The New Gallery

Fred Herzog, a photographer best known for his photos of life in Canada, in Vancouver in particular, was born on September 21st 1930. Having worked professionally as a medical photographer, Herzog went on to teach at Simon Fraser University, and is certainly not the type of man who would ever be seen without his camera bag! Herzog’s photography concentrates mostly on “ordinary” people, mostly the working classes and their connections to the city in which they live. ...

Just about all LED lamps now come with a dim option. Dimmable LED lamps don’t cost much more than an un-dimmable LED so it is really worth purchasing them – especially considering all the enjoyment you can get out of the lamp which will last upwards of 15 years! It doesn’t take much work or know how to install a dimmable LED if you just want one switch. However, you may want to install the dimmable LED so it can be operated by multiple switches. Your third option is to install one dimmer which will control multiple dimmable LED lamps ...

Reflecting on the nature of time, Augustine concluded that the past and future can only exist in the present. One draws from a past memory not the things themselves which are in a time past, but instead the sensations as relived in the present. ‘Thus my childhood, which no longer exists, is in time past, which now no longer exists. But when I now recall its image and talk about it, I can see it in the present, because it is still in my memory’. Conceptions of the future are similarly in the present, ‘and those who forecast such things ...

After you look at the lens and magnification numbers of Celestron binoculars, you will want to look at the exit pupil. This number represents the brightness of an object in the binoculars when it is viewed in a situation where there is little light. The higher the exit pupil number is, the brighter the object will appear. It is hard to understand exit pupil of Celestron binoculars until you have tried out a few different pairs for comparison. Here is how to do it:...

The Zambian government informed the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in January 2003 that it wished to renegotiate some of the agreed performance criteria that called for the privatization of national telephone and electricity utilities and of the Zambia National Commercial Bank. This was agreed to but overspending on civil service wages delayed Zambia’s final debt forgiveness from 2003 to 2005.The government drafted an austerity budget for 2004, in an effort to reach HIPC completion. The austerity budget involved an increased number of taxes and the freezing of civil service salaries which sparked nationwide strikes in February 2004....