OKI Develops Automatic Soldering Technology based on Static Pressure Bath to Enable Lead-free Soldering for Large, High-density Products
– OKI expects to expand its EMS business through higher quality and shorter turnaround time – OKI Electric Industry (TSE: 6703) today announced it has succeeded in developing “static pressure soldering technology” for lead-free soldering of large, high-density products. Using this technology, OKI and Nihon Dennetsu jointly developed a soldering machine that enables high-quality lead-free (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu?soldering for products up to 490 x 510mm in size and 6mm in thickness
Considering torture through artOne of the leitmotifs of this blog has been that art can help us consider and understand the world around us, that yesterday’s art can inform our thinking about today and that today’s art can inform our thinking about tomorrow. For some time now I’ve been fascinated by the belated national debate about how a lawless cabal at the top of the Bush administration turned us into a nation-that-tortured. Over the last few months the public debate about Bush-Cheney-era torture has been muted by a president who wants to pretend it didn’t happen, a Republican party that figures that it got away with torture and murder so the past ought to be left in the past, Democratic congressional leadership that’s more afraid to look soft-on-terror than it is eager to look patriotic and principled and a great swath of the American public that is uncomfortable with knowing that torture was committed by leaders that we elected, re-elected, and who acted in our name
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Limbang, Sarawak, Malaysia Our next destination was Borneo. We boarded a bus in Mersing for the 3 hour bus journey to the city of Johor Bahru, on the border with Singapore. From there, we flew 2 hours to the town of Miri in Sarawak, on the Malaysian side of Borneo, close to the border with Brunei. When we arrived, we headed for a backpackers’ hostel that had been recommended in the Lonely Planet as a “friendly environment that can provide vast amounts of information about travel and attractions throughout Borneo”. When we checked in, the rottweiler on the reception desk, who was masquerading as a middle-aged Malaysian woman, growled at us and reluctantly showed us to a room. The hostel was pretty grim, but as it only cost the equivalent of £8 a night for the two of us, we decided to offload our backpacks and then go and view a couple of nearby hotels. After being shown various shabby hotel rooms that had dirty, stained carpets and mouldy shower curtains, we decided to stick with the hostel but to get ourselves out of Miri as quickly as possible. The hostel was actually clean enough, but our sheets and pillow cases were so threadbare that you could actually see through them. Once again, we had a room next to the reception desk so that we were kept awake until the early hours of the morning with the doorbell ringing, the TV blaring out and doors slamming. The following day, we decided against using the services of the rottweiler as we were too scared to approach her for travel information and we couldn’t understand what she said anyway due to the fact that she snarled with a rather strong accent through gritted teeth. Instead we booked a five day excursion, including three days of trekking, to the Gunung Mulu National Park through an adventure tour company in the town and arranged to be collected early the next morning. That evening was live music night at the British pub underneath the hostel. Even though we were three floors up, we had to endure the sounds of a screechy girl band belting out Gloria Estefan hits, followed by a Malaysian Elvis, until the wee small hours. Yet another night without sleep. Early the next morning, feeling extremely sleep deprived, we were collected for our flight to Mulu. We left our large backpacks behind as they were to be transported separately to the town of Limbang at the end of the trek, so that we only had to hike with a small daypack each. This meant that we could take very little clothing and toiletries with us to last for the 5 days. The flight to Mulu took half an hour on a twin prop plane that flew low over the jungle. Our first night’s accommodation was in the Royal Mulu Resort on the edge of the National Park. This boded very well for the rest of the tour, we thought, as the hotel was in a beautiful setting and had a lovely swimming pool, fitness centre, health spa, quad bikes, kayaks and a decent restaurant. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to use any of the facilities on offer as more or less as soon as we checked in, we were whisked off to our first activity, a canopy skywalk through the rainforest. This skywalk is the longest in the world and took about an hour and a half. We walked over a series of very narrow ropeways suspended about 20m above the rainforest floor. It was quite good fun, but we didn’t see much wildlife apart from a few pygmy squirrels (which are supposedly the second smallest mammals on the planet and are incredibly cute), a few lizards and a selection of strange insects. We were then taken to see some caves which collectively are known as the Show Caves and form the world’s largest cave corridor. The first cave we visited was Lang’s Cave which has some impressive stalagmites and stalactites. We were then taken to the Deer Cave, a huge cavern in the mountainside, which has around 3 million bats living inside it. The stench of their droppings piled up on the floor of the cave was so strong that it made our eyes water
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Welcome to the Jungle – Limbang, Sarawak, Malaysia
South of the Trinity River, the blooming Bishop Arts district in Oak Cliff is residence to a amount of studio artists aware in converted warehouses. … More here: Dallas boat show Looking For A establish With Low real Estate Prices? Dallas Has Low authentic Estat
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JUVÉDERM™ ULTRA and JUVÉDERM™ ULTRA PLUS Allergan (NYSE: AGN), the maker of BOTOX®, today announced that it is launching its ‘next-generation’ dermal hyaluronic acid (HA) dermal fillers, JUVÉDERM™ ULTRA and JUVEDERM™ ULTRA PLUS in the Indian market. Dermal fillers are used widely in aesthetic clinics to enhance facial beauty by correcting folds and wrinkles that develop on the face in women and men as they age, predominantly in people who are in their mid-thirties and forties. Volume loss that happens as one ages and the skin starts losing its elasticity and lubrication also causes the sinking of skin under-the-eyes, the hollowing of cheeks and loss of suppleness of the lips
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In 2001, Hilary Leung started a personal illustration project called 1000strangers in which she would illustrate a different stranger she noticed in Toronto each day. It’s 8 years later, and the project continues. She’s currently selling pieces to pay for her upcoming wedding, and originals are currently on display in the art window at the sadly-now-closing Pages book store here in Toronto
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1000strangers by Hilary Leung
Focal Press have given us permission to reprint a few lessons from their great new book, Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes, Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures . Check out the first lesson on Perspective Drawing here. Here’s the second lesson on figure drawing in perspective… Enjoy! Walt Stanchfield: Isn’t this a beauty! Of course, you’d have to go out of your way to draw something so third dimensionally screwed up
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Seeing and Drawing the Figure in Space
We got a special tour of Skyscraper, the Philadelphia Museum of Art theme show devoted to buildings in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. John Vick, the show’s curator, who was a fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, gave us the tour. John has also been writing posts on artblog for the theoretically page and we were eager to see what he had to say about his show
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Skyscraper at the PMA — a tall tale
Hi Everybody, I am back from Colombia and ready to blog. I spent almost a month in South America and loved every minute of it. Sundays in Bogota. They shut-down the streets and everyone gets out. Can you imagine one day a week, no cars and quasi-obligatory exercise. . .?? Besides eating my way through the city, I also saw an excellent Warho l exhibition at the Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica , went to several gallery openings- one in particular for Colombian painter Luis Caballero that knocked my socks off, along with salt mines made into churches, horse drawn carts selling avocados the size of cantaloupes, street performers at stop lights, and the incredible collection of art and culture in Bogota's Nation Gallery.
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Back in Town!
The excellent Yes magazine has a really good special Summer 2009 issue dedicated to the New Economy, which covers the many topics familiar to the P2P Foundation, but offers many concrete examples emerging in the various regions of the U.S. From the introduction: “This downturn marks the end of an unsustainable economy. Rather than trying to reinflate the old bubble economy, these activists, visionaries, and upstarts are trying something new: an economy that puts people first and works within the carrying capacity of Mother Earth.” The full ToC is here
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Yes!, to the burgeoning new economy
Lindsay Philip Butterfield Hawkweed wallpaper design 1902 Lindsay Philip Butterfield was one of the most successful British textile and wallpaper designers at the turn of the twentieth century. Today he is largely forgotten, although a number of contemporary critics saw him as carrying on the mantle of William Morris to a second generation of designer.
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Even with the current economic challenges, there are opportunities available for artists who are willing to think outside the box. Listen to the podcast to learn about a promising, surprising, and FREE! venue for artists, which also benefits the communities involved. [2:50] Related Art Marketing Action newsletter (a written version of this podcast) Curate & Install Your Art Exhibit Like a Pro Assess Art Venues Art Goes “Pop” During Recession (BBC) 92 Empty Shops Leeds (blog: Leeds, UK) → Instructions for subscribing to the Art Marketing Action podcast on iTunes.
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Podcast: Take over a vacant storefront–legally
Even with the current economic challenges, there are opportunities available for artists who are willing to think outside the box. Listen to the podcast to learn about a promising, surprising, and FREE! venue for artists, which also benefits the communities involved. [2:50] Related Art Marketing Action newsletter (a written version of this podcast) Curate & Install Your Art Exhibit Like a Pro Assess Art Venues Art Goes "Pop" During Recession (BBC) 92 Empty Shops Leeds (blog: Leeds, UK) → Instructions for subscribing to the Art Marketing Action podcast on iTunes
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Podcast: Take over a vacant storefront–legally
Friday// Pasta Cafe (Squid Ink, Creamy Scallops, Slipper Lobsters, Beef Mushroom Gratin Combo) + New Shoes for Star Star + Ridiculous Queue for 3GS Saturday// Delicious Kimchi Ramen at Sakae Sushi + Mont Blanc for Bunny + Seafood in Johor with the Rabbits Clan + Harry Potter Order of Phoenix in HBO Sunday// Secondary Schoolmates Meet Up + Hello Baby Shane, You’ve Got Long Legs Like Your Mother + Johor For Supper + Sharing Ghostly Tales at Old Town White Coffee Cafe + Lok Lok!!! + Happiness is in a Truckload of Yummy Food So we’ve finally tracked down this particular LokLok truck. My first LokLok visit and certainly not the last. I was hesitant on the grilled chicken backside initially, but my friends were raving about it so persistently, I had to take a bite
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The Elusive Lok Lok
During the just-concluded National Art Exhibition, Guangdong Eleventh selected entries in the selection of activities, with realism as the main characters sing featuring oil paintings , oil paintings of a group of young artists then come to the fore, created a dramatic landscape. Some people think that: This is the realism of Guangdong as a canvas, following the “Cultural Revolution” after the rise again.
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Dayton, Ohio, United States In fashion to my other blogs of my international travels, here begins the extensive coverage of my Gap Adventure’s Egypt and Jordan Adventure in August 2009. The outline will be in chronological order and will include the Gap Adventure’s description of the day in bold for the days that cover my Gap tour. In the description from Gap, included meals are represented by (B), (L), and (D). I am departing on August 4th from Dayton, Ohio and will arrive in Cairo on August 6th, 2009 after a 12 hour layover in Athens, Greece on August 5th. The Gap Adventure’s tour begins the first day of sight seeing on August 7th and ends in Amman, Jordan on August 21st, with the departure day of the 22nd. I will be leaving at about 1am on the 22nd flying directly to New York City where I will have an 11 hour layover before returning to Dayton late in the evening on the 22nd. Day 1: August 4th, 2009: Dayton, Ohio Depart Dayton, Ohio at about 1pm with layover in Atlanta, Georgia and will arrive in Athens, Greece at about 10:30am on August 5th. Flying with Delta. Day 2: August 5th, 2009: Athens, Greece Planned sites are the Acropolis and ruins in the general area, and finding an authentic Greek restaurant to eat at before going back to the airport to catch an 11 pm to Cairo, landing at about 1am. Flying with Aegean Airlines Day 3: August 6th, 2009: Cairo, Egypt Waiting until morning in the airport to catch the public bus to the general area of the hotel. Dropping off the bags and hiring a taxi for the day to go to Saqqara and Memphis, while ending the night at the Pyramids and pre-tour meeting with Gap Adventures and meeting the tour mates.
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Itinerary: Egypt and Jordan Adventure ’09 – Dayton, Ohio, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway Eastern Svalbard and Nordaustlandet July 8-9 Bountiful Seas, Blubbery Wildlife, Birds and Blue Ice The harshness of the Arctic winter makes survival extremely difficult and the wildlife have adapted to slightly increase the odds of surviving. Polar bears can go four months without regularly eating
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Bountiful Seas, Blubbery Wildlife, Birds and Blue – Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway
It's a sports metaphor, the “old college try” is, an anachronism rooted, I would imagine, in the still-innocent, romantic era when schoolboy knickers and all-male literary societies were seen as more fraternal than fey. Which suits Jon Sasaki well enough, to be sure, as his practice of “romantic conceptualism,” as he's called it, often has a charming sheen of the elegiac. For Jessica Valentin, the title is a bit more literal, in that, until very recently, she was actually in college; a very recent graduate of the University of Toronto's Art History program (as well as Sheridan College's Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning), Valentin is this year's winner of the William Huffman Award for Excellence in Studio Practice, named for the Toronto Arts Council' s Associate Director
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The Old College Try: Sasaki + Jessica Valentin at Red Bull 381
Jump to the full entry & travel map Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Hey Hey and a Bi g G’Day toya, The 2009 Summer Beers N Noodles Adventure has finally begun. I spent a week at home catching up on some rest and doing heaps of riding in the hills around town. My wizbang computer died on me again believe me, I really called it more than a Muthaboard tnis time. It was supposed to take only several days and I found out that on the thrid day the store was told it would take two weeks for a new HP Muthaboard to reach Shangzhou. Being China no one from the store thought to tell me or the school and time flew by and soon ten days had passed and I had had enough of sleeping all day and watching dvd’s all night and I packed and took off
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Mate, The 2009 Beers N Noodles Adventure Has Begun – Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ok, so finally after a week in South America, this is my first chance to write something!! Just to make it easier to navigate this massive blog, i´ll divide it into Santiago and Brazil (how very law-studently of me…hehe HIRAC) SANTIAGO I arrived last Sunday and spent less than 24 hrs in Santiago, but a busy less than 24 hrs it was! On arrival, i went straight to Claudia´s house for an asado lunch and to sleep that night. For the record, Claudia is a girl i met by my hostel bar pool in Uruguay- neither her for her friend Caro (Carolina- also from Uruguay) can speak a word of English, but somehow we hit it off- which is no doubt a credit to Martha´s teaching at the ANU for 2 years
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A cidade maravilhosa/ The Marvelous City – Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil