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“Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation."
Quote ― Erol Ozan, Talus
“Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS”
Quote ― Erol Ozan, Talus
Ice-abstract. Happy Sliders Sunday!
Miss Scarlet in the Dining Room with the Candlestick. The game of Clue is a classic logic puzzle with incomplete information that must be discovered.
Illumination: LED panel.
Father.
Authority. Protector. Teacher. Provider.
Friend.
Monday morning, my father was dying. His kidneys, those brilliant bilge pumps of the human body, were failing, dumping raw proteins overboard like a ship’s captain vainly throwing out precious cargo to stave off inevitable sinking. Death was near, very near: six months, a year perhaps.
‘I won’t do dialysis,’ he explained, ‘it’s not a cure. I won’t leave you and your brother with a mountain of debt either. That wouldn’t be right.’
He turned down my offer of one of my kidneys. ‘You will need it yourself one day.’
We are all mortal. We will all die one day. After we emerge from the reckless arrogance of Youth, we know that our lives are no longer a blank check, but a balance sheet where every transaction has a cost and one day ahead a final bill will be rendered. The pithy advice to ‘Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse' was an attempt to game the system and avoid the painful and often humiliating compromises that come with a long and uncertain life.
My father, in his youth, went all in. He was an extreme adrenalin junkie before there was a word for it. Low altitude skydiving, street racing motorcycles, explosives enthusiast; if there was a boundary, he liked to push it - to show the world that limits were tethers reserved for the fearful or mediocre.
My father and mother met in San Francisco, during the summer of 1968, in the wild heart of the counter-culture scene. When Dad and Mum accidentally made a Me (they used protection, but stopped when a quack doctor told her that she was pregnant, with no more diagnostic test than a Marcus Welby-esque pat on the belly. 10 months later, I was born. Sometimes medical incompetence is fortuitous…) My parents immediately married – quite counter to the spirit and mores of the time and place, and my father stepped away without complaint from his reckless youth to take the sober reins of adulthood.
My father got a job with an insurance company doing data processing. In 1969 computers were megaliths of diodes, tubes, and punch cards. Everything was massive and manual and new. Born with an engineer’s aesthetic for precision, he appreciated the certainty of computation. 1s and 0s. Black or white. Something was coded correctly and it worked, or it was coded incorrectly and failed. While doing the grunt work of loading tapes and hauling reams of printer paper, he taught himself the ins and outs of programming and quickly moved on another position with EDS, a big data processing powerhouse in its day. Father liked working as close to the binary nature of the computers as possible. Extension languages built on libraries of predefined tasks and actions were anathema to him. It gave him a sense of intellectual self-reliance to be able to start from scratch, to know every input, control the flow of the data, and be certain of the output.
He is also a man of God, profoundly but quietly. Never one for Hosannas and hymnals, his faith is personal and direct in the sense that it is only between himself and God, not worn on his boot or his sleeve. His faith is Jobian, accepting duties and burdens stoically. He has never been a supplicant begging for heaven, only a good soldier handling the tasks set before him, wanting no more reward than to have the strength to do what was right. He taught his sons one, primary lesson: take care of your family. That defines a man.
Understanding the certainty of numbers and God, he has always raged against the autocracy of the incompetent or unjust that hides behind the shield of authority. He has no circuit breaker for stopping himself from calling out a politician, policeman, or employer that was wrong or abusive – and it has cost him plenty of work (and perhaps some sanity.) I remember, 30 odd years ago, walking along with my father down some railroad tracks in a small town in Kentucky.
I asked him, “Why are there bad people?”
“I don’t think there are bad people. God doesn’t make bad people. There are people who do right things and people who do wrong things,” he replied.
“Why do they do wrong things?”
“Because its easier…” he replied.
“Do you do good things, dad?”
“I try. Everyday.”
“Why?”
“Because the only thing you have at the end of your life that stands for anything is your character. If you don’t have that, you really didn’t live your life.”
“But I know guys at school who lie and beat up people and nothing bad ever happens to them. Why do people who do bad thing get away with it so much? Why aren’t they punished?”
“I’ve asked God that question a few times myself, son.”
“What did He say?”
“Ask Him for yourself, son, and don’t be afraid to listen.”
E.coli-infected kidney stones and family genetics brought Dad diabetes a few years ago. His own mother died of diabetes and renal failure. He watches his diet, moderately exercises fixing this and that on the farm, and taking his dog, Caesar, for a walk up the road and back every day. He tracks his glucose levels precisely and religiously. He spends his nights researching the family genealogy. It’s become his life’s work, one of the two things he wants to hand down our generations. The other is the land where we live, 200 acres of farmland in southern Virginia that we jointly own. Father watched as hospital bills destroyed his own father’s estate and vowed he himself would not die as a bankrupt billing item on a Medicare invoice.
So when his internist’s lab called him late last week and gave him test results that indicated that the microalbumin protein levels present in his urine were 4 to 5 times the norm, he saw himself facing end stage renal failure. He was dying, now. Soon his life would be over.
Except not…
The lab had given him incomplete information and they were not authorized to explain what the numbers meant. Late this week, after the swelter of knowing he was going to die, we went to his internist, a really remarkable physician, who immediately told Dad ‘Whoa, time out! Time out! You aren’t dying. Who told you that you could die on me,’ and then went on to explain in specific detail that his glomerular filtration rate was very good, and there were no other precursor organics in his urine to indicate an incipient failure. Basically, his kidneys were in fact working quite well for a 65-year-old diabetic. He was not dying. His life was not over.
You really see the character of someone when they face death. Perversely, it is akin to the freedom that Youth alone thinks it possesses, being no longer accountable to the past or the future. My father’s choice was not to flinch or flee.
He faced death as he lived life – with character.
Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) fills the airspace of the forest canopy, as epiphytic ferns crowd along all available branch surface area, Paynes Prairie, Alachua County, Florida. The Latin roots that form the word ‘epiphyte’ translate directly to ‘on-or-upon plant,’ and this does accurately describe their elevated lifestyle.
Interestingly, Spanish Moss is neither Spanish nor a moss, and although its Latin species name ‘usneoides’ means ‘resembling beard lichen,’ it is also not a lichen. If one looks closely, it is clear that it is comprised of pale, scaly leaves, and even small flowers are possible to discern on some plants. As a member of the bromeliad family, so-called Spanish Moss is more closely related to pineapples than it is to anything it morphologically resembles.
A native to the Southern United States, and many other places, Spanish Moss prefers to live on live oaks and bald cypress. It turns out that these species leach nutrients from their leaves at higher rates than others, providing the plant with much-needed calcium, phosphorus, and potassium.
I was afforded the opportunity to get out to Paynes Prairie for sunrise while on a recent work trip to Gainesville. I had hoped to see alligators in the wild, but was foiled by incomplete information. Instead, there were Sandhill Cranes flying overhead, and wild forests, bursting with birds and life, at least from this Westerner’s perspective.
Fancy myself pretty adept at this here ol' internet...but damned if I can find this lady.
That's a big regret, right there: my past is filled with incomplete information. Far too trusting of ephemeral technology.
And now I'm left with pictures of people, I only know their first names, IF I'M LUCKY.
Frustrating...because I wonder about folks! It's curiosity has me pick up the camera, curiosity has me pick one subject over another. Curiosity has me wonder, "hey, whatever happened to this lady?"
All I'm left with are the pictures of one shoot...none of them remarkable, none of them a particular clue into who this person really was.
It's enough to rattle the ol' brainpan. Lives intersecting for just a moment...and there's a record of it...and then...nothing.
By this morning it had been a week since my meeting with the metaphysician. I was getting nowhere. Hours had drifted by looking at photographs of the stones, measuring their images, copying them, tracing their shapes, aimless doodling. Sometimes I worked with scientific curiosity; sometimes with aesthetic detachment; sometimes abject boredom - always with a view to divining their secrets.
At 9:38 a call came in from an unfamiliar Long Island number and, this being primary season, I expected a robo call from one of the campaigns, but it was her. Begging to keep things simple amused her and she teased me for my mathematical insecurities: how fast something falls due to gravity is determined by a number known as the "acceleration of gravity", which is 9.81 m/s^2 at the surface of our Earth. Basically this means that in one second, any object's downward velocity will increase by 9.81 m/s because of gravity. This is just the way gravity works - it accelerates everything at exactly the same rate. I liked the clarity of her explanation.
And the line went dead.
I waited for her to call back. I called her back. Nothing. Then, engulfed by a feeling of emptiness, watched the film of the stones falling into the caisson for the hundredth time and listened to the strange subdued rumbling as they fell. Without hope of the formula I now looked at the film with new eyes and it dawned on me that the rumbling sound was the slow motion splash as the stones hit the groundwater.
Had the caisson been dry, there would have been data for the different intervals it took the stones hit their termini: the older ones would fall longer. If they all hit the groundwater, which in this part of the Bronx was probably at about 20' below the top of the caisson, there would be no usable data to differentiate the stones from each other. For all I knew the oldest stones might still be plummeting down through the black water; through the abyssal depths of history. The formula was now irrelevant.
What had the anxiety of the last few days been for? I had been waiting for the woman to give me a formula, a formula that couldn't be used, but it was only with the realization that it couldn't be had that I discovered I didn't need it.
I stepped out into the evening. There are no leaves on the trees yet so the rumble of traffic on Route 9 is quite audible. Somewhere a siren wailed. Looking towards the setting sun the words of a song came drifting from the neighbor's car as it pulled into their driveway and the door opened - If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see, I'd put you in the mirror, I put in front of me. My inchoate thoughts were drifting back to the woman: her command of physics, the useless and incomplete information she had given me, her dark blue nails holding the straw as she sipped the coke, her tiger tattoo and the Lincoln Navigator. And then my phone buzzed: Where are my stones? I scratched my cheek. Where indeed were his stones? I had nothing. I knew nothing.
Which wasn't technically true. I looked at the number from which the text had originated: 507 20045. Panama. 507 is the international code for Panama. My mind wandered uninhibited and two words jumped into my consciousness: Mossack Fonseca. In an instant I cheered up. If Dürer was entangled in an off-shore tax avoidance scandal, a few missing reproductions of stones from The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse were the least of his problems. Perhaps I, and the stones, would be forgotten.
And yet there was a perhaps more pressing question: could I forget?
As I was uploading, I had it all ready in my head. I knew exactly when this photo was taken, was going to talk about how I could look at a photo and it'd immediately place me at a spot in my own history...
Except I was totally wrong, this photo was taken not, as I thought, in 2017, but several years earlier, 2014...I was off by A LOT.
Always overestimating myself, underestimating others, classic human blunder...and really brings home how fluid and fallible memory is.
For years, for almost 20 years, I've been posting and writing, all based on my memory, my feelings...important to remember these as impressions rather than facts.
I can say how I thought McKenzie was feeling during this session, what I observed...but that's not the whole story, I'll never know the whole story, we're all looking at the world through a keyhole, forced to build our world through incomplete information.
I remember us having fun, I remember this day leading to an even better day at the beach, I've always made a habit of checking in with my subjects to ensure they're having a good time...but is that enough, did I do enough...I can't trust memory...but I can trust the photos, the people who came back time after time.
The individual photo tells an incomplete story, but the body of work may be proof enough.
In the 13th century, King Frederick II (who spoke nine languages: Latin, Greek, Sicilian, Arabic, Norman, German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Slavonic) wanted to experiment with the "natural" language of mankind. He placed six babies in a nursery and ordered their nannies to feed them, put them to sleep, bathe them, but most of all, without ever talking to them.
Frédéric II hoped to discover what language these babies would naturally choose "without outside influence". He thought it would be Greek or Latin, the only original languages he could think of as pure.
However, the experiment did not produce the desired result. Not only did no baby begin to speak any language, but all six of them died and eventually died.
Ancient records suggest that this kind of experiment was carried out from time to time. An early record of an experiment of this kind can be found in Herodotus's Histories. According to Herodotus, the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik I carried out such an experiment, and concluded the Phrygian race must antedate the Egyptians since the child had first spoken something similar to the Phrygian word bekos, meaning "bread". However, it is likely that this was a willful interpretation of their babbling.
An experiment allegedly carried out by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century saw young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God.
The experiments were recorded by the monk Salimbene di Adam in his Chronicles, who wrote that Frederick encouraged "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which he took to have been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments."
Several centuries after Frederick II's experiment, James IV of Scotland was said to have sent two children to be raised by a mute woman isolated on the island of Inchkeith, to determine if language was learned or innate. The children were reported to have spoken good Hebrew, but historians were skeptical of these claims soon after they were made. This experiment was later repeated by the Mughal emperor Akbar, who held that speech arose from hearing, thus children raised without hearing human speech would become mute.Children learn the language(s) that they hear and see around them at a young age, but what happens if a child just never has any linguistic input, spoken or signed? Although a scientific study around this question would undoubtedly be fascinating, it would also be extremely unethical, so much so that the cultural historian Roger Shattuck has called it The Forbidden Experiment.In times less hampered by modern sensitivities and human rights, several rulers viewed such an experiment as less than verboten. The Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik I is reported by Herodotus around 600 B.C. to have isolated two newborns with a shepherd who was strictly instructed not to speak to them. Supposedly, the first word that these children uttered was becos, the word for "bread" in ancient Phrygian, but it seems quite likely that this was a willful interpretation of their babbling (think bababa).* A similar experiment was conducted by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century, but the Chronicle of Salimbene reports that "he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments."
In more recent centuries, we've discovered what happens when children are isolated from language through unfortunate circumstances. One example is "wild children," such as Victor and Genie, who have been abused or neglected, but as interesting as those cases are, it's hard to separate out the effects of language deprivation from other mistreatment.
Another way that children may be naturally isolated from language is if they're deaf children surrounded by people who don't speak a sign language. Although their families often manage a rudimentary form of communication with them, known as home sign, it resembles the ad hoc gestures that we'd do at a loud concert and lacks the full expressive powers of a complete sign language.
In Nicaragua in the 1980s, many such children were brought together in the country's first school for the deaf, where especially the younger children took the various home signs of their classmates and stitched them together into a full-fledged sign language, as you can see in the video below: A clip from the PBS documentary Evolution: The Mind's Big Bang. Nicaraguan Sign Language has been cited as evidence that although children require a certain amount of linguistic input at a young age in order to learn language, they're capable of generalizing from incomplete information to something far richer and more complex—a testament to the magnificent potential of the human brain.
Babies need communication to survive. Milk and sleep are not enough. Communication is also an essential element of life. The human being is a social being, it is not only the "biological" that allows him to live, but the "social" as well.
Frederick of Hohenstaufen1 (Federico II, as Emperor of the Romans), born on 26 December 1194 in Jesi near Ancona and died on 13 December 1250 in Fiorentino (near San Severo), reigned over the Holy Roman Empire from 1220 to 1250. He was king of Germania, king of Sicily and king of Jerusalem.
He experienced permanent conflicts with the Papacy and was excommunicated twice. Pope Gregory IX called it the Antichrist.
He spoke at least six languages: Latin, Greek, Sicilian, Greek, Arabic, Norman and German. He welcomed scholars from all over the world to his court, showed great interest in mathematics and the fine arts, carried out scientific experiments (sometimes on living beings) and built castles whose plans he sometimes drew up. Because of his good relations with the Muslim world, he led the sixth crusade - the only peaceful crusade - and was the second to reclaim the holy places of Christianity, after Godefroy de Bouillon.
The last emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, he became a legend. From his contemporaries, he received the nicknames Stupor Mundi (the "Stupor of the world") and "prodigious transformers of things", so much so that they waited for his return after his death. In the collective consciousness, he became the "sleeping Emperor" in the depths of a cave, the one who could not have disappeared, the one who slept from a magical sleep in the crater of Etna. His personal myth later merged with that of his grandfather Frédéric Barberousse: the legend of the xiiie century moved from the Sicilian volcano to Kyffhäuser mountain in the xve century, and Frederick II was replaced by Frederic I Barberousse. His charisma was such that the day after his death, his son, the future king Manfred I of Sicily, wrote a letter to another of his sons, King Conrad IV, which began with the following words:"The sun of the world has set, which shone on the peoples, the sun of right, the asylum of peace...".
Frederick II carried out also a deprivation language experiment on young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was an innate natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God. Salimbene di Adam wrote that Frederick encouraged “foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which had been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.”
He was the son of Emperor Henry VI and Constance de Hauteville, daughter of Roger II de Hauteville, first Norman king of Sicily. When his mother was 40 years old6, his birth took place in public, in a tent on Jesi's main square7. The birth threatened to turn into a tragedy when two Arab doctors were called in to save the mother and child.
Frédéric-Roger was elected king of the Romans in 1196, at the request of his father, to ensure the dynastic continuity of the Hohenstaufen to the imperial throne. However, Henry VI died suddenly in 1197 and the Empress died in 1198 when Frederick II was still only a child of three years old. Constance did not claim the rights of the child in Germany, where the great ones, anxious to avoid a minority like Henry IV's, turned to the brother of the deceased: Philip of Swabia was elected king of the Romans in 1198, in place of his nephew. The Pope immediately elicited a competitor, the Welf Othon IV. Frédéric-Roger, on the other hand, was only king of Sicily, then including the island and most of southern Italy to the south of the papal states. Constance, when he died, entrusted the guardianship of the child and the kingdom to Pope Innocent III until his majority. Frédéric spent his youth in Palermo and at the age of fourteen he married Constance d' Aragon, eleven years older than him.
Othon IV was crowned Roman Emperor of Germany by Innocent III in 1209, but when Othon IV lost the favor of the Pope, he supported Frederick's election as King of Germany and excommunicated Othon IV in the Nuremberg Empire Diet of 1211. But this title of king of Germany, which was a prerequisite for the imperial crown, meant nothing as long as Othon IV remained emperor until his defeat at the battle of Bouvines in 1214.
Possibly experiencing its last full year operating on the Wellington trolleybus system with abandonment scheduled for mid 2017, the Designline-built trolleybus of 18 February 2009 snapped from the Bunny St. corner heading to the Lambton Interchange while operating on the short run Aro St. service during the morning peak of Tuesday, 12 April 2016.
CARJAM DETAILS:
Make: 2009 DESIGNLINE
Model: CITY BUS
Colour: Yellow
Second Colour: Black
Submodel: TROLLEY
VIN: 7A874010908008245
Plate: EUJ397
Engine No: 1
Seats: 43
CC rating: 1cc
Fuel Type: Electric
Assembly Type: NZ Assembled/Built
Country of Origin: New Zealand
INACCURATE INFORMATION WAS USED TO SCRAP TROLLEYBUSES – NEW REPORT
July 8, 2016
Media release from Michael Flinn
The Greater Wellington Regional Council’s decision to convert bus fleets to diesel-electric hybrid vehicles as part of a staged programme to introducing fully electric vehicles, is likely to cause the Wellington City bus services to cost millions of dollars more than it needs to, a new study has concluded.
Michael Flinn, a former Wellington City Transport Deputy General Manager, has completed a review of GWRC’s decisions on Wellington City bus replacement because he considered the decisions have been based on information now found to be incorrect or insufficient.
He also reviewed many of the proposed route and service changes to be introduced next year and recommends significant changes to some of these. He considers that many proposed changes lack awareness of some practical factors that will affect patronage levels and fare revenue income.
The result is a 52-page report released today.
It concludes that GWRC’s decision to cease trolleybus operation in 2017 was made on inaccurate and incomplete information and should be reversed. Trolleybus operation should, it states, be continued to provide an affordable low pollution service until acceptable battery electric buses are available – possibly around 2020.
In the meantime, purchasing new diesel-electric hybrid vehicles should be deferred
and older diesel buses replaced with modern lower polluting versions.
The report challenges two of the principal reasons originally advanced by the GWRC for scrapping the trolleybuses – that the trolleybuses had a 10 year operating contract and thus effectively reached the end of their working life, and that the overhead power network needed investment of more than $50 million to continue to operate effectively.
“The decision about the life expectancy of the trolleybuses appears to have been based on the fact that 10 years was used as the basis for a contract with the operator,” says Michael Flinn. “Trolley buses typically have a working life of 20 years or more.“
The use of some replacement parts in the Wellington trolleybus fleet is a justification
for estimating a shorter life of around 16 years. GWRC has now accepted that the
operating life of the trolleybus vehicles could take them through to around 2024. “In this respect, it was misleading to suggest that the current trolleybus fleet was “life
expired,” he said.
Mr Flinn says an independent senior electrical engineer with extensive experience of direct current traction systems has identified that the power supply and overhead lines systems could be upgraded and continued for the remaining life of the trolleybuses at an annual cost a little above the recent annual costs of the overhead system alone. GWRC reported that $50 million would be needed to replace the whole traction power supply system as the present system could only be used for the “medium term”.
GWRC have not followed up on an independent report to investigate whether the supply could practically be extended to match the life of the trolleybuses and allow deferral of expenditure of at least $30M on the new buses and $10M on overhead lines removal.
“If you are making multi-million dollar decisions about bus replacements, a proper
review should have been sought.”
Mr Flinn says that battery-electric bus technology is still developing and it is too
early yet to invest in them. Retaining the trolleybuses should be a cheaper and more
environmentally-friendly low pollution alternative to the diesel-electric hybrid vehicles
being purchased as an interim measure.
The report is also critical of initiatives such as the proposed early introduction of
double-decker buses on some key routes.
Mr Flinn has also examined many of the proposed route and service changes. Several proposed changes to services require passengers to change buses and wait for a connecting service. The review suggestions are aimed at reducing the need for passengers to change buses with time saving benefits for them.
He concludes that, if the route and service changes are introduced as planned,
passenger approval ratings are likely to fall significantly, fare revenue may fall and
costs will increase, with the result that ratepayers may have to provide more funding.
He recommends changes to address these issues. - Wellington Scoop
Refresh of the 2009 Designline built trolleybus experiencing its last full year operating on the Wellington trolleybus system (abandoned in October 2017), the 43 seater trolleybus of 18 February 2009 snapped from the Bunny St. corner heading to the Lambton Interchange while operating on the short run Aro St. service during the morning peak of Tuesday, 12 April 2016.
Bus Information for EUJ397:
Operator - New Zealand Bus Ltd (NZ Bus) - Next Capital NZ Ltd
Depot - Kilbirnie
Fleet Number - 367
Registration - EUJ397
Chassis Type - Designline Citybus Trolley
Chassis No. - 7A874010908008245
Body Manufacturer - Designline
Body Date - 2009
Status - Withdrawn
Seating Codes - B43DW
Notes - STORED; by 10/2017 and SOLD for non-passenger service (understood to be used as a coffee shop) via Coastal Bus and Coach Ltd (dealer), Riverhead, Auckland; by 01/2020.
Livery - Go Wellington
Date Last Change – 20/06/2021
367 at the Route 11 Seatoun terninus:
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=8350&OP=1
Auckland trolleybus on Waiheke Island. This bus sat at the ferry terminal at Matiatia (as a coffee shop?) for many years. Date taken, July 1987. Was ATB British United Traction trolleybus No. 71 of 1955, acquired for a Waiheke undertaking in 1976.
www.flickr.com/photos/hilifta/5775584302
INACCURATE INFORMATION WAS USED TO SCRAP TROLLEYBUSES
Wellington Scoop, July 8, 2016
Media release from Michael Flinn
The Greater Wellington Regional Council’s decision to convert bus fleets to diesel-electric hybrid vehicles as part of a staged programme to introducing fully electric vehicles, is likely to cause the Wellington City bus services to cost millions of dollars more than it needs to, a new study has concluded.
Michael Flinn, a former Wellington City Transport Deputy General Manager, has completed a review of GWRC’s decisions on Wellington City bus replacement because he considered the decisions have been based on information now found to be incorrect or insufficient.
He also reviewed many of the proposed route and service changes to be introduced next year and recommends significant changes to some of these. He considers that many proposed changes lack awareness of some practical factors that will affect patronage levels and fare revenue income.
The result is a 52-page report released today.
It concludes that GWRC’s decision to cease trolleybus operation in 2017 was made on inaccurate and incomplete information and should be reversed. Trolleybus operation should, it states, be continued to provide an affordable low pollution service until acceptable battery electric buses are available – possibly around 2020.
In the meantime, purchasing new diesel-electric hybrid vehicles should be deferred and older diesel buses replaced with modern lower polluting versions.
The report challenges two of the principal reasons originally advanced by the GWRC for scrapping the trolleybuses – that the trolleybuses had a 10 year operating contract and thus effectively reached the end of their working life, and that the overhead power network needed investment of more than $50 million to continue to operate effectively.
“The decision about the life expectancy of the trolleybuses appears to have been based on the fact that 10 years was used as the basis for a contract with the operator,” says Michael Flinn. “Trolley buses typically have a working life of 20 years or more.“
The use of some replacement parts in the Wellington trolleybus fleet is a justification for estimating a shorter life of around 16 years. GWRC has now accepted that the operating life of the trolleybus vehicles could take them through to around 2024. “In this respect, it was misleading to suggest that the current trolleybus fleet was “life expired,” he said.
Mr Flinn says an independent senior electrical engineer with extensive experience of direct current traction systems has identified that the power supply and overhead lines systems could be upgraded and continued for the remaining life of the trolleybuses at an annual cost a little above the recent annual costs of the overhead system alone. GWRC reported that $50 million would be needed to replace the whole traction power supply system as the present system could only be used for the “medium term”.
GWRC have not followed up on an independent report to investigate whether the supply could practically be extended to match the life of the trolleybuses and allow deferral of expenditure of at least $30M on the new buses and $10M on overhead lines removal.
“If you are making multi-million dollar decisions about bus replacements, a proper review should have been sought.”
Mr Flinn says that battery-electric bus technology is still developing and it is too early yet to invest in them. Retaining the trolleybuses should be a cheaper and more environmentally-friendly low pollution alternative to the diesel-electric hybrid vehicles being purchased as an interim measure.
The report is also critical of initiatives such as the proposed early introduction of double-decker buses on some key routes.
Mr Flinn has also examined many of the proposed route and service changes. Several proposed changes to services require passengers to change buses and wait for a connecting service. The review suggestions are aimed at reducing the need for passengers to change buses with time saving benefits for them.
He concludes that, if the route and service changes are introduced as planned, passenger approval ratings are likely to fall significantly, fare revenue may fall and costs will increase, with the result that ratepayers may have to provide more funding. He recommends changes to address these issues.
Preamble is:
We are living in the age of information.
Information forms people’s behavior.
The right information helps us survive.
Incomplete information may lead to misunderstandings.
Light painting art is young - in comparison with traditional painting and photography.
That is why we all need to produce more information for the public at large about our genre.
In case of an artist talking for a wide audience through various media channels about his personal artworks and doesn’t even mention the light painter’s community – such artist foster the illusion that hi is the only one who paint with light.
The general public believes that, because they mostly know nothing about light painting itself.
That illusion creates another myth – about weakness (under-development) of our genre.
As you know, that’s not true.
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The Year Gone By……………
This is an update to the previous article entitled "My First Three Months in Neurosurgery" published in the May 2007 issue of www.lifeinneurosurgery.com
Both these articles are online now !!
Over the past one year, there have been a lot of significant changes, and I was eager to shed some light on the essential ones; and hence this article!
The most enthralling experience was attending the Gulf Neurosurgery Conference in Bahrain where I got a chance to interact with renowned personalities like Dr.Ossama Al-Mefty. Listening to the advances made in Neurosciences and related fields made me want to be a part of the process.. to be a building block of history in the making. It amazed me as to how some of the well-established physicians are in the habit of giving due value to the experience of their peers and are open to suggestions and constructive criticism! All in all I had a great time and left the conference determined to carve a niche in the wonderful world of Medicine!
Initially I was a happy-go-lucky resident, living for the moment, rushing from one ward to another to complete the never-ending list of tasks in my logbook. I have matured now to one who has an evolving long-term plan for the patient (and for myself) in mind. This is one of the biggest merits of being a resident.
In due course of time you realize that prioritization is an art and it’s not something that comes on its own. It requires effort, and then before you know it.. it becomes effortless.
It was an accepted fact that the noblest profession in the world of yesteryears was the Medical profession and that specifically referred to us Doctors (with an M.B, B.S/ M.D degree) as the gifted ones right on top of the graph second only to supreme celestial beings.
What’s the scenario now?
Things haven’t changed since then… the medical profession is still regarded as the most noble profession to be in for the simple reason that it deals directly with the health of human beings physical, mental and spiritual and thus enables them to live to a ripe age, earn a decent living, bring up a family and die with the satisfaction of having done all that’s supposed to done in life!
The Doctor once regarded as the sole entity to the means of health has been given his fair share of fame and glory; Now is the time for the world to sing the songs of praise for the other significant Vital members of the healthcare system who have had a major role to play in assisting the doctor at different levels to implement the treatment,, to prevent complications and better their lifestyle...
The halo around the head of the Doctors should expand to include all the nurses, allied health care providers such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, auxiliary midwives, technicians, the biotech people who provide us with sophisticated precise instruments, the research labs and pharmacy personnel; All of them in no particular order have an equally important role to play in assisting the primary physician to provide the best care possible -- at a cost the community can afford.
Patient care SHOULD NOT be compromised at any level.
At this juncture its vital to know that the best way to treat a patient is to establish good teamwork comprising of various specialists available to provide quick assessment and give valuable feedback so that the necessary personnel are intimated followed by early diagnosis and prompt treatment.
Regardless of how much one is being paid the real initiative to perform to one’s best has to come from within… As a Chinese proverb goes, ”Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life”. An indirect approach however is by applying monthly audits to identify defaulters and keep them in check! Such initiative enhancing measures may prove to be expensive to some.. but its well worth it !
On a more serious note I have come to believe that Complications Are Inevitable.
They form an essential basis.. the part and parcel of all informed consents.. and are aptly highlighted regardless of the magnitude of the treatment modality in question.
Every patient is different.
How a patient is going to respond to Drug A or B (pre, intra and post operatively), their body’s response to changing doses and their level of immunity at that time cannot be accurately assessed, and hence, leverage should be given. Needless to say these patients should be kept under close observation – preferably in rooms close to the nurses' station in the ward, or in ICU if the situation demands.
After a year, I have realized that 1+1 is not necessarily equal to 2.
This equation rarely holds time regarding anything in medicine, be it drug dosage, similar outcome after the same surgery in different patients and so on. It’s the same regarding policy and procedures. It does not produce the same result everywhere and hence, we notice the discrepancies between wards at the same hospital. The key to implementation is sizing up the number of co-workers, their strength and weaknesses on an individual level as well as in effective groups, and delegating job responsibilities accordingly.
Quality comes before quantity. At times, unrealistic expectations, drives people to unforeseen limits. I have come across intelligent patients who do, in due course of time, come to term with their disabilities and move on and are thankful to the caregiver for being honest. I feel it is our duty to portray an accurate picture about the patient’s condition to the relatives from the onset, regardless of how harsh the facts may be..
Practical problems I have faced so far vary between Nobel-prize winning examples of illegible handwriting and incomplete information over the phone from referring colleagues,, to patients deriving their own conclusions from previous episodes of doctor-shopping or worse -- from the experience of other patients!
I believe the key to successful documentation requires highlighting the relevant details but then again what may be irrelevant to the primary treating physician/department at that point of time may be of strong relevance to the one you are referring the case to.. and hence we should take note of this fact and make this our priority because in the end it is the patient that suffers and gets sleepless nights, not the physician.
I pray that one day (Insha Allah – God-willing) all institutions have a handwriting test incorporated as an integral part of the selection criteria!! I can’t emphasize this fact enough -- Clear legible handwriting/coherent communication is the key to smooth effective functioning at any institution.
At numerous occasions I have come across examples and I can speak with firm conviction and experience that such episodes peak during the end of working hours. They cause unnecessary inconvenience to the physician being consulted and may subsequently harm the patient.
Omitting facts is as big a crime as miscommunication, cell phones going off during conferences is plain annoying and residents not paying attention to the case being presented in the Morning report and worse – being self engrossed in their text books whilst the meetings are on is utterly disrespectful.. and the list is endless..
The aim of Medicine has not changed.. but the general outlook of healthcare providers has.. and therein lies the difference. At this day and age the goal of most graduates in all fields is quick success and easy money. I firmly believe that nowadays a contributing factor to rising medical negligence is physicians being paid for working overtime. As lady luck would have it physicians are not paid overtime in most institutions – for better or for worse.. but nursing staff get compensatory time off.. which is not really a ‘safe’ long term solution to counteract understaffing !!
I am convinced that ‘burn out’ is not a myth and it is not shameful to take a well-deserved break when one needs it..
Trust me - As a hospital employee a.k.a resident one should not expect a guardian angel to walk up to them and ask them to take a break.. Its their sole responsibility to decide when they need to stop and smell the roses.. Before they are a danger to themselves and to society!
Insha Allah (God-willing) May you achieve your short-term goals without compromising/sacrificing time, energy and consequently your health.
Essentially We are healthcare providers and love our profession, but a day should not come when we have to ‘taste our own medicine’ literally so to speak!!
No one is indispensable, and the show will go on..
I sincerely hope I perform to the best of my ability and ensure.. in my very own small way.. that Medicine prospers in the years to come!
And YES ! The invisible, yet existent umbilical cord always pulls me (and the rest of us) back to work; Here’s where we belong and here’s where we shall evolve into bright young able physicians of tomorrow – Insha Allah (God-willing) !
Lancaster Priory Church is a Grade 1 listed building, located on a site which has seen Christian worship since Saxon times. It is of huge historical and archaeological importance and is one of the most frequently visited parish churches in the North West. Lancaster Priory is the Mother Church of the City of Lancaster
Much of the early history of Lancaster Priory depends on the interpretation of indirect or incomplete information, so may be a little patchy in places.
2nd century – Date of Roman oil lamp (c. 180 AD) discovered outside the Priory church in 1910, which suggests that Christian worship took place on this site before Christianity was officially tolerated in the Roman Empire.
4th century – Roman defensive fort in Vicarage Field completed
5th century – Romans leave Britain leaving an informal settlement on Castle Hill
9th century – Christian churches established on banks of River Lune. Saxon stonework with Christian iconography has been found on Castle Hill
1086 – Castle built by Roger the Poitevin
1322 – Lancaster is invaded by Scots burning and plundering
1345 – Probable date of the carved oak choirstalls and misericords in the Priory Chancel, recognised by Royal Academy as “one of the most impressive sets of English medieval church furniture in England”
1350 – Black Death Lancaster lost 1 in 3 of its population
1414 – Henry V handed Lancaster Priory to Convent of Syon
1430 – Henry VI founds the Parish of Lancaster and the Priory Church of St Mary is officially renamed “The Priory and Parish Church of Blessed Mary of Lancaster”
1540 – Henry VIII’s Dissolution of Monasteries
1760 – 1900 – building work includes new porch, churchyard walls, new roof, repositioning of font, new organ, improved heating and stained glass
1856 – 1864 – removal of galleried, oak pews and new bells donated by Lord Ashton
1903 – 1904 – Kings Own Lancaster Regiment Chapel built
1993 – interior refurbishment
1999 – Visit by H.M Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 600th anniversary of the association between the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster.
Us having a free smörgåsbord/lunch at work. I got a poke bowl. What was the occasion? It was our company's picture day this day! We also launched our latest product, Honeybun (viscometer). Pretty much all the employees (including our 'unterns') were gathered together here for the special occasion. After taking the big group photo(s), we had food trucks out in the front for us to enjoy all the free food for lunch. Talk about no diet today lol. This was at Unchained Labs around Pleasanton, CA. Anyway, let's enjoy the food! (Tuesday, July 19, 2022)
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On Tuesday 3 February the backyard of the McAslan "Design Studio" in Forster Road N17 had been cleaned up and was rubbish free. The metal fence was in place - though it didn't look too secure. A car that was previously using this space to park had also gone.
But the graffiti still needed cleaning.
It seems that rubbish was removed by Haringey Veolia. I assume that John McAslan and Partners (JMP) have a waste contract as required by law. I hope the company and not Haringey paid.
"State Aid"
It's clearly wrong in principle if public funds are used to help one or more organisations in ways which gives them an unfair competitive advantage. From the admittedly incomplete information I have, that appears to be what happened when Haringey bought the lease on these premises for McAslan's use.
Not only is this inequitable, but in some circumstances it may be illegal. European Union (EU) law restricts what's called State Aid. Our (UK) Government offers information online here.
Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
Descendantws of George Morrison and Henriett McIntosh gather at the home of their daughter, Betsey NcCall, lot 16 con 14 in 1905 to remember the arrival of their parents in Canada 65 years earlier. My great grandmother, Elizabeth [Whyte] Baker was an invited guest as she came on the same shiup with the Morrison couple..
George & Henrietta were married 1838 Cape Wrath, Durness, Sutherlandshire Scotland.
Family story is “George was a teacher, born 1810 Eddrachillis, Sutherlandshire,
a son of Donald Morrison & Katherine McKay”
Henrietta was born 1820 Parish of Eddrachillis a daughter of Hector McIntosh & Elizabeth Reay.
Circa 1840 George & Henrietta came to Oxford County as did her siblings; Hugh & his wife Jane Morrison who farmed E 1/2 Lot 11 Conc 10 East Nissouri, her widowed sister Barbara, who later married Mr McKay, William who settled in Michigan, George & his wife Lexie Ross who farmed Lot 25 Conc 01 West Zorra.
George died 1893, Henrietta died 1885 they are buried Kintore Presbyterian Cemetery.
They had 7 children all born in Canada.
1. Elizabeth 1842 - 1913 married 1863 John McCall 1837 - 1917
They farmed Lot 16 Con 14 East Nissouri. Children; Jennie, Henrietta, Christena, Georgina, Donald Duncan, Elizabeth, John, Hector, Donald Morrison, & George Dougal
2. Catherine 1846 - 1927 married 1884 John McKay 1830 - 1903 buried Kintore Presbyterian,
They lived Lot 13 Conc 9 East Nissouri when son John was born 1885
3. Hector 1848 - married Ellen Fitzpatrick born USA 1855
Hector was an Oil Producer in Bradford Pennsylvania.
Children; Henrietta, Mary, Pamelia, Raymond.
4. Donald Morrison 1850 - 1925 married 1882 Ella Jane Uren 1857 - 1905 buried Kintore Presbyterian. He was a Presbyterian Minister in Michigan. Children; son died an infant & Etta Uren Morrison.
5. Roderick 1855 - married 1882 Catherine Carey
He was an oil producer & manufacturer at Independence, Kansas, USA
6. Hugh Morrison 1858 - 1927 married 1893 Sara Eaton Whitely 1867 - 1929
Hugh was a Lawyer in Lucknow & Toronto. Children; Hugh & Henrietta
Hugh is buried Kintore Presbyterian Cemetery & Sara is buried Greenhill Cemetery, Lucknow
7. Mary Ann 1859- married 1890 Charles Stewart a merchant tailor in Lucknow & Toronto.
Children; Grace & Helen
More About GEORGE MORRISON:
Collector's List: 1845, paid tales on property con, 13, no lot given
Collector's List48: 1848, paid taxes East Nissouri lot 15?- incomplete information.
Emigrated: Abt. 1840, The Whyte family of Sutherlandshire Scotland came on the same ship.
Occupation: Bef. 1840, Teacher of languages
The deadly android named Overkill throws Outback, Alpine and Agent Helix aside, keeping his attention on what his circuits perceive as the greatest threat: Captain America! The wounded Avenger dives past fallen debris and rolls! When he kneels in a battle-stance, his shield is ready!
Captain America: Ok Goldie, give me your worst!
Overkill's red optics glare as he powers his weapons system! The twin barreled destruction in his chest hums, coming to life with destructive energy! The Techno Viper sees Overkill and realizes that the B.A.T. commander has formulated a battle strategy based off incomplete information! He knows that Overkill has no idea of of power of the shield!
Techno Viper: Overkill! No!
When we perceive the world, we have to rely on our senses. But sometimes they play tricks on us. Sensory misperceptions occur based on erroneous perception, processing, or interpretation of stimuli. Optical illusions stemming from the fact that our perception is based on incomplete information are probably the best known. The video from Tencent Keen Security Lab in Shanghai, China, shows an impressive example of how machines can also be deceived, in this case a Tesla car. Can the term “sensory deception” also be applied to computers?
Credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
As strange as the idea seems now, scientists before the 1800s often drew maps of the world based only on their imaginary predictions of what might exist in unexplored areas, this is called conjecture geography.
Explorers' voyages often sought to confirm those conjectures. Maps of the western part of North America showed these fantasy lands until Captain James Cook & others went there in the late 1700s. Map-makers filled in unknown areas with speculations based upon their personal theories & questionable or incomplete information gathered by explorers. For example, the 1783 Vaugondy Map of the World, created after Cook's voyages but before his map was published, depicts enormous imaginary lakes & six mythical river systems extending inland from the Pacific. Cook's voyage to Alaska sought a Northwest Passage that speculative mapmakers had drawn. Some of their theories were built on a fabricated story published in England in 1706 of a Spanish Admiral named Bartholomew de Fonte who supposedly sailed up the Pacific coast of North American in 1640 & made many amazing discoveries. Elements of that story held sway even after better information became available, because cartographers made money on re-publication of earlier maps.
Japan's Accidental Ambassadors
Pacific currents & wind patterns probably brought disabled Japanese vessels to Alaska before Europeans arrives, & in the 1800s Russian & American ships rescued many.
Getting them home was difficult, because Japan was closed to foreign ships, but those who did return brought valuable knowledge about the outside world. Records of their reports provide a fascinating alternate window on Alaska's past. The hand-copied Kankai Ibun, published in 1807, tells the story of shipwrecked Japanese sailors who were picked up by Russians in 1793 & traveled through the Aleutians & on to St. Petersburg for an audience with the Tsar.
Gocta is a perennial waterfall with two drops located in Peru's province of Chachapoyas in Amazonas, approximately 700 kilometres (430 mi) to the northeast of Lima. It flows into the Cocahuayco River. Although the waterfall had been well known to locals for centuries (it is in full view of a nearby village), its existence was not made known to the world until after an expedition made in 2005 by a German, Stefan Ziemendorff, with a group of Peruvian explorers.
At the time of the discovery Ziemendorff successfully persuaded the Peruvian government to map the falls and to measure their height. On 11 March 2006, following his third expedition to the falls, he held a press conference, the contents of which were published by several of the world's wire services. He stated that the total height was measured at 771 metres (2,530 ft), which ranked Gocta as the third tallest free-leaping waterfall in the world after Angel Falls in Venezuela and Tugela Falls in South Africa. However, this was apparently based on outdated and incomplete information gleaned from the National Geographic Society, and Ziemendorff's comments as to the waterfalls' ranking have since been widely disputed. Citing various encyclopedias, reference books, and webpages accessible through Google, Gocta Cataracts are unofficially listed as the world's fifth-tallest, after adding Ramnefjellsfossen (Norway) and Mongefossen (Norway). Furthermore, The World Waterfall Database ranks Gocta as the 16th tallest.[1] (For definitions of waterfalls see also discussion.)
The waterfall, which can be seen from kilometers away, has been christened Gocta Falls, after the name of the nearest settlement.
The Gocta Waterfall (in Spanish: la catarata Gocta), a waterfall with 2 drops, has been known for centuries to the local residents in Peru's province of Chachapoyas in Amazonas, which is approximately 700 kilometers to the north-east of Lima. Its existence was made public following an expedition in 2005 by the Edward Smith and Joseph Valle & German Stefan Ziemendorff with a group of Peruvian explorers. At the time of his discovery he successfully persuaded the Peruvian government to map the falls and to measure their height. On 11 March 2006, following his third expedition to the falls, he held a press conference, the contents of which were published by several of the world's wire services. He stated that the total height was accurately measured at 771 meters (2,532 feet), based on outdated and incomplete information gleaned from the National Geographic Society, which ranked Gocta as the third tallest free-leaping waterfall in world after Angel Falls in Venezuela and Tugela Falls in South Africa.
Object Lesson Map Library: Nihon Kaizan Choriku Zu
Image originally posted by Mengyaoc. (Thank you!)
I was initially drawn to this map for aesthetic reasons, I find the colors used and stylized format quite beautiful and I'm sure it was even more magnificent when it was first produced. Coupling this with the great detail and plenitude of information about travel routes, this map must have be have been quite valuable. It also has been kept in immaculate condition, which is just another testament to its value.
On the other hand, because of the stylization or perhaps just because of inaccuracy, it's actually quite difficult to identify respective landmasses as we are used to seeing them on maps like Mercator Projections. It appears that the map begins in East and Southeast Asia on the Right, (marked 'east' by the large b/w kanji) and shows trading routes from there to South and Central Asia (where apparently there is a depiction of Mount Neru encircled in yellow) and then even over to what looks like Europe and Africa, though these areas are particularly distorted, likely due to incomplete information about the region.
The small circles with rotating paper circles on top of them at the bottom left of the map also intrigued me. I asked the curator about them and he suggested that they were for keeping track of the tides. Now, I'm no sailor, but I wonder how this factored into the the usage of the map. As far as I can tell, there is no information detailing water depth, but I suppose as a sailor you just know these things? I know tidal information is important for docking in harbor, but I believe it also influences ocean current? Perhaps this information actually is contained somewhere on the map and I just can't read it.
This map was also noteworthy because of the way trade routes were prominently depicted. I've seen other people mention they looked like subway lines, listed in different colors with clearly defined 'stops', and you know, they really do! I wish I was able to read the key to see what each permutation of these routes stood for. It seems a bit bizarre though, how regularly spaced each of these 'stops' is along these trade routes. I wonder if instead the dots were meant to signify a certain unit of distance between two dots, not an actual trading town. This would be useful for traders to approximate the actual distance from one place to another because it details the length of the route instead of just having to ballpark guess by looking at the map. It's like the original Mapquest!
We have been going out every week or so practicing for senior portraits that are due around October. Avery is getting better at the poses. We do need to work on what to do with her hands though. We might go back to the same spot but move a little camera right so the shadow doesn't show on the left side of the frame. I'm having a ball doing this but I spend so much time tinkering with the images in Lightroom after they are in the computer because there are so many ways to change the look and feel.
Strobist info: Incomplete information. Canon 5D MkII, EF28-135@38mm, ISO160, F10 1/160. I Just one speedlight in a small white shoot through umbrella camera right probably about 3 ft from Avery. I *think* it was my 430EX II at 1/4 power & 35mm. No gel. Adjusted in Lightroom 3.3. I guess I need to start doing setup shots like Dustin Diaz.
Goal: attract attendance to an original Easter play that dramatizes the time between Jesus’ death and resurrection
Primary Audience: church attenders; Secondary Audience: local community
Direction: I wanted to treat it with the heft and gravitas with which plays are treated on nearby Broadway.
Project: This is the 11x17 poster. The same visuals will be adapted for flyers, bulletin inserts, web banners, and PowerPoint slides.
Other important info: The playwright and I are leaning to first image because the photo of old Jerusalem at night fits the mood of the play best – the disciples are hiding out with incomplete information and are scared and confused. What do you think? And do you have any other suggestions?
Widow: Mrs G Smith, Ardreddie, Wargrave, Berkshire
1911 census occupation and address: Census photo incomplete, information not found
Death date: 22 Jul 1916
Rank: 2/Lieutenant (T)
Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion: 14th Battalion
Type of casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: France (Western European Theatre)
Cemetery/memorial name: Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval
Grave/memorial reference: XI. E. 10.
Honours/awards: Victory and British Medals
Link to Reading University College:
Attended 1911-12
Athletic Club Hockey Captain 1912-13
Athletic Club Tennis Deputy Captain 1912-13
The Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) made news in 2009 for targeting supporters of third party candidates, pro-life activists, and conspiracy theorists as potential militia members. Anti-war activists and Islamic lobby groups were targeted in Texas, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union.
According to the Department of Homeland Security:
The Privacy Office has identified a number of risks to privacy presented by the fusion center program:
Justification for fusion centers
Ambiguous Lines of Authority, Rules, and Oversight
Participation of the Military and the Private Sector
Data Mining
Excessive Secrecy
Inaccurate or Incomplete Information
Mission Creep
80-G-339319: Y3/C Fernande Croteau in Still Pictures Section of BuAer photographic division, portraying hopeless task it is to work on pictures when incomplete information is supplied. Photograph by August 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/09).
Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
Although State Library Victoria dates this photo as being "between 1950 and 1954" based on "other images in collection" the two station wagons indicate a date range from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.
Similarly, although State Library Victoria tentatively places the location as Glen Waverley based on incomplete information, the Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria of 1970 places Comalco on Springvale Road in the suburb of North Springvale, which today would be Mulgrave.
Notes from SLV:
Title information on verso: Factories Springvale Road / Glen Monash.
Photographer unidentified.
Undated, date range assigned from other images in collection.
Contents / Summary
Looking across road towards businesses, name on wall: Lucas / Parts & Service; Aluminium Supply / Comalco.
Source / Donor
Copyright status
This work is out of copyright
Terms of use
No copyright restrictions apply.
Identifier(s)
Accession no: H2016.284/33
Subjects
Photographer unidentified.
Undated, date range assigned from other images in collection.
Gift; MMBW; 1993?
Series / Collection
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works collection.
Link to online item
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/400668
Link to this record
Sometimes it is difficult to tell what is going on if we only have one point of view, or incomplete information.
Today my son rode the bus home. On it was a child from China, a child from India, an American child and a child who goes to a Tibetan Buddhist center. Interesting bus conversation ensued..all friendly, different points of view. A very diverse school in a big city.
See the previous photo for a wider view.
The yin yang here was spontaneously generated by the reflections. Very little editing on this for contrast.
A delusion is a belief held with absolute conviction despite superior evidence.
Unlike hallucinations, delusions are always pathological. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, dogma, poor memory, illusion, or other effects of perception.
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Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
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SBA 8a certification is not very clear to some and they try to find trusted sources to get reliable information about the sba certification which is popularly known as 8a program.
Well, read on to find out more about the sba 8a program
The disadvantaged businesses in the US are given a chance to do trade with the Federal as they are not able to perform to their potential in the commercial market. The sba minority program allows disadvantaged firms and companies to do trade with the federal and its agencies. The Federal is the biggest buyer of goods and services and the 8a certification provided to the companies prove that the company is eligible to meet the federal orders.
Preparing the 8a application is not an easy job. Statistics reveal that more than 70% of the applications are rejected by the SBA and the reason is mostly insufficient and incomplete information. There are plenty of 8a certification benefits and companies do not want to get their application rejected as it requires weeks to prepare the same.
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Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
"Democracy in the United States is only a shadow in a corporate media cave of deceit, lies and incomplete information. We stand ignorant of what the powerful are doing in our name and how the corporate media ignores key issues affecting us all. "
- Peter Phillip, Director of Project Censored
Coffin of Horankh
Egyptian: Late Period (656-332 B.C.)
Wood, gesso, paint, obsidian, calcite, and bronze
The coffin is in the form of a human body wrapped in linen shroud. The head has a green face because the dead person was identified with Osiris, Lod of the Underworld, whose face is green t symbolize spring growth, life, and immortality. The brilliant eyes of obsidian and calcite add to this lifelike impression. A partially damages insciption on the base of the statue has an invocation to Osiris, along with the name of the dead man, which is Horankh.
Duing the 15th Dynasty, 712-657 B.C., when Nubian kings ruled Egypt, Egyptian artists looked back to the classic models of their earlier art. A coffin like this one was modeled on the servere purity of the Middle Kingdom coffins. --incomplete information--
A week of fun and frolics at Croft House Newcastle upon Tyne during red Cross week
Margaret Musgrave
Senior Community Fundraiser (North East)
British Red Cross
Croft House
Western Avenue
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 8SR
Fax: 0191 226 1611
Mobile: 07843346159
( www.redcross.org.uk/redcrossweek )
EVENTS
v Tyne Bridge Zip Slide Saturday 25th June
FULLY BOOKED
v Yorkshire 3 Peaks walk, 1,2 or 3 amazing peaks. Saturday 16 July 2011
v Great North Run 2011 places available 18th September contact us now to avoid being disappointed.
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Red Cross Appeal Week First Aid demo's & Collection Buckinghamshire
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A week of fun and frolics at Croft House Newcastle upon Tyne during red Cross week
Margaret Musgrave
Senior Community Fundraiser (North East)
British Red Cross
Croft House
Western Avenue
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 8SR
Fax: 0191 226 1611
Mobile: 07843346159
( www.redcross.org.uk/redcrossweek )
EVENTS
v Tyne Bridge Zip Slide Saturday 25th June
FULLY BOOKED
v Yorkshire 3 Peaks walk, 1,2 or 3 amazing peaks. Saturday 16 July 2011
v Great North Run 2011 places available 18th September contact us now to avoid being disappointed.
mmusgrave@redcross.org.uk
'Put us where we'll always be needed'
Please include a gift to the British Red Cross in your Will.
This email is for the intended recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email and any attachments and notify mailadmin@redcross.org.uk. You may not present this message or any part of it to another party without consent from the sender.
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