恭禧发财

John William Waterhouse

Arvin Chen

Hong Kong

A Study in Emerald

Big Day Out

Diagrammatic Writing

IF U DONT LOVE THE MOON YOUR AN ASS HOLE

Pakistan Railways v Dera Ismail Khan

Pakistan Railways v Dera Ismail Khan

First-class match | 1964/65 season

Played at Railways Moghalpura Institute Ground, Lahore 2,3,4 December 1964 (3-day match)    

Pakistan Railways 1st innings		Runs
Ijaz Hussain†	c & b Fazal Matin	124
Saeed Butt	c & b Anwar Khan	20
Javed Babar	b Inayatullah	200
Pervez Akhtar	not out	337
Irshad Mirza	c †Jamil Ahmed b Qaiser Khan	20
Rasheed Shahab	c Javed Khan b Anwar Khan	19
Afaq Khan	b Anwar Khan	45
Mohammad Sharif	not out	106
Extras    (b ?, lb ?, w ?, nb ?)		39
Total      (6 wickets dec; 172 overs)		910 (5.29 runs per over)
Did not bat Bashir Haider*, Ahad Khan, Nazir Khan
Fall of wickets 1-44, 2-288, 3-426, 4-499, 5-548, 6-662

               

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Inayatullah	59	2	279	1	4.72
Anwar Khan	46	3	295	3	6.41
Fazal Matin	22	1	110	1	5.00
Qaiser Khan	43	2	175	1	4.06
Taimur Hasan	2	0	12	0	6.00

 

Dera Ismail Khan 1st innings		Runs
Taimur Hasan	b Bashir Haider	0
Jamil Ahmed†	b Afaq Khan	0
Javed Khan	b Afaq Khan	0
Zain Yar	b Afaq Khan	6
Qaiser Khan	obstructing the field	3
Tariq Afridi	c & b Bashir Haider	5
Maqbool Arif	b Afaq Khan	0
Mohammad Hanif	b Afaq Khan	4
Anwar Khan	not out	11
Inayatullah	b Afaq Khan	0
Fazal Matin*	b Afaq Khan	0
Extras    (b ?, lb ?, w ?, nb ?)		3
Total      (all out; 15.3 overs)		32(2.06 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-0, 3-1, 4-9, 5-17, 6-17, 7-17, 8-26, 9-30, 10-32

 

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Bashir Haider	8	5	15	2	1.87
Afaq Khan	7.3	4	14	7	1.86

 

Dera Ismail Khan 2nd innings (following on)		Runs
Taimur Hasan	b Ahad Khan	0
Jamil Ahmed†	run out	10
Javed Khan	lbw b Ahad Khan	1
Zain Yar	b Ahad Khan	3
Qaiser Khan	st †Ijaz Hussain b Ahad Khan	0
Tariq Afridi	b Ahad Khan	0
Maqbool Arif	not out	7
Mohammad Hanif	b Ahad Khan	0
Anwar Khan	c & b Ahad Khan	2
Inayatullah	b Ahad Khan	0
Fazal Matin*	b Ahad Khan	2
Extras    (b ?, lb ?, w ?, nb ?)		2
Total      (all out; 12.3 overs)		27(2.16 runs per over)
Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-1, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-15, 7-15, 8-18, 9-18, 10-27

      

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Ahad Khan	6.3	4	7	9	1.07
Nazir Khan	6	2	18	0	3.00

 

Match details

Toss Pakistan Railways, who chose to bat

Umpires Amanullah Khan and Muzaffar Ali

Close of play

Wed, 2 Dec         - day 1 - Pakistan Railways 1st innings 415/2 (Javed Babar 195*, Pervez Akhtar 63*)

Thu, 3 Dec           - day 2 - Pakistan Railways 1st innings 825/6 (Pervez Akhtar 301*, Mohammad Sharif 58*)

Fri, 4 Dec              - day 3 - Dera Ismail Khan 2nd innings 27 (12.3 ov) - end of match

 

Pakistan Railways won by an innings and 851 runs

Manuscript of Orwell's Introduction to the reprint of Jack London's 'Love of Life and other stories' [1945]

Horace by Dryden

Book One, IX,

Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounts of snow:
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below'
And streams with icy fetters bound
Benumbed and cramped to solid ground.

With well-heaped logs dissolve the cold
And feed the genial hearth with fires;
Produce the wine that makes us bold,
And spritely wit and love inspires;
For what hereafter shall betide
God (if 'tis worth His care) provide.

Let Him alone with what He made,
To toss and turn the world below;
At His command the storms invade,
The winds by His commission blow;
Till with a nod He bids them cease
And then the calm returns and all is peace.

Tomorrow and its works defy;
Lay hold upon the present hour,
And snatch the pleasures passing by
To put them out of Fortune's power;
Nor love nor love's delights disdain –
Whate'er thou getts't today, is gain.

Secure those golden early joys
That youth unsoured with sorrow bears,
Ere with'ring time the taste destroys
With sickness and unwieldy years.
For active sports, for pleasing rest.
This is the time to be posesst;
The best is but in season best.

Th'appointed hour of promised bliss,
The pleasing whisper in the dark,
The half-unwilling willing kiss,
The laugh that guides thee to the mark,
When the kind nymph would coyness feign
And hides but to be found again –
These, these are joys the gods for youth ordain.

Artsy 2013

The Seventh Seal

24 hours happy

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Wijk aan Zee

Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton

Zhou Youguang

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/world/asia/a-voice-of-dissent-in-china-that-took-its-time.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://blog.sina.com.cn/zhouyouguang

Zhou Youguang, the main architect and early advocate of Hanyu Pinyin (the official romanized orthography for Modern Standard Mandarin), had his 108th birthday yesterday. Although I've been a close friend and admirer of Professor Zhou since 1981, I've never dedicated a Language Log post exclusively to him, so it's about time that I do so.

Mostly, this post will consist of pertinent links, but first just a few notes:

1. Zhou xiansheng (xs) still writes every day — sharp as ever.

2. He types (Pinyin inputting, of course) on a tiny Sharp typewriter that he helped design (uses floppy disks for storage).

3. He tells me that one of his secrets of longevity is to sleep whenever he feels like it and get up and work whenever he feels like doing so.

4. He still lives in the same apartment where I first visited him in 1981 and which is described by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones.

5. Zhou xs was responsible for ensuring that the entries in the Chinese edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Hànyǔ dà bǎikē quánshū 汉语大百科全书 Great Chinese Encyclopedia are in alphabetical order. This, I believe, is a major achievement that eventually will have a monumental impact on the way Chinese view their own language.

6. One of the most dogeared books in his library is a volume published about 30+ (?) years ago listing (with short biographies) the most eminent linguists of China. Every time I go to visit him, he pulls it out and shows me — year after year — that all the others have passed away. Then he smiles and chuckles in his inimitable way, and says, "I wonder how long I'll last". Whereupon I say, "There's no limit, Zhou xiansheng. Just keep studying and writing and sleeping and studying and writing."

HTML GIANT

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Peak hipster

23 Envelope

23 Envelope was the name given to the graphic design partnership of graphic designer Vaughan Oliver and photographer/filmmaker Nigel Grierson from 1983-1988. During this time, they created a distinct visual identity for the British independent music label 4AD through their record sleeve designs for bands such as Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, and This Mortal Coil.

The Four Trillionth Human

The midnight sun was low on the horizon, when, on a crowded hillside on the Antarctic plateau, the four trillionth human was born. A boy.

The event passed with little notice from the thousands of brown, naked people surrounding them. They carried on sitting or standing or staring vacantly at the person next to them or the muddy red sky overhead. Every here and there a couple had remembered their primal urges and were fucking vigorously in the dust, a brief firecracker of energy that dissipated quickly into the apathy of the crowd.

Even the mother paid the boy little attention, glancing briefly at the mewling infant at her feet before wandering off into the throng. There was no need, the boy’s body had already rejected the umbilical cord, sealing off his final connection to his parent as the skin on his stomach healed over itself. Instinctively he rolled out of the shade of the man standing near him and lay still in the cold rays of the sun.

**

His earliest memories were of dust. It coated everything, like a gritty extra skin that couldn’t be shed. He licked it, crawled in it, grabbed up handfuls of it and shouted and threw it at the legs that surrounded him. No response. Alone, a brief, ancient fear would pulse in the back of his mind, only to be smothered by a warm glow as the backup system engineered into his brain released its chemical load, causing him to simply lie there quietly. Neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired nor alarmed.

**

As he grew taller his mind’s curiosity subsided. Synapses stopped firing as his brain rewired itself to enlarge the pleasure centres. By puberty his mind was in an almost constant state of euphoria. The people around him fading into insignificance. The only instinct that would cut through now was when he saw a female. After briefly growling at each other they would fall to the ground and rut for a few minutes before rolling off again, instantly forgetting what had just happened.

**

His tenth winter was when things changed. Deep in the recesses of his cortex a new connection formed – instructed by a random mutation in his junk DNA. Unpredictable but inevitable. He stood in the dark as the darkness lifted from his consciousness and as the sun rose a month later, he looked at it as if for the first time. The light revealed he was standing in the centre of a small, circular depression about a hundred yards across. The edges of the depression sloped up sharply to the ridge line around the circumference. The basin was packed – at least five thousand people stood shoulder to shoulder all around him.

For the first time in several years, the fear returned. Small at first, but, finding its old foe had vanished, it quickly spread its wings into a full blown panic. He had to get out of this crowd; pushing forward through the masses, he knocked over uncomplaining statues as he struggled up the slope to the ridge-line.

As he crested the ridge he paused. On the far side the ground fell away in a sheer cliff. At the bottom, a vast plain spread out past the horizon – covered with people. Millions upon millions of them, jammed together and clothed only in the dust thrown up by their movements.

He landed with a thump at the base of the cliff, but he did not die. Immediately, long dormant cells kicked into gear, miniature organic repair machines began suturing torn organs and knitting broken bones. But the lynchpin to the repair system, the soothing release from pain could not stop the panic that flooded his body, interrupting signals and beginning the final cardiac arrest in the perfectly designed heart. The system began to fail irretrievably.

As he stared at the press of faces above him, his first, and final, independent thought was the realisation they were all identical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country_skiing_at_the_1928_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_50_km

January Makamba

January Makamba is Tanzania's deputy minister for communication, science and technology. In 2009, President Kikwete introduced him to Barack Obama, who was much taken by his dynamism, observing that he was the sort of politician likely to help transform the fortunes of the continent.


Makamba is an interesting combination of old and new Africa. He attended university in the US, but explains that, although he is the son of a teacher, politician and public servant, it was the time spent in Tanzania's rural areas as a child that most influenced his development. "The most rewarding experience was living with my grandmother. The daily routine was testing – I'd wake at 5am, walk 8km to school, come home at 3pm and go out to herd goats." This gave him, he feels, the "empathy needed for good decision-making".

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones

Distribution Map of the Azure-winged Magpie

Hasselblad 500C

The Hasselblad 500C was introduced in 1957 by the Victor Hasselblad AB, replacing the original focal plane shutter models 1600F and 1000F, which, despite the novel concept never got rid of the problems associated with the shutter. Realizing this, Hasselblad decided to start almost from scratch in order to make a more reliable model. It was a major decision for the company to create a completely new camera, only keeping the physical shape of the original, while everything inside would be new. The single inspiring factor was the promising new Compur shutter, based on Zeiss Ikon’s Contaflex experience, and the fact that Zeiss committed them selves to manufacture the new range of lenses. The shutter would be an integral part of every interchangeable Hasselblad lens. The new design meant electronic flash synchronization at all shutter speeds, and automatic aperture stop down, the latter one year before the first 35mm SLR, the Minolta SR-2. The new model name 500C reflects the fastest shutter speed and the shutter type, already an established practice: a 1/500th second and the Central lens shutter made by Compur.

'Pataphysics - How to Construct a Time Machine

I. The Nature of the Medium

A Time Machine, that is, a device for exploring Time, is no more difficult to conceive of than a Space Machine, whether you consider Time as the fourth dimension of Space or as a locus essentially different because of its contents.

Ordinarily, Time is defined as the locus of events, just as Space is the locus of bodies. Or it is defined simply as succession, whereas Space -- (this will apply to all spaces: Euclidean or three-dimensional space; four-dimensional space implied by the intersection of several three-dimensional spaces; Riemannian spaces, which, being spheres, are closed, since the circle is a geodesic line on the sphere of the same radius; Lobatchevski's spaces, in which the plane is open; or any non-Euclidean space identifiable by the fact that it will not permit the construction of two similar figures as in Euclidean space) Space is defined by simultaneity.

Every simultaneous segment of Time is extended and can therefore be explored by machines that travel in Space. The present is extended in three dimensions. If one transports oneself to any point in the past or the future, this point will be present and extended in three directions as long as one occupies it.

Reciprocally, Space, or the Present, has the three dimensions of Time: space traversed or the past, space to come or the future, and the present proper.

Space and Time are commensurable. To explore the universe by seeking knowledge of points in Space can be accomplished only through Time; and in order to measure Time quantitatively, we refer to Space intervals on the dial of a chronometer. 

Space and Time, being of the same nature, may be conceived of as different physical states of the same substance, or as different modes of motion. Even if we accept them only as different forms of thought, we see Space as a solid, a rigid system of phenomena; whereas it has become a banal poetic figure to com pare Time to a flowing stream, a liquid in uniform rectilinear motion. Any internal obstruction of the flow of the mobile molecules of the liquid, any increase in viscosity is nothing other than consciousness.

*

Since Space is fixed around us, in order to explore it we must move in the vehicle of Duration. In kinematics Duration plays the part of an independent variable, of which the coordinates of the points considered are a function. Kinematics is a geometry in which events have neither past nor future. The fact that we create that distinction proves that we are carried along through them.


We move in the direction of Time and at the same speed, being ourselves part of the Present. If we could remain immobile absolute Space while Time elapses, if we could lock our selves inside a Machine that isolates us from Time (except for the small and normal "speed of duration" that will stay with us because of inertia), all future and past instants could be explored successively, just as the stationary spectator of a panorama has the illusion of a swift voyage through a series of landscapes. (We shall demonstrate later that, as seen from the Machine, the Past lies beyond the Future.) 

II. Theory of the Machine

A Machine to isolate us from Duration, or from the action of Duration (from growing older or younger, the physical drag which a succession of motions exerts on an inert body) will have to make us "transparent" to these physical phenomena, allow them to pass through us without modifying or displacing us. This isolation will be sufficient (in fact it would be impos sible to design it any more efficiently) if Time, in overtaking us, gives us a minimal impulse just great enough to compensate for the deceleration of our habitual duration conserved by inertia. This slowing down would be due to an action comparable to the viscosity of a liquid or the friction of a machine.

To be stationary in Time means, therefore, to pass with im punity through all bodies, movements, or forces whose locus will be the point of space chosen by the Explorer for the point of departure of his Machine of Absolute Rest or Time Machine. Or one can think of oneself as being traversed by these events, as a projectile passes through an empty window frame without damaging it, or as ice re-forms after being cut by a wire, or as an organism shows no lesion after being punctured by a sterile needle. 

The Time Explorer's Machine must therefore:

1) Be absolutely rigid, or in other words, absolutely elastic, in order to penetrate the densest solid as easily as an infinitely rarified gas.

2) Have weight in order to remain stationary in Space, yet remain sufficiently independent of the diurnal movement of the Earth to maintain an invariable orientation in absolute Space; and as a corollary, although it has weight, the Machine must be incapable of falling if the ground gives way beneath it in the course of the voyage.

3) It must be nonmagnetic so as not to be affected (we shall see why later on) by the rotation of the plane of polarization of light. 

*

An ideal body exists which fulfills the first of these conditions: the Luminiferous Ether. It constitutes a perfect elastic solid, for wave motion is propagated by it at the well-known speed; it is penetrable by any body or penetrates any body with out measurable effect, since the Earth gravitates within it as in empty space.

But -- and here lies its only similarity to the circular body or Aristotelian ether -- it is not by nature heavy; and, as it turns as a whole, it determines the magnetic rotation discovered by Faraday.
Now one common machine known to us all provides a per fect model for the luminiferous ether and satisfies the three postulates.

Let us briefly recall the constitution of the luminiferous ether. It is an ideal system of material particles acting on one another by means of springs without mass. Each molecule is mechanic ally the envelope of a coil spring whose ends are attached to those of neighboring molecules. A push or a pull on the last molecule will produce a vibration through the entire system, exactly as does the advancing front of a luminous wave.

The structure of this system of springs is analogous to the circulation without rotation of infinitely extensive liquids througll infinitely small openings, or to a system consisting of rigid rods and rapidly rotating flywheels mounted on all or some of those rods. 

The system of springs differs from the luminiferous ether only because it has weight and does not turn as a whole, any more than would the ether in a field without magnetic force.

If one keeps increasing the angular velocity of the flywheels, or if one keeps tightening the springs, the periods of elementary vibrations will become shorter and shorter and the ampli tacte weaker and weaker. The movements will increasingly resemble those of a perfectly rigid system formed of material points mobile in Space and turning according to the well known law of rotation of a rigid body having equal moments of in ertia around its three principal axes.
In sum, the element of perfect rigidity is the gyrostat or gyroscope.

*

Everyone is familiar with those square or round copper frames containing a flywheel spinning rapidly around an in terior axis. By virtue of its rotation, the gyrostat maintains its equilibrium in any position. If we displace the center of gravity a little out of the vertical of the point of support, it will turn in azimuth without falling. The azimuth is the angle subtended between the meridian and a plane determined by the vertical and a given fixed point -- a star for example.

When a body rotates around an axis one of whose points is carried along with the diurnal motion of the earth, the direc tion of its axis remains fixed in absolute Space; so that for an observer carried along without his awareness in this diurnal motion, that axis appears to turn uniformly around the axis of the earth, exactly as would a parallactic telescope constantly pointed at a particular star low down on the horizon.

Three rapidly rotating gyrostats with shafts parallel to the three dimensions of space would produce a condition of cubic rigidity. The Explorer seated in the machine would be mechanically sealed in a cube of absolute rigidity, capable of penetrating any body without modification just like the luminiferous ether.

We have just seen that the Machine maintains an invariable orientation in absolute Space, but related to the diurnal move ment of the Earth so as to have a reference point to determine time traveled.

Finally, the Machine has no magnetized parts as its description will show. 

III. Description of the Machine

The Machine consists of an ebony frame, similar to the steel frame of a bicycle. The ebony members are assembled with soldered copper mountings.

The gyrostats' three tori (or flywheels), in the three perpen dicular planes of Euclidean space, are made of ebony cased in cop per, mounted on rods of tightly rolled quartz ribbons (quartz ribbons are made in the same way as quartz wire), and set in quartz sockets.

The circular frames or the semicircular forks of the gyro stats are made of nickel. Under the seat and a little forward are located the batteries for the electric motor. There is no iron in the Machine other than the soft iron of the electromagnets. 

Motion is transmitted to the three flywheels by ratchet-boxes and chain-drives of quartz wire, engaged in three cogwheels, each of which lies on the same plane as its corresponding fly wheel. The chain-drives are connected to the motor and to each other through bevel gears and driveshafts. A triple brake controls all three shafts simultaneously.

Each turn of the front wheel triggers a lever attached to a pulley system, and four ivory dials, either separate or concentric, register the days in units, thousands, millions, and hundreds of millions. A separate dial remains in contact with the diurnal movement of the Earth through the lower extremity of the axis of the horizontal gyrostat.

A lever, controlled by an ivory handle and moving in a longitudinal or parallel direction to the Machine, governs the motor speed. A second handle slows the advance of the Machine by means of an articulated rod. It will be seen that a re turn from future to present is accomplished by slowing down the Machine, and that travel into the past is obtained by a speed even greater than that used for movement into the future (so as to produce a more perfect immobility of duration). In order to stop at any determined point in Time, there is a lever to lock the triple brake.

When the Machine is at rest, two of the circular frames of the gyrostats are tangential to the ground. In operation, since the gyrostatic cube cannot be drawn into rotation or at least is held to the angular motion determined by a constant couple, the Machine swings freely in azimuth on the extremity of the horizontal gyrostatic axis. 

IV. Functioning of the Machine

By gyrostatic action, the Machine is transparent to successive intervals of time. It does not endure or "continue to be," but rather conserves its contents outside of Time, sheltered from all phenomena. If the Machine oscillates in Space, or even if the Explorer is upside down, he still sees distant objects normally and constantly in the same position, for since everything nearby is transparent, he has no point of reference.

Since he experiences no duration, no time elapses during a voyage no matter how long it is, even if he has made a stop outside the Machine. We have said that he does not undergo the passage of time except in the sense of friction or viscosity, an interval practically equivalent to that he would have passed through without ever entering the Machine.

Once set in motion, the Machine always moves toward the future. The Future is the normal succession of events; an apple is on the tree; it will fall. The Past is the inverse order: the apple falls from the tree. The Present is non-existent, a tiny fraction of a phenomenon, smaller than an atom. The physical size of an atom is known to be 1.5 x 10^-8 centimeters in diameter. No one has yet measured the fraction of a solar second that is equal to the Present.

Just as in Space a moving body must be smaller than its containing medium, the Machine, in order to move in duration, must be shorter in duration than Time, its containing medium -- that is, it must be more immobile in the succession of events.

Now the Machine's immobility in Time is directly proportional to the rate of rotation of its gyrostats in Space.

If t stands for the future, the speed in space or the slowness of duration necessary to explore the future will have to be a temporal quantity, V, such that

V < t. 

Whenever V approaches 0, the Machine veers back to the Present.

Movement into the Past consists in the perception of the reversibility of phenomena. One sees the apple bounce back up onto the tree, the dead man come to life, and the shot re-enter the cannon. This visual aspect of succession is well known to be theoretically obtainable by outdistancing light waves and then continuing to travel at a constant speed equal to that of light. The Machine, by contrast, transports the explorer through actual duration and not in search of images preserved in Space. He has only to accelerate to a point where the speed indicator (recall that the speed of the gyrostats and the slowness in duration of the Machine, that is the speed of events in the opposite direction, are synonymous) shows

V < - t. 

And he will continue with a rate of uniform acceleration that can be controlled almost according to Newton's formula for gravitation. For a past anterior to -t may be indicated by -t, and to reach it he must obtain on the dial a reading equivalent to 

V < (< - t). 

V. Time as Seen from the Machine

It is worth noting that the Machine has two Pasts: the past anterior to our own present, what we might call the real past; and the past created by the Machine when it returns to our Present and which is in effect the reversibility of the Future.

Likewise, since the Machine can reach the real Past only after having passed through the Future, it must go through a point symmetrical to our Present, a dead center between future and past, and which can be designated precisely as the Imaginary Present.

Thus the Explorer in his Machine beholds Time as a curve, or better as a closed curved surface analogous to Aristotle's Ether. For much these same reasons in another text ( Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Book VIII ) we make use of the term Ethernity. Without the Machine an observer sees less than half of the true extent of Time, much as men used to regard the Earth as flat.

>From the operation of the Machine there can easily be deduced a definition of Duration. Since it consists in the reduction of t to 0 and of 0 to - t, we shall say:

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion.

 In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY. Cf. William Thomson [Lord Kelvin], On a Gyrostatic Adynamic Constitution for Ether (C. R. 1899; Proc. R. Soc. Ed., 189C). [Author's note.]