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354/365: Did I ever mention how I hate arranging timetables? Our campuses new web-based tutorial allocation software opened that day and left me cracking my head for a whole day, working on a timetable that's good for the next four months of campus life. It didn't help that we had timetable clashes, adding to the whole mess.
Danbo watched me as I scuffle through timetable sketches, endless windows of excel spreadsheets and Messenger conversations. His brain went out before mine did. =(
#TravelTuesday with Guest Photographer Bob Wick through Southeastern Utah’s Red-Rock Riches!
Moab, Utah is synonymous with slickrock canyons and public land adventure sports. One could fill a novel with nearby public land recreation opportunities within a stone’s through of town. But for this trip, we’ll use Moab as a jumping off point to head further south into more remote canyons and mesas of Southeast Utah.
Between Moab and Montecello is the immense Canyon Rims Recreation Area. It offers top-of-the-world vistas of vast the labyrinth of Colorado River Canyons including several BLM wilderness study areas and the east side of Canyonlands National Park. The BLM maintains two primitive campgrounds on the rim, which are open from May to October and can serve as a base for exploration – although the views from the campgrounds themselves are so spectacular that there is no need to go far for stunning photo opportunities. More adventurous explorers can search the canyon rims for that perfect photo angle in the ever-changing light on the multi-hued red rocks.
Next, continue south to Cedar Mesa to visit one of the most significant cultural history locales in North America. This area was occupied by Ancestral Puebloan Native Americans, often called the “Anasazi”, between 800 and 2,000 years ago. Remains from their civilization are located throughout the canyons that dissect the mesa, and it is very moving and humbling to stand among them. Cliff dwellings, graineries and other structures are extremely well preserved and perched under overhangs in the cliffs. Amazing pictographs and petroglyphs can also be found here. All of the sites require moderate to arduous hikes into the canyons and even multi-day backpacks are popular in Grand Gulch. Due to the significance and fragility of the sites, you must obtain a permit for use of the area and numbers are limited during peak seasons. Plan ahead and also stop by the Kane Gulch Visitor Center for the latest information.
Driving further south along Cedar Mesa, Highway 261 eventually reaches a lip that seems like the end of the earth – the mesa drops 1100 feet straight down to the desert below with the buttes and spires of Monument Valley visible in the distance. The curiously named “Moki Dugway”, a bit of a white-knuckle route carved into the escarpment, allows you to drive down the cliff face to the valley below. A short drive further takes you to the Valley of the Gods, a hidden gem with scenery similar to that of nearby Monument Valley. Valley of the God’s isolated buttes, towering pinnacles and tall cliffs offer endless photo angles. A 17 mile drive circles the valley and more adventurous ecplorers can go into the Road Canyon Wilderness Study Area for backcountry hikes.
Photo Tips: Often the best and most unique photo angles in Utah’s canyon country and other western landscapes require traveling far off the pavement on remote back roads, then hiking away from your vehicle. I often use web-based aerial image programs (like Google Earth) to scout areas before trips for the best potential photo spots. Safety should always be front in these remote places. Even renowned western author and explorer Edward Abbey spoke of some close calls in the desert in his book Desert Solitare. I always tell someone where I am going with as many specifics as I can. Most importantly I tell them when I plan to be out and when I will contact them. I always carry a GPS emergency locator unit, and I can use that to check in with family each night while on extended trips when I am out of cell range. I also carry enough clothing and water to be able to be on my own without help for several days. Finally, I mark my vehicle location with a GPS waypoint so that I can find it when I am hiking back in the dark after an evening photo shoot!
The car will be driven by David Heinemeier Hansson in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge. While the PNR team is new to IMSA GT3 Cup, the personnel running the operation have decades of successful sports car racing experience. The effort is led by PNR Team Principal Ron Barnaba, winning Team Manager and Crew Chief Tim Olsen, and accomplished Race Engineer Marc Manning. Hansson is also working with top American Porsche driver Patrick Long as his driver coach for the second consecutive year.
The IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama features semi-professional and emerging drivers racing head to head in Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars. The series is broken into two classes, with the Platinum Cup class featuring newer and more powerful Porsche GT3s and the Gold Cup class for 2005½ to 2009 specification GT3s.
Following test and practice sessions today and Wednesday, Thursday features IMSA GT3 Cup qualifying at 12:15 p.m. and the first of the week’s two 45-minute sprints at 5:05 p.m. The second sprint race will close the IMSA GT3 Cup’s opening race week at 4:20 p.m. on Friday.
ABOUT 37signals: 37signals specializes in web-based collaboration apps and millions of entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses and departments inside big organizations rely on their products Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire to increase productivity. 37signals is also behind the popular web-development framework Ruby on Rails – used by Twitter, Groupon and more – and the New York Times best-selling business book “REWORK”
ABOUT PORSCHE NAPLETON RACING (PNR): Porsche Napleton Racing (PNR) is the performance and competition division of the Chicago-area auto dealership Napleton Porsche of Westmont. Although the team joins driver David Heinemeier Hansson in their first full season in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama in 2011, PNR is an established and full-service racing division and prep shop specializing in amateur and beginner-level competition, on up to entry-level professional racing series. The PNR group is also one of the top teams in the Cayman Interseries, winning several races with Hansson in that championship last year. The performance-focused PNR operation is just one division within Napleton Porsche of Westmont, which is the Ed Napleton Automotive Group’s flagship Porsche dealership.
epiFlection.epiclectic.com - The Album
Twisted graphic enhancements of mostly found life form images captured from the web-based world, courtesy of the epiPhone camera, Photoshop and the warped mind of the epiclectic.
Disclaimer - If anyone objects to me reprocessing one of their images, please drop me a flickr mail and I will be more than happy to provide a link to your original image - or remove it from my public photo stream.
Call for Images - If you have a photograph you would like to submit for an official epiFlection treatment, send me a flickr mail with a link to your photo. Once posted, you will get credit, a link to your photo, and a great photo for downloading, printing, framing and giving as a wonderful gift to loved ones in your close circle of friends.
epiFlection.epiclectic.com - The Album
Twisted graphic enhancements of mostly found life form images captured from the web-based world, courtesy of the epiPhone camera, Photoshop and the warped mind of the epiclectic.
Disclaimer - If anyone objects to me reprocessing one of their images, please drop me a flickr mail and I will be more than happy to provide a link to your original image - or remove it from my public photo stream.
Call for Images - If you have a photograph you would like to submit for an official epiFlection treatment, send me a flickr mail with a link to your photo. Once posted, you will get credit, a link to your photo, and a great photo for downloading, printing, framing and giving as a wonderful gift to loved ones in your close circle of friends.
The amazing turquoise waters of the Broome pearling ground ...
Looking to take 4 liked minded enthusiastic photographers/travelers on a 10day best of California Tour in 2017 ... If you think you would be interested please let me know via a massage ...
Copyright © 2016 Neal Pritchard PhotographyThis photo may not be used in any form without prior permission. All rights reserved. All images may NOT be used on websites, blogs or in any other form of media print or web based without explicit written permission by Spool Photography
Unless you believe it's inevitable that you have a chip in ya... you might want to read this book.
RFID everywhere. It's coming, it's here and before long if we don't draft laws to limit the extent RFID can be used tracking people... then you can kiss freedom goodbye forever.
This ain't no joke.
Right now Wal Mart has over twice as much data stored as the internet.
Imagine this figure in Ten years including the goverment, Dept. of Defense, military and all corporations.
Big Brother is Here.
I WILL CONTINUE TO ADD SPYCHIPS NEWS LETTERS TO THIS POST AS THEY COME IN.
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RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification. RFID uses tiny computer
chips, some smaller than a grain of sand, to track items from a
distance. Big business and big government want RFID chips to replace the
bar code. The chips can be embedded in ATM cards, sewn into the seams
of pants, or woven into shirt labels without their owners' knowledge.
The information on these chips can be read secretly, without your
permission, right through your purse, backpack or wallet.
Why Fight RFID?
Big business wants to use RFID to chip, number and track every item on
the planet -- every can of Coke, every car tire, every book, every
garment. They want to know where everything is at all times. By
association, they will be able to know very private details about the
people who buy, wear and interact with those products.
It's Already Started
Wal-Mart is already putting spychips on products. They've been caught
putting RFID tags in Lipfinity lipstick boxes, and just last week we
found an RFID tag on Hewlett-Packard printer/scanner packages in TEXAS!
You can see what we found by visiting our site at
www.spychips.com/protest/walmart/walmart-protest-details.....
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Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Page D01
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/...
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Here's a News Letter from the SPYCHIPS author:
From: newsletter@nocards.org
Subject: Anti-RFID rally at Wal-Mart this Saturday in Dallas
Date: October 13, 2005 9:17:28 PM CDT
To: newsletter@nocards.org
Dear CASPIAN Members and supporters:
I'm flying into Dallas today for a showdown in the Lone Star State.
It's time to take a stand against spychipping companies and their RFID
tagging activities, and Wal-Mart is at the top of our list. They've
begun brazenly selling RFID-tagged items right under the noses of Texas
shoppers, and it needs to stop.
We're organizing this weekend to send Wal-Mart a clear message:
"Don't mess with Texas! No Spychips in the Store!"
My Spychips co-author, Liz McIntyre, and I will be on hand to help local
CASPIAN members alert the public and the media to Wal-Mart's use of RFID
in stores. We will lead a rally outside of a Dallas Wal-Mart Super
Center Saturday to raise awareness of RFID and demand that the company
immediately stop selling spychipped products.
For more details, see:
www.spychips.com/protest/walmart/walmart-protest-details....
Wal-Mart is the 800-pound gorilla of the retail industry, and other
retailers follow its lead. (We've just learned that Best Buy is
considering item-level RFID tagging for 2006. We're betting they'll
rethink those plans once they get hit with a consumer backlash of their
own!) By taking a stand now, we can prevent the spread of these tags.
I have organized five protests since I founded CASPIAN in 1999, and
every one has been a completely positive experience. People bring their
families, their golden retrievers, and their shared love of freedom, and
they leave with the satisfaction that only comes from taking a stand for
what's right. That's a lot in this increasingly apathetic world. And it
feels great.
We now have over 10,000 CASPIAN members around the world and plan to
work with local communities to organize similar events elsewhere. We
know you will prove us right when we say that Americans and people
everywhere else across the globe will fight back against big corporate
plans to number and track us all.
Let's show them that it won't be as easy as they think.
In freedom and with high hopes,
Katherine Albrecht
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
www.spychips.com // www.nocards.org
Co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to
Track Your Every Move with RFID"
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CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket "loyalty" cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since 1999
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may find it of interest.
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Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Page D01
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/...
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it isn't. The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hidden information that could be used to track you down if you ever cross the U.S. government.
Last year, an article in PC World magazine pointed out that printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered across the page, viewable only with a special kind of flashlight. The article quoted a senior researcher at Xerox Corp. as saying the dots contain information useful to law-enforcement authorities, a secret digital "license tag" for tracking down criminals.
The content of the coded information was supposed to be a secret, available only to agencies looking for counterfeiters who use color printers.
Now, the secret is out.
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a widely used line of Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of sorts that contains the serial number of the printer as well as the date and time a document was printed.
With the Xerox printers, the information appears as a pattern of yellow dots, each only a millimeter wide and visible only with a magnifying glass and a blue light.
The EFF said it has identified similar coding on pages printed from nearly every major printer manufacturer, including Hewlett-Packard Co., though its team has so far cracked the codes for only one type of Xerox printer.
The U.S. Secret Service acknowledged yesterday that the markings, which are not visible to the human eye, are there, but it played down the use for invading privacy.
"It's strictly a countermeasure to prevent illegal activity specific to counterfeiting," agency spokesman Eric Zahren said. "It's to protect our currency and to protect people's hard-earned money."
It's unclear whether the yellow-dot codes have ever been used to make an arrest. And no one would say how long the codes have been in use. But Seth Schoen, the EFF technologist who led the organization's research, said he had seen the coding on documents produced by printers that were at least 10 years old.
"It seems like someone in the government has managed to have a lot of influence in printing technology," he said.
Xerox spokesman Bill McKee confirmed the existence of the hidden codes, but he said the company was simply assisting an agency that asked for help. McKee said the program was part of a cooperation with government agencies, competing manufacturers and a "consortium of banks," but would not provide further details. HP said in a statement that it is involved in anti-counterfeiting measures and supports the cooperation between the printer industry and those who are working to reduce counterfeiting.
Schoen said that the existence of the encoded information could be a threat to people who live in repressive governments or those who have a legitimate need for privacy. It reminds him, he said, of a program the Soviet Union once had in place to record sample typewriter printouts in hopes of tracking the origins of underground, self-published literature.
"It's disturbing that something on this scale, with so many privacy implications, happened with such a tiny amount of publicity," Schoen said.
And it's not as if the information is encrypted in a highly secure fashion, Schoen said. The EFF spent months collecting samples from printers around the world and then handed them off to an intern, who came back with the results in about a week.
"We were able to break this code very rapidly," Schoen said.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2005
RFID PROMOTER SHAMED INTO REMOVING MISLEADING CLAIM FROM WEBSITE
Medical Products Company PDC Slammed by Revelations in "Spychips"
In the first of what will likely be many reverberations from a new book
about RFID, a global RFID applications company has been shamed into
removing a misleading claim from its website. California-based Precision
Dynamics Corporation (PDC) advertised that its RFID-enabled hospital
wristband could help remedy the leading cause of medical errors, which
it claimed was "patient misidentification."
The PDC website featured a page titled "Why RFID is Critical" with a
bold heading purporting to explain "Why hospitals need to be on board
with RFID." There the company wrote, "The leading cause of death due to
medical errors is caused by patient misidentification, and specimen or
medication misidentification." The quote was attributed to a report by
noted medical researchers Dr. Mark Chassin and Dr. Lucian Leape.
There was only one problem: The claim was not true.
While researching their new book, "SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and
Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID," authors Katherine
Albrecht and Liz McIntyre contacted Dr. Leape to investigate PDC's
claims. In a scathing written response, Dr. Leape called PDC's statement
a "complete misrepresentation." Dr. Leape went on to say that "one might
even say [PDC's claim is] a lie, in that it clearly is intended to
deceive."
PDC's misleading claim was exposed when "Spychips" hit the bookstores
earlier this month. Ziff Davis Retail Center Editor Evan Schuman picked
up the story from there, launching a mini investigation of his own. He
reported his findings in a recent CIOInsight article where he wrote,
"When Ziff Davis contacted PDC, the claim was still on their Web site
and they promised to get back to us with an explanation. No one ever did
but the claim has magically vanished from their site."
The book has set off a firestorm in the RFID community. Not only is PDC
scrambling to cover its tracks, companies like NCR are attempting to
distance themselves from their own promotional materials exposed in
"Spychips." In a recent interview with Wired News, NCR executive Richard
Beaver downplayed the company's plans for price changing shelves that
discriminate against bargain shoppers, calling them "concept documents"
designed to merely provide "thought leadership" in the RFID sphere.
"This is just the start of the corporate distress," predicts McIntyre.
"PDC and NCR aren't the only privacy bad boys whose embarrassing
statements are brought to light in our book. Other companies like IBM,
Procter & Gamble, Bank of America, BellSouth, and Philips will also have
some explaining to do when people read about their patent pending ways
to use RFID to track people through the things they wear, carry and
throw away. Consumers will realize these companies have an RFID agenda
that should concern us all."
Ziff Davis' Schuman apparently concurs. He called Spychips "a stunningly
powerful argument against plans for RFID being mapped out by government
agencies, retail and manufacturing companies," since it "effectively
debunks many of the top arguments about why RFID is not a privacy
worry." He added, "The authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre use
vendors' own patent filings to show their thinking, such as an IBM
filing titled 'Identification and Tracking of Persons Using RFID-Tagged
Items.'" He also chided Philips for a patent application that talks
about placing RFID tags in shoes so they can be detected by RFID
scanners embedded in floors.
Schuman gave this advice to companies caught red-handed by the authors:
"A little subtlety is probably not a bad idea when trying to patent
ideas that your PR people are denying you're thinking about."
It may be a bit too late for that.
Evan Schuman's complete review of Spychips can be read at CIOInsight:
www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1875343,00.asp
To see the archived PDC web page with the medical misstatement visit:
web.archive.org/web/20041130083736/http://www.pdcorp.com/...
To see the "page not found" message at the original location of the
misstatement visit:
www.pdcorp.com/rfid/hc_why_rfid.html
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katherine Albrecht (kma@spychips.com) 877-287-5854
or
Liz McIntyre (liz@spychips.com) 877-287-5854
CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
www.spychips.com // www.nocards.org
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Late 2015 and early 2016, there was a free web-based service that could be used to compile a 3 x 3 collage of 9 Instagram images. The images were selected from the posts made during 2015 by the nominated Instagram user. The posts were ranked according to the number of "likes".
As we start 2017 and reflect upon 2016, a modified service has been created to produce the equivalent collage for Instagram posts made during 2016. The URL for the 2016 service is ihttps://2016bestnine.com
At the same time, the service for 2015 has been resurrected and can be accessed at the URL ihttps://2016bestnine.com
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To add value to this exercise, I have provided below the titles for the images, together with links to the relevant posts on Flickr.
[ N.B., You might be asking yourself - Why have I included links to posts on Flickr rather than Instagram? I post the same images on Flickr and Instagram, but the posts on Flickr have a longer description with background information for the image. Also, the posts on Flickr have higher quality images and better viewing options than Instagram. ]
All in all, the results are an interesting (!?!) take on my "best" images. There are many other metrics by which "best" could be defined. I intend to compile my own "best" nine images for 2015 and 2016. After a cursory scan of my Instagram posts for 2015 and 2016, I expect that there will be very limited overlap between the results presented here and with my own selection of favorites. I shall be judging my "best" images on a combination of technical photographic criteria and the circumstances that are portrayed. I would make the point that these metrics are qualitative, and as such, couldn't be amenable to implementation as an automated service.
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Top row (L to R) ...
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Blue Hour Tranquility - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20151206 @ 05:18
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/23394067990/in/datepo...
Feijoa (Guavasteen) Flower - Acca sellowiana - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20151126 @ 07:18
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/23279491621/in/datepo...
Celestial Bodies Galore - Jupiter, The Moon, Venus, Mars - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20151105 @ 05:02
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/22494743407/in/datepo...
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Kangaroo Paw Flowers - Anigozanthos species - Forrest - ACT - Australia - 20151121 @ 06:24
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/23196944435/in/datepo...
A Majestic Pre-dawn Blue Hour View Across Lake Burley Griffin - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20151117 @ 05:12
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/22768953399/in/datepo...
A Faded Daffodil - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20150829 @ 11:05
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/20587072764/in/datepo...
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Inside a Daffodil - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20150829 @ 11:18
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/21026766046/in/datepo...
Exposing a Bearded Iris Flower - Forrest - ACT - Australia - 20151010 @ 06:11
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/21459624953/in/datepo...
Summer Blue Hour Morning Magic - Barton - ACT - Australia - 20151205 @ 05:13
www.flickr.com/photos/momentsforzen/23448049391/in/datepo...
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#MomentsForZen #MFZ #2015bestnine
Dublin City Centre.
I don't normally like using software or other digital mularkey of making a collage but somehow this works .. so intense was the story she was telling her friend they did not even notice me 4 feet away sitting there snapping.
Fujica ST801 SLR (1972)
EBC Fujinon 55mm F1.8 lens
Ilford HP5+ Film deved in XTOL 1:1
Straight Neg Scan cropped square
Picnik web based collage maker
Inspired by Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 illustrations, I made simpler ones for my upcoming workshop on Monday. In the diagram above, I explain how Prof. Alex Halavais fostered the collective intelligence of his communication theory class though blogs, wikis, and del.icio.us. Students conveniently read everything via RSS newsreaders and web-based aggregators.
epiFlection.epiclectic.com - The Album
Twisted graphic enhancements of mostly found life form images captured from the web-based world, courtesy of the epiPhone camera, Photoshop and the warped mind of the epiclectic.
Disclaimer - If anyone objects to me reprocessing one of their images, please drop me a flickr mail and I will be more than happy to provide a link to your original image - or remove it from my public photo stream.
Call for Images - If you have a photograph you would like to submit for an official epiFlection treatment, send me a flickr mail with a link to your photo. Once posted, you will get credit, a link to your photo, and a great photo for downloading, printing, framing and giving as a wonderful gift to loved ones in your close circle of friends.
Early winter mornings before even the coffee set make their appearance
Check out my Profile Page for more information on my images and my website and contact detailsCopyright © 2013 Neal Pritchard PhotographyThis photo may not be used in any form without prior permission. All rights reserved. All images may NOT be used on websites, blogs or in any other form of media print or web based without explicit written permission by Spool Photography
initial concept for a web based widget to be used in outbound call centers to ease lead acquisition and streamline information cycles between call center operators and prospective leads
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too.
Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away.
Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked, derelict and abandoned vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots,and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well.
The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another.
Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other goods.
In recent years it is becoming increasingly common to use satellite part finder services to contact multiple salvage yards from a single source.
In the 20th century these were call centres that charged a premium rate for calls and compiled a facsimile that was sent to various salvage yards so they could respond directly if the part was in stock. Many of these are now Web-based with requests for parts being e-mailed instantly.
>> For Immediate Release
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>> Detroit International Jazz Festival receives $100,000 from Knight Foundation to support DJF's Jazz Planet
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>> Detroit, November 10, 2010 - The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded the Detroit International Jazz Festival (DJF) a $100,000 grant to help the festival reach a global audience through an exciting web-based initiative, DJF's Jazz Planet.
>> DJF's Jazz Planet - a streaming news magazine and music channel, featuring performances, news flashes, interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary from the 2010 Detroit International Jazz Festival - was created to showcase Detroit as a significant center for jazz, provide a platform for artists to share their projects, and develop a mainstream audience for jazz and the festival through the internet.
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>> Building upon the festival's year-round commitment to educational programming and events, the Knight Foundation grant will help DJF achieve the following goals:
>> . Engage communities on a global scale through social media;
>> . Develop an online portal of information and activity for jazz in Southeast Michigan;
>> . Provide opportunities for urban students to enhance skills, compete with their suburban counterparts and be inspired by great artists.
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>> "Our advocacy efforts for jazz and Detroit were magnified with the introduction of the Planet", says festival director Terri Pontremoli. "In addition to reaching hundreds of thousands of jazz fans around the globe, we were able to deliver an unsurpassed cultural experience to new audiences."
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>> "The festival is on the cutting edge of engaging new audiences," said Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation's vice president/arts. "The site allows the festival to expand its reach far beyond one stellar weekend in Detroit."
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>> Produced by ShowAds Network and in partnership with Livestream, DJF's Jazz Planet was full of spontaneity and fun, featuring interviews with artists and by artists, fan and student commentary, and segments of performances.
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>> In its first year, DJF's Jazz Planet reached 700,000 viewers in 157 countries. It went "live" at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the festival's opening night, with a 30-minute red carpet segment co-hosted by bassist Christian McBride and festival director Terri Pontremoli. Red carpet guests included: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing; Tower of Power's Emilio Castillo; and 2010 DJF artist in residence, pianist Mulgrew Miller.
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>> DJF's Jazz Planet highlights can still be seen on the festival website - detroitjazzfest.com/jazzplanet - through November 25, 2010.
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>> New video content featuring festival performances, jazz master classes and special interviews will be added to DJF's Jazz Planet in the coming months. Please visit the Jazz Planet Blog for details and updates on this project.
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>> About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation?
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>> The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote informed and engaged communities and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
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>> About Detroit International Jazz Festival
>>
>> The Detroit International Jazz Festival (DJF) is an independent, non-profit organization that presents jazz and educational workshops throughout the year. With an audience of 750,000, this free event has a $90M impact on the city. It is supported through foundation grants, individual donations, and customized sponsorships for businesses that benefit from exposure to DJF's large, diverse and educated audience. For more information visit www.detroitjazzfest.com.
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>> Contact:
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>> Chris Harrington, Detroit International Jazz Festival
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Parked trailer full of crushed cars ready for their final journey to the recycling plant.
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too.
Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away.
Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked, derelict and abandoned vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots,and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well.
The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another.
Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other goods.
In recent years it is becoming increasingly common to use satellite part finder services to contact multiple salvage yards from a single source.
In the 20th century these were call centres that charged a premium rate for calls and compiled a facsimile that was sent to various salvage yards so they could respond directly if the part was in stock. Many of these are now Web-based with requests for parts being e-mailed instantly.
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Vastitude explores concepts of ‘vastness’. Its simple architectural form hosts multidimensional displays that respond in real time to web-based interactions by users.
The exterior of Vastitude is a simple rectangular structure that hosts a complex three-dimensional grid of LED lights suspended inside parallel mirrors, creating the illusion of a deep, vast ‘field of lights’.
Users interact with the installation in real-time through a dedicated social media portal. When users direct their posts to the installation system, it will translate the user’s post into values that control the colour, speed and type of animation that will be displayed.
Artists: Cox Richardson Architects and Planners (Andrew Butler (Australia) / Danny Nguyen (Australia) / Rob Asher (South Africa / Mitchell Page (USA) / Adrian Taylor (USA)
Collaborator: Rebekah Collins (Australian)
USS GUARDIAN an Avenger-class mine countermeasures vessel was laid down on 8 May 1985 by Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 20 June 1987; and commissioned on 16 December 1989. In 2010, she became the first mine countermeasures vessel in the Seventh Fleet modified for a mixed-sex crew, with separate head facilities.
On 17 January 2013, Guardian ran aground on Tubbataha Reef, in a protected area of the Philippines in the middle of the Sulu Sea. The vessel was turned and pushed further onto the reef by wave action.
To prevent further damage to the reef it was announced on the 29 January 2013 by the United States Navy that the ship would be cut into three sections on the reef prior to removal, resulting in the total loss of the $227 million vessel. USS Guardian was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 February 2013.
After removal of fuel and useful equipment, and after the upper superstructure was cut and lifted off of the minehunter, the wooden hull was sequentially chain-sawed into four sections and lifted off of the reef by the dynamic positioning crane vessel. The bow section was cut and removed by crane on 26 March 2013. It was originally planned to cut the hull into three pieces, but the stern section had to be cut in half again. The last stern section was removed by crane from Tubbataha Reef on 30 March 2013.
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A TRIBUTE TO COURAGE, DISCOVERY, AND LEADERSHIP
On the cold, rain-soaked morning of November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy awoke well prepared to speak to an eager Chamber of Commerce breakfast audience in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. But first he was scheduled to speak to thousands who had waited in the rain outside the Hotel Texas (now the Fort Worth Hilton) to hear the President. Each speech was remarkable. And each became historic beyond expectation.
These remarks were to be his final public speeches, imbuing the Fort Worth visit with extraordinary significance. This was the last time the nation heard the 35th President of the United States speak, and his themes on that historic day are as relevant today as they were in 1963.
To recognize the significance of these moments, the importance of his vision and the impact of his leadership, a public-private partnership in Fort Worth recently completed a decade-long effort to create a permanent exhibit to honor Kennedy.
The JFK Tribute in Fort Worth has at its center a heroic scale bronze sculpture of President Kennedy, created by the late Lawrence Ludtke. The sculpture is placed within an elegant granite plaza featuring photographic displays and selected quotes from a number of JFK’s historic speeches.
Visitors may experience the Tribute via a guided audio tour accessible by a mobile phone application and web-based educational materials, assuring worldwide access to remarks he made that day, events that occurred in Fort Worth and the geo-political challenges faced by the U.S. President at that time. Archival film of his visit and details that further explore how his ideals even now provide guidance and inspiration to generations are also available.
Old Street roundabout, London, is not a thing of beauty, but it has come to be known as Silicon Roundabout, after Silicon Valley, California, because of the cluster of technology and web-based companies that have gathered around it.
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A MAGNESITE OR CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A LIONESS, ELAM, CIRCA 3000-2800 B.C.
height 3 1/4 in. 8.26 cm.
of powerful form and monumental conception, striding with the left leg advanced, the broad-shouldered upper body turned fully to the right with the paws clasped to the abdomen, the head with finely incised detail, and wide-set eyes with circular pupils, four holes on the back for insertion of a tail, two holes on the crown of the head perhaps for suspension, the lower legs possibly once completed in a different material.
PROVENANCE
said to have been found at a site near Baghdad
E.S. David, Baghdad and New York
Joseph Brummer, New York, 1931
Alastair Bradley and Edith Martin, New York, 1948
EXHIBITED
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, since 1948
"Ancient Art in American Private Collections," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., December 28, 1954-February 15, 1955
"Thou shalt Have No Other Gods before Me," The Jewish Museum, New York, May-September 1964
"The Guennol Collection," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1969
"In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, Princeton University, "The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1997
"Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 8-August 17, 2003
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Albert Gallatin, The Pursuit of Happiness, New York, 1950, p. 140
Edith Porada, "A Leonine Figure of the Protoliterate Period of Mesopotamia," Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 70, 1950, pp. 223-226
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, Baltimore, 1950, pp. 223-226; 5th ed., New Haven and London, 1996, pp. 32-33, figs. 22-23
George M.A. Hanfmann, "Ancient Art in American Collections," Notes on Special Exhibitions, The Art Quarterly, Spring 1955, p. 63
Ancient Art in American Private Collections. A Loan exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, December 28, 1954 - February 15, 1955, Cambridge, Mass., 1954, no. 58, pl. XVIII
The Illustrated London News, April 9th, 1955, p. 652, fig. 1
Encyclopedia of World Art, vol. I, London, 1959, p. 860
André Parrot, Sumer, Paris, 1960, pp. 78-79, fig. 97 (photograph reversed)
Pierre Amiet, La glyptique mésopotamienne archaïque, Paris, 1961, fig. 579
Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, vol. IV, Rome, 1961, p. 1054
Seton Lloyd, The Art of the Ancient Near East, London, 1961, pp. 40-41, fig. 19
Edith Porada, Alt-Iran. Die Kunst in vorislamischer Zeit, Baden-Baden, 1962, p. 27
B.L. Goff, Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia, New Haven-London, 1963
J.G. MacGowan, Babylon, New York, 1964, p. 69, fig. 4A (drawing)
Ann E. Farkas, Thou shalt Have No Other Gods before Me, New York, 1964, no. 90, illus.
W. Nägel, in Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, vol. 8, 1964, pp. 51-52
M.E.L. Mallowan, Early Mesopotamia and Iran, New York, 1965, p. 50, fig. 42
Edith Porada, The Art of Ancient Iran: Pre-Islamic Cultures, New York 1965, p. 35, color pl. 6
Pierre Amiet, Elam, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1966, pp. 93-94, figs. 60A, B
Donald Hansen, Kate C. Lefferts, and S. M. Alexander, "A Proto-Elamite Silver Figurine in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 3, 1970, p. 11, figs. 10-11
Henriette Antonia Groenewegen-Frankfort and Bernard Ashmole, Art of the Ancient World: Painting, Pottery, Sculpture, Architecture from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Greece, and Rome, New York, 1971(?), pp. 90-91, fig. 95
R. Garbini, in Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, vol. 33, 1973, pp. 368-372
Ida Ely Rubin, The Guennol Collection, vol. I, New York, 1975, pp. 57-62, illus.
Winfried Orthmann, Der alte Orient (Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte, vol. 14), Berlin, 1975, pp. 376-377, pl. XXXIa
Pierre Amiet, The Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1977, no. 246
Othmar Keel, Die Welt der altorientalischen Bildsymbolik und das Alte Testament. Am Beispiel der Psalmen, 2nd ed., Zurich, Einsiedeln, and Cologne, 1977, p. 74, fig. 98
Manfred Robert Behm-Blancke, Das Tierbild in der altmesopotamischen Rundplastik: Eine Untersuchung zum Stilwandel des frühsumerichen Rundplastik (Baghdader Forschungen, vol. 1), Mainz am Rhein, 1979, K43, pp. 29-31, pl. 22, 107
Agnès Spycket, La statuaire du Proche-Orient ancien, Leiden and Cologne, 1981, p. 45 and n. 91, pl. 35
Edith Porada, review of Behm-Blancke, op. cit., 1979, in American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 85, 1981, p. 499
Prudence O. Harper, Joan Aruz, and Francoise Tallon, The Royal City of Susa. Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre, New York, 1992, p. 69, fig. 30
Lloyd and Jennifer Laing, Ancient Art. The Challenge to Modern Thought, Dublin, 1993, p. 135, fig. 195
In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997, p. 5, no. 1
Holly Pittman in Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, Joan Aruz, ed., New York, 2003, pp. 44-45, no. 14, illus.
John Boardman, The World of Ancient Art, London, 2006, p. 116, fig. 162
CATALOGUE NOTE
The Guennol Lioness is from the renowned and highly personal Guennol Collection formed over several decades by Edith and Alastair Bradley Martin. They named the collection Guennol after the Welsh name for martin, and it was in Wales that they spent part of their honeymoon.
The Guennol Lioness is prominently featured in Near Eastern and ancient art surveys, together with the Warka head and other highly recognizable objects, as one of the oldest and most important works of ancient sculpture from the Near East in particular and the ancient world in general (e.g. Frankfort 1950 and 1996, Lloyd 1961, Groenewegen and Ashmole 1971, Spycket 1981, Laing 1993, Boardman 2006).
In its uniqueness and sheer aesthetic appeal the Lioness is acknowledged to transcend stylistically related examples of sculpture from the same area and time period. Despite its relatively small size it conveys an unmistakable impression of monumentality, an effect which the sculptor was able to achieve by combining bold modeling, powerful proportions, and a physically impossible posture generating multiple viewpoints.
CULTURAL ORIGIN
The closest comparable examples of a striding upright beast or lion with paws locked on the chest can be found on a relatively small group of Proto-Elamite seal impressions (Figs. 1-3: Amiet 1966, fig. 61A-B; Amiet, Glyptique susienne, vol. 2, Paris, 1972, pl. 109, fig. 1012); there, as with the Lioness, the torso of each animal is shown frontally while the legs and head appear in profile, a convention normally confined to two-dimensional figural representations. These similarities have led scholars to suggest that the sculptor drew his inspiration directly from these seal impressions. Because of its strong links to this particular group of seals, therefore, the Lioness is thought to originate in the proto-literate culture of the land of Elam, the southwestern region of modern Iran.
Based on various technical and stylistic similarities with a stone composite figure of a bull discovered at Uruk in Mesopotamia, the suggestion was first made that the sculptor of the Lioness, although working in Elam and making use of Proto-Elamite iconography, might have been of Mesopotamian origin (Porada 1950, 224). The current consensus, however, is that the artist was a native of Elam working in a local artistic tradition well attested there, especially in a group of objects called "Dépôt archaïque," which was found in the early 20th Century near the western wall of the acropolis at Susa (Behm-Blancke 1979, 31; Porada 1981, 499); a composite figure of a griffin-lion in particular shows stylistic connections to the Lioness (Amiet 1966, no. 63).
FUNCTION AND IDENTIFICATION
The connected holes on the head of the lioness are unlikely to have been made for the addition of a mane (Porada 1950); instead they could have been meant for insertion of a cord, indicating that the object may have been worn, "probably [suspended] from the neck of a powerful leader" (Pittman 2003, 14). The ferocious aspect of the beast and the power it emanates could provide clues to the apotropaic nature of the object, which was probably meant to repel misfortune and keep malevolent forces at bay (Frankfort 1950, 13). The lion figures on the Proto-Elamite seal impressions are sometimes shown supporting mountains and trees (Fig. 3); their enormous size " could indicate that they had great power over the mountainous country through which they stride" (Figs. 1-2) (Porada 1950, 225).
The identity of the Guennol Lioness, its role within the system of beliefs, mythology, and the rituals of the culture that produced it, will probably remain forever a matter of speculation, as there existed no written records in this period that would allow for a positive identification. Scholars are left, therefore, with the task of interpreting an enigmatic and complex iconography in the light of later and better understood traditions from the Near East.
PLACE OF DISCOVERY
Joseph Brummer's information that the Lioness came "from a site near Baghdad" (Porada 1950, 224, n. 6) does not contradict the object's accepted Proto-Elamite origin. The closest parallel in Proto-Elamite sculpture in the round does not come from an Iranian site but from the Shara temple at Tell Agrab, a few dozen kilometers east of Baghdad in the Diyala valley, as part of a group of related amulets which could have easily traveled there on the trade routes linking the two regions. One of these amulets, a magnesite-like leaping lioness with voluted shoulders (Fig. 4: Behm-Blancke 1979, 79, no. 102, figs. 29a and b), bears such a striking resemblance to the Lioness that the scholar who first published it suggested that both objects were imports from the same native Proto-Elamite workshop, and that the Guennol Lioness itself was likely to have been found at Tell Agrab as well: "Die enge Zusammengehörigkeit beider Stücke erlaubt es auch, als wahrscheinlichen Fundort der Brooklyn-Löwin Tell-Agreb, genauer noch, den Bereich des Sara-Tempels anzunehmen" (Behm-Blancke 1979, p. 30).
Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago conducted a single campaign of excavations at Tell Agrab, starting in the first weeks of January 1936 and ending early in January 1937. In the Summer of 1935 members of the staff had surveyed the Tell, led there by "certain archaeological material which found its way into the hands of Baghdad dealers, and purported to come from a mound which could be identified as Tell Agrab" (Seton Lloyd, "The Shara Temple at Tell Agrab," Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 58, 1942, p. 218). The material excavated by the Institute at Tell Agrab and the relevant archaeological records are currently being made available to the public in great detail as part of the web-based Diyala Project, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/diy/).
EPILOGUE
In 1966 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired another rare example of a Proto-Elamite animal figure in a human posture, this one made from several sheets of hammered silver and representing a kneeling bull holding a vessel (Fig. 5: Art of the First Cities, New York, 2003, no. 13). The bull figure appears on contemporary seal impressions in conjunction with the Lioness (Fig. 3: Amiet, Glyptique susienne, pl. 109, fig. 1012). The only general statement that can be safely made about these two creatures is that they both played a prominent role in the iconography, and presumably in the religion and mythology as well, of the people who created them.
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Taken on a recent 4 day screaming trip down to the south coast of Western Australia with UK Landscape Photographer of the Year Antony Spencer, Christian Fletcher and Flemming Bo Jensen ...
We had a blast and shot so much during the 4 days we encounter so much different light that we almost shot from dan to after dusk ... Awesome trip away ...
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Coles Bay, one of the most beautiful bays I have seen in Australia. From the small town to the seafood, hiking trails, clear water beaches and high mountains this part of Australia has some much to offer ...
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While taking this shot I watched two fisherman jig for squid. They where both pulling in squid at a rate of one every minute and the squid looked a prefect size at around 30-40 cm .... after about 15mins they where done and so was I the sun fell behind the horizon and it was time to search down some squid for dinner as I know it had to be local and fresh, which it was ....
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A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too.
Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away.
Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked, derelict and abandoned vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots,and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well.
The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another.
Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other goods.
In recent years it is becoming increasingly common to use satellite part finder services to contact multiple salvage yards from a single source.
In the 20th century these were call centres that charged a premium rate for calls and compiled a facsimile that was sent to various salvage yards so they could respond directly if the part was in stock. Many of these are now Web-based with requests for parts being e-mailed instantly.
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Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
Although some local stations in Canada predate the CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-Language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-Language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique. (International radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website.) The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-Language CBC Television and the French-Language Ici Radio-Canada Télé, along with the satellite/cable networks CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Documentary Channel (part ownership), and Ici ARTV. The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio-Canada Nord. The CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca/Ici.Radio-Canada.ca, CBC Radio 3, CBC Music/ICI.mu and Ici.TOU.TV, and owns 20.2% of satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada, which carries several CBC-produced audio channels.
CBC/Radio-Canada offers programming in English, French and eight aboriginal languages on its domestic radio service, and in five languages on its web-based international radio service, Radio Canada International (RCI). However, budget cuts in the early 2010s have contributed to the corporation reducing its service via the airwaves, discontinuing RCI's shortwave broadcasts as well as terrestrial television broadcasts in all communities served by network-owned rebroadcast transmitters, including communities not subject to Canada's over-the-air digital television transition.
CBC's federal funding is supplemented by revenue from commercial advertising on its television broadcasts. The radio service employed commercials from its inception to 1974, but since its primary radio networks have been commercial-free. In 2013, CBC's secondary radio networks, CBC Music and Ici Musique, introduced limited advertising of up to four minutes an hour, but this was discontinued in 2016.
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Vastitude explores concepts of ‘vastness’. Its simple architectural form hosts multidimensional displays that respond in real time to web-based interactions by users.
The exterior of Vastitude is a simple rectangular structure that hosts a complex three-dimensional grid of LED lights suspended inside parallel mirrors, creating the illusion of a deep, vast ‘field of lights’.
Users interact with the installation in real-time through a dedicated social media portal. When users direct their posts to the installation system, it will translate the user’s post into values that control the colour, speed and type of animation that will be displayed.
Artists: Cox Richardson Architects and Planners (Andrew Butler (Australia) / Danny Nguyen (Australia) / Rob Asher (South Africa / Mitchell Page (USA) / Adrian Taylor (USA)
Collaborator: Rebekah Collins (Australian)
Sackler Gallery of Asian Art group shows the two pottery traditions in the Mekong River valley--the Eastern Indian influence with rounded shoulders and decorative knobs around the neck (used for ritual and ceremonies) and the Chinese with heavier shoulders and functional trugs to rope them together for loading and unloading on horseback treks (used more often for everyday purposes).
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April 1, 2007 through 2010
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Approximately 200 diverse and visually striking ceramic vessels from Southeast Asia are on long–term view April 1 through the year 2010 in "Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia." The clay pots and jars form the most enduring record of human activity in this part of the world, during the prehistoric period to the present.
Donated to the Sackler between 1996 and 2005 by brothers Osborne and Victor Hauge and their wives Gratia and Takako, these remarkable objects provide the focus for a detailed narrative of the migration of pots from their makers to their users. Included in the Hauge gift are more than 800 vessels made in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, together with Chinese bowls and jars exported to Southeast Asia.
"Taking Shape" presents the two basic types of ceramics produced in Southeast Asia–soft, porous earthenware and high–fired stoneware. Earthenware continues to be used to cool drinking water, cook rice and curries over a wood fire and heat water for reeling silk. Watertight stoneware jars store grains, transport goods for long–distance trade and brew the rice beer essential for hospitality and ceremonies.
Pieces from the Hauge collection show the regional diversity of earthenware and stoneware production throughout time. The swirling designs of red–painted earthenware pots from prehistoric Thailand and the forms of glazed and unglazed stoneware jars from 17th– to 19th–century central Vietnam suggest the depth and diversity of the ceramic traditions. Spanning four millennia of invention and exchange, from the prehistoric period to the present, the objects on view were crafted for rituals, burials, domestic use and trade.
"Taking Shape" also illuminates the dimensions of international trade that brought southern Chinese ceramics into mainland Southeast Asia. Glazed stoneware dishes, emblazoned with blue or brown floral designs, demonstrate how the shapes and decorations of Chinese ceramics inspired the addition of painted decorations to tableware made in kilns in Vietnam and Thailand. In turn, such ceramics competed successfully in the international trade of the 15th and 16th centuries, reaching distant markets from Japan to Turkey.
The exhibition narrative interweaves discoveries of excavations and shipwrecks in Asia to convey the passage of works similar to the Hauge objects on their way to distant markets. Jars that reached their intended destinations–which included Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan–often became heirlooms, valued for their exotic origins, superior technology and beauty.
Plans are under way to publish online all 800 objects in the Hauge Collection of Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia. This dynamic web-based catalogue will grow and evolve as new discoveries and research are incorporated into the site. Check this page for announcements of its launch.
This is a long circuit and we knew, because of a ferry booking, that we would probably not be able to complete it and would therefore have to pick a spot to return from early. We hoped to see the seal colony at least. Unfortunately, at the very beginning - the west side of Sand Voe - the web-based maps suggested a coastal route that took us into walking along a steep and slippery incline, with drops, if we did slip, straight down into the voe. We assumed that 'any second' we'd come across worn grass that suggested we had hit the path and we persevered, slow and careful, on the slope that none of us were entirely comfortable walking along. The path did not materialise and we eventually climbed the steep slope to a safe flat area. This section cost us more time than we had wanted and we therefore decided, disappointed, to turn back before we reached the seal colony. The walk back - first away from the coast up the main branch of the Pettadale Burn and then across the spongy gorse/grasses to North Voe - was a good work-out for our legs but not hugely interesting. We will have to come back and do the full hike.
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University Of The Ignorance, testing the new "Brain Cells Zipping Experiment". It's supposed to repair broken links between cells and defragment the the brain.
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The Split Brain Experiments: Shocking new discoveries
When the Split Brain Experiments conducted by Nobel Prize winner Laureate Roger Sperry (The name in itself should’ve seen as a Red Alert) in the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for discoveries concerning differences in the right and left brain hemispheres, and from then on, It’s been used in every field of education ever since…and, until, Maven-X discovered the bogus findings in differences in the right and left brain hemispheres.
According to Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry (again, the name strangely reminds me of Disney’s Roger Rabbit or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?):
R.Rabbit: The brain is made up of two halves, or hemispheres.
M-X: Only shape-wise. Anatomically, all mammals’ brain is of the same shape.
RR: These hemispheres are connected to each other through a system consisting of millions of nerve fibers. Therefore, each hemisphere is continually informed about what is happening in the other
MX: True. This is where the initial gossip cells come to life, and, it’s more dominant in gossipmongers’ brains.
RR: What happens if the connection is broken?
MX: In this game you can follow a classic experiment with a patient whose (corpus callosum: nothing but swanky, gibberish Latin) connection has been surgically removed. Hence, gossip, trivia, stupidity, ignorance, greed, witlessness do no longer has connection with one another.
Maven-X’s modern Shocking Discoveries
Myth: Humans dominate the planet because of our intelligence
Fact: We cannot fly or swim without a machine (Airplane, parachute etc.) and if confronted with a predator, we would be ill-equipped to defend ourselves, and we run like hell for our lives.
Myth: Our species can build machines that allow us to hunt, fish, move underwater, and through the air.
Fact: Our species can also build devices to scam, kill, torture and are capable of every sick, mind-boggling actions known under the sun.
See also: Jeffry Dahmer, Ted Bundy
See also: Enron executives, Bernard Madoff
See also: The French Inquisition, Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin and the latest Gorilla-Pimp-Dictator Gooky-Gaddafi
See also: quack, charlatan and greedy Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal physician)
Myth: We can domesticate and train other animals for our food and service because of our intelligence
Fact: This is a list of animals that have been domesticated by humans. No brainer, really:
Dog: 15,000 BC (did it really need domestication? Our best friend!?)
Sheep: 11,000 BC and 9000 BC (all you need is a time to kill shepperd)
Pig: 9000 BC (please!)
Cow: 8000 BC (Just feed it and milk it, Einstein). The list goes on absurdly: goat, cat, chicken, duck, fancy mouse, Fallow Deer (Dama Dama), goldfish…Ookey!
Myth: MRI scan is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures which make it especially useful in imaging the brain, muscles, the heart, and cancers
Fact: Nothing but a stupid, powerless machine that can fail to align the magnetization of some (not all; even if they were the size of marbles) atoms in the body and brain.
See also: Farrah Facet, Patrick Swayze.
See also: The United States Cancer Statistics: 2007 Incidence and Mortality Web-based report contains official federal government cancer statistics for cancer incidence in 99% of the U.S. population and mortality statistics for 100% of the U.S. population.
We live in a world of symbols.
See also: vice; noun: an immoral or evil habit or practice.
2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.
3. sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
Fix this! Anyone? Anyone, at all?
The theater of the mind. The bordello of the subconscious.
That's how it's started. Here. In the University of The Ignorance.
Think, don't dwell!
Feel.
Observe.
Defragment the broken links. The missing files.
Forget everything you know or have been thought. Get rid off useless, dangerous excess of human knowledge.
All my extensive testings and experiments have shown this to be the best treatment for presumed and dangerously false excess of human knowledge.
We live in a world where everbody knows everything.
We need to find cure for knowledge.
Cure for a life of vice instilled with virus, pious, selfish, and false knowledge.
The clamps are tightening
In America we have the 'freedom of speech'; The freedom of gibberish, nonsense-prattle-gabble speech!
The feel of the tightenin iron clamps traveling through the sensations
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Tucked away in a spare storage room at the end of the hall in the hotel is a company computer terminal. This setup provides ready access to crew boards and lineups for those biding their off-duty time at the hotel. A new generation of web-based tools is replacing this equipment, both via personal phone and company-supplied tablet. In the background, the bikes and footlockers are indicators of the effort folks go to to make down time more comfortable or enjoyable. I'd wager that in addition to the gym shoes, and toothbrushes, there's probably more than one game system resting between trips.
Infrared wavelengths of 3.6, 8.0, and 24.0 microns observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope are mapped into visible colors red, green, and blue in this striking image. The cosmic cloud of gas and dust is W33, a massive starforming complex some 13,000 light-years distant, near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. So what are all those yellow balls? Citizen scientists of the web-based Milky Way Project found the features they called yellow balls as they scanned many Spitzer images and persistently asked that question of researchers. Now there is an answer. The yellow balls in Spitzer images are identified as an early stage of massive star formation. They appear yellow because they are overlapping regions of red and green, the assigned colors that correspond to dust and organic molecules known as PAHs at Spitzer wavelengths. Yellow balls represent the stage before newborn massive stars clear out cavities in their surrounding gas and dust and appear as green-rimmed bubbles with red centers in the Spitzer image. Of course, the astronomical crowdsourcing success story is only part of the Zooniverse. The Spitzer image spans 0.5 degrees or about 100 light-years at the estimated distance of W33. via NASA 1.usa.gov/1tNIxgi
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Google is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence,[9] and consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world"[10] and one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence.[11][12][13] Its parent company Alphabet is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's Internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. On December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet.[14]
The company has since rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services beyond Google Search, many of which hold dominant market positions. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation (Waze & Maps), cloud computing (Cloud), web browsing (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android), cloud storage (Drive), language translation (Translate), photo storage (Photos), video calling (Meet), smart home (Nest), smartphones (Pixel), wearable technology (Pixel Watch & Fitbit), music streaming (YouTube Music), video on demand (YouTube TV), artificial intelligence (Google Assistant), machine learning APIs (TensorFlow), AI chips (TPU), and more. Discontinued Google products include gaming (Stadia), Glass,[citation needed] Google+, Reader, Play Music, Nexus, Hangouts, and Inbox by Gmail.[15][16]
Google's other ventures outside of Internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Sycamore), self-driving cars (Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project), smart cities (Sidewalk Labs), and transformer models (Google Brain).[17]
Google and YouTube are the two most visited websites worldwide followed by Facebook and Twitter. Google is also the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, video sharing platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, ML framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share. On the list of most valuable brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes[18] and fourth by Interbrand.[19] It has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust and abuse of its monopoly position.
In March 1999, the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, California,[52] which is home to several prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups.[53] The next year, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords against Page and Brin's initial opposition toward an advertising-funded search engine.[54][22] To maintain an uncluttered page design, advertisements were solely text-based.[55] In June 2000, it was announced that Google would become the default search engine provider for Yahoo!, one of the most popular websites at the time, replacing Inktomi.
In 2003, after outgrowing two other locations, the company leased an office complex from Silicon Graphics, at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California.[59] The complex became known as the Googleplex, a play on the word googolplex, the number one followed by a googol zeroes. Three years later, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.[60] By that time, the name "Google" had found its way into everyday language, causing the verb "google" to be added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, denoted as: "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet".[61][62] The first use of the verb on television appeared in an October 2002 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[63]
Additionally, in 2001 Google's investors felt the need to have a strong internal management, and they agreed to hire Eric Schmidt as the chairman and CEO of Google.[49] Eric was proposed by John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins. He had been trying to find a CEO that Sergey and Larry would accept for several months, but they rejected several candidates because they wanted to retain control over the company. Michael Moritz from Sequoia Capital at one point even menaced requesting Google to immediately pay back Sequoia's $12.5m investment if they did not fulfill their promise to hire a chief executive office, which had been made verbally during investment negotiations. Eric wasn't initially enthusiastic about joining Google either, as the company's full potential hadn't yet been widely recognized at the time, and as he was occupied with his responsibilities at Novell where he was CEO. As part of him joining, Eric agreed to buy $1 million of Google preferred stocks as a way to show his commitment and to provide funds Google needed.
Google generates most of its revenues from advertising. This includes sales of apps, purchases made in-app, digital content products on Google and YouTube, Android and licensing and service fees, including fees received for Google Cloud offerings. Forty-six percent of this profit was from clicks (cost per clicks), amounting to US$109,652 million in 2017. This includes three principal methods, namely AdMob, AdSense (such as AdSense for Content, AdSense for Search, etc.) and DoubleClick AdExchange.
In addition to its own algorithms for understanding search requests, Google uses technology its acquisition of DoubleClick, to project user interest and target advertising to the search context and the user history.
In 2007, Google launched "AdSense for Mobile", taking advantage of the emerging mobile advertising market.
Google Analytics allows website owners to track where and how people use their website, for example by examining click rates for all the links on a page. Google advertisements can be placed on third-party websites in a two-part program. Google Ads allows advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google content network, through a cost-per-click scheme.[138] The sister service, Google AdSense, allows website owners to display these advertisements on their website and earn money every time ads are clicked.[139] One of the criticisms of this program is the possibility of click fraud, which occurs when a person or automated script clicks on advertisements without being interested in the product, causing the advertiser to pay money to Google unduly. Industry reports in 2006 claimed that approximately 14 to 20 percent of clicks were fraudulent or invalid.[140] Google Search Console (rebranded from Google Webmaster Tools in May 2015) allows webmasters to check the sitemap, crawl rate, and for security issues of their websites, as well as optimize their website's visibility.
Consumer services
Web-based services
Google offers Gmail for email, Google Calendar for time-management and scheduling, Google Maps for mapping, navigation and satellite imagery, Google Drive for cloud storage of files, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides for productivity, Google Photos for photo storage and sharing, Google Keep for note-taking, Google Translate for language translation, YouTube for video viewing and sharing, Google My Business for managing public business information, and Duo for social interaction. In March 2019, Google unveiled a cloud gaming service named Stadia. A job search product has also existed since before 2017, Google for Jobs is an enhanced search feature that aggregates listings from job boards and career sites.
Some Google services are not web-based. Google Earth, launched in 2005, allowed users to see high-definition satellite pictures from all over the world for free through a client software downloaded to their computers.
Software
Google develops the Android mobile operating system, as well as its smartwatch, television, car, and Internet of things-enabled smart devices variations.
It also develops the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, an operating system based on Chrome.
Hardware
In January 2010, Google released Nexus One, the first Android phone under its own brand. It spawned a number of phones and tablets under the "Nexus" branding until its eventual discontinuation in 2016, replaced by a new brand called Pixel.
In 2011, the Chromebook was introduced, which runs on Chrome OS.
In July 2013, Google introduced the Chromecast dongle, which allows users to stream content from their smartphones to televisions.
In June 2014, Google announced Google Cardboard, a simple cardboard viewer that lets user place their smartphone in a special front compartment to view virtual reality (VR) media.
Other hardware products include:
•Nest, a series of voice assistant smart speakers that can answer voice queries, play music, find information from apps (calendar, weather etc.), and control third-party smart home appliances (users can tell it to turn on the lights, for example). The Google Nest line includes the original Google Home (later succeeded by the Nest Audio), the Google Home Mini (later succeeded by the Nest Mini, the Google Home Max, the Google Home Hub (later rebranded as the Nest Hub), and the Nest Hub Max.
•Nest Wifi (originally Google Wifi), a connected set of Wi-Fi routers to simplify and extend coverage of home Wi-Fi.
Enterprise services
Google Workspace (formerly G Suite until October 2020) is a monthly subscription offering for organizations and businesses to get access to a collection of Google's services, including Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, with additional administrative tools, unique domain names, and 24/7 support.
On September 24, 2012, Google launched Google for Entrepreneurs, a largely not-for-profit business incubator providing startups with co-working spaces known as Campuses, with assistance to startup founders that may include workshops, conferences, and mentorships. Presently, there are seven Campus locations: Berlin, London, Madrid, Seoul, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, and Warsaw.
On March 15, 2016, Google announced the introduction of Google Analytics 360 Suite, "a set of integrated data and marketing analytics products, designed specifically for the needs of enterprise-class marketers" which can be integrated with BigQuery on the Google Cloud Platform. Among other things, the suite is designed to help "enterprise class marketers" "see the complete customer journey", generate "useful insights", and "deliver engaging experiences to the right people". Jack Marshall of The Wall Street Journal wrote that the suite competes with existing marketing cloud offerings by companies including Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, and IBM.
Internet services
In February 2010, Google announced the Google Fiber project, with experimental plans to build an ultra-high-speed broadband network for 50,000 to 500,000 customers in one or more American cities.[178][179] Following Google's corporate restructure to make Alphabet Inc. its parent company, Google Fiber was moved to Alphabet's Access division.[180][181]
In April 2015, Google announced Project Fi, a mobile virtual network operator, that combines Wi-Fi and cellular networks from different telecommunication providers in an effort to enable seamless connectivity and fast Internet signal.
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of July 2022, Facebook claimed 2.93 billion monthly active users,[6] and ranked third worldwide among the most visited websites as of July 2022.[7] It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.[8]
Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which are shared with any other users who have agreed to be their "friend" or, with different privacy settings, publicly. Users can also communicate directly with each other with Facebook Messenger, join common-interest groups, and receive notifications on the activities of their Facebook friends and the pages they follow.
The subject of numerous controversies, Facebook has often been criticized over issues such as user privacy (as with the Cambridge Analytica data scandal), political manipulation (as with the 2016 U.S. elections) and mass surveillance.[9] Posts originating from the Facebook page of Breitbart News, a media organization previously affiliated with Cambridge Analytica,[10] are currently among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.[11][12][13][14][15] Facebook has also been subject to criticism over psychological effects such as addiction and low self-esteem, and various controversies over content such as fake news, conspiracy theories, copyright infringement, and hate speech.
Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable to Hot or Not and used "photos compiled from the online face books of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the "hotter" person". Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours. The site was sent to several campus group listservs, but was shut down a few days later by Harvard administration. Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged with breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy. Ultimately, the charges were dropped. Zuckerberg expanded on this project that semester by creating a social study tool. He uploaded art images, each accompanied by a comments section, to a website he shared with his classmates.
A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and personal information. In 2003, Harvard had only a paper version[ along with private online directories. Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson, "Everyone's been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. ... I think it's kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week."[29] In January 2004, Zuckerberg coded a new website, known as "TheFacebook", inspired by a Crimson editorial about Facemash, stating, "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website is readily available ... the benefits are many." Zuckerberg met with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin, and each of them agreed to invest $1,000 ($1,435 in 2021 dollars[30]) in the site.[31] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
Six days after the site launched, Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com. They claimed that he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to the Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation. They later sued Zuckerberg, settling in 2008 for 1.2 million shares (worth $300 million ($354 million in 2021 dollars[30]) at Facebook's IPO).
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College. Within a month, more than half the undergraduates had registered.[36] Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes joined Zuckerberg to help manage the growth of the website.[37] In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Columbia, Stanford and Yale.[38] It then became available to all Ivy League colleges, Boston University, NYU, MIT, and successively most universities in the United States and Canada.
In mid-2004, Napster co-founder and entrepreneur Sean Parker—an informal advisor to Zuckerberg—became company president.[41] In June 2004, the company moved to Palo Alto, California.[42] It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. In 2005, the company dropped "the" from its name after purchasing the domain name Facebook.com for US$200,000 ($277,492 in 2021 dollars). The domain had belonged to AboutFace Corporation.
In May 2005, Accel Partners invested $12.7 million ($17.6 million in 2021 dollars) in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added $1 million ($1.39 million in 2021 dollars) of his own money. A high-school version of the site launched in September 2005. Eligibility expanded to include employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.
Facebook was sued by the Federal Trade Commission as well as a coalition of several states for illegal monopolization and antitrust. The FTC and states sought the courts to force Facebook to sell its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram.[183][184] The suits were dismissed by a federal judge on June 28, 2021, who stated that there was not enough evidence brought in the suit to determine Facebook to be a monopoly at this point, though allowed the FTC to amend its case to include additional evidence. In its amended filings in August 2021, the FTC asserted that Facebook had been a monopoly in the area of personal social networks since 2011, distinguishing Facebook's activities from social media services like TikTok that broadcast content without necessarily limiting that message to intended recipients.
In response to the proposed bill in the Australian Parliament for a News Media Bargaining Code, on February 17, 2021, Facebook blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on its platform, as well as pages of some government, community, union, charity, political, and emergency services.[187] The Australian government strongly criticised the move, saying it demonstrated the "immense market power of these digital social giants".
On February 22, Facebook said it reached an agreement with the Australian government that would see news returning to Australian users in the coming days. As part of this agreement, Facebook and Google can avoid the News Media Bargaining Code adopted on February 25 if they "reach a commercial bargain with a news business outside the Code".
Facebook has been accused of removing and shadow banning content that spoke either in favor of protesting Indian farmers or against Narendra Modi's government. India-based employees of Facebook are at risk of arrest.
On February 27, 2021, Facebook announced Facebook BARS app for rappers.
On June 29, 2021, Facebook announced Bulletin, a platform for independent writers.[197][198] Unlike competitors such as Substack, Facebook would not take a cut of subscription fees of writers using that platform upon its launch, like Malcolm Gladwell and Mitch Albom. According to The Washington Post technology writer Will Oremus, the move was criticized by those who viewed it as an tactic intended by Facebook to force those competitors out of business.
In October 2021, owner Facebook, Inc. changed its company name to Meta Platforms, Inc., or simply "Meta", as it shifts its focus to building the "metaverse". This change does not affect the name of the Facebook social networking service itself, instead being similar to the creation of Alphabet as Google's parent company in 2015.
In November 2021, Facebook stated it would stop targeting ads based on data related to health, race, ethnicity, political beliefs, religion and sexual orientation. The change will occur in January and will affect all apps owned by Meta Platforms.
In February 2022, Facebook's daily active users dropped for the first time in its 18-year history. According to Facebook's parent Meta, DAUs dropped to 1.929 billion in the three months ending in December, down from 1.930 billion the previous quarter. Furthermore, the company warned that revenue growth would slow due to competition from TikTok and YouTube, as well as advertisers cutting back on spending.
Analysts predict a "death spiral" for facebook stock as users leave while ad impressions increase, as the company chases revenue.
On March 10, 2022, Facebook announced that it will temporarily ease rules to allow violent speech against 'Russian invaders'. Russia then banned all Meta services, including Instagram.
At a crossroads – Needing to make an important decision
When you are at a crossroads, you are at a point in your life where you need to make a decision. The implication is that the decision you make will have big, life-altering consequences.
Bad apple – Bad person
You can use this idiom to describe someone who is not nice and maybe even criminal.
Barking up the wrong tree – Pursuing the wrong course
When you “bark up the wrong tree” you are pursuing the wrong solution to your problems.
Be closefisted – Stingy
If you are being “closefisted”, you don’t want to spend a lot of money.
Be cold-hearted – Uncaring
If you decide to be “cold-hearted”, you are making a deliberate decision not to care about someone or something.
Be on solid ground – Confident
When you are “on solid ground”, you are confident in your position or feel that you are safe.
Beat around the bush – Avoid saying
When you do this, you are taking a long time to say what you really need to say. You may be doing this because the “truth” is embarrassing or your unsure about how the listener will take it.
Behind you – Supportive
When you are “behind” someone, you are saying that they have your support.
Between a rock and a hard place – Facing difficulties
When you have to choose between two options, neither of which are ideal or “good”.
Blow off steam – Try to relax
When you are stressed or upset about something, sometimes you need to do something to keep you from thinking about it.
Born with a silver spoon in their mouth – Born wealthy
This idiomatic expression is used to describe someone who was born into a wealthy family.
Break the bank – Spend a lot
When you “break the bank”, you spend a lot of money on something. If something will “break the bank”, then it’s expensive.
Bright spark – Smart
A “bright spark” is someone who is smart and valuable to an organization.
epiFlection.epiclectic.com - The Album
Twisted graphic enhancements of mostly found life form images captured from the web-based world, courtesy of the epiPhone camera, Photoshop and the warped mind of the epiclectic.
Disclaimer - If anyone objects to me reprocessing one of their images, please drop me a flickr mail and I will be more than happy to provide a link to your original image - or remove it from my public photo stream.
Call for Images - If you have a photograph you would like to submit for an official epiFlection treatment, send me a flickr mail with a link to your photo. Once posted, you will get credit, a link to your photo, and a great photo for downloading, printing, framing and giving as a wonderful gift to loved ones in your close circle of friends.
Have you noticed how over used the term 'Barn Find' has become of late, especially on a certain web based auction site?
These words were overheard being said by a couple looking at our Crossley bodied 1952 AEC Regent 111 at our recent Open Day.
Although little progress has been made on A801's restoration since being saved by members of the Mersey and Calder Bus Preservation over 40 years ago, it has been safely stored undercover. Now part of the Merseyside Transport Trust collection since our formation in 1999.
Although not part of our current restoration plans, it patiently waiting for its turn and before anyone asks, it is definitely not going to be appearing for sale on any website or anywhere else!
Please contact us if you would to help...
Oliver Laric ( ° 1981, Inssbruck ) is an Austrian sculptor and video artist. His web-based artistic practice or net art is characterised by the manipulation and reinterpretation of existing cultural images. In doing so, intellectual property and originality are often questioned. In his more conventional work, he approaches form as a process of continuous change and variable content, in order to adapt to changing circumstances.
More about this work: www.beaufort21.be/en/artists/oliver-laric
This work can be admired during Beaufort 2021 at the Belgian coast in Westende: www.beaufort21.be/en
Oliver Laric ( ° 1981, Inssbruck ) is een Oostenrijks beeldhouwer en video kunstenaar. Zijn webgebaseerde artistieke praktijk of net art wordt gekenmerkt door de manipulatie en herinterpretatie van bestaande culturele beelden. Daarbij worden intellectueel eigendom en originaliteit dikwijls in vraag gesteld. Hij benadert vorm als een proces van continue verandering en variabele inhoud, om zich aan wijzigende omstandigheden aan te passen.
Meer over dit werk: www.beaufort21.be/kunstenaars/oliver-laric
Dit werk kan worden bewonderd tijdens Beaufort 2021 aan de Belgische kust in Westende: www.beaufort21.be/
Oliver Laric (° 1981, Inssbruck) est un sculpteur et vidéo-artiste autrichien. Sa pratique artistique basée sur le web ou net art se caractérise par la manipulation et la réinterprétation d'images culturelles existantes. Ce faisant, la propriété intellectuelle et l'originalité sont souvent remises en question. Dans son travail plus conventionnel, il approche la forme comme un processus de changement permanent et de contenu variable, afin de s'adapter aux circonstances changeantes.
Plus sur cette oeuvre: www.beaufort21.be/fr/artistes/oliver-laric
Cette œuvre peut être admirée pendant Beaufort 2021 à la côte belge à Westende: www.beaufort21.be/fr
In 1996 "Yahoo! Internet Life" came in the mail to help us get to know what the internet was about. This 1/1/97 issue listed the top 10 search engines of 1996:. 1. Netscape 2. Yahoo 3. America On Line 4. Webcrawler 5. Excite 6. Microsoft 7. Infoseek 8. Lycos 9. CompuServe 10. McKinley/Magellan. "Readers Digest" was concerned about indecency on the web and launched its own family oriented search engine, www.LookSmart.com. Disney bought Prodigy from Sears. Search engines came on a CD to be installed.. The most downloaded person in 1996 was Cindi Margolis. I know, "Cindi Who?" Visa and MasterCard joined forces to develop secure online buying. America's first web based 24 hour commercial Top 40 radio station was developed. P&G was first WWW advertiser to tie ad payments not to "eyeballs" but to the number of "click-throughs" on an ad banner. The first FBI Most Wanted criminal was caught because of the internet. 46% of American homes had internet service. Before www. mine was dial-up via phone lines. Ooooops, it was a long distance call. The small town in Tx didn't have a local provider. $110 phone bill. Very few pictures, mostly It was UsenetNewsgroups (alt.) in B&W. But worth every penny. I had moved into a new house and ordered an extra phone line dedicated to internet service. With my 28.8Kbps modem, I was very high tech back then. e-mail came as an add-on, I got a bootleg floppy disc with Eudora, but "NetMailer" was coming on strong.
The magazine ceased publication in July of 2002.
Before the world wide web and real search engines came online there was Gopher, Archie and Veronica. Ahhh, the bad old days.
This picture is #31 in the 100 Strangers Project - Round 2
Meet Richard
It would be pretty difficult to not notice Richard - even on a busy Bethesda street corner. The first time I saw this dapper looking gentleman I knew he had to be photographed but he was on the phone - but the second time I saw him crossing the street I had my opportunity. Suited and dressed elegantly the man looked sharp and well groomed with a personality to match. He obviously took care and a lot of pride in how he presented himself. Richard generously accepted my request once I explained the project. We walked with me a few steps to my favorite location and the young man sportingly posed for the camera pretty much ready to do as instructed "you are the photographer".
Turns out that Richard was at lunch, and works with Personal Injury Protection at a attorney's office in the vicinity. His hobbies include sports and spending time with family. A family man, with a 6 year old daughter, his favorite memory from recent times was surprising his little one by taking her to Disney.
As impressive as Richard's personality was, it was his thinking and attitude that really left me feeling that I had encountered a amazing person. Richard, besides his day job, runs his own non-profit organization "Uniting Eagles" with a noble mission "to conduct bilingual low-cost online and web-based training for junior high and high school students and unemployed adults on the internet safety and cyber-bullying, how to succeed in school and what professions to choose when going to college. To conduct training on IT Certifications, translations, applying to Immigration, applying for driver’s license, applying to college, applying for student loans, preparing resumes, applying for internships and applying for jobs in Government agencies and private companies all over the United States and the world."
sites.google.com/site/unitingeaglesaroundtheworld/home
Growing up without the presence of his father, Richard wants to ensure that he can try and provide a support/mentoring role for other needy kids and groom them with the skills helping them succeed. I really cant say enough to express my admiration for this individual (in only his 20s) other than its such a pleasure to have met a selfless individual with such lofty aspirations.
It was a privilege to have met you Richard. My best wishes for your future and a lot of success in your drive to help those who need you by steering them in the right direction.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
For my other pictures on this project: 100 Strangers - Round 2.
For pictures from my prior attempt at 100 Strangers: 100 Strangers - Round 1.
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too.
Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away.
Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked, derelict and abandoned vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots,and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well.
The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another.
Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other goods.
In recent years it is becoming increasingly common to use satellite part finder services to contact multiple salvage yards from a single source.
In the 20th century these were call centres that charged a premium rate for calls and compiled a facsimile that was sent to various salvage yards so they could respond directly if the part was in stock. Many of these are now Web-based with requests for parts being e-mailed instantly.