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Month: January 2018

Rally Car Hits Photographer Standing on Outside of Corner

WoW!

(vid) Photo Cascadia Year In Images 2017

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – The 2-Hour Line — Costco Defeats Sam’s!

Waiting to get in — Sam’s Club east in Anchorage, Alaska — first day that everything was 50% off — at 5pm.

Back of the line are the people left of the trees! Inside, the register lines were another two hours — all the way to the back wall!

Mom is to the right of the corner of the building in the light blue coat, hand raised, chatting with a nurse.

Former NWA coworkers: Tommy was to the left of the flag (red hat). And I saw Don S. inside!

January 17, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – The Racks

Anchorage south location — everything is now 75% off.

January 24, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – Grocery Racks

Anchorage south location — everything 75% off except tires, owned by a third party vendor.

January 24, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – Freezer Section

Anchorage south location — all items now 75% off:

January 17, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – Furniture • Lightbulbs • Storage • Automotive • Cleaning Supplies

Anchorage south location — all items now 75% off.

North section:

January 24, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – No Waiting

Anchorage south location — back to ‘no waiting.’ For years, the Sam’s Club stores were dead compared to Costco. I often wondered how they could stay in business. Costco’s buyers are brilliant.

January 24, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

Alaska Sam’s Club Last Stand – ‘Welcome’

Anchorage south Location — the sun emerged below the cloud layer as I was shooting to say a warm farewell.

January 24, 2018

Olympus E-PL5

“Character is the ability to tell the truth even when it means you will suffer personal loss”

(vid) Where to Find Legal Music to Use in YouTube Videos or Vlogs

Important info at 29:00

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(vid) Distant Shores: How to Sail Your Boat Across an Ocean – Seminar

(vid) Michael Reichmann Photographs Guilin China in Fog!

(photo) Frosty Wolverine Peak

I spotted this lovely scene while on a walk near our home.

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Wolverine Peak above Anchorage on a frosty day

Photos: Monika Schaefer

Joyful Resistance

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(vid) This One Simple Exercise Will Improve Your Posture Greatly (3-in-one)

Costco Defeats Sam’s Club in Anchorage, Alaska — Closing for Good

I commented:

The only thing I’ll greatly miss from Sam’s closing is Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips, 60% cacao.

Costco doesn’t have *dark* chocolate chips; otherwise, Costco’s items are either the same or superior.
Costco also has lots of organic! Their buyers are brilliant! Costco really has their act together.

I’ve wondered for years how Sam’s could stay open, because the store was almost always nearly vacant, with only two registers open, and needed — myself only going there for a few items once in awhile.

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Alaska Sam’s Club stores among dozens nationwide to be closed by Walmart

Why Image Stabilization is Missing Inside Panasonic GH5S ?

I saw a Panasonic rep mention the heat sink reason in an interview a few years back, and my heart sank, concerned they would then forever abandon IBIS to get the best 4K video. Thankfully, they didn’t go that far.

As long as they don’t also do this on their cameras for stills, to which they need to add MULTI-ASPECT as well. PLEASE, Panasonic.

And they should promote multi-aspect harder, which they never have. Most people don’t know the great advantages, including artistic!

Multi-aspect should be in all mirrorless cameras. Sony is especially dropping the ball, keeping people stuck in 3:2.

(vid) Distant Shores: Transatlantic on a Catamaran Part 3

From: Distant Shores

New post! The 3rd and final episode of our video series, “Sailing Transatlantic on a Catamaran”.

In this video, we take you aboard the Bluewater 50 catamaran, Zao, on the final week of our 3,000-mile transatlantic crossing sailing from the Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the Caribbean. The crew starts having fun fishing, Paul does a boat review, Alexandra bakes more amazing desserts and we monohullers perfect downwind sailing on a cat.

Just days before landfall in St. Lucia, we learn that there has been a man-overboard on a boat sailing ahead of us and we start a watch for him and his now deserted boat.

Follow this series to see what crossing an ocean aboard a catamaran is really like.

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(2 min video) Kung Fu: The Garments of Rage

(2 min video) Kung Fu: Lesson From a Silk Worm

(vid) Boeing 747: Inside the Fuel Tank

I’ve fueled many 747-200s, but have never seen inside the fuel tank.

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Carried away by hungry eagle, little dog survives…

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