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TEL AVIV (Nov. 22)
A company commander of the crack Givati Brigade has been relieved of his duties, and five soldiers were ousted from the prestigious military unit for their part in events that led to the suicide of Sgt. Eli Shahar, an Israel Defense Force spokesman announced Tuesday night.
Shahar shot himself Saturday after being "tried" by a kangaroo court of his peers. His family has charged he was systematically harassed by his superior officer and by soldiers in the ranks.
The disciplinary action was ordered by Maj. Gen. Matan Vilna'i, head of the IDF Southern Command, to which the Givati Brigade is attached.
Vilna'i acted after reviewing the findings of an investigation conducted personally by the brigade commander, whom the spokesman identified only as Col. "Y."
Shahar's company commander, Capt. Seren Amir, reportedly told the investigation that he ordered two soldiers to give Shahar a tough "motivation talk" and assign him to two hours of guard duty wearing a steel helmet, which Shahar allegedly had refused to wear during a live fire exercise.
Shahar was reportedly summoned to a midnight "court" held by fellow soldiers wearing masks, who accused him of lacking discipline.
Amir said he ordered the proceeding stopped when he discovered Shahar's humiliation and put the soldier on guard duty. Minutes later, Shahar shot himself.
Amir said he assumed responsibility.
Official IDF statistics say an average of 27 soldiers have committed suicide in each of the last seven years.
The highest year was 1984, when 39 soldiers killed themselves.
The number of suicides has hovered around 30 in the last two years. There have been 24 soldier suicides since April.


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Overseas Entry Decision and Ownership Strategy of Japanese Companies: Institution and Corporate Governance
Using 20-year panel data, this paper tests Japanese companies' sequential decisions: (1) to invest abroad or not and (2) if so, what ownership strategy for that local company to be employed. In addition to transaction advantage emphasized by traditional studies on FDI, the focus is the role of corporate governance of the parent companies and institutional environment of the host countries. Through Heckman's two-step estimation, corporate governance is found to play an important role for entry decision but not for ownership strategy. Transaction cost approach has been well supported for entry decision. Most importantly, an institutional environment favorable to MNEs leads to higher level of ownership of local companies. Firm size plays a significant role for FDI decision as well as for ownership decision
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I was busy finishing my last semester of school to get my BA Degree and missed the first two smiles that joraj(Lorenzo) sent to me. During a break in school I finally checked my LDSMingle account and replied to his smiles. It quickly went from smiles to chatting online and then to phone calls. He left town to visit family and we still stayed in touch by phone. The day he returned back to Utah we met in person for the first time. After the first meeting we started dating. Because he was visiting Utah from Panama, we made sure to attend General Conference together. After conference he proposed and I said yes. We were married on December 9 2010. Thanks to LDSMingle we are now a happy family of four joraj(Lorenzo), myself and my two children.
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I switch up workouts like cardio, pilates, weight lifting, resistance bands etc but weight is at plateau. My calorie intake is at maintenance level because I need fueling to workout. ( fitness instructors need to hv perfect body fat %). Any other suggestions to help with weight lose, besides lowering calories and burning more than eating- which is hard to measure. ?
As far as exercise goes, you may want to try adding high intensity interval training (HIIT) or Tabata intervals into your cardio workouts. A plateau in weight loss is generally due to the body becoming accustomed to its current routine. The high intensity mixed with the rest periods can help to jump start increased caloric burn during the day do to EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption). Here are two links to learn how to implement this type of training into your workouts:
From a nutritional perspective, be sure that you are fueling your body with complex carbohydrates, healthy fats, and lean proteins. This will keep your energy high during the day so you are able to work harder during the interval sessions. Keep in mind that pre and post workout meals are very important and can have an impact on how your body uses its fuel. Make sure to get complex carbs and healthy protein in a ratio of 3-4:1 within 30-45 minutes after your workouts. This will help you recover more efficiently and allow you to work out harder during your next session. Here is a great article about recovery nutrition:
Lastly, be sure you understand what a healthy body fat percentage for you should be. It is important to be a good role model of a healthy lifestyle in the fitness industry but it is also important to understand where to draw the line for your own health. ACE has some great tools to help you track the calories burned in your workouts as well as what your total daily caloric intake should be. Also, take a look at the body fat calculator to see where you're at.
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Anti-equality pastor to keynote Durham's Fifth Annual MLK Celebration Thursday
UPDATE: The Blend has obtained a copy of a response from the County, and the canned response is simply a dodge around the facts of the matter. It's below the fold.
You'd think that a ceremony celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be an event with participants who believe in equality for all. That would normally be true in Durham, NC, a deep Blue city where its City Council last year unanimously approved a resolution in support of marriage equality.
Unfortunately, someone didn't get the memo and invited an anti-equality pastor to keynote the Fifth Annual City-County Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. His name is J.D. Greear of The Summit Church, and to say he is a poor selection for this particular event is an understatement. Now don't label him anti-gay — homosexuals are welcome in his church — they are sinners by default, no better or worse than gluttons, for example.
Those who say we should not worry about what other churches in our association do should simply switch the scenario a little: How would they feel if we gave our money to help a church that taught that all Christians should be swingers as a way of demonstrating the "openness" of Christ? Or maybe if some church encouraged pedophilia as a demonsration of the elder's love for the younger?
…Now, some ask, "Why single out this sin [homosexuality]?" The answer is: we don't. Or at least we try not to. If someone is in clear rebellion against God, refusing to surrender to Scripture, it does not matter what is their rebellion of choice-be it wife abuse, gossip, homosexuality, cheating on their taxes-they could not be a part of our church. The church is a group of repentant sinners, changed by Christ, struggling against the flesh to live the resurrection. But Christ can't resurrect what you won't call dead. Why not make a statement about gluttony or pride? Because there is no controversy about those in the church. If there began to be a large movement to sanction gluttony as an alternate lifestyle, I hope we'd make a statement about it, too.
So this is the man who will keynote tomorrow's event. Read this description of it:
This Thursday, Jan. 14, employees from the County and City of Durham governments and Durham Public Schools, will come together for the Fifth Annual City-County Government Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.
The annual celebration commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy while focusing on the importance of justice, diversity and multiculturalism. The City-County Government Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration will last approximately one hour and include remarks from local elected officials.
Yes — justice, diversity and multiculturalism.
Not knowing who invited Greear to participate (it turns out that it is an employee-sponsored event), I wrote Mayor Bill Bell and the rest of the City Council to ask them politely to have Greear step aside and to make a strong positive statement in support of LGBT equality rather than not attend.
An excerpt of my missive is below the fold, along with a man-on-horse pitch for one-man, one-woman marriage by Rev. Greear.
Dr. Martin Luther King never spoke on the issue of gay rights, but he never declared that any specific group of people should be denied basic civil rights in this country. His wife Coretta Scott King, who carried on his legacy, was a strong and unfailing supporter of LGBT rights, including the right of gays and lesbians to marry.
Pastor J.D. Greear has sadly represented the the opposite view, castigating the LGBT community as sinners and undeserving of civil rights in this arena. Moreover, he conflates the issue of religious and civil marriage. One example of many from the pastor's own blog: "California's Gay Marriage Law and Praying for our Country":
Thus, when you redefine marriage as something other than between one man and one woman, you distort your view of yourself and your view of God. Even though no marriages are perfect, and divorce and immorality skew the picture God intended to give us, the structure of marriage itself is a compass that adds definition to our lives.
Furthermore, there has to be SOME definition of marriage we are operating on. If we begin to say that same-sex marriage is ok, what stops us from polygamy? What about an older man and a consenting adolescent? How about a man and a horse? I'm not trying to be silly, I'm just saying that at some point somebody has to define marriage. The whole "lowest common denominator" thing won't work very long.
Government has not seen it to be their role to define marriage. What "marriage" is, is written into natural law as well as spelled out in God's word–both of which are the basis of our societal laws. Government doesn't, and never has, define marriage, it recognizes the definition written into natural law.
He's not even telling the truth of the history of civil marriage here. Of course the government has, as recently and significantly as 1967, done so with the landmark Loving v. Virginia, which struck down bans on interracial marriage. He is entitled to his views on religious marriage, but to say that his particular view should govern civil marriage is not misguided, to be kind.
As I said, there are many blog postings of this nature by J.D. Greear on his site, and it reflects badly on the Bull City to commemorate the memory and work of Dr. Martin Luther King with J.D. Greear as its keynote speaker. Dr. King worked side by side with the openly gay organizer of the March On Washington, Bayard Rustin.
Not long after I sent this off, I received an email from local blogger Kevin Davis of Bull City Rising, so news travels fast in these parts, and I forwarded my email to The Durham News. We'll see what happens…
UPDATE: When Bull City Rising's post went up today, the organizers of the event went into damage control mode to craft a response if questioned about Greear. It's wholly inadequate and off the mark.
If you visit today's postings on Bull City Rising, you will see the article titled Spaulding raises red flag over City-County MLK Jr. celebration pastor selection over gay rights. This article discusses Pam Spaulding's disapproval of the teachings of J.D. Greear that are related to gay rights. Greear is our speaker for the Fifth Annual City-County Martin Luther King, Jr. Employee Celebration. Pam Spaulding is of the nationally-renowned Pam's House Blend, a Lesbian Gay Bi sexual and Transgender(LBGT) focused blog.
The City-County Martin Luther King, Jr. Employee Celebration Planning Committee has decided to avoid discussion with the media about J.D. Greear's teachings. We have also agreed to the following statement to the media if inquires arise:
"J.D. Greear was selected as the keynote speaker because we identified a person that services our community. We did not select Mr. Greear based upon his teachings. None of our speakers have been selected based upon their teachings. Our selection is driven by our belief that the keynote speaker will deliver a message based upon Dr. King's ideals that align with the responsibilities of both City and County workers. These are beliefs that focus upon public service to others."
We have agreed that all conversations with the media should be staged outside of the building facing Liberty Street. This location will not disturb the foot traffic at our event.
In our discussion, we also discussed how our LGBT employees may present an issue regarding the selection of our speaker. Our employees will receive the same response given to the media as the speaker has truly been selected for the reasons stated above. In addition, Marqueta Welton has been made aware that there may be internal complaints.
Please contact me if there are any questions about this email.
Thank you,
Dawn D. Dudley
Public Information Specialist
Durham County Manager's Office
I specifically addressed not just Pastor Greear's religious teachings, but his public statements on his blog about CIVIL marriage, not religious marriage, and his opinion of LGBTs, which would include the very LGBT employees that he may be speaking to.
You see, Pastor Greear gets trapped in the quicksand of saying there should be a standard definition of marriage, yet he says government has nothing to do with changing the institution, which is preposterous. In his mind, just whose religion or denomination for that matter, should determine what marriage is as a civil institution? I'll just reference a snippet from my keynote speech at NCPride last year:
When you encounter someone who cites their religious beliefs to justify opposing the civil right of gay and lesbian couples to marry, ask them a couple of questions.
1) Do you realize that unless the couple has obtained a marriage license issued by the state, a religious marriage means nothing in the eyes of the law?
2) Do they truly believe that there isn't separation of church and state in this matter? If so, they are effectively asking the state not just to prevent us from marrying on that basis, they are also affirming state discrimination against the churches and denominations that DO want to marry those same couples. That's discrimination based on religion and I hate to break it to them — that is unconstitutional.
Those opposing equality haven't any other card to play except to say it will "change" the definition of marriage, as if it hasn't changed over time. Years ago, marriage meant women were the property of men. And then the definition of marriage changed.
Several generations ago, blacks couldn't marry a person of the same race (because we were property), let alone someone of another race — and the bible was used to justify that. And then the definition of marriage changed.
It's painful to see people of faith cite passages in holy texts to justify oppression of LGBT people when the same public admonitions are rarely delivered to the adulterers, thieves, and fornicators sitting in the pews, or worse, the person standing in the pulpit.
What's preposterous is that Greear will likely say he's not being political at the event when his presence itself is political, given his views.
This is ironic because Dr. King himself was well aware of the symbolism. It's impossible to toss out that argument given the event we're talking about.


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TEL AVIV (Jul. 26)
In solidarity with the trade union movements of Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Pacific area, the Histadrut Executive Bureau adopted a resolution expressing strong protest against the French plans for nuclear tests in the South Pacific Ocean. Histadrut secretary general Yitzhak Ben Aharon reported to the executive meeting on the protests made by international organizations against these tests.
The Histadrut resolution said: "These tests constitute a serious threat to the life and health of mankind and the Histadrut will, therefore, take action within the framework of the international organizations to which it is affiliated, for the prevention of these dangerous experiments." Several days ago France exploded one of the nuclear bombs without regard to international protests, the Histadrut noted.


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Weekend Update–Sleet, Freezing Rain, & (hopefully) Snow
In case you have been living in a windowless cubicle, or perhaps a basement, we're in the middle of what could be described as a winter storm. The reality is that it is not yet the middle of the storm, more like the start, and furthermore it's hard to refer to sleet and freezing rain as a winter storm. But whatever it is or whatever you call it, it's here and it's going to influence the avalanche and skiing/riding conditions for the coming weekend. At Hermit Lake, we're waiting for the sleet to turn to snow, but unfortunately that has yet to happen.
In advance of the storm that started today, we've had good snow coverage across most of the ravines. In fact, compared to how things have looked the last couple years by mid-April, I'd say we're in very good shape. While we've had some rain this last week, avalanche danger had been able to drop down to Low before the current storm. This surface is currently very frozen and crusty, so underneath whatever falls, the threat of long sliding falls is going to be out there.
Looking at the weather for the weekend, I am sorry to say I see nothing that leads me to believe we'll see the much-desired sunny spring corn snow fiesta. Instead, we're looking at cloudy conditions until late Sunday. Snow, sleet, and maybe freezing rain will be the dominant feature tonight, which will affect what happens tomorrow for avalanche danger. If most of the precipitation is snow, and winds wrap to the west as forecasted, we'll have a difficult time lowering the danger ratings from today's Considerable. We can hope for the new snow/sleet mixture to bond well to the underlying rain crust, but there is still enough uncertainty in the forecast to take an accurate shot at forecasting how it will play out.
On the one hand, we could get all snow. This would lead to elevated avalanche hazard from westerly winds blowing it into the ravines. On the other hand, we could get sleet capped with freezing rain. The winds would have a hard time loading this stuff into unstable windslab, but even if it's stable it doesn't mean the skiing and riding will be good.
So if you are going to come up for the weekend, you should prepare for another shot of winter-like weather. Spring will be on hold for the time being. Be flexible with your plans. The Sherburne is open from top to bottom, and the Tuckerman trail is skinnable from the bottom to the top. If you are sure you want to go above Hermit Lake into steep terrain, bring and ice axe and crampons, at least. And food for thought…read the post I just put into The Pit this afternoon. Personally, I would opt to find another more suitable adventure for tomorrow rather than come to Tucks hoping for something good to ride.


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Can you identify this burglary suspect?
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:29:27 GMT —
The Albany Police Department is a little closer to solving a burglary now that they have surveillance video, however they need the public's help to identify the suspect.
The man in the picture broke into Uncle Robert's Used Cars on Oglethorpe Boulevard on December 10, 2011 shortly before 6 a.m.
If you have any information on the identity of this person you're asked to call the Albany Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 229-436-TIPS (8477). Any tip that leads to an arrest and conviction could result in a $1,000 reward.


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If you can't spend the night don't bother going
Strider, at "Tales from Middle Earth," is one of the best storytellers that I read. And, as a bonus, his stories are true. In his latest post called "When the Road is too Long," he tells the story of traveling to a wedding – or, rather, attempting to travel to a wedding.
When he realized that he was not going to get to the wedding in time, he and his family stay with some friends in a nearby village. It was only after all of the other visitors left, and his family remained past normal "visiting" hours that the host opened up and was interested in hearing the gospel.
This is what Strider concludes:
We have a saying on our team that says that if you can't spend the night don't bother going. I don't always live by this but this story reminds me of the truth of it. When we spend the night with people we stay past the polite guest phase and hang around for the deep conversation phase of the day.
It is important to hang around for the deep conversation phase of they day. I've found that this can happen earlier, but only after spending time and getting to know the person.
Yes, I know that many people are open to the gospel at any time, and we should be ready and willing to share anytime. However, for those who are not immediately ready, it often takes time, patience, and love in order to earn a right to be heard.
Are we willing to take the time?
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I am .. y'all were always the ones who were too old to stay awake … 😉
Like I always say: Quality time!
Hey Alan, Thanks for linking the story. For the record I am not the night-owl I once was but for these kinds of conversations I can stay up a little later!
There is no question that some of the best conversations have been after the official Bible study has ended. There are many times I must tell myself that I can sleep tomorrow (though, I must confess, there are probably nearly as many times that I at least internally grouse–needing to wake up at 4:45 am encourages such unfortunate behavior). Still, the mutual ministry is worth the price.


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Used Nikkor 28-70 or a New Tamron 28-75?
I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
The 28-70mm Nikon is a totally superb lens. No disrespect to Tamron's offerings, but its in a totally different league, both in terms of its optics and its pro quality construction.
Go try one, and it will sell itself to you in minutes.
The only reason for buying the Tamron, would be for its portability. But a portrait lens is not the same thing as a travel lens. I don't mind a heavy portrait lens, as I would not want to trek it around in my kitbag just in case the need arose. If you want a portrait lens that you can carry, I would look at a used Nikon 35-70mm f2.8D. Or a prime, like the 50mm f1.4 AI-S.
If you are using a dx camera, then before setting on the 28-70mm, you might just want to try a Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 EX DC HSM. It makes a good portrait lens, even if it is not as good as the Nikon. But its sharp, light enough, and has a pleasent bokeh. It falls just a little short of the quality of the 80-200mm f2.8 ED, which is the lens I like to use for portraits if I want something longer. But the Sigma is a great compromise because its relatively short and light. Its a hugely versatilie lens, so it represents probably the best bang for the $$$.
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I bought a 28-70 2.8 Nikkor used and the IQ is amazing, truly outstanding and works really well with my 80-200 2.8 AFD. The only problem is the AFS motor after shooting for about half an hour or an hour starts stuttering and cant focus. I usually switch it off and then on and starts working again. Eventually I'll send it to Nikon to have it replaced and cleaned. Even if it costs 600 bucks to service it's still better and cheaper than buying it new! Plus I get a new AFS motor!
I had the Tamron and it was very soft wide open on FX. Now have Sigma which is far better but if I could justify the Nikon second hand or otherwise I would.
It's price is very easy to justify..
it can make lovely photographs...
it's very hard to tell the difference in the end...between this lens and lenses that cost 2 ,3 or 4 times as much.
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I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
The price difference is quite large. I tried out the Tamron 28-75, Nikon 28-70, Nikon 24-85 f2.8-4 and Sigma 24-70. They were all nice. Picked the Tamron amongst the ones I tried. Reasonably sharp wide open. Excellent image quality. Fast enough in focus speed (on a d700) that I use it for in close "sports". For example kids on bumber cars (moderately dim at distances that range from right at my feet to 20 yards away), and similar things where I need some zoom and 50mm f1.4 is there for not suitable.
Yeah the 28-70 Nikon was maybe a touch better than the Tamron. But after hours of pixel peeping I could barely tell the difference. And, for the price difference I got the Tamron plus two nice primes.
See my plan (in my profile) for what I shoot with. See my gallery for images I find amusing.
the_arje wrote:
I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
I needed a midrange zoom for event work, and decided the Tammy 28-75/2.8 would be a good, affordable solution. It's actually a very nice lens, but I found it didn't focus quickly or accurately, particularly in low light situations. Once I realized I couldn't rely on the Tammy for "money shots", I traded up to the Nikon 28-70/2.8. In the ensuing 5 years, I've used the Beast in the studio and at numerous weddings, and it was definitely worth the extra bucks.
One caveat. The 28-70 is an anchor. It's too bulky and heavy to be a good holiday lens. I reserve it for studio and event work.
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I'd actually suggest a used Tamron 28-75. Try to find one without the built-in focus motor (provided you're using a camera body with its own motor). The newer BIM version is much slower and less accurate in focusing.
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I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
The beast in various stages of condition can be had for between 700-1100 used.
The Tamron can be had for the non BIM for about 250-350 but hard to find.
The newer one with crap BIM motor can be found new everywhere.
You are still comparing two lenses that are very different in design philosphy that may or may not have a market effect on your choice
1) 2 to 5 x in money different. If you are shooting a body with motor wait and pick up a nice used non BIM. Pay the extra 140 bucks that Tamron charges for a tune up. You are far better off with that then the crap and skittish BIM model new. I had the BIM and no BIM, on D700/D3s the non BIM version is as good as any D lense like 50 or 85, not as fast as the fastest AFS but no complaints. If you can't focus in low light it is your camera focus problem not the lens. With the NON BIM never had a problem that wouldn't also be on my 2400 buck 70-200 VRII
2) IQ, the corners are less then perfect compared to the 24-70 and again a bit softer compared to 28-70. If you are shooting 2.8 and expect or need the outer corners to be sharp then you will be dissapointed. If you are doing portraits I don't think with a little post processing of color or contrast that any peeper would be able to tell a Tamron apart from the 24-70 or 28-70. They may think they can but I really doubt it.
3) Build, no question the 28-70/24-70 IMHO is the best build. I never liked the 24-70 profile nor design that much. The large movement of the optics on the 28-75 is prone to put dust into the lens and camera if you shoot in such enviroments, but its a lens that costs 1/5 as much weights 1/3 as much and 1/3 as big.
Here are a few side threds with shots compared to the 24-70 ( You can tell I've been thinking hard about whether I want to waste 1800 bucks or not )
the_arje wrote:
I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
If for portrait only, why not a new 85/1.8?
the_arje wrote:
I can't afford a new Nikkor 24-70, so I think I've narrowed it down to the above two. I will use the lens for portraits.
Thanks in advance.
Thank you all for the great points and advice.
I failed to mention that I have an 85/1.4; But having that lens on my D90 just makes things a little more tight than I like.
I do have a nifty 50, and could use that indoors (or even my 35mm), and foot zoom it. Which then leads me to just getting a 70-200, since I have some great primes already that can cover the range of the 28-70.
Awww man. Just a hodge podge of possibilities.
Mr.Camillo ,I recently changed the Swm motor of 28-70 F2.8 Afd puchasing a used one with 9+ about 2 years ago from BHPhoto. Apart from that problem 28-70 Afd Nikor is a class lens. If one gets a chance,he should not hesitate to puchase the same.
An ardent advocate in heritage preservation.
I recently bought a used Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 lens. It's a stubby lens, but not to long , fairly light . On a DX sensor wide open it's very good but step it down and from F4 onward it is tack sharp .
On my D90 it focuses quickly with no wondering around. Recently I was at a convention center lobby and while moving on the electircal staircase upwards I took a photo of the downward lobby with only the lobby lighting and when I saw the results I was very impress . It's a great lens for the price and can recommend it highly . By the way, my copy is not the BIM one.
I was fairly happy with mine. Bought it used a few months back. Lately, though, the AF has been very spotty, both on my D300 and D700, in good light. I've cross-checked other lenses, and they don't have the same issue. Just last night I was trying to AF fine tune it on my D300, and it just stopped focusing... totally lost. I'm going to try a few more things, like cleaning the contacts, etc., and if not, it's bye-bye. Third-party lenses are such a crap shoot. I think we're all better off saving up and getting the real deal.
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Used to own the tamron 28-75 paired with a D90. Great combination and I miss it so much because it was so light and portable. The tammy was a bit soft wide open but perfectly sharp by f4 nevertheless it was less evident at low light conditions. I now have the nikon 28-70 beast and the D300s and these are just heavyweights. I really lost portability for extra performance but its the price you have to pay. The beast is a totally different animal. It is built like a tank. The tammy is plastic crap. The beast extends very little and the tammy a lot more so more risk of getting dust in. The beast is very sharp wide open and the tammy a bit soft wide open. The beast is a heavy weight and the tammy a feather weight. Both produce rich colors.
Get the old Nikon one. The Tamron is very soft from F2.8 to F8 and only acceptable after F11.
We keep reading this stuff about how the Tamron is soft until you get to f/4 or my goodness now it's not sharp until f/11 ?!?!?!
You guys must be looking at your photos under microscopes...
Come on, for less than $400.00 bucks which might be a lot of money to some of us, this lens isn't that bad is it? Really? I've got a couple Nikon lenses and like to have more of them but... for those of us that aren't made of money, the Tamron is more than just barely OK...
I'd love to try one of those thousand or two thousand dollar lenses out for a week or so... just to see how much better the pictures would be. To you users of the big Nikon 28-70 or 24-70 the 4x's cost premium may well be worth it.....but the little Tammy can make do no?
cropped pic shot at f/2.8
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Properly calibrated, the Tamron 28-75 is as sharp or sharper than the Nikon 28-70.
I've had both and directly compared them with respect to sharpness.
My 24-70 is slightly sharper than my Tamron wide open, and has slightly more contrast, but you need to really pixel peep to see any differences in actual shooting.
The Nikon 28-70's build is superior to that of the Tamron 28-75, but at the cost of size and weight.
The Nikon's AF is faster, although the non-BIM Tamron is very fast itself (on my D90, D300, D2HS, D3). On my D90, the 28-75 was noticeably quicker than my AF-S 16-85vr with respect to focus speed. I never experienced the low light AF lag of which some Tamron owners speak.
I prefer the Nikon's colors, but can easily bring the Tamron's colors to my liking in PP.
I'm a longtime fan of the Tamron 28-75.
In fact, my 24-70 will be gracing someone else's bag by midweek.
For me, the Tamron 28-75 will do just fine.
After posting in this thread, I got all hot and bothered and decided to do something about it. I cleaned the contacts on my 28-75, and re-did AF fine-tune on both my D300 and D700. Then this morning I did a quick test on a (sort of speak) real life subject. At least on my D700, the Tammy seems to be acting well now:
(Focus point on the near eye)
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crop @f/4
These were tripod-mounted, with off-camera flash bounced from the left of the frame. I also tried a few hand-held shots, with less encouraging results. I think when shooting wide open, it's very hard for me not to drift forward or backward after locking focus and before I press the shutter.
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It's incredible that someone here said that the Tamron is only sharp at F8 . He must have a bad copy because my copy is extremely sharp from edge to edge by f4 onward and center sharp with slightly soft edges at 2.8 . I've got six lens including Sigma 105 macro and this lens is almost as sharp as the Sigma edge to edge from f4 onward at ANY focal lenght ! Only the extreme edges are slightly soft at 2.8 with excelent center sharpness.
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GERMANY'S Marcel Kittel won the second stage of the Paris-Nice race, a 200.5km ride from Vimory to Cerilly.
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If you had asked me a year ago, I would have told you that self-publishing was the road to nowhere. In my research, I had found that self-published authors published only one book on average, and those who had published subsequent books were unlikely to break into traditional publishing or to have substantial sales. Then I went to the 2013 National Conference for the Romance Writer's of America, where I met dozens of writers who were enjoying self-publishing success. Some of the writers who spoke with me were bringing in a hundred dollars a month, while others had netted hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars last year.
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I recently had the good fortune to help co-author the 2014 Digital Book World and Writer's Digest Author Survey. In preparation for the thousands of survey responses we are collecting for 2014, I have been revisiting the treasure trove of information from the 2013 survey.
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Asperger Syndrome in the Elderly
Does the Asperger syndrome become more pronounced with aging, and have the symptoms been mistaken for Alzheimer`s disease? In our drug oriented and proactive society, a doctor may test a patient who begins to need help at home because of aging. Finding "dementia," the doctor typically presecribes the most currently promising medication for Alzheimer`s disease. Would Namenda or the Excelon patch be at all helpful to an elderly person with Asperger syndrome?
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For members of Generation X, Honda's ( HMC) Super Bowl ad is infuriating on many levels. Its first offense is taking the premise of one of its beloved teen movies -- from the John Hughes canon, no less -- and applying it to the rote Hollywood life of its star Matthew Broderick. What made Ferris Bueller's Day Off so successful wasn't Broderick, Ben Stein's monotone or even, the city of Chicago, but its overarching theme that there's a big world out there for the taking if you're just willing to go out once in a while and get it. Honda's commercial hits none of those notes. It gives the doughy, graying, The Producers-era Broderick a sick day from a film shoot that he fills riding a roller coaster, visiting a natural history museum (sans Dream Academy soundtrack), doing tai chi on the beach, going to the horse track and appearing in a Chinatown parade. It's laden with nods to Ferris such as hiding in one's own car and giving that car to a lead-footed valet, but dissolves into cognitive dissonance with one line: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around, you could miss it." That's great when Ferris and his friends are stuck in the day-to-day tedium of Shermer High and are just a Ferrari and a trip to the city away from seeing all the world has to offer. It's somewhat less great in a commercial for a CRV: a family crossover that's basically adulthood's giant white surrender flag. The ad's other misstep is simply this: Life doesn't move pretty fast in a CRV. It goes from 0-to-60 in about nine seconds and only needs to do so when the family vacation requires punching it to ease onto the interstate. It slows into turns so the kids and their various media devices don't get jostled around in the back. It's safe, it's practical and it's just about everything Ferris wasn't. The CRV isn't the car Ferris triumphantly speeds toward Chicago, but the car that happens when Cameron Frye wins, double bolts his door, unplugs his Cobra answering machine and leaves dad's Ferrari in the garage like a good boy. It's not the car you use to pick up Sloane Peterson for a day of hooky, but the one she slouches in the backseat of when her parents drop her off at school in the morning. It's not the car you drive when you're impersonating Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, but when you're the middle manager who's worked for Abe for the past 15 years and still can't get that third week of vacation. This commercial isn't a fun-filled Gen-X reminder of what was, but an unkind reflection of what many folks in that generation have become: a lot less like Ferris but a lot more like his well-intentioned but clueless parents. A little chunkier, a little less impulsive and a lot more lame. No offense to the '80s kids out there, but the folks who'll enjoy this commercial are wound so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal on the driver's seat of their CRV, in two weeks you'd have a diamond. General Motors
Post-bailout GM's Super Bowl commercials seem to be right back in pre-bailout form. Even when mired in bankruptcy, GM ( GM) managed to spend nearly $83 million on Super Bowl ads within the past decade. That's second only to Anheuser-Busch and PepsiCo during that span, and this year's spending is little different. The company's splurging on five spots this year, including its own Doritos-style crowdsourced ad featuring a college graduate who apparently downed a case of Jolt cola before getting a present from his parents. That one-minute, $7 million bit of grating annoyance is joined by spots for Cadillac, the Chevy Silverado and Chevy's new subcompact Sonic. The latter labors under the oh-so-'90s presumption that a young demographic really needs a whole lot of "extreme" imagery to get them to buy a product. This is why GM's coveted target of 18- to 25-year-olds will get to see the little tech-heavy hatchback launched off a ramp, dropped from a plane, playing roadside pianos with attached sticks and -- in the most Dan Corteze/MTV Sports way imaginable -- dangled from a bungee cord. GM still has a chip on its shoulder from spending the past few years as "Government Motors" and taking lots of heat from rival Ford about its bailout money, but it really doesn't need to try this hard. Sales were up 14% last year over 2010, including a 19.4% surge for the Chevrolet brand alone. There's no need to try to be the cool teacher to get through to consumers. A revamped lineup and the product on the lots seems to be doing a fine job without the hopelessly outdated flair.


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Gradius V
Review by BlankMask
"Everything that's right with Gradius! Except not."
I was very excited to hear about the release of Gradius V, and I took the first opportunity I had to pick it up and try it out , having high expectations for a Gradius game released on a system more powerful than any other console that offered a Gradius title in the past.
My anticipation was met with sore disappointment, and fast.
The instant you start the game and select your weapons (As a fan of the gradius series, the disappointing lack of options for the Type select available to you when you first start was my first disappointment.) it becomes painfully obvious that Treasure was more focused on the visual design of the game than playability. I started the game for the first time in Easy mode, because I didn't want to dive into a game with rumors about its difficulty on a hard setting, but I didn't want to feel like a putz messing around on Very Easy.
And literally, within seconds, and using a totally underpowered ship, you are faced with a quickly growing swarm of enemies that blend in fairly well with a rapidly shifting background as they fire bullets at you, a few even spawn a bullet upon death and hurl it at you. On easy mode. And this is a continuing theme throughout the game. Ridiculous amounts of enemies on very distracting backgrounds and in very tight spaces spewing lots of bullets at you.
Now yes, it's a schmup, and you're probably thinking "But, it's supposed to be difficult."
Well, yes. It's also supposed to be playable.
Let me run through all the flaws this game has, point by point.
* 3D perspective on a 2D scrolling playing field. The game scrolls in the classic 2D style that Gradius has always done, but the problem is, it looks more like the screen is scrolling by rotating a globe behind the Vic Viper. this means that at the top or bottom of the screen, as well as the far left and right, obstacles, enemies, and bullets look further away than they really are, appear to be moving on slightly different trajectories than they really are, and, on some occasions, you can even lose sight of your ship as it moves behind an outline of an obstacle. Until you've been playing this game for a long time, it will be commonplace for you to crash into something when you thought you had a little more maneuvering room, or crash trying to move into something you weren't immediately in danger of crashing into. Another thing that's sure to happen to you is the inevitable crash into an enemy that flew in from the background because sometimes you can't quite tell if they're still flying behind you or if they are level with you.
* Flashy graphics. I'll admit, the game is very beautiful. That is something I can not criticize the game for, the visuals look stunning. The problem? They're a little too stunning. In many cases, they're annoying and distracting. Every enemy explodes into a nice large fireball that obscures your view of bullets and your ship if any are in the explosions. This is very problematic when you are faced with huge fleets of enemies coming at you with bullets coming in from every side. The backgrounds can be, at times, especially in the first two levels, very distracting. In the first level, as I've said, the background is a heavily detailed background that scrolls behind you faster than the actual level scrolls, and scrolls in different directions. This can throw you off badly. The beginning of the second level features you flying the the flames caused by entry of a giant ship into your home planet's atmosphere. A blinding yellow, orange, red, and pink background on which dozens and dozens of little ships and the bullets they fire throw themselves at you from every direction.
*R-Type style memorization required. In many levels, there are a few situations where you must fly along a certain path and position yourself correctly to shoot enemies or else you will be overwhelmed and killed. This is particularly true if you die at any point and have to recover. This is a horrible way to make a game difficult, unless it's a design for an arcade game and you're trying to make money, which this game is not. Bad examples include the sixth stage, where never ending streams of green goop constantly threatens to smother your ship unless you can fly just right around the pools and find safespots to avoid spilling waves of slime as the stage tilts and tumbles, which brings me to my next point...
*The game often scrolls in a direction you can not fire in. Well, the not able to fire in bit isn't entirely true. One of your power ups, if you are not familiar to gradius, is a drone called a Multiple, which follows your ship around and can shoot the same weapons that your ship can, at the same rate, with the same amount of power. And in the game, you can set an extra ability of these Options to be able to fire in a direction besides forward. So you can turn your guns in the direction of the scrolling if you have those Options, but the problem is, new players might not take those options, or, perhaps you died and no longer have the Options around you when you go through these parts.
Anyway, this presents an obvious problem. When the screen is scrolling downwards, and enemies are coming from the bottom, or when the screen is scrolling to the left while you are facing toward the right and enemies are pouring in toward you from behind...
* On top of all these flaws, the game is insanely hard. Immensely hard. Hair-pulllingly, teeth-grindingly hard. I already mentioned that even on easy mode, enemies are not shy about firing their guns, and sometimes, when you kill an enemy, the enemy spawns a bullet where it dies and hurls it at you. It's very off-putting to an inexperienced Gradius V player. Some bosses are relentless no matter what difficulty you play on. On boss features a small battleship that extends arms away from its main body on the rightmost side of the screen, covering the whole side, and 14 or so guns lined up on these arms start spewing bullets at you at rapid fire while dozens of asteroids hurl at you from behind. You're supposed to dodge around the asteroids to take cover from the bullets, but there's so much stuff on the screen at one time to dodge, and unlike shmups from a generation long gone, the PlayStation 2 is powerful enough that it can render all this with no slowdown whatsoever.
All in all, unless you are a heavy masochist, I recommend passing this one over. The insane difficulty makes this virtually unplayable, and if you persevere at it, by the time you're good enough to play through this game no sweat, all the fun and novelty of playing it is worn out.
Reviewer's Rating: 1.0 - Terrible
Originally Posted: 07/06/09
Game Release: Gradius V (US, 09/14/04)
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Track & Field: Alowonle wins two more ACC championships
Park 2012 graduate R.J. Alowonle continues to rack up Atlantic Coast Conference track championship titles.
Alowonle, now a sophomore at the University of North Carolina, raised his ACC championship gold medal count to four after winning the 400-meter hurdles and helping the Tar Heels' 1600-meter relay team win conference title at last week's 2014 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Alowonle, who won seven state championships in high school for Park and holds Minnesota all-time records in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles, was the defending ACC champ in the 400-meter hurdles. The Tar Heels also won last year's 1600-meter relay ACC title.
Alowonle repeated as the 400-meter hurdle champion running a new personal best time of 50.23 seconds to capture the title. UNC's Javonte Lipsey, who was the ACC champion in the event two years ago, came in second place with a new personal record at 50.65.
"It's a really great feeling," Alowonle said about his back-to-back championships. "I'm unbelievably blessed to have such a great training group. We have a lot of great 400 hurdlers here and that's something really advantageous knowing that every day at practice I'm racing against top guys in the country, not just top guys on my team. It's competitive at practice but at the end of the day we all know we're wearing that Carolina Blue. We love each other and we really want to see every single one of us at national finals."
"My family came down from Minnesota so it was really cool seeing them. It was great that I was able to compete well when they were here."
Alowonle then ran the first leg of the 4x400 after already competing in the 400-meter relay and 400-meter hurdles earlier in the day. Alowonle dropped to third place after the first 200, but had a great kick in the last 200 to give North Carolina second place during the baton exchange. Kwame Donyinah, who also competed in the 4x100 and open 400, took the baton and carried his own against 400 runners with much more experience. When Donyinah gave the baton to Lipsey, North Carolina was still in second. After Lipsey's first 200 he gained a second wind and began to will himself toward the front. Lipsey's effort eventually resulted in North Carolina obtaining first place in the exchange. Ceo Ways ran the anchor leg for the Tar Heels where he and Florida State's runner were neck and neck through most of the race. In the last 100 meters Ways was able to turn on the jets and heaved his way ahead of Florida State and narrowly edged a surging Pittsburgh team.
The 1600-meter relay team of Alowonle, Donyinah, Lipsey and Ways came in at 3:05.89, beating the second place team by 0.05 seconds and putting an exclamation mark on the meet's final event.
"This 4x4 team is really special. It's really special," North Carolina head coach Harlis Meaders said. "It's a young group, but they've been tested and that's what you really like to see. The same group ran in the indoor national championship and we took them down to the Florida Relays. They ran exceptionally well against college teams and pro teams. So when it came down to the ACC Championships and the final event here, those guys have no fear. We knew we could trust on them. We had no doubt that they would be there for us."
After finishing the second day of competition in fourth place with 23 points, the UNC men's team earned 87 points on day No. 2 and outscored all other teams on the day. North Carolina ended the meet in second place on the men's side behind Florida State by a score of 113 to 110. That's the best finish by the North Carolina men's squad since 1999.
Alowonle also talked about the team's performance and how close the team was to winning the conference meet.
"We have a really, really good team and you see heart all the way through," Alowonle said. "You don't just see it from the seniors. There are a lot of young guys, a lot of freshman out there carrying a lot of weight for the team and that's really inspirational."
Alowonle said the Tar Heels have a close team that cares about each other.
"It's not, 'I want to do well for myself.' it's, 'I want to do well for my team,'" he said. "A lot of times you don't see that in track because track is kind of an individual sport that is also collective. The new coaching staff here really brought that it's really not individual. Not everyone is going to have their best meet at a conference championship, and we saw that today, but as a whole we had a great meet. We really fought. That's something really hard to put into words. It's such a great feeling and I'm really proud of our guys."
-Patrick Johnson
Video of the 400 hurdles
Video recap of UNC's ACC Championships on GoHeels TV