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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 437564, 8 pages
Influence of Peak Wavelengths on Properties of Mixed-LED White-Light Sources
EET School, Manukau Institute of Technology, Private Bag 94-006, Manukau 2241, New Zealand
Received 3 October 2010; Accepted 6 December 2010
Academic Editor: Xian Cao
Copyright © 2010 Snjezana Soltic and Andrew N. Chalmers. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The purpose of this investigation is to quantify the influence of the peak wavelength shifts in commercially available LEDs on the characteristics of the mixed-LED white-light sources. For this purpose, a tetrachromatic spectrum was optimized and then subjected to deviations in the peak wavelengths. A total of 882 combinations of peak wavelength values were evaluated, and the results are reported in terms of correlated colour temperature, colour-rendering properties, and radiant luminous efficacy. The results show that there can be significant changes in the characteristics of the source under these conditions. Such changes are highly likely to present problems when dealing with applications where an effective and accurate white-light source is important.


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Reader: Drug addicts are more likely to cause harm to themselves than to others
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You are clearly missing the point of the argument and being extremely ignorant. The point was that drug addicts are hurting no one other than themselves, so there is no good reason to "lock them up and throw away the key." Of course there are cases of addicts causing harm to others while they were high, but there are just as many, if not more cases of people doing the same thing while they were drunk and there are just as many cases of people doing all of that stuff while they were sober. Just because someone has a problem does not mean they deserve to be treated like a horrible criminal. They just made some poor decisions, as most people have, and they need help. Be more accepting of others and don't make ignorant judgement calls for things you have no knowledge of or willingness to understand.
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Jazzby Toni Morrison, Lynne Thigpen (Narrated by)
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In the afterglow of a clean triumphher widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, BelovedToni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one...At last, at last, everything's ahead...Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff." But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise.
Joe Tracein his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husbandshoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas ("Everything was like a picture show to her"). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresserwho is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birdstries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.
In a dazzling act of jazz-like improvisation, moving seamlessly in and out of past, present, and future, a mysterious voicewhose identity is a matter of each reader's imaginationweaves this brilliant fiction, at the same time showing how its blues are informed by the brutal exigencies of slavery. Richly combining history, legend, reminiscence,this voice captures as never before the ineffable mood, the complex humanity, of black urban life at a moment in our century we assumed we understood.
Jazz is an unprecedented and astonishing invention, a landmark on the American literary landscapea novel unforgettable and for all time.
Editorial Reviews
"She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." —Newsweek
"[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." —Entertainment Weekly
"Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." —Chicago Sun-Times
"A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." —The Boston Globe
"Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." —Vogue
"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." —Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review
"She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation—that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." —San Francisco Chronicle
"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved. . . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." —Glamour
"She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." —John Leonard, National Public Radio
"A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." —Cosmopolitan
"Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." —The New York Times
"Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." —People
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Sth, I know that woman. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. When the woman, her name is Violet, went to the funeral to see the girl and to cut her dead face they threw her to the floor and out of the church. She ran, then, through all that snow, and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, "I love you."
The snow she ran through was so windswept she left no footprints in it, so for a time nobody knew exactly where on Lenox Avenue she lived. But, like me, they knew who she was, who she had to be, because they knew that her husband, Joe Trace, was the one who shot the girl. There was never anyone to prosecute him because nobody actually saw him do it, and the dead girl's aunt didn't want to throw money to helpless lawyers or laughing cops when she knew the expense wouldn't improve anything. Besides, she found out that the man who killed her niece cried all day and for him and for Violet that is as bad as jail.
Regardless of the grief Violet caused, her name was brought up at the January meeting of the Salem Women's Club as someone needing assistance, but it was voted down because only prayernot moneycould help her now, because she had a more or less able husband (who needed to stop feeling sorry for himself), and because a man and his family on 134th Street had lost everything in a fire. The Club mobilized itself to come to the burnt-out family's aid and left Violet to figure out on her own what the matter was and how to fix it.
She is awfully skinny, Violet; fifty, but still good looking when she broke up the funeral. You'd think that being thrown out the church would be the end of itthe shame and allbut it wasn't. Violet is mean enough and good looking enough to think that even without hips or youth she could punish Joe by getting herself a boyfriend and letting him visit in her own house. She thought it would dry his tears up and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.
Anyway, Joe didn't pay Violet or her friend any notice. Whether she sent the boyfriend away or whether he quit her, I can't say. He may have come to feel that Violet's gifts were poor measured against his sympathy for the brokenhearted man in the next room. But I do know that mess didn't last two weeks. Violet's next planto fall back in love with her husbandwhipped her before it got on a good footing. Washing his handkerchiefs and putting food on the table before him was the most she could manage. A poisoned silence floated through the rooms like a big fishnet that Violet alone slashed through with loud recriminations. Joe's daytime listlessness and both their worrying nights must have wore her down. So she decided to lovewell, find out aboutthe eighteen-year-old whose creamy little face she tried to cut open even though nothing would have come out but straw.
Violet didn't know anything about the girl at first except her name, her age, and that she was very well thought of in the legally licensed beauty parlor. So she commenced to gather the rest of the information. Maybe she thought she could solve the mystery of love that way. Good luck and let me know.
She questioned everybody, starting with Malvonne, an upstairs neighborthe one who told her about Joe's dirt in the first place and whose apartment he and the girl used as a love nest. From Malvonne she learned the girl's address and whose child she was. From the legally licensed beauticians she found out what kind of lip rouge the girl wore; the marcelling iron they used on her (though I suspect that girl didn't need to straighten her hair); the band the girl liked best (Slim Bates' Ebony Keys which is pretty good except for his vocalist who must be his woman since why else would he let her insult his band). And when she was shown how, Violet did the dance steps the dead girl used to do. All that. When she had the steps down pather knees just soeverybody, including the exboyfriend, got disgusted with her and I can see why. It was like watching an old street pigeon pecking the crust of a sardine sandwich the cats left behind. But Violet was nothing but persistent and no wisecrack or ugly look stopped her. She haunted PS-89 to talk to teachers who knew the girl. JHS-139 too because the girl went there before trudging way over to Wadleigh, since there were no high schools in her district a colored girl could attend. And for a long time she pestered the girl's aunt, a dignified lady who did fine work off and on in the garment district, until the aunt broke down and began to look forward to Violet's visits for a chat about youth and misbehavior. The aunt showed all the dead girl's things to Violet and it became clear to her (as it was to me) that this niece had been hardheaded as well as sly.
One particular thing the aunt showed her, and eventually let Violet keep for a few weeks, was a picture of the girl's face. Not smiling, but alive at least and very bold. Violet had the nerve to put it on the fireplace mantel in her own parlor and both she and Joe looked at it in bewilderment.
It promised to be a mighty bleak household, what with the birds gone and the two of them wiping their cheeks all day, but when spring came to the City Violet saw, coming into the building with an Okeh record under her arm and carrying some stewmeat wrapped in butcher paper, another girl with four marcelled waves on each side of her head. Violet invited her in to examine the record and that's how that scandalizing threesome on Lenox Avenue began. What turned out different was who shot whom.
I'm crazy about this City.
Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and it's not easy to tell which are people, which the work of stonemasons. Below is shadow where any blasé thing takes place: clarinets and lovemaking, fists and the voices of sorrowful women. A city like this one makes me dream tall and feel in on things. Hep. It's the bright steel rocking above the shade below that does it. When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I'm strong. Alone, yes, but top-notch and indestructiblelike the City in 1926 when all the wars are over and there will never be another one. The people down there in the shadow are happy about that. At last, at last, everything's ahead. The smart ones say so and people listening to them and reading what they write down agree: Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff. The way everybody was then and there. Forget that. History is over, you all, and everything's ahead at last. In halls and offices people are sitting around thinking future thoughts about projects and bridges and fast-clicking trains underneath. The A&P hires a colored clerk. Big-legged women with pink kitty tongues roll money into green tubes for later on; then they laugh and put their arms around each other. Regular people corner thieves in alleys for quick retribution and, if he is stupid and has robbed wrong, thieves corner him too. Hoodlums hand out goodies, do their best to stay interesting, and since they are being watched for excitement, they pay attention to their clothes and the carving out of insults. Nobody wants to be an emergency at Harlem Hospital but if the Negro surgeon is visiting, pride cuts down the pain. And although the hair of the first class of colored nurses was declared unseemly for the official Bellevue nurse's cap, there are thirty-five of them nowall dedicated and superb in their profession.
Nobody says it's pretty here; nobody says it's easy either. What it is is decisive, and if you pay attention to the street plans, all laid out, the City can't hurt you.
I haven't got any muscles, so I can't really be expected to defend myself. But I do know how to take precaution. Mostly it's making sure no one knows all there is to know about me. Second, I watch everything and everyone and try to figure out their plans, their reasonings, long before they do. You have to understand what it's like, taking on a big city: I'm exposed to all sorts of ignorance and criminality. Still, this is the only life for me. I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it. I see them all over the place: wealthy whites, and plain ones too, pile into mansions decorated and redecorated by black women richer than they are, and both are pleased with the spectacle of the other. I've seen the eyes of black Jews, brimful of pity for everyone not themselves, graze the food stalls and the ankles of loose women, while a breeze stirs the white plumes on the helmets of the UNIA men. A colored man floats down out of the sky blowing a saxophone, and below him, in the space between two buildings, a girl talks earnestly to a man in a straw hat. He touches her lip to remove a bit of something there. Suddenly she is quiet. He tilts her chin up. They stand there. Her grip on her purse slackens and her neck makes a nice curve. The man puts his hand on the stone wall above her head. By the way his jaw moves and the turn of his head I know he has a golden tongue. The sun sneaks into the alley behind them. It makes a pretty picture on its way down.
Do what you please in the City, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do. And what goes on on its blocks and lots and side streets is anything the strong can think of and the weak will admire. All you have to do is heed the designthe way it's laid out for you, considerate, mindful of where you want to go and what you might need tomorrow.
I lived a long time, maybe too much, in my own mind. People say I should come out more. Mix. I agree that I close off in places, but if you have been left standing, as I have, while your partner overstays at another appointment, or promises to give you exclusive attention after supper, but is falling asleep just as you have begun to speakwell, it can make you inhospitable if you aren't careful, the last thing I want to be.
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safenot even the dead. Proof of this being Violet's outright attack on the very subject of a funeral ceremony. Barely three days into 1926. A host of thoughtful people looked at the signs (the weather, the number, their own dreams) and believed it was the commencement of all sorts of destruction. That the scandal was a message sent to warn the good and rip up the faithless. I don't know who was more ambitiousthe doomsayers or Violetbut it's hard to match the superstitious for great expectations.
Armistice was seven years old the winter Violet disrupted the funeral, and veterans on Seventh Avenue were still wearing their army-issue greatcoats, because nothing they can pay for is as sturdy or hides so well what they had boasted of in 1919. Eight years later, the day before Violet's misbehavior, when the snow comes it sits where it falls on Lexington and Park Avenue too, and waits for horse-drawn wagons to tamp it down when they deliver coal for the furnaces cooling down in the cellars. Up in those big five-story apartment buildings and the narrow wooden houses in between people knock on each other's doors to see if anything is needed or can be had. A piece of soap? A little kerosene? Some fat, chicken or pork, to brace the soup one more time? Whose husband is getting ready to go see if he can find a shop open? Is there time to add turpentine to the list drawn up and handed to him by the wives?
Breathing hurts in weather that cold, but whatever the problems of being winterbound in the City they put up with them because it is worth anything to be on Lenox Avenue safe from fays and the things they think up; where the sidewalks, snow-covered or not, are wider than the main roads of the towns where they were born and perfectly ordinary people can stand at the stop, get on the streetcar, give the man the nickel, and ride anywhere you please, although you don't please to go many places because everything you want is right where you are: the church, the store, the party, the women, the men, the postbox (but no high schools), the furniture store, street newspaper vendors, the bootleg houses (but no banks), the beauty parlors, the barbershops, the juke joints, the ice wagons, the rag collectors, the pool halls, the open food markets, the number runner, and every club, organization, group, order, union, society, brotherhood, sisterhood or association imaginable. The service trails, of course, are worn, and there are paths slick from the forays of members of one group into the territory of another where it is believed something curious or thrilling lies. Some gleaming, cracking, scary stuff. Where you can pop the cork and put the cold glass mouth right up to your own. Where you can find danger or be it; where you can fight till you drop and smile at the knife when it misses and when it doesn't. It makes you wonderful just to see it. And just as wonderful to know that back in one's own building there are lists drawn up by the wives for the husband hunting an open market, and that sheets impossible to hang out in snowfall drape kitchens like the curtains of Abyssinian Sunday-school plays.
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"She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." —Newsweek
"[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." —Entertainment Weekly
"Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." —Chicago Sun-Times
"A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." —The Boston Globe
"Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." —Vogue
"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." —Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review
"She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation—that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." —San Francisco Chronicle
"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved. . . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." —Glamour
"She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." —John Leonard, National Public Radio
"A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." —Cosmopolitan
"Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." —The New York Times
"Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." —People
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Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.
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- Hometown:
- Princeton, New Jersey, and Manhattan
- Date of Birth:
- February 18, 1931
- Place of Birth:
- Lorain, Ohio
- Education:
- Howard University, B.A. in English, 1953; Cornell, M.A., 1955
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Jazz is classic Morrison - Morrison at her finest!!! The circulinear plot structure reinforces the underlying notion that we are all connected or tied together on some level - either past, present, or future. The themes of love, obsession, and what happens when love shifts to hate are especially strong in this novel and begs us to question how thin is the line between love and hate? The improvisation of the mini vignettes and 'memories' that decorate the novel perfectly compliment the notion of 'jazz' or the jazz music structure. The lines are elaborately crafted and the narrative style is truly poetic. Subtle changes like Violet Trace's name transformation to 'Violent' at the end of the novel highlight the transformation that we all endure for love. Toni Morrison is at her best here and although her style is not for everyone - this is Nobel Prize writing for Nobel Prize readers!
Great story. Best parts when she follows the history of Joe Trace's family and weaves the tale to match that of Violet's with True Belle, Golden Gray, Lestory, Hunter and Wild. It shows Toni is a master at weaving history and generations together even as they struggle to keep from falling apart.
I suppose Jazz was an intriguing book. It wasn't as fascinating as I had hoped it to be. When I was reading it and a friend was very impressed by this book, I thought that maybe I would be too. However, that wasn't the case. If you are doing an English Paper about Symbolism and abstract characters, Jazz is the right book for you. But, if you're just trying to find a book to read at home, on a rainy day or going home from school/work, this book totally isnt for you. I respect Toni Morrison as an Author and fellow writer, and I have to admit this book is better than the other 3 books I attempted to read from her, but I would not read it again for fun. The Characters in this novel are fantastic on the other hand. I loved Violet. Her attitude and how she portrays herself was fascinating. I suppose she's the typical [sterotype] New York City Woman being jealous of her husband who has cheated on her. There are also lots of other characters that without them the book wouldn't be complete. How Toni Morrison wove her characters into her story was fascinating and she's an intelligent writer who should be recognized about her feminist and racial ideas. If you are interested in a book where the narrator speaks in riddles and metaphors most of the time, Jazz is for you. I recommend this book to people who are doing an Author Study or a paper about symbolism. Or, one should try to read it, to give it a try. It's not that atrocious. Try it.
Written beautifully. Poetic and lyrical. Toni is a fantastic writer and i'm offcially and fan of hers.
Wow! This is the first Morrison novel I have read, but it will NOT be the last! I got this book for Christmas and just got around to reading it. I cannot believe it took me this long to get to it, and it was the BEST novel I have ever read. I would suggest this novel to anyone!
Toni writes in great detail the love that Dorcas and Joe shared, but she skips through the book with every other paragraph. It is a great tradegy when Joe finds his love affair with another man and his wife gets a little crazy at the funeral but, I wouldn't read it again.
For many African-Americans, the period from 1860 through 1930 was a particularly challenging one. The formal slavery of the South transitioned into a vulnerable rural economic existence, dependent on the weather and the price of crops. The promise of the city lured many to leave their homes, and adopt city life-styles that put new social pressures on them and their relationships. Jazz tells this story through the microcosm of one marriage, that of Joe and Violet Trace. Unlike many books about marriage, this one is a love story. Although it bears no relationship to any romance novel you have ever read, it reveals the way that the need for love develops from within each of us and allows us to grasp its potential when we respond to the yearnings of those we care about. Music was important in the lives of many people during those years. Churches and music halls vied for the attention of most people in the cities. Jazz was a new influence, bursting on the scene with a combination of extreme freedom and mutual respect for the other players. In this book, jazz is represented both as a symbol of freedom and as a source of base impulses that can lead people astray. Ms. Morrison also pays homage to jazz by building her narrative around the individual stories of those involved taken in solitary order, much like the solos in a jazz piece. The narratives all weave together, but you have to hear the whole piece to understand how. Be patient with what seem like digressions. They are really transitions into new perspectives, like when a horn does a riff before returning to the theme. You also get the metaphor of jazz used in the relationship of the two Traces. They were originally in rhythm with each other, then fell out of rhythm, and then regained their ability to improvise together. It's very nicely done! To me, the best part of the book was that Ms. Morrison does not permit her characters to fall back on misfortune, fate, and heredity as excuses for misbehavior. Clearly, those factors affect us, but we all have the potential to rise above them. We need only open our eyes and start responding to those closest to us. Then, we can build a better life together. The family background of the two Traces is a rich tapestry as well of the social history of African-Americans during this period. Ms. Morrison's imagination is quite remarkable in the variety and vividness of these characters! For those who are interested in understanding more about the roots of the Jazz Age, this book will also be very appealing. After you have finished thinking about the lessons of Jazz, you should consider where you display the good characteristics of a jazz player . . . and where you do not. Feel the rhythm around you! Donald Mitchell, co-author of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise and The 2,000 Percent Solution
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I was over at Dave's (SaggioWRX's) place to pick up some radios for our upcoming caravan, and I mentioned that I wanted to move my rear sway bar down a notch since it was oversteering quite a bit. Dave says "You should get some Perrin Endlinks!" and I said "Hey good idea" so I contacted Garret and he hooked me up with them.
Dave and Jay (MojoHand on NASIOC) had done endlinks before, so they wanted to see how fast they could install them. With the two of them going, it took all but 10 minutes to install and move my sway bar down a notch. It was both funny and impressive...heh. Here's a (bad) pic of them installed:
My drive home was long, but mostly straight, so I didn't get to feel the difference very much. My initial impressions though are that my car rolls even less with them in, and my car feels MUCH more neutral with the sway bar moved to the medium setting. Before, even on freeway onramps, my turn-in would cause my rear end to start breaking loose, giving me a very uneasy feeling. Now, it feels a hell of a lot better and it just feels a lot more stable through the turn. I suppose I'll have some more things to say after our big caravan through the twisties of the Olympic Mountains next weekend


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Experts on Nazi-era looted art have gathered for a week of workshops aimed at improving their ability to track and restore objects to their rightful heirs.
The first ever Provenance Research Training Program, which concludes June 15, drew 34 international participants – from museum directors to law enforcement agents, from art restitution experts to representatives of major auctioneering firms – to discuss and debate the challenges of tracking down and returning stolen art, 67 years after the end of World War II.
The items can be anything from paintings to silverware to books, said Wesley Fisher, director of research at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. His organization co-sponsored the program together with the European Shoah Legacy Institute and the Magdeburg-based Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets.
"Provenance research has never really become an established field," Fisher lamented. "It is not taught in art history courses and in many countries it does not exist at all."
The new program – an outgrowth of the 1998 Washington Conference on Nazi looted art and the 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague – intends to address this deficit, he said.
In a seminar room at the Magdeburg Ministry for Health and Social Affairs, participants discussed the ethical, financial and legal challenges of their work and shared information about the databases they have built for the purpose of provenance research.
"There are still hundreds of thousands of objects that are missing," Michael Franz, director of the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets, said. But they are more than mere objects, he added: "They are like an historical mirror. These objects are always firmly connected with a human face."
The workshop program, coordinated and led by Marc Masurovsky, co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, was due to conclude Friday with the distribution of certificates to participants.
Fisher said plans are under way to hold similar workshops in Zagreb, New York and Jerusalem, each with a slightly different focus. "We want to do more than simply train people. We want this to become an international network," he said.
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The Dire Consequence of Mistreating Our Veterans
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We all have unlimited responsibility to look after for those who serve when those damages occur. They agree to take personal damage up to, and including, giving their lives in service to us all. Yet we have been evading this responsibility for decades. Perhaps a century. If you ask around, you will find that military and police services are still largely family businesses -- the children of members will likely enlist themselves. Our recruitment forecasts count on that. So what happens when we short-change the veterans?


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This year's long extended spring feels luxurious. So how to celebrate the longer days, the softer air, the birds returning to nest? Something intensely natural seems to be in order.
- Get thee to a park. Research has shown that being in a natural environment is a sure-fire stress-reducer. People who get outdoors are also stronger advocates for the environment. There are probably local parks you've been driving by day after day. Stop in for a walk, or a brisk sit on a bench. Celebrate with 10 minutes of concentrated quiet and see what you notice.
- The longest day. Get up at the crack of dawn and don't come inside until sundown on the solstice, June 21th. Interestingly, you'll have to look up the LONGEST day of the year in your location because it varies! Whatever day you pick, make it memorable, post it to your facebook page, involve your friends, make it a special day of transition from spring to summer.
- Plant something. If you don't have a garden of your own, volunteer at a community garden, or help a teacher introduce her kids to gardening. How about a pot on your deck, or herbs on the windowsill? Helping something grow is just so satisfying.
- Start Fresh. Just as birds re-build their nests each season, there is a natural urge to start anew each spring. Time to de-clutter? Time to re-connect with an old friend? Time to heal an old wound? Time to apply to a school?
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Set in the centre of Sarajevo 657 feet from Miljacka River and 1,641 feet from the vivid Bašćaršija district, Hostel Teatar offers rooms with a cable TV and a shared kitchen at guests' disposal. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the property. All rooms have a seating area, wardrobe and a shared bathroom with shower or a bath tub. A common living room with a TV and a computer is provided. A variety of dining options serving local dishes can be found within walking distance.The nearest grocery store is 657 feet away. The ski areas on the mountains of Igman, Bjelašnica and Jahorina can all be reached within 21.7 miles. Hostel Teatar helps to organise daily trips and excursions around the town. Local tram stops just 165 feet away. The Main Bus Station and Railway Station are located 1.6 miles from the Teatar Hostel. Sarajevo Airport is at a distance of 7.5 miles. Free public parking is available.


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We have two resistors connected parallel here. So across each of the two resistors we have voltage of 10V.
For R1 using V = IR;
`10 = Ixx5xx10^3`
`I = 10/(5000) = 0.002A = 2mA`
So the total current of the circuit is` (2+10) = 12mA = 0.012A`
Power of a circuit is given by P = VI
`P = 10xx0.012`
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PROPOSED BUS LINES OPPOSED BY I.R.T.; NO WORD AS TO HYLAN; Hedley Would Bar Routes Other Than "Feeders" for Subway and Elevated. PLAN FORMALLY FILED Mayor Out of Town and Attitude Toward Project Is Matter of Speculation. McANENY FAVORS THE PLAN Makers of Proposal Stress Its Recapture Clause and Provision for Revenue to the City. PROPOSED BUS LINES OPPOSED BY I.R.T.
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company came out flatly yesterday against the thirty-four new bus routes proposed by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company.
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hi everyone
my vehicle is wk2 2012 v6
when i should change trans. fluid ?
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I did my 2012 WK2 3.6 Pentastar at 50,000kms
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After 45 minutes of towing according to the owners manual. :rolleyes:
Automatic Transmission
The DRIVE range can be selected when towing. However,
if frequent shifting occurs while in this range, the
TOW/HAUL mode (if equipped), or a lower gear range,
should be selected.
NOTE: Using the TOW/HAUL mode (if equipped) or
selecting a lower gear range (using the Electronic Range
Select (ERS) feature) while operating the vehicle under
heavy operating conditions, will improve performance
and extend transmission life by reducing excessive shifting
and heat buildup. This action will also provide better
engine braking.
The transmission fluid and filter should be changed if
you REGULARLY tow a trailer for more than 45 minutes
of continuous operation. Refer to Maintenance Schedule
for the proper maintenance intervals.
According to the "Maintenance Schedule".
64,000 miles: Change the automatic transmission fluid and filter(s) if using your vehicle for any of the following: police, taxi, fleet, or frequent trailer towing.
120,000: Change the automatic transmission fluid and filter
Re: transmission fluid
I recently towed a 26 foot long pontoon a total of about 10 miles with frequent backing and speeds of generally less than 50 mph. I kept the reading of the transmission temperature on my information center. The transmission temperature never varied more than a few degrees. I'm officially no longer worried about towing with the Jeep GC.
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ARTISTdirect is happy to bring you an exclusive premiere of Tylan's new album One True Thing, which is out today, June 18. Try before you buy, by listening to the album in full.
"Because the Kickstarter for One True Thing was so incredibly successful, I was able to make exactly the album I wanted to make," Tylan told ARTISTdirect. "I'm really grateful for that opportunity. Michael Thomas Connolly produced it with lush strings and created an epic ambience for the songs. The album is a journey, so it helps to listen to it from beginning to end. I believe in albums that take you from one place to another, the way novels do. Hope you enjoy the ride!"
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Sushi chef searches for culinary perfection
Jiro dreams of sushi
(Club, IFI, 81 minutes)
Director: David Geib Stars: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono
In Japan, sushi is a serious business, a minimalist art form which typifies the daily quest for small perfections that's a cornerstone of the national consciousness.
At its best, sushi becomes something more than a slab of fish on a bed of sticky rice, and no-one does it better than Jiro, an 86-year-old sushi master whose tiny restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district has become the stuff of legend.
The Sukiyabashi Jiro is a small basement room that only seats 10, makes nothing but sushi and doesn't even have its own toilet, yet it has three Michelin stars and is one of the most acclaimed restaurants in the world. The reason? Jiro, his extended family, and his relentless search for perfection.
In David Geib's adoring documentary, we watch Jiro at work, behind his restaurant's bar lovingly and dexterously preparing course after course of exquisite sushi. His presentations are a kind of performance, but behind him in the kitchens are his eldest son and several harried-looking sous chefs who work flat out to keep the grub coming.
Jiro's stamina and commitment to excellence is remarkable, but then again he was raised in the school of hard knocks.
Born in Tokyo in the late 1920s, he was abandoned by his father at a young age and left home by the time he was nine. He began cooking while in the army, and discovered his vocation when he first prepared the traditional dish of fish and rice.
In Jiro Dreams of Sushi he explains his dedication to the principles of the shokunin, artisans who strive for perfection by doing the same things, in exactly the same way, every day. His restaurant is very expensive, and reservations are made months and years in advance, but the lucky punters seem to dine in a haze of culinary bliss.
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