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Jack Layton Dead: NDP Leader, 61, Succumbs To Cancer
OTTAWA - Like some political Moses, Jack Layton led his people out of the wilderness, only to die within sight of his own Promised Land.
In the preface to his 2006 book, "Speaking Out Louder," Layton wrote a passage that turned out to be eerily prescient:
"Oftentimes, life's highs and lows are inextricably linked. That has certainly happened to me and, occasionally, the ups and downs were virtually simultaneous."
In eight years as leader of the NDP he took his party to heady heights, but fell himself to a tragic disease at the age of 61.
The end came with a terse announcement.
"We deeply regret to inform you that the honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am today, Monday August 22," said the statement from his wife, Olivia Chow, and children, Sarah and Michael.
"He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones."
Funeral details have not yet been announced.
Layton rebuilt his party, muted its internal squabbles, united its fractious factions and weaned it from old-style dogma to present a face more palatable to middle-class voters.
He starred in the most successful election in the history of his party and won the title of Opposition Leader, which had eluded his more storied predecessors.
Layton hobbled across the hustings last spring, leaning on a cane against the pain of a surgically repaired broken hip. He shrugged off the effects of treatment for prostate cancer. His dogged campaigning as Le Bon Jack won him a majority of the seats in Quebec, a cherished but illusory goal for New Democrats for decades.
He slew the Bloc Quebecois and saw the long-dominant Liberal party reduced to a battered hulk.
Layton was ready for a new Canadian political alignment that would pit left against right across the moribund Liberal middle.
But the victory cup was dashed from his lips by the onslaught of another, more brutal cancer that wasted him to skin and bones — and killed him just 16 weeks after election day.
Layton went, in one short summer, from triumph to tragedy and left behind less a political legacy than a political question: What if?
He was a man who carried politics in his genes. A great-grandfather was a Father of Confederation. His grandfather, a Quebec provincial cabinet minister in a Union Nationale government. His father, a Tory cabinet minister under Brian Mulroney.
He was a believer. He made that clear in the first sentences of "Speaking Out Louder:"
"Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference."
Layton was born in Montreal on July 18, 1950. He grew up in Hudson, Que., an Anglo community complete with a celebrated yacht club. It was a small town, but hardly typical of small-town Quebec.
He was a child of the placid Fifties in a well-off family in a well-to-do town. He was a teen and university student of the Sixties, with all that went with a decade that has claimed the word "turbulent" as its singular descriptive.
Layton took his BA at Montreal's McGill University in the late 1960s, when radicalism blew through campuses like a stiff gale. The rebellious vigour of the times led him to political activism. He doffed the conservativism of his family and embraced socialism.
"Events in the Sixties and Seventies were formative for me," he wrote in "Speaking Out Louder."
"My path grew out of the tumultuous days of the October Crisis."
He became an activist, canvasser and organizer for a community movement in Montreal as a student.
By the time he earned his master's degree at Toronto's York University in 1972, his political genes had clearly activated. He had studied under Jim Laxer, a key figure in the Waffle movement that rocked the NDP at the time.
Layton taught at Ryerson University in Toronto. But by the time he received his PhD in 1984, he had already largely abandoned academic theory for community activism and then the practicalities of municipal politics.
"I was hooked on local politics and neighbourhood engagement," he wrote.
First elected in 1982, he served on Toronto and Metropolitan Toronto councils for 20 years, honing his instincts and skills at the level of retail politics. He was a politician in the mould of a people's tribune, with rolled-up sleeves, 14-hour days and seven-day weeks. Every hand was there to be shaken, every story was there to be heard, every windmill was there to be charged.
His politics were those of the poor, the homeless, the alienated, the disenfranchised. He served as vice-chair of Toronto Hydro, chair of the Toronto Board of Health and president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He twice ran federally and lost.
Layton's first marriage to high-school sweetheart Sally Halford, which had produced two children, ended in 1983.
He would eventually team up with Olivia Chow, another municipal power-broker. Together they would become the go-to couple of the left in Toronto politics. They rode a tandem bicycle along the waterfront, entertained, led rallies, marched in parades, ran for office and won.
Chow would follow Layton into the House of Commons in 2006. And she would be beside him in the dark summer of 2011.
In his rise, Layton gained a reputation as a brash, aggressive, even abrasive figure.
On a trip to Calgary for a meeting of the federation of municipalities, he raised local hackles with dismissive comments about the city, its appetite for new buildings at the cost of older properties and even its ritzy new city hall. There was an outcry in the local media and Art Eggleton, then mayor of Toronto, dispatched his own apology for Layton's comments.
He also gained a reputation as a master of the political stunt and the over-the-top comment. Some joked that the most dangerous place to be around city hall was between Layton and a microphone, where one might get trampled.
Rightly or wrongly, the image of a loud lout shouting into the mike from the left side of any issue clung to him after he won the NDP leadership in 2003.
It was a leadership contest that pitted Layton and the trendy new left against Bill Blaikie and the traditional, Prairie populist wing. Blaikie was a United Church minister in the best traditions of NDP and CCF champions of old. Layton was an academic and a firebrand. Blaikie was a Manitoban, Layton was from Toronto, font of all evil for many Canadians, especially westerners.
Layton won on the first ballot and went into renovation mode. He began to rebuild and re-brand his party. He was a people person whose BlackBerry kept him linked to hundreds of organizers, fund-raisers, recruiters and policy wonks. He worked through meals and vacations, pushing himself and his goals.
He toned down the wild rhetoric, although he raised an uproar in the 2004 election campaign by accusing then-prime minister Paul Martin of responsibility for the deaths of homeless people because he failed to produce affordable housing.
Despite that, Layton won his Toronto-Danforth seat in Parliament in 2004, an election that left Martin's Liberals with a minority government. The NDP raised its seat total to 19 from 13.
It was a start. Layton criss-crossed the country to raise the party profile and in doing so, became the public face of the NDP. The trademark grin, the brush moustache, the earnest optimism, the trademark head tilt were the tools of his trade. The hellfire rhetoric cooled.
This was reasonable Jack, optimistic Jack, the Jack of the kitchen table, not the street corner.
The approach seemed to strike a chord with regular folk.
- In 2006, Layton's campaign produced 29 seats, but boosted its vote to 2.59 million. Momentum was building.
- In 2008, Layton campaigned not as a third-party leader, but as a prime minister-in-waiting. The vote total slipped slightly, but his campaign won 37 seats, just six short of its then all-time high under Ed Broadbent.
- By 2011, Layton was ready for a breakthrough. Despite the prostate cancer diagnosed in early 2010, despite the mysterious hip fracture, he was everywhere. In Quebec, his working-class French and his call to action on behalf of the ordinary family struck a note with voters grown weary of the Bloc and leery of the Liberals.
Just over two months later, looking pale and gaunt, he called a news conference to say he was suffering from another, unspecified cancer and he would temporarily step down as party leader. Nycole Turmel, rookie MP and veteran labour leader, took over in the interim.
Deuteronomy 34 says God took Moses up to a high place and showed him the Promised Land in the distance.
"I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord."
By John Ward, The Canadian Press
At his office:
|@ JProskowGlobal : Growing memorial outside Jack Layton's Office http://t.co/IdER3eK
At City Hall:
|@ jm_mcgrath : The lineup for Layton's condolence book. Told this is the first time city hall's done this since Princess Di. http://t.co/Alc8pPw
We gathered YouTube videos of some of the memorable moments from Jack Layton's career in politics.
Like this one: His victory speech on election night
In lieu of flowers, Layton's family is asking for donations to the Broadbent Institute, the left-wing thinktank named after former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
|@ TOMayorFord : A book of condolence for the late Jack Layton will be available for signing at #Toronto City Hall. It will be set up on the main floor #FB
According to reports, books of condolence will also be set up in Parliament Hill and NDP constituency offices across the country.
|@ Scaachi : A shot of the memorial wall for #jacklayton http://t.co/XcmFaSO
|@ delineated : Hundreds of messages for Jack Layton at City Hall. Really touching. #jacklayton #fb http://t.co/mlzsWXt http://t.co/H91Mx6u
|@ kimfox : I'm seeing many similar sentiments around the square #layton #toronto #ndp http://t.co/Cb745Xh
Earlier in Ottawa, people paid tribute to Layton in a lunch-time memorial at Parliament Hill.
|@ OpenFileTO : Over in Ottawa, @nonstopnicktv reports from the gathering of Layton mourners on Parliament Hill: http://t.co/KJ7qgy1
The walls of Toronto's City Hall are filling with tributes to Jack Layton. Huffington Post Canada's Scaachi Koul is documenting it on Twitter.
|@ Scaachi : Chalk tributes for #jacklayton http://t.co/HLCqo9H
|@ Scaachi : #jacklayton's mustache of love, hope and change. http://t.co/TzgpCAb
|@ Scaachi : Little boy writes "thank you" on the wall and becomes a minor celebrity. http://t.co/uj07eBq
Jack Layton's death has sparked an outpouring of responses on Twitter.
A quick search on Topsy shows that the #JackLayton tag on Twitter was used more than 6,000 times today.
You can also view our small selection of Twitter responses to Layton's death.
|@ scottlightfoot : Another mourner stops to pay tribute outside of Jack Layton's home. http://t.co/GxG3jx6
|@ scottlightfoot : Flowers are arriving constantly at Layton's house. By the dozen and single stems. Several people walking home had not heard of his death.
The Toronto Star also reported on the scene at Layton's office on the Danforth.
William Todd, wearing a black suit on his way to work, stopped at the constituency office with a bouquet of orange flowers and lit a candle.
Todd said he'd often see Layton on Saturdays on the Danforth, "not being a politician," playing a guitar and talking to people.
"They'll have to close the street down," he said about the growing display of tributes.
Vancouver will hold a candlelight vigil for Jack Layton at the Art Gallery steps starting 8 p.m. PT
|@ CityNews : BREAKING: Jack Layton to get state funeral Sat. at Roy Thomson Hall, councillor says at city hall. More: http://ow.ly/69P8j
|@ Scaachi : A bird's eye of the crowd at Nathan Phillips. #jacklayton http://t.co/nJuIA2T
|@ Scaachi : People in the crowd write messages for and about Jack at Nathan Phillips. http://t.co/VYf6iYk
Jack Layton, a long-time cyclist and bike advocate, would've liked this tribute found chalked onto one of Toronto's bike lanes.
|@ Scaachi : "And we will change the world" #Layton http://t.co/LyzQhTI
|@ PaulDewar : Holding a candlelight vigil on Parliament Hill tonight @ 8pm in memory of Jack Layton.
Meanwhile in Toronto,
The Huffington Post Canada's Scaachi Koul is at the memorial at Nathan Phillips Square being held for Jack Layton. Follow her for live tweets.
|@ Scaachi : #Layton's words of wisdom. http://t.co/B6ewfEq
The Toronto Star has republished a Kristin Rushowy story from 1999 about the love affair between Jack Layton and Olivia Chow. The couple have been a fixture in Toronto and national politics for years.
Aside from the passionate commitment on some very similar issues, the ones we've spent our lives' work on, we also enjoy each other's company socially and we have a lot of fun together. We're either in stitches or organizing something, those are the most common states of mind.
We enjoy the same kinds of recreation - physical kind of stuff, she introduced me to whitewater canoeing and I introduced her to long-distance cycling. We have a bicycle built for two, that was our wedding gift, and we go on trips all over the place with that. We try to do one of those types of holidays every year, away from the city and our cell phones. We don't think about work and we don't talk about it.
I love her wisdom, and her youthful enthusiasm. She's got really great values on the issues - justice for people and fairness, economic fairness, respect for rights, these things motivate both of us. She's a wonderful friend. I'm her biggest fan and I pretty much gush about her all the time.
Former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff recounts a memory of Jack Layton:
Often the memory we have of someone who has just lost his battle for life will crystallize around a single image. My single image of Jack Layton comes from last March in the lobby, just off the House of Commons chamber. After Question Period, the lobby is a crowded, rowdy place, full of MP's, staffers, guests, standing around, plotting, drinking cups of tea or coffee, talking on cellphones or the phones by the chairs. I see this scene and I see Jack on crutches, his face moist with sweat and his complexion pale, powering his way through this crowd, cantilevering his body on crutches, taking the weight on his shoulders, moving towards his caucus area in the lobby. It is an image of a man struggling, in the middle of a crowd, to prevail, to make it through. What I remember best is his smile: cheerful, jaunty and buoyant. The smile was an inspiration, then and now.
Rest in peace, Jack.
Layton was that rare person, rarer still in politics, whose platitudes were both eternally sunny and entirely heartfelt. Moreover, they were rooted in both a full awareness of the grim realities of whatever situation he faced and a spirit of intellectual rigour. He knew that the only thing in history that had conquered seemingly impossible odds was the determination to conquer seemingly impossible odds. In other words, he wasn't an optimist because he believed the world was better than it was, he was an optimist because he believed in his own ability to make the world better than it was. And his belief in himself proved justified, time and again throughout his career.
It's no surprise that Jack Layton's very moving letter has been getting a lot of attention among Canadians. But it seems to have attracted the attention of a prominent British politician as well.
|@ Ed_Miliband : Extremely moving last letter by Jack Layton,the NDP leader, who has died.Big loss to progressive politics. http://t.co/cobrXV7 #jacklayton
The Mark's news editor, Mike Barber writes this tribute to Jack Layton:
Layton masterfully played his small hand to actually win concessions from a government hardly known for them – bucketloads of cash for EI benefits at a time when thousands of his constituents desperately needed it. At that moment, all of his paeans to finding common ground with the other parties and getting results for Canadians rang true.
Layton accomplished all of that without cynicism, rancour, or keys to 24 Sussex. He embraced the politics of the positive, proving that hard work and his homespun "proposition, not opposition" slogan could indeed find a home in the most cynical of Parliaments, that being pragmatic bore better results than being dogmatic.
A memorial will be held for Jack Layton in Montreal, this evening. The details are on Facebook.
A number of well-known Canadian musicians have sent their condolences about Layton's death.
Members of Broken Social Scene, the Barenaked Ladies, singer-songwriter Sarah Slean and progressive folk icon Billy Bragg have sent in their messages.
TVO's Steve Paikin recounts following Layton's career, first at city council and all the way to Ottawa's highest reaches.
I first met Jack Layton almost 30 years ago. I was a Toronto City Hall reporter for CHFI and CFTR and he was a rookie city councillor, having just staged what was considered a major upset over incumbent Gordon Chong. But there was nothing rookie-ish about Layton. He did his job with the panache of a seasoned pro. He was masterful at capturing media attention for the causes he believed in, and he championed many of them (Aids, homelessness) before most.
And despite playing the role of de facto leader of the opposition to Mayor Art Eggleton's majority on council, he wanted to be known for more than just opposing.
|@ kdaubs : Flower display growing at jack layton's office on broadview, door cannot be opened.
|@ kdaubs : Thank you for your belief in all canadians, reads one card with photo of jack in front of rainbow flag. #jacklayton
CBC's Evan Solomon recounts on-air how NDP Party President Brian Topp, Layton Chief Of Staff Anne McGrath and Layton's Wife Olivia Chow worked on the letter together on Saturday.
Layton wanted the letter released if he died but also made other plans if he was able to beat cancer.
The Prime Minister recounts that Layton was a natural musician and recalled that Jack always joked about joining the PM for a jam session. "Alas, we were always both too busy," the Prime MInister quipped at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
The press conference also touched on Libya and the crash in Resolute Bay.
|@ althiaraj : Harper repeats comments in English. "I will always regret the jam session that never was." http://t.co/1XsqnUd
|@ althiaraj : Harper says in French that we'll remember Jack's engaging personality and strong principles #cdnpoli http://t.co/S8junhF
|@ spaikin : jack layton was never an mpp. But the flag at queen's park is at half mast today #jacklayton http://t.co/SyGvISt
|@ evansolomoncbc : #ndp president @briantopp saying he, Olivia Chow and Anne McGrath helped @jacklayton write his letter on Saturday. #cdnpoli
If you haven't read Jack Layton's moving open letter to Canadians do it now.
Follow Althia Raj on Twitter for live updates. We'll also be pulling highlights into this liveblog.
With files from Scaachi Koul


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Play of the Game: Ray Rice's 83-yard run
|01.10.10 at 5:34 pm ET
FOXBORO — Former Patriot Kelley Washington had run off the Gillette Field shouting, "The end of an era!"
Baseball icon Cal Ripken, dressed head-to-toe in Ravens purple, had circulated through the Baltimore locker room, handing out congratulatory handshakes while grinning from ear-to-ear.
And John Harbaugh had taken a few minutes to accept kudos from New England owner Bob Kraft just after the Ravens' head coach had given his team its pat on the back after its 33-14, wild-card win over the Pats.
It was after all these things that a few of the Ravens players explained that Ray Rice's 83-yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage in their playoff tilt with the Patriots was made even more spectacular by the fact that the running back had called his shot prior to the opening kickoff.
"He called it out," said Baltimore running back Willis McGahee. "He said he was going to bust it open. Before pregame he said he was going to set the tone, and he set the tone. There's no better way than that."
Rice, who finished with 159 yards on 22 carries, wouldn't go so far as saying he identified an 83-yard run as his method of tone-setting, but he did confirm his declaration prior to the game.
"I don't know if I called the run, but I did say I wanted to be the one to set the tone for this win," Rice said. "The safety was 15 yards deep so I knew I had to make a move on him, and after that it's my job to do the rest. Eighty-three yards is a long way, don't let anybody tell you different."
The play was undoubtedly the most identifiable when looking at how the Patriots found themselves in their playoff predicament. New England had seemingly gotten off on the right foot when special-teamer Matthew Slater tackled Baltimore kick-returner Jalen Parmale at the Ravens 17-yard-line.
But with the Patriots in a 3-4 defense, the Ravens executed what center Matt Birk identified as a "simple zone run, about as fundamental as it gets." The result was an enormous hole, which Rice took advantage of before bursting down the left sideline, out-running New England safety Brandon Meriweather.
"That first run set up the whole momentum of the game," Washington said. "When he broke it, it was like the air was let out of the stadium. We just took that momentum and carried it through. That was the tone-setter."
Perhaps the biggest block on the play came from Birk, who sealed off Patriots defensive lineman Vince Wilfork (who was taking his first snaps in four weeks) and pushed him to the ground while Rice ran by. Another key part of the play came with Ravens right guard Marshal Yanda pushing inside linebacker Gary Guyton out of the way after initially getting a piece of Wilfork.
"I knew we were going to be able to run," said McGahee, whose team finished with 234 yards on the ground. "I knew once Ray broke that long run it was going to be a long day for them."
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That 1911 really looks good!!
This is a discussion on Did it again very custom 1911 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Started as my beater Taurus range gun, milled checkering off front strap, did a more aggressive lowered and flared ejection port. Removed Taurus billboards of ...
Started as my beater Taurus range gun, milled checkering off front strap, did a more aggressive lowered and flared ejection port. Removed Taurus billboards of both sides, lowered the finger groove on the frame installed Wilson hammer and coated frame in gloss cerakote white and the slide in satin aluminum .... Gun looks great could not be happier!!!! Also sprayed my xd 40 white
That 1911 really looks good!!
We will be much better off when we learn to deal with things as they really are, instead of how we wish them to be!
That's one way to improve a Taurus.
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That like customizing a Yugo....
Ccccccc what? Ccccccccccc Hawks!
You can take the bull off the gun, but you can't get the bull out of the gun(jk).
Looks better now anyway.
edit: what kind of paint on the XD?
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Lookin' good jbon! May want to consider submitting your resume to the Taurus design department.....Vastly improved.
True Taurus is Taurus but being at the moment I have over 20 1911 pistols from springer to kimber Wilson les bear and so on this Taurus has never missed a beat and at the moment out shoots most of my kimbers..... The xd is in the same white cerakote
Do you have Storm Trooper armor by any chance?
Lol I only wear it when my wife asks ;)
looks good getting the 1911 slide coated in cerakote so I will post pictures when I get it back from the gunsmith.
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It looks better than the usual Tauri but why remove the front strap checkering?
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge or jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim." - LtCol Jeff Cooper
When I read the thread title "very custom 1911" I had visions of, um,...oh, never mind.
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those who describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
Nice job.
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Taurus checkering is very shoty looking it was more of a challenge to test my ability I do a lot of dura coat and cerakote for people, but 1911 pistols are my true passion! I'm going to start offering the refinish service on the web and plan on obtaining my ffl ASAP
I like it! LOL at the Taurus bashers. Can't tell you how many times I've out shot people with Glocks, Smith's etc only to see the look on their face after finding out I was shooting a 24/7 Pro. A gun that runs, is a gun that runs! Good job.


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Several cows housed at the Pinjrapole cowshed on Bullandpur road at Bullandpur village have died in the past few days, due to alleged neglect.
Sources alleged that 200 cows, 293 bulls, 190 male calves and 77 female calves have been housed in the shelter, spread over 20 kanal, and most of the animals were not being provided the required amount of fodder.
Visiting the shelter on Monday, an HT team noticed that nearly 20 cows were kept in the shed built for weaker cows.
One of the cows appeared to be dead, but caretaker Pawan Kumar claimed that it was still alive.
The caretakers admitted that a chain pulley had been installed at the entrance of the shed, but was "rarely used" for lifting the weak cows.
Resident Deepak Jyoti, who had earlier filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana high court, following which the shelter management had been directed to improve conditions by December 6 or hand over the cowshed to the municipal corporation, alleged, "In the past one month, nearly 10 cows have died due to improper medical facilities. The cowsheds at Bullandpur and Tanda Road are being managed by the same committee, and both are poorly managed."
However, Pawan claimed that animals were being provided good care, adding, "Two doctors from the animal husbandry department and one pharmacist deployed by the management regularly visit to take care of the animals and we have maintained records of all animals who need medical aid."
The veterinary doctors, however, said that they had listed shortage of green foder as the reason of the cows' ill health in the daily visit report register lying in the office.
"I regularly write about this in the register, but it seems that the authorities concerned rarely read it, as no action has been taken yet," alleged Dr narinder Kumar, a veterinarian from the animal husbandry department.
"Only proper diet can save those animals which are very weak or old. We are doing our best by providing medication," he claimed.
Management committee president Ravi Kakkar denied the allegations of fodder shortage, claiming, "We have nearly 100 bags of cattle feed, and have stocked enough green and other types of fodder. We are providing a proper diet to the animals, but the number of animals is more than the capacity, as people abandon them when they stop giving milk. We are helpless, and trying to do the best we can in the available resources."
No identity
The HT team saw that the animals were not tagged or numbered for identification, in spite of a team of nearly 20 caretakers to look after them. Other than the entrance, details of the animals were not written anywhere, and boxes painted outside each block for this purpose were empty.


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Pirates Sign Doug Slaten To Minor League Deal
The Pittsburgh Pirates signed lefty reliever Doug Slaten to a minor league deal, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
Free-agent LH reliever Doug Slaten agrees to minor-league deal with #Pirates. #MLB
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 11, 2012
Slaten, limited most of the season due to an elbow injury, threw 16 1/3 innings for the Washington Nationals this year. He also tossed 10 1/3 innings for the club's minor league affiliates. After earning $695K in 2011, Slaten was non-tendered by the Nationals last month. In 2010, Slaten posted a 3.10 ERA in 49 appearances with the Nationals.


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The number one request for the new iPhone? Longer battery life. With the Motorola DROID MAXX capable of providing users two days of battery life on a single charge, Apple will have to place a beefier battery in its new model. Koral Kramer, visiting from Israel, complains about the battery life on his Apple iPhone. "All the time, it runs out," says Kramer. "It's not fun." Another foreigner, England's Maria Tsakanika, concurs with Kramer. "I have to take my charger with me everywhere," she sighs. New Jersey's Kelsey Jungfer says that he only gets two hours of battery life when he is using his iPhone constantly, and would like to see the cell get 8 hours of life between charges.
Next on the Apple iPhone 5S wish list is a new camera. Surprisingly though, it seems that it is the 1.2MP front-facing shooter that has captured the ire of current iPhone users. "Better the quality on the front-view camera," says Isabel Alvarez, from Northern California. Italy's Federica Andredi has a different suggestion for Apple. She wants to see more color options besides black and white. Recent leaks indicate that Andrfedi will be getting her wish taken care of with speculation that a gold colored Apple iPhone 5S is on the way.
Other wishes include a screen that doesn't crack or break, improved "hearing" for Siri so that she can understand accents better, a waterproof casing and a built-in projector.
The good news for potential Apple iPhone 5S buyers is that some of the things they want are on the way. The new Apple iPhone 5S is said to have a higher capacity battery than the one on the current model. In addition, an improved rear facing camera is expected with the ability to take better pictures in low-lighting conditions thanks to a lower f/2.0 aperture setting. And iOS 7 includes a way for users to teach Siri how to pronounce a difficult sounding name correctly.
Certainly there are many more wishes that will be granted, and we should be finding out more as we get closer to September 10th. All you need to do is to keep your eyes right here. We will keep you up to date as many key devices get unwrapped over the next several weeks. On September 4th, the camera-centric Sony i1 Honami is scheduled to be introduced. On that same day, we should see the Samsung Galaxy Note III and Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch introduced, followed on September 10th with the Apple iPhone 5S and Apple iPhone 5C.
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Fixing a Removable Glazing Panel
I have an Andersen W4 casement window with broken glass in the interior removable glazing panel. Andersen is no longer selling the glazing panels from pre-1989 windows. I can break up the glass to remove it, but how does the glazing panel frame come apart in order to insert a new pane? Are the corners press-fit together, so that I should just tap them apart? Thanks.
Many local glaziers will be able to make a replacement insulated panel for the window.
Well, they can around here.
Fixing a Removable Glazing Panel
If possible, I would like to keep the frame of the glazing panel--it is one of three adjacent windows and they all match. I don't see any screws holding the frame together, and the glass is a little loose in the frame, so if I can figure out how to open the sections of the frame then I (or a glazier) could replace the glass and close up the frame. There are seams between the frame pieces in the corners, that's why I thought the sides were pressed-fit together and could be knocked apart.
Fixing a Removable Glazing Panel
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Because the program began late and contained a lengthy interval, I only heard the MacMillan Sonata No. 1 from Manins and Murray. This 1999 piece, played for the first time in Melbourne, oscillates between passages that require the executor to play together and other segments that appear to leave the playing relationship fluid.
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend 1893–1978
Warner was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, editor, and biographer. She was perhaps best known for her short stories, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, and which, according to John Updike, "stick up" from that magazine's "fluent fiction-stream with a certain stony air of mastery." The combination of fantasy and realism that marked Lolly Willowes, her first novel, established a pattern that was to prevail through most of her fiction. (See also CLC, Vol. 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 61-64; obituary, Vols. 77-80.)
Gabriele Annan
[The stories in Kingdoms of Elfin] are fairy stories…. The elfin kingdoms over or underlie (mostly under, because they tend to be subterranean) Europe, and their inhabitants share the traditionally accepted characteristics of their human counterparts. Thus the elfins of the Kingdom of Wirre Gedanken … are given to metaphysical speculation; on the English side of the Scottish border the fairies are comparatively uncouth and deplorably indifferent to physical comfort; in Elfhame on the Scottish side they are natural theologians; in Ireland they see ghosts, and so on. These are not accidental clichés. You might not think them clichés at all, because they are handled so wittily and unexpectedly: but I think they are and are meant to be, and that the whole book is an attack on accepted thinking….
The Peris of Persia, the stones of Carnac, the Greek gods, Morgan le Fay and King Arthur are part of elfin history. Their present is a picturesque past, set somewhere between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries: a feudal time with many small courts. All the fairies are princes, or courtiers, or their servants; there is no fairy bourgeoisie, and Miss Townsend Warner is not much interested in social criticism. Nor is she interested in the occult, as some modern writers of supernatural tales are. She turns the supernatural upside down: her fairies are not merely sweetly reasonable but sweetly rational, and her jokes—ironical, dry and sly—are jokes against religion, against superstition, gullibility, clericalism and priggishness.
Yet her book is not a dry Voltairian satire. It is poetic, and the poetry comes not only from the fastidious elfin magic of her prose, but also from a feeling for nature which could, perhaps, be called mystical….
Gabriele Annan, "The Not So Little People," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1977; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 3905, January 14, 1977, p. 25.
Paul Gray
In Kingdoms of Elfin,… Sylvia Townsend Warner … never condescends to an ethereal race that views mortals as "unfailingly serious and unfailingly absurd." Instead, she talks about fairies without being fey and creates a texture for the intangible.
Each of the book's 16 stories … can fly on its own. Taken together, they form both a whimsical saga of invisible dynasties and an extended commentary on Homo sapiens. Warner's elves are in many ways mirror images of men. They cannot weep and do not hate. They reproduce with difficulty but live for centuries: "Fairies are constructed for longevity, not fertility." They are governed exclusively by women—the more capricious the better. Mocking the human dream of taking wing, elves aspire to a place in society so high that flying will be beneath them. (p. 73)
Warner's prose duplicates the iridescent beauty of elfin life. Her descriptions are brushed with an unsettling magic. Yet Kingdoms of Elfin also pays humanity a backhanded compliment. There is melancholy as well as joy in the fairy state. Suspended somewhere between the angels and man, fairies are dropouts from the cosmic school of hard knocks. Warner's elfin courts are doomed to frivolity, to a tepid acceptance of beauty that does not die quite fast enough. In the book's last story, a mortal is given the last word. He is a passionate seeker of the fairies, who finds them, admires them and then compares them to a "swarm of mayflies, indivisibly borne aloft, lowering, shifting, veering, like a shaken impermeable gauze veil over the face of a stream." The fairies are free to laugh at this none-too-flattering description. The mortal response—sadness—is beyond them. (p. 74)
Paul Gray, "Long Looks at the Little People," in Time (reprinted by permission from Time, The Weekly Newsmagazine; copyright Time Inc. 1977), Vol. 109, No. 8, February 21, 1977, pp. 73-4.∗
William Jay Smith
This collection of tales by Sylvia Townsend Warner is, to say the least, cause for celebration…. ["Kingdoms of Elfin"] has all the freshness, wit, originality of perception and clarity of insight that have won for her rhythmical prose so many admirers over so long a time. It offers us an unforgettable journey through time and space, a cast of truly fantastic characters and an impressive and seemingly unending display of verbal fireworks.
Sylvia Townsend Warner's fairyland kingdoms will no doubt be likened to the imaginary realms of J.R.R. Tolkien in "The Lord of the Rings." They may attract many of the same readers and even inspire a similar cult, but they are essentially different. (p. 6)
The stories in "Kingdoms of Elfin" are not genuine fairy tales, in the sense that the author chooses not to move through the looking-glass, but rather to hold that glass up over a long period of history to an imaginary world and to the real world beside it. She maneuvers the glass with such dexterity that the effect is at times dizzying. But the sharpness of detail offered is so great that the reader at the same time feels that he knows exactly where he is and where he will be going next.
Not everything is languorous and lovely in these elfin kingdoms; ugliness and cruelty exist "like dirt in the crevices of an artichoke," presented in the completely matter-of-fact manner of folk tales…. [Behind] all the...
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John Updike
The late Miss Warner, whose more than half century of brilliantly varied and superbly self-possessed literary production never won her the flaming place in the heavens of reputation that she deserved, began as a poet … [and retained] magic and music in her prose. Her last book … was a series of vivacious matter-of-fact short stories about elves, collected a year before her death as "Kingdoms of Elfin."… Her first novel ["Lolly Willowes"] finds her already moving with sombre confidence into the realm of the supernatural, which she treats as a comfortable branch of the mundane. Her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. (p. 99)
[In "Lolly Willowes" there is] an identification of the witch with Nature. Sylvia Townsend Warner was a great friend of Nature; she was one of the last bardic intimates of rural England and a witty, erudite explicator of those myths and sensations in which the agricultural underlay of civilization still makes itself felt. (p. 100)
John Updike, "Jake and Lolly Opt Out," in The New Yorker (© 1979 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), Vol. LV, No. 27, August 20, 1979, pp. 97-102.∗
W. J. Strachan
[Kingdoms of Elfin] was a return to the earlier fantasy modality of [Sylvia Townsend Warner's] first masterpiece, Lolly Willowes, published half a century previously. Re-reading it, I thought how well T. S. Eliot's 'The end is where we start from … where every word is at home' … applied both to her books and her informal letter-writing which captured the essence of her personality.
At first sight it seems strange that Lolly Willowes with its amiable witch-heroine, followed by the hardly less fanciful Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927), should have emanated from a hand that during World War I had been active in a munitions factory, but not to any one who has read her family chronicle The Flint Anchor (1954) which deals with the commercial fortunes of a family business…. Indeed, even in her idiosyncratic world, the 'plait', as she would say, always has a strong thread of realism interwoven with wit and satire. This is also true of her short stories…. They often start out from a banal enough domestic situation which suddenly takes a tense, ironic twist and ends in a dramatic explosion, macabre dénouement or anticlimax. Not for her the elaborate plot. Her most ambitious novel, The Corner that held them (1948), hardly follows the lines of a traditional historical narrative…. To me it evokes the image of a vast medieval tapestry, every detail of which—poetic, realistic, even earthy—contributes...
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Vicki Feaver
Written, Peter Pears explains in his preface, during the last years of her life, most of the poems [in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Twelve Poems] are concerned with old age and death. They range from a defiant monologue delivered from the floor by Queen Elizabeth as she lies dying ("like a race of trees" her people "sway, sigh, nod heads, rustle" above her) to four lines of dry epigrammatic comment on the difference between first and second childhood.
Several of the poems return to subjects dealt with in her first collection The Espalier published in 1925. In "Country Churchyard", for instance, she had imagined the dead scrambling out of their graves and dancing promiscuously because "if a...
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Gavin Ewart
[Twelve Poems] is more in the nature of a pendant to [Sylvia Townsend Warner's] work and a memorial to her talent than of very great importance in a literary sense. The twelve short poems show an honest and admirable character, bearing the heavy weight of history and rural tradition, old age and the approach of death. Assonance and rhyme are used…. Some poems are epigrammatic, some are like Hardy ('Dorset Endearments'). The best is 'Graveyard in Norfolk', which is entirely in her own voice, using a complicated rhyming stanza. But 'Earl Cassillis's Lady' and 'December 31st St. Silvester' are also well written and satisfying.
Gavin Ewart, "English Poetry: 'Twelve Poems',"...
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The Indonesian government will confiscate a Metallica guitar that was a gift to the heavy metal-loving governor of the capital Jakarta due to concerns about corruption, an official has said.
A beaming Joko Widodo appeared on TV earlier this month strumming the maroon bass guitar that had belonged to the US band's Robert Trujillo and was a gift from a concert promoter.
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On Thursday, oil prices kept rebounding further in Asia, as China PMI manufacturing polls bolstered sentiment on demand prospects.
In New York, October delivery crude futures ascended 0.45%, hitting $44.90 per barrel. In London, November delivery Brent futures tacked on 0.17%, trading at $47.09 per barrel.
In China, August's semi-official CFLP manufacturing PMI came in at 50.4, thus entering expansion territory and compared to the 49.9 level observed. As for the non-manufacturing PMI, it came in at 53.5, a bit weaker than the previous outcome of 53.9. The Caixin manufacturing PMI for August was 50, just at expansion, though missing the expected 50.1 level observed and showing a drop from 50.6 the previous month.
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The $1 Trillion Solution: Will It Work?by
The numbers have gone so high that they've become inconceivable. Now Paulson and Bernanke are proposing a government fund or funds to buy up failed securities and prop up the financial system. The size of the bail-out funds: Roughly $1 trillion, give or take a few hundred billion.
There's going to be a lot of debate about the details of the funds. But here are the two real questions: Will this plan work? And will it avoid a deep recession? The short answers: Yes it will work, and no, a deep global recession is inevitable.
Here's why. The root of the problem is that American consumers overspent and overborrowed by roughly $3 trillion over the past ten years (I've written about this multiple times, notably here, here, and here). We can argue to the cows come home about how this happened. Probably the blame is shared among greedy financial institutions, weak regulators, and profligate consumers (after all, nobody made Americans spend).
The subprime crisis started people realizing that part of this excess debt wasn't going to be repaid. In fact, this $3 trillion in debt overhang is all going to have to be dealt with, in one way or another.
The first step in the process: The global financial institutions holding the debt started taking losses. At first they were small amounts, and then they got bigger and bigger. I haven't seen a recent number on the total size of the write-offs in the financial sector globally, but call it $1 trillion. Eventually the financial sector couldn't handle any more, and the collapses started.
So that left $2 trillion in potential losses. In steps Bernanke and Paulson. At first they shoveled in $20 or $30 billion at a time for Bear Stearns. Then it was $80-100 billion for AIG. Now they are upping the ante to $1 trillion or so in the new funds.
So the second step in the process: The government takes $1 trillion worth of debt onto its own books. Where does the money come from? Borrowing from overseas, of course. More about that later
But that still leaves $1 trillion in excess debt. And in the end, that will be paid back by American consumers, as they tighten their belts and cut back on spending. Or more likely, if cutbacks are inflicted on them by tighter lending standards and lost jobs. The consumer crunch is here.
The depth of the recession will depend on how fast consumer have to cut back. That $1 trillion is worth roughly 7% or so of GDP. If those cutbacks are taken all at once, that's a very short and deep recession. If they are spread out over several years, that leads to a shallower but still nasty downturn.
The real joker in that deck is the source of the $1 trillion in government funds. The U.S. government can't raise it by taxes, so instead will have to borrow it from overseas. In effect, foreign investors will get a chance to make a bet on the future of the whole U.S. economy.
I think the rest of the world will be willing to invest in the funds, if only for their own self-preservation. Far better to invest in the economy as a whole, rather than individual financial companies. But the global economy is not out of the woods yet.


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This is a guest post from Elizabeth S. Craig, writing as Riley Adams. Elizabeth writes cozy mysteries, which I just love the idea of! Her latest is Finger Lickin' Dead. You can also listen/watch an interview about writing mysteries with Elizabeth here.
It's really no surprise that I'm drawn to small town settings. I grew up in a small town in South Carolina (that's gotten a lot larger in recent years) and have always been interested in the dynamics inside the town. Small towns represent a lot of interesting contradictions. Maybe that's part of the appeal. They're not easy to read or label.
Elements that make up small towns (and why they might make a good setting for your novel):
Small towns are deceptively quiet. Of course a small town seems quiet. Go through any small town in the Southern US, for instance, and you'll see evidence of a slower pace—like folks sitting on their front porches waving at cars going by. But there are many emotions bubbling under the surface. Feelings run deep in a small community because everything seems personal.
These strong emotions lead to ample opportunity for genuine conflict on a very personal level. If you're setting up real conflict in your novel (one that resonates with readers), a small town might be just the setting you're looking for. It's easy to find love triangles, long-standing feuds between families, passionate disagreements, and folks who might be bitter about imagined slights or jealous of the undeserving success of a neighbor. At the same time, there's a fierce protectiveness among the townspeople and a "we take care of our own" mentality that can lead to insularity…and possible conflict with people from outside the town.
Small towns harbor many secrets. And secrets can make a great addition to novels. Why are there secrets in small towns? Because, if your secret becomes public knowledge, the repercussions are huge and your problem is amplified. Everyone knows your secret. It's almost like being famous—because everyone knows who you are in a small town. They also know your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Soon they'll be putting your problems and indiscretions in context with your entire family background: "Why, sure Paul cheated on his wife. Remember his daddy had that fling with Paul's second grade teacher, Miss Lily? And his grandma ran around on his granddad, too."
Everyone knows everyone. There's a comfort in knowing everyone around you, but it's also a double-edged sword. You get an in-depth relationship with folks in your town, but you don't often get the experience of meeting anyone new. This can lead to younger residents deciding to move away after they finish school—to meet someone to date, or to have more choice of jobs (and not having your boss be your neighbor…and cousin.) Wanting to move away from a hometown can lead to some inter-generational conflict.
Small towns are friendly to newcomers, but have certain expectations for them. If you move to a small town, you'll probably be greeted warmly. Neighbors will be happy to give you the scoop on the local schools or where to get the best produce, or who the best barber is. At the same time, there's a certain expectation of the newcomer—that they toe the line and blend into the fabric of the town. If you're the kind of newcomer who makes waves by suggesting better ways of running the PTA or the church Christmas play, or the 4th of July parade…then you're not going to be very popular.
A small town an easy setting for readers to picture and understand. If you throw in "small town" early in your novel, your reader will immediately have a ready-made picture in their heads of a slower-paced, friendly, gossipy, place. You don't really have to work too hard if that's what you're interested in portraying. But if you want to twist it and show how cliquey, insular, and suspicious of change these towns can be, you can take your reader in a different direction.
For murder mystery writers, small towns make for personal motives and a limited number of suspects. The motive for the murder will probably be extremely personal (love, revenge, hate), and your story will feature a limited number of suspects because the town itself won't be very large. The small town itself might be a little isolated with the nearest town some distance away. This can add an extra dose of tension to your book. If there's a killer knocking out characters in this small community one by one, it can really heighten the urgency of solving the case. The odd juxtaposition of a bucolic setting and a violent death can invoke an urge to get everything back to normal and set things right. Whether the setting is a village in England or a small town in the American South, the reader feels the urge to solve the mystery and return the community to its former idyllic status.
Do you enjoy reading or writing small town settings? What's the appeal for you?
Elizabeth's latest book, Finger Lickin' Dead was released June 7th. Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley (as Riley Adams), the Southern Quilting mysteries (2012) for Penguin/NAL, and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink. She blogs daily at Mystery Writing is Murder, which was named by Writer's Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2010 and 2011. Writer's Knowledge Base–the Search Engine for Writers Twitter: @elizabethscraig
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The Federal Government appears to have backed away from claims that the free trade deal with the United States will reap $4 billion worth of benefits.
Prime Minister John Howard and senior ministers have over the past few days asserted that the deal would bring an immediate benefit of $4 billion. But yesterday Treasurer Peter Costello refused to put a number on it.
"I am not putting specific (Australian) dollar or US dollar benefits on it," Mr Costello told ABC radio. "We are gaining... enhanced access to a market of 300 million people. That market is gaining enhanced access to our market of 20 million people. The bigger benefits are going to go to the people who are getting the access to the larger market."
The $4 billion claim was based on a report written several years ago by the Centre for International Economics, a Canberra consulting group that calculated benefits worth about $US2 billion. At the time, the exchange rate was closer to 50 US cents, so it meant $4 billion. Since then, however, the Australian dollar has hit almost 80 US cents, cutting the estimated benefits to about $2.5 billion.
The original report also assumed sugar would be in the deal, there would be no quotas on diary exports and there would be free trade in beef by 2006, not 2023 - which itself is in doubt.
Opposition finance spokesman Bob McMullan demanded the Government release official estimates of a dollar figure.
"The Government must have assessed whether it was in the national interest before they signed the deal," Mr McMullan said. "I call on them to release the assessment they made so we can all judge it before we're called on to vote on it."
One of the authors of the report, Andrew Stoeckel, said the original figures were based on assumptions that were no longer valid and extensive recalculations were now necessary.
An alternative report from ACIL Consulting, also commissioned by the Government but hidden from the public, found the deal would not be to Australia's benefit.
The author of that report, Greg Cutbush, said yesterday the deal could cost Australia up to $5 billion.
The US was also likely to continue imposing tariffs on Australian beef exports every second year even after they are supposed be phased out, thanks to a safeguards clause, the Cattle Council of Australia warned yesterday.
The agreement declared that the US would phase out tariffs and quotas on beef over 18 years. But a clause not mentioned in the Government's 27-page summary of the deal allows the US to reimpose tariffs if the domestic price of US beef drops by 6.5 per cent from its average level.
Cattle Council executive director Brett de Hayr said such safeguards would have been triggered six times in the past decade, despite beef prices averaging their highest real level for decades.
"It is our assumption that this clause will be triggered every second year, even after tariffs officially end," Mr de Hayr said. "If you have a permanent safeguard clause, you are not opening beef to free trade."
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It's not a new idea, but the old burning-of-the-jersey can still be pretty entertaining. This time, Wes Welker is the one who's the focus of Patriots fans' ire. Welker signed a two-year, $12 million deal with the Broncos on Wednesday, not only leaving New England but also leaving to sign with Peyton Manning, one of New England's least-loved opponents. New England fans, as to be expected, have decided to purge their closets accordingly. The fan in the video below seems to have a problem with Welker's drops in recent seasons, as well as his inability to win a Super Bowl in New England. This fan decided to crack out the lighter without much regard for his backyard table — and in front of a child, no less (warning — some language). And that's how it goes. Hope you didn't need that $85 for something else.
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Hasselblad XPan
Hasselblad XPan vs XPan II The Hasselblad XPan was introduced in September 1998 and sold out by
the end of 2004. The Hasselblad XPan II was announced April 2003 and discontinued in January 2006. The first change you notice in the XPan II viewfinder is an LCD display showing shutter speed and exposure
information. Second curtain flash sync has been added so you can select flash exposure at the beginning or end of the frame. There is now a self-timer with delays of 2 or 10 s, exposure times are
increased from B ~ 1/540. They say that IR film performance has been improved. The film rewind offers an option to leave a film tip out of the cassette. A new lens shade is introduced for the 45 and 90 mm
lenses with locking device. Diopter lens to be supplied with a locking system. An optional electronic remote release is introduced.
The Hasselblad XPan components: XPan or XPan II BodyXPan or XPan II w 45 Kit Complete
XPan 30mm f/5.6 ASPH Lens XPan 45mm f/4 Lens no Hood XPan 90mm f/4 Lens no Hood Tripod Quick Coupler S XPan Lens Hood 45/90 XPan Center Density Filter for 45
Diopters -4, -3, -2, neutral, +0.5, +2 XPan Neck Strap XPan Lens Shade XPan Spirit Level
Hasselblad Xpan Features and SpecificationsThe Xpan is a 35 mm film camera. It
features a coupled rangefinder. 3 lenses are available. Construction is titanium and aluminum. It's most unique feature is
Dual Format Design. The user can switch between 24x36 mm and 24x65 mm format in the middle of the roll without reloading
film. This is called Mid Roll Switching. The camera is made by Fuji in Japan. There it is called a TX-1. The are 2 differences. The Fuji TX-1 is Silver Titanium vs Xpan Charcoal Grey. The Fuji has a wooden
grip vs Xpan rubber.The partnership between Hasselblad and Fuji makes a nice fit. Fuji products are always excellent and innovative but they are not as efficient at promoting their cameras outside of Japan.
When you receive your Xpan you will love the packing materials. The lenses come in plastic bubbles just like the old Leica days. The viewfinder has automatic parallax compensation and it
automatically changes magnification according to the lens fitted (0.45x with 45 mm lens, 0.66x with 90 mm lens). Accuracy of the finder is said to be 85% or more meaning you will get about 15% more picture
than you bargained for. Features The auto loading motorized Film transport operates backwards to facilitate
Mid Roll Switching. The Xpan winds the film to the end of roll, then it rolls it back into the cassette as you shoot.
You get 36, 24 and 12 frames in normal format
and up to 20, 13 or 6 frames in panorama format depending on the film length. The motor can fire in single-frame or continuous mode.The LCD exposure counter is a backlit display showing remaining
shots for both formats and a display of the the format mode selected. The camera also counts the total number of frames exposed. To determine exposure history turn the camera off, depress the AEB button abd
keep it depressed while you switch the shooting mode selector to 'S'. Each unit of the frame counter signifes 10 exposures. Even cameras fresh out of the box might have 200 shots due to factory testing.
The focal plane shutter fires from B 1/1000 with flash up to 1/125 s. There is a standard cable release socket or Self-timer with 10 second delay. Manual exposure control is by full steps on the body,
1/2 clicks on the lens.In Aperture Priority auto exposure mode accuracy is in EV1/12 increments measured at the shutter plane, center weighted average.
Exposure compensation ± EV2 at EV1/2 step intervals or you can let Fuji do it for you. Auto bracketing: EV1/2 or EV1 step intervals. Order: standard, under, over.
ISO25 3200 sensitivity, ± EV1/3 accuracy, EV4 (f4) 19 (f22) (ISO100) working range. Film speed: Auto DX setting and manual setting. The illuminated LCD information shows ISO, time
value, auto bracketing, self-timer, battery check and the total frames shot, as we mentioned. For batteries you will use 2 x Lithium CR2 for 6 volts total.
Camera body: Length 51 mm (2.04"), Width 166 mm (6.64"), Height 82 mm (3.28"). Weight: Body 720 g (25.2 oz) (without batteries).
Recommended accessories are the Center Density Filter for the 45 and the Tripod Quick Coupler S.
The XPan Kit was supplied with the following: XPan Body, Duplex Spirit Level,
Hasselblad Quick Coupling Plate, Neck Strap, Front Body Protective Cover, Batteries, 45 f/4 Lens, Lens Hood, Front and Rear Lens Caps, Protective Bubble, Instructions.
Hasselblad XPan 30mm f/5.6 Aspherical lens (30.4mm True) closes down to f/22. It is multicoated, has 10 elements in 8
groups and accepts ø 49 mm filters. The focus range is 27.56" to infinity. Length: 2.09 in. Weight: 10.9 oz. Catalogue number: 207-24014. When new the Hasselblad 30mm f/5.6 Aspherical was
supplied with: Front + Rear Covers, Lens Hood, Viewfinder with built-in bubble level and frame lines, 58mm Center Density Filter, Hard Storage Case, Soft Lens Pouch, Soft Viewfinder Pouch,
Instructions.Some authors state that the 30mm is equivalent to a 17mm lens when the XPan is set to panorama. This is not completely accurate. A 30mm lens is always a 30mm lens. Only the film format has
changed. The depth of field and perspective remain constantly that of a 30mm lens.
Hasselblad XPan 45mm f/4 lens
(44.7mm True) closes down to f/22. It is multicoated, has 6 components, 8 elements. The focus range is 36 inches to infinity and accepts ø 49 mm filters. Length: 1.85 in. Weight: 8.23 oz. Catalogue number: 207-24766.
When new it is supplied with: Front + Rear Caps, Protective Bubble, Instructions. Some authors state that the 45mm is equivalent to a 25mm lens when the XPan is set to panorama. This is not
completely accurate. A 45mm lens is always a 45mm lens. Only the film format has changed. The depth of field and perspective remain constantly that of a 45mm lens.
Hasselblad XPan 90mm f/4 lens
(89.6mm True) closes down to f/22. It is multicoated, has 9 elements in 7 groups. The focus range is 39.37" to infinity and accepts ø 49 mm filters. Length: 2.88 in. Weight: 12.7 oz. Catalogue number: 207-24723.
When new it is supplied with: Front + Rear Caps, Protective Bubble, Instructions. Some authors state that the 90mm is equivalent to a 50mm lens when the XPan is set to panorama. This is not
completely accurate. A 90mm lens is always a 90mm lens. Only the film format has changed. The depth of field and perspective remain constantly that of a 90m lens.
Hasselblad XPan Lens Specifications
30mm 5.6 -22 ASPH
45mm f4-22
90mm f4-22
10 in 8 Groups
6 in 8 Groups
9 in 7 Groups
35 Equivalent Panor.
Viewing Angle Panor.
Viewing Angle 35mm
310 g (10.9 oz)
235 g (8.23 oz)
365 g (12.7 oz)
length 53 mm, 60 mm wide
length 47 mm, 60 mm wide
length 73 mm, 60 mm wide
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Bob Etheridge, state director for USDA Farm Service Agency North Carolina, told area farmers that recent congressional passage of agricultural legislation, known as the "Farm Bill," may provide them with new help when disaster strikes.
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Signup for livestock disaster assistance began Tuesday, April 15, Etheridge told the crowd of 200 in the Waynesville USDA Service Center.
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An awesome total body tightening HIIT treadmill sprinting workout || lushiouslifts.com
Ironman One GPS+ outdoor sprint workout
Today: 30 minutes steady pace treadmill @ 6-8 incline... then pure hell, did "touchdown" sprints....pool of sweat... intense feel great... total time 22 minutes sprints 8 minutes active recovery
The Ultimate 23.5 Minute Fat Burning, Ab Sculpting Sprint Workout - Great for building speed, burning body fat and toning the legs and abs! #runningworkout #sprint More at LiftingRevolution.com
Pyramid Sprint Workout! Missing track right now :(
Improve your running speed with the Sprinter Workout. The routine can be done indoors as well as outdoors (High Skips & Straight-Leg Bounds). Sprinting is broken down into three stages: explosion, acceleration, deceleration. In terms of the 100m...
Track Star Sprint Workout #sprinting #fitness #workout
Thirty Minute Sprint Interval Workout
15 minute HIIT Sprinting Workout for the treadmill
Want to increase your fitness level and burn more calories? Try our 24-minute interval workout. You've got this! #TheColorRun