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Improving Ultrasound Imaging Systems by Directing Sound Waves
In an earlier blog post, I commented on how acoustic waves are being used in a biomedical setting, to identify malaria in small fluid samples. A more traditional use of piezoelectric devices was written about in the latest COMSOL News. Here, an Italian company, Esaote S.p.A., uses them to produce improved ultrasound imaging systems.
Adjusting the lens in the ultrasound transducer allows for the acoustic waves to be directed.
Understanding Material Properties using Multiphysics Modeling
Developing ultrasound transducers involve specialized materials sourced from specific manufacturers. These manufacturers are unable to provide Esaote with the acoustic properties of the probes they supply at the level of detail that is necessary for production of the transducers. Therefore, Lorenzo Spicci and Marco Cati of Esaote create models of these transducers using COMSOL Multiphysics in order to look at the impact of the materials, and provide feedback to the device manufacturers. What I thought was cool is how they can adjust the operating conditions of the piezoelectric device to direct the acoustic waves, as the image above shows. This is what makes such devices useful to the researchers mentioned in the previous blog post on very small phenomena requiring great accuracy.
You can read the COMSOL News story here, while a model example of a piezoacoustic transducer can be downloaded here.
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How to Be a Great Rheumatoid Arthritis Infusion Buddy
Here's how to provide the perfect support for a loved one getting infusion treatments for rheumatoid arthritis.
If your loved one is gearing up for their first infusion therapy session for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), they might be a little nervous, which is understandable; the prospect of sitting in a high-tech infusion room alongside other patients can be unsettling. Luckily, you can do a lot to ease the anxiety and make the experience better for both of you. (Just ask if there is room for you in the infusion room—some places have space only for the person getting the infusion.)
Before the big day
Remind your loved one to drink lots of water. It helps plump up the veins, and that makes it easier for the infusion nurse to begin the IV. But your loved one shouldn't wait until the night before infusion to begin hydrating. It's best to start boosting fluid intake 48 hours before treatment.
Visit the infusion center, if you can. Things to look for: Will you have any privacy? Will you have your own TV and DVD player? Does the center offer wireless Internet access? Are snacks and beverages on hand? What's the room temperature like?
Help pack your loved one's bag (and pack your own). It should include essentials, such as tissues, hand sanitizer and hard candies, as well as creature comforts, such as a cozy blanket (infusion rooms can be chilly, so make sure you'll both be comfortable), slippers, reading material, puzzles, DVDs, e-readers, laptops and other electronic devices. Take snacks and water if you can't get them at the infusion center.
Prepare a list of questions. Infusion nurses are eager to answer patients' questions, so help your loved one come up with a list, such as, "Can you give me a topical pain reliever to make the needle stick hurt less?" "How long will the infusion last?" "What symptoms warrant a call to the doctor?" "Do I need to follow any special instructions at home once the infusion is over?"
Tune into your loved one's anxieties, if they have any. Maybe your partner, parent, child or friend is perfectly calm about the infusion. If so, that's great. But if you sense a case of nerves—clues include comments such as, "I can't wait till it's over." "Why me?" "I hate needles." Counter with some positive remarks: "I'll be right next to you." "Focus on how much better you will feel." "How great that these therapies are now available to protect your joints and help you get around with less pain."
Ask your loved one how they want to use the time. Do they have some thank-you cards to write? Bills to pay? Insurance paperwork that's been put off? Your loved one might want to tackle those tasks during the infusion, and you can help.
Offer to drive . . . their car. Your loved one might feel nauseated after their infusion, so they might appreciate a ride but feel more comfortable as a passenger in their own vehicle.
In the infusion suite
Help your loved one get settled. Meet the infusion nurse, and if your loved one is too shy or anxious to speak up, ask those questions you prepared.
Break out the laughs. If you have Internet access, try surfing some funny sites. One to try: theonion.com.
Break the ice. An RA infusion suite is the perfect place for your loved one to meet other people in similar circumstances. To get the ball rolling, catch someone's eye, trade a smile and ask, "Have you been getting infusions for a while? This is my friend's first time, so we're not sure what to expect."
Take in your surroundings. Is the infusion room quiet, or are people chatting up a storm? Take a cue from what's happening, and act accordingly.
Note your loved one's mood. Are they restless or resting comfortably? Chatty or contemplative? Remember, it's perfectly fine to just sit nearby, doing your own thing; you don't have to be in cheerleader mode the whole time.
Be alert to signs of allergy. If your loved one experiences shortness of breath; skin rash; chest pain; swelling of the lips, tongue or face; or dizziness during the infusion, alert the nurse promptly.
Play secretary. Write down any postinfusion instructions so your loved one doesn't have to.


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Aran Islands
The Aran Islands (Irish: Oileáin Árann) or The Arans are three large slabs of rock located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. They are pelted every day with rainstorms, enormous waves brought upon by the rainstorms, and struggling poets come to look upon the enormous waves brought upon by the rainstorms. It has no natural vegetation, soil, or clean water, plus a terrifyingly small supply of naturally occurring oxygen. For these reasons, the islands are revered in Irish culture, and many dozens of thickly-accented peasants call the big rocks their homes.
Geography and island life[edit]
Three enormous pieces of limestone make up the Aran Islands, their enormousness decreasing as one travels west to east. They are found stranded in the middle of the Galway Bay (or "Galbay" for short), which pummels the island daily with foamy waves and wavy foam. Each island is composed of solid limestone, with some dirt and patches of grass sneaking into the cracks like brave weeds sprouting in the margins of a filthy city street.
Seaweed is the main currency of the Aran Islands due to its plentiful nature, with otherwise commonplace items such as wood and dirt functioning as luxury goods. The exchange rate between buckets of seaweed and clods of dirt in 2005 were 5 : 1, though the 2008 recession has since inflated the rate to 8 : 1.
Local peasants rely on food and supplies imported from Galway to survive, creating a parental mentality among residents of the mainland city over the years. They subject the islands to monthly inspections, making sure each peasant has enough resources to barely sustain them day-to-day and stays away from alcohol and recreational drugs. An unsatisfactory inspection used to be punished with forcible eviction from the islands, though the obvious benefits of eviction have since rendered the punishment obsolete. It is now more common for residents to suffer a "grounding," forcible placement in the corner of the island with no seaweed supper for two weeks.
Inishmore is the largest, and westernmost, of the Aran Islands. Its almost completely flat surface makes it ideal for bicycling, though the abrupt 40 foot cliffs around the island's circumference make it ideal to invest in quality brakes. Being the largest of the three islands, it is the most diverse and well-populated island by far, housing over thirteen types of impoverished Irishman, eight types of impoverished Irishwoman, and over eighty-nine different types of rocks.
Inishaan, the middlemost island in all demographic and geological aspects, suffers from a severe inferiority complex brought about by the constant bullying of Inishaan. Plus, Galway says that it doesn't have a favorite island, but it always treats Inisheer better just because it is smaller and cuter. For example:
- Inisheer always gets extra corn, and always starves a little less around harvest season
- Inisheer always gets to sell their seaweed to Galway for extra nickels, but when Inishaan tries to do the same, they get told "Don't you think you're a little too big for this?"
- Inisheer always gets molested more often. Inishaan finds this slightly disturbing.
Inisheer, the littlest island, functions as the cultural center for all of Aran, hosting several festivals on pivotal dates each year. Lá Uafásach, a tremendous feast of edible-looking rocks on the Summer Solstice, is celebrated to ease into the fallow period that plagues the Aran Islands from July through May.
A similar festival, Réabhlóid Dúnmharú Léidearnach Thointrí, takes place on December 16th, at the peak of the third starvation cycle. A wide variety of games are played to distract the population from their dead or dying children, such as Maraigh gach ceann eile le carraigeacha ar an ceann, a feat of strength, and Caith do leanaí i aigéan, a disposal of said dead or dying children.
Written history of the Aran Islands did not exist until the 17th Century, when the first tree was imported from neighboring Galway, subsequently processed into paper using a paper processor imported from Galway, and written upon using a pen imported from Galway. Archaeological remains suggest that the island was populated sparsely by Celtic Druids pre-1600, though nothing is known about their culture spare that they starved and died off, as was popular in Irish society at the time.
During the 14th Official English Oppression, the Aran Islands were re-settled by refugee Catholics from Eastern Ireland. The British gave the poor peasants two options: "Go to Connacht, or go to Hell;" naturally, the fleeing citizens stumbled upon Aran en route to Hell. The Anglican army considered extending their oppression to Aran, but a quick view of the big limestone rocks from across the bay convinced them otherwise. When the Irish regained control of their homeland after the brutal Land War some centuries later, a team was sent to Aran to tell them it was finally safe to come back. They were bemused to discover that a nation of rocks and seaweed had not technologically advanced an inch between 1600 and 1890.
"They were carrying their kids in baskets and just chewing on hunks of moss, or some similar, strange vaguely green-ish substance," said representative Dan O'Donnell, who recounted his firsthand experience with the Aran Islanders in an official report to the Dubhlinn Tymes, "I asked the wives and children where all their husbands were, and they told me that the men had all gone out on the communal canoe to catch a fish and would be back in two weeks. You'd think they had been living under a rock for all those years, but the rock was actually living under them."
Since the official report, the Aran Islands have transformed into a makeshift zoo displaying the traditional customs of Irish life and language. Due to the islands' idyllic rockiness and complete lack of natural resources, the economy of the Aran Islands hinges upon tourism. It is annually flooded by poets and prosets in search of lost words and inspiring metaphors hidden inside the mossy cracks and rustic villages that dot the island.
Perhaps the most distinguished alumni of so-called Aran University is poet and playwright J.M. Synge, who journeyed to Aran on the advice of W.B. Yeats, who had never been to the islands but needed to distract Synge so he could screw his girlfriend. Synge's memoir of his travels pulls a remarkable amount of something out of nothing, detailing walks along the cliffs down to the smallest dropping pebble, conversations with the village elder down to the smallest fiber of his beard. While Synge discovered the natural energy that contributed to his ensuing fame in Irish literary circles, Yeats rode his wooden canoe all over Synge's soon-to-be-ex in one of Irish history's few win-win situations.
Man of Aran[edit]
When more natives began leaving the island in search for more habitable habitats, something had to be done to preserve Aran culture. In 1934, using a primitive camcorder imported from Galway, ten of the remaining twelve Inishaan villagers produced, directed, and starred in Man of Aran, a propaganda film championing the tough Aran lifestyle. From a joyous feast of muddy wood with a dash of mold, to the tragic shipwrecking of their last canoe, the film chronicles a day in the life of the typical (and, by the time principal photography was complete, only) Inishaan family.
The audiovisual parade of triumph, misery, and even more misery was a hit at the Irish box office, drawing larger crowds of poets than ever seen before. However, it failed to attract any permanent residents, and the number of Arannies dwindled into oblivion in the ensuing decades. It is now inhabited entirely by crouching metaphor hunters who, daily, mistake each other for simple peasantry.
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i dont like rainy weather
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At home as soon as snow is forecast I'm always worried and dreading waking up to even a few centimetres of snow. In the UK snow can cause a lot of delays and disruption to public transport, school and shop opening hours and a simple walk somewhere turns into a nightmare for me.
This year as I am living in Germany I knew I needed to be ready for the snow. I bought myself some rather expensive but beautiful snow boots to keep my feet warm and also provide me with a bit of grip under my feet. I am unfortunately one of those people that you always see slipping over on the snow and ice and so I was dreading the snow this year as much as every other year.
Last Thursday I woke up early to head to work and saw that it had snowed, not much but a little and I deemed it acceptable to wear my snow boots. I managed to get to work easily, warmly and I didn't fall over once, which is actually a miracle for me! This week also started with even more snow and my boots have kept me going through.
The thing that I am most amazed with here in Germany is that the snow has caused little, if any disruption at all. I know that if I was at home in this weather schools would have been called off and you would be lucky to get a train running, let alone on time. However here in Hamburg schools are open as normal and are actually nice and toasty inside, buses and trains are still running and better yet, on time.
Many of the people here do not seem fazed by the snow at all. The huge winter snow boots have come out as well as hats, scarves and gloves in every form and people are just carrying on as if the snow isn't even here. I haven't even seen any snowmen yet!
I'm glad I'm experiencing the snow here as it has showed me that it really isn't a big deal and as long as you are prepared for the snow, it doesn't have to turn life upside down for a few hours, days or weeks!
i dont like rainy weather
Yes, I like snow. In my country there is lots of snow but in my town not. I always looking forward to the snow because then my friends and I have a good fun.
I don"t like rainy weather..
I like snow.;)
I like snow.In Russia deal with snow.
I also like snow. It looks beautiful but my country doesn't snow.
I like snow!! But it's very cold!!!
You see my profile photo w e village is snowing.
jost in moment
Just in moment.
at last my country is now covered in snow.
Do you know, I am so Happy.
It was the first time this year, the snow was falling, and it was a wonderful excuse to go to school.
You can see my photo.
Yes, i like snow! Unfortunately, my country doesn't snow which means i don't know the good things and troubles come from snow. Someday, i wish i could feel how snow is.
Yes I love SNOW! It doesn't snow in the city I live but it does on our hills.
In fact, I hate snow. It is cold, slippery and awful! Perhaps the only good thing the snow flakes. They look amazing! :) Currently in Bosnia and Herzegovina has snow, and I hate it! Summer, please, come soon. I need you!
This is exactly what I'm normally like at home, but now I'm here in Germany they handle it so differently I don't mind quite as much!
In fall i can't wait for the snow, but when it comes there are many problems.Problems with clothes,traffic, etc.
But i love snow,of course! I can't imagine winter without snow!
I like that happiness on the snow!
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Hi, everyone. I would like to take the time to thank you all in advance for the time you take to review and assist with my dilemma(s). This is my first post and I apologize if I make any errors pertaining to the prescribed forum guidelines. I appreciate any criticism!
I began my Java journey buy reading a free online pdf textbook about programming in Java. I am half way through and now have an elementary understanding of the basics of Java. I am trying to master the resources I have read through creating programs including each section. The program I am trying to code is a simple change counter where the user gives a value (i.e. $232.75) and the program gives them the breakdown of bills that will be given back in change. This is a similar concept as to what a modern cash register does. I have written the code and anytime the input consists of something other than 100's or 20's, the program displays a value of 0 for the rest of forms of money such as quarters, 10's, pennies...
import java.util.Scanner; public class Change { private static Scanner input; public static void main(String[] args) { input = new Scanner (System.in); double money; //User specified value to convert int change; //Converted "Money" to int type int hund, twend, tend, fived, oned, quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies; //The forms change can be given in int afthund, afttwend, afttend, aftfived, aftoned, aftquarters, aftdimes, aftnickels; //Money left over following each form of change System.out.println("How much money would you like me to give you change for?"); //Ask the user for a value money = input.nextDouble(); money = money * 100; //Multiply double "money" by 100 to later work with integers change = (int)(money); //Typecast double "money" to an int value hund = change / 10000; //Divide change by 10,000 (hund) -- hundred dollars afthund = change % 10000; //then get amount left over (afthund) -- after hundred dollars twend = afthund / 2000; //Divide afthund by 2000 (twend) afttwend = twend % 2000; //then get amount left over (afttwend) tend = afttwend / 1000; //Divide aftwend by 1000 (tend) afttend = tend % 1000; //then get amount left over (afttend) fived = afttend / 500; //Divide afttend by 500 (fived) aftfived = fived % 500; //then get amount left over (aftfived) oned = aftfived / 100; //Divide aftfived by 100 (oned) aftoned = oned % 100; //then get amount left over (aftoned) quarters = aftoned / 25; //Divide aftoned by 25 (quarters) aftquarters = quarters % 25; //then get amount left over (aftquarters) dimes = aftquarters / 10; //Divide aftquarters by 10 (dimes) aftdimes = dimes % 10; //then get amount left over (aftdimes) nickels = aftdimes / 5; //Divide aftdimes by 5 (nickels) aftnickels = nickels % 5; //then get amount left over (aftnickels) pennies = aftnickels; //Remainder is pennies System.out.print("Hundreds: " + hund); //Print hundreds System.out.println(); System.out.print("Twenties: " + twend); //Print twenties System.out.println(); System.out.print("Tens: " + tend); //Print tens System.out.println(); System.out.print("Fives: " + fived); //Print fives System.out.println(); System.out.print("Ones: " + oned); //Print ones System.out.println(); System.out.print("Quarters: " + quarters); //Print quarters System.out.println(); System.out.print("Dimes: " + dimes); //Print dimes System.out.println(); System.out.print("Nickels: " + nickels); //Print nickels System.out.println(); System.out.print("Pennies: " + pennies); //Print pennies System.out.println(); } }
I have provided as much documentation as possible. If you have any ideas for a solution or if I need to start over, please let me know.
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Ethan Brown begins his sixth season as the head coach of men's & women's track & field, while he is in his fifth season as head coach of the men's cross country team and eighth season directing the women's cross country team.
Coast Guard's track & field and cross country teams are beginning to build momentum on the regional and national stage. Since taking over the helm of both cross country teams, the men's and women's cross country team have ranked as high as 15th and 13th respectively in the nation with Gary Ezzo ('14) earning Regional Honors in 2014 placing 17th at the New England Championships and qualifying for NCAA's. On the track and in the field, several athletes have gone on to represent Coast Guard at regional meets in both cross country and track & field, while 6 have earned All America honors including 4-time All-American in the hurdles, Adam Scalesse.
Prior to becoming head coach at Coast Guard, Brown served as an Assistant Coach for Track & Field for two years, working primarily with Sprinters, Jumpers and Multi-Eventers, helping 32 athletes on to All-Region honors and Carl Luxhoj to earn All-America honors three times in the long and triple jump.
Prior to joining the staff at Coast Guard, Brown was an assistant coach for both cross country and track & field at Babson College from 2006-2008. While at Babson, Brown helped guide 16 athletes on to NCAA regional qualifiers and 17 track athletes to the ECAC Championships.
Before arriving at Babson, Brown served as an assistant coach for the men's track & field team at his alma matter, Springfield College from 2003-2005. During his time at Springfield, brown primarily worked with Sprints & Jumps where he coached several athletes to regional honors and 6 athletes to earn All-America honors in the 400 meters, 4x400, long jump, and high jump.
In college, Brown was a standout at Springfield College where he was a two-time All-New England high jumper. In 2001, he qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships where he finished 12th.
He holds a Master's of Education in Sports Management from Springfield College and professional certifications including; Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist from the NSCA and USA Track & Field (USATF) Level I and Level II (Jumps) certified coach.


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But for the hijacking of our economy and with the bankers perversions for war profiteering, we might still be trying to live up to those words. At least teach them in our schools. At least have an honest debate on foreign excursions without the media dominate lies of those who plan to benefit.
For the last 100 years, our time and that of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, which gives us a solid connection to this time period, the created monsters we need to destroy have been varied and endless. There's been hardly a break to catch our breath.
It seems today these creations have been speeded up. If we don't keep a updated scorecard it's hard to keep up with the names of the teams we are supposed to hate.
Just this morning I heard a guy from the Heritage Foundation on the radio saying and I'll paraphrase: "Like it or not, the US is the big boy in the world. When we withdraw from the stage, there is chaos...chaos I tell you."
What paid for pricks like this never mention is how beginning in the think tank laboratories and moving on to direct engineering and manufacturing and outsourcing, we create monsters for the purpose of murder, mayhem and money.
We swing our big stick and try and make sure everything we touch is violated and taken down to the depths of debt slavery... and worse.
I saw today where some lackey for the war pigs, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) is proposing new legislation that possibly could be passed. "Congressman Introduces Bill To Authorize Military Force Virtually Everywhere"
The President is authorized, with the close consultation, coordination, and cooperation with NATO and regional allies, to use all necessary and appropriate force against those countries, organizations, or persons associated with or supporting terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and its regional affiliates, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, and any other emerging regional terrorist groups that share a common violent extremist ideology with such terrorist groups, regional affiliates, or emerging terrorist groups, in order to eliminate all such terrorist groups and prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States or its allies by such terrorist groups, countries, organizations, or persons.Bribery and blackmail certainly can buy some expanded forever war powers. I'm sure the right lawyer will tell us such a power could be used domestically as well.
The NATO summit hits Wales. What to do, what to do? Obviously these war lords are concerned for their own safety... or just pretending to play up the script.
Security at the venue has been tightened and a "ring of steel" fence covering 13.5km circles the area around Celtic Manor. Nearly 10,000 police officers from 43 forces across England and Wales are on duty as part of a major security operation. Warships from the 28 NATO member states arrived at Cardiff docks in advance of the summit.Monsters everywhere. Mary Shelley only scratched the surface.
I think I hear John Quincy Adams screaming in the distance.....or is it laughing? Hard to tell when the sound is so far away.
I know it's an overused term but hey, it's reggae from Jamaica.


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I realise that everybody has the right to vote however they like, but there has been a pattern of very suspicious upvoting recently.
This question is 3 minutes old and has been upvoted once already, despite being clearly not of any decent quality. I've seen the same pattern quite often over the past few weeks, but without access to voting data (duh) it's hard to demonstrate after-the-fact.
Do mods have access to voting data? Can they determine whether the person who upvoted on this question has done the same thing as a pattern lately? Perhaps abusing the system whilst going for a voting badge?


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There are a lot of people who are new to the site who may have not looked at the comments on production costs and potential sales prices of a possible New55 PN product. We estimate a best case retail price of $6 per sheet.
Just thought you needed to know. That's the reality of it.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The Black Hat
Not satisfied with mere negatives any longer, researchers at New55 have been intrigued that we might for the first time control the DTR positive, shown here, and the negative, below it, without having to choose between them.
Click on the images, especially the negative, as that is just a thumbnail, until you select it for a closer view.
A virtual display print from the negative can be seen by clicking here.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
We need more clips
Kodak, Fuji or Polaroid - doesn't matter. The clips are all the same and we now find we need more, please! You can leave the paper on them. In fact if you leave an inch or so it makes it easy for us to reclaim them.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Projection Plane Photography Challenged
Digital and film are the same, at least as we know them today, and differ only in one small detail - the image capture device. Both use a lens to project an image on a planar surface and then that image is captured as a charge. In film, the charge is a precursor to a chemical reaction. In digital, the charge is a precursor to generating an electrical signal. Otherwise it's pretty much the same process, and very lens-dependent, which is why lens prices continue to climb.
And while this new technology still uses a lot of the language and technique, including lenses, that look like our familiar projection plane photography, it really has more in common with holography, or optical coherence domain reflectometry, confocal imaging, phased array imaging, synthetic aperture, and lenticular array imaging techniques brought together in a more conventional format so you can take "a picture" that is a file that can be read and reprocessed in many different ways, sometimes simultaneously.
Do not overlook this innovation, which will impact displays as well as capture devices on all of our appliances, and eventually back onto planes, such as paper. It's cool and frightening at the same time, as we enter a period of highly accelerated change, unprecedented in human history.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Rachel Rayns' Magi Trak E6 processor
I like magnetic drives, and Rachel Rayns has this new video showing her Magi Trak E6 processor that apparently uses magnets to propel the mechanism, probably to keep the dry parts dry and wet parts wet, once and for all. Watch this wonder object of photo-robotic geekdom of the highest kind get baptized, and make a nice noise while doing so. Some of Rachel's work can be found at http://rachelrayns.com. If that isn't working, try this instead. Well worth a look!
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Solarized, or not, it's a matter of time and balance
Pulling a negative - stopping short of complete development - is a common way to control density and contrast, at least in regular darkroom technique. Things were different in a P/N situation such as old T55, and also New55, of which two examples are shown.
The top negative was pulled before the reagent had a chance to run to completion, leaving as-yet undeveloped and fixed silver halide a chance to see the light as we pulled the negative from the positive in room light, providing enough exposure to seriously solarize it. It's kind of fun to see both ends of the gray scale show as black here!
A more conventional result occurs when the reagent has time to complete the development to the point where a little room light has little effect. Actually, under the bill of the cap, there is that one very unexposed portion of the negative that still had a bit of development to go, and it did, as you can see if you look closely. Both of these negative are denser than we might want in a finished product, but we think we can fix that.
None of that has much bearing on the tonality of the DTR image, except of course the scales slide up and down, but the tones don't completely reverse.
In designing a P/N product, one has to consider the need for a negative vs a positive and try to achieve a balance. Polaroid never did, as the correctly exposed and processed negative produced a print that was a stop, at least, lighter than it ought to have been. Today we have a chance to correct that, and produce both positive and negative with the right characteristics, if that matters much. I think the negative is far more important and would be content with a positive that was lighter or darker, same as before, but it is tantalizing to think we might solve the longstanding balance problem that T55 had.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Yellow Dot Clue for Aero Ektar Aficionados
But the label with its dot is interesting. If you read it normally, left to right, it almost looks like you could read it as "48 inch f/6.3 for 9 inch X 18 inch camera telephoto type I-class B DAY NIGHT temperature compensated USAF spec No..."
Notice that the dark dot is violet or purple. The two in this context seem to me to indicate the use of the lens, in this case day and night. Sunny/Cloudy? I don't think so, and cannot come up with another plausible interpretation of the dots.
Therefore, the famous yellow dot, so cherished by those who pay extra for it in their Aero Ektar hoods, might indicate "Daylight Use". What would be different from night use? In darkness, the Aero Ektar was used with flash bombs to illuminate the scene of night bombings.
Do we now know that the yellow dot means? Comments please.
I grabbed this image and cropped it, taken from some other online post that I cannot find, to provide a proper attribution, at the moment. Here is another Aero Ektar and some earlier speculations about the meaning of the dot.
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Great deal on FP100C45 on Amazon
Here is the link. We don't get anything for this.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Price tag is biggest obstacle to New55 commercialization
While many of the technical hurdles for a new P/N material using an available emulsion have been overcome, the nagging problem of per-sheet price continues to be an obstacle to commercialization. We planned to introduce first a field processable negative material called DN-1, and a field processable direct positive material known as DP-1. If you have been following along you already know these are intended for rapid processing using monobaths and daylight tanks that accept a readyload format film. In the past, a readyload sheet cost about $3 each and today we expect it to be about $4, but with the added utility of insertion into a tank.
The price doubles with a P/N material. Plenty of pros insist this isn't really too much and is much less than one would pay to have a 4x5 negative developed and then contact printed.
Recent discontinuation of Fuji's FP100B material, which is (was) superb, was due to poor sales. That was only $3 a shot or less. Of course Fuji did a terrible job telling the potential market about their packfilms and then getting them into the hands of users in the US and Europe. Technical success does not mean market success and this is a perfect example. By the way, FP100B in the smaller size is still in stock just about everywhere but not moving. So go out and buy it! Want to see what it looks like? Click here.
The price doubles with a P/N material. Plenty of pros insist this isn't really too much and is much less than one would pay to have a 4x5 negative developed and then contact printed.
Recent discontinuation of Fuji's FP100B material, which is (was) superb, was due to poor sales. That was only $3 a shot or less. Of course Fuji did a terrible job telling the potential market about their packfilms and then getting them into the hands of users in the US and Europe. Technical success does not mean market success and this is a perfect example. By the way, FP100B in the smaller size is still in stock just about everywhere but not moving. So go out and buy it! Want to see what it looks like? Click here.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Night Vision Assembly Station
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an experiment in perspective
John Chervinsky's an experiment in perspective is guaranteed to interest anyone attuned to the power of the singular point of view presented by lens and film, all the more fascinating in its use of Type 55 on technical but whimsical subjects that challenge the eye.
John has been a great supporter of New55 and provided us with critical scanning electron microscope images of vintage materials that added to our understanding of the Diffusion Transfer Reversal technology we expect to continue to apply to imaging and elsewhere. John's website is here.
Here is a link to a pdf - but not an ordinary pdf! This one fills your screen with the images from an experiment in perspective, and you must look at it.
An aside: The images presented in an experiment in perspective are highly characteristic of certain qualities we admire in Type 55, and in some ways John's images provide a benchmark for New55.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Fine Arts in Maynard, MA
Chemical focal plane photography is thriving by directing its resources toward those with the desire to create and not just document using lenses and capture media.
Along the way new techniques, tools and ways of working are being adopted. Like the music production field of the last decade, there are winners and losers, with many large studios (maybe all) failed, and closed, meanwhile, millions of "amateur" musicians can now afford their own studios that have sound quality as good as any large studio of the 20th Century. All they need is a PC and a converter to manipulate sounds. But to generate sounds, they still needed microphones and then preamps. Companies with names like "Front End Audio" (they were one of our best microphone dealers when we made ribbon microphones) arose to fill the new market demand for that portion of the creative flow.The democratization of music-making obliterated the old mainstream and sent incumbents searching for new enterprises, and more, not less, music is being produced and delivered at an even greater rate by anyone with the inclination to do so.
A decade later we are witnessing the analogous replaying of that crash and rise in imaging, not just songs.The ubiquitous continuous instant connectivity-with-pictures we enjoy is a given even though it did not exist at all ten years ago. The document picture taking is done to fill Facebook and soon Twitter and of course those serious enough to consider the images as art go to Flickr to share and discuss them. One can expect this frenzy to accelerate since it is so easy to look at a picture, much easier than listening to a whole song, something we hardly do. Meanwhile, sub groups have discovered the "Front End" makes all the difference, and variations are everywhere: Dianas, Aero Ektars, Lensbaby, and The Impossible Project's products, weird films, Lomography, and even the serious traditionalists with finely crafted mahogany boxes and little holes. All seem destined to be delivered to the Epson, or the Canon scanner, then on to whatever and whoever suits us.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Making KODAK Film
Just got my copy (barely, as the mailmauler folded it in half) of this very interesting book straight from the author, Robert L Shanebrook, and you can read it too, if you order it here.
After just touring two European photo film making plants I now have a greater appreciation of the immensity of the KODAK plant, and the pioneering process development that went on there over the course of a century. Much of the equipment reminds me of milk and cheese processing equipment. There is a certain agricultural quality to KODAK that I never noticed, but it is not surprising, as upstate NY is dairy rich, too.
Last week we heard that KODAK was mothballing its largest factory. Being over capacity isn't good for business and right-sizing is a necessary step to continued operation. It seems that there are other processes that might be well suited to the big Kodak coaters, such as making next generation high efficiency solar cells. Wouldn't that be appropriate! Let's hope business leaders and not bean counters make the decisions to retain some knowledge base and capability in the US. Apparently, Mr. Shanebrook isn't so confident so he has carefully documented the process equipment and flow charts for key components used to make photographic film.
Industrial archaeology will some day be a distinct profession as technology intensive industries come and go through inevitable growth and obsolescence cycles. Only when it is too late to salvage will other investors do what they can to dig up the past and look for any gems of knowledge they might newly employ.
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as for the Geekfest thing! i have seen many a good idea on Livninghistory.ie deminished into nothing by intelectual snobbery! debated till it goes away!
Was up at Tionól at weekend and Má�e Ní �aonaigh gave paper on 14th fragment on Battle of Clontarf which lists out battalions present with Brian at Clontarf - who led them and which contingent (i.e. Muscraige Tire, Corco Baiscind etc. was in each section (army divided into three sections). I took extra copies of the handout which doesn't give the full text (I don't think this text is published anywhere) but the bones of what's there are also published in a much later Leabhar Oiris so can be found in that. I've got some stuff from 12th Cáít�éím C��cháin Cha�il as well talking about banners attached to various contingents to identify their origins - this is I think specifically in relation to sea fleets but presumably also worked for land armies? So we could put up suggestions for breaking up the army behind different banners with titles and localities if people felt that would add to it? According to 12th C Book of Leinster Táin, the�ifferent troups would also be dressed differently - one lot in red with long hair, the other one in blue with shaven heads etc. etc - this may be just pie in the sky mythology but it would be good craic to investigate maybe?
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Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, has been prevented from taking an active part in the presidential campaign. But, as Alex Spillius writes, she has been a unsung hero of Obama's re-election.
The first phone call Barack Obama placed after Mitt Romney had conceded defeat late on Tuesday night was to Bill Clinton, to thank him for his sterling work as a campaigner on the Democratic candidate's behalf.
But the freshly re-elected president would have been equally justified in making that call to the other Clinton – Hillary, his secretary of state – who, against the odds, has proved to be the greatest asset in his administration.
Once Mr Obama's nemesis, Mrs Clinton is now not only a close colleague but, it appears, a friend.
Protocol dictated that they should accompany each other to Andrews Air Force base in September to receive the bodies of the four Americans killed in the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. It did not dictate that Mrs Clinton should squeeze the president's hand after he had paid tribute to the fallen, or that he should put his arm around her waist as they stepped down from the podium.
What a contrast with 2008, when they repeatedly exchanged verbal – if not physical – blows as Mr Obama stunned the Clinton camp with his audacious capture of the Democratic nomination. To then offer his former rival the job of America's top diplomat was a masterstroke of conflict resolution.
Mrs Clinton responded by carrying out her duties with a degree of commitment, dependability and flair that has earned her near universal admiration at home and abroad.
She has shaped and executed policy on the major issues with a mixture of adept public diplomacy and effective private arm-twisting, often drawing on contacts made during her eight years as First Lady.
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During a 25-minute phone call, she reassured him that the US was firm in its commitment to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. His tone was duly more measured than on previous visits. "I have known Bibi a long time," she told an American newspaper later, using the Israeli's nickname. "I consider him a friend."
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As secretary of state, Mrs Clinton was barred from an active role in the campaign, but she craftily used her busy travel schedule to help Mr Obama fend off attacks from Mr Romney, who tried to portray the president as an apologist for American pre-eminence.
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Even the most ardent historian, male or female—citing Amazons and tribal matriarchies and Cleopatra—can't conceal that women have basically done fuck all for the last 100,000 years. Come on—let's admit it. Let's stop exhaustingly pretending that there is a parallel history of women being victorious and creative, on an equal with men, that's just been comprehensively covered up by The Man. There isn't. Our empires, armies, cities, artworks, philosophers, philanthropists, inventors, scientists, astronauts, explorers, politicians and icons could all fit, comfortably into one of the private karaoke booths in SingStar. We have no Mozart; no Einstein; no Galileo; no Ghandi. No Beatles, no Churchill, no Hawking, no Columbus. It just didn't happen.
Nearly everything so far has been the creation of men—and a liberal, right-on denial of it makes everything more awkward and difficult in the long run. Pretending that women have had a pop at all this before but ultimately didn't do as well as the men, that the experiment of female liberation has already happened but floundered gives strength to the belief that women simply aren't as good as men, full stop. That things should just carry on as they are—with the world shaped around, and honouring, the priorities, needs, whims, and successes of men. Women are over, without having even begun. When the truth is that we haven't even begun at all. Of course we haven't. We'll know it when we have.
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I think I agree that the recorded contributions of women are, compared to men, almost non-existent.
1) I don't think that makes those that are recorded worthy of dismissal.
2) And I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion, but that's partly because the conclusion was written somewhat poetically, and thus it's specific meaning is far from clear.
But, I would like to point out, that, much the same could be said for many ethnic groups. Even more tellingly, the same could be said for the lower economic classes. And if we assume that women have, on the whole been appx 50% of the population, while the lower economic classes have been a MUCH higher percentage of the population, maybe even being as high as 90%, depending on the historical period and region in question. So, that seems more noteworthy.
Again, not sure exactly what you mean in your conclusion, but, I'd have to say, given the above, I'd disagree with the sentiment, as I understood it.
I mean, is your point that, if you happen to be a black woman from a low socio-economic class, things are so bad, that life isn't worth living, given the totality of history?
I think, that leads me to one more potential objection. Regardless of any factor of age, gender, class, race, etc, you can't compete with the totality of history. You can only contend with the present. Let the future decide how to remember you once you are a part of the distant past. Depending on what one woman living in the present does right now, or in the near future, in 10,000 more years, the same question might be gender reversed, and the first name listed citing all the remarkable women throughout history (while bemoaning the paucity of male contributions) might be the woman who acts now or in the near future.
Historically, most of what the upper classes have "accomplished" has to do with acquisition and conquest more than invention and innovation.
The roster of poor and middle class folk who've left an indelible mark on the history of great accomplishments is long and full. Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart were not rich. Most of the great scientists and mathematicians were not particularly well-to-do. The great architects, for the most part, worked on contract or direction of rich people rather than the other way around, and Frank Lloyd Wright became rich after a while but certainly didn't start out that way. He had his ups and downs as well.
My contention is that in the aggregate, and unique and exceptional individuals aside, it's clear that men and women tend to have different sorts of goals. The great men have been ego-driven, self-centered, and obsessive about their goals, and if those goals are dramatic and large in scale, and they succeed in reaching them, those men go down in history. Women are more inclined to selfless goals and to take the impact of their work on friends, family, and most especially their children into account, and so that limits them in terms of grand pursuits.
It's been said that a woman will build a house and move in with her family to build a life. A man will build a house, move his family in, then go and build another house to sell to another family. As the gender-based restraints on women are falling off, we don't see any dramatic change in the interests and inclinations of men and women. If there are more male CEO's, it's starting to appear that even if there is something of a glass ceiling, a great part of it is that being a CEO is not what as many women (as a percentage of their sex) want to be, compared to men.
Exceptions aside, men and women in the aggregate are just different from each other, not better or worse. While it's now allowed for women to become fighter pilots, realistically how many high school girls can't wait to graduate so that they can attend military flight school and start preparing to shoot down enemy planes?
While there are examples of lower class people who have accomplished great things, total when compared to women is about the same. And they are historically a far larger segment of the population. I would challenge, further, that a great many of your examples are middle class, who, I will admit, are much better represented than the lower class (not surprisingly, mostly only in the last few hundred years, though).
Now, nit picking aside, and on to your main contention.... I'd say that you contention is far from proven. Again, aside from the rare few individuals, of both genders, all races, classes, etc, the vast majority of humanity just aspires to 'get along'. So, given that opportunities for men have almost always been greater, and expansion of the chances for the middle class (and later, even the lower classes) happened before the chances for women expanded, I'd have to say that the jury is still out. Recall, also, that to compare a lower class man to 'a generic' woman, isn't possible. If it's a fair comparison, it's a lower class man and a lower class woman. So, the woman has twice the obstacles to overcome for her to even believe she has a chance to make an impact, then less chance to achieve that goal, then to have it even acknowledged and recorded, then to have it even remembered.
And that's assumes that the playing field of today is now totally even, and it's demonstrably not the case. If you're counting the contributions total of all men today alone, vs all women to today alone, the men have a much vaster pool to draw from, given that women in a large number of the worlds societies still aren't on even close to even footing, and that would be a huge opportunity difference, even if we assumed that the western 1st world countries have zero bias in favour of men still, which would be tough to prove.
If we could compare matriarchal societies closely with very similar patriarchal societies, we might be able to get a clearer picture. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be an option.
The only way we might be able to resolve this debate based on anything other than conjecture, is either a very long wait, or a scientific experiment with controls, and carefully controlled variables. I can't think of any *ethical* experiment that could do that.
As to your last paragraph specifically, I think to some degree, it's how the children are raised. How much so, it's really hard to say. Almost every parent I'm aware of starts imprinting their child with gender roles and societies gender expectations from day one. And how many girls historically, have been brought up from childhood believe they even had a chance to become fighter pilots if they wanted to? And been encouraged in that dream, probably not many. I'd say a part of the problem is identifiable role models.
Brain chemistry will certainly produce some difference in behavior and interests among the genders, but I think to ignore all the other factors that can play into things and assume an assumption can be made already, is pretty poor science.
I guess we'll have to put our heads together in 100-200 years or so to know the truth, but research indicates that very early on, before children can have absorbed gender stereotypes, male and female children have different toy preferences, with girls tending toward soft-edged roundish toys (dolls, stuffed toys) vs. boys tending more toward the more hard-edged toys (trucks, toy tools, etc.). (source)
Another study discovered that men and women treat parental leave differently:
When both male and female college professors have the freedom to take post-birth parental leave, the men almost never do half of the infant care from birth to age 2, even when they believe that child care should be shared equally.
The reason female professors do more infant care may boil down to the fact that they enjoy it more than men do – and that reason may be rooted in evolutionary differences between the sexes, suggests a new, first-of-its-kind study, co-authored by Steven Rhoads, a political scientist in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences.
The study concludes that gender-neutral policies extending paid post-birth leave to male professors should be re-examined – and possibly repealed. (source)
Women took longer leave than men and used it differently. Why? The conclusion was that women enjoy taking care of babies more than men. And given their biology, why wouldn't they?
But, I ask you this: given that virtually everywhere male and female behavior show gender differences, why are you so insistent on the counterintuitive hypothesis that humans are different from the other higher animals? I think the idea that humans are different from other mammals is the extraordinary hypothesis in need of extraordinary proof.
I think, given the last sentence of my preceding post, that it should be clear I accept some difference. I frankly don't know if I could have been clearer. I will try, though.
There are differences between the genders in humans. But, the imbalance of perceived contributions to the sweep of history or the advancement of humankind can not possibly be attributed with any certainty (at this point) to these differences, in light of the huge societal difference in the sexes in a vast number of areas.
Therefore, I think it reasonable to think that (Some difference biologically)=/=(no contributions to society ever)
And the preceding statement isn't even totally fair, as I know that is not your real position.
But, even allowing for differences, I that it pretty evident that, given more (equal) opportunity, a lack of systemic suppression, and fair reporting of results, I think the gender contributions would be a LOT closer. Perhaps, we might even see women significantly ahead, as the differences you point out may be advantageous in a lot of endeavors..
Apologies for my earlier lack of clarity. I hope that this clears things up.
I'm not sure what counts as suppression. You might count as suppression expectations that society in general (meaning both men and women) find valuable for whatever reasons even if they aren't innate. These can work both ways. In another thread on this board, a male nurse detailed the prejudice against men in nursing school and, one can fairly assume, in employment as well. It would seem fair to suppose similar prejudices keep men from going into such fields as elementary education and "mannying," etc.
But it's nice we're not that far apart.
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