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Petzval Lens Test – C. C. Harrison vs. Dallmeyer 3B vs. Voigtlander vs. Darlot vs. Scovill Peerless
There's been some online discussions regarding quality of Petzval lenses and it prompted me to do this little test. Some people were saying that this brand is better than that one based on how many of them were made and how much they were selling back then for (basically that cheaper lenses were worse). Others were vehemently defending their lenses saying they've been happy with images for years. I'm not in one camp or another, so for the sake of my own knowledge and to confirm or deny my own suspicions about which of my personal lenses are actually sharper than others I devised this little test.
I would like to say that I'm aware of quite a few factors that make this optical quality test subjective and also of some factors that surely stand true in matters of collecting lenses rather than using them:
I would like to say that I'm aware of quite a few factors that make this optical quality test subjective and also of some factors that surely stand true in matters of collecting lenses rather than using them:
• Lenses were hand-made back in the day and thus a piece of glass made on a Monday might have been better than a lens made on Friday because the guy polishing and inspecting it just couldn't wait to finish up that day and go have a pint of grog at the local pub.
• Glass quality improved through the years and so a Petzval from 1880s should in theory be better than one from 1850s (let's see about that….)
• Lenses get sharper when stopped down a few stops below wide open, that's a given. However these days people like Petzvals for their shallow depth of focus when they are indeed wide open and so I'm choosing to conduct my test with all my lenses devoid of stops. Lenses in this test are all about f3-3.6 so it should be a fairly fair test in tat regard
• Collectors – they are a different breed of Homo Sapiens. Nothing is going to convince them that this brand or another is worth less because others are sharper. This test is geared toward active users of these lenses.
Here are the lenses tested:
Control in front) Fujinon W 210mm f5.6 - this is the sharpest most corrected modern lens I own that is around the same focal length of other lenses in the test. I'm throwing in this lens as a control to see exactly how sharp I can make my target appear.
Left to right on top:
1) Voigtlander (1865): FL 9.7in, glass diameter 3in, f3.2
2) Dallmeyer 3B (1875): FL 11in, glass diameter 3.325in, f3.3
3) Peerless Tangent dive (1872): FL 12in, glass diameter 3in, f4
4) Peerless Radial drive (~1878): FL 11in, glass diameter 3in, f3.6
5) C.C. Harrison (~1859): FL 10in, glass diameter 3in, f3.3
6) Darlot Full Plate (~1875): FL 10in, glass diameter 3in, f3.3
7) Darlot Extra Full Plate (~1878): FL 13in, glass diameter 3in, f4.6 This one is the odd-bird. Not only is it the slowest and longest, but it also has a small crack in the glass smack in the middle of the rearmost element – someone obviously put those elements in wrong and applied too much pressure when screwing the retaining ring back on. Thankfully they didn't break the glass completely… In either case – I wanted to test it because it's the newest one in my arsenal.
Above parameters were not taken from each lens' catalog listing. Instead I focused each one on infinity (luckily, above the horizon, there were excellent fluffy clouds today!) and measured distance from the ground glass to Waterhouse slot.
Here's the shot of the poor rear element of the 13in Darlot with that annoying crack in it…
I wanted to test the center sharpness of each given lens, not the curvature of focus, bokeh, contrast or other characteristics. I just wanted to see how sharp my test target will appear under rudimentary magnification and with all things made as equal as possible.
Wet plate collodion technique here for a number of reasons. First off it's actually cheaper than film and is a lot more immediate in feedback. Secondly collodion's resolution is higher than any film base provides. With it though come certain uncertainties, which I have tried my best to eliminate or diminish. The biggest uncertainty being that from my understanding with prolonged development the size of silver crystals increases, thus reducing apparent resolution in my final scans. I have tried to make my exposures vary as little as possible (while taking into account different speeds of lenses I'm using) and keeping development time consistent and timed via a Gralab timer.
I used an 8x10 Zone VI with a 4x5 reducing back. As you can see below, while shooting the slightly varied focal lengths lenses I am filling the frame with the test target. In my mind that is providing us with test of the 'sweet spot' of each lens. The center test is obvious and I'm doing the corner clippings to see how much possible aberration set in there with each lens and how much curvature of field of focus they may have. Now, some lenses I am testing obviously have a larger field of coverage than other (see lens-by-lens description), so in the ones with a larger image circle we can expect the focus filed to curve less within the test area. Take that as caution.
I used a ground glass focusing loupe to make each plate appear as sharp as a given lens would allow.
Front and rear standards have been made to be as vertical and parallel as possible by using a bubble-level. The target is on a wall, which I assume to be of vertical orientation (it's an old building though, so who really knows, right?).
Final plates have been dried, not varnished, and photographed on a Polaroid MP4 copy stand using Canon 5D Mark II camera with a 100mm macro lens. Fill 4x5 plates were shot at JPEG-small setting to make them manageable for import. 1:1 macro copies out of the center were shot using RAW setting. All plates were gives same exposure while re-photographing. JPEGs of full plates were imported into Photoshop and given an Unsharp Mask filter (100%, 1 pixel). RAW files were imported into Lightroom and sharpened 100%, radius 1, detail 25. Then they were exported as JPEG at 100%. Then (back in Lightroom) a tight center crop was made and again exported as 100% JPEG.
I know I'm gonna hear ALL SORTS of feedback on this post. "Oh, you should have done this" and "Oh, you must have done this wrong". Honestly - I did my very best to focus and let the camera settle after taking off the cap before exposure. I used the same plate holder for all plates and plate holder was indeed in all the way on every shot. If any of my critics would like to present their own test that would be great. On the other hand that will really make no sense - as I said above, one Dallmeyer may be better than another. So that eager critic might want to come over to San Diego and do the test on my lenses - I'm completely open to it.
Here are the images of the middle section:
3)Peerless Tangent
4)Peerless Radial
5)C. C. Harrison
6)Darlot 10in
7)Darlot 13in
8) Fujinon 210W
Here are 1:1 center images:
1) Voigtlander
2) Dallmeyer
3) Peerless Tangent
4) Peerless Radial
5) C. C. Harrison
6) Darlot 10in
7) Darlot 13in
8) Fujinon 210W
Here are crops from 1:1 center images:
1) Voigtlander
2) Dallmeyer
3) Peerless Tangent
4) Peerless Radial
5) C. C. Harrison
6) Darlot 10in
7) Darlot 13in
8) Fujinon 210W
And it seems that the winner in the center-sharpness category is the 10in Darlot! It seemed to even outperfrom the Fujinon control lens. Followinc closely in second place and matching the Fujinon is the Dallmeyer 3B. I was honestly expecting the Harrison to come out on top, but it actually seems like it's in the 4th place behind the 13in Darlot (the one with a crack in the glass!).
I don't know what this proves to anyone. My conclusion is that my little Darlot is just as good as any other Petzval and I love it even more now. It was actually my very first brass lens – this beauty was rescued literally from a dumpster by my college friend who heard that a photographer passed away and "all grandpa's junk went to the dump". I'll continue shooting them all because they all have a different bokeh, a test of which may or may not come in the future. One thing is certain though – not all Voigtlanders are as sharp as others and not all Darlots are bad either like some people would have you believe based on their original cost and the mass-produced factor.
So I thought that something must have been awry there in the original test - it seemed very odd that a Darlot would outperform a Harrison... Some people pointed out that chemical focus may have been involved (this is when blue end of the spectrum is focused by a lens behind the plane of visual focus - I don't think that's the case with these lenses as I have never had images come out softer than they looked on the ground glass..., still, possible), others noted that at such close distance from lens to target any slight movement of the focus plane can throw off the results by a lot, someone else suggested that I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort by doing the test digitally. Armed with these suggections I decided to redo the test.
This time I strapped my friend's Sony A7r to a 4x5 reducing back on my Kodak 2D in a following crude yet efficient manner.
Using the nifty little 'focus assist' feature I focused on the right side of the electrical post you see in my crops. The camera was set to ISO 50 and all exposure times were the same (I think about 1/200sec), which actually lets you see rather clearly how much (or how slightly) one lens is brighter than another. Resolution was at finest JPEG setting. I also used a self-timer on 2sec setting, so after I pressed the button the camera had time to settle. It was rather windless today, so I don't THINK camera shake was an issue. COULD it have been an issue with a couple of them? Totally possible!
After shooting I exported the files into Photoshop, cropped to the point where the focus was and gave them all 100% unsharp mask filter at 1pixel.
Since I could not move closer to the subject the pole did appear slightly bigger in the frame with longer lenses, so more pixels were devoted to it, but differences were pretty minor except with the last Darlot. Also I did add a lens that I just received in the mail a couple days ago and was able to mount today - a 16in Wollensak Vitax. It's also a Petzval design and of a wonderful f3.8 speed, really stoked to have this lens.
Since I could not move closer to the subject the pole did appear slightly bigger in the frame with longer lenses, so more pixels were devoted to it, but differences were pretty minor except with the last Darlot. Also I did add a lens that I just received in the mail a couple days ago and was able to mount today - a 16in Wollensak Vitax. It's also a Petzval design and of a wonderful f3.8 speed, really stoked to have this lens.
With this method the test took about 15min instead of the previous 2 hours or so. Yes, digital IS faster than wet plate, go figure....
One thing I totally missed - I forgot my control lens at home, so maybe some day I'll once again use that A7r and just shoot with a 210 Fujinon.
Here's the full frame as seen by the Sony through the Voigtlander.
And here are the crops.
1. Voigtlander
2. Dallmeyer 3B
3. Scovill Peerless Tangent Drive
4. Scovill Peerless Radial Drive
5. C. C. Harrison
6. Darlot 10in
7. Darlot 13in
8. Wollensak Vitax 16in
This time, as I suspected - Harrison seems to take the cake (take a look at the detail in the High Voltage sign). Followed closely by Dallmeyer and Peerless Radial (which was made by R. Morrison who worked closely with Harrison himself, so no surprise there). The 13in Darlot also looks great (and remember, that's the one with a crack in the rear glass). Surprisingly my favorite 10in Darlot looks like dreck - I'm gonna write it off to camera shake, I mean c'mon - take a look at the first test results!
As suggested to me online after I posted the first results - unless a given Petzval lens has been severely messed with throughout the ages - they are ALL GOOD. What this test proves to me personally is that there's really not THAT much of a difference in sharpness between a coveted Dallmeyer 3B and a good Darlot.
Anyway, I feel rather tested-out and will now concentrate on more fun things to do.


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Garisha D – Spinal Surgery Medical Tourism Patient Experience
Garisha D from Idaho, USA
She contacted Healthbase who arranged medical care trip to India to treat her Spinal condition. She underwent Spinal Surgery in Wockhardt-Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India with Dr.Rajakumar. Her post-op recovery is going very well. She likes to share her experience.
Garisha`s Experience
I could never thank you all enough for the wonderful care I received whilst in India. Everyone was wonderful, from the sisters to the people bringing and clearing my food. I had a wonderful experience and will sing praises of the staff and facilities of the Fortis Hospital in Bangalore!

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Just an idea, you could set up a Paypal account to accept donations...?
Just an idea, you could set up a Paypal account to accept donations...?
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Its finally LIVE
Ive got the online sponser form ready to use and for those of you that trust I will complete the run you can donate strait away through the pay pal button
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Gosh, what a superb idea and effort - well done you and good luck. I'll be sponsoring you too.
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Today I am going to Review Khadi Orange Ayurvedic Handmade Soap, which I bought long time ago and finished it a month back :p and sorry for the late review. I purchased this orange flavor with lemon flavor and reviewed the lemon one already. I loved this soap very much, Let's see the Review in detail...
About The Product:
|Khadi Orange Ayurvedic Handmade Soap Review
Price 50 Rs for 125 gms
Shelf Life 24 months
Product Description & Ingredients:
Key Ingredients:
Ornage Oil, Almond Oil, Glycerine Oil and Vegetable Oils.
My Experience with Khadi Orange Ayurvedic Handmade Soap:
Khadi Orange Ayurvedic Handmade Soap comes in a transparent polythene cover with white label backside contains products details. The package is very simple.
Colour, Texture & Smell:
The colour of the soap is yummy orange which looks so pretty. Square shaped soap bar smells refreshing orange flavor.
My Experience:
I loved this soap very much, because this soap makes my every bath refreshed. This soap lathers well and cleanse the skin very well. The smell is so lovely and refreshing to make your bath a beautiful experience. This soap leaves the skin clean, smooth and soft. I never felt any dryness or itchiness because of this soap, since this soap is made up of essential oils.
Orange is generally good for skin and especially it is very useful for oily skin. Orange juice and orange peels helps to control your skin oiliness. Orange helps to control your sweating odor when you use in your bathing water. Orange fruit is rich in vitamin C and it is comes under citrus fruits category.
My Likes with Khadi Orange Ayurvedic Handmade Soap:
- This soap is not tested on Animals.
- This soap made by natural ingredients.
- It has goodness of Natural oils.
- This soap smells very nice.
- It lathers and cleanse the skin very well.
- This soap leaves the skin soft and smooth.
- This soap never dries the skin.
- It is affordable.
- No full ingredients.
- Not available in all stores.


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Bouquet of Caesar Salad with Shrimp and Red Bell Peppers
Parmesan Tuile Rings
Bake in 400º F oven until just set. Remove from oven and cut into 2 x 12 inch strips. Place in oven and continue cooking until golden brown. Remove from oven and working very quickly remove strip and shape around rocks glass or pvc pipe one at a time (very tight). Let it cool down for a few minutes and remove. This forms the parmesan ring.
For the Dressing: In a medium mixing bowl, whisk egg yolk, mustard, vinegar, red pepper puree, and minced garlic until well blended. Slowly whisk in oils.
For the Salad: Sauté shrimp in olive oil and minced garlic. Place 5 round spoonfuls of dressing around plate, place ring in center. Toss romaine leaves with dressing and stand in center of ring. Hang shrimp around edges. Sprinkle each serving with parmesan cheese and chives.
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Here we have a zigzag arrangement LED clock kit. This time, it comes with a board. It is the same type of clock which is shown here, it's just that this time it comes with an actual board! What a time-saver!
Other clock kits with boards (more expensive):
Circular ring (3.9 inch board) (click here)Zig-zag ring (3.9 inch board) (you are here)Infinity (1.95 x 3.9 inch board) (click here)Tiny 5 cm square ring (1.95 inch board) (click here)Dice clock (1.95 x 3.9 inch board) (click here)
Other clock kits without boards (less expensive, but in some ways better because the board is less personal and rather small):
The same type of clock as this but without the green board (click here)The dice clock (click here)
The green board you see there is a square which is 3.9 inches on a side. Click on the picture to see it big, and use the left and right arrow keys to move around.First of all, I want to make 2 things clear:1. You are not buying the clock in the picture. That one is my demonstration piece. It took me too long to solder together for me to throw around that with a 20 or even 30 dollar pricetag. That would be half minimum wage or less. It took long enough just to get the components together to make the kit.2. You are buying a kit. You get 91 LEDs (one spare), a programmed microcontroller, resistors, capacitors, a crystal, a speaker, etcetera, a circuit board, and an information sheet on specifics you'll need to get it right. This does NOT include a power supply. You need to give it 6.3 to 12 volts DC from somewhere. You also need a soldering iron and solder.
By the way, there are 2 completely different versions of the program, one which controls a "AM" LED which is on in the morning and a "PM" LED which is on in the evening, and a different version which controls only the PM LED, which is off in the morning. If you only want one LED to denote AM/PM, you can't use the version that controls them both, because it will turn on other LEDs when it tries to turn on the AM LED which won't be there. Please tell me which version you want or I will choose for you.A demonstration of the version of this clock with the alarm can be seen here (make sure to be patient when downloading this, and make sure to have some kind of pop-up ad killer in place: mediafire will definitely zap you if you don't):
To see a demonstration of not this version of the clock but the version without the alarm (not the kind for sale here) which also flashes all its LEDs 11 times per second (also unlike the kind for sale here), watch this:
It is not only a clock but a calendar too. You give it the year modulo 4, the month, the day in month, the day in week, hour, minute, second. Press one of the 2 buttons to get it to show you the date (the 5th picture shows this - it displays the date March 1 - today as of when I wrote this), where the 12 hours represent the month and the minutes/seconds represents the day in the month. The ring of 60 LEDs shows you the minutes AND the seconds. The seconds flash. Also they advance one per second. It also automatically adjusts for daylight saving time as it is right now in the US. So beware if you're in a place that doesn't do daylight/standard transitions or does it at a different time. The alarm can be set to any time down to the second, and can be enabled for any combination of days of the week. So if you want it to just go off on weekdays you can do that. Or if you want it to only be on Saturday, you can do that. The alarm is set by holding down the "show date" button and then pressing the set button. If you just press the set button, it sets the clock's real time, not the alarm time.
Please feel free to check out our other electronic items at medexamtools.com/diodes.htm. These can be added into your order for combined shipping as well (the shopping cart system will do it automatically).


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Sealing solutions
Table 1 provides an overview of the properties and suitability of each sealing solution. This information should be used as a guideline, which cannot substitute for testing the seal in its application.
Housings in the PDN 3 and PDR series have felt strips, which are mounted in a groove in the cover. At circumferential speeds above 4 m/s, a small gap forms between the felt and the seal counterface.
The outboard V-ring seals (for all housing series) provide additional protection against contaminants. They can accommodate circumferential speeds up to 7 m/s.
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Grilling is more than just a way to cook in the summertime. It's also a social event and a bonding experience. While cookouts are great for dusting off your "Kiss the Cook" apron and chatting with your neighbors, it's important to keep your health in mind as well.
Eating red meat has long been considered a potential risk factor in developing certain types of cancer. Not to rain on your picnic and cookout, but there has been a large body of research conducted in the past few years that suggests grilling these meats is even worse for your health than if you baked or roasted them. The American Institute for Cancer Research recently conducted a meta-analysis on the causes of colorectal cancer and determined that consuming grilled or processed meats is a "convincing" cause of the disease.
When meat is grilled using high levels of heat, the muscle proteins are broken down, causing the formation of compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs). The longer the meat is cooked, the more HCAs form. The Department of Health and Human Services named HCAs on their list of carcinogens in 2005 due to their capabilities to damage DNA. In fact, a recent study found that people who regularly consumed well-done meat were 60 percent more likely to get cancer.
It is also suggested to avoid the consumption of processed meats such as sausage, hot dogs, salami, bacon, ham, and pepperoni. This is because many of these foods contain the meat preservatives nitrates and nitrites, which have been linked to both colon and bladder cancers in humans.
Still want to have your steak and eat it too?
Here are some helpful ways to cook meat in a healthier manner:
- Use a microwave to preheat the meat to reduce the time it spends on the grill.
- Cover the surface of the grill with punctured aluminum foil and avoiding charring the meat or exposing it to flame.
- Prepare smaller or thinner pieces, as it takes less time for them to cook.
- Use meat with lower fat content, as more fat means more flames.
- Flip the meat frequently to avoid constant exposure to high temperatures.
- Keep your grill rack as high as possible so that the meat is farther away from the flames.
- Marinate meat for at least 10 minutes to help to protect it from burning.
About Dr. Dr. Bassel El-Rayes
Dr. Bassel El-Rayes, associate professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and an expert in treating gastrointestinal cancers, notes that it is important to think of grilling other things besides meat. Salmon and other fish are healthy options, for example. Also, Dr. El-Rayes reminds people to include plenty of fruits, vegetables and legumes for a healthy cookout. Adding such things as watermelon, strawberries, squash, peppers and tomatoes not only makes the menu more inviting but also keeps it healthy, Dr. El-Rayes says.
To learn more, visit:
- Winship Cancer Institute website at http://winshipcancer.emory.edu
- American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org
- National Cancer Institute at www.cancer.gov
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Foothills Community Church on May 25, 2014.
You ever awake expecting your day to go one way and the exact opposite happens? You expect a beautiful "sunny day" and then the storm of the century hits your life? To one degree or another, we've all had those experiences. How we ride those storms out makes all the difference.
In this message I share my experience of dealing with the unexpected downturn in my daughters health, without question the single most difficult time in my life as a parent. It is my hope that through this message you might discover the hope that comes from walking with a God that is always good.
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The North American Society for Sport Management is pleased to announce its annual student research competition. To be eligible for this competition, students MUST be enrolled in a college or university at the deadline of submission (11:59pm Tuesday January 14, 2020), AND not be employed in a full-time academic position at the submission deadline. Students may not submit more than ONE paper for this competition, and if accepted for presentation, this paper will count toward the two-presentation maximum for the NASSM Annual Conference.
Papers should reflect a student's analytical and/or theoretical research interest and be appropriate for presentation at the NASSM Annual Conference. The winner of the student competition will have an opportunity to present this paper at the President's Luncheon during the NASSM Annual Conference (May 27 - 30, 2020 in San Diego, California).
- This is a solo-author competition. No co-authored submissions will be reviewed.
- Papers must be received electronically no later than 11:59pm EST on Tuesday January 14, 2020.
- The page limit for all submitted manuscripts is 40 double-spaced pages, INCLUDING references, tables, figures and appendices. Papers that are more than 40 pages will not be eligible for the competition.
- Papers must be submitted in English and use a minimum of 12-point font and one-inch margins.
- Students must also adhere to the Submission Guidelines & Policies section published in the Journal of Sport Management. Papers should not be submitted if its author does not meet ALL of these requirements.
- All papers will be subject to textual similarity review by plagiarism detection software.
- Papers must be submitted electronically to the Student Research Competition coordinator, Shannon Kerwin (firstname.lastname@example.com). The submissions should be sent as a file attachment to an email, and should be in MS-Word (*.doc) format. Do not send a paper in pdf or zip file format.
Each submission must also include an Authorship Declaration form signed by both the student's academic advisor and the student. If the paper constitutes part of a broader research project undertaken by the student and/or advisor, a note as to how the submitted paper represents an original, independent contribution by the student (i.e., single author) must be provided in the Authorship Declaration. The research paper, or any form of the research paper (e.g., method, research questions), cannot be submitted for any other presentation at the conference, nor should it have been previously undergone scholarly peer review, or have been presented/accepted for publication in other scholarly outlets..
Papers must be received electronically
no later than 11:59pm EST on Tuesday January 14, 2020.
The Student Paper Review Committee will evaluate all submissions using a blind review process based on the following criteria:
- Relevance or significance of the topic
- Theoretical basis
- Methodology
- Discussion and interpretation
- Clarity of writing
Students will receive constructive comments and suggestions from the reviewers on how the paper may be strengthened for possible presentation and publication. The student winner will be recognized by NASSM with the following awards:
- A 20-minute presentation of the research at the 2020 NASSM Conference President's Luncheon.
- A waiver of the conference registration fee.
- A $500 (US) award.
- Complimentary one-year membership in NASSM.
- Plaque in recognition of the award.
The top three finalists (other than the award winner) will each receive a $250 (US) award in addition to a waiver of the conference registration fee. These three finalists may be asked to present their paper as a 20-minute oral presentation at the 2020 NASSM Conference.
For further questions and information, please contact:Dr. Shannon Kerwin
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Past Student Research Competition Award Winners
- 2019
- Na Ri Shin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Jon Welty Peachey
- 2018
- Yiran Su, Temple University; Advisor: Thilo Kunkel
- 2017
- Kyungyeol (Anthony) Kim, Indiana University; Advisor: Kevin K. Byon
- 2016
- Bradley Baker, Temple University; Advisor: Daniel Funk
- 2015
- Florian Hemme, The University of Texas at Austin; Advisor: Matthew T. Bowers
- 2014
- Christine Wegner, Temple University; Advisor: Jeremy Jordan
- 2013
- Mikihiro Sato, Temple University; Advisors: Jeremy Jordan and Dan Funk
- 2012
- Steve Swanson, Temple University; Advisor: Aubrey Kent
- 2011
- Yuhei Inoue, Temple University; Advisor: Aubrey Kent
- 2010
- Laura Wood, University of Western Ontario; Advisor: Karen Danylchuk
- 2009
- Brendan Dwyer, University of Northern Colorado; Advisor: Dave Stotlar
- 2008
- Masayuki Yoshida, Florida State University; Advisor: Jeffrey James
- 2007
- Laura Misener, University of Alberta; Advisor: Dan Mason
- 2006
- Ted Alexander, University of British Columbia; Advisor: Wendy Frisby
- 2005
- Jin-Wook Han, Florida State University; Advisor: Aubrey Kent
- 2004
- Ian Patrick, University of Louisville; Advisor: Dan Mahony
- 2003
- Samuel Todd, Florida State University; Advisor: Aubrey Kent
- 2002
- George Cunningham, The Ohio State University; Advisor: Packianathan Chelladurai
- 2001
- Stephen D. Ross, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Jeffrey James
- 2000
- Michael Sagas, Texas A&M University; Advisor: Frank Ashley
- 1999
- Aubrey Kent, The Ohio State University; Advisor: Packianathan Chelladurai
- 1998
- Mick Jackowski, University of Northern Colorado; Co-Advisors: Linda Sharp & Dianna Gray
- 1997
- Danny O'Brien, De Montfort University; Advisor: Trevor Slack
- 1996
- Dan Mason, University of Alberta; Advisor: Trevor Slack
- 1995
- Laura Cousens, University of Alberta, Advisor: Trevor Slack
- 1994
- John Amis, University of Alberta; Advisor: Trevor Slack
- 1993
- Yannis Evanipolous, The Ohio State University; Advisor: Dennis Howard
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- Tim Berrett, University of Alberta; Advisor: Trevor Slack
- 1991
- Ming Li, University of Kansas; Advisor: Marlene Mawson
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Well Rested
I guess I was pretty exhausted last night. The two furs (Topaz and Toffee) and I laid down at 7 and I didn't even read..I was out..until daylight this morning.
I didn't have much on my agenda for today so allowed myself to sleep in, until 7 AM! A late morning for me.
Topaz and I went for a 10 mile snowshoe. I met Bonnie and Marie for our monthly lunch. This month was Panera Bread where I had a fabulous Asian Salad (32g carb, 35g protein). 65 minutes at the gym lifting. That's all that was on the agenda today.
Well rested. For sure.
This bodybuilding venture is still new and exciting to me. In addition to all of the hours I run, I am now lifting at least 5 hours a week. In addition to spending more time in the gym, I am spending more time eating. I am now making sure that I eat every 3 or so hours. I am trying hard not to fall into the 'dieting' mentality that I so easily fall into. You know, saying to myself "I don't feel hungry, maybe I should skip a meal". When I have those thoughts I stop and say "NO. Eat. Feed the Muscle." Then I think about the girl with the awesome quads I saw at the posing seminar and I feed my muscle. I know I won't build muscle if I don't eat. It's tough for me, but I'm working on it.
Oh, and a few answers to questions:
On the suit, I am going to order one from CCfitwear.com and stone it myself. I will have one plain one ..either black or dark burgandy for the pre judging and a black one that I will stone all over myself for the evening show. For tanning: I'll have a summer tan for base and then will be sprayed Friday evening before the comp. No shoes necessary, I get to go barefoot. My toes will be at their worst as the summer of ultra running will be just finishing up. I'll be toenail-less. Oh well. As for tatoos; at the posing seminar I attended tatoos were brought up and we were told NOT to try to cover them, that they end up looking worse when covered with make up and such. She said depending on where they are they can hide the physique, but that a man with full sleeves won the last show she judged..so I guess I'll just leave mine alone. How do I fit it all in? I don't know. I'm a good organizer of time. I just do it :) I still have time to hang out at home, doing nothing, feeling like I should be doing something.
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- Steve said...
Wow! Nice pipes, Julie!!
- elizabeth said...
Sounds like you are having fun getting ready for the posing! Me and my wimpy arms admire your muscle!
Would love to see what your weighlifting routine is. Also, what happened to your daily diet and mileage posts? You used to have them on the side of your blog..Leanness lifestyle I think it was?
- A Prelude To... said...
Are you still sticking pretty exclusively to a paleo type of nutrition or are you adding in other types of carbs like rice, etc as you go through this new endeavor?
Julie A.
- Julie B said...
Thank you :)
Elizabeth, I record most of my nutrition at Leanness Lifestyle. I no longer have the daily diet on the sidebar. My weight routine is 5 or 6 days a week, one body part each day.
Julie, still only one carb meal a day that is not veggie. I am eating 1/2 cup of oats with my 1 egg and 4 whites each morning. My favorite meal :)
the biceps of my dreams!
Julie, you are so inspiring!! Love the biceps and I wish I had your motivation, energy and just the positive vibes you give off!


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I hope you are ok, and not suffering today, my best wishes and hugs to you today. May it be a peaceful day for you and Rolo.
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Sorry you couldnt get to the hospital Tryn, have you managed to make another appointment?
How was your weekend?
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Good morning everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My sweetest, dearest Lost Dog and my dearest, gifted Alexis. Thank you. Dear Alexis i expect a new appointment is in the post to me. I received my WCA report yesterday outlining their decision and why they made it. I nearly rang them to make sure they had not sent me the wrong one so little did i recognise myself in their findings! So be it. PIP Friday.
My brothers and sisters, this morning i am going a bit "off topic", please forgive me for it, yet it is important to me that i share this.
My city like all citys has it daily newspaper and yesterday in my city......"100's walk by dead homeless man". A man in his 50's was found dead in the city centre in a doorway. The city starts banging on about the homeless problem.....the politics......"it should never happen".....which is a pile of bollocks because it WILL happen again.....and again.....and again.
Today i wish to pay tribute to this "dead homeless man in his "50's".
I have done some work over the years, especially during winter with a small charity that provides food for the homeless. We wander round late at night and give some food and warm clothing and whatnot.
I knew this man. Many knew this man.
His name was Micheal. He was quiet, beautifully friendly and loved to natter about his past and the love he had for his now dead girlfriend. He loved our company as we loved his. He slept in the same doorway every-night and the first time i met Micheal it was -2 and he was deep into his book reading by torchlight. He had only books, a sleeping bag and 1 pair of socks. He never....EVER...took more than he needed. He was not greedy. We used to have to force him to have extra portions, and as for trying to give him new socks....he would say he had 1 pair, save them for the next person.
Yes Micheal was a homeless man, yet he was not "down and out". He was beautiful and compassionate man. Highly intelligent and would not say boo to a goose.
I, and i know of many others who will miss him.
RIP Micheal, you will be sadly missed and never forgotten.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all Micheals friends, Loveness to all.
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Sorry for your loss Tryn.
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So sorry to hear Tryn, a special notable tribute to Michael today. His loss was not in vain and may you get a big hug today! I'm very sorry for your loss, my sincere condolences.
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So sorry Tryn, you and Michael are in my thoughts xxx
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Good afternoon everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My dear, dear R Lee, my dearest, sweetest Lost Dog, and my dearest, gifted Alexis thank you.
I should like to stress Micheal was not a personal friend, just a fellow going on with his way as best he could. Our paths crossed, and having lived where he did for so long, many, even those hanging onto their caffeine fixes in the morning would notice Micheal doing is best to sleep now the temperature was rising.
It is just so dreadfully sad. I just wanted to share he was a real asset to society, and to life. Bless him.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all.
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Hi Andy!
Your sentiments regarding Michael were very clear, in both posts. Thank you for sharing such intimate recollections. In my mind, I can see that sweet soul. He was, as we all are, human...and as a human creature we have a darkness that always tags along with the light in our lives. Thank you for sharing all of that too, all of Michael---in so much as a few sentences can convey any sort of shared truth.
I'm sorry for all those who loveed Michael, yet I hope, pray even, that he has found peace in whatever comes next. In such a place, Michael may well have beat us all to the glory. Remaining behind though, no matter what, comes with a terrible ache.
Tryn'? You told us what you saw in your friend, Michael. I wonder what this man saw in you. I'm not trying to make some larger point, not trying to shovel out some 2-bit piece of philosophy.
We all, each one of us, impacts every person we meet, whether we stumble into them climbing across a bus seat...or whether we share a long wait in a too long line for movie tickets. What do we think of this person? That chap? That gal? What does she/he/they think of us?
Is it even important?
Yes, it is---I think it's enormously important.
Andy? You made a genuine, positive, lovely connection with another human being. You gave him, little or lot, a piece of you---and he, this lovely man, Michael, gave you something back. He gave you Michael, even if just a peek.
And this Michael, he saw you too. You gave him that. Even if just a peek,
Two generous men nodding hello, saying goodbye.
A wondrous part of life, this connection was.
your friend,
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Tryn, you touched his heart and everyone's today by acknowledging Michael and your feelings of overwhelming kindness. May you find peace and gentle sleep this evening.
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Good morning everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My dearest and most gorgeous Sam, what a quite beautiful letter. There was a time when should tears invade my eyes and take up residence on my cheeks, so i would fill with feelings of foreboding. These days, an older and perhaps a tad wiser Tryn allows them and now feels they are just the purest form of emotion. How your letter empowered me to weep. Thank you.
My sweetest, dearest Lost Dog, Micheal's journey brings into stark reality my own. As Tryn is known for banging on about "how lucky i am"....never will you have a clearer example as to why. I grew up with Micheals life.
It is impossible for the average joe to comprehend yet street life, is alot like yours.
We have our community. Within that community we will find friends and foe alike. Just like average joe. We have good days.....bad days.......we have rows and fights, laughter and tears. We see life....we see death. We see courage and kindness, we see brutality, cowardice and cruelty, just like average joe. We work hard everyday to stay alive, just like average joe. We hurt, we cry, we get depressed, just like the average joe.
I once gave a speech to a shed load of housing providers. In it i said, "we are all homeless, it is just that some of us have got somewhere to live". I left a brief pause as it took a moment to "get that one"....i waited for the reaction i knew would come and it duly did.
As the audience "got their heads round what i meant"....they smiled.
I was waiting for that. I said,
"Only those with somewhere to live will be smiling now"
It hit them like a brick and most looked down at the floor like scolded children. And ****ing right too. It is the whole point. Our segregation of each other has not 1 sinew of worth.
If i wrote to you today and said "it's all gone pear shaped" i am out on me ear......i am writing this from the pavement....i have nowhere to live and nowhere to go......would you think less of me?
Of course you would not....you know me.
If you walked past me in the street and did not know me......would you think less of me?
I do not need the answer to that, i know the answer. THAT is the problem....right there.
Let me put it another way round.
"I knew this chap, lovely guy, died this week far too young".
"Oh how terrible. Tell me about him"
"Ohhh, quiet chap, very academic. Didn't drink or smoke, had a sad journey, yet to his last day full of life. Very popular".
"Oh that is soo, sad. How did he die?"
"He died of a broken heart...Oooo and hypothermia"
"I beg your pardon.....what do you mean?"
"Oh....didn't i tell you?.....he was homeless living on the street"
"Oh...errrr.....right. Probably best then eh?"
"Probably best for whom? Do you think the chap wanted to go to the great big bus shelter in da sky or what? You mean a choice between a doorway or dead, may as well be dead?"
That is obviously a metaphorical conversation. Can anyone here, hand on heart tell me that is a not conversation many could say....and hear?
I do not really know how i ended up at 51 with a home. I really don't. My life is a smudge, a blur. Yet here i am, with my own little home. EVERY single day when i open my eyes, i can not believe it.
(An aside....an extremely poignant aside, Micheal chose to sleep outside a department store, and the displays were "bedrooms". How sweet is that on one hand.....and how sick....on the other. Essentially he was 6ft away from an empty bed in an empty store. Go figure)
I am quite angry to be fair. I am not angry that Micheal died, simply in the manner inwhich he had to leave us. There was no need....no need whatsoever for that. (He had been dead for many, many hours unnoticed). I do not blame any single individual, any single agency/provider or government....it is on all of us, our society's, our cultures to recognise each others needs and struggles and to support each other for the benefit of all of us. My country has the chronic disease of class, hierarchy, that other country's lap up with glee. The reality is a hugely divided society with very few haves, and a majority of have nots.
That is why Micheal died in the way he did.
It makes my resolve stronger, my focus utterly clear, and the engines of my love for my fellow man and woman are revving, so they are.
Sope, Tryn shall use the step ladders to get orff his soapbox!.....it is 9.30am in my dear ole Blighty. I have an assessment tomorrow afternoon, i reckon folks that go through this start physically shaking about 2-3 days beforehand......boy it is scary stuff.
I have done the right thing. I put in an extra session with dear Milan. I am now more in touch with myself....by myself. So when i feel fear, i ask for help. Fear is my trigger....for everything. I have felt more insecure, more "staccato" with my feelings. Flitting like a busy bee trying to find the right place inside of me to land. Buzzing can turn into panic which turns into fear.
So we agree together that there is nothing i can do to stop these feelings. Honestly...if you are frightened......even if you have no idea what of.....(fear has a habit of doing that).......tell someone. You do not have to launch into Tryn territory and talk the hind legs off a dog....simply say....."i am frightened". There is no "why". No need to evidence base it, no need to prove it....it is what it is. Its a feeling. A horrible, horrible feeling. Still a feeling though.
So me being me, i wait for my Tuesday appointment, my mind awash about how i can describe how i am feeling. I just do not know where to start.
My skype phone starts ringing on the screen....here we go......
"Hello my dear Milan!!!"
"Hello my dear Andy!!"
He has quite the most wonderful "accent", his English extremely good, yet the tint makes me warm to him.
I look straight at him and say,
"I'm frightened Milan"
"Oh really? You are sitting right forward. Can you just sit back in your chair? That is better......we have some space. Don't say anything. I want you to feel what you have just told me"
I shut my eyes, and it felt like going to the spare room we all chuck the stuff we don't know where to put, or don't want to chuck out....the creaking door opens.....and my gosh, festering fear is the stench.
That is all it is. A bad ****ing smell.
I am not talking "just being missed getting hit by a bus fear".....i am talking...."i can't do this" fear.
You can. You really can.
The dear ole fella is begin to stumble to a complete stop these days. I can see him trying balance. It is almost as if he's worked out for the first time in his long life he infacts has 4 legs and 4 paws, so much does he recognises how he needs the lot right now. He stops sometimes and looks at his own front legs, sometimes trys to turn round to look at his behind is if he is trying to work out why they are "not working like what they used to innit". He is not unwell. He is gorgeous and snoozing his handsome self away. I will look after him.
I had a meeting with the community chap again on Tuesday, and all is tickety boo and moving forward. Meeting next Tuesday, the replys from the survey/leafleting are so, so, so very exciting, (and really lovely to) my health was nattered about, (the meeting was at my home), and i feel incredibly understood and supported.
Not quite sure if i have mentioned this before, while i remember i must tell you......
I am a very, very lucky man!
Have a wonderful day.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all.
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Hello Tryn, i agree with all you say about homelessness. Greater Manchester has a new mayor, Andy Burnham (i voted for him) and he is donated 15% of his salary each month, to Crisis, the homeless charity. Pretty good i thought. It is encouraging others to talk about the absolute crisis we have here in Manchester with homelessness, it is terrible. Plus add to that the Spice (the legal high) epidemic, people are dying because of it. Have you got the drug Spice in Bristol? I think its a Manchester thing. Even mini documentary has been made on it.
I know alot of these lads from working on the soup kitchen.
Anyway, i hope you are Rolo can relax today and be happy xx
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Take care today, I don't know what to write today.
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Wishing you a special day Tryn. It's mother's day here in Italy and so I thought of you.
I think of how you are there, with origins here and I am here with origins there.
It's funny how life always turns out to be a small world, despite the vastness of our planet. I mean how we find things in common even though there's a sea or ocean between us. A family, like you always say.
So just my Sunday reflections Tryn
Un abbraccio forte - big hug
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Good afternoon everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My dearest, gifted Alexis, i know all too well Re "spice"....it has ruined the chance of Jakey boys rehab in prison. I do not even know his name now. My sweetest, dearest Lost Dog, seeing your name is all the letter i need and my dearest Italiano Soapdish......Mothers day eh?
My everything dear R Lee is seeing his Mother today. A more dutiful man you would be hard pushed to find. His duty comes from love in my opinion. So he also recognises i do not have a Mother.
Well....i must have had one once....and so i did. I have no idea to this day what she looked like, as my experience was so young, my upbringing that of privilege......there was never any "need" to meet your Mother. If i did, it was for punishment and "goodnights".
My very wealthy Father at the time went away on business alot....THAT was a chance to sneak up on my Mother. She was a raging alcoholic, and when my Father was away...i was allowed to pour her drink. The bit that was left....i drank. I used to stand on a chair in the kitchen....dragged over to the fridge with my own fair hands.......to get my Mothers beer....and pour it for her. I felt as tall as i really was on that chair.
I would walk for seemingly "ages" to bring it to her, so large was our "pad"....and at first she would touch my face and ask me "who are you?".....then i thought we "were talking". She was brilliant on the piano, so i would say...."listen...listen....listen to this".....i would play something and she would become so very.....very angry. The piano stool was way, way bigger than me....and it took "panache" for a little'un like me to hop....skip and jump to land on it so i could play. Getting off it took holding the piano keys infront of me and letting myself down.
I suppose my mother was about 30ft away. She kept shouting..."shut up....shut up....shut up"....i didn't really know her so felt a tad "iffy" so thought i best get off the piano stool and make haste my escape. I slipped off the stool...cracked my head on the way down....i lay on the floor, and i suppose i must have been knocked out some as the next thing i knew was my Mother standing over me.....raging at me....spit coming from her mouth while she was punching me and an au pair girl trying to calm her down. She punched the au pair girl, (whom i adored), and i curled up as tight as i could under the piano stool. I got away with that one.
Mothers day.
Folk have said to me on my journey..."oohh....it must be terrible not having a mum, a dad, a family"....especially at Christmas.
Bollocks. Depends what family you got.
So i got no mum.......i have a 1000 Mothers. Let me tell you about a few.
I once told you a tale of when i went to bed under a tree as boy, and woke up a man. That tree was my Mother. When i was young and thought if you smoked a cigarette....it would help you keep warm.......so i slept.....how can i describe this?......you know huge car parks.......and when you come out of them from say the 6th floor, you follow the "exit" and the road goes round, round, and round, and round?.......there are lights on the way down, i have slept under them thinking they would keep me warm. Those lights.....were my Mother.
I have walked down totally bleak dark country lanes at 4am......shitting myself....of what?.......the dark.......just fear itself. I walk a few steps further and the moon....as clear as any summers day sun....pops out from behind the firs, and i realise i am coming out of the woods, the moon lighting my way.....there was my Mother....right there.
I was about 14 this time round, the next time i met my Mother.
I had been on the street for a good couple of years now....cocky little shit......thought i knew it all. 1 night i was at Charing Cross rd Station in London, blagging and making food. I got to cocky, far to cocky, and was set upon and given a hiding to this day i will never forget.
What i can remember is realising my mouth did not work....i could not speak.....lying in a really weird position, and soaked in my own blood. I felt no pain whatsoever. None at all. To this day, if you had just let me go to sleep then, i would still be snoozin' like a gooden.
This is what i heard.
"Hello little'un.....what's happened here then hey? Stay with me. I can help. Don't try to speak. Let's just get you comfy"
That paramedic was my Mother.....right there.
Well i did a couple of weeks in hospital for the outcome and the paramedic came back to see me in hospital. He got me put into a childrens home in Hammersmith in West London. I did nearly 3 months there. He did that. He was my Mother.
I wonder what ever happened to him.
My ole soul mate Gruff....(Gareth) who had his head taken off by an axe.......he was my Mother.
1 day, we are on our travels.....happen to be on Portugal.......we live in Devon in England.....so "know the sea".........yeah right.......
So Tryn then was drinking to purgery, knew a South African who owned a bar.....so offski i wentii. It was about 2am, i was absolutely bollockeds.....been playing the piano all night and thought it would be a cracking idea to "have a dip".
Portugal's coast is not to be messed with.....well i didn't know that. What an experience.
The ocean so strong.....steps down to ocean about...hmmm...200 yrds apart........and i thought it would be really, really clever to see if i could run....while the swell was going out.....to see if i could make it....before the waves crashed back into the wall.
Off i went.
I did not make it. The wave came over the top of me....hit the wall....and dragged me back out with it.
No problem.....until i realise how far i have been dragged out. ****ing 200 yrds.
Behind me i can hear this enormous swell, and i know if i do not make that 200 yards....i am done for.
I SCREAM........GRUFFFFFF!!!!!! ........i see him running along the top of the wall taking his clothes off to come and save me.....just about to throw himself into an angry sea...........too late....i'm gone....
I run, which is not easy drunk...or 200 yrds out on sand that is laughing, and the wave that previously came over my head and dragged me out to my death now landed BEHIND me and launched me like a projectile into safety. I slammed into the wall.....gasping for breath.....and with Gruffs feet just wet, he pulled me back up the steps and sat with me.
When his life was taken from him, i learnt he could not swim.
He was my Mother.
The Great Man Larry, he was the Mother of them all.
Yes it is Mothers day.
Mothers day is love, unconditional love. When you fall, when you grasp at something you know is not there.....and it is.......so that is where my Mother has always been.
I so wish i knew my own Mother. However, it has meant i have known so many other Mothers. I am not Motherless. Indeed i have been accused of "mothering folk" for goodness sake.
I like mothering, i like mothers day, for me, the meaning, unfortunately does not have a face. It is very difficult to remember what someone looks like if you were young, and on the ground.
I know what it means though.
When i am struggling with my breathing.....i wobble and try to sigh.....Rolo comes to my side and comforts me. I have his love, and have got more....ohhhh....more Mothers than you can shake a stick at.
Would be nice to have me own though. Grant you that.
Mothers day in Italy is when they historically get rid of the "deadwood".....indeedy..... and give "disrespecting Mum" as the reason. For sure, the Italians are brutal, yet at least you know what date it is all going to happen!
Hey what dearest Soapdish.......keep yer head down today....don't answer da phone.....and certainly don't order any pizza.
A Mother does not judge, she guides and loves.
Have i done any good in pretending i am not missing mine?
Addiction Survivors is my Mother.
Happy Mothers day.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all.
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Hi Tryn, may you have a nice day today, thank you for all the Mother's day wishes and tributes. I'm glad you have a lot of moms, because they are glad they have you.
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Tryn, how are you? Thanks for your support xx
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Good afternoon everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My sweetest, dearest Lost Dog and my dearest, gifted orff on her travels Alexis, thank you both.
Yes indeed, a Mother exists on every breeze and is the smell of every flower.
There is much going on in the family for you all individually. Lost Dog the letter you wrote to our dear Alexis around drink, and your thoughts around that, the most comprehensively well written from experience piece i think i have ever read.
Today i would like to share 2 poems.
The first has come to me for the "Sisters" i have in the family. The second when i talk of ships, and oceans and captains.....i suppose the 2nd one refers to me as it could to us all.
"Hope is a thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson.
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tunes without the words,
And never stops at all.
And the sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in eternity,
It asked a crumb of me.
.....And for all those struggling to be the Captains of their ship right now?
"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods maybe
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gait,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the Captain of my soul.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all.
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Thanks Tryn for your nice complement. I like your poems. They are gentle and soothing.
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Hi there,
Very fitting poems.
Great choice.
Thanks for sharing them Tryn.
Have a good weekend
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Thank you for the poems. I love the Dickinson one so much. (I love her in general, of course.)
I used to volunteer at a hospice, and one gal had a painting of a bird in her room, with the inscription, "Hope is the thing with feathers" -- not the whole poem, just that. It was beautiful, and I hope I never forget about it.
Thanks again, and I hope you're having a good day. Please skritch Rolo for me. <3
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Good morning everyone. Bright blessings to you all.
My dearest, sweetest Lost Dog, my dearest Italiano Soapdish, my dearest Magical Millie and my dear, dear R Lee. Thank YOU......all.
I thought i would share where i am at at the moment as it might save my going completely bon kers right nmow!
It is 10am in my dear ole Blighty....and YET AGAIN.....thump...thump....thump upstairs. It is relentless....all day long, all night long. I have written to our landlords, no response. I am trying to keep my cool as i recognise things are difficult with a little one and whatnot, yet it shakes the lampshades, startles Rolo and at times sets him off barking.....i just can't put up with this 24/7 7 days a week. I am having to go out when i really do not want to, and struggle to to avoid losing my temper, and thus causing a scene. It does however feel just a matter of time.
Anyhew, the week has been difficult yet rewarding. All the hard work i did over the bank holdiay weekend gone with all those leaflets is paying dividendes. I have had a couple of meetings, and daily e mail exchanges aroundthe issue, and i have also, having talked on a 1-1 basis with the chap Scott, and the local Vicar bless him, we could all agree there was an issue of alcohol and drugs in the manor, (area) and there was no self help, AA/NA etc. I talked with them about setting up an alcohol and drug self help group which require a smidgen of courage...which after these chats i found.
So i wrote an e mail and "CCed" all the partners, both professional and voluntary that i have been involved with in the last year explaining i was an addict, that i recognised a need in the community for it to be addressed and pathways found suggesting a self help group, hit send, and that went to about 25 people.
Of course none of these folk have seen me under the influence, and many, not even smoking! So i wondered how their perception of me would change.
I sat back.....and waited.
The response was almost immediate, and as heart warming as it was staggering. The first few responses asked my permission if my e mail could be "passed around" basically. I think that is just what i wanted. I now have the local community Police who want to meet up with me to look at ways forward. Handled sensitively and well, this could be an enormous fillip in ways forwards with my little ideas.
I also had a really special exchange and encounter early yesterday morning.
It was cold, still, yet rather murky. The dawn just rising....so half way between the world being asleep, and awake. Our of this murk the first thing i saw was a tiny little dog. A really small thing and it's lead disappeared into the murk. As i followed up the lead came the tallest man i think i have ever seen. A HUGE man, with this tiny, tiny little dog, me with a rather Larger Rolo and i am tiny! What wonderful natural balance.
We stopped and nattered for a long while. The dogs getting on as famously as we were. With myself doing stuff in the community i take every opportunity to "sell people power" where i can!
We started talking community and he started to share his concerns. This guy was utterly massive...i just can't quite tell you quite how tall he was....he also just happened to be black.
So i think...."Awww no.....this poor fellow is going to share about his experience of racism"......he said......
"People can't stop......"
I interrupted him and said.....
"How ****ing tall you are!!?"
I quickly went on to share that we all have our "crosses to bare" and i accepted his cross would take a might longer to "knock up".
We laughed heartily, he lives not far from me and knows where i live. I have invited him in, "anytime" as he has done for me, for a cuppa and a natter as the last thing he said to me when we parted on our way was he could listen to me all day.
Still got that spark folks, still got that spark!
So that was rather lovely.
Health is not good, same old, same old, i have my re-assessment this coming Wednesday, and i am feeling as if i am coping, still moving forward, still learning,. still loving, still wanting, still happening....little ole me.
Always a very, very lucky man.
Be peaceful, be healthy and be strong. Loveness to all.
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Take two: Starsia savors victory
Being national champions makes almost anything bearable.
So Dom Starsia, head coach of the NCAA lacrosse champion Virginia Cavaliers, says his traditional celebratory soaking by his ecstatic team only "added to his delirium" on winning his second national title in three years.
With his 125-42 record in his 11 seasons with the Cavs, the 51-year-old New York native is no stranger to victory. But Starsia admits to being a bit of a stranger to packed stadiums.
When the Cavs clocked Duke, 12-6, on April 20 in the ACC final at Klöckner stadium, the season's largest home crowd of 3,355 watched in awe. But that was nothing compared to the NCAA-record 37,944 fans (not to mention the audience for the live ESPN broadcast) who watched Virginia pluck the Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins, 9-7, in the NCAA final at Ravens Field in Baltimore Monday, May 26.
While the huge throng "jumped out at me when we first came through the tunnel," Starsia says, he hardly noticed the crowd once the game began. Only when it was all over but the shouting, could he really "swallow in the atmosphere."
Starsia says the final's impressive turnout signifies "a little giddyup" for the sport of lacrosse, and he found the audience uniquely thrilling since "It's the one time we get a chance to do what the big boys do."
After such excitement, Starsia admits to being a little tired, but he says his largest post-season difficulty has been learning how to fish. "The fish are in no danger," he self-deprecatingly promises.
Starsia graduated from Brown University in 1974 and briefly considered a career in business. But after becoming coach of Brown's men's lacrosse program in 1982 and of its soccer program in 1983, he never looked back. Starsia describes his transfer to Charlottesville in 1992 as a wonderful move for his family.
With Starsia at the helm, the Cavaliers won the NCAA crown in 1999, and now the accolades for this second championship have stretched beyond the confines of Grounds.
"UVA's success migrates out to the community," says Benton Downer, a Charlottesville lacrosse enthusiast and realtor, who notes the growth of local middle school programs as an indication of the popularity that Starsia's teams have helped to foster.
With four of his seven All-Americans returning next season, Starsia expects to be doing what he's managed to do already: continue winning.
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Update 3: Final sequence of events: as we expected, cops confuse name, CNN reports it, and media goes wild. From the AP: "Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police, said the first official. Earlier, a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names."
Update 2: the reason for the confusion is that the first name reported today by CNN and promptly carried by the rest of the media, Ryan Lanza, may be incorrect, and should likely be Adam Lanza. At this point until the police correctly identify the suspect it is probably best to ignore all further updates from CNN or otherwise on the matter.
Suspect in #Newtown school shooting identified as Ryan #Lanza, source says on.cnn.com/Zq1uF7— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 14, 2012
Update: there is confusion as to whether this is indeed the correct Lanza or not. As The Inquisitor reports:
A screenshot circulating on Twitter purports to have recent updates from Lanza denying a connection to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting:
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The shooter has been idenitifed by CNN as one Ryan Lanza, 24, out of New Jersey. A quick Facebook scan has identified one Mr. Ryan Lanza in the 18-24 year old age group, out of Hoboken, NJ who lists Newtown, CT as his home city. There is one unconfirmed account of a suspect born in Newtown, CT and currently living in Hoboken, NJ, although it appears it is not the suspect in question. The mother of the suspect was a teacher at the Sandy Hook school, and she is among the dead.


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My first visit to the CEY office in Lowell was a little like a combination of "woooowwww" and "this is it?"...For such a ubiquitous brand, I half expected to see a floor of humming offices and fluorescent lights, people moving and shaking to get their yarn into as many knitterly hands as possible. Instead, I stepped out of the elevator onto the vast open floor of an old mill and then into a room with original mill doors almost to the ceiling and exposed brick archways over enormous picture windows. Sunlight poured in over the rustic table , and the tone was, just, peaceful.
The rooms I passed along the way were like a knitter's dream, open shelving with yarns of every color arranged for creative stirrings, white boards covered with scribbled jolts of inspiration and boxes of knit samples from their many booklets (did Jared Flood actually knit that mitten?!?) I came to knitting only in the last few years, but doesn't it feel like knitting found me? There is nothing so ultimately satisfying as creating something beautiful, lasting and authentic with my bare hands. And the sheer simplicity of knitting and purling combining for an infinite array of patterns is so transformative, it's like stumbling upon a secret every time I pick up my needles.The best part came at the end of the meeting:
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Um, yeah? We took the elevator up and the doors opened onto a sea of yarn, endless rows of boxes and bags of yarn, all waiting to be shipped out. A stroll down any of the aisles yielded an A to Z of Classic Elite Yarns, new and old. Just at that very moment, I knew I was home.
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How to make your own health crackers
In supermarkets, you can find dozens of crackers filled with wholegrains and seeds, but many of them have added sugar and salt. In the old days, Nana used to make them herself. They are very easy to make and are a great way of getting nutritious seeds like pumpkin, sesame, sunflower and flaxseeds into our kids' diets without them really noticing. Flaxseeds are full of fibre and omega-3 fatty acids; pumpkin seeds are high in iron (great for vegetarians), phosphorous and magnesium; sunflower seeds have good vitamin E levels and selenium; and sesame seeds have good levels of calcium. So just one of these little crackers is practically a tonic! I found this recipe in an old cookbook and have adapted it to match the taste of the crackers you can buy in supermarkets. I hope you like them.
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- Preheat the oven to 150 degC. In a coffee grinder or blender grind 1/4 cup sunflower seeds and 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds. Do not overdo it or you will get seed butter!
- In a bowl mix the ground seeds with the extra 1 tbsp of whole sunflower seeds and 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds, the flaxseeds, most of the sesame seeds, flour, mustard powder and salt. Mix to combine.
- Add the olive oil and honey to this mixture (heat the honey to a liquid if it isn't runny) and water. Mix until you have a firm but not sticky dough. You might have to add a little more water.
- Turn out on a floured board and knead for a minute until you have a nice dough.
- Split in half and roll that half out as thin as you can. Cut into shapes with a pizza cutter or knife, or use a cookie cutter and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Then repeat with the second half.
- Mix the egg with 2 tbsp of water to make a wash and paint this over the top of the crackers. Sprinkle with the extra sesame seeds.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. They should be just golden and, when cool, will be crisp. If they don't crisp then pop them back into the oven for five minutes. Store in an airtight container.
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The Colorado Springs Metro Crime Lab has determined the gun used by former inmate Evan Ebel was the same one used in the shooting death of Tom Clements, director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Investigators found bomb-making materials, a mask, duct tape and even surveillance cameras in the car of the now-dead suspect in the killings of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon.
The description of the found items come from a document – an evidence recovery log – that details what was recovered from Evan Spencer Ebel's black 1991 Cadillac Deville when officers went to investigate.
The document was released by the Wise County Clerk's office on Tuesday and obtained by NBC affiliate KUSA.
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Evan Spencer Ebel is shown in this undated Colorado Department of Corrections booking photo.
Ebel, 28, was killed last Thursday in a gun battle with police after a high-speed chase in Decatur, Texas.
He is suspected of shooting Clements, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, as he opened the door to his home near Denver a week ago.
Police also believe Ebel — a paroled convict who joined a white supremacist group while in prison — shot and killed Leon on March 17 in order to use his pizza delivery uniform as disguise to approach Clement's home without suspicion.
Found in the trunk of the car and stuffed inside a black backpack were maps, bomb-making instructions, handwritten directions, letters to "Nate," a Colorado ID card, a Visa debit card, photographs and a plastic bag containing sunglasses and a mask.
It was unclear if the letters were related to the slain pizza delivery man. "We don't know who Nate is," Wise County Sheriff David Walker told the Denver Post.
A cooler was also found in the trunk of the car. It contained tan pants with "apparent blood" and a tan jacket, according to the document. Other items included zip ties, a Domino's "heatwave" pizza-delivery bag, a Domino's pizza box, a Domino's shirt, a Domino's visor, and a digital-voice recorder.
Many of the items recovered by Texas investigators were sent to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and the Denver Police Department, according to the document.
Ebel's mother, Jody Mangue, wrote that her son "drifted into a dark period" after the death of his 16-year-old sister in a car crash in 2004.
The evidence appears to be mounting that a Colorado prison parolee, killed in a shootout this week in Texas, may have been involved in the brazen murder of the head of Colorado's prison system. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
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What is PDT?
The PDT is working towards providing a fully functional PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project will encompass all development components necessary to develop PHP-based Web Applications and will facilitate extensibility. It will leverage the existing Eclipse WTP Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities. The main components in this project are: Editor (syntax highlighting, code assist and code folding), Inspection (file / project outline and PHP explorer view) and Debug (PHP script and web page methods).
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An internet meme from 2003 (read more here) asserted that readers are relatively insensitive to letter order in words, so long as the first and last letters are unchanged.
Given a string of words s, take each word in turn and reverse the order of letters 2 through n-1, where n is the length of the words. Non-alphabetic characters should remain in place.
So if
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sOut = 'hlleo'
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sIn = 'This is the first time I have used MATLAB.'
sOut = 'Tihs is the fsrit tmie I hvae uesd MALTAB.'
Put more test cases in. Makes cheating too tempting.
the regexp solution is great
Adding a test case containing words with hyphens like 'hard-working' will make this problem more challenging.
Test 1 doesn't work, I literally have the same result and it fails, but test 2 passes
Your function produces sOut in string format (in the last line of the function). The test suite defines the variables as character arrays instead of strings. These two data types cannot be directly compared—i.e., you'll have to return a character array.
Also, when I run your function, it returns "hello" rather than "hlleo".
I've tried the assert in MATLAB on my desktop and it doesn't throw an error... so I'm not really sure where it's gone wrong here. I'm guessing it's something tiny I've missed. Any help?
Which version of MATLAB are you using on your desktop? I tried running your solution on MATLAB desktop version 2019a and the solution is failing with correct assertions. In order to figure out the version of MATLAB, command "ver' will get you the version.
The version of matlab is not going to affect the result. This solution removes punctuation from the input, so the '.' at the end of sentence in the second test is incorrectly removed.
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Thank you so much for all of the kind comments relating to Topaz. I appreciate it so very much. Your kind thoughts did help.
It's amazing how quickly the brain can change priorities. One minute I'm thinking about FANS, it is on my List Of Things That Matter and the next minute finishing FANS was on my List Of Things That No Longer Matter.
Topaz had surgery and is recovering just fine. The vet called me during surgery to state that his in addition to the first tooth that was causing trouble, he felt that the exact tooth on the opposite side of the jaw could be causing trouble as well. He asked me if he should go ahead and extract the second tooth in addition or if he should clean it well and with good oral hygiene it might be OK. I think he was really asking me if I wanted to spend the money on the second tooth. I asked him his opinion and he was of the opinion to take the second tooth. OK, then do it. He told me that Topaz would be ready to go home about 4 PM.
I walked up to the counter and was handed my bill. $212? I looked at the receptionist and told her I was quoted $500 per tooth if extraction took place and if all three roots had to be removed. She mumbled something about the bone of his jaw.
The vet arrived and told me that the infection was so bad that it had eaten away all three roots of the tooth, that he didn't have to work real hard at the extraction. He told me that the infection and begun to eat away at his jaw bone and that this caused the trouble with the nerve. The infection ran along the nerve up into the ear and near the brain. On tooth number two, the roots were exposed above the gum line, but the roots were still intact. He cleaned it very well and felt the tooth was worth keeping. With dental care, sealants, etc. the tooth will be OK.
With continued good nutrition his jaw bone will grow back, his gums will again become healthy. Hopefully the paralysis of the face is due to the nerve damage caused by the infection.
It's amazing to me that Topaz never let on that this tooth caused any pain. He continued to eat, to chew on rawhide, didn't have any offensive order, his energy level was high. As an ultra runner I guess he has a high tolerance for pain.
This morning his ear is back up, his eye is beginning to blink, his lip is slowly coming back up. I don't think it was the Frontline after all!
Again, thanks for all of the kind thoughts and words.
Friday, June 12, 2009
7 comments:
- SteveQ said...
Dogs never let on that they're in pain; it's just their nature. Glad to hear Topaz is doing better and am a little jealous of the attention, as I'm fighting a dental abscess at the moment (and yeah, they hurt).
- Kel said...
Great news to hear that Topaz is on the mend!
- Carol said...
Yeah, Topaz is on the mend! I know you are releaved, Julie!
- A Prelude To... said...
Thank goodness he's ok!!! I'm so happy for you and Topaz!!
- Helen said...
Great news Julie! He's a trooper and I'm sure looking forward to getting back out into the woods with you :)
Awesome news! Just like an ultra dog....suck up the pain and keep on going. A speedy recovery to Topaz!
What a relief. Yeah, priorities, change, unexpectedly.
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