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But for the timely intervention of Mick Ronson, John Cougar's celebrated portrait of small‑town American life might never have existed at all, let alone topped the Billboard Hot 100.
As much as I am a little weary of those two, I don't know any other two people in rock & roll who are more popular than Jack and Diane," John Mellencamp (aka John Cougar) told The Sun in 2008. "Some people probably think there's a place in hell for me because of those two people! But it gave me the keys to do what I want... I've lived the way I wanted to live, sometimes recklessly and stupidly, but still been able to do that. I've been able to live on my whims, that's what Jack and Diane gave me, so I can't hate them too much."
A song ostensibly about a high-school couple falling in love, Mellencamp's 1982 hit 'Jack & Diane' — his first and, so far, only US chart topper — espouses the small‑town values with which the no‑nonsense, gravel‑voiced heartland rocker has most closely aligned himself during his 35‑year career. Namely, the industriousness and integrity of rural working class‑life, as inspired by Mellencamp's upbringing in Seymour, Indiana, whose population numbered only about 13,000 people at the time of the song's release. He currently lives in Bloomington, which is about 40 miles northwest of Seymour.
'Jack & Diane' evokes a nostalgia for the kind of fun and games he himself experienced during his youth — "Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze, Diane's sittin' on Jacky's lap, he's got his hands between her knees."
Nevertheless, 'Jack & Diane', written by Mellencamp after he watched the 1961 movie Splendor In The Grass depict the unrequited love of high schoolers Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood, also points out the good times won't last forever — "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone."
"Most people don't ever reach their goals, but that's cool, too," Mellencamp remarked in a 1982 interview with The LA Herald Examiner. "Failure's a part of what you're all about anyway. Coming to terms with failed expectations is what counts. I try to write about the most insignificant things, really. I mean, someone who picks up a copy of Newsweek, then sits down and writes a song about the troubles in South America — who cares? What's that song telling us that we don't already know? Write about something that matters to people, man."
Issued on his breakthrough American Fool LP that topped the Billboard 200 while also spawning the hit singles 'Hurts So Good' and 'Hand To Hold On To', 'Jack & Diane' was a solid‑gold slice of Americana that, after spending four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with the aid of a music video directed by Bruce Gowers, was selected by the RIAA in 2001 as one of its 'Songs of the Century'.
Born on 7th October, 1951, John Mellencamp formed his first band, Crepe Soul, at the age of 14, and played in various local outfits before relocating to New York in 1976. It was there that he recorded an unsuccessful debut album titled Chestnut Street Incident which, thanks to then‑manager Tony DeFries, was credited to Johnny Cougar.
Despite his apprehension over the new name, the one‑time teen rebel stuck with it through his next few releases: 1978's A Biography, unreleased in the US, which he recorded after moving from MCA to Riva, founded by Rod Stewart's manager Billy Gaff; 1979's John Cougar; 1980's Nothin' Matters & What If It Did, which included a couple of Top 30 hits; and, two years later, American Fool, home of 'Jack & Diane'.
Produced by brothers Ron and Howard Albert, the John Cougar album was engineered by Donald Gehman, who would subsequently co‑produce and co‑engineer American Fool. A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Gehman took up the viola when he was eight years old and played that instrument through high school, at which time he was asked to join a rock band by a fellow orchestra musician. It was 1965, and learning to play the bass led to Gehman also becoming the group's technical guru, taking care of its amps and vocal PAs.
"I had been thinking about maybe building my own bass amp," he now recalls. "So I started investigating how to do this and I met two brothers from Lititz, Pennsylvania, Gene and Roy Clair. Roy was a technician at a liberal arts college, Gene was working at an electronic parts store, selling resistors and capacitors to local people, and I met Gene when I was in that store, trying to figure out how to build my own PA."
With clients such as Elvis Presley, Elton John, Yes, Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, Clair Brothers would subsequently become the world's largest concert‑sound company, and by joining forces with the Clairs from 1965 to 1973 Don Gehman played a major role in the research and development of modern sound reinforcement. Thereafter, having hit the road to work about 300 one‑nighters a year with the likes of James Brown, Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he not only accepted Stephen Stills' offer to earn his first production credit on 1976's Illegal Stills album, but he also utilised Stills' friendship with the owner of Criteria Recording Studios in Miami to land a position there as a staff engineer.
"It was a big trauma to leave Clair Brothers and all that I had helped build," he says. "Doing so many different jobs there, from running the sound to driving the truck and helping with the setting up, I was making a huge salary, and I left that to start over for $100 a week. Still, I was 23 years old, and during the next two years I realised how little I knew, because I was around a lot of people who did know. Tom Dowd was the resident dad of Criteria and he came in with great projects two or three times a year. He was our mentor; the person who showed us what was important and what wasn't, and I spent the next four years working under him and people like Ron and Howard Albert.
"Being a team, Ron and Howard had their own formula for making records that John was unwilling to go along with. They built their productions around a group of musicians who they had confidence in, so it was kind of an assembly-line approach — they cut the tracks with the band and then they'd fill in the holes. That's not a bad way to make a record, but John was coming in with his Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater and Mark Knopfler references, saying, 'I want it to be like this.' He was looking for his signature sound, and since John and Howard were resistant to these references that were outside of their experience, they didn't give it to him. So, we finished the record and it was OK, but not really what John wanted.
"There were a lot of weaknesses. John obviously wasn't the writer that he is today and he was still figuring out how to improve, as well as what he did and didn't like. Shortly after that, he came to me and said, 'On the next record I'd like to work together with you. We'll just do it on our own.' At the time, I had just started working with the Bee Gees, but the whole music scene in Miami was beginning to dry up, things were moving back to Los Angeles and it was getting more and more difficult to make ends meet. The Bee Gees were the local money makers, so when they were building their own studio and offered me an engineering position there, I took it. One of the first projects I did with them was Barbra Streisand's [1980] Guilty album, for which they wrote all of the material and for which I was one of the producers, even though I didn't get credited."
Officially produced by Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten, Guilty would sell over 20 million copies. Meanwhile, unable to secure the services of Don Gehman for his own record, John Mellencamp made Nothin' Matters & What If It Did with legendary Southern soul guitarist Steve Cropper taking the production reins, and Gehman now regards this as "a blessing in disguise".
"Cropper is an amazing writer, arranger and guitar player," he says, "and he really plugged a lot of holes in John's writing style and his sound. OK, so he didn't like the net result of that sound, but it really taught him how to write and arrange, and he grew tremendously from that. Then, when the next record came around, he approached me again and I said, 'Yeah, I'll do it.' Things were slowing down with the Bee Gees, I more than ever wanted to be a producer, and I thought this might be my shot at getting a foot in the door. So we started making American Fool."
While the record's first two tracks, 'Hurts So Good' and 'Jack & Diane', are also its stand-outs, the rest of the album compares favourably to its predecessors, courtesy of the all‑around tighter musicianship of guitarists Mick Ronson, Mike Wanchic and Larry Crane; bassists George Perry and Robert Frank; drummer/percussionist Kenny Aronoff; and keyboard player Eric Rosser.
At Criteria, the American Fool sessions took place in the brand new Studio E. Designed by John Storyk, this comprised a live area that incorporated Cuban tile and Pecky Cypress wood with stained glass and 27‑foot peaked ceilings, alongside a control room housing a massive, custom‑built 56‑channel MCI console and two MCI 24‑track machines that were locked together.
"It was a horrible‑sounding console, as was all of the MCI gear at that time," Gehman states. "A lot of people liked it, but when you compared it to a great Neve and API gear it just wasn't up to the task. That said, I could certainly make it work, but in those days I was hung up on a lot of things that people were using to get sounds, whether it be tube microphones or Fairchild compressors. I was starting to learn a lot of that kind of stuff which we didn't have at Criteria, an R&B studio that was set up more for direct sounds, and I had a whole new world open up to me as I met people who were making rock records."
While most of the American Fool musicians playing in Studio E were in booths, the DI'd bassist was in the main room with drummer Kenny Aronoff who, according to Gehman, was recorded "with a lot of ambient mics that didn't work."
"There was probably [an AKG] D12 on the kick," he says, "[AKG] 451s on the hi‑hat and as overheads, [Sennheiser] 421s on the toms, and Schoeps mics for the room, along with [Neumann] U87s and PZMs. However, none of this made any difference. I thought I'd be able to get great sounds in that new state‑of‑the‑art room, but John Storyk had put in so much absorption that, no matter what, we couldn't get any reflection. It was just dead and I was unknowingly trying to get an ambient drum sound.
"You see, one of our models for 'Jack & Diane' was Phil Collins' 'In The Air Tonight'. John came in one day and, after he sat down and played it, he said, 'This is what I want to create. I want to have a couple of verses that sound like a little folk song and then I want the big, bombastic entrance of some drums, and we'll take it to a whole new place."
Not that either Mellencamp or Gehman knew how to recreate Collins' trademark drum sound which, thanks to producer‑engineer Hugh Padgham's innovative use of heavily compressed room ambience and gated reverb, distinguished so many 1980s productions.
"That was one of the things that really hung us up," Gehman confirms. "I didn't know anything about rock & roll drum sounds — I didn't understand how you even made a gated sound. Still, having originally been managed by David Bowie's manager Tony DeFries, John knew people within that camp, including Bowie's guitarist Mick Ronson. So we asked him to come in for a day and help us with the arrangement of a track called 'Weakest Moments'. Then, when we mentioned how we were trying to get a rock sound on the drums, he said, 'Well, you ought to do a gated echo with a plate.' I said, 'Huh? What do you mean?' He said, 'Make the plate kinda short, put gates on the returns and gate the send,' and when I did that it was one of those 'Aha!' moments — 'Oh, my God, so this is how you make something sound like it's getting hit hard.' That was the beginning of things starting to click. Just that one little thing made it like we were a rock band. What Mick told us was a gift.
"We also used a LinnDrum borrowed from the Bee Gees at a time when there were only two of those machines in the entire country. Kenny programmed the little drum-machine beat for the first half of 'Jack & Diane', and for two months we had the intro, the first three verses and all the stuff up to where the real drums enter. Every day, we were pounding away at the sound, trying to make this thing launch. Then, once we had the drum sound, Kenny came up with the drum entrance that's on the record. Shortly after, we got the 'let it rock, let it roll' background bridge and it all tumbled together fairly quickly."
"I owe Mick Ronson the hit song 'Jack & Diane'," John Mellencamp told Classic Rock magazine in 2008. "Mick was very instrumental in helping me arrange that song, as I'd thrown it on the junk heap... All of a sudden, for 'Jack & Diane', Mick said, 'Johnny, you should put baby rattles on there.' I thought, 'What the fuck does put baby rattles on the record mean?' So he put the percussion on there and then he sang the part 'let it rock, let it roll' as a choir‑ish‑type thing, which had never occurred to me. And that is the part everybody remembers on the song. It was Ronson's idea."
Mellencamp has also remarked that the clapping on 'Jack & Diane' was recorded simply to help sustain the tempo and was supposed to be removed, before he realised the song didn't work without it.
"I don't recall that being the case," Gehman says. "I always thought it was part of the hook. From day one, John came in with a production model of what he wanted to do. Just listen to 'In The Air Tonight'. Certainly, when he first rehearsed the song it didn't have a chorus. It was just a lot of verses tucked together. But then, what is the chorus to that song? What's unusual about the production is that there are a lot of hooks. There are musical hooks, there are the claps, there's all kinds of stuff. Still, while John's memory is horrible with regard to how certain things happened, it's true that, until we had 'let it rock, let it roll', there was no payoff.
"That was a gang vocal, with the guys all standing around one mic, and we layered it with some low harmonies, creating three or four tracks of three or four people. The band had a lot of singers. Mike Wanchic and Larry Crane both had very unique voices."
As did John Mellencamp, who initially stood inside a booth while the rhythm section played, and sang his guide vocals into a U87 as well as a C500.
"I remember experimenting with some Sony mics at the time. Ultimately, we switched over to a [Neumann] U67, but that wasn't until later when we finally realised that was his mic. John ran the gamut with his performances. I remember 'Hurt So Good' requiring six takes being comp'd syllable by syllable, and then I can remember doing that on other songs and him sitting down and singing them from one end to the other.
"To his credit, after the American Fool record, John became a much better singer. I don't know what happened, but I've seen it happen with a lot of artists, including Darius Rucker, who I couldn't get to sing in tune to save his life on Hootie & The Blowfish's debut album, Cracked Rearview Mirror. Once I'd made a record with him he would rarely need more than two takes to get what was required, and John became that same guy, singing 'Pink Houses' [a hit single off 1983s' Uh‑Huh album] from one end to the other. In 2001, I was brought in to produce the vocals on his Cuttin' Heads album and then mix the record, and by and large he sang things in sections. There was none of that craziness.
"Sometimes it's the process, sometimes it's a learning curve for the artist. You can't draw any conclusions about someone's ability. Sometimes the pitch reference of the song is such that the artist can't hear where he needs to go. You'll bang your head against the wall for days just trying to get things in tune until you realise that he's keying off some guitar part that's out of tune. It's always been a mystery and it still hasn't changed."
Ditto Mellencamp's views on 'Jack & Diane' which, according to his Classic Rock interview, "was a terrible record to make. When I play it on guitar by myself, it sounds great; but I could never get the band to play along with me. That's why the arrangement's so weird. Stopping and starting, it's not very musical."
Gehman agrees. "That song eludes everyone," he says. "Without the middle section, it barely exists as something you could sit and play on an acoustic guitar and hold anyone's interest. That's why the mix was so difficult. There's one bass note in each intro setup, and I had to twist John's arm to let me put that in because I felt like it needed to be rooted somewhere. The song is kind of tied together with lots of little pieces that are sequential in terms of their call and response. As every section is a new set of instrumentation, it required a lot of tracks; something which was part of the 48‑track approach that I was accustomed to by then, so we could make it all happen. Drums and drum machines take up a lot of room — 24‑tracks aren't very good at that unless you mix everything down.
"Along with all of these technical difficulties, I was trying to produce the song so that it felt current. We had a backwards cymbal coming out of the 'let it rock' section, but John didn't want to know about any of those tricks. That wasn't where he really wanted to go. However, we came up with a very sophisticated production, and almost all of the records that John and I made together were that way. They come off sounding like they're pretty simple, but if you look at the track layout and how many things come and go — different guitar sounds, the chorus and all the instrumentation changes — you realise how much we worked our asses off to make it sound like it was played from one end to the other when it wasn't. In those days, that required a lot of work."
For his part, despite the welcome success of American Fool, John Mellencamp was less than ecstatic about the contents.
"To be real honest, there's three good songs on that record and the rest is just sort of filler," he opined in a 1984 Creem magazine interview. "It was too laboured over, too thought about, and it wasn't organic enough."
Gehman concurs: "It was fraught with layers of problems. We had 20 or so songs, we had a record company that was hoping we were making a Neil Diamond‑type album, and after we spent two or three months in the studio recording these songs and mixing them to the best of our ability, I can remember an A&R guy in a pink shirt coming in to listen to them and basically thinking we had nothing. At that point, they put a stop to the project. We had 'Jack & Diane', we had 'Hand To Hold On To', we had 'Weakest Moments' — we had some good songs — and while I don't know the precise nature of the discussions that took place, Riva went from wanting to get a new producer to not even wanting John on the label anymore. Finally, they came around to letting us finish it but wanting to hear the new songs we were going to cut."
It was during this uncertain period that Mellencamp collaborated with lyricist George Green, who he had known growing up in Seymour, Indiana, and 'Hurt So Good' was one new result of their partnership. Another was 'Thundering Hearts'.
"Once John had 'Hurt So Good', he felt like he had what he needed to launch the project," says Don Gehman.
"The record company thought it would bomb," Mellencamp asserted in his Creem interview, "but I think the reason it took off was — not that the songs were better than my others — but people liked the sound of it, the 'bam‑bam‑bam' drums. It was a different sound."
Indeed, once the sessions resumed, they took place at Cherokee Studios in LA, where engineer George Tutko was well versed in the art of making rock records.
"We cut four more tracks, finished what we had to do — including one of the power‑chord guitars on 'Jack & Diane' — and then mixed the album there on a Trident console," recalls Gehman, who in 1984 relocated to Los Angeles where, due to the industry's generally diminished budgets, he now works almost exclusively in specialised home studios, including his own Pro Tools‑based setup. Among his current projects is one with 15‑year‑old singer‑songwriter Noah Benardout, who just happens to be a great‑great‑nephew of Irving Berlin. Featuring four of his songs, the web site www.noahbenardout.com recently attracted around 250,000 hits within just three weeks.
"Mark Stebbeds, who had helped us with some ideas at Criteria, was, I think, also with us in Los Angeles," Gehman continues. "John liked having engineers around. Whenever I worked with him, he was always saying, 'Bring in somebody else who's got ideas besides yours. I want to hear what they have.' So we would bring in other engineers for a week or have them mix the record, or I would work with them. Having engineering partners was great for me — I learned a tremendous amount from observing some of them."
Nevertheless, nearly 30 years later, despite having so much more studio experience under his belt, Don Gehman still isn't sure that he would have approached the American Fool project any differently.
"Given the personalities, I don't know that much would have ever changed," he says. "You can't view that stuff outside the context of what was going on in the world in 1982 and what was available technologically. It was a different time. The only constant is that John was an amazingly creative man and still is."
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USER REPORT: Reviewing the X100 as a reporter camera by Wijnand Wustrow
This picture illustrates where I come from. I started out with the Nikon FM and a 50mm 1.8. A fantastic camera in sturdiness, controllability, dimensions and weight, and usability. The FM served me well for over 15 years. As a reporter camera, though, I always felt it slowed me down, due to being completely manual.
Therefore I moved on to the Hexar AF. It's ability to quickly auto focus and it's ingenious exposure program coupled with its excellent 35mm lens made it a joy to use when shooting people and situations. After I went digital in 2007 I was desperately hoping for a digital equivalent.
Which never came.
I also bought the Canon Eos 5 to be able to use different lenses, such as 28mm, 50mm and 85mm.
That camera did bring a digital equivalent, so I settled on the Canon 5D and 5D mark II. A hunk of a camera, but cumbersome to carry around and large and loud enough to be easily noticed by the people you're trying to photograph. And scare them. I never really fell in love with that camera, but as a professional tool (I'm a wedding photographer) it sure gets the job done in all situations, quick, reliable, efficient.
– EVF in dark situations
– Also EVF when shooting at close distances, to avoid the parallax problems both with framing and the focus point missing the mark
– OVF in daylight, with a clear viewfinder (no projection of extra information such as histogram and horizon)
– The focus switch on Manual, using the AFL/AEL lock button to lock focus
– OVF power save on, I had no problems with AF being slower
– All sounds off
– Flash off
– I switch back and forth from program mode to aperture priority a lot and it is very annoying that you have to set the ISO for each when changing from one to the other.
Will I use the X100 for professional work, wedding photography? Well, it has a lot going for it: it's silent, it's small and discrete, has excellent low light capabilities, an excellent lens which suits me well for the way I shoot weddings, nails the exposure and white balance reliably and is a lot easier to carry around all day than my 5D.
But for now I feel that the way I work during weddings is too demanding for this otherwise very capable camera. There are moments that are too fast changing for the X100 to handle. For example, I use the continuous auto focus quite often, and I found the continuous setting next to unusable on the X100. The X100 does 3 or 5 frames per second, but after 10 shots it locks up for a while to be able to process and write the files. This makes it impossible to get ready for what happens next.
On the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia. I find the rendering of the scene to be excellent, but I missed the boy jumping of the cliff with the X100
Maybe, it just takes a bit more getting used to. I'll see. For now it does not give me the confidence to use it as a professional tool. But it sure as hell makes a fantastic carry everywhere camera, and I'm sure it will serve me well during trips and in less dynamic situations. And I suspect it will really shine doing theatre photography. My girlfriend studied theatre, so I do a bit of theatre photography, usually during live performances with the audience present. This is where the 5D was too loud during silent parts. At the festival I photographed a few poetry performances in difficult lighting situations and the results with the X100 were very convincing with no exposure compensation needed.
Bad lighting inside a food and drink stall at the festival. These files are usually very hard to get right when tweaked.
Of course no camera review can go without a dog picture. So here you go:
34 Responses to "USER REPORT: Reviewing the X100 as a reporter camera by Wijnand Wustrow"
Hello There!
I'm sorry to make you feel uneasy. But how come a proffessional photographer to work in JPG.
I'm a 25 year lasting pro international photojournalist career and, sincerely, if someone tell me today that is working on JPG, I surely will not trust his work.
You must be very confident on your skills, otherwise, I can't understand that nost of us do work with the certitude that minor fails, or sharpness issues are corrected properly.
(Most of the time WB troubles and DR )
I work every day intensive work and do it with two X-Pro1 and one X-100, and mostly ( if not always) the X-100 ask for some post productions.
I can see that the sky in the sea shot have severe loss in the white area, and in the "slow food" high iso ( or cropping) is a strong cast to green and a loss of sharpness.
This is because JPG.
I strongly suggest you to get used to RAW it's simply unbeatable and a whole new open world to your shooting.
Remarkable: your experiences very closely mirror mine (www.speedlighter.ca). Especially
how you ended up working with this camera: I'd say I'm the same exactly. The new firmware makes a big difference, btw: have you updated yet?
I use the Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 on the Oly EP2 with VF2. That manual focus just works SO WELL. The Fuji x100 AF is pretty fast in good light, but for reportage its best to set the x100 to
– Manual AF mode
– Use the AFL button to prefocus
– Press the shutter with NO SHUTTER LAG
You should be able to get lots of reportage style pics as the Depth of field of the semi wide lens would cover a lot of ground when set to f4.
Also set Auto ISO on, and choose a fast shutter speed like 1/125 as your minimum. The Fuji will just bump up the ISO automatically and make nice pics even at ISO3200.
I use the Fuji for portrait candids, if you check this site the Fuji shots are clearly labelled.
I use my x100 at every wedding I photograph, along with a pair of 5DII's. For some parts of the day I leave the 5D's in the bag and just use the x100. I love how small and discrete the camera is and the silent shutter is excellent during the ceremony.
Over half the photographs on this wedding are from the x100, can you spot which ones?
Interesting piece. I started out with a Nikon FM2 and just a 24mm lens, used it for years. I loved the total manual controls, after few months of continual use, I had exposure and focus control automatically. I have some great "decisive moment" pictures, from those days. When the world went digital and AF, I changed the FM2 to various digital cameras, but I found AF a hindrance to creativity. Now I'm getting used to it. Any way to cut a long rambling about "the good old days", short. I've just sold my X1 and ordered an X100, I hope it will get close to the FM2
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I absolutely LOVE the first photo. WOW.
And why did you miss shooting the body jumping? What about the camera slowed you down? Would be nice to know exactly….
I was thinking about the X100. But the GRD3 just seemed the better choice for what and how I shoot. So far I am amazed at the results out of it. FM3a + GA645i + GRD3. Perfect. Oh and yes 50 and 28 are the ones to have. 35 is no mans zone, 85 is too special, and other others too whacky for 90% of the time.
Man, I love the Konica Hexar AF. Unfortunately the Fuji x-100 doesn't have its Active Autofocus system, as it's contast detect system is waay slower in the dark – otherwise it would be the perfect digital Hexar AF replacement for me. PS. You will no longer have to set ISO independently when switching modes with the latest Fuji firmware.
I agree 100%.
For a carry-everywhere camera the X100 is amazing.
I wouldn't want to rely on it for professional situations though where missing the shot is not an option. For that I would use a Canikon.
I used the same combination 5d with x100 for the last wedding, the 5d with the 50 mm 1,4 in most cases and the x100.
it was a test for the x100 also. I found out that the results are quite the same in points of quality. and I am a fan of lighht travellong too. thqt was my reason for buying the x100. Last week I was in California, first time only with one camera and it was nice to travel with the x100. if you don't have to much stuff you can focus on other things, that helps a lot.
if you want, have a look on my webpage. http://www.eike-loge.com/gallery/test-fujifilm-x100/
also the new pictures in the blog are done with the x100
I love it
That's one of the best and most informative reader contributions in a long time. Great stuff and insights. Thank you.
I think all are perfectly valid points made, however, I think its also worth remembering that I don't think a camera like the X100 was ever really made to be a professional tool. A great camera, yes, and a fine supplement to a professional arsenal but its basically a point and shoot with a great sensor.
There really isn't anything about its overall design or concept to suggest it would be a professional tool. My Nikon D3's on the other hand were clearly build from the ground up around the needs and demands of a working photographer.
They are as far from a casual shooting tool as the X100 is from a serious tool. That doesn't mean you can't take a D3 on a casual walk, just as it doesn't mean you can't use the X100 to produce a great professional image but neither is really meant for those tasks.
As a spare body for things such as reception shots the X100 is fantastic though. You can go around taking candids and most guest won't even know your the official photographer and you can get some really different stuff than going around with an obvious DSLR, fast lens, speedlight combo.
Again, wouldn't want to shoot a whole event with just the X100, that wouldn't be fun, but for specific tasks it can prove a valuable tool.
Yeah it's not the fastest, but the IQ is out of this world. Everything gets better, and if Fuji keeps releasing "X" cameras, I'll buy one. By then MF and AF will be top notch I'm sure. They have a winning formula and it'll remain a 2nd camera to my Pentax K-5 at every wedding I shoot (and honestly everywhere I go!).
Enjoyed the article and the photos! The X100 is a great little camera.
Like Wijnand, I'm a 5D user out of necessity. I've been looking since 2004 for the 'digital' equivalent/s of classic lightweight film cameras, particularly compact models, but found most to be wide of the mark. Most DSLRs are now far too big or heavy to lug around all day … whilst most compacts offer limited features and/or poor performance in poor light. I think the X100, NEX series and X1 in particular are the shape of things to come – not perfect, but getting close. I'm eagerly waiting to see what shows up in the next few years. A number of people are now recalling Fuji's long-running range of MF cameras that offered different (fixed) lens options – wide, standard, tele – perhaps a new X100 series might follow suit. Three different X100 body/lens combos might sound odd, but would still work out cheaper than one M9 body + 3 Leica lenses for those of us with more limited budgets!
If we are compiling a wish list, why go for 3 Fuji's with different focal-length fixed lenses, when we could wish for one Fuji with an m-mount for interchangeable lenses ?
"But for now I feel that the way I work during weddings is too demanding for this otherwise very capable camera." That mirrors my experience with it so far as well. If things are moving fairly slowly, and that includes street photography for me too based on my working method, the X100 is really pretty great. But in really dynamic situations I find the X100 not to be quick enough in operation and focusing. Perhaps some of that is getting used to it, but right now I'm not sure.
FYI..Fuji just released a firmware upgrade http://www.dpreview.com/news/1106/11062410fujix100firmware.asp
Seems to fix some of the issues described by Wijnand and you. Would be interested to know if this makes any difference.
Have you tried using zone-focussing instead ? I find the AF on most cameras too slow for street photography, through the Fuji would certainly be slower than any recent AF SLR.
Street photography is fine, frankly, and I tend to shoot in the f2.8-4 range, pre-focusing much of the time and then waiting for the right moment. When I can move around the subject it's fine, but when the subject is the one doing the moving is when things get bogged down.
Thanks for the review and images. I'm curious with your shooting JPG, what in camera sharpness setting do you use?
Interesting article, I own Canon 5d mkII and your experience mirrors mine, I've be contemplating about buying second smaller(ish) camera like sony nex or x100 but it's always the question whether to buy new camera or new prime :). Anyways, nice photos, I especially liked the one from poetry festival, reminds me of Bill Brandt.
Wijnand, great story, very informative, great pics (except the dog pic ;-)).
P.s.: this is more a question for Steve: I find the images on the site once "clicked" extremely sharp, and that goes for all of them, so is that a characteristic of the site Steve?
I thought that it was problem with Leica's and that photos were just out of focus but when I saw Canon 5d looking blurry I had to check and when different version is opened they indeed looked sharp.
I was kidding about the Leica, I am not sure why this is happening, it is obviously not because of the browser but it's nice (well sort of) to hear that someone else had this experience.

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"Are you in DC this weekend? Urgent call me back."
¡Ay! This text came on Friday which is my busiest day of the week since it's when I publish The Wise Latina Club's weekly newsletter.
Plus it was the last day to put the finishing touches on an intense foreign policy and politics-focused panel, "Caught in the Crossfire: Women on the frontlines in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala" I moderated on June 4th which looked at the impact the war on drug is having on women with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and other human rights advocates from Mexico and Central America.
Plus Friday, I have my "mentoring" date.
Add: life as in, it's Friday night and maybe I want to go out on a date.
But I called my friend back. He passed along a tip.
Hollywood Star Friend: "Gospel sensation Mary Mary who also has a reality show of the same name is in DC this weekend. You should interview them about blowing up in the music mainstream while they balance marriage and kids. I think it's something TWLC's readers would appreciate learning about as they themselves 'do it all'."
And with the Lights! Action! Camera! that follow them wherever they go, this is how my foray into reality TV began…without having to make a sex tape à la Kim Kardashian!
Turns out Mary Mary were in DC headlining the 7th annual Cinderella Ball sponsored by The House, Inc. a youth leadership non-profit which hosts an annual prom for students with disabilities and life threatening illnesses. Medication, hospital visits, being poked and prodded with needles be gone. For one night, they are not patients but kids who will dance the night away, gaining hope and inspiration to keep on, keepin' on.
I had a lot to ask Mary Mary who in real life are Erica and Tina Campbell.
They're balancing Grammy performances, tours, all their career demands as they make it B.I.G. But they're also working moms.
What advice do you have for women who are also juggling kids, hubs, being preggers, and work?
I also asked about the tension between on one hand, their music's message which is empowering and focused on faith. On the other hand, there's their taste in fashion. People have criticized their clothing choices for being more Nicki Minaj than Whitney Houston circa her choir-in-robes-singer early days.
Erica and Tina predictably affirmed that their style choices don't cross the "church" line, their families', or their own.
I wasn't going to take their designer-clad word at face value. I put my 11 years of hard-nosed journalism experience and my Yale PHD research skills to work: I watched all the episodes of WE-TV's Mary Mary. I didn't see anything that raised my freshly waxed, TV ready eyebrows. And that doesn't include the low brow you see on TV nowadays, ¡Madre Mía even at the Mexican presidential debate!
What did pop off the screen is that Tina and Erica show off the curves of real women who have had children, whose demanding schedules sometimes don't allow them to work out or eat right, but who overall are healthy. Yeah, they might have some help, something many working women, especially African American and Latina moms don't have. But there's some really positive role modeling going on when you see a woman tastefully dressed, albeit on that edge, who looks like you and works, has goals, ambitions, and is making her dreams reality.
In a society that defines beauty as rexxy, white, and blonde, Mary Mary embraces their beauty, although I will say, I wish they would go back to brown hair as opposed to their shade of blonde, an affliction plaguing many beauties of color such as JLO, Shakira, and Mary J. Blige.
Beauty–what's inside and out–is not "one size fits all."
Neither are women.
Or guys.
My heart skipped a metaphorical beat when I laid eyes on New York Giants Linebacker Clint Sintim who grew up outside of DC in his tailored suit and horn-rimmed glasses.
But when I found out he was at the Cinderella Ball to escort his autistic sister Brittany, my heart stopped!
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Romney commented after the latest unemployment report showed employers created only 96,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, largely because more people stopped looking for work.
Romney told Fox News that Obama has not kept his pledge to create new jobs. He says the president made new promises in the speech that he also won't be able to fulfill.
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03/24/2010, Miami
None of us are youngsters anymore so you can imagine how hard we laughed when I got this from Loni! I'm definitely going to wear it with all the barefootin' on this journey aboard Altair.
Dudley, Jim and Loni gave me a wonderful birthday!
03/24/2010, Miami, Florida
To quote Lucille Ball: "The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age"! Yessssss!
It was a great birthday...my sweetheart, Dudley, our good friend Jim and his better half Loni took me to my FAV restaurant in Miami, Captain's Tavern. I'm 24 this year!
03/22/2010, Home Sweet Home!!!
Raymond has been our guide and our taxi driver for the 8 months we've been in Grenada! We didn't call him yesterday to remind him to take us to the airport and he forgot us! Poor guy...felt so bad, but we made it!
Jim, Dudley's Best friend, was waiting for us in Miami and it was freezing! Supposedly the winter in South Florida was horrendous with a few frosts thrown in this year! Glad we missed that!
Dudley and Bec
03/20/2010, Woburn Bay, Clarke's Court Bay Marina
Whew, we had one dirty chain, but with that said, it's a lot easier to clean than rode! Whew that would be me!
Our friend Gary offered to help us dock Altair when we get around to Clarke's Court Bay Marina! We picked him up and he took a little ride with us from Hog Island to Woburn Bay. We are always ready, always prepared, thanks to my Captain with the mostest.
Check out those reefs and waves.
FYI: The wind was blowing pretty briskly, which made for an exciting search for the channel markers, but we had a big crowd on the dock when we got there and we slipped in like we did it every day!
Dudley and Bec
03/19/2010, Phare Bleu Marina
We are leaving the boat at Clarke's Court Bay Marina, going home for a couple of weeks and then we had an epiphany! We really, really need new cushions in the salon, the old ones being 36 years old. Now Dudley has done a great job since he's bought the boat in 1984...but can we say PANCAKES? Ouch...the fiddles are too much when you don't have enough cushion of our own.
So we contacted Dave at The Canvas Shop and he will be able to do the job for a fair price and by the time we get back on the 12th of April! Yippe, so excited. Finally!!!
03/17/2010, D'Big Fish Restaurant @ the head of Prickly Bay
Our table at the Security meeting was having fun. Caroline (S/V Sweet Caroline) is modeling two hats she bought today. The Roties were great! That's chicken or fish, veggies and curry in a tortilla...some are better than others, but this was huge and yummy!
Grenada is safe compared to St. Vincent, Trinidad and Venezuela! Unfortunately, there have been 5 incidents of violence and or thefts in the last year. A meeting was held with the Head of the Coast Guard, the Police Chief, the media and a huge cruiser turnout! A couple of the victims were present and posed a lot questions and complained! There were lots of questions which revealed the serious lack of funds. The Coast Guard Cutter sitting in the lagoon across from this place, De Big Fish, is derelecht and they have no money to revive the corpse. They have only two large inflatables which need to run between here and Trinidad along with everything else...and that's it! Thank goodness there isn't a lot of crime! One of the other issues is communication. The 911 number is not manned, or womaned (are they words) after 4p nor any assurance the other numbers that were posted are either.
All in all, the meeting was handled very calmly, very intelligently and with humor where appropriate!
When we were leaving, we thanked the Coast Guard guy and he said..."here's my cell phone...call me any time...I will get you help". We asked if we needed to clear that with his wife!
Thanks Grenada for being such a peaceful, loving and productive place to be!
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Tuesday night's game at the Etihad is one of the biggest games of the season, and here's a guide to TV channels showing the game around the world
If the game isn't being shown in your country or region, remember that you can listen to live commentary in English on Radio Barça and the international web sites
All around the world, people are going to glued to their TV sets on Tuesday as Manchester City host FC Barcelona in one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the season. In the UK, the game gets under way at 7.45 PM GMT, but viewers in the Americas will be watching it in the middle of the afternoon, while fans in Asia and Oceania will either be staying up very late on Tuesday, or getting up very early on Wednesday. But it's worth making sacrifices for a game as good as this one.
Radio Barça, FCBarcelona.com and @FCBarcelona
If the game isn't being shown in your country or region, remember that you can listen to live commentary in English on Radio Barça, and there will be constant updates here at www.fcbarcelona.com, on Twitter and on all of the club's usual social networks.
To help you find the game, here's a list of kick off times in different countries and the channels that are showing the match.
Brazil - 5:45 PM (Brasilia)
ESPN + Sur, ESPN + Andina, ESPN HD Latin, ESPN Play Latin America
FC Barcelona: @fcbarcelona_br and www.fcbarcelona.pt
China - 3:45 AM (Wednesday morning) (CST)
QQ Sports Live, Sina Sports, CCTV-5
FC Barcelona: Tencent Weibo and www.fcbarcelona.cn
France - 8:45 PM (CET)
beIN Sports 1
FC Barcelona: @fcbarcelona_fra and www.fcbarcelona.fr
India - 1:15 AM (Wednesday morning) (IST)
TEN Sports LIVE, Ten Action
Indonesia - 2:45 AM (Wednesday morning) (WIB)
Liputan Champions, Orange TV Indonesia, SCTV
FC Barcelona: @fcbarcelona_id and www.fcbarcelona.co.id
Japan - 4:45 AM (Wednesday morning) (JST)
Fox Sports Japan
FC Barcelona: @fcbarcelona_jap and www.fcbarcelona.jp
Russia 11:45 PM (MSK)
NTV+ Football
Spain - 8:45 PM (CET)
TV3, TVE: @fcbarcelona_cat and @fcbarcelona_es
beIN Sports Arabia 1 HD, beIN Sports Arabia 3 HD, beIN Sports Arabia 11 HD
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During the second quarter, Wärtsilä's net sales increased by 22% to US$1,899 million compared to the corresponding period last year. Net sales for Ship Power totalled US$682 million, a growth of 31% compared to the corresponding period last year. Power Plants' net sales for the second quarter totalled US$539 million, which is 39% higher than in the corresponding quarter last year. The second quarter net sales for Services amounted to US$668 million, a growth of 3%.
The market activity in new building remained very low and only a handful of ship orders were placed during the second quarter. The recent decrease in new building prices did not attract owners to place new orders as the economical fundamentals and an oversupply in bigger ship segments still prevail. The orders that materialized during the second quarter were mainly placed for specialized tonnage at specialized yards.
The market environment for Power Plants was mostly unchanged from the previous quarter. Inquiries for new power plants remained at a high level and market activity was good with customers showing continued interest in new flexible capacity. The impact of the financial crisis was evident through a slower conclusion of projects, mainly due to difficulties in securing financing. In North America an increased amount of inquiries were seen.
Despite the risk of cancellations and the nonrecurring restructuring items booked in the second quarter, the substantial order book at the end of the year should support a 10-20% growth in net sales for 2009, which would maintain the profitability at last year's good level.
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Is Elysium's Cyborg Suit Possible? Believe It Or Not, Yes
By Kristy Puchko 2013-08-06 07:08:39 comments
Of course, were not there yet. But what does Salvia think will take us 50 to 100 years to nail down? He was good enough to break it down: A system like this needs a few key technologies: 1] an ability to sense signals from Matt's body (from his nervous system or perhaps his skeletal muscles) 2] environmental sensors (to detect things like acceleration, position, strain, rotation, etc.) 3] a lot of computational power to interpret those signals 4] motors and actuators to drive the limbs and 5] a high-density energy source to power items 1]-4]. Of these 5 items, the first one and the last one would likely be the hardest to develop.
Sensing Matt's intended motion can happen in a variety of ways, Salvia says. Researchers have shown that they can read motion-related instructions directly from a person's brain using electrodes surgically inserted under the skull. However, the data rate and accuracy from such a system is very poor. For example, if you wanted to drive a robotic finger with your thoughts and have it type a message for you on a keyboard, you would be hard pressed to type a word per minute, and that word would probably have a lot of typos. This is a key area that separates Damons Hulk suit from what we have available today. But Salvia also pointed out that todays suits require extensive physical therapy. For example, if Damons character would need years of practice before he could run and jump as he does in the trailer. But there are other potential methods for the brain to communicate with the exoskeleton.
Other options would be to sense the signals going to Matt's muscles either at the spine or closer to the muscles themselves. While I have heard of research along these lines as well, I'm less familiar with the pros/cons of the approach, Salvia allows. Finally the system could directly sense the contractions of Matt's muscles and then act to augment his strength. I'm not familiar at all with technology like this, but with hundreds of implanted strain sensors it would be theoretically possible.
He goes on: Environmental sensors for acceleration, rotation, etc. already exist and are definitely not the limiting technology. The required computational power isn't trivial (you'd probably need something akin to today's supercomputer), but at the rate that the industry is improving we should be there in a few decades. Also, actuator technology probably wouldn't be a limiting factor assuming that you have sufficient energy to drive them. Which brings us to the question of a power source.
The power source is where an effective exoskeleton suit demands major technological advancements. In the film, the hulk suits battery life is never brought up. But in real life, Salvia declares, We would need a huge breakthrough in battery technology to be able to store and deliver the kind of power necessary to move Matt's arms and legs with enough strength and speed to justify his cyborg addition. Unfortunately, battery technology is advancing very slowly. Right now the highest density energy sources that we have are chemical fuels like gasoline. Converting those fuels into useful electrical or mechanical energy requires an engine--something usually not known for its feather-like weight (not to mention heat, noise, etc.), so it would be really inconvenient to carry around on one's back. Other options like fuel cells have their own limitations, but maybe they'll get there some day.
To see where we are with exoskeleton technology, Salvia offered this video which uses Iron Man 3 as a jumping off point to discuss exoskeleton suits.
Elysium opens everywhere this weekend.
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At least in the context of NBM projects, users have requested a tool to take an existing source tree containing Ant-based projects and convert it into a Maven aggregator. Would need to examine nbproject/project.properties and similar metadata and try to produce pom.xml equivalents, while compiling a to-do list of untranslatable things such as custom build.xml targets. Needs to have an SPI for different Ant-based project types, and for different aspects of a single project type such as JAXB bindings.
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Clear Up Issues In Steubenville
August 1, 2013
At last count, 34 people had applied for the job of Steubenville city manager. The winning candidate will have his or her hands full coping with challenges facing the communit....
I think it will take more than a "NEW" "GOOD" city manager to clean up Steubenville. I see "BREAKING NEWS" on news 9/7 almost every other day about shots fired there. I really don't think that "Shots fired" in Steubenville can be considered breaking news any longer. I think the hiring should start with new people in charge of the city/law enforcement who will be able to take down the thugs that live there. City Manager is not going to fix the city till the violence is under control.
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Question- Is being a city manager in Steubenvill profitable? Why do so many want the job? I, for one would not have it. Too many problems. Won't be long until the State, or Freds will be coming in to clean house.
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Meeting to determine the goals of the City Manager should be held in public. The difference of opinion should be put out in the open for the people to know where their public officials stand. This is why there are Sunshine Laws. They are not talking about personnel but the goals of the City. Maybe council wants the present discourse in the city today. Why should this be discussed behind closed doors. They have problems in this city and it looks like it starts with mayor, council and closed doors.
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Last month, the physical anthropology lab hosted visits by ABC Orthopaedic traveling fellows. These seven fellows are considered to be the among the best young orthopedic surgeons in their respective countries. The American Orthopaedic Association sponsors them on a tour of orthopedic teaching and research centers in the United States. During their first visit, Collections Manager Lyman Jellema, Dr. Anthony Minaci of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Museum Registrar Carole Camillo took the fellows on an extensive behind-the-scenes tour of all the collections department areas which contain bone other than the physical anthropology department. On the second visit, Jellema introduced the fellows to the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection. Dr. Daniel Cooperman and Dr. Raymond Liu from the University Hospitals Department of Orthopaedics gave a demonstration of some of their recent research projects.
Both tours were well-received by the fellows. Museum interns from Ohio Northern University provided assistance in preparing for the tours by pulling the specimens and replacing them when the demonstration was over.
Participating fellows:
Dr. Gordon Beadel (Christchurch and Burwood Hospitals, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Dr. James S. Huntley (Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, Scotland)
Dr. Catherine Fiona Kellett (NHS Tayside, Perth and Dundee, Scotland)
Dr. Michael Richard Reed (Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumberland, England)
Dr. Christian Hugo Snyckers (Steve Biko Academic Hospital of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
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Joe Davis was, without doubt, the father of modern snooker.
Although he did not possess all the skills of the modern players, it must be
remembered that the balls were different, the cloth was different and many of
the shots made today were just not possible with the old equipment. You can
only be the best of your time and Joe was certainly that. He was never beaten
in the world championship winning it 15 times in succession. He was a great
billiards player but taught himself to play snooker before most people even
knew of the game and brought the game to the attention of the masses.
Born in Whitwell, Derbyshire in 1901, Joe was the local
amateur billiards champion by the time he was 13 and turned professional at 18.
In 1922 at the age of 21 he played in his first world championship, at
billiards, and lost to the great Tom Newman. He would later win that championship four times.
He began to take an interest in snooker and helped to
organise the first world championship in 1927, This was staged in Birmingham and he beat Tom
Dennis in the final to win £6.50. He then won every world title until 1946 when
he decided to retire from that event. The nearest he came to defeat was in the
1940 final, when he beat his brother, Fred by just the odd frame 37-36.
Joe's classic cue action is still the basis of that used by
most of today's players and it was also he who developed modern break-building
methods using the black as the key.
He made his first snooker century in 1928 and by 1953 had
made 500 of them. He set new record breaks five times, 137 in 1937, 138 (1938),
140 (1947), 146 (1950) and finally, in 1955, he achieved the first officially
recognised 147 against Willie Smith at London's Leicester Square Hall. He also
made the first century in the world championship in 1935.
His exhibitions drew large crowds and he was one of the most
popular sportsmen of his day. He turned his exhibitions into show business
occasions and played at theatres like the Palladium with a large mirror set up
over the table so that the audience could see what was going on.
Joe eventually retired from all play in 1964 with 687
snooker centuries to his name and 83 billiard breaks of over 1000. Only one
person ever beat him on level terms and that was his younger brother, Fred.
Some would cynically say that this was due to the fact that he rarely played
anyone, outside of championships, without giving them a few blacks start and
that this was to ensure that, if he lost, his record was still intact.
These must be viewed with the understanding that there were
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Christmas in July Giveaway537
It feels like we're living in a very large slow cooker here in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The last thing we want to do is turn on the oven, which is one more good reason to let our slow cookers do the heavy work of meal prep. They chug away all day without ever raising the temperature in the kitchen.
We know we're not the only part of the country sweltering right now, so we're offering an early Christmas present to remind you that in just a few short months the snow will be flying and we'll all be complaining about the cold. One lucky responder will win four (4) slow cookers! The three colorful 1.5-quart Proctor Silex slow cookers are perfect for appetizers or small side dishes. The 6-quart Hamilton Beach Stay or Go is large enough to feed a holiday crowd, and it transports well to parties with its locking handles and a serving spoon that snaps into place.
(Hamilton Beach and Proctor Silex don't know that we decided to celebrate Christmas early by giving away their slow cookers.)
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Weekly Recap for April 16 – 22
Welcome to our Weekly Recap. We will be sharing what books and goodies we got and will go over some of our favorite posts, giveaways, book covers and anything else that peeked our interest during the past week. Lets start things off with sharing what books we got.
– The Bigger They Are by Stephanie Julian
– The Lady is a Vamp by Lynsay Sands
– Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost
Monday – Review of Caressed by Night by Amanda J. Greene
Tuesday – Places I'd like to visit…..Underworld General Hospital (UGH) from Larissa Ione's Demonica Series
Wednesday – Picture of the Week
Thursday – Review of The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn
Friday – Review of Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
Saturday – Review of The Thirteenth Sacrifice by Debbie Viguie
– House Wife Blues and Chihuahua Stories is giving away a set Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa books
– Book Nerd is giving away Kimberly Derting books and swag
– Yummy Men Kick Ass Chicks is giving away a copy of Kindling the Moon OR Summoning the Night by Jenn Bennett
– Author Thea Harrison is giving away the chance to create a character that will appear in her upcoming Elder Races novella
– Fiction Vixen is giving away a copy of Grimm Tidings by Shiloh Walker
Widow's Web, the 7th installment in Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassins series, will have a cover flap and a step back cover. I'd personally be happy with just the step back cover but as a fan of of Jennifer's books, I'll take it any way I can get it. Widow's Web is currently scheduled to be released on August 21st.
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Having a problem when adding users in the blackberry manager.
The users that are setup in the zimbra environment appear in the list when choosing add, but only one out of the 5 users can be added the rest just does not appear on the list of added users, but I get no error messages.
The one user that does work, I can remove and add again without any problems.
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The last year was a big one for Pink. She welcomed a daughter with husband Carey Hart, released a smash greatest hits album and scored her second number one solo hit, "Raise Your Glass." Today, she celebrates her 32nd birthday, so let's, um, raise our glasses to Pink!
Incidentally, before we realized it was her birthday, we were already planning on toasting the pop star today, but for a different reason. We simply can't get enough of Pink on Twitter.
Since the birth of her daughter Willow, Pink has taken some time off to bond with her baby and nurture her growing family. It's pretty rare these days for such a high-profile celeb to set her career on the shelf for so long, but it's made us appreciate Pink all the more. We've always loved her tunes, but by opting away from full-on familial magazine spreads and "HOW I LOST THE BABY WEIGHT" headlines, we've gained an enormous amount of respect for the singer. She started her career as the bad-ass of the early aughts pop princesses, but Pink turned out to be the one to respect that some things are sacred. And that's pretty awesome.
On Twitter, Pink brings humor to the challenges of being a new parent. She also frequently responds directly to her fans and those who criticize her with the same snappy, take-no-s**t attitude that made us love her in the first place. After the jump, a few of our recent favorite tweets.
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Microsoft released a new infographic on Tuesday to highlight its vast amount of cloud customers.
The infographic includes highlights on how Microsoft's cloud services help businesses. Thanks to Microsoft's cloud, businesses can fly 222 million passengers, sell 16 billion cans of soda and even make 4 billion cups of coffee. The infographic coincides with updates to Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud service and Office 365.


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Changing where a newborn baby is held before its umbilical cord is clamped could lead to improved uptake in hospitals of delayed cord clamping, according to latest research.
Delaying clamping until around two minutes after birth allows for blood to pass from the placenta to the baby, and has previously been shown to reduce the risk of iron deficiency in infancy.
However, it is currently recommended that the baby needs to be held at the level of the placenta – the introitus position – which is uncomfortable for the midwife holding the baby and interferes with immediate contact between mother and infant.
Argentine researchers tested whether blood transfer was affected by the position in which the baby was held immediately after birth. In their study, 197 babies were held in the introitus position and 194 babies were instead immediately placed on the mother's abdomen or chest.
The researchers found no significant difference between the two groups in the volume of blood transferred, indicating that placing the baby on the mother's chest or abdomen is no less effective than the more awkward introitus position.
"The findings and recommendations will be welcomed by midwives"
Jane Munro
Lead author Professor Nestor Vain, from the Foundation for Maternal and Child Health in Buenos Aires, said: "Our study suggests that when umbilical cord clamping is delayed for two minutes, holding the baby on the mother's chest or abdomen is no worse than the currently recommended practice of holding the baby below this level.
"Because of the potential of enhanced bonding between mother and baby, increased success of breastfeeding and the compliance with the procedure, holding the infant by the mother immediately after birth should be strongly recommended."
Jane Munro, quality and audit development advisor at the Royal College of Midwives, said: "Both of the issues it addresses are very important for the health and wellbeing of the baby so the findings and recommendations will be welcomed by midwives."
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Quite like the article, but cannot say the same for the photo with it. I cannot imagine any reason why a naked new born should ever have its head held under running water like that!!
Is a relevant topic for further research. In addition, it is not a common practice here in Malaysia to bath newborn. We do a top and tail procedure using coconut oil to remove the vernix. The practice is to prevent hypothermia which can damage the brain.
yeh, you just give 'em a good shake and turn them upside down three times to distribute the iron evenly in their blood stream and the supply to the organs! scientific studies required to provide the evidence!
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The Butler women's basketball team is selling game-worn pink jerseys and shorts to benefit the St. Vincent Foundation Women of Hope. The Pink uniforms are on sale for $75 at the women's basketball office in Hinkle Fieldhouse.
The Bulldogs wore the pink uniforms last year against Wright State on Feb. 5. The following jersey numbers are available (sizes in parenthesis):
2 (Large), 3 (Large), 11 (Large), 12 (Large), 20 (XL), 21 (XL), 22 (Large), 23 (Large), 24 (XL), 32 (XL), 42 (XL).
Proceeds from the jerseys will benefit St. Vincent's Women of Hope, which raises funds, hope and awareness to support cancer patients and families through survivor initiatives and programs.
Make checks payable to:
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Posted on March 30, 2013 in Halfway to St. Patrick's Day, Newsletter by aohgreenville
Funds were raised at the Division's Halfway to St Patrick's Day celebrated mid- September, 2012. Hibernians from left are, Regional Director Len Byrne, then President Joe Deehan, Now President Tom Farrell, and Treasurer Jack Gilchrist.
President Joe Deehan and Greenville brothers gathered in October 2012 to present $10,000 to Rev. Pastor Patrick Tuttle OFM and Principal Sr. Catherine Noecher OSF, accepting on behalf of the 175 predominately African American elementary students of St Anthony Catholic School for their building fund.


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I'm in dire need of good soup recipes. <3 2 Ride eats high sodium canned soup for lunch and I'd like to make a big batch of soup on Sundays so she can take that to work instead.
Here are the requirements. Vegetarian would be nice so that I could eat it or at least sample it and it cannot contain citrus or shellfish.
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I paid them to build a web design for me. They duplicated another web design. I asked her to make some changes, she refused. I simply asked for a refund, she stopped responding to my emails. Next thing i know my email accounts were hacked and my web page deleted. She had access to my email address and website due to she needed that information in regards XXXXX XXXXX the website. What can i do she is causing me to lose out on money.
Yes i did. That's why i was asking for a refund. She took the information that she was suppose to be using for my site, and used it to her advantage. What legal steps can i take?
Yes. I was able to regain access to one of my email accounts, and when viewing my email account it showed me the location o the logins. She deleted everything. She even went on my Godaddy account and change the password. I know it was her because every account she had access to she change the information.
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Written by | Bill Center | 1:17 p.m., Jun 13, 2010
The Padres send Clayton Richard to the mound Sunday afternoon at Petco Park (1:05 p.m., TV: 4 San Diego) seeking to complete a sweep of the Seattle Mariners in the opening series of a nine-game, interleague homestand.
The Padres enter the game with a 37-25 record, which matches the fastest 62-game start in franchise history. The two other Padres teams that started 37-25 won the National League pennants in 1984 and 1998.
The 37-25 start also matches the Padres 37-25 run over the final 62 games of the 2009 season.
The Padres are already 4-1 in interleague play. Last year, they finished the competition against the American League with a 5-10 record.
The Padres also own the best record in the National League and the third-best record in the major leagues.
TODAY'S MATCHUP:MARINERS (23-39) at PADRES (37-25)
1:05 p.m. / Game 3 of 3
TV: 4 San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 1700-AM; 860-AM (Spanish)
Mariners RHP Felix Hernandez: 3-5, 3.77 ERA in 13 starts.
Hernandez vs. Padres: 2-2 career, 3.69 ERA in six starts (0-1, 2.57 ERA in one start).
Hernandez at Petco Park: 0-1 career, 2.57 ERA in one start (first appearance this season).
Padres vs. Hernandez:
David Eckstein: .250 (3-for-12, 2B)
Adrian Gonzalez: .292 (7-for-24, 2 2B, HR, BB, 7 SO)
Tony Gwynn: .167 (1-for-6, BB, SO)
Jerry Hairston Jr.: .500 (1-for-2)
Chase Headley: .000 (0-for-6, 2 SO)
Nick Hundley: .333 (1-for-3)
Oscar Salazar: .000 (0-for-3, 2 SO)
Will Venable: .200 (1-for-5, SO)
Padres LHP Clayton Richard: 4-3, 2.72 ERA in 12 starts.
Richard vs. Mariners: 2-0 career, 0.69 ERA in two starts (1-0 this season, 1.29 ERA in one start).
Richard at Petco Park: 6-2 career, 2.40 ERA in 13 starts (2-2 this season, 2.74 ERA in seven starts)
Mariners vs. Richard:
Milton Bradley: .000 (0-for-5, SO)
Chone Figgins: .667 (2-for-3)
Franklin Gutierrez: .400 (2-for-5, 2B, SO)
Casey Kotchman: .000 (0-for-3, 2 SO)
Jose Lopez: .000 (0-for-6)
Ichiro Suzuki: .333 (2-for-6)
Josh Wilson: .500 (1-for-2)
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Does your patio need a pick-me-up? Whether you're looking for updated furniture, décor or lighting, your patio updates don't have to empty your wallet. We've got 20 cheap DIY ideas to turn a sad space into a sophisticated sanctuary by summer.