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A student from India, I hope to be accepted to your competitive Masters Program in MIS at XXXXUniversity on the basis of my creative ideas; and the fact that I am now completing an internship of almost one year in Dubai, UAE. Now acquiring a great deal of cutting-edge knowledge and recent experience, I look forward to sharing some of my experiences working with a state-of-the-art company in one of the most dynamic of all global theaters of digital advancement. I also hope to be remembered by my teachers and fellow students in the MIS Program at Northwestern as the Indian student who was full of ideas and passion for harnessing the enormous power of the Indian work force in the area of MIS, particularly in the area of healthcare informatics. Thus, I very much look forward to learning from the faculty at XXXX, especially Professors XXXX and XXXX.

Until May of 2016 I will be completing my internship with XXXX LLC Dubai, fulfilling a variety of roles and duties in the area of Industrial Customer Services in support of Digital Factory and Process Drives DF & PD, answering calls and  email of international clients, managing and editing data in the company’s CRM tool. I am responsible for migration of the CRM data to an online service portal as well as maintaining Siemens Global Service platform (GSP) and Corporate Master Data (CMD) used by end customers throughout the Gulf.

I am keen about learning everything that I can in your program about Central Budget Management Systems (CBMS), especially insofar as it is relevant and useful for health care informatics. Nothing excites me more than reading about how MIS at XXXX designed a healthcare app for the local children's hospital. Northeastern is not just my first choice because of its high ranking; I especially admire the ongoing research at your university and the interdisciplinary flavor of your research in diverse areas—especially manufacturing. Your program is ideal for a student like me with an extensive and diverse background in technology. I appreciate the opportunities that exist in MA to contribute to research and the partnerships that exist between XXXX and cutting-edge companies like Samsung who support your faculty’s efforts in the area of pattern recognition to cite just one example.

I have long been conscious of the fact that I come from a country that is projected to soon have the largest population in the world, surpassing that of China by mid-century. I have grown up in an age of enormous progress that is a direct result of technological advancement. As a child, I watched with eager enthusiasm how the cell phone transformed my native Indian society for the better. Healthcare informatics, service delivery, integrated modeling, my long term dreams and visions involve putting more and more of the many hundreds of thousands of highly qualified Indians to work in MIS, making our world ever more connected, especially in terms of health care informatics. The rest of the world needs India to help manage its health care information, because no one does it better, and we can do it for much less. At least that is my motto.

I am very much a cosmopolitan Indian man. While I was born in India, I’ve never been in one place for very long, I grew up mostly in Qatar, Singapore and Dubai and then back in India for high school and college. As I see it, much of my nation is plagued not so much by corruption—while we certainly have our share—but by sheer negligence. India already has the world’s largest population of skilled laborers and produces nearly half a million engineers per year. We have the world’s highest concentration of educated youth compared to any other nation. Yet only a small percentage of them are able to find work in our global economy. This is why I want my colleagues to remember me as the guy who came early and stayed late, because of the great promise of MIS for my people and the excitement that it generates. I want to always be the go-to guy if anyone has a MIS-related problem, beginning as a network engineer. I look forward to a long and prosperous career helping industries to make better decisions and improve their network security as a whole. After gaining sufficient knowledge and industrial experience, I hope to one-day return to my home country and help the nation by starting my own consultancy and providing specialized consulting to local clients to help advance their market share and boost our economy.

MIS is revolutionizing my country and I want very much to locate myself at the center of this action. Our network of railways is the largest in the world, the IRCTC, with an online portal that is now processing more data per second than any web other portal in the world. Millions of new apps and networks are needed to connect Indians and push the country forward. We hope to be a developed nation by 2020.

I want very much to be an integral part of this picture now taking shape and I see XXXX as the ultimate springboard to launch me on my quest. I look forward to contributing to research on Cloud Business Process Management Systems, enabling micro market companies and startups. I want to achieve expert status in CRMs (Customer Relationship Modules) since this is the backbone of all business transactions and services, particularly after the sale. Each day, I more fully appreciate the value and utility of maintaining this information on a cloud server, reducing a company’s downtime, lessening the load on servers and computer systems, all of which is good for business since it reduces the cost of service and maintenance and easy to use interfaces are so fast that users can create social media portals in one day.

I find these developments to be enormously exciting and I thank you for considering my application to your competitive program.

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Rico Abreu Captures Dirt Classic Indiana and Secures Golden Ticket Into Upcoming Events

(PETERSEN MEDIA)- Saturday night at the Kokomo Speedway, Rico Abreu won a hard fought 40-lap Dirt Classic Indiana feature event as he bested a stout field of Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions to earn a berth in the upcoming Dirt Classic Ohio, as well as the September 24th $20,000-to-win, $1,000-to-start Dirt Classic.

Based on points tabulated from Friday night’s finish as well as two heat races on Saturday night, Dirt Classic Indiana Prelude winner, Christopher Bell would line up on the front row of the 40-lap feature event aboard the potent Tony Stewart Racing No. 14 machine, alongside a red hot Sheldon Haudenschild who piloted his Haudenschild Racing No. 93.

With Haudenschild getting out to the early lead over Bell and Abreu, his progress would be halted as early as the second lap as a pair of stoppages would hamper the flow of the feature event.

As the race resumed, Haudenschild would break away form the field as St. Helena, CA driver, Rico Abreu made a big move to get around Bell on lap four to take over the second spot.

In true Haudenschild fashion, Sheldon would take a liking to the beefy curb built up around the speedway, as he would soon see his lead begin to shrink as he found himself nearing the rear of the field.

Though in thick traffic, Haudenschild would keep Abreu at bay, though the Californian was doing all he could passing numerous cars at a time trying to cut into the Ohio pilot’s lead.

On the 24th circuit, Abreu would bring the crowd to their feet, as he would slide up in front of the younger Haudenschild to take command of the feature event with just 16 laps left in the race.

The final 16 laps of the feature event would see a pair of stoppages slow the race, but Abreu remained poised out front as he raced his way to the exciting win.

Behind Abreu things got exciting coming to the stripe as a four car battle would ensue for the final two podium positions with Jamie Veal finishing second, Chad Kemenah taking third, Haudenschild finishing fourth, and Bell rounding out the Top-Five.

With the win, Abreu pocketed the $12,500 that came with the win, and also earned a berth in the $10,000-to-win Dirt Classic Ohio set fro September 3rd at the Attica Raceway Park, as well as the Dirt Classic set for September 24th at Lincoln Speedway in Pennsylvania. Abreu joins fellow Golden Ticket recipients Terry McCarl and Greg Hodnett in the $20,000-to-win, $1,000-to-start Dirt Classic event.

The Dirt Classic Indiana finale would run a duel heat race program on Saturday night and wins would go to Brady Bacon, Danny Holtgraver, Jamie Veal, Chad Kemenah, Kraig Kinser, Dave Blaney, Kody Kinser, and Carl Bowser.

With the Top-20 in points locking into the feature event, the duration of the 36-car field would make up the B Main with TJ Michael taking top honors.

ON TAP- The next Dirt Classic event will be Dirt Classic Ohio at the Attica Raceway Park on September 3rd.

LOCKED IN- Terry McCarl (Dirt Classic I-80, May 6th) Greg Hodnett (Dirt Classic Showcase, June 11th), Rico Abreu (Dirt Classic Indiana, July 23rd).

STAY CONNECTED- Stay updated with all things Dirt Classic by clicking over to www.DirtClassic.com, Liking https://www.facebook.com/thedirtclassic, or following @dirtclassic on Twitter.

JOIN THE TEAM- The ever-growing Dirt Classic is always looking to bring on new marketing partners. If you are interested in becoming a part of any future events please email race@dirtclassic.com, or contact Jarrod Adams at 704- 996-4243.

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I is all sorry we hasn't been able to visit lately. Momma had to go help her friend in anofer towns, and then while she wab there she got bery sick. Momma says it mights has been food poisonings, cause she sickuped alot and spents alot of time in the bafroom. Now she feels like she was never sicks at all. It came on bery suddenlys and only lasted abouts 24hours or so. It wab very bads when it happened though. Momma almost neber gets sicks, so it wab a bigs suprised. Her tum-tum hurted real bads, she is so bery glads its all ober!

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A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

Providing practical information to the converting & packaging industries

Conference to Highlight Packaging
Flexible packaging is the unifying theme for the 2004 TAPPI PLACE Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 30 to September 2. The meeting comprises 30 technical sessions of which eleven relate directly to flexible packaging. The titles of these sessions are as follows:

  • Biodegradable Films
  • Medical Packaging
  • Barrier Primer
  • Packaging and Converting Adhesives
  • Peelable Seals
  • Flexible Packaging Adhesives
  • Active Packaging
  • Barrier Technology and Applications
  • Brand Authentication
  • Converter Spotlight
  • Advances in Flexible Packaging Barriers.

The remaining sessions that cover subjects in the areas of film extrusion, extrusion coating, and hot melt products also relate directly or indirectly to the more general area of flexible packaging. Many of the products made by film extrusion or extrusion coating eventually find their way into flexible packaging applications.

Barrier Applications
Daniel R. Ward of Equistar Chemicals LP is the chairperson for the session on Barrier Technology and Applications. The session begins with “Study of Stability of EVOH” by Hedeshi Onishi of Nippon Gohsei. This paper introduces a new thermally stable low ethylene content EVOH designed for flexible film applications. A paper on “Coextrusion of Cast Barrier Films” by James D. Stobie of Macro Engineering and Technology covers market trends for cast barrier films. It compares blown vs. cast films and addresses advantages and disadvantages of each technology.

In the session on “Advances in Flexible Packaging Barriers,” Anton Stauffer of PTI-Packaging Technologies talks about “On-Line Seal Inspection For Retortable Pouches.” The paper discusses the first technology to inspect a heat seal sample without sample preparation and to use special inks that non-invasively offer immediate test results. The new technology has use in on-line and off-line inspection of heat seals on any type of pouch from stand-up to four-side sealed pouches.

Julie Gibson of Dow Chemical USA is the chairperson for the session on “Peelable Seals.” In a paper during that session entitled “A Novel Peel-Seal System,” Alex Hayden of Rexham Healthcare Flexibles will describe a novel adhesive peel system that provides consistent peel strength independent of sealing conditions.

The “Peelable Seals” session also has a paper on “A Win-Win Film for Easy-Open Seals in the Packaging Room and the Consumer's Kitchen” by Brad Bastion of Printpack, Inc. He notes that the way consumer packaged goods companies actually run their vertical form-fill-seal operations has significant impact on consumer experience with films designed as easy opening. The author also describes a study that compares these alternatives in the context of marketplace demands.

To register for the meeting or to learn more information, visit tappi.org. Follow the links marked Conferences & Symposia and select 2004 PLACE Conference. Information is also available by telephone at 1-800-332-8686 (United States), 1-800-446-9431 (Canada), or +1-770-446-1400 (Other).

New Test Method Proposed
The European PLACE Committee of the PLACE Division is proposing a new TAPPI Standard Test Method called "Rheological Indicators to Predict the Extrusion Coating Performance of Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE)." The scope of the method notes that it describes how oscillatory measurements are useful to characterize LDPE. The storage modulus and zero shear viscosity are convenient parameters to predict the extrusion coating performance of LDPE.

The next step in the adoption of this proposed test method is formation of a Standard-Specific Interest Group. This group will conduct a review of the proposal and then conduct a ballot regarding its adoption. Any member of TAPPI who is in good standing and has an interest in this topic is eligible to join the Standard-Specific Interest Group. To join, please contact Charles Bohanan at TAPPI by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than October 1, 2004.

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Milliken Features Enhanced Lineup of Polymer Additives at NPE 2006

New technology for enhancing the performance and value of polyethylene (PE), coupled with industry-leading innovations in polymer additives and colorants for polypropylene (PP), will highlight Milliken Chemical’s participation in NPE 2006, June 19-23, 2006, in Chicago. Visitors to Milliken’s booth (3018) will see Hyperform HPN-20E—the first in a series of Milliken offerings for PE—designed to optimize the use of PE in blown film applications. Performance enhancements include improved clarity and physical properties, increased film throughput, and reduced manufacturing costs.Visitors also will see technology for two-stage Injection Stretch Blow Molding (ISBM) that allows beverage containers to be manufactured from clarified polypropylene (cPP) on the same equipment and at comparable production rates as PET.

Products on display include:

  • Millad 3988—A clarifying agent, which not only makes polypropylene clear, but also speeds crystallization, resulting in pre-form production rates competitive with PET.
  • ClearTint Colorants—Designed specifically to work in conjunction with Millad, ClearTint colorants provide the brightest, cleanest and most transparent colors available for polypropylene. Benefits include deep rich shades unavailable with traditional pigment colors, which are FDA compliant, non-migrating and non-extracting. ClearTint provides users with consistent color matching capabilities on a global basis.
  • ClearShield—A homogenous, non-settling liquid polymer created exclusively as an additive for PET containers to provide maximum protection against damaging UV rays without imparting color to the package. It protects against loss of flavor, nutritional value and color of beverages. Incorporated during the resin manufacturing process or during container molding, ClearShield does not impact the color or clarity of PET containers and will not migrate into beverages, food or other products. It is FDA compliant.
  • Hyperform Nucleating Agents—Hyperform high-speed nucleating agents promote extremely fast crystallization times for a variety of applications using polypropylene or polyethylene. Hyperform also offers faster processing speeds and increased productivity of high density polyethylene (HDPE) in extrusion blow molding (EBM). Use of Hyperform technology in HDPE packaging applications can yield cycle time improvements of 10 to 15 percent while maintaining critical bottle specifications.

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The National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) announces that the list of examinees who passed the PNP Entrance and Promotional Examination held last October 20, 2013 (Sunday). The results of the said examination is posted here, the official results is released.

According to the NAPOLCOM who administered the whole examination ,  13,651 examinees took the PNP entrance test and 20,083 took the PNP promotional to various positions.

The said examinations was held in the cities of Makati, San Fernando (La Union), Tuguegarao, Angeles, Cabanatuan, Calamba, Calapan, Legaspi, Iloilo, Cebu, Tacloban, Pagadian, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Koronadal, Cotabato, Butuan and Baguio and the provinces of Zambales (Iba) and Romblon (Romblon).

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Monday, December 20, 2010

The philosopher, something either monstrous or god-like...

Nurtured in freedom and taking their time, there is something dreadfully uncanny about the philosopher, something either monstrous or god-like or indeed both at once. This is why many sensible people continue to think the Athenians had a point in condemning Socrates to death.-Critchley

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist,[8] referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views, despite being typically absent from the mainstream media.

Chomsky is also the eighth most cited human being in history, behind Karl Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato and Freud.

In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He elaborated on these ideas in 1957's Syntactic Structures, which then laid the groundwork for the concept of transformational grammar. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior. In this review and other writings, Chomsky broadly and aggressively challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time, and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has influenced the philosophy of language and mind.

Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, first articulated in his 1967 essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" and later extended in his American Power and the New Mandarins (1969), Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He has since become an outspoken political commentator and a dedicated activist; he is a self-declared anarcho-syndicalist[12] and a libertarian socialist, principles he regards as grounded in the Age of Enlightenment and as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."

Chomsky's social criticism has also included an analysis of the mass media; Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), co-written with Edward S. Herman, articulated the propaganda model theory for examining the media.

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. He is also the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author". He is also considered a prominent cultural figure, while his status as a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy has made him controversial.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Albert Camus ([albɛʁ kamy ] (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century, with his most famous work being the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.

Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times". He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any Nobel literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.

Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy with which Camus was associated during his own lifetime, he rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."

Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.

Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church and some strains of Eastern Orthodox thought. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.


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Lichtenstein Foundation Donates Shunk-Kender Collection of Photographs

Harry Shunk and Janos Kender, Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960. ©Roy Lichtenstein FoundationHarry Shunk and Janos Kender, Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960. ©Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is giving 200,000 photographs from the Shunk-Kender Photography Collection to five major institutions. The collection includes black-and-white prints, color prints, negatives and contact sheets taken by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender between 1958 and 1973, as well as photographs taken by Harry Shunk alone. The donation establishes a consortium of the five institutions — the Getty Research Institute, The Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Centre Pompidou and the Tate – that will receive and share the materials.

The photographs include images of more than 400 artists in their studios, at events, and in the midst of performances. The many artists photographed by Shunk and Kender include Vito Acconci, Arman, Joseph Beuys, Lee Bontecou, Trisha Brown, Alexander Calder, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Merce Cunningham, Lucio Fontana, the Gutai Group, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Miró, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Nam June Paik, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner. Also in the collection, the famous Shunk-Kender image of an airborne Yves Klein, Leap Into the Void (1960).

Shunk and Kender met in Paris in 1957, and the men began working as partners in 1958, formally crediting all their photographs as a new identity: “Shunk-Kender.” They left Paris for Canada in 1967 and then relocated to New York City. In late 1973, they formally dissolved their creative partnership. The photographs were in danger of being lost after the death of Shunk in 2006, when the Foundation acquired them from the Estate.


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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Skydiving from Space

Felix Baumgartner epitomizes thrill-seeking. The 41-year-old Austrian skydiver already has a history of impressive feats: He has crossed the English Channel in freefall, BASE jumped from the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, and BASE jumped from the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Now he plans to raise the stakes.

One of Baumgartner's test flights. Image Credit: Red Bull

Through a partnership with Red Bull, Baumgartner plans to jump from a weather balloon 120,000 feet above the Earth at the edge of space, breaking the sound barrier while plummeting toward Earth. In the process, he'll shatter records for the highest jump and the fastest speed during a freefall descent. Baumgartner plans to jump in August now that his legal team has resolved legal issues surrounding the project.

But there's more to the mission than pure adrenaline. In the video below, Baumgartner and his team of scientists and engineers explain how they hope to obtain valuable data about human spaceflight.

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One notable member of the mission team is Joseph Kittinger, the current record holder for the highest parachute jump. In 1960, Kittinger rode aboard a gondola lifted by a helium balloon to an altitude exceeding 100,000 feet. He then jumped from the gondola, reaching speeds around 640 miles per hour.

For his flight, Baumgartner will travel about 20,000 feet higher and travel over 100 mph faster, breaking the sound barrier. To withstand the extreme cold, low pressure and tremendous forces involved with the feat, Baumgartner will be outfitted with a special pressurized suit.

Without the suit, the low pressure environment at the edge of space would be unbearable. When outside pressure is too low, gas bubbles form inside the body, causing extreme swelling, oxygen loss, and hemorrhaging of the lungs.

When Kittinger completed his jump over 50 years ago, his pressurized glove malfunctioned, and his hand swelled to twice its normal size. By testing these pressurized suits at high altitudes, researchers hope to better understand the risks of human spaceflight and how to avoid them.

In addition to low pressure, Baumgartner will face extreme acceleration — he will break the sound barrier within 35 seconds of jumping from his capsule. Large forces accompany rapid accelerations, so Baumgartner's suit has been meticulously designed by his team to withstand these forces.

As Baumgartner prepares for his jump, you can check out this page from Red Bull for updates, videos, and images.

  1. Hardly extreme acceleration.

    I daresay it will be no more than 1 G
    all of the way down until either impact
    or the parachute opening,

  2. I was about the comment the same thing nsomos.

    You can only get one G out of one G. Furthermore, there are no forces involved during freefall due to the acceleration of gravity, remember Einstein's elevator. The forces are due to the speed of the molecules flying by as the acceleration creates velocity differential between the air and the person falling.

  3. The drag due to air might cause him to decelerate (i.e. accelerate in the opposite direction of his velocity) at more than 1 G, until he slows to terminal velocity, at which point his acceleration will be zero.

  4. Nsomos and Curtis: You're both correct that the downward acceleration would not exceed 1 G during the freefall; I admit that I didn't make that clear in my post.

    On the other hand, as Buzz stated, the deceleration as the skydiver reenters the lower atmosphere may exceed 1 G due to air resistance.

    Also, if the skydiver enters an uncontrolled spin, the forces at the extremities can get very high. During one of Kittinger's first jumps in 1959, he lost consciousness after his small parachute deployed incorrectly, causing him to spin at 120 RPMs.

    More information: http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=99

  5. Not a physics guy here, help me out. So he accelerates to past the speed of sound. Does he then slow down before deploying the parachute? Because to me if you open a parachute when you are going that fast you are going to break every bone in your body.

  6. Tom: The team plans to have him accelerate past the speed of sound when he gets down to around 100,000 feet above ground. After this point, he'll start encountering more and more air resistance as he approaches the ground, slowing him down.

    He won't deploy his parachute until he's about 5000 feet above ground. By this time, he should have slowed down enough so that deploying his parachute won't be harmful.

    Red Bull has a nice infographic that explains the mission visually: http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Article/Red-Bull-Stratos--Felix-Baumgartner-ready-to-021243159070520

    Just scroll to the bottom of that page.

  7. The drag force F is proportional to v^2 which will cause considerable acceleration=F/m.

  8. Regarding his starting altitude; it is not even near space. The official boundary altitude between the athmosphere and space, called the Kármán line, is at 100 km (62 mi) i.e. 2.5 times higher.


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30" x 24", limited edition of 1000, signed and numbered. $155

"My Father's House"

... is a visual story of Jesus words, "In my Father's House are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also."

In this life, I dream of being quietly near a scene like this. The three peaks of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, overshadowing all of that wonderful place of promise. The "River of the Water of Life," thundering down from God's presence, giving life to the place of eternal sunlight. The crystal sea with it's shadowed beaches and glorious rocks, defining the eternal nature of this most wonderful place. Through the years I've asked children if they will run and play with me on the beaches of glory, where their tears are wiped away and pains of the body no longer confine us. More than a few would happily join me where there is need of "...neither sun by day or moon by night."


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Saturday, March 17, 2007

UFO Update

Posting progress to date on list items:

1. hole in the barn door quilt(2005)-finished-yea!
2.palm leaf(2005)--layerwd and ready to quilt
3.four-patches and friends(2004)-layered and ready for quilting
4.friendship star quilt(2005)-quilt top, bindings cut, backing ready
5. cancer block quilt#1(2005)-top
7.squishy 2005-blocks
8.Kimono quilt(2006)-blocks quilt-blocks(2006) quilt(2006)
11.nine-patch-blocks and setting blocks(2006)
12.cancer block quilt#2-blocks(2005)
13.hole in barn door #2-blocks(2005) block swap-blocks(2005)
15.autograph wallhanging-blocks(2005)
16.sunbonnet sue-blocks(2005)
17.pinwheel blooms quilt-about half the blocks finished(2006)
18. Jane's mystery quilt-top(2006)
19.letha's lectric fan-fabrics partially cut, no blocks completed yet(2006)
20.grandmother's garden-quilt top(2003)thinking about sending to long-armer-it's a king size quilt
21.double dutch quilt-fabric washed and pattern gathered(2006) in the barn door wallhanging- blocks completed(2005)
23.friendship swap quilt- blocks(2006)
24.block round robin-blocks(2005)
25. mariners compass quilt-(2006)-finished!
26. ostrich round robin 2006- first three rounds complete, fourth round in progress
27.QYW round robin quilt 2006- is now home. Deciding what to add to it to make it larger in size.

Two down, too many still to go. Hopefully I will continue to knock the list down. My goal- at least one finished each month- two would be even better.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Another completed quilt

I finished another quilt this week. It has been sitting on my handi quilter frame since December. It is the first quilt I attempted to do on the frame in a few years. It was not a pleasant experience.
I decided to use a large stipple pattern, and I had a good flow going. Everything looked to be going well, until I got a look at the underside of the quilt. UGH! Eyelashes on all those curves! My tension wasn't quite right, and I had terrible looking stitches underneath. So, I ended up pulling the quilt from the frame and ripping those stitches out. Oh the frustration of it all! Now I know why people said the put a mirror on the table under the quilt frame. I will definately invest in one before I attempt another quilt on the frame. I requilted without the frame the second time around.
What a horrible experience. At least it is done, although certainly not my best work. This quilt is made from blocks I swapped in an on-line quilting group. The swap for this hole in the barn door quilt was probably my favorite swap so far. The idea was to send the center square for your block to each swapper, and they make the block in the colorway you request. I asked for a sand colored background and the colors of the ocean. And my centers are turtles that I stamped onto sand colored blocks. I used a twist setting because it reminds me of waves. I really like how it turned out, even if the quilting is a bit inferior.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

I made my deadline with a day to spare

I was a bit worried that I was going to have to give my dear hubby an unfinished quilt. But, I managed to pull myself together and finished the quilt. I used some stitch in the ditch and some free-hand free motion quilting. I think it turned out pretty well. It has certainly been a learning experience for me. Someday I hope to design something extraordinary, but fot now, I am happy with this:


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One Day Without Shoes

 So, today is Tom's One Day Without Shoes. It's the day where everyone {who wants to participate} takes off their shoes to raise awareness about what Tom's is doing and the need for so many children to have shoes. It's really great. I personally love Tom's shoes and really love what their all about.
Last year I participated in this day and went an entire day withot wearing shoes. I rode my bike or walked to every class I had that day. For me, I wanted not only to raise awareness, but on a more personal level, I simply wanted to put myself in these children's shoes {no pun intended} It was an incredible experience. Throughout the day my feet began to ache, not just hurt, but like cramp and feel numb. I kept reminding myself that at the end of the day I could wash my feet and put them in some socks and they would feel better. The thing that really got me though, was that those kids don't have that option; they don't get to go wash their feet off at the end of the day, it's simply how they live.
We don't really realize how easy we have it until we go a day without something. I am grateful for shoes; seems silly, but it's true. I'm grateful that I don't have to worry about not being admitted into school because I don't have shoes; because that's what these kids face. Let us not take these little thngs for granted, but instead give out of the love of our hearts and help those in need^_^ OH and if you haven't participated, you should. It will change your perspective and your life.

xo. Melisa

  1. This is an excellent idea. i love toms and the idea behind the shoes. thanks for sharing :)

    new follower, please stop on by..

  2. <3 TOMS! I started the club at college and have sold over 300 pairs!!

    I wrote a post about it:

    =) couldn't celebrate one day without shoes because I work in a school which is not allowed haha


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Burgeoning Spiderwort

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A Burgeoning Spiderwort with red Ultra-spicy Berries.
Species Number N/A
Scientific Name Unknown
Family Unknown
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Min. Carriers N/A
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Above-ground Areas Awakening Wood, Perplexing Pool, Wistful Wild
Underground Areas (Caves) None
A Burgeoning Spiderwort with purple Ultra-bitter Berries.
Fungus enveloping the land where a Burgeoning Spiderwort once grew.

The Burgeoning Spiderwort is a peculiar plant found in Pikmin 2 that grows in warm, outdoor climates and produces two varieties of berries. One type is the red Ultra-spicy Berry, and the other is the purple Ultra-bitter Berry. When 10 of these berries are brought to The Ship, they can be squeezed into a dose of Ultra-spicy Spray or Ultra-bitter Spray, respectively. Occasionally, a Burgeoning Spiderwort in the Wistful Wild will possess both types of berries at once, but most plants only produce one color of berry. 5 of these berries will grow on the plant at any time. To harvest the berries, either toss some Pikmin up onto them, or use the C-stick to make them climb up the plant's stalk. Your Pikmin will then hammer away at the berries as they fall off, one by one. The more Pikmin you employ, the faster the process will go. Once all berries have been knocked down, the Pikmin will drop and either join your party or transport the berries back to the ship, depending on how close you are. The berries will suddenly regenerate in approximately one-twelfth of a day. If berries are knocked down but not brought back to the ship, they will perish and disintegrate after a little while.

Burgeoning Spiderworts have two natural enemies, the Ravenous Whiskerpillar, and an odd type of fungus that grows near the plants and saps the life from them. The Whiskerpillars will sometimes emerge from the ground and crawl up the stalk of the plant to eat its berries. They can easily be knocked down though by your Pikmin by either tossing them up onto the end of the plant or by directing them to climb up the stalk. The fungus however is a bit harder to get rid of. It will appear near clusters of two or more Burgeoning Spiderworts as a white tangled ball with its mycelia branching out along the ground, consuming the Spiderworts and also nearby Pellet Posies. It does not harm your Pikmin, but it can be a real pain if you are looking to concoct some Sprays. It will shrink and eventually disappear when your Pikmin attack it, and will not appear again for a least a few more days.

The Burgeoning Spiderwort is not found in the Piklopedia and is not even named in the game. It is only identified as the Burgeoning Spiderwort inside the Pikmin 2 manual.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

A Confident Heart ~ Chapter 9

When Doubt Whispers "I Can't Stop Worrying"

I swear this chapter was written about me. I worry about everything. Finances, being a good wife and mom, if I am raising my son good enough, and so on. I worry about things that I can not control as well. Like if my car is going to breakdown when I am not near home (has happened before so now I worry about it happening again).

I am still working through the chapter, and have been taking soo many notes in my journal for this study. I love the acronym that Renee uses to for what worry stands for:

Worry Only Robs Rest from You

That it does. There are times that I can not fall asleep because my mind is racing with all sorts of thoughts. I am hoping that once I am done with this chapter and read the other blogs in our hop, that I can stop worrying so much over things that I can not control. It is driving me bonkers now. At times I feel like a chicken with its head cut off.

On to this weeks blog hop topic.

A Setting For Two ~

I have enjoyed curling up on my sofa to have some alone time with Christ. Right now our Christmas tree is up, so to look at the pretty lights and all our ornaments that have meaning, makes it easier for me to think of Jesus. I am most comfortable here mostly because I am not moving around in pain so much.

In the warm months, I have enjoyed curling up in my garden. Something about looking around the yard and seeing everything growing that makes you smile and think of what Christ has done to help you feel your family. Yes sitting in the plastic outdoor chairs is uncomfortable and the sun bothers me and hurts my eyes, but I enjoy looking at my garden growing, listening to the birds fighting over the feeders we provide for them and smelling the fresh cut hay. Makes me wish that it was spring and summer here now. hehe

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  1. Heather, I really think it is in the nature of women to be worriers but I am so thankful that we can lay those worries at the foot of the cross & know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God will take care of us. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Happy Memorial Day!

Good morning, dear readers!  To all of you here in the USA,
Happy Memorial Day!!!

For those of you who do not know what a special day it is, this is the day we take to remember all of those who have died for our freedom.  It is a time of rememberance and a time for family.  Many will be celebrating with picnics, cooking out, or going to special memorial events.

We will be cooking out, spending time together and remembering those family members who have served our country and are no longer with us.

Jim will be grilling chicken breasts, steaks, and pork chops and I will be making the following dishes:

Fresh snap beans from our garden, seasonsed with onion, cilantro, oregano, homemade bacon bits and cut-up turnip greens.  I harvested the snap beans, onion, and turnip greens from our garden very early this morning.  The beans were snapped, onion and greens cut up, and all were added to a single bowl.  I then went to the herb garden and snipped some cilantro and oregano.  They were then cut up and mixed along with the bacon bits I make myself and keep in the fridge.  Water will later be added & I'll slow cook the mix on the stove for about an hour.

The other special dish I'm preparing is my own version of Southern fried squash.  I harvested 5 small crookneck squash from the garden, thin sliced them, then added oinions, cilantro, oregano and a small hint of mint.  The squash will then be dipped in a mixture of cornmeal and bisquik.  It will then be fried in a shallow fry pan of extra virgin olive oil.  When the squash is a light golden color, it's done.  Then it will be very well drained and blotted with paper towels.

Of course, I'll make a huge pan of cornbread, too.  The blueberries are ripening and I hope to have enough to bake a cobbler later.

Well, I had better get busy.  As you can tell, I've a lot of cooking to do!
May you have a wonderful Memorial Day!
Until tomorrow~
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Friday, 1 March 2013

Recognise this chap?

Morning all.  I was browsing all the free crochet pattern sites and came across this one   Well I had to make him didn't I.

Another really easy pattern to follow and I just love his cute belly button.

Now what can I do next hmmmm?

Lisa xx said...

Aaawww its Boofle!!!! Oh Debs that is just adorable, you are clever xx

Squirrel x said...

Love Boofle! This is brilliant babes, you are so clever - and patient! Hugs Sxx

Lorraine said...

Aww, so sweet! I love all your knitted cuddlies, they're brilliant!
Lorraine x

Cards by Alison said...

ahhh Debs he is gorgeous so cute. Love Alison xx

Paula (PEP) said...

I'm amazed at the speed with which you are making these creatures. I know Mum had great fun with making all kind of crocheted items.
Have a good weekend.
Paula (PEP)

Wendy said...

Awww adorable Debs, really gorgeous.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Wendy xx

Gemma said...

awww he is just the cutest him!!
hugs and xxx

xxxtglxxx said...

How fab is this! :) I want one Debs! :)

pickle said...

All I can say is WOW.....loving all your crochet hun. I must give some of these little animals a go.

I don't tend to follow patterns for my blankets just pick a stitch and go for it but there are some lovely ones on raverly and bernat or all free crochet patterns

HTH Kerry x

pickle said...

Saw these are thought of you

Kerry x


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Interior Design For The Home

Any home can be pleasing with the proper application of basic interior design methods. Some people study interior design to be very good at it but there are people who are gifted with an eye for beauty and for interior designing.

A person who is creative can do some interior designing on his own even without formal training. Those who have an eye for what is aesthetic can just as easily decorate and design his own house depending on his tastes. Of course, it helps to read books and articles about designing to be updated on the basic and latest design methods.

Any interior designer can create a specific atmosphere just by putting together several pieces and unifying them in a single theme. There are interior designers who have a bias for certain motifs like eclectic, modern or even country style. Some go for simple designs without the clutter.

Interior design is not only aesthetic but also functional depending on the requirements of the client. An interior designer can make a small room spacious and an otherwise cluttered room into an orderly one. Interior design is used just about anywhere from homes, offices to commercial buildings.

The interiors of a room should always match the personality of the person who will occupy that room. This is the reason why designers always work closely with their clients so they can make sure that they get a feel of what their clients want in terms of design style.

People have this notion that interior design is expensive. However, designers are not only creative people but they are also very good in budgeting. Most designers will work on a design that will match or fit the budget of their clients. A person can allot a minimal amount for the interior design of his home or office and still come up with an aesthetic and functional room.

Professional interior designers who are formally trained usually have basic knowledge on architecture, engineering and even accounting. They need these courses to make their design aesthetic, structurally correct and cost effective.

The terms Interior design and interior decorating have often been used interchangeably. However, the two terms actually deal with different phases of making a room or a space aesthetic. Interior design is basically the process of studying the personality of the occupant of the room being designed in order to maximize and tailor-made the room's design for that person's behavior and personality.

Interior decorating on the other hand is the process of actually mixing and matching the different design techniques like window treatments, the right wallpaper, wall finish and even the furnishing of a room.

There are a lot of opportunities for those in the interior design and decorating industry. An interior designer can go into designing household, corporate or commercial establishments. Others specialize in the design of health facilities or even tourism establishments.

The latest trend now for those in the interior design industry is to be able to incorporate the right engineering and aesthetic design with sustainable development. Even designers are now more conscious about the state of the environment so they tend to use environmentally friendly materials for their designs.

There are designers who specialize and use Feng Shui in their designs. This requires further study because Feng Shui deals with the Chinese's ancient methods of designing a space to make the design work for the owner's health, business and other life factors.

The Chinese believes that a structure should be properly designed so as to allow positive energy to enter the structure. When the structure has already been built without the aid of a Feng Shui expert, the mistakes can be corrected through proper interior design using the Feng Shui methods.

By incorporating Feng Shui in interior design, it is believed that a person can bring out all the positive energies in a room to make him rich, happy and healthy. An interior design using Feng Shui can also get rid of bad spirits that bring in negative atmosphere in an abode.

Getting the services of an interior designer can make a room both aesthetic and functional. Any person who wants to make his home livable and functional should try getting the services of an interior designer to maximize his space.


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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Why starting early is so important

Why is starting early so important?  Why does it take so long?  A large part of the equation is what happens on the church's side.  One of the churches I'm currently in the process with (which will remain anonymous) is a good example.

This particular church began developing the position (a new Assistant Pastor role) in late spring 2006.  This development essentially consisted of the Elders approving a position in principle, Senior Pastor drafting a position description, and the Elders approving it.  While this was a relatively quick procedure (it probably was completed in less than two months), this is exceptional.  When a position description is subject to the work of self-studies, committee discussion, and congregational approval, the process obviously would take a lot longer.

Once that was completed, they began listing the position as open (mid-summer) and they formed a search team.  By early fall, they had begun gathering a number of candidates, and the search team started the lengthy process of screening and evaluating these candidates.  (One of the advantages-- to pastors, at least-- of the unbalanced system is that there isn't as much work to be done on the screening/evaluation.)

I contacted them mid-fall; my package of information went into the pile with the others.  I don't know how many there were that I was competing with, but if I had to guess it would be over 50 candidates.

[Elapsed time: six months.]

Remember, these committees are made up of volunteers, meeting as often as they can and doing "homework" (reading documents, listening to sermons, calling references) on their own time.  My guess is that they met monthly at least; perhaps they were able to meet as often as twice a month, and even on occasion more often than that.  Even if they met weekly, the search team had a lot of work to do.  They likely eliminated some more quickly than others, but when the time came to make a major cut they probably still had 15 or more to choose from.  From there, they cut down to a handful.

[Elapsed time: eight months.]

This handful would next face telephone interviews.  Again, if they scheduled them one at a time, each would take 2-3 hours; at least one hour for the interview itself, plus another hour or more for discussion.  If they met weekly to conduct these, they have a month's worth of work to do.  More than likely it would take two months.

[Elapsed time: 10 months.]

By this point they will narrow the candidate pool to one or two candidates.  Having done this, they will schedule a visit for the top candidate.  In this case, this is simply a matter of bringing the candidate (and his wife, if he's married) to them; however, in other situations (such as when the candidate is a senior or solo pastor, and they must visit him), it may be more complicated.  Still, even my case study church will need a few weeks to get this organized.  It's reasonable to think that it may take a month before the interview weekend actually occurs.

[11 months.]

Assuming they still prefer their top candidate, they may begin the process of extending him a call in the week following the interview weekend.  (If they vote against him, it may take another few weeks before another interview weekend with a different candidate.)  It may take a few days, or even a week, for negotiation of the terms of call (that is, if he also believes that this is the call God has for him).  Once the negotiations are done, it is likely that the candidate will need a month or six weeks before he is available.

If all of this goes as smoothly as possible, they may have their new Assistant Pastor one year after they began the process of looking for him.  (However, there may another couple of months of work with presbytery for ordination.)  There are any number of things that might complicate it:

• Developing the position description requires broader input than just staff and Elders
• Phone interviews are slowed by schedules and take two or three months
• The first "pick" is not the right guy-- or he doesn't accept the call-- and they have to go another round (or two, three, four...)
• After accepting the call, he needs two or more months before he can make the transition
• Snags with presbytery slow down the ordination process (this is particularly a concern for a solo or senior pastor)

In most cases, a church should expect the process to take 12-18 months.  If a candidate gets in at just the right moment, he may get in on the last 2-3 months of it.  In all likelihood, it will be four or five months in many candidates' experience.  And that's assuming that the first opportunity he contacts is the one he ends up with.

Why is starting early so important?  If you want to place by graduation, you have to give it the time it takes-- and that means six months or more.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Another Shootout Win!

Another Shootout WIN!!
Rangers 2 Senators 1 OT/SO
I should be used to it by now, the Rangers coming from behind to tie the game late. This time around, it was Fred Sjostrom putting a rebound of a Marc Staal shot. 4th line awesomeness!
When it came to the shootout, Nikolai Zherdev didn't waste any time or drama, scoring on the 1st attempt:
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By now, you should all know the words to this song (there's only one!): NY Rangers Goal Celebration Song
Interesting choices Ottawa coach Craig Hartsburg made for the shootout; instead of Dany Heatley and Daniel Alfredsson (their best players) they inserted thug Jarkko Ruutu and Antoine Vermette (who's he?).
Hmm, I wonder what happened:
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Henrik is the King! The boys welcome the Canuks to The Garden on Wednesday...
LET'S My Family Crest GO My Family Crest RANGERS!

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BRSLAXVAA - 25 November - 18 December 2005

Ralf Antbacka, FinnFemFel, HAMIE, Toby Huddlestone, Joe Stone, Creed Wall, Robert Barry and organisations Platform and Raid Projects.

Click here for the publication relating to BRSLAXVAA

Plan 9 goes trans-global and presents BRSLAXVAA in three different West Coast cities at the same time - Bristol, UK (BRS), Los Angeles, USA (LAX) and Vaasa, Finland (VAA).

BRSLAXVAA will show work from artists from all the three cities, in all the three cities, all at exactly the same time:

Plan 9, 17-19 Penn Street, Broadmead, Bristol, BS1 3AW, UK
Plan 9, 602 Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 30091 USA
Plan 9, Hovioikeudenpuisto 3, 65100 Vaasa, Finland

Private View and Publication Launch:

24 November 2005 6.00pm-9.00pm (Bristol, UK)
24 November 2005 10.10am-1.10pm (Los Angeles, USA)
24 November 2005 8.10pm-11.10pm (Vaasa, Finland)

25 November - 18 December 2005 12.00pm-6.00pm (Bristol, UK)
25 November - 18 December 2005 4.00am-11.00am (Los Angeles, USA)
25 November - 18 December 2005 2.00pm-8.00pm (Vaasa, Finland)

Plan 9 sends two British artists (Toby Huddlestone and Joe Stone) to Los Angeles and Vaasa. Once there, they will meet their designated American and Finnish counterparts and set about creating artworks dictated to them by Plan 9.

The resulting work and a record of their travels will then be exhibited as part of BRSLAXVAA at the same time at Plan 9 in Bristol, Los Angeles and Vaasa.

An accompanying publication detailing the project will be available each Thursday throughout the duration of the exhibition, at each venue.

Bristol is at 2_ 35' West of Greenwich. All timings are 'Bristol Time' which runs ten minutes later than Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to reflect our more westerly location. GMT was imposed in 1884 to bring the rest of the UK in time with London. The 18th century clock of The Corn Exchange in Bristol's city center has two minute hands so Bristolians can still check their watches against 'London Time' if they so wish.

The Artists

Ralf Andtbacka is a poet, artist and critic based in Vaasa, Finland. Since 2000 he has been the Lead Artist in Literature for the Ostrobothnian Arts Commission and is the Director of the Vaasa Littfest. He has published four collections including Cafe jungfrun (1999) and En fisk som man kan se (2004). Here he produces a text-based performance work in English which Plan 9 translates into native Finnish, leaving the original text purporting to be a translation in English.

FinnFemFel is an artists' project and a 'work in progress', which was started in Finland and then further developed in UmeÃ‚ (Sweden), Budapest and later to other locations. Using Nordic walking, the new form of outdoor activity that has achieved an ever increasingly popularity among the Finns, FinnFemFel are focused on the challenge to artistically intervene in and rework a phenomenon of everyday life. "By introducing the phenomenon in a new context we are also searching for new means of expression and new points of contact."

HAMIE are an artists group based in downtown Los Angeles. The politics of site and the transience of culture in relation to specific sites form inspiration for a mainly lens-based practice detailing the media-referential madness, plasticised paradise and sordid underworld of Southern California.

Toby Huddlestone is a Bristol-based artist whose work relates to institutional and cultural agendas. Contradictions are explored (often through humour) in an attempt to both infiltrate and subvert institutional codes and strategies. Text, video and installation are utilized in order to execute tensions and queries inherent through his practice. The viewer's direct participation is often employed through the artworks in order for an alternative scope for interpretation to occur amidst ambiguous layers of authorship.

Leeds-based Joe Stone works 'situation-specifically', a form of practice coined by the artist himself which should not be mistaken for or compared to site-specificity. It is the situation and the artist's intervention into the specific situation which pragmatises the consciousness of practice. Site actually becomes less important as emphasis on situation is used to formulate works relating specifically to the politics, logistics and coding of situation.

Manchester based artist and musician Creed Wall will telepathically direct Joe Stone (placed in situation) to produce a work rooted in conceptualism. Permission from Robert Barry has been granted to reproduce one of the works as part of his Inert gas series of 1969. Wall's practice takes fictional standpoints as a means to produce process-based works exploring 'notions of nerdiness'.

Platform is an artist-run project and exhibition space for contemporary art in Vaasa. The initial thought is to bring contemporary art to Vaasa, and as the name defines, to give it a platform there. It's a forum that is available for the public as well as the artists of the region. Platform is also an information and meeting point for different fields within art.

Raid Projects is a non-commercial exhibition and curatorial organization that is dedicated to supporting and facilitating innovative cultural production; to ventilating the work of Los Angeles' cultural producers to the world; and to bringing international projects into the Southern California arena.

BRSLAXVAA is supported by the Networking Artists Networks Initiative (NAN) through a-n The Artists Information Company.


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Differences Between American and Kenyan Dairy Products and Road Rules

Just a quick note about the differences in our dairy section and Kenyan’s dairy products. See, we have a section of the stores just for dairy, 99.9 percent of the time it’s refrigerated. In Kenya, though, however they produce their dairy products, no refrigeration needed.

I actually find this a bit disturbing, but the eggs were a bit tastier than ours and the butter never melts. Go figure.

And, at one of those shopping plazas we were at, there were these huge birds chilling up in the tree. Not big like bigger than normal; huge as in wingspan as wide as mine! You’ll never be able to tell from the photos. These birds can’t possibly feed off of bird seeds. They look like they eat small children.

And then there’s the steering wheel on the “other” side of the car. I’ve mentioned it before, but allowing kids to sit shotgun, no seat belt, even in the driver’s lap is insanely crazy. Last time we were in Kenya I kind of let it go. This time, though, for whatever reason — not wanting my child to die — I refused to let Najwa sit in the front seat when the car was moving.

There are subtle reminders of what can happen on the streets of Kenya.

And it’s not just crazy drivers, it’s the crazy people who share the roads with the cars. I for the life of me couldn’t understand what these people were thinking. Bad photo, I know, but one man pulling another man in a big wheelbarrow in the middle of the street with cars road-rage-free just driving around them as if this was normal.

Najwa gave it her best though. While the car was parked of course.

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