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Retail managers are responsible for the day-to-day running of stores or departments. The aim of any retail manager is to maximise profits while minimising costs.
Retail managers ensure promotions are run accurately and to the company's standards. They make sure that staff are all working towards the target for the day and that excellent customer care standards are met at all times.
Depending on the size of the store, and company structure, retail managers may also be required to deal with:
- customer service;
- finance;
- human resources;
- information technology;
- logistics;
- marketing.
These can vary according to the size of the store but typically involve:
- managing and motivating a team to increase sales and ensure efficiency;
- managing stock levels and making key decisions about stock control;
- analysing sales figures and forecasting future sales;
- analysing and interpreting trends to facilitate planning;
- using information technology to record sales figures, for data analysis and forward planning;
- dealing with staffing issues such as interviewing potential staff, conducting appraisals and performance reviews, as well as
- providing or organising training and development;
- ensuring standards for quality, customer service and health and safety are met;
- resolving health and safety, legal and security issues;
- responding to customer complaints and comments;
- organising special promotions, displays and events;
- attending and chairing meetings;
- updating colleagues on business performance, new initiatives and other pertinent issues;
- touring the sales floor regularly, talking to colleagues and customers and identifying or resolving urgent issues;
- maintaining awareness of market trends in the retail industry, understanding forthcoming customer initiatives and monitoring what local competitors are doing;
- initiating changes to improve the business, e.g. revising opening hours to ensure the store can compete effectively in the local market;
- promoting the organisation locally by liaising with local schools, newspapers and the community in general;
- dealing with sales, as and when required.
- Typical starting salaries range between £20,000 and £30,000 but depending on the organisation, this can vary significantly.
- Assistant positions generally range between £17,000 and £23,000.
- With experience, salaries can rise to £35,000 to £60,000 or even up to £70,000 in larger shops or supermarkets.
Some retailers offer bonuses or share offers, which can increase the amount payable, as well as other benefits such as pension schemes, company car, staff discount, private healthcare, professional qualifications training, gym membership and travel subsidies.
Income figures are intended as a guide only.
Working hours
Within retail, the normal working week can exceed 40 hours. However, during peak periods such as Christmas, sales and other seasonal holidays many managers may work longer than 40 hours.
Many retail stores operate in out-of-town sites and open seven days a week. This means that there is a requirement to work irregular hours including late nights, weekends and bank holidays.
What to expect
- Many organisations offer competitive annual leave entitlement. In addition, career breaks or job-sharing opportunities are also available for store managers.
- Many companies require their managers to be flexible with their mobility, however this tends to be done on a regional basis and relocation will always be discussed.
- Self-employment and franchising are possible. However, in spite of support from trade organisations such as The UK Franchise Directory, small traders can find the competition very tough.
- Retail is a fast-paced environment and managers have to react to consumer's demands and industry trends. Because of this, there is an element of pressure.
- Working hours tend to be long and can impact on your personal life. However, it is rare for a retail manager to have to travel away from their store base, except for meetings and training events.
- Overseas travel is uncommon.
- Most companies have a dress code, with fashion retailers offering employees a substantial discount to wear their merchandise on a seasonal basis.
Although this area of work is open to all graduates, an HND or degree in the following subjects may increase your chances:
- accounting and finance;
- business studies;
- fashion management;
- marketing;
- retail management.
However, there may be exceptions where the retailer is a specialist in its field and a more relevant HND or degree may be preferred.
A pre-entry postgraduate qualification is not usually required, although a proportion of retail managers do undertake relevant postgraduate study. Search for postgraduate courses in retail management.
Entry without an HND or degree is possible.
Retailers look for certain personal qualities during the recruitment process, such as people skills, confidence, enthusiasm and good customer service values. These traits tend to be favoured over academic qualifications.
Many companies expect applicants to have some retail experience whether acquired through part-time or holiday work. Alternatively, larger retailers offer placements for students, which frequently lead to job offers.
You will need to show evidence of the following:
- effective leadership and the ability to motivate others;
- the ability to plan and prioritise workloads and delegate accordingly;
- customer focus;
- the capacity to grasp new concepts quickly;
- the ability to multi-task and work under pressure;
- shrewd business sense and a well-developed commercial awareness;
- a desire to work as part of a team to generate fresh and innovative ideas.
Work experience
If you want to work in the retail industry, you need to get some work experience. As well as paid employment, you may also wish to consider voluntary work at local charity shops or similar experiences. You may be involved in a variety of different roles like stock management, pricing, merchandising, finance and customer service.
Alternatively, if there is a specific retailer you wish to work for, contact the local manager to request work shadowing, although be aware that many managers are very busy and may not be able to accommodate your request. Others may offer you another level of management to shadow, such as a supervisor or an assistant manager.
Remember all experience is good experience and if you later apply to the organisation the manager may be involved in the recruitment process.
There are approximately 287,000 retail outlets in the UK, in an industry worth around £320 billion. Typical employers include:
- high street department stores;
- specific product-led retailers, e.g. clothing, shoes, food and drink, sporting goods, electrical goods, furniture and furnishings;
- niche retailers;
- mail order companies;
- online sellers;
- television shopping channels;
- general discounters;
- supermarkets;
- home improvement stores.
Look for job vacancies at:
- Drapers Jobs
- The Grocer
- InRetail
- Retail Careers
- Retail Choice
- Retail Week
- National and local press.
- Individual company websites - for graduate schemes and specific job roles.
Retail recruitment agencies are increasingly important. You can find details via Retail Human Resources.
Competition is steep, with some companies having thousands of applicants for several hundred spaces. Be aware that closing dates for some training schemes can be as early as December or January to start the following September (some close earlier when they have reached their applicant quota), so you will need to prepare early.
Selection techniques in the industry are generally sophisticated and often based on online application procedures and assessment centres, which usually involve group exercises, presentations and psychometric testing.
You may find it worthwhile to try speculative applications to smaller and independent companies.
Get more tips on how to find a job, create a successful CV and cover letter, and prepare for interviews.
Professional development
Many of the larger retail companies have dedicated training stores. Graduate schemes are often well structured and cover all areas of retailing within the store. You may be assigned a mentor who is an experienced manager and who will oversee your training, offering support and guidance.
Training programmes are normally in-house and combine practical on-the-job, or work shadowing experience, with supplementary courses and workshops.
Short courses may offer:
- technical aspects, such as accounts;
- interpersonal training, such as coaching and mentoring;
- structured behavioural training in influencing or facilitation skills.
Training programmes aim to give you an overview of the company through exposure to the various retailing areas. The length of training varies between nine months and three years. Many training programmes are flexible and can be tailored to your requirements; you will be expected to drive your own future in accordance with the needs of the business.
Companies may also support trainees in gaining further professional qualifications related to specific disciplines.
Career prospects
Most retail companies tend to review employees performance annually. Appraisals are an opportunity to discuss your progress with your line manager and consider what you want to achieve in the year ahead. Development is a two-way process, and you will also be expected to make a contribution to your own career development.
Promotion often requires mobility, and if you are working for a smaller chain there may be fewer promotional opportunities.
Typical progressions may include:
- moving to a larger store, possibly in another part of the country;
- managing a larger department;
- moving to an assistant store manager role.
With some organisations, graduates are running their own departments within weeks and managers of smaller stores within 18 months.
Within three to five years, you can potentially move into senior retail management positions. You may use this store experience to manage larger and more complicated store environments or to progress into regional management.
The flexibility and size of many retail organisations means that it is possible to move into more specialist areas of the business and head office functions, such as customer service, training and operations management. You can also move between different types of retailers or to a wholesale supplier.


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Michael Kors Holdings: This Is One Hot IPO
On Tuesday, shares of Michael Kors Holdings (NYSE: KORS) have soared more than 22% after the company's first ever publicly released quarterly earnings results. While higher profile IPOs such as Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) have received more attention from the financial media, KORS, which came public in December, has been the name to own.
After today's big jump in the stock price, KORS is now up better than 70% since it started trading on December 19, 2011 and the company currently has a market cap of $7.84 billion. Despite the company only recently debuting on the New York Stock Exchange, the Michael Kors brand is over 30 years old and is an established high end fashion house with a track record of growth.
As part of its IPO process, KORS released its fiscal 2011 earnings results back in December. Total revenues at the company were up 58% to $803 million with global comparable-store sales rising an unreal 48% versus fiscal 2010. In fact, KORS said that it has recorded positive comparable-store sales growth in every quarter for the past five years. Net income for the period jumped 85% to $73 million.
KORS also showed that it was continuing to execute on its store growth plans, with 30 new stores opening in fiscal 2010 and another 40 stores in fiscal 2011. The company plans to eventually operate 400 stores in North America versus the 203 it had as of October 1, 2011.
Going into the company's fiscal Q3 report on Monday morning prior to the opening bell, expectations were high - and KORS did not disappoint. The company reported net profit for ordinary shareholders rose to $32 million or $0.20, versus $21.8 million or $0.16 per share, in the year ago period.
Net income was $39 million compared to $27.8 million in last year's corresponding quarter while adjusted earnings came in at $53.6 million or $0.28 per share, versus $27.8 million or $0.16 per share, in the year ago quarter. These results compared to Wall Street consensus EPS estimates of $0.09 - a blowout for KORS.
Revenues for the period were $354 million, a big jump from the $208.8 million that KORS reported in last year's third quarter. This also beat Street consensus revenue estimates of $349.2 million.
Looking ahead, KORS sees fiscal Q4 earnings of between $0.10 an $0.20 on revenues in a range of $350 million to $355 million. This guidance compares to current Street estimates of $0.11 on revenues of $347.35 million.
For fiscal 2012, KORS expects adjusted earnings per share between $0.74 and $0.76 with total revenues between $1.27 billion and $1.28 billion.
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Garbage, Garbage Everywhere . . .
The Effects of United Haulers Association Inc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority on Local Government Solid Waste Management
Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding a local government's ability to exercise flow control over solid waste. In the case of United Haulers Association Inc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority,[1] the court addressed the issue of whether a local government entity could enact flow control ordinances that required solid waste haulers to obtain permits and to deliver waste products to those sites operated and designated by local governments. Simply put, flow controls are legal provisions that allow state and local governments to designate where municipal solid waste must be taken for processing, treatment or disposal. Considering that approximately 80 percent of the landfills in the United States receiving municipal solid waste are owned by local governments,[2] the case could have significant implications relative to the manner in which Tennessee's local governments henceforth negotiate with solid waste haulers as well as craft defensible, solid waste authority regional plans.[3]
Petitioners, a trade association along with individual solid waste haulers, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983,[4 ]alleging that the flow control ordinances enacted by the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority (Authority) violated the Commerce Clause by discriminating against interstate commerce. Petitioners argued that without the Authority's ordinances and the associated tipping fees (fees charged to dispose of solid waste at landfills and waste transfer stations), they could dispose of solid waste at out-of-state facilities for far less than that which they had to pay to the Authority.[5] The instant case came before the United States Supreme Court via writ of certiorari, based upon a ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled in favor of the Authority.
The Respondent Authority countered Petitioner's assertions, arguing that the flow control regulations, via the state-created authority, were necessary due to the fact that many local government entities in the region traditionally disposed of their solid waste at landfills, many of which operated without permits and in violation of state regulations. Such activities, the Authority argued, presented significant environmental challenges for the region. Thus, the Authority enacted flow control ordinances requiring solid waste haulers to obtain permits to collect solid waste throughout the affected counties and to deliver the waste to the Authority's sites. The court, recognizing that waste disposal is typically and traditionally a function of local government exercising its police power, ruled in favor of the Authority.[6]
Carbone, Revisited
The court's ruling is significant due in part to the fact that the Supreme Court previously ruled in C & A Carbone Inc. v. Clarkstown,[7] and its progeny, that nearly all flow control laws were invalid (especially those that forced haulers to deliver waste to a privately owned facilities) because such laws discriminated against interstate commerce. In Carbone, the Town of Clarkstown, New York, agreed to allow a private contractor to construct within town limits, a solid waste transfer station to separate recyclable waste from nonrecyclable waste, with the understanding that the Town would ultimately assume ownership and control of same.
To finance the transfer station's cost, the town guaranteed a minimum waste flow to the facility, for which the contractor could charge the hauler a tipping fee that exceeded the disposal cost of unsorted solid waste on the private market. In order to meet the waste flow guarantee, the town adopted a flow control ordinance, requiring all non-hazardous solid waste within the town to be deposited at the transfer station. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that an ordinance forcing haulers to deliver waste to a particular private facility discriminated against interstate commerce. It reasoned that a discriminating state or local regulation is virtually per se unconstitutional because of "the virtual certainty that such laws, at least in their discriminatory aspect serve no legitimate, non-protectionist purpose."[8]
The Carbone court further found that the ordinance discriminated against interstate commerce because like many other local processing requirement ordinances, it deprives out-of-state service providers of local demand for their services.[9]
The Dormant Commerce Clause
The cases that lead up to and including United Haulers focus on the United States Commerce Clause. To belabor the obvious, under the Commerce Clause, "Congress shall have Power ... to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 3. The language of the Clause allows Congress not only to regulate interstate commerce but also to prevent state regulation of interstate commerce. Practically applied, the "Dormant Commerce Clause" limits the authority of state and local government to enact laws that affect interstate commerce. For instance, if the subject matter requires uniform national regulation, it is off limits to state and local regulation. Further, state and local laws and regulations can neither discriminate against nor unduly burden interstate commerce.
Finally, if discrimination is present, as evidenced, for instance, by those local laws motivated by simple economic protectionism, a per se rule of invalidity applies.[10] It was this type of perceived discrimination that led the Supreme Court in Carbone to ultimately invalidate a local ordinance requiring all nonhazardous solid waste to be deposited at a specific local transfer facility. The court concluded that the ordinance discriminated against interstate commerce because it hoarded solid waste, and the demand to get rid of it, for the benefit of a preferred processing facility.[11] Conversely, the court in United Haulers relied upon its previous ruling in Pike v. Bruce Church Inc., wherein the Pike[12] test was born. Under the Pike test, an evenhanded government regulation "will be upheld unless the burden imposed on [interstate] commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits."[13]
The Public/Private Dichotomy
Interestingly, it was the dissent in Carbone that more fully drew a distinction between public and private enterprises when viewed in context of the commerce clause. Justice Souter, writing for the minority, suggested that the ostensibly private transfer station was for all intents and purposes a municipal facility. He expressed his frustration over the majority's seeming propensity to ignore the distinction between public and private enterprise by asserting, "The local government itself occupies a very different market position, however, being the one entity that enters the market to serve the public interest of local citizens quite apart from private interest in private gain." He likewise asserted that the town's ordinance "bestows no benefit on a class of local private actors, but instead directly aids the government in satisfying a traditional governmental responsibility."[14]
The Tennessee Perspective
The petitioners in United Haulers complained bitterly that the actions of the Respondent Authority resulted in unfair competition to the detriment of private haulers. It is interesting to note that the Tennessee legislature, by enacting the Solid Waste Authority Act of 1991,[15] recognized the ability of Tennessee's public entities to control the flow of solid waste. This control is exercised via the creation of solid waste authorities. Such authorities are empowered to regulate the flow of all municipal solid waste within the county or counties constituting the authority. Further, authorities have the ability to require the disposal of any transported waste at a specific solid waste disposal facility as well as restrict access to its solid waste disposal facilities by excluding waste originating with persons or entities outside of the region. Still, Tennessee courts are reluctant to permit public entities to pass private acts that impose a tax on the "privilege" of disposing solid waste in county-owned landfills that are not a part of a solid waste authority. In the case of City of Tullahoma v. Bedford County,[16] the city challenged a county- imposed tax designed to offset expenses realized by the county resulting from a landfill operation within the county. The expenses included, but were not limited to, road maintenance and repair, the employment of a qualified inspector or inspectors, vehicles, equipment and test services for the purpose of monitoring and inspecting solid waste disposal in the county. The court, ruling for the city and as such, striking down the tax, held that, while the imposition, collection, and use of fees by counties and municipalities incident to the control and disposition of solid waste is authorized by state law, the statute provides that only local governments and solid waste authorities may impose county fees. Because the county did not own the disposal facility nor was a host county to a regional solid waste disposal facility, the tax was contrary to state law.[17]
Another interesting aspect of Tennessee's solid waste authorities is the power they wield. Although they may not exercise traditional police powers, they may, nevertheless, sue and be sued in the name of the authority, exercise the powers of eminent domain, sell electricity and other forms of power and energy, incur debt, borrow money and issue bonds, to name the most obvious.[18]
United Haulers v. Oneida-Herkimer is an important case with respect to commerce clause jurisprudence, as well as the future relationships between, and vested interests of, local governments and private waste haulers when it comes to the collection, control and processing of solid waste. Where local governments continue to view solid waste as a revenue-generating enterprise compliments of tipping fees and flow control, private haulers likewise see its value and as such, have a keen interest in keeping earnings high by keeping tipping fees low. Further, private haulers generally prefer to have a choice as to where they haul their waste.
The Supreme Court may just have tipped the latter part of this equation in favor of Tennessee's local governments. Only time will tell.
1. United Haulers Association Inc., et al. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, et al., 127 S.Ct. 1786 (2007) on Writ of Certiorari, United Haulers Association Inc., et al. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, et al. 438 F.3d 150 (1996).
2. See U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Recourse Conservation and Recovery Act, Subtitle D Study: Phase 1 Report, p. 4-7 (Odt. 1986) (Table 4-2).
3. §68-211-814 Tenn. Code Ann. mandates that regional solid waste authorities submit their plans to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation for review and approval.
4. 42 U.S.C. §1983 provides in pertinent part that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable."
5. United Haulers Association Inc., et al. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, et al., 127 S.Ct. 1786 at 1788.
6. Id. at 1792.
7. C & A Carbone Inc. v. Clarkstown, 511 U.S. 383 (1994).
8. Id. at 422.
9. Id. at 392.
10. United Haulers Association Inc., et al. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, et al., 127 S.Ct. 1786 at 1793.
11. C & A Carbone Inc. v. Clarkstown, 511 U.S. 383 at 421.
12. Pike v. Bruce Church Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970).
13. Id. at 142.
14. C & A Carbone Inc. v. Clarkstown, 511 U.S. 383at 421.
15. §68-211-901 Tenn. Code Ann. Create the Tennessee Solid Waste Authority Act of 1991.
16. Tullahoma v. Bedford County, 938 S.W.2d 408, (1997)
17. Id. at 411.
18. §68-211-814 Tenn. Code Ann.
JOSEPH G. JARRET is an attorney and Rule 31 listed civil mediator who is also licensed to practice law in Florida. He spent the last five years serving Polk County, Fla., as its county attorney prior to moving to Knox County, in December 2007. He is a former U.S. Army combat arms officer who has received numerous writing awards and who has published more than 85 articles in various legal and professional journals. He holds a bachelor of science in Criminal Justice from Troy State University (W. Germany Campus), a masters in public administration from Central Michigan University, a law degree from Stetson Law School, and a graduate certificate in public management from the University of South Florida.| TBA Law Blog


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One of the most astonishing developments in psychiatry in the past year is the announcement of a potentially competing diagnostic system to the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition) called RDoC (Research Domain Criteria). Although NIMH rightly insists that RDoC is exclusively a classification system devoted to research, the potential for RDoC to undermine the scientific credibility of DSM-5 and to conflict with DSM-5 in other ways persists. Until now the DSM system has served both clinical and research needs in psychiatry. DSM-5 presumably will continue to inform research. Disagreement between the two systems about research classification is easy to imagine. Carrying the apparent mantle of better science, RDoC may be the winner in any such disagreement.
The RDoC system begins with the recognition that the DSM system has little correspondence to underlying biological realities. For example, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, two relatively discrete clinical DSM entities, often seem related to similar genes. Also, various discrete psychiatric illnesses seem to relate to the same nuclei and neural tracts in the brain. RDoC would attempt to understand and organize information about the functions of genetic mechanisms and the tracts of nerves in the brain. DSM is created to correspond to the clinical descriptions of psychiatric disorders rather than their underlying biological processes. When underlying biological processes have been sought for DSM diagnoses, they often could not be identified. As has been often said, the brain did not read the DSM.
According to Thomas Insel, MD, the Director of NIMH, and colleagues, the RDoC rests on three assumptions: 1)Mental illness arises from difficulties in neural circuits in the brain; 2)The difficulties in these brain circuits can be studied with available technology or technology soon to be developed, and 3) study of brain circuits and genetics will enhance clinical care by leading to identifiable dysfunctions.
The RDoc contains both pessimistic and optimistic stances toward the current state of knowledge in mental health research. A pessimistic stance may be found in the belief that we know very little about the processes underlying mental illness; an optimistic stance is found in the suggestion that we now have the technology and the resources to gain this knowledge. RDoC provides a research framework to begin to identify what we know and what we don't know. For example, it has long been believed that schizophrenia was related to excessive amounts of a neurochemical called dopamine. After many decades this does not seem to be true. RDoC provides a framework to organize evidence in favor of and against excessive dopamine as a dysfunction related to schizophrenia.
The RDoC relies upon the latest technological developments in neuroimaging (x-ray technology of the brain and genomics (genetics). Also the RDoC focuses on developmental aspects of psychopathology. Development can be thought of as another axis of RDoC. RDoC is keenly interested in the study of the relationship between the brain and environment. The creators of RDoC believe that the system will eventually lead to clinical applications, but wish to be careful and thoughtful about applying the findings to patients.
This presentation of RDoC is greatly oversimplified and omits much. It does serves to point out that there is another classification of psychiatric illness. The classification may well elevate the level of scientific study. Patients, practitioners, and researchers all deeply wish to place psychiatry on a firmer scientific basis. This scheme along with current technology seems to hold promise.
For more details about the RDoC system, consult the NIMH website: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-funding/nimh-research-domain-criteria-rdoc.shtml.
From a clinical perspective, there are several potential difficulties. One is that the system emphasizes a dimensional approach to symptoms rather than the DSM categorical approach. For example under the domain for Negative Valence and aggression, various degrees of aggression could be recorded and studied. A problem develops when this dimensional research approach is prematurely translated into the clinical arena. This is not a mere theoretical possibility, but the crossing of a boundary between research and practice that has already begun to take place. At the 2011 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, I had the pleasure of hearing several excellent presentations on RDoC. During the discussion of these presentations one practitioner volunteered that he no longer treated patients according to their DSM diagnoses, but only on the basis of their symptoms. The panel of speakers politely murmured agreement with his approach suggesting that the dimensional quality of RDoC supported such a tactic. This seems to me to be an premature generalization from a complex research idea into an oversimplified clinical approach to treatment. Anxiety is found in many psychiatric disorders. The clinician is still responsible for organizing additional symptoms the patient has with the anxiety symptom into a coherent DSM diagnosis. Is this the anxiety of an anxiety disorder, the anxiety of a depressive episode, the anxiety of schizophrenia? There is no warrant at this time to treat the symptom of anxiety in isolation from other symptoms the patient may have.
Premature translation of child bipolar disorder from a research exploration into the clinical arena led to many of the problems surrounding so-called pediatric bipolar disorder. As a research idea in the late 1990's, pediatric bipolar disorder had legitimate appeal. The possibility that bipolar disorder might manifest itself in younger age groups seemed a reasonable research hypothesis. It was the intense precipitous translation of a research hypothesis into the clinical truisms and the pop culture embrace of the idea that in part led to the unwarranted increase in rates of diagnosis and treatment of a misdiagnosed illness. Much of the misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children stemmed from a spectrum approach to making a diagnosis rather than the categorical approach of DSM-IV. The crucial illustration of this is the use of varying degrees of anger in children to make a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Severely angry children were often diagnosed with bipolar disorder based on the severity of their anger. This approach to the diagnosis had little in common with the DSM IV-criteria for the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The misuse of this spectrum approach led to the misdiagnosis of many thousands of children. The dimensional or spectrum approach of RDoC should not be applied to clinical work at this time.
The RDoC appears at an awkward time for DSM-5. DSM-5 is struggling for acceptance among the general public, and the appearance of another "more scientific" approach, no matter how welcome or needed, will not help.


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Mark Wahlberg Says Get Rid Of Lady Gaga
Mark Wahlberg has started beef with an unlikely foe, Lady Gaga, who he said he'd like to get rid of after the VMA Awards (where the girl was practically inescapable).
"If we could take some videos off air then we gotta get rid of Lady GaGa," Wahlberg said in an interview promoting his movie The Other Guys, which premiered in the UK today.
Wahlberg then sarcastically told his co-star Will Ferrell, "You should have worn meat to this interview. Maybe
[a] little steak on your head?" I guess he isn't a fan of Lady Gaga's (un)savory sartorial choices either. And Ferrell even joined in the diss fest, starting his own feud with…Ke$ha!
"I mean who is she? How is that music?" Ferrell joked. "How is she a star? She's crazy!"
I'm with Ferrell. But I'm Team Gaga. She's come out on top in many a feud before!


text: Prep roundup: Buffalo sweeps twin bill from Williamstown April 20, 2013 Story Share Aaron Lewis clouted the winning two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning of the second game Saturday afternoon as host Buffalo swept a prep baseball doubleheader from Williamstown 5-2, 4-3.Bradley Harris hit a two-run double in the second game for the Bison (5-8), and Lewis picked up the win in relief of starter Blaik Caplinger in a combined four-hitter.In the opener, Beau Whittington and Lewis held the Yellowjackets (11-8) to just five hits. Laythen Good, Levi Jordan and Dakota Briscoe all had two hits for Buffalo.POINT 13, POCA 12: Bruce McDermott lined an RBI single with one out in the bottom of the seventh as host Point Pleasant won a wild one. Levi Russell went 3 for 5 for the Big Blacks (13-6), who won their 10th in a row. For the Dots (13-6), Skyler Vealey was 3 for 3, Brett Watts 3 for 4 and David Taylor drove in four runs with two hits.HOOVER 20, POINT 7: Four players rapped three hits apiece as visiting Herbert Hoover (17-1) broke a 7-all tie with 15 late runs. Austin Thomas, Corey Bird, Tristan Fields and Shaun Dotson all had three hits for the Huskies. Austen Toler smacked two homers and drove in four runs for the Big Blacks (13-7).CAPITAL 10, SHADY SPRING 0: Caleb Kinder threw a two-hit shutout in the six-inning game, striking out seven. He enjoyed support from a 12-hit attack that produced six runs in the fourth inning. Austin Hupp and Anthony Gavin had two RBIs apiece.CAPITAL 8, NORTH MARION 2: In the Cougars' second game of the day, Kinder and Seth Roadcap knocked in two runs each and Hupp and Jordan Bray combined on a four-hitter. Capital (9-13) banged out 11 hits and scored five times in the fifth to pull away.SA 14, OAK HILL 3: Phoenix Shrewsbury went 3 for 5 as St. Albans secured a road win. Joey Dodrill and Austin Harless each had two hits for the Red Dragons (14-5). Chris Dennler hit a home run and drove home two runs for Oak Hill.NITRO 12, NORTH MARION 1: Matt Harrison and Tyler Abbott combined for a no-hitter as Nitro downed North Marion at home. Harrison helped himself at the plate, going 3 for 3 with a double for the Wildcats while Evan Eich contributed three hits. NITRO 13, SHADY SPRING 5: Nitro exploded for seven runs in the fourth inning as Nitro bested visiting Shady Spring. Evan Eich went 5 for 5 for the Wildcats (13-4) while Solomon Shamblin and Tyler Barton added three hits each. Jordan Meadows went 2 for 3 for Shady Spring.WAYNE SWEEPS: Kasey Endicott and Allie Maynard struck back-to-back homers in the second game as host Wayne boarded a 9-1, 10-4 doubleheader sweep of Wahama. Jessie Rowe fired a four-hitter with six strikeouts in the opener for the Pioneers (18-4).WAHAMA SWEEPS: Hunter Bradley (one-hitter, six strikeouts) and Dakota Sisk (two-hitter, eight Ks) donated strong five-inning pitching efforts as host Wahama earned a 10-0, 11-0 doubleheader sweep of Miller, Ohio (5-8).In the first game, Wyatt Zuspan, Wesley Harrison and Sisk all had two hits for the White Falcons (9-5). In the second game, Philip Serevicz was 2 for 2.HUNTINGTON 8, MORGANTOWN 5: Ronnie Musick went 4 for 5 with two RBIs as Huntington upended Morgantown in the championship game of the Jack Cook Wooden Bat Classic at Huntington High School. Stephen Hollard added two hits and drove home a run for the Highlanders. Shane Commodore had a double and four RBIs for Morgantown. ST. JOSEPH 12, CROSS LANES 2: Ben Vaston went 2 for 3 with three RBIs as St. Joseph defeated Cross Lanes Christian in the consolation game of the Jack Cook Wooden Bat Classic at Huntington High School. Brian Conary contributed two hits and two RBIs for St. Joseph. Lee McQuain was 2 for 3 with a double for Cross Lanes. SoftballBUFFALO 3, MORGANTOWN 1: Ali Burdette threw a two-hitter and Chelsea Parkins hit a two-run double in the third inning in Buffalo's first of two games in Morgantown. Chase Christy went 2 for 3.BUFFALO 16, CLAY-BATTELLE 6: The Bison (19-4) blasted 21 hits in winning their third game of the weekend upstate trip, as Burdette went 4 for 4 with a home run. Parkins and Katie Higginbotham both went 3 for 4 and Whitney Dingess pitched the final five innings in relief of Parkins.RIVERSIDE 8, VALLEY 2: Sara Winter fired a four-hitter and drove in two runs to lead the visiting Warriors (14-12). Also for Riverside, Chelsea Diegert was 3 for 4 with two RBIs. Kelsey Bird doubled for Valley.ROANE SPLITS: Casey Lassiter went a combined 4 for 6 with a pair of doubles as host Roane County split a doubleheader with Braxton County, losing game one 12-3 and winning game two 10-6.Cassidy Taylor had a pair of hits in game one for the Raiders (17-1) while Kasey Blosser had two hits (including a double) and an RBI in the second game. Taylor Bragg paced the Eagles (13-6) with three hits, including a double and triple, and Charity Ramsey went 4 for 5 with a double and home run in the first game. WYOMING EAST 10, CATHOLIC 0: Carissa Davis went 3 for 4 with a double as Wyoming East picked up a road win. Chelsey Adkins added two hits for the Warriors while Morgan Adkins belted a home run. Darian Vines went 1 for 3 for Charleston Catholic (10-9).CATHOLIC 11, NOTRE DAME 1: Darian Vines went 2 for 2 with a double and five RBIs as Charleston Catholic posted a three-inning mercy-rule win. Brianna Ross and Katie Pulliam added two hits each for the Fighting Irish (11-9). Savannah Irwin had a hit for visiting Notre Dame.SC 14, HUNTINGTON 4: Alli Burdette went 2 for 4 with a grand slam and six RBIs as South Charleston posted a home victory. Madison Pauley and Merredith Cain added three hits each for the Black Eagles (16-7). Rachel Bias went 1 for 3 for Huntington.HURRICANE 6, SC 4: Madison Casto went 3 for 4 as Hurricane earned a home win. Amber Null had a triple for the Redskins (22-4) while Addie Fullen and Maddie Hebb each had a double. Emily Bostic had a single, double and two RBIs for the Black Eagles.HURRICANE 11, HUNTINGTON 1: Cassie Sargent went 2 for 3 with a double as host Hurricane (23-4) won a three-inning mercy-rule contest. Hannah Taylor had a hit and drove home a run for Huntington.LINCOLN CO. 9, ASHLAND 5: Brooke West and Megan Tully both hit two-run homers to help Lincoln County down Ashland (Ky.) at home. 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Johannesburg South Africa's powerhouse is not just a financial centre but also offers a vast range of cultural highlights, vibrant nightlife and lots of outdoor adventure. Discover the history of the region in one of many speciality museums, or encounter the 'big 5' animals including lions and elephants in one of the many local game reserves. You'll arrive ready to discover this amazing city, thanks to our premium quality service from New York to Johannesburg with Qatar Airways.
The iconic JFK airport is representative of the city it serves – big, busy and vibrant. A total of eight terminals and all the major international carriers connect passengers all over the world.
Packed with facilities and friendly staff, JFK is one of the world's busiest air hubs. Because the airport is so busy, it is important to plan ahead and know which terminal your Qatar Airways flight leaves from.
Transportation and car parking
The easiest way to get to and from the airport is via the JFK AirTrain - a 24-hour service that connects all of the airport terminals with rail and metro stations.
The New York City Airporter Bus runs every 20 minutes from Grand Central Terminal and the Port Authority Bus Terminal to the airport. Taxis are plentiful and a pre-booked limousine service is also available. Car parking for Terminal 8 is in the 'Red' Lot, although shuttles from other parking zones provide you with more options if the Red Lot is full.
Arriving in New York
Qatar Airways flights from New York leave from Terminal 8. The free AirTrain service connects the terminals, which is particularly useful if you are transferring from an internal or other international flight.
If your flight leaves from a high-numbered gate, it is advisable to use the free motorized shuttle, due to the distance between the departure area and the gates. The Oasis Lounge (charges applicable) in Terminal 4 is open 24 hours a day and has extensive facilities including showers.
Facilities and amenities
While waiting for your Qatar Airways flight from New York, Terminal 8 offers extensive food and drink outlets serving snacks and fast food, light meals, coffee and refreshments.
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Book a flight to Johannesburg with Qatar Airways and you'll discover a city that's lively, vibrant and welcoming, with a rich and complex culture and plenty of character. And with six million trees planted within the city, it's also one of the world's greenest metropolis, making it cool and pleasant during the hotter summer months.
Tourist attractions
Johannesburg is a huge city, so it's good to have a couple of reference points to work with. The easiest to recognise are the Brixton Tower and the Hillbrow Tower, both of which you can use to orientate yourself.
The Market Theatre area is the city's cultural heart, where you'll find plenty of live music and street performances. Johannesburg Art Gallery, on the corner of Klein and King George street, is the largest art gallery in Africa and houses an astonishing collection of internationally important works, as well as a rich selection of native art.
The Origins Centre - The South African Museum of Rock Art, explores the ancient history of humanity in Africa, including its archaeological roots and progress throughout the continent. A fascinating and very different museum.
No trip is complete without a visit to the Top of Africa, in the Carlton Centre on Commissioner St, and Africa's tallest building. From here you can get an exceptional panoramic view of the city and surrounding countryside, all the way to the rugged and dramatic coastline.
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While the Aspire One D257 was announced back in February with dual-boot Windows 7 Starter and Android OS, a new model will be made available with MeeGo OS.
Specs will be more or less similar to what the Aspire One AOD257 offers, including an Intel 1.66GHz dual-core Atom N570, 2GB RAM, Intel GMA 3150 graphics, 320GB HDD and a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display at 1024x600 pixel resolution. While VGA-out and three USB 2.0 ports are available, an HDMI port is still absent.
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The Cypripedium cryptically named 'White' ended up flowering much faster than I thought it would. I was hoping for either Cypripedium Reginae or Formosana (dude said it was probably Reginae grrrrrr) but alas it turned out to be something else. I'm not even sure what, maybe a particularly pale Kentucky? So yeah I was pretty disappointed, I really wanted one of the other two. It has been in flower for a week or so and I have mellowed a bit, it might not be the resplendent white Reginae or the deliciously weird Formosana but all in all it is still a pretty cool flower.
Walking past a florist I spotted this little beauty. I had never seen Calanthe, especially for sale at a florist for 10 euros. First of all it is a big big plant, with really cool flowers. The florist also had a darker more pinky purplish one, and said that colour is relatively rare. But I really love this colour, there is pink in there and a hint of blue tempered by some pale yellow. I'll have to do some research on how much protection (if any) it needs in winter but I'm glad to introduce it to my outside orchid selection.
See? This is one sophisticated colour palette.
I intended to buy some more terra cotta dishes to plant the new Cypripedium in. However the garden centre did not have any so as a sort of experiment I'm going to try these ArtStone dishes. These are lightweight recycled plastic planters with a little reservoir at the bottom. This should make watering quite a breeze, extra water will collect in the reservoir and if it gets too much it will overflow into the plug. I think this will be a good fit for many plants ensuring drainage while still having water available. Plus a good layer of water on the bottom might even help cooling the roots.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to find the little plug. If you want to keep the planters inside you just plug it back up again.
I bought two planters to start with (fairly cheap, certainly cheaper than terra cotta). I made up some somewhat improvised mix (orchid soil, garden soil, some moss and a good amount of perlite) and planted the 'White' Cypripedium and the Kentucky maxi. I can't wait till my other Cypripedium start flowering, shouldn't take long since spring seems to have finally sprung.


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A God Game
Three Lords of Law with access to demiurgic powers of creation bring into being three different worlds, each occupying its own plane of existence. A great clock is constructed and the contest begins. Each god must choose a bit of clay to infuse with will, desire and self-awareness, then three aeons are allowed to transpire without divine supervision. The systems present on each plane -- typically identical to those in the competing worlds, but not necessarily -- are allowed the freedom to evolve as their designs and environments dictate. At the end of this term the results of each design are compared and contrasted. Did civilization develop? How much of the environment was mastered by this society? How much in that one? Finally an assessment is made, and the two worlds that were judged inferior are utterly erased and all their records destroyed.
Sigil of Inevitability
A divine mark bestowed under special circumstances from a godling unto a mortal recipient. A creature bearing this Sigil is predestined to slay a particular man or woman.
Reality itself has seemingly succumbed to the mark's weird, and will actively bend toward the mark-bearer's object, throwing obstacles aside with improbable chains of coincidences. Mark-bearers are ultimately cursed, for once their dark purpose has been fulfilled their luck will soon abandon them altogether, and their deaths are always ugly affairs.
Mortals who learn of the Sigil's appearance and wish to protect the person it targets have only one recourse: They must sway the deity who bestowed the mark to undo the deed and revoke its power. Not a simple task, but it has been done. The price of this bargain will be terrible, if not cosmically grotesque.
The Sigil appears to be a flickering rose of red light that hovers an inch or two above its bearer's head, like a hazy IOUN stone. A closer look within its dancing petals reveals a tiny indigo rune, shifting and evolving with minute thrusts and intricate manipulations.
Dead Fairy in a Lamp
A necromantic item of no small value to the searcher. It appears to be a bit of bones and broken insect wings rattling inside a rosy glass tube capped with two iron seals. Each is crusted with magical scripts of exceptional intricacy. When the lamp is rattled and a word is spoken, it bathes a 20' radius with intense, red-gold flecked luminosity. All invisible objects and creatures are instantly revealed in this glow. Objects of stone -- including masonry and monuments and raw cave walls -- become transparent -- allowing a clear view through them to the very edge of the lamp's 20' radius zone of efficacy. This transparency works equally well from both perspectives (inside and outside of the lamp's field).
The luminosity will last 1 turn for every (temporary) hit point invested by its bearer. Knocking on dead or living wood in the lamp's vicinity (earshot) will snuff it's light for 2d12 turns.
A minuscule, stationary golem peculiar to certain cultures and time periods. It resembles a small bronze statuette approximately three feet tall. The form is that of a classical anthropomorphic godlet of hermaphroditic quality. The deity's face is covered with sumptuously lipped mouths that flow around its head like leisurely ducks on the surface of a pond. They sometimes whisper incoherently, or come forth with names of people and places in a non-sequitur flow of babble. Each mouth is independent of the others -- expressing and spouting nonsense of its own -- until an untruth is spoken before it, at which time all mouths will chorus the words "It is a lie."
Tetrograts are typically royal heirlooms with origins in the distant past. No specific details can be readily ascertained about their fabrication -- all prescient facts having been worn away by the passage of time. There is mention of a distant empire, an underground temple -- little more.


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Sadly, some poor soul will likely buy a fiberglass repli-rod today for more than the price of this lovely steel roadster. This car is a 1931 Deluxe model on a '32 frame and the traditional build style is just right. A couple of the details look almost too new, but with some road miles we think this one will age very nicely. Find it here on eBay in Fort Worth, Texas with a very reasonable Buy-It-Now.
The low-tail stance and the wide white walls establish the right character. '32 grilles are always the right choice in our book, and the polished hubcaps give the car a distinct period flavor. The '35 Ford dash below was supposedly installed in the body in the 50's, and the rest of the interior is very clean. Instruments, shift knob, and rear-view mirror are all nicely executed, and with this SoCal Speed Shop Banjo Wheel the interior would be pretty much dialed.
When was the last time you saw a 14″ round air cleaner on a roadster? We actually kind of like the look, but an eventual swap to triple 98's with forward chrome scoops would also look pretty trick. The SBC and Powerglide combo isn't particularly glamorous, but it keeps the cost down and should be easy to keep running well. The Edelbrock valve covers hav ethe roght look and we'll like the ram's horns even after they age a bit to show that this isn't a garage queen.
The rear end is lovely so it is too bad the all the rear photos came out blurry. The relationship between the top of the tires and trunk height is perfect, without going overboard like so many of the rat rods. Tail lights, plate position, and exhaust are also tasteful.
The details are rarely perfect when you buy someone else's build, but this roadster makes for fairly easy entry and we'd guess that many easy street miles could be turned before more investment was needed. In that time we'd save our lunch money for carbs, more forward gears, and maybe some way to cover up the frenched antennas. But in the meantime, slap on a vintage license plate and roll.
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Technology; A Celebration of Isaac Asimov
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: April 12, 1992
I reached the point where I could not bear to read another science fiction novel one spring day during my freshman year of college. It was the height of the Vietnam War and science fiction suddenly seemed irrelevant. I remember that moment now because I had just reread Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy for the third time. In fact, in the preceding eight years, I had read little else besides science fiction.
There were countless trips to the library and an untold number of Ace doubles, two science fiction novels bound as one, purchased at the local junk store for 10 cents and sold back for 5. There were books by Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and Andre Norton, but above all there was Asimov. His endless stream of stories about space adventures and robots were far more compelling than anything television could offer.
Like many others who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's, I came away from his books with very clear ideas about the potential of science and technology for solving the world's problems. Asimov left his readers with a sense of the adventure in technology and inspired many of them to embark on careers as scientists and engineers. The Asimov subtext was that machines were good and progress was inevitable. It was comforting reading for the generations that grew up on the brink of nuclear war.
I began with the Lucky Starr series, then read everything I could get my hands on. The "Foundation" experience encompassed the epic trilogy describing the rise and fall of a galactic civilization 10,000 years in the future.
For a teen-ager, it was compelling reading, but by the late 1960's, the Kennedy brothers had been assassinated, the civil rights marches had taken place and despite having the world's best technology, America was trapped in Vietnam. Asimov seemed increasingly disconnected from a world that was falling apart.
Ultimately, in the 80's, I returned to science fiction, intrigued by a new generation of writers with a much darker vision. Called Cyberpunk, this science fiction describes the intersection of technology and outlaw culture: modern dystopias ruled by multinational corporations where each new technology falls into the hands of opportunists and where there is no clear right and wrong.
Cyberpunk's nihilism may match the real world today more closely than Asimov's utopian vision. And last week, Asimov died. But I'm sure that in the hearts of us all -- scientists, engineers, writers and others -- who were deeply influenced by his work, there dwells an abiding hope that the Asimov vision will prove to be the correct one.
In any event, Cyberpunk cannot counter the influence that Asimov had on scientists like Leon Lederman or engineers like Joseph Engelberger. Their testimony is proof of the power of his ideas. Joseph F. Engelberger Pioneer in industrial robotics; chairman, Transitions Research
Some years behind Isaac Asimov at Columbia University, I followed his "I, Robot" series avidly. The impact was subliminal at the outset, but became intensely conscious by 1956, when technology made it possible to build real robots.
In the early 60's, we had a few industrial robots, and some professors sought to form a learned society, to be called Robotology. I was aghast. The appellation for our discipline had been coined by Asimov in the 40's: Robotics. I am happy to say Asimov prevailed.
Over the years we kept in occasional contact. Isaac would not come to evaluate the industrial robots we were developing nor visit universities involved in research. He felt that might contaminate the purity of his vision. But in 1989 he visited our facility, which was developing robots for personal service to humans, not just factory automatons. He saw we were working on robots to do menial service chores like commercial cleaning and running errands. He relished our dream of servants for the aged and infirm. Leon M. Lederman Winner, Nobel Prize in Physics; professor, University of Chicago
For all of us, he was a monument. Many American scientists were drawn to science via science fiction, and Asimov's writings were read by an entire generation of scientists who grew up in the 50's and 60's.
More recently I have looked to Asimov as a popularizer of science. There is a crying need for the popular understanding of modern science. Asimov was remarkable for his ability to popularize and entertain.
He was a national resource, and there ought to be a national day of mourning for him. He had a fantastic influence on society.
There was a generation of scientists who are now between 40 and 60 who were tremendously influenced by his writing. It had adventure and it had science even though he sometimes did not understand what he was writing about. In a technical or scientific sense, it was well written and it had a sense of optimism. Intrinsic to his writing was the notion that there isn't anything that we can't master. His world view was that we can solve all the problems of the world.
Marvin Minsky Artificial-intelligence pioneer; computer science professor, M.I.T.


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French politician who helped crush the rebellion in Vendee 1793 and assisted in Robespierre's downfall 1794, voting for the death of Louis XVI. He was the Minister of Interior Security in 1799, supporting the coup of Brumaire. Despite his assistance to Bonaparte, he made the emperor nervous with his intrigues, and Napoleon fired him for two years but then rehired him. However, in 1810, the emperor once more sent him off when he learned that Fouche was having secret talks with foreign powers.
He moved to Italy as an exile in 1816.
Died 12/26/1820, Trieste, Italy
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Robespierre, Maximilien (born 6 May 1758)
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- Vocation : Politics : Public office (Politician, assisted Robespierre's fall)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Civil/ Political (Helped crush rebellion in Vendee)
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Atheist


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This is Part 2 of a series on using Tilt-Shift or Perspective-Control lenses. In this part, we look at the "Tilt" functionality of these unique lenses. Part 1, which covered "shift" functionality, can be found here.
At some point in time, we've all seen photos where the subjects – usually views from high-up of cars, buildings, people, etc. – appear to be miniaturized versions of reality. This is perhaps the most the most often-seen result from using tilt-capable lenses like the Nikon 85mm PC-E.
In this part of our series, we'll explain how this effect is achieved with tilt-shift lenses.
The image below was shot by Jim Goldstein, our Marketing VP. Taken in Geneva with a tilt-shift lens, the camera was pointing downwards at the railroad tracks, with the tilt element swung upwards.
The reason these tracks look like miniatures is because the plane of focus is so narrow, that both the foreground AND the background are out of focus. That's not something the human eye is used to seeing, and we interpret images like this differently. Wikipedia adds to that explanation as follows:
Diorama effect or "diorama illusion" is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale model. Blurring parts of the photo simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered in close-up photography, making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is…
Now, in order to achieve that effect, you have to swing the front part of your tilt-shift lens in so that it is either as perpendicular as possible to your subject, or is at an obtuse angle to your subject, as shown below.
Doing so minimizes the depth of field in your image, resulting in a very narrow slice of the subject actually being in focus. The results of this technique are shown in Jim's image above. Swinging the lens away from your subject, in other words, miniaturizes it.
The technique takes some practice to get right. I've found that it's easier if you try and shoot from a pretty high place, and try and eliminate as much of the sky from your shot as possible.
Of course, perspective-control lenses swing the other way too (no pun intended). Landscape photographers (and some product shooters) may already be familiar with this technique, and it's extremely handy to maximize your depth of field.
To do this, swing the lens in such a manner that it's at a more acute angle to your subject's plane, as shown below.
Let's look at a practical example of this.
What you're looking at below is a device we rent called a LensAlign Pro. It's used to test autofocus accuracy for cameras and lenses and is a handy tool to have.
In this shot, the LensAlign Pro is shot at f/2.8 with a Nikon D800 and an 85mm PC-E lens. The lens is not tilted, as shown below.
If you look back at the LensAlign, you'll notice that there's a sort of ruler on the right that I've laid back at a pretty steep angle to demonstrate the effect of tilting the lens on depth of field. Let's take a look at a 100%crop from that shot.
As you can see, only the '0' and part of the '8' above and below the '0' are in sharp focus. That's to be expected at f/2.8 – the wider open your aperture, the narrower your depth of field.
Now, let's tilt the lens down, as shown below.
Now, let's take a look at the LenAlign's ruler. Remember, we've not changed the aperture, which is the way most lenses control depth of field.
As you can see, the change is pretty drastic. We've gained a lot of depth of field without changing aperture.
This technique of using the tilt mechanism is often ignored, which is why I spent some additional time on it. The first question people ask when I explain this function is, "Why don't you just make your aperture smaller?"
Indeed, making your aperture smaller is a valid way to increase depth of field, but there are also many reasons why you would not want to do that.
For example, let's say you're shooting a field of wildflowers and want a pretty deep depth of field. You stop down to f/8 or f/11, which is where many lenses perform best. You could go all the way to f/22, but beyond f/16, other factors come into play that can hurt your image. Lens diffraction, for example, is one of them. The folks at Luminous Landscape have a nice piece that explains what this means, but basically, beyond a certain point, your image actually begins to lose detail as you make the aperture smaller.
Exposure is another reason why making your aperture smaller may not work. The smaller your aperture, the slower your shutter speed and/or the higher your ISO, both of which bring their own pitfalls. If you're shooting handheld, slow shutter speeds would result in motion blur, whereas kicking your ISO up to compensate would increase noise.
While it is true that in many cases, there are ways to gain that depth of field through other means, knowing about these features of PC-E lenses is one more thing you can add to your arsenal. And that, folks, is never a bad thing.
As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.
UPDATE: As Aaron, one of our readers, points out below, tilting the front element doesn't actually increase your depth-of-field; it changes the angle of your DoF. You effectively gain the benefits of an increased depth of field, but only for the plane that your subject is on. That's a good distinction to make.
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A hairdresser from Truro has won a top award at an international event held in London.
Robin Neale, from Russell Robin Hair Studio, took a 1st Gold Star Award at the Salon International competition held at ExCel.
He was joined by hairdressing apprentice Livvy Nash, who acted as his model for the event.
Working on Sundays and Mondays for weeks beforehand, while the salon was closed, Robin created three different styles for Livvy's hair and then photographed them for the competition. All the hard work paid off when the pair came first in the day wear category.
Having spent eight years training in London at the start of his career, Robin is no stranger to hairstyling contests. This is the first time, however, that he has entered a photographic section.
He said: "We had to do a lot of preparation because different colours were involved, but it's all been worthwhile.
"When we went up to the show I styled Livvy's hair before we got there, as there were so many people to meet and everyone wanted to take photos. It was a mad whirl but very, very exciting."
It was only the second time that Livvy, aged 19, from Penryn, had been to London. She is doing a full-time apprenticeship with Robin and his brother Russell in the River Street hair studio and has been modelling in her spare time for the last two to three years. Robin and Russell set up their Russell Robin Hair Studio together in Truro 27 years ago, having decided at a family lunch in London, where they used to live, that Cornwall was the place for them.
Robin has now set his sights higher, with plans to enter a similar competition in France. "We're hoping to take part in the Art de Coiffure Show in Paris next year," he said. "It's good to have a fresh challenge."


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Sami Keller says she waited all morning to fill her bag full of candy eggs and she was happy with her reward. "It's awesome and I will definitely be coming here next year," said Keller.
It took volunteers at Elevate Church weeks to plan the helicopter egg drop and they spent thousands of dollars on eggs.
Pastor Mike Wooten says it couldn't have been possible without some special help - a volunteer who owned a helicopter.
"To rent a helicopter, was going to be over $3,500 and the Lord blessed us with this man and his generosity," said Wooten.
The volunteer who flies the helicopter as well as church volunteers have put this together for the last four years and they say they know how much happiness the free event brings to the people in Lincoln.
"We just do this - put our time, money and effort just to tell Lincoln, "hey Elevate Church loves you, Jesus loves you and we just want to bless you no strings attached," said Wooten.
And it's something volunteers say they'll continue to do again- especially since the event captures the heart of Lincoln children every time.
"I'm just amazed the kids stayed behind the little yellow ribbon until they were told to come out. That is a miracle," said Wooten.
The man who flies the helicopter has volunteered for the last five years - but since he wants to remain anonymous only the pastor knows who he actually is and Wooten did say that while they've tried to pay the mystery man, he never accepts compensation.


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The crash happened just after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Rusholme Road and Avenue W North.
According to the police report, a vehicle travelling north on Avenue W broadsided the police cruiser heading west on Rusholme.
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The intersection was closed for several hours while collision analysts carried out their investigation.
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GLOBAL AGENDA is the new MMO from up-and-coming publisher Iceberg Interactive, and charges players with freeing the world in a dark future.
It was originally released digitally earlier this year, but now the game is heading to retail.
The action is set in 2155, and the greedy Commonwealth, born from the ashes of the Third Great War, is attempting to control the planet.
Players join one of several factions fighting back. They must work with elite teams of specially trained soldiers, each with differing skills and abilities.
One of the game's key selling points is the lack of monthly subscriptions – a huge factor that makes Global Agenda one of the few free-to-play MMOs to be made available at retail.
The four character classes available are Assault, Recon, Medic and Robotics, each with customisable skills and weapons.
The Assault soldiers come with thick armour and skills in resilient warfare whilst Recon soldiers are experts in stealth and speed, with invisibility skills and lethal swords.
Players who choose Medics are responsible for keeping the team healthy and Robotics specialists come with a range of high tech devices including gun turrets and force fields.
Soldiers can also be customised to enhance their shooting skills and game progression. There are hundreds of weapons available including grenade launchers, mines, turrets, decoys, drones and jetpacks.
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The third-person camera gives players an impressive view of the battlefield, and some weapons even allow gamers to zoom in to a first-person perspective using the mouse.
Players can go to war with friends online in co-op mode, which allows up to four players to work as a team.
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Gamer-formed 'agencies' – Global Agenda's take on the guilds of World of Warcraft – can also compete for areas of sparse territory on the world map.
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Even when the better animation branch of Disney's empire gets too highfalutin for its own good — a gourmet rat in Paris, for example — there's a sense of integrity behind the computer keystrokes, of dedication to presenting something audiences haven't seen before.
The third leg of any trilogy isn't a likely place to find something special. Therefore, it is close to astonishing that Toy Story 3 surpasses nearly every other 'toon of the past 11 years since Part 2, including a few made by Pixar.
Toy Story 3 isn't merely the best movie of the summer — even with summer just kicking in — but an immediate candidate for best of the year.
Not a minute of this movie feels like a sequel made just for money, although Toy Story 3 will make a mint. Even less does it feel like a rehash of the first two hits — impressive since we've gotten to know the main players so well since their 1995 debuts. The way Pixar has preserved their identities and burned them into public consciousness is amazing.
In fact, in describing what was so good about Toy Story 3 to someone, I accidentally referred to them as "people" because their characters are so richly drawn. Then I realized it wasn't an accident; Woody, Buzz and their entire toy box posse are more real than most flesh-and-blood performers in movies these days.
Suitably, they've grown older since part 2. Not in a worn-out fashion, because their owner/friend Andy (voice of John Morris) always handles them with care, even when stashed into a box of childhood memories. Andy is preparing to go to college, faced with the conflict every child has when it's time to put away playful things.
Should these toys languish in a dark attic for a few more years, or get picked up curbside by a garbage truck? Like Andy, director Lee Unkrich and his team are stuck in sentimentally arrested development; too old to play with toys but wiser about the unavoidably emotional connection to them.
Through a series of expertly devised misadventures, all of the toys except Woody (Tom Hanks) wind up at Sunnyside Daycare, donated so kids can continue playing with them. It seems like a grand retirement, as explained by Lotso (Ned Beatty), a strawberry-scented teddy bear with a personality straight out of a Tennessee Williams drama.
Lotso has a selfish survival scheme in mind, sending the new toys to the Caterpillar Room where misbehaving children play rough while he and his minions relax in the Butterfly Room for nice kids.
Toy Story 3 rockets into high gear about halfway through and never lets off the throttle, as Woody attempts to rescue his friends. The stakes get higher and higher, until a climactic crisis so dark that for a moment I really believed this could be the end of their trail. Toy Story 3 resolves everything, leading to a clever curtain call that had me taking off the 3D glasses to dab away tears.
But this isn't a melancholy farewell. Toy Story 3 contains its share of laughs, from Barbie (Jodi Benson) falling for Ken (Michael Keaton), to Buzz (Tim Allen) enduring a hilarious bilingual glitch. Unkrich and screenwriter Michael Arndt keep the jokes and action flying so breathlessly that there's no time for a Randy Newman musical interlude after an early, eerie reprise of You've Got a Friend in Me.
But reading about the wonders of Toy Story 3 is like hearing Andy describe his fantasies starring Woody and Buzz, rather than watching them come to computer-generated life. You have to see it to believe it. What Pixar does better than any other artistic source is make us believe, including the notion that a fourth Toy Story, if it ever happens, would be even more carefully perfected than this.
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They kill your pet and leave it hanging on you front door.
Very few people can mask when they are angry, you see it in every part of their being.
ya its depend on mind y he do this that time when he feel high temper ..so cool dawn ad take water ad relex for some minit
I guess it varies from each person. Personally I give the silent treatment - because that person is no longer worth any of my time.
they would give you the silent treatment? ignore eyecontact, look really moody. When somoenes angry with you then they would flip out, scream at you, argue...but if they were really really really pissed, like to the maximum,then they woudlnt use words, it would just be silence.

Thats with most ppl i know. It varies from ppl, some people might throw or punch things, so its not soo straight forward. YOu **** someone off then?
Actually evilparentstoo, I do all of those things to extreme's and I have a high IQ. The smarter you are the better your craft is. :)
I'm baffled by your question. How could you ~not~ know?

When someone is really angry with you, everything they do shows it. The tone of their voice, the ex<x>pression on their face, their posture, their choice of words, the staccato in their sentences, their body movements, their energy....

It is by far the most outwardly expressive of human emotions.
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