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Manila Representative Benjamin Asilo, chairman of the House committee on people's participation, is pushing for the buy-local campaign through House Bill 4962, or the "People's Participation in Industry Cluster-based Programs and Projects Act," which he said is an affirmation from the panel of its commitment to support the local economy.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Kendall Williams scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half and bottled up Long Beach State star Casper Ware defensively to help fifth-seeded New Mexico hold on for a 75-68 victory in the West Regional on Thursday. Drew Gordon added 18 points and 13 rebounds for the Lobos. With most of the 49ers' defensive efforts focused on slowing down Gordon, New Mexico's punishing forward, Williams came up with key shots when the opportunities were there. The Lobos (28-6) then hit their free throws in the final minute to advance to play No. 4 seed Louisville on Saturday. Williams' length and quickness bothered Ware. The Big West player of the year went nearly 25 minutes without a field goal and finished with 17 points on 5-of-19 shooting. T.J. Robinson added 12 points and 14 rebounds for 12th-seeded Long Beach State (25-9).
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MADISON, Wis. Wisconsin guard Zak Showalter stopped by Bo Ryan's office recently to discuss the prospects of playing time. The freshman offered no demands, and his coach provided no guarantees. Instead, Showalter extended a simple message: If you need me, I'm here. It was Showalter's way of expressing a willingness to burn a redshirt season, even if his minutes would be limited and sporadic. Wisconsin's guard depth had been depleted after starting point guard Josh Gasser went down with a season ending ACL tear, creating a small opening for Showalter off the bench. Ryan saw enough of Showalter to know he possessed the talent to play immediately. And sure enough, Showalter raced off the bench to the scorer's table Sunday during the second half of Wisconsin's season-opening 87-47 victory against Southeastern Louisiana. In nine minutes, he scored five points with three rebounds and two assists, providing the same toughness he demonstrated in practice. "Defensively, and some of the hust...
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Goals--Josh Bartley (AM) 3, Jalen Crisler (AM), Brady Henderson (AM), Terpin (SW). Assists--Henderson (AM) 2, Bartley (AM), Crisler (AM), Christian Thode (AM), Lions (SW). Goalkeepers--South Whidbey: Holt. Archbishop Murphy: Luis Valdez, Jeff Scavotto. Records--South Whidbey 3-2 league, 3-2-1 overall. Archbishop Murphy 6-0, 7-0-1.
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State police earlier this month apprehended a Ribera man for allegedly breaking into seven cars and taking two others at several properties in the Valley.
Eloi A. "Rambo" Leyba, 22, was arrested on suspicion of seven counts of burglary of cars and, two counts of auto theft, two counts of burglaries to structures, aggravated burglary to a house and evading a police officer.
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But while she was there to early vote, she said she was encouraged to support Charles Trujillo, her father's Democratic opponent in the Nov. 2 election.
A bunch of officials gathered this week to break ground for the new nursing home at the state hospital. Armed with shovels, some of them gave speeches.
It was a case of déja vu.
Three years ago, the officials held a similar ceremony for the same project.
There was one major difference this time — construction had already begun.
Westly Cole was sworn in Tuesday as the student representative on the Las Vegas City Schools board for the 2010-11 school year.
Cole became a Las Vegas resident during his second semester as an eighth-grader at Memorial Middle School. He said since then, he considers himself a friend to all groups and cliques.
Cole's voice can be heard every morning via the Robertson High School intercom system, a job he has held for the past three years. He is also a reporter for the school newspaper.
Winners of three straight and five of the last six matches, the New Mexico Highlands Cowgirls are rated fifth in the latest NCAA Division II Central women's soccer rankings.
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Ending a six-year hiatus, the New Mexico Highlands University XC Jam will return to the Gene Torres Golf Course at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday.
The home cross country race had been suspended when the NMHU golf course began undergoing renovations several years ago.
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Anna Morcom's extensively researched book is an investigation into the hereditary communities of female and transgender dancers in contemporary India. She investigates the emergence of illicit worlds of dance in the shadow of India's official performing arts, and details the lives of the performers as they struggle with stigmatisation and loss of livelihood. An excerpt:
In the gender norms that have existed in India, as discussed in the introduction, a female body that performs in male space, or a male body that becomes female through performing as female in male space, tends to be seen erotically. Much of the dance that kothis perform is erotic. This may be explicitly so in particular contexts but in general tends to focus on romantic/erotic love and female characters.
Kothi performance, because it is generally targeted at a (male) audience (rather than just performed before an audience) is also often actively seductive as well as erotic, with desire sought and incited. The attraction of female dance comes not just from appearing feminine, but actually being in a position where it is possible to attract male attention and male lovers—to feel feminine and to be feminine in terms of the dynamics of bodily desire. This is also heightened by the emotional potency and, in certain ways, the additional feminising dynamics of music, song and dance, which I discuss more below. In this way, it is possible to see how female (and, in particular, erotic) dance constitutes femininity through its embodied, highly stylised and displayed nature, as well as through its relationship to the 'reproductive arena' of sexuality, emotion, passion and the dynamics of bodily desire between performers and audience. In this sense, dance can be described as a privileged space for performing gender—a place in which gender is constituted in a way that is particularly visceral, emotional, passionate and, potentially, strongly felt and 'real'.
The overwhelming majority of kothis are attracted to dance and find it a 'natural' medium in which to be feminine and express their 'true' femininity. To be a good dancer also brings prestige and respect in the kothi community, since it makes the individual more feminine. In this way, it is prized as a skill as much, or even more than, feminine beauty. As an observer, I too found that it was when kothis were dancing that they seemed most feminine, with a skill, grace and passion that seemed rooted in a core femininity and female subjectivity, and a sense of the 'true', inner feminine self.
Through moving the body in this hyper-feminine, emotionally deeply-invested and often seductive manner, the femininity becomes physical — it is rooted in the body, and hence appears to be as 'natural' as if the body itself were female. All the kothis I met were clearly effeminate and, before I knew about the concept of the kothi, I had automatically assumed several to be 'gay'. However, seeing them dance was something quite different. I met a professional kothi dancer from Lucknow who was slightly balding, had something of a paunch, was in his late thirties or forties, not particularly 'pretty' or 'feminine', and was wearing an old kurta-pyjama at the time. However, as soon as he performed a few movements of abhinay, there was an astonishing transformation into an accomplished, graceful, courtesan-type figure. Kothi dancers are well aware of this power of dance.
An effeminate Sikh man in his fifties with a beard and turban who had performed extensively when he was younger said that it was only when you were really accomplished as a dancer that people would see you purely as a female.44 In this sense, dance and movement have the potential to overwhelm even clear physical markers of the male sex such as beards or baldness. Many kothis boasted to me that when they danced in female clothes, no one could tell they were male. Several also stated that when seduced audience members got close enough to realise, they did not care.
In addition to the fact that they were by then so aroused, in terms of the politics of penetration, a man who is 'passive' is feminine; and, through the gendering power of dance too, the kothi performer is equivalent to, if not actually, a female.
While everyone is (largely unconsciously) performing gender, for kothis, who have a male body but are female, their performance goes against social norms and they therefore have to try harder to be feminine.
They must create an illusion that goes further than the general illusion of gender. Comparing the kothis I saw with (biologically) female dancers, the kothis displayed a level of enthusiasm and energy in performance (even those who did not dance well) that I did not see with the female dancers. Unlike some female performers, I never saw kothis dancing halfheartedly.
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* As a young teen I was diagnosed with Reentry ventricular arrhythmia. I "grew" out of it as the Dr's said I would but still get it a handful of times a year (often when I bend down with my head below my chest it seems to spark it) - was told it was a syndrome caused by hormone fluctuation.
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Exit polls create a drama of numbers. The scores are huge, the graphics awesome. The Congress, a party which was part of the subconscious disappears without a trace. If numbers resonated as music, they would blare like trumpets, thump like dholaks to announce a Modi victory. Yet listening to exit polls, the chorus of anticipatory celebrations, I feel anxiety. It is not Modi's victory that bothers me, it is my anxiety. I sit quietly, reflect and ask what is it about Narendra Modi's coming triumph that bothers me.
Anxiety is always unstated. The labels one uses for it cover reality, becoming more like mere marks of recognition than understanding. I sit back and play my own psychiatrist wondering what my fears are.
The first signals are obvious. As a liberal and civil rights activist, I see my immediate spaces shrinking. My ecology is dying out. I saw what Modi did to civil society in Gujarat. He set the bureaucracy on them, turning them defensive, creating a paranoid world where the most open groups fall silent. When you threaten small groups with sheer survival, they cannot cope. I saw Gujarat fall silent. Even Gandhians forgot the tenets of their genius and invited Modi as a fellow Gandhian. It is fear of bandwagons, mobs echoing the same line, the vigilantes of the new consensus who bother me.
I was thinking of a simple possibility. I know people complain of capitalist cronyism but I always feel academic cronyism is more lethal. Academic cronyism chokes a whole generation and eats up dissent like a water hyacinth. Modi's symbol is not the Lotus but the water hyacinth ruthlessly eating dissent. I already see academics lining up like think tanks ready to join the bandwagons of consultancy, the new committees that litter Delhi.
I confess I always hated the word development. When Modi uses it as an aesthetic and ethical word for his politics I feel worried. This sense of fear and trembling came out when I was watching a TV clip on Benares. They were beautiful shots of weavers looms, of sarees that took a fortnight to weave and the camera pans on the starved faces asking what will happen to this. Does development have a place for the weaver, the tribal in a world where Modi talks of development as the new win-win situation? What is win-win when a way of life disappears? Modi does not quite answer this question.
As my anxieties pick up pace, my questions about development broaden to questions of memory and violence. I lived in Gujarat in the decade after the carnage of 2002. 2002 like 1984 worried me. I realize the man next to me on the bus could be a killer. In 2002, part of a society turned killer and never returned to normalcy. I remember a parent approaching me once for help. She told me I am a school teacher but I feel helpless before my son. I have two kids, a girl and a boy. They fight often but now my son tells my daughter if you don't listen to me, I will do to you, what Hindus did to Muslim women. The school teacher said, "I do not want to live in a society that feels this way." I wonder what Modi would say about that. The problem of the Gujarat violence is not mere murder, it is the silence and the indifference that followed. Modi "normalised" Gujarat and I wonder whether he will normalize other places. I remember in a Delhi school when the first news of the Gujarat riots came through, a student leaped up claiming "at last 500 years of misrule has been defeated". I hate having to live with that sense of history. Modi has always created history as a form of"resentment". I think India of my era is far better of being androgynous rather than playing a six-pack technocratic hero we want our new leaders to be. Modi has that sense of machismo that worries me. He has that bully boy aggressiveness which is publicly visible. Bullies worry me and when bullies like Modi talk about security, I am more worried. This need to be decisive and strong, shows little sense of vulnerability and weakness. Modi is the politician of security, not the statesman of vulnerability I am looking for. I miss the poetics of vulnerability in the man. It is as if an ethical or aesthetic gene is lacking in him. I wish he assured one of compassion.
I must confess I am a laid-back person. I love my work, I work hard but I find this new aspirational generation as tiring as the old ascriptive one. One stifled through nepotism, the other threatens through over competitiveness. Neither can relax with themselves. They demand indicators of success. They want all their achievements to be ranked. It is not just development. It is our lives. Soon, we will rank production, education, athletics and creativity. Ranking Human Development was fun but the new rankings Society-a-la-Modi sounds tedious. This effort to make India a great power sounds hysterical, tedious and tiring.
Deeply, I am proud of being Indian but that means I enjoy a way of life. I am tired of coming battles between India and China and tired of an elite afraid of China. I want China to produce more because I know I can live on less. I do not want India to bully Pakistan or fear China. But it is precisely such a scenario that is confronting me. As an Indian, I feel India will outthink China in any battle, by inventing varieties of diversity and tolerance. I know this is the Indian strength and it will outlive any China pretending to be a madder America.
I am a patriot but my patriotism is a relaxed one like my Hinduism. A hysterical Hindutva, a patriotism on steroids distances me. I want my world to be easy with difference and not march to any concept. I am afraid Modi sounds like a band leader, looking for bandwagons. Saddest, he has destroyed my ideal of the dhaba. My dhaba is a dream space where ideas, and gossip brew slowly. Modi had ruined tea and politics for me and this I cannot forgive.
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happy ramadhan to all muslims here how long fasting in your country in a day? here in Malaysia about 12 hours…
Ramazan mubarak to you guys…
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happy ramadhan to all muslims here how long fasting in your country in a day? here in Malaysia about 12 hours…
In my country about 13 hours… 5am to 6pm
Happy Ramadan. Selamat berpuasa!
Ramadan Mubarak everyone
Happy Ramadan.
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Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives in light of Islamic guidance. We are to make peace with those who have wronged us, strengthen ties with family and friends, do away with bad habits—essentially to clean up our lives, our thoughts, and our feelings. The Arabic word for "fasting" (sawm) literally means "to refrain" – and it means not only refraining from food and drink, but from evil actions, thoughts, and words.
During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast.Therefore, fasting is not merely physical, but is rather the total commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast. Ramadan is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul from impurities and re-focus one's self on the worship of God.
+1 Very well described, thank you for that !!
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Originally posted by 5thofFikus
Of course it's possible. PVE vs. PVP Server Rulesets you see on virtually every MMORPG are basically that.
You'd be hard-pressed to convince me that a server could democratically settle on a better set of rules, for those not interested in bad MMORPG PVP. "You never have to engage in bad PVP ever, unless you want to," is pretty much verbatim what would get my vote.
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This is actually a great idea, and it would pretty much get rid of ganking sure the higher level may have more skills to use but then it becomes a kill of player skill and not level. It still wouldn't solve the player sitting back and waiting till you are 1/4 life and jumping you but would make things a lot more interesting. Being one of the older gamers that actually played the one of the first MMO's Ultima Online I remember the good old days of PK'ers and losing all your gear you worked for that day.
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Originally posted by Sovrath
ATITD, Puzzle Pirates, DAoC, Vendetta Online, EVE Online... pre-WOW devs had a handle on that.
After WOW, it seems that devs forgot that part of the math.
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The best PVP I've ever had was in SWG. I just don't understand why any developer has never tried to make anything similar to that. It was real great IMO.
EVE also has a great PVP system that could be used as basis for other games.
Instanced PVP, arena, etc, for me sucks badly. Fun sometimes yes but it's very limited.
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Originally posted by Axehilt
See: UO.
Your PVP choices are
All on the same server. The dual-facet servers were a band-aid fix at the time, but they offer a design that I'm really surprised few have tried even travelling down that road as a feature save for AC's PKLite and RIFT's character/guild transfer system.
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Originally posted by Axehilt
I was thinking enforcement of the rules would be in game by the barrel of a gun as well. With the right tools once the pve players get that first taste of blood and see how massive their numbers are, any Pk or unwanted pvp seen would become hunted by 10's or 100's of players.
The hatred runs so deep,and the desire to hold onto this new found high, and power, and resposibiily,people who had never pvp'd before dropped whatever they were doing to come gank that sob. They started planning attacks and leading assaults. I've never seen anything like it. 150 v 5 blood baths. Pure gaming bliss.
Do you think it's possible to recreate that?
There's a problem with your post, namely the mechanics of having other players huge guilds that have large economic forces back players up when they play so they basically take on a paid job with benefits, so EVE is not typical.
Originally posted by Axehilt
No in terms of consistent subscription numbers and growth over the years in comparison to it's mmorpg peers. I see you ignore that reality.
Originally posted by itgrowls
Originally posted by Kyleran
A player can avoid getting ganked in DF as noob for the vast, vast majority of the time and certainly reduce the impact on any gank if they play "smart".
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Replace smart with lucky and I would eventually agree. Very lucky. If someone really wants to camp a noob, the noob will be almost completely stopped of playing the game unless he wants to repeatedly die. That's very bad game design, something EvE did much better.
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If someone wants to camp a noob..
Well they would have to find the noob first. They would then in order to camp him find him at his bind spot, or the noob would have to repeatedly keep going back to the same area for that period of time. It has little to do with luck. Getting caught the odd time out is unlucky, even then you can do things to minimise this happening by utilizing the terrain to give you the vantage point to spot people, whilst remaining in cover etc.
If you are skirting around goblin spawns near noob towns in human lands then you are increasing your chances of getting killed.
If you are mooching around selentine chests near noob town without paying attention then you are increasing your chances of getting killed.
If you are not going off and exploring (nothing to lose as noob) to find nice little spots out of the way then you are increasing your chances of getting killed.
If you are sticking to running along road ways between towns then you are increasing your chances of getting killed.
If you are not using the terrain to take advantage of vantage points then you are going to get yourself killed.
If you are mindlessly minding iron ore nodes just out of proxmity of town towers then you are more likely to get yourself killed.
If you are carrying an hours worth of loot on you, you are making trouble for yourself if you get killed.
The problem is some people cba, so they find it a better idea to just moan about being killed in the first place. Or (which happens alot on these boards), we have people who have spent a month or less in FFA OWPvP games who bang on about them from an uninformed position and hypothesise about endless ganking.
EVE offers more protection than DF, but then in order to get repeatedly ganked to such an extent that it is having an impact on your longer term play then you are either exceptionally unlucky (as in don't go outside you are going to get run over son unlucky), or exceptionally bad.
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its possible, but not from the game mechanics perspective.
i mean its up to the player to choose the safest routers from one place to another.
do you really want to go to this fabulous place.... which is infested by gankers?
you dont. you avoid that place and make it impossible for yourself to get ganked. genius isnt it?
thats the price you have to pay for playing an open pvp game.
another way is obviously the point of mmorpgs - grouping with players.
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Did you play DF at launch? Some people had maxed skills in 2 weeks or less. Then a fix added 2 months. Then another added 2 more. The power gap was so huge and everyone was killing everyone else that a new player would get killed constanly. Yes constantly.
Im not sure how it was their fault. Or what you're trying to say. But DF at launch was a PK fest. And they PK'd non stop.
It settled down after a while, but the elf (myridian or whatever) got hit every 5 - 10 minutes.
It wasnt unlucky. It was for real. The alternative became the blood wall afk for 15 hours a day for a month. And people LOL'd and bailed.
thats why we quit, which was a shame because we were hooked. But to blame the poor nubs for the pk fest that was DF's first weeks as if they could have done anything about it. c'mon . Should they join a city and bitch about seiges non stop instead? Oh the devs helped blah blah blah. Everyone was bitching lol.
Thats why no one plays now. This was the EU server at launch.
I Dont know if you were talking about the launch or something else so ignore this if it doesnt apply. to get repeatedly ganked in DF though was easy right after launch.
Originally posted by 5thofFikus
It was a pk fest right at the beginning because groups were exploiting/unattended afking up their skills before many had even thought about venturing away from the starter towns. That was a grind issue, not a ffa issue, nor was it is a safe zone issue.
Bloodwalling and afking everything to death was done in order to close power disparities, not to avoid getting found/smashed in the first place. You can have skills maxed out of the ying yang and yet if that noob is moving around the massive world, it is unlikely that you are going to spend much time ganking the crap out of him.
The lack of skill cap and the endless and boring grind did for the game for many, not the fact they got beat on and lost 5 gold. It is the fact that they had to face endless months of tedious grinding in order to catch up that put most off and quite rightly so. But again that has nothing to do with FFA pvp and everything to do with an insanely stupid grind.
It is strange to be speaking about "the first few weeks" of a title launch in isolation. Even if you considered the scenario that the first week or two (or more) where a nightmare, that doesn't really account for all the time that followed now does it. The simple fact of the matter is that yes, new players CAN do plenty to avoid making being ganked the "norm" for the vast majority of their play time. Will they still get ganked.. yep, can it be annyoing, yep. But as often as it is made out? No not by a long shot.
EDIT: Noticed your edit, no I am talking about the full life cycle of the game (and other games), not just the launch. Often at launch their can be issues and you are right to point that out.
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
You're right. The FFA pvp was great after most people quit.
What did it for us was changing Arrows and magic to hit a mob instead of just shooting into the air. We had plans and goals that were just wiped out again. Plus the extra time it would take now to do what we wanted. that completely changes how you play the game.
We just didnt have time in the day in order for us to have fun and level. Looked the the blood wall. then canceled.
Went from Immersed into a game to canceling in 5 minutes.
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Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Again, if you think EVE and all the similarly harsh open PVP MMOs make up a large portion of the total player interest and subscriptions of MMORPGs, you are delusional.
Focusing on the solitary success story amongst a vast sea of players hopping from themepark to themepark (due to PVE's inherent consumability) only makes you sound more delusional.
Originally posted by Axehilt
Where did I say they make up a large portion again? I merely pointed out your "super tiny playerbase" comment was off the mark when you consider EVE's success. A game with the consistent figures EVE has within this genre (particularly the western market) is not "tiny" by any stretch of the imagination. Simply trying to write it off because it doesn't fit your case, not too great really.
You should spend a bit more time focusing on what is actually being said and a bit less time trying to attack the poster or twist weak arguments. You might have a touch more success that way.
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Had a Lumix, recently died but when it worked it took great photos. I got it in 2006 so it held up pretty well. FWIW I really like the design of that camera Mike.
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I know I started this thread and I still haven't chosen a camera... but I did go to Walmart the other day to pick up party supplies for Mom's 79th birthday party. While we were there I headed back to the camera section. Thay didn't have the biggest selection but I did see a few. Wow! I didn't realize HOW small they actually are! I'll hit Best Buy when I get home.
Went into Best Buy thinking I knew what camera to buy - until I saw where the flash was placed. Why on earth did they place the pop up flash right where I put the index finger of my left hand? I've always held my cameras that way and now they've put the flash in a very unhandy place! And it's not just that way on the camera I was looking at. Several companies have gone that route...
Do any of you have cameras with a flash that pops up from the top on the left side, and how do you manage it? I can just see me forgetting and breaking the flash.....
yep I have a couple that do it :( and the first I know is when I feel it under my finger and normally hear a grind as it tries to pop the flash but fails.Originally Posted by wdwgrandma, post: 285060
Some of the cameras are ok, you push it down again and then move your finger and let it pop up. Others REALLY dont like it and need a switch off/on to fix it.
A few have broken over the years, they just get stuck and wont move back up/down and thats a repair job.
So yeah, if thats where you hold the camera, that's probably not one for you
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I think this flash pop up problem is a problem with many of the small cameras. My canon, that I mentioned, is like that, but to be honest, I wouldn't trade it for another camera (that must say something, right?!). At least with the big cameras there is usually a designated hand and fingers placement area. Just to share, mine will go up a little and then I'm like, "oh yeah, move my finger." However, I don't take many flash photos as it's great in low light.
Donna, the flash on my Fuji is like that. It is sort of spring loaded so even if you were to get your hands in the way, nothing would happen to damage the camera. Not sure if it that durable, I mean springs will eventually konk out, but it has been going strong for around 7 years (oh my gosh....it HAS been that long...me thinks me needs a new camera!)Originally Posted by wdwgrandma, post: 285060
Dan,Originally Posted by Watchinherskip, post: 285079
Haven't had a whole lot of time to play with it yet. From the little bit I have had a chance to mess around with, I kind of like it. I'll get some test shots and stuff in the next week or so and get them up. Right now though I'm too overwhelmed with work stuff to be able to do much experimentation.
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