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"Mamãe, tá muito difícil!!! Não consigo entender... Me ajuda!"
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"Mummy, it's so difficult!!! I can't understand... Help me please!
Study V / acrylics on paper / 2014 / 30 x 40 cm
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Four days ago, I began calling this address "home." It is full of unique adornments that I cannot wait to share with all of you.
Today I am unpacking, unwinding, decorating, dusting, and chasing my son around a home that is twice the square footage of our old. The study, seen here, is fast becoming my favorite room. I wanted to snap a shot of our books in their temporary home, creatively designed by our friend Michelle.
Now that I'm (somewhat) settled, I'll be around to catch up on the Flickr goodness that I've been missing.
[ by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Manage Your Life ]
[...]The Pew Research Center recently found that 40 percent of Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete. Another recent Pew study found that Millennials (people age 18 to 29) say they think being a good parent is way more than having a good marriage.
Once considered an imperative of sorts, traditional marriage is getting a second look—and research suggests that it may be coming up short. Instead of considering themselves to be happily married, some people are discovering that they're only "semi-happy," and their quest for fulfillment can lead them to extramarital affairs and divorce.
A semi-happy marriage is one of low conflict, low passion, and low satisfaction. "One minute, you love the stability and contentment. The next minute, you think it’s not the right marriage, and there are flaws in the marriage that are serious, even though there are also great things about the marriage," says historian Pamela Haag, author of "Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules." In other words, "one minute you can't imagine staying, the next you can't imagine leaving," Haag says. "It’s these kinds of marriages that are 'low-conflict' but not all that satisfying that contribute the lion’s share to divorce court each year."
Her own 13-year-long marriage almost fit the bill. "Often, in my own case, I really can't tell if my marriage is woeful or sublime," she writes in her book. "Maybe I'm just so profoundly content that it feels like unhappiness, because nirvana is dull in this way, it lacks frisson." (She adds that she thinks her husband is "an amazing sport, and brave, to let me write about this topic of mixed feelings at all, even though a good number of husbands and wives have mixed feelings.")
Boredom can also cause major marital problems. A national survey of 3,341 people by advice website Good in Bed and Kristen Mark of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction found that 25 percent of people are are bored in their current monogamous relationship, and another 25 percent admit to being "on the brink" of boredom.
“Boredom is basically like an attack on a relationship’s immunity system," says Ian Kerner, PhD, founder of Good in Bed and author of "Love in the time of Colic: A New Parents' Guide to Getting It On Again." "It’s not a coincidence that a fifth of respondents admitted to being unfaithful to their partner as a result of being bored."
While most of the women Haag interviewed said they felt lonely in their semi-happy marriages, men told her that they felt "trapped" or "penned in." It didn't seem to matter if they married "too young" or waited until they were older; what mattered was what people expected from their marriages. And for many, the traditional blueprint that their parents followed is simply no longer a good fit.
"It’s sometimes said that marriage is on the decline because our expectations are too high," says Haag. "I think it’s that our expectations for marriage may be too low—such that single people feel, perhaps rightly, that there isn’t much that marriage would add to their lives."
"My generation—people in their 30s, and 40s, and early 50s—are perhaps caught betwixt and between the old romantic ideals and the new post-romantic expectations," she adds.
Haag emphasizes the fact that she's a historian and not a marriage therapist, and says that she does not "endorse a particular marital style." In her book, she explores several suggestions for "forging a third way between melancholy persistence and divorce," ranging from slightly outside-the-box (rewriting your vows to more accurately reflect your life as it is now, for instance, or sleeping in separate bedrooms) to the extreme (redefining marriage as a temporary parenting agreement or giving the green-light to discreet extramarital affairs, among other things.)
Even so, people can still end up feeling only semi-happy. "There's a part of your soul that isn't nourished in marriage, and it's too big a part to live without," Haag writes. "You've tried, but you fear that you're in the wrong marriage, however wonderful your spouse may be."
Last month, on my way to the coast, I stopped in Clatskanie, Oregon, to stretch my legs and have a look around.
Almost immediately I came upon an extraordinary survivor from an earlier chapter in the former timber town’s economic life: a large, heavily weathered structure of wood and corrugated metal that bore every mark of an old manufacturing facility. Its siding was sun-checked and silvered, its sliding doors warped and ribbed with age, its windows clouded but still defiant. It stood not as a ruin, but as something that had simply endured.
It was raining that day, and I could do little more than take note of it. The wet boards darkened to charcoal and the details blurred. I promised myself I would return.
This week, under clear winter light, I did. With dry footing and blue sky above, I was able to examine and photograph the building in detail — the scalloped trim, the massive sliding doors, the layered accretions of paint, rust, and lichen, the improvised repairs that spoke of decades of practical use. It would have made a compelling architectural study even if its history had remained unknown.
But high on one wall, almost erased by time, I noticed the ghost of a signboard. The lettering was faint, barely legible, but enough remained to make out a company name. That discovery transformed the building from texture into testimony. Armed with those fading words, I was able to trace newspaper clippings spanning sixty-five years — fragments that, taken together, told not only the story of a business but something larger: the intertwined histories of timber, river, machinery, and the men who built and operated them.
What follows is that story.
Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc.
Clatskanie, Oregon
On the banks of the Clatskanie River, where timber and tide meet, stands an enterprise born of industry, ingenuity, and Northwest determination, Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc.
From Machine Shop to Modern Manufacturer
The story begins in the years immediately following the war. In 1948, L. E. Hoy and associates operated under the name Clatskanie Machine Works, providing repair, fabrication, and mechanical services to loggers, mill operators, and river men throughout the lower Columbia region.
In December 1948, L. E. Hoy and Wilfred Elliott, doing business as Clatskanie Machine Works, appeared in Columbia County Circuit Court seeking foreclosure of a lien on machinery and equipment—an early glimpse into the realities of operating a rural fabrication shop in the postwar years
These were years of rebuilding and expansion across Oregon. Timber was moving, mills were humming, and river commerce was strong. A capable machine shop was indispensable.
By 1949 the shop was advertising the sale of ten rebuilt Cadillac engines, guaranteed “A-1,” suggesting both mechanical expertise and a willingness to trade in surplus powerplants common in the immediate post-World War II economy. Such engines were frequently repurposed for industrial use—yarders, boats, pumps, or mill equipment—illustrating the adaptive, practical nature of small Northwest machine shops.
In 1952 Clatskanie Machine Works faced a labor relations challenge when Machinists Local 63 sought to place the firm on the “unfair list.” A formal hearing was held, and the employers indicated willingness to negotiate
The episode situates the company squarely within the structured union culture of mid-century Oregon industry. Even small-town shops were not isolated from organized labor dynamics that shaped industrial life in the Pacific Northwest.
In September 1953, articles of incorporation were filed in Salem for Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc., capitalized at 100,000 dollars. The incorporators, Leland E. Hoy, Anton J. Haas Jr., William R. Mathews, and Rolland R. Mains, signaled by this step their intention to move beyond repair work into full scale equipment manufacture.
By 1955, the firm publicly declared its evolution:
We are the former Clatskanie Machine Works.
The name had changed, and so had the scope.
Serving the Timber Industry
During the mid 1950s, Hydraulic Marine Equipment advertised new logging yarders for all sizes of timber, automatic hydraulic electric sawmills, and custom logging and sawmill equipment built to order.
This was no idle boast. The postwar timber industry demanded modernization. Hydraulic controls replaced cumbersome cable systems. Electric drive systems provided smoother, more reliable power than steam or belt driven gasoline units. Efficiency meant safety, and safety meant productivity.
The company’s automatic hydraulic electric sawmills represented the progressive spirit of the era, machinery designed to reduce physical strain, increase output, and adapt to the growing importance of second growth timber.
From its Clatskanie location, the firm supplied equipment to operators across Oregon and beyond.
The Haas Influence
At the center of the company’s growth stood Anton Tony Joseph Haas Jr.
A Marine veteran of World War II, wounded in the South Pacific and decorated with the Purple Heart, Haas returned home in 1946 and entered the logging trade. By 1948 he had gained an interest in Clatskanie Machine Works and would later guide its transformation into Hydraulic Marine Equipment Company.
In the early 1950s, Haas and his partners developed what would become the firm’s most enduring contribution, the hydraulic powered gillnet roller.
For generations, gillnet fishermen hauled their nets by hand, grueling work under difficult conditions. The hydraulic roller changed that practice. Nets could be retrieved more efficiently and with far less physical strain. The device quickly found use on the Columbia River and as far north as Bristol Bay, Alaska, a testament to its practicality and rugged construction.
It was a Northwest solution to a Northwest problem.
Expanding Lines and Regional Service
By the 1960s, Hydraulic Marine Equipment had broadened its offerings. Advertisements in 1966 promoted Poulan Mustang chain saws alongside other models, reflecting the company’s continuing service to loggers and small operators. The firm had become not only a manufacturer but also a trusted regional equipment supplier.
Corporate officers such as Rolland R. Mains continued to serve in business and civic roles into the 1970s, indicating stability and community standing.
The Gillnet Legacy
By the late 1980s, as the timber industry underwent consolidation and the Columbia River fishery faced new regulatory pressures, Hydraulic Marine Equipment had refined its identity around its most distinctive product:
We build all sizes of famous Columbia Gillnet Rollers.
Advertisements in the Columbia River Gillnetter continued for decades. Stuart Haas, representing the next generation, carried forward the company name and reputation.
Through changing economic climates, fluctuating salmon runs, and shifting industrial patterns, the firm maintained its commitment to custom built hydraulic equipment tailored to working fishermen.
A Community Enterprise
Tony Haas retired in 1988, having served not only as owner and operator but also as a civic leader and long time member of local organizations. His career embodied the spirit of mid century Columbia County, military service, hard work, mechanical ingenuity, and public commitment.
Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc. was never a large corporation in the metropolitan sense. It was something more enduring, a regional industrial house built on craftsmanship and practical engineering.
> Its yarders served the forests.
> Its sawmills processed second growth.
> Its rollers worked the nets of the Columbia and the waters of Alaska.
In the story of Clatskanie, it stands as a reminder that innovation does not belong only to cities. Sometimes it is forged in a small shop near a river, by men who understand both timber and tide.
Since I've started going to nursing school again, this time in norwegian, I've been occupied. This is how I got myself a break from studying the heart. :)
eMo is used to study human-machine interaction. He was developed by Professor Noel Sharkey's robotics group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
Clear glass ambrotype. MPP 5"x4" with Zeiss Jena 180mm lens, wide open at f/4, 25 sec exposure. Lit by two soft boxes and a white reflector.
This year I'll be taking the Japanese Languange Proficiency Test (JLPT or Noken) for level 2 (or 2-kyû, which is the second most advanced level), so I've been studying since January.
The exam is in December, though XD
Well, it's not that I have been studying really hard 'cause I still have a lot of time, so it's been a really relaxed but constant study so far. That doesn't mean I will stop studying during summer holidays, though!
In this pic you can see my "friends" when preparing the exam.
I wish Momohime could speak and teach me Japanese, haha
This was basically a study for rock work with panels. I got the basics of it from Halhi's Tutorial, which has a ton of good info.
I tried 3 other ways of doing the water, which was painful, but I am pleased that I kept pushing on.
at columbia social work, you have 2 days of class and 3 days of field placement per week; first and second years shake out to different days. everyone has class on wednesdays, and everyone has field placement on fridays, however, so on our friday afternoon visit, things were pretty deserted. i wonder what this boy was doing...
manhattan bound to explore: a new home; a new school; and an old wallet, once lost , since found.
It's been a fair few years since this "cyclotouriste" has owned or regularly ridden skinny tired, fenderless "race" bikes but, the Urago gives a fast, responsive yet comfortable ride. It has been the go-to machine for day rides for much of the summer...
Studying. Notice how they conveniently put "DYING" at the end of this word
So I have Exams starting friday, I have them also on Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow I have my History and Musical Theater class exam.
Right now I SHOULD be studying for my History exam. But Studying is so boring.
Oh and I found this picture online and just edited the Bokeh in...so its not mine(: