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Omsk Things to Do
Circus In Omsk
A very popular attraction between the citizens of Omsk of all ages is the Circus (located right in the central part of the city, on K. Marx Street).more
The Dome of Omsk
Before the Bolsheviks came to power, Omsk had the Center - the Omsk Dome and the nearby square. It was one of the most beautiful churches in Russia. But the Barbarians had no mercey and it was destroyed in the 30-ies. So, Omsk lost its Center.The Communists tried to fill in the gap, and made out of it an amusement square with a fountain and slides...more
The Cossack Nikolsky Cathedral
The most eminent cult building of Omsk. Here the banner of Ermak, legendary pioneer of Siberia and the first Russian to start its exploration on a grand scale, was kept. Unfortunately the banner disappeared when Kolchak's troops were leaving the city. However, the communists didn't blow it up but instead used it at first as a warehouse and then an...more
Omsk Hotels
Mayak Hotel
We stayed at the Hotel Mayak which was very central to the city of Omsk. Very Comfortable hotel and...more
Ibis Sibir Hotel
Getting ill in Russia, being exspected the next day on a conference 10 hours by train away from the...more
Tourist Hotel Omsk
We didn't stay here but its right across from the Mayak Hotel so very good location and very central...more
Omsk Restaurants
Chashka Dutch Restaurant
We only went there for coffee and deserts and what a good idea that was. Pancakes with strawberries and cream was really good....!more
Mon Plasisir Restaurant
This is a great little French Restaurant in Omsk with its wonderful setting and really friendly atmosphere. The staff look really look after you, even bringing me an english menu before I had even asked for one. Try the chicken dishes there really tasty.more
Silver Elephant
We came here a few times and its probably the best place for tea's and coffee's along with such wonderful food.more
Omsk Nightlife
Theatre and concerts
Check the big hangouts (afisha) for concerts and theatre venues. Ticket can be bought in the appropriate kiosks and sales outlets. Best ask your local friends.more
Omsk Drama Theater
Omsk Drama Theater is a really beautiful architectural building that has a great history. Many Russian famous actors have passed from this scene. Moscow actors played here in a long period of a Great Patriotic War (1940-1945). Siberia was a quiet place and helped the art to stay alive. Coming to a theater most of russians wear the best dress they...more
This was an upscale nightclub in Omsk. It is quite possible to find lesser clubs in Omsk and I don't want to seem conceided but you will also find a different class of people in those clubs and not necessarily a good class :)I have friends (and a fiance) in Omsk all of which were quite infomative and it helps to learn a bit of the language...more
Omsk Transportation
Omsk Shopping
Malls and Supermarkets
This is a general description of the store in Omsk.There are at least 2 malls that i know of in Omsk. They are a reasonable size and have a good variety of American and European goods. There are no shortages of items and all of the food items were very fresh. Russian food does not contain additives, it is organic. This is a carryover from the...more
If you go in the street just in front of the train station (on the other side of the square), on your left you'll find a big bazar...you can buy almost everything here, most of all dresses.prices are often good, and it's funny to deal with the sellers.This is an interesting place to visit in winter: if you aren't properly dressed for siberian...more
Omsk Hotels8 Hotels in Omsk
Omsk Local Customs
I don't think that you'd get very far with these old fashioned phones. Better use a mobile phone like most young and trendy Russians. As a tourist you can only buy a sim card if you have your passport registered in the city and for the date when you want to buy it. If you buy one in Moscow for instance, check that you get a good coverage in Siberia...more
Visiting Russian Homes
In Russia it is customary to remove your shoes upon entering a home. Russians do not like to track dirt into their homes and often Russian streets tend to be a bit dirty.Also, it is customary to bring small gifts when visiting.For more information and cultural tips go to the web site link I have posted below.more
Toilet paper
Toilet paper - I found that not everyone uses what we know as toilet paper, many people use other means. You may notice a little enveleop hanging on the wall with newspapers cut up in squares, this is to take the place of TP. I recommend that you kind of crumple it up or rub them together to soften them up a bit before using.more
Omsk Warnings and Dangers
Know the "house rules" in a strip club
Several "night life tips here address local "strip clubs" and the fact that perhaps one (or more) of them allows you to "touch" the ladies.MAKE sure you know JUST what the "house rules" are before you find yourself with your arm(s) twisted behind your back as you make a fast trip out the side door and pick your face and teeth out of the mud, dirt...more
poor road, VERY POOR roads
Some of the streets around the apartment complexes had not seen any improvements or repairs since they were built! Watch your tongue and teeth!! some of those lumps, bumps and wumps can be VERY bone jaring! Amazingly enough when and where the roads where half way decent you had to watch for speed bumps!! Russians with with their own cars sometimes...more
Drinking Water
I just thought about this recently.....In Russia most people there don't drink the water from the faucet (tap).Because there may be different bacteria in the water than in your country, it is advised to use ONLY bottled water for drinking AND brushing your teeth.There are many brands of bottled water in Omsk. The bottle water there comes with or...more
Omsk Tourist Traps
Foreign Tourist Prices
Depending upon where you go or what services you need you may get the tourist price.
This is especially true of taxi's and restaurants
Unique Suggestions: ALWAYS negotiate with taxi drivers.
In restaurants you may not have a choice.
Fun Alternatives: Use busses and/or gazelles most of the time.
Go to restaurants with Russian friends.
Omsk What to Pack
Most necessities can be found at the...
Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: During cold weather it is best to wear layers of clothes. If you are too warm or too cold you can add or remove clothes as necessary. You should have something warm for your head, gloves and perhaps a sweater and coat.
Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Although I brought medical item with me, I was able to find most of these in the mall. Items such as immodium, asprin, etc but you would need to learn the alphabet - for example, immodium is spelled the same but in the cyrillic aplhabet.
Fortunately :-) I didn't need the Immodium!
Photo Equipment: A digital camera is suggested and perhaps a video camera. You can bring a film based camera as developing is available in the city. Have your photos developed before leaving Russia, in the event they are bad photos, as you will not have the opportunity to take them again once you leave.
Miscellaneous: LEARN THE ALPHABET! it is not too difficult. As an example I have included a photo of the sign from the front of the hotel where I stayed. It translates, letter-per-letter, as "Turist Otel". Not too difficult, right? "Tourist Hotel" the "b" at the end of "Otelb" is silent, it preserves the hard consonant sound of the preceeding "l".
Omsk Off The Beaten Path
The Achairsky Monastery
The Achairsky Monastery is an impressive riverside convent 55 km south of Omsk. We took a taxi from the city that takes around 40mins to get there. It was founded in 1905 and the monastery was restored in early 1990s as a convent.more
The sun does rise here, at about 10:30...
These apartment building where in quite good condition even thought they were much older than the typical Khrushchev Aparments dating from the middle 50's. I was living within two blocks of the river, so the trees were covered with the hore frost from the river fog as well.The kitchen area shows the remarkable efficiency in the use of space, the...more
Railroad into Omsk
I arrived in Omsk via the Trans Siberian Railroad November 21, 2005. It was nearly 9 am but the sun had not appeared yet. As we approached the river the fog rose to greet us and covered everything with a hore frost. There were ice flows in the river but there was also open water.more
Omsk Sports & Outdoors
If you like Hockey then Omsk is an excellent place. At the end of 2004 Avangard became the national champions in Russia.Russian hockey is a bit slower as the rings are larger. This is soon to change as they want to become more competitive internationally.Omsk has the highest paid team in all of Russia. As of 2005 during the NHL freeze out many...more
Siberia Ice marathon
Run every January on Xmas day. Record low of -40! Lots of wicking layers, windproof top. Icebug shoes if you can but normal trail shoes OKmore
Garatke--It's a sport
Garatke is a sport that is very popular in Omsk, although I never heard of it until we were there. Vladimir is an incredible player, he has won many regional awards for playing. The sport is odd to me. The player holds a long, heavy stick, which he throws at a set of smaller sticks about 20 feet away. It is done outside on special garatke "fields"....more
Omsk Favorites
A new rebuilt Cathedral in "Western"...
We saw and visited a new (or rebuilt) Cathedral on the Western side of the river. I was not quite clear on the status of this Cathedral, it appeared to be brand new, but some people indicated that it was being "rebuilt". The founation work looked to be absolutly new so it may be the "rebuild" of an old Cathedral that was distroyed under the Soviet...more
More chruches in Omsk
I noticed and briefly visited one more church in Omsk but also saw a chapel and a smaller neighborhood church that I did not have the oppertunity to visit. Are these really "significant"? Well, yes but only if you stop to consider that these "survivied" the soviet Era and are now "working churches" again no matter what they were called under the...more
Siberia on Growth Factor
There is SO much new construction in Omsk, especially on the west side of the river. the mass of contruction cranes looked like a forest!There were new apartments being built everywhere!But it was not just apartments that where "going up" the local Tourist Hotel seemed to be tripling its size right along the river bank.There was also a new bridge...more
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An external eyelid stye is an inflamed area or bump on the eyelid. The medical term for a stye is hordeolum externum. Styes are red, painful lumps (most look like pimples) near the edge of the eyelid, where the eyelashes meet the lid. Styes are tender to the touch and can be painful. This condition affects more children than adults (Johns Hopkins Medicine).
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Medieval Demographics Online
An automated tool for creating fantasy populations (with offline version, too)
This tool lets you generate figures for populating low-fantasy kingdoms and settlements. Instructions are included in Low-fantasy Populations article, also included in the offline download below.
Use the drop-down menus and input fields in the form below to generate realistic population numbers for any low fantasy setting. Fields with grey backgrounds are filled in automatically by the Generator.
Original codebase drawn from The Domesday Book by Brandon Blackmoor, based on Medieval Demographics Made Easy by S. John Ross. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
- Low Fantasy Population Generator (offline version)
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@Evil Eli : Just unzip the download into its own directory. Navigate to that directory and double-click on the 'lowfantasypop.html'. It should open in your web browser, and you can work it from there (it won't look as pretty as the above). Drop me a line if you get stuck (admin AT welshpiper DOT com).
The population number of people in a settlement: Does this number represent the entire population (including children and the elderly, i.e. non-labor force) or the adult population able to provide work?
@Summer : It's the entire population (i.e., every single living inhabitant). Details about determining workforce are found in the companion article, "Low-fantasy Populations."
Specifically: "Not all citizens are workers; the Generator groups citizens into households of 4.75 each. These include one or two parents and children of various (pre-marital) ages."
Hope this helps!
Thanks, that helps a lot! I must've missed that particular line…
@Summer : What? You mean that 2-line sentence buried in a sea of text? 😉
You're not the first one to ask, though, and I should update for the current version of Chimera. Thanks for the nudge.
Rex Loewen Reply
I have playing with the numbers but cannot seem to generate a University.
What does it take before my kingdom, realm, country, province, whatever supports a University?
Thank you in advance.
Rex A. Loewen
@Rex Loewen : You're right–universities are very rare. Based on the source material, the output is 1 University for every 27.3 million people.
You could come up with a university-to-population ratio that fits in better with your campaign, or you could add your universities "manually," based on what you want in your campaign.
If you download the offline version, the University calculation is lines 107-110 of the "pop_functions.js" file.
Kyle Stoddard Reply
The regional population numbers generated by this program are a fantasy! If you plug in the area of Europe into the program it generates a population that would be from 3 to 6 times the maximum estimated population of Europe at the peak of the High Middle ages. (70 to 100 millions people.)
So, divide all these population numbers by 3 to 6 if you want something approaching reality.
Kyle Stoddar
@Kyle Stoddard : I see your point, but there may be a flaw in your approach. The tool applies the same population density across the entire area you plug in, which wouldn't be accurate for all of Europe in the Middle Ages (i.e, some areas were highly populated while others were very sparse).
To get manageable (and more realistic) results, I suggest you use smaller areas–kingdoms instead of continents, or maybe even individual counties thereof. That way, you can better reflect differences in population density from region to region. Hope this helps.
Is there a reason I can't see the online version of the generator anymore? Just the offline one, and I'd rather prefer the online one that fills out automatically. Just wondering if there's something amiss…
@Summer : ACK! Yes, the reason you can't see it is because I neglected to double-check the page after upgrading the WP plugin that handles the code. Sorry about that. Good news is that it's easy to fix, which I'll do tonight. On the meantime, I hope the offline version is of use.
@Summer All sorted now – thanks for the heads up, and again, my apologies for the inconvenience.
@Erin, thank you! Can't begin to tell you how useful this generator has been for me
@Erin, is it possible to add a factor of 10 to population density? Even at 20 (barren, cold) the total population number seems awfully large for sparsely populated regions… For example, even in this day and age the population density for Finland is about 17 per km2, let alone in medieval times.
@Summer : Glad it's useful to you, Summer. And yes, I can add "10" to the dropdown – on one condition: you have to supply the description in parenthesis.
I'm travelling now, but can add this next week – that should give you enough time to complete your assignment 😉
@Erin D. Smale Oh, the pressure…. The first describes natural conditions and terrain, right? And the second is temperature.
Well, since there are restrictions to available space in the drop-down, let's keep this short and sweet. How about… A) Desolate, Any (reference to temperature). B) Desolate, Unpredictable (that's probably too long). C) Wilderness, Any. D) Wild, Erratic. E) Desolate, Erratic. F) Desert(ed), Any.
Or any combination of the above options.
Wow. This is more difficult than I thought… The previous description, barren, pretty much covers all contingencies. I was trying to find a word that would describe any kind of terrain and temperature, so that the area could be void of people for any sort of reason, from natural conditions to results of calamities, like war or plague or something.
If I come up with more possibilities, I'll be sure to add them In the meantime, if anyone else would like to take a crack at it, be my guest!
@Summer : You're right – the descriptions are a little confusing. I've addressed that with broader terms, AND added your "10" option to both the on- and offline versions. Please let me know if this fits the bill.
@Erin D. Smale : Thank you so much. This is perfect! It has already worked very well for me
@Summer Huzzah!
But here's something to think about: why not a high-fantasy demographics tool? What would be different?
JeremyR Reply
This is neat, but it seems way too high. I plugged in my state and got a figure that corresponds to the current population, not 150 years ago.
@JeremyR The tool applies the same population density to whatever square mileage you enter. IOW, it assumes that every square mile of your region has the same population.
This probably isn't true. Does your state have uninhabited or non-inhabitable areas? If so, you need to take those areas out of the equation. Does your state have a mix of urban, suburban, and rural areas? If so, you'll need to factor those in as well.
My advice is to "carve up" your total area into smaller regions that have the same population density, run the tool, and that should give you more "realistic" figures.
drs Reply
A useful calibration:
gives modern densities by total land, and by arable land. Not directly useful for medieval purposes, since modern numbers ride on fertilizers made with fossil fuel energy (huge), extensive irrigation and aquifer mining (though those can be pre-modern), modern crop breeds (possible with magic or post-apoc setup), pesticides (magic?), mechanized harvesting (though that probably reduces labor more than increases productivity per land… some say proper intensive farming is more productive than modern farms, if you have thed skilled labor for it.) Fertilizer is probably the big one — and was preceded by guano, so you may have to go back to 1840 to find world population numbers. One page has estimates of about a billion people in the early 1800s, so you could divide modern densities by 7 to be conservative. Though how much fertilizer are poor countries affording?
Anyway, even without such adjustment, the Wikipedia table shows the variation in density per arable land due to climate and the variation in amount of a country that's arable. Then there's what you put the land to use for: the US could have far more people per arable land, but we have cattle and other livestock instead, including horses back before the car.
Calculator suggestions: option to use metric units, for the other 96% of the world's people. Option to enter a density directly, if someone feels the menu range isn't good enough.
BRRM Reply
This is GREAT! Thank you for this lovely calculator! Gonna make figuring out my settlement sizes much easier! Brilliant! now i can concentrate on my map. 😀
@Erin D. Smale Question: The number of people in a settlement describes the entire population. What is the percentage of the labor force, as in adults in their prime able to work? Obviously this interpretation would exclude children and the elderly. The number wasn't mentioned in Low-fantasy Populations. Would a rough guess of 60-80 % sound natural? Or do you have a more specific factor in play?
@Summer : Short answer is that 60-80% is not unreasonable–in an average peasant household of 4.75, that means anywhere between 2.85 and 3.8 were able-bodied.
But let me reinforce that with some armchair logic. Assume we're excluding freeholders, so we count only citizens (i.e. farmers).
In order to pay rents, pay tithes, and simply survive, a peasant's feudal obligation was considerable. As a result, children worked the fields as soon as they were capable of being helpful–about 7 or 8 years of age (http://www.localhistories.org/middle.html).
Likewise, the elderly worked the fields until they were no longer helpful–a variety of factors could contribute to this, but the average lifespan in Medieval Britain (from birth) was about 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy). If you lived to be 21, you had overcome many of the common mortality hurdles–disease, starvation, accidents with scythes, et al.–and could expect to top out at about 64. I'll take the unscientific approach and normalise lifespan at about 47. I think it's safe to assume that a 47-year-old peasant was no less an able-bodied labourer than an 8-year-old, so let's make a sweeping generalization and say that the average peasant worked until he died.
Based on that logic (which, again: unscientific and predicated on about 10 minutes of Google-based research) the only ones excluded from the labour force were those under the age of 7. So the question is, out of the 4.75 peasants in the average household, how many were 6 years or younger?
Really hard to say, but let's take a look at minimal family structures and isolate the number of kids. If we have 1-2 parents, we're left with 3.75 – 2.75 children–basically 3-4 kids. How many of those are under 7?
Here's a potential clue. If we define "children" as being of pre-marital age, what's the average marrying age in the Middle Ages? Sources vary, but a common range is the mid-twenties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_household)–let's say 24. So let's assume that parents have their kids between the ages of 18 and 30–that's a 12 year span. Three kids evenly spaced in a 12 year period gives us ages 4, 8, and 12; 4 kids evenly spaced gives us ages 3, 6, 9, and 12.
So we arrive–with many convenient assumptions–1 or 2 kids under 7 per family, leaving us with 2.75 to 3.75 able-bodied workers per household, or basically between 60-80%. 😉
Hyronious Reply
Great resource!
Just one question, I'm not hugely familiar with medieval society in general, at least the background bits that get left out of popular literature, and I was wondering what sort of numbers I would be looking at for military?
@Hyronious : Hey Hyronious! The answer depends on what military means. If you're talking militia, then every able-bodied man could be conscripted, and I'm saying that's equal to the labour force (q.v., my previous comment, minus kids under marrying age?).
If you're talking trained fighters (i.e., at least 1st-level, or the equivalent in your game), then we can extrapolate a bit – sources consistently suggest it took 15-30 households to support a single knight (here's one of them: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?historyid=ac80).
So here's some math: If you took a medieval hundred (composed of 100 "hides," each of which was enough land to support a single household – size varied from 60-120 acres depending on terrain and land quality), you'd reasonably expect 3.3 to 6.6 knights. If a household is 4.75 people, then a hundred's population is 475 people, so knights were anywhere from 0.7% to 1.5% of the rural population.
But like my previous comment, wherein I expound (inexpertly) on the size of the labour force, I'm basing this on about 10 minutes of Google research. I think knights being 1% of the population is a reasonable baseline, but YMMV.
One more caveat: These figures are based on actual knights, which were expensive: They required a mount, armour, and actual weapons as opposed to dangerous-looking farm implements. A single "knight" is almost definitely worth several, lesser-equipped (but nevertheless trained) troops like archers, pikemen, unmounted spearmen, et al.
just a note that, since io.com is no more, the MDME page has moved to http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm
and a huzzah and thanks for putting this together!
@drow : Thanks for the update – link is now fixed.
hobbs Reply
do the numbers given for each of the freeholders represent the number of shops, or number of literal freeholders? (if there is 11 tailors, should i mark 11 tailors' buildings on my map?)
Samuel Reply
I have a criticism: The Number of castles is wayyyyy off. England and Wales alone had nearly 2000.
Lorien Reply
Oh my gosh, I used this when I wrote my book in 2009… and now that I'm starting to get into writing again, I'm so glad I found it again! Seriously love this tool.
I just re-downloaded the offline version to have an up-to-date version (based on your updates in the comments above), but the "last update" still reads 2006. Is this accurate?
Penquinn Reply
Is it possible to choose specific population densities in the offline version? E.g. a density of 17 people/square mile?
Elvith Reply
Just one quick question : S. John Ross indicated there should be 1 cleric per 40 people (there. http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm). Here, you have 1 cleric per 120 people. Why is that?
Great tool btw!
@Elvith : Thinking back, my logic was to provide more religious-types in a settlement for adventuring purposes, setting the stage for more healing/resurrection opportunities, multiple temples, and possible non-secular rivalries, etc. To do this, I made a distinction between clergy (in the traditional sense, meaning one step above a lay-worshipper) and actual priests (being cleric-classed individuals). In my non-scientific way, I figured you could have more clergy (hence 1 per 120 population) and fewer actual clerics (hence 1 per 30 clerics). In all, it seemed a little more "low fantasy" to me; YMMV.
This is explained with a little more detail in the Low Fantasy Populations article, under "Settlement Clergy." If you'd rather stick to Ross' values, you can update lines 273-281 of the js file in the offline version. Hope this helps!
@Erin D. Smale: The sidebar on the right side of the page blocks some of the chart. Just FYI. I tried to zoom in and out, but it made no difference.
BTW, I'm super-glad this site and this online chart still exists. Lots of places have vanished into the internet ethers. Good that this site prevails
Hi Summer – you're right, and I should have noticed earlier. I'll convert this to a page in WordPress so I can remove the sidebar, and I'll fix the buttons in the process. Give me a couple of days…
And thanks for your support – I'm glad this is useful to you. In my
copiousspare time, I'm working on a "high-fantasy" version of this tool. Stay tuned!
Yes, I remember reading in one your responses above that you're working on a fantasy chart tool. Sounds cool! Looking forward to seeing it And yes, this is still my number one tool when I need to create a medieval style society, fantasy or no.
Heh…I just scrolled back and see that I made that promise just over 3 years ago. So, by spare time, I really mean, whenever, apparently.
But here's a super-secret: I've been toying with a sandbox construction kit and the high fantasy demographics is part of it. There's progress, but not enough to share just yet…
I've always seen 'citizens' as support, service, and dregs: farmers, farmhands, employees of freeholders, porters, bearers, teamsters, manicurists, kids, infirm people, beggars, pen-wipers, fences, middling bureaucrats, disenfranchised hobos living in the sewers, etc. Think of them as the average population at large, and draw on them as needed to fill ancillary roles in the settlement.


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I tried matchmaking in War Games, but it hasn't quite grabbed me yet. I've bought all of the MP map packs for Halo 3 and Reach, but I'm not sure yet if I will here.
I finished the campaign on Heroic, and now working through it on Legendary. I liked it. I love the Mantis.
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|Chopped scallions
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|1 Cup (16 tbs)
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1. To prepare pesto, in blender, combine scallions, parsley, basil, cheese, garlic, and oil until just blended; set aside.
2. In large skillet, bring 1 cup water to a boil; add scallops. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until scallops just turn opaque, about 3 minutes.
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I always start salivating when I walk by chopped butternut squash. I LOVE Butternut Squash soup, but have only ate it in restaurants or at gatherings, I've never made the jump to make my own. Well I noticed a while back that my local grocery store sold 12 ounce bags of fresh, cut up cubes of Butternut Squash. I could make a soup without having to attack a poor squash trying to get it all peeled and cubed. Score!
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- Combine all ingredients except for the cream cheese and paprika in your Crock-Pot.
- Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- When the soup will be ready in about 30 minutes, cut up the cream cheese into chunks and place into the soup so that it can soften.
- After that 30 minutes, pour the soup into a blender (I did it in two batches) and blend until smooth, being careful not to over blend.
- Check flavor of soup in case more salt or pepper need to be added.
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For those that want to chop their own Butternut Squash. It can help to cut in half and roast in the oven for about 30 minutes to help make it easier to chop. I would use 300 degrees. I found our butternut squash fresh bags at Walmart, they come in 12 ounce bags and are Marketside brand.


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Apparently three young, thai teenagers were shot, at a beach bar on Ko Phi Phi, Christmas day. One, killed instantly. Apparently, violence reaches even the most beautiful, remote corners of the earth.
I can't imagine how this must be affecting the small island. My deepest condolences go out to their friends, family and everyone affected by this horrible tragedy.
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Terrible news -- I've been trying to find a news report of this online but can't find anything -- did you read about it online?
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This is not uncommon at all. Thailand has a very high rate of gun violence. Thailand has the fourth highest rate in the world (although there are no stats for some countries like Somalia) at 41.5 per hundred thousand. Contrast that with the US, which many people cite for a high rate of gun violence, which is 9.1 per hundred thousand. We had a killing on my street last year (and one kid was wounded). At the fair this year five kids were shot, two fatally. At the local club a guy was shot and killed when my wife was there. I saw a shooting at the Carabao concert here. fortunately for tourists, this violence is almost all Thai on Thai and revolves around issues of face and gang conflict which we aren't part of. The fact that Thais are friendly and smile a lot has given many people the false impression that theirs is a peaceful culture - it's not.
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Credit Suisse Securities is creating a market data analysis and management team to focus on the data strategy and pricing policies adopted in equities and fixed income.
From a fixed-income perspective, the group is headed by New York-based Baldwin Smith, managing director, fixed-income research, Credit Suisse Securities. Smith, who was a speaker at the North American Financial Information Summit in New York in May, said the new centralized group will be involved in selecting data sources and policies used for pricing securities.
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The background for creating a central data group that sits across equities and fixed income was the increased scrutiny faced by pricing teams. Smith said the benefits of having this new centralized group will include increased transparency and improved ability to monitor prices for compliance purposes.
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Abramowitz also said firms seem to be doing more vendor due diligence visits. For these visits, clients may come in with a selection of Cusip numbers for securities they want to see analysts price, he explained. The visits are mostly yearly, but some would do more frequent checks too. Abramowitz said some choose to do a "deep dive" call with the vendor on a quarterly basis, where the client could learn more about how the vendor prices some hard-to-price securities.
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St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Hyderabad, Pakistan is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad, 1040 kilometers south of the Capital Islamabad. [1]
Father Francis Kotwani, the first Sindhi to be ordained a Catholic priest, served as assistant parish priest of the cathedral parish. He completed 50 years as a priest in 1994.[2]
Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad appealed for people to pray for the country at the end of Mass at the Cathedral. The special service was being offered following a declaration of a state of emergency and a rash of arrests in the country in November 2007.[3]
In September 2012, an anti-Islamic film, unrelated to the cathedral, or the Catholic Church in any form, resulted in angry protest marches for three days, during which Christian institutions and buildings were targeted. Fr. Samson Shukardin OFM, Vicar General of the Diocese, reported that a crowd went by St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, throwing stones and breaking windows. From the upper floors of some nearby houses, shots were also fired at the cathedral door.[4]
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The first undergraduate course cultivated from the UChicago-partnership is set for the Fall of 2015. Twelve UChicago undergraduates will spend the 10 weeks at the MBL for "The Whale: Biology, Culture and Evolution on Nantucket Sound," a four course program that targets undergraduate, non-science majors interested in the maritime culture and entwined histories of whales and America.
Students will be exposed to New England maritime history and culture, and provided a comprehensive overview of biology that includes evolution, environmental science, biodiversity, physiology, and cell and developmental biology.
The lead instructors will be Karl Matlin, University of Chicago Professor of Surgery, teaching "Experimental Biology by the Sea," Michael Rossi, University of Chicago Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine teaching, "Whales, Whaling, and American History," and Robert Richards, University of Chicago Distinguished Professor in History of Science and Medicine teaching, "Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man."
Guest lecturers include Mitch Sogin, MBL Distinguished Scientist and Professor in Molecular Biology, Cell and Biochemistry at Brown University, and Nathaniel Philbrick, noted author of In the Heart of the Sea and other works on whaling and the maritime history of New England.
The program will run from September 25 to November 25, 2015.
A "Quantitative Biology Boot Camp" targeted for all incoming graduate students from all programs in UChicago's Biological Sciences Division is also scheduled for September 2015 at the MBL.
Co-directed by Stefano Allesina, an Assistant Professor, UChicago Department of Ecology & Evolution and Stephanie Palmer, an Assistant Professor, UChicago Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, the course will provide students with a working knowledge of computational and statistical approaches through their application to analysis of real world data sets. Organizers also hope to foster future MBL-UChicago collaborations by exposing students to the full range of MBL's research opportunities and resources .
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In late August, 12 students from the University of Chicago Lab Schools will spend a week at the MBL engaged in intense biology experiences that both enhance and relate to the current High School curriculum. Experiences will include a trip on the MBL's R/V Gemma to collect samples and gather data on the local marine intertidal ecosystem, visits to the salt marshes to study restoration ecology, learning about and utilizing cutting-edge microscopes made exclusively available to the MBL community as well as a community service project.
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Sidney Gavignet, one of France's most diverse and talented offshore sailors, and skipper of the Sultanate of Oman's flagship MOD70 campaign Oman Air-Musandam, declared conditions last night in the Bay of Biscay the roughest ever experienced on the MOD70.
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After the start in Le Havre on Thursday at 1300 CET, Sidney and co-skipper Damian Foxall (IRL) made short work of the English Channel before racing out into the Bay of Biscay that lived up to its fierce reputation. Overnight the pair, pushed to their limits in over 35 knots and huge 4-5 metre seas, elected to hug the coastline to shelter from the worst of the weather.
The Transat Jaques Vabre 2013. Le Havre - Itajai, Brazil The Oman Air Musandam MOD70 skipper Sidney Gavignet (FRA)
As the duo reached the North Western tip of Cape Finisterre in Spain this morning we managed to reach them on the phone between tacks. Sidney was tired but upbeat:
'It is tough out here. I think the conditions last night were the toughest I have ever experienced with this boat. But we are almost free of this phase; we need to do two more tacks to get round Cape Finisterre.
'The night was really hard; there was a huge seaway so we tried to protect ourselves by hugging the coastline, finally reducing sail to the third reef and the third jib (the small headsail). The boat was literally taking off and we were not going very fast.
Musandam MOD70 trimaran skippered by Sidney Gavignet (FRA). Shown here as they race down the Solent and past the Needles
'It is very hard to get any sleep; being so close to the coast, the one that is not helming is navigating. We have hardly slept at all. We are tired, but as soon as we get past the Cape, things will improve quite quickly. We will be doing a straight line south and we will be able to get some rest.
'Our immediate goal is to win back the eight nautical miles that we lost to Edmond de Rothschild overnight. At the moment, we can't see them; they must be about 10nms ahead of us.
'Conditions are improving; at the moment we have 27 knots – an improvement on the 36 knots and very big waves that we had when I was last up on deck earlier this morning.
The Transat Jaques Vabre 2013. Le Havre - Itajai, Brazil The Oman Air Musandam MOD70 co skipper Damian Foxall (IRL)
At the moment, the boat is in good shape, the manpower less so, but we'll be able to recover shortly!'
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WARRENVILLE, S.C. (WRDW) - The Aiken County Sheriff's Office said a man has been arrested and charged with murder for a morning shooting.
Deputies say Todd Brown is charged with murder, burglary and having a weapon during a crime. The Aiken County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 32-year-old Lacey Parker of Warrenville.
Investigators were called to the scene at 548 Pine Street around 7:30 Wednesday morning. The Sheriff's Office says Brown kicked in the door, started fighting with the victim, and shot her. They said Parker was found in the yard and taken to GRU where she died.
Deputies confirmed Brown is the victim's ex-boyfriend.
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We have news on another potential mother for the kids on How I Met Your Mother. According to Ausiello Files, Laura Prepon (Donna from That 70's Show) has signed on to play Ted's girlfriend for five episodes.
Prepon's character will e named Karen and she is Ted's girlfriend from high school, college, and briefly after that. Now, Ted will be dating her again and with at least a five episode count she could be a potential mother.
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Still, I don't think money is the reason Gore has transformed himself from a man who wrote that fighting global warming would require "sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation" from committed Americans to a movie figure who argues that reducing greenhouse gases can be profitable.
As Singer noted, the Kyoto Protocol on global warming was supposed to be a first step to reductions in greenhouse gases of more than 50 percent.
For his part, Singer believes that higher CO2 levels follow higher temperatures. Singer also understands that if enviros want to halve greenhouse gases, there are two ways to do it. "You can collapse the world economy," or, as the cow-gas story suggests, you destroy half the population. "Then you could reduce emissions by 50 percent."
I marvel at those who consider themselves to be in sync with the sage voices of science when it comes to global warming, then argue that America can reduce greenhouse gases with better light bulbs and hydrogen fuel cells.
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Following a sit-down interview with Bret Baier that led to some deservedly unfavorable headlines this week, Mitt Romney has moved on and launched his first television advertisement in Iowa. The 30-second spot, which will air on Friday, reinforces one of the recurring themes of his campaign – namely, that he is the private sector candidate most capable of growing the economy and creating jobs. His message is decidedly positive, with no mention of his fellow Republican rivals or President Obama. In effect, the commercial seems to implicitly emphasize the overt differences between Newt Gingrich, the 10-term Congressman and alleged Washington lobbyist, with Mitt's experiences in private business.
And yet, with only 32 days until the Iowa caucuses, recent polls indicate that the former House Speaker is firmly entrenched as the frontrunner and well positioned to win the contest on January 3. The new broadcast, I suspect, is only the first in a series of aggressive new advertisements that will be released by the Romney campaign to gain momentum and court voters in the Hawkeye State.
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During panic situation, it is not necessarily the crowd will act as a `crowd' but rather as a group of individual. As part of the crowd in panic situation, there will be a group of individuals who will act accordingly like following leader, relatives or friends. The existing crowd behaviour theories in panic situation comprise of not only panic theory itself but also include decision-making theory and urgency theory. However, there is still an issue in regards of human communication during this emergency condition. This paper will analyze on the bona fide of human relationship in aiding the decision making process during the simulation in panic situation and further discussed on the theories stated. An overview of existing crowd behaviour model will also be included in this paper as part of the analysis of crowd behavior in panic situation.


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There are delays of up to two hours on Virgin Trains East Coast and Grand Central trains between Grantham and Doncaster due to overhead line problems at Newark North Gate.
Man dies after being struck by a train in Co Durham
A man has died after being hit by a train in County Durham.
British Transport Police and emergency services were called to Croxdale Viaduct, Sunderland Bridge at around 5.45am this morning, September 3rd, following a report of a person struck by a train.
Police are currently working to identify the man and inform his family.
Delays and cancellations between Newcastle and Durham after person hit by train
East Coast has announced that there will be delays between Newcastle and Durham this afternoon after a person was hit by a train.
Full Report: Northumberland railway set to be restored?
A proposal to re-open passenger rail services between Newcastle and Ashington in Nothumberland has been put before the Transport Secretary today.
The route was closed to passengers over 50 years ago and is now only used by freight trains.
It is hoped that the service could reverse economic decline and unemployment in South East Northumberland, as Richard Wilson reports.
Watch his full report below.
Full Report: Celebrations as Puffing Billy returns home
A replica of one of the world's very first steam trains has returned to the village in Northumberland where it was built.
Two centuries after Wylam was at the forefront of the railway revolution, the village is gearing up to celebrate its pioneering past.
You can watch the full report from Derek Proud below.
Full report: Taxi drivers unhappy with new station layout
Taxi drivers in Newcastle say they're paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for just five spaces outside the city's train station.
Work has just started on improvements to the area, which will include pedestrianising what was the taxi pick-up point. Already, some of the drivers say they're unhappy with the new layout.
Watch Lucy Taylor's report here:
Taxi drivers unhappy with new layout of Newcastle Central station
Taxi drivers in Newcastle say they are paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for just five spaces outside the city's train station.
Work has just started on a multi-million pound refurbishment of the station. But already some taxi drivers say they are unhappy with the new layout.
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Full Report: Bids begin for East Coast privatisation
Bids can begin for the East Coast mainline after the Government invited private companies to takeover the running of the service within the next two years.
Virgin Trains had already registered their interest within hours of the announcement - and more companies are set to follow.
The line was nationalised in 2009 when National Express struggled to meet their costs, but the Government now say that it is in the interest of passengers for it to be handed back to a private company.
However, unions believe that the move would waste millions of pounds.
You can watch the full report from Dan Ashby below.
Dan joins Pam in the studio to explain what privatising East Coast could mean
The government has announced that the North East's most important rail route will be run by a private company within two years time.
Bidding opened today for the East Coast mainline, and already Virgin Trains has expressed an interest.
Our correspondent Dan Ashby joined Pam in the studio to explain more about what the move to privatisation could mean for the North East.
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Trent Richardson sat down, stared at a point just above the table in front of him and paused for a few seconds. Then a few more, waiting for the words to find him.
"This moment right here ... I really can't explain it," he said. "Nobody can take this away from me."
The former Alabama running back had just been drafted by the Cleveland Browns, who traded up a spot to No. 3 to make sure they landed the draft's most complete running back. A little bit later on, Richardson seemed to take another stab at explaining himself.
"I got that phone call and I was like, 'Wow. I'm in the NFL,'" he said.
It's not just about playing on Sundays for Richardson. He was thinking of his mother, whom he said worked multiple jobs while he was growing up. She has lupus and still works at a seafood restaurant.
He was joined on stage at Radio City Music Hall by his two young daughters, Taliyah and Elevara, whom he has called "my little hearts."
"To them, this means they never have to go through what their daddy went through," Richardson said.
Richardson appears to have inherited more than a little of his mom's grit, helping power him through training runs up a sand dune in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla., and countless hours in the weight room.
All that helped him become one of the toughest, hardest to tackle running backs in the SEC. And a first-round draft pick whose team traded three other picks to move up and take him.
It all adds up to Richardson being able to pay back his mom for her sacrifices. She doesn't have to work another day in her life.
"That's big for me, man," Richardson said. "Hard work pays off."
Red-carpet treatment
Once again, the NFL rolled out the red carpet outside Radio City Music Hall before the draft, and football stars past and present began exiting SUVs — even with a steady mist falling.
Among the first arrivals were Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, who were joined by Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders. Figures it would be Luck and Griffin who started off the pre-draft festivities because the quarterbacks were about 90 minutes away from becoming the first two picks in Thursday night's draft: Luck by the Colts and Griffin by the Redskins.
Asked about starting the post-Peyton Manning era with Indianapolis, Luck said, "I'm very excited to be part of such a franchise with the history of the Colts. It's a dream come true. I'm looking forward to it."
Quarterback city
Stanford has had four players chosen first overall. They've all been quarterbacks. Luck went first to Indianapolis. John Elway was also taken first overall — also by the Colts — in 1983, then was dealt to Denver. Jim Plunkett went to New England in 1971 and Bobby Garrett was the first pick in the 1954 draft, by Cleveland.
This was also the fifth time quarterbacks went first and second. Plunkett and Archie Manning were taken to start the 1971 draft — Dan Pastorini went third — then Drew Bledsoe and Rick Mirer in 1993, Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf in 1998, and Tim Couch and Donovan McNabb in 1999, with Akili Smith going third.
This year, Washington took Griffin after the Colts took Luck.
That's cold
Every year it seems players from warm-weather schools are drafted by cold-weather teams. One of the first questions they're asked is how do they plan to handle the cold.
USC tackle Matt Kalil was taken fourth overall by the Vikings. Although they're a dome team, no such climate control exists in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Did Kalil expect that to be a problem?
"I like the cold," Kalil said. "Every night, my room's at 50 degrees."


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I can swear that I heard from a guy on the bus who knows a guy, who's uncles best friend read on a Russian Blog that Kodachrome is coming back, with a full production run and re-introduction of processing world wide.
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FireWire Depot has unveiled the new Concord Dual 3.5" FireWire External Hard Drive Enclosure ($170), one of the smallest dual-drive enclosures available. It enables you to install one or two 3.5" hard drives (ATA-6 compatible/compliant 200G/250G/300G) and "create a monster box without the monster size." The company expexts "a 1394b/FireWire800 version within the next couple of months, as well as a 1394b version of the Speedzter3 and other enclosures and Products."
iMatte introduced at INFOCOMM 2003 today iSkia, its first product targeted for in-room presentations, videoconferencing, distance learning, content creation, and home entertainment. Greek for 'The Shadow,' iSkia is a hardware device that interfaces between the host computer and projector, "and puts the presenter back into the presentation in a way never before possible." It allows the image to be projected on the screen but not on the presenter or in the presenter's eyes, thereby creating a "new experience for both the presenter and the audience," according to iMatte. "The elimination of dangerously blinding light and distracting projected graphics on the presenter creates a presentation that feels completely natural to both the presenter and the audience."
O'Reilly has released "Cocoa in a Nutshell," ($40) a book by Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson that explores the Cocoa development environment. "Aside from the material that Apple includes with its Developer Tools, very little documentation exists to cover Cocoa's Objective-C Frameworks," explains the publisher."Cocoa has a lot of potential," says coauthor Beam. "It takes a lot of the burden off of application developers by providing an extremely rich foundation of functionality that is needed in every application."
REAL Software announced today that the company will demonstrate REALbasic's prototyping capabilities at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC; June 23-28). "Attending WWDC gives us the opportunity to present new and better ways to increase productivity through the use of REALbasic," said REAL Software president and CEO Geoff Perlman. "The developers that attend WWDC will be able to see how quickly and easily the interface for the applications they are writing can be prototyped, tested, and easily improved with REALbasic."
Runtime Revolution today announced Revolution 2.0, an update to its object-based programming language that allows developers write applications once for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8/9, Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms. The new release adds more than 100 new features including support for creating and parsing XML content, SOAP support, a new UI for Mac OS X, unicode support, an automatic report generator, video capture, text-to-speech functions, and better database support. It is available in several editions: The Professional Edition ($100) with full database access and email technical support for a year; the Small Business Edition ($300); the Student-Teacher Edition ($100) is for qualified educators and students; and the K-12 Classroom Edition ($25 per license with a minimum of 10 licenses); and the Free Edition with limited script length.
Apple has limited the iTunes music-sharing feature with the iTunes 4.01 update (now available online) after some Mac owners used it to swap songs over the Internet, according to c|net: "[Apple] removed a feature that had been exploited to allow Mac users to swap songs over the Internet. Version 4.0.1 of iTunes removes the ability to share iTunes play lists over the Internet, limiting the feature to streaming songs over a local network. 'We designed it to allow friends and family to easily stream (not copy) their music between computers at home or in a small group setting, and it does this well. But some people are taking advantage of it to stream music over the Internet to people they do not even know,' [Apple said]."
MacNN readers continue to report problems with Apple's .Mac suite of Web services, noting that they are unable to send mail messages (we first noted .Mac mail problems last week):
[Rich Dean] "Over the last 2 weeks in particular, Apple's .mac mail service has been just horrific. Actually, I wonder if this email will actually get to you. Today, many, many people are getting outbound mail bounced and get the following error: 'Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed' You can see the thread here if you have a .Mac account (support oddly requires that you log in, then paste the url into your browser...) Yesterday, mail refused to send at all unless you repeatedly clicked 'send.' And the mail server refused connections on port 25. Apple says everything is just fine (all systems are online and operational), but clearly that is not the case. I've never had such an unreliable email provider before.
Crucial today introduced its Gizmo! USB flash drive, a miniature, portable flash storage drive. The USB 2.0/USB 1.1 device is available in 64MB, 128MB, and 256MB capacities, ranging in price from $36 to $90. Each drive comes with a three-foot USB extension cable, a wrist lanyard (strap), a multilingual user guide, a limited lifetime warranty, and free second-day shipping within the contiguous U.S. on qualified orders.
Connectix has released Virtual PC 6.02, an update to its software emulation product for PC-DOS, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, and Windows XP Professional. It fixes an incompatibility problem between Virtual PC and Apple's Airport Extreme card. The updater is available in English, German, French, and Japanese. It runs on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Full versions are available starting at $130 for the MS-DOS version.
RealNetworks is shifting its strategy for online-music distribution and rolling out a service that lets subscribers buy and download songs for 79 cents a track, according to The Wall Street Journal: "The offering from Seattle-based RealNetworks, announced Wednesday morning, is part of a new generation of online-music services spurred by the early response to Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store....'We want to draft off the attention they've gotten before they come out with a Windows service,' said Dan Sheeran, vice president of marketing for RealNetworks." The new music service, RealOne Rhapsody, is a cobranded version of Listen.com Inc.'s Rhapsody digital music subscription service.
equinux today released an update to its virtual private networking application for Mac OS X: VPN Tracker 2.0 adds new support for certificate-based authentication. "Certificates can be centrally managed by means of digital generation, signing and issuing, giving network administrators flexibility, control and greater reliability for establishing user identities on the internet." It supports RSA keys and X.509 certificates for device authentication and can respond to certificate-signing requests in PEM and DER formats. It is available in both personal ($90) and professional editions ($200) with a $20 discount on the personal edition through June 6, 2003. Upgrades are $20.
4D, Inc.today announced it is shipping the new 4D Business Kit 2.0 with dynamic synchronization for remote hosting, full integration with the 4D back-office, integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, and other new features. Version 2.0 automatically updates 4th Dimension back-office systems from your remote hosting location and can dynamically synchronize Web pages, items, orders and customer data. It also includes integration with technologies such as proxy servers, and Sophisticated Circuits' UpBeat technology as well as includes a new Taxes module. 4D Business Kit is priced at $500 for a two-store license.
Nikon today introduced its new 5.1-megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5400, featuring a 4x Zoom-Nikkor ED optics, wide-angle coverage and a new Best Shot Selector (BSS) feature. It produces high-quality images at sizes of up to 2,592x1,944 pixels, can fire 7 full-sized images, at a rate of 3fps, and has an all-new 5 shot buffer mode (64MB). Other features include a large shutter speed range (from 1/4,000 second up to 10 minutes), 256-segment matrix metering, a 7-mode flash, enhanced Movie Mode (up to 180 seconds of QuickTime video at 15 fps at 320x240), and NikonView 6 software as well as ArcSoft PhotoStudio for image manipulation and enhancement, VideoImpression for editing and sharing QuickTime movies, and Panorama Maker. The $800 camera ships with a shoulder strap, USB cable, video cable, a Lexar 16MB Memory Card and a Li-Ion rechargeable battery and quick charger. It will ship later this summer.
MacNN reader "Ralph" notes a Website showcasing an infrared (IR) remote control for the new third-generation iPods (as well as the second generation iPods). The prototype plugs directly into the iPod remote connector and can decode signals from most common remote controls (e.g., CD players, etc.) and most universal remote controls. The receiver allows users to start/stop playback, turn the unit off, increase/decrease volume, forward/reverse songs, and skip/rewind songs. The prototype unit for the second generation iPods combines the five buttons of the original cable remote with the IR sensor functions described above. No pricing or availability is noted.
Panic today released Transmit 2.5, an update to it popular ftp client that adds significant speed increases throughout the application: "SFTP transfers are now up to 4 times faster, directory listings are cached for instant navigation, and directories are now parsed up to 5 times faster than Transmit 2.3. Furthermore, Transmit 2.5 adds a handful of new features, like a "New File" menu option to create an empty file on a remote server, a customizable redial delay, support for TextWrangler and BBEdit Lite, better AppleScript support, an Italian localization, and much more. Plus, there are the bug fixes, of course. Everybody loves the bug fixes." A demo fo the $25 client is available. [976KB]
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