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My comments on the Economist debates about cloud computing site. I give references to Bruno Michel's talk, slides, and my interview with him, then challenge those thinking and debating about cloud computing to think about Bruno's research.
I took this snapshot of the screen in case my comments get pushed off the real estate by someone else's. I *am* a self-documenting machine!
Comments in graffiti by asylum inmates include "It's a casual madness", "Get me out of here", and "They killed me", scrawled or carved on these bricks from the 1880s to the 1970s.
- "These patient-built walls are a testament to the abilities of the people whose unpaid labour was central to the operation of asylums in the colony of Upper Canada and the Province of Ontario during the 19th and 20th centuries. The asylum on Queen street first opened in 1850 and was overcrowded within a few years. The initial idea of work as therapy gave way to the reality of work intended to save the provincial government money through unpaid patient labour. Men worked outdoors on construction, maintenance and farm work, including building and repairing many of the structures behind which they were confined, including the still existing boundary walls on the south side of this property, built in 1860, and the east and west boundary walls built in 1888-89. ... Seen by many as the physical representation of prejudiced attitudes towards people with a psychiatric diagnosis, the walls which still stand today are historical monuments to the exploited labour of all psychiatric patients who lived, worked and died on these grounds since 1850." (a plaque)
- You can hear an audio description at (416) 535-8501, ext. 1530.
- I took a tour here on the 'Doors Open' weekend led by Geoff Reaume, ethics Prof. at York U., 'psych survivor', and a passionate man. Here he is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwRZ2j2ytg&playnext=1&li...
Counselor Sonlla Heern offers perspectives during the closing session May 1, 2016, of the 108th Bahá’í National Convention. Photo by Jasmin Kemp
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- Naast de 144 m hoge betonnen zendmast Schotten 1 (zie vorige foto) staan er op de Hoherodskopf nog twee grote stalen vakwerkmasten. Deze zendmasten zijn wel veel kleiner dan hun betonnen buur. Ik schat ze op zo'n 40 á 50 m.
- Neben den 144 m hohe Fernmeldeturm Hoherodskopf, stehen noch zwei Stahlgittermasten voller Antennen. Beiden sind etwas kleiner als ihren Nachbar aus beton (Sehen sie sich das vorige Bild an). Ich schätze daß beide Masten eine hohe von 40 bis 50 m erreichen.
Extra links:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldeturm_Hoherodskopf
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoherodskopf
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilstein_(Vogelsberg)
www.naturpark-hoher-vogelsberg.de/
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breungeshain
www.schotten.de/rathaus/Geschichte/Ortsteile/breungeshain...
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This portrait hangs in the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, Naples. Source: www.britannica.com/media/full/topic/232163/215663
For a sampling of the prince's phenomenal, chromatic, music, see: For his equally bizarre life, see: www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Gesualdo-principe-di-V...
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The Postcard
A postcard bearing an early image of what it claims to be Ham photographed from the lodge gates.
This does not however look like Ham near Richmond in Surrey; if anyone knows where this scene is, please leave a comment.
The card was posted in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday the 28th. August 1908 to an address in Queen's Road Finsbury Park.
What the recipient read over a century ago was as follows:
"Did our best to get to Keele
today and turned back after
passing Longton Park.
We sheltered for two very
heavy showers and then
decided we had had enough.
Love to all,
Yours, Ada".
Edith Tudor-Hart
So what else happened on the day that Ada posted the card?
Well, the 28th. August 1908 marked the birth in Vienna, Austria of Edith Tudor-Hart.
Edith Tudor-Hart (née Suschitzky) was an Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union. Brought up in a family of socialists, she trained in photography at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, and carried her political ideals through her art.
She recommended Litzi Friedmann and Kim Philby for recruitment by the KGB.
Through her connections with Arnold Deutsch, Tudor-Hart was instrumental in the recruiting of the Cambridge Spy ring which damaged British intelligence from World War II until the security services discovered all their identities by the mid-1960's.
Edith Tudor-Hart - The Early Years
Edith's father, Wilhelm Suschitzky (1877–1934), was a social democrat who was born into the Jewish community in Vienna, but had renounced Judaism and become an atheist. He opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna (later to become a publishing house).
Tudor-Hart's brother Wolfgang, a filmmaker and a photographer like his sister, described their father as:
"A great man. I realised that later
on in life, not so much when I saw
him every day.
But, I met interesting people, some
of his authors who came and had
lunch with us, or met people who
came to his shop."
Edith studied photography at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928 before working in Vienna, taking photographs of working class districts while working as a Montessori kindergarten teacher. An anti-fascist activist and Communist, she saw photography as a tool for disseminating her political ideas.
Her brother became a well-known photographer and cinematographer in Great Britain. He cited his sister as an influence on his decision to pursue an artistic career over a scientific one.
Marriage
In 1933 Edith married medical doctor Alex Tudor-Hart, whom she had met in 1925. She was described by those who knew her in her youth as:
"Immensely vivacious, amusing,
curious, and gifted".
The couple fled to London in 1933 so that Edith could avoid prosecution and persecution in Austria for her Communist activities and Jewish background.
South Wales
Following her marriage, Edith moved to South Wales where her husband practised as a GP in the Rhondda Valley. She began to produce photographs for The Listener, The Social Scene and Design Today, dealing with issues such as refugees from the Spanish Civil War and industrial decline in the north-east of England.
From the late 1930's, she concentrated more on social needs, such as housing policy and the care of disabled children. This change in work may have been because after separation from her husband who had just returned from the Spanish Civil War, she had a breakdown and their son, Tommy, developed schizophrenia.
Spying Activities
Tudor-Hart was instrumental in recruiting members of the Cambridge Spy ring. While working as a photographer she also acted as a courier. Her rather unsubtle codename was "Edith".
Tudor-Hart had met Arnold Deutsch in Vienna in 1926, and with him she worked in the OMS, the International Liaison Department of the Comintern.
Tudor-Hart was placed under surveillance by Special Branch after October 1931 when she was observed attending a demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Tudor-Hart was of interest because of her friendship with Litzi Friedmann, made when she moved to London.
Arnold Deutsch discussed with Edith and Litzi the recruitment of Soviet spies. Litzi suggested her husband, Kim Philby with whom she had arrived in London from Vienna in May 1934. Tudor-Hart had spotted him as a potential Communist agent during his stay in Vienna, where he was a sympathiser of the Social Democrats who waged a civil war against the government of Engelbert Dollfuss.
According to her report on Philby's file, through her own contacts with the Austrian underground Tudor Hart ran a swift check for the NKVD and, when this proved positive introduced him to "Otto" (Deutsch's code name). Deutsch immediately recommended:
"That he pre-empt the standard
operating procedure by authorising
a preliminary personal sounding-out
of Philby."
In 1938–39 Burgess used her to contact Russian intelligence in Paris.
Edith also acted as an intermediary for Anthony Blunt and Bob Stewart when the rezidentura at the Soviet Embassy in London suspended its operations in February 1940.
Edith Tudor-Hart - The Later Years
After WWII, Edith opened an antique shop in Brighton. She died of stomach cancer at the age of 64 in Brighton on the 12th. May 1973.
UPS
Also on that day, the American Messenger Company, as predecessor of United Parcel Service, was founded in Washington, United States.
Here's the package of goodies Hero Arts sent for my "green" comment. LUCKY ME! The Hero Hues Foliage Papers are so beautiful and superb quality, with a very smooth "hand" (as we would say if dealing with fabric). The four-flower set, Take Good Care Greetings, stamps beautifully, of course. And a great bonus: copies of the HA catalogs! Yay!
Thank you, Hero Arts!
No wonder there was a talk of shifting the capital to this place in order to ease the choking congestion of Aizawl..The clamour has since died down.
At first I was just going to describe it with words, but then I thought I would draw it and take a photo in response. That should be faster.
Except, as I started to draw it, I found my mind wandering as I tried to grab all the memories of exactly how we had played the game, what set of rules we followed.
I moved a lot as a child. Some people moved more, but I moved quite a bit. 18 schools attended during K-12 time, plus getting homeschooled for a short stretch. That is a lot of playgrounds and a lot of playground games. The rules usually varied from place to place, and nothing made a new kid more of a freak than not knowing the clearly established rules that EVERYONE knew.
So really, my memories of the hopscotch rules are no doubt something of an amalgamation, but the boards everywhere I went looked the same. Nine boxes and a circle at the top.
The rules as I remember them:
Each hopper chose a marker, anything was fair game, but I preferred flat rocks (like those that work best for skipping on a pond).
When it was your turn, you would throw your marker aiming first for box 1. If the marker didn't land in the correct box, your turn ended. If it did, you began to jump. You could hop one legged on whichever foot you wanted, but you couldn't switch once you started. One foot per box, and on the side by side (4&5 and 7&8) boxes both feet were touching at once, in adjacent boxes. Your foot had to be completely within the box, not on the line. You had to skip over any boxes that had markers in them (this could be ridiculously difficult if there were too many markers spread over the board). In the circle you would carefully turn around on one leg to make your trip back. On the space prior to your marker, you would balance and bend over to retrieve your marker. Once you completed the course, you would aim the marker at box 2, and so on. If at any point you messed up your turn was over (but your marker stayed on the board if it had landed in the right box to start with.
The goal was to eventually get your marker in the top circle and complete the trip up and back. The winner was the one who did it first. Of course this was easiest if you managed to make a complete run of it on the very first turn so there were no other markers on the board.
Some places I lived did not require you to skip other markers, but ended your turn if your hopping caused another's marker to move. Some places you called out the numbers as you landed on them (and you had to skip the numbers that you skipped).
So there is my hop down memory lane for the day.
Anyone else notice this? Yet another change in the beta phase, but will come soon enough to ruin everyone's lives once again.
I'll admit, the initial changes were a disaster, but I did grow to accept them. The only real thing I liked was the changes made to the mobile app.
However I don't think I can handle this change. If I want to see photos this large, I'll click on it. I'd much rather keep what we got now.
For more information about the changes, click here.