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Just Posted: Canon Powershot S100 studio comparison samples
Just Posted: JPEG and Raw studio samples from the Canon Powershot S100 and Nikon J1. In preparation for our forthcoming reviews, we have shot our standard studio test scene with both the Canon Powershot S100 and Nikon J1. To allow easy comparison with their peers, we have now added these shots to our comparison tool. Both the S100 and J1 can now be selected from the pull-down list within any review or in our standalone comparison tool.
Note: We have shot our standard comparison scene with two S100s, and selected the sharpest set of images overall. It is obvious though, from close examination, that the right-hand side of these sample images is slightly soft compared to the center and left-hand side. We are expecting a third S100 sample very shortly and we will revisit this studio comparison at that time.
Click here to see the Canon Powershot S100 in our studio comparison tool
This is our standard studio scene comparison shot taken from exactly the same tripod position. Lighting: daylight simulation, >98% CRI. Crops are 100%. Ambient temperature was approximately 22°C (~72°F).
JPEGs are shot at default parameters and raw files are converted using Adobe Camera RAW. Because Adobe Camera Raw applies different levels of sharpening to different cameras we use the following workflow for these conversions:
- Load RAW file into Adobe Camera RAW (Auto mode disabled)
- Set Sharpness and Noise Reduction to 0
- Open file to Photoshop
- Apply a Unsharp mask: 100%, Radius 0.6, Threshold 0
- Save as a JPEG quality 11 for display and download.
Click here to see the Nikon J1 samples in our studio comparison tool
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Wonder how we'll know if and when they fix the focusing problems? Not surprisingly, I have been unable to find any indication Canon has even acknowledged a problem exists.
It's actually reassuring that dpreview is not so cozy with Canon that they wouldn't already have a perfect S100 tester from them with which to erase the shame of two bad copies!
I believe that the S100 image is out of focus. Other early adopters have noticed that the camera has trouble with focus on close subjects, and looking at the text lying on the table it appears to me that the problem is one of critical focus rather than resolution. If cannot believe that Canon would release an inferior product and call it progress.
there are always tradeoffs. some people may become happy, some others not. but Canon marketing thinks more people will be happy.
S100 may be a good news to those who are not happy because to me, it looks Canon downgraded the line to a lower class, mass production segment then a logical thing could be a new higher class camera is around the corner. maybe.
Hey guys please help me out: I only take pictures in widescreen mode. In this mode, this problems on the corners of the photo will not show up right? Thank you!!
Dear bzanchet,please ignore this whole test, it's not representative at all, something is seriously wrong and nobody knows what it is exactly at this moment. People are speculating but it can be a million things from a pure technical point of view. As I posted before: look at other reviews (TechRadar-WhatDigitalCamera-B and H Photo etc), test it yourself risk free with an online purchase and only then decide if you want to keep the camera. And something else: do you really only take pictures in widescreen mode? Buy yourself a 7D with a Sigma 8-16. Best price-quality wise!
Check this:
I think that S100 has slightly softer-looking results than the earlier S95.
I wonder whether high ISO comparisons mean anything at all, particularly in reference to a 1/1.7" sensor camera. In practice, shouldn't the real test be the margin of advantage one gets with a hand-held shot in low light, relative to a 1/2.3" sensor camera? Noise at super high ISO is likely to be bad in either case. The DSLR size sensor will always win that contest, scoring "least ugly" at >36k ISO. But what one really wants is a compact device that, with ISO at 1200 or less, will deliver non-blurry hand-held shots in a dim setting, or slightly higher DR in high contrast settings.
many use compacts to take photos of their children which demands fast speed (like 0.1s AF, 6 fps) and ISO 1600 or higher.
ISO doesn't directly mean image quality without taking into consideration of sensor size and technology. then ISO100 on a 1/2.3" sensor is about equivalent of ISO150 on 1/1.7", and ISO3000 on 35mm FF. they all translates into same amount of light (regardless of the format), and same image quality if the sensor efficiency are same.
Doesn't the 'having to send for a third sample because the first two are, well, not very good,' suggest that buying one of these would be rather a bad idea? If the third one turns out to be rather good and gets high marks etc. people may end up buying a dud one and being rather disappointed.
*edited to make more sense (I think, anyway)
The bad quality is a surprise, above all because the smaller sensor Powershot SX230 did very very good recently (better than almost all the same size sensor cameras before) and I thought they would port the advance to this bigger sensor camera...?
PS. Oh,the problem seems to be the lens.
From what I saw, it looks like the fault here on the S100 is the lens. The center target was kindof soft, but sharper than anywhere else in the frame, purple fringing is rampant, distortion is higher... basically most things I can think of as a lens flaw are visible here. Shocked, really!
Can anyone download the RAW from here? I get an XML error. I like to roll my own in ACR....
They should now be available, sorry about the delay.
I just wanted to comment on how much I like dpreview's new, more responsive attitude. :-) From redoing the nx200 shots (and perhaps more importantly, posting the raw conversion pics), to looking into these s100 shot problems, I just want to say - thanks. :-) So much better than the old days of "well, if the studio shots aren't right that's just to bad" like with the (much older) Samsung tl500. :-)
Also love the "will respond to legitimate questions and concerns" thing to! I would never expect a response to everything, but an occasional response to honest questions that can be responded easily to is great! :-)
I compared LX5, S100 and J1: this latter seem a lot better in resolution. In facto looking al file info J1 picture is at 300 pixel/" and the other two at 180 pixels/".
The total pixels in the three picture is almost the same. Where is the trick?
Did you notice the LX-5 and Nikon J1 also have "only" 10 MP? Clearly, the S100 is let down by a lens that cannot deliver 10 MP of resolution (at least in this sample) and many other lens flaws besides.
Also, what's "shame" about 10 MP? At what size screen is this gonna limit you, or what size print? I have no problem printing posters from 10 MP photos, I did it for room decoration and recently for a graded senior art exhibit. Until cameras are made with a totally different method of capturing light, more than 8 or 10 MP is pointless in relatively cheap P&S cameras when image processing, lens quality, and low-light capture prevent that much resolution in most situations.
> more than 8 or 10 MP is pointless
the same amount of light, there is no problem you go more pixels until you hit the 1+ micron limit of the current technology.
the same amount of light, the image quality (noise only) is about the same no matter you have 1MP or 18MP on a 1/1.7" sensor.
about the lens, f/2.0 on 1/1.7" sensor is about f/9.2 on 35mm FF, and you can make lens that works near perfectly at open.
I talked things in general, not exactly the conditions set by forzanopaolo. and even for S100, I guess there should be a place in the focal range where the lens performs well.
Obviously something is wrong, is it in the S100 or something has happend during the shot. There are a lot of good elements in the sample of the S100. Hope we can get some answers soon.
I just notice a one posibble cause. If you compare the studio scene wich have been taken earlyer, for example with S90, so you can see that the Martini botle has been opened. Is that the reason for the soft sample of the S100. Please can anybody confirm that ;)
I am surprised at just how badly the S100 fares compared to its immediate predecessor. Frankly, even if a third copy is better, a 2/3 bum rate is simply unacceptable QC. It seems Canon sacrificed IQ at the altar of wide angle and megapixel.
Pity. This series used to be the one to get for real compact shooting.
Well, numerous replies here suggesting it must be a faulty lens BUT DPR staff indicates the images we're seeing are the best from 2 different samples of the camera AND they're waiting for a third copy to test. If the third copy doesn't improve by a huge margin over the other two it looks like Canon stepped in it.
I'm thinking the S95 might be worth snapping up for less than $300 before the supply starts to dry up.
I am not happy seeing that there is yet another marketing driven madness going on after the infamous megapixel race fell out of favor. It's the unrealistic wide-end focal lengths requirement that ruins the great potential the current models of compact cameras certainly have. I realized this after seeing the true, unbaked RAW output from Fuji F550exr. The soft sides are inevitable results of software correction of vignetting, chroma aberration and (especially) extreme barell distortion.
Yet I didn't expect this happening to Canon's ethusiast compact flagship. I feel really sorry for the camera engineers with their most briliant ideas and research effort wasted by marketing departments once again.
Check out the review on TechRadar as well, it totally contradicts what we see here. But, as always, I'll check it all myself in real life, no review can beat that. Thanks to the 'online bought return policies' it's risk free! So, don't conclude just yet, it may be the only real portable camera with just enough IQ to bring a smile on your face because you know that the picture you just took would never have been taken with your 4 lbs weighing DSLR+ Lens. Why not? Because it's still at home!
When I preview the s100 what easy to do instore test or tests would you recommend to do to screen out a bad lens or focusing or combo of things prior to purchasing. Thanx
Take a picture of someone's hair. Like, have the back of someone's head fill the frame, perhaps with a light source visible against the outline of the person's head so you can check for purple fringing in high contrast areas and soft, mushy texture instead of distinct hairs on the back of their head.
Kindof look lame aesthetically, though.
It simply looks like a faulty lens not a focusing or a focus plane curvature problem. Left side is sharper than the right side. Check out the kodak test paper towards the right side (not only the extreme corners but right side is altogether softer) then compare it to the left of the picture. But I like the new approach to image processing which creates fine grains rather than color blotches maybe due to stronger chroma noise reduction.
Doesn't look good.
What's going on here? Consider this:
1. If these pictures are really made with a s100 that's not flawed, unfocussed or mistakenly not handeled well at times or in any other way corrupted then it's a big dissapointment and absolutely not worth buying.
2. This camera gets 5 stars with B and H photo in the USA and has eight reviews so far. Some other reviews and experiences mentioned here suggest a totally different IQ as well.
If this really is such 'a big website' how on earth is it possible that canon provides DPreview with a camera like this to be tested! They must be sleeping and apparently it's the second camera as well! Double shame on you canon! I'll receive my s100 in a few days, will test it accurately together with my 7D and you'll now the outcome soon.
I agree.
But I really hope that dpreview doesn't allow Canon, or other manufacturers, to "supply" them with any cameras. If so, the reviews would most likely be based upon a copy of a camera that is pretested to be absolutely "best in the batch". When QC is what it is, such reviews would of course not have any real value to the consumer.
If that were true, I'd expect us to receive fewer decentred and oddly-behaving cameras than we do.
Dark goob, saying the same thing over and over doesn't make it true. If DPReeview test were so "flawed" how come they are so consistent throughout other ISO values and cameras? Such an ambitious lens in a tiny package, as admirable as the effort is, is prone to inaccuracies, and cramming more pixels requires a heavier-handed NR (noticed the feathers?).
Because they didn't change the focus between the ISO changes.
I agree that the wider range of the lens and higher pixel count would lead us to expect it to not be as sharp, but there is still the fact that the Queen of Hearts and Dime are sharper and have way better detail quality. I'm just not convinced that it's not the focus.
Sorry to repeat myself so much, but I guess I got carried away after seeing people continually repeating how terrible they thought it looked.
I think we figured out what you think about this review, dark goob...
Overall, from what one can take from this review, is that the S100 is not a revolutionary marvel. However, considering its wider range lens, it seems to be doing fairly well, even in the corners. ISO performance seems to be, I don't know, a tad better than its older siblings. I have the S90 and was thinking about upgrading. After seeing this, I will wait for some more reviews to be published.
This test is simply flawed.
Look here, the S100 looks just fine in the background of the image. That's no surprise, because that's where it's focused:
Of course on the "default" positions (wristwatch etc.) the S100 looks soft. Duh, it's out of focus!
Also, just to show that the softness is not from any "corner softness" of the lens:
The grid pattern in the upper left shown here. It is in the background plane of the test. This supports my argument that the S100 is more in focus on the background than it is on the foreground, whereas the S95 was more in focus on the foreground where the "default" test areas are.
I hear crickets chirping, and I know it is because I am right. Because I have tested both of these cameras in real life, in my own hands, and the S100 is really better. Even at 83° it didn't show much aberration out in the corners inside a building with lots of windows in that area, with sunlight streaming in.
Don't listen to DPReview.. go take a memory card to a real camera store and test it. Buy it there too, since there's not going to be any price difference on the net anyway.
II think you're wrong about this test shot.
If you look at the items on top of the black box (jewel, measuring tape, Mickey Mouse), they are in focus. Yet some of these items are clearly in front of the watch, which ruins your theory that the watch is out of focus because it is in front of the point of focus.
The image is degraded at the edge of the frame everywhere, and especially in the corners.
And if it is a bad copy of the camera, so what? That is valid information to include in a review. It speaks to the quality control of the company.
I hope this helps.
Actually I think the measuring tape etc. is slightly out-of-focus already. The watch is more out of focus because it's on the periphery. There are certainly lenses where the focal plane can be sharp across the board, but the DOF has curved boundaries. I suppose that would be useful information to know, but given that the angle of view doesn't even match between the two shots, then I don't see how we can expect them to have gotten the focusing right, either.
Either way the fact remains that the Queen, dime, etc. are still sharper on the S100. Why do you suppose that is? I'm going with the focus points, but who knows. Given that the shots aren't even taken at the same AoV or the same position, and things are in somewhat different positions between them, then I'm just not that convinced myself.
But to be sure when I'm at work I'll test both again for myself.
Goob, I don't think the test is flawed - the guys surely know how to focus a P&S. I guess they focused on the white cross in the middle. At F4.5 the whole scene should be sharp and clear.
Still, the front is out of focus, as you can see on the card board ramp with the fine lines.
I think the focusing mechanism is faulty (maybe a software bug).
The lens also suffers from low contrast: Look at the top of the paper clips, they are on the focus plane, but are very "foggy".
Canon simply should have kept the same lens and sensor resolution. The much improved ISO and JPG performance would have made an even greater little camera than the S95. Damn marketing!
Those shots show that the S100 lens has a high degree of field curvature, not that the test shots are out of focus.
The bottom of the image (which is also the closest) is terrible, while the top of the image, even all the way to the top corners, is very sharp -- likely sharper than the 3 other cameras.
I can't tell if this is a back-focus issue, or a decentering issue.
Also, I cannot download the RAW S100 files to process on my own in PShop CS5.I get an XML error when i try...
I have an S90 which has unacceptably soft corners at telephoto. I regret having not replaced it or sent it to Canon for warranty service. Lately (after 2 years) it will not focus at normal-to-telephoto range, whether manual or auto, and it is now sometimes struggles to find enough contrast to focus at any focal length.
My older EOS 450 still performs admirably, but its EF-S 55-250 lens has always suffered from extreme softness at various focal lengths.
It looks like dpreview has gotten two bad copies of the S100, which further suggests that Canon has quality control issues. Is it so costly for Canon to perform basic lens tests on their higher end products before the consumer is stuck to deal with it?
I wanted an S100 but now I am seriously researching my options...
"I have an S90 which has unacceptably soft corners at telephoto."
And my S90 has really soft corners at wide angle. And really bad contrast at ALL focal lengths. But then the S90 tested by dpreview also has really bad contrast.
I think that the S cameras just have a cheap P&S quality lens.
I have an s95, and when i saw the s100 i was a little jealous (mainly because of the gps functionality. I needn't have worried- it looks pretty poor!
Look at the Queen of Hearts' face or the US dime. The test is flawed. The S100 is focused on the background more than the watch and stuff in the foreground. Maybe because it did face recognition on the faces on the stamp and card? LOL.
I don't know about you but I think a camera that focuses on the faces first, by default, is better.
The S100 is really better, it's just that DPReview does not do a very good job making sure the cameras are focused on the same place in these tests.
Wow, the price of the S95 just went up.
Cramming in more pixels, increasing pixel density and slowing down the lens, isn't this just a predictable result?
Buy an Lx5 or S95, the S100 is a dud.
Oh, and looks like it was made by Fisher Price.
Look at the Queen of Hearts' face.
Look at the US dime and the old woman's face to the right of it.
On both of those the S100 appears much sharper and better at RAW, ISO 100. Also at JPEG, ISO 1600.
Meanwhile the watch-face looks clearer on the other cameras.
I FIRMLY believe these tests to be flawed. I think that the focus point is slightly different sometimes in these tests. I think the S100 focused slightly behind the others. It's a three-dimensional scene with many objects. It's not a scientific test.
I am really getting tired of these tests being treated as though they were the word of God. Get an S100 in your hands and take some pictures, take the same ones with an S95. In all my personal testing, the S100 beats the S95... it's just better.
And further the S100 is thinner. The front ring turns much easier, allowing better one-handed operation. The relief on the buttons make them easier to press. The S100 a better camera in every respect. The video is better too.
Am i missing something here - but the ISO shots of the S100 at 1600 look crap. At 3200 unusable. The S95 is better? Weird.
Looks like handheld to me - dpreview should replace this pic... ...is there no quality control?
You are so, so wrong...
Pretty sure DPR knows more about photography and testing methodology than most of us could ever hope to learn. Especially me. That's why they are trying a -3rd- camera on the million to one chance that the 1st two were defective which I highly doubt. Fairly certain the DPR quality control is the exact same, which makes this site the most trusted site for exhaustive and extensive reviews, otherwise you would not be here right now. This really sux for me cuz I want to love this camera, but now looking at X10 and LX5 reviews (ruling out the XZ-1 due to horrible video quality).
Well the focus point is slightly different on the S100 shot.
I saw the same thing on their test of the E-P3... the NEX-5N was tested at 50mm, F/8, whereas the E-P3 was at 50mm, F/6.3. Of course it's going to look slightly softer with slightly less DOF, and with the cameras at different distances to the subject matter.
You just can't expect tests like this to be very accurate when they are changing the distance-to-subject, F-stop, focus point, and other factors, to where the cameras are not even on equivalent settings.
dark goob, the EP-3 is 2x crop and the NEX is 1.5 crop. You need a smaller aperture to get the same depth of field on NEX that you get on M43 cameras.
Hard to wait for the review, especially of IQ to see if there is an improvement over these samples! I am looking to replace a stolen LX3 (I have a G12 but want something pocketable) - and am tempted by the Olympus except that it does not have the AEL/AFL that I find useful.
WOW - 24mm on a S100 was a great idea - but Canon should have added that to a S95 and nothing else - all the high priced gimmics and the 2 more megapixels on a CMOS sensor only effected a higher RSP - and the sad but true conclusion that LX5 offers the a much IQ and value with a 24 mm lens in just a slightly larger body.
The S100 has a Canon-made sensor whereas the S95 had a Sony-made sensor. Guess where Sony's sensor plant is? Hint: it's underwater.
What were they supposed to do?
Either way read my other comments. It's the test that's flawed, not the camera. The S100 did just fine. Look at the US dime in the background. The focus points are different. The angles of view are also different between the two shots.
These tests do not represent "the truth" or "reality." They are just a one-off test. To achieve a statistically valid sample size of the S100 you would have to test a lot more than just two or three of each model. To assume there is no manufacturing difference between models is very ignorant.
I am sure Canon didn't expect any plant to be radioactive or underwater when they decided to replace the sensor. I just express what I wished the S95 successor would look like and feature. As someone here alredy said: Never change a winning team - and I really like the ergonomics and manua controls of the Powershot S series but I definitelly prefer the S95 IQ - sharpness, colours and low light performance with plenty of detail. Nevertheless I will give the S100 a hand and do my own real world test in 2012 - hopefully after the construction plants are back to the standards they had before mother earth hit them.
dpreview should take this down until they get a replacement S100, as this one is clearly defective.
We've shot with 2 samples of the S100 (see my comments further down this thread) and we're expecting a third. We will update the samples if there's any IQ difference but remember that this studio scene is hyper-critical, and not always representative of everyday use at various focal lengths and subject distances.
Curious...does Canon provide the sample cameras or does DPR buy them from stores at random?
Heh, most ppl are so brand-addicted =) Canon... Olympus XZ-1 is much better than S95 and S100
XZ-1 is placed at another class...a s100/95 can never match XZ-1...
There might be a centering issue. But there is most certainly a focus issue. Everything at the back is sharp. Look at the playing card and the gray scale card. No problems with sharpness there! And the more towards the front you comes the blurrier it gets. So either the cameras have been focused at different points or this S100 has a back focusing issue.
The S100 camera is broken - must be. Its totally soft on the right side and rather soft on the left. Really, really bad.
They just didn't focus the cameras on the same spots.
Giving DPReview the benefit of the doubt, I'd say that sometimes you can get one part of an image in focus but you've only gotten it focused in the front of the focus field, rather than in the middle or the back of the focus field, depth-wise. So that where you were trying to focus is the same on two different shots, but in one shot the background is more in focus where on the other, the foreground is more in focus. I believe that what DPReview has done is to focus on the background with both cameras, but on the S95 they got the foreground in focus better than they did on the S100.
I feel like I've seen the same thing on a couple of other tests, like the E-P3, which also looked a hair soft on the foreground parts.
Just to prove that it's not corner softness of the lens, look at this area of the upper-left corner of the image:
The S100 kills the other guys up there.
Hm - I guess the best thing about the S100 is...
... that the price of the S95 will drop.
I really do not understand Canon:
Why 12 MP and more zoom?
Although the JPG engine was improved, the paperclips are a misty, blurry mess.
bump up iso a notch and you will see the canon models fall behind real quick.
The nikon Ji/v1 have very good high iso compared to the canon S100 and S95.
after this test, I have a question for the Canon people:
Hi Guys, are you Kidding?
look at this !!!!!
No, it's just because the S100 is out of focus at that point in the scene. Want proof? Here.
I think though the question is WHY is it out of focus. Should we assume that DPReview performed the test wrong more than once even though they have done it a thousand times correctly?...or is there some focusing issues with the S100? It would be nice to get a fair comparison but if they can't manage to get the camera working properly then there is a bigger issue than just simple edge softness with the lens.
Then the Dpreview Test is wrong, because they are not considering the depht field of the camera lens.
I love that studio tool, and I am considering an S100 as a gift for a friend.
But my eye could not really tell any major differences between the two Canon powershot models. I did see that the S95 appeared to have some slightly richer darks and blacks, but was that really a significant difference in models, or could it have just been an individual anomaly for either the S95 or the S100 sample camera?
The Nikon seemed poor in comparison to the others, but between the two Canon PS's, I'm not sure.
Maybe I'm just not skilled at looking for lens aberrations.
The amount of smudging and flair(?) really suggest a faulty sample. I could hardly believe that Canon would screw after so many years with their experience with the compact cameras.
With the same spec sheet but with sensor from Sony and lenses from Leica this would be a killer but...
anyway sensor seems to be slightly better then the rest of the bunch and lenses are sharp in some parts (center : Mickey, on the globe, Queen etc. ) but the corners are too soft for high-end camera
This camera is a joke.Not even close to LX5 quality/sharpness but price is about same.It doesnt matter you can fit it in the pocket if sharpness is so lousy I would better use my phone camera then and not bother to carry S100.
Sharpness is much worse than S95 BTW, looks like lens is broken which is not good sign for quality of S100 batches or maybe its supposed to be so blurry ? Then its a failure.
I compared many many samples of the S100 RAW with the S90, S95, and 7D RAW. It really depends on where in the image you sample. The watch for instance looks horrible on the S100 compared with the others but other places such as the upper left hand corner of the Queen of Hearts looks better on the S100 versus the S90 or S95. Pixel peepers will always have something to complain about. Just the difference in each copy of S100 can make that much of a difference. just something to think about.
Just wanted to comment the same. The watch is worse on the S100 compared to the S95, but for the other place sit seems equal or better. Wonder if this a problem with the sample's lens or a more general problem.
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MIAMI - A South Florida man faces a possible life sentence for killing a woman while fleeing the scene of a violent robbery.
A Miami-Dade jury convicted 25-year-old Charlie Thomas of first-degree murder Thursday.
The Miami Herald reports that a judge will sentence him later this year.
Police say Thomas, Nathaniel Roberson, Corey Edwards and two others robbed a man of his gold chain behind a Liberty City home in September 2004.
Witnesses say Edwards and Roberson shot Etiquio Napoles several times, but he survived.
As the robbers were running away, prosecutors say Thomas, who was 17 at the time, shot Blanca Colon as he ran past her home.
Thomas, Roberson and Edwards were arrest shortly after the robbery.
Defense attorneys argued that a confession Thomas gave was coerced.
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Tempe Butte is an island of rock in the midst of a city, a volcanic and sedimentary bump that rises barely 300 feet above downtown Tempe. Yet to an increasingly vocal crowd of locals, the Butte -- also known as "A" Mountain and Hayden Butte -- looms as the latest battleground over urban growth and the use of public spaces in one of the Valley's fastest-growing downtown areas.At issue is whether a longtime Tempe developer will be allowed to wrap an 11-acre patch of stores, theaters, offices and a small hotel around the northwest flank of the Butte, part of which has been a city park for more than a decade.
The development, known as Hayden Ferry South, would bite into the lower quarter of the mountain, just uphill from the old Hayden flour mill, the city's most cherished historic site. The Tempe City Council approved the plan in late 1997 with virtually no public opposition.
But the project's smooth ride ended last summer when the developer, MCW Holdings of Tempe, circulated the idea of tripling the project's size -- from 312,000 square feet to more than one million square feet.
The dramatic increase -- largely due to the addition of a high-rise condominium -- galvanized historic preservationists, anti-growth activists and all-around Butte lovers into a noisy coalition that has been demanding ever since that the city save the Butte.
The expanded Hayden Ferry South proposal was withdrawn before it received a formal hearing. But not before a public outcry prompted MCW to go back to the original, though refined, smaller scheme, and left city officials hustling to spin the issue of downtown development.
"We've sort of drawn a line at the Butte," says Gail Martelli, a longtime Tempe resident who is helping organize "Save the Butte," a campaign that aims to persuade the city council to reconsider allowing development on the historic site. "It's the last piece of Sonoran desert left here in downtown. But the bigger thing isn't so much the Butte as it is whose vision this is for the city."
Martelli and other opponents of MCW's Butte plan see the proposal as part of a misguided rush by Tempe officials to urbanize the city's diminishing supply of available land.
Many contend that the real culprit is the city's Rio Salado project, an ambitious two-mile-long redevelopment effort along the Salt River through Tempe. Last year, the city's portion of the river was reborn as Tempe Town Lake. Hayden Ferry South is in the Rio Salado project zone.
The original concept for Rio Salado was to reclaim the river and banks for public park land and a small mix of private development. But over the past decade, the cost of building the lake jumped from an estimated $16 million to more than $180 million. Along the way, the Rio Salado vision shifted to big-time economic development. Large stretches of real estate near the river that were originally envisioned as public spaces have been redesignated as private developments.
"The premise," says Tempe councilman Hugh Hallman, who has criticized the way city officials and commissions responsible for overseeing Rio Salado have handled public parks, "was that the private development of these vast areas would generate enough tax revenue to pay for the lake's construction, operation and maintenance."
Thus far that hasn't happened.
Critics say the city's desperation to get development and some cash flow out of the lake has blinded it to the long-term value of the area's historical open spaces, both along the river banks and up on the Butte.
Martelli, Hallman and others cite as an example of shortsightedness the city's recent courting of a proposal by developer Zev Buffman to build a water park for Las Vegas-style shows on Rio Salado land that had been set aside as a public park.
They also point to a 1992 recommendation by city staffers to give part of Tempe Beach Park, the city's oldest park, to developers who wanted to build Red River Music Hall. The developers, Benton/Robb Associates and Bay State Milling Company, who own a portion of the Butte site that MCW is set to develop, withdrew the proposal and built the project across the river instead.
"What it comes down to is nothing's sacred in this town," Martelli says. "Everything's for sale."
Dissidents may not be gaining much political ground -- a recent candlelight vigil saw only a small turnout, and the commission making recommendations to the city council on MCW's plan has given little consideration to opponents' concerns. But the vocal opposition has at least struck a pang of conscience at City Hall.
Late last summer, in the midst of his reelection campaign, Mayor Neil Giuliano, a strong supporter of more aggressive development downtown and along the river, issued what's become known as his "I went to the mountain" memo, calling for guidelines controlling building around the Butte. Among other things, he recommended protecting some views of the mountain and restricting building heights to half the size of the 160-foot grain elevators and silos of the historic flour mill.
City management assigned the task of recommending guidelines for city council consideration to the city's Rio Salado Citizens Advisory Commission, which oversees development within the Rio Salado project area. For the past three months, the commission has been refining comments and recommendations from about 15 city departments and other groups. It's expected to have final recommendations for the city council to review later this month or early next month.
So far, the commission's process has done more to protect the developers than it has to protect the Butte. The commission has downplayed the more difficult issues surrounding development of the Butte, reducing a thick pile of public comments to a two-page summary. At the direction of the city's development services department, the commission also has resisted including a "no-build" option for the city council to consider -- something opponents have repeatedly urged.
"Basically a bunch of people complained," says Scott Burge, vice chair of the commission, who ran unsuccessfully for city council this year and considers the commission's approach skewed toward development. "So the city did something. But they did it by ignoring everything the people had to complain about."
The Butte is hardly an icon of pristine nature. Ancient Indians buried their dead there and etched its stones with pictographs. They terraced and tromped all over its slopes. And ever since Charles Hayden, the founder and first developer of modern Tempe, clambered to the top in the late 1860s so he could scout out a spot to build a town and launch a ferry service across the flowing Salt River, modern Tempeans have found a variety of ways to put the mountain to use. They've stamped it with an "A," painted, blasted and quarried it. They've ridden horses, bicycles, motor bikes, trucks, cars and steel-wheeled trains all over it and stitched its flanks with railroad tracks. The construction of Sun Devil Stadium blew out the entire eastern end of the Butte. The old flour mill, water tanks, broadcast antennas and park trails mar other parts of the mountain.
ASU owns the eastern chunk of the Butte. Tempe claims most of the remaining portion, except the acreage where Hayden Ferry South is planned. The development site includes city land and the parcel owned by Benton/Robb and Bay State Milling.
Opponents of Hayden Ferry South are concerned development might limit or cut off access to the Butte and further degrade what many residents consider one of the city's genuine -- though long mistreated -- treasures.
Geologists bring thousands of students a year to study the history and character of its outcroppings. And thousands of other people huff and puff their way to the summit for no reason other than to watch the sun rise or set.
"When I was up there yesterday," says Martelli, "the sunset was beautiful. The creosote bushes were blooming. It smelled just wonderful.
"Why are we giving that up for an office building?"
MCW officials say their proposed development would not affect access to the Butte.
"In fact, we're hoping to design the buildings and walkways so they could improve access to some of the trails," says Ted Claassen, part-owner of the Tempe firm.
MCW has built a number of successful projects in Tempe's downtown redevelopment area and has a track record of sensitivity to historical details.
The firm renovated the Laird and Dines building -- better known as the Hooters building -- at the southeast corner of Fifth Street and Mill Avenue. It also produced the Gordon Biersch building, also at Mill and Fifth. More recently, it has been building the Brickyard and Orchidhouse projects, farther south on Mill.
The approved plan for Hayden Ferry South featured two- and three-story buildings that faced Mill Avenue adjacent to the flour mill.
"There were two purposes behind that plan," says Claassen. "One was to open everyone's eyes up to the density that was possible on that site. Second was to establish a line that showed where the cut into the Butte would be necessary."
The scheme included stores, movie theaters, restaurants, some limited office space and a small hotel -- about 40 rooms. But it had no housing -- something urban planners and designers consider essential for vital downtowns.
Last summer's revised plan changed that in a big way. Among other things, its approximately 1.2 million square feet would have included a condominium tower with about 300 residences and another 50,000 square feet in retail space. Two- and three-story office and retail buildings would have occupied another 500,000 square feet on an additional 2.5 acres of adjacent city-owned property.
"We brought in an interior road to create a small-town feel with residences above stores," says Claassen. The plan, he adds, would have produced a miniature city inside downtown and "created the kind of energy that retailers are crying for. They want traffic."
The urban rationale for Hayden Ferry South is fairly obvious. Its mixture of stores, offices and housing is a throwback to older cities, where people lived above shops and businesses. It would create a 24-hour atmosphere in the area, says Dave Fackler, deputy director of Tempe's development services department, which oversees all development downtown outside the Rio Salado area. "So there's always someone going through the entrances of the buildings. There's always someone in the windows looking onto the street. It creates a safer, more lively downtown area."
Hayden Ferry South would also extend what developers and planners call "The Mill Avenue Experience" down to the river, linking the booming area around the university with the emerging one at the lakefront.
"We've been calling Hayden Ferry South a linchpin," says Rod Keeling, who heads the Downtown Tempe Community, a business organization that supports the project. "It provides the connection downtown needs between the development on the lake and the rest of Mill Avenue."
Right now, that connection ends around Fourth Street, about a block from the mill. When people get there, they typically turn around.
The importance of walking and shopping can be measured in sales tax revenue. In the past decade, the number of taxable sales in the downtown redevelopment area (a few blocks east and west of Mill Avenue north of University Drive) more than doubled, from about 62 million a year to 137 million. Sales tax revenue has climbed from about $760,000 annually to more than $2.6 million. The Hayden Ferry South project could add more than $1 million a year to that total.
These fiscal matters go to the heart of the downtown development debate. While other Valley cities argue about sprawl at the edges, landlocked Tempe is wrangling over urban density and growth at the core.
"When you look at those huge developments and the density being planned downtown, you have to wonder just how they're going to pay for city services there," says Rich Bank, a businessman who ran unsuccessfully for city council this year and opposes development on the Butte. "They're really trying to turn it into a little Manhattan down there."
But Keeling and other downtown advocates contend that raising the tax base through more concentrated downtown development makes good urban sense.
"Here we are gobbling up an acre an hour at the edge, and yet if we cannot build quality infill, and these higher-density, urban developments, then how are we going to provide an alternative to growth on the edge?" says Keeling.
But he concedes that the goal of extending Mill Avenue's stores and offices to the lakefront can be accomplished without cutting into the Butte.
Opponents say they'd be willing to allow development anywhere below the railroad tracks that once serviced the mill.
Keeling says that probably wouldn't affect a developer's ability to build storefronts.
Vice Mayor Ben Arredondo says such a restriction would be a sensible option. But that option is not included in the latest draft of the Rio Salado commission's guidelines.
City officials say that because the area is part of a redevelopment zone, the city could buy back all or part of the site. But the cost -- estimated at $15 million to $25 million -- and the potential of a lawsuit make that a difficult option to carry out.
It isn't one that MCW is considering. Claassen says his firm has invested about $3 million in the project thus far. He says MCW plans to abide by the 312,000-square-foot plan the city approved in 1997 and begin development of the project's first phase next spring, which will include a historic restoration of the flour mill. MCW plans to move its offices into the top two floors and adapt the bottom floors as a restaurant incorporating a historic tribute to the mill.
Scott Burge says he'll urge that the guidelines limit Hayden Ferry South to the 312,000 square feet the city originally approved. "That would keep buildings in the area at about half the size of the mill at the highest," he says.
Claassen says MCW will live with the smaller project. "I don't think we can afford to fight that war now. If we tweak the plan at all, we'll lose," he says.
Many opponents wonder why guidelines defining the Butte's relationship to the development around it weren't drafted before the city approved the initial plans to cut into the Butte.
"I don't really have a good answer for why those guidelines weren't done before," says councilman Dennis Cahill, who is in the upcoming runoff election to retain his council seat. "It's a mistake on our part. We should have had them."
Arredondo says bluntly that the city's staff "dropped the ball."
"I thought we'd been operating under some kind of guidelines. But right now, if we're not careful, anything and everything could be developed."
Fackler says general height limits have been in place, but more specific guidelines balancing open space and development on the Butte don't exist.
Arredondo says that before further development occurs, the city needs to define more fully where its open spaces should be.
The irony of the Butte ruckus, says councilman Hallman, is that the Hayden Ferry South project is suffering from animosity that would be more accurately aimed at another big commercial development nearby known as Hayden Ferry North.
"MCW's initial plan for Hayden Ferry South was really pretty responsible," says Hallman. "The scale was right. They've shown some historical sensitivity in their past projects downtown. They've done really high-quality work. But I think part of what's happening here is they're catching hell from folks who've just realized what's happening at Hayden Ferry North."
The north project is being developed by Benton/Robb and SunCor. It would plant a 1.5 million-square-foot suburban-style complex of offices, condominiums and a hotel, with buildings as tall as 12 and 15 stories, smack up against the lake, walling off views to and from the water and the Butte. Its major architectural statement along Rio Salado Drive would be a huge parking garage.
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Martelli and other opponents of MCW's plan concede that they missed that one, too.
But, then, so did the city. The guidelines being generated for Hayden Ferry South won't apply to the development just across the street to the north.
"It kind of makes you wonder," says Ralph Risoli, a developer who opposes the densities proposed for the area. "What good does it do to save the Butte if they're going to build 12 or 15 stories in front of it?"


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Getting ready to grill this weekend
It's summertime. And whether you're grilling in one of our campgrounds or at one of our shelters, you deserve a good meal. Here's a recipe that one of our social media folks uses.
It takes about 10 minutes to prep, but three days to marinate. And for you folks out there who are interested in food history, this is similar to chicken speidie, a marinated chicken found in a few counties of upstate New York. Don't worry though; it grills up just fine in the Show Me State.
4 chicken breasts, diced into 1" cubes.


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"Bob's notes" are reports from CFCA President Bob Hentzen, who regularly accompanies mission awareness trip participants. You can see Bobís full update on his Facebook page.
All sponsors arrived well in Bolivia. We are very grateful for this, considering the airline challenges caused by Hurricane Irene.
Lee Ann Schwope from Ohio arrived with her arm in a sling, after suffering a dislocated shoulder the day before she left for Bolivia.
She is doing very well. Never misses a side trip or an invitation to dance. Thank you, Lee Ann, and God bless you.
The beginning of our mission awareness trip in Bolivia has been enjoyable and inspiring. In the morning, sponsors received a general orientation to Bolivia and to the CFCA project in Cochabamba.
Bolivia in general:
- roughly the size of Texas and California combined
- 70 percent of residents are indigenous
- three climates according to altitude
- altitude in Cochabamba: 8,207 feet (2,558 meters)
- sponsored children in Cochabamba project: 2953
- sponsored elderly: 221
- scholars: 110
Most sponsored children live in their own homes. Some are in orphanages and centers for children of special needs and abilities.
We spent an afternoon with our sponsored friends of Barrio Primero de Mayo. Faces and hands speak of hard work, adobe dust and lots of sunshine.
For this fiesta in honor of the sponsors, everyone contributed.
Colorful indigenous dancers had us all out there on the concrete floor.
Traditional foods gave us the energy to visit families on rocky hillsides.
Sister Leonor, who coordinated this group of families for several years in the early days, came by for a visit, toting a thermos of hot coffee and mate (pronounced "ma-tay") tea.
Tuesday started with a Scripture reading, and we reflected on the life lessons and realities in the passage.
Diversity, both personal and cultural, was a central theme, together with overcoming obstacles by working in community.
We witnessed this lesson practiced at the CEOLI center for special-needs children and youth. Of the 150 people enrolled at CEOLI, 100 have CFCA sponsors.
We enjoyed the presentation by Ronald Caballero, center director and local CFCA office coordinator. We enjoyed a few folk dance numbers, presented by the students.
A snack prepared by students kept our group supplied with delicious empanadas and breads, served with hot mate or coffee.
In the afternoon, we enjoyed meeting five groups of mothers and their families in Barrio Don Bosco.
They treated us to a variety of traditional dances. Naturally, everyone wanted pictures taken with the padrinos (sponsors).
Small groups of staff and sponsors visited homes in Barrio Don Bosco.
My group visited the family of sponsored youth Paola. The story of Paola, her mother and siblings is dramatic and inspiring.
Paola is the oldest of six. The father abandoned the family 14 years ago.
Two valiant women (Paola and her mother Paolina) faced tremendous challenges over these years. Paola in her spare time works as a waitress.
Her brother Daniel is working as a mechanic's assistant. Both are able to bring home a little money for the family.
Paola's main job is working on a college degree in civil engineering with a specialty in water systems. We are with you, Paola.
Japo K'Kasa indigenous community
Tremendous reception by hundreds with musical groups (zambollas and goatskin drums) in a world of bright colors.
Japo is that magical place in the Andes where one cold, rainy morning on Walk2gether they offered us the best hot chocolate ever.
Our gathering with the sponsors took place in Tapacari.
Small clusters of sponsored friends and their families live in the deep valleys and meadows of these amazing highlands, two to four hours' walk from Tapacari.
Groups of sponsored children's parents are creating savings accounts and offering possibilities of loans.
After the reception and a generous hot lunch, we headed out in three vans to visit sponsored friends in their own homes, not realizing that blowing sleet awaited us or that the visit would take until dusk.
I met the original "Nina Campesina," of my song. Eufronia was tending sheep at about 15,000 feet when we arrived.
Her father, Francisco, and mother, Maximina, welcomed us into their one-room adobe home.
When Eufronia saw us from on high, she led her 20 sheep to their home corral and offered me a woven wristband in gratitude for her sponsorship.
She walks 3 kilometers one way to attend her rural school.
God bless you, little shepherd child. I will think of you prayerfully whenever I sing Nina Campesina.
Indigenous dances ruled the day even at 14,000+ feet.
All sponsors graciously accepted invitations to dance Ö at least until they realized that the dances were unending. Strong campesina women threw us around like ragdolls.
I find the way to survive these dances is to go limp as spaghetti and listen to the strong beat of bombo drums and the zampollas Ö and most of all just listen to the messages of God's people.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Just a short flight to Santa Cruz and into a project with new life. I am thoroughly enjoying the confident, transparent spirit here.
I find this group of young CFCA staff to be smart and creative. They brought in from near and far the sponsored children, youth and elderly related to our group of sponsors.
This included Raquel, my sponsored child. Listen to the note (beautifully adorned) she handed to me (translated):
"Dear Sponsor Robert Hentzen,
I am very happy to receive your visit and to have the opportunity to share with you these days. I give thanks to God for your life and for being your sponsored child.
My Dad in heaven sent you to me, so that I can continue to have a Dad in my life. My mother and my brothers and sisters send you many greetings and thanks. They all accompany you in prayer.
May Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin bless your whole family … Mom Cristina, your children, grandchildren and your other sponsored children. I love you much."
Visit to Buena Vista
The families who came together this day are from Buen Retiro, Yapacani, Okinawa and Nuevo Horizonte.
The bus ride from Sta. Cruz was another good trek on these fertile flatlands, dotted by hundreds of beef cattle.
Our talent festivals in Buena Vista featured children, youth, moms and dads. We saw dances, listened to original poetry and appreciated six baroque numbers, performed by the parish youth orchestra.
Our second full day in Santa Cruz was memorable and enjoyable. I was delighted to visit the home of our sponsored girl, Raquel. I was able to meet her mother and eight siblings. The father is deceased.
I feel confident that the young religious sisters, with the encouragement and enablement of CFCA, will continue to do great pastoral work in this humble neighborhood, and will lovingly watch over this family and many more.
Our main gathering was at the CFCA Centro de Esperanza y Community/Center for Hope and Community. The name says it all.
One mothers group has an outdoors beauty salon, so I was able to get a badly needed haircut before lunch.
Both in the morning and afternoon, we visited families in their homes. Again we found ourselves in the holy presence of struggling mothers with hope and gratitude in their hearts.
Later we stopped at the CFCA main center in Santa Cruz. Making it very pleasant was a choral group of sponsored teen girls with performances and testimonials from CFCA scholars.
La Paz
We started Sept. 4 with Holy Mass celebrated by Father Mark Neal.
Dynamic Sister Josefa had everything nicely prepared, including the music.
For the cold at these altitudes, we received an attractive and warm chaleco/vest from a mothers group. This vest is provided to sponsored children.
The mothers have their own marketing plan. It's working. Sales are up. No wonder this group is called "Las Triumfadoras."
At every opportunity we can tell our mothers that they are our heroes and that we honor them as such, that we will walk with them down that long hard road.
For those who have suffered the violence of neglect, abandonment or worse, we can sing with all our heart: "Then let me be your father, your mother and your friend…Together we can form one family…And we'll fight for the freedom of the children of our God…And smile, for we'll never be alone."
"El Dia del Peaton/The Day of the Pedestrian"
On this Sunday, almost no traffic was permitted in the entire country.
I say almost, because we were able to obtain a special permit to mobilize the sponsors with sponsored children, parents and staff.
We were part of a great gathering, 201 sponsored children in 162 families, in El Alto called "Huayna Potosi."
I find the spirit among these families as open and affectionate. We heard moving testimonials from several mothers.
The various ethnic dances were colorful and well prepared. I enjoyed the children's participation in my interpretation of "Son de la Sonrisa."
Our visits to families in this area were both inspiring and disquieting. A united and struggling family of 10 (two sponsored) are facing orders to evacuate their rented two rooms by December.
The owner wants to sell the property. This family could not even dream of meeting the owner's asking price of US $25,000.
Visit to Carmen Pampa
We left La Paz at 6:30 a.m. to journey down the Bolivian Andes to Coroico and then our project headquarters in Carmen Pampa.
The reception was spontaneous and warm.
Here's some background on our work in these mountains, published by the staff in La Paz: The name of the CFCA community in the Aymara language is "Ayllunaka Tatitu Munasiriwa"/God Loves Our Communities."
With the loving initiative of Catherine Quiroga and Loretta Murphy, CFCA began offering support in 1998 to 80 sponsored members.
The CFCA presence here now touches 337 families. The 325 children sponsored plus 12 aging live in 18 mountainous communities.
In our visit to the community, I note a healthy production of fruits and vegetables on the slopes of these mountains: mandarin oranges, limes, plantains, tomatoes, pumpkin and more.
They enjoy a good level of solidarity through their mutual support and respect. This is coupled with sports activities and music festivals. It was worth the long, winding journey.
On Sept. 6 we heard the story of one of our scholars, Edgar.
At the age of 23, meningitis left Edgar paralyzed and totally unable to speak.
In spite of being older, Edgar was sponsored as a special-needs young person.
Through sponsorship, Edgar was given physical therapy and has completely recovered the use of his limbs, to the point of being able to play soccer. He has also turned out to be a very good speaker.
CFCA and his sponsor saw his potential. Edgar received a CFCA scholarship. This Friday, he will graduate as a certified teacher.
He now teaches 20 children in the same school where he received help. He calls himself "a standing miracle."
Our wrap-up day proved full of enthusiasm and inspiration. We started off this day at the Centro de Educacion Mururata.
Here we are privileged to work with 129 special children (I would say very special).
We were invited to visit classes in session, soldering, bakery, gardening and sewing.
After class and enjoying homemade bread, our community gathering included children's performances and parental testimonies.
To keep things moving, Pancho Lopez (Bob) showed up on his horse "Broomstick." We wrapped up our visit with an "Everybody Dance" number.
After lunch, on this last afternoon of the Bolivian mission awareness trip 2011, the 218 sponsored friends and their families in another CFCA community offered us a very memorable afternoon.
Hope and Godspeed to each of you.
Please know of my love and prayers.
Bob H.
La Paz, Bolivia
Sept. 7, 2011


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John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
George Devol – 'father of robotics' who helped to revolutionise carmaking


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Topic: Anyone had HIFU for bone met pain?
From: California
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Posts: 668
High intensity focused ultrasound is "HIFU"
My sister will have this relatively novel treatment for a bone met (rib). It's used when radiation is not an ideal option. Anyone heard of or had this tx?
Here's a little more info:
HIFU has been successfully applied in treatment of cancer to destroy solid tumors of the bone, brain, breast, liver, pancreas, rectum, kidney, testes, prostate.[9][10][11][12] At this stage, cancer treatments are still in the investigatory phases as there is a need to find more about their effectiveness.[citation needed]
HIFU has been found to offer palliative care. CE approval has been given for palliative treatment of bone metastasis.[13] Experimentally, a palliative effect was found in cases of advanced pancreatic cancer.[14]


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Two were left injured following an accident on County Road 89 on Sunday morning.
David A. Schaad, 53, from Dunnigan was driving southbound on CR 89 when for unknown reasons, Izell D. Fairley, Jr. left the northbound lane and crossed into the southbound lanes directly in front of Schaad.
Unable to avoid the collision, Schaad's 2009 Chevy Silverado was stuck head on by the 1996 Toyota pick-up Fairley was driving. Both vehicles sustained major damage, and both drivers sustained injuries.
Fairley sustained abrasions to his arms and complained of pain to his right leg, while Schaad complained of chest pain. Both refused medical treatment at the scene.


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Who Needs the Right Formula, Anyway?Math brain teasers require computations to solve.
This morning I asked my math class to find the areas of two right-angled triangles. Lottie-Lu's hand shot up immediately, so I asked her the first one.
"24" she announced.
She was right (for a change!) and I made the mistake of asking her how she did it.
"Easy. Just add all the sides together."
I was about to correct her and say it was just a coincidence, when I noticed that her method worked on my second triangle as well!
Lottie-Lu must have caught my frustrated thoughts. "Well, it works, doesn't it?" she chirped.
What were the side lengths of the two triangles I had drawn on the board this morning? They were all whole numbers.
HintUse the fact that all three sides of each triangle were whole numbers.
Answer1. 6-8-10 (Area = 6x8/2 = 24)
2. 5-12-13 (Area = 5x12/2 = 30)
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Morneau has hot bat, but glove wowing Twins
Gardenhire impressed by resurgent first baseman's diving plays
MINNEAPOLIS -- Justin Morneau was impressive again at the plate on Tuesday night with three hits against the White Sox, but it was his defense that caught the eye of Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
Gardenhire saw Morneau make several diving plays at first, which indicates he isn't worried about the concussion-like symptoms that have plagued him in the past.
Morneau has started 36 of the club's 37 games, with only one of those starts coming as a designated hitter. It's been a big difference from last year, when Morneau began the year at DH for precautionary reasons and made a career-high 34 starts there.
Morneau, who turned 32 on Wednesday, has also been heating up at the plate. He extended his hit streak to 11 games by going 2-for-5 on Wednesday and leads the Majors in May RBIs with 17.
"He's playing well and swinging well," Gardenhire said. "He's healthy, which allows him to do all the extra work after games in the weight room, doing all the little things that he had to back off of because of the injuries. He looks good and feels great -- and it's his birthday -- so he's got a lot of things going."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Architectural Digest interviewed Brad Pitt about his recently announced collection designed in collaboration with furnituremaker Frank Pollaro. mdler believed "you can tell the influence of Gehry in a few of his pieces" but Orhan Ayyüce commented "These belong to 'Italian' furniture store in your neighborhood...I agree with Xenakis that he should bite the bullet and go to design school for few years. He could even have home schooling but better he learns like the rest of the design students".
ObjectThinking wanted to get honest "The title of this post is disingenuous. If you read the linked article from Architectural Digest Pitt states that his input was fairly minimal...Frank Pollaro clearly deserves most of the 'credit' for what was produced...The pity is that companies who should be engaging really talented designers choose to snag untrained celebrities and get them to 'art direct' or 'curate' things in the knowledge that the big names will shift units".
The Seattle Times reported that The David & Gladys Wright house in Phoenix is going to be saved. Sold for the listing price of nearly $2.4 million to a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous. Kevin W. shared "There are rumors that Moby purchased it." while Paul Petrunia quipped "If it's Pitt I'll totally forgive him for that furniture he designed."
Twitter user @jculpjr, also pointed out a video walkthrough of the property. John E. Williams referring to what appeared to be a ground floor bathroom "with the house lifted above the ground as it is, it's probably handy to have one at ground level. It also looks like there might be a pool there on the other side of it".
YOUR TEXT HERE is a participatory, site-specific light installation by Marcus Zotes. The project aims to empower local communities by providing a tool that transforms people voices into citizen proclamations the size of buildings using anonymous text messaging. The project was performed as part of DLECTRICTY, an outdoors light art festival in midtown Detroit that took place during October 5th and 6th, 2012. Donna Sink loved "this so, so much".
Bustler.net posted images from the finalists in the EyeTime 2012 photography competition for two categories, Emerging Talent and Future Voices.
Last week, in light of the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, Alan Feuer examined three examples of how to protect New York City from future storms. HandsumCa$hMoneyYo contended "I don't see how building sea gates could possibly be worth the cost...Makes far more sense to leave the most vulnerable areas to the poor people, yo!"
Firms/Blogs/Work Updates
Ibrahim Rajah recently worked on Air~chitecture and Amy Leedham provided a review of the "top designs" from the European Solar Decathlon which took place in Madrid in late September and included teams from around Europe as well as Brasil and China. They included Team Rhone-Alpes's modular Conopea House, Team Andalucia's Patio 2.12 House and Germany's ECOLAR House.
AwesomeArchitecture showed off Y House by SousaSantos which FRaC felt "is awesome! except those roll-down shades on the big curved window (last image) should be recessed into a slot in the ceiling".
For those looking for the architecture of "A new social order" you might want to check out Socialopolis by ARTMEADOW a design studio located in New York City, founded in 2009 by Matthew Hoffman.
School Blogs
Susan Surface at Yale University, penned Sandy / sadNY. Therein she wrote "Hopefully, the grassroots organizing around Sandy is not limited to disaster relief, but will initiate a radical rebuilding of the East Coast. We can build up the interpersonal infrastructures of reliability, availability, skill-sharing, resources, sweat and organization that will carry us far beyond this crisis".
Matthew Messner at UIC, posted two essays exploring what the design of particular aspects of the just completed United States presidential election campaign, tell us about our electoral process and our democracy, as part of Sam Jacob's Designing Criticism class. The first essay, by Adrianne Jørgensen is about the furniture of the debates. The second essay was his own.
In his first school-blog post Kyrylo Verbych, sudying at The Odessa Institute of Fine Arts and Architecture, highlighted the findings from the International "Project Management in City Parks' Landscaping and Development Sphere in Financial Crisis Conditions" seminar that took place in October. The working groups' recommendations were later presented to municipal authorities.
David de Céspedes laid out The Premiss of Middle-Urbanism. Nathan_B noted "I have heard the phrase 'Middle Urbanism' used, but not to define a place type, but rather as an alternative architectural/urban design theory which sits between two opposing urban intervention strategies (Empiricism vs. Imposition). It comes from Michael Piper, partner of DUB Studios in New York (as far as I know. There may be other precedents). He is teaching a course at the Daniel's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto this semester called Forming Middled Urbanisms."
David responded "Michael Piper's work looks promising. I plan to unfold the Middle-Urbanism theory more concisely through specific reflections on historical precedent and projective imaginaries of the Quad Cities context. It does seem to me thus far that very little emphasis has been placed on the non-metropolis cities that have neither been absorbed by mega-cities, nor fit into the suburb classification".
NoNameNum3 wanted to discuss Diversity in Renderings, explaining "So I spent the last little while looking at purchasing scale figures for renderings and I can only seem to find white people. The packages come with 1 or 2 people of different ethnicities...but that doesn't quite cut it for the location of the project I'm working on (DC). Anyone have any tips on where I can find a diverse set of people for purchase?". Randh didn't have any suggestion but wished NoNameNum3 "Good luck, and when you decide to cut out your own, good luck finding enough that you can legally use and that are not reinforcing negative stereotypes".
Donna Sink is looking for super good thermally-broken storefront windows to replace existing 20-year-old aluminum storefront in a limestone surround. Russell Higgins
clarified "You need a system that states it is actually thermally broken, not thermally improved. Most reps won't know the difference and will try to tell you that thermally improved is the same--it is not. One of the problems with storefront systems is that there will most likely be sub-sill flashing which extends from the exterior to the interior; 'short circuiting' any thermal break that the sill section has". To which Rusty Shackleford added "Kawneer, EFCO, TRACO, Tubelite, Vistawall, Trulite. Be weary of of manufacturers outside that list".
Meanwhile taz chimed in "A program called THERM (free from LBNL) is pretty much the industry standard to review thermal performance of glazing details and assess condensation risk (based on the dew point temperature)" annnnd mantaray noted "I love these kinds of threads. Thanks for posting Donna, and thanks for contributing knowledge, everyone"!
Finally, c is working on a proj. with horizontal limestone stone component in a curtain wall system. anchoring off slab - and not embedded or tied to precast element... and needs help rustling up some "curtain wall precedents which incorporate cut stone".
Apurimac responded "Below is an image of a stone curtain wall system that is not only translucent, but blast resistant used in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. There are many ways to put stone in a spandrel, or clip it off a facade. A noteworthy project that uses limestone curtain wall is 15 Central Park West by Bob Stern & Co. Although its a good example of of how panels really should be book matched to each other as the buildings facade looks disjointed. Also noteworthy is the shunt lines in the facade are really, really obvious when the light hits the building in the right way, as many of the panels aren't quite flush with each other" and curtkram added "i saw a product a little while back that was a really thin veneer from natural stone. so thin it could bend, and was somewhat translucent. you could put it in a shoji screen type thing and back-light it. i thought it was pretty cool".
The The International Symposium on Urbanism, Spirituality & Well Being will take place June 6 – 9, 2013 at Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, Massachusetts & Harvard University Divinity School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The deadline for presentation/paper proposals is January 14, 2013. Papers are invited for the following topics: Urbanism of the Past, Present Urbanism, Future Urbanism and Open Sessions.
Oh dear that shirt is ugly. Brad, just go ahead and take it off.
And where are they at? Is that supposed to be a design studio or a wine bar?
@handsum according to the Architectural Digest it is in the wine cellar of Brad's house in (southern I think) France.
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Two Approaches to Providing HIV/AIDS Services in the Community to People Living With HIV/AIDS
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified November 2005 by McMaster University.
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
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This study will examine the effects of having a case manager help PHAs access and use health, social services and practical resources that are helpful to their needs as compared to the usual more PHA self-managed approach of deciding and using services as they see necessary. New and existing users of HIV/AIDS services in Wellington-Dufferin, Waterloo and Grey-Bruce Regions who consent to this study will be randomized to receive their usual self-directed supportive, educational, medical and medical care services when they seek assistance according to their needs or these usual services augmented by case management services. They will be measured before randomization and at 3, 6 and 12 months following service use for their satisfaction with HIV/AIDS services, compliance with HIV/AIDS medication, improvement in quality of life, psychological distress, risk behaviours and expenditures for the use of a range of publicly funded services.
|HIV Infection
|Behavioral: strengths-based case managed proactive service model
|Phase 1
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
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|Two Approaches to Providing HIV/AIDS Services in the Community to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PHAs): The Comparative Impact on Quality of Life, Access to and Expenditures for All Health and Social Services
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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- HIV-positive individuals
- living in the community setting
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- cognitive impairment
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00280449
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|Principal Investigator: Adriana Carvalhal, MD, PhD
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people living with HIV
quality of life
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Today at 6PM Indianapolis time I will change the draft clock to whatever time you select.
Here are your options
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Today at 6PM Indianapolis time I will change the draft clock to whatever time you select.
Here are your options
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I say 2 hours. Anything less than that is actually enough for someone to miss a pick w/out knowing.
The options above that seem to be too long, probably 4 hours would be the ideal option but that's not around.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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Anything between 1 and 6 hours seems ideal. Gives people to check in regularly without missing more than one pick at most, normally. The exception offcourse beying if you would have to pick twice in short order.
In the end voted for 6 as a compromise to people who can't be online VERY regularly.
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My personal preference is 12 hours, mainly because of work. I do log onto the site from work but I try not to do any in-depth stuff from there such as evaluate trades which I tend to worry over, crunch numbers, track the players over recent games, etc.
I could make an exception for this because I can do most of the actual work from home and just enter players into my CL but I'll be away from a computer for around 10 hours Monday & Tuesday - between about 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day. If I'm still in "best available player" mode that doesn't matter. If I'm balancing my lineup, it does.
That said, I'll go along with what everyone else wants. It's not that big of an issue.
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I voted for 30 minutes in part because I would like to get as much done on the draft tonight that I can.
Tomorrow morning I will e-mail James my list and may need him to fill in due to potential power/phone outages from Hurricane Wilma. I'll be home and if the phone lines are up and running I'll keep my contingency list full.
After Tueday my family and the moving truck arrives and my access may be infrequent.
I encourage everyone to access the full 30-man contingency list and use it as much as you can. Sure it sometimes results in a less-than-ideal mix of position players, but it also prevents you from "stretching" to fill a positional need. Making trades can balance your roster if you have extra players that are in demand.
Keep it the way it is for another couple of days.
You're caught up in the Internet / you think it's such a great asset / but you're wrong, wrong, wrong
All that fiber optic gear / still cannot take away the fear / like an island song
- Jimmy Buffett
I voted for 6, but would like to change it to 12.
I see no reason to make drastic changes...
If the draft clock is reduced too much at this point I would miss several draft choices after the 6PM change.
I cannot access the draft from work as much as I would like to...
I believe, in theory, the 24 draft clock is a good thing. If there is a chance for those participating in the draft to be more active and keep things moving then that would be super for all involved.
With my refereeing football, shuttling kids to football games, conducting basketball practice, etc. I need all the time and help I can get.
James, thanks for this option.
The clock has been re-set to 12 hours.
Great! Anything better than 24 .
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OAKLAND — Well into its ninth day, the Occupy Oakland camp has attracted a wide range of participants — self-described radicals, unemployed workers, students and professionals, as well as a large contingent of homeless people who have relied on the free food and shelter.
Organizers have established a schedule of talks, forums, discussion groups and seminars to keep residents and participants occupied during the day. Themes include "capitalism and colonialism" and "the history of the Black Panthers."
Each day begins with a yoga class at 8:30 a.m. A stationary bicycle has been set up near a "media center" tent for anyone to use.
About 100 tents have been placed on nearly every square meter of available greenery. The grass is long dead and won't be revived until the protesters have left. A kitchen serving three meals a day, along with a library, an information center and a "safe space" for conflict resolution also have been added, after fistfights and arguments broke out in recent days.
For many, the tent city has become home.
The moment he stumbled across the Occupy Oakland protests, 20-year old Minnesota native Dustin knew he had "found his people." After months on the road, first with his truck driver father and then by himself, Dustin, who did not want to give his last name, arrived in Oakland earlier this month and has been camping out in the ad hoc tent city in front of City Hall for the past week. He doesn't know where his adopted movement is headed yet, only that he plans to stick with it until the end.
"Our strength is in our lack of definition," he said. "Ideally, it would be a transition to a system where wealth is shared, but I'd be fine if it wound up as an outright revolution, too."
On Tuesday morning, a group of occupiers assembled near the edge of the camp for an informal discussion about logistical and administrative problems that had arisen.
One young homeless man said he needed to wash his clothes and suggested that a laundry service be built. But Alex Wilcox, 42, an unemployed chef, said a laundry would only muddy up an already filthy camp and attract the attention of police and city officials. Others expressed concerns about public urination, graffiti and small children running amok in the camp.
Few among the participants wanted to act as official censors, however.
"It's pretty obvious we can't control children," said Boomer Frank, an Ohio native who said he has worked at UC Berkeley and taught gifted children. He was acting as discussion leader. "I mean, we're anarchists — most of us, anyway."
But the business of running a political protest is proving more complicated. After a pit bull nipped a television reporter Monday afternoon, a discussion ensued about whether to allow dogs in the camp at all. Others complained about homeless people, alcoholics and drug addicts who had been living in the camp.
"It's a social experiment," Frank said. "You've got moderate Republican types and anarchists in one spot. Not everyone is going to agree."
What people do seem to agree on is the frustration with corporate America.
"The redistribution of wealth we're talking about doesn't mean we want other people's money," Wilcox said. "What it means is that the corporations that dehumanize us and destroy the environment need to be held responsible."


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The complaining was almost all people re-calibrating their expectations from the hype during the off season. None of those guys could have lived up to preseason expectations.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They are bench players for a reason, and they've all also started to have sparks of contributions. If you look at their body of work, the relative size/length of contracts seem to match the output of each as well.
I predict that Mahinmi will continue to be a solid contributor.
I predict that Green will continue to be an erratic player.
I predict we'll have another PG (or two) within the next year.


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My mother sent me a box of stuff yesterday that she had been going through recently. She sent me this knife my father made many years ago. Has bone/antler end to the handle, Gotta say my dad did a nice job on this. He really loved to make things by hand. He also made the sheath and belt from leather. This dude is SHARP!


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Baylor discharged from hospital, resting leg
HOUSTON -- Angels hitting coach Don Baylor was discharged from UCI Medical Center late Friday afternoon and will continue to recover from the comfort of his home in La Quinta, Calif.
Baylor fractured his right femur, an ailment that requires at least 12 weeks to fully recover from, while catching the ceremonial first pitch from Vladimir Guerrero on Opening Day Monday. On Tuesday, he had a five-hour surgery that involved fixing the fracture with a metal plate and screws.
There's still no timeline for when Baylor can re-join the team, but he probably won't be able to travel for a while. Assistant hitting coach Dave Hansen has taken on Baylor's duties in the interim, with Minor League hitting coordinator Paul Sorrento joining the coaching staff to provide further assistance.
Via text, Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead said Friday that Baylor is "doing very well," is "in very good spirits" and "looking forward to working with the doctors and rehab folks in the days and weeks ahead."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.