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I took this one in 2007 during a hike up to 11,400 ft on Twin Sisters in Estes Park, CO up near the tree line. The composition of the main focal point nearly dead center was intentional because I wanted a static "I'm not budging from this spot" vibe to it. At the same time I tried to make it dynamic by way of interesting details on the foreground and framing tree in the right and background to explore, and convey being at the edge of the "green" zone buy the way the frame is cut diagonally by the sky and land.
That was the goal and it obviously works for me, in part because I was there and am emotionally attached to the memory of hauling all my gear up that *&^* rock pile...
How does it work for you? Forgetting the back story what impression do you take away from it? Is that based on personal experience seeing similar scenes, or is the photo the first time you've seen a situation like that?
Jan 30, 2012 at 02:29 PM
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I know what you mean about separating yourself from the effort it takes to take a photo, and how it affects your perception of the end result. With time, this connection fades, and we become better critics of our own work.
I completely understand placing the tree right in the middle to present it as a lasting figure in the landscape. I think that might work better if your view was looking up slope or down slope at the tree though. With a side view, my eye is drawn down the slope to the left. In most cases, this happens when you have a sense of perspective, it forms a leading line for the eye. When I view this, I first look at the dark tree on the right, then quickly glance at the centered tree, then my eye immediately falls off the left side of the photo.
This makes the tree on the right feel more like a distraction, and the conflict between the downhill slope on the left and the big dark tree on the right dwarfs the tree that you're trying to place emphasis on.
If there were any trees further up the slope that were a bit more isolated, I would have concentrated on those trees instead. The conflicting elements here are very difficult to work with. If I was at this location, I would have likely looked at this tree, thought it was cool looking, but I wouldn't have found a composition so I would have moved on.
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Ben Horne wrote
This makes the tree on the right feel more like a distraction, and the conflict between the downhill slope on the left and the big dark tree on the right dwarfs the tree that you're trying to place emphasis on.
Thanks for that observation. That was actually the goal I had in mind. Composing anything dead center in the frame makes the odds very high that will be the first thing the viewer will see. The fact it is dead center creates an interesting mental conflict of where to look next.
Right, left, up, down? Eventually the viewer will wind up doing all four and in the process wind up passing back over the dwelling awhile on the focal point in the center four more times.
It's not a trick that can be pulled off successfully very often. For it to work there needs to be something visually rewarding right, left, up, down. Here there's other interesting trees to the right and left but not so far as to create a whipsaw ping-pong of the eyes. Up there is the scenic vista and clouds the shot wouldn't work nearly as well without the clouds and some interesting but not highly distracting rocks in the foreground to convey the what the roots are fighting.
If any one if the "intentional" distractions are too distracting you risk the viewer getting "stuck" there and deciding it, not the tree in the middle is the real focal point. So to work the balance of tone contrast, color contrast, sharpness detail contrast via DOF (it was shot at f/ 6.3) needs to keep the tree in the middle the "star" that contrasts a bit more compelling to keep pulling the viewer back across it in an + or x eye path, or both...
A shot like this doesn't look inherently "creative" since all I did is point the camera and press the button. What I consider the "creative" part is controlling the viewer's eye movement and reaction subliminally, not with sledgehammer technique like shallow DOF, exaggerated contrast, over the top HDR, etc.
Jan 30, 2012 at 03:39 PM
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Its an interesting discussion and an interesting image.
My personal response was to go to the center trees, enjoy the twisting bark textures, hop to the right edge, following the roots down to the foreground rocks, and then get a bit of depth and height perspective as my eye turns back toward the center trees, will glancing downhill to the right.
Subjectively, I feel the pull down to the foreground rocks to be fairly strong. While the full tour is satisfying, I also wish for something more unified and simpler. For that, I'd crop half the distance from the bottom to the roots on the right. Now my experience is a bit more centered on the centered trees, with a more effective pull right to left across the frame and down the descending tree line. A different trip.
Jan 31, 2012 at 12:35 AM
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Lovely image Chuck but to me, the unnatural lightness of the foreground detracts from the subject. For example the shadows cast by the tree roots, lower right-hand corner, are at odds with the natural light. Cropping ~ 2 inches at bottom would help, imo.
This is likely biased by my preference for natural light versus natural supplements with flash - and here we can agree to disagree.
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What does two inches mean?
How do you measure the image?
And, I think I agree with you!
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Eyeball it
Crop at the top of the root protruding directly to the front. Forgot you're a laptop guy and I stick with my dinosaur desktop
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laptop with 24" ext monitor these days!!!
But 2 inches is still relative to screen size, no? Size Does Matter!!
And yes, despite my NJ roots, GO PATS!!!
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Sorry (kinda) for the hijack.
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When I took the shot it was more: "Oh neat gnarly tree -- snap" during the hike. When I was editing the shots back in 2007 when I took it, it wasn't one of the "keepers" because I was focused more on the people shots for photo book I put together for the family it was a reunion trip. I came across it again a couple days ago when looking for another shot from the same trip and gave it fresh look and it grew on me. This is what it looked like out of camera...
The suggestions about cropping and the shadows on the rocks are well taken. You can see from the camera capture I straighten the horizon and that dictated a tighter crop. I cropped top and bottom to minimize the anastigmatic stretching visible in the top of the tree on the right and crop out as much of the clutter of small rocks at the bottom. I tried a lot of different crops and as mentioned wound up wanting to keep the tree centered to create equal space around it and didn't want to crop across the three bigger rocks in the foreground I was between a rock and a hard place on this one
As for the shadows, I see what you mean about the distinct ones on the right. I'm not sure the flash was killing the shadows. It was very cloudy and they weren't distinct everywhere and the flash wasn't very strong. The EXIF shows the shutter was 1/320th so the flash was in HHS mode so it didn't contribute much. Because the rocks and tree in the middle were so similar in tone and color in the capture darkened and bumped up contrast on the tree with multiply and soft light, respectively, and then lightened the rocks a bit to make the tree stand out more. All things considered I don't want the rocks to be too eye catching. I might revise an blur them a bit. I didn't do any blurring in PP in the first edit.
Thanks for the feedback...
As for football, the biggest miracle is that Tebow turned the wife into a football fan. I wanted to watch the SAG awards, she insisted on watching fantasy football (aka the Pro Bowl) to the end.
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cgardner wrote
As for football, the biggest miracle is that Tebow turned the wife into a football fan. I wanted to watch the SAG awards, she insisted on watching fantasy football (aka the Pro Bowl) to the end.
Given the choices, my votes is with her.
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Took opportunity to play - likely too saturated for that altitude.
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It's not a Showtime pay-per-view (PPV) show that comes around often, but it is definitely one worth watching this upcoming weekend (Sat., May 4, 2013).
WBC Welterweight Champion and No. 1 pound-for-pound boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- who was last seen taking out Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto almost exactly one year ago -- will lace up the gloves once again for his annual blockbuster foray into the squared circle. Set to welcome back "Money" -- who spent part of his time on the sidelines behind bars -- is four-division champion Robert Guerrero, who boldly jumped straight from Lightweight to Welterweight to take out Selcuk Aydin and Andre Berto in 2012.
Joining Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero, which will have the WBC Welterweight and "The Ring" vacant 147-pound titles on the line at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the Showtime PPV broadcast are Featherweight champion Daniel Ponce de Leon and former Super Bantamweight kingpin Abner Mares, coming up from 122 pounds in pursuit of bigger fights ... literally and figuratively.
The pair of pugilists will battle it out for Ponce de Leon's WBC Featherweight title, which he won against big-punching Jhonny Gonzalez in late 2012. In addition, unbeaten prospects J'Leon Love and Leo Santa Cruz will round out the broadcast against Gabriel Rosado and Alexander Muñoz, respectively.
So, will Mayweather push his record to an even 44-0 or does Guerrero actually have a shot?
Let's find out:
Since coming up to 147 pounds, Guerrero has demonstrated a style of "dirty" boxing that I particularly enjoy to watch. Indeed, Guerrero does not just box up his opponents with his fists, instead, he mixes in elbows, his head and any other appendage he can without the referee getting too irritated. Holding is avoided only so long as the referee directly intervenes and the beltline is considered a suggestion rather than a well-defined boundary.
Bernard Hopkins, when sufficiently overmatched physically, is a fighter of incomparable skill.
This "dirty" approach can completely shut down skilled boxers because what they're doing isn't pure boxing. For example, the hardest fight the ultra-talented Andre Ward has had to date wasn't against effective technicians like Chad Dawson or Mikkel Kessler, but against Sakio Bika, who when sufficiently annoyed can unleash a "dirty" assault unlike few others.
Despite starting his career at 122 pounds, Guerrero is more than capable of being a bully in a weight class 25 pounds heavier. And with Mayweather's moderately declining mobility, the best chance Guerrero will ever have to topple a superior talent like Mayweather would be right now.
Unfortunately for him, it's just not going to happen.
Several fighters have found relative "success" against Mayweather, but not one of them has ever really come close to victory, and there is a great reason behind this reality.
Mayweather isn't just a technical genius, but he is a masterful "in-fight adjuster," able to tweak his strategy in the midst of battle based on the current pace and action. Jose Luis Castillo got to him with pressure, then lost. Oscar de la Hoya worked him over with the jab early, then lost. Zab Judah beat him to the punch early, then lost.
You get the point.
It would be unsurprising if Guerrero roughed up Mayweather in the early going, bullying him around the ring with questionably-legal shots. That likely won't last long, however, because Mayweather will eventually do what he does better than any other boxer on the planet, making the subtle alterations to his game needed to force Guerrero into a fight with which "Money" is more comfortable. From there, Mayweather's defensive mastery and counter right hands will take over en route to a dominant decision victory.
Mayweather, 36, is unquestionably slowing down -- it's only natural. And if he stays in the game for much longer, someone younger, hungrier and quicker will most likely exploit his only apparent weakness. But, it won't be Guerrero this Saturday night in "Sin City."
Prediction: Mayweather via unanimous decision
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A Good Samaritan came to the rescue of a teenager who was shot in the leg during Downtown Memphis' Fourth of July festivities Thursday evening.
Eighteen-year-old Tashun Jenkins is charged with connection the that shooting. Police say he fired several shots into a crowd.
An errant bullet hit the 13-year-old in the leg.
"One had a revolver and one had a semi-automatic and they were shooting into the crowd," said a man who rushed to help. He did not want to be identified for our story.
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For most of the thousands who gathered downtown to see the Fourth of July fireworks at Mud Island, they saw crowded streets and police with a lot of blue lights. That, witnesses say, is to be expected. What was not expected was gunfire.
"We had lots of friends over - children. And, all of the sudden, we hear a 'pow-pow-pow,'" said one person.
"We said it was not what sounded like fireworks," said another witness. "We looked down and we see a group of people start running. A couple of cars pull out and all of the sudden, someone is being carted away on another man's shoulders."
That man, who was carrying away what turned out to be the 13-year-old, was an off-duty paramedic, who came to see the show with his family. He responded almost by instinct to the shooting victim, once he made sure his own family was safe.
"I cleaned up the wound, put pressure on it, put him on my shoulder and walked to Riverside Drive, then north to Beale Street, where we were met by the police," the unidentified Good Samaritan said.
The teen was taken to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in non-critical condition, with a bullet wound to the leg.
A couple of hours after the first shooting, there was another in front of Waterford Place. Police say that shooting victim also was shot in the leg.
"I love it down here," said one person. "Would not live anywhere else in Memphis, and, so, it makes me really sad to see what happened last night."
Jenkins was charged with aggravated assault and his bond was set at $150,000. According to the affidavit of complaint, witnesses gave police a description of Jenkins, who admitted he was in the park at the time of the shooting. He also tested positive for gunshot residue.
"One of them did not even turn around to shoot. One was walking backwards. One with the semi-automatic was walking backwards shooting into the crowd. The other just had his hand behind his back, not even looking. And to charge the guy with aggravated assault is reckless to the public. I feel like the police protect the criminals. And they wonder what the problem is."
Jenkins is scheduled to make his first appearance in Shelby County General Sessions Court Monday morning, July 8.
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Brookhaven's newspaper The Daily Leader has been sold to a national company.
The paper was recently sold to Boone Newspapers, which owns 44 other newspapers in the U.S., including The Natchez Democrat. The Prentiss Headlight was also part of the recent purchase.
Most of the company's papers are in similar sized communities to Brookhaven.
The Daily Leader has 40 employees and 25 contract workers who distribute the paper.
The Jacobs family had owned the paper since 1958. Bill Jacobs says it wasn't just a financial decision to sell.
"Oh, it was a mixture of things, from a very good offer from the Boone Papers, to timing of my own personal means," Jacobs said.
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Like other Central Coast cattle ranchers and farmers, Jeff Buckingham and Richard Gonzales exist in two distinct worlds, where juggling the demands of ranching, farming and other work is part of daily life.
Buckingham, who owns a 540-acre cattle ranch near Los Osos, is equally at home tending to the cows and bulls, horses, cats, dogs, roosters and tortoises living on the property as he is leading a San Luis Obispo telecommunications firm.
Gonzales, whose family has farmed for generations, also does not depend solely on the fruits of agriculture. He makes a living from his construction business, as well as a small Paso Robles cow-calf operation. He also harvests walnuts in autumn, and operates a wine and walnut oil tasting room.
Whether out of choice or necessity, many farmers and ranchers like the Buckinghams and Gonzaleses have other jobs, according to the USDAs Economic Research Service, which forecasted a 3.4 percent rise in 2012 of smaller farms relying on off-farm income. In 2011, the latest statistics available nationally, 67 percent engaged in work other than farming or ranching, earning an average of $107,188 in off-farm income. The most common occupations for off-farm income involve natural-resource or ag-related industries, construction and retail sales.
No such recent data is available for San Luis Obispo County, according to the research service, although its not unusual to find local farmers and ranchers who are both energized by and get supplemental income from another occupation.
Its the getting away from the desk job, plus a lot of people want to be in San Luis Obispo because, well, it is San Luis Obispo, and its absolutely beautiful, said Jackie Crabb, executive director of the San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau. Its that romance of working the soil and hard work, but satisfaction at the end of the day that you own that business.
As romantic as it may appear, the business of agriculture requires intense focus and an understanding of the challenges that come with managing farming or ranching operations, Crabb said.
There are people who want to get into agriculture, but they cant do it at the scale to be able to make it a full-time career, she said.
Wearing two hats
When Jeff Buckingham isnt rustling cattle, he runs Blue Rooster Telecom, a San Luis Obispo firm that provides voice phone service, Internet and private data networks to small businesses.
Buckingham has been involved in the telecommunications industry for about 30 years. In 1983, he was president of Call America, which became the first commercial Internet service provider on the Central Coast. In 1997, Call America was sold for $16 million to GST Telecommunication. Several years later, after GST went bankrupt, he resurrected the company from scratch with business partner Cheryl Lovell. At that time, he and Lovell also partnered with friends from Stockton, but when they found the partnership was no longer a good fit, they left their Call America leadership roles in 2009, retaining an ownership stake in the company now run by Utility Telephone, Buckingham said. They started Blue Rooster a year later.
Although Buckingham is connected to the telecom industry, he couldnt resist ranching. As a boy growing up in the small New England town of Glastonbury, Conn., he wanted to be a dairy farmer, and with his parents blessing, he worked odd jobs to achieve that goal.
In 1979, he enrolled at Cal Poly, where he got a job milking Jersey cows for the universitys dairy to pay his way through college. But Buckingham, who graduated in 1981 with a degree in dairy science, decided that he would try his luck in the burgeoning telecommunications industry. He was soon hired at SLO Telecom, where he was a small investor and had been hired to sell telephone service.
But it wasnt until after the sale of Call America in 1997 that the family bought the ranch, a property they fell in love with the moment they climbed up the hill and looked out over Highway 1 at the sweeping view.
Keeping the ranch and its 40 cows in order has always been a team effort, with son Lochlan, a Cuesta College student who rides out on horseback with Buckingham to round up cattle, and wife Joan, whom Buckingham calls the unassuming bedrock of the family, often at the helm, feeding and helping the cows give birth. A daughter, Leslie, is a student at Chico State and helps out occasionally.
While Buckingham enjoys life on the ranch and in the office, he acknowledged that he would not be able to do ranching were it not for telecom.
Every now and again, well have a good year, said Buckingham, noting that his cow-calf operation generates roughly $25,000 to $35,000 annually, before expenses. But we have to have outside income. Many in agriculture have outside income to support what theyre doing. I admire people who make a full-time living in agriculture.
A fickle business
In addition to the day-to-day costs of running a farm or ranch, farmers and ranchers are often at the mercy of Mother Nature and the whims of the economy.
Like any business, it has its costs and risks, and they can come from weather or changes in prices, said Jeremy Weber, economist with the USDAs Economic Research Service.
They can also face increased regulatory costs, Crabb said. There are fees for testing and additional paperwork, and that can build up, she said.
The increasing fees are being attached every year, and the regulations are making it more expensive to operate, she said.
The higher fees, she said, can put many small farmers and ranchers in California at a disadvantage relative to those in other states such as Texas because we have to spend more if we want to get the same profit, she noted. That can have consequences for consumers, who may experience higher prices at the grocery store.
Theres a growing movement internationally, nationally and regionally of smaller farmers who want to develop innovative ways to market themselves, and operate more efficiently, she said.
Theyre creating hubs where they can share processing, equipment or whatever it is to enable them to cut the costs, said Crabb, noting that some local full-time farmers share resources and costs.
Still, small farmers can make it work.
Jerry Rutiz, owner of Rutiz Family Farms in Arroyo Grande, contends that the key to success in agriculture is the ability to diversify, offer a unique product and take advantage of resources such as direct marketing.
Its really been in the last 20 to 30 years that that has really evolved, and that has enabled smaller farmers or less capitalized farmers, at least in California, to really make a good living without having to work off the farm, Rutiz said of marketing.
Its just like any other business; whether its opening up a shoe shop or a farm, you have to be good at it, he said.
Family operation
Richard Gonzales is an example of one local farmer and rancher who has devised innovative ways to expand his North County farming and ranching operation.
While Gonzales primary business is Roadrunner Construction, everyone in the family of entrepreneurs including wife Deanne, daughter Olivia Wenger and son Phillip has a hand in keeping the Paso Robles ventures afloat.
The family has about 23 acres of Hartley and Franquette walnuts, which they dry farm as part of Limerock Orchards, the source of their rich walnut oil.
Walnuts are at record highs, Wenger recently explained. The Japanese really like walnuts; theres a huge export market for it.
In addition to walnuts, they also have partnered with local wine-grape growers to sell Chateau Margene, a boutique wine, out of their tasting room. Wenger was even married at a pond on the tasting room property off Peachy Canyon Road.
As well, they have a small cow-calf operation consisting of about 40 to 45 mother cows. Each year, the Gonzaleses sell the majority of their calves, keeping about six to eight of the heifers as replacements to put back into the herd.
Gonzales hires contracted help about 20 people mainly to harvest the walnuts for about two weeks each fall but his daughter recently returned to the ranch from Modesto with her husband, Luke, to assist in managing the many facets of the family business.
We dont have weekends, by the way, said Wenger, smiling at her father.
While Gonzales, who graduated from Cal Poly in 1981 with a degree in crop science, is deeply rooted in agriculture, he does not discount the value of outside work. After graduation, he quickly found that he earned more money doing mechanic work, and he started an equipment repair business, beginning with one semitruck for hauling.
He launched Roadrunner Construction in 1987, and today, the business, which prepares the ground for building, does work for many of the local wineries, including Denner, Opolo and Whalebone.
Having a diversity of operations gives the family a cushion in years when one industry falters. When the recession hit, the farm and cattle ranch helped pick up the slack from a declining construction industry, Wenger said.
If construction is not as good, then cattle or walnut prices might be better, she said. If one business isnt doing great, then youre not completely squeezed.
Lifelong work
For families like the Buckinghams and Gonzaleses, its about striking the right balance on and off the property.
It also takes a high level of organization, respect for the land and the animals living on it, and a certain grit and mental toughness to handle it all.
On one particular autumn morning, the Buckinghams noticed that a heifer in their herd had not been eating, and on the agenda for the day was a visit from a veterinarian. After coaxing her into the squeeze chute to keep her secure, Buckingham kept her calm while the vet performed his exam.
We get really attached to them, Jeff Buckingham said, patting the cow gently.
The stories of days spent on the property with his two now-grown children, wife Joan, neighbors and friends are unforgettable.
Neighbors and friends who share a passion for ranching often help one another with no expectation of payment, Buckingham noted. They repair each others fences, corral runaway cattle and take turns hauling cattle to market. At branding time, multiple generations of family gather after a hard days work for barbecue and fellowship.
In many ways, the ranch, he said, is what binds them together, he said. But the connection between ranch life and telecom also isnt lost on him. In the end, its about figuring things out, he said.
It tests your resourcefulness constantly, Buckingham said.
He isnt sure whether hell ever retire from either.
I dont have a plan to stop doing telecom and only do ranching, he recently confessed. I do what I love to do, and I love to do both.
Richard Gonzales also isnt interested in hanging up his work boots.
I dont see myself retiring, said Gonzales, whose hands, caked in dirt, examined a fallen walnut. But I might slow down one day and let the younger guys do more of this stuff.


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The Bobcats are now 2-2 for the season after this weekends 52-38 loss to Stephen F. Austin.
SFA started strong in the first quarter getting two TD's and a FG to lead MSU 17-9. Brady Attaway was getting the job done for SFA while Bleskin struggled, eventually completing a 42 yard throw to Ellis for the Bobcats first TD. The Bobcats did better in the second, matching SFA touchdown for touchdown and ending the half trailing 24 – 31.
MSU tried turning things around in the third. The Bobcat defense put the pressure on SFA keeping Attaway from completing like he did in the first half. The Bobcats got across the end zone with 4:49 left in the third to close the gap to 1 point, 30-31.
As the fourth began it looked like MSU had a fighting chance. A 29 yard pass from Jake to Tanner Bleskin got the ball down the field and Cody Kirk rushed for the TD, giving MSU their first lead of the night, 38-31. It was short lived as SFA scored on their next two drives. A pass interception on Bleskin finished the night off giving SFA the 52-38 win.
Interceptions hurt MSU with 4 total. Bleskin threw for 308 yards and the Bobcats had 107 rushing. SAF threw for 392 yards and rushed for 175.
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The Phablet killed the Tablet. Or maybe I still just don't get it ?
I liked the idea of the tablet, I remember waiting for months for the ipad to come out and I had huge expectations for it and when it came out I was like "meh". I didn't really get the whole Idea," A blown up ipod touch" I was looking for something like the Axieotron Modbook or the MS Surface, & I didn't get Apple's vision.
Then, I actually bought and used an Ipad and I understood. It was a great device, beautiful, and completely irrelevant. I tried to think of different things to do with my ipad, I jail broke it ( which was probably the most fun I had with the thing) Installed every beautiful, awesome, wonderful, magical app I could find. I was going to get organized I was going to read more I was going to relax more while browsing, "Holding the internet in my hands" It was going to change my life, it was the next level of computing... And I felt like I kinda HAD to find a way to fit a tablet into my daily life.
Fast forward 3 months and my beautiful, magical, awesome ipad was nothing more than an $800 dollar toy for my kids to fight over... For kids, the Ipad IS amazing and magical and something awesome, I think every kid should have a tablet these days. But for me, an old school geek... meh. Whenever I used the tablet I felt I was missing something and I could never work as quickly or as efficiently as I do on my Macbook.
Then, thinking maybe it was just Apple's experience that sucked, I bought a Nexus 7 thinking I would try the android tablet experience. I love Android and I loved the Nexus 7. but after the first 2 weeks of tweaking it and getting it exactly how I wanted it spent weeks unused in my bag.
I used to take it to work with me and was able to leave my laptop at home which was nice but I also carried a 5" Smartphone with me and I usually ended up with that. Then, of course, realizing I couldn't do what I wanted to I ended up bringing my laptop back to work with me. The thing of it was a tablet just didn't fit in my life.
For the price of an Ipad 4 I could buy a decent new Macbook Air ( or a kick ass used one). Or even something like the Surface, or the Yoga if I used Windows ). The Macbook Pro stays at home, hooked up to my TV and my external hard disks and serves as my media center.I can't understand why anyone would want a tablet over something like the Macbook Air.
My Macbook Air is my workhorse, It goes back and forth to work with me, and my smart phone is with me whenever I am outside and it having a 5" screen is damn near tablet anyhow and is MORE than sufficient for the short periods of leisure time I need reading or playing angry birds or whatever sitting in the doctors office or in a taxi or on the train. I just never found any place to really fit a tablet and since most phones are between 4.5 and 5" I don't really see any reason anyone would need a tablet.
In my opinion the perfect setup is:
A Home machine + A light, portable machine + A smartphone / phablet.
What do you think? Have you adopted the tablet life?


text: This topic has probably been discussed a lot, but i just read an article about rivalries in the nfl, and i started thinking about the bills. i know that throughout our history the dolphins have been our most storied and heated rival, but im wondering if, at least recently, the patriots have taken that role. I don't know about everyone else, but my intense and everlasting hatred for the Patriots started when I was 11 and started getting really into the NFL, and hasn't stopped since. I'm just interested in hearing what other people think about this potential rivalry as we approach a new decade, and hopefully a more successful one in terms of actually beating the Pats.


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David Tritelli
As this issue of Peer Review goes to press, America is entering
the final throes of the 2004 presidential campaign. Accordingly,
we are beset by public opinion polls and by data-driven arguments
about the relative merits of various policy alternatives.
Our choices as voters may depend, in part, on our ability
to sort through competing claims rooted in quantitative measures.
Yet while its direct relevance to democracy may be more readily
discernible in an election year, quantitative literacy--or
"numeracy," as it is sometimes called--has
become increasingly important to citizenship more generally.
Indeed, effective participation in civic life depends more
than ever upon one's ability to understand quantitative
information and to make informed decisions based upon it.
Citizens are regularly confronted with a dizzying array of
numerical information. On a given day, for example, the media
may report changes in the consumer price index or federal
interest rates, results of clinical trials, statistics from
an educational assessment of local schools, findings from
a study of the long-term health effects of a widely used product;
the list could go on almost endlessly. Moreover, near-omnipresent
computers generate--and the Internet makes available--a
staggering amount of information, much of it quantitative.
For a quantitatively literate citizen, access to this wealth
of information is potentially empowering. The reverse also
is true, however. A quantitatively illiterate citizen--one
who is unable to evaluate statistical arguments competently,
for example, or incapable of grasping the potential implications
of data trends--may be easily mystified. As Lynn Steen
has put it, "an innumerate citizen today is as vulnerable
as the illiterate peasant of Gutenberg's time."
As the economic and social effects of globalization continue
to transform our notions of citizenship and broaden the opportunities
and the need for responsible engagement, colleges and universities
are working to strengthen the historical link between liberal
education and civic engagement. There is also still much work
to be done to help students see the important links between
what they learn in college and their current and future lives
as citizens of a diverse and globally-interconnected society.
Understanding the relationship between quantitative literacy
and mathematics is a vital first step for curricular reform
efforts, for efforts to inform students about important outcomes
of college, and for attempts to clarify definitions of college
readiness. Quantitative literacy is not a watered-down version
of mathematics, and neither is it a replacement for mathematics;
students need both. And as with writing or critical thinking
skills, responsibility for helping students to develop quantitative
literacy must be shared broadly across the curriculum.
This issue of Peer Review offers a primer on quantitative
literacy in college today. In these pages, among other things,
you'll find definitions, arguments for the importance
of quantitative literacy, discussion of its relationship to
mathematics, and different models for developing it. And yes,
you'll even find some data, statistics, and other quantitative
information about it.


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One of the Democratic candidates in the race for Charlottesville's commonwealth's attorney brought up an interesting platform at a news conference Wednesday. Steve Deaton says, if elected, he will change the way the prison system runs.
Deaton says that he wants to decrease the number of prisoners in jail because he believes some of the wrong people are there.
"The state just built a new hundred-million-dollar prison and they are ready to start offender loading this fall. The crime rates are going down," said Deaton.
Deaton is challenging current Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman. The primary election is June 11.
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To manage requests for space and/or equipment utilization, the Department has developed a number of procedures for both faculty and students to follow. While almost no one likes the burden of complying with procedures and filling out forms, the Department believes that these are common sense protocols and that adherence to them by all concerned actually increases the likelihood that equipment and facilities will be available for the greatest number of customers over the longest possible life of the equipment.
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ALBERT LEA, Minn. (KTTC)-- Freeborn County Fair is in full swing and new at this year's fair is Smoke Free Kid's Day.
Fair employees told us that besides health issues, smoke has seemed to deter families from enjoying certain parts of the fair.
This year, the fair board along with Freeborn County Partners In Prevention designated Kids Day as Smoke free. It their goal to eliminate that health factor and encourage being smoke free.
Kids and their parents were eager to join in this year's fun. From giant elephants providing entertainment to the classic rides, the showing was bigger than ever. Believe it or not some even had the chance to walk on water.
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The cyberspace is growing at an exceedingly high rate. As a result, many investors in Australia are turning to it as their means of transactions and forming new businesses on it. This has in turn led to high competition as all the webmasters strive to get the better side of their competitors. New firms have come up to help with the efforts and the most dedicated webmasters have achieved their desired heights.
There are website on all sorts of topics – they can help you to compare home loans, hire boats and even play lawn bowls (see www.lawnbowls.co.uk for more into)
The use of the SEO services has increased. This is a service that has proven beneficial to every new and old websites. This has been brought about by the fact that over 50% of the internet users access their target information through search engines. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) service providers hence strive to give the target website a high rank on the search engines and a reliable domain name (www.domainname.com.au). This in turn leads to easy access and hence an increase in the traffic. However, care has to be taken when hiring these services. There are many service providers and the chances of hiring the wrong provider are high.
Article writing has become popular too. Most websites are hosting blogs where they post informative content. This attracts bloggers to link with them and subsequent gain traffic to the blog. The blog on the other hand has links directed to the target website. As a result, webmasters have been able to draw traffic to their websites while at the same time creating employment to the article writers across the globe.
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Date: February 23, 2010
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In an e-mail sent to Town Attorney David Persson last week, Commissioner Peter O'Connor expressed surprise and disappointment that Key Club General Manager Michael Welly and club attorney Brenda Patten were in the audience when the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee interviewed the commission candidates Saturday, Feb. 6.
In a letter sent to O'Connor dated Feb. 22, Welly defended his attendance, stating that he was invited by Patten (a PIC member) to attend the meeting.
Wrote Welly: "The club's application is not my only responsibility or interest. I am a resident and businessperson on this island, and as much as anyone else who fits that description, I have an interest in the candidates for leadership of our town and their ideas. I can hardly pretend otherwise until the application is decided, by sticking my head in the sand. The purpose of my attendance was not to harass or influence anyone's vote. I am sorry you had that opinion and sorrier still that you elected to announce it publicly."
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Coaching Carousel: Latest Buzz
The Hawks have interviewed former Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson and current Mavericks assistant coach Dwane Casey twice each, but sources with knowledge of the team's thinking say that no decision on the job vacated by Mike Woodson is expected before next week.
Although numerous coaching sources have described Johnson and Casey as the two finalists for the position, Atlanta officials have tried to downplay that characterization, pointing to the fact that Johnson's fellow ESPN analyst Mark Jackson was just interviewed over the weekend. One source close to the situation also insists that one of the holdovers from Woodson's staff -- veteran assistant coach Larry Drew -- remains under consideration.
Determining who leads the race at this stage, assuming that the Hawks will ultimately choose between Johnson and Casey, isn't much clearer. Casey has been regarded as the favorite in league coaching circles from the start, given his association with Hawks general manager Rick Sund dating to their time together in Seattle, but Johnson is said to have made a strong impression on Hawks ownership.
The likelyhood of the Hawks next head coach being one of the four guys mentioned in the article above is pretty high, but does anyone else think that the Hawks may have someone they are considering that no media source has been able to get information from? It wouldn't surprise me a bit if there is a suprise candidate that has secretly interviewed for the job.
Of the four mentioned in the article above, my personal favoritey is Dwane Casey. Avery Johnson has his flaws that worry me, but overall, I think he's a solid coach that will do a good job if his players listen to him and don't tune him out. Larry Drew intrigues me because we really don't know exactly how he would run a team if given the chance. I think too many Hawks fans feel that because he was part of Mike Woodson's staff that he would run things the same way. Jeff Shultz from the AJC made a good point about Drew in that he knows the players and has seen the effect of Mike's style on the team. I have no way to prove it, but I believe that Larry Drew would be very different than Mike Woodson. I also have a high respect for coaches who have paid their dues and deserve a chance to run their own team, which is why Mark Jackson would be the least favorite of the four mentioned above.
Just to give a shout out for him, if there is a secret candidate, then I hope it is Eric Musselman.


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Bibb County's District Attorney says he won't comment on a report that authorities found a pair of Lauren Giddings' panties in her accused killer's next-door apartment.
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That neighbor, Stephen McDaniel, has been indicted on a murder charge in connection with Giddings' death. He's also been indicted on 30 counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Citing sources familiar with the investigation, The Telegraph reported Wednesday that the undergarments found in McDaniel's apartment were sent to the FBI lab for testing.
Test results revealed that Giddings' DNA was on the panties, the Telegraph reported.
Asked about the newspaper report, District Attorney Greg Winters declined comment. In a text reply to 13WMAZ's Randall Savage, Winters wrote, "No comment. Not very happy that information was leaked."
Giddings' dismembered torso was found in a dumpster outside her Barristers Hall apartment on June 30. Police say she was last seen alive on the night of June 25.
Both Giddings and McDaniel graduated from Mercer University's law school last May. Barristers Hall apartments are located across Georgia Avenue from the law school.
A Maryland native, Giddings remained in Macon to study for the bar examination. McDaniel reportedly remained in Macon for the same purpose.
The day after Giddings' torso was found, McDaniel was arrested on burglary charges. He was charged with murder in August and was indicted on the murder and child exploitation charges Nov. 15.
He's being held without bond in the Bibb County jail.
Macon police chief Mike Burns could not be reached for comment.


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Suffolking Beer Ban1September 28th, 2012Comment
I pick up the i most days from the corner shop. Sometimes I treat myself to a cold can of Orangina (rock and roll I know).
The corner shop survives on booze and fags primarily: the cheapskates like me who nip in to use Collect+ and grab a tin of beans would barely keep the shop standing without the queue for wine, spirits and Super Kings.
Yesterday's i – picked up alongside Space Raiders and fizzy pop for a lazy evening on the sofa – caught my attention with a story entitled "Ipswich launches push to ban super-strength booze".
"Off licence owners in Ipswich are being asked to remove strong beers and ciders from their shelves in an effort to tackle alcohol abuse".
Ok, so high strength booze linked to abuse of alcohol. Discuss. 1) Cause and effect – did the high strength booze cause the abuse or did the abuse lead to a desire for a high strength fix? That aside, if we assume high strength booze sold cheaply is a contributing factor, why are beer and cider the victims?
Alcohol can play a catalyst role in crime but what of pocket sized bottles of whisky and hip flask style bottles of vodka available behind the Tesco or McColl's counter alongside cancer sticks and lethal doses of paracetamol. In the queue at my corner shop some cans of Kestrel sit in the fridge, but for the price of 3 or 4 tinnies you can grab a reasonable sized bottle of unknown vodka and a penknife to carry in your pocket.
The article continues:
"The town has seen four street drinkers murdered in the last three years and police say the scheme could not only help those who depend on alcohol but also the wider community and those tasked with clean-up operations.~"
So, hang on. Are you saying that cans of beer murdered four people in three years?
Before we condemn the campaign – in fact it may have merit and may work – we can't help but feeling it's a case of making a song and dance about an easy target, social green washing to appease local fury. Will banning high strength beer and cider save society? No. Will it help maybe? Will it kerb the demand for booze? Will people simply find an alternative?
What puzzles us is why Ipswich has picked on beer and cider as the root cause of murder and violence. Whilst I'm not likely to kick up much fuss about White Ace or Frosty Jack's disappearing from the shelves of Suffolk supermarkets, we're scratching our heads over the somewhat simplistic solution to problems arising from much more complex social issues. As per usual, the headlines simply shout "Beer is bad".
The Guardian adds a greater back story to the campaign, explaining in more detail that the emphasis is on the ban forming part of an initiative to make the streets safer and reduce the number of deaths associated with people living and drinking heavily on the streets. Unfortunately beer and cider are still the bad guys, despite many of the interviewees naming stag dos, unemployment and homelessness as contributing factors that create the market for cheap booze.
Andrew Mason of Ipswich police says "This campaign aims to take the problem away at the source." Despite its well intentioned efforts, that's exactly what the campaign fails to do.Tags: binge, binge drinking, ipswich, police, suffolk
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stonojnr September 28th, 2012 at 23:55
yeah the Guardian I think got quite alot of its details wrong IMO, I cant work out where they are talking about around the Wolsey theatre and I live in the town !!! to the point Ive even wondered if they really meant the New Wolsey Studio, but even that doesnt totally fit.
As for the stag-do line,well the night time economy has never been that excessive in Ipswich, this isnt Blackpool or Brighton, we are continually seeing lots of pubs & restaurants close. Alot of town centre pubs, centrally located as well, just shut early, or dont bother opening, in the week at night because there just isnt the trade, even at the weekends things can be quiet and pubs have very old fashioned opening times if your used to all day opening in other places. And Ive been in the town centre after the local football league team have played a home game on the Saturday, the busiest time youd think, but you can walk through the town centre less than an hour after the game has finished and think its actually Easter Sunday or something and literally not see another person.
And this ban which in some local stores has already been happening, is part of an initiative thats been running in the town for the past 6 years, the council coincidentally published a report just last week showing what good progress was being made with it, the number of reported incidents were down and the numbers of identified street drinkers were declining, all on the existing measures & level headed approach being taken.
so where this sudden stepchange came from or a need to step up the campaign, though the confusion is in so much its only targetted drinks, not a blanket ban on all 6.5% beers/ciders as has been reported, Im not sure because its not an issue that creates alot of fury or angst locally, nothings radically changed in the last month, in some ways it feels just like an attempt to grab some headlines and credit for something that was actually quietly working anyway


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Wisconsin's Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program (SBCAAP) helps small businesses understand and comply with state and federal air pollution regulations. Section 507 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments requires each state to operate a small business assistance program comprised of these three elements: technical assistance for business, a compliance advisory panel and a small business ombudsman.
If you have questions or comments about the SBCAAP Web pages, call us at 1-855-889-3021 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Our projects have included outreach efforts to small industries and businesses employing 100 or fewer employees engaged in activities like:
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These key resources can help you learn about which environmental regulations might apply to your business.
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If you have questions about environmental regulations and how the SBCAAP can help your business, please feel free to contact us.
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The Small Business Environmental Council is one element of the three-part Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program. The other elements are the SBCAAP clean air specialists and the small business ombudsman. Each of these three program elements is required in section 507 of the Clean Air Act.
Council membership
There are eight members of the council. Each is appointed for a 3-year term. Seven members are appointed by either the majority and minor leaders from both the State Assembly and Senate (one each, for a total of four) and the Governor (appoints three). The members can either represent the public or are owners or the representatives of owners of a small business. One member represents the state Department of Natural Resources.
Activities and responsibilities
The council is charged with the responsibilities under Wisconsin Statutes section 285.795, related to the requirements of the Clean Air Act as implemented by DNR's Air Program. It meets quarterly to discuss different issues that arise. The council has developed guidelines [PDF] that document its organization with regards to chair/vice chair election, decision making, etc.
The council is to review and comment on how the DNR disseminates information to small businesses, whether the information provided is readable by someone with no technical training, whether new air regulations meet the paperwork reduction act and any difficulties encountered by small businesses trying to comply with the air regulations.
The members also feel that they can contribute to other small businesses by acting as mentors. Based on their different experiences in dealing with environmental regulations, they can offer advice or refer you to resources to help you find your way. If you would like to see the sorts of activities the council has been engaged in over the past years, please review the annual reports.
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Madison WI
|Shane Lauterbach
Lauterbach Group, Inc. [exit DNR]
Sussex WI
|Amy Litscher
Council Chair
President - Principal environmental scientist
Saga Environmental & Engineering [exit DNR]
Lake Mills WI
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Superior Industrial Coatings
Racine WI
J.D. Tripoli
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State Representative [exit DNR]
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Wisconsin State Assembly
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Chief executive officer
Purple Cow Organics LLC [exit DNR]
Middleton WI
Past council members
The Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program (SBCAAP), existing Small Business Environmental Council members and small businesses throughout Wisconsin would like to thank former Small Business Environmental Council members for their service. Volunteers like these enhance the services of the SBCAAP and provide a voice for small businesses.
|Past Council Members
|Steve Aldridge, Sta-Care, Inc. - retired
|Jay Meili, former CEO and owner of Molded Dimensions, Inc. - retired
|Pam Christenson, former Wisconsin Department of Commerce representative; currently Economic Development Director, MG&E
|Bob Nicholson, US Filter/Zimpro Environmental, Inc. - retired
|Joseph Dannecker, formerly an Attorney with Godfrey and Kahn
|James Reynolds, Cast tools, Inc. - retired
|Pat Haskin, Tomahawk Monument Company - retired
|Stuart Rosenberg, formerly of Madison Area Builders Association
|Gerald Jones, Banking industry
|Hampton Rothwell, former Wisconsin Department of Commerce representative
|Linda Katz, currently CEO of Molded Dimensions, Inc.
|Michael Simpson, Environmental Attorney, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, s.c. – retired
|Carl Komassa, a SBEC member since 1994, passed away September 27, 2010.
A true small business ambassador, Carl's positive and energetic personality are greatly missed.
|Lee Sucharda, formerly of Design North, Inc.
|Dennis Leong, former Wisconsin Department of Commerce representative
|Mary Ann Sumi, former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources representative
|Dan Martino, Jr., General Manager, Martino's Master Dry Cleaners
|Pete Van Horn, Van Horn Construction - retired
|Bernie Mattson, former Wisconsin Department of Commerce representative
|Lynda Wiese, former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources representative
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Kimberly Ake is the DNR's small business ombudsman. Contact her by email or by phone at 608-267-6743 .
The small business ombudsman is one component of the state's small business technical assistance program, created through the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The small business ombudsman has three main responsibilities: communication, advocacy and compliance assistance.
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The ombudsman's role has its origin in the Clean Air Act, but in Wisconsin and many other states the responsibilities are expanded to include all environmental regulatory programs that affect small business.
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With the possible exception of Hillary Clinton (a choice which would be based on desperation and near-convention polling) nobody on the list of Vice Presidential candidates leaked today by the Obama campaign will be selected as Obama's running mate. Alfred Hitchcock employed a plot device called a MacGuffin, essentially to advance the story or motivate a character. In essence, a MacGuffin is a diversion from the real action designed to mislead the viewer. My examination of the Obama MacGuffins follows:
Ted Strickland has made a Shermanesque statement disavowing any interest or willingness to serve. John Edwards has made similar statements and added nothing to Kerry's ticket in 2004. John Kerry inclusion on the list is a gratuitous nod to a supporter or an attempt at humor.
With a real possibility of achieving a fillibuster-proof (or close to one) majority in the Senate, selecting anyone who might cause the loss of a seat would be foolhardy. Chris Dodd, Jack Reed and Bill Nelson represent states with Republican governors who would replace them with gnomes. Evan Bayh represents a state with a Republican governor who is likely to be reelected.


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