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The image above is part of an advert by a company offering VHS (etc) tape to DVD dubbing services. People send their tapes and photograph albums to the company, who converts the analogue formats to digital and sends them back to the customers in DVD form.
But what happens to the video tape? Should it just go in the trash? What happens if the video tape is of someone deceased? This Japanese company offers an additional service, in the case of one video tape at twice the price of the dubbing itself, funereal, mourning rites, at an affiliated Buddhist temple. Customers pay for about $30 USD for a Buddhist priest to chant Buddhist prayers over up to twenty of their VHS video tapes, several times, before eventually disposing of them.
This question would not occur to a Westerner. In Japan there is a far greater reticence towards destroying visual representations since these visual representations are far closer to the persons videoed. Similarly, for example there are also funereal rites for dolls in Japan because dolls are far more felt to have had lives.
So, is there a Nacalian transformation? Do Westerners pay our respects towards diaries, or voice recordings, especially of the dead, for instance?
Funeral rites for visual representations of persons (real or otherwise) may suggests a desire for visual representations of persons to live on - to go to a pictorial heaven as it were, where images live forever in an eternal light.
While I am unaware of a direct transformation, where Westerners pay respect to the linguistic representations of the dead, while they are alive it is found that at least Westerner strive towards 'symbolic immortality,' in the face of "mortality salience" - being required to think about their own death.
When required to think about their death, humans -- or at least Westerners -- attempt to live on in their narratives. The question as to whether Asians attempt to achieve "symbolic immortality" is controversial. Heine, Harihara, and Niiya (2002) found that Japanese do. Kashima, Halloran, Yuki, and Kashima (2004) found that mortality salience produced different effects in Japanese and Westerners. Yen & Cheng (2010) found that Taiwanese do not. Ma-Kellams and Blascovich (2012) found that Asians do other things in the face of death: rather than focus upon symbolic immortality they attempt to enjoy "life" more.
Heine, S. J., Harihara, M., & Niiya, Y. (2002). Terror management in Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5(3), 187–196. Retrieved from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-839X.00103/full
Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(3), 384–392. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2003.07.007
Ma-Kellams, C., & Blascovich, J. (2012). Enjoying life in the face of death: East–West differences in responses to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(5), 773–786. doi.org/10.1037/a0029366
Yen, C.-L., & Cheng, C.-P. (2010). Terror management among Taiwanese: Worldview defence or resigning to fate? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13(3), 185–194. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01328.x
Addendum
Come to think of it. According to Derrida's Freud, I am a funeral rite.
Derrida, J., Brault, P.-A., & Naas, M. (1996). By Force of Mourning. Critical Inquiry, 22(2), 171–192. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/1343969
The Great Limerick Run 2015 (Marathon, Half Marathon, Relay, and 6 Mile) races were held in Limerick City, Ireland on Sunday 3rd of May 2014 starting at 09:00. This was a very large mass participation event which is now firmly established on the Irish running calendar. These are a set of a photographs from: the start of the marathon, the mile 2 mark of the mark, the half way point of the marathon (to about a 3:40 finishing time), a selection from mile 20 of the marathon. These sets of photographs will not include every competitor. The official results are available here [www.tdl.ltd.uk/] and the official race website is available at [www.greatlimerickrun.com/] These are not offical race photographs.
We have a full set of photographs from todays race on Flickr at this album location:https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157651923101059/
USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
There are rules/guidance for the layout of signage, barriers, cones (etc) for roadworks.
This layout is a questionable with such a large gap between the diagonal closure and the yellow barriers, with just a single cone to prevent dozy drivers returning to the nearside lane too early.
The yellow barriers protects a 1 metre wide, by approx 500mm deep trench.
The exhibition features the artworks from an interdisciplinary and culturally diverse group of architects/artists/designers investigating current and historical dilemmas facing new immigrants and political/religious refugees as well as their influences on local and global culture in everyday life and their complex relationship to artistic and cultural production. Each body of work represents a unique perception according to one’s individual expertise, experience, vision and culture identity.
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The Lisbon Oceanarium’s conceptual design, architecture, and exhibit design was led by Peter Chermayeff and it is said to resemble an Aircraft carrier.
It houses a large collection of marine species — birds, mammals, fish, cnidaria, and other marine organisms totalling about 16,000 individuals of 450 species.
The main exhibit is a 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft), 5,000 m3 (180,000 cu ft) tank with four large 49 m2 (530 sq ft) acrylic windows on its sides, and smaller focus windows strategically located around it to make sure it is a constant component throughout the exhibit space. It is 7 m (23 ft) deep, which lets pelagic swimmers to swim above the bottom dwellers, and providing the illusion of the open ocean. The water in the central tank is kept at a temperature that will allow both temperate and tropical fish to live here. About 100 species from around the world are kept in this tank, including sharks, rays, tuna, barracudas, groupers, and moray eels. One of the main attractions is a large Sunfish.
Life in Bihari Camp
Dhaka, Bangladesh
A young girl writes a poem where she asks a simple question -- one which no one can answer. She asks, “Who am I?” Her forefathers were born in India, they immigrated to Pakistan, she was born in Bangladesh. India has given up on them a long time back, Bangladesh will not accept them as the children of the land and Pakistan will not take them back. She says that she has many names 'Bihari', 'Maura', 'Muhajir', 'Non-Bangalee', 'Marwari', 'Urdu-speaker', 'Refugee', and 'Stranded Pakistani'. But she only wants one: human. This is the state of being of the 1.6 lakh camp-based Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh. In Geneva camp now about 4 lac urdu speaking Indian & Pakistani peoples are living .
After the partition of India in 1947, faced with large-scale communal riots on both sides of the border, a few hundred thousand Muslims from Bihar, Kolkata, Uttar Pradesh, Maddhya Pradesh and as far away as Hyderabad came to the then East Pakistan. All India Muslim League Chief Muhammad Ali Jinnah promised them that Pakistan would be 'a safe haven for all Muslims'. As is typical of people migrating from a common locality, 'Biharis' lived in separate clusters from the Bangalis. Their communities were concentrated in areas in Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Khulna, Chittagong and Santahar.
the new generation who were born after the war and comprise the biggest chunk of camp-dwellers don't have any affiliations with either India or Pakistan. They were born in this country and identify themselves as Bangladeshis. Unfortunately the state is reluctant to accept them as such. It's a very complex issue because a lot of ambivalence from the majority population that is skeptical about these people's loyalty to the country they want to be citizens of. But the inhuman conditions they are living in and the subsequent effect it is bound to have on the society as a whole makes it imperative to resolve this painful issue.
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
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Known to be inhabited at least since the 6th century BC by Phoneticians, Greeks and Carthaginians, the area of the S. Jorge castle is referred clearly in historical terms since the conquest by the Romans, being believed that by the time some kind of defensive structure already existed.
With the fall of the Roman Empire under the hands of the “barbarians”, and in the 6th century of these to the Arab conquerors, this castle was always a stage of battles, especially during the Christian re-conquest of the territory, being frequently taken by Christians and later on by the Arabs.
Still, in 1147 by the hand of D. Afonso Henriques (the first Portuguese king) and with the help of crusaders that were going to the holy-land, the castle was definitively conquered after a siege of 3 months. The story tells that the knight Martim Moniz, taking notice that one of the doors of the castle has been opened rushed into it placing his body among them and sacrificing himself. He prevented it to be closed though and allowed for the conquest of the fortress.
After this event, the castle resisted successfully to several Arab conquest attempts from 1179 to 1183.
Becoming Lisbon, in 1255, the capital of the reign, the castle was converted into royal palace which lead for it to be attacked several times by the Spanish in the attempts to conquer Portugal during the 13th and 14th century.
But with the damage made along centuries by earthquakes, especially in 1755, and the change of the royal palace to the Tagus River shores the S. Jorge castle entered in long decline being used as prison and military head-quarters. It was recovered during the 1940’s and 1990’s and it’s one of the most important places to visit in Lisbon, as it has some of the most magnificent views over the river and especially the medieval quarters of the town.
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The Ajuda National Palace, a neoclassical building from the first half of the 19th century, was built upon plans drawn by the architects Francisco José Fabri (1761-1817) and José da Costa e Silva (1741-1819). It became a royal residence on king Luís I (1861-1889) accession to the throne and it remained as such until the end of the Monarchy, in 1910.
From 1862, when the king married Maria Pia Princess of Savoy, onto the end of his reign, the ever-unfinished palace was brought into life. Its decorative interiors suffered great changes from the beginning. Joaquim Possidónio da Silva (1806-1896), the royal architect, was in charge of the works. He renewed the room’s distribution and decoration according to the 19th century modern standards, where comfort and hygiene were vital. New rooms were created: the winter garden, the Saxe and the Chinese rooms, a dining room for the family daily meals and bathrooms with all the recent amenities, such as cold and hot running water. For fifty years the palace was the stage to a whole lot of events: princes were born and christened – Carlos (1863-1908) and Afonso (1865-1920) –, the State Counsel gathered here, balls, banquets and court ceremonies took place.
In 1910, when the Republic was instated, the consequent exile of the royal family brought a closure period upon the palace. It opened to the public as a Museum since 1968. It still holds its decorative artworks in place in a lively and truthful to its origins display. On the ground floor, from the Music Room onwards, the private apartments can be found, while State Rooms occupy the upper floor. As a museum, it gathers important collections of decorative arts from the 18th and 19th centuries: gold and silver works, textiles, furniture and ceramics as well as paintings, sculptures and photographs. The most important State ceremonies held by the President of the Republic still take place here.
Entertainers and athletes take questions and interact with the audience during a USO Show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan; the third stop on the annual Vice Chairman’s USO Tour, April 1, 2019. Country music artist Craig Morgan, celebrity chef Robert Irvine, UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn, former UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman, professional mixed martial artist Felice Herrig, two-time MLB World Series champion Shane Victorino; and professional surfer Makua Rothman joined Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a tour across the world as they visit service members overseas to thank them for their service and sacrifice. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
In my opinion, The worst years were
1. 2008 because I got diabeities
2. 2009 because we lost our legend MJ and Justin IDIOTIC Bieber took over the world
3. 2013 because I had braces and a bad school year
4. 2014 because my appendix bursted out
5. 2016 because of losing interest to logos, celebrity deaths, and mass shootings week by week
and
7. 2017 because of Trump being pesident ad Paramount making box office flops contsnatly.
This year (2018) seems to be a little better.
What do you think?
Another one of the beautiful hand made details on Indian Larry's "chain of mystery" bike, it reads "Just One More Question". Taken at the Rumblers Hot Rod show in Brooklyn, NY.
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Sorry, but that quote makes me laugh every time I read it.
Happy National Shrimp Day!
What d'ya say we celebrate with a road trip to Bolivar for some truly fresh Gulf shrimp and some fresh air? It should be really fresh and clean right now, scrubbed by over 12" of rain in the last day or so. We're supposed to get another dose in the wee hours of the morning too, so bring a good warm jacket.
Question: What the heck is PONG supposed to be?
When you're playing it, it feels like the video game representation of some real-life sport. You're bouncing a ball back and forth with another player, which at first glance sounds a lot like like table tennis, AKA ping pong-- and that would seem to explain the name. And yet, PONG is two-dimensional and free of gravity. The ball goes in a straight line, at a fairly constant rate of travel. And you don't play ping pong by rotating a wheel. Come to think of it, it's not a darned thing like ping pong. So what the heck is it?
To answer this, we built this real-life Tabletop Pong game. You can read more about this project here.
Ah yes. The Rise & Toys RT-01 Robot Rose, the figure that begs to answer the question "How much better would my life be if MP Arcee had a proper chest?".
Well, turns out there's some ups and downs, and no, I'm not talking about the jiggling.
Because sadly these are not silicone boobs.
So to start off, if you're not sure, YES, this is a knock off of the MP Arcee release from a few years back. To save myself a bunch of writing, it's suffice to say it's not as good as the official release, but it can do probably 80 - 90% of what it is supposed to do.
Highlights of the stuff that is a total miss is paint, the inability to hold weapons, and my favourite, an instruction manual that literally leaves you half way there.
But the parts are all there, including the die cast content, and the plastic quality doesn't seem to be off by much, if any. It's more the colour amongst the pinks can be inconsistent. Articulation is exactly the same until you decide to get crazy. Visor gimmick still works.
Before the main event, I just want to quickly point out the other major difference between this and the official MP - the face plates. I can't remember who made these, but they're closer to the animation model. There's another extra face that comes with their Nightbird release that is even more accurate.
The main event - the chest plates, which is probably the reason you bought this release. The original toy suffered from what would best be described as a sagging bust line, with Nightbird faring slightly better due to the long chin piece.
Well, this figure gives you the option of swapping out the original piece for one of two plates - one that gives the figure that classic look, but is definitely more flattering, and another that gives her the look of a pin up model.
Might as well go big, right?
The issue is that by attaching these chest plates, you lose use of her shoulder hinges, and basically won't be able to bring the arms across the chest... which if you think about it, makes sense given the size of the things.
I want to go to Brickscascade but i also want to go to emerald city comic con! Which one is better and why?
P.S I have heard that the comic con lines are really long, is that the case at the emerald city comic con?
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Pyongyang is the capital of the DPRK and the centre of politics, the economy and culture.
As the cradle of the Taedonggang Culture, it has over 5 000-year-long history since Tangun, founder king, established Ancient Korea and set Pyongyang as its capital.
In spring Moran Hill, a "garden of the capital," is full of flowers and the picturesque Taedong River flows through the city centre. So Pyongyang is called a city in a park. Such surroundings make Pyo according to north korean guides. Pyongyang the "World Best Beauty".
Major Attractions : Grand Monument on Mansu Hill, Tower of the Juche Idea, Arch of Triumph, Party Founding Memorial Tower, Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace, Grand People’s Study House, Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum and Pyongyang Metro.