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FoFA in het Journal of Film Preservation nr. 94/April 2016
The EYE Study is slowly but steadily taking shape in the new Collection Centre. An important part of its rich collection are the film journals and periodicals. One of these, both in print and digitally available at EYE, is FIAF's Journal of Film Preservation. FIAF stands for the International Federation of Film Archives and was established in 1938 in Paris. Its founding institutions are the British Film Institute in London, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the MOMA in New York City, and the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin. All were relatively new institutions at the time, with different ideas and goals about film preservation. (The Dutch Filmmuseum was only to be established in 1943, and joined FIAF in 1947). Of the four founders, the Reichsarchiv was the oldest, inaugurated by Hitler in 1933. Not coincidentally, Joseph Goebbels was known to be a film enthusiast with an understanding for its cultural and political and is therefore believed to be one of the motivators behind the Reichsarchiv's founding.
In the following years, the war had far-fetching consequences for the cooperation between the FIAF members. Fortunately, after the war, the FIAF members (excluding the Reichsfilmarchiv) re-established their contacts and welcomed new archives as members. These new archives were often set up in the hausse of the post-war years in which national heritage became an important political issue. In the decades that followed, FIAF expanded both in activities and recognition. In 1973 the first FIAF Summer School was held. Ever since, these regular events have helped train archival personnel. In 2015, the number of 155 affiliates was reached, in 74 countries worldwide.
In 1972 the first issue of the FIAF Information Bulletin was published, which would in 1993 be renamed the Journal of Film Preservation. With issues published twice a year, it provides an international forum for current-day film preservation discussions that range from theoretical to technical and historical aspects of moving image archival activities (source). In the latest issue, EYE and the EYE collection play a prominent role. Ulrich Ruedel, Professor for Conservation and Restoration in Berlin, wrote a review on Jean Desmet's Dream Factory: The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916). This book was published by EYE in 2014 and coincided with EYE's exhibition by the same name. Ruedel takes readers through the different sections and contributions of the book while at the same time hinting to the importance of the Desmet collection for EYE. Not only did the Desmet films for a great part lay the foundation of EYE's collection in the fifties, it moreover was of great importance for films such as Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate (1991), which was reissued on DVD at the time of the exhibition and book launch.
EYE's head of Film Conservation and Digital Access Anne Gant has written a case study for a more elaborate article on the FofA group. This group first came together in 2012 and was formed by nine film preservation experts from the field, amongst them Giovanna Fossati, but also preservationists from Cinématheque Française and Library of Congress. Within an informal setting, the group gathers on a yearly basis, and have been discussing the many challenges that film-archiving community is faced with since the move to digital film production. Examples of this are the availability of raw stock, continuation of laboratory services (for example film lab Haghefilm Digitaal next to the former EYE Collection building at Overamstel) and the manufacturing of film digitization equipment. Other important issues are the imperatives of long-term preservation and staff training. By keeping to its original 2012 agenda (Raw stock; Laboratories; Scanning; Storage; Training and Succession; Formats and Materials), revision and continuous discussion makes for all kinds of impact and results. For more information on FoFA and its agenda, goals and debates, do read the main FoFA article in the latest Journal of Film Preservation issue, written by FoFA's chair and BFI's Head of Conservation Charles Fairall.
Interesting for people curious as to what EYE does regarding these preservation challenges, is Anne Gant's case study that is one of three to follow Fairall's text in this issue. Together with Jon Wengström from the Swedish Film Institute, PhD researcher Guy Edmonds from Australia and German conservation & restoration professor Ulrich Ruedel , she shows what digital film production and other facets of the fast-changing field of film preservation can mean for an organization such as EYE. Specifically, she speaks of the shifts in workflows that have come about both in digital and analogue activities. This is directly connected to the project "Images for the Future", she explains, which had an enormous impact on how the department functions on a daily basis. The other case studies involve early cinema and cognitive creativity (Edmonds), moving image preservation studies at HTW Berlin (Ruedel) and sustaining photochemical laboratory processes in Sweden (Wengström).
When the EYE Study is up and running in October, feel free to reserve a desk and indulge yourself in this Journal of Film Preservation as well as the rest of EYE's periodicals collection.
[For more about the history of FIAF, click here and here.]
Carpet in EYE Study (still from Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929)Tag:FIAF, EYE Study, Collection Centre, collection, collectie, Dziga Vertov, restoration, technology, collectie-informatie, digitalisering, digitization, Tweede Wereldoorlog
Moving to the Collection Centre: the technical move
It has been well over a month since my first collection blog about the move to the new Collection Centre in Amsterdam Noord. Last week was an important and extensive stage in the moving process, as the technical move was carried out. Amongst the technical devices that needed to be rehoused carefully, were Steenbeck's flatbeds and the Scanity filmscanner. These heavy machines were hoisted out of the Overamstel building by crane.
As you can see from the pictures, this was a great operation. Luckily, the Steenbeck company was present to prepare the flatbeds/viewing tables for the move. On these tables, varying from rewinding tables to editing tables with two screens and speakers, film and sound can be run individually and matched to synchronize. The originally German-based company was taken over by one of its former Dutch dealers in Venray, in 2003. Besides the maintenance that is involved with the delicate mechanisms of these machines, the company's focus remains with developing viewing and editing tables as it has been for the last 60 years. (For more information on the history of Steenbeck, see their company's history page).
Film scanning: Scanity's technology
Scanity is another machine of great importance to the EYE archive and the Film Conservation & Digital Access department. With this, we have the possibility to scan 16mm and 35mm analog film image (and sound) up to a 4K digital format at a high pace. The demand for analog film scanned digitally is high. As digital born films are issued in 4K, the demand on historical film - and its gatekeepers - is changing because of it. The European Broadcasters Union (EBU) has set up guidelines that apply here, as quoted by Giovanna Fossati in her book From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition:
Technology is now available to scan and digitize the full information available in film images. Experience with such equipment shows that a pixel pitch of 6 μm (about 160 pixels per mm) is considered sufficient to reproduce current film stocks. This corresponds to a scan of 4k x 3k (actually 4096 x 3112) over the full aperture on 35 mm film. If film is scanned at lower resolution (corresponding to a larger pixel spacing), less information is captured and more aliasing artefacts are introduced" (EBU 2001 in Fossati, p. 77).
Besides the advantages of Scanity in high-paced scanning of EYE's archival films for use within and outside of EYE, it has some other features that are most important for the sort of film the archive holds. Scanning film is often a precarious undertaking because of the state of many archival films. Scanning film is often a precarious undertaking because of the state of many archival film footage. It can suffer from shrinkage, warping, loose splices, rips, mold, etc. The process can be stressing the film and deteriorating the film's state ever further. If we for example look at the perforations of a certain film copy, they can be torn in many ways, such as on this image (left). The perforations are used for the transport through most projectors, editing tables, and other machines. These systems, as well as many scanning systems, pick up the film by sprockets or pins that go through the perforations. Because of this, the perforations have a tendency to wear easily. Scanity on the other hand, does not use the perforations for transporting the film through the machine for the scanning process.
(Source: DFT Film)
The technique Scanity uses instead is based on a capstan and roller gate transport system. This entails that the film is not guided through the machine by fixed guides, but instead goes through the scanning process on a number of rollers.The capstan on the machine makes for a relaxed move of the film through the process. Still, for scanning the film it is essential to identify the film per frame. This because if the perforations are not located, the image stability of the digital scan will not be up to standards. To make this possible, Scanity uses a camera technology dedicated to detect the perforations without having to physically use them. This makes for a steady digital scan in the end. For more information from DFT's perspective on digitization of analog film and how Scanity works, see DFT's datasheet.
At this point in time, gathering the EYE collection in this new Collection Centre has proven to be a great success: from February until today, about 85% of the 200.000 cans that needed to be processed and barcoded have found their new place into the shelves. It has been great to find titles that inspire your inner film geek to re-watch, not to mention the beautiful and/or completely ruined film cans. The film in the can below is for example taken out and put into a new can, left from the corroded one on the picture. Under the right circumstances, these cans are archived under the same roof as the Film Conservation & Digital Access department, the EYE Study and other departments that work closely with this collection. To keep updated on the different stages of the move to the Collection Centre, keep an eye (...) on this collection blog!Tag:archief, archive, digitalisering, digitization, technology, Collection Centre, Steenbeck, Scanity, barcoding project, collectie, collection


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Bonus MFotA OST Extended Track: Fallen Feather
by Alex White on Mar.07, 2011, under Soundtrack
Hi, everyone! I must apologize for my tardiness in getting you the next episode, but I want you all to know: we're back in business! I need to build up an adequate buffer, but new content will be coming out soon!
In the meantime, I have an embarrassing confession: I didn't compose enough music for Maiden Flight. Since some of you were kind enough to buy our soundtrack, I'd like you to have this track for FREE! Please download it and have a listen at your leisure. If you like it, please consider purchasing the rest of the album for a scant $0.99 per track over at iTunes.
Cheers, and enjoy!
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5 Comments for this entry
March 8th, 2011 on 9:45 am
Is track 08 available? When I downloaded this track, it showed up as 09_Fallen_Feather
March 8th, 2011 on 10:09 am
You're planning on releasing more episodes soon? How is your wife doing? Last I heard, I thought "Maiden" was on indefinite hiatus?
Ric P
March 8th, 2011 on 6:08 pm
Posting to echo JohnFrost, and to say that I sincerely hope that your wife is doing better, not for the sake of the podcast but for the sake of your family. While I'm very eager to hear the next episode (as the gearheart is my favourite podcast bar none and is the reason why I've sought out others), family comes first so take as long as you need.
Brooke Fox
March 10th, 2011 on 8:43 am
John and Ric, thank you so much for your continued support! It really means a lot to the whole team. Indeed, Alex, Renee, and I are recording again and will have Episode 4 of Maiden Flight out to you very soon. Right now, we are trying to get a head start on Episode 5 so that there will be less possibility of delay in the future. :)
francis brown
March 17th, 2011 on 11:59 am
I usually do not like listening to an audiobook spoken by the author. Authors tend to become, too dramatic which detracts from the story. You, however, have done excellent job with the Gearheart.
I am confused though as to why authors feel the need to inject music. I have yet to come across a single audiobook which while injecting or sound effects doesnt drown out the audio. Darren and Frederick on the boat, Jonathan and the seer, these are conversations I could not hear. Why music or sound effects? Why make it louder than the dialogue? Go back to your master recording and either remove the music or lower it's volume. Your book is awesome and it needs no music.
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Plov is a popular Russian rice dish that came to Russia via central Asia. Everyone makes it differently. For example, some time after we came to SoCal, my mom had an idea to use cayenne instead of black pepper, which I'm pretty sure is a non-standard, but, in my opinion, awesome change.
Before we start, I have a few quick ingredient explanations and advice on substitutions. Firstly, if you don't like chicken organ meat, the best alternative would be lamb. Secondly, barberries are a small, sweet and tart red berry, but they are kind of hard to find in the US. If you can't find them, I think a good substitute would be pomegranate seeds or cranberries (but in a smaller quantity). Finally, although I like to cook for family, I don't consider myself a chef, so please don't take the numbers below too seriously– do experiment with the amount of spices to your taste (I usually put even more garlic and cayenne). Enjoy!
- 2/3 lbs (300 grams) chicken hearts and/or gizzards (or other meat)
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups (200 grams) white rice
- 6-8 cups (1.5-1.8 liters) water (approximately)
- 1/2 tablespoon (7 grams) whole coriander (or ground)
- 1/2 tablespoon (7 grams) whole cumin (or ground)
- 1/2 tablespoon (7 grams) red pepper flakes (or ground cayenne)
- 2 tablespoons (30 grams) dried barberries (or other fruit)
- 1 small onion
- 1 medium carrot
- 1/2 head of garlic, peeled (yes, half an entire head, at least)
- vegetable oil for frying
Wash the gizzards thoroughly, and clean off any fatty/tough bits off of the hearts. (They don't always do a good job of it at the store.) In a pot, brown the meat with a little bit of oil. Cover with 6 cups of water, add the bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Then turn to medium, and cook until tender (around 30 minutes if using chicken hearts/gizzards).
In the meantime, dice the onion and shred the carrot (e.g. on a cheese grater). Heat up some vegetable oil in a pan. If using whole coriander/cumin, roast them in the pan for a few seconds before adding the onion. Cook the onion until soft (around a minute) before adding the carrots. Cook for another two minutes.
Once the meat is tender, put two cups of white rice directly into the water. Add more water if too much has boiled out; it should be approximately 2:1 ratio of water to rice. Add the onion/carrot mixture to the water. Add the red pepper flakes/cayenne to the water. If using ground coriander and cumin rather than whole, add that to the water now now too. Mix it all together, and cook on medium until the rice is almost ready (around 18 minutes).
In the last few minutes, stick the whole cloves of garlic deep into the rice at regular intervals. Make sure they are well covered by the hot rice. Let stand until the garlic is soft (around 3 minutes). Then mix in the barberries (or other fruit), making sure they are evenly distributed as well. Serve hot.


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Google revamps search AGAIN
Google on Wednesday announced Knowledge Graph, a significant change to how search results are delivered that the company believes will make their search engine think more like a human.
"The web pages we [currently] return for the search 'kings,' they're all good," Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, told CNN in an interview. "You, as a human, associate those words with their real-world meaning but, for a computer, they're just a random string of characters."
With Knowledge Graph, which will begin rolling out to some users immediately, results will be arranged according to categories with which the search term has been associated. So, in the above example, boxes will appear with separate results for the hockey team, basketball team and TV show.
The user can then click on one of those boxes to only get results for the specific topic they were searching.
"It hones your search results right in on the task that you're after," Menzel said.
More specific searches, say for the name of a celebrity, will render boxes with basic information, as well as links to what Google believes are possibly related searches.
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The internet is a funny place. We can write whatever we want.
Eating too much chocolate turns your hair dark, carbohydrates are bad for you and Liam Neeson is a total bad-ass. Believe that or not, but there is only one thing about that sentence that is true (and it's not the carbohydrates or the chocolate).
Most of the stuff I read on the internet is food or travel-related. I like to read blogs and look at pictures of beautiful landscapes and interesting dishes. When it comes to scientific facts, I rely on what's in my brain, published journals and text books. That's the real stuff.
Something I find really funny about the food space in the internet world are the reactions from baked-goods gone bad! It's always the recipe's fault. The recipe didn't work! Even though I used half the butter and one-third of the sugar called for... It's still the recipe's fault! It just didn't work and what a waste of ingredients!
Changing proportions makes a whole new recipe - that's the cool (completely nerdy) thing about baking. To change a recipe means you should be prepared to take a calculated risk. I make this sound like gambling, but it's just food. It's really not a big deal (it's totally a big deal!).
I have an example. This is a true story...
"Not to be trapped in the house over the holiday weekend with a full batch of intensely chocolate cookies, I cut this recipe down by one quarter. The only other change I made was to reduce the amount of sugar"... it was reduced by three-quarters. That would be like adding 1/4 cup of sugar to your brownies instead of 1 cup of sugar. That would not make a brownie, it would make a dry cardboard-tasting brown slab. That would be hugely disappointing.
"These didn't flatten much during baking, which caused me to over baked them slightly (they weren't gooey in the center)." That's what happens when using a fraction of the sugar. Sugar binds water, helps things spread and keeps cookies moist in the middle.
"I blame myself for the uninteresting texture, which was soft and cake-like." It was cake-like because it was dry and it was dry because there wasn't enough sugar.
Sugar is functional. Sugar is calories. We have to make compromises. The compromise should be to eat less of a good thing rather than make a crappy thing and eat none of it because it isn't good. That would just be ridiculous. Sugar is not just for flavour and for making things sweet. It has a very specific function that allows cake to be cake and brownies to be brownies and cookies to be cookies. Let's be smart about it.
This cake is a great example of sugar's incredible properties. Today's totally tender Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Swirl Sour Cream Cake is as delicious as it is long-winded. And although the title is exhausting, the recipe is not! This is another one-bowl situation and sugar helps it to be just that.
This recipe produces an incredibly moist and tender cake with minimal effort. No creaming necessary. All the dry ingredients, including sugar, go into one big mixing bowl. If you have a stand mixer then use that bowl. This means the flour (142g) and sugar (150g) plus baking powder, baking soda and salt go in together. Note that the ratio of sugar is just slightly higher than flour - that is critical to produce a fine tender crumb. Sugar competes with flour for moisture so that the gluten doesn't have a chance to build and toughen the cake.
Soft butter goes in and mixes with the dry ingredients evenly, coating every particle. This is another step to protect flour proteins from contacting moisture. Once we get a nice fine breadcrumb-like texture, the remaining ingredients go in - that's all the liquid stuff including sour cream, eggs and vanilla. Time to mix until we have a silky smooth batter.
The extra sugar and cinnamon is for an awesome doughnut-like crust and a swirl through the cake. The chocolate is for any reason you can think of. I don't need to think of one.
Do not put sugar to shame. Do not make it feel unwelcome. Do not undermine its job description. It is a dedicated and important team player. Let this cake be all that it can be. Give it the respect it deserves because it deserves a lot. Believe me.
In the meantime, I'll consider working on some low-sugar recipes that are not compromised by a lack of the white stuff. Maybe that will save a few recipes from shame and save me from a few grey hairs. Or maybe I should just chill out and eat cake.
Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Swirl Sour Cream Cake
Makes about 9 servings
1 cup (142g) all purpose flour
¾ cup (150g) plus ¼ cup (50g) sugar, divided
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1/3 cup (75g) soft unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2/3 cup (150ml) sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup (100g) dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8x8 inch baking pan with parchment paper.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, ¾ cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and soft butter. Mix on low speed for 2-3 minutes, until mixture resembles fine crumbs. In a separate bowl whisk together sour cream, vanilla and eggs until well blended. Add to flour mixture and beat on medium-low speed for about 1 minute or until ingredients are well incorporated.
Pour half of the batter into the prepared baking pan and spread it out evenly. Combine the remaining ¼ cup of sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle half the cinnamon sugar over the batter evenly. Sprinkle two-thirds of the dark chocolate chips over the cinnamon sugar. Using a large spoon, drop the remaining batter in dollops over top. Gently spread the batter over the chocolate chips to cover them. Sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar and chocolate chips over the top of the batter.
Bake at 28-32 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool for 30 minutes. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
Bake at 28-32 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool for 30 minutes. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.


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The laparoscopic skills lab is inanimate. Unlike labs that involve practicing actual operations on animals, this experience is designed to help with the acquisition and maintainance of the manual skills and dexterity that are essential to performing advanced laparoscopic procedures. Before you begin to perform advanced laparoscopic operations on patients, you will now be required to document your proficiency in a series of drills done in the laparoscopic skills lab. Together with a partner, you will practice the drills and then document the time it takes to complete each drill. Obviously, you may be dishonest when documenting your times, but it is much more satisfying to actually acquire the skills and dexterity that will make advanced laparoscopic procedures easy and fun. Besides, if you haven't practiced the skills it will be painfully obvious in the operating room.
The drills that you will be doing in the skills lab are part of a laparoscopic skills enhancement and suturing course that was developed by Butch Rosser at Yale. Although the non-suturing drills may seem to be unrelated to advanced laparoscopic surgery, they are invaluable in the development of two-handed coordination, which is essential to laparoscopic efficiency and effectiveness. Residents at all levels and attendings will benefit from all of the drills.
There are four drills that you will do in the lab. Three of the drills are designed to increase the dexterity of your non-dominant hand, which is essential in any laparoscopic maneuver, particularly intracorporeal suturing. The fourth drill is laparoscopic suturing and intracorporeal knot tying. You should read about the drills at home or outside of the lab, come to the lab to practice and then record your times. It will be important to continue to return to the lab frequently to keep up your skills. Spending just a few minutes before a laparoscopic operation loading needles, placing stitches and tying knots will make you much more comfortable in the operating room.
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As someone who works for the Royal College of Nursing I found it a difficult but humbling read. Dedicated and skilled professionals wanting to do their best for the patients and clients in their care, but frustrated by understaffing and the resulting unsafe environments.
The workplace regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), define stress as "the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them". Stress is a health and safety issue and one which safety laws require employers to address.
Recognising the high levels of stress within the health sector, the HSE is currently working with employers in the NHS in Scotland to pilot new ways to address work related stress including looking at the working conditions that can lead to stress. The RCN's workplace reps are engaged locally with this work and we will watch the developments with interest.
Improving working conditions are important in stemming the flow of nurses out of the profession. A recent NMC survey of over 4,000 nurses found that, excluding retirement as a reason, 44% left the register due to working conditions. Creating a vicious circle – nursing staff leaving, creating more pressure on the ones still practising.
The RCN has developed a toolkit to support improvements in working conditions, which can address some of the factors that lead to stress at work. Covering dignity at work, work-life balance, safe working environments, well designed jobs and learning and development opportunities the Healthy workplace toolkit provides a framework for organisations to use to identify areas for improvement and to support the health, safety, wellbeing and retention of their nursing workforce.
Of course as individuals, we have our part to play in looking after our own health, so the toolkit is complemented by the Healthy you tools for nursing staff to use to support self-care. The ethos behind the Healthy you work is to encourage nurses to put on their own hypothetical 'oxygen masks' first before helping others. The areas covered by Healthy you include physical health, mental health, spiritual health, work life balance and career.
So while we campaign for legislation on safe staffing levels across all countries of the UK, the RCN's Healthy workplace, healthy you resources can help. Small changes to the working environment and small changes to the way we look after ourselves can start to make a big difference to stress levels.


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Ayaz Ahmed aka Cabir has grabbed quite a few headlines for his path-breaking role as a gay musician in "Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan", and now he is reportedly set to make some more news for taking up a social-mythological project.
According to a Bollywood Life report, he will be seen romancing "Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo" actress Ratan Rajput in "Jai Santoshi Maa" .
To be aired November end onwards, Ayaz will be seen essaying the role of a small-town girl who falls in love for Ratan, a worshipper of goddess Santoshi maa.
Also, actress Gracy Singh will play the almighty. The show also features Juhi Parmar, Smriti Khanna and Sachin Shroff in lead roles, reported the web portal.
The actor's stint on "KY2" came to end with his character dying in a bomb blast, along with Manik Malhotra (Parth Samthaan). However, Parth is back after fans protested vehemently on social media that they wouldn't watch the show if it's leading man didn't return.
Interestingly, Ayaz too has a strong fan base and they have been requesting the makers on Twitter to get him back on the show.
Here are a few tweets:
Butool Khan: Want him n his jokes back #MTVBringAyazBack #MTVBringAyazBack pls (sic)
Preeti: @MTVIndia plz bring cabir back #mtvbringayazback & ask dhruv not to leave the show (sic)
MishikaPARTH.IS.BACK: And D void remains!Fab5 is incomplete widout HIM!#KY2 is incomplete widout HIM!!! OUR KABIR
ky2fanatic: The only person missing is ayaz want him back #MtvBringAyazBack (sic).
KY2 Love♥ HOPE: Okay, so now its #MTVBringAyazBack! Its all empty without that crazy head around..Cabir's needed back, BADLY! The #SweetheartDevil (sic)


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Bellagio Holidays
Holidays to Bellagio, dubbed the pearl of Lake Como, win the hearts of all who visit thanks to the town's quaint cobbles and impossibly beautiful setting.
Lake views
Bellagio tugs hard on the heartstrings. Stunningly located on a peninsula on Lake Como, at crux of the inverted 'Y' that separates Como from its eastern arm, Lecco, you'll find it hard to put down your camera.
Unbelievable sights
The town is framed by steep mountains, and is home to a rainbow of century-old buildings, quaint cobbled stairways and romantic churches to create a chocolate-box world. You can stay in lakefront hotels and eat at authentic restaurants, all while soaking up the lake's famous panorama. During the day, peruse art galleries and antique shops, or walk to the tip of the peninsula for unbeatable views down both arms of Lake Como. Bellagio is arguably the most well-connected town for boat transport, so it's easy to hop on a ferry to visit other towns.
Days of leisure
Make sure to visit the striking gardens of the Villa Melzi, 10 minutes' walk along the promenade from Bellagio. Sprawling over the hillside, the gardens are full of interest plants and sculptures, and are a wonderful place to find some peace and quiet. Later on, explore the winding steep-stoned stairways to browse shops selling silk, glass and olive wood, or settle down at a waterfront trattoria, where succulent perch and crisp local Soave wines top the menu. Once you're done for the day, take a seat in lakeside bar for a well-earned spritz as the sun goes down.
Out and about
Here are some ideas of things to do when staying in Bellagio:
• Boat trips
• Lakeside path
• Bike hire
• Musem
• Art gallery
• Local ferries
• Historic villas
• Gardens
At a glance
Explore the peaceful gardens of the Villa Melzi
Taste the traditional feast day dish, tóch - made from polenta, cheese, butter and meat or fish
Wander through the narrow cobbled streets, lined with colourful, shuttered buildings
Top things to See and Do in Bellagio
The beach bar of Bellagio
Soak up the sunshine and relax on the sandy beach of Lido di Bellagio. Five minutes' walk from the resort centre, this stylish lakefront spot has 350m² of sandy beach, 120 sun loungers and eight luxurious gazebos. Open daily from 10am to 6pm, entrance is free as long as you rent loungers, deckchairs or a gazebo. Facilities include free Wi-Fi, showers, toilets and a bar and restaurant for food and drinks throughout the day.
San Giovanni public beach
Due to boat traffic, it's not possible to swim near the resort centre. One of the favourite beaches, around 2km from Bellagio centre, is in the neighbouring village of San Giovanni. This popular pebble beach is free to visit, and the Riverside beach bar serves drinks, ice cream and food. Loungers are sometimes available to rent from the bar. The beach can be reached on foot or by battello boat, bus or tourist train.
Public beaches and sandy shores
Most public beaches around the lake are pebbly, so it's best to take lake shoes with you to protect your feet. Any sandy beaches in the area are man-made by laying tons of sand on top of the pebbles. They're usually private, so expect to pay a small fee for entrance or rental of loungers and parasols.
Bargain Buys
To pick up a few holiday bargains, it's best to head to a local market. Every third Wednesday of the month, Bellagio holds a market in the town centre, from around 8am to 12.30pm. You'll find a mix of imported and local products including clothing, leather goods, traditional pottery and souvenirs. There's also a weekly market on Wednesdays in nearby Varenna, a short ferry ride away.
Mid-Range Buys
Bellagio has many shops and boutiques selling some luxurious handmade items including shoes, traditional Como silks and delicate glasswear. Popular gifts and souvenirs are the unique, hand-painted bottles that you'll find filled with wine, oil or vinegar. For some local produce, head to Boutique di Buon Gusto, which translates to 'the shop of good taste', and try the meats, cheeses and wines.
Designer Buys
For a wider collection of traditional shops, souvenirs and well-known designer brands, spend a day in Como town. As the largest town on the lake, it has much more to offer, and it's just a ferry-ride away from Bellagio. To seriously splash the cash on Dior, Louis Vuitton and Prada, head to Milan - the fashion capital of Europe - where you be spoilt for choice.
Laid-back evenings
For a relaxed evening, take the tourist train from Bellagio to the fishing village of Pescallo. Jump off and explore the undiscovered suburbs of this lovely town. As many shops close for a siesta in the middle of the day, they tend to stay open much later into the evenings. Grab an ice cream and stroll along the narrow cobbled streets.
Lively evenings
Bellagio is a lively town with a great evening atmosphere. For cocktails and good music, Lido di Bellagio hosts weekend party nights throughout the summer. Just 500m from the resort centre, you can stroll down and spend an evening on the sandy beach at the lakefront. Bellagio also has a packed summer events programme of orchestras, music, and the Bellagio festival at the end of August.
Eating out
All along the west coast of Bellagio is a range of restaurants, cafés and bars that will tempt you in with their fabulous views across the lake. There aren't many 'local' eateries here, due to the small local population, but the options aren't typically touristy in the slightest. If you can, try the traditional Bellagino feast day dish, tóch - it's composed of polenta mixed with butter and cheese, plus chicken, cured meat or dried fish from the lake.
Nature's calling at the Ristorante Bilacus
The popular Ristorante Bilacus is a traditional Italian with a gorgeous outdoor patio sheltered by green vines and plants. The fantastic atmosphere, food and views over the town make this a favourite with visitors from all over the world.
Wonderful wines at the Enoteca Cava Turacciolo
You might walk straight past the Enoteca Cava Turacciolo, due to its unassuming façade - but make sure you dont. This extensive wine cellar is an enriching experience serving generous plates of cheese, meats, breads and pastas in a rustic, intimate setting. And if you're impressed with your wine, you can always buy a bottle to take home with you.
A Splendide lunch by the lake
Jutting out over the lake, the Restaurant Splendide is the perfect setting for a long lunch. Nab a table by the water and spend a couple of hours savouring the views as you tuck into a traditional 4-course meal of seafood and pasta, paired with local wine.
On foot
Bellagio is known for its cobbled streets and steep, narrow staircases that may not be very accessible for those with limited mobility.
You can hop on a fast and slow ferry at either Bellagio and San Giovanni - located just down the road - once an hour to Como. Boats also run to many of the most popular villages on the lake, including Menaggio, Cadenabbia and Tremezzo.
The nearest train station to Bellagio is a ferry ride away in Varenna. From Varenna Esino station, you can travel to Milan in around an hour. There's also a tourist road train that loops around the town. It takes under a hour to do the whole circle, or you can hop off along the way - San Giovanni is around 20 minutes away.
There's only one bus stop in Bellagio and you can find it at the end of the Lungolario. There are two main bus lines that travel between Bellagio and Como, with the C30 taking just over an hour. From there, you'll be able to catch a number of buses to various other spots around the lake.
The narrow piece of land that is Bellagio, separating the Como and Lecco arms of the lake, guarantees beautiful views no matter which way you decide to wander. Original cobbled streets and stairs lead you to the many boutique shops, artisan cafés and Romanesque churches that are dotted around the comune and along the main high street, Via Garibaldi. If you prefer being by the water, stroll down towards the Via Roma - though remember it's a bit hilly on the way back into town - to watch the boats sail by.
The suburbs of Bellagio
From Piazza Mazzini, head towards the pier and turn right onto Via Garibaldi. Pass through the fishing village of Pescallo, which used to have the largest fish market on the lake, and follow the main road, lined with olive trees. Further down is Guggiate - stop in front of the Hotel Silvio for views of the lake framed by cypresses. Cross the river Perlo and you'll be in San Giovanni, where you'll find the Nautical Instruments Museum. Walk past San Giovanni Church, which used to be the focal point of local religious life, before heading north back to Bellagio.
Visgnola and Makallé
Jump on the C36 bus towards Visgnola and alight opposite the church square before walking up towards Erba-Milano. A little further up, take the path towards Chevrio and then follow the card track uphill to the Belvedere Makalle. You'll soon arrive in the village of Chevrio - have a wander around before continuing on trail 5, across the bridge over the Perlo river. The dirt track will lead you towards Brogno, where you can descend on trail 1, down through the forest towards Mulini del Perlo. A paved road will take you back over the river. Continue through the village of Guggiate and take the Via La Derta to the shrine of St Peter, then walk past the villas back into Visgnola.


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Hi friends! I have some news to share with all of you. I hope you're as excited about this as I am! I've thought about this project for a long time, probably not long after I started this blog.
I'm so excited to share this news that I threw together a very crappy audio. It's not the best, but it will explain my newest k-drama endeavor as well as what I'm watching and more.


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[Full photo recap of The Devil Wears Prada – Live in Hong Kong]
"I don't know anything about optimism!"
MIKE HRANICA, vocalist of The Devil Wears Prada
Before The Devil Wears Prada's first show in Hong Kong, we got a chance to talk to the band. We had a wonderful discussion on the philosophical sides of The Prada's music and their mindset; plus the chosen questions submitted by fans over the world in our previous contest.
MH: Mike Hranica – Vocal
JD: Jeremy DePoyster – Rhythm guitarist, clean vocal
CB: Chris Rubey, – Guitar
AT: Andy Tric, – Bassist
DW: Daniel Williams – drum
DJ: Dinosaur Journal
DJ: You have emphasized in many interviews that lyrics was more important than melody. Is it still true?
MH: There're compromises, but I think that primarily I just write heavier lyrics than many musicians or other singer-song writers would.. And I'm never willing to sacrifice lyrics for melody.
DJ: Why would you choose music and writing rather than other media as your main way to express your thoughts?
MH: That's a good question. I never plan for singing or playing in a band. And I just stumbled into it. When I was a kid, I joined the band but by that time I was already writing poetries and stories and such and I was able to use that skill set in order to do this (being a musician) as well.
CR: I have to do everything. I paint, I draw, I pretty much do that kind of stuff when I can't think of any music. I never really have the ability to write lyrics or anything like that, so I'm kind of abandoned the whole writing thing. So yea, I like to do all medium except (those) with words.
JD: I think all of us kind of do all medium. Like we do a lot of visual stuff and produce as much as we can ourselves. I think creative is just creative. A lot of people in general are a lot more creative than even giving credit for themselves… For us especially, professional creative people to fall in the mindset of "we're the only people who are creative" or "we're more creative than anybody else" But I think it's important for everybody to be creative in life.
DJ: Why do you choose to write about religion and faith rather than other topics? Why religion is your main inspiration?
MH: Well… I do write about other things, but for the band, that's what it set on and what we always based ourselves on. I think spirituality is a frequent and an easy topic for music, especially for aggressive stuff. It works well. But I like to write about other things as well.
DJ: From your lyrics, I see a lot of dark topics. How do you keep your faith in life?
MH: Well I think, usually, biblically-speaking, that's darker than anything we've ever done. It's in the matter of perspectives. As far as… this sort of notion of… Preunderstanding (bible) that being a Christian means you have to have the brightness or warmth to the things you write as compared to do the other side of things that exists – which is the darker side of Christianity.
DJ: Does it mean in order to express your optimism you write about the darker things?
MH: Hmmm I don't know about optimism.
DJ: Haha I like the answer!
JD: It's true. He doesn't have optimism haha.
DJ: Yea I believe so… from what I see in your lyrics haha.
DJ: You mentioned you like reading a lot. So what kind of books do you choose? Spiritual, religious, friction…?
MH: I would say philosophical-inspired friction. Over the past few years, it's been more classics with some modern kind of stuff to sort of break and change pace. Lately I read quite a lot of Russian and French stuff which is usually my preferred materials.
DJ: I remember you said you read a lot about Existentialism. Do you consider yourself or The Prada as Existentialists?
MH: Hmmm… it feels weighty to call myself as an Existentialist though I think a lot of my principles and things I'd like to express and the general idea of nothingness is becoming more and more prominent in my writing. So I'd say that part is inspired by Existentialism I guess.
DJ: So how'd you define this term? Some philosophical views of Existentialism is against religion. Do you find it contradictory?
MH: Well I mean… Existentialism comes in the form from so many different people and even being a Christian is not right… And that obviously comes from atheist. I don't think you needs to be limited from a certain section of faith or someone's particular religion or belief.
DJ: So is it true that Define The Great Line from Underoath inspires The Prada on how to arrange the album?
MH : Yea, I always love Define The Great Line.I call that a good example of record that slows down, picks up really well and keeps you interested in the whole album.
DJ: Do you see them as a role model of being a Christian metalcore band?
JD: Yea definitely. We love their band.
DJ: Do you have other role models as a musician?
JD: Well I think we have a lot of role models – for good or bad. I think we came out at the time when you still need to open a lot for bands before we have our headline tour. You know sometimes we got scolded quite a bit by the older bands for good or bad ways. And tour managers… so that shaped a lot… not just the way we tour but also who we are as people… these kids with a bunch of older people around. So I think most of the bands that toured with us are our role models.
DJ: If you got a chance that you can pick whoever you want to tour, who will that be?
TDWP: The bands that were on our list a few years ago have now accomplished. But still we'd like to tour with like Lamb of God and Killswitch Engage.
[Full recap of The Devil Wears Prada – Live in Hong Kong]


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I exercise every day. I'm so regular in my exercise routine that I no longer show my membership card when I enter the gym; the front desk attendant just waves me in. I never feel better than when I'm in the water (it's the only time that I'm truly pain free), so missing a day of exercise is really out of the question.
But, the other day an interesting thought occurred to me: "What does the Bible say about exercise?" When that question is posed someone will almost immediately quote 1 Timothy 4:7-8: "Train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come." The reasoning goes: "Since bodily training – aka exercise – is only of "some value," we need not bother with bodily exercise." We readily understand that godliness – which will last beyond this world – stands head and shoulders above bodily training, but Paul does say bodily training has value.
But, what value does bodily training have? Tomorrow, I'll discuss ways bodily exercise benefits our spiritual lives and makes us better servants of God. But, today I simply want us to notice how frequently physical exercise is mentioned in Scripture.
- The Christian life is compared to a race.
- "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it" (1 Cor 9:24)
- "Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Heb 12:1)
- Paul's apostolic ministry is compared to a race.
- "I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain" (Gal 2:2)
- Hold "fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain" (Phil 2:16)
- An athlete's self-control is given as an example of Christian self-control.
- "Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified" (1 Cor 9:25-27)
- Hindrances to the Christian life are compared to a runner's hindrances.
- "You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?" (Gal 5:7)
As his mortal life neared its end, Paul saw the completion of his work as the winning of an athletic contest: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing" (2 Tim 4:7-8). May each of us live that we may obtain "the crown of righteousness" given to those who run their course well.


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2012 S.F. Pride Parade: pride and progress
Gay rights
If the older generation is looking for the reward of 40 years of gay rights struggles, they need look no further than Keighley Petersen.
The soft-spoken, 15-year-old wisp of a girl from Pittsburg was at her first Pride Parade on Sunday, marching with a small gay youth group amid the usual throng of flag-waving politicians, leather daddies, gay military veterans and glitter-bedecked disco queens.
"I feel like I'm home," she said. "I've been bullied a lot for being gay. ... They keep saying it gets better. I used to think they were just saying that, but seeing all this, I think maybe they're right. I think it does get better."
Forget the legal breakthroughs and political battles. For many veterans of the LGBT movement, the most heartening sight at Sunday's 42nd annual Pride celebration was the thousands of young gay people who appeared to take it all for granted.
"We come from a time when things were pretty grim," said David Faulk, 57, who was at the parade with his partner of 18 years, Michael Johnstone, 49. "It's so nice to see a generation that doesn't have to face those problems. They won't have to suffer through that lens of AIDS and death and inequality. It seems like everything has loosened up."
Johnstone added, "They'll have their own problems, but they'll be up for it. I tell you, this younger generation is amazing. They are recharging my batteries."
Thousands lined Market Street for the parade, which culminated with a six-hour party at Civic Center. Sunny skies and mild weather made for a perfect San Francisco day, as rainbow flags flapped in the breeze and the 200-foot pink triangle on Twin Peaks shone over the city.
Perhaps no one was more struck by the generation gap than Arthur Friedman, 67, who was marching with the San Francisco SPCA contingent. He was a newly "out" New Yorker in 1969 when the Stonewall riots erupted and spawned the modern gay rights movement.
When he marched in the first Gay Pride Parade, on Fifth Avenue in New York, the mood was decidedly less celebratory than Sunday's pageant.
"We were all scared," he said. "I was with a friend, a teacher, and every time he saw a camera, he hid his face. ... But I went because I had decided I was gay, and I didn't want others to define me. It was an amazing time, but also terrifying."
Not only did young gay people face widespread discrimination, many were disowned by their families, further alienating them from the mainstream, he said.
Beyond societal challenges, AIDS - the scourge of the 1980s and '90s - killed thousands of young gay men, galvanizing the gay-rights movement but also leaving a devastating void in the community, he said.
"A lot of young people don't know what we went through 30 years ago, that they're the end result of our generation's hard work, pain, abuse, deaths," he said. "I'm grateful for the young people today, but they need to know that we cannot stop fighting."
The fight for gay rights is alive and well in San Leandro, whose school district was the only such contingent in the parade. As part of a decade-old legal settlement, San Leandro schools now boast a comprehensive antibullying curriculum that includes LGBT tolerance and parent education.
That's a far cry from the late 1990s, when a San Leandro High teacher was disciplined for discussing racism and homophobia in his honors English class. The teacher sued, won and now San Leandro is one of the most gay-friendly districts around, faculty said.
"I felt like I could seek employment in San Leandro and feel safe," said Victoria Forrester, principal of Roosevelt Elementary in San Leandro, who marched Sunday with several dozen parents, teachers, administrators and high school students from the quiet East Bay suburb. "The kids and parents here are more likely to be accepting, respectful, open."
The struggles of yesteryear were not lost on Sarah Benitez, an Oakland nurse in her 30s who was marching with the Hot Pink Feathers dance troupe.
"We get all the benefits of those campaigns," she said. "But the thing for young people is to not sit on our haunches. We have to keep the momentum going.
"Although it's all relative," she added, pointing to a toddler dancing with the crowd. "That's the next generation right there."
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


text: Several leaders in the Colombian National Police are visiting Corpus Christi through he International Visitor Leadership Program to see how Corpus Christi Police conduct business. The Single Country Project: Colombia Leadership Management and Standards in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Environment, seeks law enforcement agencies who excel in the law enforcement industry so that they may return to their agency and set best practices in place. Corpus Christi Police was chosen along with Baltimore, Md; Cincinnati, Oh; Sacramento, Ca; and Washington, D.C. for the leaders to visit. Corpus Christi was selected because of the reputation of the great community relationships we have locally. The leadership are focused to learn how we accomplished such great community relationships. The leaders are doing a ride-a-long tonight to see our Officers interaction with the community in hopes to learn how we earned such a reputation.Be sure to say, "Hola!" if you see any of the leaders around town! They will be here for about two more days.


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And nothing at all of what we are saying here actually existed. None of it has ever
lived-as surely as a skeleton has never lived, but only a man. As surely, however,
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The impression of the old-fashioned can arise only where, in a certain way, reference is made to the most topical. If the beginnings of modem architecture some extent lie in the arcades, their antiquated effect on the present generation has exactly the same significance as the antiquated effect of a father on his son. [B3,5]
For the first time in history, with the establishment of department stores, consumers begin to consider themselves a mass. (Earlier it was only scarcity which taught them that.) Hence, the circus-like and theatrical element of commerce is quite extraordinarily heightened. [A4,1]
Concerning the mythological topography of Paris: the character given it by its gateways. Mystery of the boundary stone which, although located in the heart of the city, once marked the point at which it ended. Dialectic of the gate: from triumphal arch to traffic island.
How gratings-as allegories-have their place in hell. In the Passage Vivienne, sculptures over the main entrance representing allegories of commerce. [01,1]
What was otherwise reserved for only a very few words, a privileged class of words, the city has made possible for all words, or at least a great many: to be elevated to the noble status of name. This revolution in language was carried out by what is most general: the street.- Through its street names, the city is a linguistic cosmos. [P3,5]
Game in which children have to form a brief sentence out of given words. This game is seemingly played by the goods on display: binoculars and flower seeds, screws and musical scores, makeup and stuffed vipers, fur coats and revolvers. <A 0,8>
Corresponding to the form of the new means of production, which in the beginning is still ruled by the form of the old (Marx), are inlages in the collective consciousness in which the new is permeated with the old. These inlages are wish inlages; in them the collective seeks both to overcome and to transfigure the immaturity of the social product and the inadequacies in the social organization of production. At the same time, what emerges in these wish inlages is the resolute effort to distance oneself from all that is antiquated-which includes, however, the recent past. These tendencies deflect the imagination (which is given inlpetus by the new) back upon the prinlal past. In the dream in which each epoch entertains images of its successor, the latter appears wedded to elements of prinlal history ( that is, to elements of a classless society. And the experiences of such a society-as stored in the unconscious of the collective – engender, through interpenetration with what is new, the utopia that has left its trace in a thousand configurations of life, from enduring edifices to passing fashions. [Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century]
Dreams vary according to where you are, what area and what street, but above all according to the time of year and the weather. Rainy weather in the city, in its thoroughly treacherous sweetness and its power to draw one back to the days of early childhood, can be appreciated only by someone who has grown up in the big city. It naturally evens out the day, and with rainy weather one can do the same thing day in, day out-play cards, read, or engage in argument-whereas sunshine, by contrast, shades the hours and is furthermore less friendly to the dreamer. In that case, one must get around the day from morning on; above all, one must get up early so as to have a good conscience for idleness. <Bo,5>
Arcades are houses or passages having no outside-like the dream. [Lla,l]
Trace and aura. The trace is appearance of a nearness, however far removed the thing that left it behind may be. The aura is appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth. In the trace, we gain possession of the thing; in the aura, it takes possession of us. [M1 6a,4]
And so we turn our attention to the arcades that still exist, to the brighter; livelier, and in come cases renovated arcades of the opera district, to the narrow, often empty and dust-covered arcades of more obscure neighborhoods. They work., the arcades-sometimes in their totality, sometimes only in certain parts-as a past become space; they harbor antiquated trades, and even those that are thoroughly up to date acquire in these inner spaces something archaic. Since the light comes only from above through glass roofs, and all stairways to the left or right, at entranceways between the shops, lead into darkness, our conception of life within the rooms to which these stairways ascend remains somewhat shadowy.
A look at the ambiguity of the arcades: their abundance of mirrors, which fabulously amplifies the spaces and makes orientation more difficult. For although this mirror world may have many aspects, indeed infinitely many, it remains ambiguous, double-edged. It blinks : it is always this one-and never nothing out of which another immediately arises. The space that transforms itself does so in the bosom of nothingness. In its tarnished, dirty mirrors, things exchange a Kaspar-Hauser-Iook with the nothing. It is like an equivocal wink coming from nirvana. [R2a,3]
This work has to develop to the highest degree the art of citing without quotation marks. Its theory is intimately related to that of montage. [Nl, lO]
This resignation without hope is the last word of the great revolutionary. The century was incapable of responding to the new technological possibilities with a new social order. That is why the last word was left to the errant negotiators between old and new who are at the heart of these phantasmagorias. The world dominated by its phantasmagorias-this, to make use of Baudelaire's term, is "modernity." [Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century]
All true insight forms an eddy. To swim in time against the direction of the swirling stream. Just as in art, the decisive thing is: to brush nature against the grain.
The interest of the panorama is in seeing the true city-the city indoors. What stands within the windowless house is the true. Moreover, the arcade, too, is a windowless house. The windows that look down on it are like loges from which one gazes into its interior, but one cannot see out these windows to anything outside. (What is true has no windows; nowhere does the true look out to the universe.) [Q7a, 7]
It may be that the continuity of tradition is mere semblance. But then precisely the persistence of this semblance of persistence provides it with continuity. [N19, I]
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. [K6,4]
"Praise God and all my shops"-saying attributed to Louis Philippe.
Recall the origin of the modern poster. In 1861, the first lithographic poster suddenly appeared on walls here and there around London. It showed the back of a woman in white who was thickly wrapped in a shawl and who, in all haste, had just reached the top of a flight of stairs, where, her head half turned and a finger upon her lips, she is ever so slightly opening a heavy door to reveal the starry sky. [The Arcades of Paris]
All this is the arcade in our eyes. And it was nothing of all this. They <the arcades> radiated through the Paris of the Empire like grottoes. For someone entering the Passage des Panoramas in 18 17, the sirens of gaslight would be singing to him on one side, while oil-Iamp odalisques offered enticements from the other. With the kindling of electric lights, the irreproachable glow was extinguished in these galleries, which suddenly became more difficult to find-which wrought a black magic at entranceways, and peered from blind windows into their own interior, It was not decline but transformation. All at once they were the hollow mold from which the image of "modernity" was cast. Here, the century mirrored with satisfaction its most recent past. Here was the retirement
home for infant prodigies . . . [The Arcades of Paris]
These notes devoted to the Paris arcades were begun under an open sky of cloudless blue that arched above the foliage; and yet-owing to the millions of leaves that were visited by the fresh breeze of diligence, the stertorous breath of the researcher, the storm of youthful zeal, and the idle wind of curiosity-they've been covered with the dust of centuries. For the painted sky of sunmmer that looks down from the arcades in the reading room of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris has spread out over them its dreamy, unlit ceiling. [Nl,5]
All text quoted from Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project.


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Aleksei Romanovich Evgrafov
Evgrafov, Aleksei Romanovich
Born Apr. 12 (24), 1867, in Arzamas; died Nov. 12, 1953, in Moscow. Soviet veterinary scientist, doctor of veterinary science (1938).
In 1892, Evgrafov graduated from the Derpt (Dorpat) Veterinary Institute. From 1918 to 1920 he was head of the Main Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army. In 1922, Evgrafov became the rector of the Moscow Veterinary Institute. From 1925 to 1930 he was the rector of the Saratov Veterinary Institute. His scientific work was devoted to the study of internal diseases in animals. Evgrafov was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and various medals.


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No one on earth drank tea a few thousand years ago. A few small tribal groups in the jungles of south-east Asia chewed the leaves of the plant, but that was the nearest anyone came to tea drinking. Two thousand years ago it was drunk in a handful of religious communities. By a thousand years ago it was drunk by millions of Chinese. Five hundred years ago over half of the world's population was drinking tea as their main alternative to water. [pgs. 31-32]
The authors (a mother-and-son team) point out that tea's spread was due to its meeting all of the requirements for an alternative to water, which was made dangerous by waterborne pathogens as humans began forming city-based civilizations:
True tea, made from the Camellia sinensis plant ... can be produced cheaply. The plant which yields it is very productive, giving new leaf every six weeks or so. It grows over quite a range of climatic zones, from central China to East Africa. Just a few leaves are needed to make a good pot of tea and they can be re-used. Dry tea is very light and stores well. It is easily prepared for drinking, but its preparation is sufficiently elaborate to encourage the human love of play and ceremony. It is extremely safe to drink and indeed many believe it has special health benefits. It is attractive because it makes the drinker feel stimulated and relaxed, optimistic and focused. It is mild enough to be drunk throughout the day without any harmful side effects. [pg. 39]
These same reasons explain green tea's growing (or, depending on where you are, continued) popularity today—for green tea is simply Camellia sinensis leaves in their least-processed form.
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Section 135 of the Condominium Act, 1998 (the "Act") gives unit owners, condo corporations, declarants and mortgagees the right to bring applications against one another for relief against conduct that is or threatens to be oppressive or unfairly prejudicial to the applicant or unfairly disregards the interests of the applicant.
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The Luanda International Jazz Festival will take place between Friday, 30 July to Sunday, 1 August, 2010. Headline acts this year are Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés and US vocalist Dianne Reeves. More……… and more here too.
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Luanda International Jazz Festival returnsJune 19, 2010
Procuro uma distribuidora para vender "O Bradt Guide to Angola" em AngolaMay 24, 2010
Procuro uma distribuidora para vender "O Bradt Guide to Angola" em Angola através do fornecedora em África do Sul. Se for de interesse, entre em contacto comigo. Obrigado
Don't forget : Artangola@Portuguese Festival in London next weekApril 25, 2010
An invitational exhibition:
Bruno Santos (painter)
Exhibit starts at 12noon.
An Angolan artist based in Stoke on Trent with a truly wonderful soul, when you talk to Bruno he fills you with his optimistic nature. You walk away smiling… His paintings do the same. When others are moaning about there being no opportunity in the Uk, Bruno feels the UK has been a great place for him and now he feels that he needs to give something back.
Jose' Batista (woodcraft).
Workshop from 14pm to 16pm
An Angolan artist based in Newcastle with more then 25 years of experience in the art of wood carving. The art of Angola derives from centuries of tradition and cultural rituals. The most famous symbols are wooden masks and sculptures, which are not only merely aesthetic creations, but play an important role in rituals that celebrate the passage from childhood to adulthood, the birth and the death, the new harvest, the hunting season, etc.
Angolan School of Theatre (representations of poems):
Poetry session from 16pm to 17pm
Fernando Pessoa – is one of the greatest and most representative poets of the twentieth century. To understand life, to give or to refuse it depends deeply on our feelings, perhaps more than on our reason. Pessoa's poems are major examples of existentialist philosophy.
Viriato da Cruz – is one of the great contributor for the development of the Angolan literature, form and thematic of his work are characterized by having an enormous sense of African values.
Short video & Documentary from 17:30 to 18:15
'Capoeira, dance or fight?' (directed by Jose' Fernandez)
A documentary about the history of capoeira, a tradition that have started in Africa and developed in Brazil.
'Destino' (directed by Jose' Fernandes)
A short film shot at the heart of Luanda capital of Angola, featuring Mister K and Game Walla.
Everyone is welcome!
Ticket: £5 (all inclusive)
Package tours to AngolaApril 2, 2010
Check out Unidscovered Destinations' website for details of upcoming escorted tours to Angola. The Northern Explorer tour has departures in April and September. The Southern Explorer tour has departures in May and August.
Restrictions on TAAG flying into Europe are further relaxedMarch 30, 2010
The European Commission has updated the list of airlines banned in the European Union. The restrictions placed on TAAG are partially lifted and the airline is now allowed to operate under certain strict conditions with specific aircraft to all destinations in the EU, not just to Lisbon as previously.
Cheetahs confirmed in the Iona National ParkMarch 27, 2010
Despite the long civil unrest in Angola which threatened the lives of both humans and animals, the presence of cheetahs has been confirmed in the Iona National Park. More……….
Luanda's amazing transformationMarch 18, 2010
There are some pretty good and recent photos of Luanda here
Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connectionMarch 16, 2010
As the President rearranges his government and calls for another crackdown on corruption, Beijing's friends can take nothing for granted.
The news that José dos Santos da Silva Ferreira is to head a new super ministry which will oversee Chinese contracts and projects is a strong vote of no-confidence by President José Eduardo dos Santos in the former head of the Gabinete de Reconstrução Nacional, General Helder van Kopelilpa. Before the 8 February cabinet reshuffle, Kopelipa and the GRN had managed the US$6.5 billion in oil-backed credit lines that China has extended to Angola since 2004 and also the infrastructure projects that they have financed. Da Silva Ferreira, a relative Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) unknown, is now at the forefront of Sino-Angolan affairs. (This is a summary of an article from Africa Asia Confidential)
Como aproveitar bem LuandaFebruary 15, 2010
Se está a pensar viajar em negócios para Luanda, o Económico dá-lhe cinco dicas úteis para uma boa estadia. Leia mais……………
Bradt's Mike Stead comments on the African Cup of NationsFebruary 3, 2010
Mike Stead, author of Bradt's Angola, former Deputy Head of Mission and Consul at the British Embassy in Luanda, comments on events surrounding the African Cup of Nations.
Angola's hopes of winning serious international respect were severely blunted when the Togolese national football squad was ambushed by Cabindan terrorists just days before the African Cup of Nations football championship opened in Luanda earlier this month. Three members of the Togolese party were killed and others seriously injured in an incident that should never have happened. Just why the squad took the most dangerous overland route into Angola is not known. Various factions of FLEC (the Cabindan separatists behind the attack) have long threatened foreigners in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda and have threatened further attacks. It would be foolhardy of any commentator to declare any country safe from terrorism, but provided visitors avoid the interior of Cabinda province, they are far more likely to come to harm in a mugging or traffic accident than be caught up in terrorist related violence.
In a show of defiance, the Cup of Nations opened on schedule and every town and village has worked itself into football frenzy with Angola's national colours of red, black and yellow on display everywhere. If Angola wins the cup, expect the party to go on for a week. The government is using the tournament to show off the billions of dollars it has spent over the last few years on bringing the infrastructure up to scratch – new schools and hospitals, new roads, railways, hotels, upgraded airports and brand spanking new Chinese-built stadia. There's still much to be done – you don't heal the mental and physical wounds of nearly 30 years of armed struggle with dollars, even when they are counted in billions. Angola is opening up and becoming an easier destination for experienced businessmen and travellers alike but mass tourism is still many years away due to the difficulty of getting visas, flights and cheap hotels.
Bradt's Angola is the only English-language guide to the country and is essential reading for all visitors and residents.
Price: £17.99
Publication: Out Now!
Angola : Desafios do novo anoJanuary 17, 2010
Entre muitos escolhemos 10 objectivos nacionais para o ano que agora começa. Ler todos……………………..
Luanda: Progress, only for someJanuary 12, 2010
African Cup host Luanda is booming with oil money and reconstruction projects eight years after the end of Angola's civil war. But across the city bulldozers are razing shantytowns to make way for upmarket housing compounds, leaving thousands homeless. Watch the video…………
Togo attack in Cabinda – roundup of press coverageJanuary 9, 2010
For international media coverage of the terrorist attack on the Togo team in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda check out these links:
Pour ceux qui parlent le français……….January 7, 2010
Pour ceux qui parlent le français, vérifiez ce site
Detailed information about Angola for visitors, residents and businessmenJanuary 7, 2010
If you find this site useful, you'l find even more detailed information about all aspects of Angola (and details of the CAN 2010 football championship) in the Bradt Guide to Angola. The book is available from amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, fnac.pt and many other on-line retailers and high street shops.
Angola is no longer the country with only one functioning escalatorJanuary 7, 2010
I often described Angola as the country with only one functioning escalator, until I was corrected that there were in fact two escalators – one up and one down. Now however it seems that the refurbished terminal building at Luanda airport has three escalators. One up, one down and a spare???
Angola remains a controversial Nations Cup hostJanuary 6, 2010
Luanda – When the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Luanda on Sunday, it will be the first time in its history that Angola will be hosting the tournament.
But the choice to grant the southern African country the right to host the showpiece of African football was somewhat controversial and with just a few days to go before the opening game many are saying that the scepticism was justified. Read more……………
Angola event in London on Tuesday 9 FebruaryJanuary 4, 2010
Angola by Mike Stead on Tuesday 9 February at 1900
Mike Stead is the author of the "Bradt Guide to Angola". He will be discussing living and travelling in a country which has only recently come out of a protracted civil war.
From the introduction:
"So what can the visitor expect when they go to Angola? The hackneyed phrase 'war-torn Angola' should be deleted and consigned to the recycle bin. (…) Angola is moving forward, reconstruction is taking place everywhere and there is a huge feeling of self-confidence, pride and optimism (…) Angola is keen to regain lost time and things are changing incredibly fast – travellers shouldn't waste another minute if they are keen to see its raw beauty."
He was recently interviewed by Sandi Toksvig on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage programme.
Tickets are £3 (includes wine). Contact the venue to reserve a place – The Travel Bookshop, 13-15 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 2EE, 0207 229 5260
Flights, visas, hotels, TV coverage, tickets etc for the CAN 2010 football championship in AngolaJanuary 3, 2010
Over the last few weeks I have been posting lots of articles about the CAN championship on this site. The easiest way to find the older entries is simply to click the blue CAN 2010 link in the tag cloud on the right hand side of this page.
Bradt Guide to Angola now available in the USAJanuary 1, 2010
Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now have the book in stock. Sorry you've had to wait so long for it.


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Project title: Characterization of Organophosphate Pesticides in Urine and Home Environment Dust in an Agricultural Community
Completed in: 2016 | Faculty advisor: Elaine M. Faustman
Background: Organophosphorus insecticides (Ops) are used widely on crops to control agricultural pests, but they can have harmful effects on humans. Farmworkers have higher exposures to OP pesticides than non-farmworkers living in the same community, due to their occupational exposure, and there is concern that farmworker children may in turn have higher exposure to Ops than non-farmworker children.
Methods: A community-based participatory research strategy was used in the Lower Yakima Valley o Washington state to identify 100 farmworker (FW) and 100 non-farmworkers (NFW adults, each with a referent child between the ages of 2 and 6 years. Farmworker adults worked as thinners or harvesters in apple or pear orchards. Parents and children participated in three data collection periods over the course of a year: three urine samples within five days were provided for each collection period, homes were vacuumed once each collection period, and vehicles were vacuumed once during two fo the collection periods. Urine was evaluated for the dialkylphosphate metabolites (DAP) characteristics of OP exposure, and dust was evaluated for intact OP residues.
Results: The geometric mean (GM) concentrations in house dust of four commonly used agricultural Ops were higher in farmworker households than in non-farmworker households across all three agricultural seasons. Farmworker households had higher GM concentrations of Ops in vehicle dust than non-farmworker households in thinning season, when Ops are applied most intensively. The GM concentration of urinary Dap was higher for children in farmworker households than non-farmworker households during thinning season. Regression analysis of log-transformed variables found a positive correlation between children's urinary DAP and OP residues in house dust in thinning season.
Conclusion: GM concentrations of Ops in house dust and vehicle dust were higher in farmworker households than non-farmworker households, especially in thinning season. Ops in house dust were a significant factor affecting the children's urinary DAP levels. This relationship was most significant during thinning season and was not observed during the dormant, non-spray season. These results provide support for the occupational take-home pathway of exposure by which children are exposed to agricultural pesticides used in the workplace.


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Yes, I know, a linear transformation is a function between vector spaces such that and where the vector space operations of vector addition and scalar multiplication occur in their respective spaces.
Previously, I talked about this classical example:
Consider the set endowed with the "vector addition" where represents ordinary real number multiplication and "scalar multiplication where and is ordinary exponentiation. It is clear that is a vector space with being the vector "additive" identity and playing the role of the scalar zero and playing the multiplicative identity. Verifying the various vector space axioms is a fun, if trivial exercise.
Then is a vector space isomophism between and (the usual addition and scalar multiplication) and of course, .
Can we expand this concept any further?
Question: (I have no idea if this has been answered or not): given any, say, non-compact, connected subset of , is it possible to come up with vector space operations (vector addition, scalar multiplication) so as to make a given, say, real valued, continuous one to one function into a linear transformation?
The answer in some cases is "yes."
Consider by , any real number.
Exercise 1: is a linear transformation.
Exercise 2: If we have ANY linear transformation , let .
Then .
Exercise 3: we know that all linear transformations are of the form . These can be factored through:
So this isn't exactly anything profound, but it is fun! And perhaps it might be a way to introduce commutative diagrams.


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This article highlights an issue that bedevils cooperative and condominium boards in the governance of their communities, and suggests an expedient legislative solution. The problem: Even when boards conclude that changes to a longstanding practice or policy are warranted to accommodate shifting needs, priorities, or demographics within the community, they are often stymied out of concern for residents who have been granted prior approvals and have adjusted their lifestyles based on those allowances. Examples include permission to harbor pets, sublet their apartments, maintain washers and dryers within their apartments, or permissions relating to smoking habits, each made in accordance with existing board policies.
For equitable or political reasons, boards frequently opt to grandfather in the existing rule or policy so that current residents who received certain allowances are permitted to retain their privileges until they naturally expire (e.g., their pet passes, their sublet term comes to an end, or their appliance cannot be repaired), while the new policy applies immediately to residents not granted prior approval or who prospectively enter the community.
The problem is, this expedient practice is strictly prohibited by New York's Business Corporation Law (BCL), Section 501(c), which mandates that "each share (of corporate stock) shall be equal to every other share of the same class." Inasmuch as there is typically only one class of stock in a residential co-op apartment corporation, this provision has been consistently construed to mean that no tenant-shareholder may receive preferential treatment relative to other tenant-shareholders in the administration of corporate policy. A two-tiered policy that permits accommodation through grandfathering to some shareholders, but not to others, is clearly preferential in nature and would be vulnerable to legal challenge.
This article suggests a solution to the dilemma by legislative amendment to the statute, which would permit the expedience of grandfathering to facilitate desirable governance changes within residential communities, while still preserving the fundamental mandate of parity among corporate stockholders of the same class. We believe that the time has come for the state Legislature to consider an amendment to BCL Section 501 (c) that would carve out an exception to the provision's applicability in situations where co-op boards amend their governance policies prospectively but elect to grandfather in accommodations made to existing shareholders under the policies then in existence. (An analogous provision should be incorporated into the Condominium Act).
Such an exception would not be unprecedented. The Legislature has already enacted a similar carve-out for "flip taxes" payable to residential co-op corporations. (See BCL Section 501 (c) (3)).
Absent legislative intervention of this nature, co-op and condo boards will be impeded in their efforts to operate their communities at optimum efficiency.
We strongly urge you to appeal to your state senators and assemblymen for adaption of this reform if you agree that it would facilitate governance of residential communities.
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Excel is a very powerful program that can do from the most basic calculations to advanced functions, it can create charts, do what-if analysis and help organise and interpret your data, and that is just scratching the surface.
Here are some Excel video tutorials to help you out.
Getting Started
- AutoFill to Copy Data, Values, Formulas and Functions. Also Create Series Easily
- Creating a formula – this is where you get to do some simple calculations, like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Using Autosum to Total Up a Column or Row of Figures
- Using the $ Sign in a Function or Formula to do Absolute or Mixed Referencing
- Using a Percentage in a Formula
- Naming Cells and Ranges
- Excel 2010 an Overview
- Conditional Formatting – Making Numbers Stand Out Excel 2003 | Excel 2010 (Part 1) | Excel 2010 (Part 2)
- Resizing Rows and Columns
- Multiple Lines in a Cell
- Headers and Footers in Excel 2010 and 2013
- Formatting numbers
- 3D Formulas – Using values from different worksheets and workbooks in one formula
- Formula Auditing – visually see how you created a formula with this useful tool
- Introduction to Functions (Windows)
- Introduction to Functions (Mac)
- SumIF and SUMIFS
- CountIF and CountIFS
- IF Function
- VLOOKUP Function
- HLOOKUP Function
- Using VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP Functions together
- PMT Function
- Date Functions
- Database Functions – DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX and DMIN
- Using the Today function to calculate someone's age
- Calculating the number of days between dates
- Text Functions
- Using text functions to split first and last name in a cell into two separate cells
- SUMPRODUCT Function
- AND Function
- OR Function
- Sorting
- Filtering – 2003 (2004 & 2008 for Mac) | 2010
- Subtotals
- Using Data Validation to Create a Drop Down List
- PivotTables
- Importing Data
- Exporting Data
- Comparing Data in Lists
- Removing Duplicate Entries in a List or Database
- Creating a Pie Chart (Excel 2003)
- Getting Started with Charts in Excel 2010
- Formatting a Data Series on a Chart
- Sparklines
What-If Analysis
- Goal Seek
- Scenario Manager
- Data Tables – One Input Data Table | Two Input Data Table
Macros and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)