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So what is the conference like? I have never been.
So what is the conference like? I have never been.
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look at www.abforg.net . Tells list of speakers and subjects. Probably 400+ attending with most majoy suppliers and equipment from small to large including forklifts.
Do you have an idea of how many vendor show up? The reason I ask is I am thinking of looking into a vendor booth for the 2010 show.
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why don't you contact frank... wgbee farm. I met him at the abf convention a few years ago in austin and he had a booth.
attentdance can vary greatly. the one held in austin looked like a managable crowd... there was reports that the one last year in sacramento was wall to wall.
I went to Sacramento last year. Place was packed! Lots of vendors - really enjoyed seeing everything. Interesting lectures. I think the number of attendees was way more than anticipated. I am looking forward to Reno next week.
My favorite part is in the hallways and at the bar. The talking to the other beekeepers. I learn more from them than the speakers.
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We attended the ABF In Kentucky and Auston
Kentucky was a good Meeting- very informative and as a vendor for Global Patties- Sales were very good. We left excited and looking forward to Austin.
Austin- was a complete turn around- Several of the meetings were duplicates of the Kentucky meeting and attendance was not as great as Kentucky IMO. Expenses were high since I had to carry heavy product to site. As a vendor for Global Patties- we only sold 1 case of patties from the ton that I carried. We were located away from the entrance and other vendors with simular product were more centrally located --- just luck. That happens sometimes.
Sacramento was too expensive for us to go, as is the one being held now. I am a small guy trying to sell a few patties and queens to make a living.
Its tough working a full time 50 hour a week job and taking care of the bees.
Sacramento was huge last year. Reno was ok, was about 600 people. Its always nice for us being from Masachusetts to meet some of the "left coasters"
We are really looking forward to Orlando. I hope to see alot of southern beeks.
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when was the conference in KY? Where was it located? I wish I knew about it sooner instead of after the fact.
Attended ABF convention in Norfolk, think it was 1997. Had a great time, spent a ton of money (not as much as my buddy who came home with an extractor though) and would do it again if I could find the time.
Classes were great with everything from candle making to commercial pollination, great chance to meet and talk ( and beeks do talk) with a ton of beeks from around the country. Beekeepers, once you get past the BS part of us, are really a bunch of good old boys and fun to hang out with. Pretty good food. Got kissed by the newly elected honey queen! It was really suprising on how much big money the big guys spent at the Auction, fancy honey, beeswax sculputres and such. Met Stevens from Better Bee, Binford Weaver and Family, the Rossmans. It's something every beekeeper should do once.
I've attended both US national meetings some years. This year I went to neither. They are both great meetings and an opportunity to rub elbows with researchers, extension people and writers, and, of course, other beekeepers. I always figured attending doesn't cost. It pays. It just takes one good idea to make up for the expense.
Of course, state meetings are great, too. I always attend our provincial meeting in Alberta and sometimes go to other provinces as well. I've also been to Iowa and The Empire State meetings. Every one of them was worthwhile -- and lots of fun.
Don't forget EAS and WAS as well. They meet in summer, and in my commercial beekeeping years, that was my busy time. However I went a few years ago in Maine, and have to recommend it highly as well.
For those who have to watch their expenses, there are generally alternate acccomodations around. Although the AFB usually picks an expensive place in the centre of town, the AHPA always has a place with lots of truck parking near an interstate and a few motorhomes and campers can be seen in the parking lot. The programmes are comparable between the AHPA and the ABF, although the ABF caters more to hobbyists and sideliners. EAS has special classes and events for all levels. Any of the meetings has more going on simultaneously than any one person can take in.
...And, don't forget the tradeshow. These meetings all provide an opportunity to meet and talk to your suppliers and the manufactures and inventors of bee equipment.
Lots of beekeeping families make it holiday with the whole family attending. There is something for everyone (although not much for those of pre-school and school age).
If you take your beekeeping seriously or plan to make a carreer in beekeeping you need to treat yourself to at least one of these meetings sometime soon.
Start planning now.
I'll see you there. Say, "Hi".
The Reno meeting had lots of useful info....especially for me was the cause of so many queens going to drone layers at 6 months. Seems a virus might be a cause...but everything is being blamed on a virus. I went to 20 abf meetings in a row from 1982 until 2002. Missed a couple and have attended the last two. Always learn something. I started with 2 hives in 1977 and would never have survived without all the help I have gotten from other beekeepers. Would have never thought I would be running 800 colonies and moving bees from Ky to Fl to Ca to Fl to Ky to Wi 25 years ago! Meeting next year is in Orlando and only a hour from my Florida yards.


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What a nice fleet of bikes!
Here's some more
Nice collection. The first bike is very cool. I had a Hornet like that but much poorer condition.
I ave a JC HIggins just like yours (the sky blue and deep blue)
One of my first few bikes , I love the Pontiac lookink rack . This one's badged as a Mercury .
'53 Murray Fleetline
Good stuff! What a cool collection.
That green Schwinn sure looks familiar!
Your Murray Fleetline is absolutely awesome! I really like that sears speedometer too, the way is says safe, cruise, and DANGER speed!
I've never been past cruise
That '53 Murray is shizmittle-bam-snip-snap-super-sick!!
Nice collection, thanks for sharing. :mrgreen:
Love seeing bikes from my old stomping grounds. I'm originally from Butler, but 'grew up' around the North Hills. I'd love to see these the next time I get to da 'Burgh!
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had a couple middleweights out for a pic today , 1957 Westfeild/Columbia built Western Flyer , & 1959 Murray built JC Higgins Flightliner
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AN: The opportunity to help build a program in higher education and student affairs, among the first in the South Texas area, that responds to current and future needs in higher education research and practice. Also, the chance to study issues of college access, equity and diversity in a new place where research on these topics is very much needed. I've conducted research on these themes for many years in California, and I'm looking forward to working with colleagues here who are also committed to these issues.
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Sometimes it's not the decisions you make or the shots you don't that define your legacy; it's how you got there that counts.
Serial choking is a tough rap to beat in any court, let alone one as widely televised and discerning as the Eastern Conference Finals of the NBA. It's a lawless land, like the Old West; a sort of backwards and upside down world with an Alice-through-the-looking-glass spin where rules are more akin to recommendations then set in stone things and the judge, jury and executioner are a rabid brood of bloodthirsty fans who howl and scream at the moon sometimes for ten nights at a time. It's no place to panic or ponder or plan your next move; it's no place to be repeatedly caught with your pants down, honing a rep as someone who routinely shits the bed.
It's The Edge and it's something most good men can learn and most bad men are born with; it's a raw killer instinct to drive nine times out of ten to the rim in a series-clinching game. It's what made men like Michael so fun to watch and why they call Kobe a killer or a cobra or a Black Mamba lying in wait in the weeds for whatever young buck comes past with a wild and free Hoop Dream of making it big. It's learning how to be the badger backed into the corner and come out on top; it's learning to scrape and claw for every last point and make the naysayers kneel…
And it's lacking in LeBron James, who is nothing if not a choke artist. His teams were previously 1-6 when facing elimination, now 2-6, and they've never won a series on the brink. From 2005-2007, LeBron and his cohorts were outscored in elimination games 259-235; during that span, he left 40 points on the table in missed shots and had five turnovers in the fourth quarter alone. He couldn't close.
It went from bad to worse. From 2008-2011 he disappeared from the fourth quarter of the same games completely, his name barely registering on the stat sheet, a point here or there but otherwise a ghost, cueing up only on occasion: an over-the-glass shot or a costly turnover. Something stopped ticking when the pressure was on; be it the Celtics, the Spurs or the Magic, LeBron James had honed a habit of checking out, of mailing it in when the games mattered most.
Which, as we said, is a difficult thing to shake. Think Bill Buckner in '86, Scott Norwood in '91, Andrés Escobar in '94 and a whole slew of Red Sox and Cubs. Buckner and Norwood had modest careers in their own right but will never be remembered for anything more than one ball that sailed wide of the uprights and another that went right through. Escobar was a brilliant soccer mind whose mistake cost him substantially more than a game and the Cubs are still without a World Series, going on 104 years' worth of doom and gloom and disappointment.
They are what we call the goats of this sporting life and LeBron James is one more fouled-up throwaway game away from becoming a permanent member and maybe a ranking chair of the club. He put up 45 points last night to salvage what remains of his reputation as basketball's crown prince, but not even a repeat performance in Game 7 could whitewash these postseason walls. LeBron needs a ring, and like it or not he has another Game 7 to play against Boston and then at least four more against a very good Oklahoma City club with their own crown prince and the NBA's scoring champion. He's got at least two elimination games to go to a title, to win to make us forget. The only worry now is that the way he went about getting there might be hard to forgive.


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The Welsh club scaled the heights of sixth place in the 1981/82 campaign but they slumped the following year amid financial woes. Swansea were relegated and had not been back at English football's top table until this term.
Today's FreezeFrame focuses on Swansea's final campaign in the old First Division and a narrow defeat at Highbury on New Year's Day.
Arsenal were starting to experience troubles of their own under Terry Neill as that hat-trick of FA Cup Finals from 1978 to 1980 disappeared into the distance. The Gunners had finished fifth - two points ahead of Swansea - in 1982 but had to settle for 10th a year later amid growing concern.
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Uppgaard Wildlife Refuge — I have walked hundreds of miles in this beautiful wooded area over the last 20 years. I have heard, from my fellow dog walking neighbor, about the gentleman with the German shepherd that acted aggressive toward their basset hound earlier this year.
Recently I think I met the same man with the aggressive German shepherd while walking at Uppgaard. My 10-year-old golden retriever got a good shaking from the dog. Our walk was cut short and we left the area. The man was skiing and had only his voice for controlling the dog, which was not enough.
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Okay maybe that's a mouthful of a title, and not particularly clear yet.
What I mean by "ground-side breathability while sleeping" is this …
The human body perspires, at very least insensibly, 24 hours a day. Additionally, body heat drives out trapped moisture from our clothes throughout the night. At home, this isn't a problem. Most of us sleep on linen or cotton, which are highly breathable, and so any moisture moving outward is easily dispersed within the mattress, pillow, sheets, and eventually the surrounding air.
On trail, there is a problem with this. Most of us sleep encased within various layers of different varieties of woven plastic, an inherently non-breathable material. Sure, when under no great pressure, a lightweight open-weave Capilene top might breathe pretty well. But, when that polyester fabric is pressed between your skin and the totally air-tight nylon shell of your sleeping pad, my guess is that it compresses and becomes basically useless for dispersing moisture.
Thus, being a mainly side- and stomach-sleeper, night time for me is actually a relatively sweaty part of any backpack trip I might take. Worse, I wake up after a night of tossing and turning significantly more dirty than when I went I went to sleep, because of build-up of sweat and oil particularly on my face and around my torso. The issue is compounded if I've worn a puffy jacket to sleep, because any part of the jacket that is underneath me gets compressed down into a simple double layer of tightly woven nylon.
Granted, this problem is minor. On backpacking trips, you simply get dirty and that's how it goes.
But, it's surely a nuisance, and I'd like to solve it.
I suspect that back sleepers may deal with this problem less. It's also possible that less hot-natured or sweaty-natured people will probably deal with this less.
Anyway … I'd love to figure out how to solve this or at least mitigate the problem.
I'm switching to merino base layers, which should help at least a little. But I still have this problem of sleeping on what is essentially a non-breathable slab of plastic, and perhaps that's the main issue. I suppose the second main issue is that an inflatable pillow of any kind is also inherently non-breathable. Sleeping on my side or stomach means my face is on the pillow, and a *lot* of oil and sweat comes off your face.
Anyone ever gotten irritated with what I've described above? Also, has anyone found a way to convert or cover their sleeping pads (or pillows) with something (an interface of some sort) to make the experience of sleeping more breathable and thus comfortable?
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I too am a stomach/side sleeper and have been irritated by the clammyness of sleeping in synthetics. I notice I sleep best on a ridgerest pad and that the little "ridges" are full of water(sweat) when I wake up. Closest thing to breathable I guess. But not nearly as comfy as my other pads.Nov 25, 2012 at 7:13 pm #1931059
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I have used a thermarest trekker lounge chair cover with a NeoAir large the last couple of trips and I noticed that I was definitely less sweaty than normal. I always wear merino to sleep in as well. The lounge chair also has a fleece pillow insert where I place an inflatable pillow with a down vest or jacket that I'm not using on top of the inflatable. Less sweat there as well at least for me. I use a quilt while sleeping.
This is definitely not a light option but I took it because we were base camping while fly fishing and I wanted the extra comfort. Thermarest also sells pad covers that I think are made out of the same material as the top of the Trekker. Might be wrong.Nov 25, 2012 at 8:43 pm #1931082
I'm switching to a Klymit Static V as my main pad — accepting the higher weight and all — so hopefully the ridges in that one will make for a similar boost in "breathability".
Interesting you mention that — I wasn't aware that thermarest made anything like that. I'll have to check around and see if anybody clever has made some kind of lightweight coolmax or silk fitted sheet kind of thing that can be used over a sleeping pad. At very worst maybe I'll just have to create one myself.Nov 25, 2012 at 9:48 pm #1931095
I just started using quilts this summer and actually posted a similar question back then…although at the time I didn't realize that this really was my question. I am also a side/stomach sleeper and every morning the top of my exped is literally stained with moisture (er…sweat). I started using a silk liner as a sleeve for my exped and it helps a little; I'm considering just turning it into a fitted sheet (I move around enough to get tangled in it too often).
The klymit inertias look promising, but you need a full bag for those to properly work. Next I was going to try a ccf (1/8th from GG) on top of the exped for added warmth and see if that helps the moisture management problem.
But I'm certainly looking for more ideas….Nov 25, 2012 at 10:21 pm #1931103
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
If you are sweating you are too hot. Remove layers or vent your bag/quilt. Insensible perspiration will not be noticeable if your climatic controls are dialed in.Nov 26, 2012 at 12:31 am #1931120
Colin KrusorBPL Member
@ckrusorLocale: Northwest US
I would agree that it seems to make sense that one could completely avoid excessive sweating at night by "dialing in" their sleeping system, but I often don't succeed at this. And I have warm and cool weather quilts, each with lots of venting options.
I'm a side sleeper and I blame the clamminess of a sleeping pad surface damp with sweat for the poor quality of sleep that I often get while camping. I have not found a lightweight solution to this.
My heavy solution is somewhat effective. I undid the weight savings I achieved by going from a sleeping bag to a quilt by adding synthetic insulation on the top of my sleeping pad. I sewed a trimmed cotton bedsheet to a layer of 2.5 oz climashield apex, and sewed those directly to the excess material of the perimeter seam on my Exped Synmat UL7 pad. Now the surface beneath me is a little bit absorbent, and there is a "breather layer" of polyester fiber insulation between the cotton sheet and the plasticky surface of the pad. I still find that I get a bit clammy sometimes, but it is an improvement over the bare pad.Nov 26, 2012 at 3:40 am #1931126
OK, my tongue is kinda in cheek, but I am a side-sleeper and rarely have any of the issues you describe. But like others suggested I take a sleep system rated for the temps I expect to see. Then I have my down sweater or parka if they drop too much.
There is no reason to sweat at night. Yes we perspire all the time, but not running-down-our-body sweating.
I use a quilt down to about 0 F. Below that is a bag and I don't sweat at -20 much…
Good luck with it.Nov 26, 2012 at 5:50 am #1931137
My tongue is also in my cheek a bit, but Raymond, you are not a perimenopausal woman. We sweat no matter what.Nov 26, 2012 at 6:37 am #1931146
Ha, I was addressing the OP Jen. I don't want no trouble with a perimenopausal woman. ;-)Nov 26, 2012 at 2:57 pm #1931294
What are you sayin, Ray??? You think we perimenopausal women have problems?? Eh???
Look, now you've made me cry…
Lol……..Nov 26, 2012 at 3:09 pm #1931296
Chocolate is on the way…Nov 26, 2012 at 4:35 pm #1931318
Clint HollingsworthMember
@wanderclintLocale: North Central Wa State
Maybe a set of cotton long johns? For sleeping only?Nov 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm #1931340
Which as a stomach/side sleeper might also account for a fair amount of – er – liquid on the pad. I woke up in the middle of the night once to find myself drooling like a 9th grader asleep in study hall. Good thing I was only sharing the tent with CharlieDog…that HAD to have been an attractive sight…Nov 26, 2012 at 10:44 pm #1931397
Matt DirksenBPL Member
@namelesswayLocale: Mid Atlantic
I always sleep in lightweight cotton pajama pants and a cotton tee shirt, and roll it up with my bag & pad to keep it away from the rest of my clothing. It is equally as important to have an effective way to disperse presparation as it is to have good vapor permeability. When I sleep on my side and I don't have cotton pants on, I discover that the first place I start sweating is all along the inner sides of my legs where they contact each other. This never happens with cotton. I've tried synthetics in the past, but they tend to stink up quickly, become less permeable, and loose their ability to disperse any presparation from that point on. Besides, I try to support the "natural" fiber and insulations as much as I can, and where it's practical.
It can ge quite muggy during the summer here in the mid-Atlantic, and so I don't go overboard on the insulation. If its balmy and never going to be below 50 at night, a light blanket might be more than enough. Regardless, the cotton has always worked for me and has been "worth" the weight. I also used an old luxury edition therm-a-rest for many years, which has a fleece-like surface. This always allowed me to easily sleep directly on the pad. I have a Neorest now, but am not really used to it as of yet and have over inflated it a couple times, leaving me with a major backache in the morning.
Hope this helps,
MattNov 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm #1932023
Hmm looks like the 'watch' alerts have stopped reaching me, so I missed a lot of activity here.
Anyway, a few notes for those that are still interested:
1) I disagree with the proposition that there is no reason to sweat at night.
Anyone ever used a vapor barrier? I personally haven't, but I know what non-breathable plastic feels like. One needs to vent a VBL system due to buildup of moisture, regardless of whether your sleeping system is 'dialed in' for the temperature at hand — correct, no?
What I'm contending is that for the parts of your body that are pressed up against non-breathable synthetic materials while sleeping, what results is basically a small micro-climate that acts very much like a vapor barrier. This is the very same reason that someone mentioned sweating between the legs, even when the rest of your body is perfectly comfortable or even cool.
This is the same reason that dispersion of moisture was mentioned, I suppose. The issue is not that sweating is caused by too much insulation — though that is possible — but instead simply that the body's natural insensible perspiration builds up in certain sleep positions to the point that it becomes, well … *sensible*.
2) This being said, I like the ideas about using either cotton sleeping clothes or a cotton sheet. Anyone have any suggestions on what kind of cotton sheet (the term feels generic to me) might best accomplish the absorption / dispersion of moisture?
I'm going to see if I can't rig up some kind of velcro situation with my new pad. I want to avoid sewing the sheet directly to the pad because I'd sure like to wash it every so often.
I see with these modifications that my sleep system is going to get heavier, but … as many have said before me, one of the benefits of going UL with most of one's gear is that you can then afford to go heavy — if you wish — on a couple of items of great importance. I've determined that sleeping while backpacking is the part of the trip that I enjoy the least, so I'm going to try dealing with 0.5 – 1.0 lb of added weight in order to enjoy my nights a hell of a lot more.
… discuss, discuss …May 6, 2013 at 11:01 pm #1983984
Jason LMember
@jason_loose_arrowLocale: Yosemite
Ian, I just ran across your thread and was wondering how you've been making out with the use of cotton?May 7, 2013 at 3:44 am #1984007
Matthew ReeseBPL Member
A cheap pair set of cotton scrubs work well as camp/sleep wear, though obviously not ultralight.May 7, 2013 at 5:29 am #1984017
Hey Jason,
Yep, back a few months ago when I was still puzzling over this, I did a couple of things:
1) Switched to all natural-fiber next-to-skin layers. Well, mainly I just ditched my synthetic tees entirely and went all-merino. The legs don't sweat much so I didn't worry about that. But I got an Ibex Indie over the holidays and I've been using that exclusively next to skin at night, which has helped.
2) I stopped wearing unnecessary insulation to bed. That is — the two trips I've taken since this OP both had overnight lows in the 40s or high 30s at the worst. For those temps, a base + mid layer, hiking pants, and warm socks are all I need. Quilt goes on top. No puffy jacket inside. I believe that previously I was simply over-insulating with my puffy jacket.
3) I took an old and somewhat well-used piece of twin-bed flat linen sheet, and nicely asked my wife to make some modifications. We cut down the sheet to be the size of my pad (Klymit Static V, rather large), and then she installed a couple of simple strips of elastic, running laterally on the underside of the sheet, one near the head and one near the foot of the sheet. This way, I can slide the sheet over the top side of my pad, properly fit in the elastics at the top and bottom, and the sheet stays on my pad rather tightly all night.
This last one has probably been the single biggest improvement for me. With the cushy Static V pad it *almost* feels like I'm sleeping on a real bed. Since I sleep on my side or stomach, a lot of my most tactile parts (hands and face, that is) are in contact with the pad. With the breathable linen, it's real comfy and I've enjoyed fairly sweat-free nights as a result of all the changes noted above.
Hope this is helpful!May 7, 2013 at 7:44 am #1984044
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
"I stopped wearing unnecessary insulation to bed."
I think same thing
It's like when you're hiking, you don't want to wear extra stuff or you'll sweat. Same thing when sleeping although not as bad. Leave sleeping bag unzipped until middle of night when you get cold. Have a couple extra things handy to put on if you get cold, like hat or vest.May 7, 2013 at 11:43 am #1984116
Steve MeierBPL Member
@smeierLocale: Midwest
Thermarest makes synthetic pad covers for the NeoAirs that feel like cotton to the skin. I use the covers whenever it is going to be warmer at night and I won't be wearing long sleeves or long johns at night. It has been worth the 6 oz for comfort and sweat-free nights from not laying directly on the pad. Along with a quilt and all of its venting qualities, I have eliminated the dreaded sticking to my pad.May 7, 2013 at 12:00 pm #1984121
Hiking MaltoBPL Member
"Anyone ever used a vapor barrier? I personally haven't, but I know what non-breathable plastic feels like. One needs to vent a VBL system due to buildup of moisture, regardless of whether your sleeping system is 'dialed in' for the temperature at hand — correct, no?"
No, you should not sweat in a VB suit. If you do then you have too much insulation. The intent is for your body to produce a high humidity environment not sweat. As for your original scenario. I am also in the camp that you have too much insulation. I believe you should always go to bed knowing that you will need to add layers. Why? I tend to hike and then immediately go to bed. It takes my body a while to cool down and if I wear the final insulation layers then I will sweat, have condensation and end up a tally being cold.May 8, 2013 at 12:02 am #1984310
Jason LMember
@jason_loose_arrowLocale: Yosemite
Good stuff.
My wife and I use VB socks (made from trashcan liners) frequently while backpacking. We really like to use them. They keep our feet warmer, nice and moist, but not wet once. But, we hike in sandals when we're not in the snow.
Good to see that you figured out a solution for your problem. Using a cotton sheet sounds like it would do the trick, but for the downsides. I've also heard that schoeller dryskin is very good for wicking and dispersing moisture without the added weight, perhaps?
I used to wake up in the middle of the night uncomfortable from sweat building up in my nether region. A scrap of cotton fits the bill very well.
By the way, I remembered that there is a "watch this thread" doodad on the top of this thread that one may click to watch the thread. I forgot all about those.
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Venice Carnival Photo Tour, 2013
|5th-10th February, 2013: Venice, Italy
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Come to the Venice Carnival and capture the colour and pageantry in this superb five-day, six-night Photo Tour! The Carnival, in beautiful and romantic Venice, is one of the most colorful, historical, and visually exciting festivals in the world, with its origins dating back to the twelfth century. It is typified by the elaborate masks and costumes worn by the thousands of participants who attend this annual event in the days leading up to Shrove Tuesday.
In February 2013, Bobbi Lane and David Nightingale, assisted by Venice-based photographer Fabio Thian, will be leading a small group of students on a dynamic photo tour of this fabulous carnival: providing an incredible opportunity to photograph this unique event with two respected and dedicated photography educators who will provide you with a wealth of individual instruction and attention.
Bobbi Lane, a commercial and editorial photographer, and highly experienced instructor, will teach you the skills you need to shoot a range of stunning portraits, while David Nightingale will teach you how to shoot breathtaking images of this fascinating location. Between them they will teach you everything you need to know in order to create dramatic and compelling travel images.
The combination of Venice during Carnival and two of the best photographers and photography instructors in the business made the Venice Carnival Photo Tour one of the most amazing photographic experiences I have ever had the pleasure to participate in. David and Bobbi created a friendly, nurturing environment and complement each other very well, in terms of: style, approach and technique. I can honestly say that I came away from the photo tour a much better photographer."
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The photo tour will provide you with a well-rounded photographic experience, with expert guidance and detailed feedback and critique of your images, enabling you to develop your skills as a photographer. You will come away with a varied portfolio of shots: from street photography and incredible shots of Venice and surrounding areas, to dramatic and compelling portraits both of the local populace and our hired and costumed models.
Bobbi and David will teach you the skills you need to take your travel photography to the next level. Working with both natural light and portable flash, they will show you how to photograph the natural and urban landscape, how to produce stunning travel portraits, and how to combine the two to produce a compelling story that captures the heart and soul of the places you visit.
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Take a look at the following gallery for some examples of the kind of images you will be able to shoot during the photo tour, all of which were taken by the instructors and students during our Venice Carnival Photo Tour in 2012.
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- A well planned, informative and exciting photo tour including portrait photography, street photography, landscape and architectural photography.
- Detailed instruction on how to produce visually stunning and creative images of Venice and the carnival.
- Instruction from world-class instructors, Bobbi Lane and David Nightingale, and assistance from Fabio Thian, a professional photographer based in Venice.
- Improved shooting, composition and observational techniques.
- Learning to see and work with essential lighting techniques using both natural and artificial light.
- Improved ability to tell a compelling and coherent story through your photographs.
- Numerous tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the best possible shot.
- Regular reviews, feedback and constructive critique of your images.
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- Your DSLR, a backup body if you have one, a range of lenses (from wide-angle to telephoto), a flash with light modifiers (optional but highly recommended), and a tripod.
- Your laptop or other storage device, a range of SD/CF cards, a card reader, and a USB memory stick.
- The temperature in Venice in February could range from around -5°C to 10°C (23-50°F), so make sure you bring along some warm, comfortable, and waterproof clothing.
At 6.00pm we will have a welcome meeting at the Pensione Guerrato followed by the welcome dinner at a local restaurant at 8.30pm. This will provide you with an opportunity to meet with David, Bobbi, Fabio and your fellow students, and find out more about what you will be learning during this five-day photo tour.
Burano, often referred to as the 'colourful' island, is situated 7km from Venice, a 40 minute trip by vaporetti (a Venetian motorboat) and is well known for its lacework and small, brightly-painted houses. During this session we will begin our discussion of a variety of key skills you will develop during the remainder of the photo tour: optimising your exposures, composition, getting the most from your equipment, and how to start thinking about creating a range of images that will capture the essence of your trip to Venice.
In the afternoon we have our first model shoot, working with two local models in full Carnival costume. During this session we will be concentrating on developing your portrait skills: working with both available light and portable flash; directing the models; and capturing the elegance and splendour of the Carnival costumes.
On Thursday morning we will take a trip to the islands of Murano, known worldwide for its amazing glassware. We have access to a working glass factory where you will have the unique experience of photographing master craftsman in a working environment: pulling molten glass out of the ovens, then forming and blowing them into their final shapes. The final two images in the gallery (above) were taken during our visit to the factory in 2012.
During the second model shoot we will consolidate and further develop your portrait shooting skills by concentrating on producing a range of environmental portraits: shooting both models in a variety of locations (using both available light and portable flash) to produce images that capture the full flavour of the Carnival.
During the evening we will be running the first critique/review session, during which David and Bobbi will provide a detailed and constructive critique a range of your images from the previous day's shoots.
On Friday morning we will be shooting the Rialto market, one of the busiest and most exciting in Italy. During this session we will concentrate on developing your street photography and portraiture skills, in terms of working on both the technical and social aspects of this form of photography: which lenses and settings work best for portraits; how to approach and direct people; how to photograph people in context, and how to make the most of both available light and portable flash to create compelling and intimate portraits.
During the afternoon there will be an optional two hour gondola ride, where you can join Bobbi, Dave and Fabio for a leisurely cruise around the waterways of Venice. Alternatively you can shoot a location of your own choosing or take the opportunity to enjoy some of Venice's other attractions. Please note that the gondola trip will cost an additional €60 per person.
In the evening we will hold our second critique/review session.
During the first three days of the photo tour we will concentrate on developing your technical, aesthetic, and creative skills. Over the weekend we will guide you in putting these skills into practice. We will spend both days photographing in a variety of iconic locations, including St. Mark's Square, and will concentrate on producing images that capture the heart and soul of this event.
We will begin the weekend with a dawn shoot at St. Mark's Square.
During the afternoon there will be an optional post-production workshop run by David. He will show you how to use a variety of tools and techniques to really make the most of your images from this trip.
During the evening we will head back to St. Mark's Square for the one of the busiest and most exciting nights of the Venice Carnival. We will begin shooting in the late evening light, working with both available light and portable flash.
On Sunday morning we will be running our final critique/review session, during which David and Bobbi will provide you with a detailed critique of your selected images from the previous two days.
During the afternoon we will head out for our final shoot (location tba). During this session you will have the opportunity to practice the techniques you have learnt during the week, allowing you to capture a range of stunning shots of the carnival.
We will conclude the photo tour with a farewell dinner at a local restaurant at 8.30pm.
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David Nightingale and Bobbi Lane, who have worked together to provide photo tours to Oman, Istanbul and Venice, will be running the Venice Carnival Photo Tour. They will be assisted by Fabio Thian, and Libby Nightingale will ensure that the event runs smoothly.
David Nightingale, an internationally acclaimed, award winning photographer and instructor, is the Creative Director of Chromasia Training Limited – a photographic and post-production training company, specialising in online photography and Photoshop training, one-to-one tuition, and the delivery of high-quality workshops around the world.
His photoblog – ranked as the 16th most influential UK blog – has received numerous nominations and awards including Winner of the Most Popular Photoblog category in the 2008 Photoblog Awards and Best European Photoblog in the 2007 Photoblog Awards.
David has also authored three books: Baby Photography Now (2007); Practical HDR: The Complete Guide to Creating High Dynamic Range Images with Your Digital SLR (2009); and Extreme Exposure: Advanced Techniques for Creative Digital Photography (2010).
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Bobbi Lane is a commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits on location and in studio. Bobbi's multi-faceted approach to photography incorporates over 30 years of technical experience with innovative artistic interpretation. She shoots primarily people for editorial, corporate, and advertising accounts as well as photographing "real people" and travel for stock.
As a dedicated photo educator, she brings insight and enthusiasm to her fun-filled workshops. She's been named as one of the Top Workshop Instructors by Photo District News was honored with a Special Recognition Award for Education from Advertising Photographers of America. Bobbi has created several instructional DVDs: Posing and Directing, Portraits Unplugged and Portrait Lighting Techniques.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
E-Learning in Canada: Evidence, Gaps and Promising Direction
Michele Jacobsen:
Context: special issue of CJLT on e-learning with an emphasis on Canadian research. Systematic literature review of over 700 documents. We took the report and sent it to several researchers in the field. So we have the report plus four commentaries. This puts the peer review process right out there in the open.
What the researchers found, public response:
- e-learning is a rapidly growing field
- it provides greater access
- funding may divert resources
- teacher classes remain essential
Policy makers:
- generally supportive, but
- must be used in appropriate contexts
Others said:
- it requires careful attention to design, etc
- we need to review policies
Reviews of e-learning (about 300 documents) were generally positive. E-learning requires sustained support. But there is a lack of empirical evidence to support e-learning.
Heather Kanuka
It was a fine job of reviewing the literature. Much of the literature was qualitative (only 15 percent quantitative). That makes it hard to say what works and what doesn't. The e-learning research community has to face the reality that its efforts have failed to provide guidance. Much of the research in e-learning is based in realist philosophy, the assumption that there are natural laws that can be observed. If this assumption is erroneous - and I think it it - then we are asking the wrong questions. We simply can't pile up the generalizations fast enough.
Many e-learning researchers guide their research on the assumptions that government natural laws. Hence the lament of there being only 15 percent quantitative. So a large body of the research has little social relevance. It doesn't reflect the messiness we face as practitioners. We need to find practical solutions to the everyday problems we face, and to recognize that we are living in a 'swampy lowland of practice'. Need to use more emergent methodology that addresses messiness.
So I want to put a different sin on the finding of the researchers, that we can't find best practice. I want to say that the majority of researchers are using emergent paradigms and are finding socially useful results. Over the years I have found what works and what doesn't, and I'm comfortable with saying that, and I'm fine with not being able to generalize best practices.
Terry Anderson
There is a lack of funding for research in education in Canada. It's bad enough that only 15 percent were quantitative. 7 quantitative studies that were Canadian. There's a limited amount of insight you can get from that. The only way to generate value that you get so many of them that the effect of individual contexts are wiped out. If we had a few hundred, a few thousand, we might be able to extract some meaning from that data.
So then we ask, why aren't we doing more. And we have to say that, as Canadians, we are simply n ot committed to research in e-learning, or in education generally. By contrast, the UK, 74 different institutes. Also awards, eg. National Teaching Fellowships. And they have the JISC and a whole bunch of things.
Other countries can do things, even Russia can do things, it's not just the fact that we are in a federation.
What I really liked what they did was that they looked at all the other documents, eg. government studies, media, and so on. And they came back and made correlations between them saying positive things and why, eg., saving money, and they were happy to say the reason for e-learning is access and distance learning.
It's interesting you see the rebuttals, the old paradigm wars are alive and well, the left and qualitative studies vs the right (and I notice the right were too scared to come here today).
Margaret Haughey
We were asked to respond to the documentation itself, and in the first place I thought of it as a classification scheme, so I look at the effort to create a classification scheme that was based on different types of work. They didn't quite pull it off. The translation of it into numerical data and the trying to give things a plus or a minus with a rating scale didn't really work.
E-learning - what does it mean? We tend to talk of it as though it were dropped from the heavens - what is the impact? Or thinking of it as a tool. But the world has moved into an environment in which technology is everywhere. What's happening in e-learning is really a reflection of what's happening in other fields.
When I did my review, at the same time Ungerleider did his (but I didn't get the same kind of press) it was full of case studies. Look at this conference - personal learning environment, connective knowledge. There's a whole new way of thinking. Even as you're trying to study e-learning, it's transforming itself. Informal learning. So I put back to the authors that their definition was so broad it included everything, and when you include everything you can't draw any useful conclusions. Kids learning to keyboard - is that e-learning?
Also - integration, immersion. Thinking about it while we're doing it.
I would disagree with the generality, you use such general categories everything gets dumped into it. I see work on dialogue, on developing community. These are areas where there is a body of work.
Dave Cormier: "Do we really need the 'e' any more?" As long as we're still thinking of technology as something 'other' it will never be really integrated.
Margaret - I agree. It puts the emphasis on pedagogy.
Terry- agree, but it is interesting that the authors classified it into instructional, presentational, etc. As long as we keep in mind that it's multipurpose, we'll be ok.
Rick: I wonder if we're back to the old 'media effectiveness' question, just smudged. I wonder if people are thinking of online learning environments, Moodle, when they're thinking of this. But the 'media effectiveness' thing was debunked 20 years ago.
Terry - that zombie has risen from the coffin.
Heather - we get into conversations about what the impact is of the use of technology. Not technology determinism, but belief that technology is non-neutral. There is an impact. Telephone is the same as not face-to-face. We need to know, eg., how does text-based mediated communication change activities. Asking what the consequences are and how they impact our communication.
Rick - isn't the problem the term? We don't get specific. We talk about text-based, that's one thing. But there's Elluminate, which is audio, that's a different thing.
Diane Janes - wondering about the zombie and the effectiveness debate, and tying it with funding, that wants us to be effective. "I don;t want my child to be damaged by something that's not effective." Was the zombie ever dead? The world comes back and says, "How effective is this?"
Margaret - the conference where we presented these papers had a whole lot of OECD people at it, and then Charlie spoke, saying, you should stop it, you're not accomplishing anything. But the better analogy would be, the automobile. Once, we had maps with gas stations, because we needed them. And roads. These days, we just assume they're there. There are so many things that are part of the infrastructure of the automobile. The question of impact was asked then - why should we do this. The horse, it doesn't need gas stations. If it were only that we introduced tech, and everything else was the same, we could do the research. But things change - the curriculum, the testing, the teaching strategies.
Terry - the easy out is to say 'how do we know that was effective'. The only answer is to say, 'How would I learn'. To say with some authority, that's what I'm using.
-- the labling issue was a bit of a barrier. We're so hung up on computers, we wonder what we are going to do with voice over internet, oh no, we know nothing about VoIP. But if we say 'audio', we have a lot to say about audio. Because we say 'computers' we're losing a lot of what we learned from distance education when there were no computers. It was only in rare models that we had no contact. The labeling can really get in the way so much.
Heather - I agree. Peters wrote an excellent article on building on the foundations. There's a lot of talk about old wine in new bottles...
Terry - it's in the Bible.
--- I don;t know anything about the methodology or the breadth of the study.
Michele - journals, public policy, scholarly academic reviews....
--- maybe one of the reasons we got 15 percent is that there was a huge pile that was missed. Eg. Journal of Medical education - was 95 percent empirical research. Parallel reviews. If those were missed in many of those disciplines, empirical research is a requirement...
Michele - It was a focus on Canadian educational journals.
Terry - listed pretty broad sources.
Michele - It is online, cjlt.ca
--- Re: people looking at technology as a value-neutral tool - it's not, of course -- people tend to think of technology as always a good thing. Wonder if you have a response to that attitude. Have we created an industry that becomes self-propelling.
Terry - well the most-used technology is the blackboard, so I don't think we're overwhelmed. I think we've got lots of conservatives.
Heather - we have to justify the way things are currently done.
--- I was upset with my son's science teacher, he was using a 1981 textbook, there's no computer, it's 1970s style education, for a junior high school in Alberta it's not very good stuff. My daughters history text is from 1983, it says there are a million computer users now in the U.S.
Heather - I was wondering what's the difference between animated objects vs transparencies?
Margaret - the real shadow piece is around th questions that is asked around impact and testing and accountability, we can see from the United States, there's a big emphasis again on objectives.
Michele - I'm also looking at the issues of equity. Also in Alberta, a school, fully funded by Apple, with one-to-one computing. There's no system of accountability, no system for assessing whether it's being used responsibly. Or access is so locked down you can't reasonably do research.
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There is an alternative to the media effectiveness dilemma, by using 'affordances' in Gibson's radical sense of the word.ReplyDelete
Affordances, to paraphrase, are "the product of the interaction between the learner and the environment. Each interaction potentially alters the identity of the learner, as well as the nature of the micro-environment".
This has interesting resonance with semiotics, as the sign too is not a thing but a dynamic relationship.
What this does is to recast the research perspective. We can no longer ask: "which media?" we have to ask: "which relationships and which identities?" and we have to humbly borrow terms and insights from ecology to help us out. Ecologists are not of one mind, but they have done a lot of the basic legwork.
The shedding of old terms and old thinking - continuously - just as animals do each spring - the bold presumption that there are "best practices" when we are still in along, emergent phase - the idea that there is an e in e-learning causing us to focus on technology not pedagogy - and the dearth of qualitative analysis, to lay a path of "this seemed to work" now let's try this and then find out what the learner has to say. It's just too bad that we can't truhtfully say "I don't know", still hold our heads high, and exclaim that it is a journey not a destination.ReplyDelete
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Original post made by Nohbody, Downtown, on Feb 28, 2013
And if you have out of state plates - watch out! Cause, you'll get cited for that too.
The money I'm spending on attorneys to defend and sue the city over this kind of minor bull crap is hopefully the last money I'll ever spend in Pleasanton.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 28, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Actually, I just saw a young girl in tears driving a white car northbound at the Santa Rita and Stoneridge intersection and as I was driving by on Santa Rita, the police officer was bullying her to open the trunk of the car.
a resident of Vineyard Avenue
on Feb 28, 2013 at 6:54 pm
The Pleasanton Police will pull you over for reasons that they can't ticket you for just to check if you have been drinking. This has happened to me 3 times. It is illegal and amounts to harrassment.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 28, 2013 at 7:49 pm
The Pleasanton Police tends to pull over anyone that is driving after the sun goes down. They then claim that they smell alcohol (bogus claim) and then ask to search your car. If you say no, they will then conduct a field sobriety test.
After you pass, make sure you get the cop's name, then fill out a formal complaint (email is fine) and send it to the police chief and copy the mayor and city council.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 1, 2013 at 7:07 am
"free right hand turns from a right hand lane, or a single lane with no other option is free anywhere else in the U.S." And they are free here too moron -- AFTER YOU STOP. I am sick of being nearly run over by drivers making a no stop right turn, while looking left for traffic, and almost hitting me in the crosswalk. I now carry a "walking stick" and I take a huge whack at their car when they fail to yield. How do you like that dent in your right rear panel Ms. white SUV, talking on the cellphone, soccer mom?
Cops stop drivers who appear drunk because, guess what, you are driving like you might be drunk! Pay attention to the roads, the laws and the speed limit and they will have no reason to stop you.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 1, 2013 at 10:43 am
Good luck in court Nohbody. I hope you win your case. Maybe then the pleasanton police department will discontinue their practice of citizen harrassment.
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 1, 2013 at 4:24 pm
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Just pay the fine now, before you parade your ignorance in front of a courtroom full of witnesses. Cut your losses and learn something from your mistakes......MC Hammer?
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 1, 2013 at 4:50 pm
I've lived here 40 years and was pulled over only once because both brake lights on my car were burned out. Glad to hear the police are doing their job and pulling over lousy,unsafe drivers and people who don't register their cars in California after they have moved here.
I was about to call them yesterday and ask that they do more to tickets the folks who can't be bothered to actually stop at stop signs.
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 1, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Good job Ptown PD.....these losers forgot driving is a privilege....not a right. Keep up the good work and cite em all!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 1, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Keep harassing the working tax-payers with your morning commute time ambushes so that the coffers stay full and you can retire at 50 and go get another job. These so-called citizens deserve nothing but your contempt! Remember the OPD Riders? They got off! I think you aren't doing enough if you aren't planting drugs and weapons on these so-called citizens. No one in Pleasanton should be able to drive through town without fear of being pulled over and slammed into Santa Rita while on their way to work to make the money that pays your salary and pension! Keep up the good work and start planting some drugs too!
a resident of Birdland
on Mar 5, 2013 at 8:06 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
'Good job', leave your stash and your Glock at home and not in the glove box of your Dodge 300 with the totally blacked out windows and you can stay under the radar. If you think you're a target for the police aks yourself 'what I am doing wrong'. You can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey. Don't give the police a reason to pull you over and they won't.
And the phony accusation of planted drugs...really? You must have a serious axe to grind and can't accept the consequences for your own illegal behavior. Stay out of Pleasanton and you can avoid this situation altogether.


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