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16-Jul-2003 -- Our crew had departed Sustainer Army Airfield (vicinity of Balad and approximately 20 miles (32 km) NNE of Baġdād) in Iraq on a mission to deliver blood supplies to soldiers serving at an airfield in western Iraq. We had departed our airfield just in time to avoid the daily enemy mortar attack and flew west on the sweltering mid-July afternoon. We cruised along the coast of lake "Buḥayrat al-Tharthār" doing a fly-by of one of Ṣaddām Ḥusayn's demolished coastal palaces and delivered our blood supply.
With our mission completed, we decided to fly a slightly different route home, flying northeast and stopping by confluence 34N 43E. As we approached the Confluence we decreased our airspeed and searched the barren, windswept terrain for a landing spot. After spotting a suitable location, we made our approach and landed our Black Hawk helicopter virtually on the Confluence. The Confluence lies just 3 miles (5 km) west of the placid shore of Buḥayrat al-Tharthār ("Lake Chatterer"). After our crew posed for a few pictures we lifted off and headed for Sustainer Airfield, glad that another day in war-torn Iraq was over!


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After two explosions rocked the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday, a runner was interviewed near the finish line. Asked how it felt to have completed the race, she paused and said that that didn't matter anymore.
But of course it matters. It must. And not just finishing. For thousands more runners who were prevented from proceeding to Boylston Street, it mattered that they got as far as they did. It mattered that they lined up Monday morning at the Hopkinton start. It mattered that they trained in the first place. It all matters.
In the best of circumstances, running a marathon is a punishing experience. But it's not one we normally associate with survivor guilt. Yet it's not unimaginable that some runners might feel as if their personal path to fulfillment has been cheated. This should not be confused with selfishness.
Now that the Marathon has been overtaken by grave physical injury and unbearable loss, it may seem beside the point to take full measure of the psychic tragedy suffered by runners and their supporters. It certainly seems too soon. That's why it's especially essential for the runners to do whatever possible to preserve the experience as one they can be proud of, even as they recognize that the achievement will always be sullied by the unspeakable.
I was struck by the worldview of a parent quoted in a recent magazine article: "I try not to look backward . . . because if I did I'd be a mess. 'Pull out the rearview mirror and throw it away.' " The prescription for Monday's marathoners is to do the opposite, to ask themselves, for example, what they were doing just before 2:50 p.m. on race day.
Were they, like my friend Harry, minutes from the finish line — spared from the blast, yet agonizingly close to the end? Were they struggling up Heartbreak Hill, finding the mantras to propel them forward, oblivious of the roadblock ahead?
The image of 78-year-old Bill Iffrig, knocked to the ground by the force of the explosion just 15 feet from the finish, has been viewed over and over worldwide. He got up to complete the full 26.2 miles. But will he be able to recover the feeling he had when he was 30 feet away from his goal?
Runners, retrace your steps further. Go back to Monday morning. You were lying on a damp Hopkinton field, trying to gather your thoughts, and your strength, for the day ahead. Would this be your first marathon? Your 10th?
Was this the first year you had met the rigorous standards to qualify? Or did you earn your bib number by raising thousands of dollars for a cause you believed in? Did you do both?
Go back to the snowstorms of March. What did it take for you to pull on the extra layers and get out there for your long run? You could have banked the previous week's miles and taken a day off. But you went out.
Do you remember the beautiful blankness of all those runner's highs — how clear your head became after the first 10 or 12 miles on a February morning?
Keep turning backward in time, to the idea itself, the notion that, finally, you would pursue this remarkable goal. You had never run more than 6 miles in your life, but you believed it was possible.
Where was the spark that set you on this course? Maybe you went to the finish line on a sunny afternoon long ago. You missed the leaders by hours, but you stood in the packed crowd and watched runners of all ages, shapes, and sizes, people in agony and exultation.
First you thought: I could never do that.
Then you thought: Someday, I'll do that.
The lesson here is not to dismiss, even for an instant, the shared heartbreak that will forever mark our experience of this particular 2013 day. But runners need a way to honor the hours, the miles, the sweat, the discipline, the achievement of running beyond their capacity to continue.
The takeaway is to celebrate what can never be taken away.
Matthew Bernstein is the Globe's letters editor. He ran the Boston Marathon in 2005 and 2006.


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Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will find familiar.
He compares the Salginatobel Bridge, in Switzerland…
…to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, in England:
… in one of the most amazing books about architecture I've ever read:
"Both Robert Maillart's Salginatobel and Isambard Brunel's Clifton Suspension bridges are structures of strength; both attract our veneration for carrying us safely across a fatal drop—and yet Maillart's bridge is the more beautiful of the pair for the exceptionally nimble, apparently effortless way in which it carries out its duty. With its ponderous masonry and heavy steel chains, Brunel's construction has something to it of a stocky middle-aged man who hoists his trousers and loudly solicits the attention of others before making a jump between two points, whereas Maillart's bridge resembles a lithe athlete who leaps without ceremony and bows demurely to his audience before leaving the stage. Both bridges accomplish daring feats, but Maillart's possesses the added virtue of making its achievement look effortless—and because we sense it isn't, we wonder at it and admire it all the more. The bridge is endowed with a subcategory of beauty we can refer to as elegance, a quality present whenever a work of architecture succeeds in carrying out an act of resistance—holding, spanning, sheltering—with grace and economy as well as strength; when it has the modesty not to draw attention to the difficulties it has surmounted."
In that context, I'd like revisit my recent themes of choices and simplicity and add a third concept, elegance.
People, for the most part, are not playing with their software because they want to. They're using the software as a tool to accomplish something else that they would like to do. Maybe they are using a chat program to try and seem witty, in hopes that the person they are chatting with will want to spend time with them, so that, ultimately, they have a better chance of getting laid, so that, ultimately, their selfish DNA will get to replicate itself. Maybe they are using a spreadsheet to try and figure out if they can afford a bigger apartment, so that, ultimately, dates will be more impressed when they come over, increasing their chance of getting laid, again, benefitting the DNA. Maybe they're working on a PowerPoint for the boss so that they will get a promotion so that they'll have more money which they can use to rent a larger apartment that would attract mates, thus increasing their chance of getting laid, (getting the idea yet?) so the selfish DNA can replicate. Maybe they are looking for a recipe for goat cheese ravioli on the Internet, etc., etc., … DNA.
Unless they're software reviewers for a living, they don't really care about the software itself, and the more they notice it, the more annoyed they're going to be.
Choices, therefore, can be good or bad. They're good when they support the task the user is trying to accomplish fairly directly. I want to be able to choose who to chat with (duh.) They're bad when they represent an intrusion into the user's actual DNA-replication goals. Every few days some crappy software I can't even remember installing pops up noisy bulletins asking me if I want to upgrade something or other. I could not care LESS. I'm doing something. Leave me alone! I'm sure that the team at Sun Microsystems who just released this fabulous new version of the Java virtual machine have been thinking about the incremental release night and day for months and months, but the other 5,000,000,000 of us here on the planet really don't give a flying monkey. You just cannot imagine how little I want to spend even three seconds of my life thinking about whether or not to install that new JVM. Somebody out there is already firing up Gmail to tell me that the JVM mustn't just upgrade itself "because that might break something." Yeah, if the entire collective wisdom of the Java development team doesn't know if it's going to break something, how am I supposed to know? Sheeesh.
If you're using the term simplicity to mean "grace and economy" or "elegance," that's terrific. A great example of this is the difference between the way you search for music on Rhapsody and the way you search for music on iTunes. Rhapsody makes you decide if you want to search for albums, tracks, or artists. iTunes doesn't give you any choice: it just searches all fields, which works just as well and is easier. Economy means power, in this case, and it's a feature.
On the other hand, if you're using simplicity to mean a lack of power, a lack of features, that's fine, if you want to be in the paper clip business, good luck with that, but the chances that your product will solve my exact problems starts to shrink and your potential market share does, too.


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Gas Pump Thievery: Who's Really Behind the Rising Prices at the Pumps?
Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we're assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts that nothing can be done about it, for it's simply the law of supply and demand in action -- so suck it up, and pay up.
But hold your BPExxonMobilShellChevron horses right there. Supply and demand? The supply of crude oil has risen this year to its highest level in nearly two decades, even while the demand for gasoline has dropped dramatically, having fallen this month to a 10-year low. Let's see -- supply up, demand down. That's a classic market formula for cheaper prices at the pump. Yet our prices have steadily moved up, rising by two-thirds since the beginning of the year (and by 60 cents a gallon in the past two months alone).
What's going on here is not the "magic of the marketplace," but some hocus-pocus by brand-name dealers. What might surprise you, though, is that the wheeler-dealers now jacking up our pump prices don't operate under the BPExxonMobilShellChevron brands -- but the logos of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street traders that have been placing vast, unregulated, secretive bets on the future price of oil. They're playing an electronic casino game in a global "dark market" of exotic derivatives and credit swaps.
If this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it's because this is the same game that Wall Street played with subprime mortgages, leading to the present crash of our economy. And, yes, these are the exact same banksters that you and I are presently bailing out with our trillions of tax dollars.
Yet, there they go again. By pooling money from sheltered hedge funds, sovereign state funds, offshore accounts and other super-wealthy investors, speculators like Goldman and Morgan have quietly been buying trillions of dollars worth of oil derivatives -- which essentially are bets that oil prices will rise to a certain level by a certain date.
Unlike those investors who actually purchase contracts for future delivery of oil, there is no limit on how much money these gamblers can put into the oil market. Nor do they have to report to anyone how much they have bet, even though their massive infusion of money is totally and artificially distorting the real value of petroleum.
As CNBC television's top energy correspondent, Sharon Epperson, reported last month, "It's this money flow -- rather than the fundamental supply-demand data -- that's driving oil prices higher."
Why is this allowed? Because the Commodity Futures' Modernization Act of 2000 included a provision that was quietly tucked into the law by then-Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, specifically prohibiting any regulation of such commodity-based derivatives. Among the enthusiastic backers of this legalized thievery were Robert Rubin, the Wall Streeter who was Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, and his protege, Larry Summers, who is now Barack Obama's chief economic advisor.
This bipartisan cabal created a speculative mechanism that's presently sucking money out of your pocket with every gallon of gas you pump. Meanwhile, every dollar that Goldman, Morgan and the rest use to inflate oil prices is a dollar they are not investing in real economic activity that could create middle-class jobs.
Of course, Wall Street culprits are trying to keep their involvement hush-hush. When a McClatchy newspaper reporter approached Goldman Sachs about it, the response was terse: "Goldman Sachs declines to comment for your story."
As Woody Guthrie wrote in a song about outlaws: "Some'll rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen." It's time to regulate Wall Street's gas-pump thievery -- and to put a few of the perpetrators in jail.
To find out more about Jim Hightower, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.


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|Nov 09, 2011
Graphene to propel mechanical device technology forward
|(Nanowerk News) Graphene is sort of a scientific rock star, with countless groups studying its amazing electrical properties and tensile strength and dreaming up applications ranging from flat-panel screens to elevators in space.
|The single-layer carbon sheets' stellar qualities are only just being understood in all their capacities, say scientists at Cornell -- and researchers can dream big (or rather, very small) when it comes to everything graphene can offer.
|That's what scientists in the lab of Harold Craighead, the Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering, say in an American Vacuum Society online review article, Sept. 9, about graphene's present and future. The article made the cover of the printed journal and quickly became one of its most-downloaded pieces ("Fabrication and performance of graphene nanoelectromechanical systems").
|A false-color microscopy image of a 30-by-30 micron square of graphene covering a square trench to form a nanomechanical resonator. These devices, which are the thinnest possible microelectromechanical systems and are useful for sensing and signal processing, can now be batch-fabricated as a result of recent advances in graphene fabrication technology.
|"It's becoming clear that with modern fabrication techniques, you can imagine turning graphene into a technology," said Robert A. Barton, graduate student and lead author. "People often focus on the electronic applications of graphene, and they don't really think as much of its mechanical applications."
|It's precisely this area where Cornell has produced some pioneering work. In particular the Craighead group, in collaboration with others including Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, has used graphene in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), analogous to an earlier generation's microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
|"We've moved beyond working with little exfoliated flakes and more with grown materials that can be incorporated and connected with electronics and other mechanics," Craighead said. "So the question is, can you make these reliably, uniformly and reproducibly?"
|It was only a few years ago that scientists figured out how to make arrays of hundreds of thousands of graphene devices using a process called chemical vapor deposition. This involves growing the single-layer sheets of honeycomb-latticed carbon atoms on top of copper, then manipulating the graphene to make devices.
|One of the Cornell researchers' devices is like a drum head -- a piece of graphene, one atom thick, suspended over a hollow well. Although growth of graphene by chemical vapor deposition on copper was invented elsewhere, Cornell researchers were the first to figure out how to make mechanical resonators from the large-area material.
|"Four years ago we were able to make about one, and that took several months," Barton said. Speeding up the fabrication process has greatly increased graphene's potential in devices.
|At Cornell, Barton and colleagues are working on making mass sensors out of graphene, which is atomically structured so it's sensitive to both mass and electric charge. What can result is that a bit of mass landing on a surface of suspended graphene will perturb the mechanical and electronic structure simultaneously, analogous to today's mass spectrometry but on a much smaller and more sensitive level, Barton explained.
|The Cornell researchers are using optical interferometry to monitor the motion of a sheet of graphene. In this technique, the subtle device motions are read as variations in reflected light intensity, which are monitored by a fast photodiode connected to a spectrum analyzer. Another group at Cornell, led by McEuen, had earlier developed a way to "read out" carbon nanotubes, a technique that can also apply to graphene, Barton said.
|The rapid progress of graphene makes its future very exciting, Craighead said.
|"Graphene has gone from an oddity in a physics lab to something that can be practically incorporated into a variety of potential devices," he said. "The ability to fabricate things in these ways, to integrate them and to use them for different types of sensors, physical and chemical, is quite a step forward in a short time, and our group is one of the many that's contributed to this."
|Source: By Anne Ju, Cornell University


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My Creative Time's 47th Release Sneak Peek Day 3
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Thank you for using it with this die!! I just bought it and look forward to creating some yummy treats and incorporating this new die set as well! It looks lovely!ReplyDelete
This looks fantastic! Beautiful! I LOVE how you decorated the band with the thread and then also how you decorated the center piece of the band! I so can't wait to get this set!ReplyDelete
I love your card! I can not wait for fall! Love the band!ReplyDelete
OMG Your Card is Gorgeous!! What a presentation!! Definitey two gifts in one...they get the Gorgeous card and love how you decorated the belly band super creative ideas and then the treat inside....you so did a super outstanding creative job!! SOOOO can't wait to get this set.ReplyDelete
Oh this is gorgeous!!!! I love that you used a gift card holder to wrap the belly band around. The colors of this is just beautiful!!! TFS!ReplyDelete
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This is super cute! I love your festive little treat packages!!ReplyDelete
Beautifully done, it's just perfect!ReplyDelete
Awesome I am so glad Miss Emma makes everything co-ordinate with her older products. Love your project TFS VickyReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! I didn't think about using the belly band on the gift card holder! So many possibilities! You just made my morning!ReplyDelete
Love the way you used the belly band.ReplyDelete
Love the way you decorated the gift holder! It's so pretty and the recipient will love it.ReplyDelete
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This is a beautiful way to wrap a little treat! I love the way the stamped leaves go with the pattern paper and the nest of thread. Beautiful job.ReplyDelete
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What a beautiful package! Love the die, love the stamped sentiment and how you pulled it all together. Lovely!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful presentation! Love Love Love this idea!!!ReplyDelete
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Such a pretty little package!ReplyDelete
brigit, your little gift card holder is so pretty!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card. Love the colors you used. They remind me of sherbet ice cream. Such a handy new set.ReplyDelete
Love that gift card holder with the belly band, so perfect together. Your project is just beautiful.ReplyDelete
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ugh. i'd resisted buy the gift card die. now that i see the creativity and flexibility i may not be able to resist. thanks, and i really mean that! cszekeres at hotmail dot com.ReplyDelete
love your card, and the belly band is awesome!! email@example.com
Love how the belly band die looks with this gift card holder.ReplyDelete
I really love it:)
Great way to use this new amazing die. Great die and very fun gift card holder. TFS firstname.lastname@example.com
WOW! I love how you used the gift card holder die to create this project! And the belly band is just gorgeous! I am so loving this release! TFS! lindagk23ataoldotcomReplyDelete
Love the color combo - pinks and orange.ReplyDelete
thanks for sharing.
Very beautiful! LOVE the fall colors and the effect the thread has on it!ReplyDelete
The gift card holder is a newcomer to my collection, and seeing you 'style it up' with the belly band has me jazzed up immensely! Adding this marvelous set to my ever-expanding wish list!ReplyDelete
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Such a beautiful treat for anyone!! Awesome job!ReplyDelete
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Im loving this die what a cute gift card holder the color choice is spot on.ReplyDelete
Love this. I like the papers you used.ReplyDelete
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EEEK! I love that you used this band on the card holder! I use that die all the time and am always trying to figure out what to put on the front! Emma's products and your ideas has completely solved it!ReplyDelete
I love your background to your gift card with the different clored leaves looking like fall, and the belly band really dresses it up even more! Very pretty. email@example.com
I love your gift card holder. I am so ready for Fall even though for us it seems like summer all year long!
This is gorgeous Brigit!!!ReplyDelete
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Brigit, I love how well you co-ordinated everything! The stamped leaves and your colouring make this card holder look so fantasti! Love the way you stamped the sentiment in brown ink too! Looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
Oh how Pretty! LOVE that paper and the wonderful coloring of those leaves!!! :)ReplyDelete
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Brigit ~ GORGEOUS!! Those papers with these new products are such a PERFECT combination! As always beautifully done!ReplyDelete


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The U.K. government met on Thursday with technology companies for a post-mortem on the violent riots earlier this month, but made clear from the onset that it was no longer considering shutting down services in times of crisis.
Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion, three companies whose services were used by participants in the violent rioting across several U.K. cities.
After the riots, Prime Minister David Cameron said the U.K. would look at "whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence." The suggestion that the U.K. could censor social networking services brought wide criticism.
The Home Office said in a statement that the discussions revolved around improving the "technological and related legal capabilities of the police" when dealing with services that are being used for criminal behavior. The Home Office did not mention if it discussed shutting down services with the companies.
But a statement from Facebook said that from the start of the meeting May "set the tone clearly that we were not there to discuss restricting Internet services."
"We welcome the fact that this was a dialogue about working together to keep people safe rather than about imposing new restrictions on Internet services," the statement read.
Facebook did acknowledge that "sometimes we have to be more vigilant or react faster when there are exceptional circumstances," such as the recent shootings in Norway or the riots in the U.K.
"When we are dealing with situations that are heightened or sensitive such as the U.K. riots, then content relating to this specific issue is prioritized," Facebook said. "As a result, the team works around the clock to ensure that take-down times for such content is decreased and content that straddles the line of acceptability is closely monitored."
Facebook said that it processes reports about content that is against its rules to its User Operations teams, which work 24 hours a day around the world. The company has a law enforcement team dedicated to helping U.K. police improve their skills in using the service to handle serious crime.
On Aug. 16, a British court sentenced two men to four years each in prison for using Facebook to try to organize two riots, one of the sternest punishments meted out so far for misbehavior and one that has been criticized as being too harsh. Neither riot actually took place.
Facebook said in its statement that the service was also used for positive actions, such as organizing groups to clean up debris from the streets following the disturbances.
RIM, whose BlackBerry devices are popular with U.K. youth, called the discussions "positive and productive." Young people are thought to buy BlackBerry devices for Messenger, an instant messaging application that allows people to broadcast messages to many users. It has been blamed for enabling youths to quickly mass in key neighborhoods in London and other U.K. cities hit with looting and arson.
Twitter was more oblique and did not mention Thursday's meeting with the government. "We've heard from many that Twitter is an effective way to distribute crucial updates and dispel rumors in times of crisis or emergency," the company said.


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OMG, BuzzFeed Is Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?
Anyone who has hankered for a list of 10 of the most life-affirming dog rescue stories ever can rely on the social media site BuzzFeed.
That list of 11 classic horror films that should never have been remade? That's from BuzzFeed too.
BuzzFeed's digital traffic is stratospheric: It cites Google Analytics figures that show it drew more than 130 million unique visitors to its site last month. But the social media outfit is in the process of building up a team of journalists to offer original news reporting, raising questions of just what it intends to be.
"When we look at with whom we're really competing — look at The New York Times, look at The Guardian — these are stories that people are sharing," says Ben Smith, the charismatic BuzzFeed editor-in-chief hired away from Politico two years ago. "These are meaningful stories that are advancing the news."
Under Smith, BuzzFeed has hired reporters to cover politics and culture and added reporters in Cairo, Istanbul, Russia and, most recently, Nairobi, Kenya. The promise: to offer stories with distinctive takes, not just the latest development.
Yet most visitors clearly arrive for the viral posts that made BuzzFeed famous. The conference rooms at its new Manhattan headquarters are named for some of the most important players in its early history: "No No No Cat," "Kitten with a Tiny Hat," "Birthday Cat," "Business Cat" and "Lil Bub." They are unlikely to be household names -– unless your household includes social media junkies younger than 35. As it turns out, many tens of millions of houses and apartments do.
Many of BuzzFeed's several hundred editorial staffers create animated GIFs — the brief video clips used to comedic effect, or sometimes to do more, to illustrate current events. The reality show The Hills illustrates strife in Syria, and countless posts invoke Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls. The whole thing is pretty hilarious. But therein lies the rub.
"Retail outlets have brands. Target means one thing, Wal-Mart means another, Saks Fifth Avenue means one more thing," says James Bankoff, CEO of Vox Media, a network of sites focusing on such varied topics as sports, technology, video games, real estate, food and fashion.
Bankoff says he enjoys grazing on BuzzFeed posts. But he argues that the site has a brand, too, and stands in some peril of blurring it.
"A brand that at once floods the zone with a lot of interesting, cute lists and also has aspirations to be a journalistic outlet really has to reconcile how they can do that and build brand identity around two things that might not be compatible in a lot of cases," Bankoff says.
Smith argues that there's no confusion. More than half of BuzzFeed's traffic comes from people's tweets, Facebook posts, emails and other referrals, so Smith says many people don't experience BuzzFeed as a unified publisher or website.
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed's CEO and founder, points to the site's creation. "The joke used to be that you'd share what you had for lunch on Twitter and Facebook, with pictures of your friends getting drunk," he says. "Then cute animals and jokes and humor and Internet geek culture started to emerge on those platforms, and there's where BuzzFeed really got started."
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The BuzzFeed strategy involves targeting different content for different platforms. On Twitter, news junkies and experts may share BuzzFeed's more detailed stories, while Facebook users may be curious but less well-informed.
The company has built out so-called "native" advertising as well, in which the advertising is labeled but has a feel similar to what you might see in the site's editorial content. One listicle (as they're called) offered "10 Airplane Seat-to-Seat Chat Pickup Lines," sponsored by Virgin America to advertise its new feature that allows passengers to chat on their movie screens as they fly. Some critics say that blurs the distinction between editorial and commercial elements. Peretti calls it a lesson learned from glossy magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, which carry ads as important to readers as the articles themselves.
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Kelly McBride, a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Fla., argues that the posting was designed to be hugely popular — but that, as a result, BuzzFeed misled readers about the extent to which the new Miss America sparked a racist response.
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figma mods
figma modding is getting better and better, and they can be so good that's it can be hard to tell that they can be easily mistakened as official ones. Let's see some of the custom figmas that are mentioned on the official figma blog~
An original character made out of Shana and Miku, now looking really dark and hardcore~ ^^
figma Ultraman. My knowledge of Ultraman is rather poor so I don't know which one this is specifically...
Shiki Ryougi from Kara no Kyoukai, a light novel series from Type-Moon that got adapted into an anime movie series
Yomi Isayama (諌山黄泉) from anime and manga series Ga-rei.
Fate in True Sonic Form!
Found this Shana familiar? Yep it's yui_style's Shana that I mentioned a while ago.
Btw the meronpan there is not real; it's actually a look-alike toy/replica. Not only does it look like a real one, it feels like one and even smells like one too! o_O
Another great work by yui_style which I've also mentioned - figma Lacus Clyne.
Some of the more well known custom figma work are from 盗賊長門の人:
Taiga Aisaka from anime and light novel series Toradora! I personally find her face a tad bit off, but it's nevertheless a great work.
Kyon's sister from the Haruhi franchise. This one looks just like her in the anime o_o......
The SOS-dan girls in their RPG attire. With Haruhi being the exception (as she comes with a PS2 game), Thief Nagato and Mage Mikuru are both custom made according to how they look like in the game!
With so many great custom figmas out there, it can be quite hard for me to find my favourite (okay Fate in True Sonic form if I were to be biased ^^;). What will your favourite be, or is there another one out there that's yet to be mentioned? Share your thoughts!
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Next to combustibility after gunpla, figmas^^. Anyway any information on Ultraman figma?ReplyDelete
If only I have the knowledge to do those... LOL. I will save a bundle! =PReplyDelete
I'll take a thief Yuki and the Shana/Miku hybrid to go please XD I think there should be a Taiga figma too.ReplyDelete
@ GunStray(Mikee):ReplyDelete
Haha it does seem like that after gunpla and normal plamo the most modding I've seen now is the figma~
As for the Ultraman, it is modded by やるき30%さん (Yaruki30%) using the archetype:he figma. It also appeared in the Tokyo International Anime Fair back in March.
@ zenical:
If I'd ever do any modding, I think I only have the guts to do some on 1/144 gunpla at the most... -_-;;
@ Persocom:
Nagato thief is really well made - the maker is continuously improving it from time to time. And Shana/Miku hybrid reminds me of Black Rock Shooter~
I can see a Taiga figma coming soon or later - should only be a matter of time I hope.
If those mod on Mikuru and Yuki becomes oficial, I guarentee u I would not hold back. xDReplyDelete
Added you to my BlogRoll btw. ^_^ReplyDelete
I kinda wish MaxFactory would consider trying to buy out those customs figmas and selling them. I would love to get Kyon's sister figma.
I've also seen a Kunkida one. Hehe
Oh dear lord! I WANT THAT KYON NO IMOUTO FIGMA! So it is doable... I'm curious how she was made shorter than the other figma...ReplyDelete
I am proud to say that upon seeing the custom Fate figma, I touched myself.ReplyDelete
@ Optic:ReplyDelete
Both SOS RPG girls are really well made. I'm sure lots of people would want them too!
@ blood on the mirror:
Thanks! Will add you to mine very soon~
Some of the mods are really well made, and are at least on par with the current official ones. I suspect that the ones such as Taiga will be released soon or later.
@ Lightning Sabre:
I've got the link of the maker's making progress for you here~
@ Snark:
Haha as a Fate fanboy, the True Sonic Form has made my day~ ^^
@Q: Oooh thanks for the link! Really explain things... but I wish I had the actual ambition for that or I would make one myself ^^:ReplyDelete
Wow there are some great modifications among them!ReplyDelete
I always wonder how they are capable of this stuff
@ Lightning Sabre:ReplyDelete
No problem~
Doing a complete mod is quite ambitious. On the other hand, something like converting Shana's winter uniform to summer uniform, or just adding the necklace to her pendant and adding the ahoge are much more doable. If you do want to try some modding you can always start out small and let it grow big ^^
@ Blowfish:
Some of the mods do look quite ambitious, but I think the essence behind their work is passion.
Spending some time on what they like to do from time to time, even if it's just half an hour or so, but eventually they will all contribute to the end product, and they won't give up on their interest. It's quite something I have to say :o
- modelcitizen26 May 2009 at 16:41
... I came seeing that Ryougi Shiki. Oh wow. That is AWESOME.ReplyDelete
@ modelcitizen:ReplyDelete
Ryougi Shiki is pretty well done, abeit being a little overlooked. I wonder whether Max Factory will make one to promote the upcoming final movie. Have yet to watch the movies though...
- sammisu14 June 2009 at 02:05
OH MY GOD!! DO WANT!!ReplyDelete
@ sammisu:ReplyDelete
Me too, especially the Fate one (personally)! XD
Does anyone know of the creators and if they take commissions?ReplyDelete
@ Lotus:ReplyDelete
To be honest I doubt any of the modders there will take commisions.
From what I have observed some mods such as those from 盗賊長門の人 use a lot of material to make his own custom figmas, which includes a lot of molding of new parts. I know yui_style (aka Yui) makes his from existing figmas, so you can try make them yourself if you are confident with it. I know there is another blogger out there who was inspired by his work and is making his own too. You can check out his blog and ask for advice there.
That's quite a shame if they don't possibly take commissions. As, I would pay generously for a nice custom figure.ReplyDelete
Since, there are quite a few favorite anime series of mine that literally have no figures at all. Which is very upsetting.
@ Lotus:ReplyDelete
Sorry for the late reply. Have you tried making contacts with any people, including the twinstarcustom one I've posted above? It won't hurt for you to just ask or comment on their blogs I think.


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Character Bios
Original Character(s)
Meaning: Varies
Other Names: OFC, OMC, Mary Sue, Marty Stu, Marty Sam, Gary Stu, Avatar
Location(s): If it can be found on a map (or even if it can't be found on a map), they've been there.
Race/Species: Other
Type/Kind: N/A
Title(s): Varies
Dates: Post-Creation-the End of Time
Parents: Varies
Siblings: Varies
Spouse: Varies
Children: Varies
There comes a point when the canonical characters of any fandom have told you, the author, all that they can about themselves and their world. A canonical can only be in so many places, view him or herself and his or her friends from a restricted number of viewpoints, and is simply incapable of experiencing all significant aspects of his or her world.
When an author reaches this point, the obvious solution is invent a new character, one who can, for example, tell about the events occuring in the Ethir when Aragorn and his band of merry dead men arrived, or give a less-than-charitable analysis of Éowyn's ride. Original characters can give depth to a story by providing the impression that a world does not consist solely of the chief protagonists and antagonists, and by helping to establish local traditions or to flesh them out in ways that the canonical text/medium and characters did not do. They can provide an outside view of the major characters that is unencumbered by personal acquaintance with the canonicals, or one which contrasts markedly from the views held of each other by canonicals. They can become your personal vehicle for exploring your chosen world
They can also be tricky to handle, acquire an unforeseen notoriety, and be hard sells to your reader. It's the reputation of some of their subspecies that casts suspicion on all OCs and inspires many a claim that requires instant qualification. Here are a few of the most well known species of original characters, some of which are almost solely responsible for reader distrust of their innocuous and even brilliant brethren:
OFC/OMC: Original Female/Male Character. In some fandoms, these terms appear to be used as the neutral, generic terms for original characters, with reference to their sex. Saying a character is an OFC or (more rarely) an OMC is not to immediately pass judgment on her or him. This has not proved to be the case, usually, with the species below. In practice in Tolkien fandom, it seems that the designation 'OFC/OMC' plays the role of both genus and the positive end of the continuum of characterization, which can lead to confusion as to which meaning is intended.
Mary Sue: The most infamous subspecies of OC. Some would say she's also quite inevitable. The definition of a Sue is not a closed topic. Some intend by "Mary Sue" to mean only an OFC; many, and arguably in Tolkien fandom most, readers and writers mean a badly conceived, clichéd character who does not seem to fit into the fabric of the canonical world, and who causes canonical characters to behave in ways that find little to no support in the original text/movie/medium. Paula Smith is the name you will most likely hear of online in connection with Mary Sue, as the person who wrote and identified Mary Sue as a character type in 1974. Pat Pflieger's essay is highly recommended as well.
Many have written of Mary Sue's defining characteristics, but the key to all definitions seems to be that whatever her features, she is the extreme example of them. If she is plain, she is extremely plain, the plainest Jane you will ever meet; if she is "temperamental" she is so temperamental she would blow the top off a thermometer by breathing on it; she is never merely cool, but induces frostbite with a glance; and if she is extraordinary, she is extraordinarily so. It is, however, more than Mary Sue's personal attributes that mark her out.
Arguably, it is context more than particular traits that determines Suehood, and determines it in a highly specific manner in fandom. The context of the story needs to support the OFC's character traits, however extreme. Within fandom, this generally means that the original environment(s) (physical, thematic, psychological) remain recognizable and that additions or explorations of said environment seem reasonable inferences given both the facts as written and the canon's overall 'look and feel.' Authors of Sues often do not change/deepen the context sufficiently to justify their specific characterization and plotline or else the altered context seems very arbitrarily altered solely in order to support the existence of the OFC in question.
Marty Stu: Mary Sue's brother has a number of names: Gary Stu, Marty Sam, Gary Sam. He seems to be less common, and more restricted in the behaviors he can adopt: more sterotypically masculine--the avenging, conquering hero or the dark and troubled rogue are two possible incarnations. But since he is essentially a male Mary Sue, he, too, will always be the extreme of whatever major character traits he possess, and his backstory will be at odds with reasonable interpretation of what the canon world will support.
Avatar: This type of OC is a thinly-veiled disguise for an autobiographical character. All characters of course have parts of the author written into them, even canonical characters. The difference is, again, degree and disguise. I am not certain whether there is a relationship between SI (self-insertion) characters and Avatars that is analogous to the OFC/Mary Sue relationship. Suffice it to say that, unless the plot makes it necessary that your character be known as your personal stand-in, the less obvious the Avatar, the less irritation s/he is likely to cause to readers.
It should be noted that canonical characters can also be characterized in such a way that they become Sues, Stus, or Avatars.
Mary Sue, Marty Stu, and Avatar OCs are usually viewed as being developmental stages--writers begin by writing them and gradually progress to original characters that are able to enhance a reader's enjoyment and understanding of a world. In this sense, they have an obvious function and even a necessary one which is entirely separate from the appraisal of the quality of their characterization.
Some Concluding Remarks
Original characters can be among the most rewarding characters to write because they are yours and you have nearly unlimited control over their destinies, unlike those of the established canonical characters. Some remain strictly background characters, props to serve a specific function: servant, messenger, soldier, carpenter, chandler, priest, or child. Others become minor characters, known by name and a line or two of dialogue, but not much else. Some become full-fledged characters in their own right. Although many readers may be suspicious at first, even an OFC deserves a chance, for "the world must be peopled," else it would not be a living world.
(Thanks to Stultiloquentia for reminding me of this particularly apt quotation from "Much Ado About Nothing.")


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Kenneth Rexroth's Life Essay, Research Paper
Caren Irr
Rexroth, Kenneth
(22 Dec. 1905- 6 June 1982), poet and translator, was born Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth
in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Charles Rexroth, a pharmaceuticals salesman, and Delia
Reed. Owing to Charles's rocky career, the family moved frequently throughout the northern
midwest until Delia died in 1916 and Charles in 1919. For the next three years, Rexroth
lived with an aunt in Chicago. After his expulsion from high school, he educated himself
in literary salons, nightclubs, lecture halls, and hobo camps while working as a wrestler,
soda jerk, clerk, and reporter. In 1923-1924 he served a prison term for partial ownership
of a brothel.
During the 1920s, Rexroth backpacked across the country several times, visited Paris
and New York, taught in a religious school, and spent two months in a Hudson Valley
monastery. Reflections on these experiences appear in his later poetry, but his early work
was cubist and surrealist–often opaquely so. In 1927 he married Andr?e Schafer, an
epileptic painter, and they moved to San Francisco. In the late 1920s Rexroth's first
poems appeared in Pagany, Morada, and Charles Henri Ford's Blues. He
read much of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy around this time.
During the 1930s, Rexroth studied mysticism and Communism. Readings of Jacob Boehme,
St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus influenced revisions to his long poem, Homestead
Called Damascus, published by New Directions in 1963. He also participated in the
Communist party's John Reed Clubs, organizations supporting working-class writers and
artists. Although skeptical about internal party politics, Rexroth helped organize clubs
on the West Coast until 1938. He corresponded with other leftist poets, such as Louis
Zukofsky and George Oppen, who wanted to save poetry from sentimentality and
impressionism. In the mid-1930s, Rexroth participated in the Federal Arts Projects. In
1936 he spoke at the Western Writers Conference and was published in New Masses, Partisan
Review, New Republic, and Art Front. A long-standing association began
in 1937 when Rexroth's poetry appeared in the second volume of James Laughlin's New
Directions in Poetry and Prose. Rexroth would be a lifelong friend, guru, and skiing
companion to this influential publisher.
In 1938 Rexroth shifted his political attention to an ecologically based pacifism. His
first volume of poetry, In What Hour (1940), was tepidly received–a response he
blamed on the literary establishment of the urban East Coast. After Andr?e died in 1940,
he married Marie Kass, a public health nurse who shared his passions for politics and
camping. When the United States entered World War II, Rexroth registered as a
conscientious objector and served as a psychiatric orderly. Objecting to war measures, he
helped a number of Japanese Americans evade internment. During this period, he practiced
Buddhism, Taoism, and yoga.
In 1944 his collection The Phoenix and the Tortoise appeared. The title poem is
a long philosophical narrative interspersed with concrete sensual images. This kind of
earthy Jeremiad was central to Rexroth's postwar aesthetic. He took the social role of the
poet quite seriously, writing in a 1958 review of Kenneth Patchen's work, "If no one
cried, 'Woe, woe to the bloody city of damnation!' and nobody listened to the few who cry
out, we would know that the human race had finally gone hopelessly and forever mad" (Kenneth
Patchen: A Collection of Essays, ed. Richard G. Morgan [1977], p. 23). In the late
1940s Rexroth established a Friday-evening salon and a Wednesday-night philosophy club to
discuss his theories of politics and poetry; in attendance were friends such as Robert
Duncan, William Everson, Richard Eberhart, Philip Lamantia and, later, Allen Ginsberg,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and other Beats.
After receiving a Guggenheim fellowship in 1948, Rexroth traveled across Europe and the
United States, making sociological observations that resurfaced in The Dragon and the
Unicorn (1952). During the 1950s Rexroth continued to serve as father figure to the
Beats, partly through a weekly radio show. He also became the biological father of two
daughters; their mother was philosophy student Marthe Larsen. In 1953 he wrote what is
probably his most well-known poem, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," in honor of Dylan
Thomas. A passionate indictment of standardized culture, the poem asks who is responsible
for Thomas's death; its answer implicates the cocktails and Brooks Brothers suits of this
world. This piece became a standard in Rexroth's repertoire when, with the Beats, he began
to read poetry with musical accompaniment. Actress Shirley MacLaine attended a
poetry-and-jazz performance in the late 1950s and concluded that Rexroth resembled
"John Donne in the fourth dimension."
After Kass divorced him in 1955 Rexroth legally married Larsen in 1958 (they had been
illegally married in France in 1949); they divorced in 1961. His live-in secretary, Carol
Tinker, became his fourth wife in 1974. In the 1960s Rexroth supported civil rights
struggles and the anti-war movement. His Collected Shorter Poems appeared in 1967
and Complete Collected Longer Poems in 1968. Increasingly recognized by mainstream
critics, he wrote a series of essays for Saturday Review and received a National
Institute of Arts and Letters award in 1964. This later work was dominated by Eastern
philosophy–a theme that appealed to the students he taught at the University of
California, Santa Barbara (1968-1974). Partly on the strength of his translations of Asian
poets, Rexroth won a Fulbright to Japan (1974-1975) and a Copernicus Award for lifetime
achievement. His last major project was a series of poems presented as translations of a
fictional Japanese poet named Marichiko. In later years Rexroth maintained friendships
with younger writers, such as his literary executor Bradford Morrow, and feminist poets
such as Carolyn Forch? and Denise Levertov. Rexroth died in Santa Barbara, and,
characteristically, Catholic eulogies, Buddhist chants, and Beat poems were performed at
his funeral.
Kenneth Rexroth's distinctive poetic voice emphasized sexuality, ecology, and mysticism
and provided an aesthetic alternative to social realism and New Critical formalism.
Although some feminists have objected to his philandering and dated representations of
women, as a writer and editor, Rexroth generously promoted both male and female radical
writers. His contributions energized postwar American poetry.
Rexroth's papers are located at the University of California, Los Angeles and the
University of Southern California. Rexroth's collections of poetry also include The
Signature of All Things (1949), In Defense of the Earth (1956), Natural
Numbers (1963), Elastic Retort (1973), New Poems (1974), and Flower
Wreath Hill (1991). His translations include 100 Poems from the Chinese (1956),
100 Poems from the Japanese (1964), Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems (1969), Love
and the Turning Year (1970), Orchid Boat (1972), 100 Poems from the French
(1972), and 100 More Poems from the Japanese (1976). His play Beyond the
Mountains was published in 1951. His essays include Bird in the Bush (1959), Assays
(1961), Classics Revisited (1968), The Alternative Society (1970), With
Eye and Ear (1970), American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971), Communalism
(1974), and More Classics Revisited (1984). An Autobiographical Novel was
published in 1966. Lee Bartlett, ed., Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected
Letters, appeared in 1991. See Bradford Morrow, "An Outline of Unpublished
Rexroth Manuscripts, and an Introductory Note to Three Chapters from the Sequel to An
Autobiographical Novel," Sagetrieb 2, no. 3 (Winter 1983): 135-44.
The major biography is Linda Hamalian's A Life of Kenneth Rexroth (1991).
Critical studies include Morgan Gibson, Kenneth Rexroth (1972), Gibson, Revolutionary
Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (1986), and Ken Knabb, Relevance of Rexroth
(1990). James Laughlin and Denise Levertov wrote a moving tribute to Rexroth after his
death; see "Remembering Kenneth Rexroth," American Poetry Review 12, no.
1 (1983): 18-19.
Source: http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-02193.html;
American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Access Date: Sun Mar 18 12:29:57 2001
Copyright (c) 2000 American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University
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John, the host was really friendly and the overall experience was awesome! The group was really open minded and friendly as well.
I wasn't at all sure what to expect today. I am so happy I attended. We had a great group of people and the venue was perfect. Our guide, John was very organized, kind and informative. I left the walk feeling both relaxed AND invigorated. After a few reflective "invitations" from John and the forest, we ended with a lovely tea and chat session.
If you want to discover, try something new or realign with whom you are, try forest therapy. John is an outstanding life coach. He combines the senses and nature for self-discovery. Coach John is inspirational, humble, and sees coaching as art and a discipline. He takes excellent care of the group through the walk and at the end, he had tea and snacks for us! Who does that and he played the flute. Forest therapy is a good ending or beginning for the week. Thank you, John.
The host (John) was excellent. He was knowledgeable and provided a great experience which I found meaningful and interesting
Thanks to John's exceptional guidance I now have a broader perspective of my relationship with nature.
What an amazing experience! A great mini getaway from the busy city life. John was super welcoming and informative! Would definitely do this again!
John has this subtle humor at times which is hysterical once you catch it. Really a fun person to work with!!! This guy has class!
Very well-run event. Our guide John was personable, knowledgeable and experienced. We had a blast and made several new friends. I thought I knew Central Park but this Meetup Experience opened a whole new side of the park to me. Highly recommend!


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It's time for more 2011 Epcot Food and Wine Festival booth food pictures! Today, we're headed to Asia and will be visiting Japan and China!
As always, if you want to see full coverage of each booth, check out our Epcot Food and Wine Festival Booth Pages! Click on any booth or country name for detailed information, menus, photos, and prices.
Japan introduced a couple of new items to the menu this year, including Pork Kakuni and the Tokyo Sunset — both can be seen below. The pork serving was massive and very good. The Tokyo Sunset, a mix of pineapple juice, banana liqueur, peach schnapps, and coconut rum, was delicious.
The Spicy Tuna Roll, California Roll, and Tuna Sensation (with salmon added in this year) are all back at the booth once more.
You can see more pictures, the full menu, and prices on our Japan Booth Page!
China's menu is largely the same as it was last year, featuring lots of great dishes and large portions. Once again, we really enjoyed the Barbecue Chicken Stick and the Black Pepper Shrimp with noodles.
I'm hearing that the Happy Lychee isn't as happy as it was last year, and that might be for the best! That thing was pretty much straight alcohol last year!
I tried the Green Tea Plum Wine Cooler again this year and didn't enjoy it as much as I have the past two years. Not sure if they're using a new plum wine or what, but it seemed a little on the sweet side this year.
You can see more pictures, the full menu, and prices on our China Booth Page!
Tell us what YOU'RE loving at the Epcot Food and Wine Festival in the comments below!
And feel free to check out more food pictures on our booth pages!
Also, if you're headed to the Festival, check out our DFB Mini-Guide to the 2011 Epcot Food and Wine Festival e-Book for a full schedule of events, touring strategies, tips and tricks, and a full section on the World Showcase booths this year!
Japan Food Photo Credit — California Sushi Roll and Tuna Sensation: Greg Pabst


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99% of the projects that we create with our In the Making teens go off without a hitch, but every so often we find ourselves scrambling to figure out a last-minute solution when something goes wrong. Alan Calpe, the teaching artist for this season's Body/Building: Sculpture as Self-Portrait studio course, found himself in just such a predicament when his first big sculptural project hit some unexpected snags. He reflects on his experiences below.
—Calder Zwicky, Associate Educator of Teen and Community Programs
One of our first projects in Body/Building had students working on self-portrait clay busts. What was meant to be a one-day exploratory activity introducing clay as a sculptural material became an impressive collection that will be a significant presence for our final exhibition! I wanted to talk more about our class' experience with this project here, not only to highlight how wonderful it's been witnessing their enjoyment and dedication, but also to really applaud them for their maturity and resiliency when things went a bit awry and could have meant busted disappointment and disaster!
On the day we introduced the bust project, it was clear right away that the students were really eager to work with clay, most having never touched the material before (some never experimenting with sculpture ever!) or ever having the challenge of creating a likeness of themselves. We began by showing them images of busts throughout history—ranging from Greek, Egyptian, and Japanese antiquities depicting gods and goddesses, Italian marble busts of arts patrons, and presidential busts from the U.S.—discussing the relationship that the traditional bust holds between memory and monumentality in creating historical narratives. We then looked at contemporary examples, including Janine Antoni, Jean Fabre, Jeff Koons, Marc Quin, and Jean Fabre, to see how artists have expanded on ideas of the bust in surprising ways.
Afterwards, we demonstrated the basics of facial proportions while introducing different clay sculpting tools and techniques. Next, each of the students received a Styrofoam headform as armature and, using mirrors and printed photos that we took of them, the students observed their faces and slowly began sculpting their self-portrait. At the end of the class period, great progress had been made, and Carrie and I knew we should really dedicate a second class to continue the work.
For this next class, we started first by bringing the students up to the MoMA galleries to view the display of Matisse's busts of Jeannette. Looking at the series, students noticed the variety of ways that Matisse had captured the essence of his subject. It became a thoughtful conversation about issues of realism vs. abstraction, of fineness of details vs. crudeness of form, as different ways to express portraiture, and helped them decide their own path for completing their sculptures.
Back at the studio, Carrie and I were really impressed with the students progress and determination. It was made even more clear when we realized that, since we really couldn't continue working of the project for a third class, many students were coming to the optional MoMA Open Studio Fridays, some even taking their busts home with them, to have more time to dedicate to their busts. We would arrive each week to see their new progress—some looking so incredibly realistic, some becoming more symbolic representations of themselves, all to great effect.
Then our potential disaster occurred. Using a self-drying clay (as we had no access to a kiln) we noticed that some of the students busts began cracking as the clay contracted against the stiff styrofoam underneath. Wracking our brains to stop the cracking, we scoured the internet and found suggestions that we apply a water-based sealant to stop the artwork from any further cracking and protect the forms' integrity. After covering each bust completely in sealant, everything seemed to be fixed and looked amazing and complete. Happily, we stored the now-sealed busts away and congratulated each other on a job well done. However, disaster struck when we came back the following day to see the sealant had reacted badly to the clay, sucking even more of the moisture out, and cracking the busts even more dramatically! It felt as though all of the our work might possibly be for nothing…
Nervous and sad to report on this news to the students our following class, we showed them the damaged busts. The students responded in amazingly sophisticated ways. They noted that with any experimentation with materials, having to adjust, respond to accidents, and think on your feet, is an important part of the artistic process. Some even thought that the cracks were aesthetically interesting, bringing new psychology to the work! After brainstorming with the students, we decided to improvise yet again, and ran down to the local hardware store to pick up some acrylic caulk. By filling in the larger cracks, we started to make necessary structural repairs and let the students decide how they wanted to finish off the details.
We're now thinking that we might actually paint the busts, either to disguise the structural repairs or to draw attention to them. We're excited for everyone to see the self-portrait busts displayed in the upcoming final exhibition of teen artwork. Regardless of the final outcome, we know that it'll be important for everybody to view the teens' hard work, and show the public how they used the challenge of their "busted" busts as even further artistic inspiration.
The repaired busts, as well as all of the other teen-created artwork, will be on display during the Fall 2011 In the Making Teen Art Show from December 16–January 13 in the lower mezzanine of the Cullman Education Building.


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In a globally fast-changing world, dedicated conservationists play a central role in societies moving towards the achievement of sustainable development. How do people become advocates for nature? Research suggests that childhood experiences in natural places are core determinants for the development of environmental stewardship. In many developing countries, however, access to intact natural environments is limited. This study explores formative influences on individuals who actively contribute to nature conservation and environmental education (EE) in Madagascar. We conducted nine semi-structured interviews with participants in a national EE workshop. Formative experiences were reported mainly from university years, and influential persons were researchers and high school teachers, many from abroad. The media also play a considerable role, while negative experiences, familial influences, or experience of natural areas during childhood were rarely mentioned. In contrast to former studies, the results suggest that direct experiences of nature can still be decisive in determining a young person's path as a dedicated environmental practitioner during young adulthood. Role models who are active in the conservation and sustainable development fields can compensate for a lack of familial models. These findings might require a rethinking of current educational practices in Madagascar because children might not be the only important group to target with educational interventions.
Conservation Messages in Speech Bubbles–Evaluation of an Environmental Education Comic Distributed in Elementary Schools in Madagascar (2015)
In this paper, we present the results of a survey of an environmental education program applied to a cohort of 542 students in six primary schools at Lake Alaotra, Madagascar. The educational materials used were a comic book and additional materials designed specifically for local conditions in rural Madagascar. The comic book conveyed mostly system knowledge and, to a lesser extent, action-related knowledge. The additional materials posed practical tasks to students and were meant to stimulate teamwork and group discussion of students. There was a control and two treatment groups. A questionnaire was applied to test students' environmental knowledge at three different points in time. The survey showed a significant increase in environmental knowledge of students receiving environmental education compared to controls. This effect significantly increased with additional education materials fostering peer-to-peer learning by students instead of when teacher-centred learning was provided. Students that used those materials also had the highest scores in tests one year after environmental education ended, thus indicating the usefulness of innovative and locally meaningful materials in environmental education.


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Episode 48: Interview Dragos Manolescua
Recording Venue: JAOO 2006
Guest(s): Dragos Manolescu
Host(s): Markus
In this Episode we discuss software architecture evaluation with Dragos Manolescu, an architect at Microsoft's patterns & practices group.
We start off the discussion by trying to define what software architecture evaluation is and when and you want to evaluate an architecture in the system's lifecycle. We then make sure evaluators set the expectations for the evaluation process right – it is important to understand that architecture evaluation is typically not primarily a review of the technology decisions made for the architecture.
We then discuss the kinds of notations that are useful for describing architectures, and which of these are especially helpful for the evaluator. Next we look at the core of the architecture evaluation task, namely, the integration of the various stakeholders and their views. We also discuss real reviews from reviews that are staged "for show" only.
Next in the discussion is a brief look at the tools you can use for architecture evaluation, as well as a closer look at the various methods for achitecture evalualtion proposed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). We conclude the discussion by outlining how architecture evaluation fits into an agile development process.
… and finally, we briefly plug the PLOPD5 book, on which Dragos, Markus and James Noble have been working recently 🙂
- Inforation about the PLOPD5 book
- Microsoft's patterns & practices group
- Information about ATAM from softwarearchitectures.com.
- Detailed description of ATAM (PDF)
- Dragos' Homepage
- Dragos' slides on architecture evaluation
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Regular Member Meeting 2017 09 12
From HacDC Wiki
Time and Location
- Date
- Called to order at 8:17 pm by Julia
- Members present: Julia, Kevin, Ken, James, Ben B., Tayeb, Enrique, Tom (8)
- Members remote:
- Others present: Nancy, Bobby, Tristan, David
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Yes
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
- August, no quorum: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_08_08
- July, no quorum: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_07_11
- June, no quorum: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_06_13
- May, no quorum: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_05_09
- April, quorum achieved: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_04_11
New Members
Tristan voted in.
Old Business
New Business
- We need a liability waiver for kids that specifies that parents are responsible for supervision. Nancy promised to bring in an example.
- Ken wants HacDC to discuss being a fiscal sponsor; membership authorized the board to enter such an agreement in a past meeting this year. No specific proposals have been presented, however.
- We could rent a storage unit to help clean up the basement. It could cost up to $300/mo depending on size and distance from HacDC (maybe $100 far away). We could then decide what stuff we use frequently and what stuff we clearly live without.
Project Awesome Reports
Project SUPPLIES - Mirage
Project EXPANSION - Mirage
Project HAMRADIO - Jeff
Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Enrique
I am not working on this; too many other things. Julia et al are working on providing a digital interface to the new vacuum gauge with an opto-isolator.
I may have managed to read out a similar ROM chip - should able to have a crack at dumping the ROMs from the machine - Oni
Project Optical Table Robot (OTR) -Julia
Project CRISPR -Enrique
We repeated the protocol carefully with Sophia doing the plating and protocol and good temperature control during the process. But it didn't work, again. I suspect our freezer may not be good enough for long-term storage of the protein and DNA ingredients. I've written the vendor to ask for help because we've spent over $500 in both HacDC money and donated supplies and equipment so far and it hasn't worked once. Regardless, we're planning to press ahead with a Saturday workshop so people can learn about CRISPR and get a hands-on feeling for what the process is like. Nancy and Sophia are working on a video. email@example.com
Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique
We aborted the launch of Spaceblimp 7 during the solar eclipse. Long story short we were not ready and driving 8 hours down to the SC border on a weekday was a high bar for a group of volunteers. We should do Spaceblimp 7 more locally just as Spaceblimp 6 and take our time testing things and making an interesting payload. Nancy suggested to have other maker spaces to collaborate in the next Spaceblimp 7, she will be helping with the logistics. I now have a cylinder of Helium at home that we're paying $0.20/day to rent, so we're actively losing money not doing anything. But the tracker(s) are still broken or untested, for example. Contact email@example.com for more information.
Project Media Outreach - Matt
Project IT Infrastructure - Tom
We got a donation of dumb switches which led to the trouble with the classroom VLAN and so on as mentioned below.
Member Reports
- Enrique. We had a nice lockpicking class Saturday with TOOOL. About 20 guests came and a half dozen or so got a tour of the classroom. A few even got a tour of the basement, unfortunately. TOOOL-DC is interested in having a monthly-ish 'advanced' lockpicking class but they want it a bit more private than their usual events (eg fewer newbs).
- Enrique. We received the SparkFun parts. A solar panel, USB battery pack, solar-battery charger, two other LiPo battery chargers, 2 motion sensors, 3 temperature sensors, breadboards, and 3 mini-HDMI cables( for Pi Zeros). Sparkfun wants photos of using them duing an event for their marketing purpose quid-pro-quo.
- Kevin: Also, as a result of the conference -- see directors reports below, students that I mentor at the Arlington Career Center may be part of a team restoring the original KITT from the horrible "Knight Rider" television series, for the next Escape Velocity. The owner of the Season 1 & 2 car is interested in bringing it back to life. The ACC has a an auto repair shop, and two years ago, together with computer science students, we had 3D printed parts and a touch screen Raspberry Pi capable of rudimentary voice recognition ("Hey STACi, turn on the rear defroster.") I don't think the Pi made it into STACi before the end of the semester, but with MoSF offering to help with stuff, I expect there will be a bigger push towards a finished product. I don't know that there will be opportunity for HacDC in that project, but if there's interest and commitment, I'll see what I can do. This would almost certainly be weekday after-school stuff, not weekends.
President's Report
Vice President's Report
- I've bollocksed up the VLAN for the classroom temporarily. Will fix it sooner or later.
- The replacement for the RasPi on the classroom TV is kind of slow, I think mostly due to the USB flash drive but maybe also due to the processor. Anyway we have a new board and a 3.5" hard drive and I spent two hours dremeling out a rectangle in one of our surplus cases downstairs last night and soon it will be made better.
- The classroom printserver is broken -- not sure what's going on with cups. Probably just a broken config and I'm ready to do a full re-install of the packages and see if that works out. Anybody who wants to mess around with a remote debian box is welcome to take this on.
- Will probably rebuild the classroom laptops this month if a bunch of other things don't come up.
- I'd like to represent HacDC at an upcoming meeting with Mike and the rest of the tenants regarding building security. As tenants we have an obvious stake here and then again as the maintainers and builders of the security camera system and core IT infrastructure. I will try to make sure that we're doing everything we can to serve the church well.
- Two specific tasks related to HacDC that might be good to undertake regarding the above are to improve the security camera coverage outside the church and improve physical security around access to the core router / church IT closet. This is currently very difficult as it's in a shared space and many people may have access to the closet as it is used for storage, or tenants go in to troubleshoot their IT problems on their own, etc.
- I've started two new meetups in the past month. Repair Cafe and Open (imperative verb) Technology Tuesdays. No more Hardware Despair.
- Tryna set up some RasPis and microcontrollers and sensors in the light fixtures for occupancy sensor, whiteboard webcam, and various classroom monitoring applications.
- No progress on the videoconferencing this month.
Treasurer's Report
- I'm resigning as Treasurer. Good luck y'all.
- We broke about even in August. August financial report is linked below.
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
- I printed up another 150 flyers and took about 50 to "Escape Velocity II" the Museum of Science Fiction conference, where I shilled for us. Sadly, I did not know we could have had a table for free. The MoCo Makers of Rockville did know, and the guy shilling for them, Matthew Zamora, thought there might be opportunity for collaboration. They're launching a Kickstarter for their own FPGA board. In addition, a gent, Oguz Yetkin, from the Next Gen Systems group of the University of Louisville offered their prototype open source EMGduino "at cost" to us if we're interested. See the links for details.
- I will be out of the country for the upcoming second Community Network gathering being hosted by THRIVE DC, but Julia has taken that on.


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Go beyond the expected and experience The Viking Way. Engage in Local Life, learn about the Working World and enjoy Privileged Access to people and places otherwise difficult to visit.
Budapest to Bergen
22 Days | 17 Tours | 6 Countries
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