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Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson has accepted the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award at Victoria's Quills, using her speech to rally against job cuts at Fairfax Media.
The Quills are awarded for excellence in Victorian journalism and "acknowledge outstanding work produced by journalists, photographers, camera people, cartoonists, illustrators and editors".
Ferguson took out the top award as Fairfax staff continued to strike in protest at plans to cut 120 editorial jobs as part of cost-cutting measures at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Australian Financial Review.
Ferguson's work for The Age, in partnership with Four Corners, last year revealed retail giant 7-Eleven was systematically paying its workers about half the minimum wage at stores around the country.
The story prompted the resignation of the company's chairman Russell Withers, along with chief executive Warren Wilmot and general manager of operations Natalie Dalbo.
The company has since established a panel led by former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) boss Allan Fels to help staff recover wages, and the Fair Work Ombudsman expects to take more court action over worker exploitation.
Ferguson told the audience gathered in Melbourne that the cuts would make her job and others' much more difficult.
"Given the past 24 hours at Fairfax, it's with a heavy heart I'm here tonight," she said.
"If there are job cuts it's going to be harder.
"I hope we're not going to go on cutting, cutting, cutting until there's nothing left."
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) believes the cuts amount to one-quarter of the editorial workforce.
The mood at the awards has been a sombre one, with journalists wearing "Fairgo Fairfax" T-shirts in support of the diminishing editorial workforce at the company.
A number of media professionals have tweeted in support of Ferguson and other Fairfax staff for their commitment to quality journalism.


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4 Reasons Why Selling Your Stuff Via Online Marketplaces is Killing Your Brand
Online marketplaces tout unparalleled convenience and the potential to dethrone the physical store. Yet there are risks to your brand when using them.
When Amazon, E-bay and powerhouse online marketplaces were first launched, many people were initially sceptical of them. Security of online purchases and the inability to inspect merchandise before buying were cited as prevalent reasons for hesitance. Years of brand building as a trusted retailer that had money back guarantees and free shipping were enough to tip the balance towards the anticipated retailer of the future.
Online marketplaces make it easy for anyone to sell products and it has never been easy to embrace their inner entrepreneur. However, branding can take a serious hit, especially when you have little control over the finer details of product positioning. Simply put, when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. The following branding death traps can nip your entrepreneurial dream in the bud
1. Excessive Price Promotions
When sales slump, massive discounts are an easy way to revive your sales. After all, few can resist a great bargain. Slashing prices as a response to a downtrend in sales can hurt your brand immensely: Customer will get used to buying only during sales and stocking up with bulk purchases to tide them over to the next sale. When your brands become associated with cheap discounts, people also tend to devalue the emotional attachment they have to your brand and will just as easily switch to another cheaper alternative. This usually causes a further reduction in prices to counter the resulting sales slump and the vicious cycle continues to cut into your profit margin.
To move away from the habitual discount approach, it's always best to effectively brand yourself as different from your competitors. Always emblazon the differences in intended use and experience, along with the exclusivity of your product. Consider value-added offers that seamlessly tie into your product and extend your repertoire.
2. No Control Over Advertising Placements
Online marketplaces usually make creative and advertising decisions themselves and this keeps the costs down. This is very alluring for company cost cutters. Entrepreneurs have limited say on where, when and how their ads appear online. This led to some very risky product placements. When left to mere automation, high-value items with luxurious branding can at times get placed in the same ad set as a sub-par product of dubious associations.
3. Making Your Brand More Measurable But Less Memorable
The digital marketing trend has become so fixated on the measurability of marketing stats that there seems to be a major deviation from branding and its memorable star power. While most major labels pay major advertising dollars to create ads that maintain their product in the public consciousness, digital marketers tend to have a hyper-linear perception of marketing returns. For every ringgit spent there is an expectation of four times more in the way of sales leads.
The lack of an overarching branding strategy and impulsive bursts of product promotion drivel can be off-putting to customers. They tend to dissociate themselves from products that have no long-term presence, as they don't see a reason to stay committed to a brand that does not have a sense of longevity.
4. A Lack of Trustworthiness From Design Flaws
Online marketplaces are plagued with design flaws that compromise on product display. For example, product descriptions are not updated and are even removed from the product display list. This is usually done to declutter the space for aesthetic purposes. The problem lies in that the product description is an integral piece of information, and the instantaneous judgement call to click on an item is heavily influenced by it.
Not ensuring a visual hierarchy for ad images is a death sentence. Countless promotional images have too many elements that are busy and distracting. This dissuades customers from engaging with the visual.
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Champagne replaces Bourgogne Aligoté white wine in this 'Royal' rendition of Mayor Canon Kir's classic aperitif. Easy to make, easy to drink.
Kir Aperitif
A sparkling version of the Kir Aperitif which is thought to have first been mixed in 1904 at Café George in Dijon, France. It is named after Canon Félix Kir who promoted the mixture while Mayor of Dijon.
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March 8, 2010
by Matt Winkeljohn, Managing Editor
OSR Sting EXTRA
ATLANTA — Kevin King is back on the tennis courts at Georgia Tech, in the sun, where everything is likely to feel so right on perhaps the finest day of weather Atlanta will have seen yet this year.
It'll be a big change because it's been a miserable winter. Just ask King, a sophomore tennis player on The Flats.
It's been cold. It's been rainy. And it's lousy being treated like a piece of meat sent through a tenderizer. Actually, that's been the best part.
Miss the entire fall season because of a "thickened tendon," behind your left (hitting) arm and shoulder and you might be grumpy. Miss the first eight matches of the spring season after having had a fine freshman season and looking forward to year two with teammates that include No. 5-ranked Guillermo Gomez, and you just might develop a special form of cabin fever.
Have doctors tell you to shut it down for four weeks after they drain some of your blood, spin it in a machine and then poke it back into that big piece of wounded meat in 30 or so places and you're probably going to go a little nuts. "I definitely wanted to be out there with them," said King, who doesn't always say much.
The Jackets won their first seven matches this spring, all without King and even though Gomez battled an ankle injury while coming off winter hernia surgery, before losing three of four as the schedule toughened. All three of those losses were to highly-ranked teams on the road,and King played in just one. He's 3-0, with wins at No. 1, No. 5 and No. 6 singles.
Having him back is like an experiment in joy for coach Kenny Thorne.
"There's no question. He's very solid in both singles and doubles, and we still haven't had our full lineup this season," Thorne said. "He was one of our top players, can play high in the lineup. That pushes everybody else down and gives us an opportunity to have that much more depth even if he has to work himself into shape. He can still help by pushing guys down."
The Platelet-Rich-Plasma (PRP) procedure King underwent at Emory Hospital in November is not experimental, but it's relatively new.
A primer from the Peachtree City native: "They take our blood out, and thin it, and it's supposed to separate and then they put that into the injured area. They spin it for 15 minutes."
It seems to be working. Without getting into too much detail, the procedure involves using the body's own treated blood to catalyze its healing.
Dr. Allan Mishra, an assistant professor of orthopedics at Stanford University Medical Center and one of the primary researchers in the field, explained to the New York Times: "It's a better option for problems that don't have a great solution — it's nonsurgical and uses the body's own cells to help it heal. I think it's fair to say that platelet-rich plasma has the potential to revolutionize not just sports medicine but all of orthopedics.
"It needs a lot more study, but we are obligated to pursue this."
Thorne thinks it's great, a potential recruiting tool, even. The hospitals in Atlanta, after all, have capabilities that don't yet exist in smaller metropolitan areas.
"It's just amazing what they can do, isn't it?" the coach said. "I think he's worked extremely hard physically. He can win at a very high level. He needs to be in more tough situations.
"Serving-wise, he's maybe 85 percent, and strength-wise he's better than he's ever been in terms of footwork and mobility. He's far ahead of where he was last year. It's just getting back to playing some long matches, and having to hit that serve under pressure."
In a way, the pressure's off for King. Being back is big.
"We're getting to the point now where I can pretty much do everything," he said. "I changed my service motion to try and protect the shoulder, get the body more involved. I think I'm playing about up to my potential. The down time definitely helped my conditioning, my fitness. I have the same mindset, but I think I'm able to execute a little better."


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Add Charlie Puth and Boyz II Men's new song "If You Leave Me For Now" to your Netflix and Chill playlist.
Charlie Puth teams up with Boyz II Men for a new slow jam titled "If You Leave Me For Now."
Puth's new song is an apology of sorts. He revealed his album is getting delayed, but offered up one of the cuts as a peace offering.
"So I have good news and bad news," he Tweeted fans. "The bad news is that I have to push the album release date. I'm producing this album all myself and with that comes a lot of work, and in my opinion, the album is not perfect yet. However, it will still come out this year, and soon."
Well, alright. He goes on…
"But to make it up to all of you, here's the good news," Puth continued. "I'm putting out a song I did with Boys II Men tomorrow. And it's probably one of my favorite songs I've ever written. Love you guys and thank you for understanding."
We understand, and the song will fit perfectly into your Netflix and Chill playlist this winter. You know what I'm talking about.
On it, Puth pleads with a lover to stay. "No, this is not goodbye, I swear that I'm gonna change / No, baby please don't cry, it doesn't have to end this way."
Meanwhile, Boyz II Men's warm vocals harmonize over Puth's desperation. It might be cold outside, but this will definitely bring some heat.
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Forward-backward correlations and charged-particle azimuthal distributions in pp interactions using the ATLAS detector
AuthorsAad, G.
Borjanovic, I.
Božović-Jelisavčić, Ivanka
Agatonović-Jovin, Tatjana
Krstić, Jelena
Mamužić, Judita
Mudrinić, Mihajlo
Popovic, D. S.
Sijacki, Dj.
Simic, Lj.
Vranjes, N.
Vranješ Milosavljević, Marija
Zivkovic, L.
ATLAS Collaboration (ukupan broj autora: 3035)
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Using inelastic proton-proton interactions at root s = 900 GeV and 7 TeV, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC, measurements have been made of the correlations between forward and backward charged-particle multiplicities and, for the first time, between forward and backward charged-particle summed transverse momentum. In addition, jet-like structure in the events is studied by means of azimuthal distributions of charged particles relative to the charged particle with highest transverse momentum in a, selected kinematic region of the event. The results are compared with predictions from tunes of the PYTHIA and HERWIG++ Monte Carlo generators, which in most cases are found to provide a reasonable description of the data.
Keywords:Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Source:Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 7
- ANPCyT, Argentina, YerPhI, Armenia, ARC, Australia, BMWF, Austria, ANAS, Azerbaijan, SSTC, Belarus, CNPq, Brazil, FAPESP, Brazil, NSERC, Canada, NRC, Canada, CFI, Canada, CERN, CONICYT, Chile, CAS, China, MOST, NSFC, China, COLCIENCIAS, Colombia, MSMT CR, Czech Republic, MPO CR, Czech Republic, VSC CR, Czech Republic, DNRF, Denmark, DNSRC, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark, EPLANET, ERC, European Union, IN2P3-CNRS, France, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France, GNAS, Georgia, BMBF, Germany, DFG, Germany, HGF, Germany, MPG, Germany, AvH Foundation, Germany, GSRT, Greece, ISF, Israel, MINERVA, Israel, CIF, Israel, DIP, Israel, Benoziyo Center, Israel, INFN, Italy, MEXT, Japan, JSPS, Japan, CNRST, Morocco, FOM, Netherlands, NWO, Netherlands, RCN, Norway, MNiSW, Poland, GRICES, Portugal, FCT, Portugal, MERYS (MECTS), Romania, MES of Russia, MES of ROSATOM, Russian Federation, JINR, MSTD Serbia, MSSR, Slovakia, ARRS, Slovenia, MVZT, Slovenia, DST/NRF, South Africa, MICINN, Spain, SRC, Sweden, Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden, SIR, Switzerland, SNSF, Switzerland, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, NSC, Taiwan, TAEK, Turkey, STFC, United Kingdom, Royal Society, United Kingdom, Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom, DOE, United States of America, NSF, United States of America, ICREA
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The SQF Code, Ed. 8, is a process and product certification standard created and maintained by the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of the Arlington, Virginia-based trade association, Food Marketing Institute (FMI). The SQF Code, or standard, is based on the international standard ISO/IEC 17065 and benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative's (GFSI) Guidance Document version 6.4 for use by all sectors of the food industry, from primary production to transport and distribution. The main feature of the SQF Code is its emphasis on the systematic application of HACCP to identify and control food safety and food quality hazards. The implementation of an SQF management system addresses a buyer's food safety and quality requirements and provides a comprehensive solution for businesses supplying local and global food markets.
With this standard, SQFI helps make certification more attainable for smaller companies by dividing the process into three steps: from Level 1, which incorporates fundamental food safety controls appropriate for low-risk products; all the way to Level 3, indicating a comprehensive implementation of food safety and quality management systems development.


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In the learning environment of the project the students will be immersed within networked labs (physical and virtual) and they are tasked to solve practical problems and discover solutions by experimenting with tools, materials, and artifacts, by applying experiential learning approach which includes practical and hands-on learning methods. This lab-based learning approach enables students to directly manipulate materials, electronic components, sensors, energy and information, and provide adequate opportunities to apply their knowledge and efforts to find creative solutions for real problems with the provided laboratory equipment. This learning setting with the learning scenarios offer ample opportunities for providing learning analytics to support the acquisition of skills and holistic professional competences of engineering students and enhance their laboratory based learning experiences.
Although lab-based learning coupled with experimentation and crafting is a cornerstone for educating engineers and enabling them to gain practical skills, there is very little research and experience in terms of learning analytics, and especially multi-modal learning analytics. The main goal of Multimodal Learning Analytics (MLA) research is to extend the application of learning analytics tools and services in learning contexts which do not readily provide digital traces and learning data. Moreover, the characteristics and properties of these learning contexts cannot be described by a single source of data traces, but a combination of several modes and sources are vital in understanding these particular learning processes. In the DigiLab4U project we are developing a connected lab infrastructure with learning analytics service as an integral component. The learners within our networked lab infrastructure while doing their learning activities will generate a wide range of analogue and digital learning-related data that can be analyzed and the analytics results used to support and enhance lab-based learning experiences.
Figure 1 sketches out the data aspect of the analytics setup which is part of the learning analytics component of the networked lab infrastructure. The learning activities in these labs include interactions within the learning platform online (including the wide range of learning resources and instruction), physical interactions with the lab equipment, physical presence and movement in the lab including group work, time-spent within the lab, various sensor data from the labs, formative and summative assessment data, and interactions and events from the AR/VR equipment installed for the interconnection of the labs.
Each of these interactions are transformed into uniformed events which will be saved within a central data warehouse. The combination and correlation of this multi-modal learner data has to be aggregated and properly stored within one central Learning Record Store (LRS) and the data should retain its semantic value, and ensure that the data is available for analysis and interpretation while conforming to current data privacy regulations within the EU. The data warehouse in our scenario will be an implementation of Learning Locker with xAPI as an underlying data standard. The didactical approaches for experiential learning call upon a wide range of problem-solving, and feedback and debriefing activities. This influences the choice of data analysis methods and algorithms with which will be used for analyzing the learner data. We are planning to apply different data analysis methods (statistics and data mining methods) to explore the data and look for connections, interrelations and development within the multi-modal data. Depending on the didactical approaches and student feedback types, some of the data would be analyzed in batches, while some has to be analyzed (and potentially visualized) in real-time. Figure 2 outlines the flow from raw data towards analytics results and interpretation.
The last component of the learning analytics within these labs is the delivery, use, and interpretation of the data analytics results. The mixture of interfaces (web, physical tools, and AR/VR technology) provides several possibilities of providing analytics results, such as, learning dashboards on the learning platform, or stand-alone learning dashboard, inside the AR/VR environment, or some analytics results could be embedded within the experiments results. We will look at various analytics delivery options which again will be influenced by the didactical questions and learning goals of the stakeholders. Hence, appropriate learning analytics indicators, and visualizations will be developed and delivered with the above-mentioned learning analytics delivery approaches. The technical implementation of the described learning analytics component is a substantial step towards providing MLA tools and services in laboratory based learning scenarios to support the acquisition of skills and holistic professional competences of engineering students and enhance their laboratory based learning experiences.


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Look up the term "crapshoot" in any credible reference publication. Note the NFL Draft as example A.
It's time for the NFL's annual player selection derby, more commonly known as the NFL Draft. Time to get your team back on the road to championship greatness. Sure it is.
NFL followers/fans/draftniks get super worked up about the NFL Draft. Why? Can anyone actually accurately predict anything about it? It hasn't happened yet in human (including nose tackles — barely) history.
I hear wedding bells
Noted life philosopher Frank Sinatra once quipped, (paraphrasing) "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." Is the NFL Draft just a second marriage opportunity for 32 teams and their legions of shmexperts? You bet your cap space it is. And as such, in this springtime marrying season between players and teams, there is no shortage of wedding planners. And prognosticators and experts and schmexperts and most of all … know-it-all fans, who cringe, cry, declaim and agitate over whom their team's brain trust picks to wear their team's colors.
Fans know what they want. Teams know what they want and what they can get — only as the player selection derby unfolds. More often than not, the two ideals don't align. The result: Angst! Venom! New URLs purchased for www.fire[yourteam'sgeneralmanager].com.
Repeat after no one: "I dunno."
Nobody knows. But that stops absolutely no one from acting like they do. Perhaps we can allow a little logic to take over the perception of the NFL Draft? To wit: The NFL's experts plan for this moment with all their energy and acumen. It's their career focus. And they don't know:
- who their guys are going to be and
- how their guys are going to work out.
In other words, the trained, experienced experts don't know. Thus, therefore, ergo, two other interested parties also don't know: you and me.
We don't know.
The NFL Draft has become a cottage industry that supports many thousands of shmexperts who poke, prod, proselytize and pronounce the football fitness of young athletic men — most of whom they've never met. Most of whom they've never witnessed in person — in action or in conversation.
But pronounce, they will. Edumacate, they shall. And we lap it up.
We don't have to ask why. We willingly and repeatedly invest hope in our chosen teams. We dream of glory achieved vicariously through strangers unified by clothing and equipment adorned in similar color schemes.
Never mind that we can no longer avoid the nagging questions of whether or not it's healthy to play or promote football. The tolls taken for our high-priced amusement by exceedingly well-compensated athletes are high. So high, the NFL has clearly shrouded the impact of the many debilitations incurred by football players — for decades, as is now becoming apparent.
The dilemma is a new factor for today's football fans. Read Mike Freeman's succinct explanation of the great, new quandary football fans must now confront … all the while trying not to legislate and politicize America's favorite sport out of existence.
Program! Get yer program! Can't tell the players from the fans without a program!
Perhaps the most oft-stated NFL bromide is this: Your quarterback is your program. You're going nowhere without him in today's NFL. You have to start with a quarterback, right? Not so fast.
There really is only one rule in the NFL Draft: Do not pass up a great player. "Drafting for need" is far more myth than most followers of the NFL Draft can acknowledge. Don't take it from me. Take it from an NFL general manager who has his team in the playoffs almost every year (via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel): "We try to draft the best player available," Green Bay Packers General Manager Ted Thompson said. "I say this every year and everybody says, 'Yeah, right.' We think it's important to stay focused and try to take the best player."
It really is almost that simple. The risks of passing on a great player are too great. The only practical exception? The quarterback position. And we're seeing it play out right now.
Everyone believes you must obtain a "franchise" quarterback. And yet, nobody knows who they are for sure. For every Peyton Manning, there are one or more Ryan Leafs. Now that the hay is in the multi-million-dollar barn for Manning's career, it's worth noting that leading up to draft day 1998, there was a long, much-deliberated debate about who was the better quarterback between Manning and Leaf.
Both put up gaudy numbers and led their teams to championship games (both failed to win). Both had histories of aberrant behavior / allegations of wrongdoing. One turned out to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. The other a sad outcast that flamed out of the NFL in spectacular fashion. The Washington Post lists Leaf as the NFL's worst all-time draft bust.
Déjà vu all over again
Someone is going to get Leafed. This week. Maybe more than just one team will get Leafed. Will it be the Los Angeles Rams or the Philadelphia Eagles, both of whom have traded into the top two spots in the draft, presumably to select either North Dakota State's Carson Wentz or California's Jared Goff?
Whispers already abound saying that neither Wentz nor Goff are of the caliber of last years' top two-drafted quarterbacks, Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota. History tells us that almost certainly one of them will be a huge, franchise-sinking disappointment. Says former NFL head coach Brian Billick, "I don't care how good you think you are at evaluating quarterbacks, history will tell us that it's a roll of the dice."
So perhaps the best news for the Rams and the Eagles is that nobody knows which guy is going to kill a franchise. Therefore, there's still legitimate hope that their bold moves might pay off. Both teams gave up king's ransoms to get to the top two draft positions. (Nobody does that unless they're picking a quarterback.) For what the Eagles gave to the Cleveland Browns to move into the second pick, the quarterback they will select must be a once-in-a-generation talent in order for it to pay off.
Or, instead of getting Leafed, both teams could get the next Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton. It is possible. It's also historically an extremely low chance. The odds say one or both of these two teams has made a horrible mistake. USA TODAY's Jarrett Bell writes, "The hit-or-miss ratio for first-round quarterbacks — and even for those chosen in the top five slots — is about dead even … there are just as many stumbles as hits."
The only thing we know for sure: It's way too soon to tell.
The most likely teams to get Leafed this year? Count the remaining quarterback-needy teams: The New York Jets, The Denver Broncos, and Cleveland Browns, who have to give rigorous consideration to selecting one with their first-round pick. The consensus is that the remaining QBs, Paxton Lynch (Memphis) or Christian Hackenberg (Penn State)all have question marks that make them boom-or-bust for any team that might take them in round one.
The matter of drafting NFL quarterbacks is a microcosm of the draft's efficacy toward building a team's current and future roster. When it comes to plucking and developing quarterbacks — by far the most important player on the field — the NFL is surprisingly more miss than hit. Am I overstating it? Not according to NFL.com writer Kevin Patra, who, upon evaluating the NFL's ability to develop quarterbacks had this to say: "Those drafted outside the first round are almost … doomed to failure."
For such a high-stakes, megabucks entity, the NFL's inability to develop the game's most important position is vexing. How is it that the NFL's brain trust is comfortable with leaving the success of their 32 member teams to the roulette wheel?
Feeling lucky?
At NFL.com you can "predict the pick." In their Mock Draft Central section, you too can join the masses in getting most of it wrong, while declaring yourself a winner. Perhaps that is the key to the draft's appeal: You can be wrong far, far more than you are right, but still feel like a winner. It's like campaigning for elected office without the bothersome outcome of then having an actual job to do.
Noted sports commentator Winston Churchill once stated, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." I think he was misquoted. I believe he was talking about the NFL Draft. Because the NFL Draft is clearly the worst way to build your roster. Except for all the others.
Of course, the smart teams build their roster through the great crapshoot that is the NFL draft. But even if we focus purely on the draft as a means to build a roster, it's not that simple. Trade up? Trade down? Stay put? Trade out? Take as many swings at the plate as you can get? Find that one guy that can put you over the top? Replace starters? Build depth? Recruit for the future? Which combination of options will your team be forced to take … before telling you that this was how they hoped it would all work out ohandbythewaygetyourseasonticketshere?
It's all perceived value. Is this guy worth this pick at this time for this team? Again, nobody knows and in all practical terms, such considerations go out the door as soon as the bodies show up for the first practice. From there, you make your own way on or off the team. Sure, some high draft picks will get a little more rope to prove they should stick. But ultimately, your draft status doesn't matter when it comes to your ability to keep your coaches and front office staff (the decision-makers) employed in the NFL.
Have you ever known you were going to win the lottery? Just knew it? Of course not. But you played. For the "experts," making the picks in the NFL draft (according to Mike Freeman) is the same way: "… draft picks are like lottery tickets. The more you have, the better chance there is of winning the Mega Millions Powerball." More experienced but no luckier than you, the "experts," at least, get to play NFL lottery once a year.
Bringing it home
By now, every team has a face-to-palm story. Here is Seattle's: The Seattle Seahawks have an interesting history when it comes to the NFL Draft, especially the first round. If the Seahawks select an actual living, breathing human with their (current) 26th pick in the draft, it will be the first time in four years they did so. For the past three years, they haven't picked anyone in round one. Not even a quarterback.
Most 12s would name Brian Bosworth (1987 supplemental draft) as the Seahawks' worst-ever first pick, when it comes time to label draft picks busts or keepers. Actually, The Boz was undone by 65-year-old shoulders, and was out of the league after three abbreviated years. He amassed 80 tackles in his first season, which lasted only 12 games. Those 12 games are the most he ever played in a year — he never played a full NFL season. But he was the real deal for a brief moment in Seahawks history.
Who wasn't the real deal for the Seahawks, was one Owen Gill, whom the Seahawks used their first selection on (second round) in 1985. The former Iowa Hawkeye was cut at the end of training camp and never played a regular season down for the Seahawks. When your top pick is so bad you cut him before the season starts, that's a draft screw-up for the ages.
The Seahawks could have literally thrown a dart at an open phone book (yes, people used them back then) and achieved the same results. For less money and discomfiture.
Enjoy the ride
Noted media critic Louis C.K. has this to say about all the shmexpert voices of today: "Perception is created and twisted so quickly." He's right. He was referring to media critics, but this also applies to NFL Draft critics. Clearly, nobody knows how any player is going to pan out. The only sensible approach to the draft is to just enjoy the ride. Let it go. Glass half-full and all that.
So your team just picked a guy. No need to hate. Save that beer-fueled vitriol (unless you're in San Francisco; in which case, save your whine-fueled vitriol) over how your team fared in the 2016 draft. Because you don't know. Nobody does.
But by all means, tune in to the draft. Just don't give it too much weight. Don't let your team's perceived drafting acumen ruin your spring and summer. For 31 teams and their fans, that's their job for your fall and winter.


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Resistance and impedance are two very important properties of components in circuit theory. This article will look into the key differences between impedance and resistance.
Resistance is a very important property in the field of electricity and electronics. The resistance in a qualitative definition tells us how hard it is for an electrical current to flow. In the quantitative sense, the resistance between two points can be defined as the voltage difference that is required to take a unit current across the defined two points. Electrical resistance is the inverse of electrical conduction. The resistance of an object is defined as the ratio of the voltage across the object, to the current flowing through it. The resistance in a conductor depends on the amount of free electrons in the medium. The resistance of a semiconductor mostly depends on the number of doping atoms used (impurity concentration). The Ohm's law is the single most influential law when the topic resistance is discussed. It states that for a given temperature, the ratio of voltage across two points, to the current passing through those points, is constant. This constant is known as the resistance between those two points. The resistance is measured in ohms.
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What is the difference between Impedance and Resistance?
• Resistance is a special case of impedance.
• The resistance of a component does not depend on the frequency or the phase of the input signal, but the impedance does.
• A convention is made to measure the pure resistance value and the imaginary resistive value parallel to each other; complex algebra is used to solve the impedance.
• Resistivity cannot change the phase of the signal, but induction can change it.


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Hi, all! My name is Mary Ann Davidson and I am the Chief Security Officer for Oracle. I'm the first contributor to our relaunched corporate security blog. Having many different security voices contribute to this blog will help our customers understand the breadth of security at Oracle - across multiple organizations and multiple lines of business. Security at Oracle is way too big (and too important) to be constrained to one person or even one organization. This blog entry will describe how security is organized at Oracle and what my organization does specifically.
When I joined Oracle (and before I started working in security), we were just beginning to build "Oracle Financials" – at the time, general ledger, purchasing and payables applications - which have long since expanded to a huge portfolio of business applications. Since then, we've continued to grow: more business applications, middleware, operating systems, engineered systems, industry solutions (e.g., construction, retail, hospitality, financial services) and of course, many clouds (infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) - business applications we run for our customers). Plus databases, of course!
The amount of diversity we have in terms of our product and service portfolio has a significant impact from a security perspective. The first one is pretty obvious: nobody can be an expert on absolutely everything in security (and even if one person were an expert on everything, there isn't enough time for one person to be responsible for securing absolutely everything, everywhere in Oracle). The second is also obvious: security must be a cultural value, because you can never hire enough security experts to look over the shoulders of everyone else to make sure they are doing whatever they do securely. As a result, Oracle has adopted a decentralized security model, albeit with corporate security oversight: "trust, but verify."
With regard to our core business, security expertise remains in development. By that I mean that development organizations are responsible for the security-worthiness of what they design and build, and in particular, security has to be "built in, not bolted on" since security doesn't work well (if at all) as an afterthought. (As I used to say when I worked in construction management in the US Navy, "You can't add rebar after the concrete has set.")
Security oversight falls under the following main groups at Oracle: Global Physical Security (facility security, investigations, executive protection, etc.), Global Information Security (the "what" we do as a company in terms of corporate security policies, including compliance, forensic investigations, etc.), Corporate Security Architecture (review and approval prior to systems going live to ensure they are securely architected), and Global Product Security, which is my team.
I mentioned I am the CSO for Oracle but really, that would be better categorized as "Chief Security Assurance Officer." What does assurance at Oracle encompass? In essence, that everything we build – hardware and software products, services, and consulting engagements – has security built in and maintains a lifecycle of security. In order to do that, my team has developed an extensive program – from "what" we do to "how" we do it – including verifying that "we did what we are supposed to do." The "what" includes secure coding and secure development standards, covering not only "don't do X," but "here's how to do Y." We train many people in development organizations on these standards (e.g., not only developers but quality assurance (QA) people and doc writers, some of whom write code samples that we obviously want to reflect secure coding practice). We have more extensive, tailored training tracks, as well. Our secure development requirements also include architectural risk analysis (ARA), since people building systems (or even features within systems) need to think about the type of threats the system will be subjected to and design with those threats in mind. These programs and activities are collectively known as Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA).
One of the ways we decentralize security is by identifying and appointing people in development and consulting organizations to be our "security boots on the ground." Specifically, we have around 60 senior Security Leads and over 1,700 Security Points Of Contact (SPOCs) that implement Oracle Software Security Assurance programs across a multiplicity of development organizations and consulting.
Development teams are required to use various security analysis and testing tools, including both static and dynamic analysis, to triage the security bugs found and to attempt to fix the worst issues the quickest. We use a lot of different tools to do this, since no one tool works equally well for all types of code. We also build tools in-house to help us find security problems (e.g., a static analysis tool called Parfait, built by Oracle Labs, which we optimize for use within Oracle). Other tools are developed by the ethical hacking team (EHT), e.g., the wonderfully-named SQL*Splat, which fuzzes PL/SQL code.
The EHT's job is to attempt to break our products and services before "real" bad guys do, and in particular to capture "larger lessons learned" from the results of the EHT's work, so we can share those observations (e.g., via a new coding standard or an automated tool) across multiple teams in development. I'm also pleased to note that the EHT's skills are so popular that a number of development groups in Oracle have stood up their own EHTs.
My team also includes people who manage security vulnerabilities: the SecAlert team, who manage the release of our quarterly critical path updates (CPUs), and the Security Alert program, as well as engaging with the security researcher community.
Lastly, we have a team of security evaluators who take selected products and services through international Criteria (ISO-15408) and U.S Federal Information Processing (FIPS)-140 certifications: another way we "trust, but verify."
Security assurance is not only increasingly important – think of the bazillions of Internet of Things devices as people insist on implanting sensors in absolutely everything - but increasingly asked about by customers who want to know "how did you build – and manage – this product or service?" That is another reason we make sure we can measure what teams across the company are doing or not doing in assurance and help uplift those who need to do better.
In the future, we will be publishing more blog entries to discuss the respective roles of security oversight teams, as well as the security work of operational and development teams. "Many voices" will illustrate the breadth and width of security at Oracle, and how seriously we take it. On a personal note, I look forward to reading about the great work my many valued colleagues at Oracle are doing to continue to make security rock solid, and a core cultural value.


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And so to Parys, resting quietly on the banks of the mighty Vaal river. For those of you who always wondered, it was named by the town engineer, a survivor of the Franco Prussian war of 1870. The main road in Parys is gentrified, with eateries and antique shops dotted around. But the old CBD has succumbed to a severe dose of Potholemia. And there was a lot of rubbish strewn around the streets: a little bit of Lagos on the highveld. I headed for the river clutching the usual photostat from NJ Coetzee's Pierneef book. Some locals were enjoying a late afternoon joint on the riverbank and were keen to talk, but I scurried off intent on my quest.
Pierneef could have been anywhere here: the basic ingredients of river, rocks and willow trees are everywhere. Coetzee however has suggested the site is at a picnic spot to the North of the town, close to a weir on the river and near to the town's railway station. I suspended the search till the next day, and settled into my B&B closely watch by a gang of vervet monkeys intent on raiding the outdoor kitchen. There was no running water in the room the next morning. I told the owner on my way out and he wearily suggested I wash my face in his swimming pool – water floweth along the riverbank but not too often in the town's piping, it seems.
Pierneef's technique on the panels was simple and highly effective. Field sketches were blocked off and enlarged onto the canvas. Dark outlines of forms were then drawn in, followed by flat swathes of colour. A cartoonist would use exactly the same method, and sometimes Pierneef leans strongly into the land of his American contemporary Walt Disney. Indeed, I met a cowboy or two at the old Plesieroord, but they were more Cormac McCarthy than Disney, fishing for lunch whilst breakfasting on white rolls and beer.
There were signs of a vanished civilisation here, one that has recently retreated. The many bungalows and braai spaces have fallen into disrepair. Strange structures adorn the riverbank, their purpose no longer clear. The volk have surrendered the public spaces and retreated to their game ranches. I ended up doing a watercolour downriver, but in the late afternoon I went back and there were the manne, sitting around a fire, clutching a quart of Black Label. They were blacker than before, and they were listening to kwaito music as the river flowed on by….
Yes, it is a mere 5 months since my last posting, dear reader. I had an acute dose of blogophobia, which persisted despite the mutterings of my irascible blog coach. It took a visit from Monique Pelser to shake me out of my lethargy. We met in 2009, and by a remarkable coincidence, found that we had both been to the Pierneef Museum in 2006 and decided to follow his footsteps. It's unsettling when someone else has also had your big idea, but we opted for co-operation rather than competition and so Pelser and I are going to be exhibiting together at the Stellenbosch University Gallery in April. Between us we've been to 27 of the 28 Station Panel sites, so its going to be a comprehensive show, with the photographs and paintings suggesting different ways of interpreting the landscape. The old harbour in my home town of Hermanus is one of the Pierneef sites, and Monique came out to photograph it last week.
You'll notice how Pierneef enlarged the buildings. He took a close up view of them and pasted it onto the view of the mountains. You'd have to be suspended in mid air to get a photo of that. Monique's solution to the multiple perspectives often found in the Station Panels has been to use two cameras angled away from each other to give us an extended view of the sites. Painting and drawing outside, Pierneef would have spent many hours there. Today we tend to point and click and be on our way. We experience the landscape in soundbites and as a result we miss a lot. So Monique has chosen to immerse herself in the landscape. She sets up her cameras at dawn and, taking a picture every five minutes, stays at the site until sunset. These "photo sketches" are then projected onto a screen, giving us a remarkable record of a site over a day. To be viewed properly, the viewer has to give up their time, as if the photographer is urging us to put our own frenetic lives on hold to consider something bigger than ourselves. We may just find it was worth the wait.
At ten to nine on Friday morning I dropped Cathy off at Cape Town airport (soon to be renamed Zille International I believe). It was raining and the highway into town was jammed. Nothing like sitting in traffic to heighten the sense of one's life slipping meaninglessly away. At the Langa off ramp I turned around and headed for Stellenbosch instead.
One more quick look at those panels was what I had in mind. They're still at the Rupert Museum. The Panels are superbly displayed, and it's good to see them in this context. I've looked at these things a good deal in print and real life. I've made painted copies of them. But I keep noticing new things, and the obsession remains. The more you invest, the more difficult to let go. My visit had overtones of a pilgrimage: the painter kneels before the holy relic in the hope that great fortune will follow.
The Rupert Museum also has a standing collection of South African art. There are a lot of Irma Sterns. For reasons that aren't quite clear to me, I've never really liked her paintings that much. Although lately I'm tending toward the idea that she's actually rather good. As we all know, her work keeps fetching record prices on auction, and that tends to muddy the waters a bit. Are high prices the measure of an artist's merit? Of course not. They just reflect a decision about which objects are safe investments. So who makes the decision? The chaps in the corporate boardrooms? The auction houses? Or that nefarious group of voices known only as the Art Police? They patrol the fences of our little canon, deciding who gets invited to the high table of Art.
There are many gems in this collection, and a few duds. A lot of the work that mimics European stylistic developments just looks dated to me. Amongst all the mid-century modernism I was struck by this Nita Spilhaus landscape, fresh and unpretentious.
In my book, there are two more women painters in drastic need of re-appraisal: Ruth Prowse and Dorothy Kay. I've never seen a bad painting by either of them. But they stand in the giant shadow cast by Stern. Perhaps it's time the Art Police got out their notebooks and had another look.
My first search for this site took me near the waterfront, and I ended up in the offices of Transnet down by the docks. (Transnet, coincidentally, are the owners of the Station Panels.) A man told me that the reason I couldn't find this site is that it no longer existed. In the 1930s this had been the Roggebaai Harbour, and it had been reclaimed in the 1940s. There is a picture of this view in reverse:
Those boats and the warehouse roofs on the left clinch it as far as I am concerned. Pierneef must have taken his view of Lion's Head from drawings done on the pier. Today this is in the vicinity of the Dias Circle, in Lower Heerengracht Road, near the monster called the Convention Centre.
There isn't a lot of Lion's Head to be seen from this neck of the woods, and although I reckon one can conjure a meaningful painting from just about anything, this didn't do it for me. I needed elevation, and so the next day after having breakfast with my old studio china Dave Rowett, we headed for a roof. I spent a lot of time painting from roofs in Jo'burg, but this was my first Cape Town roof. The Metropolitan building stood tall in the line of sight. The security guy let us in after a few questions. "Net nie spring nie kerels, dan is EK in die kak!" We went up to the 26th floor. It was the shortest day of the year, but balmy and cloudless. The profile of Lion's Head seemed to perfectly match the original painting. Below us stretched a jumble of Post Modernist structures, but no trace of any of Henk's buildings. We doodled on sketchpads whilst the panorama of Table Mountain lay resplendent before us. This job is hell, dear reader, but somebody has to do it.
On Monday I took it as my Human Right to search for a Pierneef site, and went through to Stellenbosch. I was here about a year ago and after a cursory drive through the town, I took the road up the Jonkershoek valley, for that is where "Die Pieke" are.
Freed slaves were farming here in the early 1700s. Later, the valley was found to be good for grapes. Vineyards lay alongside the road in the late summer heat. I scanned the valley for suitable dwellings, keeping an eye out for cyclists. I took the turnoff to Lanzerac Estate. Before me stretched vast lawns and a graceful old homestead, with well heeled diners to the left and Dylan Lewis cheetahs guarding the doorway.
Given that uncle P often manipulated his subject matter for compositional ends, this seems like a good bet. The buildings may have been modified since the 30s, but that gable is just way too ornate. I headed on up the road to the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve and a fine old fashioned tearoom where the cyclists stretch their legs. I took a turn to the right into a place called Assegaaibos. Here was the gabled homestead hemmed in by a low wall and big oak trees. The peaks towered behind, and there were even low sheds nearby. But it just wasn't laid out quite the way the painting says it should be. Does this house exist, or is this another of Oom Henk's confections? The quest continues….
Pierneef's Alberton station panel. You can see this majestic house from the N12, the highway skirting Joburg's southern extremities. Getting close to it is a different story. I lurched through a wasteland of barricaded nouveau Tuscan townhouses for at least an hour before finding the secret entrance into the lost world.
At the bottom of the koppies were signs of an ancient civilisation – one that had tilled the soil and ridden the horse.
I made my way past many outbuildings to the great house. There I was lucky to meet the lord of the manor, a certain Hans Meyer. Hans' grandfather once owned vast land here – hence the nearby town of Meyerton, south on the R59. The house, built in 1881, was one of the finest in the old Transvaal. Here, despite being rudely engulfed by highways, Hans continues the tradition of farming and horse breeding.
The Meyer patriarch put down some serious roots here. The metalwork was imported from England. Hans told me that Pierneef and his grandfather were friends. He would have stopped off here on his way to Henley-on-Klip and the Vaal river. He probably walked up the koppies in front of the farm to get his vantage point. The highway is there now. I doubt if those tall trees that frame his painting ever existed – they're put there to lead the eye into the perfect world beyond.
A little to the West of the platinum boomtown is the fabled Rustenburg Kloof. This is a popular picnic site and Plesieroord, where the lawns around the 60's style bungalows are well watered and trimmed. Knowing the site from my own reworkings of the original Pierneef, I found the exact spot right away. Of all 28 Station Panels, Rustenburg Kloof may just be the best. The Pierneefian formula of a melancholic landscape underneath huge building clouds can get too obvious at times, but here it is very strong.
Careful, mathematical composition is a hallmark of the panels. They're also very strongly circular – the arch of the clouds finds an echo in the ochre earth. The circle is reinforced by the use of tone – so we are drawn to the centre by that very light Naples yellow behind the thorn tree. Also, the cliff seems immense behind the contours of the central dark areas – there's no middle ground to give us a sense of its scale.
That bit of tarmac covers a small bridge running over the river, barely discernable in the original on the left. The tree to the left may or may not have been there 80 years ago. Either way, he chose to put in a thorn tree instead. In the late morning light, it looks good but ordinary compared to the high drama of the Pierneef. The afternoon light above the rockface makes it look craggy and pitted – nothing like that smooth expanse of rock in the painting. The Pierneef is based on an early morning light. And you wouldn't see those clouds early in the day. Aha, another of Oom Henk's little manipulations.
We take it for granted that the camera shows us what is "real". But it only captures a moment. Pierneef gives us a highly stylised version of the world, but it conveys a reality far truer to our memory and our emotional recall of the South African landscape.
The idea of the Pastoral in painting goes all the way back to the Greeks. There's a lineage that can be traced to Classical painters like Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665). You can also regard the pastoral as a sub-tendency of Romanticism. Where the grand romantics like Turner looked for sensations of awe and splendour, the pastoral artist looks to nature for solace and comfort. (English painter John Constable is a good example)
The vastness of the American wilderness was fertile territory for painters of the 19th century. Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848) was the first to establish pure landscape as a genre in American painting.
"Not in action, but in repose, is the loftiest element of the sublime…" said Cole, and this sense of repose permeates many romantic landscapes. By the 1920s, American art was starting to assimilate European trends. But the 'Regionalists' like Thomas Benton and Iowa painters Grant Wood (of American Gothic fame) and Marvin D Cone continued the rustic tradition.
Working far away from the centres of the art universe, like Paris, they looked close to home for inspiration. They rejected the idea of the avante garde, and many actively tried to bridge the gap that had been opened up between painter and public. These regionalists, and others like the Canadian Group of Seven, seem to be Pierneef's true soulmates. Stylistically, they had taken on the simpifications of Art Deco, but their work looks to the land (and the heavens) for salvation.
sources: G van der Waal Braaksma "Pierneef die Kunstenaar", Paul Johnson, "Art – A New History", Oxford companion to Art.
Back up to the Valley the next day, but this time I stay further back in order to get the long view. You can park here and walk up to view Spandau Kop. To the right is the Valley. You also may find paragliders launching themselves into the afternoon thermals.
There's a kind of a contrast between Pierneef's foreboding stone columns and the jauntines with which they throw themselves into the air. Pierneef's painting demands that we regard God's handiwork with reverence and awe. We are put in our place by the monumentality of the forms. And here we are in the 21st century, treating nature as our playground. But this has none of the intrusiveness of, say, quadbiking – there's a graceful loop through the air. The view from up there must be awesome. I'd love to do it.
Walking a bit off the road and a bit closer, I seem to be in the right place. The shadows on the original painting tell us there was an afternoon light falling on those stone pillarsMy little watercolour also picks up on that yellowish sky. Pierneef obviously had a lot of confidence in his working drawings as well as his colour notes. Again, they seem very accurate. And he's made a very good job of imposing order on that chaotic jumble of rocks and vegetation at the bottom of the valley. As the shadows lengthen, I suddenly notice the expanse of space to my left. It's vast, but stitching together a number of photographs, it's paintable. That's my version of the Valley of Desolation
As you head up Graaf Reinet's main road, there's an impressive church but the one we want is just before you get to it, in a lane on the right. In there are the reasons for my journey. Completed in 1931, they hung in the concourse of the brand new Jo'burg station. They were meant to encourage the railway commuter to buy the long distance ticket and see the scenic virtues of South Africa. They got dirty and after some restoration by the artist went to the Jo'burg Art Gallery. And then in 2002 they were installed in the Pierneef Museum in Graaf Reinet, under the care of the Rupert Art Foundation.
There are 28 landscapes and four small vertical panels of indigenous trees. I've spent a bit of time in here and every time I see the work again I marvel at the achievement. This isn't the Sistine Chapel, but it is a remarkable body of work for two reasons: It was completed in a three year timespan, travels included, and without the aid of colour photography as a reference. [Us modern painters are hopelessly dependant on our digital cameras. Oom Henk worked up his paintings from dozens of sketches and watercolours.] Secondly, the aesthetic of Pierneef was developed in virtual isolation. Most major modern artists and styles emerged out of some sort of collective effort. Pierneef 's response to the landscape didn't build on an existing local tradition. It seems to have come out of nowhere.
So there's no site. But I've got a tea date with George and Sheila Coutouvidis and I start the downhill glide. Its 20 kilometres of downhill all the way to Prince Albert. I took the bicycle ride down a few years ago. You pay a guy in PA to take you up in his shiny Toyota. {Make sure your bike brakes are in good working order.}
This is what I'm looking for:
It's not one of his best panels. We get a sense of the size of the mountains, but there's no drama here somehow. There's a lack of illumination, no light source. The key to finding the site is the road of course. It curves around two hills, and there's a hint of a river just off to the right. I'm halfway down the pass already and I happen to glance to my right and there it is:
I stop the car and let out a yell (as one does when finding a Pierneef site.) I'm in exactly the right spot. It's about 3.30pm and there's no direct sunlight anymore. That explains the lack of light too. Fantastic. But now I've got to go and have tea with George and Sheila. (Double click the pic and you should be able to see the second curve of the road clearly.)
From De Rust you cross Spookdrif, Skansdrif, Damdrif, Boesmansdrif, Skelmkloofdrif, Aalwyndrif, Nooiensboomdrif and there it is, Dubbele Drif se draai:
Following the curve of the road, this is the right place. It seems as if the river's on the right, but if you look closely its running onto the road from the left. The river now runs under the road. And that large boulder is indeed there. Because of the new bridge, I can't get as close as he was, so the cliffs seem less towering. The light coming in from the east tells me he was here early on a summer morning. At this time of year it only gets a touch of late afternoon light.
I'm glad that the decision about what to paint in the Poort has already been made for me, because there's a bewildering majesty to this place and I wouldn't know where to start. But that thing I said about the silence isn't strictly true. There are quite a few big trucks winding through here. And some of them like to hoot at the weird oke in the hat painting next to the road, which makes me jump.
With our blogger's computer ostensibly fixed, some pics of the recce to Stellenbosch. What I was looking for:
Driving into the town from the south the mountains were curiously shy, even absent. I ended up in the dorp itself, dodging Sunday morning churchgoers and Dylan Lewis cheetahs. Eventually I sniffed out the yellow leafed road to Jonkershoek. That's where the mountain is:
I kept on up the valley and at the end there were many cyclists and a nature reserve. I was too close to the mountain by now, but did this watercolour anyway. Its not very good but hell it was lekker up there in the Autumn sunlight.
Since our man often combined different views in a single image, (like the exaggerated buildings in the Hermanus panel) I figured in the Lion's Head panel he'd done the same. So I started close to it and worked my way backwards to the water and the Postmodern malaise down by the docks….
Hermanus – my home town for the last two years – is the southernmost site.
Two things strike me about about this panel: He made the buildings look a lot larger than they are, and the total absence of the human figure. In those days the harbour was a hive of fishing activity. The photographic museum nearby has great pics from those days of trophy fishermen alongside their monsters from the deep. Now, sadly, you'd be hard pressed to find fish in Walker Bay. Except of course for whales. Which aren't supposed to be fish….
Cape summer hues: Those what-colour-is-that grey greens of the Cape mountains in summer. And the ubiquitous mauve. Pierneef got those mountains in the background dead right.
For a few years now I've been on a mission to find and document the original sites of Pierneef's station Panels. The paintings, done in the early 1930's originally hung in the Joburg Station but are now housed in the Pierneef Museum in Graaf Reinet. There are 28 landscapes. Pierneef was in his early 40's when he did them and they represent a highpoint in his career – the point where subject matter, content and style coalesce into something really strong. They secured his place as SA's leading painter and ensured a widespread popularity.
Today we tend still to look at them and sense that they convey the essence of the landscape. By revisiting the sites, I'm trying to find out what's left of them – how much remains after 80 years of development? Does Pierneef's sense of those places still exist? Are they really as grand as he made them or was he a hopeless Romantic?
It took me a while to figure out that I would do work that relates to the site itself and then work that relates to Pierneef's original paintings. When I get to a site, I do watercolours and drawings as an initial response. Later in the studio I work up paintings from photographs. But there's also a set of works that responds to Pierneef's paintings. These usually take the form of a modified Pierneef – the original injected with some image that seems appropriate to the place.
The first place I went to, about 2 hours NW of Jo'burg. Easy enough to find – it's on the map. It's a 'plesieroord' with well tended lawns and bungalows. The cliff face stares right out at you and looking at Pierneef's original painting, it was easy to figure out exactly where he was when he did the initial studies. (He did hundreds of preparatory drawings.)
This is Pierneef's original Rustenburg Kloof Panel:


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NEW YORK — Dewayne Wise was helped up by several fans in the stands, saw the emphatic out call and thought one thing: keep the glove closed.
NEW YORK — Dewayne Wise was helped up by several fans in the stands, saw the emphatic out call and thought one thing – keep the glove closed.
Wise ran straight for the dugout – giving birthday boy Derek Jeter a glove tap on the way – after flipping into the crowd while trying to make a catch of a foul ball during the Yankees' 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.
"What was I supposed to do run back to left field?" Wise said. "I saw him looking at my glove so I just got up, put my head down and ran off the field."
Wise knew he never had the ball when he went over the low wall down the left field line with two outs and a runner on third base in the seventh inning. Third base umpire Mike DiMuro didn't realize the ball hit off Wise's glove and fell for a souvenir until he saw a replay after the game.
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Phil Hughes threw his hands up in the air, thinking Wise just helped preserve his shutout. Manager Joe Girardi thought it was a tough call.
"They're human. As much as we want them to be perfect and as much as there's talk about replay and all this stuff, they're under such a microscope the way the TV has developed this slo-mo that it's – I think it's a difficult time to be an umpire," Girardi said
Before seeing a replay, Indians manager Manny Acta had an inkling his team had gotten some bad luck in their fourth straight loss.
"If it's a great play, how come you're not showing it on the board for the fans?" Acta said. "We were discussing that with the umpires, but, what can you do?"
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Curtis Granderson had a two-run single and Chris Stewart added an RBI hit as several bounces went New York's way against Justin Masterson (4-7) in the second inning.
Little is going right for the Indians. In their previous four games Cleveland scored just five runs. They scored four runs against Cory Wade in the ninth on Johnny Damon's RBI single and Jose Lopez's three-run homer. Lopez was in for third baseman Jack Hannahan, who was ejected in the eighth.
Rafael Soriano got one out for his 16th save.
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Itanagar, May 30: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has assured to take up Bomjir-Paglam road project in Lower Dibang Valley district with the Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) to be included under highway project.
Stating that compensation demand should not become a hurdle in completion of the project, Khandu said the road is of vital importance as it can change the economic scenario of the area.
On his second day of visit to the district, the chief minister yesterday inspected the flood protection site at Patsing situated near the 14 km point of state's longest bridge over river Dibang, an official communiqué informed here today.
Since last two years, the Dibang River that flows near Bomjir village had washed away more than 100 metres of the riverbank inundating the farmland and also posing threat to the Dibang Bridge, according to the officials here.
The chief minister accompanied by WRD Parliamentary Secretary Gum Tayeng, administrative and departmental officials undertook a 30-minute jeep ride from national highway towards the riverbank to assess the damage of the nearby farmlands.
Earlier, Khandu also drove along the 45-km Bomjir-Paglam road and inspected the Sissiri River site that cuts through the road.
Later in his visit to the town, the chief minister inaugurated the BJP mandal office of Dambuk Assembly constituency. He also laid the foundation stone for Govt Hr Sec School, 100-bedded girls' hostel and Baane Gidii Notko.
Addressing a public meeting, Khandu appreciated the Parliamentary Secretary for taking out timely measure in mitigating flood by constructing flood protection work at the Patsing site. He assured to fund the phase II of the flood protection work with further assurance to take up the project with the Centre in composite way.
Khandu also assured to expedite the works for highway from 'zero point' to Sissar along Dambuk-Pasighat highway. He informed that land compensation matter is completed and contractors will be asked to carry out work as soon as possible.
On demand for stationing of paramilitary force in Dambuk area to check intrusion of anti-social elements from neighboring state, the CM assured to hold talks with state DGP for stationing of state police battalion. He further informed that state government is taking all measures to strengthen law & order in the state.
To strengthen the civil police department, the chief minister informed that state government is creating more than 1000 posts under various categories. Also a permanent high court in the state will be established soon, he informed.