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Back row, from left: Jimmy Sulaica, Gregg Michel and Marty Quirk
Seated: Raul Rios and Jerri Rhodes
Students investigate and write UTSA's history
By Rebecca Luther
Editor, Sombrilla Magazine
(Dec. 20, 2005)--Students in Associate Professor Gregg Michel's senior-level history seminar have spent the semester studying a subject that's close to home: UTSA.
The 15 students in the class have all produced original research papers on a variety of topics related to the university, including the founding of the 1604 and Downtown campuses, the history of the Paisano student newspaper, and Title IX and the history of women's athletics at UTSA.
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"Someone's writing a history of the history department, which is funny because you would think historians would know more about their own history than we actually do," Michel said.
Researching the university's history proved to be particularly challenging for the students, Michel said, because of a lack of both secondary literature about the university and original source material.
"The university has done a poor job of preserving its past until recently," he said, crediting Institute of Texan Cultures head archivist Gerrianne Schaad and the Special Collections staff for their work in compiling an archive of university materials.
Michel's students have made use of the ITC archives as well as periodicals such as the Paisano and the San Antonio Express-News for their research, and he also required them to do interviews.
"The students are learning that historical research is time consuming," he said. "A lot of them have become really good at what I would call sleuthing, detective work, because they've really had to work hard to find the source material, and they've done an amazing job in cultivating sources and finding people to talk to."
The students will give their finished papers to the ITC Archives and some students also are donating their interview transcripts to ITC, both for the sake of posterity and for use by future researchers.
"In a way, it's a first step toward writing UTSA's history," Michel said.


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Discussion in 'Sports & Outdoors' started by ChevyFan, Jun 9, 2008.
Who's going on a summer vacation this year? Post the details!
My wife, Daughter and I are driving to Las Vegas in September, we'll spend a week visiting my Mom.
Were gonna take the wifes HHR and tow it back behind our motorhome we left in Vegas last year.
I'll be going down to Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels with my fiance, future mother-in-law, and future brother-in-law next month. I've never been, and I've heard it's fun. I just hope it's not too crowded...although I'm sure it will be. I hate crowds! I'd rather float the river with a cooler full of ice cold beer, but hopefully we get to do that too!
La Jolla, CA for two weeks arty:
We go every year, the day after Father's day, to relax on the Beach and go window shopping (and eat out at fancy sea food restaurants).
It's already pretty crowded, but looks like fun. It is looking good on the river, too. White Water Sports is busy on SH 306, come on down!
my parents just bought a beach house in Cape May, NJ so ill be down there at the beach a lot
were big into camping and have a nice camper but with cost of fuel we decided to join a local rec club so we now go camping every weekend 4 miles from home besides for that all summer trips have been canceled till fuel rates stabelize
"I'm going to Disneyworld"!!!
LOL, our family is flying to Orlando, FL for the week in August. Our friends have a timeshare and we are staying in a 4 bedroom townhouse at a 4-star luxury resort called Star Island. Our half is only costing us $70 for the week!
We will be going to all the local attractions.
No vacation for us this year, it's all about the baby. Did get a bonus at work, not sure if we'll have to stay home this Christmas because of high airfare, etc though.
Going to Long Beach, WA this coming weekend for much needed R&R.
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Resource extraction decisions are not simply about wilderness preservation or development
Nancy Langston
As the inland ice retreated from Sápmi some 10,000 years ago, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) followed the edge of the ice as it retreated northward, and the ancestors of the Sámi people came with them. The anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has argued that without reindeer, human cultures could not have thrived in the boreal forest. Without people, reindeer might not have thrived as well.
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga's frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. Cold is little problem; the challenge is finding food. Reindeer migration patterns reduce some, but not all, of their vulnerability to food scarcity.
Sámi herders do not just follow the reindeer. They have negotiated complex relationships with the animals, basing an eight-season migration pattern on the reindeer's seasonal cycles. From March until April, the pregnant female reindeer began to move out of lowland forests toward mountain pastures. In April to May, calves are born, and the cows choose spring pastures where snow melts early, allowing them to supplement their lichen diet with leaves, grass and herbs. In June, reindeer select riparian vegetation near marshes and brooks, allowing them to quickly regain weight lost during the long winter. From June to July, when parasitic flies become a problem in the lowlands, reindeer move up into high, windy mountain meadows where they can find relief from both insects and heat. When August comes, reindeer build up fat and muscle to prepare for the winter and begin their migration to lower pastures, where the rutting period commences. During the rut, cows continue to accumulate reserves for the winter, while the bulls use much of their stored body fat and muscle weight, which they need to replenish during the brief autumn season. When the snows deepen in early winter, the reindeer migrate back toward lowland forests where they can dig through the snow cover to reach their main winter food source: ground lichens. From December through March, the coldest season, reindeer graze for lichens and berry plants in the coniferous forests. These migration patterns paid little attention to national borders; to find the best forage, reindeer often crossed from summer pastures in Norway into Sweden and Finland winter territories.
Originally hunters of reindeer rather than herders, the Sámi shifted to herding semi-domesticated reindeer after European incursions into their lands reduced their subsistence resources. In the 9th century, Norse chieftains moved onto Sámi lands and began taxing the Sámi. Records from a chieftain called Ottar, who was in the employ of King Alfred the Great of England, give some sense of the annual taxes demanded from the Sámi: "A man of the highest rank has to contribute the skins of fifteen martens and five reindeer and one bear and forty bushels of feathers and a tunic made of bearskin or otterskin and two ships' cables … made either of whaleskin or of sealskin." Kevin Crossley-Holland also notes that Ottar mentioned that the Sámi had trained reindeer as decoys to bring the wild herds closer for easier hunting, suggesting that a shift in subsistence practices from hunting to herding reindeer had already begun.
Trappers and traders came to Sápmi to capitalize on the growing European market for furs, selling firearms to the Sámi. The Sámi intensified hunting, depleting the boreal forests of fur-bearing animals and reindeer. As subsistence resources dwindled, the Sámi began to domesticate wild reindeer, and by the 17th century, herding of semi-domesticated reindeer had largely replaced hunting of wild reindeer.
The north, in European eyes, seemed empty of people (even though the Sámi provided essential taxes), and that emptiness justified it becoming Sweden's colony for resource extraction—first for furs, then for minerals, timber and energy. In 1542, the Swedish king Gustav Vasa proclaimed that "all permanently uninhabited land belongs to God, Us and the Swedish Crown, and nobody else." In 1635, cabinet minister Carl Bonde wrote to the Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna describing silver ore deposits in the north, expressing his belief that the boreal north could become Sweden's own West Indies. The year before, a Sámi man named Peder Olofsson had mentioned to some Swedes that he had found silver ore in Nasafjäll in Pite Lappmark, close to the Norwegian border. Silver revenues might help fund war expenses that burdened the Swedish state, so in 1635, mining began at the Nasafjäll works.
Transport of ore to smelters and then to markets was vital for mining development. The Swedes believed that the Sámi were too weak and lazy to dig ore but were useful for transporting that ore. Sámi were ordered to use their reindeer to carry ore 60 kilometers between the Nasafjäll mine and the smelting works. The Sámi refused, fearing the work would interfere with reindeer herding cycles. Swedish workers described how they forced the Sámi to comply: "We tied them to a couple of timbers, pushed them down into the rapids a few times and then pulled them up to allow the water to run out of their mouths again, so all the people working in the mine were aware of the situation." Contemporary accounts speak of the road "lined with bleached reindeer skeletons long after mining finished." Many Sámi refused what they saw as enslavement and instead fled to Norway, even though the Swedish government sent troops to prevent their escape. Much of their territory near the mine became depopulated.
In 1673, the Swedish king encouraged Swedish citizens from the south to move north and colonize the Sámi area. Few Swedes, however, were interested in moving to a place they saw as remote, barren and inhospitable, even when the king promised relief from military service and taxation. The Swedes who moved into the forest found settled farming nearly impossible in the harsh climate, so they began hunting and fishing on Sámi lands and cutting hay in winter reindeer pastures. The Sámi herding territories and fishing grounds were squeezed by the new immigrants, but when conflicts arose, the Sámis were able to assert their communal property rights in Swedish courts.
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#1: Please, breakage question.
For work, atleast 3/4 days of the week...sometimes 6, I'll wear my hair in a ponytail and use like a bristled brush to brush and slick back the top. I'm noticing a lot of little hairs all over the top and through my hair now. Can doing this be causing breakage? Idk how else to get my hair slicked back into a ponytail without using this brush and some hairspray. Please answer anybody if you may have some input. It's worrying me. I don't want this to break my hair.
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Case Date: 12/07/1986
Age: 26
Sex: Female
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Circumstances: Darla Stroh was found deceased in a residence that had been destroyed by fire. It was determined that the fire was a result of arson. Dennis Brumfield was also found deceased in the residence.
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Dulce "YoYa" Ravelo passed Monday, March 4, 2013.
YoYa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1925 and arrived in Key West in 1968. YoYa was very dedicated to her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and all her family and friends. YoYa was loved by everyone. She will be missed by everyone.
Dulce was preceded in death by her parents, Julio and Juana Delgado; her husband, Manolo Ravelo; and brother Delfin Delgado.
She is survived by her children, Manuel (Maria) Ravelo and Mercedes (Francisco) Arencibia; sisters Teresa Martinez and Violeta Reinoso; brother Nilo Delgado; sister-in-law Ime Delgado; grandchildren Vivian (Omar) Perez, Manuel (Ashley Turso) Ravelo Jr., Ruben (Rosa) Ravelo, Frank (Angela) Arencibia, and Marcos (Debbie) Arencibia; great-grandchildren Christopher Cervantes, Dylan Dunlap, Natalie Ravelo, Amanda Mederos, Frankie Arencibia, Andrew Flores, Alyssa Ravelo, Blake Arencibia, Bryan Flores, Aliyah Arencibia and Emma Ravelo.
The family would like to thank the staff at Health Rehabilitation.
A service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013, at The Basilica of Saint Mary Star of the Sea. All arrangements have been entrusted to Castillo & Thurston's Key West Mortuary.


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Luxury 1 bed condo, The View 1801
Спальные места3
Ванные комнаты1
Площадь55 м²
Этаж №18(с лифтом)
- Кондиционер
- Интернет
- Балкон/терраса
- Закрывающаяся на ключ комната
- Полотенца
- Лифт в здании
- Спортзал
- Кухня
Краткое описание жилья
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The Space/rooms
Everything in this special condo is brand new.
The large bedroom steps out onto the wonderful balcony with views of the city and hills. There is a large double bed and the room is very spacious. The owner's attention to detail is evident in this room.
The stylish bathroom has a huge shower and very big mirror, also a vanity cupboard is wall hung and gives a great finishing touch.
The open plan kitchen is equipped with a fitted hotplate hob. A microwave and fridge are also included giving guests a chance to dine- in as they choose. There is small dining table to enjoy breakfast alone or with a guest.
The living space is top quality; with a large comfortable sofa and a large TV, this area is a great place to unwind after a day at the beach or at the shopping mall.
The View Cozy Beach has the stunning 20th floor infinity pool facing the ocean. This is a great spot to relax and enjoy the sea breeze on one of the luxury loungers.
The 19th floor boasts a fully equipped gym, steam room and sauna. From here you get great city and mountain views while you work out.
A hotel style front desk in the lobby assists guest helping each stay easy and hassle-free.
Cozy Beach is a 7 minute walk. Just 200m from the lobby are shops, bars and restaurants.
You can be in the city center in 5 minutes by taxi or by bike.
You can be shopping in Central Festival on Beach Road in 15 minutes or enjoying the atmosphere in Walking Street in 8 minutes.
Taxi and bus services are available 24 hours a day.
The hotel is in a great location to spend your holiday. The evenings are quiet and the street is silent after 9pm, guaranteeing you a peaceful night in if you so choose.
Overall this fantastic apartment is luxurious, modern and has all the facilities in a quiet surrounding. With sea views and in a great part of town it has everything you need to enjoy a great holiday.
Правила Проживания5000 THB refundable deposit to be paid at check in
No pets
guests are responsible for electric/water charges
check in from 11am to 6pm
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Moved from the appartment The Chezz to tthe other one due to me aquiring a bad foot and the need to use a whellchair -and consequently a bigger condo. Again Gianluca was very helpful and went out of his way to help me. Although this condo is in a quieter are called cosy beach, you reach the city center in a short ride. The condo itself was very nice, clean and had a nice pool area. You will find everything else you need in the vincinity like restaurants, laundry, family mart and taxi / motorbike services. If i come back to LOS I will call again on Gianluca! Thx,mate!
Gianluca is great. Thanks for everything.
It is easy to reach him by phone, he is punctual and right on time.
He did manage everything in a perfect way.
My favorite host!
Very nice appartement, with a wonderful view. Everything is ner and only 2-3 min walking distance. e.g. supermarket, taxi, food, restaurants, laundry, beach.....
The appartment has a good WLAN conection and a very nice rainforestshower. Thank you to gianluca, Who made my stay very easy and relaxing....
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Great condo! Thank you so much for hospitality and support during staying in Pattaya!!!
Every ting was okay it was what a like close too all places
on booking and before when i tried to get more information regarding the appartement and the facilities in the vincinity, gianluca was very friendly and helping. the appartment it self was clean and as advertised. a modern-style appartment in quiet surroundings and neighbors.everything ran smooth and its quite handy placed with the big supermarket round the corner and some 7/11 on the other side of the road. some more paces round the corner of the spermarket lies the bus stop of the 10 baht busses to the town center - some 4 minutes away.
as i overstretched my tendons in one foot, ganluca went out of his way to help me with anything imaginable like bying groceries and offering me a bigger appartment when i switched to another appartment. at no extra costs. gianluca is a very nice individual and always there if you need help or advice on local idiosyncrasies. so far i cand say anything negative, just the opposite. honors where honors are due.
Gianluca is a friendly,polite guy and a great host.Booking was fast and easy.He expected us in the apartment and gaveus perfect informations where to Shop ,to go or to dine.the apartment was spacious and clean.We could even cook our prawns and lobster from the market.the area is Safe,quiet with different restaurants but even near to Pattaya Beach.thank you for your nice assistent,Gianluca
I had a really nice stay in The Chezz hotel in pattaya. Great location, just a few minutes to beachroad and the nightlife. The apartment was very modern and the rooftop pool was perfect for relaxing in the afternoon.
Gianluca is sympatic and cares good about you if you need something.
I can recomand it to everybody!
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Nisswa resident seeks title
Mary Petersen, the daughter of Ron and Bev Petersen of Nisswa, is the current Miss Minnesota United States. Soon, however, her title could be even more impressive.
On July 5-7, Mary will compete in the Miss United States Pageant in Washington, D.C.
Before her rise to state royalty, Mary was born and raised in Nisswa and is the youngest of five siblings.
"My fondest memories were actually in the summer doing the turtle races. We would all go out and find turtles to catch," she said.
Later, her involvement in the Nisswa community continued as she worked at Rafferty's Pizza for five years.
Mary was the president of her class and she graduated from Brainerd High School in 2008. She went on to Hamline University in St. Paul and graduated in 2011 with a degree in legal studies and a minor in religion.
In the fall she will attend the University of St. Thomas to pursue business and corporate law.
"My dream job would be to be an in-house corporate attorney for a Minnesota-based company such as General Mills," Mary said.
In addition to her pursuit of a legal career, Mary has been involved in pageant competition for several years. She was crowned Miss Brainerd Lakes in 2010 before becoming Miss Minnesota United States in February.
As Miss Minnesota United States, Mary has been involved in events across the state and some events in the lakes area, including the women's Pink Ribbon Golf Classic at Grand View Lodge.
At the golf classic, she spoke to participants about the effects of their donations to the American Cancer Society.
"My parents are both actually cancer survivors, so I got the opportunity to speak to them about how cancer has affected me and how their donations are helping families like mine," Mary said.
In addition to attending and speaking at events as Miss Minnesota United States, Mary also enjoys running, scrapbooking and reading in the sun. Preparing for the Miss United States Pageant currently occupies a majority of her time.
Mary explained that the Miss United States Pageant is a spokesmodel pageant. Each candidate's score is determined in an interview, a swimsuit competition, an evening gown competition and an onstage question. Each area of competition is worth 25 percent of the score.
Each competitor has a platform that they promote, and Mary's platform is entitled Living Healthy Day to Day.
For this platform she follows and promotes the American Cancer Society's recommendations for a healthy lifestyle. These recommendations suggest that adults be active for 60 minutes per day and children be active for 30 minutes per day.
The recommendations suggest eating a primarily plant and fruit based diet and avoiding genetically modified foods.
Mary's platform sprang out of the lifestyle her family follows, but it has also been a conscious choice for her. She explained that when she first went to college, she had the opportunity to eat however she wanted, and she noticed a difference right away.
"You can do whatever you want and eat whatever you want, and doing that, even for a short period of time when I first moved out of the house, I could see the difference in my body and feel that I wasn't as healthy as I was," Mary said.
Mary went back to more healthful eating, which coincided well with the American Cancer Society's guidelines. The national Miss United States organization supports the American Cancer Society, too, which made her platform a perfect fit.
On Tuesday, July 2, Mary left to compete in the Miss United States Pageant in Washington, D.C. She looked forward to being in the nation's capital over the Fourth of July. She and the other contestants will have the opportunity to be a part of the parade in Washington, D.C., and they will be able to see the fireworks on Capitol Hill.
There is at least one thing she is nervous about, though.
"I've heard that there is going to be a stairway leading onto the stage so I'm actually extremely nervous to walk down that stairs in six-inch heels and a gown," she said.
Of the four parts of the pageant — interview, swimsuit, evening gown and onstage question — the swimsuit competition is her favorite part.
"I feel that it really allows me to express myself, not only who I am as a person but also to show the judges and show the audience that I really am living by example and I am living my platform," Mary said.
If she is crowned Miss United States, Mary will have opportunities to speak on her platform and the American Cancer Society on a nation wide level while also representing the Miss United States organization.
The Miss United States Pageant is not televised nationally, but there will be a live stream of the pageant on July 7 at heritagetv.com.


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One of the main characters in the wonderful television show Battlestar Galactica who is the CAG (commander of the air group) of said ship. The actor who plays him is so beautiful that viewing him on screen sometimes causes Bamberitis. While currently married to Lt. Dualla, AKA Dee, there is a huge fan following for a relationship between him and Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. In fact, in the original series aired in the 70's, Starbuck was played by a man. Apparently the two pilots had a sexual vibe despite both being men, as seen in the copious amounts of slash fanfiction. This may have led to Starbuck's gender change.
"Oh, Lee, Lee!" - Captain Kara Thrace to Gaius Baltar during sex while imagining Major Lee "Apollo" Adama
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Sony A77, measurements and review of the world's first 24 MPix APS-C cameraFriday September 23 2011 Sensor Review
When the Sony A77 was announced a couple of weeks ago as a replacement for the Sony Alpha 700, Sony's semi-professional APS-C camera, we were all very impressed by its specifications. So we were really excited to see how it would perform in our tests.
Here are our results.
First of all, as expected, Sony doesn't propose a classic DSLR but uses its "translucent mirror" technology to enable the light passing through the lens to reach the image sensor and the auto-focus sensor simultaneously. In addition to reducing camera size, this technology enables full-time phase-detect auto-focusing and a high continuous shooting speed—up to 12 fps in full resolution.
But the main innovation that everybody was looking forward to seeing in action is the 24-megapixel APS-C sensor. Sony had already shaken the industry when they were able to fit 16 MPix on an APS-C-sized sensor while offering a high level of quality comparable to the acclaimed Sony SLT A55, Sony NEX C3, Pentax K5 and Nikon D7000. Now they've managed to put 50% more pixels on the same surface. But in doing so, did they end up compromising the image quality—in particular the level of noise (excellent on the 16 MPix version)?
Sony SLT A77 vs Sony SLT A55 vs Sony Alpha 580
Let's check out the effect on image quality by comparing the SLT A77 with the SLT A55 and the Alpha 580.
The A77 gets a good low-light score of 801, especially if you keep in mind that the translucent mirror takes away part of the light coming in — the main reason for the Alpha 580's better low-light ISO score, as it has a standard mirror mechanism. (To learn more about this, read this detailed comparison of the Sony A35 vs the Alpha 580.)
As we can see in the comparison, this low-light score is very similar to that of the A55 (818), proving that Sony managed to keep the same excellent level of noise despite the reduced size of each pixel on the sensor.
We also point out that at ISO 50 and ISO 80, the Sony A77 can make simply stunning images thanks to its very good dynamic range and color depth.
Sony A77 vs Nikon D7000 vs Canon EOS 7D
Let's see how the Sony A77 compares with its competitors, the semi-professional DSLRs from Nikon and Canon.
In this category, the very good EOS 7D seems a bit behind now, suggesting that now could be the right time for Canon to introduce a successor. The comparison with the Nikon D7000 is similar to that for the Sony Alpha 580, as they both use the same Sony sensor.
Sony A77 vs Canon EOS 5D Mark II vs Nikon D700
Now let's see how the Sony A77 compares with the bigger sensors of the full-frame cameras.
Apart from a lower low-light ISO score due to its translucent mirror, the Sony A77 comes very close to matching these full-frame cameras. This demonstrates that even if the full-frame format dominated the high-end market when launched, they have now lost a big part of their advantage. They are closely followed if not overtaken by the best APS-C cameras (of which the Sony SLT A77 is one). So it may also be time for this category to develop new models to take advantage of the latest sensor technologies.
Sony A77: a very good semi-professional camera
In conclusion, thanks to its capacity to take innovation ever further and to break the limits of sensor design, Sony is about to bring on the market a very good semi-professional camera body. The next question is the capacity of the accompanying lenses to address the challenge of these very small pixels. The DxOMark lens measurements should give us an answer very soon.
Last but not least, as the same sensor will be used by the Sony A65 and the Sony NEX 7, we should see some nice reviews very soon. It will be especially interesting to see the NEX 7 results, as it doesn't use a translucent mirror and thus should be able to take full advantage of this amazing sensor.
Further readings for the Sony A77, measurements and review of the world's first 24 MPix APS-C camera
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
We are already acquainted with the D3200: apart from a few ergonomic details, it's the same camera as the compact and lightweight D3100 SLR, though missing the secondary display on its bridge for even greater compactness. The D3200 weighs only 454 grams (without battery or card). Unlike the D3100, the D3200's lens is off-center for better balance and the highly practical LiveView/video mode activation tab of the D3100 and the D5100 has disappeared in favor of a more ergonomically mundane video recording button. The D3200 comes with a second (dorsal) infrared sensor to complement its front sensor for more practical infrared remote control. The motor selection tab (single-frame, burst, timer, remote control) is gone as well, again replaced by a direct-access button.
Ever since we tested the Sony SLT A77, we've been very curious to see how the soon-to-be released Sony NEX 7 would compare. And today we have the answer: as we expected, the absence of a mirror gives the NEX7 some advantages. Below is a detailed look.
Sony announced this "Translucent Mirror Technology" reflex camera in early June 2011.
The aforementioned technology, already featured on the Sony Alpha 33 and Sony Alpha 55 consists in allowing you to shoot on continuous-shooting mode (or burst mode) without the shutter-induced strobe effect. In layman's terms you do not see the shutter occlusion in the viewfinder.
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A year later with the Sony SLT-A77
12-12-12 We captured over 250,000 images so far this year with our Sony SLT-A77s in our concert and wedding photography divisions. We change out our cameras quickly so that we don't get too high of a shutter count to hurt the resale. We are now on cameras number 4, 5, 6, and 7, all Sony A77s. We love everything about these cameras and once we got used to them the results keep getting better and better. We have changed out and upgraded all of our lenses... it is not fair to this camera to shoot with anything less than the best glass.
Our lens battalion now consists of:
-Tokina 11-16 2.8(excellent low light super wide angle, great for video. Very sharp with excellent color. Not good for long distance or extreme closeups))
-Sony 16-50 2.8 (our 1st copy of this lens wasn't quite right and I'm glad we got another one... very sharp, great color, silent focus, great for video)
-Sony 18-135 (this lens surprised us and gave results close enough to our Minolta 28-135 to replace it. Add in the better electronics and slightly better low light usability and you have a great walk around DAYTIME lens. Very sharp, excellent color)
-Sony 35MM 1.8 (excellent low light lens, portrait lens, perfect for indoor video. Extremely sharp with excellent color, great for extreme closeups)
-Sony 50MM 1.8 (excellent low light lens, portrait lens, perfect for indoor video. This is our go to lens if the 35MM is already being used on another camera. Extremely sharp with excellent color)
-Minolta 80-200 2.8G (my favorite lens and I use it whenever I can. Excellent sharpness and color. The only downside with this lens is the 6' "MFD" minimum focus distance)
Some of the other great lenses we have tried on the Sony SLT-A77:
Minolta 20MM 2.8
Minolta 50MM 1.7
Minolta 28-135 4-4.5
Minolta 500MM f8 AF
Tokina 19-35
Tokina 20-35
Minolta 17-35 2.8-4
Minolta 28-85
Minolta 100-300 APO
Some of the lenses we tried and were very unimpressed with
Tamron 17-50 (sharp but color was way off)
Sony 18-200 (soft on both ends)
Sony 18-200 (soft on both ends)
Sony 18-55 (best maker of 18-55 but still garbage)
Sony 18-70 (one of the worst lenses ever made)
Tamron 75-300 (sharp but bad color)
Sigma (tried many, not impressive compared to Sony or Minolta)
Here's some links to recent photos taken with these cameras and lenses
Added by cynan | January 09 , 2012
Why high ISO advantage for A77 over A65?

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I posted something similar on the A65 page, but I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why, given both are using the same sensor, that the A77 scores 801 in high-ISO while the A65 only scores 717. I understand why the A77 might score higher overall due to the lower ISO range, but not why it would be better in low light.
Looking at the NEX-5N vs the NEX-7, the high-ISO performance difference isn't as great (1079 for the 5N vs 1016 for the 7) and they are using sensors with significantly different resolutions.
So why such a big difference in high ISO for the A65 vs A77?
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Added by cynan | January 09 , 2012
Re: Why high ISO advantage for A77 over A65?
Might it be due to the faster max shutter speed on the A77 vs A65? Perhaps this makes a higher ISO setting more usable when using the 1/8000 shutter setting?
Added by TCav | January 10 , 2012
Re: Why high ISO advantage for A77 over A65?
I don't see an advantage. From among the A77, A65, and NEX-7, all of which use the same sensor, the A77 and A65 have almost identical scores for SNR 18% and Dynamic Range. You may also notice that the SLTs' scores are a little bit shy of the scores for the NEX-7, no doubt due to the light lost to the PDAF system via the "Translucent Mirror".
Added by ABETTERDJ | December 13 , 2011
We just put the SONY SLT-A77 through the ultimate test!
We just shot over 9,000 photos and 2 videos in 4 days with our 2 SONY SLT-A77s!
We just returned from a gig as official photographers of the Rock Legends Cruise. I shot about 5,000 photos with my A77 using my (favorite) MINOLTA 28-135MM 1:4-4.5 lens and my wife took about 4,000 photos using her SONY SLT-A77 using her favorite... the SONY 16-50MM 2.8 lens.
We shot about 75% of the indoor shots with no flash. You can read a review of the cameras performances and see the photos and videos under the RLC Cruise photo tab at http://www.abetterdj.net ENJOY!
Added by jmmgarza | October 27 , 2011
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear... to deal with!
Sony's SLT fuzzy pix are a bear to deal with.
Added by ABETTERDJ | October 23 , 2011
SONY SLT-A77 with the new SONY 16-50 2.8 lens
SONY could have easily called this lens a "G" lens!
Our 2nd A77 with the 16-50 lens came in on Wednesday and I can't seem to leave it alone (HELP! I'm taking photos and I can't stop!) This camera and lens were made to be together. The sharpness and color beat all of my legendary Minolta glass and the speed is incredible! Photos are processed and already showing on the LCD before your subject is finished saying cheese.
This one is going to be permanently attached to my wife's A77 since she's the primary shooter but I might just have to get another one for my own A77 if I can convince myself that I'm no longer addicted to my MINOLTA 28-135 1:4-4.5! That lens has been so good to me I can't bear the thought of bagging it.
The A77s grow on us more and more every day. I was kinda jealous of some of our other shooters that had the SONY zoom button, our A55s didn't and I wished they did. I love zooming in with the 28-135 then hitting the button twice and getting that fabulous crop. I also have a 100-300 APO that looks great doubled to 600MM... kinda makes me want to go for a 100-400 APO!
We've posted some great flower shots with the A77/16-60 combo on our site... just got to the SONY|MINOLTA tab http:www.abetterdj.net
Added by ABETTERDJ | October 17 , 2011
SHOT OUR 3rd WEDDING WITH THE A77
This camera continues to impress us! After the 2nd wedding we ordered a 2nd A77 and sold all of our A55s. This time we ordered the 16-50 lens with it and I'll be back with results :D
Added by ABETTERDJ | October 13 , 2011
Firmware update is out version 1.03
For those of you that already have the SONY A77 the update is published on our site. It's east to do and only takes about 10 minutes :D www.abetterdj.net go to the SONY/MINOLTA tab
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DXOmark Reviews
This page is supposed to be measurements and review of the Sony a77, but I cannot find any measurements or review. Where are they?
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Tell me please when will a review on Samsung NX200?
Added by Herve H | December 10 , 2011
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We're working on it, we should be able to publish the results in January.
Added by evilthought | December 16 , 2011
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Hi Herve,
I hope you (dxomark) notice that on Samsung NX200 if you turn on NR, it is applied to RAW too (not just jpegs) .. so better to turn it off
Added by explorer76 | January 12 , 2012
Any news about the NX200 review? Waiting anxiously for that!!
Added by evilthought | January 18 , 2012
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Yeah, I don't why dxomark have these forums anyway. They never respond to anything posted here anyway.
Added by explorer76 | January 25 , 2012
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Yeah it does seem like there is not much response here. At the very least they can tell us if there is still any chance of getting the review in january.
Added by Simen1 | February 07 , 2012
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I can tell you its not. And NX 200 is not the only test i have been waiting for a long time. I hope the delays are caused by 1DX, 5D mkIII, D4 and D800 arrived in the lab and got higher priority.
Added by ABETTERDJ | October 05 , 2011
The SONY A77 is awesome.

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We didn't have the patience to wait for the US release of this camera plus we were worried it would be pre-sold-out (like happened in the UK), so we ordered 1 from Hong Kong (2 day delivery $1329 US). We sold one of our 3 SONY A55s to make room for it in our camera tub and all we can say is WOW!
We've had ours for 6 days now and shot about 300 test shots before shooting our 1st wedding (800 shots) last Saturday. We were not expecting much photo quality improvement over the A55s but boy were we wrong. The detail, sharpness, and color that this camera put out were a noticeable improvement from our A55s.
The wedding we shot was very dimly lit and the camera had no problem making the proper adjustments. We shot all night in Auto to put it through the tests. The camera reacted well and is super fast both in AF speed and shutter reaction. Out of 800 shots we had 798 useable, with the 2 bad ones being an ooops and one shot that the flash didn't fire. There was no noise at all in any of the photos taken.
The camera is larger, but not too large for my wife's normal female sized hands. The weight was actually less than we expected and she was comfortable during the whole 6 hour shoot. We never experienced a lag time while the buffer unloaded and we got almost 700 shots from the SONY battery. The buttons and dials are all nicely placed and after a few days of getting used to the camera we have found everything to be easily accessible. There is very little need to go into the menu once the camera is set up for your shoot, there are buttons for just about everything.
For anybody thinking of buying one of these... stop thinking and start your preorder process, it is well worth the $1400 selling price. We will be replacing our A55s with A65s soon, but the A77 will continue to be our primary camera.
We've posted some sample shots at www.abetterdj.net and will post some of the wedding shots Thursday or Friday.
One more thing... in case you didn't know the legendary MINOLTA lenses work perfectly on these cameras! You will get much more bang for your buck going with these. We shoot exclusively MINOLTA lenses on all our SONYs. Our primary lens is a MINOLTA 17-35MM 1:2.8-3.5 and our A55s are both equipped with MINOLTA 28-135 1:4-4.5 lenses. We also bag a MINOLTA 100-300MM APO lens for long distance shots at concerts we shoot. We are the official photographers on the Rock Legends Cruise in December www.rocklegendscruise.com and will be posting about 15-20,000 photos to share with everyone :D
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Thanks for sharing your experience with the A77.
We were also quite impressed by it when we had the chance to try it in our lab.
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Thanks for sharing,
I have the A700 with all the good legendary Minolta lenses and will be updating with the A77.
I'm glad I waited for the A77 I was very close to switching to the Nikon D7000.
Added by itiscorrect | November 05 , 2011
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i use it with the 135mm f/2.8 STF ... woo woo woo ... AWESOME !!!


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Pulaski Technical College has received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue its Veterans Upward Bound program for five more years.
The college will receive $250,000 annually for a five-year period to continue the pre-college program that prepares first-generation military veterans to enroll in and graduate from college. The program provides tutoring, advising, preparation for college entrance exams, personal and academic counseling, and guidance through the college application and financial aid processes. The grant period began Sept. 1.
Since the program was implemented in September 2007, Pulaski Tech has served about 120 veterans a year.
"The number one thing we do is provide tutoring to veterans," said Veterans Upward Bound director Jackie Johnson. "Once they complete tutoring, we help them with the college entrance process, the admissions and financial aid applications and the course selections. We do quite a bit of personal and educational training."
Veterans who complete tutoring also are eligible to receive a $40 monthly stipend through the program.
The program also offers workshops on dealing with post-traumatic stress syndrome and accessing community resources.
"We know it's a challenge to transition from military to civilian life and then into college life," Johnson said. "We talk to them about their long-range goals and what they want to do and provide guidance."
Pulaski Tech's program is one of 37 Veteran Upward Bound sites in the nation to receive funding this year. It is one of three VUB programs operating in the state. The others sites are at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia and at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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text: The Creator | mgoblog I posted a Michigan blog article (Stauskas-centric) that includes a link to the great Grantland article. I made this thread because it is a great, important and fascinating article. I posted the Stauskas-throughway because I really want to hammer this home.. THE PISTONS NEED TO DRAFT NIK STAUSKAS!! The NBA comparison I've been making lately -- being, as I am, un-phased by racial type-casting -- is Steph Curry, a top 5-10 player in the NBA. I challenge anyone on this board to explain to me why Steph Curry is a better NBA prospect than Nik Stauskas? -Is it because Steph Curry is 6-3, 185 and Nik Stauskas is only 6-6, 205? -Is it because Steph Curry was 21 (a 3-year college player) and Nik is only 20 (a 2-year college player)? -Is it because Steph Curry led his team -- shooting .387 from 3 -- in the Southern Conference, whereas Nik Stauskas only led his team -- shooting .442 from 3 -- in the Big Ten, the best defensive conference in America? -Is it because Steph Curry is a worse defender? (esp. coming out of college) -Is it because Steph Curry has a less versatile offensive game? (esp. coming out of college) -Is it because the two have equally lightning-quick releases, and Stauskas has only 3 extra inches of height to shoot over defenders? -Is it because Nik Stauskas is a better passer and a better ball-handler? (esp. coming out of college) ***** THE PLAN: i) Starting Point: 45.7M in total salaries (including 2014-15 QO-level salary for G. Monroe...not sure how that works, but to be on the safe side).....16.4M cap space 1) Draft Nik Stauskas: +2.7M (starting salary for last year's #8 pick).....13.7M cap space. 2) Sign Kyle Lowry: +13.7M (the max we can give him, I'm guessing he gets less).....0M cap space. 3) Resign Greg Monroe: +9M (14.5M - 5.5M = 9M. *14.5M is the maximum contract he can get, I'm guessing he gets less. *5.5M is his 2014-15 QO-level salary, which I'd already counted against the cap).....4.6M tax cap space. 4) Sign Trevor Ariza, using the MLE: +5.2M (the max MLE, I'm guessing he gets less).....0.9M tax penalty. Rotation: C: Drummond(32min), Monroe(16min) PF: Smith(32min), Monroe(16min) SF: Ariza(32min), Singler(16min) SG: Stauskas(32min), K-C. Pope(16min) PG: Lowry(32min), Jennings(16min) .....P. Siva(0min), J. Harrellson(0min), T. Mitchell(0min).....X: J. Jerebko, W. Bynum, G. Datome 5) General Manager (offer, in order): G. Popovich, L. Brown, R. Buford, S. Presti, S. Pritchard, J. Sloan, S. Layden 6) Head Coach (offer, in order): G. Popovich, L. Brown, R. Carlisle, J. Sloan, T. Thibodeau, L. Hollins


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Title: Mad Dash Racing
Genre: Combat Racing Adventure
Platform: Xbox
ESRB Rating: RP - Rating Pending
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Date: Fall 2001
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An original title designed for the XboxTM video game system, Mad Dash
Racing combines high-speed combat racing and 3D adventure action with
a crew of motley characters for an insane multi-player competition!
Compete in a race for survival against the evil Hex, his dirty minions
and your unforgiving friends. Glide across rivers of hot, steaming lava,
bash through mammoth boulders, and slide down icy glaciers to beat the
other racers and escape Hex's wicked wrath. Do whatever it takes to
cross the finish line first from shooting weapon power-ups, planning
scheming attacks, or knocking your opponents off track with a sharp
elbow nudge.
Objective: Players compete against each other (multiplayer) or AI opponents
(single-player) in a race to cross the finish line first. In single-player
mode, the player must not only master all seven races but also defeat
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Tactics: Each of the characters has one of three special abilities:
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Cigarette smoking increases the risk of serious cardiovascular events from combination oral contraceptive (COC) use. This risk increases with age, particularly in women over 35 years of age, and with the number of cigarettes smoked. For this reason, COCs should not be used by women who are over 35 years of age and smoke. [See CONTRAINDICATIONS.]
GENERESS Fe provides an oral contraceptive regimen consisting of 24 tablets that contain the active ingredients specified below, followed by four non-hormonal placebo tablets:
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Each light green tablet also contains the following inactive ingredients: D&C Yellow No. 10 aluminum lake, FD&C Blue No. 1 aluminum lake, FD&C Yellow No. 6 aluminum lake, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, mannitol, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, sodium starch glycolate, spearmint flavor, sucralose and vitamin E.
Each brown, round tablet contains ferrous fumarate, magnesium stearate, mannitol, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, sodium starch glycolate, spearmint flavor and sucralose. The ferrous fumarate chewable tablets do not serve any therapeutic purpose. Ferrous fumarate chewable tablets are not USP for dissolution and assay.
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The chemical name of ethinyl estradiol is [19-Norpregna-1,3,5(10)-trien-20-yne-3,17-diol,(17α)-]
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Modern crime often leaves an electronic trail. Finding and preserving that evidence requires careful methods as well as technical skill
Simson L. Garfinkel
Many forensic investigations start with the examiner looking for files belonging to the computer's previous user.
Allocated files are ones that can be viewed through the file system and whose contents under normal circumstances will not be inadvertently overwritten by the operating system. The word allocated refers to the disk sectors in which the file's content is stored, which are dedicated to this particular file and cannot be assigned to others. Many digital forensics tools allow the examiner to see allocated files present in a disk image without having to use the computer's native operating system, which maintains forensic integrity of the evidence.
One of the major technical digital forensics innovations of the past 15 years has been approaches for recovering a file after it is deleted. These files are not simply in a computer's "trash can" or "recycle bin," but have been removed by emptying the trash. File names can be hidden, and the storage associated with the files is deallocated. But a file's contents sometimes can remain on the hard drive, in memory, or on external media, even though the metadata that could be used to locate it are lost. Recovering these kinds of data requires a technique called file carving, invented around 1999 by independent security researcher Dan Farmer, and now widely used.
The first file carvers took advantage of the fact that many file types contain characteristic sequences of bytes at the beginning and end of each file. Such sequences are called file headers and footers. The file carver scans the disk image for these headers and footers. When ones are found, the two sequences of bytes and all of the data between them are saved in a new file.
Modern carvers can validate the data that they are carving (for example, to make sure that the bytes between the JPEG header and footer can be actually displayed as a digital photograph) and can even reassemble files that are broken into multiple pieces. Such fragment recovery carving is computationally challenging because the number of ways that fragments can be realigned; the result is a combinatorial explosion as the size of the media increases. Missing fragments further complicate the problem.
Closely related to file carving is the problem of reconstructing compressed data. Compression is a technique that is widely used on computer systems to squeeze data so that it takes up less space. The technique exploits redundancy; for example, if asked to compress the character sequence "humble humbleness," a computer might replace the six characters of the second instance of "humble" with a pointer to the first occurrence. English text typically compresses to one-sixth its original size.
Text must be compressed with lossless algorithms, programs that faithfully restore the original text when the data are decompressed. However, photographs and videos are typically compressed with lossy systems that exploit deficiencies in the human perceptual system. For example, a few dozen pixels of slightly different colors might be replaced by a single rectangle of uniform hue. The resulting savings can be immense. Without compression an hour of full-screen video might require 99 gigabytes but with compression the same video might take up only 500 megabytes—roughly 1/200th the original size.
The primary challenge posed by compression is recovering data when the compressed file is corrupted or partially missing. Just five years ago such corruption frequently made it impossible to recover anything of use, but lately there have been dramatic advances in this area.
In 2009 Husrev Sencar of TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey and Nasir Memon of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University developed an approach that can show a fragment of a JPEG digital photograph even if the beginning and end of the file are missing. In 2011 Ralf Brown of Carnegie Mellon University developed an approach for recovering data from fragments of files compressed with the common ZIP or DEFLATE algorithms, even when critical information needed for reassembly is missing. Brown's approach creates a model of the many different ways that a document might be decompressed based on the underlying mathematics of compression, and then chooses between the different possible documents based on a second model of the human language in which the document is written (see figure at right).
Recovering files in temporary computer memory can also be illuminating for digital evidence. The RAM of a desktop, laptop, or cell phone is a mosaic of 4,096-byte blocks that variously contain running program code, remnants of programs that recently ran and have closed, portions of the operating system, fragments of what was sent and received over the network, pieces of windows displayed on the screen, the copy-and-paste buffer, and other kinds of information. Memory changes rapidly—typical memory systems support several billion changes per second—so it is nearly impossible to make a copy that is internally consistent without halting the machine. An added complication is that the very specific manner by which programs store information in memory is rarely documented and changes between one version of a program and another. As a result, each version may need to be painstakingly reverse-engineered by computer forensics researchers. Thus, memory analysis is time consuming, very difficult, and necessarily incomplete.
Despite these challenges, recent years have seen the development of techniques for acquiring and analyzing the contents of a running computer system, a process called memory parsing. Today there are open-source and proprietary tools that can report the system time when a memory dump was captured, display a list of running processes, and even show the contents of the computer's clipboard and screen. Such tools are widely used for reverse-engineering malware, such as computer viruses and worms, as well as understanding an attacker's actions in computer intrusion cases. Memory parsing can be combined with file carving to recover digital photographs and video.
Reverse engineering is another important part of digital forensics because software and hardware developers generally do not provide the public with details of how their systems work. As a result, considerable effort is needed to backtrack through systems code and understand how data are stored. Today's techniques to extract allocated files from disk images were largely developed through this method.
System analysis is the second leg of forensic research. It's similar to reverse engineering, but the fundamental difference is that the information the analyst seeks may be unknown to the developers themselves. Although this idea may seem strange, remember that computers are complicated systems: Just as programmers frequently put bugs in their code without realizing it, programs invariably have other behaviors that aren't bugs but are equally unforeseen by the original creators. Many system users and quite a few developers assumed that it was not possible to restore deleted files until data recovery experts developed tools that proved otherwise.
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2012, the hottest year on record in the United States, has been a wild year for Climate Desk. We've scoped out coal-guzzling data centers; traipsed across New York City's solar-paneled rooftops; stepped through the ashes of Colorado's record-breaking wildfire season; mingled with drought-striken cattle; been awed by the North Dakota fracking boom; cruised down the shrinking Mississippi River; strained to hear through the climate silence; seen communities pick through debris left by Superstorm Sandy; and more.
Along the way, we've depended on you to share stories and insights about this warming world, what we see as the most important issue of our time. A big thank you to all our readers, and we can't wait to give you a front-row seat to whatever 2013 has in store. To be continued…
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Erika EichelbergerDec. 20, 2012 11:52 AM
On Monday, President Obama rolled out his latest deficit deal compromise, which would reauthorize the Bush tax cuts for those making under $400,000, extend unemployment benefits, and cut Social Security spending. It's pretty close to the deal House Speaker John Boehner offered last Friday. But on Tuesday, Boehner pulled out a not-so-fun sounding "Plan B," which involves letting tax cuts expire for those with income above $1 million...and then just not really dealing with the rest of that fiscal cliff thing.
Democrats say Plan B is a signal that Boehner has backed out of negotiations over the fiscal cliff. And now the center-left Center for American Progress has taken a look at Plan B, and found it wanting.
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Tom PhilpottDec. 20, 2012 7:06 AM
"Integrated pest management" in action.
When Monsanto revolutionized agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use—because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened.
Sixteen years on, Roundup (Monsanto's tradename for its glyphosate herbicide) has certainly killed lots of weeds. But the ones it has left standing are about as resistant to herbicide as the company's Roundup Ready crops, which are designed to survive repeated applications of the agribusiness giant's own Roundup herbicide.
For just one example, turn to Mississippi, where cotton, corn, and soy farmers have been using Roundup Ready seeds for years—and are now struggling to contain a new generation of super weeds, including a scourge of Italian ryegrass.
"Fight resistant weeds with fall, spring attack," declares a headline in Delta Farm Press, a farming trade magazine serving the Mississippi River Delta. The article's author, a Mississippi State University employee, lays out the challenge:
In 2005, Italian ryegrass resistant to the commonly used herbicide glyphosate was first identified in the state. Since then, it has been found in 31 Mississippi counties and is widespread throughout the Delta. This glyphosate-resistant weed emerges in the fall and grows throughout winter and early spring.
In 2005, Italian ryegrass resistant to the commonly used herbicide glyphosate was first identified in the state. Since then, it has been found in 31 Mississippi counties and is widespread throughout the Delta. This glyphosate-resistant weed emerges in the fall and grows throughout winter and early spring.
The solution: "fall residual herbicide treatments followed by spring burn-down applications, where a nonselective herbicide is applied to fields before planting." Translation: to combat the plague of resistant Italian ryegrass, Mississippi's cotton farmers must hit their fields with a "residual" herbicide in the fall—meaning one that hangs around in soil long enough to kill ryegrass for a while—and then come back with yet another herbicide in the spring, to make sure the job has been done.
This multi-poison approach to weed control, apparently, is what passes for "integrated pest management"—purportedly a system of low-pesticide crop protection—these days.
"The integrated pest management program we recommend uses fall residual herbicides to help reduce the overall population and numbers," [Mississippi State University extension professor Tom] Eubank said. "Fall tillage can also reduce weed numbers, but it is generally not as effective as residual herbicides. Producers should come back in the spring or late winter with an alternative herbicide program that attacks the plant using a different mode of action."
"The integrated pest management program we recommend uses fall residual herbicides to help reduce the overall population and numbers," [Mississippi State University extension professor Tom] Eubank said. "Fall tillage can also reduce weed numbers, but it is generally not as effective as residual herbicides. Producers should come back in the spring or late winter with an alternative herbicide program that attacks the plant using a different mode of action."
In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity, the non-toxic way to control weeds, the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program." And thus we get a clear look at why, since the introduction of Roundup Ready seeds in the 1990s, herbicide use has spiked.
Maggie CaldwellDec. 20, 2012 7:06 AM
The Central Park Five
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Out of the 3,254 rapes reported in New York City in 1989, it was a brutal attack on a Central Park jogger that gripped the populace and helped create the notion of the "superpredator." Here, a team including Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah tells the story of five Harlem teens wrongfully convicted of raping and beating a white woman to near death—then exonerated after years in prison by DNA evidence and the confession of a serial culprit. The men, all under 16 at the time of the rape, recount their helplessness in the face of police intimidation and a vengeful public. Perhaps the film's most haunting aspect is the refusal, by police and prosecutors who ignored exonerating evidence and sent five boys upriver, to offer the filmmakers a word of remorse.
Kevin DrumDec. 20, 2012 2:53 AM
I haven't yet seen a print copy of our current issue, but apparently Steve Brodner did the illustration for my piece about the Republican Party. Judging from the video he did of the creative process, it must be a helluva drawing. I think I probably need a signed, poster-size copy for my wall. Enjoy.
Kevin DrumDec. 19, 2012 10:25 PM
How much new oil production can the United States get from shale formations like Bakken or Eagle Ford? The usual estimate is in the neighborhood of 3 million barrels per day by 2020, but I've read a few suggestions that this may be a considerable overestimate. The problem is that shale oil wells decline very rapidly, which means you have to drill a lot of wells to keep production at that level.
James Hamilton recently attended a lecture by David Hughes of the Post Carbon Institute, and he passes along some hard numbers on this. According to Hughes, the average well declines about 70% in its first year and about 30% per year over the succeeding four years. In the case of Bakken, which is the biggest shale formation currently active, this means that it might well hit its expected production rate of 1 million barrels per day, but it will then decline very rapidly, down to almost nothing within a few years. The chart on the right shows just how fast the decline occurs.
If this turns out to be accurate, and if it applies to other shale formations as well, the United States will never hit that 3 million barrel target. Declines in early fields will begin sooner than expected, and production from later fields will barely be able to keep up. By 2030 or so, shale oil might be played out completely. Shale oil is still likely to be important, but if Hughes is right, it might be less important than we think.
Kevin DrumDec. 19, 2012 7:22 PM
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A key patent that Apple successfully used against Samsung in its multibillion-dollar courtroom brawl earlier this year has been invalidated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All 20 claims of U.S. patent No. 7,844,915 -- also known as the "pinch to zoom" patent -- were invalidated by the USPTO today, following a re-examination.
A key patent that Apple successfully used against Samsung in its multibillion-dollar courtroom brawl earlier this year has been invalidated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All 20 claims of U.S. patent No. 7,844,915 -- also known as the "pinch to zoom" patent -- were invalidated by the USPTO today, following a re-examination.
I continue to believe this is a mistake. The 915 patent doesn't cover pinch-to-zoom and Apple has never asserted that it does. But I might be wrong about that. It's certainly me vs. the entire rest of the world on this issue.
But forget that for a moment. This is actually way better news than it seems. Here is part of Claim 8 of the 915 patent (this is the claim that was at issue in the Apple-Samsung suit):
determining whether the event object invokes a scroll or gesture operation by distinguishing between a single input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that is interpreted as the scroll operation and two or more input points applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation;
determining whether the event object invokes a scroll or gesture operation by distinguishing between a single input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that is interpreted as the scroll operation and two or more input points applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation;
That's Apple's claim: that it has a patent to a programming method that can distinguish between one finger on the touchscreen (scrolling) and two fingers on the touchscreen (gesturing). This is far worse than patenting pinch-to zoom. It broadly suggests that Apple has exclusive rights to the entire concept of one finger vs. two. The fact that the patent office has invalidated it—along with every other claim in the 915 patent—is great news. Something this broad should never have been granted a patent in the first place, and it's gratifying that the patent office has finally come to its senses and figured this out.
POSTSCRIPT: By the way, I'm still mystified by the media's insistence that the 915 patent covers pinch-to-zoom. But like I said, I might well be the one mistaken here. What I'd like to see is one direct quote from either Apple, Samsung, or Google that explicitly mentions "pinch-to-zoom." So far, the only place I've ever seen that phrase (or anything similar) is in summaries by reporters. None of the lawyers or PR folks for any of these companies ever seem to mention it.
POSTSCRIPT 2: If you're interested, here's my complete set of posts about this from last August:
I remain confused about this, but read the posts if you want to get up to speed on the whole issue. Remember: in a patent, the only things that matter are the claims. All the rest is just window dressing.
Kate SheppardDec. 19, 2012 5:20 PM
Lawmakers have produced a conference report reconciling the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013. The report indicates that the final bill will retain a measure that will allow women in the military to use their Defense Department health insurance to pay for abortions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
The measure, which was introduced by New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D), allows military women to use their government-issued health care to pay for an abortion if they are raped, just like any other woman who works for the federal goverment is already allowed to do. For years, military women have had tight restrictions on their ability to use their health benefits for abortions, and were only allowed to do so if their lives were in danger. That this provision made it into the final bill is a big deal, as House Republicans were expected to block it.
Reproductive rights groups praised the change. "For too long, servicewomen and military dependents have been denied an important aspect of health care coverage," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center. "It was unconscionable that women who survived rape or incest were forced to pay out-of-pocket for an abortion."
Adam SerwerDec. 19, 2012 4:41 PM
In a closed-door negotiation, top Republican and Democratic lawmakers have killed a ban on detaining American citizens without trial.
The Senate approved the ban, a bipartisan effort led by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), as an amendment to the 2013 defense spending bill in a vote last month. But once the House and Senate met to negotiate the differences between their versions of the bill, the ban was scrapped.
Of the four main negotiators on the defense bill, only one of the Democrats, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), opposes domestic indefinite detention of Americans. The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), believes detaining Americans without charge or trial is constitutional, and only voted for the Feinstein amendment because he and some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate convinced themselves through a convoluted legal rationale that Feinstein's proposal didn't actually ban the practice. Both of the main Republican negotiators, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) believe it's constitutional to lock up American citizens suspected of terrorism without ever proving they're guilty.
Civil liberties groups aren't shedding any tears over the demise of the Feinstein-Lee amendment, either, though. They believed that because Feinstein's proposal only guaranteed due process for US citizens and legal residents, instead of all persons within the United States, that it was ultimately unconstitutional anyway.
"I was saddened and disappointed that we could not take a step forward to ensure at the very least American citizens and legal residents could not be held in detention without charge or trial," Feinstein said in a statement to Mother Jones. "To me that was a no-brainer."
The demise of the Feinstein-Lee proposal doesn't necessarily mean that Americans suspected of terrorism in the US can be locked up forever without a trial. But it ensures that the next time a president tries to lock up an American citizen without trial—as President George W. Bush previously tried—it will be left up to the courts to decide whether or not it's legal.
Kevin DrumDec. 19, 2012 4:22 PM
John Boehner's "Plan B" is obviously just political theater. Hell, it's not even good political theater. Sure, it allows the the top marginal rate for millionaires to increase to its fiscal cliff level (i.e., the level it will be at if we do nothing), but capital gains rates would go down, dividend rates would go down, and estate tax rates would go down. "Pease" limits on itemized deductions are eliminated, and the planned phaseout of the personal exemption goes away too. On net, millionaires do pretty well for themselves. At the same time, tax rates on the poor and middle class would go up.
This is just a bad joke. But the negotiations of the past few weeks have made clear that nothing has changed in Republican-land. Boehner just flatly doesn't have the support of his caucus for a real deal. So he makes up weird stuff about interest expenditures "not counting" as a pretense to reject Obama's latest offer, and then tosses out a plainly unserious plan as a way (he hopes) of creating a land mine for Democrats.
This is grade school stuff. Apparently, there's simply no way to make a deal with House Republicans. Boehner is doing his best to mask that uncomfortable fact, but that's where we're at. The lunatics are still running the asylum.
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I wish him a speedy recovery. Ya happy?
You see, I have a life outside of these message boards. I have a job, family and other responsibilities to be concerned with, and signing up to a Redskins message board is not on the top of my priority list.
There are a lot of players and organizations that I respect, but I do not have an account with any of those teams either.
Its not a lack of respect for the Redskins, Griffin or any other player/team, so your generalized comment regarding all Giants fans is way off base and plain ignorant!
Hope Griffin heals up, and I guess he will learn to slide earlier next time.
By the way, sounds like an empty threat regarding FedEx Field and Giants colors etc.
because the dope deserved what he got taking on linebackers
I for one wish him a very speedy recovery. I want our D to be the one to give him his 2nd & more severe concussion. Also I want to see how well he does vs our D.


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LOL'd, that's hilarious. Torontonians were tight.
This series is over. Rangers suck. Devils all day.
Mood: WOOF!
Much faster team, needs to get up on them early if they are going to make a series out of this.
Forget the Past, Live for the Future!
Well, its do or die time now on Tuesday.
Don't really have much to say about today's game other than, when Henrik is off... our terrible system is laid bare for all to see.
And other than McDonagh, Moore, and Stralman for the most part we have some really bad defensemen. You'd think Boston, starting 3 rookie d-men, would be at a disadvantage but nope... we're always at a disadvantage. Starting disaster and girardi together was begging for trouble... and sure enough, 26 secs into the third... way to watch the puck as its passed in front of the net for a goal that pretty much sucked the life and any hope of comeback out of the team.
Ha... 37 shots on net ... 31 or 32 perfectly targeted at the "B" on Rask's jersey.
At least Nash got a goal, maybe that will start him. He and Callahan were the best Rangers players on the ice today.
We saw what happened in Washington. Rangers came back at home and showed the Caps who the Baws was.
Time for the Rangers to step it up this week.
That one hurt. I honestly thought they were going to win this series. Football cannot come fast enough
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Young English actor Asa Butterfield, 16, has already starred in two award-winning movies: the 2008 drama The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the 2011 Martin Scorsese film, Hugo. Now, he's heading to space as the lead in the futuristic sci-fi film, Ender's Game (rated PG-13 for some violence and action).
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Recently, the teen actor stopped by the TFK offices to chat about school, apps, and playing Ender.
Why did you want to do this movie?
The plot behind the film is any teenage boy's fantasy, so that was the main attraction. I learned that the book had such a massive following to it. I had always wanted to do something like this, so it was just a really good opportunity.
How does the book translate in the film?
Obviously, turning a book into a screenplay, you have to change certain things. The book is set over 10 years [but the film is not]. All the characters had to be aged up. But I think the core idea behind the book is definitely still intact.
What do you think tweens and teens will enjoy about the movie?
People my age, younger, [and] a bit older will enjoy the action and explosions and lasers, and also the storyline and themes from the book. I think parents are going to want to let their kids watch it because they have probably read the book and know that, not only is it a sci-fi action novel, it's also a lot about the human race and the choices you make.
What are some of the other themes from the book?
Bullying. Ender is put down both by adults and by his friends and by the bullies on Earth and in Battle School. He has to overcome them. The book also shows that everyone has dark and light sides. Ender is like a mix between his brother and sister. His sister is a selfless, open-minded, really kind person, and his brother is the complete opposite. Ender is in the middle. He doesn't want to be his brother, but he can't help having his darker moments. I quite enjoyed playing those parts in the film.
For training, the filmmakers sent the young actors to boot camp and space camp. How was that?
It let us break the ice between all the kids, so by the end of it we were best friends. We learned how to march, how to do salutes, all the cadences and military techniques. It physically let us prepare for the role, but also mentally.
What is a memorable moment you have from working with the other young actors?
There is this one scene between me and Hailee [Steinfield, who plays Battle School student Petra] in the Battle Room, where we are spinning, going across this room, and I'm holding onto her arms. So [to film the antigravity scene] we were stuck in this hamster wheel contraption, which is attached to our waists, and there is a camera there. Someone would rotate us, and we would just be spinning head over feet for about 10 minutes to do this scene. By the end of it, not only were we completely dizzy, we were just laughing our heads off.
You also worked a lot with Harrison Ford, who plays Ender's mentor, Colonel Graff. How was that?
Harrison is really cool. When I first started, I was like, "I'm working with Indiana Jones. Aah!" I had to pinch myself. He's a really nice guy, really down to earth, and he gave us a lot of tips.
You recently released an app with your dad and brother called Racing Blind. It's a game where you race on tracks that have been blacked out. Where did the idea come from?
While filming The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, I had time on set when I was not doing schoolwork, and I got a bit bored. So we came up with this game that we played on pad and paper. Last year, we realized it would be a really good iPad game. We designed it, created the tracks, and we got someone to code it for us, and now it's in the App Store!
It's really good for kids. My three-year-old little sister can play it, and she really enjoys it. Everyone can play it, and you can put it on different difficulties, so I can still find it difficult while my sister can still play.
Do you have any other favorite apps?
Traktor, this DJing app on my iPad, is really good. I'm really into music and making music. You just mix tracks.
You go to a regular school when you are home in England. How do you balance that with acting?
This year, I have my GCSE [an important standardized test in England], so that's definitely priority. Generally, I film in summer so I can spend as much time in school as possible, but I balance it.
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