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Day 4
" Perception, your all I wanna see"
Wednesday, we had a bible study and studied the compassion and how we are can as disciples of christ can use it in our lives.
07/14/09
Artist trading card with dry embossed background, imge of woman in hat, and fleur de lis shape cut from vellum. Perception is Regal.
I took a long trip
and now I'm back again
to the point where I began.
And everything I left behind
followed me, preceded me.
Souvenirs are patient, they only know
the lassitude they provide.
Avram Iancu(1824-1872)
AVRAM IANCU (1824-1872) Lawyer and military hero of the Romanians of Transylvania in 1848-1849. Born into a peasant family of modest means in the Apuseni Mountains of western Transylvania, he received an education rare for a Romanian of this time, attending the Piarist lyceum in Cluj. He studied the humanities and then, between 1844 and 1847, law. After graduation he took a post as cancelist (law clerk) at the High Court of Transylvania in Tirgu-Mures, a mainly Hungarian city. It was here among some thirty fellow Romanian lawyers (and their 170 Hungarian colleagues) that the first news of the events of March 1848 in Vienna and Pest reached him.
In the revolutionary year that followed, Iancu's activities embodied the liberal and national aspirations characteristic of his generation. Like liberals elsewhere in Europe, he stood for individual freedoms, but the long struggle to protect the Romanian nation from subjugation by others had led him to put the interests of the entire ethnic community ahead of individual rights. Such a commitment explains the apparent paradox of his ultimate rejection of Hungarian liberalism in 1848. Yet, his brand of nationalism was by no means anti-liberal, and he displayed exemplary toleration toward the other peoples of Transylvania.
He thus belonged to the European generation of 1848, to that group of younger intellectuals who strove to change the old order of society and politics and who formulated the ideals upon which a new Europe could be built. He shared the aspirations of Young Europe, which manifested these ideals in almost every country before the outbreak of the revolution. Like his contemporaries in Italy or Germany, he believed in the compelling force of ideas, especially those of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and he had no doubt that he and his generation could reshape the Habsburg Monarchy to fit their image of the ideal state and could indeed transform all Europe. The enthusiasm he displayed in the spring of 1848 reflects the depth of his commitment. If his sense of universal brotherhood blurred his vision of underlying dissension among the peoples of the Monarchy themselves, and if his certainty of the ultimate triumph of justice obscured the resiliency of the old order, it was because he sought harmony and peace, not rivalry and conflict.
Iancu shared the romantic spirit of the age. Without it, his actions and the idea of nationality itself would be incomprehensible. His almost Biblical faith in the good sense and reasonableness of the common people and the inspiration he drew from the past, specifically, the Roman heritage of the Romanians, were manifestations of it. But he was also painfully aware of the ills of society, which he had first experienced as a child in his village. His later training in the law, when he read the enormous collection of legal acts illuminating the economic struggle of the peasants of the Western Mountains against rapacious landlords and state bureaucrats, sharpened his perception of social injustice. Like intellectuals elsewhere in Europe who had no vested interest in prevailing social and economic structures, he did not hesitate to urge radical solutions. But his proposals were never foolhardy or utopian, and he shunned the long and often abstract constitutional debates in which intellectuals often indulged. His identification with the aspirations of the common people served to anchor him in reality and thus enabled him to apply his reverence for the past and his robust idealism to the solution of fundamental social problems.
When Iancu learned of the flight of Metternich from Vienna and the declaration of civil and political freedoms by Hungarian liberals in Pest in March 1848 he enthusiastically joined his Hungarian colleagues in Tirgu-Mures in celebrating these events as the beginning of a new era of fraternity and equality. But he was also intent upon gaining recognition of the Romanians as a nation equal to the Hungarians and the other nations in Transylvania and assuring their development as a distinct nationality. He took part in the feverish preparations by Romanian intellectuals for the national congress on the "Field of Liberty" at Blaj on May 15-17, where he headed a numerous delegation from the Apuseni Mountains. He had only a modest role in drafting the national program and in choosing the means to achieve the goals it set forth, since he was younger than most of his colleagues, but he was soon to earn his place among the heroes of the Romanian revolution.
Iancu returned to the Apuseni in mid-June. Convinced that the Romanians must be prepared to defend their rights by arms, if necessary, he organized the peasants into what became the most effective Romanian fighting force during the revolution. In the fall of 1848, his army cooperated with Austrian forces in wresting control of western Transylvania from the Hungarian administration. But Hungarian revolutionary armies regrouped and between November and the following March under the command of the Polish general Joseph Bem they regained almost all of Transylvania, except the fortresses of Alba Iulia and Deva, held by the Austrians, and the Apuseni region, which were defended by Iancu's forces. Iancu eventually had some 20,000 to 25,000 men under his command, but the majority were peasants who had had no formal military training, lacked modern weapons, and whose officers were non-professionals, mostly lawyers like Iancu himself, or priests. Cut off almost completely from the outside, they endured severe hardships and, worse, a growing sense of disillusionment that their sacrifices had been to no avail in bringing to fruition the goals proclaimed on the Field of Liberty.
Despite the deterioration of relations between Romanians and Hungarians, Iancu still hoped to settle their differences by peaceful means and was thus receptive to attempts at mediation. In late April and May 1849 Ioan Dragos, a Romanian deputy in the Hungarian parliament, tried to negotiate a settlement between Iancu and Lajos Kossuth, the leader of the Hungarian independence movement. Both sides offered concessions, but the negotiations foundered on the fundamental question of national self-determination. Kossuth promised Romanians the same rights of citizenship as other nationalities and freedom of religion and extensive language rights in the new Hungary, but he insisted upon preserving Hungary's political unity. For his part, Iancu welcomed the liberal program of the Hungarians, but demanded autonomy for the Romanians as their only effective defense against as similation by the Hungarians.
In early June the Hungarians facing Iancu's army proposed that the two sides join forces to fight their "common enemy" the Habsburg army and bureaucracy as the only way of ensuring the liberties of their two peoples. Iancu responded that he, too, was eager to secure the blessings of liberty for his people, but the events of the past year had so shaken his faith in the Hungarians' promises that he would have to wait and see if they would transform words into deeds. In any case, the exchange was in vain, for Kossuth refused to modify his stand on Romanian autonomy.
One final effort was made, this time by Nicolae Balcescu, one of the leaders of the revolution in Muntenia, who tried to mend the breach between Romanians and Hungarians. He was anxious to rally the remaining revolutionary forces in Central Europe for a final, decisive showdown with resurgent conservatism and hoped that a united Romanian-Hungarian army would drive the Russians from Muntenia and restore the liberal government that had been dispersed in September 1848. He met with Iancu toward the end of July and was much encouraged by their talks. But his efforts were overtaken by events on the battlefield.
As Austrian and Russian armies steadily tightened the ring around Hungarian armies, Iancu wrote to Kossuth on August 3, expressing regret that "present circumstances" made further negotiations impossible. But he promised that in the coming struggle, to show the genuineness of the Romanian' sentiments toward the Hungarian nation, his forces would not attack Hungarian troops unless provoked. In spite of the bitter struggle between Romanians and Hungarians since the previous fall, Iancu could still address the latter as "brothers." He had not allowed his opposition to the policies of the Hungarian government to alter his respect for Hungarian culture and liberal ideals.
The defeat of Hungarian forces by superior Austrian and Russian armies in August put an end to the revolution in Hungary and Transylvania and inaugurated a decade of direct rule from Vienna. Iancu was among the many Romanian leaders who journeyed to Vienna in 1850 and 1851 to urge the emperor and his ministers to grant the Romanians autonomy as a right which they had earned through their sacrifices on behalf of the imperial cause. Their efforts came to nought, for no Austrian official was prepared to recognize the principle of nationality, which had almost destroyed the empire. Iancu was profoundly disillusioned. He withdrew from public life and spent the remainder of his years in his beloved Apuseni Mountains. Like young forty-eighters throughout Europe, he had believed in the swift and glorious transformation of society. And like them, he had misjudged the pace of history. He had foreseen the disintegration of the old regime before he had any right to expect it, and, thus, the failure of history to turn at its assumed turning-point had been a shattering experience.
Keith Hitchins
------------------------------------Avram Iancu (n. 1824, Avram Iancu, Alba, România – d. 10 septembrie 1872, Baia de Criș, Hunedoara, România) a fost un avocat transilvănean și revoluționar român pașoptist, care a jucat un rol important în Revoluția de la 1848 din Transilvania. A fost conducătorul de fapt al Țării Moților în anul 1849, comandând armata românilor transilvăneni, în alianță cu armata austriacă, împotriva trupelor revoluționare ungare aflate sub conducerea lui Lajos Kossuth.
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Avram Iancu ( rumunski izgovor: [aˈvram ˈjaŋku] ; 1824 - 10. septembar 1872) bio je transilvanski rumunski advokat koji je odigrao važnu ulogu u lokalnom poglavlju Revolucije austrijskog carstva 1848–1849. Posebno je bio aktivan u regiji Țara Moților i planinama Apuseni . Okupljanje seljaka oko njega, kao i odanost koju je odao Habsburgovcima, stekli su mu nadimak Crăișorul Munților ("Knez planina").
Avram Iancu je rođen u Vidra de Sus (trenutno Avram Iancu , Alba županije ), Transilvanija , onda dio austrijskog carstva u porodici seljaka koji su emancipira od kmetstva . Otac mu je bio Alisandru Iancu [2] (1787-1855), a majka Maria Gligor. [3] Imao je jednog starijeg brata, Iona (rođen 1822), koji je postao svećenik.
Djed Avrama Iancua bio je Gheorghe Iancu (preminuo prije 1812.), koji je imao sedmero djece (četiri djevojčice i tri dječaka): djevojčice - Sântioana, Maria, Zamfira i Ana; dečaci - Alisandru (otac), Avram i Ioan.
Danas se malo zna o djetinjstvu Avrama Iancua. Poznato je, po lokalnoj tradiciji, da je imao tipičan moški karakter, radostan i duhovit, te da je imao muzički talenat, svirajući list, alforn, flautu i violinu.
Avram Iancu je pohađao osnovnu školu u svom selu, u zaseoku " Târsa ". Njegov učitelj bio je Mihai Gomboș. Nakon nekog vremena roditelji su ga poslali u školu u selu Neagra (sada Poiana Vadului) . Dalje, školu je pohađao u Campeniju , okrug Alba , a njegov učitelj je bio Mihai Ioanette. Diplomirao je Câmpeni školu u dobi od 13.
Nakon toga je krenuo u školu u Zlatnoj , gdje je studirao u mađarskoj školi, na latinskom jeziku, jer rumunske škole nisu postojale na ovom području. Njegovi učitelji bili su Iozephus Stanken (1837-1838), Gregorius Iakabus (1838-1839) i Ludovicus Kovács (1839-1840 i 1840-1841). Diplomirao je sa 17 godina.
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Embossed background, vellum corners and a punched shape shamrock that is heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The perception is "lucky".
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large— this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual. Aldous Huxley.
Leather Overbust Corset and Neck Corset. 7 sizes: Standard sizes XXS-L, plus special sizes M+ and Bx.
Long essays need to be written about this wonderful place. It is hugely interesting to see how this object - part of the most enormous electrostatic machine of the 18th century - today makes us think of Jeff Koons, how our aesthetic perceptions intervene with the unrivalled importance of this device for late 18th century science; what we have here (the photo only shows a small part), is the ultimate hightech device of the 1780s. It also is a very beautiful object. Is it beautiful because of its scientific glamour? Is it beautiful because, in the 1780s, scientific instruments had been as isolated from other contexts as they are today? Teylers Museum is a museum for everything we today call arts and science, and it is never clear where the boundary needs to be drawn. This is a place that is as much about boundary drawing as about bringing together diverse domains. I simply adore this place.
I did this with my Macro lens, converted everything to black and white other than the iris, and softened a few areas. This is the first picture I've done in my new Photoshop CS4.
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
-Medard Boss
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
Anais Nin
Perception is a first-person narrative horror adventure featuring a young, blind woman who depends on her razor-sharp hearing to solve an ancient mystery and survive the forces that pursue her.
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Joaquin taking a victory pose after our trek to the Lydia Ann Lighthouse.
Aransas Pass,Texas
Taken with my trusty cell,Motorola Atrix
Rough to see here, but one could actually do much better making out the outlines of Mt. Hood and Mt. Saint Helens through Kat's red-tinted sunglasses. One more reason to get some red/yellow filters for the camera!
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L’adjudant Metz du poste de commandement interarmées de théâtre (PC IAT) distribue l’argent CFA aux militaires du camp français de Bamako, au Mali, pour l'opération Serval - Crédits : CCH A. Dumoutier/SIRPA Terre
Photographic techniques capture electromagnetic wavelengths beyond human vision, revealing features invisible to the naked eye. These signals are processed into interpretable forms using methods like color mapping.
Pink lacks a specific electromagnetic wavelength, while grey poses a limitation due to its representation of only intensity—a blend of light and dark without spectral specificity. Imaging techniques reliant on spectral variation produce identical results for greyscale images unless non-visible data is present. Deviations from this uniformity may indicate errors, misinterpretations, or unknown phenomena.
Contention persists over analytical debates, including dismissible claims like Van Allen belt dangers and contested evidence of lunar mirrors. The precision of laser reflections targeting a moving 3x3-foot marker on the Moon highlights technical skill but often fails to resolve skepticism. For instance, a 0.1° shift moves a laser spot 670 km across the Moon's surface.
Forensic analysis (2022, 2023) of Apollo 11–17 photographs assessed authenticity claims. Images of humans in space, Earth, and the Moon's distant views were validated, but Moon landing visuals showed variations, suggesting diverse techniques may have replicated certain elements.
PEMi (Photoelectromagnetic Image) software enhances forensic analysis by differentiating natural and artificial light sources, revealing hidden features. Each PEMi-ID links to original sources, ensuring traceability and comparison.
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Lehti, A. (2024). The Silence of Inquiry: Forensic Reflections Reveal a Crisis of Perception. figshare. doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28078982
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It's an interesting thought about how this scene may be perceived, and what influnces our thoughts. Is it more menacing because it is night, or perhaps because of the slight tilt. Is the nearest character more threatening because he is just out of focus and blurred. Is tension built because we can see that our "victim" who is running to the safety of a lit area then has to run on into a darker area again.
Ok it is just a couple of unrelated pupils jogging back to their houses of residence but I do quite like this location with it's pools of light and shade
These black and white pictures were taken at the beach near Montpellier, South of France.
The handle project is meant to make the spectator rethink the idea of possession, of the fact to have.
The truth around "Parsely in the Morning" demonstrates the power of perception in photography and the danger of comparing yourself with bloggers and public figures. We're people, too - we just heavily edit!
Inverted reflected image The apparent cloud are the receding waves and the horizon is an oncoming wave
Locke, California, is a small and historically rich town located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, about 20 miles south of Sacramento. It’s one of the few remaining towns in the United States that retains its roots in Chinese-American history. Established in 1915, Locke was originally founded by Chinese immigrants, many of whom were laborers working in the region’s agriculture and farming industries.