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Hebrides islands, and the rugged mountains of Scotland west coast. The name McCrumen began in this region; it was a nickname for a person noted as a guardian. The name, which is Mac Cruimein in Gaelic, is derived from the Old Norse Hromund, which means famed protector.
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Skye, where they were hereditary Pipers to the MacLeods of Dunvegan and founded the famous College of Piping, the most celebrated of its kind in the world. They were said to be the greatest Pipers of all Gaeldom.
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Medieval spelling was at best an intuitive process, and translation between Gaelic and English was no more effective. These factors caused an enormous number of spelling variations in Dalriadan names. In fact, it was not uncommon to see a father and son who spelled their name differently. Over the years, McCrumen has been spelled MacCrimmon, MacRimmon, MacCrummen, MacCrummin, Crimmon, Crimmons, Crimmin and many more.
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The Great Migration
These settlers arrived in North America at a time when the east was burgeoning with prosperous colonies and the expanses of the west were just being opened up. The American War of Independence was also imminent. Some Scots stayed to fight for a new country, while others who remained loyal went north as United Empire Loyalists. The ancestors of all of them went on to rediscover their heritage in the 20th century through highland games and other patriotic Scottish events. The McCrumen were among these contributors, for they have been located in early North American records:
McCrumen Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
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Motto: Permitte caetera divis
Motto Translation: Leave the rest to the Gods.
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A little town arranged some odd 600kms from Delhi; Chitkul is said to be the keep going possessed town on the Indo-Tibet border and is settled profound inside the Kinnaur Valley of Himachal Pradesh. Arranged on the bank of Baspa River, Chitkul at the height of 3450m is about various landscapes that can entrance anyone who visit here.
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possessed town on the Indo-Tibet border and is settled profound inside the Kinnaur Valley of
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Tour Scotland video of cooking Arbroath Smokies at a St Andrew's Day event on King Edward Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Arbroath Smokie is said to have originated in the small fishing village of Auchmithie, three miles north east of Arbroath. Local legend has it a store caught fire one night, destroying barrels of haddock preserved in salt. The following morning, the people found some of the barrels had caught fire, cooking the haddock inside. Inspection revealed the haddock to be quite tasty. They are a type of lightly smoked small haddock with a particularly good flavour and texture. The bright yellow, coarsely flavoured smoked haddock sold in most supermarkets is not a very good substitute for the real thing.
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Re-discovery and re-definition of dinite, C20H36, a forgotten organic mineral from Garfagnana, northern Tuscany, Italy
Franzini, Livia; Pasero, Marco; Perchiazzi, Natale
European Journal of Mineralogy Volume 3 Number 5 (1991), p. 855 - 862
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published: Oct 2, 1991
manuscript accepted: Apr 23, 1991
manuscript received: Nov 28, 1990
DOI: 10.1127/ejm/3/5/0855
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Abstract The rare organic mineral dinite was found during the last century at Castelnuovo Garfagnana, Tuscany, Italy. After a chemical study, which indicated an erroneous chemical formula C18H16, it was stored in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Pisa, where it was recently relocated. A new chemical analysis was carried out on dinite, and NMR, IR and mass spectra are presented here. The new data allows a re-definition of dinite as a distinct mineralogical species, with chemical formula C20H36. Single crystal X-ray diffraction work showed dinite to be orthorhombic, space group P212121with a = 12.356, b = 12.762, c = 11.427 Å. Its crystal structure has been refined up to R = 0.068. Dinite is an alicyclic saturated hydrocarbon with three condensed cycles in the formula unit.
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|Laurent A. Regimbal, Hernan Gutierrez, Rual Ocampo
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This invention generally relates to print media handling and storage devices for printing, copying, or multiple-function document devices. More specifically, the invention relates to apparatus and method for improving the quality of media stacking, so that the resulting output stack is uniform and does not have displaced sheets.
An important criteria for customer satisfaction regarding a printing, copying, or multiple-function document device is the quality of stacking of the paper or other media that is output to a temporary or permanent storage location. For example, a laser printer provided with a remote output stacking unit may be operated to produce large stacks of multiple jobs, for example, wherein the jobs represent the same document printed out many times in succession, whether the document/job is a single sheet or many sheets. Such a stacking unit typically stacks the multiple jobs in a single stack, with the jobs contacting each other without any separating members or trays between the jobs as might be present between multiple copies in a photocopier sorter. The stacking unit may include means for allowing easy separation of the jobs, which may be conventional apparatus and logic to stack each job at a position slightly offset laterally from the previous job, that is, staggering the positions of alternating jobs a fraction of an inch to each side. Examples of conventional stacking technology, both for sheet alignment and lateral job offset, may be seen in several U.S. Pat. Nos.: 4,318,541 (Nagel et al.), 4,319,743 (Rood), 4,319,744 (Nagel et al.), 4,325,544, (Magno et al.), 4,325,545 (Fabrig), 4,354,672 (Kulpa et al.), 4,508,333 (Byrt), 4,548,399 (Heider et al.), 4,616,821 (Boeve et al.), 4,650,178 (Steele et al.), 4,657,239, (Ikesue et al.), 4,776,578 (Hirakawa et al.), 4,981,293 (Yamashita et al.), 4,986,730 (Wetter), 5,014,091 (Koike et al.), 5,054,764 (Phillips et al.), and 5,713,566 (Coombs et al.).
Stacker units of particular interest for implementation of the present invention are the type included on the 8000 Series LaserJet™ printers made by Hewlett Packard. Such a printer has a media output path that discharges paper or other media from the printer engine, with the paper edges being herein defined as a leading edge (first exiting the output path), the trailing edge (last exiting the output path), and two side edges of the paper which run transverse to the leading edge and trailing edge. The output path includes a device called an accumulator, which is typically external to the print engine housing and may be considered part of the stacking unit. The single sheet or plurality of sheets of an individual job being discharged are temporarily stored in the accumulator before being post-processed, if requested, and delivered to the final output destination. The accumulator comprises a floor, moveable sideguides with paper supports ("off-setters"), a fixed lower set of rollers, and a moveable set of upper rollers 51 that are used to align, and ultimately, to move the job. The off-setters of the accumulator contact and catch the two side edges of the accumulated sheets, and the floor of the accumulator supports the center region of the accumulated sheets. The successive sheets discharged into the accumulator 20 are inherently aligned with the other sheets in the accumulator. After a job is completed, that is, discharged in its entirely into the accumulator, the job is transported to the post-processing device, if requested. Then, the completed job is ejected by the accumulator onto a moveable stack tray disposed in front of and underneath the accumulator. The accumulator ejects the job, for example, by actuating a push-bar as in shown in the drawings, or by other systems, such as upper moveable rollers closing against lower fixed rollers and "pushing" the job to the "output bin." The output bin comprises the stack tray with any previous jobs that are stacked on top of the stack tray. Thus, if a job or jobs have been previously ejected onto the stack, tray, the current job is actually ejected onto the top of the previous job that, in turn, may be on top of prior jobs that rest on the stack tray. Prior to ejecting the current job onto the previous job, the off-setters of the accumulator are actuated, as determined by the logic of the system, to push the accumulated job to one side a predetermined amount of typically less than one inch before the job if ejected onto the stack. This way the various jobs are staggered or "offset" so that a first side edge of alternate jobs stick out laterally relative to the jobs above and below enough for a user to grasp and separate the jobs.
Typically, conventional media stacking technology results in misaligned sheets in some or all of the jobs, because there are no forward limits to control forward misalignment of sheets. The frequency of misaligned sheets may vary and may depend, for example, on the particular design of the stacking unit, maintenance of the stacking unit, paper quality, and ambient conditions such as humidity. The inventors believe that the majority of the stack misalignment is due to the force produced by ejecting the current job against the top sheets of the pre-existing stack as the current job slides forward and down from the accumulator to lie on the pre-existing stack. The ejected job slides against the output stack and displaces the top sheet or sheets from one to several inches, depending on the number of pages in the print job as well as the size and type of paper being printed.
Many stacking units, therefore, produce a misaligned stack that requires intermediate processing of many of the jobs prior to stapling, hole-punching, or binding. This intermediate processing involves separating the jobs and then straightening each misaligned job by pushing, tapping, or re-stacking the displaced sheets to align them with the rest of that job's sheets. This intermediate handling is time-consuming and frustrating for users, and adds significantly to the cost of document or booklet production.
Mechanisms have been added to some stacking units in attempts to correct the misalignment problem. For example, a rotating fingers mechanism has been added to the output device used with the Xerox Finisher for Xerox N32 and N40 printers, in such a way that the fingers hold down the top sheet in the output stack while the next job is ejected on the top of the output stack. After the job has been ejected, the fingers rotate out from under the ejected job and come to rest on top of the stack once again. The rotating finger mechanism has the disadvantage of requiring an additional, specialized mechanism to the accumulator/stacking unit, which increases costs and maintenance.
Therefore, an improved stacker is still needed, to reduce or eliminate manual processing of printed/copied jobs to correct displaced sheets. Still, there is a need for an economical, reliable solution to the displacement problem, whether the ejected jobs are a single sheet or multiple sheets, and the present invention addresses this need.
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for improving stacking quality in a device that ejects one or more sheets of media to a moveable, remote output storage location. The invention apparatus and method result in a stack that is ready for post-processing, such as hole-punching or binding, without the intermediate operation of straightening the sheets of a stack or stack portion before the post-processing.
The present invention comprises a stack holder that extends down from the accumulator of a stacking unit, preferably down from the moveable side-guides or "offsetters," to contact the stack already in place on a stack tray (also, "the previous job"). The invented stack holder holds the top sheets of the stack in place while media sheet(s) are being ejected ("the current job") from the accumulator onto the stack. The stack holder preferably comprises a member having a frictionally-engaging pad at the position on the member that is adapted to contact the top sheet of the stack during ejection of the current job. The pad comprises a material or surface adapted to grip the media in the stack and prevent movement of the media relative to the pad, and, therefore, movement of the media relative to rest of the output stack. In this way, the media of the pre-existing stack is held in place while the current job sheet(s) are being ejected from the accumulator, and, when the current job sheets slide onto the stack, the current job sheets may not push the pre-existing stack sheets forward out of alignment.
The preferred method and apparatus provides for the stack tray to be moveable up and down relative to the printer/output device housing and, specifically, relative to the accumulator. The stacker logic automatically moves the stack tray during various steps of the printing and stacking process, to cooperate with the stack holder(s) that are attached preferably to the bottom of the off-setters of the accumulator. Specifically, the stack tray moves up near the accumulator just prior to and during the ejection of an accumulated job onto the stack, so that the stack holder(s) contact and hold the top of the stack in the stack tray. Once the job has been successfully ejected, the stack tray moves down away from the accumulator. In this way, neither the stack tray nor the stack of papers on the tray interfere with the stack holders (or, hence, the accumulator) while the next job is being accumulated.
Preferably, each stack holder is a generally stationary member with a frictional surface, and does not require any moving parts, actuators, or active mechanisms, except for the cooperation of the stack holder and the moving stack tray and its operation logic. The preferred stack improvement method includes providing a stack holder at an appropriate position and angle so that it does not contact the stack during accumulation of a current job, whether it be the first accumulated job or a later job of many that are being stacked. The stack holder is also positioned so that, when the stack tray moves upward near the accumulator, the top of the stack comes in contact with the stack holder with enough force for the stack holder to grip the top sheet and apply enough downward pressure on the stack that several of the upper sheets of the stack are held in place relative to each other. Thus, while the stack holder presses on the stack, the accumulator ejects the current job onto the stack without the bottom sheet(s) of the current job being able to push the stack's upper sheets out of alignment.
FIG. 1 is a schematic side perspective view of one embodiment of the invented stack holder installed on one embodiment of a stacking unit of a large-volume printer or printer/copier, with the stack lowered away from the stack holder and the accumulator.
FIG. 2 is a schematic front perspective view of the stack holder and stacking unit embodiments of FIG. 1, shown with the stack being raised towards the stack holders.
FIG. 3 is a schematic side perspective view of the stack holder and stacking unit embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2, shown with the stack raised into contact with the stack holder while the job in the accumulator above the stack holder is being ejected.
FIG. 4 is a schematic side perspective view of the stack holder and stacking unit embodiments of FIGS. 1-3, with the job in the accumulator nearly fully-ejected.
FIG. 5 is a perspective side view of the stack holder embodiment of FIGS. 1-4, detached from the stacking unit.
FIG. 6 is a side view of the stack holder of FIG. 5, connected to the bottom surface of an accumulator off-setter, and shown with a frictionally-engaging pad at one end of the stack holder.
FIG. 7 is a top view of the stack holder of FIGS. 5 and 6.
Referring to the Figures, there is shown one, but not the only, embodiment of the invented stack holder 10 for a stacking unit 12 of a large volume document printer/copier/multi-purpose device 14. The Figures also illustrate steps of the invented method for creating and maintaining an aligned output stack 16. The invented stack holder 10 and method reduce or eliminate the problem of sheet misalignment in an output stack 16, which is discussed in the Background of the Invention section above. The invented stack holder 10 is used to hold down the top sheet(s) 24 of the stack each time an accumulated job 22 moves forward onto the stack 16, so that the top sheet(s) 24 are not frictionally gripped and moved forward by the moving job 22.
The preferred method of using the stack holder 10 is illustrated in FIG. 1 wherein the stack holder 10 is not contacting the stack 16 during offsetting and accumulation; in FIG. 2 wherein the stack tray 18 is being raised toward the accumulator 20 and its stack holders 10; and in FIGS. 3 and 4 wherein the stack holders 10 are contacting the stack 16 during ejection of an accumulated job 22 to prevent forward movement of stacked sheets into a misaligned position. FIGS. 5-7 show details of one embodiment of the invented stack holder 10, while the inventors also envision other geometries for stack holder arms that would work well.
The stack holder 10 comprises a downwardly-protruding arm or other member that comes in contact with the stack 16 when the stack 1 6 is within a few inches of the accumulator 20. As illustrated in FIGS. 5-7, the preferred stack holder 10 comprises an elongated strip 30 that is bent at a first bend 31 and a second bend 33 along its mid-section. The two bends 31, 33 form the strip 30 into generally a Z-shape, with an end first portion 34 for attachment to the accumulator 20, a middle second portion 36, and an opposing end third portion 38 for contacting the output stack 16. The first portion 34 is preferably connected to the bottom surface 39 of the accumulator by fasteners such as bolts, rivets, welding, or other connection means. Preferably, two stack holders 10 are preferably fastened or integral to each of the two off-setters of the accumulator, also called the left and right side-guides or "wings" 42, 43, respectively. Preferably, the first portion 34 of each stack holder 10 is fixedly and non-rotatably attached to a wing 42, 43.
The angles of the bends 31, 33 and the length of the strip 30 are chosen to position the third portion 38, and particularly its friction pad 40, at an effective position about 2 inches below the accumulator 20, and approximately about 4-6 inches forward from the vertical plane of the rear edges 45 of the stack 16. Preferably, the bends 31, 33 are curved at about a 2 mm radius. The preferred bends 31, 33 are 40.7 degrees and 52 degrees, respectively, and place the third portion 38 at an angle of about 10-12 degrees to the first portion 34. In the preferred embodiment, the first portion 34 is positioned on the bottom surface 39 at about 20-30 degrees, which serves to position the third portion 38 at an angle of about 30-40 degrees from horizontal. Thus, the third portion 38 extends forward across about the rear ⅓ of the stack and the pad 40 "hangs" at about 30-40 degrees from horizontal over the stack 16. Other angles and positions may be effective, and the angles and lengths of the portions of the strip should be chosen to cooperate with various angles of offsetters and stacking tray. The preferred criteria is to have the pad of the stack holder contact the stack and deform about 5 mm to put pressure on the top sheets of the stack.
Friction pad 40 is attached to the third portion 38 and is preferably made of a durable material that grips the top sheets 24 of the stack 16 sufficiently to prevent their forward movement but does not stick to the sheets 24, or mar, mark, or significantly abrade the sheets. Rubber, polyurethane, or other materials may be used for friction pad 40, as long as the pad has an outer surface that is rough enough to frictionally engage the top sheet of the output stack. The pad 40 is preferably attached to the strip 30 by means of an adhesive.
Strip 30 is preferably made of spring steel, or other flexible material. Flexibility and resilience is desired in the strip 30 material, so that the strip will flex slightly when the stack 1 6 moves up against it to place appropriate force on the top sheets 24 and so that the strip 30 will return to its original position. Preferably, the strip 30 is a simple, single unitary strip of material featuring the desired flexibility, resilience, and durability for repeated use.
Preferably, two stack holders 10 are installed, one beneath the left wing 42 of the accumulator, and one beneath the right wing 43 of the accumulator. In the preferred embodiment, the wings 42, 43 are typically positioned, during accumulation and therefore also when the stack tray moves up for ejection, so that only one stack holder contacts the stack during ejection. This way, whichever side the laterally offset wings are on, one stack holder is positioned directly over at least a part of the stack. The large frictional pad 40 of the one contacting stack holder contacts enough surface area of the top of the stack to hold the top sheets in place, and there is little or no tendency of the sheets 24 to twist/swing forward. In this way, a stack holder 10 contacts the top sheets 24 on the output stack both near either the right side edge 46 of the sheets or the left side edge 47 of the sheets. Alternatively, other embodiments may include accumulator systems in which more than one stack holder contacts the stack each time a job is ejected.
The stacking tray 18 is generally at an angle of 15-25� from horizontal and travels up and down in vertical tracks in the side of the device 14, powered by a tray motor (not shown). Position sensor(s) 50 are included on the device to respond to the position of the tray 18 as discussed below.
In use, the current job, also called the "accumulated job" 22 is collected in the wings 42, 43 of the accumulator, while the stacking tray 1 8 is in the lowered position with the stack holder 10 typically several inches above the top of the stack 1 6. When the device's control logic is about to eject the current job 22 from the accumulator, the stacking tray motor is activated and moves the stacking tray upwards, until the tray full sensor (TRFU) 50 senses the position of the top of the stack 1 6, which means the top of the stack is a known distance from the bottom of the accumulator. Then, the logic interrupts the electrical current to the tray motor and stops the tray 1 8. At this point in time, due to the position of the invented stack holders 10, the stack is also abutting up against the pads 40 of the stack holders. The pressure of the stack holder pads 40 against the top sheets 24, causes the top sheets 24 to be held down in their aligned position.
To eject the accumulated job, the eject motor (not shown) begins to push the current job 22 forward out of the accumulator 20. This ejection may be done by various means, for example, a push-bar system as is shown in the drawings, a moveable roller system, or other mechanisms for moving a job forward out of the accumulator. As the current job 22 moves forward and the front portion 52 of the job curves downward in front of the wings 42, 43, the bottom surface of the front portion 52 (normally, the bottom surface of the bottom sheet of the current job 22) slides forward along the front portion of the top sheets 24. Because of the force of the stack holders on the top sheets 24, however, the sheets 24 do not move forward into misalignment. When the current job 22 is substantially out of the accumulator, about the front ⅔ of the current job is resting on the previous job on the stack, and the rear ⅓ of the current job is resting in the accumulator wings. At this point, the ejection motor is still on, and the tray motor is activated to lower the stacking tray 18. As the stacking tray 18 lowers, the stack 16 moves down away from and out of contact with the stack holder. At this time, the current job 22 is already in its most-forward position and will not thereafter move a significant distance horizontally forward, and the stack holder 10 is no longer needed to hold the stack top sheets. The offset pushers are then moved horizontally out apart to their home positions, and this allows the rear edge of current job 22 to fall onto the stack 16. In this way, the stack holder(s) are moved horizontally away from the current job and do not touch and are never beneath the ejected job.
The capacity of the tray 18 is preferably in the range of 2000 to 5000 sheets of paper. Because of the greatly varying weights of loads on the tray 18 during operation, depending on how many jobs have been stacked previously, the tray 18 may have a tendency to "overshoot" the desired stopping location after the tray motor is stopped by the sensor 50 signal. The preferred system is designed to accommodate this overshoot, however, and position the top of the stack appropriately up against the stack holder pad 40 at an effective amount of pressure on the top sheets 24, whether the tray is overshooting significantly (due to a light-weight stack of several sheets) or whether the tray is not overshooting (due to a heavy stack consisting of hundreds of sheets). To accomplish this, each stack holder strip 30 is designed to be flexible enough to bend safely in the case of overshoot and to be resilient enough to repeatedly return to it position after the tray and stack move downward. Also, the off-setters (wings 42, 43) are designed to have enough mechanical play, so that they are not damaged when overshoot causes the output stack to "hit" against the stack holders 10 with increased force and thereby apply pressure on the off-setters.
The simplicity of the invented system allows for economical, effective, and relatively maintenance-free installation and use of the stack holder. The invented stack holder and method does not require, and preferably does not include, moving parts except for the moving tray and the inherent flexibility or mechanical play in the parts. Preferably, the stack holders are immovable relative to the accumulator off-setters and output stack, except for flexing, and only move laterally relative to the stack when the lateral off-setters carry them in a plane generally parallel to the top sheets.
Many shapes and angles of the invented stack holder may be developed for different accumulator designs and orientations, within the general principle of a downward-forcing member which extends over the stack and preferably comes in contact with the stack necessarily only when the stack may be contacted by an object that would otherwise push/pull the stack sheets out of alignment. The preferred stack holders are connected to the accumulator wings, which allows the wings to move the stack holders horizontally when they return to their home positions. Alternatively, but less preferably, stack holders may be connected to another part of the device or its housing so that the stack holders extend over and contact the stack when the stack tray is raised, but a mechanism is then added to move the stack holders horizontally out away from the stack before the ejected sheets fall on the stack holders.
In the Description and the Claims, the forward direction means the direction of travel of paper from the output path, which is also the direction of conventional misalignment of the stack 16. The rearward direction, therefore, means the direction into the output path inside the device housing. The term "remote" means that the output storage location is located a distance from the print engine of the device for access by the user, for example, in a movable sorter connected to the side of the printer housing, or a location further from the print engine such as at the end of a long, multiple-post-processing media path.
Although this invention has been described above with reference to particular means, materials, methods, and embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to these disclosed particulars, but extends instead to all equivalents within the scope of the following claims.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 13, 2000
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Camera Tripod Buying Basics
A camera tripod is among the many essential camera accessories available on the market and using a tripod opens up a great deal of benefits and creativity for many beginners, especially to develop great fundamentals in composition, image sharpness, and scene awareness.
Using a solid camera tripod practically guarantees that the dreaded image blur from camera shakes (accidental or otherwise) do not ruin what could've been a great picture. Despite many modern lenses and cameras sporting image stabilization features, there's no substitute to a good tripod to ensure the sharpest image possible, in addition, many lenses and cameras offer marginal image stabilization benefits in really low light.
The tiniest of camera shake can ruin an image's sharpness and detail rendition.
In low-light conditions, the lack of illumination forces you to use slow shutter speeds and not even the best image stabilization mechanisms can compensate. In addition, if you're using small apertures, or taking multiple-exposure shots for high-dynamic range (HDR) images, a tripod is the only way to guarantee identical composition, shot-after-shot because of the elimination of camera movement.
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Figure out the main type of photography you'll be using your camera tripod for. If you're a landscape photographer, for example, a sturdy, easy-to-carry tripod with a precise pan-head like the Ravelli APGL3 with 3-way pan head might be ideal, for quicker camera adjustment, the Ravelli APGL3 ball-head version of the same tripod set may be more ideal . If you only need it for light-gear, vacation type of use, a nice and light tripod like the Manfrotto MKC3-H01 will be more than sufficient.
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There are different heights available for different camera tripods, much of it depends on your height and needs. Ideally, the height of a tripod should match your body type, the less you have to bend over, the better. Base the working height of the tripod without its center column extended for the most part.
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The price of tripods can range from very affordable (under $50) to over $500 or more. This mostly depends on the capabilities of the tripod, its brand, and the materials used for it.
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You wouldn't park a Ferrari in a run-down, muddy parking lot, so it doesn't make sense risking a 5-foot drop of your precious camera gear just because the three legs holding it are made of noodles.
Here Are My 'Safe' Suggestions for a Camera Tripod
Under $100
|Benro A0570F Tripod and Tenba 15-inch Black Messenger Bag Bundle – Trusted by many, Benro is one of the few China-made brands that have gained respect for their tripods' performance, reliability, and great value.
|Over $101 – Under $400
|Manfrotto 190XPROB with 496RC2 Head – As mentioned earlier, the 190X series is one of Manfrotto's best sellers. While many buy the 190X with the 322RC2 Joystick head, the 496RC2 is actually better and more flexible tripod head for the 190X.
Over $401
|Manfrotto 190CX3 3-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod with Giottos MH1300-657 Professional Calibrated Ball Head with MH657 Quick Release – The combination of the 190X series' flexibility with feather-light carbon fiber frame, coupled with an ultra-smooth and Arca-type plate holder of the MH657 is a tough combination to beat in performance and value.
Final Note
Camera tripods are one of the most underrated photography equipment of all time. Because of their apparent size and deliberate effort required to utilize them, many photographers tend to skip this essential tool. In the age of image stabilization, ultra-high ISO cameras, many photographers mistakenly think that tripods are tools of the past.
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I'm gonna start out by stating that I was a dedicated Lost fan for five long years, and genuinely loved it because I believed it was the best-written show on television. I love good writing (as I am a writer) and love television, but too rarely find the two together. I have watched every episode (except The End) at least twice, and some episodes 5 or 6 times. So it's with heavy heart that I express my feelings on the finale. If you loved it and can't stand to hear others criticise then brace yourself, because this is going to be scathing (and long). But you'll probably be surprised to find most of my complaints aren't the same as what you've heard elsewhere. The 'answers' thing is a problem for me, but only as a part of a larger problem.
It was the worst ending possible, because it was simply badly written (more on this later). The denouement of the plot was just like a by-the-numbers action movie ending - complete with vague and inconsistent character motivations, the obvious hero obviously giving his life to obviously save the day, the guy getting the girl, last minute lucky escapes and lame one-liners. Spare me. Some characters got satisfying resolutions, others just flew off into the sunset. There are lot of things I'd like to know about the lives of my beloved Losties, that we will never be told. It shouldn't have just come down to who stays and who goes, we went through that a couple of years ago. Unlike in other season finales, the on-island events gave no answers to the literally dozens of remaining questions, gave no surprising twists and exciting reveals - no 'aha!' moments.
But the flash-sideways was the big disappointment / betrayal. It DID NOT resolve the characters, any more than it resolved the mysteries. There, I said it, and I'm gonna say it again - It DID NOT resolve the character's stories. They all eventually died – but we coulda figured that out for ourselves. Oh, and they all went to heaven. If that's what you believe then you don't need a TV show to reaffirm it, it just goes without saying. And if you don't believe that then it's hard to swallow. The flash-sideways served no purpose. There was no pattern or logical reason behind the forms their limbo lives took. They weren't wish fulfillment, they weren't self-punishment, they weren't linked by any pattern or theme or moral, they were just weird distorted retreads of their real lives and the events we saw them go through on the island, just like a dream.
Most of the characters did not learn valuable lessons about their lives, and could not because they didn't even remember who they were until nearly the end. Losing your memory and getting it back again is not character development, and there is no reason why these people suddenly remembering their lives would magically resolve all their issues. If their experiences from on the island resolved their issues, then their stories were already resolved and we didn't need to rehash everything the way we did. It was a monumental waste of time, and didn't even make sense.
Why was Ji Yeon unborn? Why was Aaron a baby? Why were some people there and others not? Why is it some people were with the ones they loved and others weren't? Remember how Juliette's final message to Sawyer was 'it worked', and that this turned out to be something she said in Limbo as she had her awakening? This implies that that was when her consciousness passed over into limbo. Not just her memories, her consciousness, because it was a two-way exchange – her living self perceived things from limbo as she passed over. So before Limbo-Juliette had her moment of realisation, she wasn't really Juliette. Which means that should be true of all the characters. Which means for most of the season we were watching fantasy constructs of the characters we knew – not the characters themselves with missing memories, not parallel timeline versions of them, just illusions. Not only is this unsatisfying, it doesn't make sense. If none of the characters were really there, if none of them were really themselves, why did they and the fantasy world exist before the real characters entered limbo?
We were shown reunions for every couple that spent time on the island. I at first found it quite moving – until I realised that only island couples reunited, whether they were each other's true loves or not (no Sayid and Nadia, no Locke and Helen) and we were going to get this schmaltzy rubbish for most of the episode, with one gratuitous reunion scene after another accompanied by romance-movie music and cheesy montages. Eugh. It was all too easy to get caught up in the emotion of it all, but a even cursory analysis reveals that what really moved me was the manipulative directing, rather than the story. Combine this sappy nonsense with the unsatisfying resolutions for the characters on the island and there's very little left to enjoy.
The lack of answers would not have been all that important to me, except that the show bombarded us with clues and questions and seemingly interconnected subplotsthroughout its run. Leaving most of these plot threads dangling is not only sloppy writing, but retrospectively turns intriguing mysteries into red herrings and plot holes. Damon and Carlton have stated that they think it would be bad to explain things 'down to the last midichlorian', citing Star Wars fan's disappointment with that element of the prequels. But that ignores the difference between Lost and Star Wars. Star Wars was an action scifi fantasy adventure. Lost was a character-based Science fiction mystery. If George Lucas had spent six movies concentrating on the science fiction elements of his world and building up the mystery of how the Jedis could move things and control minds, we would have wanted those midichlorians. Because saying, 'it's the force' would not have been a satisfying explanation. If you build up a complex and seemingly innovative mystery story, you need to give answers, and those answers need to be a bit more detailed, original and/or convincing than – 'it's magic!'. They gave very straightforward fantasy answers, and it just didn't work. A mystery built up for this long either needs a brilliantly rich and detailed fantasy mythology behind it, or a concrete, believable, scientific explanation.
Which cuts to the quick of a wider problem of season 6: the show suddenly transformed from science fiction mystery to fantasy based religious allegory. I was left with the same affronted feeling I get when a Jehovah's witness turns up and won't go away, or a street preacher yells at me about how I'm gonna go to hell. Except in this case the 'preacher' has spent six years spinning me an interesting mystery yarn about science fiction concepts, only to twist it into a condescending parable at the last minute. I feel like I've been conned into paying attention to a story that had no other purpose than to convert me, and that's not a good feeling.
Thematically, I guess the ending fitted the show. But that is not the same thing as it actually working on a thematic level. It touched on the long standing themes of letting go, dead is dead, live together or die alone, the long con and - perhaps most blatantly - science vs faith, but didn't address these themes in a way that respected the story, characters or viewers. I get it, I DO, they're telling us to let go. But let go of what? Our expectations? Our desire to see a story told well and promises kept? I don't think these are unreasonable things to want. For the writers to suddenly latch onto the minor theme of 'letting go' when they want the viewers to accept a lazy ending reeks of manipulation.
Faith WON, hands down – science didn't even get acknowledged. Think about the implicit message behind the writers refusing to give rational answers to the mysteries, or even mention science after five years of making LOST look like a science fiction series: 'there are no rational answers – but never mind there's heaven, and that's more important'. If the writers felt the need to express this view they're entitled to do so, but the way they did it is galling and offensive to anyone who sat through this show expecting their FAITH in the writers to be rewarded. This finale wasn't about faith generally, it says you cannot put your faith in reason, in promises, in the hope for closure, or in people, only in The Light. The Light that you will share with your loved ones – but only those that helped you to keep The Light alive. The writers sacrificed good storytelling to spring a surprise religious agenda. And before anyone says 'ah, but that church was multi-denominational' I should point out that I don't mean the agenda of one specific religion but rather an agenda to push general religious ideas. If they'd wanted to have a scene about heaven at the end I wouldn't have much cared (other than thinking it cheesy) but sacrificing so much screentime and plot to do this was inexcusable.
They wanted to play it safe and concentrated more on delivering a message than on the plot and characters. This is one of the cardinal sins of writing, one of many rules that they broke.
1. Do not end a story with all the characters dying. This is a lazy ending, and creates a disconnect between plot and resolution – ANY story can end with 'they all died and (possibly) went to heaven'. What makes LOST's approach especially bad is saying that everyone died eventually. We know! It doesn't take a quantum physicist to figure that one out.
2. Do not resolve any part of your story, aside from minor tangent scenes used for psychological insight, with 'it was all a dream/illusion'. This is also a lazy solution and renders everything that comes beforehand meaningless. In fact, don't resort to any resolution that negates chunks of the narrative, characterisation, or plot structure of your story.
3. Stories should have a narrative, where events follow on from each other and develop organically. A series of unconnected events is not a story. With the Flash-sideways turning out to be limbo, the last couple of seasons of LOST are reduced to a sequence of unconnected events. The Losties get stranded in the past and blow up a bomb. This does nothing to the timeline. Then they get teleported back to the present. Then they fight the MIB. Then eventually, after they've all died, they meet up in limbo to go to heaven together. That is not a narrative, because there is no causality between the events.
4. Do not use religious concepts to resolve your story unless your story is about religion. Even then, you might want to come up with an original approach. Religious concepts are the oldest literary conceits that exist. Writers have been ripping them off since literally before time began (that is, recorded time). They are more widely used than the techniques of Shakespeare, and thus have produced even more cliché's . I can now count five science fiction series that have suddenly resorted to religious concepts to resolve the story at the last minute, most of them resulting in endings that are very much alike
5. If your story has a message or moral, don't make your point at the expense of characters and plot. Themes exist to service and enhance the story, not the other way around. Even if your story is meant as high art, and the symbolism and meaning are vitally important, neglecting the plot and characters will lead to sloppy storytelling that will undermine your themes.
6. Do not use a Deus Ex Machina unless it is unavoidable. This relates back to point 4, because religious events like the hand of god, divine intervention and the afterlife are automatically literal Deus Ex Machinas. Of course the Deus Ex Machina is almost essential to most science fiction and fantasy, but it should be cunningly disguised, properly explained, in some way original, an extension of the story's core concepts and set in motion by the efforts and choices of the characters. A religious or fantasy based Deus Ex Machina is therefore not acceptable as a sudden addition to a science fiction story, especially as it's denouement. A Deus Ex Machina should never be used to develop or resolve you r character arcs because it simply isn't necessary.
7. If you are planning a twist ending, don't make the twist less interesting or more conventional than what the audience is expecting.
That's what has outraged me so much about the way Lost finished, and it's taken me this long to realise: It was a betrayal of the craft of writing that I love so much. I watched this show for its writing, because I believed (just like poor old John Locke) that there was a purpose to it all. It made the show (seemingly) the finest example of television writing seen so far, raising the bar by an unprecedented amount. The ending of the show negates and contradicts all that, and sets scripted television back by a couple of decades. I avoid badly written shows like the plague anyway, and for such a finely scripted series to let the side down at the last minute, in a way that actually reduces the credibility of the series as a whole, is a travesty. Armed with foreknowledge of other's mistakes (Battlestar Galactica), brilliant writing skills capable of producing genius episodes like The Incident and Through the Looking Glass, and a preset amount of time to tell the story, the writers of this show had an unprecedented opportunity to create a serialised story for television with a fully satisfying ending. There was no reason they couldn't deliver something of exceptionally high calibre. They had ample time and opportunity to give us something more and just didn't. Similarly, there were ample questions they could have easily answered but chose not to (outrigger anyone?). It almost feels like they've been making fun of us, like this has all been a massive joke at the expense of people who want things to make sense and aren't satisfied with sugary nonsensical resolutions.
I never wanted the puzzle to be put together for me, or even to be shown the picture on the box. I just wanted, after six years of waiting, getting the puzzle by instalments, to have enough pieces to be able to put the darn thing together. Instead I have a jumbled incomplete pile of pieces, and the latest ones I've received seem to show a different picture to the rest.
This year all the answers (what few we got) seemed obvious, illogical, vague and contradictory, and were suddenly a simplistic fantasy rather than science fiction. Up until a third of the way through season 6 I fully believed they were gonna pull a rabbit out of their hat, because they'd done so before. There were many times when mysteries on the show had answers that were surprising, clever, satisfying and tied plot threads together. There was still a lot to resolve after season 5, but I believed they could do it. I still believe they could have done it if they'd tried hard enough. Even up until the final episode I could see plot threads coming together and believed that they could astound us one more time, with two and a half hours of twist-riddled, character driven, revelatory brilliance. Up until the end there was potential to salvage the story, but by then they just didn't care about the story. I don't think they ever cared. They've indicated that this really was how they always intended to end things. And we all thought 'how clever, they've thought it all through'. But, as previously observed, any story could have had that ending, including a final shot that mirrored the first, and it didn't matter what happened leading up to it. So they just kept throwing up vague plot twists to keep us watching. The final 'twist' of Lost was really more of a sucker punch, and the mislead relied on them feeding us red herrings that just didn't make sense in retrospect, like the island being underwater, Sun losing the ability to speak English in the real world, Eloise saying that Desmond's actions were a violation... etc, etc.
Guys, c'mon, the emperor has no clothes on. We've been conned. I can't believe so many people are content with that, to be honest – I really can't comprehend why the people who loved this show so much aren't up in arms about the cop-out ending they ditched us with. If you feel the need to jump to its defence then do so, but I will not agree and will probably leave this review to be my final word on the subject. I have critically analyzed the finale, and found that the more I did so the more I hated it, and the more let down I felt. I have the right to say so. Please remember this. If no-one challenges this kind of sloppiness and contempt for viewers, TV's never going to improve.
Critical analysis of The End by Jacob's Creek
I'm gonna start out by stating that I was a dedicated Lost fan for five long years, and genuinely loved it because I believed it was the best-written show on television. I love good writing (as I am a writer) and love television, but too rarely find the two together. I have watched every episode (except The End) at least twice, and some episodes 5 or 6 times. So it's with heavy heart that I express my feelings on the finale. If you loved it and can't stand to hear others criticise then brace yourself, because this is going to be scathing (and long). But you'll probably be surprised to find most of my complaints aren't the same as what you've heard elsewhere. The 'answers' thing is a problem for me, but only as a part of a larger problem.


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Supreme Court orders government to act immediately on air pollutionClientEarth's challenge to UK air quality policy has been upheld by the Supreme Court and DEFRA must now submit revised plans to the EU by the end of the year
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Five years on: air qualityDespite increasing evidence of its negative environmental and health impacts, and high associated costs, the past five years have been marked by procrastination and regressive government action on air quality
Five years on: biodiversityBiodiversity policy started so well. In 2011, the coalition government published the first natural environment white paper for 20 years in which it pledged to be the "first generation to leave the natural environment in a better state than it inherited"
Manifestos: the next five yearsAhead of this month's general election, ENDS examines the environmental commitments made in each political party's manifesto
NRW's conservation skills and capacity under fireNGOs and trade bodies have expressed serious concerns about the ability of Natural Resources Wales to carry out its statutory functions, especially on biodiversity and conservation
How to value the planet the natural capital wayTaking natural capital seriously requires a fundamental rethink of how we do national and business accounting, but it will benefit both nature and the economy
Oceans valued at $24trn as demand for marine protection intensifiesA report has valued the world's oceans at $24 trillion and an NGO coalition has set out a 'blue manifesto' for Europe's seas which sets out actions for the commission
Scotland's marine plan disappoints on fish farming targetThe Scottish national programme for marine planning was praised by environmental organisations for its sustainability principles, but criticised for including a growth objective in aquaculture
Scientists present fresh evidence on neonicotinoid impact on beesTwo new studies have added weight to calls for a complete ban on a controversial pesticide family, amid the scepticism of producers
Environmental sector sends strong call for nature and wellbeing actMost environmental professionals want the next government to introduce a nature and wellbeing act to rebuild natural capital, a new survey by the IEMA reveals
Deforestation hotspots could account for 80% of forest loss by 2030WWF has called on the next government to 'lobby hard' to plug EU loopholes on importing illegally sourced wood after it identified crucial regions that could lose 170 million hectares of forest by 2030
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