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11 September 2014
Growing Up
Time sure is flying here at the Just Ordinary Us homestead. (I wish we had a homestead.) My littlest guy just turned one (what?!?), my curly guy turned three and started kindy with his big sister, and before you know it, we're having to make plans for Christmas! (Yes, I said it!)
So the other day, in the spirit of embracing the moment and getting out of my grumpy fug (where I've been spending A LOT of time lately...), we threw the usual post-school routine of afternoon tea, DVD and homework out the window and went out into the sunshine. We had a snack on the deck and pulled out all the bikes and had a great time soaking up the fresh air and warm sunlight. Just what we all needed. I grabbed my oft-neglected camera and snapped away and I'm so glad I captured a fun afternoon playing together.
My babies are just growing up so fast. Yes, these pre-school years are often filled with crazy, and certainly hustle and bustle, but oh my word am I going to miss them when they're gone!
Despite the mayhem, I LOVE this life. I love that I have my babies and my babies have me. (And their Papa, of course.) I deliberately choose to enjoy this time - sure, not every moment, because who can enjoy diarrhea in nappies and vomiting babies etc etc, am I right? - because I know that I will look back on it as one of the best times in our lives. I'm not going to waste that.
21 August 2014
The Baby Is One
Today we say happy birthday to our dear little darling Gryffen. One whole year old. Oh, how it has flown!
Gryffen is the sweetest little boy, full of snuggles and shy smiles. He is also very precocious; doing everything at an earlier stage than any of his siblings. He rolled at two months, crawled at five, got his first teeth at six, stood at nine and now at twelve months he has perfected the art of climbing out of his highchair - buckled and all! It won't be too long before he begins to walk, then runs off and gets into mischief with his cheeky little-big-brother Tristan.
Gryffen is an absolute delight, and I have enjoyed every minute of this first year with him. What a treasure he is. I love to see the bigger kids with him; their bonds are really something special.
So happiest of birthdays to my sweet, bright-eyed little boy. You are a joy to me.
25 July 2014
So Soon!
Bit of a change, huh?
Can you believe it? In only TWO WEEKS (!!!) my birth-mother B and I will be re-united after 28 years!
It's strange to think that I've already met her - only a newborn baby's memory is not so strong!
Over the years I had hoped that when I met her I'd be thin and beautiful and she'd be so proud of this beautiful girl. I'm glad I don't hold this so strongly anymore - though I do wish I was slightly less un-thin! (Nothing I can do about that in only 2 weeks!) I guess with something as momentous as this, I can't help but be a little self-conscious.
At least I'll have a tidy house, B! Two weeks is long enough to do THAT. ;)
If you ask me how I'm feeling you'll probably get a puzzled look in response, as I'm feeling a lot of things! Mostly excited. Very excited! Quite a bit emotional.
Twenty eight years is long time.
13 June 2014
Happy 6th Birthday
This beautiful boy turned six today.
What a joy it is to see him grow and mature. He is becoming a fine little man. The progress he's made over the last year has been pretty cool to watch.
A tiny little newborn, six years ago
Elliot, my boy, I don't have many words this year (we can blame that on having all of us been sick for the last week) but I do hope you know how special you are. You are an incredible child, and I look forward to seeing who you grow up to be.
All my love, always,
What a joy it is to see him grow and mature. He is becoming a fine little man. The progress he's made over the last year has been pretty cool to watch.
A tiny little newborn, six years ago
Elliot, my boy, I don't have many words this year (we can blame that on having all of us been sick for the last week) but I do hope you know how special you are. You are an incredible child, and I look forward to seeing who you grow up to be.
All my love, always,
04 June 2014
These Two
A sister and her little brother. A brother and his big sister. These two have a very sweet bond.
I hope I never forget the way she would hold her newborn brother and just sit so quietly and so still. The way she watches for him and gets down on the floor to play with him. I hope I never forget the way his face lights up when he catches sight of her. The way he reaches out for her hand in the car.
I hope they never do either.
22 May 2014
One Year At School
Can you believe Elliot has been at school for a whole year already?! I took these photos exactly a year apart: 6 May, 2013, and 6 May, 2014. Look how much he grew!
I'm proud of this boy. He has come such a long way since starting school as an almost-five year old last year.
12 May 2014
Babies Don't Keep
This boy is such a treasure. In just a few short months, Gryffen will be one whole year old and we will begin to leave babyhood behind. I have cherished all my babies, but this little one a bit more so as I have bittersweet-ly (that's a word, right?) come to realise just how quickly these snuggly, sweet-smelling times are passed by.
I'm so glad I've finally worked my priorities out right in time to enjoy it properly.
Song for A Fifth Child
by Ruth Hulbert Hamilton
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't [his] eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
But children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
* * *
I have that last stanza printed and hung on the wall in Gryffen's room. Every time I walk into his room with him I read it and stand a bit longer with him in my arms before I put him down into his bed. I've said it before and I'll say it again: these really are 'the good old days.' And I love them so much.
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Signing day a week away; hoops on tap today
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There's a very interesting piece of background (OK, for a certain value of "interesting") to this announcement by Sony Sony that they don't expect to make losses when they launch the PS 4.
It sounds like PlayStation 4 has been and will be a more profitable piece of hardware for Sony than PlayStation 3.
"Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4," said Sony CFO Masaru Kato during an earnings call that ended moments ago.
"At the time we developed PS3, we made a lot of in-house investments to develop the chip, the Cell chip. Development of the chip saw the silicon processing and all the facilities invested by us ourselves. But this time, yes we have a team working on chip development, but we already have existing technology to incorporate and also product investment and all the facilities will now be invested by our partners, other foundries, so we don't have to make all the investment in-house."
Don't worry so much about the reason they're giving there. It doesn't actually make much sense anyway. It doesn't matter whether all the new investment has been made by Sony, as with the PS 3, or whether other partners are carrying those investment costs in new designs or components. Those costs still have to be covered. They don't go away just because Sony hasn't done the work itself: they will be embedded in the price Sony pays for components coming in from outside the company.
But now we're not worrying about that the interesting thing is that they claim, at least, that they won't be making a loss on the launch of the new machine. Which is very odd indeed in the video games/console world.
The basic operating method is to get the new console as close to, or even over, the leading edge of affordable technology at the time of launch. This always (at least until now) means that the box costs more to manufacture than it can reasonably be sold for. As least, sold for in volume. Thus the machines make a loss: and there's no point in trying to make it up in volume. Each one, each extra sale, simply loses more money.
Which sounds like a very odd way to try and make a living, lose more the more you sell, but it does, or at least can, work in video games. Because the manufacturer of the hardware also controls the licenses for the software that can run on it. And they charge the video games companies a very hefty sum per copy of a game for allowing them to write a version that runs on their hardware.
The game is thus to make stunning and too expensive hardware on which you make a loss, then make up that loss and move into profit through the software licenses. The number of which sold obviously is larger precisely because you've designed the hardware to be incredibly gee whizz. Far better than what people are actually paying for it.
It's not a million miles away from the smartphone industry economics. The airtime providers subsidise people getting whizzy handsets and recoup that through the monthly airtime and data charges. The games console manufacturers subsidise their own hardware and make it back in royalties from the games producers.
There is one wrinkle to this: you expect to make a loss on your hardware in the first year, perhaps 18 months. But you'll be running sales of the console for three years, perhaps four. Maybe longer: PS2s are still available new for example. Over that sort of time span all of the components that you use to assemble the box from will come down in price. One, not directly comparable, number is that components fall in price by 1% a week in the PC world. So while you might be making hardware losses when you launch, you'll not be doing so a couple of years down the line.
But reading between the lines of what Sony says here this won't be true of the PS4. They're expecting not to make a loss on the hardware. Sure, they still will on launch because of marketing costs, but the way I read what's being said is that the hardware itself will be covering hardware costs. Which is, as above, rather unusual in this marketplace.
That leads me to two further speculations. The first is that the PS4 isn't going to be all that cutting edge. If the hardware covers its own manufacturing costs then it cannot be. They're not, if you want another way to put it, straining mightily to produce the very best box possible. They're designing to that selling price, not over it.
The second is that if they can pull this off then the PS4 should be wildly profitable for them. Recall, as above again, that we expect to make a loss on hardware and make it up with software royalties. But if we're not making a hardware loss and are still collecting the software royalties then our profits should be rather higher, no?
Well, it should be wildly profitable as long as enough people buy the machines and the games to play upon them. And there's the rub: for the traditional way to try and ensure this is to overdesign the specs of the hardware to make it seem like an amazing bargain. Which is exactly the approach that Sony seems to be insisting they're not going to use on the PS4.
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If the best of breed can lose $2 billion on a single trade, then it raises the specter that the too big to fail banks did not learn their lesson from the 2008 meltdown. And it should strike fear in the heart and soul of every trading desk across the globe that there is no such thing as a 100% safe hedge. It doesn't exist.
First, that Jamie Dimon did not see it coming and white-washed the trading weeks ago underscores that JPMorgan is an 800-pound gorilla that cannot be 100% safe from terrible errors.
Second, it's another wake-up call that derivatives — especially credit default swaps — are "financial weapons of mass destruction," as Warren Buffett put it some years ago in his pithy much-quoted comment.
Third, it's a terrible warning system about the potential recklessness involved in six banks being responsible for 90% of all credit default trades. Wall Street is an oligopoly; it is a too-concentrated industry — meaning that the severe losses of one giant institution can spread to the other giants, with whom all its trades are done.
JPMorgan's counterparties — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America — must be holding emergency meetings with their risk control operations and their financial officers to reckon what risks could hit them.
We still don't know precisely the makeup of these transactions; there are different stories out there. Until we know if JPMorgan went long some synthetic CDS index or derivative contract involving European mortgages (which would be a bit of insanity), we won't be able to judge the severity of the stupidity and estimate what the fallout could be for the markets.
Suffice it to say, if JPMorgan can lose $2 billion — that might become $3 billion, or even more — then supervision of trading positions is lax, the risk control boys were asleep, and the notion that JPMorgan was the bank to buy, the king of Wall Street, is challenged but good.
I know Jamie Dimon, and he is one smart, honest, on-the-case executive. I trust him 100% — but maybe he can't trust some of the people he's got working for him. The happiest people have got to be Paul Volcker, because the debacle puts more muscle into his restrictions on proprietary trading, and Sandy Weill, who knows a thing or two about taking huge losses and putting a bank close to insolvency. Dimon will fix this — and the stock will rebound.


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Lentile, Leigh B.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Morgan, Penelope; Bobbitt, Michael J.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Robichaud, Peter R. 2009. Remote sensing for prediction of 1-year post-fire ecosystem condition. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 18: 594-608.
Appropriate use of satellite data in predicting >1 year post-fire effects requires remote measurement of surface properties that can be mechanistically related to ground measures of post-fire condition. The present study of burned ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests in the Black Hills of South Dakota evaluates whether immediate fractional cover estimates of char, green vegetation and brown (non-photosynthetic) vegetation within a pixel are improved predictors of 1-year post-fire field measures,when compared with single-date and differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR and dNBR) indices. The modeled estimate of immediate char fraction either equaled or outperformed all other immediate metrics in predicting 1-year post-fire effects. Brown cover fraction was a poor predictor of all effects (r2 <0.30), and each remote measure produced only poor predictions of crown scorch (r2 <0.20). Application of dNBR (1 year post) provided a considerable increase in regression performance for predicting tree survival. Immediate post-fire NBR or dNBR produced only marginal differences in predictions of all the 1-year post-fire effects, perhaps limiting the need for prefire imagery.Although further research is clearly warranted to evaluate fire effects data available 2-20 years after fire, char and green vegetation fractions may be viable alternatives to dNBR and similar indices to predict longer-term post-fire ecological effects.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. - Cal State Northridge carded a final round 302 on Tuesday to finish in third place at the Anteater Invitational at El Niguel Country Club. Sophomore Nick Delio finished fourth to lead the Matadors while Erik Jarvey and Jason Rosenkranz also finished in the top-10.
UC Irvine (289-296-290) finished with a 54-hole total of 875 to win its own tournament. UTEP (292-299-302) was second at 893 edging Northridge (295-299-302--896) by three shots. Sacramento State (898) was fourth and Loyola Marymount (906) and Cal Poly (906) tied for fifth in the 10-team field.
Delio was in third place at even-par 144 after Monday's rounds of 73-71 but Tuesday's three over-par 75 left him three over for the tournament at 219. The sophomore finished seven shots behind Cal Poly's Geoff Gonzalez who claimed medalist honors at four under-par 212.
Jarvey, who was tied for 16th after two rounds, carded a final round two over-par 74 to finish tied for 10th at eight over-par 224. Jason Rosenkranz, who was seventh after two rounds, posted a final round four over-par 76 to also tie for 10th at eight over-par 224. Clint Oleson posted his second consecutive round of 77 to finish tied for 27th at (+13) 229 and Jeff Freund tied for 47th at (+25) 241 after struggling to a final round 84.
The Matadors also sent three individuals to Irvine. Arthur Chung finished 52nd at (+31) 247 after rounds of 84-83-80, Shane Blanchard was 53rd at (+34) 250 after rounds of 85-81-84 and Sebastian Domingo finished 54th at (+35) 251 after rounds 81-83-87.


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ASHLAND -- Boyd County Public Library's new Checkout Your Community program kicks off July 1.
Checkout Your Community program is a new lending program designed to introduce library card holders to the community's activities and organizations by allowing them to check out a pass or equipment to try an activity that interests them.
The community is invited to a Block Party to kickoff the initiative at 6 p.m. Monday, July 1, just outside the Main Branch, 1740 Central Ave. There will be free hot dogs, drinks and inflatables. Those who attend will also receive a Checkout Your Community Frisbee.
Many of the new items that will be available for checkout can be used in Ashland's Central Park, just adjacent to the Main Branch, including volleyballs, basketballs, soccer balls, tennis rackets and pedometers. There are also fishing poles, binoculars and Frisbee golf equipment. All of the items can be checked out for a maximum of seven days. The library has books on all of these topics -- for those who need some instruction before they play.
Outside groups and organizations provided support include: Ashland Tennis Center (outside court time); Ashland Area YMCA (family pass); Neon Links mini golf at the Kyova Mall (discounted family pass); Kyova Mall (free kiosk rental); Highlands Museum & Discovery Center (family pass); and City of Ashland Parks & Recreation (Dawson Pool pass).
Also, the Ashland Fire Department and Ashland Police Department will give tours to anyone who checks out a pass from the library, and calls to schedule it.
"We hope this is just the beginning," Director Debbie Cosper said in a release. "We are pleased that our inaugural partners were willing to get on board with this from the beginning, and we are excited about all the possible partnerships we can have with this."
The idea for Checkout Your Community came from the library's ongoing partnership with the Highlands Museum, which includes allowing library card holders to check out family passes. Museum passes have been available for several months, and the response to those has been tremendous.
Library card holders can place a hold on any of the items or passes by searching "Checkout Your Community" in the BCPL catalog, which can be found at www.thebookplace.org
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I feel slightly insulted, a little confused, and partially delighted as a beauty junkie.
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I noticed a few in the room didn't like his common sense, but then socialists aren't big on common sense anyway. On a related note, Germany wants Canada to send billions to help the euro bailout. Our Prime Minister told them to forget it. Now Germany's miffed at Canada. Too bad. The way I see it, my country gave more than enough help to Europe last century, as did the U.S. Many good people died bailing them out. Twice. Enough is enough.


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Profiles in Justice: Lawyers Working To Defeat The Death Penalty
Publication Date:September 21, 2008
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Professor Lawrence C. Marshall, director of the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford, is profiled in a San Francisco Attorney piece about attorneys who are noted for their stance against the death penalty. He is quoted:
... his passion extends "way beyond the innocence issue," he says. "Even within the pool of guilty people, the prevalence of mental illness and unspeakable stories of abuse is staggering. Not to mention the poor lawyering and the impact of race on the death penalty. These are pathetic souls, tragic victims, people who get no help and no intervention. Once you're educated about who is on death row, there's less and less support for killing them."


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Cameron Indoor fitting testament to namesake's contributions
Cameron Indoor Stadium is perhaps the most famous college basketball arena in the country. The Duke Blue Devils play on Coach K Court inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. Every game is sold out, and the Cameron Crazies are among the most boisterous and passionate fans in America. Duke rarely loses in its home arena.
Since it opened in 1940, there have been many outstanding performances by Duke players and opposing players in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and not many have been better than Ryan Kelly'S scoring 36 points against Miami last week. Dick Groat scored 48 points in 1952 against UNC in what was then called Duke Indoor Stadium. In that same game, but not getting as much acclaim because of Groat's scoring output, Duke's Bernie Janicki grabbed 31 rebounds, still a single-game record at Duke.
By the way, Duke beat UNC 94-64 that night. Janicki only stood 6'4" tall, but averaged 15 points and 16 rebounds per game in that 1951-52 season. Duke finished 24-6 under head coach Harold Bradley that year. Another great performance was by Duke's Bobby Hurley in 1993 when he passed out 16 assists against Florida State.
Eddie Cameron is the man for whom Cameron Indoor Stadium is named. He is perhaps the one man who did more than anyone to establish Duke athletics as one of the premier programs in the country. From the time he arrived on the Duke campus in 1926, when he was signed as a freshman football coach, Eddie Cameron remained at Duke in one capacity or another until 1972, an era spanning 46 years.
In 1929 Cameron was named head coach of the Blue Devil basketball team. In 14 seasons, his teams won 226, which stood as the record for most wins by a Duke basketball coach until Mike Krzyzewski won his 227th game. Of course, Coach K has gone on to win over 900 games in his career at Army and Duke. Also during Cameron's basketball coaching career at Duke, they won three conference championships.
But basketball was not Cameron's only job, as he served as an assistant coach for the football team under another Duke legend, Wallace Wade. While Cameron was an assistant, Duke experienced its greatest success as a football program, winning numerous conference championships and playing in two Rose Bowls.
Cameron resigned as basketball coach in 1942 after his most successful season. That year, Duke finished 22-2 and won the Southern Conference championship. The 22-2 record remained Duke's highest winning percentage until 1986. Also in 1942, Wallace Wade resigned as head football coach to volunteer for World War II. He asked Coach Cameron to assume the head coaching duties, and Cameron accepted. Under Cameron from 1942 to 1945, Duke was 25-11-1, which included a victory in the 1945 Sugar Bowl over Alabama 29-26. Immortal sportswriter Grantland Rice described this game as "the greatest bowl game ever played." Possibly even better than the bowl victory, at least to many Duke fans, was that Duke was 4-0-1 against its archrival, the University of North Carolina, during Cameron's years as head football coach, including two wins in one year, 1943.
In 1946 Cameron accepted the job of athletic director at Duke, a position in whch he would remain until his retirement in 1972. In this position, Cameron really established himself as a legend at Duke. In fact, a sports publication, the Blue Devil Weekly, now called Go Duke The Magazine, selected Cameron as the Blue Devil of the Century, basing its pick on the fact that Cameron did more than anyone else for Duke athletics from 1900 to 2000.
Cameron was a leader in the creation of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which was established in 1953. Seven teams: Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest, Maryland, Clemson and South Carolina pulled out of the Southern Conference to form the ACC, which is now one of the best athletic conferences in the nation, especially in basketball. Another great achievement of Cameron's as athletic director was the building of the Duke Golf Course, which became, and still is, one of the best in the country.
After Cameron announced his retirement in 1972, Duke Indoor Stadium was renamed Cameron Indoor Stadium in his honor. There is probably no better testament to Cameron's contributions to Duke than this famed basketball stadium.


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The American Civil War cost of 620,000 American lives, which is roughly only 1% of the African lives lost to the slave trade. However, to say the Civil War was fought over slavery is an over simplified answer. Here are the top five causes of the civil war.
By the mid 1800's the Northern and Southern Sates were almost two entirely different countries. Eli Whitney's cotton gin that took hold early in the century nearly tripled Southern cotton output, making the South the world's first agricultural powerhouse. With this massive output, the industrial North equally grew to utilized the southern crop. However, while the North economy diversified, the South became a nearly a one crop economy which quadrupled its dependency on slavery.
States Rights
Originally, the Articles of Confederation established a weak federal government, an issue that was addressed with the US Constitution, which strengthened federal power. However, both Northern and Southern states began to disagree with some federal laws, one explosive example being the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which dictated that runaway slaves were to be returned to their masters, even if captured in free states.
With this, northern states felt the federal government was robbing them of the right to regulate slavery in their districts. With tensions building on both sides, John C. Calhoun's idea of nullification –the ability for states to rule federal laws unconstitutional – gathered support. However, the federal government did not agree with nullification, which in the eyes of some further belittled state's power.
New Territory Status
As the US continued expansion West, new territories had to be divided into slave or free states, which lead to a power struggle on both sides. While in previous acts, the federal government decided a state's status, the Compromise of 1850 introduced popular sovereignty, the right for a state's populace to vote it slave or free. However, popular sovereignty would fail in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Pro-slavery Missourians crossed the border to vote Kansas 'slave', and became a barometer of the nation as their actions lead to an outbreak of fighting garnering the name 'Bleeding Kansas'.
At its core, the US was divided by its people's viewpoints. Abolitionists faced off against slavery calling for the freedom of all people in the US. This movement grew rapidly in response to new and continuing treatment of slaves. With the publication of Harriet Breecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', the passage of the fugitive slave act, the Dred Scot Case (regarded as one of the worst supreme court decisions of all time, it stated that neither free nor enslaved African-American could be American citizens), and John Brown's Raid.
All of this came to a head with the Election of the abolitionist Abraham Lincoln, to which, fearing the end of slavery at a federal level, South Carolina issued it's 'Declaration of the Causes of Secession' which outlined why, as a slave state, it had been wronged by the federal government and must leave the union. In all, 7 of the states that would secede did so prior to Lincoln's inauguration.
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While child labor was common throughout much of history, it became especially popular as the Industrial Revolution spread throughout the world. The rise of factories and mills called for an increase in the number of workers, and children were perfect to take up these jobs. These children were cheaper to hire and required less pay than adult workers, which was the main reason that child labor was so common during this time. These children often had to work in order to help support their families, and would work long hours for little pay to do so. Many of the children forced into labor were either immigrants, poor, or had moved to urban cities from the country with their families. While child labor was very popular in factories located in urban cities, this was not the only place that it occurred. These children could also work in textile mills, flour mills, and coal mines, as well as other places. There were many different kinds of work that these children did to help their families.
In the Industrial Revolution, some popular jobs that children had were as factory workers, salesmen, mill workers, and newspaper salesmen ("newsies"). These jobs were most common in urban cities, and some, especially those in the factories and mills, were considered especially dangerous. In these mills and factories, the children could easily hurt themselves on equipment, hurt themselves in the work area (which was often unsafe), and also inhale fumes and dust that could cause disease such as cancer. If he machines were moving too quickly, the children's small fingers and hands could easily get pulled in. Injuries, and even death, were not rare among factories' child workers. Factories that these children worked in could be tobacco factories, garment factories, shoe factories, and many others as well. In particularly dangerous work areas, called sweatshops, there was poor ventilation which could lead to respitory illnesses like tuberculosis. Children were locked in the sweatshops to ensure they worked their number of hours, and in the case of a fire there was no means of escape for the children. As salesmen and newsies, these children were forced to work in dangerous weather conditions that predisposed them to illnesses such as pneumonia. They also often worked late, and early, hours and had a long work day. If these children didn't sell as much as they were required to, they would often be hit or otherwise punished by their employers.
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Newsie, age 5 Salesman, age 11
It's clear to see that child workers were treated harshly in urban areas, but they weren't treated considerably better in rural towns either. Most children that worked in these areas were either field and farm workers or coal miners. Both of these jobs were considered dangerous for different reasons. Field and farm workers had particularly long work hours, often working from sunrise to sunset. These children were out and exposed to the sun in dangerously hot temperatures for long hours, and had to carry sometimes twice their weight in produce while harvesting. They also had to handle dangerous tools. Coal miners were extremely exposed to dangerous fumes and dust that often caused lung and throat diseases. If they worked near the loud machines, they could suffer from hearing loss. Sometimes boys fell into the coal crushers, and were killed; they could also get limbs severed while working with other machinery above ground. Underground, miners could die by explosions due to a buildup of gas, fires, collapse of mine tunnels, or inhaling poisonous gas released in the mine. Their hands were often injured sorting the coal, and if they were caught wearing gloves they would be beaten, since it affected the workers' agility. Here children began work at a young age, and were usually dead before they reached their 25th birthday.
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Best Advice On Printing Art Photography?Hey there, was wondering what the best way of getting a print made of art/photography? I have a local printing/graphics company that I can get a 18"x12" 600 dpi PDF to on CDR, and since they are painting style images, wanted to get them printed on a rough stock. They are charging me a $15 prepress fee then they are running the image through a digital copier, for about $5 per page.
I'm completely new to printing anything outside of my desktop inkjet, so I am not sure if this is the simplest way to do things, or if online companies may be the way to go (one file is about 400 MB though)....
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If you are REALLY looking to recreate fine art, look at an IRIS print on canvas. More expensive but damn it looks nice.It's not about the world of design.
It's about the design of the world.
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Originally posted by PersonasBinarIf you are REALLY looking to recreate fine art, look at an IRIS print on canvas. More expensive but damn it looks nice.WYSIWYG
Ah put a French artsy sounding name on it and your good for an extra 100 bucks a print...lolIt's not about the world of design.
It's about the design of the world.
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yep Giclee is the way to go if you want a professional painterly look on canvas. They aren't usually any more expensive than a regular high end digital inkjet print on rough canvas. You are paying for the substrate usually. Shop around though. Many of the small studios with an Iris charge small studio prices. But most do excellent work. Especially if associated with a gallery.
If you want to do less expensive prints, find a color lab with any of the high resolution inkjet printers. The problem is finding someone who is running art canvas thru their machines. Most don't like it for one reason or other. Do gang runs to keep your costs down and trim them out yourself.
If you want to go full continuous tone photograph on paper or polyester though, nothing beats a Lambda or a Lightjet print.
I can't tell from your post if you are doing art prints or just quickprints. Art prints usually use archival inks and substrates. Giclee is rated for 10 to 20 years with limited UV exposure. Some of the inkjets can be more or less than that depending on the inkset used (many on-lines use the lower cost dye-based inks instead of UV pigment inks. Ya get what you pay for). Contone on CrystalArchive is 60 years if mounted properly and with limited UV exposure.
That 400mb file...What are the physical dimensions of the image. There are size limits to Giclee and most printers will charge extra for files over 200dpi final size unless prearranged.Last edited by PrintDriver; 10-01-2005, 12:18 AM.
Thanks, I have heard of giclee (one of my customers is Flint Ink and we were just talking about this over lunch last week), but didn't know anyone in town that does that sort of thing. The company I am using (Source 4) is a full printing company, but running something on a press is out of the budgetary question right now. I'm mainly looking for 18x12 print that I can have in my house. I'd like to develop the business at some point to sell fine art, but it's tough to spend lots of money on the prints having nothing to do with them but enjoy them and give them out to friends and family. Will post a few pics to a portfolio site this weekend, hopefully.
The file is 400 MB at 18x12, 600 dpi. The prepress lady at Source 4 told me it needed to be 600 MB, but it does seem like an unnecessarily large file.
I don't know what type of "digital copier" they are using.
And I sorta mispoke on the 200dpi thing. That is 'normal production' size. For fine art 400 to 600dpi is considered normal.
Sounds like you are just doing one-offs. If you like the quality of what you are getting, stick with it cuz you won't get any cheaper than that going to any of the wide format processes. Just for yucks, wouldja ask Source 4 how long their prints are rated to last, if they even know. I'm just curious about the 'digital copier' is all.
Thanks PD, here is a link to the Source4 site with a picture of the actual machine they use, though it doesn't have the name of the machine...
http://cod.source4.com (select the PRINT ON DEMAND button, it will show the machine)
So I'll get a copy back on Monday I think and then take a look at the quality and check around on giclee prints as well. Have some of the files posted at this thread (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11164), so we'll see how they look. I will also find out about how long the prints are supposed to hold up and advise...Thanks for the info!!


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By Master Sgt. Stephen Barrett, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 1996 President Bill Clinton will take the presidential oath of office at noon Jan. 20, beginning his final four-year term as the nation's chief executive and commander in chief.
The inaugural ceremony, which includes the swearing-in rituals for Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, the president's inaugural address and other activities, will last about an hour. The actual oath of office -- all 35 words -- will take the president about 25 seconds to recite.
Yet for hundreds of service members participating in the inauguration, the hour-long ceremony is only part of a nine-month tasking. For the members of the 1996 Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, the work will continue weeks after the ceremonies, parades and black-tie formals conclude.
Military participation is a traditional part of presidential inaugurations, dating to the first inaugural in 1789. When George Washington climbed the steps of New York's Federal Hall to take the nation's first oath of office, former members of the Continental Army escorted him.
Through the years, military units and bands marched and performed during inaugural functions, a show of military support to the new or re-elected commander in chief. Yet a formal military organization -- the forerunner of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee -- didn't appear until the 1950s. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to have committee support for his inauguration in 1952. Since then, every presidential inaugural has had an armed forces committee.
Although many project officers started inaugural support about a year ago, the 1996 version of the committee officially opened for business in July. Staffed with over 800 people, the joint service task force continues to coordinate military support to the inaugural. This support ranges from coordinating the participation of ceremonial units and bands to providing security, communications, transportation and medical support to service members behind the scenes.
The committee also assists -- within DoD guidelines -- the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies for events on Capitol Hill and throughout Washington. Those two organizations handle most major inaugural festivities and request color guards, escorts, honor cordons and other ceremonial events from the armed forces.
Washington-based units and bands will march in the inaugural parade, as well as form an honor cordon along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route from Capitol Hill to the White House. Ceremonial troops will also provide color guards to official inaugural functions around Washington. Band members will have similar roles, performing in the parades, in concerts and in ensembles for smaller events.
The inaugural parade includes other military units from around the country. Air Force Capt. Jerry Lobb, a spokesman for the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, said the Presidential Inaugural Committee will soon select the marching units.
Four years ago, an element of the Arkansas Army National Guard marched in the parade -- an honor bestowed on the unit from Clinton's home state. Traditionally, the U.S. Army Field Band from Fort Meade, Md., leads the inaugural parade past the presidential reviewing stand. Units that follow include tactical units from the five military services, Reserve and National Guard troops, and students from the four service academies.
Although ceremonial and musical support units may be the most visible part of an inaugural, they're far from the only part. Behind the scenes are the support troops who provide transportation, communications, medical support and force protection to those involved in inaugural events.
Spearheading efforts is the committee's joint operations center at the Suitland (Md.) Federal Center. This round-the-clock center monitors all events leading to the inauguration and those immediately following.
"We need to be able to handle any situation that comes up -- before, during or after the inaugural," said Navy Chief Petty Officer Dave Samuel, a shift leader, "and we have to do it in a manner that allows the inauguration to continue without a hitch. We can do that from here.
"If we've got a busload of troops from Fort Meade and they run into a traffic accident, we've got the law enforcement people here to help them find an alternate route," said Samuel. "If there's an problem involving units along the parade route, we've got the people on-site that can feed us the information and get them the help they need."
To prepare staffers for possible problems, the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee holds periodic exercises, testing possible scenarios right up to the actual event. "We've had a couple of these exercises with just military members so far," said Samuel. "As we get closer, we'll get more participation from the local and federal agencies who want to be sure everything will run smoothly."
The committee also receives requests from other government agencies to provide logistical support -- requests that must go through a thorough screening process before receiving approval. "We haven't gotten a lot of requests from the two other [inaugural] committees so far, but it's still early," said Navy Cmdr. Dave Gruber, chief of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee Support Request Division. "The presidential committee is now just getting started, so we do expect the requests to pick up as we get closer to the inaugural."
Gruber said he holds a daily meeting with logistics planners to review requests. "DoD public affairs has final say for all nonmilitary support requests," said Gruber, "but before we forward that request, we need to make certain that other agencies or firms are unable to fulfill their requests."
In reviewing requests, Gruber said, organizations must use equipment available from either commercial sources or the General Services Administration. "Government agencies must go through those avenues before they can come to us," said Gruber.
Although the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee does have law enforcement assets assigned, most are supporting force protection issues at the Suitland headquarters. "Most of the inaugural law enforcement is being handled by the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, Park Service and D.C. police," said Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Lawrence Mehlenbacher, the committee's senior enlisted adviser for law enforcement.
The committee's military police section handles building security, personnel credentialing and law enforcement liaison duties with local and federal police. "We're available if needed but our role here is mainly force protection," said Mehlenbacher.
Although most inaugural activities will end Jan. 20, many of the service members will remain in Suitland well into March. Once the presidential ceremonies end, the committee focuses on completing after-action reports and preparing the necessary documents for the next inauguration.
"Every time the [inaugural] cycle gets more elaborate," said Army Capt. Jonathan Mundt, chief of the Communications Operations Division. "The folks in 1992 had footlockers and footlockers full of reports, charts and old floppy disks that we had to sift through to find what we needed," he said.
"When we close this inaugural out, we hope to have everything on CDs [compact disks] in compatible formats," said Mundt. "We know technology will change in four years, but we hope our replacements in 2000 can benefit from what we've learned this year."


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There is a Grade 9 course this Saturday Dec 3 at 8am, cost is $70 if you register online and $80 at the door. You can easily make this money back after 1 or 2 days of work. There are still about 20 slots remaining, minimum age is 12 years old or turn 12 within a month of the course. A grade 9 will let you start as a recreational referee (all SMSC games) for a year. At the end of the year, you will be able to upgrade to a grade 8 referee (Select games).
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BRIGHTON – The Town Hall of Brighton is under renovations to restore it to its original grandeur and bring back the exceptional character of that time.
The building, known as the Historic Opera Block, was built in 1889. Over the years some of the original parts of the building were taken down or covered with vinyl siding. But after expansive work and research, the building will go through a renaissance. The new materials will keep it in excellent condition for years to come with little maintenance.
NEWPORT CITY – There's no place like home, and for 21 Newport area families, home will be the Lakebridge housing complex at the former Sleeper Place site on West Main Street.
Rural Edge, formerly known as Gilman Housing Trust, owns the new housing complex. Like all of Rural Edge's properties, tenants' rents are one third of their income. The apartments have one-, two- and three-bedroom units.Â
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At Social Driver we think company retreats should be two things: fun and inspiring. Company retreats aren't just a great way for employees to reconnect to your mission and values, they also create an awesome opportunity to bond and have fun. Two weeks ago, we held our second bi-annual retreat, planned with both fun and […]Read More
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Fourth of July in the District of Columbia is seriously cool. But whether you choose to bask in the glory of the Mall's firework display or head out of town for a summer celebration, we want you to be up-to date on the coolest, themed technology. Nothing says 'America' like innovation. So, we've searched high […]Read More
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At Social Driver, we like to think a lot about the future, but sometimes it's fun to look back at the past and see just how far we've come. This infographic shows the state of our union 100 years ago compared to today. What do you think we'll see in the next 100 years? cell […]Read More
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There is so much news buzzing around about Princess Kate Middleton and her pregnancy. Her time spent in the hospital must be far from enjoyable and we feel for her… how boring! So, we decided to create a list of the top 15 apps that Kate should download for information, entertainment, and planning for the […]Read More
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Lots and lots of social media buzz about the election is circulating around the Web. In addition to that, new technologies are popping up to get us to the voting polls. Read below to find out what you must have before going to vote! First of all, Vote For Somebody! The adorable 4th graders at Democracy […]Read More
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Around here, we like creative ideas to circulate the office on a daily basis. To keep you in the loop, we will post our favorite links each week. This week's What We're Reading offers tips on your favorite social media tools to keep you on your toes with the latest happenings! A Social Media Evangelist's […]Read More
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Last week, we shared links that will make you think. This time around, it's all about doing! According to Adobe's infographic, two thirds of businesses say social media is integral to their marketing. Brands are using multiple social media sites to engage to their customers, with Facebook and Twitter as the most popular platforms. Check […]Read More
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Here at Social Driver, we strive to always learn new things and share them with you. To get some inspiration flowing, here are a few of our favorite posts from this past week. 1. The Global PR Network Social Scoreboard If you're curious about the effect social media has on your business, head over to to […]Read More