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The Floridazation of American Politics
Democratic dirty tricks continue, in Maryland, New Hampshire, and at the DNC.
4:35 PM, Nov 5, 2002 • By JONATHAN V. LAST
THIS AFTERNOON DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe put out an alarming statement:
"We have seen 'anonymous' fliers displayed in predominantly African American communities in Baltimore, MD, with an incorrect Election Day date, warning voters to make sure their parking tickets are paid, their rent is not overdue, and they take care of any outstanding warrants before they go vote.
"A spokesman for the Maryland Republican candidate for Governor Bob Ehrlich was quoted saying their campaign plans include deploying off-duty police officers as poll watchers on Election Day.
"In Hidalgo County, TX, a Republican poll monitor for Republican Senate candidate John Cornyn had to be escorted out of the polling place by law enforcement for harassing senior Hispanic voters and using derogatory language.
"In New Hampshire, an owner and landlord of several so-called 'Section 8' housing developments sent letters urging his hundreds of elderly and disabled tenants to vote for Republican John Sununu for U.S. Senate, stating ominously that only through Sununu's efforts were the tenants 'assured' that they could 'continue to remain in [their] home.'"
It is worth examining each of his claims:
(1) Exactly four of the "anonymous" fliers were found in Baltimore, all in one place. Dan Ronayne, a spokesman for the RNC, says that Republicans "had not heard a single report about the existence of this flier until the Democratic press conference." Paul Ellington of the Maryland Republican party says, "that's just not our style."
And he would seem to be correct. After all, it was the Republican, Bob Ehrlich, who picked an African-American running mate (Michael Steele). And over the course of the race, it has been the Democrats who have engaged in racial slurs, passing out Oreo cookies at debates.
Additionally, a "prominent Democratic strategist" told one reporter that the flier has famed Democratic dirt-thrower "Bob Shrum's fingerprints all over it."
(2) Off-duty police officers will indeed be poll-watching--the same way they do every year. According to an Ehrlich spokesman, the Fraternal Order of Police in Baltimore always poll-watches for the candidate they support. They poll-watched for Parris Glendening and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in 1998 and for Democratic mayoral candidate Martin O'Malley in 1999. This year they support Ehrlich.
(3) There is no agreement as to what exactly happened in Hidalgo County. It isn't clear whether this is the case of an overzealous poll monitor or an overzealous elections administrator. But what is clear is that the incident in question happened not this morning, but last Friday!
(4) It also isn't clear what has happened in the case of the Republican landlord in New Hampshire. Time will tell. But again, McAuliffe ignores the real story:
Kate Whitman, the communications director for the NH Republican state committee, says that in Bedford, a Republican stronghold, Democrats have petitioned to stop the counting of absentee ballots, alleging that many of the people who filed for absentee ballots aren't absent, but are still in town. To buttress their claims, it seems that Democrats are roaming town taking pictures of people who are on the list of those who petitioned for absentee ballots.
The only problem is that New Hampshire law doesn't require voters to be absent on Election Day, it merely stipulates that, at the time they apply for the ballot, they must believe they are going to be absent.
This is just a guess: Don't expect many election results to be finalized tonight. Democrats will make every distortion, fight every fight. The Floridazation of America continues, apace.
Jonathan V. Last is online editor of The Weekly Standard.


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Drivers have plenty of options for customizing their cars, but some can provoke bouts of road rage among motorists. Jalopnik asked readers the worst accessories for your car. Here are a few of their ideas and some of our own.
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It was just after midnight on New Year's Day when Antonio Buehler spotted a pair of Austin cops manhandling a woman at a gas station during a DUI investigation, so he pulled out his cell phone and began taking photos.
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Austin police officer Pat Oborski shoved Buehler against his truck before handcuffing him. He later claimed in his arrest report that Buehler had spit in his face.
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Former Met Mike Piazza took karate lessons in anticipation of a fiery showdown with crosstown rival Roger Clemens, he writes in his new book.
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Piazza recalls the July 8, 2000 inter-league game between the Mets and the Yankees, when Clemens launched a two-seam fastball near the Mets catcher's head. After that, Piazza writes that he started taking karate lessons in order to fend off against Clemens. The two later sparred off during the 2000 World Series, during which Clemens threw a fragment of broken bat at Piazza as he headed for first base.
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Companion forum thread to:Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review
Thanks Ryan. That was one interesting read, and I am looking forward to the 24 Episode and the next parts of this "living review" =)One question: How loud is the shutter on the NEX-7? On the NEX-5N I find it rather loud, and I wonder if it is similar on the NEX-7.
Edited by skullmonkey on 01/03/2012 15:15:15 MST.
Shutter noise is no better on the NEX-5. Hopefully they've fixed this issue in the NEX-7 or have plans to do so. I would imagine that it's a firmware issue as there is no mirror, correct?
The shutter on the NEX-7 isn't so loud that you don't need earplugs. Maybe it would work as a bear deterrent?Yes, it's loud.No mirror, but you have double the actuations of an SLR: close > open > close > open and a fast frame rate in continuous mode that requires a more robust shutter, maybe? I'm not convinced it's firmware.
Very thorough review. Nicely done.BTW, any chance you can get me one of Roger's tents?
Interesting contextual review, Ryan. Looking forward to the rest. I'd be interested in some comparisons though to the other cameras on the market rather than just picking one. The Panasonic GF cameras, and the soon-to-be-released GX range in particular are, I think, well suited to photogrpahers wishing to lighten up, and can also use legacy lenses with adaptors.The thing that put me off the NEX-7 was the lack of dedicated controls - those two assignable wheels are nice but, as you point out, dedicated buttons/wheels are preferable. At least, in my experience, I can never remember what function is assigned to the buttons, and end up pressing them all to find the one I want.Another thing with the micro 4/3 format is the dynamic range of the sensor: as you'd expect, it's way better than a compact, but the smaller sensor still falls short of a full-frame DSLR (this is most noticeable in twilight/night shots). Nonetheless, I generally pick up my GF1 over my D300 when heading out. It's lighter, smaller, and for about 80% of the time the results are comparable to a DSLR.
Edited by redwedge on 01/04/2012 01:16:29 MST.
Great article, but your introduction failed to mention film cameras. A small film camera can provide SLR quality pictures at a much smaller weight than even this camera. Assuming you can get the film processed, it is probably the best option. It is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison, of course. If your intent is to display the pictures on a digital monitor, then a digital camera makes sense. If your intent is to display a slide show, then film makes sense. For glossy pictures, either will do.
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the useful review. I have been following this and other cameras on a variety of photography sites and they all agree that the Sony Nex7 is a great camera. However, for my planned uses it will not be the camera I am about to buy, which will be a Panasonic GH2 with their 14-140mm lens. I am a professional fine art photographer (wildlandart.com) who wants to add video to my mix, especially wildlife video. I am also an ultralight backpacker and will spend this coming August in Yellowstone backpacking with my video rig (the GH2 with tripod). The GH2 has an extra ability not found on the Nex7 of selecting just the 1920x1080 pixels at the center of the micro 4/3 sensor and thus giving an extra tele zoom capability of 2.6. So the 35 mm equivialent on the 140mm end of the lens is 140x2x2.6 = 728mm, with which I hope to film wolves. Just as on the Nex7, the GH2 has full HD 1080P video and an excellent electronic viewfinder. The sensor is a bit smaller but the reviews in dPreview and Luminous Landscape (excellent websites for photographers) and elsewhere show that the image quality is superb and easily comparible to APS-C sensors on digital SLRs. So I will get a tad bit more low light/high ISO noise compared with the Nex7 but gain an essential extra telephoto capability for my wildlife video needs. With the excellent 14-140 lens the GH2 weighs a bit less than 2 lbs and will replace my Canon Rebel which I carried on a full John Muir Trail backpack two years ago and on Wind Rivers, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Glacier National Park, and other backpacking trips in recent years. I wear the camera over my shoulder at all times and hardly notice the weight. I can't seem to get my backpacking baseweight below 14 lbs (my skinny 68 year old frame gets cold easily), but have used BackPackingLight over the years to give me the advice and reviews I need to keep me going. Many thanks!! Tom
Ryan,Great article and timely for me as I am considering buying the NEX5n, which is more of the auto "idiot" camera, to replace my Canon 880IS Digital Elph pocket camera.I am interested more in documenting my trips, but would like to have the better sensor to capture "better" looking photos without too much complication beyond point and shoot.Anyway, questions for you....What case were you using for the NEX7?Wondering if you have one that is lighter than the Sony case that is sold by Sony for the NEX line of cameras.Looking forward to future articles on this camera.Thanks!-Tony
Excellent, Ryan. I'm looking forward to the entire review as I have only had limited contact with the 7.I've been putting together something similar focusing on the NEX 5N, and the kit that I'm using now.I'm especially interested which RF lenses you have used on it, and how you find them compared to the 5N.
Edited by JacobD on 01/04/2012 13:11:29 MST.
IMO micro 4/3 has a big advantage over these compact APS-C cameras. The slightly smaller image circle combined with an ultra-close sensor distance means a big difference to one major factor not really mentioned in this article: weight of the lenses.Old manual lenses are great, but they are heavy metallic things, and this is the area where the most weight stands to be lost. But if you must, they can also be used very easily on most u4/3 cams with an appropriate adapter. I do this all the time on my GH1 and focus/exposure are both totally painless and nearly instant with a bit of practice.For native micro 4/3, lenses can be designed *far* smaller and lighter, especially on the wide-angle side of things, and actually need fewer glass elements because of the closeness of the sensor. Both Olympus and Panasonic are making some truly revolutionary lenses right now, many of which are either pancakes or collapse down to pancake size when not shooting, and most have spectacular optics. The Panasonic 7-14mm is simultaneously the lightest, the widest, and one of the sharpest pro-level ultra-ultra-wides around.Sony seems to be getting kinda close with a few NEX lenses, but still suffers from a larger image circle (heavier) and the optics don't seem to be as good in general. The selection of really good native lenses for NEX is much poorer than that of u4/3.Anyway, great article, it's just that I think the hypothesis of "higher image quality for less weight" could use a bit of scrutiny when the whole package is looked at. This is especially true when it comes to native, autofocus lenses, which the majority will desire.Olympus cameras and the GF series aren't using the best sensors of u4/3, yet, which is maybe where the "substandard image quality" argument comes from, but others (like the GH2) are using really nice sensors which compete really well with APS-C... especially under conditions you're probably shooting in while backpacking! The GH cams are barely heavier and much nicer to use than the smaller cams, plus you get the best possible video.Edit: the new, smaller and viewfinder-less GX1 seems to now have a better sensor, so the best of both worlds. Have you checked it out at all, Ryan?
Edited by dasbin on 01/04/2012 13:55:57 MST.
You didn't specifically mention whether you've experimented with Ricoh's M mount module that's designed for the Leica M mount lenses. If so, I'm curious as to why, if you have, why you disliked it. I assume one of the reasons is tat it does not offer the HD benefits the NEX7 offers but it does have the APS-C sensor withou an AA filter. I have read that the NEX7 has some of the same issues the Leica M9 has with the wider angle lenses too. ThanksDuane Pandorfblog.duanepandorf.comwww.duanepandorf.com
Personally I'm loving my NEX-5n for travel and backpacking photography.Very light and small and beats my olympus m4/3 as far as image quality.Low light quality is the best in this price range.Hoping to get a scuba housing for my trip later in the year.Happy new year guys.
The use of Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 lens with the Voigtlander VM adapter ($179) is interesting. The Leica lens weights 6.8-oz and cost $2195. Too expensive for my budget.Voigtlander has far less expensive M-mount manual focus lenses. 12mm f/5.6 $749; 15mm f/4.5 5.5-oz $599; 21mm f/4 4.8-oz $419; 25mm f/4 5.1-oz $419; 35mm f/1.4 7.1-oz $629; 35mm f/2.5 4.7-oz $409; 40mm f/1.4 6.2-oz $529. These lenses are imported by CameraQuest.com and also sold by adorama.com and bhphotovideo.com
@Ross - I'm with you on film. I still own a Contax T3 and I'd be awfully hesitant to say that it cannot capture better images with Velvia 50 than any digital on the market that is twice its weight or lighter…just didn't feel the need to open that Pandora's box up on this review ;)@Tom - The GH2 just might be my pick if my primary focus was videography instead of still photography. My primary focus remains in shooting stills, for now. It's a super camera (the GH2) for video, and the tele zoom feature pioneered on it was brilliant. It's bulkier than the NEX7. Photo quality is a toss up for routine, low-contrast photos. At the "fringes" of contrast or for low light (long exposures at low ISO), the NEX-7 captures a noticeably cleaner image with better dynamic range - not a "lot" by web viewing standards, but meaningful nonetheless - to me at least.@Tony - the case I'm using is the Lowepro Edit 100. A fine case. It doesn't have a rain cover though, so I use a shower cap (one for the case, one for the camera when shooting in the rain. I'm looking for a lighter case, yes (I may just make one), the Edit 100 is just what I have now, and it fits the NEX7 with a lens very well.@Jacob - I don't plan on doing a side-by-side comparison with RF lenses on the 5N vs. the 7, so can't comment on that.@Bradley - regarding the image circle on MFT sensors = smaller, lighter lenses - you are correct. This remains true as you continue to go down in sensor size. (Check out the lenses on the new small sensor interchangeable lens Nikons, the V1/J1. The lenses are tiny.) For example, the Olympus and Panny 14-42 zooms are 3.4 (the "X" << very cool lens) to 6.9 oz. The Sony 18-55 is 6.9 oz. I've used my Leica lenses on both Oly and Panny MFT bodies, all the way back to the EP1 and GF1. You are right in that it becomes easy enough in practice. Manual focusing on the NEX7 takes it to another level of joy, though. Finally, my "higher image quality for less weight" should really be taken in context with DSLR systems rather than other mirror less systems. The GX1 is also a super little camera, but gives up some nice features like dial controls (it does still have one dial) and a VF. I love how the GX1 feels in the hand with that new 14-42 lens, though.@Duane - I love Ricoh cameras. I shot with a GRD for years, and may pull the trigger on its next iteration. The GXR has the a great UI, but no built in VF, and no vid, which for me is a deal killer. Yes, the NEX7 suffers from color fringing with retrofocus lenses like the Elmarit-M 28/2.8, but it's easily corrected. I use Cornerfix.@Frank - buy used Leica lenses and shop around. You can get some great deals on them (not on eBay - seek out used dealers). The Voigtlander 15/4.5 is a KILLER lens, by the way, and a steal for that price.
Edited by ryan on 01/04/2012 17:18:24 MST.
Just curious what usage you find to justify adding a 1.9 pound tripod into the mix.It's been hard for me to find many situations where either a monopod (just my trekking pole with a little adapter) or a mini-pod didn't do the trick. This includes astrophotgraphy.I also figured out a good trick when hiking with a partner, when you have 3 trekking poles available - you can lash the legs of a mini-pod onto the tops of the 3 trekking poles and create a makeshift tripod. If you want stability, hang something heavy (ie backpack) from the center.But I've rarely needed that - only when there's nothing around high enough to put a mini-pod on and I want to do a self-portrait... which admittedly is very rarely anyway, as I'm not so keen on looking at pictures of myself.
Bradley - the main reason is that I just don't like fooling around with "building" a makeshift tripod, I like something tall enough to get me above grasses, and I like enough stability to deal with a little bit of wind. That said, my 0531 was the 'pod I paired with my D7000. I do think my requirements for the NEX-7 will go down, so I'm shopping around for something lighter.
Also just FYI if anyone's interested - I made a neat little solution for quick-access carrying (in good weather). Just bent some coat hanger wire to the contours of my camera, and it hangs on my sternum strap. The camera rests inside, lens-down. I can pick it up and snap quickly in one motion with one hand.Wrapped the coat hanger wire in some foam tape so nothing gets scratched. Weighs about an ounce, maybe less.
Fair enough for sure - there's something to be said for adding a little weight if it makes something you commonly do a lot easier.Sometimes I think we should be deciding what to bring based not just on weight, but on the caloric expenditure of carrying the weight vs. the extra caloric expenditure of a DIY (but weightless) field solution. Even from just this objective standpoint, we might be expending more energy overall by going too light on certain things.
Edited by dasbin on 01/04/2012 17:43:06 MST.
@Mark Roberts: This is probably what you meant to say, so I apologize for nit-picking, but I wanted to make the distinction that a Nikon D300 has an APS-C sensor and not a 35mm "full-frame". This is important if we are comparing 4/3rds sensors with DSLR's, most of which have APS-C sensors. Full frame sensors are a whole different category, though today even most professionals carry at least one APS-C body. Modern APS-C sensors are superb and I suspect that 4/3rds could be a lot more comparable if one of the Big 3 had ignored their strategy experts enough produce (micro)4/3rds cameras and thus help develop leading-edge sensors. 4/3rds sensors seem to trail the state-of-the-art by at least a year and probably more. "Boo" to Nikon for building the new "1" system around a unique CX sensor. Just think what a company like Nikon could do with 4/3rds...
Edited by brookshire on 01/05/2012 11:18:10 MST.
I may have missed this, but when will subsequent parts of this review be completed?
I love mirrorless cameras. My last trip, I brought Panasonic GF1 M4/3 with Olympus ultra wide zoom 9-18mm (18-36mm equivalent). NEX-7 is a very interesting camera indeed, but NEX's current lens line up is poor and lacks ultra wide option. I wish Sony releases more NEX format lenses this year.
Edited by plassy on 01/22/2012 21:40:13 MST.
The Voigtlander 12mm (with an adapter) works pretty well on the NEX-7 (as long as color fringing is corrected in Cornerfix, etc.), which gives you 18mm equivalent.Currently, for autofocus, the E mount AF 16/2.8 (24mm equivalent) is your widest option.The E mount is a much younger system. I'm sure we'll see quite a variety of lenses for it in coming years. Recall that MFT lenses were pretty slow to build critical mass as well. Now we're flooded with options.
I think the NEX-7 is the best of the csc cameras, but I ended up getting the Panasonic G3. Two problems I had with the Sony were the price - over 2.5 times more expensive, and no dedicated lenses I would want, let alone any taking full advantage of the camera.I can focus manually, and that's fine for landscapes, but for that price it needs to do other things too.The 16mm sounded good (as the only Sony one), but in the sample pictures I saw the corner sharpness could not even be described as such. That was the final blow.How do people find the 16mm pancake lens?
I'll put details up in the review when I'm done with this lens, but after using a lens like the Leica Elmarit, and then going to the Sony 16/2.8 - you can't help but be disappointed.So I approached my perspective with this lens from a different angle, and instead compared IQ to the kit 18-55/3.5-5.6 lens. The latter offers *noticeably* higher IQ throughout its aperture and zoom range, relative to the 16/2.8.The 16/2.8 makes the ergonomics of this camera fantastic. It's such a light and small lens, autofocuses fast and well, and - at f/8 delivers very nice images. At low apertures, it turns the NEX-7 into a crippled heap of expensive and heavier-than-in-needs-to-be-junk. The lens is OK enough for Youtube videos and smallish web images, though.
This was a nice article. Thanks for shining a light on this.
Hi thanks for the great report. I look forward to the upcoming reports and how well it goes in the field testing. I am keen to know of any super wide lenses (manual or auto ) that can be used with this camera. Any recomendations?? I really like the idea of having a view finder and being able to use quality manual lenses where it is easy to control depth of focus for those stunning landscape shots.Keep up the good workRoss
Ryan, thanks for the commentary and insights. I recently took a NEX-7 with it's three standard lens (16, 18-55 and 55-210) on an five-day trip into the Sawtooth Range in Idaho, and put the camera through it's paces. I particularly appreciate your comments on using the manual focus lenses rather than the slow kit lenses. I found that I rarely used the long zoom. The 16 is useful, and after a quick run-through of the images, your comments are spot on. I used the kit lens the most, and found it adequate, for the weight. As a Canon 5D user, it's really refreshing to carry such a light rig! I didn't carry a full-size tripod, relying on a GorillaPod, and the built-in OSS of the camera itself. I'm at the point where I really don't want to lug a ton of weight into the backcountry anymore. I did acquire a very small Benro tripod with a ball head, with a corresponding weight of about 1.9 pounds, but ended up leaving it behind. I carried six batteries and four 16Gb card. I carry the system in a little LowePro 110 bag attached to the hip strap on my pack, which is secure. One advantage to that pack is that it does have a built-in rain cover. It will not hold both zooms and the camera at the same time, however.I also carried the Sony remote, which has way too many functions when all you want to do is trigger the shutter. A simple remote would be great. I found myself wishing I had carried a small macro lens, either, the Sigma 30 or Sony's offering rather than the long zoom.Thanks again for your excellent review. I'm still on the fence with the Leica/Zeiss lenses, and your thoughts are certainly timely as I want to push the limits of this particular style of shooting in the woods.Jim Parkerhttp://photo.parkerparker.info
Very interesting article, Ryan. It's an added bonus that you're also an accomplished photographer.
Great review Ryan! I'm very much looking forward to Parts 4, 5 & 6 as well. It was your review that first brought this camera to my attention, and after doing a bit of further research I finally pulled the trigger on one back in May. Glad I did, it's a great camera! So far I've accumulated most of the prime lenses available, as well as the kit 18-55mm, and the 55-210mm. The standouts certainly are the Zeiss 24mm, the 50mm f/1.8, the 55-210mm, and both the Sigma primes. There may be some sample variation in the 16mm, I find mine to be quite good, at least in the f/5.6-f/8 range where I normally use it. At those apertures I find it to actually be a bit better than the kit zoom, which also isn't a bad optic. I haven't done much hiking with this camera yet, but I fully expect it to perform very well for landscape work. So far I've mostly used it for street photography, and for that purpose it excels. I think the NEX-7 image quality is quite comparable to my full-frame Nikon D700, and it is significantly better than either of the m4/3 cameras I've owned (the Oly E-P1 and the Panny GH1).If anyone's interested, I have a gallery of my better NEX-7 shots here.And here's a gallery of test shots for pixel peepers that compares the kit zoom to all the primes I own.Thanks again for the great review!Gordon
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Hi Ryan,I am trying to find another camera that is lighter than my Panasonic GH2, which is probably the relatively light weight digital camera of choice for wildlife video. Your review of the NEX-7 is excellent. When you compare it to other cameras, I would suggest adding the Sony RX100 and the Sigma DP-2M and DP-1M. These are high on my list of possible cameras which includes the NEX-7, or more likely the NEX-6, which is a tad lighter and less expensive than the NEX-7. First the RX100. This camera only weighs 8.5 oz, costs $650, yet has a 20.9 MP sensor over twice the size of any comparable weight camera (though 1/3 the size of the NEX-7). It has an excellent non-interchangeable zoom lens, produces very high quality RAW images for its sensor size and shoots full 1080P60 HD video. Based on current reviews, it seems to be the camera of choice for a truly small, very light weight camera, particularly for the ultralight backpacker who primarily wants to show their work on the web or via email or only wants prints up to perhaps 11x14, which includes most backpackers who want to carry a camera. Now for the Sigma cameras. These are very serious cameras. The DP-2M and DP-1M are fixed focal length, non-interchangeable lens cameras with a 45 and 28 mm lenses respectively (35 mm equivalent). They weigh only 12.5oz each yet the reviews (Luminous Landscape and dPreview) show that with their foveon sensors they have a 48 MP equivalency and produce images that are superior to most if not all full frame DSLR cameras, even approaching medium format $30,000+ digital cameras, in image quality. They also cost ~$1000 each which is considerably less than the NEX-7 with Leica or Zeiss fixed focal length lenses. For the serious photographer who really wants to make large prints and can accustom his/her eye to composing with a fixed focal length lens, these cameras can't be beat and are very backpackable. I may have just talked myself into buying both an RX100 for that carry everywhere camera and the DP-2M or DP-1M for my more serious backpacking photography or perhaps the NEX-6 as a compromise between the two. I just posted a gallery of 61 photographs from Zion National Park taken with an old 10 MP Canon Rebel DSLR (and run carefully through Adobe Camera RAW and then Photoshop) on my website, wildlandart.com. I think they show that almost any of these kinds of lightweight digital cameras under discussion are capable of producing very high quality web images. Thanks again for your thorough and very knowledgeable review.Tom Andrews
I just picked up a Sony NEX 6 after a rather exhaustive look into the state of the market. I care about bulk, low light performance, autofocus speed, image quality, and weight not necessarily in that order. I have a Fuji X100 and it takes absolutely stunning photos in a tiny package, but I want to take quality video and be able to switch out lenses in the backcountry. I narrowed down my comparison shopping to buying a body and a standard prime lens with a large aperture. Here were the contenders from my research:1. Olympus OM-D EM-5 with Panasonic 20mm ƒ/1.7. It's compact, very light, and with inbody 4 stop image stabilization, it'd be a very serious low-light shooter and good for video. The camera body is weather sealed too! Unfortunately while it may be weather sealed, none of the lenses are, and the electronic viewfinder is passable but not great. Ultimately, I couldn't settle for a m4/3 sensor and the resultant image quality. $1300 for camera and lens.2. Fuji X-E1 with Fuji 35mm ƒ/1.4. It oozes old-school style, takes the best photos of any mirrorless camera currently on the market, and the lenses are fantastic, if expensive. It also has the best low light performance of any mirrorless on the market. Unfortunately, it auto focuses slowly, it doesn't have optical image stabilization, and the video is fully automatic (non adjustable). It's also expensive. $1600 for camera and lens.3. Sony NEX-6 with Sony 35mm ƒ/1.8 OSS. This is what I ultimately settled on. Technically, the 35mm lens isn't out until the end of December, but it's an optical image stabilized large aperture standard prime lens with super fast autofocus—it sounds almost too good to be true. Preliminary reviews have found the lens is sharp and the bokeh is pleasing. The NEX has excellent image quality, excellent video, almost equivalent low-light performance to the Fuji, and (as this article stated) focus peaking! I bought a Canon FD 50mm ƒ/1.8 for $40 today from a local camera store and mounted it to the NEX-6 with a $20 adapter. For $60, I have an excellent portrait lens that's quick enough to focus that's it not even a bother thanks to the NEX. This feature alone is worth buying into the NEX system. $1300 for camera and lens. I hemmed and hawed for a long time, but the ability to painlessly use manual focus lenses of yesteryear make the NEX system gold. I feel like I can invest in my standard lens that will be on the camera 95% of the time, and then pick up inexpensive (but still quality) manual focus lenses for telephoto or wide angle. Wide angle lenses made for the FD mount may be slightly heavier and more bulky, but they don't fringe purple like the photos Ryan illustrated and are significantly cheaper than even the Voigtlanders (the crappiest of the M mount lenses).
I have the Nex 6. I am very pleased with its portability, and the compact lenses. I just ordered the LowePro Sport 100 as a case, if anyone is interested in knowing how it works out...What sold me on purchasing the nex6 however was getting the Metabones Speed Booster, so I could use my Canon EF lenses with the added benefit of an increase of maximum aperture by 1 stop, and it makes the lens 0.7x wider (near full frame). I would highly recommend checking it out. Also, Metabones is readying to release similar products for other camera makes, and also for the micro 4/3 sized sensor (effectively adding 2 stops?!?)I hope I put something exciting on your radar.
Timely! Many thanks!I'm looking forward to upgrading to a system somewhat like the one that you describe, although for candids (and wildlife, on occasion) I really do want autofocus and I miss shots when I change lenses. Fun though it would be, a new camera like this would save me about 0.3 grams per dollar, whereas there are several upgrades in my list that would save me > 2 grams per dollar, and one (backpack) that runs 5 g/$. So it'll be a while. If these cameras could do anything better than my current rig, that would skew the math. Faster lenses are compelling, but compelling enough for me?I carry a Nikon D5100 and usually bring the kit lens (18-55mm VR), and carry it in a Dana Dry Rib that I lined with thin foam (yeah, could cut 50g for cheap). Total weight (including polarising filter, cleaning cloth, lens pen, and IR remote): 974 grams with 1 battery, which is good for about 800 shots (fewer if I do night photography). It's a good rig: even the kit lens with its crappy motor focuses fast due to solid phase detect AF, and even does a credible job with microphotography. Of course I wish the kit lens had a faster aperature and a faster AF motor, and that the polarising filter were attached to the body rather than to the moving objective lens carrier out front... still, AFAICT an SLR has fewer weird quirks than Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens (EVIL) cameras such as the Sony, although I expect that that will change eventually.Also note that Canon now has "the lightest SLR ever" at 400g for body+battery+card (Nikon's D3200 trails at 500g, and my D5100 is 550g). And if Canon is competing on weight, others will follow...How are those lenses in the cold? Ken Rockwell did some tests of a few of his favourites. Do you notice any problems with your lens choices, or with the camera? Is it easy to operate with gloves on?http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/50-comparison/cold.htmhttp://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/digital-wide-zooms/comparison-arctic.htmBUT ALSO:In your photo of the canoe, what is that paddle? It looks like a composite and probably ultralight Greenland-style double paddle, in this style: www.qajaqusa.org/QK/makegreen2.pdf Where does it come from?
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After a rough stretch, the Liberty had its most dominant game of the season.
Elena Baranova had 19 points and Crystal Robinson added 14 to lead the Liberty to a 75-58 victory over the Charlotte Sting yesterday at Madison Square Garden.
''We had a lot of people do a lot of good things tonight,'' the Liberty's interim coach, Pat Coyle, said. ''This is the kind of effort we need from here on out.''
Becky Hammon had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists for the Liberty, which shot a season-high 50 percent from the field. DeTrina White had a team-high 7 rebounds in 13 minutes.
The Liberty won for the third time in five games, but is just 4-10 since opening the season 6-1. The Liberty is in a three-way tie for fourth in the Eastern Conference, just two games behind the leader, Indiana, and one behind second-place Charlotte.
''We've never been more than two and a half games out of first place,'' Coyle said. ''We're right in the thick of things. We just need to continue to execute, play tough defense and we'll be fine.''
The Liberty went 8 for 18 from beyond the 3-point line, led by Robinson's 4-for-7 shooting. The Liberty outscored the Sting, 32-20, in the paint and equaled its largest victory since defeating Cleveland by 71-54 last Aug. 17.
Tammy Sutton-Brown led the Sting with 14 points and 9 rebounds, and Dawn Staley and Kelly Mazzante, a rookie, added 11 points apiece.
The Sting, which plays host to the Liberty tomorrow, lost for just the fourth time in 12 games. It was Charlotte's biggest loss since a 69-48 defeat at Indiana on Aug. 3, 2002. ''New York came out and played very focused,'' Charlotte Coach Trudi Lacey said. ''We made the same defensive mistakes over and over. Our defense was very poor.''
The Liberty led, 40-31, at the break, and had a 13-0 run early in the second half to take a 20-point lead. Charlotte then had a 12-3 run to cut the deficit to 58-47, but that was the closest margin.
The Liberty played its last game at Madison Square Garden before returning for the season finale on Sept. 19. The Liberty will play its next six home games at Radio City Music Hall to make way for the Republican National Convention.
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Bearded 'Whisker Wars' Star Talks Tips, Tricks and Favorite Famous Facial Hair
From the guys behind 'Deadliest Catch' comes this new kind of reality TV competition, all about the fine art of competitive facial hair growth. I caught up with Jack Passion, a feisty man with a fiery red beard who's also a multiple time world facial hair champ and author of 'The Facial Hair Handbook.'
If you haven't caught the show yet, it won't take you long to realize that Passion is part of the new school of Beard Team USA, spreading the good news of good growth all over the world.
Passion talked all about what made him decide to grow two feet of red hair on his chin, and his Rapunzel-like view of how to make a career out of being a whisker warrior.
He also dished helpful hair tips, talked Movember and other non-profits that heighten the cool factor of facial hair and named his celebrity facial hair idols.
This idea of competitive beard growing ... I mean, you know that a lot of people don't even realize that this exists, right?
I do, yeah, and that's the appeal to me, and it has been from the very beginning. I got into it because I wanted a story to tell my grandkids. I can just be that old guy [in an old man voice], "I won a beard and mustache competition in Germany!" [Laughs] And that's still why I'm in it ... it's just so crazy, it's so funny.
Are you worried that having a TV show that shows you can make a living off of this will bring in even more competition?
Well there is an ideological difference in the community. There are people who want to keep it very small. These people also really want to keep facial hair stereotypes -- like negative biker, tough guy, outlaw, mountain man things. And then there are people who, I think, get the joke and want it to be this big, fun thing. We recognize that these are huge, fun events. It's a party pageant. I'm definitely in the latter camp. But really there's money to made from the competitions -- you've gotta spin your beard into gold yourself.
And you have, with a book and everything ...
If I didn't write a book about facial hair, I'd write a book about something else, and speak about something else. But it just so happens that my life, especially for the past eight years, has been so informed by this bearded perspective that it became my career, by default.
Well and I think men need a facial hair handbook. I don't think they know what to do with it.
I do too! You know, 100 years ago, it was common knowledge and guys went to barbers two or three times a week ... you see these old, classic images of guys sitting around in a barber shop. You had facial hair, but you groomed it meticulously. We just of forgot about it. I can remember when my dad taught me how to shave and watching my grandfather shave. I feel like the endangered male -- that's one of the first things we've lost, this ability to wear facial hair and look like a stud instead of a scumbag.
There's Movember, which raises money for prostate cancer and men's health, and Budweiser did their Grow One, Save a Million campaign. Do you support sponsored facial hair growth for sport like that?
Unquestionably. Totally. Look how much good has come from beards! Movember's raised like $156 million ... these beard contests are often linked to a charity, and growing a beard is a really healthy way for a man to express himself without having to resort to socially constructed masculinity and violence and all that stuff. It's just a really good thing, all the way around.
Do you have a Hollywood or celebrity facial hair idol?
Do you know Dr. Andrew Weil? He's a celebrity in food and health. And I think Ice Cube ... I really respect him for his career, and he is just the most gangster and honest MC. But he is always perfectly groomed. That's the key. Facial hair, there's no middle ground -- you're either gonna look great, or you're gonna look awful -- and I think that's why if a celebrity grows a beard, people are like, "Oh my god!" But nobody makes a big deal about George Clooney's beard. It complements his personal style. I have a two-foot long beard ...
And it's red!
Let's be honest -- it's like lava dipped in tiger blood. [Laughs] But I don't think guys should grow these huge extreme beards, unless they want to compete.
Has Tom Selleck's mustache sort of set the bar higher?
He has become iconic because of that look. There was this thing going around where you'd just see the eyebrows and another facial feature of all these famous people throughout history. And you could recognize people! Find me another Tom Selleck in history -- he owned it and made himself on it.
If he shaved, I think there'd be a public outcry.
I agree. There'd be riots!
So what's your best facial hair tip for every man?
My first law is healthy man, healthy beard. The hair, once it's on your face, is dead, and there's nothing you can do to make it better. All you can do is grow it well the first time around, which means healthy, clean, nutritionally-dense food, a lot of water, sleep, exercise. It's really easy if you just do it. A lot of guys don't do it and -- you've seen the show -- then they whine and complain like little boys when I beat them. [Laughs]
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The name itself implies a function related to the transmission of legal ideas. A glance at the LawMeme website (www.lawmeme.com) reveals gleaming red graphics and a slick insignia--as well as a whole lot of written content.
The site describes itself as a "legal bricolage" and is composed of succinct stories about developing legal topics--particularly those where law and technology intersect. Each article is laden with links to other sites and online news sources--which both exploit the web's interconnectivity and allow readers to investigate further on their own. The site is sponsored by three YLS organizations: the Information Society Project, the Yale Law and Technology Society, and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.
Ernest Miller, a resident fellow at the Information Society Project, explained how the project started. "Lam Nguyen and I . . . developed this idea as a way to create law-related content for the Internet in a very fast-paced way."
He describes LawMeme stories as "nuggets of information," with disparate sources and accumulating developments synthesized into one tight paragraph. Each can be read and evaluated quickly. And, as Miller points out, because they are publishing on the web, LawMeme can put a story up the same day as events occur and update it whenever necessary.
LawMeme is young, however--Miller and others developed the site over the summer, and it has only been live for a few weeks--and some of its features have not fully developed yet. For instance, the site allows for reader comments on each story, and Miller hopes that these will become a significant part of what LawMeme offers. They also plan to conduct interviews with important figures in the field of law and technology by soliciting questions from their audience. YLS graduate and former chair of the FCC Reed Hundt is scheduled to be the first interviewee.
So far, LawMeme's most popular story has been one called "US Wields $ Not Law to Censor Satellites," which incorporated more original reporting than any of their previous pieces. The story describes the movement by an office within the Department of Defense to purchase exclusive rights to commercial satellite images of Afghanistan and surrounding areas. Current U.S. law allows the secretary of commerce to invoke "shutter control" over commercial satellites in consideration of national security. The LawMeme article considers in depth how the commercial contract circumvents the legal restraints and checks that law places on "shutter control." Not only did this one story receive thousands of hits, but it was mentioned and linked to by other websites, such as infoAnarchy and NewsForge.
Miller says that LawMeme strives to be fair in its coverage. "Trying to be completely objective is foolish," he maintains, but they do try to present both sides of an issue--while allowing their editors to add some color. In addition, Miller says, "we want a slight irreverence" to keep the stories "snappy" and "witty." He points to the tongue-in-cheek "department" labels applied to each story. For example, a piece titled "ABC, NBC, CBS Sue ReplayTV" is from the "who-didn't-see-this-coming? dept."
Hopefully, this unique style of both delivery and snappy content will help LawMeme spread. Miller is working on deals to syndicate the service, allowing other law school technology-related sites to display LawMeme's headlines. He admits he hopes to see the LawMeme name popping up all over the Internet, as a "ubiquitous web service."
And he plans to be even more helpful by using the engine that powers his site as an already-assembled template for other law school journals to post their content. LawMeme uses an openly available program called Slashcode to run its website. They have made custom modifications to it and are creating documentation about how to use it. Then they'll offer all of this together to organizations that need it.
This all seems like a coherent explanation of the site and its goals, but Miller may have let a more honest admission slip. After they get the syndication working, he said, "then we'll try to take over the world." Was this more of the LawMeme style of irreverence? Was Miller slyly commenting on the grandiosity of his own ambitions, or was it something more sinister? The reader will have to judge.
"If you want to find out what's happening in the world of law and technology," Miller helpfully suggests, "we're your one-stop shop." Of course, if LawMeme manages to "take over the world," they'll be the only shop around.
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'Get Mikey!'
Would someone please tell me who that little tin pot, would-be dictator Mike Lee, aka our (very) junior senator from Utah, thinks he is that the whole country must tow his line or he'll throw another hissy fit ("Mike Lee threatens to shut down government over Obamacare," Tribune, July 22)?
Thirty-nine unsuccessful votes to overturn Obamacare are somehow insufficiently instructive?
This supposed constitutional expert stubbornly rejects a basic democratic principle by insisting that the minority rule if the majority view does not agree with his own. Majorities are inconsequential when they go against the will of Mikey Almighty.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner must rub their hands together at the obstructionist possibilities and say, like the old cereal commercial, "Get Mikey! He hates everything!"
Lee behaves like the mean little kid in grade school who "does not play well with others," the petulant child who insists everything be his way or he'll take his ball and go home.
If only he would go home and leave government to the grownups! If any are left in Washington.
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- Providing technical assistance to DHS Components and recipients of DHS financial assistance on meeting their obligations under these federal civil rights laws;
- Coordinating with federal partners, including reporting to and collaborating with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division pursuant to Executive Order 12250, Leadership and Coordination of Nondiscrimination Laws (November 2, 1980), to ensure consistent and robust implementation of these laws; and
- Engaging with community stakeholders, especially in connection with disasters, to ensure protection of individuals with disabilities, diverse racial and ethnic communities, and LEP individuals.
Areas of Focus
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
CRCL coordinates a Department-wide Title VI Compliance Program to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in its federally-assisted programs. Program elements include: civil rights assurances, pre- and post-award reviews and monitoring, complaint investigations, data collection, training, and technical assistance.
Language Access
CRCL leads the Department's efforts to provide meaningful access to its programs and activities for LEP individuals.
Department of Homeland Security Language Access Plan
- Read the Secretary's Letter Regarding the Language Access Plan
- Read the Summary of the Language Access Plan
- Read the Language Access Plan
Title VI, through its prohibition against discrimination on the basis of national origin, requires that grantees and other recipients of DHS assistance also provide meaningful access to LEP individuals. CRCL provides technical assistance to Department grantees on fulfilling language access obligations.
Guidance Published to Help Department-Supported Organizations Provide Meaningful Access to People with Limited English Proficiency
Disability Policy
CRCL is establishing a program to ensure full inclusion and equal access under Section 504 and other federal civil rights laws for all persons with disabilities served or encountered by DHS. This effort includes providing coordination and guidance to DHS Components regarding their federally conducted activities, and providing guidance to recipients of DHS financial assistance as part of the Department's compliance program.
Visit CRCL's Disability Access webpage for information and resources on providing equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in DHS programs and activities. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, DHS developed a series of products that underscore the Department's commitment to full inclusion and equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in DHS programs and activities.
- DHS Commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act, Blog by Acting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer Tamara Kessler
- DHS Management Directive on Nondiscrimination for Individuals with Disabilities in DHS-Conducted Programs and Activities
- Rehabilitation Act Anniversary Video
- Guide to Interacting with People Who Have Disabilities
Disaster Preparedness
CRCL supports individual and community resilience to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other emergencies. Through guidance, planning and coordination, CRCL ensures that civil rights and civil liberties are respected during development of emergency-related federal policies and procedures. In addition, prior, to, during, and following a disaster, the Antidiscrimination Group coordinates CRCL's efforts to engage representatives of impacted communities and disseminate information to governmental and non-governmental stakeholders to ensure the protection of individuals with disabilities, immigrant populations, and racially and ethnically diverse communities, including those with limited English proficiency.
DHS Environmental Justice Strategy and Implementation Report
The DHS Environmental Justice Strategy is the Department's commitment to meeting the goals of Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, which requires each covered agency to make environmental justice part of its mission. In August 2011, DHS joined 16 other federal agencies in signing a Memorandum of Understanding on Executive Order 12898. The DHS Environmental Justice Strategy addresses those homeland security missions most applicable to environmental justice considerations, primarily in the context of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and Title VI. CRCL co-chairs the DHS Environmental Justice Working Group and facilitates the Department's participation in the Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group.
- Read the DHS Environmental Justice Strategy and Annual Implementation Report
- Read the Presidential Proclamation on the 20th anniversary of Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice (February 11, 2014)


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Across the nation, congregations of all denominations bring African American families together and provide emotional support to their members. Researchers have found evidence that African Americans seek help from the clergy more frequently than from other professionals. Mental health issues are no exception. When dealing with mental illness, African American families might look for guidance, support, and understanding from their faith community. It is for these reasons that the Multicultural Action Center has created a toolkit to assist NAMIs in engaging African American congregations in discussion about important mental illness information and available supports.
To develop this education initiative, the Multicultural Action Center has partnered with the African American faith community to provide much needed education and support. The project began by seeking input from the field and convening a 15-person group comprised of pastors, NAMI leaders, and other experts from around the country to participate in an advisory role.
From the input received, the following goals were established for the education program:
A draft toolkit was created that features a 60 minute loosely scripted program presented by a team of three consisting of a consumer, family member and a faith leader. The presentation utilizes stories from a companion educational booklet, A Family Guide to Mental Health: What You Need to Know(available for purchase through the NAMI bookstore here), inviting the audience to identify warning signs and symptoms of psychological distress and discuss how best to support individuals affected by mental illness. The program is currently being piloted in Trenton, NJ, Minneapolis, MN and Atlanta, GA. The final toolkit will be released in 2009.
Click here for more information and future updates on the NAMI African American Faith-Based Initiative.


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Man Accused In 3 Sexual Assaults Due In Court Monday
August 15, 2011 9:55 AM
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A man accused of committing three separate sexual assaults in Newport Beach and Irvine is due in court Monday.
Travis Dewayne Batten Jr., 29, was arrested last month in connection with the crimes, which took place between May 2005 and July of 2010.
Detectives say they linked DNA evidence from each crime scene to Batten over the course of six years.
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Masked robbers hold women at gunpointBy JOHN A. WINTERS
Two masked gunmen held five women at gunpoint and later locked them in a bathroom during a recent home burglary.
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A touch lavatory is seen on the United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner... News PhotoAirport,Bathroom,Boeing 787,Business,California,City Of Los Angeles,Corporate Business,Economy,Finance,Horizontal,LAX Airport,Touching,USA,United AirlinesPhotographer Kevork DjansezianCollection: Getty Images News 2012 Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 30: A touch lavatory is seen on the United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Los Angeles International Airport on November 30, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. In January the new jet is scheduled to begin flying daily non-stop between Los Angeles International airport and Japan's Narita International Airport and later to Shanghai staring in March. The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner will accommodate 219 travelers with 36 seat in United Business First, 70 seats in Economy Plus and 113 in Economy Class. The carbon-fiber composite material that makes up more than 50 percent of the 787 makes the plane jet and more fuel-efficient. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)


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Join the Conversation. Have you ever lost your cell? What did you do? How long did you go without it? Talk to us now.
I lost my cell phone a few days ago.
Thankfully, this is the first time in sevel months that my iPhone has gone missing for so long.
But more than a year ago, while my poor mother was being ravaged by cancer and I was helplessly watching her dying — a very painful time — I lost my iPhone repeatedly. Every few days, I couldn't find it. A few days after she passed away, I even lost it twice in one day. I was that upset.
(In fact, after losing my iPhone the last time, I finally bought a new one, but then the old one surfaced while I was moving. Alas, I still can't access photos of my Mom in her final days, because in my giref, I spaced out and punched in the wrong passcode too many times.)
Back to my cell phone that went M.I.A.. this week.
This week, apparently my joy, excitement, and desire to serve others distracted me.
Somehow, my cell phone went missing while I was getting more and more thrilled that so many big names have agreed to participate in the Sugar World Summit.
I am so excited!
This virtual Sugar World Summit — which I've scheduled to begin exactly two weeks before Halloween — or what I call Sugar Overload Day — will present world-renowned experts on sugar, carbs, stress, emotional eating, mindfulness training, addiction science, cravings, weight loss and more.
Such movers and shakers as Dr. Robert Lustig, Dr. Mark Hyman, and JJ Virgin all have agreed to join us.
In this Sugar World Summit, our gurus won't just tell you The Sour Scoop. They'll give you some Sweet Solutions, too, as I announced here.
Back to my missing iPhone. I haven't bought a new cell phone yet, because I keep thinking it'll turn up, but searching my car, desk, bedroom, kitchen and living room hasn't helped.
I'm also waiting to talk to a friend of mine, who has an uncanny knack for helping me find missing things. (She's off dealing with some personal issues.)
Anyhow, It's been very strange to be phone-less.
- No calling friends or family members while on a walk.
- No calling friends while parked in my car.
- No calling business colleagues if I get a hot idea.
- No digging up phone numbers of important people.
- No tweeting cool stuff, something I started doing recently.
The case of my MIA Cell Phone is intriguing me. In fact, NOT having my iPhone has taught me five main things.
- I multitask far, far too much — like most of you? There's no need to be on my cell phone while going for a wonderful walk along the ocean, when I can focus fully on waves crashing against the shore.
- I'm entirely too reliant on my cell phone. This is not a necessary appendage!
- I'm also entirely too dependent on my iPhone camera, on which I've taken the some beautiful sunset photos. (See one here that I previously downloaded to my computer.) But why don't I buy a real camera instead, as I've been planning?
- I need to totally unplug more often. Although I turn off my cell several times a day, that time without it is very cleansing. Darn am I being productive!
- I need to get more in touch with nature and less attached to my cell.
- By disconnecting from electronics, I'm reconnecting to my purpose, passions, and peace of mind. This is perhaps my biggest lesson. I'm really enjoying the calm of not being so attached to my cell phone. It's a welcome relief during this time of book deadlines and Sugar World Summit planning.
- While I've been without a cell phone, I've become quite creative in the kitchen. Instead of chatting on the phone with friends, I've been concocting a variety of culinary dishes (all sugar-free, of course) that taste pretty good, if I may say so myself. (More later about that.)
So now I have an idea. I was thinking about giving in and buying another iPhone, but today it hit me that I'm going to give myself a Cell Phone Challenge.
You see, I'm on tight deadline now for my next book — I'll tell you more shortly — and I decided not to let myself buy another iPhone phone until I'm finished writing the book. Now that may be another three weeks or more, but how's that for incentive to finish the book?!
If I finish the book, I get a cell phone!
If not, I have to go without my iPhone. Dislosure: I do, however, have a helpful land line.
Join the Conversation. Have you ever lost your cell? What did you do? How long did you go without it? Talk to us now.
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No joke: See Duke guard Nolan Smith as Kate Winslet in 'Titanic' - The Dagger - NCAAB - Yahoo! Sports
Wow, just Wow.
That was one of the dumbest things I have ever seen
I posted this a couple weeks ago in a thread. It is embarassing for Duke. Who thought that it would be funny?
Have they been hanging out with the Texas A&M yell leaders?
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Archives For: February 2010
Mental Illness is the new colonialism02/09/2010
In the early 1990s, Dr. Sing Lee began to see mental illnesses behave the way they're not supposed to.
A practicing psychiatrist and researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lee was studying anorexia in China – where it displayed virtually none of the symptoms of the disease in the West. His patients didn't diet, or fear becoming fat: instead, they said their stomachs felt constantly bloated.
Then, in 1994, an anorexic teenage girl collapsed and died on a Hong Kong street. The death caught big media attention, and the Chinese language newspapers and TV covered it. They went to western experts to describe the illness, and naturally those experts quoted from the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, now in its fourth edition): they said anorexia involves deliberate dieting and fear of obesity.
Almost immediately, people around Hong Kong began exhibiting those symptoms – symptoms that had never before existed in a Chinese country – instead of the symptoms of anorexia that Dr. Lee had previously seen. Those symptoms had been indigenous to the culture, but not as well known – and almost overnight they disappeared to be replaced by the same "mental illness" made famous by American teenagers and celebrities.
By the late 1990s, three in ten women in Hong Kong reported symptoms of an American style eating disorder.
From health care to the environment, fixing complicated problems isn't impossible in America ... yet02/09/2010
Citizens of all 50 states are reeling from the budget cuts caused by the financial crisis. Our nation's fiscal nightmare is literally breaking state governments.
Or is it the other way around?
In a penetrating article for Governing Magazine, author Rob Gurwitt puts forward evidence that we have it exactly backwards. A budget crisis isn't wrecking state governments; state governments are so broken that it's creating a perpetual budget crisis.
"The realization has started to dawn — and not just in the hardest-hit places — that fundamental assumptions about how state government operates need rewiring," he writes. "The little budget tricks that states have tended to rely on in order to keep the electorate happy have mostly run their course."
But we don't need mazagine articles to tell us that govenments, from state to federal, are having trouble turning the ship of state around.
But is that even doable? Some say no: a recent Wall street Journal article said the reason President Obama's attempt to reform health care is failing is that you literally can't reform health care: at 16% of the economy, it's too big. Can't be done. Government is simply too large to transform. End of story.
Gary Metcalf disagrees. It can be done, and thre's even reason to hope.
A totalitarian regime's enemy number 1: Human Science02/09/2010
As Iranian civil society reels from the impact of illegitimate elections, the Chronicle of Higher Education noticed a fascinating, if disturbing, trend: a disproportionate number of dissidents put on public trial have been students of the human sciences … and they have been forced to denounce their field.
"The number of social scientists in Iranian prisons has multiplied," the Chronicle says (where the Iranians use the European term "Human Sciences," the Chronicle prefers the Americanized – and more limited – "Social Sciences"). Meanwhile, members of the regime's senior leadership, including the "supreme ruler" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have publicly called for human science to be discussed only among trained elites … or not taught at all … lest ordinary people be encouraged to doubt the legitimacy of the theocratic government.
The Chronicle quotes from the forced confession of Saeed Hajjarian, a leading advocate for reform and a political scientist by training: "Theories of the human sciences contain ideological weapons that can be converted into strategies and tactics and mustered against the country's official ideology."
At Saybrook University, the only university in America to offer graduate degrees in Human Science, the response has been "absolutely right."
Shaping the University's response to the crisis in Haiti, students led the way02/09/2010
On February 2, Saybrook Interim President Bob Schmitt issued a statement expressing Saybrook's solidarity with the people of Haiti and describing the steps that members of our community are taking to address their suffering.
At many institutions statements like these are drafted only at the highest levels, with the people they purport to represent not finding out about them until long after the fact. In this case, however, the statement was conceived of by students, and a diverse spectrum of the community was instrumental in its development.
The Haiti earthquake took place on January 12, just as students and faculty were beginning to travel to the Residential Conference of the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies. The idea of issuing a statement about earthquake was first brought forward not in the boardroom, but in a classroom, by Janine Ray, a PhD student in Human Science with a concentration in Social Transformation. She walked into the January 2010 Residential Conference intensive on Global Citizen Activism, Theory, and Research (co-sponsored by the Social Transformation Concentration and the Human Science degree program), knowing that she couldn't pretend the earthquake hadn't happened.
"It turns out we were all feeling that way," Ray says. "We're the Social Transformation concentration: we all thought we should be doing something."
So the participants in the session began to ask themselves: what realistically could be done?
Saybrook co-sponsors this month's ATP conference02/09/2010
Saybrook University is proud to co-sponsor this month's Association of Transpersonal Psychology Conference, entitled "Spirituality In Action: Bringing Transpersonal Psychology to a World in Crisis."
Held from Feb. 12 - 14 at Menlo College, in Atherton, CA, the conference features speakers including Charles Tart, Fred Luskin, Jenny Wade, Olga Louchakova, Ed Bruce Bynum, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Dean Radin, and Donald Rothberg.
For more information call 650-424-8764,or email firstname.lastname@example.com
We've got a new plan for sustainability02/09/2010
Sustainability means more than new technology to save the environment. It's about communities, about culture, about people making big changes and thriving as they adapt.
While there are dozens of masters degree programs around the country that focus on sustainability as a business decision, or a new technological response, there's no place to go to learn practical tools to tap into the human side of sustainability.
No place except Saybrook. The Organizational Systems masters degree specializing in sustainability leadership that's offered by the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies is a unique program that goes where other programs don't: it looks beyond new technology to address human systems, how people adapt effectively to change, and how organizations can creatively bring out the best in people.
That program is now set to grow and expand, and has new co-directors who will focus on its development.
Kathia Laszlo, a Saybrook human science alumna who co-founded the international think-tank Syntony Quest, is joined by new faculty member Erica Kohl-Arenas, who received her PhD in education from UC Berkeley and her MA in community development from UC Davis.
They say Saybrook's MA in sustainability is poised to play an instrumental role in helping the world transition – in big ways and small – to new models of sustainable practice.


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Babette's Feast
Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland, until one day, Philippa's former suitor sends a Parisian refugee named Babette (Stéphane Audran) to serve as the family cook. Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.
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