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Chelsea Milling Company
Chelsea Milling Company
Business Overview
Chelsea Milling Company is operated by a family whose roots in the flour milling business date back to the early 1800s. We have been milling flour here in Chelsea for over 120 years. Mabel White Holmes, grandmother of our President, Howdy S. Holmes, developed and introduced to the homemaker the first prepared baking mix product, "JIFFY" Baking Mix, in the spring of 1930. We currently offer a variety of "JIFFY" mixes. Our mixes provide you, our consumer, with the best value available.
Chelsea Milling Company is a complete manufacturer. We store wheat. We mill wheat in to flour. We use that flour for our own mixes. We make our own "little blue" boxes. We do it all-that's why our mixes provide you with the best possible value. Value is using the highest quality ingredients and the best price!
Our entire operation is located in Chelsea, Michigan and our product is shipped out to all 50 states, as well as some foreign countries through the United States Military.
Sustainable Business Practices
The Chelsea Milling Company is home to the famous Jiffy Mix sold to supermarkets and retail store throughout the nation. With more than a million boxes of mix manufactured a day, this company has the potential to produce a lot of waste! Instead, the company has worked hard with suppliers to reduce the amount of shipping waste that enters the facility by eliminating plastic liners in bags that were otherwise recyclable. It has also devised a system to collect any mix that falls on the floor during production, which is then sold to a company that cleans and recycles the wasted mix into animal feed. All these efforts resulted in a tremendous decrease in wastefrom 180 yards per week to 90 yards per month. Another new initiative that involves the bulk storage of mix ingredients is being put in place in order to further reduce the amount of waste being generated at the facility. This year Chelsea Milling Company plans to construct a bulk storage facility to reduce the need for small packaging disposal. Chelsea Milling Company is always searching for new waste reduction ideas to be implemented. Knowing that waste reduction is a better waste management practice than recycling, the companys main goal now is to, through waste reduction practice, eliminate the need to recycle altogether! The company is also very energy efficient because it uses ENERGY STAR rated office equipment, places external lights on timers, performs routine preventative maintenance on equipment, installs variable air volume systems, replaces old fluorescent fixtures with new bulbs and ballasts and installs variable frequency drives.


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The AMA FMF/GPR Hare & Hound National Championship Series is well under way, and the ATV A class has seen three different winners in as many ATV rounds.
The action kicked off in Johnson Valley, Calif., hosted by the Desert Motorcycle Club on Jan. 27. Josh Caster rode his Honda to a first-place finish in the ATV A class followed by Colt Brinkerhoff in second and Andris Lagzdins in third, also aboard Hondas.
The series then went to Ridgecrest, Calif., with the Four Aces Motorcycle Club hosting the second round on Feb. 10. There, Brinkeroff took the top spot in the ATV A class, followed by Langzdins and then Honda-mounted Scott David Schmidt. Jace Penney finished fourth aboard a Honda while Bill Markel rounded out the top five on his Yamaha.
The third round of the series was held in Murphy, Idaho, on March 24 but no ATVs ran in that round.
In the fourth round, hosted by hosted by the SoCal Motorcycle Club in Johnson Valley, Calif., on April 22, Lagzdins rode his Honda TRX450R to a first-place finish, followed by Schmidt and then Markel.
The win put Lagzdins in the overall lead for the ATV A class championship, followed by Schmidt and Brinkerhoff, with six rounds left in the series.

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Publisher THQ has sold its mobile division, according to published reports this morning. THQ Wireless, the division launched in 2001 to tackle the lucrative mobile games market, has been sold off to advertising and distribution firm 24MAS. Stockholm-based 24MAS is an advertising and 'premium applications' company serving customers in over 80 countries via a proprietary software platform.
THQ says that the sale of the division does not mean an exit from the mobile market: "This agreement and our ongoing relationship with 24MAS will enable us to continue focusing on cutting edge games for Apple and emerging smartphone platforms while enjoying the distribution services of 24MAS on wireless carrier platforms," said Ian Curran, THQ's executive vice president of Global Publishing.
"The acquisition and ongoing partnership with THQ means 24MAS will have an unparalleled reach to many millions of potential customers globally, both via/for application and content distribution, as well as mobile advertising solutions," said 24MAS CEO Tero Turunen. "THQ Wireless' operations provide a value-add in terms of reach, services and technology, combined with proven management, operational excellence and revenue growth potential."
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
THQ has been tightening its corporate belt this year. Prior to unloading its wireless division, THQ stepped out of the online games space.
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When the Team Takes Advantage of Single Employees
Cindy and Andre are two single employees recognized as go-getters on their way up. In light of steady promotions, you imagined they were happy with their jobs. Cindy set you straight. She's frustrated over what feels like a subtle form of discrimination. Whenever their team is on deadline, it's the two of them who are expected to stay late—so the family folks in equal jobs can rush home to their kids. Your company is enthusiastic about its family-friendly policies, so how do you respond?
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We're taught to not discriminate— period! The essential function of any job is to be there to get the job accomplished. If the job requires working extra time, then the work should be distributed equally. We aren't talking about having a family as being a disability—which would require a reasonable accommodation. We choose to marry, and anyone who has both a job and a family should expect that both need some extra care at times. The company shouldn't always be the one giving in this relationship. It takes two and it works both ways, just like marriage. Equal employees shouldn't be discriminated against whether they have a family or don't.
Terry Martin
Administrative Manager
Beam Industries
Webster City, Iowa
When someone with Cindy's abilities reveals a frustration, she'll have thought of ideas for a solution, which should be discussed. If Andre has felt similar disappointments, he also should be given an opportunity to discuss his thoughts.
They both should be encouraged to discuss their feelings in a positive manner in the next project team meeting—asking other team members to consider their needs when planning for deadlines. If the project team members have a good working relationship and they take responsibility for the project, then the team will work together to resolve conflicts without infringing on anyone's rights under the company's family-friendly policies.
Ed Laging
Personnel Manager
FLEXSTEEL Industries Inc.
Harrison, Arkansas
The first thing I would do is investigate the situation. Cindy may be blowing things out of proportion and feel that she's being singled out because of her marital or nonmarital status. If her accusations are true, then the team needs to be addressed about the situation.
Cindy might have felt that she needed to stay when others felt she was volunteering to stay. Lack of communication could be the problem.
Donna Turley
Human Resources Manager
CBA Information Services
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Family-friendly policies should be defined as flexible policies, not special privileges. If employees with families are released from responsibility, we would call that a special privilege. Flexibility, on the other hand, is allowing those with families to care for family needs and then return to their work responsibilities.
Employees with families can take work home and complete it after the children are in bed. Those with families also can pick up their children from day care, pick up a pizza and return to work after hours. The children can color or play on the floor or in the hallways. My son loved coming back to work with me; I would set him up in the conference room with the large-screen TV and a VCR tape. There's usually no one for the children to disturb and if done infrequently, this can be a treat for the children.
Also, you should find out ahead of a "deadline disaster" what everyone can give to the team in an emergency situation. A deadline-disaster plan would include a list of team members who can come in early or stay late and a list of team members who have access to a computer, phone or other equipment at home —after hours and during weekends.
Michelle Brackin
Human Resource Specialist
Board of Cooperative
Educational Services
Ithaca, New York
Many men and women have delayed having children and the related obligations to strengthen their career paths.
Conversely, others have purposely put family first and made a decision not to be one of the "drivers" in a firm. Both of these are personal choices, and you can often tell when they have been made.
If someone falls into, acts as if he or she is in, or puts himself or herself in one of these categories, he or she should suffer the risks and rewards. If the supervisor has misread the employee's behavior, he or she should change his or her attitude toward the employee. All that aside, there's also an element of teamwork here.
If the "family" folks are bolting at 5:00 p.m. while these two stay until 8:00 p.m.—no way! Some clarifications need to be made. These two will likely be recognized for their contribution (we hope), but we have to be clear that they want to do this. On the other hand, the rest of the gang may need a talking to about commitment and balance.
John P. Kosciusko
Chief Executive Officer
Virtual Consulting Organization
Jefferson, Maryland
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July 18, 2007
The New Wave staff
Tulane University faculty and staff members have garnered accolades this summer for their scholarly work and accomplishments in their respective fields.
Here is a roundup of recent faculty and staff news.
Christopher Beaudoin, assistant professor of community health sciences in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, published a paper in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. This was a special issue focusing on the public health implications of hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita. The paper, titled "News, Social Capital and Health in the Context of Katrina," assesses the public health functions played by news information and social capital in the context of Hurricane Katrina. In-depth interviews were conducted with hurricane shelter residents a few weeks after the storm.
Gerald Berenson, research professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, was named an honorary alumnus of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. The award was presented during the scientific session of the LSU Medical Alumni Weekend.
Richard Campanella, a research professor in the earth and environmental sciences department, received the Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for his book, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm. Campanella is associate director of the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research.
Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, participated in two panels at "The Global Conference" produced by the Milken Institute. He spoke on "Rebuilding New Orleans" and "Crisis Management" at the conference, which brought together global leaders in business, finance, public policy, science, medicine and other fields to discuss and gain insight into important issues. Fellow panelists on the rebuilding panel were Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, congressman, ambassador and civil rights leader who grew up in New Orleans; John Kallenborn, president of the New Orleans Region of JP Morgan Chase Bank, North America; Sean Cummings, president of ekistics Inc., a New Orleans-based real estate development firm; and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. The "Crisis Management" panel included Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Center complex in New York; Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton; and Bill Gray, co-CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world's most highly regarded advertising agencies.
Signe Ann Cutrone was named development director for the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Conservatory of Music, responsible for developing and expanding sources of funding for the orchestra. Cutrone is an adjunct professor in media arts in the School of Continuing Studies.
Gaurav Desai, associate professor and chair of English, has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. This fellowship, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, will allow Desai to spend one year in residence at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He will take up this residency in 2009-2010 to complete his book manuscript on the literary and cultural exchanges between India and Africa.
Joel Dinerstein, assistant professor of English, has received a visiting fellowship from the Harry Ransom Humanities Center in Austin, Texas. The fellowship will allow him to work in the archives of the Ross Russell Collection. Russell was an important postwar jazz scholar, producer and novelist, and is one of the few intellectuals whose work informs the interrelationships of jazz, film noir and existentialism, the three strands of Dinerstein's current book project.
Michael Kuczynski, associate professor of English, has received the Lester J. Cappon Fellowship in Documentary Editing awarded by the Newberry Library in Chicago. Kuczynski will use the fellowship to complete a critical edition of a Lollard psalter.
Jeffrey Lockman, professor of psychology, was named editor of Child Development, the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Jeanette Magnus is the first to be named the Cecile Usdin Professor in Women's Health. The professorship was given by Gene Usdin in memory of his wife, Cecile. Usdin received his undergraduate degree in 1943 and his medical degree in 1946 from Tulane. Magnus chairs the maternal and child health section in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
L. Gabriel Navar, professor and chair of physiology, received the Robert W. Berliner Award during the 2007 Experimental Biology meeting held in Washington, D.C. The most prestigious award of the Renal Section of the American Physiology Society recognizes distinguished lifetime contributions to the field of renal physiology, including research, mentoring and service.
Darwin Prockop, director of the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy, was keynote speaker at the American Association of Anatomists meeting in Washington, D.C., held as part of Experimental Biology 2007 meeting. Prockop described two series of experiments that shed light on the previously mysterious mechanism through which stem/progenitor cells taken from a patient's own bone marrow enhance repair of damaged tissues.
Brad Robbert, operations director of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, was the winner of the New Theatre Restaurant Commercial Theater Institute Scholarship, given by New Theatre Restaurant and DramaBiz magazine. The scholarship, in honor of Fred B. Vogel, founder of the Commercial Theater Institute, allowed Robbert to attend a three-day seminar in New York on producing for commercial theater.
Martin Sachs is the new chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. Sachs, an associate professor of theater, serves as theater coordinator.
Felix "Buddy" Savoie, professor of clinical orthopaedics, performed live surgery at a course in Annecy, France, to demonstrate repair of multi-directional shoulder instability and massive rotator cuff injury. Savoie also was a visiting instructor at a shoulder symposium at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., speaking on arthroscopic management of shoulder instability. Savoie is director of the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine.
For the third year, Alan Silver, director of casino resort studies in the School of Continuing Studies, was appointed to serve as a judge for the American Gaming Association Awards, which recognize outstanding financial and corporate communications in gaming.
Eric Wedig and Jeannette Hunter, members of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library staff, spoke at the American Association of Law Libraries 100th Annual Meeting and Conference. Titled "Rise to the Challenge," their presentation talked about how library staff rose to the challenges after Hurricane Katrina.
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MUMBAI: "Hi, I hope I am not disturbing you?" said a voice, at least a billion people the world over can recognise instantly. Shah Rukh Khan called ET last evening, certainly not to discuss the latest on the Sensex.
The Don would rather discuss Red Chillies Productions' new movie Om Shanti Om (OSO), slated to release this Diwali. After inking the alleged highest deal for a Hindi movie at around Rs 75 crore (inclusive of worldwide rights, but excluding music and satellite rights), OSO is set for another record, the highest number of prints any Indian movie has ever released.


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Elderly Targeted In Local Phone Scams
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office has received reports of phone scams being conducted in the area. On May 9, a resident of Nipomo received a phone call from a person identifying themselves as a representative from the "National Health Association." The caller was looking for personal information, including the resident's checking account number. The caller said they needed …Read More »
Alleged Embezzler In Court
A well-known local businessman accused of securities fraud and embezzlement made his first court appearance in San Luis Obispo Superior Court Monday. Al Moriarty, the owner of the Grover Beach finance company, Moriarty Enterprises, was arrested at his home in Washington state on May 5th and was brought back to San Luis Obispo County last week. Moriarty has been in …Read More »
Three Stores In Violation After Countywide Tobacco Sting Operation
The San Luis Obispo County Health Agency's Tobacco Control Program in coordination with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office conducted a recent countywide tobacco sales compliance check operation, which ended on May 3. With the assistance of three local teen (under age 18) decoys, fifty-eight tobacco retailer locations were visited throughout the county. Three clerks of the 58 retailers …Read More »
Driver Killed In Nipomo After Car Goes Off Highway
The driver who died in an accident that happened in Nipomo early Sunday morning was a 62-year old man from Del Haven, New Jersey. His name has not yet been released by the CHP. At 7:30 a.m. the driver was headed southbound on Highway 101 at Willow Road when his Jeep and the boat he was towing drifted into the …Read More »
Moriarty Makes Court Appearance In Fraud Case
On Monday morning, Al Moriarty, the Grover Beach financial services owner accused of fraud and embezzlement, made his first appearance in San Luis Obispo Superior Court. Moriarty, owner of Moriarty Enterprises, was assigned a public defense attorney, Ron Crawford, who asked that the arraignment be continued to Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Duffy granted the request. Moriarty, 80, was arrested …Read More »
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A fire broke out around 6:42 p.m. on Sunday night in the 2200 block of Mon Chere Lane in Santa Maria. Officials say the fire started in the garage and spread to the inside of the home. Firefighters had the fire under control in about 20 minutes. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but officials say it does …Read More »
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Bike to work week kicks off in San Luis Obispo County Today. During this week, teams of up to 10 people are encouraged to compete in SLO Regional Rideshare's Bike to Work Week competition. Winners will receive various prizes given out at next month's Rideshare's Bike Month Blowout. More than 50 events are taking place in May as part of …Read More »
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Yesterday, Ian and I went for a walk. This was the first walk that I have been on since my surgery on June 18th. I was able to go further than I thought I would be able to. We walked about half of a mile. I have been walking in the pool and moving my arms and legs around in the water. It worked better than I thought that it would to get me back in shape.
I am up early this morning and I am drinking a large glass of water as I speak to get ready for a walk today also. I wake up early now - about 5 am. I am getting about 7 hours of sleep per night. I am trying to stop the afternoon naps in preparation for returning to work in ten days. Right now, I am just waiting for Ian to wake up so that we can go for the walk. Well and waiting for the sun to at least lighten the sky a little if not make an appearance.
Jordan, my son, turned 28 yesterday. The day that he was born is one that I can remember almost perfectly. He is so happy. His marriage to Rose and learning how to weld so that he can aniticpate earning a living has made just a difference in his outlook. It is wonderful to see him so happy.
I am back to taking my vitamins. What a HUGE difference the vitamins make. I don't know why I sometimes will go without them. Why do we do without the things that we know are good for us - even when we have them right at hand. All I have to do is go into the kitchen, open up the package and swallow them with a glass of water. And in return, I feel better all day long. But sometimes I won't do that simple act. Why not?
The same thing goes for walking, but less immediately. I know that I will feel better if I walk 3 miles per day. That seems the perfect amount of walking for me. But sometimes I will go months without doing it. It makes no sense. None. And yet I will go day after day without walking. And the wierd part is I LOVE TO WALK. It isn't like it is something that I dread. I LOVE IT. So, why don't I do it?
So instead of playing around on the computer, I am going to go put on my clothes (the one good thing about the cancer is I got to wear pajamas for weeks - I love pajamas) put on my shoes and wait for Iam to wake up.
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By Nick Devlin@onelittlecamera
There might be fifty ways to leave your lover, but that doesn't mean you aren't going to miss some things about them when they're gone. So it was when I broke up with Canon in 2009. The one thing I really missed was my trusty EF 70-200 f/4L. Adorned with its $8 rubber lens hood, that lens accompanied me all over the world, giving back beautiful images at every turn. Best of all, however, it was a great travelling companion: light, compact, inexpensive and it didn't snore. This lens filled the all-important telephoto/portrait niche and beautifully complemented either a 16-35mm or 24-70mm. This kind of two-lens setup is the staple of many of the world's most successful travel and landscape shooters, and the lack of a lightweight but high quality lens in the 70-200mm range was a gaping hole in the Nikon lineup. It was not until this past December that this finally got fixed.
Like many photographers, it was with great excitement and openness-of-wallet that I greeted the news of Nikon's new – and decade overdue – 70-200mm f/4. While I love my erstwhile 70-200mm f/2.8, it remains a lens best suited to photojournalism with strong shoulders. The much smaller and lighter f/4 version seems like a blessing on paper, so is it? Overall, the answer is "yes". Nikon's f/4 lens is every bit as good as I remember its Canon counterpart being, and leaves very little to desire in terms of image quality. It is, however, a different beast than its faster cousin.
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Nikkor 70-200 f4 VR, f9, 1/500th, ISO 100
In many fields, the 70-200 f/2.8 lens is bread-and-butter. When I worked as a photojournalist, a million years ago in a land called Ektapress, the Canonikon 80-200mm f/2.8 was the money lens. You shoteverythingwith it, from spot-news to sports to portraits to feature pics of kids running through water fountains on hot summer days. You wore the barrel to bare metal and then bought another one. These lenses were built not only for speed, but for battle.
But as a landscape photographer, a lens of that size is a liability. Even stripped of its tripod-mount, the f/2.8 lens is a heavy beast. Its svelte new sibling is both shorter and a lot lighter. The tech specs corroborate what the hand already tells you: the f/4 lens comes in at 850 grams versus 1540 grams for the f2.8 (30 vs. 54 oz.). That's a lot, and it feels like it. To put it in concrete user terms, I have never held/carried/mounted the D800 with the f/2.8 lens attached, but rather always carried or heldthe lens.The camera just happens to be attached to it. The lens was the boss and the camera was along for the ride. With the new f/4 version, however, the D800 becomes the focal point of weight and balance once more. I could carry this latter combination for hours, whereas my wrists recently got tired in less than an hour of handheld shooting with the f/2.8.
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Lighter at what price?
Assuming the f/4 lens can get the job done optically (as we will see below that it does) the operative question for many serious shooters will be whether this lens is sufficiently durable to stand up to professional level use in a variety of distant and not always hospitable environments. At close to $1,500 by the time taxes are factored in, this is not a consumer-priced lens. The catch is that the 'pro-ness' of the f/2.8 is largely synonymous with its metal bulk. While this perhaps reflects the fallacy that heavier is sturdier (ignoring the shear number of elements needed to make all that light converge at the right place at f/2.8), most photographers will nonetheless expect a lens like this to feel sufficiently solid that they can imagine beating it up while trekking around their city/province/world.
Light is nice (really nice!) but what are we giving up with all those shed grams? Well most obviously the new lens is a stop slower. A stop of sharp light at 200mm requires a lot of lens, ergo the f/2.8's weight and girth. Beyond its slower aperture, the f/4 lens also comes without an integral tripod mount. A tripod mount is probably a good idea, but Really Right Stuff will no doubt make a better and lighter one than Nikon's accessory collar, so I can take a pass on that for now. But even with the lens collar removed, the f/2.8 still feelsmassivelybigger.
The really obvious difference, however, is build-feel. I don't say build 'quality' because it is impossible to predict how durable the f4 will prove over time, but even a brief fondle tells you that the f/2.8 lens is made of metal whereas the f/4 version is principally constructed on plastics; very, very good-feeling plastics, but plastics nonetheless. Not that long ago, I would have disparaged the f/4 lens on this basis. However, Nikon's new f/1.8 lenses (the 28/50/85 series) have shut me up. Optically, these lenses match or outperform their much sturdier, metal f/1.4 counterparts. It might seem like an anathema to say that lenses assembled in Thailand or China, on plastic chassis, are the equal or 'real' lenses made in Japan of metal and Samurai-spit, but optically this seems to be the new 'true'.
Durability, of course, remains a question mark. Will these lighter, less heavily constructed lenses retained their edge after four or five years crisscrossing the globe on vibrating airplanes and bouncing taxis? Maybe not, but I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the weight and price advantages they offer make them worthwhile. If I have to replace this lens a little earlier, so be it. I will have carried it more, and more happily in the interim.
I should qualify this by saying that, for the casual enthusiast, there should be no issue of build-quality. There is nothing 'bargain' about the feel whatsoever. The zooming and focusing feel are identical to every other higher-end Nikon lens. It's a very nice lens to use.
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Icy Locks, Toronto, January 2013
Nikkor 70-200 f4 VR, f8, 1/500, ISO 320
This, of course, is the all important question for landscape shooters. We don't lug D800Es around to get sub-optimal images (query why I still own the 24-120???). On this front, my initial short answer is that I can see no difference whatsoever between the f/2.8 and f/4 lenses in terms of resolution and micro-detail. I've pointed both at quite a lot of brick and tree bark in contemplation of this article, and I have yet to find an image where the faster lens is visibly better.
On the other hand, what I have found is that the f/4 can render an astonishing level of detail. The shot below is a casual point-and-shoot image of a mountainside, taken while we were shooting theSigma DP1&2 video review. It was taken hand-held at 1/500 of a second at f8.
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Nikkor 70-200mm f4 VR @ 200mm, 1/500, f8, ISO 500
What is remarkable about this wholly unremarkable image is that I had to zoom in to400%(on a 36MP image) to see that the lens was trying to distinguish each individual branch on a dead tree in one of the colours, more than a mile away, but that the sensor had run out of gas first. I can see this level of resolution to the edges of the frame, and almost as much in the corners. It looks just as good (though obviously less detailed) at 70mm. There is simply nothing more to ask a lens than this. The same level of detail comes through at 70mm as well, and well out to the edges, with only minimal reduction in resolution at the far corners. **Please bear in mind that these are web jpegs and have been subject to significant crushing, compression, sharpening, etc., and do not look as good on your screen as they do in their full original form.**
Well, ok, we'll indulge the pixel peeping a little bit, simply because it says a great deal more about the performance of the lens than a lot of narrative. Here is another artless search for random distant detail, first showing the full frame and then two crops which I have attempted to make 100% if the gremlins of web-compression will allow it. The narrow gauge wires atop the smokestack are crisply resolved, as are the numerous lines on the stacks in the lower centre-right. To my eye, the detail of the image is approaching the limits of the sensor and atmospheric interference is also coming into play.
Gas Plant, Alberta, December 2012
Nikon 70-200 f4 VR (@200mm), f7/1, 1/500 @ ISO 100
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Refinery Stacks – 100% detail from above
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Even at f/4, where the f/2.8 lens should have an advantage, I have been able to detect very little difference. At 70 and 200mm IthoughtI saw a teeny, eensy, teeny, weeny little advantage in contrast for the f/2.8…..at 2:1 magnification on screen. And no, I'm not reproducing those tests here because that kind of pixel abuse is not to be promoted <grin>. The bokeh, or out of focus rendering, of the lens was just fine. Not anything like a 75mm AA Summicron, but totally acceptable for an f/4 zoom.
I also wouldn't hesitate to us this lens for studio portraiture. It focuses quickly and silently (as expected) and performs as well as anyone would want on a portrait-shoot, throughout its range.
The f/4 lens did seem to have a slightly warmer colour reproduction than the f/2.8 version – though again only very slightly.
Crisp Edges, Toronto, January 2012
Nikkor 70-200 f4 VR, f7.1, 1/500, ISO 100
Irritating issues with autofocus seem to be the new normal. The same holds true with this lens. The cat tails and frost photo at the top of this article is a prime example. Using traditional TTL Phase detection AF (that is, focussing using the viewfinder and not live view), the cat tails are simply not ideally sharp. These are very high contrast subjects, which filled the small AF frame markers in the viewfinder. But they're just not sharp. It may be that my attempt at fine-tuning the AF on the lens was flawed. But man is this irritating! While I dislike using electronic viewfinders, I have to say that the enhanced reliability of focusing off the sensor itself could convert me one day if this keeps up.
Suffice to say that this – and really all lenses – are best focused on a tripod, with live view. Now if only the live view implementation on the D800 were better…..
VR (Vibration Reduction)
Like all VR , it works. Likely quite well. But don't let this fool you into thinking you will be capturing 36MPs of detail if you're shooting hand-held at 1/60 th of a second. You won't. You'll get a much better, more useable image than before but, for ultra high resolution cameras, hand holding remains a major doom. For many photographers, however, the ever-improving VR technologies are a great blessing. My advice, though, is to dial-up the ISO to get a higher shutter-speed, even with VR on, up to about ISO 1600. The results are so clean that the balance between stability and noise favours an ISO-cheat for a few clicks of shutter speed.
I'm simply not willing to rave about VR on this lens they way we did when it was first introduced in this focal-range. Some form of image stabilization ought to be the norm on any lens of this price. Yes, it is a significant techincal advance and advtange, but it's time to start taking it for granted, irrespective of what the marketing people might want us to think. Exclamation marks should be reserved for lenses without VR.
At $1,399, the f/4 lens costs $1,000 less than its f/2.8 cousin, at least on paper. Throw in $200 for a tripod collar (seriously Nikon!?) and the gap narrows even more. All of this makes the f/2.8 seem like pretty good value. In the end, however, one should not chose between these lenses on price. If you can only afford the f/4, get it. If you need speed, get the f/2.8. There is nothing that the f2.8 lens cannot do, so if you already have one, the question is whether the cost of owning a second 70-200mm lens is worth the weight advantage. If you need a lens principally for travel or landscape, the f/4 offers a compelling advantage. There will be a number of used f/2.8s on the market, but my guess is that owners will be slow to relinquish them even if they also buy the f/4.
For those who care about such things, the f/4 lens comes only with a little shammy pouch, not a solid case as does the f/2.8. I've always found that hard-cases are a nice idea that only end up consuming closet space, so this is not much of a downside, but the plastic snap-shut sarcophasgus that the f/4 lens is shipped in hardly provides the stuff of unboxing legend. Since it's the optisc that count, this kind of peripheral cheapness shouldn't really bother anyone. It all goes in the recycling anyway.
So, assuming all things are equal, which lens does one get? The f/2.8 is a terrific optic and, even in the modern age of vastly improved high ISO, that extra stopdoescount for something. Since much of the best light occurs, by definition, at the margins of the day, it is not unusual for photographers to be grasping for a slightly wider aperture or tweeking the ISO setting upwards to get a shot. While the 'rules' of landscape photography suggest we should always be on a tripod and at an optimum working aperture, the reality of capturing images in the field are very different. Nature does not always play by our rules, and there can be a very fine line between capturing great light and getting an image which lacks the accutance to really convey the power of the scene.
One place I stumbled across that line more than once was Antartica. Which literally hours of golden light, stretching well into times normal humans would consider the middle of the night, Antartica offers no end of spectacular imaging opportunities at marginal light levels. One is also always shooting from the deck of a moving, vibranting ship, making any form of fixed platform support impossible. Raising the ISO reduces the real resolution and the available bit-depth for post-processing, so it comes at a real cost, especially if one if trying to convene majestically subtle tones. Sometimes, speed is the answer.
4:00 am on the Antarctic Peninsula
Canon EOS-1 MkIII, EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS, f2.8, 1/500th, ISO 1250
For most mere mortals chasing fixed pixels a good 70-200mm f/4 is just the ticket. Thankfully, Nikon users now have that option. This lens is very good, showing what modern optical design can achieve, it is pleasing to use and the cost is bearable, though by no means a bargain. How it will hold up to many happy years in my travel bag, only time will tell.
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Patra Dresseson April 18, 2013 at 7:34 am
What Are Patra Dresses?
Have you ever heard of the product called – patra dresses? It is said in most description online that these types of dresses are sure to give you the kind of sophisticated look and the elegance in style as well. You may get the patra dresses from a number of stores online which is best to use in any formal occasion such as weddings and cocktail parties.
But going back to my question, what is a patra dress? Is it a brand of a dress or a design of a dress? To answer this question, patra is a characteristic of a dress.
Patra dresses are mostly made with elegant fabrics like silk, chiffon, laces and more. They often contain very detailed and intricate designs such as embellishments and neatly made ruffle linings to create a chic and outstanding design.
Most cuts for a patra dress would always accent the figure of a woman. Sleek and sexy will always be the theme for the dress and the one who is wearing it should be able to boost their silhouettes in the best that they can. To give you some examples of the best patra dresses today, please refer to the information below.
Tiered type – this type of patra dress can be considered as the most popular one to match the modern fashion trend. The overlapping design can work wonders to a not so good figure of a woman. It may hide the extra fat and yet create a sexier and modern look for you. You can get different sorts of length for a tiered type of dress. If you are going to attend casual events, you can get the shorter ones like the knee length or above the knee length. But if you are attending special events like weddings or so, I suggest that you get the gown type of the patra dresses.
Casual type – these are the type of patra dresses that you can use during day time. It is usually the young ones who wear it. The most common type of patra dress that you can get would be a dress with a plain upper portion, elastic belt, and heavily pleated skirt.
Then you can get different types of sleeves like the tank type, bell sleeve type, long sleeves, diagonal sleeves, and more. There really are so many different types to mention because more and more designers today are working on making their own versions of the patra dresses.
When talking about the colors, the possibilities are also endless. But since it mostly focuses on giving an elegant and sophisticated look to a person, you can most likely get the patra dresses in black, navy blue, violet, grey, aquamarine, royal blue, ecru, white, off white, peach, gold and red. However, limits are not set when it comes to the color of this type of dress. It even comes in different patterns and design, depending on the way the designer want it to look like.
Finding for a store that offers patra dresses should not be a problem for there are a lot of them to find online.


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March 3, 2013
Tony Stewart Sprint Cup Driver, Sprint Car Driver
All racecar drivers love the sport they are in, with most of them racing in more than one series. Some will race in every competition they can enter, while others will enter a select few. Most racers start at local tracks and work their way through the ranks with a dream of racing with the big boys.
Every now and then the big boys of racing jump into a racecar at local tracks.
One in particular is Tony Stewart, "Smoke," a three-time champion of NASCAR's top series, the Sprint Cup. During an interview for the March third NASCAR race in Phoenix, Tony revealed plans to compete in 50 or more Sprint Car events in 2013. His normal season in Sprint Cup consists of only 36 races.
He stated, "I've really had a lot of fun in the last couple of years in particular. We're trying to make over 50 races this year and that's already with a hectic Cup schedule that's normally three days a week, so being able to go and run all those races, you gotta have a lot of passion to want to do that and it's something we're having a good time and enjoying doing."
Tony not only has three championships in Sprint cup, he also holds an Indy Car Championship, four USAC championships, an IROC championship, and the first to receive the USAC Triple Crown Championship.
Stewart had two top ten finishes earlier in the year at Bubba Raceway Park during the UNOH Circuit of Champions first race of the season. The top Sprint Car series is the World of Outlaws where Tony has had two A-Main victories.
Tony will compete March 1 and 2 at the Cocopah Speedway for the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series National Tour Cocopah Cup Challenge.
Tony had never been to this racetrack before and his competition director recommended he go.
"Any place I haven't been he kind of gives the blessing on whether we should go there or not. And that was one place that he was advised about … and when we saw it was on the schedule it was a perfect opportunity for us to come over and run. It's a great series that will be running there and a good group of guys that we're racing with. So it made it pretty exciting for us to know that it was a good show coming up and someplace that was going to be close by that we can make."
Tony added, "I'm excited. Something that I enjoy is going to places I haven't been, and that's something I'm really looking forward to. We've ran a lot of tracks in Arizona and always had a good following there, so it's going to be nice for us to get a chance to come to a new place and give the fans who don't get a chance to come out and see us very much to come out and watch us run a sprint car."
When the Sprint cup returns to Phoenix in November, the ASCS National Tour will also be return to the Cocopah Speedway on November 8 and 9. Tony said that returning to race a Sprint Car depends on how he is doing in the Sprint Cup.
Tony has goals he wants to accomplish; one of them is to drive a top fuel dragster. He said, "I don't necessarily want to race, but I want to learn how to drive one, I want to drive over 300 mph in one. So that's definitely a goal before I retire."
Tony will be running in the World of Outlaws series race at the Stockton 99 Speedway in the San Joaquin Fairgrounds on March 22, when the Sprint Cup series returns the Auto Club 400 in Fontana, California.
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A Spanish judge has tossed out a criminal complaint filed by Nintendo against a seller of memory cards that allowed users to crack their Nintendo DS handhelds.
Movilquick Group was the target of the complaint, and a seller of devices (pictured) designed to "allow the use of multimedia and homebrew files," on a DS, though the company noted that it is "against piracy" and does not support the use of commercial software in conjunction with their devices.
The judge ruled that while purchasers could use the devices for piracy, they could also use them to further advance the operational capability of their DS (translation follows): "Ultimately what occurs is a manipulation of hardware to extend its utility, allowing users to use with both legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but not only illegitimate."
A question further raised by the judge was whether or not Nintendo is the only company that can provide additional functionality to its devices (translation follows):
…this leads to another question that is if Nintendo has an absolute right as the only manufacturer to create accessories or, other manufacturers can produce and offer accessories for Nintendo consoles provided copies of attachments are not originally created by Nintendo and therefore protected by industrial property rights. That question goes beyond the criminal and should be terminated by the Civil Court…
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EDENTON, N.C. — John Keenan knows that opening a full-service commercial laundry in Elizabeth City, some 35 miles northeast of here, makes good business sense.
The area's first commercial laundry facility plans to open a new $2 million facility in the Pasquotank Commerce Park to provide linen service for the vacation market and to support local businesses in need of clean linens, according to Keenan, who owns Moneysworth Beach Home Equipment Rentals.
The 20,000-square-foot facility will bring the capacity to clean and deliver linens to 14,000 rental properties each week for area vacation homes and businesses. From towels and sheets to tablecloths and napkins, the laundry can purchase, clean and deliver a multitude of linen choices.
Moneysworth broke ground on the new laundry facility in December and plans to be fully operational by May.
The company chose the Elizabeth City business park because it provided a location that met Moneysworth's needs for utilities, gas, sewer, space, transportation and an available work force, Keenan says.
"We are excited that Moneysworth has chosen the Pasquotank Commerce Park for this new facility," says Rodney Bunch, assistant county manager for Pasquotank. "This company already has customers in the region, and I am confident they will broaden their services by finding more local customers."
"Locating in North Carolina's Northeast allows them to easily access their two key markets in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks," says Vann Rogerson, president/CEO of North Carolina's Northeast Commission.
The laundry will operate year-round, but with the Elizabeth City facility supporting the beach, production demands will pick up in the summer months.
This provides summer job opportunities for students who might not otherwise find a local, full-time job to fill the summer months.
The laundry will employ up to 20 full-time workers to service the laundry and drive the trucks that pick up and deliver the linens to customers.
During the summer months at the company's Kitty Hawk facility, 17 trucks leave the laundry daily to travel up and down the beach and up to 60 miles away to make deliveries.
"If you can drive there, we can deliver there," says Jason Stanchak, general manager at Moneysworth in Kitty Hawk, N.C. He's responsible for supervising the work of the 85 college students who converge on the Kitty Hawk property each June.
"We have made our reputation over the last 19 years of business by being a very service-oriented organization," Stanchak says. "The new laundry facility will allow us to better service our customers."
"We are seeing a trend toward companies locating divisions of their southeast Virginia companies in northeastern North Carolina," says Gene Rogers, chairman of North Carolina's Northeast Commission. "With the growing tourism market in our area, I am sure they [Moneysworth] will continue to add new business to their existing contracts."
State-of-the-Art Commercial Laundry Brings 20 Jobs to NC's Northeast
EDENTON, N.C. — John Keenan knows that opening a full-service commercial laundry in Elizabeth City, some 35 miles northeast of here, makes good business sense.


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We've just finished the first editing round of Iron Sky, and have now semi-locked the script, and are waiting for music, sounds and CGI to flow into it's rightful place. So what better time to grab a cam and go visit Energia in Tampere, the fearless CGI facility working on to create Iron Sky as cool looking as a film about Nazis from the Dark Side of the Moon can ever be!
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Director's Diary: Energize!May 3rd, 2011 by Timo Vuorensola
Director's Diary: Politics! Comics! T-Shirts!April 27th, 2011 by Timo Vuorensola
I visited the Blind Spot Pictures office for a while, after being locked up in the edit booth for so many weeks, because Tuesday was a technical day for the edit – they converted the file, went to Post Control to test it out and prepare everything for tomorrow's screening. We had a nice chat with Pekka and the Boys about how things in the extended world of Iron Sky progressed – discussing, among other things, the first part of the comic we're about to release quite soon.
Director's Diary: Having a chat with the Editor.April 26th, 2011 by Timo Vuorensola
As we're starting the last week of the editing for Iron Sky before quite an extensive break, I wanted to have a quick chat with Suresh Ayyar, the editor of Iron Sky, about how he feels the process has been going so far. Next up, we'll be screening the film on Wednesday to several key financiers of Iron Sky, like Finnish Film Foundation and YLE, and based on the feedback, we have two more days to fix what there is to fix – and then, it's time us to raise the hands and lay low for few months.
The editing of Iron Sky continues in September, when we have more CGI in place, and we can finalize what we started. It's also good to have a clear break in watching the edit; you get quite blind to it after a while, and a fresh look after few months is definitely going to point out a bunch of apparent errors we still are able to fix.


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Get Creative
For Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, the antidote for diet burnout is menu creativity.
"When you think you're going to hurt someone if you see one more asparagus spear, it's time to shake it on up," says Peeke, the medical advisor for Discovery Health Channel's National Body Challenge.
Instead of spending mental energy beating yourself up over your lack of motivation, put that energy into thinking differently about your diet.
"Experiment with different foods," Peeke suggests. "Don't get stuck in the rut of the same foods over and over again." Try a fruit or vegetable you've never had, or prepare a favorite food in a new way.
But if a peanut butter sandwich for lunch every day works for you, that's fine, says Peeke. Choose dinnertime or weekends to be adventuresome.


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Let your little vampires celebrate Halloween early—and score some extra goodies—during this ghoulish celebration for kids of all ages. They'll have their pick of more than 15 candy-and-toy booths, make spooky crafts and spider candy pops, listen to ghost stories, jump in a bounce house, walk through a haunted graveyard, and a get a close-up look at Halloween creatures. Sat-Sun 10 a.m.-4 p.m.


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SHANGHAI--China's central bank offered 30 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) worth of 14-day repurchase agreements in Tuesday's open-market operations, participating traders said.
The central bank will likely continue to net drain liquidity from the market this week if it continues to offer repos in Thursday's operation, as only a total of 30 billion yuan of repos will mature this week. It drained a net of CNY11 billion in last week's operations, after adding liquidity into the financial system for 11 weeks in a row.
The PBOC carries out open-market operations Tuesdays and Thursdays, offering bills and repurchase agreements to control liquidity.
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I understand that some may view "dishonest Democrat" as redundant, but it's just a reminder that if a Democrat running for Congress says the sky is blue, grab an umbrella. Michelle Nunn (D-Bethesda,MDAtlanta) is the daughter of Sam Nunn (D-Bethesda,MDPerry,GA), longtime Democrat Party stalwart and Senator representing Georgia. She's a loyal, partisan Democrat. Did I mention she's a Democrat? Because Nunn (D), running as a | Read More »


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You know Keith, he wants to know what model, how many ringtones :wink:
OK, from the phone itself.
Model number: V5920 4G
PRL version 15145
ERI version: 5
Is that the sort of info you wanted?
Oh ring tones? Not many good ones. I've never been very good about downloading and connecting to additional ring tones (with these newer phones).
I can download them, but never could figure out how to make them work.
Here's some instructions on how to create them and make them work for your LG phone Tink.Originally Posted by Tink, post: 288731
If you want to try it with a pre-made ringtone, I whipped this one up for you (it's Disney. I think you'll like it!). Just download it and follow the instructions starting with step 6.
Tom (... interested to know if this'll work)
Hello group, I have a horrible confession to make.
I arrived to my first day at work and was told I could not have a wireless router due to the type of environment that I work in. And sadly due to money...ie, not having loads of it, I had to purchase the cheapest laptop at my local office depot. As an Apple devotee and lover, I am ashamed that I am also the current owner of a Toshiba laptop. It will be a work only device.
I hope this doesn't mean I've been kicked out of the group.
Thank you catrancher!!! I'll give it a try and let you know how it went.
Dr. Ducky, I have a very serivceable little Toshiba laptop for work too. Nothing to hang your head over. It's a fact of work life, it seems! (My very first laptop, that I still have! was a Toshiba satellite).
No worries, Doc!Originally Posted by foreverducky, post: 288982
Although it's a bit short sighted on your employers behalf. Wireless can be made quite secure assuming you have someone who knows what they're doing.
And I too have to use a Windoze PC at work. A rather tragic HP laptop. But I try really hard not to admit it.
Too bad you didn't have a Mac laptop already. You could have put Parallels on it with a copy of Windoze and done both from one Mac laptop. That's assuming you actually needed Windoze.
In truth though, I'd have a hard time imaging why.
Tom (... did'ja know that Apple is now the most valuable company ever!)
Whew....good to know I have not been banned from the Apple group.
To be honest, out of the previous laptops I've owned the one that worked the best was a Toshiba. To be honest, I'm surprised with what I got for $299.
I would like to edit my double "to be honest" sayings....however, that is not currently an option. Sorry for the repetition so early this morning. What can I say, it's too early for brain to think of other ways to communicate.


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Hi Ian ,, thank for the feedback on "over the rainbow" I love playing that song arrangement ,, bit of a challenge live :-) but worth it
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Theater Spotlight: La Natividad
The first thing that strikes you about La Natividad is its logistical efficiency: Somehow you and more than a hundred other folks move between El Mercado Central and Plaza Verde on Lake Street, join up with another group at Avalon Theatre, then the mass of you walk the two blocks to St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, where this original Nativity story comes to full flower (you're then given a snack for your trouble). The second thing that hits home is the invention and grace of this Sandy Spieler-directed production, a mesh of music, puppetry, and live action that recasts the already strange story of Jesus' birth into something that combines both the transcendent and the specific. In the beginning we have Maria (the major roles are performed by multiple actors) visited by a larger-than-life angel, who assists God in knocking her up. In the next scene we have José, who, besides fretting about the prospect of caring for a child who isn't his, worries about the intricacies of his citizenship status. Back at Heart of the Beast's home theater, we meet King Herod (Ben Kreilkamp), as evil as we always knew him, now hell-bent on keeping outsiders from crossing his borders. The audience takes to the street (15th Avenue, actually), where Herod rages from atop a riser, denying passage for Maria and José (and for us, as well), but soon enough the old bastard is vanquished and everyone marches en masse to the church. From there, a gorgeous procession of puppet animals makes its way down the aisle to pay tribute to baby Jesus, the music swells, and we're left feeling as though we've made a journey both cosmic and earthly (the mass march is a reflection of Las Posadas, a Mexican tradition that depicts Mary and Joseph looking for shelter). Religious and spiritual considerations aside, this Natividad pulls off a nifty trick: If one definition of realizing our humanity is drawing near one another to achieve greater understanding, this show manages it in abundance.
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I get several eBulletins that I need to keep for reference, but I'm approaching my mailbox quota. I could print off hard copies, but I'd rather keep them in electronic format on my harddisk. I'm sure there has to be a way to save out an email as a local file, probably html or rtf, but I can't seem to find a way to do so.
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PRECIOUS-Gold hits 10-month low on dollar ahead of ECB statement
Weekly outlook
This week on the Markets
In approach to the new trade week, here are the main economic events that will move the markets around the globe.
1. Ben Bernanke speaks: Monday, 23:15. Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to speak at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2013 Financial Markets Conference in Stone Mountain, where he may talk about the advantages of the low-interest-rate policies in helping growth in the US and around the world, as well as lowering US unemployment rate to 6.5%.
2. US FOMC Meeting Minutes: Wednesday, 18:00. No changes were announced in the recent Fed meeting, making the minutes more interesting. The previous releases showed the variety of thoughts in the FOMC, and the media focused on the hawkish voices. The reaction was a stronger dollar, even though the doves led by Bernanke control the Fed. Will we see the same knee jerk reaction once again?There is a good chance, as the meeting occurred before the recent jobs report.
3. US Federal Budget Balance: Wednesday, 7:00. Despite the relatively high deficit, things are looking up for the US budget balance. Tax revenue is up and spending growth is slowing as the government's deficit is coming down. February is typically a high deficit month, with low receipts, the balance showed a $203.5 billion deficit, however this was better than the 208 billion average of the last six years.
4. Australian employment data: Thursday, 1:30. Australia's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.4% in February, while the job market added 71,500 positions, reaching 11,628,300 in February. Full-time employment rose 17,800 to 8,117,400 in February while part-time employment was up 53,700 to 3,510,800. A contraction of 78,200 jobs is expected, while unemployment rate is predicted to remain unchanged.
5. US Unemployment Claims: Thursday, 12:30. The number of Americans filing initial jobless claims surged last week by 28,000 to 385,000, rising for the third straight week. This rise increased the four-week average to 354,250.A Labor Department spokesman said the reading might have been the figures may have been affected by the Easter holiday. However, the recent increases could also imply that companies are starting to cut jobs, probably due to the steep government spending cuts that began on March 1. A drop to 362,000 is predicted this time.
6. US Retail sales: Friday, 12:30 U.S. retail sales advanced solidly in February, rising 1.1%, following 0.4% rise in January amid an increase in automobile sales, indicating a strong retail sales reading in the first quarter. Economists expected a lower reading of 0.5%. Meanwhile Core sales excluding Automobiles, retail sales increased 1.0%, from a 0.4% advance in January. Retail sales are expected to remain unchanged, while Core sales are forecasted to gain 0.2%.
7. US PPI: Friday, 12:30. Producer prices in February climbed by 0.7%, the strongest reading in five months amid a sharp rise in gasoline prices. The reading was in line with market predictions, following a 0.2% advance in January. However, underlying inflation pressures remained contained, with wholesale prices excluding volatile food and energy costs rising 0.2% after a similar advance in January. Producer prices are expected to fall 0.1%.
8. UoM Consumer Sentiment (first release): Friday, 13:55. Consumer sentiment plunged in March to 71.8 from 77.6 in January, the lowest reading in over a year. Many responders were not happy with the government's inability to deal with its finances. The one-year inflation expectation held steady at 3.3% and the five-to-10-year inflation outlook dropped to 2.9% from 3%. A rise to 78.8 is forecasted.
9. Ben Bernanke speaks: Friday, 16:30. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak in Washington DC. His words cause volatility in the markets.
This is all for this week. Stay with us for more updates to follow during the trading week)
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PRECIOUS-Gold hits 10-month low on dollar ahead of ECB statement
Gold hit a 10-month trough below $1,540 an ounce on Thursday as the dollar strengthened ahead of a statement by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, after the bank left rates on hold as expected at its latest policy meeting.
The statement will be closely watched for clues on monetary policy. Gold, which benefits from loose monetary policy, earlier failed to capitalise on surprisingly strong easing steps by the Bank of Japan.
Spot gold XAU= fell as low as $1,539.74 an ounce, its lowest since May 30, and stood at $1,546.90 by 1200 GMT, down 0.7 percent. On the charts, the next downside target stands at the May low of $1,527, traders said.
U.S. gold for June delivery GCcv1 fell 0.4 percent to $1,546.70.
"Gold is suffering from dollar strength ahead of the ECB, which is unlikely to deliver any surprise again today," VTB Capital analyst Andrey Kryuchenkov said.
"At this point it's all about sentiment and if bailout talks in Cyprus, tensions in North Korea and BoJ monetary easing have not triggered buying it is difficult that we will see a turnaround in prices any time soon."
The dollar strengthened against the euro after euro zone services PMI data showed continued contraction in the sector in March, heaping more focus on the ECB.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- As the drought continues, Wisconsin's corn crop remains in sad shape.
In its weekly crop progress report for Wisconsin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that 43 percent of the state's corn crop is in very poor or poor condition, with just 31 percent rated as good to excellent. Hay yields are coming up short due to a lack of moisture, plus insects.
Only 23 percent of the state's soil has adequate moisture, with 46 percent of the state very short. Ninety-nine percent of the soil in south-central Wisconsin is rated short or very short.
Forty-five percent of the corn in the 18 states that planted the most corn acreage last year is in very poor to poor condition as the drought continues across most of the Midwest.


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Hell's Kitchen Recap: Battle Of The New Black Team Versus Some Veterans
September 05, 2011 07:55 PM by Lisa Princ
Last week on Hell's Kitchen on Fox, we watched as the two teams catered a charity event, and tonight we saw some old favorites return. How would the newly formed black team handle some competition against past contestants? Read on to find out!
Hell's Kitchen kicked off tonight with Elise on her usual high horse, but the guys were determined not to let her get the best of them. For their individual challenge, Gordon Ramsay asked that they each remake a comfort food, recreating it so that it would not only taste delicious, but that it looked pretty as well. For this challenge, there were plates scattered all over with different foods on them, and the chefs had to run and get the plate with the food on it that they wanted. Elise nearly took Paul out to get to the eggplant parmesan, and left a disappointed Paul with tuna casserole.
The challenge was judged by a group of food gurus, and the dishes were judged on both taste and presentation. Each contestant would be scored from 1-10 for both, from 5 judges, giving them a total possible score of 100. Up first was Tommy, whose recreation of chicken and dumplings took the judges by surprise as they loved it, and Tommy kicked off the leader board with 74 points. Next up was Paul who did not impress at all with his tuna casserole. In fact, one of the judges referred to it as cat food. Jennifer was unable to impress as well with her take on lasagna, which coincidentally, she hates.
That left Will and Elise to try and take the lead over Tommy. The judges were impressed with Elise's eggplant parmesan tower and she ended up with 86 points. Will was also impressive with his take on meatloaf. A few of the judges were not that impressed with his presentation, and Gordon informed him that he would need an almost perfect taste score to beat Elise. Luckily for Will, he got four 10′s and one 9, which pushed him over Elise by one point. Gordon Ramsay announced that Will would be dining at some of the finest restaurants in LA for the day, but that he should choose someone to go with him.
In a game play move, Will decided to bring Elise, not because he thought she deserved to go, but to get her to stay off his case, despite the fact that he told everyone she deserved to go for getting 2nd place. Will and Elise got to dine at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant and the pair appeared to be having a good time. Meanwhile, the other chefs were stuck on laundry duty – a chore none of them enjoyed. As the night wound down, Gordon Ramsay called the chefs into the dining room for a surprise.
When the chefs got to the dining room, Gordon revealed that they would be competing against some Hell's Kitchen veterans the next day. The chefs were then greeted by season five's Ben, season six's Tennille and Van, and season eight's Jillian and Trev. Then the teams were asked to go upstairs and create their menu for the evening, which turned out to be problem free for the veterans, but the current chefs had nothing but problems. Elise decided to take charge and the only thing she did was piss everyone off – to the point that Will walked out! Finally, the rest of the team just agreed with her to shut her up.
During service, both teams had their shares of issues, but Elise was once again, upsetting everyone with her attitude – I know, big shocker, right? She had to ask Paul three times if her beef was cooked properly – isn't that a sign that she should go home now? Both teams pushed out their dishes in the same time frame, and the current chefs had one of their best services ever. The winning team was chosen on the amount of people who said they would return on the comment cards. The veterans got a 80% possible return, while the current chefs got a 96% possible return, making the current chefs the challenge winners.
However, even though they won the challenge, Gordon Ramsay asked that they nominate two team members to go up for elimination. Elise nominated Jennifer (who made one mistake during service), while everyone else voted for Elise. Before they went downstairs though, Jennifer decided she assumed she was going home, that she would go tell Paul how she felt about him, and how cute she thought he was. Paul joked around with her, but I don't think there was any real interest on his part, but you never know. When it was time for elimination, Gordon Ramsay thought that no one deserved to go home since they had such a great service. Oh well, there is always next week to hope that Elise is sent packing.
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whatever Says:
September 6th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Is it fun watching a psycho with a british accent verbally abuse contestants ? Yes . Will I ever eat in a restaurant again ? No . Because now I know that kitchens are run by a bunch of foul mouthed chain smoking trailer trash .
UglylikeElise Says:
September 12th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Oh God, I cannot stand that one ugly girl name Elise. She is being that ugly monkey King-Kong. She should go back to the jungle she comes from… unfortunately for the others, Elise is one of the many that you can't Fuck with because she is special!


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A couple of days ago, I got a link to an online conversation, titled "Racism in Seattle," which began with a white man who said he's lived in the Central District for about a month.
He wrote that while he was sitting on his porch, a black couple walked by and said he was "bringing the neighborhood down." He asked the woman her name, and she said, "We're black people. That's all you need to know."
Well, you can imagine the conversation that followed was not entirely on point, or well-informed, but did in some ways offer useful context and spur further thought.
Having one party's partial description doesn't allow a thorough adjudication of this particular event, but there are broader conversations worth having.
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For starters, the postings demonstrated how post-racial we are not. Race affects personal encounters just as it does issues that make the news, from a death in Florida, to local crime, Supreme Court rulings, Paula Deen's treatment of employees, to the demographics of national politics.
President Obama, who's been on a speaking tour promoting his proposals for reducing economic inequality, said something that relates to all of that.
"Racial tensions won't get better." he told The New York Times. "They may get worse, because people will feel as if they've got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot. If the economy is growing, everybody feels invested."
Some of the people who posted comments about the Seattle incident said maybe because the guy was new to the Central District, he didn't know the history, that economics had transformed what had been the heart of Seattle's small black population.
They didn't try to justify the behavior of the couple, just to say it might be more involved than he knew.
Someone mentioned redlining, the practice by which banks for years deprived some neighborhoods of the loans that would help people buy and keep up homes. The original poster said he'd never heard of that. What a poor job we do of educating people about their country.
Obama in The New York Times interview elaborated on the connection between racial and economic equality. The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is coming up this month, and the president said economic justice was a large part of the agenda. Jobs came first in the title the organizers gave it: "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."
There was also a thread in that online discussion about whether Seattle was really a liberal city.
Around the time of the 1963 march, most black people in Seattle were limited to menial jobs. The CD became the black neighborhood in the first place because of restrictions on black people living elsewhere in the city. In 1964, Seattle residents defeated an open housing referendum by a 2-1 ratio. Bias here generally has been more polite but still effective at privileging some at the expense of others.
Just like the rest of the nation, we have a history that affects how people see each other in the present. Maybe the couple was motivated by that. Maybe they were just rude.
Maybe the guy on the porch looked at them the way some people look at me, like I shouldn't be. Just about every black man I know can describe that look, but none of us would insult someone just sitting on his porch.
Heck, friends of mine (he's black, she's white) moved to a neighborhood in North Seattle a few years ago and woke up to chicken parts on their porch, followed in subsequent days by other unpleasant things. They guessed who it was, but didn't retaliate. Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, you just have to let it go, chalk it up to individual character.
I've heard some white people marvel that the fuss over Paula Deen was about her using the N word in the past. But that wasn't it. She treated black people like they were still on the plantation, used black people's work to grow rich while they stayed poor, and she talked to and about them as if they were children. The flap wasn't about politeness; it was about ongoing exploitation.
White workers are feeling that in droves these days as income and wealth gaps widen between Americans at the ends of the economic spectrum.
We have a lot of big institutional issues to work on for everyone's sake. Seattle has to address bias in policing and school discipline. The country needs jobs that pay a wage that allows people to pay their bills and maybe buy something that'll keep someone else in a job.
And we need better education all around, from math to history. The man on the porch wrote that the comment about redlining gave him a better understanding of what might have been going on. I said understanding, not excusing.
In another post, he said he'd lived in a nearly all-black neighborhood in California, one that wasn't being transformed, and everyone was kind to him. Context makes a difference.
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My Favourite Villan: Struts Addo on Big John Carew
It's fair to say that John Carew was the ultimate showman in claret and blue.
He was my favourite player and I loved watching him because he had just had the X-Factor! He was the man! You never quite knew what he was going to do.
I remember one game against Stoke here at Villa Park he kicked the corner flag after the goal into the crowd. I thought 'wooh, calm down John.'
I also recall him being dropped to the bench for a match at Wigan because he'd been spotted in a stripclub a few days before.
The esteem he was held in was demonstrated when he came on at the DW Stadium.
Instead of being booed, he was cheered like a hero and I remember there being a rather amusing female doll in the away section of the ground.
He scored in that game too - typical, brilliant John!
When he was on top form - which was most of the time at Villa - you always felt he'd have a massive influence on the course of the game.
He was big and strong but, considering his size, he had tremendous skill.
When he was absolutely flying, he could turn a game in the blink of an eye.
I remember the 4-2 win at Reading really well. That was John at his very best.
Villa were struggling at 2-0 down to the Royals and, if I remember right, Shane Long - like he did against us for West Brom a few months ago - scored both goals.
But this comeback was even better than at the Baggies - and big John was the catalyst.
He just took the game by the scruff of the neck and battered Reading into submission.
I thought they played very well in that first half but they looked like they didn't have a clue what to do with John in the second half.
He scored a wonderful hat-trick.
He did the same against Newcastle at Villa Park.
They led at half-time through Michael Owen but Kevin Keegan was definitely not 'lovin' the second half.
John hit another hat-trick and we won 4-1. Absolute class!
But what I liked about him most was the fact he played football with a smile on his face. He was always grinning and always quick with an autograph for a young fan if they wanted one.
You got the feeling that despite the huge status he had in football that he was very down-to-earth when it came to dealing with people, especially the fans.
He always used to applaud the fans when they clapped him and he always wanted to go and celebrate with the supporters when he scored a goal.
Remember his goal against Blues here at Villa Park when he picked up one of the ballboys and screamed his delight at the fans - absolute class!
If big John hadn't been a footballer, I am sure he could have been a film star - and it's no surprise that he has had a key role in two movies since retiring from the game.
I reckon he could have been an amazing band member too if he'd gone into my line of work - music.
He'd be a brilliant drummer. I can imagine him just absolutely hammering the drums!
As a musician, I can also appreciate a good football chant - and the John Carew Song was top quality!
I can remember screaming: "John Carew, Carew, he's bigger than me and you, he's gonna score one or two, John Carew, Carew."
I'd love it if we started signing it again on matchdays as a homage to the big man!
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On a contract, yet again
It has been over six months since the Akali-BJP government came back to power but the fate of the new team of law officers continues to hang in uncertainty. Possibilities are that yet again the contract of the existing army of law officials in the Punjab Advocate General office will be renewed for a month.
The Akali-BJP alliance is yet to finalize the number and names of its law officials. It is learnt that the file granting a one month extension on contract to the law officers has yet again been moved to the Punjab Chief Minister. A formal decision on whether to renew the contract by one month or finalize the new team is yet to be taken.
Chandigarh Administrations self contradictory affidavit filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to defend the Disturbed Area tag revealed its double standards.
While the Administration clearly admitted that no occasion ever arose to make use of the powers given to it under the Disturbed Area Act, it countered the PIL demanding removal of the tag, by arguing that the Administration cannot lower its guard. It was this strange argument which earned the wrath of the High Court. Rubbishing the argument, the Bench quashed the notifications terming the powers under the Act as draconian.
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With Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri joining as the new Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, no major changes have been made to the roster. The green bench (public interest litigations) remain with the Chief Justice along with criminal appeals.
The new Chief Justice will be holding the division bench with Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain.
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Following the students elections at Panjab University, the elected candidates are to submit the election expenditure with the authorities. Even though the authorities themselves call it nearly impossible for students to manage the large scale promotions in the meager amounts disclosed by them, the procedure requires someone else to raise objections for them to scrutinize the submissions of the party members. The authorities say that unless there is an objection, they themselves do not question anyones applications.
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A friend wants to set up his own graphic design business here in the UK. The proposed name is Five 54, representing the degrees of longitude and latitude where my friend was born. He thought it'd have a nice personal meaning to the otherwise impersonal name.
Here are some rough sketches to give a look at the start of my design process.
They all tie in with the lines of longitude and latitude, and some use the circular symbol for degrees, but there's no option that stands-out, no real idea.
Iconic logo designers might come up with 10 usable ideas after an hour sketching, but after a similar length of time it's back to the drawing board for me.
Richard at Ace Jet 170 recently posted an article about how rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones, and take a lot less time, too. Slightly off-topic, Richard also has a hardcore collection of Pelican Books — worth a look.
If you want to see an example of how sketching helps you arrive at a great idea then take a look at the process behind smashLAB's Sinkit logo.
It's not important how good you are at sketching. What is important is that you use a notepad to churn out as many ideas as possible before using a computer.