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Nikon D5500 + AF-P DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR Lens
- 24.2 Megapixel CMOS Sensor
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Bring Your Photograph to the Next LevelThe Nikon D5500 is the perfect starting point for entering the DSLR market. With excellent performance, intuitive functionality and a host of creative features for capturing your most treasured memories.
24.2 Megapixel DX-Format CMOS SensorWith a 24.2 Megapixel DX-Format CMOS Sensor and Nikon's EXPEED 4 image processor, the D5500 is capable of reproducing beautifully rich photos with smooth toning and gradients. Combined with Nikon's extensive NIKKOR lens range and with a sensor design that doesn't require an Optical Low Pass Filter, the D5500 creates beautifully rendered images with exquisite detail and sharpness throughout.
Keep Shooting into the NightThe native sensitivity range of 100-25600ISO ensures that you'll be able to shoot in beautiful ambient light and darker settings like indoor events and parties without a harsh flash. Nikon's noise reduction functions ensure you'll get brilliant results with images that are clear and crisp, even in poor lighting conditions.
Intimate View of the ActionThe Nikon D5500's Optical Viewfinder lets you follow the action in real time, making it ideal for any fast paced or reflexive photography, be it in action sports, wildlife photography or for taking truly candid photos of your most treasured moments. A built in eye-sensor automatically displays your last image taken on the LCD making it simple to ensure you've nailed the shot.
Never Miss a MomentA 39 autofocus point system helps track and maintain focus on any subject matter with remarkable precision even when shooting in the high-speed unlimited continuous shooting mode at 5 frames per second.
Articulating 3.2-inch Touch ScreenThe D5500 features a touchscreen vari-angle 3.2-inch TFT LCD display that's perfect for intuitive menu navigation, photo review and shooting in live view. The vari-angle display unfolds horizontally up to 180° out of the camera and rotates vertically +180° or -90°, making possible a world of new angles and perspectives to explore.
Intuitive Touch ControlsA number of touch gestures and controls have been implemented including touch to focus and touch shooting while in live-view. While using the optical viewfinder, the touchscreen can be customised to intuitively control key settings such as focus point selection, ISO and more.
Slim, Lightweight and Durable DSLRThe new monocoque body of the Nikon D5500 results in a slimmer, more user friendly profile. A deep grip provides an ergonomic and comfortable hold that inspires confidence and feels excellent in hand! Advanved carbon-fibre composite materials make the camera assuredly sturdy yet remarkably lightweight. The D5500 is a DSLR that you can bring everywhere.
Find the Ideal Look for Each SceneNikon's Picture Controls give users the ability to tailor the look overall look of images and video output, choosing from Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape and Flat. Users can also fine-tune colour pre-sets according to their preference including contrast, saturation and clarity adjustments. Photographing in RAW or utilising the new Flat colour option gives users the optimal output for post-shoot editing and manipulation.
Share with FriendsThe Nikon D5500 also features an integrated WiFi module which allows you to easily transfer images from the camera to a capable smart device for sharing to your friends and wider networks on your favourite platforms.
This kit includes the Nikon D5300 DSLR Camera + Nikkor AF-P 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR Lens
Product Code: 1NikonD5500/18-55VR Black
|Single-lens reflex digital camera
|Lens mount
|Nikon F mount
|Effective angle of view
|Nikon DX format; focal length equivalent to approx. 1.5x that of lenses with FX format angle of view
|Image sensor format
|Image sensor type
|Sensor size
|23.5mm, x15.6mm
|Total pixels
|Dust-reduction system
|Image sensor cleaning, Image Dust Off reference data (Capture NX-D software required)
|Effective pixels
|Image size (pixels)
|(L)6000, x4000, (M)4496, x3000, (S)2992, x2000
|File format
|NEF (RAW): 12- or 14 bit, compressed, JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1 : 4), normal (approx. 1 : 8), or basic (approx. 1 : 16) compression, NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats
|Picture Control system
|Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape, Flat, ; selected Picture Control can be modified; storage for custom Picture Controls
|SD, SDHC (UHS-I compliant), SDXC (UHS-I compliant)
|Card slot
|File system
|DCF 2.0, DPOF, Exif 2.3, PictBridge
|Eye-level pentamirror single-lens reflex viewfinder
|Frame coverage
|Approx. 95% horizontal and 95% vertical
|Approx. 0.82x (50 mm f/1.4 lens at infinity, –1.0 m -1)
|17 mm (–1.0 m -1; from centre surface of viewfinder eyepiece lens)
|Diopter adjustment
|-1.7 – +0.5m-1
|Focusing screen
|Type B BriteView Clear Matte Mark VII screen
|Reflex mirror
|Quick-return type
|Depth-of-field preview
|Lens aperture
|Instant return, electronically controlled
|Compatible lenses
|Autofocus is available with AF-S and AF-I lenses. Autofocus is not available with other type G and D lenses, AF lenses (IX NIKKOR and lenses for the F3AF are not supported), and AI-P lenses. Non-CPU lenses can be used in mode M, but the camera exposure meter will not function. The electronic rangefinder can be used with lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/5.6 or faster.
|Electronically-controlled vertical-travel focal plane shutter
|1/4000–, 30s, in steps of 1/3 or 1/2 EV; Bulb; Time
|Flash sync speed
|X=, 1/200s, synchronizes with shutter at 1/200 s or slower
|S (single frame), CL (continuous low speed), CH (continuous high speed), Q (quiet shutter-release), Self-timer, Interval timer shooting, , delayed remote; ML-L3, quick-response remote; ML-L3
|Frame advance rate
|Approx.5fps, L: Up to 3 fps H: Up to 5 fps (JPEG and 12-bit NEF/RAW) or 4 fps (14-bit NEF/RAW) Note: Frame rates assume continuous-servo AF, manual or shutter-priority auto exposure, a shutter speed of 1/250 s or faster, Release selected for Custom Setting a1 (AF-C priority selection), and other settings at default values.
|2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s; 1–9 exposures
|Metering system
|TTL exposure metering using 2016-pixel RGB sensor
|Metering method
|Matrix metering: 3D colour matrix metering II (type G, E, and D lenses); colour matrix metering II (other CPU lenses) Centre-weighted metering: Weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in centre of frame Spot metering: Meters 3.5-mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centred on selected focus point
|(ISO 100, f/1.4 lens, 20°C/68°F) Matrix or centre-weighted metering: 0–20 EV Spot metering: 2–20 EV
|Exposure meter coupling
|Auto modes (auto; auto, flash off); programmed auto with flexible program (P); shutter-priority auto (S); aperture-priority auto (A); manual (M); scene modes (portrait; landscape; child; sports; close up; night portrait; night landscape; party/indoor; beach/snow; sunset; dusk/dawn; pet portrait; candlelight; blossom; autumn colours; food); special effects modes (night vision; super vivid; pop; photo illustration; toy camera effect; miniature effect; selective colour; silhouette; high key; low key)
|Exposure compensation
|Can be adjusted by –5 – +5EV, in steps of1/3 or 1/2EV, in P, S, A, M, SCENE, and night vision modes
|Exposure bracketing
|3 frames, in steps of1/3 or 1/2EV
|Exposure lock
|Luminosity locked at detected value with AE-L/AF-L button
|ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index)
|ISO100–, 25600, in steps of1/3EV, Auto ISO sensitivity control available
|Active D-Lighting
|Auto, Extra high, High, Normal, Low, Off
|ADL bracketing
|2 shots
|Autofocus system
|Nikon Multi-CAM 4800DX autofocus sensor module with TTL phase detection, 39 focus points (including 9 cross-type sensor), and AF-assist illuminator (range approx. 0.5–3 m)
|Detection range
|Lens servo
|Single-servo AF (AF-S), Continuous-servo AF (AF-C), Auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A), ; predictive focus tracking activated automatically according to subject status, Manual focus (MF):, Electronic rangefinder can be used
|Focus point
|39, Can be selected from 39 or 11 focus points
|AF-area mode
|Single-point AF, 9-, 21-, or 39- point dynamic-area AF, 3D-tracking, auto-area AF
|Focus lock
|Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) or by pressing AE-L/AF-L button
|Built-in flash
|auto, portrait, child, close up, night portrait, party/indoor, pet portrait, super vivid, pop, photo illustration, toy camera effect: Auto flash with auto pop-up P, S, A, M, food: Manual pop-up with button release
|Guide number
|Approx. 12, 12 with manual flash (m, ISO 100, 20°C)
|TTL: i-TTL flash control using 2016-pixel RGB sensor is available with built-in flash; i-TTL balanced fill-flash for digital SLR is used with matrix and centre-weighted metering, standard i-TTL flash for digital SLR with spot metering
|Auto, auto with red-eye reduction, auto slow sync, auto slow sync with red-eye reduction, fill-flash, red-eye reduction, slow sync, slow sync with red-eye reduction, rear-curtain with slow sync, rear-curtain sync, off
|Flash compensation
|-3 – +1 EV in steps of 1/3 or 1/2 EV, in P, S, A, M, and SCENE modes
|Flash-ready indicator
|Lights when built-in flash or optional flash unit is fully charged; blinks after flash is fired at full output
|Accessory shoe
|ISO 518 hot-shoe with sync and data contacts and safety lock
|Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS)
|Advanced Wireless Lighting supported with SB-910, SB-900, SB-800, SB-700, or SB-500 as a master flash or SU-800 as commander; Flash Colour Information Communication supported with all CLS-compatible flash units
|Sync terminal
|AS-15 sync terminal adapter (available separately)
|White balance
|Auto, incandescent, fluorescent (7 types), direct sunlight, flash, cloudy, shade, pre-set manual, all except pre-set manual with fine-tuning.
|White balance bracketing
|3 shots in steps of 1
|Live view shooting
|Lens servo
|Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); full-time-servo AF (AF-F) Manual focus (MF)
|AF-area mode
|Face-priority AF, Wide-area AF, Normal-area AF, Subject-tracking AF
|Contrast-detect AF anywhere in frame (camera selects focus point automatically when face-priority AF or subject-tracking AF is selected)
|Automatic scene selection
|Available in auto and auto, flash off modes
|TTL exposure metering using main image sensor
|Metering method
|Frame size (pixels) and frame rate
|1920 x 1080, 60p (progressive)/50p/30p/25p/24p, high/normal 1280 x 720, 60p/50p, high/normal 640 x 424, 30p/25p, high/normal Frame rates of 30p (actual frame rate 29.97 fps) and 60p (actual frame rate 59.94 fps) are available when NTSC is selected for video mode. 25p and 50p are available when PAL is selected for video mode. Actual frame rate when 24p is selected is 23.976 fps.
|File format
|Video compression
|H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding
|Audio recording format
|Linear PCM
|Audio recording device
|Built-in or external stereo microphone; sensitivity adjustable
|ISO sensitivity
|Monitor size
|8.1cm (3.2–in.) diagonal
|Monitor type
|TFT vari-angle LCD touch screen with 170° viewing angle, approx. 100% frame coverage, brightness adjustment, and eye-sensor controlled on/off
|Monitor resolution
|Approx.1037k-dot, (720 x 480 x 3 = 1,036,800 dots)
|Full-frame and thumbnail (4, 12, or 80 images or calendar) playback with playback zoom, movie playback, photo and/or movie slide shows, histogram display, highlights, photo information, location data display, auto image rotation, picture rating, and image comment (up to 36 characters)
|USB connector
|Hi-Speed USB, ; connection to built-in USB port is recommended
|HDMI output connector
|Type C HDMI connector
|video output
|Audio input
|Stereo mini-pin jack (3.5 mm diameter); supports optional ME-1 stereo microphones
|Accessory terminal
|Wireless remote controllers: WR-1, WR-R10 (available separately) Remote cords: MC-DC2 (available separately) GPS units: GP-1/GP-1A (available separately)
|IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
|Communications protocols
|IEEE 802.11b: DSSS/CCK IEEE 802.11g: OFDM
|Operating frequency
|2412–2462 MHz (channels 1–11)
|Range (line of sight)
|Approximately 30 m (assumes no interference; range may vary with signal strength and presence or absence of obstacles)
|Data rate
|54 Mbps Maximum logical data rates according to IEEE standard. Actual rates may differ.
|Authentication: Open system, WPA2-PSK Encryption: AES
|Wireless setup
|Supports WPS
|Access protocols
|Supported languages
|Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
|One EN-EL14a rechargeable Li-ion battery
|AC adapter
|EH-5b AC adapter; requires EP-5A power connector (available separately)
|Tripod socket
|1/4–in. (ISO 1222)
|Dimensions (W x H x D)
|Approx.124, x97, x70mm
|Approx.470g with battery and memory card but without body cap; approx. 420 g (camera body only)
|Operating environment
|Temperature: 0°C–40°C, Humidity: 85% or less (no condensation)
|Supplied accessories
|Rubber Eyecup DK-25, Body Cap BF-1B, Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL 14a (with terminal cover), Battery Charger MH-24 (plug adapter supplied in countries or regions where required; shape depends on country of sale), Strap AN-DC3, USB Cable UC-E23, Audio/video cable EG-CP16
Nikon AF-P DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR II Lens Specifications
|Fmount, Type G AF-P DX lens with built-in CPU and F mount
|Focal length
|18–, 55mm
|Maximum aperture
|f/3.5, to5.6
|Minimum aperture
|f/22, to38
|Lens construction
|12elements in, 9groups, (2 aspherical lens elements)
|Angle of view
|76° to 28° 50'
|Minimum focus distance
|0.25m (0.9ft), from focal plane at all zoom positions
|VR (Vibration Reduction) image stabilization
|No. of diaphragm blades
|7 (rounded diaphragm opening)
|Fully automatic
|Full aperture
|Filter-attachment size
|55mm, (P = 0.75 mm)
|Approx. 64.5 mm maximum diameter x 62.5 mm (distance from camera lens mount flange)
|Approx.205g (7.3 oz.)
|AF-S (Silent Wave Motor)
|Internal focusing
|Focus mode
|Focus distance indicator
|Focal length scale
|Graduated in millimeters (18, 24, 35, 45, 55)
|Manual zoom using independent zoom ring
|Supplied accessories
|55 mm snap-on Front Lens Cap LC-55A Rear Lens Cap
* Specifications subject to change by the manufacturer without notice
Manufacturer Warranty
Manufacturer Warranty
This product comes with a
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from Nikon Australia
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Tim McGraw to Appear on PBS 'Live From the Artists Den' Series
Tim McGraw will kick off the new season of the PBS series, 'Live From the Artists Den,' with an hour-long peek into his new album, 'Sundown Heaven Town.'
The 'Meanwhile Back at Mama's' singer filmed his episode at a century-old, eight-story bank building in downtown Houston, Texas, which he says is a venue he will likely never forget.
"Playing in an arena or a stadium, they all look the same to a certain extent," he notes. "You come into a space like this, and you just play differently. It inspires you in a different sort of way."
McGraw is kicking off the eighth season of the series, which also includes performances by Lily Allen, Jason Mraz and Rodrigo y Gabriela.
"This is one of the most diverse seasons of 'The Artists Den' yet, and it really speaks to not only the range and quality of music that's out there, but also the sophisticated taste of our fans," Mark Lieberman, founder and executive producer of 'Live From the Artists Den,' says. "There's something for everyone."
McGraw's episode will debut on July 4. Check local listings here.
The Louisiana native isn't the only country star who will be appearing on PBS. Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley will also each appear in their own episode of the network's concert show, 'Front and Center.'
McGraw is currently crossing the country on his Sundown Heaven Town Tour, which will play in Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio later this month. See all of his upcoming shows here.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
For over a century, The ADVERTISING Club of New York has provided exclusive access to the "Who's Who" of advertising. This fall, over the course of seven-weeks, you will hear from masters of the industry who are redefining our business. This is an opportunity for you or your employees to better understand the business and build the skills to keep moving on the fast track.
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This session will focus on the 5 key trends occurring in media now and what is to come in 2015. 'What's Trending in Media' will specifically concentrate on mobile and video from varying perspectives.
Agency Perspective– Kris Magel, Chief Investment Officer, Initiative
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Part II: Creative Cycle - John Gagne, Executive Creative Director, Atmosphere Proximity
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HOUSTON - Workers with the Montgomery County Mosquito Abatement Program are starting their gas-powered, truck-mounted engines and spraying for mosquitoes every morning and every night right now and they will continue that work for two more months.
The reason is the sharp spike in the mosquito-carried illness West Nile virus that is sweeping across our area. To date, 17 people have been infected with the serious sickness. And officials say a mosquito in Harris County has tested positive for the Chikungunya virus.
"It's not about trying to avoid the annoying bug bite, it's about prevention of the spread of a serious disease," said Dr. Mark Escott, Medical Director for The Montgomery County Hospital District.
Now there is a new threat headed our way. Escott says another mosquito-born illness called Dengue Fever is coming to Houston in the near future.
It's a disease that is very prevalent in South America and Mexico, and it causes very high fevers and severe bleeding in its most serious form. It also can have a mortality rate of up to 10 percent.
So far, no one has been diagnosed with Dengue in this part of Texas yet, but Escott says it's on the way.
The best thing anyone can do right now to protect themselves is load up on insect repellant containing DEET.
"This is something everyone needs to do every night between dusk and dawn to prevent these diseases, this is a serious concern," Escott said.
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The Katrina Kaif bikini drama doesn't seem to die out too soon. No wonder, it is costing the gorgeous actress a lot. And as per recent reports, certain media persons has been thinking if Katrina herself had leaked her private vacation pictures, that was vehemently denied by Ms Kaif recently.
Katrina Kaif, who was on a vacation with boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor in Spain, felt betrayed after the media encroached on her personal space by printing the couple's private photographs. Following this, Kat had issued an open letter to the media and expressing her disappointment over the leaked pictures. During a recent interview, when Kaif was asked the question that was on every body's mind regarding her leaked Spain vacation pictures - If she leaked them herself, to which the actress denied vehemently.
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This post was originally published on The Huffington Post.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if your work really makes a difference. Three months after the London Summit on Family Planning, I led a delegation of UNFPA supporters to Ghana. We saw a diverse and inspiring range of maternal health programs – from government hospitals to an entrepreneurial midwife who designed and produced birthing stools with the help of a local carpenter.
In Tamale, we visited a brand new Marie Stopes clinic fully stocked with a range of modern contraceptive methods. It was located in the heart of the city, at a vibrant, open air market that stands at the crossroads of three ancient trade routes. For the women and men who work there, the clinic could not be more convenient – they could easily dash off for an appointment or for supplies.
Afia's face was etched in pain, but her cries were muted. With quiet dignity, and few of the trappings that attend births in countries like my own, I found out she was in labor to deliver her first child.
From there we flew north to Bolgatanga, then traveled by bus towards the border with Burkina Faso. As we drove, the tarmac gave way to unpaved roads. Cracks became grooves, and grooves became ditches. As the hours passed, the villages became smaller and the distance between them grew. Wherever we were headed, it felt worlds away from the hustle and bustle of Tamale.
Finally we arrived at our destination: a plain, L-shaped building in a small compound. It was a Planned Parenthood of Ghana clinic that provides an integrated mix of family planning and other health education and services.
Despite its remoteness, we were greeted with as much enthusiasm and excitement as we felt in Tamale. About 200 people – village elders, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, children – had come out to show support for their clinic. They told us about the difference the clinic was making in their lives. In this isolated location, it was their only source of medical care.
But as we toured the facility, I happened to notice one person who wasn't taking part in the excitement. Her name was Afia, and she sat very quietly, in a corner, on a hard wooden bench. A midwife was by her side.
Afia's face was etched in pain, but her cries were muted. With quiet dignity, and few of the trappings that attend births in countries like my own, I found out she was in labor to deliver her first child.
As a mother myself, I knew how scared she must have felt. I also knew that in Ghana, for every 100,000 women who go into labor, 350 die giving birth or because of pregnancy-related complications. The statistics can be numbing.
Afia remained on my mind and two days later, I learned she had a lovely baby girl, and both mother and child were happy and most importantly, healthy. I know that in the coming months and years, the clinic will help Afia keep herself and her baby healthy, and will give her the contraceptives she needs to plan her family and her future.
Our work does make a difference. This is what Family Planning 2020 is all about: reaching women, no matter where they live, with the information, services and supplies they need. Program by program, clinic by clinic, and woman by woman.
One year after the London Summit on Family Planning, I am pleased to report that FP2020 continues to build the foundations of a global movement and is accelerating progress towards achieving our goal of reaching an additional 120 million women with lifesaving contraceptive information, services and supplies by 2020.
Countries are championing the cause – over twenty governments have already made commitments and a few more are gearing up to do so. National, costed family planning plans are being drafted and implemented, new health laws are being passed and service delivery barriers are being addressed. Price-reduction agreements on long-acting, reversible contraceptive implants and the scale-up in delivery of discreet, injectable contraceptives ensures that millions of women will be able to access a range of family planning methods. We've improved relations with allies, built and strengthened new partnerships, and established our global governance framework. I am proud of what we've accomplished together.
And yet, I remain acutely aware that the work of FP2020 has only just begun. We have so much more to do to ensure that family planning remains front and center on the global development agenda. This will require even stronger international partnerships to uphold and guard the unified aspirations of millions of women and girls to chart their own future.
Women like Afia are depending on us to keep the promises we made one year ago at the London Summit. As we move forward into the second year of FP2020, I am convinced and confident that working together, we shall.
Valerie DeFillipo
Director, FP2020
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In the latest version they took the twitter app closer to the iOS version byt ditching many of the Android UI patterns and replacing them with iOS. Unfortunately these UI solutions feel alien on Android and don't really work as expected.
Quick Actions
Long pressing or swiping a tweet opens actions that can be performed on the tweet. Unfortunately doing that hides the selected tweet. This is the worst possible placement for the actions as it hides the only tweet on the screen that has any relevance to the actions. Compare this to the previous implementation bellow which keeps the selected tweet visible and helps the user to keep track of the context.
Action Bar
The new twitter app still uses action bar but fails on one important matter. The actions shown on the action bar are not relevant to the screen that is visible. For example in this screen bellow (tweet details) the offered actions are search and compose new tweet. Neither of them make really sense in this screen. On the other hand the actions are displayed on the bottom of the screen in similar way they're in the iOS app. The actions from the screen bottom should be moved into the action bar for better consistency.


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Kevin Schultz's Tri-Faith America at Religion Dispatches
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CFP: Love and Romance
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is looking for essays, interviews, and pedagogical materials on love and religion in global popular culture, for a special issue guest-edited by Lynn S. Neal (Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction). How do film, fiction, popular music, and other media represent the complex relationships between love and religion? How do these representations compare across national, cultural, and theological divides, and what happens when they cross those boundaries? How have they changed over time? What can a sophisticated understanding of love in religious discourse—from whatever tradition—teach us about individual songs, films, novels, or other popular texts?
Topics of particular interest include:
- Theologies of love in popular song: Leonard Cohen, U2, Richard Thompson, Al Green, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Niyaz, Shye Ben-Tzur, etc.
- Sacred and secular love in popular culture: drawing boundaries, blurring distinctions
- Interfaith romance (Jewish / Christian, Hindu / Muslim, etc.) in popular culture
- Love, Religion, and Politics in popular culture
- Romance vs. Religion: warnings, advice literature, debates over idolatry, etc.
- Romantic love as a surrogate or secular religion
- Christian inspirational romance fiction, and its non-Christian equivalents: studies of individual novels, publishing lines, reader behavior, etc.
- Crossover texts and figures: Rumi, the Song of Songs, etc.
- God as lover and beloved in popular culture
- Sacred love stories in popular culture (Krishna / Radha, Majnun / Layla, Adam / Eve, etc.)
- One Love, or many? Rastafari, Wiccan, and other traditions of love in popular culture
Published by the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR), the peer-reviewed Journal of Popular Romance Studies is the first academic journal to focus exclusively on representations of romantic love across national and disciplinary boundaries. Our editorial board includes representatives from English, Comparative Literature, Ethnomusicology, History, Religious Studies, African American Studies, and other fields. JPRS is available without subscription at http://jprstudies.org.
Please submit scholarly papers of no more than 10,000 words by June 1, 2012, to An Goris, Managing Editor managing(dot)editor(at) jprstudies(dot)org. Longer manuscripts of particular interest will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Submissions should be Microsoft Word documents, with citations in MLA format.
Fear This!
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I have recently come across two excellent articles that may be of interest to readers of the blog. While I usually prefer some good Reconstructionist conspiracies mixed with anti-dominionist fear-mongering, both of these pieces (by Ross Douthat and Lisa Miller) are thoughtful and smart. I am sure our friends over at Religion Dispatches will view Miller and Douthat as dupes of Rousas John Rushdoony, but I am much more afraid of the Ralph Reeds and Karl Roves of the GOP than I am of dead Reformed preachers. Of course when Bachmann pushes a proposal through Congress reinstituting Levitical law, the US Supreme Court upholds such legislation as Constitutional, and we start stoning people in the streets, we will all know that I was wrong. But that is about as likely as Harvey fielding a good fantasy football team.
From Ghost Hunters to Protestant Spirits
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Protestant Spirits
by Sean McCloud
Classes started at my university last week. The hallways and corridors of my religious studies department—which were virtually left to the ghosts this summer—now brim with life as students and faculty fill the spaces. But even though the revnants have been temporarily pushed out of my hallways by the new semester, spirits have materialized elsewhere in various media forms. The new season of Ghosthunters, one of the original of the now dozens of ghost hunting reality television shows, began on the Syfy network Wednesday. Their often repeated commercial tells viewers that one out of three Americans believe in ghosts, though polls by Pew and CBS suggest that the number of those who accept the existence of departed spirits (and angels and demons) may be much higher—even when it's not Halloween.
Aside from Ghosthunters, two other items conjured up spirits in my presence. The first was Terry Gross's Wednesday Fresh Air interview with Rachel Tabachnick about The New Apostolic Reformation, a movement of Third Wave Evangelicals who are bringing their practice of spiritual warfare into the American political arena. In Tabchnick's case, the Protestants are socially conservative and theologically tend toward charismatic and Pentecostal practice. The primary spirits they are focused on are demons, whom spiritual warfare practitioners seek to exorcise from individual bodies, objects, places, regions, and nation states. While the movement is numerically small, its influence can be seen in as variant examples as televangelist Pat Robertson's 2010 comment that the Haitian earthquake was caused by a pact that the country's founders made with Satan, former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's videotaped deliverance prayer from the spirits of witchcraft by the African minister Thomas Muthee and Evangelical missionary strategies in Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America (see, for example, Kevin O'Neill's discussion of spiritual warfare in Guatemala in his book, City of God: Christian Citizenship in postwar Guatemala (University of California Press, 2010). I find Third Wave Evangelicalism and its practice of spiritual warfare fascinating, so much that I am writing a book that uses the movement as a case study to examine contemporary U.S. religious culture. And who doesn't find ghosts, demons, and curses interesting? But at the same time, I am guessing that few American religion scholars (knowing the group's charismatic and Pentecostal roots) would express surprise at the movement's supernaturalism, which includes the aforementioned demons, but also angels, divine healings, and other miraculous events. But that is definitely not the case with the second spirit-filled item that has possessed my time: Pamela Klassen's provocative new book, Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity (University of California Press, 2011).
In Klassen's case, the Protestants under discussion are theologically and socially liberal, Canadian, and concerned with healings simultaneously medical and supernatural. Klassen rightfully notes that miraculous healing—as well as other forms of Christian supernaturalism—"have been more often associated with Roman Catholic or Pentecostal versions of spiritual healing"(xiv), rather than with liberal Protestants in denominations such as the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada. She tells readers that her interest in liberal Protestants stems from the "lack of imagination" scholars have had in analyzing the Protestant versions of the "liberal subject" (xvii). Utilizing both historical and ethnographic approaches, Klassen focuses on activities centered around healing. She hopes to reveal the diversity and "messiness" of liberal Protestant practice. I am just a few chapters into it, but Spirits of Protestantism is already effectively battling stereotypes (by examining what Klassen aptly dubs "supernatural liberalism") and breaking down borders (by focusing on Canadians who are often involved in medical missions). Klassen's study is also contributing to the cultural history of the study of religion by registering the connections between the anthropology of religion and supernatural liberalism. Spirits of Protestantism looks to be a rich, complex, and promising work that I plan on adding to my spring semester graduate seminar on American religions. In the meantime, I am hoping that the local university spirits will keep their poltergeist activities to a minimum so that I can finish the book before fall semester classes start possessing me.
"Know that this is divine justice."
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La Familia Michoacana – religiously-inspired drug-traffickers of the Mexican-American borderlands – are back, sort of. La Familia dramatically appeared on the media's radar in 2006 when they rolled the severed heads of five criminals onto the floor of a discoteca with the note: "The family doesn't kill for money. It doesn't kill women. It doesn't kill innocent people, only those who deserve to die. Know that this is divine justice." Over on ReligionDispatches, Luis Leon has an article on the re-emergence of La Familia Michoacana, who is now the Knights Templar of Michoacan. I was intrigued to see Leon's take on the "new" cartel society because this is a regional ethos that Leon knows. I recently flipped back through his book La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands for my upcoming comprehensive exams, and I continue to be struck and intrigued by the narrative Leon tells. Religion in the borderlands, Leon tells us, is "creative and often effective means to manage the crisis of everyday life." His narrative includes the literature of popular chicana author Sandra Cisneros, Catholicism, the healing traditions of curanderismo, folk traditions of espiritualismo, and born-again evangelicos.
In his essay over on Dispatches, Leon explains how the more Protestant worldview of La Familia has developed into the more Catholic-looking Knights Templar of Michoacan (KTM). Leon takes you through parts of the El Codigo de los Caballeros Templarios de Michocan, or The Code of KTM. Last December, I posted here on La Familia, reflecting both on the then-recent death of leader Nazario Moreno Gonzalez (or El Más Loco) and the integration of his remembrance in celebrations of the feast day of La Virgen de Guadalupe. Just a few days after Moreno's death, San Antonio law officers attended a workshop exploring "the saints that narcos pray to," including Santa Muerte, San Simón, and other borderlands icons. When explaining to the local San Antonio paper why the workshop was important, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas John Murphy said "It might seem laughable that someone would have these idols. It's remarkable, but true. There's always an advantage about knowing about this." I don't think "laughable" is a good description for this aspect of borderlands religion, but at least law officers are getting interested in learning about it.
End-of-Summer Beach Read for Religious Historians
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Heaven's Bride: An End-of-Summer Beach Read for Religious Historians (and everyone else) -- except during the hurricane please don't read it at the beach per se.
In addition to being a great read, Schmidt offers a useful reminder that evangelicalism is only one part of the religious history of America. Though Anthony Comstock, the inspiration behind federal and state laws suppressing vice, and his evangelical allies presented an almost unstoppable force in the late 19th-century, Craddock associated with a loosely organized group of transatlantic secularists, religious liberals, Quakers, spiritualists, occultists, and yogis, who rejected evangelical domination of American life."
A brief synopsis: Schmidt views Craddock as a leading example of a time when sexual expression and American religion did not necessarily clash. Craddock and her associates advocated more liberated, pleasurable sex in monogamous heterosexual relationships, preferably marriage. Despite little or no direct experience with intercourse, Craddock set up shop as a pre-marital and marriage counselor, advising husbands how to please their wives (like Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes, she separated sex and procreation, advocating a longer sex act with no male ejaculation) and instructing wives how to please their husbands (move their hips during intercourse). Craddock viewed the sex act as a form of worship, an experience of the divine on earth. In her physical and emotional marriage to a spirit husband, she practiced what she preached. Unsurprisingly, Craddock's mother placed her in an institution. Comstock charged her with obscenity.
Contextualizing Craddock's personal religious journey "from Methodist holiness to Unitarian individuality right on through spiritualist séances and South Asian traditions," Schmidt examines the notices for religious services in the Chicago Tribune. In the 1870s, the announcements were predictably Protestant, calling Chicagoans to services at Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Baptist, and Methodist churches. By 1900, as Schmidt observes, "all hell was breaking loose," with announcements for Jewish, Spiritualist, Christian Scientist, Ethical Culture, and Hindu services. Craddock advertised her own combination of spiritual and sexual education at her Church of Yoga with a Bible talk titled "Man and Woman as They Were, as They Are, as They ought to Be."
One aspect of Ida Craddock's thought naturally caught my attention: she viewed Quaker minister and pioneering feminist Lucretia Mott as a foremother, quoting her famous line "Truth for Authority, not Authority for Truth" in her death match with Anthony Comstock. This intellectual connection is not as farfetched as it seems. Craddock attended Friends Central School in Philadelphia, founded in part by Mott's Cherry Street Meeting. Craddock also served as secretary for the American Secular Union, an offshoot of the Free Religious Association, an organization established in 1867. Before her death, Mott traveled to Boston regularly to attend meetings. In 1900, the Free Religious Association memorialized Mott, along with Roger Williams, Hindu reformers Ram Mohun Roy and Keshub Chunder Sen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Octavius Brooks Frothingham , as "Prophets of Liberalism."
Schmidt expands our understanding of this heady religious period through the life of the fascinating Ida Craddock. In her work with the American Secular Union, Craddock urged members to ally with "Free religionists, Quakers, Progressive Jews and Liberal Christians" against religious intolerance. Though she failed in her efforts to rally these groups, it is important to note that Comstock also viewed them as linked in their committed defense of the rights of accused pornographers, sexologists, and free lovers. Under the guise of religion, he argued, liberal Protestants were "champions of obscenity."
Radio Free RiAH, Part Two
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Randall Stephens will be on the Dr. Howard Gluss show tonight from 8 pm-9pm PST. Unlike Paul and myself, he gets the whole hour!
Tune in to listen to Howard and Randall discuss "Right Wing America: Evangelicals, Conservative Christians, and Christian Pyschologists." And hopefully, they'll discuss Randall's forthcoming book with Karl Giberson, The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age (October).
This program provides live streaming on the internet here.
P.S. Yes, we are trying to take over the world. We'll let y'all know how it goes.
First Prejudice Revisited
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Moral Ambition
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Last year, I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Omri Elisha speak about his field work on evangelical Christians and megachurches conducted in Knoxville, Tennessee. Elisha's book, Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. This book is taunting me from my Kindle as we speak, and I'll blog more about my impressions of the book soon. What was striking to me is Elisha's discussion of social engagement among evangelicals and the tensions that arise in megachurches over how socially involved congregations should be. Socially engaged evangelicals were a small and vocal minority, and Elisha traces the struggles of individuals within megachurches to elicit social change. Marie Griffith describes Elisha as "a wonderfully talented ethnographer—'empathetic' in the very best sense: critically engaged, attentive, and clearly committed to forming genuine relationships." The University of California Press describes Moral Ambition in this way:
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.
Additionally, the press includes an excerpt on their site. Here's a sample:
In order to get their messages across despite such hindrances, the socially engaged evangelicals I observed in Knoxville-not unlike Christian social reformers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-always portrayed charitable social outreach as a legitimate and necessary component of evangelism. They demonstrated that ministries of social outreach were basically meant to achieve the same goals as most highly regarded revivalist and missionary enterprises, namely, to spread the Word of God and "make disciples" by religious conversion. The discourse of outreach mobilization was rife with tales of personal, cultural, and spiritual transformation, filled with alluring tropes of faith, compassion, redemption, and sacrifice. The tendency among many conservative Protestants to insist on a firm distinction between humanitarian effort and religious proselytization (privileging the latter) was rejected by those who favored a more integrative, holistic approach, the kind that prioritizes "words and deeds" and regards both as equally crucial for effective evangelism among society's poor, distressed, and marginalized populations. Making the case for holistic evangelism in the evangelical churches of Knoxville-whether this meant arguing for broader conceptions of the church's role in society or simply arguing that, as one pastor put it, "You can't talk to an empty stomach"-was a vital strategy by which the socially engaged evangelicals I observed appealed to their conservative base (Elisha 2008b). Their appeals consistently upheld religious virtues that are commonly valued among conservative evangelicals, drawing on existing cultural repertoires informed by authoritative theological and pastoral discourses within the evangelical movement. Yet the socially engaged evangelicals in my study represented a surprisingly small and frustrated minority relative to the megachurches they belonged to-I encountered barely more than one or two dozen such individuals in each congregation-and the local evangelical community as a whole.Part of the aim of this book is to explore what happens when religious actors of a certain aspirational persuasion-people like Paul Genero-pursue moral ambitions that are recognized as virtuous by others and simultaneously regarded with ambivalence and aversion. I examine how such moral ambitions are shaped within specific cultural and institutional milieus that define, authorize, and constrain their actual potential. Moreover, I analyze the mobilization strategies employed by those who, in claiming these moral ambitions, seek to inspire others to follow suit. The strategies usually involved identifying and critiquing deficiencies in the faith community, and then proposing socially relevant methods of counteracting those deficiencies. My ethnography works alongside other recent ethnographies in exploring the role of institutionalized narratives, concepts, and motifs in framing religious interventions in the modern world (Coleman 2000; Harding 2000), the ways that everyday religiosity is shaped by disciplines of ethical self-cultivation, especially in urban settings (Deeb 2006; Mahmood 2005; O'Neill 2010), and the significance of religious activism as a form of social action and cultural critique (Coutin 1993; Ginsburg 1989). All told, this book portrays a localized cultural arena where I found conservative evangelicals engaged in modest yet meaningful activities akin to what Sherry Ortner has called "serious games": a concept that helps us think about "the way in which people are defined and constrained by the intersections of culture, power, and history in which they find themselves, and yet at the same time are active players in making (and sometimes remaking) those worlds that have made them" (1999: 35).
For those of you interested in evangelicals, evangelicalism, social reform, and/or megachurches, this book is a must-read.
On Jews and Black Baseball: An Interview With Rebecca Alpert
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I can't say enough good things about Rebecca Alpert's new book, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (OUP, 2011). I'll be reviewing it soon for a local radio program. You can read Professor Alpert's thoughts on the book over at Religion Dispatches, along with an interview. And then there's my conversation with her below. Enjoy!
AR: Please begin by giving us some background on this project, and particularly how this is both a continuation of your previous scholarship and a new direction.
RA: I have been interested in twentieth century American Jewish history I wrote my dissertation on American reform rabbis from that era many decades ago. Later in my career I became interested in the intersection of sport and religion, and began to write about Jews and baseball. Writing about racial identity and secular Jewish concerns are the newest parts of the puzzle, and these interests all coalesced around I began to discover about the role Jews played in black baseball.
AR: Your book is as much about race and religion as it is about baseball. Would you discuss how you balanced writing about the game and addressing these broader issues?
RA: An historian friend who read the manuscript in draft complained that there was too little baseball in it. Although I do enjoy the game, I was really interested in how Jews related to the world of black baseball mostly from the perspectives of business and entertainment, so I probably erred on the side of focusing on broader issues.
AR: With a topic like this, I imagine that it was difficult locating sources. Was this the case? And could you talk generally about your experiences in the archives and sorting through newspapers?
RA: I began with secondary materials that would mention the tensions between black and Jewish Negro League owners and the role of the communist sportswriters but didn't go into detail. I was lucky to meet Rabbi Curtis Caldwell who introduced me to the Belleville Grays, the black Jewish team run by his community. From there, I began to read the African American press. Access to digitized versions of Black Historical Newspapers (rather than the dizzying and eye straining microfilm versions) through my university library made all the difference in the world in terms of being able to do this project. I relied heavily on the observations of the many fine newspapermen in the black press who were writing social commentary on the sports pages. Archives that I consulted proved spottier, but there were gems tucked away in many places; not uncommon in archival research. I also cannot overstate the kindness (and curiosity) of the sundry librarians and archivists who came to my aid, either via email or in person.
AR: Complimenting your impressive assortment of primary sources are your interviews with former Negro League players. How do you feel your book benefited from these interviews? Do you have advice for anyone planning to do interviews for their own projects?
RA: While I loved talking to many of the former players (and reading the oral histories other researchers compiled), I found that the players were mostly reluctant to talk about the Jewish owners I was interested in. There are many possible reasons for that reluctance, but I didn't really want to speculate about that.
As far as advice is concerned, the website of the Oral History Association is very useful in getting started. It's really important to do your homework--know as much as you can about the person you want to talk to before contacting them. That will help you craft interesting questions which make good answers possible.
AR: You talk extensively about the Jewish entrepreneurs of black baseball, such as Ed Gottlieb, Syd Pollock, and Abe Saperstein. I felt like their motivations were difficult to pigeonhole. Sometimes they seemed to have noble intentions. Other times, profit won the day. Is this accurate? And what conclusions did you reach about the motives of these businessmen of black baseball?
RA: I think that when good intentions and profit were in sync the entrepreneurs were quite noble. But I also tried hard not to impose the ideas about race and racism that we hold today on them anachronistically.
AR: In contrast, it seemed like the Jewish communists writing for The Daily Worker were much more ideologically driven. That is, they drew from both their Jewish and political rhetorical toolboxes to devise arguments favoring baseball's integration. Is this accurate? And were these writers coming to the conversation from an entirely different place than the businessmen? Or did they share some common ground?
RA: The communists and the businessmen lived in different worlds. I like to think that it was the communists who were expressing Jewish values rather than the businessmen, but both groups' behaviors were the product of the experience of second generation immigrants. They just expressed different dimensions of that social situation.
AR: I have always admired Hank Greenberg, but do now even more after reading about his relationship with Jackie Robinson, which began after a collision in 1947. Did you gain a deeper appreciation of any particular person? Similarly, was there anyone who you found to be utterly dislikable?
Buster Haywood, who seemed to crop up in all the stories I was telling. He played both for the Belleville Grays (the team of Hebrew Israelites) and the Indianapolis Clowns (owned by Syd Pollock) and was friends with Jackie Robinson. I felt like he accompanied me through the research and writing process, and I ended up writing a separate article about him. Through Buster Haywood I was able to gain some perspective on the difficulties and joys in the life of an ordinary African American player in the era of segregation.
Although the Jewish entrepreneurs often behaved in ways I didn't always appreciate, I actually found them rather sympathetic characters. I think it's important not to demonize (or idolize) people you're writing about.
AR: If I had a time travel machine, I'd go back to 1926 and watch the game between the "Hebrew All-Star Nine" and the Ku Klux Klan that you mention. Are there any games that you wished you could have witnessed too?
RA: I would love to have been at an East-West All-Star game. These games took place in Chicago each summer from the 1930s through the 1950s and featured all of the outstanding Negro League players that I came to admire as I was doing this research. I would have appreciated seeing them in action and also being among the fans who gave them the accolades they deserved.
AR: What do you hope that general readers (i.e., John and Jane Q. Sports Fan) will take away from this book? Likewise, what should American religious historians take from your book?
RA: I hope general readers appreciate the complex role Jews played in segregated baseball. I hope American religious historians see the value of using baseball as a way to understand the intertwining of race and religion in twentieth century America.


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"Well, it`s not Goldeneye, but it sure delivers the goods while it lasts."
While I am not all that sure if this is the first James Bond game since the all mighty Goldeneye, and while it wasn`t even developed by the same guys, it is my first Bond game since Goldeneye, and comparisons are inevitable as well as necessary in my opinion, so let`s, and a lot.
Agent Under Fire is supposed to have an entirely new and original plot according to the back of the game`s box, and maybe it is true, but I could`t care less, I wasn`t able to read all the briefings because I found them too boring. However, in case you are interested (sure) take your time and read the briefings because the missions have almost nothing to do with each other.
I am a bit lost here, they are pretty good, but I also found them a bit empty or simple sometimes. And Brosnan`s 3D counterpart for example doesn`t look like him, not even a little (okay, maybe just a little), and now that I think this is probably because this is not an entirely official title. The scenarios are mostly pretty cool, sometimes a little bit so-so like that stage inside an embassy, but overall well made, nothing remarkable but well made.
There is as much music as it is usual in the genre when we are talking about a game that actually has music, so you know what to expect. Needless to say there are lots of remixes of the catchy and cool Bond theme, and they are all very good, but there is not enough music for me.
The voice acting is surprisingly good, I would even say first rate despite the fact that not even Bronsnan provided his voice. But it is the same, all the voices are enormously similar to the originals.
Has its pros and cons, but overall it is better than expected, being the short length the only real flaw, plus, the gameplay has a lot of similarities with Goldeneye, which is a big plus.
The first and one of the most important similarities is that the game is divided in missions, so we are able replay them whenever we want and we can`t save in the middle of a mission, which is excellent. These missions, all of them, are miles away from the perfection of Goldeneye, while more spectacular, they are not nearly as fun, and in my opinion there are very few (only twelve), sometimes they are too short, not nearly as good as they could have been, and not all of them are classical stages as there are like four driving scenarios. The result is a mixed bag, the stages are very cool, but also lacking.
The missions still have objectives, beating the crap out of everyone you have at sight is not enough. These objectives are very standard, place bombs, protect people, destroy this or that, etc. Now, the good thing about this is that, like in Goldeneye, the objectives do not limit the game, there is no need to waste time looking for an item or someone to kill or anything, we are not going to get stuck without knowing what to do.
Surprisingly, the driving scenarios are excellent, excellent and badass as hell, with great controls and loads of fun. The only problem is that while fun, the standard stages are better, and as I said before there are like four driving scenarios, and with only twelve missions that is too much.
The controls are basically the same we always find in a console first person shooter of the new era, and if we change the unplayable default configuration (the third one is probably the most comfortable, as well as the most similar to Goldeneye), everything works fine unless you have never played one of these games in a console, in that case you`ll need time.
Now, let`s check out one of the key elements in any first person shooter, the weapons, and to my surprise again, they are Goldeneye style, this is, most of them are machine guns, and machine guns rule (talking about first person shooters, I am not a mad member of the National Rifle Association). However, I was expecting the typical Doom, Quake or Half Life arsenal with useless rocket launchers and stupid hyper powerful high technology guns with only two bullets that take ages to open fire. But no, in this game all the weapons are useful. Now if you think that makes them a bit boring, I can`t see why, and in any case I prefer them boring than completely useless, because what I sure find boring is having to use the same two weapons all the time like in the above mentioned Doom or Quake.
Where Agent Under Fire surpasses Goldeneye is in its ``spectacularity level``, there are missions that are a total blast, like the second one over our fancy car or when we have to blow up helicopters with huge cannons. Too bad the game is so short and the missions so limited even with those cool moments.
Another thing Goldeneye lacked and that this one fortunately doesn`t are the hilarious and chauvinistic Bond`s trademark one liners, after the first mission when Bond saves the girl she gets close to him and asks ``How am I going to thank you?, and Bond stares at her with that attitude of his and replies `` don`t know, but I`m sure we`ll think of something`` and then we hear the cool Bond theme and the sequence ends. There is another great one when he meets two white haired twins, or later in a submarine. Hell, that is how it`s done, with style!
Finally, the most important flaw in the game aside from the short length is, without doubt, the wasted potential. From the new villains to the scenarios, Agent Under Fire has ``loads of wasted potential here`` written all over it, we only see or fight with the cool baddies one or twice along the whole game, there is a commando girl with glassed that looks ultra baddass, but we only see her once, she escapes, and that is as much as you are going to know about her, and the same can be said for the rest of the bunch and for the scenarios that, as I said before, could have been ten times better very easily. With a lot more stages this would have been passable, but the game leaves you craving for more, and so it`s sad, very sad.
Replay Value:
Less than a week is more than enough to beat the game. Now, of course there are extra features by completing special requirements (accuracy, wasted ammo, secret areas, etc), features such as unlimited ammo for certain weapons, new weapons and things like that, it depends on our performance after each mission. But there is a problem with this, and it is the same one Goldeneye had, the thing is that there is absolutely no way to clear some of the stages with a score high enough to obtain the bonus features, for example I am still trying to figure out how to clear Goldeneye`s first stage in less than two minutes to obtain the secret there, here it is the same, there is no way to clear some of the stages with a good score.
The multiplayer option is fun for while, but only for a while because the special arenas designed for it are pretty bad.
As a result:
Agent Under Fire is too short, it is not nearly as well structured, masterfully designed and it is not as fun as Goldeneye, and it is undeveloped, but it is still a wonderful first person shooter and I enjoyed almost every single minute of it, it is a very worthy title if you have a friend who owns it or a place to rent it a couple of times.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
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I built a site where users log in to access a document library.The data protected does not require a high degree of security so ssl was not used. They have a client complaining that their username and password are being transmitted in clear text and in return, complaining to me.
At what point do you consider ssl important? It doesn't seem realistic to need to require this when the data protected is not sensitive. What do you all think?
Some people make the mistake of using the same password for sensitive logins as they do for ones where it doesn't matter. Where you don't use SSL for your "doen't need to be super secure" login process you expose those idiots passwords for all their secure sites - bank etc - to whoever decides to capture passwords from your login in the hope that the people using the page are moronic enough to have reused the same password as they used for their bank account.
If it were not for such stupidity in using the same password for multiple sites where some of them do need to be super secure then it wouldn't matter.
What the client is really saying in this case is that they think their users are super dumb enough that they are using passwords to access the site you built that are the same password they use for their bank account and other similar sites where security is needed and so they want you to build in that extra security layer to protect their users from their own mental incompetence.
I'm curious what other developers do. Obviously, not all sites require the same level of security. What's the baseline?
If it's sending sensitive or personally identifiable information I use SSL. The only information which I qualify as non-sensitive is Name (not always unique to one person), e-mail (at most would be a spam risk, usually it can be anonymous) and date of birth (most people aren't too bothered about identifying age). Passwords can be sensitive because people tend to use the same password over and over... but that's down to their own stupidity (not to mince words), everyone knows you shouldn't use the same password for sensitive sites as it enhances the exposure risk. If you need stuff like credit card information, addresses and zip/postal codes, phone numbers or other relational information specific to an individuals location... go with SSL, otherwise just ignore the individuals paranoia
Its really necessary to have SSL security certificate, as in order to protect against the password protect case, well SSL is what exactly banks and other money dealing websites uses...:)
That will be needed when you are running some kind of web sites where users transfer personal information (billing info as well).
Right, in the case I was referring to, the password was for a document library. No information about the user was stored. The password protection was for the purpose of gleaning the email for marketing purposes. So it passes a user name and password. That's it. Well, I haven't heard back from the client. So maybe they were satisfied by my explanation.
SSL is only a means to pass data without third-party able to intercept them.
It doesn't improve security by itself. it only allows to communicate safely, at the cost of raising, slightly, server load.
SSL certificate has one more value: if issued by a well-known CA, the certificate may serve as a proof of good standing. In other words, it allows to create trust in the party using the certificate and secure data exchange it allows.
This is why self-signed SSL certificates aren't popular when the question is to trust the site or not.
Actually no. A Certificate has nothing to do with trust but identity. The Certificate is a proof that the identity of this individual has been verified by a third-party. However, this is only the case if the Certificate was issued by one of the few Root Certificate Authorities.
A holder of the Certificate from a Root-CA does not mean it is trusted, only the identity has been verified.
The identity verification isn't a goal by itself. If only identity verification were the goal, there would be no many different types of SSL certificates available from the same vendor, differing only in the amount of trust they assume.
All the identity checks/whatever actions required to obtain a SSL certificate are about trust, finally. I don't care about whether the SSL certificate owner's identity is checked or not. I, the visitor, must be sure whether I can trust my personal data to the site owners or not.
I suggest reading the 'Web of trust' concepts supported by many CAs.
If you want to believe marketing then okay that is fine. But I was told very plainly during several of my courses involving security, the most recent by an instructor with more then 50 years in security. Certificates do not signify trust only identity. Whether you trust the person on the other end is up to the end user. There is nothing stopping "BAD GUY" from getting a Certificate and using it to get your information and then improperly using it.
Of course there's nothing to stop that. However, I will distrust the CA that issues a SSL to many a bad guy, that's all.
Technical aspects (checking the identity) and psychological ones (trust creation) should not be mixed or compared.
"The password protection was for the purpose of gleaning the email for marketing purposes. "
Why ask for a password? Could just request a user email.
Sometimes that's all the confirmation required to gain access to somebody's personal information, assuming you have their name as well.
Not all web application require SSL certificates enabled for their website. Paticularly banking sites where major and crucial transactions occurs requires 128 bit SSL certificates. There are chances these highly confidential sites may expose to phising and more prone to hackers. Such risk factors wants these sites to be protected by ssl certificates as data flow is encryptes and decrypted through proper channel. Even corporate portal do have SSL protected website so as to protect client's data as well as employee credentials.Verisign -(SSL) Secure Soket layer provider.
When you site to a very high security requirements!
Do you store their password without hmac-ing it ? If you responded no, it means it was already considered a sensitive data when designing your app.If you responded yes, I urge to start thinking about user login/password as sensitive data and start learning the right ways to store these.
That's a good point, but the user needed to access documents from several different pages. So A login enabled a memory of access permission. But come to think of it the Username/Password combination is not really necessary here. It would have been enough to just register the email and use that itself to grant access.
As a note, Sitepoint, Wikipedia and a number of other similar sites don't use ssl on their login page, and they store identifying profile information but not cc#, SS# etc..
And because big websites do not care about what you put in their DB, should every website do the same ? No.


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On All Things Considered on April 4, liberal NPR pundit E. J. Dionne complained that "we've created this whole system of dark money and now we're supposed to be grateful that a lot of rich people can give money under the table and over the table. And the last thing is, a lot of people using the words oligarchy and I think that's an appropriate word."
On All Things Considered on April 30, NPR campaign-finance reporter Peter Overby aired an entire story about Democrats and former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens complaining about "dark money," campaign spending from groups that don't disclose their donors. But on the May 14 Morning Edition, Overby aired an entire story about a left-wing dark money group called the "Democracy Alliance," and never mentioned once their donor non-disclosure.
STEVE INSKEEP, anchor: And let's take a look now at a campaign tool that Democrats used to great effect in the 2012 presidential race: Big Data. The Obama campaign stunned the opposition with its high-tech ability to reach and mobilize voters. Now, liberal superPACs and independent groups are applying that technology to the midterm elections, with help from wealthy progressive donors. NPR's Peter Overby reports.
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GARA LAMARCHE: We set our strategies every three years, and then we kind of sunset them and take a look at what needs to happen in the future. So we're in the middle of that.
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The Washington Free Beacon has been reporting on the group's donors. But NPR could also read the leftist outlets it likes best, like Mother Jones, who wrote last fall on "Liberal Group to Fight Dark Money…by Raising $40 Million of It."
Overby also mentioned a major NPR donor in his report – George Soros, who pledged $1.8 million to NPR – but there was no disclosure to listeners:
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My first post on this forum..please forgive the spelling. Lol
Anyway, had 10M45s for years and used them as CCSs in tube circuits with good results. Reading up a bit on FETs and MOSFETs I decided to try a simple circuit, running the 10M45 as a simple voltage amp.
K to ground is a 200ohm resistor
A to B+ is a 1000 ohm resistor
G to ground is a 100K ohm resistor
Output taken from K is a 4uf cap to a 30K resistor to ground.
Biasing at 17ma
Gain about 8
Hokked it up and put it in the system to find the humm a little to much so I added a 5H choke and another cap to the powersupply for very quite operation.
Sonicly it has very nice soundstage over 180 degrees on good material but pushed back a bit. Imaging is excellent as is tone. Very easy to listen to. Bass and treble seem lacking but everything is there it's just not in your face.
I've heard many worse preamps.
Anyone else build such a circuit, any better operating points?
Now Balanced
Added a simple direct coupled 10M45 concertina stage with 400ohm A and K resistors for a 40ma ballanced output. Had to change the A resistor in the first stage to 3Kohm. Now have nice unballanced to ballanced preamp good for 16V p-p output. Would be better to increase B+ to 100V.
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A noted Telugu media reported that former heroine Rambha might have got split from her husband Indran Padbhanathan with whom she relocated to Canada after marrying him in 2010.
Rambha happens to be a hot and promising heroine of the late 90s era, with not just glamour but also she is a talented dancer and performer too. The 37 year old actress has quit her career during the peak of it and married this Chennai based businessman, and the couple have a daughter named Lavanya. Media reports suggest that all is not well between Rambha and her husband, ever since the actress has chosen to return to silver screen after her daughter has grown up. Also the spicy former Telugu siren is said to be living independently from some time in Chennai and is searching for sister-mother kind of roles in Telugu and Tamil cinema.
Though Rambha ruled out these divorce rumours in the first week of August, it is now heard that all those rumours regarding her split are true, the media house claimed. Will our ex-heroine takes it to condemning again, or should we say that there is no smoke without fire?


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National Museums »
Ulster American Folk Park » What's on » Current Exhibitions » Titanic: Window on Emigration
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10:00 - 17:00, Tue 28 Feb 2012 - Sun 28 May 2017
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the emigrants from Ireland who boarded Titanic?
Have you ever wondered how survivors picked up the pieces of their lives following the tragedy?
This exhibition looks at the stories of some of the Irish emigrants. Set in the context of European emigration, you can explore the stories of the steerage passengers and why they left for the New World.
Explore a third class cabin on Titanic, listen to the voices of those involved and bring to life the stories of the people who handed over their tickets in Queenstown on 11 April 1912 for a journey to a new life.


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A POUNDLAND store opening in the Angel Place Shopping Centre in Bridgwater will create 30 jobs.
Roger Smith, Angel Place centre manager, said: "We are delighted to announce Poundland will be opening in the centre.
"Work has begun on the refit of the unit and the new Poundland store is set to open at the beginning of December in time for Christmas trade.
"This is great not only for the centre but also for shoppers giving them a larger retail offering at Angel Place."