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First draft Convention adopted in Monaco (Sanitary cities and localities), 27 July 1934.
I. - Sanitary cities and localities - Art. 2.
Art.2. The town must be reserved for the particular requirements of the medical service to the exclusion of any military utilization.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — After the final horn sounded on a disappointing end to an unexpected season, Spurs forward Tim Duncan wandered the floor of Chesapeake Energy Arena, still a man on a mission.
He offered a laudatory hug to every Oklahoma City player he could find, to Thunder coach Scott Brooks, to half the coaching staff.
OKC had just banked a come-from-behind 107-99 victory in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday, punching its ahead-of-schedule ticket to the NBA Finals.
Congratulations complete, Duncan began the long, slow walk toward the losing locker room and into a future more uncertain.
"I thought this was definitely our time, our time to get back to the Finals, our time to push for another championship," Duncan said later in the quiet team dressing room. "That was our singular goal, and obviously it ends here."
In the span of six days, the Spurs' 20-game winning streak gave way to a playoff ouster, and Game 6 bore that swing in a microcosm.
The Spurs led by 18 in the first half, putting together the kind of two quarters that had to have coach Gregg Popovich wondering why he didn't see more halves like it earlier in the series.
Tony Parker was dealing en route to 21 points and 10 assists in the first half, reserve forward Stephen Jackson was doing unspeakable things to pressure, hitting 4 of 4 from 3-point range, and the Spurs were playing with the energy of a team not ready for the ride to end.
Kevin Durant poured in 34 points to go with 14 rebounds, Russell Westbrook added 25 points, and James Harden and ancient Spurs killer Derek Fisher each hit big threes down the stretch, lifting the OKC franchise to its first NBA Finals since 1996.
To get here, all the Thunder had to do was get through Dallas, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Spurs, winners of 10 of the past 13 NBA titles.
"As sad and as disappointed as we are," Popovich said, "it's like a Hollywood script for Oklahoma City."
For the Spurs, who became the first team in NBA history to win its first 10 playoff games and not make the Finals, the movie ending wasn't in the cards.
After his hot start, Parker finished with 29 points and 12 assists. Duncan went out like a 36-year-old former champion should, with 25 points and 14 rebounds.
Jackson finished with 23 points and made 6 of 7 threes.
An 11-2 run to start the second half got the Thunder back in the game, igniting a 32-18 quarter that doomed the Spurs.
"We changed our body language, our spirit," OKC coach Scott Brooks said. "We weren't going to win the game playing the same way."
Still, the Spurs were ahead by a point heading into the fourth, and the game was still winnable going down the stretch.
Duncan had just pulled the Spurs within two points with 4:52 to go when Fisher took aim and buried a corner 3-pointer to increase the OKC lead again.
"Bottom line: They made the shots they had to make," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said.
And so it went for the Spurs, who after taking a 2-0 lead in the series, became collateral damage to OKC's charge to destiny.
For the fifth consecutive season, the Spurs end with a locker cleanout in lieu of a river parade, the longest title drought of Duncan's distinguished career.
He will be a free agent come July 1, expected to re-sign with the only team he's ever known. The Spurs, aging at the core but still among the West's elite, will face another offseason of familiar questions. But Wednesday, the Spurs were the spectators to a coming-out party.
"I thought everybody gave all they could," Duncan said. "OKC just showed they were a better team."


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If you haven't had interior Mexican before, you probably haven't tasted a salsa like this. Store-bought salsas are usually dominated by hot peppers and salt, but the strongest flavor in this recipe is cilantro. (On the topic of authenticity, make sure to say cilantro in a Don Juan voice with the longest L you can muster.)
While it may be easier to grab something off the shelf, making your own salsa has its advantages. It will taste better, have fewer preservatives, less salt, and contain raw nutrients. You may even find that it's a great replacement for higher carb sauces and sides, like BBQ or steak sauce. The best thing about it, though, is that the flavors in fresh salsa get more and more complex the longer you let it sit. If you make a large batch, you can use it for a week and it will only get better. That can't be said about many vegetable dishes.
- 2 cups roma tomatoes
- 6 cloves fresh garlic
- 1/2 onion
- 1 jalapeño
- 1 lime
- 1 bunch of cilantro
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Slice tomatoes, cilantro leaves, and onion into large chunks, de-seed jalapeño, and peel garlic, then place all of these into a food processor. Add salt, and squeeze lime over mixture. Blend to desired consistency.
Tip: For more kick, double the onion and jalapeño.
Refrigerate at least two hours, and preferably overnight.


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Many third-party Exchange backup products include the ability to back up and restore individual mailboxes (also known as brick-level backups). While single-mailbox restoration is appealing, most experienced Exchange administrators don't use brick-level backups very often.
The primary reason for this lack of popularity is that brick-level backups usually take much longer to complete and consume more space on backup media than standard backups. These issues make brick-level backups undesirable or even impossible for most daily backup needs. But when you're dealing with a corrupted database, a brick-level backup can be a real help.
A normal backup of an Exchange database is basically an all-or-nothing proposition. If the backup program detects database corruption, the backup aborts—an intentional decision by Microsoft. Administrators who perform a backup using the standard API can be reasonably sure that they actually have a good backup. In most situations, this is a good thing. Error checking is another reason why administrators generally prefer standard backups to brick-level backups.
Brick-level backups don't check for corruption the way a standard backup does, and they continue to back up mailboxes and messages even if they detect corruption. While this is less desirable in normal circumstances, you can use this less stringent method to your advantage when recovering a corrupted database. You can often salvage information that would otherwise be lost. This can come in handy, especially if you didn't adequately back up the databases before corruption occurred.
While you can use the ExMerge utility much as you would use a brick-level backup, it isn't as convenient as using a good third-party brick-level backup.


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Address: 31, cours de la gare 21000 DijonOpening hours: Monday to Friday: 4:15am to 12:15am
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Public holidays: 4:15am to 12:15am Trains operating in and from this station:
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Address: Via Giovanni Giolitti, 4-6 185 RomeOpening hours: Monday to Friday: 4:30am to 1:30am
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Trains operating in and from this station:
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Travel inspiration in Dijon and Rome
Dijon, the capital of the Burgundy
Dijon is a town located in Burgundy region and home to more than 150,000 inhabitants. The town is probably most famous for its mustard. With an exceptional architectural heritage, the city of Dijon has 97 hectares of remarkably preserved monuments. Dijon is the gateway to the world renowned Côte de Nuits vineyards. Visitors can choose a guided tour to the vineyards and enjoy a glass of excellent wine in Marsannay-la-Côte, Gevrey-Chambertin, Vosne-Romanée or Nuits-Saint-Georges. Don't forget to look out for the lucky charm of Dijon: the particularly worn-out little Chouette, which fulfills the wish of those who touch it with a left hand stroke.
Dijon is conveniently found on the Rhin-Rhône high speed railway line, making it easily reachable from Paris in approximately 1h35 and from Basel (Switzerland) in 2h10 by train.
Rome, the capital of Italy
Rome is the capital city of Italy and one of the most popular destinations of Italy. Once the capital of the Roman Empire, is now a city which offers visitors a variety of things to do. From the remains of Roman Empire to the Renaissance and baroque riches of its historic centre, Rome is a simply a master work.
With landmarks such as the Spanish Steps, Pantheon, and Piazza Venezia located in the old city centre, Rome certainly lives up to the fact that it is one of the most remarkable cities of the world.
The modern Rome is full of restaurants, wine bars, night life spot and elegant shops. Perfect for a enjoyable getaway!


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Turkey's Crippled Counterterrorist Capacity: How Domestic Purges Represent an International Threat to Europe's Security
Turkey has been suffering from terrorism for a long time, losing over 40,000 people in the last 40 years. When the Syrian uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad began in 2011, Turkey was enjoying a peaceful era with the least causalities lost to terrorism in its recent history. However, this less-violent period quickly started to deteriorate due to new regional conflicts and Turkey's flawed domestic and international policies.
Strategy Silos and Counterterrorist 'Smart' Power: Fusing Hard Militaries and Soft Cultures to Fight Extremism
Authors: Matthew Crosston & Kagusthan Ariaratnam
American political scientist Joseph Nye wrote in his famous book, "Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics," that political or social power can influence others to get them to behave in ways that you want by either coercion and/or payment - elements of hard power - or through attraction and/or persuasion - the foundations of soft power.
Authors: Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus
Aegean theater of the Antique Greece was the place of astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable density and proximity, not surpassed up to our age. All we know about science, philosophy, sports, arts, culture and entertainment, stars and earth has been postulated, explored and examined then and there.
Economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next 10 years, the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2017 found. Collaborative action by world leaders will be urgently needed to avert further hardship and volatility in the coming decade.
On June 13, St. Francis Assisi, a California-based nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, on behalf of Assyrian Christians, filed a complaint in the Northern District of California against the Kuveyt-Turk Participation Bank, Inc., and Kuwait Finance House for damages Assyrian Christians suffered at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
On December 19, 2016, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer, in Ankara during an art exhibit. The assassination took place at a critical junction, as Turkey and Russia have just started to repair their broken relationship due to the earlier downing of a Russian jet fighter. Furthermore, it also coincided with historic meetings between Turkey, Russia, and Iran to create a Syrian peace treaty, where Turkey gave up almost all political and military positions regarding the Syrian crisis.
Ever since Donald Trump won the elections, the Democrats who have been (or 'were') very magnanimous about the fact they would accept the election results whatever be the outcome, have been vigorously demanding an enquiry into the hacking by Russia into their Democratic National Committee (DNC) meetings which resulted in a variety of colorful information about the activities done by the Democrats behind closed doors. Videos released by Project Veritas also showed how the Democratic strategists planted agitators in Donald Trump rallies to incite violence. But that is a different story altogether. Let's get back to the curious case.....


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An event every week that begins at 10:00am on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until November 17, 2017
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Michelle Catanzaro
1-18 November 2017
Please join the artist for the exhibition opening:
The UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Saturday 4 NOV from 1.30PM
IN/SITE is a photographic exploration of underground and irregular spaces, capturing experiences of transient venues that sit outside formal urban frameworks.The images explore covert and evasive places; temporary refuges for creativity carved out of the city amidst the push of gentrification and development.
A record of evolution, reinvention and devolution, these photographs offer an interpretation of the city's messages and secrets. The physical presence of bodies is implied, but it is the play of light and shadow that populates and activates these images of empty spaces. The continuum between light and dark becomes symbolic of the shifting, transformative, and ephemeral nature of the underground spaces explored in the work.
The exhibition delves into the personal experiences, connections and intricate associations that exist within marginal spaces, and the ability of photography, as an extension of the artist's own presence in this hidden world, to capture them.
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Schafer gets his first big league start
Schafer gets his first big league start
Indeed it was, as the 26-year-old outfielder made his first career start for the Brewers on Sunday. Schafer batted seventh and played center field while Carlos Gomez nursed a sore left quad/thigh and right foot.
Schafer went 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI before being lifted for Gomez, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Manager Ron Roenicke said before the game that Gomez would be available to pinch-hit if the Nationals brought in a left-handed reliever after starter Chien-Ming Wang. Wang pitched four innings, and the Nats inserted a left-hander in the sixth, leading to Gomez's insertion.
"I think we have enough personnel now that when they make a change, we can make a change," Roenicke said before the game. "If they want to bring out a lefty, it's a situation where Gomez is needed, then we go with Gomez and you still have Nyjer [Morgan] on the bench."
Roenicke praised Schafer's defense in addition to his pinch-hitting, which has been his primary role thus far, and cited it as another reason for his getting the start over Morgan.
"He can really play defense. Really play defense," Roenicke said. "So that helps. What he does offensively, I don't know. This time of year, you don't know what a guy's going to do. He's given us a couple of nice at-bats. He can really play defense."
Schafer, called up from Triple-A Nashville on Sept. 4, is hitting .417 with five RBIs over 12 at-bats in nine games. At Nashville, Schafer hit .278 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs, with 16 stolen bases in 124 games.
Schafer was also a September callup in 2011, when he went 1-for-3 over eight games.
"I feel good, I had a decent season down in Triple-A earlier and I got to come up. I've been able to contribute here and there during different times in September," Schafer said before Sunday's game. "Being able to get a start is obviously an exciting time for me. I'm ready to hopefully contribute some more."


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Tamaqua news
Zion Lutheran
The Rev. Jeffrey Kistler will officiate at the 9:30 a.m. worship service this Sunday in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Also on Sunday, the senior choir will rehearse at 11 a.m. and the scouts will meet at 6 p.m.
Activities for next week will include: Tuesday, property committee meeting at 6 p.m., scouts meet at 6:30 p.m. and the finance meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, scouts meet at 6 p.m.
The annual meeting will be held at 11 a.m. on Feb. 12.
Missing honors
A student's name was inadvertently missed from the honor roll listing for the Tamaqua Area Middle School.
Ed Titus, a sixth grade student, was named to the honor roll.


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Review by Corporate_Jobber
Reviewed: 09/13/07
A true ambience game - one that manages to work on almost all levels...
I was , at first , reluctant to play , and indeed , waste money on Bioshock. I had never really played System Shock , Deus Ex , or anything of that sort , and having not followed Bioshock's pre-release hype , it turned out that I ended up buying the game purely out of mere boredom.
I was not bored for long.
Bioshock is an absoloute belter of a game. It presents itself very early on in a way that shows this - and though it may let up every now and then and divulge into something less that interesting , the game still stands undoubtedly as one of the top thre or so games to have come out for the Xbox 360 so far.
The game takes place in an alternate-past , art-deco setting. The underwater academic city of rapture is the stage that is set for this hybrid blend of First Person Shooter and Role-Play elements. The man in charge of rapture , and indeed the Big Brother of the underwater metropolis , is none other than Andrew Ryan. The city was set up with the aim of being a safe haven for esteemed academics , scientist , and those who believe in reality and the power of nature.
The setting rings of both Dystopia and Objectivism , but it is the year , 1960 , that lends the game some of its biggest traits. Frank Sinatra , heavy advertising , smoking , swing clubs , and neon lights all play a part in creating a massive world and one of the most interesting and original atmospheres to be seen in a game for a long while.
The graphics and sound only play a further part in immersing you in all of this. Bioshock is powered by the Unreal Engine and pulls off graphics that will have you a believer in Rapture in no time at all. Sound is a big plus also , and as great as the music is , its the soudn effects that steal the show.
Gameplay is basic yet not so basic. Easy yet intuitive. The game centres around two facets. The first , and by far most intereting , is the concept of 'Plasmids' through gaining a gene-modifying substance named 'Adam'. Adam allows you to puchase varioud abilitys for your character to use with the right trigger , with the left trigger being reserved for the second , and much less interesting facet , the shooting. Shooting features some conventional with some not-so-conventional weapons.
My main problem with the game stems from the fact that Bioshock sometimes lets itself not be as amazing as it can be by divulging into basic point-a to point-b shooting gameplay against endless Splicers - overly-modified-to-the-point-of-madness citizens of Rapture.
Looting corpses ala Elder Scrolls and using vending machines ala Oddworld are all included as entertaining components of the gameplay.
The story is not told directly. At least not all of it. Your going to have to pay attention and keep your eyes open if you want to take it all in - and if you dont , you are only going to lessen the experience even more.
Bioshock is a riveting game from start to finish , but not always in between. Its intuitive , complex , and at the same time , really , really easy to play. best of all - its fun.
+ Excellent setting.
+ Some nice gameplay tricks.
+ Fantastic presentation.
+ Endless splicers.
+ Endless process repetition to gain Adam and buy Adam.
+ Game becomes uninteresting in places.
+ The neon lights make my eyes hurt.
+ Your going to be strutting about like a 50's mogul for weeks.
+ The word 'Rapture' is mentioned with terrifying frequency.
Rating: 4.0 - Great
Product Release: BioShock (EU, 08/24/07)
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In our own lives, our parents start and run the money conversations from that first allowance to gearing up for those college loans and beyond. Later in life, the roles are reversed and our elderly parents might need a money conversation about their own future and well-being. Unfortunately, to make that conversation happen, it may be up to the adult children to take the lead.
Yes, it is truly a role reversal and often an important one. How do you start "the talk†and get it right?
For a bit of guidance on the subject, you might turn to a recent Daily Finance article titled "Role Reversal: How to Have 'the Money Talk' with Your Aging Parents.â€
You see, late-in-life medical care may require the family to pull together and even offer direct care to their elderly loved ones. In the process, there may be some difficult financial hurdles to clear. In a very real way, it is not only the responsibility for the elderly parent to have planned along the way, but it is in everyone's interest to figure out the financial hurdles sooner rather than later.
Not planning has a funny way of becoming planning by default. This can lead to some painful consequences.
So, what do you need to talk about and how do you even start the conversation? Take a look at the original article for some issues to parse out, and a few cautionary tales, too.
One of the critical topics is that of long-term care. Given that it is a statistical reality, will the elderly parents outlive their resources due to long-term care? What can be done now to fund that obligation? Is long-term care insurance an option, especially if the children chip in to pay the premiums?
There is no time like the present to plan for tomorrow.
As for starting the conversation: this is always a difficult point, if only because it can be entirely different for different people. That noted, we are heading into a new year and this may be the perfect time to make "the talk†the first New Year's resolution you make – and keep.
At Idaho Estate Planning we are the experts you need to know and trust. Work with us and we'll put together a plan that works for you and your loved ones. Remember, good planning is no accident.
At Idaho Estate Planning, we are dedicated to helping you and your family secure peace of mind and a sure foundation for generations.


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DETROIT Brad Stuart is as low-key and soft spoken of a player as youll find in the NHL.
Still, the Detroit Red Wings defenceman has received his share of abuse from fans and, at times, wanted to get at the perpetrators.
However, Stuart, like pretty much everyone around the NHL, was in disbelief to see Vancouver Canucks forward Rick Rypien get into an altercation with a fan in Minnesota during Tuesday nights clash against the Wild.
Im assuming the fan probably said something, but thats something you cant do, said Stuart, who saw the video of the incident. In the heat of the moment, sometimes you lose control, but as professionals, weve got to know where that line is and not go over it regardless of what somebody might say.
Its easier said than done, but its something youve got to be prepared to do.
Thats a no-no, especially nowadays. Youre not going to get away with that.
Rypien has been suspended indefinitely by the league and will reportedly have a hearing Friday.
Some fans do provoke players, although that doesnt appear the case with Rypien.
The Canucks enforcer was heading to the team dressing room after an on-ice melee. A fan, identified by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune as James Engquist, was beside the walkway from the bench to the dressing room and applauding Rypiens banishment, although it was because he was serving a penalty longer than the time remaining in the period.
Engquist told the Star-Tribune he said, Way to be professional, and Rypien grabbed him.
Its a situation you dont want to see arise, ever. And you never want that interaction with fans that closely, said Flames forward Brendan Morrison, who was a teammate of Rypiens in Vancouver during the 2007-08 season. Although he didnt really do anything to the fan he grabbed him but probably scared him more than anything, not hurt him youve got to ignore them.
Morrison saw the incident on TV as he readied to go to sleep late Tuesday night when the team arrived in Detroit from Nashville.
I was watching ESPN, and any time they show hockey, its not a nice goal. Its Lets get to the stuff not so good for the game, he said, echoing a complaint many throughout the hockey world say. Off the ice, (Rypien) is the calmest guy, the nicest guy, and hes really quiet. A lot of guys who go on the ice flip the switch, and hes one of them.
He has a tough role, shows up every night, battles, competes and works hard, and obviously was fired at that moment, but Im sure its something he regrets.
Its too bad it happened.
For Rypien. For the NHL.
Ill leave it up to the league to deal with that. Something will be done, said Flames head coach Brent Sutter. That cant happen in a game, and Im sure there will be some kind of ruling on it, shortly.
Sutter was asked whether hed ever become involved with a fan.
Not in the NHL, he said with a wry grin that made you know a story was going through the memory banks.
I know that leaves it open, but not in the NHL.
(Fans are) allowed to say what they want. You hear things, but a few minutes later, you dont know what the person said. Youre so focused on the game.
At least almost all the time.
Stuart, the former Calgary Hitmen, knows one time he came close to snapping.
I had a beer thrown at me one time when I was in the penalty box. I was pretty mad, but the glass is 10 feet high, so there was nothing I could do, he said.


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Yoo Seung-ho (born August 17, 1993) is a South Korean actor.
He made his film debut in The Way Home and his drama debut in Daddy Fish. Then Yoo Seung Ho went onto television dramas Love Letter, Sad Love Story and The Legend where he played teenager Damdeok.
In 2008, Yoo Seung Ho participated in the I Love Asia Project along with other celebrities such as Park Jin-Young, Jackie Chan, Wonder Girls, Jang Nara, Wheesung and many others to support the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
He was featured in T-ara's music video "Lies" in early 2009 and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon & The One's music video for the song titled "Like The Stars" which was released on November 17, 2010.
Also, in earlier in 2010, he and IU sang a duet together called "Believe In Love" for a popular Korean charity show, Love Request, where he had gone to the slums of India and witnessed their living conditions. The duet was written with reference to the diary that Yoo Seung Ho had written while he was overseas.
In October 2012 Yoo was cast to star along side Park Yoochun and Yoon Eun-hye as Kang Hyung-joon in MBC drama I Miss You.


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I've setup a simple package to use CheckPoints with one Script Task in the Control Flow, and one Script Task in the OnPostExecute event handler at the package level that displays a message box. The package runs successfully and the message box is displayed. Here's where things get strange. If I set the Control Flow's Script Task to fail (by setting the Dts.TaskResult to fail) when the package runs and fails, the OnPostExecute's Script Task does not display the message box. This leads me to believe that the OnPostExecute event handler is not firing. What's even stranger is that if I set the Control Flow's Script Task to succeed and then rerun the package from the saved CheckPoint, the OnPostExecute event still doesn't fire. On the contrary, if I remove the CheckPoints from the package, and run everything again the OnPostExecute event behaves as expected and fires whether the package succeeds or not. Has anyone else noticed this? It seems to me that the OnPostExecute event should fire whenever the package completes whether one is using CheckPoints or not. Why would it not fire when using CheckPoints?
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Hi to you both. This new website plays tricks on me each time I use it. Today, I had no "reply" to click, hence a new message. Thank you both for the reply. Jean, I knew you would find good information as you always do. DG, tell us more about your trial and about the drug. How is it taken and in what quanity and for how long. When did you start the trial..I went to the web site and found the trial but there is no other info about what the trial involves. I also am in a trial, receiving standard therapy. A/C, Taxol, radiation, and Tamoxifen. I am beginning the 3rd year since DX. This new drug has sparked my interest and I would like to know all there is available about it. Ulli, in Germany, posted about it and until I read her post, I had heard nothing about it. Not as well informed as I thought I was... Hugs, Nancys
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Good evening. I am glad that you found the information regarding the study on the nci page. I have been on the study since august 30,2002. I had two lumpectectomies one in july no clear margins and another in august two more small tumors and clear margins. I have the full lymphn node dissection because of swelling in the lymph nodes but thankfully all 14 were negative, but because of the extensive ca in the breast. my oncologist thought chemo and radiation would be needed. Because of the stage 1 cancer, er postive and post menopausal she felt i would be a good candidate for the study. I take 800mgs. twice a day of either the clondronate or a placebo. Before the study I had bone scans and xrays of my entire body. The study is a three year long study and I am monitered every three months and will be followed for an additional two years. Everything is good very well. I am one quarter through my radiation and feeling quite well except for some fatigue, and my hair is growing back. Hurray!!!! I hope this information will help thanks deborah
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Nine studio albums, thousands of live shows and nearly three decades into a career that's made them one of the biggest and most important metal bands in the world, the members of Slayer know exactly what kind of music they make—brutal but beautiful, punishing yet precise. A fresh Slayer record is a thing of terror but also one of trust: You can depend on what you're getting—even if you're unprepared for it.
As guitarist Jeff Hanneman says with a sly little chuckle, "At this point I think a Slayer album pretty much speaks for itself."
And yet there are some interesting things you should be made aware of regarding World Painted Blood, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2006's Christ Illusion, which debuted inside the Top 5 of Billboard's album chart, a career best for Slayer. Let's start with the fact that its fury, believe it or not, was born out of fun.
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Apple bananas are tangy and sweet, and go perfectly in this Asian-inspired dessert by Phil Vickery
- 350ml (12fl oz) Shaohsing-style Chinese Cooking Wine (available from Waitrose)
- 4tbsp caster sugar
- 1 vanilla pod, split
- 6 apple bananas, peeled and halved lengthways
- 25g (1oz) chilled unsalted butter, cubed
- natural set yogurt, to serve
Chef�s secrets 1) Wing Yip Shaohsing-style Chinese Cooking Wine is a dark brown plum wine. There isn�t really any substitute � you�ll find it at Waitrose. 2) Apple bananas are about half the size of normal bananas and taste faintly of their namesake. They are slightly firmer than the usual variety, and don�t fall apart quite so easily when cooked. 3) Store your bananas in a paper bag at room temperature � they turn black in the fridge. 4) Do use a wok, if you have one, for this pudding: because it is deep, the bananas sit in the sauce and absorb it.
Put the wine, sugar and vanilla pod into a wok or large saucepan, heat until simmering and stir for around two minutes until the sugar has dissolved.
Add the bananas, simmer for 1 minute, then stir in the butter. And that�s it! Enjoy, served with the accompaniment of your choice.
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For the fourth year in a row, I'll be having Breakfast with Santa on Saturday in Frisco! This is a fundraiser for the Summit County Preschool and it's one of my favorite events of the year. A slideshow of the 2011 Breakfast with Santa is here.
Saturday December 15th 2012
8:30am to 11am
Back Country Brewery
Frisco, Colorado
The photos will be online at this link:
by Tuesday - there are digital downloads available and if you sign up early you will get a $5 print credit!
and thought I would share a few of my favorite photos over the years below...
you might want to join us... even I start to believe when I look in santa's eyes... isn't he darling?
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When Menlo Park police officers busted into an East Palo Alto home and pointed a firearm at a two-year old girl in November, they had the wrong house, say the two homeowners, who are filing a $500,000 claim against both cities.
The cops did have a search warrant for a home on Garden Street on Nov. 2, 2010, but it wasn't for the home of Carlos Nava and Melissa Verduzco, whose door cops broke down at 6:45 a.m. that day, reported the Palo Alto Daily News.
The East Palo Alto City Council rejected the claim on an unanimous vote. The Menlo Park City Council has yet to consider the case.
According to the claims, "A sergeant Cowans slammed (Nava's) face to the ground and kneed him in the back of the head. Later, this officer punched (Nava) about the body," the newspaper reported.
Other officers entered Verduzco's room and "pointed laser-sighted firearms" at Verduzco and her 2-year-old daughter, the claims state.
It's unclear which house cops intended to hit and what they were searching for. Menlo Park cops did not comment on the story, according to the newspaper.
Because of the alleged botched raid, Nava suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, stutters occasionally and has back and neck problems, the claims state. All three have suffered nightmares and "general fear and violation of their civil rights," according to the claims.
East Palo Alto City Attorney Valeria Armento said that the case is a Menlo Park matter, not an East Palo Alto matter. All of the raiding was done by East Palo Alto cops.


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Daimler's passenger cars division – which consists of the Mercedes-Benz and Smart brands – has vowed to recover the distance from its German rivals, BMW and Audi. What does that have to do with an E Class test drive you'll see later on.
First off, the recent history has placed Mercedes-Benz, the traditional leader of the worldwide luxury segment on the runner up position – first dropping into second place behind BMW and then third, in 2011, behind Audi. The all out sales war between the three brands has triggered an interesting situation: in their quest for record deliveries they all introduced lower-priced models that eat into the earnings pie. And that makes executives – and most of all investors – very unhappy.
So, models like the E Class large sedan or the S Class flagship (taking just MB's case now) have to cater for a dual role. Earn enough customers to offset the decaying margins from the lower end models and also keep up the luxury panache. When you have models like the CLA that sits below the $30,000 threshold in the US, you really need the higher-end models to make a statement.
Design, Interior and Gadgets
The E Class has gone through a recent mid-life redesign. We could actually leave that lone sentence in this section, because it sums up very well the E Class exterior. It's essentially the same limousine that we were treated back in 2009 – Mercedes-Benz just did some update work. Fortunately, they did it in the right places. We have a completely new front fascia, which shuns the unorthodox (that's a change from the first version, when I said "ugly") design of the headlights and brings a sculpted and very sporty front bumper. I also have a mention on the new headlights, which were later carried to the new C Class, as they are very welcomed departure from the SL introduced design. They look bold, technologically intricate and add to a certain new allure of the E Class range. The lateral side looks almost the same – which is not a bad thing and the rather bland stop lights have been turned into LED works of art.
Finally reaching the driver's seat – although chances are many of the car's owners will spend more time in the back seat – I was surprised to finally sit in a Mercedes-Benz that offers a lowered position. The front "buckets" are also very comfortable and offer good lateral grip – a feature that usually doesn't mix with such types of vehicles. The interior hasn't changed as much as the exterior did after the refresh. We have essentially the same Command center and the same climate controls – only that some buttons were rearranged and the overall build quality has definitely improved. Also, the classic watch housed between the central vents looks ready to be picked up and placed at the owner's wrist – an accessible and great luxury touch.
What has really changed is the instrument panel, Mercedes opting for a three "rings" setup that is more practical and improves ergonomic efficiency. Speaking of which, the E Class still greets us with the usual Mercedes oddities: the column-mounted shifter is there because all the other levers are located to the left of the steering wheel, the parking brake is activated with the left foot and your seat's electric controls (in certain versions) are on the door.
Actually, all these are a part of the Mercedes-Benz experience, and the driver gets accustomed to them in no time. What we didn't get used to was looking at the long, sleek hood and not seeing in the middle the three-star logo piece – which in Europe was "killed" off by safety regulations.
One other mention is that owing to the model's introduction five years ago, the Command system and other features could have been more intuitive – we found the color display a bit too small for the technological age of 5.5+ inch smartphones, for example. Or the fact that when in navigation mode, the easiest (but not very intuitive) mode to change the radio station was to scroll through the trip menu found on the display located in the instrument cluster – that prompts some button pushing on the steering.
On the other hand, controlling the modes of the automatic transmission was delightful – you quickly forgot about the column-mounted lever and used the paddles behind the steering or fiddled with the Eco/Sport modes. Also, one feature that should be on every buyer's list is the 360-degrees panoramic camera system – I found myself looking for the tightest parking spots just to play with it.
Moving in the back, the interior is well designed for just two passengers – you'll have a hard time convincing anyone to sit in the middle through a lengthy journey. Other than that, as an executive prone car, the E offers plenty of leg and head room, coupled with a huge trunk that allows you to store as many suitcases you would possibly need.
Engine, Transmission and Handling
The E Class we tested was equipped with a European region favorite – a diesel powertrain, coupled with a 7-speed automatic transmission that delivered the engine's power to all four wheels. The 250 CDI version uses a 2.2 liters inline four engine that delivers 204 hp/3800 rpm and 500 Nm between 1600 and1800 rpm. The engine is essentially the same that can be found since the E 200 CDI version, but with a different power level. That said, the fact that it's not a nobler V6 setup has an impact on the comfort level. There are no vibrations, but the sound from the engine is very much present inside the cabin – a surprise considering that usually Mercedes delivers eerie silent cars. While this is certainly lowering the luxury feel of the car, the "growl" of the engine is not actually very close to the usual diesel noise, and is more akin to mechanic, powerful machinery.
With a dry weight that tips the scale at 1845 kg, the E Class is not the sprint athlete – it reaches 100 km/h in a timely manner, in 7,9 seconds and has a top speed of 238 km/h. When hammering the throttle for the (sometimes) necessary kick-down, the fact that the automatic transmission is laggy adds to the general feel that the car is often underpowered. So, in making passes and sprinting from city to highway speeds a level of caution is needed – the car will deliver, but slightly "fashionably" late. The situation is more present when using the Eco setting of the transmission, which adds to the lag – but is still visible in the Sport mode, where things should be more "active". Both settings ultimately favor comfort and fuel economy, so your best pick for an alert driving situation is the manual mode.
Thanks to the 4Matic all-wheel drive the car is very stable and neutral in corners, but once more the mass of the vehicle will kick in and temper the eager driver. The Mercedes-Benz in its traditional iterations has always been commended for the comfort it delivers, and the E 250 CDI doesn't sway from the feel. The steering wheel is easy to use, especially in parking situations, the cabin noise is at a minimum (when the engine is at low revs) and the suspension setup enables the car to roll over any pothole. The drivetrain is not meant to please the drivers that love steep mountain turns, instead catering for the general wellbeing of the utterly important passengers usually riding in the back seat.
Of course, in the hands of an experienced driver and without any other passengers in the car the car will reveal it has very high limits, as long as you consider that the laws of physics will certainly take their toll if you disregard the weight and comfort-oriented suspension. The 4 Matic system takes everything a notch or two – especially if the road surface is wet or covered in snow – actually, besides adding to the handling capability, the all-wheel drive also acts as a great safety feature.
With automatic transmission, amass that approaches the two tonne threshold and an all-wheel drive system you would expect the E 250 to be a gas-guzzler. Well, factoring all that, it's certainly not – even though the 5,5 L/100 km average consumption will most likely be forever out of reach. The model delivers outstanding fuel economy in real world situations, thanks to the Start/Stop system and the long, seven-speed gearbox and because, well – Germans know how to get the most out of complex technology.
We like the exterior design, especially the new front and back lights and we love the parking prowess that comes with the 360 degrees camera system. The comfort is great and interior space is as expected, both front and back.
We were treated to less than stellar engine noise deflection, while the engine felt at times underpowered – a feeling augmented by the rather slow seven-speed automatic transmission.
Photo by Gabi Gogiu
Starting price – 43,071 EUR
Tested vehicle price – from 49,209
Tested Car – Mercedes-Benz E250 CDI 4Matic
Engine: 2,2L turbo diesel (2,143 cc)
Power: 204 HP (150 kW) at 3,800 rpm
Torque: 500 Nm (369 lb-ft) at 1,600-1,800 rpm
Transmission: 7-speed automatic, rwd
Dimensions: length – 4,879 mm, width – 1,854 mm, height – 1,474 mm, wheelbase – 2,874 mm
Weight: 1,800 kg
Fuel Tank Capacity: 59L
Trunk Capacity: 490L
0 – 100 km/h: 7,4s
Top Speed: 245 km/h
Fuel consumption: urban – 5,3L/100 km, highway – 3,9L/100 km, average – 4,5L/100 km
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Relegated to bench, Polanco focused on health
Relegated to bench, Polanco focused on health
In other words, Polanco, who has been an everyday player the majority of his 15-year career, is a bench guy.
Polanco said Thursday that Manuel called him into his office to tell him about his decision.
"If I can't play, I can't play," said Polanco, who has battled a back problem and other injuries this season. "He's the manager. Right now, my hands are tied. I can't really say much. I played the other day [Aug. 22] and I hurt it again. What am I going to say? Put me in? I told him if I was healthy, then this would be another conversation. But I'm not healthy."
The Phillies have a $5.5 million option or a $1 million buyout on Polanco's contract next season. The Phillies will take the buyout. That leaves Polanco's future in baseball uncertain. He said he does not know what is going to happen, but he would like to play if he is healthy.
That is a big if.
"I have a lot of energy, I love the game and this is what I've been doing my entire life," said Polanco, who estimates he has received about 10 cortisone injections over the course of his career. "But I have to be healthy. If I'm not healthy, they can offer me $100 million and I'm not going to go out there."


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Padres signed RHP Tim Stauffer to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.
Stauffer, who had surgery in August to repair a flexor tendon in his right elbow, is currently about two weeks behind his usual throwing program. The 30-year-old right-hander may not be ready for the start of the season, but he's a fine gamble on a minor league deal.


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CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of stealing televisions from a Southern California Target store was killed in a crash as he fled from police.
Montclair police said in a statement that officers saw the man leave the Target through a fire exit Sunday night with two large TVs then run to a green Honda Accord that awaited him.
Police say the woman driving the Accord would not stop and instead fled at high speed onto Interstate 10 and was attempting to get off the freeway in neighboring Claremont when she ran into three vehicles.
The man was ejected from the back seat and pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital in police custody.
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Try to run continuously for five minutes. Use any course you'd like, around your neighborhood or around a park. Just set your watch and go.
The biggest mistake I see in new runners is that they take off too quickly. Remember, this is not a sprint; this is an exercise to remain in continual forward motion until the target time-goal has been reached. Even a highly trained athlete would find it challenging to sprint full speed for five straight minutes. That is not the objective. The purpose is to train yourself to regulate your pace so you can run continuously.
Once you're able to run or jog continuously for five minutes, try increasing the duration for an additional five minutes every other week, ultimately working toward being able sustain uninterrupted forward momentum for 30 minutes.
During the progression upward from five minutes, learn to push your pace as fast as you can so that you arrive completely spent, while still being able to reach this requisite time goal without having to stop and catch your breath along the way.
This approach teaches you discipline and helps build confidence as you strive to accomplish progressively longer goals. And it all starts with just a five minute investment.
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Effective last week the Mexican Treasury announced that banknotes issued by defunct Mexican banks are now officially "valueless," no longer legal tender.
Informally the Treasury "advised" holders of such paper that they can sell it at a heavy discount through the Mexican Bank Liquidation Commission.
Holders of banknotes issued by any of the 160-odd National Banks which failed last year have not lost, cannot lose a cent. Under U. S. banking law no banknote can be issued until its full value is covered by bonds which bear the circulation privilege deposited with the...
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Although the reversing camera is fast-becoming standard fare on upper-echelon models on sale in Australia, it doesn't mean you have to part with your pride and joy to make it safer.
As little as $250 can buy the peace of mind of having a reversing camera backed by rear parking sensors. Electronics retailer Jaycar has a number of options to improve the safety of your car when backing out the driveway.
Sensors alone can be a cost-effective start - $99 buys a wireless four-sensor system from Jaycar, which has a 30m range (for use on longer vehicles) with a screen to display distances to objects.
Strike have two options for reversing sensors - the S1-4 Eco Parking Sensor for $88 that has flush-fitted sensors activated when reverse gear is selected and sounds a beep when nearing obstacles.
There's also the L20-4 LED reversing system that also has sensors active once the car is in reverse, as well as a visual LED warning system that displays the distance between the sensors and the object as well as beeps - it is $95.90 from www.strike.com.au
Some drivers will prefer the rearvision mirror with integrated camera screen that is appearing as standard in several new cars and SUVs.
Jaycar (Pic: to left) offers a wireless reversing camera that feeds into a screen within a replacement mirror, which sits over the top of the car's existing rearvision and is powered from a 12-volt outlet. For $249 the Jaycar electronics brand has a camera and sensors pack that includes a 3in monitor and four sensors, with parking assistance lines on the screen and warning beeps (or an optional voice warning) from the sensors.
Or for the same outlay there's a reversing camera with a larger LCD screen - 5in - that sits on a suction swivel-mount bracket; the screen has a distance graphic and uses a mini USB 2.0 port.
Strike has a reversing camera package - the buttlerfly camera and "clear" digital monitor bundle for $268. The Strike package has a 7in digital monitor displays the images from the "butterfly" reversing camera that fits into the bumper without the need to drill holes.
Supercheap Autos offers (Pic: to left) a reverse sensor kit with the added bonus of a digital speed alert for $79.
The system has four reversing sensors with a distance-to-object display and when not in use for reversing it displays the vehicle speed and has an over-speed warning as well.
Website Alpha Line Auto (Pic: to left) has an all-in-one "Command Centre" replacement rearvision mirror that has a second screen that displays vision from the reversing camera, as well as a built-in GPS satnav, a hands-free Bluetooth phone link and MP3 player. $1475 supplied and fitted.
The website also offers a more conventional reversing camera with an integrated 3.5in screen, which costs $550 freighted and fitted.


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Did the Patriots get two first-rounders?
Ex-NFL GM Charley Casserly — who isn't exactly a Patriots apologist — wrote about the possibility in his CBSSports.com column reviewing the draft. Here's his look at New England's haul:
First pick: Devin McCourty — The Pats filled a need by adding a cornerback in Devin McCourty. I had McCourty rated as a late first-round pick, so the Pats got good value for him. I liked his ability to press, his quick hands and aggressiveness on the press, too. I also thought he played well in zone defense. I thought he showed potential to play man to man, but did not see a lot of that in the tapes I watched. If he looked good in a workout doing man-to-man techniques, I would probably have raised his grade. He needs work on his ball skills.
The pick I will watch the most — I really like Rob Gronkowski. I rated him a late first to an early second-round grade. He has excellent size and showed the ability to block and be effective as a receiver, a rare combination in a college tight end nowadays. I will watch to see if he should have been a first-round pick and what kind of play speed he has.
McCourty, of course, was the safe pick. Dez Bryant, Kyle Wilson and Jerry Hughes all had higher ceilings, but the Patriots went for the surer thing.
Gronkowski was more of a gamble. I know of at least one team that took Gronkowski off its draft board because of his back issue (the nerve damage is the problem), and the fact that he didn't play in 2009 made him a tougher evaluation. But it seems like, from an on-field standpoint, he could be a real home run for the Patriots.
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I've not followed the game development, thus far, nor read the books. Is anyone aware of the in-setting time period this takes place? Could there be a legitimate reason for his shift in appearance?
Having said that, I am with JDR13: short of the inclusion of some Ubisoft-level DRM, this is a day one purchase for me.


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Photographer's Note
In the north of Spain is La Rioja, where some of the best wines in the world are produced.
After the grape is collected, it passes a very hard quality control where the degree is measured (quantity of sugar), the grape is tasted and the mixture between the different types os grapes is decided. It is then pressed and kept in a temperature controlled huge reservoirs for 5 to 20 days for the natural fermentation.
After, this "soup" is filtrated, and the cleared wine is moved into the barrels.
This barrels are made of american or french oak, and are new or semi-new, both things depend on the taste we want to obtain. From 6 months to 2 years, the wine is kept with love in this beautifull underground wine cellars you can see on the photo.
After this process, the wine is again moved into glass bottles which are sold, or reserved for many years to be sold as "reserves" or "great reserves".
Nowadays you can find wines from 1950-60 in the market.
Anyway the best ones in my opinion, are the great reserves 10 years old, 2 or 3 in barrel and 7 or 8 in bottle. After 10 or 15 years the wine gets lighter and not as intense, but this is only a question of taste.
Hope you try a good Rioja sometime, you wont be dissapointed.
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carper (96) 2004-08-19 12:08
Very nice one Felipe,
I like your shot a lot. very good lines in it, good colours great composed, very good note as well, great job
maria (3288) 2004-08-19 12:18
Hi Felipe,
Where did you get the text that makes the photographer's note from?
This picture is not bad but I am more interested in the content of the barrels!
Take care,
Proxilva (2157) 2004-08-19 13:06
very nice photo Felipe...
good perspective leading into the dark...
very moody and very well composed..
red45 (1633) 2005-02-09 10:31
Hi Felipe!
Great picture :-)
I like its slightly 'medieval' look. Very interesting note and as Maria said even more interesting content of barrels. I'm a Pole but hate vodka. I like wine very much.
dyucelten (312) 2007-07-07 4:34
Hi Felipe,
I can almost feel the chilly of the bonded vault and the smell. Very nice photo and a very good work despite the distracting barrels (I mean the wine) and the darkness.
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- Copyright: Felipe Mateo (Extramundi) (26)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2004-07-27
- Categories: Food
- Camera: Sony DSC F-717
- Exposure: f/2, 1/40 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2004-08-19 10:54
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Adobe releases Lightroom 4.3 and Adobe Camera Raw 7.3
Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 and Adobe Camera Raw 7.3. These are final versions of updates that were originally posted as 'release candidates' on the Adobe Labs site, and are available for immediate download. The latest versions provide RAW support for 13 additional cameras, including the Canon EOS 6D, Nikon D5200 and Sony DSC-RX1. The Mac version of Lightroom features a Develop module that supports Apple's HiDPI mode, that makes the interface easier to read on the 'Retina' panels used on recent Macs.
The full list of additional cameras supported in this update is:
- Canon EOS 6D
- Canon PowerShot S110
- Canon PowerShot G15
- Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
- Casio Exilim EX-ZR1000
- Casio Exilim EX-FC300S
- Leica M-E
- Nikon 1 V2
- Nikon D5200
- Nikon D600
- Olympus PEN E-PL5
- Olympus PEN E-PM2
- Olympus STYLUS XZ-2 iHS
- Panasonic DMC-GH3
- Pentax K-5 II
- Pentax K-5 IIs
- Pentax Q10
- Sony DSC-RX1
- Sony NEX-VG30
- Sony NEX-VG90
Click here to download Adobe Lightroom 4.3 for Windows
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To install Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe says "Please use the update mechanism in Photoshop CS6"
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Adobe Announces Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3 Final Releases
Adobe today announced the availability of Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3 final releases on Adobe.com. The update adds HiDPI support within the Lightroom Library and Develop modules and includes additional raw file format support for 20 new cameras including the Canon EOS 6D, Nikon D5200 and Sony DSC-RX1. A comprehensive list of newly supported cameras is provided below.
Newly supported cameras:
- Canon EOS 6D
- Canon PowerShot S110
- Canon PowerShot G15
- Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
- Casio Exilim EX-ZR1000
- Casio Exilim EX-FC300S
- Leica M-E
- Nikon 1 V2
- Nikon D5200
- Nikon D600
- Olympus PEN E-PL5
- Olympus PEN E-PM2
- Olympus STYLUS XZ-2 iHS
- Panasonic DMC-GH3
- Pentax K-5 II
- Pentax K-5 IIs
- Pentax Q10
- Sony DSC-RX1
- Sony NEX-VG30
- Sony NEX-VG900
In addition, the Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3 final releases correct issues reported in earlier releases. Special thanks to all community members who contributed feedback via the community-powered site: feedback.photoshop.com.
Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow solution, helping serious amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase all their images within one application. The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in provides fast and easy access to raw image formats produced by many leading digital cameras.
Pricing and Availability
Lightroom 4.3 is available as a free download for Lightroom 4 customers, and the Camera Raw plug-in is available as a free download for Photoshop CS6 customers. Both are available for Mac and Windows. For additional information, please visit the Adobe Lightroom blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/
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How in the world am I to update my camera raw. Running update wthin CS6 just updated and installed the DNG converter. My raw files were not upgraded, still says 7.3 beta. So I downloaded the DNG converter and ran it and also did not upgrade my raw. How can I download just the raw update like i used to be able to do.
What operating system are you running? I had no trouble updating to ACR 7.3 from within Photoshop CS on my Windows 7 computer.
Adobe DNG converter is a different program; that does not run within Photoshop CS6.
That did it grahamdyke. Thank you.
Did anyone else spend 45 minutes downloading a humongous "Adobe Extractor" file that doesn't open -- or do anything?
Right click the file, select properties and then click the Unblock button and it will run ok.
Tethering with the 5D3 still seems to have issues. When you switch the camera off and back on, LR doesn't continue to tether properly.
The camera is still shown to be connected but images are not imported and the remote triggering doesn't function.
Only way around this is to restart LR - which is not very useful.
Anyone else tried this? (I'm on Mac, Snow Leopard)
The Clone/Heal tool is still unusable in Lightroom 4.3, no change there!!!
That stupid circle, why a circle?
Once you place the heal/clone circle eventually the copy circle appears, about 30 secs later after much thrashing. The heal/clone circle then takes another 30 secs to update, then I want to move it, aw just forget it, I haven't got the time, life is too short, I've almost lost the will to live!
This is on a Core 2 Quad (4 x 2.4Ghz) CPU PC with 4GB memory and the caching correctly set up on a 2TB 6GB/s media HDD.
Why on earth did Adobe implement this ridiculus solution for Lightroom, when they already had a perfectly good Heal/Clone tool solution in Elements editor, one that you can actually paint with. They could have just ported it straight over!!!
Another Lightroom rant: Why is there still no Perspective/Distortion tool to go with the Crop tool so that architecture images can be corrected???
I'd say that Lightroom is NOT a stand alone editing solution, you are always going to need another editor in order to complete the job.
In fact I think I may just go back to Elements Editor, I still use Elements Organiser anyway, as it's hierarchical image organisation is far superior to Lightroom's flat file approach.
Adobe should have just put the few good bits there are in Lightroom straight into the Elements Editor and be done with it, no need for yet another product.
We've all been conned!!!
There are two major problems with your post. One is that you're trying to do work on a 4GB RAM machine. You're holding back all the rest of the system specs you quoted, by starving them of RAM. You should have at least 8GB RAM to prevent thrashing with any serious photo app, not just Lightroom. The thrashing is probably because the system is forced to use virtual memory because you don't have enough RAM.
Second, there IS a perspective distortion tool in Lightroom. It isn't with the Crop tool because the Crop tool is the wrong place for it. I know perspective was a feature of the Crop tool in Photoshop, but it could never correct lens or barrel distortion.
The perspective/distortion is in the right place in Lightroom: In a powerful Lens Correction panel with the other distortion removal features. They did the same thing in Photoshop (the powerful Lens Correction feature separate from the Crop tool) and it was the right thing to do. The Crop tool is only for cropping.
No you have misunderstood about the perspective correction. I know ther is a wonderfull lens distortion panel in Lightroom, this can not be used to corect an image for architectural perspective, unlike the tools availible in Elements Editor.
The PC is running 32bit Vista and so is limited to 4GB of RAM, 8GB is not an optiion, without moving to 64bit OS and this will clobber many other applications that I use, requiring them to be updated, more cost.
All the equivalent Clone/Heal tools work just fine in Elements Editor with no lag and for me their implimentation is far superior to those in Lightroom.
Have you tried both?
The next time you are in the Lens Correction panel, try clicking Manual, look at the Horizontal and Vertical sliders and see if they can't correct keystone perspective corrections (what you refer to as "architectural" perspective).
The reason there is no lag in the clone/heal tools in Elements is that they are operating on rendered RGB pixels, not raw data. Naturally, it's faster.
Overall, if the tools work better for you in Elements and better for your hardware, you should be using Elements. Lightroom is made for the current state of professional raw editing. No offense intended, but a 4GB RAM, 32-bit computer today is not current for this purpose.
grahamdyke for what it is worth: I just upgraded my machine to 64Bit windows, and added an additional 8GB RAM, and then installed the latest Lightroom 64bit (didn't have to pay anything extra to get the latest version). The differences in speed and stability were amazing and totally worth it.. More than half of my software I could get 64bit version free (the 32bit license i paid for works for 64bit as well), and the other half the 32bit worked just fine on 64bit windows. So net net.. only paid for RAM.
Thanks graybalanced and boramz, I will take a look at your suggestions and maybe make some changes :-)
Like far too many Adobe updates, this ACR update caused a little bit of mayhem at my place. For some bizarre reason my installation of Photoshop CS6 transmogrified into a trial version of Photoshop CS6 Extended.
This was especially surprising because I run a completely 'clean' system with nothing but the most trusted software installed in default locations. I didn't even run a trial of Photoshop CS6 on this system before purchasing it (outright, by the way; none of that Creative Cloud business here). I have never expressed any interest whatsoever in Photoshop CS6 Extended.
I eventually resolved this by reentering my serial number, which thankfully I had on hand. More info here for anyone in the same predicament: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4919570
I installed (on my macbook retina) the 4.3 update as well as the camera raw 7.3 update. Now I can't see my VSCO camera profiles any longer from within Lightroom Camera Calibration tab where they used to be. The profiles are gone even though they are still present on my HD same place as before. (Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles) They are still physically there but LR can't "see" them after the 4.3 update.
Can anyone help me out?
My Library was hidden. Macintosh HD/users/username/Library was hidden. So I did this:
From OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested:
sudo chflags nohidden /Library/ ~/Library/
Now I went to Macintosh HD/users/username/LibraryApplication Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles and pasted the VSCO camera profiles into that folder. Restarted LR and voila: everything back in order. :-)
Hope it helps.
RAW issues are usually easy to work around. We would certainly benefit from DNG being standardized, but that just isn't going to happen. I'd like Lightroom to at least support the PNG format just so that I can catalog web images and screenshots along with my other photos.
Sony NEX-6 raw files are also supported, it seems.
The Lightroom 4.3 update won't install for me on a Windows Vista machine but installs okay on a Windows 7 machine. Anyone else having this problem? There are a few instances of the same problem reported in Adobe forums.
Just discovered that the problem is related to downloading the update with Firefox. If you download using Internet Explorer, the update works fine under Vista.
I had the same problem, but it was just a security issue. Vista had blocked the file because it was a downloaded executable from an untrusted source. I had to right-click the downloaded file and select properties. Then at the bottom of the "General" tab, I had to click "unblock". After that, it ran OK.
manual update for ACR (Win) = http://swupdl.adobe.com/updates/oobe/aam20/win/PhotoshopCameraRaw7-7.0/7.3.37/Setup.zip
for mac = http://swupdl.adobe.com/updates/oobe/aam20/mac/PhotoshopCameraRaw7-7.0/7.3.37/Setup.dmg
Thank you so much for that link!!!
All this anger towards Lightroom in these posts... lol.
1. Yeah surprised Fuji xpro is not better supported too.
2. Sigma support, well i probably agree with you, but i bet it comes down to priority. They probably had more urgant things to work on for the release. I would ask Sigma why they don't support DNG.
3. As far as "Wasting resources" between the various raw solutions. Variety is a good thing! :).. and besides adobe came out with DNG format! which unifies the cameara formats, so if anything i would blame the camera companies that are not supporting that. I mean common, how many raw formats do they have to support?
4. As far as no Offline update for ACR. I have to ask why does your office have no internet connecion? Personally i think it's obserd (or even childish) to block or prevent net access in an office building. People should be treated as resonsible adults, not children. Net access in the office is an assest anyway.
I tried the latest Photoshop update (13.0.2) on my Retina MacBook Pro. The HiDPI display is a welcome enhancement. But, from what I've seen so far, the image rendering in ACR 7.3 does not support HiDPI. When the RMBP screen is set to "Best for Retina", Photoshop uses all 2880x1800 pixels. ACR is still scaling images to a 1440x900 grid.
The easiest way to see this is to view an image at 100% in ACR, and then at 100% in PS. Objects will draw 2x larger in ACR.
I hope they fix this in a future update. I like to do careful capture sharpening in ACR, and then import to PS for more tweaking. I would like to have the same scaling and rendering in both stages.
Tested and no improvements to the Fuji X RAW files, foliage still looks painted
What ISO are you shooting?
My indoor/shadow ISO 5000 X E1 raws, extracted in ACR 7.3 from within Photoshop CS6, look extraordinary. A good bit better than similar shots taken with a Canon 6D at ISO 5000 and also extracted with ACR 7.3.
I find it truly amazing that Adobe still insists on NOT supporting current Foveon technology. Sigma maintains that it has made the all necessary information available - Adobe (for reasons best know to themselves) simply refuses to take it on board. Why? There is a tremendous rise in the number of people taking up the use of Sigma cameras like the DP2M and DP1M - and there would probably be a higher uptake of SD1M users if Adobe took up the challenge. What's stopping them?
Maybe because only 4 people worldwide bought an SD1.....and another 20 bought the DP2
It isn't just Foveon. Hasselblad multi-shot uninterpolated images are completely not supported.
They view RAW processing as only applying to demosaicing bayer CFA images. They need to make the system more robust to handle Fuji's more complex layouts (they currently accept the files but handle them poorly) and Foveon and Hasselblad's uninterpolated layouts.
Sigma could also improve things by allowing the camera to shoot uncompressed 16bit TIFF files or DNGs.
I guess you can't help being almost totally ignorant, Clint. Ask around - look around - the cure is out there. Maybe one day you'll find it. I wish you good luck.
@Sigmachrome - Ahh don't take things so seriously life is too short....come on, it WAS funny!!
Really what I said was true though...if Sigma had sold the cameras in question in any great numbers than Adobe would likely have invested in the converter for them.
Given that within one week we have had three major vendors release big patches to support new raw camera formats, is it not time for Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, DXO, etc to get together and work on a collaborative way of doing this? What a waste of resources.
Stupid, yes!
But none of them are making money off the way things are today, instead they are diverting resources away from adding features and improving their product to instead add support for various raw formats. Maybe two or three of these groups could get together and create a project to support the various cameras together rather than duplicating efforts.
Gothmoth...your Leica only lost 10-15%...really??? An M9 a year ago sold new for $7000 plus tax. The day the M10 was announced people were selling used M9's for $4000.
The lenses on the other hand....yes, they actually work out to be an investment which is why I will never sell my Leica glass.
and no offline update for ACR..... i hate adobe.
they do everthing to make your life harder.
we have company PC´s who are not allowed to connect to the internet.. how can i update ACR on them without an offline installer.
i hate adobe.....
Why don't you hate your company?
Why would he hate his company?
They obviously have a security zone model of some sort in place, <sarcasm>god forbid a company should protect its valuable data</sarcasm> (i.e. consider how many companies hold your private information)
So maybe you can answer the question yourself, why should he hate his company?
It already supported them, however that doesn't mean support hasn't been improved. Anyone with an X-Pro1 or X-E1 fancy giving the new version a roll and seeing if it's any better? I will if I get time this weekend.
I was one of the first adopters of the X-Pro1.
When raw support was added to LR4.1 and everyone was disappointed about the results I was one of the first who said:
Proper raw support for the X-Trans sensor will not show up until the next major version of Lightroom (5.0) and Camera RAW (8.0).
The X-Trans sensor requires a major re-design of Camera RAW. The current support is "as good as it gets" within the capabilities of the current versions.
So to everyone that cries on every minor update (point releases): YOU WON'T SEE AN IMPROVEMENT UNTIL LR5 / ACR8 - NO MATTER WHAT. So stop hoping (and crying because it is annoying tbh).
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Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
January 8-12, 2003
It happened like this: Henry's footsteps on the old wooden floorboards. The toilet flushing. More footsteps, perhaps on the stairs. Silence. Then the thud.
I was working downstairs in my office on a bitterly cold Wednesday afternoon. My work space was an enclosed sunporch off our living room, the small-paned windows on three sides framing a view of the snowy hills across the road. Wrapped in a shawl, wearing fuzzy socks on my chilled feet, I continued studying the project on my computer screen. At forty-three, I had been a graphic designer for nearly twenty years, a freelancer, specializing in cover designs for book publishers. Today's project was a novel about hard-luck cowboys, due yesterday, as always. I stopped fiddling with type design possibilities as I glanced at the computer clock --- in an hour I would have to make a dash out to the car to pick up our six-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Liza, just before school let out at 3:10. Henry had been sick in bed all morning. There would be the freezing cold wait and the daily social milling with the other mothers on the school playground, then the quick drive home to finish my work. I'd wear my new sheepskin coat today and feel guilty about its expense on a warmer day. On second thought, the distressed sans serif type worked better with the moody image of a cowboy leaning against a split-rail fence.
Suddenly my brain rewound sharply.
It wasn't a package dropped outside by the UPS guy.
My office phone rang. Instinctively, I answered. The photographer on the line asked me how I liked the images he had e-mailed.
It wasn't the cats knocking groceries off the kitchen counter.
"I can't talk now --- something bad is happening." I ended the call abruptly.
The rooms were silent as I ran up the stairs, calling for Henry. Two of our four cats skittered out of my way, their nails clawing the wooden treads. The bedroom was empty. I raced back down the stairs.
I found Henry on his back, spread-eagled on the kitchen floor, his head a few inches from the oven broiler. He was still breathing. His body was silhouetted against the sea blue of the painted floorboards. I imagined a police chalk drawing of the outline of the victim at a crime scene. I was overcome with the feeling that I was in the scene and watching a scene on television—an opening sequence of an episode of Six Feet Under, our favorite show that year. Usually some minor character dies in the first five minutes.
Henry inhaled with a shallow breath; small dribbles of saliva on his curved lips, the skin on his face now sallow and ashen. He exhaled with a feeble sigh. His eyes flickered half open. I spoke to him to let him know that I was there with him, but for once in our life together he could not speak back.
A long, elastic minute stretched out and snapped: Is this when people call 911? Or is Henry going to sit up and tell me to stop fussing, like he did yesterday after he passed out? This must be the same thing. He came in after taking out the garbage and fell down flat on the floor. The doctor said all the tests were normal ---
I called 911. I sat down on the floor next to him, stroking his forehead, watching him breathe. A hissing sound, as spittle pulsed between his lips.
I wish I had a notepad and pencil. Henry would want me to take notes. The EMS guys will come. They'll check him out. He'll be fine. He'll be telling people about his near death at our next dinner party. "The report of my death was an exaggeration" is what he'll say. Everyone will laugh, and I'll feel pathetic for having worried so much. I'm happy to feel pathetic if everything will just please, please turn out okay.
I called 911 again, just to be sure. I called Emily, who lived five minutes away and was usually home at two in the afternoon. Anna was more reliable --- I knew she wouldn't freak out, no matter what happened today—but she lived twelve minutes away. Then I called Matthew, Henry's best friend, who lived with his wife in a nearby town.
Every minute will make a difference. The EMS guys will come; they will bring oxygen tanks, defibrillators, and IV bags. All will be well. Emily will help me find a babysitter for Liza, then she will go with me to the hospital, and we'll get there and Henry will be awake, smiling and joking as usual.
I sat back down next to him on the blue floor, stroking the familiar wrinkles, the scar over one eyelid, the small mole at the crest of one cheek.
Inhale. Exhale. A blue gauze curtain passed over him. His skin turned to wax.
"Breathe!" I screamed at him. "Start breathing now!" I pounded him on the chest. He wasn't listening to me. I placed my mouth on his and blew my breath into him; the blue briefly faded into rose like a watercolor wash. But the flush faded back to blue. He was still. The man who for sixteen years had loved me, driven me crazy, fought with me, fed me, made love with me, made a baby with me, exhaled one last breath, the air I had blown into his lungs.
I looked up, distracted by the sound of the sliding porch door, followed by a blast of cold air. The EMS guys had arrived with a gurney and gear and gently hustled me out of the kitchen. Emily followed right after them.
You'll know it's bad when they take you to the little waiting room. Emily held my left arm. Her face was pale, her lips still rosy from the cold, her dark bobbed hair peeking from under a familiar blue cloche hat. Matthew sat on my right. Matthew was tall, built like a tree. The sad-eyed young doctor told us it was a pulmonary embolism. A blood clot, formed in the leg, had moved upward and lodged in the lung, causing cardiac arrest. They had tried everything they could to revive him.
But everything moved in slow motion as I processed his words. This couldn't be right. He was only forty-four. Whenever we'd watched Six Feet Under together, the main characters had made it safely to the next episode. I slid off my chair to the floor and screamed.
"You can lie next to him if you want," Emily said. She was calm, amazingly, looking at Henry's lifeless body on the gurney. "Go ahead, it won't bother me at all."
I climbed up onto the narrow gurney and lay down next to him. He would have wanted me to note every detail for him --- the way his chest was still warm, while his arms were already stiff and cold and his fingers were curled and blue. He had a bruise on the left side of his face. It was comforting to rest there with my arm around him, touching him in a familiar way, relieved still to have a companion, even a quiet one.
He had beautiful feet, elegantly articulated toes, like the feet on a Greek statue. I peeled back his shirt to look at the distinctive scar on his chest. A bit of cornhusk had punctured his skin while he was working on a farm as a teenager. The healing wound had formed an inch-long raised keloid that I loved to touch in the dark. I touched the large dark mole on his left shoulder. I felt the scar over his right eye, received when he was a child in a hotel in Honolulu (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry always added when telling the story), when a window had fallen suddenly out of its molding as he passed under it with his family. All his scars and moles, so well known to me, like stepping-stones marking the way home through a dark wood.
Two nurses came in. "You should go home now and get some rest," one said. She put her hand on my shoulder and squeezed me gently.
Emily took my arm, and we walked down the fluorescent-lit corridors and stepped out into the twilight, inky blue with low-hanging clouds. A flock of black birds rushed up into the sky, their wings moving in unison, a tragic banner.
I feel like I've been hit by a truck, Henry had joked two weeks before he died. We were on our Christmas vacation, visiting Henry's college friend and his family on Bainbridge Island, off the coast of Seattle. During the short daylight hours under the continuous gray blanket of northwest cloud cover, the kids played and drank hot chocolate, while we adults planned meals, decorated the holiday tree, and prepared for the arrival of Santa Claus. Henry, who loved all parties but disliked Christmas, watched from the couch.
His quip was familiar to me. When he was sixteen, he had taken a spin on a friend's new motorcycle straight into an oncoming white pickup truck as he came around a tight curve. He loved telling this story, with a new embellishment every time.
"I'm lying there bleeding, with my right leg broken in seven places, the guy is weeping and begging me not to die. I had to calm the guy down so he'd go get help from the neighbor." Henry's leg had been repaired, but he always had some pain and swallowed daily doses of Advil. He predicted that he would need a knee replacement by the time he was fifty, a wheelchair at sixty.
Jokes aside, I worried as I watched Henry --- dozing, reading a magazine, tapping away on his laptop, dozing some more. During these vacation days, he had barely gotten off the couch. When I asked him about how he was feeling, he said that he was just tired from all the traveling of the last year, that he couldn't wait to get home, to begin writing his book.
The subject of his book was umami, a Japanese word that translates as "perfection," usually as it relates to food. Umami also translates as "the fifth taste," best described for Westerners as "savory." The other tastes are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Umami is the feeling of mouthwatering deliciousness during, and complete satiety after, a good meal. Umami is the taste of protein, caressed by fat --- the pleasurable viscous taste of a meat stew, a rich sauce, or a morsel of creamy cheese. There is umami in a piece of sun-ripened fruit, or a glass of complex wine. More crassly, Big Food corporations hire food scientists to add chemically enhanced umami to otherwise tasteless food --- Big Macs, snack chips, and those frozen dinners in your freezer. Umami is also the taste of the demonized flavor-enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG), favored by Chinese restaurants.
But Henry's mission was to hunt down the real thing. He had gravitated to the West Coast, where the freshness of food, produce particularly, embodied the idea of perfection more than did the off-season shipments of unripe tomatoes and mealy peaches typically available on the East Coast. Under contract from a publisher, with half his advance paid, he traveled up and down the coast during 2002, sampling farm-ripened fruit, exotic varieties of seafood and seaweed, and regional wines.
He spent most of the year back and forth, making at least eight trips out West, some as long as three weeks. He ate meals at food temples such as The French Laundry in the Napa Valley and The Herb Farm in Woodinville, Washington. He tasted freshly harvested oysters and wild mushrooms in Oregon. He visited wine producers and experts up and down the coast. He wrote me a long e-mail about the now rare Marshall strawberries he tasted at one of the small family-owned farms in the San Juan Islands of Washington State on a trip with David Karp, a well-known fruit expert.
Henry returned from his trips with jars of Meyer lemon preserve, homemade salsas, and a nifty gadget called a Brix refractometer, which measures the sugar content of fruit. The produce manager of our local grocery store was impressed as Henry jabbed his pocketknife into nectarines and oranges to release juice for testing. FedEx surprised us with another treasure --- a box of organic peaches from Frog Hollow Farm in Brentwood, California. Each drenching bite sent my salivary glands into almost painful overdrive.
Liza and I had joined him once during this long travel year, in May. We stayed at the Sooke Harbour House, a hotel-restaurant on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Liza, who already showed signs of having inherited the culinary gene, loved the seafood and the special tour of the kitchen. She and I spent our days enjoying walks and outdoor play while Henry and the proprietor went deep-sea diving for underwater creatures. They returned one afternoon with a story of a nearly exhausted oxygen tank, a large octopus, and several purple-hinged rock scallops. The octopus and scallops ended up as soup ingredients later that evening. The intense and complex perfume of the broth, like nothing I had ever tasted, was the essence of umami.
Liza, not quite six years old, finished that meal and announced her career goal of opening her own hotel-restaurant. Her hotel would have yoga classes for me and room service for her cats.
Excerpted from PERFECTION: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal © Copyright 2011 by Julie Metz. Reprinted with permission by Voice. All rights reserved.
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
- Genres: Nonfiction
- paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Voice