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This is my photo to announce to all my flickr friends that my wife and I are adopting a little girl from Vietnam!! We are super excited as we get closer and closer to traveling to pick her up... We started the process back in February (2007) and we may be traveling in early September... If you would like to read my wife's blog about the process go here

 

Here I am practicing my "look" from above the baby's crib :) As you can imagine I will have plenty of baby photos when she arrives...

 

btw there are more photos of the nursery on my wife's flickr page.

A 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Soldier, following the instructions of the senior noncommissioned officer with her, prepares to dispatch a simulated enemy with a practice grenade.

 

(Photo by 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team , Public Affairs Office)

Knox College Prairie Fire football preseason practice, fall 2017, at Stisser Field in the Knosher Bowl.

London Ambulance Service paramedic just heading off to a call.

 

Practicing my panning in London on a sunny and unseasonably warm Saturday in February.

Everyone in the chapel to practice singing for this coming Sunday.

 

Blitter:

blitter.tripdatabase.com/

 

There have been countless conversations along the lines of "The future

of search is social search." Immediately after that observation there

is usually a following question along the lines of, "but HOW?" Good

question. Blitter might have an answer.

 

There have been many efforts to search social media tools, either a

single tool (just Facebook or just Twitter or just blogs). There have

been creative efforts like Google RealTime that shows "real time"

(actually substantially delayed) results from the folks you

follow/friend in social media streams registered as part of your

Google profile. Unfortunately, those are several hours to days

delayed, are mixed with other results from the open Web, and don't

allow you to dive in and explicitly prowl your streams. The social

search tools tend to either search everyone, irregardless of the

quality of content or reputation or significance or currency, or they

don't search enough.

 

Blitter has a VERY clever and useful strategy.

 

1) Choose a niche, one that MATTERS (ie. healthcare?).

2) Choose a selection of leading

experts.

3) Scrape their blogs & Twitter streams.

4) Filter the streams explicitly for mentions of formal publications

in either news media or the professional literature.

 

That's what you are searching in Blitter. The tool is in beta, it

isn't perfect.

 

The links aren't as current as I'd like, apparently roughly a week

delayed, which diminishes the actual utility of the tool for finding

what's hot and new about a topic. There are probably more experts they

could and should include in various topics, but they lack an easy way

to suggest them (although you can email the developer at

jon.brassey@tripdatabase.com). There are topics they aren't including.

They state they are following clinicians, but that seems to exclude

nurses and other allied health professionals. They provide criteria a

contributor should meet to be included (a) The person blogs or tweets

about clinical content, and b) They have no obvious conflicts of

interest), but I suspect there are other intangible criteria that are

not overtly stated or which should be added. How do they determine

conflict of interest for example? What percentage of a clinician's

stream should be clinical content to justify inclusion? I know of

great docs who tweet about clinical practice, but aren't good sharers

of journal articles. Some focus primarily on consumer health

information for their patients. Others focus on resources for other

doctors. There are some usability/accessibility issues with the

interface that I assume will be tweaked as they develop. So, I am sure

there will be some evolution of the tool in the near future.

 

That said, it is AMAZING!!! The concept is groundbreaking. I expect

this to shape the evolution of new search tools. The selection of

contributors reveals a great deal of thought and care. I love that

they include the list of contributors, which is for some probably even

more useful than the actual search features! They provide great

attribution, with the search results not only identifying the article

retrieved but also who cited it and when. (I don't see a good way to

list if an article was cited by more than one contributor, and if

there were multiples, how the listed contributor was selected - is it

the first? or the most recent? or the one most closely aligned with

the topic?) The search interface is wonderful, the way it allows

faceted search revision, limiting to tweets on a topic by a specific

contributor, within a time frame, or within a medical specialty (which

they call "specialism"? Is that British for speciality?). It color

codes the age of the articles (but I am not certain how well these

colors work for someone with color blindness). I wish they color coded

the type of article (research vs news vs blogposts, for example). You

can sort the results by date. You can get an RSS feed and add this to

your Google Reader or similar tool to track emergence of new trends

and issues on a topic. A prime example? If you search "ovarian cancer"

in most search engines you retrieve information about the condition.

In Blitter, it immediately alerts you that a recent article is

recommending significant changes in diagnosis and prevention of this

most deadly cancer, actually reducing screening. Whoa. This has

unbelievable potential. I can hardly wait to see what they do next.

Uniforms are common at Louisiana public schools, so the kids always looked sharp, even during after-school band practice. My son (left, sousaphone) practices a field show maneuver with a fellow sousaphonist (girls rule!) during 2004. Their show had 48 sets, and my son later performed with a big Texas high school band where the shows surpassed 120 sets.

She's practicing lipstick. That's actually felt tip marker and lip gloss.

I'm practicing shooting and processing. Removed that swimming pool accident thingy from her nose.

Strapless teal CBS4

Practice worn

Color is dirty but no flaws

Practicing to get it right

a few years back I found a pose guide on the Internet. Processing pics from the archives. Enjoy the view

Minolta Autocord, Rokkor 75mm f3.5, Kodak Ektar 100.

Taken during Free Practice 1 at Circuit of the Americas. Taken with my new Sony SAL55300 while sitting in my seats at turn 4.

 

Lewis Hamilton drives past in his McLaren MP4-27.

Practice sheets from my apprenticeship at New Bohemia Signs in San Francisco.

FINALLY settled on the B&W version of this.

 

Jax Becca

 

Strobist: B400 in a beauty dish boomed over camera axis, f/8. B800 on a 40º grid for background, unmetered.

 

Triggered by Pocket Wizards.

 

PP in LR3/CS5

  

Hmm something not quite right here..

 

Drift practice at Queensland Raceway, Friday 11/06/2010

  

Practice sheet from when I took a class with Bill Lilly, done March 1987

 

Made cupcakes with the kids this afternoon (only took about 4 hours!!!!) and couldn't help but get in there afterwards to have a bit of a play myself when the novelty had worn off for them!

ESP10 - 10 years advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future.

Opening Day of the 10th ESP world conference on 21st of october at Leibnitz University in Hannover/Germany.

photographer all pictures: www.franzbischof.de

Knox College Prairie Fire football preseason practice, fall 2017, at Stisser Field in the Knosher Bowl.

VC-25A SAM 29000 is used to practice landings and takeoffs from Harrisburg International Airport. When the president is on board this modified 747 carries the callsign "Air Force One."

After seeing some Russian guards do their walk this kid practices the routine with his umbrella.

Practice brush lettering with Pentel Colorbrushes. These were in a sketchbook in preparation for my Expressive Brush workshop.

A woman practices a traditional Korean dance on the grounds of Changdeokgung Palace near Insadong.

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