The cuddly prasident campaign

adminonDecember 28, 2021December 23, 2021Leave a Comment

Howard Dean wins the internet for itself – but this is enough to take the wife house?

In the US, the election campaign started wife house. In the first ballot at the beginning of the next year, the Wahler registered for the Democrats must first decide who they want to compete against Bush. Most headlines makes the former governor of Vermont Howard Dean with his internet campaign.

Howard Dean can currently book a success after another for itself. The surveys see him as candidates with the large growth rates. He gathered more donations in the second quarter than any of his competitors. And he dominates the headlines whenever it comes to innovative election campaign. Reason for this is not least that his campaign uses the internet far more creative than its competitors. So have more than 63.000 Supporters on the online platform Meetup.Com together with monthly Dean-Stammtisch. At the end of the week, the 200 registered.000th sympathizer on Deans website.

In the center of the campaign, however, is the Weblog Blogforamica.com. There Deans staff daily in blog-typical manner Short entrance to the current state of the campaign, linking articles from the daily press and telling ankdotes of the last campaign performances. Dean is also personal. The readers comment on the contributed flamming and use the blog for their own discussions and suggestions. Just this openness and the unconventional style seem to arrive. One of the readers said briefly: "This is by far the cuddly prassidal campaign I have ever seen."

Of newcomers and old rabbits

"Many people who come to our site have never been guided by a blog", explains Mathew Gross as head of the Internet campaign. Meanwhile, some of these newcomers had already founded their own blogs to support Howard Deans. In total, according to Gross more than 60 such unofficial Dean blogs. "Blog authors present an important reserve for us", So big against Telepolis.

Sympathies for Dean also develop the classic weblog community. Thus, the net-known blogger and copyright expert Lawrence Lessig invited the candidate past week, for a few days as a guest blogger on Lessig.organs. Lessig’s readers, however, were first skeptical. Seth Finkelstein even believed in dealing with Deans with the products of an automated script. Other anticipated evidence, the candidate was discussed with you detailed over long aspects of the Digital Millenium Copyright Acts (DMCA).

But instead of giving wisdom about the status of the information society, Dean would rather ask questions. So he wanted to know about Lessig’s master audience, what exactly they have to rave about the ruling copyright legislation. Some readers actually love their Slashdot’s request aside and stressed examples, which also understands a politician – such as the electronic electoral machines (the problem with the electronic electoral systems and American democracy), whose lack of the DMCA nobody is allowed to examine more precisely.

A campaign only for woman?

Howard Dean was also aware of whether Lessig’s readers in WiFi technology saw a possibility to overcome digital division. This could become a problem for Dean himself. His internet-trimmed campaign mainly achieves the seventh middle class. According to the US Treasury Ministry, around 60 percent of all sixty Americans are online, but only about 32 percent of all Latinos and 40 percent of all black ones. In addition, Dean comes from one of the fences of all US states. The problem has now been recognized by Deans campaign line. First attempts to address at least those already active in the network Latino community more targeted, but still stuck in their infancy.

After all, Dean can be booked to put Mabstabe with his internet campaign. Meanwhile, the previously very static online protrogs of his democratic competitor. So Joe Lieberman and Dennis Kucinich can be crafted for their web prasence. To blogforamica.COM can not trade the offers – Kucinich missing visitors, Lieberman the possibilities for interaction. Professional bloggers also do not know both, which is why there is only a new entry every few days. Finally, Deans have competitors and even George W. Bush the Meetup.COM platform for yourself discovered. But Deans Supporter are there by far the biggest group. Bush’s stem tables should even be flopped.

Maybe even established positions can not be marketed so well as part of a grass root campaign. Dean, on the other hand, also profiles itself politically as an outdoor manager. He agreed against the Iraq war and will not mude to criticize his own party for their government loyalty during the past few months. An unconventional campaign style, which overlooks many views of an autonomous basis of UBERS network organizing appendages, fits well with the image of the rebel, which is already working on its website "People Powered Howard" Celebrate.

Dean has already indicated, after a possible election victory over George W. To take Bush elements from his campaign to the official government policy. So he explained to the question of a Lessig reader, if it was a blog with him as a prasident.Whitehouse.Gov was given, prompt: "Why not?"

Most mechanical wristwatches today are equipped with an automatic winding system. However, hand-wound models also continue to appear on the market. The question of which of the two variants is preferable has been the subject of controversy among watch enthusiasts for decades. This is unlikely to change in the future, because not only rational but also emotional aspects play an important role in the process.

Hand-wound: preferred by purists

First of all, it should be noted that anyone who is interested in a mechanical watch that is as original as possible and reduced to the essentials will still be happy to buy a model with manual winding. After all, winding mechanical watches by hand is a tradition that goes back several centuries, while automatic watches are a much more recent invention and only became popular around the middle of the 20th century. The watch market has started to take off in a big way since the beginning of the twentieth century. It is sometimes perceived as a disadvantage of a hand-wound watch that it has to be regularly wound by the wearer. Those who prefer hand-wound watches, however, often see it as a cherished daily ritual that they would not want to do without.

nomos-glashuette-metro-38-date-city-black-hand-wound

Today, wristwatches and pocket watches are usually wound by turning the winding crown, which was developed in 1845 by the patek philippe manufactory. Until then, special winding keys were usually required to wind up the watch. It is advisable to wind a hand-wound model at approximately the same time each day. Although most models have a power reserve of around 40 hours, which is considerably more than a day’s wear. However, the accuracy of the watch can deteriorate if the mainspring is only slightly tensioned.

In automatic watches, the refined technology appeals to connoisseurs

With automatic watches, daily winding is unnecessary, as long as they are worn daily. They wind themselves, as it were, when the rotor of their automatic movement is set in motion by the movements of the wearer’s arm. Unlike hand-winding, automatic winding takes place in small steps, more or less continuously. A slipping clutch prevents the mainspring from being overwound if the watch continues to be moved after it has been fully wound.

nomos-glashuette-ludwig-automatic-date-automatic

For many fans of automatic wristwatches, this type of winding mechanism represents not only a practical innovation, but also a further step in the development of increasingly sophisticated mechanical watch technology. Early automatic watches, by the way, still had so-called pendulum flywheels instead of the rotor that is common today, which were also colloquially referred to as hammer automatics. In the course of time, however, the rotor has clearly prevailed.

Automatic winding ensures greater accuracy

Since automatic watches are moved almost constantly in everyday life and are therefore also wound comparatively continuously, the introduction of automatic winding mechanisms was also associated with a noticeable advance in terms of rate accuracy. The power reserve of automatic watches is usually around 35 to 60 hours. With a combination of several barrels, however, power reserves of up to ten days can be achieved.

designhuette-watch-winder-san-diego-3-black-grey

Basically, mechanical wristwatches should be kept in operation as long as possible and should not be left standing for a longer period of time. For this reason, automatic watches that are not worn for long periods of time are often kept on special watch winders that simulate the movements of a watch worn on the wrist by means of a small electric motor, thus ensuring continuous tensioning of the mainspring.

Manual winding allows a slimmer design and a better view of the movement

The elimination of hand-winding and the higher rate accuracy are two practical arguments in favor of automatic watches, but there are practical reasons for hand-wound watches as well. Since there is no need to accommodate a rotor in their case, they can be much slimmer than watches with automatic winding.

breguet-classique-gear-reserve-hand-winding

For this reason, elegant mechanical watches worn on festive occasions or with evening wear are still often fitted with a manual winding mechanism.

Another reason may be more aesthetic than practical, but for all those who are interested in mechanical watches, it plays a role that should not be underestimated. Because with manually wound models, a much better view of the working movement is possible, provided the watch is equipped with a sapphire crystal case back.

On models with automatic movement, however, the movement is mostly covered by the rotor.

Automatic transmissions tend to wear less

A certain practical disadvantage of hand-wound watches can be that daily winding puts more strain on the crown seal, so that the water resistance decreases after prolonged use of the watch. If necessary, the tube seals must be renewed after some time.

tag-heuer-aquaracer-calibre-5-automatic-43-mm

In contrast, the rotors of high-quality automatic watches hardly show any signs of wear, even after years of use.

for collectors the race remains open

If all aspects are taken into consideration, it is difficult for collectors of mechanical watches to make a clear decision for or against a particular winding technology. Both represent certain developments in the history of watches, and both have their advantages and disadvantages, both from an aesthetic and a practical point of view. So it’s not surprising that in many watch collections manually wound and automatic models lie side by side. And this is not likely to change in the foreseeable future.

Four continental trips, a synod and an encyclical

Vatican © dpa

Pope Francis and the Vatican face a busy year in 2015, with important decisions to be made for the rest of the pontificate. In addition to four overseas trips, the Holy Father is likely to be particularly preoccupied with the Synod on the Family and his encyclical on ecology.

During four overseas trips, the Catholic head of church wants to visit all continents except Australia. Immediately after the New Year's reception for the diplomatic corps, at which Francis is expected to deliver his most politically charged speech of the year, he launches on 12. January for his second trip to Asia.

Destinations include Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where he plans to visit in particular the region hit by the November 2013 tsunami, in which 6.000 people died. During the visit of John Paul II. In 1995, five million faithful gathered in Asia's only Catholic country. This time the organizers expect six million.

Candidates for the College of Cardinals

Even before this trip, possibly on 6. January, the Pope will announce the names of those he will admit to the College of Cardinals at the next consistory. It is expected to be primarily bishops from large dioceses. From the Curia, only Dominique Mamberti, former minister of foreign affairs, is expected to be part of it. Francis will certainly provide surprises again; because at the last consistory some "seeded" candidates from traditional cardinal seats left empty-handed.

Another trip abroad will take the Pope to Philadelphia for World Family Day at the end of September. Presumably, there will be subsequent stops at the UN in New York and at the U.S. Congress in Washington.

Francis has also announced a visit to three Latin American countries, without mentioning their names so far. Since then, almost all the states of the subcontinent have joined in the discussion. Three are certainly not among them: he does not plan to visit his native Argentina and Chile until 2016, and he was already in Brazil for World Youth Day in 2013.

Africa and Lourdes

Francis also plans to visit Africa in 2015, with a visit to the French Marian shrine of Lourdes also on the horizon. Within Italy, Naples and Florence are named destinations. Turin is also among them, to pay tribute to the Shroud of Christ and to celebrate St. Don Bosco's 200th birthday. Birthday to honor.

In October, landmark decisions on the sensitive ies of marriage, family and sexuality are expected from the second Synod of Bishops on these topics. From 4. until 25. The Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Pastoral Care of the Family will meet in October. A working paper, including a questionnaire, has already been sent to the local Churches. It is a continuation of the first Synod on the Family held last October, which was unusually eventful and made clear the different positions in the episcopate. On the question of receiving communion for remarried divorcees, but also on the attitude toward homosexuals or on the position of civil marriages, some bishops pleaded for more openness, others for a strict adherence to church doctrine.

Moreover, Francis must continue to advance the reform projects he has initiated. This concerns the Curia, which needs new and more efficient structures as well as a new mentality, and which should be more at the service of the local churches, for Vatican finances, which need to be sifted through, reorganized and made more transparent, as well as for the further processing of abuse scandals.

New child protection commission

In the first days of February, the expanded new Child Protection Commission, led by Boston Cardinal Sean O' Malley, will meet for the first time. At the same time, the Economic Council coordinated by Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx meets. Even before the solemn creations of new cardinals on 12. and 13. February Francis has summoned the College of Cardinals to a consistory. He plans to discuss current ies concerning the course of the Church with his closest collaborators.

In the course of the year, the pope intends to publish his first own encyclical on the subject of ecology; he had written the doctrinal letter "Lumen fidei" of 2013 after preliminary work by his predecessor Benedict XVI. published together with him.

Of newcomers and old rabbits

A campaign only for woman?

Leave a Reply Cancel reply