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They say children are like snowflakes, each one is unique. The one-size-fits-all parenting style, thus, seems passé. Comprehending children’s psychology is paramount for every parent, but not easy. And the fact that every child is different and special makes the process even more complex and perplexing. At times, things could misfire as well, leading to a lifelong emotional disconnect between the child and the parents.
Dr. Deepak Raheja, a well-known child psychologist in Delhi, rightly points out, “Understanding a child’s thinking pattern, traits and personality is crucial on the part of parents in order to nurture the kid into an emotionally-balanced and healthy adult.”
According to Dr. Deepak Raheja, the three primary contexts that shape a child’s psychology perspective towards life are:
Social: A child’s relationship and comfort level with parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, or friends.
Cultural: The traditions, culture, values or guidelines put into practise in the house or in the society that a child grows in.
Socioeconomic:The lifestyle, class, financial backing and social status of the child’s family.
Dr. Deepak Raheja lists down a few simple psychology tips for parents to ensure their children’s right emotional and mental growth.
Observe your children:The key to understanding a child is to take interest in his or her choices, expressions, actions, temperament, and so on. Do not judge your kids, or compare them with other children else you may mistakenly end up sowing the seeds of inferiority complex in them.
Give your children the time they deserve:Ensure to make time for your children while you juggle between home and work. Spending quality time together with your kids is paramount to actually discover their personality. For this, you could try talking, playing, colouring, shopping, watching TV, or cooking their favourite dish with them.
Your undivided attention will make your children feel safe:Plan activities with them in a way that it enables you to dedicate a good amount of your time exclusively to them.
Keep a check on the environment your children are growing in: Everything, right from a child’s brain development and cognitive skills to attitude and language is largely shaped by the atmosphere and company around him.
Be a good listener to your kids: The best way to do that is to initiate a conversation on a topic of your children’s interest and get them talking. Listen attentively,while also paying attention to all the non-verbal cues like their expressions, body language or expressions.
Ask them open-ended questions: The right kind of questions will encourage them to think and express elaborately rather than a mere ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Practise the same if the children ask you a question in return.
Understand your children’s emotional quotient:Consider your kids as adults and never take their emotions or feelings for granted. Valuing children’s emotions and their capacity to handle sentiments is important.
Stop assuming and start asking: Make it a habit of talking to your children about how they feel or want things around them. For instance, just because a child isn’t complaining wouldn’t mean he or she is happy.
Dr Deepak Raheja states that minor behavioural issues, such as stubbornness or rudeness is common in kids and can be worked upon with the above mentioned tips. However, if not handled on time in an appropriate way, the problems may escalate into something as serious as childhood psychological disorders. It might include:
Eating disorder
Learning disability
Anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia
Disruptive behaviour disorder
Asperger’s syndrome
Depression and bipolar disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
“Poor judgement and lack of awareness about the psychology of children can lead parents to take poor decisions that can affect their children severely.” says Dr. Deepak Raheja.
He further advises parents to seek help from skilled child psychologists before the situation worsens. Speaking to a specialist is always better than making wild guesses about children’s personality. If you, as a parent, feel the need to learn more tips to contribute to the development of your child’s conscience in the right manner, then get in touch with Dr. Deepak Raheja today.
The best psychiatrist in Delhi, Dr. Deepak Raheja reviews mental health, psychological or emotional problems cautiously. You could visit www.hopecareindia.com /and book an appointment with Dr. Deepak Raheja to adapt a realistic approach on raising a confident child.
Child psychology is one of the many branches of psychology and one of the most frequently studied specialty areas. This particular branch focuses on the mind and behavior of children from prenatal development through adolescence.
What is child development in psychology?
A significant proportion of theories within this discipline focus upon development during childhood, as this is the period during an individual's lifespan when the most change occurs. Developmental psychologists study a wide range of theoretical areas, such as biological, social, emotion, and cognitive processes.
How can we communicate with children?
Let your kids know you're listening
When your children are talking about concerns, stop whatever you are doing and listen.
Express interest in what they are saying without being intrusive.
Listen to their point of view, even if it's difficult to hear.
Let them complete their point
before you respond.
The five strategies to raise moral, caring children, according to Making Caring Common:
Make caring for others a priority.
Provide opportunities for children to practice caring and gratitude.
Expand your child's circle of concern.
Be a strong moral role model and mentor.
Guide children in managing destructive feelings.
Pop!Tech Fellow Abby Falik introduces her idea of a "Global Citizen Year" - a year between high school and college which students spend working and living abroad in order to gain a true understanding of globalization. photography by kris krüg
បុគ្គលិក ACCB ជួបជាមួយសមាជិក YSEALI ដើម្បីនិយាយអំពីបញ្ហាសំខាន់ ដែលប៉ះពាល់ដល់សត្វព្រៃ និងជីវចំរុះក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា។
អ្នកចូលរួមសិក្ខាសាលា “YSEALI Generation: EARTH" រួមមានយុវជនយុវនារីអាយុពី 18-25 ឆ្នាំ មកពីប្រទេសប្រុយណេ កម្ពុជា ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ឡាវ ម៉ាឡេស៊ី មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា ហ្វីលីពីន សិង្ហបុរី ថៃ និង វៀតណាម។
ចំណុចផ្ដោតសំខាន់នៃកម្មវិធីនេះ គឺដើម្បីធ្វើឲ្យមានការយល់ស៊ីជម្រៅទៅ លើបញ្ហាប្រឈម ផ្នែកបរិស្ថាន ដែលតំបន់អាស៊ាន និងតំបន់ដទៃទៀតកំពុងមាន។
The "YSEALI Generation: EARTH" participants visit Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) at Kbal Spean, Siem Reap.
ACCB staff meet with the YSEALI members to talk about critical issues affecting wildlife and biodiversity in Cambodia.
The U.S. Embassy brings together 72 young Southeast Asian leaders to Siem Reap for the workshop aiming to to foster a deeper understanding of challenges to the environment facing the ASEAN region and beyond.
Participants include young people between the age of 18-25 from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
Sunderland University Vice Chancellor Sir David Bell signs a Memorandum of Understanding with delegates from the Inner Mongolian Food Federation at CitySpace Picture: David Wood
Understanding child psychology: Parent should learn and understand how to deal with children so that they get good values in their life. They should know what they should do in front of kids and what they should not. Because children learn from what they see ...In this video Pujya Niruma gives good tips on how parents should deal with children.
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Artwork 11 - Ruby Florence Hammond PSM.
The Ngarrindjeri people of Murrundi (the Lower Murray River) believe the Ponde (the Murray Cod) is a significant aspect of their dreaming. Ruby Hammond, a descendant of Ngarrinderi and Western Arrente, worked tirelessly with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people striving towards understanding and equity for all Australians. Hammond was well-known for singing the song about the sun, the moon and the stars, by her family and many other groups. It is a song about where we all come from.
The artwork has been designed by 'Munnari' John Hammond, Ruby Hammond's son.
Reconciliation Place, A place which recognises the importance of understanding the shared history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and which reaffirms our commitment to Reconciliation as an important national priority.
Video at - youtu.be/Pt5iHktfbGI
History of the Museum
Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.
The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.
After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.
The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.
The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.
The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.
On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.
With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.
In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.
This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.
The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.
The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.
The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.
Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.
Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.
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St Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe – a place of pilgrimage and prayer
by the Very Revd Gary Paulsen
A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples;
the nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious.
Isaiah 11: 1–3, 10
Lynda Christian is a local artist who offered to do something for the Cathedral, and the conversation began about her work and how it might feature in the Cathedral. The present idea arose from the scripture text above. Lynda is a multi–media artist and also specialises in metal art. She tries to use recycling metals, such as tin cans.
Lynda says: “It’s impossible to do exactly the same piece twice, as the metals are hand–cut and shaped. The metals will twist differently and join together differently each time. I like to mix the primary paints as I paint, so each piece keeps its individuality. I design innovatively – each piece is bespoke, unique with its own characteristics. I am often being inspired by ‘found art’, preferably rusty metals, discarded and rejected, getting a second lease of life.”
So the piece, right down to the materials used, depicts rejection that is taken–up and given new life. This piece of art which was commissioned for St Flannan’s Cathedral depicts an old stump, with new shoots growing from it. It reflects that something new can come from something that seems dead or has fallen like a tree. Often our lives can feel dead or broken through hurt, loss, depression, rejection and so on. The shoot does not grow from the centre, but from the edge of the stump. Sometimes from the fuzzy edges of our lives – in areas of unknowing, confusion, searching – can spring this new life which gives us hope, if we are open to the working of God’s spirit. The Christian hope of resurrection into a new reality is expressed in this piece of art.
Our emphasis in recent years is that the Cathedral in Killaloe is a place of pilgrimage and prayer. Our hope is that those who visit, or those who are regular worshippers, can experience the sacred mystery as a reality that is greater than ourselves or our circumstances. People in Ireland have always found places to express themselves in and through nature. One of the old customs is that people would tie a ribbon on a tree. We envisage that people will tie a prayer ribbon on this metal tree, a ribbon symbolizing their prayer intention. There is an ancient baptismal font just opposite the tree, expressing the significance of water and new life, with water also being the symbol of life and hope. Therefore we are combining ancient Celtic custom with our Christian tradition in the context of the Cathedral as an aid for people to express themselves. The tree of death has become a tree of hope and new life in Christ.
In recent months we have also developed a text with different points in the Cathedral for people to pause, reflect and pray. We are grateful to Jessica Brown for her work on a booklet as a help and tool for people going around the Cathedral, prayerfully reflecting on what is in the building and how it can move us to deeper connection with the holy mystery all around us. Jessica finds the corner of literature and theology fascinating. Her book The Grace to be Human is forthcoming this autumn with Kalos Press, and her children’s novel The River Boy was released in 2016. Having lived in Texas, California, New York, England and New Zealand, Jessica now lives in the west of Ireland with her husband and son. We are extremely fortunate to have Jessica and her family as part of our worshipping community at the Cathedral, as she is so willing to share her gifts with all of us and the wider community.
At the Harvest Festival service in the Cathedral on 15th October the Right Reverend Kenneth Kearon, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, dedicated the tree and the new booklet, which will be offered as aids to those coming to pray. We hope that many will make their way to the Cathedral as a pilgrimage, and be able to continue that journey as they explore the Cathedral with all its symbols, beauty and rich Christian heritage.
History of the Museum
Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.
The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.
After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.
The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.
The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.
The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.
On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.
With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.
In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.
This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.
The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.
The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.
The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.
Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.
Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.
Copyright Museum of Natural History
www.wien-konkret.at/kultur/museum/naturhistorisches-museu...
What if, instead of fixating on the end goal, our desire was rooted in the experience itself? In the journey, and every tantalizing and challenging experience that comes along with the magical, whimsical ride? This is in and of itself, the key element when it comes to understanding the energies that guide true Tantric play. To Know More Click at amandabiccum.com/beyond-sex-understanding-the-energies-th...!
"Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall understand fully."
--Paul (A.D. 1st cent.). 1 Corinthians 13:12
As a child I loved looking at the covers and the illustrations within my dad's old science magazines. I didn't actually read any, just looked at the pictures. It's still absolutely inspirational stuff.
July 2015, moderators on reddit "took down," "made private," and "blacked out" their communities to advocate for better communication and software from the company.
This graph, part of my summer research at Microsoft Research, shows networks of shared moderation among the top 52,754 subreddits (including NSFW) in terms of comments in June 2015, based on a dataset collected by a reddit user. Ties between subreddits represent moderators shared between two communities.
Subreddits that joined the blackout are shown in yellow, while the rest of Reddit is blue.
The size of each sub is determined by the log of the number of comments to the sub in June 2015. My previous charts which focused on subscriber counts and excluded NSFW subs. This chart, which is based on comment volume and which includes NSFW subs, offers a clearer sense of which active subreddits were part of the blackout -- and consequently likely to affect reddit's advertising revenue.
(Even after making these improvements, my statistical findings are consistent across both analyses.)
My previous charts and analysis excluded NSFW subs. I only looped back to query NSFW subs on September 10, 2015, so there are some caveats to this data:
- For NSFW subs, moderators who stepped down between July 2 and Sept 10 are not listed here, since the API does not include this information. Moderator lists for the rest of the subs were queried in June and then again in mid-July.
- Using the reddit API's data on when mods started, I have removed moderators who started moderating after the blackout. However, if any of these subs have dramatically changed who mods or changed the "top mod," then these subs will have no moderators listed in this dataset
- 210 out of 2,000 subs have no moderators listed in this dataset. I have looked at a sample of these, and many of them are active subs with no moderator.
- Subs that were removed by Reddit for policy violations between the end of June and Sept 10 are not included.
Jane Owen, Director, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), India, Sir Richard Stagg, British High Commissioner to India and B.V. Naidu, Chairman, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create partnerships between the Indian and UK semiconductor industries in New Delhi on 28 August 2009.
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Understanding Weather by O.G. Sutton
First published 1960
Reprinted 1961
Cover design by Derek Birdsall
Sometimes a single image can change one's understanding of a person, place or thing.
Here, seeing a photo of Joe Knowles standing next to his car, one of the most advanced vehicles of the era, transformed my view of the pioneering reality star who was known in his day as The Nature Man from coast to coast.
Yes, Americans are notorious for living beyond their means, and that may have been the case here. Or perhaps Joe Knowles was just enjoying the rewards of his hard work.
As newspapers of the era liked to point out, Joe Knowles became famous for his ability to abandon the trappings of civilization and survive in the wilderness, but he was equally well adapted to the comforts and luxuries of city living.
Proving a point about humankind's ingenuity under primitive conditions was Knowles' passion, but he was also a hard-working entrepreneur and promoter. This photo suggests that Knowles not only made good money but was able to hang onto it.
As soon as Knowles returned from the forests of the Siskiyous in 1914, he began making personal appearances in Oregon and California to demonstrate his survival skills. In time he added a tame bear to his act. Then he landed a movie deal that took him back to the Siskiyous, There, his encounters with a cougar and perilous rapids put him back in the headlines.
Turning up In New York, Knowles announced the next chapter in his wilderness adventures: he would mentor two intrepid women in his woodcraft! To prove he was serious, Knowles sat for a publicity photo with the two "Eves" that graced the pages of many a publication.
This twist was hardly surprising. By then, several women had already made their own bids for the limelight by publicly professing their intention to emulate The Nature Man on their own. Almost from the outset, the press had evinced a coy preoccupation over how Knowles's female imitators might be attired on Day One. Victorian prudishness had receded far enough by the teens of the 1900s that reporters could write that Knowles planned to enter the forest nude, though not far enough that they could publish photos of Knowles in the altogether. Today, some might call that state of affairs titillating.
The story behind Joe Knowles' announcement that Elaine Hammerstein (a cousin of the hugely famous Oscar Hammerstein II) would be joining him in the Adirondacks for a reprise of his earlier exploits in the woods is surely worthy of a movie. Nothing in Elaine's basic biography even hints that such a feat might have interested her. Nothing more appeared about the project in the New York press after the splash of the announcement. An item in a Western newspaper reported that an early winter had forced the two of them to call off their plans. Joe himself said that Elaine found her grass skirt not up to the challenge of keeping her warm.
When America's entry into the Great War in 1917 muted the public's enthusiasm for Joe Knowles' nature act, he reinvented himself as the West's leading instructor on woodlore at scout gatherings.
It was his first such event that brought him to the North Beach Peninsula for the first time around 1916. By 1917 Joe Knowles had settled in the village of Seaview, where was immediately hailed as a regional celebrity and accomplished artist. In other words, he was the classic local character. Knowles was famous for being famous, making him a celebrity, but unlike many of that ilk, he had solid accomplishments to his name. By then, "Knowles" had entered the American lexicon as a metaphor for nudity or a penchant for roughing it.
His stature led him to secure numerous commissions, including a series of murals in 1924 for the newest theater in Astoria, Oregon, which was just then rebuilding its downtown after a devastating fire. That year he also painted portraits of the chief justices of the Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington. The former was received with great fanfare in the press and in real life.
It's at that juncture that we catch up with Joe Knowles standing next to his flashy new car in Portland. This was as much a publicity shot for Knowles as it was for the auto dealership.
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About the Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine
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By
David Conwill
Updated
August 27, 2024
in Classics, Hemmings Classic Car, Magazine
Too Much, Too Soon – 1925 Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine
The creative genius of car enthusiasts and the cold calculations of businessmen are the age-old yin and yang of the automobile industry. Think of the car enthusiast as an artist, driven to create the purest expression of his or her vision in steel, glass, and rubber–regardless of expense. The businessmen are there to make sure that the unfettered vision doesn’t bankrupt the company. Both the artist and his or her fans may decry the artificial limitation on mechanical genius, but the graveyard of the car business is littered with nameplates that went too far, too fast, and were unable to sustain themselves.
By the time he was approached to append his appellation to the eponymous company in 1921, Eddie Rickenbacker’s car-enthusiast credentials were already well-established: He first rose to prominence as a race-car driver in the 1911-’17 era, having appeared in every Indianapolis 500 race before World War I, and as a driver for the factory teams of Peugeot and Maxwell.
During the war, he was the United States’ “Ace of Aces,” having shot down a confirmed 26 enemy aircraft at the controls of his Nieuport and SPAD biplanes. He was promoted to the rank of major at the end of his service, but throughout his life preferred the rank he felt he had earned, that of captain. By 1918, “Captain Eddie” was already a household name in America.
Rickenbacker wasn’t merely a good driver and pilot. Before his skill at the wheel was recognized, Rickenbacker had seen to his education via a correspondence course in engineering. An early internal-combustion enthusiast, he had also worked for the Columbia Buggy Company selling its Firestone-Columbus automobiles.
Further, Rickenbacker was already associated with General Motors founder Billy Durant, thanks to a marketing arrangement wherein Rickenbacker promoted GM’s Sheridan division. In 1922, he would actually marry Durant’s ex-daughter-in-law. So when Barney Everitt, William Metzger, and Walter Flanders– three men with enormous experience in the auto industry– joined with Rickenbacker, they were getting far more than just a famous name.
Everitt, Metzger, and Flanders are best remembered for the E-M-F Company, which was eventually folded into Studebaker– though that was far from their only accomplishment. They were, respectively, a body man, a salesman, and a production man. All three had good reputations as auto executives, though their companies usually did not survive long after their personal leadership had departed. Rickenbacker was, sadly, not to be an exception.
Captain Eddie himself had initially wished to stay in aviation after the war. Unfortunately, the postwar recession, combined with a glut of surplus aircraft, meant that the fledgling aircraft industry was struggling. Instead, he reverted to his prewar enthusiasm for the automobile. In the 1920s, the line between automotive technology and aviation was far thinner than today, and the disciplines cross-pollinated liberally.
What Rickenbacker wanted in his own new car was to bring the high-performance technology of military aircraft and racing cars to the street. He was not alone in this, with the Chevrolet brothers (who had previously sold their family name to Durant) making similar plans at the same time to turn their Frontenac racing team into a producer of road cars. Rickenbacker got further, however, and while Frontenac was forced to produce speed parts for the Ford Model T, Rickenbacker really did produce what the company termed “a car worthy of its name.”
The biggest technical triumph of the original Rickenbacker Six was its “tandem flywheel.” Captain Eddie had been impressed by the smoothness of the liquid-cooled inline engines of his German opponents in the skies over France. When he was able to inspect the inner workings of crashed or captured airplanes, he discovered that their crankshafts had flywheels at both ends, greatly reducing the vibration transmitted outside of the engine.
What most people remember about Rickenbacker, however, was its pioneering use of four-wheel brakes in the medium-price field. Even the prototype chassis, displayed at the 1922 New York Auto Show, had front-wheel brakes present, a major departure for the time. In June of 1923, both Duesenberg and Rickenbacker announced that four-wheel braking would now be standard. For Duesenberg, a race-bred, high-performance, luxury car, this was not much of a surprise. For a less-expensive car like Rickenbacker, it was remarkable in the extreme.
Other companies soon followed suit, though Studebaker actually launched a smear campaign attempting to paint front brakes as unsafe, and Rickenbacker felt the pressure to continue to update its product line. For 1925, the year of our feature car, the original 58-horsepower, 218-cu.in. straight-six was upgraded to a 236-cu.in. engine with seven main bearings, producing 68 horsepower. The six-cylinder engine was also joined by an L-head, 80-horsepower, 268-cu.in. straight-eight with nine main bearings. The six retained the traditional 117-inch wheelbase, but the eight received a lengthened 121.5-inch wheelbase. The lines were otherwise quite similar.
This “Vertical Eight Superfine,” as the new-for-1925 eight was called, was an excellent car–smooth and powerful. The details are outstanding for a car at its price point, right down to the “hat-in-the-ring” logo, borrowed from the United States Army Air Service’s 94th Pursuit Squadron, Rickenbacker’s own unit, cast into the rear axle housing where only someone crawling underneath the car could see it. In bringing luxury-car features to the mid-price field, it was arguably five years ahead of the competition.
Unfortunately, just as the company seemed to be finding its footing, Flanders–a crack production specialist who had helped Ford Motor Company on its way to the moving assembly line– was killed in a car accident. At the same time, dealers began fleeing the fold, possibly due to Studebaker’s hatchet job (though it wouldn’t stop newcomer Chrysler from adopting four-wheel hydraulic brakes that year) or possibly due to word of the kind of executive infighting that had brought down other efforts by the founders of E-M-F.
It was in this environment that Captain Eddie left the automotive firm bearing his name in 1926. Soon after, he would buy the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he would own until 1945, and embark on a career as an aviation executive that would keep his name in the public eye until his death in 1973.
Rickenbacker, the company, kept trying, promoting its Super Sport boat-tailed coupe as the fastest four-passenger automobile for sale (faster models from the likes of Duesenberg seated only two) and introducing dual-carburetor engines for 1927. But it was not enough, and the firm did not survive to sell 1928 models.
It is said that after the company folded, Captain Eddie personally repaid all debts he had guaranteed for the company, despite a bankruptcy discharge, burnishing his reputation as an ethical businessman. Everitt went on to help found the Verville Aircraft Company in the same Detroit factory building that had housed Rickenbacker. Metzger also got into aviation, helping form Stinson Aircraft in 1926.
As an interesting aside, the tooling for both the six-cylinder and eight-cylinder 1927 Rickenbackers was sold to a Danish businessman in Germany named Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen who had planned to produce the engines for sale to European automakers. When no orders were forthcoming, Rasmussen instead shopped his designs to Audi, in which he was the majority shareholder. This resulted in the Rickenbacker 6-70 becoming the Audi Type-T “Dresden” and the eight-cylinder Rickenbackers becoming the Audi Type-SS “Zwickau.” Both were produced until 1932.
That makes the four-passenger coupe on these pages a rarity to begin with. In fact, it is believed by the Rickenbacker Club of America to be the only surviving 1925 eight-cylinder coupe. It should come as no surprise, then, that for the past 48 years it has been a part of the Automobile Gallery of the Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The Automobile Gallery has as its nucleus the collection of pharmaceutical heir J.K. Lilly III, and the Rickenbacker was acquired by Lilly in 1966.
We spoke with Director of Collections and Exhibits Jennifer Madden, and she told us that Lilly acquired the car from a Dearborn, Michigan, collector named J. Walter Heater. We don’t know if there is a connection, but Heater was an executive with a Detroit firm called Fleet Supply Corp. (“parts and supplies for trucks, trailers, and cars”). The address for Fleet Supply, 2896 Central Avenue, was less than a mile from the still-extant former Rickenbacker factory at 4815 Cabot Street–could that have sparked Heater’s interest in finding a Rickenbacker?
Heater found the car in 1960 in what the Detroit Free Press described as “an abandoned garage on Ferry Park Avenue near the Lodge Freeway.” The previous owner, a man named Gauss, was a retired Army engineer. According to a letter in the car’s file at the Heritage Museums, Gauss had sold his home and actually lived in the car in his garage for 15 years!
Heater restored the Rickenbacker, completing the job in 1962. The coupe was immediately recognized as Grand Champion at the Henry Ford Museum’s Old Car Festival in the division for cars built between 1917 and 1925. While it was in his care, it was reunited with Captain Eddie for a television show apparently called On the Street.
Sometime around 1966, Heater and Lilly happened to encounter one another, and Heater told Lilly about his Rickenbacker. The two men corresponded that summer regarding the car, and eventually it was settled that Lilly would purchase it for $5,000 (a little more than $37,500 adjusted for inflation).
Heater even offered to drive the Rickenbacker from Dearborn to Boston for Lilly to take delivery. In a letter, he noted “it runs very well at 55-60 mph, which means two days on the road from here.” Eventually, it was settled that Heater would meet a representative of Lilly’s in Syracuse, New York, about half way between the two men. Heater apparently took the Greyhound home.
It’s not recorded why the Rickenbacker caught Lilly’s fancy. Perhaps it was just the excellent restoration that the car still wears today–having been museum-kept since 1969 and undriven since sometime in the 1970s, although the museum intends to get it driving again soon. It is worth noting that the Lilly family’s roots are not in Boston, or Cape Cod, but rather in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Rickenbacker name and the speedway are icons. It’s not impossible that Lilly, who was six when this car was built, recalled the excitement associated with Captain Eddie and his airplane-inspired car way back when.
Though it survived only a brief six model years, and only an estimated two dozen examples remain, the Rickenbacker is well remembered today, thanks to its technical sophistication and its association with one of America’s greatest aviation heroes. If you are lucky enough to see or experience one, linger awhile and soak in the details, quality construction, mechanical elegance, and handsome styling. You will be glad you did.
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The Catriona McDonald was built in Forster by Alf Jahnsen for David McDonald Brown in 1956; she was registered in 1956. David “Mac” Brown referred to his boat as simply Catriona. Her sail number was CYC 25
When Brown sold the Catriona McDonald in 1960 to Dr. R. and Mrs P. Roxburgh she was renamed Phyllis Graham and was allocated the sail number 63.
Russell and Phyllis Roxburgh sold the Phyllis Graham to John Hebden in April 1976. She was subsequently sold to and James and Joan Coxon in September 1976 and her name was officially named Catriona in November 1976. It is believed that her sail number was changed to A50 but this is uncertain.
To further confuse the story, David “Mac”Brown had a second boat built by Alf Jahnsen in Forster– this was the Catriona M and used the sail number CYC 25; he also referred to her as the Catriona
Research: The assistance of David Leslie Brown (Son of David "Mac" Brown) is greatly appreciated.
Acknowledgements. The assistance of Mori Flapan (Mori Flapan boatregister) by providing access to his extensive database is greatly appreciated.
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White truffle olive oil and heavy cream were involved. Quantities are essential, especially in relation to the amount of vegetation. Drowning the vegetation in goop, as some eateries do, is the mark of a bad understanding of what makes a salad work.
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, and Numar Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary OLADE, signs the Memorandum of Understanding between the International Atomic Energy Agency and The Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) on the Cooperation in the Area of Energy at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 September 2022.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
OLADE:
Numar Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary
Medardo Cadena, Director of Energy Projects and Studies
Guillermo Koutoudjian, Director of Energy Security, Integration and Access
Gabriela Malvasio, Press and Communications
IAEA:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director-General
Illuminate your home with this simple, yet awe-striking vocal ornament that has taken man to higher degrees of understanding; the mighty utterance Allah. This truly goes beyond the physical art as the primordial word with which Muslims use to express their connection to a Higher Being. An ideal gift that can be used in a variety of spaces.
monday 16th february 2015
we concluded part 2 by asserting that each entangled alter-universe which extends to constitute our understanding-with (and comprehending of) pure singleness - propagates (and is propagated by) its own proper time and space.
we also claimed that the auto-extending differentials which constitute alter-universes, must have a profound understand-with the others from which they derive their difference(s). (inasmuch as each is constituted as nothing but its difference from the others.) we furthermore claimed that each differential feels this profound understanding-with as the (effective) force of its own otherness. all force is the force of otherness - of our entangled self at a distance.
we also claimed provisionally that energy is force relative to time. (force is actually theoretical, - the condition of our understanding-with prior to time; while energy is really physical, because it is temporally extensive). we also asserted that if we comprehend space as the differential extending of pure singleness, then time extends as the reiteration of that extending.
energy, mass and entanglement.
let us then comprehend the mass of a thing, not as the property of a particulate thing, but rather as the energy of our own understandings-with that thing. in other words for example, we do not feel the force of gravity of the planet on which we stand, rather we comprehend our ownmost alter-universal understandings-with the earth and everything, as the temporal energy called ‘gravity’ - but which is in fact our ‘self in the distance’ all around. we assume that the mass of a thing is relative to our energetic comprehendings of that thing in the context of every other thing.
infinite degrees of darkness
as pure singleness, we are entangled in every possible way, and at every possible moment, with every possible alter-universal condition. in other words and so to speak, this infinity of alter-universal conditions varies from infinitely primitive, to not quite so infinitely primitive, to primitive but infinitely complex, to infinitely complex but not yet visible, to visible but infinitely primitive, to quite comprehensive but not yet visible, to visible but not a comprehensive thing, to a comprehensively sensible existing thing…. ∞
let us assert that dark matter is the pre-existence of infinitely complex entanglements of alter-universes, which are not yet visible as comprehensive things.
for the rest of this text, we will be concerned with the justification of all these various claims. in it we will try to illustrate schematically, some of the primitive alter-universal conditions which constitute our comprehending - hoping to show eventually how they can become comprehensible as things.
tuesday 17th february 2015
the elementary moment
our comprehending is this - pure singleness extends as understanding-with alterity; and it does so as an infinitely variable entanglement of alter-universes. each n-fold alter-universe has a basic pattern of mutual understanding-with (of the others of its constitution), which governs how its differentials are entangled. we call this pattern the ‘elementary moment’, and although it extends prior to the time of the alter-universe, by its auto-reiteration, it is the basis of proper time.
pure singleness extends as the sum total of all possible entangled, reiterating, elementary moments.
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wednesday 18th february 2015
let us comprehend pure singleness as the elementary moment of a two-fold alter-universe. each differential (coloured red and violet for our benefit) is nothing but the extending of the other. this is how they are entangled.
inasmuch they are nothing but a simple extending of alterity, the constitution of each differential is (each understands itself as) nothing but a spacing from the other. we understand space as and with the the very otherness of the other. each is real as the auto-understanding of the other.
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let us comprehend pure singleness as the moment of realisation of a two-fold alter-universe. by this, we do not mean to imply that there is anything like a brain which has a 'moment of realisation'. rather, we mean a moment constituted by the differentials of an alter-universe, for which each becomes real as the other. it is the realising of the elementary moment.
each is real as the auto-understanding of the other
rehto eht of gnidnatsrednu-otua eht sa laer si hcae
continued in part 4.
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What is Mortgage?
Mortgage refers to an understanding that permits a money lender to take property when a borrower neglects to pay. In most cases, it refers to a home loan where the lender can constrain you out of the property, sell it, and gather the cash despite everything you owe.
Mortgage and “Home Loan” are often used conversely. For real estate transactions, there should be written agreement, so a home loan is an archive that gives your money lender the privilege to foreclose on your home.
Types of Mortgages
Mortgages are regularly utilized by customers, but organizations can even buy property with this. There are following types of mortgages offered generally.
Altered Rate Mortgages:
You calculate to what extent it will take to pay off all the main and interest, and then you touch base at a regularly scheduled installment. You will pay the same monthly installment through the whole term of the altered rate mortgage. Of course on the off chance that you offer your home before the end of the term, you can simply pay off the parity that you owe.
Second Mortgage:
A second mortgage is a loan that uses your home as security – like a credit you may have used to buy your home. The loan is known as a “second” mortgage in light of the fact that your purchase loan is often the primary credit that is secured by a lien on your home.
Now, you have access to more than you could get without utilizing your home as guarantee. The amount which you would be able to acquire relies upon your lender, yet you may hope to get up to 80% of your home’s estimation.
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You may need a ‘conceded begin’ when you take out your mortgage. Conceded begin or poor start contracts permit you to defer the beginning on repayments on your home loan for various months. Your lender will charge interest on the home loan for these months and add it to the original loan. So your mortgage balance will ascend before you start to make repayments.
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Tamala Krsna: “Sanjaya said, Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his eyes brimming with tears, Madhusudana, Krsna, spoke the following words [Bg. 2.1]. The Supreme Personality said, ‘My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come u...
Paula Tucci and Priscilla Squires of Understanding Disabilities, with Joel Swets, executive director of Cummings Foundation
History of the Museum
Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.
The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.
After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.
The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.
The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.
The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.
On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.
With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.
In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.
This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.
The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.
The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.
The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.
Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.
Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.
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Loos Museum, based on analysis of the Muller House. Gabriela reinterpreted the theatrical aspects of the house by turning them inside out. The house is formally expressive on the outside, but the central "stage" space is a cube.
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Devotee : “We don't find in these days, any understanding among the members of a family. Instead, we find differences in many families, even conflicts, complexes, competitions; and sometimes matters become so bad as to drag a family to the courts. Please suggest a way out of this sad plight, Swami!”
Bhagavan: “In this world though diversity is apparent, there is an inherent unity. Multiplicity may be patent; but the underlying unity is latent. The whole of nature shows both these aspects.
Take the earth; it is not the same throughout. There are hills, mountains, and valleys. However, in our experience we clearly visualise unity. Are the five fingers of the same hand identical? No. Similarly, the members of one and the same family are not alike or uniform. They are not stereotypes. All the same, there cannot be any valid reason for the absence of fraternity, unity, and love among the members of the family.
A good example from our epics maybe cited in this context. You analyse 'the family our Lord Siva'. Siva has Ganga water over his head, and fire on his forehead between the two eyes. He is, therefore, Trinetra or 'the three-eyed' God'. 'Water' and 'Fire' are also opposed to each other in their nature and don't coexist. Siva is pannagadhara, nagabhusana for He has venomous serpents around His neck.
The vehicle of his elder son, Lord Subrahmanya, is a peacock. Snakes and peacocks are enemies. The vehicle of Goddess Parvati, consort of Siva, is a lion; she is simhavahini. The very face of Siva's second son is that of an elephant. Ganesh is called Gajanana for this reason. An elephant can't even dream of the sight of a lion. Parvati has all the jewels, but Her Lord, Siva is digambara, with minimum attire, and bhasma bhusitanga that is, vibhuti smeared all over His body. Though Siva's family is full of opposites and contradictions, there is integration, coordination, harmony and unity. Similarly, in your families, the members may differ from each other, yet you should be able to live in perfect harmony like Siva's family. This is the lesson that over the ages Lord Siva has been teaching the world.”
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
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Hochmut and Demut
Two key concepts for understanding Amish practices are their rejection of Hochmut (pride, arrogance, haughtiness) and the high value they place on Demut or "humility" and Gelassenheit (German, meaning: calmness, composure, placidity) — often translated as "submission" or "letting-be," but perhaps better understood as a reluctance to be forward, self-promoting, or to assert oneself in any way. The willingness to submit to the Will of God, as expressed through group norms, is at odds with the individualism so central to the wider American culture. The Amish anti-individualist orientation is the motive for rejecting labor-saving technologies that might make one less dependent on community; or which, like electricity, might start a competition for status-goods; or which, like photographs, might cultivate individual or family vanity. It is also the proximate cause for rejecting education beyond the eighth grade, especially speculative study that has little practical use for farm life but may awaken personal and materialistic ambitions. The emphasis on competition and the uncritical assumption that self-reliance is a good thing — both cultivated in American high schools and exalted as an American ideal — are in direct opposition to core Amish values.
Separation from the outside world
The Amish often cite three Bible verses that encapsulate their cultural attitudes:
"Be not yoked with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?" (II Corinthians 6:14)
"Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord." (II Corinthians 6:17)
“And be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2)
Both out of concern for the effect of a parent's absence on family life, and in order to minimize contact with "English" (everyone not of German descent), the Amish prefer to work at home. However, increased prices for farmland and decreasing revenues for low-tech farming have forced many Amish to work away from the farm, particularly in construction and factory-labor, and, in those areas where there is a significant tourist trade, to engage in shopwork and crafts for profit. The Amish are ambivalent about both the consequences of this contact and the commoditization of their culture. The decorative arts play little role in authentic Amish life (though the prized Amish quilts are a genuine cultural inheritance, unlike hex signs), and are in fact regarded with suspicion, as a field where egotism and a display of vanity can easily develop.
Artificial intelligence versus natural intelligence – what are the differences and what do they have in common? How do machines “think,” how do they learn, and what distinguishes us humans from machines? Artificial intelligence in all its complexity is a central focus of the new Ars Electronica Center; after all, this technology is setting off a revolution that will affect our lives in ways that cannot be overestimated. Our goal with the exhibition “Understanding Artificial Intelligence” is to make our visitors “AI savvy” and give them all a basic idea of what artificial intelligence is, how it is already being applied, and what it can already do. The exhibition shows how neural networks are constructed and even offers visitors an opportunity to train them at a number of interactive stations.
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MIT Media Lab "Understanding Networks" conference, Oct 12-13th, 2011.
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