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Following one man's task of building a virtual world from the comfort of his pajamas. Discusses Procedural Terrain, Vegetation and Architecture generation. Also OpenCL, Voxels and Computer Graphics in general.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Instance Voxelization
At only 40x80x40 voxels it is a good reproduction of the Buddha. You can still see the smile and toes.
This computes 12 levels of detail so when this object is distant we can resort to a much smaller representation. If you know what texture mipmaps are, you'd see this is a very similar concept.
The LOD slider produces a very cool effect when you move it quickly: you can see the model progress quickly from high to low resolution.
And here is the Dragon at 80x80x50 voxels:
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Might be a good idea to use smoothing groups for normals to impress viewers even more. =)ReplyDeleteReplies
Right... even more impressive would be to show voxelization that preserves artist made UV mapping.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2014 at 6:02 PM
start by turning the uv-seams into a spline surface that just projects whatever is around it ?Delete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2014 at 6:45 PM
smoothing groups?! Thinking about smoothing groups was a good idea in the 80s. Luckily we know now that it's all about vertex normals and smothing groups do in fact not exist ;]Delete
I wasn't old enough in the 80's, but smoothing groups are still alive and well in the 2000s, they just tell you which normals get replaced by an average of usually all other normals at the same vertex.Delete
You can't mention the LOD slider effect and not show us! Come on, just a little animated gif. Bonus points if it loops seamlessly.ReplyDeleteReplies
Just did a new post with two GIFs, here is one: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bj6kngSlrro/VHjXHnsbaxI/AAAAAAAAHNc/EmoKFpNL8-w/s1600/ProgressiveLOD.gifDelete
Do the colours represent specific information, or are they just randomised to make visualisation of individual voxels easier?ReplyDeleteReplies


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Do not be anxious about your life
1 John 3:18: Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
Let us Pray ...
Today's Readings ... (February 27, 2011)Sunday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
First Reading: Is 49:14-15
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 62:2-3,6-7,8-9
Second Reading: 1 Cor 4:1-5
Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34
Meditation on Today's Gospel: (Matthew 6:24-34)
What does the phrase "serving two masters" and "being anxious" have in general? They both have the same root difficulty – being separated within oneself. The root word for "anxiety" exactly means "being of two minds." Money first and foremost is a means of exchange by which we can gives for the needs of our life, whatever those needs are at whichever given time. The difficulty begins when money and the chase of money becomes an end in itself, "I want to live as rich." Which soon becomes "I have to be always rich". And, when I am rich, when I have plenty of things, I will go to any extent to hold on to them. It is astonishing how very rich people keep being determined to make more till they have more than they could feasible to spend. The word of the day is strong challenge to the way of life that prevails in most of our cities in the so-called urbanized world and in numerous parts of the developing world too. Jesus puts it very frankly: "You cannot at the same time be the servant of God and money" As such, he does not disapprove of the having of things. What is in query is our approach towards them, our being in slave to them, having our lives possessed by them and, above all, being not capable to share them with those in genuine need. Also in question is the false impression that, if we have money and authority, we have be in charge of of our lives. We are safe. Nothing could be additional from the truth. So eventually Jesus is teaching us that our only real safety is total trust in God's love for us.Mangalore, Karnataka

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Actor, fashion designer and Big Brother Africa 'Chase' representative for Ghana, Elikem Kumordzie says his marriage is no one's business.
The actor, known in showbiz circles as Elikem the Tailor, said this in a reaction to reports that his marriage to Zimbabwean, Pokello Nare was in turmoil.
On Wednesday, there was a publication that indicated Elikem and his wife may be heading to court to seek divorce.
According to the story that went viral, Pokello did not post a birthday wish on social media on Tuesday which was Elikem's birthday.
Reacting to the story, Elikem, who sounded unperturbed about the rumour, told JoyNews' MzGee, he owed no one an explanation when it comes to his marriage.
"Why are people dwelling on what is on social media… I don't understand why because there hasn't been a post where people will not want to jump into conclusion to say A, B or C. Secondly, I am not ready to spit out what's private at home out on air to say yes I am divorced or no I am not divorced so whether there is a divorce or not, I'm sure it is not anyone's business so to speak," he said.
Elikem urged the media to seek more information on the state of his marriage from the court.
"People like to keep their lives private at a certain point in time, maybe we are used to people who like to post stuff… It's not important for people to want to find out. We haven't been posting on social media anymore but we haven't also posted whether we are or we are not so why do people just want to jump into conclusion and say we are not because there is no social media post," he quizzed.
Elikem and Pokello met in the Big Brother Africa House in 2013. Elikem proposed to his love at the Ghana Music Awards in 2014, they got married in 2015 and had a Son, they named Tristan later that year.


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Nereid is one of over 200 public artworks to be found in
and I think it's one of the more beautiful. Sculpted in bronze and standing on a
base that may be polished granite, she's an impressive piece that is around
183cm tall, on a base that's 152cm tall. Cardiff
Tradition tells that there were 50 Nereids, all daughters of Nereus and Doris, but more than 50 have been named in the ancient works of Homer, Hesiod and the like, so, like all mythology, the story is a little flexible.
This particular Nereid has no name. She balances on a wave, above a shoal of fish, and gazes at a seabird that has alighted on her outstretched left hand. She's the work of British sculptor and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Nathan David, who has a long and impressive list of work to his credit, both public commissions and private work, in
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I find some of his work rather solid and static but, as in this animated Nereid, he excels at depicting movement. One of his most well-known works is a life-size bronze of ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, which can be found at her birthplace in Reigate,


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Beth El's view of how Jewish Scripture addresses the issue of Jewish identity is this:
any tangible presence of Jewish blood-heritage or "conversion-based" heritage (a parent converted to Judaism) equals "a whole Jew" — meaning, that person is entitled to choose to self-identify as a Jew – and in many cases, is actually Biblically obligated to do so (Jeremiah 31:35-37, Matthew 5:29, Acts. 21:18-25).
The most basic answer to the "Who Is A Jew" question divides into two parts, because Jewishness is a nationality, and Judaism is a religious faith — and the word "Jew" can mean an adherent to either or both.
So, a Jew in regard to nationality is anyone who can demonstrate any tangible presence of the blood of the Jewish nation in their family heritage, or valid "conversion" to Jewish identity inclusive of national affiliation by either mainstream or Messianic means. The State of Israel's "Law Of Return" provides that automatic Israeli citizenship is the right of "a Jew, the child of a Jew, the grandchild of a Jew, or the spouse of a Jew." This is because of the following rather simple chain of ideas, often overlooked:
If your great-great-grandparent was Jewish, then your great-grandparent was Jewish. And if your great-grandparent was Jewish, then your grandparent was Jewish. And if your grandparent was Jewish, then your parent was Jewish. And if your parent was Jewish … that's right – you are a Jew. Not a "half-Jew." Not a "quarter-Jew," "eighth-Jew" … each of the above generations was a fully-defined Jew. (Acts 16:3)
Insofar as Messianic Judaism is concerned, the House of God is a "house of prayer for all nations" as both Testaments affirm: so Jewish identity or conversion is not necessary if choosing a Messianic congregation as one's spiritual community
- Jewish identity is not necessary for any aspect of Two-Testament faith-community life, including rising into leadership.
- A Jew, religiously, is anyone who chooses Judaism as his/her faith expression, and formally affiliates with it.
- Non-Jews who feel some degree of calling to Jewish faith life as expressed in Messianic synagogues are welcome in Beth El of Manhattan — and we do our best to help such "People of Calling" across time come to as clear an understanding as possible of the manner and extent to which they are "called" — ranging from casual attendance all the way to lifelong affiliation as what the Scriptures call "gerim" (permanent residents within the Jewish nation).
We endeavor to foster in Jewish people a consciousness of the sacred stewardship of Jewish identity (Jer. 31:35-37). As the great Conservative Jewish writer A.J. Heschel put it: "For us as Jews there can be no fellowship with God without fellowship with Israel."
Our synagogue's Rabbi Bruce L, Cohen wrote a very compelling essay addressing many aspects of this topic . The essay is entitled "Messianic Jews Should Attend Messianic Synagogues" and is included in the collections of world-wide leadership essays, "Voices Of Messianic Judaism" published by Lederer Publishers, Baltimore, USA (©2001, ISBN 1-880226-93-6). Copies of the book, which includes many other leader's essays, can be purchased via these links: HARD COPY FORMAT Lederer/Messianic Jewish Resources – and – in E-BOOK FORMAT, it can be acquired at this link.


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Patio Nights – past, present, and futurePosted: July 17, 2011 Filed under: Public Art, St Paul, St Paul app, St. Paul arts | Tags: Arts, Caribou Coffee, IPhone, Minnesota, MMAA, Saint Paul Minnesota, st paul, United States Leave a comment
The Minnesota Museum of American Art has brought back their popular musical event, Patio Nights for three nights this summer. If you are a music lover, history nerd, St. Paul enthusiast, foodie, community explorer, want to support the MMAA make their comeback or are just looking for an excuse to get out of the house next Friday night, then make sure you are there!
You can expect beyond amazing meals from the truck of Café 128. I had the ginger-soy sirloin skewers washed down with handmade ginger basil lemonade, both were perfection and were a great way to start the night.
When I walked into the City House space , a former municipal grain elevator, I confess I had a history nerd moment and proceeded to read almost every sign in the place. I literally jumped up and down at the sight of a Humphrey Man Lift. The patio offers sights of this working river (I talked to the crew of the "Betty Sue" who were maneuvering a loaded barge) and the cool breeze that rolls right across the seating area is so refreshing. Thanks to the city of St. Paul for renovating this spot and making a great place for the community to come together in.
The music hosted by the MMAA was top notch, Communists Daughter played the first night and offered up their classic indie music. Everyone was tapping their toes and grooving to their all pleasing style. Matthew Inkala & the Hostages had a host of people up and dancing. Their folk style is upbeat and great for all ages. Up next Friday is Mr. Rowles and Band who state they like to rock, but not in your face. They have a bit of funk and jazz mixed in their tunes and are sure to please all in family.
Lastly when the night and sun are winding down you can wander down the path to Upper Landing Park to visit Jim Campbell's light sculpture, Scattered Light. The MMAA helped bring this work to St. Paul for the Northern Spark festival and it is truly a treat to be let inside and experience the 1,600 LED light bulbs moving about. Don't forget to stand and view it from afar so you can experience figures walking across the pixilated "screen." If you take some unique pictures with the sculpture, make sure to share them on the MMAA's Facebook page!
If you live in the neighborhood, walk on down or if you drove to the city you can find Patio Nights at City House just off Shepard Road and Chestnut Street, on the path behind the Caribou Coffee. Check out the map for more details. If a short walk along the river suits you, there's parking underneath the High Bridge, accessed via Randolph Avenue off Shepherd Blvd.
David Rich and Paulette Myers-Rich – Friday at the Acme ArtworksPosted: July 11, 2011 Filed under: St Paul app, St. Paul arts | Tags: acme artworks, Arts, david rich, Minnesota, paulette myers-rich, Saint Paul Minnesota, st paul Leave a comment
The dynamic St. Paul art duo of David Rich and Paulette Myers are showing their work together, for the first in a long time, at Acme Artworks. David describes his work in the show as the "particular intersection of urban landscape and abstract painting. " Paulette will be showing urban landscape photographs.
The opening reception is Friday night from 5:30 – 9:00. Come and celebrate this independent gallery, enjoy the company of St. Paul's veteran and emerging artists, and gawk at the beautiful works of two artists who have come to be regarded as St. Paul urban treasures.
Can't make it to the opening? The show will be up through July – on weekdays by appointment, and Saturdays 12-8pm, Sundays 12-5pm.
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Coming to a street near youPosted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: St Paul app | Tags: Arts, Chicago, Keyboard, Mayor, Music, Parade, Piano, Uptown Art Fair Leave a comment
Pianos on Parade is a joint venture between the Mayor's office, the Keys 4/4 Kids program, and other area sponsors that promises to make beautiful music in St. Paul this summer.
I've passed by the storefront of Keys 4 Kids a dozen times a month and always wondered what they were up to.
From their website,
"Established in 2000 by founder Newell Hill in his parent's garage in Woodbury, MN, Keys 4/4 Kids has since expanded to both Chicago and Kansas City and sells over 500 pianos every year. All profits benefit the Maureen Conway Foundation (MCF).
Maureen Conway was Newell's high school history teacher that inspired him to give back to others. The mission of MCF is to inspire young people to believe in themselves through the arts."
In short, you can donate a used piano to Keys 4 Kids (a 501 c 3), take a tax deduction, and know that the proceeds from the sale are being used for a number of area arts enrichment programs.
This summer the program is stepping up its civic engagement with Pianos on Parades. Fifteen pianos will be tricked up by area artists, who are picked in a juried process (decisions will be made soon). From April 15-May 15 chosen artists will work at transforming the pianos. Their parameters were fairly open – "Use any medium you want—paint, wood, video, recycled materials, etc., and base your design on a piece of music or other musical inspiration."
Starting June 4 the pianos will be placed in various sites throughout St. Paul. As the organization notes, "From our experience as the official charitable focus of last year's Uptown Art Fair, we learned one very valuable lesson: if a piano is available, someone will sit down and play. And, if someone is playing a piano, a crowd will gather to watch and listen."
Pianos on Parade is still looking for sponsors for this program.
Brush up on your chopsticks, throw a lawn chair in the trunk of your car, and look for an impromptu concert around the streets of St. Paul this summer.
at the galleryPosted: March 30, 2011 Filed under: St Paul app | Tags: Adolescence, Arts, Class reunion, Communities, England, IFP, Photographer, Photography, Techniques and Styles Leave a comment
The memory of teen age angst is a subject that never wears out. Even though we try to shed those memories, like a snake outgrows its layers of skin, snippets of them persist. I can't remember what I wore yesterday, but have vivid memories or my royal blue gym uniform, how it snapped up the front, had elastic in the back, cap sleeves, a collar, pockets and a low rise.
A local writer, Frank Bures, wrote this fabulous story about a biking journey to his high school reunion. You can almost hear the taunts of the kids lingering around the lockers in the basement. They grow louder in the silence of his journey along the river.
At IFP Minnesota, located at 2446 University Avenue, in Saint Paul, The Empowering Image, a collection of photographs that aims the camera at teen-aged subjects, will be on display through May 14.
Here are a few snapshots, which capture only a fraction of the power of these images by photographers Sheila Farrell and Amy Anderson. If you have teenagers, or have ever been a teenager, this show will be sure to engage you.


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Happy 4th of July!
My BIG Announcement!
For my fellow Americans: Happy Independence Day!!!
For my BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:
By the grace of God, prayers and encouragement of so many people, and 7 1/2 years of hard work, I did it! I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation on June 26…I am now Dr. Karen Lee Banks!!!
And now for this new month of July – 4 days in – I'm participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge again to get my blogs jumpstarted one more time. I'm combining the writing prompts for day 1-4:
July 1: Letting my readers know I'm participating in the UBC again.
July 2: Letting my readers know how I got onto my career path.
Where I'm at NOW…began about 10 years ago when I earned my Master of Education degree in instructional technology. I acquired my first freelance job as a member of an instructional design team for FYI Online Learning. From that entry into "behind the scenes" work in education, I have added the following services, working remotely from my home office in Maine:
- Write courses
- Develop curriculum
- Align instructional design principles throughout course/curriculum development
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in English Language Arts
- Write test and assessment items
- Write reading passages for exams
And now, as I announced, I finally completed my Doctor of Education journey and plan to continue in these niche areas of the education field. 🙂
July 3: Letting my readers know my plans for this blog.
My initial plan was to use this as my primary freelance blog and to blog daily. If you have followed my blog for any length of time, you know THAT has not always worked out! Case in point: just lost several weeks over the past two to three months!
More recently, I started a blog schedule with daily themes:
That was working OK until other higher priorities and obligations kept drawing me away. And now, during the UBC, I will follow the writing prompts during this month (and other months when I do blog challenges).
Overall, I hope to share encouragement and inspiration, and helpful tips and information, to fellow education professionals, bloggers, and writers…or anyone who happens to visit and follow my blog. 🙂
July 4: Holiday break – share a patriotic photo. Here's another…
In memory of and gratitude for my parents and all those who have served or are serving!
So What About YOU?
How is your July so far?
Have you had any major life accomplishments recently that you would like to share?


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Turn off the autopilot
Turn off the autopilot – take the aircraft flight controls and fly through life on your own. On autopilot, that's what are you are when you brush your teeth, driving your car, riding your bike, rollerblading, sitting in the ski lift, taking a shower, standing on the treadmill, sitting in the lunch room at work, taking care of the dishes, cooking….we are then stuck in our heads – on autopilot.
Take the flight controls, and the controls of everything you do in life…don't cruise through life on autopilot, like a Zombie. In the book Monkey Brain on Cocaine there's a chapter dedicated to the Autopilot where you can read more about the autopilot and how you can "de-automize".
In the movie The Aviator it seems the only place Mr. Howard Hughes was at peace was in the cockpit, behind the controls – he probably needed to apply the concept of turning off the autopilot in many other parts of his life as well, since he was apparently quite disturbed mentally. For example, he was an extreme case of Mysophobia (fear of germs) and had to wash his hands repeatedly throughout the day – watch the movie if you haven't seen it…
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In tonight's post I share some really good-looking and bright webdesign with you. I spent the last hour of searching and these are my favourites. There is so many beautiful sites around that I had a really tough time to pick out a few.
But after sweating in despair I finally got a list of 15 smashing and interesting websites that is "la creme dela creme" in a mixed category. So no more talking, let´s head on to the list.


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The European Union Committee charged with overseeing the end of migrant smuggling in the Mediterranean is proving to be difficult.
According to a report published by the House of Lords on Operation Sophia, a mission aimed at the criminal networks -human smuggling and trafficking, smugglers continue to bring migrants to Europe in any meaningful way.
"The intelligence gathering phase of Operation Sophia has been useful, but only limited situational awareness can be gathered on the high seas. Significant gaps remain in Operation Sophia's understanding of the smugglers networks and the modus operandi of those networks in Libya," a excerpt from the assessment of Operation Sophia.
Our inquiry has convinced us that it cannot be considered in isolation from the global phenomenon of mass migration.
The report said a broader approach will be required in the longer term as Operation Sophia is a limited operation with limited objectives.
"Our inquiry has convinced us that it cannot be considered in isolation from the global phenomenon of mass migration, the implications of which go far beyond the scope of this brief report on Operation Sophia," said the report.
In June 2015, the EU launched Operation Sophia aimed at curbing migrant inflows. This was necessitated after a series of disasters in which hundreds of migrants drowned while trying to cross from Libya to Italy.
Since then, about 14,000 migrants have been rescued and more than 100 smuggler's boats seized. Furthermore, dozens of suspected traffickers have been arrested by Italian authorities.
According to UN refugee agency UNHCR, almost 200,000 migrants arrived in Europe by vessels this year.
While migrants to Greece appear to have decreased since February, Italy is starting to record a greater number of daily migrant arrivals this year.


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The most sensuous writer in the English language is dead. No one wrote more sensuous prose than John Updike. He carried his lyricism into his 70s. He was 76 when he died yesterday. The cause was lung cancer, according to his publisher, Alfred A Knopf.
He was – for his style and views perhaps – overlooked for the Nobel Prize. But he did bestow it upon one of his fictional characters, Henry Bech, the womanizing, egotistical Jewish novelist who collected the literature prize in 1999, recalls the Associated Press. It adds:
His literary home was the American suburb. Born in 1932, Updike spoke for millions of Depression-era readers raised by "penny-pinching parents," united by "the patriotic cohesion of World War II" and blessed by a "disproportionate share of the world's resources," the postwar, suburban boom of "idealistic careers and early marriages."
He captured, and sometimes embodied, a generation's confusion over the civil rights and women's movements, and opposition to the Vietnam War. Updike was called a misogynist, a racist and an apologist for the establishment. On purely literary grounds, he was attacked by Norman Mailer as the kind of author appreciated by readers who knew nothing about writing.
But more often he was praised for his flowing, poetic writing style.
Updike is as famous for his graphic approach to sex as his elegantly crafted dissections of the human condition, says The Telegraph.
The Wall Street Journal writes:
Mr. Updike, who lived in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts., chronicled all of America's many anxieties about sex, work, and death. Perhaps his best-known works are the four "Rabbit" novels that feature Harry "Rabbit Angstrom," a middle-class American who struggled to find his place in society.
The author was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for the third novel in the series, "Rabbit is Rich," and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for the fourth, "Rabbit at Rest."
Less flashy than Tom Wolfe, Mr. Updike's nuanced, supple prose caused many to regard him as the most talented wordsmith of his generation.
Obama supporter
Whatever his earlier views, he died an admirer of President Barack Obama.
His most celebrated character, Rabbit Angstrom, was a Humphrey Democrat who became a Reagan Democrat. What would Rabbit make of the present election, he was asked in a New York Times video interview in October 2008. Updike replied:
"I am so much for Obama it would be hard for me to cook up a character who was for McCain. Rabbit would see, I think, the good of McCain… But luckily I am not writing about Rabbit any more."
His last novel was The Widows of Eastwick, published late last year as a sequel to the successful The Witches of Eastwick.
He was quite perplexed to learn that both Obama and McCain included his books among their favourites, says the Guardian.
The New Yorker website features his last story to appear in the magazine, The Full Glass, published in May 2008.
The Atlantic magazine also showcases his stories, poems and essays which appeared in it.
Master of sentence, professor of desire
Troy Patterson writes in Slate:
Updike's most enduring legacy exists at the level of the sentence. Updike is, line for line, without peer, the finest American prose stylist of the postwar era. The precision is painterly in the way of photorealism, except when it's cinematic. Martin Amis, Updike's only rival as a post-Nabokov virtuoso, wrote that "having read him once, you admit to yourself, almost with a sigh, that you will have to read everything he writes."
It also must be said that, on the subject of sex, Updike could be the worst writer his publisher Knopf has ever known. Last month, Updike justly earned a lifetime-achievement prize in the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Awards. He clinched it with a passage in the new Widows of Eastwick that includes — avert your eyes, children — the following sentence: "Her face gleamed with his jism in the spotty light of the motel room, there on the far end of East Beach, within sound of the sea."
This is a very rare kind of dreck, the sort that can be secreted only by a brilliant professor of desire.
Updike's burden
The Guardian writes:
Undeniably white, heterosexual and a Protestant, during his lifetime Updike carried the burden of being a writer who was not black, not female, not gay, not Jewish – decidedly not multicultural. He had a gift for being on the "wrong" side of issues about which there was a liberal consensus. Updike supported the American intervention in Vietnam, and doubted the wisdom of government support for the arts. He wrote with passionate grace about the love of women, but found even elegant depictions of homosexuality not to his taste. Gay writers queued up to express their annoyance. With so much about him of the upper class Wasp, the reality of Updike's modest origins was forgotten.
He was born in Shillington, a small town in eastern Pennsylvania near the larger city of Reading. Updike's father Wesley, after periods of unemployment in the 1930s, found work as a poorly paid maths teacher in the local junior high school. Updike's mother, Linda Hoyer, worked as a saleswoman in a local store. Linda had a masters' degree in English from Cornell, and wanted to be a writer. (She later published two collections of stories, Enchantment, 1971, and The Predator, 1990.) When asked in later years about her son's great fame, she coolly remarked: "I'd rather it had been me."
'I'm a vanished man'
Updike achieved fame and celebrity when writers were idolized but now they play a less conspicuous role in our culture, writes Joel Achenbach in the Washington Post:
Updike knew better than anyone that things had changed. Or at least, it had changed for him, as he told The Post's David Streitfeld back in 1998:
"I go to a college to speak and am treated like a little king, get applauded at the end — you'd be applauded no matter what you did up there. You get a lot o
f love that way, people line up with the used paperbacks to be signed. But you go into an airport bookstore on the way back and there's no Updike there. There's no Updike at all. I'm a vanished man, a nonentity as far as mass readership goes. I didn't used to always be."
Swinging Couples, Rabbit and Bech
The Telegraph says:
Updike became famous – and infamous – with his fourth novel, Couples, a sexually-explicit tale of New England suburbia in which jaded thirtysomethings stave off marital boredom by drinking, "frugging", coupling and uncoupling in an account which captured the mood of souring Sixties optimism. Published in 1968, it was to the ageing trendies of the era what Salinger's Catcher in the Rye was to its teenagers.
In his two series of novels – the "Bech" and the "Rabbit" books – he created two engagingly flawed heroes, versions of himself which somehow seemed to symbolise the American everyman: Bech, a hairy, self-scrutinising American-Jewish writer, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former basketball champion turned second-hand car dealer trapped in a tedious marriage from which he seeks refuge in extra-marital affairs.
Updike gave his own opinion of Rabbit in an interview with the Telegraph last year:
In Rabbit, Run Harry is not somebody to emulate, although in later novels I think he becomes more middle-class and loveable. My idea in Rabbit, Run is that if everybody follows their dream there'd be a lot of damage – damaged children and spouses, wrecked cars, who knows what else.
'But you have these inner imperatives and the sense of yourself as the centre of the universe; after all, you are you, and you don't want to botch the assignment. So there is inevitably a conflict between selfishness and niceness. Philip Roth was always writing about people who want to be nice, but then they can't quite be nice because they have these terrible sexual urges.'
"Wasted" beauty?
The New York Times considers his place in the literary pantheon:
The kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to earn him comparisons with Henry James and Edmund Wilson among American men of letters.
Where James and Wilson focused largely on elite Americans in a European context, Mr. Updike wrote of ordinary citizens in small-town and urban settings.
"My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class," Mr. Updike told Jane Howard in a 1966 interview for Life magazine. "I like middles," he continued. "It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules."
Mr. Updike sought the clash of extremes in everyday dramas of marriage, sex and divorce. The only wealth he bestowed on his subjects lay in the richness of his descriptive language, the detailed fineness of which won him comparisons with painters like Vermeer and Andrew Wyeth.
This detail was often so rich that it inspired two schools of thought on Mr. Updike's fiction — those who responded to his descriptive prose as to a kind of poetry, a sensuous engagement with the world, and those who argued that he wasted beautiful language on nothing.
The Times possibly sums him up best:
Continue reading "Updike, the most sensuous writer in English"


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We are delighted to have received the official OFSTED report, conducted by Her Majesty's Inspector, Mr Clive Moss, and his team on 2nd and 3rd February this year.
The outcome of this inspection is, as you will see from the report, that St. Teresa's was assessed as being 'Outstanding' in all areas.
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The February earthquake in Chile sent first-quarter profit tumbling 90 percent at Indianapolis-based insurer Baldwin &
Lyons Inc., the company said Thursday morning.
The property and casualty insurer lost $1.5 million on claims in the first three months of the year due to several catastrophes,
but most notably the massive quake that hit Chile on Feb. 27. Wind storms in Australia and in Europe also took tolls.
Offsetting those losses were more than $2 million in after-tax investment gains, leading Baldwin & Lyons to a profit
of $545,000, or 4 cents per share.
In the same quarter a year earlier, the company earned $5.4 million, or 37 cents per share.
Revenue for the quarter rose nearly 24 percent, to $59.1 million. That total was boosted by rising sales of Baldwin's
coverage for trucking fleets, private automobiles and new reinsurance products.
Shares of Baldwin's series B common stock fell nearly 2 percent Thursday morning, to $24.81 apiece.


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|This 'other ranks' 24th Regiment of Foot five button frock was made for the 1979 production of Zulu Dawn. With an all star
cast that included Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster. Sir John Mills, Simon Ward and Bob Hoskins, Zulu Dawn was a flawed film
and in many ways its faults are reflected in this costume uniform. Correct it its outward appearance, the frock displays an
unfortunate lack of attention to detail that could quite plainly be seen in the film.
Constructed out of a relatively light weight blend material, the jacket lacks the substantial appearance of that a proper
uniform grade fabric would have presented on screen. One author has described these 'uniforms' as having a wet nylon look
when seen in the film. The prop sphinx collar badges were removed from the jacket at some time in the past and the poorly
fitted green collar tabs clearly evident.
|Left: The frock's back showing an overall correct
appearance though lacking the two buttons that
should appear at the top end of the rear skirt
piping. The jacket's light weight fabric and lack of
lining/padding result in a flimsy appearance that
seriously detracts from not just the costume but the
film's overall effect as a whole. Most major and
some supporting actors were supplied with higher
quality costumes but too many ended up with tunics
such as this example.
|Above: One of the pebbled brass buttons that were
sued on these frock's in place of Victorian era
General Service buttons.
|Above: Two detail photos of the Zulu Dawn frock. The shoulder strap displays regimental numbers that
appear to be some sort of iron on material instead of the metal numbers actually used. Additionally,
conical chrome buttons have been used to secure the shoulder straps instead of small General Service
buttons. The cuff detail clearly shows the light weight nature of the materials used in the garment's
Below: Two screen shots from Zulu Dawn showing the other ranks frock being worn by supporting cast
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As the disparity between rich and poor continues to increase, literature is more important than ever. Two important questions are: How will we get it, and who is willing to make it happen? Both were answered enthusiastically last night, as a throng of lit supporters filled Project One Gallery to benefit Canteen's biannual print magazine, which is edited, managed, and otherwise staffed wholly by volunteers.
Print. We want to hold on to the idea that what we have to say is worth the little space we have in our homes, that we are worth saving. This is why we pull from our pockets and give to the few bastions left, the people and organizations who understand what it means to go hungry for what they believe in. Many of the people who attended the gala, though well-established, have humble backgrounds. The evening's honoree, for instance -- former San Francisco Chronicle books editor, McSweeney's publisher, and new managing editor of Zyzzyva, Oscar Villalon -- has worked his way into Bay Area hearts and minds through a life of hard, honest work. Those who maketh, giveth back. (Hear Canteen executive editor Mia Lipman introduce Villalon in the clip below.)
Copies of Canteen's six issues were strewn around a lush lounge area. In one is an essay by Stephen Elliott in which he says, "I don't believe in connections. I believe in the slush pile." And in a recent article, Reyhan Harmanci says that literary journals are flourishing. Lipman says that in the past six months, submissions have increased by several hundred. Trust in the slush pile, indeed. Canteen receives thousands of submissions every half-year and now has, for the first time, a managing editor: Kristina Wenzinger, who recently transplanted from MacAdam/Cage Publishing, a move that speaks for itself.
Founder and publisher Stephen Pierson and his wife had their first child last month. He noted that while sometimes he feels "a little silly about devoting so many unpaid hours to this Canteen thing ... the best predictor, far and away, of your child's eventual academic and workplace success" is neither your respective levels of education nor your occupation, but "how many books you have in your house." Print.
Robert Mailer Anderson, in appreciating Villalon, said: "As much as small literary magazines might be thriving, it's not that common to have somebody like Oscar who you can ... look across some Chinese food with and know that it's life and death, and know that he can meet you in those places and he can intelligently, and heartfelt, disagree with you, and you can still continue the conversation to get to a place that you understand better about yourself, about him, and probably about viewpoints that wouldn't have come up had you not had that conversation with Oscar."
SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik returned us to our jocular selves with a limerick about some of Villalon's peculiarities (a list made possible with a little help from his wife, Mary, and which you can hear in the clip above). It illustrated that the people who'd paid $75 each to support Canteen were supporting far more than a literary journal.
The hosts unveiled a project for issue seven called Hot Authors. They've recruited 16 respected art photographers to shoot 16 authors. This is an attempt to restore authors to their rightful place "as cultural heroes," they say, and to push the normative bounds of the literary journal. "Writers don't traditionally get such crass and ubiquitous promotion. But why can't they at least try to compete with pop-culture stars on the same terms?" It ends: "Crass? Of course. But in this business, being austere is deadly."
Without this party and others like it, such magazines would not be able to grow. Canteen is unquestionably one of the best print journals I've seen. So even if you take your lit without a side of party, you can still show your support. Give Canteen a read. It might just inspire you to go hungry for something you believe in.


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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Online Learning?
Online learning, also known as "online education", uses the anytime, anywhere power of the Internet to deliver classes where and when it is convenient for you.
There is no campus to travel to and no set class times to attend. Your class materials and resources are available to you online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The online learning environment functions much like a classroom setting but without everyone in the same place at the same time.
You have access to lecture materials, interaction with your instructor and classmates, and assignments administered through your online class. Classes run on the same semester schedule as on-campus classes.
Online courses are very structured and generally are not self-paced. Instructors usually require regular participation throughout the course.
John Wood offers online classes to help students who need a flexible schedule achieve their educational goals.
- What is a hybrid or blended course?
- A hybrid course takes place in the classroom and also has an online component. Typically, 50% of the time is spent in a structured classroom and 50% is online. Most likely you will have to come to the JWCC campus for the classroom portion of the course.
- Who do I call if I have a problem with the course management system after hours?
Call the Canvas toll-free number: 877-261-9854
- What is ILCCO?
ILCCO -- the Illinois Community Colleges Online consortium establishes online course sharing among many Illinois community colleges. If a course you need is not available through JWCC Online, you may be able to take the course through ILCCO. You will be enrolled as a John Wood student and receive John Wood credit.
For more information visit: http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/index.cfm
For an ILCCO course listing visit: http://www.ilcco.net/ice/
- What is a Learning Management System and what system does JWCC Online use?
- A learning management system is online computer software that manages all aspects of an online course. Students login to the system and complete their course inside the system.
JWCC Online uses the Canvas learning management system.
- Other ILCCO classes may use other systems such as WebCT or BlackBoard. Each system looks a little different but all have many features in common.
Within a course management system there are several communication tools that will help keep you in touch with your instructor and classmates.
Threaded Discussions act much like a classroom discussion, but without having everyone in one place at one time. Your instructor will post topics for discussion to which you and your classmates will respond. You will also have many opportunities to respond to comments from your fellow classmates.
Email will allow you to send private messages to your instructor or to your classmates. There is even a Chat function that allows you to communicate with others in real-time, though this is used sparingly as it requires all participating parties to be online at the same time.
Assignments can also be uploaded or emailed to your instructor or shared with other students through the online class.
- What courses are offered through JWCC Online?
- See here to view a detailed list.
- What is the cost of an online course offered through JWCC?
- The cost of an online course is $193 per credit hour (some online classes have a digital media fee that varies by class). Most courses are 3 credit hours although there is some variation. In some cases, other course materials may be required.
- What is the cost of hybrid/blended course offered through JWCC?
- The cost of a hybrid/blended course is $163 per credit hour with a $10 per credit hour blended course fee.
- How much time is required for online courses?
- Online learning is not easier or less time-consuming than traditional college courses. It is just presented in a different format. You can expect to spend at least 12 - 15 hours / week for a three hour course.
- Are any campus visits required?
- Some online instructors require proctored exams. This means you will have to travel to a testing center in order to be monitored while taking course tests.
- These centers are located at John Wood Quincy campus and satellite campuses, Moberly Area Community College and satellite campuses. It is possible for an alternative location to be arranged if you are unable to travel to one of the campus testing sites.
- The syllabus in a course will let you know if the instructor will require proctored exams.
- What computer skills are necessary for an online course?
If you know how to navigate the Internet, use an ATM or shop online, you may already have the computer skills necessary to be successful in an online course. Knowing how to download files, attach files to email, and use word-processing software are critical skills in an online environment. Any additional special skills needed would be indicated on the instructor's class page.
There are orientation workshops at the beginning of each semester. You can find this information on the website or by talking with Advising. The orientation workshop will help familiarize you with the online platform and the tools you will use throughout your online class.
- Is Online Learning for me?
Much of the online course work is completed through reading and written communication. A successful online student exhibits good written communication skills. An online learner should also be self-motivated and able to work independently.
The following online quizzes might also help you to determine if you are a good candidate for an online course:
- What if I have a disability?
Students with disabilities who believe they have accessibility needs or the need for academic accommodations must contact Disability Services, where those concerns are handled.
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Rush Hour
This classic game-puzzle captures the attention of kids, teens, and adults. RushHour definitely uses the brain!
- Four levels of skill for different kids/teens/adults.
- Develops sequential-thinking skills.
- Develops mathematical and spatial abilities.
- Motivates kids to use problem-solving skills.
- Motivates and builds tenacity in kids.
- Extra cards available.
- Generates long-term interest in entire families.
Start by picking one of 40 challenge cards, then set up the cars and buses in a specified pattern on the 6-inch-square road grid.The player is a traffic cop and the purpose of the game is to get the red car off the road.
Game Buy this game Buy extra cards
Game is played alone or by taking turns with two players. Perfect for the problem solvers in your family.
The game is brilliant; the packaging is not as great. Don't let that stop youfrom buying this wonderful and challenging game/puzzle.
Rush Hour will not spend time on yourshelf! In fact, if you want to entertain your family for hours, buy the extracards at the same time you buy the game.
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Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 8 years and up. However, most 7-year-old kids can and will play this game.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD- Small parts. Not for children under 5 years.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish is located in the heart of Carnegie, Pennsylvania ( just minutes from downtown Pittsburgh) and is guided by Fr. Robert Grecco, Administrator, with assistance from Fr. Aleksandr Schrenk, Parochial Vicar. Fr. Robin Evanish, retired, in residence. See the complete staff!
Located just off of the Carnegie exits of I 279 (Parkway West) and I 79, our Parish is simple to find! And we offer plenty of parking! Click here to find us!
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If you seem lost in your life and you wish google maps could guide your heart; you've come to the right place! SEAS parish offers educational and enrichment programs, including: drug and alcohol ministry, the Partners in Prayer program, adult education studies, and so much more! Browse our website, join us at Mass, meet with our Administrator or of our Pastoral Associate. We would love to get to know you and help guide you in your spiritual journey.
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Online album now available: "Santastic," which mashes up decades of Christmas records to amusing, danceable and sometimes (good-naturedly) irreverent effect. Features internet "stars" like Go Home Productions, Poj Masta, DJBC (the compiler), solcofn, Thriftshop XL, DJ John, ATOM, Pilchard, Cheekyboy, Aggro1 & Katie Enlow.
So far, my fave is the insanely ingenious "Santa Benz" by Orange County's own Voicedude. RIAA's contribution, "Santa's Acid Hawaiian Space Disco" features bits of The Beatles, Bing Crosby, children's records (including one using a Solovox, a '50s voice synthesizer), 8-bit, other Xmas mashups, The Beach Boys, an astronaut, etc...
It's the perfect holiday season gift - it's free!
UPDATE: Here's a different version of the RIAA track then the one on the album - the Beach Boys bit is better mixed, with some Jean Jaques Perrey thrown in.


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Managing Director of BOGE Compressors (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
BOGE Compressors Australia is pleased to be a partner with C.A.T.R who are an authorised distributor for BOGE products in Queensland.
As a BOGE distributor C.A.T.R are trained and capable to support the BOGE product including all aspects of sales, technical service and technical support, as well as the supply of genuine spare parts.
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2017 Fall Conference
Thank you to everyone involved for making this ACBO Fall Conference another great event. We would appreciate your feedback to help us with future planning. Please take a moment and respond to our short survey about the event, sessions you attended and logistics. Your feedback is highly valuable and we look forward to hearing from all of you!
Some sessions at the fall conference qualify for Continuing Education hours. Click here to see which sessions qualify.
DATES: October 23-25, 2017
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At 6pm the teams reconvened at La Vie for drinks, laughter, the showing and judging of all the photos. The photos were all judged on technicalities (did they complete the requirements) and then a random drawing of 5 photos were judged by the teams. The points were tallied and winner was: Team PEACOCK!!! Congratulations!
An additional Photo Challenge was optional for the teams to complete. A three-picture set showing what Jeju Furey means to your team. The two teams to complete this challenge were The Peeping Toms and 김치주세요. In a very tight judging, the winners were The Peeping Toms. Congratulations Peeping Toms!
Together the teams and our sponsors La Vie and Momaejon Garden, raised 220,000krw! After the passing on of our faithful truck, the proceeds from this event will go towards new transportation to help keep all the Furey events going.....Way to go everyone!
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Some Side Effects Of Walnut
Drug Interactions
Walnut doesnt have any reported drug interactions but it is known to interfere with the absorption of iron in the body. This wont affect the healthy persons but anaemic individuals may suffer from it. So, if any person is on medication for anaemia, he should consult a doctor before taking walnut.
Allergic Reactions
Several individuals have been found sensitive to walnut, they often report skin rashes, sneezing and itching after its consumption. Such side effects of walnut are known to subside after few hours. If they persist, one should contact the doctor, as some cases of fatal anaphylaxis to walnut have also been reported.
Toxic Effects
Toxicity of walnut has not been reported yet on humans but they have been observed in animals. Juglone is a chemical present in walnut which exhibits toxic effects in animals. To remain on the safer side, one should report immediately if any signs of walnut toxicity is observed after consuming the nut.
Effects During Pregnancy And Nursing Stage
Walnut is considered safe in food amounts in pregnant and nursing women. In some of the research studies, few cases of utero sensitization have been found though no confirmed report has been issued yet. So, necessary precautions should be taken during these stages.
Excessive consumption of walnut can lead to diarrhea so one should avoid its overeating.
Worsening Of Certain Pre-Existing Disease
Individuals suffering from asthma, loose stools and hyperactivity of fire because of yin deficiency should abstain from walnut as it worsens the situation.
These were some of the side effects of walnut which are often observed in individuals who over do the eating. Else, the nut is healthy and nutritious if taken in adequate quantity.
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How do I get to Eastern PEI? Well there are a few ways. Fly into Charlottetown airport and then take the TransCanada Highway east. Look for the starfish roadsign which will let you know you are on Points East. If you are driving, take the Confederation Bridge from the New Brunswick side and head east past Charlottetown. If you are coming from Nova Scotia, take the ferry to Wood Islands. No matter how you get to Eastern PEI, you will most certainly enjoy the beauty, peace and hospitality of the Eastern PEI residents. Find yourself. Up East.


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When the Dalton McGuinty Liberals took power in 2003, Ontario's public debt was $138.8 billion.
When the Kathleen Wynne Liberals were defeated in June, it was $325 billion, a 134% increase, according to their own numbers.
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Some of that was due to the 2008 recession, but 10 years later, the Liberals' books were still a mess.
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As Finance Minister Vic Fedeli noted, when the Liberals were defeated, they were spending $40 million more per day than they received in revenue.
Paying interest on debt now costs taxpayers $12.5 billion annually, which doesn't reduce the principal amount by a penny.
If interest on debt payments were a government ministry, it would be the fourth largest after health, education and social services.
Imagine what having $12.5 billion more annually to spend on those priorities could do to improve the lives of Ontarians.
That's why deficits and debt matter.
That's the damage the Liberals did when, as Fedeli notes, they turned Ontario into the world's most indebted non-national borrower.
It puts in perspective Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman's report this week that Ontario's current deficit is $12.3 billion, $2.2 billion lower than Fedeli's $14.5-billion prediction.
Weltman counts a $1 billion reserve fund in Fedeli's estimate as an asset, and he's more optimistic about revenues.
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Digging ourselves out of this debt trap isn't going to be easy, or painless.
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With only two weeks to a deadline for a breakthrough deal, senior envoys of Iran, the United States and European Union met in Oman on Sunday to try to advance efforts to defuse a standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme. Reiterating Iran's official line, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by Iranian media as saying the Islamic Republic would not abandon its nuclear "rights" but was committed to the negotiations under Khamenei's leadership.Iran is purportedly sending Khamenei's most trusted associate...no word whether that means he's more a Fredo or Tom Hagen.
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Master of science in natural resources with an emphasis in agroforestry (MS)
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- Program type: Master's degree
- Academic home: College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) | School of Natural Resources | Center for Agroforestry
- Delivery mode: 100 percent online
- Credit hours: 30
- Accreditation: Higher Learning Commission
- Estimated program cost: $13,626.90*
*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, course choices at Mizzou and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.
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A master's degree in agroforestry from MU can help you advance your career in this rapidly expanding and globally acclaimed field. If you want to help landowners diversify their income, improve soil quality and increase biodiversity, this may be the degree for you.
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The online master's in agroforestry is 100 percent online: no campus visits are required.
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Measurements on the vehicle-track interaction and the excitation of railway-induced ground vibration (2017)
Two railway measurement campaigns have been performed in Germany and Switzerland which yield insight in the vehicle-track-soil interaction. The campaign in Germany has included simultaneous measurement of vehicle, track, and soil vibrations during train runs with 16, 25, 40, 63, 80, 100, 125, 140, 160 km/h, and impulse measurements of the passenger car, three track sections and the soil. Two ballast tracks, one on the soil surface and one on a concrete bridge, have been investigated as well as a slab track in a tunnel. Ten different sites in Switzerland have been measured for soil properties and train-induced ground vibrations, which allow to determine the excitation forces of the railway traffic. New axle-box measurements at some of the Swiss sites have been analysed to get further experimental evidence. All these measurements have been evaluated to characterize the excitation processes. Relations between vehicle vibration and ground vibration can be observed. The vehicle vibrations, namely the accelerations of the wheelsets, yield the dynamic forces due to the passage over the irregularities of the vehicle and the track. The ground vibrations are correlated to these dynamic forces to a certain extent. Some mid-frequency ground vibration amplitudes, however, are higher than expected from the dynamic excitation forces. The experimental observations can be explained by an irregular response to the passage of the static loads, that means the passage of the static loads over an irregular ballast or soil. This correct understanding of the excitation processes is important for the prediction as well as for the mitigation of railway induced ground vibrations.
Mitigation of railway induced vibration at the track, in the transmission path through the soil and at the building (2017)
This contribution presents some principles and some examples of the mitigation of railway-induced ground vibrations. The principles are different for the mitigation measures at the track, in the soil or at the building. Force transfer functions of isolated and un-isolated track-soil systems, reflected and transmitted wave amplitudes at walls and trenches in the soil, and the transfer of the (free-field) vibration amplitudes to the foundation amplitudes of the building are analysed. The mitigation effect can be calculated by exact or simplified formulas. Some examples with 3D (finite-element boundary-element), 2D (beam-on-support), and 1D track models, 2D and 1D soil models, detailed 3D building models and finite or infinite 1D wall-floor models are investigated to find out if simple models can be used for a satisfactory prediction of the mitigation effect. The 1D track examples show that the force transfer of the track without vehicle can be exactly calculated, whereas the total force transfer can be calculated approximately if appropriate wheelset masses per track length are used for the isolated and the un-isolated track. The mitigation effect of a filled trench is calculated by a 2D finite element model and the results compare with simple transmission formula if the stiffness per area rather than the wave impedances are used for the infill material. The base isolation of a building is analysed by a detailed 3D model and the results are similar to the analytic results of a single wall with floors on the soil. Other reduction measures as different floor and column dimensions are usually less effective so that the clearly best mitigation solution at a building is a partly or a complete base isolation.
Experiments have been performed at a test site with six different tracks with under-ballast plates. Hammer excitations of the soil and the tracks as well as train passages have been measured. The experimental observations are as follows. 1. The natural soil is stiff gravel whereas the railway dam consists of softer material. 2. The track compliance indicates a soft ballast if no train is present to provide a confining pressure. 3. The track response to the train passages can be split into a low-frequency region which is ruled by the static loads and a high-frequency region which is ruled by dynamic loads. 4. The track responses to hammer and track excitation indicate the presence of many voids between the sleepers and the ballast. 5. The ground vibrations are highly influenced by the soil. Due to the stiff soil at the site, the hammer and train induced spectra have a considerable high-frequency content. 6. A reduction of the ground vibration has been observed in a low-frequency range. The mitigation effects of an under-ballast plate are also investigated by calculations of a wavenumber domain model. The under-ballast plate has an effect at low frequencies where it distributes the static load over a longer track section. The impulse of the axle passage is longer and the frequencies are lower due to the plate stiffness. The axle impulses could yield a low-frequency ground vibration in an irregular soil with a randomly varying stiffness. This low-frequency part of the ground vibration (the scattered axle impulses) seem to be reduced by the under-ballast plate.


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