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Could our grandparents have imagined a scenario in which we stand in a renovated Victorian theatre, hear an alert on our phone, look down to see a link to an amateur cat video, watch it on a screen not much longer than our thumb, pause the video to save it for later and then walk into the auditorium in order to view a two-hour Hollywood production in wide screen 3D with Dolby Atmos sound?
This is my media landscape.
Do I know what my media landscape will be like in five, ten or fifty years' time?
No. But I can imagine it.
One of the processes of imagining it has been to look at screen technology and see what has happened to the distinct media of my childhood: the book, the painting, the film and the television programme. In the 1980s they only occasionally converged. Today, I have devices of varying sizes – the smart phone, the tablet, the e-reader, the laptop, the desktop monitor, the HD TV, the cinema at the bottom of my street – that can display them all. The biggest of these are fixed; the smallest can be rotated within my hands and, like the magician's sleight of hand trick, can change the frame of my media so rapidly that I barely notice the frame is there at all.
So here is a premise, or perhaps a question: if the screen can be flipped, why can't the content be flipped?
This is the question that has formed the basis for my experiments with vertical media for the last couple of years. These are experiments with colleagues and friends in New Zealand as well as the wider, thinly connected, but sometimes interested, networks of social media peers across the globe. The first experiment was a guttural, almost petulant, response to a video that said that moving-images could not be vertical:
because motion pictures have always been horizontal, television are horizontal, computer screens are horizontal, people's eyes are horizontal …None of the latter statements are absolute truths (especially not the limited understanding of how our eyes receive and process images).
Some of the very first moving-images, Muybridge's studies of motion, were in a portrait framing.
Some of the most recent moving-images for advertising displays have been in a vertical format.
The only way to respond to such absurdities (and for many more follow #verticalvideo on Twitter) was with further absurdities: the vertical cinema manifesto
Like all good absurdities, there is a heavy dose of truth with in them and my article with Maddy Glen articulates this more clearly.
With these two absurd extremes now posited – a world in which we are banned from portrait framing and a world in which only portrait framing is allowed – the middle ground was less opaque and available for experimentation. This led to three more films, Heaven, Eddie's Adventure and our entry to the 2013 New Zealand 48 Hours film competition, Vic Dreams. It also led to a workshop to see what else could happen and a glimpse into the other end of the world where other practitioners (Aram Bartholl, Gregory Gutenko, Vertical Cinema Rotterdam, David Neal) were finding their own way through vertical possibilities.
Why, then, is our latest experimentation – the 2014 entry into the 48 hours competition – seemingly a rejection of the vertical form?
At a first glance this may seem to be the case. It is the first film I have worked on in two years that is in a horizontal format. In its most basic premise Waiting for Morgan is the tale of an aspiring cinema pioneer, James, who gives up everything to invest in the promise of a new vertical cinema that never comes to fruition. Blinded by his excitement in the new technology, James does not realise that he is the emperor waiting for new clothes that never arrive.
Hopefully at a second glance it becomes clear that this is us, back in the middle ground of experimentation and analysis, finding our way through our contemporary media landscape. Like all technological businesses, moving-image industries are in a constant race for the next big thing (HD, 3D, HFR, Ultra HD, 4K, 8K). The establishment of new technologies is often driven by the creativity, love and inventiveness of individual pioneers but it is rarely taken into the mainstream unless it can serve market-driven commercial models. 3D cinema is a good case study as its technological developments and innovations were kept alive through the boom and bust periods of the 1950s and 80s due to the perseverance and dedication of stereoscopic aficionados. However, 3D cinema only became part of a sustainable mainstream context when Hollywood devised a revenue system to make it profitable. Vertical media is currently the preserve of independent and avant-garde experimental filmmakers or amateur filmmakers on YouTube and Facebook (who may not even realise their participation in a new aesthetic). It is unlikely to become part of mainstream culture unless it becomes profitable.
In the same way that 3D cinema is no better and no worse than 2D cinema, vertical framing is not a replacement for horizontal aspect ratios. However, it may become a popular aesthetic when utilised, and made profitable, in new media scenarios. Our new screen environments – rotatable phones and tablets; vertical monitors in airports and train stations- are quite possibly the sites for a new moving-image culture. In our short film, all of this is missed by our protagonist James who is hoping to jump on the bandwagon for the next big thing rather than take stock of the possibilities available to him.
For me (and I hope it is also true of the talented crew and actors who co-created Waiting for Morgan) James' dying dream does not represent the end of new technological possibilities: an affirmation that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.' Instead, it highlights what happens when we become driven by individual excitement and forget to look around and take on the advice of the others around us. Had James considered the tablet in his hands or had a more honest conversation with his wife Moira, then his dream might still have been alive.
Within this context, Waiting for Morgan is a modern-day Icarus tale. The message isn't to give up on the dream of flying, just that soaring too high, without heeding the advice of others is always a potential danger. All those who say vertical framing is wrong and should be ended now, will see many of the early pioneers fall into the sea but from my scholarly perspective I hope to also see some others take flight in interesting and unexpected ways.


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Glass Projects
For some time, I had been wanting to make a set of "Redneck Wine Glasses". I had collected the mason jars and after searching thrift shops, finally found the glass candlesticks I also needed.
All I need next was to find the right adhesive. I wanted something easy to use that would dry clear. It also needed to be water resistant.
I found Loctite's Go2 Glue at my local Michael's store. It was just the thing. It was less than $10 plus I had a 40% off coupon. It worked exactly like the instructions indicated, curing in 24 hours. Since completing my original projects, I have found this glue to come in handy for other repairs. One of the best features is the container that has not clogged or glued itself shut while in storage in between projects.
My wine glasses came out perfectly! I was so pleased with the results. Even though my hubby thinks they are silly and refuses to use them, they are still a lot of fun. I don't have an issue with using them!
I made a second set for my daughter and her boyfriend, complete with wine glass charms. I used wine charm hoops and lettered beads I had on hand to make the personalized charms.
My last project was a pedestal I created for holding bottles on my bathroom sink. I had been looking for a cake plate or dessert server without any success at the thrift shops. When I found this glass serving plate I went to plan B.
I found a coordinating candle holder that I was able to attach to the bottom of the serving plate.
It turned out exactly like what I had envisioned. And no complaints from my hubby on this one!

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Knitting projects acquire a history. Their life spans the time from yarn selection to the final seaming.
As a project grows, the season may change, a holiday may pass, or something I am dreading will be overcome. I estimate how long the project will take and run through the future weeks or months in my mind. I place myself in that future date. Sometimes I am cast into the unknown.
This coat began in early June. I grabbed one of the final days before Summer vacation when both O. and A. were in school to go buy my yarn.
The receipt from the shop for my yarn was dated June 2nd. Two days before O. finished Second Grade, 3 days before her 9th birthday, and 4 days before her all-day birthday party in the back yard.
It was also 10 days before A.'s IEP meeting with the School District to begin transitioning him for September to a new school.
When it was time, I packed up most, but not all, of the green alpaca for our annual Cape May vacation. I took comfort in the knowledge that we were staying within walking distance of the yarn shop in case I needed their expertise.
I did indeed. I learned that the length of the gauge swatch matters just as much as the width. It was in Cape May that I unraveled the first half of the back of the coat when I realized it would be too big. Each project I learn something new, even if it means feeling a little foolish.
After 8 Summers in Cape May, we decided to visit the alpaca farm that every year I read about. Unexpectedly, I ended up in a conversation with one of the owners about their deceased son. She looked at A. and wished us good luck with him on our way out. Then she told me about her son who died in childhood of a fatal form of a related disorder to A.'s. I think of this couple often, and all sorts of emotions stir.
The coat grew over the rest of the long, stressful Summer that was dominated by anxiety of where A. would go to school.
I was only working on the coat in the evenings after O. and A. were asleep, and Husband and I would sit and watch baseball or a show. Any weekend babysitting time was spent working in the garden or hanging out at the pool club with O.
On I knitted, evening after evening, through the second season episodes of Mad Men, the first season of McCloud's Daughters. Through the good news that A. could go to the School for the Blind.
I knitted while wrestling with my "great matter", and the conflicting feelings brought on by the changing plans of re-located close friends, and O.'s best school friend. They were back to visit, but with dual vacation plans there wouldn't be much time to see them before they left again. Yet, they might stay for good. Not sure. Yes, they were staying, but bf was changing schools. I worried for O.
I was still knitting as O. happily returned to school, and A. finally started. The evenings were chilly, and we started closing the windows at night. October came, and I knew I would finish in time for the leaves to drop and soup to be made. I needed to buy more yarn to finish. 2 skeins. I even found the same dye lot. Finally, before Halloween, it was time to buy my buttons. I was almost shaking to be in the yarn store with my coat, all in one piece. There were ooohs and aaahs. Mostly, I think over seeing that beautiful yarn in use.
And then one evening, a weekday evening like maybe 120 before it, I stood up holding the whole thing. Buttons and all. Husband took it and helped me put it on.
"It's heavy", he said. Indeed it is. Heavy with more than than the 12 skeins of alpaca yarn and 3 wooden buttons it is made from.
I wore it last Saturday evening when we went out to the Spring Mill Cafe for dinner. It's a little longer than it appeared in the book, but it felt so soft and warm.
I felt a little glow of pride. I will wear it's complications of craft and history well.


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I'm alive
My birthday came and passed on Monday. I'm so old.
Last night we had our site launch, so I worked from late evening until mid morning, which was about 12+ hours. I get home and go to sleep and and I wake up to find that the site got rolled back because of performance issues AND my company just laid off 1/3rd of it's headcount including my friend who was my boss at Staples and got me the job in the first place.
Today sucks on an epic fail level. So excuse me as I go get some sprite to mix in my homemade skittle's vodka and get thoroughly shitfaced this afternoon.


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Please Save The TaTas
It is hard to go anywhere and not see a pink ribbon; it must be Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As a doctor, I of course believe that breast health is very important especially because it is the second leading cause of cancer death in our community. In recent years breast cancer is being diagnosed in women under 30 and with no family history. I want to tell you the story of a friend of mine who fought the breast cancer fight and tried to make a difference for others because it was too late for her.
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Kim's Story
My friend Kim and I went to medical school together we kept in touch via email and Facebook in recent years. When Kim was 10 years old she had been diagnosed with a Wilm's tumor in her kidney she fought it and survived. 20 years later she felt a lump in her breast. She told her doctor and the insurance company refused to pay for the specialized testing that her physician needed to make her diagnosis. This delayed diagnosis for a period of time. Unfortunately, African American women are being diagnosed at younger ages with a very aggressive breast cancer. So time is very important to catch the cancer before it spreads. I wish this story had a happy ending, but my friend ended up with cancer in several organs and she lost her fight earlier this year. Kim fought a very hard fight, she was originally diagnosed in 2008 and she fought long and hard.
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Depending on how many sign up, hopefully I'll be able to use most if not all. I'm trying to do new things with a few of them, going for a real misdirection feel with the game. Once I'm home, I have a few more ideas to add, actually.
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Experimental Vibration Analysis of Railcar for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation
František Trebuňa1, František Šimčák1, Róbert Huňady1,
1Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechatronics, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Safe operation of technical and technological equipments is necessary for preventing undesirable and dangerous states. The questions of lifetime and reliability of mechanical systems are solved very often in this context in practice. Particularly high demands are placed on safety of equipments that can operate only on the basis of special permissions. Transport containers for transportation of used nuclear fuel cassettes belong to this group of devices. On the basis of operator's order, complex methodology of type tests of transport container including its means of transport was elaborated. Described methodology includes analysis of vibration of transport complex during its movement.
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Keywords: vibration analysis, railcar, transportation, spent nuclear fuel, container
American Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2013 1 (7),
pp 423-426.
DOI: 10.12691/ajme-1-7-54
Received October 04, 2013; Revised October 14, 2013; Accepted November 11, 2013Copyright © 2013 Science and Education Publishing. All Rights Reserved.
Cite this article:
- Trebuňa, František, František Šimčák, and Róbert Huňady. "Experimental Vibration Analysis of Railcar for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation." American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 1.7 (2013): 423-426.
- Trebuňa, F. , Šimčák, F. , & Huňady, R. (2013). Experimental Vibration Analysis of Railcar for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 1(7), 423-426.
- Trebuňa, František, František Šimčák, and Róbert Huňady. "Experimental Vibration Analysis of Railcar for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation." American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 1, no. 7 (2013): 423-426.
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1. Introduction
Transport containers Figure 1 serve for manipulation and transport of spent fuel from nuclear reactors. The projected lifetime of containers is 30 years. In order to get certificate of ÚJD SR (Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic) for using these containers, it was necessary to map and document their actual technical state. In order to fulfill all demands of regulations, series of experimental measurements and tests were performed for determination of their residual lifespan [1, 2, 3].
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According to Supplement No. 1 of Regulation No. 57/2006, Part II., the consignment have to withstand any accelerations, vibrations, or resonances that can arose under conditions presumable during normal transport without decreasing of tightness of closure mechanisms in different parts of package or without violation of its integrity. Especially, nuts, bolts, pins, and other safety equipments has to be design in such a way that self-releasing cannot occur during their using, even in case of their multiple using. From this reason has been accomplished modal analysis and analysis of vibration of system container – railcar, during its movement with prescribed velocity, starting, breaking as well as movement through curves and locations, where mechanical vibration of system could occur [4, 5, 6].
Transport complex consists of special carrying railcar and transport container. Moving system of railcar Figure 2 is composed of four pairs of two-axle rotable undercarriages. Lower undercarriage is a railcar bridge manufactured as welded structure. It consists of main longitudinal and transversal rotating pans, carriers of couplings and heads. Above lower undercarriage is positioned working platform for positioning of container and its sheathing, which consists of basic plate and protective extensions. These extensionsare closed during the transport and protect container against unauthorized encroachment and influence of weather.
For the transport on the carrying railcar are on the body of container welded 4 supporting (carrying) surfaces.The container is fixed to railcar by fitted bolts and two through holes on every supporting surface. Transport conditions and technical parameters of transport railcar are given in Table 1.
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2. Analysis of Railcar Vibration during Transport2.1. Causes of Railcar Vibration
There exist several sources of vibration produced during transport [7, 8, 9]. The first one is an interaction of steel wheels of undercarriage of railcar during their rolling on rails. In this case, vibration is caused by bumpiness (corrugation) of contact surface on rail heads, or by roughness of contact surface resulting from damaged wheels.
The next source is the impact of wheel that occurs during run through the rail joints as result of gaps between rails or due to their non-coaxially. The same effect arises during run through rail switches Figure 3. In case of wheel damage Figure 4, where the flat surfaces on the wheel occur, the periodic impact influences results to excited vibration.
Immediate character of run can also cause vibration. The excitation shakes can occur also during starting, breaking and running through bends, which is accompanied by noticeable sound effect.2.2. Experimental Measurement
Measurement of operational vibration of transport complex during its movement was realized on railway road of length approximately 3600 m. The road was divided to 5 sections (see Figure 5 and Table 2) with considerably different characteristics of driving.
In section No. 1 were recorded vibrations during starting of complex and during its movement through railway switches of railway station. Section No. 2 is characterized by driving through right bend. Section No. 3 is a straight road on the beginning of which is a railway bridge above road communication. Section No. 4 is left bended. In the section 5 that can be considered as straight road, the complex was stopped, accelerated and halting at the end of section. Maximum velocity of complex during measurement was 40 km/h, which corresponds to value received from operator.
For the measurement of vibration deflections were used three-axial acceleration sensors Bruel&Kjaer 4506B, applied in locations S1 and S2. Sensor S1 was positioned on a lid of container Figure 6a and sensor S2 on a frame of undercarriage above pan of wagon bearing Figure 6b. Acceleration sensors S1 and S2 had axis x in vertical direction, axis y was oriented perpendicular to axis of railcar and axis z was identical with railcar's axis.
The sensors were connected to measurement system Bruel&Kjaer PULSE 3560 that records time-dependent charts of acceleration deflections to the hard disc of notebook. Measurement apparatus was supplied from portable electro-generator.
In order to receive more precise analysis, time-dependent charts at individual sections were further divided into smaller time intervals. As the aim was to assess massiveness of vibration, the acceleration charts were transformed by function of frequency weighting 1/jω, while the received frequency spectrum of maximum velocities for given sections were filtered to frequency range from 2 Hz to 1kHz, in accordance with Standard STN ISO 10816-1 [10]. For every such spectrum effective velocity has been computed according to relation:
Frequency spectra of maximum velocity amplitudes determined from signals S1 and S2 are for each section given in Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9, Figure 10, Figure 11. Appropriate choice of frequency range allows reading frequencies at the highest amplitudes of velocity. Maximal values of effective vibration velocities are summarized in Table 3.
Table 3. Maximal values of effective vibration velocities reachedonindividual section of the railroad
From vibration analysis of transport railcar accomplished during its moving results that maximum effective vibration velocity was 40 mm/s. This velocity was reached during accelerated movement over railway switches at the first section of road.
In order to determine excitation effect of locomotive motor to vibration of transport complex, measurement of frequency spectrum of maximum vibration velocities of non-moving railcar with working motor of locomotive has been accomplished. In Figure 12 are depicted frequency spectra of maximum velocities and accelerations of vibration in locations of sensors S1 and S2 in directions x, y, z.
3. Conclusion
From the results of operational vibration analysis of transport railcar can be concluded that vibration velocity magnitudes mainly depend on the type of railroad and of transport conditions. According to Standard STN ISO 10816-6 [11], Addendum A, Table A. 1 and for level of vibration massiveness 28, for machines with classification numbers 5, 6 and 7, the analyzed railcar is suitable for long time operation. It has to be mentioned that during assessment of vibration massiveness, it was considered that absolute value of effective velocity is result of vector addition of effective velocity components in direction of axes x, y, z. Maximum value of such velocity was 40 mm/s. The machines with diesel motors with power crossing 100 kW and classified at level 6 and 7 can work under this velocity without limits. Maximum allowable velocity 100 km/h of transport complex can be considered as suitable for transport. It is recommended to over cross the velocity 42-43 km/h as fast as possible, because the excitation of system at this velocity is in the frequency range 3.5 ÷ 5.0 Hz, when the maximal effective value of velocity vibration occurs.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA – Grant No. 1/0289/11.
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Spring Training for Realtors
"The battle is won … some time before I move under those lights." Muhammad Ali
I don't have the foggiest idea about every one of the reasons why Muhammad Ali earned the moniker, "The Greatest," yet I know one of them for beyond any doubt. Also, his quote above says it all: he had the battle won before he even battled.
All due to one basic word: arrangement.
Whatever you've heard or perused about progress and the individuals who accomplish it can be come down to being set up to address the difficulties that anticipate you on your vocation way. Period.
Ali realized that to win he must be readied. Also, when he arranged well, he knew more than he knew anything on the planet that triumph was inescapable.
Envision having that sort of certainty. Knowing, I mean really knowing, triumph is yours and that the 2017 spring offering season would have been your best ever
Learn to expect the unexpected. You can make that certainty. You simply need to put in the hard yards with readiness.
A few boxers prepare five hours per day five times each week for 12 weeks to get ready for a five-cycle, 15-minute battle (3 minutes for every round) – sweating their brains out with roadwork, sack work, drills, competing, quality and cardio.
Here's the math: 18,000 minutes of training for 15 minutes of work. To what extent is your normal posting introduction? I'm not recommending you burn through 18,000 minutes, but rather you get the thought. Is it true that you are planning enough to be in the same class as you need (or need) to be in the present focused ring of land?
Here are my tips that will make them bring your arms up in triumph – before you ever step foot in the ring:
1. Know your particular market and ranch range all around. You need to end up noticeably a specialist, particularly today in the time of information. Your customers – the two dealers and purchasers – approach information, so you need to get ready by burrowing further than you've at any point burrowed before to get the hang of everything there is to think about your market. You need to bring something new, crisp and all the more imperatively, obscure to your customers. You never need to hear this from your customers: "Disclose to me something I don't have the foggiest idea."
2. Practice. At that point rehearse some more. Practice your contents, rehearse pretending deals circumstances, work on prospecting. Work on arranging. And afterward, when you think you've sufficiently polished, acknowledge you're just 40 percent done. Why 40 percent? Have you at any point known about the Navy Seals' 40 percent run the show? It goes this way: Seals say when your psyche is revealing to you you're done, you're truly just 40 percent done.
3. Remain concentrated on what acquires the cash. Fruitful boxers know they need to take off and run, hone on the pack, do drills and fight. The four exercises that acquire the cash in land are: prospecting, arranging, offering and posting. Delegate everything else.
4. Try not to go only it. Without a doubt, when the battle is on, the boxer is separated from everyone else in the ring. Yet, recall this – that is the main time he's separated from everyone else. After the battle, he's celebrating with his group. Before the battle, he's training with his group. What's more, record this: Winners dependably have somebody in their corner.
Give me a chance to get notification from you: How much time do you set aside every week to enhance particular aptitudes that will create more business for you? It is safe to say that you will put in the hard yards to be better at your employment? Why or why not? What would you be able to begin doing today to enhance yourself?http://daily-blogger.com/spring-training-for-realtors/miscToday's Post


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By Jim Gillespie, President & CEO, Coldwell Banker
The real estate market is the best I have seen in my 33+ years in real estate for buyers, whether they are buying for lifestyle to move in with their families or for buying for
By Jim Gillespie, President & CEO, Coldwell Banker
investment. There are four main reasons why I say this:
First - The interest rates are still near 40 year historic lows. Rates continue to be well under 7%.
Second - There are more homes for sale than we have had for decades – therefore there is much more to choose from as a buyer.
Third - Prices are stable in the heartland of the USA and in several states, California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona as well as the rust belt of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio the prices have dropped enough that the smart buyers are beginning to jump back in the market to take advantage of the lower prices.
The fourth and final reason that now is the best time to buy is - affordability. According to the National Association of Realtors, the trade organization for Realtors, we are at near a 5 year low in affordability. In addition, Wachovia published a paper on real estate on July 14 of this year comparing the median price of homes in the USA with the disposable income our citizens have, according to the US Department of Commerce. They found that the worst affordability was three years ago and the best was August, 1980. Today they report that we are near that 28 year low. Now is the best time to buy real estate!!!!!
One other factor to consider is that according to the National Association of Realtors the average median increase in home values in our country since 1972 is 6.2%. What a great annual return on your investment.
Buying for investment is a little different than buying to live in. If you are investing, make sure you work with a professional Realtor who not only knows the local market, but invests in real estate themselves. Then take the emotion out of the purchase. Worry about the age of the roof, appliances, furnace, air conditioning units, water heater, etc as well as the type of construction to determine what kind of building maintenance would need to be done. Do not worry about things like what the backyard looks like from the window over the kitchen sink. Don't worry about what it would be like if the back yard would not be ideal for your children.
You should also have your sales person provide you with comparable sales that have recently been sold so you are aware of values and do not bid or purchase an overpriced home.
We have so many additional tips on our website, coldwellbanker.com including video tips on buying and selling as well hundreds of thousands of homes for sale.
- Jim Gillespie
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So... I've been working on this comic for a couple of months pretty hard core. pulling 13 hour days. Art just takes so much time. Not enough time for extra gigs... and all the while trying to keep my familial and social relationships alive. It is hard. SO incredibly hard to be successful and balanced. I've been able to go to the gym a few times a week, but man, it's so hard. It's hard to be alone all of the time. It's easy to be alone all of the time. Its physically and mentally hard to sit in one place for 13 hours. ... and yet it's easy to sit alone for 13 hours and focus on this. It is all so easy and so hard. I wonder if there weren't other variables to interact with, if I could just focus on this project and sit for longer. But I think part of the thing that makes me who I am are the people I surround myself with. The playful, the intellectuals, the creatives, the focused. Part of what makes me feel unballanced is not interacting with them regularly or interacting too much with one group over another. Spending too much time doing one thing over another... just stales my creativity. Spending too much time playing over working. Spending too much time working out over socializing. The greatest obstacle is my own interest in a variety of things. I find myself currently surrounded by humans with only one or two interests and I feel like i'm limiting myself. I often feel like an alien on this planet, like I try very hard to, but I really don't belong. I really don't fit in. And perhaps I spend too much time trying to fit in, rather than being myself... and it is frustrating me on a level i've never experienced before. I keep changing but i find others around me don't change. Where do I fit in when i'm surrounded by those stuck in their own stagnant happiness. that's not a judgement, rather than an observation. if x, y & z make a person happy and they just do x y & z and they are happy... that's great. But I like to do a, b & c.. AND x y & z. and maybe i've never tried s, e or p.. and when i do, i find that makes me happy too. I guess I feel limited because everyone around me only wants to do x, y & z so i just do x, y & z... and i get this overwhelming feeling of unsatisfaction. I feel like I have to comprimise my life to be able to do things those around me want to do. This feeling makes me sad and depressed... tho i'm not a depressed person. i'm not a sad person. and the older i get the more i find people who just want to be comfortable in their few interests. who prefer to be safe in what they already know. So.. I don't feel like i'm being honest with myself. I feel like i'm not being true to myself. I know i'm a vibrant open human being. I know i'm not an alien. I need to keep reminding myself about this.
Today i'm more at peace with myself than i have been in a while. I was shown great generosity from someone, and I have a hard time asking for help or admitting i need help, and as someone who often helps others it really humbled me, because I didn't expect that level of kindness. It made me realize I haven't been relaxed or at peace with myself in a while. I haven't been able to see the world like I usually do. The world has been getting small around my brain making me feel insignificant and alone. But it's not. It is big and amazing and beautiful and for every shitty thing posted of facebook there are a dozen people doing good things in the world. For every shitty abuse a predator forces on a person, there are a dozen humans who have overcome and help others. So... today i am less cinical.
Today I CHOOSE to be less cinical. I choose to not let my baggage overwhelm me. I choose to not let the suffering and ache of the world overwhelm me.
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KINGDOM : Animalia
PHYLUM : Vertebrata
CLASS : Mammalia
ORDER : Carnivora
FAMILY [Still debated]: Ailuridae, Ursidae, or Procyonidae
GENUS : Ailuropoda
SPECIES : melanoleuca
Giant pandas are bear-like in shape with striking black and white markings. The "Giant" Pandas are hardly "Giants". It would take about forty (40) giant pandas to weigh as much as one elephant. Adult giant pandas have a length of 160 to 180 centimeters (5 1/4 to 6 feet). The weight of an adult male giant panda is normally between 80 and 125 kilograms (176 and 276 pounds) with males typically weighing about 10% to 20% more than females -- about the same size as theAmerican black bear. However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas do not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs.Giant panda bears have a massive head, heavy body, short tail (approximately 5 inches), rounded ears and plantigrade feet (i.e., both heel and toe make contact with the ground when walking in a manner similar to humans). The throat of the giant panda has an esophagus with a tough, horny lining to protect the bear from injury by bamboo splinters. The stomach is similarly protected with its thick muscular wall linings.Giant pandas have forepaws which are extremely flexible. They have an enlarged wrist bone (the radial sesamoid) that works in the manner of an opposable thumb. This highly functional thumb allows the panda to manipulate bamboo stems and leaves, with dexterity and precision. The hind feet of the giant panda lacks the heel pad found in the other seven bear species.
The basic fur color of the giant panda is white with black eye patches, ears, legs, feet, chest, and shoulders. White areas are different shades of white from pure white to orangish or a light brown. Within its natural environment (the deep forest and, at upper elevations, snow androck), its mottled coloringprovides camouflage. There is also speculation that its striking color pattern may be a clear message to other pandas to stay away since the giant panda is an extremely solitary animal.The fur of the giant panda is thick and coarse. It consists of a coarse outer layer and a very dense, wooly-like underfur. To the touch, the fur feels oily. This oily protective coating helps protects pandas from the cool and damp climate in which the bear lives.
Giant pandas generally move in a slow, determined manner. When startled, they will move at a slow trot to escape danger. Giant pandas, with their sharp claws, are capable of climbing trees very easily. Giant panda cubs are born weighing 3 to 5 ounces or about 4-5 grams each (1/900th of the mother's weight) The cubs are born blind and hairless. At about 10 days the skin where the black hair will eventually grow turns gray.


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I am interested in language and its capacity for creating meaning, engaging in its authority and its fragility. A literal deconstruction of assorted texts, the cutting apart of books, re-assembling, transcribing and altering, blurring and reducing the physical words into a place teetering on meaninglessness, it is ultimately an inquiry into the nature of the sublime, a return to pre-verbal innocence.
This engagement with language is a meditative analysis of how we find meaning in the world. Rather.. not meaning, but that moment where understanding is felt, not known, where understanding occurs distinct from and indeed, despite language.
In my private practice as a psychoanalyst, I work with patients to recognize the nuances of linguistic meaning, exploring how we perceive and interpret our worlds. Thought, feeling, story, instinct, fear, wonder, desire, shame… all are embodied as language. This narrative is endless, insistent and often undermines our capacity for psychic freedom, to find a true place and purpose. Taking apart these narratives create the possibility of being freer, unburdened by the words we drag around behind us, the language that defines who we know ourselves to be… the illusion of knowing preempted by possibility.
"The Interpretation of Dreams", "Moby Dick", "Through the Looking Glass", "Finnegan's Wake", et al, as well as fairy tales and (anonymous) transcriptions from patients' sessions, provide narratives harvested for their content. Subsequently, this content is methodically altered and reduced, stripping it of access and meaning, wherein "nothing" ultimately is it's everything.


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Friday, June 22, 2012
Basketball and Football
I used to watch Basketball and Football when i lived in our old house now I am not active on sports. might be I become forgotten my sports I don't know maybe just get to busy for something. I watch during the day like speed car racer, golf and other sports game it's kind of being new on the sports this time a year. I changing the channel. But with in this year I get to excited for upcoming game the Football. Feel like i am start all over again in the year of 2011 i could not concentrating on sports due to busy or i might don't have paying attention to watch because for any other reason. yep right people I am going to watch the sports pretty soon don't know who would be my fave. team Just remember those days in my life my hubby get mad when his team was beat he talk bad agains the other team but it was fun though he is a fan on gators it's called here in florida NFL kick off game. I hear from my brother the NBA had a champion finale i did not watch lately. anyways next game i would have to watch. and so on my brother in law he still watching He like football as well as the Filipino sports the popular sports there is boxing. in philippines. I guess he like staying there in PH. they're excited because they would have to install the cable channel in the new house. something i am looking for a new in my life well see.
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All ES Track subscriptions purchased pursuant to this Agreement include the telematics hardware (the "Telematics Device" or "Device") necessary to connect Subscriber's equipment to ES Track (as used herein the term "equipment" shall refer to any vehicle, construction equipment, machine or other mechanical apparatus on which a Telematics Device can be installed). A separate ES Track subscription is required for each installed Telematics Device. The initial term for ES Track subscriptions is 36 months (the "Initial Term"). At the start of the Initial Term Subscriber must select either the ES Track Monthly Billing Plan (the "Monthly Plan") or the EZ Pay Plan ("EZ Pay Plan") to pay for the ES Track service.
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"Letdown" isn't exactly the right word but there is certainly a feeling of anxiousness, of twitching, at least for me. To be finished with 30 pieces for the show this coming weekend, after months and months of work, is a strange feeling: a mix of relief with an edge of "...did I leave the iron on when I left the house this morning." But the work has been dropped off at the River Gallery and the only thing left for me is the opening on Saturday evening.
With all the work out, I started to clean the studio up a bit, after months and months of pulling out every tube of paint, every rubber stamp, every book, pamphlet, or other piece of paper that might work as the under-collage. I noticed a few months back that everyone of those things, as they were put on my work table to be used, started marching closer and closer to me, narrowing my actual work space down to barely enough for each piece. Piles of cut up scraps and bits and bobs of who-knows-what started little communities on the floor. And last week, as I was racing to the end of the work, my inside voice started with a new want, "...it's going to feel so good to clean this mess up..." And so it is.


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Research questions for inquiry learning
Here are some key questions for any topic you are researching. They will help focus your research and inquiry.
Questions: If your inquiry is about a person (a biography)
- Who is the person? Write their full name including the maiden name for a married woman (a maiden name is the family name of the woman before she was married) Include any nicknames for the person.
- When was he/she born?
- When did he/she die?
- Where was he/she born? Name the place and tell about father, mother, brothers and sisters.
- Where did he/she live at the time of his/her achievements?
- What did he/she achieve?
- What other people were involved?
- What problems had to be overcome?
- Why is this person remembered?
- Is there something named after this person? Describe it.
- How is what he/she achieved affected others?
In a biography the years of the birth and death are usually presented after the person's name like this:
Dolly Madison (nee Payne) (1768 -1849)
Clinton,(Bill) William Jefferson Blythe (1946- )
Questions: If your inquiry is about a country, a city or a town.
- Where is this place? Tell where in the world it is and which other countries are nearby or where in a country is the town or city.
- What is it like there? Describe the geography of the place. Geography is the land forms such as mountains, rivers, forests, lakes etc. Tell about the climate. Climate is about the weather.
- What animals and plants are there? Describe the native flora and fauna.
- When was the country discovered? Tell who discovered it and who were the first to live there. Or tell when the city or town was founded and by whom. Explain why this place was settled? How it came to be discovered/settled.
- What are the country's main cities or landmarks?
- What is the flag or emblems of the country/city?
- What money do the people use?
- Who lives there now? Has there been migration of people coming from other places to live there?
- How do the people live? Describe their houses, their work, transport, festivals, religions, schools, entertainment, sports.
- How is the place governed? Who makes the laws? How do the people choose their leaders? Is there a voting system?
- What is produced in the place? What primary and secondary industry is there?
- What famous sights/sites are there?
- Who are the famous people of the place?
- How can someone get there?
Questions: If your inquiry is about an animal
- What is it? Tell to which animal family it belongs and what are its relatives.
- What does it look like? Describe its shape, size, covering, colour, special body features.
- How does it move?
- Where does it live? Tell where in the world the animal is found.
- What is its habitat? Tell about the kind of natural environment the animal lives in and why it is suited to this environment.
- What does it eat? Describe how it get its food.
- How does it reproduce? Explain the life cycle, method of reproduction and how the animal cares for its young.
- How does it protect itself? Tell what enemies it has.
- What is this animal's status? Is it common, rare, endangered? If endangered are there special programs to conserve the species?How might you help the conservation of this species?
Questions: If your inquiry is about an object/invention (non-living)
- What is it ?
- What is or was it used for?
- What is it made of?
- How is it made?
- Where is it made?
- What does it look like? Describe its appearance including colour, size, shape etc;
- What are the parts of the object?
- How does it work?
- Who invented it?
- Who helped develop?
- Who made/built it?
- Why was it invented?
- What did it replace?
- What impact has it had on people?
- How do you think it can be improved?
- What might be the next development?
Questions: If your inquiry is about a plant.
- What is it? Tell to which family it belongs.
- What are its relatives?
- What does it look like? Describe its shape, size, colour, leaves, flowers, fruit etc.
- Where did it originate? Tell where in the world this plant first grew.
- What is its natural environment? Describe the soil and climate that suits this plant.
- How does it reproduce?
- How does it protect itself? Tell what threatens it.
- What products, if any, are made from this plant? Tell who uses it to make something.
- How is the plant processed to make something?
- What is the plant's status? Is it common, rare, endangered?
- If endangered, what are the programs to conserve it?


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"Sacrifice, Part III of IV: Remembrance": On the Watchtower, Superman surveys the damage he has done to the body of Batman but doesn't remember causing any of it. Wonder Woman loo
- He's Superman. If you could control his power, would you relinquish it after only one use?
- -- Hawkman
Appearing in "Sacrifice, Part III of IV: Remembrance"
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Synopsis for "Sacrifice, Part III of IV: Remembrance"
On the Watchtower, Superman surveys the damage he has done to the body of Batman but doesn't remember causing any of it. Wonder Woman looks on, expressing concern over the fact that one of the most powerful heroes could be controlled by someone. The Justice League meets in the conference room to review security footage - which clearly shows Superman attacking Batman unprovoked, much to the members' horror.
Martian Manhunter concludes that Superman has suffered an implanted psychotic episode, and that he must penetrate Superman's mind in order to remove it. In a final telepathic flash, Manhunter sees the face of Maxwell Lord clearly. Unfortunately, the effect cannot be undone.
The League decides to temporarily place Superman in a teleportation loop, while Diana returns Batman to Gotham City. However, Superman is manipulated into believing that the League are the ones under control of Max Lord, and he attacks them. He then returns to earth in order to confront his controller. Wonder Woman pursues him, hoping her ability to see the truth will aid her.
- This book was first published on July 20, 2005.
- This issue is reprinted in the Superman: Sacrifice trade paperback.
- No trivia.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Adventures of Superman Vol 1 642 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Adventures of Superman series
- Images from Adventures of Superman Vol 1 642
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Adventures of Superman series index at the Grand Comics Database
- Adventures of Superman series index at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe
- Superman article at Wikipedia
- Superman article at Supermanica
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Event Promotion
All the efforts into event planning will be useless if the targeted market does not attend the event. This brings in a concept called event promotion. Promoting an event is making the people that are targeted by the event organizers not only to attend, but also to want to attend. Over the years event organizers have come up with ideas that have not only made their events successful, but also memorable.
There have been panel discussions at Winter Music Conference by leaders in the IDM music industry and concert promotion offering their experience in event promotion.
Here are some ideas to get you going…
Be Concise in the Advertisement Media
You probably have been given a flyer of an event at one point in your life. How much of the information do you read? A paragraph utmost? This is precisely why your advertisement media should be brief and clear. You must communicate what you want to pass on in your event promotion material within the first sentence.
Promotion Transfers
This is like the student exchange program, only this time it is with the media stations such as TVs and radios. What happens here is that you promise to promote them on your flyers if they slot in an ad of your event in their programs. Remember radios and TVs have a very wide reach to targeted people. Actually, they are the best form of event promotion there is today.
Social Media
This is the newest method of event promotion. A good example will be opening a page on Facebook for your event, link it with your website and other social media platforms such as twitter, Google+ and Pinterest. Social media has a very wide reach. If you are able to market your event well on social media, it will be an instant success. You can give discounted tickets to people that like your event page on Facebook.
Concentrate on your Target Audience
Do not waste a lot of the resources allocated to the event promotion budget on people who may not attend your event. The industry standard is spending 70% of your event promotion budget on the target audience. If you are promoting a religious convention, concentrate on Christian media and websites to get the message across. Promoting the event in sports websites is counterproductive…you get the drift.
Get your Facts Right
There is nothing that has a devastating effect on events' attendance like a sudden change of venue or participants. If your promotion material says person 'X' will be addressing the meeting or band 'Y' will be performing or the event will take place at venue 'A', please let these facts be right. A sudden change of the facts as per your event promotion material will make your event look disorganized. People like being associated with events that are properly organized. Do your best to keep your word as shown in your event promotion material. This industry is built on reputation and if yours is good, you will find organizing and promoting events an easy task.
Prepare for any Eventuality
It is expected that things will not go as expected in major events. As an events promoter, you should be prepared for these eventualities with an alternative program. You should have a plan A, B, and C for any event that you are promoting.


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SCOTT Macleod has vowed to make the most of a rare opportunity to start a match for Scotland when they take on Ireland in the RBS 6 Nations in Dublin tomorrow.
The 28-year-old will pick up his 17th cap but it will be only the fourth time he has played from the beginning of the game.
The Llanelli-based second-row has performed well from the bench against both France and Wales during this Six Nations campaign, and now he has been promoted to the starting XV in place of Jim Hamilton in an effort to add some extra dynamism to the Scottish pack.
"I'm just relieved to get a chance," Macleod said. "It's brilliant to be in the 22 and I would never complain about that, but it is tough coming off the bench.
"Especially as I have asthma and I always find it hard to catch my breath and get into the game.
"I feel like I've done all right when I've come on as a replacement, but it is very hard to make the sort of impact that you want to make in that situation.
"And maybe sometimes you chase the game a bit too much which isn't always the best thing to do as far as the team is concerned.
"It's now up to me to make the most of the chance I have been given on Saturday.
"I'm confident about my game at the moment, so hopefully I can get up at the line-out, win some ball, put in a good shift around the park and make stuff happen."
After two hugely disappointing defeats against France and Wales, during which Scotland have conceded six tries and not managed to cross the whitewash once themselves, Scotland need a vastly-improved showing against Ireland if they are to turn their season around.
"The most disappointing thing hasn't been the defeats, it has been the performances. We've not really looked like scoring," said Macleod.
"Teams have had it easier against us than they should have because of our unforced errors and silly mistakes. Hopefully we'll execute our game-plan this week, make our tackles and minimise the number of errors we make.
"We're going to try to mix it up and play a bit more rugby.
"I think we are at our best when we are looking to move the ball wide and trying things, so hopefully we can make amends for some of the things that have gone wrong against France and Wales.
"We've got Chris Paterson at stand-off and his first instinct is always to attack, so hopefully he can get things moving.
"Ireland are a good side but we still fancy our chances. Despite what has happened in the past two games, we still believe we are not far away from being a good team."


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Hostage Calm have announced a run of headline dates this April with support from Turnover and The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die. The tour will include a stop at Today's Mixtape Festival in Long Island. Hostage Calm will also appear at the Jamboree Festival in Toledo, OH alongside Man Overboard, The Story So Far and more.
Tickets and info can be found at www.hostagecalm.net/tour.


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|The Rev. Allison Cheek after the first public celebration of the Eucharist by a woman
Nov. 10, 1974 at St. Stephen's and the Incarnation, NW DC
Photo by the Washington Post
Today is a big deal, at least for me, anyway. Today is a big deal, because forty years ago, the first women priests in the Episcopal Church, the Philadelphia Eleven, were ordained at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, PA. They were irregularly ordained, which means they were ordained outside of church law, which only caught up with them two years later. These women, and the male bishops who ordained them, risked their vocations (and, I'm assuming for the bishops, their pensions) in order to live out what they believed to be true -- that God does not discriminate by gender when God calls someone into the sacramental priesthood, and that God was calling each of these women to serve God as a priest in God's church. It's beautiful, and it's true.
I love these stories, these stories about the first women priests in the church. I love hearing about them, I love to read about them. (If you are interested, Grace in Motion by the Rev. Dr. Judith Maxwell McDaniel is a great place to start.) I love these stories because I feel like they are my stories, and because even though I was born eleven years after the Philadelphia Eleven, and even though I began to seek ordination thirty-one years after the Philadelphia Eleven, I was told, when I began my process, that my priest would not be supporting me for ordination because I was a woman, and he did not believe that woman should be priests. This set off a series of chain reactions in my process.
It took me nine years to be ordained to the priesthood.
There are many things I could say about that experience, but what I'm thinking about today is the enormity of the courage, effort, prayer, persistence, tenacity and sheer grit it takes to make a change toward justice in an unjust system. Women and their male allies had been fighting for decades before 1974 to see this change happen, and when women finally were ordained, they had to find jobs that would hire them, deal with belittling, sexual assault, physical violence, death threats, the never-ending balance between family expectations and work, and not to mention the nearly inevitable sacking after becoming pregnant, at least in the early days. I've heard these stories from some of the women who have experienced them.
What astounds me now is how easy it was for all of those decades to be flippantly dismissed with a few offhanded words from one person in authority. But do you know what? That didn't stop the Eleven. It didn't stop women from becoming professors and deans of schools or cathedrals, from raising families while running churches, from serving the poor or the sick, or from becoming authors and world-renowned preachers and not least, bishops. And with their help, it didn't stop me.
So, today is a big deal. I'm so grateful for those women, and all that they've done, and continue to do. I can't wait to see what the next forty years has in store.


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