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Today, I had the pleasure of doing something which I believe hasn't ever been done!
It was a first. A first for me, and most probably a first for the world:
I bet that no one has every pursued seriously theological ponderings in the world of Chuck E.
It was one of the best reading sessions I've had. Complete concentration and complete fun with the kids afterwards. I found out that no one bothers or tries to interrupt you when you're busy with a highlighter and serious reading in front of you at Chuck E. Cheese. The kids are fully occupied within a couple of feet of me all the while in a contained environment. And just to put it into context, we're talking a brand new, two-story, fully renovated with "new carpet smell," stocked with all the latest video games for $0.125/game facility (and of course, complete with singing animatronics and purell stations throughout!). A win-win situation, I proclaim!
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The winning eggs were numbers 4, 7, and 9! Take a look!
And Guess Who made all three? That's right. ME.
Ahh, sweet victory. Churchill would be so proud.
On a side note, we had Hula Girl's first real tantrum today. Wowza, was it a doozie. I get where she was coming from. I mean, I very rudely interrupted her game of "Put the plastic fishie on the rocking chair and take it off again and look at Mama for a smile!" I scooped her up, put her on my lap, and started snipping away at the only weapon she has available- an effective weapon at that. She.screamed.bloody.murder.for.ten.straight.minutes. I just kept on clipping. I got three nails done. Then I put her down in front of the glass door so she could calm down, and once she did, I had her watch me clip her thumbnail. She seemed fine, but then burst out screaming again. Of course, the only nail she's calm for is the one I cut too short. I HATE that feeling, so I get her screams. Ay, yi, yi. Neosporin to the rescue. Then naptime came (a short 10 minutes later) and she cried all the way through her diaper change, song, and story. Finally when I put her in her crib, she stuck her (other) thumb in her mouth, closed her eyes, and stayed silent. Weird. I feel proud of myself for living through it.


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USA track and field stars will be out in force at the Aviva International Match in Glasgow on January 30 and defending World Champion Lolo Jones believes she can lead her team to victory.
Jones, who will captain the US team, won the 60m hurdles at Kelvin Hall last year and she hopes that a return trip at the end of the month will result in retaining her title as well as the US track and field team leaving with the Aviva International Match Cup in hand.
"I'm looking forward to captaining the US team at the Aviva International Match. It looks like it will be one of the strongest teams we have sent there and of course we hope that we can lift the cup at the end of the event," said the 27-year-old from Iowa.
"I love competing in Glasgow as there's always a great atmosphere and it's a nice way to start the season. The competition will of course be tough and looking at the names who are confirmed already it looks like it will be a great meet.
"I won in Kelvin Hall last year so I would like to defend my title and hopefully it will be just the start I need to also defend my World Indoor title. Like I said, I cannot wait to captain our team in Scotland and I hope I can lead us to victory.
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Here is the revisit of our Muskets and Mohawks game I promised, sort of a "colonial nod" to July Fourth given the timing of the post.
Muskets and Mohawks (from Two Hour Wargames) represents small-unit skirmishes in the French and Indian War with 10-man units (artillery are 5-man), each with a Leader. Basic types of troops are Regulars, Militia, Irregulars, including Indians, Civilians, Gunners and Cavlary. Regulars can also be further identified as Grenadiers, Guards or Lights. Units are in 1 of 3 formations: Formed Line, Mob or Unformed (skirmish). "Higher" formations are possible: 2 units make a Platoon and get an extra Leader, 2 Platoons make a Company, etc. Irregulars form "War Parties." The names are general enough to be whatever scale you want.
The heart of the system is Rep and Reactions. Each unit and Leader is assigned a "Rep" between 2 (raw civilians) and 6 (warriors of great reknown). During the game units test against their Rep using 2d6 (with some modifiers that add or subtract d6) when certain events occur or when certain actions are desired. You pass a d6 by rolling equal to or lower than the Rep. These are called Reaction Tests:
Received Fire
Received Casualty
Leader Lost
Rally or Form Line
Charge Into Melee
Take Trophies
Fast Move
Controlled Volley*
When several Tests are required to be taken (for example if a unit Receives Fire that causes a Casualty, which turns out to be the Leader) you roll once and apply the result to all the tests, taking the worst result. Potential results of the tests are, generally, from best to worst: Carry On (pass 2d6), Retire (pass 1d6) and Run Away (pass 0d6). The presence of Leaders, units in support, type of Unit and Formation all provide nuance and are all listed on the Reaction Test charts, so is not a test of the players' memories, too!
One side activates their units or leaders, moving from right to left across the field, after which the other side does the same, so the activity swirls around the table in a "clock-wise fashion." As each unit activates, it can take ONE action, which include moving and changing formation, charging, firing and reloading. Each unit takes its action, and all units take any reaction tests caused by the action before moving on to the activation of the next unit.
All foot movement is 8"; terrain modifies formations used rather than rate. Fast Movement is possible when 24" or more from known enemy. Formations limit or enable movement dependent on terrain. Units can go Prone, too.
Musket range is 18"; rifle range is 24". There are two types of Fire: Fire At Will and Volley. Firing at Will uses the number of d6 of the unit's Rep, with some modifiers (like +2d6 for firing at Formed units) and one casualty is caused by each "1" rolled. Another roll determines if a Leader was a casualty. When units begin Firing they must continue to Fire At Will until one side Retires or Runs Away, after which they must spend an Activation Reloading before they can move again. Volleys can only be fired if a unit is in Formed Line and Reloaded. 1d6 is rolled for each figure in the unit (plus some modifiers) so a full unit starts with 10d6!
Melee is bloody, and requires a Charge Test, which both sides take and elegantly represents both the attacker's elan in the charge and the defender's will to stand.
There are rules for terrain, reinforcements, campaigns, scenarios, hidden movement and a novel AI to play solo against. This is a solid set of rules. . . but once again I prove that reading is not enough. . . you have to play them to really understand them!
So, to understand the rules, Aaron and I set up a simple meeting engagement game, with a section of open terrain to maneuver the Regulars, and some woods for the Irregulars.
Aaron took the French and Indians, which left me the British and Colonials. We each had 6 units and decided to start whatever troops we wanted to on the long edges, and to bring in any remaining units when desired as reinforcements.
The colonial Rangers (Irregulars, Rep 4, Leader Rep 5) face the French Marines (Irregulars, Rep 4, Leader Rep 5) in the woods (visibility and musket range reduced to 12") while the British and French Regulars march toward each other in the open, the French in Mob formation and the British in Formed Line.
The British Regulars advance to the creek and fire the first volleys - one completely ineffectual and one that causes several casualties. Regulars are stoically tough, and the French pass their Reaction Tests and Carry On, shaking out into Line in their next Activation and then an Activation later, returning Volley fire (we're using cotton balls to represent "smoke" and that a unit needs to "Reload").
The French bring on a unit of Coureur (Irregulars, Rep 5, Leader Rep 5, Rifles) in the woods, and the British respond with a unit of Militia (Militia, Rep 3, Leader Rep 4) - no match for the Coureur in the woods but the British have no more uncommitted Irregulars! The Rangers and Marines are now locked in a firefight, like the Regulars, until one or the other is forced to retire.
But nobody Retired or Ran Away! Both sides blazed away at each other, taking casualties and losing Leaders. The Coureur began sniping away at the British Regulars, so the British brought up a second unit of Militia in support. The French responded with a Unit of Indians (Irregulars, Rep 4, Leader Rep 5) in the woods, who despite talking some fire from the Militia, successfully charged them and piled into Melee. The fight was bloody on both sides, but the Militia was killed to the last man, right before the Marines' last soldiers died to Ranger musket fire.
Both sides called forth their last reinforcements; the French their last unit of Indians and the British a unit of Regular Grenadiers (Regulars, Rep 5, Leader Rep 5). I was loathe to use the Grenadiers in the woods, but I had no other counter to the Indians.
The Rangers Reloaded and fell on the rear of the Indians that had killed the MiIitia, and died to the last man, one ferocious warrior responsible for at least 4 Rangers on his own!
One unit of French Regulars was wiped out, and when the other was forced to Retire, the British Regulars Reloaded and crossed the creek under fire from the Coureur (also under fire themselves from the Militia) and the remaining French Regulars.
The Grenadiers finished off the remnant of the victorious Indian unit, which triggered the entrance of the last Indian unit. When the last French Regular unit was eliminated, what was left of the British Regulars and Militia advanced on the still dangerous Coureur, though they would eventually be whittled down to nothing. That left French victory down to the fresh unit of Indians tearing through the woods toward the bloodied Grenadiers!
That left the Leader of the Grenadiers with a critical decision: hold fire and take the Charge of the fresh Indians with loaded muskets (removing a negative modifier for Receiving a Charge Unloaded) or Firing first and creating an opportunity for the Indians to fail a Reaction Test. Melee would be bloody. . . so the Grenadiers Fired. . . and caused a single casualty. The Indians failed their Reaction Test - rolling two "6's" - and being Irregulars, Ran Away!
The British breathe a huge sigh of relief. . . and marvel at their luck. . .
So after a serious play-through, what did we think of the rules? We liked the overall feel and play: simple, elegant and intuitive, once you understand the Reaction Tests. I particularly like the Firing rules - firing by Rep and tracking fire as a unit with casualties caused on a single die result instead of separate rolls for hits, wounds and saves. One thing bothered us. . . too many units died to the last man. We expected the Reaction Tests - in effect, the morale system - to have a more dramatic impact.
Did we do something wrong? Of course we missed some small rules, modifiers and such, the way you always do at first, but did we do something majorly wrong?
Yup. I took a deep dive into the rules. . . and discovered we were doing two important things wrong.
First, when taking multiple Reaction tests, we should have rolled the dice ONCE, and used the same roll for all the tests, taking the worst result instead of rolling each test separately. Second, and even more importantly, on the Reaction Test chart, when passing 1d6 and having to roll again with one die, that test is taken against the LEADER Rep, not the UNIT Rep, and if the Unit doesn't have its Leader it automatically passes 0d6. These are big differences and should make the units behave a little more dramatically. We plan to play again this month and see!
I'll end with a teaser for Recruits in Lee's Summit, MO next month, where we'll be supporting The Baron and Fistful of Lead with our big toys : )
* Controlled Volley is a "house rule" I wrote when I couldn't find a way to do something I am pretty sure should be allowed. It got the official nod here.


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"FROM the SEA TO the SEA ARMENIA"
(Project title)
Gyumri Biennial of Contemporary Art 2006
Gyumri, Armenia
Curator: Arpine Togmadjyan
The greatest dream of Armenians is the rebirth of Greater Armenia.
This is one of the Armenian nation's phenomena that gave a new meaning to each Armenian. This provides a proof that Armenia was a country with a sea, more by people's belief than by actual fact.
After the division of Greater Armenia, a piece of this truth remained ingrained with each Armenian and passing from generation to generation became the only truth of that family about their nation. And so, the wholeness of the truth is not recreated. As a result, there are exhausting sequences of day dreams, which can't be forgotten for the sake of justice, while we haven't learnt to deal with them. These are unfulfilled dreams; we just need to be aligned with them. We can't copy or replace them, since even for imitation one has to give a real answer. We should either be reserved in our dreams or ascend to them. Only an ingenious answer would work.
As a result, in the empty basin of the Armenian Dream, the Navy, which can't confront any wave, is waiting for water.
A two parts project:
Performance: " The Boat of the Armenian Dream."
Installation: "Sea replacing object".
Performance: "The Boat of the Armenian Dream"
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"I just don't have the bandwidth to go to that meeting tonight," I said to a friend/colleague at the end of another hectic week. After commiserating, my friend noted that the term "bandwidth" is being used a lot these days to describe our everyday condition. "A few years ago," she said, "everyone talked about taking things 'offline.' Now, everyone talks about 'bandwidth.'" What does the change in use of terms tell us about shifts in our thinking and concerns, and what do we really mean by "bandwidth"?
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If you use the term "bandwidth" in this colloquial way, what are you saying about the demands on your life when you use it, and what solutions have you found to solve the problem(s) it describes?
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At launch, Audible in Chinese constitutes around 300 Chinese audiobooks and dramas, though Amazon said that it will be adding "many more" titles in the coming months.
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International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE), the premier annual event for communications technology professionals, has introduced the second annual IWCE Young Professional Award winners. The award showcases the next-generation of leaders in the communications technology industry who are shaping the future of the industry.
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Now I find in Aikiforum a topic about the new Aikido Doshu. For those of you who don't know, Doshu is the person that "leads the path" of the Aikido. This is an hereditary title and, in my humble opinion, silly. How can knowledge or hability be hereditary? For me, Doshu should be the most talented akidoka of the moment.
Now three examples come to my mind:
- Ueshiba Kishomaru (Second Doshu – Aikikai Aikido): He changed all the techniques O'Sensei developed. Of course he had his motives; he wanted all people to be able to train in aikido. So he made strong simplifications and the art lost a lot of its martial effectiveness. He doesn't seem to me a good "guardian of the path." In fact, Aikikai was created by him and for him, not by or for Ueshiba Morihei!
- Saito Hitohiro (Son of Saito Morihiro – Iwama Aikido): He faithfully follows the path of his father, who followed tha path of O'Sensei. Neither Saito Morihiro or Saito Hitohiro changed any of the techniques of The Founder. His family has always been the guardians of the aiki-shrine, in Iwama until the death of Saito Sensei. Humble in nature this is a good example of pure lineage. The Saitos would have been a better choice for Doshu. The best, indeed.
- Mochizuki Hiroo (Son of Mochizuki Minoru – Yoseikan Aikido): This is another example of a son making radical modifications on his father's work. He changed the Yoseikan Aikido of his father into something completely different. Created a sport version and a fitness one. Incorporated a lot of karate movements as well as french boxing in Yoseikan. This is no longer pure or true Yoseikan Aikido, and a lot of students of his father separated from his organization to continue the true Yoseikan path.
For me, Saito Morihiro or Michio Hikitsuchi would have been a much better Doshu choice. And now Saito Hitohiro would be third Doshu, instead of Ueshiba Moriteru. They have devoted all their lives to Aikido and the care of the Aiki-Shrine and the Ueshiba family. Their generosity has never been repayed by actual or second Doshu.
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When looking for a solicitor, one of the first names likely to spring to mind is Harold G Walker
It is a name that has been synonymous with legal practice in this area since 1946, when Harold, a well-known character of Bournemouth, set up his office in the town. Some may even remember the time when he was chairman of Bournemouth Football Club
These days the law firm is owned by managing partners Simon Nethercott and Nicola Lowe and though no longer based in Bournemouth, it has well-established branches in Verwood, Christchurch and Broadstone as well as its head office in Wimborne.
Many will know the Wimborne office in West Borough, so it may come as a surprise when you next pay a visit, to find it has moved down the road and what a difference those few strides have made.
Barely a stone's throw from the previous office, it is much more spacious. Set on three floors, the larger premises have a welcoming reception and offices on the ground floor.
Nicola said, "We were aware we needed a ground floor presence. There is also a conference and meeting room, plus room to expand. We are currently looking to increase our commercial department."
The firm had been seeking a new office for a while, but they wanted to remain in the heart of Wimborne, among the community they serve and decided to wait until the right property came along.
With high ceilings and a casement door to the garden, the building is grand and it has been christened with an equally grand name: Grenville House, which takes its name from Harold G Walker's middle name.
Nicola said, "The name of Harold G Walker lives on and we are very proud of that."
Nicola came to law later in life when her children were teenagers. She trained at Harold G Walker before qualifying as a solicitor. In the year 2000, she was appointed the first female partner in the firm's history, a reflection of her dedication. Not only that, she has since been nominated for awards for her work in legal practice.
She also manages the head office and said Harold G Walker has invested heavily in computer systems and was one of the first solicitors in the area to receive Cyber Essentials accreditation. "We take our responsibilities very seriously," she added.
The state-of-the-art computer systems are linked between offices for a seamless process between the branches.
Simon Nethercott explained that as part of the firm's community involvement, Harold G Walker run regular clinics giving people access to free legal advice. They also raise a lot of money by holding events and in the last year have donated £15,000 to various charities and sponsored Light up the Prom in Bournemouth.
With three other partners: Hugh Storry Dean, Cath Porter and Gaynor Cooke, this well-established law firm anticipates continuing its growth.
"We are looking to expand in Ringwood or Ferndown," said Simon.
And so it seems the good name of Harold G Walker is destined to continue.
For further information please contact HG Walker on Broadtsone 01202 692448, Christchurch 01202 482202, Verwood 01202 823308, Wimborne 01202 881454 or visit www.hgwalker.co.uk


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Here at First Baptist Church of Orangevale we believe very strongly in the word Ministry. Ministry can be defined as an activity by Christians to spread or express their faith. We strive to have ministries for multiple key areas in our community that will make a positive impact.
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SS John Harvey was a U.S. World War II Liberty ship. This ship is most well known for carrying a secret cargo of mustard gas and whose sinking by German aircraft in December 1943 at the port of Bari in south Italy caused an unintentional release of chemical weapons.
The John Harvey was built by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina, and launched on 9 January 1943.
In August 1943, Roosevelt approved the shipment of chemical munitions containing mustard agent to the Mediterranean theater. On 18 November 1943 the John Harvey, commanded by Captain Elwin F. Knowles, sailed from Oran, Algeria, to Italy, carrying 2,000 M47A1 mustard gas bombs, each of which held 60–70 lb. of sulfur mustard.
After stopping for an inspection by an officer of the 7th Chemical Ordnance Company at Augusta, Sicily on 26 November, the John Harvey sailed through the Strait of Otranto to arrive at Bari.
Bari was packed with ships waiting to be unloaded, and the John Harvey had to wait for several days. Captain Knowles wanted to tell the British port commander about his deadly cargo and request it be unloaded as soon as possible, but secrecy prevented him doing so.
On 2 December 1943 German aircraft attacked Bari, killing over 1,000 people, and sinking 17 ships, including the John Harvey, which was destroyed in a huge explosion, causing liquid sulfur mustard to spill into the water and a cloud of sulfur mustard vapor to blow over the city.
A total of 628 military victims were hospitalized with mustard gas symptoms, and by the end of the month, 83 of them had died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have been even greater, could not be accurately gauged since most had left the city to seek shelter with relatives.
An important story. First I have heard of it. The BIG question is, what we were doing with mustard gas bombs? I thought there was a convention signed against their use after WWI. A good subject for someone to research and write an article. I'm too old to take it on.
The "convention" against chemical weapons was the Geneva Gas-War Protocol of 1925. Among the nations attending the conference in Geneva, 12 refused to sign the Protocol, and the U.S. was among those 12.
When WWII began, both sides had chemical weapons, but Hitler was adamant that German chemical weapons were to be stored only inside Germany, and the Wehrmacht never used any.
The U.S. and Great Britain both had chemical weapons; in the case of the U.S., these weapons were for use IF AND ONLY IF Axis forces deployed chemical weapons first. (A German scientist supposedly discovered that the U.S. had a plan for a 15-day campaign of bombing German cities with mustard gas and carbonyl chloride. It was said that the campaign would kill between 5 million and 6 million Germans. So far as I know, this propaganda claim has never been verified.)
The John Harvey disaster was by far the worst incident involving chemical weapons, but it was not the only one. During the invasion of Poland, the Poles used a chemical bomb to destroy a bridge, killing two German soldiers and injuring 14 others. Germany appears not to have retaliated against Poland for this action.
The entire history of chemical weapons in WWII would indeed make an interesting book.


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Jessica Ruprecht
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dreamer, Writer, Coach.
Tell us a bit about the business that you are creating?
I work with women who have incredible dreams but feel they don't know how to bring them into the world. My coaching practice focuses really practically on helping women navigate their fears and harness their courage so that they can bring their dreams to life
What are your three core values in your working life right now?
Connection. Ease. Inspiration.
What's the hardest part of running a business from home?
For me the hardest thing is finding the time. I also work full time outside of my coaching business, so running my business happens during my evenings and weekends. I've had to learn to be really efficient and strategic with my time!
What's the most rewarding part of running a business from home?
The best thing about my work is seeing my clients succeed. I love watching the women I work with discovering their own power - the things they go on to do with that power always amaze me! And the best part of running a business from home: I get to work in my yoga pants.
What fears did you have about starting your business?
What fears didn't I have? My biggest fear was probably the fear of being seen. I was afraid to put myself out into the world, afraid of other people's criticism, afraid of my business failing (because then I would feel like a failure). My coaching practice focuses on helping women navigate fear and harness courage because I myself struggled with fear for years and because learning how to harness my own courage has really been the thing that changed everything for me. Including how I show up in my life and my business.
What's the biggest lesson you've learned in running your home based business?
For me it's absolutely been this: have reasonable expectations for yourself. I'm a classic overachiever and building and running a homebased business requires consistent effort and engagement over the long haul. Learning how to show up consistently without overworking myself has been a huge lesson for me.
In moments of doubt, how do you overcome it and lift yourself back up?
When doubt crops up for me I meet it with attention, compassion, and curiosity. I notice my doubt and look for the underlying cause usually some form of fear. And then I meet that fear with a tremendous amount of selfcompassion and curiosity as I gently figure out what it is I'm really afraid of and what I want to do about it.
Who is your support crew if you have one?
I have a small group of friends and fellow coaches from my coach training program whose support I cherish.
What's the best piece of business advice you've been given?
I don't know if there can be any one best piece of advice. But I think for me it would be: be willing to fail and don't let failure stop you from showing up over and over again.
What's a brief summary of the pathway it took to get to where you are now?
My path to coaching was definitely circuitous. I grew up thinking I wanted to be a scientist and have two degrees from MIT. I went on to work as an astronomer studying near Earth asteroids but I felt like something was missing. Science interested my mind but it failed to engage my heart, so I've turned to my coaching work as a way of doing the kind of heart-centered work that matters most to me.
How important is grit, determination and persistence to you in growing your business?
I kind of loathe the words "grit" and "determination". For most of my life I used grit and determination to accomplish impressive things, but in the process I exhausted myself and made myself miserable. These days I'm still persistent, but it's the most patient and gentle kind of persistence I can muster. I don't rush myself. I don't "do it anyway" if I'm feeling scared. Instead I slow down, I notice, I inquire. I engage with my fear instead of pushing through it.
What's the hardest thing about being your own boss?
For me it's been trusting myself to lead the way. When I first started my business I was always looking for another training program, another system to show me how to get my business off the ground. Really, I was looking for someone to tell me how to build my business because I didn't trust myself to make it on my own. These days I'm pretty uninterested in training programs and courses they definitely have a purpose, but if you trust yourself you can probably figure it out and if you don't trust yourself no training program is ever going to help.
What sacrifices have you made starting a business?
For me, the sacrifices I've made mostly have to do with how I use my free time. I've given up my Netflix account. I don't watch a lot of TV. I spend a lot of my evenings and weekends at home working on my business. But I love the work I do and none of this really feels like a burden.
Where do you find inspiration for your work?
The results are what inspire me. It's seeing the impact this work has made in my own life and the lives of my clients that motivates me to keep going. It's my belief that this work is important and makes a real difference.
What do you still want to achieve on a personal level?
It really boils down to this: I want to spend my time on things that matter to me and make me happy. What that will look like in the future, I don't know for sure. Right now it looks like teaching myself Russian just for fun. Someday maybe it will look like thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Or maybe not. I don't make a lot of firm plans because over and over again I've found that you can't plan for life. I prefer to just enjoy where I'm at right now and to do what feels like fun when it's time to move forward.
Name one thing you can't live without each day.
My morning cup of tea.


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Welcome to
Stephanie Allen Photography
Natural lighting is what I am drawn to. The Golden Hour, the hour just before sunset, is my absolute favorite time of day. The images you capture during this time are absolutely breathtaking.
I also love texture. I adore color. Give me an old stone building and a blue door and I am so happy! I love the rustic old barn wood or even just the open field. We can find a photo opportunity anywhere, all you have to do is look!


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Event Scrapbook
Here are some pictures from past events and from my art studio (the "Secret Hideout Studio"):
Some pictures from our debut First Friday, November 2009.
This year was the debut of the Art Yard Sale experiment at the Studio. Overall, it was very successful: As a group, we had five artists/craftspersons total and several more inquiries from potential artists, sold as much (if not more) art as standard garage sale items, turned a profit, and generated a ton of positive exposure. Not bad for one weekend's worth of effort!
My interactive art entry for the Toy Art Show @ the Watershed, Portland OR 2008… Mr. & Mrs. Gender Bender!
My art on display at Portland Coffee House, SW Broadway in Portland OR, summer of 2008.


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Carnival Pictures - Thanks to Ms. Pam and all the volunteers for an amazing day!
All the math practice with the interactive board, the iPads, the math ball, and math around the world has paid off. St. Joseph placed second in the online math competition hosted by the LIU out of 26 local schools in February! Almost all of the first graders were in the top 50 students of the competition at one point or another through out the competition and four of the first graders reached the top ten students at one time or another.
Mystery Reader
Our most recent mystery reader read a Skippyjon Jones book using a funny accent, which the students really enjoyed! After the book was over our reader shared a snack with our first graders of gummy bears. We love mystery readers!
Congratulations to the three first grade winners of the AMVETS Post No. 22 Annual Americanism Essay Contest! They are:
Josefine Tayman (1st place)
Austin Rollman (2nd place)
Sophia Walter (3rd place)
All the first graders did a fantastic job and should be very proud!
Welcome to First Grade!
Hello! I am Stacey Biggins, the first grade teacher at St. Joseph School. I am so excited to be teaching first grade! If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me by e-mail or by sending a note with your child. I can also be reached at the school office by calling 717-632-0118. By working together, we will all have a blessed school year!
Email Mrs. Biggins
First Grade Specials
Monday: Music
Tuesday: Computer and Spanish
Thursdays: Library
Fridays: Art
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During Nnenna's and my consultation, she asked me questions such as: Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years? As well as other questions regarding what kind of experience I'm searching for in a job and graduate school.
I really liked her approach to helping me discover that I could successfully take on all that I'm setting out to do. I want to work for a stop-motion animation company, but I also want to be a painting professor and either open my own gallery or be affiliated with one. Nnenna was able to dissect the path I need to take in order to get there. She explained to me the only way to be successful is to feel like you will be truly productive in the environment I put myself in. And the first step to that path is Graduate school.
Nnenna and I talked about my current list of graduate schools I want to apply to and why which helped me eliminated and also add a few schools to that list. We talked about application deadlines and what I needed to do in order to get in the running, such as talking to their current faculty or building connections with those I already knew went to those schools.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Nnenna at an incubator with like-minded individuals who were passionate about starting & growing their businesses. Since then, Nnenna has been very beneficial in my life with great significance towards my acceptance into graduate school. We often met on ways for me relieve the financial stress of going back to school & she assisted with researching scholarships while also being a consultant for my business. She is passionate about helping others and shows the best interest in seeing her clients succeed. I am looking forward to doing more work with Nnenna in the future!


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Julie Kahn's "Swamp Cabbage" has to be one of the best events I've seen lately at Locust Projects: a multimedia exhibit (accompanied by a printed catalogue) featuring a panel discussion among scholarly experts, followed by a food tasting at TransEAT/Food Culture Museum. Kahn creatively combined the different elements to carefully convey an important cultural and aesthetic message.
The show centers on cracker culture, one that has influenced Florida history and its customs for more than two centuries. Of Irish and Scottish ancestry, the crackers illegally migrated from Anglo-Saxon Georgia and South Carolina to settle in Florida -- at the time, the property of Spain -- in search of the freedom that would allow them to become more self-sufficient.
Kahn, a Miami native, has studied cracker culture since 1999 in an effort to understand, as she puts it: "My own nomadic and urban lifestyle." After receiving funding from the Florida Humanities Council, the artist began documenting her research about cracker gatherings and practices.
"Swamp Cabbage"
Locust Projects, 105 NW 23rd St, Miami
Through June 29. ; 305-576-8570. Open Saturday 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment.
Once she'd begun, Kahn found attaining her goal perplexing. In the show's catalogue she says, "I found that the more time I spend making photographs and videos, the more elusive and slippery terms like 'cracker' and 'native' become." The roots of her inquiry are embedded in the literature of discovery and exploration, whose long history dates from sixteenth-century chronicles (in which natives were simultaneously redeemed and ridiculed), to Rousseau's romantic idea of the noble sauvage, to twentieth-century anthropological relativism.
Today the consensus suggests it's possible to understand a culture different from ours, provided one is willing to become immersed in that milieu. This is what Kahn did, although after a while she acknowledged her aim was "not to define the culture, but rather to suggest the camouflaged humanity beyond the stereotypes."
The artist's photos are indeed in sync with the crackers' way of life. In Tombstone we perceive two graves, their marble headstones at eye level. The one closest to the camera has the name Brooks etched over the image of an alligator positioned next to a gas tank on wheels, a symbol of the cracker lifestyle. Mudhole shows a group of youngsters frolicking in mud close to a palm tree bordering a lake. Their behavior truly evinces a candid absorption in the moment; they're almost oblivious to Kahn's camera.
During the opening reception, Caren Rabbino moderated a panel discussion that included professor of history at Florida Southern College James M. Denham, professor of journalism at Stillman College Bill Maxwell, radio commentator and author Diane Roberts, and Florida cattlewoman Iris Wall.
Roberts attributed the success of Kahn's photos to the comfortable behavior demonstrated by her subjects. The author drew a comparison between a photo of a dead hog and the environment in which crackers are immersed daily. Living off the land, rural people develop a meaningful relationship with animals; they become a food staple and a cultural symbol.
Denham talked about the intergenerational phenomenon of cracker culture exemplified by a photo depicting a little girl dressed in camouflage, sitting on a pliable chair, enjoying a sunny day. In this instance the outfit becomes a token through which generations transmit values.
Rabbino steered the panel to explore the semantics behind the word cracker and to discuss how it's linked to more pejorative ethnic slurs such as white trash and redneck. Wall defended the term cracker as a meaningful cultural symbol that conveys a proud, honest, and self-sufficient people in intimate contact with the land. Roberts added that white trash is a term with which any cracker (or white for that matter) can be labeled, whereas redneck might simply refer to a happy-go-lucky, sloppy person.
In agreement with Wall's assessment, Maxwell, an African-American journalist, deemed crackers to be straightforward, hardworking people. Considering the South's history of slavery, I believed he was in a good position to demystify the pejorative meaning associated with the term.
After this panel discussion, the crowd walked to Montse Guillén and Antoni Miralda's TransEAT to savor treats such as swamp cabbage, turtle stew, fried gator-tail tidbits, roasted pork sirloin, buttermilk cheese-biscuits, and other delicacies, all of which were prepared and served by Florida crackers. The mood was relaxed and cheerful.
The food tasting provided a nice culmination to the evening, a moment in which everyone actually felt the import of Kahn's project through a shared and nurturing experience.
"AT THIS TIME, 10 Miami Artists" opened with a big buzz at Donald and Mera Rubell's newly remodeled warehouse. The exhibit showcases works by Hernan Bas, José Bedia, Cooper, Naomi Fisher, Mark Handforth, Jiae Hwang, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Bert Rodriguez, Purvis Young, and Pablo Cano.
Curator Mark Coetzee created a dynamic interaction among the pieces; instead of following the tradition of hanging each artist's works separately, he mixed them. The public can move from the awe-inspiring -- José Bedia's raft installation that occupied a whole nave on the first floor -- to the bizarre -- Cooper's cryptic and angst-ridden Our American Cousin assemblage.
On the second level is Purvis Young's room, in which dozens of his works are hung salon style, a fine touch by Coetzee, who sought to evoke the gestures of a piece Young produced in the Seventies displayed in Overtown's Goodbread Alley.
This exhibition identifies the common threads among established and emerging Miami artists. Bas's The Aesthete's Toy -- depicting a carapace filled with trinkets that sits on a Persian rug, above which hang three lamps -- was a well-suited homage to French author Karl Huysmans.
Conceptually closer to Bas was Cristina Lei Rodriguez's commemorative installation -- cinder blocks, a pole, a fence, bird toys, and flora topped with a tiny sailboat. I found Mark Handforth's bike (filled with colored candles) to be a poetic statement, akin to something from Roger Corman's The Wild Angel.
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In addition there was Bert Rodriguez's cleverly framed series of identical self-portrait photographs in which he poses as an executive-like model (Rodriguez is truly a Miami Duchamp). Naomi Fisher offered some of her color-saturated -- and visually enticing -- series, Assy Flora; while Jiae Hwang (the youngest of the bunch) displayed a collection of pencil drawings titled I'm the Real Princess of the Magical Land -- delicate, witty, and humorous.
Coetzee points out some recurring images connecting the artists, such as a boat that appears in different guises throughout works by Bedia, Bas, Lei Rodriguez, and Young -- perhaps symbolizing an epic journey each has endured. The altar is another symbol present in the works of Handforth, Lei Rodriguez, and even Fisher, with her self-portraits displayed as mounds of flora. Then there's the horse -- seen in Young's paintings, Cooper's works, and Bedia's assemblages.
Miami and its art scene are relatively young, and with an eye on the future, one easily understands why shows like this are needed: They bring to light historic points of reference for tomorrow's artists and historians.
Boasting a newly refurbished art house in addition to legendary art holdings, the Rubell Family Collection is one of America's best (privately owned) contemporary venues. Its current exhibit suggests, beyond its themes, that Miami artists are internationally respected.


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Allied Charities of Minnesota
The attached is the summary that was presented at the June GCB legislative classes.
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Our charities meet specific tests of fiscal accountability, governance, and programmatic impact participate in Aid for Africa. To participate, an organization must:
- be an IRS-designated 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization;
- provide services in at least 15 different states or one foreign country over the three-year period immediately preceding the application;
- provide a signed copy of the most recently completed IRS Form 990;
- be governed by an independent board of directors, the majority of whom serve without compensation, and
- clearly demonstrate that it has provided real services, benefits, assistance or other program activities in Sub Saharan Africa and, in some cases, for African refugees and emigrants.
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For BINC Attendees, Orlando will, indeed, be the "Happiest Place on Earth." You see, the hometown of Disney World will also be the site of the 67th Annual BetterInvesting National Convention from May 17 – 20, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Orlando by SeaWorld. It's the perfect venue to bring your spouse and family and extend your stay after BINC is finished.
Meanwhile, you'll be happy to attend the many investing classes, panelist sessions, workshops, exhibits, and special speakers. The keynote speaker will be Kelley Wright, managing editor of the newsletter, Investment Quality Trends.
Wright is the author of Dividends Still Don't Lie, published in February 2010, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He's also the presenter of the on-demand BetterInvesting webinar recording "Dividends Still Don't Lie: Lessons Learned Over 50 Years."
To hear Kelley Wright in person, take advantage of the current Fall Special for BINC, which ends Dec. 3, 2017. Nonmembers will save $110 on the registration fee, and your spouse can come for a reduced price, too. For more details, visit the convention home page.
Wright's interest in stocks and investing was the result of his relationship with his grandfather, a small-business owner whose investment philosophy was formed by his experiences during the Great Depression.
With everyday life as a classroom, the younger Wright learned the building blocks of business and how to discern quality offered at good value. In college, he made a connection between the lessons of his youth and his coursework in business and economics.
Beginning in 1984, he worked for both wire houses and private boutiques in La Jolla, Calif., and later with Dean Witter Reynolds as a registered representative and registered principal.
In 1989, Wright transitioned from retail brokerage to fee only investment management, eventually serving as chief investment officer to three investment management firms.
He now serves as chief investment officer and portfolio manager at I Q Trends Private Client Asset Management, a registered investment advisory company.
Wright often speaks at trade shows and investment conferences, and is a frequent guest and contributor to radio, CNBC, and a participant in the MSN Money Strategy Lab. He'll be at the upcoming 2018 MoneyShow event in Orlando, as will BetterInvesting's CEO Kamie Zaracki and Doug Gerlach, president of ICLUBcentral.
Wright's commentaries have been published by Barron's, Bottom Line Personal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Economist, MarketWatch.com, and many other business and financial periodicals and websites.
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BetterInvesting is a national nonprofit organization that has been empowering individual investors since 1951. Founded in Detroit, the association (formerly known as National Association of Investors Corporation) was borne out of the conviction that anyone can become a successful long-term investor by following commonsense investing practices. BetterInvesting has helped more than 5 million people become better, more informed investors by providing webinars, in-person events, easy-to-use online tools for analyzing stocks, a monthly magazine and a community of volunteers and like-minded investors. For more information about BetterInvesting, visit its website at www.betterinvesting.org or call toll free (877) 275-6242.
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The complete response to Matthew Vines is now available as a single program. Yes its five hours and nine minutes long, (72meg in size), but the world needs to hear this message. We believe this so much that we have decided to make this publicly available to be distributed for free. Share it with your friends and relatives. We've titled it "Gay Christianity" Refuted and only ask that you not change it or sell it. All fair use rules apply for criticism too.I strongly encourage the blog's readers to take this opportunity to listen to Dr. White's defense of the Scriptural view and to tell your friends about it as well. Dr. White plays and responds to the entirety of Matthew Vines' presentation. Again, you can download the audio at the Alpha & Omega Ministries website here.
"But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God — and righteousness and sanctification and redemption — that, as it is written, 'He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.'"
Thursday, October 25, 2012
"Gay Christianity" Refuted by James White
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Readers may also find this short post of help as an example of how Scripture is blatatly distorted.ReplyDelete
But what this debate needs most of all is Christians who clearly understand the basics and can explain, to their neighbors and friends, how the key arguement of "love" is being distorted. Christians are called to be disciples, learners, not just social media junkies.
I would be glad to send the pdf to anyone who would care to peruse or review Love, Prayer, and Forgiveness: When Basics Become Heresies.


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- Ring +44 07515 738 100 or email to confirm availability and to book your day trip.
- After confirmation of your booking by Paul, you will be directed back to this page to sign the indemnity agreement and pay for your fishing trip.
- Everyone in your party should fill in and submit the form as soon as possible, so please send them a link or contact us for assistance.
- There are 2 options to pay, either by Paypal or a direct bank transfer. Paypal will give an option to pay by credit card as well, if preferred.
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These rates apply to our UK guided bass fishing trips for 2018.
6 hours bass fishing trip
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Previous football seasons have seen Manchester City's schedule jostled all over the place, with several matches moved to a Monday night for the TV.
That means it pretty much impossible for me to make it. But this term – so far at least – we've only had one Monday night home fixture and I've made every other home league game (plus one stop-over for our midweek Champions' League debut).
So I've been able to develop a routine around match days. Start with a cuppa in my 'City 'til I die' mug, do a few bits and pieces and then out of the house at around 10am, getting home approximately 11 hours later, with the light fading to the west.
What this also means is that The Other Half has to do the weekend's shopping.
This last weekend, I had left suggestions for Sunday's main meal fairly open-ended: either some venison for a classic stew is Andy was on the market or some beef for the pot if he wasn't.
A bottle of decent plonk, some herbs and vegetables and you have some darned good autumnal fodder.
What he'd picked up was a packet of venison, osso buco style. Since it's not a dish that I'm familiar with, first thing yesterday morning it was time to play hunt the recipe.
Osso buco is Italian and means 'bone with a hole' – which for those who are interested in these sorts of things, doesn't seem that far from ossuary, which is pretty much a hole with bones.
In culinary terms, it's a classic dish from Milan, made of cross-cut veal shanks, which are braised with vegetables, white wine and broth, and often garnished with gremolata, a mix of chopped parsley, garlic and lemon zest.
The original version was flavoured with cinnamon, bay and the gremolata, while the modern version uses tomatoes, without the spicing. The gremolata is optional.
But sure enough, I found a recipe for using venison in a very similar way – and then found myself adjusting.
There was no wine in the version I based the dish on, but because of how it includes sugar, it does need something to deglaze. And after I'd resolved that, I felt that the flavours mitigated against the gremolata.
But here's my version, anyway.
Heat the oven to 140˚C (that's for a fan oven).
Take some shallots and peel and halve or quarter them, depending on size (around four shallots or small onions per person).
Chop some cloves of garlic – I used three really fat ones.
Now, heat a round a tablespoon of dripping or lard – oh go on, you can use butter if you want – in a heavy casserole dish and brown the meat. I had around 670g of venison with bone.
Take the meat out and pop the shallots in, together with a generous teaspoon of demerara sugar. Add the garlic and stir gently – and then give it a slug of sherry or red wine vinegar to get any meat off the pan and to absorb the sugar.
Tip in two tins of tomatoes, add a drop or two of beef stock and a spoon of redcurrant jelly, pop the meat back in, bring to the boil, pop the lid in and put into the oven.
After around three hours, take it out, check and then season as necessary.
Relax for another 45 minutes or so and then put some rice on – I used basmati.
After a total of four hours, eat.
The soothing gentleness of the fragrant rice is a perfect foil for the slightly sweet and sour tastes of the dish. The meat was well cooked and seriously flavoursome.
I used all the meat in the dish, but it would have done for three portions – and indeed, I'm saving a portion for later in the week, as we'll be taking it in turns to work from home in coming days, so it'll do for a lunch.
That means that, at £5.50 for the meat, it works out at £1.83 per portion – and the cost of the garlic, onion, tinned tomato, vinegar, seasonings and rice won't have added a lot to that.
In other words, a proper meal, using fresh game, that didn't take long to prepare and cost barely over £2 a head.
Out of curiosity, I looked at a couple of supermarket websites. Ocado, which delivers for Waitrose, had nothing strictly comparable, but it had 250g of handmade venison tortelloni for £5.99, a pack of two 75g tranches of venison paté with Shetland gin for £3.25 (Welsh Dragon venison liver paté is £3.96 for 120g) and a 1.15kg rack of New Zealand venison is typically £40.24.
The ingredients for the tortelloni were:
- Pasta 66%: '00' Wheat Flour 40%, Durum Wheat Semolina, Free Range Egg 20%, Water, Added Salt 2%.
Filling 34%: Venison 25% & Beef Cooked in Red Wine and Herbs, Carrots, Onions, Parmigiano Reggiano (Milk, Salt and Curd), Butter, Salt, Vegetable Broth (Salt, Yeast Extract, Non-Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Dehydrated Vegetables: Carrots, Onions, Parsley, Leek, Garlic, Tomato), Garlic, Black Pepper, Nutmeg.
Sainsbury's had some farmed venison steaks at £6.49 for two of 240g each; 340g of "diced wild venison" for £4 and half a dozen venison sausages for £2.59.
The ingredients for the sausages were:
- Venison (41%), Pork (39%), Redcurrant Jelly (Sugar, Water, Redcurrant Juice from Concentrate, Pectin), Red Wine (6%), Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Yeast, Salt), Fresh Sage, Salt, Fresh Garlic, Ground Black Pepper; Cracked Black Pepper, Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite; Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid; Clove. Filled into Natural Pork Casings.
Meat content 80%. Filled into natural pork casings.
Tesco has a venison Wellington at £10 for 530g; a 750g venison and sloe gin hot pot for £7 (on special offer until 8/11/2011, when it becomes £8 again). It's a fiver for 350g of diced venison, £2.99 for six sausages and £2.12 for two venison burgers of 227g each.
The ingredients in the burgers are:
- Venison (90%), Water, Breadcrumbs (Wholemeal Wheat Flour; Yeast; Salt), Salt, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spices, Tomato Powder, Sage, TempText1.
For the hot pot:
- Potato, Venison (26%), Parsnip, Red Wine, Carrot, Smoked Bacon, Onion, Vegetable Oil, Redcurrant Jelly, Sloe Gin, Chicken Stock, Cornflour, Muscovado Sugar, Tomato Purée, Pectin, Salt, Garlic Purée, Cocoa Powder, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf. Smoked Bacon contains Pork, Water, Salt, TempText1. Redcurrant Jelly contains Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Redcurrant Juice, Sugar, Pectin, Citric Acid, TempText2. Stock contains, Chicken, Sugar, Water, Salt, Cornflour, Onion Concentrate, Chicken Fat.
Why sugar and cornflour in a stock?
Just to throw a bit more context into this: I bought four large venison burgers from Andy last autumn. They were £4 and they contained only one ingredient: venison. Two did us more than adequately for one meal and I froze the others for a midweek supper.
And on Saturday, The Other Half also picked up a pack of sausages from the same stall. £4.50 for nine venison, basil and tomato sausages. Weight (including packing) 496g. Ingredients? What it says on the label.
Now someone remind me – why do some people think that processed and supermarket food are so great?
And why on Earth do we let 'them' get away with it?


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There also some changes introduced for Bangladeshi applicants. Applicants need to register online, apply online and make a appointment to submit documents and biometric information. The application process will be managed by BFS Global.
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since i bought my canon 77d with canon 18-135 USM the image quality are very bad it looks like the foucs is not crisp or sharp espicaly at the wide open 18mm it is very clear when i zoom for more than 75mm picture start to be better.
to day i sent to canon service center as the camera still under warranty he was trying to convenice me this normal and the pictures are OK
please check and give me your opnion
one more thing after i insist to check the camer he told me we will the take the body only and he told me we don't need the lens, which i found it strange.
this picture at the 18mm ISO 100 F/4 Shutter speed 1/640 you can see it is not sharp and the colors are very soft (one shot foucs and midle zone foucs on the head)
below picture on the 90mm iso 160 f/6.3 shutter speed 1/160 here it is very clear the picture is sharp and in foucs
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I think the focus is fine. It just needs a little post processing.
Processed Original Photo (overprocessed to show what is possible)
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There is nothing wrong with your camera. You are noticing one of the differences between capturing images with a cell phone, versus capturing images with a DSLR. I think the OOF, out of focus, elements of the image are caused by DOF, depth of field of the lens.
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i didn't compare it with the iphone i have but i feel like it's not crisp sharp and it could be because the DOF and may be i am just paranoid because i had a severe back focus issue with this camera and my previous lens Sigma 18-200
that is why i want a 2nd opinion
Sounds more like an issue with the Sigma lens than the 77D camera to me. If you want to test the camera, then do so in a controlled shooting condition with a focusing test target......and a good tripod.
"I think the focus is fine. It just needs a little post processing. "
Mike is correct. Your shooting technique is wrong and you need to post edit your shots to make them the best. That is the big difference between your iphone and a DSLR.
Bone up on how to use a DSLR, exposure and DOF and all will be fine.


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This is one game that everyone should have heard about by now, and for both good and bad reasons. The game has had some problems so far being legal problems and development issues but now it appears the cast are giving the game makers hassle.
Being that this game is a rock/metal based type of game the cast has represented that. However it appears that now the cast are making trouble for the game, well one of the cast members is anyway. Tim Schaffer tweeted saying he was "Flying to the UK for one day to meet with someone who is threatening to cancel." Schaffer later tweeted a message saying "Oh you crazy blogs I meant cancel a recording session. Not cancel themselves from the game."
Now I'm not saying that Tim is lying but flying all the way out to the UK because a cast member is threatening to cancel a recording session seems a bit much to me. I'm pretty sure there are these cool things called phones that can help you communicate long distances. It seems a little extreme to come all this way to save a recording session rather than reschedule it, I'd say this is something to keep your eye on.
Even if Tim did come all this way to save one session you still have to wonder why it's so important, maybe they're just desperate to keep their Rocktober deadline because Rockvember doesn't sound so cool.