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Must've refocused because I used Alan's lens to take this...
Taken at the www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com Bruges GTG in April 2007
State Senator Bryce E. Reeves, R-Spotsylvania, and Delegate Richard L. Anderson, R-District 51, visit Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team as they conduct a live fire range with the MK-19 grenade launcher and prepare for a situational training lane during annual training June 24, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va. Reeves and Anderson co-chair the Virginia General Assembly Military and Veterans Caucus. The live fire and training lane are part of the 10-day eXportable Combat Training Capability rotation designed to train and validate platoons on tasks that support offensive and defensive operations under daylight and hours of limited visibility. Units will concentrate on training selected mission essential tasks in a realistic field environment to refocus junior leaders on tactical field craft. The Army National Guard’s XCTC program provides an experience similar to a Combat Training Center to Guard Soldiers at a home station training center, minimizing cost and time away from home and jobs. XCTC is an instrumented field training exercise designed to certify unit proficiency in coordination with First Army. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
In September, I began purposely distancing myself from various faucets of life. In particular, my online presence, Flickr, Vox, Facebook & Twitter, became virtually non existent for almost 2 solid months, some longer. Even recently my activity has been guarded.
I purposely took myself offline, and removed myself from real-life social situations in order to refocus on myself. After the events of 2008: being laid off, our miscarriage, moving out of our inner-city apartment, which became symbolic of our inner-city era, which were easily the best years of our lives, I found myself floundering through life. Putting on a brave face to the world, full of ambition, but feeling dead inside. Feeling guilty, feeling like I had failed, feeling hopeless.
Admittedly, I had a lot of hate in my head. It wasn't the result of those events in '08, or even the subsequent struggles of '09, it had been building for years prior. The drama and the politics, and perhaps the injustices of life built up gradually over time, and came to a head. My anger was directed at various people and various situations, and in many cases it was justified, but it blinded me from the joy and positivity of life. I moved forward with a sense of false direction or purpose. I was motivated to act more by revenge, as if to attack with a "I'll show you" mentality, sizing myself up to others every step of the way. It took me nowhere, and by September I had hit my breaking point.
It's really only been in recent weeks that I feel I've had that "eureka!" moment that has changed my perspective, or at least begun to. Every day is a challenge, and some are better than others, but at the root of it, a single word has become the foundation from which to build from: Discipline.
Inspired by Theo Fleury's recent comeback attempt to the NHL, and all the "positive chaos" that has surrounded him in recent months, I realized that I was heading down a road towards self destruction, again. I had no structure even in my day-to-day routine. I realized I needed to focus solely on myself, and get back to basics, and that required discipline. I began by focusing on my health.
Whereas most people "hit the gym", I chose to "hit the rink", and began ice skating twice a week, by myself, having not skated in almost two years, and even back then, only skated for a few weeks, casually with Ange. In a way, I hadn't /really/ skated in over 10 years. I started from scratch, I paid my dues, got hurt, got injured, and have fallen flat on my ass a few times. But in a way, it was symbolic of the woes of life. I think that people sometimes think that if we fall, some mysterious person will come by to pick us up, and essentially do it for us. There's no one coming to save you. It's all up to you. When I fell on the ice one of my first times, I remember sitting there, cold, covered in snow, wondering what to do: get up and leave/give up, or get up and try again. Either way, I had to get up by myself. What I chose to do afterwards would subsequently dictate the direction of my attitude. I chose to get up and try again. I've been going to the rink twice a week ever since, and today I skate better than I ever have before, and improving every time I go because I purposely challenge myself to try something I hadn't tried before. Discipline got me there.
I had issues brewing inside that I had merely tried to sweep under the carpet and forget, but that doesn't mean they went away. I realized I needed to bring those issues to the forefront and confront them, because otherwise, they simply linger by the wayside, waiting for an opportunity to attack and consume your mind.
Again, Theo Fleury helped inspire this realization after a post he made on his blog in which he lists the 12 steps from AA's "The Big Book". One step in particular that struck a chord with me was: "Made a fearless and thorough moral inventory of ourselves." To be brutally honest with yourself about the state of your life, and identify those demons responsible for bringing you to the place you find yourself now. To hold yourself accountable.
I have had a lot of hate in my head, but much of it was never confronted, or again, blinded me from acting with the proper intentions.
I've only just begun confronting those demons, where possible, but already I've seen a shift in my perspective. I've tried to turn the other cheek and, if unable to confront things, at least come to have peace with it, to put it behind me, but not out of hate, but out of growth. I've actively chosen to remove people and situations from my life whose energy is toxic to my own, who radiate negativity and engage in drama, politics or gossip. It does nothing positive for me, and I choose not to expose myself to it.
For me, a new chapter has clearly begun, and though every day is a challenge, I at least wake up every day looking forward to them, as opposed to trying to skirt by them just to get through the day. There has been a lot of changes that seem to have come as a result of this new-found discipline and attitude, and plenty more to come, I'm sure of it.
After a tough non-conference schedule that saw the WSSU Rams face two ranked teams, and three playoff teams, the #15 ranked Winston-Salem State Rams will shift focus as they begin their run for another CIAA Title, as the Rams will host the Vikings of Elizabeth City State University in the CIAA opener, at Bowman Gray Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:00 pm.
Elizabeth City State is coming off of a tough 20-19 loss to Benedict last weekend.
This matchup will be the first in two season between the Rams and Vikings, who met three times in two years recently, as the Rams defeated the Vikings in back to back CIAA Championships in 2011 and 2012.
The WSSU Rams opened the season with two straight top 25 games, and must now refocus for another solid challenge from the Elizabeth City State Vikings.
One thing the WSSU Rams must do to help secure this win, is cut down on mental mistakes and penalties. WSSU currently is average 9.7 penalties per game for 83.3 yards per game.
The Series
The contest will be the 56th gridiron meeting between the two schools, with WSSU holding a 38-15-2 series lead. Below is the last sixth matchups between WSSU and Elizabeth City St.
2001: WSSU won, 45-6
2002: ECSU won, 15-14
2005: WSSU won, 24-23
2011: WSSU won, 22-17; WSSU won, 38-18
2012: WSSU won 34-19
Old bit of circuit board courtesy the workshop floor... Orb courtesy me... Insperation courtesy { tcb }.
In trying to do this refocus, change focal lens shit I realise just how talented { tcb } is. I got it all wrong on this one but in all honesty I think I like this one the best. Crap location too as I was trying it out in the drive while the family sleep!!
No editing apart from the crop (to remove the drive!) and RAW conversation.
After a tough non-conference schedule that saw the WSSU Rams face two ranked teams, and three playoff teams, the #15 ranked Winston-Salem State Rams will shift focus as they begin their run for another CIAA Title, as the Rams will host the Vikings of Elizabeth City State University in the CIAA opener, at Bowman Gray Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:00 pm.
Elizabeth City State is coming off of a tough 20-19 loss to Benedict last weekend.
This matchup will be the first in two season between the Rams and Vikings, who met three times in two years recently, as the Rams defeated the Vikings in back to back CIAA Championships in 2011 and 2012.
The WSSU Rams opened the season with two straight top 25 games, and must now refocus for another solid challenge from the Elizabeth City State Vikings.
One thing the WSSU Rams must do to help secure this win, is cut down on mental mistakes and penalties. WSSU currently is average 9.7 penalties per game for 83.3 yards per game.
The Series
The contest will be the 56th gridiron meeting between the two schools, with WSSU holding a 38-15-2 series lead. Below is the last sixth matchups between WSSU and Elizabeth City St.
2001: WSSU won, 45-6
2002: ECSU won, 15-14
2005: WSSU won, 24-23
2011: WSSU won, 22-17; WSSU won, 38-18
2012: WSSU won 34-19
Soldiers from the Leesburg-based C Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat conduct a platoon attack training lane June 19, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va. The platoon training exercise lane is part of the 10-day eXportable Combat Training Capability rotation designed to train and validate platoons on tasks that support offensive and defensive operations under daylight and hours of limited visibility. Units will concentrate on training selected mission essential tasks in a realistic field environment to refocus junior leaders on tactical field craft. The Army National Guard’s XCTC program provides an experience similar to a Combat Training Center to Guard Soldiers at a home station training center, minimizing cost and time away from home and jobs. XCTC is an instrumented field training exercise designed to certify unit proficiency in coordination with First Army. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Capt. Andrew J. Czaplicki)
Created with Nokia Refocus
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Это был эксперимент с новой фотокамерой в смартфоне Nokia, использующем новую технологию съёмки Lumia Refocus, когда за одну съёмку получается три кадра с фокусировкой на разных объектах (передний план, задний план и средний). При этом съёмка производилась с экрана TV, где шёл мастер-класс художника. Когда фотокамера сработала, происходила смена кадра на экране TV. Наложились два эффекта: Refocus и мультиэкспозиция, получилась "Статуя (статика) в динамике". Здесь первый из четырёх кадров. /
It was an experiment with a new camera in a Nokia smartphone that uses the new Lumia Refocus technology, when three shots with different focus on the objects (foreground, background and middle) are taken during one photo shoot. The shooting was done from the TV screen, where the artist's master class was. When the camera took a picture, there was a change of image on the TV screen. Two effects have been imposed: Refocus and Multi exposure, the "statue (statics) in dynamics ".