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Explained very well

mwatk19 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:22:03 -0600

Thank you for the great explanation, and the suggestions about the 3x5s, My Idea Map, and the great outline pdf you made. I've been researching how to make quick storyboards for a short film I'm planning on making in segments for my RFTV classes in college. However, as great your suggestions are for an artistically-inclined, many aspiring (or professional, for that matter) directors are pretty adept at only stick figures.

So I thought I'd mention this great program I found that pulled some of my classmates through their prerequisites in storyboarding: StoryBoard Quick. I think that this would be a worthy mention in addition to the suggestions you've made. As I said, I've been looking for cost-effective ways to go about storyboarding, and this software looks to be the best for its price range. I've seen it in action, and it looks great: filled to the brim with content and graphics, rotatable and "colorizable" for amazing customization, as well as including the ability to import any graphic that you pulled from the internet, etc.

Check it out and see if it's as helpful as I'm finding it to be.

thank u much

Tre - — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:21:46 -0600

while i didn't get to this session during blogher 2007, i'm in the midst of rereading the content and live blogs from both 07 and 08....vlogging is something i'm completely compelled to dive in. am trying to find basic video cam and figure out how to upload to my macbook...i used story boards when i taught writing in middle school. i oughta be usin' em now to focus my blogs better :) ha. :) longwinded am i....must check your now posts...looking forward to learning this...i'm sooo determined..ever since i volunteered last spring at miami international women's film fest and saw a doc on camera women...one in particular put a camcorder in the hands of women farmers in india..to watch what they filmed and then to see how the claiming ownershi of their lives....through film...it's enough to want me to start 'one video camera per woman' like the recent ongoing campaign 'one laptop per child.'

many hugs for making is SOUND so easy :) and simple. if i ride a motorcycle and can change its battery I CAN DO THIS!!! (my lil daily pep talk)...:)

Tre ~ http://thoughtbythought.net

voting for hillary clinton

ghingh34 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:31:04 -0600

1
AN ODE

MY VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

THREE WAYS TO SEE ME

JANE WOULD UNDERSTAND

Do you know who I am?
I am dignity
Finally my self esteem
Speaks of me
Sees me
To place me
Before thee

That you will spare me
The indignity that
Has happened in my past
Set before me
In your morbid light
That would set you
So above me

You think this does
Not happen now
Yet it does
Jane would know
You think it has changed since far ago

And know
Now I can realize
I can look down upon you
From the height of myself
As you once did me

AS
YOU YET KNOW THIS NOW
I WILL NOT BEAR THAT SHAME SHAME ON YOU

2
AN ODE
MY VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

For do you know who I am

I am Artemee’s and Robert’s
Dutiful granddaughter
This boatman and farmer and that constable
Salted in the rights of
Cuchulainn’s daughter
Raised in the dignity of the Mystic Carmen Sylva
Named for her raised for the pride of her
Raised beyond your slight of her
A Jew A Greek A Roumanian
Scandanavian French Scots Irish
The Roumania Greek Orthodox, Jew and Protestant
The spirituality that is as a thread woven through my life from her

You are forgetting who we are from her
You Anglicized past her
And I held my grace with her
I can not forget my common past
The greatness I felt in being Earl’s daughter

You think I can forget the dignity & passion
That drove those men to find their place in this harsh world and land
Jane would know
I so feel the self respect from her/them

Do you know your place?

Remember that

Do you know who I am?

I am Americas 2nd daughter
Not the pride of the DAR the seed of the revolution

I am the seed of the émigré’
Coming here to fill the vast empty spaces
Sheltered in those spaces by invitation

“Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free”

3
AN ODE
MY VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

I am the 2nd daughter 2nd generation 2nd wave of the future
Umbrellaed by the Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution
He so knowingly wrote
Knowing that émigré would not stop at Scots & English & Welsh Anglican
It would encase, enclose and enmesh all
All nations all races ALL GENDERS

So knowingly he embraced all of the freedoms
we would need to protect our
freedom and freedoms

ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

And I and my sister Hillary Clinton stand under that light
Though you belittle us make us only slightly smaller
That slightly is enough for me to say

Do you know who I am

I am America’s daughter
Granddaughter
Daughter
Niece
Niece
Sister
Aunt
Mother

grandfather Quarter Master Sargent Zenofor Hortopan WWI
daughter Sargent Earl Melvin Johnston WWII
uncle Petty Officer Walter Swick WWII
uncle Petty Officer Guy Robert Johnston WWII
brother Lance Corporal John Zenofor Englemann Vietnamese War
nephew Airman Ben Englemann Civil duty
son Lance Corporal Christopher Marc Lenehan Desert Storm

4
AN ODE
MY VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

Do you know who I am

A woman

Hillary’s sister

Jane would understand

The cradle at
Whose breast
We nurtured
This nation

I NEED HILLARY

SHE KNOWS MOST

What this nation needs

WHAT WE NEED

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM

A WOMAN

A SINGLE 2ND GENERATION MOTHER

WHO RAISED A CHILD ALONE IN AMERICA

HAASE JOHNSTON
MOON TWP.
PITTSBURGH, PA
This is written for Hillary Clinton and she may use it any way she chooses with my permission Virginia haase johnston

Diff with Clinton/Edwards Universal Health Care Plan and Obama's

sb11 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:04:37 -0600

Specifically, new estimates say that a plan resembling Mrs. Clinton’s would cover almost twice as many of those now uninsured as a plan resembling Mr. Obama’s — at only slightly higher cost.

Let’s talk about how the plans compare.
Both plans require that private insurers offer policies to everyone, regardless of medical history. Both also allow people to buy into government-offered insurance instead.

The Clinton plan forces insurance companies to give coverage to everyone, ending discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. Drug companies would also be required to offer fair prices.ice as many of those now uninsured as a plan resembling Mr. Obama’s — at only slightly higher cost.

And both plans seek to make insurance affordable to lower-income Americans. The Clinton plan is, however, more explicit about affordability, promising to limit insurance costs as a percentage of family income. And it also seems to include more funds for subsidies.

But the big difference is mandates: the Clinton plan requires that everyone have insurance; the Obama plan doesn’t.
Mr. Obama claims that people will buy insurance if it becomes affordable. Unfortunately, the evidence says otherwise.

Mr. Obama, contradicting his earlier assertions that affordability is the only bar to coverage, is now talking about penalizing those who delay signing up — but it’s not clear how this would work.

So the Obama plan would leave more people uninsured than the Clinton plan. How big is the difference?

a plan without mandates, broadly resembling the Obama plan, would cover 23 million of those currently uninsured, at a taxpayer cost of $102 billion per year. An otherwise identical plan with mandates would cover 45 million of the uninsured — essentially everyone — at a taxpayer cost of $124 billion. Over all, the Obama-type plan would cost $4,400 per newly insured person, the Clinton-type plan only $2,700

That doesn’t look like a trivial difference to me. One plan achieves more or less universal coverage; the other, although it costs more than 80 percent as much, covers only about half of those currently uninsured.

a 2003 study, commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that compared health reform plans and found that mandates made a big difference both to success in covering the uninsured and to cost-effectiveness.

If Mr. Obama gets to the White House and tries to achieve universal coverage, he’ll find that it cannnot be done without mandates — but if he tries to institute mandates, the enemies of reform will use his own words against him, as Obama has demonized mandates.

If Mrs. Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, there is some chance — nobody knows how big — that we’ll get universal health care in the next administration.
If Mr. Obama gets the nomination, it just won’t happen.

The reforms flow naturally from that point. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards both propose an "individual mandate" to ensure universal coverage. Under their systems, every American would have to purchase health coverage, and a system of subsidies and tax credits would be constructed to make sure coverage was affordable.

Barack Obama would channel healthcare through employers to the employed, but he doesn't build in mechanisms to ensure that adults outside the employee labor force are covered. (self employed or those not working would not be entitled)
Universal healthcare will not work without mandates....

So in essence Obama mandates children only
Clinton mandates everyone.......so her plan covers all
Obama's covers only children and employees, but not out of work people or self employed.or independent contractors..it leaves out half the population

and the cost>>Over all, the Obama-type plan would cost $4,400 per newly insured person, the Clinton-type plan only $2,700
No wonder two people were for it and only the first term senator against........I'll go with the Clinton plan

The next step on the Voter Manifesto

Morra Aarons Mele — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:49:40 -0500

Is that we are going to send it to the campaigns for responses. Sorry for the delay!

I've been glued to the politicians in Washington throwing Larry Craig under the bus...

Good BlogHer Con post!

Denise — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:43:20 -0500

Thanks for linking it here.

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

I vote for...

msjen — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:30:16 -0500

Somewhere cool in the summer... Seattle, San Diego, Portland, Lake Tahoe, etc...

;o)

p.s. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new design and layout!

Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen
Barflies.net
Around Ireland

We did ask them to convert a men's room to a women's room...

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:24:39 -0500

But they converted the one on the third floor near the rooftop terrace, so I don't think it was the most obvious...I never saw anyone but me go in there :)

I think because the public could still access other parts of the facility they didn't want to convert a more obvious one.

But, yes, every year in fact we've had them turn some of the men's rooms over to the womens :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Vegas is nice

toledolefty — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:26:44 -0500

...because cheap flights are available, but then there's always the fear that I'd miss sessions because I was winning at Blackjack.

If I can find a way to attend BlogHer next year, I will, no matter where it's held.

I put it on my survey, but want to chime in here too: Make sure to consider the restroom facilities when choosing next year's venue. The long lines at Navy Pier meant many of us were late to sessions. I can't believe that a conference facility wouldn't have more than a couple of women's stalls on each floor.

----
Jen
http://yawwblog.blogspot.com
http://angryfatgirlz.blogspot.com
http://toledolefty.blogspot.com

just wondering...

toledolefty — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:18:15 -0500

What's the next step?

----
Jen
http://yawwblog.blogspot.com
http://angryfatgirlz.blogspot.com
http://toledolefty.blogspot.com

Re: VEGAS, BABY? Where should BlogHer '08 be ...

bobafifi — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:39:00 -0500

Hi Elisa,
Vegas sounds good! The National Flute Convention held their annual event there a few years ago in August and aside from the 110 degree heat outside and a sinus condition, I had fun.

-Bob
http://www.bobafifi.com
http://www.blogher.com/user/bobafifi/track

"baker's dozen manifesto"

Angela Chen Shui — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:12:58 -0500

"baker's dozen manifesto" ... I like that, Jen and "I guess I just have a lot of questions."

;-)

"Angela's Voice"
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The History of First 50 Words

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:46:46 -0500

I love to write. Anything. I started in junior high and haven't been able to stop. I can't write fiction well enough to sell it, but I love to write it. I write a poem now and then, too.

I used to participate in a writing practice group--a Natalie Goldberg sort of group. We would name a topic and write for 15 minutes. Then everyone read aloud. Every person's effort was amazingly different.

Then we'd do it again. We did this for a couple of hours on Saturday at Mother's Cafe on Duval in Austin, TX. Once in a while we'd get together at someone's house and write all day long.

For a few semesters I had a gig teaching a class called Writing from the Heart for UT that I ran a whole lot like a Natalie Goldberg writing practice group. The results were so wonderful. As you see with what Birdie is doing with her writing lessons here, if you give just the germ of an idea to ten people you get ten different and often amazing stories in return.

I also love writing with kids. I used to teach elementary school and writing with kids was always my favorite thing. Some of my books are actually about writing with kids. More about them at vdebolt.com.

Where I'm living now, there is a large and active writers group, but no active writing practice subgroup. I tried finding something like that but what was available didn't come close to the experiences I had before and missed.

So I started my own writng practice group of one. I put it on a blog. I didn't have time to really develop a daily idea, so I decided I would just write the first 50 words of something. If it was great, I could always continue it off the blog and see what I could develop. Even if it wasn't great, I'd still get that few minutes of something other than technical writing squeezed into each day.

If other people come along and add 50 words of their own it makes me very happy. I love to see what people do with a writing prompt. It's always a surprise, always genuine, always fun.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Thank you, Virginia!!

debra roby — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:58:58 -0500

I loved reading your reasons for blogging. We all have something we feel is important to say and blogging has finally let us actually say these things to people who want to hear it.

Now, why did you start "Fifty First Words"? (a blog I've been reading since long before I knew it was yours...)

Debra
A Stitch In Time
Deb's Daily Distractions

Did you include your name or not Maurene?

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:46:56 -0500

If you included your name I should be able to find you if I do a database search. If you didn't but know the time you think you completed it I can try to figure it out, but it might be hard.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
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