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Understanding Five Types of Photo Contests
Posted By Jeff Wignall On October 19, 2009 @ 12:01 am In Art of Photography | 6 Comments
The following is excerpted from Winning Digital Photo Contests [2], a new book by Black Star Rising contributor Jeff Wignall.
A contest is a contest is a contest, right? Well, yes and no. Yes, they are all about judging photographs based on creativity, technical merit, and relevance to the contest themes. But different types of contests have different technical standards and different submission methods. It's important that you match your images to the type of contest you're entering.
With magazine contests, for example, your images will have to meet much higher reproduction standards — typically high-resolution image files of 300 ppi at the printed dimensions with minimal post-processing enhancements. Online contests have much lower reproduction standards and can handle more extreme enhancements (like excessive color saturation).
Also, by their very nature, some contests offer a lot more chances to win. Online picture-of-the-day contests, for instance, pick at least 365 winners a year; an annual magazine competition might only choose a handful of prize-winning photos.
Online Picture of the Day (POTD)
These contests are the simplest to enter, generally not too technically demanding (at least in terms of reproduction quality), and they offer the highest odds of winning. Entering them is very simple: typically you just upload a screen-resolution (72 ppi) image through a very basic interface, and you're entered. Virtually all POTD contests are free, though some may require membership, either free or paid, in the host site.
Often POTD-winning photos are subsequently advanced to a higher level of competition — a picture-of-the-week or picture-of-the-month. In fact, some contests randomly choose the daily pictures out of all the submissions that day; only then are they reviewed for weekly and monthly prizes by human eyes.
Don't let the thought that a computer is picking your winning POTD photo discourage you from entering, though, because a win is a win is a win in terms of getting your photo recognized; and it still has to compete to move up through the ranks.
With some POTD contests, it's not at all clear how the daily images are chosen, so it's worth reading site forums or FAQs to find out more.
Peer-Review & Voting Contests
Several websites base awards on the votes of fellow site members. Entries rise in the standings as they gather more votes; when the voting period ends, those with the highest number win.
Some competitions have rather complex voting mechanisms where votes from individual photographers are weighted by their particular standing on the site — usually based on how many contests they've won themselves. A good example of this type is DailyAwards.com [3], where all winning images are decided by member voting. The judging is a somewhat complicated procedure at first glance, so it takes a few reads to get the rules down.
One gentle warning about these voting sites is that, as a result of the cold, impersonal nature of the online world, the voting can range from warm and fluffy, to cool and distant, to downright sadistic. These sites tend to attract photographers with strong opinions, little shyness about expressing themselves, and thick skins. On the other hand, sites like these also tend to attract photographers of very high skill levels. (You'd better be pretty good yourself if you're going to do any trash talking, right?)
If you like to have your photos critiqued by others, then voting sites might be for you. The best of these contests will inevitably make you a better photographer. In truth, because many of the contests do weight the voting in favor of photographers who have proved their photographic worth, both criticism and praise is usually genuinely and generously guided.
Basically, while your grandmother (and your cat) may love your pictures, regardless of their genuine creative quality, you can count on other photographers to point out your failings—and your successes — without inhibition or reservation. So be brave, dive in, and you may find yourself being praised for your improvements on a regular basis.
State Tourism Contests
Tourism contests exist in both the online and print world. They can be seasonal, annual, or ongoing. The great thing about travel contests is that they help you focus and narrow down your pool of potential photos. Instead of poring over the thousands of nice images in your collection, you have to restrict yourself to your Maine vacation photos, for example.
I love tourism contests because they provide a bit of mental and creative stimulus for me when I'm planning a new trip, even if I have no intent to actually enter the contests. Knowing that the state of Maine, for example, has a seasonal online competition is something I keep in mind when I'm photographing a lighthouse after a dusting of fresh snow.
How would other photographers approach this? How would my photos stand up to photographers who actually live in Maine? It's a good mental nudge.
The important thing about taking photos for regional contests is to keep good notes on where you shot the photos (your camera's metadata will keep track of when, in case it happens to be a seasonal contest).
It's really helpful, for example, if you photograph a moose in a river in Maine, to be able to narrow down the location to "Moose in bog in Rangeley, Maine." (And trust me, if you hang out in Rangeley, you will find yourself some good moose photo-ops.)
Magazine Contests
These contests, especially from legendary journals like Smithsonian and National Geographic, are at the zenith of photo competition. Often the main allure is the prize of publication in the magazine itself. And while getting published is an exciting (and sometimes life-changing) reward, most magazines contests also offer the best material prizes.
The competition, as you can well imagine, is brutal in such contests. Let's face it; if you're competing for publication in National Geographic and a trip to an exotic destination, you're going to be butting elbows with some fiercely talented competitors.
From a creative perspective, that's a good thing, because it forces you to improve your own game. And that, ultimately, is what entering contests should be about: not just showing your best work, but being pushed to a whole new level.
Here, more than in any other type of contest, it's imperative that you follow the rules closely, review previous years' winners, and enter images of superb technical quality. In particular, it's important to review and meet the magazine's print publication standards in terms of sharpness and resolution.
If you are entering a low-resolution image online but are required to submit a high-resolution image for publication, be sure that you have an exact match at 300 ppi (standard offset print resolution). And protect that image with your life; back it up at least once, preferably multiple times.
Local Contests
Local newspapers and community organizations are another great place to find contests. To promote community spirit, local contests often culminate in an exhibit of winning pictures.
Since most of these contests are run by local volunteers (or the editors of the local paper), you may have to submit your entries as prints, as opposed to digital files. That means your ability to make high-quality prints is important.
Some local contests are created to publicize a local park or historic site, and if you happen to live in that area, you have the advantage of being able to visit at different times of year, in lots of different weather and lighting conditions.
If you're an aspiring professional photographer, entering local contests is a good career move since you'll be showing off your best work to your community's editors, business owners, and civic leaders.
I got a lot of my early photo assignments based on having my winning photos published in local newspapers — and 30 years later, some of those people are still my clients.
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#1 Comment By G Dan Mitchell On October 19, 2009 @ 11:56 pm
Thanks for your post on contests. There is one important warning that all photographers who enter contests should heed, especially these days: Read and understand the contest terms!
Recently contest promoters have taken to including some very onerous conditions as part of their entrant agreements. In fact, many have dubbed one of the common practices an "intellectual rights property grab." In these contests every ENTRANT (not just winners) assigns the contest organizers - and frequently their associates - an unlimited, cost-free, eternal, uncredited license to use their photography for any purpose. No, I'm not making this up - a contest that you ENTER often acquires full usage rights to all entered photographs without cost.
It is also very important to read the liability conditions. Almost all contests assign the the entrant any and all responsibility for any legal challenge to use of the ENTERED photograph - the photograph over which the photographer now has no control. The entrant must defend against any claims at his/her own cost and must pay any damages. It isn't hard to imagine problem scenarios, especially when use is not even limited to the contest sponsors.
Please be VERY careful out there!
#2 Comment By Jeff Wignall On October 21, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
This is, of course, an important topic and there is a chapter in the book devoted entirely to finding reputable contests, protecting your rights and knowing what to expect in terms of rights requirements with different contests. In fact, however, of the hundred or so contests that I researched, to my knowledge not a single one was trying to do anything inappropriate with photographers' rights. In fact, most went way out of their way to let the photographers know that they were not surrendering rights.
There is a chapter listing contests in the back of the book and none of those contests seek anything more than the right to publish the winners' photos (and perhaps use the photos for promotion for the contest in future years). If a contest seeks rights beyond that, it would be worth writing to the sponsor to have those rights clarified, no question about it.
I did come across a few "pretty baby" type contests (as I recall most were in Great Britain for some reason) that wanted "all rights" to the winning photos, but these contests seemed to me like such an obvious scam that I think almost anyone would detect it immediately.
I also contacted probably 100+ photographers for the book and none related any bad experiences with contest hosts or rights abuses of any kind.
As far as liability for photos, that too is an important consideration. But that is (and should be) a photographer's responsibility from the moment they take the photo. If you don't have the necessary releases of people/property to begin, you shouldn't be trying to publish/sell/enter those photos anywhere. A huge number of the photos winning contests though are of subjects like wildlife, scenics, close-ups, underwater shots where releases aren't involved.
It's wise to read all of the legal notices that go with entering a contest and knowing what those rights entail in a broader sense (in terms of liability, as you've said, for example). But for probably 99% of all photos and contests, it's a very safe venture and a great way to get your work shown around the world.
If anyone *does* come across a contest that is abusing rights, please send me the info and I'll be sure to check into when it comes time to update the book.
#3 Comment By G Dan Mitchell On October 21, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
There are many, many well-known contests with such inappropriate conditions and they have been discussed pretty widely on the net.
There is a discussion thread at Luminous Landscape that will provide a bit of info for you are one or two of them:
I've written about several on my blog - and included links to some articles by others on this topic:
What I have described is actually very common - more the rule than the exception, sadly. I think that it is entirely reasonable that the contest sponsors should expect a limited license to use winning images in ways directly connected with the contest. However, what is far more common are conditions that give
a free, unlimited (and uncredited) license...
... to the contest sponsors...
... and all of their affiliates...
... for unrestricted use...
... in any form...
... for an unlimited term...
... for all ENTERED photographs - e.g not limited to winners.
This is a fairly widely recognized problem, and photographers should a) be aware of the nature of the contest terms and b) publicize this trend widely and c) warn those who may not understand.
#4 Comment By G Dan Mitchell On October 21, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
Let me add one more important link as a gateway to a lot of excellent information on this general topic. There is an [6] about an "Oprah" contest and its terms. Beyond that, some poking around the Photo Attorney site will reveal other information and links about this topic.
You might want to contact that site about this subject since it is one that they are very interested in.
#5 Comment By Brian Dee On October 22, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
Great post, Jeff. I have ordered a copy of Winning Digital Photo Contests and can't wait to read the entire book.
#6 Comment By Jagdish Agarwal On November 6, 2009 @ 5:11 am
In India, photography magazines and commercial large companies too have contests where they try to take all rights for all entered pictures. I have tried talking to them but they say that rules have come from their parent companies abroad. So, they end up getting free pictures for their publicity. And photographers loose one more avenue to make some money from their photography. But since there are enough photographers who participate in these contests, the downward spiral for stock photography business continues.
jagdish agarwal/ dinodia/ india
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I think he sounded like himself, but it just didn't sound like he practiced for this song at all. He showed very little of the range he has become so famous for I was a bit disappointed. That is probably the main reason why everyone thought he was lousy in performing such an important song.
As someone who worked in retail a while, he should not be blamed for being slightly over till limit in a busy period. Customer service is FIRST, and many times I was busy at my then-job to make a cash drop. In fact, I don't think I ever had time to drop when I was supposed to at the $300 limit-- I was usually in the thousands by the time someone came around to help me make the drop!
As for Cumby's, there are three other gas stations at the same price in my immediate area. Seeing as Pride is a local business as well as one that doesn't make me go inside to use my debit card, I'll be making that extra left turn to avoid you!
Agreed. I saw a lot of wealthier people try to nab stuff when I worked in retail. Parents watch your children as well, as a lot of unsupervised youths do it too >.>
It's not so much the Big Brother thing I'm worried about (really, Tosado, we already have anti-crime cameras that are a bigger deal than this) it's the fact that red-light cameras DO NOT WORK. After living in Miami for three years, I saw more bad than good generated from their EXPENSIVE red light camera installations. Imagine you're driving behind a huge 18-wheeler that goes through a yellow light but catches YOU on the red which you don't see. Also they nab cars turning right legally. Annoying and a waste of time more often than not :/
If we *do* put those cams up, do put one on the Price Rite light on Boston Rd-- can't tell you how many times I've seen drivers go right through that red light without flinching.
Wanna know what's really nauseating? Paying $1.75/ticket for a 60-second long ride that asks for 3 of those tickets -_-
Sorry for derailing any discussion Erik... I was just really appalled when I went there today for the first time in years. I daresay I avoid the rides, too chicken about heights...
Springfield 5K/Half-Marathon in Holyoke is off :(
I encounter plenty of dogs running around my street-- 3 German shepherds live within a quarter mile of each other. Thankfully almost all of these dogs are kept behind invisible fences and I've only been "dogged" once by a loose Jack Russell. I'd hate to get clipped by anything larger than that 0_o Good luck on the fundraising run! 50K... that would be... longer than a marathon! Wow!
The suspect will sink or swim on this kind of charge!
Cool. How about Monson as well? :) Rebuild a few blocks of housing that used to be there in downtown
Really? It's because of the cops this city is finally starting to pick itself back up after years of spiraling down the drain thanks to gangs and other illegal activity. I wish more cities had police forces like Springfield.
Hopefully this all makes it to Lamebook.
I live in the north part of Monson and have yet to go downtown to see anything... nor does anyone else who isn't from around here.
Honestly, how many of you have stolen something in your lives? -__- Kids do dumb stuff, but I would like to know what caused the 40-somethings to swipe stuff for themselves.
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I had an 8800 GTX, and I absolutely loved it!
The 8800 GTX was a phenomenal product. It produced jaw dropping numbers and had an incredible feature set. Yes, for the time, it used a lot of juice and produced heat. Nvidia has always been known to push the envelope, and unfortunately, high heat and power usage is usually a product of such aspirations. You forget, though, that the 8800 GTX did NOT have a monolithic cooler on it and its fan was also nearly inaudible at full speed. The 8800 GTX did run hot, but it could afford to. The 480 GTX unfortunately runs hot and has an incredible cooling solution already on it leaving virtually no room to put a better solution on it other than WC.
I mean, are we seriously going to compare the 8800 GTX to the GTX 480? Nvidia had their ducks in a line for the 8xxx series. No one on here is going to say that the 8800 GTX wasn't an incredible piece of engineering (bar the fact that nearly all of them died in the first several years on market) However, things have changed dramatically since then. ATI now has a card in the form of the HD 5870 that is virtually twice as powerful, uses roughly the same amount of power, and gives off less heat. Nvidia, on the other hand, has a card that's also roughly twice as powerful, but it gives off an extreme amount of heat and uses a ton of power. What's wrong with this picture?
The 8800 GTX beat the 2900 XT. We all know that. During this generation, it's far closer. This GTX 490 could be a step in the right direction, or it could be a total failure. We'll have to wait and see.... and dear god I hope nvidia corrects the power/heat issues with their next gen of Fermi architecture.
My take is that Fermi could have been another great card like the 8800GTX if it wasn't for the power and heat issues. Nvidia had to take away 32 cores and possibly go with lower clocks than they wanted to just to keep the card within the limits. Now we're talking about trying to put even more power and heat into the same place. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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First Solar stock falls as CEO departsWritten by Duane Ramsey | | firstname.lastname@example.com
First Solar's stock (NASDAQ: FSLR) took a tumble with the sudden resignation of its CEO Rob Gillette announced by the company Oct. 25.
First Solar stock opened at $58.11 per share on Tuesday and closed at $43.27, a 25-percent drop in one day, the biggest decline since the company's initial public offering in November 2006.
First Solar shares lost a quarter of their value and fell to the lowest level since 2007. The company's board of directors asked its founder and chairman Mike Ahearn to serve as interim CEO and he accepted the offer.
The board has formed a search committee and is initiating a search for a permanent chief executive officer, according to the announcement.
No reason was given for Gillette's immediate departure, but the board thanked him for his service in a statement. Gillette had served as CEO since Oct. 1, 2009.
With respect to Gillette's departure, Ahearn stated, "We thank Rob for his service, but the board of directors believes First Solar needed a leadership change to navigate through the industry turmoil and achieve our long-term goals."
The company's stock was selling for as high as $175 per share in February 2011 but has declined steadily throughout the year.
"It's going down by what's going on in the market and a drift away from solar energy more than a CEO stepping down but it certainly doesn't help the situation there," said Dock David Treece of the Treece Investment Advisory Group and a regular columnist for the Toledo Free Press.
One analyst noted than only one of the top six corporate officers listed in First Solar's 2008 annual report remains with the company.
The solar industry is in poor shape hit by weak demand, low prices, and too many solar panels being made in China, according to a Dow Jones report.
First Solar announced its financial results for the third quarter that ended Sept. 30, 2011 that were originally scheduled for release Nov. 3.
The company reported net sales of $1 billion in the third quarter, an increase of $473 million from the second quarter 2011 and up from $798 million in the third quarter of 2010.
Third quarter net income per fully diluted share was $2.25 up from $0.70 in the second quarter of 2011 and from $2.04 in the third quarter of 2010.
"First Solar's performance in the quarter reflects our superior technology, strong execution capacity, and integrated business model, all of which have enabled us to weather a difficult market environment relatively well," Ahearn stated in the company's announcement of its earnings.
"Going forward, our goal is not just to survive the current environment, but to transcend it by creating and expanding markets worldwide that do not depend on today's subsidy programs. This requires that we re-focus our strategy and commit our resources to solving the pressing energy needs that exist in much of the world," he concluded.
First Solar employs more than 1,000 workers at its manufacturing facilities in Perrysburg upon completion of a 2010 expansion project to increase production at that location.
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by the people for the people of the people... no.... of the people by the people for the people no... no. for the people by thje people of the peoplle????
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How my prostate worked before.
Ahhh Ha ha... GREAT COMMENT!!!!!
fighting tickets (really a regressive tax) can cost you many times the price of just "not fighting city hall." That's what they hope you'll do: Just pay up. Between the courts and the government, our rights, that so many gave their lives to protect are taken from us by politicians with a snap of their fingers.
What a stupid idea (or is it evil?), to have the financial decisions in the school department be connected to the inherently political city hall. The CFO of the school dept. should report to the Superintendent of Schools, PERIOD!!! Split the job and split the pay.
Edwards is the kind of politician that the rich like to back, compromsed... That way, if he doesn't do what they tell him, they out him. Too bad for them, they dumped a lot of money into him but he was outted before he had a chance to go anywhere. Oh well, there are plenty more where he came from.
Sounds like there's a need for some tough love... call Jeff.
Congrats to Dan, he'll do a great job as he did at Washington, Glenwood and the CO... finally the carpet bagging is over and goods sense returns to the School Committee. Thank you all. Danny will work for all the children and bring our once great system back to serving the kids instead of the business community.
Laws need to be rewritten to make Govt. worker PACs and Unions contributions to campaign war chests illegal. Matter a fact... we need to change our election process to eliminate excessive influence by lobbiests and fat cats at ALL levels. They are not giving all that money out because they are nice guys, it's so they can call the shots. Why do you think we have so many private businesses doing the public's work? It's because our paid-for-politicians gave govt. workers so much money that they priced themselves out of the market.
What's more important is that the system take care to not retire by incentives all its good teachers... That's what Springfield did and now they have a rotten school system!
A system needs to keep some of its knowledgable educators to mentor the newbies!
As a child of the Catholic faith, I remember saying the pledge, pre 1954 when there was no mention of God in it. Shortly after that date I left the church and became an atheist or agnostic (who can really know if He is or isn't?) and, as an educator I found myself in many classrooms reciting the pledge in its new version which included "under God." Depending on my thinking at any particular time I would or would not skip over the phrase, it was no big deal. I'm pretty sure if there is a God, he is not a personal god, involved is 'seeing all" and "knowing all." He probably created the Earth, the Heavens and the Universe and then went on to do more important things. He probably doesn't care that much if we mention him in the pledge or not?
Maybe the Urban league will be interested in one of the branches?
Hah, sewer costs, just another tax... the pols thanks to Gov. Romney have found a new way to suck money out of people. They charge us (all along the Conn. River) to clean the water a little and dump it in the river. What Brass!
With a voice like Louie Armstrong and a personality to match, Mo was a leader in the Black Community and in the whole of Springfield. He knew how to deal with people of all races and ethnic backgrounds as do all the Jones boys. This is a fantastic group, Morris will be missed. My deepest sympathy goes out to the whole family.
The outcome of this failed attempt to oust the gov. is simple: We don't want rule by a business oligarchy, we want an election process devoid of PACs and Lobbiest and elected officials taking their orders from the people who pay for their election success. In order to achieve this process we need to fashion an election method where candidates do not have to spend large amounts of money. It is a worthwhile goal. If it doesn't happen, we will have rule by private business, as public employees will be too expensive and, trust me, you DON'T want an operational form of government!
Pol: Hey I've got a great idea, we can spend a bundle of tax money on a Visitor's Center.
Citizen: Where will you put it?
Pol: Right next to the BBall Hall of Fame!
Citizen: Gee, shouldn't you put it at the Conn., New York or Vermont border so visitors to our great state can be directed to the Hall of Fame and other places that visitors might want to go to?
Pol: Naw, that's a stupid idea even though most states visitor's centers are at their borders.
Citizen: Well OK, go ahead and spend my tax money but I don't think it's going to get much use???
Oh so the Civil Judicial System stands outside our civil rights? The city can jump right in, walk all over our right to own property, summarily make a decision, ostensibly for our safety, to take what is ours because we don't know how much it is worth? This was NOT and act of God, it was an act of an out of control city government! What God needs to do is see that these wrongfully dealt with condo owners are compensated by the city!
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Harris originally voiced the wall-crawler in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series; Keaton had the role in The Spectacular Spider-Man; Barnes played the part in the 1994 Spider-Man animated series; and, finally, Gilvezan voiced ol' web-head in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends way back in the early '80s.
If that's still not enough for the true believers out there, Stan Lee himself will serve as the game's narrator. Meanwhile, Jim Dooley, composer for several games and films (The Da Vinci Code, inFamous), will provide the soundtrack. Now, if only someone at Beenox could find a way to squeeze in Bruce Campbell ...
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Activision Reveals Spider-Man Voice Cast at San Diego Comic-Con
Santa Monica, CA – July 23, 2010 – Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) announced today that Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his role as Spider-Man in Activision's upcoming Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, which is currently being showcased at San Diego Comic-Con. In the game, players traverse through four unique worlds from Spider-Man lore and take on the role of four distinctly different Spider-Men – Amazing, Ultimate, Noir and 2099 – which will be brought to life by Neil Patrick Harris along with Josh Keaton, Christopher Daniel Barnes and Dan Gilvezan, respectively.
Additionally, legendary creator and comic book icon Stan Lee will guide players through the storyline of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions as the game's narrator, and Emmy Award-winning composer Jim Dooley has created an original orchestral score for the game.
Each of the actors voicing Spider-Man in the game has portrayed the web-slinger in previous Spider-Man animated television series. Neil Patrick Harris voiced the wall-crawler in "Spider-Man: The New Animated Series" in 2003; Josh Keaton was the voice of Spider-Man in "The Spectacular Spider-Man" from 2008-2009; Dan Gilvezan starred in "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" from 1981-1983; and Christopher Daniel Barnes voiced the iconic Super Hero in "Spider-Man," the 1994 series.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, which will be available September 7th, allows players to engage in nonstop heroic action as they traverse four unique worlds from Spider-Man's lore – Amazing, Noir, 2099 and Ultimate – within one unique storyline. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions transports players to a variety of locations, from lush jungles and dusty deserts to a futuristic NYC, and allows them to use unique gameplay styles for each Spider-Man, including stealth moves in Noir, gliding maneuvers in 2099, black-suited tendril attacks in Ultimate, and innovative web combat in Amazing.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions has been rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB. Beenox is developing the game for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Wii™, and PC, and Griptonite is creating a Nintendo DS™ version. Fans can learn more about Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions by visiting www.SpiderManDimensions.com.
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Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation) and publishing (via Marvel Comics). Marvel's strategy is to leverage its franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world, including feature films, consumer products, toys, video games, animated television, direct-to-DVD and online. For more information visit www.marvel.com.
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.
Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, www.activision.com.
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GASTONIA – PSNC Energy has received approval to lower its residential retail natural gas rate by 5 percent, taking the rate from $1 per therm to about 95 cents starting in September.
The company, which is a subsidiary of Scana Corp., announced Thursday that it received approval from the N.C. Utilities Commission for the decrease to the purchased gas component of its retail natural gas rates.
PSNC Energy does not earn a profit on the "cost of gas" component of its natural gas rates, according to a news release. The adjustment is passed directly to customers in accordance with state regulations so that the company can recover its costs associated with purchasing the fuel, the release states.
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Like many of you I've been tracking all the "hub bub" about Pete Warden and Allisdair Allen's iPhone location exploit. There has been not only sensationalist media hype, but also claims of this being old news. Having been a victim of media hype and not particularly having any privacy concerns around my iPhone – I liberated my iPhone location data (ok Justin actually did it) and uploaded it to GeoCommons. Seeing my tracks was pretty cool, but you can do that with Pete and Allisdairs clever package out of the box.
I wanted to investigate how much of my privacy was actually revealed by the data. My conclusion – not much. I think we all inherently understand how much the media sensationalizes stories, but I thought it would be useful to document how much privacy this data actually reveals. Let's start with a map of all my locations:
This shows my general travel patters – live in Washington DC and I travel to California, Colorado and New York and good amount. No big surprises there, although it is a bit tough to tell what places I was at most often from the piles of points on top of each other. So, I ran a quick aggregation to US counties and generated this map.
Now I can see the counts by counties for the places my iPhone has traveled. This allows me to quantity my frequency to different location, and has the added benefit of obscuring the exact locations I went. Living in the DC metro area I wanted to get more detail of my patterns locally so I aggregated the data to zipcodes and generated this map:
This gave my a better local context, but also showed something odd. The zip code where I apparently spend the most time is 22202 in south Arlington where I rarely go unless I'm flying out of DCA. This was curious, so I went a level deeper and aggregated the data to Census block groups and generated this map:
The map does confirm that DCA airport is the area that had the highest number of locations stored by my iPhone, but the really weird part is where I live and work did not show up as an active location. This was further reinforced when I went back the point data as seen in the map below:
There are no points closely associated with my house or my place of work. Adding to the oddness the iPhone "location data" places me in locations I've never been.
This may surprise some of you but I've never actually been inside the Pentagon. Why the stark deviation from places I know I've been with my iPhone very frequently and places I've never been with my iPhone? The answer lies in the fact the iPhone is storing cell phone tower triangulations not GPS coordinates. Others have said this previously although some have erroneously said the data is just showing the location of cell phone towers. To demonstrate this I added FCC cell tower locations to my iPhone location log data.
Last fall I went surfing in Santa Cruz, but I did not take my iPhone with me in my wetsuit So, how do we get a location for me out in the Pacific Ocean below:
When we add the cell tower locations and draw a simple triangle the odd locations begin to make a bit more sense. Although I'm not sure why airports create such a massive amount of location logging by the iPhone. When I went back to my county aggregation map and added airports the correlation was exceedingly high. Maybe it is the density of phones and the amount of movement causing frequent cell tower hands offs for signal, and those all get logged by the phone? This would also explain why I'm not getting lots of activity near my home. The phone is logging when I switch between two cell coverage areas only. There are probably not a lot of hand offs between my work and home since they are quite close to each other. Not sure but would love to hear some theories.
Not surprisingly the amount of private information you'll learn of me from this post is pretty scant. More than likely you would infer a lot of very inaccurate things about me, none of which include where I live or where I work. You'll learn a whole lot more interrogating my Twitter or Foursquare feed. In many ways this is the only salient point – I gave permission to Twitter and Foursquare to track my location but not knowingly to Apple. I say knowingly because who the hell knows what is in the 55 page ToS I have to agree to every time I download a new iPhone app. My conclusion there is not much to fear from a privacy perspective but it certainly makes me trust Apple less and less.
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[…] Sean Gorman and my crony Peter Batty have finished some considerable work digging into a sum of a plcae data. Their end is that it's tough to mark locations where you spend a lot of time in a same place, like your residence or place of work. It's roughly as if re-visiting a same mark overwrites a lot of a comparison information for that place, that would fit with a lot of what we've seen. They also try to quantify a correctness of a location, indicating out how many outliers appear. […]
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I did my own custom map of my locations. The data in CellLocations has to be some sort of cache of geo-lookups; the primary key in the database is essentially a cell tower ID. What's weird is there are way too many of those to simply be cell towers themselves.
[…] Sean Gorman and my friend Peter Batty have done some impressive work digging into the details of the location data. Their conclusion is that it's hard to spot locations where you spend a lot of time in the same place, like your house or place of work. It's almost as if re-visiting the same spot overwrites a lot of the older data for that place, which would fit with a lot of what we've seen. They also try to quantify the accuracy of the location, pointing out how many outliers appear. […]
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Did you consider that the cell "tower" identifying columns (MCC, MNC, LAC, CI) in the CellLocation table form a primary key, i.e. each cell tower (well, each cell in a specific carrier's specific network) can occur only once in the table. (Whether it's the first or last time it was "seen" I have no idea.) This of course makes the claims of it "tracking your moves" even more silly.
[…] geoIQ / J'ai libéré les données de localisation de mon iPhone On parle beaucoup sur Internet et dans les médias depuis quelques jours de ce fichier non crypté et stocké sur les iPhones et les serveurs d'Apple découvert par des chercheurs américains et permettant de suivre l'ensemble des données de géolocalisation des utilisateurs de l'iOS4. Cet article est une étude de cas d'un bloggeur qui a décidé de soumettre ses propres déplacements à l'épreuve des données de localisation contenues dans son téléphone. Les résultats de cette étude sont pour lui particulièrement peu fiables dés lors qu'elles ne reposent que sur des triangulations entre différentes antennes relais ou bornes wifi et à cet égard, les données de localisation qui nous produisons volontairement (via Twittter, Facebook ou Foursquare) sont beaucoup plus précises. Reste que l'auteur conclut que cette affaire plus médiatique qu'autre chose, installe un fort climat de défiance vis-à-vis d'Apple mais aussi des smartphones en général et des services de géolocation. (Laurence Allard) (tags: privacy iphone) […]
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The Ohio Department of Development (DOD) announced $1.3 million in Energizing Careers Program grants for six Ohio companies to train more than 700 employees in advanced energy manufacturing. Three of the companies chosen for grants are located in Northwest Ohio.
The $6 million Energizing Careers Program was launched in 2010 to assist companies in the wind, solar and biomass industries by providing training to improve worker skills and help them remain competitive in advanced energy manufacturing.
The program is administered by the DOD's Workforce and Talent Division with State Energy Sector Partnership and Training grants funded through the U.S. Department of Labor and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
"These training dollars ensure our workers are highly skilled in manufacturing that supports the evolving technologies that help our economy flourish. By training employees in advanced energy manufacturing, these companies will see continued growth and success," Lisa Patt-McDaniel, director of the Ohio DOD, stated in a press release announcing the grants.
The program reimburses companies up to $6,000 for the cost of customized training for full-time employees with preferential project funding to companies located in the 44 counties most affected by restructuring of the automotive industry, according to the DOD.
Three Northwest Ohio companies were selected to receive training grants in the second round of funding. Four of the five companies that received first-round grant funding in October were from Northwest Ohio.
Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC of Perrysburg will receive $700,981 for training workers to manufacture frameless Cadmium Telluride photovoltaic solar panels which ensure cost-effective production and installation for residential, commercial and industrial power generating facilities.
The company plans to train 50 current workers and 250 new employees with the Energizing Careers Program funds, said Mossie Murphy, chief financial officer of Willard & Kelsey.
The company began commercial operations recently and is ramping up for production at its new 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Perrysburg, Murphy said.
The company is planning a major expansion with a 750,000 square-foot build-out for 16 new production lines that could employ 500 new workers by 2012 and as many as 3,600 within six years, according to Murphy.
Dow Chemical Company in Findlay will receive $162,437 for training workers to manufacture Polyolefin Encapsulant Films, which can enhance efficiencies in photovoltaic solar panels. The films improve the reliability and extend the service life of the solar panels leading to lower conversion costs, according to the company.
Dow Chemical is retrofitting an existing building at the company's manufacturing site to produce the Polyolefin Encapsulant Films. It plans to train 70 current workers in control logic and power distribution with funds from the Energizing Careers Program.
Both companies worked with Owens Community College to prepare and submit the grant applications. Owens will work with both firms to develop customized work force training programs to meet the grant requirements, according to Michael Bankey, vice president of Workforce and Community Service at Owens.
"We're excited about helping these companies get the grant funds and develop custom training programs. It will help make their employees more productive and will be great for this region," Bankey said.
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I am trying to configure two metamodes: first one with the CRT off, the DFP on at 1440x900. The second metamode is CRT at 800x600, and the DFP at 1440x900. The CRT is a projector, and 90% of the time it will be off, but it's nice to kick on and show a movie or something.
The issue I'm running into is the driver seems to find the largest virtual screen size on the metamode line and use that for all the metamodes - in this case, 2240x900. This is fine if the CRT is on, but when the CRT is off, I get the big panning 2240x900 desktop on my 1440x900 DFP.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this the normal behavior? I've seen lots of examples with modelines like "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768" and can't believe that folks running in the second, smaller resolution are panning around like mad, so I assume I'm farking something up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've killed a ton of time on this one.
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Any ideas on this? Does Twinview resize the desktop size based on the metamode selected, or just create a window based on the largest?
Also, I've noticed that if a metamode with a NULL monitor is listed first, it will crash X (cold stop, no additional logging).
Any ideas would be appreciated -
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Hi encmonkey,
Yes, the screen will start up with a desktop large enough to fit all of the requested modes. You can use the xrandr command to resize your desktop after the server has started. As for NULL modes crashing, I'm not able to reproduce that problem.
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Hrm.. I tried that - when I put the "NULL, 1440x900" listing in (after the 800x600, 1440x900 metamode) I can do xrandr -q to get the modes (and they will both be listed) but only once in a blue moon will changing over to xrandr -s 1 (1440x900) not result in a hard wedged machine. I've checked the Xlog file, and it doesn't look to be catching any crash dump info.
I'm running the kernel from 64studio with the debian etch repositories. The nvidia kernel seemed to compile just fine and install. Are there any known issues with a config like this?
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Looking at your bug report, I'm seeing IRQ problems that could be related to the fact that your kernel is using MMCONFIG. See http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...ppendix-l.html and try using the "pci=nommconf" kernel option.
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Thanks for the help, AaronP. I've added pci=nommconf per your instructions (and attached docs) but that had no change. I also tried (fer giggles) upgrading the bios on the motherboard to see if that would fix any IRQ issues lingering, also no change.
Could you give an example of the IRQ issues you saw in the debug? This machine should be pretty simple hardware-wise, with the only additional component being an RME Digi9652. Everything else is the motherboard..
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PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000
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Sunday best: Change & the new moon
I went blonde yesterday and it reminded me that even when the I feel caught up in all that flux, there can occasionally be a sharp sense of control over small things. And my appetite is whet for it. I walked back up the hill, shocked by my own reflection, which I sought out with some strange urgency. And I looked at my own querying face and my strange new hair mirrored back at me, trying to determine if I looked okay, good even, marvelling at how a few hours in a chair can result in transformation so superficial but so completely un-ignorable.
I wrote on Friday that I've become bored with myself lately. That's partly true. The other side of the story is that I may have become a little paralyzed. Paralyzed because of broken hearts and failed attempts, because I've tried things and feel lately that I always fail. I've been scared of just adding to all of that, of throwing myself back into something that would be more of the same. And much as I love Beckett, right now I can't get into the "fail better" approach. So I've gone turtle, protecting my damaged heart, my weak will, my feelings of failure.
It's not that I think hair colour is a big deal. But there's something about change; it's hard to change one thing in isolation. It starts to cascade. My hair is different and everything looks different — my clothes and make-up, my complexion, my eye colour, even my eyebrows! So, going blonde isn't a big deal, but it feels like a small step in throwing myself back into the game of change. And what better time for that than on the first of a new month and a new moon?
Happy Sunday!
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- AnonymousMarch 2, 2014 at 11:48 AM
I know only too well how you feel, Jane. Failure and dissapointment while everyone else is as it seems living life on the fast lane.ReplyDelete
Above all change is tough.
Thanks, Tanja. I think the new season, new hair etc will make it all a little easier... sometimes some small shifts just make bigger change more graspable... (I hope at least)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2014 at 7:01 PM
I am older than you, enough to be subject to the "go grey…don't give into social expectations" discussions. Yet I glory in playing with color. I will end up with silver gray some day…no worries, yet I like having options. Hair color will grow out. Fashions will change. My body will change…..so have fun experimenting. I always think "do what I will least regret" and hair color is just temporary. Joan in ChicagoReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah I agree. Hair is easy to change and change back. Sometimes it's just the changing...Delete
Blonde! Awesome, way to go for it. A change like that is perfect for trying to shake things up- sometimes a seemingly unrelated change can do a lot for other aspects of your life, because sometimes we act differently when we know we look different, and when we act differently, things definitely change. I sort of hate that Beckett quote- fail better is really not helpful when you feel like it's failure after failure. But if it's something that you really want, you have to keep going for it. Trying new approaches, but still going for it.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Julie xxDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM
Going blonde really does ring the changes, especially with that little shock every time you pass a mirror. I usually find that going really blonde has meant having to accentuate more with eye make up, not sure why. Hope you enjoy experimenting with the new look.ReplyDelete
"...that we're at the mercy of things, sometimes tough, sometimes lucky, and that the entire thing is a fucked up cast of arbitrary characters…" this is the piece that I honed in on. This is the part I feel is closest to the truth of it all. Things like taking the leap with your hair - its a kind of "up yours" to the gods. Which isn't to say that was your own intention. I think its more my own take on things at the moment! Now…more important…when can we see pictures of the new do!ReplyDelete
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Haha! I was very shy the first few days, but I just posted a picture on Instagram :) http://instagram.com/p/lIL8Z8rLZJ/Delete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2014 at 12:12 PM
Just saw the pic on instagram. Wow! What a transformation! That colour really suits you!!ReplyDelete
I wish you that this may lead to other positive changes as well.
Thanks so much Tanja! xxDelete
The turtle emerges from her shell. Exciting! Enjoy.ReplyDelete
Jane, I think we all go in crazy rounds and finally get slung out somehow and change once again happens. You know I love your blog but why have you started or maybe I just noticed using the word 'fuck"? It seems so down sided and so unlike you or at least my thinking of you.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Ruth,Delete
As a journalist, I always write with "proper" words and would never swear.
As a writer, I reach for the words that feel closest to how I'm feeling and what I want to express. I don't censor my language with ideas of primness. Sometimes thoughts and feelings are harsh things, or emphatic things, and swearing feels to me the right sort of expression.
I don't think of it as "down sided" and don't intend to be offensive.
Jane, Thanks for your reply. Primness is not where I am coming from even though that may seem the reason for my post. Have fun with your new DO!ReplyDelete
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Advanced Egg Crafts
Learning to Do Advanced Egg Crafts
This wonderful lady gives a very instructional video on the Ukranian Pysanky Egg Craft technique. If it seems a little too intense for your skill level, that's ok, the prep instructions she gives will set you up for any crafting ideas you may have.
If you follow her prep techniques you can do just about anything you want to your eggs, from doodling, painting, stamping, decopage, string-art, just about anything you and your kids imagination can come up with.
So sit back with a cup of coffee and be patient as she is a little on the slow side – which makes her a great teacher. Then you can translate her teaching to your own kids and your technique that you will use with your kids!
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What you will need.
thread (i serge all my seams so i tend to get 3-4 spools of the matching color
3 yards silk or teffeta
ruffle foot for your sewing machine
Sewing Machine
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2 yards or so of Trim depending on size
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Step 1: Making your Mockup
Trust me this step saves hair pulling and tears later, plus it gives you a pattern you can use over
and over again if you end up liking the design.
I cut out the pieces for the main jacket and stitched together the pieces at the neck and then sewed the darts and the side seams.
I decided to use the second pattern mostly for the bell sleeves so i got strait to fitting this pattern. Take in at the sides and neck until
your have a good fit.
You can see that I adjusted the shoulders in on the left from where they were originally on the right.
I almost ALWAYS have to alter the arm/shoulders on stock patterns.
Step 2: Cutting out your pieces
Cut out the jacket pieces and the sleeves from the other pattern.
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Cut out interfacing layer for the main jacket and fuse with steam setting of an iron to the wrong side of your fabric.


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When I look at Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes,
I always focus on Judith's clenched fist in the foreground; to me, it
reinforces the physical violence of the scene. Viewing Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Callais
I gain a heightened awareness of my own body, as if I too were
experiencing physical fatigue and despair depicted in the hunched
shoulders and weary stances of the figures. The sensation is like
looking in a mirror, even though I share no resemblance to the subject.
This is, in part, because of the rendering of the human form—in both
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one can't help but identify with the physicality of the images.
Human figure drawing, especially life drawing from a model, is one of
the most rewarding ways of practicing art because it can enhance your
abilities in ways that are both practical and inspirational. It's
practical in that creating figure drawings develops skills that will
serve you again and again as an artist—contour, shading, line, and the
relationship of parts to a whole. It's inspirational in that the
landscape of the human body contains almost every form, texture, shape,
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LEBANON, Ind. (AP) – Toby Keith's tour bus caught fire on a highway near Indianapolis. Keith was not on board at the time, and no one was hurt. Boone County sheriff's deputies say the fire started early yesterday morning on Interstate 65. Police closed the southbound lanes of the highway for a couple of hours. The back of the bus was charred. The cause is not known. Keith's next performance is the Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert in Norman, Oklahoma on Saturday.


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Since going to a quite stage at our church I needed the best in-ear monitoring possible and went with custom molded monitors by Westone. Therefore, I needed a quality wireless system to complete my setup. I found everything I needed and more in the Audio Technica M2 system. I couldn't be more pleased with the value I received for the money I invested. I literally took it out of the box, plugged it in, installed batteries, turned it on and it worked! I guess I could have spent a lot more money, but I'm not real sure as to what I would have accomplished other than having less monney in my pocket. Thanks AT, Terry
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I've had my M2s for over a year now, and they are rock solid. I can't imagine being on stage without them. Was very easy to adjust all the settings to get an optimal mix and level between vocals and instruments balanced between left and right ears.The health of my voice and ears now owes much to A-T. I use them 2-3 times per week, and am very impressed with the comfort and feel of the buds. I thought I would have to shell out for custom buds, but after each time I use them, it becomes less and less a desire. They sound great and the noise cancelling is very good. I've added an ambiance mic when solo, which really makes a difference interacting with a crowd I can hear. Once you experience the M2, I doubt you will ever wedge again. Just walk out of that sweet spot of a floor monitor and you'll understand that will never happen with the M2.
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Well, I've had the M2 system for about 6 months now. I use it on at least a weekly basis. I'm giving it 4 stars for the value and quality. First, the range is decent, I can get about 30 ft away before static takes over. Reception is solid too. Never goes out on me. Sound quality isn't the best, but this is where you give up quality for the cost in my opinion. I've used the G2 in the past and it was great, but this isn't as good, but it's also about half the cost. Lacks on low end, and sometimes gets a little muddy, but it does the job well. If cost wasn't part of the rating for me, I'd give it 3 stars, and give the Sennheiser G2 (or now the G3) 5 stars. The M2 system works and does the job, just not a fantastic one.


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BERG: Little Printer
BERG (whose principal, Matt Jones will be talking at our conference In Progress on December 9) have just announced BERG Cloud, their "nervous system for connected products" and with that a brilliant device. Little Printer will use the tailored technology of BERG Cloud to physically assemble a feed of highlights and subscriptions configured from your phone (wirelessly and without having to update or install anything from the likes of the Guardian, Google and Nike), delivering a designed mini newspaper a couple times per day. Please. Want.


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We are called to love the sick. Those who have been abused with hellfire doctrine are in essence victims of that doctrine. I understand it's human nature to lash out against those who would do us harm with labels ie heretic. I also understand it's natural to lash out in anger against those we perceive as abusers. With that said, we are to be defined by the love of our Savior which is not haughty or condescending.
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Adjusting to Independent Life04 Feb 2008, by Uncategorized in
January 24, 2008
The girls woke up quite early (5:30am) to walk around their nearby lake. I joined them afterwards at their flat for morning tea, and they looked so tired since none of them could sleep at night. They said they were too excited and anxious being in their new flat. I have to keep reminding myself that this is the first time these girls have been living outside the shelter home, without supervisors and counselors. But they're adjusting quickly, and with Debjani and Chan only a shout away they feel very secure.
After chatting a bit, Chan and I took two girls to the Sanlaap office to check in with the staff, and then we went straight to the market. We showed the girls the fabric and bead shops, then sat down to watch them talk with the storeowners, pick out the colors, and negotiate the price. It is awe-inspiring that on their first day of independent living, these young women are confident enough to procure their own business materials.
While at the market, the girls wanted to purchase some notebooks so they could keep an accurate account of purchased materials, orders, payments, and all business expenses. They are already keen to learning proper bookkeeping and budgeting!
Upon returning, the other girls were busy arranging their belongings, and one girl has already taken the responsibility of cooking. Of course, the other four girls help by cleaning and making tea. They shared their market adventure, and immediately started organizing their materials to start working. I still can't believe that they've only been outside the shelter for twenty hours, and already eager to begin their production.
Sadly, I am leaving tomorrow for a week in South India. So the girls have made me promise to call them every day, if only to say good morning and good night. I will truly miss these girls, but with Chan and Debjani here I'm not the slightest bit worried about their next week.


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