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Members of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians are caught up in political infighting as a federal decision on whether to recognize the tribe approaches, but both sides say they don't expect it to change the outcome.
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) - The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office has seized four horses that investigators say were left neglected in corrals north of Rock Springs.
The Whitney Ice Rink has been under construction for the last several months. Much of the work culminated yesterday in one of the final steps of the project. Concrete workers arrived a little before 3 in the morning yesterday to begin pouring the floor of the rink. Brenden Jespersen tells us why the entire rink floor had to be completed in one shot.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A state district judge has ruled Wyoming's only death row inmate, Dale Wayne Eaton, received a fair trial before he received a death sentence in the 1988 rape and murder of a Montana woman.
Judge David B. Park of Casper released a written decision on Friday stating Eaton isn't entitled to any post-conviction relief.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A federal judge has sentenced a Green River securities agent who bilked his clients out of more than $1 million to serve 46 months in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer on Friday said Leo Timothy Buggy of Green River "just went nuts," when he started spending his clients' money.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming State Archives has released the Wyoming Blue Books on compact disc for the first time.
The Blue Books are a comprehensive guide to the state's history from pre-territorial days to 2007. The hardcopy version of the updated Blue Books were made available last year.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A wolf pack in Montana has produced at least two wayfaring members that roamed hundreds of miles, in one case getting as far south as Colorado.

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A long, hard ride from start to finish, Biker Boys features easy riders, stuntmen studs, and men who aren't just wearing chaps because they look good. The term "biker" describes a specific archetype in our culture: "real" men - rebels, outlaws, and sometimes criminals. The racy stories of Biker Boys evoke the passion these masculine men have for their cycles and each other. Also along for the ride are grease monkeys who service bikes, guys who willingly take on the role of biker bitch, and road-weary men looking for a bed for the night. These sensational stories by Jeff Mann, Shane Allison, Simon Sheppard and more are filled with speed, danger, and lived-in leather.
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Discussion in 'Pro Match Results and Discussion' started by kishnabe, Oct 27, 2011.
Thank you sir, but, you were very close to winning the whole thing
Anyway, SF: Djoko
Yeah. At least I won my singles match this afternoon though.
Dude kind of gave up in the second set. I took him out, 6-4, 6-2. I finished quick enough to have dinner with my dad afterwards.
Nice That's a good score
So Basel is over. Weird SDL.
I have given everyone an extra pick of points since there was no day 4 for this event.
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Josep Maria Bartomeu has revealed plans for "extensive refurbishment" at Barcelona on the back of a season of strife in Catalonia.
Gerardo Martino replaced Tito Vilanova on a two-year deal in June but has seen his side knocked out of the quarter-finals of the Champions League and beaten in the final of the Copa del Rey over the last two weeks.
Barca are also seven points adrift of Liga leaders Atletico Madrid with just five games remaining, though they do have a game in hand over their title rivals.
Troubles off the pitch have also tainted the club's image. The investigation into Neymar's transfer resulted in the resignation of president Sandro Rosell and a transfer ban preventing the club from buying players until the summer of 2015, following a breach of regulations involving the signing of minors, has added to their woes.
But, Bartomeu, who has since replaced Rosell at the Barcelona helm, maintains the club will look to rebuild over the summer as they seek to overturn the ruling.
He told Gol Gol: "We will talk about changes that need to occur as we look towards next year. We have spoken and planned for the future for many weeks, but we cannot announce anything yet as we are still in competition.
"What I will say, though, is that while there will be extensive change, there will not be a revolution on the scale we saw under Joan Laporta.
"Andoni Zubizarretta will lead an extensive refurbishment that we hope to accomplish. Many decisions have already been made and he will announce them. We have worked hard and well."


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Ancient Church Fathers
What the Disciples of the Apostles Taught
Ken Johnson, Th.D.
I am both pleased, and a little disappointed, with this book.
As a caveat, I haven't read the whole book, but I have read significant portions of it,
as it is more like a miniature encyclopedia than a text.
This book starts out with a short "Who's Who" of the Church Fathers, and when they lived, beginning with the Apostles, a list of what is thought to be the Seventy Disciples, and Eyewitnesses of the Apostles. It also includes the next few of generations of church leaders, giving a short paragraph on each.
Until I read this, I was unaware that anyone had made a list of "The Seventy" But there is a caveat. The list comes from Hippolytus, who lived around 200 AD and not only did he not see any of the Apostles while they were here on Earth, but he didn't see anyone who saw them alive. His is a good accounting, but it is a third hand account.
The book does provide a short, 3 page, timeline of events from the time of Christ until 325 AD. (I would have liked more, but he uses a timeline provided by one of the Church Fathers, so I certainly won't fault him here.)
What is listed so far is what I actually bought the book for, but that only comprises the first 20 pages. While I didn't buy it for the following, I appreciated his discussions of the following subjects.
The book now moves into Major and Secondary Doctrines of the Church
and what each of the Church Fathers wrote about them.
For Major Doctrines, it lists
Authority of the Bible
- Apostolic Succession
- Roman Catholic Authority (including how to witness to Catholics)
- Which Books are Scripture
- - provides about a dozen lists that were used in the first three centuries.
The Deity of Jesus Christ
- Church Fathers on Jesus Divinity
- Church Fathers on Jesus Physical Body
- Church Fathers on Jesus Relationship with the Father
- Church Fathers on Jesus Pre-existence
There is a list of Denominations that hold to the Trinity and a list of cults who do not.
Neither pretends to be all inclusive.
There is a Bibliography at the back for those so inclined.
It lists 9 books, 2 of which he wrote.
More importantly, thought, he mentions several other books in the main text of his book,
that are not listed in his bibliography. Personal preference, I would have listed them.
All of the above are good points, but then the bulk of the book (75%) covers what he calls Secondary Doctrines, and what the Church Fathers said about them, and in several cases he allows his own opinion to shade how he presents them, at least once he even uses the Book of Jasher for support (see why that bothers me, below).
While his opinion seems to be in concert with the opinions of the majority of Fundamentalists today, I would have preferred a more Bible centered approach, since men have been known to have incorrect interpretations of Scripture.
End Times
False Works
Moral Issues
The Gospel
Spiritual Gifts
Text of the Scripture
Other Teachings
(Oddly, tithing, which is widely disputed doctrine, isn't covered.)
Other info:
This is the thread where I asked for advice to find a book on Church History.
Post #6 references Ken Johnson
Someone mentioned another Book by Ken Johnson (questionable value)
Question: "What is the Book of Jasher/Jashar and should it be in the Bible?"
Answer: Also known as the Book of the Upright One in the Greek Septuagint and the Book of the Just Ones in the Latin Vulgate, the Book of Jasher was probably a collection or compilation of ancient Hebrew songs and poems praising the heroes of Israel and their exploits in battle. The Book of Jasher is mentioned in Joshua 10:12-13 when the Lord stopped the sun in the middle of the day during the battle of Beth Horon. It is also mentioned in 2 Samuel 1:18-27 as containing the Song or Lament of the Bow, that mournful funeral song which David composed at the time of the death of Saul and Jonathan.
There is a book called The Book of Jasher today, although it is not the same book as mentioned in the Old Testament. It is an eighteenth-century forgery that alleges to be a translation of the lost Book of Jasher by Alcuin, an eighth-century English scholar.
Another book by this same name, called by many Pseudo-Jasher, while written in Hebrew, is also not the Book of Jasher mentioned in Scripture. It is a book of Jewish legends from the creation to the conquest of Canaan under Joshua, but scholars hold that it did not exist before A.D. 1625.
In the end, we must conclude that the Book of Jasher mentioned in the Bible was lost and has not survived to modern times. All we really know about it is found in the two Scripture quotations mentioned earlier. The other books by that title are mere fictions or Jewish moral treatises.


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Reviewed: Sony NEX-5N 16MP mirrorless camera
Just Posted: Our review of the Sony NEX-5N. The 5N is the second generation of Sony's more enthusiast-focused mirrorless models. It offers the well-respected 16MP APS-C sensor and the option to fit an external electronic viewfinder. Although the bodywork is near indistinguishable from the original NEX-5, the latest model gains a touch-screen interface and in-camera lens correction processing as two of the most obvious of its many changes. We've spent some time getting familiar with the 5N, to see if it delivers on the NEX concept's considerable promise.
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Mean the Gold Award Sony has solve the Flangedistance-Problem of the NEX-System:
since this problem is not new and, as formerly discussed, belongs as a construction fault to the body.
Even if You have tested only the Body, You had to use Lenses for testing and at least give a statement about the resulting Problems for the Lenses and what the costumer can expect if buying a Kit (as pictured).
May be the Software do a brilliant job?
it does have a live histogram setting
That's a mighty loud shutter, and there doesn't appear to be a quiet setting. Additionally the shutter's operation significantly vibrates the camera body.
Looks nice but not quite finished. I want a properly articulated screen and I didn't see any live histogram or grids or horizon. Strange, as these are the main advantages of live view. And troublefree live view functionality is the point of MILC. Smallness and lightness are secondary benefits.
"I want a properly articulated screen and I didn't see any live histogram or grids or horizon. Strange, as these are the main advantages of live view"
err... nex 7?
The 5N has several grid options. But you have a little laundry list there, and I would remind you that it is comparatively inexpensive. Some of your items might be addressed with firmware updates, but the screen is what it is. Perhaps there is a different camera that would suit you better. I think Panasonic has one with the kind of screen you are looking for. Maybe Olympus as well. Cheers
Right, I have drooled over the Panasonic but I like the nex's design so much more and that sensor and... I didn't think anyone would improve on the side-hinged screen but Sony did that on the a77 so I will just start saving and wait until they put it on some nex model. Looking for a worthy upgrade to my R1. The moment to strike may come within not too many years. It's all about lenses, of course. There are lots of slr lenses you can adapt but it feels a bit stupid to buy a retrofocus UWA + adapter only to learn next month that the nex-dedicated one introduced by Samron is quite good and not too expensive.
Thanks all for comments and corrections. How come I find it so hard to find the details I look for in this review? I found a grid in features but no live hist but happy if it's there. So maybe now I only lack the sufficiently acrobatic screen and more lenses. I don't want an SLT because I want no mirror, whether fixed, moving, reflective or transparent. The 24Mp sensor of the nex7 scares me off. Isn't it nice to be a consumer and complain about every product being somehow flawed when in fact they develop incredibly sophisticated products at a dizzying speed? I am sure I will find me a perfect system within two years, which is exactly when I want it. Hope you all do, too.
In the review samples at the end of this review, there is one image DSC06651 where there are some moving figures at the left end of the ornamental lake. It almost looks like a double exposure. At 1/1250 sec shutter speed, there really should not be any motion blur showing on a walking person. I am sure there will be an explanation of this phenomenon. Is it an artefact of the electronic first shutter?
The ghosting is caused by the overlay of the multiple exposures required for 'Auto HDR'.
Isn't writing the megapixel count in the title of the review very 2003? ;)
Yes, it is, but to give dpreview some credit, that mp count in the head line quickly differentiates this camera from the Nex 7.
Y'all at DPReview realize that the test shot is very slightly out of focus? Not as bad as the A77 mess, but still the edges of that white on black cross should be sharp without any sharpening in the raw extraction process.
Oh and both this Nex 5N and the A77 have a bit of shadow noise at really low ASAs. Though unlike focus, that's entirely Sony's fault.
And what is this focus problem, is it bad glass--a Sony G lens fully open--is it that the auto focus is inaccurate, or is DPReview doing something wrong?
When you started by " Y'all ", you lost me dude.
Most languages, though not really English, have a "you" plural, that you don't get that just means your not open to different ideas.
Photos that are consistently out of focus make me think that there be something wrong with the camera and or lens, dude.
Another excellent review as usual, DPR. But, as exciting as the new type of camera this is and the new innovations and image quality which is great to see, I can't get past the fact that these new cameras are stuck in the middle between any DSLR today and high quality P&S cameras. Would I want one? Sure! Would I buy one? No. They have to reduce the lens size and make them more 'pocketable' before I'd go for it over a good P&S. I'll always use my DSLR simply because of the lenses and image quality, for now. If they bundled all this great tech into an old Nikon 990 style camera, wow. Good things to come in the future.
lenses! lenses! lenses! compact lens with good optical performance is urgently needed
The sweep panorama image on page 10 - with the balloons - is lovely.
I still don't see the benefits of these type of cameras over a DSLR, either a compact crop or even FF models.
None of them will fit in your pocket with the lens attached. Once you reach that point it makes little difference if it's one pound or two hanging around your neck. Especially with what you give up compared to DSLRs.
Give me a good compact model like the S100 or Samsung WB750 (IQ withstanding) any day for travel.
There are thousands of people that since mirrorless cameras has been released to the market, they're having fun with old MF lenses. That's one great benefit. Give great use to very good old optics at a lower price compared to newer lenses.
Many of those cameras are not intended to be carried in your pants pockets. Just provide a lightweight combo with the same quality from a full-size camera. That's another benefit. Maybe it's you and some other people, but the sales numbers speak by themselves. m4/3 and APS-C mirrorless have great acceptance in the current market.
I've just come back from a holiday in Italy. I took my Canon 5D MkII and the classic trio of zooms - wide, normal, tele - and by God I had to keep reminding myself that it was worth it. Lovely images, but on reflection it wasn't much fun carrying the camera around. When I came back I bought a cheap second-hand NEX 3, and next go on holiday I'll take that instead.
It's lighter, smaller, I can carry a bottle of water in my bag, and a book, instead of leaving those things behind, because there wasn't space.
Rooru S,
As you pretty much stated by saying 1000s, I don't think we even need to consider the old lens compatibility as a benefit for 99% of potential users. DPR will provide a skewed user-base here.
I'm not entirely convinced by the weight argument to explain sales either. I'm inclined to think it's more about less intimidating looks, yet promise of more "pro" pictures for most P&S upgraders. This is borne out by the adverts I've seen in the UK. (May be different overseas.)
So while they are clearly popular, I don't think they fulfill the convenience requirement for many as a 2nd camera. With pancake lenses they get pretty close for me and will probably supersede compacts as a 2nd camera for me soon.
Loved the review,brilliantly detailed,(i'm a newbie) and for someone like myself who is not technically up-to-speed with all things digital, has left me with nothing to question .Sounds like a fantastic camera,maybe not if you are used to a SLR but i would be thrilled to have this.Also level of knowledge by the bloggers is incredibly helpful and seems quite impartial regardless of favorite manufacturer.
I has this camera, to be honest the kit lens 18-55mm offer image not where near as sharp as other company kit lens. is great camera but still require too many click to change like iso. Is annoying u can't use higher than iso 3200 in auto or movie mode. The video isn't perfect some 1080p 60fps video is lagging and has overheat issue if you use about more than hour of operation could cause the camera to shut down.
Have you customized the controls? On my Nex-5 (not 5N), changing ISO involves clicking the center button then spinning the wheel, which is the same number of steps as my Canon 7D.
Now the Nex is nowhere near the 7D in terms of direct control, but by customizing the control layout, it can become much more functional compared to the factory settings.
Overheat issue is obvious given the small size of the camera with such a powerful processor. There's no way to dissipate heat compared to a fullsize. Every camera has it's compromises.
I think, since firmware 02 or 03 on NEX-series cameras, I just need to do 2 clicks to change ISO. I wouldn't call that "too many". If you want to go higher, you can use Aperture priority mode and set ISO manually and have better low-light performance compared to other cameras in movie mode.
NEX 5 is still a good camera and with discounts even better plus a few adapters and very cheap legacy lenses - even its video is good. There's not a lot in IQ between these cameras. The cheaper C3 does very well against the 5n. Not a lot to lose if you don't want the extras. These cameras trash any compacts and rival many DSLRs. Pity Canon is not in there having a bash...
Sony did a better job miniaturizing their system than even existing m4/3-s, but I don't like the trade-offs of this miniaturization. First of all, a body that small becomes uncomfortable to handle. Then cutting on essentials, like built-in flash is a very bad decision, you never know when you might need it, and keeping the snap-on flash always attached makes it fragile and inconvenient. Moving more and more operations from mechanical buttons and dials to the LCD menus isn't great either. Absense of optical or electronic viewfinder is really bad decision. I also didn't like the auto-focus on NEX-5N when I tried it in the store, it was excessively hunting in low light, like no other camera I tried. Sample pictures look good overall, but not unlike pictures from other cameras in the same category. The few landscape shots I've seen I didn't like though, trees, mountains look too mushy with poor tonal transitions, but it might be due to jpeg. Overall, it's a good point-and-shoot camera.
i like it a lot !
i think i will buy this only for video shooting, and a nikon adapter.
photowise i wont buy a cam without viewfinder, but for filming its cool i think, better than mft/gh2 i wanted to buy before i guess
As much as the camera might be impressive, how can it have a gold award without any lenses to use with it. What good is the high-iso performance if it has to be paired with a slow 18-55mm kit lens. I actually like NEX a lot and do use it myself with manual lenses but as a general system I just don't see how it can be recommended to anyone relying on native AF lenses.
Exactly! If I buy Nex-5N it´s only because of the unlimited manual focus lenses out there.....
probably its because the gold award is for the camera not the lenses ? just guessing ... ^^
As stated, camera awards are based only on the camera. But I do understand your view.
I looked at this camera in the store, and found that the fonts on a number of the review screens are uncomfortably small. Obviously I don't want to have to put on reading glasses to use a camera. Does someone who has the camera know if the fonts can be adjusted in size?
I read somewhere that yes, they can.
The font size can be changed on the shooting display by pressing the DISP button on the control dial. This only affects the font size on the live view screen however.
I have to admit, their noise/chroma algorithms in JPEG are pretty darn impressive. In RAW there doesn't seem to be too much difference between other APS-C/MFT sensors at high ISO but in JPEG...amazing.
The first video sample is 1080i60 not 1080p60, FYI.
You are correct it should read 60i.
I've updated the information in the review.
Are the In-Camera "Lens Compensation" adjustments active in RAW and/or Jpeg? The review does not cover this.
Lens Compensation adjustments are only applied to the JPEG files. If you shoot in RAW+JPEG mode you will get and adjusted JPEG and an unadjusted raw.
I've also added a statement about this in the features page.
Well, as size goes I have the 28-300 L zoom with my canon cameras. It is HEAVY and BIG but in gigs when I don´t know what is waiting for me - it is a very usable lens.
Now I have the Nex 5 with the 18-200mm lens, which is equals a 27-300 in full frame cameras. If you ever had this two setups side by side you´ll know which one is smaller, easier to carry around and still does the job wonderfully.
But to each one size is different.
PS. I bought the Nex 5 and 18-200 combo because I nearly paid for the lens and the price of the camera was only 9 euros :)
Why are the M43 fanboys talking like the size of the lens is the most important thing in a camera system? Newsflash, it is not. In fact, the lens size ranks very very very low to a lot of people.
If you really want a shitty pancake zoom then you should get a point and shoot camera.
I would like to see the fanboys explain this when they say the NEX is not considered a compact system. How would the explain the nexc3 with kit lens being smaller than the GF3 with the 14-42 in almost every dimension? lol Just look at the comparison pictures from that link below. I know they are going to bring up the Panasonic x pancake zoom but that isn't even out yet and seems like a pure novelty item to me. lol
I find it's the DSLR bodies that make things so bulky. My NEX-5 with 'huge' 18-200 lens fits in most shorts and jacket pockets (granted I am 6'2" so my pockets are larger than many).
Regardless, for backcountry, skiing, chasing my toddler around - my D90 is ebay history, my D3 only comes out when someone's writing a check. The NEX-5n is the perfect camera, save for the additional NEX-7 dials (I'll be upgrading, but just waiting to see the NEX-7 full reviews).
On my last shoot, I even used the NEX-5 w 18-200 as a second camera for a few 'zoom' shots. It's so easy and convenient - it was in my pocket, ready to shoot. Can't do that with a GH2, much less any other DSLR.
I'll be buying the Zeiss E prime as soon as it's available, too.
Why can't a GH2 be in your pocket ready to shoot?
You must be blind. Bjorn L's post springs to mind and there are plenty others. Unfortunately, you only see those types of posts in NON M43 discussions. You never see ridiculous statements like that in M43 discussions. hmmmmm... Maybe you are one of them since you didn't notice the blatant NEX trolling by the hurt M43 fanboys in here. lol
I'm not a m4/3 owner, but certainly size must consider Camera + Lens in order to make a practical decision. For many people here pancake lenses make the packages the size they want.
Also, the pancakes on the m4/3 and NX systems are all decent. Pentax Limited lenses are also of very good quality.
It sounds an interesting camera.
But boy is it ugly (I know, shouldn't matter)
But boy is it ugly
That was my first impression too and I wasn't at all interested. But users like Steve Huff got me interested.
With a pancake lens it's fine...but a sizable lens on it and it's a whole different story.
It's actually a beautiful little thing - elegant.
The summary of this review is completely false:
"Photographers upgrading from compact cameras, looking for the benefits of a large APS-C sensor with out the size of a traditional DSLR. "
The nex-5n is a nice camera with a lovely sensor. It performs well, but it is not in any way compact. A camera is only small if the body and lens taken together form a small package.
That a larger sensor performs better than a small one is only to be be expected. But it is simple physics, if you use an APS-C you end up with APS-C lenses in size and weight.
Compare a complete solution using a m4/3 or Nikon 1, and a Canon 1100d & Nikon d3100. Compare the total volume and weight and you will see that the NEX-5n is right in there with the DSLRs and far from one of the more compact solutions.
True, but at the same time, consumers with compact cameras are "upgrading" to DSLRs all the time. This is why the cheapie models all have manuals built into the interface so non enthusiasts can attempt at controlling their new dslr.
So, if NEX is smaller with body than dslrs, why can't it be an upgrade? Especially if it is the same shooting experience (hold camera out and use liveview). It's amazing how many people used to compacts will instictively put a dslr out at arms length and wonder why it's not showing the picture.
Not "completely false." The weight is lower. With a pancake, a NEX will fit in a coat pocket.
A GH2 is hardly "compact," and a G3 with a 300mm telephoto is no more pockeable than a DLSR. Whether the Nikon 1 fills the "true compact" sweet spot remains to be seen, and will depend on whether the IQ of a 1" sensor affords sufficient advantages to be worth the high cost.
No, that would be false. The 18-55 kitlens is about 2 cm longer than the Nikon 1 series kitlens but comparable in diameter, the NEX superzoom is similar in size to the Nikon 10-100 and actually weighs less and the body is similar in size and weighs less too. The current Panasonic kitlens is similar in size, the superzoom only marginally smaller and lighter but the body isn't really smaller either. The latter goes for the Olympus bodies aswell, but Olympus scores points with the collapsable kitlens.
A D3100 body alone is still roughly twice the weight and more than 3 times the volume.
And you're forgetting that the D3100 isn't going to take most of those tiny old legacy lenses, which make it possible for the NEX to fit a jacket pocket (just like with the pancake).
I think you misread that sentence, it doesn't mention that the nex is compact, it just says that it is smaller then the size of a DSLR.
Look at this picture of a D7000 and a nex-c3 with kit lenses:
It's hard to argue that there isn't a substantial space and weight saving without compromising sensor quality with the nex.
I have an NEX5 and am seriously considering the NEX7...and believe me, it is way smaller and lighter than draging around my D3, or even D700 w/o the battery pack. I can use the 16mm kit lens, plus a 50 mm manual lens and have a nice small kit to carry around, and still get good IQ....not that I would mind some good glass made specifically for this camera, but good gracious, how small does it need to be...this is plenty small for me
It is small and light relative to most dslrs.
You may want to compare it to m4/3 etc but the image quality of the nex is just leaps and bounds beyond - and not only because the sensor is 40% bigger - it's just a better sensor.
This is a superb camera.
Sony's low shadow noise on this sensor has Canon's engineers scratching their heads.
I must admit though, the E-PL3's JPEGs are nothing short of beautiful.
Sony is playing on the lack of knowledge consumers have over noise performance... JPEG wise chroma noise reduction seems to be the sony/nikon way of artificially improving noise performance. Canon's engineers aren't scratching their heads.
This camera doesn't even beat a D3100; whats so special about it?
Unfortunately, it does. I work with files from several camera owners. We all shoot theater in low light. This is a similar sensor to that in the Nikon D7000 and Pentax K-5, and it is markedly better than any Canon crop sensor for low light, including the one in the 7D. Jpegs are somewhat worse and raw files are a full stop to a stop and a half worse.
It is rather perplexing the lack of solid (pancake) primes...
And why all the MP for the NEX-7 ?
Design by committee?
You may not like the lenses they developed, but 7 native lenses in a year and a half isn't lukewarm in my book. Easily beats what either Panasonic or Olympus did.
7 lenses in 18 months is certainly good going, but we tend to evaluate based on what we can get as users.
If compact lenses are what you want m4/3 is the more complete system.
There weren't 7 native lenses a week ago, and they're only just about to be available. In fact, you cannot yet order the 50mm, 210mm or Zeiss lenses from Amazon. The kit lenses are so-so, the 16mm is garbage. NEX glass is not great overall, doubtful most of it fully exploits the 16MP. The 24MP of the 7 all but required the creation of the big heavy $400 pellicle Alpha adapter so NEX could get glass that exploited the MP.
I would buy NEX system but 18-200 is way to big,too long,too heavy and too slow.18-150/120 fast lens would be perfect.
And even larger. Simple physics. The 10-100 lens for the Nikon 1 series, covering a similar range, is about the same size and heavier. And that's covering a sensor 3 times smaller.
They should make an optional K-adpater to utilize the family of small Pentax primes.
You mean like this?
Fact is, there are now adapters for almost every mount out there...
haha oops! I totally forgot. And looking at the A-mount adapter that they have, it wouldn't be much compact if they made it Autofocus either.
K-adapter + Pentax pancakes = no longer small but yet smaller than other combinations.
A-mount adapter provides AF on SAM and SSM lenses. second A-mount adapter provides PDAF on every A-mount lens (including screw-driven AF lenses from both Konica-Minolta and Sony lineup).
Talking about a small package, a panasonic g3 (or gf3 if size is the most important) with the new X pancake zoom (plus the 20mm/f1.7) seems the perfect compromise between size and IQ. Sony's kit zoom is huge, and the new Olympus kit zoom is not nearly as discreet as the new X zoom, IMO.
Looking at Dpreview's own data, it appears that the NEX-5N has one stop over the new Olympus Pen line with respect to noise ... not a "deal breaker". But the NEX lenses are enormous! Having shopped the NEX-system cameras, I decided on a PL3-based system to avoid backaches on walkabouts. The PL3 is the size of a "point and shoot". The lenses are comparable in size; the PL3 and a few lenses fit in a small fanny pack. It wasn't the D5000 that was getting to me; it was the size and weight of the lenses. It doesn't matter how small the camera is if the lenses stay the size and weight of traditional SLR systems. There are cameras that fit in pockets, camera that fit in jackets, and cameras that need traditional photo bags. The NEX-system cameras need traditional photo bags to accommodate the size and weight of the lenses and, with respect to system weight, bring little new to the table.
As others have said, nice sensor/camera, but lens options let it down. I'm not interested in zooms, I want a compact large aperture prime, either a 35, 40 or 50mm equivalent. The Zeiss is too big and too expensive. Fuji X100 looking more and more attractive.
"stop crying like a baby." what a moronic comment.
The kit zoom isn't that large and the images are sharp if you stay away from the extremes. So yeah - quit crying like a baby.
Merely expressing my preferences and making some observations, and all without being childishly offensive. Try it sometime.
Why do you say "SLT adapter support: No" for the NEX-5? On the Sony Japan webpage for the LA-EA2 adapter it states: "LA-EA2
NEX-5・NEX-5N・NEX-3・NEX-C3用" (用 means "use").
I think one MAJOR negative point should be that Nex simply lacks lenses and upcoming lenses (which haven't been released yet) are quite big an unbecoming of a such small camera.
Nex currently only has a bad kit lens, bad pancake and a huge super zoom.
24mm Zeiss is going to be very big and awfully expensive, 50mm might be ok but it's still relatively big and focal lenght is not interesting at all while 30mm macro is too slow for a prime lens and quite short for a macro lens.
Too bad system cameras rely on lenses ;)
Where did you read that the kit lens was bad?
DPR reviewed the kit lens. It's not "bad" as you made it up.
The kit lens is quite good. What's your point?
Dear Dpreview. You may have gotten a bit optimistic on your low light/high ISO score. The NEX-5N scores higher there than both the Canon 5D Mk II and 1D MkIV (!)
Surely this must be some kind of mistake.
What I would like to know if the new Sony 16MP sensor has already overtaken the first generation FF sensor in terms of high ISO performance so I will stop my hunt for an affordable 5DMk1 and get either the C3 or 5n maybe before Christmas.
Is there anyway we can compare the high ISO outputs of the Nex 5N and the 5DMk1?
Yes, DXO tested the C3 and the Canon 1Ds, with the former doing slighly better at high ISO and showing much better at DR.
The 5N seems to be a hair better than the C3 at high ISO yet.
I love the nex but I also have the 5d mk1 and 2 and the full frame offers resolution advantages that an aps sensor can't. If ultimate detail; is your game go with the 5D. If it's small, fun to use etc - the nex.
Got mine three weeks ago and have been lovin' it since. Shape is a bit weird at first, but you soon get used to it and the focus speed isn't as good as the m43 brigade, but the IQ is much better. Swings and roundabouts.
What I really want to see is whether Sony delivers on the lenses. If they do, then it'll be a much tougher decision whether to go for the NEX-7 plus lenses or stick to the m43 system. In limbo at the moment.
The image quality of the nex is so much better than the m 4/3s that I've seen (and tested) that it's no contest in my mind. M4/3 is just not that good - I don't care what glass you stick on it. You say swings and roundabouts - I say lipstick on a pig.
Image quality looks no better than the NEX-C3.
That's not a bad thing but I shouldn't have bought into the earlier hype based on a few over sharpened samples.
Same sensor and processor - why the dismay. It does have nore flexibility and better build qulity.
Until there's a decent pancake prime I can put on a NEX camera to make it pocketable, it really doesn't matter to me how good this camera might be, I'm sticking with my NX100.
I know not everyone is bothered about pocketability, but personally I don't see the point of these cameras unless they're extremely portable. If I have to carry a bag, I may as well bring my DSLR.
good point.
my main interest in the NEX though is that it can mount and focus M39 screwtypes. And it has this nice peeking mode for MF.
maybe in the next couple of years we can have compact or bridge type cams (like the early Oly C series) w/ apsc or m43 sized sensors...this might increase portability.
Totally agree ,with the lenses available these "compact cameras" simply aren't,the quality IQ seems to get get better and better but there is no point if the total package means your still lugging around the equivalent of a DSLR and if a pancake lens is the only one that makes these cameras portable ,i would rather take the G12 route until a solution is found .
There is a big difference between a "heavy" DSLR bag vs lighter Nex bag.
I really don't see much of a point in comparing the monster of a sensor NEX-5N with the decrepit 3 year old one in the Olympus E-P3 with both the Panasonic G3/GH2 is at least 1EV stop ahead of it.
Yes this sensor is beyond any doubt the best 16MP around at High ISOs and trounces the competition in DR, but up until ISO1600, the Panasonic G3/H2 is still ahead when we're talking about detail/noise balance.
I find it also a bit disappointing that this site is touting the 1080/60p as the next best thing since sliced bread, not testing it hard enough to figure the sensor is being heavily subsampled for video and showing much less resolution (and a lot more noise) than the G3/GH2 @ 720/60p or 1080/60i.
The big irony is that the poor old E-P3 with a fully binned sensor for video wipes the floor with the NEX-5N and I'm not even talking about high ISO where it is a massacre.
Don't get me wrong: the NEX-5N is a monster for stills, but the video capabilities are hardly what the ratings say.
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What is it with Sony sensors and that Siemen STar CHart? Why can't it get it right?
Take a look at the original JPGs or RAWs and you will see that it's the website which makes the stars look weird not the sensor.
Boy, Sony is sure showing the way...
bye bye Nikon, your just another Wang...
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Kingdom of taste
There's more on Orlando's menu than theme parks, and Melissa Kelly, owner-chef of Primo restaurants, shares some favorites near her second home
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Melissa Kelly plucks a weed from under a luxuriant stand of basil in the garden below her restaurant, then turns to a bed of Johnny-jump-ups and another of diminutive red lettuces.
A tiny lizard runs along the top of the garden wall as Kelly, chef and owner of the Primo family of restaurants, dusts off her hands and heads up the stairs. It's a scene fitting for Kelly, one of the country's culinary gurus of everything organic, whose original Primo in Rockland, Maine, is famed for the vegetables, fruits, and even pigs raised just steps from the kitchen.
But here in Orlando, home of Walt Disney World and other massive theme park resorts, even the word "organic" sounds somehow out of place. "We had to bring in all the soil" for the garden, she explains, which sits next to the Grande Lakes Orlando resort's sprawling golf course. At Kelly's insistence, the grounds crew that maintains the garden cannot use the "gray water" sprayed elsewhere in the resort because it might contain chemicals.
"That's going on the menu tonight," says Kelly, pointing out the Tuscan kale that will be part of the evening's dish of Arctic char. She and her chef de cuisine, Kathleen Blake, talk over other details of the menu at the restaurant that Kelly opened in 2003 at the JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes . Kelly, a petite woman dressed in a chocolate-colored sweater and khaki slacks, grabs her cellphone, ready to lead a Disney-less, all-natural tour of the city she has made a second home.
A few minutes later, we're heading down a traffic-clogged highway, its billboards trumpeting the fantasy of the Disney universe just a few miles away. Kelly's fiance, Price Kushner, the restaurant's pastry chef, wine adviser, and all-round go-to-guy, has come along because "he knows the way better," she says, as Kushner and the driver discuss a loop through Greater Orlando.
"This is the headlands of the Everglades," Kelly says, as downtown Orlando looms on the horizon, adding that the downtown night club scene is heating up. Even Paris Hilton has a boîte.
"When we're down here," says Kelly, "we spend most of our time at the restaurant." The couple lives in Maine, down the road from the rustic first Primo, but they travel at least once a month to Orlando and every six weeks or so to their third Primo in Tucson. But when they do venture out, she says, they often go to this downtown district in Winter Park.
"It's one of the only areas where you can walk around," Kelly says, to enjoy lunch or amble in the pretty Central Park with its mature trees and winding paths. There is a farmers market here on Saturdays, and sprinkled amid chain stores like
Inside, the store- lounge- cafe resembles a cozy cave with brick arches and comfortable couches where customers chat as they sip wine. In the middle of each room and along the side are stainless steel contraptions that keep wine under pressure and dispense it in 1-ounce to full-glass amounts.
Although other wine stores have dispensers, The Wine Room combines retail with casual dining, allowing customers to try wines and linger as they socialize. David Black, the wine buyer, explains that customers buy a $2 card, are given a glass, then add as much money to the card as they want . They insert their cards in the top of the machines, and push a button to dispense the wine.
Kushner, whose curls and wiry build give him a look of continual animation, takes one of the cards and heads to the pinot noir dispenser to sample some Oregon varietals he is thinking about buying for the restaurant. The bottles that can be sampled range from an ounce of $80 California cabernet sauvignon for $8.95 to Australian sauvignon blancs for $1.30. The placards under the bottles have "great descriptions," says Kelly as she wonders why there aren't more Spanish selections.
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This stretch along Colonial Drive near downtown is scattered with Vietnamese restaurants and food stores. "There's really no great upscale food store" in the area, Kelly says, so she likes to come here. And besides, here "you can get pigs' feet," or eat at Kelly's favorite restaurant in the area, Anh Hong . "I love the food," she says, "because they use so many vegetables."
A few blocks away is a spot Kushner doesn't want to miss, Il Gelatone. "It's very authentic," says Kelly of the gelato, adding, "he brings the pistachio paste in from Sicily and the hazelnuts are Piedmontese." Frank and Siska Forsyth opened the shop 3 1/2 years ago. Siska Forsyth scoops out the sweet, creamy chocolate and hazelnut flavors for Kushner.
Back we go for another crawl through traffic to a thicket of chain restaurants -- Ruth's Chris Steak House, Roy's, Bonefish -- in the upscale Plaza Venezia shopping center. Kelly is seeking out the independents, the mavericks.
"We often go out to lunch here," she says, as we walk into Cedar's Restaurant. "They make their own pita bread," she says, pointing to a cook who is using a long-handled wooden paddle to push flat loaves into an open fire. "Everything is great here," she says, mentioning the mouhamara, a Lebanese version of caponata.
Our last stop isn't about food. We walk into the Corona Cigar Co., a store-sized humidor where the air is thick and men sit at tables drinking red wine and smoking big cigars while they converse in Spanish. Kelly and Kushner often drop in to look at the displays of rare cigars such as a $3,000 Don Ramon and a 1946 Romeo & Juliet. The manager, Julio Diaz, explains that all the cigars are hand-rolled, even the ones that are only $1.75. Neither Kelly nor Kushner smoke s, but her fondness for the place transcends that. "I just love to see people who do things the right way," she says.
It is getting close to show time, what restaurateurs often call the hour when the first diners come in. We hurry back to Primo, where Kelly goes off to change into her chef whites. Kushner talks about the business -- the tight profit margins, the hard work, and Kelly's dedication -- as staff members light candles and dim the lights. Primo is beautiful at night, all rich, russet tones, sparkling glassware, and gleaming wood.
But it is Kelly's food that illuminates her obsession for organic ingredients and artisanal cooking methods. The breads are gorgeous to look at and even better to eat. Delicate swirls of herb-flecked linguini, made that day in the kitchen, are dotted with tiny sweet Maine shrimp. A signature dish of pork scallopine saltimbocca boasts bits of Kelly's own prosciutto. And the Tuscan kale gracing a plate of Arctic char and giant white Corona beans makes eating healthy delicious. We've added a side plate of more greens, so even with a sweet chocolate budino to finish, we float out of Primo feeling virtuous.
Seen Melissa Kelly's way, even Orlando is organic.
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I think that risk is an important factor for all investors to think about before making a purchase and even a sale.
Even the best investment guru's make mistakes from time to time. If you look at the Gurufocus.com's bargain stocks you'll notice that most of the money managers have at least one investment on the list. Even the greatest investor ever, Warren Buffett is down 21% and 22% on two companies (First Data & Lexmark) respectively.
This brings me to my thought on risk.
Risk is associated with two things: The company you're buying and the time you intend own the stock.
Buffett himself is notorious for "not knowing" what will happen next year; however, he does understand that as time goes by each business he chooses becomes less and less risky.
This is huge! Unfortunately, most investors, regardless of whether they think of themselves as long term or not often fail to hold the right investment long enough. They think of risk in terms of price drops in the short term. Now I'm not suggesting you haphazardly go through your stock screener and buy and hold just any ole' stock.
What I am suggesting is that once you get a really good business in your portfolio, you should practice the style of investing Charlie Munger likes... "Just sit on your ass!"
It's no secret that to be a good long term investor you have to have the right temperament and being able to hold investments long enough to see 1,000% and more is the key ingredient in my opinion! Just remember that risk systematically decreases the longer you hold a good company because it has time to reveal its true value, which is usually good!
I cannot stress this enough. When I first started issuing research reports for PigsGetRich, the first 4 companies I recommended (NXTL, WMB, CC, & ACF) each dropped between 20% and 40% within the first 1 to 4 months only to become some of the best winners in our portfolio with gains of 500%, 1,000%, 200%, and 1,000% respectively.
The point being, don't panic if you buy the right company at the wrong time. Trust your reasoning and let the risk decrease the longer you hold the stock. If I would have panicked I would never have had such impressive gains.
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Lord Hain's comments at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool have sparked concerns that senior Remain figures and Brussels chiefs could be conniving to find a way to stop Britain Leaving.
The Labour grandee, who was a leading figure in the Remain camp, is still in touch with figures in Brussels and suggested that EU bosses would be willing to do what was necessary to keep Britain in the bloc.
Under the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty once Article 50 is triggered Britain is legally meant to Leave the EU within two years with no possibility of the process being reversed.
However, Lord Hain, who served as a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and was Europe Minister from 1999 to 2001, suggested that Brussels would change the rules.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 swine flu virus has killed 36 U.S. children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.
It said 67 percent of them had high-risk medical conditions putting them more at risk of severe disease, such as asthma, or were disabled with conditions such as cerebral palsy, but 22 percent of the children were under 5 and perfectly healthy.
"As of August 8, 2009, CDC had received reports of 477 deaths associated with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the United States, including 36 deaths among children aged under 18 years," CDC researchers wrote in the agency's weekly report on death and disease.
"The results of that analysis indicated that, of 36 children who died, seven (19 percent) were aged under 5 years, and 24 (67 percent) had one or more of the high-risk medical conditions."
The new H1N1 swine flu was declared a pandemic in June and has been spreading globally since then. It has been active in the United States since it was first identified in April -- very unusual for influenza, which is only usually active in cooler months.
It is known to affect older children and young adults more than seasonal flu does, something that has concerned doctors. Seasonal flu can kill perfectly healthy children as well as those with medical conditions, but doctors have worried there could be more deaths among children because children are being affected more.
The CDC team said it is important to identify and treat children with H1N1 quickly, especially if they have severe disease or if they fall into a high-risk group, such as children with asthma, diabetes or other chronic conditions.
Quick treatment with the antiviral drugs Tamiflu, made by Roche AG under license from Gilead Sciences, or GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza, can help reduce how long and how severe a flu infection is.
A vaccine against H1N1 will not be ready until October, officials say.
Another factor that can worsen a child's bout with flu is a so-called bacterial co-infection -- when they are infected with bacteria such as Streptococcus along with the flu.
"Among 23 children with culture or pathology results reported, laboratory-confirmed bacterial coinfections were identified in 10 (43 percent), including all six children who were aged under 5 years, had no recognized high-risk condition, and had culture or pathology results reported," the report reads.
"Eight (22 percent) of the 36 children were aged under 5 years with no reported high-risk conditions."
The CDC estimates that well over a million Americans have been infected with H1N1 and the infection is expected to spread widely as schools return to session after a summer break.


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WASHINGTON — One could say that a job with the Food and Drug Administration would be the perfect way to get information about upcoming drug approvals and use it to profit handsomely from buying stock in the companies that manufacture the drugs before the information reaches the public.
Of course, the Securities and Exchange Commission would consider that illegal insider trading, as one FDA scientist recently discovered.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the SEC charged FDA chemist Liang Chengyi with insider trading on 19 publicly traded companies. The SEC alleged that Liang, an FDA employee since 1996, used confidential information about drug approvals to trade on stocks before it was officially announced, making more than $3.6 million in profits.


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Fed up with the hype surrounding Second Life? Tough. Now you can expect your children to start talking about the potential of multiplayer online games, as CBBC is planning to create a virtual world enabling children to interact within a safe environment.
The BBC says the online environment will allow digitally literate children to build an avatar, or an online presence, and then create and share this content. However the virtual world would not feature the financial aspects of online games such as in Second Life.
A spokesman said that this kind of platform is becoming the "norm for people who have been born into the digital world" and it will allow children to move around in "safe and secure" surroundings where they can interact with familiar characters.
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Experts: Don't bank on quick boost
President Barack Obama is staking part of his re-election hopes on a proposal to put $125 a month into the pockets of the average American family — a plan that economists say could easily be overwhelmed by volatile oil prices, the undertow of the European debt crisis and the struggles of an economy still shaking off the 2008 global meltdown.
Cash would be injected into the economy with each paycheck, a relatively small monthly sum that for a typical family would total $1,500 by the end of next year. Economists generally praised the plan, saying the cuts are probably the fastest, most direct form of stimulus — but that doesn't mean they'll give the economy the quick boost Obama desperately needs to firm up his chances of re-election.
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"That'll start showing up in the after-tax income right away," said Chad Stone, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "The real trick is to start having the economy moving faster, so that confidence improves, and it becomes a self-sustaining recovery."
Still, the $447 billion plan may be Obama's last shot at turning around an economy that is limping dangerously close to a double-dip recession. Obama's approval ratings have dipped, too, as voters lose patience in the face of stalled growth and unemployment hovering above 9 percent.
He's aware that time is short. "The next election is fourteen months away," Obama told Congress in his Thursday night address. "And the people who sent us here – the people who hired us to work for them – they don't have the luxury of waiting fourteen months. Some of them are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck, even day to day. They need help, and they need it now."
Obama's proposal Thursday night would halve the 6.2 percent payroll tax for workers through next year. Employers' share of the tax would also be halved for their first $5 million in wages. The tax would be eliminated for the first $50 million increase in corporate payrolls.
The plan Obama announced Thursday night is an expansion of a cut to the Social Security payroll tax enacted in 2010. But the performance of that cut this year reveals the perils ahead for Obama's new plan — higher gasoline prices swallowed the additional $1,000 in take home pay for some consumers, while in other instances households saved the money instead of spending it.
Based on August estimates from Macroeconomic Advisers in St. Louis, $120 billion worth of payroll tax cuts could generate 400,000 new jobs by the end of 2012 and increase the GDP by half a percentage point. Nonetheless, the firm cautioned in a report that with the dismal economic climate, "We expect most employers to conclude that it remains a bad time to hire, even with the tax benefit."
Any uptick from extending and enlarging the payroll tax reduction could just as easily be overwhelmed by shockwaves from the European sovereign debt crisis and other factors beyond the president's control.
While analysis by the Congressional Budget Office indicates that employer tax cuts would produce more bang for the buck, Yale University economist Ray Fair cautioned that the money could enter the economic bloodstream at a slower rate, because it would be filtered through corporate profits.
And former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised Arizona Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, noted that it would be difficult to turnaround an entire $15 trillion economy in a year. Tax cuts would simply be a faster form of stimulus than many of the alternatives.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The San Francisco Giants have reinstated right-hander Matt Cain from the 15-day disabled list to start Saturday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and placed first baseman Brandon Belt on the 15-day DL.
Cain missed two turns in the rotation. He last pitched on April 23 because of a cut on the tip of his index finger, which occurred in the clubhouse kitchen at AT&T Park when he tried to catch a knife that fell out of his hand.
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A MAN has died after being involved in a collision with a lorry at junction 8A of the M40.
Emergency services were called to the scene at about 2.50pm following reports that a pedestrian and a lorry had been involved in a collision between junction junction 8A at the Wheatley Services and junction 9 at Bicester.
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Voice of America (17 December 2010)
Kosovo PM Named in Human Organ Scandal
|James Ker-Lindsay of the London School of Economics says the accusations have the potential to derail that progress. "I think that this is going to make it a lot more difficult for supporters of Kosovo's independence to gain more recognitions. And also we have questions about political dialogue with Belgrade."
Globus (16 August 2010)
Forgive me for the Yugosphere
|Tim Judah, Balkans specialist for The Economist and former LSEE Visiting Fellow, reiterates his understanding of the concept of a Yugosphere for Croatian magazine, Globus:
"Apart from the article for The Economist, I also wrote a longer text on the same subject for the London School of Economics (LSE). When it was announced, many were sceptical. Some asked, "What's new here? Surely this is perfectly natural and has been happening for years?". "Of course", I answered, but in my opinion the novelty is in the fact that we have now passed the point of no return, the point which marks a much broader phenomenon than the fact that supermarkets such as Konzum, Mercator and Delta see the whole of former-Yugoslavia as their home turf and not just as a former base of operations." Globus Yugosphere Cover|
Serbian State TV - RTS (24 July 2010)
Organ Theft Report Still Relevant
|Whilst on a visit to Belgrade Dr James Ker-Lindsay was interviewed by the Serbian state TV station RTS. The interview focuses on how the Dick Marty Report to the Council of Europe on organ trafficking in Kosovo is likely to affect ongoing talks between Belgrade and Prishtina.
Coverage of the Internal Court of Justice Ruling on Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
Dr Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank EFG Senior Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe and is a specialist on conflict, peace and security. He has written extensively on issues of sovereignty in both Cyprus and Kosovo, including his recent book Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans (2009). For more information on Dr Ker-Lindsay please visit the LSEE Staff Page|. Dr Ker-Lindsay commented on the ruling for a number of leading news media outlets.
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Radio Študent FM (17 and 19 of February 2010)
Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
Dr James Ker-Lindsay, LSEE Senior Research Fellow, gave two interviews for Radio Študent FM a Slovenian radio station, on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence and similarities between Kosovo and Bosnia. It is possible to listen to extracts of both interviews online, please follow the below link below.
Der Standard (12 February 2010)
Böse Überraschung "made in Greece"
|Two Greek economists have gone even further in a recent study: not only do cumbersome bureaucracy and patronage explain the incapacity of the Greek State, but also in principle, the shortcomings in the formulation of policy proposals. Experts from the government would either be ignored or were appointed to commissions according to party affiliation, and their conclusions would not be considered in any case, noted Vassilis Monastiriotis and Andreas Antoniades, in order to demonstrate the failure of pension and labor reforms.
Business New Europe (18 January 2010)
Serbia's Territorial Integrity: continued
|"Giving Serbia northern Kosovo in return for letting the rest go is a solution that should have been looked at it in a lot more detail," reckons James Ker-Lindsay, a Southeast Europe expert at the London School of Economics. "If this allows Kosovo to be recognised as a fully independent state, then surely this is a price worth paying."
Yugosphere Makes a Splash
The sharp increase in economic and political cooperation as well as cultural exchange in the Western Balkans has been, perhaps a little controversially, encapsulated by Tim Judah's concept of a "Yugosphere|". The idea that a Yugosphere exists or is in the process of emerging has caused something of a sensation in the region's press and has fed the minds of headline writers across the former Yugoslav states. Please see below for a selection of the coverage:
Yugosphere Article (Croatia)|
Yugosphere Article (Bosnia)
Yugosphere Article (Serbia)|
European Voice (5 November 2009)
Lost Homes and Legal Battles: Ethnic unmixing
|In Yugoslavia and the Caucasus in the early 1990s, the end of the Cold War unleashed the destructive forces of nationalism... the countries concerned became part of the European experience of forced displacement, says James Ker-Lindsay, a senior researcher at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. That experience continues to resonate today.
Jutarnji List (24 October 2009)
Ivo and Andrija: Like a Broken Record
|William Bartlett, Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, shed new light on the imperfect process of privatisation in Croatia during the early 90s, in the following way, "Instead of privatisation, Croatia experienced a considerable amount of nationalisation."
Cyprus Mail (11 October 2009)
Turkey Visit was a Powerful Message
Regional expert Dr James Ker-Lindsay from the LSE said Papandreou's visit was unexpected and "highly symbolic", sending a very powerful message that he's determined to improve relations with Turkey. However, given the high tensions over the Aegean this summer, it remains to be seen how much difference he can make.
Banka (September 2009)
The End of Globalisation| (in English pdf)|
Commenting on the consequences of the recent global economic crisis Dr William Bartlett, Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe at the LSE, writes in a recent edition of the Croatian magazine 'Banka' that "The recognition that … the mechanisms of corporate governance need to be reformed to take on board the interests of a far wider group of stakeholders, will be major challenges for economic policy in the next decade."
B92.net (16 September 2009)
Wordsworth: Membership Doomed without SAA
|According to Spyros Economides, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the EU has sent a clear message that the Western Balkan region has good prospects but there are no "clear guarantees" that the countries of the region will gain full EU membership once they complete the accession process.
Cyprus Mail (9 September 2009)
Davutoglu's 'zero problem' policy
|"He's very serious about this," said Dr James Ker-Lindsay, a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE. "It's very interesting to see how his career has progressed and his influence on Turkish foreign policy, even before the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He's completely reconceptualised Turkey's relations with the outside world, especially in the Middle East and South Caucasus."
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1. Pamela S. Brier serves as president and CEO.
2. Robert Naldi serves as executive vice president of finance and CFO.
3. The hospital has 711 beds.
4. The hospital has 5,556 full-time employees and 1,305 medical staff physicians.
5. In 2010, the hospital had 46,685 inpatient discharges, 210,582 clinic visits, 109,898 emergency room visits and 9,523 ambulatory surgery procedures.
6. In 2011, the hospital recorded $2.47 billion in gross charges and $46.6 million in net income, according to the American Hospital Directory.
7. The hospital was founded as the New Utrecht Dispensary in 1911. The hospital was officially named Maimonides Medical Center in 1966.
8. From July 2008 through June 2011, Maimonides Medical Center was one of 51 hospitals with the lowest 30-day mortality rates for heart attack patients, according to data from CMS' Hospital Compare database.
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