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These days I really want to switch Thoughts For Thursday posts to TFMonday, Wednesday, or Friday. Since we started these Thursday "conversation starters" my Thursdays have grown increasingly busy and rarely do I have the time I want to read and comment on all the other TFT girls, let alone write one up myself. I need to treat my own post as a homework assignment I guess and have it ready to go before Thursdays since I no longer have free time during my day. I always have stuff in my head to write about, I just never have time to articulate it by the time Thursday rolls around.
I'm going to try and get this out in the 45 minutes I have before picking SJ up from school, and though I've read at least most of you other TFT'ers, I'll hopefully be back to comment elsewhere tonight!
My Thoughts For Thursday this week is a mom topic. Sorry for all you non-moms out there, but you're welcome to read too as maybe this is a side of motherhood you've never pondered before. I'm not sure if this will be one with much response to it... it's probably just more of what's been on my mind today.
Last evening we were at a dessert gathering with some friends as well as some new people we hadn't met in our church. Toward the end of the evening Ryan and I were chatting with one of the men we had just met that night and after hearing earlier that I was a stay at home mom, and probably combined with the fact that we had the youngest kids there, he asked me a casual question... "So, how do you like being a mom, Heather?"
To which I chuckled and replied, "Oh, I like it. Most days, that is!"
And we moved on in conversation. Actually he followed it up with a couple of comments like, "I just always like to ask that. I don't know what it's like; I've never been a mom. :)" He does have a couple of older, grown kids and I think as in jest as those comments might have been, that it is a good point. It's interesting to think about what it's like to be a mom, if you've never been one, even if you have been a dad.
"So how do you like being a mom, Heather?"
For some reason, this whole 18 hours since then, something about that question has been sticking in my head. At first I just thought it was the fact that I'm not asked that question often. I do remember that in the first few months of new parenthood, every once in awhile someone would ask something along the lines of "how do you like being a mom?" or "how's this parenting thing going for you?" in just the new parent kind of chit chat that goes on. But I'd say it's been more than four years since I've been asked that question. And for some reason it really made me stop and think.
Do I like being a mom?
I knew back then, the answer was an emphatic yes. I always knew I wanted to be a mom, I loved having a new baby, a new identity, a new way of life. I loved the promise and potential in this new little person. I loved taking care of her (and him when he came along too), I loved having such an important purpose and such a unconditional love for something/someone. I loved the miracle of everyday watching this little person develop and grow and become his/her own little person and to be such an intricate part of that process. It is an indescribable thing.
But today? Do I like being a mom?
I love having my kids. I love everything about having my kids in my life. There's not a day that I would ever wish them away. I can't even begin to imagine my life without them or what it would do to me to ever lose one of them. I love being a family. I love the love in our home; I love the way Sawyer snuggles up to me, I love the way SJ wishes her daddy could stay home with her every day, I love the way she wants to buy the house across the street so that when she and Sawyer grow up they can get married (to each other!) and live right there so close and we can all see each other every day. I love the joy my kids bring into our lives.
But being a mom? It's hard. As a job? As an everyday responsibility? It's the hardest thing I will ever do in my life.
And you know what? For me, it's not about the physical stuff. That's not what I'm saying is hard. Sure, no one is in love with the fact that they might have to get up 6 times a night. No one would voluntarily change some of the blow out diapers I've come across. No one would sign up for a night of worrying over a feverish coughing child. The care and comfort of your kids can be a taxing and tough job at times.
But you know what I'm realizing is the harder part? I thought the first few years were easy... Teething? We can suffer through that. Tantrums? I can handle those. For me, it's when you get past the ups and downs of baby, toddler and into and beyond the preschool years, and you realize it's slowly turned into so much more than simply taking care of your kids. Suddenly it's more about who you are as a person, who you are as a mom and who your kids are becoming. It becomes really raising kids. Kids with the kinds of habits and personalities and morals that we have a direct influence on. Instead of teaching my daughter not to touch the hot stove, now I'm having to teach her how to not blow up irrationally with anger. Instead of teaching her not to push her brother, I'm having to teach her how and why to speak to him with love and respect, even when she may not feel like it. Instead of putting her in time out for a tantrum, I'm having to teach her how to walk through her feelings, to understand the world around her in such a more mature and intellectual way than just "that's not okay". Helping her to see and understand and learn that it's more than behavioral do's and don'ts... that it's about heart and attitude and that's a whole different ballgame of learning and teaching.
It's a scary job. Savannah is not a baby anymore. She's turning into her own person more and more each day, and more and more each day I'm realizing I don't have all the right answers and I don't have all the right lessons.
It's a little overwhelming with some of the issues she and I have been dealing with the last couple of days... and it's intimidating that really, when I think about the fact that this is nothing compared to the teen years we have ahead of us.
So it's days like this that I deep down want to answer Bob's question and say, "Honestly? Sometimes no. I don't enjoy being a mom. I love being a mother; I love having children, I love watching them grow and there's no one I'd rather be spending my life with. But having the job of mom? Some days I'd much rather pawn that job off on someone else."
I'd like to just have fun with them and not deal with the hard stuff. I'd like to stand by and watch an outburst, a tantrum, a meltdown, a stomp-off-to-her-room-yelling-and-crying-slamming-doors argument and not have the follow up job on my shoulders. I'd like to not be the one tattled to, the one positively redirecting all the time, the one reminding and explaining myself over and over. Because this job is hard. It's hard because it matters. It's hard and it's wearing, and it's sometimes disheartening. I second guess myself, I worry that I'm not guiding her in the way I should be.
When I look at the big picture of being a mom, sometimes it seems overwhelming to me. When I really think about it, it's a scary responsibility. And while it all makes me strive to be a better mom, opens my eyes to things in myself personally that can improve my life in general, I also have to balance that with sometimes taking a step back and remembering that I can't do it on my own. I have to take it day by day, I'm not perfect, I don't know all the "right" ways to raise my kids to be the best people they can be. It's a process for me as much as it is for them.
(And for you who are thinking this, yes I also remind myself daily that this job is not mine alone... that I need to rely on the Lord as our "co-parent", adviser and strength. That's just a whole nother page of journaling and I didn't want to get all preachy and spiritual here.)
So to wrap up my rambling here, I guess I don't even know what I'm trying to say. Asking myself that question: Do I like being a mom? It's a hard job. And sometimes I feel it will be hard for the rest of my life. At the very least, for the next 20 years of my life.
But I also know it's the most rewarding thing I will ever do as well. I get glimpses of that every single day. And as overwhelmingly challenging it can seem sometimes, I know the more I am aware of the challenges, and the more I am intentional in my journey as a mom, the richer those rewards will be. And I wouldn't trade that for anything.
I'm sure pretty much everyone would be better at condensing this answer than I am... if you care to share at all...
How do you like being a mom?
*ETA* I wanted to include this that I read over here today. Once again, as she does so often, Linda put into words exactly what is in my head that I just can't seem to describe. Here's an excerpt from her post today...
My boys are like something enormous and spectacular mined from the depths of the earth, faceted and painfully glorious, heavy and burdensome. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. This is so hard to carry. We hold them high and march through the days, bearing that which we love beyond all measure. My arms tremble.
I am so much more capable than I have ever been. I am weak and filled with shortcomings. I am a flexing muscle, aching under an indescribable, joyous weight.
Thank you Linda.


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Home » Anderson, IN Pawn Shops » E Z Pawn
E Z Pawn
2547 Nichol Ave
Anderson, IN 46011
About This Shop
No additional information available.
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Reviews (2)
VERY rude when I called to ask if they had a red wii for sale! She said she was too busy to walk over there and look for me, and that I would have to come in. I live 30 miles away, and after explaining this... she didn't care. Well you just lost a sale, and I will never go there... I will make sure to tell people of the terrible service as wel!
Large store with HUGE variety of items. Seems they must be very flexible on what they will take in on pawn, you never know what you will find. Not all items are top shelf but to me that is good. Listed shelf prices are generally very high and although the people are friendly they are not always very flexible on those prices.

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Include another template or some ancestor (recursion).
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For properly including references to assets into your templates see the correponding section in html to zafu.
The include tag has two different roles: pre-processing and recursion. But before diving into these two uses, there are some things to know about template paths.
A note on the template paths
When referring to another template, the path can be either relative, absolute or filesystem absolute (refers to a filesystem skin). Here are the different syntaxes:
Relative path: <r:include template='Section'/> Absolute (first name is the skin) <r:include template='/mojo/base/Section'/> Filesystem absolute (first name is the brick-skin) <r:include template='$mybrick-myskin/base/Section'/>
You can include sub-templates inside a given template and/or specialize some parts of the included template. Usually, you work by including "Node" template and specialize some parts to show a "Letter", a "Project", etc. Example:
<r:include template='Node'> <r:with part='title'/> <!-- empty (clear) title part --> <r:with part='content'> ... specialized content part </r:with> </r:include>
(See name for information on how to name parts.)
You can also use it in a more traditional "partial" inclusion mechanism.
To include everything:
<r:include template='comments'/>
Or to include just some part of a template (to be avoided, see note):
<r:include template='Section' part='related'/>
Currently, such an "other template part include" actually parses the whole (here: Section) template (with all includes) before extracting the "related" part. If the "Section" template includes parts of other templates that include parts of other templates…, computation becomes very slow.
To avoid the slow template compilation of "template part includes", copy paste the zafu you want to include into a new partial template instead. For example, into "Section/_related.zafu" and use a simple template include of the entire partial template in all places (also in orig. "Section" template). This is very fast and scales well with larger projects, where you create a sub-directory for each class that contains all its templates and partials.
If you include a "part" without specifying a template, the part is searched in the ancestors and produces recursion:
<r:void name='grp'> <r:parent> <r:include part='grp'/> / </r:parent> <r:show attr='title'/> </r:void>
(See name for information on how to name parts.)
The example above produces a "breadcrumb path" result (whitespace removed) like this for a "status" page:
Zena the wild CMS / projects list / Clean Water project / status title
You can augment the allowed recursion depth with depth parameter, but you won't be allowed to go further then 30.


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Meow jammers!
Today's new items are the
Bat Mask at Jam Mart Clothing.
Wee hee. One of our favourite items have returned!
2nd Item is Nessie Mask at Bahari Bargains. ^.^
Lol. This made me remember of Messi the footballer. XD
Cause they actually rhyme.
3rd Item of today is the Scorpion Armor at Epiccc Wonderzz.
3rd Item of today is the Scorpion Armor at Epiccc Wonderzz.
I never actually wished this was member. =-=
Yesterday's items were the Scorpion Claws at Epic Wonders.
Epic Item. I love it!
I've also noticed that when you click it it claps the claws. XD
It rather looks like a crab's claw than a scorpions. Lol. x3
Another item of yesterday was the underwater Halo at Bahari Bargains. ^.^
First time I'm seeing 2 items with the same name. XD
Lol. Same and name rhyme. XD
Anyways, I have to go soon.
Have a happy Halloween. ^.^
Until then
Play wild!


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Paths of Hate
Wow, this animated short is great. I can imagine the time spent in coordinating the entire sequence...a lot of work, but time well spent, this is a jewel. Great backgrounds, and unique look and feel combining a toon shader with hand painted/rendered textures. Nice sound too. Thanks for sharing Billy!
Firing It Up! Here we go!


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A Rose Gold Sequinned Papercut Sigma Dress
Ok, so I asked myself 'Jen, do you think a full dress of rose gold sequins is a bit much?'. We all know the answer to this question… hell no! Also, you know, Christmas and that.
This was my very first venture into the world of sewing sequins. And man, it is a scary place. I diligently started my research into sewing with sequinned fabric, and was kind of pleased to see the advice to just sew as you would a normal woven fabric. Ok… sounds too easy… but fine. My sequinned fabric, which was from Cotton Reel Studio, was basically mini sequins sewn onto a mesh. This was easy to cut out – I just used a rotary cutter. Some people recommend wearing glasses or something protective for your eyes when cutting out. I didn't… living on the edge and all that.
I spent quite some time deciding on a pattern… I wanted something which wouldn't be 'too much' considering that I was entirely using rose gold sequins. I decided to stick to the safety of a pattern I had used before. I went for the Papercut Patterns Sigma dress. I previously made this from a lovely wool fabric (here), and love the style. Really wearable. I knew some alterations I wanted to make from having made this before. Mainly I needed to be rid of the dreaded gapey neckline.
The sewing process was kind of ok… I did break 2 needles (!) but it was all fairly straightforward other than that. I fully lined the dress using an incredible lining fabric from Truro Fabrics – which really helped make the dress comfy to wear. No-one wants death by scratchy sequins do they?
Everything was going swimmingly until I discovered that the sequinned fabric was stretching. So when I had roughly assembled the dress and tried on… I could see it was looking a bit sloppy. Nooooo! What a waste of sequins! So I just had to, well, basically, bodge this dress together to make it fit! I removed so much fabric from side seams and the back seam before inserting the zip. It was crazy. But hey. The finished dress fits pretty damn well.
I'm super pleased with the finish of this dress – and can't wait to wear it to a festive party. I first need to be invited to one though…!
Happy Christmas readers!
Pattern: Sigma by Papercut Patterns
Fabric: Sequinned fabric from Cotton Reel Studio, Lining fabric from Truro Fabrics
Size made: XS (bodice) graded to S (skirt)
Alterations made: Fix for gapey neckline and, well, some bodging this one together if I'm honest
P.S. Apologies for the dodgy photos. We are lacking much daylight at the minute. I will try to get some better photos very soon
A Special Birthday Ogden Cami
This has been a fun little quick-sew make – much needed after just finishing my Cocktail Hour dress!
The idea for this make was born last weekend at SewBrum (my very first SewBrum!). There I was hanging with the gorgeous Sarah from Like Sew Amazing, talking about our birthdays (she is my birthday twin, sharing 4th November) in Guthrie & Ghani. I had already done my shopping, but Sarah came up with the genius idea of us buying some fabric for each other to make the same garment, by way of a present to each other. We stroked our way around all of the fabric in the shop, and came to this beautiful petrol blue peachskin fabric. Such a gorgeous colour, and a beautiful feel and drape to it.
So we swiftly agreed on this fabric, and Sarah suggested us making True Bias Ogden Cami tops. This pattern was basically all I heard about at The Sewing Weekender earlier this year. And I must be the last person in the world to not have made it yet! So very happy to give it a stab.
The pattern was really straightforward to make – involving just 5 pattern pieces to be cut. The instructions were lovely and clear. And the sizing was bang on.
The fabric was kind of ok to work with… it was tricky to press, which made hemming the lining and outer shell fiddly (and threatened to burn all skin from my hands!). But it just took a bit of patience, and acceptance that I would be no doubt burning myself at some point.
So here we have it. My very own Ogden Cami, all for me. She's a super wearable, dreamy, floaty vision of loveliness. The colour seems to work well with my hair I think. I will definitely be living in this in the summer. But for the autumn, I will be keeping a warm jumper nearby at all times!
Thank you Sarah for coming up with this genius idea. It was so much fun celebrating our birthdays with this make. Happy birthday to us! Be sure to check out Sarah's Ogden Cami too – here.
Pattern – True Bias Ogden Cami
Fabric – Guthrie & Ghani
Size made – 4
Alterations made – None


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Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Coming Soon! Roller Girl by Arthur Crowe
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Roller Girl
Tube – Roller Girl by Arthur Crowe
Matching Kit by ChocUKDesings
600x600 Img
Ele 47 – CP/RS 60%
Center, activate wand tool, click anywhere in the center
Selections-Modify-Expand by 20-Paste Paper 6 into the Selection-Selections-Invert-Delete-Select None
Move Paper below frame
Open the close up layer of the tube and make the piercings and other layers invisible.
CP/RS her to your liking and place in the center
It's ok if the tube is sticking out on the right, we will be erasing bits of her later
Ele 45 – CP/RS 40%
Place in center
Ele 26 – CP/RS 40%
Place on right of center flower underneath
Ele 27 – CP/RS 40%
Place on left of center flower underneath
Ele 9 – CP/RS 60%
Place on left under all
Ele 25 – CP/RS 55%
Place on right under the farthest right flower
Erase any of the tube you see sticking from under and on the right of the tag
Ele 24 – Img-Mirror
Place on left under fartherst flower
Ele 5 – CP/RS 30%
Place on left under the mat just poking out from over the pillow
Ele 39 – CP/DNR
Place on upper right under all
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In an interview with Elle magazine, Kate Hudson revealed she'd lost 20 pounds by giving up alcohol. She said she needed to lose weight for an upcoming role as a terminally ill woman in the romantic comedy Earthbound. Hudson, 30, admitted cutting out booze wasn't easy for her, saying: "I love my glass of wine. I love tequila. To be in New York for two weeks and not have one beverage, I'm not sure I've ever done that." You're probably wondering (we definitely are): How much booze did she usually scarf down in order to be able to lose 20 pounds by cutting it out of her daily routine? Kate, we didn't know you were such a booze hound! Earthbound begins filming in January.
Kate Hudson sheds weight by cutting out booze
By Alexandra Heilbron on November 5, 2009 | 9 Comments
Comments & Discussion
no, actually I wasn't wondering that….what I was wondering though is how thin did they require her to be for this role, she has always appeared to be extremely thin to me before, not an ounce of fat on her….
i agree, its dangerous to get too skinny and just to play a role in a movie? crazy.
Well I was still wondering that! Its not like its a 300 pound guy with a pot belly who dropped 20 pounds when he stopped drinking beer…we are talking about a woman who probably only weighs 120 pounds…and she lost 20 pounds by just cutting out the booze??? WHAT!?!?
Talk about a friggen alcoholic with some issues! People her size out there couldn't lose 20 pounds if they were to eat healthy and exercise several times a week! That is just creepy!
Well, I'm sure when Kate said that she was just being over dramatic. I'm sure she probably starved herself for two weeks as well but cutting out alcohol was good because it has alot of calories, alot of sugar and if she loves tequila, she most likely wasn't very far from a salt shaker! I know I stopped eating salt for 1 week before and lost 10 pounds…from just salt!!!
Nance, you are probably right. There are a lot of people who dont tell the truth about how much they lost, how they lost it, etc. Just looks good on them, makes them look like they have the strength to endure whatever comes there way. She is quite tiny though, any weight off her would probably not be a very good thing. All I think is when Tom Hanks lost weight for Philidelphia. He wasn't a big man at the time (I don't think he is now either) but sometimes the role means you gotta be sickly thin, and if she is playing a physically sick woman, then she will definitely look the part by losing any amount of weight.
how much skinner did they want that twig?
Carol, more recently re Hanks weight loss..in Castaway. A dramatic transformation. Look at him when he first gets stranded on the island, then when he grows out that beard.
I forgot about Castaway, that was a good movie.
she can drink still, its called work out and eat a healthy diet of carbs, protien, vegies and so on. Man that is weak. But i most say i do love my wine and i maintain a good wieght still most because of 4 days of gym a week.


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Lemon KittensCake Beast
Released 1980 on United Dairies
Reviewed by Jim Tones, 15/12/2005ce
Karl Blake: Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Drums.
~ with assistance from ~
Ian Sturgess: Guitar, Bass Guitar. Mike Barnes: Percussion.
(courtesy of Brothers K)
This third release from the Lemon Kittens (a 12" 45 EP), is a very off-kilter sounding affair.
Well, most of their material was off-kilter, but this one seems to capture quite an intense feel, mainly due to the fact that Nurse With Wound mainman and United Dairies skipper, Steve Stapleton, was soon to be on the verge of breaking off his allegiance with John Fothergill, who, along with the recently departed Heeman Pathak, had both been party to the inception of NWW and UD.
Blake and Dax would have to find a new label (Illuminated), for their next and last release- "...The Big Dentist...".
Maybe the tensions and traumas of the situation, bled into the tracks that were recorded for this EP.
First up is a cover version of the lamentive, slightly foreboding and darkly psychedelic song- "Kites" -from 1967, which was originally done by Simon Dupree & The Big Sound.
This snappy ensemble contained three brothers by the name of Shulman, who later went on to form that uber-prog behemoth...
...Gentle Giant in 1970 (!).
Like other cover versions of the time (in the late seventies that is), by fellow underground folk-
The Slits ('I Heard It Through The Grapevine'), Cabaret Voltaire (Here She Comes Now') and Devo ('Satisfaction') to name a few, Lemon Kittens stripped down the original to quite bare essentials, especially in this case when the original 'hit' featured Gongs, Xylophone and Mellotron!
Using a sprightly but low-key drum machine and sparse manual percussion (by guest Mike Barnes), Dax enters singing those haunting words in a reverberating doom with Blake punctuating the pulse with a two-note Bass Guitar jab and later adding some solemn organ chords.
All the while the drum machine keeps things afloat.
As with The Slits, The Cabs and Devo, I loved the original versions, but these strange takes on 'classic' songs have always had a strange effect on me which is hard to describe.
I suppose it's a bit like sprinkling brandy (instead of vinegar) onto your plate of fish and chips...(no?)...
There is an odd bit in the LK cover where the voice of Karl Blake just adds a very eerie sounding- "eeeeeh"- which seems as if it has just been punched in from the mixing desk, only a few seconds, but adds to it's charm.
"Only A Rose"
This track was recorded entirely by Karl Blake.
There is great interplay with a splintered, flanged Guitar and some brilliant sounding fuzz-wah Bass, which seems to be treated by one of those 'mooger-frooger' contraptions as it growls and groans to add to the startling vocals...
"Terror of terrors, Horror of horros...." wails Blake kicking into a really pained song of anguish....
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I'm heading north for the warm reasons.....
....to the cold regions...."
There is a shift in directions amongst the track, including very odd-
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It must also be said, guesting on Bass Guitar, Ian Sturgess makes a great contribution to this track....which then leaves that disturbing choir Tape to bring it to it's fading moments.
As I've said , this recording seems to have a manifestation of the upheaval that was hanging over the United Dairies camp, but is an essential piece of the jigsaw in what was the brief existence of one of that eras most overlooked treasures...
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Last season was by far the best of Nixon`s career. A .228 hitter lifetime, Nixon batted .298 and set a club record for stolen bases with 72 in 93 attempts. That included six steals in a game against a former employer, Montreal, tying a major league record.
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Contact printing: condenser v. bare bulbgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Large format photography : One Thread
Hello. Recently I contact printed an 8x10 negative under a bare 15 watt frosted bulb permanently fixed to my darkroom aka closet's ceiling. While washing the prints I thought that they looked a little blurry, specifically in the weave of a shirt of a person in the photo. The image of the person is less than an inch wide but in past prints I could clearly make out the weave. I thought perhaps the glass in my contact frame was dirty, cleaned it, and tried again. Same thing. So I figured I was making it up and quickly made another print, this time as I had in the past, using my enlarger as the light source with the light coming through both the condensers and the lens. And I got a sharper image! The weave of the shirt clearly showed. Does anyone here know why I am getting better images under the enlarger light? Did not E. Weston use a bare bulb to make his prints? Is there something I can do to improve my bare-bulb technique so I can get rid of my enlarger once and for all, which has been the whole point of this endeavor in the first place? I posted this story in rec.photo.darkroom and got the answer that the Callier effect is making more contrast in my image and this is why I am getting a better image under the enlarger. I don't believe it. If that were so nobody would use diffusion enlargers. The negative has plenty of contrast for silver gel contact printing and shows plenty of contrast when printed under the bare bulb. But it is not as sharp. I'm using Agfa Multicontrast Classic FB paper. I realize the color of light may be slightly different from the enlarger bulb and the bare bulb, but it can't be that far apart and the overall contrast between prints made with the two different bulbs looks to be the same to me. Other respondents to the rec.photo post said they had experienced the same thing and suggested they now only use enlargers as light sources. Thanks for bearing with me on this long post.
-- Erik Ryberg (firstname.lastname@example.com), January 11, 1999
Mr. Ryberg,
It is of course hard to tell what's going on with your set-up, not being able to see the results. Maybe if you held the print a little closer to the modem? Seriously though, try it again. Deliberatley try to make blurry prints with negatives of large uniform tones, sky, sand, snow, whatever. See if it occurs with different negatives, etc. Could it be the dreaded Newton's Rings? The Van Allen Belt? I don't know. Is the enlarger "unfocused" - casting a negative carrier shadow with soft or hard - focused edges? Would that make a difference?
I once made 76+ prints of a group shot, (1 for each person and some extras, just in case) using a Besseler 23 of ancient vintage on Ilford MGIV RC Pearl. Other than complaining about dust and wondering about my mental faculties, I had no problems. Now however, I have switched to Azo.
With Azo I use a 300watt bulb in an appropriately wired fixture with the Gralab between the outlet and the lamp. The distance is maybe 6 - 8 feet and times are running 8 - 12 seconds. Although I have not tested to compare, kind of hard considering Azo's Sloooooow speed, I have not had any "blurry" prints.
The only time I got Newton's rings was when I used RC Glossy paper for a "client" and used the enlarger. Sorry I can't be of more assistance. I haven't encountered this, yet, thank God!
-- Sean yates (firstname.lastname@example.com), January 11, 1999.
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Yes, Edward (and Cole when re-printing his dad's work), both used bare bulbs and a clothes pin. Michael A. Smith uses a bare bulb.
I haven't been able to afford one of those great old contact print frames Burke & James & the others used to make but I don't imagine there are any condensors in there. Certainly no room to focus the light....
-- Sean yates (email@example.com), January 11, 1999.
The problem is probably due to the size of the light source. 'Size' measured as an angle from the contact frame. If the negative emulsion is not in perfect contact with the photo paper (and it won't be, no matter how good the contact frame) then a non-point light source will image different parts of the negative on to one part of the paper.
A enlarger, with a lens, is pretty much a point light source. A bare bulb, especially frosted, isn't. In addition, a bare bulb will probably bounce light around the walls of the darkroom, so light hits the photo paper from practically all directions.
-- Alan Gibson (firstname.lastname@example.com), January 12, 1999.
As far as I can tell from extensive readings of the "Daybooks" Weston made most of his 8x10 contacts on Azo with his print frame in sunlight. Azo is POP (printing out parer). Considering that the sun and a condenser are both pretty much point sources..a bare bulb would probably need to be focused a bit more. Try using a reflector with the bulb..or even a reflector spot. Beware of printing on the bulb coming thru on long exposures
-- Charles Matter (email@example.com), January 12, 1999.
Mr. Matter,
I would suggest a closer reading of the Daybooks, or at least peruse Kodak's catalog. Azo is not now, nor has it ever been in it's 100 year history a POP. It requires a developer like Dektol or Amidol or Selectol or any other such. It is slow, too slow to use an enlarger as a light source, but no slow enough to take outside and print with the sun. Weston's negatives would've had to have been beyond bullet proof for that. Michael A. Smith wrote an article on printing with Azo for View Camera magazine a while back, I imagine you could still get the issue or a photocopy of the article.
On page 236 of his Daybooks, Volume II, Weston says, (01/27/32) "I have also completed a tremendous task, approached with the greatest enthusiasm: that of reprinting my entire New York exhibit on a new paper. A demonstrator for 'Velour Black' sent me a trial package: it is so much superior to the paper I had been using, that I changed without hesitation."
In "Darkroom 2 (ISBN 091281022X) Cole Weston describes in great detail about how he and his father printe(ed) Edward's negatives. "Early in his career, Dad used platinum paper. As he matured as an artist, he grew to feel platinum was too 'soft' for his work, and he began printing on silver papers. The early silver papers were also relatively 'soft' compared to most of the ones today (1978). Among those that Dad used were Velox, Apex, Convira, Defender Velour Black and haloid. Dad loved haloid, which was manufactured by a company that later became Xerox. The paper had a wonderful warm tonality. Dad used to say it had a three-dimensional quality."
I know, none of this has added to Erik's understanding of his original posting. You were kidding around about the printing on the bulb, weren't you?
-- Sean yates (email@example.com), January 13, 1999.
You print under a bulb fixed to a darkroom aka closet's ceiling. I don't know what aka means, but I imagine printing like this can give all kinds of reflections on the contactframe, which do not occur under the enlarger. Did you look up and around from the spot where your contactframe is? The bulb exposure is indeed a kind of diffuser exposure and thus it is evident that prints are not that sharp: light can come from all directions. I can imagine there is still a Callier-effect, although in contact-printing this effect is less than when enlarging your prints from a condensor - in my experience. Try building a tunnel around the bulb. I my opinion it is no non-sense to consider a possible print on the bulb.
-- Lot Wouda (email@example.com), January 13, 1999.
An object casts a shaper, more well defined shadow, the closer it is to the surface it's casting that shadow upon. The farther away, the softer, more poorly defined that shadow is. The closer to the light source the shadow forming object is, the less sharp, more diffuse the shadow is. A car on the street at noon on a cloudless day casts a much sharper shadow than a plane flying over head which casts a sharper shadow than say, the moon, or Venus.
Assuming the light bulb is 2 - 3 feet from the negative/paper, why would you expect the very small printing on a frosted bulb to register on the print? Dust on the negative shows up in an enlargement, but not the printing on the bulb in the enlarger lamp house. I have yet to encounter an article on contact printing that mentions the threat of "G.E. 100 Watt" showing up on the print.
-- Sean yates (email@example.com), January 13, 1999.
Disregard my previous answer. Azo is not (of course) a POP, and never has been..and Weston used many different types of paper (including AZO). The point I was trying to make (even tho I was apparently thinking somewhere else) was simply that Weston used a single overhead bulb in his dark room for much of his work. I have never noticed any difference between a single bulb and a condenser enlarger source for contact printing except in exposure time. If the negative is sharp, and in good contact with the paper, and your glass is clean..the image will be sharp regardless of the light source. AZO is a very slow paper..and a 15w bulb overhead (or even up close ) will require a lot of exposure..especially with any kind of negative density. You'll be happier with a bright condenser source.
Apologies for any confusion, and/or ruffled feathers CDM
-- C Matter (firstname.lastname@example.com), February 25, 1999.


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The Missing Link discovered this much through a crack in the partition, and amused himself with his eyes glued to the slit when there were no professional demands on his time and talents.
Most things that Mahdi did irritated Ammonia, whose jealousy and hatred were intensified by Nickie's habit, when in a playful humour, of teasing the gorilla by ostentatiously devouring delicacies Ammonia particularly affected in Ammonia's sight, almost within his reach.
Nickie's interest in that hole in the wall was a course of consuming anxiety to Ammonia. While Mahdi had his eye to the wall, the gorilla would cling to the bars of his cage, pushing his blunt nose through, and gibber and spit and protest in a high-pitched, querulous growl.
"Blime, yiv got the noble Ammonia goin' this trip, Nickie," said the Living Skeleton.
"Yes," replied Nickie, still with his eye to the crack, "that beast will have to learn decency and good conduct, Matty, my man. I aspire to teach him moral restraint."
"He'll do you a bad turn one o' them days, mark me."
"I believe not," said the Missing Link. "I've got something here that will always reduce him to reason." Nickie touched his breast. "I say, Matthew, this Chow next door is a luxurious heathen. He's got all sorts of lovely preserved fruits in beautiful juices, and cakes, and ginger floating in its own gravy, and there is a bottle of Chinese brand under the counter. Now, Matthew, I think it is a sin to encourage the inferior races to indulge in intoxicants."
"Don't," cried the Living Skeleton, a ring of anguish in his tones. "Yeh know, it's agin the rules t' talk t' me of things t' eat. It makes me fat." Poor Matty Cann groaned aloud. "Is there anythin' substantial?" he asked pitifully.
"Not just now," said Nickie, "but last night I watched the Chow and his missus dining on roast duck. You notice there's a door in this partition just at the back of my cage. Curious, is it not? Well, I found an old rusty key in the crack under the wall, and it fits the lock of that door. Remarkable that, don't you think? Now, I shan't be surprised if some of those Chow delicacies find their way in here most unaccountably."
"What's it t' me if they do?" sighed Matty. "I wouldn't dare t' eat 'em. If I did the boss would find I was puttin' on flesh, an' I'd be doin' a bunk."
"But I suppose a drop of Chinese brandy wouldn't entirely spoil your figure, my boy."
The Chinese delicacies did find their way into the cage of the Missing Link, quite a fine assortment of them, also the bottle of Celestial spirits. Ammonia witnessed the process of transference that night, and nearly went mad in his cage, springing about wildly, clinging to the bars, squealing and certainly blaspheming in his peculiar monkey gibberish, and Nicholas Crips sat in his cage, impishly eager to goad his enemy to fury, and ate luscious figs and fine preserves, while the gorilla strained at the intervening bars and shrilled his anguish.
After this there were other casual visits to the shop of Kit See, and Ammonia's curiosity concerning the mysterious place from which the Missing Link drew such delectable supplies kept him at the back of his cage for hours together, peering at the wall, scratching it, and whining impotently.
Evidently Kit See was troubled in his mind, too, for he came into the show to examine the door in the wall, and finding the cage of the Missing Link right up against it, and the formidable monster sleeping in the straw, was satisfied that the petty larcenist found access to his goods in some other way.
On the Sunday, Nickie and the Living Skeleton walked abroad, seeing the sights of Wangaroo, including a waterfall; a hanging rock, and a cemetery, the latter the favourite resort of the elite and fashion of Wangaroo on Sundays. Mat's skeleton proportions were disguised in a long overcoat, and Nickie wore a loud theatrical suit, and a conspicuous clean-shave. He thought he looked like Henry Irving. He didn't see why he shouldn't.
The company ate a late dinner in a room behind the show that evening. Amiable Madame Marve had prepared an excellent meal, in which the regulation beer and boiled leg of mutton course was relieved of monotony with vegetables and dumplings. There was soup before and pudding after, and in a burst of gratitude the Missing Link proposed the health of the Egyptian Mystic which was being drunk with enthusiasm in Chinese brandy, when suddenly a great racket arose in the yard, shouts and screams were heard from the street, and Kit See burst in upon the dinner party, his Celestial fade pale with terror, his usually benignant eyes round with apprehension.
"What' for? Wha' far?" screamed the Chinaman at Professor Thunder. "Come! Come! You come dam quick! Monkey he stealem my baby."
"Wha—at?" yelled the Professor.
"The monkey cally baby away alonga house-top si'." Kit pointed to the ceiling. He was dancing with anguish.
The Professor dashed for the caravan cage, and was back in a minute. "It's Ammonia," he cried, wild with excitement. "He's broke loose. He's got the Chinaman's baby on the roof."
Kit See ran into the street, the Professor turned to follow, but Nickie seized him.
"Hold hard," he said, "there's no hurry, no hurry in the world. Let us think this thing out."
"No hurry!" snorted the Professor, "and that infernal gorilla waltzing round up there with a live baby?" The Professor's tragic manner would have been the making of a cheap melodrama.
"Did you ever know Ammonia drop anything he'd once taken a good grip of? The youngster's safe for a while. It strike me we can make a hit out of this. How will it read in the Wangaroo 'Guardian': 'Child stolen by a gorilla. Rescue by Professor Thunder's famous Missing Link'?"
Professor Thunder stopped with a gasp. "Holy Joseph!" he said, "that's a noble thought, my boy. Can it be done?"
"You get out there and keep the crowd from overexerting itself. Leave the rest to me."
Professor Thunder dashed out by the front door. There was already a large and vociferous crowd in the road, staring up at the gorilla, gesticulating and yelling, and people were coming running from all directions. On the side of the road stood Kit See, weeping, and brandishing his arms helplessly in the face of this grand calamity. Aloft, on the top of one of the chimneys, about three feet above the roof, sat the gorilla. In one of his hind claws he held the baby's clothing, and the youngster dangled, apparently disregarded by Ammonia, who, despite the terrors of the situation, cut a most ridiculous figure, for he was composedly sucking the milk from the baby's bottle, keeping his vindictive eyes on the crowd the while.
"For God's sake keep quiet," thundered the Professor to the excited crowd. "Do not irritate him, and all will be well." He dragged to the ground a heroic Cousin Jack miner who was climbing the verandah post. "Back, man, back," he cried, "or all is lost."
The Professor strode up and down with all a heavy villain's impressiveness and orated. His eloquence was drowned by a great hullabaloo at the next corner, and with a rattle and a yell four firemen came tearing down the road with a hose-reel. Some excited individual had, rung the fire-bell. The firemen attached the hose to a plug, and came on, hydrant in hand. It required all the Professor's energies, supplemented by the frenzied protestations of Kit See, to prevent them turning a full stream of water on the gorilla.
The crowd was now a large one, gathered far out on the road, where a good view of the roof was obtainable, and when the excitement occasioned by the fire men had subsided, a fresh outburst was provoked by the appearance of another huge monkey, the great bulk of which came up slowly over the left ridge. The second monkey, which was much larger than the gorilla, sat upon the apex of the roof, jabbered at Ammonia, and the gorilla turned towards him, baring his teeth in a hideous grin of malice.
"Keep still!" yelled Professor Thunder. "Keep quiet, for the love of heaven! Mahdi, the Missing Link, will save the che—e—ild! Mahdi, the animal that approaches nearest to man, captured by me in the dark jungles of Darkest Africa. Observe."
The gorilla seemed animated with an implacable hatred for the larger monkey. The shades of night were falling, but the people in the street could divine this enmity from Ammonia's attitude and his gestures. His flat, ugly face was thrust towards the Missing Link. He grimaced horribly. With his eyes always on Mahdi, the gorilla slowly lowered the baby to the roof and let it go. The roof was shaped like an M, and the child rolled harmlessly into the gutter between the ridges. For a moment Ammonia faced the Missing Link, his venomous little eyes luminous as those of a cat, and then he ran along the ridge.
A cry broke from the crowd, but when Ammonia was within couple of feet of the Missing Link he stopped as if shot, let go his hold, and rolled down the roof, and lay in the gutter beside the child, limp and inanimate.
Mahdi clambered down the ridge, took up the baby, and, nursing it gently on one arm, came along the roof and down the sloping verandah, and lowered the son and heir of Kit See into Professor Thunder's arms amidst a storm of cheering such as had never been heard at Wangaroo.
Nickie had predicted rightly. The Wangaroo 'Guardian' next morning contained a thrilling account of the rescue, and in a leading article the editor pointed out that the humanitarian action of the Missing Link was proof that it approached nearer to the standard of man than any other known animal.
The enthusiasm provoked by Mahdi's action brought a tremendous rush of business. In fact, the attention excited threatened to lead to an exposure of Professor Thunder's daring imposition. Leading men wanted to interview Mahdi; a section of the people of Wangaroo were even talking of having the Missing Link adorned with the Humane Society's medal, and another section prepared an illuminated address. Eventually the great showman left the town in something of a hurry to escape notoriety that promised to be dangerous, but he had done a record six-days' business, and was content.
"But how'd yeh beat the blanky gorilla?" asked the Living Skeleton on the morning after the rescue, as the Missing Link sat in his cage munching preserved fruits presented to him in abundance by the grateful Kit See.
"How do you think?" replied the intelligent animal. "With an ammonia squirt, of course. When he came at me I squirted a dose into him that nearly killed him. I'm never without that little weapon, and I think, Matthew really think that we shall teach the gorilla proper respect for the superior animals before we have done with him. His desire to supplant me in the scheme of evolution is contrary to science, my boy, and a defiance of natural law, and must not be countenanced for a moment."


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Sarah Monahan told A Current Affair in March 2010 that Robert Hughes, the star of the television series Hey Dad had sexually abused her for seven years.
Sarah Today
"I guess I was the smallest and I know I wasn't the only one." Years of abuse sent her almost over the edge. "I remember at school they actually demanded that I see a psychiatrist. In art classes I could draw perfect penises and they were like, there's something wrong with this girl drawing stuff like that at such an early age, I think I was at the point of being suicidal."
But she didn't get any support from her employers. Former executive producer Gary Reilly said he had no knowledge of what was going on but he did hear rumours about something happening to another child and she was given a chaperone.
"They said they didn't know but they knew, and it was always kept quiet because it was the most successful television show and people don't want to know about that" Sarah said. The abuse began when she was six and continued until she was thirteen, when she had enough courage to tell him to stop. Once he realized he'd lost control, he turned nasty and bombarded her with insults.
Hughes in Sydney with his wife yesterday
Sarah Monahan, who now lives in America, must be a happy woman today. Robert Hughes flew into Sydney on Thursday after his extradition from London and charged with 11 child sex offences against five alleged victims over a six year period dating back to 1984. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and was granted conditional bail. He will report to Surry Hills police station three times a week and face court on January 29.
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Dad, Betsy, and I are going to the movies tonight. I wanted to see that movie with Jodi Foster - Flightplan, so we're going to Chunky's to have dinner and watch the movie. If you haven't been, I highly recommend it!
Friday, October 7, 2005
Movies tonight
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It's named "The Nightstand Diaries" because in terms of publishing a book, it doesn't mean squat that you're published. It doesn't mean squat that your book is on a bookstore shelf. It's only when someone takes your book home and reads it – as a way to relax on a lounge chair, pass time on a subway, or as the last mental exercise before putting it on the nightstand and going to bed – that you become a part of your readers' lives. With this notion in mind, I invite you to come along as I try to do that very thing. My goal is to try and sell 5,000 copies of my new novel The Brink over the next year.
Day 3 of 365
Marketing The Brink – Today's efforts
With my book signing event at my local Border's store coming up on Saturday, I took 75 flyers with bookmarks attached to the Lifetime Fitness that's in our town. If I may digress here for a second, I freakin' love that place. It's got everything a 37-year-old, slightly vain man with a penchant for the occasional full-bodied beer who's never met a meal he didn't like could ever possibly need to keep in shape. I have been to a couple other Lifetimes, one in Houston and another one in Flower Mound, and they are all well-maintained and the entire staff seems to have drunk from the "excellence in customer service" punch bowl.
Colleyville Lifetime's GM, Dana Brunk, said she would display them and I thank her for that. I also took a flyer to Market Street, an awesome Colleyville grocery store, that also has a fantastic beer selection – they even stocked a radler (1/2 german beer and ½ lemonade concoction that my wife loves) for a while. While my mission was to get my flyer tacked to the community corkboard, where announcements are posted, I struck up a conversation with Mary Macdowell and she mentioned that the cooking class department is looking for a book to select where they can cook the food mentioned in it. I told Mary that there are basically three dishes in The Brink – tamales, chicken cheese steaks, and Eggs Carver (scrambled eggs and chorizo served on a bed of Cajun spiced hashbrowns). She took an extra copy of my flyer and was going to give it to the cooking class administrator to see if they want to select the book for their class. Maybe I'll be a guest and get to eat the class projects. Cool!
Here's a link to the flyer:
Colleyville Borders book signing poster lifetime version
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This is my new chant: "It is what it is." I'm saying it over and over to remind myself that I don't have the luxury to wish my dad wasn't ill, because he is. Because I don't have the luxury to wish that I were 2000 miles closer, because I am not.
It is what it is. And so is the love he has shared and continues to share with us and us with him. We do have the luxury of basking in that now and in the future. Not everyone gets to say that.
So it is what it is. And it will never be what it isn't. And if I keep telling myself that, I stay grounded, my feet stepping one in front of the other because as much as we want to skip over or skirt around, sometimes the only way through is, well, through. One step. And then another. And then one more until we need to rest. And there will be someone there to pat our backs as we rest and give us what we need to stand again and take that next step.
It is what it is. And we don't have the luxury to think that it is only happening here, to us, in a bubble, untouched by the innumerable sorrows and tragedies that comprise daily human life. Nor do we have the luxury to take that pitiable stance that denies all that is beautiful and wonderous and lovely within and around us, even when times are bad.
We are allowed to stand and be sad and be happy at the exact same moment. A sickness, yes, but also the addition of new babies to the family tree, and the love that extends beyond space, beyond time, beyond the things that break our hearts and mend them up again.
It is what it is.


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There is really no reason to post this except that it is my favorite picture of ALL time.
5 years ago
Isaac was born on June 24, 2007, which just happened to be our 7th wedding anniversary. We feel so lucky to be his parents and we are so excited to share him with the rest of the world.


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On February 17 at about 7:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, the spacecraft Dawn received a speed boost and a change of direction in the form of a gravity-assist from Mars. The craft slingshot past the planet, using it (rather than its own precious fuel) to adjust its trajectory, and will continue to the first stop in its journey, the asteroid Vesta. The Dawn mission has gone so smoothly that after almost a year and a half of travel, it required no course correction as it neared the Red Planet. Now that it has passed Mars, it will coast for about four months before powering up its ion drive engine and traveling another 26 months to Vesta.
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Occasionally from Travels Beyond
I love this shot, OW. It has a way of calming my heart.
Glad you like the photo. It was a beautiful morning and the crow was far enough away to be cooperative.
Wonderful photo! It looks almost like Africa!
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Wigan v Reading 10/11:
Our first tip comes from the Sky Bet Championship where Wigan face Reading at the DW Stadium. Both these teams are eyeing promotion to the Barclays Premier League and this game could prove to be hugely important come the end of the season. In Wigan's last 15 games of last season they only managed to keep 4 clean sheets and were involved in 7 games where both teams managed to score. This trend has continued in their pre-season with 3 out of their 4 games have resulted in both teams scoring. Reading also struggled to keep clean sheets last season by only managing to keep 3 in their last 15 games and have been involved in 3 games during their preseason where both team have scored. With both these teams struggling to keep a clean sheet between them this should hopefully lead to an entertaining game and the chance to make some money.
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Our next selection is also from the Championship where Ipswich will face Fulham in the late kick off. Once again, both teams are more than likely to find the back of the net. Ipswich can boast good preseason form winning 3 out of 5; with 2 of these wins involving goals both from both sides. Again like Ipswich, Fulham have been in excellent throughout preseason winning all of their games and not conceding a single goal. However, before you panic, the quality Fulham have faced will not be to the same standard as when they face Ipswich this Saturday. With both these teams possessing excellent ability going forward the game should be full of goals.
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To reform or oppress? That seems to be the two prevailing attitudes in China. The 3,000 strong National People's Congress is set to gather in a week-long meeting as the government seeks to outline its priorities for the year. Topping the list of concerns? High inflation and perceptions that the income divide is getting wider.
"It's called 'red-eye disease'. It's jealousy – they hate how much money others are making." China analyst Willy Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Political tension high ahead of China congress
Source – Channel News Asia, published March 1, 2011
BEIJING: China's parliament opens its annual session this week in the most tense climate in years, after unrest in the Middle East highlighted a tinder box of social issues that have jangled nerves in Beijing.
The National People's Congress, which is made up of about 3,000 delegates, has limited power and its week-long meeting serves more as a rally exalting the ruling Communist Party than a forum for real parliamentary debate.
But it is used by the government to outline its priorities for each year via an address by Premier Wen Jiabao at the start of the session on Saturday. Wen gave a preview last weekend — and offered a clear sign of official unease.
Wen pledged in a chat with Internet users on Sunday to tackle soaring inflation, a widening wealth gap and official corruption in the world's second-largest economy.
Those are among the hot-button issues that sparked popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world, and which consistently top the lists of public concerns in China.
While no one views the Communist leadership in Beijing as under any imminent threat, it faces more pressure than in past years to come to grips with the rising expectations of its people, political experts say.
"I hope that there are new policies (in Wen's speech) because if there are not it shows the government cannot meet the demands of the common people. This is a big problem," said Bao Tong, a former senior government official who was jailed for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Topping the list of public concerns are high inflation and perceptions that vast numbers of China's 1.3 billion people are stagnating or falling behind economically even as the country gets richer.
"People are still unhappy. The privileged classes in Chinese society are making so much more than others," said China analyst Willy Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
"It's called 'red-eye disease'. It's jealousy – they hate how much money others are making."
The urgency of such issues was underlined in the past two weeks by mysterious Internet calls for weekly Sunday "strolling" rallies in 13 cities.
The calls have largely fizzled so far under smothering security, and there is little indication of a popular appetite for political change, said Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher for Human Rights Watch.
But as China has developed, so have the expectations of its people, Bequelin said – particularly a Web-savvy younger generation that is increasingly making its voice heard on popular yet heavily censored Twitter-like microblogs.
"This brings home the concrete reality of social networks and the attitudes of the digital generation, who seem to take for granted things previously unthinkable for a Chinese citizen – things they had no sense of before the Internet," he told AFP.
Wen is expected to seek to placate such constituencies during his address, with renewed pledges of equitable growth and fairness.
Many of these will be introduced through the prism of a new five-year economic plan approved by Communist Party leaders last year that envisions more sustainable growth, a reduced reliance on exports, and a greater focus on domestic demand.
In an unusual shift, Wen said Sunday that the government had set a seven per cent annual economic growth target for 2011-15, down from the usual eight per cent, and vowed growth would be less frenetic and more fair.
"There are also likely to be more handouts in terms of social security to help disaffected classes," Lam said, including possibly tying social security payouts to inflation and improving medical coverage.
But the Congress, which will formally approve the plan, also will likely hear renewed pledges to crush "destabilising" forces.
President Hu Jintao warned recently of danger from "social conflicts" and authorities have already rounded up dozens of activists, according to rights groups.
Chinese authorities had already been on edge following October's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, which incensed Beijing.
No one expects any new signals on political reform at the Congress.
The top leadership is seen as turning even more conservative ahead of a pivotal meeting in late 2012 that will finalise the next generation of leaders.
"Two attitudes prevail in China. One is that if there is a problem, you must quickly reform. The other is to oppress," said Bao.
"Which attitude will the leaders ultimately take? Only they know."
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