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North Korea has launched what appears to be a ballistic missile, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said Friday. The missile, launched shortly before midnight local time in Japan, is apparently headed for Japanese waters. It could land in Japan's "exclusive economic zone," Reuters reported, citing Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile flew for roughly 45 minutes. There were "no immediate reports of damage," CNBC reported.
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It's unclear which people Fox News' Jesse Watters has been talking to, but he claims "a lot" of them "wish President Trump was a dictator." Watters explained Thursday on The Five that if Trump were a dictator then "maybe we could repeal ObamaCare." "It would be a lot easier that way," he said, hours before the ObamaCare "skinny repeal" died on the Senate floor.
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[...] Mr. Trump has openly told people that he has lost faith in Mr. Priebus. He has said he wants "a general" as chief of staff, and has focused on John F. Kelly, the retired four-star Marine now serving as homeland security secretary. Many of his advisers, however, consider that a bad idea. [The New York Times]
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Strings and Cables
This may have been asked recently, but I can't remember...
What is the longest you will leave strings and cables on your bow before getting new ones?
Do they stretch over time in storage?
Does it make much of a difference how often the bow is shot or not shot?
As long as there is not visible damage, they are good, right?
It really depends on how you take care of them.By that, i mean if you wax them regulary and dont leave the bow in any extreme heat. if you dont shoot the bow regulary you can probably get by by leaving them on the bow for 3 years under regular use. and it also depends on what material they are used of on how long they will last. 450 premium string material is a little thicker per strand and will hold up under the elements better than 452x cause those strands are quite a bit thinner for the added speed it gets you. hope this helpstruball shooting staff
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3 years at the most but 2 years is probably a safer bet if it's been shot much.
One guy at league was actually asking the same question a few weeks ago and while we were all pulling arrows a couple ends later the cable broke and he came back to see his bow laying on the ground with a broken cable. He thought back and figured it had been 3 years since he had new strings on it.
Set on my hunting bow are past four and still lookin good. I usually don't change them intil they get frizzy lookin or a strand break.
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2 years is the norm, but I replace mine every year. With shooting all the 3D shoots I do, plus hunting season, I figure it's cheap insurance. nothing goes on my bow but Vaportrails!
1.Two to three years pending the amount of shots I put on them.
2. Yes they can, in the heat even more so.
3. To me I believe it does matter how many shots and the care given to the string.Wax your string and cable will help the life of them.
4.That is the tricky part, most strings today have a bit of serving on them and it can get damaged under there and the eye will not be able to view that area of the string, that's my opinion. I have seen some strings let go at the center serving area where the knock pinches from wear of on and off a lot. But very low percentage I have only seen two bows blow out there and one of them was mine and the string left it's mark on my wrist
I have a set that is three years on my hunting bow and they look OK. But I have a target bow I change every two season just because I have more shots on it. For me if I have let my bow sit for more than three months or more on them I do put mine on the press and go through the timing, checking cam lean, brace height, knock set to make sure everything is still the same. For me sometimes they have moved and other times they're the same and shoot fine. I even use a white out pen with a very fine tip and mark my cams on the side parallel with the limbs so I can tell just by looking at my cam to tell if my string has stretched more than the normal. I put a small dab on the side of my peep for I have had it get bump once in a indoor match and it cost me some X's.
You need a string & cable I bet someone on here would help you out..Specialist Hawkins "Retired"
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Here is what happens to strings that sit too long. Heat kills strings!
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Here are some facts you might not know.
When ordering a custom string! Put a little thought into your order.
1. Speed or not (slower by more quiet)?
If you order a string the material makes a difference. But the one thing people forget, how many strands you have in your string makes a difference.
For instance: if I ordered a string made of BCY trophy Material. This material is able to be built with 20 - 24 strands. With less strands lets say 20, I will pick up some speed from the string. Reason less strands reduces friction and less friction the string can cut the air faster.
*standard strands on any string are usually the maximum strands.
2. So ask questions before you order. I would think of what purpose I am using the bow for (hunting, target, both) and decide on the string material and the strand count.
3.Older bows, some are not designed for speed. This is because they are not as high tech. But you can get a few more feet per second out of them. If you change a few things. Like the string material and the strand count.
* also the lengths of the servings were a lot longer than needed. Remeasure and shorten them, and let your string maker know the new measurements.
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Center servings: here is where a lot of archer's miss the shot. Before I started building strings I thought the center serving had to be real tight. Almost to the point if you turned the arrow the string will move with it. Wrong! The arrow nock should fit on snugly, without force. Clip on clip off gently.
*In most cases when you get a manufactured string the center serving is too tight. After a few shots say 1000. The center serving wears and a sweet spot forms so the arrow nock fits perfectly. Problem! it thins the center serving. Which in turn lets the center serving shift or premature breakage.
Fixes: a tighter center serving, a smaller diameter center serving, a different arrow nock, or a light file with an emery board to the nock
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If you are having a custom string ordered remember a few things.
1. A good string builder will have a bunch of different style nocks. Let him know what style of nock you are using and he will set your center serving to that style nock.
2. Also length of center serving, it makes a difference in the length. I prefer a shorter center serving. Standard use to be 7" but it has changed over the years to 5"
Here is one of my nock tools I made.
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Here's what I think !
Hutch , want to thankyou for the information on " Strings and Cables " !
Feel free to add more and educate some of us , as I have rarely replaced mine , as I unlike some ( Westy comes to mind ) don't buy a bow every half of year or less !
I will look at my strings more , as I do wax 'em !
Nothing wrong with teaching us , I feel !
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China has agreed to limit the "champagne" label to only wines produced in the French region bearing that name, with a trade group welcoming the move as a boost for the beverage in a fast-growing market.
Sales of the wine are accelerating in the world's second largest economy, from 50,000 bottles in 2001 to one million in 2010 to two million last year, making it the fifth-largest market outside the European Union.
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A first breakthrough came with the court house in Holstebro (1992), which was followed by a number of first prizes in architectural competitions, such as the Danish Embassy in Berlin (1998) and the concert hall Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam (1997). The two latter structures made a name on the international architectural scene for the artistically ambitious Danish architects with their social approach and carefully planned spatial formations.The Muziekgebouw (2005) the Museum of Liverpool (2011) and The Blue Planet Aquarium shows the expertise on culture buildings and prestigious international proyects, with emphasis on original solutions in plans, facades and organisation of the interiors.
The revolutionary design of Danish upper secondary school Ørestad College (2004-2007), together with a number of original corporate headquarters designs such as FIH, Deloitte, Saxo Bank, Horten and KPMG, show that 3XN, through daring concepts and design create architecture that contributes positively to learning and working environments.These innovations are also reflected in master plans and housing projects like the Lighthouse in Aarhus and the new Denmark's Aquarium, The Blue Planet, in Copenhagen.
In 2007 3XN established GXN; a Research & Development department working with digital tools, new materials and green technologies in order to ensure the studio's leading position within building sector innovation.
The management today consists of Founder Kim Herforth Nielsen; Head of Competition Jan Ammundsen who became Partner in 2007; Director of GXN, Kasper Guldager Jensen, who became partner in 2012 and Managing Director Jeanette Hansen.


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The Next 'American Idol' Judges: You Decide! (PHOTOS)
With the abrupt departures of American Idol judges Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi this week—along with the ongoing search for Simon Cowell's replacement—it's anybody's guess as to who'll be mentoring the next generation of aspiring music superstars.
Many names have been mentioned, but while the final decisions are hashed out, we thought we'd open the floor to you, dear reader.
Click through the photo gallery to see the current candidates for the gig, as well a a few of our own suggestions. Let us know which ones you'd like to see on the judges' panel in the comments section. And if there's someone else that you'd rather see get the job, let us know that too.


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Brooklyn rebounds as the new bohemia
NEW YORK – At the end of another disappointing season, Brooklyn Dodgers fans would console themselves with the refrain, "Wait 'til next year!" The team is long gone, but for Brooklyn, next year is here.
The arrival of the NBA Nets gives Brooklyn its first major league team since the Dodgers' departure for Los Angeles in 1957, and something else: more evidence that, as its denizens claim, the borough that was once a punch line is now the coolest place in America, a land of rooftop farms and pop-up art galleries, of haircuts, eyeglasses, hats and body piercings so chic that even Parisians utter, "Très Brooklyn!"
"People I know from London don't want to go to Manhattan," says Kari Browne, 33, a former broadcast news producer who last month opened a cafe in the up-and-coming Victorian neighborhood of Ditmas Park. "They want to come to Brooklyn."
As do art students from Iowa and tourists from Helsinki, urban farmers and suburban shoppers, Swarthmore and Oberlin seniors, do-it-yourselfers and indie rockers, German graffiti writers, vegans, surfers, Manhattan writers, NBA stars.
The New Jersey Nets' relocation to the new Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is a big reason why guard Deron Williams re-signed with the team and why the league's best center, the Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard, once tried to join him.
When the arena opens this fall with concerts by Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand and the first Nets' game, it will cap one of the more remarkable reversals of fortune in U.S. urban history.
Barclays is part of a planned $5 billion high-rise residential-commercial complex that community groups have criticized for abusing the power of eminent domain, uprooting residents and ripping up the neighborhood fabric.
But to Fred Siegel, a New York writer and political activist, the project says: "Brooklyn is back."
A burg with cachet
It's more than back; it's where it never was. The Brooklyn the Dodgers left was unsophisticated and unfashionable, the butt of the kind of jokes now directed at New Jersey. The Brooklyn after that, from roughly 1970 through 1995, was synonymous with crime, drugs and welfare. But the Brooklyn where Kari Browne has opened a business and plans to raise a family has been transformed into what she calls "a brand."
It's dangerous to generalize about a borough of 2.5 million (if it were a city, Brooklyn would be the nation's fourth most populous) or to romanticize it. The government defines almost a quarter of the residents as poor, and although Brooklyn has fewer than a third of the city's people, it accounts for about 40% of its murders. Most occur in troubled pockets such as Brownsville, East New York and East Flatbush.
This year, pastor Gilford Monrose of Mount Zion Church of God (Seventh-day) in East Flatbush has buried two murder victims in their 20s, one of whom was gunned down in front of his uncle's fried-chicken restaurant. Monrose says getting a gun in the neighborhood "is as easy as going to the corner store."
That said, Brooklyn at its best is Sesame Street: integrated playgrounds; small shops on tree-lined streets; artisanal pickles and home-made granola; bike lanes and occasional valet bike parking. Spike-haired, tattooed skateboarders zip past bearded Hassidic Jews in long black coats. Houseboats ply the once-fetid Gowanus Canal.
So many writers, actors, artists and chefs live here that borough President Marty Markowitz calls it "New York's Left Bank." Writer Malcolm Gladwell has observed that "intelligent thought is not dead in New York. It has simply moved to Brooklyn."
Jerry Krase, a Brooklyn College sociologist, says the buzz stems from a contrast between what the world thought it knew about Brooklyn and what Brooklyn really is.
Old Brooklyn was a place you came from (including Aaron Copland, Woody Allen, Larry King, Wolfman Jack, Mike Tyson); New Brooklyn is a place to go to (as have Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Anne Hathaway, Björk.)
Kriss Roebling is a filmmaker, musician and descendant of the engineers who built the Brooklyn Bridge. After their apartment house was demolished for the Barclays Center, he and his family moved to Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), a former warehouse and factory district.
They love it. "We're two blocks from dropping a kayak in the river and 12 minutes on a bike from the East Village," he says. In Brooklyn, he adds, "people are more apt to get together to create art scenes and events and parties. It has what Manhattan had in the '70s and '80s." Including tourists. "Bus tours of Brooklyn!" marvels Krase, who was born in the borough in 1943. "It's like we're like the zoo. They're waving at us out the window."
Once, as native son and writer Pete Hamill has noted, nothing in Brooklyn ever seemed to change; now, change is a constant, as artists, homesteaders, hipsters and developers hopscotch across the borough in a process that Francis Morrone, an architectural historian who has studied city neighborhoods, calls "hyper-gentrification."
Despite a national housing market collapse, this gentrification has attained a momentum rarely seen anywhere, he says. It jumped the East River from Manhattan about 20 years ago and surged into the neighborhoods of Dumbo, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, into Park Slope and Ditmas Park, and now to Red Hook and Bushwick, places once synonymous with urban dystopia. It's stopped by nothing, not even the low-income housing projects that traditionally marked gentrification's limits.
Once, pioneer artists in search of low rents and big work spaces with natural light moved into derelict or impoverished neighborhoods and slowly made them attractive to less intrepid settlers. Now, "the new places get overrun before they have a chance to develop an identity," says Robert Anasi, a writer who lived in Williamsburg when it became the city's hottest neighborhood.
How did this happen to a place known for its grating accent ("Fuhgeddaboudit!"), odd foods (knishes, lox), tacky amusements (Coney Island) and cartoonish TV characters (The Honeymooners' bombastic Ralph Kramden)?
Paradise, lost and found
An even better question: How did Bushwick become the new bohemia?
Wilson Meredith was 14 when the lights went out, when the looters tied ropes to car bumpers, pulled down the security gates from stores on Broadway and stole everything inside.
That was Bushwick in the citywide power blackout of 1977. Vandals torched 44 stores, including Woolworths, which burned to the ground.
It was just one in a series of plagues to hit Bushwick, in better days a hardworking place where German and Sicilian immigrants and an influx of Puerto Ricans (such as Meredith's family) made everything from beer to glue to glass.
Real estate agents panicked many white homeowners into selling quickly and cheaply with the rise of minorities. Mortgage brokers helped the newcomers buy homes they couldn't afford. When they defaulted and home prices plunged, bankers red-lined the area against loans. Landlords torched devalued buildings for insurance money.
Then, things began to change:
•New York's recovery from its 1975 fiscal crisis spurred development of new housing in Bushwick.
•The ever-rising price of Manhattan real estate forced artists east, where the austere beauty of Brooklyn's semi-abandoned, post-industrial landscape of piers, warehouses, cement factories and textile mills proved irresistible.
•Crime dropped, starting in the early '90s, in part because of more police and less tolerance for "quality of life" offenses.
•The rezoning of Brooklyn's industrial waterfront touched off a residential land rush in neighborhoods such as Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Then, the eternal search for the $1,000-a-month one-bedroom apartment brought homesteaders all the way to Bushwick.
Today, Meredith, 49, has a good IT job in Manhattan. He still lives in Bushwick, which he barely recognizes as the place where he grew up.
There are more art galleries (16 and counting) than there ever were breweries (14), plus an ever-expanding number of performance spaces, restaurants, cafes and bars.
Meredith likes the safer, cleaner streets, and places like The Bodega, a wine bar started by two newcomers who wanted to recreate the ambiance of cafes they enjoyed while living in Spain.
He's amused by some of the people he meets there, "young people from the Midwest. … It's ghetto chic. They think, 'I'm a pioneer.' … They all want to come to Bushwick." But he worries about those who have to leave.
In March 2011, Maria Marques, her husband and three children were forced out of their Bushwick apartment by a fire. They could find no place in the area for anything near the $600 a month they had paid for their rent-controlled apartment; the newcomers have bid two-bedroom market-rate units up to around $1,500 a month.
They wound up in the city shelter system in the South Bronx, an hour trip via three different subway lines. "She lived in this neighborhood for 20 years," says Yolanda Coca, a tenants' advocate at the Brooklyn Housing Independence Project. "How is she supposed to come home to Brooklyn?"
That also worries Nyssa Frank, 27, who moved to Bushwick four years ago from London. She grew up in the affluent Long Island community of East Hampton and majored in philosophy at UCal-Santa Barbara. With her blond hair swept long on one side and shaved close on the other, her nose ring, her tattooed arms and her cat-eye makeup, she looks like what Meredith would call a hipster.
Frank used to work in a gallery in Manhattan; now she runs her own in a former textile factory that backs onto a dump. The gallery shows the work of local artists — many of them Hispanic and not formally trained — and offers free art classes.
When hipsters first moved to the neighborhood, some said they lived in "East Williamsburg," because they were embarrassed to say Bushwick. No more, Frank says: "It's cool here; you can express yourself however you want" — open a gallery, start a community garden, paint a mural on an old factory wall. It's a very hip, very self-contained world that one needn't leave to find a meal or concert or gallery or anything, except an airport.
What Brooklynites still call "the city" is only a subway ride away, "but I never go to Manhattan now," Frank says, "unless I have to."
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Linda reviews the Apex portable vaporizer
Hey guys! I'm back with a review for one of the only truly portable vaporizer styles I've seen. I know there are some others that are similar, but I wanted to review this particular model by request of some viewers. This is a great portable vape with 3 pre-set heat settings that works very similar to a regular wood-box desktop vape, but totally portable.
I've reviewed a lot of portable vaporizers and many are bulky or do not even vaporize cannabis – they burn it. This vaporizer does get a little hot, but doubling up the silicone mouth guard helps fix that. This has three different heat settings, well within the range of vaporization and low enough so that combustion should not happen. I have yet to see any blackened remnants myself! Check out my review and for more info, head to http://www.vapevetstore.com/


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"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:55-57)
Camille was riding in the car with her daddy. Since it was a beautiful summer day, the windows were partially down. All of a sudden a big bee came in through an open window. Camille immediately began to panic because she was very allergic to bee stings – she could die if the bee stung her!
Camille's father knew what he needed to do. He watched the bee carefully. As the bee flew up near the windshield it landed on the dashboard for a brief second. With reflexes like lightning, Camille's father cupped his hand right on top of that bee! And then he kept his hand there. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Until...ZING! "Ouch!" the father shouted as he lifted up his hand and let the bee go.
"Daddy, daddy!" screamed Camille. "The bee will sting me! Help!"
"No, honey," replied her father. "He can't sting you any longer. The bee only had one sting – and guess where it is?"
"Where?" asked Camille.
With that, her father reached out his hand with his palm up and allowed his daughter to inspect it. There, in the middle of his hand was a small stinger. Although the bee was still buzzing around, it could no longer sting Camille because that kind of bee had only one sting to give. Camille's father took away the sting of the bee and rescued his little girl.
Camille was both happy and sad all at once. Can you guess why? She was happy because she realized that the bee was now powerless to hurt her. She was sad because she realized that her father had taken the painful sting for her.
"Do you know what the bee has done?" Camille's dad asked.
"What?" asked Camille.
"The bee has stung himself to death!" Camille looked confused. Her father carefully explained to her that that kind of bee will die soon after it uses its stinger.
Just like the bee stung itself to death, so death itself has "stung itself to death" at the cross. That's hard to understand, but it simply means we do not have to fear what happens after we die. We do not have to fear that death has power over us. Jesus has power over sin and death, and He proved it on the cross!
Jesus has taken away the sting of death by taking sin and death upon Himself, and then single-handedly beating them both. He proved His victory over them by rising from the grave! Christ is more powerful than sin and death. Because of Christ's victory over death, we can be assured that if we have faith in Christ, we will also rise from the grave someday and share in eternal life with Him.
Because of Christ, death has no lasting power over the Christian.
My Response:» How is what Camille's father did for her much like what Christ did for us?» How did Camille respond to her father's sacrifice? How have I responded to Christ's sacrifice for me?
An Altar
Hebrews 13:10 – "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle."
No, my heart must be changed by Christ before I can be fit for heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
The term "born again" was first used by Jesus as he spoke to "Nicodemus", a ruler of the Jews. Jesus was explaining that in order to enter into the kingdom of God (heaven), that we have two births. One birth is a physical birth, which is of water. The second birth is a spiritual birth which is of the Spirit. The spiritual birth comes when one accepts Jesus as his Lord and Saviour and is adopted into the family of God. (John 3:5-7) "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."
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March 2004
Delphi Question #513 (received January 23): This is a question for Safety and Site Services. Would you consider putting a crosswalk between the north door of FL4 and the mailboxes directly across the street? Lots of people frequently cross the street here en route from FL4 to the other Foothills buildings. At certain times of day, there can be a fair amount of car traffic on the road that often slows down anyway for pedestrians at this crossing point. Also, as you probably know, big nasty ice slicks form on this stretch of the road, making it easy for someone to slip or a car to lose control. I think it would be safer and more convenient to have a crosswalk.
Response (January 27): Thank you for your question. It is an issue and a concern that UCAR Safety and Site Services has discussed for many years with the city of Boulder. The ultimate authority and responsibility for the roadway lies solely with the city of Boulder. UCAR does not own the roadway. We are prohibited from unilaterally making any changes such as adding a crosswalk to the public roadway in front of FL4. According to the city of Boulder, it has conducted numerous studies of this roadway. In each study the city reported that the safety issues (pedestrian and traffic patterns and volumes) were insufficient to warrant any physical changes.
The city has advised UCAR that we can make changes only on our own property. A few years ago we made significant safety changes to the intersection of Mitchell Lane and the entrance to the Foothills Lab campus. This intersection is now a four-way stop. We also added crosswalks and the intersection is well maintained by UCAR. Employees should consider using this intersection to navigate across Mitchell Lane. This would require only a slight change in walking patterns with very little increase in travel time or distance. And crossing at this location would be much safer than crossing immediately in front of FL4.
Safety and Site Services will continue to work with and encourage the city of Boulder to make changes in front of FL4. We will keep staff apprised of any developments or changes.
—Steve Sadler, director
Safety and Site Services
Questions and suggestions from the staff to management may be submitted in confidence to the Delphi Coordinators (Teresa Rivas, left, and Nancy Wade). They should be submitted in written form, preferably via interoffice mail in a sealed envelope marked confidential. They must be signed. Detailed procedures for submitting questions are given in the UCAR Policies and Procedures Manual, section 4-1-2, and on the Delphi Web site. Staff Notes Monthly publishes questions and answers of general interest to staff, and the Delphi Web site has a log of all questions submitted since 1995.
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It's too big to ignore. The number and sophistication of things you can do with an Apple iPhone 4—and now, the iPhone 4S—are too great to allow to vanish below your radar.
As of March, 2011, the iPad 2 joined the i-cam family with the world's thinest HD camera with the world's largest viewfinder.
On October 4, 2011 the iPhone 4S joined the kit of image tools with an astounding list of camera and video improvements.
Here are some of the missing elements any serious photographer who happens to have an iPhone 4 / 4S / iPad 2 should know about.
If you see a product or app mentioned here, it's a good bet that you will be quite pleased with it, even though we may have noted drawbacks, incomplete features or shortcomings. Almost no product is perfect.
Scroll down for our quick response to the iPhone 4 / 4S and iPad 2.
Major iPhone 4S Review Now Here! Click!
New iPad/iPad 2/Movie Mount Here! Click.
His iPhones and iPads will live on, and he in our hearts.
The software that makes these pages was refined by him. His appreciation of graphic design, text design, typography, calligraphy—showed in the first Macintosh, in every web page, in every ad, in every product, in every letter.
Steve wasn't a photographer, but the camera he called for—that resides in every iPhone 4 —is the most popular image-gatherer in the world.
He wasn't a musician, but he brought more music into the world than anyone, ever.
He invented desk-top publishing. He provided the best tools for desk-top music composition and video editing. He made Photoshop possible. He took the yawn out of business presentations. His last project was the iPhone 4S and most of the iPad (3G), and he made sure they were stunning.
His whole life was about bringing creativity to our collective fingertips. Steve, you made the whole Universe a bit more creative. What a tremendous achievement.
Made by Steadicam, this is the thing you need to turn your iPhone camera into a worthy shot-gatherer. It's a camera stabilization device that isolates your iPhone from your wiggling hand.
Here's some video proof! You can get video like this with a Smoothee.
Here's what people typically get without a Smoothee. The limitation isn't the effort or the vision of the photographer. It's the iPhone.
Click on the image, above, to see a list of Vimeo movies that include the Smoothee Video Manual series. Try to view them in 1,2,3,4 order. The last one is sort of a surprise.
Or click here to read our biased Smoothee Review. Biased? Yes, because we've been using the Smoothee for a year longer than anybody else. Since it was a mere proto-sprat. And we made those Smoothee Manual videos for Tiffen/Steadicam.
Smoothee: About $180. Try Amazon.
A clip-on, glass-element, wide and fisheye lens gizmo! No way, really? Yes, way.
The Olloclip is a friction-fit grabber that has two optics attached. One shoots a wide angle image about 150% as wide as the native lens. The other shoots a corner-to-corner fisheye (in movie framing) that covers around 90° across the horizontal centerline, meaning more into the fisheye distorted corners. Full fisheye, corner to corner, sees about 130°.
Olloclip cleverly noted something Apple built into the iPhone 4 and 4S as a design element. The camera lens is at the central focus of the nearest rounded corner. Not only did this almost Bauhaus design element look right, it allowed a single, two-sided fixture to center up on the lens in both attachment directions.
The Olloclip only weighs 20.7 grams (0.73 oz), meaning you'll never feel its weight. It comes with two press-fit lens caps and a soft draw-string bag for pocket or purse carry. Always cap the unused optic. Tip: develop a habit for ALL lens caps in your life. Mine is this: "Always put the cap into my left trouser pocket."
In practical use, the fisheye image is the one you'll use least. Corners are notably blurry, and the distortion is harder to inhale, visually. Something we've been aware of with fisheye moving images is that the corner detail is really "ambiance" around the area of the picture people are watching. You can get away with fisheye shots with softer corners more than you can with flat shots by a large margin.
The wide angle lens is Olloclip's strongest option. There is a bit of barrel distortion, but it is manageable for editing into flat shots, and it is kinder to viewer's eyes.
Minor negatory: The Olloclip blocks the camera's light. Aw.
The rig is available in black or red anodized metal barrels and either color will cost you about $75 (including least-costly US shipping).
Worth. It.
Update: The Olloclip is entirely compatible with the Steadicam Smoothee, and all the other software we mention, below. Meaning you could shoot wide angle, Filmic Pro-exposure locked, Smoothee-flown images all at the same time...
That trio of items will cost you about $258 plus iPhone, and instantly, your previously cheese-ball camera will do more things well than you ever thought.
Update 2: We've tried the Olloclip in a number of situations and are ready to give it the official Seal Of Approval! It works well with the Steadicam Smoothee and with the stabilization program DollyCam, reviewed below.
UPDATE: A number of our grumbles have been flattened by the programmers at Cinegenics. Now it is Version 2.2.1.
One of its best features is one we wrote about in the past. Instead of showing your shot as a band across the center of the display, as all other movie shooting apps do, it jams the shot against the top of the screen, opening up a more generous band at the bottom for controls and buttons. Nice.
It lets you set any of four three different resolutions from 192 x 144, 480 x 360, 640 x 480 and 1280 x 720. Frame rates go from 1 to 25 in one frame increments, plus 30 fps.
That could get a lot done for cheap. Let's say you shoot 2 fps at 640 x 480 while pointing your camera at the sky. It's time-lapse time in the edit program!
New features arrived on September 1, 2011: GPS tagging, a Super-35 mask for wide screen cine frame shaping, the ability (thank God!) to save each shot immediately to the Camera Roll, higher and lower compression choices, uncompressed audio (!), and the ability to throw shots instantly into Tumblr.
After rolling video, you can lock exposure. This will eat the first 3-8 seconds of your shot, but who doesn't edit? Okay, put your hands down. I get it. Locking exposure would be great, but exposure locking seems to be a Big Hairy Problem for iPhone shooting, and nobody we know has solved it, yet. Update: See Movie Mount, below.
The count-in graphics are nice. They also are a pain in the ash to sit through. Make one shot with the count-in, and use that in editing. Same goes for the color bars. You will grow to hate the slate unless you are shooting a complex, professional project. Then, you will love it.
Graphics on-screen show a focus zone and exposure zone. Buttons let you lock focus, exposure and white balance. Except that only focus and white balance respect being pre-set. Exposure can only be locked AFTER the camera is rolling. And the change of states that show the locking are preciously dim, and easily ignored in bright light. Turning the whole button to, say, green, yellow, blue, white or flashing would have helped enormously. Sadly, when you stop a shot, all exposure lock is completely lost.
If you shoot indoors, much of our criticism is diminished. We shoot with Filmic Pro since it represents an improvement over Almost DSLR (below), but have been disappointed with the daylight performance of both.
Perhaps some bright person will tackle the problem of daylight shooting ergonomics and button brightness-improved with fresh eyes? Thus helping, rather than gate-keeping, the process of daylight shooting.
Bonus: Also works with the iPad 2.
iPhone 4S Update: This is a big deal. The FiLMiC Pro achieves all LOCK functions the way you want, but only on the iPhone 4S, so far. Separate WB, Focus and Exposure locks can be set BEFORE recording video, and where the iPhone 4 won't lock exposure prior to recording, the 4S does it.
Also, the settings to record 720p30 fps (but not slower speeds) in the iP4S. You can't use FP to record in 1080p, yet, but it does a superior job of scaling to 720p.
In-app processes are dicey. Play with them.
Conversion to stable takes about eight times the running length of the shot, and while it is processing a clip, your iPhone (or iPad) is a brick completely tied up.
As you shoot, you only see the center 3:4 aspect middle of your 720p30 image. Ahem.
The final result is somewhat like the Stabilize feature of iMovie, which can be added in editing. iMovie will cost you $15 for your Apple computer, but its process is tuneable and helps correct rolling shutter effects by amounts you can control.
The Big Deal difference with DollyCam is that it records the moment-to-moment gyroscope and accelerometer data as the shot is being recorded, then applies THAT to the process of post-stabilizing the shot. Clever? Yes. Enough? Buy it and try it to find out.
Caveats include:
Not real-time. Understandable, considering.
Shots made in dim light will not lose their motion smear and will be somewhat unpredictable. Understandable.
Final 720p images DO come up in correct 720p. But not while being shot. You only see the center 3:4 aspect chunk of the scene as you shoot. (&^%$#@!)
No batch processing. You can't post-stabilize a bunch of shots after you shoot a bunch of clips.
Worse: You must MANUALLY trigger the stabilization process for shots one at a time. No automatic processing during space cpu cycles. Only then can you proceed to the next clip. A major time-waster. (&^%$#@!)
No automatic transfer to your Camera Roll file after processing is finished. We want both the original and processed scenes to show up in our Camera Roll, code-identified as to which is which, for later editing. (&^%$#@!)
No way to shut off the camera's incessant refocusing and exposure jumps. (&^%$#@!)
No processing of existing clips from your Camera Roll. (&^%$#@!, but understandable, since these don't have the recorded accelerometer data in them.)
Rolling shutter artifacts are reduced. (Yay!)
Worst. Camera. In. All. iPhone-dom. If DollyCam and Almost DSLR were to combine forces, this could become a KILLER APP. As it is, it just causes a few sneezes.
Works better—BETTER—with an iPad 2. No incessant refocusing, for one thing. (Sort of Yay!)
Clearly, this is an app that is unfinished. It is frustrating to shoot 20-30 shots, then have to hover over the iPhone to complete them and save each one for an hour or so.
Recommendation: Buy it and try it. It's worth the $3 novelty value. Then save up and get a Steadicam Smoothee for a real camera stability, real-time device.
Update: 8.20.11. In a lengthy test using an iPad 2, we found that processing is only about 3.25X real-time. The faster processor of the iPad 2 cuts some of the bite out of waiting for your shot. In our case, the exactly 2:00 shot took just 6:32 to convert.
DollyCam with iPad 2. Testing 1, 2, 3...
By limiting the above test image to the iPad 2's less-flexible camera, the final results are notably better than you usually get from an iPhone 4 because there is no refocus-pumping in the image.
And if you have a Steadicam Smoothee, you're much better off shooting with Filmic Pro or Almost DSLR than corrupting your shot through the poor camera—and small extra improvement—that comes with DollyCam.
Will it work with the iPhone 4S? NO! NOT YET!
SteadyLens by elyxa. SteadyLens was another $3 stabilization app for the iPhone 4. When it first appeared, they called it SteadyCam and found out through legal channels (!) that the people who own the trademark Steadicam™ also own the trademark, Steadycam™ and they love to protect their intellectual property! Oops!
Previously we thought it useful, but the developers downgraded it to being a filter program with only standard-definition stabilization. It is now junk.
UPDATE: This app is now renamed Luma. Stay away.
Made as an accessory for the Makayama Movie Mount iPad holder/tripod mount, it has one endearing and beautifully executed feature that stands apart from all of the other camera apps you an use in an iPad:
You can LOCK THE EXPOSURE BEFORE YOU ROLL VIDEO!
Why the other app developers missed this, I can't say. But with the Movie Mount app, you can lock exposure and look around to see how that plays on the big screen, then reframe to the view you had when you locked the exposure and roll video. Now, as you pan around or move into new lighting, your exposure remains the same as it was in frame #1.
The magic puzzle piece seems to have been a line of code something like this:
On Record Start, instantly lock the current exposure settings.
Okay. I can understand a programming step like that and have wondered why nobody went for it. Well, now they have.
Other programs that promise to lock exposure only do so if you touch their exposure lock icon AFTER you roll. With Movie Mount and the exposure-lock active, when you start recording, the current exposure is memorized at that instant, staying locked during the whole shot (unless you manually turn it off during recording).
No, it won't work in an iPhone. iPad only.
Oh, about the Makayama iPad 2 Movie Mount camera case? We will let you know when ours arrives.
App Must-Haves for the iPhone 4 AND iPad 2:
Splurge. Spend the two bucks. It will be the best two dollars you could ever throw into your iPhone 4's still and video cameras. Unless you opt for Filmic Pro (above) and spend the extra buck.
Features you will use every time you fire up the camera include:
The ability to lock Exposure (after record start).
The ability to lock Focus.
The ability to lock White Balance.
The ability to lock fill light presence (camera's light / torch).
In addition, there are on-screen buttons for other handy changes:
A button to flip cameras front and back.
A button to turn mirror viewing off and on.
A button to turn framing grids on and off.
A button to control pinch and squeeze for different aspect ratios.
A button to jump to the Library to review shots.
A button to make the other buttons fade away out of sight.
I don't think Apps for the iPhone will ever give precise numerical settings for shutter speed. Exposures are controlled strictly by shutter speed. Some have reported the lens as being f/2.97 on a lens with a focal length of 3.85mm. This means that while the camera always shoots wide open, shutter speeds get mighty quick in full sun. Indoor shooting leads to nicely motion-blurred frames that look more cinematic and less "combat camera-ish".
As a practical shooting technique, Almost DSLR lets you double tap the screen to indicate the fingertip area for focus and exposure. You may have to try a few places in the image to find a good exposure AND focus point. The focus is not so much of an issue, since the iPhone 4 has depth of field equivalent to about f/22 on a 30mm lens on a 35mm film or full-frame camera.
In sunlight, many of the handy features of Almost DSLR evaporate. You can NOT read the tiny, transparent buttons and their precious, thin-line text. You don't know if you are rolling or not, for sure, or what has or has not been implemented for this current shot. Grumble, grumble. Indoors it works much better.
Exposure, focus and WB locking MUST be accomplished AFTER the camera starts shooting. Grumble, grumble.
Many of its features work with the iPhone 3GS, iPad 2 and iPod Touch.
Will it work with the iPhone 4S? Stay tuned.
I would guess that the number of people shooting 365 exposures per year is minimal. But the real fun is in the 5 seconds per interval range. At that timing, clouds dance and city streets are full of crazy.
TimeLapse is distinguished by some of its features that are unique to the program. You can, for instance, choose the size of the resulting video. In my case, that's always 720p30, but you can make the frame rate 5, 10, 15, 24 or 30 on demand. You can also save every frame as a still image for later animation on your computer.
Tip #1: Use QuickTime Pro ($30, Apple for Macs or PCs) and follow the File > Open Image Sequence > (select the lowest-numbered frame in a folder of frames) > (Select a frame rate from 1 every 10 seconds to 60 fps) and blink once while QuickTime pulls the shots together into a movie. QTP is fast working, flexible and will make movies as large as your original images.
You could, for instance, shoot 18 MP Large frames with a DSLR or HDSLR, and QuickTime Pro would dutifully pack them into an 18 MP movie. Suitable for IMAX.
With the iPhone 4, the maximum frame size is 2592 x 1936 pixels; substantially above the 2K movie frames that are captured by the Red camera at its 2K setting. Not that the iPhone is a competitor, but it's an indication of how detail-rich a QTP+iPhone 4 shot can aspire to be.
TimeLapse can be set for from 1 to 10,000 frames. The setting for just one frame is trivial, but shows up when you set frame count to 0000. You get 10,000 frames when the count is set to 9999. Meaning that if you set the shot number to 150, you'd get 151 frames.
Tip #2: You may elect to save frames as Large (maximum frame size), Medium (1296 x 972) or Small (640 x 480). Choose Medium. These are slightly wider than 720p frames but you can tell QTP to spit out the movie as a 1280 x 720 frame with correct aspect ratio maintained by the choice "Crop" in the Size menu item. That shrinks the frames slightly and produces a perfect time-lapse scene at your frame rate of choice.
Here's one now shrunk to column size from its pristine 720p intermediate:
As soon as the camera stopped shooting, I could review the shot on the iPhone 4. But in QuickTime Pro, I was able to specify 24 fps and the crop to 16:9. A second pass let me export this 600 x 337 file and the size is only about 1.3 megabytes here.
Saving all the frames to the Library is an option, not a commandment. For any critical work, I always follow that as a workflow because who knows what it may become? The program shoots faster when it isn't burdened with saving each shot, though, so you can get shots as quickly as about 1 per second if you tweak the program just right.
Something to watch out for: If you shoot—as I tried—a scene in which most of the pixels are completely different, frame to frame, the in-iPhone compression may spit out a blocky, indistinct movie. QuickTime Pro avoids this.
Tip #3: If you shoot with the Large saved frames, QTP will animate the shot as a 2592 x 1936 pixel movie. Too big to see on your computer screen. But you can import this giant moving image into many editing programs and crawl over its surface as a Ken Burns effect, panning around inside the frame. If the output is 720p, you have a 2+ power zoom available for reframing, or for giving a slight tele effect to the image.
As you can see in our example, the exposure is not locked. We have mentioned this to the developer and hope that future versions will implement this as a feature. UPDATE: The developer says there is a focus and exposure lock, but we have not been able to implement it without on-screen verification graphics.
But even in the current version, one of the options is Smoothing. This blends adjacent frames together somewhat, and that tends to even out the exposure differences. Unfortunately, the blending process reduces on-screen detail by a considerable amount. We avoid this.
Another option, Double Shot, takes two exposures per frame and combines them 50/50. Net result, as far as we can tell, slight tonality evening for non-moving subjects and a double exposure effect on every frame. Even the saved ones. That tends to look like a tiny bit of motion smear on slow subjects, like clouds, but enhances fast movement with the doubled motion impressions. Use it for shots played back at 15 fps, and viewer impressions will be that smoother motion is being seen. A nice alternate.
What would be nicest would be having the Double Shot process create an exposure-locked HDR image with every frame. Wish on...
Still, this is a premium time-lapse gathering program and an app for the ages.
Will it work with the iPhone 4S? Quite well. Get it.
Major Tip: Get a Tiffen Steadicam Smoothee camera holder for your iDevice. It costs only about $25 from Amazon, and it is the surest, securest iPhone 4 / 4S, iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch tripod clip you can get. Or just get the whole rig for around $180, including the clip. Separate clips for each camera.
Now, a camera clip to mate a GoPro Hero HD is available. And the new GoPro Hero 2 works with it as well.
5 Megapixel Image. The image chip makes a 3:4 aspect image with 2592 x 1936 pixels. Meaning a 5,018,112-pixel image.
Each pixel is a 1.75µm square. Sensitivity is good enough from bright beach sun to casually-lit incandescent interiors. White balance automatically settles into approximately the right places most of the time.
You can tap on the preview image to force the camera to focus and expose for that area, and that's good enough for many stills, but wait, there's more...
Two-shot HDR. By setting the still camera function to HDR > ON, you cause the camera to shoot two fast images at different exposures. One normal; the other darker by about two stops. Two images, a normal and HDR-processed photo, will appear in the Library if you set that feature.
In most cases, you'll want to throw away the normal image later. It will usually have bleached white highlights and appear quite contrasty. But sometimes it will be the superior shot. The HDR picture will have much greater tonality and slightly less grain in dark areas.
Movie Files Are 720p30. They look better than they have any right to. Exposure is controlled strictly by shutter speed, and the iPhone does not have a native ability to lock exposure—so it floats all over the place in response to the brightness of subjects crossing through the frame. Ugh.
But in even light, it looks fine. Images have a slightly contrasty, "movie" look to them, and, as with stills, you can tap on a subject to cause the camera to both focus and expose for a small area of the shot, but you can't make it stick.
We prefer to target a bright area, slightly underexposing the shots. Your preference may vary.
Fortunately, some of the software Apps you can get for the iPhone will stick the exposure.
8 Megapixel Image. The image chip makes a 3:4 aspect image with 3264 x 2448 pixels. Meaning a 7,990,272-pixel image. That's just 2 pixels shy, in each dimension, of a pedantic literalist's 8 million.
Phil Schiller calls it enough for an 8 x 10 print. Way underestimating its true potential. At 175 ppi (National Geographic's page screen) you'd get an 18.6 x 14-inch print. Tabloid printer needed to show off the iPhone 4S output.
The lens has gone to five elements and f/2.4. Macro focus is improved. It still works with the Olloclip (above).
Each light sensor is a 1.5µm square. The custom chip by Sony is a Backside-illuminated CMOS, meaning that each pixel surface is much larger than on the chip of the iPhone 4 even though it has 60% more sensors. Sensitivity is good enough from bright beach sun to dimly-lit incandescent interiors. White balance has been improved to retain natural lighting effects without over-compensating.
Facial recognition is now a focus targeting technique.
Three-shot HDR. By setting the still camera function to HDR > ON, it now takes 3 fast images at different exposures. Under, over and center-exposure improving the camera's dynamic range by 4 extra stops. Two images, a normal and HDR-processed photo, will appear in the Library if you set that feature.
Movie Files Are Now Stabilized 1080p30. Full maximum broadcast HD. Colorimetry and tonal dynamics are improved. Exposure is controlled strictly by shutter speed. With Stablilzation ON, the camera performs real-time stability and rolling shutter adjustment in a way similar to the DollyCam software (above).
Dual Core Processor. Image signal processing vastly improved.
Fast-access to camera without booting the whole iPhone from sleep—still and video.
AirPlay lets you transmit your shot to a nearby Apple TV or computer or iPad by WiFi. Or send it back to your computer right away.
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0.9 Megapixel Image. The image chip makes a maximum 16:9 aspect image with 1280 x 720 pixels. Meaning a 921,600-pixel image, or 0.9 MP. If the image is shot with Apple's on-board still camera, the resulting file is only 960 x 720 pixel image in 3:4 aspect, or 0.7 MP. To get the larger still image, you'll need the Almost DSLR app (above).
One bit of good news: The iPad2 HD image is also 1280 x 720 pixels and can be steered to shoot better images than the iPhone 4. But for that, you'll need the FiLMiC Pro app (above) or this -->
Recommended: The Movie Mount App from Makayama.
Notes: The hyperfocal-set iPad2 lens is HD sharp from about 6 inches (150mm) to infinity. And never disrupts a shot with an inappropriate re-focus adjustment.
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I was promenading in this walk when I saw Mlle. antonine for the first time.
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We're continuing to see new examples of immersion cooling at meaningful scale. In July we brought you an update on an immersion cooling system at CGG using technology from Green Revolution Cooling. We've also been tracking early projects using "open bath immersion" cooling based on technology developed by 3M.
Open bath immersion (OBI) is an example of passive two-phase cooling, which uses a boiling liquid to remove heat from a surface and then condenses the liquid for reuse, all without a pump. The servers are immersed in 3M's Novec, a non-conductive chemical with a very low boiling point, which easily condenses from gas back to liquid. The OBI technique, which we first saw at last year's Data Center World show, is now in use in a handful of sites. Here's an overview of some of these projects.
Allied Control
Hong Kong-based Allied Control is specializing in developing high-density cooling solution using 3M's Novec and OBI. The company has recently deployed a 500kW high performance computing (HPC) production installation known as Immersion-2 for a client in Hong Kong. This design uses OBI in standard 19-inch racks, and was deployed in less than six months. Allied Control says the system operates at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.02, which would make it one of the most efficient designs in the world, even though Hong Kong has a hot and humid climate. The facility is located in a high rise building and fits in the size of a standard shipping container.
One issue with a rack-mounted approach to immersion cooling is weight. "The weight is indeed a small challenge for standard sized racks, but actually more due to the increased system density, not really the fluid," said Alex Kampl, VP of Engineering for Allied Control. "You also remove a lot of weight by not using air cooling. We've been working with a rack manufacturer who has been very helpful." Here's a look at the facility:
The company previously built a dedicated immersion-cooled facility called Immersion-1 to cool a unique supercomputer comprised of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), which are semiconductor devices that can be programmed after manufacturing.
Allied Control created Immersion-1, a system using 6,048 FPGA chips combining 890 million logic cells, which will encompass up to 24 tanks. The company says that a similar installation using traditional air cooling would require more than 8,500 Dual Xeon 1U servers in more than 200 racks.
"Immersion-1 has become a massive prototype and proof of concept for a whole new generation of computing," Allied Control says on its web site. "Since the special application tweaks the maximum performance out of each FPGA, they generate much more heat than in traditional FPGA applications. Often, FPGAs have to be throttled down or are not running at maximum performance due to cooling issues. In case of Immersion-1, the cluster would not be able to run on passive cooling and the FPGA chip temperature rises above its maximum specifications within seconds. Only by using immersion cooling it was possible to build and run Immersion-1 with its very demanding cooling requirements."
The company has also developed a design concept to adapt Intel's Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC workloads in immersion cooling, and is interested in developing high-density designs using Intel's Dense Form Factor (DFF) cards in open bath immersion.
"OBI is in its early stages, but I am sure we'll see exciting progress very soon," said Kampl. "Unfortunately we are wasting a lot of time right now to literally remove unnecessary parts from hardware built for air-cooling, so my hope is that system designers start offering similar hardware like the DFF cards."
The Allied Control technology will be on display at the 3M booth at next week's SC13 conference in Denver.
Next: Projects by 3M, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
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by Zoe Thomas '14
Last semester I attended Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. The program was more like a conservatory, so my classes were all dance-focused. I took dance analysis, Australian dance, technique studies, and performance. The technique studies class actually consisted of multiple dance classes, including ballet and contemporary every morning, followed by pointe class, partnering, tumbling, contact improve, and/or yoga in the afternoon. After these classes, we would have rehearsal about three times a week.
The rules in the dance department were shockingly stringent. We were only allowed to wear pink tights and "light-colored" leotards. We were not allowed to wear any jewelry at all, not even stud earrings. If you had piercings that you couldn't take out, you had to put tape over them. If you didn't follow the dress code, you were not allowed to take class. If you were more than three to five minutes late to class, you were not allowed to take class, and if you missed your technique classes, you were not allowed to participate in rehearsals. It was difficult to get used to at first, but it became normal after a few weeks.
Another challenge was trying to understand my teachers and classmates! I was the only American student in the class, so they were speaking true "Australian." They abbreviate everything. For example, university is called uni, sunnies refer to sunglasses, awks means awkward, prezzies refer to gifts. It sounds like when people speak in text language, but to an extreme, and with additional rules like adding o's to the ends of words or z's in the middle.
There are also different words for a lot of things: A tank top is called a singlet; flip-flops are called thongs, which can be confusing in certain contexts; bell peppers are called capsicum; ketchup is called tomato sauce; and French fries are called chips. Eventually I caught on, but it can be daunting at first.
I was in a class of 15 students. They were all very close because they all had the same classes together and they spent so much time together. It was entertaining being in a group like this where they all supported each other. They all had fun nicknames for each other, too—which made learning everyone's name more complicated. For example, Skye was called "Skid," for some reason of which I wasn't aware. Amelia was called "Kill Bill," because of her ninja-like dance style, and Chloe was called "Rubes" because of her red hair. I eventually adopted my own nickname—Midge. (I'll let you guess where that came from.) It was nice being in an environment where everyone had similar aspirations and helped each other achieve them while also having a healthy level of competition.
Although I missed the intellectual aspects of non-dance classes at Goucher, I enjoyed being able to focus on dance and not worrying about managing my time. We had much more time to rehearse and spent two entire weeks in the theater taking class and rehearsing before we had our performances. This allowed us time to work on specific performance qualities, such as our focus and intention. Focus was emphasized a lot in our contemporary class and rehearsals in order to make our steps more precise and to help the group move as one.
For me, as a dancer, intention was the most important aspect we worked on. The emphasis everyone placed on intention was much greater and more useful than what I have previously experienced or seen. I think it should be emphasized more in rehearsals. It made me think a lot about my personal approach to performing and choreographing. In rehearsals we were immediately corrected if our intention wasn't clear, and we drilled it until it was. We weren't told what to express specifically, but we were asked exactly what we intended to express and told to emphasize it through certain movements.
I was pushed to break down the wall that was restricting what I was willing to share. By the time we were on stage, I could really feel my passion and emotion projecting out to the point of vulnerability. This was a huge step for me and has influenced my dancing in a way that I will never forget. My semester in Australia was a wonderful experience and will stay with me both as a person and as a dancer.


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The most ridiculous manifestation of sabertooth cats in popular culure may be the novel Hunter. In this book, a group of scientists manages to create a cross between a human and a sabertooth cat, who escapes and must be tracked down before he reaches civilization.
You don't have to enter the depths of science fiction craziness to be frightened by sabertooth cats. Depending on the species, they were roughly three feet tall, weighed up to a thousand pounds, and had those famously large canines (up to almost a foot long).
The average person may think that their canines are all the sabertooth cats would need to kill prey. However, the general scientific consensus is that their forelimbs were important to restrain prey, minimizing the risk of damage to their canines.
Unambiguous analysis of forelimb bone resistance to compression and bending would help settle this question. Such an analysis has been carried out by Julie Meachen-Samuels and Blaire Van Valkenburgh (University of California Los Angeles, United States).
Sabertooth cat forelimb bones.
The scientists directly measured bone lengths and thicknesses by taking x-ray measurements of Smilodon fatalis (a species of sabertooth cat) humerus bones (the forelimb bone, which runs from the shoulder to the elbow). They calculated (1) resistance to compression in the axial direction (i.e. along the length of the bone), (2) rigidity to non-axial compression, and (3) resistance to bending about the craniocaudal (head to tail) and mediolateral (inside to outside) planes using this data.
They found that the forelimb bones are both thicker and more resistant to bending than corresponding bones in modern cats. However, their femur (thigh bone) is similar to modern cats.
Sabertooth cats' front legs were far more powerful than their back legs, relative to modern cats. This makes sabertooth cats fundamentally different from modern cats, who typically kill with a crushing bite to the neck.
Modern cats don't have the huge canines of sabertooth cats, and thus aren't at as much risk of losing important teeth when killing their prey. This new data strongly suggests that sabertooth cats could use their well-developed forelimb to restrain prey, likely to enable slashing bites to get the job done quickly.
Enhanced forealimb relative to hindlimbs have been seen in other species, but they serve to facilitate digging or swimming. Another possible explanation is an adaptation to climbing, but this is less likely due to these cats' huge size.
A reason for sabertooth cat decline?
This forelimb adaptation of sabertooth cats is energetically costly. It consequently stands to reason that it imparted an evolutionary advantage.
The scientists speculate that it may have nevertheless led to their decline. After large prey disappeared from their habitat roughly 10,000 years ago, the predominant prey was smaller and likely more agile, leaving sabertooth cats (less agile) with the same huge canines but without catchable food.
for more information:
Meachen-Samuels, J. A., & Van Valkenburgh, B. (2010). Radiographs Reveal Exceptional Forelimb Strength in the Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon fatalis PLoS ONE, 5 (7) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011412


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