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Saturday February 18 2006
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architecture
Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
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Chartres Cathedral is among the best preserved of the major French cathedrals, with extensive programmes of sculpture and stained glass. It was a major site of pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin Mary, to whom the cathedral is dedicated.
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thanks to wood s lot
A lesson in humility
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Many here recently received a large measure of lessons in humility. A leader of imperial power, whose brain never ceased to feverishly invent plots and plans for acquiring even more power, was turned in seconds into a coma-ridden individual. The all-powerful emperor's son was convicted and thrown into jail; "rebels" who were drunk with power, and only yesterday kicked the leader who brought them 40 seats in the Knesset, are now crawling under tables picking up crumbs of power. Even the ghoulish smile of Naomi Blumenthal was erased for a moment showing us that something has changed in Israel after all.
It seems that someone up there, whose patience has run out in the face of the ongoing aggregation of hubris, is trying to hint at something to us: not only to politicians as individuals, but also to Israel as a political and military entity.
As usual, Israel once again finds itself gaping open-mouthed and helpless in the face of the political developments teetering as usual between the poles of "I'm warning you" and "gevald!" Only yesterday it smashed the PLO and turned up its nose at Abu Mazen, now it has been slapped in the face by Hamas; only the day before yesterday it conducted at will sonic booms over the Assad palace, and now it is wringing its hands over the Iranian-Syrian-Hamasi "existential threat" that embraces it from the northern border, from distant Iran, from Palestine in its ribs, and from Gaza in the south. Only last night Israel threatened the Palestinians with "ruthless disengagement," and now it is hit with a permanent rain of Qassam rockets.
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photography
England North
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A selection of photographs of Northern England, dating from the 1840s to the early twentieth century, including work by William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and Francis Frith.
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plamegate
When Two Worlds Collide
Rove v. Fitzgerald
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For Karl Rove, no news from the Plame case -- Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a CIA agent -- is definitely not good news. Seismic activity is notoriously silent, so we may not be hearing any rumblings at the moment. But speaking as a former prosecutor, I believe it highly likely that, just below the surface, the worlds of Karl Rove and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, shifting like tectonic plates, are about to collide. As was true with Vice President Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a federal agent as well as to the grand jury, Rove might not be charged with the leak itself. I am confident, however, that Rove will not leave this party empty-handed. He will, at the very least, almost certainly be charged with making false statements to an FBI agent. Here's why.
For starters, the evidence that Rove deliberately lied to the FBI is overwhelming.
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Curiouser and Curiouser
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Some very odd happenings today on the Libby front. Yesterday the blogosphere was alive with the "Libby has flipped" meme after the publication of Murray Waas' National Journal article which actually said nothing of the sort. But it was evidently worrisome enough to Team Libby that they felt it necessary to make a statement today, and the nature of that statement reveals some very weird goings-on behind the scenes.
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darwin
I missed Darwin's birthday. I've been busy. It was February 12, 1809. Instead of birthday cake, I leave you with his crabs.
Charles Darwin's Crab Collection
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iraq
The Raid...
by Riverbend
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We were gathered in the living room and my aunt and her husband, Ammoo S. [Ammoo = uncle] were asleep. T., J. and I were speaking softly and looking for songs on the radio, having sworn not to sleep before the cake was all gone. T. was playing idly with her mobile phone, trying to send a message to a friend. “Hey- there’s no coverage here… is it just my phone?” She asked. J. and I both took out our phones and checked, “Mine isn’t working either…” J. answered, shaking her head. They both turned to me and I told them that I couldn’t get a signal either. J. suddenly looked alert and made a sort of “Uh-oh” sound as she remembered something. “R.- will you check the telephone next to you?” I picked up the ordinary telephone next to me and held my breath, waiting for a dial tone. Nothing.
“There’s no dial tone… but there was one earlier today- I was online…”
J. frowned and turned down the radio. “The last time this happened,” she said, “the area was raided.” The room was suddenly silent and we strained our ears. Nothing. I could hear a generator a couple of streets away, and I also heard the distant barking of a dog- but there was nothing out of the ordinary.
T. suddenly sat up straight, “Do you hear that?” She asked, wide-eyed. At first I couldn’t hear anything and then I caught it- it was the sound of cars or vehicles- moving slowly. “I can hear it!” I called back to T., standing up and moving towards the window. I looked out into the darkness and couldn’t see anything beyond the dim glow of lamps behind windows here and there.
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Election Results...
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I try not to dwell on the results too much- the fact that Shia religious fundamentalists are currently in power- because when I do, I’m filled with this sort of chill that leaves in its wake a feeling of quiet terror. It’s like when the electricity goes out suddenly and you’re plunged into a deep, quiet, almost tangible darkness- you try not to focus too intently on the subtle noises and movements around you because the unseen possibilities will drive you mad…
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George "Gen. Jack Ripper" Bush
by Juan Cole
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Another leaked British memo ("everywhere you dig you find a body") reveals that Bush and Blair sat around on January 31, 2003, thinking up crazy schemes to provoke a war with Saddam since they didn't have any real casus belli.
What is worse, the memo confirms that our genius president knew about the dangers of messing with Iraq's internal stability and did it anyway.
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Iraq Pre-War Intelligence
Good Electricity News from Iraq
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"The basic problem with Qud[a]s is, we have four LM6000s out there that essentially don't have a fuel supply," says a U.S. power-generation engineer who did a yearlong tour in Iraq. "We installed a third of a billion dollars' worth of combustion turbines that can't be fueled."
The LM6000 combustion turbines are a type known as aeroderivative. They are basically Boeing 747 turbines mounted on heavy stands. They work well on natural gas, but to run on diesel, they need high-quality fuel and a fair amount of operational sophistication, two things in short supply today in Iraq. "The first time I went to Quds and saw those LM6000s, the first words out of my mouth were, 'What the hell are those things doing here?'" says the generation specialist in Iraq.
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Abu Ghraib
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thanks to Yolanda Flanagan
Abu Ghraib and Salon
By continuing to publish documentation of the abuse, we hope to shed light on a chapter in American history that this administration has tried to keep in the shadows.
For one Marine, torture came home
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ABOUT A YEAR and a half ago, a 40-year-old former Marine sergeant named Jeffrey Lehner, recently returned from Afghanistan, phoned and asked to meet with me. Since his return he had been living with his father, a retired pharmacist, in the Santa Barbara home where he was raised. I first heard about Jeff from an acquaintance of mine who was dating him and who told me that he was deeply distressed about what he had seen on his tours in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East.
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photography
cuban television sets
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iran
Juggernaut Gathering Momentum: Next Stop, Iran
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What President George W. Bush, Fox News, and the Washington Times were saying about Iraq three years ago they are now saying about Iran. After Saturday's vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's suspicious nuclear activities to the UN Security Council, the president wasted no time in warning, "The world will not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons."
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Ex-U .N. inspector: Iran’s next
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The former U.N. weapons inspector who said Iraq disarmed long before the U.S. invasion in 2003 is warning Americans to prepare for a war with Iran.
“We just don’t know when, but it’s going to happen,” Scott Ritter said to a crowd of about 150 at the James A. Little Theater on Sunday night.
Ritter described how the U.S. government might justify war with Iran in a scenario similar to the buildup to the Iraq invasion. He also argued that Iran wants a nuclear energy program, and not nuclear weapons. But the Bush administration, he said, refuses to believe Iran is telling the truth.
He predicted the matter will wind up before the U.N. Security Council, which will determine there is no evidence of a weapons program. Then, he said, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, “will deliver a speech that has already been written. It says America cannot allow Iran to threaten the United States and we must unilaterally defend ourselves.”
“How do I know this? I’ve talked to Bolton’s speechwriter,” Ritter said.
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'10,000 would die' in A-plant attack on Iran
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A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today.
Hundreds of scientists and technicians would be targets in the opening salvos as the attacks focused on eliminating further nuclear development, the Oxford Research Group says in Iran: Consequences of a War.
The research coincides with reports that strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for "a last resort" strike if diplomacy fails. Plans for an assault have taken on "greater urgency" in recent months, The Sunday Telegraph said.
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Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say
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The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.
According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.
Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame's work. Their accounts suggest that Plame's outing was more serious than has previously been reported and carries grave implications for U.S. national security and its ability to monitor Iran's burgeoning nuclear program.
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Analysts: Fear of US Drove Iran's Nuclear Policy
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The George W. Bush administration's adoption of a policy of threatening to use military force against Iran disregarded a series of official intelligence estimates going back many years that consistently judged Iran's fear of a U.S. attack to be a major motivating factor in its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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photo gear
My extension tubes came in, a while back, for the Salut-S.
Two tubes, a 19mm and 48mm. The stiff plunger rod in the 19mm extension that makes this automatic is now freed up completely thanks to some penetraing oil. I love how the former Soviet Union gear came in these nice plastic containers.
The tubes can be used singly or combined for maximum macro work.
It also came with some handy instructions. Anyone read Russian? Apparently it was made in 1983. And it was probably never used.
It would appear that I need 4 times the exposure with both extension tubes. Or am I missing something?
science
The Science Whisperer
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The professional science writer has a daunting task. His or her audience will consist of all ranges in education, from elementary school kids just getting their first taste of the wonder of the natural world, to retired professors. It's not an easy job, and maybe that's why so few succeed in making a living at it. Sadly, now it's even harder, thanks to a cavalier attitude towards science fostered by certain elements in the political establishment:
Why is it that politicians who say they want to strengthen science teaching standards can sound so post-modern about science? --Carl Zimmer
If you read Discover magazine in the 90s or science articles in the Times in the lst few months, then odds are you've enjoyed the work of best selling author Carl Zimmer. Carl is a creationist alright; only in that he creates understanding. He's also universally recognized as one of the most gifted and prolific science authors in the world with a writing style that breaks down complex topics into digestible, bite sized chunks that even the beginner wonder junkie can consume with delight. So I was excited, from the perspective of both a writer and a science buff, that I had a chance to virtually sit down with Carl this week, ask him about his writing, science, and the technology behind it all.
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It's a great interview with a writer that it turns out I've read before. Even better is that he has a blog that is a must read:
The Loom
photo labs
This for those that still need the services of a good photo lab (Ken, you know you are.)
I like photo labs. I worked in two of them in the 1970s. I really enjoyed working in there but the pay was shit and I ended up back at Boeing. They are becoming a bit of an endangered species today. I've been taking my 120 roll film to a local lab. She does the local 35mm developing and printing but her machine will develop 120 (no printing) and I've used it. However, she is not the cleanest. Film has come back with scratches and fingerprints and strange small blotches. Her machine broke down so I decided to send my film off to a lab in Seattle that I used once before: Panda Lab. Using mail is a pain, and more expensive, so I've avoided it until now. I will be going back.
Panda Lab charges $5 for develop only 35mm and 120. Black and white (Xtol) or color (C-41). They also offer develop and scanning to CD at the time of processing. An extra $8 for 120 and an extra $10 for 35mm. These are utility scans and are perfect for web work and screen viewing. Mine came in a 12 megs apiece. An excellent deal. That comes to 67 cents an image for 120 and 28 cents an image for a 36 exposure roll of 35mm. A *very* good deal. The negatives came back in PrintFile sleeves and were very clean. The scans came back on a CD:
And a print was included that makes a nice "contact sheet."
To get an idea of the quality of the scan, her is the entire image:
And here is a section at the scanning resolution.
Panda Lab is located at the Northwest corner of the Seattle Center. The store front is small and funky, which is the way I like my labs. I prefer to see the money go into processing and not decor. They don't have a website but here is their contact info:
Panda Lab
533 Warren Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98109
206-285-7091
I sent the order off late Friday and recieved it on Thursday -- five business days. It might have been quicker but they called when they received the order because I sent the film in black plastic canisters, for protection, and they thought it might have been infrared and didn't want to take any chances. They ended up loading the film and then checking the paper backing. Then they called for credit card info. I was a little slow getting back to them. Great service and good processing. They also do printing so get one of there price lists.
gerry
Yesterday was a traumatic visit with Gerry. She is becoming more distant and out of touch with reality. She seemed to recognize Zoe after Zoe talked to her and she responded to the news that her son Jim would be coming to visit in a week but she was mostly in her world and we couldn't tell just where that was. She is interacting more with the other residents but it's an interaction with little understanding. When we had her come and sit at a table with us she grabbed another resident, Jane, to join us. They both would talk, with knowing expressions, what was essentially nonsense. Sometimes we could divine what Gerry wanted but I think she was just agreeing with us. We could have said anything. She was insistent we make a list. She couldn't tell us what the list was for but that we had to make a list. So we made a list of the people present with their birthdate and astrological sign. Gerry took the list and read it and was satisfied. Zoe mentioned on the way home that it was like watching very small children playing grown up who tried to mimic things they had little or no understanding of. We told her we would pick her up today to go have her hair done. She then wanted to go now and we got nowhere trying to tell her we had to wait until tomorrow. Finally we had to go and Gerry was calling after Zoe as we left. This left Zoe in tears. As we left the room into the hallway Zoe had to stop and cry. One of the housekeepers came out after us and comforted Zoe, telling her that Gerry was doing fine and would forget this in another 30 minutes. That is one of the amazing things about where we have Gerry, even the housekeepers are in touch with what is going on with the residents and are incredibly caring. We had to exit through another room of residents. As we went through the room we both noticed two couples. It appeared that both women were residents and both men were husbands visiting. Both couples were sitting down and both women were curled up hugging their men and each man had his arm around is wife. It fucking rips your heart out.
Today we take Gerry to get her hair done. This had been a something that Zoe and Gerry have done together for the last year. I think Zoe had a fantasy of continuing it but it has become clear to her that Gerry won't really know where she his or what is going on. The plan had been that Gerry and I would wait until Zoe is done (her's takes longer) but now it is best that I return Gerry as soon as she is done and Zoe would visit after she is through. I'm not looking forward to this.
update
It went better than expected. I went in and walked her out while Zoe waited in the car. When she saw Zoe in the car she started crying. She has been doing that. Her emotions no longer have a filter. Her hair appointment was only about 5 minutes away. Normally it would have been upstairs but she couldn't make it up the stairs (we already knew this) so we waited downstairs while Robin colored Zoe's hair and then they came down and Robin washed and cut Gerry's hair. While we waited I kept reassuring Gerry that Zoe would be back in a few minutes. After Gerry's hair was done I took Gerry to Dairy Queen (while Zoe's hair was being finished) and we both had a small soft cone dipped in chocolate. We went back to HomePlace and I walked her back in. The caregivers were excited to see her and went on about how wonderful her hair was. I sat her down and told her that I was going back to get Zoe and would be back. She said to hurry back. She would soon forget that we were coming back and not notice that we didn't. It made it easier for Gerry. Part of me still feels like shit for telling her that.
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Thursday February 16 2006
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medium format kit 6x9cm
Another post on my equipment, which is a bit of a moving target. My 35mm kit has changed with the addition of a Pentax Spotmatic, a Zorki 3M and some related gear. Some new pictures needed there when the Zorki arrives (it's on it's way back from Russia all back together.) My 6x6cm medium format kit is pretty unchanged but for some extension tubes for the Salut-S and I've started taking the Meopta Flexaret Va apart trying to get the ground glass out for cleaning and I haven't figured out how it comes out yet and I sure hope I do and then can get it back together again. I need a group shot there, too. (My Salut-S is also on it's way back from Ukraine.) These pictures were also tests. First, I was testing a new film: Kodak Portra 100T, which is Tungsten balanced. It looks fine. And a test of the Weston Master V meter as an incident meter with the invercone on it. It nailed the exposure. Incident meters are so much easier to use for studio situations. Instead of measuring the light coming off the subject, you place the meter in front of the subject and measure the light coming to it. My Luna Pro used a different scale when used as an incident meter but the Weston doesn't need to do that. It makes determining exposures much simpler! These were taken with my second Salut-S. I *really* like the Salut-S for studio shots.
All these cameras take 6x9cm (2 1/4" x 3 1/4") negatives on 120 roll film.
This is a Mamiya Universal. I bought this in the early 1990s. A full system rangefinder camera with interchangeable lenses and backs. This has the 100mm/f3.5 normal lens. I don't use it too much anymore. This was my main camera until a couple of years ago when I added...
A Mamiya Super 23. It used to have a rangefinder like that on the Universal but it was broken so I removed it. Make's it a bit lighter. It's an older model and won't take a Polaroid back (which I have for the Universal) but it has a bellows back which makes it a mini-view camera (with my ground glass back). Here it has the 65mm/f6.3 lens. I plan on using this setup as a street camera. It would need to use some fast black and white (a slow lens) but that will have to wait until my darkroom is done.
And here with the pinhole mounted in a large format Alphax shutter. All three lenses can be used on either the Universal or the Super 23. I only have one 6x9 film back.
This is a really really really big medium format camera. It's actually my Burke & James 5x7.
It takes 5x7 and 4x5 backs and my 4x5 back is a Graflok back that also takes special roll film backs like this one. I've used it as a backup to the Mamiya when the shutter jammed. That was before the Saluts. It's great for testing large format lenses without the cost of sheet film.
I haven't had a chance to use this plastic 6x9 wonder yet. It doesn't use 120. It uses 620, which is the same size as 120 but for different spools. I will need to do some rerolling but I'm looking forward to using it.
U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster
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The United States and Israel are discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.
The intention is to starve the Palestinian Authority of money and international connections to the point where, some months from now, its president, Mahmoud Abbas, is compelled to call a new election. The hope is that Palestinians will be so unhappy with life under Hamas that they will return to office a reformed and chastened Fatah movement.
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I guess Bush's concept of democracy is that it's when people vote like he wants them to.
Hamas Comes to Power: Breakthrough or Setback?
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The preeminent Islamist organization in Palestine—Hamas—stunned the world on January 29, 2006 by winning an absolute majority in free, open, and peaceful parliamentary elections in Palestine. In final tallies, Hamas gained 74 out of 132 seats.
But what is this supposedly shadowy organization? Hamas is many things: a religious, social, and political movement, a guerrilla and terrorist force. Poised now to assume the ragged reins over the limited, constrained and contorted “national authority” in Palestine—whatever the scope and extent of “Palestine” may presently even be—Hamas faces a host of new decisions that come down to the key question: which faces of the movement will now dominate?
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photography
Falkland Road
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I don't know if you've spent much time in your life pondering the eternal question of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. The closest I've ever come to an answer is Mary Ellen Mark, although in her case the question should be slightly revised to "What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable subject?" The answer is that the subject generally moves, and becomes a willing accomplice in the production of powerful photography. In a career that spans four decades, and is nowhere near over yet, she has brought us image after image that not only embed themselves into our memory but in doing so help us define ourselves as the cohabitants of a small planet. As a picture editor who has had the privilege of assigning her stories that have produced some of her classic works I have witnessed the focused intensity that she brings to her professional life, and which tolerates no compromise.
It seems that this level of determination and commitment is something that is not acquired but imprinted into a photographer's DNA from birth. Proof of this can be found in the new reprint of her book Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay that Steidl will publish in March this year. The photographs in this book were shot between October 1978 and January 1979 on an impoverished street in Bombay that houses numerous brothels where cheap prostitutes work and live. It was a street that fascinated her on her first visit to India in the late Sixties, and one to which she vowed to return. A decade was to pass before she would go back in late 1978 with an assignment from Geo in her pocket.
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Twelve-year-old Lata lying in bed
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oil
Join us as we watch the crisis unfolding
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In the January 2004 Current Events on this web site, I predicted that world oil production would peak on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005. In hindsight, that prediction was in error by three weeks. An update using the 2005 data shows that we passed the peak on December 16, 2005.
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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Just How Addicted to Oil Are We?
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The sole way out of this trap is to bite the bullet and adopt heroic measures to curb our fossil-fuel consumption while embarking upon a massive program to develop alternative energy systems – an effort comparable to, and in some sense a reversal of, the coal-and-oil-fueled industrial revolution of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the United States, this would, at an utter minimum, entail the imposition of a hefty tax on gasoline consumption, with the resulting proceeds used to fund the rapid development of renewable energy systems. All funds now slated for highway construction should instead be devoted to public transit and high-speed inter-city rail lines and all new cars sold in America after 2010 should have minimum average fuel efficiencies of 50 MPG or higher. This will prove costly and disruptive -- but what other choice is there if we want to have some hope of exiting the permanent global energy crisis before the global economy collapses or the planet becomes uninhabitable by humans.
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It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both
Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
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Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet. And yet this ideological model remains the central organising principle of our lives, and as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with.
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valentine's day and another commie camera
Zoe's Valentines Day present arrived on time.
It's a Krasnogorsk-3 16mm spring wound movie camera. Like, with real film. I picked it up on eBay and, like the former Soviet Union still cameras, the prices are very reasonable. I was not sure Zoe would really like it. She was a film student 30 years ago. Reality got in the way and she gave that dream up but I knew she still had a very soft spot for film making. I needn't have worried. She is thrilled to have her own 16mm camera. She won't be able to do anything with it right away with all that still needs to be done for Gerry, but that will come.
30 years ago I was into film too. I had a Bolex Super 8 and belonged to the NW Filmakers Co-op. I soon realized that it wasn't for me, that still photography was what I wanted to do but I still have film urges. I will be Zoe's technical assistant but I might want to do something with it.
Being spring wound you are limited to shots no longer that 26 seconds and you can't shoot sound with it. Aside from the noise, it's not synched. But it will do single frame which makes it great for animation which was one of Zoe's loves. But it has interesting possibilities. When the film is processed it can be converted to video and all editing can be done on a computer and then the video can taken back out to film. This camera can easily be converted to Super 16mm which has the aspect ratio of HD TV and is pretty much indistinguishable from 35mm. The Krasnogorsk has a good 17-69mm zoom but also has a M42 mount so I can use all my Pentax prime lenses on it.
It should be fun.
gerry
Gerry's move last Thursday went well. Zoe signed papers, I moved stuff into her room, and our friend Kim arranged everything in the room and hung pictures with care. The room looks great. We will get pictures up sometime soon. The place is arranged into three pods. One pod is for those most mobile and functional and another is for those on the way out. The third pod is for those in between and that is where Gerry is. Each pod has a large open room with resident rooms opening on to it. The open room is divided into three. The front of the room has couches and comfy chairs and the TV. The middle part has 5 tables with chairs where eating and coloring are done. The back part is the kitchen, surrounded by a 3 foot wall, which is also the care giver's station. The residents are allowed to move from pod to pod. The care givers are great. It's a good place.
Zoe and I were up visiting today. Gerry didn't recognize Zoe when she first came in. She seemed to after Zoe talked to her. Gerry seems to be fading fast.
There is a hole in our lives now. Zoe can't go into Gerry's old room and is grieving. I stopped by the Freeland Cafe for lunch yesterday by myself and sat where I usually do but the chair across from me was now empty. We are getting our lives back but it is bittersweet.
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