Sometimes people just need to get bent. Do you know what I mean? And I don’t mean in the game of Twister sense. Oh h…hold on. Some people do find Twister to be a form of erotic theatre, from what I have been told. So then if you are thinking of erotic practice, then yeah…you are somewhat in the neighbourhood of theoretical contextual terrain.

So what, you must be asking right now, am I rattling on about? I’m talking about Bent, the panel discussion that was held this past Tuesday evening at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. It was an evening of discussions about the complex multi-dimensionalities of intimate social and personal relationships.

I was impressed with the balance of personal accounts of different kinds of intimate relationships, and the theoretical experiential knowledge that was present in so much of the discussion. I was expecting an evening of stories stemming from everyday social realties relating to the terrain of sexuality and relational constructs. What also was present was epistemological abundance. In other words, the discourse present in the room was as energetic as it was reflexive.

Anyone who attended the evening certainly would have walked away with new knowledge and ideas about the various permutations, combinations, and definitions that can be attributed to relationships of intimate, romantic, sexual, and familial constructs. That is precisely the word to use when considering the notion of relationships discussed that evening: construct. I was happy to be in a place, post-graduate school days, where the discussions around partnership, marriage, intimacy, and gender were not tied to the ruling relational boundaries of essentialist formations. Identity is constructed along lines of how people as social actors make sense of the relationships existent in the social, yet quite often relationships are indicative of the identifications rather than identities that are present in our everyday realities. Monogamy, polyamorous, or however one may see and conceptualize their relationship needs and realties, are at the end of the day present formations identified within the structures of gender politics. But even if one acknowledges such political boundaries, boundaries may all they be when one attempts to think about their own identity formations as political in their own way, as stemming from the relentless and rigorous practices present in resistance and action that existed during the discussion.

In my mind, I see such events as a type of direct action against hegemony. Much like the ways French revolutionaries would meet in public houses to discuss methods and strategies to thwart their oppression via the politics of the Ancient Regime, in a somewhat less dramatic and of course in a non-covert way, such discussions are revolutionary. Discourse on the existence of queer-normative relationships happened. We learned about the construct of the leather family and how its complexities relate to the essentialist-normative structures of neo-liberalist families. We learned of kinksexual relational formations as they are present almost symbiotically in a normative, vanilla universe. And we learned that the sex trade has more similarities and related strands of purpose, practice, and meaning to psychological therapy than possibly realized before.

I use the term queer-normative quite specifically here. I like to play and mess around with the idea of normativity, specifically as derived from heteronormativity. Even if one discusses heteronormativity or hetero-normalcy, it implies it’s significance in binomial opposition to the queer other. So when I write queer-normativity, it is directed along the lines of appropriation and political semantics, aligning language with power, as power is aligned with it’s capacity in discussions of agency.

So, yes, overall, it was a good night.

(Part Two of this entry, to be posted later this week.)

J’écrivais ce message à un ami, à propos de mon expérience sur le site xkcd.com.

BD de xkcd

Donc…

• Je vois le dernier xkcd.
• Ça me fait réagir.
• Je veux répondre.
• Je sais qu’il y a des forums pour accompagner ces bande dessinées.
• Je vais sur le forum lié à celui-ci (déjà quelques clics et il fallait que je connaisse l’existence de tout ça).
• J’appuie sur Post Reply
• Ça me demande de m’identifier.
• Comme je crois avoir déjà envoyé quelque-chose là, je me branche avec mon username habituel.
• Ah, mauvais mdp.
• Je fais “forget pw”.
• Oups! J’avais pas de compte avec mon adresse gmail (faut que ça soit la bonne combinaison donc, si je me rappelle pas de mon username, ça marche pas).
• Je me crée un nouveau profil.
• Le captcha est illisible, ça me prend plusieurs tentatives.
• Faut que j’aille sur mon compte gmail activer mon compte sur les forums xkcd.
• Une fois que c’est fait, je me retrouve à la page d’accueil des forums (pas à la page où j’essaie d’envoyer ma réponse).
• Je retrouve la page que je voulais.
• J’appuie sur Post Reply.
• J’écris ma réponse et je l’envoie.
• Évidemment, mon profil est vierge.
• Je vais modifier ça.
• Ça commence par mon numéro ICQ?? Eh bé!
• Plus bas, je vois des champs pour Website et Interests. Je remplis ça rapidement, en pensant au plus générique.
• Il y a aussi ma date de fête. Pas moyen de contrôler qui la voit, etc. Je l’ajoute pas.
• J’enregistre les autres modifications.
• Et j’essaie de changer mon avatar.
• Il y a pas de bouton pour uploader.
• Ça passe par une Gallery, mais il y a rien dedans.
• Je laisse tomber, même si je sais bien que les geeks de xkcd sont du genre à rire de toi si t’as un profil générique.
• Je quitte le site un peu frustré, sans vraiment avoir l’impression que je vais pouvoir commencer une conversation là-dessus.

Deuxième scénario.

J’arrive sur un site qui supporte Disqus (par exemple Mashable).

• Je peux envoyer un commentaire en tant que guest.

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Donc, si je veux seulement laisser un commentaire anonyme, c’est tout ce que j’ai à faire. «Merci, bonsoir!»

Même sans me brancher, je peux faire des choses avec les commentaires déjà présents (Like, Reply).

Mais je peux aussi me brancher avec mes profils Disqus, Facebook (avec Facebook Connect), ou Twitter (avec OAuth). Dans chaque cas, si je suis déjà branché sur ce compte dans mon browser, j’ai juste à cliquer pour autoriser l’accès. Même si je suis pas déjà branché, je peux m’identifier directement sur chaque site.

Après l’identification, je reviens tout de suite à la page où j’étais. Mon avatar s’affiche mais je peux le changer. Je peux aussi changer mon username, mais il est déjà inscrit. Mon avatar et mon nom sont liés à un profil assez complet, qui inclut mes derniers commentaires sur des sites qui supportent Disqus.

Sur le site où je commente, il y a une petite boîte avec un résumé de mon profil qui inclut un décompte des commentaires, le nombre de commentaires que j’ai indiqué comme “likes” et des points que j’ai acquis.

Je peux envoyer mon commentaire sur Twitter et sur Facebook en même temps. Je peux décider de recevoir des notices par courriel ou de m’abonner au RSS. Je vois tout de suite quel compte j’utilise (Post as…) et je peux changer de compte si je veux (personnel et pro, par exemple). Une fois que j’envoie mon commentaire, les autres visiteurs du site peuvent voir plus d’infos sur moi en passant avec la souris au-dessus de mon avatar et ils peuvent cliquer et avoir un dialogue modal avec un résumé de mon compte. Ce résumé mène évidemment sur le profil complet. Depuis le profil complet, les gens peuvent suivre mes commentaires ou explorer divers aspects de ma vie en-ligne.

Suite à mon commentaire, les gens peuvent aussi me répondre directement, de façon anonyme ou identifiée.

J’ai donc un profil riche en deux clics, avec beaucoup de flexibilité. Il y a donc un contexte personnel à mon commentaire.

L’aspect social est intéressant. Mon commentaire est identifié par mon profil et je suis identifié par mes commentaires. D’ailleurs, la plupart des avatars sur Mashable sont des vraies photos (ou des avatars génériques) alors que sur le forum xkcd, c’est surtout des avatars «conceptuels».

Ce que xkcd propose est plus proche du “in-group”. Les initiés ont déjà leurs comptes. Ils sont “in the know”. Ils ont certaines habitudes. Leurs signatures sont reconnaissables. L’auteur de la bd connaît probablement leurs profils de ses «vrais fans». Ces gens peuvent citer à peu près tout ce qui a été envoyé sur le site. D’ailleurs, ils comprennent toutes les blagues de la bd, ils ont les références nécessaires pour savoir de quoi l’auteur parle, que ça soit de mathématiques ou de science-fiction. Ils sont les premiers à envoyer des commentaires parce qu’ils savent à quel moment une nouvelle bd est envoyée. En fait, aller regarder une bd xkcd, ça fait partie de leur routine. Ils sont morts de rire à l’idée que certains ne savent pas encore que les vraies blagues xkcd sont dans les alt-text. Ils se font des inside-jokes en tout genre et se connaissent entre eux.

En ce sens, ils forment une «communauté». C’est un groupe ouvert mais il y a plusieurs processus d’exclusion qui sont en action à tout moment. Pour être accepté dans ce genre de groupe, faut faire sa place.

Les sites qui utilisent Disqus ont une toute autre structure. N’importe qui peut commenter n’importe quoi, même de façon anonyme. Ceux qui ne sont pas anonymes utilisent un profil consolidé, qui dit «voici ma persona de web social» (s’ils en ont plusieurs, ils présentent le masque qu’ils veulent présenter). En envoyant un commentaire sur Mashable, par exemple, ils ne s’impliquent pas vraiment. Ils construisent surtout leurs identités, regroupent leurs idées sur divers sujets. Ça se rapproche malgré tout de la notion de self-branding qui préoccupe tant des gens comme Isabelle Lopez, même si les réactions sont fortes contre l’idée de “branding”, dans la sphère du web social montréalaisn (la YulMob). Les conversations entre utilisateurs peuvent avoir lieu à travers divers sites. «Ah oui, je me rappelle d’elle sur tel autre blogue, je la suis déjà sur Twitter…». Il n’y a pas d’allégeance spécifique au site.

Bien sûr, il peut bien y avoir des initiées sur un site particulier. Surtout si les gens commencent à se connaître et qu’ils répondent aux commentaires de l’un et de l’autre. En fait, il peut même y avoir une petite «cabale» qui décide de prendre possession des commentaires sur certains sites. Mais, contrairement à xkcd (ou 4chan!), ça se passe en plein jour, mis en évidence. C’est plus “mainstream”.

Ok, je divague peut-être un peu. Mais ça me remet dans le bain, avant de faire mes présentations Yul- et IdentityCamp.

A lot of people seem to think I am just a tad nuts when I talk about the coming biometric and RFID identity cards we will be required to carry someday, maybe soon. They claim that America does not need to carry a national ID in their back pocket because we are a free nation and that would violate our rights. That’s true, it would violate some rights, and/or privileges, but when have you known our rights to stop the politicians from enacting more controls over our everyday lives?

There is an article out, Youth will find ID cards ‘handy’, that tells of a new biometric card in England targeted towards the younger set. The article says; A voluntary national identity card scheme will be launched in Greater Manchester today designed to give young people “day-to-day convenience”. Manchester residents over the age of 16 who hold a UK passport will be able to apply for the £30 biometric ID cards from November 30th.

I find it interesting that there seems to be little resistance to this card, perhaps because the UK is already a socialist nation and the citizens are used to the government telling them what to do and where to go. The article quotes a Home Office minister, Meg Hillier, as saying , the cards would be particularly useful for students and young people who do not wish to take their passports on a night out. And that Having a card would save the “cost and hassle” of getting into clubs and bars…

Apparently the biometric information will be stored on a database that will not be able to be downloaded onto disc format and is supposed to be used for criminal and border issues. The article goes on to say; Fingerprints and photos will be stored on one database and biographical information on another, linked together by a third. This information is already held by the Passport Service.

At this point the card will not be mandatory, but at some future date it will be, and the Brit’s can count on that happening. Meanwhile, India will begin issuing their own mandatory national ID cards in August of 2011, with 600 million people expected to be issued with their cards over five years, or about half of India’s population. In the US, our federal government is experimenting and researching away, under the watchful eye of the DHS and other control oriented agencies. Many universities and large employers already utilize an RFID card as a means of secure and positive ID, and some cards are even connected with financial accounts of the holders allowing them to also use the card to pay for some purchases, and to pay for rides on public transportation.

As we become more and more a nation of overconsumption and convenience we are using contactless payment cards, which are RFID cards, for everything from a meal at a fast food joint to zipping through the tolls on the turnpike. This usage will make us become complacent with the technology, and we will forget that there are risks with allowing this technology to become part of our everyday lives.

And therefore we will have to make some heavy decisions when making our preparedness plans for the future. To ID or not to ID, that is the question. One of the problems I foresee is the fact that if we need any governmental assistance at all, we will need to have the national ID card in hand to get that assistance. Also, we may well be jailed in an event that would allow martial law to be imposed if we do not have that same ID at hand.

Health care, food and housing all come under the umbrella of the FEMA world when our constitution becomes suspended, so what do we do? In fact, we may well be forced to relocate and take employment that we don’t want when the you know what hits the proverbial fan. By planning ahead, we won’t have to make these excruciating decisions under pressure, making the wrong decision as a result. Like I’ve said before, those of us who will be able to be self sufficient will have a much better chance to survive the coming times with a thorough plan in place. Research the facts and learn before it becomes too late to act as a free person. RFID is not the way to go, and by refusing to use it today, we can make it take much longer to be implemented, and extend our free lives for many more years. Resist the new world order, resist the new technology, and you can resist the power of the coming times.

I just listen to Nabucco – chorus of hebrew slaves.. and when music is indeed an indication for mood it might be the case: After being the whole day on the run coming home knowing that still one has not even touched the office work lying and waiting – one feels like one of those slaves yearning for a bit of relaxation and freedom. Meetings and a talk to our HOPE Cape Town staff was part of the days work. We published for the first time an internal employee’s handbook. After being so long in business as an NGO and having 27 employees it is time to bring together all the legal stuff and ethics for a work in this field. What are the do’s and don’ts? What means to be honest? How do I handle situation of danger? What means fraud? How do I handle donations?

There are so many challenges an NGO like HOPE Cape Town is facing up the question how we go about working place problems, what are the right channel of communications and so on and so on. HOPE Cape Town is meanwhile also a place for training. People are trained here, work for some years but then also moving on. So the “family structure” of HOPE Cape Town is also changing eventually with new people coming in. This makes it more important than ever to have a booklet to give guidance .
But todays talk was not only about the rules and regulations – we also talked about being proud to be part of such an organisation. What does it mean to identify with the organisation you are working for? How do we present ourselves to show our bond with the goals and achievements of HOPE Cape Town. Important topics and for me the possibility to touch base again with most HOPE Community Health Workers at the same time. I promised to get to all working places in the 17 township communities in the first half-year of 2010 again to visit them all in their daily environment. And I must say  I am looking forward to it. I guess, I learn a lot in doing so.

The UK’s DNA database, already under fire by the European Court of Human Right for retaining samples and data from innocent people, has now been lambasted in a report by the government’s own genetics watchdog. The Human Genetics Commission.

The report, called Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? contains a numbers of serious criticisms, most notably the finding that police forces around Britain are routinely arresting people simply in order to obtain their DNA. Almost a million innocent people, including many children, are now on the database, and the ECHR ruling has finally prompted the government to make some minor concessions, such as keeping the DNA of innocent people for 6 years as opposed to 12, but there appears to have been no fundamental change in police practice, nor any change in the instructions given to local forces on best practice.

It’s main recommendations are:

1. that there should be a parliamentary debate about the recording of what it calls ‘unconvicted’ people;
2. that because the purpose of the database has shifted over time, there should be constraints set out in new primary legislation;
3. that “robust evidence of the ‘forensic utility’ of the database should be produced to justify the resource cost and interference with individual privacy it represents”; and,
4. that there should be an independent oversight board and appeals board to consider removal of profiles; and transparency over data and other issues.

These are all laudable,  but I really start to question their judgement in using the term ‘unconvicted people’. British law has always worked on the principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. People are therefore ‘innocent’ until they have a conviction. The term ‘unconvicted’ seems to imply that innocence is no longer an assumption, and that the working hypothesis is that everyone is either guilty or not yet (therefore, potentially) guilty. This is what results from the normalisation of surveillance in everyday life, and it’s one thing we warned most strongly against in our own Report on the Surveillance Society back in 2006. When even critical reports start using language that reflects the worldview of the people they are criticising, you have to be concerned.

Calling people ‘unconvicted’ and not ‘innocent’ matters.

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Fingerprint ridges are formed during the third to fourth month of fetal development. The ridges begin to develop on the skin of the thumbs and fingers.

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The earliest dated prints of the ridged skin on human hands were made about 4,000 years ago during the pyramid building era in Egypt.  In addition, one small portion of palm print, not known to be human, has been found impressed in hardened mud at a 10,000-year old site in Egypt.

It was common practice for the Chinese to use inked fingerprints on official documents, land sales, contracts, loans and acknowledgements of debts.  The oldest existing documents so endorsed date from the 3rd century BC, and it was still an effective practice until recent times.  Even though it is recorded that the Chinese used their fingerprints to establish identity in courts in litigation over disputed business dealings, researchers fail to agree as to whether the Chinese were fully aware of the uniqueness of a fingerprint or whether the physical contact with documents had some spiritual significance.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation established its first fingerprint identification division in the year 1924, with a collection of 810,188 fingerprint files taken mostly from the Leavenworth Penitentiary. These files became more and more important with the emergence of an increasing number of intellectual criminals who crossed all legal and state lines.  Today, the FBI has in possession more than 250 millions different sets of fingerprint records. This collection is enormous and is composed of both civil as well as criminal prints. The civil file includes prints of government employees and candidates for federal jobs.

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L’ambition nationale du Grand Paris, par Christian Blanc

Le 23 novembre, j’ai présenté à l’Assemblée le projet de loi qui sera l’acte I du Grand Paris. La veille, l’exposition des projets des dix équipes d’architectes-urbanistes, chargées par le président de la République d’imaginer l’urbanisme de la future métropole, fermera ses portes ; elle aura permis à un peu plus de 205 000 visiteurs de rêver aux visages possibles d’une ville-monde post-Kyoto. Ce projet de loi ne signera pas le passage du rêve à une réalité affaiblissant notre ambition. Car si nous avons tous le même grand désir et la même grande ambition, nous sommes aussi tous conscients du temps et des rythmes nécessaires pour transformer nos rêves en réalité.

Le Monde.fr

Un chantier qui devrait s’achever autour de 2025

• La Société du Grand Paris, créée par le projet de loi sur le Grand Paris, est chargée de la réalisation du métro. L’État sera majoritaire au conseil de surveillance où siègeront la Région et les huit départements d’Ile-de-France. Elle participera à l’aménagement des terrains autour des quelque quarante gares. L’État pourra signer des “contrats de développement territoriaux” sur ces zones avec les élus.
• Le tracé du métro sera arrêté par décret en Conseil d’État après consultation des habitants par la commission nationale du débat public.
• L’emplacement des gares sera connu fin 2010. Les travaux commenceront en 2013. Les premiers tronçons seront mis en service en 2017. Le chantier devrait être achevé autour de 2025.
• Le coût de la construction du métro est estimé par Christian Blanc à 21 milliards d’euros. Il prévoit une dotation d’État de 4 milliards et un emprunt de 17 milliards remboursables en quarante ans.
• Le projet de loi sur le Grand Paris crée l’établissement public d’aménagement du pôle scientifique du plateau de Saclay (Essonne).

Voir aussi

• Le Monde.fr – Grand Paris : faut-il croire au pari de Christian Blanc ?
• Le Monde.fr – Le projet du Grand Paris n’est pas métropolitain, par Daniel Behar et Philippe Estebe
• Le Monde.fr – “On ne dit pas non au Grand Paris”
• Le Monde.fr – Les architectes se sentent “comme le cresson autour du rôti”
• Le Monde.fr – Le mille-feuille politique de la région-capitale
• Le Monde.fr – Quel Grand Paris prépare Nicolas Sarkozy ?

Précédemment

• Patrick Guyennon.fr – Michel Bourdeau : “L’horizon de la ville n’est pas un mirage d’architecte”
• Patrick Guyennon.fr – Paul Chemetov : “Les mirages annoncés du Grand Paris se sont dissipés”
• Patrick Guyennon.fr – Le projet du Grand Paris est menacé de s’enliser dans la confusion, par Jean Nouvel

A lire !

• Paris et le désert français, par Jean-François Gravier (Flammarion, 1947)

Yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and short-beaked common dolphin in a diorama of the eastern tropical Pacific at the AMNH's Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Live. (Image/R. Mickens/AMNH)

Next time you head out to your favorite sushi restaurant, you might want to think twice about ordering the tuna. There’s a good chance the fish on your plate could be an endangered species.

A new study by the American Museum of Natural History conducted DNA investigations on tuna at restaurants in New York City and Denver and found that nearly 30 percent of the tuna tested was actually endangered bluefin, and less than half of that was labeled as such.

A single bluefin tuna can sell for tens of thousands of dollars at market, a popular draw for the fishing industry. But that popularity comes with a price. Western stocks of northern bluefin tuna now hover around 10 percent of their “pre-exploitation” numbers. And last October, the country of Monaco nominated northern bluefin tuna for a listing under a complete international trade ban by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), according to a press release.

The serving up of a critically endangered fish is not necessarily on the shoulders of the restaurants. They might not know they’re doing it, just as consumers might not know they’re eating it. This is because the eight species of tuna are so genetically similar – closer than humans are to chimpanzees – that even with DNA testing, it’s hard to distinguish the difference, and once tuna arrives to the U.S. market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved marketing label is simply “tuna.” A new and improved method of genetic detective work just might help change all that.

“When you eat sushi, you can unknowingly get a critically endangered species on your plate,” says Jacob Lowenstein, a graduate student affiliated with the Museum and Columbia University in the press release. “But with an increasingly popular technique, DNA barcoding, it is a simple process for researchers to see just what species are eaten at a sushi bar.”

DNA barcoding can be used to identify what animal became which product, even down to the origin of a leather handbag, according to the press release. In the case of the bluefin tuna, DNA barcoding defines a genetic key of 14 nucleotides exclusive enough to identify whether the tuna being served is bluefin. A similar method has been used to identify endangered whales on the Asian market and wildlife being sold in the African bushmeat trade.

With any luck, researchers will develop a handheld barcoding machine that can be used to identify fish on-site.

This study can be found in the current issue of PLoS ONE.

It’s nearly winter, and those of you lucky enough to live near some beaches or mudflats probably enjoy gazing out over motley assortments of shorebirds like this one. Until you can get outside, though, cast your eyes over this photo and help us answer the question: How many species are in this photo? (Of course, we’d also like to hear which species you think are in the photo—and how you can tell.)

One thing I love about this kind of birding is there are always a few birds on view that draw your eye as either pleasantly familiar or at least easy to figure out. I can gauge the intensity of my bird watching partners by how long they’re willing to scrutinize the other birds, like those little inkblots at the top of the frame. I also love the stark contrasts in size. I always find myself surprised by how my mental picture of a bird’s size in isolation doesn’t stack up against reality when two birds are side by side.

So have at it! Let’s try to compile a complete list of species for this photo. And if we need to I’ll try and get one or two of the Lab’s eBirders to weigh in on those mirage birds at the top.

(Click the picture to sink your eyeballs into a larger version. Image by Birdshare contributor Robinsegg, taken October 4 in Utah. It’s a crop of a much larger image, with even more species in it. Spoiler alert: following the link will reveal some of the bird IDs in this picture.)

http://www.identity-cards.net/ the national id cards website

This website contains a comprehensive listing of national ID cards by geographic region worldwide allowing users to study and compare specific national policies regarding identity cards, as well as a list of resources on the topic.

National identification systems have been proliferating in recent years as part of a concerted drive to find common identifiers for populations around the world. Whether the driving force is immigration control, anti-terrorism, electronic government or rising rates of identity theft, identity card systems are being developed, proposed or debated in most countries. However, there is no comprehensive database documenting the status of national identity card systems anywhere in the world, and this website has been designed in order to fill this gap.

We invite users to help compile this information. Go to ‘UPDATE ID INFORMATION’ and follow the steps to submit current information about national ID card systems globally.

This website has been developed under The New Transparency Project an MCRI project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The idea for the website comes from the book “Playing the Identity Card” recently edited by Colin Bennett and David Lyon, and published by Routledge (2008). The website is maintained and updated by a group of students and faculty from Queen’s University and the University of Victoria.

(Information from The New Transparency Project)

305111     กายวิภาคและการพิสูจน์ไม้     Anatomy and Identification of Wood

กายวิภาคของไม้ยืนต้นและเนื้อไม้ เซลล์และเนื้อเยื่อต่างๆ ในต้นไม้และเนื้อไม้ การพิสูจน์ไม้ด้วยแว่นขยาย ตลอดจนโครงสร้างที่สัมพันธ์กับตํ าหนิ สมบัติ และการใช้ประโยชน์ไม้

(An anatomy of tree, wood, cell and tissues in the tree and wood. The use of hand lens for wood identify, including the related structure of mark, properties and wood utilization.)

(305111 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

Une fusion de plus en ces temps de spéculation financière… celle des comptes en banque d’abonné de la bibliothèque (sous PMB) et de rédacteur (sous SPIP).

La mise en place des services web, tant attendus, dans PMB a permis enfin d’avancer sur le projet RISOM. Je reprends donc mes billets en me fixant le rythme d’un par semaine (ni plus ni … moins).

On a mis en place l’authentification unique entre la base de lecteurs sous PMB et les comptes auteurs (rédacteurs ou plus) de SPIP.

Ainsi, un lecteur qui se connecte pour la première fois au nouveau site risom en utilisant des identifiants d’abonné “bibliothèque”, se voit créer automatiquement et de manière transparente un compte de rédacteur sous SPIP.

Faites l’essai :

J’ai créé un compte Test avec pour identifiant = ttest et mot de passe = 1975, vous pouvez donc “tester” mais n’abusez pas … tester peut provoquer des problèmes nerveux.

Voici une partie de la page de compte lecteur, mais allez voir par vous-même :

L’abonné peut ensuite proposer un “article” (selon la typologie SPIP) à la publication, par exemple une critique d’un document de la médiathèque ou d’un événement culturel.

Cela donne ça :

Je vous laisse le soin de découvrir mais voici quelques améliorations : on peut associer son compte Twitter à son compte lecteur, son Gravatar, à gauche la mention des derniers ouvrages (terme à changer) consultés, et on va continuer à avancer.

Une fois la connexion établie, la réservation, les avis et tags sont bien sûr toujours possible, mais c’était déjà vrai dans la précédente version.

A bientôt !

Identifying the problem and taking the right step at the right time is very important in every decision-making situations of life. Industrial Green Chemistry Workshop (IGCW) is such an initiative wherein a group of entrepreneurs and industry people have identified the need of the hour and have taken their first step towards a sustainable future.

IGCW 2009 aims to take green chemistry from the cauldrons of the laboratory to the corridors of industry. The workshop aims to encourage pharmaceutical and chemical industries to deliver products and services in benign ways, untainted by toxic routes and environmental damage. This three-day workshop is meticulously designed on the basis of a 9-Eye (I) Approach. Each ‘eye’ expands the vision of participants for engaging them into emerging views of Industrial Green Chemistry paradigms.

The first day of the workshop will concentrate on igniting, inspiring, and encouraging people to take initiation in the field of green chemistry. The theme for the second day, i.e., 5th December, 2009, is Identification, Invention, and Innovation. The target for this day will be the technical directors, process managers, production mangers, R&D managers, etc. On this day, renowned speakers, viz, Dr. Kenneth Geiser, Dr. Pete Meyers, and Dr. S Ahmad will give lectures on different aspects of sustainable technologies which will help identify the key challenges in the field of industrial green chemistry. They will help the participants to view the various paradigms in the upcoming domain of Industrial Green Chemistry, providing significant input for identifying its application. Industrial case studies, paper presentations by institutes, scientists, and researchers will be integrated as relevant to the theme. So after initiation, they will be able to identify what’s the urgent need for an hour and to innovate them.

So are you ready to be with us to identify the key problems standing as an obstacle for a sustainable future?

3303663    การพิสูจน์เอกลักษณ์ของยา    Drug Identification

การหาลักษณะเแพาะหมู่ของสาร การพิสูจน์เอกลักษณ์และหาสูตรโครงสร้างของสารอินทรียเภสัช โดยการทำอนุพันธ์ของสารนั้นและการใช้เทคนิคทางสเปกโทรสโกปี

(Characterization of functional groups, identification and structure elucidation of organic pharmaceutical substances through the use of derivatization and spectroscopy.)

(3303663 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)