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On-Camera Flash Photography
This best-selling book on flash photography techniques for on-camera speedlites is based on the articles published on this website, but the material has been fleshed out into a cohesive and thorough approach to getting the best from your on-camera speedlight.
Particular care was taken to present it all with a logical flow with the intention that it will all progressively help the reader attain a better understanding of flash photography.
You can either purchase a copy via Amazon USA or Amazon UK. Alternately, if you'd like an autographed copy of the book, you can order one directly from me via the links below. The book will also available on the Apple iBook Store. Also check for the Amazon Kindle version.
info about my other books on photography
1. On-Camera Flash Photography
2. Off-Camera Flash Photography
3. Direction & Quality of Light
4. Lighting & Design for Portrait Photography
Also check out my list of recommended books on photography technique,
and my choice of best photography books.
Errata & Corrections – On-Camera Flash
I would like to correct a few errors in my book on flash photography.
It seems no matter how many times work is cross-checked, mistakes do slip by.
- On p.107 – plate 14-14 .. the camera settings are incorrectly given. (They are correct in the actual text on p. 106). The correct description for plate 14-14 (p.107) should read:
Adjusting my camera settings, I dropped the ambient light and left the couple illuminated mostly by flash. Settings: 1/250th @ f2 @ 320 ISO
- The image on p.71 (plate 10-13) has a slight error. It says that I bounced the flash to my right, but as should be clear from the photograph, I did indeed bounce the flash to my left. (I have a life-long tendency to confuse left and right when I give directions or descriptions, and it unfortuntely creeped in there as a typo with that image.)
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Also join us on the Tangents forum for further discussions.
If you need more direct help or instruction on flash photography,
I do present workshops & seminars and also offer individual tutoring sessions.
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- 1 October 31, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Neil…Big fan of your site, wish I had time to keep mine up. Love your book though. I actually was waiting for it to come out and was pleasantly surprised. Never thought of metering with the histogram for flash, nice tip. Keep up the good work.
- 2 November 2, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I bought your book two days ago and I'm almost finished. Let me tell you I loved the book. I think I'll will began reading it again to pick up what I have missed the first time. Thank you!!!
- 3 November 3, 2009 at 6:30 am
Ordered and received mine last week. Excellent read. Nice reading from cover to cover and then referring back when something niggles.
I saw some errata somewhere on your site but can't find it now. Can you please let me know where to find it?
- 4 November 3, 2009 at 6:31 am
Nevermind…saw it when I scrolled back up. So much for situational awareness!
- 5 November 11, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Decided to support a hardworking photog who contributes much of his knowledge to the public – not to mention needing a good book on this subject! Looking forward to many details so often left out of many publications. Are you listening Joe?
- 6 November 23, 2009 at 4:27 am
Great book, highly recommended!
- 7 December 8, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hi Neil,
I am a big fan of your web site in which I find lots of intersting tips and technics that help me a lot in my work. Before finding your tangents I barely used flash.
I don(t know if there's many of your book in France but I have one and I love it.
- 8 December 8, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Great stuff, man. Always nice to see the work of a peer. You should add buttons to the bottom of your posts to digg, stumble, etc your content.-Tom
- 9 December 8, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Tom .. thanks for the suggestion. I had my web designer implement that.
Neil vN
- 10 December 9, 2009 at 11:55 am
The simplest way to get all those social bookmarking links in is to use something like AddThis. (free service)
It generates some HTML/Javascript that can be inserted into a website, Wordpress, Blogger, or MySpace. It carries all the major social bookmarking websites, including a few you might not have heard about. A lot of commercial websites are using this service, so AddThis is an accepted technology.
Your web designer should look into AddThis. It will be easier than setting up the links/buttons manually.
(I'm not affiliated with AddThis, but we do use it at my workplace to support our websites.)
- 11 December 9, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Stephen .. thanks!
Neil vN
- 12 December 16, 2009 at 6:02 am
Hi Neil
I've been following your site for sometime now and throughout I've had a suspicion that you have a South African connection. Seeing the Madiba photographs added to my suspicion, which has finally been confirmed by the Bio in your book. I'm interested in buying your book preferable one with an autographed. Could you please tell me if there is a way for the book to be sent to Pretoria and how much it would cost.
- 13 December 16, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Thabiso .. I do ship worldwide. Check the drop-down menu. The only possible snag here is South Africa's unfortunate postal service. But we can give it a try. : )
Neil vN
- 14 December 16, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Neil, I have read your book which I buy on Amazon and the only thing I ask is when your next book will come, "of camera flash" which I am sure I will enjoy as much as the first.
I'm from Dominican Republic.
- 15 December 16, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Alfredo .. I am busy writing just such a book at the moment. : )
Neil vN
- 16 December 17, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Got your book from Amazon and just finished reading it last night. A veritable treasury of knowledge about flash photography. As I read the book, I could visualize photos I had taken over the years and knew now how I could improved them.
I will have to read it again to absorb the lessons until I do all this without thinking. Thank you.
- 17 December 30, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Neil–I was referred to your Web site as an excellent resource for understanding and effectively using TTL metering techniques with ambient light. The site's show-and-tell teaching style is very practical and straightforward, with immediately actionable tips and techniques based in practice, not just theory. After working through the TTL pages only, I ordered your book. Thanks for publishing great content online and, better, thanks for bundling it up into a purchasable volume. Cheers! Will
- 18 December 31, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Got your book today, first impression is great!
Thanks for your little note, much appreciated.
When your next book is ready (off camera flash)
i will buy that one immediately. Happy New Year
and all the best. Greetz! Twan
- 19 January 2, 2010 at 6:49 am
Twan, glad to hear it finally arrived. Enjoy! : )
Neil vN
- 20 January 8, 2010 at 6:11 am
Hi Neil,
Can I get a an electronic download of the book
- 21 January 8, 2010 at 10:00 am
Harinder .. not at this time. An electronic download of the book is something the publisher would have to provide.
Neil vN
- 22 January 12, 2010 at 10:34 am
Ordered your book today in The Netherlands, will receive it in 5 to 7 days. Looks to me as a very usefull book to master my on-cam flash
- 23 January 29, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Please, let me know when the electronic download of the book is available.
- 24 March 12, 2010 at 4:06 am
I'm just finiahed your book and it has helped me enormously. I am not ashamed to admit I was a 45 deg omnibouncer but now I'm boucing it all over the place and getting much better results. I do look strange wandering the streets of Oxford (UK) with a large piece of black foam attached to my flash though! ;-)
(I left a glowing review on Amazon as I think so many would benefit from your book – do you intend to write any more?)
- 26 March 13, 2010 at 10:08 am
Glad to hear about the new book in progress – I'll watch out for it next year.
Your book talks about flash synch speed and my D300 has an option for 1/320 (auto FP) but when I set this and have the shutter at 1/320 (manual mode) I get reduced power from the 1/250 shutter speed. I'm using an sb-900. I have had to set the d300 to 1/250 (auto FP) and this works fine at 1/250 shutter speed. Am I doing something wrong?
- 28 March 30, 2010 at 9:27 am
I read your book, and I am using it as a bible!
EVERYTHING makes so much more sense after I read your stuff!!!
- 29 April 20, 2010 at 8:40 am
I downloaded the book thru Kindle Store today . Not started reading yet and just glanced thru . I am sure its going to be a life time experience going thru all the practical examples but one thing which is disturbing is that the quality of photographs on the kindle edition is bad . These are not clear .
- 30 April 22, 2010 at 5:01 am
Yeh I downloaded it from Amazon last night and shame about the photo's being poor, I guess the kindle thing is poor resolution? I use a app on mac to view the book just wish I bought the book now. That said it is so far a fantastic read and easy to follow. I have bin following this site for a few months now and is up there with my fav sites too follow.
Keep the great post's coming and look forward to the next book
- 31 April 22, 2010 at 8:09 am
Merci, Thank YOU. Your book is just great. As a French guy I had a bit of hard time reading it in english but now I am part of the black foam Ninja French Team :).
Before I did not know how to use my 580EXII. And now I am training myself all the time with it. Your book is THE book for on-flash camera photography :).
- 32 April 22, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I lurk on your blog regularly and learn as much as I can, or reaffirm things I'm doing with lighting. I bought the book, if you read blogs like this you should support the content creators in what ever way make scenes. Good luck with the book.
- 33 April 27, 2010 at 3:21 pm
At first I thought the book was simply a collection of your blogs, as many of the images and lessons in the book have appeared on this site. However, it is much more than that. As a pro, I am not in the habit of spending my hard-earned cash (very hard-earned in some cases) on yet another how-to manual, so it needed to be special to get me to buy. It needed to be even more special for me to actually start using the techniques. It worked on both levels.
So, even though you struggle to tell left from right, congratulations on a spectacular success….
- 35 July 4, 2010 at 11:32 am
Neil, reading your book at the moment! Thanks for the clear explanations!! Discovered a small typo on page 13: if a flash bracket is used the battery pack can be screwed onto the onto the vertical pillar. This might be added to the list of typos if you wish.
- 36 July 11, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Hi Neil,
Greetings from downunder(Adelaide)!! Found your book really, really useful. I am astonished by the quality of light you get using on-camera flash bounce appropriately. I am also very happy that you share your personal experience and settings with your public through the website and your book. There is a lot for me to internalise and practice from reading your book, but I am very keen to begin practising your techniques because it will eventually free me up from carrying too much gear on location shoots; indoor or out.
Thanks once again for an engrossing read, and I look forward to your upcoming book on off-camera flash. Any firm timelines yet for publicaton???
- 37 July 12, 2010 at 6:27 am
Hi, Neil
Hi from Tokyo, Japan!
I got a copy of your flash photography book about a week ago and have kept reading it again and again since then. It does help me understand more and more about using ceiling bounced flash light effecively and controlling it as I want, and I am sure that it adds more spice on my wedding work.
Thank you for sharing your techniques, experience and useful tips through the book. I'm also looking forward to your next book, and please let us know when it comes out!!
- 38 July 25, 2010 at 3:52 am
Hello Neil
I got your book few months ago and iam reffering it almost everyday. well on page 38 i saw following
1) When the scene/Subject is light in tone,you will increse the Exposure
2) when the scene/Subject is dark in tone you will decrease the exposure
and its stated under the section of Flash exposure compensation. my question is are you talking about the FEC or Total Exposure compensation on Camera body? if i understood it correctly its about FEC .is the Darker objuct less Exposure compensation & Lighter objuct more exposure compensation rule is applicable for FEC too?
and on Page 39 on the Table # 4 Wheather the Subject is offcenter or centered in the frame… How does the TTL/BL flash effect the subject if its centered or offcentered?
- 40 August 1, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Hello Neil,
Your blog rules and it has changed the way I use my flash! Thanks for being so totally cool and sharing this valuable info with the whole world.
I bought your book on Amazon.co.uk and I posted a well meant positive review, I think that's the least I could do :-)
Kind regards,
- 42 August 4, 2010 at 8:41 am
Thanks …so the Bottom line is the FEC on Flash itself need to bump up 2-3 stops if the Subjuct is lighter in tone and – 2 to3 stops if the Subjuct is darker in tone. and of couse i know this is applicable for Exposure compensation on camera body also am i correct?
- 44 August 12, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I am wondering if your book is for beginners? Manual flash versus TTL flash continues to mystify me.
- 48 August 21, 2010 at 1:20 am
Hi Neil,
Actually I did know the shutter was 1/160. That was my typo.
Explaining that it was overcast outside does help.
Still having a little trouble with the high ISO but I will keep practicing.
Your book is the best I have read. Thank you for your quick reply!
- 49 August 27, 2010 at 2:35 am
Hi Neil,so far you've got 59 out of 68 comments that give you 5 stars feedback at Amazon.Congratulations!.I do really look forward for your next book.
P.S.: of course,one of these 5 starts is mine :)
- 50 September 3, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I recently found your site and love it! Seeing that you had a book out I immediately decided to buy it! But not available as a digital book?
That was the first thing I looked for as I am now converted to digital library. As many folks are nowadays…
- 52 September 10, 2010 at 10:12 am
Just read your book and it is a trememdous help to me. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to the off-camera flash book!
- 54 October 14, 2010 at 9:26 am
Your book is part of my permanent photography library and I will be among the first to get your next book. The only negative is the title. You should have cut the title off after the word "Techniques". I was hesitant at first to get the book because I thought that the portrait/wedding context was too specific for my needs. Of course after taking a chance and reading it I found it dealt with the basics which is exactly what I wanted.
- 57 October 19, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Hi Neil,
Just ordered the book directly from you, figured you might get to keep a little more of the profit this way. Just a small way of sending a BIG thank you for all you share with us in this wonderful site.
Carlos A – becoming a better photographer in great part thanks to you!
- 58 October 25, 2010 at 8:51 am
Just ordered the book. I've been taking photos for friends and now "friends of friends" etc and really want to hone my flash skills. Discovered your site a few days ago and purchased the book from B-N today!!! Excellent tips & advice easily explained.
- 59 October 28, 2010 at 3:56 am
My congratulations on your Polish edition of your beatyfull book.
- 61 October 28, 2010 at 6:56 am
- 63 November 14, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Hi Neil,
Thanks for the link back to our site – and congratulations on the book!
- 64 November 19, 2010 at 10:24 am
Hi Neil. Read the book. This is a bft pic:
- 66 December 16, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I just ordered your book on flash photography. I can't wait to devour it!
Best wishes,
Dori Lawrence
Iconic Captures Photography
- 67 January 10, 2011 at 8:52 am
Having read On-Camera Flash several times and with a photography book collection of over 75 titles, I can honestly say this is one of the most instructive, comprehensive and well thought out books on flash photography available. Don't hesitate for a second getting it. I can't wait for the next one. Dave
- 68 January 14, 2011 at 7:07 pm
will this come out in PDF or some method for us iPad lovers?
- 70 February 22, 2011 at 12:06 pm
In your book On-Camera Flash, that is excelent, chapter 12, page 90, the plate 12-1 is without flash?. How you can obtain this result?.
- 71 February 22, 2011 at 12:18 pm
One sugestion to your excelent book. I think is necesary add some technical back up, like for intance when the flash shoot, it take only 1/1000 seconds in close, but the shutter curtains is still open and ambient light is incoming for a time. This time is controled for the velocity of the camera.
I am engineer and I need this type of explanation, because is more easy understand what you say.
- 73 February 25, 2011 at 11:04 am
Hi Neil
I just purchased your book and I'm very excited. I first saw you on the B&H video series "What's the F Stop" I must have watched them 4 times over. I found your blog and I can't seem to get off of it. I'm just a pure amateur taking family and trip photos with my T2i and NISSIN di866 flash gun. Here I thought bouncing off the ceiling was the only way. I've been trying your techniques, and I'm loving the results. I just have one question. What's the best F stop for a wedding photo? (Just Kidding)
Thanks for all your efforts.
- 74 March 7, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for the explanation Neil
- 75 April 13, 2011 at 7:17 am
Olá Neil,
Tenho seguido o seu blog, do qual me tornei fã, é maravilhoso!
Agora estou a ler o seu livro On-Camera Flash na versão Portuguesa e estou a adorar.
Muitos parabéns por ambos e continue a fazer esse excelente trabalho.
- 76 June 2, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Great stuff, Neil! Picked up your book in Kindle, lots of useful info, and loving the tutorial blogs… keep them coming please!
- 77 June 24, 2011 at 12:03 am
Neil, can you recommend a good book on the art of seeing, for weddings?
I'm getting ready to get back into it and I feel a bit rusty and my "seeing" hasn't been that great lately. or maybe you have some posts on here that talk about that?
- 78 August 24, 2011 at 8:25 am
Just ordered your book:) Was editing pics yesterday and felt like such an amateur!! Shiny faces, some too bright, uneven lighting…… Can't wait to get comfortable with my flash!!
- 79 October 14, 2011 at 6:03 am
Off to shoot a wedding in a few days and once again having a quick flick through your book for guidance and inspiration.
- 80 October 19, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Hey Neil,
I just bought your book "On Camera Flash – Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography" and love it. I bought it in the Kindle form and can't tell you how many highlights I have made in it.
I have read other books on flash photography and it's really interesting to see how different photographers approach the same issue in different ways.
One question I had was…what is the furthest distance from a wall or ceiling that you would attempt to bounce your flash from? Say using an SB-900.
Cheers, Ken
- 82 October 19, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Well…there must be a point at which you looked at a ceiling and said that's just too far to bounce my flash off of, right. At some point it just wouldn't be affective. No?
- 84 October 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Good enough, I guess I was just looking for a general idea from "your" experience. I just bought your other book and am looking forward to learning more from "your" experience.
- 85 November 23, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Just ordered your books, Neil. I'm sure I'll get a lot out of them, but just supporting your site alone makes them worth it. Very helpful!
- 86 December 1, 2011 at 9:05 am
Je ne parle pas un mot d'Anglais.
Exciste t il le livre en Français
- 87 December 14, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Can I download your books as pdf files??
I live on Curacao,and it is a headache to order and have it delivered here.Would be great if I could pay with paypall and just downloaded them.
Cheerio from Curacao
- 88 December 14, 2011 at 8:21 pm
I am sure I could browse this amazing website and glean much of the info in the book….but I love books, and there is nothing like having all of this and more in a nice readable format.
Just ordered the book, cannot wait to get it!
- 89 March 4, 2012 at 8:37 am
Just ordered my copy of both books from AMAZON after reading a few excellent articles in this blog. Cant wait to start learning more
- 91 April 10, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Hi Niel,
I read both your flash books and they are a great resource; different than everything else I have read so far.
I have a question regarding the use of the "black foaming thing" setup. How do you determine the flash head's zoom setting When using the "black foaming thing?" do you let the camera tell the flash head to automatically zoom with the change in focal length or do you set the flash head manually at one setting?
- 93 June 3, 2012 at 5:26 pm
I'd just like to say that your approach to flash has transformed my photography. I was mainly an available light photographer and always steered well clear of flash. Your clear explanations are great and when put into practice yield instantly better results than I've had before. Your wedding work is definately something that is a step up from the norm.
I continue to re read the site but have just ordered your book as a reference to my picture taking, thank you john
- 94 July 18, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Dear Neil,
Just received and read your book about On Camera Flash and I like to thank you for creating this. Very well written and a lot for me to think about and most likely re-consider making pictures.
I do have one question which is about the use of ADL (Nikon). I'm asking as I noticed in your book (on one of the histogram explanations) that ADL was switched on in the Normal setting. ADL , as you most likely be aware off, is created by Nikon to balans high light and low lights to take away shadows when not using flash. Do you know what impact ADL has on taken flash pictures using TTL and, even more, TTL-BL. To me it looks like that ADL and TTL-BL will try to do similar things: balancing. Isn't this not too much captains on the bridge. Should we not just switch ADL > OFF?
- 95 November 22, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Hi Niel,
I am learning a lot from your articles and thank you for sharing it with us.
Do have an idea if your book has already reached the Philippines?
- 96 November 30, 2012 at 4:32 am
Hi Neil,
I am very new to flash photography, and would like to learn a lot from your book
Do you sell the e-book version or is it just hard copy only??
the problem is I'm not in the US so it's kinda hard sending the hard copy version.
- 98 January 8, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Just wondering when this will be available on amazon or iTunes again? It's not available as an Ebook on Amazon or ITunes and the UK sites are blocking me being from Australia. Are there any other ways to get it electronically?
- 102 January 9, 2014 at 3:47 am
Thanks guys. Amazon US seems to say its unavailable but maybe that's because I am logged in and they can tell where I am from.
Will check amazon again and then go from there.
- 103 January 9, 2014 at 3:51 am
Ahh you meant a test on the price USA site didn't you? Yes that's probably my best bet. In the meantime it has let me download direction and quality of light from iTunes so I'll have some reading to do in the meantime :-)
Thanks for your help trev and neil
- 105 September 12, 2014 at 1:48 pm
Hi Neil,
I am a big fan of yours, have all your 3 books and your 2 craftsy course on flash, must say teachers like you are few and far…
I have a question which has been bothering me and it is like this that at some places you suggest to underexpose the camera by near about a stop and then add bounce flash and at other places you advise to overexpose by almost 1.7 stops and then add flash. How do you decide which way to go, over or under. Feeling confused please help: (
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Pharos Science & Applications offers a different type of pay-as-you-go service on its unlocked GPS-enabled Windows Mobile smart phones: Initially, U.S. maps and service are free, but you must pay for access to maps of Canada, Western Europe, or Eastern Europe at the rate of $2 per day, $5 per week, $7 per month, or $50 per year. (Pharos says that it will soon offer maps of China, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil on the same terms.)
Once you obtain the maps you need (a step that does require a network connection), nothing more is tied to network coverage. Instead, the maps and location-based services are available only for the period of access you pay for. During that period, however, the unit is fully functional as a GPS navigation device, capable of generating routes and identifying your location, regardless of whether you have got a cell phone signal. And because Pharos's phones are sold unlocked, you can use them on any GSM-based network.
Verizon BlackBerry Storm Review
Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone
It's always hard to find the truth when there is so much hype. Reviewers tend to put down devices if they get too much media and start niggling over problems. Since the touch screen is new, they find that it takes time to get used to it, while one notes that he loves it. One reviewer lost patience and said that although he was excited about the BlackBerry Storm, it has too many bugs and buyers should "wait out the storm."
Samsung 400TS Touchable TV
Posted by sawaru | Category: Home Appliance, TV
The Samsung 400TSn is 40-inch touchscreen display that support touch-sensitive infrared technology. It boast 3000:1 contrast ratio as well as four types anti-image retention that automatically active.
Samsung 400TSn equipped with built-in two 10W speakers along with 3mm protective LCD glass panel. It provide MagicInfo-Pro Software and integrated PC that running Windows XPe operation system. No words when Samsung 400TSn will be available and how much it cost.
Mintpad new meaning in Post-IT
Posted by sawaru | Category: Trend Watch & News
Now the Mintpad is in the market with pioneering new concept tablet notepad. – priced at $156.
The Mintpad is touchscreen wi-fi connectivity enabled which transforms the conventional note scribbling into digital aspect. Wi-Fi connectivity lets you play media player and web browser.
How does it work?
Simply jot your note on the Mintpad screen via stylus as it doesn't have keyboard and they are transferred as it is to the recipient in a second. The limitation is that this can only send notes to other Mintpads.
Samsung TL34HD
Posted by sawaru | Category: Digital Camera
The Samsung TL34HD is a no hassle point-and-shoot. Thanks to its touchscreen interface, it's one of the easiest compacts on the market to use. It has a 3.0-inch LCD that's extraordinarily big for such a small camera, and its 28mm lens lets you squeeze plenty of information into wide-angle shots. We weren't as enthusiastic over the LCD screen's lackluster quality, and some might be underwhelmed by the 3.6x zoom. The video quality, even in high-definition 720p, was largely unusable for anything beyond YouTube. On the other hand, still-image quality was solid across the board, and the Samsung TL34HD gives you both full-auto and full-manual controls. If you need a lithe, thoroughly intuitive camera for landscapes and portraits, the TL34HD is an easy sell. Release: September 2008. Price: $300.
Pros: Small footprint, even with the lens fully extended. Solid image quality. Intuitive touchscreen.
Cons: Mediocre display quality. Subpar video quality.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic first touch screen phone
Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone
Nokia's first touchscreen-equipped cellphone, the music-playing 3G 5800 XpressMusic, is due in the fourth quarter in Europe, but a North American edition isn't planned for U.S. availability until sometime next year, a spokesman said.
Another version of the phone, due in Europe early next year at an unannounced price, will deliver free one-year
Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic phone
access to Nokia's soon-to-launch Comes With Music service, which allows one year of free unlimited over-the-air downloading of protected-WMA music tracks from the catalogs of the big four music labels (Warner, Sony/BMG, EMI and Universal) and independents. Tracks downloaded during that time can be kept after the year is up, and additional songs can be purchased after that time on an a la carte basis from Nokia's Music Store. Consumers can also download Comes With Music songs to their PC and side-load them to the phone, a spokesman said.
The service launches in mid-October in the U.K. with compatibility on select Nokia phones, but the company hasn't announced plans to launch the service in the U.S.
The company also hasn't said whether the 5800, a GSM/W-CDMA HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) phone, will be sold in the U.S. through carriers or, as an unlocked phone, direct to retailers or consumers.
In Europe, the 4.31-inch by 2.04-inch by 0.61-inch, 3.85-ounce phone will sell for around 279 euros, or $368 based on an exchange rate of $1.38 per euro, excluding carrier subsidies.
Nokia 7700 was just the first stab
Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News
Today, however, Nokia is trying to play catch-up with the likes of Samsung and more notably, Apple with its iPhone. Both have touchscreen products in the marketplace while Nokia's version could be released by the end of the year.
The Finnish company's first stab at the touchscreen format was in 2003 with the Nokia 7700 series which was later discontinued. Local pricing and availability would be revealed closer to launch date in the first quarter next year, a company spokesperson said.
Rumored Atila from Motorola
Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone
Motorola's latest much-rumored smartphone, currently named "Atila," has had images of it supposedly leaked to the public. Designed as a device to compete directly with the iPhone, it features a touchscreen, 3G support and will run Windows Mobile.
The device reportedly will feature quad-band GSM/EDGE along with tri-band UMTS/HSPA, making it ideally suited for use overseas or on AT&T and Rogers in North America. The device will not support T-Mobile USA's 3G rollout, only the carrier's existing 2.5G network.
Atila will supposedly run on a Qualcomm 7201A processor, speed unknown but likely in the 400 MHz range.
Its 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen will be its only means of input, lacking a hardware keyboard or numeric keypad. This is a big part of what separates it from the Motorola Alexander, a similar model that was recently leaked.
Nintendo DS Lite double touch face
Posted by sawaru | Category: Games & Console
The current Nintendo DS Lite only has a touchscreen on the bottom half of the handheld and the top display is just a regular screen. By expanding the touchy-feel experience to the second display, Nintendo may be able to better create Brain Age-like titles and other interactive adventures. The other rumor is that both screens will get a little bigger too.
Don't get your hopes up too far just yet, though, because there's no way we're seeing a new DS before the holiday season. Even the optimistic among us are looking at an "early next year" launch window.
via Mobilemag


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realizations reinforced his own beliefs about tolerance and acceptance,
grounding the values that help him work for justice. Miller also
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the closing is the most difficult part of the trial, Miller said.
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A NOVA Townhall Blog Administrative Update
NOVA Townhall is pleased to announce that we've joined the Old Dominion Blog Alliance (via Commonwealth Conservative) and the Guard the Borders blog roll. Please check out some of the other members of both of these communities- there is some great stuff there!
I am also pleased to report that we've won an award on the Too Conservative blog. I for one take it as a compliment that we've been listed as "Worst Blog†for our true Northern Virginia conservative commentary and were referred to as the "mouthpiece for the Group B crew†(TC's apparent distinction for conservatives who don't fully embrace his specific argument for GOP success through moderates). We will wear this award as a badge of honor. Although I must point out I think it's a little childish and petty to provide a link to every other blog given an "award" but refrain from linking to ours because we often disagree… if you're going to make a judgment about a blog (in my opinion) you should provide a link to let readers check it out for themselves- call it a principle of fairness if you will.
In the coming days NOVA Townhall will be adding some new bloggers who are well connected to the Virginia political scene, so check back soon!
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HA! That is priceless. I think it deserves a plaque or something. It sure did not take long, either! I'm not overly familiar with the TC deal, but to have earned their enmity so quickly we must have ticked somebody off. Well, guess we'll have to find a whole NEW set of friends...I'll work on the plaque.
Haha, fantastic!
If the award is from TC might I suggest a "Bobblehead" instead of a plaque since TC's head goes in so many different and often times antithetical directions.
I just don't understand his apparent vendetta... sure he likes more liberal candidates than we do but it seems his whole argument (or at least the most comprehensible part) is that solid conservatives are "all or nothing people" and refuse to work with moderates to ensure GOP power, thus presuming more liberal Republicans aren't "all or nothing†people and are willing to work with conservatives. Yet he repeatedly spits in the eye of principled conservatives and attacks them every chance he gets while singing praises for Governor Kaine's tax hike plan? I can't keep up with the inconsistencies.
Welcome to the ODBA.
As for Vince not liking your blog, now that your are part of the alliance, he will at least have to provide you with a link.
Thanks Norman, muchas gracias.
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There were a whole lot of unspoken truths -- and likely a spoken untruth -- before, during and after the San Francisco Giants' 4-2 win over the Padres at AT&T Park on Wednesday afternoon. The game that ended a wild series was decided when the defending World Series roughed up Padres relief pitcher Luke Gregerson -- who gave up four straight hits in turning a 2-1 lead by Eric Stults into a two-run loss -- but it was clear that something else about this game was decided by the Giants in their win the night before.
As soon as left-handed starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner released the second-inning fastball that nearly hit Jesus Guzman of the Padres in the back and sailed on to the backstop, the intent was wholly evident to everyone in the 200th straight sellout at AT&T Park.
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"It's too obvious," said Guzman, "to throw the ball like that."
Bumgarner was trying to exact the team's revenge, or possibly just sending a message pitch, for Guzman's jaunty celebration of a two-run homer that put the Padres ahead in their Tuesday night loss. Uh, wasn't he?
"There's no need to comment on that," said Bumgarner, who'd been separated from jousting with Guzman by both teams forming an infield scrum that resulted in no punches or ejections.
Said catcher Buster Posey, maintaining a straight face, "The ball got away from him."
The Padres, not unpredictably, were hardly amused by the Giants' words and Bumgarner's actions.
"I don't know what was in his head," said manager Bud Black. "That was uncalled for, though. I didn't get it."
Guzman actually got a bit of his own revenge, again putting the Padres ahead 2-1 with his solo homer off Bumgarner, giving no flourish whatsoever to his home-run trot. Black and Guzman said there was nothing wrong or disrespectful about the latter's actions after the Tuesday night homer against Jeremy Affeldt. On that one, Guzman did turn fully to face the Padres dugout and excitedly made a few sidesteps toward first.
"It was emotion, a key part of a game in a key series," said Black. "You see players across the landscape of baseball do this."
"I was enjoying the homer with my team," said Guzman. "It's part of the game. That's OK. I will forget this."
The Wednesday afternoon game marked the first time since June 4 that the Padres -- returning home from here for four games against the Los Angeles Dodgers and three against the Philadelphia Phillies -- had lost two straight contests. In both cases at AT&T Park, too, the Giants hammered the first right-hander out of San Diego's bullpen.
Taking over for Stults with a one-run lead, one out and a runner on first, Gregerson immediately gave up a single to Hector Sanchez and two-run triple to right-center by Gregor Blanco for the lead. Blanco then scored on Marco Scutaro's single. Gregerson was pulled without recording an out in his six pitches, apparently abandoned by his trademark slider.


text: Will Grapegrowers and Consumers Accept GMO Wines? Erika Szymanski June 26, 2011 Erika Szymanski, FCG, Features, Wine Science 25 Comments Would you drink fluorescent green wine? Most molecular biologists-in-training experience their first taste of genetic engineering by transferring a jellyfish gene into (harmless) Escherichia coli, making the bacteria glow green under UV light. One slow day this past winter, my lab-mates and I contemplated the ramifications of transferring that same gene into Vitis vinifera. Fluorescent green wine? Fluorescent green wine! Oh, wait a minute. Do we seriously want such a thing? And has someone already done it? Glowing grapevines are already a reality, though it is the leaf, not the grape, that glows, and the plants are a research tool, not a commercial endeavor. Unbeknownst to most of the wine-drinking world, GMO (genetically modified organism) wine—made with grapes grown from grapevines that have had non-native genes inserted into their genomes—is likely to be on shop shelves in the foreseeable future. This should not be much of a surprise, really. Most of the American corn and soybean crops are already genetically modified. In the US, food products containing GMOs need not even be labeled as such. The question is: will the uncommonly traditional and restrictive wine industry accept GMOs with the same aplomb as other food industries have? Dr. Dennis Gray, a professor of developmental biology at the University of Florida and father of the glowing grapevine, speculates that industry and consumer acceptance may be the most difficult part of bringing genetically modified wine grapes to market. Dr. Gray and his research group have successfully modified—"transformed"—both wine and table grape varieties with genes that make them more resistant to problem fungi and pests. Expressing a specific gene from chardonnay in a Thompson Seedless variety, for example, dramatically improves its resistance to fungal diseases like powdery mildew or sour-bunch rot. The group has had success with a variety of Vitis species, including popular vinifera. The work is motivated in part by the goal of profitably growing grapes in Florida, an endeavor historically plagued by unmanageable Pierce's Disease, but Dr. Gray sees benefits for growers of both wine and table grapes everywhere. Gray's group works with a technique called cisgenetic engineering, which means that they engineer grape plants with genes from grapes rather than, say, genes from corn or bacteria or jellyfish (save for those research-only green-glowing vines, that is.) Not only can specific genes be transplanted from one grape variety to another, expression levels can be boosted for genes that might ordinarily be active only part of the time or at low levels. In contrast to traditional breeding, this means that specific traits can be selected without impacting other desirable characteristics (in theory, at least), and the work can be done much faster than traditional breeding, too. Powdery mildew on vines Will the fact that only grape genes are being used make a difference to opponents of genetic modification? Maybe, but it is not likely to pacify everyone. Both the Australian wine industry and the California-based Wine Institute have issued public statements against the use of any genetically modified organisms, which would include Dr. Gray's cisgenetic vines. Other researchers are also working on GMO grapes, and some have received clear indications that their work isn't welcome. Just last August, members of an activist group called "The Voluntary Reapers" ravaged an experimental GMO vineyard in Colmar, France. The vineyard, capstone to a French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) project to engineer grapevine fanleaf virus-resistant vines, was utterly destroyed. The same vineyard was attacked and damaged, to a lesser extent, in November of 2009. Genetic engineering experiments on grapevines by the INRA had been authorized for five years, ending in 2010, and it appears that the Institute has not pursued an extension. Beyond grapes, yeasts and bacteria used in winemaking are potentially subject to genetic modification, too. One genetically modified yeast, ML01, has already hit the market courtesy of Dr. Hennie van Vuuren at the University of British Columbia and via distributer American Tartaric. Approved for use in the US, Canada, Moldova, and South Africa, ML01 harbors two bacterial genes that enable it to perform malolactic fermentation. Ergo, this nifty little yeast can drive both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation simultaneously, shortening processing time and eliminating the need for a separate malolactic culture. For winemakers, it means less time and less expense. For consumers, ML01 promises to reduce levels of biogenic amines, a prime suspect implicated in the dreaded "wine headache" (for more detail, see Tom Mansell's great piece here.) Because bacteria used for malolactic fermentation are a potential source of biogenic amines, eliminating the need for bacteria may be helpful. Anything that shortens processing time, too, shortens the window of opportunity for spoilage by organisms that can also elaborate biogenic amines. Some people are less likely to have hissy-fits over GMO microorganisms versus GMO plants, but the principles at work are the same, and there are some concerns over ML01 and its future kin. The widespread use of commercial active dry yeast already means that the makeup of yeast strains found hanging around in wineries is changing; once a yeast strain is introduced, it is likely to take up residence and become part of the microflora of the winery. GMO yeast with hyper-competitive reproductive and survival abilities could, in theory, make native (i.e. non-commercial) yeast strains endangered species. Is this a problem? Anyone with a general interest in preserving biodiversity has to answer with an emphatic "Yes, it is." We often don't know what we've lost until we've lost it, and more often than not, we don't ever know what we've lost at all. Microbiologists, let alone the average consumer, may not even know if or how close that danger lies. Even though ML01 has been around since 2003, its use is shrouded in a fair bit of secrecy. No winery advertises that they use it, and its distributor won't discuss its client list. Wineries' fear of backlash—from consumers, or fellow wineries, or both?—apparently outweighs the potential marketing benefits of advertising that a particular wine may cause fewer headaches. Then again, calling attention to that feature in one wine might induce a customer to think that other wines from the same producers that don't bear the same claim are more likely to cause headaches. This brings up an interesting problem, i.e., that it is difficult for an objective third party to collect field data on how much ML01 reduces biogenic amine levels in practical use. Another interesting point is that the eight year-old ML01 is still the sole genetically engineered yeast approved for enological use. Is this for lack of demand? Technical issues? Or out of fear that "they" do not want GMOs in wine? Perhaps the most interesting question, at least from a philosophical point of view, is how GMO wine—grapes or yeast—fits into the current enological dynamic. On the one hand, interest in sustainable, biodynamic, organic, green, and/or low-intervention winemaking seems to be at an all-time high. On the other hand, research and technology from ivory towers like UC Davis are constantly making it easier to produce a good, clean, flaw-free product. GMO wine, clearly a product of the second trend, would seem to contradict the first. I, for one, (and perhaps I am excessively scrupulous) would have trouble calling wine that incorporated engineered grapes or yeast a "natural" product. Conversely, however, GMOs could enable winemakers to use fewer chemicals both in the vineyard and in the winery. Dr. Gray's mildew-resistant grapes could translate to less spraying. ML01 could reduce spoilage and, therefore, potentially reduce manipulations intended to prevent or redress spoilage problems. Ways to reduce chemical use inevitably make the green/biodynamic/sustainable crowd happy. The winemaking and wine-drinking communities are not facing these questions yet, but it will not be long. Genetically engineered wine grapes already exist and production needs only be ramped up to a commercially-viable scale. The two major hurdles to be crossed before GMO grapes hit the US market are scaling production up to a commercially-viable scale and approval by the FDA. At that point, of course, it is up to individual vignerons whether or not they wish to grow GMO vines. But is this a decision that wine drinkers should be permitted to make for themselves, too? In the US, foods containing GMO ingredients need not be labeled as such, but products that eschew them can voluntarily boast "No GMOs" Should wine be treated in the same way as any other food product? How many consumers would show preference for a wine certified GMO-free? Green-glowing wine might have a small market amongst the indie-wine-drinking-raver crowd, but I doubt it would ever take off. What do you think? Erika Szymanski was blessed with parents who taught her that wine was part of a good meal, who believed that well-behaved children belonged in tasting rooms with their parents, and who had way too many books. Averting a mid-life crisis in advance, she recently returned to her native Pacific Northwest to study for a PhD in microbial enology at Washington State University. Her goal, apart from someday having goats, is melding a winery job to research on how to improve the success rate of spontaneous ferments. When tending her Brettanomyces leaves enough time, her blog Wine-o-scope keeps notes on why being a wine geek is fun. Cassie In addition to my anti-GMO involvement, I also run a wine club. This will be very interesting to see. The people who drink wine just to drink it will probably not care & welcome anything unusual. Those who are actually into wine appreciation will most likely not appreciate anything affecting vines that are hundreds of years old. Mary Funny, we were just talking about GMO wine the other day. We think we can clean up on some farmland for cheap, use resistant modified rootstocks, and produce a lovely product. I proposed to do it as a CSW–community supported wine. It has a real future with people who actually understand the science and the benefits. http://blog.sustainablog.org/labelling-genetically-modified-foods/ We were noticing the Jeep ad recently that used "genetically engineered" as a marketing phrase, so it may be that consumers are more ready than some people want to believe on the opposition. Erika Szymanski Mary, I read the blog post you linked, and you make some interesting points. I completely agree that many people who are afraid of GMOs are poorly educated on the subject. The truth is, however, that many very well-educated people have valid concerns about the long-term implications of GMO agricultural products on genetic diversity, food safety, human and environmental health, and ecological balance. You review only one facet of a many-faceted issue on your post. I hope that the scientific and larger communities engage in a broader and public debate before we as a society embrace an unchangeable path. Elizabeth PLEASE! Do a background on the Monsanto, Round Up, and Pharmacuedical company that is a part of the Monsanto world wide disaster. Also, follow the money. Look at the India reports, the Agent orange disaster they created that they claimed was "Safe". Along with the many other law suits. Check out the massivly growing rates of cancer and the pandemic episode of Autism in our country since GMO food has been introduced. Do you think it is just coincidental that Monsanto's people are being placed in the top positions in FDA? Check out the exploding watermelons in China. Befeore you decide on GMO foods, just please consider what other countries are saying. My son is battleing a terrible cancer that used to be very rare and is now becoming very common. That is only one of the cancers that are now growing in incidence at an alarming rate in the US. Incidently, the company that is developing the drugs to treat these highly tumorous cancers is owned by exactly who I thought it would be. The meds only cost $10,000-$13,000 a month for the medications. Of course there are hospital bills that go with their delivery in infusions amounting to about 60,000 a month. They are Gene and Protien specific drugs. Is'nt that interesting now that we have almonst all foods invaded with GMO Genetically altered protiens and genetically altered genes in our food? I will personally drive an extra half hour just to shop to avoid these GMO foods. Also, the mice in the France study did not get tumors until eating the GMO food for about 4-6 months. Many countries are now banning GMO foods and a ban on growing them. They are also causing environmental disasters everywhere. PLEASE read reports from India. I will never touch GMO grapes or wines and everyone I know has realized the dangers to health and environment. http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-existential-threats-to-global-food.html Steve Savager Most of the resistance stems from concerns about genetic contamination, but it should not. Grapes have been "cloned" for centuries. A bud of a desired variety is grafted onto a rootstock that can resist soil pests. No grapes are grown from seed except in a breeding program. Chardonnay grows next to Cabernet and there is never an issue of contamination. There are only wild grapes in the US and Middle East, but that has never been an issue except that diseases can move back and forth. Last fall I wrote about the destruction of the fanleaf virus experiment in France. In that case, only the under-ground rootstock was "GMO" and it just expressed the coat protein of the virus that was already present at that site. A Sad Day For Wine, A Sad Day For Science http://redgreenandblue.org/2010/08/17/a-sad-day-for-wine-a-sad-day-for-science/ http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-existential-threats-to-global-food.html Steve Savager I wrote an article about the destruction of the experiment in Colmar, France http://redgreenandblue.org/2010/08/17/a-sad-day-for-wine-a-sad-day-for-science/ Grapes are cloned. There is absolutely no issue with genetic contamination! Mary @Erika: well, if you really cared about biodiversity you would oppose all farming–because that's a giant assault on biodiversity, on purpose. But if you are going to farm (and I do support farming), using fewer chemical pesticides is high on the top of my list of good things for the planet–and for non-target species. Better yield with less waste is also up there, to reduce the amount of land used for farming and to feed more people. Many of the "many-faceted" issues around this topic are actually nothing to do with GMOs, and many people falsely condemn them because of their tunnel-vision on that, when many of the concerns are related to other aspects of agriculture. Erika Szymanski Mary, my worldview says that humans are called to be stewards of the earth, which means caring for it and using it responsibly. As with most things, it's a matter of respect and balance. Back to GMOs, I must say that I seriously doubt that the majority of anti-GMO concerns are unrelated to GMOs. Can you give us a few specific examples? Pingback: GMO Wine Coming to a Carafe Near You… Soon « OrganicAuthority.com – Organic Blog() Mary It's your own quote that paints GMOs with these things: "genetic diversity, food safety, human and environmental health, and ecological balance." Monocultures are often claimed to be an issue of GMOs, and they were an issue long before GMOs. Food safety is not a GMO issue. Human and environmental health–please show me where this is a GMO issue–with actual scientific sources and not just crap off of some website. And ecological balance–what component of this is unique to GMOs? Please illustrate (with credible sources) the GMO-unique aspects of this. Pingback: Weekly Virginia Wine News Roundup: 7-2-11 | Virginia Wine Trips() http://www.winetech.co.za Gerard Martin I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the GMO yeast ML01 is not approved for use in the South African Wine Industry. http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-existential-threats-to-global-food.html Steve Savager Gerard, There are very few changes you could make with a GMO yeast that you couldn't just achieve through selection of existing lines with or without mutagenesis. The existing strains work just fine anyway Erika Szymanski Gerard, thanks for the correction. Steve, while an awful lot can be done with ordinary yeast selection, developing an enzymatic functionality that isn't found in the genus requires engineering for all practical purposes. My guess is that's a main reason why ML01 is the only GMO yeast currently on the market. Mary, you know as well as I do that what you're asking for is a lot of work. I'm away from my source materials for the summer, and I have faith that no matter what sort of evidence I provide, you have already made up your mind and have no intention of changing it. For that matter, your own website makes plenty of statements that aren't substantiated with the sort of information you are asking me to provide. If I have time come mid-August, I'll get back to you. Mary My own website where? Can you be more specific about these unsubstantiated claims? If you refer to the link I gave where we were engaged in a discussion–that's not my site–just like here, we are discussing things and this site isn't mine either….? I'm asking for a lot of work for you to substantiate your claims that GMOs have all these awful and unique problems–which are not common to other aspects of agriculture? Your article makes the claims. What part of the world are you in where you don't have access to the sources? I'll keep checking in–sorry to be making you do all that hard work of backing up your claims. Mary Mid-August here. Still looking for your evidence that the problems you cite as issues are unique to GMOs. Just in case you've forgotten, this is what I'd appreciate to learn from you: "genetic diversity, food safety, human and environmental health, and ecological balance." Go ahead. Mary Still mid-August. Don't be shy. Pingback: Good Reads Wednesday « Artisan Family of Wines() http://www.cybercellar.com Cybercellar Like cork vs screw cap the take off for consumers most probably will depend largely on timing and cost. If GMO wines can provide same quality for lower prices then casual drinker generally won't know the difference however, for old faith-full's and those in the industry of wine appreciation GMO will most probably always stir debate. Sell it to the winemakers first! 😉 http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-existential-threats-to-global-food.html Steve Savager Cybercellar, Actually, wine makers won't be the ones that are hard to convince and grape growers will be the easiest. The people who call all the shots in the modern Wine industry are the marketers. They will be mainly worried about how a backlash against a first GMO wine under one of their labels will effect their entire B to B "brand." The wine industry is highly consolidated just for marketing purposes with giant players having multiple wineries so they have some leverage against the big retailers. If a Costco or Safeway… gets nervous about Constellation or any other big wine conglomerate, that is the disaster scenario. This is why I seriously doubt that there will ever be GMO wine except perhaps on a stand-alone, botique basis for a fanleaf virus resistant rootstock Pingback: Wine Blog » Blog Archive » PROP 37 ~ about GMO ~ "Yes," we have a right to know() Pingback: Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Non GMO brands, and is wine genetically modified?() Pingback: GMO's IN WINE? - Organic Vineyard Alliance() Pingback: GMO Wine Coming to a Carafe Near You… Soon() Pingback: Hooray for Oregon: two counties vote for no GMOs | The Wine-o-scope()


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Hagel not hell-bent on conquest
Jan 20, 2013 - By Roger Simon
"They're already saying Chuck Hagel may be unwilling to send troops into a warzone needlessly," David Letterman said a few nights ago. "What kind of a nut job is he?"
Letterman, who often pretends to be a clueless goof when it comes to serious topics, actually is politically astute. And he hit on one of Hagel's chief appeals as President Obama's nominee to become secretary of defense: Hagel doesn't believe in needless wars, or endless wars, or wars as our first choice.
In that, both he and the president match the public mood.
Iraq often has been a calamity, pouring precious U.S. lives (to say nothing of innocent Iraqi lives) and dollars into a war over mythical weapons of mass destruction. Does anybody still doubt that George W. Bush wanted to believe in those weapons because he wanted to finish off the dictator that his father had failed to remove?
I am no fan of homicidal dictators like Saddam Hussein, but the world has other homicidal dictators, and before we decide to wage nearly nine-year, trillion-dollar wars to remove them all, maybe we ought to have a better reason than unresolved father-son relationships.
Our invasion of Afghanistan was certainly justified, but we are still fighting there long after our legitimate objective has been accomplished: the crippling of al-Qaida's ability to strike at the American homeland and the destruction of al-Qaida's top leadership.
But we have remained in Afghanistan to build it into an American suburb, where everybody will think like we do about human and civil rights. It is a worthy but dream-like goal, and all we have really accomplished is to prop up a corrupt and unpopular regime in Kabul.
If that echoes Vietnam to you, it should. Hagel was a sergeant in Vietnam, a squad leader in the 9th Infantry Division, where he was awarded two Purple Hearts. This is a guy who wore the uniform and got shot while serving his country. He, like Obama's nominee for secretary of state, John Kerry, learned some valuable lessons over there:
Be careful about feeding the meat grinder. The butcher's bill is always going to be higher than you think. And the members of Congress who bravely vote to fund our wars don't have to fight in them. Very few ever served in the military, nor have their sons and daughters.
Here is Hagel in an interview last year with Robert Nolan, an editor at the Foreign Policy Association:
"Here we are 12 years in Afghanistan, having very significant difficulties on winding that down. It's easy to get into war; it's easy to intervene. Not easy to 'un-intervene,' unwind or get out of war.
"One of the reasons we're in trouble in Afghanistan is because we went well beyond our mission. We accomplished the mission, then we took our eye off the ball and intervened, invaded and occupied Iraq. And now, 12 years later, we're not sure what our mission is. ... We always learn. They're tough lessons to learn. Vietnam was a tough lesson for us to learn."
Even though Hagel is a Republican, some GOP hawks read those words and shudder.
How can we have a defense secretary doesn't love conquest?
How can we have a defense secretary who does not want more and more money to invade more and more nations, but believes the money would be better spent on cybersecurity at home?
And how can we have a defense secretary who actually says America is capable of making mistakes and that we should learn from them?
How? Easy. We put Hagel in the job. As a senator, did he vote against gay rights and make ugly comments about homosexuals? Yes. He has apologized and now says he is a full supporter of Obama's position on gay rights and gays serving in the military. That record gives both Republicans and Democrats things to dislike.
Did he once use the term "Jewish lobby" instead of "pro-Israel lobby"? Yes, in 2006, he said: "The political reality is that the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here. I have always argued against some of the dumb things they do because I don't think it's in the interest of Israel. I just don't think it's smart for Israel."
As someone who has zero tolerance for anti-Semitism, I don't think Hagel is an anti-Semite, and urging Israel to follow policies that are in both its and our best interests is hardly misconduct.
There is one other quality a good defense secretary should have.
"We lead the world; we don't dictate to the world, we don't impose to the world, we don't intervene everywhere, and we don't occupy and invade," Hagel told Robert Nolan last year.
"We work with our allies. We do exactly what Eisenhower, Truman and Marshall, and all those other wise leaders after WWII did. That's what's brought us over the last 65 years to where we are."
Chuck Hagel is a man who loves his country more than he loves war. And that is exactly the kind of man we need as our secretary of defense.
Editor's note: Syndicated columnist Roger Simon is the chief political correspondent for Politico and iformer political editor of US News and World Report.


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