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The 2014 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of improving environmental health which are grouped in three policy categories. The health impacts category includes the child mortality indicator. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalize d as a 0-100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
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Fernando and Sylvie reading the Lonely Planet at The War Remnants, Museum (formerly The Museum of American War Crimes, but the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City changed the name sometime after Hanoi and Washington normalized relations,) Ho Chi Minh City, 2005
Archival Inkjet Print
Sorry for the absence is that, unfortunately, my computer broke and has not been repaired, so I have no way to edit my photos, as I do with almost all the photos posted here. But soon everything will be normalized.
Have a great weekend!
Shot from Lone Pine, CA on 2011 Dec 22; 10 35s exposures, 5 125s exposures, and 5 305s exposures normalized in Nebulosity 2.0 and combined with drizzle; 9.25" Edge HD at f/2.3 (Hyperstar) using an ATIK 314L+ CCD; final processing done in GIMP 2.0
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER 08 Somethings are out of my hands thank god. Things starting to normalize. Work was fabulous today, Really good progression in a lot of areas and put me on a wee high.. even though I got drenched twice lol Feeling very purple today. Totally lost my ski coat randomly and with all this rain it would be handy lol
Had a gorgeous diner with a gorgeous when I finally got out from work and time fer bed me thinks :D
"I will buy those boots dammit!!"
Invisibility is so 20th Century. Thank you to the people at Lush Cosmetics for improving the health of the people we serve by normalizing their humanity. Allies need allies.
NCTE Showcase Event at Lush Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, see: www.facebook.com/events/1762695184025567/
apologies for another formal friday instead of frivolity but this is what i came up with today a black dress with black and white oxford flats since my knee was bothering me this morning and thus marks a full year of attempted creative dressing is this the end? no i’ll keep being weird until it’s not physically possible any longer it just won’t be a thing any longer it’ll be normalized
This photo says it all. Flowers from Valentines day yesterday sit alongside band audition materials. Meals from a box becaue we can't get home early enough to cook. Muddy shoes propped up on the kitchen counter. Hopefully, things will normalize soon.
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
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Full Feature in 9 Parts
American International Pictures lived up to its name on this project. Terrore nello spazio was a Spanish/Italian/American effort. The American release title, Planet of the Vampires (PoV) suggests a campier film than it is. There actually aren't any vampires in the usual sense. Yet, it is still a horror/sci-fi hybrid. Director Mario Bava (famous for horror pictures) gives the dark screenplay by Ib Melchior a good presentation, despite a low budget.
Synopsis
Mysterious signals received from a distant planet named Aura suggest some intelligent life, perhaps a distress call. Two interplanetary space ships are sent to investigate. The Galliot goes in first, but seems to crash. The crew of the Argos go lower to check on them. A sudden increase of gravity pins everyone to the floors and the Argos seems to be doomed to crash. At the last minute, the gravity normalizes and Captain Mark Markary is able to land the Argos. When various members of the crew awaken, they go viciously homicidal temporarily. Captain Mark is able to restore order. The Galliot is found near by, perfectly intact. When a team of the Argos investigate, they find the entire crew of the Galliot dead. They killed each other. The Galliot's "Meteor Rejector" device is smashed, making the ship unspaceworthy. The Argos team return later to find no bodies. (They are rising from the dead, but the Argos crew don't know this yet.) A team from the Argos find a derelict alien ship with a huge alien skeleton out front. Mark and Sanya check it out and almost become trapped inside. Various crewmen, usually given lone sentry jobs, disappear one by one. Two Galliot crewmen appear with a story of being unconscious after the landing. They are taken aboard the Argos, but it was a trick. They were zombies who came to steal the Argos's "Meteor Rejector" device. One zombie explains that Aura is inhabited by a race of energy beings. The Auran sun is dying but they cannot construct spaceships. So, they lured other race's ships to Aura to hijack their bodies and flee. The takeover can be done willingly too. Captain Mark says "Never". Mark, Sanya and Wess steal back the Meteor Rejector and plant bombs aboard the Galliot. They take off in the Argos. Wess discovers that Mark and Sanya are possessed by the Aurans. He smashes the Meteor Rejector, thinking he's stopping the Aurans. He dies in the process. Possessed Mark and Sanya decide to set down on an obscure little planet: Earth. The End.
PoV has the quirky charm typical of Italian sci-fi, but also some visual fun via Bava's sense of art.
The American title is a misnomer, but probably deemed better (by A.I.P.) for marketing. The dead bodies, re-animated by the Auran energy beings, were more the classic zombie than the classic vampire. There is no sucking of blood or needing of human blood, etc. The whole rising-from-the-grave scene is clearly in the zombie idiom. Mixed into the zombie trope is the familiar 50s theme of alien-takeover.
Like many B movies, the production budget for PoV was very tight. Modern viewers could easily scoff at the modest special effects and simple sets. Yet, fans of B sci-fi can appreciate how much mileage Bava got from his shoestring budget. He made an entire alien planet out of a few "rock" props left over from a prior sword-and-sandal film, making use of lots of dry ice fog to disguise how sparse things were. The ship models were quite small (and therefore cheaper), but he manages to make them look larger. To save on matte art and optical effects, Bava used mirrors to put actors and small models into the same shot. Of course, having the Argos and Galliot be identical ships meant handy double use. The giant alien skeleton was probably his biggest expense, but well worth it.
Bava also made ample use of strong color to make things look "alien." Pairs of red-green, or red-blue, or green-orange lights add a vivid other-worldliness. The lighting is reminiscent of that used in the soviet film: Mechte Navstrechu ('62) ("A Dream Come True"). American audiences wouldn't get to see the soviet footage until 1966 when A.I.P. created another of their mash-ups, this one entitled: Queen of Blood.
Some viewers see an inspiration for Ridley Scott's famous Alien (1979). Certainly the scene in which Mark and Sanya discover and explore the derelict alien ship bears a strong resemblance. Even though this scene in PoV is more of a sidetrack than pivotal, it is certainly possible that Scott drew upon it as a portion of his story.
Screenwriter Ib Melchior was fond of the notion that alien planets harbored mysterious danger. His dark vision was quite the opposite of the almost glib notion that alien beings would be pretty women in short skirts. Melchior's Angry Red Planet ('60) featured ominous unseen Martians who tell the earthlings to get lost and never ever come back. Journey to the Seventh Planet ('62) featured a malicious intellect being that messed with the earthlings' minds and was trying to get off its cold, dark moon, to a better planet -- like earth.
The ending of PoV is decidedly un-hollywood. Most of the crew die. Even the last uncompromised humans (Wess) dies trying to stop the Aurans. He fails, despite his heroic sacrifice. Auran-Mark and Auran-Sanya fly down to an unsuspecting earth. The danger of the mind-controlling energy being Aurans was about to be loosed on our simple civilization. On its own, such an ending does have nihilist overtones. It also smacks of a potential sequel along the Body Snatchers line.
Bottom line? PoV will not impress modern viewers who rate movies by how lavish the effects are. It is still a budget film. It also suffers some of the usual pitfalls of foreign films repackaged for American release. There are almost too many characters who are easy to mix up (everyone wore identical leather suits) Nonetheless, it one of the better B movies of the 60s.
Macau recovering from the devastation of typhoon Hato: volunteers passing water to people at the flooded area. Water supply there is not yet normalized
My first try for a deep space object on my third astrophotography excursion. The andromeda galaxy and its companions
2x600 seconds is 20 minutes, I thought my arm was going to fall off!!
Camera: Pentax *IST DL
Lens: 135mm F2.8 (shot at F5.6)
Exposure: 28 minutes
Total normalized exposure (min at iso 100): 200min@iso100
Total normalized light (min at iso 100/f-ratio^2): 6.3min@iso100@f1
2x600 seconds@iso 200
3x120 seconds@iso 1600
1x120 seconds@iso 3200
ISO: 200, 1600, 3200
Hand Guided with a 500mm F4.5 reflector on an EQ mount
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
Facts to counteract the normalization of neo-nazis by Flavia Dzodan This past weekend, Richard Spencer was punched while giving an interview to an Australian outlet. Now certain media is wondering whether punching a neo nazi is the right thing to do. […] However, since these interviews and profiles rarely (if ever) point to this man’s history of neo-nazi advocacy (including eugenics and mass extermination), here’s a rundown of the past seven years of Richard Spencer, in his own words, calling for ethnic cleansing, mass sterilization and a whites only ethnostate. [image is from The De Brailes Hours [British Library ms 49999] f. 40v] [PoC in the De Brailes Hours]
Maj. Gen. Robert Williamson, 8th Army (Field Army) Deputy Commanding General, presents coins Aug. 27 at the final formation announcing the end of Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2009.
U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Kim Kuan-min
My schedule should normalize in the near future, and at that point, I hope to have more photography and Flickr time!
This is another shot from the Wilds, taken on the last day of May 2014.
Here is another reason why paying the extra money (if you have it) for the Wild Side tour is a good investment. You have the opportunity to hand feed lettuce to the Giraffes and Rhinos! The Giraffes wrap their tongue around the lettuce leaf to take it and get it to their mouths. The hand belonged to one of the other passengers in the truck with us. It was a great day, thanks to our wonderful guide Michelle.
I have a video of this somewhere ... I will have to find it and upload it.
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
The 2014 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of reducing environmental stresses to human health, which are grouped into one policy objective named environmental health. Environmental health scores are based on three constituent policy categories: health imp acts, air quality, and water and sanitation. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0-100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
For our mothers, pregnancy was the workplace unmentionable. Once a married woman began to “show,” she was expected to leave her job and begin her new life as a stay-at-home wife and mother. Now, our daughters often have family leave time, breastfeeding rooms at work, sometimes even...
A couple of blocks from the Vasa Museum, on the walk to the ferry, one passes a massive 4 sided mirror along the marina dock, which makes a fabulous tool for a self-portrait, inserting the harbor in the background. With the aid or post-processing, the mirror effect is reversed, and all text is normalized.
Canon 550D with EF-S 10-22mm/f3.5-4.5 set at 13mm. Night shot. ISO 400, f10.
Composite of two images at 30 and 15 second exposure to allow tree branches to be seen without washout of any of the church. Camera was tilted up at fairly large angle to capture the branches and top of steeple. This forced heavy perspective correction to normalize the image - left just a bit of distortion to keep it "normal" looking. Click on picture to see image with black background for full drama of the branches. Looks like a little bit of flare going on due to the flood light at far left of camera - that 10-22mm lens is very sensitive to flare.