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Novae and Interacting binaries
The 1.82m telescope in Asiago offers a flexible tool for monitoring outbursts and for surveys. Every year the Asiago observatory contributes to the studies of interacting binaries in outburst and in quiescence, with a large number of refereed papers, circulars and conference reports. In addition to this, the plate archive of the Asiago 40/50 and 67/92 Schmidt telescopes offers the opportunity to reconstruct the past variability history of some of the most interesting among such variables. Archival research is frequently carried out in a coordinated effort with the Harvard, Pulkovo and Sonnenberg plate archives. The research carried out by OAPD astronomers and their collaborators is described below (but see also the High Energy Astrophysics section).
WD single degenerate binaries as SN Ia progenitors
The most extreme single degenerate systems containing a white dwarf are characterized by high mass accretion rates and a very large, near-Eddington supersoft X-ray luminosity. This group of objects includes some classical novae and recurrent novae, symbiotic binaries, and the so called supersoft X-ray binaries in which the white dwarf accretes and burns hydrogen rich material at the high rate (mdot~10(-7) M(sun)/year) that allows radiating all the energy of the CNO cycle as it is produced. The two major ongoing projects focus on bright Galactic systems, and on X-ray binaries in external, nearby galaxies.
Hunting for SN Ia progenitors in our Galactic backyard.
When a near-by nova explodes and the intervening column of absorbing neutral hydrogen is not too large, it is often observed as a luminous supersoft X-tray source and a bright ultraviolet object. This happens whenever there is residual hydrogen rich material burning on the white dwarf, after the ejection of layers of the accreted envelope, while the white dwarf atmosphere shrinks again. For several years we have been obtaining X-ray observations of hot and luminous post-outburst novae. With the high resolution spectroscopy done with the grating spectrographs of Chandra and XMM-Newton we can derive the effective gravity (hence the mass if the distance is known) and an estimate the abundances. The abundances are really critical to understand whether the white dwarf retains material after the outburst or not, since the burning material at times is also eroded, or dredged up, from outer layers of the inert white dwarf core. Post-outburst novae white dwarfs are special objects, that allow studying the characteristics of hydrogen burning at high rate. eventually leading also to SNe Ia. Regardless of whether they actually are candidate type Ia SN progenitors or not, post-novae offer a glimpse into the physical process that leads to SNe Ia. There has been a very special object in outburst in 2006, the recurrent nova and symbiotic binary RS Oph, that proved to be so hot, luminous and massive that eventually it may really end with a supernova outburst in the next few thousand years (Nelson et al. 2007, ApJ, submitted). In-depth analysis of these amazing results is still continuing, while new objects are also being observed.
XRB populations in the Local Group.
We try to classify and monitor a statistically number of SSS in the XRB stellar populations of the Local Group. Statistics of "on-off" times and knowledge of persistent sources help define the nature of the SNe Ia progenitors. Recent work on M31 (Orio 2006) is being continued in a collaboraton with a group group at the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics, using HST archival data to determine possible counterparts of the sources in the galactic core, or at least the type of population in which they reside. Ground based imaging to detect short and long term variations, possibly orbital in nature, have been being done for M31 with the WIYN telescope for sources that are not located in the central core. We also used the Galex archival data of M31. Only few of the X-ray supersoft sources in M31 away from the core (where the Galex spatial resolution is not sufficient) are also bright UV sources. We have also obtained deep WIYN images with different optical filters of supersoft X-ray sources in M33 and in nearby galaxies outside the Local Group. We combine data of Magellanic Cloud sources at different wavelengths and epochs to follow the long term evolution of these sources. Most recently, we observed the dwarph spheroidal galaxy Leo I in X-rays. These observations are not only very significant for population studies in genral, but they also allow us to complete the census of supersoft X-ray sources in the Local Group.
The outbursts of classical and recurrent novae, are investigated with intensive photometrically and spectroscopically (high and low resolution), all the way through the final decline. Our data sets are among the most complete and detailed to reconstruct the history of outbursts. Energetics, ejecta velocity field and ionized/neutral mass, dust characteristics and mass, reddening and galactic kinematics, nebular parameters and chemical abundances are derived (Munari et al. 2006a, 2006b, Iijima 2006). Reconstruction of pre-outburst photometric evolution is also attempted using the plate archives. Global properties and statistical re-analysis of the nova population are under investigation using the huge amount of new multi-band data collected on the novae that erupted over the last few years. Among the novae in outburst in 2006-07, we are intensively monitoring Nova Cyg 2006 (V2362 Cyg), Nova Cyg 2007 (V2467 Cyg), RS Oph, Nova Sco 2007 N.1 (V1280 Sco) and N.2 (V1281 Sco), Nova Oph 2007 (V2615 Oph), Nova Sgr 2007 (V5558 Sgr), Nova Vul 2007 (V458 Vul), and Nova 2007-1 in M33.
Symbiotic binaries
Most symbiotic stars are powered by stable H-burning at the surface of a white dwarf accreting from a cool giant donor, and as such they are observed as super-soft X-ray sources when the local self-absorption by massive circumstellar cocoons is below a critical threshold (super-soft symbiotics are observed as far as Draco dwarf galaxy and the SMC, Orio et al. 2007). The symbiotic star SMC 3 in the SMC is abright supersoft X-ray source that we are currently monitoring (Orio et al. 2009, in preparation).The lack of significant amounts of nuclear processed material in the circumstellar environment, the recently discovery of wind Roche lobe filling mechanism (spatially resolved by interferometry in Mira A+B) and the large population of symbiotic stars discovered in recent surveys of galaxies of the Local Group, have rekindled the interest in symbiotic stars as precursors of SN Ia (Munari & Renzini 1992), especially in the subclass of recurrent novae. In addition to long-term spectroscopic and photometric investigations of symbiotic stars aimed at deriving their binary orbits and physical parameters, characterize their nebular regions and derive chemical abundances, follow their outburst and constrain the energetics, we are also focusing on the relation of symbiotics with binary nuclei of planetary nebulae and their pulsation instabilities (Siviero et al. 2007). By making use of spatio-kinematical models, we derive expansion parallaxes and map the expanding shocks of the circumstellar nebulae with HST and with the VLT (Santander-Garcia et al. 2007). We also study the origin, feeding and collimation mechanism of the bipolar jets of symbiotics (e.g. Munari et al. 2006a ). During a thermonuclear outburst, the evolution of white dwarf radius, temperature and luminosity are derived by eclipse mapping (e.g. Siviero et al. 2007). We also have an ungoing projet with the REM robotic telescope of INAF in Cile, systematic monitoring of the Magellanic Clouds symbiotics, with the aim of measuring orbital periods in the whole sample. Being at known distance he MC supersoft X-ray sources are extremely interesting to us to derive general properties of symbiotics. Additional projects concern post common-envelope systems with donor giants rotating close to break-up velocities. Finally, we also study the metallicity and possible chemical anomalies of some symbiotics, because ultimately we want to link these intriguing systems with their parent Galactic population and investigate enrichment/depletion processes (e.g. Wallerstein et al. 2006).
People: M. Orio, U. Munari, T. Iijima, A. Siviero, M. Valentini
Collaboration: A. Bianchini (Padova Univ.), A. Henden (USNO), R. Corradi and M. Santander-Garcia (ING, La Palma) R. DiStefano, J. Lu, F. Primini and A. Zezas (CfA, USA), G. Wallerstein and J. Lutz (Washington Univ., USA), J. Gallagher, D. Harbek and L. Nigra (Wisconsin Univ., USA), J. Greiner (MPI fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany), T. Rauch (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany), T. Zwitter (Ljubljana Univ., Slovenia), E. Leibowitz (Tel Aviv Univ. Israel), P. Whitelock (SAAO), M. Livio (STScI), T. Nelson
Publications: Orio et al. (2007), ApJ 661,1105; Santander-García et al. (2007), A&A 465,481


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- First one is a strong dark English ale with an American size dose of hops. A bit too much hops for my taste actually. I guess this will be the house beer. This one is better as it warms. I think I should have boiled more vigorously. Its kinda cloudy and has some slightly off flavors.
- Next we have the Whip it up Wheat. A good session beer, lighter in body and much more balanced in terms of hops and malt. Should be in the 3% or 4% range.
- Last nights 1620 Just in Time Ale v4 should be similar to the Whip it up Wheat, but, will hopefully be a bit more biscuity. We shall see. Forgot to check it this morning, but, I racked it onto the yeast cake of the Whip it up Wheat so it should be chugging along.
So brewing is going well. I'm not in better shape than I was last year at this time, but, I should be by Christmas. Last year I had my father's wedding beer to brew so there were a few partial kegs laying around.
About saving the money. Well, I'm not doing too bad. Last night really put me over the line. I made an exception and decided to go to The Sly Fox to catch up with a friend. Gotta hold my ground for the next couple weeks. Tough with the holidays coming up.


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Day 9 - Kevin James – a very modern take on 'sawing in half'
As one of the classic illusions, we see a lot of sawing in half at The Magic Circle but, so far, not quite like this. It's quite extreme and just shows what you can achieve if you take a classic and bring it up to date.
The waiter brought me a lobster.
I looked at it and I said: "It's only got one claw".
He said: "It's been in a fight".
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Billy Crystal open to hosting Oscars again
Billy Crystal, who got a hero's welcome when he appeared briefly at this year's Oscar ceremony, wouldn't mind returning to host Hollywood's grandest backslapping ritual.
Crystal, who's been the emcee eight times already, told the Associated Press that "it might be fun" to take on that gig again. He'd insist on a shakeup, though.
"I think the show needs to change," he said. "There's too many awards and it has to sort of freshen itself up, and if I can be a part of that, that would be great."
Problem is, producers of the 83rd Academy Awards show had promised that the three-plus-hour awards marathon would change this last year. (And nearly every year, there's much chatter about new-and-improved, with critics afterward debating just how much reshaping actually happened -- often not much -- and how successful it was -- often not very).
Comedians usually tend to fare better as hosts -- see: Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, Ellen DeGeneres -- though there have been noteworthy bombs along the way -- see: David Letterman, Chris Rock. [For the record at 12:15 pm: An earlier version of this post originally listed Chris Tucker and has been corrected.] Deft song-and-dance man/stage-and-screen actor Hugh Jackman was one of the few non-comics to draw near universal praise for his hosting duties in '08.
It was plain to see that the show was in trouble, or at least wasn't inspiring any edge-of-the-seat moments, when Crystal came on stage as a presenter and the in-house audience went wild. The assembled stars gave Crystal a standing ovation -- those are usually reserved for acting legends like Kirk Douglas and beloved "best" winners.
Once the tallies from Nielsen came in, ratings were down 7% from the previous year, despite the sexy young emcees. (Numbers dropped slightly in the 18-49 demo too).
How about it, Show Trackers, should the Oscars pull a familiar face from the past or look for fresh blood for next year's ceremony?
-- T.L. Stanley
Photo: Billy Crystal at the 2011 Academy Awards. Credit: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images.


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Professionalism Webinar: Improving Your Practice Through Peer Review
December 12, 2012
2:00-3:30 p.m. EST
The visibility of the actuarial profession is increasing. Ongoing debates on pension and health care reform have focused more attention on actuaries and their work. The profession is faced with a rapidly changing economic environment, increasing regulatory complexities, and more inquiries about various aspects of actuaries' work. The profession established professional standards of conduct, qualification and practice many years ago to enhance the quality of the professional services being provided by its members to their principals and publics. Peer review is one of the techniques that can be used to enhance actuaries' collective and individual professionalism. It is one of a number of processes actuaries might use to improve the quality of their Actuarial Services and Actuarial Communications.
The Council on Professionalism presented on peer review and the common practices actuaries can use in determining whether voluntary peer review of their Actuarial Services and Actuarial Communications may be beneficial. Attendees learned:
- Description and examples of peer review
- When to use it
- How to identify suitable peer reviewers
- The importance of peer review
- The benefits of peer review to you
- Considerations in establishing a peer review program
This webinar was presented by the Academy's Council on Professionalism and co-sponsored by the ASPPA (ACOPA),
NOTE ON JBEA CE CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE: You will not be able to receive a certificate of attendance for listening to any recorded webinars. In order to receive a JBEA CE Certificate of Attendance you must attend the live event, follow the instructions provided during the live event, and you must request your certificate by completing the online form within 30 days of attending the live event.
- Godfrey Perrott, MAAA, FSA; Member, Academy Board of Directors and Council on Professionalism
- Robert Rietz, MAAA, FSA, FCA, MSPA, EA; Vice-Chairperson, ABCD
- Moderator: Sheila J. Kalkunte, Academy Assistant General Counsel
*The opinions expressed by the panelists during this presentation do not represent the opinions of any of the boards or committees of the Academy, or the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.
The American Academy of Actuaries believes in good faith that your attendance at this live professionalism webinar, "Improving Your Practice Through Peer Review," constitutes an organized activity as defined under the current Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing Statements of Actuarial Opinion in the United States. Under these Qualification Standards, an hour of continuing education is defined as 50 minutes, and fractions of an hour may be counted.
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The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries (JBEA) has approved the Academy as a qualifying sponsor of continuing professional education (CPE) programs for enrolled actuaries.
If you are an enrolled actuary, the Academy believes in good faith that you may earn 1.8
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This is the continuing series I will post every other day while i'm out of town, thanks to Jonathan Toubin DJ of New York Night Train
Hot stuff! Comin through...
One would think that this is the Joe Cooke of Little Joe and the Thrillers fame. But the voice isn't similar.. Also there's not much out there that indicates this platter exists. It doesn't appear in the Apollo Records discographies - except one that inaccurately lists it as 1953. I'm thinking maybe this is more like 1963? It references the Mashed Potato - which was big in 1962 and "Deputy Dawg" - which also didn't appear on TV until 1962.
If you've been to thee Clap the last couple of years you've probably done the "Dish Rag" to this platter or if you went years back, you may have done the dance to King Coleman's different "Dish Rag" floor destroyer! If you don't know how to do it, Little Joe gives you step-by-step instructions!
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You're listening to my daily addition to the New York Night Train Party Platter playlist. Each track here is recorded directly from my original 45s (no bootlegs, reproductions, etc) to give you an idea of what the real deal authentic vinyl sounds like. COME BACK EVERY DAY FOR A NEW FIX! Because the records pass so quickly at my dance parties, this channel is an attempt to stop and focus on one record at a time in hopes to personally learn more about each one and at the same time turn you on to the artists, tracks, labels, etc. I'm just hipping myself to a lot of these records for the first time as well - so you can view this as our journey to learning more about cool old records together! But mostly I hope this music moves you as much as it moves me.
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Provides updates to mining operations in Guatemala and Peru
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 28, 2015 /CNW/ -- Tahoe Resources Inc. (TSX: THO, NYSE: TAHO) is pleased to announce financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2015 and to provide a production update for its operations in Guatemala and Peru.
Highlights for the first quarter of 2015 include (all amounts in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated):
Financial data for the La Arena mine in Peru are not included in the first quarter 2015 results.
Escobal UpdateMill throughput for the quarter was 335,174 tonnes at a silver grade of 500 grams per tonne (gpt). Development of the second mining front on the 1190 level is on track to meet the mid-year target. Commissioning of the fourth tailings filter is on schedule for the second quarter and the new paste plant is expected to be commissioned early in the third quarter, in advance of the 4500 tpd ramp-up.
La Arena UpdateGold produced and sold at La Arena during the quarter was 56,354 ounces at an average realized price of $1,201 per ounce.
"Operations at the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala and the La Arena gold mine in Peru continue to perform within guidance. A culture of continual cost optimization remains the focus at both operations while keeping high standards of safety and responsibility. The Shahuindo gold project is continuing on schedule and within budget with the objective to produce first gold in early 2016," said Tahoe CEO Alex Black.
"The integration of our personnel at the corporate and operational level is advancing well following the recent merger of Tahoe with Rio Alto Mining Limited. Developing and strengthening our human talent will be a key focus during the rest of the year," he added.
Successful Execution of WarrantsAll outstanding Rio Alto April 12, 2015 warrants have been exercised subsequent to the closing of the Plan of Arrangement and prior to their April 12, 2015 expiry, adding CAD$21.2 million to the Company's cash balance during the second quarter.
Conference CallTahoe's senior management will host a conference call to discuss the first quarter results on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:00 a.m. PDT. To join the call please dial 1-800-319-4610 (toll free from Canada and the U.S.) or +1-604-638-5340 (from outside Canada and the U.S.). A recording of the call will be available later that day at the Company's website.
Complete financial results as well as the Company's management discussion and analysis and other filings will be filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and the Company's website (www.tahoeresourcesinc.com).
About Tahoe Resources Inc. Tahoe's strategy is to responsibly operate precious metals mines, to pay significant shareholder dividends and to grow by developing long-term, low-cost assets in the Americas. Tahoe is a member of the S&P/TSX Composite and TSX Global Mining indices and the Russell 3000 on the NYSE. The Company is listed on the TSX as THO and on the NYSE as TAHO and has received a provisional listing on the Bolsa de Valores in Peru.
Qualified Person StatementTechnical information in this news release has been approved by Charlie Muerhoff, Vice President Technical Services, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Cautionary NotesTahoe has included certain non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial measures throughout this document. Tahoe's "Total Cash Costs" are divided by the number of silver ounces contained in concentrate to calculate per ounce figures. Tahoe's Escobal mine produces primarily silver with other metals (gold, lead and zinc) produced simultaneously in the mining process. The value of these metals represents a low percentage of Tahoe's revenue from the Escobal mine and is considered byproduct. When deriving the production costs associated with an ounce of silver, Tahoe deducts byproduct credits from gold, lead and zinc sales, which are incidental to producing silver. These measures are not defined under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and should not be considered in isolation.
Tahoe reports total cash costs (silver) on a silver ounces produced basis. Tahoe follows the recommendation of the Silver Institute, a nonprofit international association with membership from across the breadth of the silver industry. The Institute serves as the industry's voice in increasing public understanding of the many uses and values of silver. The production cost standard is the generally accepted standard of reporting cash costs of production by precious metal mining companies.
Tahoe has also adopted the reporting of AISC per silver ounce as a non-GAAP measure of a silver mining company's operating performance and the ability to generate cash flow from operations. This measure has no standardized meaning under IFRS, and Tahoe has utilized an adapted version of the guidance released by the World Gold Council. AISC (silver) include total production cash costs incurred at the Escobal mine, sustaining capital expenditures, corporate administrative expense incurred outside Peru, exploration and evaluation costs incurred outside Peru, and reclamation and closure accretion for the Escobal mine. Tahoe believes that this non-GAAP measure represents the total costs of producing silver from the Escobal mine and provides additional information about Tahoe's operational performance and ability to generate cash flows to support future capital investments and sustain future production.
The World Gold Council is not a regulatory industry organization and does not have the authority to develop accounting standards or disclosure requirements. This measure has no standardized meaning under IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other mining companies. It should not be considered in isolation as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. These non-GAAP measures are not necessarily indicative of operating profit or cash flow from operations as determined under IFRS.
These non-IFRS financial measures may be calculated differently by other companies as a result of the underlying accounting principles and policies applied.
Total cash costs per ounce before byproduct credits
Less gold credit
Less lead credit
Less zinc credit
Total cash costs per ounce net of byproduct credits
Gold, lead and zinc byproduct credits are calculated as follows:
Unit Price
Total Credit
Credit per ounce
Gold Ounces
Lead Tonnes
Zinc Tonnes
Tahoe believes these measures will provide investors and analysts with useful information about Tahoe's underlying cash costs of operations, the impact of byproduct credits on Tahoe's cost structure and its ability to generate cash flow, as well as a meaningful comparison to other mining companies. Accordingly, these measures are intended to provide additional information and should not be substituted for GAAP measures.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively referred to as "forward-looking information"). The use of any of the words "expect", "potential", "target", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "objective", "may", "will", "project", "should", "believe", "plans", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information or statements. More particularly and without limitation, this news release contains forward-looking statements and information concerning future silver and gold production and future cash flow generation and financial returns.
In respect of the forward-looking statements, Tahoe has provided them in reliance on certain assumptions that they believe are reasonable at this time. Forward-looking information relating to future silver and gold production, future cash costs of production, silver and gold resources and reserves, the development of the Shahuindo gold mine and the expansion of the Escobal silver mine, is based on management's reasonable assumptions, estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions, which are based on management's experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances, but which may prove to be incorrect. Assumptions have been made regarding, among other things, Tahoe's ability to continue paying municipal royalties in light of new royalty legislation in Guatemala; the price of silver, gold, and other metals; costs of development and production; Tahoe's ability to operate in a safe and effective manner; and its ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms. Total cash cost and AISC projections include a number of forward-looking assumptions including implementation of a new royalty law, estimated prices of byproduct metals, budgeted cost and consumption of certain consumables as well as effectiveness and timing of cost-saving initiatives.
Since forward-looking information addresses future events and conditions, by its very nature it involves inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Tahoe's control. These include, but are not limited to, business integration risks; operational risks in development, exploration and production for precious metals including, but not limited to, results of exploration activities and development of mineral properties, the interpretation of drilling results and other geological data, the uncertainties of resource and reserve estimations, receipt and security of mineral property titles, receipt of licenses to conduct mining activities, country risks, and civil unrest; the timing and possible outcome of pending litigation; delays or changes in plans with respect to exploration or development projects or capital expenditures; cost overruns or unanticipated costs and expenses; uncertainties inherent to feasibility and other economic studies; health, safety and environmental risks; precious metal prices and other commodity price and exchange rate fluctuations; marketing and transportation; loss of markets; environmental risks; competition; incorrect assessment of the value of acquisitions; ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources; changes in legislation, including but not limited to, mining regulations, tax laws, royalties and environmental regulations; and risks inherent to operating in developing countries.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Additional information on other risks and factors that could affect the operations or financial results of the new Tahoe are included in reports on file with applicable securities regulatory authorities, including but not limited to, Tahoe's Annual Information Form dated March 11, 2015 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 which may be accessed on Tahoe's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and Rio Alto's Annual Information Form dated March 13, 2015 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 which may be accessed on Rio Alto's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
Actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements and, accordingly, no assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits may be derived there from. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on this information. The forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and Tahoe does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.
For further information, please contact:Tahoe Resources Inc.Ira M. Gostin, Vice President Investor firstname.lastname@example.com: 775-448-5807
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Tahoe Resources is a producing silver company based in Canada.
Its main exploration property is ESCOBAL in Guatemala.
Its stock quote reached its highest recent level on September 24, 2010 at CA$ 9.96, and its lowest recent point on June 28, 2019 at CA$ 4.95.
Tahoe Resources has 312 300 000 shares outstanding.


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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring Out , Wild Bells
Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Comments about Ring Out , Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tapan M. Saren (3/2/2016 6:45:00 AM)
Spock The Vegan (12/11/2015 10:57:00 AM)
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Another of my favorite poems. The line above is in reference to the prophesied millenium from the Holy Bible. It's not far off.(Report)Reply
Michael Hagwood (7/30/2015 11:54:00 PM)
my first thought was 'WOW, It is a powerfull poem(Report)Reply
Shemar Henry (7/30/2015 1:35:00 PM)
Kim Barney (7/30/2015 10:24:00 AM)
This would have been a better selection for New Year's Day instead of July 30. Oh, well, it has some good thoughts anyway.(Report)Reply
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Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
I feel the speed and spontaneity with purest thoughts universal. Crossing time limit with natural skill fabricated with poetic essence.(Report)Reply
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In love of truth and right; following after righteousness. Nice work.(Report)Reply
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Poem of Lord Tennyson rings as real bell in a melodious manner saying goodbye to false and welcoming the good for well being of humankind!(Report)Reply
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There's stellar service at this family-owned Relais & Chateaux property, along with beautifully appointed rooms, full spa services, and a fabulous restaurant. This elegant Belle Epoque hotel celebrated its 100th birthday in 2009, and is still owned by the Walther family. The hotel's location is ideal, just 100 yards from Pontresina's charming center.


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The Koran was revealed to Muhammad in two phases. First in Mecca, where for thirteen years he and his followers were a besieged minority, and then in Medina, where the Prophet established Islamic rule in a city filled with Jews and pagans. The Meccan verses are addressed, through Muhammad, to humanity in general, and are suffused with a spirit of freedom and equality. They present Islam in its perfect form, as the Prophet lived it, through exhortation rather than threat.
The lives of the early Muslims in Mecca were the supreme expression of their religion and consisted of sincere worship, kindness, and peaceful coexistence with all other people. Thus, Islam was offered first in tolerant and egalitarian terms in Mecca, where the Prophet preached equality and individual responsibility between all men and women without distinction on grounds of race, sex, or social origin.
But as that message was rejected in practice, and the Prophet and his few followers were persecuted and forced to migrate to Medina, some aspects of the message changed.
Whereas Muhammad propagated "verses of peaceful persuasion" during his Meccan period, in Medina "the verses of compulsion by the sword" prevailed. The Medinan verses are full of rules, coercion, and threats, including the orders for jihad. In Taha's view they were a historical adaptation to the reality of life in a seventh-century Islamic city-state, in which "there was no law except the sword."
In the Meccan verses we find "You are only a reminder, you have no dominion over them" which is then appended with the Medinan edict, "Except he who shuns and disbelieves, on whom God shall inflict the greatest suffering." It was the Medinan verses which became the basis for Sharia law, developed over the next few centuries.
According to Taha, the elevation of the Medinan verses was only meant to be a historical postponement of the Meccan verses. The "ideal religion" represented in them was to be revived when humanity had reached a stage of development capable of accepting them, ushering in a renewed Islam based on freedom and equality. In support of this notion, Taha quotes a saying of the prophet, "Islam started as a stranger, and it shall return as a stranger in the same way it started."
Taha's reading of the Koran seems to maintain all of it as accurate and true, while at the same time allowing for modern Muslims to live faithfully to Islam while consistently enjoying the modern values of tolerance, peace, and equality.
Most of the above is edited, paraphrased, or pasted from an article on Mahmoud Muhammad Taha in the New Yorker called "The Moderate Martyr", made known to me by Al Robison. It can be read by clicking the link HERE. In addition to the above, when you read this article you'll learn the fascinating political details behind his execution, about his small group of followers today, and more.
I have ordered two books related to Taha. One is called "Quest for Divinity: Critical Examination of the Thought of Mahmud Muhammad Taha" by Mohamed A. Mahmoud. The other is by Taha himself and is called "The Second Message of Islam". You can also read much more about Taha at the Wikipedia article HERE.


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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald (or any by him)
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Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
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Big Brother 15 Spoilers: Week 2 Most Valuable Player and Power of Veto Winner — 7/10/2013By: L. A. Vess on July 10, 2013
Who won Big Brother Most Valuable player for week two? Which Big Brother 15 cast member walked away with the coveted Power of Veto and may turn the whole house's eviction plans upside down? We have all the 2013 Big Brother spoilers on the MVP vote results and PoV Competition for you right here!
Long before the Most Valuable Player vote was revealed on the CBS Big Brother 15 show Wednesday night, fans of the Big Brother Live Feeds had already found out who won and who they choose to put up as the third eviction nominee this week. Last week this was a big deal indeed because the person the MVP picked to go on the block eventually ended up being the first HouseGuest evicted this season.
This week, things are probably not going to be so cut and dry for the new Most Valuable Player winner. Their choice for who should be nominated as the third person to face eviction may have not been the smartest move. With the new Power of Veto winner thrown into the mix, the eviction plans for this week in the Big Brother 2013 house have gone sideways all over the place.
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For the second week in a row, Elissa Slater (former Big Brother winner Rachel Rielly's sister) won the Most Valuable Player vote by America. As she discussed with her ally Helen, she went on to nominate Jeremy as the third eviction nominee. Unfortunately Jeremy is part of the powerful Moving Company alliance and there was very little chance of him ever getting evicted this week based on their support and his other side alliances.
Elissa's nomination and Jeremy's support in the Big Brother 15 house became moot at the Power of Veto Competition anyway because — you guessed it — Jeremy ended up winning the challenge, which had a humorous guest appearance from Big Brother alum and very pregnant Britney Haynes. So with the Power of Veto firmly in his grasp, he will obviously take himself off the eviction block.
This will force Elissa to have to replace Jeremy with her second choice and we'll just go ahead and tell you it is not a good pick either. (You can read the Big Brother spoilers from Sunday on who she puts up as the renom if you want to know.) Basically, Elissa is digging her own grave right now with her choices and unless something spectacular happens in short order, she's very likely to be the one going out the door Thursday night in the Big Brother live eviction.
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Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Pold
"We are seduced by the interface into neglecting the work behind it, and the operationalization and instrumentalization of dreams that takes place. The interface appears mythical, absolute and frozen."
Data mining, machine learning and other disciplines involved in finding patterns of data promise a future with new insights that will enable a new mode of intelligence. However, as with much other technological marketing, this is also a myth. In our interface criticism, we propose to engage with ubiquity, openness, participation and other aspects of this intelligence as mythological constructions which are presented to us via interfaces.
Following on from Roland Barthes' seminal studies of visual culture, where he discusses everything from striptease to washing powder, we intend to engage with the illusions of technologies. In many ways it is, for instance, an illusion to believe that a computer system can really forecast everything. As with weather forecasts, predictions of traffic, browsing, and other behaviours are faulty. Machine learning works by approximation and by generating generalized functions of behaviour, which are only generalizations after all; and similarly, the data we produce is captured by technologies that constantly have to deal with the noise of many simultaneous and ambiguous actions. However, from the perspective of a mythology, the important aspect is not whether the generated algorithms work or not, but how they become part of our reality. For instance, they function as speech acts that create correlations between 'data analytics' and 'intelligence', and this performative act may have a real impact when we rely on this alleged intelligence – when we market products, control traffic, fight terrorism or predict climate changes.
The mythologization of technology that takes place in the speech acts does not imply that how the technology 'really works' is hidden, but merely the ability to automatically associate certain images with certain signification in an absolute manner. To follow on from Roland Barthes, the mythologization of our smart technologies removes the history of intelligent systems, smartness, ubiquitousness, openness, and so forth, from the linguistic act. Just as we do not question that Einstein's famous equation, and equations more generally, are keys to knowledge – as Barthes describes – intelligent systems for smart cities, state security, logistics, and so on suddenly appear absolute.1 Along with openness, participation and other techno myths, 'smartness' appears as an algorithmic reality we cannot question.
However, all techno myths should be seen as expressions of how we want the world to be, rather than what it really is. In order to perform an interface criticism, we do not need to discuss if the technologies are true or false – for the smart techniques of data mining, machine learning, and so forth, obviously work – but we need to realize that their myths are also part of our reality. As Philip Agre has noted, we subject our actions to the system that needs to capture them as data; and this deeply affects the way we produce, socialize, participate, engage, and so on.2 The monitoring of academic production and the capture of citations is, for instance, used to create indexes which indicate impact. Ideally, this can affect the efficiency of academia and be a relevant parameter for funding opportunities, careers, and the like. Even though this efficiency may be absent, the data capture still has an effect on the perception and performance of academic work; it is constitutive of our habitat and subtly affects our habits.
In many ways, the technological myths always feel real, and are dominant actors that affect a range of areas – from the perception of the weather, to our cities, and our cultural production and consumption. We have every reason to question not only if the technology works, but also the implications of its myths. It is often when we realize the pointlessness of our actions (that texts can be quoted for their mistakes, rather than their insights; or their summaries of knowledge rather than their epochal value) that we structurally begin to question the absolute assertions about the world embedded in the myth, and also to envision alternatives.
In this article, we do not want to dismiss intelligent, open, participatory or other technologies, but to discuss how technologies participate in the construction of myths. To us, this criticism fundamentally involves a mythology – a critical perspective on the interface that explores how the interface performs as a form of algorithmic writing technology that supposedly transcends signs, culture and ideology. To focus on the interface as a a language diverts attention away from technology's immediate assertions about reality – the technical fix – and highlights the materiality of their staging. The aim will be to discuss how technologies perform as dreams of emancipatory or other post-semiotic idealized futures, and argue for the need for an interface mythology that critically addresses the technologies as myths; and unravels them as value systems and tools for writing – of both future functionalities and future cultures.
There is a general tendency to develop technology in the light of cultural utopias. The development of hypertext is a very good example of this. With the emergence of hypertext in the sixties (and later the WWW, weblogs, social media, and much more), the development of various forms of textual networks has been intrinsically linked to strong visions of new ways of producing, experiencing and sharing text. One of the strongest proponents of such visions has been Theodor H. (Ted) Nelson. Nelson's Xanadu is a lifelong project, and it has been the outset for numerous reflections on the development of hypertext. Perhaps the most well-known of these texts is Computer Lib/Dream Machines from 1974, a self-published book featuring illustrations, cartoons and essays on various topics, all aiming in different ways to explore alternative ways of thinking related to computers.
Furthermore, the book can be read from both ends. The one end offers a technical explanation for common people of how computers work; as Nelson writes: "Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do. Unfortunately, due to ridiculous historical circumstances, computers have been a mystery to most of the world."3 The other end is meant to make the reader see the development of the computer as a "choice of dreams."4 According to Nelson, what prevents us from dreaming is the developer's incomprehensible language (or, as he labels it, "cybercrud"), which in his view is just an excuse to make people do things in a particular way; that is, to let the technocratic visions of culture stand unchallenged.
Already in 1965 Nelson invented the term hypertext for a new kind of file structure for cultural and personal use:
"The kinds of file structures required if we are to sue the computer for personal files and as an adjunct to creativity are wholly different in character from those customary in business and scientific data processing. They need to provide the capacity for intricate and idiosyncratic arrangements, total modifiability, undecided alternatives, and thorough internal documentation." (...) "My intent was not merely to computerize these tasks but to think out (and eventually program) the dream file: the file system that would have every feature a novelist or absentminded professor could want..."5
In this way, Nelson was already in 1965 aware that developing alternative uses of the computer was closely linked to developing alternative versions of the technical structure and even the file system. He continued – and still continues – to develop his idea of hypertext, of which he premiered the first publicly accessible version at the Software exhibition of technological and conceptual art in New York in 1970. Visions and dreams appear in a recognition that the power of computation – or of computer liberation – is linked to visions of a new medium; that the inner signals of cathode ray tubes are related to signs and signification, and therefore to cultural visions. In other words, they are linked to the hypothesis that the computer interface, at all levels, and not just the graphical user interface, is an interface between the technical and the cultural. When text, for instance, is treated by protocols there is a double effect, where not only the cultural form of the text changes (e.g. from book to hypertext), but also the technology itself appears as a deposition of cultural values. This is why the discussion of the future of text and images, on the web and in e-books, also appears as a discussion of text protocols and formats.
Many writers and theorists have adopted Nelson's visions of alternatives, and of new modes of producing, reading and sharing text. For example, in his book Writing Space, Jay Bolter explored what writing was before and potentially could be with hypertext.6 Bolter's main hypothesis was that print text no longer would decide the presentation and organisation of text, and that it no longer would decide the production of knowledge. Readers would become writers, and this would undermine the authority of print text; writing would become liquid, and we would experience a space of creative and collective freedom. However, as we have experienced on today's Internet, not everything seems as rosy. There are plenty of reasons to look more critically at Facebook, Twitter, Wikis and other services.
Nelson's Xanadu system had already included an advanced management instrument, the so-called 'silver stands': stations where users can open accounts, dial up and access the information of the system, process publications and handle micro payments. Nelson himself compares this to a McDonald's franchise and the Silver Stands somehow resemble the Internet Cafés of the late 90s and early 2000s or the commercial, centralized platforms of Web 2.0. Furthermore, copying content in the Xanadu system is restricted to dynamic "transclusions" that include the current version of the original text and assure a small royalty when accessed, a so-called "transcopyright".
When looking at the services of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and so on today, it is similarly obvious that the common production modes characteristic of a free writing space are accompanied by strict control mechanisms. There are, for instance, strict protocols for the sharing, searching, writing and reading of text, and these protocols often ensure an accumulation of capital and compromise the anonymity and freedom of the participant. In other words, the instrumentalization of the dream includes everything else but the dream. The envisioned shared, distributed, free and anonymous writing space is in fact a capitalised and monitored client-server relation.
This critique of contemporary interface culture is perhaps not news, but what we want to stress here is the effect of the instrumentalization of dreams and visions. What this indicates is that down the 'reactionary path' (that is, the path of instrumentalization), our dreams turn into myths. However, the ethos of the dreams remains, and become automatically associated with the technical systems.
The dream of a shared writing space, a Xanadu, that overcomes the problems of representation facing linear text forms, as well as the hypertext system's instrumentalization of this dream, the mythological status of such systems, and the adherent critique of them, all fit into a three-phase model of media presented by the German media theorist Harmut Winkler.
From a linguistic perspective all new media are, in the first phase, considered post-symbolic, concrete and iconic communication systems that present a solution to the problem of representation, or the arbitrariness of the sign. Winkler even sees the development of media as "deeply rooted in a repulsion against arbitrariness", and a "long line of attempts to find a technical solution to the arbitrariness" dating back to the visual technical media of the 19th century.7 In addition, hypertext was perceived as establishing a more true relation between form and content, because of its more intuitive, democratic, and less hierarchical, nonlinear structure. It will often be the investment in the dreams that pays for their technical implementation: You not only buy new functionality, you buy a new way of living, working, thinking and dreaming. In this way, the development of hypertext, the WWW, social media – and also computer games and virtual reality, and their alleged liberation of the user – is driven by an urge to fulfil a dream, a vision of a new future.
In the second phase, the utopias become natural, stable and hegemonic. Through subsumption by market forces they become commodified, and sold as myths of being part of a media revolution. However, the subscription to this reality also contains an explicit lack of visions of alternative futures, and is therefore also without the critical, activist and heroic dimensions of the first phase.
It is, however, also a phase where people begin to study the media and learn how to read and write with them. In other words, the new media begins to enter a phase where you see it as a language, and hence where the arbitrariness of the sign is reinstalled. In the third phase, this arbitrariness has turned into disillusion over the media's lack of abilities; which, however, also constitutes the ground for new visions, new media technologies, new interfaces, and new media revolutions.
The question is how far are we, today, from Ted Nelson's critique of centralised data processing and IBM-like visions of efficiency and intelligence? In several ways, it seems as if we are in a phase where we might soon begin to regard big data, smart systems, social intelligence, and so forth, as a language; where we begin to see through the technological systems' mythological statuses, or at least their dark sides in the form of control and surveillance. This is by no means an easy phase. As Ted Nelson also noted, "Most people don't dream of what's going to hit the fan. And computer and electronics people are like generals preparing for the last war."8 The developers of technology and their supporters will often insist that their system is the future, and that the users' actions need to follow the system's intrinsic logic.
From a design perspective, the assumption will typically be that the clearer the representation of the computer signal-processes appears (or the mapping of mental and symbolic labour – the formalization of labour to computer language performed by the programmer), the more user-friendly and understandable the user interface appears. To computer semiotics, the aim was ultimately to create better interface design. However, in relation to an interface criticism, it is noteworthy how computer semiotics also explains how a design process in itself contributes to the mythological status of the interface – its absolute assertions about the world.9 In other words, the myths of interfaces are not only established through how they are represented elsewhere (how they are talked about, written about, advertised, etc.), but also through the interfaces themselves, and how they are designed. It is in its design as a medium, and in its claims of an iconic status as a communication system, that we find the interface's operationalized mythology. And, in a general perspective, this is not unlike how media such as photography, film, the panorama, and so on, according to Harmut Winkler, have tried to operate in earlier times.
To read this myth demands that one begins to read the media – or, in our case, the interface. It is a tool for reading and writing, and not an absolute representation of the world. We must, therefore, begin to pay attention to the establishment of sign-signal relations that take place in the interface design, as a particular production mode, a particular kind of labour; a production of signs that at once reflects cultural and historical processes, and leaves an imprint on the world and how we organise and deal with it.
For instance, the software of the print industry, as Nelson also demonstrates, both reflects the historical and cultural origins of print and negotiates the reality of text, as searchable, sequential, iterative, sortable, and so forth. Our file formats and standards for storing and showing data also reflect such processes. Jonathan Sterne, for instance, has recently analysed how the diameter of the Compact Disc directly reflects relations to the cassette tape, and how the mp3 format also holds an audio culture of listening that is embedded in the sound compression, and how this directly challenges the conception of technological progress as equal to increased high fidelity.10 Even the electrical circuits and the signal processes deep inside the computer can be viewed as the result of language acts, as Wendy Chun has pointed out.11
Computer software and its formats and platforms promise us dreams of the future, of technological progression, better opportunities to make our music portable and shareable, better ways of organising our work, and so forth. It is often these dreams that carry the technological development. However, the dreams have a tendency to freeze, and gain an air of absoluteness, and of hegemony. This happens through their commodification and appropriation to a reality of power and control. Technology is marketed as a utopia of being in the midst of a media revolution. But in this phase the cultural and historical residues are hidden. We are seduced by the interface into neglecting the work behind it, and the operationalization and instrumentalization of dreams that takes place. The interface appears mythical, absolute and frozen. We do not see the mp3 format's compression of sound as a result of an audio culture, but as the only possible scenario, a technological fact; and we do not see the IT systems of workers as the result of a negotiation of labour processes, and we do not see the operational system's metaphorization of actions as other than a result of natural selection in the evolution of technologies. To get out of the deception of the technological facts we need interface mythologies – critical readings of the interface myths.
Suggested citation: Andersen, Christian Ulrik and Pold, Søren (2018). "Interface Mythologies – Xanadu Unraveled." In Interface Critique Journal Vol.1. Eds. Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné, Daniel Irrgang. DOI: 10.11588/ic.2018.0.44738
This article is released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).
Christian Ulrik Andersen PhD, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies. Inspired by network and software culture his research addresses the intersection between software and cultural performativity. In particular, he addresses the notion of "interface criticism" as performed in a variety of design and arts practices.
Søren Bro Pold (Aarhus University) has published on digital and media aesthetics. His main research field is interface criticism which discusses the role and the development of the interface for art, literature, aesthetics, culture and IT.
Selected Publications:
Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Søren Pold, eds. Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons. Århus: Århus Universitetsforlag, 2011.
Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Søren Pold. The Metainterface - The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds. Cambridge, MA & London, England: MIT Press, 2018.
Agre, Philip E. "Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy." In The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort, 737-60. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Transl. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972.
Bolter, J. David. Writing Space the Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991. [Find the second edition here.]
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Programmed Visions: Software and Memory. Software Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Nelson, Theodor H. "Computer Lib / Dream Machines." In The New Media Reader, edited by Nick Montfort, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 301-38. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 (1974/1987).
Nelson, Theodor H. "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate." In The New Media Reader, edited by Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 133-45. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003 (1965).
Pold, Søren, and Christian Ulrik Andersen. The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
Sterne, Jonathan. Mp3: The Meaning of a Format. (Sign, Storage, Transmission). Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Winkler, Hartmut. Docuverse. Ratisbon: Boer, 1997.
1 Roland Barthes and Annette Lavers, Mythologies: Selected and Transl. From the French by Annette Lavers (New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972).
2 Philip E. Agre, "Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy," in The New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: MIT Press, 2003). According to Agre there are two dominant notions of surveillance. Surveillance is often perceived in visual metaphors (i.e., 'Big Brother is watching'); however, computer science mostly builds on a tradition of capturing data in real time, and is often perceived in linguistic metaphors ('association', 'correlation', etc.). Hence these metaphors are also better suited to describe the kinds of surveillance taking place when data capture permeates social life, friendship, creative production, logistics, and other areas of life.
3 Theodor H. Nelson, "Computer Lib / Dream Machines," in The New Media Reader, ed. Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 (1974/1987)), 302.
4 Ibid. 305.
5 "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate," in The New Media Reader, ed. Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 (1965)), 134.
6 J. David Bolter, Writing Space the Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing (Hillsdale, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991).
7 Hartmut Winkler, Docuverse (Ratisbon: Boer, 1997), 214.
8 Nelson, "Computer Lib / Dream Machines," 305.
9 On computer semiotics and the work of Frieder Nake and Peter Bøgh Andersen, see Søren Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen, The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds (Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 2018).
10 Jonathan Sterne, Mp3: The Meaning of a Format, Sign, Storage, Transmission (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
11 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 2011).


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Another one bites the dust. JAT, a high-profile hedge fund founded in 2007 by John Thaler which had $1.7 billion under management, is the latest to announce that it will return money to outside investors and transform itself into a family office.
Thaler, who said that he wants to "spend time with my young family and determine which path to pursue next" is following high-profile hedgies George Soros, Carl Icahn and Stanley Druckenmiller, who also converted their funds into family offices.
Why are they doing it? Because the SEC, which regulates the financial services in America, exempts family offices which do not manage other people's money from filing information about their dealings, so the regulatory burden is much reduced. Also, hedge fund returns have shrunk in recent years, and some managers have decided to get out.
This trend makes some people grumpy. They argue that Soros and co are exploiting a loophole simply to escape scrutiny and that these are not "real" family offices. There is something in this argument. A family office normally looks after not just investments, but some of a family's other affairs, such as tax, investment and regulatory matters, and often provides concierge-like services such as helping with the purchase of property and even scoping out art purchases.
Should regulators crack down? They could easily insist that an entity can only be classed as a family office if it involves non-investment activity, but it would be just as easy for the ex-hedgies to add some. Pointless and expensive regulatory cat-and-mouse would ensue.
Some of the opposition to hedge fund conversions seems to be that the hedgies simply tick a box, and are allowed to carry on as before, just with less scrutiny. That is not quite right (they hand back other people's money first) but the argument contains something of a prejudice against the way these people have made their money.
In the old days, people amassed their wealth in, say, oil or retail then set up family offices to invest that money. These days many tycoons are in finance to start with, and their family offices are therefore similar to their operating businesses. Some people find that odd. But really what they are doing is fundamentally no different to what Rockefeller did – only the source of funds is different.
Perhaps the trend should be welcomed. Imagine if the Thalers, Druckenmillers and Icahns really do start family finance dynasties. Inevitably some of the characteristics of family businesses – such as long-termism and risk-aversion – would slowly start to seep into their industry. A family business reverse takeover of Wall Street? We can but dream.


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In Isfahan, Iran, Water Shortages cause Once Wealthy Farmers to lose Everything
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- Published: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
By INU Staff
INU- Farmers in the Isfahan region were wealthy and prosperous, when the Zayanderud River flowed down from the Zagros Mountains to water the region. Since the river has dried up, it no longer provides water for farming towns like Qahdarijan. The regime's mismanagement of water resources has caused these farmers to lose everything.
Qahdarijan is agricultural land. The city's economy depends on agriculture. The loss of the river, Zayanderud, the largest river in central Iran, had brought poverty to the area. Isfahan farmers have been gathering over the past few weeks to protest to the water shortage and the violation of their water rights.
The strain from drought has been worsened by the growing number of factories that use up large amounts of water. Diversion of water to other regions has made the situation bad, as well. In July, an Isfahan environmental activist said, "The water cycle has been annihilated. The entire water of the river has been allocated to industry."
A representative from the city of Falavarjan spoke to ILNA state-run News Agency about the impact of the water shortageon the people of Qahdarijan, where major clashes and protests during the January unrest occurred.
"The city of Falavarjan has about 270 thousand inhabitants and has three districts and most of the people work in the agricultural sector. I don't exaggerate when I say that 90% of the people in Qahdarijan are engaged in all sorts of agricultural-related jobs." He added, "Some the people who were once wealthy, are currently so deprived and poverty stricken that they are covered by relief foundations such as the Emdad Foundation."
He explained in his interview, "Many of them are retired farmers who have large families and many children and relatives, and have no other source of income."
He asked, "If this is not a catastrophe then what is it?"
All of the people, especially those with water rights should have equal access to the Zayanderud River. As the livelihood of farmers depends on water, perhaps they are more entitled, added the Falavarjan representative. "When a person has problems with his livelihood, he suffers very much. Unfortunately, at the moment, most people are unemployed and do not have an income in Qahdarijan."
The representative told the Isfahan Islamic Council that the people were so dependent on water that sometimes they cried out in desperation."The farmers say kill us or throw us out of Iran.
Are we not as farmers' part of the people of this country, they ask," he said. He said that the farmers only want justice in the distribution of water. "Unfortunately, the Ministry of Energy does not take into consideration the approved decisions of the Supreme Water Council and ignores farmers," he said, and warned that the protests may turn political.
"If officials cannot handle the demands of the protesters, they should know that these protests and demands may be exploited by the enemies of the Islamic Republic," he said.
According to reports, farmers in Varzaneh, Shatur, and Ziar, other cities in Isfahan Province gathered on Thursday to protest to scarcity of water and lack of access to water resources, among other demands. Isfahan farmers staged similar protests and demonstrations that lasted for more than two months at the beginning of the year.
This protest against the corruption of the Iranian government, is not the first one, but part of the growing anger of the people for the regime.
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With Transavia from Berlin to Munich30.05.2016
Transavia now flies twelve times a week from Berlin-Schönefeld to Munich. The new low-cost service significantly expands the choice of domestic German services from Schönefeld. The airline will be operating the route twice daily from Monday to Friday in the morning and the evening. On Saturdays and Sundays the flight leaves once daily in the morning. The flight times during the week are coordinated to the needs of business travellers, and at the weekend they are perfect for spontaneous city breaks. Transavia will be operating the Berlin-Munich service with a B737-800 aircraft with 189 seats. The subsidiary of the Air France/KLM Group also flies daily (except for Saturdays) from SXF to Rotterdam/Den Haag.
Munich Airport is situated roughly 30 kilometres from the city centre and is easily reached via the A 92 motorway. The S-Bahn train lines S1 and S8 connect the airport with the city centre and run every ten minutes.


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Monday, June 10, 2013
Absurd Goalie Monday: Jack McCartan
While many of the past goalies have toiled at their craft to be successful, this week's AGM took an unusual route. While he may not have been outfitted from the start, he lucked into the position and thanks to his baseball background, he was able to excel in net with a solid glove hand. This week, the profile of Jack McCartan.
McCartan fell into the goalie position, playing the spot in youth hockey when all the players too rotations in net, but didn't have the proper gear for it. McCartan acquire the gear of a friend, which enabled him to play for St. Paul Marshall High School and while his team was often defeated, McCartan played well enough to be name to the All-City Team in his senior season of 1953.
While he was recruited for a baseball scholarship, McCartan was lured back into hockey when at the University of Minnesota by hearing the puck bang against the boards when going to ball practice. After playing for the freshman team to start, McCartan played with the Golden Gophers for 67 games from 1955-56 until 1957-58, being named to the WCHA First All-Star Team in 1957 and 1958, and named to the NCAA First All-American Team in 1958.
McCartan continued his amateur aspirations in order to try out for the Olympic team, playing for the US National Team in the 1958-59 season for 29 games. McCartan did make the 1960 Olympic team, playing the unlikely hero for the underdog team that won the Gold Medal, as McCartan went a perfect 5-0-0 during the games and being named the Best Goaltender for the Olympics.
That exposure was notice by the New York Rangers, who signed him to a try-out contract following the Olympics, where he would play in four games and go 1-1-2 before being sent down to the Central League's Minneapolis Rangers for five games. The 1960-61 season had McCartan play only eight games for the Rangers (1-6-1), then being sent to the Eastern Pro League's Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers for the duration of the season, finishing with a 25-21-6 record in that span and 3-4 in the playoffs. Staying with the Beavers for the 1961-62 season, McCartan played in 70 games and posted a 36-24-10 record, then 3-4 again in the playoffs.
The Rangers would trade off McCartan to the WHL's Los Angeles Blades in the inter-league trade. McCartan played with the Blades for the 1962-63 season, putting up a 31-27-2 record, then 1-2 in three playoff games.
The Chicago Blackhawks would claim McCartan in the inter-league draft before the 1963-64 season, being relegated to the Central Pro League's St. Louis Braves and went 31-30-6 and 2-4 in the playoffs. McCartan only played in five games for the Braves in the 1964-65 season, going 1-4-0 before being on the move again.
The Blackhawks traded McCartan back to the LA Blades for the rest of the 1964-65 season, going 8-22-2 in the last 32 games of that year. McCartan stayed in the WHL for the 1965-66 season for the San Francisco Seals, going 23-27-3 in 53 games, while in the 1966-67 season for the California Seals; McCartan put up a 25-26-10 record, then 2-3 in the playoffs.
The 1967-68 season had McCartan playing in the CPHL again, this time for the Omaha Knights, but would go 9-25-7 in the 43 games he played.
After some summer shuffling, McCartan landed with the San Diego Gulls before the 1968-69 season, posting a 20-14-6 record in his first season there. Coming back for the 1969-70 season, McCartan got more games under his belt, finishing with a 21-20-9 record then 0-3 for the playoffs, while during the 1970-71 season, McCartan finished with a 24-20-11 record and 2-4 in the playoffs. Finally in the 1971-72 season with the Gulls, McCartan played in 36 games and posted a 14-16-2 record, then 0-2 in the playoffs.
With the WHA coming along, it gave McCartan another shot at the pros, as he was picked up by the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the 1972-73 season, playing in 38 games and having a 15-19-1 record, but only saw two games of action in the 1973-74 season for the Saints, but only in relief. McCartan went to the Southen League during the 1973-74 season for the Sun Coast Suns for six games (no record provide) as well. McCartan came back to the Saints for the 1974-75 season for two games, going 1-0-0 before hanging up the pads for good.
Post playing career, McCartan was a scout for the Vancouver Canucks for a time before he retired to Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
For not directly wanting to play goalie, McCartan got a lot of mileage from his career thanks to being able to get equipment from a friend and being lured back into hockey just from the sound of the puck hitting the boards in college. Though he toiled in the minors, his amateur career was more than enough for him to be remembered for the long run.
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Volume 55, Number 9 October 8, 2007
Heading the office is Gayle Orr-Smith, the former director of emergency services and deputy mayor for public safety for the City of San Francisco. Orr-Smith, who led the city's emergency response activities during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, will also serve as the university's representative to on- and off-campus groups, organizations and entities regarding safety and emergency response. It is the first time that the campus has had a full-time position devoted to emergency preparedness. Orr-Smith can be reached at ext. 8-1046.
Nominations needed for administrator search committees
Nominations close at midnight on Oct. 17. Please submit your nomination via the electronic nomination system at www.sfsu.edu/~senate/nominate
training now available
SF State's DIVA development team is holding workshops throughout the fall semester to help faculty and staff learn how to use the system. The "DIVA Introduction Workshop" takes place at 2 p.m. on Oct. 12 and Oct. 15, and at 3 p.m. on Oct. 30. "Teaching with DIVA" will be held at 11 a.m. on Oct. 10 and at 10 a.m. on Oct. 26. All workshops are held in HSS 380. Individual workshops for departments or committees are also available.
For more details on DIVA, visit: http://diva.sfsu.edu. To RSVP for a workshop, e-mail email@example.com or sign up at http://power.sfsu.edu
News from the Academic Senate
For more information, visit the Academic Senate Web site at www.sfsu.edu/~senate/
Read more at In Memoriam:
Read Newsmakers: www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/fall07/oct8news.htm
This week in Insiders: SF State faculty participate in the American Psychiatric Association's national convention; Professor of Oceanography Toby Garfield takes questions about the large winter waves off the San Mateo coast; BECA Professor Betty Blosser and her students shoot videos in Thailand for the Thai government; and Professor of Music William Corbett-Jones performs Tchaikovsky in San Francisco.
Read Insiders: www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/fall07/oct8insiders.htm
FBI lecture
Poetry reading
Crimes of the Heart
Women Studies lecture series
One-Act fringe
An evening with Justin Lin and friends
SF State challenges fashion apparel industry
Ferry Building walking tour
Poetry reading by Peter Cole
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Over 40 Farmers who regularly attend the Farmers Field School are involved in another major activity today.
A release from the Ministry of Agriculture says the Farmers are attending a session at the Home Economics Centre at Richmond Hill, where they will see a demonstration of the making of cottage cheese from goat milk.
The Ministry says the Farmers, who are all involved in rearing sheep and goats, are being given an opportunity to pursue another product line other than the sale of the animal for meat purposes.
Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Kathian Hackshaw says the training is part of the Farm Management Module included in the program, which is focusing on product development and value addition.
The training is being conducted by Veterinary Officer, Dr. Colleen Phillips.


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News and events
Unfortunately, wearing a cast does feel awkward and often uncomfortable. But the cast is essential to immobilise the injured area and to allow it to heal. So while you are recuperating, here are some ways to manage with that cast. 1. Keep your cast elevated
Have you heard of Legs Matter? It is a coalition of eight healthcare organisations that have come together to make sure that anyone with a lower limb or foot problem understands their condition and receives the urgent care and support they need. We love the work they're doing and so do many others. The healthcare organisations involved include The College of Podiatry, The British Lymphology Society , Accelerate CIC and the Tissue Viability Society – to name a few!
As we approach the summer and the weather is improving, our kids are spending more time outside and enjoying the light evenings. And who can blame them? It's great for children to get out and spend time with their friends in the summer months. But, inevitably, this means there are hazards around that could potentially cause an injury.


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(To view our March/April 2018 issue of ClubWEST online, click here.)
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
– Benjamin Franklin
If you're looking for a grind 'em up, spit 'em out attitude of winning at any cost in minor lacrosse, Grimsby native Jamie Taylor is decidedly not your man.
If you want your youngster to gain some experience, learn about the game and themselves along the way and be the best they can be on both fronts, then you will be glad you read the feature on the former National Lacrosse League journeyman. Taylor will be a new coach in the Lincoln Crush minor lacrosse system and he brings a wealth of experience to the table.
As a former number one draft pick and someone who made many stops along the trail of his pro career, he will have a lot of insight to offer his players and their parents.
Surprises come along. Taylor's career was not planned. It was almost a fluke, really, as he started out as a hockey player but found his skills flatlined. When he started cross-training with lacrosse, he immediately took flight and didn't look back.
The ability to read the tea leaves and adapt are key in the world of sports, just as it is in business.
This month's cover story on the ongoing development of Dillon's Small Batch Distillery is proof positive of that.
Geoff Dillon and family members sensed an opportunity, did their homework and launched their new business, which was quite likely the easy part but getting it up and moving forward is the more difficult, ongoing battle.
Dillon and his team has listened repeatedly to what the market has told them and continued to adapt their offering to interest varied consumer interests and tastes. Being a good lis- tener can serve you in good stead no matter what line of work one is in and Dillon's has picked up on that, clearly.
Starting out just over six years ago in what was, essentially, a little used drive shed on Tufford Road at the South Service Road in Beamsville, massive renovation and fine tuning has culminated in a unique consumer experience for anyone who has stopped by.
As owner of a small, independent publishing company, I know all too well the perils and benefits of going the entrepre- neurial route. A winning concoction is one part energy, one part smarts, one part creativity and one part crazy. Put all in a blender, mix well with anything from Dillon's and you'll be well on your way. Just kidding.
The first three parts are true, though. Great respect to Team Dillon's and continued success and, as well, for Taylor with his lacrosse charges.
Publisher, ClubWest Magazine
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A building based on sustainability: treatment plants, green areas on rooftops and photovoltaic cells for outdoor lighting. Its construction allowed the grouping of all community students in one place.
The building has eight floors and spacious courtyards and interior glazed bridges to enable natural lighting and ventilation, with the energy saving benefits this implies. It has 470 parking spaces, a library, auditorium, classrooms, workshops, laboratories, cubicles for teachers, outdoor forum, sports facilities, green areas, administrative offices and dining room.
In 2014, Obras magazine recognised the UAM Cuajimalpa Torre III as the best work in the category of "Urbanism and Social Impact", as it meets all required standards and maintains construction, high social and environmental standards, while minimising energy consumption and promoting the optimal development of the student community.
The €370-million Vigo Hospital represents the largest investment made in a health centre facility currently in construction in Spain.
Building architecture designed by Herzog and de Meuron.


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Tue, 14 August 2012
Captain Scott is back with his co-pilot & Flame Dame, Cindy! This week we discuss some television such as the Olympics & Project Runway. Scott talks about rehearsals & there's our first entries for another free bottle of Spunk Lube!
Check out the Satyrsphere website: http://satyrsphere.blogspot.com
Until next time,
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Cool off in Tibet, then heat up here
Hindus, Buddhists and others who look to the East for spiritual sustenance believe that the spark of divinity - the profound but simple potential of godhood, as it were - resides within us all.
Alas, that spark is often little more than a faint and remote flicker. It needs a cool breath of compassion to coax the flame to kindle. It wants a melodic Tibetan zephyr from the Land of Snows to burn like a yak-butter lamp on the hearth of the heart.
The spark requires the Voice of Tibet in all its precious clarity, diamond purity and sublime humility.
Yungchen Lhamo is the Voice of Tibet, and her new CD "Ama" is uplifting and deeply moving. The disc's 10 exquisite tracks are perfect lullabies for these troubled times.
Though she now calls New York City home, Lhamo was born in a labor camp outside the holy city of Lhasa after the Chinese occupation of Tibet commenced in the 1950s. She learned Tibetan devotional singing from her grandmother. It was a dangerous undertaking - making traditional music was one of many cultural customs banned by the occupying forces.
In 1989, Lhamo's grandmother encouraged her to make the perilous trek across the Himalayas to seek refuge in Dharamsala, India, home of the Tibetan government-in-exile and its spiritual and political leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Lhamo carried little more than her miraculous voice and a desire to use it on behalf of her people.
And so she has, bouncing from India to Australia to Europe to the U.S. Along the way, her ethereal singing caught the ear of Peter Gabriel, who signed her to his Real World Records label.
"Ama" is Lhamo's third release for Real World, and it's her finest to date. On it, she melds the musical forms of her homeland to lyrics that reflect her Tibetan Buddhist faith and its central, essential tenet of compassion. Producer Jamshied Sharifi has ornamented the tunes with delicate, empathetic instrumentation that never overshadows the often otherworldly grace of Lhamo's voice.
Some songs - such as the disc-opening "Ranzen" - are somber and majestic. Some - the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hung" in the setting of a village festival tune - have an earthy liveliness and frisky joy. Other tracks - the lover's lament "Gebu Shere" - have the gleaming, pensive loveliness of a teardrop.
Lhamo's voice shimmers and soars on the CD's standout tracks. "Tara" is an ode to the female deity who represents strength, compassion and healing.
"9/11" is a spine-tingling improvisation on Lhamo's grief over the World Trade Center attacks. "Someday" pays tribute to the Dalai Lama, and the album-closing "Lhasa" is a poignant double salute to the city of her birth and her father.
Lhamo's singing might sound alien to Western ears. It's artless and heartfelt, and sometimes her voice shivers and cracks as she prolongs a phrase or nudges it to fresh heights. The lyrics are in Tibetan, but the emotion is universal.
This music is the embodiment of amaste, the Sanskrit greeting that acknowledges that precious divine spark. "Ama" is a mitzvah, a blessing, a fresh and fulfilling gift from the Land of Snows.


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Hello everyone!
Today will feature more of pretty much the exact same weather that we've grown used to under the influence of the low to our NE. Skies will be mainly sunny along the coast with clouds and snow showers continuing over the mountains. NW winds will continue to be breezy but will be slightly less so today as high pressure edges ever closer. Gusts will be in the 15-25mph range rather than the 25-35mph range they've been stuck in since Saturday. Highs will be even chillier than past days though with temps stuck in the mid 30's north and mid to upper 40's south. A few 50 degree readings are possible across SE NH but they will be the exception, not the rule. Fall is here.