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Elsewhere (http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/passings.5320/page-32) I posted notice of the passing of George Mendonsa, the sailor in the famous V-J Day photo.
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A sculptor recreated the image in giant size, and it now stands in a park in Sarasota, FL under the title "Unconditional Surrender".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_Surrender_(sculpture)
unconditional-surrender-statue-in-sarasota-florida-.jpg
Well, not long after the announcement of Mendonsa's death, someone defaced the statue by spaypainting #MeToo on the woman's leg.
surrender.jpg
I'm sure if the timing was intentional and what the message was, but it seems like kind of dick move.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publi...sarasotas-kissing-statue-police-say-20190219/
 
Naraku said:
Elsewhere (http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/passings.5320/page-32) I posted notice of the passing of George Mendonsa, the sailor in the famous V-J Day photo.
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A sculptor recreated the image in giant size, and it now stands in a park in Sarasota, FL under the title "Unconditional Surrender".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_Surrender_(sculpture)
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Well, not long after the announcement of Mendonsa's death, someone defaced the statue by spaypainting #MeToo on the woman's leg.
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I'm sure if the timing was intentional and what the message was, but it seems like kind of dick move.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publi...sarasotas-kissing-statue-police-say-20190219/
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I could not agree more with your closing line!
 
Eva Inanna said:
This could be an interesting Exhibition, even more as the advertising poster shows an equivocal yet somewhat alluring image.View attachment 675698
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I was there (ICC) last week for the Microsoft Ignite conference.
Am I attending the wrong events ?? :confused:

btw that poster plays with your mind, the lady has a beard but NO TATTOOS
 
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Eva Inanna said:
This could be an interesting Exhibition, even more as the advertising poster shows an equivocal yet somewhat alluring image.View attachment 675698
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phlebas said:
I was there (ICC) last week for the Microsoft Ignite conference.
Am I attending the wrong events ?? :confused:

btw that poster plays with your mind, the lady has a beard but NO TATTOOS
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It should be named "Austrian Tattoo Expo". :biggrin:

The poster is in the style of Alfons Mucha, a Austria-Bohemian-Artist of the Art Nouveau.
https://www.google.com/search?q=alf...1szgAhXNxMQBHZf7CH4Q_AUIDygC&biw=1294&bih=872
 
old slave said:
Watch it mate, there are several cat-lovers here View attachment 675476 and one of them has sharpened spikes at the ready #71
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Actually - I had in mind Miss Dolores Jane Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
She is truly "Mad about Cats", or maybe just plain mad.
Do we infer that J.K. Rowling was not too keen on the creatures herself, I know my girlfriend would happily slaughter all those that shit in her garden
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Muggles'_Guide_to_Harry_Potter/Characters/Dolores_Umbridge
Her character is given as:-
"Umbridge has a weak self-image, which she props up with pomposity, officious behavior, and dependence on external props, such as the locket she extorts from Mundungus Fletcher and later claims is an heirloom that proves her descent from an old Wizarding family. This is compounded by her racism, which seems to be largely based on a fear of beings outside her understanding or control. "
 
Naraku said:
Elsewhere (http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/passings.5320/page-32) I posted notice of the passing of George Mendonsa, the sailor in the famous V-J Day photo.
View attachment 675708
A sculptor recreated the image in giant size, and it now stands in a park in Sarasota, FL under the title "Unconditional Surrender".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_Surrender_(sculpture)
View attachment 675709
Well, not long after the announcement of Mendonsa's death, someone defaced the statue by spaypainting #MeToo on the woman's leg.
View attachment 675710
I'm sure if the timing was intentional and what the message was, but it seems like kind of dick move.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publi...sarasotas-kissing-statue-police-say-20190219/
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Why do people think such vandalism is alright? They should be crucified...
 
Eulalia said:
This really has to be here! :D
(when I saw the report, it was top of the BBC 'most watching' chart -
much more interesting than any of the politics, murders, celebs ...)

World's biggest bee found alive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47311186
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Indonesia is a hotbed of biological diversity. It's also a place (like the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuriues) with a growing population and a natural resources economy that is wiping things out. You wonder how big insects (with no internal skeleton) can get. Apparently there were huge dragon flies millions of years ago. You also wonder what the venom (if any) of this bee is like.
 
phlebas said:
Photos or it didn't happen.
:D

The researchers used the image on the cloth to work out the mechanics of the crucifixion, such as where the nails were hammered in, according to the abstract. They tried to re-create these features when they placed each volunteer on the cross. The male subjects “were carefully chosen to correspond, as closely as possible, to the physiology depicted by the frontal and dorsal imprints visible on the Shroud of Turin,” they write in the abstract. “The cross and suspension system were designed to accommodate various positional adjustments of the body as appropriate.” Edit

Were they also carefully stripped naked and nailed in position? What kind of shoddy research was this!
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There is a back story here that maybe is of some interest. The Shroud of Turin is a cloth which surfaced in Medieval times which bears an imprint of a crucified man--but it's a photographic negative. The man has his hands strategically placed to cover his penis (why not use an extra cloth for modesty, Joe of Arimathea, and you have shroud to preserve modesty anyway), and looks just like Jesus is supposed to have looked--like Cesare Borgia, according to the blog "how did Jesus get so hot?". (An English forensic anatomist proposed a very different picture of Jesus based on skeletons from the time--a short guy with dark skin and a big nose.) The cloth has scorch marks from a fire in the cathedral in which it is kept under glass. The image is highly distorted, with legs and arms clearly out of proportion with each other and with the trunk.
There is an existing letter to the Pope at the time, which says that "the cloth is a forgery, and I know the artist".
This cloth was suddenly "discovered" by religious types and offered as proof of the resurrection. The archbishop allowed samples to be taken (avoiding the scorched areas). "Porphyrins" were found by a (mostly) evangelical scientific team, among whose members was this physicist Jackson. They claimed this was evidence of blood. Pollen grains from the Middle East were found on the cloth. Jackson apparently is still at what he did then. He employed lasers and other sophisticated high tech on real people to "prove" that the distorted image could have been caused by "cloth drape". He also claimed there was evidence that the image was caused by an "intense" energy field--probably "dazzling light".
The non-evangelical member of the team pointed out the presence of red ochre and other pigments. Iron could have come from pigments. Porphyrins are present in plants (chlorophyll, for example), not just heme in blood. Pollen blows around a lot, and can be found in Antarctica. So, three of the samples were carbon-dated. All showed a Medieval date. The samples dated at the University of Arizona in Tucson and in Zurich agreed within experimental error. The one from Oxford (if I recall--maybe Cambridge) was earlier and was an outlier, but still 12th century. A statistical analysis using a "chi-squared test" (which computes the probability that different results came from a common sample) showed it was improbable that the Oxford result came from the same sample. The results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Science (it was a formal paper, but the journal also has a news section, to which this link years later refers.)
People also replicated the "photographic negative" by carving a statue in wood and draping a pigmented cloth over it ("The Skeptical Enquirer" got the effect using a cheap souvenir punch out of Bing Crosby's face--basically a Halloween mask).
Statistics texts will tell you that chi-squared is not really valid with only three data points (you can derive examples), and a statistician on the Oxford team attributed the result to "bad luck" (mathematically speaking).
But the "Shroud Science" proponents seized on the discrepancy to claim that the Oxford team was engaged in fraud. They claimed the letter to the Pope (which physically exists) was "never sent". They pointed to the "mysterious" chemistry that indicates "high energy" (if you are going to reanimate a body, it isn't clear why you'd need "intense energy" to do it--if you're a magic guy like God you could even use a Star Trek "transporter" and "beam Him up, Scotty").
Almost everyone accepts that the Shroud is a Medieval forgery (or objet d'art, if you prefer), but Jackson apparently never has.
This story is informative. Experimental results in complex cases (like climate change) always have enough wiggle room so that people can cast doubt on clear evidence, even if they themselves have nothing definitive to back up their alternative explanations.
(The models in the "cloth drape" experiment wore loin clothes, by the way--they're evangelicals, after all.)
 
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