Me Madam starring Tyne Daly. Broadway: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Benefit at Carnegie Hall starring Regis Philbin, Marvin Hamlisch, Judy Collins, Anne Reinking and the NY Pops conducted by Skitch Henderson, the Easter Bonnet Competition at the Palace Theatre and A Salute to Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall. He conceived and directed Dance! featuring the works of the Alvin Ailey dance company, the Martha Graham dance company, the Cleveland Ballet, David Parsons and Stomp!; Lyrics And Lyricists 25th Year Celebration with Angela Lansbury, Rosie O'Donnell, Joel Grey, Beebe Neuwirth, Jerry Herman, Cy Coleman, Stephen Schwartz and Sheldon Harnick; Folk Songs USA starring Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Art Garfunkel and Odetta, and Standing Ovations with Tony Randall, Carol Channing, Elaine Strich, Nell Carter, Leslie Uggams and Donna McKecknie. George M! starring Joel Grey, Zorba starring Anthony Quinn, Call Me Madam starring Leslie Uggams, Annie starring Rue McClanahan, The Solid Gold Cadillac starring Charlotte Rae. The San Antonio Art Festival's La Pericole starring Angelina Reaux and Joel Grey. Mr. Repole was nominated for Chicago's prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, He has also directed many productions for WBT including his first professional directing job, They're Playing Our Song , Anything Goes, Sugar and I Love You,You're Perfect, Now Change!
Ticket Information:
Dinner & Show range between $52.00 and $75.00 PLUS TAX depending on the performance chosen.
Beverage Service & Gratuities are not included in the ticket price. Discounts are available for children, students, and senior citizens at selected performances. Also check The Website for On-going Special Offers! More news at: www.BroadwayTheatreBlog.com.
Show Times:
Wednesday & Thursday Matinees: Lunch: 11:30am &. Show: 1pm.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings: Dinner: 6:30pm. & Show: 8pm
Sunday Matinees: Lunch: 12pm &. Show: 1:30pm.
Sunday Evenings: Dinner: 5:30pm. & Show: 7pm
Call (914)-592-2222. Also at: www.BroadwayTheatre.com
Group Reservations: Discounts for Groups of 20 or More: Call 592-2225.
Luxury Boxes: Call 592-8730. For private parties of 6 to 22. Enjoy dining and theatre in an elegant private box. Additional features include an expanded dinner menu, hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, private powder room, and
Luxury Box reserved parking. Additional cost, call for details.
WBT Mainstage:
My Fair Lady September 22 – November 27, 2011 and December 28 – January 29, 2012
Home for the Holidays November 30 – December 23, 2011
Check out our website: www.BroadwayTheatre.com for Full 2012 Season!
And the Blog for fun stories, photos and interviews: www.BroadwayTheatreBlog.com
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Requirements for All Baccalaureate Degrees (B.A., B.F.A., B.S., B.A.S.)
1. Scholarship
- General Scholarship - minimum cumulative 2.00 ("C") GPA. Some programs require higher GPAs, such as those in Professional Education, Nursing, Social Work, and Mass Communication. Please refer to the appropriate catalog sections.
- Major Field - minimum 2.25 GPA - the major field includes all courses taken at Bemidji State University in the area of study. Some majors require higher GPAs, such as those in Professional Education. Please refer to the appropriate catalog sections.
- Minor Field - minimum 2.00 GPA.
2. Graduation plan forms should be submitted for approval two (2) semesters before graduation. Forms are available online at the BSU Web site, www.bemidjistate.edu (click on Records).
3. All financial obligations, incomplete grades, or other course problems must be cleared by the end of the last semester before graduation.
4. Departmental approval for a major or minor in the department.
5. Successful completion of one-hundred twenty (120) semester credits minimum for all B.A., B.F.A., B.S., and B.A.S degrees, (select majors up to 136 minimum credits). Note: No credits from courses numbered 0800-0899 may be used to fulfill graduation requirements. A maximum of four (4) credits from courses numbered 0900-0999 may be used to fulfill graduation requirements.
6. A minimum of forty (40) semester credits at the 3000 level or above must be completed through four-year degree-granting institutions.
7. Thirty (30) residence semester credits must be completed through Bemidji State University.
8. Transfer Students: At least one-third of the credits to be included in the major must be successfully completed at Bemidji State University.
9. Students are encouraged to discuss with their advisor the option of a second major, minor, or field of emphasis that might strengthen or complement their major.
10. Liberal Education requirements or completion of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum.
11. Contact the major department for specific information on screening criteria for entry into the major program.
Requirements for the Associate in Arts (A.A.) Degree
1. Sixty (60) semester credits minimum, meeting all Liberal Education requirements plus electives. All transfer students must complete a minimum of one semester at Bemidji State University. In addition, twenty (20) semester credits must be completed at Bemidji State University.
2. Minimum 2.00 ("C") GPA.
Multiple Majors
Students are encouraged to pursue more than one major to enhance their educational background. A student completing two or more majors with different degree designations will be awarded the degree associated with the primary major. However, if one of the majors is in a field of professional teaching, the B.S. degree shall be awarded. Graduation planning forms must be filed in the Records and Registration Office for all majors.
Multiple Degrees
A student completing two or more majors with different degree designations (B.A., B.F.A., B.S., or B.A.S. only) who wishes both degrees will be required to complete at least thirty (30) additional semester credits beyond the first degree.
An A.A. or A.S. degree will not be awarded simultaneously with or subsequent to a four-year degree.
A student who holds a baccalaureate degree from another regionally accredited institution may earn an additional baccalaureate degree from Bemidji State University by completing all of the course requirements for that degree with at least thirty (30) additional semester credits in residence at Bemidji State University.
Policy of Catalog Use
Students working toward an associate or baccalaureate degree may elect to fulfill degree requirements as outlined in any one catalog in effect during the dates of registration for resident credit at Bemidji State University. Students who have not attended the University for more than five (5) consecutive years prior to re-enrolling must meet all degree requirements as outlined in the catalog in effect at the date of their re-enrollment or any subsequent catalog in effect during their dates of registration for University credit. Students admitted to the University directly from a Minnesota community college may, provided not more than two (2) consecutive semesters have elapsed since their attendance at the community college, elect to fulfill degree requirements as outlined in any BSU catalog in effect during their dates of attendance at the Minnesota community college, or any subsequent catalog in effect during their dates of registration at Bemidji State University. This provision does not apply to State Teaching Licensure requirements.
Students should decide as early as possible which catalog is to be used in meeting degree requirements, and follow the curriculum outlined therein.

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"Simply genius."
Google Maps Mania
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Rhizome Navigation
Sorry, due to changes in how the API and search features of Twitter work, the Twitter Weather Map is not working anymore.
For now, I didn't have the time and resources to update the code. In the meantime, have a look at some of my other projects, like Geosketches or Rhizome Navigation.
Below is a screenshot of the Twitter Weather Map for the United States combined with a Cloud Layer in Google Earth.
Talking about the weather. You often do that to just keep a conversation going. People do the same on twitter (among other things) and the map above tries to give you a picture of the weather in by tracking these conversations.
This is just a simple example to illustrate the hidden power and possible emergence that lies within social media, presence services and livestreams.
This is a quick hack inspired by metaroll.de. Using summize I fetch messages from twitter which contain words about the weather in . A simple algorithm measures what people are talking about and renders a KML file which gets displayed above. The file gets updated every hour. Have a look at wetter.orf.at for a comparison with actual meteo data.
June 2008 - Done in three hours by Walter Rafelsberger
Weather icons from nordicweather.com


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Leading drugmakers will help set up psychological centres for victims of child sex abuse in an effort to counter the long-term health problems suffered by victims. They are to join forces with Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic and others to improve medical education and accelerate the early identification of victims. Sexual exploitation when a child can saddle a person with life-long illnesses and a range of mental problems. At least one in five girls and one in 10 boys are victims of sexual abuse before they reach the age of 18, but only one in three cases is reported, according to the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC).
"For the first time in history, the healthcare industry is coming together to attack the scourge of child sexual abuse and exploitation as a public health issue," Franz Humer, chairman of Roche and ICMEC, said on Thursday. The 25-member committee, which is funded via donations and by governments, will go beyond only providing drugs and plans to develop an "action plan", including undertaking epidemiological research and identifying gaps in the treatment of victims. Studies have shown that victims of sexual abuse often suffer mental and physical health problems, including depression, anxiety, eating and sleeping disorders, and a higher risk of death from heart disease, diabetes and cancer. While governments have made progress in enacting laws to protect children, the problem is still growing, prompting the need for a coordinated global effort and an industry-wide approach, ICMEC president Ernie Allen said. "This is a problem of hidden victims," Allen told a news conference. "The key challenge is to awaken the world." (Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Robert Woodward)


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[UPDATED 1/30/2013: Research in Motion, now renamed BlackBerry, was announced today. Full details here.]
Research in Motion invented the very idea of a smartphone, years before the word was coined. RIM's first BlackBerry, released in 1999, was more than a typical pager of the era. It lets executives, salespeople, physicians, and others do email over a pocketable device almost anywhere. Very quickly, the BlackBerry became a status symbol, showing who was important in a company.
The BlackBerry stayed at the top of the messaging heap for more than a decade, dethroned by the iPhone a few years after the Apple device's own 2007 debut. Last year, the BlackBerry saw a 30 percent drop in customers and faced the ignomy of vying with Microsoft's anemic Windows Phone platform for a distant third place in smartphone sales.
Tomorrow, years after it promised to do so, RIM will unveil in a New York City event the BlackBerry OS 10 and the smartphones that will run it. It's RIM's make-or-break moment, and what RIM shows will be the basis for its return to glory or for its final descent into irrelevance.
[ Explained: RIM's BES 10 road map. | Get expert advice about planning and implementing your BYOD strategy with InfoWorld's in-depth "Mobile and BYOD Deep Dive" PDF special report. | Keep up on key mobile developments and insights with the Mobilize newsletter. ]
How did the BlackBerry get here, and why might RIM -- after multiple failed efforts -- actually have a chance to resurrect itself wth BlackBerry OS 10?
The sad decline of the iconic BlackBerry
You can be forgiven for thinking BlackBerry OS 10 is old news, since RIM has been steadily reannouncing it since October 2011 in an excruciatingly long public tease. The length of that tease wasn't intentional; RIM had hoped to release BlackBerry OS 10 nearly a year ago, but the development of the replacement BlackBerry OS was much harder than the company had anticipated.
Even deciding to reinvent the BlackBerry took a long time, as RIM's old management team refused to believe that the iPhone, then Android were no fads but represented a real change in user needs. RIM bought QNX to harness the company's user interface technology in 2009, then implemented it in RIM's first tablet: the nearly unusable BlackBerry PlayBook tablet that debuted in April 2011 based on QNX.
The QNX-based PlayBook OS was a scary preview of RIM's promised new platform, as QNX was supposed to be the basis for a new generation of BlackBerry smartphones. But deep divisions in the company meant that RIM delivered BlackBerry OS 7 instead in summer 2011 -- itself delayed a year despite being a barely changed version of BlackBerry OS 6. The BlackBerry 7 devices flopped, pushing BlackBerry sales toward a strong decline that has yet to abate. BlackBerry sales now account for less than 5 percent of smartphone sales worldwide.
By fall 2011, RIM's founders finally left, clearing the way for new management to try to rescue the BlackBerry. Although new CEO Thorsten Heins initially portrayed the transition as a continuation of the past, the QNX-based BlackBerry 10 effort was back on -- now delayed a year to give RIM's engineers a realistic chance to succeed. RIM also tried to fix the PlayBook tablet, which it partially accomplished in February 2012 with an update to its QNX-based OS. However much Heins tried to calm the BlackBerry old guard that their beloved device would be maintained, he put in motion an effort to toss much of what the BlackBerry had been and reinvent it for the modern era.


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Lawyers ask WI Supreme Court to rule in prayer death case
MADISON (AP) -- A state attorney tells the Wisconsin Supreme Court a couple caused their daughter's death when they prayed over while she slowly died of diabetes.
Dale and Leilani Neumann were convicted in 2009 of reckless homicide in the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Madeline. Their attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions, arguing state law protects prayer healers and the statutes aren't clear on when a situation becomes so serious they must seek medical help.
Assistant Attorney General Maura Whelan told the justices Tuesday, December 4th parents who pray over an ailing child can't be charged with child abuse but their immunity doesn't apply if the child dies.
She says the Neumanns placed Madeline at a substantial risk of death and had to have known they crossed the line.


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Candid Comments From Climate Scientists
By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.
There is a news release by Paul Voosen on Greenwire titled
Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming (Tuesday, October 25, 2011)
There are some interesting quotes from climate scientists in this article that highlight a large degree of uncertainty with respect to the climate system, and the human role in it, even among scientists closely involved with the IPCC reports. The long article focuses on the question
'Why, despite steadily accumulating greenhouse gases, did the rise of the planet's temperature stall for the past decade?"
Interesting quotes and text {rearranged to order the persons' quoted; I highly recommend reading the entire article include [highlight added]:
From John Barnes [Barnes's specialty is measuring stratospheric aerosols].
"If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing," Barnes said. "There's a lot of scatter to it. But the [climate] models go up. And that has to be explained. Why didn't we warm up?"
Barnes has kept a lonely watch for 20 years [at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii]. Driving the winding, pothole-strewn road to this government-run lab, he has spent evening after evening waiting for the big one. His specialty is measuring stratospheric aerosols, reflective particles caused by volcanoes that are known to temporarily cool the planet. Only the most violent volcanic eruptions are able to loft emissions above the clouds, scientists thought, and so Barnes, after building the laser, waited for his time.
To this day, there hasn't been a major volcanic eruption since 1991, when Mount Pinatubo scorched the Philippines, causing the Earth to cool by about a half degree for several years. But Barnes diligently monitored this radio silence, identifying the background level of particles in the stratosphere. And then, sitting in his prefab lab four years ago, not far from where Charles Keeling first made his historic measure of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, Barnes saw something odd in his aerosol records.
Barnes laments the boggling complexity of separating all the small forcings on the climate. It makes Charles Keeling's careful work identifying rising CO2 levels seem downright simple.
"It's really subtle," he said. "It's hard to track how much is going into the oceans, because the oceans are soaking up some of the heat. And in a lot of places the measurements just aren't accurate enough. We do have satellites that can measure the energy budget, but there's still assumptions there. There's assumptions about the oceans, because we don't have a whole lot of measurements in the ocean."
From Jean-Paul Vernier
Five years ago, a balloon released over Saharan sands changed Jean-Paul Vernier's life.
Climbing above the baked sand of Niger, the balloon, rigged to catch aerosols, the melange of natural and man-made particles suspended in the atmosphere, soared above the clouds and into the stratosphere. There, Vernier expected to find clear skies; after all, there had been no eruption like Pinatubo for more than a decade. But he was wrong. Twelve miles up, the balloon discovered a lode of aerosols.
Vernier had found one slice of the trend identified by Barnes at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. It was astonishing. Where could these heat-reflecting aerosols be originating? Vernier was unsure, but Barnes and his team hazarded a guess when announcing their finding. It was, they suggested, a rapidly increasing activity in China that has drawn plenty of alarm.
A French scientist who moved to NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia to study aerosols, Vernier, like Barnes, turned toward a laser to understand these rogue sulfates. But rather than using a laser lashed to the ground, he used a laser in space.
The same year as the Niger balloon campaign, NASA had launched a laser-equipped satellite aimed at observing aerosols among the clouds. Vernier and his peers suspected, with enough algorithmic ingenuity, that they could get the laser, CALIPSO, to speak clearly about the stratosphere. The avalanche of data streaming out of the satellite was chaotic — too noisy for Barnes' taste, when he took a look — but several years on, Vernier had gotten a hold of it. He had found an answer.
Mostly, the aerosols didn't seem to be China's fault.
From Kevin Trenberth
The hiatus [in warming] was not unexpected. Variability in the climate can suppress rising temperatures temporarily, though before this decade scientists were uncertain how long such pauses could last. In any case, one decade is not long enough to say anything about human effects on climate; as one forthcoming paper lays out, 17 years is required.
For some scientists, chalking the hiatus up to the planet's natural variability was enough. Temperatures would soon rise again, driven up inexorably by the ever-thickening blanket thrown on the atmosphere by greenhouse gases. People would forget about it.
But for others, this simple answer was a failure. If scientists were going to attribute the stall to natural variability, they faced a burden to explain, in a precise way, how this variation worked. Without evidence, their statements were no better than the unsubstantiated theories circulated by climate skeptics on the Internet.
"It has always bothered me," said Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "Natural variability is not a cause. One has to say what aspect of natural variability."
Until 2003, scientists had a reasonable understanding where the sun's trapped heat was going; it was reflected in rising sea levels and temperatures. Since then, however, heat in the upper ocean has barely increased and the rate of sea level rise slowed, while data from a satellite monitoring incoming and outgoing heat — the Earth's energy budget — found that an ever increasing amount of energy should be trapped on the planet. (Some scientists question relying on this satellite data too heavily, since the observed energy must be drastically revised downward, guided by climate models.) Given this budget ostensibly included the solar cycle and aerosols, something was missing.
Where was the heat going? Trenberth repeated the question time and again.
Recently, working with Gerald Meehl and others, Trenberth proposed one answer. In a paper published last month, they put forward a climate model showing that decade-long pauses in temperature rise, and its attendant missing energy, could arise by the heat sinking into the deep, frigid ocean waters, more than 2,000 feet down. The team used a new model, one prepared for the next U.N. climate assessment; unlike past models, it handles the Pacific's variability well, which "seems to be important," Trenberth said.
"In La Niña, the colder sea surface temperatures in the Pacific mean there is less convective action there — fewer tropical storms, etc., and less clouds, but thus more sun," he said. "The heat goes into the ocean but gets moved around by the ocean currents. So ironically colder conditions lead to more heat being sequestered."
It is a compelling illustration of how natural variability, at least in this model, could overcome the influence of increasing greenhouse gases for a decade or more, several scientists said. However, according to one prominent researcher — NASA's Hansen — it's a search for an answer that doesn't need to be solved.
That is because, according to Hansen, there is no missing energy.
Trenberth questions whether the Argo measurements are mature enough to tell as definite a story as Hansen lays out. He has seen many discrepancies among analyses of the data, and there are still "issues of missing and erroneous data and calibration," he said. The Argo floats are valuable, he added, but "they're not there yet."
From Susan Solomon
"What's really been exciting to me about this last 10-year period is that it has made people think about decadal variability much more carefully than they probably have before," said Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist and former lead author of the United Nations' climate change report, during a recent visit to MIT. "And that's all good. There is no silver bullet. In this case, it's four pieces or five pieces of silver buckshot."
Already Solomon had shown that between 2000 and 2009, the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere declined by about 10 percent. This decline, caused either by natural variability — perhaps related to El Niño — or as a feedback to climate change, likely countered 25 percent of the warming that would have been caused by rising greenhouse gases. (Some scientists have found that estimate to be high.) Now, another dynamic seemed to be playing out above the clouds.
In a paper published this summer, Solomon, Vernier and others brought these discrete facts to their conclusion, estimating that these aerosols caused a cooling trend of 0.07 degrees Celsius over the past decade. Like the water vapor, it was not a single answer, but it was a small player. These are the type of low-grade influences that future climate models will have to incorporate, Livermore's Santer said.
Solomon was surprised to see Vernier's work. She remembered the Soufrière eruption, thinking "that one's never going to make it into the stratosphere." The received wisdom then quickly changed. "You can actually see that all these little eruptions, which we thought didn't matter, were mattering," she said.
From Jim Hansen
These revelations are prompting the science's biggest names to change their views.
Indeed, the most important outcome from the energy hunt may be that researchers are chronically underestimating air pollution's reflective effect, said NASA's James Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Recent data has forced him to revise his views on how much of the sun's energy is stored in the oceans, committing the planet to warming. Instead, he says, air pollution from fossil fuel burning, directly and indirectly, has been masking greenhouse warming more than anyone knew.
It was in no "way affected by the nonsensical statements of contrarians," Hansen said. "These are fundamental matters that the science has always been focused on. The problem has been the absence of [scientific] observations."
NASA's Hansen disputes that worry about skeptics drove climate scientists to ignore the sun's climate influence. His team, he said, has "always included solar forcing based on observations and Judith's estimates for the period prior to accurate observations."
"That makes the sun a bit more important, because the solar variability modulates the net planetary energy imbalance," Hansen said. "But the solar forcing is too small to make the net imbalance negative, i.e., solar variations are not going to cause global cooling."
"Unfortunately, when we focus on volcanic aerosol forcing, solar forcing and stratospheric water vapor changes, it is a case of looking for our lost keys under the streetlight," Hansen said. "What we need to look at is the tropospheric aerosol forcing, but it is not under the street light."
"I suspect that there has been increased aerosols with the surge in coal use over the past half decade or so," he said. "There is semi-quantitative evidence of that in the regions where it is expected. Unfortunately, the problem is that we are not measuring aerosols well enough to determine their forcing and how it is changing."
More fundamentally, the Argo probe data has prompted Hansen to revise his understanding of how the climate works in a fundamental way, a change he lays out in a sure-to-be-controversial paper to be published later this year.
For decades, scientists have known that most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases was going into the ocean, not the atmosphere; as a result, even if emissions stopped tomorrow, they said, the atmosphere would continue to warm as it sought balance with the overheated oceans. In a term Hansen coined, this extra warming would be "in the pipeline," its effects lingering for years and years. But exactly how much warming would be in the pipeline depended on how efficiently heat mixed down into the oceans.
Hansen now believes he has an answer: All the climate models, compared to the Argo data and a tracer study soon to be released by several NASA peers, exaggerate how efficiently the ocean mixes heat into its recesses. Their unanimity in this efficient mixing could be due to some shared ancestry in their code. Whatever the case, it means that climate models have been overestimating the amount of energy in the climate, seeking to match the surface warming that would occur with efficient oceans. They were solving a problem, Hansen says, that didn't exist.
At first glance, this could easily sound like good news, if true. But it's not.
"Less efficient mixing, other things being equal, would mean that there is less warming 'in the pipeline,'" Hansen said. "But it also implies that the negative aerosol forcing is probably larger than most models assumed. So the Faustian aerosol bargain is probably more of a problem than had been assumed."
From John Daniel [a researcher at the Earth System Research Lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]
When the record came in 1998, though, scientists faltered. It's a pattern often seen with high temperatures. They cut out too much nuance, said John Daniel, a researcher at the Earth System Research Lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"We make a mistake, anytime the temperature goes up, you imply this is due to global warming," he said. "If you make a big deal about every time it goes up, it seems like you should make a big deal about every time it goes down."
From Ben Santer
For a decade, that's exactly what happened. Skeptics made exaggerated claims about "global cooling," pointing to 1998. (For one representative example, two years ago columnist George Will referred to 1998 as warming's "apogee.") Scientists had to play defense, said Ben Santer, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
"This no-warming-since-1998 discussion has prompted people to think about the why and try to understand the why," Santer said. "But it's also prompted people to correct these incorrect claims."
"Susan's stuff is particularly important," Santer said. "Even if you have the hypothetical perfect model, if you leave out the wrong forcings, you will get the wrong answer."
From Judith Lean
The answer to the hiatus, according to Judith Lean, is all in the stars. Or rather, one star.
Only recently have climate modelers followed how that 0.1 percent can influence the world's climate over decade-long spans. (According to best estimates, it gooses temperatures by 0.1 degrees Celsius.) Before then, the sun, to quote the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, got no respect, according to Lean, a voluble solar scientist working out of the the space science division of the Naval Research Laboratory, a radar-bedecked facility tucked away down in the southwest tail of Washington, D.C.
Climate models failed to reflect the sun's cyclical influence on the climate and "that has led to a sense that the sun isn't a player," Lean said. "And that they have to absolutely prove that it's not a player."
According to Lean, the combination of multiple La Niñas and the solar minimum, bottoming out for an unusually extended time in 2008 from its peak in 2001, are all that's needed to cancel out the increased warming from rising greenhouse gases. Now that the sun has begun to gain in activity again, Lean suspects that temperatures will rise in parallel as the sun peaks around 2014.
This consistent trend has prompted Lean to take a rare step for a climate scientist: She's made a short-term prediction. By 2014, she projects global surface temperatures to increase by 0.14 degrees Celsius, she says, driven by human warming and the sun.
From Graeme Stephens
Over the past decade, for the first time, scientists have had access to reliable measures of the ocean's deep heat, down to 5,000 feet below sea level, through the Argo network, a collection of several thousand robotic probes that, every few days, float up and down through the water column. This led Hansen to conclude that net energy imbalance was, to be briefly technical, 0.6 watts per square meter, rather than more than 1 watt per square meter, as some had argued.
(Recently, the satellite group measuring the energy imbalance has revised its figure, which now sits at 0.6 watts, matching Hansen's estimate, according to Graeme Stephens, the head of NASA's Cloudsat mission. It suggests there isn't a missing energy. Trenberth disagrees with this analysis, and it's likely to be a question of ongoing debate.)
From Robert Kaufmann
This past summer, Robert Kaufmann, the BU geographer, made waves when he released a modeling study suggesting that the hiatus in warming could be due entirely to El Niño and increased sulfates from China's coal burning. While the figures Kaufmann used for the study were based on the country's coal combustion, and not actual emissions — a big point of uncertainty — many scientists saw some truth in his assertions.
From Martin Wild
During the 1980s and '90s, the rapid decline of air pollution in the United States and Europe dominated the world's aerosol trends. While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia. It's not that the world is getting dimmer again; it's that it's no longer getting brighter.
"It's not an obvious overall trend anymore," said Martin Wild, a lead author of the United Nations' next climate assessment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. But, he added, "it fits quite well with [coal power] generation. For me, it's quite striking that it seems to fit quite nicely. But it could still be by chance."
From Daniel Jacobs
Kaufmann's findings may only be relevant for so long. Since 2006, China has begun to mandate scrubbers for its coal-fired power plants, though it is uncertain how often the scrubbers, even when installed, are operated. But change is coming, said Daniel Jacob, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University.
"The sulfate sources have been leveling off, because they've been starting to put serious emission controls on their power plants," Jacob said. "It's interesting. When you look at the future emission scenarios from the [next U.N. climate report], you see SO2 emissions dropping like a rock, even in the coming decades. Because basically China is going to have to do something about its public health problem."
The end of the article highlights the developing debate among even these scientists.
"….many of the scientists sorting out the warming hiatus disagree with one another – in a chummy, scholarly way. Judith Lean, the solar scientist, finds Kaufmann's work unpersuasive and unnecessarily critical of China. Kaufmann finds Solomon's stratosphere studies lacking in evidence. Hansen and Trenberth can't agree on a budget.
It seems staggering, then, that in a few years' time a new consensus will form for the next U.N. climate change report. But it will, and lurking beneath it will remain, as always, the churning theories and rivalries, the questions, the grist of scientific life.
So, in the end, can anyone say explicitly what caused the warming hiatus?
"All of these things contribute to the relative muted warming," Livermore's Santer said. "The difficultly is figuring out the relative contribution of these things. You can't do that without systematic modeling and experimentation. I would hope someone will do that."
Barnes, for his part, would love to separate whether any background aerosols he found tucked away in the stratosphere came from Chinese coal burning. It is difficult to figure out, but he has some hope it could happen.
"Maybe when coal burning triples," he said, "then we might sort it out."
These extracts from the Greenwire article illustrate why the climate system is not yet well understood. The science is NOT solved.


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Age-old converts to the humble bicycle and "buy local" adage, continental Europe could teach the rest of the world a thing or two about caring for the environment. In fact, some of Europe's major cities are ramping up their eco initiatives so much that they're hitting headlines all over the world. Options for eco-conscious travelers are soaring, too, with eco-hotels and "green" hostels spanning all budgets, and tour companies working hard to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly options.
From free bicycle rentals, hybrid taxi-cabs, and bustling farmer's markets to inner city renewable energy zones, these 10 cities top the rankings when it comes to Europe's most eco-friendly cities.
1. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam may be better known for its liberal drugs policies and laid back cafes crammed with eager overseas students, but there's more to this hippie haven than meets the headlines. Something of a pioneer in environmental awareness, Amsterdam brought in innovative energy management projects back in 2009, with new power hookups for electric cars, solar panels, and household wind turbines and is still working towards its goal of a 40% drop in emissions by 2025.
Travelers can get in on the action by indulging in the abundant local fare, from freshly baked pastries to home-brewed herbal teas, or taking a pedal boat tour along the city's labyrinth of picturesque canals. Transport gets an eco-friendly makeover here, too, with cyclists counting for some 75% of city cruisers and making it the most common transport option in the city. Better ditch the tour bus and hire a pushbike instead.
Book a hostel in Amsterdam and read The First-Time Guide to Renting a Bike in Amsterdam
2. Malmö, Sweden
Stockholm might garner the international attention, but it's Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, that's topping the ratings when it comes to green living. The city is home to the world's third largest wind farm, a wide cycle network, and an impressive amount of parks and green spaces. Most interestingly, the city is home to an innovative new urban development located on the city's western harbor – an entirely green district housing some 10,000 inhabitants and utilizing water harvesting, solar power, and wind power to furnace a 100% renewable energy zone.
If that's not enough to entice you, the laidback city boasts a renowned contemporary art scene (and some 50 art galleries in downtown alone) and hosts the beloved Malmö Festival -an eight-day music, art, and theatre extravaganza held in the summer months.
Check out our Sweden Travel Guide and book a flight to Sweden
3. Hamburg, Germany
A list of Europe's eco-friendly cities wouldn't be complete without a nod to the 2011 European Green Capital – Hamburg. Lying along the Elbe River, the city is scattered with greenery from vast public parks and flowering gardens to lakeside beaches and shaded woodlands, turning the urban sprawl into a haven of natural beauty. Visitors can take a boat trip along winding canals, pedal around the city streets or pound the pavements at the Hamburg Fish market, a 300 year old tradition held each Sunday.
Those looking to cut down their carbon footprint and save a few bucks should look out for the city's "car-less Sundays," held several times annually, when the city centre is graced with free public transportation, or take advantage of the city center's free bicycle rental scheme. If you need a speedier form of transport though, don't fret – the S-bahn airport train is powered entirely from renewable sources, and over 300 green taxicabs plough the streets daily.
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4. Zurich, Switzerland
Whether you're heading their for the snow, the picturesque views, or just to stock up on Lindt chocolate, Switzerland offers some of the most stunning and pristine natural landscapes in Europe and a quality of life that often ranks among the highest in the world. Zürich is a pretty good place to start off if you're looking to get back to nature – there's nearby hiking and skiing in the Swiss Alps, boat trips on Lake Zürich, and fauna-filled woodlands to cycle through. And it's not only the scenery that is impressive – the city's environmental policies (city dwellers recently voted in a referendum to enforce individual CO2 limits) mean the air quality is a noticeable notch above most. There are also bicycle-only zones, a rapid development of renewable energy sources, and innovative waste reduction schemes. Even tourism is getting on the eco band wagon – alongside walking and cycling tours, visitors can even tour the city on eco friendly electric scooters.
Book a hostel in Zurich and check out our adventure trips in Switzerland
5. Budapest, Hungary
Not only is Budapest one of Europe's most beautiful capitals (and featured on the UNESCO's World Heritage list, no less) but it has catapulted itself to the top of the green list in recent years. This is a city that knows how to make environmental awareness fun, hosting events like the 2009 Eco Costume Fashion Show, where designs were fabricated from recycled materials and a mass cycle expedition to promote Earth Day in the same year (a record 50,000 cyclists participated).
Tourists have plenty of eco-friendly options at their fingertips too, with a high concentration of hotels taking big steps towards sustainable and environmentally sound practices, and lower budget hostels following suit, too. Visitors can hit the city on foot or hire a rental bike to whiz between the sights – make sure to stop off and sample some local pastries along the way.
Read about the pros and cons of adding Budapest to a RTW Trip and read Eight Ways to Experience the Best of Eastern Europe in Budapest
6. Reykjavik, Iceland
Whether you're hitting the city's notoriously eccentric party scene or getting steamy in a geothermal hot spring, Iceland has plenty of eco-friendly options available. The country makes good use of its abundant geothermal activity, harnessing the natural heat source for much of its electricity and power needs, and making it one of the most energy-efficient destinations in Europe – hydrogen buses even run the city routes. In fact, so devoted to its green credentials is Reykjavik that the powers that be have pledged to make the city fossil-fuel-free by 2050, as well as aiming for the title "the cleanest city in Europe."
For a city so focused on cleanliness and environmental awareness, you'd be forgiven for writing Reykjavik off as boring, but the reality is far from it – the capital is a hive of hip bars, stylish eateries, and art galleries, not to mention its stunning backdrop of sulfur puffing volcanoes and dolphin-filled ocean.
Read 10 Reasons to Visit Iceland Now and book a hostel in Reykjavik
7. Riga, Latvia
This tiny Baltic country earns some serious eco credentials by being one of few regions that actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thanks to the abundant forests and peat bogs that naturally convert carbon dioxide to biomass. Add to that the fact that Latvia has the lowest CO2 emissions within the European Union states and that the capital, Riga, is one of Europe's cleanest, and you've got one seriously green holiday destination.
There's plenty to enjoy, too, from sandy beaches to wild jungle hikes and stunning lakes brimming with salmon. Despite its harrowing history, this eastern European country is an up and coming destination, tucked away at the back of the guidebook and still offering virgin territory untrampled by the backpacker masses. Bird watching, trekking, camping, and boating are all possibilities, as is exploring the country's national parks – from the densely forested Gauja National Park to the sandy beaches of the Slitere National Park, there's plenty of chances to get back to nature.
Read Riga, Latvia: 8 Reasons Why You Should Visit Soon and find a flight to Riga
8. Copenhagen, Denmark
A bicycle city (with free rental bikes available) with an enormous offshore wind farm and an excellent public transport system, Copenhagen is an obvious choice for green travelers. Trendy and upmarket, the city offers everything from chic shopping boutiques and a celebrated art scene to quaint cobbled streets and cutting edge architecture. The city has no shortage of green activities, too – there's open-air swimming down at the harbor pools (proof of how clean the waterways are) and the world's first carbon-neutral theme park, Tivoli Gardens. Eco conscious shoppers will be in their element here as eco fashion labels, organic perfumeries, and vintage boutiques abound, and thankfully, sustainable travel includes eating local produce too – as good an excuse as any to tuck into some of those famous (and incredibly morish) Danish pastries!
Read 9 of the Coolest Art Hotels in the World and check out our Copenhagen Travel Guide
9. Nantes, France
Set to swagger into the spotlight in 2013 as the annual European Green Capital, Nantes is a city that has put time and energy into their environmental programs and has worked hard to gain credibility in the battle against climate change.
Lacking the crowds and pomp of Paris, but retaining enough history and culture to interest the masses, Nantes has become a popular spot for those seeking out some tranquility amidst urban life. Certainly Nantes lives up to its reputation – the city is spotless, the grass carefully mowed, and electric tramways and bicycles are the most common forms of transport. Even the motorway roundabouts are bursting with displays of colorful flowers. The city's latest project is a botanical hanging garden, featuring plants from around the world nestled onto the balconies of a skyscraper – an innovative take on urban nature if ever there was one.
Explore our adventure trips in France and check out the WhyGo France site
10. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Few cities have it as sorted as Spain's Victoria-Gasteiz, a small town in the Basque mountains where the city districts are divided into three "circles," each encompassing different areas of development – the city centre, land converted into greenery, public parks, and protected mountain and forest areas. It's these ambitious developments that has seen the city awarded the 2012 European Green Capital title, an honor sure to draw in a few more eco tourists.
Read more about ecotourism around the world:
- 10 Tips for More Eco-Friendly Travel
- How to Plan an Eco-Friendly RTW Trip: 9 Destinations to Go Green
- 6 Things You Didn't Know About Ecotourism
- 8 Green Ways to Experience Belize
Ecotourism is the fastest growing segment of the world's largest industry. Traveling slowly, utilizing local transport, and planning eco tours are just a few ways to ensure your trip to Europe is eco-friendly. By selecting an eco conscious tour company like Global Basecamps, travelers can enjoy their journey knowing their tourism dollars are helping the community and minimizing their impact on the environment. Further, in an effort to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Global Basecamps partners with CarbonFund.org to plant a tree for every trip sold.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.9 Pretoria Sep. 2009
Veil of silence falls over Health department kickback probe
Chris Bateman
Protracted inaction, avoidance, broken undertakings and suspicion have greeted Izindaba attempts to report the fate of a top official in the national health department's Foreign Workforce Management Programme (FWMP) found guilty internally of taking kickbacks.
Besides confirming that Sean-Allen Smith, a pivotal player in the ongoing placement of foreign doctors and a deputy director in the national health department, was found guilty of taking kickbacks, the department failed to reply in any lucid form to questions repeatedly faxed, e-mailed and posed verbally.
This after Advocate Thomas Ngake, Director of Employee Relations, Equity and Wellness at the national health department, last July spoke breathlessly of an allegedly shady 'web' reaching into Home Affairs, the Health Professions Council and the health department's FWMP. He described the matter as 'very sensitive', with 'serious political implications' that 'involve management and beyond'.
At the time Ngake confirmed that the chief suspect was being grilled at a separate in camera internal disciplinary hearing after a forensic probe 'dating back over several years' and added that a second suspect, a security officer, was also involved.
However, a year and a host of unanswered, avoided, forgotten or tersely dismissed e-mails and phone calls later, Ngake and the communications director he referred Izindaba to, Fidel Hadebe, have fallen virtually silent.
Ngake's most recent response (29 July this year) to specific and repeatedly faxed and e-mailed questions was a terse 'fact are not correct and it is policy of the dept to make a press lease after disciplinary enquiries' [sic ].
Attempts to clarify whether he meant that it was not the policy of the department to issue press releases after disciplinary enquiries were unsuccessful.
In April this year Ngake promised, 'we will have a press conference'.
Smith came to the attention of Izindaba readers in October 2006 as a key player in an award-winning feature story about the possible impending (2008) collapse of the rural health care system because of a paucity of foreign-qualified doctors and community service doctors.1
Foreign-qualified doctors a vital cog in delivery
These two cadres form the backbone of the rural public health care delivery system. The story centred on the impact of the then new two-year internship on community service staffing while highlighting problems in recruiting and placing vital foreign doctors. The two-year internship reduced available community service conscripts by 78% last year and put rural hospitals, in particular, under immense pressure, increasing reliance on foreign-qualified doctors.
Private recruiting agencies for both doctors and nurses sang the praises of Smith in helping them cut red tape and place critically needed staff in spite of his own FWMP being severely understaffed. While some insiders viewed him as 'a bit of a loose cannon', foreign doctors cited him as the single biggest factor in their placement and ironing out of subsequent housing, subsidy and administrative problems.
He was suspended on full pay in April last year, with Ngake confirming a guilty finding by the internal inquiry in June this year, promising Izindaba more information once argument in mitigation and aggravation of sentence was completed by 20 May. He said the Director-General of Health, Thami Mseleku, would decide on the sanction.
On 27 May this year Ngake held out further hope, saying 'as soon as the (inquiry) chairperson has a draft summary I will sit with Fidel Hadebe (the departmental communications officer) and draft a press release it won't be before the end of June'.
The questions e-mailed and faxed by Izindaba to Ngake, Hadebe and a second communications staffer, Kgomotso Phasha, on 27 July, are:
Can I please have a copy of the committee judgement, plus the subsequent sanction? (If not, a reason and the official charge/s, verdict, and sanction.)
Has Smith's post been re-advertised and, if not, will it be, or have his former tasks been reallocated in-house?
Has the post been re-filled?
What was the outcome of the concurrent criminal investigation?
How many foreign-qualified doctors were placed in South African hospitals between the time Smith was suspended on full pay and when his internal hearing was concluded?
How many foreign doctors were placed in South African hospitals during the equivalent period before his official suspension?
Are there are any disparities in this comparison and, if so, can you comment on their significance when compared with foreign-doctor recruitment and placement numbers historically?
Izindaba motives questioned
In May this year Hadebe, responding to an earlier similar list of questions, promised to 'confer with Advokate Ngake on the matter', adding, 'my simple observation though, I am fascinated by the personal interest you are taking/having on this matter'.
When Izindaba located Ms Phasha on her cell phone and asked for help in facilitating a response, her parting words were, 'I'll let you know if anything comes up'.
Ngake's claim of a possible 'web' of fraudulent activity has some historical validity.
Just over 4 years ago an HPCSA official responsible for registering foreign-qualified doctors was convicted of fraud for accepting cash for improper registrations (11 doctors were subsequently struck off the roll).
Home Affairs meanwhile is replete with stories of internal fraud and corruption.
Around 15% of doctors currently working in South Africa are foreign qualified, many of them working in terms of unwieldy bureaucratic country-to-country agreements.
The global average of foreign-qualified doctors in developed countries is around 25%, but South Africa's human resource plan sets a ceiling of 5% while maintaining an 'ethical' policy of not employing foreign-qualified doctors or nurses from other African countries. Many foreign (African) doctors work as car guards in metropolitan areas around the country.
A call to the health department's FWMP established that Smith 'no longer works here he left sometime last year'.
1. Bateman C. Rural health care delivery set to collapse. S Afr Med J 2006; 96: 1219-1226. [ Links ]


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No one's posting to Facebook Stories. Only eight of my 2,800 friends have Stories up right now, and three came from the new "cross-post from Instagram Stories" feature. Maybe younger or international demographics are, but I'd bet they're too wrapped up in Snapchat and Instagram. It's slow adoption for a feature cloned from Snapchat that's proven wildly popular elsewhere, and lives prominently at the top of perhaps the world's most-used app.
Maybe big budget video can turn things around.
Today, after weeks of pestering the company about the possibility, Facebook exclusively told TechCrunch that Facebook Stories is opening up to Pages. The feature is rolling out over the coming month to all pages, including brands, news publishers, athletes, entertainers and nonprofits.
Facebook product manager Amy Sun tells TechCrunch "We've been listening to our community and working to make it fast, fun and easy for people and Pages to create Stories on Facebook. Over the coming month, Pages will be able to create Stories to share with the people who follow them."
Facebook said it was encouraged by how Instagram users have embraced Stories from public figures and brands like fashion companies. It expects to see lots of "behind-the-scenes" looks inside companies and the polished marketing campaigns that end up in the traditional Facebook feed.
People will see Facebook Stories from Pages they follow or Like in the Stories section on mobile and desktop. Page admins will see a "Create Story" button on the mobile app when viewing their Pages. This content won't show up on the News Feed unless posted there as well, and will disappear in 24 hours like all Stories.
News publishers and entertainment personalities might have the most to gain from the feature, as it will let them quickly shoot intimate content that differs from the traditional text-based articles and glossy videos generated by or about them. Stories viewers are used to off-the-cuff tone, shaky production and selfie monologues, allowing these creators to speak to directly to their audiences without much fuss.
Facebook Stories could desperately use the boost. It's the home for content created through Facebook's augmented reality Camera Effects platform. But the aspirations of embedding content, art, games and utility into the real world via Facebook Camera will only come to fruition if people use Stories.
Facebook has yet to share a daily user metric for Facebook Stories, despite Instagram Stories hitting 100 million merely two months after launching, while it and WhatsApp Status both now have over 250 million. That's compared to Snapchat's 173 million daily users for its entire app.
In my experience, I received about 30 views sharing Facebook Stories to my 2,800 Facebook friends (1.07 percent viewed) and 830 views when also sharing to my 69,000 Facebook followers (1.15 percent viewed). Facebook needs either better content or to institutionalize the viewing experience to get Stories enough viewers for the Camera Effects platform to reach its full potential.
That's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, as no one wants to take the time to post if no one's watching. Businesses will either give the feature a jumpstart or make it nothing but another way to blast marketing spam that people ache to avoid.
Unfortunately, without proper education about what's actually entertaining to users, I fear it will be the latter. If Facebook at first only allowed specific top brands with a history of great content like Red Bull, or ones especially apt for Stories like big sports leagues, newsrooms and television shows, it might be able to set the tone of what branded Stories should look like on its platform. But simply launching this to all brands may breed myopic, sales-driven usage that could further push users away.
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Last week, the media went schizophrenic over the Windows Vista speech recognition 'loophole' which allowed anyone with a microphone to have full access over your computer. Granted, you must also be partially-deaf, turned your speaker volume to full, carefully place your microphone next to the speakers, turn on speech recognition and train your speech profile as if you were someone else. It might sound incredibly challenging to get this exploit working properly, but the media assures this exploit is a "fatal flaw", so obviously Microsoft is to blame and Vista gets a big red "Fail" on security.
This week, two top Swedish security experts only to be named "Long" and "Zheng", to hide their identity from Microsoft, exposes many more "fatal" security flaws inside the newborn operating system, Windows Vista. Here are the two most dangerous exploits you should be concerned about.
The first exploit is a bug inside the keyboard and mouse subsystem which enables the targeted system to be hijacked and maliciously delete files, folders, music, torrents and other important sounding stuff without the user's authorization or control.
Details of how such an exploit works are sketchy, but leaked documents reveal the keyboard and mouse APIs offers unprecedented amount of control over an operating system, allowing anyone and everyone to have full access to your computer with or without your authorization. This exploit allows anyone ranging from younger siblings to gang leaders who could use brute force, such as a punch or tickle, to gain access to your keyboard and mouse cursors and perform malicious activities such as browsing The Inquirer or deleting vital fraudulent financial documents.
A second exploit highlights a serious flaw inside the popular Windows-platform development tool, Visual Studio. An undocumented feature inside this software is said to enable the ability for malicious users to compile and execute unsigned and potentially damaging source code. If users somehow come across malicious source code and decide to copy, paste, compile and execute within Visual Studio, the resulting application could change wallpapers, block access to YouTube, increase the volume and other serious irreversible damages to the computer system.
Nobody knows exactly how or why Microsoft has designed Visual Studio to include such a dangerous and exploitable feature, but several self-proclaimed security experts has voiced their anger to Microsoft for such questions actions. "Putting lives at risk like cars on the road" says one expert, "cheese sandwiches are really good, but this is horrible like a tomato sandwich" insists another – drawing a connection between operating systems and lunch snacks.
Whilst both exploits are said to affect the entire industry of operating systems, "Long" and "Zheng" insists that only Windows is affected due to its massive user-base and pretty wallpapers. Both security experts warn if users do not switch to another operating system, Apple and the Free Software Foundation will be really upset.
Microsoft officials gave me a weird look and did not wish to comment at the time of writing.
Next week, keep an eye out for the exclusive report on why Solitaire is a fire hazard. How the end-game fireworks might burn down your operating system. Not to be missed by every innocent Solitaire player.


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Since 1917, on March 8th we celebrate International Women's Day around the globe.
The United Nations has been organizing this day since 1977, every year under a different theme. This year it's " A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End violence Against Women".
Sadly, we still hear horrific news about violence against women, and numerous organizations and programs worldwide are fighting to stop these incidents for good. Let's all stand together and fight for the rights and freedom of women worldwide.
To all the amazing women: Happy International Women's Day,
from Eddy K.
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Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed the University of Florida and Florida State University to increase tuition by virtually unlimited amounts.
The governor's action on the measure (HB 7129) turned aside the pleas of higher education officials and business leaders who said it would make the schools more competitive. It's also in keeping with Scott's recent emphasis on holding down the cost of living in the state.
"While this decision has not been easy, I do not feel that I can sign this bill into law without a more detailed plan to ensure the increased tuition requirements on Florida students will provide the return they and other Floridians need on their additional investment," Scott wrote in a letter announcing the veto.
Scott called instead for the Board of Governors to craft a plan for each university "tied to degree production and geographic location" and to scour the state's higher education system for waste and inefficiency.
The governor also said he would begin "a further review of higher education options" next week, though he didn't specify what that review might include or what the options might be.
While the measure would have initially allowed only UF and FSU to offer plans for raising tuition beyond the 15 percent annual increase allowed by state law, eventually any institution that met 11 of 14 standards spelled out in the bill could submit proposals to do so. The Board of Governors would still have to approve the plans.
Officials with state universities and the board expressed frustration with the decision, especially at a time when state funds for higher education have been dwindling. University president repeatedly emphasized during the debate that Florida has some of the lowest tuition rates in the nation.
"I am very disappointed that the Governor vetoed a bill that enjoyed widespread support and would have elevated our university system to greater national prominence — something that would benefit all Floridians," Board of Governors Chairman Dean Colson said in a statement issued late Friday. "Hopefully, someday soon, the State will decide to provide our universities with the tools they need to compete on a national stage."
In an email to faculty and staff, FSU President Eric Barron was even more blunt about the effects of the veto.
"There is no doubt that this will slow our plans, given that the Legislature continues to take away resources," Barron wrote.
In addition to higher education officials, an influential group of business leaders also endorsed the bill. The Florida Council of 100 wrote Scott two weeks ago urging him to approve the measure.
"When 50 to 60 percent of graduates have no debt, and average debt levels are again below those of the nationally preeminent institutions, it becomes a matter of personal responsibility in addition to access," the letter says. "Market forces can't optimally drive improved performance if students don't have appropriate skin in the game."
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NEW YORK >> Anthony Weiner acknowledged today that his campaign manager has quit after new revelations of lewd online behavior but said he is not dropping out of the race for New York City mayor.
"We have an amazing staff, but this isn't about the people working on the campaign. It's about the people we're campaigning for," Weiner said after speaking at a Brooklyn church.
Weiner confirmed that campaign manager Danny Kedem has resigned but wouldn't say who is replacing him.
He said he would keep talking about "ideas for the middle class and people struggling to make it every single day" and added, "We knew this was going to be a tough campaign."
Meanwhile Sunday, mayoral rival Christine Quinn, speaker of the New York City Council, said Weiner has shown "a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth and a real lack of maturity and responsibility."
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Quinn said, "I don't think he should be mayor, and I think the voters, if he stays in the race, will make that clear."
The New York Times reported that Kedem told Weiner he did not want to oversee the campaign after Weiner acknowledged that he continued to send lewd photos to women after resigning from Congress in 2011.
Kedem had managed the re-election of John DeStefano Jr. to a 10th term as mayor of New Haven in 2011 and worked on Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 presidential campaign.
Weiner was forced to discuss his online behavior this past week after a gossip website printed excerpts of conversations Weiner had with Indiana college student Sydney Leathers last summer.
With his wife, Huma Abedin, alongside, Weiner apologized and promised that the "behavior is behind me." He later admitted that he traded racy messages with at least three women since leaving office.
He vowed to stay in the race, saying he believed "people care more about their futures than my past with my wife and my embarrassing things."
Quinn led the race before Weiner jumped in but slipped behind him in most polls over the past two months. But a one-day poll conducted after Weiner's latest revelations has her leading Weiner in the race for the Democratic nomination. The mayoral primary is Sept. 10, and the general election is Nov. 5.


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The group is led, above, by a new, wonderfully researched, video essay by the very talented Matthias Stork (author of the great, and widely circulated, Chaos Cinema video essays, along with others published here at FSFF). Thanks very much to him and all the other video essayists represented below for making their work publicly acessible.
[It's Open Access week, so this here Open Access campaigning website particularly wants to show its warm appreciation to those of you who like to share the fruits of at least part of your film studies labour for free!]
And if you know of any other, freely accessible, video essays on Westerns that FSFF has missed please alert us to them by leaving a comment with the link below. Thanks!
Outlaw: Josey Wales by Matthew Cheney
A video essay looking at a few aspects of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller: A Video Essay by Steven Santos
A. O. Scott basks in the pleasures of taking it easy with Howard Hawks's 1959 Western. (Related Link)
Beaver's Lodge: CAIN'S CUTTHROATS from Press Play Video Blog
This film concerns recent apocalyptic Hollywood blockbusters, which have utilised notions of the 'frontier' to develop ideas of American hegemony in the uni-polar era, even as they postulate a universal erasure of national boundaries. Largely, the non-human agents of apocalypse in such films are responsible for erasing boundaries, but in so doing they simultaneously establish the conditions of American renewal. Indeed, the frontier must be continually renewed; it is drawn in order to be effaced, redrawn and effaced again.
However, at the moment of effacement, when the boundaries between nations are broken down and a sense of universality seems triumphant, the dawning of a new world re-inscribes the frontier - the new world that is constructed is still American led; the mooted universality is both particular and parochial. Such films, which appear to posit un-American (or at least post-national) frontiers, actually achieve the inverse; the universal equality offered by apocalypse offers an American un-frontier, a site seemingly without boundaries, but which is simultaneously nothing but frontier, a re-dramatisation of America's founding mythology.


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New restaurants: just opened, coming soon and not so soon
Official opening day at Brug Bakery
Just opened:
Sushi Yuzu in Koolina, across from Monkeypod Kitchen. Yuzu's new location focuses on sushi rather than the fresh udon featured at its original location in Ala Moana Hotel. Also unique to this menu: housemade tofu and mango snow ice. 92-1047 Olani St., Suite 1-101, 678-1155
The Signature Prime Steak and Seafood opened about a month ago on the 36th floor of Ala Moana Hotel, the former location of Aaron's. You'll find a classic steakhouse menu with appetizers such as steak tartare, lobster bisque and wedge salads, and steak options such as filet mignon, rib eye and porterhouse. On the seafood side: Maine lobster and Alaskan King crab legs. It's all brought to you by the restaurateur Peter Kim, whose restaurants include Liliha Bakery, Yummy Korean BBQ and Steak & Fish Co. in the Ala Moana Center food court. Ala Moana Hotel, 410 Atkinson Dr., 949-3636, signatureprimesteak.com
Taking the place of St. Germain in Shirokiya, Brug Bakery opened on July 3 to long lines. It's advertised as a German bakery by way of Hokkaido, but you won't find the coarse, dense breads (i.e. volkornbrot) prevalent in Germany. Instead, Brug offers light rye loaves, an pan, doughnuts, breads stuffed with cheese and more. Inside Shirokiya at Ala Moana Center, 973-9190
Opening soon:
Hard to remember, easy to spot: Budnamujip on Kapiolani, a Korean BBQ chain specializing in high-quality beef and charcoal (not gas) grills. 871 Kapiolani Blvd.
Opening not so soon:
Skybar Waikiki on the 19th floor of the Waikiki Business Plaza will open spring 2014. Lance Kosaka, previously the chef at Cafe Julia, is developing the menu.
The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Waikiki will bring Hawaii's first Dean & Deluca in 2014, and, in early 2016, BLT Market (of the same restaurant group as BLT Steak), which advertises a more seasonal-driven menu. Also opening at The Ritz: Sushi Sho, whose chef, Keiji Nakazawa, may not be well known in the U.S., but has developed a cult following in Japan for his attention to details in fish and rice, pairing rice of varying temperatures and seasoning to each fish. Read more about Sushi Sho here. (Interestingly, the blog post mentions Nakazawa uninterested opening new branches of Sushi Sho.)


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IN 1839 I was a contributor to Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, as I had been previously when it was published by Alexander. I was in the office one day when Burton introduced me to Poe, and the two new acquaintances began to talk with each other. I was impressed favorably with the appearance and manner of the author. He was clad in a plain and rather worn suit of black which was carefully brushed, and his linen was especially notable for its cleanliness. His eyes at that time were large, bright and piercing, his manner easy and refined, and his tone and conversation winning. In a short while we went out of the office together and remained in conversation as we walked along the street. We parted in Chestnut Street some few blocks above Third, apparently well pleased with each other. There was no bond of sympathy between Poe and me, except the admiration I had for his undoubted genius; but our intimacy increased as months wore on, and I became a frequent visitor to his family. Mrs. Poe was a delicate gentlewoman, with an air of refinement and good breeding, and Mrs. Clemm had more of the mother than the mother-in-law about her. It was some time before I discovered anything about Poe's habits that was not proper. But an incident occurred during the very time in which he declares "before God," in a letter to Snodgrass, that he was temperate, which opened my eyes to a new phase in his character. I was passing along the street one night on my way homeward, when I saw some one struggling in a vain attempt to raise himself from the gutter. Supposing the person had tripped and fallen, I bent forward and assisted him to arise. To my utter astonishment I found it was Poe. He recognized me, and was very effusive in his recognition. I volunteered to see him home, but had some difficulty to prevent his apparent desire to survey the sidewalk by a series of triangles. I managed to get him through the front gate of his yard to the front door. The house stood back, and was only a part of a house. They had a habit at that time in Philadelphia of building houses so that there was a stairway between dining room and kitchen back, and the parlor in front. The owner of this house had only built the rear portion, and the ground where the front was to stand in future had been turned into a grassplot, with a flower border against the adjoining brick wall. I knocked at the door, and Mrs. Clemm opened it. Raising her voice, she cried: "You make Eddie drunk, and then you bring him home." As I was turning away Poe grasped me by the shoulder and said: "Never mind the old ——; come in."
I shook myself from his clutch and, merely telling Mrs. Clemm that if I found Eddie in the gutter again I'd leave him there, went on my way.
Three days after when I saw Poe — for if I remember rightly the next two days he was not at the office — he was heartily ashamed of the matter, and said that it was an unusual thing with him, and would never occur again.
For some weeks I saw Poe occasionally at the office and elsewhere, industrious as a beaver. I think it was several weeks before I observed any other aberration. Then I heard through two or three persons that Poe had been found gloriously drunk in the street after nightfall, and had been helped home. I did not see him, however, in that condition; for it was some time before I called at the office of the magazine, and then found Poe clothed and in his right mind.
In the meantime Poe had shown me the prospectus of a new magazine, and explained to me at great length his views as to its conduct. He said he had given it its name because he intended to write his criticisms with an iron pen, and that he would make criticism a marked feature. Afterward he changed the name to the Penn Magazine, and got out a new prospectus, differing, if I remember, but little from the old one. He told me that he intended to print a [column 3:] number of these, and send them by post to Burton's subscribers; he excused himself by saying that most of these people would as soon take two magazines as one.
It was not long, however, before there was trouble in the office. Burton went off to play somewhere as a star, and left Poe in full charge. On his return some time afterward, close to the day of monthly publication, he found Poe absent and that in the interim he had furnished no copy to the printer, leaving everything at a standstill. When Poe came in, Burton rated him roundly for his neglect, and Poe became abusive in return, and, if his own statement may be believed, called his employer a blackguard and a scoundrel. Burton's version of his language made the expressions worse in their nature. I was not present, but heard the statements of both parties later on. I also heard the statement of Mr. George R. Graham, who was present, and repeated that in one of my open letters to Mr. Ingram, published ten years since, from which I quote. Graham said to me in the presence of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, the managing editor of the Newark Journal, and in the office of that paper, that the language of Poe was most foul and abusive on the occasion referred to. He described it rather minutely and, when he had done, I said to him: "You have told me before how disgraceful were the causes which severed your connection with Poe, and how, with that and this, can you defend the man?" Graham's answer was: "Oh, that's all right; but I hate Griswold."
This like the previous question in Congress cut off all debate, and the matter dropped. It may be proper to add that Burton, assisted by Alexander, and by keeping a force of printers employed night and day, managed to get the number out very little after the right time. It was not long after when Burton, finding he would have to abandon his profitable starring trips or the magazine, wisely chose the latter, and sold the publication to George R. Graham, who had bought the old Casket, and was trying to make something of it. He united the two under the name of Graham's Magazine.
Graham believed Poe to be a very valuable assistant, and engaged him as editor nominally, but really to write book notices; for Graham never allowed any article to appear in the magazine until after he had given it careful consideration. No matter who he had as ostensible conductor, the real editing was done by himself. I know that from personal experience. I wrote several poems for the magazine while both Poe and Griswold were connected with it, but always dealt directly with Graham himself, who accepted what I wrote and paid me for the manuscript without consulting any one.
Poe's criticisms, from their acrimonious tone, attracted much attention. They did not meet with general approval, however, not only because of their ill-nature, but because the people in Philadelphia at that time did not like anything so censorious and unjust as Poe's articles generally were. But Poe was sometimes appreciative in these reviews, notably in the case of "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," by Miss Barrett. He admired that production greatly and it took possession of his mind completely, as is shown by the fact that in adopting its rhythm in his poem of "The Raven," he unconsciously borrowed some of the phrases. I put this down in our controversy as part of the charge of plagiarism which I made against him, but on reflection I am satisfied that in this I did him an injustice. He would have scarcely ventured on a theft so easily exposed, and it was a treacherous memory by which he was beguiled.
During his connection with Graham, however, his breaks in the way of indulgence in stimulants were not uncommon. Graham bore with this, but finally the two parted. Poe was very angry at Graham, and, told me that he intended to write him down. Shortly afterward he brought to me a manuscript entitled, I think, "The Life of Thingum Bob, late Literary Editor of the Goosetherumfoodle." This he assured me was a transcript of Graham's personal history. He read it to me, and tho it was rather amusing, I could see that it was wholly imaginative slander, and gave none of Graham's history at all. It was afterward published, I believe, somewhere. Graham never resented this attack which he considered foolish, and seemed rather to feel kindly than otherwise toward his ex-critic, tho he told me a deal about Poe's habits and acts, which as it was second hand I shall not repeat here. When after Poe's death, Graham joined in the cabal to whiten Poe and blacken Griswold, I could not [page 1416, column 1:] understand his action, until I had obtained the cause, as I have previously stated, from Graham himself.
Poe's after career in Philadelphia was marked by the same occurrence at intervals of his violations of sobriety, and the town became full of scandalous stories about his conduct in other respects. In 1844 he left Philadelphia suddenly with his wife, sending for Mrs. Clemm afterward. Woodberry and others are at a loss to account for his sudden departure. I happen to know why, and there were several others who knew all about it. They are all, I believe, dead. I am the sole possessor of the scandalous secret, and as its recital would do no good to any one, the whole affair shall be buried with me.
I resided in New York when Poe came there, being engaged in managing a daily journal for a specific purpose. Poe soon sought me out and became my frequent visitor. He seemed all right in his habits, but very dejected and with apparent forebodings as to his future. N. P. Willis, who was a very kindhearted man, gave him employment in the office of The Evening Mirror. Then he was industrious and attentive to business, tho twice when I happened to be in the office, and not seeing Poe inquired after him, I was told that he was sick. I understood at once what this meant, and this brings me to the failing of Poe most damaging to himself.
It has been said time and again that Poe was an habitual drunkard. This is not true. His offenses against sobriety were committed at irregular intervals. He had not that physical constitution which would permit him to be a regular drinker. A very slight amount of liquor would upset his reason. John R. Thompson, for a long time editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, tells how, on one occasion, Poe drank a tumblerful of brandy which had on him apparently no effect. Mr. Thompson was a gentleman of the highest reputation for truth and honor, and I cannot doubt his word; but Poe must have been laboring under some strong excitement which counteracted the force of the stimulant. I know, so far as observation on two occasions went, that one glass of liquor would affect him visibly, and the second or third produce intoxication. He was always sick after these excesses — a sickness lasting from one to several days. He was then repentant and full of promises to abandon stimulants entirely in the future. He was not even a frequent drunkard when I knew him. What he became afterward I cannot say, but presume that his departure in that way grew upon him. In 1845 Poe went, along with Charles F. Briggs and Henry C. Watson, into the publication of The Broadway Journal, a small weekly sheet, very neatly printed. It did not achieve success; and Poe, who had frequently given me glowing prophecies as to its future circulation, told me one day that its comparative failure was owing to the fact that he had it not all in his own hands. "Give me," said he, "the entire control, and it will be the great literary journal of the future." During this time he reiterated this expression of discontent on his visits to my rooms; for I rarely met him anywhere else at that time, being kept busy all day with my official duties; for I had then closed the newspaper and accepted a post attached to the Custom House.
The page numbers reflect the numbering within the volume, and are given within parentheses. Page numbers are also given within the issue, making page 1415 equivalent to page 3, and 1416 to page 4.
[S:1 - IND, 1896] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Reminiscences of Poe [Part 02] (T. D. English, 1896)


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Potterphiles, fire up your e-readers. On Tuesday, author J.K. Rowling finally made her wildly popular 'Harry Potter' book series available in digital format through her Pottermore website.
The long-awaited move comes after months of testing to ensure the site could handle what is sure to be an onslaught of orders.
By selling the digital versions of the books herself, Rowling — who smartly retained the digital rights to her works when she signed her publishing contracts — will keep most of the revenue instead of being compelled to share it with publishers as she did when the books were strictly on paper.
The first three Harry Potter titles are $7.99 each, while the remaining four titles, which are longer, will set you back $9.99 per book. Links to buy them are also now on sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble — clicking those will download the digital books onto associated e-readers, with the retailers keeping a cut of the profits.


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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Color Harmony Dials
Another method, intended not only for the painter, but also for the interior designer, was published by Pedro J. Lemos around the same time.
The color designer can choose from six "color harmony dials" that can be placed over the wheel and rotated, revealing families of colors.
Lemos used a color wheel with lighter tints on the outside and darker shades on the inside. As a result, the colors visible within the dials include tints and shades, but lack any real deliberate choice of relative chroma or intermediate mixtures.
Thanks, Aaron Miller!
11 comments:
- Artillory said...
James, where do you get your color inspirations when rising these tools?
- October 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Artillory said...
- October 28, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- phiq said...
Is there anywhere where these can be bought today?
- October 28, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- phiq said...
(Well, I suppose an alternative, one could be made of card to fit over an existing colour wheel.)
- October 28, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- Daroo said...
- October 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- Jess said...
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "lack any real deliberate choice of relative chroma or intermediate mixtures"...but it's cool to see these old books being brought into the light again.
- October 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Brine Blank said...
I need these for students...what a great idea...a bit of color theory in a box...maybe James will put his celebrity to use and get these made as a bonus item to be included with his painting book release... unfortunately my celebrity is not enough to coax him into action...but never hurts to ask...
- October 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Vicki said...
Daroo, thank you for the link to the fabulous interactive color wheel. With a good printer you could print it out and have it be reasonably accurate as well, and just cut out the dials.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- phiq said...
Thanks Daroo!
- October 30, 2010 at 12:30 AM
- Morgan Rhys Gibbons said...
As a mildly colorblind animation artist, i'm always so interested in the objective science of color and color balance. thanks for digging up this awesome reference!
- November 2, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Making A Mark said...
Thanks James - another very useful post which I'm highlighting to my readers.
It seems as if this aspect of developing a colour palette is something people tend to come to after they've learned how to paint. However there's not much out there - a conclusion I reached because my post about Colour Schemes: Split Complementaries, Triads and Tetrads is still very popular 30 months later.
I've also got a colour wheel which does the dial thing - and I can confirm it certainly helps me to fix on colour palettes for formal artwork when I'm trying to limit colours.
- November 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM