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Crucial plan to reintegrate Afghan insurgents falling flat
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — It must have seemed like a good idea. With then-U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry in town, the newly installed provincial governor arranged for a surprise: Two Taliban insurgents would drop in on a ceremony in Eikenberry's honor, lay down their weapons and pledge to support the government in front of a large crowd of dignitaries.
Trouble was, no one informed the huge force of U.S. and Afghan soldiers who were guarding the event at the governor's compound here last December. Afghan security forces seized and held the two men, armed and dressed in black, at a checkpoint a few hundred yards from the event as they were driving to their appearance.
Later, it got more embarrassing for the governor, Musa Khan, when U.S. officials learned that he and another official had recruited and paid the men to show up in a bid to curry favor with Eikenberry. The governor's critics suspect that the men were hired flunkies.
"The whole thing was like a play," said Qazi Sahib Shah, a member of Ghazni's provincial council. "These were not real Taliban ready to make peace. The governor was trying to fool the Americans."
The ceremony went off without a blip as far as the crowd knew — the irregularities weren't clear until afterward — and the identities of the men were never revealed, but they were the closest that Ghazni has come to officially disarming a Taliban fighter. Nearly a year later, in fact, no insurgent in this strategically important eastern province has been formally enrolled in the U.S.-backed process known as reintegration, a linchpin of American and NATO efforts to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
Ghazni's reintegration program is a tale of questionable theatrics, dashed hopes, wasted money, official dysfunction and, among many Afghans, deepening fears that the insurgency is growing more potent.
The struggles here offer a window into a peace process that by nearly all accounts is failing even as the U.S.-led military coalition plans to withdraw its troops and, within three years, hand control of security nationwide to Afghan forces.
Over the past year the coalition has invested increasing time and money in a two-part peace process authorized by President Hamid Karzai: negotiating truces with insurgent commanders and reintegrating low-level fighters into society by forgiving their rebel activities and providing them with jobs.
The talks with the commanders have suffered spectacular setbacks, most notably in September, when a man who'd claimed to be a Taliban emissary of peace assassinated the Afghan government's chief negotiator, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The lower-profile effort to disarm Taliban foot soldiers is no less troubled.
Donor nations have poured $142 million into an Afghan-run fund to provide fighters with jobs and other incentives, but barely one-fifth has been spent because of administrative hurdles and political foot-dragging. Even less has trickled down to the provinces, where local officials say they can't promise sufficient work opportunities or protection for the former insurgents.
"The formal reintegration process doesn't offer people much at the moment," said Deedee Derksen, a Dutch researcher who's written on the subject for the U.S. Institute of Peace and other think tanks.
"They can't guarantee security, and the lack of security relates to the fact that the program is not embedded into a broader political process. On paper, it is. But in practice there has been a huge rush for reintegration from the international community while the higher-level talks aren't going anywhere."
The United States set aside $50 million for reintegration programs this year, but as of September had spent only about $8 million. A U.S. military document that McClatchy obtained reported that U.S. reintegration funds had targeted 2,480 fighters during the fiscal year — the vast majority of them, however, in mostly peaceful northern Afghanistan. Fewer than 9 percent of "reintegrees" were in the south and east, where the insurgency is strongest.
In Ghazni, the U.S. spent more than $200,000, with no reintegrees to show for it.
A year ago, U.S. officials were bullish on the prospects for reintegration in Ghazni, an ethnically mixed province bisected by Highway 1, the vital artery that connects Kabul, the capital, with Kandahar, the second-largest city and the heartland of the Taliban. To Ghazni's east are the insurgent-riddled mountain provinces that border Pakistan, where coalition forces are engaged in increasingly heavy fighting.
Many thought that Khan, a grave-faced, pious Pashtun handpicked by Karzai, had the religious and ethnic bona fides to make inroads with the mostly Pashtun Taliban. Reintegration committees made up of well-respected locals were formed with help and funding from coalition forces. Anticipation for 2013 — when Ghazni has been designated the Asian Capital of Islamic Culture by a leading pan-Islamic cultural organization — seemed to open a pathway to peace.
Instead, NATO and provincial officials watched with growing dismay as Khan embarked on his own quixotic path to dealing with the insurgency.
With the local peace committees beset by infighting, Khan and his aides have conducted private meetings with Taliban commanders and fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to members of the provincial council, a locally elected advisory body that's increasingly at odds with the governor.
Through those meetings, Khan told McClatchy, he's personally "disarmed" 300 or 400 insurgents, but he can't name them lest their commanders target them for reprisals.
He's occasionally held gatherings at which weapons were displayed as proof that some fighters had renounced violence. Provincial council members who attended one such gathering, however, scoffed that they'd seen only two old AK-47s that appeared to have been lifted from government stocks.
Khan's aides declined to make any former fighter available for an interview.
"I know who is fighting and not fighting," Khan said. "There is no need for more explanation.
"Everybody confirms that the security situation is much better than last year. This shows that some people have been convinced not to fight, and I don't need to show the faces of these people to the media."
By most measures, however, security in Ghazni seems to be deteriorating amid a rash of targeted killings and roadside bombs.
Last week, a uniformed police officer was shot dead at close range in the provincial capital, less than 100 yards from a police checkpoint. Two days later, gunfire killed a U.S. soldier southwest of the city while his unit scoured Highway 1 for explosives.
With 19 fatalities this year, Ghazni again has become one of the deadliest provinces for coalition soldiers, according to icasualties.org, a website that tracks military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"You ask yourself if this is a serious peace process," provincial council member Hamidullah Donish said. "He says he has disarmed 400 insurgents. Well, let him just bring four so I can meet them."
Khan's methods also have led some to wonder whether he's too close to the insurgency.
For months, one of his top lieutenants in the peace process has been Abdul Qadir Wahidi, a former senior security official under the Taliban regime who claims to have reported directly to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. A shadowy figure, Wahidi is rarely in Ghazni and spends much of his time in Pakistan meeting with Afghan insurgent leaders based there, officials and residents said. Repeated attempts to contact Wahidi were unsuccessful.
Then, several weeks ago, Khan told a news conference that he'd allowed two Pakistan-based insurgents whom he'd recently reintegrated to fire missiles in Ghazni in areas where civilians wouldn't be harmed. The insurgents, he explained to a dumbstruck audience, "were under pressure from their commanders to fire the rockets."
Khan told McClatchy that his comments had been misinterpreted.
NATO officials have grown extremely skeptical of his claims.
"He is saying he's the champion of reintegration and reconciliation. Well, what are the results?" said a senior NATO official who requested anonymity to speak candidly. The official made a circle with his thumb and forefinger.
"Zero," he said.
Instead, the official said, Khan is undermining the coalition-backed peace effort even as the U.S. government helps pay the salaries of provincial peace committee members and, at Khan's request, prints hundreds of thousands of fliers and brochures promoting reintegration.
Still, the United States and its allies remain committed to the process, with $50 million more in U.S. money pledged for 2012. On a patch of rocky land east of the town of Ghazni, a U.S. provincial reconstruction team of soldiers, diplomats and civilians continues to finance work on a school that's meant to serve as a vocational training center for former combatants.
Built by another U.S. team several years ago but never used, the long, V-shaped facility had fallen into disrepair, its windows smashed and plumbing clogged. Stung by its cost, Americans in Ghazni dubbed the schoolhouse "the $1.2 million monument to failure."
This year, U.S. officials spent $120,000 to clean up the place and install a generator, water pump, guard tower and front gate. Work is expected to finish by December, in the hope that provincial officials will begin to enroll former fighters early next year.
So far, however, not one potential student has been identified.
(McClatchy special correspondent Habib Zohori contributed reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan.)
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For more coverage visit McClatchy's Afghanistan and Pakistan page.
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Paul L. Hundley, Jr. is also a principal at HTH Aqua Group, specializing in aquaculture systems and facilities.
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Down flat? jissør!
So, the cat broke down like a million times.. and that kinda sucked.. cus we iz pretty tierd of fixin it all the time! but now i think its like über nice*! thanks to the sledneck guys!
Anyways... the park is coming along pretty got but it takes way longer than planed since the cat and all and you know and stuff..
But! We put up the new downflat today and simon tryed it since he is like a Von Zipper Rider. and it says Von Zipper on the side. Nice match!
Weeeeeeell now im bored..
Buthey! i made a thing on the cat today so i can wave a flag back and forth while im driving the caT its worth checking out! yeyah!
Here is a video of Simon... iz nice!
Sisco? Yes indeed
Weeel ive got nuthing to blog about today acctually... so it sucks but hey, YOU blog something for once?!?
Oh and feel free to leave a comment! give some love down there! peace!
Mp is Outz?
What is happenin?
Not much really.. we is buildin the park now and its turnin out pretty gooodz... and its fun, i fucked my back today so im a retard, klas had hiz foot in the shooe for quite a long time today and now its all fucked up. he wanted me to put up a picture of it so: ur welcome!
Rasins are better?
In other news. come shredd on the fonna? its aaaaall good! many peoples are here! Kevin Bäckstromz and Thorz Lundnånting is here from the mushroom crewzl, and allso my browah Simon, hopefully he is going to do a backflipp, im not shure if he knows how to, but if he does! he better blog about it!
So here is a video of the dubdownz in the boxline we made on top! the rider is Kjærstin Thårstein aka Jonas, Cheeenga!
And bythewat., simon knows how to do a backflipp. and thor is called lundstrøm, i think!
And allso!byttheway! Kire is in a wedding and he must make a blog from umeå unless he wants to loose aaaaall he's skillpoints!!! HAHA!
AND alsso! i bought a new part for my car, since the left side was broken and all., and after 2 weeks of waiting.. i got the part for the right side instead... juppijuuu...
Summer vacation and Fonna comming up!
You know what, my friend did a 540 flips which i think is pretty cool since we can't skate and stuff:
Sigdagwzzzz, i'am out
WAlla Bitchesss.
Im now home in Sweden chillin big time!!!!
Im going to Folgefonna on saturday, superstoked on that.
I guess they got a good park now when Mr Mushroom himself building the park!
After Fonna im going home again for some chillin before the season starts..
I dont know if im going to Whistler in July but im defenitly going to NZ first of august and then im staying there for a while:)
here is a video of kire when he is painting the letter N. if you might be interrested in seeing that kind of uglyness:
Well so, we got the rail down! its going to be the billabong Down Flat rail, and yes. it will be pretty mega super extreeme!
Pørhaps there will be some motionfotoage from it later on? mmmmhm
here are 2 pitures of the rail and one of me blowing a GuggleBum Bubble! BOJAAAAH!
So nice you want to eat it?
Pretty Cool Stuf!!
hej då!
Nothing Really
Sorry that we have been so lazy on the bloggin... but we are lazy! hehe
Anyways.. i havent got to much to write about this time, but ill just put up something fun still.
The other day we went to Norheimsund, its just across the fjård from Jondal, they got stores and shit. Anyways... The first thing we see is this sign and everyone started laughing their heads off!
HAHAH Dickparty
Anyways... that was kinda fun, but we decide to go inside this store to checkitout.. and the first thing we see is this sign!! HAHAHHA
38 cm of pure taste pleasure! haha
Well, we felt kinda freaked out by this store so we went to the toys shop to checkout some airplanes and shit, and as i enter the door, i see this guy flippin crazy with he's Jojo!
JOJo mmmmmhm
So anyways. Today i was supposed to die but somehow i didnt.. I just drowe my car as usual, and BOM! suddenly i was like all spinny and shit! and way too fast going just all wrong and shit! And i was going straigh of the road in the middle of no where!
I was like, oh schnap! this is all bad! and going at that speed i was pretty shure that things would end pretty bad, BUT! for some reason! i managed to crash onto this small road leading of the main road! so instead of trashing into the mountain or intoo some bigass threes a just slide like 70 meters or something, still while spinning, on this road!?? hahahhaha and then i hit this thing:
Sorry to the guy who owns this, but i broke it...
And this is what happend to my car?! it barley scratched it!!
weeeell weell well..
So i just popped on the extra tire and drowe off, and then i passed an ambulanse that im pretty shure was ment for me! hahaha
So yeah, thats whats up. im back at fonna now, and ill start building tons of new features for the park eizap'! just so u know.
MP is out!
Imma bad blogger!
Is it he? or... who am I ? Blazing Treat # 2
Hey Bitches! whats up?
We havent got anything new up in the park yet since the cat just broke down, but we made funny video for u to look on next to sideways.
Well, Enjoy
The video will be up pretty soon, im in line on Vimeo
This was one day, maby well make one more tomorrow? pørhaps?
And you other retards who aint blogging? keep bloggin?
Allso. if you want to leave a comment, dont be afraid, give some love!
MP is Outz!
The What now??!!
Finally we got the shoot done!! and it was just amasing! Field and Factor films at the same time, heli, red cam, 3d filming and tons of crazy as riders! and everything turned out great!
Friflyt made an article about it, and boom goes the dynamite! :
Here is a piture of Sindre doin some crazyz on it, Kire will ge a shoot pretty soon from the kicker as well!
All the Riders where stocked AS HELL! so then im stocked! BIG ups to Roger Kleivdal for going bigger than any one has ever done before, and mega bigups to Petter Kristiansen for just being insane and being in the MUSHROOM CR#EW"!
Moving on!
Here are some pictrures from a session we did with Josh Knox earlyer. pictures for pleasing!
The lipztick guy looking good!
Kire poppin an MJ
Norways most Blundted
For some reason i was born with the ability to do girly methods...:/
! MP is outs!
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In this week's Story Works Round Table, Alida, Kathryn, and Robert discuss point of view. What it is, what it isn't, and why you need to know more about it.
Show Notes:
What is point of view, how do we use it, and what are the different nuances behind it? What is a narrator and how does the narrative voice effect the story? Did you pick the wrong point of view characters? And how can point of view create nuance and depth in your writing?
What we talked about:
What is Point of View? (0:46)
What is a narrator, and what types of narrators are there? (3:44)
How does the choice of narrator affect the voice, tone and view of the character in the book? (6:25)
The difference between literary point of view, narrative distance, the point of view character, and then multiple points of view. (12:23)
Have you picked the wrong point of view character? (13:57)
The difference between an impersonal and personal narrator. (15:00)
How do narrative voice and point of view complement each other? (18:04)
How the many facets of point of view create better writing. (20:00)
How can point of view make things feel fresh and new? (22:23)
Things we mentioned:
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
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60 Second Tip: Heart Your Narrator
60 Second Tip: POV Stranglehold
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Happy New Year friends! I've mentioned before that I'm not big on resolutions for New Years, but there's nothing wrong with setting some goals for the upcoming year. I really got back into running 5ks last year, I did 4. But I wanted to commit to consistently running throughout 2015, so I decided to commit to doing one race a month. That'll get me outside and running at least a couple times a month and help me maintain a running fitness base. I've had fun going through all the local 5Ks and adding some new ones to the race calendar as well as some ones I've done in the past.
Here's the tentative plan:
January- The Groundhog Run
This one is indoors, perfect!
February- Mardi Gras 5K
It was between this one and the Sweetheart Run on the same day. The late start (10 am) and non-cheesiness won out.
March- St. Patrick's Day 4 Mile Run or The Whiskey Run 5k
I'm torn between a late start (10 am) with beer afterwards or a smaller race with brunch afterwards…
April- Rock the Parkway
A huge run on Ward Parkway that goes along with a half marathon.
May- TBD
Not a lot of races have been announced for May yet.
June- Midnight 5K Run for Special Olympics
I did this one last year and its always fun to run at night.
July- Ward Parkway 4 on the 4th
A fun way to start off the 4th! (And one of three races I'll be running on Ward Parkway this year, its a great course!)
August- TBD
Nothing announced on the race calendar yet
September- Sacred Steps 5k
October- John Glaser Memorial 5K
If they do this one again, it will be my October one
November- Ward Parkway Thanksgiving 5K
Now a yearly tradition with the family and they always have the best shirts!
December- Santa Dash 5K
I will run in the cold, but I draw the line at dressing up like Santa…
What races do you have planned for 2015? What are your goals for this year?
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Car Town speeds up with two new limited edition cars
First up is the 2010 FJ Cruiser, which is a Class C performance vehicle with a 223 performance rating. It gives out 305 experience and costs 26 points. There are currently only 7,407 available as of this writing, but you cannot purchase one for yourself unless you are least level 27.
The second new vehicle is the 1971 Lamborghini Miura SV. This expensive luxury car is a class A car with a huge performance ranking of 535. It is available in six colors, and gives out a whopping 3483 XP. There are only 3,430 of these hot cars left, but they're not cheap. At 375 points to purchase, you may have to save awhile in order to buy this one.
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text: Lymphoedema Clinic celebrate the arrival of new Perometer St. Margaret's Hospice has just taken delivery of a new Perometer after a massive fundraising effort by patients, staff and volunteers. This is a fantastic achievement for our Lymphoedema Team, and the machine will help to save time in measuring patient's limbs for the hosiery that is used as treatment for lymphoedema. Chris Cure E Couto, a patient with our Lymphoedema Clinic, kindly cut the ribbon for the grand reveal, before the use of the machine was demonstrated by staff. The fundraising campaign was started by Chris after attending her first appointment at the Lymphoedema Clinic and being shocked at how long the precise measurements needed to fit hosiery took. "I can just remember thinking that it's a time consuming part of the appointment - there must be something that can make this easier. I was so grateful for the care I received from the Lymphoedema Team I started to ask how I could help. Ali Batchelor, Lead Lymphoedema Nurse, said there was a machine that could take the measurements but that it was really expensive and not something that could be afforded," says Chris. With that Chris set about fundraising the £16,000 needed to purchase the machine. Chris, along with other patients, volunteers and staff spent 2 years holding bingo nights, clay pigeon shooting events, raffles and asking local businesses to give to their cause. "We've just had a demonstration of the machine and it really is going to make such a difference. It's so quick, it makes all the fundraising worth it," said Chris. Ali Batchelor said "I really can't thank Chris, our patients, volunteers and colleagues enough. With this machine we'll be able to see more patients and the measurements taken will be more accurate, again resulting in improved care for patients. It really is a wonderful achievement." The fundraising doesn't stop there though - the machine will cost roughly £1,500 each year to service and so Chris and co will be continuing their effort to make sure patients can continue to receive the benefit. If you would like to donate, please contact St. Margaret's on 0845 070 8910.


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S.R. Robinson - Interview
S.R. Robinson is a film photographer based in Joliet, IL, whose meticulous darkroom explorations breathe life into abandoned spaces. Their atmospheric black and white photographs show a deep connection to the unseen history of the places that they portray, while simultaneously allowing this history to blend with the present and possible futures. Our interpretations of the spaces in their work oscillate between a sense of foreboding and hopeful eternal sunshine without forcing one or the other into the foreground.
In this interview S.R. Robinson talks with us about their workflow and motivations as well as their next exhibition opening in February 2017. Originally meant to be their first solo show they decided to turn this opportunity into a collaborative exhibition celebrating Women Who Shoot Film.
To start things off, please tell us a little about how you got involved in photography. Did you dream about becoming a photographer or did it just happen somehow?
I'm not really sure why I gravitated towards photography. I bought a cheap Diana replica back in college and shot a few rolls of expired color slide film that sat in a drawer for years, until one day I decided to try and get them developed. I went to my local camera store, which unfortunately no longer had a lab to develop, but informed me they could sell me the chemicals and tools I needed to develop my own film. I went home empty handed, but came back the next day and spent almost every penny to my name on chemicals, a developing tank, and a vintage omega darkroom timer that caught my eye. When I got home, I started to recall my father talking about how he used to have a camera and took photos during his college years, and asked my mother if that camera was still around. She told me it was in the box in their closet underneath his Snoopy dog stuffed animal. I found it and got it out of the box without his permission, and proceeded to walk downstairs to ask him if I could "borrow" it. He hesitated for a moment, then quietly told me I could have it, because it's not like he's touched it in the last decade. From the first click of the mechanical shutter, I was hooked. Because SLRs are mechanical, something about that definitive click of the shutter resonated throughout my whole body. Mechanical cameras are immortal; that's my favourite fact to tell any newcomer to shooting film. Digital shutters die a little after every exposure, but film cameras will be shooting until the end of time as long as they have a good CLA now and then.
When I'm out shooting a roll of film, it gives me the sense of creating something that will outlast me.
So, did I get that right that you developed some slide film during your first attempt of developing film?! That's quite brave!
Yes, I was a naive young person and bought into the cross-processing fad that Lomography sold me. I decided to cross process expired slide film with a C41 kit in my bathroom. The situation was so traumatic, my memory of the process is somewhat of a blur. Basically, it can be summed up as 45 minutes of a sweaty, hyperventilating mess of nerves and shaky hands, during which I was crouched holding the dev tank over my bathtub, attempting to simultaneously count inversions, keep an eye on the cheap thermometer in my holding bath, and make sure the hot water pot I had precariously balanced on my toilet was ready for emergency doses of hot water. To this day, I have never again attempted to develop color film.
The roll I cross processed had a few funky, instagram-esque saturated shots that turned out after I scanned them, but it never occurred to me that cross processing meant I would not get the gorgeous color positive slides I'd dreamed about. The whole appeal of slide film for me was having positives that were exactly as they were meant to be, instead of requiring a scan and color inversion. Luckily I've found a lab that can develop all my color film, and am happy just processing my black and white rolls peacefully at room temperature, no sweaty panic induced inversions required.
So, you develop your own BW film and you also print in the darkroom, right? What was it like to get started with that? Did you have any prior experience? And are you more focused on the outcome - the finished print - or are you someone who just enjoys the experimentation in the darkroom?
I had zero prior experience with developing film, let alone printing in a darkroom. I am somewhat of a "hack" in that I have done my due diligence researching the "guidelines" of the darkroom, and reaching out to veteran photographers to pick their brains, but at a certain point you have to embrace that what happens in the darkroom stays in the darkroom and just do what feels right. You also have to accept that you will waste a lot of paper, especially at first.
After I developed my first black and white roll, and rigged my old scanner to produce some pretty decent scans of my negatives, I was hungry for more. I wanted to bask in the red safelight and watch my pictures bloom in the developing tray. With nowhere else to turn, I posted in a Facebook group called "The Darkroom" making a plea to anyone with a darkroom in my area to let me use their space to learn to print. The response I got was a lovely man named Lyosha offering to give me a Beseler 45, simply because he wanted to help a young film photographer experience the magic of the darkroom. Thanks to my best friend Kristen and her SUV, I soon was the proud owner of my very own enlarger. I rummaged around my house for the rest of the materials I needed, and the final product was what I like to refer to as a "redneck darkroom." It has no running water, and the "sink" is fashioned from a long shallow rubbermaid balanced on two TV trays. Because the room I commandeered for my darkroom did not have proper ventilation, I opted to use 10x12 containers with lids as covered trays to minimize any fumes. Instead of a washing sink, prints would sit in a "holding tank" on a wheeled cart, which I taxi back and forth between my makeshift darkroom and my bathroom across the hall.
As far as my main focus - it's everything. I am meticulous and deliberate from mixing my chemicals, to the rhythms I use to agitate my trays, to the corner of the print I pick up with the tongs to drain and transfer. I have spent 10 hours printing before, in almost a trance. I prefer to work in total silence, though I know most people are all about their "darkroom playlists" and I respect that.
For me, the silence in my darkroom is my personal symphony.
As I become more experienced, the process of printing has become almost automatic, and I can allow my mind to use that time to process, heal, and wander.
My most important piece of advice for any new photographer who is overwhelmed by too much visual stimulation is to go ahead and use a full sheet of paper for test prints. I am autistic and often have a hard time processing visual stimuli, especially when it's limited and varied, like what you get from test strips. I found that I was actually wasting more paper trying to gauge the best exposure from a limited sample than I would be if I just let myself see the entire image with the gradient exposures. In fact, some of my friends love my test prints and ask to keep them over prints that I spent hours perfecting exposure on, dodging, and burning. Test prints and contact sheets are something I'd love to find a way to incorporate into the public eye more as they're rarely viewed by anyone other than the photographer. I suppose that's because they're considered rough drafts, and artists tend to be very secretive about letting anyone see their creative process. I'm the opposite. I love to show people the journey a negative takes from camera, to the developing tank, to that magical moment in the dev tray.
This meticulous way of working in the darkroom makes me wonder whether you have a clear vision when you set out to take pictures too. Or is that an attitude that you reserve for the darkroom? Do you rely on serendipity or planning?
You called it! I am a meticulous person to my core. However, this is not to say that my process is void of bursts of spontaneous and unexplainable inspiration! Sometimes, it takes me hours of mental preparation to just mix chemicals and set up my darkroom trays. Other times, I will find myself overcome with the strong urge that I need to go out and photograph something. Usually, that something is an abandoned or decaying structure that I've discovered within driving distance. The first photo I ever took with my father's inherited OM-1n is of an old bunker in the middle of a tallgrass prairie about 40 minutes from my house. Perhaps it was my beginner's eagerness that drove me to venture out by myself to this old bunker, or maybe even the spirit of Ansel Adams spoke to me. All I know is that morning, I decided to go on a solo 5 hour hike and did not tell anyone where I was going. Nothing was going to keep me from finding that bunker, not even the 2 miles I accidentally hiked in the wrong direction, leaving me retracing my steps in the sweltering June heat and humidity. I forgot to bring water, and experienced a vaguely calming state of mind probably caused by dehydration and/or the early stages of heat stroke.
Wow, that's quite some dedication there! Why were you drawn to that place?
Though admittedly I should've made sure to bring water, the heat stroke was worth the experience of photographing that relic of a concrete structure slowly giving in to the gentle decay of Mother Nature. From behind, the bunker looks like a hobbit's house, and from the front the echoes of a forgotten ammunitions plant reverberated into my lens as I snapped the shutter. Always drawn to the macabre, I researched beforehand and learned that in June of 1942, a massive explosion in one of these bunkers killed 48 people, and its aftershock was felt as far as 150 miles away. The workers who died manufacturing the bombs and explosives are in a way the forgotten victims of the WW2 era.
I have a soft spot for honouring the memory of those who history would easily forget.
I recently learned that one of the last photographs Ansel Adams ever took was of an abandoned bunker from WW2 that he came across on one of his hikes. As I mentioned earlier, perhaps it was his spirit that came over me that day. Like Ansel, my photography has centered around the preservation of forgotten or abandoned places. Where he focused on photographing the purity of nature, I focus on documenting decay - my photographs thematically gravitate towards the slow moving battle between nature and the fading hubris of man-made structures as they succumb to something more powerful than themselves.
Photography is a queer archival practice for me. I see light wherever there is darkness. I see beauty in the grotesque. I see life in places long after it has disappeared. Oftentimes, there is more animacy in places that we've abandoned and left in disrepair than on a bustling city street full of brightly decorated shop windows and an endless stream of active bodies going about their day.
It is not difficult to see if you simply slow down, look through your viewfinder, and focus your lens.
What a story! Thank you for this insight into your workflow and the motivations behind your photography. Now, let us talk a little about the exciting exhibition you are working on right now! Obviously for us here at She Shoots Film it is extremely relevant, since it is all about women film photographers, is that right?
Yes, it is. Currently I have been putting my energy into curating my first gallery show at Feed Arts & Cultural Center in Kankakee, IL in February 2017. When I started shooting film, I never thought it'd be anything more than a hobby. If you had told me that within a year of stealing my father's old Olympus I'd be curating my very own photography show, I would've laughed you out of my redneck darkroom. The show initially was going to feature my solo work, but ultimately I made the decision to put together a collaborative show featuring the work of women film photographers. Like so many other things in life, film photography is often a boy's club. However, thanks to social media, I have connected with a group of brilliant women who are sending their photographs to hang in my show from around the world. I am so glad I decided to put my artistic energy into something that was bigger than myself - my words to live by are "If you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together." Bringing people together has always been my strongest skill. I am half Korean, and in Korean culture the "we" always takes precedent over the "me." Though my photography is archival, my method of collaborating is very modern: The name of the show is the name of the Facebook group where I posed the idea of showcasing the work of "Women Who Shoot Film." Because I feel simplicity adds a necessary balance to my intricate meticulousness, naming the show after the group made perfect sense to me.
This show is dedicated to the memory of Melanie Otto, the recently departed partner of Judy Bienvenu, who has been like a second mother to me. Judy has mailed me countless packages with random tools and materials for my analog pursuits. Thanks to her, I now have a very comfortable backpack to carry my cameras in when I go on those crazy, long summer hikes to abandoned places! Her partner Melanie was also a photographer, and she spent her life teaching photography to others and it was impossible not to catch her contagious passion for all things photography. Her ashes were placed in a 4x5 camera, as per her last request to Judy. On each table at her celebration of life, there was a vintage camera for people to tinker with. I am sure at least one person caught the vintage camera bug that day, and that even in spirit Melanie managed to inspire some new and budding photographers.
That's such a beautiful tribute to her memory, I really love that! I also think it's pretty amazing that you decided to open up this opportunity for the women film photography community instead of just doing the solo show on your own. That's very generous of you!
Actually, I would like to thank Fermin Barbosa and Michael Costanza, who gave me the wonderful opportunity to curate my first gallery show at Feed Arts and Cultural Center in Kankakee, IL. Without the vital support of these two fellow artists, my feminist film photography show never would have happened, and I am eternally grateful for the space and guidance they have given me. The fact that my photographs of resilience and decay are debuting in a gallery that has, from its inception, thrived beautifully in the proverbial cracks in the sidewalk of a small town is something that has a deep impact on me. I hope to use the proceeds from this show to help build a community darkroom in the shared studio space at Feed, and create a collaborative space under that soothing red safelight I love so much for the community of Kankakee.


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Jamaica place 19th in Winter Olympics bobsleigh final
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's first ever female bobsleigh team to compete in a Winter Olympics finished 19th out of 20 participating countries in the bobsleigh event in Pyeongchang, Korea Wednesday.
The team totalled 3:24.94 to place one spot higher than the Nigerians who were also competing in a Winter Olympics for the first time.
The Jamaican team ran into difficulty last week after their coach, German Sandra Kiriasis, a 2006 bobsleigh gold medal winner, left the Jamaican setup and took the team's only sleigh which she said belonged to her.
Kiriasis resigned after being reassigned to the role of track performance analyst from driving coach.
Germany's Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz struck gold by beating USA by seven-hundredths of a second.
The Germans, starting last in the final run, were behind America's Elana Meyers Taylor and Lauren Gibbs in the upper sections before making up ground at the bottom to steal the title.
It means that Germany, with a cumulative winning time of 3min 22.45sec, pocket their fourth Olympic title in women's bobsleigh to gain on the USA's total of five.
Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Phylicia George took the bronze medal, 0.44sec behind the winners.
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Fresh Pot Mississippi
Collection of works up at the Fresh Pot Coffee Shop on Mississippi in North Portland. Curated by Leif Lee.
Collection of works up at the Fresh Pot Coffee Shop on Mississippi in North Portland. Curated by Leif Lee.
It's incredible what bodies can do: they heal themselves, they store energy and memories in places and pockets you didn't know exist; that is, until they come flooding back into your consciousness. Bodies can also fail you, and as you become in awe of what they are capable of, you become very aware of their capacity to turn on you. This body of work explores moments of these juxtapositions. We eat to survive until we become over indulgent. We make ourselves vulnerable to people closest to us, allowing them to be a source of our happiness, until that dependence becomes our collapse.
These co-existing feelings of pleasure/grief and bliss/regret are what encouraged this work to continue examining how transitory these feelings can be. Although these images are created out of the frustrations stemming from my relationship to my body, its approaches and the space it inhabits—it is just as well celebrating moments of acceptance and comfort in the flawed.
Collection of works curated by Ryan Patrick Krueger. Show is up for the month of July at Never Coffee located at 42nd and Belmont in SE Portland. Closing Reception to be announced!
This group exhibition demonstrates solidarity among artists who identify as Nasty Women in the face of threats to roll back women's rights. Proceeds from sales of works benefit the SAFE HARBOR ART PROGRAM, a division of SAFES (Salvation Army Female Emergency Center). SAFES empowers woman to move from homelessness into housing.
An image from Broke Down Frames was chosen to be part of the exhibit The Human Form, an international online exhibition, hosted through Gallery 25N!
The virtual gallery and artist statements are on view at Gallery 25N's site, please view the work amongst some other very talented artists!
Very excited to be part of the Oct/Nov 2015 show at The Curated Fridge in Somerville, MA curated by Frances Jakubek, Associate Director and Associate Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography.
You can view the gallery online anytime at The Curated Fridge and support this wonderful gallery!
A collection of works are currently on view at Breken Kitchen in NW Portland
Join me in celebration of my final Thesis Show, entitled Broke Down Frames, part of Thirteen PNCA MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition this Sunday, May 31st.
Candace Jahn, Broke Down Frames, Photography Installation
Broke Down Frames is a photographic body of work addressing the concept of "seeing without looking" through the use of nontraditional lens based equipment and the nude female body.
Opening for Heavy//Light
Opening reception: July 5th , 6-9 pm
An Evening of Video and Performance: July 12th , 6-9 pm
Exhibition: July 5th - July 27th, 2014, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 12-6 pm
The Master of Fine Arts of 2015 candidates invite you to encounter a diverse presentation of craft and creation.
These artists create and perform with awareness pertaining to the construction of identities, societies, and systems. While distilling each artist's expression through rigorous inquiry, this exhibition is unified by a critical and intentional attitude toward making and unmaking.
Heavy Light is the dichotomous residue of the destruction in creation, the paradox, of this inquiry into making and making anew.
Exhibiting artists are: Maria Davidoff, Lucas Haley, Evan Isoline, Candace Jahn, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern, Min Jung, Bertrand Morin, Annie Oldenburg, Nick Patton, Katie Piatt, Micah Schmelzer, and Veronica V. R. Reeves.
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Ave
Portland, OR, 97217
Wayward investigates the fragility of one's mind—heavy with malleability and brittleness, it is no wonder how often one forgets an occurrence or rewrites the past. Through recent experimentations with photography and in particular, film, embracing the inconsistencies and unpredictability proved to be as valuable as film's adjustability and versatility when creating work to mimic these feeble qualities of the mind. The product results in images that simply imitate the act of remembering. Wayward is a collection of these attempts to archive the unattainable and narrate thoughts no longer tethered to the sole position of the mind.


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Here' my other road trip work. The paper piecing project goes on each trip and gets a few minutes of attention, but I can't get settled into again.
A girl I teach with asked me to make up two little baby girl hats for her to gift this Christmas.
I used this pattern from Aesthetic Nest which I've used several times before and enjoy. I used yarn on hand so I don't know what it was. Even if you are new to crocheting or it's been awhile, this is pretty easy, just two basic stitches. Two stitches is my kind of project for one you have to count with.
The little one is 0-3 and even fits Lou's Boy. The other is the 3-6 size. These work up in an hours and a half or so.
I also used the same pattern to make the 'girls' size hat, which for my gauge, actually fits an adult woman. I had another co-worker ask for one of those. I've made this hat several times too and think it's pretty cute.
Then I tried a new kind of rose shaped flower. It turned out huge! It's a little big and heavy for a hat, but I'm sure I'll find a use some day. I used this pattern.
Yeah, so this didn't work out how I thought. I saw this pattern and thought, I love it, surely I can find something similar for free. I've already pulled the stitches out and will be using this help from Slugs on the Refrigerator for better sizing.
I used this pattern (ravelry link and pinterest link) and am not sure if it was my gauge or I just don't care for the fullness of the hat... The stitching in the picture looks tighter.
I wanted slightly newsboys fullness... just slightly. I did wear it black Friday shopping since I brought no other hat. I've pulled the stitches and when things in the shop slowdown (Oh my goodness!) I'll work on it again.


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On the small island of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean, large stone discs up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) wide are the local form of money and tend to be used for large purchases. Other unusual forms of money worldwide include time hours, a legal form of currency that allows tasks such as childcare or auto repairs to be bartered for other services. A modern form of currency known as Bitcoins was developed in the early 2010s as the first completely decentralized form of electronic currency that is accepted by some ecommerce websites.
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The issue of anonymity still crops up once in awhile. I still got that million dollars question from known and unknown friends. I would like it very much to answer those question but my dear new found friend, Anne Wayman wouldn't let me. I'm honoured and appreciated it very much for her request to answer those question for me. Thank you, Anne. So, without any further ado, I shall leave it to her to answer your question about anonymity. Here she is, Miss Anne Wayman.......
Why I Break My Anonymity Yet Respect Yours?
Step 9 – Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
It's obvious to anyone familiar with 12 Step Traditions that I am not in alignment with those requiring anonymity. Tradition 11 says, "Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films." and Tradition 12 says, "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, every reminding us to place principles before personalities."
When I first began writing Powerfully Recovered! I assumed I would publish anonymously, but as the book developed I began to feel uneasy with the idea of hiding behind the two anonymity traditions.
A Challenge to the Fellowship
After all, I am making a challenge to the 12 Step Fellowship and questioning much of what has become customary thinking in the various Fellowships. I finally decided you have an absolute right to know exactly who is making this challenge.
On the other hand, I also believe each one of us has the right to anonymity if we choose and I assume you want to protect yours. So I work hard to make sure I don't use anyone's name, email or other identifier without specific permission.
Does Blanket Anonymity Still Serve?
That said, I've also included in Powerfully Recovered! a rather detailed appendix about my thinking about the whole anonymity issue. There I wonder if it truly serves us to insist on it for the following reasons:
- Times have changed and there have been many anonymity breaks - none of which seem to have hurt 12 Step Programs. In fact, they may have helped remove the stigma associated with addiction/dysfunction.
- Although remaining anonymous may mean we put principles before personalities, we have a number of personalities in most of the 12 Step Programs who are well known even though they don't use their whole name.
- Anonymity promotes secrecy - and generally, I don't believe keeping secrets is good for recovery.
- Anonymity can promote shame; it's my hunch we'd do better acknowledging each other and ourselves for our success. Such acknowledgement can go a long way toward increasing an individual's self-worth.
Of course, I believe each one of us has the right to choose - and it's choice I advocate. I would change the 11th Tradition to read: Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. We need always protect the anonymity of others, even if we choose to break our own.
"But once a need (for change) becomes clearly apparent in an individual, a group, or A.A. as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way." (As Bill Sees It, p. 115)
Here is another timeless question. Another classic "to be or not to be!" As for me, I would like to attend those meetings because I got the chance to meet and talk with a person who has the mentality to get well. In fact everyone who go to those meetings are those who want to stay clean and sober. Their positive attitude and enthusiasm can be felt in those meetings. Whatever are your feeling before going to those meetings, will be charged up. In the end we shared those positive wave length and we felt good about ourselves!
My dear friend, Anne Wayman also wants to tell a thing or two about those topic. Here it is and have a pleasant reading.
Do I Have to Go to Meetings?
Yes, but there are options
Over and over again people coming to 12 Step Recovery to handle their addictions ask, "Do I have to go to meetings? For the rest of my life?"
This is one of those issues I didn't have – I looked forward to meetings as a way to get out of the house. But it's a real problem for some.
The traditional answer is you must go to meetings if you want to let go of your addiction. As usual, however, that response doesn't reflect the huge variety of ways people get well.
The real answer is, "no, you don't have to go to meetings, but it probably will make your life much easier if you do." The reason the answer is 'no' is not because the meetings aren't tremendously valuable, they are. But there are alternatives.
For example, from almost the beginning, A.A. had a group of "loners." These were people who lived and worked in far-flung areas of the world. They discovered that they could stay sober when they kept in contact, via letters and short-wave radio, with others. It wasn't possible for them to attend meetings, so they created another solution. Contact your nearest A.A., N.A. etc. office to find out how to participate. You can also get information by writing to:
A.A. World Services, Inc.
P.O.Box 459 Grand Central
Station New York, NY 10163 or
by sending email to
Loners International Meetings (LIM)
at firstname.lastname@example.com
Online meetings
A much newer phenomena is the online meeting. There are dozens and dozens of these on the web, and some people find them an adequate substitute for meetings in brick and mortar places. I've used them myself, and know some who use them exclusively.
There are a couple of potential problems with online meetings. First of all, you'll be using a nick name to log on. This means you won't really be 'known' in the same way you would be in f2f meetings or by letter or radio. You can lessen this impact by using the same nickname all the time – that way your identity will begin to show which is valuable in this business of getting clean and sober.
The other problem is that you don't know who is in the chat room because they are also using nicknames. So you have to be extra careful about the advice and suggestions. Knowing the Program is a partial defense against this; so is choosing one or two online meetings and attending them on a regular basis so you get a true feel for who is who.
So, bottom line is you don't have to go to meetings. There are alternatives. But really, I strongly suggest you do attend some.
Anne Wayman are the author at http://www.powerfullyrecovered.com/. All of her articles are original; some of them have also appeared on About.com's Alcoholism site, and SelfGrowth.
p/s I just got back my beloved computer after being 'sick' for a few days. I hope this time she will be alright. For the past few days I felt so restless without my dear computer. My darling wife even told me that I tossed and turned in my sleep!
When I told my loving wife about my loss, she said she was very happy and felt jubilant for me. She said with my new found love, at the very least, she knows where I am? She's even happy to notice that I shall be home all the time 'dueling' with my computer!
You see, she has these phobia not knowing where I've been most of the time. And every time the phone rings, she felt cold sweat flowing on her neck. She was so afraid to receive a call from the authorities, lest she will be told that I can be found inside a lock-up!


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In a bizarre incident, a drunk Canadian man swam across the Detroit river from Canada to the US and nearly returned the same way, but was stopped by international rescue teams and arrested for the stunt.
A woman told the police that her friend, John Morillo, a 47-year-old man from Windsor, entered the Detroit River in hopes of swimming across and did not return.
He swam from Windsor in Canada to Detroit in the US but was arrested on his way back.
After the US and Canadian Coast Guards were notified late Monday night, three boats and a helicopter were deployed to search for Morillo, The Detroit News reported.
The US Coast Guard found the man on the Canadian side of the river at 12:30 am Tuesday, just west of the Hilton Hotel, and returned him to the Canadian shoreline.
Morillo did not suffer any injuries during the stunt, police said.
"If I'm going to be in the paper, I'd at least like them to say I actually made it, even though I got in trouble and everything," Morillo told the Windsor Star.
"I gotta pay fines and stuff. But I don't want it to sound like I didn't make it, because then my buddies are going to say 'ha, ha, you didn't make it'. Because that was the whole thing, to show them I could do it," he said.
He was arrested and issued a citation for being intoxicated in a public place. The Harbour Master of the Windsor Port Authority is investigating the incident.
Morillo also told the Star Windsor, which first reported the incident, that he was informed he will likely be fined up to USD 25,000 for swimming in a shipping channel.
Windsor police said swimming in the Detroit River is extremely dangerous because of the undertow in the shipping channel. It is also illegal under Port Authority regulations.


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The fun kicks in pretty early when Stanwyck, being the speakeasy waitress and floozy that she is, fends off a lecherous bum who happens to be the town politician. When she hits him with a bottle to prove her point, he runs off threatening to close up the joint. Her fuming dad just has time to argue with her before the moonshine operation he keeps next door explodes to smithereens, taking him along for the ride. Orphaned with nowhere else to go except to the street corner, Stanwyck sets out to conquer the world in the Big Apple, and does she.
That's where she meets all types of influent men who enable her to move up in exchange for a good time in the hay. But it's rich playboy George Brent who ends up touching her heart. So much so that when he's facing financial ruin she willingly gives up her newfound wealth to come to his aid. And if you think he's only using her, well, think again. He loves loves loves her, and for a girl with a past, that's all that matters, doesn't it?
The beauty of BABY FACE, besides witnessing its sheer stupidity for 76 minutes, is watching la Stanwyck strutting her way (convincingly, I might add) into society. I mean the girl is shameless with a capital S. It doesn't matter who she steps onto, or the degree to which she lies to get ahead. She has this fixed agenda and nothing can stop her—not even murder or suicide. Besides, if it hadn't been for the wisdom of Nietzsche she'd still be in a dump somewhere breaking bottles over sleazy politicians' heads, and we wouldn't have that, now would we? On second thought, maybe we should. It sure would have beaten anything involving the moralistic turn the film takes later on.
As mentioned, BABY FACE went trough a bunch of cuts and changes before being finally released to the public. One of which involved the tragic climax which has Stanwyck choosing wealth over love before finding her man dead. A happy ending was reinstated to appease the censors. But even that didn't stop some theater owners from banning the film. But as you all know, nothing can stop a train wreck from showing up somewhere, with or without changes. And to that I say, many happy returns, BABY FACE.
Until next post—Martin


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Photo by Mark Cho / Text by Mark Cho / Brian Davis
I met Brian recently through one of our colleagues at the store. He owns an excellent vintage shop in Red Hook, Brooklyn. What Brian is doing is interesting to me from two perspectives:
1. Brian's vintage selection, has a strong emphasis on workwear and military wear, i.e. clothing that is designed for practical use. I find items designed in this way as beautiful as any decoration. It makes the appearance of the garment very clear and focused on its function.
2. Brian has setup in Red Hook, very much an up-and-coming part of New York but far from the normal retail areas. Unfortunately, good and interesting retail can be so easily crowded out of markets like New York which are expensive to find space in. Red Hook gives Brian the opportunity to create a beautiful store but the distance from the main areas of the city means he must work to a high standard to attract people to come to him.
- Mark
1. Tell us what you're wearing
Gitman Vintage oxford cloth button down shirt
L.L. Bean Norwegian Sweater
L.L. Bean Field Jacket
Seiko 5 Sports Automatic 100m Scuba Diver (gift from Jeremy)
The Real McCoy's Double Diamond Khaki Trousers Lot 451
Converse Jack Purcell Signature in white
Wooden Sleepers vintage heavy duty canvas coal bag
2. Tell us a little about how you started getting into clothing and finally ended up with a superb vintage shop.
The first item of clothing I remember having a strong opinion about was the Adidas Samba Classic. The year was 1992 and I was in fourth grade. I was enamored with them. I was never an Air Jordan/Nike kid. Soccer ruled in my town and the Samba was king. My grandmother bought them for me and I felt like the coolest kid in school. By the time I was in sixth grade in 1994, my style was influenced by equal parts Kurt Cobain, Snoop Doggy Dog, and the CCS skateboarding mail order catalog - flannel shirts, Dickies work trousers, Chuck Taylor Allstars, Levi's 501 jeans, band/skate t-shirts, etc. My first experience in a thrift store was revelatory. It was 1996 and I was a freshman in High School. My Grandmother volunteered at the Eastern Long Island Hospital Thrift Store and I would buy vintage t-shirts for $0.25 a piece. That turned into digging at Salvation Army and other thrift stores. By the time I was in 11th grade in 1999, I was making frequent trips to downtown Manhattan via the Long Island Railroad to shop for vintage in the basement of Canal Jeans, Search and Destroy on St. Marks, and the myriad of other nameless vintage shops in SoHo and the Lower East Side. It wasn't until 2010 that my wife, girlfriend at the time, Allison suggested that I start a vintage men's wear shop online. With her help, I launched Wooden Sleepers on Etsy in April of 2010 as a small collection of vintage men's wear, accessories, and objects for the home. By the end of the year WS had participated Pop Up Flea as the only vintage seller alongside brands like J. Crew, Levi's, L.L. Bean, Red Wing Shoes, and Warby Parker; and were invited to set up a shop in shop at Steven Alan in Tribeca. I moved WS out of my apartment into a studio space in Greenpoint where I held private shopping appointments and grew the business. My dream all along was to open a retail store, which we did in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook in November, 2014.
3. Any particular vintage items or periods you focus on?
Classic American style through a Northeast Atlantic lens: select Military, Outdoors, Workwear, Sportswear, and Traditional "Ivy" style. We also stock relevant home items such as old books, blankets, and other antiques.
4. Do you treat collecting as an investment? Outside of the things you collect and sell at the store, would you sell any of your more personal items?
In my personal life, I do not buy things with the intention of "flipping". I am much more interested in clothing than a normal person and I'm ok with that. Some people like sports and have an encyclopedic knowledge of stats and whatnot. I enjoy the process of researching an item or brand, visiting a retail store, having a conversation with a salesperson or store owner, trying on a product, purchasing, and beating the hell out of it for as long as it lasts.
5. What do you think is next for the vintage market? Do you feel like it's growing? Becoming more mainstream? Plateau'd?
The specialty vintage store is what is most exciting now, stores with a strong point of view. Normal people do not want to dig around for hours, picking through overcrowded racks of overpriced clothing. Less is more. It's all about the edit. The ability for a shop to tell a story without words, to communicate a feeling, a vibe, something that connects with people on an emotional level. Ultimately, it's nostalgia. Nostalgia is very powerful. Different people are drawn to different things. For a vintage store, or any store for that matter, the most important thing is authenticity, being a good neighbor, and providing an amazing experience for anyone who comes through the doors. In that way, Wooden Sleepers appeals to a more mainstream audience - not just the vintage connoisseur.
6. Any style heroes for you?
My friends - Jeremy Kirkland, Joseph Au, Ouigi Theodore, David Alperin, Danny Calderon, and many more.
7. You are in quite a new, up-and-coming area of Brooklyn, could you talk about it a little?
Red Hook has a real neighborhood feel. People say "hello" to each other on the street. People know each other. There is a thriving small business community. With the exception of Ikea, most all of the businesses are independently owned and operated. The food and drink is incredible. I am very happy there. I like taking a deep breath and smelling the salt in the air from New York Harbor, it reminds me of home on the North Fork of Long Island.


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Save the Bay Education at Martin Luther King Shoreline
Skyline Interns and LPS Oakland Interns teach peers about the history of tidal marshes in the Bay Area.
The Saturday after returning from winter break, Skyline Earth Team partnered with interns from LPS Oakland and Save the Bay to complete education and restoration work at the Martin Luther King Shoreline. The team of interns learned about the history of the bay area, including historic reach of tidal marshes, development patterns, and current and future restoration efforts focusing on salt ponds. Here are some of the things the interns had to say!
"We substantially reduced the tidal marshes in the bay area" – Nick, Skyline
"Something that I learned today is that endangered species live in the tidal marsh. I learned about how there are only 2,000 Ridgeway Rail birds left and that they only live here in the bay area. The tidal marshes used to cover around 10,000 acres of Oakland and now 90% of it is gone. I learned many things that I did not know before and I was able to plant 4 plants today" – America, Skyline
"Some things that I learned today were about the endangered species such as the ridgeway rail and salt marsh mouse. I've also learned about how citizens of the bay area consume almost 50% of the fresh water of San Francisco Bay leaving the water saltier which can cause the wildlife to be endangered due to their lack of tolerance of the water. Last thing I've learned today was about the elevation of the map of California and how the watersheds goes to the bay/seawater" – Angeline, Skyline


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November 3, 2012 - Deploying one of the youngest lineups in the entire field, the Hillsdale College women's cross country team came extremely close to taking the next step in its season Saturday.
The Chargers finished in sixth place at the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Cross Country Meet, held at Kenosha, Wisconsin. The top five teams from each region qualify for the national championships. No individuals from Hillsdale qualified for the national meet, bringing the team's season to an end.
Hillsdale scored 169 points in the meet, and was just 15 behind fifth-place Bellarmine. GLIAC schools captured the top three spots at the meet, led by Grand Valley State, Saginaw Valley State and Ferris State. Not only was the team one place away from qualifying for nationals, its top runner was one place away from doing the same thing on an individual level.
Junior Victoria McCaffrey finished 14th overall with a time of 21:46. A 13th place finish would have propelled her to the national meet as an individual. As it was, she was one of three Hillsdale runners who earned All-Region status.
She was joined by freshmen Emily Oren (17th, 21:56) and Kristina Galat (24th, 22:08. Oren and Galat have steadily improved throughout the season and give coach Andrew Towne's program high hopes entering next season.
Sophomores Chelsea Kilgore and Shena Albaugh were Hillsdale's other point-scorers at the regional meet.
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States that have adopted policies aligned with the StudentsFirst platform have in some cases met with public opposition. In Idaho, the Legislature passed a package in 2010 that eliminated tenure, introduced performance pay for teachers and based their evaluations on student test scores. Voters overturned the measures in a referendum in November. (The state received a D-minus grade from StudentsFirst.)
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Swedish pop group, ABBA (Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid), was brought to the world by Eurovision in 1974 with their winning entry,"Waterloo" but it was Australia that made them really successful.
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- Your food should be as glamorous as your theme. For toasts, martinis, sparkling juice or champagne is a Hollywood must.
- Finger food works best with this theme, such as cheese platters, olives, dips, fruit kebabs and mini sandwiches.
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- If you're having a cake, make it dark chocolate with real or edible red roses to decorate.
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Let's hope that when we move our clocks ahead this Sunday it triggers some actual Spring weather! We have some fun pieces to transition your wardrobe into those warmer temps.
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Blue floral baseball tee. $32
Pink and grey baseball tee. $32
Flowing blue open cardigan. $28
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Rover shoot: Mary Beth
One of two shoots I did for Rover on an overcast Saturday recently, featuring Mary Beth + Skittles, the pup of the house.
The idea with Rover is to shoot sitters in their space for an online profile, to give potential pet parents an idea of what to expect when leaving their dogs to board. (Oh, and to tackle the job in about thirty minutes.)
Mary Beth + Skittles did a great job at their first-ever photoshoot, turns out they're both naturals!


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Policy Shifts Could Increase E&P Jobs By 25 Percent
The Western Energy Alliance, an organization representing 300 companies, has pinpointed the job growth potential for the oil and gas sector in 13 western states. If the Trump administration continues its shift to pro-domestic energy production policies, 19,363 new production- or drilling-related jobs could be added in states such as North Dakota, Colorado and New Mexico.
"The Trump administration and Congress are addressing overreaching regulations from the Obama administration, which means we can get on with responsible development of American oil and gas," said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the WEA. "President Trump has clearly signaled a shift away from punishing the industry to actually encouraging domestic production."
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Beaver Township Volunteer Fire Co
Station 140, Beaver Township, Columbia County, PA.
Welcome to the Beaver Township Volunteer Fire Company web site.
Located in Northeastern PA. Beaver Township is a rural community situated in the eastern corner Columbia County.
The mission of the Beaver Township Volunteer Fire Company is to provide fire protection services and engage in fire prevention activities in Beaver Township, and to provide fire protection service to surrounding townships through mutual aid.
Officers year 2002:
President - Scott Longenberger
Vice President - Ken Davis
Recording Secretary - Pat Davis
Treasurer - Tracy Miller
Financial Secretary - Jessica Chyko
Truck Foreman - Michael Neiswender
Fire Chief - Scott Longenberger
Assistant Fire Chief - Ken Davis
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How does God work through prayer? Karis Church member Anna Hulbert shares her passion for prayer.Read More
Karis Summer Reading: Praying Together
During the summer months, the Karis Church elders encourage the church to read through one book together. This serves to bring us all together as we learn more about a specific topic.
This year, they have chosen Praying Together: The Priority and Privilege of Prayer in our Homes, Communities and Churches by Megan Hill.
As Megan says in the introduction, "...this book is a call to each one of us to consider the praying together we have done and are doing and hope to do: the childhood dinner-time prayers, the youth-group prayer vigils, the spontaneous prayer in dorms rooms and parking lots and at the back of the church...This book is a call to pray together and to keep praying together with renewed energy."
We hope you'll join with us this summer as we read through Praying Together. We have copies available on Sunday mornings for the discounted price of $5.
If you prefer a Kindle edition or don't live near by, you can get your book here. If you purchase a copy through Amazon Smile a percentage of your purchase is donated back to the church.
Grab a book and get a friend to read with you. Let's read together and pray together this summer.
By Name: Prayers from Matthew Henry
Check out these words from Matthew Henry of 17th and 18th century England:
Pray for the Conversion of Non-Christians who are Hostile to Christianity
For the conviction and conversion of atheists, deists, and infidels, and of all who are out of the way of truth, and of profane scoffers and those who disgrace Christianity by their vicious and immoral lives.
O teach transgressors your ways, and let sinners return to you. (Psalm 51:13)
O give them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, (2 Timothy 2:25), the truth as it is in Jesus, (Ephesians 4:21), the truth which accords with godliness; (Titus 1:1) that they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil. (2 Timothy 2:26)
Let those who are straying like sheep return to Jesus Christ, the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls. (1 Peter 2:25)
Show those fools their folly and misery who have said in their hearts, "There is no God," and who are corrupt and do abominable deeds. (Psalm 14:1)
Lord, maintain the honor of the Scriptures, the teaching and the testimony, and convince those who speak not according to that word, that it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20) You have exalted above all things your name and your word; (Psalm 138:2) magnify the law, magnify the gospel, and make both glorious. (Isaiah 42:21)
Let those who will not be won by the word, be won by the conduct of Christians, (1 Peter 3:1) which we beg may be such in everything that those who do not believe may be convicted by all and called to account by all, may be brought to worship God and to declare that God is really among them (1 Cor. 14:24-25).
Look at the Fields
When you look at the world around you, what do you see? Jesus compares the world to fields. He says those fields are ready to be harvested. He says this in John 4:
35 Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
The fields are ripe. People all around us are ready to receive Christ. We just have to go out there and harvest. T.M. Moore says we tend to not see a "wheat field ready to be harvested" but a "weed field ready to be burned." Do we see our world with Jesus's eyes? Let's ask Him to give us His view of the fields. Let's ask Him to work in those around us in those fields. Let's pray By Name together.
Happiness and Purpose
Lord of all being, there is one thing that deserves my greatest care,
that calls forth my ardent desires,
That is, that I may answer the great end for which
I am made –
to glorify thee who hast given me being,
and to do all the good I can for my fellow men;
Verily, life is not worth having
if it be not improved for this noble purpose.
Yet, Lord, how little is this the thought of mankind!
Most men seem to live for themselves,
without much or any regard for thy glory,
or for the good of others;
They earnestly desire and eagerly pursue
the riches, honours, pleasures of this life,
as if they supposed that wealth, greatness,
could make their immortal souls happy;
But, alas, what false delusive dreams are these!
And how miserable ere long will those be that
sleep in them,
for all our happiness consists in loving thee,
and being holy as thou art holy.
O may I never fall into the tempers and vanities,
the sensuality and folly of the present world!
It is a place of inexpressible sorrow, a vast empty
Time is a moment, a vapour,
and all its enjoyments are empty bubbles,
fleeting blasts of wind,
from which nothing satisfactory can be derived;
Give me grace always to keep in covenant with thee,
and to reject as delusion a great name here
or hereafter,
together with all sinful pleasures or profits.
Help me to know continually
that there can be no true happiness,
no fulfilling of thy purpose for me,
apart from a life lived in and for
the Son of thy love.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — A controlled burn-off at a Chevron refinery is responsible for the fire and smoke residents saw Sunday evening near Los Angeles International Airport, and there is no emergency, fire officials said.
Los Angeles County fire officials said they received calls from worried residents who saw what they thought was a fire coming from a refinery near the corner of Aviation Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue. Dispatch Supervisor Art Marrujo said units were dispatched to the refinery about 5:51 p.m. and left about 12 minutes later after refinery operators told them they were conducting a "flare off."
Marrujo said refineries shoot large flames into the air about once a month to burn off excess gas and pressure.
"Everyone thinks the building is on fire, but it's not," he said.
On the Los Angeles Fire Department's news blog, spokesman Erik Scott summed it up: "Large amount of smoke/fire near LAX is due to Chevron refinery burn-off," he wrote. "No emergency, no LAFD
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Joined flickr.
Have no idea what it really is.
Wanted to play in the Doll Quilt Swap.
I think I'm signed up, but who knows.
It might just be me and my monkeys thinking we're in a swap.
I'm supposed to tell my secret
My inspirations.
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Teach Your Teen in 2016!
Iphones, PlayStation, and headphones, did any of these electronics make it under your Christmas tree this year?
If you are a parent of a child ages 8 and above, its very likely electronic devices were apart of your gift giving, furthermore it's very likely you haven't seen your child since Christmas. Okay hopefully that's not the case. I realized this when I ate at a restaurant the day after Christmas. I saw several kids exploring their new devices. I even saw one young man become annoyed when what appeared to be his grandmother, was asking him questions. Didn't grandma see that he had his headphone in, that's codes for I'm busy!
When meeting with parents one common question is where can the line be drawn? The truth is every person is different. The famous Steve Wozniak said he was a very shy person, and being online helped him be himself. No person knows your child better than you. Whatever you believe is most important for parenting children with electronics, its critical to clearly communicate the boundaries.
Help your child understand the difference between Privilege and Right. As we approach the New Year there is no better time to create a safe plan with your children. Please consider how both you and your child can compromise in the middle. My friend Josie previously posted a blog entitled "iRules" which demonstrates a great example of how to forecast Internet privileges. Teach your teen in 2016!


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This stunning piece is designed to compliment your hand with it's natural lustre and delicacy. Iridescent Akoya pearls set on a meticulously handcrafted 18K rose gold setting, this design was initially inspired by one of the best friends of the founder and designer of LBLH, Vicky. Read more about how her friends inspired LBLH's designs in Vicky's 7 Q&As below.
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MOVIDA How did you end up doing what you do now?
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MOVIDA Who's your favourite designer?
LBLH Honestly, too many. if I can only choose one, I guess Alexander McQueen.
MOVIDA What were the stories behind the "Maggie" and Apple" collections?
LBLH Maggie is a very obstinate woman who has a quite dramatic life. The wilful side of her caused her a lot of hard times with family, relationships and career. Gladly, we have been always by her side and supporting her through the up-and-downs. The focus of the Maggie collection is pearls which symbolize legends shining in the dark. This collection is a wish from me. I wish her a bright and happy future.
Apple, a sweet woman with a heart-melting smile, is pampered by her husband and family. Her simpatico personality makes her life full of joy and gratitude. She influenced me to create the collection Apple to share joy and love to every woman.
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