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This is good for whole body. You can’t see her feet or over her head, which makes it kinda strange for a training video. It’s a challenging but not impossible workout. Woodchop is especially hard. too hard. Good for muscles feels like. Do some without the bands, just the moves. 

Good ol’ Denise. This one is a really good short one. 10 min. 

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Denise, weren’t you doing this back in the last century? I think I had a VHS workout? Nice 30 min, light sweat, steps fairly easy, inoffensive music. Good one***

Nice stretching one 8 minutes, standing. Easy. 

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Exercise

Covid Belly Covid Dull, not going out enough, need to move around. These are all standing and no jumping--good for apartments with downstairs neighbors. 

Here’s a 4 minute workout is actual just over 2 minutes, start at 3:33. This is great. I’ve been doing it every day at least once for a few weeks, still feeling it. Peggy told me about this. 

100% Low impact, all standing, FUN cardio workout to music! ALL fitness levels. Good one, steps not too hard. Great to see two regular people doing it, too. 30 min.

**10 min No jumping cardio fat burn (apartment friendly, low impact, no equipment). Good one. Unfussy, breathe hard. 

Senior Fitness—Standing Resistance Band Workout, 19 min. Gentle, unfussy.

Light sweat, about 30 min. I was a little out of step sometimes but it’s learnable. Dec. 27

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Photoshop cc 2029 workspace

to get windows to size around pictures and to get workspace moveable to fit in computer screen rather than out where I can’t reach it: 

window/application frame. Uncheck application frame. 

Yeah, that took a long time to figure out. grrr. 

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Burn Burn Burn vs. Kodachrome

Two Road Movies on Netflix

Kodachrome

This 2017 movie’s hangs the road-trip story on a promising hook: the real moment in 2013 when a Kansas lab processed the last of the iconic Kodachrome film.

But, start with a leaden, contrived, predictable plot. Add a cast that is impossibly good looking especially a buff and glowing Ed Harris who is supposed to be in his last weeks of cancer. Jason Sudeikis, who plays the grudge-holding son, usually looks like he just tasted a spoonful of sour milk. He plays an unexpressive man, which is a good role, since he doesn’t have a lot of expressions. The nurse/assistant character, Elizabeth Olsen, hits her marks, but she she does nothing acting-wise to interfere with her perfection. She would do well to examine Clare Danes ugly cry-face to see how a pretty actor can mobilize a gorgeous face. 

The rock soundtrack with original songs might be exciting, especially as they often play full songs, which I would generally like, especially as the characters are driving across the country, but these songs are either vapid or obvious or both with insipid melodies and too-mellow beats. 

The movie was made on 35mm film and then digitized, but I couldn’t really tell why they bothered. Manipulating the saturation so that the movie would look more Kodachrome-y would have been interesting.

Meantime, at least Ed Harris’s character stays prickly almost to the end. Too bad he goes mawkish before he died. My eyes almost got stuck rolling up into the top of my head.  

Burn Burn Burn

Maybe I am so hard on Kodachrome because I had just seen another road trip movie, also contrived but brilliantly played with twisted clever writing and lots of wit. In the 2015 Burn Burn Burn, two women, great friends, set off to spread the ashes of their third bestie, a man who died and left them video instructions to go to four far flung places around the British Isles to scatter the remains. 

It’s got a little of the sensibility of the stupendous semi-road movie, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion—if Romy and Michele were British and driving an old Volvo borrowed from the dead friend’s skeptical stepfather. 

As in any good road movie, they meet characters along the way. One is a good looking man who sounds profound as they all get drunk along with his compatriots who seem to live in a barn together. In the morning, as the women prepare to move on, the man and his friend are ready to jump in the car. Apparently one of our women had drunkenly invited them on the rest of the trip. In the light of day, the man’s profundities are insufferable. At a gas station, when he and his friends go inside, the two women speed away, burning rubber. 

One of the women, Alex, feels guilty. The other, Seph, tells her, “We’ve done a bad thing, ok? Just try to enjoy it.” 

In their episodic adventures, they fight, they make up, they watch their dead friend’s pre-recorded instructions, and his rants, criticisms, and advice via a laptop. 

The women played by Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, are marvelously comic and serious, as is their dead friend (via video), Jack Farthing. All of the character actors along the way with their imperfect teeth and odd sensibilities add a frisson of delight and poignancy. 

Yes, the women learn lessons about themselves along the way, but they don’t need to overstate every obvious point the way they do in Kodachrome. 

Burn Burn Burn (from a quote by Jack Kerouac), now that’s a road trip movie. 

#burn burn burn #kodachrome #road movie #review

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Plants 2017

Mandinia, red flowers, going to try to keep them alive this winter. Dipladenia. Mandevilla are the same but vines. Dipladenia is bushy--that’s what I have. 

Lonicera sempervirens Major Wheeler, should be a all-summer-long blooming honeysuckle vine. Needs full sun, so I’m taking a chance. Leaves in pictures look nothing like the leaves on the little plant from White Flower Farm. 

Corunus Kousa Samaritan, should be a bi-color leafed dogwood to replace beautiful but dead weeping larch. “Samaritan Chinese Dogwood will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is very fussy about its soil conditions and must have rich, acidic soils to ensure success, and is subject to chlorosis (yellowing) of the leaves in alkaline soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.”

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New York Public Library, search and read magazines at home

https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/find-journals-title-databases

Login Full Text Journals from home Search for title of magazine Click MasterFilePremier Have to put in library card number and pin Search this publication Result will have name of magazine in top search box Do Advanced Search Add your terms Results might go back too far. Use slider in left column to limit dates.

Should be able to look at articles in html or pdf. 

You have to have a NYPL library card. 

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Movies I liked, and some others, 2016

Aquarius (a New York real estate drama but it’s Brazil and about politics, wonderful performance by Sonia Braga)

Loving (modest principled people, script doesn’t make them something they weren’t, brash ham-handed lawyers who were also wonderful, ACLU hero)

20th Century Women (so happy to see complicated women)

Ghostbusters (funny, fun, great women)

Zootopia (fun, great story, laugh out loud parts)

Capt. Fantastic (flawed but engaging)

The Eagle Huntress (Courage!)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Hidden Figures.

OK movies: Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, LaLaLand, Manchester by the Sea, Dancer, Certain Women, Kubo (great origami animation, hero’s quest is always good, but useless trinkets he gathers and the point that music, not weapons, will win the battles, gets lost, I think. And the monkey is rubbery creepy.), Moonlight. Fences (beginning unconvincing, a few speeches passionate and effective). Lion. Paterson.

Didn’t like: Edge of 17, Jackie (didn’t feel like I really got to know her or anyone else, didn’t seem to be as poised and effortlessly polite as I bet she was, not so hesitant). 

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Zenfolio, add item to existing drop down menu

My Zenfolio drop down menu, Customize Website, upper left, Edit Site Menu, along left column, the drop down menu item list, hover over the one you want to add to, plus sign on right, click on it, new box appears at bottom of list, enter name you want for the drop down menu item, then screen will come up, and you can choose the link. Be sure to Publish. 

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Find email subscribers in WordPress

Dashboard

Site Stats, lower left, “Totals, Followers and Shares”

Under “Totals,” subhed “Followers,” link to “blog”

Will give you blog followers (people who are on WordPress) and tab for “email followers only.” That’s the one.  

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Find picture in iphoto on hard drive

Select the iPhoto image or images from your iPhoto app you want to locate in Finder. iPhoto highlights selected images with a yellow border.

With iPhoto as the active app, click “File” in your Mac’s top menu bar. Select “Reveal in Finder” and then “Original File” in the drop down menu.

Thanks: http://www.philippknoll.com/how-to-find-your-iphoto-library-and-iphotos-in-finder/

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My photos

Soliman Bay, Mexico, in the Yucatan. Cynthia Nixon. McFadyen/Figueroa. Ron Hayduk at Joe Hayduk's birthday. 

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Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012

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http://arnow.org/Mexico/index.html

Mexico, 2007, Tonalá, Guadalajara, San Blas

http://patarnowpatarnow.blogspot.com/2007/10/mexico-october-2007.html

New Orleans, 2006 (after Hurricane Katrina

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Mexico (Oaxaca, San Agustinillo, Pachuca, Puebla, Cholula), 2014-2015

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Culebra, Puerto Rico, with Ken Browne, Jennie Miller, Bob Hall,, Old San Juan, Feb., 2014

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Valencia, April-May, 2014

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Hurricane Sandy, New York, 2012

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San Sebastian, Spain, with Ken Browne, 2012

http://www.arnow.org/SlideShow/Spain0912/

Dad (would have been) 100 birthday, Springfield, Illinois, with Arnows and Banners, August, 2012

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Mexico, 2010, La Manzanilla

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Wrightsville Beach, NC, 2010

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West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, 2010

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Marcella Funeral, Winchester, UK, 2010

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Are you okay? Is New York getting to you? Are things not going according to plan? Stop whining. For fuck’s sake. The p…

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Embed flash gallery into html page using Dreamweaver

Really good instructions:

http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/gallery/embed1.php

It's for going from making Bridge galleries, but works with Lightroom galleries.

In LR to make gallery not to be uploaded to ftp but to be saved:

Make it in Web tab, then command J to save to Sites.

#flash gallery #swf #dreamweaver #embed #html #web page #how to

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Alan Cumming does a spit take on the Good Wife Dec. 1, 2013

#Alan #Cumming #Spit #Take #Good #Wife

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Make a gif from an .avi file with Photoshop

How to Make a Gif from an .avi Photoshop (from Adobe) In 64-bit versions of Mac OS 10.5 and later, some older, optional plug-ins are available only if Photoshop is running in 32-bit mode:     1.    In the Finder, choose Go > Applications.     2.    Expand the Photoshop folder. Then right-click the Photoshop application icon, and choose Get Info.     3.    In the General section of the Info window, select Open In 32-bit Mode.     4.    Close the Info window, and restart Photoshop. From Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5941436/how-to-make-a-gif-in-five-easy-steps If there's a reason you haven't killed yourself by now, it's probably because you recently saw an animated GIF. In PS, File/Import/Video Frames to Layers Trim the source video file (the thing you want turned into an animated GIF) into a very short segment. Two or three seconds, max. If you don't do this, your file will be large and unwieldy. It’ll be a TIFF Range to Import: If you want to cut, Selected Range Only: Hold down shift key while moving the slider or clicking the arrows. Save for Web and Devices You're going to have to compromise here. The better your GIF looks—the less noise and compression junk in your image, the bigger the file. Hit File > Save for Web and mess around with some settings.     •    You'll want to keep the "Colors" setting as high as possible. Knocking it down means the GIF is created using fewer colors mixed together, which makes it look less and less like the original video. This saves a lot of space, though. Try to stick with 256, going down a level only as a last resort.     •    Dither: The higher the better. Lower means crappy looking, but smaller file. 100%     •    Web snap: Ignore this.     •    Lossy: Like dither, only reversed. Higher means a worse, smaller file. Slide it around until you hit a sweet spot. 25? You should aim for a GIF file that's no bigger than a few megabytes or so, to be a good internet citizen. Bigger files slow down browsing, and that's a pain. You can always resize the image with the "Image Size" parameters to cut down on bulk, too. Size, set width to 640 Save the file. Click the save button.

I think you have to make it under 500 kb for Tumblr, but it doesn't look as good.

#make gif .avi photoshop

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Silence Robo calls

I get robo calls over and over from the same numbers, 2, 3, 4, even 5 a day. You can't block them (without a lot of expense and trouble). Do not call registry is not effective.

Solution: Make a Silent ringtone and apply it to the repeat callers. (Reviews of downloadable silent ringtones are bad. It's just as easy to make your own for free.)

1) Add repeated sales/robo numbers to a single address book entry (I call mine Robo).

2) Use the instructions here to create a Silent ringtone in Quicktime that you can load onto your phone:

http://www.cultofmac.com/188109/ignore-unwanted-contacts-with-a-silent-ringtone-ios-tips/

Follow directions exactly.

3) Sync the Silent ringtone to your iphone.

4) Go into address book entry for Robo, scroll down to ringtone, choose Silence. Also change Vibrate to None.

Ha ha ha you pesky horrible useless callers.

#robo #calls #unwanted #sales #callers #do not call #registry #iphone #block #blocking #silence #ring #tone #ringtone #silent