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"many values, many dimensions, many appeals to heart, many worlds.. designing reciprocity with 'priority focused' reciprocity"
...notes to self from learnings in architecture, 29th and 30th August 2011
...
"If you can approach the world's complexities,
both its glories and its horrors,
with an attitude of humble curiosity,
acknowledging that however deeply you have seen,
you have only scratched the surface,
you will find worlds within worlds,
beauties you could not heretofore imagine,
and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size,
not all that important in the greater scheme of things."
~ Daniel C. Dennett
For this shot I set up a fan outside around 6pm and took the front grill off so the blades are more visible. I set my ISO to 200 and my shutter speed to 1/15. I believe I could've better utilized the f-stop in terms of EV and reciprocity. Overall, I feel the shot came out clear and at a proper exposure. My slow shutter speed of 1/15 blurred the blades of the fan to make it seem like one continuous blade.
Confucius had a simple moral and political teaching: to love others; to honor one's parents; to do what is right instead of what is of advantage; to practice "reciprocity," i.e. "don't do to others what you would not want yourself"; to rule by moral example instead of by force and violence, and many other teachings of a similar theme.
I went with Angie, Cathy and Nancy (a student) to visit the Confucius Museum at Wenchang City on the weekend. Here is a picture inside the walls of the museum, showing the gate you pass through to enter the site.
The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers.
There are a number of variant spellings of Daasanach, including Dasenach and Dassanech (the latter used in an episode about them in the TV series Tribe). Daasanach is the primary name given in the Ethnologue language entry.
The Daasanach are also called Marille especially by their neighbours, the Turkana of Kenya. The Daasanach are traditionally pastoralists, but in recent years have become primarily agropastoral. Having lost the majority of their lands over the past fifty years or so, primarily as a result from being excluded from their traditional Kenyan lands, including on both sides of Lake Turkana, and the 'Ilemi Triangle' of Sudan, they have suffered a massive decrease in the numbers of cattle, goats and sheep. As a result, large numbers of them have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive. There is much disease along the river (including tsetse, which has increased with forest and woodland development there), however, making this solution to their economic plight difficult. Like many pastoral peoples throughout this region of Africa, the Daasanach are a highly egalitarian society, with a social system involving age sets and clan lineages - both of which involve strong reciprocity relations.
The Daasanach today speak the Daasanach language. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The language is notable for its large number of noun classes, irregular verb system, and implosive consonants. For instance, the initial D in Daasanach is implosive, sometimes written as 'D.
Modern genetic analysis of the Daasanach indicates that they are more closely related to Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo-speaking populations inhabiting Tanzania than they are to the Cushitic and Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations of Ethiopia. This suggests that the Daasanach were originally Nilo-Saharan speakers, sharing common origins with the Pokot. In the 19th century, the Nilotic ancestors of these two populations are believed to have begun separate migrations, with one group heading southwards into the African Great Lakes region and the other group settling in southern Ethiopia. There, the early Daasanach Nilotes would have come into contact with a Cushitic-speaking population, and eventually adopted this group's Afro-Asiatic language.
A spectacular and very innovative event during the festival - a "bottle" built up of layers of clay and bottles - and fired from the inside!
The fire was lit at 13.00 - by 21.00 the temperature had reached 800°C
The next day, the structure was taken down - with fascinating shapes formed by the melting of the glass bottles .... Long "fibres" from the melted bottles
With special thoughts of Reciprocity, who would have found this fascinating, in view of his fantastic creations using light and glass .... (www.flickr.com/photos/alanjaras/with/7307998414/#photo_73...)
For information about the festival: www.festival-ceramique-anduze.org/
This is part of a set of photos experimenting with a new YONGNUO YN 50mm F1.8 lens.
www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/albums/72157694661082464
The much larger aperture available - compared to the kit zoom lens I normally use - enabled a faster shutter, a lower (less "noisy") ISO, and also a shallower depth of field.
The lighting colour was often a terrible mix of direct sunshine, blue sky and the very orange colour reflected from wooden table tops. The "colour balance" adjustment tool in a photo editor editor - selectively adjusting highlight, mid-tone and shadow colours was useful in reducing the effects of the sometimes very blue shadows. (Traditionally this type of tool is used to "fix" issues relating to colour film, where the colour of light and dark areas could vary. This is for lots of reasons for relating to the processing and chemistry of film; and also to the physics of photons exposing film grains - for example reciprocity failure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography) where darker areas for each of the colours present in the shadows may not be recorded proportionately. Presenting the same images in Black and White is another way of "dealing with" [avoiding!] the issue.
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
A spectacular and very innovative event during the festival - a "bottle" built up of layers of clay and bottles - and fired from the inside!
The fire was lit at 13.00 - by 21.00 the temperature had reached 800°C
The next day, the structure was taken down - with fascinating shapes formed by the melting of the glass bottles .... In the large version, you can see long "fibres" formed as the glass melted inside the "bottle oven"
With special thoughts of Reciprocity, who would have found this fascinating, in view of his fantastic creations using light and glass .... (www.flickr.com/photos/alanjaras/with/7307998414/#photo_73...)
For information about the festival: www.festival-ceramique-anduze.org/
The ring tower is a striking high-rise building in a prominent location in Vienna, where is located the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built in 1953-1955 after designs of Erich Boltenstern at Schottenring inside the Viennese Ringstrasse and is located at the stop Schottenring of the Wiener Linien (Vienna Public Transport). The 73 meter (93 meter height including the weather light column) high ring tower was deemed as innovative project for the reconstruction of the city.
The building, which previously stood on this plot, was the only one of the entire Scots ring which was destroyed in the Second World War. The ring tower with its 23 floors and its 20-meter high weather lighthouse is the second highest building inside Vienna's Ringstrasse. Higher is only the Gothic-style St. Stephen's Cathedral. In addition to the central office of the Vienna Insurance Group are now also offices of Wiener Stadtwerke (public utility company) in the ring tower. In the office building a total of 12,000 square meters of effective surface is available. The facade and parts of the ring tower were renovated in 1996.
Name
In a contest, a name was sought for the then very modern office skyscraper. Among 6,502 entries the name "ring tower" was chosen. There were, among other proposals, such as City House, Gutwill-house (goodwill-house), house of reciprocity, high-corner, new tower, Sonnblick-house, insurance high-rise, Vindobona-house or vision-house (farsightedness-house) of the creative population after the war. One of the submitters of the name "ring tower" was rewarded with an honorarium of 2,000 shillings.
Weather lighthouse
Weather lighthouse, seen from the ring road
On the roof there is the 20-meter high weather lighthouse with 117 lights in differently colored light signals the weather for the next day displaying (each 39 white, red and green lights as well as 2 additional air traffic control lights).
This light column is directly connected to the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) on the Hohenwarte in Vienna.
Meaning of the signals:
red ascending = temperature rising
red descending = temperature falling
green ascending = weather conditions will be better
green descending = weather will be worse
Flashing red = warning lightning or storms
Flashing white = snow or ice
Ringturm 2013
Ringturm disguising
Since 2006, the ring tower is changed every year into an "art tower " by covering the building with printed webs. The covering consists of 30 printed network paths with about 3 meters wide and 63 or 36 meters in length , and the resulting area is approximately 4,000 square meters.
The previous art projects:
2006 "Don Giovianni" by Christian Ludwig Attersee (on the occasion of the Mozart Year)
2007 "Tower of Life" by Robert Hammerstiel
2008 "Tower in Bloom" by Hubert Schmalix (Blumenstillleben)
2011 "Sense of family" Xenia Hausner
2012 "Society" by Hungarian artist László Fehér
2013 "Connectedness" of the Slovak artist Dorota Sadovská
Taken : 15:34 27-Oct-2017
Ebony 45SU + Roddenstock 150-S f5.6
Bed Tilt : 20 deg forward
Front Tilt : 10 deg forward
Mid Tone : 10
Highlight : 11 - shells
Shadows : 9
Filters : none
Reciprocity : none
Final EV : 10
Exposure
1 sec @ f22
The First National Bank Building in Buchanan, MI at night. I shot this on a cold November night last year.
Photographed on Efke 25 plate film using a Horseman VH-R and a 90mm lens. The exposure was several minutes on account of the reciprocity failure issues with this film. I metered on a bright face of the building with the Sekonic L-758DR and set the exposure 2 stops longer and then added the additional time to account for reciprocity failure.
Since Marcelle (left) and Matisse (right) had arrived from France, their Engliish improved considerably. Yet, their sisters also were learning another language: the girls asked Marcelle and Matisse to teach them French. Thus, there was reciprocity in all of the girls' deepening understanding of and appreciation for each others' language of origin and cultural heritage.
"We share our languages rather than asking one side to erase their's," Marcelle stated. "But one thing Matisse and I cannot teach: our twin language--only we understand each other then. It's very special to us...."
Film photography experience.
All shut with:
Canon 500n
Canon 50mm 1.8 new
Kodak Portra 400 new
Scanner HP4010
Thanks for watching! :) Add to a contacts! Reciprocity guaranteed!
CLARKSON, THOMAS, merchant; b. Susworth, parish of Scotter, Lincolnshire, Eng., 26 Jan. 1802, son of John and Elizabeth Clarkson; d. 4 May 1874, at Toronto, Ont.
Thomas Clarkson apparently emigrated to York (Toronto) in 1832, where he appears as a storekeeper in 1837 and in the 1840s as an auctioneer. He also began in the 1840s to deal in produce and handle goods on commission, specializing in the grain trade; these two types of business were to occupy his attention for the rest of his life For some time prior to the beginning of 1845 he was in partnership with Thomas Brunskill of Thornhill.
Clarkson soon became active in the financial development of the city, where his position does not seem to have been hurt by the fact that he was prepared to accept the presidency of the local Annexation Association in December 1849. He was one of the incorporators of the Toronto Board of Trade in 1845; as its president from 1852 to 1859 he supported reciprocity, pressed for changes in the usury laws, and opposed tariff increases. He was also a founder and president of the Commercial Building and Investment Society (incorporated in 1851), helped establish the Bank of Toronto (and was one of the first directors in 1856–58), and was active in the Toronto Exchange, established in 1854 “for commercial business.” Like many other members of the Board of Trade, Clarkson was closely associated with the unsuccessful Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal Company, chairing, in September 1855, a Toronto meeting of delegates from both Canada and such American centres as Chicago, Milwaukee, and Oswego. In 1856 he appeared at the head of the list of incorporators of the company.
The panic of 1857, with the depression that followed, put a stop to such expensive ventures and led to a general decline in trade. Clarkson’s speech on his retirement as president of the Board of Trade in January 1859 concentrated on the problems of trade in Canada. The next year he moved to Milwaukee, then the centre of a rapidly developing region. There, with his sons Benjamin Reid and Robert Guy (1841–89), he established a produce and commission business known as T. Clarkson and Sons. Thomas and Benjamin returned to Toronto in 1864, but Robert remained in Milwaukee and carried on the business until his death. He became well known through his articles in the Evening Wisconsin, written under the pseudonym Tommy Dodd.
In Toronto Thomas re-established his business which had been discontinued after operating briefly as Clarkson, Hunter and Company. He also became an official assignee in bankruptcy for the province, thus assuming responsibility for the storage and sale of goods of bankrupts. In 1869 he took over the lease of a large grain storage elevator which he renamed Clarkson’s Elevator, and he was active in the Produce Merchants Exchange in the city.
Clarkson was forced to retire in 1872 because of a paralytic stroke. On his death two years later his business was divided: Benjamin, who was already a partner, took over the elevator and grain business; the assignee business passed to his other partners, Thomas Munro and another son, Edward Roper Curzon Clarkson (1852–1931), who later developed the auditing firm which is now Clarkson, Gordon and Company.
An Anglican and parishioner of St James Cathedral, Clarkson was also a sabbatarian. In 1858 he was elected president of a revived Toronto Sabbath Alliance which supported the exemption of civil servants from Sunday work. He was active in the St George’s Society of Toronto and joined the York Pioneer Society in 1871. He married first, Elizabeth Farnham (d. 1829) in 1821, by whom he had two children; secondly, Carrie Brunskill in 1834, after he had come to Canada, by whom he had four children; and thirdly, Sarah Helliwell (1824–78), in 1844, by whom he had ten children. One son, John Brunskill Clarkson (1835–1903), became a Methodist minister, and a grandson, John Reed Teefy, was superior of the Roman Catholic St Michael’s College in Toronto.
This was a hyper-realistic statue by Marc Sijan. The spidery blue veins in the elderly man's legs were perfect.
First decent color exposure on the 1200.
In this shot it is plainly obvious there is a lot of underfocused blue light.
This is likely the reason why the stars appear soft on the black and white.
This lens was built to shoot black and white film with an orange, yellow, or infrared filter. There are focus distances scribed on it for the wavelengths.
To get good color pictures, they will have to be filtered for Red Green and Blue and then focused. I can see that TMax will be fine for Green and Blue (or also Yellow). For Red, E100 may still have to be the preferred film due to response and reciprocity failure.
I am pleased to see the red glow around the Horsehead extending far into the dark areas. The underfocused blue light seems to make the core of M42 look weird.
I may scan the individual channels into pix insight and see if the star profiles can be shrunk.
Pinhole (Camera Obscura/Lensless / Without Lens) Photography to 6x9 B&W Photographic Paper
Author : IMRE BECSI
© All rights reserved
Location of shoot :
Nagybörzsöny,
Hungary,
Central-Europe
Latitude : 47°56'10.64"N
Longitude : 18°49'3.44"E
Time of shoot :
04.2009.
Shooting
Film : Fomaspeed N312 Normal Matt Photographic Paper
Filters : Circ.Polar (Tiffen Ser.9)
Metered expo.: 8 Ev (12 asa)
Calculated expo.: 60 second
( I use my reciprocity compensation value chart )
The camera :
Body is a Film Back Adapter Plate from a Polaroid 203 camera
- focus : 35 mm
- pinhole : 0,25 mm (Lenox Laser)
- diaphragm : 140
Film back : Graflex Graphic 23
Shutter and Pinhole holder is a "pu(s)h" from Dr. Kai Fuhrmann with filter thread (homemade).
Picture from this camera here :
www.flickr.com/photos/jonespointfilm/2837193476/
POST WORK ( I.) : (04.2009.)
Developer : FOMA (1:7)
Post work (II.) : (20.04.2009.)
Scanner : Epson Perfection 3200 Photo (1200 dpi)
Scanner software : SilverFast SE - "Transparency mode"
Final work : PS
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Comments very much welcome !
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This is part of a set of photos experimenting with a new YONGNUO YN 50mm F1.8 lens.
www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/albums/72157694661082464
The much larger aperture available - compared to the kit zoom lens I normally use - enabled a faster shutter, a lower (less "noisy") ISO, and also a shallower depth of field.
The lighting colour was often a terrible mix of direct sunshine, blue sky and the very orange colour reflected from wooden table tops. The "colour balance" adjustment tool in a photo editor editor - selectively adjusting highlight, mid-tone and shadow colours was useful in reducing the effects of the sometimes very blue shadows. (Traditionally this type of tool is used to "fix" issues relating to colour film, where the colour of light and dark areas could vary. This is for lots of reasons for relating to the processing and chemistry of film; and also to the physics of photons exposing film grains - for example reciprocity failure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography) where darker areas for each of the colours present in the shadows may not be recorded proportionately. Presenting the same images in Black and White is another way of "dealing with" [avoiding!] the issue.
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
201304_LF03
45s @ f64 (overcast early-morning, horrific reciprocity failture)
8x10 Shanghai GP3 in Rodinal 1:50, 12 minutes (rotary).
RESEARCH FOR EXTENDING RECIPROCITY
Shannon Cooney
Extending Reciprocity, a new production by Shannon Cooney, will examine empathetic responses when one spectator witnesses another, in close contact with the performer, who will rock, embrace or sway them in the rhythm of the craniosacral system (a vital system in the body with a slow rhythmical impulse and low resonance).
For Neukölln’s window, this will be documented both by video and in hand-out surveys given to the passer-by public to fill out and leave for the installation.
This is an early stage of the work, and will serve both as an interesting interactive performance as well as gathering material and documentation for the future production in November 2013. In line with Shannon Cooney’s teaching and dance making practices where she weaves somatic work with performance. One can read more on her website at www.shannoncooney.org to follow the creation details.
The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers.
There are a number of variant spellings of Daasanach, including Dasenach and Dassanech (the latter used in an episode about them in the TV series Tribe). Daasanach is the primary name given in the Ethnologue language entry.
The Daasanach are also called Marille especially by their neighbours, the Turkana of Kenya. The Daasanach are traditionally pastoralists, but in recent years have become primarily agropastoral. Having lost the majority of their lands over the past fifty years or so, primarily as a result from being excluded from their traditional Kenyan lands, including on both sides of Lake Turkana, and the 'Ilemi Triangle' of Sudan, they have suffered a massive decrease in the numbers of cattle, goats and sheep. As a result, large numbers of them have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive. There is much disease along the river (including tsetse, which has increased with forest and woodland development there), however, making this solution to their economic plight difficult. Like many pastoral peoples throughout this region of Africa, the Daasanach are a highly egalitarian society, with a social system involving age sets and clan lineages - both of which involve strong reciprocity relations.
The Daasanach today speak the Daasanach language. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The language is notable for its large number of noun classes, irregular verb system, and implosive consonants. For instance, the initial D in Daasanach is implosive, sometimes written as 'D.
Modern genetic analysis of the Daasanach indicates that they are more closely related to Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo-speaking populations inhabiting Tanzania than they are to the Cushitic and Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations of Ethiopia. This suggests that the Daasanach were originally Nilo-Saharan speakers, sharing common origins with the Pokot. In the 19th century, the Nilotic ancestors of these two populations are believed to have begun separate migrations, with one group heading southwards into the African Great Lakes region and the other group settling in southern Ethiopia. There, the early Daasanach Nilotes would have come into contact with a Cushitic-speaking population, and eventually adopted this group's Afro-Asiatic language.
The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers.
There are a number of variant spellings of Daasanach, including Dasenach and Dassanech (the latter used in an episode about them in the TV series Tribe). Daasanach is the primary name given in the Ethnologue language entry.
The Daasanach are also called Marille especially by their neighbours, the Turkana of Kenya. The Daasanach are traditionally pastoralists, but in recent years have become primarily agropastoral. Having lost the majority of their lands over the past fifty years or so, primarily as a result from being excluded from their traditional Kenyan lands, including on both sides of Lake Turkana, and the 'Ilemi Triangle' of Sudan, they have suffered a massive decrease in the numbers of cattle, goats and sheep. As a result, large numbers of them have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive. There is much disease along the river (including tsetse, which has increased with forest and woodland development there), however, making this solution to their economic plight difficult. Like many pastoral peoples throughout this region of Africa, the Daasanach are a highly egalitarian society, with a social system involving age sets and clan lineages - both of which involve strong reciprocity relations.
The Daasanach today speak the Daasanach language. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The language is notable for its large number of noun classes, irregular verb system, and implosive consonants. For instance, the initial D in Daasanach is implosive, sometimes written as 'D.
Modern genetic analysis of the Daasanach indicates that they are more closely related to Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo-speaking populations inhabiting Tanzania than they are to the Cushitic and Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations of Ethiopia. This suggests that the Daasanach were originally Nilo-Saharan speakers, sharing common origins with the Pokot. In the 19th century, the Nilotic ancestors of these two populations are believed to have begun separate migrations, with one group heading southwards into the African Great Lakes region and the other group settling in southern Ethiopia. There, the early Daasanach Nilotes would have come into contact with a Cushitic-speaking population, and eventually adopted this group's Afro-Asiatic language.
This is part of a set of photos experimenting with a new YONGNUO YN 50mm F1.8 lens.
www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/albums/72157694661082464
The much larger aperture available - compared to the kit zoom lens I normally use - enabled a faster shutter, a lower (less "noisy") ISO, and also a shallower depth of field.
The lighting colour was often a terrible mix of direct sunshine, blue sky and the very orange colour reflected from wooden table tops. The "colour balance" adjustment tool in a photo editor editor - selectively adjusting highlight, mid-tone and shadow colours was useful in reducing the effects of the sometimes very blue shadows. (Traditionally this type of tool is used to "fix" issues relating to colour film, where the colour of light and dark areas could vary. This is for lots of reasons for relating to the processing and chemistry of film; and also to the physics of photons exposing film grains - for example reciprocity failure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(photography) where darker areas for each of the colours present in the shadows may not be recorded proportionately. Presenting the same images in Black and White is another way of "dealing with" [avoiding!] the issue.
Rule 36: This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated. For not the plots, deceptions, or tricks of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God. He is the biggest plotter. Not even a leaf stirs outside God’s knowledge. Simply and fully believe in that. Whatever God does, He does it beautifully. “Shams of Tabriz
36. kural: Hileden, desiseden endişe etme.
Eğer birileri sana tuzak kuruyor zarar vermek istiyorsa, Tanrı da onlara tuzak kuruyordur.
Çukur kazanlar o çukura kendileri düşer. Bu sistem karşılıklar esasına göre işler.
Ne bir katre hayır karşılıksız kalır, ne bir katre şer.
O'nun bilgisi dışında yaprak bile kıpırdamaz, Sen sadece buna inan! Şems-i Tebrizi
Typeface: Adorn Serif
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Zero 2000, Ilford Delta 3200
I think this was hand-held for about 5 seconds
Tidbit number 2:
Delta 3200, despite its advertised ISO, appears to be a poor choice for extra-long exposures. The reciprocity curve is a bitch. It was quite dark at the show, only I had no idea how dark because my eyeballs do not come with meters. My basic model light meter's needle did not move at all in the light, but it measures low light poorly. I had to wing it completely with the exposures. The spotlights made cute squigglies!
European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos met yesterday with the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior, Plamen Uzunov, the Romanian Minister of the Interior, Carmen-Daniela Dan, the Croatian Minister of Interior, Vlaho Orepic, the Polish Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jan Dziedziczak and the Cypriot Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union, Olympia Neocleous, to discuss progress towards achieving full visa reciprocity with the United States.
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Their main homeland is in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total population of Ethiopia), of whom 1,481 are urban dwellers.
There are a number of variant spellings of Daasanach, including Dasenach and Dassanech (the latter used in an episode about them in the TV series Tribe). Daasanach is the primary name given in the Ethnologue language entry.
The Daasanach are also called Marille especially by their neighbours, the Turkana of Kenya. The Daasanach are traditionally pastoralists, but in recent years have become primarily agropastoral. Having lost the majority of their lands over the past fifty years or so, primarily as a result from being excluded from their traditional Kenyan lands, including on both sides of Lake Turkana, and the 'Ilemi Triangle' of Sudan, they have suffered a massive decrease in the numbers of cattle, goats and sheep. As a result, large numbers of them have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive. There is much disease along the river (including tsetse, which has increased with forest and woodland development there), however, making this solution to their economic plight difficult. Like many pastoral peoples throughout this region of Africa, the Daasanach are a highly egalitarian society, with a social system involving age sets and clan lineages - both of which involve strong reciprocity relations.
The Daasanach today speak the Daasanach language. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The language is notable for its large number of noun classes, irregular verb system, and implosive consonants. For instance, the initial D in Daasanach is implosive, sometimes written as 'D.
Modern genetic analysis of the Daasanach indicates that they are more closely related to Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo-speaking populations inhabiting Tanzania than they are to the Cushitic and Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations of Ethiopia. This suggests that the Daasanach were originally Nilo-Saharan speakers, sharing common origins with the Pokot. In the 19th century, the Nilotic ancestors of these two populations are believed to have begun separate migrations, with one group heading southwards into the African Great Lakes region and the other group settling in southern Ethiopia. There, the early Daasanach Nilotes would have come into contact with a Cushitic-speaking population, and eventually adopted this group's Afro-Asiatic language.
Self-portrait with positive copy microfilm (Kodak 2468) provided by the Film Photography Project. Sorry for my lack of framing, but it was a technical test, not artistic. Taken with the venerable EOS 10s. I stopped down to f16 for an ultralong exposure (shot at 0.75 ISO to begin with) to test the reciprocity characteristics. As far as I can tell, no compensation is necessary for the film. I used the mirror lock up feature of the camera and triggered it with the ir remote control (you can see it in my right hand). With the remote, you can trigger an instant or 2 second delay. With the 2 second delay, you can have the mirror lock up to minimize vibration on the tripod. So any blurriness is movement on my part.
The film is pretty fun. It comes out as a positive, so you scan it like a slide.
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
To those that left this campsite at Closeby Campground near Verizon Wireless in Noblesville, IN during Dave Matthews 2006, please check out these websites.
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
Springfield Township Senior Center forms a reciprocity partnership with Wyoming, holding an Open House, giving tours, demonstrating programs like Dance Yoga, Tai Chi, and watercolor. © Malinda Hartong
Kaki's holding Kate's reciprocity symbol here, but she actually has her original symbol from Creating Space in 2009!
The ring tower is a striking high-rise building in a prominent location in Vienna, where is located the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built in 1953-1955 after designs of Erich Boltenstern at Schottenring inside the Viennese Ringstrasse and is located at the stop Schottenring of the Wiener Linien (Vienna Public Transport). The 73 meter (93 meter height including the weather light column) high ring tower was deemed as innovative project for the reconstruction of the city.
The building, which previously stood on this plot, was the only one of the entire Scots ring which was destroyed in the Second World War. The ring tower with its 23 floors and its 20-meter high weather lighthouse is the second highest building inside Vienna's Ringstrasse. Higher is only the Gothic-style St. Stephen's Cathedral. In addition to the central office of the Vienna Insurance Group are now also offices of Wiener Stadtwerke (public utility company) in the ring tower. In the office building a total of 12,000 square meters of effective surface is available. The facade and parts of the ring tower were renovated in 1996.
Name
In a contest, a name was sought for the then very modern office skyscraper. Among 6,502 entries the name "ring tower" was chosen. There were, among other proposals, such as City House, Gutwill-house (goodwill-house), house of reciprocity, high-corner, new tower, Sonnblick-house, insurance high-rise, Vindobona-house or vision-house (farsightedness-house) of the creative population after the war. One of the submitters of the name "ring tower" was rewarded with an honorarium of 2,000 shillings.
Weather lighthouse
Weather lighthouse, seen from the ring road
On the roof there is the 20-meter high weather lighthouse with 117 lights in differently colored light signals the weather for the next day displaying (each 39 white, red and green lights as well as 2 additional air traffic control lights).
This light column is directly connected to the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) on the Hohenwarte in Vienna.
Meaning of the signals:
red ascending = temperature rising
red descending = temperature falling
green ascending = weather conditions will be better
green descending = weather will be worse
Flashing red = warning lightning or storms
Flashing white = snow or ice
Ringturm 2013
Ringturm disguising
Since 2006, the ring tower is changed every year into an "art tower " by covering the building with printed webs. The covering consists of 30 printed network paths with about 3 meters wide and 63 or 36 meters in length , and the resulting area is approximately 4,000 square meters.
The previous art projects:
2006 "Don Giovianni" by Christian Ludwig Attersee (on the occasion of the Mozart Year)
2007 "Tower of Life" by Robert Hammerstiel
2008 "Tower in Bloom" by Hubert Schmalix (Blumenstillleben)
2011 "Sense of family" Xenia Hausner
2012 "Society" by Hungarian artist László Fehér
2013 "Connectedness" of the Slovak artist Dorota Sadovská