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Megan, I think the problem is that the photographers' get more inspired by exotic locations and take better pictures there. I'm not looking for exotic locations; I'm looking for photography that is really revealing about the wonders of life. You just keep looking for great moments in life.
Marianne, the answer is: a lot. You wouldn't believe how many pictures I take. But here is an example. For some stories that I have had published in National Geographic Magazine I have shot 40,000 images! Now there were a lot of really good pictures in there (even if I do say so myself) so it's not just random shooting. But the really good photographers go back over and over, trying to up the ante on the shots that are already good, trying to get something better. You just keep shooting. I say over and over again, the best way to get to be a better photographer is.... to throw away the bad ones.
Guy, this is a real problem in the digital era. You're right, we lost the depth of field markers that used to be on all the lenses. Now there are some sorts of work-arounds, charts you can download, etc. I'm not convinced that any of them will do you much good taking actual pictures. My advice: if you want maximum depth of field stop down to f16 and focus about one third of the way into the picture area. Any more precise answer is, I believe, not realistic.
Vincent, like many cameras, you can dial down the flash level on your D60 and probably solve your problem. Go find your manual and go looking for "flash exposure compensation." This will allow you to dial down the flash. Best to leave the flash on auto. Put the camera's exposure dial on A, S, or P. If you leave it on the Green "Auto" you won't be able to control the flash exposure compensation. Dial down the flash until you like it.
Pat, wish I had an easy answer for you. If I did I could write a really good lifestyle self-help book and make a lot of money. But I think everybody is going to have to come to that balance on their own. I just want to tell photographers that even professionals like me wrestle with this problem and sometimes I just put the camera down. And that's OK.
Vicky, there are lots of answers to your questions but here is where I end up. You can take a lot of interesting pictures with most any camera, but when you get start getting serious about exploring photography then I say go get a digital SLR (or DSLR) that takes interchangeable lenses. These cameras are more responsive, work better in low light, give you room to grow and just generally give you the chance to take better pictures. Which one? Any of the "entry level" cameras from the major manufacturers are excellent. Really! These are the cheapest DSLRs they make and the come with some sort of "kit" lenses, which covers a modest range of focal lengths and is a good starter lens. Work with that for a while and you may be happy for the rest of your photographic life. Or you may discover after a year or so, that it has some limitation that you wish to overcome. When you get to that point, you'll really have made the step beyond being a novice and well on your way to becoming a photographer.
Lorraine, use the simplest one that gets the job done. I happen to like Aperture from Apple but it is a powerhouse program and may well be more than you want. Same for Photoshop. It's Powerful but daunting to some, and it's a wonderful program to explore for others. Start simple and when you really understand the limitations, you'll be better equipped to make a decision when you move up.
Kayla, if you are getting serious about photography then I'd recommend a DSLR that will take interchangeable lenses. The most inexpensive "entry level" cameras from the major manufacturers are fine. Best to find a good camera store and handle them. See what feels right in your hands and makes sense to you. But the DSLR is going to give you great room to grow and your pictures, and skills, will improve rapidly.
Since you specifically are interested in photographing "atmosphere and lights" I'd say you should go with available light. In other words: No flash! So turn off the flash and turn up the ISO (also known as "film speed" except we don't have any film anymore.) You want the natural look and feel of lights and a flash will usually kill that. But it can be a bit dark in the clubs, hence the need for higher ISO. Any digital SLR will give you a big leg up when working in darker situations, and the quick responsiveness of a DSLR will help a lot, too.
Most of all, look for good light. Sounds a bit redundant, I know, telling you to look for light, but look around for those angles where the light really takes center stage. Find the light, then figure out your picture. And watch your exposure. If you are shooting backlit silhouettes you don't want to overexpose the lighting (which automatic exposure will tend to do) and wash out those beautiful colors.
By the way, you might want to experiment with longer time exposures as well. You might get interesting pictures of the blurred bodies on dance floor creating swirling patterns.
Water makes a really nice effect if you can do a really long exposure, and you are trying the right stuff. First, I suspect that you need to wait till it gets a bit darker out, like after sundown when the whole scene will be more evenly lit. Even lighting on the subject is the basic cure to what you are running into. Compared to the way the scene looks to your eye, the camera is much, much more sensitive to differences in lighting levels. If you are shooting with the dark water in the foreground and the bright horizon in the background you going to have trouble doing this kind of shot.
One other trick. Buy a strong neutral density filter, known by their initials: ND. You use these to cut down on the light getting to your lens. A five stop ND filter is really dark and will let you use a much longer exposure time. I carry one made by Singh Ray and it does the trick in a lot of cases. In these cases a two stop ND filter won't do you a lot of good. And an 8 stop ND filter is so dark you won't be able to see through it. Singh Ray also makes a variable ND filter that is quite effective, but be warned. It's not cheap. (And you'll still have to pay attention to relative light levels.)
One time I gave an assignment to my photography students to go out and "photograph a stranger." One of my students came back without any pictures at all. Said he couldn't find any strangers, just a lot of people he didn't know.
My advice for people photography is pretty simple (and a lot of successful people photographers do the same thing). Get the relationship going, THEN get the pictures. If something real is happening then getting the pictures will follow pretty easily, actually. So take a little more time to have a good time. When you do you'll find that what people come up with is more interesting that what you thought you wanted. I'm glad you like my pictures of people, but most of what you are seeing is what they are doing, not what I am doing as a photographer.
Ah, the HAND OF GOD shots. (That's what we called them back in my newspaper days.) The physics of this is pretty easy to explain. Getting the pictures is something else. It's like this. You can't see the light rays themselves, but you can see them when they run into something. Like water vapor in the air (that would be fog). Or smoke in a jazz club (and that would be pretty rare, anymore.) Anyway, the light rays strike the particles and it is the lit up particles that we can see. That's why movie directors like fog machines.
So, your first task is to find those places where there is atmospheric haze or fog, with shafts of light coming through, so that some areas are lit and others aren't. A foggy morning in a forest when the sun is just starting to break through will do very nicely. But work quickly since it won't last forever. Mostly you want to shoot it backlit to maximize the contrast difference, and be sure not to overexpose the lit up atmosphere. If that means something in the foreground goes dark in your photo, then that's the way it's going to have to be.
I use Nikon cameras so it's not going to come as some big surprise if I tell you I like them, right? Mostly, I like the way all the cameras, lenses and flash work together. But the same would be true if I were using another camera system. When you stick with one system you generally get better compatibility and ease of use. (And if you want the very best lenses then the manufacturer's top of the line lenses, the brutally expensive ones, are where the action is at.)
That's the general answer. Beyond that I've used a number of other lenses in my career, including the Tamron and Sigma ones you mention. Often they filled a very specific hole, or did something special that no other lens would do. I once had a Sigma 14mm lens that would focus down to about three inches from the front of the lens. Great for insect pictures. They were fine lenses and made fine pictures. So if you find one you like, by all means get it and enjoy it.
Finally, I don't think there is much problem these days with other lenses not working with your Nikons.
Two things come to mind when you ask about "haze" on a bright sunny afternoon. First you could be talking about how bright and contrasty it is, so that your pictures come out either with inky black shadows or blown out highlights. Cameras just can't handle the full range of lighting levels (though your eye and brain usually can). There are two cures for this, both of which have possibilities and drawbacks. First, you can pull out your flash and add a little light to the shadows. Fill flash can do wonders, but in somewhat limited circumstances. Like, with people who are not too far away. Second, you can just expose for the highlights and let the shadows go black, and don't put anything you need to see in the shadows. Use the shadows as big black compositional shapes contrasting sharply with the stark highlighted areas. Think drama. Think spaghetti Western.
Or you could mean, genuine, real haze. If so I bet you are shooting with a zoom or telephoto at things a good ways away. You might even be getting some mirage if it's really a bright day. And to be honest, that is one of the downfalls of thinking you can shoot things from a long ways away with a telephoto lens. Haze degrades the image quality. So get closer. (I run into this all the time when shooting aerial photographs. So I fly lower to cut out the haze.)
Finally, I'll bet if you get a polarizing filter you are going to like your mid-day pictures a lot more. Polarizers block the surface reflections from objects so that the real color comes through. Skies are darker, clouds are whiter, apples are redder, and the grass is always greener.
That always depends on the use. And in the case of this contest (and most contests for that matter) the answer is yes. (So read the rules.) Other than that the law varies with the use of the picture. News pictures, by and large, don't need a release. Commercial pictures almost always need a release.
Yeah, it's often a drag, but if you want to enter your pictures in contests you'll probably have to carry around some good releases. You can find various releases on the Internet to adapt for your own use. As for asking people to sign a release, much of it comes down to the same advice I would give for photographing people in general. The better the relationship you have with them, the less awkward it is to ask them to sign a release. (Of course your best defense is to treat the people you photograph so nicely and decently that they wouldn't think of taking you to court.)
And then there is this. There is a very good reason some photographers only take pictures of wildlife. You don't need a model release from a bear. The bear may eat you but it will never, ever hire a lawyer.
I think what you are seeing is the extremely shallow depth of field common in macro photography. Mostly the cure for this is to stop the lens way down, to f16 say, to get a more depth of field. Even then, you'll still have lots of acreage in your photos that is very "soft." Some photographers are able to use that softness to their advantage, producing ethereal abstract flower pictures, perhaps.
Right now, let's go back to stopping the lens down to get more depth of field. First, a true macro lens (as opposed to a zoom that has a "macro" setting) will do a better job stopped down. And it is optimized for close focusing distance so it starts out ahead in sharpness and it stays ahead at small f-stops. But, small f-stops mean slow shutter speeds (it's always something, isn't it) and that can mean camera shake. Second, most macro photographers therefore use one or more flash units mounted off camera to give them plenty of light and every bit of sharpness they can get. The flash doesn't have to be very far from the subject, as little as three inches away often works. And a through the lens metering flash (TTL) will often work very well at those distances.
Third, macro photography ranks up there with astro photography for difficulty in getting everything right. It take some special gear, it takes practice, and it takes a perverse sort of cussedness to stick with it. So stick with it.
Aaaah, shooting a picture and rolling the film back to take a second exposure. Photographers would take a whole roll of pictures of the full moon, then reload the film and photograph clever landscapes with an improbably large moon hanging around in impossible locations. Hadn't thought about that for a long time, like about three decades.
A quick bit of research and I found that, sorry to say, your Canon Rebel XTi won't do double exposures. Some cameras will but yours won't. But, if you were cagey enough to do the rewinding the film trick, then maybe you'd be up for this trick. Find an appropriately dark scene, one that will let you do several second exposures. Then put your camera on a tripod and put a card in front of your lens. Open up the shutter using the "Bulb" setting and take one exposure by removing the card from the lens and then putting it back. Then, while still keeping the shutter open, do it again.
Mind you, I have no idea at all of what kind of subject this would be effective on, but you could do it.
So this is about taking a picture of the moon itself. Just the moon. No regard for the surrounding landscape. Well, it will help to remember that the full moon is just a landscape lit by the sun, only further away. As such, any exposure that would work on a daytime landscape will sort of work on a nighttime full moon. (In practice I find that I need about one f-stop more exposure for the moon than the landscape.) And remember that the full moon is always, always going to be just equally bright, and take exactly the same exposure every time you see it. The only time that is not true is when the moon is just rising on the horizon and is a dimmer orange ball.
So the next time you have a full moon go out and do a series of bracketed exposures. Go from exposures that are much too dark to exposures that are much too light. Then go back on your computer to see which exposures you like and make a note. "Full moon exposure: 1/250 @ f5.6" or whatever. (This will depend on your ISO so make a note of that, too.) Better yet put a piece of masking tape on the back of your camera and write the note on that. I know all kinds of photographers who do just that kind of stuff, me included.
Going back now, you may very well want that landscape in the picture with the full moon and so the lighting level both the moon and the landscape will matter a lot. In that case you have one shot of getting them both lit evenly: when the full moon rises at sunset. That's another trick to remember. The full moon always rises at sunset. And you get thirteen full moons a year. (Note to knowledgeable astronomers: cut me some slack on this one.) When the full moon pops up you'll have about half an hour right after the sun goes down when the landscape and the moon will be nicely balanced out. Soon the landscape will slide into darkness and the moon will appear ever brighter, so work fast.
Getting close brings impact and immediacy to your photography so I work hard at it. When photographing people I almost always ask their permission, then take the time and effort to become part of the social fabric of what is going on. People have to become comfortable with me, and it sometimes takes a little time and reassurance to make that happen. But the pictures are rewarding when they bring us into the middle of the action.
For macro photography of small subjects (flower and bugs, for instance) you'll need a real macro lens that can deliver excellent quality. (Zoom lenses with "macro" settings don't really get close enough most of the time.) You'll soon find that your main problem is getting enough depth of field to get enough of your subject in focus to make good pictures. The usual cure is stopping the lens down to a small f-stop like f16 for f22. So most macro shooters use small flash units to add enough light for fast shooting (butterflies have an irritating way of fluttering off at just the wrong moment.)
Before digital I would have suggested that you go looking for a really fast lens, with an f2 for f1.4 maximum f-stop. Today I'm more inclined to suggest that you look for a digital SLR capable of shooting with a high ISO, making it very sensitive to low light -- something like ISO 1600 at least. Most point-and-shoot cameras can't really deliver this kind of low light performance. Noise will start to creep in as the ISO goes higher but you'll be amazed at how good the cameras are today. (I often think they can see in the dark.) So you'll want to find the best compromise of ISO setting that delivers a shutter speed that you can handle, but that doesn't make your pictures look too "grainy."
The first thing to remember about lightning photography isn't camera settings, it's safety. Don't get yourself killed. Only do lightning pictures from safe locations. (Tripods out in the open look a lot like a lightning rod to a passing thunderstorm.)
The trick of lightning photography is that you can (almost) never see the lightning and press the shutter release fast enough. So shoot at dusk or later when you can use a several second exposure (the longer the better.) Watch where the storm is producing lightning and frame up your shot accordingly. Then begin exposure and hope that a lightning bolt goes off while your shutter is open. If not, do it again. And again. If your shutter speed is 30 seconds, say, you have a fair chance. To get good quality pick a lower ISO speed setting of perhaps 400 and an f-stop of around f5.6 or f8 so that the lightning will look bright enough in your pictures. From here on it's luck and perseverance.
Nicole, your friend gave you good advice for one simple reason: a UV filter is the best way to protect your valuable lens from getting scratched. It really doesn't do much at all (if anything) for the picture. But it is much cheaper to replace a UV filter that got scratched or otherwise dinged up than to replace or repair the lens. Just leave it on and in a year or two when it gets scratched up buy a new one.
Samantha, I'd opt for a mid-range zoom, something that would go from wide angle to short telephoto. I'd want to be sure that the lens was wide enough to get enough of interior spaces like cathedrals. And fast enough to work in relatively low light. If I was just on vacation and I wanted to travel light I would pick one of the great 18-200mm lenses. No lens can do "everything" perfectly but these come close enough when convenience trumps weight and bother.
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The animals of planet Earth share our home and bring joy to our lives. Whether we see them in some remote vast wilderness, or snug asleep on our sofa at home, these creatures share our world and enrich us with their beauty, bravery—and sometimes with their antics. Pictures in this category should celebrate our partners in life.
From the grandeur of the cosmos down to the world within a drop of water, nature casts a spell on us with stunning landscapes, towering forests, graceful geology, and the never-ending wonder of how our planet is clothed in beauty. Pictures in this category can explore everything from insect life to landscapes and flowers. (But anything focusing on animals should be entered in that category.)
As citizens of the planet, we find a lot of ways of expressing who we are, what we like to eat, what calls for a celebration, what we wear, and how we look at life. We are rich in cultures. Photography can help us share that richness. Pictures in this category should focus on how people live and make their lives meaningful.
Travel photographs bring back our experiences as we travel the world (even if that exotic location is in our own backyard.) This category is about the joy and adventure of traveling and exploring. Pictures here should show the experiences of traveling and the unexpected joys of encountering the world and making new friends.
Weather constantly remakes our world into something we hadn't quite expected. Children delight to wake up to a world covered in snow, farmers give thanks for long-awaited rain, frost casts its magic on our windowpanes, and sultry afternoons make us drowsy. Pictures here should convey all the ways that weather keeps us guessing and delighted.
Energy makes action and action makes great pictures. The top of the leap, the speed of flight, the arc of the throw, the splash of the stream, and the blur of laughter—all make for great pictures of life as it happens. Pictures in this category can be crystal clear stop-action or dreamy blurs of motion-in-time. Either way the action and energy are fun to capture.


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Robert SINCLAIR (1838 1901) Governor of the Poor House at Prestonkirk.
In the book entitled, The Sinclairs 1664-1992 A Family History it mentions my ancestor, Robert SINCLAIR as becoming Governor of the Poor House at Prestonkirk a short time after marrying Ann PETTIGREW.
I really didnt know what a Governor of the Poor house was, so I Goggled it. One definition explains it as, A poorhouse or workhouse was a government-run facility in the past for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality.
(http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=386) which states, It's in the Records demonstrates what a fantastic resource the archives are for the study of both local and family history.
The development of poor relief is just one of the topics explored. East Lothian Poorhouse was built at Prestonkirk, East Linton in the 1860s. Although conditions were harsh the records show that some attempt was made to make the residents comfortable - at Christmas 1865 the governor asks the poorhouse committee to provide a treat for the 'inmates' which included fine bread, meat pie and plum pudding. The nineteenth century poor law records which will return to East Lothian are among the best in Scotland
In early Victorian times (for Britain see Poor Law and workhouse), poverty was seen as a dishonourable state caused by a lack of the moral virtue of industriousness (or industry as it was called). As was depicted by Charles Dickens, a poorhouse or workhouse could resemble a reformatory and house children, either with families or alone, or a penal labour regime to give the poor work at manual labour and subject them to physical punishment. As the 19th century progressed, conditions became better.
The article mentions at Christmas 1865 the governor asks the poorhouse committed to provide a treat for the inmates. Its very likely that Robert SINCLAIR was the governor at this time.
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I'm a bit of a history buff. My brother Robert (Bob)from Ontario, Canada and a Thomas Middlemass from Scotland were researching the Sinclair family tree and sparked my interest in research.

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The Play within the Play – Le Théâtre dans le Théâtre – Spiel im Spiel
The Sydney Symposium 2004
The Sydney Symposium 2004 will be devoted to an exploration of "The Play within the Play". It is planned as an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary scholarly forum. The main aim of the conference is to present a comprehensive account of the peculiar structural and thematic features of this theatrical motive, or convention, to analyze the theoretical dimensions of the pPlay within the Play (including related issues and questions in anthropology, philosophy, psychology), and to provide a comparative basis for discussion of this literary/theatrical phenomenon on an international scale. The participants of the Symposium will essentially be scholars specialising in the comparative study of drama and theatre, specialists in performance studies, as well as cultural theorists, anthropologists and/or sociologists with an interest in questions related to representation, play and performance as rehearsed social action, the relationship between role, identity and play, etc.
The Play within the Play can be briefly characterized as a strategy of constructing play texts that contain, within the perimeter of their fictional reality, a second or internal theatrical performance, in which actors appear as actors who play yet another role. Souch doubling of the theatrical reality is often re-inforced by providing an "internal audience" which acts as a double to the actual audience. In analogy to the terminology employed in theories of narrativity, the terms "frame play" or "outer play" (Rahmenstück, pičce cadre) and "interior" or "internal play" (Binnenstück, pičce intérieure) have been used to describe to two components of the play within the play. Its most characteristic feature is that it doubles an aesthetic experience which already presents a double reality: the actor, who appears on stage both in his physical presence and in the part he or she portrays, assumes and plays yet another role, thus adding a third identity which itself is constructed in the context of a third level of time, space, character and action.
This semantic correlation of play, acting and performing (for example in English "play" and German "Spiel") comes as no surprise. Both playing and performing are closely related inasmuch as both seem to be anthropological constants involving acts of symbolic mimesis and representation; both are activities that are essentially and characteristically human. It is the proximity to play and to playing that makes the theatre such a universal cultural phenomenon which indeed appears common to all of humanity throughout the ages. It is thus assumed that a convention like The Play within the Play, or something similar to it, may exist in perhaps all dramatic literatures, and we are particularly interested in exploring examples outside the established canon of Western, European Theatre.


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Last month, I told you about the Standlee Hay Company asking me if I would review their products. (You can read about that here.)
They offered to give me $125 of credit to go to Tractor Supply and pick out what I wanted in their lineup – and write a review. They figured that $125 would supply one horse for a month.
No strings…
They said I could just try it for 30 days and tell you all what I thought…
…OK. I could do that. Happy to.
My Mustang, Rojo, is now living in his own paddock (as I prepare to reintroduce him to training and me…) so I thought he would be the best control subject here.
Rojo is only 5 and I knew I would be able to see the results easily – either way. And, I knew he would recover easily, should the feed not be adequate.
Besides, I wanted him to feel special as I brought him this 'special' feed daily. I wanted to bond with him over food.
I purchased 3 bales of compressed orchard/alfalfa hay, 1 bag of timothy pellets and 4 bags of orchard pellets. This was the closest to what I was already feeding.
There were lots of pellet and cube options to choose. They also had beet pulp, a good sign… Standlee didn't offer compressed hay without alfalfa (I asked…) which made me sad. I cannot feed alfalfa to all of my horses. But, Rojo can tolerate alfalfa well so I was OK for this challenge.
And, I always like to keep clean alfalfa pellets on hand for any plumping that may be needed…
— Have you ever seen compressed hay? It is so odd looking – It looks like a huge hay BRICK or something one of the Three Pigs used to create his straw house…
I would never have used compressed hay unless it was given to me. Truly. Previously, I took one look and never looked again. I'm sure some of you are the same way.
What is it? Compressed hay is exactly that – compressed. Think of a trash compactor or one of those big machines that crushes old cars into blocks of solid metal.
It is like that.
The hay is simply pushed in on all sides – kindof stomach punched – to get all the air out of it.
It is Compact.
So compact, I had the three 50lb bales in the back of my VW Beetle as well as the 5 bags of grain. (Tells you something about the carrying power of Bugs, eh? Not as small as you thought…)
Anyway, my point is that I had all of Rojo's feed IN MY CAR and it didn't mess up anything! The hay is packaged really well in tight, sealed, heavy plastic wrap! In fact, I kept the compressed bales in my car for storage during the entire month – so the feeders wouldn't accidentally feed it to any of the other horses – and other than becoming blanched from the sun, the bales held up perfectly! I drove like I usually do (like a maniac) all around town and they didn't break open and – bonus – they made my car very fragrant!
When I would open a bale to let it uncompress in preparation to feed, there was no mess at all. No hay loss. It stayed together and flakeed P-E-R-F-E-C-T-L-Y.
Hmmmmmm, I thought, as I drop/scatter/carried my regular flakes of grass hay up to Bodhi and Norma – leaving my hay trail as I went (using any type of carrying device).
Grass hay just doesn't hold its flaking ability like alfalfa.
However, these compressed grass/alfalfa hay bales were so much easier…
I could carry the entire bales myself – wrapped with a handle – , I could stack them myself, I could keep them packaged cleanly until I needed them and they flaked!
I was sold.
I went back to Tractor Supply and bought 4 more bales to keep up by Norma and Bodhi so that I could feed them more easily…
I loved that the compressed bales came packaged so that I could store or transport them in my vehicle and there was no mess.
I could stack these hay blocks inside my tack room or anywhere in my trailer/tack room/shed – even on the roof of my trailer – and they would stay as I put them, without any mess!!
–Really easy for taking to shows, camping or any other time I need to bring hay along.
Loved that!
When I broke open the first bale of compressed alfalfa/orchard grass, I was so impressed with the fragrance, quality, lack of dust and lack of weeds.
They advertise this as sun-cured (not dehydrated) and no noxious weeds.
I could tell.
Also, a compressed flakes is just as heavy as a regular flake. When I put one compressed flake on my arm to carry, it was just as heavy as a non compressed flake.
Weird but true.
The actual compressed bale is around 50 lbs.
I have never opened a bag of pellets and had such a fine, clean fragrance. It smelled like grass. And, no dust.
No dust.
I always put water on my pellets to help with any kind of dust and choke. But, I felt very confident to not wet the Standlee pellets. (However, I did anyway.)
Also, were are no 'what is that?' by-products on the ingredients…
I liked that.
The company states they cut, bale, press and pellet during the optimum nutrition cycles and I believe them. The nutrition charts are here.
Also, I noticed that these pellets held up longer. They seemed to start out more fresh or something… I didn't smell that vinegar fragrance that sometimes happens with bags of pellets. All the pellets were uniform in shape and didn't change shape or break up after I opened the bag.
Having a clean slate to add supplements was nice.
I'm never sure with mineral feed pellets what ratios I'm actually giving to them – and how that mixes with my supplements.
I liked having exactly and only timothy or orchard grass in my pellets.
And, again, very high quality timothy and orchard grass pellets.
At first, I thought that these products would end up being more expensive than my regular local pelleted products and my local grass hay supplier.
I was wrong.
The hay and pellets were so packed with nutrients, I had to cut back on Rojo's feed of equal proportion and weight. Same with Norma and Bodhi.
I was very surprised!
They were gaining weight!
The fact that I was losing less hay because the compressed bales were so clean and tidy was great – but too add that the horses needed less feed due to the high quality was a huge bonus.
I didn't expect that.
Rojo loved his pellets!
Rojo loved his hay.
No worries there.
Bodhi loved his hay and pellets.
Norma preferred the Standlee hay to my fresh orchard grass hay. She ate the compressed baled hay before she ate her regular flake of orchard grass hay.
Norma didn't prefer the pellets to her 'all in' grain previously fed. But, her bowl was empty after her protest, she ate it.
Yes, there was one thing I didn't like… and one thing I wished for…
I didn't like that the feed was so nutritious that I had to feed less – which sounds odd. But, I like my horses to have more time eating during the day.
Luckily, my horses are all out in large pastures but if they weren't, I would want to slow feed these products.
What I wished? I wished they had compressed bales of grass hay without alfalfa. I cannot feed alfalfa to most of my horses, so for me, I couldn't use the compressed bales for all of mine.
That was too bad…
Rojo looked great!
Shiny and happy!
I am eager to add the one supplement I love, Equion. But, all in all, feeding only the Standlee products kept him in excellent weight and health.
In fact, I knew I was giving him the best in pure grass products.
I really felt confident that I was feeding him pure, good, honest and nutritious food.
Love that…
As Hubby has always said, I may not like to cook, but I loooooove to feed.
And this is good feed.
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Hecklers? None spotted at Augusta National, and a security force the size of a small army was looking for them.
Boos? Okay, maybe a few. But after cheating on his wife with strippers, waitresses and the 21-year-old daughter of his neighbor, Tiger Woods was greeted mostly with hugs and kisses at the Masters yesterday.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
Woods made his return to competitive golf yesterday and played as well as ever despite the five-month absence, making difficult shots look easy and finishing the day just two shots off the lead. All things considered, his 4-under-par 68 might be one of his best rounds ever.
But for him, this day was not about golf. This was all about the reception. Woods had become a tabloid fixture and a late-night punch line since the last time he played in a golf tournament.
He had spent 45 days in a sex rehab, watched his family chased by the paparazzi and listened to the Augusta National chairman scold him for "not living up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children." Never had an athlete taken a more public beating than this.
So maybe the thousands of fans who lined the perfect fairways of Augusta decided Woods had gone through enough these last few months. Maybe they heard his numerous apologies and decided that he, like so many other public figures, deserved a second chance.
Or maybe they just wanted to see him play golf again. Because on an afternoon with incredible story lines unfolding in all corners of the course, his galleries were as massive and enthusiastic as ever.
"Here he comes!" one fan gasped at 1:29 p.m. Every head turned away from the first tee box and pivoted toward the stately white clubhouse. The only part of Woods most people could see was his black hat — how's that for imagery? — bouncing above the crowd as he walked.
The throng at the putting green was eight people deep. Exactly then, a small plane towing a banner flew above the course, taking a playful jab at his rediscovery of his Buddhist faith.
"Tiger, did you mean Bootyism?"
Fans looked to the sky and laughed. One wondered aloud who was responsible for that.
"It's Mickelson!" joked Michael Friday, a spectator from Milwaukee. "I'm surprised they haven't shot it down."
It was a good line, but the real joke was on anybody who thought the galleries would turn their back on Woods. He talked about being more gracious toward the fans, asking them in his first public statement to give him the chance to win them back someday.
Turns out, he only had to do to one thing to get them back.
Show up.
He stepped to the first tee as Tom Watson finished up a 5-under-par round that might be one of the most surprising here in years, but nobody paid poor old Tom much attention.
Woods arrived as his rival Phil Mickelson was putting together his own round of 5-under-par, but even the lovable lefty could enjoy relative peace on this day. Everyone wanted to see the man who has won 14 majors.
"It was unbelievable," Woods said when his round ended. "From the very get-go, walking to the first tee, it was heartfelt, it really was, to have ovations like that all day."
He waved his glove on the first tee as the fans greeted him with the type of ovation normally reserved for the 18th hole on Sunday. His first drive landed in a perfect spot on the fairway, and the hordes set off to watch.
What was it like following him? Imagine the Jonas Brothers showing up at a middle school, only instead of teenager girls in the swarm, picture men with cigars. This was a rock concert without the music.
"Hey, there's his mom and Phil Knight!" one giddy spectator said. The fan was Cris Carter, the former NFL receiver.
Knight and Kutilda Woods walked arm and arm down the second fairway, surrounded by about a half dozen other people from Team Tiger (but not, it should be noted, his wife Elin). His mom, who sat stone-faced at his confessional, was often laughing. Knight, the Nike founder who stuck with him when other sponsors bailed, watched with a small pair of binoculars.
For Woods, it seemed overwhelmingly normal. About the only difference was the constant feeling that, if you made a sudden movement in the wrong direction, about 50 men with earpieces would flatten your face like a pimento cheese sandwich.
County sheriffs. State police. Private agents. The security force was big enough to invade a small country.
"And win," said Lawrence Stawick, one of the Securitas employees who followed Woods.
That will likely never change for Woods, and truth be told, he probably didn't notice. Everything about Woods' life has changed, from his image to his family, in the past five months.
But here, between the Georgia pines, Woods flashed back to a happier time when people cheered because he could make a golf ball dance. Turns out, the most anticipated round of golf ever was a five-and-half-hour love fest.
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Once you've been Primal for awhile, then you are mostly fat-burning and it is easier to IF.
Both work. IF is my choice.
Yes, you likely do need to reduce your calories to drop fat if your metabolism is working properly.
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Our website and online catalog aren't our only virtual presence. You can find us online here at the blog, of course, but we are also on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr.
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With our optimization series winding down at the peak of the holiday season, you may have missed the final installment on customer service — but it's well worth checking out, as it may be the most important topic we covered.
After all, while social media, SEO and mobile strategies may or may not fit a given merchant's target audience and business goals, every seller strives to deliver stellar service to potential and returning customers. And the stakes couldn't be higher: with consumers more empowered than ever to voice their opinions, failure to meet expectations carries a heavy price. Nearly a third of consumers have complained about poor service using social feedback methods such as social networking sites or third-party review sites such as Yelp, according to Forrester, and 45% of consumers say they'll quickly abandon an online purchase altogether if they can't find a quick answer to their questions.
The good news is that empowerment is a two-way street. Merchants now have the ability to move beyond reactive customer care and into the realm of proactive relationship building. The ability to deliver targeted service messaging appropriate to the touchpoint customers prefer means that merchants needn't wait for the phone to ring to demonstrate excellent service. And just as poor service risks damaging the brand, merchants who meet consumers' high expectations stand to reap substantial rewards. Satisfactory service interactions can lead to additional purchases from existing customers and a cost savings due to reduced customer churn. In addition, a positive customer service experience can lead to a boost in word-of-mouth recommendations: for example, shoppers who use social networks for customer service are three times as likely to recommend a brand after a successful interaction, according to a survey by NM Incite. In addition, merchants who can differentiate their brands through superior service are better positioned to compete against online behemoths such as Amazon: stellar service can help contribute value to the brand that goes beyond discount pricing.
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More Disruptive Mobile Innovations, Please!
There are many definitions of what an innovation is. Usually, it is a new idea that is transferred into a service or good that customers will pay for. In that sense, the major smartphone producers like Samsung and Apple are producing innovative products: they are profitable and people buy their (incremental) innovations.
In another sense, they are totally not delivering innovations: more cores, faster CPU speed, 64-bit architecture, fingerprint readers, more sensors, yeah. It's all nice to have. But these are gimmicks, nothing more. These features don't change our society. They don't change anything at all.
Clayton Christensen, professor at the Harvard Business School, coined the term "disruptive innovation" like this: expensive, complicated products become accessible to the public, get widely adopted and, as a consequence, disrupt existing markets.
If we develop this idea further, the logical consequence of the public at large adopting a new technology is a change in society. This is where real innovation starts for me. The way we use the Internet has changed because of the arrival of smartphones and tablet pcs.
Archaeology & iPads
The iPad (introduced in 2010), for example, was a disruptive innovation. Since then, it has been disrupting the now declining PC market, but it has also had an impact on some scientific disciplines, too. US archaeologists in Pompeii, led by Steven Ellis of the University of Cincinnati, are using it to record their findings and draw mappings on the spot. Carrying heavy drawing boards? No more. Recording errors are minimized, since the researchers don't have to manually transfer their findings from the analog to the digital world. Ellis' team of researchers has sparked a movement called "Paperless Archaeology", which is often presented at conferences about new technologies in archaeology.
The introduction of the first iPhone in 2007 was disruptive, too. It disrupted the business phones market, which up to then had been dominated by BlackBerry. But since then? Haven't we seen the same smartphones, just incrementally improved, over and over again? Double the CPU speed, quadruple the pixels, halve the weight. It's an arms race that has cost the mobile industry its capability to truly innovate. Principles are thrown overboard for the sake of entering new market segments (for example, with the introduction of the iPad mini).
Smartwatches, No Value Added
So, what is the next big disruptive innovation in mobile computing? The much-hyped smartwatches? That's hardly likely. Earlier this week, Samsung told Reuters that it has sold 800,000 units of its smartwatch Galaxy Gear in the last two months. Whether these sales went to retailers or directly to the consumers, Samsung didn't tell. The truth is: nobody really knows what to do with these smartwatches. They are extremely miniaturized smartphones strapped to the wrist – with fewer capabilities and, in the case of Galaxy Gear, a screen of only 1.63 inches and a battery that requires nightly charges. Did I mention already that smartwatches don't work without syncing with smartphones that deliver the data to Gear's display (phone calls, email notifications, etc.)? To make things worse, the Galaxy Gear works only with Samsung smartphones.
Let's Leave Our Passwords Everywhere!
So, what about Apple's latest innovations? Like Touch ID and 64-bit architecture? 64-bit architecture on a customer device is barely noticeable. It helps a device to work with memory larger than 4 GB. The iPhone 5S currently has only 1 GB of DRAM, though. Effect: zero. This architecture matters for large infrastructures and servers that address a lot of memory. Moreover, 64-bit architecture is well known for causing compatibility problems. For example, Microsoft Internet Explorer's 64-bit edition is not even fully supported by that same manufacturer's enterprise software SharePoint (which runs on 64-bit architecture only). Does that make any sense?
For consumer devices, 64-bit architecture is currently just marketing fluff. And Touch ID? Let me think. I've always had fingerprint sensors on my notebooks. They worked okay, nothing more. I am still typing my password faster than the software can verify my identity by fingerprint reading (you are welcome to draw conclusions on the length of my passwords). Fingerprint readers have been here for a long time. Yet, they never really made it. As a security measure, they are easily hackable. IMO that makes fingerprint authentication far worse than regular passwords, because you can't change your fingerprints once they have been compromised. And your fingerprints are everywhere. It's like you leave little post-its with your passwords all around your surroundings. Like the idea? I don't.
Thankfully, there are other, meaningful mobile innovations that have sneaked into our lives without being noticed. For example, crowdsourcing weather forecasts via citizens' smartphone sensors and even batteries. With enough data collected this way, we might soon encounter a whole new level of forecast predictions (even though, the sheer amount of data collected alone is no guarantee for precise predictions).
My conclusion of all this? In absence of true, disruptive innovation that actually adds value to what we do, the major companies try to sell us old stuff, only revamped and relabeled. Many features (Touch ID) and non-features (like colors, remember the hype about the space gray iPad mini? "It's AMAZING") are so not new.
Personally, I'd love to see more innovations that have the strength to change both society and science. Like smartphones and tablet pcs, that have turned over the way we use the Internet, the way in which we do research, and, most important, the way we communicate about it. (Heck, they have even changed what today's Internet is).
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Whether it's relatively new restaurants like Bert's Bar and the Sports Chek Bar & Grill or the purchase of a new scoreboard or the unveiling of the Canadian Tire Centre Vision, the Senators have been investing quite a bit of money into arena upgrades at what's now the Canadian Tire Centre over the past few years.
The Senators have publicly acknowledged that more improvements to the Canadian Tire Centre will be made as part of a five-year plan that Cyril Leeder discussed briefly at an Ottawa Kiwanis Club meeting back this past May.
"We've been focused on this for the last couple of years and we've got really a five-year plan that started a year ago that will take us up to 2017 and we've spent about $14 million in the past two years on upgrades. We really want to transform the building here over the next few years and we're really focused on three things: 1) is the fan experience; 2) parking and particularly, getting off the site quicker; and 3) our premium seating."
It was this latter point that was the subject of a season ticket holder survey that was distributed to season ticket holders via email yesterday.
Per the email:
An exciting transformation is coming to Canadian Tire Centre in the near future. This upgrade will include the introduction of new and exciting premium seating designed to enhance the fan experience. As a Season-seat Owner, we value and welcome your ongoing support and would appreciate your feedback on a number of potential improvements and new products which are under consideration as part of this transformation. Please click here to complete a short survey which provides more information on these potential upgrades.
From the email's accompanying link, fans were presented with a few potential upgrade options and variations of the following items:
Quickly approaching its 20th anniversary, there's no question that the arena can desperately use whatever upgrades it can receive to keep the facility from having a dated feeling.


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The MacPorts Project currently distributes 21341 ports, organized across 83 different categories and available below for viewing. This form allows you to search the MacPorts software index, last updated on 2016-09-24 at 19:00:32 America/Los_Angeles.
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The leaking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has Congress asking many questions.
Three companies involved in the disaster played the blame game on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
British Petroleum's top executive told senators the spill was caused by the failure of a safety device made by another firm. But that company said BP was in charge, and that a third company that poured the concrete for the project did not do it right. The third company said it was just following BP's plan.
Lawmakers wanted to know who is responsible for the final price tag.
"Is BP prepared to pay," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., asked BP chairman and president Lamar McKay.
"We are going to pay all legitimate claims," McKay answered.
"Can you define that," Landrieu asked.
"All substantiated claims," McKay replied.
While their top executive was in Washington, BP experts were in the Gulf, still trying to contain the oil leak.
Now there are signs the slick could be shrinking. BP said it is moving a smaller containment box into place to cap the leak. An earlier attempt using a large containment box to cap the leap failed.
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NILES - The last baseball game of Michael Montalbano's high school career left the Ursuline graduate with a bad taste in his mouth.
The Fighting Irish fell to Orrville, 8-7, in a heartbreaking loss in the Division III regional final in Massilon. Ursuline had a three-run lead going into the top of the sixth inning until Orrville struck for four runs to slam the door on the Irish's 2014 season.
"It ended in a bad way, there was nothing we could do about it," Montalbano said.
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Mahoning base runner Zach Miller (in blue) slides into a gauntlet of defense as second baseman R.J. Leon, left, and shortstop Kyle Watson both stretch for the throw from first. Despite both of their efforts, Miller was safe.
Montalbano, who will be attending Mercyhurst North East junior college this fall, thought his high school career was over, but when he was presented with a chance for redemption, he took it and ran with it. He and fellow teammate Dion Felger competed as part of the Mahoning County team in the second annual 2014 High School Valley All-Star Classic at Eastwood Field Saturday afternoon and led the team from Mahoning County defeat Trumbull County, 7-6, and was crowned game MVP.
"Ending (my senior season) like this, playing with (Felger), takes the sting away from that loss," Montalbano said. "We're leaving our high school career on a good note."
In his MVP-caliber performance, Montalbano reached on a single, double and walk, recorded one run and had two RBIs on the day.
"It's pretty cool to win MVP and to come out here representing Ursuline and representing the county and play with all these players. I couldn't have done it without them," Montalbano said.
After Mahoning scored three runs in the third on three hits and two errors, Trumbull's bats came alive and broke open the game in the top of the sixth inning. Trumbull teed off on Mahoning, scoring six runs on five hits and two errors. Trumbull batted around their entire lineup in the high-scoring inning.
"After zero, zero, zero zero (on the scoreboard), then to get a nice six up there, that was really nice," Trumbull and Girard coach Aaron Alejars said. "Unfortunately we followed with a few more zeroes, but it was nice to at least keep the competitive nature."
Mahoning answered Trumbull's inning with two more scoring innings of its own in the seventh and eighth.
Mahoning scratched across three runs in the seventh, one of which was a two-run RBI double from Montalbano. Then, in the eighth inning, after Poland's Chase Knodle got aboard with a shot into center, Austintown Fitch's Scott Pierce drove in the game-winning run with an RBI double.
The run was enough to win the wild one, but Alejars said there were no winners or losers.
"We were trying to win, but these young men just from talking to them, being selected to be a part of this and graduating high school, they were already winners before they woke up this morning," Alejars said. "Coming here is like icing on the cake, I mean a day, great facility, great opportunity to compete."
Despite the loss, Alejars was still honored to meet and coach some of the best baseball players the Mahoning Valley has to offer.
"It was a delight," Alejars said. "These are great young men from some of the ones I just met a couple hours ago, our area should be so proud. It was just great working with a great group of guys, trying to get them all into the game."
The all-star game allowed athletes from Mahoning and Trumbull counties to showcase their talents on a big stage and compete one last time wearing their high school baseball caps. Trumbull all-star Jimmy Standohar, who recently graduated from Girard, said having the opportunity to play alongside and against players like Montalbano, whom Standohar played baseball with when he was 13 years old, was a great experience.
"It's just fun to be on the same field with my old teammates and playing against them, playing with them, and it brings back great memories," Standohar said. "When you first get here it's kind of fun, you're saying 'Hi' to everyone, and then it's kind of like the third or fourth inning, you're like, 'OK, we got a game here.' Any time you get 40, 50 great players together like this, it's going to be competitive."
Even though the all-star game is meant to be a fun, once these athletes stepped between the lines, the competitive juices were flowing and the game was on.
"It's still intense, these kids still want to win, it's their last high school game and they made it perfectly clear at the beginning that they want to win," said Mahoning County and Cardinal Mooney coach Al Franceschelli.
Montalbano, though, saw the game a bit differently than his coach.
"It doesn't really mean anything, it's an all-star game, just have fun," Montalbano said. "I woke up today saying, 'Let's have some fun today, play with the kids that we love to play with, no hard feelings," Montalbano said.
"We had fun out here, we're laughing and joking around and having fun. That's what baseball's all about."


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Police today identified the 18-year-old man who was killed Monday night in an apparent drive-by shooting.
Tawuan Williams, a Newark resident, was shot around 10 p.m. on South 14th Street, police said.
The shooter fired several times from the inside of a vehicle in which two others were riding. The vehicle then sped away, police said.
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Spooktacular Halloween events for all ages
Check out events taking place across NorCal
Looking for something to do this Halloween? Check out this list of pumpkin patches, haunted houses and even some venues for the mature crowd.
Pumpkin Patches
Roemer Pumpkin Patch, Tuesday through Friday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 6851 Hedge Avenue, Sacramento, Ca, 95829. Free Admission, $5 corn maze, $2-$20 per pumpkin. Ages: Everyone.
Uncle Ray's Pumpkin Patch, Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5pm and weekends, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 19376 Ols River Road, West Sacramento, Ca, 95691. Free Admission, Pumpkins start at $1. Ages: Everyone.
Sacramento Pumpkin Patch, Daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 3845 El Centro Rd, Sacramento, Ca, 95834. Ages: Everyone.
The Pumpkin Farm, Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7736 Old Auburn Road, Citrus Heights, Ca. Various "package deals" listed on website. Ages: Everyone.
Haunted Houses
Callson Manor, Friday through Sunday, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Monday through Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. week of Halloween. 800 All America City Boulevard, Roseville, Ca, 95678. Tickets bought online, prices range. Ages: Mature.
Hysterical Walk of The Dead Ghost Tours, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Special Walk on Halloween, 7:30 p.m., Old Sacramento. Tickets bought online. Ages: Mature.
Lodi Haunted House, Sunday through Hallowen, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. 230 Meadowlark Way, Lodi, Ca. $5 Donation for charity. Ages: Mature.
Fright Planet, Monday through Sunday, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, Sacramento, Ca, 95815. Package deals posted online. Ages: Mature.
The Club Scene
Exotic Masquerade & Costume Ball, Saturday, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St., Sacramento, Ca, 95814. $15 cover. Ages: Mature.
Halloween w/ DJ Crooked, Halloween, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St., Sacramento, Ca, 95814. $15 cover. Ages: Mature.
Club Reverence Halloween Costume Party, Saturday, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. "Club 21," 1119 21st Street, Sacramento Ca. $3 cover before 10 p.m., $5 cover after. Ages: Mature.
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Wrote this in Sweden today. As always, excuse for the quick Google translate solution:"We do not know the absolute figures for how many people have received 30% respectively 50% pain relief after six weeks of treatment in the last cancer pain trial. We have though the results from the two 4 weeks of treatment studies.We do not know when NP-1 will stop giving the patient no more pain relief after each added therapy weeks. We do not know the slope of the curve.The placebo effect is a subject in itself among statisticians, and even more so when looking at the perceived pain. Here we study the same diagnosis, but with different cause (PHN, cancer or diabetes) that have given injured and trapped nerve which causes pain.As a statistician, you should always be humble in that each placebo effect is unique. Having said that management can already do a multivariate / meta-analysis of all the three surveys to check this.At the margin, it is all about if the placebo effect between the three surveys of the same disease would vary so strongly that the effect of each new week would only apply to neuropathic pain in cancer patients, but not, for example, in diabetic neuropathic pain. Company management can analys the data from the two previous trials to see if such an increase in effect for each week were there too. They may also perform a multivariat / meta analysis. Of course they already know the answer to the question: Do the result build up over time, after each added week, in the two first trials as well as in the cancer pain study? Talley stated on the last webcast that NP-1 have had a "breakthrough" concerning efficacy given the results in the last trial.Neuropathic pain of cancer is about 2 million patients in the United States. Neuropathic pain in the general diagnosis includingdiabetes pain has 15 million patients. The latter broad diagnosis have 12 weeks in the FDA guidance for the design of phase III-trials. One approach that seems to fit the NP-1 cream very good?"
do you have any idea how many pain creams are on the market? both over the counter & scripts. stop the pumping untill were at $3-$4 a share if that ever happens!
- Please, be precise about diagnosis. This is neuropathic pain. There are no, zerro, approved drugs for pain in cancer.Why do you think NCI bother, for fun?There is a cream with less efficacy than NP-1 have shown until now, that works through heat. Side effects. PHN diagnosis, if I remember correct.But that was not the answer you wanted?Management awaits the publishing of the data in the abstracts to ASCO, before commenting. Thats the way things are.You have to try to make up your own mind about the market for NP-1 in the cancer pain market or in the broad diabetic neuropatic pain market.Eqiualent after 4 weeks in PHN to Gabapentin. What will be the outcome after 8 or 12 weeks of treatment? At what week stops the additative efficacy effect? Eight weeks? 10?The most effective medicine in the diagnosis are now challanged.The new willingness from Bigpharma to conduct a phase III to check this is described from people in the industry to me as a "new dimension", given the new results.For what is worth.
Well taken poin treble, Its really nice to see how paid idiots try to explain us the beauty in the performance of other idiots. This Tally has only "delivered" a 90% loss of our share value.
>As a statistician, you should always be humble in that each placebo effect is unique ...management can already do a multivariate / meta-analysis .. of course they already know the answer to the question<Yes, these boys always know already anwers though they have no idea what the question is.You're trying to nebulize here in all length, with a ppor superficial knowlege, that these guys missed the right design
this just mad look like worthless company ,they pretty much we have no money and were probably diluting some more
I like the results.This date is of great importance:May 18, 6:00 PM (EDT) Abstracts released on ASCO.orgMy point is to discuss if there is any danger that the placebo effect of any unique kind could stop the trend that the cream is showing increasing efficacy over time, when every new week is added.What would the outcome be testing for 8-12 weeks in the broad diagnosis, that is what I am discussing. The pain in cancer diagnosis couldn't have a better outcome?All the big actors have failed in this diagnosis. I like the p-value here, .001.There is a saying in Swedish: Much wants more. The cancer patient group that is demanding relief from pain is about 2 million and the broad neuropatic pain group is 15 millions.Lidoderm gross sales is some 700 million USD per annum for PHD, 200 000 patients. Some off label? :-)All the best,Gruvgunnar


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INVESTIGATED FOR HOW THEY HANDLED THE OMAREE VARELA CASES, ARE ON LEAVE... AT HOME. THEY'RE NOT WORKING SOMEWHERE ELSE WITHIN THE CITY, AS SOME OFFICERS HAVE DONE IN THE PAST. WE WANTED TO KNOW WHY. BUT AS ACTION 7 NEWS ANCHOR ROYALE DA TELLS US, NEITHER THE CITY NOR THE A.P.D. WILL BE SPECIFIC. NAT FROM LAPEL CAMERA THE A-P-D OFFICERS IN THIS LAPEL CAM VIDEO, SCOTT MC-MURROUGH AND GIL VIGIL ARE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. THEY'RE AT HOME, BEING PAID DURING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, ROB PERRY MADE THE THE DECISION TO PUT THE OFFICERS ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. THEY COULD'VE BEEN PUT ON ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENT... MEANING THEY WOULD WORK SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY.. LIKE AN ANIMAL SHELTER... DURING THE INVESTIGATION - BUT WERE NOT. WE ASKED THE CITY WHY AND HOW THAT CHOICE IS MADE. CITY AND POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS DECLINED AN ON-CAMERA INTERVIEW BUT GAVE US THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. THEY SAY IT'S BASED ON SIX FACTORS ... SOME OF WHICH INCLUDE: SEVERITY OF THE ALLEGATIONS AND THE PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEM. AN EMPLOYEE'S PRIOR HISTORY AND THEIR ACCESS OR ABILITY TO COMPROMISE THE INVESTIGATION... AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC'S BEST INTEREST. NO SPECIFICS ON MC-MURROUGH OR VIGIL AND THE OMAREE CASE. THE POLICE UNION DID TALK TO US. IT'S SUPPORTING THE OFFICERS AND THINKS THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN A CITY ASSIGNMENT. STEPHENIE LOPEZ TAKES ISSUE WITH HOW THEY'VE BEEN DEALT WITH. Lopez: "A knee jerk reaction." SHE ADMITS THE OFFICERS SHOULD'VE FILED A REPORT, BUT SAYS UNDER A-P-D'S CHART OF SANCTIONS... THAT IS A LOWER-SCALE VIOLATION AND THE OFFICERS SHOULDN'T BE FIRED FOR IT. Lopez: "It's unfortunate to what happened to Omaree. My heart goes out to his family who cared about him. But people have to remember at the end of the day. It was his mother who took his life not these officers." ROYALE DA/KOAT: "THERE ARE MANY IN NEW MEXICO WHO BELIEVE THE OFFICERS SHOULD'VE DONE MORE; THEY NEVER LISTENED TO THE 9-1-1 CALL, THOUGH A DISPATCHER ADVISED THEM TOO. ROYALE DA, KOAT, ACTION 7 NEWS." THE OFFICERS' SUPERVISOR IS ALSO ON LEAVE, DURING THE INVESTIGATION. ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE PUT ON
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Difference between AOW and zip gun?
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> Difference between AOW and zip gun?
January 22, 2008, 07:11 PM
Is there a difference between certain AOW's (pen gun, for example) and a zip gun? (Thinking NFA here)
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January 22, 2008, 07:13 PM
10 years?
January 22, 2008, 07:14 PM
Nope. If it does not look like a conventional firearm, it is an AOW.
January 22, 2008, 07:18 PM
The term "any other weapon" means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.
Aren't homebuilt firearms not intended for resale (zip guns) not subject to classification or tax?
M2 Carbine
January 22, 2008, 07:18 PM
Zip guns are what we made when I was a young teen.
Pen guns, etc, are more or less decent factory quality guns.
January 22, 2008, 07:22 PM
When you are haggling, it's "just a zip gun" and when you sell it, it's an "AOW," maybe? Like the distinction between fiddle and violin. ;)
January 22, 2008, 07:34 PM
Aren't homebuilt firearms not intended for resale (zip guns) not subject to classification or tax?
Nope. They are still subject to NFA specifications. To make an NFA firearm, even from scratch, you need to get a FORM 1 approval first.
January 22, 2008, 07:50 PM
Pen guns, etc, are more or less decent factory quality guns.
Considering some gun manufacturers have little more than a room with some hand tools, lathes, and drill presses, items little different than you find in some garages, what exactly is "factory quality"?
It is entirely subjective.
The main difference is craftmanship. Are you supporting superficial laws based on appearances?
That is little different than some firearms being called "assault weapons" that have cosmetic differences, and others being called "sporting arms" or some other nonsense.
If it chambers a round, fires, and does not unintentionaly subject anyone not targeted to harm it is a firearm to me.
Many single shot .22 pen guns are little more than a steel pen with a mechanism that hits the rim. The mechanisms are extremely simple and could be made by someone with hand tools in a short time.
The "zip gun" legal terminology was done by some well meaning ( I will assume) but naive people.
Many firearms of the past were made with "gun metal". Gun metal is a bronze of less strength than most unhardened steels of equal thickness.
The laws on zip guns should have been better thought out and included criteria for what is and what is not a zip gun. As it stands now it is essentialy the "saturday night special" law of personaly built firearms.
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What the (sexy) red fox named Ermys said by mistake, when he meant to rawr.
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By Viator, September 2013
The Old Town of Pelourinho is the center of the city's nightlife, but the Rio Vermelho neighborhood is also a burgeoning hotspot for samba music and dance, as well as a great place to watch the spiritual rituals and dances of the Candomblé (the legendary animist religion brought to the region by west African slaves). Tuesday night is the biggest night to party, with the bars and clubs of Pelourinho erupting into festivities after the 6pm mass and the famous Olodum bloco (street band) taking to the streets of the Praça Teresa Batista.
If you don't fancy braving the streets alone, a night tour of Salvador da Bahia is a great way to experience the city's lively atmosphere and discover the unique Afro-Brazilian culture with a special culture show. You'll even get a chance to watch a traditional Capoeira, the unique dance-cum-martial-art developed by African slaves to disguise the learning of fighting skills, and tuck into a hearty bowl of feijoada, a traditional slave dish cooked up with meat and black beans.


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Mason Jar and BPA Free Tumbler Lid by The Mason Bar Company for Sale at Scion AV Installation in Los Angeles
The Scion AV Installation supports independent artists and their creative visions by hosting monthly exhibitions and offering custom-made products for sale. All of the proceeds from the sales of these products go either directly back to the artist, or to a charity of their choosing. Now available at the Scion AV Installation are locally manufactured mason jar lids and goods from The Mason Bar Company.
The Ball mason jar comes with a dishwasher safe BPA free tumbler lid and reusable straw in various colors.
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Keira Knightley Joins Chris Pine in 'Jack Ryan'
Well, it looks like Keira Knightley didn't quite die at the end of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World because she's back with another movie role. According to the Hollywood Reporter she signed on to Paramount's Jack Ryan with Chris Pine as her costar. I don't blame you, sister. I wouldn't mind barking up that tree myself!
Knightley was chosen by director Kenneth Branaugh over Lost-ie Evengeline Lilly and Felicity Jones (yeah, I had to IMDb her too) to star in this hopeful franchise. What isn't a hopeful franchise these days? The movie is about a Jack Ryan (duh) an ex-military type living in Moscow who uncovers a plot to destroy the U.S. economy. Um, didn't the banks already try to do that for themselves? Anyway, he must save the country and his wife (Knightley) before he is killed by evil baddies. Is this Jack Ryan or Jack Bauer, the long-awaited 24 movie?
If you don't remember, Jack Ryan is the hero from the Tom Clancy novels who has been played by a punch of different people including Alec Baldwin (when he was skinny), Harrison Ford (when he was young), and Ben Affleck (when he was Bennifer). He's like James Bond except American. And, you know, not as successful. Maybe his luck is about to change!
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The Evolution and Emergence of Integrated Social and Financial Networks with Electronic Transactions: A Dynamic Supernetwork Theory for the Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Financial Flows and Relationship Levels
Anna Nagurney
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Isenberg School of Management - Department of Operations and Information Management
Tina Wakolbinger
Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance & Operations Management
Li Zhao
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Isenberg School of Management
July 2004
In this paper, we propose a rigorous dynamic supernetwork theory for the integration of social networks with financial networks with intermediation in the presence of electronic transactions. We consider decision-makers with sources of funds, financial intermediaries, as well as demand markets for the various financial products. Through a multilevel supernetwork framework consisting of the financial network and the social network we model the multicriteria decision-making behavior of the various decision-makers, which includes the maximization of net return, the maximization of relationship values, and the minimization of risk. Increasing relationship levels in our framework are assumed to reduce transaction costs as well as risk and to have some additional value for the decision-makers. We explore the dynamic evolution of the financial flows, the associated product prices, as well as the relationship levels on the supernetwork until an equilibrium pattern is achieved. We provide some qualitative properties of the dynamic trajectories, under suitable assumptions, and propose a discrete-time algorithm which is then applied to track the evolution of the relationship levels over time as well as the financial flows and prices. The equilibrium pattern yields, as a byproduct, the emergent structure of the social and financial networks since it identifies not only which pairs of nodes will have flows but also the size of the flows, i.e., the relationship levels and the financial transactions.
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Keywords: Social Networks, financial networks, electronic transactions, supernetworks
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For a very nice late dinner amongst the lax crowd we direct you to the Mt. Washington Tavern (5700 Newbury St., 410.367.6903) for some prime rib or a nice steak. They serve dinner until 11 Friday night and Saturday night. Entrees run from 12 to 24 bucks. Slap an MWT bumper sticker on your family car and look like a B'more lax mobile.Wherever you choose to eat, tell them E-lacrosse sent you. It may not get you anything, but it might get us free food later. We'll hook you up with some free food at the STX Tailgate tomorrow! For a much more in depth restaurant review as well as a Baltimore Landmarks guide, pick up a copy of the latest Inside Lacrosse at the E-Lacrosse Tailgate. It's the one with Hopkins guys on the front. You'll see the IL guys all around the event giving them away. Grab one and you'll have a pretty good grip on the food and drink scene in Baltimore City.
Or we might suggest The Greene Turtle (722 S. Broadway St., 410.342.4222) which also serves until 11. The Turtle is owned by lax guys and there's always a good mix of men's and women's laxers about. This one's in Fells Point, a historic and renewed waterfront village, pretty close to the stadium with many restaurants, bars and an eclectic assortment of shops and markets. Pick up a Greene Turtle lax t-shirt to take home as a very authentic Baltimore souvenir. Entrees are slightly less than MWT.
A new lacrosse player's destination for the discerning steak and prime rib lover can be found a quick shoot down I-83 from the stadium at Courtney's Café (106 West Padonia Rd., 410.252.0600) in Timonium. This suburban bistro is owned by Baltimore Bayhawks owner and former NFL star Dave Pivec. Don't be surprised to see a star or two from the Bayhawks hanging around in Piv's Pub or an Oriole or Raven at the table next to you. Entrees are 14 to 24 beans and Sunday brunch can be had for $ 13.95 for Adults, $ 6.95 for Children 10 and under from 10 am to 2 pm on Sunday if you just need a day of rest and great food.
A favorite of the E-Lacrosse editor is Mo's Fisherman's Warf (219 President St., 410. 837.8600) where you'll enjoy Cajun, Italian and Baltimore seafood specialties or the Filet Christopher, a Filet Mignon topped with a huge portion of imperial crab, lobster meat and béarnaise sauce.
For a more modest hangout and some great wings, pizza and beer with the Johns Hopkins crowd, we'll take you to PJ's Pub (3333 N. Charles St., 410.243.8844). PJ's has great pizza, wings, burgers, tacos and salads. Pizzas are only 7 bucks on Sunday for a cheap meal after the final. You can get food here much later than the others.
We also like Bo Brooks (2701 Boston St., 410.588.0202) for crabs, the Bay Café (2809 Boston St., 410.522.3377) for shrimp salad and the Corner Stable (9942 York Rd., 410.666.8814) in Cockeysville for ribs. Stop into a Royal Farms Store or a 7-11 and buy some Berger Cookies with the ˝ inch layer of chocolate fudge icing. It's one of Baltimore's original greats!