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My friend in Texas sent me more of these front of church signs. I just had to post them here. I've no idea who captured these wonderful 'truths' Hope they don't mind!
I already sent my answers to Emily for this, but for your edification:
Which holidays do you celebrate, if any? I celebrate (or at least in some way, acknowledge) them all. I have children (my expectation that this statement should explain everything probably says a great deal about me). I love Christmas, but clearly the most celebrated holiday in my household is my birthday and the 7 days leading up to it, or, as it is known locally, “Novakkah”, but that’s in May so probably irrelevant for this occasion.
What is your favorite holiday tradition? We go and cut down our tree as a family and decorate it together, I love pulling out our ornaments and decorating the tree (we collect ornaments).Also, on Christmas we make “Christmas Curry” everyone chops something, it’s quite festive (and delicious).
For New Year's, are you a party animal or quiet night at home type? My children require their parents to be somewhere in the near vicinity while they are sleeping, so we generally stay home. We still ring in the New Year with something festive though, but usually K falls asleep around 11 and I am usually awake all by myself, that’s how we live, on the edge.
What drives you banana hammocks about the holidays? 1) You know those people that get really carried away with the holiday directions? Particularly the ones that inflate things?…. Sometimes it’s just too much. 2) People drive eleventy bajillion times worse during the holiday season, it’s a proven fact. 3) The thing that bothers me most is how the countdown to Christmas (and I do love is so, the holiday not the countdown) begins the day before Halloween. Target is all decked out for Christmas and it’s showing a total disregard for Thanksgiving, in my humble opinion. I just realized yesterday that Thanksgiving is next week, surely someone could have capitalized on that consumerist opportunity this year.
What's your "comfort" when getting "t
hrough" the holiday season? I am that person that turns on the radio station that plays Christmas songs 24/7 after Thanksgiving. I love finding new Christmas music that doesn’t suck. Also, I drink a lot of cider during the holidays—if it’s hard cider, all the better.
Holiday foods you like. I am an equal opportunity eater, really, so I pretty much like it all. I like nougat, and that seems to be especially popular around the holidays. I actually like fruitcake during the holidays as well, so long as it is done well. And well, you know, cookies, they are a big holiday thing. We make a lot of cookies during the holidays, so therefore we eat a lot of them.
Holiday foods you despise. Fruitcake, when it is done poorly. While I am a meat eater (mmmm bacon) I do not eat organ meat, during the holidays or otherwise, because, well, no (I realize that this may be superfluous, but I have no idea, maybe someone out there is really into dehydrating meat or something).
Foods you can't eat (allergies, etc.). I am lactose intolerant, but thanks to the power of lactase enzymes, this isn’t a huge deal, but I would happily consume non-dairy deliciousness as opposed to something that I’d have to take a pill to eat.
Favorite yarn(s)? Yes, all of them. Like most, I prefer natural fibers. I heart wool, of course. I am involved in passionate affairs with yarns made by Mad Tosh (all of them), Colinette (Jitterbug), and Koigu.
On the other hand: I don’t love variegation, but if it’s done right, I could easily be persuaded to infatuation. I am allergic to possum (I discovered this knitting with a yarn made out of possum, so totally relevant), and angora makes me sneezy, too.
Crafty pursuits - knit, crochet, spin, sew, quilt, any of these or others? Yes. I knit, crochet, spin, sew, quilt, weave, and embroider. I also dye roving, I have a shop but I am not really a self-promoter, to be honest.
Hobbies/pursuits/proclivities/passions. Aside from the fiber-y pursuits, I like to cook, love to bake, I am also interested in photography, I just enrolled in a program for that, because clearly, I need less sleep than I already get.
What do you do in life? A lot. Professionally, I am a college archivist, records manager and assistant special collections librarian. You are probably thinking that I don’t get paid enough, and you’d be right. Personally, I am a mom to two boys—Little Sir and Little Mister— and wife to one—K (in case you were confused, you know, “Sister Wives” and all that).
Random favorites My favorite TV shows of all time were Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies, when they went off the air, I might have cried a little. I watch a lot of TV while a do other stuff, but less than I used to. I love to drink decaf tea and sit back with a good book. I like seeking out new literature and new authors (that would be the librarian in me). I love finding out about new and intriguing books for kids, particularly for boys, because, well my Littles are quite boyish. I have recently entered into a “fascination with bread” phase. I am obsessed with it and want to bake all kinds of bread for my belleh.
Other stuff- I have just moved to a new house. And while happy and exciting, I did not expect to be doing the whole moving house thing during the holidays, so I am a little stressed out about moving (in phases on our own, because holy Hannah, the pro movers wanted an arm, a leg and our third born child to move us). Also, my mother in law is coming to visit two weeks before Christmas, and that’s not going to be helpful at all, but I digress, I have just moved into a new house.
I love my Keurig and like to try the decaf K-Cup options, Newman’s Own is still my favorite thus far. I just got an espresso maker that takes pods, and it’s the bee’s knees.
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Wasn't kidding about that work stuff. It's like pulling teeth trying to get answers to some of these questions.
“You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.”
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...to the question silently floated by. Like the clouds above, it was there, obvious, and yet, could not be touched.
Image credit, Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group, courtesy of Marc Smith, Netscan project, Microsoft Research. One of three graphs of Usenet usage that reveals Answer people: these are people who answer people who dont answer people, or what Malcom Gladwell would call Mavens.
Operating the inaugural Qatar Airways Doha to Dublin service, Airbus A350 A7--ALE heads towards the terminal.
The daily service operates using their dreamliner 787's, but for the first day, this A350 was used, this type of aircraft still very rare in Dublin.
Qatar had been rumored to be coming to Dublin for years, following in the footsteps of Emirates & Etihad, so today, questions were answered.
A simple 1-transistor buffer circuit is used to amplify the current through the footswitch. The footswitch then only has to switch a few mA.
Here I am testing the circuit to be sure I've chosen a suitable transistor (2N3019). I dislike solderless breadboards for most applications due to unreliable connections and stray capacitance, but for something like this they work fine.
The 2 clip leads are connected to a jack plug in the footswitch socket on the back of the chassis.
The transistor goes into saturation when the 2 switch wires (blue leads on the breadboard) are shorted. It drops about 0.7V, so it's dissipating about 0.1W. Easily within its ratings.
Front page from the Daily Mail, Saturday 30th June 2007. Later the same day a car stuffed with incendiary materials was deliberately driven at Terminal 1, Glasgow International Airport. Twenty four hours before a friend of ours had her car parked at almost the same spot...
Relevant blog post here.
Sen. John Glenn answers questions at a NASA Tweetup event celebrating Glenn's legacy and 50 years of americans in orbit held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center on Friday, March 3, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Mattel’s answer to Kenner’s mega hit Six Million Dollar Man series, the Ultimate Man of Adventure, Pulsar! He has fantastic working lungs and heart with blood circulation plus opening face to reveal a holographic mission disc. To maintain Pulsar, Mattel came up with this Life Systems Centre, the counterpart to Kenner's SMDM Bionic Transport and Repair Station, which was also released in 1977 and it is packed with gimmicks and play-ability. Sadly though the entire Pulsar series is Pulsar himself, his nemesis, the Ultimate Enemy, Hypnos and this Life Systems Centre, just three only. Sorry it did not go well for they are really wonderful toys... When it comes to word "Pulsar" people would most likely think Nissan Pulsar!
Athan finally gave his excited response to his mother's question. Sadly, I don't know recall the answer was but he was excited to say it.
There are 3 PCBs mounted in the main chassis. At the top, the small PCB contains an audio oscillator to produce a warning tone if the announcement tape is not properly loaded.
In the middle (on the slant, next to the announcement solenoid) is a 2-transistor latch circuit to turn on an indicator lamp if the announcement has been played -- that is that the machine has answered a call -- so that it is worth checking for messages on the tape.
At the bottom is the audio output amplifier to drive the speaker. Curiously, the driver stage and the driver transformer are on the main PCB, resulting in a lot of connections between the two.
Bad Apples, by Jim Leonard. Photos by Jeff Galfer.
Music by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
Directed by John Langs
A World Premiere produced by Circle X Theatre Co.
Welcome to Club Abu, the biggest party in Baghdad and the premier location for Iraqi nightlife.
You only need to answer the following question to gain entry: “Do you love me enough to torture for me?”
Dress code is whatever you got dragged in wearing (or nothing at all).
Freedom lovers only, please.
Featuring James Black, Kate Morgan Chadwick, Meghan McDonough, Mueen Jahan, Larry Clarke, Mapuana Makia, Anthony Manough, Ian Merrigan, Lina Patel, Sean Spann and Lauren Hillman
Bad Apples is a new rock musical that follows three characters inspired by the three National Guard soldiers behind the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003/2004. Jim Leonard has created a compelling, jarring, beautiful and heartbreaking story that asks how this tragedy came to be. Who were the victims? Who were the villains? Is sadism part of being human? Was Abu really an aberration brought on by a few "bad apples?"
Kate Morgan Chadwick as Lindsay Skinner in "Bad Apples." Photo by Jeff Galfer.Produced by Tim Wright and Jennifer A. Skinner
Choreography: Cassandra Daurden
Musical Direction: Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
Scenic Design: Francois-Pierre Couture
Projection Design: Jason H. Thompson
Lighting Design: Jeremy Pivnick
Sound Design: Cricket S. Myers
Costume Design: Jessica Olson
Props Design: Heather Ho
Associate Producers: Katherine Haan and Jennifer Ludden
Casting Director: Raul Staggs
Stage Manager: Katherine E. Haan
Assistant Directors: Kate Jopson and Johanna McKay
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 4pm
Tickets are $28 for Friday and Saturday evenings; $22 for Sunday matinees
Opening October 13, 2012
ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE
3269 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039
Free, ample street and lot parking.
from No Easy Answers fanzine, issue #1 (1980)
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1. I am thankful for clean windows!!
2. I am thankful for finally finding a word for when I really want to take a photograph but am too shy to bring out my camera or don’t want to miss the moment by fiddling. The term is unphotographable.
3. I am thankful for finally ordering an external hard drive to back up all of my files, at once, in one place. Thanks Joe of answering my query. :)
4. I am thankful for Tim Brownson’s requirements and offering of free life coaching because it helped to sift through my life where I have shown commitment to making improvements and see that I do work really hard to do and be better .. and I’m not near as flaky as I had thought I was. To write something where the thoughts need to be more cohesive is also very good practise, especially since it had a deadline. Asking for and allowing something good that I would like is also important forward movement for me. Interesting thing about Tim is that he is one of those people that I kept coming across several times a week for a few weeks. He also co-authored an interesting, entertaining and useful book How to be Rich and Happy I came across a few times. I don’t know about the title but the book looks good. Update: I submitted the first story and made the top six out of twenty-eight. The next part was to pare the 1000 word essay down to under 350 words. The 350 word story will be printed with the other five entries this Friday for readers of Tim’s blog to vote. I can hardly wait to read all of the stories! :) Submitting a story was a huge hurdle for me because in the past I have been so insecure about my writing abilities I would write something but get frustrated and just give up even if I believed the story I had to tell was worthy of mention. Tim also left some very tasty bread crumbs in the form of helpful links so whether my story is chosen or not I am still learning and growing heaps .. and that my dears is certainly something to be thankful for! ;) [Noter bien: if you are offended by swearing, following any of the links in this gratitude point may not be your cup of tea.]
5. I am thankful for being challenged on how I write my gratitude lists because it is helping me to communicate more concisely, further differentiate between myself and my work and helped me to finish a medium sized artwork that I had began weeks ago. In the finishing of the piece I was able to work through why my artwork and writing are so dense and involved. I know my artwork and writing is not for everyone, to look at it and connect with takes a certain personal time commitment on the part of the viewer. The work is not particularly accessible because there is a lot of writing in a small amount of space. My hope is that the reader/viewer will be rewarded with some connection they were able to make with their thoughts and hopes to another person to feel more connected to another. Or something to that effect.
6. I am thankful that I made the choice to stop avoiding making art by returning to university.
7. I am thankful that P sent this article this week 60 second health and fitness boosters - this is perfect because I have been working on creating better balance between work and exercise. Everything just goes so much better when I get enough exercise.
8. I am thankful for getting a bunch of administration work done this week. I had been letting it hang over my head for over a month.
9. I am thankful for the cool serendipity this week, specifically the Salvation Army Thrift Store pick up truck parked outside my office window and getting up to get something from the desk at just the right time. I was able to give a couple huge bags of clothes and some house hold items. The guy even came up to get some extra things so I didn’t have to go back out in the cold and wind .. I forgot to ask his name unfortunately. He told me that you can phone the store and they go out to pick things up Tuesdays and Thursdays. I am so thankful to get the things to people who can put them to use instead of sitting in a corner or closet AND that someone came to my door and took them away. I felt so much lighter and almost giddy afterward, so much so that I could barely sit still to work! Today as I was tidying up I thought of a bunch of other items in boxes that can go to better homes. For a while now I have been consciously culling my life of things (and ideas) that I don’t really enjoy or use anymore. I am often amazed at what I find that I have hung onto for YEARS and find that the reason I had kept it has long since expired. Out it goes! :) The more I cull the more I enjoy what I do have .. because I can actually see and experience it!
10. I am thankful for the first day of snow because traffic is slower, people are kinder, friendlier and more helpful of neighbours. I also like that the snow buffers traffic sounds and loud stereo people tend to stay home. That said, I am also glad that the clouds parted and let the sun shine in my window this evening! :) I am also thankful for the men and women that work with the city, Wascana Centre Authority and everyone else on the entire planet that clears walkways!! :)
11. I am thankful for getting bread and some peanut butter oatmeal cookies made this evening. I was down to my last crust of bread. Tomorrow’s mission; foraging for fresh food and dried legumes! :)
12. I am thankful for getting better at making check lists of things that I want done and assigning due dates to myself because it allows me to be better directed and see that I have actually done some stuff and the part of my brain that tells me I don’t do nearly enough can relax! I had my first official staff meeting with myself this week. I found it useful because it enabled me to look at what I am doing from different perspectives. One perspective as the boss in charge of direction and making sure the work gets done and another perspective as the worker who is sometimes temperamental and just doesn’t dang well feel like doing the work. During the staff meeting I ask myself the questions of Why I do the thing I do? How I choose to do the thing I do? and What exactly is it that I do? and was surprised to learn some things about how Me Inc. versus how Monique does things.
13. I am thankful that although sometimes thinking about the things (and people) that I am thankful for delays sleep, I always wake up feeling refreshed and in a good mood. Gratitude lists are such fascinating things, once you get into the habit they sort of permeate throughout your entire life. Speaking the day’s list has been one of the most important catalysts for change I have ever implemented in my life.
14. I watched this TED talk from Charlie Gilkey this afternoon and it is causing me to re-evaluate some of my choices. I am thankful for Charlie’s blog, I enjoy and connect with it more as the weeks go by.
15. I am thankful for remembering some important things this week. Mainly that no matter what seems to happen, good things always, always come of it.
16. Thank you for reading, have a delightful week .. unless you have other plans!? ;)
PS: I took the photo upside down because the light and framing worked better that way. I left it upside down because it worked better with the subject of the text in the photo.
For some questions and phrases, Powerset returns answers directly from Freebase, an open, shared database. These answers were generated from "What did Salvador Dali paint?" but try questions like "Where did Barack Obama go to school?" or "impressionist paintings" or "films directed by luis bunuel" or "who plays for the philadelphia flyers"
Taken with Sony Alpha 350 and Sony (Tamron-based) 18-250mm zoom. Comparable R1 image can be seen here.
This is a preliminary experiment using jpeg images. Both would do slightly better if I'd started from RAW images.
Not quite the same viewpoint or lighting, but comparable enough to answer my first question of whether the extra pixels of the 350 (14MP as opposed to the R1's 10MP) show up in extra resolution when the 350 is used with the SAL 18-250mm zoom. The comments of many reviewers strongly suggested to me that the usual zooms offered as package kits with the 350 aren't good enough to exploit the 350's 14MP.
The spurs offer a good central comparison point, and the tail and forward hood good edge comparisons. Both images are cropped down about the same amount from slightly wider shots. Although the 350 shot is a bit shorter in height due to more foreshortening of height, the widths are very close to being in proportion to the native uncropped widths. In other words, the sizes of such details as hoof and spur occupy the same amount of sensor real estate, just being represented by 40% more pixels in the case of the 350.
Both images have been subjected to exactly the same post camera adjustments, namely a slight boost in contrast, a slight increase in colour saturation, and a slight amount of sharpening. They have then been compressed to exactly the same level in Irfanview. The R1 image compresses to about 1 Mbyte, and the 350 image to 1.3 Mbyte, which given that the 350 image was cropped a bit smaller in height looks pretty close to the 10MP and 14MP ratio, suggesting the same amount of detail per pixel is being captured.
Examination of the images at maximum size confirms the general impression I'd already formed, that the 350 with this lens, at least in its good range, produces images with the extra amount of detail you'd expect from the extra pixels. The images are also a bit softer, which I guess is to be expected from a lens with 16 elements as opposed to the 12 of the R1, the price of a longer zoom range.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack answers questions from the press after touring a Co-op market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2016. Secretary Vilsack is in Vietnam to meet with his counterparts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to discuss the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Numerous U.S. exports, including beef, pork, poultry and dairy, will benefit significantly from the reduction and eventual elimination of Vietnam’s current high tariffs. USDA photo by Le Sy Hoang Chuong
IFPRI launched the second Global Nutrition Report on September 25, 2015, in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/washingtondc-launch-second-global-nut...
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Mindfullness
Be constantly curious. Wondering why will always encourage you to be more mindful. Asking questions and looking for the answers will bring you into the moment. Curiosity has so many positive benefits, but one of the greatest is its ability to keep alert to the world all around you.
Beth is very mysterious this week.
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DUP Leader Peter Robinson Visiting Riverdale Primary School near Lisburn to help them celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their School.
During the visit he answered questions from the pupils along with local MLA and school parent Edwin Poots.
Expedition 24 Flight Engineer Doug Wheelock answers a reporter’s question during a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Monday, June 14, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock, and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 3:35 a.m. Kazakhstan time. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)