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This is what I'm talking about:
The TOC and List of Figures is appearing in my TOC! I don't know about you but this is not ok.
But how do you make it an H1 not show in the TOC when you've created your TOC to show them all? Easy peasy!
Open your stylesheet and find the H1. But wait – make sure you're in the print medium!
Create a new class called h1.TOC or h1.frontmatter or something that will indicate that this is an H1 specifically for use in your TOC and Lists.
You'll only need to change two properties to make this work. So, as shown in the screenshot above, open the Print Support section of the class.
Now change mc-heading-level to 0 and page-break-before to avoid.
The first setting you changed, mc-heading-level, will result in any H1 with this class to NOT appear in the TOC.
The second property is to make sure that when you assign this class to the h1 that is your Table of Contents heading, it won't break a page before it. This will only apply if you assigned your main H1 page-break-before property to always.
Now that you've created this new class and applied the correct properties – all that's left is to assign this class to the H1 that contains your TOC and any Lists of.

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Notice a distinct lack of entries for the TOC and List of Figures. Success!
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Happy New Year
Mon, Dec 31, 2012New Year Greetings
A few fine thoughts found during a search for New Year greetings.
Irish toast
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.
Benjamin Franklin
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter
is New Year's Day.
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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Our Happy New Year wish for you: Peace, health, happiness and prosperity to you and yours.
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Lens poll results. Short analysis (fast zoom lens needed!)
Over 6,400 unique voters selected the favorite future Micro Four Thirds lens wish list. You can see the poll and full results here: http://www.43rumors.com/poll-vote-your-future-micro-four-thirds-wish-list/.
While this doesn't pretend to be a scientific analysis there are certainly some general tendency we can extract from the results:
1) There is a high need for high quality zooms. Currently the m43 systems offers many zoom lenses but none is really fast. And that is something our m43 readers highly do miss.
2) The most requested lens is the Micro Four Thirds version of the popular Four Thirds 12-60mm f/2.8-3.5 weather sealed. The current 12-50mm slow zoom isn't enough for you!
3) While Panasonic is about to launch their f/2.8 X zoom lenses the 43rumors readers are still demanding faster f/2.0 zooms. Probably influenced by the superb (and expensive) Olympus 14-35mm and 35-100mm f/2.0 lenses you asked for new m43 12-35mm f/2.0, 12-50mm f/2.0 and 35-100mm f/2.0 zooms. I asked you to take into consideration that those lenses would be very expensive. I hope your emotional part of the brain didn't fully overrun the logic
The Olympus 14-35mm f/2.0 costs over $2,000 at Amazon right now (Click here). So be prepared to pay a lot for these lenses if Olympus/Panasonic will ever release them for real!
4) The most requested prime lenses are the 17mm f/1.4 and 25mm f/1.2 weather sealed high quality lenses. I voted for them too
5) Interesting to notice that the most requested pancakes are again having the same focal length of the top quality primes: 17mm f/2.0 and 25mm f/1.8 pancake.
Overall high quality and weather sealed lenses with wide up to normal focal length and fast aperture are requested. Surprisingly there is not a high demand for tele lenses. Do you found other interesting aspects from the poll results?
P.S.: Thank you all for the talking part in this. If I get soem feedback from Olympus/Panasonic soruces I will let you know what they think about it!
A great exercise, thanks sdmin. I guess it would help make such polls more seripus if we could somehow have a rough idea of how large and expensive a proposed lens would be. 22-50 f/2.0 would be a terrifying monster.
12-50 mm f2…hahahahaha !!! Do you want that:
Not really, but I would want a 12mm f0.95, even if it was to cover my entire palm.
No. F2.8 is enough.
No!!!! f2.8 is enough for me.
These results made my jaw drop! I thought that people who used m43 want small bodies and SMALL LENSES! Otherwise we'd all just have kept our APS-C dslr's and been happy!
Why weren't fast pancakes all over this list? Isn't that what makes m43 shine and is what all the other APS-C formats can't touch??
Or maybe people didn't realize the size (and obvious cost) implications of their dream lenses? Maybe everyone unconsciously added 'impossibly small, and super cheap' to the lens descriptions?
Admin, please don't give your list to Panasonic/Olympus – they might actually make some of these lenses!!
Absolutely agree!!
Price- the destroyer of fast zoom lens dreams.
Size and weight's the killer for me!
how about a 12-25mm/2f lense?
and a 25-50mm/f2 lense istead of the coming 12-35mm/f2.8, 35-100mm/f2.8.
what do you think which range is more suitable for a MFT system
12-50, I meant. Edit still doesn't work on iPhone.
Yeah, I'd be interested to see size weight cost quality of something around a 15-30mm 2.0.
With lesser degree of retrofocus design ~0.5kg weight might be possible in place of 4/3 14-35mm's 0.9kg.
seems like a good concession to me. half the weight, 70% of the focal length.
Except 12-25/2 would be more useful, covering focus lengths of more than a handful existing native m43 primes with just a single fast zoom.
> Surprisingly there is not a high demand for tele lenses.
Maybe that's because of tiny toy obsession of bodies making them ergonomically even more horrible with big tele lenses. I doubt that even Canon could sell some Ixus class body to be used with 400mm FF tele lens.
And long focal length lenses are even more demanding focus detection system wise so some kind of phase detection including hybrid AF would be needed in place of only trial and error focusing to make long bird/wildlife photography lenses really usefull.Like I've been saying mirrorless is seriously lacking in actually challenging hundred years old mirror design.
But at least Canikon must be happy for that!-
I miss a long tele
400mm 4,5 – 5.6, largest aperture can be modest, but quality better than 75-300mm at 300mm setting. Weathersealed, if reasonable costs, tripod mount
200-400 would be nice. And 50-200, 12-60 or 14-54. All 2.8-3.5/4.0 And the existing 9-18 and a good macro. If I had these lenses, everything would be fine for me
f2.0 zooms would be huge on M4/3 bodies. When I first saw an Olympus 35-100mm f2 lens, I was shocked at the size of the thing. Lenses like that are for a very small niche. f2.8 seems like a reasonable compromise for zoom speed vs. size/weight/cost.Luckily, there are plenty of full-frame, long, manual telephoto lenses that can be purchase used for great prices.
In terms of native M4/3 lenses we have NOW, the Panasonic 100-300mm is a pretty good lens in terms of size, weight, image quality and price. When considering a Nikon 300mm, I found most weigh around 2 lbs! If I owned a car and always carried a tripod, no problem. The 100-300mm does a fine job in a very small package. Too bad it's not weather-sealed, which would make sense for such a long lens.
Tiny bodies are not an obsession, they are a specialization.
A specialization into being stupid.
-slow clap for the anon troll-
Fast and high quality zooms will never balance with most 4/3 cameras. Who wants that will be limited to GH3 or OMD with grip. Gx1, EP form factor will always be prime/slow zooms system.
i dont think the formfactor of the EP series is a problem with telelenses, but the fact you are stuck with a non stabilized evf/lcd. There are 3rd party grips available for the ones who need them.
i dont think the formfactor of the EP series is a problem with telelenses, but the fact you are stuck with a non stabilized evf/lcd. There are 3rd party grips available for the ones who need them.
if you pool the votes for all options together, I still think that there is some demand for tele-lenses.
and, people won't buy three marginally different fast standard zooms…
Sure; I am quite "impressed" how many votes were placed for "non-sense" (in practical terms) lenses like 12-50/2.0 (?!) or 25/1.2 (ok, weather-sealed but nevertheless..). I mean, after all one of the reasons that lenses like most of the MFT ones are so popular is also the attractive pricing. IMHO, a lot of people would be happy enogh with 1-2 fairly fast pancakes with high IQ and weather-sealing – like a 17/2.0, 25/2.0 or something like this to name a few.
I'd love for sure to see a high-end tele for MFT; something like a 300/4 or 400/5.6 or even a 100-300 or 200-400 f/4, but I'd not buy them at any price – and yes, I neither need all of them.
Basically, I'd be even happy with a "faster" (even if its only 1/2 a stop faster) and weather-resistant version of the current 75-300 to compliment a 12-50/3.5 – 6.3
I'm still waiting cash in hand for the Panny 12-35 and 35-100 Fast Zoom problem solved.
NOT if you voted 17/1.4, and hate panasonic power-zoom .
6400 voters and 6.4 joe blogographers would actually buy one at the end
I didn't vote as I can't afford to pay 1000€ for a single lense. And I doubt that everyone who voted can do so. MFT is even more expensive than DSLs, and you even don't get a viewfinder in most models.
I would bet for more inexpensive lenses (why isn't there any 50mm equivalent for around $100, like Canon and Nikon have?). Many people still wonder why getting a m4/3 system has to be as expensive as an entry level APS-C. I think, however, that readers in this forum represent the most enthusiast (and therefore willing to pay for top quality) part of the m4/3 world, and that, had the poll been answered by all m4/3 owners, the answers would have been different.
I don't mean that m4/3 doesn't need high quality lenses. It does. But it needs variety also. There must be more of both quality and budget options, and not more of the same middle products.
That's all true, but don't we have enough low cost zooms?
@Jorge Firstly the lenses you refer to from Canon, Nikon are legacy lenses from film times still in production not coated designed for digital lenses. Secondly the current micro 4/3 cameras are competitive to APSC entry level and considerably smaller. I have APSC Canon and Pentax. Good lenses aren't cheap here either. My 17-55 f2.8 Canon EFS is not a budget lens either. We have budget lenses in zoom aplenty. And fast quality zooms are definitely required to make the m4/3 system that much more competitive. YMMV. I can't wait to have these smaller and brighter lenses. My 17-55 is a brute of a lens…… great big heavy dust sucker, if the Panny's are in fact weather sealed and with 58mm filters what a joy to carry
There is a lack of third party lense makers, like sigma or tamron. The 17-50 f2.8 from tamron is good and quite cheap. There is also some great macro lenses. For pentax, my 35mm f2.4 is cheap, small and good, but all in plastics made. Samsung produce good small and not so price heavy pancake, so it's possible
Maybe Smegma and Tampon will release a pile of El-Cheapo™ lenses for the unwashed masses.
For what produce some very expensive lenses that would cost about $2000 if only a few freaks from photo forums would buy it? The same with fast zooms, 2.8-3.5 is good enough for 98% (or 99%?) of the customers.
You can never have enough bokeh
Good quality is going to cost no matter what. Good contrast and being sharp needs good glass when talking about zooms.
I just want a 250mm or 300mm f/4 because the 75-300mm is just too slow and not weather sealed. $900 for the 75-300 is a bit high for what it is and the only choice available.
Good Bokeh is NOT a function of F-stop!!!!!-
Yes mum, please stop yelling at me.
I never talked about "good" bokeh. Just that you can never have enough
Same thing, Bokeh ≠ F-stop.
Background seperation is probably what you want and mean. So you probably mean, you can never have enough shallow DOF, but the Bokeh with very shallow DOF can be horrible or pleasant depending on which lens.
Just get the Panasonic 100-300. Better quality, half the price, OIS, and half a stop faster at the long end. Just make sure you upgrade the firmware.
none of the m43 zooms are 2.8-3.5 at the moment though?
I need SMAL lenses like the 14-42 from Panasonic but with lager zoom range . And I woul prefer Oly lenses- why: because they are smaler in diameter .
Intentions… That's the issue, isn't it?
Every time there is a poll people ask for 12-60 F/2.8 but when the lens hits the shelves at 900$/€ because it's water sealed, only the real Pros buy it.
I vote for a different polling system. Lens prices are estimated and people who vote, pay 10% in advance. Those who vote/pay on a lens that doesn't get manufactured get their money back. Those who are lucky, win a 10% discount in the lens of their choice.
I wonder how different the poll results would look.
Good points IMO, many of the lenses requested here like F1.2 to F1.4 primes, fast F2.0 zooms and even a 12-60 F2.8 would be hard to sell to most mFT-users because of both size and price. Same goes for longer zoom.
I'd actually voted for and would buy both a fast 12-60 (F2.8-F4.0 would be fine too) and long tele, but for the typical GF-, GX- or E-P-users these lenses just don't work well with the cameras.
Sure, it's easy to say "gimme a 25mm f1.2″, but look at the price differential between Nikon or Canon 50mm f1.8, f1.4 and f1.2 lenses at http://www.KEH.com. It's dramatic!People bitch about the price of the upcoming Voigtländer Nokton 25mm and 17mm f0.95 ($1200 and $1250 in the States), the Panasonic 7-14mm ($1100), the Oly 12mm and the PL25mm, but these are exactly the types of prices we'd be looking at for such fantasy lenses, if not more!
I'm willing to pay for very good lenses, but there's a limit to how much I'm willing or able to pay.
I really miss an compact and affordable ultra wide angle prime. Like 8mm f/3.5. Am I alone?
No, you are not alone! I love the 12mm, would love a 8 or 9 or 10mm as well.
It would be great indeed. Or maybe 7mm f/4 would do it for me
f/4 would be fine for me too.
For me size and money matter.
My personal limit for new lenses is at about 500 EUR. I am not willing to pay much more for whatever HQ.
And I think there is a lot possible in that range. Look at the 20/1.7 or the 45/1.8. I think they are good lenses for their purpose.
This survey is kind of silly without estimating the price of the lenses.
People who want zooms are usually the same people who can't afford to spend 1k+ on them.
IMO, most serious enthusiasts/photographers don't want zooms that cover a large focal range like (12-60).
I also voted for 17mm f1.4, I'd be happy to spend about $800 assuming its the business.
Admin you totally ignored the cry for Black lenses on the original thread. Sure it is not entirely relevant
but its worth bringing up. Oly might very well look at these results. -
Shoot primes. We already have really good ones. Panasonic… make the sensor better…with more DR. Yeah.
+1, still waiting for dxo results of EM-5 to see if there is a DR improvement over GH2 (Yes I know, Dxo is bad )
I am also waiting for the Olympus 75mm f/1.8 prime…I am keeping my G3 and GX1 and just shooting with all the great AF primes we already have!! The system is robust…I am thinking in a couple of years the sensor with be much better..but looks like that will take a little time!
how about a voting list where you must include your signature for each lens you vote,declaring you must buy it in case it comes out.
It's funny that most people moved to M4/3, because of the size and weight savings and then they want to add lenses that weigh a pound or two. Why? The M4/3 camera size is optimized for small primes or maybe small zooms. Even 2.8 zooms are going to feel like the 14-140 or worse and that's not something I like to carry around, even on the GH1/2.
Smegma and Tampon, Ha Ha. Thanks for the laugh first thing in the morning, Mr. Reeee.
f/2.0 zooms? If you want to carry 1.5 kg with you, there are Canon 5D and Nikon D700 with f/4.0 zooms which give the same overall weight, size and bokeh. It doesn't make sense to make the sensor smaller but produce huge lenses.
What would make a comparison more realistic is a camera+lens simulation (similar to the Four-Thirds matching simulation on http://www.four-thirds.org/en/special/matching.html) where you could type in the focal lenght(s) and aperture of an imaginary lens and it would show the approximate size of the lens and how it would look on a body. The estimate price would be calculated based on weight of the glass and some price increasing factors like "weather-sealed" or "extreme wide lens" (hard to build).
FYI, the 4/3 rds 12-60 mm zoom lens is not a 3.5 at the longest end but a 4.0
Would like a fast versatile zoom to be the kit lens with the Gh3. Maybe the new X lenses will be it, although hopefully at a reasonable price.
I think that if Panasonic and Olympus look at this, some precaution is needed, of course.
Because people will always want faster lenses, but it's whole different thing if they are really willing to pay and buy one.
The list/voting probably does not reflect the sale potential. Ok — I'm an amateur, but already owning the 12/2, the 20/1.7, and the 45/1.8, I don't need much more… If I buy the 12-50 and if it is acceptable, that will be my vacation/shitty weather/close-up lens. The only addendums would be something like the 75/1.8 and a medium fast (allowing 1.4/x/2x teleconverter lens for shooting a local eagle), weather sealed 300, or a similar 100-400. If I develop a sense for buildings, maybe a tilt/shift type, but not currently. This is what is of interest in the forseeable future *for me*.
I understand that others may have more money/more needs. What I do not understand is some totally unrealistic wishes (12-100/2 for less than €400, at 0.2 kg and less than 5cm long, or whatever), or wishes that almost completely overlap existing lenses.
If the 12-50 turns out to *fail* as close-up lens and even be too poor as vacation lens/shitty weather lens, then I may consider a better zoom lens. But only then.
Now that's the kind of lens I'm looking for! Give it top-notch image quality and you've got my dream lens!
Don't Canon/Nikon have 35mm (50mm film equvalent) f 1.8 for around $200, and f 1.4 for around $400? I would love a m43 25mm f1.8 with reasonably good build and optics for for $300 or less.
If weather sealing is just one more excuse to gouge us on price I'd rather do without it. But I do like the focal lengths and apertures of those primes.
I will gladly pay the price of the 14-35 and 35-100 in m43 mount provided they focus well and have the same MTF of the current big brothers.
If they cannot offer that, give me an E-7 with all the features of M-E5 in larger 4/3 format so that those lenses really shine.
Question is- would you prefer the Panny 35-100/f2.8 or the Oly 45/1.8 AND 75/1.8? Cost will likely be similar, although my guess is the primes will be lighter although no OIS. hmmmm
Next poll, I'd like to see options for existing Olympus lenses, but in black rather than silver.
I have no idea how to design lenses, but I think a 14-56 f2-2.8 would be just about the perfect lens that I'd nearly never have to take off my camera. I wonder if such a thing is possible at a reasonable price.
What most of you seem to be saying is that mft is about saving weight and size. So if I want a lens that cannot be made small, like a fast zoom or a fast birding lens I should get a APS-C or full frame camera.
But how would getting a second camera body save me weight? I like MFT because I CAN have very small and still excellent lenses at some focal lengths. I didn't get my Pen because I wanted to be limited to only 25mm-ish primes.
Currently I'm seriously thinking about getting something like one of the faster OM telephotos because I'm unhappy with my 100-300. Sure it's decently sharp, but most of the time I have to push the ISO too high to get decent image quality, general handling sucks compared to Oly lenses, autofocus is slowest of all my lenses and the lens is horrible at manual focusing. If someone made a really good and fast telephoto prime for MFT I would immediately start saving money to get it!
Fast telephoto means big, whether it be m43 or FF. AF also adds bulk and mass.
I have the Panasonic 100-300 OIS and it's good as a walk-around lens, but you just cannot get images that will compare with a good fast FF lens, like my Nikon AF-I 300/2.8 – all 7 lbs of it, plus gimbal mount and heavy tripod. So, when it comes to serious telephoto, big heavy gear is inevitable, whether you are using m43, APS-C or FF. I just can't see Panasonic or Olympus being bothered with such lenses as long as there is a decent supply of FF glass to re-use. Look how long it took Sony to actually start building their 500/f4 and it is priced at $14,000!
M43 does not have a valid 35mm-equivalent fast prime (PC or not).
Zuiko 17mm-F2.8 is old & sluggish, the good (old also) Panny 20mm-F1.7 is not weather-sealed and not so wide, the very good Zuiko 12mm-F2 is a bit too slow, wide and not sealed too (and a bit too expensive also).This let the OM-D body with no killer-combo lens (com'on, the 12-50 is awful…)
Please, please, give us a sealed 17mm-F1.7-1.8, that's all many of us really need (let the fast zoom to the DSLR users who cannot physically afford to bring two-three lenses along).
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In fact, that description pretty much tells you all you need to know about this track, as this is isn't a lady that you compare to others. It's drums, guitars and the sexy, breathy vocals that have made the Blondie frontwoman and legend in her own lifetime. Admittedly her voice isn't quite what it was, but it's still streets ahead of most of her imitators.
All that said, it's not really anything new. In making her comeback she's playing it safe by going with exactly what everyone expects, the question is whether or not it will be enough. This has enough to find a home for itself somewhere in the charts, but whether this is a full-on return or just a momentary blip will rest entirely on the album.


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I don't smoke, but I'm curious. If you have an event at the Picnic House in Prospect Park and people go outside to smoke, is that breaking the new law? Anybody think Parks is going to enforce this like they do other quality of life issues like off-leash dog tickets? Reading the regs, I think one would have to go to the sidewalk outside the park to smoke. Hello wedding season...
I can see things getting ugly around this at the beaches this summer too.
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Region and Religion, Part 2 ½
I just finished two fascinating nonfiction books that fed my current region-and-religion obsession: Dennis Covington's Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia and Timothy K. Beal's Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith.
Both had some topical connection to Lee Smith's Saving Grace (see previous post): Salvation on Sand Mountain is an account of a journalist's time among Appalachian snake handlers, and Roadside Religion features a chapter on "biblical mini-golf" courses with great names like "Golgotha Fun Park." Only in the South, I said to myself, only in the South.
Both Covington and Beal are remarkable for the credit they, as fairly mainstream Christian believers, give to these somewhat eccentric—sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely kitschy—expressions of faith. Beal even struggles to acknowledge the spiritual merit of Precious Moments when he visits the Precious Moments Inspiration Park in Carthage, Missouri. That takes far more graciousness than I have (we hates them, with their huge, droopy eyes!).
In the process of giving weird practices the benefit of the doubt, each writer finds himself opening to mystery, God's mystery, and they interweave their spiritual narratives with the tales of the places they visit.
Covington gives some historical and sociological explanations for why some Southern Pentecostals handle snakes: the first documented instance of snake handling was in 1910 in Tennessee, and Covington suggests that it may have had something to do with the hills people feeling powerless at the increasing urbanization of the South. But he doesn't wholly attribute the phenomenon to sociological circumstance, and he recognizes the mystery of both power and powerlessness involved in charismatic experience.
In one of the many beautiful passages from the book, he writes: "In both sexual and religious ecstasy, the first thing that goes is self. The entrance into ecstasy is surrender. Handlers talk about receiving the Holy Ghost. But when the Holy Ghost is fully come upon someone like Gracie McAllister, the expression on her face reads exactly the opposite—as though someone, or something, were being violently taken from her. The paradox of Christianity, one of many of which Jesus speaks, is that only in losing ourselves do we find ourselves, and perhaps that's why photos of the handlers so often seem to be portraits of loss."
As a Flannery O'Connor fan, I found it easier to give credence to snake handlers than to Precious Moments pilgrims. The Precious Moments devotees are seeking comfort, while the snake handlers are living their faith on the edge. Not that I don't think they're really, really insane, because they are. But I don't want to deny that God can actually work through their snake handling, even if God doesn't really want them to do it. (I suppose, for consistency, I ought to grant the same potential benefit for Precious Moments figurines, but everything in me rebels against that).
Beal's book is at once more amusing and more academic than Covington's, while Covington delves deeper into the personal. However, Beal has some important insights. In trying to describe why certain sites appealed to him more than others, he writes, "In these places I experienced a correlation between connectedness to the land, personal authenticity, and openness to others. The more the place was locally grounded, rooted in its particular natural environment, the more uniquely personal it was, and the more hospitable it was to others. Hospitality is always local." (Thus, Beal finds deep hospitality even in places with signs declaring "Hell is HOT" and "You will burn"). Though he doesn't name it as such, that's the mystery of the Incarnation, God self-revealing in particulars (most importantly, the ultimate particular in the person of Jesus Christ).
The last paragraph of Salvation on Sand Mountain is so beautiful that I cried when I read it aloud to Porpoise. While driving through his childhood neighborhood, Covington remembers how his father used to call him in for dinner. Rather than shouting his name or banging a dinner bell, his father would come to find him. "This is how he got me to come home," Covington writes. "He came to the place I was before he called my name."
Ooh. Shivers.
So maybe that has something to do with religion and regionalism, as well as Incarnation. God comes to the place we are, to our particular circumstances, before calling our name. And the South (at least for writers of the previous generation—it may now be changing) has a shared history of defeat (a necessary defeat) and post-Civil War poverty. Flannery O'Connor believed that the South was "Christ-haunted," and that it was "traditionally opposed to the idea of Enlightenment perfectibility" that characterized the Northern states. Southerners shared "a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be endured." So if there's something distinctive about Southern Christianity, it may be because God, respecting the particular experience of Southerners, self-reveals in ways that appeal to them.
As I said, though, I believe that the South O'Connor observed is changing, at least to some degree, due to the universalizing influence of various media. Having grown up in pre-Internet Arkansas, I'm now shocked when I return home for a visit and discover that Arkansan churches are singing the same songs, reading the same Rick Warren books, and preaching the same politics that evangelicals across the U.S. are. The evangelical subculture sometimes seems so monolithic. Maybe that's why I find tales of quirky faith so refreshing. But, God being God, there are no doubt ways that he'll reveal himself through the particular, peculiar circumstances of today's strangely universal evangelicalism.
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The Healthcare Financial Management Association's Principles and Practices Board (the P&P Board) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the proposed FASB Accounting Standards Update (ASU), Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Measuring Charity Care for Disclosure, a Consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force. The objective of this proposed ASU is to reduce the diversity in practice of the disclosure of a measure of charity care.
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In the proposed ASU, the FASB sought comments particularly on the issues and questions listed in the ASU. Our comments herein will center on these questions, and our answers will draw from the guidance published in December 2006, in P&P Board Statement 15: Valuation and Financial Statement Presentation of Charity Care and Bad Debts by Institutional Healthcare Providers, and from discussion by the P&P Board. Also, it will reflect the P&P Board's longstanding efforts to balance two important goals: 1. financial reporting should improve the level of understanding between those who provide financial information and those who seek and use this information, and 2. reporting requirements should be feasible in the context of the unique characteristics of the healthcare field.
Question 1: Do you agree that an entity's disclosure of a measure of charity care should be based on the direct and indirect costs of providing the charity care? If not, why not? What alternative measure would you prefer and why?
Answer: Yes, we agree with the proposal. In P&P Board Statement 15, Section VI, Valuation of Charity Care:
6.1 Although charges are the basis for charity care recordkeeping purposes, costs, not charges, should be the primary reporting unit for valuing charity care. The P&P Board agrees with the AICPA Expert Panel that reporting based on costs is more reliably measured and will provide more consistency when comparing amounts of charity care from different providers. By contrast, there is great variance among providers' charges, and consequently very little comparability. Also, measures on charges provide little and potentially misleading information about the resources consumed in providing charity care.
6.3 Costs of charity care should be estimated using the most accurate method available to the facility less any related revenue on those accounts. Ideally, cost data should be retrieved from a cost accounting system. In lieu of this, costs may be estimated in various ways, using the best data and method available. The method of estimation should be clearly disclosed in the footnote.
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Answer: The P&P Board believes that measuring charity care based on the average rate collected from paying patients for similar services is not an appropriate measure. Indeed, the financial circumstances of patients who are personally responsible for their health care bills vary. Most healthcare providers develop charity policies to provide assistance to individuals who are unable to pay-so patients pay a portion of the bill or nothing. Therefore, to use average rates collected from paying patients is somewhat circular. Also, the average rate paid by patients is not a particularly meaningful concept; a healthcare provider typically forgoes payment because the patient is unable to pay-it isn't as if the provider could have recognized revenue but instead decided to forgo the average payment rate. In contrast, the disclosure of the cost of charity is a grounded measure-it reflects resources the healthcare provider consumed with no reimbursement.
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In the three weeks, since coming in first in the May 14 mayoral primary, former City Commissioner Charlie Hales has reported raising less than $500. Hales' opponent in the Nov. 6 general election, State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) has reported 18 contributions since the primary, adding up to just $1,525.
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Class fieldtrip, for a college course I think. Led by my high school German teacher. Kind of in off the beaten path kinda place had beutiful sky and moutains near by. We got to some area where there was a bunch of water that was off limits because they belived it could have been the oragins of life at one time or at some point, apprently the condtions and things there were just right. Well a fucking bear shows up on the other side and I kicked off my flip flops and jumped a barrier to put a few more feet between the bear and my self. The teacher tried to calm me. Well it didn't matter how calm I was cause the bear and wolfs and shit were chasing me moments later. I had been snapping pictures of stuff on the hike/walk to the facility/area we were at, near an observatory of some sort. So I ran and ran fast, this time I was able to run, many of my running dreams I move super slow like I'm sinking into the ground as I run. But I was moving fast and the bear backed off but there was a fox and or a wolf or something else after me as well. At some point I stopped as I realized their size was much smaller than mine and there was no longer a bear so I ended up smacking both animals on the nose and they left me alone. Then I woke up....
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Back during your Paracord Contest, I made myself a Paracord watch band from one of the Instructables using the weaving method. That got me to thinking. I needed a new sling for one of my deer rifles. Looking on the Internet there are some people out there making them, but the price is way out of my reach for something that I could make myself. Looking over all the Instructables that involve, watch bands and belts I had a pretty good Idea of what I wanted. I have made two of them so far…one in Desert Sand and the other Multi Camo Paracord. In this instructable I will use pictures taken form each of the builds.
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100' of Para cord (I used about 80')
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First off you need to wrap the cord so it will pass under and over… in the weaving process. Follow this link for the best way that I found to do this
I didn't wrap mine as tight as this guy, I just needed a small bundle to work with.
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To start you will need to find out how long of sling you will need for your gun. The strap will not be adjustable when you are done. I used a sling off another gun to find my length, or you can just use a piece of paracord and some trial and error.
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There are so many things to do now that winter is finally gone. Should we work or should we play? Let's play! There is always work to do and summers are short. Will you have time enough to fit it in all the fun? With all these activities and titles offered by your library, you had better get started on the fun today. Here are just a few ideas on some summer-fun ideas:
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• Cooking with wild berries & fruits of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan by Teresa Marrone.
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What You Need to Know about Nosebleeds
Nosebleeds are common enough that not many of us escape childhood without experiencing a few. Usually, they aren't a sign of a serious disease, though the sight of bright red blood seeming to pour out of a child's nose is certainly alarming to most parents. Rare in infants, nosebleeds become more common in early- to mid-childhood, then become less frequent in the adolescent years. Overall, they occur more often in boys than girls.
The Anatomy of the Nose
Not only does the nose stick out of our faces (making it the first to be hit during a fall or fight) but it is loaded with blood vessels, two facts which predispose it as a common site of bleeding. In part, this allows the many functions of the nose: to warm, filter and humidify the air we breathe as well as enabling our sense of smell and contributing to the quality of our voices. Given the heavy supply of blood vessels and it's vulnerable position on our faces, it's not surprising that this is an area of the body that bleeds often.
There are two big issues around nosebleeds, especially frequent ones: Why are they happening and what can be done to control them?
Causes for Nosebleeds and Bleeding Patterns
Fortunately, most of the numerous possible causes for nosebleeds are not worrisome. Nosebleeds are rarely a sign of a serious problem such as a tumor or a bleeding disorder, including the blood cancer, leukemia.
Though there isn't a foolproof way to decide which nosebleeds reflect a more serious disease (short of testing ordered by a physician), certain patterns of bleeding are more or less consistent with certain causes. Bleeding confined to just one side of the nose, for example, is more likely to result from local trauma (for example, nose-picking). In toddlers, the possibility that a small foreign object like a bead or crayon tip has been inserted into the nose should be considered. Trauma also tends to cause more sudden nosebleeds as blood vessels are burst open by the force of the trauma, rather than a slowly dripping pattern of bleeding.
Nosebleeds that come on more gradually, getting worse or more frequent with time, can be caused by a tumor within the nose, or an overuse of certain medicines such as Aspirin or Ibuprofen that interfere with the body's ability to halt bleeding. Intermittent bleeding, especially in the cold weather months is a very common pattern. In this case, the many factors that irritate the lining of the nose, where the blood vessels are located, can bring on a bleed. Some examples include dry, heated indoor air, changes in the humidity, even changes in the weather. Add to this a bad cold, which winter inevitably brings, with irritating mucus, nose-blowing and rubbing, and there are even more reasons to suffer a nosebleed. It is also important to think about what nasal medications have been used, as chronic use of decongestants, steroids or cromolyn are associated with bleeding noses.
Other associated symptoms occurring with a nosebleed can narrow down the list of possible causes.
- Severe facial pain can point to a sinus infection, if there has been no recent trauma to explain it.
- Serious, frequent headaches accompanied by nosebleeds are seen with dangerously high blood pressure, although this is more often encountered in adults than in children.
- A strong family history of nosebleeds causes suspicion for a mild bleeding disorder such as Von Willibrand's disease, which is passed down through the generations.
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Posted Aug 11 2010 12:00am
Well, after signing up for my first half marathon in mid-July I had a sudden urge to buy running gear lol ;) I knew that I would NEED new running shoes lol ;) and decided to buy running compression shorts (no idea why I felt that need because i HATE my butt!! I think it is too big), and a running hat as well because I always end up with sweat in my eyes and then I'm running half squinting, half crying the rest of the way home lol... Of course, I ordered from Nike! I
am obsessed with Nike for some reason! (Nike, if you see this just know that I would GLADLY take a sponsorship from you and wear free Nike gear even if I am just starting out in my running journey tehe)
Anyways... I finally received my packages in the mail and could hardly contain my excitement!!
Here are all of my goodies
My lovely shoes
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my shoes :)
I haven't run in them yet because I don't want to wear them out too much before my Half Marathon on September 25th lol... Aren't they awesome? They're the new Nike LunarGlide+ 2
I am
about getting a fuelbelt... has anyone had any experience with one? I dont know if I should get the 2 or 4 bottle belt. But I do not like carrying a water bottle in my hand because once my hands get sweaty it starts slipping and I would like to take my camera or phone along in case I get the urge to take some pictures :D What would you guys recommend?
On July 31st I ran the Festival 5k here in the town I live in... Registration was from 7-8 and the race started at 8:30am…
I woke up around 6:30 and ate a piece of peanut butter toast and drank some water. I decided to wear my new nike compression running shorts and my new nike running hat (LOVE THEM BOTH!!) :D I arrived downtown around 7:40am and didn't have to wait in line for registration, I just went up and told them I had pre-registered and they grabbed my shirt, tag (yes a tag, not a bib) lol, and a coupon for a free real-fruit smoothie from McDonalds. I went and put everything in my car, took a pit stop at a porta pot, and headed back to the race start area… Some random guy asked me "What time do you expect to finish it in?" I replied "um... I'm not sure, maybe 28-30 minutes" I really dont have a lot of confidence in myself in running yet, but i figure it'll come with more experience... I started stretching and realized that I still had a while before the race started so i did a little jog around the block and then started stretching again. Sometimes I wish that I had someone to run these things with instead of going by myself…
Anyways, We started lining up and I managed to start out in the middle of the pack instead of the back. (There was about 300 people) I told myself to not start out too fast cuz i didn't want to run out of steam and i was kind of nervous because i really wanted to beat my PR by atleast 1 second! lol (my current PR is 27:27) The horn went off and I started out pretty good. I told myself that my pace for the first mile had to be atleast 8:15 and I would be happy. I started getting really thirsty before I even hit the 1 mile mark but I kept going at a comfortable "fast" (to me) pace. I hit the one mile mark and looked down at my watch to see that I had run it in 8:10! :D YAY ME!! Well that gave me a boost to keep going! :D I saw someone I knew up in front of me so I picked up my pace a little to catch up to her and i ran with her for a while.
We got to about mile 2 (at which time i was thinking i was going to die if i didn't get water soon) and finally!!! a water station! lol… I slowed down considerably to try to get some water down my throat but soon picked up the pace. I encouraged the girl I had been running with from around mile one and told her I was going to try to pick up the pace. I was feeling good and didn't want to look at my watch (hadn't looked at it since mile 1) I now had about a little more than 1200m to go and it was a straight stretch from where i was to the finish. I saw about 4 people in front of me that i could easily pass so i picked it up and passed them.. then there was about 3 more people spread throughout the last 400m that i targeted and picked off the first girl, gained and passed the 2nd person and then with 10 feet left, pushed through and passed the guy right at the finish! haha, it was AWESOMELY FUN!!! :D
I always forget to stop my watch until after i give my tag to the people at the finish and take a drink of water so when i finally remembered to stop it, my watch read "26:04" i was like "what in the world?! it has to be broken!!" lol… Well the results came out a few days after the race and I beat my PR by more than 2 minutes!! my final time was 25:26! :D new PR!! lol… I was so pumped!! BTW, "haha" random guy! I tricked you! Then I got giddy when i thought what my time would have been if it would have been chip timed.. ahh! lol… overall it was a quick, relatively flat, and fun race. I really enjoyed it! I'm proud of myself! lol (is that too egotistical? lol) But, my improvement gave me a renewed confidence and enthusiasm for my first half marathon in September! :D
In training, this week is a cutback week and my schedule has me running an easy 4 miles 3 times this week... 1 down, 2 to go! Coming up soon look for a recap of my long run this past weekend and some exciting stuff! :D Thank you everyone for following my blog and for the wonderful encouragement you have shared with me!
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And to think my vote was one of so many that delivered the swing state of Florida to President Barack Hussein Obama.
The President won 332 to 206 Electoral College votes. He also won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes. That, my friend, is what's called a mandate.
You LOST, we WON! Get used to it.
Now, enjoy your hissy. I am. LOL!
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