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Friday, 29 June 2012

Union Press

Union Press by mdx
Inspirational stuff on Union Street, Borough, London. A temporary print space setting out to explore the legacy of the print trade along Union Street and the surrounding area but ending up intersecting and engaging with the local community in a range of surprising ways.  I happened on it yesterday along with fellow photography students.

One person was collecting tiny plants that grow along the street, pressing them, making prints and cataloguing them. Another person was collecting people's observations of life happening on the street and printing them out on a photocopier.
Union Press - What can you see? by mdx

There had been other intriguing projects - making prints with sheets of plywood and a steam roller - collecting tweets and printing them with stencils by hand - slowly.

Here's more

This afternoon I'd planned to go busking with the folk band under Southwark bridge, beside the Thames, our favourite spot – dark and cool in the summer with wonderful acoustics.
But instead we played inside the Union Press structure.
We all fitted in – Jo on whistles, Jo on guitar, Jill on dustbin bass, Martin on accordion, Jim on Mandolin and Roberto on violin.

booklaunch for "i saw a tiger running wild" by mdx

I'm reminded of this photo taken six years ago - and of x-chris and 56a bookshop.

 h brought his pig mask by mdx

Back in 2006 the wee fella was a year old
and –  I saw a Tiger Running Wild... in Burgess Park
or was it a crowman.

  crowman by mdx

Friday, 22 June 2012

photographer vs punter – participating and observing

I was there by mdx

stonehenge summer solstice by mdx
I planned to visit Stonehenge at the summer solstice to see if I could take photographs for my "A303 - The Road West" project.

I had ideas about photographing the stones and people from the four compass points, using medium format film, setting up automatic methods of how and what to photograph.
DD – Stonehenge – Solstice – 2012 by mdx

In the end I went with Deirdre and it shifted into being there, dodging the rain and soaking up the atmosphere.
cops in a field at night by mdx

It got me thinking how taking photographs often works best for me as a solitary activity.

It requires getting into a mode of observing rather than participating.

And although I can still interact with people it is from the role of photographer rather than punter.

Friday, 15 June 2012

Free Range View

Free Range View by mdx

University of Westminster BA Photography degree show

Last night was the private view of University of Westminster’s BA Photography degree show at Free Range in the Truman’s Brewery on Brick Lane. I worked on the bar for the first hour, realising a long held intrigue with being behind the bar rather than in front of it. I came back to see the show again in the quiet of the morning, along with shows from other colleges in the galleries next door. The Westminster show always feels a weighty affair and this year lightness was in short supply. A preponderance of work showcasing family illness, death and disease. A few more laughs would have been welcome - ironic ones even. It's a big show but missing some of previous year's prints of epic scale and quality, but still there’s much to intrigue, and as with music, some take time to grow into awareness.
Three works that stuck with me. Edward Shaw’s topological portraits of trees in London parks shot on infra red film - the one big print on the wall alongside large, landscape format book. It’s quaintly old fashioned and yet satisfying in the circular scope of its remit. Council housing is an attractive proposition to photograph and flickr is a good starting point, take a look at and The Heygate estate at the Elephant and Castle has been done by every Tom, Dick and Harry – but Brendon Fraser’s work has a light touch both in composition and display, and yet I want it to say more – for it to be THE defining epic statement on photographing the Heygate. Having said that I think it might have been done (although in a different sense and for the whole Elephant and Castle) in Home from Home by Eva Sajovic in 2010. Ultimately it’s probably the fact that I didn’t have a go at it myself – though I do have some old snaps from when I used to visit my mate Steve on the 7th floor of Kingshill…
But the piece that stays is Children have to go to school… adults go wherever they want by Lauren Lees, humble on the wall it makes most sense as a book. Lauren works collaboratively with children shooting a disposable film a week with minimum directorial input – it really feels, as the photographer steps out of the way, like it’s uncovering something vitally interesting through the images and texts of life lived at the age of ten. Other works to enjoy are Aredi Lambrechts urban landscapes, Sunhil Shah’s Uganda Stories, Veronika Abrandt and Katherina Dressel’s Robinson-esque journey down the river Lea and Sherry Cutler’s Traumascapes using authentic crime scene photographs. This year more than ever before I can actually imagine showing some of my work at the degree show in 2014 – in fact I’m almost looking forward to it!

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Photographing musicians

Lucy9mm @ RB&H Arts benefit gig by mdx

Lucy9mm @ RB&H Arts benefit gig by mdx

Groanbox @ RB&H Arts benefit gig by mdx
A return to photographing musicians - I'd forgotten the joy of it, especially when there's room to move and it's all purely to please yourself. The last time was probably two years ago at the memorial gig for trumpet player and composer Harry Beckett, a musical mentor in many ways. That gig I shot with my old Nikon D80 - I got maybe a couple of useable shots from the whole night. Last night with the D700 was a whole different world - the one thing that was going to be OK was the exposure, fine even up to 6400ASA which left me to grapple with the flashing stage lights, shooting at f1.4 and figuring what was going to be in focus and then  - composing the shot.

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

H via InstaCRT's “real world” filter

H via InstaCRT's “real world” filter by mdx
You take a photo on your iPhone with the InstaCRT app, it gets sent to Sweden, displayed on a 1" CRT, re-photographed and sent back in under 25 seconds – I don't quite know why I find this intriguing - but I do!


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Thursday, 12 September 2013

From Regular Reader to Committed Collector

GROWING UP ON A SOUTH-EAST LONDON council estate might seem like a bit of an urban nightmare to some readers of this blog. But it really wasn't. The Milne Estate in Woolwich was quite genteel in comparison to the kind of sink-hole estates depicted in today's television shows and movies. For example, vandalism just didn't happen. We kids were all all too afraid that our families might be evicted if we committed such a senseless and selfish act. Besides, if any of us had been spotted daubing graffiti and our parents (or parent) got to hear of it, we'd be battered to within an inch of our lives.

Growing up on a council estate, we had no sense of
hardship - quite the opposite. It was a community.
We lived in the top left flat, 30b.
The up side was that we all had loads of mates to play with. The area itself was a wonderland for any child because Woolwich had suffered major damage during the war as the Nazis tried to bomb the Arsenal to rubble and, of course, there was a lot of collateral damage. Entire streets of houses were reduced to ruins or worse and less than twenty years after the end of the conflict, hardly any clearance or rebuilding work had started. But we had all these highly dangerous - and hugely adventurous - playgrounds.

The local kids would turn bombed-out house into dens,
where we'd hang out with our mates and read and swap comics.
(Hue and Cry, © 1947,  Ealing Studios)
Against this background, some kids collected Monkees bubblegum cards, some kids built go-karts out of old prams, some kids climbed trees and hung rope swings. And some did all of that. Me, I loved comics. In particular Marvel Comics. Back then, in 1965, the readiest supply of Marvel Comics was the corner newsagent, and I used to range far and wide throughout the SE18 postcode, looking for new sources of my favourite comics. My nearest supplier was in Kingsland Parade, the newsagent right next to Woolwich Church Street.

I had already decided that Captain America was my favourite character and set about tracking down as many books starring my hero as I could. The next item I was able to find was the second part of the story I began reading in my first Avengers comic,  with good old CA right there, almost as large as life, on the cover.

Avengers 16 (May 1965) would have been on sale in the UK during the summer of 1965, just as was turning 11 years old. I wasn't sure why there were so many supervillains on the cover, but I'd find out soon enough ...
This issue was an experience of highs and lows for me. At the end of the story, after the comprehensive defeat of the Masters of Evil, some of the Avengers decided they needed a rest. Iron Man and Giant-Man elected to take leaves of absence and, with Thor exiting (off-camera) to take part in The Trial of the Gods (Journey into Mystery 116, Jul 1965, covered in my last post) the hunt was on for replacement members. By happy coincidence, former Iron Man foe Hawkeye was looking for a new gig after his love Black Widow was wounded in battle and taken into custody by the Soviets. No sooner did he turn up at Avengers Mansion than he was sworn in. Then in far-off Europe, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, who had previously battled the X-Men under the dark influence of Magneto (more on that next post), read of the Avengers membership drive in a local Swiss newspaper and decided to write an application letter. No email in those days, you see.

So Captain America returned from his fateful battle with his arch-enemy Zemo, to find that not only were there three new Avengers on the team, but also that he was in charge of them. And it doesn't take him long to discover that he doesn't especially enjoy his new management position. Then Iron Man and Giant-Man (prodded by The Wasp) take off and leave Cap to it. Thanks, guys ...

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver remark on how different
the atmosphere here is compared to their last team gig.
I'm pretty sure the real reason Stan Lee wanted to do this was because, although he was sole writer on the books by this time, even he was having trouble keeping track of where his characters were in any given month. The letters pages were peppered with comments from readers like, "If Thor is battling The Executioner in New York in Avengers, how come he's also doing the Trial of the Gods in Asgard?" So Lee moved his big stars out of the team and confined them to their own strips. The only flaw in this theory is that just two months later, Giant-Man and Wasp lost their spot in Tales to Astonish, so there wouldn't have been these types of conflicts if Hank and Janet had carried on as Avengers.

With Captain America, it was less complicated. The Tales of Suspense stories had Cap in a WWII setting while he led the Avengers in the present. I still wasn't sure how Cap could be in his twenties in 1944 and the same age in 1964 - but that conundrum would be answered in due course. Issue 65 of Suspense came out the same month as Avengers 16. And there was Captain America taking the lead slot on the cover battling The Red Skull and his nasty Nazi henchpersons. And it's a great story - what's not to love about The Red Skull?

The split-cover design of these former
mystery tales anthologies must have
been murder for the artists.
But it was the Iron Man tale that grabbed my attention in this instance. The new red-and-yellow Iron Man battles his clunky old Golden Avenger persona. How can this be? It's not that mysterious. Just three-time loser Weasel Wills finding Tony Stark's attache case containing his Iron Man armour during a burglary and stealing it. Stark has to use his original armour to take on the impostor. But it was quite a thrill to see the two Iron Men slug it out in a knock-down drag-out brawl. But aside from that, I liked the fact that Stark had his own life, marred though it was by his heart issues. Worried that he might not live very long, he avoided getting romantically involved with his secretary Pepper Potts and stepped aside to see if she might make a go of it with Happy Hogan, the Stark chauffeur. In the following issues, all sorts of complications ensued and I'd find myself skipping over the fight scenes to see how Stark was going to resolve his latest emotional crisis.

A classic split-cover drawn by Jack Kirby
and inked by Frank Giacoia.
In Tales of Suspense 66 (Jun 1965), Stark has to risk Happy quitting when he assigns Iron Man to test a prototype miniature sub, to avoid risking Happy's life. This leads to all kinds of problems, the least of which is a pitch-battle with the Sub-Mariner's enemy, Attuma. After defeating the blue-skinned megalomaniac, Iron Man returns to the surface, only to find that Happy has left and that the Senator in charge of the sub's government appropriations committee is pretty ticked off with Stark. It's pure Stan Lee storytelling and mirrors the sort of private life complications that Peter Parker was having to deal with over in Amazing Spider-Man.

The Captain America story reveals to us the origin of the Red Skull. It's the story of how a nobody - we never see his real face - is chosen at random by Der Fuehrer to be the living symbol of Naziism, an Axis counterpart to our red-white-and-blue hero. The tale ends with the evil Skull brainwashing Cap to be ... a Nazi. Too horrible to contemplate.

As Ben Grimm would say, Wotta revolting development
this is. Cap under the control of The Red Skull.
The letters page in this issue mentions that Tales of Suspense 63 featured the origin of Captain America, so I made a mental note to track that one down as soon as possible. But I also noticed a strange anomaly in this issue. The Marvel house ads that I looked forward to so much for the miniature cover repros were not in colour.

Now what was this all about? Did Stan think that
leaving the colour out might save a few bucks?
More likely, it was a deadline issue ...
The May cover-dated Avengers 16 also had house ads without colour, albeit with a slightly different arrangement of covers, so it could well have been down to some kind of time restraint in the production department. Needless to say, I didn't enjoy the mono ads half as much as I loved the colour ones. Later on, as I came to understand how this kind of four colour printing worked, I did wonder if those house ads were individually coloured using the hand separation method or whether there was some photographic way of reducing the original full size separations down to the smaller size.

With the next issue of Avengers (17, Jun 1965) the team were off on their first proper mission. Locate the Hulk and get him to rejoin. Captain America is putting the newcomers through a training exercise when an over-size robot walks through the wall of Avengers Mansion to deliver a message about The Hulk. Without waiting to hear the whole message, they quickly disable the automaton, possibly a bit prematurely. Nonetheless, the robot's message tape is still functional and the team learn that The Hulk can be found in the desert. And far away, beneath the desert, The Mole Man gloats about the trap he's leading The Avengers into.

The first real mission for the new Avengers
lineup was to track down the Hulk and
persuade him to return to the team ...
Over the course of the next few pages, The Avengers engage in a battle with one of Mole Man's legion of monsters, The Minotaur, defeat the Mole Man and are shot up to the surface when old Moley doesn't like the way the fight is going - all without realising that The Hulk was just a few hundred yards away fighting his own battle against the Leader - as seen in Tales to Astonish 69 (Jul 1965), Stan's footnote tells us. It's not the best Avengers tale. It certainly looks like Don Heck was just beginning to find his way with the Marvel Method of storytelling. He starts with an uncharacteristic splash page that shows a scene from the main story, something that Kirby would ever do and that you'd be more likely to find in a DC comic. Some of the pacing seems rushed, and some of the Hulk scenes look like they were swiped from Kirby art. But the book, and Heck's storytelling, would get better.

By this time, I was becoming more and more curious about earlier issues of Marvel Comics. References to The Hulk being an Avenger were making me wonder what I had already missed, so I set off on a quest to track down older issues, while keeping up to date with the current output by haunting the local newsagents. I knew of some kids in the area who had what I termed "classic" Marvels. Issues with numbers in the single digits. So I determined I would discover what they wanted and make some kind of trade. A friend told me he knew someone with Avengers 3 (Jan 1963), so I knocked on this kid's door and asked him if he was willing to do a swap. I can't remember what he wanted, but I'm pretty sure it was about three or four comics. I don't think I would have parted with Marvels, so it's likely he got a few Supermans or Adventures in the trade.

The first "classic" Marvel Comic I ever owned,
traded from a local kid for several DC comics.

And I had my first real "classic" Marvel. Rushing home to read the comic, I noticed that The Hulk was right there in the cover corner box, as well as featured large on the cover, so he must have been in the team.

So it was true ... The Hulk was an Avenger.
Inside the book, there was just one tantalising reference, on page 2, to the fact that The Hulk quit The Avengers last issue. Darn. Now I was going to have to find Avengers 2. As with the mission in issue 17, this earlier team also set out the find The Hulk, to prevent him doing too much damage while at large. So Iron Man contacts the FF, Spider-Man and even The X-Men in an effort to get a lead on The Hulk's whereabouts, without success. But it's Rick Jones who is the key to The Hulk's whereabouts.

At this point, The Hulk was still an ill-defined character. There was still no clear logic behind his transformations or his personality as The Hulk. Though I wasn't aware of them at the time, the original run of six issues of The Incredible Hulk offered a different change method and Hulk persona with each issue. Sometimes the Hulk was mute, sometimes he talked like The Thing. Sometimes he changed at nightfall, sometimes Banner bombarded himself with rays from a gamma machine. It was all a bit ... badly thought-out. And if, as Kirby claims, he was responsible for these characters, then he plainly failed with The Hulk, the first of the early Marvels to be cancelled.

The Hulk in Avengers 3, drawn by Kirby, was definitely the Kirby Hulk. He has the same speech patterns as The Thing. He changes both spontaneously and using the Gamma Machine. But is also susceptible to being controlled by Rick Jones. He thinks, he reasons and he's a bit crafty.

Though he speaks about himself in the third person,
something later versions would also do, this Hulk
seems more like Fantastic Four's Thing ...
Finally, he spontaneously changes back to "Bob" Banner, deserts his "partner" Sub-Mariner and dives off the Rock of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea to escape.

Stan took some stick for mis-naming Bruce Banner "Bob"
in two panels this issue. He explained it away later by claiming
that Banner's name was really Robert Bruce, but he was fooling no one.
The issue was one of the longest Marvel stories of the period - at 25 pages three pages longer than Avengers 2 and two pages longer than Avengers 4. With no ads and no letters page, Lee and Kirby had 25 pages to work with and the result was early "widescreen" Marvel. The story seems more epic than any of the other Marvel tales of the same time period - the extra space allows for more exposition of both Sub-Mariner and the Hulk, as well as scenes with the Teen Brigade and with the main heroes. And the pacing seems more leisurely ...

By the end of the story, the Avengers are down a member, have a new enemy in Prince Namor and a savage Hulk is still at large. A great day's work for your average Marvel super-team. Within a few issues the page-length would drop, until by Avengers 10, the team had the standard 20 pages to work with, and while these stories were fun too, they didn't have the big budget feel of Avengers 3.

Not long after this, I managed to scare up a couple of really early issues of Fantastic Four, but I'll leave that story until next time ...

Next: Two "classic" Fantastic Four Comics and exploring second-hand shops

Saturday, 7 September 2013

More of a Marvelite, but now a Merry Marching one

BACK IN MID-1965, I was still in Primary school, approaching my 11th birthday and actively exploring the joys of Stan Lee's fledgling Marvel Comics line. I had started off my lifelong love-affair with comic stories at the age of about three, when my mum had bought me Micky Mouse Weekly. Somewhere among the family photos there's a picture of me in the street, in a romper suit, holding a copy of the Disney comic. It would have been around 1957 ... By the time I was seven, I was a regular reader of the DC Thompson titles - Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper. A couple of years later and I was an avid reader of DC Comics - Flash, Green Lantern and the Superman family titles. Then in 1964, I had found Marvel Comics and everything changed.

I had already discovered and immediately loved Captain America and the Avengers. It didn't take me long to find other Marvel product which was just as brilliant in my ten year old eyes - Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Daredevil. But I still had a couple of Marvel characters to try out ...

I'd come across Marvel's take on Thor earlier. I'm pretty sure it was in an Alan Class reprint of Journey Into Mystery 84 ... but by the time I had caught up with the American originals, Thor had become a very different kind of strip.

I have no idea what else was in this black and
white reprint of
JiM84, but the peril of the cover
image stayed with me for a long time.
More than anything else, it was the title of that Thor story - "Trial of the Gods" - that had an effect on me. Even though I was familiar with the stories from Norse mythology, the idea that there could be more than one god - and then that they could be on trial - was quite unsettling to a child of ten. As it turned out, it was more of a medieval tournament type of trial rather than a courtroom trial, but then neither the cover art or the story title of Journey into Mystery 116 made that clear.

Unusually for a Marvel cover of the period, this
one is not action-oriented. The suspense comes
from Thor meekly submitting to his fate ...
The story opens with Odin banishing the brothers Thor and Loki to the dread land beyond Asgard - Skornheim - where, unarmed, they will battle their way home against menace after menace. Odin warns that even an immortal may die here, takes Thor's hammer from him and zaps the pair to a mountaintop many leagues from home.

Immediately, the God of Mischief reveals that not only does he have a forbidden weapon - a pouch full of mystic Norn Stones - but also that he's sent his brutal allies, The Enchantress and the Executioner, after Thor's one true love, the mortal Jane Foster. And with that, Loki is off, using his enchanted stones to escape from the mountain, leaving Thor to rely on just his strength and his courage. Fortunately, Thor's friend and ally Balder gets wind of what's going on back on Earth and is dispatched by Odin to prevent The Enchantress and The Executioner from harming Jane Foster. Balder also scares the Frightful Four away from the Baxter Building when they mistake his fiery arrival for the Human Torch (and Stan adds a footnote mentioning FF38). And the story continued Next Issue, so I had to track down a copy of Journey into Mystery 117 to find out if Thor managed some last-minute miracle to prevent his cheating brother winning the Trial of the Gods. Dang, that never happened with DC Comics ...

The Tales of Asgard back-up story featured more Loki villainy, this time tricking his brother into a battle with an important political ally of Asgard, the blow-hard braggart King Hymir. The story begins with an editorial reference to issue 63 of Thor, which puzzled me no end because I was holding Journey into Mystery 116 in my hands. I didn't know Thor had his own title, let alone it reaching its 63rd issue. But the Shakespearian drama of the story soon banished my confusion and I never did try to locate a copy of Thor 63 ...

That same issue also carried an ad for something called The Merry Marvel Marching Society. I had no idea what that was. But I did know I didn't have a "buck" to send Marvel for my membership kit. So that, too, would remain a mystery to me ...

What exactly was the Merry Marvel Marching
Society? I thought it might be like a brass band,
but I never did find out ...
Another very early Marvel was Tales to Astonish 66. This was Ant-Man again, though I barely recognised him as such. But at least this Giant-Man uniform was familiar to me - it was the same one that I'd seen much earlier in Avengers 15. The art on the lead story was different, a bit more like a DC comic, with none of the manic edge of Kirby or Ditko. Bob Powell had been one of the mainstays on the old, pre-Marvel Atlas books, but had also worked for Quality, ME and Harvey.  Once nice touch Powell brought to the story, was a two-panel sequence where Giant-Man shrinks down to six-foot size to greet Madame Macabre. I hadn't seen Ditko or Kirby do an effect like that, and it pre-figured Steranko, who did a lot of this "animated frame" stuff, by two or three years ...

Powell brings some animation to Giant-Man's shrinking
sequence with this clever effect.
But I could not - for the life of me - figure out what was going on with Giant-Man on the cover. You have to read the story to make any sense of the image and even then it's not very clear. I won't spoil the story for anyone who's not read it by explaining what's happening, but you sure as heck can't figure it out from Powell's cover image. Also, the difference of colour on either side of The Wasp's motion trail didn't make any sense. And why the additional typeset box covering Madam Macabre's bottom?

So, what's happening to Giant Man here?
Falling down a well? Trapped in a lift?
The Hulk story was a different animal altogether. Drawn by Steve Ditko, in retrospect it seems like all of the artist's frustrated rage that he couldn't pour into his Spider-Man stories, he parked here. It's a pretty furious take on the Hulk, with Banner's green alter-ego taking on most of the Soviet army and doing a pretty convincing job of winning. For me, especially in my tender years, this version of the Hulk was pretty much the defining one. It also managed to form the classic Hulk personality. Much more cohesive than the five different versions of the character Lee and Kirby came up with in issues 1-5 of The Hulk's own, earlier magazine. And of course, it established the character's persona up to and including the recent blockbuster movie.

Ditko's take on the Hulk was just very, very angry ...
a characterisation that has lasted till the modern day.
For some reason, when I was growing up, X-Men 10 seemed like an especially common comic. I've owned many copies over the years. Back in 1965, it was the first issue of X-Men I came across. A few years later, when I was building a Marvel collection, it was one of the first early X-Men books I found in a second-hand shop. And when I started rebuilding my long-lost collection just ten years ago it was, again, one of the first early X-Men books I was able to get hold of. Coincidently - or maybe not - I've also never seen a UK variant price of this issue of X-Men. They've all been cents copies with the hideous, heavy ink Thorpe and Porter import stamp. If anyone has a pence copy of X-Men 10, I'd very much like to hear about it. But I have a theory ...
Every copy of this comic I've ever seen has had
an especially heavy ink pence stamp on it.

At the end of 1964, Marvel comics had a hiccup in distribution. Up until September, Marvel Comics were freely available in UK newsagents. The company even changed the black plate at the end of the print run to substitute the US 12c price for a UK 9d price. They also removed the Month from the cover box because the Marvel books came over by surface as ballast in ships and thus were on sale here later. Then, some October issues failed to show up here. Some were scarcer than others. Spider-Man 18 and 19 were impossible to find and remained very scarce in the UK. FF 32 and 33 were also thin on the ground. Other difficult to find Marvels included Avengers 9 (though 8 and 10 were less common), Daredevil 4, Journey into Mystery 110 and 111, Sgt Fury 11, Strange Tales 127, Tales of Suspense 59 and 60, Tales to Astonish 62, and X-Men 8

The last 1964 pence copy of a Marvel Comic I have is Tales to Astonish 61 - which is odd, because traditionally, this has always been considered one of the "non-distrubuted" Marvels of 1964.

So here's what I think happened: sometime around June 1964, someone - perhaps Marty Goodman at Marvel, or perhaps a manager at Thorpe and Porter - decided that selling Marvels in the UK wasn't making enough money. They needed to raise the selling price. Maybe there was a difference of opinion over how much the price should be raised by. But whatever caused it, there was a delay in deciding, because for the most part, the November and December Marvels didn't reach the UK by official channels. Tales to Astonish 61 would have been the earliest November Marvel on sale, so would have somehow scraped though with a 9d price. For the next two months, no Marvels were distributed at all. Goodman resumed exporting copies of his books to the UK with the January 1965 cover dates, but left it to T&P to ink-stamp the copies. It wasn't until the September 1965 cover date that some Marvels started showing up with a 10d price replacing the 12c, and only the Marvels that replaced the "Marvel Comics Group" with "Marvel Pop Art Productions" in the corner box.

The corner boxes from Avengers 18 and 19.
I'll have more to say about the Marvel cover corner boxes in a future post, but for the moment, let's return to your regularly scheduled programming ...

X-Men 10 was inked over Kirby pencils by Chic Stone. Over the years I've seen a lot of criticism of Stone's inks, especially on Kirby pencils, and I've never agreed with it. Stone began inking for Marvel around Journey into Mystery 102. I remember seeing his work on the first Fantastic Four I can remember owning, issue 36, and really liking his clean, organic line. Later on, I decided I preferred his inking on the earlier Thor stories in Journey into Mystery to the later ones that had the scratchy inking style of Vince Colletta.

I instantly liked X-Men because, like Spider-Man, they were only a couple of years older than me.

But the main attraction of X-Men 10 was that it introduced the bargain basement Tarzan, Ka-Zar (boy, Stan loved his hyphens, didn't he?) to the Marvel Universe. Following a news report of an Antarctic expedition party attacked by a wild man, the X-Men discover a hidden pre-historic world beneath the South Pole. Great news for me, because like any other ten year old, I was fascinated with dinosaurs. Much battling ensues. In the end, Ka-Zar (pronounced Kay-zar, Stan's footnote helpfully explains) grudging accepts the X-Men's friendship, then chucks them out of his lost world and has his pet mastodons block the entrance with tons of boulders, presumably sealing it off from the upper world forever. Didn't work out that way, in the long run. Ka-Zar would be back to menace Daredevil next. But a great story. With dinosaurs.

The X-Men's encounter with a tyrannosaurus rex was a bit
of a low-key affair - surprised Kirby didn't make more of it.
By this time I had a good grip of how Marvel was different from boring old DC, and was a confirmed Marvelite. I still looked at the occasional DC title. Who could resist the brilliant Earth 2 cross-over with The Justice Society in Justice League 21 and 22? But for the most part, I would now devote my energies to tracking down every Marvel Comic I could, starting with Tales of Suspense and The Avengers, both starring my favourite character, Captain America.

Next: Buy or barter Marvel Comics

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Friday, 24 April 2015

A Voter's View

In less than 2 weeks the good folks of the UK will go to the polls to vote in the General Election. We have been bombarded with this on the news channels, in the papers and in the election debates for months.
However, one of the main things I have noticed from most of the MP's and leaders etc. is how "old school" they still are. Politics has been around for years but the world and the voting public have moved on. We have the world at our fingertips, weare as informed as we wish to be thanks to the power of the internet. No longer do we blandly follow in the voting choices of our parents as previous generations did. We take the information available and we make up our own minds on how we wish to cast our vote.
We are not interested in the "old" way. The backstabbing, the mudslinging and the truly awful talking down to the "common folk" like we are stupid.
We are not the "common folk" we are the ELECTORATE! We choose who WE want to represent us.
Is it so hard for these politicians to understand that?
If so, then they are the stupid, not us.
There has been a lot of noise in the news lately of how bad it will be for the Scots to be represented at Westminster by the SNP. How they, or the Welsh Nationalists, should not get to vote on English matters. I have never heard anything of the sort being mentioned in the past about Scottish or Welsh Labour or for that matter Conservative politicians being told they should not vote on these matters. This is because without the votes of these MP's many of the policies of these parties would not have gotten through parliament.
Westminster wants the people of the UK to stay together and be as one but only on their terms. During this election that has become very clear.
Old school democracy has had it's day and it is time for the people of the UK to stop and think. Stop with the tactical voting to suit the big parties and vote with your true beliefs.
We are privileged to be allowed to make our choices at the ballot box. Many in this world cannot.
To the candidates who wish to represent us. Respect your electorate. You are chosen by us to work for us, not to line your pockets and be above us. Remember we pay for you. You are our employee and you are not indispensable. If you do not do a good job in 5 years you will be out. That is how a democracy works.
The people have the power, not the politicians.

Sunday, 19 April 2015

Busted Some Stash

Another week and a bit has gone by, how quickly the days pass! I must be having fun.
Knitting is moving on apace and the basket dash I mentioned last time has begun. I have filled my basket with a few WIP's and some skeins to continue my 24 pair sock challenge. It seems to be working for me as within the first week (the dash began on Wed 15th) I have completed my first project.

The pattern is Ridge and Furrow Rainbow Triangular Shawl which is free on Ravelry. I can see how the pattern may be daunting to some as the original uses 54 different shades of Wollmeise yarn which can be like hen's teeth to find, but I just used one main background colour (Drops Alpaca) from stash and then some of my sock leftovers. Doing it this way made it a great stashbuster project as it used 993 yards and I managed to move 4 yarns into the "all used up" tab. Another thing that was mentioned to me was the huge cast on, the shawl is knitted bottom up, with 655 stitches. To me this is not really an issue as once you get past the patterned border as the rows make easy TV knitting and of course they reduce as you go on.

Of course I don't just watch TV as I knit. My other challenge is continuing also. I finished listening to The Fellowship of the Ring from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Although I enjoyed the book I felt I needed a break from Tolkein for a while so used a random number generator to choose the next book from the list. It's stuff done the book chosen was The Once and Future King by TH White. I must admit that this is a book I have never heard of before. The story, an Arthurian fantasy, explores the childhood of King Arthur. This I am enjoying immensely. A bonus is that 33 hours long the book is a real bargain with my Audible subscription.

Also in the past week we have had an interloper. This gorgeous tint puss came into out house and our hearts.

We have named her Abby and she is settling in well having made particularly good friends with Gibbs our big boy.

Other than that life just passes day by day.

Stay safe and happy crating

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

It Has Been a While

Gosh, how time flies.I am having difficulty believing that I last posted in January.
However I am still here knitting away and dreaming up new challenges for myself to keep life interesting.
One of the things I have challenged myself to I have been thinking about for a number of years and now I have finally figured out how to take it forward and continue with my main passion. Way back in 2003 the BBC commissioned a year long survey to find the nation's favourite books, full list of the top 200 can be found here, I have often thought about trying to read as many as I can but was foiled by the fact you cannot turn pages or read words and read patterns and knit at the same time. The bingo! a solution came to me. I have an Audible subscription, why not have the books read to me whilst I relax with my sticks and string thus combining two of my favourite things.
I took the plunge and started at No 1. The Lord of the Rings. I have now finished the first of the 6 books and am a way through the second. You may find it hard to believe, especially with all the hype there has been in the last few years, but this is a book I have never read nor have I seen any of the films. I will admit that at times I am struggling to stay focused with the story but I will persevere and I am sure I shall enjoy it.
Another challenge to myself is to knit 24 pairs of socks this year. To many folk that will sound a lot but in my mind it is 2 pairs a month, not so bad. So far I have 7 pairs completed so am bang on schedule.

To keep things interesting I am trying to use a different pattern for every pair. My Ravelry queue has expanded madly as I have added nearly 500 of the free sock patterns available. In my mind this equates to roughly 20 years of socks. Hey, we can but dream.
I am not just knitting socks though, I have a few other projects on the go and one of my Ravelry groups has a basket challenge about to begin. This involves filling a basket, real or imaginary with yarn, or wip's and trying to do as much as you can from that basket within a set period of time. It is a great way to stay focused and work your way through the stash.
Speaking of stash, mine has taken a bit of a giant leap in the wrong direction twice already this year. Firstly when a dear friend was de-stashing and I got some gorgeous yarn and a very good discount and secondly when I took myself along to the Edinburgh Yarn Festival. What a wonderful day out that was. Over a hundred stalls packed with yarnie goodies of all descriptions. It was heavenly. However being me I was like a deer caught in the headlights and there was simply way too much to choose from. I ended up just buying yarn from my favourite hand dyer and a beautiful basket for my basket challenges.

The dates for next year's festival have just been announced and I have already made a promise to myself that I will branch out and try some new yarn.
Other than that I have no major planned yarn purchases this year so it is time to climb back on the sheep and work my stash down. I will however have one skein of yarn arriving each month as my wonderful hubby gave me the most amazing gift this past Christmas. He has signed me up for the Yarn Notes from Assynt yarn club which includes a skein of hand dyed sock yarn, a beautiful picture card and some very well researched and written information about the area around the picture. The first 4 months of this club have been a joy to receive and I look forward to each and every parcel arriving.
That is all I can think of for now.

Stay safe and happy crafting


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Monday, December 13, 2010

A Must Read: The Writer's Guide to Psychology by Carolyn Kaufman

I met Carolyn Kaufman online through the forum several years ago. We hit it off right away and became critique partners, which has been a delight and blessing to me. Carolyn is a kick-ass writer with a brilliant mind.

When she said she was writing a non-fiction for writers about psychology, I was a little bit cynical because I assumed it would be one of those dry technical manuals full of psychobabble that I avoid like past-dated milk. When she sent the first chapter to me, I was amazed. It wasn’t boring or dry at all. It was fantastic. Beta reading chapters from this book was of far greater benefit to me than it was to Carolyn. I couldn’t wait for the next chapter to come.

I am so pleased she agreed to let me be a stop on her book release blog tour for THE WRITER’S GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY: How to Write Accurately About Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior.

On this stop on her blog tour, Carolyn shares her advice for writers who aspire to publish. Be sure to check out the information on her book at the bottom of this post.

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What I’ve Learned: Advice for Writers Who Aspire to Publish--Carolyn Kaufman

1. Treat everyone well at every step along the publishing path.

That includes your crit buddies, agents and their assistants, editors, publicists, and anyone else you encounter along the way. How well you write is important, but I genuinely believe professionalism is nearly as important. If you’re arrogant, entitled, mean, petty, or refuse to be a team player, nobody is going to want to work with you. There’s a reason most authors’ Acknowledgements page is lengthy – they didn’t reach the finish line (of publication) alone.

2. Be open to honest feedback.

Realize that criticism of your idea or writing isn’t criticism of you. Also realize that you are not objective about your work, and that the only way you’re going to see those flaws that are hidden from you is to rely on other people. The only way you’re going to grow as a writer is to really listen and consider what others have to say – especially when their feedback isn’t all glowing. (In fact, if all you’re getting is glowing feedback, you’re not getting honest feedback. Everybody’s work has rough edges. And if you’re not getting honest feedback, it’s because you’ve somehow sent the message that you don’t want or can’t handle honest feedback. So take a step back and decide how important publication is to you. If you’re determined to get there, you need to find a way to hear and utilize constructive criticism.)

3. Control your image: be conscientious about what you share online.

This is a good general rule, but it’s doubly important when you’re trying to convince people – agents, editors, potential readers – that you’re a professional. Thanks to books (and films) like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, we all know that Hunter S. Thompson was heavily into drugs and alcohol. Unfortunately, the same image might not do much for you if you’re writing YA or MG or even a nice nonfiction book on scrapbooking. Even if you are writing edgy material, you don’t want unsavory personal choices to overshadow your work, a la Jessica Simpson or Britney Spears.

4. Get excited about promoting your work – or at least be willing and able.

These days, more likely than not you will be handling some if not all of your book’s publicity. This usually begins even before you find representation, in that agents and editors are looking for writers (especially nonfiction writers) with a platform.

What’s a platform? Name recognition, a following, and/or proven expertise or celebrity. I have my doctorate in clinical psychology, which was certainly a boon in my quest to publish a writing/psychology book, but it wasn’t enough. I spent a couple of years building name recognition and a following through outlets like networking with other writers (my most important resource was the forum), websites ( and blogs (, by working with the media (I worked with a PR firm to reach journalists, and yes, that cost money), and by writing articles for syndication (which was a bigger deal a few years ago than it is now). And once my book was sold, I didn’t stop. I am verbal about letting everyone know I like to work with the media, and that I have a book coming out, which has led to additional opportunities, including television, invitations to speak, and even a regular blog at

5. Always be ready to promote your upcoming book, even early on.

You never know who’s going to be that crucial contact, so make or have business cards made, carry them with you everywhere you go, and don’t be shy about whipping one out and passing it over to anyone who might be interested. I’ve given business cards (which have my book cover and website address printed on the back) to everyone from news reporters to admired authors who were signing a book for me to people who heard me mention the book in passing and expressed interest, right down to people who were trying to figure out which business card stock to buy in Staples.

6. Get started on another book.

If your first idea doesn’t sell, move on to another one. The Writer’s Guide to Psychology wasn’t the first book idea I had – it was just the first one strong enough to grow into a true book. I’m extremely methodical about preparing a proposal – I spend months researching and writing, and I want to know exactly what’s going into each and every chapter – so I’m pretty committed to finding the book a home once I reach that stage. Other writers find it fairly easy to write up their ideas and send them out without doing that kind of preliminary work.

When you’re working so hard on one book – writing it, editing it, promoting it – it feels like your entire world. The truth is, though, that if you want to be more than a one-hit wonder, you will eventually need to write another book. Try to get that next proposal ready before everyone forgets who you are!

About The Book

References to psychological issues appear in thousands of books, television shows, and films, yet most of these portrayals are inaccurate in some way. (For example, a recent study claims that only 5 in 400 film portrayals of psychiatric treatment are on track.) The Writer's Guide to Psychology helps novelists and screenwriters, as well as producers and journalists, use psychology accurately in their stories. From how shrinks think to what electroshock therapy really looks like and why psychopaths kill, the book uses myth-busting illustrations from fiction and includes sidebars on things like character development, controversial and cutting-edge treatments, and common pitfalls to avoid.

What Other Writers Are Saying

Advance praise for The Writer’s Guide to Psychology is from great psychological thriller writers like Jonathan Kellerman and Jilliane Hoffman, and early reviews from the New York Journal of Books (who did not just one but two ), are extremely positive.

"This book should be in every writer’s professional library and every clinician’s too—whether writers or not," writes the first reviewer. "Succinct and clear, never becoming too esoteric or theoretical for the layperson to understand, [Kaufman's] skill in the writing craft is clear as she entertains as well as informs the reader with her snappy and conversational style." (

Adds the second reviewer, "Her depth of demonstrated knowledge in the field of psychology/psychiatry is extraordinary, particularly the methodology used to piece together the various components of the puzzle that makes this book a fascinating read... The style and information presented capture the reader from the first few pages of the book, leaving us wishing for more books by this captivating author." (

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Other stops on Carolyn’s blog tour can be found at these links: Murder By 4, Elana Johnson Blogspot, Christine Fonseca, Author.

If you do not see a way to read comments or leave one of your own at the bottom of this post, please click here: COMMENT

Mary Lindsey said...

Thanks for allowing me to be a stop on your tour, Carolyn. Nice test drive for my new blog!

Nancy Kay Bowden said...

I ordered this book as soon as Mary recommended it. I really look forward to reading and using it, Carolyn. Sounds very useful.
Congratulations, best of luck, and thanks for great advice.

Nancy Kay Bowden said...

And my copy just arrived tonight! :) Yay for the UPS working overtime during the holiday season! If I was wasn't Mother of the Bride on Saturday, I'd start reading it right now. (But you know I'll have to take a sneak peek.)

Carolyn Kaufman said...

Wow Nancy, congrats on your daughter's upcoming nuptials! I am honored you even found the time to order my book with all that must be going on! I hope you will find it useful, and that if you do, you'll be able to pass on the recommendation!

And thanks go, as always, to Mary, not only for having me on her blog but for being such a great friend and support!

Naomi Ruth said...

This book looks amazing. I will definitely have to buy it one of these days. I'm very excited for you, Carolyn! Congratulations on getting it published :)

Thanks for having this interview, Miss Mary. :D

lbdiamond said...

Great interview!

I won a copy of your book from Danyelle Leafty's blog contest--I'm sooooo excited to read it! :D

Carolyn Kaufman said...

And I will get the book out to you ASAP, Laura! :-D


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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Nice side burns

Mark has been using an easel that Jennifer loaned me for Relay, outlining plays for football (and he wanted to give it back....LOL....Jason, your easel is safe here and you don't have to worry...LOL!!!). Needless to say, with a house full of teenagers around, the guys have been "helping" Mark out.

First they added some text to the top of the board, and then noticed his name tag from his high school reunion a few years ago....they all got a kick out of it! Next thing we know we find it attached to the easel, with some trash talk. Guess the side burns really got to them. I heard quite a bit of laughter whenever any of the kids picked it up to take a look. Can't wait until their kids are teenagers and hear what they have to say about these guys!

Go Tigard!

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Algebraic L-theory and Surgery (287x) Algebraic L-theory and Surgery (287x)

Time and place: MWF 1-2, TBA

Professor: Jacob Lurie
Office: Science Center 435
Office hours: Thursday 2-3 (or by appointment).
The course syllabus.

Lectures (Warning: these notes are sloppy. Use at own risk.): Lecture 1: Introduction.

Lecture 2: Categorical Background.

Lecture 3: Stable Infty Categories.

Lecture 4: Quadratic Functors.

Lecture 5: L Groups.

Lecture 6: L Theory Spaces.

Lecture 7: Simplicial Spaces.

Lecture 8: Localization.

Lecture 9: Proof of the Kan Property.

Lecture 10: L-Theory of Rings and Ring Spectra.

Lecture 11: Algebraic Surgery.

Lecture 12: Surgery below the Middle Dimension.

Lecture 13: The L-theory of Fields.

Lecture 15: Odd L-groups of Z.

Lecture 16: Even L-groups of Z.

Lecture 17: Polyhedra and PL Manifolds.

Lecture 18: Constructible Sheaves.

Lecture 19: Verdier Duality.

Lecture 20: L-Theory Spectra.

Lecture 21: Locally Constant Sheaves.

Lecture 22: Assembly.

Lecture 23: Orientation of L-Theory.

Lecture 24: More on L-Theory Orientations.

Lecture 25: The Hirzebruch Signature Formula.

Lecture 26: Poincare Spaces.

Lecture 27: The Structure Space of a Poincare Space.

Lecture 28: Transversality.

Lecture 29: Quadratic Refinements.

Lecture 30: The Main Theorem.

Lecture 31: The Main Theorem: First Reductions.

Lecture 32: Surgery.

Lecture 33: From Algebraic To Geometric Surgery.

Lecture 34: Geometric Surgery Below the Middle Dimension.

Lecture 35: Surgery in the Middle Dimension.

Lecture 36: The Homotopy Type of G/PL.

Lecture 37: The Total Surgery Obstruction.

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Math-related careers – do they earn well?

Careers requiring math earn well. Mathematicians median annual income was pegged at $94,160.
5 of the 6 “Best Jobs” in terms of low stress, high compensation, autonomy, and hiring demand in the “Job Related Almanac” by Les Krantz are all math related.

Do math-related careers earn well? Are these facts enough for a parent and student to ignite that spark of long term commitment for learning? Of the extra effort to pursue a long term program of “deliberate practice” ?

“Deliberate Practice” – whether in sports, music or mathematics studies – is difficult, frustrating, fearful, HARD.  To be effective such a practice pushes the student to failure, to recovery from failure and then to “deep” learning because of it.

Will then parents, teachers, tutors and students all persist in supporting the needed depth of math study for these careers?

Only parents can decide this with their children. Teachers and tutors are able to advise on the proper learning path – in-school and after-school. Some careers do require advanced math – and this requires first mastery of more elementary math.

According to the Wall Street Journal:
Mathematician is considered the Best Job of All Jobs.

Mathematicians’ median annual income was pegged at $94,160.
The top 3 jobs on the list were:

1. Mathematician
2. Actuary
3. Statistician

5 of the 6 “Best Jobs” in terms of low stress, high compensation, autonomy, and hiring demand in the “Job Related Almanac” by Les Krantz are all math related.

Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs Nov 2009

“Math majors don’t always get much respect on college campuses, but fat post-grad wallets should be enough to give them a boost.

The top 15 highest-earning college degrees all have one thing in common — math skills. That’s according to a recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which tracks college graduates’ job offers is at the crux of who gets paid,” said Ed Koc, director of research at NACE. “If you have those skills, you are an extremely valuable asset. We don’t generate enough people like that in this country.”           (

The following is a list of careers that use math and their respective high-end salaries. You can click on any career title and learn what education is needed and what math will be used.  There are testimonials from career professionals as to how important math was to them.

We know how important math is in engineering and science – but is it also important in law?  Here is an excerpt from this resource:

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Formal requirements to become a attorney usually include a 4-year college degree in a field such as mathematics, 3 years of law school, and passing a written bar examination. Competition for admission to most law schools is intense. Math and Physics majors outscore all other majors on the LSAT (Law School Admission Test). (Michael Nieswiadomy, “LSAT Scores of Economics Majors: The 2003-2004 Class Update”, Journal of Economic Education, pp. 244-247)
Do you love mathematics, but want to pursue a career as a lawyer?
“Professional graduate schools in business, law, and medicine think mathematics is a great major because it develops analytical skills and the ability to work in a problem solving environment. And results on admission tests for graduate and professional schools show that students majoring in mathematics receive substantially higher scores than most other majors.”
William Allard & Clark Bray Duke University, Mathematics Department

Math Required:     [Note that this is in college.]

College Algebra
Calculus I and II
Finite Mathematics

When Math Is Used:

Attorneys use mathematical skills such as problem solving and logic in their everyday business activities. Much like a math problem, attorneys in court need to illustrate step-by-step their knowledge of the case.”    Some attorneys even specialize in LSAT math tutoring to help prepare students for law school admission.

See the 2013 update to the Best Careers today.

The important thing to take away from these career descriptions is that the study of mathematics is important in many technical fields.  It is also important in many non-technical career fields because the world is more complex and data-driven PLUS the study of mathematics builds tough mental discipline and a trained logical mind.


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Archive for March, 2013

Maths and Marketing

The main connection between maths and marketing is that both obviously rely on numbers. You need people/numbers to make both work, there needs to be a formula that people can follow, similar to a recipe that makes sense to everyone involved.

Likewise, those in website design for businesses need to factor in the size of web pages so that they are as user friendly as they possibly can be. Text size needs to be spot on so that not only can people read it, but that it is as space saving as possible. If you allow adverts on your website, you need to think about what size these have to be to maximise revenue but also so that your visitors do not get lost in a sea of advertisements.

Graphic designers also need to be savvy when it comes to saving space while getting important messages across. Images need to be inspiring, but also the right size, text needs to convey messages while not taking up too much of the flyer, poster, or email template etc. Angles also come into play.

Social media marketing relies on a large number of fans and the ability to keep them engaged by sending out messages. But a high number of advertisements will dissuade them from engaging with you while a small number of engaging messages will not provide a platform for engagement.

When people question the important of maths in the real world, be sure to remember this example. Maths often influences the outcome of many aspects of everyday life.

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Mathematics of Dominoes

Many mathematicians have been fascinated by the chain reaction of a falling domino.  After all even the simple fact that a small domino is able to knock over a much larger one suggests there’s something quite intersting with the chain reaction that is occuring.  It’s obviously due to  the momentum of the first domino but how can we work out the mathematics involved in this process.   After all just look at the momentum produced in this famous domino toppling scene – there’s another one on the BBC Iplayer, check this post and how to access it from the States – http://mathsurvey.org/how-to-watch-bbc-iplayer-in-america.html

So how does  this chain reaction work and how much bigger can each domino get to maintain the reaction.  There have been lots of guesses and arguments and commonly people tend to believe that each domino can topple one 1.5 times the size.  This is of course also dependent on spacing as well as the momentum generated.

In a physics context it’s quite simple – when you lay a domino on it’s side it stores a certain amount of potential energy.  This energy is released when it’s pushed over.  The force required to knock the domino over is less than that generated when it falls over.  Therefore there is an amplification of the force which means a little domino can knock over a bigger one.

Well a mathematician from the Netherlands has simplified the issue for us all in a mathematical analysis.  His name is Van Leeuwen and makes a number of simplifications.  Things like the friction involved is infinite so there can be no sliding.  No elasticity in the contact between dominos and that they always stay in contact with each other.

Van Leeuwen then demonstrates that when  the dominos are spaced optimally that the maximum growth size of each domino is a factor of two.  So my wife was wrong, I don’t waste too much of my time browsing on the internet – I’ve now discovered this evening how to change to a fake ip address from here http://www.theninjaproxy.org/tv/a-fake-uk-ip-address/ and also figured out how many dominos I’d need before I could harness enough energy to start knocking over tower blocks using this chain reaction !!

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Maths In Day To Day Life

Using mathematics in daily life is something that we all do but most of us do it without noticing. If it is working out how much something will cost, what time a bus will be due or any other countless things it is something that we would struggle to get through the day without.

Mathematics is my passion and I use every forum and platform to discuss it and let people know about its importance. Quite often people just won’t care but on occasion someone will realise just what a difference this knowledge makes. I am even in the process of making a few youtube videos after seeing how some well placed videos can get attention and let people know what is happening. Click here to see a few good examples of how a video can help inform people on a subject they might be curious about.

Of course it is not all I am interested in and I have recently joined a football team. I also get to put my mathematical passion to use in setting up league tables and fixtures. It really is a useful knowledge o have and it is extremely important that people start to realise just how much of a difference it makes.

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How Greenhouses and Math Work Together to Make You Money

If you are someone who has a very strong mathematical ability, no doubt you are looking for great ways to put your genius to use. But did you know that planting is actually one of the best ways for math pros to make money? Think of it this way; planting is fairly complex, when it comes down to it. The more you plant, the more money you can make, but also the more you need to factor in the figures and numbers for how much seed you need, how much water, how much fertilizer, how many square yards you can plant in, and what is currently growing—so much depends on math! But if you are a math pro, and can handle a lot of numbers, then getting a garden greenhouse can be a sure fire way for you to make a pretty good amount of money.

 How It Works

What exactly is a greenhouse? A greenhouse is a structure that is designed specifically with one thing in mind; growing plants. It is usually made of glass, or covered in a special sort of plastic. What the greenhouse does is block out all of the bad thing that the various seasons can bring, such as snow, harsh winds, and any other factor that can and will damage your plants, or more importantly, your investment. But if you have a greenhouse, your planting options are almost completely limitless. You can plant fruit, veggies, flowers and even herbs any time of the season, as your plants will be entirely protected from the elements. And this is one of the most efficient ways to make money.

 How Mathematics Factors In

How does math directly correlate to gardening? Think of it this way; if you have literally hundreds of square feet of plants, you need to be pretty confident in dealing with numbers. You need to be able to figure out how many square feet of seed you need not based on the entire size of the greenhouses itself, but on the portion of the greenhouse which is prime for planting. You also need to factor in how many times you need to water your plants, how much space your sprinklers, if you decide to go that route, will cover, and thus ultimately how many sprinklers you will need to install. Then you have to figure out which plants, though protected, will grow best in which seasons, using the daylight hours to figure out how many hours of sun each specific plant type will need, and whether or not they will get enough to thrive. All of these numbers will change constantly as you begin to expand or diversify what you plant, and thus a sharp mathematical mind is the perfect way to handle it all. So if you think that you have what it takes to run a greenhouse, know that can potentially make quite a bit of extra money.

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How Mathematics helps with for Treatment of Cancer

Researchers have discovered a wild and rare mushroom that is known as cordyceps. Widely used in Chinese medicine, the fungi inhibit division, growth proliferation and growth of cancer cells. Through use of mathematics patterns, cordyceps was first formulated into a drug for cancer in the 1950’s known as cordycepin. However, later on, the drug was deemed ineffective for treatment of cancer for the simple reason once administered it led to degeneration of active components and as such, could not fight the cancer causing cells.

Depending on the level of dosage given to a patient, cordyceps mushroom extract has a direct impact on the process of protein cell development and impedes production of mRNA molecules which are responsible for creating them. When it is administered in high doses, it inhibits development of protein directly and essentially, eliminates the ability of the cancer cells to survive and function. Since the fungi was discovered and research was formulated on the basis of the drug cordycepin, ways of improving on the drug have been sought by use of math tools in order to come up with a more effective drug for treatment of cancer.

In this regard, another drug was formulated so it could work alongside the initial drug and hence, hence that once it is taken, it does not degenerate thus rendering it ineffective. There are no major side effects noted after the use of cordyceps and especially if it is administered in the right dosage and it is precisely for this reason that its use is encouraged among cancer patients. The effects of cordyceps in treating and preventing cancer are very powerful and as such, its potential usage in the treatment of cancer has continued to rise. The best thing about cordyceps is that it is not as new as people think it is. In essence and as mentioned earlier, it has been used in Chinese medicine for centuries.

The only difference is that now, more advancements and research is been made to ensure that the effectiveness of the fungi is capitalized on fully. This is done through use of mathematics patterns and other basic calculations that determine the dosage to be given to cancer patients. The truth is that you do not need to use the fabricated cordyceptin drug in order to enjoy the benefits associated with cordyceps. In actual sense, what you need is the cordyceps itself and you can enjoy its healing properties for cancer. As more development are been made, there is no doubt that the benefits of the fungi will benefit the medical sector.

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Don’t Overlook The Importance Of Math

You probably hated math in school. Will we ever need it in real life, you asked? But while most of us may never need calculus in a job, understanding basic math concepts are useful and even necessary in some jobs. If you want to be a bank teller, you better be good at counting. Even making change at your first part time job requires you to be quick on your feet and comfortable with math.

Lots of teens are looking for jobs and typically one of the ones they can get is a cashier type position. Many jobs 17 year olds will be hired for will require basic math and those that don’t have that skill won’t be hired.

Math is important for more reasons than just finding a job. It helps you develop thought processes that translate into all sorts of other skills. Math at all levels is a puzzle and being able to figure out puzzles helps you in many ways throughout life. So the next time you get frustrated at a math problem or think that learning how think mathematically isn’t important, realize that struggling through the problem is buy far your best option.

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Using Math to Calculate Taxes

The math behing calculating the taxes withheld form your paycheck can be pretty complex.  Fortunately, there are tools such as a paycheck calculator to help with this.

It is very important that you have a clear picture of how much you will be getting paid when working at a new job. However, many people lack the information they need in order to obtain an accurate picture of just how much they can expect to get paid. As a result, they often feel as if they have been cheated by their employer once a paycheck is issued. Many times, this can result in a desire to quit working. The best way to avoid this becoming a problem in your own life would be to use a paycheck calculator that would take a look at the amount of money you are earning as a result of this job. Also, it would help you to discover just how much you would lose in the form of taxes that would be deducted from your paycheck. The result of this information would be a clear picture of where you will stand financially if you choose to continue working at this place of employment.

When you lack the information provided by a great paycheck calculator, you may find it difficult to do what is within your best interests. However, knowing where you stand can be a great way to help you avoid stressing out over the burden that taxes can result in. Knowing how much you would get paid every period can help you to do some planning when it comes to your money. Also, you would be able to decide if you have an interest in continuing to do the job that you have been thinking about or finding something that may result in a larger paycheck in the future.

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Utilizing Math to Analyze Hypertension Rates

Hypertension rates among adults continue to be a worldwide epidemic.  Math holds the key to analyzing the data to uncover trends that may unlock the key to bringing these troubling rates down.

A blood pressure chart is used to figure out if your blood pressure is normal or if you need to take steps to make it more normal. The readings range from normal to high blood pressure. To get the best measurement, your physician should look at two or more readings that you may have had during your office visits.

There are four categories that your pressure can fall into. There is normal, prehypertension, stage 1 hypertension, and stage 2 hypertension. For normal pressure, you should maintain a healthy lifestyle. For prehypertension, you should adopt a healthy lifestyle. For stage 1 hypertension, you should adopt a healthy lifestyle and if it isn’t reached in six months you should talk to your physician about possibly taking medication to control your hypertension. For stage 2 hypertension, you should adopt a healthy lifestyle and talk to your physician about taking medications.

If you are wondering what hypertension and hypotension are, maybe this will help you. Hypertension is high blood pressure. It is a condition where the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. Those who have it are at risk for having a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and more. As for hypotension, those who have hypotension have a really low blood pressure. It is mostly associated with people who go into shock. For some people though who are in good shape, low blood pressure is a sign of being healthy. For others, it can cause fainting and dizziness or indicate heart disorders.

So if you are wondering if your blood pressure is good, talk to your doctor and refer to this Blood Pressure chart to get the blood pressure test done to see if you measure at a normal range.

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Mathematics in the Kitchen

Following recipes in the kitchen is one of the many applications of math in our daily lives. We may choose to follow the instructions to the letter or make changes to the quantities, as long as we keep the ratio of ingredients that we use constant. Hi tech Japanese rice cookers sold today often come with two rice measuring cups. These are not the standard cups that cooks in the U.S. are used to. Instead, they are a 180ml cup, which is used for measuring out all but one type of rice, rinse free – for that the rice cook should use the smaller 171ml cup.

The rinse free cup is a light green color while the regular one is clear. While it’s volume is just a little bit less, it actually looks smaller, so you’re not likely to get confused. This Youtube video shows the rice cooker cups that come with Zojirushi rice cookers these days.

When you make rice with a rice cooker, there are really only a couple of factors that you need to pay attention to. First of all, what rice are you making? Let’s say that you want to cook up some brown rice. You’d use the regular rice scoop (not the one shown above) and scoop out the number of cups that you want to make. It’s important to measure out each cup accurately, so we don’t want heaped cups, level is best. You just pour the rice from the cup into the rice cooker. Once you’ve done that, you need to add water up to the mark that corresponds to the number of cups of rice you are making. So if you are making two cups of brown rice, you simply add water up to the brown rice level two mark. That’s all there is to it. Oh, you’ve got to turn the rice cooker on too!

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Email Mail Merge: Creating Custom Comments in a Google Doc Spreadsheet

Now, that we have created a Form and are ready to collect data, I want to use the built-in functionality from Google Doc Spreadsheets to create more substantive comments on the assessed skills. The Form will automatically populate the spreadsheet when it is submitted.

Let's enter some test data into our Form to use while we create our customized email message:

Once we hit submit, our data will be populated into the spreadsheet:

From this data we want to expand on our entry for Skill#1, Skill#2, and Skill #3. We want to turn G, A, and B into more substantive comments.
First, we will create 3 new column headings labeled Comment for Skill #1, Comment for Skill #2, and Comment for Skill #3.

Notice that the new column headings are white and not grey like the previous headings (for Timestamp through Skill #3). This is because the grey columns are populated by the Form. One thing to remember is that if you add another question to the Form it will copy over the new column heading you created.

Now create a new sheet in our spreadsheet by clicking on the plus key at the bottom of the page:

Create 2 new sheets, 1 called Email Template (which we will use later) and 1 called Comment Sheet. Make sure to keep the Email Template sheet the second one from the left (important for our future purposes of creating an Email Mail Merge).

Now, go to the sheet labeled Comment Sheet. Here we are going to create the more substantive comments for each Skill that we are assessing and the 3 levels: Good, Average, Bad. For my example, I will use a soccer example for Skill #1 and Skill #2.

Now create the comment detailing each level of ability for each of the skills. For example for Skill #1:
(Notice that I have personalized it with names and gender specific comments. Later, we will edit this to put it in a different format so that Google Docs will Email Mail Merge it.)

Do the same for Skill #2 and Skill #3

Now that we have our substantive comments, we want to paste them back into the Data Collection Sheets. We will use a built-in function, IF, to do this.

You can also find a list of all the built-in functions here (where I got this info):

So, in Cell I2 (which represents the Comment for Skill #1) use the IF function. This will check the entry in F2 (where we assessed Skill #1) to see which comment to use. If it is a G, we use the comment for Skill #1 that we created in the sheet titled "Comment Sheet", the Good comment is in cell B2.

Repeat this function for Comment for Skill #2 and Comment for Skill #3. The only thing you need to change is the cells that you reference. (For Comment for Skill #2, replace F2 with G2 and B2,C2, and D2, with B3,C3, and D3).
This will automatically fill in the cell with the comment we created in the other sheet.

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Friday, August 25, 2006

What do you think?

In a recent article by Christianity Today (see it here), they report that Clean Flicks has lots its ability to manipulate Hollywood films in order to remove swearing, violence and sexual scenes. Hollywood feels the removal of such scenes infringes on the art and creativity that is intentionally put into films to make them the best they can be.

What do you think? Does a person have the right to edit what is viewed in their own home? Why can ABC remove scenes when they show a film on TV, but Clean Flicks cannot on a DVD a person orders online?

I am torn. I agree that some movies dramatic effect would be missed if some of the thematic elements were removed. "Shawshank Redemption" and "American History X" would lose its power without the horrible gang rape scenes and vulgarity attached to prison life. "The Passion of the Christ" and "Schindler's List" would not present the real past without the horrifying violence. Some romance movies would fail to present the passion of individuals without bedroom scenes.

I question, however, whether an individual cannot choose to have those items removed over their own personal convictions. If I have the option to fast forward through things I consider garbage, why can't I just have them removed entirely from a DVD? In a few years will Hollywood sue me for a violation of artistic rights if I just watch 90% of the scenes of a movie because 10% of the movie violates my personal convictions?

Express your thoughts . . .

Tim said...

As long as they aren't losing money in the deal and you aren't making money in the deal without their consent, then it's yours to edit as you wish. Simple.

Anonymous said...

Hey Matt,

I read this article too. Here's a quote by John Milton in his essay against censorship, "Areopagitica" (I saw it on

"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."

Though, I think parents have a great responsibility in protecting their children from objectionable material...if that means either not allowing it at all or watching with them and explaining everything.

Kristen Myers


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Thursday, 26 February 2015

Maxi Gossamer For UBER - February 25th

UBER starts on the 25th of each month so this February 25th Uber opened with the Boho theme. The Violette Cut Boho Necklace set is the Maxi Gossamer themed release for this round. The necklace comes in 7 ready to wear linked groups along with a texter changer that gives you 12 bead colour options to choose from.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

My Husband's Used Equipment

Alan is a baker.

This has obvious benefits to me as a human being in terms of a plentiful supply of fresh bread. It also has benefits in terms of access to used restaurant equipment.

Of course, since he outfitted his bakery with said used equipment, good communication is really important. "Don't touch this," he'll say about anything he actually plans to use. As near as I can figure, the rest is up for grabs.

And really, it's such gorgeous stuff and so useful around the house.

Like this giant wisk that became a chandelier out on the deck.

We discussed it and he agreed that it was unlikely that he would ever need to make forty pounds of Pavlova. So, candle-holder it is!

He also came into possession of a truck-load of industrial bread pans. These are really cool - four pans bound together. It allows him to get the bread in and out of the oven much faster. And the extras make great shelving!

It does go both ways in this relationship. I have, occasionally lost a new paintbrush to the kitchen.

As long as I 'm kept well-supplied with foccaccia, I don't complain.

And I'd like to welcome all of my new readers! I see by my Sitemeter that some of you had a good look around. Thank you! I hope you like what you see and will keep checking back with me.
Feel free to leave comments, ask questions, suggest good links. Most of all, have fun!

kimmomofseven said...

Whew...your title had me a tad nervous (what with the previous decor-porn title of days ago). LOVE the wisk!

and yippee for your fame, a very nice mention indeed

Barb McMahon said...

I was really pleased with the article.

And the porn references are just me having fun with the search engines. But I'll behave for awhile....

Thanks for commenting!

Cybelle said...

Well since you welcomed us to you blog, I just wanted to say I've been reading it since beginning of July, and absolutely love you ideas, spirit, wits, and humour!

Thank you!

Barb McMahon said...

Thanks so much, Cybelle!

Brandi said...

i just have to say that i LOVE that you can take an item and remake its purpose. the whisk/chandelier? brilliant! (and completely fabulous.)

Barb McMahon said...

Thanks so much, Brandi!

Yes, that whisk has brightened many a late-night dinner conversation.

I like to think there'll be more of them popping up here and there, making people smile!

Lynn said...

I'm guessing that the whisk was originally owned by Rubeus Hagrid or his half-brother Grawp?

Love what you did with the industrial bread pans, too. Would they be a good size for storing CD's?

Barb McMahon said...

Hee hee! You should see the mixer it goes with (it's in actual daily use, so I can't turn it into a plant stand or anything...)!

Sadly, the loaf pans are just that bit too narrow for CD's. Though you could turn them horizontally and use them for DVD's without too much wasted space.

Fuzzy Izmit said...

I love the beater candle holder! I used to work in a it is just so cool!

Barb McMahon said...

I do think used restaurant supply stores have the best stuff!


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Definition: Brainstorming is a semi-structured creative group idea generation (ideation) approach which aims at generating a list of ideas that are spontaneously contributed by the members or participants of a brainstorm session.
Coined by Alex F. Osburn, the technique originally had 4 general rules, which are still at the basis of B:
1. Focus on quantity
2. Withhold criticism
3. Welcome unusual ideas
4. Combine and improve ideas
Brainstorms are typically used in improvement, marketing and innovation efforts. Is less structured than Six Thinking Hats. See also brainwriting.

More on brainstorming. More on idea generation and creativity: Association, Brainwriting, Idea Generation, Mind Mapping, Parallel Thinking, more...

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June E. Updegrave Robinson, age 96, of Wilmington, DE, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, August 12, 2017, in the comfort of her own home in N. Graylyn Crest with family present.

A direct descendant of one of the founding fathers of Germantown, PA, June was born in Tamaqua, PA to Mark and Laura Updegrave. She often talked of her school days and the friendships that lasted into adulthood. June eventually moved to the Midwest, doing defense work for the Atlas Company. There she met C. Leroy Robinson (Robbie) of Sgt. Bluff, IA and they were married in 1943. They lived in Des Moines, IA, Houston, TX and in 1955 they settled down in Wilmington, DE along with their children: Joann, Ronald and Deborah.

June was a skilled cook who specialized in hearty farm style cooking such as apple dumplings, stuffed cabbage and chicken and dumplings. She was very artistic and produced many pieces of painted ceramics and beautiful crocheted afghans. June also loved gardening and was often found working outside around her house in her beautiful gardens.

June was a devoted long time member of the Lutheran Church of The Good Shepherd in Wilmington, DE since 1960. She served faithfully on the Alter Guild for many years and participated in other programs which included The Voice (newsletter), Evangelical, 20th year anniversary committee, fellowship program and the shepherding program.

For a small town girl, June was able to see the world beyond the United States; South America, Mexico, Canada and Europe. One of her most memorable trips was to Oberammergau, Germany where she witnessed the famous Passion Play.

June is survived by her son, Ronald (Beth) of West Chester, PA and Cold Brook, NY; granddaughters Jayne Lips of Bushkill, PA; Jennifer Teem of Sonora, CA; Heather McGraw (Jason) of Sterling, VA: grandsons Christian Lips (Jenny) of Tamarack, FL; Shane Robinson of Littleton, CO; Jason Sheridan of Boothwyn, PA; Brian Sheridan of Melbourne, FL and Daniel Sheridan of Aston, PA. June is also survived by eight great grandchildren: Amanda and Jack Teem; William, Christian, Michael and Sebastian Lips; Slade Damron and Mackenzie Robinson.

June was predeceased in death by C. Leroy Robinson (husband of 42 years), her sister, Jean Porter, her daughters Joann Lips and Deborah Sheridan as well as son in-laws William (Bill) Lips and Michael Sheridan.

June's memorial service will be August 25, 2017 at 11:00 am at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd located at 1530 Foulk Road; Wilmington, DE 19803; where friends may call after 10:00 am. A luncheon for family and friends will be held at the church immediately following the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation to Good Shepherd in June's name.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

May 1, 2011---TVA report shows water level at 370.5 feet an increase of 1.10 ft in last 24 hours. Total increase of 11.40 feet since first recording the data on Apr 26th. The planks are still serving okay as a walkway.

Getting closer to the bottom of the elevated structures. Should be okay though as the dams are releasing more water and the level is more stable.

Drove to Paducah for groceries. crossed over the Ohio river into Illinois to check out the flooding. The large bridge crossed the river but all the low lands on either side are covered with water nearly up to the road.

This older power line is not far above the water.

Short trip into Illinois.

Returned to Kentucky. Checked out the retaining wall in Paducah. All the gates are in place and there is no way to see how high the water is behind the wall. Must be some pressure because there was a place where the water was coming up thru a crack in the sidewalk. It looked like a little fountain.

Baby geese seemed unconcerned that it has rained off and on all day.

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Anonymous said...

Honey, I think you need an editor or at least spell chedk. Love YOU.


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Home > Blog > New American citizen May 24, 1941

Twenty-six people became American citizens in a naturalization ceremony held May 24, 1941, in the McLean County Courthouse. Overseeing the proceedings was Circuit Judge W.C. Radliff. Seen here is an unidentified woman completing her naturalization paperwork.

Some of the women who became U.S. citizens on this day included Catherina Fillipponi, Marguerite Grundler, and Frieda Wilde. If you can identify the woman shown here, please let us know!

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Bill Kemp is the Librarian at the McLean County Museum of History

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McMinn-Meigs Baptist Association
Saturday, October 21, 2017
United in Kingdom Service

About Us

We are a body of believers committed to worshipping and serving Jesus Christ. As Baptists, we join with likeminded Christians in spreading the gospel around the world.

The McMinn-Meigs Baptist Association exists because Southern Baptist Churches have chosen to join together in fellowship and mission.  Therefore, the purpose of the Association is to equip, resource, and encourage one another to be Kingdom Servants in obedience to our Lord's Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20 and Acts 1:8)!

Our theme is United in Kingdom Service.  We hope that it gives you insight into just who we are.

Christ reached out to people of all ages and backgrounds and at McMinn-Meigs Baptist Association we desire to do the same. That's why you'll discover ministries geared to various life stages and needs. That's why we support our churches; so they may provide study materials and a place for everyone to study the Scriptures, fellowship together, and minister to others through numerous service opportunities.

We want you to be a part of the blessings of God in the life of our association. We'll bring you updates often on just what's happening at McMinn-Meigs Baptist Association and share the stories of how Christ is making a difference in people's lives.


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Friday, June 14, 2013

MCX gold tips || silver tips || MCX tips and evening mcx trading tips

Dollar comes on back foot against Indian currency, today at interbank foreign exchange rupees gain +48 point to 57.50 at 2:59 pm. Weak dollar result negative trend in bullion, at domestic market.  On intraday trade at MCX gold and silver open at positive side but weak dollar loss support and gold silver fall by more than -300 together.  International gold prices also down   by 0.39% or -5.37 to 1380.70. On evening trade gold price are expected to trade in bearish side with low movement with some correction.  Following yellow metal silver prices also fall in day trade by more than -150 point and touched a low of 43074.  Silver for future delivery expected some correction with crude oil in evening trade.

Sell gold below 27600 tgt 27550, 27500, 27400---……sl 28050

Sell silver below 43125 tgt 43050, 42950, 42800--………….sl 43500

Buy crude oil above 5585 tgt 5590, 5600, 5610………….sl 5550

Sell natural gas below 219.25 tgt 218.80, 218.50, 218---……………sl 222

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