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Have you ever tried to build something with no planning and no preparation? It's definitely not the best way to do things, but taking your time to properly plan a build is often a luxury that we don't have as builders and makers. So for this build, I wanted to set a challenge for myself, I wanted to build a hammock frame with zero planning.
In this post, I plan to talk about 2 things. First and foremost it's going to be all about how to build this bad ass, heavy metal, hammock frame, but at the same time, I'd also like to impart some of the strategies and techniques that I use to figure things out as I go when building something.
So join me as I go from doodle on my office window to reality. I promise you it was an interesting trip, to say the least haha.
Before we start a couple of quick notes. First, there is a YouTube version of this build available above for all of you video lovers. I feel it's the best way to see how this build was done, but don't worry, if you're more of a text and picture person I've got you covered too.
Second, in the interest of full disclosure Krylon sponsored the YouTube video of this build. They've got no idea I'm also making this Instructables post, it's just something I do for all my builds, but I think it's important to put that out there regardless.
Step 1: Cutting My Wood and Breaking Down the Build Into Manageable Steps
Step 2: Figuring Out How Wide to Make My Legs
Next, I had to figure out how wide to make my A-frame legs.
My method for doing this was EXTREMELY basic, but it worked haha. It's good to keep things simple when you're working in uncharted territory.
I grabbed 2 of my Ipe legs and spread them out until they were the same width as my actual hammock (more on this later). My reasoning here was that if the feet were the same width apart as the hammock, no matter where you were in the hammock, the frame itself wouldn't be able to tip over. Once I had the legs in the position, I measured the interior angle using a digital angle finder.
Step 3: Cutting the Tops of the Legs
The measured interior angle was 118.3 degrees, which I then rounded up to a nice even 120 degrees. Because nice round numbers are much easier to work with. I then took that number, divided it in half, and cut a 60-degree mitre on the end of each leg.
With all four legs cut, I now had to find a way to join them together. I debated wood glue, some sort of lock joint, but at the end of the day, I didn't think any of those options was going to be strong enough for the tension that I planned to put on this frame. No, I would need something much stronger…
Step 4: Cutting the Steel Bracket
Step 5: Welding the Steel Bracket
Step 6: Drilling Bolt Holes
Without a way to attach the bracket to Ipe legs, they'd be pretty useless right? So the next step was drilling some holes in them so that I could bolt them to the legs.
I marked out 6 holes on each bracket and then drilled out the holes using my drill press. In order to help cool my bit and keep it from burning out, I applied a little bit of cutting oil before cutting each hole.
Step 7: Adding a Hook to the Brackets
At this point, my brackets were almost done, but they were missing 1 key component: A hook to mount the hammock on.
Lucky for me I had some eye-bolts kicking around the shop that I was easily able to modify for the job. I zipped off the part I needed, flattened its bottom and then welded it directly to the center of the bracket.
I laid a good thick welding bead the whole way around the hook so that I could smooth it out later and make it look a little more elegant.
Step 8: Drilling Bolt Holes in the Legs
One thing that I was really worried about was that my bolt holes need to align perfectly. My margin for error was basically non-existent and I didn't trust my own ability to transcribe the coordinates of the holes from the brackets to the legs.
So instead, I clamped the brackets to the legs and drilled the bolt holes using the brackets themselves as a guide. This way there was no chance of me messing up!
Step 9: Mortising the Brackets Into the Legs
Step 9: Mortising the Brackets Into the Legs
A quick test fit of the bolts into the freshly drilled bolt holes revealed my first major issue on this build (of which there would be a few more). The bolts I bought to secure the brackets to the legs were 2″ long. As it turns out, 2″ was just a little bit too short and there wasn't enough thread poking out the other side of the legs to properly attach a nut to. Damn.
My solution was to mortise the brackets into the legs. This would decrease the distance between the two plates just enough that my 2″ bolts would fit perfectly.
Now the traditional way to do this would be with a hammer and chisel, but I'm not very skilled with traditional tools. So instead I used a trick I've used in the past and grabbed my cordless trim router with a cutting head on it to do the job. I set it to the same depth as the brackets and then slowly walked it across the legs. One cutting head width a time I mortised out an area the same size as the brackets.
This took a while and made quite the mess, but it worked and I also think it significantly improved the look of the hammock frame too.
Step 10: Compound Cutting the Bottoms of the Legs
I had one last thing left to do on these legs (other than finishing them of course) and that was cutting the bottoms of them so that they sat flat on the ground. However, I also wanted the legs to lean back at a 30-degree angle, so I had to do a compound cut on the bottom of each leg.
Compound cuts are a little tricky because instead of thinking in just 2 dimensions, you have to start thinking in 3. Anyone who has ever tried to cut and install crown moulding knows how quickly this can become confusing.
My miter sawhas no problem doing compound cuts luckily, so all this took on my part was a little bit of careful planning and a lot of double-checking my angles.
Step 11: Figuring Out the "V's" With Proxies
With the legs done I was ready to start thinking about how I was going to connect them together. I needed to build some sort of steel frame that would link the two together.
In order to figure it all out, I cleared some floor space in the shop and began taping out an approximation of what I wanted to build on the floor. Once I was satisfied with the shape I began trying to figure out all the angles and lengths of the pieces I would need to build it. I quickly realized that this was going to be a surprisingly complicated job.
I also quickly realized that I didn't have the brainpower necessary to use math to figure all of my measurements. Instead, I opted to use trial and error. Now trial and error isn't a particularly elegant way to get things done, but through the brute force of approximation you can figure out just about anything.
That being said, I wanted to build this connecting frame out of steel, and steel doesn't really lend itself to the trial and error process. It's hard to cut and it's relatively expensive. So instead, I decided to take a lesson I learned in the video editing world and I used a proxy to help figure it all out. Instead of mocking it all up in steel, I decided to use some scrap 2x4s that I had in the shop.
My wood proxies were much easier to work with, so it really sped up the process. I slowly shaved away at the pieces until I had exactly what I wanted.
Step 12: Cutting the Metal for the "V's"
Once I knew what I wanted, it was simply a matter of taking all the measurements from the wood and transferring them over to the 1″x3″ tube steel that I bought to make the frame. Since I knew this frame was going to be under significant tension while I was using the hammock I opted for the thicker-walled steel tube. It cost a bit more, but it made the frame that much more rigid and solid feeling.
Again, since there were many complex and compound angles, I cut all of these pieces behind the shop with my cordless angle grinder instead of my metal saw.
Step 13: Welding the "V's"
Back inside I welded the V's together. Keeping them held perfectly in place while I welded was a bit of a challenge since there were so many different angles involved. What I ended up doing was using CA glue to join my wood proxies together and then using those as a brace to hold my tube steel in place while I welded.
CA glue is great because you can use it to join something like two 2x4s together and it sets in seconds.
A quick test fit later and I was ready to move on to the next step!
Step 14: Creating Mounting Plates (And Messing Up)
At this point, I was riding the euphoric high of someone who had just overcome a significant challenge. I pressed forward and started fabricating some mounting plates that I would use to mount my new Vs to the Ipe legs. The design was pretty simple, a 5″ long plate with 2 bolt holes. I'd weld the plates to the Vs, bolt everything together and I'd be good to go…. right?
Well, not so much. As it turns out there was a fatal flaw in my plan
Step 15: Figuring Out My Mistakes
The plates I designed didn't really work. Or more accurately, they only half worked.
The lower of the two bolt holes was quite close to the ground, and because the bolts would have to go in at an angle, by the time the lower bolt exited out the backside of the leg it would be touching the floor. Which meant it would be impossible to get a nut on the other side of it. Crap…
This was not good and forced me to re-design how the Vs connected to the legs. Once I discovered the mistake I had made I got pretty frustrated and decided to hit pause on the build (read: I rage quit). After sleeping on the issue I hit the shop feeling renewed, with a new design and a much better attitude.
I think it's important to realize that if you're building something without a well-thought-out plan, you're almost guaranteed to encounter some sort of issue like this. If, and when, you do it's important to remain flexible. These issues will rarely completely derail a build, they'll just force you to make some tweaks here and there.
Step 16: Turning My Mounting Plate, Into a Mounting Shoe
My solution was to turn my mounting plate, into a mounting shoe. I went to the store, bought some more flat bar steel and cut some more 5″ long pieces. I then proceed to wrap the steel around the leg, boxing it in on all 4 sides.
By fully wrapping the leg like this I felt comfortable using a single bolt on each leg. Most of the tension would be carried by the actual shoe and the bolt would act more like a cotter pin keeping the leg from sliding up and down. At the end of the day, I actually think this is a superior design. It took a bit more work to pull off, but I like how it looks and functions better.
And as for the lower bolt hole, I simply filled that in with the welder. That way, I wouldn't have to be reminded of my mistake every time I looked at those empty holes.
Step 17: Cutting the Stretcher
Finally, it was time to make the last major component of this frame. I had to cut a stretcher that would join the two Vs together. I cut a single long piece of 1×3 steel, lowered it into position and then realized I had yet another problem to overcome.
The straight cut left by my saw would not fit over the rather complex profile of my Vs. Thankfully a career of framing houses taught me everything I would need to overcome this particular challenge. What I needed was a birdsmouth.
A birdsmouth is a fancy way of saying that I needed to cut a corresponding profile in the ends of my stretcher piece. After a little bit of careful measuring and cutting with the angle grinder, I had shaped the ends of my stretcher so that they fit nicely over the V's, ready to be welded together.
Step 18: Welding the Stretcher
One of the things that I love about welding so much is that you're constantly adding material to whatever you're working on. Practically, this means that you're able to bridge small gaps between pieces you're welding together.
This was good for me because while my birdsmouth cuts were pretty good, there were still a few spots where they didn't make perfect contact with the Vs. In order to fill those gaps in I simply layered the bead of the weld over itself, slowly filling in any air gaps. This is a bit of an art, but as you practice more and more at welding it becomes easier to do.
It also takes a lot of the pressure off when you're cutting metal for a build like this. You don't always have to be super precise, as long as you're in the right ballpark with your cuts, you can usually make it work.
Step 19: Testing the Hammock
Before going any further I had an important test to do. I unboxed my hammock and made sure that it fit tightly between the two ends of my frame.
When you're working on the fly like this it's always important to be constantly testing your work. If I had gone through all the trouble of painting and finishing this frame, only to realize I needed to take make it an inch wider I probably would've been pretty upset with myself. Frequent "sanity checks" help to make sure you don't get too far off course.
Also, you may have noticed I said I unboxed my hammock. That's because I actually used a store-bought hammock. I figured I had my hands full with the construction of the actual frame itself and didn't want to add another variable into the mix. Maybe sometime in the future, I'll make my own, but for this build, I wanted to focus on the frame.
Step 20: Grinding My Welds
One job that I was not looking forward to was cleaning up all of my welds. I'm not a great welder, I think that much is evident from a lot of these pictures. So I had to spend a lot of time grinding away at them to get things nice and smooth.
Normally, I use flap discs on an angle grinder to do the majority of my grinding, but for this build, I tried something a little bit different. I got a die grinder along with a carbide head and used that to attack my ugly welds. This method is a lot rougher, but it does have its advantages. For one, the carbide head lasts a really long time, and because of it's shape it can easily reach tight inside corners and smooth them out.
So I did a lot of the heavy lifting with the die grinder and then I transitioned to the angle grinder with the flap discs to smooth everything out.
Cleaning everything up took a solid day of work in the shop. It was really time-consuming haha.
Step 21: Sanding
As a final step of prep prior to finishing, I gave everything a really good sanding. This just helps to remove a lot of tooling marks and make the metal look smoother. I polished the metal with my random orbital sander and while I was at it, I gave the Ipe legs a good sanding too.
I also used a block sander on the Ipe legs to round their corners and make them a little softer to touch.
Step 22: Painting All the Metal Components
Like I said earlier in the post, the Youtube video of this build was sponsored by Krylon, so when it came time to paint the legs I grabbed some cans of their Colormaxx paint in satin black and went to town on the frame and the brackets.
Normally I like to do my painting inside the shop because it's a climate-controlled environment, but this day was a particularly nice summer day. It wasn't too hot and it wasn't too humid. It was right in that perfect pocket for spray paint application.
It's actually pretty important to get both temperature and humidity right before applying spray paint, so always check the directions on the can or the manufacturer's website before applying!
I sprayed 3 coats on each component and then left them to dry in the shade.
Step 23: Oiling the Legs
Ipe is a tough wood. So tough in fact that you don't really NEED to apply anything to it in order to protect it for outdoor use. That being said, it will turn a silvery-grey color if left untreated. Some people like that look, but personally, I'm not a huge fan. So I applied and a coat of protective oil to my legs.
This oil has a slight stain to it and really made the color of the Ipe pop. I'm a huge fan of how it turned out.
Once the legs and frames were dry I packed everything up in the truck and took it all home to assemble!
Step 24: Setting the Hammock Up at Home
Back at home, I realized I had one last job to do. I installed a single felt pad on the bottom of each leg. These little feet would elevate the legs ~1/4″ or so off of the ground and help to prevent the legs from potentially wicking up any moisture. This probably isn't a necessary step given how good Ipe is at resisting moisture, but hey, it couldn't hurt either.
Finally, I rolled out the hammock, hooked it onto the frame and it was FINALLY ready to be used.
Step 25: Enjoying It
With all of the hard work out of the way, it was time to kick back, relax, and enjoy my new creation. And after this build, I definitely needed a break. Even if I had taken the time to plan this build ahead of time, it still would've been really challenging build.
If there's any moral to this story its almost certainly that planning out your builds beforehand is the way to go. It'll save you time, money and a lot of headaches. But, it's not always possible, and I think it's important to have the skills necessary to improvise, build on the fly, and tackle challenges without a fixed game plan. So, I hope seeing some of my thinking and how I problem solved this build will help you if you ever find yourself in a similar situation.
Because honestly, I think we've all been there to some degree or another!
P.s. the hammock is extremely comfortable and makes a great spot to soak up some of the remaining summer sun.
Alright, that's it for this build every one. Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it, if you did you might want to check out my Instagram (Instagram.com/ZacBuilds/) and the aforementioned YouTube channel (youtube.com/zacbuilds) to see the rest of my builds.
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Hope you all have a wonderful day and I will see you in the next build!


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Hauser, Idaho
|Primary Discipline(s)
|Triathlon, Road Cycling / Criterium, Road Running, Trail Running, Hiking
|Bucket List Race
|Ironman Canada
|Post-Race Drink
|Infinit Repair
|Off-Day Activity
|Hiking in the Pacific Northwest
I am a runner who added in triathlons back in 2015 recovering from an injury. I have done (8) 70.3s and 1 full IM. I have been fueling with Infinit for many years and turning my local tri club friends on to it as the best thing ever.

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text: Yes "All This Love" is such a great song that it is more than deserving of Part Deux, Treux, Quareux or whatever numbers I just made up. That's always been the driving force behind this series – the songs. As we always state a great song has that special trait that makes it so inviting over and over and over again. For the most part #Growns we know the score on this 1983 classic from DeBarge penned by none other than El DeBarge. For my money "All This Love" is one of the greatest ballads every written and as I often joke the original recording is one of the best Bossa Nova tunes that just happens to be R&B. Today's cover taken from Calvin Richardson's 2014 release I Am Calvin is what we call 'round these parts "Good and Grown". A lot of the appeal for me on this take is Calvin's sublime vocal tone. Calvin takes the Midwestern undertone that was superimposed upon early 80's L.A. Urban Chic of the original and provides a new century down home major Southern City realness as evidenced by a great ad-lib like "You can get it girl…" among other personal touches. I'll admit a song as iconic as "All This Love" is one of those songs that you can easily get lost in the long shadow that its legacy casts and end up dialing in a Friday Night It's Alright Karaoke Version. That's not what's going on here. The production of team of Eric Benet and Demonte Posey provide ample space for Calvin to do his thing his way. With Eric holding down the backing vocals Calvin is really allowed to get loose and hold court especially after the instrumental break on through to the coda. Musically this cover is in the just right category – not overdoing it in any way in the arrangement and the string arrangement in the intro provides a glimpse of the warmth that is all over this track. What I like about this track is that it's 2014 being 2014 and not feeling it had to be a period piece and mock-up 1983. Press play. Ivan OrrIvan Orr is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, performer, and writer. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia Ivan was involved with the forming and nascent days of The Music Resource Center as its first Program Director. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Music, Ivan currently resides in Richmond, VA where he maintains an active performance and production schedule while serving as the Music Editor for Grown Folks Music, a position he has held since 2010. www.grownfolksmusic.com1983 2014 All This Love Calvin Richardson Debarge DeMonte' Posey El Debarge Eric Benet I AM Calvin RELATED POSTS ArtistsCover Me February 23, 2021Lamont Dozier Jr. – "Hello It's Me" 80's R&BCover Me February 7, 2021"Cover Me" Sundays(Influencer Edition) – "I'm In Love"/"I Can't Describe" Cover Me January 31, 2021Cover Me Sundays: Justin Lee Schultz – "Do I Do" Cover Me January 24, 2021Cover Me Sundays: "No One In The World" Cover Me January 17, 2021Cover Me Sundays: Hil St. Soul – "Heaven Must Be Like This" Cover Me January 10, 2021Cover Me Sundays: "Baby Can I Hold You" Add comment Cancel replyComment Name * Email * Website Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. PrevNext


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Midnight Meme Of The Day! McCarthy & McConnell Double Down On Cover-up
by Noah
Oh! What a surprise! The Domestic Terror Party is against investigating the machinations behind the 1/6 attempted coup. Gee, I never saw that coming! But, hey, they've got plenty of time and energy for Hunter Biden's laptop and Hillary's emails.
On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to investigate 1/6 with a supposed 9/11-style commission. I say "supposed" because the investigation bill the wussy Democrats put forward was watered down to the extent that they met the Republicans more than halfway and even apparently gave into every single one of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's demands regarding formats, staffing, subpoena veto power, and procedures. Imagine giving al Qaeda a seat at the table for the 9/11 investigation or letting some German Nazi judges sit on the Nuremberg panel after WW2, all in the name of "bipartisanship" of course. The Democrats even agreed to finish up the whole dog and pony show by the end of the year because the Repugs didn't want all that bad publicity of their involvement dragging into the 2022 election year. So, there ya go, a quickie now ya see it, now ya don't crapshow. Nothing to see here folks. No unsightly treason. Nope, no traitors here! Washington always takes care of its own. Yeah, I understand the idea of wanting some votes in favor from the Repugs. That would take away their standard "partisan" bitch but, so what, they'll bitch and whine no matter what. Fuck 'em. They gave up their right to any bipartisanship when they chose to secede from democracy and made their bigly bigliest statement about it on 1/6.
To be fair, and I'm always fair; in the end 35 Republicans did vote to proceed with forming a 1/6 commission. Swell. However, it's worth noting that fewer Republicans voted for the investigation than voted to certify President Biden's election. In other words, the Domestic Terror Party has gotten even more obstinate in their treason than they were on 1/6. Pay attention! This is not going in the right direction. Trump's party is getting worse and worse as the weeks go by.
McCarthy and McConnell deserve special attention, more so than even before now. The Democrats gave McCarthy everything he asked for and, in the end, he smirked his smirk and voted no. McConnell? He was sort of for it before he was most definitely against it. Sounds like a couple of phone calls came in from the Republican white house down in Mar-a-Lago, or maybe the Russian embassy. Now the whole farce goes to the $enate. I can't wait to see what goons like Lindsey Graham and Susie Q Collins have to say. Can't you just see her saying that she's giving it all "careful consideration" and then voting no. John Thune (DT-SD) has already chirped up. He's concerned about how treason might look in 2022:
I want our midterm message to be about the kinds of issues the American people are dealing with. anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 election is a day lost on being able to draw a contrast.
In fact, it's painfully obvious from his statement that the treason of his party's attempted coup is not a biggie at all as far as he's concerned. Yeah, it's all "We tried. We failed. Let's let bygones be bygones. Let's move on." The Trumpies certainly don't want people thinking about their un-American activities during the 2022 election year. We already know where Josh Hawley stood on all of this. He put his fist in the air in solidarity. Same with Fled Cruz and Ron "Pride Of Wisconsin" Johnson. Add John Thune to the list of the scummiest Republicans. How many more? Hell, nearly every damn Repug in both houses of Congress showed us where they stood on treason, cop-killing, the idea of hanging Pence, Pelosi, and others, and smearing Republican maga feces on the walls when they voted not to impeach their beloved leader even after he incited their attempted coup. 1/6 was a very disappointing day for Repugs just not in the same way it was very disappointing for patriotic Americans. Imagine how much shame they must feel when they speak with their Russian friends.
Yeah, and don't forget that that whole mob of violent white supremacist cop-killing Trump fans that Repugs now allege were really just a bunch of typical, well-behaved tourists. Rep. Andrew Clyde was no aberration. His "tourists" statement was a perfect example of the kind of thing you get when you let members of the Domestic Terror Party sit on these commissions. So if there ever actually is a 1/6 Commission, of any kind, expect more of the same. None of the congressional Republican a-holes really want any serious investigation. No Republican does. They don't want their connections to the planning of the attempted coup being exposed and they don't want their connections and even financial contributions to and from the white supremacist groups exposed either. They know what happens when you start pulling threads.
Democrats should go it alone and stop all this wimpoid, idiotic negotiating with terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. They should roll out the select committees like the Repugs did for 3 years over Benghazi. Forget getting it over within a mere 6 months so it doesn't push into the 2022 election year ("Oh, we don't wanna be pushy. We don't want to offend.") My god, what the hell is wrong with these people! Steamroll it right into 2024! The Democrats should Benghazi this whole attempted coup times 10 but they won't and they'll just be inviting another attempt at overthrow. If the Democrats did get serious, we would find that, unlike the cases of Benghazi and Hunter Biden, there really is a there there. If it was up to me, I'd even recite the whole book of findings from a big desk on a flatbed trailer parked outside Four Seasons Landscaping and then take it to Trump Tower for a repeat performance. Take the whole thing on the road and use this as a theme song.


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Ironbound films' latest endeavor is the 15-minute short film documentary subject called 'Detected' narrated by actress Melanie Griffith, about the story of technology entrepreneur Rob Royea. The film is directed by Daniel Miller, Jeremy Newberger and Seth Kramer. The movie scrutinizes and examines how to advance detection of breast cancer in women. 1 in every 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and the disease kills half a million women each year. With horrifying statistics such as these, Rob Royea is determined to solve the problem with a miraculous new innovation; a bra that instantaneously communicates signs of cancer.
The film opens up with a discussion surrounding dense tissue and how often times, it makes it incredibly difficult for oncologists to detect cancer cells being present. Royea describes it as a "snowflake in a snowstorm".
The film does a great job of explaining to the viewer first how far spread breast cancer is both domestically and internationally and goes into detail about how the technology is less intrusive than that of a typical mammogram, which for any woman reading this that has experienced having one, it's not an exam any of us look forward to getting. The iTBra as it's referred to in the film; is like a computer device that acts as an adhesive to the breast tissue and can detect instantly when cancer cells are present.
Royea does his due diligence by traveling internationally to Asia in countries like Singapore, that has a high rate of breast cancer among women who live there. Royea in the film is seeking to secure investors to help fund more prototypes for his new technology which will cost 7 million dollars to make just a few hundred of them.
One of the things that stuck out to me which in my opinion, I thought was severely disappointing was out of all of the women being tested and seeking medical care; there were no Black women present in the film. According to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Black women tend to be diagnosed at a younger age than white women and the median age at diagnosis for black women is 59, compared to 63 for white women. Due to many variables, one is lack of proper medical care and health care prevention, Black women out of all ethnicities of women are likely to have triple negative tumors which are aggressive. To have African-American women erased from the film as a viewer indicates to me, that the prototypes used in Royea's tech being developed are only afforded to white and Asian women.
The film has great pacing, with an incredibly informative subject matter, but fails miserably on its intersectional representation of women breast cancer patients.
I'm not going to give it a rotten rating here because although the erasure of Black women was problematic, the subject matter was intriguing and the film did a great job of presenting its case.
The film ends on an ambiguous note and we don't know what happens next with the iTBra and/or the patients it's being tested on, but I'm sure this isn't the last of this technology that we will hear about. Let's at least hope so.
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Jamie Broadnax is the creator of the online publication and multimedia space for Black women called Black Girl Nerds. Jamie has appeared on MSNBC's The Melissa Harris-Perry Show and The Grio's Top 100. Her Twitter personality has been recognized by Shonda Rhimes as one of her favorites to follow. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and executive producer of the Black Girl Nerds Podcast.


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Two people download the Tinder app and set the area radius and age range at the same settings. Both parties swipe right and Viola! It's a match! This is our story. After 3 weeks on tinder and 3 dates equivalent to the porridge bowls of Goldilocks and the Three bears, Darryl felt "just right". It was like a high school romance, we went on dates, talked on the phone until we fell asleep, worked out together and even had love task for each day of the week (SN: if you're not a hopeless romantic get ready to gag).
Motivational Monday: Send each other an inspirational quote, message or video.
Tune of the day Tuesday: Send the link to a song that the other should hear.
Word of the Day Wednesday: Text a new word with the definition to expand our vocabulary
Thankful Thursday: Express what we were thankful for.
Fun fact Friday: Tell each other random facts about pure randomness.
After almost 2 years of dating he finally proposed! I was so excited to plan the wedding of my dreams with my "just right" bowl of porridge. If the author could have only changed the story to Goldilocks enjoying her stay at the cottage without the 3 bears returning home (like a bed and breakfast) then I would probably have pictures in my dazzling Kleinfeld Bridal Gown ON my wedding day. You know how her story ends,and for me my little bear was on her way as well and plans would have to change. We decided to pump the breaks on the lavish wedding and press the gas on finding a home.
Bing: December 13th we got the keys to our first home!
Bang: December 19th we got married!
Bong: February 28th Oakley Raye Davis was born!
Did we have time to enjoy the engagement? Did we have time to enjoy each other as newlyweds? Ummm NO we did not!
We didn't even think that the rush of all these life changing events had an effect on us but it did. I went from happy in love to momma mode in what seemed like seconds. Everything was about Oakley and even when we would bring up the importance of keeping each other first, neither one of us would act on it.
Here we were new homeowners, newlyweds and new parents letting tension and stress pull us further and further apart. I felt like I couldn't say anything to him without starting an argument and he felt the same about me. The even crazier thing was that we were posting Instagram pics and Facebook posts like we were the perfect happy family. Some days we barely spoke to each other (which is easy to do when you have a TV in every room haha). I was losing my baby weight and thinking to myself "I'm a MILF, if he doesn't want me someone else will." I'm so glad that just remained a thought and nothing else. You see, I had forgotten about all the bowls of porridge that were too hot or too cold for me, the uncomfy beds (figuratively and literally) and that Darryl was "just right".
Remember the things that made you two fall in love. If we watch anything with humor and laugh together I'm instantly attracted to him just like I was the first time he took me to see Kevin Hart. SN: ( The Unbreakabke Kimmy Schmitz may or may not have saved our marriage!)
Communicate exactly how you are feeling. If you're overwhelmed,anxious, jealous, whatever it is tell your spouse. Darryl was annoyed for having to rush into buying a house. I was annoyed that we were basically having a shotgun wedding. Neither one of us wanted to be completely honest.
Make time for just you and your significant other. Ask someone to watch your bundle of joy for an hour or two and go out or stay in and cuddle. Just make sure you're able to connect. And guess what? Touching each other actually helps!
I'm learning that Bing Bang Bongs happen all the time. It's life. Even the three bears couldn't leave their home without an intruder and poor Goldilocks couldn't find a decent Airbnb. No matter how much is piled on your plate or bowl at once (pun intended) take your time and find your way back to "just right."
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As a technology guy who became a business owner, my learning curve about marketing and sales was steep and painful. In my corporate past, the marketing and sales department was steeped in mystery. We IT staffers thought it was magic because all the golf shirts, pens, mugs, etc. came from "marketing."
They were all well-dressed, the women desirable and the men somehow not goofy looking (we suspected it was because they sent their shirts out to be ironed). We heard that there was a two drink minimum just to attend their meetings. Marketing people always seemed up beat and we suspected they had more than their fair share of sex.
The real mystery was their jobs. What the hell did they do all day? Their terminology is so wonderfully vague that it made our acronyms look coherent. It's important to realize that their jobs, deep down, aren't glamorous. The core work of marketing and sales is:
E-mail marketing (spam);
Direct mail marketing (junk mail);
Telephone sales (telemarketing); and
Web marketing (the black arts).
Those four methods of marketing and sales are gruesome. So marketing and sales people make up even more bizarre terms. One beauty is "brand equity." Brand is clear enough; examples abound such as Pepsi, Nike, Hooters. But equity? Equity in your home is the difference between the bank's assessed value of your house and your mortgage balance. So, what's brand equity?
What's the value of the Coca-Cola brand? If they distributed their pop in bland, unlabelled cans and called it cola, sales would plummet. But by how much? And you can't sell off a brand without selling the product. To remove a brand from a market, you have to buy the company that owns the brand and close it down (see Air Canada and Canadian Airlines for how well that worked).
"Positioning the product" is another stunner. OK, position it where? On the shelf? No, no, in the minds of the consumer. Huh? I can hardly remember where I left my car keys, let alone figure out how to position the concept of a brand in the minds of people I don't know.
Never allow anyone to separate marketing from sales. It is like Laurel and Hardy. One without the other is unnatural. But you will find marketing and sales people who say they don't sell, they communicate features, functions, benefits and price to the intended audience. Without a point of sale (a store, a Web site, a fruit stand, etc.) marketing is pointless. It's like writing a computer program without a computer. From an IT perspective, a marketing system outputs information and a sales system captures information, such as order and payment data.
The problem is that marketing and sales people are mentally disturbed because they can't measure anything. The effectiveness of a marketing campaign is measured through sales, right? Sort of.
If you take the ferry from Vancouver to Victoria, it takes about 90 minutes and you have time to look at racks of brochures. Imagine that someone picks up a brochure for the Salt Spring Island Extremely Nice Resort. That person leaves the brochure on their seat. Someone else picks it up, reads it and pitches it in the recycle bin. But they remember the name. Five months later, they decide they want to go to Salt Spring Island. They remember the name of the place and use a search engine to find the site. The resort might ask the guest, "How did you find us?" If the guest says, "On the Web," that's misleading. It's like saying, "I heard about you from some guy I met."
If you ever have the opportunity, talk to the marketing and sales professionals about their challenge with performance metrics. But don't be too smug with your coherent code-compile-test mentality. The marketing and sales people are responsible for the company's revenue, which then pays you.
Ford can be found pondering marketing and sales issues (muttering to himself) in Vancouver. Fresh selling ideas can be sent to [email protected].


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Brian began his career with Overnite Transportation (now UPS Freight), gaining unparalleled experience in the Supply Chain space over multiple leadership roles, while also establishing himself as a respected Executive Leader. He started his career from the ground floor as a Customer Service associate while moving up fast thru the management ranks in the field to the corporate office. Brian has played key roles on the Corporate Strategy area during several corporate acquisitions at UPS as a visionary to ensure long-term success. In addition to this, Brian has successfully been involved in multiple startup operations that have helped Load One grow to new heights and Taimen is off to have their best year ever already in 2021.
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You didn't think we'd finish the year off without a visit from one of our favorite interior designers, did you? Maggie Morgan covers New Year's Eve themed decor on her blog this week, and it's pretty. Behold, the furniture she would buy if she had an unlimited amount of money and was able to change her decor for every holiday. Purple, black, and gold ahead. [MR]
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The pushbacks and showdowns among promoters of different excise rates, counteractions against illegal market, issues of fuel procurement to gas station networks, analysis of hotline calls are the routine of any fuel retailer. To distract oneself from that routine, to weigh current state of things, and look broader into the market, one sometimes does not enough time. NefteRynok managed to snatch an hour and a half from the busy schedule of the owner of the BRSM-Nafta's petrol station network Andrei Biba only on Saturday to talk about the company's team, passion for grocery retail, competitors, pricing and company plans. And, of course, about the Italian wines, which BRSM has been carrying at their convenience stores for three years.
I remeber our last talk was at times when the company was going through a difficult period: BRSM lost more than 60 petrol stations of the network. One should admit that some stations leaving the network were the best fuel retailers in their regions. Today we see that the network has replenished its fuel retail assets and continues to expand further. How does BRSM-Nafta's petrol station network in Ukraine look like today?
Today the network consists of 167 plazas, we are represented in all regions of Ukraine. Yes, we lack our presence in some cities. In Kharkiv we have just 10 petrol stations, 7 petrol stations are in Dnipro , and only 2-3 stations in other large cities. This is certainly not enough. We have deployed our petrol stations alongside main highways, however, we do not cover secondary highways and roads amid a wide spread of electric vehicles domestically and worldwide. You know, secondary highways become less attractive, if they do not bypass let a small but a settlement.
But now our main goal is not the quantity, though I would say we are lucky with that too, while currently considering about 20 forecourts for purchase or rent. Our current priority is the quality of services at petrol stations, training of personnel, expansion of the range of services for motorists . New locations we refurbish at once into beautiful forecourts to entice more clients. We do quarterly regional promo sales with accuracy in fuel filling, focusing primarily on fuel quality and service variety. We honed our client communication, I personally review the complaints coming to our hotline and guide feedbacks by our directors to such complaints, track them to properly address and resolve such complaints. I must say, the hardships we passed through two years ago united our team, making everyone diligent in duties and an integral member of the BRSM team.
BRSM is the leader in the retail of LPG with its petrol stations. Why is the company not involved in wholesale, given its high competence in it?
We won't enter the wholesale until we solve the current bulk storage cspacity. Currently, BRSM is a 100% fuel retailer. Moreover, it is not so easy to enter the wholesale market, given solid positions in this segment of Stanislav Batrachenko [CEO of Nadezhda LLC, a large LPG trading company- Ed.] and other major stakeholders. Given the current margin in the wholesale, I think we would rather focus on fortunes in profitability of our fuel retails for now.
How do you handle gas storage deficits?
Not without losses, but we manage it somehow. We resort to services of other LPG depots, in particular, periodically store at depots of Nadezhda company, but strategically we will need our own LPG storage depots.
We had, let's call it, a technological delay in construction of LPG depot in eastern Ukraine, it is connected with obtaining permits form local authorities. Now we have gone through the longest procedures, and the dynamics of our development will be at the rapid pace.
This LPG storage depot will be similar in volume to LPG depot storage located in Pereyaslav [4 thousand tons LPG storage depot near Pereyaslavskaya railway station, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district, Kiev region – Ed], and will allow us to solve important logistical issues of LPG supply to our retail network. We have about 20 LPG retail stations in Kharkiv region, and from those locations it will be convenient to channel LPG to Poltava and Dnipro.
Once we finalize the construction of LPG s depot torage, then our logistics will be just perfect: the LPG storage depot will be within 10 kilometer from a railway station.
You are not yet among the LPG buyers of Kazakh and Lukoil . What are your plans for this year?
With Kazakhs we agreed for 2020 on a long-term LPG contract for 3 thousand ton a month, now we are at the final stages of negotiations. I belive the final correspondence will be though shortly and we sign the contract. This early March, I think, the first Tengizchevroil's railway tank cars will go to our LPG storage depot.
We also signed with Ukrenergy a long-term LPG contract for 2000 ton. The first deliveries will start February 2020.
I see, you have solid partners in LPG supply. What about your partnerships in supply and storage of light petroleum products?
We do not buy from or store at outsourced oil depots. This is the policy of our company. We periodically buy light oils from Ukrainian manufacturers, say from Ukrgasvydobuvannya ...
Why don't we see your company among the buyers of Kremenchug gasolines?
We are trying to establish a dialogue with Privat, but their management is not that proactive. We've been requesting a meeting with them for the second month in a row. They know that we are buying quite a lot, and they have management issues with the sale of both gasoline and diesel from time to time at some periods. I think we will sooner or later start cooperating. It's just a matter of time.
How does a BRSM's order cart look like today?
Today our purchases are as follows: 35% - LPG, 36% - diesel, 29% - gasolines. I think purchases differ from the common ones in market, because a lot of cheaper alternative fuel brands are somehow disregarded. In general, the trend is that the share of LPG is increasing, conversely, the one of gasoline is declining.
What is your attitude to the initiative on changing excise rates, in particular, to reduce the ones on gasolines and charge more excise for LPG? How may such changes affect your fuel retail network?
It will not affect us at all, it will affect buyers. Obviously, if one levels the rates, then the transition to LPG will cease, and one remains on the same sale level.
I am not a supporter of the excise leveling, but at the same time it is necessary to understand that excise on LPG in Ukraine is really small, and we need to stop this ramping switch to LPG, since it causes imbalance in fuel production in Ukraine, as well as worldwide: gasolines are in surplus, and LPG is in deficit. I can't figure out how we could procure our sales this summer. None of LPG trading companies have guarantees for ordered volumes to meet the annual 10 % increase in demand for LPG.
There should be a balance, and if possible, such a balance should be built up today, rather than waiting for a contingency. Should that happen, one will have to raise excise on LPG. If today one raises the excise on LPG or reduces it on gasolines, buyers will not be affected. Rather, the country will become less dependent on imported LPG, since we can not quickly increase LPG production locally, though can do that expediently for diesel or gasolines.
Today, the basic market rule is neglected: the price of LPG should equal 50-55% of the price for gasolines. We now have 40% , and even less, ratio, which has not been changed for several years. To establish balanced sales, it is necessary to return gasolines and LPG into to their usual price corridors.
For a long time, for many operators, the benchmark for fuel retail prices was the quotes by "Privat", until the latter made a gift a year ago, "forgetting" to lower their prices, thereby leaping from the low cost segment to the premium one. How do you determine your price ceiling, what is your benchmark?
I would split the benchmark into two segments: one for LPG and the other for petroleum products. The fact is that LPG price determination is the most difficult task, since a lot of participants, and not all of them are adequate to reality characters. Sometimes their pricing depend on their mood or whim [this moment the interlocutor laughs up sleeve-Es.]. Moreover, price depends on the mentality of the region or town. It happens that in one part of the city all retailers are at the same price level, and in another one they are just in price wars, which cannot be explained by logic. Take "Privat", for example: they keep high prices on their gasolines and diesel, which are abundant in the market, but lower their prices in the scarce LPG segment, provoke price plummeting, quickly followed by everyone else, including us.
Of course, we understand one has a customer loyalty policy, discounts, including hidden ones, so one works out price ranges accordingly. For example, compared with "Privat", we can not differ by more than 80 kop / liter, otherwise it causes an immediate outflow of customers. And considering that LPG is the product in demand primarily among buyers with little money, one needs to quickly adjust prices. Should one overlooks the downward trend, one immediately has losses in sales and revenues.
As for the light petroleum products, especially in non-cash [in coupons and fuel cards sales – Ed.] sale of brand fuels, the sale price there is almost the same, with a difference of less than 1% (± 10 kop / l). It might surprise you, but if you remove all the discounts, brands will have a 1.5% difference with the non-brand competitors. We screen all competitors: whoever sells fuel is a competitor to us. We watch, respond, adjust, and treat everyone with respect.
You are knowledgeable about the domestic market like nobody else in Ukraine, and you might have seen what is ongoing in Europe. In your opinion, don't we have a lot of petrol stations: 9 million cars account for about 7000 petrol stations?
Yes, Ukraine has definitely overdone in that regard. In any other country, the state looks to ensure there is no oversaturation in the market. For example, in New York it was determined in 60s that it should be 13 thousand taxis, issued just this very number of licenses, and not a single license more. It has been just recently, that they has come to the need to revise that number of licenses. New York decided on a certain amount of restaurant and foodcourts, so no extra facilities can be opened. Should one want to open a restaurant, one is welcome to buy it out from a competitor, or find a defunct dining room. But one won't be able to build a brand new facility for that purpose.
The same rule applies to petrol stations. I remember our travel in Italy: at the distance of 20km-25 km there is only one gas station amid a large, and in comparison with Ukraine, a crazy flows of cars in 3-4 lines in one direction.
There is a shortage of sane people in Ukraine, no clear regulation, and, most stupid, no punishment for violations. At the departure of one gas station one may see the entrance to next on. I remember NefteRynok did research of the Odessa highway. At the distance of about 460 km they spotted 108 gas stations. For comparison, between Florence and Milan is about 300 km, and only about 25 gas stations, I may repeat, amid crazy flows of cars.
In Ukraine, it's a gas stations galore, I think, by two-fold at least.
How can we change the situation, taking into account illegal dispensers? Is this a clear threat to the market ?!
Illegal dispensers is a separate story. We see that raids against them do not solve the problem. I would estimate that the program to counter the illegal fueling market is fulfilled by 30%, as the barrel dispenser owners are simply warned in advance about planned raids, and they simply suspend their work at the time of the raid. We help to track them, but I must say that the percentage of enforced dismantles is not that numerous. Upon implementation of the raids, we have seen a temporary slight improvements only in diesel DT, and only in some regions. And according to our monitoring, in Chernihiv region they did not dismantle a single illegal fuel dispenser! All of them remained intact.
I think its high time for introduction of quotas on construction of new petrol stations. It is necessary to define clearly what is a fuel retail station: that it is a car refueling point with such a minimal area site, a forecourt, a toilet, other definite minimal set of facilities, and give operators a time to complete unfinished construction, to commission that facilities. Then, it is possible to issue these quotas based on the estimated need of the region, taking into account the number of inhabitants and number of cars in the region. I am sure that legal market participants will only benefit from this. Warehouses with those barrel dispensers, who work without a cash register, without a concept of investment, social responsibility, taxes make evil to legal and transparent business, for consumers, for Ukraine as a whole. Barrel dispensers should dissolve, they are shame and nonsense of Ukraine, and, believe me, for Europe as well.
In 2019, several new-format stations appeared in BRSM's network, for example, a gas station in Podgortsy (Kyiv region) with a spacious shop and a cafeteria area. What are the results of your food retail? Will you pay more attention to set up of convenience stores at your petrol stations?
Co-located convenience stores and fast food have become extra income generators for every petrol station over recent couple of years. For every liter of fuels poured into the car tank a motorist spend extra UAH 1.3 on goods or food offered at the co-deployed convenience store or fast-food counter. Moreover, at our petgrol stations we put up for sale many products of our own production, packaged goods. We do not pattern prices for goods sold by our competitors at their convenience stores, rather than adjust our prices to the ones of nearby discount supermarkets of the region.
We try where possible to broaden our trade halls, put trade equipment, place coffee-makers and beverage dispensers.
In Podgortsy, this is our experiment, but we understood that the area of the trading hall did not allow us to make a fully-fledged convenience store, since there are only 300 m2. But, we move on further and we are doing two 400 m2 trading halls in the Dnipro and Odessa, that will allow us to increase the variety of food products on counters there. In Uzhgorod, we are dismantling a CNG filling unit to free 500 m2 for a convenience store and foodcourt, though across the road there are famous and popular Silpo supermarket and ATB discount store. But, that does not discourage us, we will try to overcompete them. I always say, the one who does anything is the one who succeeds.
Suppose it turns out that convenience stores yield more, would you give up the fuel sales?
Of course, not! How can I abandon that. As of recent, it was the 28th anniversary, when I for the first time put on a jacket and opened the first two car fueling facility, and during all those years, I've just been living for that.
How do you evaluate the prospects of the AdBlue market in Ukraine?
By our actions you can understand that we believe in this product. We are one of the first fuel station network operators to deploy AdBlue dispensers. Since we believe in future demand for that, we have now installed the first multi-fuel dispenser unit with 10 Gilbarco nozzles , with two nozzles hooked to AdBlue underground five-barrel tank .
We buy AdBlue from Ukrainian manufacturers and are preparing a project of our own production, which we plan to implement in the coming months.
Do you have a preference forany particular fuel dispenser brand?
We always give the manufacturer the opportunity to fight for us (laughs). I believe that BRSM is one of the largest customers for dispensers, nozzles, and related petrol station equipmen. Besides, I am a supporter of reliable operation of the equipment, and we do not overutilize dispensers. Whatever stations we open, even rented ones, we replace old dispenser units with new ones. This is our approach policy to that.
Let me share my observations that I made 20 years ago: a customer sees that you are refilling his car with even the best fuel, but from a depreciated dispenser unit, but still mistrusts you. When a customer sees brand-new new equipment, he or she has do not even doubt the quality of the fuel you are filling and their car tanks with.
Recently, by the way, Czechs from Adast visited us. Our engineers will go shortly to them for training. Previously we worked through a dealer, but now we will work directly with Adast as an equipment manufacturer.
You broke the living principles by pioneering wine sales at petrol stations. Petrol station is normally associated with fuels, but its operators have gradually instilled a coffee culture among motorists. But it's only you who "glued" together petrol stations and Italian wine sales. How did you get Ukrainians to shop for wines at BRSM?
It was my sporting interest to change the mentality of our compatriots. And, thank God, it really worked out. When I ordered the first trailer full of Viticcio wine to be sent to Ukraine in mid-2016, there was a complete misunderstanding among my top executives. They used to panic and write to me that " Only 100 bottles of Italian wine were sold on the whole BRSMpetrol station network during the last month. What will we do with your batch of 16.5 thousand bottles?"
But more interesting, we made a wine presentation by installing wine cabinets, motivated the sales staff that the best ones will receive bonuses, including free trips to a winery near Florence. We convinced the buyers that this is real wine and, importantly, we quoted a really reasonable price! Now, the bottom line is: in December 2019, we sold 43,000 wine bottles through our petrol station outlets! In January 2020 we sold 35 thousand bottles!.
We have completely disrupted the mentality of Ukrainians. I am negative about alcohol, but wine, real wine from Europe, the one made in Italy, in France, in Spain - is not considered a liquor, it is classified as food. If there are points where the sale of alcoholic beverages is forbidden, there will be no brandy or whiskey, there will be no fortified wine, but for sure there will be dry wines. Dry wine is not considered something dangerous to health. In Italy and France they drink from the 14-year-old age a glass or two every day, and stay healthy until 90-100- year age. I set myself the goal to accustom Ukrainians to drink quality and inexpensive Italian wines, and we made it available at our petrol stations. I think, we are getting it achieved very soon.
You have also been supplying Viticcio to BVS (Nadezhda LPG and gasolines wholesaler and retailer) exclusivity? Aren't you afraid that you may lose your exclusiveness?
No, not in the least that I'm afraid of. First, they lack the zest we have in our wine sales, as I judge from BVS's wine assortments and order volumes. Second, they do not place wine bottles into separate sale cabinets. Third, our wines are sold not only at BVS, but at KLO , at Glusco petrol station networks. But its only BRSM who sell wine with dedication and passion!


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In this article, we will be going over various ways that you are able to find the best vintage lenses for Sony a6000 cameras out there as easily as possible. The use of a vintage lens on a modern style camera is becoming more and more popular and due to the massivly popularity of the Sony a6000, we are constantly seeing people reach out for advice on how to find vintage lenses that work with the a6000.
We have decided to publish this article in an attempt to help as many of our readers in this situation as possible as this can prove to be both an expensive and tricky task. Due to the Sony a6000 using the E mount design and most vintage style lenses that work with Sony cameras coming with the A mount design you can also expect to have to purchase an A mount to E mount lens converter too (Click here to check for product prices and availability) but we will cover a way to get around this.
Native Vintage Style Sony E Mount Lenses
In our opinion, the main advantage of using these lenses rather than an actual vintage lens is that it removes the need to purchase the A mount to E mount adapter we mentioned earlier than can sometimes cost around one hundred dollars and up. Additionally, due to these Rokinon lenses coming with a native E mount lens mount the connection is solid and can improve your image quality when compaired to lenses that require adaptors.
Another advantage of using these vintage style lenses is that you are often going to be the first owner of the lens meaning there is a high chance of you having less problems with it. On top of this, if you do end up having a problem with these lenses then warranties and manufacterure support is available to get the lens fixed or replaced easily.
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Voigtlander Vintage Sony Lenses
Next up we have the Voigtlander lens range (Click here to check for product prices and availability) that is kind of a best of both worlds solution to finding vintage lenses for your Sony a6000. Not only are there plenty of Voigtlander vintage lenses available on sites like Amazon (Click here to check for product prices and availability) that are truley vintage lenses but will probably require an A mount to E mount converter but they also product various vintage style lenses that come with an native E mount converter.
The majority of the lenses in the Voigtlander range offer a nice smooth, responsive manual focus with a great focal length, and a suprisingly good image quality with a nice depth of field. Spare parts for these lenses are generally readily available too as well as experienced people who are able to fix the lens if you have any issues with it even if it is out of warranty.
If you are dead set on using an actual vintage lens rather than a vintage style lens we would recommend that you try to pick up something from the Voigtlander range if possible. Their reputation amongst the community is excellent and their range of lenses is large enough to increase the chances of you being able to source the type of lens that you want.
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Meike Vintage Sony Lenses
Next up we have the Meike lens range (Click here to check for product prices and availability) that also have both vintage and vintage style lenses available on the market. From what we have seen though, the majority of the actual vintage lenses from Meike have been bought up by collectors or people who then resell them massivley over prices making it easier to souce a Voigtlander vintage lens.
As you would probably expect by now, if you are picking up an actual Meike vintage lens then you will probably need some type of lens mount adaptor to get it to fit your a6000 but many of the modern vintage style lenses by Meike are available with a native E mount connector to fit your a6000 without issue.
Another advantage the Meike vintage style lenses have is that they are often sold at a much fairer price than the old school actual vintage ones as well as coming with some form of warranty or support to ensure you will get a good amount of use out of your investment.
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Script to Screen: American Beauty
- Thursday, October 1, 2015 / 7:00 PM (PDT)
- Pollock Theater
- Screening Format: DCP (122 Minutes)
- With Alan Ball (Screenwriter)
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Wes Bentley, Thora Birch
Sinister, poignant and ultimately uplifting, this meditation on mid-life crisis under pressure of suburban tedium has been celebrated as a high point of late nineties, darkly comic social drama.
Starring Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham, Annette Bening as wife Carolyn, and Thora Birch as daughter Jane, American Beauty won 5 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay.
The Script to Screen series is proud to announce its 5th season premiere event: American Beauty (1999). The presentation of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Oscar® winning Screenwriter Alan Ball, veteran Writer/Producer, whose showrunner credits include Six Feet Under and True Blood. The event will be moderated by the executive producer/host of Script to Screen, Matt Ryan.
Screenwriter Alan Ball
Alan Ball is a writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theater. He began his career writing for the TV show Grace Under Fire (1993) and then became writer and co-executive producer on Cybill (1995). In 1999, he transitioned to feature films with American Beauty (1999), which won Best Picture and an Oscar® for himself for Best Original Screenplay. He returned to television to create/write and executive produce the hit HBO television shows Six Feet Under (2001) and True Blood (2008).
Alan Ball has won numerous awards, which starts with his Oscar® for American Beauty. For Six Feet Under, he won an Emmy and Directors Guild Award for directing and a Producers Guild Award. In 2002, in recognition of the realistic portrayal of gay characters on the show, he received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Stephen Kolzak Award.
Moderator Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan is Director of the Pollock Theater where he pioneered the Pollock Theater Internship, which professionalizes students by developing production skills with hands-on experience. Ryan created and hosts the Script to Screen series, which has welcomed prestigious guests like Oscar® winning screenwriter John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave and Oscar® winning screenwriter Alan Ball for American Beauty.
Matthew Ryan began his career as a video librarian at the legendary Kaufman Astoria Studios. He became Associate Producer for Fox Movietone Newsreels putting together video packages for news stories. As Events Manager at New York University's Cantor Film Center, he produced a series of film programs that included evenings with Martin Scorsese, Tim Robbins and Alec Baldwin. In 2008, he received an MFA in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. His primary writing focus is science fiction and comedy.
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Looking over the brighter side, the public has paid more attention to their home furnishings as more time is spent at home.
In fact, there is no need for drastic construction and decoration.
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completely bright, and completely somewhere in between.
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In this article, I'm going to discuss the different guava varieties. Guava have many varieties and some of them include Homestead, Tropical white, and Detwitler guavas. All of these guavas differ in taste, color, and texture to one another. To find more varieties of guava and to learn more about their differences and uses, follow along with this article.
Guava plant exists in different forms, taste, and colors. Likewise the fruits they produce. Some fruits are large, while others weigh small to medium. Some are white, while others possess red, pink, purple, or yellow flesh. Some of the fruits are sweet, while others are neither aromatic nor sweet.
In this article, we are going to discuss some of them one after the other with a focus on the taste, color, flower, fruit size, seed number, and aroma.
1. Beaumont Guava
- This is an evergreen plant
- The bark that is covering the trunk is smoothed
- It can reach up to 4.7 to 6m in height
- The tree is wide spreading
- The cultivar is obtained from fruits found in Halemanu, Oahu, and Hawaii
- This tree produces white flowers
- The plant bears fruit during fall and sometimes in the winter
- It produces fruits that can weigh up to 8oz in size
- The fruits are very sweet
- The fruits have a frgrant aroma
- The fruits are round
- The fruits have flesh that are sometimes pink or red
- The fruits produce numerous seeds
- The tree is a heavy producer
Uses Beaumont Guava
- The fruits are used as an immediate source of energy
- The sweet pulp is used in the production of juices
- It is one of the favorite snacking fruits in the Hawaii
2. Lemon Guava Cultivar
- This is a shrub woody tree
- It is an evergreen plant
- It is also called cattley guava
- The fruits produced are small typically of not more than 3-5m in diameter
- The fruits are rounded in shape
- The skin of fruits is golden yellow when ripe
- The pulp is a jelly-like in appearance
- The fruits have numerous seeds that perforated the jelly-like flesh
- The seeds can be eaten
- The pleasant aroma produced by the fruits smell like that of a lime flavor
- The fruits produced by lemon guava are very sweet with nice flavor
Uses of Lemon Guava
- The fruits can be eaten raw or processed
- The fruits are used in the production of jams and jellies
- The seeds are reach in minerals, which are used in supplementing the required minerals in the body
- The fruits are high in fiber, which aid bowel movement
- The fruits are rich in vitamin c, which works effective for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
3. Homestead Guava
- This is a shrubby perennial plant of not more than 2-4 feet
- The plant requires full sunlight exposure
- The flowers are white
- The plant is a heavy producer of fruits with excellent quality
- The plant produces a small number of fruits in late spring and a large number of fruits in late summer
- The fleshy part of the fruits range from pink, yellow to green
Uses of Homestead Guava
- The bark of the trunk has tanin, which is used in taning
- The young leaves and fruits are used to treat dysentery and diarrhea
- The juicy flesh is utilized in production of jams and jellies
- The fruits are used in production of beverages
4. Detwiler Guava
- This is another variety of guava that is evergreen
- It is also a shrub like other guavas
- It posses a yellow-fleshed guava
- It is the only guava cultivar with a unique yellow skin
- The fruits of Detwiler share both the features of red and white guavas
- The plant is used as a shelter belt
- The fruits are also edible
- Like other guavas, it is also used in the production of beverages
- The leaves, fruits, and bark are widely used in the treatment of various diseases
5. South African Guava
- The south African cultivars posses characteristics like that of other guavas
- The unique feature of some guava varieties is that the cultivars are frost-resistant, where the varieties can tolerate up to -4 degrees Celcius
- The fruits are oval or round
- The fruits can reach up to 6-12cm in diameter
- The skin of most cultivars is rough and edible
- The skin is green at first and yellow to green or pink to yellow when fully ripe
- The pulp is either "deep pink" or "off-white"
- The seeds that perforated the flesh are hard, small, and numerous
Uses of South African Guava
- The cultivars are great source of vitamins A, B, and C, which help in the treatment of eye and heart diseases
- The cultivars are also rich in iron, which help in blood formation
- The fruits are high in fiber, which ease stomach problems
6. Sweet White Indonesian
- Indonesian white guava is a heavy producing evergreen shrub
- The fruits produced by Indonesian white guava are large
- The outer part of the fruit is smooth and rounded in shape
- The color of the skin is yellowish-green
- The interior fleshy part is pink and creamy
- The fruits can grow up to 0.7-1-3 pounds
- The fruits are aromatic and sweet
- The trunk is sorrounded by a copper-like color bark that flakes regularly to uncoover shades of pink and green
Uses of White Indonesian Guava
- The fruits are among the favorite fruits for snacking in Indonesia
- The fruits and leaves are utilized in the management of many heart diseases
- The fruits are used as an immediate source of fiber and energy
7. Tropical White Guava
- It is a tropical dorminant tree of north America
- The name tropical white guava is gotten from the creamy white flesh
- The exterior or outer skin is yelowish green
- The fruits produced by this varieity is one of sweetest of all guavas
- The fruits are large, which can weigh up to 3 and 4 inches
- It starts bearing fruits at one year old
- The plant is a heavy producing tree
- The fruits have sweet taste and flavor
- It is the variety with the strong aroma
Uses of White Tropical Guava
- The plant can serve all the purposes that other guavas can serve
- Because of its strong flavor and sweet, tropical white guava is widely used in the production of flavoring agents
- The plant is utilized in various homes to complement bad odor and to counter the greenhouse effect
8. White Arabian Guava
- This is a white variety of guava that is mostly cultivated in many Arabian countries
- White Arabian guava is a very big tree which is up to 15 feet tall
- The trunk posses a very wide circumference
- The branch is wide spreading
- The cultivar is rare
- It is a cultivar with medium fruits bearing
- The fruits range from small to medium in size
- Unlike other white cultivars, this variety is differentiated with a white medium spherical shape
- The fruits are extremely sweet with excellent aroma
- The fruits have soft skin and flesh
- The seeds are many
Uses Of White Arabian Guava
- It is used as ornamental tree
- It is used to ptepare juice
- It is a favorite edible hedge in most arabian countries
9. Ruby Red Guava
- This is 5 feet bushy shrub
- It is an evergreen tree
- The plant grow well in tropical and subtropical
- It is a heavy producer
- The plant produces small to medium fruits
- The fruits are slightly sweet
- The fruits have soft and red pulp
- The seeds are also soft
Uses of Ruby Red Guava
- The fruits are utilized in juicing
- The plant is used in snacking
- The plant is used for fencing
- The fruits can be eaten fresh or processed
10. White Indian Variety
- This is another shrub cultivar of guava that is grown in Calofonia
- It is an evergreen and widely cultivated in India
- The variety is called white Indian
- The plant bear fruits during the late winter and early spring
- The fruits posses tropical aroma that smell similar to pinapple and banana
- The taste of fruits range from slightly sour to sweet
- The seeds are very hard
Uses of White Indian Variety
- Fruits are utilized in the production of beverages
- The leaves and bark are used to treat various diseases
- The plant is used for planting
- The fruits are used as immediate source of energy
11. Mexican Cream Cultivar
- Evergreen shrub
- Produces fruits of up to 5cm size
- Fruits with skin that is pale yellow with a red blush
- Posses pulp that is creamy white
- Fruits have thick pulp and fragrant aroma
- Seeds are soft, small, and edible
- Have pineapple and passion fruits aroma
- Fruits are sweet
Uses of Mexican Cream
- Fruits are used for making beverages and smoothies
- The plant is used for beautification and fencing
- Fruits are edible either raw or processed
12. Chinese White Cultivar
- Posses very big fruits
- Fruits are golden yellow in color
- Pulp is white
- Posseses fragrant smell
- Plant is a heavy producer
- Fruits tastes sweet
Uses of Chinese guava
- Plant is used for fencing and for ornamental purpose
- Fruits are edible
- Plant is utilized for the treatment of cold
13. Red Malaysian Cultivar
- Well known as Maroon guava
- Bushy small tree of not more than 2-3m tall
- Flowers are pink to purple in color
- Leaves are ovate
- Fruits are spherical
- Weight of fruits can reach up to 5oz
- Skin ranges from pink to brown
- Pulp is magenta in color
- Taste ranges from acidic to sweet
- Seeds are dotted and edible
Uses of Red Malaysian Cultivar
- Fruits are used in snacking
- Used in fencing and for ornamental purpose
- Edible both fresh and cooked
- Fruits are also utilized in juicing and other beverages
14. Red Indian Guava
- Originated from florida
- Posses medium to large fruits
- Fruits have excellent aroma
- Skin color is yellow to pink blush
- Fruits have red pulp
- Pulp is sweet and has nice flavor
- Seeds are very smal
Uses of Red Indian Guava
- Both leaves and bark are used in the treatment of many illment
- It is utilized as ornamental plant
- Fruits can be eaten fresh or processed
15. Hong Kong Pink Cultivar
- Fruits can weigh up to 6 or 8oz
- The plant posses round fruits
- Posses smooth flesh
- The pulp is pinkish in color
- Skin may appear green or yellow
- Fruits posses nice flavor
- Fruits are with fragrant aroma
Uses of Hong Kong Pink Cultivar
- Plant is used for fencing and beautification
- Fruits can be eaten fresh or processed
- Fruits are utilized for making juice and in making other drinks
We hope this guide helps in giving you a solid understanding of guava varieties. We would like to hear your own view in the comment section below.
Recommended reading:
Wild and cultivated species of guava
Learn the Botany and classification of guava
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Cranmore is a Community School situated in Northland Road, a quiet cul-de-sac close to the junction of Widney Lane and Cranmore Boulevard.
The school has approximately 240 children on roll in the 3-7 year age range.
The Local Authority deals with the admission process for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 and parents should contact the Admissions Office at Solihull Council regarding the school's admission and appeal process for these year groups.
For Nursery admissions please apply directly to the school.
Our admissions forms part of Solihull Council coordinated scheme. To find further information about the process and how to apply please go to the SMBC website, under Schools, Schools Admissions.
Please contact the school office for up to date information for open days throughout the year. Our virtual tour is available to view on the Home page.
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Nursery Admissions Policy 2022-23 (PDF)