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September 20, 2016

Ottawa Family Photographers – Outdoor Photo Session with the Mulhern’s

At Studio G. R. Martin, we love photographing families, especially families with pets! We are 100% pet friendly, so don’t leave your loved one at home. We also encourage you to come in for a consultation prior to the photo session so we can help prepare you better. At our outdoor photography studio, there are a lot of options and we highly recommend that you come prepared. We still have a few openings for our end of summer and fall family photography session. You can call us at 613-833-3335 or email us at  photoinfo@martinphotography.ca

We look forward to photographing your family (and your pet(s))

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October 18, 2015

Fall Family Session – Orleans Cumberland Outdoor Photo Studio

Last call for outdoor fall photography! If you did not book yet, now is the time! Thank you to all the families that braved yesterdays cold weather. Yes, it happened, our first snow fall during our morning family sessions. We got wind gusts, hail, rain and snow. But the determination of our families made it possible for us to continue the photo session outdoors ( with many trips to our indoor studio to warm up). The convenience of having both studio within seconds is what makes outdoor sessions possible even in bad weather. Don’t forget to dress comfortably, in layers and to apply makeup with no shine ( a mat look is always best for photography). Here is a look at a beautiful fall family session at our outdoor studio in Cumberland Ottawa!

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June 9, 2012

Outdoor family photography studio in Ottawa East, Ontario

We are spending a lot of time  at our outdoor photography studio. From Tuesday to Saturday , we have photo sessions everyday until the end of June. The days are long and we have lots of shade to photograph families at any time of the day. If it rains, we just keep taking photos in our 27 x 30 indoor studio! You can call us at 613-824-8525 to set up your free consultation.

Your Ottawa family photography studio,

Julie and Guy Martin, Studio G. R Martin Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

September 12, 2009

Outdoor family session at our Pond, Cumberland (Ottawa)

 Another beautiful photo session at our new outdoor studio/pond, in Cumberland, Ontario. You can’t beat the morning light in this location.
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May 20, 2009

New estate Studio & New Blog

Welcome to our new Blog !

This blog will be for customers, friends and photographers. A lot of information on “what’s happening behind the scenes” will be posted. We can’t wait to be working from our new location in Cumberland, Ontario.Coming up in the next week, we will show you photos of all our hard work we have done in preparing our new estate outdoor studio ( building the pond -preparing the rock garden-planting strategically ( all with photography in mind). Ottawa,Cumberland Portrait and wedding Photography Studio

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Friday, October 10, 2014

VeeamON 2014: A post-event challenge

Branded as the industry's first and only "Data Center Availability" conference, Veeam's freshman effort was a success by almost any measure.

Disclaimer: I work for a Veeam Partner and my conference attendance was comp'd in exchange for some marketing/promotional activities prior to the conference. I have also been a long-time user of Veeam Backup & Replication, since before my transition to the partner side of business due to my vExpert status in the VMware community.

Because I work for a partner, I arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5 to attend the partner-oriented social & networking events and to be ready for the 8:30am start on Monday morning for the partner keynote.

In a twist from other industry conferences I've attended, the keynote was MC'd by comedian Richard Laible, with a format intended to mimic those of late-night talk shows. It was successful, and the give-and-take between Richard and his "guest" was well-orchestrated and amusing.

In the first "interview," Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev was able to tell the story of the founding of Veeam, underscore the company's love of their reseller-partners and reaffirmed the company's longstanding policy of staying 100% "channel-based" (no customer may purchase directly from Veeam); most important, he talked about the shift of Veeam from being "merely the best" backup product for virtualization, but to strive towards producing the best availability product for the enterprise.

Other Veeam employees took to the stage, and customer success stories were played out. In other words, much like any other keynote.

The remainder of the day was filled with breakout sessions covering a wide range of topics--both technical and business-oriented--for the partner crowd. The obligatory sponsor exposition opened for a happy hour/dinner reception, which also capped-off the scheduled activities for the day.

The second full day of events (Tuesday) was opened with a second keynote which echoed much of the messaging in the Partner keynote, but with an obvious new audience: the customer & prospects attending the event. In addition to even more entertainment (a pair from X-Pogo performed), some additional features of the forthcoming Version 8 for the "Availability Suite" (a rebranding of the former Backup & Management Suite) were shared, as well as even more customer testimonials which underscored Veeam's commitment not just to protecting data, but to making good on their aim to create the "always available datacenter."

The remainder of the day was again filled with breakout sessions, again ranging from business to technical topics. The day was scheduled late, however, with the optional party at the "LIGHT" nightclub in the Mandalay Bay hotel.

The third and final day opened with breakout sessions, these principally seemed to be presented by sponsor partners rather than Veeam employees with Veeam-specific topics. None of the sessions I attended, however, seemed too far off-base at a Veeam-oriented conference: the connection and/or synergy between the sponsor's product & Veeam's products was clear by the end of the session.

A final keynote by's co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, was both humorous and insightful, and essentially closed out the conference.

There are many other posts out there with even more details and insight into the conference; check out my fellow #vDBer Mike Preston's series from the conference at for more insight and reporting.

My retelling of this is all to aim towards one thought: Veeam did a great job on their first conference. The content was relevant, the sponsors were invested and made sense, and it was both informative and entertaining.

Here's the challenge: What about 2015?

Unless the breakout catalog is significantly expanded, I'm not sure how many folks will want/need to attend a second year. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that no one will attend. On the contrary: if they repeated next year with a cookie-cutter duplicate of this year, anyone who a) didn't attend and b) wants to learn more about Veeam's products and how they can boost the availability of the datacenter would find their time well-spent.

I'm saying that everyone that went was a first-timer, and they got that spot-on. They can still fine-tune it, but next year's first-time attendee will get great value whether they change it or not.

No, the problem is getting repeat attendees. The conference can increase their first-time attendee counts simply based on positive word-of-mouth recommendations, but the top end for that will be reached far sooner than getting both those new attendees and the repeat (alumni?) attendees.

As it was, the number that was rumored prior to the conference—around 1200 people comprised of attendees & Veeam staff—seemed to have some validity. The conference space at the Cosmopolitan was sized well for the attendees, and it was never crowded or crazy like VMworld can feel (with almost 20x the attendance). But I can't imagine that Veeam is going to be content with putting on a two-and-a-half-day conference for "only" 1000 people. Yes, you want a multi-day conference to help justify the travel costs, but let's be honest: the VMUG organization has chapters that manage to put together single-day conferences for that number of attendees.

This isn't meant as criticism: I'm identifying the challenge they now face, and send the call-to-action to Veeam to plan next year's event—as far as I know, TBA for place & time, yet expected from Doug Hazelman's parting "See you next year at VeeamON 2015"—with the goals of both increasing the number of new attendees compared to the inaugural "class" from this year, as well as compelling most (if not all) of this year's attendees to return.

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Thursday, 28 February 2013

BBC – Liz Carr Presents ‘When Assisted Death is Legal” (Euthanasia Road Trip) Parts 1 & 2

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Liz Carr in Edinburgh last September and hearing her speak. Liz can be side-splittingly funny - but her message is never lost nor diminished. The following commentary by US Not Dead Yet's Stephen Drake on Liz's work with the BBC in producing two radio documentaries is worthy of note. As he says, the two part series is definitely worth more than one listen (links at the bottom):

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Unlike most people, who manage to be good at one or two things, Liz Carr is a broadcaster, actor, international disability rights activist, stand-up comedian and writer. Her latest acting gig is as forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery on the popular BBC One show Silent Witness.
We can now add documentarian to the list.
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Carr is presenting a 2-episode documentary on BBC World Service titled “Euthanasia Road Trip.”  Episode 1 has aired and is available to listen to on the BBC World Service site. Here’s how the site describes the documentary:
The debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is a passionate one. But as the discussions continue to rage around the world, there are a few places where assisted death is already legal. Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Oregon and Washington States in the US all have laws permitting assisted suicide or euthanasia in some form.
In this two-part documentary for the BBC World Service, actress and broadcaster Liz Carr goes on a personal journey to all six places to see how it works. As a long-standing campaigner against assisted suicide legislation in the UK, she wants to find out what assisted death means in practice – and whether she’s right to be concerned.
In part one, Carr travels to Switzerland, where she visits the rooms where volunteers help people die, and finds out why the Swiss law on assisted suicide goes back to the 19th Century. In Belgium she meets a doctor who admits to performing euthanasia before it was legal; and in Luxembourg, she finds out why the law on assisted suicide nearly caused a constitutional crisis. Carr questions whether it is possible to balance the right of the individual who wants to die with the responsibility of society to protect those who don’t.
I’ve listened to it twice through – and it’s excellent so far. Carr talks to family members of people who have died through assisted suicide or euthanasia, promoters of the legislation, physicians and disability activists. It’s far more even-handed than the pro-euthanasia documentary makers have produced. You’ll also learn more about the history of legislation and practice than you’ll ever read in a mainstream press article.
Carr’s interviews are great, and often revealing. Most interesting, so far, are her own reflections about her own opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia even as she engages with people who are completely comfortable with the practice(s).
After talking to two main advocates of euthanasia in Luxembourg who are obviously dissatisfied with the current parameters of the law (they would like to expand them), Liz Carr shares this  this terrific articulation of the slippery slope:
To me, this is what’s alarming about assisted death legislation; how easily a law can be changed once it’s introduced. The Luxembourg campaigners pushed for a law with strict limits and safeguards, which seems reasonable to most. But then the next step is to extend it to less straightforward groups like under-eighteens or people with dementia. Campaigners against assisted suicide like me often talk about the slippery slope. And I think this is what it means; Once a law’s in it’s unlikely ever to go away and when it gets extended it’s without all the debate and discussion that we have when it first goes through. It hasn’t happened in Luxembourg yet, they’ve only had five cases so far. But the way the people who pushed it through talk about the law makes me worried about the future.
Having listened to both parts of the “Euthanasia Road Trip” documentary at least 3 time through, I appreciate Carr’s work more than every. She had barely 50 minutes to work with – 50 minutes in which she covered 3 European countries and 2 American states.  All that and she managed to make it engaging and informative – I don’t think there’s a wasted minute. It’s a fantastic piece and can’t recommend it enough.
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Correcting an oversight in yesterday’s blog post, to the left is a picture of Liz Carr, shared with her permission, that was taken as she arrived at the “Holy Grail of assisted suicide tourism, the Little Blue House aka Dignitas” (taken from her description of the photo on Facebook).
In Part 2 of her Euthanasia Road Trip, Carr visits the Netherlands and then goes to the US states of Oregon and Washington, which both have legalized assisted suicide for a relatively narrow range of people.
In the Netherlands, Carr spends most of her time with NVVE – both with representatives and at a conference they hosted. NVVE is a “right to die” advocacy group in the Netherlands.  Carr notes how the practice of euthanasia has expanded over time in the Netherlands and where it seems to be going now:
About 3000 people died through euthanasia last year. About 3 percent of total deaths, a number which increases each year. They’re mainly cancer patients, but the latest discussion in the Netherlands is about extending the law to another group of people – the over 70s, who may not be ill or dying but are simply tired of life or as NVVE call it, people who have reached a “completed life.” (Quotation marks around term “completed life” added by editor)
After further discussion eligibility of those who have reached a “completed life” with an NVVE member, Carr tells us:
Completed life is going to be the next major debate in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands.
Once in the US, Carr interviews both proponents and opponents of assisted suicide – they’re informative and revealing. Among others, she interviews Barbara Coombs Lee of Compassion, and Choices, Kenneth Stevens of Physicians for Compassionate Care and disability activist/advocate Marilyn Golden. These are interviews you should listen to, even if you think you’ve heard it all from players in Oregon and Washington state. You’ll definitely hear some different slants and/or new info – I did.
While even proponents can’t point to any kind of hard evidence that the law has applied to a broader range of people than the law allows, the system in both states makes actual practices hard to verify. What will the future look like? Here’s Carr again:
So is it the case that once you introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia for one group that it’s naturally extended to others and that the numbers increase? People talk about a slippery slope in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia and I’m worried that that’s what it actually means – that once a law’s in, it’s much easier to extend it.
As it turns out, there’s plenty of reason to expect that to happen here in the United States, once the assisted suicide advocates feel that they’ve reached some kind of “critical mass” both in terms of the number of states legalizing assisted suicide and the amount of public support for it.
And that’s where we revisit the concept of “slippery slopes.” Carr has given us a brilliant and useful definition for one aspect – or definition – for the slope. As long-time readers of this blog might remember, “right to die” advocate Margaret Battin and colleagues published an article looking at the same countries Liz Carr did – and declared no evidence of a “slippery slope,” because their definition of the slope didn’t include “expansion of eligibility and practice.”
In the past, I’ve talked about another aspect or definition of the slippery slope – the “slippery slope” can be a political strategy, better known as an incrementalist strategy.
If you listen to Carr’s interviews and commentary, it’s clear that expansion of practices in the European countries didn’t just happen – there were – and are – groups that laid groundwork for the expansion.
There’s good evidence the same groundwork is being laid here.  For example, Compassion and Choices has an active campaign to promote VSED – Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking – for people who aren’t terminally ill but want to die.  So far, that means people who are elderly and “tired of living.”  They have also gotten hospice professionals on board to facilitate the process for elderly people who choose to end their lives this way.
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to predict that – within a few years – Compassion and Choices will switch gears.  They’ll point out that more and more doctors are cooperating with nonterminally ill patients who want to die through VSED.  They’ll add that – unfortunately – dying through VSED isn’t acceptable to a number of people.  The punchline will be this – “If these people who are “tired of life” have the right to starve themselves to death, shouldn’t they have the right to assisted suicide?”
For clarity’s sake, I’m not holding my formulation of slippery slope as better than the one Liz Carr ended up being concerned with.  I think they’re both valid and they’re both useful.  Carr backs up her definition with instances of how things have worked in other countries – that’s both new and extremely useful for us all.
Having listened to both parts of the “Euthanasia Road Trip” documentary at least 3 time through, I appreciate Carr’s work more than every.  She had barely 50 minutes to work with – 50 minutes in which she covered 3 European countries and 2 American states.  All that and she managed to make it engaging and informative – I don’t think there’s a wasted minute.  It’s a fantastic piece and can’t recommend it enough.

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Just-enough PM on a small background project may be more than you think
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Ah, those small, short, simple projects. (Aka in this blog, shorthanded as SSS for convenience.) Easy to manage! No paperwork! Just do it! Well, kind of. Certainly less paper (documentation)... Read More»

Automated Project Scheduling in Excel
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Have you ever wished you could see a simple project's tasks laid out on a calendar without wrestling with MS Project or similar scheduling software? Maybe you don't have scheduling... Read More»

Do you want to be a Project Ninja?
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I have been reviewing many Job Descriptions that are out there for Project Managers, and I realized the other day that if I was really graded solely on what was... Read More»

What Really Is A Project Manager?
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The longer I work in some form of a Project related role within any organization, the more I realize that the skills required to manage a Project to a successful... Read More»

Project Chronicles
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Documenting the good and bad within your project, with your stakeholders and teams is very beneficial. Through the process you will gain a strong historical account of events which can... Read More»

Think Simple Whenever Possible
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I recently went through the exercise of bringing on a contractor for a six month period to assist with an overload of analysis on various Project efforts. I am continuously... Read More»

Is This A Project Managers’ Favorite Task?
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You know what task I’m talking about. Your project is up and running, you’re moving on to another project, gearing up, getting organized, motivated, excited about the new project, just... Read More»

Vendor Data Requirements (continued)
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In the last article I started a discussion on Vendor Data Requirements and their importance to your project. This is the vendor data you require with their proposal and later... Read More»

Information Required To Get The Job Done
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Vendor Data Requirements In the last article, I talked about the Standard Component List and it’s importance to your project in helping make sure you get what you want and... Read More»

Don't Fumble That Handoff
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In honor of the impending (and long overdue) start of the college football season, I wanted to talk a little bit about project handoffs, specifically changing project managers in the... Read More»

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Sorenson's Ranch School Teacher Answers: "What is taking so long"

During the years that I have been teaching mathematics, I have noticed that many students complain about the number of problems in an assignment or the amount of time it takes to complete an assignment. I decided to look at the situation and see if the assignments I give are too long. I started by doing all of the assignments myself. I found that the average time it takes me to do the assignments is about 10 minutes. I worked every problem out completely, read all of the instructions, and checked my answers for correctness. I thought that if I could do an assignment in 10 minutes, then the students should be able to do it in 50 minutes. I decided that the assignments were not too long and should not require much time to complete.
I still needed to figure out what was taking so long for the assignments to be completed. While I was presenting to a class a few days later I asked the students what eight multiplied by seven is. I waited for a response, none came. I turned and looked at the students to see that they were all entering 8 x 7 into calculators. After a while the students started to give me the answer I was looking for. I thought that answers to questions like what is eight multiplied by seven should be automatic at the high school level. Having to use calculators was costing students time and making assignments seem longer. I decided to observe how often students use calculators on a problem and try to get a feel for the extra time spent entering things into them that they should already know. I had students work a multi-step problem on the whiteboard as I watched. I found that students seemed to know what to do, but used the calculator to perform all calculations. I observed that using the calculator to do simple calculations cost students from one to two minutes on every problem. If each assignment has around 25 problems, this is taking students an extra 25 to 50 minutes to complete an assignment.
I saw that students were using calculators to do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Due to the time that this was taking my students to complete assignments, I decided to implement a “mathematics daily basics” program. Each day, students are given five minutes to answer the questions on the whiteboard. These exercises are designed help students understand the basic rules for each of the four basic operations and learn to do simple operations quickly. I have noticed students completing work faster, and seem more confident in their answers. I feel that understanding the basics of mathematics, or any subject, is vital to understanding more advanced concepts. When students understand, their attitude changes toward mathematics, and they begin to enjoy it.
I’m not saying that calculators have no place in the classroom. Calculators open the door to solve more advanced problems and can enrich student learning. The goal of technology is to make life more efficient, not to make problems take longer. The debate on when it is appropriate to use calculators in a classroom is still going on, but professionals on both sides agree that students need to be able to perform basic operations without a calculator.
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Indonesia Takes Steps to Ease Licensing Process for Trade Companies

The Indonesian Ministry of Trade (“MOT”) has issued two regulations with the goal of simplifying the licensing process for companies and reducing the amount of time they must spend on such matters.

MOT Regulation No. 7/M-DAG/PER/2/2017 regarding the Third Amendment to MOT Regulation No. 36/M-DAG/PER/9/2007 regarding the Issuance of Trade Business License (“MOT Reg. 7/2017″) repeals the obligation for companies to re-register their Trade Business License (Surat Izin Usaha Perdagangan or “SIUP”). And MOT Regulation No. 8/M-DAG/PER/2/2017 regarding Company Registration Implementation (“MOT Reg. 8/2017″) seeks to simplify the process for renewing a Company Registration Certificate (Tanda Daftar Perusahaan or “TDP”). Both regulations have been in effect since January 22, 2017, and apply to all existing business entities.

Removal of SIUP Re-Registration

A SIUP license allows a business entity to engage in the trading business, such as selling and purchasing goods or services, or any transaction involving the transfer of ownership over goods or services. Previously, a business entity had to re-register its SIUP every five years, a requirement removed by MOT Reg. 7/2017. Now, once a business entity obtains a SIUP, the license will remain valid as long as the business entity engages in trading activities. The new regulation also stipulates that no fees shall be charged to businesses applying for a new SIUP, amending an existing SIUP or replacing a lost or damaged SIUP.

Simplified TDP Renewal

Every business entity that is located and operates in Indonesia must register with the Company Registration Office and receive a TDP. A TDP is valid for five years and must be renewed at least three months before its expiration date.

MOT Reg. 8/2017 seeks to simplify the TDP renewal process by requiring that applicants just submit a notification letter attaching a copy of the previous TDP to the relevant Company Registration Office, either in electronic format or manually. Within three working days as of the submission, the Company Registration Office shall issue the new TDP. In the event the TDP is not issued within three working days, the previous TDP is deemed applicable and renewed.

MOT Reg. 8/2017 stipulates that TDP renewal is free of charge.

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Oppositon to detention center expansion

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The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project put out a press release opposing the expansion of the Northwest Detention Center, which I wrote about last week.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) today expressed its opposition to the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to expand the capacity of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. According to local news reports, the private contractor which runs the facility, the GEO Corporation, will be expanding the capacity of the detention center by 50% so that it can hold up to 1,500 individual at a time.

"The widespread detention of individuals because of civil violations of immigration law is one of the clearest examples of how our current immigration system is failing," said Jorge L. Barón, NWIRP’s Executive Director. "Although many people in our community do not realize this, a significant proportion of the individuals detained at the Tacoma detention center have resided in the United States for many years and have either no criminal record or a record composed of only traffic offenses. Detaining these individuals while their cases are processed before the immigration court results in the needless separation of family members and makes it harder for people to obtain legal representation."

Around 90 percent of the individuals who are detained at the Tacoma detention center are unable to obtain an attorney to represent them in their deportation (or "removal") cases.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project provides presentations to individuals detained at the Northwest Detention Center through its Legal Orientation Program (LOP). During these presentations, detainees have the opportunity to learn about immigration court procedures and avenues to pursue legal immigration status. Detainees also have the opportunity to meet with a legal advocate who can access the person’s options in their individual immigration case. NWIRP staff attorneys are also able to take on a limited number of cases for direct representation before the immigration court.

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United Church in University Place is extending a special invitation to a Thursday night service to “those who are seeking to find meaning in the holidays, both personally or in response to the recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.”

“Longest Night/Blue Christmas: A Service of Solace” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at the United Church in University Place, 3912 Grandview Drive. W. This Christmas service offers a time when those who are seeking to find meaning in the holidays may join with others to find hope and comfort.

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The Magical Orange Bus Tour

With the arrival of my Tier 2 visa (a biometric permit, namely a card that you have to use when travelling along with your passport, I miss having stamped in them) I have finally started working full time as a UX designer at the Newcastle digital design agency Orange Bus. I started there a week or so ago, but as my visa was getting sorted out I carefully adhered to the 20 hours per week allowed on my Tier 4 student visa.

So why Orange Bus? A number of reasons. Firstly, after years in academia I came to the realisation that I missed the buzz and stimulus of studio, as well as the opportunity to learn off others. Also, I’m not properly finished with my PhD as of yet, so was keen to stay in Newcastle so as to keep some continuity (I have to be good and spend my evenings and weekends working on my thesis!).

I’d been made aware of Orange Bus thanks to their head of UX Joanne Rigby, who was active on the Newcastle UX circuit and even been involved in some of their local presentation days. It also helped that they’ve employed international workers in the past (my fellow UXer Sai had to sit out a three month labour shortage time in India, so I’ve had it pretty easy in regards to visas) and could walk me through the process. And to be honest, any studio that has a well used foosball table and Friday afternoon beer o’clock can’t be too bad a place to work at.

Orange Bus Foosball

This isn’t even the most recent table, it got replaced after if fell apart from hard use!

In the short time I’ve been there, I’ve learnt a lot about Google Analytics (even taking the free Google training course—get in quick, it closes on the 30th), email tracking codes, and using Windows 8. I’ve not opened a single MS Office app since I arrived: it turns out that it’s surprisingly easy and effective to use Google Drive for pretty much everything. Well, almost everything: there’s a point where you have to use InDesign for amazing documents. I’m going to be able to be involved in the setting up of a UX Lab as well, which will be pretty exciting.

Their new fangled studio in Milburn House near Central Station is pretty cool as well. One of my first memories of Newcastle when I arrived in 2010 was in fact with Milburn House: there was an architecture tour and we nearly got locked in the building! It’s interesting from an architectural perspective as its past as a maritime building reveals itself in the floor numbering system: rather than having 1,2,3, the lifts show levels A-F just as you would have in a ship.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed a lot of companies in Newcastle advertising to hire designers, UXers, and developers. I suspect that people have no idea that it’s not ‘grim up North’ at all: in fact the digital industry is thriving and employees are thriving too on the cheap and cheerful cost of living that’s made the area a favourite student city.

So, I’m looking forward to my experiences ahead with Orange Bus. And remember, if you ever ask me what I’m doing in the evenings or weekends, remind me that the proper answer should in fact be “working on my thesis”….

[EDIT] I thought that the closest song to the company’s name was the famous Beatles song. However, it’s been usurped—it turns out there’s a fun rock ditty (I say ditty as the band have probably forgotten the lyrics now) called “Magic Orange Bus”. Thank you Youtube!

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Bentley, MōVI & iPhones

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 I often tell young filmmakers that the best way to learn the art of directing, is to take their iPhones and go out and shoot a sequence or short.    That way, you won’t focus on the technical restrictions of lenses, camera support etc – you focus only on how you move the camera (and why) the length of each shot, and the art of sequencing…   Point is:  the lack of depth of field won’t make a good film…  the depth of your storytelling skills (not to mention the quality of the original story and screenplay) will!   This is a big focus on what we’re doing on tour right now, now on city 6 of 32.

Here is a great example of what an iPhone 5s, connected to a Freefly Systems  MōVI M5 can do – and just how good it can get.

Now to be frank:  I really don’t care what anyone shoots on… I just care about the result.   I think it’s often superfluous to talk about the cameras, lenses etc when the focus should be on story.   But this is a great example of that in an odd way as well:  the use of the cameras and movement when combined with an iPhone and MōVI show you where things will head in the future… smaller cameras, new camera support and innovations galore.    Because ultimately, none of your general audience cares about how your film was made – they just care if it holds their attention and entertains them.   That’s my opinion anyway.

You’ll see a little BTS at the end of the video below that shows how the video was shot – and edited on an iPad in the plush seats of a Bentley… "as you do!"


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The Sky is the Limit !!

Job Opening for Website Developer

A Company in Mumbai is hiring Website Developer

Job Description:

-Regular and constant communication with colleagues

-Strong understanding of UI

-Deep functional knowledge

-Strong grasp of e-commerce

-Experience in planning and developing

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Google Blogoscoped

Thursday, October 27, 2005 allows you to create your own tag clouds by providing a list of RSS feeds. The service then automatically extracts the most popular words from the feeds, and displays them as links of different size and color. Click on a word, and you are taken to snippets of the blogs covering this topic. While I’ve reported on this tool earlier this year I just now played around with it more and think it’s an incredibly cool site & idea.

Once you’ve created your own tag cloud, you can either link to it on the server. Or you can include a link to a CSS and a JavaScript so the tag cloud will be displayed on your own site. Before including your own cloud, note that the service can be incredibly slow the first time you call your page; after that, caching seems to speed it up a lot. (Speed is indeed the only drawback of this service; sometimes, there’s also a too-long delay between clicking on a tag and being able to see the results page.)

View the Google tag cloud. I’ve entered the feeds of all Google employees and official Google blogs I could find, as well as a few search related blogs (like Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Watch, Google Blogoscoped, and so on).

So what can this be used for, then? Tag clouds of a sub-set of all blogspace can help track the hot memes of the day for a certain “neighborhood.” But that doesn’t mean the bigger the link, the hotter the topic. E.g. when all you provide is a list of people discussing Apple, then naturally the word “Apple” will always be big & visible in the cloud... that alone doesn’t provide any new information (you might as well simply present new posts from your selection of feeds). However, if you now spot the tag “nano”, that would hint at a new Apple-related product.

What’s the technology behind the service? As the About page of the site tells, they’re making use of the Yahoo! API and its Content Analysis web service. This (also cool) service extracts the most important words and phrases for any given text*. The rest apparently is done with the usual LAMP approach (PHP and MySQL, in this case). TagCloud, launched by IonZoft – “a small group of developers and creative individuals located in Bellwood, PA” – credits John Herren for the original idea behind the service.

E.g. for the sentence “Italian sculptors and painters of the renaissance favored the Virgin Mary for inspiration”, Yahoo extracts “italian sculptors”, “virgin mary”, “painters” and others.

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HS FOOTBALL: Canyon’s Wolitarsky up to four scholly offers

Top receiver Drew Wolitarsky from Canyon High has picked up offers from Minnesota and Hawaii — big weather difference between the two schools — giving the 6-foot-3 senior-to-be a total of four offers including Army and Nevada.

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Interior alumni shine at Fusion + Fashion Show

The Best in Show entry. Photo credit: Joe Krummel Photography

Several DCTC alumni took home honors from the 11th annual Fusion + Fashion Show

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA)  Northland Chapter held its annual Fusion + Fashion Show Oct. 28th at U.S. Bank Stadium. Several Dakota County Technical College alumni participated in Project Runway-style competition.

The theme of the 2016 Fusion + Fashion show was “Through the Looking Glass,” inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The show challenges architects and interior and industrial designers from area firms to create garments out of materials associated with home interiors and building. This year, competitors were asked to incorporate a reflective wall covering material by Area Environments into their design.

Notable DCTC accomplishments include:

Suzanne Casler, a 2010 graduate of the DCTC Interior Design program, won the 2016 Best in Show with Studio Bauen.

Ann Fritz, a 2004 DCTC graduate, is the interior design director of the ESG which won Best Interpretation of Theme and Best in Show First Runner Up.

Jason Zielsdorf, 2016 graduate, and current student Abbey Burkel helped the BDH + Young team bring home awards for Most Wearable and Best Use of Surprise Elements.

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California Must Reckon With Its Long History of Drought

By Keith Kloor | January 27, 2014 12:29 pm

In recent days and weeks, we’ve been seeing similar-sounding headlines out of California, such as this:

Sacramento breaks 130-year old for low rainfall

And this:

LA is on track to set dry-weather record

Indeed, as my fellow Discover blogger Tom Yulsman noted last month:

We’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the official year-end precipitation numbers, but there is no question that 2013 will rank as the driest year in the state since recording-keeping began in 1894.

Now that this has come to pass, California weather watchers will be focused on what happens over the next several months, writes the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR):

Most of the state’s rainfall comes in the winter—roughly a third of the water used in California is drawn from the Sierra Nevada’s vast snowpack—so it’s the fall-through-spring totals that make or break things in the dry heat of summer.

Meanwhile, California Governor Jerry Brown has recently declared a “drought state of emergency.” During a press conference he said:

We’re facing perhaps the worst drought that California has ever seen since records began being kept about a hundred years ago.

It’s unfortunate that much of the discussion of this drought–reinforced by Governor Brown–is framed around such a short-term perspective. As UCLA geographer Glen MacDonald writes in this 2007 paper:

Instrumental records of climate and hydrology in western North America only span the last 100 years or so. They are too short to capture the full range of natural climate variability, drought behavior and drought impact. The instrumental records are also too short to provide evidence on the full range of potential forcing factors that could produce severe and prolonged droughts.

More illuminating are the tree ring records that MacDonald discusses in his paper, which reveal a series of mega-droughts periodically hammering California over the past millennium. This is not breaking news. Researchers have amply chronicled such mega-droughts (lasting decades and even hundreds of years) for California and the American Southwest. Geographer Scott Stine published a seminal paper on California’s prehistoric drought history in Nature two decades ago. Here’s the 1994 New York Times headline of the story covering that research:

Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California

Earlier this month, after announcing California’s drought state of emergency, Governor Brown told reporters:

It’s important to wake all Californians to the serious matter of the drought and lack of rain. We are in an unprecedented, very serious situation that people should pause and reflect on how dependent we are on the rain, nature and one other.

The residents of California may be facing an unprecedented situation in their lifetimes, but by no means is the drought they are experiencing unprecedented for California. Fortunately, this larger context is being reported by some, such as Bryan Walsh at Time, and Paul Rogers at the San Jose Mercury News.

Governor Brown missed an opportunity to educate California residents about the full history of the landscape they inhabit–an important, cautionary history that today’s Californians may eventually be forced to wake up to.

Below is the U.S. Drought Monitor for California last week.

U.S. Drought Monitor forCalifornia

  • D0 – Abnormally Dry
  • D1 – Moderate Drought
  • D2 – Severe Drought
  • D3 – Extreme Drought
  • D4 – Exceptional Drought

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  • Bill C

    from bryan walsh article you linked to:

    “Ingram notes that the late 1930s to early 1950s—a time when much of the great water infrastructure of the West was built, including the Hoover Dam—may turn out to have been unusually wet and mild on a geologic time scale”

    that is very interesting in the context of ocean cycles.

  • Buddy199

    Southern California is a desert, San Bernadino looks like the Mars Rover pictures. Deserts do get very dry and hot, no surprise there.

  • Tom Scharf

    Wow, an entire article about drought, and you didn’t even mention global warming once. I’m proud of you, ha ha.

  • Captain America

    California is overpopulated, and there is no restraint on growth. Something has to give.

  • Cheryl

    Finally in approval here…. and on track in Carlsbad

    • Bill C

      I was wondering about desal….at the risk of sounding like a cornucopian, I think we’d see a lot of desalination before we have mass evacuations of the Southwest. And California is closer to the ocean than Arizona.
      Coming next…spray-on sewage snowpack!

      • Cheryl

        Lived out here for 30 yrs. and they have been talking about this plant for that long, finally in construction. I drive buy it weekly…right across from the ocean. No one that I know is going anywhere :) They will figure it out in Arizona….

  • David Skurnick

    Great post! Given that history, resources should be used to build additional reservoir capacity. Instead. CA is cutting CO2 emissions, even though the steps taken in that direction will have utterly negligible benefit to the state. Oh, and we’re also committed to a train boondoggle.

    • alexaisback

      David, perhaps you do not understand the issue fully.
      You see if you cut CO2 you can control the weather. That is the central goal of the administration and global warming.
      The Government can then make it rain when they want. That is the goal. Control the rain and you do not need a reservoir. Control the weather and you do not need to worry about global warming or anything else.
      The Government has this well in hand, the current administration is genious. They control the money and our economy via the Fed so everything is perfect, they control heath care so everything is better and less expensive and every one will live longer, and soon they will have full control over the weather.

    • Alec Sevins

      Yeah, any cuts in CO2 emissions in any given region will be dismissed by science-deniers as “utterly negligible” even though CO2 mixes throughout the global atmosphere. Just another way to ignore the evidence and try to geo-engineer nature into submission. Man tends to create an endless series of problems that way, all to support the unsustainable fantasy of endless population/economic growth.

      • David Skurnick

        Alec — You’re concerned about climate change, so you should hope for a method that will actually work. Calling me a “denier” isn’t helpful. To be on the side of science, one needs to talk in the language of science, namely mathematics.
        CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It warms the planet. Cutting our CO2 emissions will mean less warming. However, the key question is, How much less?
        The plan propounded by the EPA and Mr. Obama is fairly rigorous. Even so, when one looks at the climate models, this plan (if fully implemented) would mean a difference in global temperature in the year 2100 of only 0.018 degrees C. This is a tiny amount. The CO2 emissions in China, India and other under-developed nations will cause much larger increases in global warming.

        • Alec Sevins

          That’s right, let’s blame China and do nothing at home to set an example for them. America is still a huge CO2 contributor and if you grasped the full situation you’d not try to pass the buck.

  • bobito

    I’ll at least give Gov Brown credit for adding the caveat “since records began being kept about a hundred years ago.”

    We NEVER see such caveats after one says something about “the X warmest year ever.”

  • mem_somerville

    This gives me chills, from Walsh’s piece:

    Altogether, agriculture uses around 80% of the state’s developed water supply.

    It doesn’t matter where the blame goes, what matters is they produce an awful lot of food.

  • JH

    Well, as Keith notes here, the entire SW is subject to such droughts. Much of the farming in both Cali and the SW is possible because of water mega-projects like the Central Arizona project, which, last I knew, were delivering water at well below cost.

    In the mean time, here in the wet PNW, naturally well-watered farm land is being paved over at an alarming rate. It’s being paved over because the land is more valuable for strip malls and housing developments than it is for farming. And – perhaps – it’s more valuable for shopping centers because food prices are artificially depressed by the low prices farmers pay for water from the SW water projects.

  • Buddy199

    Not all droughts are the result of natural climate variability. California’s San Joaquin Valley farming region is experiencing a drought that was deliberately legislated into existence:

    • Alec Sevins

      You made two dumb comments in one post: the implication that AGW doesn’t exist, and a conspiracy theory about water that implies saving a fish is unnecessary, to gloss over the larger issue of human overpopulation. Brilliant.

      Do you have any clue that the world is finite and humans are vastly overpopulated? California is a textbook case of people crashing into physical limits, but just as with AGW the evidence gets ignored.

  • Uncle Al

    1) 20 million tonnes of Fukushima flotsam covering a Texas-sized area of the North Pacific reflect sunlight back into space. Add cold meltwater from Alaska. A cold Pacific generates dense high pressure systems, pushing the jet stream north and stifling the Pineapple Express. The Sierra snowpack will be a no-show for years.

    2) The Central Valley is desert growing rice in flooded paddies. Its water consumption is immense. You can save the Socialist Dutchy of California by not watering your lawn, not bathing, not flushing your toilet, and paying the Carbon Tax on Everything.

    3) California proves the desiccation and incineration of Global Warming. East of the Rockies, the coldest winter in recorded history (“only span the last 100 years or so“) is only weather. Revelation 22:7: Gauged, renormalized, perturbation theoried, dualed, promoted into higher dimensions, exhaustively peer reviewed and published. “I’ll be right back.” It’s only been 2000 years.

  • Tom Yulsman

    Great post Keith! This perspective often is missing from discussions about what’s happening in California.

  • J M

    Steve McIntyre had a post on fallen California lake kevels during MWP. Lake levels for much lower than today for 200 years and forests grew 100 feet below present surface:

    “The author of this paper has discovered large trees rooted at a depth of 36.5 m (120′) below the existing surface level of Fallen Leaf Lake. Fallen Leaf is one of the major watershed areas for Lake Tahoe. Some of these trees measure over 30 m (98′) tall with a circumference of over 4.5 m (15′), which is an indication that they were over two hundred years in age when they died. The significance of this discovery is the fact that for these trees to be rooted below the surface of the lake, the lake must have been down at least 36.5 m for over two hundred years. ….The carbon dating of the raised tree samples indicated that the tree died in A.D. 1215 ± 40 years….”

  • Loren Eaton

    I lived in Sacramento between 1987 and 1993 and it was dry in the valley and the mountains got very little snow in the winters. And then it ended in a big way…with ridiculous rain and flooding. This will end. And those of us on the east coast are getting hammered by this pattern.

    • Alec Sevins

      California is still overpopulated and projected to have at least 20 million more people by mid-century (reckless and insane). Regardless of drought stages or assumptions of relief, there are too many people and the whole economy is based on mindless growth.

  • larryboning

    There are very few broad environmental issues in the world today that couldn’t be solved, at least in part, by sensible action on overpopulation. It is the one thing that each individual on the planet can do their part to impact. Unfortunately, most people have as much difficulty discussing procreative responsibility as their own mortality.
    Guess what, within our lifetimes, those issues will become linked . Worldwide. It must be asked: How much of an impact would the current cycle of drought have on, say, a 1950 population? How much better a place to live was California then? The earth is only so big. Endless population growth has a logical end. That ending can be achieved painlessly — or it will come like a severe blow to the head.

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Lost in Translation

By Sean Carroll | November 22, 2006 12:19 pm

I love the internets, because they know more about the ancient Greeks than I do. Timaeus is one of Plato’s Socratic dialogues, the one that deals with the origin of the universe. (Long story short: the demiurge created our universe, but not out of nothing; rather, by organizing some of the pre-existing chaos.) It’s also where Plato talks about Atlantis, and has remained popular for that reason. I don’t know much about Plato, but I do know something about the creation of the universe, so I’ve been invited to a conference on Timaeus to be held in Urbana next year. Which means, I suppose, that I should actually read the thing.

But my ancient Greek is rusty, so I’ll be reading it in translation. Anyone who has made any non-trivial effort to read classics in translation knows that the particular translation makes all the difference in the world — two different translators can render the same text as stilted and incomprehensible or cogent and compelling. But how to choose? I’m not so dedicated to this project that I’m going to pick up six different translations and compare them side by side.

Fortunately — the intertubes have already done it for me! We’ve reached that lovely critical point at which, given any question you have, someone has answered it on a web page somewhere, and Google can lead you to it. A bit of poking around led me to this page by Joseph Wells. He seems more interested in arguing about the existence of Atlantis than in addressing the qualities of different translations, but whatever — I didn’t say your questions would be answered intentionally. The page lists side-by-side tiny excerpts from the Timaeus in six different translations, so you can compare for yourself. For example:

Jowett 1871 Taylor 1793
for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; For at that time the Atlantic sea was navigable, and had an island before the mouth which is called by you Pillars of Hercules. But the island was greater than both Libya and all Asia together, and afforded an easy passage to other neighbouring islands; as it was likewise easy to pass from those islands to all the continent which borders on this Atlantis sea.
Bury 1929 Lee 1965
For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, ‘the pillars of Heracles, there lay an island which was larger than Libya3 and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For in those days the Atlantic was navigable. There was an island opposite the strait which you call the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), an island larger than Libya (Africa) and Asia combined; from it travelers could in those days reach the other islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean.
Kalkavage 2001 Zeyl 2000
For at that time the ocean there could be crossed, since an island was situated in front of the mouth that you people call, so you claim, the Pillars of Hercules. The island was bigger than Libya and Asia together, and from it there was access to the other islands for those traveling at that time, and from the islands to the entire opposing continent that surrounds that true sea. For at that time this ocean was passable, since it had an island in it in front of the strait that you people say you call the Pillars of Heracles. The island was larger than Libya and Asia combined, and it provided passage to the other islands for people who traveled in those days. From those islands one could then travel to the entire continent on the other side, which surrounds that real sea beyond.

What more could you ask for? On this basis I’m going for the Zeyl translation, which seems to read the most like something that could have been written in English. I kind of like “navigable” rather than “passable,” but you can’t have everything.

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  • http://vacua.blgospot.com Jim Harrison

    In the 20th Century, most students were introduced to Plato via the Apology and the Republic. For most of the past couple of millennia, however, the Plato that mattered was the Timaeusâ€”it was pretty much the only Plato available to the Christian West until the Renaissance. If any book was ever influential…

    Over and beyond its significance for intellectual history, the Timaeus also contains one of few basic exemplars of what a mathematical physics might look like. When I read accounts of string theory, I’m always reminded of the geometrical atomism of the Timaeus. I’ll be very interested to read your thoughts on the dialogue after the conference.

  • http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jbj Berian James

    Sean –

    …which seems to read the most like something that could have been written in English.

    I’m intrigued that you’ve picked one of the most recent translations – do you think there is a hidden prejudice among anyone reading in translation to use a rubric that likes ‘modern’ language, however subtle the shades between versions might be? The abundance of semicolons in the Jowett reading jumps out at me as very unorthodox today, but I can’t grasp how you would mechanistically decide that Zeyl is more like unfabriacted English – unless, of course, you mean that it is most similar to the language we hear and read in 2006.

    (I hereby disclose the utter paucity of my knowledge about Plato, ancient Greek or translation and linguistics in general.)

  • http://quasar9.blogspot.com/ Quasar9

    Sean, not forgetting of course that in the grander picture, ie: looking at earth from space – the continent we know as America (north america & south america) is just one giant ISLAND between the waters (of the Atlantic and pacific oceans) separated by the panama canal.
    Remember when the conquistadors ‘discovered’ Mexico City some 500 years ago, it was already a vast city of some one million people, built on a lake

    The continent we know as Africa (the side of the pillars of Hercules known as Lybia) is another island
    Eurasia (gibraltar, the other side of the pillars of hercules) is another very large island.
    Australia the smallest (continent) island

    And if we really really want to be picky, Earth is Earth, and the waters or Oceans no more than seas or big lakes, above the sea bottom.

  • Blaine

    Interesting that you choose this…

    “in front of the strait that you people say you call the Pillars of Heracles.”

    In my humble opinion that sentence would sound terribly awkward in any century. There is something about using the word “you” twice that makes the words stumble in my mind.

    Personally, I like the Taylor. In my mind I hear grand rolling tones inspired by wonder. But hey, what do I know? I suppose whatever best gets across the meaning to you.

    Pardon the aimless meanderings….

  • Asher

    I feel that in selecting a Timaeus, the most vital thing is to have good explanatory footnotes with diagrams. It makes all the difference in the world.

    Also, interestingly, I prefer the Jowett, as it sounds in English the most like Greek. Especially with all the semicolons.

    Finally, you do know that all of the major classical works are available (in original language and translation) at Perseus, right?

  • http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/blog/ Rob Knop

    He seems more interested in arguing about the existence of Atlantis than in addressing the qualities of different translations, but whatever â€” I didn’t say your questions would be answered intentionally.

    I like the concept of being given the information you wanted unintentionally….

    Historically, a lot of careful astronomy was done for astrological purposes. They needed careful star positions to cast horoscopes. Real astronomers have no interest in horoscopes, but it is nice that things like the precession of the Earth were figured out….

    (I mean, if Tycho Brahe could be employed as an astrologer, well, maybe that’s kinda embarassing… but Kepler _did_ use his data to come up with an elegant set of empirical laws that did a great job of describing planetary orbits!)

  • http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2005/11/timaeuslaying-ground-rules-on-genesis.html Plato
  • http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ B

    Also an interesting translation I came across recently:

    The Nobel Prize Medal for Physics and Chemistry

    The inscription reads:

    Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes

    loosely translated “And they who bettered life on earth by new found mastery.”

    (Word for word: inventions enhance life which is beautified through art.)
    (From Nobelprize.org)

    I wonder where and when beautified through art became by new found mastery?

    Besides this it’s noteworthy that the reverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Physics features a bare-breasted woman :-)

  • http://geezerfud.livejournal.com/ Dean

    For insight into translation, you might want to check out Hofstadter’s “Le Ton Beau de Marot,” which, despite its title, is written in English. It has several parallel sequences, as in this post.

    Hofstadter tends to come across as pretentious and even precious, but most of his passages are so excellent that the occasional excursion can be ignored.

  • http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ John Baez

    The Timaeus is one of the most amazing books on the planet.

    To read it, you have to do your best to pretend you’re in Greece and it’s 360 BC. If you can’t pretend that, you need to read a bit about classical Greece. Read some Greek myths! And then, you’ll have your mind blown by this guy, Socrates – the figurehead for Plato – who describes a plan for understanding the universe by rational thought. Things like atoms… things like mathematics… and even better, the idea that the theory he’s describing is just a theory – it’s probably not right, just a step in the right direction! He’s not just propounding a theory. He’s propounding the idea of a theory.

    It will seem weird, old-fashioned, and bizarre. Lots of it will seem downright goofy. You have to resist your temptation to snicker. You have to remember that most things which seem “obvious” to us were not known in 360 BC. You have to remember that everything we say will seem equally stupid in the year 4366 AD. If you forget this, you’ll be blind to the incredible achievement, the incredible advance, that this book represents.

    I can’t imagine reading any translation other than Jowett.

  • http://arunsmusings.blogspot.com Arun

    “Historically, a lot of careful astronomy was done for astrological purposes. They needed careful star positions to cast horoscopes. Real astronomers have no interest in horoscopes, but it is nice that things like the precession of the Earth were figured out….”

    I thought all that was done for the calender.

  • http://www.amara.com/ Amara

    Dean beat me to the recommendation of Hofstadter’s _Le Ton Beau de Marot_, where Hofstadter gives 88 different translations (French to English) of the short 1537 get-well poem of Clement Marot. That particular Marot effort emerged from his involvement in the translation of his classic _Goedel, Escher, Bach_ into other languages. In Marot, he explores what is involved with poetry translation and how he sees translation as a means to understand human language and human thought. His translations explored many dimensions of what it might mean to capture the intent of the original. He became very interested in the translation concepts, so then after _Le Ton Beau de Marot_, he applied what he learned and undertook the translation of Pushkin’s classic _Eugene Onegin_ from Russian into English. Hofstadter is not a poet, but I am very impressed by what he accomplished. He used the project as a way to become more proficient in Russian, which he wasn’t before, in addition to using the project to study the nature of communication and translation of ideas and language.

    What does it mean to interpret or translate another person’s creative work? The first question to ask of the translator “is he/she true to the original?” If the originator is dead, then one must spend years in studying all of the historical environment to express the work close to the original. If it is not possible to translate the meaning then the viewer/reader/listener/etc. must accept that the translated/interpretted work is “derivative” or “evolved-in-time”. Observing interpretations of creative work over time can be interesting, anyway, for learning about that society in historical contexts.

    In the music world, musicians and conductors have to face this situation every day when interpreting works from long-dead composers. For example, I would prefer (the contemporary musician) Nigel Kennedy’s renditions of works of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Sibelius over any other classical musician at any other time. I think that poetry is more difficult to translate and interpret from the original than music I think that it is tied much deeper to the language and to the culture and other social contexts than music. Form, rhythm, rhyme, and embedded meanings within meanings would need to be translated.

    Consider form of the Shakespearean sonnet. The lyric poem is divided in 4 ways, three quatrains (4-line verse), each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually alternating lines, and a concluding “couplet” at the end that rhymes. The couplet at the end is often a commentary on the preceding quatrains. Can you imagine the complexity of such a translation?

    In Le Ton, Hofstadter succeeds in translating Le Ton out of French, where it has rhythm and rhyme, into English so that it still has rhythm and rhyme. Hofstadter gave a talk at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Calif. some years ago, when he talked about his translation approach. For a long time, he said that he stayed to the original syllable counts, since it was a particular French style with short lines. He tried changing that restriction, since English seemed to need more syllables to say the same things as French. He also varied vocabulary, strictness of rhyme, how closely he stuck to the original metaphors, and quite a bit more.

    I read an English version of Pushkin’s _Evgenij Onegin_ many years ago, but I am particularly interested to read Hofstadter’s version because of his obsessive attention to these dimensions. Some colleagues told me that there is an excellent Italian translation that promotes an Italian word-play on the ideas that ‘improve’ the original in a way that Pushkin would have approved. In particular, in Italian, the plural possessive pronoun for his/her is “suoi”, making a mystery of the gender, so when the poem jumps from Evgenij to Tatjana and vice versa, you do not know if suoi occhi are the eyes of Evgenij or Tatjana, adding an uncertainty to the already existing play in the dialogue between the characters while they are expressing their love. My Italian colleague thinks that such ‘imnprovement’ proves that the translator entered in the ‘soul’ of the original.

    Another amazing example of translated poetry is in the translated work of Stanislaw Lem, from Polish to English of _Cyberiad_. In this story are two robots engaging in a poetry duel. One of the robots has been challenged to write a poem about a haircut. His/its challenge is to write one that is lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treacher, retribution, and quiet heroism in the face of certain doom. It must be rhymed with every word beginning with the letter ‘s’. It’s so amazing and delightful, that here I must quote from the book.

    Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
    She scissord short. Sorely shorn,
    Soon shackled slave, Samson signed,
    Silently scheming,
    Sightlessly seeking
    Some saveage, spectacular suicide.

    “Well what do you say to that?” asked Trurl, his arms folded proudly. But Klapaucius was already shouting:

    “Now all in g! A sonnet, trochaic hexameter, about an old cyclotron who kept sixteen artificial mistresses, blue and radioactive, had four wings, three purple pavilions, two lacquered chests, each containing exactly one thousand medallions bearing the likeness of Czar Murdicog the Headless…”

    “Grinding gleeful gears, Gerontogyron grabbed/Giggling gynecobalt-60 golems,” began the machine, but Trurl leaped to the console, shut off the power and turned, defending the machine with his body.

    “Enough!” he said, hoarse with indignation. “How dare you waste a great talent on such drivel? Either give it decent poems to write or I call the whole thing off!”

    “What, those aren’t decent poems?” protested Klapaucius.

    “Certainly not! I didn’t build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That’s hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as diffiicult as you like …”

    Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:

    “Very well. Let’s have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.”

    “Love and tensor algebra? Have you taken leave of your senses?”

    Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

  • http://vacua.blgospot.com Jim Harrison

    For the new edition of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, a seminal work on the origin and significance of modern nationalism, the author has written a last chapter that discusses what became of the book as it was translated into most of the major and many of the minor languages of the world. Discussions of translation are often written by the consumers of translations and sometimes by the translators themselves. It’s interesting to get the perspective of one of the victims/beneficiaries of translation for a change, especially since Anderson doesn’t presume to have an unlimited license to bitch about his interpreters. (“Imagined Communities is not my book any more.”) I wonder what Plato would have to say about the various Timaeuses?

  • http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2005/11/timaeuslaying-ground-rules-on-genesis.html Plato

    John Baez:Things like atoms… things like mathematics… and even better, the idea that the theory he’s describing is just a theory – it’s probably not right, just a step in the right direction! He’s not just propounding a theory. He’s propounding the idea of a theory.

    I think this is where Aristotle comes into the picture and empiricism? The loftiness belongs to Plato, and the idea?

    But sure, reading so many of our scientist forbears, then how could we not find that pieces of the dialogues has been repeatly sent down the lines scientists in learning or to invoke different kinds of thinking? Holography and Gerardus T’ Hooft?

    It rubbed off on me.

    In terms of translation then?

  • Paul Valletta

    What is really astounding, is the thoughts revealed about:

    and the reference to past-histories, specifically Memory.

    The recent inquiry by a London Doctor (I dont recall his name, but know he was a Dr at a top london childrens hospital), which researched, and has specific proof that ancestors, pass on the life experience memory, via human gene’s. He found evidence that a living person (somewhere in I believe Norway), was recalling events of an ancestor, of some generations past, informations of a real-world event, was somehow encoded into the gene’s that was past on to following generations ?

    Plato’s allagory? of:The Transigration of the Soul, appears to be a very astounding action of pre-cognitive thinking, WRT past events baring influence on one’s own perceptive actions of reality?

    Whilst this recent discovery (I will find the link detailing the full documented Dr/data),seems to me as pretty far fetched, I now find myself reading this thread, with all the related links to Plato’s Republic, and am ashamed to state that I have had a copy of the said Republic, for quite a number of years, and have never prised it open to reveal it’s obvious amazing content, this will be rectified instantly.

  • Belizean

    I can’t imagine reading any translation other than Jowett.

    I’d have to agree. Not so much because of his superior translations (though I do like them) but because I’m so used to him. It’s kind of like seeing a particular actor in a role. If she does a good job, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the part.

  • http://brave-new-words.blogspot.com/ Brett

    You wrote that you chose the text “which seems to read the most like something that could have been written in English”. Whether that is what one necessarily looks for in a translation is a question, though. Similarly, Amara said “The first question to ask of the translator “is he/she true to the original?”” But what does that mean? What does being “true to the original” involve, exactly? Some would say that it means doing a word-for-word translation; others say it is sense-for-sense. Still others think that being true to the original really means doing whatever it takes to bring the text to the reader. And so on…
    Many people aren’t even aware of the fact that they are reading work in translation, so I applaud the fact that you are carefully choosing a translation to read!

    Best wishes,
    Brett, a translator

  • http://valatan.blogspot.com bittergradstudent

    I have to agree with those above recommending Jowett–he’s the standard translation that everyone in Philosophy starts with, at least until they bother to learn ancient Greek. I wish I had the time to read more Plato

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WCC General Secretary Calls for Reversal of Israeli Knesset law Categorizing Palestinian Christians

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Peace Not Walls
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World Council of Churches
19 March 2014 – Joining voices of the churches in Palestine and Israel, the World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has expressed “grave concern” about a law recently passed by the Israeli Knesset or parliament.

The law passed by the Knesset on 24 February would define the status of Palestinian Arab Christians in the state of Israel.

Top officials of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land have said that this new law “introduces a distinction between Christian and Muslim Palestinians and states that Christian Palestinians are Christians and not Palestinians”.  The church added: “This campaign clearly has as its aim to divide Christians from their Muslim compatriots. However, it is equally dangerous because it will divide Christians among themselves even further,”

In a statement issued on 18 March, Tveit called on “Israeli authorities to reverse this law to stop an injustice against the Christian citizens of Israel”.  He encouraged the WCC member churches to “raise this issue with representatives of Israel and with their own governments”, urging reversal of this law.

Tveit said that this law establishes a “legislative distinction between the indigenous Palestinian Arab Christians and Palestinian Arab Muslims, both of whom are citizens of the State of Israel”. This distinction, he stressed, is an “unacceptable severing of entire communities from their cultural identity”.

Tveit added that the “Knesset has transgressed all proper distinctions between state and religious authority by attempting to define the nature and character of Christian communities within Israel against their own will and self-understanding”.

Warning of the adverse implications of this law, Tveit said that “rather than creating divisions among communities, the Knesset should pave the way for breaking down barriers that divide people according to ethnicity and religion.” Tveit echoed heads of the Catholic Church in Israel, who stressed that “it is not the right or the duty of the Israeli civil authorities to tell us who we are”.

The WCC has long affirmed the right of religious communities to define themselves, condemning the manipulation of religious identity for political gains.

Read full text of the WCC general secretary’s statement
Statement on Knesset law by he Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries
WCC’s Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum
WCC programme “Churches in the Middle East”


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Вес и долголетие

How much longer will you live for every kilogram lost?According to a recent study, you are going to live 2 months longer for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) lost. Longevity indeed depends on your slim waist line, in addition to some other major contributing factors.

Lose 1 kilogram and live 2 months longer

To arrive to such clear-cut conclusions, researchers from the University of Edinburgh analyzed genetic information from over 600,000 people along with their parents’ lifespan records.

As people share half of the information from their parents’ genes, the research team was able to compute the influence on different genes with regards to life expectancy, Science Daily reported.

Choices in lifestyle have impacts on certain parts of human DNA.

For instance, mutations in genes are linked to high alcohol consumption as well as addictions. The scientists then worked out which lifestyle choices have the greatest impact on a person’s lifespan.

Academics set to rule out possibilities that any studied connections could exist because of a separate but linked factor.

This let the researchers pinpoint the exact lifestyle factors that cause individuals to live a longer life and the ones that are sure to shorten it.

Smoking is the thing that kills the fastest

The team discovered that cigarette smoking, as well as traits linked to lung cancer, is the greatest influencer on people’s shorter lifespan, from all the factors known.

Those who gave up smoking can eventually expect longer lives. In fact, their longevity may achieve the length of life similar to people who never smoked.

If you are going to live a long and happy life, today is the perfect day to give up smoking.

Extra weight and poor diet negatively affect longevity

You are probably aware that body fat and other influencers linked to diabetes have a negative impact on human life expectancy.

So, you might ask how much longer will you live if you lose weight?

The study identified a couple of new DNA differences, which affect human longevity.

  1. The first is a gene that affects your blood cholesterol levels and linked to an increased levels of it. If you have this unfortunate gene, it lessens your lifespan by around 8 months.
  2. The second is a gene that is linked to your immune system helping it to fight illnesses. If you are lucky to have it, this adds around a year to your life expectancy.

Dr. Peter Joshi, University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute Chancellor’s Fellow, revealed that they estimated losing a kilogram of your weight will increase your life expectancy by 2 months.

On the other hand, smoking a pack of cigarettes each day cuts your lifespan by 7 years.

Thus, the research team suggested that an increase of one BMI unit reduces your lifespan by 7 months.

Other factors affecting longevity

One major factor that will help you live longer is having a partner. Men are especially susceptible to the “loneliness epidemics”, which is blamed for shorter lives in single guys.

This means not an Internet chat buddy but a real woman who lives with you, guys. One major factor of longevity is oxytocin, which is the hormone linked to human touch. Simply holding hands with a partner have been proven to be a mild anaesthetic.

Besides, men in committed relationships not only live longer but also feel happier. It may seem scary to venture into unknown in order to find a partner in Russia or Ukraine, but it is sure scarier to die an early death.

How to live a longer and happier life?

  • Start with giving up smoking, if you still favour this “bad habit“. This will also help you to score with women, who dislike the smell of cigarettes (which includes all non-smokers). Plus, the money you save you can use on spoiling your Slavic princess.
  • Lose some weight and enjoy more attention from gorgeous women and longer life as the result (both due to health reasons and social impacts of having a partner). In just 3 months you are able to lose up to half of your body weight though moderate exercise and healthy diet. This will dramatically improve your chances with pretty ladies, who prefer guys without beer bellies. In Russia and Ukraine, a man is not expected to be good looking: The local proverb states, “A man should be just slightly better looking than a monkey.” So, your body shape is important, while the actual looks are not that influential. Besides, losing weight will also allow you to enjoy intimacy more!

Finding a loving and affectionate partner in Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus is perfectly doable.

There are thousands of real women who seek genuine serious relationship and lifetime partnerships. All you  need to do is to simply follow the proven steps.

Good luck!

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Well, at least I’m happy that I’ve given up smoking about a month ago. Even though I’m a woman, I suppose these advice are applicable to both men and women. It’s helpful for everyone to lose a couple of killograms and get rid of bad habits. Some attention to health never hurt anyone!


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Mixing Things Up- Spring Recap

Spring for me is not about following a training plan; it is about staying active and doing whatever I feel like doing on that day. When it was raining, I would do something inside—when I was tired, I would do nothing—when I was antsy from studying all day, I would go on a long adventure. I decided my “training plan” in the moment, while making sure I was still building up running to prepare for the summer.

Mud season!
What the most of spring term looked like…a good way to get work done.
Perks of a lot of rain…rainbows.

I took “moderation in everything” to the extreme this spring and really mixed things up. I had so many different interests that I found myself exercising twice a day pretty often (but not training twice a day necessarily). To give you a rough idea, in an (ambitious) week, I:

  • rock climbed 2x
  • triathlon team swim practice 2x
  • strength 2x
  • run 2x
  • mountain/road biking 2x

Obviously I didn’t do this every week, but I hit each activity at least once a week. I think mixing things up in the spring is especially important for me because I tend to “break” easily if I am doing the same receptive motions over and over. Not only is cross training good physically, but also mentally. It is refreshing to mix things up, especially when the approaching summer season is filled with a lot of hours of rollerskiing and running.

Opening day at Burke!
Dartmouth Women’s Ski Team featuring Robin with the photobomb.
Lo and I ready to rip.

Towards the second half of spring term, I started to ramp back up my training to prepare for our first U.S. Ski Team camp of the year in Bend, Oregon. I worked by butt off in school before heading out so I could enjoy the training and be able to make the most of the camp. 7 weeks into the term, I flew out to Bend really excited to be back on snow, skiing in a place I had never been before!

Reunited with my fellow guppies ❤

The camp started off with mid winter conditions, perfect skiing, and endless feet of snow in May! Quickly, the weather transformed to the typical Bend 60-70 degrees and sunshine weather and we were skiing in tank tops and shorts for the rest of camp. Every day we skied 3 hours in the morning and then did some type of non- skiing workout in the afternoon, including a run at Smith Rock!

January or May?
In the zone during a speed (PC: Bryan Fish).
Julia Jessie
Jessie and I post swim to finish our run at Smith Rock (PC: Matt Whitcomb)
Smith Rock was so cool! Definitely coming back to rock climb here! (PC: Matt Whitcomb)
Watching people surf the river wave one evening in town.
Sweet mountain biking with Bryan!(PC: Bryan Fish)

My absolute favorite workout was the crust cruise! I had never been crust cruising before and I must say it really lived up to all the hype. I don’t even really know how to describe what I felt in words, but I do know crust cruising encapsulates all the reasons why I love cross-country skiing and adventuring in nature.

Up and up.
The group cruising along.
Summit views!
Summit photo.
After all the climbing, it was time to shred some corn!
Feeling small.

After 2 weeks of a lot of training, my body was tired and ready to rest. I came back from camp and headed straight into finals….it was the perfect way to rest the body by sitting on my butt studying all day. I have now finished my first year of college and I am going to keep the ball rolling by being at school for the summer term. But first, a short 2.5 week break from school to spend time with my family!

A great crew at camp! (PC: Matt Whitcomb)
Ready for some rest.


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Going to Bed Early May Promote Healthier Sperm in Men

(Thanks to The Perts)

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Paging Rodney Dangerfield.

Experts from the Harbin Medical University in China studied close to thousand male participants and concluded that those who turned in between 8 and 10 pm reported best sperm mortality.

Wait. The best sperm mortality? Doesn't that mean the sperm died, as say, opposed to, longetity?

Who wrote this article?

At my age and living in geezer Acres, this is useless information.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

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