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Explore Innovative Approaches to Improving School Bus Transportation Systems
The state should study ways to make public school bus transportation systems more efficient and help school districts pay the cost of converting school buses to alternative fuels.
School bus transportation is an issue of primary importance to school district officials. Recent studies by the Comptroller and the State Auditor have found a number of problems in school transportation operations. Some schools do not stagger school times to allow for efficient scheduling of transportation services so that the number of buses require d is minimized. Districts do not work with other districts to share personnel, equipment and facilities to minimize costs by cooperative transportation programs.
Smaller districts do not attempt to minimize maintenance and repair costs by contracting out with larger districts or with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus refurbishing unit. 1 In the management and performance reviews recently performed by the Comptroller s office, efficient management of transportation was found lacking in many districts. 2 Schools did not minimize the number of buses needed by combining bus stops and routes, using scheduling software and evaluating the savings if transportation were contracted with other districts.
In 1991, more than $417 million in state and local funds were spent on school transportation. Expenditures per student for transportation have increased 40 percent over a five-year period, from $80 in 1988 to $113 in 1992. 3 The number of buses and the size of overall transportation operations is staggering. In 1990, there were about 27,500 school transportation vehicles statewide. 4 In a recent survey, 788 school districts (out of a total of 1,053) had a total of about 18,400 buses, with the largest 10 percent of these districts having about 14,000. These buses traveled a total of 274 million miles in 1990-91, for an average of 9,97 5 miles per vehicle.
Public transit operations had 30,856 miles per vehicle for the comparable period, or three times the service miles per school district vehicle. In addition, o nly 38 of the 788 districts responded in a recent survey that they participated in cooperatives or inter-local agreements for transportation, although a large number of schools found that these arrangements reduced costs as well as improved program quality in a majority of cases. 5
Increasing Complexity of School Transit Operations
School bus transportation is increasingly expensive. In addition, state law mandates that school districts with fleets of more than 50 buses convert to alternative fuels. Thirty percent of the buses in those fleets must convert by 1994, 50 percent by 1996 and 90 percent by 1998. In addition, schools are prohibited from purchasing vehicles that are not capable of using alternative fuels. If all existing school transportation vehicl es are converted at a cost of $4,000 per vehicle, local school districts will spend at least $110 million over this period. Conversion also will require that sufficient maintenance and fueling stations are available and capable of handling alternative fuel s. Additional costs will be incurred to convert current diesel and gasoline bus maintenance operations to accommodate alternative fuel vehicles.
Since none of the alternative fuels arrangements have federal crash standards in place that manufacturers must meet, schools take on an additional liability with these converted vehicles. In Canada, a recent $50 million lawsuit settlement over the crash of several propane vehicles resulting in deaths has changed standards for these vehicles. These federal standards are not expected to be available until 1994 at the earliest. Since Texas standards are fuel-specific, they may well conflict with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Act rules that expected to be determined by 1994 and are to be more fuel-ne utral. Finally, schools are paying to convert older gasoline vehicles, which are not as efficient as diesel-run buses, to alternative fuels.
The capital investment required to meet the conversion deadlines are substantial and districts are speeding up their normal schedules for replacing vehicles to comply with those deadlines.
Frustration over the required change to alternative fuels is growing among school districts. Members of the Texas Association of Pupil Transportation recently met in Houston to discuss a possible lawsuit against the state involving these safety issues and the costs. The association plans to propose changes in the statute to remedy these problems. 6
Other transportation-related areas where costs are increasing include workers compensation, liability insurance and drivers wages. In addition to conversion, school districts also must ensure that bus drivers have commercial driver s licenses and be tested for drugs. These requirements also will exacerbate the long-term problem of hirin g an adequate number of part-time drivers and training them.
School Transportation Costs
School districts must provide transportation for eligible children to and from school each day, including transportation for special and vocational education students . School district buses travel about 274 million miles meeting their normal transportation needs, spending about $420 million each year. In addition, school districts usually provide transportation for extra curricular activities and other trips that resul t in an additional 33 million miles traveled.
About 12 percent of all transportation miles are related to activities not essential to education. Extracurricular activities, field trips and other uses were responsible for $50.3 million of all transportation expenses in fiscal 1991. 7 This amount probably underestimates the amount of funds actually spent for extra curricular activities since recent audits have revealed that a number of schools improperly attribute these expenditures to academic-related transportation. 8
Most school bus equipment is used only for school and related activities. These vehicles are left idle during much of the day and during school breaks. In many locations, the number of school buses is larger than the number of buses involved in public transit operations. At a cost of approximately $47,000 per vehicle, the return on the investment for communities as a whole is low, given the number of hours these vehicles sit idle.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) distributes transportation money to the 1,050 school districts throughout the state based on the number of students within an area served and the miles of approved routes. These state funds are mixed with locally generated money to pay for each district s transportation costs. State fun ding is allocated to each school district through the Foundation School Program (FSP). The FSP funding in 1990-91 totaled $226.8 million and is estimated to reach $229.6 million in fiscal 1993. 9
San Antonio Model
Each school district may operate its own vehicle fleet or it may contract with a public or private company to provide services. Before contracting with a private company, the law requires school boards to find that it is economically advantageous to do so.
One example of contracting is the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD). 10 This district has bid transportation services for at least 30 years, and the successful bidder always has been the local metropolitan transit authority, VIA, or the city before the transit authority was created. This contract has allowed VIA to mesh the s chool bus transportation needs with its mainline services to other commuters.
Buses that are used for school children are used later in the day for commuters. School buses are regular VIA commuter buses, which federal funds helped to purchase. In a Texas School Performance Review study, SAISD was commended for maintaining one of the highest bus-seat occupancy rates and lowest transportation costs per student in the state. 11 VIA also provides technical management and equipment that facilitate efficient transportation. VIA uses computer mapping and two-way radios to track buses to ensure safe, reliable transportation for school children.
The federal government requires all mass transit buses remain open to the p ublic and that buses are not marked as school buses. However, this requirement has not posed a problem for the district and VIA. Officials have found that with the addition of school buses, more bus stops and more frequent service have been possible. Like many other school transportation systems, VIA or the school district sometimes provides monitors on buses to assure the children s safety and to protect transit property.
Public Transit Operations
Funding school bus transportation and public transit operations is different. School bus transportation is mostly funded by state appropriations and local property taxes designated for schools. 12 Transit operations receive local, state and federal funding from local sales tax and state and federal transit and transportation funds.
Also, the new Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991 (ISTEA) provides additional money for public transit capital expenditures at the discretion of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) out of funds previously reserved f or highway construction.
Public transportation systems in both urban and rural Texas communities face criticism. Some are criticized for low ridership, while other systems receive complaints about inadequate service. The quality and quantity of services, the need for service and t he level of funding vary widely across the state.
Metropolitan areas, such as Houston and Dallas, collect the maximum sales tax of one cent and fund a variety of programs. Low ridership in some metropolitan areas has brought loca l pressure to spend the accumulated funds for other purposes. Other transit systems face operating fund shortages when ridership demands increase and capital expenditures are necessary. 13
Six Metropolitan Transit Authorities (MTAs) in Texas serve cities with a population of more than 200,000. There are also smaller transit systems, usually tied to the municipality. And some rural communities have transit systems, primarily organized by TxDO T. The operating costs of MTAs alone for fiscal 1993 are estimated at $1.1 billion. Capital expenditures for the same period are projected to reach $594.6 million and $24.1 million for planning. 14 TxDOT operates rural transportation programs with a combination of state and federal funds.
Most transit and school bus operations plan and operate independently of each other. Traditionally, Texas has made no effort to coordinate and maximize the efficiency of these two existing systems.
Duplication occurs in personnel, management, and training, equipment and facilities. The p otential for cost efficiencies through energy conservation and elimination of duplication is substantial. Rural and urban, as well as school and public transit systems would benefit by integrating these operations.
The following school transportation recommendations are to be funded through the state s oil overcharge funds. (See the related paper on this topic.)
A. The Legislature should direct through a rider in the General Appropriations Act the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ) to work with the Texas Education Agency to study the feasibility of combining transportation services for school and transit operations and report in November 1994 to the Legislature.
Such a study will cost approximately $150,000, if contracted, and should examine operational costs, management, scheduling, personnel, drug testing, commercial drivers licenses and training, repair and maintenance, safety, barriers to consolidating transportation functions and funding. The study should also evaluate and compare the cost effectiveness of independent school bus transportation, school bus transportation shared among districts and school bus systems integrated with transit operations. For those areas where integration of bus services is feasible, a prototype plan for integration should be formulated.
Those preparing the study should consult with TxDOT s Transit Advisory Committee, the Texas Transit Authority, and other groups concerned with public transit and school bus transportation issues. Hearings should be held to allow for public input. When appropriate, the expertise of the Texas A&M University s Texas Transportation Institute, the University of Texas Center for Transportation Research and Texas Southern University should be used. To the extent poss ible, oil overcharge funds and federal ISTEA planning funds should finance the cost of the study.
B. The Legislature should provide through an appropriations rider up to $30 million in oil overcharge funds for school districts to cover the cost of convert ing vehicles to alternative fuels if districts have combined with other districts or transit operations to become more cost-effective.
This funding should cover the cost of converting vehicles to an alternative fuel or the additional cost of purchasing a vehicle capable of using alternative fuels.
C. The Legislature should direct that a sufficient amount of oil overcharge funds be made available to school districts to purchase and install scheduling and routing software and to train local school distri ct personnel in its use.
These expenditures would allow schools to operate more efficient school transportation programs and conserve energy resources. This type of program is allowed under the rule governing the use of oil overcharge funds.
The recommended study should identify potential ways to better coordinate and manage regional transportation resources, evaluate the feasibility of combining operations and develop implementation plans when appropriate. In those cases where schools com bine transportation operations with other schools or with public transit operations, additional school resources can be devoted to the primary functions of educating students, instead of auxiliary issues such transportation. Since implementing these recomm endations would conserve energy, they are allowed under the rules governing oil overcharge funds.
Fiscal Impact
The estimated $150,000 cost of the study could be funded by oil overcharge funds as an energy conservation project and, if needed, federal IST EA funds from TxDOT. The Southwest Region University Transportation Center could perform this study. The center received $3.5 million in oil overcharge funds for the 1992-93 biennium. The study can be funded either through remaining program balances or add itional oil overcharge redesignations to accomplish this study.
Up to $30 million in oil overcharge funds can be used to convert school transportation vehicles to alternative fuels. An additional amount will be needed to handle transportation scheduling a nd routing software and training. Their cost can be determined more accurately when a needs survey of local school districts is done.
1 Texas State Auditor s Office, Looking Ahead... Making the Most of our Education Dollars (Austin, Texas, November 1992), p. 66.
2 Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Performance Review, Texas School Performance Review, Pilot Program (Austin, Texas, July 1991), pp. 31, 52.
3 Texas State Auditor s Office, p. 95.
4 Texas Education Agency, 1990-91 Transportation Operation Cost Report (Austin, Texas, May 1992), p. 1. (computer printout).
5 Ibid., pp. 124 and 126.
6 Interview with Dan Roberts, Transportation Director, Austin Independent School District (Austin, Texas, December 18, 1992).
7 Texas Education Agency, p. 1.
8 Texas State Auditor s Office, p. 66.
9 Texas Education Agency, Report on Transportation Allotment Formula (Austin, Texas, 1992), p. 7.
10 Interview with John Milan, Acting Manager, and staff, VIA-San Antonio Transit Authority, San Antonio, Texas, November 12, 1992.
11 Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas School Performance Review, Texas School Performance Review, Pilot Program (Austin, Texas, July 1991), p. 16.
12 A county tax provides school bus transportation for Dallas County school districts.
13 Interview with Richard Christi, Division Director, Transit Division, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas, November 5, 1992.
14 Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Public Transportation In Texas: Profiles and Projections; 1992-1995 (Austin, Texas, July 1991), p. 267.


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English National Ballet – Swan Lake – Milton Keynes
Eight paragraphs of praise and I haven't yet mentioned Alina Cojocaru! My advice to anyone yearning to see the special beauty of ballet is simple: take any chance you can to see Cojocaru dance.
English National Ballet 2014/2015 Season
Full Details of the 2014 / 15 Season…
Shiori Kase – First Soloist, English National Ballet
5 Questions to Shiori Kase. ENB soloist Shiori Kase is on a roll – only yesterday promoted to First Soloist (as of September), she's just won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Jackson International Ballet Competition in the USA and is about to make her debut in Coppelia…
Paris Opera Ballet – Nicolas Le Riche Farwell Gala – Paris
Only the official retirement age of 42 requires him to leave the company, alas, though he may be invited back as a guest.
English National Ballet – Romeo and Juliet – London
…in the autumn of their dancing careers Acosta and Rojo put on a stunning display that brought many in the audience to their feet come the end.
Gallery – Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta in Romeo and Juliet, English National Ballet
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All up this was a solid night and a good complement to ENB's 'Lest We Forget' (WW1) bill that was so recently on the main Barbican stage. But I hope that next year they return to a more open choice on what choreographers can do and also concentrate on choreography rather than include musical soiree interludes.
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"Super – absolutely spot on" I thought when Tamara Rojo announced Alison McWhinney and Junor Souza as joint winners of the company's Emerging Dancer Competition.
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Dust is a resounding success for Khan as creator, Rojo as artistic director and both as performers.
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After last night's highly anticipated episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8, TLC has announced that the series will be on hiatus until August. Production has come to a halt in light of Jon & Kate's recent decision to divorce, which will change the show's dynamic.
Although the series was slated to have 40 episodes this season, the break is occurring after just 6 episodes. Next week's show will feature previously unseen footage, but will be the last until August. The next new episode will air August 3rd, "and then a modified schedule will be in place to support the family's transition," the network says.
It's interesting that TLC, not Jon or Kate, decided to halt the show. Maybe someone is finally paying attention to the kids' best interests? Or maybe it's because they have no idea how to film episodes when the parents are in the middle of a messy divorce battle?
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New Antonella Barba Photos Surfaceby Matt Richenthal at . Comments
For now, Antonella Barba remains on American Idol.
Viewer feelings seem to be mixed about whether or not she ought to continue on the show after a few topless pictures surfaced.
Below, however, we've uncovered NEW Antonella Barba pictures. She isn't nude, but she's posing provacatively. Will such decisions force the hand of American Idol producers? Might this singer be booted off for reasons other than her lack of vocal talent? Only time will tell ...
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You people who are giving this girl positive feed back are exactly what is wrong with society today. I believe that if someone is going to be a role model or an IDOL to others, especially young girls, than she shouldn't be posing in perverse photos like these. It is very sad what has happened to young women today. They are not acting like they respect themselves. There is a crotch shot of every young hollywood starlet circulating the internet. This is depressing women have no class anymore. You men that are commenting on how great she is and how hot she is know damn well that you would never want her for your girlfriend, let alone wife. She can go forth with whatever "adult" career she has in mind for herself, but I do not believe that she should use a family show like American Idol to get there.
These are hot who cares if this hoe can or can't sing this slut needs to get railed by Simon, Ryan and Randy .....Ballz
Mmmmmm. Mmmmmmm. I ama froma Naples, but I lova America! What is for lunch. I eata. Mangia. Mangia. I doa Gena Simmons from Kissa on Antonella. Lika gelato.
She is scrumptious! What a babe! I don't even watch Idol but she gets my vote.
I've read almost all of the replies on here and have come to the conclusion that the majority of the people who've come to judge are lucky that they're able to read the comments on here. Most of you cannot even form a sentance without misspellings. Sad. I came here simply to see what all the fuss was about. She's a beautiful young lady and she has a lovely voice. Who the hell are we to pass judgement on her? It's extremely sad that in this day and age young, beautiful women cannot feel safe when giving the man they "think" that they love intimate "boudoir" photos (for those of you who don't know what that is feel free to go to www.dictionary.com & expand your limited vocabulary). When I was young and still had a hard body I was able to get those for my (then) husband WITHOUT the worry that they'd get "out". No, I'm not from the last century :). So all of you women (I say "women" because in reading the blogs/replies it appears that most of the folks on here that are totally judgmental jackasses are females) who are judging try climbing down from your high-horses and take your self back in time. Way back for some of you, a couple of years for the rest. Do some REAL soul searching and be honest to YOU. What kind of trash could be put out about you? We all have "something". No matter how small or how large ... there is ALWAYS something. If not then you must be in a convent or living in a monastary; if either of those apply, I highly doubt you'd be reading any of these blogs. So grow the "F" up and take a big breath of reality.
Sounds like we have some jealous ladies on here. I can see why - AB is one beautiful, intelligent woman. Best of luck Antonella in all your future endeavours.
she might be hot but she cannt sing to save her life...so close your eyes and open your ears......
Get over it people. If you think singing and sex don't go together like ham and eggs, you obviously don't look at the "art work" on albums, cd's, etc. Since when doesn't sex sell records. Beyond that, yes she's beautiful, yes you get to see her boobs, but so what?! Get over it people, it's a body...a beautiful body, but gosh, when are we as a society, going to get over our prudish attitudes about nudity. In Europe, and countries like Amsterdam, England and Spain, they are very open about sex and nudity and they have far fewer rapes, murders and other violent crimes than we here in the good ole USA. We put way too much emphasis on nudity and not nearly enough emphasis on more important things. Does anyone think that Shakira, Cher and all the other beautiful ladies of music don't use sex to help sell music and concert tickets? Get Real!
Look at the pictures. The one's revealing more nudity (#1, #2, #3) halfly don't even look completely like Antonella Barba. The eyes and nose are different. I'm guessing the last three pictures are Antonella, but the first three may or may not be. Probably a so-called friend wanted to satisfy their jealousy. I'm still voting for Antonella. Especially because I really don't think she's this type of person and was framed. Plus, American Idol is a singing competition. Don't even bring this type of thing into the competition.


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Thank you everyone. i didnt mean to hijack anything but I was pretty happy when these came back from the Lab yesterday and I just wanted to stick these up for a day or so. And it sort of fits with the 'picture number 3 deal…..OK really loosely but…'
I didnt think I had anything (and wouldnt have had without clip tests …lesson there ) and now I do.
WENDY. No use at all other than to make a picture that I can like.
DAVID, OK, but strange.
Anyway – for the two missing to complete the set of 3 pictures, I would go for both pictures of "summer job"
Everytime I try to link "summer job", the entry is not visible.
Yes, some glitch maybe.
This is a link to summer job, the two pictures, which go before Front Porch #3, I think…
is there a rule putting links to spam if they are pointing back to burnmagazine?
Stumbled over this while looking for else:
'photophilosophers' nice term civilian.
Master of Arts in Photophilosophy …sounds probable :)
One more link about collecting and photography.. not books this time:
THODORIS. I moved this here. OK? (no wish to hijack the other thread)
If you shoot a bunch of instagram and believe its hip..then thats your trip. I aint gonna follow you there, but its fine. stuff looks kinda funky. Its all good.
But, If you shoot a bunch of the stuff and try to pass it off as type 690 thats another matter altogether. Coz it aint. You really wanna shoot 690….guess what? Shoot 690
You want your 5d files to look like Kodachrome?? Cool! Its a good look. You want to pretend they ARE Kodachrome…??? WHY???
I guess I see a difference between a look and an attempt to pass as real (even if it is just by omission of detail)
And yeah I sound like some stuck in the mud dick. Good.
Fair enough John. Only asked because it seemed a bit odd comment coming from you. Thanks for taking the time to explain your reasoning. Not sure if I agree (literally, I'm conflicted about it), but I do get your point. Cheers
Thodoris. Listen, I am conflicted too. I state this position, but it seems at odds with how I felt a couple years ago. And Yes I have stated, very strongly that the image is everything…..but I believe that less and less….AUTHENTICITY…,.thats the thing for me now.
And what the hell is authentic or not in this day and age??? probably best to ignore me entirely as some drunken fool.
John, experiencing internal conflict and having the ability to change your mind over time are preferable attributes to the opposite, as far as I'm concerned. I take it you're doing better health wise if you've started drinking again. cheers
you are confusing Instagram with Hipstamatic….Instagram pictures can be totally straight out of the camera…any camera….i think you are assuming manipulation when that is not necessarily the case…i love the Instagram app….shoot em straight…my main mantra is authenticity…however, for you i think authentic is technical, and for me it is about intent, morality, etc…
Is it more authentic to shoot with b&w film than to do a digital conversion in lightroom?
What's more authentic? A polaroid print or a polaroid-looking image from instagram?
If I scan a polaroid print and put it up on the web, is that less authentic than holding it in your hands?
Do the stories told with digital imagery have less authenticity than those told with film images?
Today I made patatoe soup.. onions, garlic, carrots, chili and patatoes, all homegrown.. tomatoes bought at the store, same for salt and pepper.
Why? Because I enjoy making it, and because it tastes good, every time a bit different, but good.. or better, we like it..
My choice, works for me.. to each his own.. just don't try to convince me an instant soup is the same.. that is how I feel about hipstagram and fake borders.. and that is why I print in the darkroom.. I enjoy the process.. and it's never the same.. and it's mine, from start to finish.. joy.. I understand what John is saying..
I'll lean heavily towards David's view of authenticity. Intent, morality. The technical aspects are more a question of aesthetics. Though if one is actually trying to pass something off as something it's not, that would, I think, preclude it from being authentic under the morality clause.
I just re-opened my own darkroom (printing family snapshots, the largest I can….)… it was such a long time since the last printing session that some sort of life appeared in the forgotten chemicals… homegrown, we can say ;)
No one is saying you should not enjoy what you do. "Authentic" is a bit of a loaded term is all.
I have a little area in my basement I use as a darkroom. I haven't used it in years, but I used to quite a lot. I loved the process. The tactile aspect of making a print. The smell, the wrinkled fingers. Could spend hours into the night trying to get it just right. And pleased as punch in the morning when I got it. But those photos were no more or less "authentic" to me then the prints or digital images I produce today.
Also, what are "fake borders?"
It's not the camera or the technique .. It's just the "who" was behind it (camera/technique)
(proof here):
i understand what John and you are thinking about process…you like the traditional process…i do too….yet, i do not think any more "authentic" than a picture taken with an iPhone…the friggin machines are artistically ARBITRARY…only one way or another because of the sequence of SCIENTIFIC INVENTION..but the sequence of science doesn't mean anything to me as an artist..
for all i know as a non scientist is that it shoulda been harder to invent wet plates than the iPhone….and now i stand here with both available simultaneous i can just choose one or the other…why be a prisoner of this arbitrary scientifically linear sequence of events? what is the difference between a machine that makes digital pictures than a machine that makes film pictures , EXCEPT that one was invented before the other?…
they are still both recording MACHINES…that is all they ARE….the ONLY artistic thing in the entire equation is your EYE….whether you print on toilet paper or silver bromide or this camera or that is a craft issue, a tech issue, maybe even a motive issue, but not a pure art issue…craft DOES become a part of the final OBJECT..but the pure artist can either just draw or just paint or draw AND paint and sell both in the gallery! now you will excuse me, i am going to my darkroom!!
i have said this before and i will say it again..the discussion over b&w and color and the discussion of digi vs film are the two biggest wastes of group mental energy and discussion of all time…they are personal decisions…all equal…for heavens sake, i vote to get on with it!!
Go David go….
I feel your passion…..
Also, what are "fake borders?"
Excellent question, Michael. The invisible lines separating people, perhaps?
"hating" or rejecting/preferring a Samsung camera over a Nokia one or an apple vs Sanyo /onkyo/ Panasonic / Carl zeiss or Olympus vs Nikon vs Pentax , mentax, cheddar vs Gouda erc…Blah blu blo blin blun.. balloni.. No substance ..
Since when a semi conductor on a camera circuit will dictate quality?
Well… When substance gone then all is left is camera gear..
And the "I prefer Samsung vs apple " argument for me reminds me the old fashioned canon vs Nikon argument..
Bullshit! Canon vs Nikon? Oh please ! How about none of the above.. How about a Nokia with a zeiss lens or an iPhone !!!
And remember , nobody forces anyone to use filters like hip dramatic stamatic..lol.. Etc,,
No no no.. Shoot as it comes STRAIGHT OUTTA YOUR PHONE..
btw.. INSTAGRAM is JUST a sharing feature.. NOT a cheap photoshop version et all…
Do not worry my purists friends..
It's ( INSTAGRAM ) is "clean"…
The advantage over any SLR though is that since the phone lacks a mirror the results in slow speeds are highly unpredictable and that's PURE FUN!!!!
panos authentic!!! see my link above
"..the discussion over b&w and color and the discussion of digi vs film are the two biggest wastes of group mental energy and discussion of all time…"
Hey, I totally agree with this.
But wasn't John's original point that taking a digital photo and sticking a film negative border around it – that wasn't there in the first place – a bit disingenuous? I mean, yeah I can get some nifty software to do that but would I really want to? And why? I have no idea if that's been done here, and neither does John, so maybe it was jumping the gun a bit but it does seem a valid point of critique to raise.
Am I understanding this discussion correctly? It's a bit unclear spanning a couple of threads as it is.
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Man, for sure, with this discussion you guys have lost the attention and interest of those two luscious young Ukrainian gals who were making themselves so available on the front porch! You blew it! When will you get another chance like that?
In definite agreement that tools are tools and heart is heart. One is just the means to showing the other.
The image is the only thing that really matters but it is interesting to discuss this issue.
When I think of the term and judging 'authentic' it is how true you are to your soul and subject while working …how do we measure that? Well seemingly with our gut unless obvious otherwise. I think this conversation started because borders that imitate 35mm sprockets and perhaps are not from that particular process.
you know, I liked the bleed-over way back when I was printing in a darkroom. Even then I was questioned on why I was doing it. Whether adding a border for effect adds something to the artistic vision and purpose of the image. I had to justify why I was doing it to more strict minded professors (I am still thankful for the roots they gave me!). No matter how you add it -lab or on computer- you are purposely adding a mistake-ish looking quality for artistic effect, no?
I added it in then and I think people would do so now because of the feeling of rawness and immediacy that is conveyed. When we allow for those borders to show when actually printing b&w aren't we making that same artistic decision? purposely adding for effect? Is there anything wrong with that?
Perhaps because a particular device is readily available?
Certainly things will always be better with an 8×10, printing in a lab with light and deliciously smelly chemicals. And this adds to specialization perhaps, rarity. I think the spectrum can be wide here. Digital has always been it's own beast. I'm sure the Lithographers are still pissed about the Talbotype …eh, maybe not:) Where you land on it is a personal decision for one's own work but shouldn't we be judging others decisions purely on the work's overall effectiveness?
Just adding in the mix…..
The prophet Panos… not the virgin imants!
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oime,IMANTS…what are you smoking?:)…I want the same…:)))))))))
"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
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P.S THOMAS…are you in Athens?…be ready for delays…strike days ahead…embrace the unexpected!!!
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I almost peed my pants..:)
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Ok, let me pick up the worms and get them back into the can!
We're not talking about the same thing I think.
I do so NOT CARE whether a picture is shot on film or digital, what camera was used, if it's black and white, what it is printed on, if at all.. in fact, the only photograph hanging right now in my home is a colour one, I have absolutely no idea if it's digi or film, I love it, it's on my wall.. and defending it against family, 'cause it's not even sharp, go figure. Next one I will mount and frame is by Kyunghee Lee, black and white, no idea if digital or film. I love the photograph, that's why I bought it and why I will put it on the wall.
What my comment was about is what Tom Hyde points out ("But wasn't John's original point that taking a digital photo and sticking a film negative border around it – that wasn't there in the first place – a bit disingenuous?"). And I would have no problem with that either, if the billions of pictures we see around and are manipulated, either through hipstagram or adding the borders or filters or what not, were not 'looking' all the same.. I do not say they ARE the same, but the look of them is the same.. there was a time when we were inundated with war hipsta pics, it was a trend, and the look was the same.
With so many possibilities, what I wonder is why so few do take advantage of them and create their own thing? If you are an artist, take whatever you need and MAKE IT YOURS. Just adding a filter or a border is, to me, the cheapest solution, especially if you do it because it's hip.
Now, those wondering about the border, the fake border thing.. ever seen a film strip? If I put a neagive under my enlarger lens between glass I have to decide where to set the border, I can use either a frame on the ground plate to put over the paper, or I can use the movable things in the enlarger head by sliding them forth and back. Both of these options will make me TAKE OFF something, either only the border, or cropping the photograph. Or, as in my case, I use a negative carrier, which is slightly larger than the negative itself, thus a small black border will show up when printing.. (which, to me, and only to me, is important, it is proof that the whole negative is printed, means that I got it right IN camera.. again, that only matters to ME, MY way of seeing photography, what others do is none of my business). On the other hand, if I open a digital file in the computer, there's no border at all. If I want one, I have to ADD it, it is NOT THERE to start with, it is the opposite of what happens under the enlarger, I do not decide what to take off, but what to add.
That's all fine, everything goes. But it is not the same. And that's fine as well, it would be boring otherwise. The only problem I have with all this is when technic overrides, when it becomes more important than the eye. If a photograph (in this case, but counts for every artform) is strong enough by itself, it will stand. And for that, the eye is the only thing that counts. I think that is what the photographer on the essay was talking about when he said 'authenticity', not the process, but the intent.
I do think I'm lucky to know what works for myself, what I feel comfortable with, what I can stand behind. And that counts for me, and me only. It doesn't matter, not for the photographs I take, not for others. It is my personal need and choice.
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YES! I am in ATHENS. now every week from Mondays to Thursdays until March.
Tonite I'm bound, but usually the evenings are free.
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Abele.. homegrown family snapshots :D
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THOMAS…i am gonna wear my silver pan…facing west(the one that JIM gave me few years ago)…:)
we will meet…!!!
EVA…wait…don't put all the worms back in the can…I need some for my baby chickens…
they are vegetarians too…love you!!!
Can someone open the windows…?:)))))))))
Tom Hyde. Yes , you are correct. I was asking the question on a hunch.
David. Yes I meant the hipstamatic. and Eva is right, this was NOT about digi vs film.
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sorry, i did digress a bit bringing up digi vs film argument but honestly is pretty much the same discussion about whether or not traditional tech is more valid than new tech…or, in this case about the "varieties" of manipulation….manipulation is manipulation…
if all three of you were standing in front of my camera in a line a equidistant (which i would dearly cherish) , and i chose right there on the spot to leave out of the frame young Tom and the picture is just now only Eva and John, then i have manipulated the reality which stands before me…Young Tom is not "there" because i moved the camera a half inch to the left…it is a lie that Young Tom is not there…a cold manipulation of fact…but Young Tom has on a red shirt and both Eva and John are wearing blue, so i crop Young Tom OUT…gone…i am doing blue monochromes, so the red shirt is manipulated out…Young Tom is a real person, a great guy, deserves to be represented, but he is out..wrong shirt.
waiting for the light to get "right"…choosing a longer lens to throw out the background…"fake borders" (real film borders are a very old manipulation)…we select…we eliminate…we choose…whether to shoot this direction or that direction is in theory a manipulation of the "reality"…
since we cannot damn it manipulate actual life, our real lives, we manipulate the pictures we take to represent life…we come up with all sorts of philosophies to justify this or that, but let's get real here…photography is not real…life in front of you is real…and everything you do with your camera the minute you take it out of the bag is a manipulation…glory halleluja we are FREE to create…yes, yes, this is WHY we do this…
it is just easier with an iPhone!!
and i do love all three of you whatever you are wearing….
abrazos, david
David, good points, but manipulation can go far beyond what you describe. For example, you could take that photo of John, Eva and Tom, then select their outlines in photoshop and composite them in front of Niagra Falls. As art, so what? As journalism, a definite no-no. In between, well, I think that goes to Gladdy's point. Perhaps it's okay if you acknowledge the manipulation but one can easily argue that if you try to pass it off as an actual photo of the three in front of the falls, then it is inauthentic, to say the least. How would you feel about an essay in which the people were shot in front of a green screen, the backgrounds shot separately, like in India or somewhere, and then the two composited together? As a publisher, would you conceivably run something like that. If so, would you expect to be told that the photos were composited? Would you inform the audience?
ahhh yes, good discussion…i think we are talking about two different kinds of "authentic"….if journalistic "truth" is the issue, then yes that is another story…perhaps my brush strokes were too broad….just like in any bookstore, one must have categories…fiction, non fiction etc…the setting for the presentation is part of the presentation.. a photo in Time Magazine is different than a photo in Aperture…editors DO have the responsibility, as you suggest, to label photoshopped art…yet still THEY , the editors of Time , are manipulating in the broad sense by their choice of totally "non manipulated" pictures, words, cover shot, etc…all a matter of degree and interpretation i suppose…
FYI, go back and do a bit of retro homework on the OJ Simpson picture on the cover of Time..when he was on trial…that is a textbook case discussing a part of this dialogue
Ahhh, David..
Nono, still talking about different things I think.. PLUS! I got my Eta Beta* trousers on and hand a blue shirt over to Tom.. wanna have him in the picture too ;)
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And wait a sec.. we can not manipulate our lives?? We do nothing else all day, manipulate our lives.. at least those that LIVE and not only vegetate! By every decision we take we do so! Either that or I do not understand what you mean..
well we TRY to manipulate our lives of course…at least i do, and you do too…and we certainly can tweak things a bit for sure…but there is a certain amount of fate in there…not sure the proportions…i just cross my fingers, light a candle, make sure my good luck charms are with me, and hope for the best, and well work really hard!!
Now I can agree.. and you know, it's a real pleasure to be here, with you and all those that care and hang out here!
Ok.. I better go to do that last 'work really hard' part!
David, Interesting that the Washington Post is getting some scrutiny for using HDR on an image as this discussion is once again unfolding here on Burn.
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On Wednesday evening, a magnitude-5.2 earthquake shook the Spanish town of Lorca, causing widespread damage. It had not been predicted – at least, not quite.
The Italian Raffaele Bendandi (1891-1979) made his name making predictions, apparently based on little verifiable science, about when and where earthquakes would strike. He predicted that Rome would be reduced to rubble by an earthquake on Wednesday 11th May, 2011. There was no earthquake in Italy, but Bendandi was only a few hundred miles out.
Predicting rare and catastrophic events is a notoriously difficult task. Scientific seismological predictions can usually not be made with any reasonable degree of accuracy more than a few hours in advance. So what should we make of Bendandi's prediction, and what can statistics tell us about the problem?
This is not the first earthquake to have been 'correctly' predicted by Bendandi, but neither is there any clear record of how many earthquakes he predicted, or how he reached his predictions. Perhaps, a little like Nostradamus, he made thousands of predictions, most of them incorrect and swiftly forgotten. In this light, an occasional correct prediction seems a lot less impressive than the same prediction made in isolation. We need to know how many incorrect predictions Bendandi made before we can cast him as soothsayer or charlatan.
As predicting certain natural phenomena is so difficult, modern predictions are often made as statements of probability – shades of grey, rather than black or white. Probabilities are sometimes given in weather forecasting, predicting the chance of rain in the next 24 hours, for instance.
Probabilistic forecasts provide an altogether more realistic summary of the chance of rare events occurring. They are both easily understood and easily tested, at least in the long run. But they don't make such good headlines as cut-throat certainties.
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Meet the 1% with Occupy London
Global Day of Action
'We are all in this together' never rang so hollow. There is no 'together' and they are not part of 'we'. They want us to pay for their crisis … So we'll pay them a visit, one by one.
On 12 May people around the world will rise up again responding to the global call for action that marks the birth of the indignados movement.
It's time to face the 1 per cent. And guess what? They are right here in London!
We'll visit those who gambled with our pensions and savings, created financial nonsense to make money out of thin air, paid hundreds of thousands to wine and dine with our 'elected' representatives, were bailed out, evaded billions in taxes and secured 40% of the world's wealth for themselves.
They are doing everything they can to keep the status quo. But it's time for an economy that puts people's well-being and the environment we live in before corporate profits. And they are in our way.
More details to be announced and a map will be made available before 12 May.
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- Any ideas or contributions, get in touch us so we can plan the day with you! Want to put on some guerilla theatre or an supporting action? Go for it! Want to make a huge puppet? Just get in touch so we can help.- Facebook event page http://www.facebook.com/events/327612820626082
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Open-source Solaris within 45 days
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By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld | Computerworld UK | Published: 10:17, 05 May 2005
Sun will complete its release of Solaris software code in the next 45 days, completing a programme it began last year.
Sun's release of Solaris as open-source is an effort to expand the number of Solaris users and counter Linux and Windows growth in the data centre. The first part of the code, a utility called D-Trace that was designed to improve application performance, was released earlier this year.
At its quarterly update meeting, Sun said Solaris 10 had received 1.3 million registered downloads. While company officials said they were pleased with the pace of downloads, Sun's software supreme John Loiacono said that it was difficult to know what users are doing with the operating system.
Until Sun releases its first update of Solaris 10 and then maps it back to users who previously downloaded the software, "it's hard to tell whether someone is just kicking the tyres or it's a new installation," Loiacono said.
Sun is hoping that users consider Solaris as an x86 option but said vendors are responding. Hardware certifications by vendors have increased from 270 to 360 since the open-source plan was announced last year, said the company. Sun also has broad certification support for Solaris 10, and Oracle announced its certification this week. The only other large vendor Sun is waiting on is IBM, and Loiacono said the company is now working to make that happen.


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Participants can be in grades 9 through 12 and must be a Coral Springs resident or attend school in Coral Springs. Teams may be made up of four participants and will compete at Whole Foods Market Coral Springs, located at 810 N. University Drive.
The cooking competition will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 5. Interested students must fill out an application, which is available at www.CoralSprings.org/TeenCookOff.pdf. Completed applications must be completed and returned by Friday, March 14 at noon. For more information, call 954-345-2119.
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Upland, Indiana, 20 May 2003 | Poet Thom Satterlee, assistant professor of English at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, answered questions via e-mail. A native of Canton, Georgia, Satterlee played youth football for the Cherokee (County) Chiefs, earning some silverware in 1974. He has published several poems about football, with Pelé as the protagonist, in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, and a critical article on football in the United States, "Making Soccer a 'Kick in the Grass' ": The Media's Role in Promoting a Marginal Sport, 1975–1977" (International Review for the Sociology of Sport 36 [September 2001]). More information about Satterlee is available here.
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GG: You write in "Making Soccer a 'Kick in the Grass' " that Pelé was a "catalyst" to U.S. soccer. It seems that he has been something of a catalyst to your own writing. How did this literary relationship develop?
Pelé, vintage 1958, in Santos kit. (Pelé.net)
TS: When I was ten or eleven years old I had a poster of Pelé doing a bicycle kick. It was an ad for Puma cleats, and he was wearing his uniform for Brazil. Anyway, it hung just above my bed, and although I never talked to it the way the character in Bend It Like Beckham talks with the English star, Pelé was always there, always a presence in my childhood. In fact, the first book I read was his autobiography, My Life and the Beautiful Game. When I had to give my book report in front of my classmates, I even pretended that I was Pelé. Then much later, in my twenties and thirties, I started writing poems about Pelé, sometimes in his voice, as I do in the poem called "Pelé to Rosemari: Chile, 1962" [Aethlon, fall 1998]. I suppose that the instinct that makes a kid want to wear the jersey of his favorite player and to reenact the player's moves is the same motivation behind my poems about Pelé. I still have an urge to be like Pelé. Poetry, by the way, is a much safer way to stay kid-like when you're past thirty and have pulled your hamstring a couple times. It's a lot easier to write as though you're Pelé than to play like him.
GG: What about Pelé—and what about football itself—calls for treatment in poetic form?
TS: In a general sense, sport and poetry have much in common. Robert Frost once used tennis to explain the "game" aspect of writing verse. The net, he said, provides a constant challenge in the same way that the form of a poem taxes the poet, requiring him to make certain shots. But football suggests its own analogies. Like a good football player, a poet has to be patient and resist forcing a big play. It wouldn't hurt a poet to have the peripheral vision that Pelé is famed for. Poets are always trying to see more! But I haven't exactly answered your question. As I think about football and Pelé as subject matter in a poem, I would have to say that they aren't especially good subjects, not any better than countless other inspirations for poems. But if football happens to be one of your passions, as it is in my case, then the subject can carry a poem far.
GG: A New York Times writer recently wrote about Tivo—a digital TV service that stores programs for on-demand viewing—that the capacity to tailor media so closely to his interests made him feel "outside of culture." Has being a follower of world football made you feel "outside of" culture in the United States? What aspect(s) of the game, since your time playing youth football and supporting the NASL's Atlanta Chiefs, has continued to attract your devotion?
TS: I definitely feel, as I did back in the '70s, that football in the United States is an alternative, almost an underground sport. Whenever I come across other devotees, I sense an immediate bond. We share something that most others don't know about. Recently, I learned that a colleague of mine grew up watching Soccer Made in Germany. For half of an hour we talked about the German stars of the mid-'70s, like Gerd Müller (we called him "Garbage Gerd" because he so often scored goal-line shots), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Harald Schumacher. We even did our impersonations of Toby Charles, the British announcer who called the games: "Oh, that one wasn't far off target!" "That was a cannon shot!" Or when a player missed an important opportunity, "He'll be losing his jersey, he will." It was great fun remembering this show that, as I recall, nobody in my elementary school watched except me.
In a similar way, I enjoyed hearing announcer Tommy Smyth shout, "in the onion bag!" whenever a goal was scored in last summer's men's World Cup. I suppose I've always loved watching soccer for colorful comments like these, but also for the pleasure of being (or at least feeling) deviant by paying attention to a sport that doesn't rank among the most popular in my home country.
GG: What is your own view on why Americans, despite participating in soccer in such large numbers (primarily as children and as these children's parents), fail to take to the game as followers?
TS: I would have to agree with Andrei Markovits [with Steven Hellerman, in Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (Princeton, 2001)] when he says that soccer simply didn't catch on in this country at the most opportune historical moment. I believe he identifies the key reason. Once football, baseball and basketball (and to some extent hockey) took their spots as our top sports, there was no room left for another. The conditions (especially economic ones) for allowing a sport to rise to dominance have vanished. Soccer is at a permanent disadvantage in part because it doesn't have a long, steady history in this country. And tradition, perhaps as much as great players, brings fans to the stadium. Think of the rivalries between teams in Europe or in South America, some of them going back half of a century or more. A grandparent, parent and child can all be attracted to a game based on a rivalry that dates back before any of them was born. Not so in the United States. Our leagues have formed and disbanded too many times, and even the teams that existed in the '70s no longer exist.
GG: Your poem in issue 5 of The Global Game, "The Soccer Field in Canton, Georgia," suggests, on one level, that this game—soccer—takes up some part of the American mind, even in the mundane but widespread activity of lining a football field. Is the place of soccer in American culture much more subtle than what Markovits and Hellerman (in Offside) are looking for, a pursuit that people "breathe, read, discuss, analyze, compare, and historicize"?
TS: I appreciate the methods that these authors use to demonstrate the difference between sport culture (what you quoted above) and activity (which the authors define as simply "what people do"). In the final analysis, soccer in this country is a popular activity, but it never has and probably never will achieve the status of an important sport culture.
And yet, you may be right in suggesting that soccer's place in American culture is larger and more important than Markovits and Hellerman can show by their methods. They focus on such indicators as coverage in newspapers, representation in movies and books, and the adoption of sport-specific vocabulary into the common idiom. What about other factors, though? I've been noticing the number of microwave meals and sports drinks that use soccer images for advertising. I was in a Subway not too long ago, and saw that they were selling (or else giving away in kids' meals) the figurine of a soccer player. My study is too anecdotal to prove anything, but it does make me wonder if the advertisers aren't betting on soccer as a sport that masses of people identify with. Maybe if we consume more food with soccer labeling we can eat our way to the top of the sports pyramid. But more likely, we'll just get fat.
Editor's note: For more information on Pelé, including a lengthy interview, visit the site related to Alex Bellos's Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life (Bloomsbury, 2002).


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In this Christmas special 'Molokai' - It's Christmas morning, but when Carolyn schedules an extra stop-off to the Hawaiian island of Molokai, Arthur has just seven minutes to celebrate Christmas. Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam star in the second series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore ('The News Quiz', 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound'). Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, name wise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally better than Carolyn Shappey-Knapp), her two pilots are the smooth, experienced and almost-certainly-fired-by-a-big-airline-for-all-round naughtiness Douglas, and struggling almost-competent pilot and sweaty man Martin. All-round help is provided by Carolyn's near-idiot son, Arthur.
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"The pressure keepps on building till you burst out"
Another great episode of this brilliant radio comedy.
There is ionly one negative ITS TOO SHORT. Come on BBC lets have some more
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"One of the best episodes"
This Christmas special is definitely no turkey. It was hilarious, Arthur's carol singing particularly had me in stitches
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just brilliantiant, the only thing that would make it better would be if it was twice the length. cabin pressure just gets better and better. funniest radio series in decades. great writing, running gags and character development which is rare in comedy. impossible not to laugh even on sixth listen.
"Just brilliant!"
John Finnemore deserves a medal for the Cabin Pressure programmes. I played this to my husband on a car journey and we were both laughing so much we over shot our Motorway exit
Recently retired, full of beans, finding new things to do - one of which is listening to audio books. Always been a great reader.
"Very merry for Christmas"
As a one-off from the regular series, this is up to standard. Witty, full of funny moments and I would recommend without hesitation.
"A Worthwhile Christmas Special"
I usually hate "Christmas Specials" in any TV or Radio series. They seem to just be an excuse for the writers to slack off and give us sappy platitudes.
But the Cabin Pressure: Molokai Christmas Special is the exception to the rule. It does relate to Christmas, but in an intelligent way, with dialog and a story that, if possible, is even better than usual.
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This is really a good book and this book i recommend to everyone and worth it .
"Funny, funny, funny!"
I love the Cabin Pressure series. They are all hilarious.
The other Cabin Pressure series.
I've got all the Cabin Pressure series and I listen to them over and over again. This is at the high standard you can expect, not only from John Finnemore's writing, but also from Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch and John Finnemore as performers.
I don't want to mention my favourite moment as it's a spoiler - it's the very end - and as Arthur says it's Brilliant!
John Finnemore is a genius, and he proves it again with this hysterical Christmas special. I usually listen while I drive, and I almost drove off the road laughing when the bit about the umbrella unfolds in the cockpit. Pure genius, I tell ya. Loved every moment! :)
"A funny wonderful series!"
I just love Cabin Pressure. I was suprised to see this little gem and enjoyed it very much. They always make me laugh out loud!
"Hilarious, as ever"
I was thrilled to find that there was another episode of Cabin Pressure I hadn't listened to yet. It really cracks me up. The voice talent is just top notch.
Whenever I need a swift mood change, I immediately go to Cabin Pressure…it doesn't matter which season or what episode, the program never fails to disappoint me. Every episode is hysterical and well-acted and I laugh heartily at every line. I'm so disappointed that the show is over...
"It's an MJN Christmas. Brilliant!"
It's Christmas and the crew of MJN are as busy as Santa's elves (and Arthur is definitely as excitable as one). Join Carolyn, Martin, Douglas and Arthur for some festive fun in this half-hour Christmas special, Molokai (which is an island in Hawai'i). As usual, John Finnemore's script is laugh our loud funny and the performances are outstanding. Whether you're a seasoned Cabin Pressure fan, or testing out an episode, you'll find this audiobook is brilliant.
Arthur's rendition of God Bless You Merry Gentlemen is just brilliant!!! I hit the thirty second rewind button nearly five times and each I was crackin' up laughin'! John Finnemore is just too funny!!! Oh, and the name games are great!!!
Arthur is my favorite character, because he hilariously tries so hard!!
My favorite scene was the opening when Arthur comes in singing, "Get dress you merry gentlemen!"
When Douglas gave Arthur the knowledge of the international date line so that he would understand that his gets to have another Christmas day in Hawaii!
"Christmas fun"
Usually I am not a big fan of Christmas specials, but this was a fun episode.
This might get add to my annual Christmas listening!
Benedict Cumberbatch is simply hilarious as the nervous, regulation-stickler Captain.
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For Immediate Release
Date: 10/21/13
AUGUSTA - State Representative Amy Volk (R-Scarborough) has introduced a bill that would make Maine the fifteenth state to allow courts to vacate the prostitution convictions of human trafficking victims, joining Connecticut and Vermont in this growing movement to prevent women from being penalized for falling victim to the underground human trafficking trade.
"These are young women, many of them new to this country, who are being forced into prostitution rings against their will and then branded for life with a criminal conviction," said Rep. Volk. "We should be helping them to rebuild their lives, not punishing them for actions beyond their control."
Rep. Volk worked with the Polaris Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking, to craft the bill. She said she was inspired to do something after a report by the organization ranked Maine in the bottom half of states for anti-trafficking laws.
A bill signed into law this year by Gov. Paul LePage helped move Maine up from Tier 3 to Tier 2 in the 2013 Polaris report, but Volk says Maine can still do more to protect human trafficking victims.
"We can't naively think that we're safe here in Maine, and these are other states' problems," she said. Calls from Maine to the Polaris Project's human trafficking hotline have more than doubled since 2010, according to a recent Bangor Daily News report.
"Human trafficking is on the rise in Maine, and we need to be proactive in helping victims because one life shattered by this horrendous crime is one life too many," added Volk.
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Stevenson University has been recognized as one of America's "Up-and-Comers"—one of only 49 colleges and universities nationwide and just 19 regional universities given this designation—in U.S. News & World Report's newly released 2013 "America's Best Colleges" rankings. Stevenson was ranked No. 3 among the "Up-and-Comer" Regional Universities-North.
This is the fourth time that Stevenson has been recognized as one of the "Up-and-Comers" by U.S. News. According to U.S. News, the category recognizes institutions that "were cited most often by college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans who were asked to identify up to 10 up-and-coming schools in their U.S. News ranking category" and "recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus, or facilities."
"Our history over the last decade has been one of tremendous growth—doubling our student population, adding facilities, and launching new programs as well as developing six schools to complete our transformation into a university," says Kevin J. Manning, Ph.D., President of Stevenson University. "The 'Up-and-Comers' designation truly reflects the spirit of innovation that drives us, such as our distinctive Career Architecture process for career education and development."
Stevenson also ranked No. 82 among the 180 institutions in the Regional Universities-North. The category recognizes institutions that provide a full range of undergraduate majors as well as master's programs.
Known for its distinctive career focus, Stevenson University is the third-largest independent undergraduate university in Maryland with more than 4,000 students pursuing bachelor's, master's, and adult accelerated degrees at locations in Stevenson and Owings Mills. For more information, visit www.stevenson.edu.