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For the practical assignment it was necessary to submit an accompanying presentation and written piece. As I wished to convey continuity throughout my work it was important for me that the typeface utilised for the submission was suitable, and expressive of the key word 'geometry'. Therefore I chose a befitting typeface; Futura.
Hood, J., n.d. Futura Specimen. [electronic print] Available at: <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/FuturaSP.png> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
Futura was developed from 1924 to 1926 before its commercial release in 1927 by Paul Renner, adhering to Bauhaus design principles.1 The typeface was commissioned by the Bauer Type Foundry, it is said in reaction to Ludwig & Mayer's Erbar, five years previous.2 Following Bauhaus convention, the Futura typeface features sans-serif characters abiding to the principles of the new typography and eschewing superfluous ornamentation.3
Each letterform is derived from simple geometric shapes, near perfect circles, triangles and squares. This seemed appropriate as one aspect of the practical piece was the construction of legible letterforms from many smaller components of simple geometric shapes. Furthermore the simplicity of the consistent stroke width agrees with the consistent size of the geometric components composing my final piece.
Ellen Lupton, previously acclaimed author of "Thinking with Type" indicates the geometric 'o' letterforms link Futura with the experiments of the Bauhaus.4 I am fond of this concept, keeping a hint of the monumental work of the Bauhaus amongst my postmodern attempts.
The original typeface was released in Light, Medium, Bold and Bold Oblique in 1928,5 and therefore I have chosen to limit myself to this original set, maintaining the original simplicity of the text originally intended throughout my annotations.
Interestingly Futura was not always popular, in 1933 it was banned in Hanover by the Lord Mayor, believed to not conform to Germanic Style.6 Despite this exception, Futura has been widely used across its lifetime and I believe will continue to do so.
Notably Futura was the first typeface on the moon, featuring on a commemorative plaque left in 1969.7
Phillips, C. H., n.d. Apollo 11 Plaque. [electronic print] Available at: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/02/ikea-font-futura#/?picture=352456573&index=2> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
Futura also formed the identity for many household names, Domino's Pizza, Absolut Vodka, and as most of us undoubtably know until recent years, Ikea.
Domino's Pizza – Futura Condensed Extra Bold
Anon, n.d. Domino's Pizza Logo. [electronic print] Available at: <http://projectupdate.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/dominos.gif> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
Absolut Vodka – Futura Condensed Extra Bold
Anon, n.d. Absolut Vodka Logo. [electronic print] Available at: <http://blog-cache6.webink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/absolut_vodka.jpg> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
Ikea – Futura (Various)
Anon, 2009. Ikea Catalogue. [electronic print] Available at: <http://manolohome.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ikea-catalogue.jpg> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
Many were disappointed when Ikea replaced their use of Futura font with the screen-based font, Verdana. Quoted in a New York Times' article, Ikea spokeswoman Camilla Meiby stated;
". . . I think it's mainly experts who have expressed their views, people who are interested in fonts. I don't think the broad public is that interested."8
Which brought me to consider, is it only graphic designers, focussed on typography who notice the difference, or does the non-designer relate to typeface with regards to beauty? Certainly I have felt frustrated in the past when a client is adamant that Comic Sans should be utilised as a 'fun' typeface, or a previous employers' obsession with Century Gothic, but I believe everyone responds to typeface whether consciously or subconsciously. This will be explored further in a future post.
Within the New York Times article on the Ikea change, it is expressed that it is in order for Ikea to approach a more web-based angle, in which case a change of typeface is potentially appropriate, responding to needs analysis.
Finally, one of my idols, Barbara Kruger continually uses Futura within her work. The contrast between the Futura Bold Oblique and the stark images sucessfully conveys her messages, often of political, social or economic agenda.
Kruger, B., 1989. Your Body Is A Battleground. [electronic print] Available at: <http://fontsinuse.com/uploads/2010/10/body-is-a-battleground.jpg> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
1. Anon, 2011. Critical Debates in Design -task 1 : Typeface. [online] Available at: <http://youcouldbeatable.blogspot.com/2011/02/typeface.html> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
2. Anon, 2011. Futura (Typeface). [online] Available at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
3. Tschichold, J., 2006. The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers. Translated from German by Ruari McLean. London: University of California Press. pp.52-53.
4. Lupton, E., 2009, cited by Versluis, 2011. Futura and the Dordt College Architectural Sign of 1955. [online] Available at: <http://dcaiga.blogspot.com/2011/09/futura-and-dordt-college-architectural.html> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
5. Anon, 2011. Futura (Typeface). [online] Available at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
6. Lupton, E. and Cohen, E. L., 1996. Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p.55.
7. Anon, 2009. From Nasa to Ikea: the story of the classic font Futura. The Guardian, [online] 3rd September 2009. Available at: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/02/ikea-font-futura#/?picture=352473558&index=0> [Accessed 27th December 2011].
8. Meiby, C., 2009, cited in Rothstein, E., 2009. Typography fans say Ikea should stick to furniture. The New York Times, [online] 4th September 2009. Available at: <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/arts/design/05ikea.html?pagewanted=all> [Accessed 27th December 2011].


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CubeSats are gaining popularity among academia, industry, and government. CubeSats are miniature satellites that are commonly used in low Earth orbit, have been used for educational purposes, and recently for applications such as remote sensing, scientific experimentation, or communications. As engineers become more familiar with the technology, CubeSats are also being considered for flights outside of Earth orbit — to locations such as the Moon, Mars, or Jupiter. Read more about Cubesats here.
The CubeSat standard was first proposed in the late 1990s by two professors: Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Dr. Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. They were trying to help students gain engineering experience with satellites, which are traditionally expensive to build, launch, and operate.
The basic CubeSat is a 10-centimeter (~4-inch) cube (called 1U) with a mass around 1.33 kilograms (2.93 pounds), but variations on the theme are possible. 1.5, 2, or 3 1U cubes can stack to create a 1.5U, 2U, or 3U CubeSat. 6 1U cubes can create a 10x20x30 cm (6U) CubeSat for more complicated missions.
These small satellites cost significantly less to build, launch, and operate than traditional satellites. The lower cost allows for more rapid integration of new technology and experimentation with new concepts. The small size and weight reduce launch cost and allow the CubeSat to share a rocket with a larger satellite. CubeSats adhere to a set of standards that are based on "Safety of Flight" concepts that will "Do no harm" to primary payloads, which is why they are allowed to fly with the more expensive payloads on a "space available" basis.
To give you an example of the use of such small, yet powerful technologies, the Earth observation company Planet recently launched around 100 3U CubeSats from a single rocket to build a constellation capable of imaging the entire earth every day to support everything from disaster response to climate monitoring.
Here's where you come into play.
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is the Unified Combatant Command charged with manning, training, and equipping the various Special Operations Component Commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces. Core Activities within the scope of Special Operations Forces (SOF) include: Direct Action, Special Reconnaissance, Unconventional Warfare, Foreign Internal Defense, Civil Affairs Operations, Counterterrorism, Military Information Support Operations, Counter-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security Force Assistance, Counterinsurgency, Hostage Rescue and Recovery, and Foreign Humanitarian Assistance.
USSOCOM is unique in that it has service-like acquisition capabilities. USSOCOM relies on private industry to develop SOF-peculiar equipment and technology to meet mission requirements while complying with federal acquisition regulations and federal law.
One of the guiding tenets of SOF is that most special operations require non-SOF assistance. As such, USSOCOM is seeking global ideas on how to advance CubeSat capabilities. Specifically, USSOCOM is conducting this crowdsourcing challenge to solicit concepts that advance the state of current CubeSat technologies and payloads and demonstrate applications that may benefit any of the USSOCOM missions. Concepts should be viable for a prototype demonstration within 12-24 months. These concepts will advance how CubeSats can be utilized to support Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions.

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Famous bridges
World famous and sometimes mistakenly called "London Bridge"...
|HDR photo of Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London, UK
|Bridge over the Tiber River in Rome, Italy. St Peter's basilica visible against the skyline.
|Bridge over the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
not only humans use bridges...
|3 brothers crossing a bridge in southern Queen Elizabeth National Park near Ishasha, Uganda
|Foot bridges across an alley/back street in Rome, Italy.
|Along the road between Kimpese and Luozi in western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
|St Louis in north-west Senegal
|Railroad bridge at Barberspan in North West Province, South Africa
|Ferry from Luozi in western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
|Getting to and from Togoville across Lake Togo, Togo (West Africa)
|Ferry between Athens and Santorini (and other Greek islands), Greece
|Two ferries operate here crossing between Botswana and Zambia (Kazangula Ferry)
|Walkway in Rooisand Nature Reserve near Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa
Bridge across the Bosphoruos in Istanbul, Turkey.
And such are the bridges we cross in our lives, both permanent structures and personal hurdles - we will never know what is on the other side till we cross by bridge or ferry...step out of your comfort zone!


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Valid for daily arrival at Phnom Penh & departure from Sihanoukville.
Seat In Coach Service (Share Service).
2 To Go Ground Package (minimum 2 adults per booking).
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Maximum 9 persons per booking/ vehicle. If 10 persons & above please refer us!
Upon arrival Phnom Penh airport, meet and greet by driver guide. Then, transfer to hotel for check in and free at own leisure.
Breakfast serve at hotel, transfer to Phnom Penh city tour. First, visit to Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda. The local crafted hand woven silks, dresses, scarves, guilts and cushion etc. Next visit to The Genocide Museum Tuol Sleng. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Then, visit Russian Market for shopping. Continued transfer to Wat Phnom, short stop for photography at Independence Monument. Then, visit The Killing Field (Cheung Ek) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). After dinner then back to hotel for rest.
Breakfast serve at hotel, take around 4 hours journey by express coach/ van (non-private) to Sihanoukville (without tour guide). Upon arrival, meet by our local representative and proceed to hotel for check in. Free at own leisure.
Breakfast serve at hotel, you will enjoy your trip with the most fancy and happiest party boat in Sihanoukville to your dream islands such as Koh Rong, Koh Rong Sanloem, Koh Touch. You can enjoy snorkeling, fishing and swimming on the island. Koh Rong is known for its sandy coves and coral reefs, like those around Koh Rong Pier. Inland, the dense jungle terrain is dotted with coconut palms and waterfalls. Koh Touch is the main tourist area on Koh Rong. The beach is full of bars, restaurants, guesthouses, and resorts. Although Koh Touch has a reputation for being a lively party destination, there are some fantastic quiet beach holidays available here also. After lunch, back to Sihanoukville mainland. After that, transfer from pier back to hotel.
Breakfast serve at hotel, free at your own leisure until meeting time then transfer to airport for flight departure.
早餐后,前往码头乘船跳岛浮潜,欣赏海底生物。前往位于高龙岛的Koh Touch,目睹当地村民和渔民的日常生活。还有高龙撒冷岛,该岛东海岸的撒拉森海拥有着柬埔寨最漂亮的沙滩,海湾全长约3公里,呈半月型,细沙白浪,纯白色海滩非常漂亮,海水像绿宝石一样清澈见底。岛上游客稀少,椰林树影,水清沙幼,一切保持着未开发的原始自然状态,是放松身心的好去处。在岛上可以漫步沙滩、潜水和钓鱼,体验不一样的风情。午餐后,返回码头,送往酒店休息。
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HISD expects larger classes, fewer teachers with new budget
HISD approves narrow spending plan
District expects larger classes, fewer teachers and elective courses
Students in the Houston Independent School District can expect to see larger class sizes and fewer teachers, librarians and elective courses next year under the spending plan that trustees approved Thursday.
The $1.6 billion budget reflects a state funding shortfall affecting districts across Texas, although for HISD, the financial picture ended up better than predicted.
HISD Superintendent Terry Grier and board president Paula Harris had suggested over the last several months that raising the property tax rate was a possibility to balance the district's budget.
But in the end, district officials decided to leave the tax rate alone and not dip into savings despite pleas from the district's largest teachers association that more revenue could save hundreds of jobs and programs.
"We have an option to get more money. We've chosen not to do it," Andy Dewey, the vice president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, said.
Trustee Larry Marshall called HISD's tax rate — the lowest among Harris County school districts — "commendable" but pointed out that HISD has a higher than average teacher-pupil ratio.
724 employees cut
The budget cuts resulted in 724 HISD teachers and other school employees getting pink slips. At least 81 have since been rehired. Another 277 positions from the central office were eliminated; many of those jobs were vacant and in the maintenance department.
Additional employees could be rehired over the summer, and school principals could find themselves with more money depending on a board vote in August.
The district now has $22 million extra in its budget after making cuts over the last few months when the state financial picture looked worse.
Trustees previously said they would restore funding to schools if possible, but at least two, Greg Meyers and Harvin Moore, have suggested the money be saved for the following year.
"That was a promise we made to the community," Trustee Juliet Stipeche said in favor of sending extra money to principals to spend at their campuses.
Upcoming budgets
Meyers countered that the district faces a budget next year that will be "equally as challenging."
HISD estimates losing $79 million in state funding for the upcoming school year and $127 million the following year.
Some of that loss is made up by extra funding that the district gets for increased student enrollment and other federal dollars.
The Legislature has not finalized the state budget yet, but HISD officials don't expect large changes from the proposals on the table.


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Sugarloaf is a quaint, little town in upstate New York. It has a smattering of little artsy shops selling everything from clothing and jewelry to jester boots and wacky packs(remember them?). This one caught my eye because of it's moniker. Quaint or quirky definitely describes this town just over the border of New Jersey.


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Eastcote Primary Academy is not affiliated to any religious group. However, in accordance with Education Acts, collective acts of worship take place daily, normally for approximately fifteen to twenty minutes. Acts of worship are of a broadly Christian character and every child (unless withdrawn) has a collective act of worship each day. Parents have the right to withdraw their child from these on religious grounds. The school follows the Bexley Agreed Syllabus for RE.
The behaviour of pupils is outstanding. They enjoy exceptionally good relationships across all cultures, having many opportunities to find out about other communities across the world. Parents, carers and pupils are all extremely positive about safety in the school and pupils' active involvement in the safety of their environment ensures the pupils have an excellent understanding of risk.
Pupils' behaviour and attitudes to school are outstanding and pupils thoroughly enjoy school and learning in the extremely calm, harmonious and safe environment.


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Suffolk County Spousal Support Lawyer
Awarded by a New York court, spousal support is a legal order that requires one spouse to make periodic payments to the other spouse. Spousal support is typically awarded in family court. Some people believe that spousal support is synonymous with spousal maintenance. However, there is a difference between them. Spousal support payments are made during the marriage, while spousal maintenance payments are made following the divorce. The purpose of spousal support is to ensure that financial obligations are being met by the other spouse. Since the marriage still exists, both spouses have a legal responsibility to support each other.
Spousal support continues throughout the life of the marriage. Family court does not impose time restraints on spousal support. Therefore, it can last for many years. If an adjustment is needed, then one of the spouses can ask the court for an amendment to the spousal support award. However, only divorce will end spousal support.
During divorce proceedings, the court will decide whether to grant spousal maintenance. It is not only awarded to women, but to men, too. However, in New York courts, men do not particularly seek spousal maintenance since they, generally, tend to continuously earn more than women. Spousal maintenance can be awarded for a predetermined number of years; or, it can be awarded for life.
A lot of thought and consideration must be given by the courts in determining spousal maintenance awards. The following factors must be considered:
• The amount of time married (The higher the number of years, then the larger the maintenance award.)
• The spouses' age and health (A larger maintenance award may be granted if one spouse is significantly older or has bad health.)
• The spouses' income and ownership of property
• The spouses' present and future earnings
• The spouses' education and training levels
• The hinderance of one spouse's job-seeking ability by the other spouse (for example: domestic violence)
• The children's residency
• The maintenance-seeking spouse's ability to support self
• The spouses' living conditions prior to marriage
• The maintenance-seeking spouse's lack of income due to remaining home to raise the children instead of being gainfully employed
• The children's extra expenses (for example: schooling, day care or medical expenses)
• Providing care for disabled children, adult children, elderly parents or in-laws
• The maintenance-seeking spouse's contributions to the marriage (for example: becoming a homemaker and not receiving a fixed income)
• Either spouse's loss of assets due to a risky behavior
• Loss of health insurance benefits due to the divorce (The maintenance-seeking spouse will need to obtain insurance. Such a cost will be considered by the court when determining the maintenance award.)
• Possible tax consequences suffered by each spouse due to receiving or paying maintenance
• A spouse's moving and hiding of assets (This action is frowned upon by the court. The court will still consider the assets when determining the maintenance award.)
• Any other factor that the court deems worthy of consideration (Since all divorces are different, unique circumstances are bound to appear. This factor gives the court the opportunity to address them in an attempt to remain fair.)


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Banding Visible steps in smooth gradients. Early versions of Panorama Tools software could introduce obvious banding, for example during radial luminance correction as discussed by John Houghton. This problem is largely corrected in current versions of the software.


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Sometimes during text processing you need to find out words containing certain characters. The logic of this computation is simple, but the code is difficult to write using the regular expression because the order of the characters is flexible. Moreover, the method is inefficient. You may do better to write the program by yourself, but the problem is that high-level languages don't support set operations and this also makes the coding not easy. By contrast, esProc can parse a string dynamically and thus can match specific characters more easily with simple and intuitive code. Let's look at how it works through the following example.
Find out words containing e, a, c from the following Sample.txt. Some of the original data are as follows:
esProc Improves Text Processing – Conditional Query on Big Files
During text processing, you often have the tasks of querying data from a big file on one or more conditions. Command line grep\cat command can be used to handle some simple situations with simple command yet low efficiency. Or high-level languages can be used to get a much higher efficiency with complicated code. If the query conditions are complex or dynamic, you need to create an additional SQL-like low-level class library, which increases the complexity of the computation.
esProc code for doing the task:
This line of code reads the file into the memory as a big string, as shown below:
Besides, read function, used with @n option, can read the data by lines. For example, the result of executing file("e:\\sampleB.txt").read@n() is as follows:
import function can be used if the data are structured. To import, for example, a file with tab being the separator and the first row being the column names, the code can be file("e:\\sampleC.txt").import@t(). The result is as follows:
This line of code splits the big string into multiple words and creates a set with them. The words function can filter away the numbers and signs automatically and select only the alphabetic characters. Select only the numbers by adding @d option and both the words and the numbers by adding @a option. The result of A2 is as follows:
This line of code splits each word in A2 into characters. "~" represents each member of the set (word); there is no space within the double quotation marks (""). When the code is executed, A3 holds the subsets of a set, as shown below:
This line of code selects the words containing set's characters. select function is used to execute a query statement, in which "~" represents A3's member for the current computation, operator "^" represents the intersection and "set==set^~" represents that if the intersection of set and the current member is equal to set itself, the current member is an eligible word according to the query condition. "==" is a comparison operator, operators of the same kind also include "!=" (not equal to), "<" (less than) and ">=" (greater than or equal to). "^" is a binary operator representing intersection, other operators of the same kind include "&" (union) and "\" (difference).
Suppose the value of parameter set is ["e","a","c"], then the above line of code is equal to A3.select(["e","a","c"]==["e","a","c"]^~). Once it is executed, the result is as follows:
It can be seen that both "complicated" and "Rebecca" contain the three characters: e, a, c.
Besides by computing the intersection, the operation can be realized through position query. The corresponding code is A3.select(~.pos(set)). pos function is used to locate members of set in ~ (also a set). If all of them can be found, then return a sequence consisting of their sequence numbers (that is true); if not found, then return null (that is false).
After A4 finds out the words satisfying the query condition, join the characters of each set, the word in fact, together using the following code:
conj function can concatenate multiple sets together to form a single set. When used with @s option, it can combine all the members of a set into a string. The final result of this example is as follows:
The above step-by-step computation is intuitive and easy to understand. Actually you can omit the step for splitting the words up and then again concatenating every character, thus the code will become a single line:
file("e:\\sample.txt").read().words().select(set==set ^ ~.array(""))


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Competition - Judges
Jumping Team Large
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Jumping Team Medium
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Jumping Team Small
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Agility Team Large
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Agility Team Medium
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Agility Team Small
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Jumping Ind. Small
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Jumping Ind. Medium
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Jumping Ind. Large
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Agility Ind. Small
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Agility Ind. Medium
Toshiyuki Oba
Assistant Anders Virtanen
Agility Ind. Large
Sari Mikkilä
Assistant Esa Muotka
Toshiyuki Oba
Director of APEX Dog School and Agility Club Dog Trainer.
Teacher at Visionary Arts Carrer College.
Experiences in Agility
|Left for the U.S.A. to study the rules and regulations of Agility as it was still an unfamiliar sport in Japan at that time.
|Participated with my Labrador retriever, Barbara in the European Championship held in Torino, Italy, although it was considered unofficial due to her being in heat.
|Participated in the 1st Agility World Championship held in Morges, Switzerland with Barbara as a member of the Japanese team
|14th place in total with my border collie, Manhattan at the World Championship held in Helsinki, Finland.
|11th place in total in individuals and 5th in teams with my border collie, Queen Bee at the World Championship in Hamar, Norway.
|14th place in total with Queen Bee at the World Championship in Helsinki, Finland.
|Made the final with my border collie. Connie at the European Open held in Badhall, Austria.
|Made the final with my border collie, Jungo at the European Open held in Budapest, Hungary.
|2012-until now
|Member of JKC Agility Central Committee
|I met agility in 1993, and started promoting it wanting to spread it all over Japan. At the same time, I have invited many judges and handlers from Europe and conducted seminars in order to improve the level of agility in Japan. I still continue to be an active handler and keep challenging.
Activities as an Agility Judge
|Passed JKC Agility Judge Qualification test
|Certified as FCI Agility Judge
|Judged at Dania-Cup held in Denmark.
|Judged at GOLD in Sweden, Jutlandia-Cup in Denmark, European Open in Germany
|Judged at BCC in Netherland, Luxembourg Open held in Luxembourg
|SWISS AGILITY CUP, FCI Singapore Agility, Singapore Kennel Club competion
|Have judged at approximately 10 competitions a year.
Sari Mikkilä
My agility journey began in 1993 and since then I have competed actively with my Shetland sheepdogs. At the moment I have two shelties and a young bordercollie at home.
I became a judge in 2008 and since then I have judged actively in Finland and abroad. As a judge, I feel privileged to be able to follow closely the seamless cooperation between a dog and a handler, their trust in each other, both doing their best and giving one hundred per cent.
I aim at creating fast, and flowing course profiles with several handling possibilities, which also require technique and the ability to read agility courses.
It's my honour to judge the 2019 Agility World Championship in Finland. I wish all participants the best of luck and a great competition. Enjoy yourself! Spectators and supporters, you are going to see the best agility in the world – lets share the experience. See you in Turku!
Anders Virtanen
I'm 59 years old, I come from Pedersöre and I work as a dentist in Pietarsaari. In addition to my wife Marica, my family includes two adult sons, three bordercollies and one kooikerhondje. I was first introduced to agility in 1989. My first agility dog was a golden retriever and over the years I have trained and competed in the highest class with three different dogs. A couple of years ago, when I didn't have a competing dog of my own, I decided to dedicate more time to other sectors of agility, such as judging. At the moment I train and compete with my kooikerhondje in 1st class.
I qualified as an agility judge in 1995 and, in addition to Finland, I have judged in 16 other countries. My highlight as a judge was the 2015 European Open in Rieden Germany.
In addition to judging, I also work in different roles in my own club, the kennel club and the Finnish Agility Association.
I am very honoured to be the assisting judge in our own world championship
I wish all competitors luck and success in the competition!
Esa Muotka
I had not even heard anything about agility before I took my first dog, border collie, in 1993. After the moment we had our first training in February 1994, I have had no time for other hobbies. In 2014 I was in Finnish EO-team with my border collie Siisti. Nowadays in my family includes 6 border collies which we are training and competing with.
After I became a judge in 2008, I have been judging except in Finland also abroad, including qualifiers in many countries.
I am very honoured to be the assisting judge in the AWC2019 in Turku. I hope everybody will enjoy the competition! Good luck and see you soon!
FCI Agility World Championship 2019
Turku, Finland 19.–22.9. 2019


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More than 100,000 civilians who fled Turkey's military offensive in Afrin are now facing the possibility of more violence as the conflict threatens to follows them to where they sought safety in Tal Rifaat.
People are terrified and desperate, "trapped in a conflict they have absolutely nothing to do with," Ingy Sedky, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria told Rudaw English.
This is a scenario that is repeated again and again across Syria, she said, as people are being displaced for the second or third times.
They are now facing the prospect of having to flee again as Turkey prepares to extend its military operation into Tal Rifaat.
"God willing, we will ensure this operation achieves its goal after taking control of Tal Rifaat in a short period of time," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
Turkey's state-run media is describing Tal Rifaat as the "final target" in Operation Olive Branch, launched against the YPG in Afrin canton on January 20.
The civilians who fled Afrin have already lost everything. They fled their homes with "nothing at all," only the clothes on their back, Sedky said. The ICRC and their partners at the Syrian Red Crescent have been working to provide accommodation, deliver food aid and basic necessities, and ensure clean water and sanitation facilities are available.
Some displaced families are reportedly sleeping out in the open in Tal Rifaat, which cannot accommodate this huge influx of people.
The host community itself has also needed aid. Sedky said they delivered humanitarian assistance to Tal Rifaat five times in the last year.
Local health officials have appealed for international assistance, stating that their resources and the aid so far delivered does not meet the needs of the people.
Health centres, hospitals, and water infrastructure were damaged in the conflict, the health council of Afrin and Shahba – the region that includes Tal Rifaat – said in an announcement on Monday carried by ANHA news. The council asked for help to treat those needing medical care and to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
Sedky said it is difficult to predict what will happen if Turkey does begin an offensive on Tal Rifaat, but reminded all parties that protection of civilians must be the top priority.
Tal Rifaat lies in the Shahba district, southeast of Afrin and north of Aleppo. It is under YPG control.
The town is currently sheltering the majority of the estimated 167,000 people who have fled the conflict in Afrin.
Aid agencies – including the Kurdish Red Crescent, Syrian Red Crescent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the World Health Organization – have delivered several convoys of aid to Tal Rifaat.
On Sunday, the Syrian Red Crescent in coordination with UN agencies delivered 30 trucks of food and non-food items, including medical items, to the town.
Tal Rifaat came under Kurdish control when the YPG-led SDF captured it from Syrian rebels in February 2016.


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I've noted previously that while I support concealed-carry laws, and while I think it's a good thing for states to recognize gun permits issued in other states, I don't think the federal government should require reciprocity. The constitutional justifications for such a law range from debatable to laughable, and it's an undeniable infringement on states' rights.
Many supporters of the law are touting this case as evidence of the need for it:
Really, you can't bring guns into the 9/11 Memorial?
A tourist from Tennessee waltzed into one of the most secure sites in the city — and politely asked a cop if she could check her weapon.
Instead, she was dragged out in cuffs.
Now, Meredith Graves, 39, is facing at least three years in prison for thinking New York's gun laws are anything like those in the Bible Belt.
Given that she posed no threat whatsoever, a three-year prison term is an overreaction. A stiff fine would be more appropriate. But we don't ask the federal government to step in whenever a state sets a penalty that's too high in some rare scenario that arises under the law.
Further, what this woman did was idiotic — she's an example of what happens when you break the law, not an example of how New York treats normal tourists. All she had to do was visit her own state's website to find a list of other states that would recognize her permit. She would have seen that New York isn't on it. Instead, she simply assumed that because Tennessee had granted her a permit, she was free to run around the country with a gun in her purse.


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Voljin spent all of his life in a friendly neighborhood called JoyJoy Street located in the Island. Even tho he is called the Medicine Man he does not have any idea on how to doctor or how medicine even works. He's been always making his living by bullying and forcing his peers to buy his "medicine". This medicine contains of sand, water, and the juices of some random plants that he can find. Sometimes, when the people around him refuses to buy his products he just simply hugs them and then beat them up to pulp WHILE he is hugging them. We all know what will happen after all of this hugging. Of course he will sell them more medicine!
One day in while he is living his peaceful life with his friendly neighbors, something strange happened. Fight organization has been forged left and right. Gyms that trains people how to fight got developed. Nutrition companies dedicated for fighting erected. This is all weird for him at first but he heard a lot of buzz that fighters there can make a good money, fame, and a lot of beautiful ladies to flirt with. Thinking that this is what he does everyday anyway, he gave this fighting thing a shot and this is his journey to greatness.


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Jeffrey Richter: Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur
Jeffrey Richter here. While creating the 3rd Edition of my CLR via C# book, I came up with a cool little class that will raise an event after a collection of Generation 0 or Generation 2 occurs. Here is the code for the class:
public static class GCNotification {
private static Action<Int32> s_gcDone = null; // The event's field
public static event Action<Int32> GCDone {
add {
// If there were no registered delegates before, start reporting notifications now
if (s_gcDone == null) { new GenObject(0); new GenObject(2); }
s_gcDone += value;
remove { s_gcDone -= value; }
private sealed class GenObject {
private Int32 m_generation;
public GenObject(Int32 generation) { m_generation = generation; }
~GenObject() { // This is the Finalize method
// If this object is in the generation we want (or higher),
// notify the delegates that a GC just completed
if (GC.GetGeneration(this) >= m_generation) {
Action<Int32> temp = Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref s_gcDone, null, null);
if (temp != null) temp(m_generation);
// Keep reporting notifications if there is at least one delegate
// registered, the AppDomain isn't unloading, and the process
// isn't shutting down
if ((s_gcDone != null) &&
!AppDomain.CurrentDomain.IsFinalizingForUnload() &&
!Environment.HasShutdownStarted) {
// For Gen 0, create a new object; for Gen 2, resurrect the
// object & let the GC call Finalize again the next time Gen 2 is GC'd
if (m_generation == 0) new GenObject(0);
else GC.ReRegisterForFinalize(this);
} else { /* Let the objects go away */ }
And here is some code to see it in action:
public static void Main() {
GCNotification.GCDone += g => Console.Beep(g == 0 ? 800 : 8000, 200);
var l = new List<Object>();
// Construct a lot of 100-byte objects.
for (Int32 x = 0; x < 1000000; x++) {
Byte[] b = new Byte[100];
This gives you a very small taste of what you should expect to see in the next edition of my book. Hope you enjoy.
Devon here. This post was originally published on Jeffrey's blog, which you can find here. Also, Jeffrey's new CLR via C# book will be available in mid-February, and its ISBN is 9780735627048. We'll post much more about the book, including some original posts from Jeffrey (we hope), in the coming weeks.


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(Poem #737) Writing
A man who keeps a diary, pays Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful--then His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
Not a poem that needs a whole lot said about it - I liked the idea, and I liked the way Allingham expressed it in verse. There's also a wonderful irony underlying most works that write, disparagingly, of writing itself - 'Writing' doesn't quite qualify, since it is a poem about diarists, rather than about poets, but there is nonetheless an echo of that irony in the way the last two lines are phrased, and more than an echo of self-mockery when we learn that Allingham himself was a well-known diarist. Illustrative is another of his quotes: "Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day." Biography: Allingham, William poet, civil servant great-britain 1824, Ballyshannon (Ireland) - 18 Nov 1889, London Son of a banker. He was a civil servant, but actively sought literary acquaintances. On June 27th, 1847 he met Leigh Hunt for the first time and he came to write wrote for Leigh Hunt's London Journal. Hunt introduced him to Thomas Carlyle and he was also part of the Rossetti circle. Between 1850 and 1857 he wrote a dozen volumes of poetry. In 1864 he visited the Shelleys in Bournemouth. -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p003823.htm Links: Here's an excerpt from 'William Allingham: A Diary' [broken link] http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/S744.htm [broken link] http://www.opengate.demon.co.uk/frame31177.html contains a review of the diary and some more biographical material Compare Nicanor Parra on the subject of writing: poem #190 -martin


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Hello folks,
I have not been around for a while, but I have decided to step up my running. I know most of you are younger than me but any support or encouragement gratefully received.
History. August 2010, weight around 110 kg, female, hight 5'7" age 48. Food....Atkins/paleo style diet (just being honest...I was desperate) cholesterol very high, one point into being pre diabetic.
Today, November 2013, weight 70kg, age 51, Food, vegan of course, but try to keep low fat because I am still losing weight. Cholesterol low, no longer pre diabetic. Have run my first half marathon, a trail half, that was actually 22.5km due to the trails, and had 1300 feet of ascent. I did it in just under 3 and a half hours and walked some of the steep mountain.
I am doing another trail half on 7th December, this one climbs over a 1500 foot pass 6km from the finish!
My aim is to now do a marathon. There is a mountain marathon in March, the Mt Arrowsmith, but apparently it is very hard indeed, so I am thinking of doing a road marathon on June 1st. It has the advantage of being here in Christchurch, has support like drinks stations and toilets, and has no cut off times. I do sometimes train on the road, but mostly run trails or on the beach.
I am older than most first marathoners, I was in an accident years ago that damaged the nerves in my left leg and I have a slight limp, and I am still carrying more weight than I would like (and have to deal with the associated problems of loose skin etc) and am menopausal. (If any older woman tells you she cannot lose weight because she is too old now, just refer her to me!) But it does take me longer to build up than it would a younger person. I am also still very slow.
I am determined though. My ultimate goal is to do the Bedrock 50km. A mountain ultra. I hope to get there by 2015 which will coincide with my 30th wedding anniversary! And a marathon is the next step on my journey to get there.
So any cheering from the sidelines will be gratefully appreciated. I have decided to post here regularly to help with accountability over the next 5 months as I build up to my marathon. Do we have a marathon training group or anything like that. I do realize I am probably a season out from most of you....it is late spring here.
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A new CW drama pilot will focus on two boyband members who become detectives.
Boiling Point will tell the story of two former teen icons - once members of a hit group, also called Boiling Point - who become private detectives to earn money when their fame fades.
One of the pair will also use the new detective agency to hunt for his missing brother, the third member of the pop trio, according to Deadline.
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On January 19 (Saturday morning) while grocery shopping in our local supermarket, I heard a woman yelling. Since it sounded like she was only an aisle away from where I was, I pushed my trolley aside and had a look. She was pinching and hitting a young man in his early 20s, and I couldn't believe how calm he was. Was it because there were several of us witnessing it?
I was worried that the young man would eventually lose his temper and fight back, so I hurried to the checkout and asked the cashier to ring security. Some minutes later, two sturdy men arrived and said that they saw it on their camera and thought it was just "problème de couple". The young man approached and told us that the angry and violent woman had left.
While queuing to pay for my purchases, however, I heard loud voices again. The young woman came back with her two mates, and the safety of the young man bothered me. I turned my head right and left hoping to see at least one of the guards, but they were gone. My nervousness lessened when I noticed that the man was walking towards the male staff at the information/shop entrance. Then, there were piercing voices, but I could only see the staff's work uniform because of the dozen people around them.
We all experience anger. Although it is a normal and healthy emotion, it can be a problem if we can't keep it under control. It is everyone's responsibility to control anger; and if we can't do it on our own, we should seek help. Verbal and physical harshness or brutality is never a solution to anger; as the adage says, "Violence is a weapon of the weak". Whereas, non-violence is the ammunition of the wise, e.g. Mohandas Gandhi's (October 1869 – January 1948) peaceful resistance against the British rule in India that led to latter's independence in 1947.
For me, that young man at the supermarket is wise and strong; otherwise, he would have responded with a fist, especially as it wasn't a slight provocation. He avoided destructive anger and exerted the effort to override his emotional mind.
A week after that incident, I heard on the French radio that in the Netherlands people smash cars as an anger management strategy. Thus, I checked it out for this article and found there are companies in Amsterdam that provide this activity for individuals and groups. Participants smash cars to bits at scrapyards with an array of demolition weapons, such as sledgehammers, baseball bats and golf clubs. According to the radio announcer, this has been a success and is a growing market in Europe. I do get angry sometimes but feel don't need to break things.This is what I do:
Always and never are often used exaggeratedly or falsely, e.g. "You're always late" and "I never get compliments from you", and these annoy me. Therefore, they are included in my speech only when it is really the case, i.e. always - all the time or on all occasions/never - not at all/not ever/at no time.
We can't have everything we want, and this is not the reason to be angry and/or violent. As Simone de Beauvoir had said, "I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger." (January 1908 – April 1986; French writer, intellectual, political activist, social theorist and had a significant influence on feminism and feminist theories).
However, "holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned" - Buddha.
Therefore, "it is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses" - William Arthur Ward (see ''25 Quotes on Anger'').
Yes to healthy anger but no violence (destructive anger)! (from Rolade Societal Blog - roladesocietalblog.com)
I visited Okinawa last month. Okinawa hosts 74 % of the U.S. bases on 0.6 % of the land. Despite overwhelming opposition, the Japanese government is taking the lead in efforts to build a new U.S. military base in Henoko Bay, emphasizing the deterrence value of the U.S. bases in Japan. Our policy makers want to proceed with the construction "shuku shuku to (calmly and solemnly)."
It is shockingly mindless and undemocratic to disregard the Okinawans' will. Here are some of useful websites on anti-U.S. base acitivities and protests (see the Japanese version – four of eleven sites are in English).


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NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion
This nebula in the constellation Orion is a reflection nebula which does not emit visible light on its own but is illuminated by a neighbouring recently born white star, V380 Orionis which is visible left of center. NGC 1999 became famous when the first Herbig-Haro object was discovered next to it. Herbig-Haro objects are now known to be jets of gas ejected from very young stars. V380 Orionis has a mass three times that of our sun and it twice as hot on its surface. This jet-black cloud near the centre is an example of a "Bok globule," (after Bart Bok) a dense, cold light-eating cloud which might be where new stars are formed.(NASA 2006)
Hosted by NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration on their image of the day, November 21, 2006.
Space invasion with fireplace and PC (1998-1999)
November 2, 2006
I began making my first web pages when Dave and I lived here on Lac Gauvreau, Chemin de la Baie Ste. Anne, Ste Cécile de Masham, Québec. I had already taken my first contemporary social theory courses with Rob Shields. From that time onwards he has been a valued mentor for my grad studies. I was working on the year long PhD seminar course with Professor Wallot at the University of Ottawa. This Canadian Studies PhD was a life-transforming experience. It was education as its best. The institution provided everything a grad student could need including access to a super coach and computer lab. As always Dave and I were squeezing as much as we could with bare bones technology. I was using our first digital camera and this flat bed scanner. My son Dan, who was studying at the Cite collegiale in Ottawa, taught me just enough .html coding so I wouldn't make too much of a mess for him to clean up. He was a bit of a purist.
This acrylic painting was painted over the Christmas holidays in 1998-1999. I had already painted the tree outside our cabin by Lake Gauvreau. The next day the branches were so burdened with snow I had to repaint them entirely. I decided to let them invade the inner space of the cottage since their presence was so insistent.
The painting is 30″ x 22.5″ on Arches paper.
It was shown in March 1999 at an exhibition on Bank Street in Ottawa, ON and again in a gallery on Great George Street , Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in the summer of 1999.
Space invasion with fireplace and PC was one of the first images on my Carleton University home page and on the collaborative, innovative virtual space called artengine. It is one of my favourite images and after our chaotic move out west I really don't know where the actual physical painting is or the great high resolution digital images the professional photographer took of my work in May-June? of 1999.
One of the challenges for me is to find the kinds of sites that provide me with ideas I can build upon. For example, currently I am unable to simply use a search engine to find useful information on the concept of memory work. I have kept track of this concept over the years using my EndNote bibliographic database. My sister Sharon introduced me to EndNote c. 1992?, an authoring software for creating digital databases with a powerful cross-referencing ability. Thousands of useful entries later and numerous upgrades later I continue to thank you Sharon.
Suis-je frimeuse? (in like Flynn on Frimr)
October 19, 2006
Frimr was the ninth free topographical tool I investigated in my exploration of the connectivity/content potential. On Hallowe'en 2006 we parted ways. Christophe from Frimr could not explain to me which of the feeds I had listed on my Frimr account were not mine. He could not explain why my score was too high. (I suggested to him that maybe the site urls that hosted my feeds were being counted in as my feeds because of their programming?) I know I'm not famous but I also know I play fair.
The size of the Frimr icon (which I had compared to a pumpkin) as it appears on a Frimring member has something to do with being a boastful frimeur or frimeuse. The idea behind this fictive service is that the user can map out their presence or absence on the web. The first time I realized I had a zero rating was a bit unsettling. Why would anyone expect anything else unless you publish or blog in a network or community hooked into the blogosphere?
Anyhow a couple of weeks ago the audio stopped working on our aging television, the VCR conked out and my beloved Kodak digital camera died after having been a hard working member of my team for many years. After having used up my two for a toonie budget of DVDs I took out a number of free public library DVDs on the centuries biggest storms, tours for tourists, Einstein, etc. Dave was able to hook up the sound from the DVD directly through the speakers which he borrowed from my PC so I can watch DVDs on our television but not VCRs. Leno and Jon are just not as amusing watching with captions. The timing is off and the spelling is impossible. So during this period where I am off on medical leave I began to explore what is free out there in this virtual space where smart people fix broken things and help me to find useful stuff including where I've put my own things. I don't have any idea how it works. But if only a few people find something that I have done provides them with a pointer, an idea or a new word, maybe all that energy, passion and hard work teaching, learning and research can still be socially useful.
I had become more courageous in moving from my status as blurker (is that the word? I can check it on the glossary of blog terms I have bookmarked on my del.icio.us space) to searchable participatory citizen of the blogosphere. It was the rapture of deep space provided by Google Earth that lured me out of my security zone. It was the tagging on Picasa, then Flickr that enmeshed me even further. It was the seamless interconnectivity between certain sites (I'm still figuring out which are which) that compelled to get more deeply into it.
often half-filled or empty reflecting my own image and the subtle changes in light of my embodied living space became a visual metaphor for the complex reflexive way I see and live the world Strange it is that I am still unable after all these months to pick up the phone to call a dear friend or family member or to write them a personal email but I feel safe, solitary and satisfied while growing this strange, organic rhizome of virtual synapses from the security of my fish bowl here in this tiny but stunning island village. It is easier for me to compose the bulk of this reference letter as a blog than it is to open an MS Word document and write it. How can I be so verbiose and speechless at the same time?
Well, I've just gotten off the phone with a lawyer whose daughter was a former student. She's now applying for law school and needs a reference. The letter would have written itself since she has such a stellar personality but I had asked to talk with someone who knows her well so I could refine adjectives and situate the fine qualities I had come to know within the broader framework of where she has been and where she is going. I had cautioned her that I am on medical leave and have not been doing teaching or research since 2005 and a letter from me might have no academic capital. But she still preferred to ask me. It is a bit ironical because that class was the last I taught at the university that turned me into a ghost, a non-entity in the department. Talking to her father reminded me of why I loved teaching so much. With or without my letter this young woman will become a fine lawyer with a fresh approach who will examine the law from a broader perspective. She isn't afraid to ask "Why?" Her creative, original arguments will make judges blink without being disrespectful. Her clients will be in excellent hands. She will model ground rules of fair play by debating her arguments skillfully and forcefully without belittling her opponents or making personal attacks. She recognizes her God-given talents but they have not made her arrogant or boastful. Although she is a strong advocate of human rights she has a heightened sense of inclusivity and is therefore not blind-sided by the 'we' question. While she has the courage to take risks she is not rash or imprudent as it is in her nature to be reflexive in her thinking.
Her father acknowledged that the law itself is not rigid and timeless but organic and changing as we evolve. I understood that he was reminding me that something might be legal without being ethical. I found these useful citations through Google which I have added to my del.icio.us bookmarks.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Jacques Anatole François Thibault) (1894) The Red Lily
What does it profit a poor and ignorant man that he is equal to his strong antagonist before the law if there is no one to inform him what the law is? Or that the courts are open to him on the same terms as all other persons when he has not the wherewithal to pay the admission fee?" Vance, William (1926) "The Historical Background of the Legal Aid Movement," The Annals from the National Equal Justice Library
The following is a list of my new navigational tools for the blogosphere. Unfortunately when I try to let my dear friends know about this they are made uncomfortable my the need to download a reader, etc for some of these:
- My blog Beached Wail on blogspot (October 2006 -)
- My photos on Flickr (October 2006 -)
- My blog Speechless on WordPress (October 2006 -)
- My social bookmarks on del.icio.us (October 2006 -)
- My bibliography from EndNote (8000 entries 1993?-ongoing) using Zotero is for now uploaded to PrintFree until I figure out how to put in on a blog (10 entries – October 2006 -)
- PrintFree
- Gather
- Digg
Reflecting on the Fall
October 11, 2006
|Once I began to record these reflections I saw them everywhere. They were no longer the visual equivalent of white noise. I sought them out. Eventually they became the visualization tool for concepts of Self and the Other-Eye. This manipulated photo taken in the fall of 2004 showing a glass water-filled sphere reflecting fall colours and the fireplace is on my Flickr ocean.flynn space. It's another way for me to attempt to create a multimedia digital topology of self and the other using free technology of the blogosphere. This morning I also blogged on my beached wail blog. Eventually I want to connect my del.icio.us to all of this.
Del.icio.us Flickr WordPress
October 10, 2006
|In a way it is like building rhizomic connections between blogs that eventually will form a virtual topography of self in relation to others. I uploaded the image to my free Flickr account ocean.flynn which is also connected to my del.icio.us account which also lists my other blogs. I am not sure how it will all be connected but it enraptures me.
Space-time: acceleration of history
October 5, 2006
Post-WWII theories of the acceleration of history (Halévy 1948 [1961], Jeanneney 2001, Nora 2002) unsettled notions of temporality itself. Beck (2002) continues this study of shifts in space-time (2002). A frenzied pace of change worldwide resulted from rapid successions of significant events. It seemed to indicate that virtually if not physically, time had accelerated while the globe itself was shrinking. What happens to the ethical dimension of memory work as time accelerates?


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Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller
Purgatorio is maybe closer to it something bad is happening, not the full Inferno, but it could be the gateway to the Paradiso of this fantastically boring film actually coming to an end. After 121 theologically unfathomable minutes. And after the dumbest and most anti-climactic oh-my-God-I-cant-get-a-signal-on-my-cellphone moment in film history. Theres a lot of people frowning, running about in tourist locations, frowning, driving cars, firing guns, talking on the phone, frowning, but at the end the block is stubbornly unbusted.
Here is the third Dan Brown film, after The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, but it now seems an awfully long time since his super-tourist semiology thrillers were in any way hot. All the excitement has long since transferred to girls on trains or 50 shades of grey. These bestsellers emphasis on culture and art history is refreshingly high-minded in a way, but it has long since dawned on fans and non-fans alike that his wildly silly stories and their concealed clues wont lead you to anything exciting or insightful about Christianity or the Renaissance any more than Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross will lead you to a school for wizards. What youre left with is story and character and both are as flat as old, cold pancakes.
Tom Hanks is back his capacity for wit and ironic charm once again wasted on the role of Dr Robert Langdon, an academic who is sort of a brainier, duller Indiana Jones. He awakens, after a very boring apocalyptic dream-vision, in a Florentine hospital suffering from a head injury and amnesia. So not only will he have to piece together the upcoming puzzle in the usual way but he will have to piece together his own role in it from the shattered remains of his memory.
It seems that crazy bearded biotech billionaire Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) has become obsessed with humanitys imminent demise through overpopulation. He also believes that the thinning-out process caused by The Black Death gave humanity the breathing space to create the Renaissance. So he has created a huge poison-bomb which will cull 50% of people. But does he just detonate it? Corks no. He hides it before topping himself and hes left a trail of clues embedded in Botticellis illustrations of Dante! The tiresome pedant.
Soon, flinching and wincing with that awful head pain of his, Dr Langdon is on the case, and of course he has a doe-eyed helpmeet Sienna, a super-smart hospital doctor played by Felicity Jones. There are many apparently sinister and ruthless people after the secret too and after Langdon. There is Dr Elizabeth Sinskey (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Christoph, a tough guy secretly employed by the WHO – the World Health Organisation, not the supergroup to find this bio-device. But who are the good guys?
Soon Hanks and Jones are running through swarms of tourists and gap yah students in Florence and Venice often finding it very easy to blag their way into super-important art galleries and places of worship where they must decipher weird fragments of sub-Hallmark poetry from centuries lost. Once upon a time, this wackiness had some novelty value. Now its tedious.
Inferno opens in the UK on 14 October and in the US on 28 October
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us


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So I am getting married next August in the most beautiful chapel that I have ever seen. It has been my dream to get married there for a few years since I learned the history of the chapel. Give me a good history and I will fall in love with most things, and this one has a great history.
It was build in the late 1800's and as a result it is the size of an 1800's chapel that means that it sits about 85 people and we are going to push it to 90 for our wedding. This means that my ceremony guest list is very exclusive :). But apparently people think they can invite anyone they want, including themselves and grandparents. So due to this limited size we are not allowing plus ones at the ceremony.
Since becoming engaged I have discovered there are two types of people when they hear the news, (these people exclude your close friends and family that display a normal level of excitement)the people who are like oh congratulations but give you the side eye like they are not super happy for you, thats fine I don't need their happiness. I prefer those people to the second type of people, the second type of people, these are the people that maybe you used to be really close with, or you were coworkers a few years back. The people that haven't talked to you in about a year, these people become overly excited and begin asking for all the wedding details, the location, the date, the colors, what is your dress going to look like, way more information than you were wanting to start announcing when you updated your "life event" on facebook.
They do these large show of excitement of feigning friendship in order to be able to end the conversation with the epic statement, " I will be looking for the invitation."
Well that is awfully forward of you. . lady that I have not seen or heard from since you moved in with your boyfriend despite the numerous attempts I have made to hang out. Oh you will be expecting the invitation, to the couple that cannot make the 45 minute trip for anything even birthdays are you sure you will be able to do that for a wedding. What, no you may not bring oyur Grandmother that lives in Arizona that I have met once to my wedding. T
hank you for assuming that I need to use my limited seats on you and spending money to feed you and not inviting someone that has probably seen my in the last 6 months. Maybe someone that even knew I was going to get engaged. I have discovered that this is the most annoying aspect of the wedding planning so far. I hope these people don't become to upset when over the next 9 months that they continue to not speak to me that they don't receive a wedding invite.
I am assuming that the level of friendship will not change before the wedding, and will not change after the wedding, so really what am I hurting by not inviting them. My great aunt that my mom wanted me to invite, that I will concede to, Great Aunt, here is your seat at my wedding. However to the "I will be waiting on the invitation" friends I am sorry, you will be waiting a long time for that invite.
– One in a million Budget Brides,
❤ Kelsi Rae


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The 2014 Grain SA/ABSA New Era Commercial Farmer of the Year was awarded to Ralph Swart of Swart Boerdery situated in Elim, Western Cape.
Ralph, the first ever finalist, and subsequent winner from the Western Cape, produces wheat, barley, oats, triticale and rooibos tea and has been farming on his own for the past 33 years and is the third generation farming on the same land. Ralph has a passion for agriculture and is a true entrepreneur, always willing to assist smaller farmers in his area with equipment and advice.


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In Advent we wait in the dark for the light we trust is coming.
I think that this year, many of us are feeling alone and isolated in our lives and concerns. We worry for our families and our country and for the the future of this fragile earth, our island home.
I suspect it was very much this way when Jesus was born. A small, poor, rural country, occupied by a foreign power, held in contempt for its strange and unsophisticated belief in one God. Who was there to notice or to care about the people of Israel?
But then came the angels and the shepherds. Christmas tells us that God cares and, in fact, cares so much that God has come to live our lives as one with us. Jesus is the human face of God and is right here, right now.
An ancient prayer of praise from the Celtic tradition captures the intimacy of God's presence with us.
You are the peace of all things calm
You are the place to hide from harm
You are the light that shines in dark
You are the heart's eternal spark
You are the door that's open wide
You are the guest who waits inside
You are the stranger at the door
You are the calling of the poor
You are my Lord and with me still
You are my love, keep me from ill
You are the light, the truth, the way
You are my Saviour this very day.
Jesus is with us, right here, right now. May you rejoice in this good news and may you share his light with everyone you meet.
Merry Christmas.


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As there is 100 months to m 50th birthday and 50 things to do, I think I'll give each thing 2 months, with more time to make the practice sit well.
Naturally I cannot get anything right now that costs money, like a motorcycle or taking courses and so on, but I can do things that don't cost anything, like starting to get my condition up, my weight down and the dog trained 😀
I am going to give the weight loss program the whole 100 months. Nevertheless, for this year, the plan is to get my weight under 80 kilos, and be able to do push-ups and pull-ups; at least 10 of both.
I also plan on participating in "Tjejmilen" already this year. If I keep getting longer walks with the dog, I believe it will get my condition up, and the dog will be happy.
I have also decided to cut of sweets, white wheat and sandwiches, my three biggest problems, and try to be vegetarian the summer half of the year. I believe this will be enough for dieting for now, and I wouldn't be surprised if I lost more weight than planned.
I do have to plan how to get the upper body stronger…
What I have been doing the last 2-3 days? Pottering with dog training.
Our Springer Spaniel, Boris, is a really, really, really smart dog. His biggest problem is that his owners aren't very good dog trainers. We are patient, kind and intelligent, and WHEN we do it, we do it well, but we DON*T do it. Already when he was a puppy, I had the idea that he's my husband's dog, so HE do the training. Also, he had been bragging about a previous dog, and I was kind of p'd off by that. As if I didn't count, or something. Now he's 6 and practically untrained.
Oh, he's so smart, he knows how to walk the leash although he doesn't do it well, he knows how to back, he knows right and left, he knows crawl and jump, shake and pee, sit and a lot of other things… But I want to teach him search mushroom next autumn, and take the course, he needs to have "basic obedience training" sitting in his backbone so well he could take a novice obedience cert. THAT would not happen today 😀
But he is getting the clicker and that he must be calm to get the candy really quickly… I'm so proud of him 🙂
I'm sure I'll train him be home alone too 🙂


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The Walking Dead Invades the Season Finale
In the season finale, Robert Kirkman and David Alpert stop by ahead of the Season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead, and Kim Dickens talks the end of Season 2 of Fear the Walking Dead. Plus, Greg Nicotero gives the scoop on directing the The Walking Dead's season premiere. Watch the season finale on amc.com, the AMC mobile apps, Apple TV and Roku.Read More


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Syria continues to ignore international calls to end an eight-month campaign of violence against its own people.
Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament today reiterated their solidarity with the Egyptian people and their support for the democratic transition in the country, following clashes between protesters and the security forces that have left more than 20 dead.
Dear Friends,
Many thanks for having taken part in the first meeting of the Next Left Economic Circle, with Dr. Eckhard Hein.
For the first time since the serious division between Hamas and Fatah in 2007, Palestinian Legislative Council Members (PLC) from Gaza representing Hamas, Fatah, PFLP and Independents, came together to meet with the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with the PLC.
Une réflexion sur la question culturelle en Tunisie et sur son rôle primordial
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–having regard to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and to Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, to which Syria is a party,
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Le Groupe des Socialistes et Démocrates au Parlement européen se félicite de la décision du Parlement européen d'honorer, par le prix Sakharov, cinq figures du Printemps Arabe.
The first Lunch Debate of the Next Left Economic Circle was organized on September 21st in the European Parliament, and entitled From coordinated to differentiated Economic policies : For a stronger Europe.
July 2011
A better distribution of income may be needed for global recovery
Kemal Dervi?
The death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, announced today in Sirte, should enable the National Transitional Council (NTC) and all Libyans to move on and focus on the process of democratisation .
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Captain Kimball Hit by S. P. Freight While Driving Auto; Is in Base Hospital.
Captain Howard B. Kimball, military assistant to Major Charles N. Miller, constructing quartermaster of Camp Cody, was dangerously injured shortly after noon today when the automobile which he as driving was struck by a Southern Pacific freight train at the railroad crossing at the mail entrance to the camp. The automobile was demolished and it was miraculous that Captain Kimball escaped instant death. He was removed to the old base hospital near the scene of the accident and it is said by the surgeons in charge that the extent of his injuries cannot yet be determined. Captain Kimball was promoted recently from sergeant and is well know in El Paso, where he spent many years in the quartermaster depot. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Thursday, November 8, 1917


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Due to the advances in technology, baby videography is being used by parents to remember their little ones. This type of memory-maker is different than baby photography as it is used to tell a story about an infant's development.
How Baby Photography Works
When baby photography is used, typically a photo shoot is scheduled, either at the photographer's location, or at a venue of the parents' choosing. The photographer directs the family and baby to pose in various ways. At the end of the appointment, the parents are given images of the scheduled shoot. They normally can choose to frame, print, or buy the photos in a digital format.
What Is Involved in a Videography Session?
When baby videography is scheduled, the session is set up at the infant's home, or at a site that the parents choose. After the appointment or the video is made, the parents receive a video preview. This preview allows the parents to offer feedback for improving the video. When any improvements are made, the parents are given a digital copy of the film as well as a bespoke album of the video. In turn, the parents can share the video either online or provide it for viewing themselves.
How Long Does a Video Session Last?
When a video is made through such companies like Proud Daddy Moments, the session normally does not last over three hours. Typically, children who are under three years old cannot stay awake that long, or need to be fed after three hours. Therefore, the time for the video is limited to this timeframe.
When children of this age are the focus of a film, you need to consider nap schedules and feeding times. In addition, a young infant's attention span is normally better during the first two hours of production. In addition, some children need more time to become acclimated to the video-making process. Therefore, three hours is the best limit to set for any videography appointment.
Preparing for a Video Shoot
In order to prepare your baby for a video shoot, you do not have to make the same preparations as you do for a photography shoot. Normally, during photo shoots, costumes or props are used in order to create a theme. A videography shoot, on the other hand, requires the parents' input. In some instances, you may want to get the effect you want by including your child's favourite toy. A parent knows what items will work or what action will bring out the best performance in their child. That is why videographers work closely with the parents in this respect.
When you work with a video company that works primarily with children, you can be assured that the videographer is skilled in bringing out the best in children as well. However, this type of dedication still requires a parent's involvement. Since the video is a documentary of a child's early life, videographers depend on parents to help them produce the ideal film. If you already have some professional baby photos on-hand, these can also become part of the video production.


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During their nightly poker game, a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer as players begin to disappear one by one. Be warned & watch what you say… someone may be listening!
It seems that there have been quite a few good 'ol Slasher films coming out on DVD lately. This is a very welcomed trend, and I hope to see it continue...especially if the Slasher films are as good as this one. CORNERED is a throwback to the slasher films of the 80's but manages to stay fresh and bring something new to this saturated sub-genre of Horror films.
When the movie starts, the employees are getting ready to head upstairs for their game of poker, but as they are buying their snacks and drinks, they begin to discuss a killer that is on the loose in their city that has been targeting convenience stores and their employees. Their conversation turns to what they would do if they caught him in their store. Each one tells how they would kill this serial killer. Well, when the killer traps them in the store, and starts offing the employees one by one, he turns their ideas back on them, killing each one in the way that they had mentioned. I won't say anymore, as I really don't want to spoil this one for you.
The acting in this film is excellent....I don't remember a bad actor in the bunch. Most of the actors I had never seen before, although you will recognize James Duval from his many films and, of course, Steve Guttenberg. Guttenberg is as likable as ever, although can you ever look at this guy without seeing Sgt. Mahoney?
The pacing of this film is perfect, with almost no slow points and action and suspense throughout. The kills are violent and very bloody. This is a great slasher film that stays true to the genre, yet brings its own uniqueness with it. I would highly recommend this film for any Horror fan.
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Oops!? Not really. He knew it all along.
A [Cornwall] man who built a home-made boat in his back garden over five years was left scratching his head after discovering he'd made it too big for him to get it out.
Trained engineer, John Melling, started building the 30-feet Trimaran yacht at the bottom of his back garden five years ago – but it has now outgrown its home and is proving a problem to move.
Mr Melling, who works as a financial adviser, has completed the sleek vessel, which is 26 feet wide, and has grown so big that it has become wedged behind the fence at his home in Tywardreath in Cornwall.
Actually he knew all the time that it would be too big to get out. Originally he had planned to have the RAF airlift it out. Seems they used to do that sort of thing as a training exercise but no longer do. So now he plans to take the fence down in order to get it out.
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Great looking boat, marvelous job John. Where did you get the plans? What is the power source?
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