2021年5月20日 星期四

panorama, panoramic photography, Multi-perspective Panorama, unemployment benefits, soft spot, jurisdiction, mishap,overcast, Built Environment

可能是一或多人、道路和街道的圖像
凌宗魁在 TAIWAN 相簿中新增了 1 張相片

袁廣鳴/2001/〈城市失格-西門町〉/北美館典藏品
「乍看是一張單純的相片,卻是藝術家花費將近兩個月的時間,以西門町為定點,拍攝近三百多張的底片,將沒有人車的局部影像,運用科技技術的剪下、貼上,重新拼湊成一張看不出任何破綻的攝影作品。藝術家透過影像技術,將繁華喧囂的西門町,轉變成空無一人的劇場,不具備任何功能性,令人重新思考城市的本質。」
以此作為題目的碩士論文
陳文瑤/2002/《無人城市的騙局之外— 談袁廣鳴個展「人間失格」》
臺灣加油
我們正一起進行一項艱難但必要的集體創作





Howard Chang

多點透視攝影
在同一條街道上,每隔兩三米拍攝一張垂直照片,以保留更多的細節,然後以重叠的方式拍攝景物,然後再交由後期製作處理,縫合(stitch)成寬闊的單幅全景照片,一張照片大概由15至20張照片縫合而成,最多更試過40張相片。



THESTANDNEWS.COM
多點透視全景 紀錄消失中的唐樓 | 顯影 PhotogStory | 立場新聞
全景照片能將廣闊的視野呈現在寬幅畫面上,在風景攝影裏很常見,時下許多相機及手機都已具備這功能,...



Hanching Chung

請問"多點透視攝影"的英文

Howard Chang

正式應該叫 "多點透視全景" Multi-perspective Panorama





 

A staggering 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, on top of the 3.3 million who applied the week before. That number doesn’t even tell the full story, given the huge backlogs that prevented many newly unemployed Americans from filing over the past two weeks. That’s over 10 million Americans who have lost their income — and that number will only continue to grow. Economists project the unemployment rate has jumped to 10 percent — for context, the unemployment rate hit 10 percent for only one month during the Great Recession era.
This is why the emergency relief package passed last week is so woefully insufficient. How is a one-time check of just $1,200 supposed to help the 10 MILLION Americans with no income, no health insurance, and no way to pay their bills? The next piece of legislation must provide universal and monthly assistance to every American for the duration of the crisis, and must fully cover coronavirus testing and treatment with no out-of-pocket costs. If Congress doesn’t act, we will be mired in a drawn-out economic and public health crisis on a scale we have never seen before.
Who is regulating frantic trading in bitcoin? No one, it turns out.
Who Regulates Bitcoin Trading? No U.S. Agency Has Jurisdiction
While regulators don't oversee primary trading in bitcoin, the Commodity…
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The Guardian

David Cameron’s father took detailed legal advice about the pros and cons of different tax havens before the fund he had helped set up was transferred to Ireland, the Guardian can reveal. The move to Ireland came in the same month as Cameron, by then prime minister, was railing against tax avoidance schemes, saying “some of these schemes we have seen are quite frankly morally wrong.”

Panama Papers show Ian Cameron apparently ‘jurisdiction shopping’ for…
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The economic stimulus bill facing key votes in Congress would provide enough money to modernize more than 300 schools in the District, Maryland and Virginia and would boost unemployment benefits to more than half a million people in those jurisdictions hurt by the recession, according to White House...
(By Mary Beth Sheridan and Michael Laris, The Washington Post)



人造環境 Built Environment
《紐約時報》將下文的School of the Built Environment翻譯成”建築學院”(可能受到北京清華的說法之影響?) ,是錯誤的。因為我們到該校簡介,可以知道它的大學部包括四系: 建築工程,土木工程,營建管理暨評價,都市研究等。
We offer broad undergraduate education in four distinct, yet complementary disciplines: Architectural Engineering; Civil Engineering; Construction Management and Surveying; and Urban Studies.

Boston, February 26, 2009 – Emerging alternatives to the shareholder-centric model — at Grameen Danone Foods, the John Lewis Partnership, Novo Nordisk, and elsewhere — could help companies avoid ethical mishaps and contribute more to the world at large.


Suit to Halt Big Collider in Europe Is Dismissed

Published: September 29, 2008

A federal judge in Honolulu has dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the running of a giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, dodging the issue of whether it could actually cause the end of the world.

The judge, Helen Gillmor, said in her ruling Friday that the court lacked jurisdiction over the Large Hadron Collider, which is located on the Swiss-French border and was built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, with help from the United States and dozens of other countries.
When it is operating at full steam, the collider, which started circulating protons earlier this month before a series of mishaps shut it down for the winter, will accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts and slam them together in search of particles and forces not seen since the early moments of the Big Bang.
Last spring, Walter Wagner, a retired radiation safety officer who lives in Hawaii, and Luis Sancho, a science writer and professor in Barcelona, filed the lawsuit, claiming that the collider could produce a black hole that could eat the Earth or cause some other calamitous effect. Predictions of such outcomes have been refuted in safety studies.
This summer, for example, a report by a panel of physicists appointed by CERN concluded that the collider would not produce anything that billions of years of high-energy cosmic collisions had not produced.
Mr. Wagner and Mr. Sancho sued CERN, the United States Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Federal District Court in Hawaii. The Energy Department and the science foundation have contributed about $531 million of the collider’s estimated cost of $8 billion.
Judge Gillmor decided that the fraction paid by the United States was too small for the collider to constitute a “major federal action,” as defined by the National Environmental Policy Act, and so the court lacked jurisdiction on environmental grounds.
In an e-mail message, Mr. Sancho said, “The lawsuit was an unbelievable success in that it put the collider issue on the intellectual agenda.” Mr. Sancho also said that the most recent and thorough safety report would not have been done without their pressure. “The study was not perfect, but at least the safety factors on which CERN is relying are not quite as bad,” he said.
Judge Gillmor said the claim of planetary apocalypse was “a complex debate” of concern to more than just physicists. Noting that Congress had approved the money for the collider, she suggested that arguments about its effects would be more appropriately aired in a political arena than in a judicial one.
“Neither the language nor the history of NEPA,” she wrote, referring to the National Environmental Policy Act, “suggest that it was intended to give citizens a general opportunity to air their policy objections to proposed federal actions.”



His panoramas integrate broad swaths of natural terrain, urban architecture and symbols of culture, and Mr. Leong said architectural history courses at Berkeley had a great influence on how he sees the built environment...

He shot his panoramic image of Cairo from this ancient trash heap, now a park on a hill. He returned three times before the lighting conditions provided the tonal quality he sought. The best conditions for his preferred evenness of light occur either at noon, when the fewest shadows are cast, or when it is overcast. “When things fall into deep shadow, it is more difficult to capture a detail,” he said.

The Courier-Mail understands the draft policy bans free or discounted fast-food and alcoholic drinks at bars inside an officer’s jurisdiction.
《信使郵報》了解,這項草案政策禁止警員在其轄區內的酒吧享有免費或打折的快餐與酒精飲料。
unemployment benefits
In the United States, policies vary by state, but unemployment benefits will usually pay eligible workers up to $450 per week. Benefits are generally paid by state governments, funded in large part by state and federal payroll taxes paid by employers.2019/09/02
Unemployment Compensation - Investopedia



jurisdiction 
noun [U]
the authority of an official organization to make and deal with especially legal decisions:
The court has no jurisdiction in/over cases of this kind.
School admissions are not under/within our jurisdiction.

━━ n. 裁判[司法]権; 支配権, 権力, 管轄権[区域].

jurisdiction

  • [dʒùərisdíkʃən]
[名][U]
1 裁判権;管轄権, (…への)権限, 支配権((over ...))
territorial jurisdiction
領有支配権.
2 法域:司法権の及ぶ範囲.
3 管轄区域
That's not our jurisdiction
うちの管轄じゃない.

Panorama
Some words seem to vibrate with the very spirit of the meaning they denote. “Panorama” is one of these; its very rhythm seems in harmony with the wide, mountain-top vistas, boundless horizons, and unblinkered breadth of vision for which it stands. That the word (which literally means ‘all-seeing’) should have entered the world’s lexicon around 1789, a year synonymous with the collapse of that notorious cultural enclosure, Paris’s prison-fortress the Bastille, seems entirely appropriate to panorama’s emancipating vibe. How ironic, then, to discover that the word was initially attached to an entirely confined experience: a cylindrical painting that imprisons its audience – an indoor visual contraption devised by the Irish artist Robert Barker. 


panorama 
noun [C]
1 a view of a wide area:
From the hotel roof you can enjoy a panorama of the whole city.

2 a view, description or study of events or activities:
The investigation revealed a panorama of corruption and illegal dealings.

panoramic 
adjective
a wonderful panoramic view of the countryside

pan・o・ram・a

 
━━ n. パノラマ; 全景, 広々とした眺め; 全景画[写真]; 概観; (事件の)全容; つぎつぎに変る光景; (P-) パノラマ (((1)米国のテレビ討論番組.(2)英国の時事問題を扱うテレビ番組)).
 pan・o・ram・ic ━━ a.

overcast
adjective
cloudy and therefore not bright and sunny:
The sky/weather was overcast.
a depressing, overcast winter morning━━ vt. 雲でおおう; 暗くする; (生地の)へりをかがる.
━━  a. 曇った; 暗い ((with)); へりをかがった.
━━  n. 一面の雲; 曇天; 縁(ふち)かがり.


Spectrum | 30.09.2008 | 04:30

President George W. Bush and the "Blue Legacy"

US president George Bush has never been regarded as a friend of the environment. But he does seem to have a soft spot for the oceans.

In 2006 he established the North-western Hawaiian Islands National Monument, the world’s largest protected marine zone. Now in the twilight of his presidency, he intends to establish what has been rightly called a historic “Blue Legacy”. He has directed his staff to evaluate proposals to protect hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean that are under US jurisdiction. On the table are areas around the Mariana Islands, the Rose Atoll, as well as the islands Kingman, Johnston, Jarvis, Howland und Baker. This initiative would catapult the US to the forefront of a new international trend in ocean conservation: the creation of marine parks. Madeleine Amberger has this report.

mishap
noun [C or U]
bad luck, or an unlucky event or accident:
The parade was very well organised and passed without mishap.
A series of mishaps led to the nuclear power plant blowing up.

soft spot

n.
  1. A tender or sentimental feeling: has a soft spot for stray animals.
  2. A weak or vulnerable point: a soft spot in the nation's defense strategy.
  3. See fontanel.

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