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Last Saturday, thehun.net (aka. the Yellow Pages of Porn) was so kind to publish a link to my adult site DorisDawn.com – and so it began!
Don told me that "The Hun portal is using an iframe to display the actual page from our site. This will make The Hun's populous visitor base hit directly on our page, which is gracefully coded on the server-side, with a fair number of calls to the data base and all the heavy lifting happens inside our server and not outside, on the client machine of the visitor."
Hm, have you got the picture? Neither did I. Don's mumble jumble is too complicated for mere mortals to grasp. So I teased him a bit to make me understand. No chance, he was too stressed with solving this server meltdown and kept speaking in tongues to me. But I insisted and kissed him many times to calm down, even handled him a hot cup of tea and asked more dumb questions until I started to make some sense.
And here goes my version of the last Saturday server crash:
Sympathizing with all men over 40 (and younger if they wish to indulge with me), I called them for a virtual masturbation party. My announcement was well placed. Many men did a peep in to see me over the fence of my garden. So many that the fence broke under their growing numbers, the garden was involuntarily stampeded (the guys just wanted to peep, nothing else) and I had to retire in the attic, in panic (well, it was no panic, but I have to convey the turmoil from the server room). No more pictures available, no more party, just 500 or even 404 error messages on blank screens. Ouch! That's the worst that could happen when going to an online party. Too bad.
We're deeply sorry, we regret and we apologize for this inconvenience!
In the middle of this drama, Don first propped the fences and even brought all the chairs out. But that wasn't enough. Then he went to rent an entire hotel, with plenty of parking lots, with warm and cozy pools, and a well lightened stage where I could dance. During all these preparations, The Hun kept sending us a fresh and frenzy fat charge every second. It was evening in Europe and morning in California when our new private server (aka the hotel) was fully setup and running to satisfy each new visitor in part. However, Don had to double-check and fine tune this or that until Sunday before dawn.
By Sunday evening, he told me that the "server-side" was changed to "client-side" on the coding of the page where The Hun linked to our site, which (in more humane terms) means that less stress will apply on our hotel-like server in the future because, even if our new server has the capacity of Hilton, even if every new comer can now be timely treated with all the pics he wishes to peep at, there's a tiny technicality in the hotel world: PRICE!
Now we have to pay per memory used and processing cycles. If one out of ten peepers would have converted into paying subscribers this article would have had a different ending. Until then, the conclusion I drew from crunching some digits (yes, I do the digits in the books, Don does the symbols in the servers) is that in October we'll have to up a bit our one-time non-recurring fees at DorisDawn.com Sensual Erotic Goodies — that's my personal adult site for you.
Good to know: the $7.99 monthly recurring fee will remain unchanged!
Also good to know: besides the HD nude pictures of me, besides Don's comics for adults and besides our "hard-core" geeky erotic stories, we just shot some movies this morning, along with a couple hundred photos, in our quest to find true beauty and a sense of candour in what we do. For your pleasure and for ours alike.
Hurry up at DorisDawn.com and grab a discounted subscription. This is a "back to the future" discount! See that we don't throw at you with marketing nonsense. In all honesty, I wrote an entire article announcing that we're gonna raise costs for the aforementioned reasons, that we'll keep the $7.99 monthly recurring unchanged and that you have about a week to grab a subscription at the currently very low prices.
I know, it's impolite to talk about money in public, they say. But I suppose I did it with grace. Now let me post some more impolite pictures of me naked.
Spare a moment to stare at my NoteBook and then go looking for more "intellectual porn" at DorisDawn.com — yes, yes, I know that "erotica" is a much better term, but men like "porn" whatever women would want to call it, like romantic, beautiful, gracious, sensual and intellectual porn — a thought-through thing for sure!
If you enjoyed the sample snaps, then go at DorisDawn.com for more. Grab the discounts as they last!


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So, I'm sitting at Starbucks today. Got out of the house to do some work since it's a gloomy, drizzly fall day.
A few minutes after I sat down, a couple with twin boys, no more than 3 or 4 years old, sat down at the table next to me. The kids were bopping and bouncing to the music, happily chomping on their little snack boxes of fruit and cheese. I couldn't help but smile as I looked over at them. One of the boys exclaimed, "Mommy! She has your computer," while I typed away on my Mac putting together an email newsletter for a client. "Yes, hunny, that is the same as Mommy's computer at home." We just silently smiled at each other.
The couple started talking to the woman on the opposite side of them and I overheard, "Do you have any other kids?" My heart just sank momentarily. Thinking to myself. Oh god, please don't talk to me. I don't want to answer that. I've actually not had anyone ask if I have kids since losing Emmett so I haven't had to answer that particular question yet. I know it's going to come up some day. I'll probably be honest and just say I have an angel baby. But there are times where it just takes more energy to be honest and it's easier to utter no even though in my heart it's an awful lie.
Missed something from the past month? Here's a quick round-up of some of the most-read blog posts:
1. What's A Grief Burst? (Thanks to the Grieving Parents Support Network for sharing on Facebook!)
2. A Grandmother's Story: My Journey in the Wilderness
3. Live Life
Here are some links from across the web about miscarriage, loss, grief and support:
"Compassion for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage," Grok Nation, by Talia Davis Haykin, posted Oct. 28, 2016. (Side note: Grok Nation is the brain-child of actress Mayim Bialik and covers a bunch of great topics, definitely suggest checking it out if you haven't heard about it)
"27 Beautiful Bible Versions for Every Woman in Need of Love, Reassurance and Strength," by Marissa Donnelly and posted on "Thought Catalog," April 18, 2016.
"My Before Friends and My After Friends," by Megan Skaggs and posted in Still Standing Magazine, Oct. 3, 2016.
I'll leave you with this feel-good story. This elderly man in Georgia has learned to knit and he's making teeny hats for preemies at a local hospital's NICU. Last month, he delivered more than 300 hats to the hospital. Love him! Makes me want to start back up and continue knitting some more knit hats for the hospital where we delivered Emmett in April. I haven't made a delivery in several months.

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Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change
Edited by Cristiano Antonelli
Chapter 19: Network Models of Innovation Process and Policy Implications
Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell and Greg Wiltshire
* Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell and Greg Wiltshire 1. INTRODUCTION Understanding the innovation process is key to understanding how capitalism has created levels of productivity which were previously undreamed of. However, the standard models of the firm or of macroeconomic growth do not address this very effectively. This is largely because innovation is fundamentally a disequilibrium phenomenon – it is about the constant adjustment towards a new equilibrium that is never reached because further innovation is always occurring. Innovation is a disturber and a re-adjuster, to both the firm and the economy. Since innovation is a dynamic process, analysis using comparative statics fails to capture the nature of the process. Schumpeter pointed out long ago that 'innovation . . . does not lend itself to description in terms of a theory of equilibrium' (Schumpeter, 1928), and more recently Antonelli notes that 'innovation is the distinctive element of a dynamic process which cannot be analysed with the equilibrium approach' (Antonelli, 2008). This chapter addresses the dynamics of innovation by considering the process by which a particular innovation might be made effective. To do this, we look at the networks by which organizations might discover and adopt innovations. Glückler notes that growth and innovation largely result from network dynamics, and this is the starting point this study takes (Glückler, 2007). Innovation is the deliverable realization of an invention. It is important not to treat technological improvement or invention as identical to innovation (Metcalfe, 2007). Metcalfe notes that even were technological advancement to end today, there...
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But sometimes we want to use the data right away for our own purposes. Maybe we want the tables sorted by arrival in the next checkpoint rather than by departure from the previous one, or we're interested in run times and want to compare them. So I thought I'd give an example laying in three easy steps how I used my usual tool set this morning to calculate the TOTW mushers' run times between Chicken and the finish in Tok. In the end I'll also list a few alternatives for those who use other computer software.
Step 1: Copy the race stats table into a spreadsheet
I want to use the table entitled "Chicken to Tok Finish Line- 75 Miles" to calculate run times between Chicken and Tok. The run time is simply the arrival time in Tok minus the departure time in Chicken, but calculating this musher by musher, even with the help of a handy time difference calculator, is tedious. Therefore, I'd rather have the table in a spreadsheet I can manipulate. Microsoft Excel would work perfectly fine, but then I might want to share the result with my friends online, so an online spreadsheet like the one in Google Docs is even better. (Also I have Excel installed only on my work computer in the office, not at home.) If you've never used a spreadsheet, no fear -- this is an easy introduction to them.
I use an older Macbook Pro with OS X Snow Leopard, but all of these steps would work identically on Windows or even GNU/Linux, if you use the Google Chrome browser with the (free) "Table Capture" extension installed. This is a very simple extension that makes it particularly easy to get a table from a web page into a Google Spreadsheet or to copy it anywhere else really, like a MS Word document. Here is a screenshot of how it works (click to embiggen, as they say):
When you click the little red table icon in the address bar (right edge, next to a few other tool icons), a list of all tables on the page appears, and scrolling down the list each table is highlighted (red frame) in turn. If you hit "To Google Doc", a new Google spreadsheet opens (you're asked to log into your Google account if you aren't), and you're asked to use the "paste" function to transfer the table:
Step 2: Clean up the spreadsheet
The previous step leaves us with the data correctly inserted in the spreadsheet, but before we can use them, it is time for a few clean-up tasks. The easy ones first:
We want to give the spreadsheet a name, such as "TOTW 350 Chicken - Tok Finish - unofficial".
Then we observe that the first row, the one that says "Bib Musher..." is not a data row but contains the labels of the data below. To make Google understand that, I grab the little grey-striped handle at the top-left (red arrow just above the number 1) and pull it down one row. This handle separates the data from the header, and you can just pull it down. It ensures that when the table is re-sorted, the labels always stay on top.
Third, Crispin Studer's arrival time was indicated as 24:11:00. But when we calculate differences, we would rather have this as 0:11:00, 11 minutes after midnight, so I changed the 24 to a 0.
Google correctly recognizes the data as times, which is great, and formats it accordingly. But we still have the problem that when we want to calculate the difference between "Time Into Tok" and "Time Out Of Chicken", the times aren't all from the same day: some are Dec 30, and some Dec 31. Also, if we want to compare times across the entire race, there may be several days between points-in-time. So we have to bite the bullet and add dates to the times. The most straightforward way is to double-click on the first time field (Lance Mackey - Time Out Of Chicken - 6:52:00), then click once more in front of the text, and to type in "12/30/2012 " (the space at the end is important). Once you're done with the first row (Lance), you can select/copy the bit of date text and use "paste" for all the other fields. Careful, some of the times in the "Time Into Tok" column need 12/31/2012 " instead.
Phew, that was the most tedious step of the entire task. Luckily this isn't the Iditarod with 150 time fields to edit! The end result of the cleaned-up spreadsheet looks like this:
Step 3: Calculate run times
The run time is now simply the difference between the Time Into Tok (column E) and the Time Out Of Chicken (column C). I add a column at the end to hold this data and call it "Run time", and start at the top with Lance Mackey, row 2. The formula for his run time is "=E2 - C2", with a minus sign, and an equal sign to indicate that this is a formula, not text, that I'm typing into the first field of my new column. I could also type "=", then select Lance's Time Into Tok, then "-", then select his Time Out Of Chicken. The result appears as soon as I hit Return, and oops! It's a number like 0.39236111...! No panic, Google simply needs to be told that the difference between two date-time stamps is a time (I'm not sure why it can't figure this one out by itself). The format of the field needs to be changed via the menu:
That is, go to Format > Number > Time, and the 0.39... will change into a time (9:25:00). Now I only have to grab hold of the little blue square at the bottom-right of the new field and pull it down the entire column (at least for the mushers who HAVE times in both the Time Into Tok and the Time Out Of Chicken fields), and there we have it -- run times:
We can even sort the table by run time (the down arrow next to the column letter G), and see that Jake had the fastest time on the last leg, Joar had a fabulous run time as well, and also that Matt Hall stepped on the gas again.
That's it! It took me a lot less time to do than to eat my breakfast.
At this point you may have some objections.
Objection 1: I don't use Chrome!
The main difficulty is to get that damn HTML table out of the web page and into a spreadsheet. There are many ways to do this, but unfortunately they tend to be fiddly and not work on every computing platform the same. You could try to just select the entire table text with the mouse, copy, open the spreadsheet, and then paste, but whether this works depends on a rather large number of factors: the web page itself (how the table code is written behind the scenes), the operating system you're using (which manages the clipboard for copy-paste), the browser (for interfacing with the clipboard) and the spreadsheet software. I've had good luck and bad luck. Microsoft browsers on Windows with Excel usually work well together, but that's not what I use at home. However, for many browsers, there are now extensions available that make copying tables easier. For Chrome, the Table Capture extension works great for me. For Firefox, I've seen a few extensions that do this and for this article tried two:
- Dafzilla Table2Clipboard - does one thing, does it well. I like it.
- TableTools2 - Copy/Sort/Chart/Filter Table&More! - does everything and the kitchen sink with tables. I haven't tried this one other than for the copying function, which also works as advertised (select "Copy > Table as Tab-Delimited Text")
Objection 2: Math?! Date formats?! Are you kidding me?!It's really not hard. If you've never used a spreadsheet formula before, you'll probably be surprised how easy these tools make it to get really useful small tasks done. The main point to understand is that you can simply subtract, say, 5 pm on the 30th of December from 2 am on the 31st and get a time difference -- how many hours, minutes and seconds are between these two points-in-time -- and that the computer needs to be fed clean and consistent values to be able to understand times, dates and timestamps (the combination of a date and a time-of-day, simply speaking). So data needs to be in a format the computer can read, and for Google in the USA language setting, "12/30/2012 19:36" works fine. It will also understand the international (ISO) format "2012-12-31 19:36" for example. I admit that getting this right is the most fiddly part of the entire thing, but in the end it's just about getting used to conventions of how to write dates and times.
Objection 3: I'm a programmer and I really don't want to edit data fields by hand!OK, if you aren't a programmer, stop reading. No harm done.
Seriously, the following comes with a jargon warning.
You are a programmer? You have heard the term "regular expression" before? OK, on your head be it!
Google Docs does in fact offer regular expression find-and-replace, but it's not well documented. So with this information, here's what I did:
For the non-programmers who have read on out of curiosity, this means in words:
- Find any text in the spreadsheet that has at least one digit (\d+) at the beginning of the cell (^) followed by a colon (:)
- Replace it with the text "12/30/12 " followed by itself (that is, the text we just found), referred to as $1.
That's it! But really, editing the 30 or so fields by hand wasn't that hard either.


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"You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you….Your task will not be an easy one. I have full confidence in your courage, your devotion to duty, and skill in battle."
--GEN Dwight D Eisenhower
50,000 Americans hit Omaha and Utah beaches before dawn.
Three infantry divisions, Regular Army 1st from Ft Riley, Regular Army 4th, from Ft Carson, National Guard 29th from Maryland, Virginia, and DC. Each reinforced with a combat engineer battalion and one of tanks.
24 hours later 25,000 had survived to advance across those beaches to the bocage beyond.
They were joined by 50,000 Brits and Canadians from the 3rd and 50th UK and 3rdCanadian Infantry Divisions, similarly reinforced with elements of the 79th UK Armored Division and the Royal Marines, landed on Gold, Juno, & Sword beaches.
Inland of that 30,000 paratroopers of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne, and British 6th Airborne Divisions were dropped to block and secure the reinforcement routes the Germans would need to defeat the landings.
Ike wrote in his memoirs (Crusade in Europe) that he honestly thought he was sending the paratroopers to their deaths. But that it was imperative to give the men on the beacheads time to make a firm lodgment. As a hallmark of a truly great leader, he did not hide in his headquarters (like some 'perfumed princes of the pentagon'), but went directly to one of the Airborne units before their jump…and deaths… to speak with them and shake those mens' hands.
Some Notable D-Day Veterans:
James Doohan – 'Mr Scott' of Star Trek (Combat Engineer 3rd Canadian Infantry Division)
Sumner Redstone – Media Mogul, CBS CEO (codebreaker with 'ASA'- Army Security Agency)
Don Rickles – Comedian (Cox'un on a Landing Craft)
Rocky Marciano – Heavyweight Champion (150th Combat Engineer Battalion)
You've heard of the Navajo Code talkers of the Marines in the Pacific, the Army used members of the Cherokee Nation in the same role during and after the D-Day Landings.


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I am NOT a romance novel reader, modern or Regency or whatever. I would have passed Georgette Heyer by forever, if not for the enlightenment of the internets, and people whose opinions I have come to value swearing up and down I'd like her books. I'm now a huge fan, and working my way through all of her works. I think I just finished (sort of) my favorite:
The Grand Sophy
I say "sort of" because I listened to this as an abridged Audible download. I normally won't touch abridged, especially from an author I enjoy, but this one was on sale for $4.95 and I was without new dog-walking-listening, and it had rave reviews, though nearly every review bemoaned the abridgement, so I went for it. I finished it this afternoon, and my review echoes the rest - LOVED the story and the characters, fabulous reader, but WHY, oh WHY, is it only available in this chopped-down 4+ hour length?
I do believe this is my favorite of the several Heyer books I've listened to, and now I want to get it in paper format so I can see what they chopped out to make it a well-done but way-too-short four hour production. It's laugh out loud funny in many places, and The Grand Sophy is now my all-time favorite Heyer heroine. So if you still have some summer left and want some smart, funny escapist reading, Grandma Crabby gives this five stars and two thumbs up.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
3 comments:
I don't like her romances, but I love her mystery novels.
- besshaile said...
Oh la! She's absolutely my favorite of the regency romance writers. Sometimes that's my favorite - sometimes Fredericka, sometimes Venetia, sometimes the cluster that begins with These Old Shades. Think we have a fan here? Our library has every single one of her books, except her very first one - but I've even read that one.
- Catherine said...
I am not a romance novel reader, to put it politely, but I enjoy Heyer's wit and knack for comedy. I read her occasionally and have only read a few of her many novels, but I did LOVE this one.
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Legendary entertainer Neil Diamond announced he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
According to Fox News, the 76-year-old singer-songwriter released a statement citing doctor's orders in his decision to cancel the remainder of a tour commemorating his 50th year in the music industry.
"It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my retirement from concert touring," Diamond said. "I have been so honored to bring my shows to the public for the past 50 years."
He apologized to those who purchased tickets to the now-canceled shows and promised fans that they will still see new material from him in the future.
"I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come," he wrote.
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The stalwart of the summer garden, symbolic of love and beauty, with its beautiful array of colours, and stunning array of scents.
Roses are easy to grow but they will benefit from a regular supply of TLC.
A few tips to get the best from your roses:
Planting: Plenty of well-rotted farm yard manure in the base cover with an 1" of soil to protect the young roots from burning. A spoonful of Rootgrow Mycorrhizal Fungi into the base will increase the root development of the plant and help to utilise fertiliser more efficiently. Spread the roots over the Fungi and back fill.
Feeding: Essential if you are to get the best from your plants, roses are hungry feeders. An early season dressing of Blood, Fish and Bone will get your plants off to the best start possible. As soon as the flower buds start to develop a weekly feed of high potash (tomato food is ideal) continue using this throughout the season.
Disease Control: Blackspot and mildew are major diseases of roses which can ruin your display. Using a systematic fungal and pest spray like Rose Clear on a regular basis will keep your plants in the rudest of health.
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Coming Soon to a State Near You: Stricter False Claims Act Legislation
April 8, 2013
By: Eric Whytsell
In an attempt to ensure state false claims legislation keeps up with recent amendments to the federal False Claims Act (FCA), the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS OIG) recently updated its guidelines for determining whether a state's false claims act qualifies for monetary incentives provided under section 1909 of the Social Security Act.
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) created those incentives for states to enact anti-fraud legislation modeled after the FCA. States found by DHHS OIG to have qualifying laws receive a 10-percentage-point increase in their share of any amounts recovered under such laws. Since the passage of the DRA, 28 states have enacted legislation that DHHS OIG has deemed qualified. However, during the same period, the FCA has been amended by the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA), the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). These three acts amended several provisions of the FCA requiring approved state laws to be revised in order to retain their deemed status. As a result, DHHS OIG: (1) began analyzing compliance with the FCA as amended; and (2) provided a two-year grace period during which OIG-approved state acts would continue to be deemed compliant pending state amendment for resubmission.
That grace period ended March 31, 2013, two weeks after the effective date of the updated guidelines. As a result, in order to qualify for the incentive going forward, a state must amend and resubmit its false claims act to DHHS OIG for review under the new guidelines and either have the act approved or be under review.
The revised guidelines modify the criteria to be used by DHHS OIG to determine whether a state act appropriately establishes liability for false or fraudulent claims relating to state Medicaid expenditures. The modifications reflect FCA amendments that expanded liability to include false statements "material" to a false or fraudulent claim. They also enhance provisions that reward and facilitate qui tam actions by, for example, restricting state law limits on actions resulting from public
disclosures and modified the minimum percentages of recovery that a relator must receive under the state act. In addition, the new guidelines establish minimum civil penalty amounts of at least $5,500 to $11,000 to bring them in line with federal minimums.
What does all this mean for contractors? If the incentive program works as intended, contractors will soon be facing new, stricter state false claims acts that more closely resemble the current federal FCA. And given today's tight budget environment, it seems likely that many states will make the required changes so they can take advantage of the incentive program and retain more of what they recover through their prosecution of fraud.
Eric Whytsell is the attorney responsible for the content of this article.


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This is the best and funny Albert Einstein quotes about adore, life, achievement, know-how, atheism, God and religion. Education is a course of action by which the individual is developed into anything improved than he would have been without the need of it. … The incredibly thought appears in a way the height of presumption. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you need to come out and stroll several methods on your own. It was imagined that experiments in education have been not important and that, no matter whether any issue in it was good or undesirable, could be judged of by the reason. The virtues and powers to which guys could be educated, by early education and continual discipline , are actually sublime and astonishing.
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text: Diane comes back to a simple prescription: We should pursue business as usual with a few extensions of current policy. Unfortunately that is not serving us well, because this is exactly what we have done for several decades. We have developed a system that pays little attention to students and their achievement but that supports any adult who has found a job in schools. This policy does not look good by historical evidence on student outcomes. But it is common to defend this basic lack of management by throwing in red herrings whenever any policy change is suggested.


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text: Contact author. Visit her website.'s fifth collection of poetry, The Swing Girl, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press, and A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, from Dream Horse Press in 2012. Earlier collections include A Shared Life, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. New work appears in recent issues of the Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Hotel Amerika, Image: Art, Faith, and Mystery, Tiferet, and Mid-American Review. She now teaches workshops in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville.


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This episode is the first part of the journey of Sr Rita Steinhagen, CSJ. In this episode, we follow Sr Rita and her efforts to found The Bridge, an assistance program for homeless youths.
Pa Ying:
"When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down"
-Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
On December 2016, the Code of Ordinances was amended by the Minneapolis City Council to allow the opening of intentional communities, wherein unrelated adults can live together. These adults are given the opportunity to function as a unit, by sharing household expenses and creating a set of rules that all individuals can abide by.
Sr Rita Steinhagen was born on January 21, 1928 in Waconia, Minnesota. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis in her high school years and was a patient at the Minnesota State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis. After being discharged from the sanatorium, she took a course on medical technology and upon her graduation, she began working as a medical technologist at the sanatorium; it was here that she met acquaintances with connections to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. At 23 years old, Sr Rita joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and continued working as a medical technologist. Ten years later, Sr Rita was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had to resign from her job as a medical technologist.
After her journey as a medical technologist, Sr Rita moved on to work at the Free Store in Minneapolis. In her book, Hooked by the Spirit, Sr Rita writes, "...I learned that the health officials and police had closed the store because it had not been consistently staffed and had turned into a warming house for winos, drug addicts, and runaways." Sr Rita was now tasked with the need to convince the landlords, ministers, social workers, and other community leaders to reopen the Free Store. And after much trouble, Sr Rita was given the keys to reopen the Free Store on March 17th, 1969.
"An amazing amount of people had entered my life since I had come to West Bank. Some I saw only once or twice, but others who lived in the area became regulars at the store. Elderly people from the high-rise were frequent visitors as were numerous hippies. Some runaways also came in often, particularly those who lived on the roof of a department store on Cedar Avenue."
Dr. Judy Bergfalk, newly graduated medical student, contacted Sr Rita to ask about working in West Bank.
Kip, asked for prayers that his marriage will work out.
John, a hippie, whose house was open to runaways asked for a statue of an angel.
Dr. Grace Carlson, a professor at St. Mary's Junior College and a former member of the Communist Party, had great conversations about life with Sr. Rita.
Cindy, a 14-year old runaway who Sr. Rita opened her home for.
And an unnamed individual who had runway from home and eventually asked Sr Rita if she could provide a place for the runaways to stay.
On June 1970, the same landlords who owned the Free Store allowed Sr. Rita to use a house that they had on 20th Avenue South as a place to house runaways. During this time, the Minneapolis Community Health and Welfare Council formed the Runaway Assistance Program (RAP) to address the homelessness problem in the city. The report that was released by the RAP highlighted Sr. Rita's effort to license a house to shelter the runaways. As a result of this, Sr Rita went to several meetings with social workers, law enforcement, fire and building inspectors in order to obtain a license. However, the journey to obtaining a license was long and they had to turn away several requests for shelter because no official statement had been made about the legality of the shelter.
One her many meetings with the RAP, Father Jerome Boxleitner suggested that the shelter be part of Catholic Charities so that funding can be less stressful and more credibility can be given to the shelter. With that in mind, Sr. Rita allowed the shelter to fall under Catholic Charities and with their support movement for the legality of the shelter progressed.
Needing to get away from the stress for a while, Sr Rita went to Timberlee, where her community had a lake place. It was here that Sr Rita found the perfect name for her shelter. One of the sister was singing "Bridge over Troubled Waters," and inspired by the song, she decided to name the shelter The Bridge.
"The committee and I had difference of opinion about who the clientele of The Bridge should be. The committee said that funding might not be available if only girls were accepted. I said, 'Just girls to start with. Let's live there a few weeks to see where the bedrooms and bathrooms are and if the showers and toilet works.'
I thought the hassle of moving into a new place with young girls who had problems would be enough of a challenge without the "boy" factor. Boys could be accepted later when we figured out what we were doing."
After waiting for several months, the Bridge was finally given a temporary one month license in February before being properly licensed as a group home on March 8th, 1971. By March, they had already housed 186 kids. Though licensed and under Catholic Charities, The Bridge still had difficulties with funding and were behind on rent. But with the help of their lawyer, Dave Stanley and his legal group the Enablers, The Bridge was able to obtain a monthly check of $200 to help with the rent.
Along with the financial difficulties, the Board of Directors of The Bridge was debating the possibility of breaking away from Catholic Charities and being an independent organization. Through much discussion, the decision was made to remove it's dependency on Catholic Charities, making The Bridge an independent organization that was still struggling to find a stable source of funding.
According to The Bridge's official site, "On February 3, 1972, The Bridge became a privately incorporated nonprofit, with funding from the Governor's Crime Commission. The Bridge was the first runaway shelter in the nation to receive federal funding.
The Bridge quickly emerged as a national leader in the field of homeless youth. In 1972, Sister Marlene Barghini (our first Executive Director) testified in front of the U.S. Subcommittee on Children & Youth regarding the importance of crisis hotlines – a system that continues to be integral to The Bridge, updated for the modern world with the addition of a text hotline.
In 1997, the Bridge opened a transitional living program, which helps youth learn life skills and transition out of homelessness. Originally, this program served up to 8 young people for a maximum of 90 days each. Today, Transitions has 10 beds and youth can stay for up to 18 months."
Along with their transitional living program, The Bridge also recently opened Rita's House. As per Minneapolis' new amendment to their Code of Ordinances, individuals can live in Rita's House and work as a unit to manage the house. Along with this opportunity, they also get to work towards their own goal and obtain a rental history while working with "a case manager and an Independent Living Skills specialist, who will help them work towards independent adulthood."
"I find it hard to put into words the depth of my feelings for the world that I had suddenly and unexpectedly become part of five years before. I became very comfortable with this world because of the acceptance and love I received from the street people.
But my spirit was telling me it was time to move on. I needed more quiet and prayer time. The inner voice that sets my time schedule is like a pull or call that sends the salmon upstream in the spring and the robins south in the fall…"
Sr Rita's journey will continue in the next episode.
Additional Information:
The Bridge for Youth: http://www.bridgeforyouth.org/behind-the-bridge/history/
Rita's House: http://www.bridgeforyouth.org/what-is-ritas-house/


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Let's get one thing clear, if you are looking to clear up your acne-infested skin, you have your work cut out for you.
You really do. It is quite a tall order because, as everybody knows, the most powerful anti-acne treatment currently on the market is Accutane. Nothing can even come close.
If you're serious about dropping a nuclear bomb on your acne problem, Accutane is the easy answer because it gets the job done, all day, every day. Now, what's not to love?
Well, here's the problem. If you are female of childbearing age, you cannot take Accutane if you have a chance of getting pregnant. The serious birth defects Accutane brings to the table are well documented. In fact, there have been many lawsuits filed by women who have had children with horrific birth defects, thanks to Accutane.
Accutane is no joke. This is why powerful acne treatments that involve Accutane, at some level or another, are actually last resorts for dermatologists. As much as possible, they would recommend natural options or some other type of Accutane alternative that isn't as harsh on your system.
One of these Accutane alternative solutions is isotretinoin. I know that's quite a mouthful, but isotretinoin is actually Vitamin A. If you eat a lot of food that are heavy in Vitamin A, like dairy products, eggs, or animal organs like liver, you will get quite a bit of isotretinoin or biochemicals related to it called retinoids.
This class of biochemical compounds do a pretty good job of mimicking Accutane. In other words, you get the benefits of that very powerful drug without the side effects. It is no surprise that a lot of dermatologists consider isotretinoin, or Vitamin A in general, as an effective Accutane alternative.
What's the big deal about retinoids anyway? Well, with retinoids, you get an "all-in-one" skin health solution. First of all, Vitamin A cleans your skin. So when your dead skin cells start to pile up, Vitamin A enables your body to clear out that dead surface layer on a regular and efficient basis.
Second, it stabilizes the amount of sebum or skin oil your body produces. This is a big deal because the reason why you have acne breakouts in the first place is because you produce too much oil and it clogs your pores. Once this clogging happens, infections can come in, and this reduces your skin into an itchy, inflamed, red mess.
Isotretinoin and retinoids in general help protect your skin from inflammation as well as the formation of a harmful compound called androgen.
Here's the downside to Vitamin A: you cannot take too much of it. This is especially true if you are female and of childbearing age.
If you load too much on Vitamin A, you might actually end up with similar side effects as Accutane. So if you want to treat Vitamin A as an Accutane alternative, you have to take it in natural levels. Speak with your primary care physician or dermatologist regarding optimal levels of retinoids and stick to these levels.


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It seems almost too mean to ask fellow WordPress writers to "work it in" with this word! There are actually three words defined here. I'm still trying to decide which one I am but am leaning toward paraprosexia!! How about you?
Aprosexia is an abnormal inability to pay attention, characterized by near-complete indifference to everything. Opposite is hyperprosexia, meaning to concentrate on one thing to the exclusion of everything else. And, paraprosexia, means the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant distraction). ~ Source: brownielocks


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Kevin Welch is a literate, charismatic singer-songwriter who has made Nashville his home but not his sound. His songwriting is stellar and his songs have been recorded by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Johnny Cash, The Judds, Waylon Jennings, and Roger Miller, to name a few.Kevin Welch recorded two records for Warner Brothers and then started his own label, Dead Reckoning. The label showcased friends and colleagues such as Kieran Kane, Harry Stinson, Mike Henderson, and Tammy Rogers, and became a very successful venture in Nashville back when the days of Indie companies were unheard of, producing 21 records.Welch has a wondrous voice and way of telling a story that brings the audience into his fold. He tours throughout Europe and the States. His latest release "Kane Welch Kaplin" (a collaborative release with Kieran Kane and Fats Kaplin), held the number one slot on the Americana charts for several weeks.
Welch moved to the Wimberley area, in 2008. The following year he recorded "A Patch Of Blue Sky", his first solo project in 8 years. The recording features Texas musicians as well as his son Dustin, who played banjo and slide guitar, and his daughter Savannah, who appeared with her band the Trishas.


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Cute Wins All the Cuddles.
Honestly, cutest picture ever, kid.
Did I tell you that I love you?
The Readings:
Deuteronomy 21:1-22:30, Luke 9:51-10:12, Psalm 74:1-23, Proverbs 12:11
Old Testament.
Hmm. Dealing with a rebellious son. They get to kill him. Not sure if I'm going to bring that up in a blog about how much I love my son. Will get back to you in 10-15.
New Testament.
An interesting read. Herein, people's rejection of Jesus and followers' refusal to give all the loyalty he requires, juxtaposed with him sending out his faithful disciples. Some are willing to join the mission and follow whole-heartedly; others aren't.
Do we realize the true cost of discipleship?
We can't remain secular Christians and follow Christ. Oh sure, we can say we are Christians. But if Christ were here, he'd have none of it. Something about, "Let the dead bury their own dead," or "Foxes have holes but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
Meaning, our Crystal Lite version of Christianity that puts ourselves, our whims, and our buffet style, salad bar doctrine over following Christ and what he says completely might just be enough for him to say, "No, thanks. Christ ain't got no bed. You won't be comfortable in the stable. (points) You others go out two by two."
/dust shaken. Minus the ebonics.
Asaph, he ain't foolin'. (Fist/chest pound twice.)
When God seems to have slowed on the miracles and you're wondering where he is, know that Asaph went through the same thing.
This is an encouragement to all of us who've been down-hearted now and then. Nothing wrong with pleading with God.
True dat. (Sideways peace sign, yo.)
Ah, alas, the verse about "he who chases fantasies..." I guess if there's a time when I have to come down to earth it's now. Hard work trumps all. Hard work on fantasies? ...head asplode.
I'm going to start a garden. No one can argue that farming is not hard work.
(In reality, I just wanted to say true dat and alas in the same post. Carry on, Christian soldja.)
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Bette Belle Smith inspired others to give as she did
With her white hair and her warm smile, Bette Belle Smith was a natural as Mrs. Claus, appearing as she did for many years at McHenry Village, the McHenry Museum and at various community functions.
But, she fit the character so perfectly not because she looked the part but because she didn't have to act it. She was giving personified.
Over the decades, Bette Belle had a key role in some of Modesto's most successful projects, including the Gallo Center for the Arts, and in some of its most effective organizations, including Omega Nu, the Modesto Symphony Orchestra and The Salvation Army.
Her death Sunday, at age 88, brought a predictable -- and wonderfully appropriate -- outpouring of memories. Threaded through the many tributes is a common theme: the woman many called "Mrs. Modesto" didn't just do things for her community, she inspired others to do the same, creating a steady surge of positive action that will be forever treasured and greatly missed.
Last year, some of her friends, community leaders in their own right, organized an effort to encourage a new generation of people to be like Bette Belle. As grand an idea as that was, we doubt there'll ever be anyone quite like her. She was a unique person who lived -- and thrived -- in the midst of changing roles for women.
She was a stay-at-home mom -- we use that term loosely, given how much she did away from home -- who didn't enter the workforce until she was nearly 60, an age when many people are retiring or at least thinking about it. Instead, she went to work at Modesto Banking Co., where she was a mentor to employees and customers alike.
As busy as she was over the years, she always had time to visit with old friends or make new ones. As one wrote in the Legacy guestbook on www.modbee.com, Bette Belle had a way of making every person feel important. Another wrote: "She made me proud to be a woman."
Over the next few days, many people will share stories of Bette Belle, send condolences to the family, and, we hope, make donations to one of the many charitable organizations she supported.
One of the best ways to honor her legacy is to say "yes" when someone asks you to volunteer to help a non-profit. Or better yet, don't wait to be asked -- after all, Bette Belle never did.


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This is me with my dad on Martha's Vineyard. Notice how with most dads he's letting his daughter crawl all over him. And notice too what a great seat a dads lap is.
My dad, at 6'2 was literally and figuratively someone I looked up to. He was born in Newark, NJ and became a police officer there. One of the memories of my dad is how handsome and proud he looked in his uniform. Part of his time in the police force he worked in the emergency squad, he loved helping people and was always good at it.
My mother grew up on Martha's Vineyard and after his first trip to the Island my dad was hooked. Every summer my mom and I would head to MV the beginning of June and my dad would join us for the month of August. He seemed so happy and at home there… he did yard work, painted the house, cooked, read, went clamming and crabbing, relaxed, went to the beach… just simply enjoyed himself.
My parents made their last trip together to the Vineyard in 1975. My dad went back to MV a couple of times after my mother died but of course it wasn't the same. Funny thing is that everytime I'm on Martha's Vineyard I feel the closest to my dad and mom… I guess the spirit resides where it was the happiest.
Just to show that the sitting and climbing on dad thing is generational, or inborn or just a fun thing … here's a picture of my husband Bob with Deb & Patty when they were little.


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the former independent VMware Plug In V2i is now part of the HDID License.
Technically this allows to perform Hardware orchestrated Snapshots of VMWare virtuell Server using VMFS on Hitachi Block or File Storage.
The V2i plug in in part of the HDID Storage Based License an can be managed via the Vcenter Plug in or via the HDID Web Gui.
Out of the Box V2i supports Application Consistent Snapshots for Microsoft Application using VSS.
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Judge Slashes Damages by $15.5M; Defense Asks for New Trial
Shannon P. Duffy
The Legal Intelligencer
April 14, 2006
Posted May 4, 2006
Five weeks after a federal jury in Pittsburgh handed up a $21.3 million verdict in Gallatin Fuels Inc. v. Westchester Fire Insurance Co., an insurance bad faith case, the trial judge slashed the jury's punitive damages award from $20 million to $4.5 million.
Now defense lawyers are urging Chief U.S. District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose to toss out the entire verdict, which stands at $5.8 million, or grant a new trial.
In the suit, Gallatin Fuels Inc. of Uniontown, Pa., sought coverage for the loss of mining equipment that was destroyed in April 2002 when the coal mine in which it was being used returned to its natural water level after the power to the mine was shut off.
Gallatin had supplied the equipment to Mon View Mining Co. to operate the Mathies Mine in Fayette County, Pa.
Mon View had obtained insurance from Westchester Fire, and Gallatin was named as a loss payee under the policy.
According to court papers, Mon View Mining Co. experienced financial difficulties in March 2002 and was unable to meet payroll, utility obligations and other debts. It also defaulted on its lease payments for the mining equipment leased from Gallatin.
Unable to pay its bills, Mon View idled the mine and sent workers home. Gallatin demanded return of its equipment, but Mon View refused.
Gallatin said it learned on April 5, 2002, that Mon View owed $548,000 in electric bills and that the power company was planning to shut off the electricity.
Maintaining electric power was critical to protecting the leased equipment because the mine used electric pumps to remove about 2 million gallons of water each day.
Ventilation would also be impossible without power, and federal authorities would prohibit reentry into the mine without elaborate inspections and reopening procedures, according to court papers.
Gallatin attempted to delay the power shut-off, but was unable. Its equipment was destroyed when the mine filled with water soon after the April 8 shut-off.
But when Gallatin made a claim under the policy, Westchester Fire denied the claim, insisting that there was no loss as defined by the policy and that Gallatin had failed to properly document the loss on the "proof of loss" form.
At trial, Gallatin's lawyers -- Christopher R. Opalinski and John H. Williams of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott -- argued that Westchester Fire had engaged in bad faith.
Opalinski told the jury that the insurer "repeatedly put its own interest higher than its insured, carefully, selectively crediting evidence that favored itself, wholly fabricating evidence where necessary, to bully, harass, intimidate, threaten and coerce Gallatin Fuels into dropping its claim."
In its Feb. 21 verdict, the jury awarded Gallatin $1.325 million in compensatory damages on its breach of contract claim and $20 million in punitive damages on the bad faith claim.
But five weeks later, Ambrose reduced the punitive award to $4.5 million.
In a 20-page opinion, Ambrose applied the three-factor test announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1996 decision in BMW of North America v. Gore.
Under Gore, a court reviewing a punitive damage awards must consider the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's misconduct; the disparity between the actual or potential harm suffered by the plaintiff and the punitive damages award; and the difference between the punitive damages awarded by the jury and the civil penalties authorized or imposed in comparable cases.
Ambrose found that the "most important indicium of the reasonableness of a punitive damages award is the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct."
On the issue of reprehensibility, Ambrose said, the Supreme Court has instructed courts to considering five factors -- whether the harm caused was physical as opposed to economic; the tortious conduct evinced an indifference to or a reckless disregard of the health or safety of others; the target of the conduct had financial vulnerability; the conduct involved repeated actions or was an isolated incident; and the harm was the result of intentional malice, trickery, or deceit, or mere accident.
After applying the five factors, Ambrose concluded that the $20 million award could not stand.
"First, the harm caused by defendant was economic, not physical. Second, defendant's conduct did not directly concern the health or safety of others. Thus, these two subfactors weigh against an exorbitant punitive damages award," Ambrose wrote.
But the third, fourth and fifth factors leaned in favor of the plaintiff, Ambrose found.
"Although plaintiff may not have been as financially vulnerable as many individual insurance claimants, the evidence indicates that plaintiff was under some financial strain as a result of Mon View's financial difficulties," Ambrose wrote. "There was also evidence that defendant was aware of this financial strain."
Despite that financial vulnerability, Ambrose said, the insurer "intentionally deprived plaintiff of funds to which it was entitled under the policy."
Ambrose also found the insurer's conducted involved "repeated actions" and was clearly intentional.
"There was an abundance of evidence presented at trial indicating that defendant's conduct was intentionally dilatory and was not the result of 'mere accident.' Among many other things, there was evidence at trial that defendant refused plaintiff's request for assistance in completing the proof of loss form and that the outside adjuster never explained that documentation of the value of the equipment was required to make the claim form complete," Ambrose wrote.
Considering all five factors, Ambrose concluded that the insurer's conduct "was clearly reprehensible and I in no way suggest that the jury erred in awarding punitive damages to plaintiff based on defendant's egregious and outrageous conduct."
But the jury's $20 million award was "exorbitant," Ambrose said, and "out of proportion to the reprehensibility of defendant's conduct."
Ambrose concluded that "a more modest (although still significant) punishment for that conduct, in the amount of $4.5 million" was sufficient.
On April 11, defense lawyers filed post-trial motions in which they urged Ambrose to set aside the entire verdict or, in the alternative, grant a new trial.
The motion was filed by attorneys William M. Wycoff and Jacqueline O. Shogan of Thorp Reed & Armstrong in Pittsburgh, along with C. Michael Johnson and Laurie E. Dugoniths of Fellows Johnson & La Briola in Atlanta, and Stephen A. Cozen and Richard M. Mackowsky of Cozen O'Connor.
In the motion, the defense team argues that Gallatin failed to establish one of the critical facts in any insurance claim -- that its loss was the result of a "fortuitous event," meaning that it could not have been foreseen.
"Failure to maintain electricity to run the pumps made it inevitable that water would eventually fill the mine and either destroy the underground mining equipment or render it inaccessible," the defense team wrote.
Those facts, the defense team argued, were clearly known to Gallatin prior to the power shut-off.
"Whether or not Gallatin intentionally made a reasonable business decision to prevent what was then a known inevitable loss is not the question. The question is whether or not the loss was inevitable from Gallatin's point of view at a time when the loss could have been prevented," the defense brief said.
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The Ashland High Nordic ski team placed third in the boys and girls combined at the OISRA State Championships, held Friday and Saturday at Mount Hood's Teacup Nordic Center.
The Grizzlies also placed third in the girls relay and the girls combined.
Ashland's top individual placers were Alex Kiesling and Camelia Mayfield, who finished fifth and ninth, respectively, in the girls 5k classic. Ashland's Hannah Ewing finished 11th in the girls 6k freestyle (skating) event.
Also contributing to the Grizzlies' overall team score were Lydia Zowanda (18th in freestyle, 29th in classic)Maggie Buktenica (24th in freestyle, 25th in classic), Sarah Britting (23rd in freestyle, 36th in classic) and Ginger Blackwell (62nd in freestyle, 68th in classic).
Kiesling took eighth and Mayfield ninth in the girls combined.
In the boys competition, Ashland's Colin Haug placed 21st in the boys 6k freestyle while Beam Blackwell took 26th. In the boys 5k classic, Blackwell finished 31st, Haug was 32nd and Garrett Ewing 33rd.
Men's Lacrosse
The Southern Oregon lacrosse team pulled out an impressive 23-5 win over Humboldt State on Saturday at University Field.
Bubba VanEgdom led the scoring for the Raiders with eight goals. Several freshmen scored their first varsity goals as head coach Mark Brown substituted freely in the second half. Tyler Baumann (four assists) and Lump McQuown (two assists) spread the ball out freely, allowing the Raiders to take several uncontested shots.
Southern Oregon's play was marred by penalties in the first half. In the second half SOU turned up its aggressiveness on offense, registering seven goals in the first five minutes. With a more controlled, but relentless attack on offense the Raiders were able to put the game out of reach in the third quarter.
Both starting goalie Carter Boggess and reserve goalie Greg Morelli played well for SOU, making clutch saves.
SOU next plays No. 17 Western Washington University and No. 8 Westminster College (Utah). A sweep of both teams could land SOU in the top 10 for the first time in team history.
Chris Coats contributed to this article.


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December 14, 2009
Behind The Scenes: La Ceja: lightenupandshoot.comPosted by fotografia at 11:23 PM Labels: Videos
Photoflex Convertible Umbrella
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Those images may be recoverable with free software, have you tried any yet? Ive managed to recover after formats once or twice now with software called photorescue Wizard PC , I know there are several others out there that work as well, such as PC Inspector File recovery (easier to use IIRC).ReplyDelete
Ive got two systems I use now to prevent the same mistake. The first (and my current method) is to use a zip tie to bundle all my cards together before each shoot. I then drop it in my pocket and simply slide a card out of the bundle and retighten the zip tie after its out. Now I can drop the full card into my pocket with the bundle and have no worries as long as I only pull cards from the bundle to put into the camera. I then religously rebuild the bundle after photos have been downloaded and backed up.
The other method I have used in the past is similar but involved putting gaff tape over the connection on cards. After a card was downloaded I would format it in camera, remove it from the camera and tape the connector side. Now all I had to do was make sure the card I was about to put in still had its tape, remove tape and start shooting. Worse case scenario a piece of tape would come off in my pocket and I would think the card was full when it was empty, no big deal really. I went away from this system when I started shooting two cameras at once, it got to difficult to format some cards for one camera and others for the second. Now with the zip tie method I just format as soon as I put the card in the camera after removing it from the zip tie bundle.
hope that helps spur some ideas!
Brian w ShowFocus
Man... I am loving your blog and work..! So much fun :) thanks and feliz navidad!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the blog comment. Andy and I are having fun with photography...that's what it is all about. If you're interested in learning some new tips and tricks watch the webinar this Thursday. We are also giving some cool stuff away.
Unfortunately I've tried with free and paid software, the problem is that we kept shooting and filled up the cards 2 times before we realized it. CRAPOLA, I still can not believe it. Of course it had the best photos of the day, including the old gentleman with the "Ruana". CRAPOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your method sounds good, but I think we want something a little more efficient and we will figure it out...do not worry!!!!!!
Keep watching for day dos, el carmen!!
Michael with Maria - a rare mooment in time. Hopefully that sweet lady can see the video some day.ReplyDelete
The young lady with the pooch - would have been nice to get some light on the right side of the dog for more dimension.
Cards - you need to take more even if you don't use them. I'm all for efficiency in shooting and only use a max card size of 4GB, but you need to be prepared for (unexpected) overflow. Even the best cards can corrupt on you given the wrong alignment of the stars.
Looking forward to day two ;-)
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Hi Andy,ReplyDelete
Wow the Art you guys create is amazing! I love your style! Looking foward to more of your adventures!
Laurie Anne Portella
AKA Miss Bliss
Man you guys continue to amaze me. It really sucks it's -45c out right now, I just wanna get out and shoot!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2009 at 4:42 AM
Hi Michael & Andy,ReplyDelete
Enjoyed your video, sorry to hear you lost some files it "happens".
I have invested in some strobist equipment and will be shooting real soon. I guess your videos gave me the inspiration I needed to have a go. If you think it will help the artistic content in my photography I have "pistachio nuts" on my Christmas list followed by "Spanish lessons". Have a good holiday; I'm off to take some shots. Keith
Anonymous (with new strobist gear):
Let us know about the results with your new gear. If you have specific questions be sure to email us or comment. We'd like to know if you have any sticking points and see if we can offer some tips or tricks. Tune into the webinar Dec 17th...we are going to talk a little about the technical side of speedlights.
Great video, learned lots.ReplyDelete
Look into this to make your backpack studio just that more AWESOME.
Top of the line there, but I know know you guys love getting quality used gear, and the p3000 isnt bad at all in my book!
Find them used for less that 200 bucks!
Anyway this thing has a HUGE screen to show pics, back up files, print files. PERFECT