Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Oh Goodie... this sounds really great. DMV Healthcare
Whoopie for gubment helfcair!
Unimaginable.
Stafford Hospital caused ‘unimaginable suffering’ - Times Online:So many people have turned a blind eye to the horrors of state run anything. Sad.
"Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated” by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care."
"The report, which follows reviews by the Care Quality Commission and the Department of Health, said that “unimaginable” suffering had been caused. Regulators said last year that between 400 and 1,200 more patients than expected may have died at the hospital from 2005 to 2008"Read that again: "unimaginable suffering."
Unimaginable.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Breitbart.tv » Obama & Dems in ‘05: 51 Vote ‘Nuclear Option’ Is ‘Arrogant’ Power Grab Against the Founders’ Intent
Breitbart.tv » Obama & Dems in ‘05: 51 Vote ‘Nuclear Option’ Is ‘Arrogant’ Power Grab Against the Founders’ Intent:
"Vice President Biden: 'I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.'"OK... I pray that too.
Filed under: You can't make this stuff up.
More than 70 percent of congressional offices violate OSHA safety standards - TheHill.com:
"More than 70 percent of congressional offices have violated worker safety standards over the past year.
While the majority of all lawmaker offices on Capitol Hill have at least one health or safety hazard violation, this year’s inspection data from the Office of Compliance inspections is an improvement over last year’s."
Ask an Art Buyer: Marketability with Maureen Martel — HeatherMortonArt buyer
One great read if you are an emerging photographer. Marketability is one of those murky / gray areas of creating your portfolio. We talk about it all the time... Look at the work. Where would it be applicable? Find those places to make the work applicable and approach.
Ask an Art Buyer: Marketability with Maureen Martel — HeatherMortonArt buyer:
"Yet, this is what we’ve gotten ourselves into (and I spread blame equally among weak Account Service and lazy Creative Directors). How do we retain enough freedom in execution to exploit the act that Maureen describes above- to let the photographer overlay their style and filter it through their particular vision? Surely this is when the best work happens?"
I took his portrait. That was the last I saw of him. All that washed ashore was a hat and a Cohiba.
I took his portrait. That was the last I saw of him. All that washed ashore was a hat and a Cohiba., originally uploaded by Just Fab.
I rarely have my photo taken, but Megan did such a great job in Mexico that I really like this one. Thanks Megan.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Consumer Confidence Plunges - WSJ.com
Well... that's indeed change.
Consumer Confidence Plunges - WSJ.com:
"U.S. consumer confidence plunged more than 10 points in February, raising concerns about the outlook for consumer spending, according to a report released Tuesday.
Separately, U.S. home prices fell in December but were up when adjusted for seasonal factors, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, as yearly declines continued to ease.
The Conference Board, a private research group, said its index of consumer confidence declined to 46.0 this month, from a revised 56.5 in January, first reported as 55.9. The February reading was far below the 54.8 expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires."
The Story the New York Times Won't Touch | The Big Money
New York Times and the Grand Failing of MSM. Keep on keepin' on, dudes - you are the leaders of Fail.
The Story the New York Times Won't Touch | The Big Money:
"For the last several days, bloggers and many business news outlets have been revealing truly astounding details from a court case involving J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM) and two large Mexican telecom companies, one of which is Slim's. Blogger Felix Salmon at Reuters was one of the earliest to cover this at length; his summary of the case gets right to the heart of it:"
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Rosett Report » UN Eco-Commissars on Bali – Again
Sheesh. The Corruptocrats don't even try to hide it anymore. Party Hearty, you SOB's. Your time at the top of the worlds greatest scam is coming to an end. We little people are catching on to all the pure Bullshit you have spewed forth as science and we aren't buying it anymore.
The Rosett Report » UN Eco-Commissars on Bali – Again:
"Recall that in December, 2007, as the common folk shivered in the wintry vicinity of the UN’s well-appointed offices in New York, Bonn and Geneva, a horde of UN climateers decamped to the far side of the globe for a fortnight of conferencing by the Indonesian beaches of Bali’s ritzy Nusa Dua resort (and convention center). There, up close and personal, they braved the preview of a world beset by warm temperatures and ocean waters, as you can see in this virtual tour of the adjacent beach resort — complete with its freshwater pool, beachside cocoons, seafood buffets and winding paths beneath the palm trees."
Sunday, February 21, 2010
ACTA "internet enforcement" chapter leaks Boing Boing
Oh Boy. Hopin' and Changin' as we go along. Hope this changes before we get screwed AGAIN with devastating taxation (which is what it is disguised as reglatory control). But I hold out with no hope really. They keep coming and coming and coming. They want control and money. Sigh. Fight on, I guess.
ACTA "internet enforcement" chapter leaks Boing Boing:
"Also buried in a footnote is a provision for forcing ISPs to terminate customers who've been accused -- but not convicted -- of copyright infringement (along with their families and anyone else who happens to share their net connection).
There's plenty more here -- and we don't know what the rest of the treaty reads like, or what the competing drafts said -- and I'm sure that more astute legal scholars than I will be along shortly with their commentary."
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Just havin' fun with the iPhone and the picnic tables at the skating rink.
I had some time to kill tonight, so while awaiting the daughter to get off the ice, I shot some photos of the little picnic tables in the skating rink.
Processed in BestPhoto.
Processed in BestPhoto.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Undermining Digital Britain « Simon Crofts
Yeah... "badly thought through and hastily thrown together"... there's a lot of that going around.
Undermining Digital Britain « Simon Crofts:
"The fly in the ointment is in the orphan works* provisions. These seems to have been badly thought through and hastily thrown together with inadequate consultation."
Thursday, February 18, 2010
U.S. jobless, price data fan concerns on economy - Yahoo! Finance
Unexpectedly? Why is it always unexpectedly? Who the fuck is doing the expecting and can we fire them and get someone in who isn't constantly friggin surprised? Month after month, report after report... "unexpected", "suprising"... Good Lord, folks. Incompetence is not a bragging right.
U.S. jobless, price data fan concerns on economy - Yahoo! Finance:
"...applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week..."
Wars and Sacrifice: WWII Vets Project in Northern Washington
This is such a cool project. I am ordering a book now, hope that some of my readers do as well. The Vets all over the country should have something like this done for them. Wonderful work.
"A few years ago for Christmas, I put together a memory book for my grandpa and grandma. As I sorted through old albums, I came across war-era photographs that depicted a young man in a medic's uniform- my grandpa. I had long known that he was a medic during World War II, and had heard bits and pieces of his experience, mostly through my parents. But my grandpa never really talked about it. It was then that I realized that when my grandpa is gone, no one would know about the sacrifices he made. And I felt that would be wrong.
A couple years went by and then another thing happened that stood out to me. My father and my grandfather came home from a Memorial Day Service. They seemed a little disappointed. When asked how the event was, they mentioned that none of the World War II veterans had even been acknowledged. My father suggested that perhaps there weren't but one or two there anyway. This made me sad with disbelief. Were they really gone?
Finally, last summer, I attended a photography workshop led by Don Giannatti. I asked Don what I should do to help my photography. Instead of giving me tips I expected, he suggested that I go out and do something for the community. I went back and talked with my family that night and my father suggested doing a project for my grandpa. 'Of course,' I thought. So there I went, pumped up on determination and a dream, and told my grandpa all about my idea to photograph local World War II Veterans and put the photos in a coffee-table book. And then I got busy with other things, but my grandpa didn't forget."
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families
I say we blame Chaney! Who's with me? Come on... we can. Yes we can!
Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families:
"'We are seeing many families that never before sought government help,' said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.
'We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing,' Blass added. 'It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming.'
The federal government is again counting the nation's homeless and, by many accounts, the suburban numbers continue to rise, especially for families, women, children, Latinos and men seeking help for the first time. Some have to be turned away"
A Little HiWay spot in the rain near Granite Falls - up toward the Cascade Loop. I needed a little more pop in the flat light so I strobed it. Heh!
A Little HiWay spot in the rain near Granite Falls - up toward the Cascade Loop. I needed a little more pop in the flat light so I strobed it. Heh!, originally uploaded by Wizwow.
I love this tree.
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public | Copyright Action
Governments run amok. People wake up one morning and find that the Government not only tells you what you can and cannot do, it starts to take things away from you far beyond the condiscatory taxation. It tells you what you can and cannot own... even if you make it yourself.
Thanks, UK ASSWIPE Government... one again you have shown an inability to quench the thirst for power. How'd it work out for you in previous outings? Expect the same.
I would recommend an international boycott of photographers going and shooting in England, but it wouldn't do any good... photographers have been sticking their arses in the air for decades... one more time and they lose it all. Sad, really.
Thanks, UK ASSWIPE Government... one again you have shown an inability to quench the thirst for power. How'd it work out for you in previous outings? Expect the same.
I would recommend an international boycott of photographers going and shooting in England, but it wouldn't do any good... photographers have been sticking their arses in the air for decades... one more time and they lose it all. Sad, really.
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public | Copyright Action:
"Copyright in photos is essentially going to cease to exist, since there is no ineradicable way of associating ownership details short of plastering your name right across the image. Photographer's organisations have pressed hard for mandatory attribution to deter orphans being manufactured. Early in the consultation process the IPO accepted the irresistible logic that it was completely unreasonable to permit orphan use without a balancing requirement to not orphan photos in the first place. However, the IPO recognised with dismay that this would mean 'taking on Rupert' (Murdoch).
Publishers have a long history of opposing our moral rights. They were responsible for the feeble and unenforceable moral rights clauses in the 1988 Act. They want their branding, not ours, and they want maximum freedom to exploit our IP at minimum cost and inconvenience."
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Pomegranates and stone in natural light. 365 iPhone project. 2-16-2010
Sent from my iPhone
Posted via email from Don Giannatti's 365 Photo Blog Project
Monday, February 15, 2010
We Just Can’t Help It….. | Joe McNally's Blog
No, we can't help it. Thank goodness.
We Just Can’t Help It….. | Joe McNally's Blog:
"Photographers. We’re strange, right? We can’t stop. We run when others walk. We work when others relax. We have no sense of weekends, holidays, time off, time on, or time in general, except as it relates to sunrise or set. When there’s a football game on TV, we aren’t looking always at the action on the field. We’re looking at the sidelines to see if any our buds are covering the game and how much of the long glass out there is black or white. We walk around like addled sumbitches, staring at strange stuff, hovering at the edge of human activity, aching to be accepted, dying for a moment, breathless in anticipation for that which mostly never happens. Curious behavior, at best. That’s putting it nicely. Most folks would just chalk it up to damn strange and tell their youngsters to stay away from us.
Maybe the word is hinky. We shake our heads, punch buttons on expensive cameras, eyeball perfect strangers, ask odd questions, and wait for light. What an odd thing to wait for. We also have restive, restless, roaming eyes. Eyes that don’t shut down. Eyes that often feel hemmed in or framed by a 35mm lens border, eyes that correspond to a 24-70, or a 200-400, depending on what they encounter. Eyes that curse the dumb conglomeration of plastic, brass and glass we place in front of them, asking that mix of pixels and wiring to be surrogate vision, supple as the real thing. Hah! We might as well ask a fucking toaster oven."
Kountry Keith Photography: The Rubber Ducky Memoirs
Woohoo, Kieth. This is really fun.
Kountry Keith Photography: The Rubber Ducky Memoirs:
"Mama Ducky (looking down on Junior Ducky): 'You heard what I said Junior! You're out here barefooted too. That's all I need is you getting sick so I will have to take you to the doctors office and have to overhear everybody's ignorant debates about government run health care in the waiting room.'"
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