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Krakow is Poland's most visited city and it's home to a staggering array of bars, restaurants and unique attractions. Instead of listing them all, we asked the community of backpackers and travel veterans on our Facebook Page to tell us about the best things to do in Krakow. Here's what they came up with…
Take a Free Walking Tour
Elaine Sook Tin Chin says:
Free Walking Tour Krakow every day at 11am in front of St Mary's Square! It's fun and free so it's not to be missed!
Bartek Kolasa says:
Free walking tour is a perfect option for those who visit Krakow for the first time. There are two volumes of that (1st goes around the Old Town, 2nd is dedicated to Jewish Quarter).
Hostelworld.com says:
On this tour you'll be taken all around Krakow by a friendly and knowledgeable guide. Some of the sites you'll visit on the tour include Wawel Castle and Cathedral, the medieval city walls, the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz and many more. The tour itself is free; however, tips are welcome.
Location: Saint Mary's Church.
Opening hours: Tours depart daily at 11am.
Visit Auschwitz
Anne-Marie Nault says:
Do not take an organized tour to Auschwitz, take the local bus.
Kath Catchpole says:
I agree Anne-Marie – Don't take a tour to Auschwitz or to the salt mine you save so much doing it yourself and you still get a tour for fraction of the cost!
Trent Blomfield says:
As with Anne and Kath but take the mini bus to Auschwitz as they drop you right at the gate (they leave from the bottom ground of the main bus terminal).
Stephen Allen says:
Great city, and great people. Took the trip to Auschwitz in a minibus. Next time I'll take the local bus to have more time.
Luis Corvini Filho says:
Krakow is the way to Auschwitz!
Austin Eischeid says:
Go to Auschwitz!
Suzanne Scott says:
Definitely go to Auschwitz
Eva Ryan says:
Auschwitz a must
Hostelworld.com says:
The Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau sites are where terrible atrocities took place during WWII when these locations were used by the Nazis as concentration camps. Today, visitors are in for a poignant walk around the grounds which includes a look at the barracks where people slept and the gas chambers where they were killed. You can book a package tour of the site or, as pointed out here by our Hostelworld.com users, you can also get there using public transport.
Location: Oswiecim on national road 933.
Have a wander around Wawel Castle and Cathedral
Oleg Andrushko says:
Don't forget to hire audio-guide in Wawel Cathedral. You will hear a lot of interesting things
Trent Blomfield says:
Wawel Castle grounds are free to wander through – you have to pay to get into the buildings.
Luiz Ritta says:
You can visit almost all of the rooms of Wawell Castle free of charge on Sundays! Or a Sunday per month! Check it out!!
Hostelworld.com says:
Wawel Castle and Cathedral are some of the most popular attractions here in Krakow. You can take a stroll around the grounds of the Castle for free enjoying the awesome views, pretty flowers, green spaces and more. For 12 zloty, you can head inside Wawel Cathedral. Dating back to 1364, it's Poland's most important place of worship and is the final resting place of some Polish royalty along with numerous notable citizens. If you head up to the top of the cathedral you'll find a bell which, so the story goes, brings good luck to anyone who touches it.
Location: Wawel Hill.
Check out the Kazimierz district
Trent Blomfield says:
Check out Kazimierz and wander around that district. Head down by the river near Wawel Castle and catch a siesta in the park or go for a walk along it.
Cristobao Gandanoski says:
In the Kazimierz district (the old Jewish district) there is a round small market of typical Polish and Jewish food in a square, look for it and enjoy meal!!
Maria Borzobohata says:
The weather is great right now. Pop in to the Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, for a great Polish beer and some jazz/smooth rock in Alchemia club.
Leigh Spackman says:
Zapiekanki in the Jewish district the shop that always has a line and wodka bar try all the different flavoured vodkas it's a good start to a night.
Hostelworld.com says:
The Kazimierz district is one of the most well-known neighbourhoods in Krakow. The city's old Jewish neighbourhood, it was named after King Kazimierz in the 14th century. Today, its cobbled streets are some of the most vibrant streets in Krakow. Have a wander around Plac Nowy and you'll come across numerous bars and restaurants along with stores and plenty more.
Have a go at the Krakow Valley Golf shooting range
Elektra Vikernes says:
Shooting is really good and cheap at Krakow valley golf, make sure you take public transport though as taxi prices are very expensive.
Hostelworld.com says:
Here a number of different types of weapons can be used at the range's shooting stations. There are 10 different firing posts here, five for rifles and five for handguns. An instructor accompanies all guests.
Location: Paczoltowice 328.
Opening hours: Mon noon-8pm, Tues-Sun 10am-8pm.
Enjoy the food at Babcia Malina
Katarzyna Dziedzic says:
and eat something at Babcia Malina Bar ;))))
Kamila Podsiadlo says:
If you wanna try best traditional Polish cuisine, check out "U Babci Maliny" opposite the marvellous yellow building of Slowacki Theatre. They offer fantastic food, huge portions and prices next to nothing!
Hostelworld.com says:
Traditional food is the name of the game here in Babcia Malina. The building itself resembles an Polish farmhouse and inside you'll be able to sample a wide variety of tasty dishes.
Location: ul. Slawkowska 17.
Take a trip to the Wieliczka Salt Mine
An Gel Ine says:
The salt mine is a must see. Accessible by bus
Steve Pogonowski says:
Check out the Wieliczka salt mine but don't expect great things: the statues are well worth checking out but the system to get in is totally disorganised and there are queues at every door, lift or main monument once inside. Group tours of the mine are overpriced: it's easy to catch the 304 bus from the stop near Wawel Castle or from Starowislna Street at the top of the square for only 3 zloty, rather than pay 30 or so for a tour bus
Hostelworld.com says:
Located about 10km from Krakow city centre, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has been in operation for around 900 years. A tour of the salt mine lasts about three hours during which time visitors are given a chance to walk through parts of the mine, check out the museum and much more.
Opening hours: Daily 9am-5pm; tours depart every 30 minutes.
Find some bargains at the city's markets
Suzanne Scott says:
Check out the market in the middle of the main square for cheap amber!
Silvia Rondoni says:
look for the flea markets and the awesome cheap restaurants around them
Hostelworld.com says:
At the market on Rynek Glówny (the main square in Krakow's Old Town) you'll find plenty of kitschy and touristy items for sale from jewellery to mugs emblazoned with the word 'Krakow'. The city also boats a number of different flea markets including the one beside the Hala Targowa (Market Hall) and the one on Plac Nowy in Kazimierz. Plenty of stalls set up shop at these flea markets and offer up everything from clothes to antiques.
Enjoy some cheap food at Sphinx
Rachael Slaughter says:
There's a chain restaurant called sphinx that was very yummy and cheap indeed! It's at the back of the big shopping centre by the station. Next to carrefore, also good for cheap food!
Hostelworld.com says:
Part of a chain of restaurants found in various Polish cities including Krakow and Warsaw, Sphinx is a great choice if you're looking for large portions of tasty food. On the diverse menu you'll find everything from pasta dishes to shoaremka (thinly sliced pork or chicken). As well as the great food, you'll also find that the service is friendly and the prices are very affordable.
Location: Various locations.
Enjoy a pint at Mbassy
Stephen Allen says:
Theres a great Irish pub there called Mbassy. Have live irish music some nights. Great place, planning to back later in 2010.
Hostelworld.com says:
Spread out over three floors this Irish owned and run pub is primarily a sports bar. Dotted around the bar you'll find 14 big plasma screen TVs showing a wide selection of events including soccer and rugby games plus plenty more. Local beers are served up here alongside a great variety of international tipples.
Location: ul. Stolarska 3.
See a movie at the ARS Cinema
Rachael Slaughter says:
Also go to the ARS cinema by the square. Hilarious name, but fantastic 2 screen old fashioned cinema. 🙂
Hostelworld.com says:
If you fancy a break from the bar scene here in Krakow, why not head to the ARS Cinema and watch a movie. Here in a funky, old-fashioned atmosphere you'll be able to see an interesting mix of major new releases and smaller European films.
Location: ul. Jana 6.
Follow any (or all) of the following suggestions
Timmy Sipe says:
the club scene is monstrous in the main square on Fri/Sat night. Good place to have a party. Also, lots of history and beautiful sites to explore during the day. Go get some fresh pierogi from the Jewish district on Sunday afternoon — Delicious!!
Paulina Wójcicka says:
-best ice cream on Statowislna Street
-have a tube of beer in C.K. Browar
-try 'Zapiekanka' on Plac Nowy


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Am after an end-on pic of the elbow end of the left gauntlet if poss please.
Searched high and low for pics, and even the ones on Rebelscum have that bit covered by the cape.
If anyone can shed some light into how it should be shaped I would be most grateful.

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Wikipedia; the idea that we can somehow remove our selves from the things we think about and the contexts we exist is a bizarre USian fantasy akin to the classist racist American dream. It has its unpragmatic value: it hopes that just the facts will be enough, and that those recording those facts will report them without considering themselves, focusing on only the subject at hand.
But for my writing, commenting, and reporting? Objectivity and neutrality are not constructive mantras. I am a feminist writer, and I am not here to give my readers the party line: I am not here to give them the objective and irredeemably kyriarchal point of view. Instead, I focus on giving people basic facts and then making it clear what I think about it. I try to make my perspective, my biases, my point of view crystal clear - not obscured.
Objectivity is functionally a way to reflect and uphold and insist upon what is normal and okay and what is excluded: what is not normal and not okay. There are too many facts about any given situation to be able to divine a clear and central set of descriptions and explanations in any depth. And even then, seemingly small things like pronouns can betray a supposedly objective point of view.
Worship of objectivity shores up our idealization of what is normal, for normalcy often represents antifeminist points of view. When navigating the combustible waters of social justice, normal is a term tainted beyond any utility. In a world where some bodies are less and other bodies more, where bodies can be wrong and right, normal implies an objective standard that all other bodies must live up to.
Normal is perhaps not a necessarily oppressive rhetorical term. In non-political, humorous, or other less than explosive genres of writing, it's neutral by nature: all it means is regular. Standard. Unthreatening.
Normal as a concept is one that I put to great use in negotiating my own body. Having an idea of what is normal, what is usual for me helps me create peace and calm with myself and my body. The weight at which I feel most comfortable, at which I feel normal, is not normal according to BMI standards. My periods, too, have become normal in their inconsistency. Whereas most menstruating folks have fairly regular cycles that last about 28 days, all I know about my cycle is that it will usually but not at all always be longer than 35 days and completely irregular. Though this departure from the normal period was a little disconcerting in my first few years of bleeding and anxious after I got regularly sexually active, once I got to know my cycle my own norms became apparent, and comfortable.
But in most cases, normal is used to reinforce what we are taught by the kyriarchy: that we are somehow not measuring up, that we are mediocre, that we are too much, that we deserved it. Normal creates false ideals: points that if we can just manage to hit, we'll get it right, we'll get all the benefits of kyriarchy and win the whole damn game. But it's a rigged system; hitting those preordained marks comes at a great personal cost because few people are made or allowed access to the tools to comfortably hit all those marks.
Normalization is a form of oppression that reaches into just about every branch I experience: age (when should I get married? am I too young? when will I get mine and start earning significantly above the poverty level) fatness (how fat is too fat, am I the right kind of fat, why aren't my boobs bigger, why do I have these rolls) sex (I should have had sex earlier, am I not a feminist if I like this kind of sex), presentation (this skirt is too short this skirt is too short). Normalacy is the creator of wants inside us that declare too much! or too little! It is the concept that makes us feel less than adequate, or too adequate, or just plain not quite right. It creates internalization by making us believe that we too will grow up to live up to these arbitrary measures (and if we don't, we're failures, too).
Our experience and education, kyriarchal or otherwise, seeps into and colors our every adjective, pronoun, article. These oversights in the name of avoiding bias, in the name of being neutral and objective, of not hurting anyone, of being ...appropriate, are the doers of evil. Truth is individually experienced; relying on such subjective measures as "normal" reinforces hierarchies of bodies. As a writer, I try to look directly at that which misinforms me rather than continuing to ignore it.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Rejecting normalacy and objectivity in feminist writing
Posted by RMJ at 3:58 PM
Labels: feminism in general, journalism, normalacy, normalization, objectivity, rejecting, writing
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In my opinion, neutrality always favors power - and thus oppression - as it always fails to critique it. It in fact exalts that failure to critique as a virtue.ReplyDelete
So suck it, neutrality. I don't like you.
"So suck it, neutrality. I don't like you."ReplyDelete
New motto!
Awesome post. Well said.ReplyDelete
Rachel! This is going to be random (though no really) but I love love LOVE how deep and considerate and thoughtful each and every one of your posts are. It's really refreshing and this post is no different. And this "Normalacy is the creator of wants inside us that declare too much! or too little!" is very true! Which is common sense really, I love how you make me REALIZE what I'm thinking!ReplyDelete
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Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Theo Walcott could all feature at the Madejski Stadium, while Carl Jenkinson, Johan Djourou and Andrey Arshavin are also named in the squad.
Emmanuel Frimpong will be looking to continue his rehabilitation from injury against the Royals with another appearance in the competition.
Germany youth international Serge Gnabry will also travel to Berkshire, along with the likes of Hector Bellerin, Ignasi Miquel and Thomas Eisfeld, all of whom have impressed for the under-21s and in the NextGen Series.
Arsenal squad:
6 Laurent KOSCIELNY
12 Olivier GIROUD
14 Theo WALCOTT
18 Sebastien SQUILLACI
20 Johan DJOUROU
22 Francis COQUELIN
23 Andrey ARSHAVIN
25 Carl JENKINSON
26 Emmanuel FRIMPONG
29 Marouane CHAMAKH
36 Damian MARTINEZ (GK)
40 Hector BELLERIN
46 Thomas EISFELD
47 Serge GNABRY
53 Jernade MEADE
54 Ignasi MIQUEL
60 James SHEA (GK)
64 Nico YENNARIS
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- 04-09-13 03:31 AM #166Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): '01 Catera, '02 Omega 2.2 DTI Design Edition (sold)
- Join Date
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Re: Show us your Catera.
My Omega/Catera story began in the fall of 2006 when my parents test drove an Opel Omega C. Early in 2007, a black 2002 Omega 2.2 DTI Design Edition wagon with 156k km became our family car.
I moved to the USA in the summer of 2008 to go to college. After my freshman year, I decided to buy a car (until then I had driven my aunt and uncle's 1989 Volvo 760 Turbo with 230k miles). In September of 2009, I got a one-owner 2001 Catera with 57k miles.
Two years later, my cousin got a 2000 Catera with 63k miles; he traded it in a few months ago.
My dad also replaced his Omega a month ago after reaching 280k km. I'm still a happy owner of my Cat with 84k miles on it now.
What was replaced on my car (not chronologically):
- brake pads and rotors front and rear, calipers rear,
- front right spring,
- tie rods,
- head gaskets at 58k, then engine oil cooler and gaskets at 83k miles,
- multifunction relay (random radio, On-Star, and trunk release problems are gone since),
- engine coils (ACDelco) and spark plugs (Bosch Platinum IR Fusion),
- oxygen sensors (Bosch),
- crankshaft position sensor,
- timing belt,
- instrument cluster bulbs (now orange) and headlight/tail light/blinker bulbs,
- fuel filter,
- oil and oil filter every 3-3.5k miles,
- coolant a couple of times,
- cabin air filer (Bosch),
- engine air filter (K&N),
- fuel cap,
- battery,
- left mirror (previous owner cracked it a bit),
- wiper blades a couple of times.
- A/C recharged with a refrigerant-sealant mix,
- refinished right headlight (in and out),
- sealed right fog light and a new connector put in.
In December of 2011, I hit deer which resulted in a 2-3" crack in the bumper, cracked headlight and its bezel, loosened fog light, cracked grill, and a dent in the hood. The car was repaired professionally with brand new parts (luckily they couldn't find used ones and the insurance covered everything).
To be replaced/done:
- shocks front and rear (I bought Monroe),
- pinion and axle seals (they're still OK),
- black brushed aluminum vinyl wrap for radio/A/C bezel and transmission shift bezel (the rubbery stuff started coming off, I got grayish patches after removing it).
Things that don't work and I don't really care about:
- gear shift indicator LEDs while lights are on,
- below 20 degrees, I need to warm up the car in order to shift into gear -- I'm guessing that the transmission lock freezes.
- 18" factory GM wheels from Pontiac G6 GT/GXP (showroom takeoffs; offset different by 1mm) with Uniroyal Tiger Paw 225/45 tires, aftermarket lug nut covers, and Opel center caps,
- DDM Tuning 35W 5000K HID Kit in headlights,
- DDM Tuning 35W 3000K HID Kit in fog lights (the only way for the right fog light to stop blowing halogen bulbs due to rusted casing which is the negative connection),
- white LED strips over headlights (just installed those a few days ago),
- Opel stickers and Cadillac "V" logos,
- Opel license plate frames.
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Abandoned ideas (at least for now):
- lip spoiler,
- new radio with GPS navigation,
- LEDs in tail lights (every time I turned the lights on with LED bulbs in tail lights, one of the LEDs in the middle break light would light up!).
I'll take nicer pictures once the weather gets a bit better. For now, just a small collection of older shots of my parents' Omega, my Catera at various stages, and my cousin's Catera. Hope you'll find those interesting.
-- Matt
Re: Show us your Catera.
Hello Guys! i made some Strips on my Cat and want to know what u think about it!
Currently only hood, front bumper and grill is done, strips on the side and through the whole bumper from left to right u painted on my phone Galaxy Note, just to see on picture how its gonna look like if i will paint front and sides.
pictures that were just drawn:
Please let me know what u think!!!!! Thank you
Re: Show us your Catera.
Don't hate me but the stripes don't do it for me. I like the wheels and blacked out grill though.
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- 08-30-13 01:26 AM #169Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 1998 Catera
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Re: Show us your Catera.
A Little Memento I'm gonna keep, and created, to remember this adventure into a "new" car with most everything wrong on the list after 4months of ownership when purchased... to reading endlessly, as well as spending, so I could attempt too many 1st Time crash courses in things I've never touched before... and watching it all come together while too many said nothing positive the entire way... As i've been troubleshooting final pieces still as solo as the beginning (Locally that is.... This forum freaking rocks!!) I'm still loving this car, Still keeping it now that I know it better than any other, Still Saving tons from my own hands and able to when nothing else couldve been an option. Excited to put it back to pavement........ and attaching an audio file currently, to the Overhaul Progressional Picture, of my rebuilt engine's firing up to a strong idle and a little fun after, which will be sent to my supportive and uplifting friends, family, and co-workers who "believed" in me
Re: Show us your Catera.
Very pretty.
- 10-04-13 03:46 PM #171Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 01' Cadillac Catera
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Re: Show us your Catera.
Hey guys, Today was pretty nice and I got home from school early. So I decided to take some pictures of my 01' Cadillac Catera.
Black in color
Body Damage (from previous owner)
The cheapest rims Discount Tire offers, with Pirelli P6's.
04 GTO springs in the rear.
New rear differential
New CPS and ECM
And many small things that I dont remember.
Cosmetic wise I plan on making her all aggressive looking. New, or, repair the headlights and install some HID's. Dark tint on the rear half with a light tint on the front. Lowering springs. Also some 25mm wheel spacers, with new rims and tires of course. I also need a new front passenger fender, and that bottom
headlight housing (small black strip thats between the bumper and headlight itself. The fog lights only seem to work when the corresponding turn signal is on. I might keep the rear bumper ziptied. (Kinda gives it a grunge look in my honest opinion.
Mechanical wise She needs new valve cover gaskets, intake manifold gaskets. Once I have everything taken apart I'll clean up the upper engine bay.
The hood doesn't close all the way. The battery is to big Whoops and the hood release doesn't work.
If anyone could point me in the right direction for some running boards and the jack caps that would be be great.
Re: Show us your Catera.
First off, Welcome to the nuthouse. Second, the lights that come on with the signals are turning lights to illuminate the road you're turning onto. Yeah, completely useless but there they are. The fog lights are inboard of them.
Love the color. Too bad about the damage though. Your best bet as far as the parts you need is to find someone parting out their Catera here or on the Yahoo Catera forum.
- 10-05-13 06:08 PM #173Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: Show us your Catera.
You wouldn't know what the best plan of attack is for cleaning the headlight? They have a bad haze on them. I've tried some blue headlight lens restorer ann toothpaste, each didn't seem to help.
They need to be sanded and polished. Either get a headlight restoration kit, or progressive grits if wet sand paper (from 800-2000) and machine polish. Either way, take your time, or they won't come out good.
- 10-05-13 06:57 PM #175Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: Show us your Catera.
Thanks Moist. I'll look around for higher grit sand paper. Any polishes you recommend?
I use Presta products, body shop supply shop or online only.
But you need a rotary buffing tool to use the types of polish I'm talking about. A hand polish isn't going to take off sand scratches very well. If you don't have the polisher and proper pads (I'm assuming you don't), just buy a kit.
Re: Show us your Catera.
I've polished mine using a kit I bought at Advanced Auto. It's called Crystal View and comes in a silver foil package. It did a good job on mine but admittedly they weren't that fogged. I've seen Youtube videos on headlight polishing. They might be worth a look.
Re: Show us your Catera.
Hi all,
I'm a long time lurker finally posting on the forum. Pics of my 3.2-litre Irmscher MV6 project can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/irmscherMV6.
Full project updates feature in the fantastic 'Total Vauxhall' magazine in the UK each month, but you can follow online summaries by liking the Facebook page and by following on Twitter:
There's a full project description at the following link. It should be a real 'rags to riches' story when done. That's the plan anyway!
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by Lilia A, Apr 12, 2010.
Me too.
That said the whole "prettier than you" thing was
Wow, Carol and Brandy are totally melting down. Well, the dark haired one. (Brandy?)
Carol and Brandy's meltdown is as is the Duhtectives strategy discussion...
Littlebrothers were very smart to do the FF. There's a lot of stuff to do this time!
It's an incredibly busy leg isn't it.
I thought I would HATE the cowboys when I first saw them but with each new episode they are more and more charming.
Duhtectives trying to steal Brandy/Carol's cab.
Gracious to the end
at how many clue boxes there have been on this leg...
In TWO weeks??
I'm starting to get the meaning of the title...
I wanted to see the Caite/Carol & Brandy throwdown
Hoping for the Little Brothers win the whole thing.
I have no doubt that Carol and Brandy would have u-turned Caite and Brent if they'd had the chance. Go Dumb!
Brothers or cowboys for the win!
Exactly!! I don't care who wins now (although I hope its the Cowboys), but I'm just glad the "mean lesbians" are gone!!!
And Carol and Brandy continue to show their ugliness even on at the Pit Stop. Not to mention their own immaturity in constantly picking on a kid (yes, 20 year olds are kids to me ). They have been nothing but rude and condescending to Catie for no reason since the first episode. I hope they see their ugliness as they watch back this show, but somehow I think they are too conceited to see that they did anything wrong.
Hear, hear! Really hope the promo's a fakeout...
Cool to have the cowboys advertise the country music awards.
I don't watch TAR to see petiness (that goes for both sides) so wasn't a fan of this episode except for the brothers rocking. Miss Steve and Allie.
I want to do that zip line!!!
Hurray for the Cowboys and the Little Brothers!!! My two fave teams! I'm so glad that Carol and Brandy are gone. They ARE mean - to each other as well as everyone else. However, I think if they had come across the U Turn first, they would've U-turned the Cowboys. They've had it in for the Cowboys for quite some time.
I hope at least the Cowboys and Little Brothers are in the final three. I'm leaning towards Brent and Caite rounding out that trio. The Duhtectives still bug me.
Compared to prior seasons, the fast forward seems relatively easy and saved them a lot of work. Granted it was very high and open, but there have been a number of "high" tasks so anyone really afraid of heights probably wouldn't be there.
I don't blame any contestant for using the U-turn, but I really don't like it as part of the show. One of the things I like about TAR is that even though personalities play a role, it's basically an objective race and it's about doing the tasks. I don't like it when one team has more tasks to do because of nothing they did (unlike the task you get for coming in last on an NEL)
I don't know that the Duhtectives really didn't like Carol and Brandy, but I think it was a combination of them genuinely thinking Carol and Brandy were a threat because they travel a lot, and creating another target so that they wouldn't be the team u-turned. I do get the feeling the Duhtectives didn't particularly like Carol and Brandy because they don't come across as very friendly, but I don't think they have any specific grudge with them.
Why do the people who are watching their teammates count the links think it would be helpful to interrupt their concentration and shout out random words of encouragement.
I really do not like the U-turn. I just checked the history on it:
It has been in use since season 12. In the last 5 seasons it has been used 6 times. One of those times, the team who used it (Kynt & Vyxsin) U-turned a team that was in front of them. ALL the other 5 times, the team who was U-turned has been eliminated. Lorena & Jason. Amanda & Kris. Kisha & Jen. Joe & Heidi. And now Carol & Brandy.
IMO the U-turn is too much of a time deficit for a team to make up the time in a single leg, especially in legs like the one tonight where teams have to drive to the next route marker and where the detour options were in different locations. If the show insists on having something that is going to ruffle the feathers between the teams, I would suggest the return of the yield. It slowed teams down, and yes some of the yielded teams got eliminated, but there were plenty of instances where the teams survived the leg (Lyn & Karlyn, Freddy & Kendra, Eric & Dumbbell TWICE, all come to mind).
Or perhaps they could give the teams an extra task to do a la the speed bump. Something that's not very difficult, but will hold up the team for a little bit, but not so long that the leg becomes a no contest. (I'm beyond convinced that tonight's leg wasn't even close)
The history of the yield:
Was in place for seasons 5 through 11. Was used 11 times:
Season 5 - Colin & Christie yielded, finished 4th of 4 teams; non-elimination leg
Season 6 - Freddy & Kendra yielded, finished 4th of 6 teams
Season 6 - Adam & Rebecca yielded, finished 4th of 4 teams; non-elimination leg
Season 7 - Ron & Kelly yielded, finished 2nd of 4 teams
Season 8 - Weaver family yielded, finished 5th of 6 teams
Season 8 - Weaver family yielded again, finished 4th of 4 teams; non-elimination leg
Season 9 - Danielle & Dani yielded, finished 8th of 8 teams; eliminated
Season 9 - Monica & Joseph yielded, finished 3rd of 4 teams
Season 10 - Lyn & Karlyn yielded, finished 2nd of 4 teams
Season 11 - Eric & Danielle yielded, finished 3rd of 5 teams
Season 11 - Eric & Danielle yielded, finished 3rd of 4 teams
My opinion: Yield > U-turn
But they've often found themselves in direct competition with the Cowboys, and they've always lost to them--and the Cowboys have the most first places of any team left, don't they?
"Beating the cowboys" makes perfect sense in that respect.
But I do think there is an underlying "How can those dumb hicks possibly beat US?" in their attitude.
They said on the last show that Carol and Brandy are very negative, and I can see that. They show the stress more than a lot of the teams and Brandy in particular complains a lot. So does Caite, but Caite is like a little kid--she whines when things don't go her way, but she jumps and down and squeals when things do go her way and she seems to have fun every now and then, while Brandy just seems to hate everything.
So the U-Turn was used against someone who was disliked...as opposed to being used against someone who was your competiton and in the end will take your one million dollar prize away from you??
I actually don't agree there. Carol and Brandy were a strong team and were strong competition. They had the advantange of being world travelers and speaking several languages, and that helps a lot. And despite their bickering, they were good at accomplishing tasks and finishing near the top several times. Or perhaps I'm just glad they are gone.
I know, the Duhtectives and Jet & Cord both have three leg victories and Caite & Brent use their UTurn opportunity to get rid of the "mean team" instead of one of the strong, all male teams that have been dominating the race.
Kudos to Jordan for doing that fast forward. They would have had to pry my fingers off the railing!
and that was cute for CBS to use Jet & Cord to preview the Country Music awards for next week.
The Duhtectives actually manipulated their *young cubs*. While there was snarkiness between the kidlets and the mean lesbians, the Duhtectives really encouraged them that if there was a u-turn who to use it against and I think they did that because they did feel C/B were a strong team. I also think they'd turn against the kids if the opportunity presented itself. We used to play a board game called Diplomacy. A friend was a killer player because he'd make all sorts of alliances and promise to always be your ally then he'd turn on you like a starving piranha when it benefited him. He won nearly every game (until we decided to band together against him.
My thought exactly! Actually, if I were going to U-Turn any team, it would be the Cowboys even over the Duhtectives because they are the most physically fit team and have proven themselves to be extremely intelligent. They are dangerous. That might have been the most pivotal moment in the race, Brent and Caite let emotions rule over logic. I think it's going to bite them.
I don't think they are logical enough to ever realize this...
I didn't like Carole and Brandy the first ep I saw (only a few weeks ago) but since then I have come to appreciate them, despite the negative/diva-ness of the brunette. I really hate Caite and Brent though (Prancer has the perfect description of her - and adult women who insist on behaving like 5 years olds make me x infinity).
No surprise that C/B U-Turned the other C/B...and totally anti-climactic that the lesbians were eliminated. I'm with Fridge Break - the U-Turn sucks and I'd rather see the Yield brought back.
Am rooting for Dan/Jordan
I'm a terrible fan for saying this ... but remind me again what the difference is between the Yield and the U-Turn? Don't they both involve doing an additional task? Or does it have something to do with turning over an hourglass and just sitting there waiting for the sand to run out? I remember something about an hourglass.


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describing a machine or manufacturing process that is controlled by a computer and does not need a human to be present in order to operate or supervise it
'Imagine going home out [sic] at night while your computer keeps doing your job. That's the basic idea behind a trend in manufacturing called "lights-out machining." You punch out. The machines keep working.'Changing Gears 14th September 2011
'Currently, on trial in its own machine shop, a new approach to on-machine probing is helping Renishaw benefit from dramatically reduced set times and the confidence to run 'lights out' on even the most sophisticated parts.'www.renishaw.com April 2008
Though these days we take domestic appliances like washing machines for granted, if we were to stop a second and ponder their benefits then most people would profess a quiet satisfaction that it's possible to leave a machine to do all that scrubbing and wringing work while you enjoy 45 minutes peace. Outside of the home, machinery has revolutionized all industrial sectors and given us increasingly efficient and cost-effective manufacturing processes, which now require only a fraction of the human input they once did. But what if we could not only get machines to do the work, but also just go off home, or even on holiday, and simply leave them to it, no further human contribution required? Such is the philosophy of what is now known as a lights-out approach to manufacturing.
as lights-out technology becomes more widely available, even small businesses are beginning to use it as a means of enhancing productivity
A lights-out machine is a piece of equipment which can be left to operate in a fully-automated way, which, once turned on and with the appropriate settings, requires neither human operation nor supervision, it can function completely independently. This means that potentially, any factory equipped with such machinery could be left to operate over-night, or even longer, with no need for anyone to be present. Such an establishment is therefore correspondingly described as a lights-out factory, or the term can be used adverbially and the factory said to be … running lights out.
A key player in lights-out manufacturing is Japanese robotics corporation FANUC, which has been operating lights-out factories for robots since 2001. FANUC uses robots to build robots, at plants which can be left unattended for up to 30 days. As lights-out technology becomes more widely available however, even small businesses are beginning to use it as a means of enhancing productivity. By running fully-automated shifts, companies can meet increasing demand, or save money on labour and associated costs.
Unsurprisingly, the concept of lights-out manufacturing is rather controversial. On the one hand it increases cost-effectiveness, enhancing productivity with less investment in manpower. The flip side is that it costs jobs, with factories typically only needing a small proportion of the workforce required when operated conventionally.
The term lights-out in reference to manufacturing has been around since the early eighties, often associated with the late Roger Smith, CEO of General Motors, who envisioned a fully-automated car manufacturing process which would make the company as efficient as its Japanese rivals. Unfortunately, the associated machinery didn't turn out to be up to the job, even with the lights on, and the term slipped into obscurity for many years until improved technology made lights-out manufacturing a realistic and attractive option.
The term itself is based of course on the idea that having no humans present in a place of work means 'the lights can be turned off'. In practice it's not only the lights, but the heating, air-conditioning, kettles, microwaves and other things humans might need too, making substantial savings on running costs.
Dating back to the 1950s, an earlier term for a similar concept is automatic factory, which describes a factory where raw materials enter and finished products leave with little or no human intervention.
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After reading FFRF's follow-up letter (below), you may wish to contact Supt. Milton Kuykendall to reinforce FFRF's legal complaint. After FFRF complained about the District's practice of hosting prayers, mostly Christian, over loudspeakers to begin school sports events, the school board voted Tuesday to follow its 8-year policy of no school prayer. See background information.
But the superintendent has disparaged FFRF, parents are arranging to shout out the Lord's Prayer en masse at tonight's high school football match, the town is in a frenzy, and a religious website claims 15,000 have ordered T-shirts, "DeSota County prays." Help educate!
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FFRF writes Desoto Superintendent
Aug. 26, 2011
Mr. Milton Kuykendall
DeSoto County Schools
5 East South Street
Hernando MS 38632
Re: Retract your defamatory and untrue comments
Dear Supt. Kuykendall:
It has come to our attention that you have issued widely-disseminated public comments of an untrue and libelous nature about the Freedom From Religion Foundation and our complaint over your District's long-standing violation of imposing, hosting and broadcasting prayer at school functions.
The DeSoto Times Tribune reported on Aug. 24 that you issued a statement, quoted below:
"In my opinion, most people do not realize that this organization out of Wisconsin doesn't really care if we have prayer in our schools. They see an opportunity to try and accuse us of breaking the law and therefore give them a chance to sue our district and win a law suit and take millions of our funds. This is money that is needed to pay teachers and educate our students."
To say that FFRF doesn't care about school prayer violations, that we opportunistically are looking to "take millions of your funds" needed to pay teachers and educate students is a patently untrue and disparaging statement, whose intent is to harm FFRF's reputation as a public service organization. We ask for your immediate apology and retraction, and that you cease making such reckless, defamatory and untrue allegations against our organization.
FFRF is a 501(c)(3) educational charity whose vital and laudatory purposes include working to preserve and protect the Constitutional principle of separation between state and church. Since being founded nationally in 1978, we have diligently championed the rights of literally thousands of students and their parents. These cases involve public school districts that have unlawfully taken advantage of their civil authority to impose religion — whether prayer, religious instruction, bible creationism or other endorsements or promotions — upon a captive audience of impressionable and vulnerable students.
FFRF is directly contacted by our complainants, students, parents and residents, who are often afraid, understandably, of reprisal and need help to uphold their rights. FFRF does not go roaming the country looking for such violations. It was only in late 2008 that FFRF in fact was able to afford to hire its first staff attorney. It is our public and oft-stated goal to end all such violations without having to go to court, through education and persuasion. There is no need to reinvent the legal wheel over such clear-cut violations. It is our absolute mantra to public officials not to recklessly and irresponsibly endanger precious public resources by resisting such law, by continuing to misuse civil authority to illegally promote and endorse religion in the public schools.
Our small legal team is deluged with requests for help from students and parents around the country. As of this morning, for example, our small organization has already received more than 50 new complaints just this week about unlawful religion in public schools! That is quite an indictment of the poor job many superintendents and principals around the country are doing to uphold the law and the rights of personal conscience of students.
FFRF does not and has never made money, much less "millions," in bringing litigation to halt illegal actions by irresponsible public officials who knowingly violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. When FFRF wins a decision in our favor, FFRF may be eligible for reimbursement for attorney fees expended in defending the Constitution, as is proper. FFRF never receives full reimbursement for all of its time, fees and other expenses related to litigation. We do not sue to make money, we sue to uphold the Constitution. We do not take lawsuits to raise money (unlike many religious-right law firms). We raise money in order to bring lawsuits, as a last resort, if we cannot otherwise end constitutional violations. We do not sue for damages (with the exception of one of our litigants, a dad, who once asked for and received symbolic damages of $1 and deserved far more). We do not sue to "take millions" of your funds or any other school funds.
But we consider the funds we must expend on the salaries of our non-litigation attorneys, other staff, and to hire litigation attorneys, when needed, as a necessary and essential investment in upholding the Constitution. We work to preserve Thomas Jefferson's precious constitutional "wall of separation between church and state." It is an investment in freedom, in defending the rights of citizens — including most especially students — to be free from government-imposed religion, as our U.S. founders intended.
In addition to requesting your immediate apology and retraction of your disparaging and untrue comments about FFRF, we would expect you to rise to the occasion by taking a leadership role in re-educating your community about the meaning and purpose of the Establishment Clause.
The hysteria greeting a decision by the school board to abide by settled law is a symptom of the fact that students, parents and your community have been victims of miseducation. At fault is your District, for its longstanding practice of scheduling and hosting prayers over the loudspeaker at school sporting events, permitting teachers to encourage students to pray at meals, and scheduling prayers, mostly Christian-based, at high school graduation ceremonies. The District through its example and its unlawful conduct have created a climate of ignorance and contempt for a precious constitutional principle that protects all citizens. The District's actions, further, have fostered a climate of bigotry, which sends a message to "nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community." Justice O'Connor, Allegheny v. ACLU, 492 U.S. at 627.
You should not only be apologizing to our organization for your unwarranted smear, you should be apologizing to past graduates, parents and your community for your clear failure to do your job. The purpose of a public school is to educate, not to proselytize. This should be a "teachable moment," not an occasion to continue to demonstrate contempt for the law and student rights. Your district should be explaining to students and parents what the law says, and why that law was adopted — to protect their rights of conscience, to ensure that the rights of parents to instruct their children in religion and religious ritual are not usurped, and to avoid the kind of spectacle it appears your community will put on tonight — a defiant spectacle that will intimidate, embarrass and ostracize nonChristians, Jews, other religious minorities, atheists and people who simply respect the need to keep our public schools free of divisive religion.
The courts have continually reaffirmed that the rights of minorities are protected by the Constitution. As the Supreme Court has said, "fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." Santa Fe Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290, 304-305 (2000) (quoting West Virgina Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 638 (1943). "The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts." Barnette, 319 U.S. at 638. It makes no difference how many parents in the county want prayers at school events. They are free to pray privately or stop at the church of their choice to and from school events. Schools may not lawfully sponsor prayer. The Barnette ruling assured students and officials that their beliefs would be protected:
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Barnette, 319 U.S. at 642.
May we suggest that you hold an educational assembly on this matter? We would be pleased to provide one of our staff to lead such an assembly. We would also suggest that the District arrange to have the student body watch the Peabody Award-winning documentary, "The Lord Was Not on Trial Here Today," which was broadcast this year on many PBS stations. This film is about the first landmark Supreme Court decision against religious instruction in the public schools, McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), upon which all other Supreme Court decisions about devotional religion in the schools is based. The film features key players on both sides and shows the toll on school children when school districts improperly take sides on religion — a matter which should be left to parents, not schools.
It is important to realize that litigation against prayer and bible-reading in the public schools was typically brought by religious parents, often Roman Catholics, which was even the case in the Supreme Court's most recent decision against devotions in schools, Santa Fe v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 308 (2000) challenging sports prayer. If you are going to have devotions, whose devotions? Which denomination, which church, which beliefs will be "blessed" by a school district? Inevitably, such actions exclude many students. In one such early case brought by Roman Catholic parents, Weiss v. District Board, a Supreme Court of Wisconsin justice wisely noted what the brouhaha in your District exemplifies:
"There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government would soon be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed."
Those who are not impressed by constitutional dictates should perhaps open their bibles and peruse the Sermon on the Mount, which attributes to their god, Jesus, these cautionary words (Matthew 6:5-6):
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
May we hear from you immediately?
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For several years Ive followed the debate over the shifting nature of contracts, and the efforts by media companies to gain more and more control of image rights. One of the conclusions that I came to was that photographers and photojournalists needed to explore alternative options for having their work seen while at the same time trying to generate some revenue from that effort.
I believe that the biggest concern that many photojournalists have today notwithstanding the recent attention thats been given to photojournalism by the events in the last few years is that most of our work is never seen by anyone other than a photo editor at a newspaper, wire service or photo agency. How many of you stage periodic screenings or parties with friends in order that others might see some of your work because otherwise no one will?
Personal websites and stock footage sites have expanded the possibility for sales and viewing, but often the costs involved in creating and constantly upgrading a really dynamic website can be prohibitive, and stock footage I dont believe works as well for photojournalism as it does for editorial and lifestyle.
Book publishing has traditionally been the venue for photojournalism to reach a wider audience once upon a time magazines played a larger role in providing photojournalists a showcase, but, with notable exceptions such as foto 8 in London, http://www.foto8.com, and several web-based efforts like Dirck Halsteads, Digital Journalist, http://www.digitaljournalist.org, and Harpers Magazine recent decision to provide photojournalist Peter Turnley, four major eight-page photo spreads next year, the options have been getting narrower. Unfortunately Harpers decision has spurred so much interest because major magazine venues have been disappearing as the magazines that provided those opportunities changed formats or ceased to exist.
While there are wonderful photojournalism books published annually, there are several drawbacks that face photojournalists seeking to get their work published, not the least of which is the prohibitive costs associated with printing a quality 4 color book. Having gone through the process myself, I can attest that unless you win the lottery, its not an undertaking that you can finance on an ongoing basis. After exploring a number of options several years ago I chose to self publish and the resulting experiences and lessons learned were worth it.
It was an expensive, but extremely worthwhile experience that provided me with a number of "this is what Id do differently next time" lessons, which only whetted my appetite to do it again. My only problem is that I couldnt afford to do it again.
But I really wanted to. So, I went looking for alternative ways which led me to start exploring the possibility of eBooks. With an eBook, the major cost is in the layout process, making the overall costs and sale price of an eBooks relatively inexpensive. Many eBooks sells for $3.95 to $9.95, which is reasonable given the costs involved in producing a hardcover book.
And it was as a result of that research that I decided to write this in the hope of sharing what knowledge Ive gained to date, and to stimulate some discussion about eBooks being an avenue that some of you might consider exploring yourselves.
THE STEPS OF eBOOK PUBLISHING
I do not believe that books as we know them will disappear. At the same time, after some exhaustive exploration and a visit to this years American Library Association Conference, I do believe that eBooks are now a sizable and growing segment of many book publishers business plans.
The most significant indication of this I found at the ALA was the advent of eBook Libraries. Type eBook Library in Google, and look at all the links that pop up.
In addition, several months ago Dirck Halstead wrote about Roger Richards eBook, Remember Sarajevo, which is available at Zone Zero. After reading Dircks comments, I followed up by going to the site and purchasing the book, and by sending them an email inquiry they state on their website a desire to publish eBooks on a continuing basis, but unfortunately I never got a response to my inquiry, and there havent been any new books posted in months, so I dont know what problems they might be having. In any event, you can check them out at: http://www.zonezero....le/catalog.html
Creatively, eBooks offer the opportunity not only to design a book in the traditional way, but also to include hyperlinks to websites and to use links to multimedia materials such as video and audio as part of the content. Also, while most folks I spoke with set an outer limit of between 5 and 6 megabytes as the size of a PDF document capable of being able to be transmitted without complications, thats still a sizable amount of space to work with. There is also the option of creating an eBook and putting it on a CD, or DVD is the amount of content creates a download problem.
For someone interested in producing an eBook there are 2 ways to go about it. The first way, and one which as a Mac user I naturally gravitated to, is to use a program like QuarkExpress, or Adobe In Design. You lay your book out like you would if you were going to produce a hardcover book, and then convert your work into a PDF file.
The other way, the PC way, is using an executable language software program of which there are a large number of eBook authoring programs available and lay your book out in that program.
Ive only worked with QuarkExpress, so I dont know how easy it is to work with some of the executable language programs when it comes to photographs, but hopefully someone will be able to provide some insight and guidance on which of these programs might be best. I must add though that one advantage of working with a program such as QuarkExpress is that should you wish to go forward with publishing a real book, much of you layout work is already accomplished.
No matter which way you decide to go, the critical issue once youve laid out you book is in Copy Protecting your material. Because your work is going to be transmitted over the internet, this is the single most critical issue if you want to protect your work from being pirated or spammed.
If you go the PDF route, Adobe has software called Adobe Content Server which costs $3000.00, and which supposedly provides complete digital rights management. If anyone knows of any other copy protection software that allows you to protect PDFs Id like to know, because I think that $3000.00 is a bit steep.
If you go the executable language way, there are a wider selection of content protection programs some very expensive and others that work on a percentage of sales model through eCommerce sites.
In any event, content protection is something you dont want to leave home without.
If you decide to put out an eBook, what do you do with it? Clearly, if youve been able to get as far as laying a book out, chances are you also have a website so therefore youll want to try and sell it from your site with a credit card link.
Another alternative is to try and contact distributors like Zone Zero and others who you can readily find by doing a Google search on topics like eBook Marketing.
Another way, which again is something which Im throwing out for discussion and ideas, is to create some sort of Photojournalism Collective that would undertake to either set up some content management software and a server to act as an exclusive distributor of the members books, or to act as a distributor to eBook Libraries and vendors.
Its very clear from my talks with folks at the ALA that the business model that the major eBook Libraries are going to follow are the ones already in place for real libraries.
While they on occasion will purchase or distribute the work of one author, they prefer to work with distributors to provide them with large numbers of books. Its just easier to do this from a bookkeeping and management perspective.
I think that eBooks offer a new opportunity for a lot of us to gain an audience for our work that might not be possible under other business models. It certainly addresses a need that I think many have to create a vehicle which allows photographers and photojournalists to exhibit their work in thematic ways and also a format that allows for larger and more comprehensive presentations. It certainly provides an opportunity to rethink how to take advantage of our libraries of images, and to explore creative new ways in which to package those images.
Its not something that I think will make anyone rich but then again, I dont think that most of us do what we do with that in mind however, it does offer the possibility of some income which if nothing else can help cover the expenses of doing this.
I also think that perhaps most importantly it offers one more way of providing a historical record of the work that many have devoted lifetimes to chronicle, and another reason to try and fight for ownership of the images we sometimes bleed to get.
I am going to attempt to circulate this as widely as possible in an effort to try and stimulate some thought, discussion, suggestions or possible alternative ideas that will provide a little more light at the end of a tunnel that seems to be growing dark and narrow lately.
In order that as many people as want to take part in this discussion can do so in a way that is inclusive, I am posting this on the Forum site of the Digital Photojournalist, as the place where everyone can log on to express their ideas:
Also, for those out on the streets in New York for the Republican Convention, Ill be there. Maybe we can chat between protests. I got white hair and a beard, so Ill be one of the twenty or so old white haired and bearded guys out thereJ.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to your thoughts.
Al Crespo
Ebooks - An Idea Worth Discussing
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Posted 24 September 2004 - 10:14 AM
Excellent article. I have been thinking about the current scenario for photographers as well. This helps a lot. Thanks.
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