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Being at a FIRST competition is as thrilling as any massive sporting event, or even a rock concert. It's exciting, nerve-wracking, and the energy is palpable. There are kids everywhere excitedly following the competition while an emcee is tracking the progress of the matches and pumping up the crowd. Watching one of these competitions for the first time was an "ah ha" moment for me. This is cool.
Earlier this year I had the privilege to again participate as a judge in a FIRSTRobotics Competition held in the University of Maryland's XFINITY Center. There were 54 teams competing and the entire arena was filled! These young competitors exude a raw enthusiasm for their sport that grabs you in such a way that you can't help but be excited, too.
I watched with amazement at how advanced the kids were in their knowledge of technology and programming principles. At these competitions, they have to problem solve on the spot if something happens to their robots—I saw kids programming in JAVA and using 3D printers to create things to attach to their robots. It's truly incredible.
I'm proud to work at a firm that cares to be involved with programs like FIRST that encourage the next generation of scientists and technologists. An important fact to know is that kids' interest in selecting a STEM field of study happens very early, especially for girls. FIRST is an essential gateway into fostering that interest in a diverse and team-oriented way. It creates an enthusiasm for science and technology because participants can see it happening right in front of their eyes in a way that maps to real-world applications.
I've been involved in FIRST for three years as part of the Maryland FIRSTExecutive Advisory Board. In addition to getting to discover the excitement of competitions, we also look into ways to continue to enhance and evolve the program. One new thing we're considering is moving to a district model versus the regional model so more kids in all areas of the state can participate in FIRST.
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I've been back in Tokyo a week and a half and it's a good, yet strange, mix of still being in backpacking, every thing's cool dude, mode. a mix of, bustle bustle, perfect make-up, perfectly pressed suit, ready go, mode. a mix of, staying with friends in unfamiliar neighborhoods and much like my first year teaching, wandering around a little lost and constantly discovering new things, day after day.
As today is *the* day to meditate on giving thanks, I've been wandering around, a bit lost or perhaps just directionless, forming a list of things to be thankful for. It turns out to be an immensely long list, in part because it's been an extremely lucky and good year.
To everyone who inspired me and encouraged me to travel to South America and try something different, challenging, scary. Yet again, after that experience, I feel I can handle anything and am a calmer, more independent, more flexible, more tolerant person for it. Thank you.
To everyone, here in Tokyo and in the Northwest, who took me back after my adventures.
To the friends and family who smile with open arms, say welcome back, you have a home here any time you're ready, we love you... but nonetheless accept that my life still leads me away. I love you, no matter how far away I am. Thank you for your love, acceptance, patience.
To the travelers I met who were really on the road to learn (about the place, the people, themselves). You were unfortunately the minority, but you always made my day and gave me food for thought. For us, the most important journey is within and taking the same picture as everyone else has little to do with that. You taught me to live my life less afraid, more open, less worried. Thank you.
To anyone who helped bring me to joyous conclusion of "fuck the paradigm." Age, relationships, status, jobs, stuff.... It's been a conclusion I've been working on a long time and many of you have been a part of that. Know the rules and expectations of where you are, what you're doing, but in the end, live by your own. For all of those heartfelt conversations: Thank you.
To not being in any debt and therefore able to chase the wind to South America, Italy, Japan... Not being tied to making monthly payments on anything has been incredibly freeing. Still, if I had the choice, I'd wish my mom back. It's a funny sort of being thankful.
To all those who I have reconnected with, proving that my extremely footloose life is still full of meaningful lasting relationships. It's good to see some of your history in the faces of your friends, lovers, coworkers. I'm glad to know that I am changed, having known you, and happy when you've found yourselves changed as well. I look forward to each of our paths crossing again. Thank you.
To Loopy. I will always love you and am so glad I had three weeks to know you and your little parrot heart. If only we could all chase those we love with such reckless abandon and lack of pride. If only seeking the things that bring us immense happiness (over-ripe papaya, a nap in someone's arms) could be that simple and we could all ask for it so simply (squaw!).
I cried my eyes out the day I heard that monkeys had raided the aviary looking for food one early morning and with no volunteers to protect you, you'd been killed. I'm sorry I wasn't there. Still, I'm glad I knew you and loved you for as much time as I had. You taught me so much about how, sometimes, love can be the simplest thing in the world. Thank you.
To Maggie and Sama, whose love was hard won and never to be taken for granted. The bruises and scratches were all worth that occasional friendly, "thank you, you're ok after all" lick at the end of the day or rub against the fence of your cage. You taught me that I am much stronger-- emotionally, physically, spiritually-- than I ever knew. You made me earn being good enough for you and the nights I woke up with nightmares or days my frustration brought me to tears were all worth it. Thank you. I miss you immensely.
(Pictures of the park)
And special special loves goes out to Dave and Katie and their new baby--any second now-- please don't name it "Gratitude" or "Turkey." I am at a constant lack of words to try and describe what you've meant in my life and how lucky I am to be so close to you. I'm so glad you finally get to meet your munchkin. Thank you. All my love.
To all of you who read my blog, keep in touch with letters, or drop me a line now and then. I never have as much time as I'd like to keep in touch but so often there is a beautiful sunset, a funny joke over beers, a ridiculous Tokyo scene, a small secret, that I wish I could share with you. I keep all of you with me. Thank you.
(Some of the prettiest pictures of the year)
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, whatever this holiday means to you, may you find it.
the adventures (and job interviews) continue...
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thank you.
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2 comments:
- Seph said...
You're welcome! (I think I fit in there somewhere).
Also: thank you! For being an awesome friend and fun to keep track of.
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Here's another quote from the book I've been reading:
"To live on purpose…requires paying attention, and paying attention means—almost by definition—that we make room for surprise. We become hospitable to interruption. I doubt we can notice for long without this hospitality. And to sustain it we need theological touchstones for it—a conviction in our bones that God is Lord of our days and years, and that his purposes and his presence often come disguised as detours, messes, defeats.
I came to you naked, Jesus says. I came to you thirsty.
"When, Lord?" we ask, startled.
When he wore the disguise of an interruption.
Think for a moment of all the events and encounters that have shaped you most deeply and lastingly. How many did you see coming? How many did you engineer, manufacture, chase down?
And how many were interruptions?
Children? You might have planned as meticulously as a NASA rocket launch, but did you have any idea, really, what it would be like, who this child in your arms really was, who you would become because of him or her? The span between life as we intend it and life as we receive it is vast. Our true purpose is worked out in that gap. It is fashioned in the crucible of interruptions."
Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God, ©2006, Thomas Nelson, pp 80-81.
I love that: our Life is formed in the crucible of interruptions. Well, let me rephrase that—I love that as a concept, but I don't usually love it when it's actually happening. Like I said before, this is crunch time, and I get really focused (ahem, read that as "tunnel vision, block everyone else out") on the tasks in front of me, and then don't respond very well when the interruptions come (usually in the form of certain family members seeking my attention).
But it's in those 1001 little decisions, to be present and engaged or to brush off and be annoyed, where our character is being formed. Yes, the "big interruptions"—like my family's decision to adopt—do bring significant change in us, but more often it's the little everyday interruptions that over time begin to shape our heart and character.
So the next time you get interrupted—maybe right now as you are trying to finish reading this post—pay attention. Before immediately brushing it off, pay attention to what God might be bringing to you in this interruption. Who knows, it may turn out to be a wonderful, gracious gift from your loving Father.
In Him,
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Our client has been in business for over 20 years and applies a holistic and innovative business structure to a specific set of principles that continues to foster growth and success. This company is committed to using green methods and remains very focused on preserving the environment! By utilizing this service, clients enjoy a clean, safe, healthy and more productive place to be. These are services that are a pleasure to promote!
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Park et al. report their experience in the management of extramammary Paget's Disease (EMPD) of the penoscrotal region and specifically compare outcomes among cohorts of men with the disease who either did or did not undergo mapping biopsies prior to their definitive surgical procedure. The rationale for the study and this comparison is that Paget's disease initially spreads insidiously through the epidermis, sometimes in a single-cell fashion, and establishing the diagnosis can be very difficult subsequent to intraoperative frozen sections. Thus, several studies have described the use of outpatient mapping biopsies under more permanent section pathology techniques to facilitate the diagnosis and to 'clear' the surgical margins (references 19–21 in the article). This should theoretically lead to a lower incidence of positive frozen section margins intraoperatively, a lower incidence of positive permanent section margins, and lower recurrence rates for patients.
The main inconvenience for patients with mapping biopsies is that they may have to undergo a number of outpatient procedures prior to the definitive surgical procedure. In the current study, 44 patients were evaluated, with 26 undergoing mapping biopsies and 18 having standard intraoperative wide excision starting 2 cm beyond the gross lesion. All patients left the operating room with negative frozen section margins. As expected, the mapping biopsy group had a significantly lower incidence of positive frozen section margins (61 vs. 15.4%), a lower rate of positive permanent margins (30.8 vs. 61.1%), and a lower incidence of local recurrence (11.5 vs. 50%) than patients who did not undergo mapping biopsies. The authors conclude that these data support their conclusions about the efficacy of mapping biopsies in their hands, which is true. However, there are several ways I believe patient care can be improved in the setting of the surgical management of patients with penoscrotal EMPD. First, it is noteworthy that in their study, despite all patients leaving the operating room with negative surgical margins, 30.8 and 61.1% of patients with and without mapping biopsies, respectively, still had positive permanent section disease at their surgical margins. Thus, they must also conclude that the general pathologists at their center were unable to provide a frozen section diagnosisof EMPD in many cases. This can be overcome in several ways. (1) We routinely utilize dermatopathology specialists to analyze our frozen section margins and have reported no recurrences among patients with intraepidermal Paget's' disease.1 Another group from Korea has also reported only a 7% rate of permanent section margins after negative frozen section margins among their EMPD cohort.2 (2) Trained Moh's surgeons also possess the pathologic expertise to diagnose and manage these patients, utilizing outpatient surgical techniques with low recurrence rates (reference 16 in the article). (3) Immunohistochemical techniques have been developed to facilitate making the diagnosis intraoperatively on frozen section (reference 25 in the article). Thus, it is my opinion that EMPD patients should be referred to centers with not only the surgical expertise but also the accompanying pathologic expertise necessary to diagnose subtle pathologic changes to optimize perioperative decision making. In such settings, wide local excision and Mohs surgery can both be effective in managing such patients with or without prior mapping biopsies.


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HealthConnections: What's the Latest with the Senate Health Coverage Bill?
In the second installment of HealthConnections, public health policy expert Dr. Carole Myers tells WUOT's Brandon Hollingsworth about the U.S. Senate's vision for the future of health coverage: The Better Care Reconciliation Act.
The BCRA is different than the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that dominated headlines early this year and passed the U.S. House in May. It was drafted behind closed doors by a group of thirteen Senators and drew criticism from both sides of the aisle after it was unveiled in late June. The backlash prompted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to delay a vote on the BCRA until after the Independence Day recess.
During this lull, Dr. Myers fills you in on what the bill contains, who is most likely to be affected, and how the BCRA could impose a greater strain on states - including Tennessee.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59030668922578953712019-04-16T10:56:35.258-07:00Make a joyful colorThe artwork of VICTORIA SINUNU SHERIDANVickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-44992503216643221352019-04-14T15:14:00.001-07:002019-04-16T10:56:35.246-07:00Roxy and the Crows

Crows are smart and funny. They are also very social beasts, and they take care of each other. I heard a story from a driver who witnessed this event, about a group of crows in the street, clearly distressed, who flapped and cawed, beseeching the driver of the car not to proceed until they had moved an injured crow to the side of the road.

For a project for an illustration class, I did this picture for an as yet unwritten story about our next door neighbor Roxy who is about seven years old, and St. Benedict's Prep School in Newark, NJ, and an injured crow. Benedictines are great; I am a Benedictine oblate myself. They have a serene way of understanding that good things take time and practice. This school is a modern miracle, an educational oasis in the middle of downtown Newark. And Roxy is so full of energy that it was hard to picture her sitting still, though she is an animal lover, and so I am pretty sure she could do it if a crow's well-being was at stake.

Here is Roxy in a more characteristic pose, twirling in joy.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-3675999925808463082018-07-04T15:51:00.002-07:002018-07-04T15:51:57.123-07:00Naming the Animals

Adam names the animals

God loves to create. He made animals of shapes and color combinations and processes that we could not have imagined.

At an illustrators' workshop a few years ago I met Iain McCaig whose job it was at that time (I don't know if it is still his job) to design monsters for George Lucas. Design creatures: what a job! Talk about playing God! Because it's a monster, by definition a creature unencumbered by reality, the boundaries are wide open, and one is limited only by imagination. Iain showed us how he freed his mind from the strictures of an unimaginative day or not enough caffein that morning. He led us through a process that used objects at hand to reimagine as monster parts, and challenged us to design our own monster. It was great fun, and when we were finished I had drawn a creature that I would not have imagined without using his method.

God did it (does he still do it?) his own way, from scratch. There is a niche that needs a creature, and he finds a way to fill it, always with panache.

Adam in this picture has not yet eaten the awful fruit. He is a simple, straightforward, guileless man who has been given the joyful mandate to give names to all the animals as they parade before him. He gives them names and so asserts his stewardship over them.

I tried to include in this picture as many genres of animals as I could without getting confusing, and still have an elephant as the centerpiece. (Could a picture of animals in general NOT include an elephant?) So there are mammals, birds (one extinct), reptiles, and an insect. They have to stand in for all the animals that are outside the border of this picture.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-57375972148598382952016-10-20T11:39:00.003-07:002016-10-20T11:40:37.634-07:00Cut paper art

It has been nearly a year since I've posted anything here, so maybe it's time to put up a representative sample of the kind of work that I've done lately. This is St. Martin de Porres, a Dominican monk from Peru in the early 16th century, a man of prayer who was known as a healer, but did not stop there. He also cared for animals large and small. The most famous small story about him concerns some mice that had overrun the monastery. He invited them to live outside the walls in a place he designated, and they followed his suggestion, solving the monastery's problem while doing providing the mice with a proper home.

Working with cut paper is quite a different process from any work where one fills in a drawing with color from a brush or pencil. First of all, there are the many gorgeous papers to choose from. Textures, colors, varying translucence, the papers bring their own personalities to the work. It's like working in collaboration with a group of artists who all love beauty.

Then the size of the picture makes a difference. I can't do details that are too fine; they would just be lost. I have found that just redoing a watercolor picture in cut paper doesn't really work well. The sort of image that watercolor does best is quite different from the sort of image that cut paper does well. Sometimes there is energy in a scene that I would not have been able to express in watercolor, but can do with cut paper. Perspective doesn't seem to be as big an issue with these works; they will never be photorealistic in any case; I can let them suggest rather than show the action.

This work to me now is a pleasure and a joy. I hope that translates to others.
Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-65074185447636188792015-11-15T15:40:00.000-08:002015-12-11T08:17:24.128-08:00Collage

After doing about fifteen or so watercolor illustrations for stories about saints and animals, I got fed up because it was so laborious every time. I would continually find other things to do than to face the unfinished page that was sitting on my work table.
When I had a personal sort of project to do however, like a birthday card, I would find some pieces of colored paper, cut out shapes, and make a picture out of them, bang, bang. No matter how complicated or time-consuming these cut paper projects are, I head to the art table to work on them whenever there is a spare moment,
For example:
This one on the left is the card for Tofu's birthday this year. The boy (Tofu, of course) has a wheel behind his feet so that he can move fairly easily up the path to the top.

It was so fun to make.

I have been making cut paper collages since I was in college, always for fun. I never considered them serious art.

Why not?

Finally a lightbulb went off! Maybe I could do the art for my book in a medium that I truly enjoy...

What seems Real about this process is that the layers are truly layered: the background is in the back and the foreground objects are pasted on top. What's more, each color is its own discrete entity. It makes sense in a simple-minded, literal sort of way. For some reason that seems thrilling. Also the textures of the papers add an organic beauty that I couldn't have invented. And the clean edges are, well, clean, crisp.

So I am starting over from scratch, doing cut paper pictures instead of watercolor ones.

In order to finish this project in my lifetime, I'll cut down the number of pictures, so that each story will have three at the most, instead of about eight.

I posted earlier the watercolor that this one is replacing which can be seen here.

I suspect that I am an engineer at heart.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-31529348620178792072015-08-02T21:00:00.000-07:002015-08-02T21:03:48.255-07:00Abbey sketches

We spent the weekend at St. Andrew's Abbey. I always take my little watercolor sketchbook; this is one of the few places where I actually use it. There are no telephones there ringing for me, no computer, no laundry, no meals to fix: only lessons about God and prayertime with the monks, and walks. So there is time to paint when nothing else is calling me.

Each of these little sketches took about an hour.

There are many turtles in the pond, red sliders, the kind kids keep in those little plastic kits until they get tired of them. I guess someone brought one or two here because the abbey's pond is quite big, a small lake really, and the turtles thrived and multiplied. It's funny how they pile up on top of one another on those rocks in the afternoon sun. They don't seem to mind close association with each other, even to being used as benches. Some of the rocks seem as though they would be too steep for creatures as clumsy as a turtle to climb up, but we watched one of them sitting on a rock at about a 45 degree angle for a long time, until he finally slid back down into the water.

In the pond also are some very large koi, some smaller gold fish, or goldfish, frogs that sing on summer evenings, and a flock of ducks. The ducks are the descendants of a pair of mallards and some white ducks, hybrids that have mallard markings in a tan color. They live here year round, coming toward me when I walk down the path, but scuttling back to their posts at the water's edge when they see that I have brought them no food.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-78586920759679129352014-10-29T08:49:00.003-07:002014-10-29T08:49:22.302-07:00St Spyridon and the Poor Farmer and the Snake

I finally finished the story whose title is the title of this blog post. It is about St. Spyridon, a fourth century bishop of Cyprus, greatly beloved in the Eastern Orthodox church, a man both kind and down-to-earth, and a wonder worker.
The picture here is the last one of the story, and contains all three of the title characters.

According to the story (one of many told about St Spyridon), during a drought in Cyprus, the supplies of wheat dwindled so far that even the vendors, who bought wheat from the farmers and then sold it to others, ran out. Only one vendor foresaw that scarcity meant high prices, and bought up all the supplies himself. Eventually he was the only one with wheat to sell, and he raised his prices to the moon. One poor farmer tried to borrow wheat from him, saying that he would pay it back with interest the following year, hoping for rainfall and a good year.
The vendor slammed the door in his face at that suggestion. The poor farmer then went to see St. Spyridon, hoping at least for a kind word. He received a kind word, and encouragement to hope in God. The following day, St. Spyridon visited the poor farmer with a chunk of gold. He told him to go to the vendor, and with the gold as collateral, to borrow wheat to plant and to feed his family. Spyridon told him to be sure to bring the gold back the following year when he had repaid the vendor. The farmer did as he was told. The greedy vendor gladly lent him the wheat in exchange for the gold, knowing that there was no way he would be able to repay it. But the following year the rains were plentiful, and the poor farmer had a bumper crop of wheat. He returned to the vendor with a large sack of wheat--enough to pay his loan with generous interest. The vendor reluctantly returned the gold to him, and the farmer took the gold back to St. Spyridon.
The saint said to him, "Come, let us return the gold to the one who lent it to us," and he led him out to the back of his own garden where he set the gold on a rock, and prayed to God. The gold turned into a yellow snake, which slithered away.
The poor farmer then fell on the ground and covered his face, saying, "I am not worthy of such miracles!" But Spyridon gently lifted him up and said that for those who are humble of heart and ask him, God is pleased to work all kinds of wonders.

Among the stories of saints and animals, I chose this one because it is an unusual story because the animal in question is a reptile, a snake redeeming his kind from the bad press generated by the snake in the Garden of Eden. It is an unusual sort of miracle too, whereby an animal gives its life temporarily for use by a saint, a gesture that is kind without being warm and fuzzy.

This is the first story where I put the words into form on the pages and then made the pictures to go into the spaces I determined for them. That is clearly the way to do it. People who take classes in this sort of thing probably learn this on day one or two, but when you are doing it all by the seat of your pants, as I am, it takes much longer to figure out. But that's OK.
I am ready to begin the next story.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-21873787698593610452014-06-22T16:54:00.000-07:002014-06-22T16:59:05.667-07:00Anniversary at the abbey

We spent our anniversary at St. Andrew's Abbey, an anniversary destination that has immediately become a tradition. Why didn't we think of it before? It is a place we both like to be, for the prayer, the quiet, the monks with their ordered, present, happy lives, the bookstore (for Bob), Seth's grave (for me), the dry, grey-green beauty of the high desert, and the chance to go striding about in the hills. I can paint there undistractedly, small desert landscapes that have no purpose except as exercises in putting on paper what I see.
This little painting was done in one of those 5 1/2" square Moleskine knock-off books, with a tiny watercolor box, and a couple of paintbrushes that hold water in a reservoir in the handle. Lightweight and easy to carry about, and fast to get started and clean up.

I started the first afternoon and went back to finish the following morning. Bad to do if you are an Impressionist, but I'm not, and I was quite satisfied with the colors.

As I sat in the sand, I was accompanied both times by a small creature rustling about in a cluster of dry bushes nearby. It could have been a family of quail, or possibly a squirrel, though usually both of those appear at some point as they dart about doing their housekeeping. Whatever it was, it scratched and scrunched in the brush the entire time I painted, with noises so regular that it seemed as though it must be building something: maybe a palace just the size and form to suit the builder and its family. I kept hoping it would appear, but it was evidently as consumed with its work as I was with mine, and had no interest in meeting a large intruder from the world of humans. So the small creature and I concentrated on our work, side by side, each perhaps dimly aware of the other, but each with our own project to complete before the time came when it had to be finished now or never.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-74445464631526472572014-01-28T19:51:00.000-08:002014-01-29T21:24:21.836-08:00St. Seraphim, second round

St. Seraphim needed a better picture than the last one, and he needed another post.

Regardless of how this picture looks, he was more than a guy who had a bear for a buddy. The reason for the bear's interest and lack of normal animal-human antipathy was that St. Seraphim had immersed himself in prayer to such an extent that his soul had lost its odor of corruption, if I may put it that way. He seems to have purified his soul so that he was able to live as in Eden, in harmony with the natural world. The famous passage in Isaiah says that "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb,...the cow and the bear shall graze,...and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." Fierce creatures will be gentle, and they and humans will not fear each other. These prophecies seem to come to fruition in the lives of people who devote themselves entirely to prayer. And St. Seraphim was one of those.
A quotation from St. Seraphim:
"You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives. All condemnation is of the devil. Never condemn each other."

Ah, that is the kind of world I would like to live in.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-33490825202733721092014-01-02T09:33:00.000-08:002014-01-09T08:59:44.718-08:00St. Seraphim

We spent last weekend on retreat up at the monastery that we love: St. Andrew's Abbey. While we were there, I told someone about my plan for a book about saints and animals, and she said, "Well, there's Saint Seraphim and the bear..." So when I got home I looked him up.
Saint Seraphim was a Russian monk who lived in a monastery, but in order to spend more time alone in prayer, took to staying in a small hut in the forest near his monastery. He died in 1833, so he began going to the forest about the same time that Russia was at war with Napoleon. Now Bob and I are reading WAR AND PEACE, and the War in this case is that war with Napoleon. The Peace in the novel is a story of the social comings and goings, loves and trials of some fictional Russian aristocrats. For me there is something of a cognitive dissonance in the realization that this peaceable, prayerful man is the historical person, and the scheming, hoping, worrying, planning, good and bad motives and activities of the Bolkonskis, Rostovs, and Bezukhovs is fiction. Tsar Alexander (who makes several appearances in the novel) was one of the people who visited St. Seraphim at his forest retreat.
The account of the bear is not really a story; it is just that while St. Seraphim lived in his hut in the forest, he was visited by many forest creatures whom he welcomed, as he welcomed all beings created by God. An abbess from a nearby convent came to visit him one time and was terrified to see a huge bear with him. But Seraphim told her not to worry, the bear wouldn't hurt her. The bear was seen with him on various occasions. He fed the bear with his bread, and was brought gifts of honey from the bear as well.

This little picture is a 5"x 7" card that I painted to send to Tofu, to tell him about this lovely, holy man. His feast day, it turns out, is today, January 2.
Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-58792087821389112932013-11-03T14:25:00.002-08:002013-11-03T14:25:40.116-08:00St. Gerasimos, the Lion, and the Donkey

This is a lovely old story, a legend about a saint who is a favorite in the Eastern Orthodox church. St. Gerasimos is out walking in the Jordan River valley, when he comes across a lion, limping and holding one paw up pathetically. The lion holds his paw out to the saint, who sits down, examines the paw, removes a large thorn, and binds up the paw with a clean cloth. Then the lion follows him back to the monastery and stays there, whereupon the monks give the lion a job.

I won't tell the whole story here, (You can read about it here.) but I retold it, painted three illustrations for it, and it has been published (with one illustration) in a small Catholic children's magazine called St. Mary's Messenger. The story is in the Fall 2013 issue, which just came out.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-85853936714024305252013-07-08T08:34:00.001-07:002013-07-08T08:41:16.872-07:00More English reading lessons for Tofu

 As Tofu's Japanese reading gets better and better, it becomes harder and harder for him to put himself through the effort of reading English, in which the pronunciation of the words is not necessarily obvious, and the content is necessarily somewhat elementary, since his reading vocabulary is so much smaller than his speaking vocabulary, and smaller yet than his thinking processes.

And of course eventually he will learn to read English in school, since Japanese schoolchildren do learn. But he will learn from someone whose English skill is far less than his own.

So I think that it is a challenge well worth our effort, Tofu's and mine, to keep working on English reading. My challenge is to make lessons that are fun, not too simplistic, that he will enjoy enough to look forward to--not dread--letters from Grandma. His challenge is to read them.

This particular rule, about how an "e" on the end of a word makes the vowel say its name, is one that he actually already knows. But occasionally he stumbles over it, and so I thought it was worthwhile to make a whole interesting lesson on the subject. Besides it was quite fun to find words that worked for this exercise.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-23281224900265709732013-04-23T09:33:00.002-07:002013-04-23T09:41:50.913-07:00John 14:23--29

This drawing was done for the Sixth Sunday of Easter gospel, in which Jesus tells his disciples that he is going away, but he will send the Holy Spirit to be with them.

It is meant to go on a folded sheet of letter-size paper, and printed 5 inches tall.

The readings for the season of Easter are all from Jesus' discourses in John's gospel. They are all rather non-visual, a challenge to find an image for. For this one, I decided on showing Jesus with the door through which he is going, though his hand could be reaching out in a gesture to his disciples as well as to the door handle.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-13448430640934192212013-01-08T09:52:00.000-08:002013-01-08T09:52:11.548-08:00Good Dog

The Chinese (not Japanese) characters behind the boy say "Good dog" (at least that's what I hope. The left hand one is Good and the right one is Dog. If they would use a different way to say it in Chinese, I wouldn't know.). This was the initial painting for a book that I am hoping to finish the illustrations for this year. It's a true story of finding a puppy lost and cold on the streets of China, and bringing her home to America.

In fact, however, I don't expect to use this picture for the book. I'd like the actual drawings to be somewhat simpler and flatter. Also, the format will be different from this, with square pages. So the image to illustrate this page, where the boy explains to the now grown-up dog that she came from China, will be a double page spread, twice as wide as high, and the text will be incorporated in the picture.

But I liked this image. I used my former next door neighbor boy Tate as a model for the boy in the picture. He patiently posed for me, holding a stuffed dog and talking to it to try & get in the mood.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-84305203115983470152012-12-17T08:44:00.001-08:002012-12-17T08:50:12.597-08:00Gloria in excelsis deo

Glory to God in the highest!
(It sounds more glorious in Latin though.)

This image was done in an effort to make the sort of small, iconic drawings that can be found in books of liturgy, drawings that are meant to symbolize, rather than explain, a text.
I love the drawings by Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB, which are often found in Catholic liturgical guides.
I am not sure my particular style is suited to such a use, but how can I know unless I put enough true effort into the making of them?
I've done a few more, but this small one is the only one related to Christmas.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-26753990937089328312012-12-04T08:45:00.002-08:002012-12-13T07:54:41.511-08:00Hiking by a stream

In the interests of helping Tofu read English (his Japanese reading is super, but he has much less opportunity to practice English), I have been sending him little stories, with pictures to go with them. This picture is for a story about a boy named Tofu and his fictional canine friend Jonny, spending a cool Saturday morning floating dandelions down a stream to see which ones go the fastest (incidentally a surprisingly fun and unpredictable game).

When I was younger and thought I was a pretty good artist, I was concerned almost exclusively with how realistic my figures were. That is still an issue, and I still have a long way to go, especially in drawing from my imagination rather than from life. Nevertheless, it is not everything in a picture. I must aim for the whole to be harmonious: form and color and the movement need to come together in a way that could be called beautiful. Even in a picture such as this one, whose purpose is to accompany a reading lesson, if it is put together carelessly, it would be better to ditch it as not worth showing to anyone, much less sending to someone I love in a faraway place. Everything I do is worth the time. It's all for God and from God, who made every insect, every leaf, every molecule beautiful.
Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-8814793945926696942012-11-19T21:10:00.000-08:002012-11-19T21:10:58.462-08:00The little Nativity book is available on Amazon

In spite of the sign that says, "Click to look inside," the image to the left is not a link. Here is the link to the site on Amazon.
Thanks to the hard work and persistence of my friend Dana Chisholm, the words I put together to tell the Christmas story, along with the pictures I painted, are all gathered together into a book. It is amazing and wonderful, and I am looking forward to holding the book in my hands.

I have much more to learn about both writing and illustrating. Having something actually in print makes me eager to learn all I can, and do more.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-29638164785391546962012-11-09T11:56:00.000-08:002012-11-12T08:29:09.950-08:00St. Andrew's Abbey

Seth's grave (the one on the right)

Benedictine monks order their lives around prayer and work, in an undulating rhythm throughout the day. The times of prayer are the main event, and work is inserted between them, in the hope that all work becomes infused with prayer, and becomes part of it. St. Andrew's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery.

I spent four lovely days there, praying with the monks, and doing my work, which in this case was landscape painting. It was a landscape painting retreat. This is a genre that I have very little experience with, and no great love for, but I believe that an illustrator needs to be able to put landscapes into illustrations from time to time, and not be afraid of them. I signed up for this retreat for several reasons: because I love the abbey, to visit Seth's grave, and in order to spend time painting landscape, the desert with its rocks, hills, and grey-green, often prickly foliage.

This little painting is 8" x 8". I sat there at the same time on each of two mornings, for an hour & a half or so each time. Not long, but even so, the shadow from the cross moved quite a lot while I was there. Plein air painting is tricky.

The curmudgeonly and usually right on target Stapleton Kearns said once (maybe more than once) that landscapes ought to have some mystery in them. Maybe there's a little mystery here, but in any case I heartily enjoyed painting it. The rocks and the foreground in particular made me happy; and being near Seth's gravesite always makes me remember the Life that he put into his life, the mindfulness with which he approached every moment of the day. It's all actually very Benedictine, though at the time neither of us knew it.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-74050075595832631322012-10-31T14:35:00.003-07:002012-10-31T14:49:17.496-07:00a modern Nativity

 Bob and I have been reading about life in the slums of Calcutta c. 1970, in a beautiful book called CITY OF JOY by Dominique Lapierre. There was a movie some years back, taken from a section of the book (a movie I never saw, with Patrick Swayze), which covered only a small portion of this gripping nonfiction story.

As I read the book, I realized that Jesus came to be among the poor, not the comfortable. When he was born, Bethlehem was full of travelers, and Mary and Joseph were just two more strangers in a crowded town. The place they were offered for the birth of the child was only available because nobody else wanted it. They would have empathized with migrant workers, with slum dwellers, with all the unwelcome and uncared-about of the world.

So when I was thinking about Christmas images, I looked for pictures of migrant workers, of poor people in various parts of the world for my references. Mary and Joseph have a spot in a run down and junk-strewn part of town, but they are glad to have someplace, and in God's love, it is turned into a place of light.
Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-43838542765484070822012-07-23T12:07:00.000-07:002012-10-09T08:06:47.469-07:00Abraham greets his heavenly visitors

Sometimes I draw the same story over and over. This is the fourth version of this one, from Genesis chapter 18.

Three men come to visit Abraham, who is a semi-nomadic shepherd, living with his wife and his servants in tents. The travelers who come his way are few, and those who arrive are treated with the respect and hospitality we might assume would be accorded kings. Like the bedouins of the Arabian peninsula, for Abraham the law of hospitality is absolute. When these men come, he bows before them, asks them to stay to refresh themselves, and has a feast prepared for them.
It is not clear whether or not he recognizes at first that they are heavenly visitors. Perhaps this is the welcome he gives to all visitors. But indeed soon he finds that it is God himself along with two angels he has been entertaining, and they have great news for Abraham and his wife Sarah: next year Sarah will have a son. Abraham and Sarah have been waiting 25 years for this son, since the first time God gave the promise to Abraham, and now it is finally the right time.

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-69972968622159576392012-07-03T08:10:00.002-07:002012-10-09T08:06:29.834-07:00Postcard from under the sea

Spanish Shawl

The sea is full of mysteries. I walk on the beach almost every morning, when the sky is grey, and what we see of the sea is grey as well. Now, during the summer, the shorebirds that inhabit the shoreline have gone somewhere else, and only seagulls and pelicans are consistently around.

But underneath the surface are wonders that are utterly hidden from us. Occasionally you can see the dorsal fins of dolphins just beyond the waves, as they surface and dive. But even that is mysterious.
The people who know what is there are the divers who have discovered a way to stay underneath, explore, and even photograph the suboceanic topography and life.

Some years ago I discovered the glorious underwater photographs of Kawika Chetron . This is a guy who loved the world of cold water. He was happiest when he was under the sea, exploring, photographing, finding Life among the creatures that live there, especially along the coast of California. Recently I found that Kawika, like Seth, had died as he was stretching the boundaries of what he could do, in his continuing effort to be truly alive. He was a little younger than Seth, and died about a year later, in March of 2007.

This postcard of a little man riding the gorgeously colorful Spanish Shawl nudibranch was inspired by Kawika's photographs and Seth's delight in all things.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-26490298164014143902012-05-04T09:00:00.000-07:002012-05-04T09:00:00.297-07:00

Happy Eighth Birthday Tofu!

Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com Street, Coronado, CA 92118, USA32.620870183181133 -117.2241210937530.920708183181134 -119.75097659375 34.321032183181131 -114.69726559375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-80333989336492338502012-04-13T13:34:00.000-07:002012-04-13T13:34:32.151-07:00Moses and the Burning Bush

I suppose there are a lot of ways of depicting fire in a line drawing. I looked at many photographs of fire, and of course not only is it evanescent, but it is ever-changing, and has a different appearance depending on the wind, on what is burning, and on circumstances that it would take someone more knowledgeable in physics than I to explain. My aim was for the fire to be beautiful and flowing. I looked for some inspiration to Aubrey Beardsley's gorgeous forms in black and white, those Art Nouveau shapes wherein Reality takes a back seat to pure line, but in the end Mood predominates. I didn't want to make a moody image, but I did want the fire to have that elegance of line that is so much a part of Art Nouveau.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-25807913531861842122012-03-24T09:04:00.009-07:002012-03-26T07:58:23.824-07:00Working things out
I have a series of stories to illustrate about a group of kids who live in Texas in the 1950's. Nice, kind of slow moving stories, with conflicts, but not the kind of dire conflicts kids today face. Their conflicts are more about simple getting along with one another. One of these stories concerns the summer pleasures of floating down a stream on inner tubes. After deciding on the general look of the picture, I started drawing it.
Here is the drawing:

I liked it pretty well, except that each of the people in it was as though they were in their own box--no overlapping, except for the two at the right, and the two of them were sort of in their own box. Besides, the boy at the front, falling off his tube, looks not quite right. And then, the deciding factor was that I reread the story and found that according to the words they are all supposed to be wearing shoes.

It is always good training to be willing to do the drawing over and over again; it's something I learned from Seth. Don't let it go out unless it is as good as you can do

So here is the second one:

Shoes on, some overlap, much better.
Although the boy on the left, with the tube under his arm, has a left arm that is far too long...
And the boy splashing in the water still looks a bit disjointed.

Then I spoke with the author, who said that he had decided to give each of the drawings a full page in the book. That means a vertical, rather than a horizontal layout.
OK, no problem. I'll draw it again.

This time, for the vertical layout, I thought I'd better do a little more research on rivers, how they look, how water looks when it is flowing. Doing it all from the imagination is fine, but it may be better to get some real feel for the landscape.
Here is the third drawing:

OK. I like the scenery much better. It looks like a real place. The little patch of reeds and grasses in the front right corner brings the viewer into the setting some more, all the kids have arms and legs in proportion.
But there is a different problem: it's dull. Nothing is happening. Something is GOING to happen, as the boy with his back toward us is just about to hit the rapids, but everyone else is just floating. Besides all the kids except one are in a vertical line. Accuracy in drawing can NOT take the place of interest--either interesting composition, or interesting emotional action. Accuracy is good, but for an illustration it has to take a back seat to emotion and vibrant composition.
Then I reread the story one more time, and found that there was some action in it that I had ignored. In the girl in the plaid shirt teases the boy ahead of her by splashing him as they float along.

So below is what I think is the final:
It has action, accuracy, rhythm, and, I hope, interest. I may find something else it needs, and if so, I'll change it again. Or if anyone who sees this is bothered by something, I would be glad to hear about it. I learn something every try.

Vickihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-22860688763992661582012-03-18T14:26:00.002-07:002012-03-18T14:42:46.979-07:00Moses and Pharoah's daughter

Continuing to illustrate the handouts for my sixth grade Sunday school classes. The subject matter is always available, the kids like the drawings, and I have an ongoing, low-pressure commission. If I decide later that my skills have increased so that I can depict the story better, I'll redo it for next year.
Vickihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903066892257895371.post-38764634174666797202012-02-11T07:41:00.000-08:002012-02-11T09:49:12.802-08:00You just gotta fight

I found this quotation today on Muddy Colors, a blog that is a collaboration among several top-level illustrators. It gives me hope and a kick in the pants.
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How I Use the Surface Pro (and Windows 10) for Music/
I've seen this question on social media here and there. There are musicians that are tempted to move to a tablet, but are torn as to which to purchase or are unsure if a full OS vs a mobile OS will work for music/regular gigging. Here's a rundown of what equipment and software I use with my Surface for running live effects, composing, manuscript, PDF reading and editing, etc.
I will say, one of the best things about using a tablet with a full OS (Surface Pro) is you get to use ONE machine. From my one machine, I can run everything I need: modern apps, desktop apps, USB connectivity, etc. There's no logistical constraint of syncing from one device to the other. I don't have to switch machines just to work on a particular program. And, while the Surface Pro's may be more expensive than an some iPads or some other tablet, you don't have to purchase TWO devices. Now, sure, there's a danger that if something fails, something falls, breaks, etc. But, there are some very good options for protecting your tablet. These apps are my top music picks after using my Surface Pro 3 for a couple years now.
- Metronome: HQ Metronome
- Tuner: ModTuner Pro. This is probably the most lacking category of apps on the Windows Store as there aren't a lot of options. ModTuner is a good chromatic tuner, but it doesn't have any other functionality. Accurate Tuner Pro really needs to make a universal app (one that works on the tablet). This one has a great visual, it will do drones, etc. If this isn't enough, you can access any other app on the Android market which is explained below.
- Notation:
- Finale (or Sibelius) - I use Finale 25 and have never had any issues. I have friends that run Sibelius and love it especially since there is integration with the Surface Pen (which is magnetically attached to the Pro 4).
- OneNote - I created what is basically a staff-paper template. This way, anything I want to compose or notate on staff paper I can bring up a note with one click of the purple button, write my composition or lesson notes, and it's saved to the cloud. A couple of things I hope are improved are as follows: I unfortunately can't use this to record voice notes (of any length) which is a HUGE problem for a musician. I would also love a feature where I can export a note to PDF and then share it.
- StaffPad - This is a great app. There's a little bit of a learning curve, but it's a way that you can write music notation and it's immediately translated to xml. One item on my wishlist: I wish there was a "jazz template" - 12 staff lines, 4 bars per line, displayed in portrait rather than writing on one line in landscape.
- Note Taking/Note Recording: Evernote. This is what I've been using for a long time to make and organize voice notes. There is an upload limit per month so depending on the amount you record, you may have to purchase a pro account which is far too expensive IMHO.
- PDF Reader/Editing: Drawboard PDF. This is an odd area for a full OS. You really don't need a PDF reader - it already does this. Plus, there's not the cumbersome job of migrating files from one device to another. You really just need an editor (something that lets you edit with a pen, stylus, or fingertips) and something that will combine files into a playlist. There are some other capabilities of forScore or unrealBook that could be adopted, but this is really just a more low maintenance area for something running a full OS. Now, there's a little bit more to be said about this (how Edge could be optimized for this), but I'll leave that for another time.
- DAW: Ableton. I use this performing live with a controller (to be discussed later) or for producing/programming a track.
- Effects: Guitar Rig 5. I stopped carrying around my HUGE pedal board a little while ago; I'll do another post about this later. I usually use a KMI SoftStep 2 to trigger the effects, but have also operated this live without a controller by just using my touch screen.
- Audio Interface: Focusrite 18i20, previously and occasionally Avid Duo. The Focusrite is a great sounding interface. I've had to suppliment my use of it however for a couple of reasons. The first, is that it's a rack-mounted unit and I can't travel with it. The second, is that there are some firmware issues that I'll get into later.
- Tablet Holder: AirTurn Manos, GoStand, Expandable Side Mount. After trying a bunch of tablet holders from Amazon, I finally found one that actually could hold the Surface. I've had these for a couple of years and the expandable side mount was a huge improvement the company made.
- Modern Apps: iReal Pro, Time Guru, Drum Genius, Tempo, Tempo Advanced, X-32Q, Tonal Energy Tuner, etc. This has an answer, but it's not a perfect answer. I would love it if, out of all these apps, iReal Pro especially would finally develop a desktop app. However, until apps become universal, there's this work around. I use an app called AmiDuos. This app is an Android emulator. It does a great job... most of the time. Sometimes, I have to restart my machine to get AmiDuos to start up. It's not completely seamless, however it's a way you can have access to just about any app you want.
- Controllers:
- Softstep 2 - midi foot controller for controlling Guitar Rig or cuing clips in Ableton
- QuNeo - Ableton controller
- Monome 256 - I'm still fiddling with this, but I'll keep you updated.


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"Be careful, you must definitely not break the seal on the Heavenly Beast, a Heavenly Beast is much stronger than a Heavenly Jewel Master of the same rank." Shangguan Bing'er herself felt a little weird that she had said those words to Zhou Weiqing.
Zhou Weiqing turned his head to smile to her, giving her a self-confident hand signal, before walking through the entrance.
Looking at his departing figure, Shangguan Bing'er's brow furrowed slightly. What happened to this Little Fatty Zhou today? Previously, he had seized every opportunity to take advantage of her with his words, continuously testing her limits, but today it was as if he was totally someone different, and was almost as simple and honest as he looked.
Little did she know that Zhou Weiqing was pinching his face uncomfortably after entering the entrance; he had been suppressing himself the whole morning not trash talking, and it had been a laborious endeavour.
"Hmm.. it looks like there is some effect! It looks like that perverted old man's words indeed bear some truth. To let my beautiful lady Battalion Commander accept me, my old method is not good."
As he proceeded down the tunnel, Zhou Weiqing could feel that it was inclining downwards as he moved further along, and after going ahead about 200 meters, it started to curve around, and after several twists and turns, he finally reached an open hall.
The hall was not decorated, and once again three entrances presented themselves before Zhou Weiqing. above them were inscribed three large characters respectively – Shi, Zun, Zong.
At the side there was a table where an old man sat, wearing the robe of a Shi Level Heavenly Jewel Master, though he did not have the rank symbol on his robe. At this time, perhaps because it was rather early, there weren't any other people around.
"Payment." The old man said indifferently to Zhou Weiqing.
Zhou Weiqing walked forward and passed the Red Gold Coins Storage Card that he had gotten from Shangguan Bing'er to the old man, saying: "Senior, I want to enter the Zong Stage Wind attribute Skill Storing Enclosure."
"Zong Stage?" The old man paused in surprise, sizing up Zhou Weiqing with appraising eyes.
Zhou Weiqing grinned and said: "Actually, I just want to get an experience of what a Zong Stage Heavenly Beast looks and feels like, I have heard that a Zong Stage Heavenly Beast is extremely strong."
The old man said coolly: "It is up to you, as long as you pay up, you can do as you wish." As he said that, he took out a spatial attribute equipment which was specially made for swiping the Gold Coin Storage Cards and recording. He quickly swiped out 10,000 gold coins, as if fearing that Zhou Weiqing would change his mind. When he returned the Gold Coin Storage Cards, he also passed along a small round token.
"You will have to come out in four hours time, when you are carrying out your Skill-Storing, you just need to place your hand on top of the Heavenly Beast's head. Go on ahead."
"Thanks Senior."
The old man continued looking at Zhou Weiqing after he entered the Zong Stage Wind Attribute Heavenly Beast's enclosure, before giving a humph of disdain, "Yet another overreaching youngster, I wonder if that dumb kid is just trying his luck, or is he another black sheep of some rich family."
In less than an hour, the old man who was just about to take a nap, noticed Zhou Weiqing walking out hurriedly from the Zong Stage Heavenly Beast's enclosure, his face full of dejection.
Zhou Weiqing returned the small round token to the old man and sighed, saying: "Zong Stage Heavenly Beasts are just too terrifying already."
The old men gave another cold humph, saying: "Young men like you should not overreach yourselves, next time just enter the Shi Stage enclosure, you will have a much higher chance of success. 10,000 gold coins per try on the Zong Stage enclosure… at your age, even if your father is the crown prince, he also will not be able to support your Skill-Storing attempts."
"Yes, yes, you are right in your teachings." Zhou Weiqing said timidly and agreed, before turning around and fleeing the scene.
As he walked away back into the tunnel exiting, the look on his face suddenly changed, his face now full of self-satisfaction, and he flailed his fist vigorously in a victory pump.
Over the next few days, Zhou Weiqing went to the Skill-Storing Palace once a day, and each time he entered a different tunnel, with only the final two days the same. On the other hand, Shangguan Bing'er barely left her room, as she worked hard on Consolidating her Wind Wielding Boots Scroll.
Five days later, after Zhou Weiqing had finished spending all the gold coins from the Gold Coin Storage Card that Shangguan Bing'er lent him, and he stayed in the room to cultivate Heavenly Energy silently, as if all of that had not happened.
The time that Shangguan Bing'er spent on her Physical Jewel Consolidating Equipment had fully proven to Zhou Weiqing the difficulty of it, taking two entire months, 61 days, before she finally completed Consolidating her Wind Wielding Boots.
The new barracks was also about to finish shortly, and as a Battalion Commander, naturally Shangguan Bing'er needed to hurry back as soon as possible. As such, they both said goodbye to Feng Yu and Huyan Aobo before leaving Flying Hill City to head back towards Heavenly Bow Empire.
"Little Fatty Zhou, I did not have time to ask you previously, was your Skill-Storing successful?" Shangguan Bing'er asked Zhou Weiqing as they made their way.
For the past two months, besides meal times where they occasionally spoke a few words, they almost had no communication between them, and staying in Huyan Aobo's little courtyard, she did not want to ask Zhou Weiqing clearly about his Skill-Storing. What made her feel very strange was that Zhou Weiqing actually seemed to turn into a proper Personal Aide; since that day when they went to the Skill-Storing Palace together for the second time, he had not spoken any trash talk to her since.
"It's a secret okay? Battalion Commander, didn't you say previously? The Elemental Jewel Skill is most important secret of a Heavenly Jewel Master." Zhou Weiqing said mysteriously.
Shangguan Bing'er said in surprise: "You really succeeded?"
Zhou Weiqing said with a faint smile: "You will know in the future."
"Hmph, if you do not want to say then forget it." Shangguan Bing'er turned around and ignored him, continuing to hurry along.
As time passed, Shangguan Bing'er could obviously feel that Zhou Weiqing's Heavenly Energy was improving by quite a large margin. Although it still could not be compared with hers, but he could definitely maintain his Physical boost for a much longer period of time now.
In truth, when Zhou Weiqing had initially Awakened his Heavenly Jewels, he had not actually reached the amount of Heavenly Energy of a normal level four Heavenly Jin Energy, but had just broken through to that stage only. After these two months of cultivation, the Heavenly Energy in his body was truly much more abundant.
As with the trip to Flying Hill City, Zhou Weiqing prepared food all the way for them. Although he occasionally chatted with Shangguan Bing'er, but as compared to previously he was acting like a different person. By the time the two of them had reached the military camp in ten days time, Shangguan Bing'er had found it a little weird and unnatural. Regardless of what you could say about Zhou Weiqing, he was the man who had taken her first time, the man who made her angry and yet happy at times, she naturally did observe some good to him unavoidably, and this transformation of Zhou Weiqing, she could not really say if it were good or bad.
Outside Heavenly Bow City, the Military Camp.
"Battalion Commander, you have returned." Xiao Se looked at Shangguan Bing'er with a faint smile on his face, giving her a proper military salute.
Shangguan Bing'er and Zhou Weiqing had just returned to the military camp and changed into their military uniforms and she returned to her command tent. After leaving for nearly three months, she was eager to understand the conditions of the recruiting.
"Company Leader Xiao*, how is the situation of the new recruit barracks? It should be finishing soon right?"
Xiao Se shot a look at Zhou Weiqing who was standing behind Shangguan Bing'er and said: "The new recruit barracks will be completed in three days. You shouldn't be asking me about the situation of the new recruit barracks, before you left, didn't you leave Company Leader Mao Li in charge of this new group of recruits?"
He only got 5 right? Nothing for his mysterious six element?
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Good old qualified-material. Sometimes it is your best friend and sometimes it is your worst enemy. If your application runs great, the price is right, and you have no quality issues, you are set for the life of the application. On the other hand, if your application doesn't run the way it needs to, you spend way too much on the material, and quality is suspect, you don't hesitate to qualify a new material.
However, when you are stuck in the fuzzy grey area, maybe only 1 (maybe 2) of the 3 qualities is bad, the questions always arise…(How bad is it? We can make it work, can't we? Isn't dealing with it easier than qualifying a new material?) We get it, qualifying new material is A LOT of work. You put both time and money into something and sometimes aren't even 100% sure you'll get a better result than what you are currently using. If you've gotten to the point where you sincerely believe it is time to look at new materials (maybe your Service Call Rate is going up), but have trouble convincing the decision makers to do so, this week's post is for you.
So You Think it is Time for a Change
We thought it would be good to list some of the common arguments against qualifying a new material and follow it up with some reasons to just bite the bullet.
1. We don't have time to qualify a new gasket material right now.
This is probably the #1 reason why a new material qualification effort never gets out of the meeting room. Time is a precious commodity, and it can be hard to convince the decision makers to allocate time towards such an activity when there is already a product that (sort of) works. (Shouldn't one failure be too many?) However, there is always time – it just takes prioritization. How much time is spent troubleshooting issues stemming from the material? The later you are in the design process, the more time these issues will cost you. Then, when the application is out in the field, you're dealing with service calls and warranty issues. If the decision makers don't think you have time now, just wait! A prioritization of time up front to get a better material in your application is going to save you hours later (do the math, crunch the numbers).
2. Do you know how much it costs to qualify a new gasket material?
If #1 isn't the first response you get, you're probably told the company isn't willing to spend money on qualifying a new material. Again, depending on where you are at in the design process, this could be a very expensive task. This is why it is important to present your case as soon as you realize there is an issue. The sooner a change in material can happen, the less expensive it will be. Numbers don't lie – if you can make a case for a change at any point and justify the cost, the decision makers will have trouble telling you it isn't approved.
3. We went through all of the possible materials we could have used back when this project started. We are using the best there is.
Material changes. Technology changes. Try to make a list of products that have never changed…we bet the list isn't very long. Do some research and present your case (and be ready for responses similar to #1 and #2).
4. You're asking me to spend more money in the hopes of better performance?
We all know that sometimes the need for cost savings wins the battle when it is decision making time, but when reality sets in, sometimes paying a little more pays off in the long run. See our prior blog post How Much Should Gasket Material Cost?.
Make the Change
Nothing is more frustrating than having an application where a material isn't quite right. It doesn't matter whether the issue is performance, price or quality, dealing with these repeated issues is not a value-added activity. Making the decision to qualify a new material is a big one, but the long term benefits of completing the process are usually well worth the effort. As with everything, looking at the big picture is so important. Don't work just to satisfy an immediate need, make sure the work you do is going to make life with the application easier in the future.
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1924 QUEEN OF THE MANILA CARNIVAL. Trinidad Fernandez y Rodriguez of Cuyo, Palawan, was a popular winner identified with the working class. She became a distinguished diplomat in later life.
One of the most photographed beauties of her time was the queen-elect of the 1924 Manila Carnival, Trinidad Fernandez y Rodriguez. Much attention was focused on this accomplished beauty because she was one of those rare queens who triumphed over the more well-heeled candidates from the key cities of Luzon and the Visayas. Thus, when she won, she was not only the first winner from that province, but she was also the first to identify with the working class.
Trining's father was Clemente "Minting" Fernandez, one of two sons (the other being Carlos) of Jose Ma. Fernandez, a Spanish officer originally from Valencia. Assigned to Sta. Rita, Pampanga, Jose met and married a local lass with the surname Lasanga. He took her to Cuyo, the former capital of Palawan—together with her younger sister. Clemente and Carlos, however, were children of the first marriage. Clemente practically grew up in Palawan where he met and married Vicenta Rodriguez. It was in this far off island of Cuyo, located north of Sulu Sea that Trining first saw the light of day on 28 March 1899. Family stories tell that she was actually born in the Cuyo Church during a Moro raid.
BACHELOR'S PICK. Queen Trining was the candidate of choice by the powerful Bachelor's Club.
The members of the influential Bachelors' Club had their eyes on Trinidad even before the Philippine Carnival Association opened the nomination for the queenship of the annual prestigious event. But the while her candidacy was launched by the elite club, it was Trinidad's ties with the working class and the government sector that, she feels, decided the votes in her favor.
QUEEN TRINING II, In one of her official portrait as the 1924 Manila Carnival Queen.
Trinidad's triumph was met with resounding approval and was a big cause for celebration. Her grand coronation, unlike the past years, was not themed; she opted to wear a simple, white Filipino terno, matched with a long, flowing velvet cape. Her jewel-encrusted crown was similar to the one worn by Carmen Prieto three years before, and after her reign was over, it was donated to the Cuyo Church.
1924 CORTE DE HONOR. With Jose Araneta standing as his King Consort, Queen Trining is flanked by her princesses and escorts in this official sitting.
By her side was her handsome King Consort, Jose Araneta, and attending her was the 1924 royal court: Magdalena del Rosario, Consuelo Francia, Felising Anido, Juling Montenegro, Nena Calvo, Lourdes Singian with their escorts Salvador Araneta, Pepe Limjap, Victorino Abrera, Pendong Tuason, David Fernandez Lavadia and Ito Kahn.
QUEEN TRINING II AND CONSORT. Manila Carnival 1924.
But more unforgettable than that evening was the wedding of Trinidad to her beau a year later. Benito Legarda, a special friend from way back her U.P. days and a chemist, became her husband and father of threechildren: Benito Jr., Filomena and Carmen. Her involvement with socio-civic work seemed to have intensified after her marriage, working tirelessly for a number of institutions like the Girls Scouts, Community Chest, Catholic Women's League, Philippine Red Cross, Civic Assembly of Women and the National Federation of Women's Clubs, where she was responsible for the post-war rehabilitation of its damaged headquarters.
She was also sent as a Philippine representative to important conventions abroad, from the Rotary International, UNESCO meetings to conferences on social work. She was a much sought after public speaker as well.
Her crowning glory came in 1958 when she was appointed as the first Filipino woman ambassador and chief of mission to Saigon and also minister plenipotentiary to Laos and Cambodia, accredited to look after the interest of Filipinos in those countries. She was, in fact, the first woman in Southeast Asia to hold a post as an ambassador, which she held until the 1980s. It is no wonder then that she was named as one of the 13 outstanding women leaders of Asia for her barrier-breaking achievements.
GRACING LUNETA. The Queen, attending a Carnival festivity at the Luneta.
As an avid art lover, she was one of the founders of the Manila Symphony Society from 1933 to 1958, which helped organized the Manila Symphony Orchestra. For this pioneering achievement, Trinidad is often cited as the "Mother of the Symphony Movement in the Philippines". Trinidad's beloved Ben died in 1973, and, after a hip injury in 1979, she retreated to her stately garden residence, "Ang Gubat" (The Forest), surrounded by her loving family. A notable descendant today is Atty. Katrina Legarda.
(Many thanks to Mr. Greg Melendres of Houston and Mr. Ron Fernandez of Dallas–and a descendant of Trinidad Fernandez-Legarda for the additional information on Trinida's family background).posted by alex r castro in blogspot.com and i re post again in wordpress.com