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I use Photoshop and it updates my Camera Raw and the program all along the way until a new release comes out. Software like DXO, Capture One are money sucking ones only. And, DXO on 32 bit windows needs awful time to start, much more than PS. I gave it a trial and in fast rework Capture One is best, DXO did not improve my shots and beside that renamed all my files with DXO in front of the name, so it just causes more work to delete all that. I think that all developers should first ask what people want before imposing to us their view of the things. Then it should at least be updated for free during 5 years in the camera and lens database.
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DxO Optics Pro 7.5.1 adds four cameras, plus D800E support for Elite users
DxO Labs has released DxO Optics Pro v7.5.1, adding support for four extra cameras to both the Elite and Standard editions of the software. The Elite edition also gains support for the Nikon D800E, with fine-tuning to optimize the performance of the Remove color moiré tool. Both versions can now also process files from the Nikon D3200, Sony SLT A35 and A57, and the Panasonic DMC-GX1. As usual, a 30-day free trial is available, along with roughly 40% discounts available if purchased before June 30th. The update is free for recent Optics Pro purchasers.
DxO Optics Pro v7.5.1 supports five more new cameras and achieves the milestone of 7,000 available DxO Optics Modules
Special 30% discount through June 30, 2012
June 20, 2012 - DxO Labs announces the immediate availability of DxO Optics Pro v7.5.1 for Mac and Windows, its image processing software of reference for all exacting photographers. This update means that DxO Optics Pro 7 now supports the latest cameras from Nikon, the D800E (Elite Edition only) and the D3200, Sony's SLT A35 and SLT A57 translucent-mirror SLRs, as well as Panasonic's hybrid micro 4/3 camera, the Lumix DMC GX1.
Ever more DxO Optics Modules
DxO Optics Pro 7 now counts more than 7,000 lens-camera combinations in its Optics Module library.
Since the last version, DxO Optics Pro v7.5.1 integrates more than 400 new DxO Optics Modules, of which 61 are modules for Nikon D800E and 71 are for the Nikon D3200. These latest modules enable support for additional Canon, Minolta, Nikkor, Panasonic, Samyang, Sigma, Sony, Tamron, and Tokina lenses for numerous Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Pentax, Samsung, and Sony cameras.
More effective moiré removal for the D800E
Since the Nikon D800E does not have an antialiasing (AA) filter, it can be more susceptible to moiré. DxO Optics Pro v7.5.1's RAW conversion algorithms have been fine-tuned such that the "Remove color moiré" tool works more effectively for this camera to restore the finest details.
Availability and special discount
The Standard and Elite editions of DxO Optics Pro for Mac and Windows are available in the DxO Labs online store (www.dxo.com) and at photo resellers, at a special discount price good through June 30, 2012:
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Standard Edition: $99 instead of $169
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Elite Edition: $199 instead of $299
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Standard Edition: 99€ instead of 199€
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Elite Edition:199€ instead of 299€
(Suggested retail prices, including VAT)
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Standard Edition: £89 instead of £135
- DxO Optics Pro 7 Elite Edition: £179 instead of £269
(Suggested retail prices, including VAT)
This upgrade is free for all owners of DxO Optics Pro 7, as well as for photographers who purchased a license for DxO Optics Pro 6 after September 1, 2011. A fully-functional trial version of DxO Optics Pro 7, good for one month, is available on the DxO Labs website (http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/free_trial_version)
You are right about the 32-bit starting speed and that Pro 7 tends to impose DxO's viewpoint on what a picture should look like. I can't, however, agree with you when you dismiss it as "money sucking", but that's just because DxO's viewpoints happen to coincide with my own. No editing software fulfills all photographer's needs, so it's nice to see there is competition. And I think Pro 7 is flexible enough for us to work on the image and make it what we want it to look like.
I don't know why people are complaining about this app,on a macro it runs beautifully and the U.I is customisable ,the panning/zoom module is as good as the one in capture one pro(Which I also use,along with Phocusd and LR4),it's also fast and the full screen option for mac is great,also someone mentioned the image browser at the bottom of the screen,this can be toggled with command-U,although it needs the ability to toggle the left and right docks too...in the end it produces good files..
Initially, I had mixed feelings about DxO Elite 7.x but those guys keep plugging away at a pretty good clip with updates. The 64-bit update was really nice and I noticed a slight speed increase again with this one. Hopefully, they'll support more file types so I don't have to use Lightroom quite so often. I would also like to see more ZA lenses supported but I won't hold my breath.
Yeah except it takes them 4-5 months to introduce support for the Olympus OM-D vs Adobe's of releasing LR4.1 (first beta then final) with full support only *few weeks* after OM-D started shipping.
I am happy DxO user and will upgrade. I do not find the i/f clunky, but usable. Lightoom i/f frustrated me because it has hidden functionality that was difficult to find and switch off - which ruined by colours. DxO saves me many hours every month with automated processing and fantastic results, and is an essential part of my shooting workflow. It has less - but different - functionality to Lightroom (which I also own) - with better performance. (DxO is single component, Lightroom is overall workflow). I use DxO for all DSLR (Nikon) corrections and Lightroom for compact cameras (because DxO doesn't support Panasonic Raw well). Been using DxO since an early version. I also own Capture One, but never use that.
I export images to DNG, which I archive. For image management, I use MS Expression (Not Phase One MediaPro which replaced it), because Lightroom is too slow, but I then use Lightroom to create my photo website. Thumbs up for DxO.
DXO's interface is a joke compared to Lightroom, seriously. Clunky, extra clicks abound everywhere, not really intuitive, forget UI auto-hides etc. And, of course, all this with a lot slower update cycle for TWICE the price if you have a more expensive cam... ridiculous.
DXO is second only to CaptureNX2 for interface clunkiness. Image browser strip has to be clicked away in order to get a still cramped view of the photo. Give us a full height pic for the love of Mike. Where are the autohide left and right panels? Clueless. Zoom and grab the pic and move it around? You have to click on the hand first.
DXO, you've got a lot of work to do, and I don't mean more modules. Get a copy of Lightroom 4 and see how simple and fast beats slow and laborious with tiny buttons every time. Lightroom's lens correction is close enough, too, so DXO's utility get smaller every time out. The only use I have for DXO at this point is to correct superwide pics and sharpen up the corners with Lens Softness, but it's rare these days. Did I mention Lightroom is $100 on sale vs DXO $200 to use my D800?
You can hide left and right panels by clicking two litte arrows on the panels' vertical borders. They're small, but they're there. So small, in fact, that I often click them by accident...
I know, Maunel, but Lightroom hides them automatically without having to strain your eyes on little tiny triangles. You'd have thought everyone would be doing it by now...reveillez vous DXO!
There's a shortcut to hide all palettes. Really easy to find, that is, if you want to. Moving around the image? It's done in the same way as in every editing software I know - by holding the space bar.
Yes, I know the shortcut, but I don't want a shortcut, I want it to happen automatically on moving the mouse off the panel. One mouse click to zoom AND move, what a no brainer that is. Many operations in DXO take two or three inputs to LR's one, and that adds up to wasted time and effort and a lot less fun.
@Reilly: I'm on the exact same boat. Kudos to DXO because their lens correction modules do work very well. But the user interface is just too painfully clunky. I find LR's lens correction to be close enough in most cases. Also, I find LR doing a much better job with noise reduction and highlight recovery. These days, I only open Optics Pro to correct pics that are shot with my Tokina 12-24 to fix those nasty chromatic aberrations. I haven't used Capture NX2, but of all the raw converters that I've tried, Fujfifilm's Hyper-Utility has to be the clunkiest ever, followed closely by DXO Optics Pro.
It supports DNG as export, I always export to DNG for archiving. Importing DNG did not work well in earlier versions, but I haven't used it recently.
It couldn't import my Adobe RAW files from my last shoot so go figure. I thought I did something wrong as they simply show up in the film strip with the note 'This image cannot be processed because this RAW format is currently not supported by DxO Optics Pro'.
This is exacltly my point... :-(
Whenever DxO upgrades Optics Pro, I again request at least DNG support but, to no avail... I'm a Ricoh GXR user and have been using DxO since (I think) version 3. It was great with my Canon gear (20D & 5D Mk2) but it won't even display my GXR images...
So disappointed...I don't know why I keep upgrading (currently using version 7 Elite and Filmpack 3 Expert edition). Perhaps it's time to move on and use LR4 exclusively... Pitty...
I have to admit that DNG support is a frustrating issue - but is is not isolated to DxO. This is one of the reasons I stopped using Phase One Media Pro and reverted to Microsoft Expression. I wonder if it is an issue with the format?
I export to DNG for archiving, because its sold as an open format. NEF, DW2 etc are proprietary. My DxO-created DNG can be read by Photoshop, Miscrosoft Expression, Image Converter, etc; but not by Phase One CapturePro. I create 2 DNGs per image, one with DxO, One with Adobe's batch tool. One format is opened by some programs, the other is opened by other programs. There seems to be an inconsistency in support for DNGs by vendors. Maybe too many format variations? I don't know. As for Panasonic's RW2 format, same problem. Neither DxO nor Capture One will read them properly. Not MS Expression either. But Adobe reads them fine.
Just processed a couple of D800/D800E NEFs with DxO 7.5.1 Elite.
The results are stunning (I am a Canonian) at 100%, the first razor sharp JPGs I have seen from the D800/D800e.
Perhaps the people who bought the software...? Please - don't troll!
I wouldn't call that trolling. I did buy it, and it's a total waste of money. Other than Fujifilm's Hyper-Utility, I've never used a piece of software that is as clunky as the DXO Optics Pro. To the DXO team, please go get a copy of LightRoom, and compare it to yours.
By the way, I bought it because LightRoom didn't have lens correction before. Now that LigthRoom has lens correction. I don't see why anyone should care anymore.
Manuel, I am not trolling. To each their own, but DxO has been proven to be o-b-s-o-l-e-t-e....
@Manuel: just sharing my honest opinion as an ex-DXO user.
@Ergo: yes, obsolete is the word.
Ergo607: coming here and writing down «who cares?» is hardly expressing an opinion.
Ken: it's perfectly legitmate to share your honest opinion. However, you must accept that some people may think otherwise.
Both: are you really sure you mastered Pro 7? I allow myself to ask this because I only took advantage of Pro 7 after thoroughly reading the manual. «Clunky»? «Obsolete»? Have you even tried the latest versions? I tried Lr4.1 and Pro 7.5 demos side by side and, while Lr is more flexible (in that it offers a bit more control), The Pro 7 betters it in terms of optical corrections, chromatic aberrations and noise reduction. So much that I ended up buying it. It was a tough call, though.
One thing is sure - I'd never comment on a Lr article writing «who cares?» That might be misread as trolling.
I do. I've been considering getting this to use as a point tool since the $100 price tag isn't bad.
The optical corrections seem better than Lightroom. Especially given that a lot more lenses are supported. The manual distortion corrections are much better than Lightroom. I have some distorted pictures of framed art that LR was unable to do anything with. DxO does a good job removing the distortion.
I wasn't at all impressed with any of the white balance, exposure or color corrections.
@Manuel: I bought v6, and I found that image rendering is slow. Each time you make a single slight adjustment, the image needs to be totally re-rendered. Making it extremely and painfully clunky to use. I lived with it because it actually does a very good job correcting the optical flaws of my Tokina 12-24mm. When they announced v7 claiming that the preview is faster, I had high hopes. Downloaded the trial, and I was very disappointed. I didn't feel it previewing faster one bit. When they meant faster, I suppose with a sports stop watch you can tell it's a tiny fraction of a second faster. But it's still as clunky to use as v6. Still requiring full re-rendering each time you make a slight readjustment.
@ Manuel (con't): I run LightRoom 3 and now LightRoom 4 on the exact same machine (Core i7 2600K overclocked to 4.8GHz with 16Gb ram.) Each time I make an adjustment, I see the changes right away. I can play with the adjustment sliders without being slowed down one bit by any image rendering. I thought LightRoom 3 was fast, LightRoom 4's rendering speed is even faster. Images are rendered almost instantly. There is absolutely no way that I would go back to DXO until they can match LightRoom in this aspect. I suppose DXO is good if one only has a few images to work on. But when one has to make adjustments to hundreds of images each time, I guess LightRoom is a much better choice.
I'm not sure what you actually mean by "rendering". The only speed problems I get with Pro 7 are that it takes too long to open the files (especially when the folders contain a lot of photos) and the time it takes for the image to become "workable" when I magnify it. Adjustments made to the image show very quickly - though not so much as in Lr - and it takes considerably less time processing and creating the new image file into the folder than Lr. Still I care much more about results than about minor speed issues, and in this respect I found Pro 7 to be superior. There is no Lr vs. Pro 7 war, though: Pro 7 even has a button to send images to Lr! If I had chosen Lr, I'd be very satisfied as well, but in the end I found Pro 7 had the edge. In fact I often found myself, when I was processing raws, comparing the results I was getting with Lr to those obtained with Pro 7 - and trying to replicate them in Lr. It was when I realized this fact that I decided to buy the Pro 7.
I've been using DXO for a while, and while I really like the results, workflow is absolutely abysmal -and in fact, from 6 to 7 it got much worse. There are so many head-scratching workflow and interface decisions that I do not know were to begin. And yet I still like results more then in LR (I have not tried 4 however). I wonder if DXO will release their correction module as LR plugin - may be a cure.
@Manuel: The rendering time I referred to is the time it takes optics pro to render a preview image from the raw file onto the display before it becomes workable. It takes way too long. With LR4 on my computer, the image is workable almost instantly right after I click on it. And each time I make an adjustment on a slider, Optics Pro would re-render a new preview. This makes the software painfully clunky. With LR4, there's no stuttering at all when you make changes on the slider. To me, this is absolutely not a minor speed issue as I often have hundreds of pictures to work on after an event. The only edge I see Optics Pro has over LR is the specific lens + camera correction modules. Other than this, LR trumps Optics Pro is every other aspects. Image quality wise I find that I get much better noise reduction and highlight recovery with LR than with Optics Pro. After trying out Optics Pro v7, I decided to stick with LR instead of wasting money to upgrade my copy of Optics Pro v6.
@oldZorki: Yes, this is why I think the DXO team should get a copy of LR, and compare it to theirs. LR is a good example of speedy processing and workflow done right.
Most folks don't understand that the term trolling comes from fishing, not the nasty guy under the bridge. If you think of it as throwing out a baited hook and waiting to see who bites, you'll see that the Original post was a troll, and not all trolls are designed to be inflammatory, but they generally are stated in a way that -requires- a response (taking the bait) just to determine what the original poster had in mind.
@Ken - well, I am an amateur and do not process thousands of images per week, so things like uber-speed are not important to me whatsoever. And camera-lens combo support provides greater correction, including sharpness, CA, distortion, etc. I just wonder if DXO will be better off just selling their technology and lens database to Adobe - and call it a day. Well, I am not sure DXO will be better off -but customers certainly will.
I have mixed feelings. As a DXO6 user, DXO gives much better adjustments than LR3 (at the time). LR3 has more options, stupid options like making shadows brighter than highlights. DXO is painfully slow.
I haven't looked at DXO7 or LR4, but from what I hear I don't feel like getting either. And at those prices... esp considering DXO make you pay extra
to support full frame cameras...
Well, I don't believe DxO is either clunky or obsolete, quite the contrary. As for slowness: I have a Quad-core PC running W7-64. I process hundreds to thousands of images per month as an amateur, usually in one sitting. I do not find DxO slow for my purposes. However, my brother uses a MAC and he is complaining about it being slow. Slow complainers above don't specify their hardware, is it perhaps a PC/Mac thing?
@montxsuz: I don't have the highest end components. But I know my PC is absolutely not a sloth. See below for the specs of my PC running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
Intel Core i7 2600K cooled with Corsair H100, and overclocked stably to 4.8GHz.
G.SKILL Ares Series DDR3 1866MHz 4x4Gb RAM.
Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard.
C drive (for programs and games) is a pair of Crucial M4 256Gb Solid State Drive in Raid 0.
D drive (for RAW files and other storages) is 4 x 1.5Tb Western Digital Caviar Black in Raid 10.
Video card is a XFX Radeon HD6970, mainly for Battlefield 3 after work ;P
@montxsuz: You may not find Optics Pro slow. But compared to LR4, I have to say it is extremely slow and clunky.
@OldZorki: I love your suggestion. DXO selling the lens correction modules to Adobe would be a dream come true.
not true. the leica lens profiles are not included. the red dot in the browser strip shows in every leica raw image which means "not supported"
This table lets you establish if DxO supports your camera hardware, and whether you should choose Standard Edition or Elite:
I downloaded a trial version of DxO Pro 7 and found out that it did not support leica lenses.
Since Leica are 'perfect' you should never need anything more than SOOC jpg.
As a former M8 shooter with Leica primes I would sorta agree. Still, when DxO calibrates the combined correction from a specific camera body and lens, the results look great! The M8 design is such that if DxO were to build a correction profile, it would very likely make a noticeable improvement. IMHO of course.
I thought that a 10000$ Leica gear was able to shoot jpeg in a quality that makes all software rework obsolete, or do i miss something.
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William Jones, his wife, Pink, and her niece, Annie May, occupy an apartment on the top floor of a Harlem tenement. One Saturday morning, as William eats his breakfast and prepares for work, it is apparent that this will not be a good day. He usually enjoys this first meal of the day—the quiet before the house awakens and the coolness before the sun's heat penetrates the thin walls and makes the small apartment unbearable. This morning, however, the heat is already intolerable, the coffee tastes awful, the eggs are overcooked, and the warmed-over cornbread tastes like sand in his mouth.
William cannot seem to rid himself of the worries that have plagued him of late, especially the anxiety for his son, a soldier stationed in Georgia. He has not heard from Sam in a long time, and both he and Pink are concerned that the boy may be in trouble. To add to William's distress, Annie May is out of control and constantly indulged by her doting aunt, who excuses the girl's every indiscretion by saying, "I don't care what she's done, she ain't got no mother or father except us."
As William sits at the kitchen table, consumed by these thoughts, he is brought back to consciousness by the sound of movement in the bedroom. When Pink comes into the kitchen, he mumbles something about the heat, then quickly retires to the bedroom. He does not want to talk to his wife just yet. After a while, he comes out of the bedroom, dressed for work....
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When Lance Teillon considered his next step post-retirement following 20 years in the U.S. Navy, he didn't have to look far for ideas. His wife's occupation – English teacher – provided ample inspiration. "It seemed like a worthwhile and fulfilling second career," he recalled. Eighteen years later, it's safe to say he made the right call. "I have a constant flow of cadets who have graduated come back to talk to me," said Teillon, the senior naval science instructor for the Varina High School NJROTC. "I give them a chance to talk to the present cadets – and when they tell them to listen to me, because I do know what I'm talking about, it is satisfying." Another gratifying aspect of the job is seeing cadets wear their uniforms with pride, he said, "knowing that the uniform is the same as our sailors who are serving this country." Teillon also enjoys observing cadets as they "try harder at something than they have ever tried at anything in their lives." Often, that effort involves practicing for the competition drill team, which requires cadets to come to school almost two hours early every day to practice. "There is no other sport or club that requires that level of dedication," said Teillon, noting that the hard work has resulted in a number of trophies, including one for a fifth-place finish among 62 schools in a four-state area. The job is not without its challenges, of course. Although he was a classroom teacher in the Navy for five years, his students then existed in an altogether different culture from high school students of today. After all these years, he confesses he is still taken aback by aspects of that culture – in particular, the lack of respect. "I have reminded my students on more than one occasion that this school doesn't teach rudeness; it is brought from home," he said. "I try very hard to make the kids understand how lucky they are to be given the education they are receiving. I tell the cadets that I feel my job is to get them ready to survive in this world after graduation, and if they can stand on their own two feet in this very difficult world, I feel I've done my job. "It is frustrating when I cannot get through to some, and very satisfying when I can." Clearly, he has "gotten through" to countless numbers of students, who praise his skill at developing their potential and his insistence on accepting nothing less than their best efforts. "He teaches more than just naval science," wrote one student. "He teaches us ethics and general knowledge above and beyond what is entailed in his job description. "He treats us as young adults." Asked to relate a highlight of the feedback he has had from students and their families, Teillon said, "When you have a parent come into your room after their child has graduated, and with tears in their eyes tell you that they don't know what their child would have done without you -- or that you were their child's mentor." Now, that's "worthwhile." |
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Virginia Blood Services (VBS), the sole supplier of blood for more than 20 hospitals throughout the state of Virginia, is in need of blood donors to help replenish the local blood supply over the holidays.
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The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
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Organization was pretty good - Lots of awards, big finish banner with a clock, great aid stations with helpful volunteers. The course was well designed with a variety of terrains to keep it interesting. The spectaclar views along the way were distracting (in a good way). I am glad I ran it. The only thing needed is an organized pre-pasta dinner at a local restaurant or the Snow Mountain Ranch.
As I ran the 26.2 mile course, I hated it. I hated every hill that I came across. Looking back now it was an awesome course that challenged my running ability to the fullest. Before trying to take on this marathon, I recommend adding some tough hill training. Water stations, snacks, etc. were good considering this is a smaller marathon and there were no sponsors. The scenery was spectacular!!!
Nice location. I did the marathon in 2001. Take your water with you. There are only 3 waterstops on the loop (13.1). The finisher medal and the T-shirt could be better if we consider the entry fee ($60).
A tough challenging course but in a great location. Running in the woods was great. The organization was very good. The aid stations were very helpful and enthusiatic. Fans only near aid stations, but then you don't run a trail marathon for fans. This marathon is definitely worth the effort
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Anyone entering GCAP (Games Connect Asia Pacific) Independant Games competition should know already that submission date this year is Friday 30th of October.
This gives the judges a month to sort through all the enteries to find the finals who will present their games AT The conference and be judged on the following categories.
* Best Gameplay
* Best Graphics
* Best Unsigned Game
More info can be found about it: http://www.gameconnectap.com/games.html
Anyone entering? Anyone know of anyone entering? I should be if I can get this games I'm working on polished and finished. I also know most of the QANTM final project teams in Brisbane are also entering their games. So it should be a good competition this year.


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Prop Cian Healy is expected to miss the start of the 2014 RBS 6 Nations after undergoing surgery on his injured ankle on Wednesday.
Up front, David Kilcoyne and Tommy O'Donnell also return having missed the trip to Vicarage Road through illness and injury respectively.
O'Donnell is included at the expense of David O'Callaghan, with the Tipperary man operating at openside flanker and Peter O'Mahony switching back to the blindside.
The other change in the pack sees Damien Varley start ahead of Mike Sherry who has recovered from an ankle injury to take his place among the replacements.
The Munstermen have slipped to third in the Pool 1 table, and the two-time champions require a big performance and result in order to keep them in the reckoning for a quarter-final spot.
Eager to bounce back from the Sarries defeat and last Saturday's league loss at home to Cardiff, lock Donncha O'Callaghan said: "I think the lads are hurting, they were hugely disappointed with their performance (against Cardiff) and I think because we had the day off on Monday as well, it probably festered for a little bit longer.
"You find that it's more carrot than stick at the moment and I don't know how best to put it. You've to kind of help guys along and work with them as opposed to coming in and, like I said earlier, it's grand to be a hurler on the ditch but we hurt as much as everyone.
"At Musgrave I met a guy coming out the door from Tipp and I was thinking I'd probably be at home sitting on my couch before him. He's made a bigger sacrifice to get to the game and you feel bad for guys like that who come out.
"I know it's overplayed by us sometimes but it's really appreciated, and something that's always led to us going well, that bond with the support."
The Corkman added: "There are times when games can lift your season and be a turning point, and we know that Edinburgh have quality players who probably haven't been performing as best as they'd like.
"So we know they'll be gunning for a performance and sometimes when you can play free and the shackles are off and you're not worried about anything, you can just go and play and put in massive performances.
"There's a bit of drive for them and knowing Brads (Michael Bradley) so well, I know exactly what he'll be saying in the dressing room. I know exactly how much he'll want that win."
MUNSTER (v Edinburgh): Felix Jones; Doug Howlett (capt), Keith Earls, James Downey, Simon Zebo; Ronan O'Gara, Conor Murray; David Kilcoyne, Damien Varley, BJ Botha, Donncha O'Callaghan, Donnacha Ryan, Peter O'Mahony, Tommy O'Donnell, James Coughlan.
Replacements: Mike Sherry, Wian du Preez, Stephen Archer, Billy Holland, Paddy Butler, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Casey Laulala.


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"The man who keeps running, never looking back, because he dare not, out of shame."
Movie 4 in the game has a picture showing Paul holding a sign with a big question mark on it.
If you follow that link, it debunks all of the theories too, it's more of a collection of the whole thing, than trying to prove he is dead. Including the open palm symbol.
Weird" Al Yankovic- Hardware Store
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i researched the Paul is Dead issue about a decade ago. Yet, while playing Polythene Pam/She came in through the Bathroom window, it popped in my head "Paul is Dead!"... which led to laughter and everyone in the room with me wondering if I was off my rocker.
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Well, it seems so. RealityMan has updated the UltraHLE.com website for the first time in a few years so this could mean something. RM informs us he's working on UltraHLE once again, after finding some CDs with old dev code. Here's a snippet from his most recent post (he did the first one yesterday):
Ok, so what I have got so far. The code I have salvaged is fairly close to the original 1.0.0 release but with about 40% of the Glide to OpenGL code migration completed. What I am working on over the next couple of days is to examine the source and begin to strip out all the unused or surplus code. This will make the source cleaner and reduce some of the redevelopment time required. I have already cleaned up the cartridge loading code, stripped out disk memory mapping and have begun work on cleaning up and optimising the debugger. I have already been asked about whether I will be using plug-ins or not for graphics, sound, controllers etc. and decided before the question that those elements would stay native within the emulator to provide a more optimised system.
[Update] Most of the initial work on the debug user interface is now completed and should be fully completed by the end of the day. Also, a few compiler warnings have been fixed on the cartridge and main emulation thread source code.
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Our affiliates help us generate the leads we sell to our buyers, and so we pay them for every lead sold. However, in order to get paid our affiliates have to generate leads that sell. How does an affiliate generate quality leads? Unfortunately, many affiliates send fraudulent traffic to an "offer" in order to earn revenue fast. An "offer" is another name for a website, and at Round Sky we have seven payday loan websites, and one auto insurance website. Whenever an affiliate submits a lead to our network it gets scored and filtered. Any lead that scores anything over seven on the fraud scale gets filtered out. If an affiliate submits more than 20% fraud, they are removed from our network.
What is a fraudulent lead? A fraudulent lead is a lead that comes from a fake source. Some affiliates will use fake names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. to fill out application forms in hopes of making more money. Incentivized or co-registered leads are also banned from our network. An incentivized lead comes from an affiliate who offers an incentive to those who fill out the website's form. This means that a person was given a prize of some sort in order to fill out a form. This person is not an actual customer looking for a payday loan or insurance, they are looking for gaming points for example. Our payday loan lead buyers and insurance lead buyers do not want these types of leads. Co-registered leads come from affiliates who take information submitted from one form and use it to fill out multiple forms. Again our payday lead buyers and insurance lead buyers do not want this type of lead.
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Well, the main story lines for weather this week will be about Tropical Storm Debby and the heat that has been and will continue to be in place across much of the country.
Debby formed over the weekend and is in the northern Gulf of Mexico, moving only very slowly toward the NE early in the week. Latest forecasts have Debby going towards north Florida, but also weakening due to wind shear and dry air, which is good news. What she will still bring is plenty of rain to Florida, and possibly too much in some spots (more on Debby below).
Elsewhere, minimal precipitation is expected across other parts of the country this week, as a heat wave keeps its grip on many locations. The heat will bring near or above 100-degree temps to the Southern Plains, the Southwest, parts of the Mountain West, the Southeast, and eventually the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley as well, later in the week.
Here are this week's weather highlights:
- Isolated to scattered showers with some thunderstorms can be expected from NYC on up into New England on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by a nice couple of days later in the week, with moderate summer temperatures (LGA, EWR, ISP, HPN, PVD, BOS, BDL, MHT, and ALB).
- After thunderstorms and a cold front move through the BWI-DC-PHL areas on Monday, expect much improved conditions for Tuesday through Thursday, with rather comfortable temperatures as well. The next chance of precipitation looks to be about next weekend (PHL, BWI, IAD, and DCA).
- Tropical Storm Debby continues in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The good news is that the forecast has Debby remaining below hurricane strength through its life cycle, and, in fact, the intensity is expected to remain unchanged or even decrease some through the week. The forecast track takes Debby into the far north Florida peninsula on or about Thursday. While there will be gusty winds at times, occasionally reaching 30-35 knots at some Florida stations over the next few days, overall the storm is not expected to cause a large scale disruption. That said, there is the threat for isolated tornadoes across the Florida peninsula, as well as the potential for heavy rain accumulation over the course of the week (TPA, MCO, SRQ, and JAX).
- Some isolated afternoon thunderstorms are possible in the Southeast and South Plains this week, but they will be few and far between where they do occur, as temps remain quite hot across these areas (BNA, LIT, MEM, BHM, HSV, MSY, JAN, HOU, CRP, HRL, AUS, SAT, DAL, OKC, and TUL).
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Coal plants are shutting down because of a rise in the availability of cheap natural gas, largely as a result of hydraulic fracturing, which is opening up new deposits of the fuel in places such as the Marcellus Shale Formation in Pennsylvania. That's good news for the global climate because burning natural gas emits roughly half as much CO2 as burning coal. But it's also bad news for the climate because burning natural gas still emits CO2. "There are more than enough discovered hydrocarbons that if we burn them, we fry the planet," Lord Nicholas Stern told this reporter at the Durban climate conference last December while discussing carbon capture and storage. "You can do CCS or you can bust the 2-degree target."
As a result of the shale gas revolution in the U.S., the bulk of new CCS projects worldwide are in China, which hopes to become a leader in the technology. Carbon capture and storage even snuck into the Communist Party's 12th Five-Year Plan. Eleven projects are under development across the country, ranging from advanced coal-fired power plants to a chemical plant that will turn coal into liquid fuel.
The Chinese are even considering investing in a CCS project in Texas, known as the Texas Clean Energy Project. But the key there, as in most ongoing projects, is not a price on CO2 pollution that emitters want to avoid, but a price on CO2 that is used to help get more oil out of the ground—a process known as "enhanced oil recovery," a potentially large market given the world's thirst for petroleum.
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Carbon dioxide is already used to scour hard-to-reach oil below Texas. But it is pumped more than 800 kilometers in a pipeline from a naturally occurring formation of CO2 in Colorado, which can prove expensive. CO2 from a nearby CCS unit might lower the price of CO2, storing some of the greenhouse gas underground as a kind of unintended side benefit.
Such enhanced oil recovery can also be done with steam, of course, which is why breakthroughs on the capture side are still required to make CO2 even cheaper. That work spans everything from Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy projects to an X PRIZE Foundation effort to raise the money to launch a carbon-capture prize, according to Christopher Frangione, senior director of the energy and environment prize group for the foundation.
Making capture cheaper is particularly needed when the process is applied to natural gas power plants. As it stands, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas emission limits for new power plants are set at the level of the discharge of a new gas-fired power plant, thus there is no regulatory incentive to put CCS on a gas plant. But at some point that technology will be needed if the world is to avoid increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which is why France-based CCS technology provider Alstom is investigating it at its Mongstad facility in Norway. The chilled ammonia process from the Mountaineer demonstration will be used to capture CO2 from burning natural gas. "The technology is there and it can be done," argues Bob Hilton, vice president for government affairs at Alstom.


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Like many players in the current Indian squad, Pujara grafted his way into the side on the back of dominant displays in junior cricket. His form in under-19 tournaments immediately grabbed the attention of Indian selectors. Pujara was the tournament's leading run scorer at the World Cup in 2006, scoring 349 runs at an average of 116. His immaculate form guided India to the final, but a rare failure saw India humbled against their arch-rivals Pakistan on the grandest stage of all.
Pujara might only be 25, but he already has a mountain of cricket under his belt. 75 matches for Saurashtra have seen him accumulate over 6000 runs at an average of just under 60. There is little doubt that he is going to be something special.
His Test debut in 2010 saw him establish himself as a cool customer under pressure. After failing in the first innings, Pujara produced a steely knock of 72 off just 89 balls to guide India to their fourth innings target of 207. Unfortunately, with a stellar career beckoning, Pujara was forced to miss the 2011 season with a knee injury.
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The current population of the Island Scrub-Jay, found only on Santa Cruz Island off the California Coast, is only one fifth of what experts had previously believed, according to a new study led by the Smithsonian Institutions Migratory Bird Center in Washington D.C. and published in the journal Ecological Applications. According to its findings, the Island Scrub-Jay is one of the rarest birds in the United States, even though its population has increased in recent years.
The bad news is that we only have about 2,500 of these birds left, a very small number for any species, said lead author Dr. Scott Sillett of the Smithsonians Migratory Bird Center. The good news is that we are seeing an increasing population trend. It appears that there has been about a 20-30 percent population increase in the last 25 years owing to a series of conservation actions on the island.
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A volcano awakens.,
Much against its will,
its dreams disturbed.
It stretches and vibrates.
Its energy resonates.
Not knowing when it will explode,
and the lava will engulf and enmesh all.
Trap and solidify all underneath.
Simmering, bubbling,
Can feel the slight tremors at times,
rumblings and violent shakes at others,
increasing and increasing,
Vociferous and demanding.
The shell tries to restrain the tremblings,
Th earth tries to hem them in,
tries to beat them down, repress them,
but that ain't the way of nature,
You can try but you cannot subdue
Nature's fury when unleashed.
The roaring increases and increases in sound and volume,
sulfurous vapors fill the air, dust particles float in the air, s
small fragments of soil are coming loose,
Heat increases in ferocity
Fear expands amongst the living as they sense
something about to happen
The wise ones escape to lower places, the unwise ones
adhere to the tower..
The dynamic urge to release builds up%2
and the entire body shakes and rages,
the walls quiver and split,
the mouth fumes and vents open,
the control is lost, now there can be no restraint,
as the hot boiling lava inside surges in fury,
destroying all in its way,
red, shining, gleaming, fuming, sulfurous, boiling,
Sliding, spreading, creeping
It comes out through the vents and the opening,
erupts in a mass of red glory,
covering the land around, drowning
the unwary who remained nearby
trapped for ever in its hot embrace.
Spreading, slowly, silently,
enveloped by fumes and smoke and dust as its bridesmaids,
It spreads far and wide,
covering all and sundry.
slows, slows, as the fury recedes,
Nature is happier, kinder now, her wrath subsides,
She regrets her anger,
The sight of destruction all around,
blackened land, dead plants, and carcasses.
She weeps gently as her rain falls on the hot ground
through her clouds,
cooling and wiping off the hot embers of her anger.
Her sighs resound as her winds disperse the hot smoke and dust,
bringing fresh breezes in its wake.
The land cooling, the lava is no more hot, it is just black mess
And Nature wonders, was this my anger?
In her tenderness, she reminds some little seeds left unscathed,
buried deep inside the mother earth,
to bring life back to the ravished land.
prods them to put new leaves forth,
as they spring from the old,
The New rises over the body of the old.
The dry, deadened earth soon glistens with bedecked green, and
the volcano sleeps fitfully
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Someone from a Catholic U. objects to coverage for birth control. What a surprise.
As usual the typical liberal position of not seeing the big picture.
I am an Atheist and believe religion is a crock. I am also a firm believer of birth control and a woman's right to choose.
But this is about the government coming into areas where they have no right to come into.
A person, an employer, or any other entity should be able to offer, or not offer, what they want and not have "big government" impose their wants, wills and desires when it is no business of their own.
But hey, just because most liberals support birth control and the right to choose does not mean it should be imposed upon those who believe otherwise, regardless of the propriety of their position.
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The 6th Annual Vermont Life Wine & Harvest Festival is a weekend showcase for Vermont wines, Vermont specialty foods and artisans of all types celebrating the rich uniqueness, quality and ingenuity of Vermont producers. With stunning Vermont fall foliage as the backdrop; discover and enjoy Vermont vintners, small specialty food producers, painters, publishers, cheese makers, potters, jewelers, chefs, photographers and farmers and musicians. Visit the festival website at http://www.thevermontfestival.com
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Join members of the VT Grape and Wine Council for the annual Vermont Winery and Vineyard Open House Weekend. The Open House Weekend is a great way for you to taste wine made from grapes such as Marquette and La Crescent, delicious ice ciders, honey mead, and fruit wines; tour vineyards not usually open to the public; and learn about wine making in cold climates directly from the winemakers. Activities during Open House Weekend will be different at each vineyard or winery, so check full details on each winery's website. In addition to wine tastings and tours, highlights at various wineries include: live music; picnic in the vineyard; local cheese pairings; seafood pairings; gourmet wine-tasting lunch; wood-fired flatbread pizza; book readings, vineyard educational tours; winemaking demonstrations; homemade ice cream; craft brews; and pick-your-own orchard fruit.
- Jun. 18, 2013
VT Grape & Wine Council Annual Conference
Our annual conference will be held at the Red School House at Vermont Technical College in Randolph, Vt on Tues, June 18, 2013, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. --------------------- Speakers include: Mark Chien of Penn State Cooperative Extension, Kevin Ker of Brock University and Applied Research and Consulting Inc, & Art Hunt of Hunt Country Vineyards in Branchport, NY. ----------------- Full schedule and details out soon. For more information, please contact John McCann at North Branch Vineyards at jmccann (at) northbranchvineyards (dot) com.
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