Sunday, October 15, 2006

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~ Main articles: Flora of Australia and Fauna of Australia

The koala and the eucalyptus forming an iconic Australian pair.Although most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, it covers a diverse range of habitats, from alpine heaths to tropical rainforests. Because of the great age and consequent low levels of fertility of the continent, its extremely variable weather patterns, and its long-term geographic isolation, much of Australia's biota is unique and diverse. About 85% of flowering plants, 84% of mammals, more than 45% of birds, and 89% of in-shore, temperate-zone fish are endemic.[11] Many of Australia's ecoregions, and the species within those regions, are threatened by human activities and introduced plant and animal species. The federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is a legal framework used for the protection of threatened species. Numerous protected areas have been created under the country's Biodiversity Action Plan to protect and preserve Australia's unique ecosystems, 64 wetlands are registered under the Ramsar Convention, and 16 World Heritage Sites have been established. Australia was ranked thirteenth in the World on the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index.

Most Australian woody plant species are evergreen and many are adapted to fire and drought, including many eucalyptus and acacias. Australia has a rich variety of endemic legume species that thrive in nutrient-poor soils because of their symbiosis with Rhizobia bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi. Well-known Australian fauna include monotremes (the platypus and echidna); a host of marsupials, including the kangaroo, koala, wombat; and birds such as the emu, and kookaburra. The dingo was introduced by Austronesian people that traded with Indigenous Australians around 4000 BCE. Many plant and animal species became extinct soon after human settlement, including the Australian megafauna; others have become extinct since European settlement, among them the Thylacine.

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6:27 AM
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6:30 AM
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(( Acts of creation help take you to the next level. Even something as simple as doodling links up parts of your heart, mind and soul in ways you've never seen before. Find a few minutes every day to express yourself.

7:08 AM
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"" (( It is time for some serious progress, which means it's also time to stop playing around. Today you will need to put away your party shoes and put on your work boots. You have got some serious work to do, but it shouldn't be as bad as you fear it will be. As the day goes on you'll get into a rhythm that will take you further than you thought you could go in half the time. So dive right in, and get going -- the sooner you start, the sooner you'll finish! ))

7:10 AM
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7:13 AM
Emerald. said...

(( DMX (Digital MultipleXed) is een protocol dat vooral gebruikt wordt in de licht-techniek.

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Werking
DMX wordt gebruikt als communicatie-bus tussen verschillende apparaten in de lichttechniek. Vaak is dat een lichttafel met enkele dimmerpacks of andere meer ingewikkelde armaturen. Elk apparaat heeft een ingang en een uitgang, zodat de bus door kan lopen tussen de verschillende apparaten. Volgens de standaard gebruikt de bus vijf-aderige kabel met XLR connectoren, maar omdat er vaak al drie-aderige kabels met XLR connector van de geluidstechniek aanwezig waren is de praktijk dat er vaak drie aderige kabels met XLR connectoren gebruikt worden. De overige 2 aders waren oorspronkelijk bedoeld om data van de lichtapparatuur terug te sturen naar de sturende tafel. Dit is echter nooit geimplementeerd. De pinbezetting is als volgt:

7:24 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Dialectiek is in het algemeen gezegd ofwel een redeneervorm die door middel van het gebruik van tegenstellingen naar waarheid probeert te zoeken, dan wel een metafysica, volgens welke zowel het denken als de wereld verandert c.q. zich ontwikkelt, ten gevolge van tegenstellingen. (Hegel, Marx en navolgers) Het begrip heeft een lange geschiedenis in de historie van het westerse denken die nog steeds meeweegt in de betekenis.

In de klassieke tijd was het nog meer dan tegenwoordig een argumentatievorm. Het woord is verwant met het Griekse dialegomai waarin het hedendaagse dialoog nog te herkennen is. Zeno (van Elea) wordt door Aristoteles de uitvinder van de dialectische kunst genoemd maar in zeer brede kring wordt Aristoteles zelf beschouwd als de meester of stichter van de dialectiek, temeer omdat het begrip dialectiek zelf al snel bijna geheel samenviel met dat van de (formele) logica (die van Aristoteles afkomstig is). Kant hanteerde een transcendentale dialectiek en in de tijd van Hegel en Marx kreeg het begrip er een aparte betekenis bij.

7:27 AM
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(( Epic theater assumes that the purpose of a play, more than entertainment or the imitation of reality, is to present ideas and invite the audience to make judgments on them. Characters are not intended to mimic real people, but to represent opposing sides of an argument, archetypes, or stereotypes. The audience should always be aware that it is watching a play, and should remain at an emotional distance from the action; Brecht described this ideal as the Verfremdungseffekt — variously translated as "alienation effect", "defamiliarization effect", or "estrangement effect". It is the opposite of the suspension of disbelief.

This was largely a reaction against other popular forms of theater, particularly the realistic drama pioneered by Konstantin Stanislavski. Like Stanislavski, Brecht disliked the shallow spectacle, manipulative plots, and heightened emotion of melodrama; but where Stanislavski attempted to mirror real human behaviour through the techniques of his Stanislavski System, and to immerse the audience totally into the world of the play, Brecht saw this as another form of escapism. The social/political focus of epic theater was also a departure from the radical theories of Antonin Artaud, who sought to affect audiences on an entirely non-rational level.

7:29 AM
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(( Although it originated in theatre, where conventional three-walled stage sets provide a more literal "fourth wall", the term has been adopted by other media, such as cinema, television, and literature, to more generally refer to the boundary between the fiction and the audience.

The fourth wall is part of the suspension of disbelief between a fictional work and an audience. The audience will usually passively accept the presence of the fourth wall without giving it any direct thought, allowing them to enjoy the fiction as if they were observing real events. The presence of a fourth wall is one of the best established conventions of fiction and as such has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic effect. For instance, in A.R. Gurney's The Fourth Wall, a quartet of characters deal with housewife Peggy's obsession with a blank wall in her house, slowly being drawn into a series of theatre clichés as the furniture and action on the stage become more and more directed to the supposed fourth wall.

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Breaking the fourth wall
The term "breaking the fourth wall" is used in film, theatre, television, and literary works, originating from Bertolt Brecht's theory of "epic theatre" that he developed from (and in contrast to) Konstantin Stanislavski's drama theory. It refers to a character directly addressing an audience, or actively acknowledging (through breaking character or through dialogue) that the characters and action are not real -- in other words, the audience is made explicitly aware of the fact that they are viewing a work of fiction. Various artists have used this jarring effect to make a point, as it forces an audience to see the fiction in a new light and to watch it less passively. Bertolt Brecht was known for deliberately breaking the fourth wall to encourage his audience to think more critically about what they were watching, referred to as Verfremdungseffekt (often translated to "alienation effect"). The phenomenon is also known as "canon puncturing"[1].


Breaking of the fourth wall in the video game, Final Fantasy V.The sudden breaking of the fourth wall is often employed for comical effect, as a sort of visual non-sequitur; the unexpected breaking from normal conventions of narrative fiction can surprise the audience and create humour.

Such exploitation of an audience's familiarity with the conventions of fiction is a key element in many works defined as post-modern, which dismantle established rules of fiction. Works which break or directly refer to the fourth wall often utilize other post-modern devices such as meta-reference or breaking character.

A compromise to the concept often occurs in improvisational theater, in which the audience is asked to interact with the players to some extent, such as by voting on a resolution to a mystery. In that case, the audience members are treated as if they were witnesses to the action in the play, effectively becoming "actors" rather than being a true "fourth wall." This is a major tenet of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.

The fourth wall is sometimes included as part of the narrative, when a character discovers that they are part of a fiction and 'breaks the fourth wall' to make contact with their audience, as seen in films such as the Last Action Hero or The Purple Rose of Cairo. In these situations however, the 'fourth wall' that the character breaks remains part of the overall narrative and the wall between the real audience and the fiction remains intact. These sorts of stories do not actually break the fourth wall in the strictest sense, but are more properly referred to as metafiction, or fiction that refers to the conventions of fiction.

It is arguable that this technique was first employed in the modern sense, (i.e. not in which an actor merely makes a clarifying aside to the audience, or clever implied self-references are made, but rather when the fourth wall is demolished to the point that there no longer remains any significant division between performance and audience, with drama joining reality or the exact opposite depending on one's perspective), in the sensational 1921 premiere of Pirandello's play Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore, wherein six members of the audience at the rehearsal of a play suddenly demand that their stories be told as part of the performance.

7:30 AM
Emerald. said...

"" Mentale afwezigheid of mentaal verzuim is een fenomeen, waarbij de werknemer wel op het werk aanwezig is, maar niet met zijn hoofd bij het werk is. Men verzaakt taken, verantwoordelijkheden en afspraken en de betrokkenheid neemt af. Dit is voor bedrijven een forse schadepost, doordat de werknemer minder werk verricht dan hij zou kunnen en onnodige fouten maakt die achteraf verbeterd moeten worden.

mentaal verzuim is moeilijk te bestrijden, met name als het voorkomt bij moeilijk te vervangen werknemers. Het beste kan een werkgever proberen de oorzaak te achterhalen, en proberen deze weg te nemen. Zo kan hij bijvoorbeeld in het verleden het vertrouwen van de werknemer beschaamd hebben, of hem onheus hebben bejegend. Vaak blijkt het psychologisch contract verbroken te zijn: de werknemer ziet zijn verwachtingen niet beantwoord, en verliest zijn motivatie. De werkgever en de werknemer kunnen in zo'n geval samen kijken hoe dat kan worden opgelost. Wanneer een verbroken psychologisch contract de oorzaak is, kan een nieuw psychologisch contract gesloten worden: werkgever en werknemer moeten dan samen in overleg over de verwachtingen die men ten aanzien van elkaar heeft. Dit kan erg lastig zijn. doordat verwachtingen vaak onbewust zijn en dus niet uitgesproken worden. Om een nieuw positief perspectief te bieden kan gekozen worden voor preventieve coaching. Een andere oplossing is het beëindigen van de arbeidsrelatie.

Mentaal verzuim wordt ook wel anders gezien, namelijk als een normale manier om tijdens het werk te herstellen van geleverde inspanningen. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat werkkevers en werknemers het acceptabel vinden als 10% van de werktijd op gaat aan deze vorm van mentaal verzuim, naast nog eens 10% van de persoonlijke tijd. Daarboven wordt mentaal verzuim als problematisch gezien, omdat mentaal verzuim drie keer zo duur is als ziekteverzuim.

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7:33 AM
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(( Like many big cities in developing countries, Jakarta suffers from major urbanization problems. The population has risen sharply from 1.2 million in 1960 to 5.8 million in 2000, counting only its legal residents. The rapid population growth has outgrown the government's ability to provide basic needs for its residents. As the third biggest economy in Indonesia, Jakarta has attracted a large number of visitors. The population during weekends is almost double that of weekdays, due to the influx of residents residing in other areas of Jabotabek. Because of government's inability to provide adequate transportation for its large population, Jakarta also suffers from severe traffic jams that occur almost every day. Air pollution and garbage management is also a severe problem.

During the wet season, Jakarta suffers from flooding due to clogged sewage pipes and waterways. Rainforest depletion due to rapid urbanization on the highland areas south of Jakarta near Bogor and Depok has also contributed to the floods.

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Sister relationships
Jakarta has sister relationships with a number of towns and regions worldwide:

Beijing, China
Berlin, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey
Los Angeles, United States
state of New South Wales, Australia
Paris, France
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan

7:35 AM
Emerald. said...

(( Famous examples of reliefs include:

Great Altar of Pergamon, now at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Lions and dragons from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon
Temple of Karnak in Egypt
Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Lion Capital of Asoka, the national symbol of India
glyphs and artwork of the Maya civilization
The monument to the Confederacy at Stone Mountain, Georgia
Borobudur temple, Java, Indonesia
The Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon now housed at the British Museum.
The representation of Monticello on a US nickel.

7:48 AM
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(( Examples
Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as an early prototype of the thriller. The hero Odysseus makes a perilous voyage home after the Trojan War, battling extraordinary hardships in order to be reunited with his wife Penelope. He has to contend with villains such as the Cyclops, a one-eyed giant, and the Sirens, whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom. In most cases, Odysseus uses cunning instead of brute force to overcome his adversaries.

The Count of Monte Cristo is a swashbuckling revenge thriller about a man named Edmond Dantès who is betrayed by his friends and sent to languish in the notorious Château d'If. His only companion is an old man who teaches him everything from philosophy to mathematics to swordplay. Just before the old man dies, he reveals to Dantès the secret location of a great treasure. Shortly after, Dantès engineers a daring escape and uses the treasure to reinvent himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. Thirsting for vengeance, he sets out to punish those who destroyed his life.

Dracula is a gothic supernatural thriller told in the first person (diaries, letters, newspaper clippings). A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains to meet a client named Count Dracula. But when the Count shows his horrifying true colours, Harker barely escapes with his life. The Count soon arrives in England, bringing with him death and menace. Harker and his terrified friends are forced to turn to Dr. Van Helsing, who uses modern science to battle ancient superstition.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an early thriller by John Buchan, in which an innocent man becomes the prime suspect in a murder case and finds himself on the run from both the police and enemy spies.

Heart of Darkness is a first-person within a first-person account about a man named Marlowe who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader named Kurtz. Layer by layer, the atrocities of the human soul and man's inhumanity to man are peeled away. Marlowe finds increasingly difficult to tell where civilization ends and where barbarism begins.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre is set in the world of Cold War espionage and helped to usher in an era of more realistic thriller fiction, based around professional spies and the battle of wits between rival spymasters.

The Bourne Identity is one of the first thrillers to be written in the modern style that we know today. A man with gunshot wounds is found floating unconscious in the Mediterranean Sea. Brought ashore and nursed back to health, he wakes up with amnesia. Fiercely determined to uncover the secrets of his past, he embarks on a quest that sends him spiraling into a web of violence and deceit. He is astounded to learn that knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, firearms, and tradecraft seem to come naturally to him.

First Blood is widely considered to be the father of the modern action novel. A young Vietnam veteran, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, encounters an older sheriff who is a Korean War veteran. When the sheriff tries to drive him out of town, a version of the Vietnam War erupts in the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky. This becomes not only a clash of generations, but also a clash between conventional and guerrilla warfare.

Other examples of the thriller in literature and film include The Hunt for Red October, The Day of the Jackal, The Da Vinci Code, and Jurassic Park. Novelists closely associated with the genre include Robert Ludlum, David Morrell, Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown, James Phelan, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, Ian Fleming, and Alistair MacLean.

24 is a fast-paced television series with a premise inspired by the War on Terror. Each season takes place over the course of twenty-four hours, with each episode happening in "real time". Featuring a split-screen technique and a ticking onscreen clock, 24 follows the exploits of Federal agent Jack Bauer as he races to foil terrorist threats.

The Manchurian Candidate is a classic of Cold War paranoia. A squad of American soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed by Communists. False memories are implanted, along with a subconscious trigger that turns them into assassins at a moment's notice. They are soon reintegrated into American society as sleeper agents. One of them, Major Bennett Marco, senses that not all is right, setting him on a collision course with his former comrade Sergeant Raymond Shaw, who is close to being activated as an assassin.

Phone Booth is a thriller about a selfish man trapped in a phone booth by a deranged sniper. Framed for the murder of a pimp, he finds himself surrounded by police who have no idea of the sniper's presence.

Ronin is a suspenseful tale of conflicting loyalties. A team of post-Cold War mercenaries gather in France to carry out an ambush and steal a mysterious suitcase. The mission goes awry when the group turn on each other. The contents of the suitcase are never revealed but it is something worth killing for.

Other examples of the thriller in movies include: Red Eye, The Hunt for Red October, Psycho, North by Northwest, In the Line of Fire, The Fugitive, The Silence of the Lambs and Marathon Man.

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