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Dossier 17: Letter to the Taliban
We the undersigned representatives of Muslim women's organizations concerned about the negative media reports of the apparent transgressions and abuses against our Muslim sisters in Afghanistan.
Wish To:
Ask the leadership of the Taliban to clarify their position on the status and role of Afghan women in society.
Recall That:
Fourteen centuries ago Islam liberated women and guaranteed them dignity and full rights to participate in the building and well-being of their communities at all levels.
The right of women to work outside
Dossier 17: Afghanistan goes to absurd lengths to implement Islamic laws
The innumerable bans imposed by Taliban renders everyday life a veritable punishment.
The latest orders for regulating the life of Afghans came into force yesterday. Their severity reveals the determination of the Taliban, out to capture the parts of the country that have so far evaded them.
In Kabul, life has become a never-ending punishment. Since the enforcement of law on "the commandment of the good and interdiction of the evil", whose latest measures are applicable as of yesterday, everything is forbidden. For the Taliban government, gaiety is suspect.
Dossier 17: Kabul, ban on women working, the cold, the misery and trading in human remains
The seizure of power by the Taliban has reduced the Afghan capital to a ghost city. Half of the men are out of work, the women find themselves forbidden from the work place. To top it all, winter is particularly trying.
Dossier 17: Women in the Discourse of Crisis
Editors note:
The work of Prof. Nasr Abu-Zeid has been subject of concerted attack by fundamentalist groups in Egypt. He is currently in exile following charges of apostasy brought against him and the ruling of the Apex court in Egypt ordering his divorce from his wife Dr. Ithal Younis.
The following extracts from the book "Women in the Discourse of Crisis" by Prof. Nasr Abu-Zeid have been translated from Arabic by Marlene Tadros.
The discourse over women in the Arab world is generally discriminatory.
Dossier 17: Cultures and Religions in Senegal
Senegal has eight million inhabitants, 95% of whom are Muslim, with the remainder predominantly Christian. There are very few animists who formally practice traditional religions. I say formally because in fact traditional practices are present in the daily life of all Senegalese, be they Muslim or Christian, because these practices are profoundly rooted in their cultures.
Soon after the introduction of Islam to Senegal, Muslims organized into Confreries*. This meant that the first religious leaders taught Islam according to the tradition of their spiritual leaders.
Dossier 17: Statement by the Afghan Women's Network
Who we are
We are a group of Afghan women and their supporters who live in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In a country where over 90% of the women and girls are illiterate, we are a group of women who were encouraged by their families to become educated. Many of us have university degrees. Many of us previously worked in Afghanistan as lawyers, engineers, professors and doctors. Now we are working with NGOs (non governmental organizations), UN agencies and schools. Some of us are widows. Many of us are the sole support of our families.
Dossier 17: The Muslim Religious Right ('Fundamentalists') and Sexuality
As increasing numbers of scholars have pointed out, the study of Muslim peoples and their societies - including their faith, histories, behaviours etc. - has often been made difficult by a number of essentialisms and conflations. Before turning to the specific concern of this paper, I want to deal with some of these because of their implications for the issue of sexuality.
Dossier 5-6: Islam, the Secular State and Muslim women in Malaysia
Due to the multi-ethnic and multi-religious population of Malaysia, a dichotomy exists between Muslims who are predominantly Malays and the non-Muslims. Article 3 of the Malaysian Constitution enacts that Islam is the religion of the nation. However as a provision in Clause (1) of Article 3, it is guaranteed by the Constitution that non-Muslim nationals would be free to profess and practise their own religions.
Dossier 5-6: Turkish Feminism: A Short History
In many ways, it is possible to say that feminism has erupted onto the Turkish political scene in the latter half of the 1980's. Since 1983, a number of publications and public meetings organised by feminists have already made an impact on political and intellectual circles in Istanbul and Ankara (cf. Tekeli 1986 and forthcoming). The general public heard of these women on two separate occasions.
Dossier 5-6: Women, Religion and Social Change in Pakistan: A Proposed Framework for Research - Draft
The research project on Women, Religion and Social Change in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka currently being undertaken by ICES provides a unique opportunity to explore the cross-cultural dimensions of continuing tradition and the process of change as these relate to women and in this the role of religion. A grey area of uncertainty, prejudice, and very little research, the role of religion in determining the possible for individual actors, particularly women, has rarely received the attention it deserves.
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Darden Company Announces Investment in Leading PM Company, Collins Project Management
August 12, 2019
ATLANTA │ Darden & Company, LLC (Darden), an Atlanta-based development and project management company, announced the acquisition of Collins Project Management, Inc. (Collins), one of the Southeast's leading construction project management consulting firms, effective August 1, 2019.
Jason Hughes, President of Darden, stated, "Our team is very excited to join forces with Collins. Our combined cultures and portfolios will allow our firm to continue to grow and become the leading development and project management company in the industry."
Joe Collins, President of Collins, and Hughes have had a 20-year relationship with mutual respect for each other's projects and companies. "Collins has an outstanding reputation in the industry and its culture complements Darden's," stated Hughes. "Culture is everything to our firm and the culture that Joe Collins has fostered within his organization furthers our vision for Darden's growth and success."
"Both firms have achieved tremendous success by focusing on getting the best outcomes for clients and fostering teamwork and having shared respect for all project team members," said Collins. "Knowing that we can continue to serve Collins' clients in the same manner that we have for the last 28 years, and that we have additional resources and expertise to bring to bear on those projects, is exciting for the entire Collins team."
Following the acquisition, Hughes will remain President, with Matt Dale and Kyle Taylor as Executive Vice Presidents. Joe Collins and Marcus Vess, Collins' Vice President of Operations, will continue to be integral members of the combined company's new management team.
Bill Darden, founder of Darden Company, recently sold the company to its three officers: Hughes, Dale and Taylor. Mr. Darden noted, "When I sold the company to Jason, Kyle, and Matt I knew they would carry on the Darden traditions while maintaining the company's level of prominence. The Collins investment will serve to strengthen and grow the company while it maintains the day-to-day care for each of their clients."
To accommodate its growing team, the company has relocated its corporate office to 900 Circle 75 Parkway in Atlanta, located next to The Battery.
About Darden & Company
Darden & Company was formed in 1999 to provide detailed project management with a high degree of sophistication for projects across Atlanta. Today, the company continues to provide the highest level of quality project management for its development within a multitude of markets. One of the company's most notable projects includes the project management of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Darden's expertise has been sought after for projects across the Southeast and the country. The firm is committed to delivering its signature high-level of service no matter the size, scope, or location. www.dardencompany.com
About Collins Project Management
Founded in 1991, Collins Project Management is one of the Southeast's premier construction project management consulting firms. Over its history, Collins has helped approximately 350 projects come to life as a trusted construction project management partner. The firm serves as owner's representative to help mission-directed project leaders achieve better outcomes for their projects, helping its clients keep their promises – even when things change. Collins' primary markets include healthcare, public and private K-12 schools, higher education, private clubs, faith-based, and SPLOST funded projects. www.collinspm.com
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Organized around the Christian Church Year, Treasury of Daily Prayer is designed to be an all-in-one resource that cultivates an enriching devotional life for individuals,
families, and small groups. The following excerpt, for the commemoration of Ezekiel (July 21), is indicative of the way in which Treasury of Daily Prayer unites Scripture readings, prayers, psalms, hymns, and devotional readings from the church fathers to guide daily prayer and meditation on God's Word.
1 Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for | he is good,* for his steadfast love endures for- | ever!
2 Who can utter the mighty deeds | of the Lord,* or declare | all his praise?
3 Blessèd are they who observe | justice,* who do righteousness | at all times!
4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your | people;* help me when you | save them,
5 that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your | nation,* that I may glory with your in- | heritance.
—Psalm 106:1–5
Additional Psalm: Psalm 106
Old Testament Reading: 1 Samuel 4:1–22
The Philistines Capture the Ark
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.
Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. 2 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle. 3 And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies." 4 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 As soon as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the Lord had come to the camp, 7 the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "A god has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. 8 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness. 9 Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight."
10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
The Death of Eli
12 A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. 13 When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out. 14 When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, "What is this uproar?" Then the man hurried and came and told Eli. 15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see. 16 And the man said to Eli, "I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today." And he said, "How did it go, my son?" 17 He who brought the news answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured." 18 As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
19 Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her. 20 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or pay attention. 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."
New Testament Reading: Acts 16:23–40
[Paul and Silas in Prison]
23 And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. 24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
The Philippian Jailer Converted
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, 26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened. 27 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here." 29 And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. 34 Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, "Let those men go." 36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace." 37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out." 38 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. 39 So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city. 40 So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.
Additional Reading: Acts 17:1–34
Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, from the line of Aaron, was a priest and prophet. In the year of the world 3350, in the sixth year before the fall of Jerusalem, he was divinely inspired in Babylon to console and strengthen the Jews, who five years previously, at the urging of Jeremiah and of their own free will, had given themselves with King Jehoiakim or Jeconiah to King Nebuchadnezzar and had migrated to Babylon. These people, seeing that the destruction of Jerusalem was delayed for five full years, were thinking that the predictions of Jeremiah were in vain, and they were regretting that they had voluntarily left their fatherland. Therefore Ezekiel predicted that Jerusalem would surely be overturned, even if the punishment were delayed for a while. At the same time, he also promised the liberation and return from Babylon (ch. 11). In the year of the world 3358, the third year of Jeconiah's migration, Ezekiel was called to his ministry by a unique rite and divine testimony (chs. 1–3). The vision of the four wheels and living creatures (chs. 1 and 10) signifies the chariot of Christ, in which, through the ministry of the Gospel, with the breath of the Holy Spirit and the fiery tongues of the apostles, He is conveyed into all the world. . . . In the year of the world 3378, the twenty-fifth year of Jeconiah's migration, Ezekiel described the building of the spiritual Jerusalem, or of the ministry of the Church of Christ, from the fortieth chapter until the end.
—David Chytraeus
"Though he will shed My precious blood,
Me of My life bereaving,
All this I suffer for your good;
Be steadfast and believing.
Life will from death the vict'ry win;
My innocence shall bear your sin,
And you are blest forever."
—Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice (LSB 556:8)
Prayer of the Day
Lord God, heavenly Father, through the prophet Ezekiel, You continued the prophetic pattern of teaching Your people the true faith and demonstrating through miracles Your presence in creation to heal it of its brokenness. Grant that Your Church may see in Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the final end-times prophet whose teaching and miracles continue in Your Church through the healing medicine of the Gospel and the Sacraments; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. (1062)
Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, was a priest called by God to be a prophet to the exiles during the Babylonian captivity (Ezekiel 1:3). In 597 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian army brought the king of Judah and thousands of the best citizens of Jerusalem—including Ezekiel—to Babylon (2 Kings 24:8–16). Ezekiel's priestly back-ground profoundly stamped his prophecy, as the holiness of God and the temple figure prominently in his messages (for example, Ezekiel 9–10 and 40–48). From 593 BC to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 586 BC, Ezekiel prophesied the inevitability of divine judgment on Jerusalem, on the exiles in Babylon, and on seven nations that surrounded Israel (Ezekiel 1–32). Jerusalem would fall, and the exiles would not quickly return, as a just consequence of their sin. Once word reached Ezekiel that Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed, his message became one of comfort and hope. Through him, God promised that His people would experience future restoration, renewal, and revival in the coming messianic kingdom (Ezekiel 33–48). Much of the strange symbolism of Ezekiel's prophecies was later employed in the Revelation to St. John.
Suggested Reading from the Book of Concord
Apology of the Augsburg Confession IV (II) 22–35
From Treasury of Daily Prayer, pages 543–46 © 2008 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved. ESV®
Writing from David Chytraeus, Onomasticon Theologicvm, Recens recognitum, in Qvo, Praeter Nomina propria ferè omnia, quae in Biblijs extant; plerorumque etiam Sanctorum, qui Calendario vsitatè inscribi solent: Item Doctorum ecclesiae, Martyrum, Haereticorum, et Synodorum, nomina et historiae breuiter indicantur (Wittenberg: Schleich, 1578), 298–301. Translated by Benjamin T. G. Mayes.
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granada la bella
where anything is possible
This is a view from the Generalife across Granada towards the Vega.
The San Pascual refinery on the Vega de Zujaira, which we see in this photo, was one of five sugar refineries built in the first decades of the twentieth century on the Vega of Granada. Don Federico, Lorca's father, was the major shareholder, it being mainly his sugar beet that the refinery processed.
The sugar beet boom had really got underway after 1898 with the loss of the last Spanish colonies, including the Spanish Antillas and access to cheap sugar cane. For Granada it meant the beginning of a Golden Age of sugar production which lasted until the 1930s.
In 1910, when the San Pascual refinery started production, Don Federico was one of the most important employers of labour on the Vega. He employed a lot of men on the land as well as a lot of women as domestic servants. Apart from his permanent employees, he employed 50 men on a part-time seasonal basis and another 20 day labourers. They said he had the same amount of staff as the Casa Grande, where the administrator of the Soto de Roma estate lived.
Valderrubio is on the edge of the fertile river plain called the Vega; beyond it are the drylands, where olives are cultivated. The ploughed land in the foreground all belonged to Lorca's father.
"Yo no puede decir lo enorme que es esta vega y este pueblecito blanco entre las choperas oscuras."
Carta a Adolfo Salazar, en agosto de 1921.
"I can't tell you how marvellous the vega is with its little white village among the dark poplar groves
"Asquerosa (hoy Valderrubio) es uno de los pueblos más lindos de la vega, por lo blanco y por la serenidad de sus inhabitantes."
Carta a Melchor Fernández Almagro, en agosto de 1921.
"Asquerosa (today called Valderrubio) is one of the loveliest villages on the vega, partly because of its whiteness and partly because of the serenity of its inhabitants."
Below we see the finca de Daimuz on the carretera de Láchar, one of the properties Don Federico bought in 1895 with his first wife Matilde Palacios' money. Francisco (Federico's brother) has very fond memories of this farmhouse. It is built where the river Cubillas flows into the Genil and has the beautiful name of Daimuz Bajo, he says. "We lived here when we were very young; the earliest memories I have are of Daimuz: I could hardly walk and my brother must have been about 5." He goes on to tell a story about a painter called Nicasio who came every year to paint the house, and after work liven up the social gatherings with his accordeon, while Don Federico would urge him, Francisco, who could hardly walk, remember, to dance.
It is certainly a fact that Lorca`s and his cousin Mercedes Delgado García's families used to organise parties here together, and if they could they would get Luisillo el Camborio to come and liven things up by playing the guitar for them.
Francisco tells that he and his brother liked to look at the ancient documents giving right of ownership to the farm. The oldest of these documents were written in Arabic. Daimuz, Gibson tells us, means the farmhouse of the cave.
The Tower of Roma was built in Arabic times as a watchtower. As a small child, Lorca often came here with the children of Fuente Vaqueros. He wrote in an essay Mi Pueblo, written in 1916 at the age of 18, that it was said that a giant lizard lived inside the tower and it would come out at night and dig up the graves in the nearby cemetery of Romilla. It respected the male corpses but, according to the legend, it would devour the female dead. There's a reference to this in the play Así que pasen 5 años where there's a scene between a dead child and a dead cat in which the dead child expresses its fear of the giant lizard. Lorca says he was frightened to death every time he came near the place.
"En la torre, según cuenta Lorca en Mi pueblo, los lugareños decían que moraba un enorme lagarto que violaban las tumbas del cemeterio de Romilla (que se encuentra a dos pasos), y que comía a las mujeres pero "respetaba" a los varones. Naturalmente, aquel niño tan sensible (Lorca) no gustaba de visitar la torre aunque, para no parecer cobarde, accedía, "con un miedo atroz", a acompañar hasta allí a sus compañeros."
- Ian Gibson, En Granada, su Granada...
Don Federico owned all the land adjacent to the sugar refinery in the Vega de Zujaira, as well as a lot of land between River Cubillas and Valderrubio and at Daimuz. All this land was inherited from or bought with the money that Matilde Palacios brought into the marriage and left to her husband, when she died in 1894.
At San Pascual there was a railway station to transport the sugar produced at the refinery. Here Federico's summer visitors would alight. Six of the poems of Libro de poemas were dated at the Vega de Zujaira, including "Madrigal de verano", written in august 1920.
Junta tu roja boca con la mía
¡oh Estrella la gitana!
Déjame bajo el claro mediodía
consumir la manzana.
This is an extract from Así que pasen cinco años. In this scene, a child that has just died meets a recently killed cat. The child tells the cat that they will be buried in a dark hole the following day. And that when buried, the lizards will come and eat them up, "their faces, their fingers, and even their willies". "I haven't got a willy," exclaims the she-cat, indignantly. The child thinks this objection is irrelevent, seeing that she will be eaten up completely, paws and whiskers included.
Por la puerta de la izquierda aparece el NIÑO muerto con el GATO. (...) El GATO es azul con dos enormes manchas rojas de sangre en el pechito blanco gris y en la cabeza. (...)
GATA: ¿Y nos van a enterrar? ¿Cuándo?
NIÑO: Mañana,
en unos hoyos oscuros.
Todos lloran. Todos callan.
Pero se van. Yo lo vi.
Y luego, ¿sabes?
GATA: ¿Qué pasa?
NIÑO: Vienen a comernos.
GATA: ¿Quién?
NIÑO: El lagarto y la lagarta,
con sus hijitos pequeños, que son muchos.
GATA: ¿Y qué nos comen?
NIÑO: La cara
con los dedos
(Bajando la voz)
y la cuca.
GATA. (Ofendida.) Yo no tengo cuca.
NIÑO: (Enérgico.) ¡Gata!,
te comerán las patitas y el bigote.
Don Federico compró esta finca en 1895 con una parte del dinero que heredó de su primera esposa, Matilde Palacios. Parece que la familia vivió aquí entre 1906 y su mudanza a Granada en 1908. Francisco, el hermano de Federico, que nació en 1902, dice que sus primeros recuerdos son de Daimuz. Además, la prima Mercedes dice que había juergas aquí - está fuera del pueblo y no hay vecinos - en que tocaba el gitano Luisillo el Camborio, prototipo del personaje lorquiano "Antoñito el Camborio", que murió en 1904 (de que nos enteramos en el pueblo Chauchina)
Fuente la Teja
Escuchad los romances
del agua en las choperas.
¡Son pájaros sin alas
perdidos entre hierbas!
Listen to the ballads
of the water in the poplar groves.
They are birds without wings
lost in the long grasses.
"Creo que mi sitio está entre estos chopos musicales y estos ríos líricos, que son un remanso continuado, porque mi corazón descansa de una manera definitiva y me burlo de mis pasiones que en la torre de la ciudad me acosan como un rebaño de panteras."
Carta a Melchor Fernández Almagro, agosto de 1921.
"I think my place is among these musical poplars and these lyrical rivers which let my heart finally come to rest and ridicule my passions which in the city set on me like a pack of panthers."
"Yo siempre estaré encantado si me dejan ese delicioso e ignorado último rincón, fuera de luchas, putrefacciones y tonterías: último rincón de azúcar y picatostes, donde las sirenas cojen las ramas de los sauces y el corazón se abre a punto de flauta."
"I will always be delighted if I could be left this delicious and unknown remote corner, far from all kinds of struggle, putrefaction and foolishness: this remote corner of sugar on fried bread, where the mermaids grasp hold of the branches of the willows and my heart opens at the sound of the flute."
Above we see the house of Frasquita Alba Sierra, the prototype for Bernarda Alba. Frasquita was born in 1858. She had a son and two daughters by her first husband, José Jiménez López, and another son and three more daughters with her second, Alejandro Rodríguez Capilla, who she married in 1893, at the age of 35. Frasquita died in 1924, a year before Alejandro. So we can see the exclusively female composition of the household is an invention of Lorca's. Another invention is the servant "La Poncia" working here, for although she lived in the village, she never served in this house. Lorca's cousin, Mercedes García Delgado, daughter of Matilde García Rodríguez, lived in the house adjacent to that of Frasquita Alba and the two houses shared a well beneath the wall that divided the properties. Through this well you could hear what was being said on the other side, which must have provided Lorca with some material for his play, written a good 10 years after the death of Frasquita.
"Frasquita Alba Sierra había nacido en 1858, casándose en no sabemos qué fecha con José Jiménez López y dando luz a un hijo y a dos hijas. Al morirse su marido se casó otra vez, en 1893, con Alejandro Rodríguez Capilla, con quien tuvo tres hijas y un hijo. Mujer de fuerte personalidad, aunque parece que no tiránica, Frasquita murió el 22 de julio de 1924 y su segundo marido al año siguiente. Por ello, la viudedad de Bernarda Alba - sine qua non del drama de Lorca - es invento del poeta. También lo es la composición exclusivamente femenina de la familia de Bernarda." - Ian Gibson, En Granada, su Granada...
Y además, Lorca escribió su obra algunos 10 años después de la muerte de Frasquita Alba.
The River Guadalquivir
flows between olive- and orange trees.
The two rivers of Granada
flow down from the snow to the wheat.
Ah, love,
that went away and didn't come back!
The River Guadalquivir
with its ruddy beard.
The two rivers of Granada,
one tears, the other blood.
Ah, love
that went away through the air!
For sailing ships
Seville has a path to follow;
while only sighs row
on the waters of Granada.
BELOW: The River Genil flowing out onto the Vega - from the snow to the wheat
This dense grove of poplar trees lines the banks of the River Cubillas. The path leads from the Fuente Vaqueros-Valderrubio road to the "La Teja" spring on the banks of the river.
Dulce chopo,
dulce chopo,
te has puesto
de oro.
Ayer estabas verde,
un verde loco
de pájaros
Hoy estás abatido
bajo el cielo de agosto
como yo bajo el cielo
de mi espíritu rojo
In memoriam, agosto de 1920, de Libro de poemas.
(English translation: Sweet poplar/sweet poplar/you have turned/to gold.//Yesterday you were green/a mad green/of glorious/birds.//Today you are dejected/beneath the August sky/as I am, beneath the sky/of my red passion.)
These poplars, photographed in the spring, are anything but "dejected" (abatido).


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Colorado Professional Beekeeping Association caps are now available! Supply is currently limited, but if enough interest is shown, we will be having more made-up for us. These are truly quality caps made of heavy brushed cotton with adjustable metal buckles in back. These caps should last for years of use. The custom embroidery on the front-piece was designed especially for the CPBA as our organizational logo and the bill is distinctively accentuated with a sandwiched black stripe (not shown in photos).
Show your support for the CPBA and for practical and sustainable beekeeping in Colorado by wearing one of these caps and perhaps giving to friends and fellow beekeepers.
CPBA Caps are reasonably priced at $25.00 each (please include $6 dollars each for shipping & handling). All proceeds from cap sales will go to support further activities of the Colorado Professional Beekeeping Association.
No PayPal account is needed for credit card orders. Please remember to enter the quantity of caps and shipping address on the PayPal site. Shipping charges will be applied after you click the "buy now" button. Thank you for your support.


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Special project: Bridges
We will finish the year as we began it, with a hands-on unit highlighting scientific inquiry and creativity. This culminating project will span skills acquired across the length and breadth of our 4th grade year, and involve aspects of Science, Math, Language Arts and Social Studies. A unit that lives up to its name in every sense of the word: BRIDGES!
We'll build and test all kinds of bridges using all kinds of materials, picking up key vocabulary terms and engineering concepts along the way. We'll look at pictures and videos of famous bridges around the world, and also talk about the reasons for some spectacular (and tragic) bridge collapses.
Each student has chosen a different bridge or type of bridge to research and present to the class on May 23rd. Presentations may include video segments and visual aids if desired.
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Your Real Zodiac Sign Is Your Sidereal Sign:
The Sidereal zodiac, like the more familiar Tropical zodiac (currently used by most Western astrologers), is divided into 12 equal segments of 30° each. These divisions bear the familiar names Aries, Taurus, etc. The basic difference is that the start of the Tropical zodiac zero degrees Aries (0°^) is permanently identified with the vernal equinox, while the Sidereal zodiac is measured in a way that fixes it against the starry celestial backdrop.
The boundaries of the Sidereal zodiac have been precisely determined by purely observational means, supported by INDEPENDENT archaeological investigation. Because the vernal equinox is not fixed against the same celestial backdrop, the Tropical zodiac is in constant backwards motion in relation to the Sidereal zodiac (the 'PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES'). As a result, 'signs' of the same name in these zodiacs do not presently occupy the same areas of space.
In 1944, Cyril Fagan discovered the superiority of Sidereal Solar and Lunar Returns ('Sol- lunars') over their Tropical counterparts. These returns, calculated in a precession-free reference frame, yield quite different results from Tropical returns. For example, the difference in the time of a Solar Return amounts to a whole day at age 72. Fagan began favoring the use of a sidereal, or non-precessing, zodiac such as Eastern astrologers have used for centuries. He felt it made more sense than continuing to use a precessing (Tropical) zodiac but deleting precession for prediction purposes. Sidereal sign-placements also began to provide solutions for many confusing problems of astrological symbolism. In this early, formative stage of Western Sidereal astrology, Fagan adopted the leading Hindu stellar zodiac, which fixes the star Spica at zero Libra 0d00'00" for all time. This zodiac differed from the contemporary Tropical zodiac by about 23° in the mid-1940s.
Donald Bradley entered the scene in the late '40s. Then an advocate of the Tropical zodiac, Bradley undertook what was at the time the largest, most carefully-performed statistical examination of astrology's fundamental precepts. Published in 1950 as PROFESSION & BIRTH DATE, Bradley's study of 2492 eminent clergymen surprised him by indicating that, while twelve equal divisions of the zodiac do exist, their boundaries are not where where Tropical tradition places them. In fact, Bradley's work suggested that, in this century, a new sign begins about where Tropicalists mark 24° of each sign, not at 0°.
This differed by 1° from Fagan's initial speculation. Bradley pointed out that this purely empirical determination (which has since been replicated with other large data samples) carried added symbolic virtues. For instance, it placed the star Aldebaran, "the Bull's Eye", exactly at 15° Taurus, the "bull's-eye" of this original first sign of the zodiac. Spica, symbolically the sheaf of wheat in Virgo's hands, was now found at twenty-nine degrees Virgo 29°c, not zero Libra 0°d. Shortly thereafter, Fagan verified these speculations when he solved the mystery of the origin of traditional exaltation degrees (HYPSOMATA–see ZODIACS, OLD AND NEW), thereby determining to the nearest degree the boundaries of the ancient Egypto-Babylonian zodiac. Spica was officially shifted by Fagan, Bradley, and others who had by that time joined them, to 29 Virgo 00'00".
Yet no single "fixed" star can reasonably be presumed to determine the structure of the entire zodiac. These Sidereal longitudes of Spica, Aldebaran, etc. were known to be near-approximations at best, and not precise "permanent residences" by which a zodiac is defined. Current Sidereal theorists generally presume that their zodiac is the resultant of the harmonic interplay of ALL galactic and extra-galactic material, visible and invisible. In other words, it is a 'FIELD' in which the relative positions of the planets produce astrological effects; a concept by no means out of alignment with progressive physics.
In 1956, a dozen years after Fagan's initial discovery, Bradley began investigating Sidereal and Lunar Cardinal ingresses. The accuracy of his calculations was naturally dependent on the exact locations of Sidereal 0° Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. A half-degree error in these points would displace the timing of a Lunar Ingress by about an hour, or of a Solar Ingress by about 12 hours. Initially, the Solar Ingress results were quite disappointing. Sidereal Lunar Ingresses, however, were exceptionally illuminating. Bradley found that by adjusting the zero-point by only 0°06′, these Lunar Ingresses were often nearly PERFECT in their symbolic representations of of socio-political events and natural phenomena. Spica was temporarily redefined as marking 29 VIRGO 06.
These six minutes altered by about 2 1/2 hours the timing of Solar Ingresses, miraculously transforming them, like the Lunar Ingresses, into valid mundane charts. A further adjustment of only 5″ produced the most significant "polishing" improvement on this already pleasing technique. Spica was therefore re-situated at 29VIRGO06'05" for the epoch 1950.0, placing the mean longitude of the Vernal point at 05 PISCES 57'28".64 for the same point in time.
This is the basis of the Synetic Vernal Point (S.V.P.) utilized by Western Siderealists since 1957. It is presumed to be in error by no more than a few seconds, if that much. Thus no longer are the boundaries of the 12 divisions of the Sidereal zodiac even nominally dependent on any single star with its own proper motion, but rather on A TRULY SIDEREAL MATRIX which encompasses the totality of space.
Two important corroborations deserve mention in closing. One, statistical in nature, arose from a discovery made by Bradley after his initial experiments with Sidereal Ingresses. Investigating Sidereal Lunar Capricorn Ingresses ('CAPLUNARS') for record rainfalls, he found that Jupiter appeared near the angles of these charts at the localities of the cloud-bursters many times more than normal expectation would allow. Further pursuit of this led to a grant from the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION administered by New York University to continue this research and related studies. This 'Jupiter effect', awesomely replicated in Bradley's larger-scale studies, naturally depends upon the correct placement of the Sidereal zodiacal boundaries, and lends considerable support to their defined locations.
The second corroboration, from archaeological sources and non-astrological scholars who study the history of astrology and astronomy, was unknown to either Fagan or Bradley during their lives. In 1958 (a year after Bradley's determination of the S.V.P.), Peter Huber published some noteworthy findings on the Babylonian zodiac. The Babylonians are acknowledged by most modern scholars as the originators of astrology. In order to determine the boundaries of the zodiac used by the Babylonians, Huber compared the calculated dates of planetary ingresses into the 'Sidereal signs' to the calculated dates of planetary conjunctions with certain stars, as recorded in Babylonian astronomical texts. Huber's conclusions, published in the German journal CENTAURUS (1958, Vol. IX, pp. 192-208), were that the Babylonian zodiac, adjusted to the epoch -100, placed the Vernal Point at 4 ARIES 28 +/-20′. The Fagan-Bradley S.V.P., for the same epoch, locates the Vernal Point at 4 ARIES 27, agreeing WITHIN 1′ of ARC!
May 15th to June 16th: Sun is in Sidereal Taurus.
June 16th to July 17th: Sun is in Sidereal Gemini.
July 17th to August 17th: Sun is in Sidereal Cancer.
August 17th to September 17th: Sun is in Sidereal Leo.
September 17th to October 17th: Sun is in Sidereal Virgo.
October 17th to November 17th: Sun is in Sidereal Libra.
November 17th to December 16th: Sun is in Sidereal Scorpio.
December 16th to January 15th: Sun is in Sidereal Sagittarius.
January 15th to February 15th: Sun is in Sidereal Capricorn.
February 15th to March 15th: Sun is in Sidereal Aquarius.
March 15th to April 15th: Sun is in Sidereal Pisces.
April 15th to May 15th: Sun is in Sidereal Aries.


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Low Consumer Interest Seen For 4K
More than eight in ten broadband users have never heard of Ultra HD/4K TV- and even those who have consider it too expensive.
According to research released this week by The Diffusion Group (TDG), "more than eight in ten adult broadband users have never heard of or are unfamiliar with 4K/Ultra-HD televisions." In addition, less than 10 percent of adults consider themselves moderately or highly likely to purchase such a TV at its current price.
"This is not to suggest that price is the only variable at play in the decision not to purchase a new 4K/UHD television,"TDG President Michael Greeson said as part of the announcement.
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During the summer season many people are seen at theme parks like Disney or at places like zoos to see the lions, tigers, and bears. One rule that zoos are known to have is not to feed the animals. This is but one of the regulations for the safety of those that attend the zoo. The majority of the crowd listens to this knowing full well the dangers of the creatures which capture their attention. However, one Tennessee woman seems to think she is above these rules. This woman has now been banned for feeding the lions at the zoo.
It looked to be a good day for the visitors of the Memphis, Tennessee zoo. The incident which occurred took place near, or rather, inside of the lion enclosure. It was stated that the woman took on strange behavior. Approaching the enclosure, she was seen and heard singing to them, telling the lions that she missed them. Although many thought this was odd no one would have guessed that she would take her actions further than that. The woman, now banned from the zoo, was reportedly trying to feed cookies to the lions as she actually managed to get beyond the barrier.
The zoo visitors got much more than they probably paid for as there was more than just the usual attraction. According to other news reports surrounding this story, the woman continued on with her singing as if trying to serenade the kings of the jungle. One could perhaps compare this to the charming of a snake from the basket with the music from a flute. But this is not the first time, according to reports, that the woman banned from the zoo has tried feeding the lions.
Abbey Dane of the Memphis zoo gave a statement, saying that the woman was spotted the week before the incident throwing different things into the exhibit. According to Dane, security was the first to notice this behavior. Continuing on with the statement, Dane mentions that the woman had only been asked to leave the zoo. Some may even think to call it a warning. It was bad enough that she was trying to get close enough to the lions in order to feed them but what made it worse, and what got her banned, was that she was trying to feed them some type of cookie. Some animals are known to consume just about any type of food item, but when it concerns wildlife such as that of a lion, only professional staff and trained caretakers are allowed to do the feeding.
The woman banned from the zoo for feeding the lions cookies was not identified. However, she was seen wearing a pair of brown scrubs. Now, since she has been forever banned from stepping foot within the zoo, staff members were given a photograph of the woman to aid in identifying her should she try to visit the lions, or the zoo, again.
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text: Ok, here is my question, how can i make windows XP SP2 start faster? i kno this question has being asked many times and i mean many times, but for some reason the answers and all cant seem to work with my computer so hopefully one person can help me determine my situation. My windows will take about 2min 30sec and some other time it has taken about 3mins and plus to start up (n yes i kno many are going to say that is not bad) but what makes it bad is the fact that i have Intel Q6700 2.67Ghz unOC with 2GB PC6400 800Mhz Ram Sli Ready on a EVGA 780i MOBO and while my friend has a Intel Pentium D 2.4Ghz it will start faster than mine. I know my computer when shutting down it will take no more than 7sec from the time i ask it to shut down until it does (i timed it) But when it starts it takes too long for what i expected, especially for what i have seen people only with time to start up When i start up my computer will automically start up this several programs 1. CA Internet Security 2008 Suite (antivirus, personal firewall, antispam, web checker, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Phishing) 2. AIM 3. SpeedFan 4.Nvidia GPU OC Program (precision) thats all i have starting up with the computer, here is the thing, once my computer while loading it gets to the Blue Welcome Screen, it will stay there for a while then it will go to my normal desktop screen, atleast once it gets there i can click at anythin and it will load immediately, cuz by the that everythin has bein pretty much loaded. Is there somethin else i can do?


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Nearly 100 unwanted and abandoned bikes have been given a second life thanks to the work of two Wandsworth groups.
Positively Putney Business Improvement District (BID) has teamed up with Wandsworth community centre 'Carney's Community' to remove the bikes off the streets and donate them to young people who are NEET (young people not in education, employment or training).
Nicola Grant, executive director of Putney BID said: "We've just had tens of thousands of cyclists coming through Putney this weekend for RideLondon - the great annual cycling festival which encourages people to get on their bikes, brings spectators out to line our high street, and support our local shops, pubs and cafes in the process.
"Cycling does not just benefit our community once a year though, we've been removing abandoned bikes from our town centre and donating them to the fantastic Wandsworth youth club Carney's Community where local kids are being taught how to fix them up.
"The initiative helps keep Putney clean and benefits kids who are not in education, employment or training. We may even see some of them participating in RideLondon and pedalling through Putney in the years to come."
Carney's Community runs workshops in which the 11-18 year olds work with mechanics to fix up the bikes. The teenagers then get to keep the bikes or they are sold on with any profits re-invested into local youth projects.
Rory Bradshaw, lead youth worker at the charity added: "Through our regular workshops, local young people get to work with mechanics to fix up abandoned or unwanted bikes.
"They learn useful practical skills and they get to keep the bikes which they would not otherwise be able to afford.
"Often these bikes are left on the streets in estates or outside train stations, and it's thanks to the initiative taken by organisations like Positively Putney BID that they are removed off the streets and donated to a good cause."


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Photographer's Note
Another meeting in my valley
There are some details that may interest in this photo of the metting with this very big reindeer bull.
I could see him coming over the moors some distant from my position, out hiking in my valley, in the central mountains of Norway (calling it my valley as I have my cottage up here for the last 20 years).
By his impressive horn with all the antlers I understood this bull was old and also alone.
Even if he was aware of me it did not seems to matter
- from seeing him some 300 meters away he closed in and was finally passing only some 20 meters from my position.
Quite an unusual behaviour as reindeers often avoid being to close to humans. And of course this is wildlife at the best: No park or protected region, no fences or any hindrance between him and me just a meeting in the open nature up in the mountains.
Study his fur and you will see the old bull is changing from winter fur to summer fur (around head/neck).
..just another meeting in my valley :-)
We had good eye contact.. the reindeer and me: have a look at my workshop >>
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mesutilgim (0) 2009-06-28 3:17
Hi Jack,
This entry can be interpreted in many different ways.
In our language there is a saying : "don't start any deerish discussion" . Which means, do avoid any nonesense discussions.
From time to time, different discussions at TE forums, reminds me to that !
Anyway, nice and informative entry.
TFS and best regards
bakes888 (18499) 2009-06-28 3:18
Hi Jack. Lucky you, such a meeting is a privilege not too many can enjoy. Nice capture and thanks for sharing.
Have a good Sunday, Paul.
ophelcia (0) 2009-06-28 3:45
Looks like a typical postcard from Norway;)
I also like the WS, but as a composition this one is much better, great sharpness although it's a quick creature, they are changing their furs now so it is also well depicted,
papagolf21 (149683) 2009-06-28 4:04
Bonjour, cher Jack,
Quand l'on voit ce genre de bête, je ne sais pas si l'on doit fuir ou utiliser son téléobjectif pour saisir cet animal impressionnant ! J'ai regardé avec beaucoup d'intérêt la photo présentée en atelier, l'on ne peut pas dire que l'oeil soit attendrissant. Très bonnes photos. Amitiés. Philippe
Didi (61587) 2009-06-28 11:28
Hi Jack
Indeed it's a very nice meeting specially with a 200 mm lens. I think that the WS picture should be another main picture.
Very good catch.
Best regards
cbrman (21675) 2009-06-28 22:22
Hello Jack,
Dommage que l'image soit légèrement floue. Cela gâche un peu la qualité de la photographie. Sinon, la rencontre devait être étonnante !
gilou530 (34) 2009-06-29 8:29
salut jack
un beau spécimen dans un lieu qui l'enchante avec de l'herbe bien grasse, la netteté est peut être pas top mais je suis comme lui je vieilli.
batalay (41261) 2009-07-10 17:14
Hello Jack,
So as the trees in the spring and summer assume a new mantle of foliage, the dear doff their own mantle of winter fur. Your excellent shot is complemented by a very good note. I looked at the eye contact you presented as a ws, that could have led to neither of these shots ever being presented. That is like saying, "Captain Cook laid eyes on Hawaii on his final voyage, and it was the last place he laid his eyes on." (The natives slaughtered him and ate him.)
Warm regards,
ChrisJ (156713) 2009-07-24 3:35
Hello Jack
Nice to see the reindeer bull in its natural environment, rather than a zoo. Good framing with plenty of room at right for it to move into. Tfs!
Photo Information
- Copyright: Jack R Johanson (jrj) (34843)
- Genre: Lieux
- Medium: Couleur
- Date Taken: 2009-06-25
- Categories: Vie quotidienne, Nature, Moment décisif
- Camera: Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm 3.5-5.6 G ED AF-S VR
- Exposition: f/5.6, 1/500 secondes
- More Photo Info: view
- Versions: version originale, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2009-06-28 3:10


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Matterport Offering $1,000 Off Matterport Pro2 Camera + Pro2 Lite Special7694
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A WGAN Forum Member forwarded this Matterport email to me today (Wednesday, 22 August 2018) ...
Hi [redacted],
I just got out of a marketing meeting, and we are going to start running the largest promotion we have ever had. As an end of the summer sale, we are offering $1,000 off the Pro2. We also have a promotion on the Pro2 Lite which we have never had before. Please let me know if you are still interested in Matterport! I will be happy to go over these promotions in more detail with you.
Note: no mention in the email if you have to pre-paid for a year of Matterport Cloud or any other terms and conditions.
If you are planning to buy a Matterport Camera, talk with their sales team.
If you bought a Matterport Pro2 or Pro2 Lite Camera within the last 30 days, sent a note to Matterport Support and let them know that you plan to return it so that you can take advantage of the their special offer. My mostly, Matterport will offer to credit your Cloud account so that you do not need to return the camera to get the special savings.
If you learn more about these offers, please post here (or Private Message me).
As early as today (22 August 2018), Matterport is still running online ads for $300 off Matterport Camera.
P.S. If I was them, I would bundle a WGAN Standard Membership with the Camera to help Matterport Newbies ... Succeed Faster Use the money that you save to join as a WGAN Standard Member (and still have money left over ... )
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|Hi All,
If you bought a Matterport Pro2 or Pro2 Lite within the last 30 days of today (Wednesday, 22 August 2018)...
From the Matterport Terms of Sale (last updated 31 May 2017):
4. Return Policy.
(a) Return Policy for Cameras Without Faults. One time only, You may, at Your expense, return to Matterport the first Camera purchased by You within 30 days of the date of the original shipment of such Camera to You, provided that such Camera is in the original packaging with the original receipt. If the Camera and original packaging are returned within this timeframe and confirmed by Matterport not to be damaged, Matterport will provide a full refund based upon the original payment method. You cannot return unwanted items after 30 days. The foregoing return right applies only to the first Camera purchased by You. Subject to those rights set out below regarding Cameras with faults, You will have no right to return any subsequently purchased Camera without the prior written consent of Matterport, which consent Matterport may grant or withhold in its sole discretion. For clarity: (i) any Camera obtained in a trade-in or upgrade transaction is not eligible for return under this subsection; and (ii) the limitations set forth in this subsection will not apply to any limited buy-back program offered by Matterport, and the written terms of such program provided by Matterport shall apply instead with respect to the return of Cameras subject to such program.
Please post here if this helps you save $1,000 on a Matterport Camera purchased within the last 30 days.
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|This is really tempting. I am trying to hold out to see what the GeoCV offering will look like, but I am slowly growing impatient
It also might be worth noting that they are selling "the last few remaining stock" of the original camera for $1899. I dont know if that is a good price or a bad price, or even a good camera, but it is currently being offered on their site.
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Originally Posted by jblythe
Thank you Please be patient and stay tuned. We plan to provide the first batch of DIY solutions as early as this October [2018]. We'll reach out to you personally with the details.
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Originally Posted by jblythe
$1899 is a good price if you are interested using the Pro-1 for its ability to create OBJ/Point Cloud files (Matterpak). The Pro-1's capabilities at producing 3D objects is identical to the Pro-2.
If you are wanting to create the best quality visual product for 3D Tours, you cannot afford to buy a Pro-1. Other minor points include the fact that Matterport is now experimenting with the Pro-2's onboard GPS with 360 Placements (I'll save that discussion for a different thread. Just not impressed so far).
Concerning the other promotion that you've heard of -- I have not heard of it yet. While this may be an insult to many for the full investment, I'll say what I said when the Pro-2 was announced and people were weighing in the value of the trade-in program:
If you purchased a camera and have had it in your possession for a month or so -- It is my hope that during that time, your usage of the camera had value that exceeded the discount/trade-in difference that you would have received had you waited.
In the past 2 days, Insta360 Pro 2 and DJI Mavic Pro 2 models have been announced. If the Pro-3 were to be announced soon, it would be par for course.
[disclaimer: At this moment in time, I have absolutely no knowledge of ANY new Matterport Camera in pre-production or planning stages. I also do not think that it would be necessary. If a new camera were to be in the works, the main improvements would likely be in the IR depth sensor as the industry has finally moved forward in that department.]
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Originally Posted by AntonYakubenko
This is AMAZING news! I will be anxiously awaiting
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I wonder if the Matterport $1,000 discount is in response to:
✓ Insta360 Pro 2 - BREAKING: Insta360 Pro 2 VR camera debuts with in-camera stabilization
✓ iSTAR Pulsar
✓ GeoCV
While typically a large price-drop is a sign of a new generation product around the corner, I do not believe the Matterport deep discount on the Matterport Pro2 Camera is signaling a new generation of Camera.
Originally Posted by @Metroplex360
Your thoughts?
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|Just received this email from Matterport:
I hope this message finds you well! Matterport, the company that invented affordable 3d photography is now making it even easier to get started!!
The Pro2 Camera (not the lite) is now on sale for $2995, now through midnight on September 3rd (Labor Day U.S.), that is a whopping 25% discount on the industry leading Pro 2 camera
With Matterport you will set your self up to be abe to:
Add immersive 3D tours to your marketing toolkit
Wow sellers and new home buyers
Differentiate yourself in a competitive marketplace
Attract new clients by delivering 4k still photography AND immersive 3D tours from a single on-site photo shoot"
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|This no longer appears to be a rumor but true. Companies normally don't give such steep discounts unless there's a reason and in this case I feel it's the latest capture from GeoCV https://www.inman.com/2018/08/20/geocv-partners-with-halstead-for-3d-home-tour-that-will-blow-minds/# This is a truly stunning shoot and it show the remarkable capability of what GeoCV has in store. MP know if a competitor can deliver a equal quality IMMERSIVE virtual tour that can be hosted locally by the client as well as have backup and restored capability there going to be in trouble and begin to lose market share. So what do you do, you take a whopping $1,000 off your camera.
If GeoCV plays their cards right within 3 to 4 years they can own this market and I'm afraid that MP could become a distant memory. The key is self hosting or a cheap hosting plan with backup and restore and perhaps even white labeling. It's simply what we've all been asking for for the last 4 years and it look like GeoCV are going to deliver it.
My only concern is the GeoCV kit (hardware). Please don't take this as a negative but showing up with your smartphone on a motorized mount isn't the same as walking in with a MP camera. If GeoCv can develop some device which holds the phone and RealSense Depth Camera into a single unit to look more professional then they would be on to a winner. In my line of business if I was to show up on set with the current setup it would not appear professional. So please GeoCV think about some housing which combines both devices to give the customer the appearance of a pro rig like the image which MP projects. I call it the mystery box as people just look at it and say wow. PM me if you wish to discuss this further.
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|@GarySnyder I agree Gary plus the lack of HD stills means a second shoot with DSLR for many jobs. It still has a way to go in my opinion, but definitely going in the right direction. Not sure if this will be the end of Matterport. If they're smart they will keep improving on a great camera and tweak the business model to offer white label, different hosting/storage options, etc to better compete with all the new comers. If they do, it will be good for all of us.
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Saw this on the Matterport home page this morning (Thursday, 23 August 2018.
Small print says:
"*New customers only. Offer expires 11:59pm, Sept. 3, 2019."
Does not look like you need to pre-pay for 12 months of hosting to redeem this offer.
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|I wonder if they finally hit their saturation point for the camera. Anyone thinking about buying a camera in the future will now most likely hold out for the next $1,000 sale or MP will quietly offer the discount to keep sales moving if you ask for it.
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|Just for my own clarity, are you not required to take additional, his resolution photos along with the MP scans? As I am not currently using the product, I thought both were necessary in general. If so, then I think the offering (by function alone) of GeoCV is comparable to MP. I could be wrong.
IMHO the hardware "visually" bears only in the market you are in. In the case of GeoCV with this most recent article, and with agencies like Douglass Ellerman and Nest Seekers on their client list, they are showing that they can produce high quality visuals with the equipment they have, and the agencies dont seem to care that its done on a phone. Educating clients on the advancement in the technology might need to happen, but this is a process problem not a technical problem.
I think the main concern here would be agents purchasing the equipment themselves and doing the photography. This might work in markets where the hosing moves slowly and agents have the time and energy to do it, but in those places where time is money, agents are going to farm off this task each and every time.
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|Capture speed is a consideration that should also be made re: GeoCV vs Matterport.
Matterport's $1,000 discount is just a crazy sale. The camera now costs less to manufacture and more money is made on SAAS than camera sales. If they can afford to sell more units at a lower price, they make more money.
I have had two people contact me and pick my brain about my business. They are considering buy the camera at this rate. I offered our services as B2B with a 20% discount so that they can immediately start serving clients while they wait. I have booked one tour so far and should be getting a few others. I will make at least $1,000 off this, so
Originally Posted by GarySnyder
I'm surprised that Matterport did the $1,000 discount. Many companies look at Apple's playbook and they have never undervalued their products. When I see a steep discount and miss the 'sale', I can never bring myself to paying anything more.
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|<=== Still waiting for more chatter on a Pro-3 if the above discounts are any indication of what we saw happen with prior discounts.
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|@VTLV - I know nothing about a Pro-3. Things are very quiet at Matterport on all fronts right now.
I knew nothing about the Pro-2 Lite before it came out.
I've been assured by several people at Matterport NOT to read into this and that it was a planned sale.
Personally, I don't see any reason for a Pro-3 at the current time for RE. We don't need better image resolution. The advances in IR sensors that Intel released this year (D435) would be nice - as it will extend range from 6m to 10m and "allow" scanning in direct sunlight. Not sure if it would operate faster allowing a 'Faster Scan' mode. That would actually be quite cool.
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Screen Grab: From the Matterport.com from page on Tuesday, 18 September 2018 | $500 and $600 off offers
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|Hi All,
After running the $1,000 sale, Matterport dropped the price of the Matterport Camera:
✓ Matterport Pro-2 is now $3,395 - New Price
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When condensate is discharged from a high pressure steam system to a system of lower pressure, a proportion of the condensate may vaporise to form low pressure steam. This is known as flash steam and may be utilised in low pressure heating systems to improve plant efficiency. This article discusses the generation of flash steam and presents a method by which it can be quantified.
|Proportion of flash steam generated (kg steam/kg condensate)
|Enthalpy of condensate at the steam system pressure (kJ/kg).
|Enthalpy of condensate at release pressure and corresponding saturation temperature (kJ/kg).
|Specific enthalpy of vaporisation at the condensate release pressure (2,257 kJ/kg at 101.325 kPa)
|Mass flow rate of condensate (kg/s)
|Waste heat in condensate stream (kW)
When hot condensate is passed from a high pressure system to a low pressure system (commonly the atmosphere) flash steam is generated. This is commonly diagnosed as a steam trap fault, however it is simply the surplus enthalpy of the hot condensate boiling off a proportion of the water as the condensate adjusts to its new conditions.
Flash steam is generated when the temperature of the condensate is higher than the steam saturation temperature at the pressure it is being discharged to. The quantity of flash steam generated for condensate being discharged from pressure to pressure may be calculated as follows:
The quantity of flash steam calculated above represents the excess heat present in the condensate stream. This waste heat may be quantified using the mass flow rate of the condensate stream as shown below:
The energy flow rate in flash steam can be significant, particularly in applications such as boiler blowdown, often accounting for 40% of the total energy lost through the condensate stream. Therefore in order to achieve maximum efficiency, where economical, steam systems should reclaim flash steam for use in systems requiring low pressure heating such as boiler feed water pre-heating.
Consider a low pressure steam system at 7 barg, here the steam will have a saturation temperature and an enthalpy . The condensate for this system is discharged to an atmospheric vented vessel where the steam saturation temperature is , corresponding enthalpy and heat of vaporisation .
The fraction of flash steam generated on condensate discharge to the atmospheric vessel may be calculated as follows:
Therefore 0.134 kg of flash steam may be reclaimed per kilogram of condensate discharged, this represents approximately 42% of the energy in the condensate stream.
Further Reading
- Spirax-sarco, The Steam and Condensate Loop
- Woodruff, E., Lammers, H., (Author), Lammers, T. ,Steam Plant Operation, 2011, McGraw-Hill Professional
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Katharine Faulkner
BioKatie Faulkner is a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, and founder/Artistic Director of little seismic dance company. Since receiving her MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from Mills College in 2002, she has performed the works of Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, Victoria Marks, Susan Rethorst, Alex Ketley and Ann Carlson. She worked with several of these choreographers as a dancer with AXIS Dance Company, with whom she performed both locally and nationally from 2003-2007. She has been an active educator around the country and is currently on faculty at the University of San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. Since founding little seismic, Faulkner has received support in the form of numerous grants, commissions, residencies, and awards. She was an artist-in-residence at ODC Theater from 2009-2011 and has also been in residence at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Rauschenberg Residency, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. She has received several Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and nominations, the top prize for her work in the Joyce Theater A.W.A.R.D. Show!/San Francisco competition, and the SF Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award for dance. In 2015, she received her certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis from the Integrated Movement Studies program. www.littleseismicdance.org
Brian Ferneyhough
The William H. Bonsall Professor in Music, Emeritus
BioStudies with Ton de Leeuw, Amsterdam Conservatory, and Klaus Huber, Basel Conservatory.
Awards: Mendelssohn Scholarship, 1968; Lady Holland Composition Award, Royal Academy of Music, 1967; Grand Prix du Disque, 1978 and 1982; Gaudeamus Music Week Prizes 1969 and 1970; Composition Stipend, City of Basle, 1969-71; Koussevitsky Prize 1978; Composition Stipend of Southwest German Radio, 1974-5; Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, Paris 1984; Associate Royal Academy of Music, 1990; Royal Philharmonic Award for Chamber Music Composition, 1996; Fellow, Birmingham Conservatoire, 1995; Elected Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1996; Fellow, Royal Academy of Music, 1998; Elected Corresponding Member of the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste 2005.
Activities: member of International Jury ISCM, 1980 (Finland) and 1988 (Hong Kong); member jury Gaudeamus Composition Competition 1983; member of International Reading Panel, IRCAM, 1993 & 1999; member of Kranichsteiner Preis Jury, Darmstadt, 1978-96; member of board, Perspectives of New Music 1995-present.
Compositions featured throughout the world and at all the major European festivals of contemporary music. Compositions include: Fourth String Quartet, Bone Alphabet, Terrain, Allgebrah, Incipits, Unsichtbare Farben, String Trio. His opera Shadowtime was premiered as part of the Munich Biennale 2004, and has been taken to Paris, New York, Bochum and London 2004-5. In 2006, it was staged in Stockholm, Sweden. In October 2006, his orchestral piece Plötzlichkeit was premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival, Germany. His Fifth String Quartet was premiered in Witten and later played in the Aldeburgh and Salzburg Festivals.
Publications: Collected Writings, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998; POETIK, and various articles and interviews.
Kenneth Fields
Professor of EnglishOn Leave from 09/01/2019 To 08/31/2020
BioKenneth Fields' collections of poetry are The Other Walker, Sunbelly, Smoke, The Odysseus Manuscripts, and Anemographia: A Treatise on the Wind. He has completed the manuscripts of two other collections: Classic Rough News and Music from Another Room. His current projects are a novel, Father of Mercies, and a collection of essays on Mina Loy, H.D., Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Ben Jonson, Wallace Stevens, Jorge Luis Borges, Henri Coulette, and others. Fields teaches the Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop for the Stanford Writing Fellows. He is developing a two-part course in American film, Men in the Movies: Film Noir and the Western. He delivered the Russel B. Nye Lecture at Michigan State University's American Studies Program: "There Stands the Glass: Voices of Alcohol in Country Music."
Paula Findlen
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
BioI have taught the early history of science and medicine for many years on the premise that one of the most important ways to understand how science, medicine and technology have become so central to contemporary society comes from examining the process by which scientific knowledge emerged. I also take enormous pleasure in examining a kind of scientific knowledge that did not have an autonomous existence from other kinds of creative endeavors, but emerged in the context of humanistic approaches to the world (in defiance of C.P. Snow's claim that the modern world is one of "two cultures" that share very little in common). More generally, I am profoundly attracted to individuals in the past who aspired to know everything. It still seems like a worthy goal.
My other principal interest lies in understanding the world of the Renaissance, with a particular focus on Italy. I continue to be fascinated by a society that made politics, economics and culture so important to its self-definition, and that obviously succeeded in all these endeavors for some time, as the legacy of such figures as Machiavelli and Leonardo suggests. Renaissance Italy, in short, is a historical laboratory for understanding the possibilities and the problems of an innovative society. As such, it provides an interesting point of comparison to Gilded Age America, where magnates such as J.P. Morgan often described themselves as the "new Medici," and to other historical moments when politics, art and society combined fruitfully.
Finally, I have a certain interest in the relations between gender, culture and knowledge. Virginia Woolf rightfully observed at the beginning of the twentieth century that one could go to a library and find a great deal about women but very little that celebrated or supported their accomplishments. This is no longer true a century later, in large part thanks to the efforts of many scholars, male and female, who have made the work of historical women available to modern readers and who have begun to look at relations between the sexes in more sophisticated ways. Our own debates and disagreements on such issues make this subject all the more important to understand.
Shelley Fishkin
Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities
BioShelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford. She is Director of Stanford's American Studies Program and is also Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of forty-six books, and has published over one hundred fifty articles, essays and reviews, many of which have focused on issues of race and racism in America, and on recovering and interpreting voices that were silenced, marginalized, or ignored in America's past. Her books have won two "Outstanding Academic Title" awards from Choice, an award from the the National Journalism Scholarship Society, and "Outstanding Reference Work" awards from Library Journal and the New York Public Library. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Before coming to Stanford in 2003, she was chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2003, the challenge of doing transnational research in American Studies has been a central concern. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Georgian, and Italian, and has been published in English-language journals in Turkey, Japan, and Korea.
Her research has been featured twice on the front page of the New York Times, and twice on the front page of the New York Times Arts section. In 2009 she was awarded the Mark Twain Circle's Certificate of Merit "for long and distinguished service in the elucidation of the work, thought, life and art of Mark Twain." Her most recent book is Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (named runner-up for the best book award in the general nonfiction category, London Book Festival, 2015) (Rutgers University Press, 2015; paperback, 2017), a book that Junot Díaz called "a triumph of scholarship and passion, a profound exploration of the many worlds which comprise our national canon....a book that redraws the literary map of the United States." She was awarded a John S. Tuckey Award for Lifetime Achievements and Contributions to Mark Twain Studies in 2017.
She has served as President of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America and was co-founder of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman society. She has given keynote talks at conferences in Beijing, Cambridge, Coimbra, Copenhagen, Dublin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kunming, Kyoto, La Coruña, Lisbon, Mainz, Nanjing, Regensburg, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Taipei, Tokyo, and across the U.S. Her current project is a collaborative transnational, bilingual research project dealing with the Chinese Railroad Workers whose labor helped establish the wealth that allowed Leland Stanford to build Stanford University.
Lazar Fleishman
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
BioLazar Fleishman studied at a music school and the Music Academy in Riga, Latvia before graduating from Latvian State University in 1966. His first scholarly papers (on Pushkin, the Russian elegy, and Boris Pasternak) were published during his university years. He emigrated to Israel in 1974, where his academic career began at the Department for Russian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was co-founder and co-editor of the series Slavica Hierosolymitana: Slavic Studies of Hebrew University (1977-1984). He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1978-1979; 1980-1981), The University of Texas at Austin (1981-1982), Harvard, and Yale (1984-1985) before joining the Stanford faculty in 1985. He also taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Princeton, Latvian State University, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), and the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests encompass the history of 19th and 20th century Russian literature (especially, Pushkin, Pasternak, and Russian modernism); poetics; literary theory; 20th-century Russian history; Russian émigré literature, journalism and culture. He is the founder of the series Stanford Slavic Studies (1987-present), editor of the series Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures and History (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2007-present) and co-editor of the series Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics (Fordham, formerly Stanford University Press).
Debra Fong
Lecturer in Violin & Chamber Music
BioViolinist Debra Fong is Concertmaster of the Peninsula Symphony, Associate Concertmaster of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Second Violinist of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She spends her summers as a first violinist with the Grammy Award-winning Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.
Also dedicated teacher, Debra is a Lecturer in Music at Stanford University, teaching violin and chamber music, and she maintains a private violin studio. She is a faculty coach for Young Chamber Musicians, a guest conductor for the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and a judge for several annual young artist concerto competitions. Debra is a former violin faculty member at The College of William & Mary, The Music Institute of Chicago, and New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School.
Debra received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Violin Performance with Honors and Distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with Eric Rosenblith, James Buswell, Eugene Lehner, and Louis Krasner.
Debra has been a featured chamber musician at Toronto Summer Music; Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine; Grand Teton Music Festival; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont; Sarasota Music Festival; and Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. She has been a guest artist with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians, North American New Music Festival in Buffalo, NY, and the New Music Festival at Santa Clara University. Debra is an avid proponent of contemporary music and has worked closely with composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Thomas Adès, Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, and Kaija Saariaho.
Debra's discography includes recordings with The Santa Fe Opera, indie pop vocalist Vienna Teng, Stanford Chamber Chorale, composer John Luther Adams, Mannheim Steamroller, and she has performed on numerous film soundtracks.
Debra is married to cellist Christopher Costanza, and they have an ebullient violist daughter, Isabella. Debra plays a Giuseppe Rocca violin kindly on loan from Stanford University's Harry R. Lange Instrument Collection. In her leisure time, Debra enjoys reading modern fiction, practicing yoga, playing word games, and seeking out excellent coffee.
Charlotte Fonrobert
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, of Classics and of German Studies
BioCharlotte Elisheva Fonrobert specializes in Judaism: talmudic literature and culture. Her interests include gender in Jewish culture; the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity; the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy; the connection between religion and space; and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to GrecoRoman culture. She is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender(2000), which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of that year and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (2007), together with Martin Jaffee (University of Washington). Currently, she is working on a manuscript entitled Replacing the Nation: Judaism, Diaspora and the Neighborhood.
Michael Frank
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Professor in Human Biology and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHow do we learn to communicate using language? I study children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. I use behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and head-mounted cameras.
Amy Freed
Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies
BioAmy Freed is the author of Restoration Comedy, The Beard of Avon, Freedomland, Safe in Hell, The Psychic Life of Savages, You, Nero and other plays. She 's a past recipient of the Charles McArthur Playwriting Award (D.C.) The New York Art's Club Joseph Kesserling Award, a several-times winner of the LA Critic's Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Her work has been produced at South Coast Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, Yale Rep, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman, Playwright's Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage and other theaters around the country.
Her most recent play is The Monster Builder, and she is developing commissions for Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep and Arena Stage. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University and also holds a Mellon Foundation Playwriting Residency for the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
Estelle Freedman
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI continue to work on the history sexual violence, including the use of oral history testimony. I am currently co-producing an historical documentary film "Singing for Justice: Faith Petric and the Folk Process."
Takako Fujioka
Associate Professor of Music
BioResearch topics include neural oscillations for auditory perception, auditory-motor coupling, brain plasticity in development and aging, and recovery from stroke with music-supported therapy.
Her post-doctoral and research-associate work at Rotman Research Institute in Toronto was supported by awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her research continues to explore the biological nature of human musical ability by examining brain activities with non-invasive human neurophysiological measures such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG).


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Re: Cannot pair Hero7 White and Android app
sorry, but I tried on the almoust same phone, that I have (see first post).
Is there such big difference between those two phones? RedmeNote4 and RedmeNote4? indeed?
And what I should to do now? to buy new phone? to return camera? I did't understand your answer, sorry.
Re: Cannot pair Hero7 White and Android app
I have the latest Samsung Android and a Hero 7 Black. The answer to all of this is: HERO 7 AND 'QUICK' DOES NOT WORK ON AN ANDROID PHONE. I have spent nearly 2 weeks wasting my time trying to get this piece of junk to work. I have been on every site including this trying desperately to get it to work but it does not. I have deleted files, reset, switched on and off repeatedly, reset again, changed settings and am now sick to death of it. I have a Hero 3+ and that is actually a better camera. It does not claim to do anything it cannot. I noted an answer on this thread saying "Android is a fragmented system with many different....etc. " Basically admitting that if you have an Android you sould really have been told before purchase "This camera probably won't work for you" . Don't buy it. Mine is being returned as useless and a waste of money.
Re: Cannot pair Hero7 White and Android app
Are you having issues witht he GoPro app or Quik for mobile?
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Re: Cannot pair Hero7 White and Android app
Thanks for that but I've already been there and still does not work. Considering the money I paid for this it should have worked straight out of the box. I have given it nearly two hours every night after work for nearly two weeks and have lost the will to live trying to get it to work. I have had it pairing on a couple of occasions, only to have it go back to square one and refuse to pair again. Quick has just never worked, all it has ever given me is a black screen with a cursor moving at the bottom and 'something went wrong'. GoPro have really shot themselves in the foot with this one. It's a pity I liked their stuff and if it worked it would be great, but it just doesn't. I really wanted to get it to work but I have now tried it all and it is going back to the shop tomorrow. They really sould make customers aware of this before purchase.
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