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Just my $0.02 worth; not so much refrigeration type A/C as the ability to cool the air somehow. Where I live we used to get by very well with a swamp (evaporative) cooler until a large reservoir was built in the area… this increase in humidity made the swamp coolers far less effective. The cities in the SW can use them very well but A/C units aren't quite as uglky as swamp coolers (down side is they dry out an already low humidity environment).A/C is the best choice anywhere there is high humidity with the heat as it will (again) reduce the humidity level.
Having read through most of the examples, I offer these conclusions based on many years of study / teaching photography:1) Removal, addition, relocation of any element of a photo is doctoring…2) Cropping of a photo is a normal and accepted enhancement but can alter what is shown to the extent that it may change the message presented; in such cases this is also doctoring…3) In cases such as the Sept. '05 Bush photo, burning in the note, while an enhancement isn't doctoring… nothing was added or left out…4) The Simpson and Rice photos demonstrate a problem with photography. The portrayal of correct skin tones for people with very dark (or light) complexions is difficult. While there is little doubt that OJ was doctored to make him look more sinister, Condi was likely an oops by the tech.5) I have, in extreme cases, doctored photos if the situation demanded it, but have made notifications of same… most photographers have. Generally though I confine my digital slight-of-hand to those operations that are simply the competerized extensions of the corrections that can be done in a wet darkroom (brightness, contrast and color balance) without changing the information provided by the raw negative.FWIW….
I'd be interested in the first “doctored photograph” – long before Photoshop.
Check this site for some background and examples. 😉
The roots of the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union lay in the tensions arising from cooperation aginst the Nazis and the first real overt signs were at the Potsdam Conference when Stalin thought he could take advamntage of Truman who he thought was weak. The Berlin Airlift was not the beginning but a symptom and attempt by the Russians to eliminate the destabilizing enclave of West Berlin.
I agree.
People like me (that certain age) probably had folks of this generation as well as most of our teachers, ministers, coaches, scout leaders etc. These are the men that were kids in the depression, maybe hoboed some or joined the CCC. They then went off to war, saved the world and came back to build post-war America. I've heard that WWII vets are checking out at the rate of 1000 or so per day (est 16 million served). Those that are left must sometimes wonder if, considering what it's like today, was it worth their efforts and sacrifices.
While it might not be, I agree since it is so perfect. I has, however, hit multiple sites and seems almost viral.
So it was in 1893 at the Shangani River; Rhodes and the boys lost four to the heathen Matebele (1500 KIA) with Mr. Maxims invention. The satire by the liberals became the Chartered Company Volunteers' anthem… “Onward Chartered Soldiers, on to heathen lands,Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.Take the florious tidings where trade can be done,Spread the peaceful gospel — with a Maxim gun.Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.And if to your teaching they will not succumb,Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun…When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;And if they misguided call you to account,Give them another sermon — with a Maxim from the Mount.”
….I stick with my assertion that the Crimean War was the fist “Modern” War. All the trappings of modernity will only exist in whatever the current war which is why I kind of defined what thought modernity was when I this thread started taking off.
I guess a better way of phrasing the question is what was the first war of the modern era? I am speaking more of technology than anything else. Technology is mainly why I pick the Crimean War, it was the first in which modern industrial methods were used to produce the weapons and also the first in which what are arguably the immediate forerunners of present day weapons were used.
I'll stand up for this too.
Quote from Phid in Israel and Sheba:
What was the extent of the political or economic relationship between Israel and Ethiopian Sheba? Normally we do not think of Ethiopia as being within Western Civilization, but contact between these places suggests that there was historically some understanding between Africa (beyond communities on the Mediterranean) and the Near East.
In a word yes… your question is the answer; Discovery or History had a show about a year or so back that promoted this idea… seemed logic based.
