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Casting "1972 And Beyond," a short (approximately 20-minute), dialogue-driven film. Synopsis: The film is set in the year 1972. A press conference is called, and a team of journalists, including veteran reporter Gladwin Hill, conduct interviews with some of the big personalities of the era, from the incredible to the ...yesterday
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Casting "Brown," a USC short student thesis film. Synopsis: Two childhood friends driven apart by racism in rural 1960s Alabama meet again in 2015 as the result of police brutality.Wednesday
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Casting "La Sangre en Nuestras Venas" ("The Blood in Our Veins"), a short film. Synopsis: Family, life, death, and loneliness are the forefront themes of the film. Daniel is celebrating his 21st birthday with his mother and sister. They arrange a special hospital visit for his mother who has been ...Wednesday
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It's been two weeks since the cars died, and we're walking out. The bombs have shorted out every electrical circuit in North America, as far as we know. Yellow-brown clouds blot out the sun, and I've never been so cold. My family is here with me in the Sierra Nevada, Susan and our newly adult children, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.
It goes without saying that I'm not expecting anything good to happen, so it doesn't make me happy when I hear a light airplane approaching. We're walking a deer trail that parallels the interstate. The plane is on us very quickly, and I motion for Susan and the kids to get under cover. We run into the pines. We press ourselves against the trees and look up. It's been two weeks since we've heard anything in the sky except the occasional bomber, but this little bird is hanging from its prop and flaps, just above stall speed at tree-scraping altitude. It doesn't fly directly overhead, but I catch a glimpse of painted aluminum above the pines. The plane makes a shallow turn and flies parallel to the interstate. I feel the pressure of searching eyes. When the pilot adds power to hold a sharper turn, we run uphill for better cover.
We get into a thicker stand of trees and form our four-person perimeter. It's a sloppy diamond formation but it allows us to cover the highway with three guns. Susan gives me a flat look. Her lips are moving, and at first I think she's trying to tell me something, but then I see that she's praying, and I wonder if she knows it.
Our son, Scotty, is prone with his scoped .22. God help him, the boy looks like he can't wait to shoot somebody. Our eldest, Melanie, is farthest from the interstate. She refuses to carry a weapon but I'm grateful that she still more or less follows my orders, no matter how it must gall her.
The Cessna drags itself over the freeway. The hum of its engine grows more businesslike, more attentive, and it rises and circles like a carrion bird. The pilot drops something. I watch the lumpy gleam of a bubble-wrapped package falling from the sky. There can't be anything half-assed about it. It's either something very good or something very bad. I watch its flawed shape pass through the trees and into God's nature like a gift or a curse. I'm a naturally pessimistic bastard, and my pessimism has stood me well as of late, so I motion for Susan and the kids to put their heads down. The ground is matted with moldy pine needles. I listen to the buffeting sound of my breath pushing against the offal of trees. Time passes and there isn't an explosion. It isn't an improvised bomb at all and I hear people cheering, the voices of men, women, and children.
Another group is traveling the interstate. They're on foot, and we've been trailing them for most of the day. It's a group of a dozen armed adults and seven children. I've been watching them through my binoculars, choosing safe vantage points and trying to figure them out. The kids in the group are elementary school–aged, and the adults are well beyond their middle years. I think they're grandparents walking with their grandchildren because it's the way of the world, in hostile places, to thin out the connecting population of young adults.
They're herding a handful of cattle and a half dozen sheep. The adults dote on the children, giving them rides on their stiff shoulders and carting them in the wheelbarrows they use to carry their supplies, but I can't trust them yet. No matter how badly I want to place my family into the relative safety of a larger group, we've only been following and watching to see what they're all about.
I don't admit it to Susan, but I'm also using the group to clear the road ahead of us. If there's any heat to be taken, it will fall on them. They're down below us now. I can't see them, but I imagine they're waving and dancing at the prospect of salvation, or at least a meal. For a few seconds I think maybe I've gotten it wrong. Maybe they're really not in somebody's crosshairs. Maybe the bad feeling I have now is the result of my weakness for melodrama, or something I ate, or a lifetime spent looking through a half-empty glass. Maybe the airplane is actually a Civil Air Patrol bird, out trying to help people. Maybe Good Samaritans are still active in the world and maybe they're doing their good works in this very time and place, and soon they'll be dropping fresh steaks and cold beer and apple pie and linen napkins to everyone they see.
Yeah. And when the shooting starts, it's the loud popcorn sound of rapid fire from multiple weapons. I flinch and try to sink into the earth, then I turn to check Susan and the kids. They're okay; the rounds aren't being directed at us, and I let my breath out. I'm relieved that we aren't targets. I'm almost happy, but it has to be a slaughter down there, and my relief dissolves into the chamber of guilt that's been burning in my guts since this fun-time began.
The ambushers are armed with 5.56 rifles. I know the sound well, from my Marine Corps days. Most of the rifles are firing three-round bursts, and that means they're probably modern M-16s or M-4s. And the fighting seems far too one-sided. The people on the road are slow to respond. It's an impossibly long five seconds before they open up with their shotguns, and they only get off a few rounds before their return fire falls silent.
We wriggle and burrow into matted pine needles. Echoes of gunfire roll past us and into the fingers and stubs of mountain canyons. My bladder feels impossibly full, though I haven't had anything to drink since first light. I can't see any movement, but my thumb reaches out to unsafe my rifle. My breath condenses around my head, and the ground steals my body heat. Exposed patches of earth are red with iron oxide, and wailing voices rise behind the gunshots, and my family is here with me, all of us on the brink of a mass murder, and I want to scream.
The firing winds down as the ambushers reload. A child calls twice for its mother, the last call a question, and a fusillade of fresh shots is the reply. Our peacenik daughter, Melanie, has to be eating her guts out. She keeps her head down and lets it happen, but she curses into the musty earth, and it's as good a thing to do as any.
High misses and ricochets snap and crack into the pines on the opposite ridgeline. Twigs and cones and showers of needles fall in their wakes. We hug the ground and wait. I keep my head turned, cheek to dirt, so I can watch the children. I force myself to look into their eyes. I watch to see what the sounds of slaughter are doing to them. I hate myself for it, but I watch to see if the message is getting through: Don't walk the road. Trust no one. Be ready, always, to dive into cover. Be ready to put rounds on target, RIGHT AWAY, and for the love of Christ listen to your old man.
Susan has always been a good mother, and she pushes her riot gun in the general direction of the killing. She watches the world over a brass sighting bead. I have no idea what this is doing to her.
Not ten feet away, Scotty holds himself tightly. He moves like a hunting reptile, every movement deliberate and barely perceptible, scanning in the direction of the killing zone through his 4-power scope. I don't think he can see anything through the trees. His Ruger .22 is a short-range weapon, at best, but he's locked onto the sounds of killing. His hands are rock steady, and I'm proud and sad, both. His sister, Melanie, is still cursing without sound. She curls into a ball and grinds the back of her head against the bark of a pine, and if I thought it would do any good, I'd join her.
The firing slows but it doesn't stop. I can't keep my hands under control. I squeeze the forearm of my AR-15 hard enough to make the fiberglass creak beneath my fingers. I have to force myself to relax. I quit smoking twenty years ago, but I get a craving for a Marlboro red. I want to pull smoke into my lungs to calm myself and to occupy my hands, if not my mind, but there's more to it than that. I want to somehow show my solidarity for the people not a quarter-mile away who walked into an ambush. I want to wish them well but I also want to let them know that, nothing personal, we're sitting this one out.
It's a stupid thing to be thinking. I've had no shortage of stupid thoughts since this started. I hold tightly to the ground as the cries turn to moans behind the gunfire. Then a woman's scream rises above the others. Her scream contains grief and outrage and hatred and I know she's fighting back. Every person in the history of the world who ever made a sound like that was fighting back. A shotgun speaks up, and I can't tell the good cries from the bad, but I wish the woman well. I wish her wild success in her wild pain, but I'm selfish, too, because my family is here, and I hope she takes a dozen of the goons with her.
The firing becomes sporadic, high-velocity bullets smacking into soft targets, passing through and whacking the road. There isn't any more outgoing fire from the victims, nor so much as a hope for it. And then the firing goes on for far too long, and there's no doubt in my mind that it's unnecessary shooting. It's target practice now, a ballistic maiming of the dead.
I want to signal my family, tell them to hold very still, but I'd have to move to do it. The ambushers are hot to kill, and they'll be looking to shoot anything that moves. I try to tune out the shooting and pay attention to our close-in perimeter. I hear footsteps. Someone creeps out of the woods and moves downhill toward the fight. I get a glimpse of a man working his way through the trees. I put my rifle on him, but he passes out of my field of fire. I'm guessing it's one of the killers. Their top cover. Their sniper or ground spotter.
I take a breath and lift my head. I don't think he saw us. My heartbeat seems to be bouncing me off the ground. I try to get my breathing under control. I hear a floundering sound behind me. I turn to face it, the front sight of my rifle coming around slowly, too slowly, and it takes me a full second to realize there isn't an immediate threat. I take another breath and let it dribble back out of my new, old-man lungs. The shooting tapers off. A few random finishing shots and then it's over, but for the whooping and looting.
I stifle a cough. I'd sell my soul for a drink, but we don't have any booze. The pine needles beneath us are damp and rotted. We're stretched out on our bellies in perfect insect habitat. I hear whispered curses from Scott and Melanie, and a muted smacking as they slap at their clothes. They roll and writhe on the forest floor. Back before the world went mean, I might've found words to distract them from the revulsion of feeling vermin on skin.
The airplane straightens from its orbit and climbs and flies due south until I can hear only an occasional throb from its engine. I stand and lead us farther uphill. I find a place where half-buried boulders line the forest floor. It's not a bad place to set up for a defensive fight, if it comes to it.
Susan's face is set and pale, but her eyes are green fire. She's very angry. I want to touch her hand. I want to hold her, but she moves away and tells the kids to strip off their packs and clothes. Her voice is as tight as her expression. I want to whisper something private and married into her ear. I want to push her untended hair from her face and kiss her, but I watch while she uses her ragged fingernails to flick and pull insects from the skin of our daughter and son. Fat, red-brown ticks are gorging themselves on the blood of our children.
Melanie turned nineteen this year. Scott is eighteen. I trace the new streaks of gray in my wife's hair, then I turn to face the road. I tell myself that someone has to stand watch, but then I go to them because I'd rather be a good father than anything else.
Scotty has ticks on his back. They stand out like fattening tumors on his pale skin. I turn him around so he's facing downhill. I hand him my rifle.
"Keep an eye out."
"Yeah, huh?"
"The safety's off."
I lean close and pull the biting jaws and burrowing mouthparts away from my son's skin. Thin lines of blood run down his back. He shivers in the mountain air, but he holds himself steady while I tend to him. These days, even the smallest injury or infection is a serious threat. These days there isn't any place for hesitation or embarrassment.
Susan checks and clears Melanie's skin. It takes time. I use the back of my hand to knock the last of the ants from Scotty's legs. He's thin, too thin, but my knuckles are bouncing against solid muscle, too, and it makes me proud. It gives me hope.
We shake out their shirts and pants and coats and they get dressed. Susan asks me to strip and I know I should say something to break the stress, but I can't think of anything that might do the trick. She waits for me to say something. When I don't, she helps me out of my clothes. She delouses me and I delouse her and we dress in the mountain air, old lovers cooled by time and fear.
I'm anxious to get us moving again, but I grind through a long stack of minutes to make sure we're not the next course on the menu. A single gunshot takes me by surprise. The boom of a pistol. We slip behind our chosen boulders and listen and wait, but there aren't any more shots. I hear raised voices but I can't make out the words, then a vehicle approaches on the road. It sounds like a diesel, and then we hear more. I think they have three trucks, in all.
The ambushers load up their plunder and the vehicles head south. I expect them to move quickly away, but they travel at a slow walking speed. At first I think they might be road hunting. Hunting for targets of opportunity. Hunting for us. But then I remember that the dead people had cattle and sheep, and some of the animals must've survived. The ambushers must be taking the beasts with them, probably haltered to the bumpers of their vehicles, fresh meat for the barbecue.
They move onto a plain and I watch them through my binoculars. I guess their number at two dozen. They stop and manage to drag the animals aboard their vehicles, a Brinks armored car and two military five-ton trucks. They pick up speed. I watch until they disappear into the road's mirage. I wait until I'm as sure as I can be, and then we're back to walking, taking our general direction from the freeway, but not walking directly on it. Our course is a series of zigzags as we angle from one area of potential cover and concealment to the next.
I can feel the pressure of Susan and the kids looking at me, but I have no idea what they're thinking. Maybe they're grateful to be walking an easy pace. I'm more paranoid than usual because the goons might've left someone to watch their back trail, but we don't run into anyone good or bad, and my adrenal glands start to calm down. I'm tired and they're tired, but we need to cover a few more miles.
I'm not happy to be walking in the same direction as the ambushers, but there's no choice in it. I pick up the pace. I glance back over my shoulder and their faces show resentment, but they keep up. The kids were angry at me at first, for not letting them walk a straight line down the road, but they don't say anything now. We only have what we have, no more and no less, and we have no choice but to walk our careful rays and obliques, hoping they lead to something better.
We've gone maybe five hundred yards when we see the bodies. They're below us in the road in their large, medium, and small sizes. I don't want to look, but I have to look, because we need to scavenge, too. Susan and Scotty cover me from the trail. Melanie moves to my side as if she's made up her mind to go with me. She's standing stiffly upright and her fists are clenched. Her mother helped her with her hair this morning, and she shakes her head, and her red ponytail writhes against her back. She's never been one to shy away from doing what needs to be done. She looks as if she wants to find survivors and nurse them back to health. She looks as if she needs to find someone alive, to somehow give the gift of life in the midst of all this taking.
"Trust me," I say. "They're worse than dead."
I don't have to pretend that I'm pleading. Her eyes are forest green, darker than her mother's, but flecked with gold. When she feels strongly about something, the flecks are very bright, but I don't look away now. I know it could go either way, my daughter deciding to obey or defy. I've never been good at predicting the outcome of our battles of will. I try to put my arm around her but she sidesteps and squats and I stand like an idiot, looking down at her, wanting to make things better. I stand with her until my silence is too pathetic to bear, then I turn to the task at hand.
I scramble down into the roadcut, my knees bitching all the while. I tell myself I'm checking for survivors, but I hope I won't find any. I feel naked when I step onto the freeway. Dark smears descend from the crown of the northbound lanes. Blood on shaded asphalt is the color of blackberry jam. I look for the wild woman who screamed her righteous cry into the face of death, but there's no way to pick her out of the motionless crowd. The bodies are fanned out like blown-down timber, dead adults shielding dead children. They've been shot to pieces, nineteen bodies, all present and accounted for. The coats and shoes and socks of the adults are gone. The pockets of their pants are turned inside out. They're traveling light now, without the blessings and nuisances of their corporeal husks.
The monsters have won again, if one can make the assumption that mortal sin will no longer be punished. The east-side drainage ditch is lousy with 5.56 brass. I pick up three of the empties and put them in my pocket. Maybe someday I can present them as evidence. I can't deny that I'm pissed off enough to kill. If I were in charge of this sector, I'd insert Force Recon teams into these hills so the ambushes would go the other way, and peace would break out due to a general lack of freelancers.
I look down and see scraps of bubble wrap from the airdropped package, but the package itself is gone. There's a group of bloody footprints. I follow them. They lead to a big ponderosa pine. A body is stretched out, its head propped against the base of the tree. It's one of the ambushers; I'm sure of it. It's a big bastard and it has a single, center-mass shotgun wound and two gold coins weighting its eyes. There's another bullet hole in the center of its forehead. The body has a baby face. It's the body of a big kid, and it's smiling.
There isn't a blood trail from the road to the tree, only footprints and spatters of blood. I guess the bastard got hit on the road and walked under his own power to the tree. The shot between his eyes came later. I remember the final pistol shot we heard, and it could've been this headshot. It's a reasonable assumption and I tuck it away.
The body's hands are knuckle-down at its sides, and there's a pint bottle of whiskey lying atop its open right palm. It's a bottle of Jim Beam. I pick it up. It's three-quarters full. I unscrew the top and take a sip to rinse my mouth. Maybe I'd meant to spit it out, but I don't. I swallow and a small warmth flares around the edges of my soul. It brightens the sky and makes my shadow stronger. I take a bigger drink and it's one good thing in a world of bad ones.
There's an open pack of Marlboros on the dead ambusher's chest. I drag a pack of MRE matches from my pocket and light up. Holy God Almighty and the Angelic Host, it feels good to stand on the road and smoke a butt. I get a headrush and smoke the cigarette down to a stub, then I use my knife to lift the gold coins away from the dead boy's eyes. I use water from my canteen to rinse them and then I wash my knife. The blood leaves dark fans on the road. I pocket the coins and whiskey and smokes, and then I turn to search the bodies of the victims. I try not to look at what's left of their faces. I run my hands into their pockets, feeling the last warmth of their flesh. My hands are thick with coagulating blood, but I force myself to check them all. My anger makes me strong, and I don't want to puke up the whiskey, so I don't.
All I find is a shot-to-pieces folding knife and a bloody pack of Beeman's gum. I can't waste any more water, so I walk to the drainage ditch and scrub my hands with cold mud. I find a vine maple and wipe my hands on its leaves. I walk uphill to my family. I don't have any food for them or news of the outside world, but the whiskey is a warm gift inside me, and damned if I'll feel guilty about it.
I get back uphill and I hold up the coins and the smokes. I'm breathing hard. Susan's nose twitches.
"Anything else?"
I shake my head. I start to feel guilty despite myself, but I'm committed now, so I put on a poker face.
"Give it to me," she says.
I pull the pint bottle from my pocket. She takes it from my hand and I let it go. Her face is hard. She did a stint in rehab two years back, and she's still on the higher path, and she still has zero tolerance. She lifts the bottle. She measures the fill level with addiction-calibrated eyes, then passes the bottle to Melanie.
"We might need this. I'll know if any is missing, and I'll know if it's watered, too."
Melanie says okay. She says, Don't worry, Mom, then she gives me a look of disappointment to add to the other looks of disappointment she's given me over the years.
They're doing the right thing, of course. A group of Marines or soldiers in this situation would pass the bottle around, a lucky find, a small vehicle of escape, but Melanie correctly puts the bottle in the hip pocket of her jeans.
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Posted May 10, 2010
It is no consolation that when the nuclear bombs hit New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC, the United States retaliated by nuking the nations that enabled the terrorist to strike. More bombs hit big cities with China and Russia joining American and Europe in attacking Al Qaeda and those countries hosting the terrorist group. An EMP Pulse knocked out all electricity so that the scattered survivors have little idea of what is going on beyond their narrow sphere.
The Sharpe family consists of patriarch Jerry, his wife Susan and their two teenage children Melanie and Scott. They travel in search of a safe place to live. On the road the Sharpe family scavenges for food, machinery and clothing that they take from the dead left behind by a feral gang of teens led by the vicious amoral Billy Jr.. His horde escaped Juvie Hall when the lights went out and the guards left. Now the world is there for their taking. Bill wants to kill the Sharpe parents and son, and take Melanie. However, his adversaries have found a defensible position shooting the ambushers. The juvies kidnap Melanie and pass her around so everyone can enjoy raping her. Jerry searches for her with rage in his heart while his spouse and son continue their journey although now the radiation sickness is coming with the contaminated snow.
Once the country's centrifuge collapses after the bombs fall, people fail to bond; instead they kill without remorse. Each member of the Sharpe family and Billy tell their tale in the first person in alternating chapters so that the readers comprehend what each is thinking and what motivates their actions. Putting aside whether the abduction should have occurred, Terry DeHart's post-apocalyptic chilling version of On the Beach in which an apparent entire nation and perhaps world has gone crazy with kill or be killed as the only rule of law.
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I cannot begin to start where this book and story are just horrible. I advise anybody who wants to get their hands on a book that is "gritty" and "pulse pounding" and other things to not bother with this book. Within the first twenty pages I decided that I would be returning (praying they will accept this) this book the next day to the store. Within the first twenty pages you learn that the Father wants to do anything to keep his Wife and two kids alive. That the mother doesn't care if the husband who she knows will do anything to protect lives or not and actually plans on ditching him thinking that'd be the best plan for her and the kids and then you learn that the two kids want to ditch both the mother AND the father. So there is absolutely no unity at all within this "unit" that is facing highwaymen and the pending doom of radiation falling from the sky. The fact that the writing style doesn't change from one person to the next the text only broken up with each individuals name in a form of a chapter was rather bland. You can't do a first person story with four different point of views if each person has the same poitn of view, same vocabulary, and things. The only difference were that the parents were praising God and had decided to no longer be agnostic and true believers to the kids not believing in God and finding it amusing that their parents had such childish notions. Only difference in the writing between the characters. It was all just a droaning of simplistic non plus descriptive first person writing with the name changing. I felt nothing for any of the characters, the story, the situation in which they were in. When the first set of pages has the characters not wanting to stick together and ditch one another (Namely the Dad) there is just no caring about them because they aren't a family or a "unit". They're just morons. I hope that I will recieve my $15 back at the store. If not. I plan on using the book as kindling because that is truly all this is good for.
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It is also extremely beneficial to bring a topic down to its basic level and build it up in front of the student to the level they might be studying in their school classes. Also, repetition is not harmful, but very helpful, to students who may be struggling. Subjects such as algebra and geometry can be very intimidating to students if they lack certain foundations.
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It is cold and frosty in The Enchanted Village. This morning, ribbons of mist lie in the valleys like trails of whipped-up egg white. And tonight, the nymph statue that welcomes visitors to the village ought to be wearing a hat, scarf and gloves.
Up at the community room, Mr Putter is reprimanded for a tuneful burst of Where have all the young men gone. Caruso makes a knife motion across his throat and shouts: 'Cut!'
It is choir practice night and Mr Putter is feeling confident. Mr Grigg, who has only been to one singing session and is still to be convinced he has a decent voice, is away. Night Nurse is scolded again for losing her place, while I forget a dotted note and someone else is blamed for the clashing of voices. Sometimes it is good to be teacher's pet.
'I remember performing at The Albert Hall,' Caruso says, 'I was singing Haydn's Creation. The old dear next to me was singing Handel's Messiah.'
He raps his harmonica and calls for order. We need to be in fine voice for a performance just before Christmas when our Enchanted Village voices will join Ding Dong Daddy and his friends for a special concert. It is incredible how ideas casually tossed around the pub turn into full-blown events. It's how we work.
Meanwhile, we have a special appearance at the old folk's home to worry about. As if we are in detention, the top team of six stay behind to practise The Coventry Carol. It is so beautifully moving it makes my cheekbones ache.
After my cold last week, I struggle to reach the top notes and to sustain the melody right to the end. And when I get home, alone, the necklace Camilla gave me a year ago because I kept saying how much I liked it threatens to engulf me, like the poisoned dress in Medea.
Where is Mr Grigg when I need him?
That's about it.
Love Maddie x
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Out in the cold and sent to Coventry
Posted by Maddie Grigg at 10:07 pm
Labels: Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, Medea, The Coventry Carol
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I can't sing the Coventry Carol without having to force myself not to cry. It is about the most forceful, accurate, devastatingly moving and horribly contemporary of all the things we sing in this coming season; probably of anything we sing at all.ReplyDelete
Yet beautiful.
Off to google Coventry Carol.ReplyDelete
If I'd thought about joining the choir, this would encourage second thoughts!
Sounds like such a colourful group. I'll bet it will all come together beautifully.ReplyDelete
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the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out" Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent. Better settlement patterns do reduce extraction upstream and pollution downstream. Politically, green fees have less impact if applied locally; local is where grassroots movements have more impact. Yet getting rent usually entails shifting the property tax (or charging user fees), the province of local jurisdictions; both mayors and city voters have been known to adopt a site-value tax. Ethically, putting into practice "tax bads, not goods" skirts the issue of sharing Mother Earth which collecting rent confronts head on. Since nothing is fixed until it's fixed right, ultimately, greens must lead humanity into geotopia where we all share the worth of Mother Earth.
more transformation than reform; it's a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this "autism" – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering "post-autistic economics". Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they're not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we'd replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents.
a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy's on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society's surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn't oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Doing so let's us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don't really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being "economan" and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for.
close to the policy of the Garden Cities in England. Founded by Ebenezer Howard over a century ago, residents own the land in common and run the town as a business. Letchworth, the oldest of the model towns, serves residents grandly from bucketfuls of collected land rent (as does the Canadian Province of Alberta from oil royalty). A geonomic town would pay the rent to residents, letting them freely choose personalized services, and also ax taxes. Both geonomics and Howard were inspired by American proto-geonomist Henry George. The movement launched by Howard today in the UK advances the shift of taxes from buildings to locations. A recent report from the Town and Country Planning Association proposes this Property Tax Shift and their journal published research in the potential of land value taxation by Tony Vickers (Vol. 69, Part 5, 2000). (Thanks to James Robertson)
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
in part the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out. Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent.
not exactly Georgism, the Single Tax on land value proposed by Henry George. He did, tho', inspire most of the real-world implementations of the land tax that some jurisdictions enjoy today, and modern thinkers to craft geonomics. While his name and our remedy both begin with "geo" since both words refer to "Earth", the two have their differences. (a) George pegs land monopoly as the fundamental flaw while geonomics faults Rent retention. (b) To fix the flaw, George was content to use a tax, while geonomics jettisons them in favor of price-like fees. (c) George focused on the taking while geonomics headlines the sharing. George envisioned an enlightened state judiciously spending the collected Rent while geonomics would turn the lion's share over to the citizens via a dividend. (d) And George, as was everyone in his era, was pro-growth while geonomics sees economies as alive, growing, maturing, and stabilizing. Despite these differences, George should be recognized as great an economist as Euclid was a geometrician.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
suitable for framing by Green Parties. When Greens began in Germany two decades ago, they defined themselves as neither left nor right but in front. Geonomics fits that description. The Green Parties have their Four Pillars; geonomists have four ways to apply them:
- Ecological Wisdom. Want people to use the eco-system wisely? Charge them Rent and, to end corporate license, add surcharges. To minimize these costs, people will use less Earth.
- Nonviolence. Want people to settle disputes nonviolently? Set a good example; don't levy taxes, which rely on the threat of incarceration, to take people's money. Try quid pro quo fees and dues.
- Social Responsibility. Want people to be responsible for their actions? Don't make basic choices for them by subsidizing services, addicting them to a caretaker state. Let people spend shares of social surplus.
- Grassroots Democracy. Better have grassroots prosperity. Remember, political power follows economic. Pay people a Citizens Dividend; to keep it, they'll show up at the polls, public hearings, and conventions.
an answer to a rarely asked question. If price is a reward for production, why do we pay for land, never produced by any of us? What is land price a reward for? Good behavior? How much money do we spend on the nature we use? Who gets it? What do they do with it? (If you answer all these correctly, you're not a genius but a geoist.) The worth of Earth is enough that were we to collect and share it, we could abolish taxes on the goods we do produce. For example, San Francisco's Redefining Progress has calculated that Cali-fornia could abolish all state and local taxes were it to collect the values of resources and of using na-ture as a dump. By exorcising the profit motive from depletion and pollution, rent collection could replace bossy regulation. Economies could self-regulate, as the rest of the eco-system does. See how big problems yield to big answers when we ask the right questions?
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We all have a story that has meaning to us, no matter if it means nothing to someone else. This could be a story that has deep felt feelings to everyone or the simple little stories about the walk you had this morning or the baby hawk, I just captured a photograph of in our tree. . It is the reason we are the storytellers with our scrapbooking of layouts. Your family and friends will thank you years from now for all the little memories they forget, but you brought back to their memory.
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More Descanso Garden Roses and Companions (early June)
crossposted to the Antique Rose Gallery
Some roses are just starting to bloom at Descanso Gardens now, while others are on their way out. It was educational to see so many that were stunning a few weeks ago,... that now look not as great. But something can't be the same level of beautiful all the time, right?
It was also nice to see what types of companion plants they chose, some of which are blooming more NOW than they were a few weeks ago when most of the roses were at peak. A nice way to extend the season of the garden.
Some general shots and shots of companion plantings:
Does anyone know what these charming plants are?
More guara (I LOVE GUARA)
I liked this large daisy put in with the roses.
huge bank of guara backed with butterfly bushes
lamb's ear
detail on one of the harlequin butterfly bushes. They had several large butterfly bushes in the middle of some of the rose beds. Here it's in the old tea section with rosette delizy.
a large Swany Rose
carefree delight rose and others with gladiolas growing right out of the midst of them (love this!)
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a bench so covered in roses that you can hardly see the arbor or the bench.
Hollyhocks among the roses
still really like Crocus Rose
a gorgeous bloom on Maman Cochet cl.
chinese foxglove with roses
a mix of yarrow and other things
What Francoise Juranville looks like later in it's bloom cycle
similar shot of Marchesa Boccella
and mme. Lauriole de Barny
Augutse Renoir, lovely when properly open... but so many of the buds looked kinda ick.
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That was a treat!! I just love a mixture of plants with the roses. Visual feast.
I'm not sure, but the purple plants might be a type of salvia. Whatevery they're called - they're lovely!!
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Crocus Rose looks very pretty.
The lavender spire plant is a Veronica. I love them. Nice vertical accent plant.


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You are intently focused on something today. It could be stalking a bug, it could be achieving the perfect nap or it could be eating yourself stupid, but you will probably do it to the exclusion of all else.
What's Your Numerology Portrait?
Love playing with those fluffy kittens, meow!
My kitty Raven is especially high maintenance-I'll make sure he gets this message.
Tigger, I know that when you give me a paw it means you want your head scratched. When you say mama it means you just woke up and don't know where you are yet and you are looking for me or mama also means feed me. You are the best cat.
Tigger you are still the best cat on the planet and should be cloned for your strength, ability, calmness, intelligence and the fact that you are the most handsome animal is also a great gift.
Did you hear that Tigger. I'm tired and now you need to play with your swirley ball and doggie drag and let me rest.
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I love that 'National I Am in Control Day' dovetails with 'Take a Walk in the Park Day,' since one will help you with the other. If at any time you feel out of control, take a walk in nature for at least ten minutes and your cortisol and stress... More
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There's a "drink wine" day... who knew?
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The Chargers wide receiver will miss Saturday's game in San Francisco due to a broken collarbone.
The San Diego Chargers have decided to stay at Qualcomm Stadium for the 2015 NFL season, according to Mark Fabiani, special counsel to the Chargers' president.
NBC 7 Sports Director talks about the Chargers and NFL football issues of the week.
It will take some help, but the Bolts still have a chance to earn a second straight NFL postseason berth.
Photos from the Denver Broncos' 22-10 win over the Chargers on Sunday at Qualcomm...
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In a quest to keep the vaunted Denver Broncos offense off the scoreboard, the Chargers forgot to put up some points of their own.
Last week's loss to the New England Patriots was not the end of the world for the Chargers' playoff hopes. The Bolts still hold the final wild card spot and control their own destiny in the playoff chase.
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Music Video: Tiga "Bugatti"
One of my favourite tracks this year, Tiga's "Bugatti", gets a video from one of my favourite directors right now, Helmi. There's a wee bit of nudity, watch it below.
One of my favourite tracks this year, Tiga's "Bugatti", gets a video from one of my favourite directors right now, Helmi. There's a wee bit of nudity, watch it below.
I missed posting this video a few months ago, Dan Scheinert and Dan Kwan (director duo DANIELS) brilliant video for Joywave. This is definitely one of my favourites this year. Warning there are LOTS of naked people.
Madison Bullard has created a brilliant video for the band The Bots re-creating the experience of scrolling gifs on Buzzfeed, or in this case Botsfeed. It's more entertaining than it sounds, and it just might be the most accurate depiction of Internet culture ever in a music video. Watch "All I Really Want" below, and make it full screen for the full effect.
This weekend I watched David Fincher's latest film, Gone Girl, and then my friend Abi sent over this great analysis of the specific way Fincher tells stories. The video below is from filmmaker Tony Zhou's "Every Frame A Painting", an on-going series of video essays on all things film. This makes me want to go back and watch Gone Girl again (this video does not contain any content about Gone Girl in case you're worried about spoiling it).
Watch the video below!
When I saw Dimitri Basil's video for Vance Joy's "Riptide" earlier this year I made a mental note to keep an eye on him. There's this absurd energy in his storytelling that is so fresh and engaging. Roman Coppola recently selected Dimitri's film "Tangerine" as the top short in his one minute film competition. All I can say is I really wish it had been a 20 minute film competition.
Watch "Tangerine" below.
London-based studio Golden Wolf created this great little animated spot featuring pro skater Omar Salazar for skate shop Doomsayers. Watch the animation below.
Nashville-based illustrator Drew Tyndell has been sharing some cool experiments with looping animation on Vimeo. Watch the videos below.
I enjoyed this little reflection on what skateboarding means to Elissa Steamer and a bunch of skate rats in Florida. Watch "I was a skate rat" below.


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The Hearing Aid Clinics industry is expected to grow substantially during the five years to 2014. Following a multiyear drop during the recession, the industry has rebounded thanks to beneficial demographic trends, the expansion of private healthcare coverage and, ultimately, the improving economy. As a result, IBISWorld estimates that Hearing Aid Clinics industry revenue will increase at an annualized rate of 3.4% to $2.7 billion during the five years to 2014.
According to IBISWorld Industry Analyst Dmitry Diment, "Economic recovery and the associated rise in disposable income have been key to the industry's growth over the past five years." Hearing aids are relatively expensive, with a custom-fit pair ranging from $3,000 to $4,000, while some of the industry's top-end pairs cost more than $7,000. Because Medicare, the government-funded health insurance program that provides coverage for adults over the age of 65, does not cover hearing aids, out-of-pocket payments for industry products have remained important during the five years to 2014. Consequently, the expected 1.2% annualized rise in disposable income has benefited industry operators during this period.
"Moreover, the industry has begun to benefit from the expansion of federally funded healthcare. With the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the number of people with private insurance coverage is expected to rise 4.5% in 2014 alone," says Diment. While the PPACA does not mandate that insurance companies cover hearing aids, many plans do in fact provide coverage, ben
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13.First detailed map of another planet - In 1971, the Mariner 9 probe arrived at Mars and beamed a total of 7,329 images of the planet back to Earth. It provided the first global map of the surface of the Red Planet, including detailed views of its system of canyons and volcanoes, Valles Marineris.
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This is the only direct, weekly Le Havre to Charleston LCL service available in the market.
DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), has announced that it has entered into firm sales agreements with entities controlled by the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Oil imports from Iran at 220,000 bpd in year to March 31. U.S. pressured India not to raise annual Iran oil imports.
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i got some problems with my motorola phone (XT890) Razr-i, similar to Droid Razr M (expect CPU)
Yesterday i slide files (no directories) of the root partition from phone to sd-card. After that system does not run correct, thats why i made an re-boot.
Then the phone starts with the white "M" and stops. I can go to fastboot and recovery mode, no problem.
My phone is stock, i got no "root", so what can i do to put the slided files from the sd-card back to phone?
-after that all should be run like before, isn´t so?
If there is no possiblity to rescue the phone as it was, i need at least some important files from the system partition, what can i do?
Thank you for any help!!!
I do also not know if i´m in the right section of forum, but the problem looks not specific to brand /vendor
btw. i got "RSD-Lite" , SDK ADB Tools on my windows pc - if i need them
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My artistic emphasis was on animation and through the years that focus has evolved into the reverse painting it is today. As we move through life we see things that shift our perception. That is exactly what my paintings are supposed to do. At first glance, you are viewing a two-dimensional image, but look closer…
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Perhaps there needs to be a standard definition between altering a photo vs enhancing one.
nunatak: it's time for this discussion — how many north american males are comfortable with the idea of wearing a man purse? especially one made from dead cow that looks like a woman's fashion accessory?
as an alternative, would the editors be open to reviewing a thrifty, but low theft target insulated tote in place of this market research piece being proposed? it's amazing what functional aesthetics can be found for just under $50. JMO.
Too much analysis on camera bags in general for my taste. I see on forums "suggestions for an LX7 bag, suggestions for a D90 blah blah blah". I've had a big one and a small one, and depending where I'm going and what I'm carrying, I actually manage. And when the bag doesn't quite fit, I add or remove plastic grocery bags I have inside of the pockets for a tighter fit.
BTW, anyone know what's the best case for an LX100? It has to be able to hold lip gloss, a pair of shoes and an Ipad. thanks, signed...a woman.
Paul Rumohr: So awesome Richard Butler. 85% Gold award to a camera with pretty good corners.
You are a credit to Amazon who owns you and wants to sell these cameras.
"And again, at "75mm equivalent", wide open in the center, sharpness isn't as good as usual. But "the corners are pretty good", and the center seems pretty good at "real-world distances", so there's still not too much to worry about."
I've never been a fan of samples on most review sites which typically don't do camera image image quality justice. If all I had were the review samples I wouldn't have purchased the camera. But I know better and you probably know as well that you can google amazing samples from other photographers that showcase what the camera can do. Give Flickr a try.
Having said that, if you're so hung up on bashing this site's reviewer, start a review site of your own and we'll all be looking to you for your "expert advice". Before you do however I'd suggest you fix the link on your website as it doesn't work...too much complaining not enough time managing your site?
I hope you're a man of your word, since in another post you said you've had it with DPReview which to me implies you're leaving. So if you truly are someone who's words are to be believed, you have no choice but never return to DPR. Shame.
photo perzon: I returned this inferior camera. The EVF wheel was stuck not giving adjustment until I rocked it by force. The jpegs are pathetic, not in focus. I took 400 pictures and less than 5 were sharp. And I have not one complain of my other 40 cameras including RX100, RX100III, Fuji X100, D700, D7000, D40, Coolpix A, GR, E-PL7, PL5, PM2, Stylus 1, GM1, etc., not 1 complain. I have heard of a bad batch in the forums, but I just never saw a more pathetic camera.
OK I am not a pro, but I have taken 90,000 pictures and only the LX100 was OOF jpegs OOC. Many have also complained.
Search LX100 on Flickr and maybe ask them what you did wrong. It's clear you've messed up somewhere as I'm getting tack sharp images. Many have complained because many don't know what they're doing.
jonikon: Well, darn it!
I really like the design concept of the LX-100, which is very close to what I want in a travel camera in terms of size and sensor image quality. However, it fails on on four counts that give me reason to pass on this camera.
1. No phase detection auto focusing. (Sorry, but I am spoiled by my Nikon V1's focusing performance!)
2. No built in flash, and the supplied flash is crude and weak with no bounce capability. At least the tiny flash for my Nikon V1 can do bounce flash.
3. Inferior EVF. There are much better available that do not tear.
4. Despite the hype, my eyes tell me the lens is not sharp enough, especially at the edges, which is a big disappointment considering the price of the camera and the short focal length range.
As it stands, the LX-100 is a bit too disappointing and over-priced for it's performance capabilities. Hopefully the rumored Nikon competitor to this camera will not have these shortcomings.
Nonsense about the flash. Since you're able to shoot easily at high ISO the flash can hold its own and besides, if the flash was built in you know in a small camera it would be weak. You do have a hot shoe and if flash photography really mattered, you wouldn't be using the in-camera flash in the first place.
2eyesee: The lens/sensor combination doesn't seem to offer anything over an RX100M3, which also includes a built-in flash, ND filter and tilt screen.
LX100 you still get a flash AND a hot shoe. Viewfinder resolution 2x higher. Ergonomics of the RX100 is horrendous, feels like you're about to drop it when shooting one handed. Max Shutter speed 1/2000 for Sony , 1/16,000 for Panny. Ok, Sony wins with the "Gourmet" scene mode. I think we know who wins in the video dept.
liustephen: if it only had a built in flash......
Like people who use a lens like this would use it much anyways. And if one did, it takes all but three seconds to snap it on.
tigen: I think the review doesn't spend enough time looking at image quality. It's mostly limited to a couple of paragraphs. Actual images compared to its peers don't seem to hold up as much as the review indicates.
Just go on Flickr and search LX100 and you'll get plenty of great images. I have the camera and the jpg NR and sharpening OOC is bizarre but the RAW is amazing. Once ACR comes out you'll see. Until then, stay tuned.
mpgxsvcd: Probably the most comprehensive review I have ever read. Richard, please pat yourself on the back. That review was exceptional.
I pretty much agreed with everything they said. I find the Auto ISO to be more rewarding than they gave it credit for. However, I also would like to have the things they mentioned that it needed(Min Shutter speed setting and Exposure Comp control in Manual mode with Auto ISO).
Overall a great review for a great camera.
I don't know why Min Shutter Speed was removed. I don't use much of anything Auto as I like to steer the wheel of my own car, but that feature was very useful.
(unknown member): I think Silver is enough for this camera. But the Mk II should be Gold.
Problem with Canon is their follow up cameras seem to remove some of what was right from previous versions. They play this game all the time. And they still have focus issues in low lighting situations where other manufacturers do not. A company this big must have some issues in their R&D.
gulffish: A bit out of focus, not a great result full size. Lens, camera or shooter?
Look like shooter to me
Inconsistent focusing?..come on Canon, time to catch up.
Never getting one of these, gonna clash with my silver earrings.
They should allow a live feed during interviews allowing those who, you know, paid a ton of money for their product to ask questions. Accountability whaaaat??
Focusing issues in low light for a Canon compact? That's been an issue forever.
At your local Walmart photo studio everywhere.
forpetessake: If you want a superzoom, just get any lightweight Nikon/Canon DSLR and attach an 18-200 zoom to it and it will be ahead of this Panasonic in every way. Or if you want a mirrorless camera, get a Sony A6000 with 18-200 zoom, or Samsung with 18-200, or Olympus with 14-150.
Only those who are interested in half baked 4k video may find this camera interesting.
"Ahead in every way eh?
Well it would be ahead in how much you'd pay for your combo as you will be paying more for it so I'll give you that (and probably even true for used gear).
But the combo you suggest, is it
Ahead in focus performance? no
Ahead in focus performance while using the LCD? definitely not
Ahead in video quality and usability? Uhmm no
Zoom range? Non non non
Ahead in Frames per second shooting? nope
I could go on, but I'm lazy.
Point isn't to say one camera is better than the other, just that your statement of your suggested combo being "better in every way" is factually wrong.
The credible reviews that have come out so far point to both cameras being solid, with both having varying features that will sway a consumer into buying based on their personal preferences.
Nothing complicated here, Sony did what it had to do, to compete with the launch of the FZ1000. Personally the Sony camera specs didn't do it for me andr my needs. Kudos to both companies for producing good cams.
saralecaire: Still more expensive than the brand new and 4K capable Panasonic FZ1000.
- Tilt screen only
- Metal body, like that makes it a deal breaker..really
- Clickless ring likely in response to many complaining it was too easy to accidentally change a setting
- "This is supposed to be a video camera also right?" Uhmm, no, the GH4 is. This is your all in one, like the Sony, only it varies on features that Panny thinks are important.
- Not sure where this camera skimps on quality. What it does is prioritize its features based on what they think are consumers' needs. Don't assume your needs are everyone else's.
Nice uhmmm, infomercial. Now back to you Becky.


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How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.
The Obama administration's alternatives to large-scale military operations are, in some ways, far more drastic and dangerous for US interests around the globe.


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