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Photography, music, and everything else.
I know how much everyone has missed me since my last post, which seems like eons ago. Okay, maybe it was eons ago but I have slowly began to crawl my way out of my photography hole in the interim. Blame it on bad weather, bad colds, busy day job, old house, or any number of modern day sidetrackers, either way I have been clicking the shutter button but the results weren't worth sharing here, or anywhere. Oh, and I often forgot I even had this blog. But have it I still do and doggonit I am sticking around….for now.
I don't have anything new in the camera department, I'm still shooting with my Fujifilm X-pro2 and Fujinon lenses. They have been working great for me regardless of the dumb photos I have been taking. Looking into other camera models has bounced around in my head on occasion but I come to my senses and do away with those thoughts. To coin a phrase, it's not the camera, it's you! The Fuji performs as it should and with the exception of a few handling quirks I don't feel another model or brand would do any better in my hands. What I do need to change is what's on the other side of the lens – subject matter.
I have been facing the "I shot all of this already" slump as I look around my oh too familiar surroundings. You know the feeling, "hey that old car in the field looks cool, oh wait, I shot that already", or how about "hmm, maybe I can take a photo of that old building in different light…uh no, it doesn't look interesting in any light". [Insert sad face emoji here] So with the same old environment I still have to realize it's just me. After all, most of my prize winning photos have all been about relatively normal things I come across. Normal things I see every day. I just tried to see them differently and it worked.
So, with summer approaching, I think I will take advantage of the brighter days and start to see things the way I have in the past. Differently.
But first, here are some photos I recently shot at Bicycle Heaven in Pittsburgh, PA. I have posted from there before but I thought I would visit again and try to see the bikes in a different way.
Although it has been a relatively mild winter this year it was still winter nonetheless. Winter is my slow period for photography. Not because winter isn't a great time for fantastic photos, it is, but it's just not a great time for me. As I mentioned here before I do have a day job, which means I am out and about almost everyday. Winter is pretty ugly in this part of the country, especially in mild years when mud is more prevalent than snow. Being out and about in winter I try to look for photo opportunities and frankly there aren't too many. Brown is the color of the day. Oh, I see what could possibly be a good photo once in a while but oftentimes I'm not able to take advantage due to time or location restraints. I just have to move on. After a while my motivation slows down along with the season and I end up waiting for that jolt that will get me out shooting again. Spring is my jolt.
Although I lean towards black and white images for the majority of my work, a good jolt of spring color and sunshine is what really gets me pumped up for photography again. A short trip to a different environment also helps to re-sharpen my skills. Once I get a few good sessions under my belt I start to 'awaken', just like the spring flowers.
Time to wind up!
I received a Canon Rebel t6 camera outfit as a gift during Christmas. Yes, that's right, a Canon t6 – no "i". A total beginners outfit consisting of the red Rebel, an EF-S 18-55 IS kit lens, an EF 75-300 f4-5.6 III telephoto lens, and a nice matching red Canon bag. It is an attractive little beast but, as I mentioned, it's totally geared for the beginner and I am not a "beginner".
So, did I scoff and say that this camera is beneath me? Of course not, I happily accepted the gift. As a guitarist I enjoy playing cheap guitars alongside my higher end guitars so I thought I could find at least some use for it. Although it certainly will not be replacing my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and Fujinon lenses I figured I could use it for some casual family shooting and around the house stuff, such as product shots for my ebay selling.
I am fully aware of the cameras limitations. Take away the "i" from Canon Rebels and you take away a lot.The well worn Canon 18mp sensor isn't known for a wide dynamic range and having used the same sensor in a Canon EOS M camera I knew that the RAW files don't allow for too much processing – lots of noise and the shadow turn to ugly mush if you try to push them too much. The AF is a couple generations old and doesn't match up to current higher end Canon aps-c cameras such as the 80D or 7D MkII. But I'm not an action shooter kind of guy so that shouldn't worry me much.
What I did know was the Canon 18-55 kit lens is capable of decently sharp photos and that was not a problem. A couple quick test shots around the house confirmed that. The 75-300 on the other hand was questionable. First of all it wasn't equipped with stabilization (IS), which is hard for me to go without in a telephoto as I am not a patient tripod shooting kind of guy. I shoot handheld almost all of the time. I know, it shows in my work, but I often shoot while going about my daily business and I have to travel light. If I was going on a photography specific trip to the Rockies it might be a different story. Anyhow, after a few test shots the 75-300 confirmed my fears, it just wasn't consistent enough for my use, as casual as that may be. I have read reviews where people like this lens, and it may well be good enough when used on a tripod at longer focal lengths, but it just didn't work for me, so it had to go.
While the 75-330 was on the auction block I did some research and found just about everybody liked the Canon EF-S 55-250 4-5.6 IS USM lens and I found a Canon refurb for practically free, in my opinion, and made the purchase. The other issue I had with the 75-300 was the slow focusing and the 55-250 took care of that with it's fairly quick and silent STM focusing. The 55-250 is an aps-c format lens so it's smaller than the full-frame compatible 75-300, thus it was more fitting for the Rebel. It and the 18-55 have plastic mounts so, although not durable, they make for a very lightweight, wide-ranging kit.
End of story? Well, not quite. Since my initial test shots around the house with the 55-250 proved it was a very sharp lens, I though I would take it with me on my daily work and take some more "out in the wild" shots to further tests it's capabilities. That's where things went a little haywire. Being January in Pennsylvania the days were dark and miserable all week and throwing in some snowy days the light was never ideal and the Rebel failed to come through. It's dated AF system couldn't handle the low light and when I did get a subject in focus, usually cows, horses, or trees, the images never really came out sharp enough. I wanted to blame the 55-250 and the IS system but thought I would wait for brighter days to try again.
With a very cold (13° F) but sunny day in hand this past Saturday I swung by a local reservoir to further test the 55-250 lens. The water was partially frozen and although I had hoped to see a few ducks there weren't any to be found. Regardless I just shot away at the trees and ice to see how the lens and Rebel performed under better conditions. I shot with the Canon alongside my Fujifilm X-Pro2 equipped with the Fujinon 55-200 lens just for comparison. In the end I am happy to report the Canon lens did fine. The comparison shots were very close to the Fuji but the Fuji handled way better and was a dream to shoot with compared to the Canon. Again, I'm not giving that camera up anytime soon. The canon? It looks like it will stick to being a fair weather fan. And who knows? I may add a 7d MkII to the arsenal just for kicks because I think the plastic fantastic 55-250 deserves it.
Here are a few shots from the Canon. There wasn't much to see beyond ice and snow and I couldn't help trying to shoot abstract instead of straight test shots, but I have to try stuff in my natural way of shooting.
Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you in 2017!!!!
I live in a rundown town.
I've mentioned quite a few times on this blog how I don't live in a particularly photogenic place. I live in a small town in Pennsylvania that had its day a number of years ago. Once the steel and glass industry disappeared the town began to fade, not unlike most rust belt cities. It was a slow fade but fade it did.
Being only a 30 minute drive to Pittsburgh, which is still doing quite well, amazingly for a steel town, and is having a bit of a renaissance with the young hipster/tech crowd, I still get to enjoy some of the perks of a larger city when I decide to venture over. Happily crime hasn't grown too rapidly in my town and it is still somewhat of a safe city. Drugs, especially heroin are always a problem and are on the rise. Almost every day I read of an overdosing heroin user being found in a parked car or a store restroom. Pretty sad.
All that being said there still is money around. Not so much in the city proper but the outskirts of the city limits is littered with nice high income neighborhoods. There are home offices of a number of global companies within a few miles in nearby towns and the medical field is quite present throughout the southwest Pennsylvania area. So were not entirely poor and there should be plenty of tax money in the city coffers. That is what makes me angry most of all. The local government has done practically nothing to try to change the downward direction of the city. They do nothing with the streets except the bare minimum random pothole patching. The storm drains are always clogged and filth is everywhere. A street cleaner goes past my house ONCE in early spring and that's it.
But the biggest lapse has to be what happened to our downtown area. As the county seat most of the downtown business is courthouse related and the area around it is sort of okay. But go a few hundred feet away from the courthouse and things go downhill real quick. They like to tout the Historic nature of the city to entice tourist but I can imagine any tourist would be sorely disappointed upon visiting.
I did happen to be driving through town a few months back and found the late afternoon sunlight to be fantastic. The light would have been beautiful for a nice landscape but all I had were some rundown storefronts in front of me. I always try to make the best with what I have in front of me.
These were all shot with a Fujifilm X-T10 with 18-55 and 14mm Fujinon lenses.
The Fujifilm X-Pro2 is a fantastic camera and the more I use it the more I like using it. But the XP2 is clearly marketed towards street and typical "rangefinder" type users. A modern Leica, if you will. And I purchased the camera to use it as such. I wanted a "rangefinder" style camera so I would purposely stick to shooting moderate wide to normal prime lenses in the "Leica" style (I know, I'm quickly using up my quotation mark quota). Plus I wanted to try more street style shooting but I can't seem to get started with it.
However I am finding it difficult to change from my old DSLR ways of shooting any and all subjects that interest me. I still like to shoot nature and macro photos on occasion. For that the Fujifilm X-T2/1 would probably have been the better camera for me. An X-T2 with some of Fujifilm's great zoom lenses would be an ideal setup for an "everything" camera and I may purchase one in the near future for that exact reason.
But I still like holding my XP2, it just fits me well. It has it's drawbacks for sure – the EVF is a little too contrasty in some bright outdoor situations and some of the controls could be arranged slightly better to prevent accidental changes- but there's not really anything that I can't get used to or work around. I do, on occasion, wonder if I should move on to a different camera but I always come back to thinking that the XP2 is a good fit for me.
So here are a few tree 9and apple) photos from the other day when I visited the Dawes Arboretum in Newark Ohio. I know, I need to get out of the woods!
I decided to finally visit the Palace of Gold in Moundsville, West Virginia after putting it off for decades. I don't live too far from there yet I almost never even think about going. But it was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, I was wondering what I could photograph that would be different and I though it would be a nice time to make the trip to see what I could find.
I had visions of shooting the building and gardens in the golden light of sunset and as the clouds started to break up during our trip I thought everything would be perfect. My plan was if we got there a little early I would just shoot some details and maybe some interior shots and then shoot the exterior and gardens as the light got just right.
Of course you know how plans go. We barely got on the premises when we were told that they were closing. When I Googled the hours it said they were open until 8:00 PM but they said they closed at 5:00 PM after Labor Day. Bummer. No sunset shots. No interior shots. I hurriedly shot some environmental shots but didn't get to look for, or focus on, too many details. I did what I could with what I had.
Although it is a colorful place I found a number of the photos worked well in black and white. All shot with my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and XF 14, 35 and 55-200 lenses.
I am not squiggly.
Just some plants reflecting in a wavy pond/.
I know, it's a ho-hum photo but I did want to post something since I've been away for a while. It's generally not a good idea to post ones crappy photos but I felt like I had to do something.
I'll be back soon with some black and white, to get the groove back.
Oh heck, since I'm here I may as well throw in a couple more.
A bee. While in the local park, my wife insisted I catch a bee in flight around the flowers. I tried for a while but with not much luck. The light was getting too dim for a decent shutter speed. Focus tracking a random flying bee was bit too tough for my camera (or me, since I don't usually do that type of thing), so I am glad I at least got some shots while it was stationary on the flowers.
Some nice color, while I was trying to capture the bee:
My photography output has been awfully low these past few months. I think I have shot less than I have in years. Why? Just a combination of things – first the usual suspects such as work and home, followed by the total lack of anything to shoot. I know, I have pretty much created my "style" around shooting anything and everything I come across but the anything and everything I have come across lately just aren't yelling out to me, "shoot me!". No amount of "good light' can help around these parts.
I desperately need to take a vacation and get out of my usual environment to find some fresh perspectives. It won't take much, I'm not asking for Paris or Venice, although those places would be sweet, I'm think more like somewhere that's just not here. Heck, Cleveland could work for me! I could happily walk down some strange cities streets and shoot away at anything I see. New lines, new angles, new light, everything is new – to me.
We'll see how the vacation goes. In the mean time I have been clicking the shutter but my subjects are usually weeds and cows, with the occasional wild turkey. Not too exciting and far from what I want to photograph. Not only in the sense of subject matter but even more so in the sense of creativity. I've always liked shooting somewhat ordinary things in new ways and I haven't been doing much of that at all. My creativity is on hold for some reason.
In the mean time I have been enjoying the work of others, I'm finding inspiration out there and it helps. There's lots of great work floating around the web. But every time I see a photo that I like and think that it's similar to what I would have shot I just want to be out there shooting instead. Time to get out of town!
As I mentioned in past posts I am going to occasionally critique my own work on this site. I am critiquing to not only confirm what I already know what is wrong with some of my photos but hopefully to help you better understand how photos can be improved through thought and composition.
My first photo is a simple tropical plant photo. I took the shot at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens and I liked how it resembled fireworks in the sky. A classic looking up perspective shot. Nothing fancy. Exposure and focus seem to be spot on, so no problem there.. Where I could have improved the shot was in composition. Although subtle, if I rotated the camera slightly to the right and zoomed out a bit I could have better fit both plants in the photo and that would have eliminated a lot of the blue sky on the left which would have balanced the photo a little better.
I can't even rotate the image to better balance it because I shot it too tight. Which brings me to another rule (for me) that I broke. I only took a single photo. If I shot a number of photos at different focal lengths (or in this case, orientations) I would have had more to work with in post-processing. If I am shooting a still subject I almost always try to shoot varied compositions . I'm usually correct in my first shot but it cant hurt to have backups just in case!
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For the past few seasons, we have placed tropical and swamp milkweed containers on our raised beds, in garden carts, and other various places in hopes of attracting gravid (mated) monarch females…it works!
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We stopped raising monarchs on potted plants because of hidden predators and declining plant health indoors…but milkweed container plants are still a fantastic tool for attracting monarch mamas:
- Start preparing your milkweed plants 1-2 weeks before you want monarch eggs
- Water thoroughly every few days at the base of your plant(s) to keep leaves hydrated. Water more or less depending on your local precip
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- Any milkweed you use should have fresh, healthy leaves. Remove sickly leaves from milkweed plants and discard.
- Cut off blooming flowers on plants you want to collect eggs from. The absence of flowers will reduce visits from nectar seeking predators.
- Check plants for predators and foreign eggs. These should be monarch-only milkweed plants for raising purposes.
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After milkweed prep is done, put your pot(s) out for the monarch mamas to find. I suggest putting it in a place that gets partial sun and away from other patches of milkweed.
Why Partial Sun?
Partial sun will keep leaves fresh longer, and prevent eggs/cats from getting cooked by the summer sun.
Why Away from the Main Patch?
There tends to be a higher concentration of milkweed predators inside a patch. Lone milkweed plants usually get less attention from pesky monarch-munching predators.
Keep an eye on your plants while you're waiting for eggs. If you find ants, stink bugs, spiders, tussock moth caterpillars, or foreign eggs remove them. These should remain monarch-only milkweed plants while waiting for eggs.
- Predators and pests can be hiding in the plant or on the container
- Heavy containers can accidentally wound or kill monarchs
- Soil can become moldy, collect frass (poop), or have disease spores
- Difficult to effectively clean/rinse an entire plant
- Plants put out/maintain healthier growth outdoors
- Leave potted milkweed outside
- Collect stem cuttings with eggs off potted milkweed to bring inside
- Collect individual leaves with eggs off potted milkweed to bring in
- If raising on container plants, check for predators multiple times
Milkweed Cuttings
Stem cuttings are, in my opinion, the best way to raise healthy monarchs because the milkweed stays fresh longer and cuttings keep the caterpillars from crawling around in potentially disease-causing frass. (poop)
Since these will come from your garden plants (or another outdoor area) make sure your milkweed looks healthy and isn't being overrun by predators or pests. Otherwise, you're unlikely to collect a monarch deposit.
The easiest way to have 'clean' milkweed is by diversifying your milkweed species and having several patches around your yard and garden. Predators and pests won't be able to find them all!
Milkweed Cuttings can range in size from 1 leaf to 2 foot stalks, and what you use will depend on the height of your cage and cutting containers.
During spring months, I use Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) cuttings.
In the summer and fall months, I switch to Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed), Asclepias curassavica (tropical milkweed), Gomphocarpus physocarpus (balloon plant), & Gomphocarpus fruticosus (swan plant).
Note: I realize many of these options aren't native, but most native milkweed looks pretty scraggly by season's end. Tropical milkweed and balloon plant are our last milkweed plants with viable leaves for the caterpillars and the late summer favorites for egg laying.
As long as the milkweed is healthy, any variety can be used to feed your caterpillars.
Unfortunately, the decline in the monarch population means monarchs are no longer a sure thing in North American butterfly gardens. I still believe that if you put the time into improving your butterfly garden, they will eventually come…but that doesn't mean a predator won't find the eggs/caterpillars before you do.
For those of you who want to insure you'll be raising monarchs, there are a few options for buying monarchs. These options are only good for those who live east of the Continental divide. These vendors aren't allowed to ship further west due to USDA regulations. Monarch egg/caterpillar vendors are on the supply list.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee fell on Wednesday, staying near record lows, as oil importers stepped up their dollar purchases at the end of the month, while caution ahead of a European Union Summit sapped demand for risk currencies.
Traders did not spot any Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervention in the session after the central bank was widely seen as having sold dollars in each of the four previous sessions.
Those interventions have come as the rupee has resumed declines to record lows against the dollar, mirroring declines in May. The currency hit its lowest ever at 57.32 on Friday.
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I live in Florida. My wife agreed to file a uncontested divorce, but changed her mind and retained a lawyer. She hasn't paid the lawyer and the case has been at a standstill for over 1 year. Can I file an uncontested divorce?
I am sorry that you are having to go through this long wait to get something over with that should already be done. It is painful enough to go through divorce without having it drag out forever.
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If the case was filed by your wife, and then she did not move it forward, you can file your own action. It is somewhat surprising that the court did not dismiss her action for lack of prosecution.Ask a similar question
Did your wife's lawyer actually file a divorce complaint or did she hire the lawyer to review the paperwork that you presented to her to sign? Is your wife now willing to work with you to resolve any remaining issues and move the divorce forward? If your wife is not willing to work with you then you will not be able to file for a uncontested divorce and will have to proceed with a regular or "contested" divorce for now which means you will probably have to hire a lawyer to help you with the required legal procedures. If your wife now wants this over and done with too then you might be able to proceed with an uncontested divorce.
In order to file for an uncontested divorce in Florida, and majority of most States including my State of Georgia, you must file a Martial Settlement Agreement signed by both parties when you file the Complaint for Divorce or Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. You also have to have your wife sign a Waiver of Service and Answer that must be filed with the Complaint. If you can not get your wife to sign these two documents then you can not file for uncontested divorce. If she will agree to sign the documents then the Court will set the case down for final after either 30 days or whatever the waiting period is in your county.
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CHICAGO (AP) The injury-depleted New Jersey Devils saw another star go down, but then got some long-awaited breaks in a much-needed win against the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.
Rookie forward Bradley Mills scored his first NHL goal with 3:51 left to snap a tie and lift the Devils over the Blackhawks 5-3 on Wednesday night.
New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur (FSY) left the game in the second period because of a bruised right elbow. X-rays were negative, and Brodeur said he expects to play Friday night at home against the rival New York Rangers.
GAME REPORT: Devils 5, Blackhawks 3
"It's not pulled or torn," Brodeur said. "I just banged it. From past experiences with bruises, usually it takes a couple of days to feel 100%.
"We'll see how this one reacts."
With New Jersey leading 2-0 at 5:27 of the second period, the stick of Chicago forward Troy Brouwer (FSY) appeared to hit the area around Brodeur's blocker after he made a save against Patrick Kane (FSY).
Brodeur said Kane's shot from a sharp angle caught him by surprise and struck him in the elbow.
"It was a shot from Kane in the corner," Brodeur said. "I never saw it. The feeling was always there, I just lost strength."
Brodeur removed the blocker, shook his arm and rotated his wrist as the trainer attended to him.
Play resumed, but Brodeur skated off the ice 21 seconds later following a stoppage and didn't return. Brodeur stopped all eight shots he faced before he was replaced by Johan Hedberg (FSY), who turned aside 21 of 24 shots.
The Devils entered the game with seven points and moved out of last place in the NHL with the win. New Jersey went 2-4 on its six-game road trip.
"I though we played hard," New Jersey coach John MacLean (FSY) said. "When Marty went down, they got momentum, had a couple calls go their way for power plays."
Brian Campbell (FSY) and Fernando Pisani (FSY) each scored their first goals of the season for Chicago, which rallied to tie it at 2 before dropping its second in a row.
Mills, playing in his third NHL game for the Devils, put New Jersey ahead 3-2 when his attempt from the right side of the net struck the skate of goalie Marty Turco (FSY) and deflected in. Turco stopped 19 shots.
"He (Mills) had some good jump," MacLean said. "He skates well. It's nice to see a guy like that get rewarded."
Jamie Langenbrunner (FSY) added an empty-net goal with 50 seconds left to make it 4-2. It stood up as the game-winner when Chicago's Viktor Stalberg (FSY) scored 16 seconds later to cut it to 4-3.
New Jersey's Andy Greene (FSY) added another empty-netter with eight seconds left.
Jason Arnott (FSY) and Travis Zajac (FSY) also scored for the Devils, who ended a two-game losing streak and won for only the second time in seven games.
Chicago (7-7-1) has lost three of four, and dropped to 4-5 at home.
"This is very comparable to the (other) games we lost," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "It's 2-2 in the third. We've got to get it to overtime.
"We've got to manufacture points. When you do that, you can manufacture wins."
The Devils played their second game without star forward Zach Parise (FSY), who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn meniscus. He is expected to miss three months.
Entering the game, the Devils' injury list included seven players. Besides Parise, forwards Jacob Josefson (FSY) and Brian Rolston (FSY), and defenseman Mark Fraser (FSY) are also recovering from surgery.
Arnott scored the only goal in the first period at 15:31. Dainius Zubrus forced Campbell (FSY) to turn over the puck behind the net. Patrik Elias (FSY) sent a quick pass to Arnott, who beat Turco from the slot.
Zajac made it 2-0 at 4:14 of the second, capitalizing on another Chicago turnover.
Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith (FSY) couldn't control the puck at the low edge of the left circle. The puck popped out to Zajac, who whipped in a shot from in front.
Campbell cut it to 2-1 with 3:58 left in the second. His centering pass from the left corner was intended for Pisani, but it deflected past Hedberg off the stick of New Jersey defenseman Colin White (FSY).
Pisani tied it at 2 on a power play at 3:42 of the third period.
After Hedberg made a pad save on Stalberg's shot, Pisani tucked the rebound just inside the right post.
Notes: Chicago F Marian Hossa (FSY) missed his fourth game with a shoulder injury. He's expected to be sidelined another week. Blackhawks C Dave Bolland (FSY) missed his third game because of an undisclosed upper body injury. ... D Matthew Corrente (FSY) (hand), D Anton Volchenkov (FSY) (stiff neck) and D Bryce Salvador (FSY) (concussion) were also out for New Jersey.
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World War II helped land Franklin D. Roosevelt an unprecedented fourth term in 1944.
A deteriorating Korean War compelled Harry Truman not to seek re-election in 1952. An increasingly unpopular Vietnam War did the same for Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
Pundits say the jury is out on how President Bush's war — both in Iraq and the broader one against global terrorism — will play out politically in November. It depends on what happens on the ground between now and the election, most agree.
But history may offer some guidance.
"We're seeing a volatile war situation which could either make or break this president, depending not on what he says but what actually happens in the war," said Allan J. Lichtman, a history professor at American University. "And everything is relevant, including these revelations of prison abuse."
The international outcry over the mistreatment and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. forces drew a rare apology last week from Bush as he stood alongside the king of Jordan in the White House Rose Garden.
Lichtman draws a parallel with the summer of 1864. The Civil War was not going well for the war-weary North. President Abraham Lincoln, under heavy political criticism, feared he would lose his bid for re-election. It took battlefield victories in the fall to turn things around for Lincoln, Lichtman said.
Bush has made his performance as a wartime president a main campaign theme. But six months before Election Day, Americans are expressing doubts about his Iraq policy. His approval ratings are slumping as violence in Iraq escalates and the prison abuse scandal is playing out.
Polls show that Bush continues to hold an advantage, though declining, over Democratic rival John Kerry on foreign policy and terrorism-related leadership.
"So long as the war in Iraq is seen as part of the war on terrorism, that definitely helps Bush," said pollster Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center in Washington.
National security crises can rally the public around a president.
Bush's approval ratings soared after the Sept. 11 attacks and got a smaller boost after the Iraq war began in March 2003.
Public sympathy, however, has its limits. Memories, too, can be short: Humiliation at Iran's prolonged holding of U.S. hostages contributed to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980.
While wars can drive up public approval ratings, such support can evaporate once the fighting has ended, as Bush's father found out. The elder Bush's surge in popularity from the 1991 Gulf War disappeared when the public lost confidence in the way he handled the slumping economy.
Woodrow Wilson enjoyed broad approval during World War I, a war he told Congress would make the world "safe for democracy." Once the fighting was over, voters in the 1918 midterm elections rejected Wilson's appeal to return a Democratic majority to both the House and Senate.
Republicans won control of Congress and blocked Wilson's proposal for a League of Nations that was part of the 1919 Versailles peace agreement he helped negotiate in Paris.
Dwight Eisenhower used his extreme popularity as a World War II hero and a vague promise to end the fighting in Korea to propel himself into the Oval Office in 1952. Richard Nixon won re-election in 1972 after holding out the prospect of bringing a final end to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Ronald Reagan's performance as a Cold War commander — and a defense buildup that helped speed the demise of the Soviet Union — contributed to his 1984 re-election success.
Not all foreign policy fiascos have dire consequences for presidents.
After the mid-April 1961 collapse of the CIA-organized Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy declared that "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan" and took responsibility for the botched attack.
Kennedy's popularity increased — from a 73% approval rating in March 1961 to 83% in early May 1961, according to a Gallup poll.
That may show the value of taking responsibility, a lesson Bush and his advisers should heed, as Kerry and critics of the president have suggested. "As president, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command," Kerry said last week.
Some historians suggest Kennedy's rise in the polls probably had more to do with successful spin control. As Kennedy was taking public responsibility, his aides were busy circulating among reporters to privately blame Eisenhower for laying the groundwork for the ill-fated invasion.


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I believe KIN is one of the best micro-cap stocks to buy for 2017, but buyer beware: This is a "pre-revenue" company, and trial failures for both drugs would likely send this $5 stock to the floor.
As of this writing, Josh Enomoto was long SNE.


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Meanwhile, in fields and on farms around the country, more intimate affairs are being prepared. In a backlash against the big and expensive, this is the year of the festini.
With capacities of 80 to 4,000, these mini festivals will each allow far smaller flocks onto their land than the Brixton Academy lets spill through its doors every Friday.
There is the jazz festival, Larmer Tree, from July 14-18 near Salisbury, where Martha Wainwright and Jools Holland will play to crowds no bigger than 4,000, while at 2000 Trees festival near Cheltenham, a similar-sized audience will be watching Metronomy and Errors over the same weekend.
On the next rung down are events such as Winterwell in Gloucestershire June 18-21 and Blissfields July 2-4, which both keep their numbers down to 1,500 — half as many people as fit into Camden's Roundhouse.
But the ultimate "festini", new this year, is LolliBop in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. Not only are numbers kept below 1,500, but ages are low too. Aimed at the under-10s and their families, and with tickets costing £42 for a family, it will feature a circus and the Minuscule of Sound — the world's smallest nightclub.
"We have had an early sell-out this year," says Blissfields' founder Paul Bliss. "It really shows how people can feel connected to a festival of our size. Blissfields is more like a party with friends, but just because it's small doesn't mean we've done anything by half measures — it keeps all the important aspects of a bigger affair in a scaled-down setting.
"I think more and more people want that sense of connection with an event, and not to be thought of as a walking wallet, herded around like cattle."
Josh Ford, co-founder of Winterwell, agrees. "Suddenly people in their twenties are rediscovering small festivals and realising what a greater sense of community you get at them — and each year more small festivals start up. Some of the big festivals have also become so expensive. At £90, Winterwell is at the higher end, but £190 for the big ones is still a massive jump up."
Still, for some, even the likes of Winterwell and Blissfields will feel big. WOOD is a word of mouth festival on a family-run farm in Oxfordshire.
"People were feeling lost at the big festivals like Glastonbury and Reading, so we thought we would have a more personal approach," says organiser Toby Kidd. "We keep WOOD to 800 tickets."
"That's huge," laughs Tim Broughton, founder of the Field of Love Summer Festival in Suffolk, "we keep our numbers down to about 80 at the most, so that everyone can have a very personal connection with each other. We're like an extended family."
So this year, instead of dreaming up ways of spotting your tent among the masses, head to a festini, where it will be impossible to lose it. For summer 2010, bigger definitely doesn't mean better.
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Akron Public Schools Superintendent David W. James is the 22nd chief executive of the Akron school system. He oversees roughly 21,000 pupils, 3,000 employees and operations of more than 50 school buildings.
The Akron Board of Education selected Mr. James in August 2008 to lead the public school system through what would be a period of great transition.
New Environment for Learning
Among David James' most significant responsibilities and achievements continues to be overseeing the largest building and renovation project in the 166-year history of the Akron schools. About 75% completed, the $800 million endeavor, when done, will have converted all of Akron's school buildings into community learning centers -- schools by day, community learning centers (CLCs) for residents during evenings and weekends. The 30 new CLCs have also modernized and helped solidify neighborhoods throughout the 62 square miles that comprise Akron.
Now included in the learning landscape, under David James' leadership, are the National Inventors Hall of Fame® STEM middle and high schools (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Mr. James has also given students a leg up on college with the dual enrollment program agreement with Stark State College, the Innovation Generation Scholarship Program and the requirement that ACT testing for college entrance begins in students' junior year so they may take the test twice. (Learn more about these and other opportunities by visiting www.akronschools.com.)
Part of being an innovator is working smarter. David James has developed deficit reduction plans to keep pace with an often-uncertain economy and significant changes in state funding to public education.
Valuable Partnerships
As superintendent, Mr. James has worked diligently on community and business partnerships to benefit Akron students. The building project is done by virtue of a one-of-a-kind partnership with the City of Akron.
David's leadership has brought an expansion of the innovative -- and nationally recognized -- Akron After School program, also in partnership with the City of Akron.
He has also leveraged the After School collaboration into a partnership with the LeBron James Family Foundation to offer the Wheels for Education Program for kids, encouraging them to work hard, achieve and graduate.
Student and employee safety are his most vital concerns. David James continues to foster a strong relationship with the Akron Police Department in providing School Resource Officers to 17 middle and high schools.
The Right Stuff
His depth of experience prior to being selected as superintendent of Akron Public Schools makes Mr. James uniquely qualified to lead. Beginning in 1992 with APS, David James was an environmental program manager and the energy, environmental health and safety manager.
In 2002, he was selected to become executive director for business affairs, responsible for managing support operations including: maintenance; custodial; grounds; purchasing; warehousing; distribution; food service; energy, environmental, health and safety management; and telecommunications and information technology.
David James has his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and his master's degree, from Cleveland State University, in public administration.
He is also a graduate of Leadership Akron and the 2007 recipient of the Harold K. Stubbs Humanitarian Award in Education.
His Community
Those who talk to David James will often hear him say, "Education is everyone's responsibility. Build the future. Take part."
He spreads this message to the many boards on which he serves, including:
- Summit Education Initiative
- University Park Alliance, Chair
- Summit Forum
- First Things First
- Project GRAD Akron
- Leadership Akron
- Akron Tomorrow
- Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Executive Committee
- Ohio 8 (Ohio's eight largest cities) Coalition
David and Jeanetta, his wife, live in Akron with their two children, one of whom attends Akron Public Schools.
State-of-the-Schools Speech
David James delivered his 2016 State-of-the-Schools speech at the Akron Press Club luncheon on February 23. We are making the following information available to the public.
- David James' 2017 State-of-the-Schools speech (full-text download)
- 2017 State-of-the-Schools brochure (download)
- Facts and Stats rack card (download)
- College and Career Academies of Akron infosession schedule (download)
- State report card
Community Connect E-Newsletter
Keep up with the Superintendent's monthly e-newsletter to the community; download the latest issue below.


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