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Deansgate, Manchester. The Council was approached officially about this sign by the Museum, owing to its unique and widespread indication. It was also a manageable size. As there were some Games approaching, the Council said that they didnt want this old sign in their city centre and took it down, THEN THREW IT OUT. Shame on you.
Short is sizzling. Yes! The brief hairstyles are but again invading the hairstyles of the season. The simple reason is that a brief trendy hairstyle is easily manageable, looks attractive and is in. Do not be afraid to cut short your long tresses - Short Hair Styles.
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Here are the colors of Intense watercolor pencils that I have on hand. Seems like too many choices to carry around - I'm wondering which ones to eliminate so I have a more manageable number to have with me.
The EF-S 18-55mm f/3,5-5.6 IS lens, shown with the lens extended - at 55mm. The lens extends about 1/2" when at 18mm and 55mm, and fully retracts around 30mm. The focus ring is pretty small but manageable. Features a 4 stop IS.
The AF/MF and IS switches are recessed, preventing accidental changes.
For part of the time it took me to make this, I was painting with the Wacom stylus in one hand, and petting this very dog, my dog, with the other hand. My arms were crossed - he was at my right side and I'm right-handed. It was surprisingly manageable.
But really most of the time I was drawing him, he was downstairs pestering the bejeezers out of his dad. :)
After a great breakfast at a small cafe we took the Scenic Drive into Capitol Reef National Park. It's mostly a paved road until the very end but still manageable. We spent a few hours exploring the area. When we left Capitol Reef we decided to look for something new. I read about the Notom Road, east of the park, so we decided to check it out. Good decision. We went in about 12 miles before the road got rougher. Great scenery - it is the back side of the Waterpocket Fold - another area we need to check out. We then drove through some really desolate landscape before coming to the Hite Overlook. Great view of the Colorado River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area. After this we were going to visit some Indian ruins but took a wrong turn somewhere so we just headed to Cortez, CO for the evening. Good day.
I took these photos in April 2018 in south eastern Utah.
El Copacabana Restaurant, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay.
The chivito is Uruguay's specialty sandwich, so I decided it was worth a try during my short stay in the country. I was a bit intimidated before I ordered because I saw other customers chowing down on collosal towers of meat, eggs, cheese, and vegetables that could have easily fed all of Uruguay for a week. Fortunately, the chicken chivito I ordered was manageable. See notes for ingredients (if they aren't already obvious).
Sorry for the strange coloring; the red umbrellas above us gave a seriously pinkish hue to the photo, and I tried to salvage it a bit in Photoshop.
Another Plymouth view taken whilst I was visiting the Milehouse depot, this time of resting Darts. I always preferred this brighter livery to the alternative grey and Red and I think it is seen to good effect here. Take them or leave them, they were a part of the bus scene for several years although numbers are getting thinner on the ground. Who would have thought they would find their way into the preservation movement, but that certainly is the case and they offer a smaller more manageable opportunity for the younger preservationist. I think we will be seeing more of these on the rally circuit as time goes by.
I took up the task of converting our spice cabinet to something a little more manageable. The existing version consisted of a lazy susan wheel with many many bottles of whatever thrown on. It was impossible to find what you were looking for without removing everything from the wheel every time you needed a spice. I took inspiration from Alton Brown and began my quest for materials to shift those spices from the lazy susan to the door. See how I did it, or skip to the after shot.
Rooftop view of Portland, Oregon.
Click here for a manageable, large view.
And even MORE zooming and panning fun can be found here: seadragon.com/view/10nq
85mm f1.4
This lens is by far my favourite, it clears the mess in the house, hides the chipped and peeling paint, the texta on the wall and even reduces the other two wild chops (aka sisters) to a manageable soft bokeh blur
If your not familiar with photography or camera stuff then thats gonna sounds alien to you probably but, just think of the Nikon 85mm f1.4 like the device that makes the backgrounds so nice and smooth. Which, as a point of interest, alot of mobile phones do now, however its software, not hardware and it often looks crap
Here is little E doing what she does best, look darn cute Thanks to middle sisters for the hair highlights
In 1881 The Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Friendly Society transformed into the altogether more manageably named Refuge Assurance Company.
Their remarkable building on Oxford Road was designed by the already proven Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1895. By 1910 the company was so successful it saw fit to extend, awarding the contract to Paul Waterhouse, the son of Alfred.
The second phase of construction would see the addition of the famous clock tower and also reveal familial rivalries as the young Waterhouse added extra height to his initial plans to keep pace with his father’s Town Hall tower, still visible from behind the Palace Hotel sign.
Reality Hack/Hidden Manchester for URBIS gallery by Andrew Brooks
To see more photography and information on this exhibition visit here andrewbrooksphotography.com/view-main-gallery.php?id=31
Preface
Gardening is a risky business. Gardeners are always looking up to the sky, checking wind direction and strength, bending over to pull out invasive weeds, agitating over the curled or rusty leaf, and frustrated by the lack of rain, or too much. The conditions for a truly successful, beautiful, and healthy garden, namely good soil, ample water, suitable air temperature, manageable pests -- and a dose of luck -- all need to be in balance with each other.
Across the centuries, gardeners have willingly faced challenges with hope, determination – and joy. Gardeners are keen observers of the nuances required to grow healthy plants of all types and sizes. The slightest variations in growing conditions are cataloged and analyzed. New strategies and solutions to the problems presented by cultivating living things are often contemplative acts of reverence for the earth and the natural environment.
These actions will hold gardeners in good stead as they now face an unprecedented phenomenon that amplifies all those conditions that can make or break our successful gardening efforts – and that is, climate change. The weather extremes and seasonal shifts we have witnessed across the world – and in our own landscapes - are part of the evidence indicating a change in our planet’s climate. Deep reflection on our strategies in tending our lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetables will be required to manage and adapt to this latest – and biggest - challenge to successful gardening.
Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) is committed to educating stakeholders about this intensifying challenge and helping citizens implement the strategies that are needed to adapt to and mitigate climate change. This guide is for gardeners, homeowners, educators, volunteers, teachers, students and anyone interested in exploring how we might examine our gardening practice through the lens of climate change mitigation and adaptation. We hope this resource might strengthen understanding and inspire us to take actions in our gardens and communities that will help address the global crisis of climate change.
The course book is divided into four units that briefly describe the key concepts, such as systems thinking, we believe are fundamental to understanding the challenge of the changing climate and how it relates to gardening skills and techniques. We provide basic facts on climate change and offer methods, materials and activities to launch your learning through actions in cultivating lawns, gardens and landscapes that can lead to ongoing success. Our collective understanding strengthens our capacity so we cannot encourage you enough to engage peers in discussions. Be sure to check out the brief section on how to facilitate dialogue around climate change and sustainability. More in-depth information and guidance for teaching this topic can be found in the separate companion publication Gardening in a Warming World Facilitator’s Notebook.
Acknowledgements
This material is based upon work supported through the Toward Sustainability Foundation grant to CCE Monroe County and Cornell Garden-Based Learning program. Cover logo by CCE Orleans County Master Gardener Volunteer Don O’Keefe.
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Table of Contents
Unit 1: Benefits of Systems Thinking for Sustainable Gardening
Embracing habits of systems thinking in the face of the complexity of our changing world is critical to sustainable gardening.
Unit 2: Knowing our Garden Systems
Documenting observations deepens an understanding of our garden systems and prepares us to make effective and informed management decisions.
Unit 3: Climate Change Basics
Understanding the fundamentals of climate and weather systems as well as the observed changes and subsequent impacts is critical to developing climate science literacy, identifying reliable sources, and talking with peers about gardening in a warming world.
Unit 4: Climate-Smart Sustainable Garden Audit
Considering current gardening practices through the lens of mitigation and adaptation actions builds the foundation for creating a garden action plan focused on environmental stewardship and gardening success in a warming world.
Selected Resources
A list of reliable sources related to topics in each of these units is provided. Updates to this listing can be found at: climatechange.cornell.edu/gardening
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UNIT 1: Benefits of Systems Thinking for Sustainable Gardening
What exactly do we see when we look at a forest? We see trees, certainly, as well as other plants, soil, water, birds, animals and often much more. If we placed some trees, soil, a pool of water, and squirrels and chipmunks together, however, we clearly would not have a forest. A forest is the complexity of relationships among these elements and other connected systems such as weather, climate, and human settlements. The systems thinking approach aims to understand the complexity of the world in terms of relationships, connectedness, and context.
Only by observing relationships and the impacts of changes on those relationships, can we recognize and analyze the interconnections within the whole versus among its isolated parts. With this observation, we start to develop a comprehensive picture that different parts of a system are so interconnected that if we
alter one part of a system it
will change other parts.
This allows us to ask the
important questions that
will help us better
understand the system. For
example, what happens to
the soil as plants reach
maturity, and eventually
die? What happens to the
plants and animals as soil
health and water quality
change?
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Figure 1: Northeastern Forest. Photo Credit: Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County.
Figure 2: Habits of a Systems Thinker (next page) provides an alternative and visual format of these characteristics of systems thinking:
o Sees the whole: interprets the world in terms of interrelated “wholes” or systems, rather than as single events, or snapshots.
o Looks for connections: assumes that nothing stands in isolation; and tends to look for connections among nature, ourselves, people, problems, and events.
o Pays attention to boundaries: uses peripheral vision to check the boundaries drawn around problems, knowing that systems are nested and how you define the system is critical to what you consider and don’t consider.
o Changes perspective: changes viewpoints to increase understanding, knowing that what we see depends on where we are in the system.
o Looks for stocks: knows that hidden accumulations (of knowledge, carbon dioxide, debt, and so on) can create delays and inertia, slowing down causes and effects.
o Critiques one’s own assumptions about how the world works and how that may limit thinking. o Anticipates unintended consequences: traces cause and effect asking: “what happens next?” o Looks for change over time: sees today’s events as a result of past trends and an indication of
future ones.
o Sees “self” as part of the system: looks for influences from within the system, focusing less on
blame and more on how the structure (or set of interrelationships) may be influencing behavior. o Embraces and holds the tension of paradox and ambiguity, without trying to resolve it quickly. o Finds leverage: knows that solutions may be far away from problems and looks for areas of
leverage, where a small change can have a large impact on the whole system.
o Watches for win/lose attitudes: in situations of high interdependence dichotomous views usually
make matters worse.
Figure 2: Habits of a Systems Thinker from Second Edition ©2014 Systems Thinking in Schools, watersfoundation.org2
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A powerful strategy in successful gardens is intentionally observing and recording changes, and noticing the relationships among those changes. As we continually strive for a deeper understanding of the elements and relations within our garden system, we foster habits of the mind essential to systems thinking and sustainable gardening success. In the next unit, we consider some basic methods to documenting foundational knowledge about garden landscapes.
SUMMARY
Ø The complexity of our changing world demands that we value and develop Habits of a Systems Thinker that intentionally recognize and analyze the interconnections within and between systems to resolve problems and to plan for sustainable gardens within our communities.
Ø You can learn to become a systems thinker by developing habits that include seeing the linkages of events, considering possible unintended consequences of specific actions, and documenting trends.
REFLECTION
Ø How do you make decisions and/or resolve problems in your own life? Explore the full range of behaviors in modern lives including those outside lawn, garden, and landscape management. How have you or might you expand your use of systems thinking? Refer to the figure of Habits of a Systems Thinker (figure 2).
Ø Consider asking how other friends, neighbors, gardeners might be using systems thinking by encouraging them to share their reflections on how they approach problem solving and decision making. Tip: The Center for Courage and Renewal encourages in its Circle of Trust Touchstones that when we ask questions of others, we seek to listen without needing to fix or advise them.
EXPLORE MORE
Ø A list of reliable sources related to this unit is provided in the Selected Resources section. Updates to this listing will be posted on: climatechange.cornell.edu/gardening
“We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
Donella Meadows Project - Academy for Systems Change
Interested in delving into more on systems thinking? This organization’s website offers a wealth of further resources on systems thinking, including several visual representations, recommended books and links to other online resources.
donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/
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Unit 2: Knowing Our Garden Systems
Realizing that our gardens are a system, and building our observation skills to see the interconnections and interrelationships within our gardens is a great beginning to cultivating sustainable gardening success.
We can start small and find delight in the ongoing discovery process that emerges as our habit of systems thinking expands. For example, we might try an introspective or meditative observational experience where we sit outside or walk around a garden, rallying all the senses - look, touch and taste (taking care to watch out for plant toxicity!), listen, and smell.
Moving towards documenting observations deeps an understanding of changes from season-to-season and year-to year allowing us to discover patterns and trends that better prepared us to make effective and informed management decisions. There is an abundance of options to record your garden system data. As we briefly describe a few methods we know many gardeners already practice, keep in mind the Habits of a Systems Thinker described in Unit 1.
• Journaling – Garden journals can include photographs, sketches, listings, descriptive text, and calendars. A simple internet search on garden journals reveals there is an array of paper journals specifically marketed to gardeners, including a “gardener’s journal” set up as a ten- year perpetual diary - though most any paper notebook can serve as a journal. There are also online social garden trackers and smartphone apps with accompanying websites that offer the ability to include GPS coordinates. The availability of options makes it challenging to provide the most current list here. Investigate on your own including asking fellow gardeners about their favorite tools. Any tool can be effective as long as you are consistent and it is useful for you.
Garden Journaling Tips
from Karen S. Klingenberger, Retired Consumer Horticulture Educator, CCE of Monroe County
v Your garden journal is a personal document that can help you plan your gardens and enjoy them to their fullest. This should not be a chore but a pleasant past time. Don’t fret about making daily entries; focus on significant events such as last frost, first frost, hail...
v Pick a spot in your yard and take a photo from that same place from season to season and year to year. Placing photos in your journal with the date will help you see what did well and what you might like to change.
v To help you remember what you ordered or purchased locally from year to year include in your journal your detail receipt and plant tags. A photo or rough hand-drawn map showing where you placed the plants that year could also prove valuable.
v For the purpose of rotating your annual vegetable and herbs it is important to document their location. Noting planting dates of seeds or seedlings and harvest dates can inform plans for intensive strategies for multiple crops or plantings in a season.
v Personally, I find the best books to use for journals are lined and spiral bound, 8 1⁄2 by 11 sized with a sturdy cover. My journals are full of drawings, taped-in photos, plant tags and orders and look quite a mess – that works for me. I constantly refer to them when planning for a new growing season and enjoy reminiscing about gardens past.
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● Mapping - Creating a map of a garden landscape is also a common practice to document a garden system. It can be a sketch or a drawing to scale and feature a few elements on a base map. It may include overlays detailing systems features like soil, water flow, air circulation, light characteristics, and temperature specifics. The key to your success will be finding an approach that best suits your needs and interests. Explore the many possibilities to be inspired and creative.
● Identifying and quantifying garden systems - Start off by recording organisms found in your garden space. These could include spiders, insect pollinators, wildlife and even domesticated animals. While noting these creatures, take a look at how these organisms are interacting with landscape features and each other. Is there variability in the flowering sequence of plants? How is that tied to insect activity? Next, look at the landscape including water features and the shape of the land. Are there steep slopes or low spots? Are there water drainage patterns and areas susceptible to heavy runoff or topsoil erosion? This practice allows you to produce visuals of trends and patterns which will be valuable in sorting out the complexities in changes, and for thinking in terms of relationships, connectedness, and context. You might also see certain configurations of relationships appear again and again in patterns such as cycles and feedback loops.
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Keen observations and systems thinking will enhance our ability to analyze the whole and to appreciate how it is different from the sum of the individual parts. Our deeper understanding of our garden systems is never complete. An on-going effort to recognize connections is an essential foundation for choosing strategies that may maximize gardening success in our changing world. In the next unit, we focus specifically on climate science literacy, finding reliable information and talking with others.
Habitat Network online forum hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology offers features that allow users to map gardens, compile photos and document characteristics.
Figure 3: Soil Food Web. Photo Credit: John & Bob’s Smart Soil Solutions.
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SUMMARY
Ø There is an abundance of options (such as journaling, mapping, cataloging) for tracking the elements and complexity of your garden system and how it interacts with other systems such as climate and weather systems. Enjoy the ongoing discovery process and how different approaches and observations may deepen your understanding and success.
Ø The heightened awareness achieved through intentionally observing and documenting changes in our garden landscape will be a powerful tool in cultivating sustainable gardens and contributing to wider community sustainability.
REFLECTION
Ø Have you used Habits of a Systems Thinker (Figure 2) as you noticed changes in your community landscape and your specific garden space over the years?
Ø How have your observations helped you see the interconnections and interrelationships within your garden system? How has that influenced your choices and action in planning and managing your garden?
Ø Consider what you track and how you track change over time? What has influenced this?
Ø What would you recommend people new to recording garden observations focus their attention
on? And why?
Ø Consider asking other gardeners these question as well as comparing notes around specific
observations and corresponding management actions. Tip: The Center for Courage and Renewal encourages in its Circle of Trust Touchstones that when we ask questions of others, we seek to listen without needing to fix or advise them.
EXPLORE MORE
Ø A list of reliable sources related to this unit is provided in the Selected Resources section. Updates to this listing will be posted on: climatechange.cornell.edu/gardening
Landscapes for Life curriculum aims to shows you how to work with nature in your garden. Each topic area (soil, water, plants and materials) includes guidance on mapping your landscape features.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
the wires have since been reduced to a more manageable number
For those of you living in SF, anyone have any idea if the city is legally required to put up notices of impending parking zone changes for a certain period of time beforehand? I got three tickets in a row last week when they rezoned Church St. from street cleaning every 2nd/4th week to 2 hr parking. I don't recall any notices up. When I left my car I was parked legally! Can I dispute this at all, or is that process a vain pain?
How to store away a Passiflora for an English winter.
At the top of the picture is a yellow line which is a measure of 1 metre. The vine is approximately 4 metres in length. But when tied together with thin wire it becomes manageable and transportable.
The Brooklyn Bridge (John Augustus Roebling, Washington Roebling, Emily Warren Roebling, 1867-1883). I've heard horror stories about the difficulty of using it as a bicycle commuting route owing to the throngs of tourists; at least on this trip it seemed pretty manageable and I mainly was slowed down by the desire to take pictures.
I am really sad to tell this tale. On October 4, 2012 my husband, my 4-year old and 14-month old were traveling from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, a seemingly manageable flight for frequent fliers such as us. We were pleased to find upon check-in that all four of us and our nanny who was
In another few weeks views like this will be history with the abandonment of the tramway running through the streets of Fleetwood. Balloon car 700 seen wearing wartime livery picks up a healthy load in Fleetwood. With loadings like this it seems ludicrous as to why these changes are afoot.
Next plan of action is to reduce Blackpool Tower to a more manageable 25 feet in height due to complaints from Mother Nature for it hampering the wind. Health and Safety must act you know ;-)
Here I'm installing the framework which will support the sides of the hardstand. I've taken a lot of liberty here deviating from reality to keep the project size manageable and practical. The actual slope of Pad at Launch Complex 39 is much flatter than this obviously but would occupy a large room if I tried to build it to scale. So this is where I've drawn the line. I've constructed the hardstand surface large enough to accommodate all the ground support structures that interface with the LUT and I will install a rough version of the HP Gas Storage Facility in Side 4; the project stops there!
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
After a great breakfast at a small cafe we took the Scenic Drive into Capitol Reef National Park. It's mostly a paved road until the very end but still manageable. We spent a few hours exploring the area. When we left Capitol Reef we decided to look for something new. I read about the Notom Road, east of the park, so we decided to check it out. Good decision. We went in about 12 miles before the road got rougher. Great scenery - it is the back side of the Waterpocket Fold - another area we need to check out. We then drove through some really desolate landscape before coming to the Hite Overlook. Great view of the Colorado River in the Glen Canyon Recreation Area. After this we were going to visit some Indian ruins but took a wrong turn somewhere so we just headed to Cortez, CO for the evening. Good day.
I took these photos in April 2018 in south eastern Utah.
I came upon this old run down shack high on the mountainside above the ravine at Kabak. Turkey. The light pouring through the broken slats, and the view beyond made this a must have photo. A composite of three raw files merged to produce better light gradient and a more natural HDR image. The 70 meg file then being reduced to a more manageable JPG.
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They're behind you!!!!! Finchy mentioned that a pair of Grids were about, i just didn't bargain on how soon they would turn up!! The recent regulars on the Foxton trips, 56303 and 56301 make for an unusual sight heading down the WCML on an 0Z56 Wembley Yard-Washwood Heath. This was the last shot taken on a fantastic day. Although the light improved and was manageable until 15.50, there were no other trains about
Massive thanks to Mark 'Swampy' Finch for driving and some excellent Location Gen ;-)
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Ooo ooo ooo ooo
I ain't happy, I'm feelin' glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long the future is comin' on
I ain't happy, I'm feelin' glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long the future is comin' on,
It's comin' on, It's comin' on, It's comin' on, It's comin' on
Yeah, ha Ha!
Finally someone let me outta my cage
Now time for me is nothin' cuz I'm countin' no age
Nah, I couldn't be there, now you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs (s'all simple), and I'm under your snare
Intangible (aww dawg), I bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view (you?),
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose (hmph),
Sit and lose,
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes,
So who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in tha picture tube,
Like you lit the fuse
You think it's fictional?
Mystical? maybe
Spiritual?
Hero who
Appears in you to clear your view (yeah) when you're too crazy
Lifeless,
to know the definition for what life is
Priceless,
To you because I put you on the hype shit
You like it? Gun smokin'
Righteous with one toke and
Psychic among those,
Possess you with one go
I ain't happy, I' m feelin' glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long the future is comin' on
I ain't happy, I' m feelin' glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long, the future (that's right) is comin' on,
it's comin' on, it's comin' on, it's comin' on, it's comin' on
The essence, the basics,
Without that you make it
Allow me to make this
child-like-in-nature.
Rhythm, you have it or you don't
That's a fallacy.
I'm in them, every sprouting tree,
every child of peace, every cloud and sea.
You see with your mind,
you see destruction and demise
Corruption in disguise(that's right)
From this fuckin' enterprise,
Now I'm sucked into your lives
Through Russel not his muscles but percussion he provides
With me as a (say what) guise
Y'all can see me now cuz you don't see with your eyes
You perceive with your mind
That's the inner (fuck em)
So I'ma stick around with Russ and be a mentor
Bust a few rhymes (mmm mmmm) so mother fuckers remember
What the thought is
I brought all this, so you can survive when law is lawless (right here)
Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead (yup)
No squealing, remember that it's all in your head
An old dairy barn on the grounds of the former Crownsville State Hospital (Maryland) The wikpedia article on this institution is fascinating:
The Crownsville Hospital Center is a former psychiatric hospital located in Crownsville, Maryland.
The facility was enabled by an act of the Maryland General Assembly on 11 April 1910 as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland. This act also explicitly specified that the facility should not be located in Baltimore. On 13 Dec., 1910 the Board of Managers purchased farm land located at Crownsville, Maryland for the sum of $19,000 which had formerly been farmed for willow and tobacco. On 23 May 1910 Dr. Robert Winterode was designated the first Superintendent.
The facility was founded following a 1908 report of "The Maryland State Lunacy Commission" which stated:
"It is with a feeling of shame and humiliation that the conditions which exist in the State among the negro insane are chronicled and known to the public. Righteous indignation cannot help being aroused when one sees or reads of the most horrible cruelties being practiced upon these unfortunates.... The most urgent need at this time is a hospital for the negro insane of Maryland...."
As early as 1899 the Maryland Lunacy Commission in its Annual Report stated
"At present there are no negro insane at the second hospital (Springfield) and the comparatively small number at Spring Grove is a distinct embarrassment to the institution."
Again in its 1900 report it stated:
"The condition of the negro insane at Montevue Hospital at Frederick is shameful and should at once be remedied. The beasts of the field are better cared for than the poor negroes at Montevue."
The first group of 12 patients arrived at Crownsville on 13 March 1911. Patients lived in a work camp located in a willow curing house adjacent to one of the willow ponds. Dr. Winterode worked with them to prepare roads and to harvest the tobacco and willow crops on the property. Additional patients were transferred in July and Sept. 1911. Construction started on the first large building, A Building in Oct., 1912. Patients were used to work on the construction of the hospital in addition to working in its day to day functions. As reported in the State Lunacy Commission Report of Dec.,1912, patients worked as "hod carriers" and assistants to electricians and plumbers. Construction necessitated that they push "barrows of concrete up a tramway three and a half stories in height." They excavated "10000 cubic yards of earth in about 10 weeks." In addition they unloaded 238 cars of cement, stone and other building materials. "The laundry work for the patients is done by two adult males and an epileptic imbecile 10 years of age who has been taught to feed the ringer(sic) and at which he has become quite adept. During the past year (1912) these three have washed and ironed over 40,000 pieces."
Within a short time smallpox and scarlet fever struck the patients. Water quality was also cited as a problem in those early years. Tuberculosis was a constant threat and is mentioned in the annual reports of those early years because there was no real provision for the isolation of the patients except in the summer months when there was a temporary open building for them. According to the Annual and Biennial Report of the State Lunacy Commission 1914-1915 in the section on Crownsville Hospital it was reported that "The percentage of deaths based upon admissions(268 patients) was 38.43. The percentage of deaths calculated upon admissions due to tuberculosis was 29.85. The percentage of deaths based upon average attendance was 32.21." Tuberculosis remained a problem for many years.
It was not until 1939 that the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene announced: "The opening at Springfield State Hospital of a separate building for the care of mental patients suffering from tuberculosis is one of the outstanding achievements of 1939. In this building all patients from Spring Grove, Springfield and Eastern Shore State Hospital who are suffering from tuberculosis and who represent a danger to other patients or who need special treatment will be cared for." Excluded from this new, active treatment program at the all-white Springfield Hospital Center were the African/American Crownsville TB patients. On 29 Oct. 1915, two hundred Baltimore City patients were transferred from Bay View (now Johns Hopkins Hospital). This transfer was made in five special railway cars.
In 1920 with a patient census of 521 there were two physicians including the superintendent. There were also 17 nurses and attendants, 1 social worker and 18 other help. The data from the 1920 U.S.Census report has the average age of Crownsville patients at 42 years. The youngest was 14 years and there were three patients in their eighties. In the occupations' section of the report 68% were listed as holding hospital job assignments. Therapies initially included hydrotherapy and sedatives. In the 1930s insulin shock was introduced. Malaria treatment in which patients were infected with malaria pathogins was begun in 1942. As many as twenty patients at a time were inoculated. According to the 1948 Annual Report when Crownsville had about 1800 patients,103 patients received shock treatments, 56 patients received malaria/penicillin treatments and 33 received a lobotomy.
During the years when lobotomies were a common procedure Dr. Morgenstern, the Crownsville Superintendent was opposed to them. In his 1950 Annual Report he said that Crownsville has "very few lobotomies." He also expressed his opposition to the trend "to rely upon this operation to make the institutional case more manageable." In a report of March 1954 the Superintendent stated that lobotomies were not being done.
According to a Jan., 1947 report on medical care in Maryland, the normal occupancy of private and public mental hospital beds was 7453. Of these only Crownsville had African American patients in its 1044 occupied beds as of August 1946. Hospital conditions deteriorated markedly in the 1940s due to overcrowding and staff shortages. The staffing of the wards during the period of World War II was very inadequate. In a letter of May 22, 1945 to the State's Governor from the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene he said: "A few nights ago at Crownsville in the division which houses ninty criminal,insane men there was one employee on duty."
In a memo of 2 Nov.1944 to the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene (Dr. Preston) a visitor to the Division for the Feebleminded at Crownsville described his experiences. After praising the appearance of the girls' ward he described the boys' ward as follows:
"The boys side was very dirty, the boys themselves, the dormitories and dayroom. Sitting at dinner were twenty seven boys completely nude, most of them spilling food all over themselves. There was on that day only one attendant on the boys' side who was definitely working hard."
The Baltimore Sun paper's articles on Maryland's mental health system were published in 1948-1949 under the title "MARYLAND'S SHAME'. Following are statements from the articles relating to Crownsville:
"More than 1800 men, women and children are herded into its buildings meant for not more than 1100" "Crownsville is also the dumping ground for feeble minded negro children and epileptics." "The children's buildings are among the most crowded in the institution." "One hundred and fifteen girls spend most of their days in a single, long bare play room with virtually nothing to play with." "There are so few attendants that the older girls have to carry the helpless ones bodily to and from meals." "Not one of the more than 200 boys and girls at Crownsville is getting any formal schooling at all." "Some of the epileptics lie all day on the bare floor."
In 1929 there were 55 discharges from Crownsville but 92 deaths. The census began to rise dramtically until it peaked in 1955 at 2719 patients. The staff of Crownsville Hospital had been all white until 1948.
Through the 1940s the NAACP had advocated for the hiring of African-American staff but encountered resistance from the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene. Finally in 1948 the new superintendent of Crownsville hired the first African-American staff member, Vernon Sparks in the Psychology Department. Gwendolyn Lee was hired later in the Social Work Department. The Crownsville Superintendent still was not permitted to hire African-American staff in direct care positions. This would not happen until 1952. By 1959 45% of Crownsville's staff was African-American in contrast to 6%-8% in the other large state mental hospitals.
The adolescent patient population was integrated in 1962 and the adult population in 1963. An earlier integration attempt had been made in Dec.,1954 when the Crownsville Superintendent transferred 15 children ages 2-6 years from Crownsville to the all white Rosewood State Training School. The Superintendent of Crownsville was threatened with a reprimand by the Commissioner of Mental Health and resigned the next year(1955).
Industrial therapy(unpaid work)was an important part of life at Crownsville. In the Spring of 1958 more than 600 patients had work assignments in more than 55 placements which included "dental assistant", "receptionist", "librarian" and "hospital aide". Work was considered to be part of therapy and "patients unable or unwilling to participate were considered too ill to enjoy the privilege of freedom of the grounds." Staff shortages were always a problem.
In 1953 the Superintendent, Dr. Eichert, reported that in "A" Building there were 560 patients and four attendants in the evening and four in the day. In the Baltimore Sunpaper of June 1953 there was given a description of the "old ward for highly disturbed women": "Here are truly the creatures of the dark. The sickest ones are kept in a room as forbidding as a dungeon, where they live in a state of odorous untidiness, many of them refusing to wear clothes.Twice a day a bucket and two cups are brought to the door, to give the inmates a drink. There are 78 patients here and 28 beds. These and other patients on the same floor-a total of 96-have the use of three toilets, three wash basins and one tub.They cannot be bathed daily because it was explained, hot water is not available every day."
In a letter to the Maryland Governor of 23 June 1952 the Chairman of the Mental Hygiene Board of Review asked:
"Why is less being done relatively to relieve the distressing overcrowding at Crownsville than at any of the other institutions or why this institution is allowed a patient per capita cost of $1085; an amount less than any of the other hospitals; fifty percent less than two of them...?"
In a letter to a Johns Hopkins Hospital social worker of 3 Dec.,1956 Dr. Ralph Meng, the Crownsville Superintendent expressed his concern that community agencies were not willing to accept their responsibilities in providing services to discharged Crownsville patients. He said:
"Just as a guess, I would think that about 40% of our patients could be handled without hospitalization if anybody made an effort to do so."
In 1964 the first African-American Superintendent was appointed. He established a day treatment program and a school mental health outreach program in addition to supporting the mental health clinics in Baltimore and the Southern Maryland Counties. Patients in Crownsville clinics were given free medication. There were established training programs in psychiatry, psychology, social work, dance therapy and pastoral counseling. Crownsville had an active foreign students' program for those in medicine, social work and psychology. In the ten years prior to its closing it hosted students from Israel, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Turkey and Chile. The Hospital also trained Spanish speaking therapists when that need was identified.
The hospital staff was well known for its outspoken resistance to the pressures to place patients in public shelters with the resulting "dumping" of patients onto the streets and into the jails. Improvements in psychiatric treatment, rigid admission policies and better funding of outpatient treatment and residential services resulted in the hospital's census declining to 200 patients by the year 2000.
The hospital grounds became the central county site for many social, school and health programs and the hospital finally closed in July 2004. Those patients in need of further psychiatric hospitalization were transferred to two of Maryland's remaining hospitals. Its original buildings are still standing and today portions of the campus are occupied by various tenants.
The site is also the location of Crownsville Hospital's patient cemetery. This historic site was rededicated in 2004. Approximately 1600 patients are buried in graves marked by numbers only with the more recent having patient names.
Information on Crownsville Hospital can be found in the Maryland State Archives Collections which contains reference materials from the Hospital, the Auxiliary, Paul Lurz and Doris Morgenstern Wachsler.
Used the pantyhose filter to create a soft self-portrait. Hard to believe it was 50 days ago that I tested the colors.
Hey, this is my 700th photo here too!
This is my one hundred forty eighth daily self-portrait for 365 Days.
16 April 2007
Shot outdoors at the brightest time of the day, I used the filter to chop the shutter speed to something manageable. Behind the scene photo coming later.
Though debris began to collect at the piers and sand bar, it was manageable thanks to the debris removal by the contractor prior to the storm.
It was her first time bowling with a regular ten-pin ball (as opposed to candlepin bowling, which she's done before. A candlepin bowling ball is much more manageable.)
Start 0500 Thangna End Cho La Pass (5,420m.)
The High Pass: Thangna to Dzongha via Cho-La pass
Start to the second high pass, Cho La (5370m) from Thangna began at 0500 am. The climb out from Thangna was hard for me this day and I soon lost ground to the group by 15 mins. The trail to Cho La pass was undulating and the terrain manageable but I felt the altitude a lot more day and was moving a lot more slowly then at renjo La. It would be 0930 by the time I reached the bottom of the class 2 pass, by this time it was just me and Kumar, the group and assistant guides were already ascending up the pass.
The pass looked a daunting prospect with loose scree and boulders and debris to negotiate, but I had a good break and was ready to go. After 10 mins I reached above me to get a grip on a boulder and pull up when a combination of the scree underfoot giving way and losing my grip I fell backwards. Kumar caught my head before it hit the rocks but I must have put my arm out to break my fall and I hit my lower arm on the rocks and landed heavily on my left side.
I immediately felt the pain in my arm below the elbow. In the group behind me was a great canadian lady who immediately came to my aid and together with Kumar made an immediate assesment and my trek was over. She used her groups first aid and made a sling for my arm. She wanted me to get up because I was making the group who were watching and waiting below nervous!
Kumar somehow got word to his sherpa above with our group to come down from the pass. We headed back down to the start of the pass where 30 mins later Chungdu came down. Kumar immediately sent him back down the trail to Lungden to call the air rescue in. Because of the cold we started walking slowly back down the trail passing many trekkers on the way up ewho gave me anxious looks. About an hour later unbelievably Chungdu had returned to us from Lungden (it had taken me 4 hours to wal;k from!) and said the helicopter was on its way from Kathmandu. 3 of us continued down the trail and I was getting colder, it seemed like a long time but maybe 2 hours later a bright red helicopter buzzed above us, spotted us and set down. i clambered in said good bye to the guides and I got the helicopter ride I always wanted in the himalayas! but not this way.
I enjoyed the helicopter flight initially with the buzz of adrenaline it gave me but I must admit I dropped off later ! it was warm and the drone of the engine sent me off.
Hour and a half later we landed in Kathmandu. Pradip, MD of Mountain Monarchs, met me on landing and took me to hospital where I was treated for a fracture of the ulna and my arm was plastered above the elbow. The end of one hell of a day.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
Loki is a fox who has his own Facebook page. He lives in Florida with his very devoted and loving human, Noel.
If you "like" Loki's page and have your birth date public, Noel makes a card with Loki. Noel also makes videos of his interactions with Loki, and provides a lot of information about living with a fox, like how much deep cleaning he has to do in order to keep the amount of fur down to a manageable level. I only thought Trixie and Little Burrito shed a lot:-))
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
During the National Socialist dictatorship from 1938 to 1945 was in this building the place of execution, in which women and men from Austria as well as from many other European countries were beheaded for their political beliefs, national origin or because of their faith. Honor to all of the Victims! The city of Graz in 1988. Austrian League for Human Rights
Während der Nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft von 1938 bis 1945 befand sich in diesem Gebäude jene Hinrichtungsstätte, in der Frauen und Männer aus Österreich wie aus vielen anderen Europäischen Ländern wegen ihrer politischen Überzeugung, nationalen Herkunft oder wegen ihres Glaubens enthauptet wurden. Ehre Allen Opfern! Die Stadt Graz 1988. Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
(further information you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
History and judicial organization
The Revolution of 1848 marked also the Austria jurisdiction of that time in a substantial manner with manifestations that act to the present day. The with this associated judicial organization brought then - here particularly interesting - most of all four court levels or court types: District Courts, Higher Civil Courts (Landesgerichte), Higher Regional Courts (Oberlandesgerichte) and a Supreme Court. To those four kinds of courts, the procedures of first instance - differentiated by sum in dispute or seriousness of the offense - and the review of judicial decisions on appeal were distributed in a manageable manner. That in the course of this the (only) Supreme Court already at the time of the monarchy could be found in Vienna is understandable, that it remained there from 1918 until today (apart from the period of National Socialism) is known.
The next level below the Supreme Court was and is formed by the High Regional Courts. In 1855 there were in the whole Empire nineteen, today there are four in Austria, namely in Vienna, Linz, Innsbruck and Graz. They act primarily as appellate courts. Next come the so-called courts of first instance. This generic term was necessary because there were, besides the regional courts also district courts - partly later - special courts for commercial, youth, labor and social welfare cases or should be. Of all these existed at the time of the monarchy, of course, already a significant number, in the area of present-day Austria were originally seventeen, today there are twenty after the Juvenile Court in Vienna had been dissolved in 2003 (Federal Law Gazette 30/2003). The district of the Higher Regional Court of Graz accounts for the Regional Court for Civil Matters and the National Criminal Court in Graz, the Klagenfurt Regional Court and the Regional Court of Leoben. The lowest level eventually was formed by the district courts. "Lowest" in this context is of course no rating but merely an expression of the position in the structure of jurisdiction. In Styria there were initially 45 district courts, including the district of the Provincial Court of Leoben 22 (Reich Law Gazette 339/1849). Those were merged over time. District courts are now still in Schladming, Liezen, Murau, Judenburg, Mürzzuschlag, Bruck/Mur and Leoben. Aside from court consolidations, modifications of the district sizes, responsibility shifts caused by changes in the value limits and also renamings there were naturally in the past 160 years repeatedly also suggestions or ideas for actual substantive changes of this Court System. For example, there was talk of dissolving the Courts of First Instance and to distribute their agendas to the district courts. Or these courts should be strengthened and therefore waived of the Higher Regional Court. Nothing of it gained majority, the from the mid-19th Century stemming basic system remained established and is valid until today .
THE REGIONAL COURT LEOBEN
After creating the legal basis for the new judicial organization, it was now about to implement them. It arose the familiar question of "where" and "with whom". The decision for Leoben was already on 25th July in 1849 published (Reich Law Gazette 339/1849) and also the top management for Upper Styria was very soon decided. As of 28/12/1849 the previous "Council of the Styrian state law" Dr. Heinrich Perissutti was appointed President of the Provincial Court of Leoben. He took on 18 February 1850 in Graz his oath of office and actually was taking up activities on 4 April 1850. He moved - then granted - to Leoben, there is evidence that he had lived at Unteren Platz, house number 121 (today Timmerdorfer lane 2). The accommodation question for the court in Leoben also could be settled successfully in a short time. This should move into the former Dominican monastery (now Land Registry 60327, Leoben register number 103), a building that was owned by the city of Leoben and the judiciary has been left to everlasting time for its own purposes (Treaty of 11 August 1853). This had to be adapted but only for the new task and it did take some time but, that is to say early summer 1856.
The aforementioned modifications of the judicial organization were in the first years in Leoben area relatively noticeable. Firstly, the High Regional Courts of Graz and Klagenfurt were merged with headquarters in Graz (1852 enacted and 1854 implemented) and on the other hand it came to a "downgrating" as to the label of the Provincial Court Leoben to a "district court" (19 January 1853).
The First World War, the downfall of the monarchy, the First Republic and the Corporate State brought in Upper Styria as to judicial organization only one significant, lasting change. The district courts Aflenz, Mautern and Obdach were merged with neighboring courts (Federal Law Gazette 187/1923, 276/1923). With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1938 but went down the country's independent judiciary. Justice solely "In the name of the German people" should be distributed and probably to some extend it had a different status than before. Pure terminologically, the county court became a Higher District Court, the district courts have mutated into local courts (Journal of Laws for the country Austria 350/1938). What changed further was the area of the district. The Ausseerland was separated from Styria and the Gau (administrative district) of "Upper Danube" and thus to the district of the Higher District Court in Wels assigned.
After the end of the Second World War it came to the restoration of the on 13 March 1938 existing judicial organization, Bad Aussee, therefore, returned to the district of the Court of Leoben (State Gazette 47/1945). There were other changes. The most significant over time was probably that the1946 set up labor courts, which had replaced the earlier commercial courts, together with the arbitration courts of the Social Insurance and the mediation courts on 1 January 1987 merged in the ordinary jurisdiction (Federal Law Gazette 104/1985).
As already indicated, the terminology of the Leoben Court of Justice was subject to alterations. Beginning of 1849 had been created among other things the "Higher District Court" Leoben. With Order of 19 January 1853 (Reich Law Gazette 10/1853) to "District Court" downgraded, the Nazis transformed the term from 13 August 1938 (Journal of Laws for the country of Austria 350/1938 ) into "Higher District Court". The Court Organization Act of 3 July 1945 (State Gazette 47/1945) re-established the "District Court", until on the first of March 1993 the time came that the most original denomination "Higher District Court" was again brought back to life (Federal Law Gazette 91/1993). Without that during the whole period of the responsibilities and tasks anything really notheworthy would have changed, the Court in Leoben got three different names in five time periods.
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At 9 a.m. this morning, FriendFeed launched a new user interface at beta.friendfeed.com/. The new beta site will run in parallel with the current version of FriendFeed at friendfeed.com at least for a while.
The biggest difference between the old version of FriendFeed and the new version is the introduction of live scrolling updates. I had early access to the new beta site over the weekend and spent some time playing around with it.
Here are my initial thoughts.
1. Live Updating. I tried playing around with this and have mixed feelings about it. Sometimes I really like it. It feels more intuitive and interactive. Other times it's harder to put into words why I don't feel like I like it, but the word that keeps popping into my head is seasickness. A lot of the problem here is that I'm following a ton of people (over 6,000) and so the user interface just scrolls too fast some of the time. Too fast for me to read on my main FriendFeed page. It feels chaotic and I can't keep up. I found that late at night it is slower and more manageable but during prime time it was too fast.
Fortunately for me (and others) there is a pause button which allows you to turn this feature off and manually refresh the page like you did with the old version. Live updating works much better on my smaller lists. I'm sure there are some that will really digg this new feature though, especially since most people are not trying to follow over 6,000 like I am. I'm interested in hearing Robert Scoble's observations about this feature as well as he follows even more people than I do. This new feature is turned on by default.
I suspect that most of the time I'll have live updating turned on but that during especially busy times I'll turn it off.
2. A new design and interface with much more emphasis on your avatar. I have to say I love the new UI. I think the new UI looks much cleaner -- beautiful looking with easy on the eyes rounded corners and the what not. I'm assuming Kevin Fox deserves some of the kudos for this new design, but whoever worked on it, hats off to you.
I think one of the things that hurt the old version of FriendFeed was that it just felt too complicated and even a bit clunky. Even though I never thought it was too complicated for me, I heard that complaint from people a lot. All of the little service icons could be intimidating.
Now FriendFeed has dropped the service icons and focused much more on the individual user avatar. It feels a bit more like Twitter now in that regard. I actually like this and think that it will make FriendFeed much less intimidating to people. I also suspect that females with attractive avatars are likely to see a significant spike in followers on this new version. ;)
3. Direct messaging comes to FriendFeed. With this new user interface, FriendFeed has now introduced direct messaging. This small but super powerful new feature is much bigger than I think people will realize at first. I think FriendFeed direct messaging could eventually replace a lot of my email personally. Some of the people behind GMail are on the FriendFeed team so I expect good things from their direct messaging service. It's nice how FriendFeed shows you a little number next to your Direct Mail menu, much nicer than "YOU'VE GOT MAIL!" But the real power of direct messaging in Friendfeed is that it really incorporates a whole new way to communicate via email. It's far more collaborative with the live updating.
One of the things I hate about email is that once I send a message it's gone. Frequently I'll send an email and then realize I made a typo or misspoke or wish I could in some way edit it. With FriendFeed you can. You just go back into the message and change whatever you meant to say. Because all of the messages are grouped together it's much easier to follow and track conversations directly than traditional email.
Direct messaging on FriendFeed almost feels more like a chat/mail hybrid than anything. I found that just using this new service for one day that it was one of the stickier things I've seen on FriendFeed. I've seen very little spam on FriendFeed so far and FriendFeed's direct messaging feels a lot more fun than regular old email.
4. Filters. Filters rock. One of the most exciting ways to use FriendFeed is to filter interesting ways to view all of the vast repository of information and data it has become. One of my favorite filters is scanning FriendFeed for entries with the word "photography" in them with five likes or more. I've found some super interesting photographers and photography related stuff on the internet that way.
In the past I actually just made a bookmark for this and would go to the bookmark myself. It's nice to have it built right into my main FriendFeed Interface. It will be interesting to see the FriendFeed community builid and share custom filters over time. I suspect that there are many hidden gems out there that we don't even know about yet. But in the meantime, check out a few of these filters that I've already created for myself personally: all Flickr posts, all Zooomr posts, all posts on FriendFeed with 5 likes or more, all Flickr posts with 5 likes or more, posts mentioning the word neon with 1 like or more. These are just a few examples. The sky's the limit here really. If you've got some great filters yourself please leave them in the comments.
5. Profiles. Although they are very rudimentary, FriendFeed has now added the ability for you to add a description to your profile page. I've been a big proponent of profiles coming to FriendFeed for a while. Initially I was a bit disappointed with the profile description because earlier yesterday in the beta it was limited to 50 characters. I set my original profile description as "I hate 50 character limit profiles." But then after I direct messaged Bret Taylor, one of the FriendFeed Founders, about this, Bret extended the character limit and so now I'm able to fit the same tagline that I'm using on Twiter: "Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light." Thanks to Bret and the team for giving us a little bit more room for our profile descriptions.
I do think it would be interesting to see FriendFeed add a city or zipcode field in the profile info as well that could then be used to create a list of suggested users in your geographic area.
Overall I'm very happy with the new FriendFeed. I think it represents a simpler more elegantly designed user interface and a huge step forward for the service and for the company. I think this new interface will give FriendFeed much more mainstream appeal and really shows that FriendFeed is the clear leader in the microblogging and lifestreaming space right now.
If you would like to follow me on the new FriendFeed beta you can do that here.
- tamarind-glazed Swai fish fillet
- fresh corn salad
- watermelon rind pickles
- Vietnamese summer roll with bresaola
This pile of ventilation ducts were taken from the building on the right, and the same building is shown in this link. The building was purchased recently by SolarWorld, a company that makes solar panels. This company will be a great addition to the City of Hillsboro, Oregon.
The machinery on the left in the photo is used to crush the metal into manageable sized cubes for hauling to a recycler.
I can not emphasise how amazed I still am by this doll. I just spent SO many nights absolutely being frustrated by her and hated how difficult she was to work on in terms of sculpt and colour.
But I’m just so utterly amazed, I finally was able to *work* with her sculpt, and I can really appreciate her gorgeous cheekbones and her strong jaw and nose.
I ended up cutting her ultra long hair to just under her butt so it’ll be manageable but otherwise I’m happy I took the plunge to recustomize her.
The ONLY editing I did to the pictures was reducing them from the size I shoot in SL (4000×3500) down to a 1024 size manageable for the blog and Flickr. There’s been no cropping, no liquifying, no adjusting contrast or color balances or any of the other Photoshop tools I use on a regular basis.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.