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Joined: 09 Sep 2001
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Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2001 1:06 am
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I have a Century Graphic which I just got out of "mothballs". I have the standard 103
graftar in a Century shutter. I also have a 103 trioptar in Century Synchromatic shutter. I understand neither of these lens are considered very sharp. I have found a very good buy on a 120mm Zeiss Tessar in a compur shutter that I will likely buy. It seems in very good shape. I would also like a very wide angle lens.
I have seen a 65mm Angulon ******* that seems like a good answer. It is in a Compur shutter for a Linhof. I would appreciate opinions on both lens? Especially if you think the 65mm lens might present any problems.
Thank in advance for your help.
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Joined: 09 May 2001
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Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2001 1:26 am
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This isn't quite to the point, but the 101mm f/4.5 Optar (considered the "normal" lens for the Century) in Graphex no. 1 shutter I have found to be a reliable sharp performer. It too is a Tessar type lens with plenty of coverage for the movements on the Century (unlike the 103mm Graftar). I use the 65mm f6.8 Optar, also in Graphex no. 1 shutter, as my wide angle; the coverage is not quite adequate at extreme rise without vignetting, and the little guy is hard to focus (true in general of wide angles, I think), but within its limitations it can give very good results also. The 65 Optar is not, however, an easy lens to find: in over five years I've only ever seen two at camera shows (one of which I bought!). The Angulon is a good lens, but personally I prefer the Graphex (Wollensak) shutter over the Compur.
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Location: Detroit, MI
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2001 4:19 am
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Both the Trioptar and Graftar is a triplet design, which in most cases makes for a very good lens. But time has proven that these weren't the sharpest lenses in the camera bag.
Tessars tend to be very sharp in the center but with pronounced image loss at the edges of the circle of ilumination. (In other words you can't use the whole image circle and expect exptremely sharp results)
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Joined: 18 Sep 2001
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Location: Canada
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2001 5:42 pm
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I have a Schneider-Kruesnach Xenotar 80mm f2.8 in a Compur on my century graphic. It's a 5-element design like the Zeiss Planar.
The lens is incredibly sharp, even wide open. I understand that this lens is not common. I was just lucky and bought my Century Graphic equipped with it. I have seen a few on ebay listed and they are not cheap.
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2001 8:05 pm
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Does your Xenotar work with the Kalart rangefinder or do you have to focus on the Ground glass?
I have a Planar on a PM Speed and can't get the bugger to work with the rangefinder. It seems that the lens is too short for the rangefinder to work closer than 15ft.
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2001 10:35 pm
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The 80mm Planars work fine on the Century. I used one for years [miss selling it]. Yes, it worked perfectly with the rangefinder. I had Graflex mount it and install the proper distance scales too. Only problem was mounting it - had to do so by removing rear element, mount it, then screw element back on from the rear. Once done, the camera closed properly. Was a great lens - for 6x7 only. Corners got REAL fuzzy with 6x9.
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Location: Detroit, MI
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2001 3:22 am
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Very interesting! My Planar will not allow the camera to close. I have to wonder if the skinnier body of the Century had an effect on the focus abilities of the Kalart.
Then again it could have been a different Kalart model too, I guess.
Makes me want to go down to the local old camera store and talk to the guy about his PM Crown in the window...
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Location: Connecticut
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2001 12:47 am
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I recently bought a 65mm Angulon for my Century 2 x 3, and until the shutter froze I did like it. Very sharp, good coverage.
Be sure to use a loupe to check focus on the groundglass (if you're picky, if not the depth of field is so long it's hard to get into trouble) and drop the bed down.
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Joined: 18 Sep 2001
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Location: Canada
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2001 2:24 pm
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Yes, my Kalart works fine with the 80mm Xenotar. I needed to adjust it somewhat (many thanks to graflex.org for the excellent website information). The distance scales were on my camera when I bought it, so I'm assuming that graflex must have set up this particular body (including the Kalart) for the 80mm. Sometimes ya just get lucky! Sounds like maybe you need a different cam for the Kalart? Maybe someone that knows more about cams and stuff for the Kalart can comment...
While the rear element of the Xenotar does protrude quite a bit, my Century Graphic will close since there is no focal plane shutter for it to bump into.
I've been using sheet film (ilford fp4+) and I don't have any complaints about the edge sharpness on this 6x9 format. However, I shoot stopped down and don't use the movements.
I get excellent sharpness corner to corner with movements in the 6x7 (RH10) rollfilm format.
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Location: London, England
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2001 11:02 am
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Do I understand that Planars and Xenotars are rare in the US? mrcad.co.uk often has used examples. They also have excellent new Doktar Tessars in Copal shutters for £200 (you save 15% if you need not pay UK sales tax!)
Stuart Thorne,
London SW13 9BL, England
Graflex cameras are rare in the UK; information about lenses, lens boards, parts, would be most welcome.
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A work group convened to address the city's homeless population should have notified the public before meetings, Citizens for Sunshine says.
The city manager's plan to hire caseworkers to help the homeless might stall after Citizens for Sunshine, a nonprofit known for bringing open meetings and records lawsuits against local government, filed a temporary injunction against Sarasota.
The nonprofit claims the work group City Manager Tom Barwin convened to come up with a plan to quickly address issues with the city's homeless population should have notified the public before meetings.
Judge Lee Haworth granted the injunction Wednesday, preventing the group from meeting again without informing the public, and stopping the city from implementing or spending any public funds on the group's recommendations.
Barwin has been trying to garner city and county funding to match a private donation offered to help cover the caseworkers' salaries and equipment, which he estimated would cost $150,000.
Citizens for Sunshine's attorney, Andrea Mogensen, called the work group and its efforts a "positive step" for the city, which has made homelessness a top priority.
She said the nonprofit does not want to prevent efforts to help homeless people but wants to require the group to hold discussions again in open meetings before adopting any recommendations.
"Since the community is so clearly interested there's a particular circumstance where the Sunshine Law should have been complied with," Mogensen said.
The homeless work group cancelled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, according to an email posted in City Hall.
The work group, made up of city and county government officials, members of law enforcement and homeless service providers, had met several times in the past few months but did not provide notice of its meetings to the public or take minutes.
Barwin previously said he did not think the meetings needed to be announced because he was just gathering information. He was traveling Wednesday and could not be reached for comment.
City Attorney Bob Fournier, who did not know about the meetings until recently, has said the group should err on the side of compliance with the state's Government-in-the-Sunshine Law, and should inform the public of future meetings.
In the complaint, Citizens for Sunshine asked the city to cover their attorney fees and costs.
The city did not object when Mogensen filed the injunction, which she said is likely a sign there will not be protracted and costly litigation.
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My (non-fiction) book – A Parent's Guide To Paintball, (published by Liaison Press) was released to Kee Action Sports on May 15th of this year.
They're a rather largish paintball product distribution and manufacturing company (one of the largest in fact).
Liaison and I agreed to give them a bit of a grace period to market the book to specialty paintball retailers and held the book back from listing with Ingram for about two months; this kept the book off of online book retailer sites (and Liaison's site as well, lol).
Kee purchased a very decent order of books and have been pouring a fair amount of effort into promotion – including building me a website for the book.
The decision to hold it back was something of a mutually agreed upon experiment: (Kee knows a bit about marketing, seeing as how they distribute hundreds of millions of dollars of product a year.) We'd all heard both the arguments for and against the effects of listing on Amazon. Personal experience in the field of paintball and books on my part (I both wrote good portions of and then specialty distributed a previous paintball book) told me that sometimes retailers get miffed when they see the book they're trying to sell discounted on Amazon.
So we compromised on the listing delay: everyone agrees that Amazon, B&N, etc., can provide good product recognition and display, traffic, etc, and we all also agreed that most folks in the target market would prefer to purchase the book from the local 'experts' in the game – even if they knew it might be available on Amazon.
Now, the book has been listed with Ingram, is up on Amazon: an Amazon Vine reviewer who'd obtained a review copy has already given it a four star review.
The distribution of other review copies is also beginning to bear fruit. I got a glowing endorsement from the curator of the World Paintball Library (an old time 'baller like me).
This has been and continues to be an interesting and creative project for me: it's been a 'hybrid' of sorts between traditional publishing and self-publishing, an example of customized book marketing and I think everyone involved is learning quite a bit.
Here's just a little description of what I mean:
Liaison is a non-fiction imprint of Creative Guy Publishing, a small (horror-oriented) small press. One of Liaison's biggest hits is Installing Linux on s Dead Badger and I hooked up with it's owner – Pete Allen – by way of reviewing Gary Wolf's Space Vulture (review).
I mentioned that I had a completed book and was looking for a publisher. Pete expressed interest and we talked it around – but paintball wasn't really in his bailiwick and I really couldn't afford to pay for printing up a decent number of copies: I also didn't want to do it as a POD self-pub.
Then, by virtue of discussing the state of publishing these days, we hit on the idea of selling advertising inside the pages of the book to at least partially defray printing costs.
In soliciting advertisements, I ended up talking to the CEO of KEE, sent him a manuscript and Kee decided they wanted to back it.
So essentially I ended up putting together a publicity/marketing company that also acted like a book distributor and purchased a huge number of books in advance, a small press publisher who threw in the layout/book design work (and incidentals like ISBN, liaison with the printer) and there's the book.
I guess you could say that I got my advance directly from the distributor – rather than the publisher.
This experience plays in to publishing in general as I think there are some good lessons learned (especially for small presses and writers thinking about self-publishing).
And I'm happy because I got the book to market and, if the early 'returns' are any indication, it is being well-received.
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Canada Job Expo
Thursday, 12 September 2019 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
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We have limited tickets due to the huge demand. Please reserve your ticket right away and once you have registered please show up. We will not assist with visa applications, invitation letters etc. Thank you.
Whether you are a graduate, unemployed, new to Canada, a seasoned veteran looking to change careers, or even a student new to the workforce, Canada Job Expo is a great place to begin your career path. Canada Job Expo provides plenty of information, job resources and discussions and opportunities for employment and on-the-spot interviews.
This expo is the most attended job and career event in the Greater Toronto Area with an environment of learning, employment opportunities and a day of professional interactions.
Our past events have included major Canadian employers like KEB Hana Bank, Air Canada, Fairmont Royal York, Apple Canada, CIBC, Rogers Communications, Labatt Breweries, Ministry of Community Security and Correctional Services, Bell Canada, Canada Post, ADT Canada, Desjardins, Moosehead Breweries, Toronto Police, Ontario Public Service (Ministry of Govt. Services) and a host of employers from Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia as well as International Organizations from The United States, China and South Korea.
(Please note the above paragraph says PAST employers, for a current list of exhibitors please check our website. The list will be updated as we receive registrations.)
This expo brings Canadian employers, various organizations and educational institutions together with skilled workers and students for a day of learning and employment opportunities. There are five free optional workshops available. For further information, please visit www.canadajobexpo.com
This event is FREE to job seekers and those in between careers. Everyone is welcome to attend and gain something out of it. There are no restrictions on who can attend.
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Our clients include Government Ministries and agencies to Fortune 500 Companies. Exhibitors at Canada Job Expo have included organizations like Apple, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Govt. of Canada, Govt. of Ontario, The City of Toronto, Bombadier/GO Transit/Metrolinx, Labatt Breweries and a host of employers from Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia as well as International Organizations from China, United States, United Arab Emirates and South Korea.
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Flickr Updates iPhone App for HD Video Uploads and Multitasking
Photo-sharing service Flickr has released version 1.2 of its iPhone app, adding several new features to take advantage of the iPhone 4.
Version 1.2 comes with two major additions specific to iOS 4 and iPhone 4 users. First, the new app now supports multitasking for uploads; you no longer have to keep the app open in order to send the photos and videos you capture to your Flickr account. On top of that, Flickr for iPhone now supports HD video upload to correspond with the iPhone 4's 720p video capabilities.
The app also comes with some usability and design enhancements, including the ability to clear recent searches and the removal of navigation controls on full-screen photos until you tap on the photo you're viewing. And finally, Flickr for iPhone now supports the ability to post your photos to Flickr and Twitter simultaneously, making it an even more useful photo-sharing app.
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Take a good, hard look at Bane's breathing apparatus, as featured in Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. These two new images show you just how much detail goes into creating this half-mask, including those little holes around the mouth area.
These new images come from a feature in Total Film via Superherohype. This is also one of the more detailed shots of Catwoman's (Anne Hathaway) catsuit... and she's holding a gun.
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Paul Begala, the former advisor to President Bill Clinton, shared a stage on Tuesday at the TD Ameritrade regional conference in Dana Point, Calif., with his political opposite, Bill Kristol, who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. The two men regaled the advisor-heavy audience with good-natured jokes and jabs at the other's expense, but also expressed serious comments on the state of the nation, the presidential campaign and the likely outcomes of the coming election.
After proclaiming what a "wonderful country we have," evidenced by U.S. citizens' ability to disagree with one another without resorting to violence, as has been the case in democracies like the U.K. and France, Begala began by saying "every time I look at the economy, I think Obama can't win; every time I look at the Republicans, I think Obama can't lose."
On the economy, Begala pointed out that President Obama should be behind the 8-ball because voter behavior tends to be driven by two numbers: the unemployment rate and household income. However, he argued that Gov. Mitt Romney was only the "strongest candidate in a weak field" of Republicans, recalling that at one time, "Romney was behind Donald Trump" in the Republican polls, and prompted laughter among audience members when he reported that Romney had created "thousands of jobs" in his time at Bain Capital, pausing before delivering the punchline, "in Bangalore."
Kristol, the co-founder and editor of the conservative publication The Weekly Standard, started his portion of the presentation by agreeing with Begala on how both men came to their political convictions. "We like to think we come to our political views by deep thinking," Kristol said, "but a lot of politics is aversion." He noted that he had grown up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where "Bella Abzug was my congressman." (Left-leaning Begala noted that he grew up in a conservative Republican district of Texas, where Tom DeLay was his long-serving congressman, and that many members of his family were conservative Republicans.)
Kristol directly addressed his once lukewarm feelings about Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate. "I spent much of 2010 and 2011 talking about why Romney shouldn't be the nominee, but I was wrong," he said. After reciting a list of the relatively few incumbent presidents in the nation's history who lost re-election bids, he argued that "it's not that common for incumbents to lose," and that it usually has happened only when the sitting president faces a primary challenge within his own party. That hasn't been the case with Obama, he pointed out.
Speaking on the day after the final presidential debate, on foreign policy, Kristol said "Romney did last night what he had to do: looking calm and unruffled," and demonstrating that "he was up to being president," particularly as a prospective commander in chief. Acknowledging that the number of still-undecided voters may be small, Kristol pointed out that nevertheless the ratings for the presidential debates "was very high," suggesting that voters remained interested in hearing the candidates views, but that elections are "more about the future, not the past." He characterized the race 14 days away from the election as being "dead even, with Romney maybe a little ahead."
Kristol said in a separate interview that he thinks either second-term President Obama or new President Romney has the leadership abilities to address the longer-term fiscal issues facing the United States, and the shorter-term fiscal cliff that the current Congress and administration will have to face later this year.
"Reality will force it," he said, referring to a solution to the fiscal cliff and the longer-term systemic issues, and both presidential hopefuls will have the "clout" to push forward with solutions following the election. Addressing the issues of over-regulation, particularly regarding the Dodd-Frank Act, will be a "pretty high priority of Romney" if elected, he said, even though Kristol pointed out that Romney has set a heavy agenda for himself early in his presidency.
Kristol finished his remarks at the conference by responding to an attendee's question, pointing out that both Obama and Romney had lived their lives in something resembling a bubble in which their political beliefs were rarely questioned. That, he said, may well be why both candidates often seem to have "tin ears" in their public comments.
When one advisor in the audience asked Begala why a job-creating small business like his advisory firm should face such a steep tax bill, in both federal and state levies, Begala shot back by saying "We're broke!" and that paying higher taxes to help balance the budget (like during the Clinton years) was a small price to pay for living in such a great country. He added as a postscript that the U.S. government has been the greatest force for good in history.


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Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is used to getting his way, and CEOs have been finding it more and more difficult in recent years to resist his wiles.
Mall operator General Growth Properties (GGP), and its majority owner Brookfield Asset Management, have been feeling the heat as they oppose Ackman's attempts to force a sale to rival Simon Property Group (SPG).
Ackman turned the heat up Monday afternoon, when he took to the stage at the Value Investing Congress in New York to not only explain why General Growth Properties should sell to Simon but also to offer his behind-the-scenes account which seemed explicitly designed to bring on a host of shareholder lawsuits. Some of what he presented Monday had been previously revealed in a letter with the SEC in late August.
At Monday's conference, he described an entrenched board explicitly ignoring conflicts-of-interest with majority owner Brookfield Asset Management, which appears to want to keep the company independent simply to keep collecting management fees from their portfolio of shopping malls.
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Once again, Ackman urged General Growth Properties to enter into a sale process with Simon Property, hire an outside investment banking firm for a potential sale, and an outside committee to look for conflicts of interest.
Simon Property Group's CFO recently said that despite some behind the scenes talks last year about a possible buyout, Simon isn't interested in buying General Growth. Still, Ackman told the audience to ignore what the company says. Ackman showed a slide full of instances when Simon said it wouldn't buy a company but later turned around and bought the same company.
Simon Property Group is the world's largest mall operator with a track record of buying up competitors. Should Simon Property Group buy General Growth, shareholders could see a 50% increase from its current $19 price, said Ackman. That premium would come if General Growth's shareholders got a 28% slice of the merged entity.
Related: Whitney Tilson betting on Netflix and Buffett
A so-called activist investor (also known as a corporate raider), Ackman's hedge fund, Pershing Square, typically buys a stake and urges the board to make his suggested changes or else become engaged in a proxy fight to let shareholders vote on his suggestions.
In his presentation, Ackman showed that boards and executives who resist his wishes will face his wrath.
Ackman doesn't always simply push for a sale. In some cases, he agitates to break up a company or for operational changes -- along with new CEOs to make them.
He's buying into bigger and bigger companies lately and hitting them with his wish-lists.
The biggest so far: Procter & Gamble (PG).
Pershing Square has spent nearly $2 billion acquiring less than a 1% stake in the consumer products company.
Ackman told the audience of the Value Investing Congress that Procter & Gamble's board is putting the company's CEO Robert McDonald on "a short leash." He expects McDonald to try to improve the company's top and bottom lines to keep his job. But if that doesn't work, the board will probably replace him with someone from outside of the company.
Shares of General Growth Properties (GGP) spiked as much as 12% Thursday after activist hedge fund investor Bill Ackman urged the shopping mall owner to put itself up for sale.
The company has already been in play, but Ackman, who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square, doesn't want General Growth shareholder Brookfield MOREMaureen Farrell - Aug 23, 2012 4:24 PM ET
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There are certainly quite a few amazing Android devices available this holiday season, but it's still hard to find something great at a decent price. Yes, there's the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet, but they simply don't have the same Android feel that most of us have come to love.
If you're looking for something a little more traditional, we suggest you check out the HTC EVO View 4G from Daily Steals. For today only, the Android tablet is being sold for $ 229 without a contract. The HTC EVO View 4G is Sprint's variant of the HTC Flyer, which adds 4G WiMax support and 32 GB of internal storage. Anyone who may be interested needs to act fast, since the deal expires at midnight!
For now, the HTC View 4G is still running Gingerbread, but we're expecting to see a Honeycomb update within the next few months. If you do grab the HTC View 4G, don't forget to pick up HTC's digital pen.
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Thank you.
Earlier this week, Ralph Baer, known as The Father of Video Games, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In the mid-1960s, Baer created a "Brown Box" prototype of a home video game console. (The prototype, game site Game|Life points out, is now in the Smithsonian Institution.) Baer sold his design to Magnavox, which would release the console as the Odyssey in 1972.
Baer also created the first video game peripheral when he invented the light gun. Thank him for that, too. Oh, he also made the popular Simon electronic game.
Along with the 88 year-old Baer, S.C.U.B.A. gear inventor Jacques Cousteau and rocket scientist Yvonne Brill were inducted at the ceremony held at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C.
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AA jet returns to DFW due to landing-gear warning
American Airlines says a jet returned to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport shortly after takeoff because of a cockpit indicator that showed a problem with the landing gear.
Airline spokesman James Faulkner said Tuesday that the landing gear was still working and the plane made a safe landing.
Faulkner says the pilot of the MD-80 jet declared an emergency but passengers weren't told to brace for a crash landing.
Flight 1862 was carrying 121 passengers and five crew members. The airline says passengers have been put on another plane for the trip to St. Louis.


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29-1069.05 - Nuclear Medicine Physicians
Diagnose and treat diseases using radioactive materials and techniques. May monitor radionuclide preparation, administration, and disposition.
Sample of reported job titles: Director of Nuclear Medicine; Medical Director, Nuclear Medicine Department; Medical Doctor, Nuclear Medicine; Nuclear Medicine Medical Director; Nuclear Medicine Physician; Nuclear Medicine Specialist; Physician
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Check and approve the quality of diagnostic images before patients are discharged.
- Establish and enforce radiation protection standards for patients and staff.
- Interpret imaging data and confer with other medical specialists to formulate diagnoses.
- Prescribe radionuclides and dosages to be administered to individual patients.
- Review procedure requests and patients' medical histories to determine applicability of procedures and radioisotopes to be used.
- Direct nuclear medicine technologists or technicians regarding desired dosages, techniques, positions, and projections.
- Determine appropriate tests or protocols, based on patients' needs or conditions.
- Compare nuclear medicine procedures with other types of procedures, such as computed tomography, ultrasonography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and angiography.
- Monitor handling of radioactive materials to ensure that established procedures are followed.
- Monitor quality control of radionuclide preparation, administration, or disposition, ensuring that activities comply with applicable regulations and standards.
- Advise other physicians of the clinical indications, limitations, assessments, or risks of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radioactive materials.
- Perform cardiovascular nuclear medicine procedures, such as exercise testing and pharmacologic stress testing.
- Administer radioisotopes to clinical patients or research subjects.
- Interview and physically examine patients prior to testing.
- Calculate, measure, or prepare radioisotope dosages.
- Teach nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, or other specialties at graduate educational level.
- Consult with patients following radiation treatments to provide information and assess outcomes or to recommend further consultation or treatments, as appropriate.
- Test dosage evaluation instruments and survey meters to ensure they are operating properly.
- Monitor cleanup of radioactive spills to ensure that proper procedures are followed and that decontamination activities are conducted.
- Formulate plans and procedures for nuclear medicine departments.
- Direct the safe management and disposal of radioactive substances.
- Provide advice on the selection of nuclear medicine supplies or equipment.
- Schedule examinations and staff activities.
Technology Skills
- Calendar and scheduling software — Scheduling software
- Electronic mail software — Email software
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Digital image processing software
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Medical software — eClinicalWorks; GE Healthcare Centricity EMR; Motion correction software; Radiopharmacy inventory databases (see all 11 examples)
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles — Semiautomated or automatic external defibrillators AED
- Desktop computers
- Electrocardiography EKG units — Electrocardiography EKG machines
- Electronic blood pressure units — Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Goggles — Safety goggles
- Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits — Intravenous IV sets
- Laboratory beakers — Glass beakers
- Laboratory tongs — Metal laboratory tongs
- Liquid scintillation counters — Well counters
- Medical acoustic stethoscope or accessory — Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical computed tomography CT or CAT complete stationary unit installation — Computed tomography CT systems
- Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves — Medical examination protective gloves
- Medical gamma cameras for general use — Gamma ray cameras
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners — Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems
- Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
- Medical positron emission tomography PET units — Medical positron emission tomography PET scanners
- Medical radiation dosimeters — Dose calibrators
- Medical radiation films or badges — Dosimetry badges
- Medical radiological shielding gloves — Radiation shielding gloves
- Medical radiological shielding portable containers for radioactive materials — Beta vial shields
- Medical single photon emission computed tomography SPECT units — Medical single photo emission computed tomography SPECT equipment; Single position emission computed tomography/computed tomography SPECT/CT imaging equipment
- Medical staff isolation or surgical masks — Medical safety masks
- Medical syringe with needle — Hypodermic syringes
- Medical ultrasound bone densitometers — Ultrasound bone density scanners
- Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use — Diagnostic ultrasound equipment
- Mercury blood pressure units — Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
- Microcentrifuges — Microhematocrit centrifuges
- Multipurpose or general test tubes — Laboratory test tubes
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Pasteur or transfer pipettes — Laboratory transfer pipettes
- Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy — Exercise bicycles
- Personal computers
- Phantom dosimeters — Radiation measurement phantoms
- Radiation detectors — Digital ratemeters; Portable radiation survey meters; Scintillation probes
- Tablet computers
- Treadmills — Stress treadmill machines
- X ray diffraction equipment — Cone-beam collimators; Converging collimators; Pinhole collimators; Slant-hole collimators (see all 7 examples)
- Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Work Activities
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
- Check quality of diagnostic images.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Determine protocols for medical procedures.
- Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
- Prescribe medications.
- Verify that medical activities or operations meet standards.
- Verify accuracy of patient information.
- Develop medical treatment plans.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Evaluate treatment options to guide medical decisions.
- Monitor the handling of hazardous materials or medical wastes.
- Advise medical personnel regarding healthcare issues.
- Test patient heart or lung functioning.
- Administer medical substances for imaging or other procedures.
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Calculate numerical data for medical activities.
- Prepare medications or medical solutions.
- Train medical providers.
- Communicate detailed medical information to patients or family members.
- Examine medical instruments or equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Manage healthcare operations.
- Schedule medical facility use.
- Analyze laboratory specimens to detect abnormalities or other problems.
- Operate laboratory equipment to analyze medical samples.
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Work Context
- Exposed to Radiation — 91% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 91% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 87% responded "Every day."
- Electronic Mail — 83% responded "Every day."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 95% responded "Every day."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 82% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Time Pressure — 87% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 68% responded "Extremely important."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 64% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 68% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 55% responded "Very important results."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 64% responded "Extremely important."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 57% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 55% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Deal With External Customers — 50% responded "Extremely important."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 43% responded "High responsibility."
- Consequence of Error — 50% responded "Extremely serious."
- Letters and Memos — 41% responded "Every day."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 38% responded "High responsibility."
- Physical Proximity — 35% responded "Very close (near touching)."
- Spend Time Sitting — 43% responded "More than half the time."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 55% responded "Some freedom."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 43% responded "Very important."
- Level of Competition — 45% responded "Highly competitive."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 27% responded "Extremely important."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
|Related Experience
|Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
|Job Training
|Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.
|SVP Range
|(8.0 and above)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Post-doctoral training
|Doctoral degree
|Some college, no degree
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- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
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Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Physicians, All Other; and Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric.
Employment data for Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
Industry data for Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
|Median wages (2019)
|$99.28 hourly, $206,500 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|433,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Faster than average (7% to 10%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Nuclear Medicine
- American College of Radiology
- American Medical Association
- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and surgeons
- Radiological Society of North America
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- The American Board of Nuclear Medicine


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a new music mix for you! mostly newish music, but one old (superb) paul simon tune thrown in for good measure. song list is as follows: the shins – goodbye…
so, i really liked sharing my first playlist with you and was super happy when i got a few nice people telling me they enjoyed it. here is installment number two. something happy and upbeat to get you through this sudden plunge into winter (even though winter makes me happy anyway, but this music just makes things sweeter).
download the mix here, the song list is as follows:
- mumford & sons – winter winds
- band of horses – dilly
- the morning benders – i wanna be like you (jungle book cover)
- fanfarlo – what makes you think you're the one
- pelle carlberg – clever girls like clever boys mucher more than clever boys like clever girls
- laura marling – crawled out of the sea (interlude)
- thao & the get down, stay down – bag of hammers
- rogue wave – solitary gun
- albert hammond jr. – holiday
- shiny toy guns – season of love
- human highway – all day
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Fox in the Hen House: Fair & Balanced, Depending on Which Way the Wind Blows
When Walter Cronkite, America's most respected news broadcaster, reported that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, President Lyndon Johnson sighed: "If we've lost Cronkite, we've lost the nation."
Anti-marriage forces are saying something similar, only this time it's "If we've lost Bill O'Reilly."
Fox News' roster of on-air stars might continue to throw red meat to its core audience by fulminating against the "war on Christmas" and the "forced resignation" of the head of Mozilla. But if one starts peeling the onion of Fox's ideology, it appears that Fox News is following polls that show the marriage battle has decisively gone our way.
"Unlike abortion, nobody gets hurt when gays marry," wrote the network's biggest star, Bill O'Reilly, back in May 2012. He hedges by complaining that anyone opposing marriage equality is branded a bigot. Look even further back: In 2002, O'Reilly called self-styled "ex-gay" poster boy Stephen Bennett an "idiot" on his radio show and "religious fanatic" later on TV.
Another primetime anchor, Shepard Smith, stated bluntly of the marriage issue that the Republican Party was "on the wrong side of history." Fox's second-biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has expressed similar sentiments.
Although many LGBT observers dispute the major national TV news source of America's right wing coming over to our side, there was enough evidence for a widely distributed report from a group called America's Survival, Inc. Authored by the rabidly homophobic leader -- and apparently only active member -- of the Chicago-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Peter LaBarbera, the 2013 report piled up the evidence that Fox News has become a tool of the "Homosexual Agenda."
LaBarbera's screed did get one thing exactly right when he wrote that Fox was "mimicking current trends in the Republic Party." Most Fox anchors have found the best way to deal with the issue is not to deal with it; Sean Hannity, for instance, has studiously ignored any and all gay-related stories.
Last year, Fox's sister sports network didn't waste any time in firing commentator Craig James from one of its regional subdivisions. Fox Sports executives were reportedly deeply unhappy with the hire. They leaked to the press that they had not vetted James' hire in the first place.
James, a former running back for the New England Patriots, had used homophobia as a campaign issue during his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in Texas. When his anti-gay campaign comments resurfaced, he was quickly given the boot.
The report cited Fox's heavy support of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association that include full-page ads trumpeting Fox's "fair and balanced reporting" in program books; the heavy presence of Fox's on-air talent at various NLGJA functions and fundraisers; and Fox's participation in NLGJA job fairs. The report missed the wealth of Fox-branded swag that has permeated NLGJA functions as a reminder of the network's bona fides when attendees return home.
The sins in the eyes of the anti-gay right extend to the on-air talent, many of whom mingle freely with association members and even competitors from the other all-news cable channels. It is no longer noteworthy when Kelly is clinking cocktail glasses with her counterpart at CNN, Anderson Cooper.
Smith and Kelly are regulars at New York City NLGJA fundraisers. They are among the many Fox stars who make up what has become the largest wattage by far at such events in New York City.
In fact, Fox News has become one of the major corporate sponsors of the organization. The NLGJA has maintained that, as a group representing journalists in all newsrooms, it can't ban any specific news organization. Nor, it should be added, would it be in its own best interests to turn down a corporate sponsorship.
An NLGJA insider has told me that any question about Fox's participation is a nonstarter. And an out-gay Fox News veteran TV news producer told me that he has found Fox to be not only gay friendly, but also probably the most pleasant place for a gay man to work.
Smith himself is not quite out of the closet, but it's been an open secret since the editor of the Washington Blade related how Smith tried to pick him at a New York bar a decade ago. A few years ago, Gawker reported on a kerfuffle at a bar where Smith appeared with his regular male companion.
A month ago, right-wing media watchdog castigated the network for having the second-largest contingent of on-air talent on hand for a fundraiser in New York City. Even more tellingly, the network also regularly participates in the NLGJA's annual job fairs -- in other words, the avowedly right-wing network is actively seeking to hire LGBT producers and others who formulate its program content.
Even the non-ideological Pew Research Center has confirmed that Fox News is decidedly pro-marriage equality -- more so even than NPR.
The shift reflects the way Fox News has been able to wriggle to appear as though it were leading the American public, when in truth it more likely is following it. In a list of citations dating back to 2004, New York magazine showed how O'Reilly's shifting views on gay marriage neatly reflect the national polls.
From "If gay marriage, then chaos would follow" to "The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. The other side hasn't been able to do anything but thump the Bible."
Liberal media watchdog Equality Matters got close to the heart of the seeming contradiction in the Fox newsroom when it pointed out that the news channels has always been consistently inconsistent in matters ranging from immigration to climate change -- and points to Rupert Murdoch as the reason.
Murdoch cut his teeth in the cutthroat newspapers wars of his native Australia. After he inherited his father's newspaper chain, he took on the even more competitive British national newspapers, where he defied the powerful trade unions by moving from Fleet Street, the papers' historic home, to the new business center of Canary Wharf, where he undercut the unions by converting from antiquated hard type to digital production.
His ruthless ambition inevitably led him to New York, where he acquired the New York Post, Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox, publisher HarperCollins and the Wall Street Journal, the top newspaper by circulation in the U.S.
Murdoch has never been bound by ideology. A major backer of the union-busting "Iron Lady," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, he quickly switched allegiance to Labour's Tony Blair, then back again to the Conservative Party. He privately loathes the royal family for its unearned place on the top of the U.K. hierarchy and has been embroiled in a wide-ranging phone-hacking scandal that, among other outrages, hacked into the voicemail of a murdered girl.
Fox, his upstart network, found an audience with its first big hit "Married With Children", probably the most subversive satire of the nuclear family that has yet appeared on network television, with "Family Guy" second only to "South Park" in its gleeful skewering of traditional values.
Although he usually is counted on to back Republicans, he has a cordial relationship with Bill Clinton, and an even closer one with Clinton's wife. In 2006, he hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign and recently said he would consider voting for her if she runs in 2016.
If Murdoch has any ideology at all, it's that of making money and having as much influence as possible in its service. So far, it's a philosophy that has served him well. He's one of the richest men in the world and has ready access to the corridors of power, whether the door leads to a liberal or conservative.
Fox News will likely continue its double-sided policy. Equality Matters, a short-lived subgroup within the liberal watchdog group Media Matters, castigated the network a year ago for several recent distortions that included misstating the intent of a nondiscrimination ordinance in San Antonio and mocking participants at New York's Pride March.
Equality Matters noted Megyn Kelly's "mixed record": She defended Chaz Bono and supported marriage equality, but mocked the appearance of a transgender prison inmate and glossed over the vitriolic homophobic statements made in the past by one of her talking heads.
Meanwhile, Murdoch himself gleefully continues to skewer gay rights. He has called for a boycott of Guinness over its decision not to participate in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade because of its exclusion of a gay Irish organization. He has called gay activists bullies and said last year he was "old-fashioned" about the matter.
In a recent interview, he dismissed his network's promotion of the Tea Party as "bullshit," despite a long record of support. Last month, the notoriously by-the-book right-wing editorial page of the Wall Street Journal called the Tea Party and other amnesty opponents racists and pulled Sean Hannity from a Tea Party fundraiser in Cincinnati after being called out for violating its network policy.
For the best indication of where Fox News is heading, the best place to look is at public opinion polls. Like its owner, Fox adheres to the basic premise that the purpose of a TV network is to make money, whether it's peddling entertainment or political opinions.
With its audience rapidly aging, Fox finds itself in an increasingly precarious position: While it is by far the dominant all-news channel, its audience is also the oldest, and growing older by the minute. Like the Republican Party it champions, it has realized that white, rural Americans cannot provide a broad enough base of support.
Murdoch's own sons and appointed heirs, James and Lachlan, haven't spoken publicly about gay issues, but several gossip columnists have noted that their inner circle of friends and closest employees include several gay men.
Over the long term, Fox (and the GOP) risk losing younger Americans, who prize diversity and LGBT rights in far greater numbers than their elders. At 83, Murdoch is beginning to pass on the reigns of power to the next generation. With America changing, it's likely that Fox News will change along with it.
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You should be documenting your day, your week, your month, on a regular basis. Take a few minutes when you accomplish something and make a blog entry. This is a great way for you to keep track of what you've accomplished during the year, and be ready to talk about it in an interview, or in a performance review.
You don't have to publically blog this. You can use Word, emacs, Live Writer, text files, whatever works, but, keep track of it. Read through it when you need it and summarize your accomplishments for the quarter or year. This is also something you consult every quarter when you touch your resume.
And when you get ready for that review, read Kendra Little's post on asking for a raise.