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A prominent town located north of the capital on an important communications hub. It was repopulated by King Fernando II, who also awarded it law-codes in 1167. The most representative building in town is the Parador de Turismo Fernando II hotel, which occupies the Caracol Tower, a 16th-century castle with wide segmental miradors and a beautiful Mudejar coffered ceiling in the main section; although it also has other attractions for the visitor, such as the church of Santa María de Azogue, outstanding in which are the doors, some multicoloured Gothic sculptures and several pillars; San Juan del Mercado, with its prominent southern door; and the hospital of La Piedad, an old pilgrims' hostel.
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craigasaurus necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 313 diseños de 90 diseñadores freelance.
Servants is a Christian mission that works in slums and inner cities in Asia and the West (have a look at our website: http://www.servantsasia.org). We think of ourselves more as a movement than an organization.
We are mostly youngish, very relational, non-corporate, non-institutional, grassroots, committed to social justice and a simple lifestyle, building community.
Our personality is low key, humble, relational, friendly (but not cuddly or cutesy), informal, a bit edgy.
The target audience is fairly broad but with an emphasis on people committed to social justice mainly in their 20's and 30's.
Our target audience are people just like us!
The logo should reflect our grassroots ethos (nothing too corporate, shiny or professional looking, nothing web 2.0, nothing computer-y or futuristic).
The logo should incorporate the word "servants" and should also be able to use geographical modifiers that show the country or city. (eg. Servants Vancouver, Servants Cambodia, Servants Australia)
The logo should not use the words "to asia's urban poor" which were part of our previous logo.
It should be simple (we are simple!)
Some continuity with our old logo (see attached) would be nice but is not essential.
It would be good if the logo reflected our commitment to relationships and people (without corny stick figures holding hands across a globe)
If you incorporate a cross or some other Christian element it should be subtle rather than tacky.
Attached is a lino print that turned out to be too complex for our logo but we like the feel of this image (ancient, yet postmodern, grassroots).
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
The files we will require are: high resolution web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB) [with just the word "servants" and also a couple of examples of "servants" + country name]
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John, I wish I could say that everything written here makes sense to me, but it doesn't. I don't read or speak "philosophy" very well. Please tell me if I have distilled and understood the main points.
Love means:
selflessness, not egotism;
does not seek worship, narcissists do;
seeks to inspire others, not prostrate them;
love has no double standard.
Accordingly, fully informed and free subscription to the Biblical god concept is unconscionable.
Consequently, it is incongruous with meaningful development even apart from the self-contradictory nature of the Biblical god concept.
subscription to the Biblical god concept should be held repudiated not only in that
1. it involves a self-contradictory notion
2. it cannot in full knowledge and goodness of motive be freely enacted.
Hi Joan!
The first thing that the disproof does is demonstrate that the Biblical god concept is self-contradictory on its face. Remember that the concept is one of a being perfect in goodness that demands to be worshiped. The disproof begins by demonstrating that a being supposedly perfect in goodness that demands to be worshiped cannot exist in reality because those two qualities contradict each other. It uses Descartes' time tested definition of a being to do this. Remember that Descartes said: 'I think therefore I am but how do I know any of my perceptions are valid?' That is, very strictly speaking, it is impossible for us as mere perceivers to know whether any of our perceptions are anything more than part of a dream world that it is our nature to live in. As such, if someone (such as a Biblical type god) comes along and demands that we acknowledge absolutely his existence (in the form of demanding to be worshiped or any other) he is demanding that we do the impossible. Of course demanding that others do the impossible amounts to behaving in a manner that is less than good. However, at the same time a Biblical type god is supposed to be perfect in goodness. Therefore, the concept of a Biblical type god necessitates the self-contradictory notion of a being perfect in goodness behaving in a manner that is less than good. Consequently, the very definition of a Biblical type god is self-contradictory and, as such, a Biblical type god cannot exist in reality.
The disproof further argues that, because we as mere perceivers cannot know whether our perceptions validly reflect any external reality that there might be, we cannot achieve true personal satisfaction (and therefore meaningful development) through our interpretations of them. Accordingly it argues that, as such, true personal satisfaction (and therefore meaningful development) can only be achieved through the internally verifiable degree of effort that we make in attempting to accomplish our objectives. From this it continues that because true personal satisfaction in effort is possible only in good motive true personal satisfaction (and therefore meaningful development) must be subject to the personal conscience.
Finally, it proposes that, because love is founded in selflessness and the desire to inspire others rather than egotism and the desire to hold them prostrate, independently from our perceiver nature, the demand to be worshiped is unconscionable. Then using that true personal satisfaction (and therefore meaningful development) cannot be separated from the personal conscience, it concludes that, in the interest of true personal satisfaction, the perception of anyone making the unconscionable demand to be worshiped must be held repudiated. In this any supposed Biblical god must be held repudiated whether its characteristics are otherwise self-contradictory or not.
John, thanks for the rewording for me. You make sense.
1. A perfect god as defined in the bible contradicts with a god that demands worship.
2. We, as human beings, have imperfect perception, therefore need reason and personal conscience.
3. Love from obligation is unconscionable and worthy of being repudiated.
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use Scalar::Util qw( refaddr );Rather than continuing to copypaste it around some more, can anyone suggest a standard Test:: module that contains it? Failing that, if it's really honestly the case that nobody has yet felt it necessary to provide one, could someone suggest a suitable module to contain it?
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my ( $got, $expected, $name ) = @_;
my $got_addr = refaddr $got;
my $exp_addr = refaddr $expected;
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diag( "Expected $got and $expected to refer to the same object" );
This behaviour cannot be implemented using, say, is( $obj, $expected ) because that will attempt to compare numerical equality, which of course will fail for any object that overloads numberification or numeric comparison operators.


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Translating Poetry: Readings and Conversations (3–4 May 2012)
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William B. Hart Poet-in-Residence Robert Hass, the leading American translator of Polish Nobel Laureate poet Czesław Miłosz, was joined by Polish poets Julia Hartwig and Adam Zagajewski and American translator Clare Cavanagh in a bilingual reading and discussion (in English) of work by poets including Hartwig, Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wisława Szymborska, and Zagajewski.
The second day's events were based on Geoffrey Brock's new anthology The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). Italian poets included Edoardo Albinati, Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Patrizia Cavalli, Franco Loi, Valerio Magrelli, Lucio Mariani, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and AAR Italian Affiliated Fellows Massimo Gezzi and Guido Mazzoni read from their own work, as well as from work by poets including D'Annunzio, Montale, Pavese, Pasolini, Saba, Ungaretti, and Zanzotto. English translations were read by translators including Damiano Abeni, Sarah Arvio, FAAR '04, Geoffrey Brock, Moira Egan, Jamie McKendrick, Anthony Molino and Susan Stewart; Jennifer Scappettone, FAAR '11, read from her translations of Amelia Rosselli. There was also a bilingual reading of poems by Byron, Donne, Anne Carson, Seamus Heaney, Keats, Shakespeare and others as they have been translated by Italian poets, and public conversations, both about translating from Italian into English and about translating from English into Italian.
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Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry in English Translation
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Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: Italy Today - Politics, Culture, and the Economy (18 April, 2012)
Conversations That Matter is a series of public programs that builds on the innovative but often-specialized work that takes place in the studies, studios, lecture hall, library, and auditorium of the American Academy in Rome. The series invites participants to communicate the general relevancy of their work to an audience that reaches beyond the scholarly and artistic fields of the American Academy. The aim of the program is to engage a diverse external audience in the Academy's ongoing scholarly and creative dialogue.
This edition of Conversations That Matter features a discussion on the top political, cultural, and economic challenges currently facing Italy.
American Academy in Rome Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR'94, leads the discussion. Scheduled panelists include:
~ Rachel Donadio, Rome Bureau Chief of The New York Times, responsible for Italy, the Vatican, and the broader southern Mediterranean
~ Miguel Gotor, Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin and editorialist for la Repubblica
~ David I. Kertzer, RAAR'00, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science at Brown University (an authority on Italian history, politics, society, and demographics)
~ Sylvia Poggioli, Senior European Correspondent for the foreign desk of National Public Radio (NPR), covering news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans.
You can view selected highlights from the event here.
Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: The Legacy of the Roman and Mediterranean Past - How Relevant for Contemporary Design? (7 December, 2011)
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You can view the full Conversation below:
Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: Saving Cultural Heritage in Crisis Areas, What Will Really Work? (5 November 2011)
On Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November 2011, a comprehensive conference entitled Saving Cultural Heritage in Crisis Areas was held at the American Academy's splendid 17th century Villa Aurelia with the intent of highlighting the work of a dozen internationally renowned scholars of cultural heritage and cultural property. Their common thread? Highly effective preservation work in zones that faced extreme challenges, whether by conflict, natural disaster, or toxic bureaucracy.
The conference culminated in a lively installment of the Academy's Conversations that Matter, moderated by AAR Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR'94, with Mounir Bouchenaki (Director-General, ICCROM, Rome), C. Brian Rose, FAAR'92, and Laurie Rush, FAAR'11 as featured participants. The 90-minute discussion appears in its entirety below.
Composer Paul Rudy Absorbs Sounds of Rome in New Composition
"This year [2011], Kansas City composer Paul Rudy, also a professor at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, was awarded the Elliot Carter Rome Prize Fellowship. He's been in Rome since the fall. And like many composers before him, Rudy has found a special compositional voice in Rome. Reporter Anna Celenza has caught up with Paul Rudy in Rome, and sent us this report. Rudy returns to Kansas City in August."
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Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: Cosmopolitanism (28 May, 2011)
On Saturday 28 May 2011 the American Academy in Rome hosted a public program on "Cosmopolitanism" in its Conversations That Matter series. AAR Director Christopher S. Celenza,FAAR'94 moderated a wide-ranging discussion that highlighted six current Rome Prize recipients from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Featured in this Conversation are 2011 Academy Fellows Seth Bernard, Stephanie Malia Hom, Ersela Kripa, Stephen Mueller, Stéphanie Nadalo, and Barbara Naddeo, as well as Director Christopher Celenza. Here is a short (5 minute) introduction to the 75 minute program.
Galileo's 400th on the Gianicolo: American Academy in Rome Celebrations (April 2011)
The American Academy's Casa Rustica (in the present Bass Garden) occupies the precise site where, on Thursday 14 April 1611, Galileo made his first demonstration to a learned audience in Rome of his new invention, named on this occasion as the "telescope". To mark the 400th anniversary of this historic achievement, the Academy staged a Conversation on science and faith moderated by Director Christopher S. Celenza (7 April 2011), an exhibition of astronomical instruments from the collection of the Specola Vaticana (7-15 April), and a multimedia "Galileo Cabaret" on the significant date (Thursday 14 April 2011). Finmeccanica generously provided financial support for all of these events. Vittorio Ferrara produced this highlights video.
The Gatteschi Collection: Ancient Rome as Reconstructed in the Photographs of Giuseppe Gatteschi
The Image of Rome that emerges from an examination of the work of Giuseppe Gatteschi takes shape gradually, coming together little by little from different planes of vision. Ancient Rome is "restored" in the archaeologist's meticulous drawings accompanied by photographs of places that have been destroyed or rendered unrecognizable, unrealized projects juxtaposed with urban designs solidified over time, oft-obscure documents next to well-known monuments. Gradually we arrive at an understanding of how Gatteschi's original comparison between "restoration drawings" and "photographs of the current state of the monuments", as developed from the end of the 19th century to the end 1930s, has relevance in our own times, in an era of even stronger contradictions and antagonisms between conservation and modernity. The materials in the Gatteschi collection at the American Academy in Rome bear witness to fervent research and extensive reflection on the reconstruction of monuments and ancient topography. The complex articulation of the architectural and topographical plans contrast with the stereotypical linearity of the architectural reconstructions, drawn by various hands but all conceived by Gatteschi on the basis of Rodolfo Lanciani's topographical interpretations. They reveal the intrinsic difficulty of his enterprise, which was greatly appreciated by his contemporaries but fatally challenged by subsequent archaeological research.
X LOCUS: Conversation Poem
On April 28 and 29, 2011, a public of over 100 saw the cortile of the McKim, Mead and White Building at the American Academy in Rome transformed by a collaborative installation entitled X LOCUS.
X LOCUS featured environmental media by Founders Rome Prize Fellows in Architecture Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, sound by Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition Paul Rudy, and lyrics by Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies Jennifer Scappettone. The installation, a creation of four 2010-2011 AAR Fellows, was on display in the cortile of the McKim, Mead & White building over the course of two evenings, April 28-29, 2011.
A conversation-poem on national, cultural, linguistic and psychological dislocation created by Jennifer Scappettone—installed in the gravelly space inside a moat of liquid loggia projections and sculpted ambient fountain/fowl for X Locus, a collaboration between Scappettone, Paul Rudy, and Stephen Mueller and Ersela Kripa (AGENCY Architecture), held at the courtyard of the American Academy in Rome on April 27-28, 2011.
The sound poem is constructed of interweaving movements approaching the history and actuality of this courtyard, shaped by Columbian Exposition architects McKim, Mead, & White in 1913, lined with playfully pastiched funerary inscriptions within an Academy of national designation on the Janiculum Hill, just inside the Aurelian Walls of historical Rome, traversed below by Trajan's Aqueduct.
In this hybrid neighborhood contoured by the Wall and a sequence of raucous gates, the designations "American" and "Italian" are both housed and continually recast as a looping sequence of never quite arrived-at aspirations, disappointments, researches and desires.
Thanks to the voices of the AAR community—chefs, scholars, architects, composers, poets, baristas, a singer, a sculptor, a painter and installation artist, a filmmaker, a doctor, and various others eluding definition—for the sought and found material of their cherished voices.
Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: Faith and Science (7 April, 2011)
On Thursday 7 April 2011 the American Academy in Rome hosted a public program on "Science and Faith" in its Conversations That Matter series. Academy Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR'94 (pictured above at left) discussed the interrelationship between scientific and religious inquiry with bestselling author Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, astronomer at the Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana). You can view the entire conversation below.
This was the first event in a week-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's demonstration and naming of the "telescope" on Rome's Gianicolo hill (14 April 1611), on what is now the grounds of the American Academy.
Conversations That Matter' Lecture Series: The Future of News in the Digital World (27 July, 2010)
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 the American Academy in Rome and NPR (National Public Radio) co-hosted a public program on "The Future of News in the Digital World." Academy Director Christopher Celenza (FAAR'94) moderated a discussion between Vivian Schiller, President and CEO of NPR, and Sylvia Poggioli, NPR Senior European Correspondent.
The event was live streamed Tuesday 27 July at 6 PM Rome time, with an email forum for questions, that allowed for participation from audiences globally. The program runs for approximately 72 minutes.


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"The story of the gospel's rediscovery and salvation [The Lost Gospel by Herbert Krosney] reads like a Hollywood mystery." –The Boston Globe
Jesus said to Judas: "You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me." –The Gospel of Judas
"Riveting….With the tenacity of a top-flight investigative reporter, Krosney pursued every facet of the discovery and reclamation of the text. With an uncanny knack for piecing together isolated data, he has provided us with scores of details that, were it not for his efforts, would have been lost forever." –Bart D. Ehrman
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Please Step Away from the Star Wars
by imp on May.07, 2010, under games
So this is happening. Sigh. If you like SW:FU, you should just skip to flaming the comments.
The timing of the announcment is interesting as I only recently tried to make myself play it. Steam tarted it about on their front page for fifteen of my dollars, and my resolve lapsed.
The main problem with this game is that it isn't Jedi Knight 3, or Jedi Academy 2, or whatever Raven's next entry in that treasured series might have been. It's just not fair to either of us to keep playing SW:FU like I wish it were something else.
'FU' is certainly an appropriate appelation for this game. Every time I load is a new way for the game to screw me. A giant stormtrooper has a tiny lightsaber and lightsaber-blocking shield on his arm, and that affront to the Star Wars fiction isn't even the bullcrap. When he rears back his arm to swing, I figure cutting his legs off with my lightsaber should be an effective strategy. Not only do his legs not come off, his attack continues uninterrupted. Is the player granted the same courtesy? Of course not. There must have been a transitional period between episodes 3 and 4 where an uncommonly lightsaber proof grade of stormtrooper armor was being produced. Perhaps they were changing vendors or trying to get the costs under control.
And how is the force being unleashed, exactly? Can't we agree that putting "unleashed" at the end of your title doesn't create automatic, vague awesome? In fact, I posit that the opposite is true. Someone must have leashed the force again in the intervening time, to require a second unleashing. I wish they'd quit it.
I wonder who likes quick time events? A lazier game mechanic is hard to imagine. Rather than allowing the player to continue to interact during crucial moments, the game turns into a movie propelled by arbitrary button presses giving the illusion that the player is still involved somehow. I suppose I'm supposed to be on awe of just how much Force is being unleashed at those moments.
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The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathodorus - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 5
Since You have given us the miracles of Your Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson as an invincible rampart, / foil the machinations of the ungodly, O Christ our God, / and strengthen the faith of the Orthodox Christians, / for You are good and love mankind.
Kontakion — Tone 2
The radiant day of the hierarchs and pastors in Cherson has dawned! / Let us sing hymns for the feast of those who suffered for the sheep of Christ! / Hieromartyrs, entreat Christ, the chief Shepherd, that He may number us with the sheep on His right hand, / so that we may cry aloud to you: / Rejoice, holy fathers, for you shed your blood for Christ!


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Oh, Heavenly Father, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all their questions kindly.
Keep me from interrupting them or contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me. Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes or resort to shame or ridicule when they displease me.
May I never punish them for my own selfish satisfaction or to show my power. Let me not tempt my child to lie or steal.
And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness.
Reduce, I pray, the meanness in me. And when I am out of sorts, help me, O Lord, to hold my tongue.
May I ever be mindful that my children are children and I should not expect of them the judgement of adults.
Let me not rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and make decisions.
Bless me with the bigness to grant them all their reasonable requests, and the courage to deny them privileges I know will do them harm.
Make me fair and just and kind.
And fit me, O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated by my children. Amen.
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This Policy states that: Each child shall be cherished and affirmed as a gift from God with an inherent right to dignity of life and bodily integrity which shall be respected, nurtured and protected by all.
1.1. The Archdiocese is committed to safeguarding all children who interact with the Church; Should you wish to read the full policy you can access it on the Archdiocesan website at http://adct.org.za/child-safeguarding-policy-resources/
Our Parish Council has adopted the Child Safeguarding Policy and has begun the implementation of the policy in 2017 through ensuring that all those who are required to have the necessary clearance to minister in the parish have done so. This is an ongoing process and will be repeated each year. The contact details of the Archdiocesan Contact persons are on display in the Parish Centre and the the Church Foyer.'


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The performance of a centrifugal pump is shown by a set of performance curves. The performance curves for a centrifugal pump are shown in figure 1. Head, power consumption, efficiency and NPSH are shown as a function of the flow.
Fig. 1: Typical performance curves for a centrifugal pump. Head, power consumption, efficiency and NPSH are shown as a function of the flow
Normally, pump curves in data booklets only cover the pump part. Because of this, power consumption, the P2-value, listed in data booklets, only covers power going into the pump (see figure 1). The same goes for the efficiency value, which only covers the pump part (η = ηP). In some pump types with integrated motor and perhaps also an integrated frequency converter, e.g., canned motor pumps, the power consumption curve and the η-curve cover both the motor and the pump. In this case it is the P1-value that has to be taken into account.
In general, pump curves are designed according to ISO 9906 Annex A, which specifies the tolerances of the curves:
• η-7%.
Fig. 2: The curves for power consumption and efficiency will normally only cover the pump part of the unit – i.e.,P2 and ηP.
What follows is a brief presentation of the different pump performance curves.
Head, the QH-curve
The QH-curve shows the head the pump is able to perform at a given flow. Head is measured in meter liquid column [mLC]; normally the unit metre [m] is applied. The advantage of using the unit [m] as the unit of measurement for a pump's head is that the QH-curve is not affected by the type of liquid the pump has to handle.
Fig. 3: A typical QH-curve for a centrifugal pump; low flow results in high head and high flow results in low head.
Efficiency, the η-curve
Efficiency is the relation between power supplied and the amount of power actually utilised. In the world of pumps, the efficiency ηP is the relation between the power the pump delivers to the water (PH) and the power input to the shaft (P2 ):
ρ is the density of the liquid in kg/m3,
g is the acceleration of gravity in m/s2,
Q is the flow in m3/h and H is the head in m.
For water at 20°C and with Q measured in m3/h and H in m, the hydraulic power can be calculated as:
As it appears from the efficiency curve, efficiency depends on the pump's duty point. This makes it important to select a pump that fits the flow requirements and ensures that the pump is working in the most efficient flow area.
Power consumption, the P2-curve
The relation between a pump's power consumption and flow is shown in figure 5. The P2-curve of most centrifugal pumps is similar to the one in figure 5, where the P2 value increases when flow increases.
NPSH-curve (Net Positive Suction Head)
The NPSH-value of a pump is the minimum absolute pressure that must be present at the suction side of the pump to avoid cavitation. NPSH-values are measured in [m] and depend on flow; when flow increases, the NPSH-value also increases (see figure 6).


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Visweek 2011 – Telling stories with data
Workshop: Telling Stories With Data
The Telling Stories With Data session was a continuation of last year's session, largely inspired by the Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer paper; "Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data."
Steve Drucker from Microsoft Research talked about his rich interactive narrative player work. The tool uses XML to set up a queue of keyframes with audio narration. It supports audio narration and multimedia embedding.
Wesley Willet talked about supporting ad-hoc storytelling in social media. He raised several technical issues, including the need for interactive visualization state encoding in URLs. This would allow people to link to a specific state in the visualization, and share that state over social media.
Jerome Cukier talked about adding personal connections to visualizations to help audience engagement. He also discussed the importance of providing interaction that lets users feel like they are exploring the dataset and coming to their own conclusions. A significant take- away quote Jerome had is "Trust is not really an exact science."
Sunah Suh framed a discussion about the impact of culture on visualization and visualization on culture. She discussed the multiple forms of literacy beyond just natural language, addressing issues of statistical literacy as well as visual. She raised the point that visualization does not just reflect and rely on societal norms, it also reinforces them. One example she gave was the pink and blue color coding in Baby Name Voyager reinforcing a binary gender concept.
The takeaways from the first half of the session dealt with technical issues of platforms and tools to support narratives, as well as some of the social issues going on in narrative visualizations. Both of these are important issues as narrative visualization finds its place in culture. The necessary tools must be developed to help narrative visualization become ubiquitous, but also there are social issues to be addressed as people come to terms with the new media.
These notes were transcribed by Lane Harrison (@laneharrison) and Drew Skau(@seeingstructure). They are both graduate students at UNCC. Thanks guys!! There were other excellent speakers who presented, but Drew and Lane were presenting in an adjoining session.
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