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A Brooklyn-bred MC who reportedly taught himself his craft while serving 10 years in prison, Maino rhymes with understandable urgency. The majority of the songs on If Tomorrow Comes... are ferocious inspirationals rapped over movie soundtrack-style beats. Which is fine: Maino is a utilitarian rapper who's not particularly quick or experimental. But his gritty flow is enhanced on his debut by hot beats from folks such as Swizz Beatz, Just Blaze and JUSTICE League—and you won't find songs bigger than "All the Above" and "Million Bucks" anytime soon.
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As an album, though, If Tomorrow Comes... doesn't really work. Maino doesn't have enough variation in his style, too many of the songs sound alike, and the narrative skits throughout are not especially believable or interesting. (He cryptically informs us that his time was for a "drug-related kidnapping" and that he "never wanted to be a product of my environment; I always wanted my environment to be a product of me.") Still, in an era when the traditional long-version album has all but disappeared as an art form, it's hard to hold these complaints against him. If you've got "All the Above" blasting from your speakers, you can't really go wrong.


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I was drunk once on St. Patrick's Day a few years ago and I won a piercing. I decided to get it on the top of my ear lobe. Lasted about a month. Had trouble sleeping on it and I kept catching it on my hairbrush. But I did love it. Even after I sobered up.
I say give yourself more time to adjust. If you still feel like you shouldn't have gotten it a month from now, then (gently) yank that sucka out!
One thing I noticed though, is I noticed it far more than anyone else did. My 10 yr old asked me when I got it done...when he was 3. My brother was debating with his fiancé about her getting her nose pierced. He had a new unflattering things to say about the idea, and she said "What? So you think of Weatherly like that?" and he said no, I didn't have my noise pierced. She called me so I could confirm, I'd had it for years.
I am assuming you just have a little stud, if that's it, wait awhile, see if you decide you like it later. If you still don't like it, it heals up fast. And, if you do like it, then we can be too old to have nose rings, together.
It will all be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end
Happily remarried to a wonderful man (Aussie). I think I found the right guy and the right finger this time.
Oh yeah... And I had different colored rings in there all thru the summer. I guess that was a mistake too. *sigh* I guess I'll never get the hang of doing what society thinks is "right" and "proper" and "fashionable".
I also have an industrial ( that's the bar that goes across the cartilage at the top of the ear). I have three holes in each ear lobe and a hoop thru the cartilage in my right ear.
Oh yeah, I'm probably too old for my tongue piercing and way too old for my septum piercing.
What I am trying to say is that if you like it, you feel comfortable with it and you want to do it. Don't let age stop you!!!
In answer to your original question... I have my nose pierced and I love it.
ETA: spelling errors
[This message edited by jrc1963 at 3:42 PM, August 18th (Monday)]
Age is just a number, there are no age limits on body modifications, and life is WAY too short to worry about what anyone else thinks about your nose/piercing/body/etc.
Madhatters. More Ddays than birthdays, at this point.
It was the most excitement I'd had in quite a while (that's if we aren't counting DDay).
Just thought I'd share...lol.
I'm 31, and I was just telling a friend that I am considering getting a septum piercing (the skin between the nostrils).
Do it... it was the fastest healing piercing I ever got... Even faster than my earlobes.
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I don't think you're too old for a nose piercing.
She has tattoo's as well.
If I ever get rid of my flabby belly I'm going to get my belly button pierced as a reward!
Oh yeah, I'm probably too old for my tongue piercing and way too old for my septum piercing.
OUCHIE! It hurts so much when I bit my tongue, I just can't fathom the piercing of it.
And doesn't a nose piercing feel like you constantly have to blow your nose?
I really am clueless about all this - I have one hole in each ear and that's it - that was painful enough 40 years ago
Can I be honest? A lot lf 2x4's...
Still fresh from dday (2 months out)...I guess my buyers guilt comes from what xh will say. He always hated tattoos and piercings on women so I know he will have a smart ass remake. Or maybe say I'm not a good role model to dd bc is my piercing and tattoo (it's a tattoo of dd's name). I shouldn't care what he thinks...yet I still do. Even my father called me yelling when he found out LOL!!! I cut my dad off though and told him "I am 32 years old. I made a decision about my body that I am comfortable with and I shouldn't be made to feel bad about it". He got silent then said "fair enough" and hung up. My dad is NPD BAD! So I was very surprised that he backed down!
My stud is small. I still think it's too big. Once it heals, I'm getting a smaller stud. I really like the look of just a tiny little, almost too small to see, stud. So in 6-8 weeks I'll be changing it out.
I wish I knew how to post a picture of it.
OUCHIE! It hurts so much when I bit my tongue, I just can't fathom the piercing of it.
Actually... because it's a muscle, it really didn't hurt that much and healed very quickly.
The cartilage piercings are much more painful and take up to 2 years to heal all the way.
Numb... good for you standing your ground.
I wouldn't worry about what your Ex-asshat has to say... he's an EX now for good reason.
I also have the top part of my ear pierced - that piercing has caused me more problems than my nose.
Heck I forget that my nose is pierced most of the time.
What doesn't kill me, scars me.

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Azerbaijan seeks to create new obstacles to peace process- Armenian minister
YEREVAN, January 22. / ARKA /. Armenia's foreign minister Edward Nalbansyan has once again accused Azerbaijan of seeking to obstruct negotiations between Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers over the Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of his planned meeting with the opposite counterpart in Paris later this week.
His accusations come after Karabakh's military officials said that Azerbaijani "sabotage groups" attacked their positions at two different sections of the "line of contact" killing an Armenian serviceman, Armen Hovannisian.
"However, the negotiations should continue. There is no alternative," Nlabnadian told a news conference today in Yerevan.
Nalbandian said the basic conflict settlement principles - non-use of force or the threat of its use, the right of peoples to self-determination and territorial integrity, proposed by the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, remain on the table.
"Unlike Azerbaijan, Armenia has repeatedly affirmed its commitment to these principles while Baku continues unsuccessful attempts to ignore both these principles and the co-chairs' calls. Azerbaijan is trying to turn everything upside down creating an illusion for its own people, «said Nalbandian.
Nalbandian is leaving for Paris today to meet with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on January 22 and with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov on January 24. -0-
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The word oxymoron is derived from the Greek language. The original Greek translation is "oxymoros." "Oxy" meaning sharp or pointed and "moros" meaning dull or foolish. Combined, the roots form the word oxymoron meaning "pointedly dull" or "sharply foolish."
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A small guilty pleasure for my family on Halloween is Caramel Apples.
It is so sad to me that none of the kids found out Trick Or Treating last evening, unless their parents made them, will ever experience the singular joy of caramel apples.
I lived in an apartment in Bayside N.Y. when I was a child and most everyone who lived in that place knew the children that lived there. In all honesty, the occupants of that apartment building gave new meaning to the term, "it takes a village." Our Mother worked but that mattered not because we were "under surveillance" the entire day in that small New York microcosm being tended to by everyone from Mr. Macalusso at the corner deli to Pete, the tile man and as if to add insult to injury there was the Chinese laundry lady too. All this to say that though it was New York, it was also 1958 and things were more gentle then; even in the Big Apple. Home made stuff was distributed there not only due to economics but also in sincere desire to offer a really special Halloween treat.
Whitey and Irene, our next door neighbors, old enough, no older than my Mom's parents, made us Caramel Apples each Halloween. I mean, they were our neighbors, no one thought it necessary…No, not even in New York to X-ray those delightful confections to ascertain if they had, say "a razor inserted within."
To offer tribute to a kinder time that will likely never come this way again a recipe designed for making memories. It certainly made mine.
Irene, Whitey, a sincere thanks from the little girl next door and her younger brother and their Mom (doing all she could to make it another day alone with more on her plate than we ever knew as kids) for making Halloween such a special and well loved time.
Irene's Caramel Apples:
1 bag of good quality caramels (14 oz.) To quote Irene…Garbage in, Garbage out… So these must be nice caramels. Irene says so.
6 popsicle sticks. Now, you can buy sticks for this purpose. Then, you just saved the summertime popsicles, washed them up and kept them "for good."
2 T. water
1 tsp. vanilla. Not extract. Irene said.
6 Tart Apples They should be tart to create opposing flavors as that is the key to the delicate dance that have made these a Halloween favorite for years.
Unwrap all the good quality caramels. Now, it is necessary that one employs at least enough restraint during this process that when you are finished there is enough caramels to coat the six apples.
Place them in a saucepan on extremely low adding the water but not the vanilla just yet.
As they begin to melt- using a wooden spoon, give them a turn in the saucepan taking care not to let the bottom stick.
Wash up your apples and dry very well. Irene said! Remove stem gently.
Place a piece of wax paper on the counter ready for the newly caramel coated apples.
When caramel is all melted and has cooled just for a minute or two add the vanilla. Stir again and now you are ready to go. Can't wait too long or caramel starts to harden and it will not properly coat the apples.
Insert sticks in the apples and dunk the apple in the caramel turning the pot so that the caramel all goes toward the side enabling you to really get to the top of the apple with the caramel coating.
Gently pull the apple out by the stick taking care to do this gently and not dislodging the stick from the apple. Allow just a bit of caramel to drain off your apple before placing on wax paper to cool.
You can dip in salted pecans or cashews if you like but Irene was purist.
In the daily operations of my Asheville Bed and Breakfast I am constantly asked for recipes. I never decline. It is love in action when I repeat this recipe every year in memory of Irene and Whitey and all the folks in our Bayside community who loved us, watched us and always had our backs.
Happy Halloween!
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My Type of Music: Brian Wilson, Metallica, Ne-Yo, Calexico, Tricky, The Chemical Brothers
From the onset it became clear that ScreenFonts a.k.a. Characters On The Silver Screen was a very popular category on Unzipped, my blog for FontShop BeNeLux. This made me decide to add a second category, My Type of Music, which examines the covers of recently released records.
While on Unzipped I look at the covers of albums currently being released in Belgium and The Netherlands, here I'll stick to the American releases. Again my main focus is the type used on the covers, but you can bet I'll have my say on the overall design as well. Same deal as with ScreenFonts: when there's nothing interesting to tell about specific album covers I'll squarely ignore them. It's not like I haven't got anything else to do.
The album covers below are from the first half of September.
The delicate and colourful illustration which adorns the otherwise white cover of Fast Paced World, the fourth album by Canadian folk quintet by The Duhks reminds me of stained glass windows or Art Nouveau lead came and copper foil glasswork. It gives an airy and luminescent quality to the design, and almost makes me forgive the album title and band name set in equally delicate grey – but ultimately uninspired and self-indulgent – all lowercase Helvetica. And I personally would have had "the" and "ducks" connect differently. If you're going for minimal typography you should thoroughly think through every minute detail.
After having the covers for their first two albums Psyence Fiction and Never Never Land designed by Futura2000, UNKLE have chosen painted artwork by Massive Attack member Robert del Naja a.k.a. 3D for their new End Titles: Stories For Film and its predecessor War Stories. No type to be seen, yet truly mesmerizing covers. See also Shynola's engrossing – but quite unsettling – video for An Eye For An Eye, with animation based on characters by 3D.
That Lucky Old Sun by Brian Wilson has a slightly off-kilter cover. Which is quite appropriate for this artist. Although I'm not so much a kitsch lover myself, I really love this one, with its vibrant colours and sunny motifs, and the clunky blocky outlined and shaded sans caps filled with politically incorrect bright yellow and blue gradients.
Equally colourful is the globe on the cover of Shall Noise Upon by rock trio Apollo Sunshine. It nicely contrasts with the black background which is crammed with very busy white hand drawn illustrations – lots of cosmic imagery to be found. The refined shapes and sharp serifs of the classic centred Perpetua Titling caps work wonderfully well with the drawings.
It's funny to see how mainstream pop acts can get it wrong even when almost getting it right. The design for The Block by resurrected boys band New Kids On The Block actually isn't that bad at all. The horizontal division with black-and-white portraits on bright red and orange backgrounds is somewhat reminiscent of classic crooner acts. Yet I have the same remark as with the Duhks album. By making the type a touch smaller the word groups "New" "Kids On The" "Block" in Compacta would've synchronized nicely with the vertical colour bands. Now it just looks wrong as "On The" slams into the third band and the "K" carelessly – and literally – crosses the border. This is again one of those cases where attention to details would've made for a better design.
As the collage that graces the cover for Strawberry Weed by Swedish rock outfit Caesars is obviously hand made I can only wonder if the title and band name were actually typed or digitally reproduced with FF Magda. The design, with its faded, crudely cut out family photographs and yellowy strips of text exudes a feeling of tenderness and loss, resulting in a beautiful and affecting cover. A lesser-known bit of trivia about FF Magda – it's one of those "smart" FontFonts that can be layered to achieve a multitude of outline and inline effects.
Somewhat in the same vein is the surprisingly un-metal-like cover for Lost In The Sound Of Separation by Underoath. The hand painted design looks very arts-and-crafts-like, with the colourful V shapes hinting at an ethnic influence.
I suspect the type is either custom-made or a customized version of an existing font; its slightly unbalanced and intentionally awkward shapes reminding me of the heydays of grunge.
Oh serendipity – Simon Robertson comments that merely a week ago he identified the typeface as Silas Dilworth's Vandermark. I really like that one.
The cover for Hummingbird, Go! by Swedish singer Theresa Andersson is also hand painted, depicting a stylized landscape of brightly coloured hills. But I like this one considerably less, and ITC Grimshaw Hand is integrated in the image in a pretty unimaginative way.
I included the next two covers for the photography rather than for the typography. proVISIONS by Howe Gelb's Giant Sand features a striking image of a woman in a blood splattered white apron holding something that looks like a big dead fish in her bloodied hands. The strength of the picture lies in the fact that both the head of the woman and head and tail of the fish are cropped, thus abstracting the image and lending it a detached atmosphere. I don't agree with having these humongous painted Trade Gothic characters run over the full width at the bottom, but hey, that's just me.
And the cover for Sex And Gasoline by Grammy-winning country singer Rodney Crowell looks very rock'n'roll. Not only does he seem pretty dazed and confused – probably due to sleep deprivation, loud music, use of illicit substances or all of the above – but when you look past his tangled hair and feverish eyes you notice the shapely curves of female hips. Yup, that's one of the perks of being a musician for you. ;) The punk-style typography – Goudy Old Style and Franklin Gothic – was distorted, probably by crumpling the paper and/or moving the original whilst photocopying, so this isn't Frankie.
I wonder inhowfar the designer of This Is A Fix by The Automatic perused the Barbara Kruger Graphic Standards Manual, as the photograph overlaid with Futura Bold and Bold Italic in a red box looks heavily influenced by the work of American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger.
The cover image for Invisible Cinema is as immaculately groomed as jazz pianist Aaron Parks himself. The earthy monochromatic quality of the picture is very stylish and makes Parks' face pop up from the background. Above the worn door behind Parks all caps ITC Avant Garde Gothic is combined with Elephant, the peculiar take on British grotesques by Gareth Hague.
The Chemical Brothers go pop art with their new greatest hits compilation Brotherhood. The covers of the singles included in the compilation are reproduced as a checker board of colourful silkscreen prints. It is somewhat reminiscent of U2's Achtung Baby, but a nice upbeat cover nonetheless.
Like I wrote in my last My Type of Music entry on Unzipped I find Knowle West Boy by Tricky a way too safe album cover for such an adventurous musical talent. There's a moderate dose of weirdness in the image depicting Tricky wearing a Venetian mask, but the very safe overall composition and big Helvetica Condensed caps don't really do it for me.
Hey, isn't this a contender for the LTypI pool? The font on All Or Nothing, the sophomore album for English trio The Subways is Edward Johnston's type for the London Underground – yep, that's the British 'subway' for you. A-ha! Johnston's seminal design was originally digitized in 1997 as P22 Johnston Underground. The 1999 version ITC Johnston had the advantage of coming in three weights. Yet the definitive digital version is the recently released feature-rich OpenType Pro family P22 Underground.
Two beautifully designed and illustrated covers in a row. The symmetrical and geometric design Lightbulbs by Fujiya & Miyagi looks like a contemporary take on Art Deco, with gracious sans caps spelling out the band name. Admire the curvacious ampersand. Fun detail: the luminous pattern around the lightbulb refers to the strobe dots on the side of a turntable platter.
Reader Páll Rokk comments that "[t]he Fujiya & Miyagi cover derives from the work of Deutscher Werkbund designer/architect Peter Behrens for AEG. Behrens designed similar ads featuring lightbulbs, as well as the lightbulbs themselves and the factories where they were made. The logo is the giveaway."
And Carried To Dust is perfectly consistent with the Calexico "corporate identity" of having stencil graffiti-style illustrations on the cover. The strict geometric hand drawn lettering nicely complements the design.
I don't know about this one. I can't decide whether I find the album cover for Mothertongue by New York composer Nico Muhly a little intriguing, a little unsavoury or a little self-important. TheallcapsInterstatewithnowordspaces at the bottom of the cover makes me lean toward the latter.
I really need to have either my eyes or my head checked. Yes I know the image on Death Magnetic by Metallica represents a coffin shaped hole with iron shavings revealing magnetic patterns around it. For an album called Death Magnetic? Oooh, how original! What amount of research went into this! Nevertheless, when looking at it from a distance I keep seeing a… errr… well… is it just me?
Read more about the fine-tuning of the classic Metallica logo on Brand New.
The Hungry Saw by Tindersticks on the other hand uses an ingenious metaphor for heartbreak which is translated in a low-key but beautiful image, literally carved in stone and written on the wall (anyone know any more clichés?). The type is obviously hand made, yet looks quite similar to the joyous FF Providence.
Jean-Michel Folon gets updated for the 21st century on the album cover for O Soundtrack My Heart, the first international effort on Warp Records by Australian group Pivot. The art is by French artist Michel Granger, who amongst others provided a series of iconic album covers for French synth legend Jean Michel Jarre. Simple, effective, and drop dead gorgeous.
I just wanted to mention that Hey Ma, the first album in nearly 10 years for British rock band James (a) looks really creepy and makes me feel uneasy, and (b) the band name is set in a customized version of ITC Baskerville – yup, the version with an x-height so big you can drive a truck through it. And the letters on the wooden blocks are Cooper Black of course.
The album cover for Gift Of Screws by ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham strikes a delicate balance between mainstream and indie. The different elements that make up the design – sepia tinted portrait of the artist and classic looking all caps Fedra Sans – are to be expected on a mainstream release. Yet the out of focus and out of centre quality of the photograph gives the design that welcome extra bite. And the position of the type makes it even more interesting – the top of the characters are cut off by the top edge of the cover, part of the type runs over Buckingham's forehead and hair, and the white letters on the light grey background almost completely fade away. Although at first sight the composition may seem a bit disorderly, I find the typography actually very thoughtful and solid.
Far less thoughtful and solid is Year Of The Gentleman by R&B singer Ne-Yo. We have similar design elements that make up the album cover, but this time the end result is truly disorderly and forgettable. Setting the artist's name in Helvetica caps is an uninspired move, and let's be honest, it just doesn't look good. Fair enough, the album title in Bickham Script is adequately composed, using the correct swashes (which hardly is the merit of the designer as they are handled automatically in the OpenType Pro version). But the way they've both been lumped together in that nondescript and cluttered area of the image just ruins this cover.
This proves that to achieve good and readable typography you have to carefully balance the different criteria, just like in a mathematical equation. In both examples the readability is diminished, and the context determines how successful the designers deal with this.
In the Buckingham cover the white letters on light background indeed tend to blend in (negative value), so this is compensated by using large type (positive value) in a simple and straightforward composition (positive value). This in turn gives the designer enough leeway to cut off the top of the characters in the first line (slightly negative value) and use pretty tight tracking and leading (slightly negative value).
Conversely, in the Ne-Yo cover the type is positioned in a busy area of the image with contrasting light and dark elements (negative value). The juxtaposition of the sans caps and swashy script looks convoluted (negative value), and part of the black type is poorly readable against those dark elements (negative value), especially so since the shape and size of those dark elements is very similar to the shape and size of the letters, thus creating visual interference (negative value).
Typography may not be quantum mechanics, but it sure helps to have some basic notion of how mathematics and physics work. ;)
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What is the name of the person who photographed Aaron Parks. Super photo!
The Fujiya & Miyagi cover derives from the work of Deutsche Werkbund designer/architect Peter Behrens for AEG. Behrens designed similar ads featuring lightbulbs (see here), as well as the lightbulbs themselves and the factories where they were made.
The logo is the giveaway.
But what an exquisite adaptation.
It is beautiful, isn't it? :) Thank you so much for the extra information. This is one of the best parts of My Type of Music – whenever I'm not aware of a reference there sure is someone who can tell me. See also for example the fine art references on the covers for Sonic Youth – Destroyed Room and The Chemical Brothers – We Are The Night.
It's always a pleasure to read design breakdown from your hand Yves, thank you for sharing your thoughts
hey, just quick, i ID'ed the Underoath type on typophile: http://typophile.com/node/49061
it's Vandermark by Silas Dilworth.
cheers – sye :)
Whoa, nice find, Simon. I'll add it to the main entry.
no worries. thanks for the kudos and link!
"…its slightly unbalanced and intentionally awkward shapes reminding me of the heydays of grunge"
That pains me. I hardly intended any unbalance or awkwardness in Vandermark.
I feared this would happen. :( After having examined the samples on TypeTrust I originally wanted to go back to this bit and rewrite it, but my stubborn ethics wouldn't allow me. I published this version, so I should be held accountable for my original wording.
When I wrote this I was fooled by the crafts/ethnic context and really perceived it as more of a leftfield design. Yet closer inspection revealed it to be a very poetic and delicate typeface. Though I still think the shapes are reminiscent of some of the finer deconstructivist faces from the mid-90s, Vandermark indeed doesn't share the "slightly unbalanced and intentionally awkward shapes" found in those seminal faces.
Please accept my apologies for my hasty evaluation of your type design and my unbalanced and unintentionally awkward description. :)
No offense taken, Yves, and no apology necessary. I appreciate your closer inspection though.
To which of the "finer" deconstructivist faces would you compare Vandermark?
Parallel with the dumb "destroy" movement which is most commonly associated with grunge, there were a number of type designers who were experimenting with the basic structure and formal elements of type. The shapes of Vandermark are not reminiscent of specific shapes of any of those "finer deconstructivist faces", but rather remind me of the level of experimentation and formal research involved (the "elegant balance of a terminal stroke that would never join its supporting stem" you mention, which initiated your experimentation on the rest of the typeface).
You need to make a correction on the O Soundtrack My Heart. The cover drawing is by Michel Granger not Folon. For more of Michel Grangers work check out his website
Hi. I love all your post about cd covers.
I'd like to know what do you think of this one: http://www.thedesigndictatorship.com/2011/02/09/dp/guido-maria-grillo/
This is a cd pack i made for an italian songwriter, something quite similar to Jeff Buckley.
Thank you
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The 28mm on a 35mm camera would be great but on my S2Pro with a MX Factor of 1.5x 28 isn't wide enough at 42mm and at full zoom the factor gives me 157.5mm telephoto, not quite enough for the sporting events I use it for. The 28-200 would be a better choice for me but it doesn't come in this f2.8-f4 like this one does. Faster apertures like a constant f2.8 would be great but Who amoung us can afford that?
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I have had this Sigma 28-105 f 2.8-4 lens and have been using it on my Fuji S2Pro for about 4 months now. It is a very good lens for me. I have had no problems with lens creep or other complaints I hear about. For a cheaper (about half the price of a Nikkor) it gives me great, contrast and sharp images from wide to telephoto. The zoom ring and controls are nicely placed and easy to use. The tulip "Perfect Hood" fits great and is a welcome, "Professional" touch, at no additional charge. I gave the lens an overall 9 points because it's not the best available but very good at the asking price. I also think this lens out performe some similar Nikon lenses I have seen.


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Raymond van Barneveld v Peter Wright
Wright benefited from Smith's nerves as he was afforded plenty of time to settle in to the competition's curtain raiser with a 20 dart leg before picking up his performance and averaging 103.36 with 5 180s in the 8 legs that followed and recording a 7-2 win.
The head to head is in Barney's favour with him leading 7-3 with 2 draws but Wright won their most recent encounter at the weekend 6-5 and also thrashed van Barneveld in their last televised meeting in last year's UK Open 9-1.
However, van Barneveld's recent record in this competition is enough of a deterrent to leave the match odds alone and turn to the 180s market where Snakebite has been racking up impressive numbers in recent tournaments. Over the last 6 televised tournaments & last week's Premier League opener, Wright has racked up 133 180s in 327 legs averaging a 180 every 2.46 legs. In comparison, van Barneveld has hit 66 180s in 313 legs which averages out at a 180 every 4.74 legs.
Wright to hit the most 180s is an 8/11 shot (various) though it might pay to be braver here based on the numbers above, with Wright almost throwing two 180s to van Barneveld's one, and take Coral's 6/4 on Wright to throw the most 180s with a -1.5 handicap.
Adrian Lewis v Dave Chisnall
Lewis was another to benefit from Smith's below par Premier League bow last week as he raced to a 7-1 victory in the final match. The start from Lewis was far from blistering but his finish was as he won the last 5 legs averaging 112.16. He carried that form into the weekend winning the first of the UK Open qualifier events before losing in the QFs and the last 16 in the other two events.
Chisnall recorded just the 6th whitewash in Premier League history as he followed up the previous weekend's Masters final appearance with another 100+ average in his win against Thornton. Chisnall, like van Barneveld seems to be at home in this competition with him racking up his 8th consecutive 100+ average in the league stage last week.
Chisnall has the slight advantage in the head to head with him leading it 10-9 and he won both of their encounters in the Premier League last year 7-2 and 7-4 with the latter being their last meeting.
With the head to head record being slightly in Chisnall's favour, the two victories last year and his continued high averaging performances in this event, it is worth siding with him again here but take the safer draw no bet option which is available at 11/10 with Coral.
Gary Anderson v Michael van Gerwen
It is tough to gauge what shape Anderson is in as he did not play in the weekend's qualifiers and lost in his only appearance since the World Championship to Vincent van der Voort at the Masters.
van Gerwen looked set to run away with his match last week against Wade as he raced into a 3-0 lead but he uncharacteristically suffered from double trouble and eventually lost 7-4. van Gerwen rarely suffers back to back defeats in televised matches and you have to go back to June 2014 since that happened when he lost to Kim Huybrechts & Brendan Dolan in the World Cup of Darts and back to late 2011 for the instance before that.
Van Gerwen leads the head to head 18-11 though he & Anderson have split the last 8 televised meetings 4-4.
With Anderson's form an unknown here, it's hard to suggest anything with conviction in the match markets but one market which van Gerwen often excels in is the highest checkout market. His own checkout line is set at 106.5 which he has covered in 11 of the last 17 league stage matches including a 167 checkout against Wade last week and those numbers suggest that the 5/6 on offer with Coral & betway to cover that is a bet worth taking.
James Wade v Phil Taylor
Although van Barneveld did not give Taylor much of a look in last week due to his finishing, Taylor would have been disappointed to have not put on a better display as he recorded his 2nd lowest average (92.34) in the Premier League league stages since the opening night of the 2011 tournament. He did however bounce back at the weekend with him finishing runner-up in Friday's event before winning Sunday's.
This will be the 62nd meeting between the pair with Taylor leading the head to head 46-10 with 5 draws and although Wade won their last notable televised meeting at the World Matchplay 17-14 (they did meet on TV in Australia at the Perth Masters), you have to go back to February 2009 for Wade's last Premier League victory against Taylor who has won 6 of their last 8 league stage meetings.
The performances at the weekend will have encouraged Taylor as should his record against Wade in this competition but he is vulnerable on the televised stage at the moment with him losing 5 of his last 9 matches so the 10/11 on offer on the match odds doesn't offer an awful lot.
One thing that has improved with Wade recently is the amount of 180s he has been throwing with him registering 21 180s in his last 59 televised legs. He seems to have been undervalued in the most 180s market with Taylor having thrown 12 over his last 65 legs so Wade at 5/2 with BetVictor is also a worthwhile bet.


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Thrivent Credit Union's sponsor is contemplating change that could sharply increase pool of potential credit union members.
It's the time of the year when pundits are analyzing the recent election and predicting what will happen in the new Congress during 2013.
The financial institution nightmare is when a legitimate account is taken over by cyber-criminals – then looted. FS-ISAC survey shows it happens.
CUNA announced new legislative priorities for 2013 that include four key agenda items: preserving the credit union tax exemption, reducing regulatory burden, engaging in housing finance reform and advancing credit union charter enhancements.
Washington was embroiled in a game of fiscal chicken at the end of the year. Unemployment is high at 7.7%. The 2.5 million people who are unemployed but so discouraged that they're not actively looking are unchanged from 2011.
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ICBA exec calls NAFCU letter to senators supporting the package bill "obscene."
NAFCU, CUNA leaders tabbed as top lobbyists by The Hill.


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The liquidity of energy stocks
This study investigates the dynamics of stock market liquidity in the energy industry in the US for 130 firms for the period 2006–2011. We use a (structural) vector autoregression approach to model the simultaneous relationships between three liquidity measures, namely turnover, price impact and spread. In addition, we account for oil prices in this model. The liquidity measures exhibit a persistent (highly autocorrelated) pattern. The intensity of trading appears to be relevant for the interrelationships of the liquidity measures. Stocks that are traded more often seem to be less sensitive to changes in liquidity. The main contribution of this study is that we introduce and test a specific causality pattern between trading activity, price impact, and spreads of energy stocks. This causality pattern is stronger during illiquid periods, which makes these periods much more risky.
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Shailene Woodley is one half of two epic love stories in Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars, but off screen, she isn't so sure about finding "the one." In her April 2014 cover story for Marie Claire, the 22-year-old actress revealed that she hasn't found someone she could imagine spending her life with and that she doesn't even know "if humans are genetically made to be with one person forever." Though monogamy isn't her thing, she did share her love for an important man in her life: George Clooney, whom she compares to her mother and shared a big secret about.
Keep reading for more from Shailene's cover story, including scoop on her first kiss, and pick up her cover issue of Marie Claire on newsstands March 25.
- On her love life: "I just haven't met anyone where I was like, 'Wow, I could definitely see myself spending a season of my life with you.' I don't even know if humans are genetically made to be with one person forever."
- On her self-consciousness: "My whole life, I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently, I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I'm so very grateful for now."
- On her surprising first kiss: "I was the latest bloomer there ever was. I was still playing with Barbies at 14 and didn't have my first kiss until 15-and-a-half. He had big, beautiful lips, and I was like, 'I don't know what I'm going to do with those.'"
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Ukraine bares teeth against eastern uprising
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — In the first Ukrainian military action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east, government forces repelled an attack Tuesday by about 30 gunmen at an airport, beginning what the president called an "anti-terrorist operation" to try to restore authority over the restive region.
The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numerous government facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. Complicating the political landscape, many local security forces have switched to their side.
The clashes Tuesday came at Kramatorsk airport, just south of the city of Slovyansk, which has come under the increasing control of the pro-Russian gunmen who seized it last weekend.
The precise sequence of events was mired in confusion amid contradictory official claims.
The commander of the Ukrainian operation, Gen. Vasyl Krutov, speaking outside Kramatorsk airport, said his men managed to thwart an attack by fighters in green military uniforms without insignia who tried to storm the facility in the late afternoon. An Associated Press reporter and camera crew heard rounds of gunfire at the time.
After the armed standoff, hundreds of local people surrounded the airport in response to rumors that government troops were planning to launch a military operation on the city of Kramatorsk itself. Some in the crowd attempted to enter the military facility, prompting Ukrainian troops to fire bursts of warning shots.
In an attempt to defuse the situation, Gen. Krutov came out to speak to the angry protesters but was attacked by them. After a tussle in which his hat was knocked to the ground, he managed to take refuge in the airport.
There were conflicting reports of casualties.
Yury Zhadobin, coordinator of a pro-Russian defense force, said two people were slightly injured and were taken to a hospital. Russian media, without sourcing, claimed anywhere from four to 11 casualties at the airport. Ukraine's government said there were no casualties, adding that Ukrainian forces took an unspecified number of militiamen prisoner.
While Krutov spoke of repelling an attack, the new government in Kiev declared that its forces had recaptured the airport from militiamen.
"I just got a call from the Donetsk region: Ukrainian special forces have liberated the airport in the city of Kramatorsk from terrorists," acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told parliament.
"I'm convinced that there will not be any terrorists left soon in Donetsk and other regions and they will find themselves in the dock — this is where they belong."
Hours earlier, Turchynov had announced the start of what what he called "an anti-terrorist operation" against the pro-Russian insurgents.
He gave few details, saying only that it would be conducted in a "responsible and balanced" manner in order to "defend the citizens of Ukraine, to stop terror, stop crime and stop attempts to tear our country into pieces."
In Washington, the Obama administration gave its tacit support to the Ukrainian military action.
While the use of force "is not a preferred option," White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "the Ukrainian government has a responsibility to provide law and order. And these provocations in eastern Ukraine are creating a situation in which the government has to respond."
Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement denouncing the Ukrainian military operation, saying it was "criminal to fight with your own people as they speak out for their legal rights." The ministry called on Russia's "international partners" to condemn the new Ukrainian government's actions.
What was clear is that the area bordering Russia is getting increasingly armed and unstable. Russia has tens of thousands of troops stationed along its border with Ukraine, raising fears that Moscow might use the instability in the predominantly Russian-speaking east as a pretext for an invasion.
Earlier Tuesday, at least 14 armored personnel carriers flying Ukrainian flags, helicopters and military trucks were seen some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Solvyansk, along with at least seven busloads of government troops in black military fatigues.
"We are awaiting the order to move on Slovyansk," said one soldier, who gave only his first name, Taras. Two of the helicopters loaded with troops were later seen flying toward Slovyansk and witnesses said they delivered several dozen troops at the Kramatorsk military airfield.
Tuesday's events were viewed entirely differently by Ukraine and Russia.
"We have to tell the Ukrainians the truth: The Russian Federation is waging a real war against Ukraine in the east, in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in particular," Ukraine's ex-prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko said.
She called on the West to "recognize Russia's aggression against eastern Ukraine as a war."
Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema also accused Russia of sending its troops to Ukraine, saying Kiev has "evidence that those people occupying Slovyansk and Kramatorsk right now are servicemen of the Russian 45th Airborne Regiment."
Ukraine's security services identified one of the leaders of the pro-Russian operation in Slovyansk as a Russian foreign intelligence agent, Igor Strelkov, who it said had also coordinated Russian seizures of military facilities in Crimea.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, dismissed the claims as absurd.
The Kremlin has strongly warned the Kiev government that if it uses military force it could prompt Russia to walk out of an international conference on Ukraine in Geneva on Thursday.
"You can't send in tanks and at the same time hold talks. The use of force would sabotage the opportunity offered by the four-party negotiations in Geneva," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Leonard reported from Donetsk. Maria Danilova and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Kiev, Lynn Berry and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Julie Pace in Washington, and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.———
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Here's how to overcome depression in Islam.
1Remember this. Allah says that he has made life smooth and comfortable for us and yet, we keep complaining about it or we simply ignore this gift and feel left out alone or depressed.
2Spread your hands towards heaven and tell Allah everything that is troubling you or is the cause of your depression.
3Allah is always there for you, but you must make the effort and draw his kind attention to you ask him and tell him that you need him .
4Pray in the correct way that is "namaaz". Do not hesitate to cry because 16:53 (Y. Ali) And ye have no good thing but is from Allah. and moreover, when ye are touched by distress, unto Him ye cry with groans.
5Allah never feels sorry or bored even if you cry to him a thousand times he won't tire of you. Ride out this life with his support.
6After you are done with telling Allah your problems you may proceed with a clear conscience and a lighter head.
7Never give up hope because 12:87 (Y. Ali) "O my sons! go ye and inquire about Joseph and his brother, and never give up hope of Allah's Soothing Mercy: truly no one despairs of Allah's Soothing Mercy, except those who have no faith." -
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Saturday, July 11, 1998 Published at 23:46 GMT 00:46 UK
World: Africa
Abiola died 'a natural death'
Chief Abiola's eldest son Kola at his father's burial
The jailed opposition leader's death came one day before his expected release and led many, particularly in his family, to allege that he was poisoned by the military government.
The doctors said they believed poisoning was an extremely unlikely cause of his death, but that laboratory tests still needed to be carried out.
Tissue samples are to be sent to London and it may be another month before results are known.
The experts said some people had expressed concern to them about the treatment Chief Abiola received during his four years in prison. The doctors believe these concerns deserve further consideration.
Supporters unconvinced
At a press conference in Lagos, where the post mortem findings were announced, one of Chief Abiola's wives said she still held the government responsible for her husband's death.
The findings - by a team drawn from the US, the UK and Canada - were announced a short time after the burial of Chief Abiola in the garden of his home, mourned by hundreds of supporters and family members.
A correspondent described the funeral as noisy, but short, with the burial service lasting only 10 minutes.
Chaotic scenes
Amid loud wailing from mourners, there were chaotic scenes as people tried to get a last glimpse of his body, which was lowered into the grave in a simple white shroud.
But many other mourners were kept away from the area by a security cordon.
Family members remained locked inside the house for most of the day as they mourned in private.
Chief Abiola's son Kola had appealed to the crowds not to allow violence during the funeral.
The body had been released to the family a few hours earlier after the completion of the post mortem examination.
He collapsed while meeting a US delegation in Nigeria to discuss the transition to civilian rule and died a short time later in hospital.
Riots in south-west
Earlier on Saturday, several people were injured in riots in the south-western town of Ibadan, which has a large community from the north of Nigeria.
People in the south-west, where Chief Abiola came from, are furious that he died while still in detention ordered by military rulers who come from the north.
The latest trouble follows two days of rioting in Lagos and Abeokuta, his home town. Up to 60 people are reported to have died during the violence.
Chief Abiola was widely believed to have won a presidential election campaign in 1993, which was annulled by the military. He was jailed the following year when he declared himself president.


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Algeria hopes to make amends for its 1-0 loss to Slovenia when it faces England on Friday in Cape Town.
"It was very disappointing, we were full of regrets after the game," the midfielder Karim Matmour said. "It was clear that we had a great chance to get off to a good start and we missed the opportunity. But we've lifted our heads up and we'll be 200 percent determined to atone for that against the English."
The Desert Foxes managed only two shots on goal against Slovenia, continuing their poor attacking form in recent games.
"We need to refine the way we move forward," added Matmour, plays at Borussia Moenchengladbach with American Michael Bradley. "The linkages between midfield and attack were where we had the most difficulty. We need to improve."


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Story by the Associated Press; curated by Dave Urbanski
Look! Up in the sky! It's supermoon!
Because our celestial neighbor is relatively close to Earth, these full moons will appear to be unusually large. That distance varies because the moon follows an elliptical orbit. When it's close and full, it appears bigger and brighter than normal, although the difference can be hard to detect.
The full moon Saturday may seem huge, but it's just an illusion caused by its position in the sky.
Two other supermoons will come later this summer on Aug. 10 and Sept. 9.
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American Banker published another promotion of restoring Glass-Steagall, this one by Matthew Fink, director of Openheimer Mutual Funds and of the Retirement Income Industry Association. Fink's article is on the subject of Sen. Carter Glass and Glass-Steagall, "which President Franklin Roosevelt called `the second most important banking legislation in the history of our country.'... The Glass-Steagal Act and other New Deal measures worked. For decades, the nation avoided lax regulation, excessive speculation, and financial crises," Fink writes.
And he adds, "The Dodd-Frank Act did not impose clear statutory requirements, but instead assigned more than 200 rulemaking projects to regulatory agencies. History demonstrates that reliance on regulators will not work. Unless legislation itself proposes specific rules..."
Fink's support is more significant in that he worked for the Investment Company Institute (the mutual fund industry's trade association) for 24 years and was its president in the 1990s. In 1971, ICI was the principal in the landmark Supreme Court case upholding the force and primacy among banking regulations, of the Glass-Steagall Act. This case was Investment Company Institute vs. Camp.
In 1970 Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp approved Citibank's plan to offer the public (i.e., its depositors) units in collective investment trusts that the bank organized -- exactly what National City Bank was exposed doing by Ferdinand Pecora in 1933, leading to Glass-Steagall. This was the first in a long string of attempts to flout Glass-Steagall by pro-Wall Street regulators, most infamously Alan Greenspan. In "Camp" the Supreme Court struck that down, ruling for ICI that banks may not offer depositors or the public a mutual fund product. But the Court went far beyond that case, ruling broadly that the Glass-Steagall Act was the primary bank regulation in U.S. national banking law; and that with it, Congress intended to prevent banks from endangering themselves, the banking system, and the public by unsafe and unsound practices and conflicts of interest. And that this intent of Congress included barring them from securities activities with only a few "bank-qualified" exceptions such as U.S. Treasury securities.
From the mid-1980s on, "regulators" were again striving to undo Glass-Steagall in every way they could, on behalf of Wall Street.
For this reason, the Kaptur-Jones Return to Prudent Banking Act repeatedly cites the "Camp" decision and the Supreme Court's strict interpretation as the "minimum" permitted level of commercial bank regulation under a restored Glass-Steagall Act. Even Helicopter Ben Bernanke will have to enforce it until he's thrown out.
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Removing wax stains from clothes or fabric
The most important thing to remember with wax is that it doesn't mix with water.
- So the first thing to do is let the wax set hard (you can put the item in the freezer to help with the setting).
- Then, slowly remove as much of the wax as you can - either with a flat-bladed knife or pick it off with your fingers.
- Next, get out the ironing board and brown paper.
- Place a piece of brown paper on either side of the wax stain.
- Using an iron on a low heat, slowly and gently apply the iron to the wax stain.
- The wax should start to transfer to the paper, when it does, move the paper so that you have a clean space to transfer the wax.
- Continue until all the wax is removed.
- Launder the item as usual.
Removing wax stains from unwashable fabrics
For unwashable fabrics, use the above method, keeping the iron on a very low heat and checking in an unobtrusive area that fabric can cope with heat.
Removing wax stains from carpet or furniture
Start by letting the wax harden. Use a plastic bag of ice over the wax to help it set hard. Then remove as much of the dry wax as possible. Break it up, using a blunt object, and then vacuum up any particles. Any remaining wax should be re-treated. Stubborn wax can be removed with the brown paper and the warm iron method described above.
Stain remover notes
- The quicker you deal with a stain, the more likely you are to remove it.
- Unless it's a fat stain, cold water is best for rinsing a stain, so as not to set it and make it harder to remove later.
- Before using a cleaning solution, test on an inconspicuous section, such as the inside of a sleeve, to check it won't ruin the fabric.
- Always rinse out one cleaning solution before trying another to remove a stain as certain chemicals are not supposed to be mixed.
- Read the care instructions on the item of clothing before attempting vigorous stain removal. Some clothing may be too delicate to attempt stain removal and are better taken straight to the drycleaners.
- Don't rub fabric harshly to remove stains as this can abrade fibres and cause fading.
- The white towel blotting method is often recommended for stain removal. Simply fold a clean white towel and, once you have treated the stain with water, gently dab it with the towel and check to see how much of the stain has transferred to the white towel.
- If using commercial stain removers and detergents, always follow the product label to understand the proper use and safety precautions you may need to take.
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A new bug has been discovered in iTunes 12.4 which causes playback issues with Apple Music tracks shorter than a minute or 60 seconds. The root cause of the problem has been attributed to a buffering bug that stalls the streaming for the next track if the current one being played is shorter than 60 seconds.
In other words, iTunes will stall waiting for the next song in the queue to finish downloading, although it has never even started streaming or buffering completely. The bug has already been reported to Apple while the company is yet to acknowledge or release a fix for this problem.
Meanwhile, a member of the MacRumors forum has successfully reproduced the issue using a network-activity monitoring tool called 'fswatch' and identified the root cause of the problem:
It looks like the way Apple Music handles streaming is when the current song is a minute from the end, iTunes signals the next track in the queue to start downloading so that it's ready to play when the current song is over. However, when the song is less than a minute long the next song's download is never initiated, apparently because some "one minute remaining" event is never triggered! This means the app just sits waiting for a download to finish that has in fact never started.
Folks at MacRumors have successfully reproduced the issue on Macs running OS X 10.11.5 and iTunes 12.4.1 while the bug is conspicuously absent when playing locally stored tracks and albums. It is further confirmed that the bug only affects streamed songs via Apple Music. However, the issue is not reproducible in macOS Sierra or iOS 9.3.2.
Check out the MacRumors' demo video depicting Apple Music playback bug on iTunes 12.4.1 in action (below):


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Capital markets research and real world complexity: The emerging challenge of chaos theory
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