Revision with unchanged content. With the improving capabilities of current hardware systems, there are ever growing possibilities to store and manipulate videos in a digital format, leading to a growing number of video archives. People build their own digital libraries from materials created through digital cameras and camcorders, and use systems such as YouTube to place this material on the web. Unfortunately, this data creation prowess is not matched by any comparable tools to organise and retrieve video information. There is a need to create new retrieval ...

Philosophy professor Dante awakens in a dream he cannot escape. An angel engages him regarding the things of God, his abandonment of the faith, his griefs, his hopes, his aspirations--all against the backdrop of the darkening of Western civilization. It is evening in the West, but even so, the angel is named Happy (Felix). Why? Felix confronts Dante: Who is Jesus Christ? What is the purpose of your life? Dante doesn't care. He just wants out. Will he find the way? Moment by moment, Dante's dream is all chaotic experience. But gradually, patterns emerge. Scene ...

Where social climbing is a home industry and membership in exclusive clubs often unobtainable, "Murder in the Hamptons" offers a unique motive for homicide: exclusion from a coveted world of social position in the exclusive Hamptons of Long Island, New York. Though fictional, the familiar scenes and characters in this novella bring to life a portrait of a beloved seashore town where in the words of bishop Reginal Herber, "every prospect pleases, and only man is vile."

  Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods are still very rare, and selections that are devoted to a specific genre or dialect rarer still. These translations of traditional Hakka popular literature are not only a contribution to a broader knowledge of traditional Chinese folk literature, but also contribute to the study of Hakka culture as reflected in these racy songs and exciting narratives. This book is the first extensive selection in English of traditional Hakka mountain songs ( shange ) ...

In einem abgelegenen Teil der Stadt, wo die Straßen von einem Hauch des Unheimlichen durchdrungen sind, erhebt sich ein verlassenes Gebäude, das selbst die Tapfersten mit Furcht erfüllt. "Das Haus des Terrors", wie es von den Einheimischen genannt wird, thront wie ein finsterer Wächter über der Umgebung, seine verfallenen Mauern und düsteren Fenster zeugen von einer düsteren Vergangenheit. Die Geschichte des Hauses ist von Mysterien und Schrecken durchzogen. Einst ein stolzes Anwesen, ist es nun ein Ort des Verfalls ...

In many Indian tribes and pueblos of the American Southwest, the Koshare clown, a legendary figure, represents the humorous and mischievous as well as unpredictable aspect of the psyche. Koshare is like Rudyard the Fox of British folk tales and the trickster, Coyote, of Native American animal mythology. In dances and festivals, the black and white striped clown brings fear, and joy, to offset the serious side of various rituals with a sense of humor. One of Koshare's favorite antics is to chase the children with whips (no harm is done) and then turn ...

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This unit of competency defines the skills and knowledge required to interpret technical drawings. Technical drawings may utilize perspective, exploded views or hidden view techniques and may include symbol glossaries. Drawings are provided to AS 1100 Technical drawing or AS 1102 Graphical symbols and their equivalents from the full range of engineering disciplines. Where any technical drawing, sketch, chart, diagram is only used as a technique for communication, then this unit does not apply: unit MEM12023 Perform engineering measurements or unit MEM16006 ...

""A Sunshine In The Shady Place"" is a novel written by Edith Milner and published in 1876. The story revolves around a young woman named Mary, who is forced to leave her home in the countryside and move to the city with her family. Mary finds it difficult to adjust to the city life, but she soon meets a kind and generous woman named Mrs. Grey, who takes her under her wing and helps her navigate the challenges of city living. As Mary becomes more involved in Mrs. Grey's life, she discovers that her new friend has a dark secret that threatens to ruin her reputation ...

ConchesEl siglo xii constituye uno de los puntos de inflexión en la historia de la cultu-ra, pues, por un lado, vemos prolongarse los logros de la época carolingia y, por otro, asistimos a la ampliación de la imagen del mundo que conllevan las cruzadas, que ponen en contacto asiduo a Europa con las culturas bizantina y árabe. Se expanden los centros de traductores, especialmente en España (To-ledo y Barcelona) y en Italia (Sicilia, Nápoles y Bolonia). En conjunción con esta nueva realidad, continúan ...