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(This is another in my series of occasional posts based on my replies to questions about photography that come up from time to time. This question was under discussion in an online photography forum, where the discussion began with a new photographer asking whether the acquisition of certain equipment would make him a better photographer. Those with experience in photography know the answer to this question, but it comes up, explicitly or implicitly, all the time, so I think it is worth another look here. The following text is a slightly edited and expanded version of my original answer. This is also part of my "Photographic Myths and Platitudes" series of posts. )
For the moment I'll leave the full-frame question aside * – not that there isn't a lot to say about it in the context of your desire to become a better photographer – and just respond to the following:
"My goal here is to become a better photographer. I feel zooms make me lazy, and that primes would make me think more about my photography."
Sorry to say, but that is nonsense, plain and simple.
This notion that somehow primes are more "serious" than zooms comes up from time to time, and certain folks who post about photography (though not so often people who actually do a ton of photography) encourage this odd and unfounded line of thinking. I've speculated about where it comes from at times, and some of the following come to mind:
- There is a certain mindset among some folks who desire to be viewed as artists that holds that being "different" is the most important characteristic of artists. (It isn't, by the way.) And by doing something different, like using only primes, they may feel that they have established their different-ness from a world in which most others use zooms most often.
- There is another notion that modern is not as good as "classic," and therefore sticking to older equipment types is better. While there can be a risk of being too infatuated with new stuff just because it is new (perhaps the opposite form of gear obsession from the extreme of automatically dismissing the new) it just doesn't make sense to automatically assume that, for example, because Henri Cartier-Bresson shot with primes that you should, too. (HCB, by the way, did not choose the gear he used because it was "classic" – he chose the newly developed and quite modern small 35mm film cameras for a variety of reasons relating to his specific needs.)
- There is also an odd notion that assigns an almost moral imperative to doing things the hard way, and that then presumes that those who do things in a more efficient or practical way must not be as serious as artists. Therefore, if shooting with zooms is "too easy," shooting with primes must be better. This is often paired with the derisive advice to "zoom with your feet" or a claim that "zooms will make [you] lazy." (Artists typically have no interest in making their work harder; they are generally far more concerned with making it better, and will use any tools or methods that accomplish the latter goal.)
- Finally, there is the unfortunate notion, not unique to photography, that being "better" is largely the result of having the best or the "right" equipment – e.g., if I use this sort of camera or this sort of lens I will be more of an artist than if I use that camera/lens. The seed of truth in this – photography does require equipment – is too often built up into a false notion that photography is largely or even primarily about what gear you use.
The "zooms will make you lazy" business completely baffles me. Yes, folks doing point and shoot photography often may use a zoom that way, just zooming to get the shoot of their kids or the waterfall that most fills the frame, without bothering to move from their current position. But that fact that casual amateurs can use a zoom lens on their point and shoot cameras that way does not mean that the use of a zoom always means that this is the way one shoots.
To the contrary, in most situations a photographer carefully working out a sophisticated composition will have more, not fewer, decisions to make when using a zoom. I happen to shoot both, and I actually own more primes than zooms. There are situations in which prime is the best choice for realizing the photograph I'm working on and there are situations in which the zoom is the best choice for the same reasons. One of the reasons that I may choose to shoot a prime – for example, when doing some types of street photography – is because I will be shooting more quickly and with less time to carefully consider all of the possibilities, not because "zooming with my feet" is more ethical or otherwise better or because it "makes me a better photographer." (For the record, I'm the same photographer when I shoot primes that I am when I shoot zooms.)
If you were to watch me shooting with a prime or a zoom, you would often see me thinking and considering quite a bit before making an exposure – even in some cases when the shot needs to be made with some degree of speed before the opportunity disappears. However, you would almost always (admittedly, there are exceptions) see me thinking and considering more carefully and for a longer period when shooting with a zoom. The zoom provides one important additional variable to work with when composing, namely focal length. Contrary to the simplistic notions of some, the zoom does not merely let me "shoot from one spot without thinking." Rather, it gives me a range of choices over the compositional relationships among subject, foreground, and background elements that would otherwise be fixed if I chose to use a prime. Select a longer focal length and I may include certain elements between my position and that of the subject, narrow the angle of view to restrict and better control the background behind the subject, more thoroughly blur that background, flatten the perspective of the subject, and so on. Or I might select a shorter focal length and move forward ("zoom with my lens and my feet!") so the primary subject fills the frame the same way, but eliminate some of the previous foreground elements (that are now behind me), enlarge the area of background included in the frame, deepen the perspective effect, allow more elements to be in focus, and much more.
Basically the notion that shooting with a prime makes for better composition is nonsense.
So, where did this "primes only" idea come from?
It probably came from several sources. First, the availability of affordable and high quality zooms is a relatively recent thing in photography, measured in the range of a few decades. I started long enough ago that my first cameras were not 35mm film cameras, but rangefinder cameras using 120 or 220 film and then twin-lens reflex cameras. By definition, these cameras (virtually always) had only a single focal length – not because this made them "better," but because there was no other option for most photographers.
When I got my first 35mm film SLR (decades ago, as a teenager) it came with a single 50mm "normal" prime, which was typical at the time. The advice was "shoot that 50mm prime a lot before you go out and buy more lenses." By some strange set of circumstances, that advice – which actually meant "don't go out and buy a bunch of lenses before you get some experience under your belt" – morphed or was perverted by some into, essentially, "you must start with a prime and learn composition before you think about zooms." The only problem is that this was never the point of that advice – it had nothing whatsoever to do with the relative value of primes and zooms.
Today we have a circumstance that we did not have back then. In the same way that 50mm (or thereabouts) "starter" primes were widely available and built with decent quality "back in the day," today we have fine, inexpensive "kit zooms" and similar. These work very well, provide valuable flexibility, are more fun to use (and what is wrong with fun in a new camera?), and can work at 50mm or 35mm or whatever if you want to try restricting yourself to a single focal length. Better yet, they allow us to learn the critical effects of focal length variation on composition.
And at the high end, the circumstances have also changed. "Back in the day," the first zooms represented some serious compromises in image quality and functionality. But today, the best zooms produce outstanding image quality and much greater flexibility and control. (There can be downsides, too, but they are mostly practical and related to things like price, bulk, and maximum aperture size – and not the ability to produce excellent photographs.)
The best ways to become a better photographer have almost nothing at all to do with your equipment choices, though eventually as you become better and recognize your own needs more clearly you will begin to make more intelligent choices about gear that meets your needs. Things that can make a difference in the quality of your work early on (and even later on) may include some of the following:
- Look at and read about a lot of great photography and read about the people who made this work. Make sure to look at a wide range of photography, including work that you are immediately drawn to and also quite a bit that is different from what you think you want to shoot.
- Especially, visit museums and galleries to the greatest extent possible and look at beautiful photographic prints. Marvel at them, think about what makes them great, and try to understand even those that don't immediately make sense to you.
- When you look at photographs, look at them deeply. Think about why and how they work, and what decisions the photographer might have made when creating them. It is a fine exercise to consider how you might have handled the subject differently.
- Make a lot of photographs – it is actually not necessarily a bad thing at all to become obsessive in some ways about photographing. Certainly shoot the things you are most passionate about, but also see what you can do with things that might not appeal so much.
- Embrace your bad work and your mistakes and learn from them. Do not fear making poor photographs even as you aspire to make good ones. Almost any photographer will tell you that he or she has made far more bad photographs than good. It is all part of the process.
- Avoid – like the plague! – the ever-tempting distraction of letting your interest in photography be corrupted into an obsession with gear rather than an obsession with photographs.
- Find a mentor or mentors if possible, people who will see your passion and be wiling to share with you, yet understand that you are not going to be them – this could be a variety of different sorts of people: a teacher, a parent, another photographer, etc.
Gear is not unimportant in photography, but cameras and lenses are merely tools – they are not photography and they only have value to the extent that they let you produce photographs. Today's gear is, by and large, excellent – whether you use a good small-sensor rangefinder, an APS-C cropped sensor body, or something else. One of the fortunate things about this current time in photography is that gear choices, in many ways, become less critical and less difficult. And that leads me to all that I'll say for now about the other question*, the full-frame versus cropped sensor question: There are types of photography in which either one could be the better choice, and there is no connection in a general or universal way between a choice to use crop or FF and how good you will be as a photographer. So, no.
- The person posing the original question also asked about the importance of switching to a full frame camera.
© Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
This article is part of my Photographic Myths and Platitudes Series
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — 'Landscape Photography Lenses' (Part I)
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — 'Landscape Photography Lenses' (Part II)
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — 'Photographer' versus "Photoshopper'
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — Primes Make You a Better Photographer
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — New DSLR? Why You Do NOT Need a 50mm Prime
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — No Post-Processing!
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — That Noise is Awful!
- Photographic Myths and Platitudes — The Very Best Camera! (Part 1)
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Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ALXA)
Q3 2009 Earnings Call
November 9, 2009 5:00 AM ET
August J. Moretti – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thomas King – President and Chief Executive Officer
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Jason Kantor – RBC Capital Markets
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Alexza Pharmaceuticals 2009 third quarter financial results conference call. (Operator Instructions).
I would now like to turn this afternoon's conference over to August J. Moretti, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alexza.
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These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K which we filed with the SEC in March and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q which we filed with the SEC earlier today, most particularly under the caption of risk factors in both reports. Alexza disclaims any obligatin to update or revise any forward-looking statements made on this call as a result of new information or future development.
As a reminder, Alexza's policy is to only provide guidance on product candidates and corporate goals for the future one to two fiscal quarters and to provide update or reconfirm guidance only by issuing a press release or filing updated guidance with the SEC in a publicly accessible document. Clinical guidance is as of today, November 9, 2009, and financial guidance relating to the company's current cash, cash equivalents, and investments is as of September 30, 2009.
I'll now turn the call over to Tom King, President and CEO of Alexza.
Tom King
I would like to thank and all of our stockholders for the ongoing support and confidence you have shown in Alexza. We look forward to these conference calls. We're going to update you on Alexza's progress and results. I'm going to open this conference call with a brief update on operations thus far in 2009 and then provide a summary of the current status of AZ-004. I will then pass the call back to August Moretti to review the third quarter financials, and after that I will have closing comments, and we will open up the call for Q&A.
Our efforts in 2009 have been primarily focused on the clinical, non-clinical, regulatory manufacturing, and quality systems work necessary to move AZ-004, our lead product candidate, to an NDA filing. We remain very much on the timeline we outlined at the beginning of the year and continue to protect our AZ-004 NDA filing for early 2010.
As a reminder, Alexza is developing AZ-004 for the acute treatment of agitation in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
In September 2008 and December 2008, we reported strong positive results in our pivotal studies which were phase III efficacy studies. In addition to our corporate news releases, data from these two studies have been presented at the 2009 APA Annual Meeting in May in San Francisco and most recently at the 2009 US Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress which was held last week in Las Vegas. Scientific publications of these data are in progress, and we look forward to seeing peer-reviewed publications of the AZ-004 data in 2010.
During the third quarter, we completed all of the planned clinical work for our AZ-004 NDA. Notably, we completed the enrolment and the data analysis of the remaining AZ-004 non-pivotal safety and NDA supporting studies. These studies were a pulmonary safety study in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD and a pulmonary safety study in subjects with asthma.
For the COPD study, we completed a phase I placebo-controlled study in 53 subjects with predominantly moderate to severe COPD. For the asthma study, we completed a phase I placebo-controlled study in 52 subjects with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma.
The primary aim of these two studies was to assess the pulmonary safety of AZ-004 in these specific populations. Both studies employed double-blind parallel group designs. In each study, subjects were given two doses of Staccato, either Staccato placebo or 10 mg Staccato AZ-004. Doses were administered 10 hours apart.
Spirometry testing and other safety assessments were performed several time points up to 24 hours after the second dose. The primary safety measure was FEV1, also known as the forced expiratory volume in one second, which is a standard test of lung function. Decreases in FEV1 versus baseline, respiratory symptoms, and the use of quick relief bronchodilators occurred in both treatment groups, but were more frequent in each study group after treatment with AZ-004 as expected. There were no serious or severe respiratory adverse events. All respiratory symptoms developing after treatment were either self-limiting or readily managed with an inhaled bronchodilator.
We have now completed the five planned non-pivotal safety and NDA supporting studies for the AZ-004 NDA. This is a profound accomplishment in just the first nine months of 2009. We believe that these new data along with the data from our other efficacy and safety trails conducted with AZ-004 adequately demonstrate the safety and efficacy of AZ-004 for the proposed indication for AZ-004 NDA. We have also previously reported that we completed our AZ-004 pre-NDA meeting with the FDA in July 2009. To reiterate, we remain firmly on track for our AZ-004 NDA submission in early 2010.
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Evans, a native of Gillette, Wyo., joined the Cowgirls in 2012 after spending eight successful seasons as the women's soccer head coach at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D. During his eight seasons, he helped lead the Marauders in the transition from an NAIA school to the NCAA Division II level. Throughout his eight seasons, he led U-Mary to an 86-64-18 overall record.
In 2011, Evans led the Marauders to an 11-8-1 overall record and a 7-5-1 record in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). He led the 2010 U-Mary squad to an 8-7-5 record. The 2009 Marauders finished the season with a 9-8-4 record. His 2008 U-Mary team won 11 games on its way to a 11-10-1 overall record and a semifinal berth in the NSIC tournament.
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Evans became the head coach of the Marauders in 2004 as they began to make the transition to NCAA Division II from NAIA. Evans led the 2004 Marauders to a 15-7-1 overall mark and their third-consecutive trip to the NAIA National Tournament. His first season in 2004, he earned Region III Coach of the Year as voted on by his peers. The following two seasons of 2005 and 2006, Evans led U-Mary to a combined record of 17-17-5 in its first two transition years in the NCAA. In 2006, their first season in the NSIC, they won the conference tournament championship, but were unable to advance to the postseason because of NCAA transition rules.
Throughout Evans tenure at U-Mary, he coached numerous student-athletes to athletic and academic honors. On the national level, he coached one Third Team NCAA All-American and 21 NCAA All-Region honorees. His players also earned numerous NSIC awards including two tournament MVPs, 10 all-tournament performers, 27 all-conference players, seven Players of the Week and 61 all-academic honorees.
He played collegiately at the University of Mary from 1996-2000, earning NAIA Honorable Mention All-America honors and his team's most valuable player award. He began coaching soccer at U-Mary in 2000 as an assistant women's coach.
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Indianapolis Colts running back Trent Richardson is set to face the Titans tomorrow night and their defense is currently ranked #9 in the league allowing just 326.2 yards per game. It's gonna be a tough match, but is his mind set on the game as it should be?
According to TMZ somebody is actively shopping around Trent Richardson sex tape and the video has the NFL player having an orgy with at least three women. Could it be the reason Trent is running less and catching more in November? C'mon, he had less yards in his last game than he had women in this homemade porn video! Y'all fantasy owners should be really worried cuz you know these kinds of scandals tend to affect the players' productivity in an utterly negative way.
As for the tape, nobody seems to be interested yet, or maybe it's just because the guys know the lawyers they would have to deal with should they try making it work and those names just make it not worth even trying. Well, then it's still NFL's very own Trent Richardson and THREE hotties bumpin' uglies on camera, so you can bet the video will end up on the Internet sooner or later.
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In a recent statement , Bohemia Interactive makes us aware of the development of his title for PC ARMA III, which after several delays, will be released in late 2012.
ARMA II and its predecessor ARMA: Armed Assault has received rave reviews because of its realism, textures, gameplay, scale and deployment of equipment, weapons and vehicles that players can use, but have also been criticized for the quality of artificial intelligence and multiple errors or bugs that had to be arranged with several patches.
This time the developers of tactical shooter not think make the same mistakes and that is why after the expected E3 Expo will open an alpha stage of the game called "Alpha Community," where a group of users will have early access to content to test it, find bugs and offer suggestions on improvements to the game so that, in the words of project leader Daniel Musil, "is the biggest release of the series."
Of course, this alpha version will not have all the weapons, missions or area of land that will be displayed in the game finished, but will have enough content to verify the proper operation of the latest version of its Real Virtuality engine .
Here are some of the features that ARMA III promises:
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"I've done roofing and I've done painting on a stucco house to regular houses, but this is my first year doing siding on a house so it's very interesting", says volunteer, Cecilia Jones.
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"Fixing up low-income houses for people who might not be able to do it themselves", says Jones.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Idaho women's basketball team seemed to be clicking on all cylinders as it busted out of a three game skid with a 73-65 road win over New Mexico State to clinch the No. 5 seed in next week's Western Athletic Conference tournament.
Three Vandals (14-13, 7-8 WAC) scored in double figures, and Idaho shot a season-high 54.3 percent from the field, connecting on 25-of-46 shots, including 8-of-18 (44.4 percent) 3-pointers. Meanwhile, the Idaho defense held the Aggies to 39.7 percent shooting, hitting 29-of-68 attempts, including just 1-of-9 3-pointers.
"It was a total team effort tonight, there is no doubt about that," Idaho coach Jon Newlee said. "We came out and did what we wanted to do, which was defend the arc aggressively, and they were 1-for-9, and that was the key to the ballgame."
Yinka Olorunnife had her 14th double-double of the season with a team-high 13 points to go along with 11 rebounds. That bumps her career reounbds total to 1,022, just four shy of breaking the all-time WAC record. Olorunnife went 3-of-6 from the field, including 1-of-1 from 3-point range on a shot-clock beating long-ball in the first half, and finished the game 6-of-6 at the free throw line.
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Last week I wrote a review of a fabulous book called "Practicing Hospitality: The Joy of Serving Others" and also shared 10 great resources to help you get started with practicing hospitality.
These posts spurred on some discussion of hospitality and how to really practice it. I know that living in an apartment, condo, or small house can make hospitality feel like a chore or nearly impossible! But I am here to give you some encouragement. Practicing hospitality in small spaces is doable!
Hubby and I live in an apartment and understand full well that apartment living poses its own unique problems to practicing hospitality.
One wonderful new blogging friend asked:
Question- do you ever find it difficult for others (who are not in the same situation of apartment living or not your age) to accept your invite? Sadly, I feel like invitations to join in dinner at an apartment is countered with a request to meet in the invitee's house instead or just wait until we're "settled" (ie in a house). I whole-heartedly believe that we can (and should!) come together in hospitality regardless of the meeting place. Yet, that doesn't appear to be universal. I've considered that perhaps we need to just focus on our age or also apartment living, but then this feel contrary to the concept of open hospitality. Do you have any tips or tricks for opening your apartment home in hospitality and those invitations be accepted?
I am so glad that she asked this question. Hospitality in an apartment can be tough and poses challenges that those living in a house do not always share. I asked my lovely friend and mentor Wendy from Faith's Firm Foundations her thoughts on this and got some great feedback. She is on the other side of this question, she has a house and a family and offered some great advice on this subject. So here is a mix of our responses on the subject.
7 Practical Tips for Apartment Hospitality
1) Don't Take it Personally
Usually (if not always) the families who ask instead to have the dinner, lunch or get together at their house are doing it because they are uncomfortable in some way or don't want to be a burden.
Wendy points out,
The people who offer to have the get-together at their house might be good-heartedly thinking of the apartment-dweller's finances and inconvenience in having their family over.
Often a young couple is in an apartment until they can buy a house and are often times starting out in marriage and in life. A large family may feel like a burden to the apartment-dwellers, so out of a kind heart they don't want to put that burden on you. Try to understand where the family is coming from, and if that family never visits your house, then be thankful to get to know them and don't feel hurt by the request.
2) The Culture Doesn't Teach Hospitality: Be Patient
Hospitality is mostly a lost practice in our culture today. Families within and outside the church are often not familiar and may not be comfortable with hospitality. When you invite a family over for dinner this may be the first time they have been invited to someone's house in a very long time. We get used to having friends and family over in our culture, but we are not used to inviting total or near strangers over to share a meal.
Many families may be uncomfortable with this and thus caught off guard and instead it is easier for them to have it at their house. Go with the flow and get to know the family. When you know them better you can invite them over to your apartment again.
3) Keep Families with Children in Mind
Families with children, especially young children, can be very conscious of the mess their children might make, the room they take up and the noise level. Again, families may not want to burden you with this and also as Wendy so wisely puts it,
The family could be very aware of the work the apartment-dweller will have to do in order to host a family, perhaps their children are not as well trained as they'd like, and they're concerned that their children will break things in an apartment, or make too much noise and disturb others in the building.
Families may be declining your invitation due to embarrassment at how their children might act at someone else's house or apartment. Keep this mind and watch when you go to their house how they deal with their children as dinner time and how early they go to bed.
We have had friends who prefer to have us to their house instead of our apartment so that they could put their kids to sleep in their own beds and we have more free time to talk and play games.
4) Make it Easy for the Family
Living in an apartment, we get used to where you are to park and how to find your apartment. But an apartment complex can be so confusing to a new comer! Wendy shares,
Sometimes coming to a building at night also can be intimidating, and even scary for some, and the apartment person should realize that their guests may not be familiar with the area, the apartment complex, or how to get in, where to park, etc.,
Some may feel that it is easier just to invite you to their house where you can pull up into the driveway and walk right in the house. So always make it easy for the family you are inviting over. Wendy shares,
Perhaps there could be ways to make this easier–invite them to follow you home after church, in daylight, be outside to greet them, and show them the way to your apartment, walk them to their car, provide a map to the building.
Our apartment complex can be confusing so we have done things such as open up our patio door and turn the light on. As soon as we see them coming down the side walk we head to the patio and point them in the right direction. Or be prepared with a complex map that you can email to them along with the address and what they can bring.
5) Ask the Family You Are Inviting Over to Help
As Wendy said earlier, families can feel like a burden upon a couple living in an apartment, especially a young newly married couple. If you feel this is the case then let the family know what they can bring. Do not assume that the family will or even can bring something but if you know this family wants to contribute then let them! Being able to bring something such as a salad, dessert, or drinks helps the family to feel more at ease and helps them feel like they are contributing.
Make sure you know what the kids will or won't eat! Some families allow their children to be extremely picky, so make sure you know this up front so that the parents are not embarrassed when the kids won't eat your cooking. Also, always make sure to ask about allergies!
6) Make Your House Kid Friendly
The more we practice hospitality the more we realize that we need to have a game plan for when kids come over to our apartment. Since we don't have kids we often make plans without them in mind. Some families will require that their children sit quietly during dinner and while we talk and other children will freely roam your apartment.
Be ready for kids being in your apartment. Grab a couple classic kid movies at Goodwill or find Veggie Tales on Netflix and offer to put a movie on for the kids.
Another great option is to head to GoodWill and find some great plastic toys for kids of all ages (get plastic so you can give them a GREAT scrub). Spend a couple dollars and fill a tub of toys and bring them out when kids come over. The parents will appreciate that their kids will have something to distract them. And make sure you let the parents know that you don't mind the mess!
7) Keep Practicing and Learning!
Some families may never feel comfortable enough to come to your apartment, but that's okay! Don't take it personal and be thankful for any opportunity you get. I know that we have been on the apartment side of this. We have taken the initiative to invite a family over. I'm already planning on what to cook and I have game ideas ready and then they invite you to their house instead. I know that I can get hurt feelings but at the end of the day you never know why the family wants it at their house.
Keep practicing hospitality and always continue learning. If you are known for practicing hospitality within the church and word spreads that you have had families in your apartment, more families will feel comfortable going to your apartment. Make it as easy for the families as possible and kid friendly!
And always remember that the goal of hospitality is to share Christ with those in our church and our neighborhoods! You can get to know a new family from church just as well at their house so be thankful for this season in life and remember this for when you have a house and family and a young married couple in an apartment invites you over.
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Wow, this is one of the very best posts I've read in a long time!
We are on the other end of the spectrum: a large family in a house. But, we've only been invited as a whole family one time to someone's apartment in four years of being in our church!
I think most people don't know how to be around kids. Thanks for the tips of how to handle kids in a small space.
We'd gladly accept an invitation to dinner! ;)
Thank you, Jami, for this post! You prompted even more thoughts in my head on how to be a better guest, and also how to show hospitality! The bin of toys idea is a gem. We also have a little child-sized chair, and children's books, as well as stuffed animals, dolls, Legos and cars to entertain kids.
I LOVE being with newlywed couples, and couples without children, but honestly, it is EXTREMELY rare, (almost never) that they invite a family like ours: older parents, with older children still at home, to their apartment or home. The tendency is to invite people like yourselves over. We miss out on SO much when we do that. I commend you for this post and the wonderful tips and encouragement you're giving to others to practice hospitality and keep on trying, even when it is difficult! Especially to establish this habit from the beginning of your marriage! Fantastic! It truly is a skill that takes practice, and repeated effort:) But God blesses far above the effort.
Thank you, also, for the opportunity to be a part of this post, and for the links to my posts on hospitality and gracious kind words. I am learning from you, and am excited to put your tips into action and check out the resources you've recommended!
Love your heart for the Lord and hospitality, James!
I know Wendy and found your post through her. AWESOME thoughts! We have lived in a house with our four kids for the last 4.5 years and in the last month moved into an apartment. Some of my friends assumed with the downsize I would NOT want to watch their children any longer. I had to almost coax my girlfriend to drop her kids off one morning to do a fast town run. She kept saying "yeah but isnt 8 kids too many for an apartment?" I assured her it would be fine! People assume that apartments are not children friendly and tiny. Our new home is not large but it was not a problem to have the extra children here either. My kids LOVE having their friends over and missed them dearly. It was great to have them here! When she returned she asked "how did it go are you never going to want to do this again?" HAHA I assured her it was fine and to bring them anytime! They came back last week and all was well again! People who haven't lived in apartments with children are just scared to be trouble some!
Great post, and great tips, Jami! We lived many a year in apartments. We only just recently moved into a house. I forget how much of a challenge an apartment can be for inviting people over, especially once small children are involved.
One thing we did before we had kids (and even after on some occasions) was tell our friends we're coming over and we're bringing dinner. So at least we were releasing them from the burden of cooking! It was a little awkward at first because you're bringing food into a woman's kitchen, but in the end, they were so thankful, and even brought us a meal the same way once our baby came. So we didn't cook dinner, but we still had GREAT fellowship!! It's a fun new twist we've found on hospitality that's been super fun!
Love this post! We have lived in an apartment since we got married almost 19 months ago, and will continue to live in an apartment for at least the next four years while my husband is in medical school. We regularly open our apartment to friends and family, although it is better received by some more than others. We struggle to have my husband's family over because they are just not comfortable in an apartment setting, especially one with (purposefully!) no television. We love to open our home, even if it is a little cramped!
As the mother of a large family, this was a terrific post to read! It helps me look at it from the perspective of smaller families or couples without children. This is wonderful food for thought…thank you!
Hi Jami Leigh! Thanks for your kind comments on my blog! This was a great post with some awesome points!
Thanks for this post! We live in the Baltimore – Washington area and everyone lives in apartments! The toy bin is a great tip and a huge social saver for us. Times of great laughter and conversation can get started with a bin of toys! You never know what adult will sit in the floor and help entertain kids. This can be a huge help to parents of young kids who might just need some fellowship. I would also suggest having crayons and coloring books or activity books (for older kids). You can pick these up at the dollar store and can offer some "quite" play also. Especially if one of the kids needs lots of attention…even those kids can color and the adults can visit! This can also help for the later in the evening events and you don't want kids stomping around on top of your neighbors.
We have some young kids that come over frequently and they know there are two shelves in "Auntie's" living they can play with. It's where we keep their toys their and they know anything there is fair game. This has helped keep them off the "untouchables". One of the shelves has bowls that i don't use as often and they each get a spatula from the kitchen…hours of baking fun always follows! They think it's a special treat just for them! And it's little dollar bin toys, deck of cards, small books and happy meal toys people at work pass along…no real big expense.
I know this post is a little old, but it was an encouragement to me to see someone even addressing this issue. My husband and I have 2 small children and we've always lived in apartments the whole time. We are not that young, and not newlyweds. We would love a house, but because of circumstances we can't afford it at this time and it's possible we never will be able to afford to even rent one. So apartment living is our reality and I am ashamed to say that I never invite people over. I get the same vibe that they feel sorry for us and why not just have us over to their big, spacious, comfortable house. Hospitality is already foreign to me because of the way I was raised and my worldly mentality. I want to get better, it's just hard with these challenges, but thank you for addressing this specific topic, you are a dear!
Yup. My problem exactly. I've invited church friends and coworkers over to our home time and time again, but only one family has ever taken us up on it… a young couple about the same age as us who also live in a small apartment. We have enough space to make everyone comfortable. Lots of family friendly movies and games. Hubby and I both love to cook. (Well, HE loves to cook. I bake.) But for some odd reason, no one ever accepts. Interestingly enough, no one returns the invitation, either. Not only does no one accept our invitation, but no one invites us over either, except for the previously mentioned couple. I was getting discouraged until I read the part in the post about how people aren't trained in hospitality anymore. It's not common, and that probably explains why we never get invited anywhere that isn't a whole church function.
Well, I'm gonna keep trying. Someone has to accept eventually. If only to stop me from asking. :)
This is a great article. I'd like to add a few thoughts. Please remember that the person who is visiting you may not be able to climb flights of stairs and that may be while they have not accepted your invitation. It is not personal, it is just that they have physical limitations.
Second, I'd like to encourage people to invite singles over to their homes. I am a single person, So often, after church I hear people inviting families over, but I do not receive invitations myself. When you get to know people, you find out you have a lot more in common than you thought! You are not defined by being married, it is a part of who you are, but not the whole. And please don't do any match making unless that person asks. That is very embarrassing.
Could you address how long people should stay when they visit? I find that some people eat and rush out the door and others stay for five or six hours and I am exhausted. If you could write about the etiquette of being a guest, that would be so helpful. I don't think many people understand this anymore, and we all need a refresher. I know I need one.
Last, I hope you address this somewhere, but please don't cancel on people. I have a terrible time with this. I prep for people to come over and at the last second they cancel! So I have all this food prepared (food for six instead of one, for example) and have taken the time to really try to make my home lovely and warm, and 15 minutes before hand I get a message that someone is not coming.
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Thank you for sharing this one, it is a great help on how to threat visitors. I just move to a new apartment last month and have been adjusting.
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Autism: New Clue to Earlier Detection
New Autism Study continued...
Once again, the autistic children showed a preference for audio-visual synchronicity in the "pat-a-cake" videos, while the other children were more interested in the figure's movements regardless of audio-visual synchronicity.
That pattern could be a clue about brain development and early signs of autism.
Klin explains that within a few days after birth, typically developing children prefer watching biological motion -- the movement of living beings, such as their parents -- and that preference is an important survival skill and a building block for relationships.
But Klin's group found that autistic children were more interested in "nonsocial contingencies," which are synchronicities that don't have any social meaning -- like two balls colliding and making a sound, or a stone falling when someone drops it.
New Autism Study
Klin, Jones, and colleagues have a grant to study how early in life those attention differences start and whether those patterns can be altered.
Meanwhile, Klin has a message for families of autistic children.
"I have 20 years serving children with autism and their families, and their well-being is all that matters," Klin tells WebMD.
"There is nothing in our research that in any way conveys a sense that children [with autism] are any less human, any less deserving of our love and respect, or any less of anything at all. It is that the way they seem to learn about this world is rather different than the strategies used by their peers. By better understanding how they do this, the better we will be able to reach them, and like in any personal relationship, the better they will be able to reach us. ... Their different perspective might give us solutions that others, with the typical mind and brain, might never see."
Klin talks more about reaching children with autism on WebMD's News blog.


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This is the final installment in a 10-part series where we take a glimpse at every New Orleans Saints position group and assign a grade for 2013.
Special teams were fairly subpar in 2013.
Lead returner Darren Sproles averaged 21.3 yards on kickoffs and 6.7 yards on punts.
Sproles had a 39-yard kickoff return against the Philadelphia Eagles in their wild-card game, but for the most part, the Saints' averages were way down from previous seasons.
Additionally, the Saints struggled with their field-goal kicking and were forced to replace veteran Garrett Hartley late in the season after he continued to be erratic.
Outside of punter Thomas Morstead and long snapper Justin Drescher, this is a unit the Saints will be looking to upgrade.
Saints coach Sean Payton made the correct call when he waived Hartley in favor of Graham, who made six straight field goals. His highlight was a 4-for-4 performance, including the winning kick, against the Eagles in the playoffs.
However, Graham missed both field-goal attempts against the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round of the playoffs. The field goals were from 45 and 48 yards and into swirling winds, plus the first was a bad hold.
The Saints might give Graham the benefit of the doubt during training camp. They'll like bring him back to compete with Derek Dimke next season.
Hartley's five seasons with the Saints came to an abrupt end this year.
Despite making the kick to send the Saints to Super Bowl XLIV, Hartley has been very erratic, particularly this season.
Payton decided to cut ties after Hartley's poor showing against the St. Louis Rams. A 36-yard field-goal attempt in the second quarter was blocked, and Hartley also badly missed a 26-yarder when the Saints were trying to get back into the game late in the fourth quarter.
Hartley made 22 of 30 (73.3 percent) of his kicks this season, which ranks No. 31 among kickers. All of his misses were from less than 50 yards.
Morstead's punting average was a bit lower this season. He averaged 46.9 yards (eighth in the NFL), down from his career high of 50.1 last year.
Morstead occasionally had a few shaky efforts, particularly against the Seahawks while trying to punt into a strong wind. However, overall, he was one of the steadiest players on the special teams unit.
The coverage units didn't give up a touchdown this season. Opponents averaged 7.5 yards per punt return, which ranked seventh in the NFL, and 25.2 yards per kickoff return, which also ranked seventh.
Their longest kickoff return allowed was 42 yards, and the longest punt return allowed was 32 yards.
Overall positional grade: C-
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20,000 Without Power Across the State, Schools Closed
Written by Your 5News Team
Last updated on March 07, 2013 @ 1:59PM
Created on March 06, 2013 @ 1:49PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A late winter storm has closed schools in more than half of West Virginia's counties and left about 20,000 customers without power.
Warnings for heavy, wet snow remain in effect for eastern and north-central West Virginia and the Northern Panhandle.
The National Weather Service says eastern counties could see more than a foot of snow in higher elevations. Up to 8 inches of snow is expected in the Northern Panhandle.
The state Supreme Court announced that courts in Hampshire, Hardy and Pendleton counties are closed Wednesday. Shepherd University canceled classes.
FirstEnergy reports more than 18,400 outages, including nearly 3,000 in Berkeley County. More than 1,500 Appalachian Power customers also are without electricity, and American Electric Power had a few hundred outages in its Wheeling service area.
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CRS Professor Publishes Book on Free Trade Agreements
Comparative and Regional Studies Professor Mireya Solís presented her new book, Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim on Monday, September 21, at the East-West Center in Washington, DC. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Global Partnership.
With her coeditors Dr. Barbara Stallings of Brown University and Dr. Saori Katada of the University of Southern California, Dr. Solís discusses the concept of free trade agreements (FTAs) and their proliferation throughout the Western Hemisphere and Asia. She highlighted the three main questions of the project: What is driving the worldwide explosion of FTAs? Why is it more likely for states to establish a new FTA than join existing ones? Finally, and very importantly, do FTAs unite or fragment a region?
The group's findings indicate that both emulation and competition are dissemination mechanisms at work. "When one very important country moves in one direction, that makes it more likely for others to follow suit," Solís explained. However, she notes, "whoever sets the standard has already won half the battle."
Discussants Dr. Ellen Frost, a visiting fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Dr. Antoni Estevadeordal, a manager in the integration and trade sector with the Inter-American Development Bank, praised the work for its research and scope. Frost named Solís the "gold standard in [writing about] trade," and Estevadeordal called the book "a very careful examination of what is really at work."
Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim is published by Palgrave Macmillan, and is her fourth publication about free trade agreements.


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Christopher Simon Movies and Career Information
Jun 05, 1963
Actor and Producer
Christopher Simon (born 5 June 1963) is an Australian actor. Born in Sydney, Simon's roles include Pedro in Gimme Gimme Gimme, Michael Hassan in The Bill, Lee Andersen in Casualty, Abdel in Lovejoy and Samir in Ultimate Force. Simon has acted in many plays including When The Bullbull Stopped Singing for which he was nominated for and Acting Excellence Awards (Best Actor) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Welcome to Ramallah which toured York and London.
- Christopher Simon Movies before 2015
- Trouble With Men and Women 2006
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising 1989
- Movies Produced by Christopher Simon
- Miss You Already 2015
- Still Life (2015-I) 2015
- Pusher 2012
- Boogie Woogie 2010
- Trouble With Men and Women 2006
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Analyzes performance and instructs student athletes in game strategies and techniques to prepare them for athletic competition; observes players while they perform to determine need for individual or team improvement; and coaches players individually or in groups, demonstrating techniques of sport coached. Assists head coach, supervises work study students and instructs nine (9) credit hours as assigned by the dean of academic affairs. Employment based on 207 days during the fiscal year.
Paid single health and dental with an option to cover family
Short- and long-term disability
Matching 403b annuity
State Pension Plan (KPERS)
Life Insurance
SCCC/ATS tuition benefit for employee and dependents
Paid leave as designated by the Board of Trustees
A Bachelor's degree required. Two years to five years of similar or related experience i.e., prior coaching and/or collegiate playing experience.
Applicant must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Visa sponsorship.
Position Status
Start Date
July 1, 2013
Salary Range
Salary commensurate with education and experience
Open until filled.
Application documents for this position will not be considered for additional openings.
How to Apply
Job description may be obtained through the College's web site:http://www.sccc.edu/faculty_staff/hr/web_pdf/Job%20Descriptions/Dir%20Athletics/Assistant%20Mens%20Basketball%20Coach.rtf
To be considered, each candidate MUST SUBMIT:
1. Completed and signed Seward County Community College Area Technical School application.http://www.sccc.edu/faculty_staff/hr/web_pdf/Application%20Forms/Exempt%20Application.pdf
2. Letter of interest addressing reason for applying, qualifications in meeting the basic requirements of the position and experience in meeting the needs of a diverse student population.
3. Job-related resume including contact information for three professional references.
4. Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions (copies are acceptable) and copies of any relevant certifications, if applicable. If selected, it is the responsibility of the candidate to provide official transcripts within 30 days. (Foreign transcripts must be translated to determine equivalency to U.S. standards. Any fee for such translation is paid by the applicant.)
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Nancy Grace Debates Nancy Grace Over Pot
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I have two domain controllers and three member servers which are running on Windows Server 2003. All the other workstations connected to this Network are running on Windows XP. Those domain account keeps locking out frequently. Is there any problem with the domain computers or with the workstations.
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I have a Windows XP computer with a hard disk memory of 40GB. It is too slow for and the memory is also too small for the files I want to keep in it. It is also unable to run quite a number of applications. It also freezes a lot while playing MP4 video files. Is there a way in which I can make the computer work faster and also increase the memory to a bigger capacity?
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December 3, 2008
UC to reopen study in Israel; Brandeis offers summer prep program
UC to Reopen Study in Israel
Officials at the University of California are talking with their counterparts at Hebrew University of Jerusalem about reopening the UC's study abroad program there for Fall 2009.
The program was suspended in 2002 after Israel made the U.S. State Department's travel-warning list. That didn't stop an unknown number of UC students -- the university has no official record -- from studying in Israel, but the move required students to officially drop out of the UC campus they attended, possibly forfeiting financial aid, and enroll directly in an Israeli university or a third-party provider for a semester of more. Students were left to work out when they reenrolled at their degree school whether their credits would transfer.
Other universities, from USC to University of North Carolina (UNC), had reinstated their Israel study programs after the Second Intifada ended in 2005. UNC, which like the UC system is a public institution, merely required students to sign a waiver. Leaders in the Jewish community, state legislators, members of the UC Board of Regents and the student bodies at Berkeley, Davis, San Diego and Los Angeles all have pushed the UC Office of the President for a similar exception to its policy prohibiting the education abroad program from operating in countries under a State Department travel warning.
"We are always concerned about the safety and security of our students, no matter where they are studying on traveling -- whether it is in a classroom in California or in one of our research labs, or if it's overseas," said Chris Harrington, a UC spokesman.
The university has new tools for assessing risk, Harrington said, and officials are confident now that studying in Israel is safe again. This summer, UC Provost Wyatt "Rory" Hume asked an ad hoc committee to determine whether the university could create such an exception. The UC Academic Senate Committee on International Education voted last month to approve the academic program for Hebrew University. Officials are now in negotiations to send students as soon as next fall.
"It is in the best interest of our students to once again provide educational opportunities in Israel," Michael Cowan, the education abroad program's acting director, said in a statement. "In today's richly interconnected global economy, a study abroad program at Hebrew University of Jerusalem would provide a unique academic and cultural opportunity for UC students."
-- Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer
Brandeis University Offers Summer Programs for High Schoolers
Brandeis University is offering high school students a taste of the college life. The university is sponsoring two summer programs: BIMA, designed for students with an interest in the arts; and Genesis, covering a variety of academic subjects. Both programs will take place on the Waltham, Mass. campus July 6-Aug. 6. Genesis will include courses such as "Judaism and Justice," "Investigating Journalism and Responsibility," and "World Religions: Encountering Diversity." BIMA students can take classes in film, theatre, writing and music. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to meet the first application deadline of Feb. 2, 2009. Applications are available at http://www.brandeis.edu/bima and http://www.brandeis.edu/genesis.
-- Lilly Fowler, Contributing Writer
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