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Ed Miliband's brilliant bravura performance this afternoon at the Labour Party Conference – seventy minutes without a note (beat that Cameron) – proves that the Labour Party is six months ahead of the schedule necessary to prepare for the next General Election.
Before then, the Labour Party needs to articulate the philosophical themes that will underpin the next Labour Government and crystallise those down to a (small) number of symbolic policy commitments.
The next General Election is in May 2015 – two and a half years away. The equivalent point before Labour's 1997 General Election landslide was the Labour Party Conference in 1994. That was the Party Conference when Tony Blair in his Leader's speech proposed that the content and wording of Clause Four be reviewed and reformulated for new times and New Labour.
The themes which underpinned Labour's 1997 election manifesto ("The future not the past"; "The many not the few" etc) were not fully articulated until the new Clause Four was approved in the Spring of 1995 – two years before the Election. And the policy commitments (The Pledge Card") were not finalised until July 1996 – ten months before the Election.
And today Ed Miliband set out the philosophical basis on which "One Nation Labour" will appeal to the electorate in 2015. The themes he set out today will resonate, not only with the Labour Party in the hall in Manchester and amongst Labour supporters across the country, but they will strike a chord amongst the rest of the public who can see how Cameron's Government is out-of-touch and leading the country further and further into an economic quagmire, whilst dividing a nation and a people who will only flourish when united.
Don't get too excited but the LibDem Conference sometimes passes halfway sensible motions.
Earlier today in fact the Conference called for a strengthening of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. In particular, the motion calls for the powers of the IPCC to cover explicitly the role of contractors to police services and their employees. Given the current debate about getting private firms to provide some police functions, this is an issue that must be addressed.
The motion also called for an end to the IPCC practice of allowing some investigations into alleged police malpractice to be investigated by the police themselves (subject to supervision by an IPCC Commissioner) and the motion called for the IPCC to be given the resources to employ enough of their own independent investigators to enable this to happen.
Strange then that this sensible proposal should come just after Nick Clegg has surrendered all LibDem influence over the Home Office by making it a LibDem-free zone following a reshuffle that left the Home Office without a single LibDem voice in the ministerial team.
UPDATE: I am reminded that Jeremy Browne is a LibDem and is also the new Minister for Crime Reduction. My only excuse is that I always thought he was a Tory …..
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what progress he makes in strengthening the IPCC over the next few months. I wish him well with that one.
I got through four Opposition Leaders in my time as Leader of Haringey Council. One subsequently stood unsuccessfully for the London Assembly, another became an Alderman of the City of London Corporation, and the third lapsed into obscurity as a junior LibDem minister in the Coalition government.
The fourth was Andrew Mitchell.After he stood down from Haringey Council, he went on to have a glittering career as a barrister, becoming a QC and head of his own Chambers. I understand he is now the leading legal expert on asset confiscation and forfeiture. He was an effective and challenging (from my point of view) Leader of the Opposition and could usually be relied on to highlight substantive policy issues and (painfully) any – and it did happen sometimes – weaknesses there might be in the argument I was putting forward.
He was also unfailingly courteous and polite.
From which you will gather he is not the same Andrew Mitchell as the new Government Chief Whip and star of PlebGate
However, it might have been easy to get confused.
And so – a little bird tells me – twenty years ago, Andrew "Pleb" Mitchell summoned Andrew "Haringey" Mitchell to see him in the House of Commons to tell him that the Conservative Party was too small for there to be two Andrew Mitchell's in it.
The solution was straightforward said Andrew "Pleb" Mitchell, you (ie Andrew "Haringey" Mitchell) must change your name to avoid this confusion.
So Pleb's arrogance was there even then. It is not something he has acquired with high office – he was always like that.
The Garter King of Arms is, as I am sure you know, the senior of the three English Kings of Arms. The office takes its name from the Order of the Garter. Henry V instituted the office of Garter in 1415 just before sailing for France.
My experience of his office is recounted here when he argued with me about the correct spelling of Haringey given the way it was done in the Domesday Book.
However, the College of Arms keeps itself up-to-date and in these straitened times is always on the look out for new sources of income.
A little bird tells me that he has written to all Chief Constables to remind them the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act abolishes police authorities and transfers their powers to elected Police and Crime Commissioners.
You may wonder why this is of concern to the Garter King of Arms (Chief Constables haave their own concerns about this).
The answer, of course, is straightforward: the Armorial Bearings used by most police forces on cap badges, letterheads, websites etc were granted to Police Authorities.
And, if Police Authorities disappear, the right to bear the Coat of Arms lapses with them.
This would potentially make the cap badges on police helmets illegal. I am sure many police officers – and certainly their Chief Constables – would find this a deeply discomforting situation.
Fortunately, the Garter King of Arms has a solution and says in his letter:
"The Kings of Arms think that it would be appropriate for a Royal License to be issued transferring the Armorial Bearings to the office of Chief Constable for use by the Constabulary."
And just in case elected Police and Crime Commissioners feel hurt he has a solution for them as well:
"In such cases, the Kings of Arms would also be prepared to grant a variation of the Shield alone to the office of Police and Crime Commissioners for each authority."
A wise compromise you may feel. However, such matters cannot be done on a shoe-string as Garter goes on to make clear:
"If you are interested in pursuing this I should be happy to give you particulars of the procedure and cost."
And please form an orderly* queue outside the College of Arms …..
*Any disorderly behaviour will be dealt with the City of London Police – as the College of Arms lies within their territory – and of course they are one of the few forces not affected by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act and will not have an elected Police and Crime Commissioner.
No doubt I will be told that I don't understand the nuances of American politics, but I can't help feeling that Tropical Storm Isaac's disruption of the Republican Party Convention at Tampa in Florida is not the problem for Mitt Romney's strategists that they are suggesting it is.
Conventional wisdom is it that a Presidential candidate – particularly one that is already securely nominated – gains a political boost from his Party's Convention and the TV exposure that it brings. In this case, the Republican Party was hoping to relaunch/repackage their Presidential candidate and demonstrate to/bamboozle an excited American electorate that Mitt Romney was Presidential in timbre, had the vision thing, and was an-all-round nice decent guy (oh and that his Mormonism is OK really).
Now that some of the Convention has already had to be cancelled because of Tropical Storm Isaac this plan is in disarray.
However, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party is also determined to use the Convention to write into the Party's platform their particularly weird mix of ideology, including such gems as:
This, of course, would be on top of Mitt Romney's own platform of massive tax cuts for the wealthiest and tax increases for other Americans (sounds familiar).
Maybe I am naive but wouldn't TV exposure of all this stuff strengthen the Democrats?
So perhaps Tropical Storm Isaac is actually a boon to the Republican Party and will in fact boost the chances of the rest of the world having to come to terms with President Romney in a few months time.
I have just returned from a powerful adaptation of Jack Mapanje's prison memoir "And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night" at the Africa Centre. The memoir tells the story of the arrest and imprisonment without charge of Jack Mapanje, an academic and poet, in the dying days of Hasting Banda's Malawi. The arrest, probably generated by academic jealousy, led to incarceration for 3 years, 7 months and 16 days and had a profound effect not only on Jack but on his family. His release followed a lengthy campaign by Amnesty International and PEN International.
The production presented by Bilimankhwe Arts (of which I am a trustee) has an impressive central performance by Misheck Mzumara as the poet, but the entire ensemble are highly effective – particularly in showing the interplay of the prisoners sharing a single cell and their relationship with their guards.
The play runs to 18th August and tickets can be obtained here.
The House of Lords, unlike the House of Commons, is still sitting and this afternoon Baroness Jan Royall, Leader of the Opposition, asked a Private Notice Question of the Leader of the House, Lord Strathclyde, about the position of the Trade Minister, Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint.
As the Daily Telegraph has pointed out, allegations that HSBC, while Lord Green was its Chairman, allowed money laundering on a huge scale to take place are now casting a cloud over his current role as a Trade Minister. Their report says:
"The US Senate has launched a coruscating attack on HSBC for its slapdash approach to money-laundering regulations. The bank could face a $1 billion fine.
According to Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, "the culture at HSBC was pervasively polluted for a long time." Just how polluted was revealed in the Senate report into the scandal. For example, between 2007 and 2008, HSBC's Mexican operations moved $7bn into the bank's US operations. According to the report, both Mexican and US authorities warned HSBC that the amount of money could only have reached such a level if it was tied to illegal narcotics proceeds."
The Government's answer boils down to saying that there is nothing that casts doubt on Lord Green's integrity and that there is no reason that he should be held responsible for everything that the organisation of which he was chairman was doing.
However, what was he doing as Chairman of the Bank during this time? If the Bank were warned by both the Mexican and US authorities that transactions of $7 billion were tied to the illegal drugs trade, shouldn't he have been told of the warnings. If he wasn't, why wasn't he and what sort of system of corporate governance was he presiding over if it was not felt that such warnings should be conveyed to the Board? Is $7 billion too small a sum for him to worry about? And if he was told, what did he do about it?
I tried unsuccessfully to get in and put a this question to the Leader of the House:
"How bad does the stench of money laundering have to be around its Trade Minister before it impacts on the reputation of the United Kingdom? And why – if his integrity is as great as we are told it is – are they so reluctant to have him come to the House and dispel that stench by setting the record straight?"
The BBC captures the full exchange here and the Hansard test is as follows:
Private Notice Question
3.07 pm
Tabled By
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the allegations about HSBC made by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the ability of Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint to fulfil his ministerial duties.
Paragraph 1.2 of the Ministerial Code, which sets out the responsibility of Ministers to Parliament, says that:
"Ministers should be as open as possible with Parliament and the public, refusing to provide information only when disclosure would not be in the public interest".
Given that obligation, will the Leader of the House ask the noble Lord, Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, to come to your Lordships' House to place on record what he knew and when about the matters investigated by the US Senate committee, including what steps he took to deal with them? Would such a move not give the noble Lord, Lord Green, the opportunity to dispel once and for all the questions being asked about his present ministerial role?
There is no urgency in this matter. The investigation started more than two years ago. The report in question was published two weeks ago. There was no evidence of personal wrongdoing of my noble friend; indeed, there was no personal criticism whatever of my noble friend. The investigation is ongoing. As for ministerial accountability, my noble friend Lord Green is accountable to this House—to Parliament—for the work he does as a Minister. However, many Ministers have had previous careers. No Minister needs to be accountable to Parliament for their previous career, only for what they are doing as a Minister.
"We … recommend that there should be a monthly question time dedicated to questions on House of Lords matters addressed to the Leader of the House".
Perhaps I may helpfully suggest that both today's Question and indeed the very important one raised last week by my noble friend Lord Barnett could be handled were the Leader to accept that simple, unanimous recommendation by a committee that was set up at his instigation. I urge him to act on that recommendation as soon as possible.
Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, is Leader of the House of Lords. This afternoon he lost his temper with the venerable Lord Joel Barnett. His asperity was in contrast to what is normally expected of the peer who is supposed to be Leader of the whole House and not just of his particular faction in the Government.
As you know, I am not one to gossip, but privately his colleagues are whispering that he is under stress. Downing Street has been questioning his performance and, in particular, his failure to deliver his not-so-merry band of Conservative peers in support of House of Lords reform. There are even rumours that he might be replaced in David Cameron's Government reshuffle – should it ever happen.
Moreover, so I am told, no less a personage – if such a thing were possible – than the Baroness Anelay of St Johns, the Government Chief Whip and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentleman-at-Arms, has let it be known that she is ready to take on the burden of the Leadership were it to fall on her shoulders. (It is not, of course, immediately apparent why Baroness Anelay – aka "The Steel Magnolia" – would have more success than the hapless – and grumpy – Lord Strathclyde in keeping the rebellious Tory peers in line.) This is all in private: publicly she says her only ambition is to play golf again at Woking Golf Club.
So Lord Strathclyde's extraordinary rebuke of Lord Joel Barnett (who first entered Parliament when Lord Strathclyde was four years old) is seen as a sign of stress and the only question on the lips of Tory peers is whether a summer holiday will be sufficient or whether an urgent course of anger management lessons is going to be necessary.
My attention has been drawn to a statement from the National Association of Retired Police Officers saying that many of their members could have been available to G4S as security staff for the Olympics but there has been no approach to their Association for help.
Eric Evans, the President of the National Association, has said:
' At a time when unemployment is so high and many police officers are retiring earlier than planned because of Government cut backs, it is difficult to understand how G4S have failed to recruit the required number of security staff. I am sure that many of those of our members, who have recently retired would have been glad of an opportunity to get some employment at the Olympic Games not only for the money but also to be involved in such a major 'lifetime' event. I am frankly very surprised that G4S have not sought our assistance in recruitment.'
He goes on to comment:
"It is however the case that we at the national office of NARPO have not at any stage been approached by G4S to assist in recruiting security staff for the Olympics and certainly have not received any memorandum from G4S this week or at any other time requesting such assistance."
How serious were G4S to get themselves out of the mess in which they have got themselves and why haven't the Home Office told them to use retired police officers in this way?
According to the BBC senior managers at G4S only realised "eight or nine days ago", that they could not provide enough security guards for the London Olympics.
The BBC says that the company's chief executive, Nick Buckles, told them that:
"problems in the recruitment and deployment process were only recently identified. …
the company accepted it had "underestimated the task of supplying staff to the Olympics".
"We deeply regret that… and we are deeply disappointed. It was a daunting task to supply that number of staff in a short time scale.
"I began to know it was going wrong eight or nine days ago… Basically we are recruiting a large number of people and they are all working through a process of interview, two or three different degrees of training, licensing and accreditation.
"It is only when you get closer to the Games, you realise that the number is not as high as you expect," Mr Buckles added."
This is staggering. I remember sitting in meetings three or four YEARS ago when the problems of recruiting sufficient accredited security guards were raised. It was foreseen then that, given the nature of the security industry, that it would be difficult to get enough suitable individuals to commit to the (comparatively short) Games period and have them trained and vetted in time.
In the intervening period I and many others raised the issue and heard reassurances that the security companies involved and in particular G4S were confident that they would have no difficulty managing the situation.
Now to be told that the senior people in G4S only woke up to the problem the week before last is staggering.
G4S is supposed to be the largest private security company in the world.
Logistics is supposed to be their business.
Quite clearly their management information systems leave a lot to be desired.
How could they have not seen this coming? If an organisation knows that it needs, say, 1000 security guards fully trained and vetted by a certain date, if it knows how long the recruitment, training and vetting are likely to take, and if it has its world-wide and UK experience to tell them how many recruits will drop out or turn out not to be suitable, it is not a difficult or complex task to know when you need to start the process. And that time was not eight or nine days ago.
Mr Buckles has also said that he cannot guarantee all the security staff will speak fluent English. Now that's a surprise too.
So what's the slogan going to be:
"Come to the London Olympics and you'll be bossed around in the queue to get into the venue by some ill-trained half-vetted lout but – if you are lucky and not English speaking – there is just a chance he will speak your language."
G4S will charge Olympic organisers Locog £280m, but (are we supposed to feel sorry for them?) they say they will lose up to £50m on the contract.


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The Monster Handbook
1.1 About Monsters, 1.2 Reading the Guide
2. Monster Roles
2.1 Primary Roles
2.2 Secondary Roles
3. Player Tactics
3.1 Tactics by Class
3.2 Countermeasures (content pending)
4. Specific Information
4.1 Origins, 4.2 Types, 4.3 Keywords (all contents pending)
4.4 Statistics
5. Becoming a Killer DM
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6. Appendix
1. Further Readings, 2. Guide Status, 3. Remarks
Know your enemy to win a hundred battles.
Don't and die fighting among yourselves.
1.1 About Monsters
Virtually all the efforts on the board are spent on optimising the player character - mostly individual characters, but sometimes groups or even the rare thread considering actual in-play tactics. But so far there hasn't been a single instance talking about the enemy: Monsters !
Why this is important, you might ask ? To quote no less than the great Sun Tzu: "If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss."
Monsters - or mobs, as I call them - are in their in their bulk as diverse as the player characters. So putting all information about them into one guide seems like a futile effort. But it's not as dire as it seems - individual mobs are, barring the usual exceptions, quite straight forward. Furthermore they as well fall into roles like player classes, but in fact behave much more the same within their given role than player characters.
So getting back to the original point, learning about the strenghts and weaknesses of mobs and how player roles and classes relate to mob roles can give us very valuable insight - both on where to cover holes or improve stengths in our builds, as well as how to put that into practise to make encounters run as smooth as possible.
1.2 Reading the Guide
Chapter #2 starts the guide by analysing primary and secondary roles of mobs, both noting their specialities as well as discussing how to counters them. A rated assessment of this is provided for the primary roles as well, while it is skipped for the secondaries and these only modify the primary roles.
Chapter #3 first provides a well proven way how to approach each encounter, and then discusses the individual strength and weaknesses of each player role (and class) and how to put it to optimal use. Afterwards countermeasures to particular and recurring mob traits are discussed.
Chapter #4 takes a closer look at similarties of mobs not based on role but theme, which helps to educate what to expect as well as how to prepare the best for particular encounters. At last selected statistics about mobs are provided to assist optimising character build choices.
Chapter #5 will discuss how a DM can plan and play interesting, diverse and yet challenging encounter for the players within the overall framework of the system.
Chapter #6 closes the guide as appendix by providing resources for further reading, as well as references and a few organisational and personal remarks.
Rating System
I use the rating system common to this board. Keep in mind, though, that I don't rate character choices, but tactical options and performances, so pay attention to the individual context.
Horrible: The rock bottom in the field.
Weak: Not good, but it can work.
Average: Pretty much the baseline.
Strong: Solid and well above the norm.
Great: It doesn't get better than this.


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You speak French now as well? Full on know your way to a guys heart. I've hit this dilemma wherein I'm not entirely sure if you're being serious with me right now. Like, I'm hoping that the reference to knitting was just purely an example. But if not I guess we could always work on turning knitting into a cool thing. Then again, the whole 'I'm better than you' thing is kind of over-rated now anyway, like, lets be real, who really gives a shit if someone has a few more contacts in the phone book or whatever — you know half of them have never been dialed.
Oh no, I don't knit… that would just be? Yeah… Okay, maybe I do knit… just a teensy bit. But my mom is a designs clothing so I've picked it up from her—upon other things. I may have got the wretched knitting hobby from her, right? But she's also though one who enlightened me with a few French phrases. Which apparently is the way to your heart—or a guys heart, I mean. You said guys, not your heart! Not that I wouldn't…
I don't know, I quite like the sound of 'Jess cool' to be honest. S'the sorta thing I can go writing on my college applications when they ask what qualifications I have, it's a sure fire way for my acceptance. Who even needs stuff like maths and English anyway? Might even be enough for me to become a shrink, you never know.
It's all good, I can live with being the cool mum, it's a slight fraction better than being the embarrassing dad with the sixty's dance moves and receding hairline.
Au contraire, my kind of cool is the kind that knits on the weekends and that's way less accepted than just your standard cool—you know, really it's not even in the same league. Not that it wasn't sweet of you to say, or anything, gosh. I'm flattered you think 'Jess cool' could get you into college even if you're only joking. Well, I'll tell ya one thing's for sure, your hair line isn't receding—I don't think it ever will, you have a nice head of hair, not to sound forward or anything.
But I'm not sure of your dance moves. So you're like, one foot in, one foot out as far as that goes for being an embarrassing dad.
Psht, it makes me so cool like. I'm hip and down with the kids my age, 'waddup' and shit… yeah, no. But, if that's the case, I reckon I'd make a kick-ass psychiatrist someday. Making myself seem more socially awkward than anyone else just to make someone else feel that slightest bit better than themselves. Does it count if I don't feel embarrassed by my actions though?
Well, I'm not what you'd consider 'hip' either… at all. So even me saying I think you're cool just means you're, like, 'Jess cool' which isn't really cool because… I am… not cool. A psychiatrist with a twist, you should really take that on. Really put your punchlines to the test there. It does count for the other person even if you don't think you're embarrassing. For instance, you know, "cool moms" never think they're being embarrassing, but we both know they are 95% of the time. It doesn't matter that mom 'thinks' she's cool, her kid still gets embarrassed either way. Oh my God. I'm sorry—I'm so sorry! Oh I didn't mean to call you a cool mom which I totally just did, sorry.
Toy Story is life. The three little green aliens were my favorites.
The three little green aliens scared the bajesus out of me!
I think most of my issues stem from the fact that I fall asleep watching Aziz Ansari comedy specials. My mind seems to think it's socially acceptable to break out some of his punchlines in awkward situations and they tend to only make things more awkward for me. Apparently you shouldn't say 'and I'll suck dick for cookies' in the earshot of skeevy looking men.
That's so brave of you, though. I would never do that—or anything that could potentially go wrong, really. When I'm in awkward situations I usually just laugh a lot and blush which is more embarrassing than it sounds. Or I tend to ramble a lot and that's worse. No offense to you or anything, but you make me feel better about myself. Pretty awkward to just blurt an Aziz Ansari punchline.
iPhones are great, but horrible with their battery life. And those cases that recharge the phone are expensive and ugly as hell, so I would never use those. That's why I just bring my charger everywhere I go and pray that there's on outlet. Your name's cool, it reminds me from Jessie from Toy Story, and I'm pretty sure everyone likes Toy Story, so.
Right? They're so bulky? What an eyesore. Wow, I'm totally doing that from now on. It's like, at some point, you're gonna find an outlet anyway, right? Good idea. Toy Story was in my top 5 as a kid, actually.
You could've just kicked him in the balls. I mean, that's probably what I would've done. And don't cabs have numbers that you can call so you can get them to come to you? Next time, try that. I'm Chantel.
Ugh, but, while, I'm mad at him for acting so un-mannered, I could still never just do that to someone—well, I take that back. If someone hurt my mom, I would. Actually, yeah. I would knee him where it hurts. Oh, that'd be lovely if my phone weren't dead, stupid iphones die so darn fast. Your name is pretty, I envy it. Mine is super boring. And my mom is a fashion designer so you think I'd be named Anastasia or something fabulous, right?
Oh, you're no fun. I could whistle, yup, but it sounds like a bird dying. So, I don't think that would be much help.
Might as well just make friends with that homeless man over there. I don't see myself catching a cab anytime soon. Thanks for your help, though, really.


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It's been awhile since I updated this blog! Here's one I stumbled upon that I forgot I had written for my friend, director Davin Black. Knowing I'm a huge comic book fan, Davin tasked me with writing something Kevin Smith appropriate. My first jotted down idea went something to the effect "Kevin gets sucked into a movie camera that transports him to a "Yellow Submarine" type universe that floats him through view askew icons & North American cities ending up Toronto - re: The Beatles Yellow Submarine & Monty Python cartoons". The animators did a great job in my humble opinion. This was for an event called "Kevin Smith - Live from behind". I never did get to see it.
Another fun little factoid is the music playing is a Saint Alvia demo called "Whiskey Business". A different version ended up on Saint Alvia's album "Static Psalms". B


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Macro / Re: Flower macros« on: October 18, 2014, 08:15:10 AM »
Musky Caladenia, with dew. Twin flower heads, which happen on occasion.
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Very nice, and very odd poseJust no bird boudoir shots.Sounds like a challenge!Boudoir challenge accepted !
LOL! You captured their special moment.
Watching some California Quail make their way across a group of boulders when this happened. Do they even need wings?
Northern Lights from Hope, AK last night!Very nice LOALTD.
Wow, very nice climber. What gear/settings did you use?Milky Way
I really like your shot climber. Well done.
Here is another one from the same spot.
1 moreBeaut B/W Cinto. I love a good B/W image
Very nice Northbird. I find macro work in (or after) rain to be most rewarding. The drops can add such an extra dimension to the images.
Lilac Water Droplet by Tony Varela Photography, on Flickr
I can just add to what Macguyver is saying. I have the Zeiss 15mm and 21mm and they are both phenomenal lens, especially the 15mm, which I totally fell in love with it this summer. But the 16-35 f4L IS is a lot more versatile and the IQ is very impressive. Be also aware that the Zeiss 15mm has a 95mm filter size, so filters are not exactly cheap.+1. I have the 15mm and have used the 21mm. The 21mm I hired a number of times, to get a feel of it (IQ is probably slightly better than the 15mm). But, I wanted something wider at f2.8, so I skipped the 18mm and bought the 15mm. Not a lens I use much, but, when you need something in that realm, it's magic.
Thanks IslanderMV.Spent a day at the Western Treatment Plant (near Melbourne, Australia). It's essentially a place where sewage from Melbourne is treated before being discharged into the bay. But the good quality of water, after treatment, and winding it's way through a series of ponds and lakes means the bird life is abundant. Plus, it's Spring down here, so, everything from raptors to waders to small birds.Great birds, well shot !


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As TMZ first reported, Taylor was on the property where Russell committed suicide when his body was discovered, however she left before the Coroner arrived. The Coroner's office has contacted Taylor about an interview, but they have not heard back from her.
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Looks like The Real Housewives series has officially "jumped the shark". When Bravo had the NY reunion show I stopped watching. Neil Patrick Harres said every single one of them should be fired. I also thought this series has got to go. All they do is bitch steal use manipulate and hawk junk products like an info commercial. Get rid of Bethany as well. What a self righteous brat.
Ask Andy..he'll know..go to the show tape!!
Perhaps Taylor didn't have to wait for the Coroner. If she answered all the important questions to the Police, then the Police waited for the Coroner. I do not think she had anything to do with his dying. Russell just couldn't cope with the world anymore. People do not think of others when they are thinking about dying at their own hands, but do send out messages someway of their intentions. Surely someone close to him saw his unhappiness.
I bet she was secretly hoping he would, thats the only way she could stay on the show. She helped push him into financial ruin, throwing a $50,000 bday party for a 5yr. old. Then she was wondering why he wasn't having fun the whole time! He was probably wondering how he was going to pay for it. The ugly fish faced BeeOtch.
TMZ would you please date these photos! If she's smiling after the suicide of her child's father, I want to slap her!
Is she too busy with book deals to call the coroner back? I haven't heard anything about a suicide note. If he did write one hopefully he put it in his pocket so the famewhore or Bravo's secret elves didn't get to it first.
Imagine what it will be like for Kennedy having to process this crap as she matures?
The women on that show are all one hot mess. There's no moving on from here. End this show!
No one is mentioning the fact that Taylor is being sued personally for misappropriation of funds (i.e stealing investor money) to fund her lavish lifestyle. Russell was also included in the suit. He had to set up false deals and steal so she could throw 50K birthday parties for her 4 year old. When the money ran she ran out...crazy ass gold digging b**ch.


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Sylvia Plath's art of the visual
I must admit that in the past, I've fancied
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an award-winning book of poems reflecting on his life with her. My English
teacher took advantage of all the accompanying Plath/Hughes retrospectives in the newspapers to introduce us to their story, and
to her work.
Like a lot of young women both before
and since, I was quickly drawn in to the story of this pretty, intense,
intelligent, angry girl, who struggled to reconcile her temper, her
creative drive, and her sexual desires with her wish to fit in with
the Doris Day–like female role models of the 1950s, as well as
her genuine desire to succeed as mother and homemaker. I got hold of
her collected letters, I read her journals in the library, I got a friend
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think he could do it justice.
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Including sketches, paintings and photographs,
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at the age of 20.
The book is on my wish list, but
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On their blotter of fog the trees
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Remember when BabyFace used to do good music? Remember when he wrote all those popular songs and produced all those great albums back in the 90′s? Remember when New Jack Swing dominated the musical landscape?!?
Well, apparently, BabyFace doesn't remember any of it because he turned his back on us NJS-lovers. By the mid-90′s, he switched to a more acoustic guitar sound for his album, "The Day", and did away with the R&B sound that HE made so popular and it pretty much spelled the death of New Jack Swing (which he is almost solely responsible for).
All the success that he had disappeared by the 2000′s and it's safe to say that NOBODY (including myself) remembers the last time that he had a big hit or produced a big hit. For the record, I have heard and listened to his last three records and they…all…SUCK.
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And some Allitnil's handy, just in case.
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Since ESA depends on it's member states for it's funding and the funding is given on the basis of the political objectives of the states, ESA it by it's nature a political one and always has been. But that does not exclude being a technical one as well, which is it, and quite deeply.
The "rich old white men" are in fact the european space industry, which ESA supports and promotes as one of it's primary functions.
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Very little that Gaia observes is truly discarded -- just the main astrometric system needs a mix of stable, well behaved stars and very distant quasars, that could be between 10% and 50% of the objects detected. There will be an attempt to classify objects -- which you need to do in order to grab the quasars for the astrometric system
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Well, Gaia won't ever observe the Moon, nor Venus and Mercury which are always on the sun-ward side of the solar-shield. Jupiter is so bright that it really messes with the detectors when it transits the focal plane, but it should be possible to do some interesting general-relativity experiments with the light-bending effects of Jupiter's mass for stars that are close (not not too close) to Jupiter when Gaia observes near it.
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I think a necessary step is to make sure that there is a general understanding that this is a problem -- here we must not merely preach to the choir but reach a wider and maybe technically illiterate audience) Who are we dealing with
1. People who willingly forgo their right to privacy (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
2. People who are ignorant their privacy rights are not respected (and therefore do not understand the issue at hand)
3. People who are aware that their privacy rights are not respected but wish to interact with 1) and 2) and therefore give up some or all of their privacy rights (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
4. People who will protect their privacy rights at the cost of limiting their ability to interact with at least those in 1) and 2) (and therefore understand the issue at hand)
We cannot save those in category 1), they know the risks and accept the "terms and conditions" of using the internet with public and private data mining/surveillance in place. These people are lost to the Dark Side.
People in category 2) need education on what the consequences of their actions are, and may then resolve into one of the other groups.
People in category 3) should accept that their permissiveness strengthens the hand of the NSA et al. If a practical alternative solution is presented they will probably help to bring people in category 2 away from the Dark Side.
People in category 4) are probably a small population already using Tor, Freenet, PGP, etc. They can help by adopting new technologies that do not compromise (too much) their desire for privacy.
New rating: the Snyder scale (384 comments)
One point for each beat present, with a bonus point for being in the right place
Then we can easily tell how generic the structure is...
See also News Wipe (175 comments)
Charlie Brooker did a longer series (NewsWipe) on the problems of reporting in the 24h rolling news world and the overall decline of TV news journalism over the years; check them out on YouTube.
It's all about the payload (188 comments)
Ariane 5 is and continues to be a success but the premise on which Ariane 5 was built -- heavy payloads -- is a small and shrinking market segment. Ariane 5 can launch two payloads, but matching payloads -- the right orbital configuration and mass constraints -- is not easy.
Arianespace hedged their bets by bringing this Soyuz launchers over to CSG with a new (ESA-funded) launchpad at Sinnamari. The much smaller Vega rocket is way off in the distance. The reasoning for Ariane 6 (not having to pay the Russians, as far as I can work out) is sound enough, but the politics (money for France for A6 vs money for Germany for revised A5) is getting in the way.
April Fools again so soon? (769 comments)
Anyhoo - the more people on _both_ sides of the argument who actually look at the data rather than just attack the conclusions, the better for everybody concerned.
Well, of course... (667 comments)
Elrond: We cannot use the DCMA. That we now know too well. It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil.
Good for them... (137 comments)
Extremadura is one of the poorer regions of Spain and with the general funding squeeze trying to get the public deficit under control, I reckon they have a lot to gain from this.
LFG Pirate Den 2/5 need healer (318 comments)
Or give the pirates WoW subs. They'll be too busy with the rep grind to do anything else
Re:Router filters (163 comments)
You'd need to update the list very frequently to keep it up to date, and even then, who's going to compile it?
I, for the good of humanity, volunteer for this strenuous task. Or at least for the good sites anyway.
Copyright cuts both ways (179 comments)
While we desperately need some sanity injected into the system after the Digital Britain Bill, I suspect this is going to really favour big-media's use of our copyrighted work.
"He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner's permission."
There must be plenty of companies drooling at the idea of smash and grab raids on flickr accounts and GPL'd software.
Re:Knowledge systems are not wisdom systems (89 comments)
Which is exactly why you will never see anything more than an expert system in space. There is no way any space agency is going to punt hundreds of millions or euros/dollars/pounds into space without a full understanding of the decision tree in the spacecraft control loop. It is hard enough at the moment without introducing outliers into the system.
Re:What about the artists? (319 comments)
Indeed. I'm not sure what the industry could do in this case. It would be up to the theatre owner to contact the musicians - which they can choose not to do. I imagine the composed would get a cut if electronic score has to be licensed for public performance (it would be slightly strange for this not to be the case).
It might be hard to find musicians later though; I'm not sure many musicians make a full time career out of this sort of work, but it might be just be the last straw - god knows I've seen enough string quartets busking these days and that can't be much of a money spinner.
All in all, it sucks to be a musician these days - composing, recording or performing seems to be a talent which is rather unappreciated (to the extent that anybody is willing to pay for what a musician produces).
Re:Team up with the Daily Show! (489 comments)
Satire and journalism are not necessarily incompatible. Private Eye has mixed both for years although the loss of Paul Foot undoutably was a big loss to them.
Re:Just Goldstone is Being Worked On? (66 comments)
Robledo (Madrid) was done a few years back - they had to replace the bearings IIRC. In fact it was largely due to the work on DSS63 at Robledo that NASA started to look at the DSS14.
Re:You forgot the 800lb Gorilla. (342 comments)
I love how 'mercenaries' has been replaced by 'private contractors' in the minds of people, it's just really scary how Orwell knew the workings of language.


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only works in safari, not in explorer as far as i can see…
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well, who uses explorer anyway? ;-) Now that I'm here: For those who writes journals blogs etc. MacJournal is an extended TextEdit. Very cool, take a look!
Additionally, MacJournal supports PDF viewing in-line as well. So you can mix rtf files, images, MS Word docs (!), and PDFs all in one journal, all by dragging and dropping. And it's all stored in the MacJournal database.
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It also doesn't work in OmniWeb 4.5. You get the styled text but no images, links, frames, etc. This is pretty much a Safari-only hint so far.
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Yes, I concede I only tested this hint in Safari -- I didn't realize I hadn't mentioned Safari in the hint. Too bad it doesn't work in other browsers, but it is a nice perk and significant improvement over Jaguar.
For those who really need this functionality, a switch to Safari (if they aren't already using it) seems necessary. I wonder what percentage of Mac OS X users do not use Safari? I'd guess a sizable majority do use Safari, but actual data (as opposed to a whole bunch of individual anecdotes) would be interesting. Rob, do you have access stats by browser and platform for MOXH?
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I use OmniWeb because it is pretty much Safari with more options. It uses the same rendering engine as Safari and has much better filters, cookie handling, bookmarks, browser versioning, forms handling, etc. Safari does a few tricks better too, such as tabs and all. It all comes down to preferences but OmniWeb definitely gives Safari a run for it's money.
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OmniWeb gives Safari a run for its money!!!!
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You only get nagged once in a while with OmniWeb if you don't register it. The registration nag is actually kinda funny too, I used to enjoy seeing it actually.
Looking for help with an applescript for this...
Since this is about as close as we're going to get to the scrapbook function found in IE (saving whole web pages in one file), I've been trying to automate this with an applescript.
Unfortunately, I don't know diddly about scripting and could use some help.
Here's what I have so far:
Now, obviously, this does not quite work as intended. It does select the contents of the page in Safari, copies and then pastes it into a new document in TextEdit.
What I'd like it to do is this: After the paste into TextEdit, automatically have the file named after the window in Safari and saved in a specific folder (for example, "~/Users/MyName/Documents/Web Snapshots/"
At this point, I give up. But I would love to use this while in Safari to archive articles without any fuss. Can anybody lend a hand with this little project?
I also thought others might be interested in using this, too -- once it's finished!
Thanks for your time.
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What is it like being not just a psychiatrist, but also the parent of a star athlete who loses star status?
What happens to professional boxers when their careers are on the decline?
These two questions about losing the spotlight in the sports world will be addressed at a symposium at APA's 2004 annual meeting in New York City next month. The symposium, titled "Contemporary Issues in Sport Psychiatry," will take place on Tuesday, May 4, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Javits Center, room 1E14, Level 1.
The symposium will be chaired by Ronald Kamm, M.D., president of the International Society for Sport Psychiatry, headquartered in New York City.
When he was in high school, Alec Baker was a goalie for an elite junior hockey team —a "star." Then he experienced an injury and lost his star standing. What this experience did to his identity and to that of his parents will be discussed at the symposium not just by Alec, but by his parents, Howard Baker, M.D., a psychiatrist, and Maggie Baker, Ph.D., a psychologist. Tom Newark, M.D., a sport psychiatrist who works with adolescents, will also comment on the subject.
Gerry Cooney, who stepped into the ring with the likes of Ron Lyle, Jimmy Young, Ken Norton, Michael Spinks, and George Foreman, founded FIST (Fighters' Initiative for Support and Training) in 1998.
"Career termination is really traumatic for most athletes, but even more so for boxers," Kamm explained in an interview with Psychiatric News. "They live in a very insular world. Often they are encouraged to drop out of high school by their managers and promoters, and they do nothing but train in the gym and relate to other boxers. Toward the end of their career, they don't have any other skills, so they stay in boxing too long, and they become opponents or sparring partners, and that is really when the brain damage occurs. So what we're doing with FIST is giving them an alternative. When their skills are starting to erode, we're helping them with vocational placement, career-termination counseling, and medical evaluations."
Other persons on the FIST team, notably its president, Joe Sano, will add their observations.
Stacy Robinson, formerly a wide receiver for the New York Giants and currently director of player development for the National Football League (NFL), will be talking about approaches the NFL uses to try to keep athletes out of trouble. Eric Norse, M.D., a sport psychiatrist who works with teams in the Baltimore area on issues such as violence and drug abuse, will put Robinson's comments into a sport psychiatry perspective.
There are various reasons why psychiatrists who are not directly involved in sports should attend this symposium, Kamm continued—for example, professional athletes such as Kobe Bryant are getting into legal trouble, the issue of career termination occurs in all sports, and many psychiatric patients engage in sports.
Kamm, in fact, would like to see more psychiatrists become engaged in sports medicine (Psychiatric News, April 4, 2003). "Psychiatrists bring something to the table that sport psychologists don't have," he explained. "Being more adept with the biopsychosocial model, we can diagnose underlying disorders and treat them with psychotherapy and medication, as well as using the cognitive-behavioral techniques of the sports psychologists. We are the specialists who most naturally interface with other medical personnel in the care of athletes—pediatricians, orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, and sports medicine specialists."
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Despite playing one of their worst games in weeks, the Toronto Raptors only lost by seven points in game 1 against the Brooklyn Nets, and had their chances to win the game. If Dwane Casey and the Raptors coaching staff are able to settle the team down and prepare them for game 2, the Raptors have a good chance at evening the series.
As its first order of business to secure a game 2 victory, Toronto needs to take advantage of their home crowd. In their first playoff game since the 2007-08 season, nerves seemed to get the best of some Raptor players, as Brooklyn jumped out to an early 25-13 lead. Being down such a large deficit early in the game removes the crowd from the game.
If the Raptors get out to a fast start, the momentum of the electric Air Canada Centre crowd might just be enough to carry Toronto throughout the game. Raptor fans have been waiting a long time for a playoff series; they want to cheer and bang thunder sticks for as long as they can, as often as they can.
DeMar DeRozan will need to have a better game for the Raptors to come away with a victory in game 2. This task doesn't just fall on the shoulders of DeRozan. He will need his teammates to set good screens for him to get open, as well as being ready to knock down open shots when DeRozan is double- or triple-teamed.
The performance of the two sophomore starters for the Raptors will be critical in game 2. In game 1 Jonas Valanciunas played a solid game, scoring 17 points and grabbing a franchise playoff record 18 rebounds. The Raptors should look to continue their success in the post as Valanciunas presents a match up problem for Kevin Garnett. Terrence Ross, on the other hand, struggled to find any rhythm in game 1 after picking up three early fouls in the first half.
With all the trash talking in the media going on between these two teams, the Raptors do not want to provide the Nets with more material by heading into Brooklyn trailing 2-0. If the Raptors are able to get over their playoff nerves and cut down on turnovers, they should be able to head to Brooklyn with the series tied at one.