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This morning i came out of bed on 7:30 local time. I still hunting on T32 but not any glimp of it. Ok let see if we work some new Dxcc on 30mtr in CW or Rtty.
I saw a spot of ZL1ALZ. At first i was pointing to the short path but he was not very loud.
Turned the dipole a bit to Long path and the signal became Loud. Very loud.
I worked John 1 up and his comment was nice to see on screen. PE2MC Big Sig 🙂
Mixw is not decoding 100% so i have to listen very carefully if he called me.
The program is handy to use in many modes.
We worked 126dxcc now on 30mtr with the SteppIR dipole so it's going very well.
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Women of Quality
E.S. Turner
- The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford
Weidenfeld, 351 pp, £14.95, August 1986, ISBN 0 297 78863 9
- Leaves of the Tulip Tree by Juliette Huxley
Murray, 248 pp, £7.95, June 1986, ISBN 0 7195 4288 X
- Enid Bagnold by Anne Sebba
Weidenfeld, 317 pp, £15.00, September 1986, ISBN 0 297 78991 0
Wider still and wider grows the span of authors' acknowledgements. My forbearing husband/wife, my secretary who corrected my spelling, my patient editor and Lord Weidenfeld Whose Idea it Was – these we have grown to expect and honour. Elizabeth Longford, now in her eighties, thanks two family doctors who 'made life so secure for us' (and who themselves survived to 90 and 86). She is grateful to one son-in-law for 'introducing me to the perfect diet during a critical time in the writing of this book' and to another for a stimulating holiday in the sun: 'It was an exhilarating experience to listen to the Pinters' and Billingtons' play-reading sessions, interlaced with passionate talk about Amnesty and Star Wars under the stars.' She is grateful, too, for the custom of 'manuscript bartering' prevalent in the family, on the basis of 'I'll read yours if you'll read and criticise mine.' All of which is a foretaste of the warm family feeling which pervades this chronicle of politics and parturition (babies are born to the author on pages 143, 149, 179, 204, 211, 217, 239 and 252).
The Pebbled Shore will disappoint those who hope to learn of tensions caused by Lord Longford's self-imposed missions to Myra Hindley and 'Reg and Ron' (as the Krays are referred to in his books), by the great anti-pornography campaign or by the advent of Harold Pinter into the fold. The book ends in the mid-Sixties, just as the author, in full literary flight, has completed that excellent life of Wellington.
Page one introduces us to the author's jolly orange-haired nurse, once of the music halls, doing the splits, an exercise she sometimes funked with the excuse 'I've got a bone in my leg' Elizabeth Harman, her admiring charge, was the daughter of a Harley Street ophthalmic surgeon, Nathaniel Harman, and Katherine Chamberlain, first cousin of Neville and niece of the great Joseph. In later life Elizabeth was told that her father, a serious citizen, never made love the night before a cataract operation. His courtship had been all but shattered by a religious tug-of-war, which led to a nervous breakdown: he clung to the mysteries of Christianity while his bride-to-be was a sturdy Unitarian. His daughter quotes from their courtship letters, as she later quotes from her own.
At Oxford, as the Zuleika Dobson of the Twenties, Elizabeth Harman entered the 'charmed circle' of aesthetes after passing a shibboleth test imposed by Hugh Gaitskell, who asked: 'What do you think of Oscar Wilde and all that?' Her reply, 'Oh, I think that's quite all right,' was spoken with the assurance of one who 'had not really thought much about it'. After this avowal of broad-mindedness (the tale has already been told in Philip Williams's Hugh Gaitskell) she was fit to be introduced to (Sir) Maurice Bowra and all the other intellectual roisterers. Was it really as simple and half-baked as this? Gaitskell, we learn, was 'eager to fix his own identity through instructing others in what he saw as the certainties of life'. What comes over is not his charm but his juvenile arrogance. Complaining that his protégée was 'so unshaped in some ways', he wrote urging her to develop her 'prostitute powers': 'This is the way, first to disillusionment, secondly to knowledge, thirdly to freedom from inferiorities and fourthly to anything that may be worthwhile.' This, from a curly-headed minor who, to compound his cheek, ordered her to read the whole of Proust in French. Yet he approved of her sufficiently to propose marriage. Elizabeth Harman, it is clear, had the measure of him, as she had of Bowra, who blinded her with Pindar at lunches and also asked her to marry him. His proposal, never answered, never repeated, kept her in a glow for months.
Down from Oxford (which gets three chapters) she joined Frank Pakenham, who had been her fellow undergraduate, giving educational lectures to the workers in the Potteries. Hitherto apolitical, she was sufficiently moved by conditions in the Five Towns to join the Labour Party. Frank Pakenham was, and would remain for some time, a High Tory (Bullingdon Club, Carlton Club, Conservative Central Office, Daily Mail leader writer). He escorted Elizabeth to Pakenham Hall and Dunsany Castle, home of Uncle Eddie ('Lord Insany'). The courtship, though beset by difficulties, was virtuous; once, invited by hosts to share a room, they resorted to 'bundling', with a bolster down the middle of the bed. At last came a good socialist wedding at St Margaret's, with 12 bridesmaids and an officiating canon who was 'the second husband of my great-aunt Mary Chamberlain, Uncle Joe's third wife'.
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Vol. 8 No. 17 · 9 October 1986 » E.S. Turner » Women of Quality
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Lisa Congdon book signing
The Arts District's darling husband-wife-owned shop/gallery Poketo hosts artist and painter Lisa Congdon for a signing of her tiny new tome, Whatever You Are, Be a Good One. From 5pm to 8pm, Ms. Congdon will pen personalized messages inside copies of her 8x8 hardcover, containing 100 inspirational quotes, chosen and hand-lettered by the artist herself. Along with the book signing, a limited edition collection of Lisa Congdon's hand-lettered prints and original watercolor paintings will be on view. The signing is free to attend and open to the public.
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With the Scout 4-wheel, you get excellent stability when traveling over outdoor terrain. And when the battery gauge shows the need for recharging, it's simple from the port on the battery pack. Along with great performance, the Scout offers excellent comfort. The upholstered stadium-style seat can swivel 180 degrees and also has 3 height selections to suit users of nearly any height. The padded armrests flip up for convenient boarding and exiting of the scooter and the armrest width can be adjusted to best fit the user. Plus the tiller's angle is adjustable to position the controls in the most comfortable driving position. You can always count on Drive Medical to bring you convenient and innovative lifestyle solutions, now, and for the road ahead.


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Thought I'd share a little Photoshop fun. I did a few sample magazine covers to show to a potential client. Click on the image for a closer look. What do you think? The original photo is from 1971's The Devil's Nightmare, one of my all time favorite Euro-horror films.
I scanned from a black and white image in a book, so it was already half-toned which created a few challenges. I scanned at twice the size and resolution then reduced to the target size and applied gaussian blur to soften the image closer to an actual greyscale. The black areas consist of two bitmapped images combined with a mask. The hair was achieved using a threshold layer. I brightened the levels for the skin-tone then converted to lined half-tone. I'm especially fond of the lined effect because it reminds me of John Totleben's drawing style in the Swamp Thing and Miracleman comics of the 80s. Finally, I manually painted in color using a Wacom tablet.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Photoshop Fun With "The Devil's Nightmare"
Thought I'd share a little Photoshop fun. I did a few sample magazine covers to show to a potential client. Click on the image for a closer look. What do you think? The original photo is from 1971's The Devil's Nightmare, one of my all time favorite Euro-horror films.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monster Fan Club Ad
Anybody else remember this? This ad ran in damn near every comic book in the U.S. in the early 1970s. This particular version ran in Eerie Publications' black and white magazines, though there was a more chromatic take on it in the color comics of the time. Click on the image for a closer look.
My brother and I fired off a dollar for this. The "life size reproduction of a Movie Monster" was actually a poster of the critter from the ad. Cool but, despite his resemblance to the beastie from Curse of the Demon this guy never actually appeared in a movie. The 4x5 glossy photos were not in the slightest bit glossy and the bonus monster masks were printed on paper. Still, it was a pretty exciting package for a young monster fan.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
WARNING! Avoid "Spirits of the Fall" Like it Was a Rabid Porcupine Telemarketer
Writing a negative review of a zero budget horror flick is kind of like punching a little kid. Sure it's easy and fun, but eventually your arm gets tired. Back when I was writing Killer B's on DVD over at Cinematical.com, I reviewed some fun low budget flicks as well as some that were flat out excruciating. On a certain level you have to respect these auteurs for completing and distributing a film with next to no cash, so even with the worst of them I would strive to find something positive to say, even if I was panning the film.
I just finished reviewing Spirits of the Fall for The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope magazine, and the movie has stuck with me like a particularly tenacious intestinal parasite. Any sympathy for the small time film maker has evaporated. The film has zero interest in entertaining and consistently fails on every level both creative and technical. I won't review the movie again here, but I'm putting this out there as a warning: this movie does not deserve to exist. Please avoid at all costs.


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JustRite Friday Challenge #129 - Say Something Nicelink
pan pastels
water base markers
versamark ink
amplify pen
Thanks to Just Rite for inspiring and having these challenges.
Also Thanks to my friends for the motivational push to enter! Sorry I didn't do the greatest stamping job!
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Brannon and Kelly Riley have both been involved with horses their entire lives,so it is no wonder they met early on while showing horses. Through the years, they have helped each other and worked hard to produce top quality performance horses. They own and operate a private farm in NE Ohio where they continue training and showing their own horses. They train, buy and sell premium pole and barrel horses and prospects at their facility in Creston, Ohio.
Brannon Riley is a 3X AQHA World Champion, 4X AQHA Reserve World Champion, as well as a 6X All American Quarter Horse Congress Champion in Pole Bending, and 12X Reserve Congress Champion in either barrels or poles. He has trained all of his horses, and has won the AQHA World on three different horses, and continues to win with different horses. In 2009, he was also the year end AQHA High Point Amateur Pole Bending Champion with Haley Jos Charm. That was the same year he won the Amatuer Pole Bending at the Kentucky State Fair, Quarter Horse Congress and the AQHA World Show. In 2015, Brannon won the Ft. Worth Stock Show Jud Little Ranch Fast Five as well as the Timed Event Challenge in Pole Bending on Dans Flaming Venture, and in 2017 returned to reclaim the Championship title again! Both then went on to the Houston Livestock Show and won the Jr. Poles the Amateur Barrels and won both Open and Amateur High Point Speed Horse. Brannon finished out 2015 with his second Championship on Speeed Ball Tucker at the AAQHC and Reserve Championship on Dans Flaming Venture in Amateur Pole Bending. Brannon was honored by the NPBA (National Pole Bending Association) as he was inducted as Exhibitor into the NPBA Hall of Fame at their National Finals Show in June of 2016. Brannon is passionate about the sport of pole bending, and dedicated toward making each horse reach their full potential. In addition, Brannon has won a class at every major pole bending show throughout the nation. Many winning prospects in barrel racing and pole bending have been started and trained by Riley Performance Horses.
Kelly (Smith) Riley may not have all the accolades that her husband does, but that doesn't mean she hasn't had her success in the show arena. She was the Reserve Champion at the All American Quarter Horse Congress in Novice Amateur Poles, and has won or placed at the AQHA World Show, the Kentucky State Fair, North American International Livestock AQHA show, and been in the top ten at Congress in pole bending and barrel racing. She has won or placed at various rodeos, association and club shows, open barrel races, and at prestigious AQHA shows. In addition, she has been with Brannon through all his major wins and as helped him along the way. Together they make a balanced team with their years of experience and combination of training styles.
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Fast Fact
Brannon held the record for the fastest time in Amateur Poles at the AQHA World Show Competition from 1997 to 2015!
The time of 19.631 with A Sharp Nesian, "Showdown" in 1997 helped him secure his 1st AQHA World Championship.
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Click here to view a pdf of other AQHA World Show Records .
Brannon received his Hall of Fame Award from the legendary Ross Carnahan at the 2016 NPBA Finals.(above)
Above, Brannon & Kelly at the AQHA World show in Oklahoma City.Below , Kelly's beloved "son" Pete. Pete traveled all over the country with them. RIP 6/12/13
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