Interviews Pabusar

Interviews with Patashi Devi Bhopi with interjections from her son Samdar BhopaThe ‘Epic of Pabuji in Performance’ includes films of four performances of the epic filmed in Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Jaipur and Pabusar, full interviews with the main performers; a final film (52’ ) comprising excerpts of the epic and interviews entitled ‘To Earn Our Bread’; plus a collection of stills and portraits of the main epic performersThe Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Researc

Earth observations from DSCOVR EPIC instrument

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was launched on 11 February 2015 and in June 2015 achieved its orbit at the first Lagrange point (L1), 1.5 million km from Earth toward the sun. There are two National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth-observing instruments on board: the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR). The purpose of this paper is to describe various capabilities of the DSCOVR EPIC instrument. EPIC views the entire sunlit Earth from sunrise to sunset at the backscattering direction (scattering angles between 168.5° and 175.5°) with 10 narrowband filters: 317, 325, 340, 388, 443, 552, 680, 688, 764, and 779 nm. We discuss a number of preprocessing steps necessary for EPIC calibration including the geolocation algorithm and the radiometric calibration for each wavelength channel in terms of EPIC counts per second for conversion to reflectance units. The principal EPIC products are total ozone (O3) amount, scene reflectivity, erythemal irradiance, ultraviolet (UV) aerosol properties, sulfur dioxide (SO2) for volcanic eruptions, surface spectral reflectance, vegetation properties, and cloud products including cloud height. Finally, we describe the observation of horizontally oriented ice crystals in clouds and the unexpected use of the O2 B-band absorption for vegetation properties.The NASA GSFC DSCOVR project is funded by NASA Earth Science Division. We gratefully acknowledge the work by S. Taylor and B. Fisher for help with the SO2 retrievals and Marshall Sutton, Carl Hostetter, and the EPIC NISTAR project for help with EPIC data. We also would like to thank the EPIC Cloud Algorithm team, especially Dr. Gala Wind, for the contribution to the EPIC cloud products. (NASA Earth Science Division)Accepted manuscrip

Performance Jaipur

Performance of the Epic of Pabuji by Santera Devi Bhopi and Bhanwar Lal BhopaThe ‘Epic of Pabuji in Performance’ includes clips from films of four performances of the epic filmed in Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Jaipur and Pabusar, full interviews with the main performers in Marwari with transcripts of interviews and the performances in Marwari with English translation; a final film (52’ ) comprising excerpts of the epic and interviews entitled ‘To Earn Our Bread’; plus a collection of stills and portraits of the main epic performersThe Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Researc

Interviews Jodhpur

Interviews with ManBhari Devi Bhopi and Sugana Ram BhopaThe ‘Epic of Pabuji in Performance’ includes films of four performances of the epic filmed in Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Jaipur and Pabusar, full interviews with the main performers in Marwari with transcripts of interviews; a final film (52’ ) comprising excerpts of the epic and interviews entitled ‘To Earn Our Bread’; plus a collection of stills and portraits of the main epic performersThe Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Researc

XMM-Newton observations of the BL Lac MS 0737+7441

We report on the XMM-Newton observations of the BL Lac object MS 0737.9+7441 during the performance verification phase. A simple power-law fit provides an adequate description of the integrated spectrum in the 0.2-10 keV energy band. The photon index is slightly steeper in the EPIC pn data with 2.38+-0.01 compared to the EPIC MOS data (2.28+-0.01). The difference is most probably due to the present uncertainties in the calibration of the EPIC MOS and EPIC pn data sets. We report evidence for intrinsic absorption in the distant BL Lac above the Galactic column N_H,Gal=3.2*10^20 cm^-2 which is N_H,fit(z=0.315)= (2.70+-0.20)*10^20cm^-2 in the EPIC pn data and N_H,fit(z=0.315)= (3.25+-0.25)*10^20cm^-2 in the EPIC MOS data assuming neutral gas and solar abundances. The flux variations are found to be of the order of 10 %.Comment: 4 pages, 4 Figures, accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newto

Sunjata Epic

Deux thèmes de l’épopée de Soundjata qui sont typiques pour la version de Kéla: l’histoire de la libération de Nagana Tiriba par l’ancêtre des Diabaté, et l’histoire de l’achat des chevaux dans le pays de ‘Kajorè’ par l’ancêtre des Diawara.The Verba Africana series publishes video recording of African verbal arts on CDRom's, DVD’s and the Internet. This series responds to the increasing need for new electronic tools that integrate the written and audio-visual materials for research, teaching and learning of African languages and oral literatures. The video recording of oral genres, such as poems, songs and tales, is integrated into the presentation of relevant aspects (language, form, content, performance, literary, social and historical context). The videos and the accompanying material (short information and full articles) allow researchers and the interested public to approach oral literary productions as ‘total event’.NWO, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Researc