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The AIPH is a co-ordinating body representing horticultural producers` organizations all over the world. It was set up in Switzerland in 1948 to stimulate international marketing of flowers, plants and landscaping services. An increasing number of growers organizations have joined AIPH with 25 countries represented in 2000. They all share the benefits of their membership.
based in Reading, UNITED KINGDOM.
The Horticultural News is a bi-monthly magazine published as an information source for one of Kenya's most important agricultural sectors, employing millions and earning billions. Appearing in both the hard and electronic versions, the magazine is being positioned as the most authoritative source of information on the fresh produce sector in East Africa. Through ...
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Without gardeners, there are no gardens. Horticulture is dedicated to celebrating the passion of avid gardeners, who take delight not just in gardens but in garden-making. Our informative, engaging writing and brilliant photography enables gardeners to create spaces that make them proud, beautify their hometowns and provide a gathering place for family and friends. But ...
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Northwest Horticulture is a national leader in plug production of groundcovers, roses and perennials. Northwest Horticulture has two locations covering 500 acres. Our Mount Vernon location is approximately 50 miles north of Seattle and offers a marine climate with cool summers and mild winters. Our eastern farm is located in a high light area with hot dry summers and cold ...
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The Institute of Horticulture is the authoritative organisation representing those professionally engaged in horticulture in the UK and Ireland. Its membership comprises, and represents, those that are involved in amenity horticulture, parks, landscaping, botanic/heritage gardens, and the full range of horticulture within leisure industries as well as those producing, ...
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BML Horticulture manufactures custom LED plant grow lights for commercial and individual use. Our LED grow lights are energy efficient, effective, and have a sleek design. We provide full spectrum, supplemental spectrum, and custom grow lights in addition to grow light accessories.
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TerraLink provides growers with a wide range of fertilizers, seeds, agrochemicals, equipment, plastics, amendments and other inputs. Leading fertilizer manufacturer and distributor of granular, liquid and water soluble fertilizers and soil amendments. Our wide range of products and services reflect our mission to remain the agronomic leader in assisting producers to ...
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Oasis Horticulture is highly motivated towards providing Australian gardeners and landscapers with innovative, quality products for a happier, healthier and more sustainable future. Oasis Horticulture Pty Ltd is the largest producer and distributor of bedding plants in Australia with a selection of more than 600 varieties of flowers, vegetables and herbs sourced from the ...
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Solid-state LED lighting offers a number of benefits to the horticulture industry, including increased yields, earlier flowering, faster root growth/germination, better control of plant growth, and more economical use of space. LED lighting is also highly energy-efficient, helping horticultural producers to lower electricity consumption, especially during the high ...
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The Canadian Horticultural Council (CHC) is a voluntary, not-for-profit, national association which represents the dynamic and diverse sector of Canadian agriculture known as horticulture. The CHC`s members grow, produce and pack more than 120 fruit and vegetable horticultural crops. The CHC has been committed to promoting the interests of its members since 1922.
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Growmoor Horticulture Limited was established in 1991 and over the last 20 years has expanded a small family run business into a truly European company, supplying horticultural products across the U.K. and Europe. Why not be part of the Growmoor family and give your garden a new lease of life.
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Gakon Horticultural Projects in Wateringen operates internationally as a leading greenhouse builder and has a team of approximately 50 employees. We design, manufacture and build complete greenhouses that are well-known for their high levels of innovation. This capacity for innovation has been used to construct the world's first floating greenhouse, and also the ...
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Horticulture research institute objectives can be summarized in improving and development of the horticultural crops and increase its productivity in addition to reducing production cost and enhancing water use efficiency, preserving the environment, reducing the loss, extending the marketing windows to face the consumers needs both in national and international levels.
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The Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA) is a Business Association grouping together all aspects of the Horticulture Industry in Tanzania. Since its inception in 2004 TAHA has successfully brought together the large scale professional operations and the many growers' groups and small holders into a single bloc with a single business oriented set of interests. This ...
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Bulrush Horticulture Limited are manufacturers of high specification substrates for both professional growers and the retail market. Whether you are a professional grower looking for innovative, effective and cost efficient substrates that can improve your quality and yield, or an amateur gardener looking to assure brighter blooms and better crops, Bulrush has the answer. ...
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Sharnford Horticultural supply new and used horticultural products and stock a vast variety of farming and groundcare supplies in our large store. Based near Frolesworth, Leicestershire, we also service and repair groundcare equipment and garden machinery, from lawnmowers to chainsaws. Friendly and helpful, Sharnford Horticultural staff members offer excellent customer ...
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The Charleston Horticultural Society (CHS), founded in 2000, is a non-profit organization with membership open to all. The Society offers a wide array of horticultural information and involvement to its more than 1,300 individual and business members through lectures, educational workshops, garden tours, special events, and publications.
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Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) was established on September 19,1962 to support and promote horticultural research that benefits the nursery and landscape industry. The Horticultural Research Institute is regarded as the research affiliate of AmericanHort. Along with its research efforts, the Horticultural Research Institute provides the opportunity for ...
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Horticultural Coir Ltd is Britain's best known specialist Coir supplier to the Horticultural Industry and has significantly helped to raise the profile of coir as an excellent Growing Media and ideal substitute for Peat Moss. We now supply coir to agreed specifications to buyers in over 15 countries world wide. In addition to our customers in the growing media industry, ...
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The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society is a Scotland-wide horticultural and gardening society. Members include both amateur and professional, generalists, specialists and those who simply like gardens and gardening. We aim to encourage and improve the science, art and practice of all types of horticulture and to advance education in gardening and horticulture for ...
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I've just discovered the literature for Hypnobirthing, and found Hypnobabies after searching for additional resources on the internets. The trouble for me is that I'm already past the 38-week mark - so, no time for classes and not much time to prepare or even order the materials for that matter! I already have a 2yo healthy DS delivered vaginally and without medication but with the usual pain and effort over many hours. He arrived pretty much on time so that's the guideline I'm going by for this one.
Can anyone offer any advice or direct me to online resources for self-hypnosis while in labour? Did anyone have success after stumbling upon it late like me?
Thanks in advance!
I would get hypnobabies and rush order it. Just double up th work on yourself or something. IDK I used the hypnobabies cds at home and it was amazing! It wasn't completely pain free for me or anything but I was calm and focused and could really relax my muscles and gave birth to my first (at 8lbs 6oz) in 11 hrs. The MW was really shocked b/c I was so young and being my first birth they estimated at least 24 hrs for my birth.
Mostly focus on the finger drop technique and that disc so you can fully relax each muscle.
Good luck!
Young born-again mama and loving wife to DH and SAHP to two crazy girls we and believe !
It might still be worth getting Hypnobabies, if you can find it fast (Freecycle, La Leche, Craigslist?). I'm two weeks into the course, and I already feel like my birth would go better than "baseline" if I went into labour now, even though I haven't finished the course. (Well, I'm only 25 weeks pregnant, so obviously going into labour now wouldn't be a good thing... but pretend I'm at term.) I've already learned a lot of relaxation stuff. It's possible you could "fast-track" the course to some degree - it's a 5-week course, and you alternate two tracks per werk. So maybe you could do two tracks a day, and halve the time it took to learn all the techniques? Bit of a time commitment, though...
It sucks when you discover something slightly too late, doesn't it?! I hope you figure out something that works for you. I have a friend who does hypnosis (not childbirth-related, just for relaxation and anti-depression), and she finds tracks online; so, Google! You might find something.
Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It's a palomino!
Thanks for the responses! :)
I think I'll try to find some hypnosis tracks on google for this time. I'm in Canada so last minute shipping plus duty makes a rush order very expensive, and my local craigslist has been tapped out. I'll order Hypnobabies later if/when the next bub is on the way.
aww too bad. Hopefully you can find something helpful! The biggest thing for me was telling myself with every single contraction "it's only tightening and pressure" It really did make them more bearable. Try and take yourself to a "safe place" in your mind where you and your baby are. Focus in the moment and remind yourself it is only temporary. Every contraction brings your baby closer to you.
I think the absolute main focus is to learn to fully relax your pelvic area. If you can do that and not give in to the desire to "fight" your labor it will be easy as pie!
Good luck! HTH
Young born-again mama and loving wife to DH and SAHP to two crazy girls we and believe !
Thanks for the additional tips. My instinct had come to the same conclusion about the relaxation of the pelvic area being paramount. It makes sense.
As it so happens, yesterday I managed to get my hands on a set of 6 Hypnobabies discs!! I got them loaded onto my iPod late last night but couldn't locate a set of earbuds to replace my big headphones (found the buds this morning). Also, there's no workbook or other written material. I Googled the fast-track suggested listening schedule and that's still 3 weeks of routines. Does anyone have any suggestions for, say, a 1-week-or-less crash course? Or any suggestions about missing the workbook? I'm off work now so I do have time to dedicate to this.
Of course I don't know for sure when baby will decide to arrive, but if I gauge by DS1 -- and yes, I know each babe is different and I can't really be assured of anything -- then I've got 7 days until Operation Impending Doom II.
well I think you will be ok without the work book. I forget which numbers are what for the cds. I would focus on the deep hypnosis one with the finger drop. I would only do the release your fears one once and maybe the special place one once. Try and to the later discs more since those are the ones you will want in labor, but don't do the birth one until you are in labor. That's what I would go for. I never even listened to the pushing one. I also found that I NEEDED my ear buds while giving birth, when I just had it playing on a cd player I couldn't focus and was running up and down the hall cussing lol HTH
Young born-again mama and loving wife to DH and SAHP to two crazy girls we and believe !
[Scene: after birth]
BABY: I stopped the contractions...
YOU: You made them worse!
INA MAY GASKIN: Worse... or better?
Ahem. :p
I agree you can probably skip/minimise Your Special Place, and the Pregnancy Affirmations. I've read a LOT of women saying they used Deepening in labour, and it's very helpful for getting you very relaxed, so maybe do that one several times? I haven't finished the course myself yet, so can't comment on the later tracks. Don't worry too much about the reading - a lot of it's just general pregnancy care info - diet and "how your uterus works" and all that jazz - and some stuff about turning posterior babies which you can find on spinningbabies.com if you need it.
Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It's a palomino!
yea deepening that was it!
Young born-again mama and loving wife to DH and SAHP to two crazy girls we and believe !
Awesome! Thanks, ladies!
I've been listening to CDs (one per night) when I head to bed. I seem to fall asleep pretty quick but a couple of times I've woken up after an hour or so, feeling a bit... different. Can't put my finger on it. I guess I'm processing this stuff but I hope I can actually tap into it when needed. I remember starting one track and thinking 'Finger drop? When was that mentioned??'. Maybe I should try to get some of these listenings in during the day when I'm more likely to stay conscious.
LOL. If my kid takes out half the hospital's power grid over the procurement of some breastmilk, I'd probably have to name them Zim or Tak! (Though I do hope my let-down isn't that difficult!)
Yeah, I'm not convinced by the "you're not asleep, just in hypnotic anmesia, and your subconscious will remember everything important anyway" line. I fell asleep (and yes, I'm pretty sure it was real sleep!) the first few times I listened to my Creating Anaesthesia CD... and then yesterday I listened to it without falling asleep for the first time, and heard "I want you to practice this technique five times a day". I was like "Wha..? My subconscious didn't tell me that!". It doesn't matter so much for me, as I still have about 13 weeks to go... but for you, I think you'd probably get the most "bang for your buck" out of every session if you listened to them while properly awake. You could always listen while you're going to sleep as well, for a double whammy, though...
Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It's a palomino!
I'm not sold on the not asleep thing either, but then there have been several times where I think I'm asleep and I wake up to her during the eyes open technique. It amazes me every time.
Yes, you are supposed to practice the finger drop 5 times each day and try to have them be different lengths of time. Tell your self it's going to be X seconds/minutes. I don't practice 5 times a day, but I have noticed myself doing things to make myself relax without even thinking about it. I even find that when I wake up in the middle of the night I take deep breaths and force myself to relax and be calm and then I fall back asleep.
I just started Hypnotic Childbirth #1 and I find this one to be really good.
married 11/06, DD May 2009, DS April 2011successful, natural 9lbs 6oz
Hi ladies, just wanted to update everyone and kind of close off this thread.
As it happened, my second labour was a whirlwind. I woke up at 5:30am on the 12th with back pain but no contractions per se. Within half an hour they were there, and they were strong. I had my iPod loaded with the tracks and fully charged but I didn't touch it at all... at 6:30 I hauled my bleary-eyed DH out of bed, informed him that it was go-time and told him to start calling the midwife, doula and my mother. The doula arrived by about 7:30 and as soon as my mom arrived around 9 to watch DS we booted it to the hospital with the doula imploring me not to push (and, I later found out, following us closely in her car rather than heading straight to the hospital, just in case we decided to pull over! ). I was dilated 9cm on arrival. My second son was born just shy of 11am.
I don't know how much of the Hypnobabies courses I assimilated in that short time - I did end up only listening to the tracks before bed - but I do think they helped with the mental control part. Even though I knew what natural birth was like, I still had to talk myself through the fear of pain (at the first birth I had significant labial tears and the incursion of those hurt worse than anything else). I did have some tearing this time around, but far less and along an old scar line. I think the CDs also helped with the mental visualization of opening the birth canal and organizing the muscles to work effectively. While the birth certainly wasn't pain-free, it was quick and more importantly it was efficient. No pain meds whatsoever... but then my first birth had only nitrous (which did jack s--- besides distracting me).
So, the plan is to start listening to the CDs on the usual schedule next time around and see if I can combine speedy labour with innate pain control for a no-epi trifecta. Oh, and maybe produce a girl. LOL.
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 02:38, jamal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 16:35, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > > How could I use these multiple qdiscs? If I use existing driver > > framework, I have hard_start_xmit, that represent single queue. Do you > > have any examples how driver can access qdiscs directly? I.e. I have 4 > > queues in the driver, I want to fill it separately, start/stop incoming > > queues from stack etc. > > Maybe you can explain a little more: Do these 4 queues translate to 4 Exactly > DMA rings or channles on the NIC? Could you not use a tag like fwmark to > select DMA to send to? > Explain the packet path once it hits the driver. Let's put aside integrated service. For diff serv, NIC have 4 DMA queues. These 4 queues acts as 4 independent 802.11 channels with different backoff and contention window parameters. Actually, it is dictated by TGe, and should be common for wireless stack. Queue consumption depends on conditions on air and access point settings. Access point set these different parameters for queues, and may change it time to time. I think it would be not good to rely on 'tc' to provide proper mix of packets. Meanwhile, it is what I use, but it is not proper solution. > > > Note also, we are talking about 100Mbps above MAC, which translates to > > about 150 Mbps, within next 2 years. 100Mbps above MAC is criteria for > > TGn working group in IEEE (high throughput). > > Are these wireless NICs? Whats the big deal about 150Mbps? Nothing special, but Andi mentioned that ... > Disadvantage will be more use of CPU time to refill driver > queues, but at the relatively slow WLAN speeds that shouldn't > be a big issue. ... and I want to note that it is not very slow network. Vladimir.
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Bhaskar DasGupta is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and also affiliated with the Bioengineering Department at UIC. He did his Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota in 1995, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at DIMACS and jointly at University of Waterloo and McMaster University in Canada before he joined the Computer Science Department of camden campus of Rutgers University; in 2001, he moved to UIC. His specific research interests include application of combinatorial/geometric techniques to design efficient algorithms for computational problems in bioinformatics, systems biology, and hybrid systems; his broader research interests include designing efficient combinatorial algorithms for computationally hard problems in diverse areas in addition to bioinformatics such as computational geometry, VLSI/CAD, parallel computing, optical networks, and combinatorial auctions. His research works have been supported by numerous NSF grants. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in 2004.
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(LIVINGSTON, Texas) — To say Melissa Morris led a normal life would be far from the truth.
Weighing in at nearly 700 pounds, her life was anything but normal.
"I didn't get up to make myself food. Somebody always brought me something," Morris said Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "I didn't get up and cook. Somebody brought it to me."
Morris, 37, had been overweight her whole life, but her weight began to creep up the scale after she met and married her husband, Chris, and the couple moved to rural Livingston, Texas in 2002, away from family and friends.
It took a bout of cancer faced by her mother to make Morris realize she needed a drastic change.
"I thought my mom is sick with cancer, my mom could die and she's worried about whether or not she can get up to make me something to eat?" Morris said. "I was done. I was done."
In a desperate attempt to lose weight, Morris found a doctor who was willing to perform gastric bypass surgery.
On the day of the surgery, in January 2006, Morris wore a skirt that had been handmade using four yards, or 12 feet, of material in order to fit her body.
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The surgery was a success and, one year later, she had lost more than 250 pounds.
Having not driven for over a decade, she passed her driver's license test and gained newfound independence.
Four years after her surgery, she had lost more than 400 pounds and was hired by the clinic that performed her own gastric bypass surgery to consult with new patients.
While her health improved, Morris's dramatic weight loss placed strains on her family life, particularly with her husband, Chris.
"It's been hard," she said. "He's a caretaker, he's always been a caretaker. He was so used to doing everything for me. I let him but, as I got skinny, I was like, 'I don't want you do that, I can do that.'"
"We are defining our relationship," Morris said.
Morris's weight loss and improved health did allow the couple to realize another dream, having a child. Their daughter, Allona, will turn two in May.
"She's the great part," Morris said. "She's worth everything. She's what I live for."
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Umar Mulinde was a Muslim who hated Israel until Jesus appeared to him in a dream. After that, he became a Christian and started a church in Uganda.
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Egyptian superstar Amr Diab [2] has broken his short-lived silence to answer his critic and former colleague Ayman Bahjat Qama [3]r, an Egyptian singer/poet.
Elaph has reported that Diab [4] posted a press release via his Facebook page saying, "I am grieved and disappointed at the recent accusations made against me by a number of poets and composers of my previous songs and their attempt to blemish my achievements in the music industry in addition to trying to question the ethics I followed since the start of my singing career."
Diab has strongly denied all accusations levelled at him by Qamar, stressing the fact he no longer works with certain poets doesn't mean that he thinks that they are not qualified for the job, rather he is looking for fresh inspiration for his work. Adding that just because he does not work with these people, it doesn't justify vehement attacks against him that accuse him of selling his songs to an Israeli businessman [5].
Diab stressed that he is still a patriot at heart, and loves the people of Egypt, its history and the country's achievements, and no one should question this.
The production company Rotana, who have produced much of Diab's work, have not released statement on the matter and could not be reached for questioning.
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When I first got my Glo, I tried a class 10 16GB Adata card that never worked in my Touch. It worked great with the Glo. Then I did the stooopid stuff i will not admit to in public and I had the reboot debacle that is the subject of this thread. I inserted the 4 GB class 2 Lexar SD card into the Glo and had the same issues: non-responsive to page turns, reboot after several dead taps on the non-responsive book, and reboots when attempting to open a book from the book list that was not among the five books displayed on the home page.
I tried a factory reset, but it did not fix this issue.
What did fix it, on both cards, was reformatting the cards (fat32). After reformatting the cards I did a sync without the cards, inserted the card, and then transferred my books (I used calibre and transferred my 32 books in two batches).
I am confident enough to recommend trying this. How to prevent it from happening, is another issue. From what I can tell, using a new sd card, or a freshly formatted sd card, should work, Pulling a card from my older reader and inserting it into the Glo did not, but that may have been an anomaly.
Hey I did that as well. I took to reformating the card. But then it still happened. So I tried your suggestion, which was to transfer to the main memory of the unit..... result was the same, reboot hell. I did notice that this reboot happened with a purchased book, "THE FOURTH AWAKENING" and I purchased it from kobo for a decent price. Not sure what to say, but I am going to make an edcuated guess to the cause. I think its the glo light that is at fault here. Specifically due to the magnetic switching off. By that not the physical act of the magnet doing its thing, but the software waiting for the indication of the act of closing the cover ( usually detected by a reed switch, may not be the case for TG).
Ugh Gonna have to wait for a result from Kobo, But for now I am going to eperiment using the sleep button only not the sleep cover method.
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Sportsheets Signs Sex Educator & Author Tristan Taormino as Brand Ambassador
Award-winning writer & radio show host to promote Sportsheets® with multi-media partnership
Sportsheets® has tapped award-winning sex educator, author and radio host Tristan Taormino for an expansive multi-media partnership. Through radio spots, product placement, workshops and more, Taormino will showcase Sportsheets® soft bondage and sexual positioning accessories to thousands of curious fans and help promote the company's sex-positive message.
"It's an honor to have Tristan represent the Sportsheets® brand through this exciting new endeavor and work with a progressive writer and educator respected by so many people," Sportsheets® President Julie Stewart said. "This is a unique opportunity for us as we continue to put a special focus on the educational side of pleasure product sales."
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Powerball grows to $360 million, Mega Millions to $190 million
Wed, 15 May 2013 19:39:21 GMT —
Lotto fever is sweeping the Rio Grande Valley as the jackpots for two games continue to grow making the next winner a multi-millionaire.
Both the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries have jackpots that have grown to nine digits.
Powerball has gone 12 drawings over the past six weeks without a winner growing the jackpot to $360 million dollars.
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is the seventh largest jackpot in United States history and has a cash payout of $229.2 million.
The Mega Millions lottery has gone 18 drawings over the past nine weeks without a winner and grown to $190 million dollars.
Winning numbers for the Powerball are drawn on Wednesdays and Saturdays while Mega Millions is on Tuesdays and Fridays.
If no there is no winner for the Powerball tonight, lottery officials say the jackpot will grow to $475 million dollars.


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Senator Cruz says he will not support a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:51:51 GMT —
Texas Senator Ted Cruz made his way to the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since he was elected to office eight months ago.
Cruz stood before South Texas political and economic leaders Tuesday to discuss the hottest political topics of the day.
His number one priority, he says, is to restore economic growth.
To do that, he says we must cut spending, pass tax reform, and cut down on regulation such as Obamacare.
Cruz says the country needs healthcare reform but says Obamacare will only hurt the economy.
"More and more people are having their hours forcibly reduced, health insurance premiums are going up and more employers are dropping their health insurance, Cruz said.
After riding along with Border Patrol agents, Cruz addressed the topic of illegal immigration reform with the media, stating nothing will pass unless it's bi-partisan.
"I think people agree we got to get serious about securing our borders and solving the problem of illegal immigration and I think people agree we need to improve and streamline legal immigration and celebrate legal immigrants, Cruz said.
But Senator Cruz says he will not support a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally.
"I think it TMs profoundly unfair to legal immigrants who followed the rules and waited in line, Cruz said.
When it comes to Syria, Cruz says he has not been persuaded to use force in the conflict.
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Height dudgeon on St Kilda Road's golden mile for lack of certainty
The future of a golden mile of inner-city real estate is in limbo three years after the state government controversially introduced "interim" maximum height controls to protect vistas of the Shrine.
The sliver of land along St Kilda Road stretching from Dorcas Street in South Melbourne to Punt Road has become a hotly contested patch following the 2011 intervention by Planning Minister Matthew Guy.
Landowners and Port Phillip Council are waiting on Mr Guy to release long-term plans for the area after the council sent Mr Guy its proposal in August.
Mr Guy last week again extended interim height controls for the area that the council requested remain in place until permanent controls were introduced.
Mr Guy's 2011 intervention, one of his first as Planning Minister, stopped a proposed 88-metre tower at 35 Albert Road that would have blocked views to the bay from the nearby 81-metre Domain apartment tower.
The Domain is known as the "tower of power" because of its high-profile residents. Objectors to the proposed tower included Lindsay Fox, Ron Walker, and Lloyd Williams – either individually or through a mutual body corporate.
The household of Liberal Party MP Andrea Coote and husband Alan Naylor was another objector to the proposed tower, though Mr Guy has said he has never been lobbied by Ms Coote on the issue.
Mr Guy declined to answer questions for this story and Ms Coote did not return calls.
Port Phillip mayor Amanda Stevens said the council's draft strategy before the minister "provides a cohesive urban design vision for the precinct, highlighting the key elements to be protected and enhanced as new development occurs".
The council's plans would allow some former discretionary heights for the area to be increased and capped as maximum heights.
The proposed height at 35 Albert Road would be 75 metres – up from the current maximum height of 60 metres under Mr Guy's interim controls.
Domain body corporate member Ken Roche said residents were concerned the area could be over developed. "It is overcrowding the whole area," he said. "If you put in three times as many apartments in there you are just going to kill it."
He predicted roads in the area would be swamped. "Even the tramways are concerned about the number of extra people," he said.
"St Kilda Road is one of the iconic boulevards, certainly in Australia. It is a beautiful part of Melbourne and if they overcrowd it you are just going to take away that beauty and it is going to become a ghetto of apartments," he said.
One landowner at the South Melbourne end of the precinct who did not wish to be identified expressed frustration at the lack of planning certainty. "The delays have resulted in a policy vacuum," the landowner said. "The uncertainty caused by the delays has left owners in the dark."
Shrine of Remembrance trustee and lord mayor Robert Doyle said the views to the Shrine had to be protected. "The height restrictions around it are to protect that vista," he said.
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Canon working on Cinema EOS C500 4K professional rig
Canon has announced it is developing the EOS C500, a 4K (4096 x 2160 pixel) capable camera in both EF and PL mounts. The camera will be a continuation of the concept of the C300, will be able to capture of Raw 4K video footage and will offer frame rates of up to 120fps in compressed 4K. It will also be be able to capture 2K footage (2,048 x 1,080 pixels) at 12-bit, with 4:4:4 Y'CbCr chroma sub-sampling for high colour resolution. A prototype will be shown at the NAB broadcast industry trade show next week. Canon adds that it plans for the camera to be available later in 2012 at a target price of around $30,000.
Canon announces development of digital cinema camera supporting 4K video capture
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London, UK, 12 April 2012 – Canon today announces the development of a new digital cinema camera capable of recording 4K-resolution (4,096 x 2,160 pixels) video. Targeting both the motion picture and high resolution digital production industries, the EOS C500 will offer 4K RAW output and will be available with Canon's EF mount and the industry-standard PL mount.
In November 2011 Canon announced the EOS C300 – the first camera in the Cinema EOS System, marking the company's entry into the motion-picture and digital production market. Highly acclaimed by video professionals since launch, the EOS C300 offers exceptional video quality performance, outstanding mobility, durability and expandability, thanks to its modular design and its compatibility with Canon's range of EF and EF Cinema Lenses. The EOS C500/EOS C500 PL will be based on the same advanced platform, adding support for 4K RAW video capture, and 4:4:4 sampling during 2K capture.
Supporting next-generation 4K-resolution video capture and RAW data output, the EOS C500/EOS C500 PL will achieve exceptional video results without any loss in quality. The camera's uncompressed 4K output will unleash the full potential of Canon's premium range of EF Cinema Lenses, combining with Canon Log Gamma, which delivers the high-quality video and wide exposure latitude required by digital cinematographers.
Furthermore, 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 signal during 2K (2,048 x 1,080 pixels) video output will deliver rich colour and high compatibility with image processes such as chroma key compositing. Support for frame rates up to 120p in both 4K and 2K resolution will provide enhanced creative flexibility, enabling high-speed (slow motion) video capture in high resolution.
A development prototype of the EOS C500 digital cinema camera will be on display at NAB 2012, one of the world's largest events for the video, broadcasting equipment and digital media industries. NAB 2012 will take place from April 16-19 in Las Vegas, USA.
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This just in:
New Canon EF-mount digital camera available for pre-order. Price: US$30,000.00
No kidding about it, either.
Good thing this Canon camera will hopefully OUTPUT 4K and 2K resolution video signals. Now, all you need to find is a good quality Canon 4K or 2K external video recorder to connect to your C500. Easy as peasy, hopefully.
Don't forget those nifty $45,000 Canon EF-mount "cinema" zooms for your C500, either. Basically with the C500 body, the recommended Canon cinema primes and zooms, and the connected recorder that does not yet exist, you are going to be ready to shoot video at the $150,000s price point, if all goes well.
Wow. Do u think $150K is a lot of money for a camera to shoot a feature length film? No, its not. I would say thats about average or a little below average for ONE camera rig. C500 $30,000
30-300 Cinema lens $45,000. External recorder, Canon is working with 6 different companies as of now so lets pick an average cost for a 4K recorder form one of the companies I know Canon is working with) AJA Ki Pro Quad $4,000
Whats our total? $79,000. Looks like we are still why under budget!
Actually, Isn't that about what an Alexa starts at, body only? Maybe its like 60K.
Just because u have no use for a camera like this and think its way expensive doesnt mean that there arent people out there that will buy it and think its a bargain. Its all relative man! Its all about the purpose. Dont forget that Canon sells those Broadcast lenses all the time! and that 100X Zoom is like $200,000. Oh but I forgot. Just because you have no need for it and its way expensive then it must be stupid and have no need
4:4:4 is not really a form of chroma "subsampling"; on the contrary, it means chroma is sampled at the same resolution as luma.
I guess if they're going for YCbCr that means they won't support uncompressed output at all (YCbCr allows better compression, but since post-production is always done in RGB, uncompressed video with full chroma sampling is generally stored in RGB, to avoid unnecessary conversions).
The way I read this latest one of just this week's Canon camera announcements, this thing will be OUTPUTTING high quality 4K and 2K video via its BNC and HDMI output ports.
Just not being able to RECORD high quality 4K and 2K video, right? Anyone??
So... you will need to connect to it a high quality 4K or 2K external video recorder. Good luck with that workflow and equipment budget, everyone.
What will it record INTERNALLY, using what codec and what bitrate? Wait for the follow-up announcements from Canon, folks.
Mr Carver or who ever you are, I've noticed you a lot in these forums and you never have a good word to say about Canon ever on any of their products. Now that's your prerogative and I'm not asking you to stop. I'm just curious to know, what do you have against Canon? What have they ever done to you?
Well, other than selling me a camera with a defective lens way back, Canon did not hurt me much over the years. But at any time a company comes up with this much hyper-bull inside of a few short days, we should certainly make them know that we can see through their charade.
I will be at NAB Las Vegas next week, and I will make triple sure not to waste any of my limited time at the Canon stand, looking at some mock-ups parked behind glass cabinets. I already know all the bull... err, "press releases" from them.
Wasn't the RED Scarlet development announced in 2008 and finally the product in 2011. So it seems that announcing development of future products in the digital cinema market is standard practice.
Cost to consumers: $30k
Cost to develop, manufacture and market per unit: probably (at most) ~$11 K
Doing business in the "charge what I want" field of profession video: Priceless
Canon EF-mount "4K capable" digital camera available for pre-order at a price of US$30,000.
Problem with that is, the competing Red de-facto 4K cam is around $10,000, and the soon coming Sony NEX-FS700 "4K capable" camera is only $8,000.
Canon is pricing their non-existing wares as if they were an actual player in this lofty 4K area, but they are clearly not. Nor are they the darling of Hollywood filmmakers, sorry.
Looks like Canon is doing a firmware upgrade to their largely unsaleable C300s and calling it the C500, or what?
They are "announcing the development" of a camera????
Gee-whiz, it seems like a million years ago when companies made products and brought them to the marketplace. With Canon at least, it is all just hot air and b.s. galore.
Where do you guys get your information?? Its actually hilarious! I dont come on forums much (Now I know why).. Just to set your comment straight Francis..Again. Go try and buy a C300. all you can do is put a deposit down and wait.. They cant keep them on the shelves. There is a huge back order. Do I need to define the work "back-order" for you.. lol!
Obviously you dont keep up on the Cinema market much (why would you?), otherwise you wouldn't be making such stupid comments.
Also, if you would have spent much time at all at the Canon booth at NAB you would have saw all the "hot air and B.S. galore" on their new 4k cinema display. C500 4K footage on a 4K display. Pretty Sweet! But you wouldnt know because you have nothing to do with the Cinema industry. Cheers!
4k RAW is to video what a freight train or ocean tanker is to transportation. It's not anything even a prosumeror "indie" can handle, without substantial investment in ancillary equipment. The incremental benefits of capture in RAW are difficult to translate into benefit for usual projects (see a Luminous Landescape test), though perhaps relevant to Dreamworks Studios or a high budget ad firm.
With hardly any 4k displays outside of commercial theaters, the main attraction of 4k might be to crop video shots the way still photographers do all the time. I've read no user review to date of the $5k JVC camcorder that shoots compressed 4k. It may not even be on the Zacuto radar screen. I doubt the T4i or D5200 will offer 4k video. Might the GH3? At this point in time, wider use of 1080p60/50 video may be challenge enough.
4k uncompressed video would indeed require very fast and large drives. Depending on the type of compression, however, it can be quite easy to handle. REDCODE files are typically around 40 MB/s, which any modern SATA drive can handle.
I agree the 4k resolution is generally wasted (with most screens and projectors being HD or, at most, 2K), but a 4k sensor will often produce better 2k images than a native 2k sensor (even with good de-Bayering), so buying a "4k capable" camera to shoot 2k can be a good idea.
As to raw vs. sRGB, the benefits are absolutely obvious to anyone working in cinema / broadcast. I've seen several hours of footage that would have otherwise been lost saved in post thanks to the extra range of raw files.
Obviously, for home videos or live broadcasts it's kind of wasted.
C300/500 are aimed at different market than 1d C.
The former are to indie and hollywood productions, the last to the new photo-video reporter that is where the reporter profession is going.
In effect they are developped with ergonomics that fit these different users.
1D C is not aimed at photojournalists, they are the last to need 4K. How are you going to send 4K files form Afganistan, and who is going to use them and for what? Simply put this camera is just a convenient and available housing for a 4K capable sensor and electronics. The buyer will provide the ancillaries and lenses for movie productions. Buyers will be production houses/rental outfits/rich hobbyists.
Post workstations top out around $4k without adding a bunch of fluff that doesn't really boost performance. Indie productions and pro productions are going to hit the same wall for 4k before either of them is really squeezed for money.
Pretty sure Nikon will have something like this over the next few years... they DID invent dSLR video (Nikon D90) after all.
Who knows, maybe they'll have it before the C500 comes out.
One thing these camera needs is power zoom. This would be immensely useful for ENG cameramen, so you don't need a separate focus puller.
Canon's brain trust is out in force.
Canon will not be able to dump any more of these C500s on us than they are able to dump their C300s on us.
If they will have a C500, then why make a separate announcement about a 1D C?
If they will have a 1D C, then why make a separate announcement about a C500?
Not only Canon's left hand does not seem to know what its right hand is doing -- it seems to me that somebody had chopped off both of their hands. They seem to be in the camera announcement business... instead of the serious camera business.
@Edmond ... there are relatively few movies made compared to the many many music videos, promos, industrials, informationals, web videos, etc. etc ... that is the market for this type of product
Yes, those are the markets for such cameras; but not for big movies.
The benefit of such cameras is reducing the production costs.
But I'm doubt if it will success in the rental market.
No way to consider this camera for heavy invested movie productions.
Will you take the risk by not using Arri or Panavision?
Canon is rapidly making inroads into the cinema camera market, much more so than most expected based on the technical specs of the C300. It is difficult to predict how the studios will react, but they embraced RED more quickly than expected (and RED was a far more unknown quantity).
I think both Canon and RED can serve the low-budget productions; the market is still here.
But not for high-budget productions.
Okay, now I am back to being confused again after reading your other response.
EDIT: Okay, I see you posted this before you posted "There is no doubt that RED is doing a good business recently.
What I'm talking is the mainstream of the movie productions are still in favor of Arri and Panavision."
So in that context I am inferring that your above quote means "high-budget productions but not necessarily the highest budget productions" given the list of blockbusters shooting with RED I mentioned below. Sorry to read your posts out of order. :)
Incidentally, there are things about the Alexa, Panavision and RED offerings that would make each the most attractive choice for me on particular projects. In the case of Panavision, the top of that list would be their 300x optical zoom for 2/3 inch cameras.
Also, hope you don't feel singled out - you are just addressing some of the more interesting points so far, so I keep feeling compelled to respond to your observations. Hopefully you feel flattered, not frustrated. :)
Frankly speaking, what I'm most interested in Panavision and Arri are still their film cameras. Of course, up to now, there is no company other than Arri and Panavision can provide a full range of systems for movie productions like what they are now offering.
Unfortunately, film will eventually fade out, both Arri and Panavision are not in 4K now (may be they will upgrade their 2K cameras to 4K soon). The only choice available today is RED and SONY, but RED is still not in the high-end market... So the only choice is SONY F65. I think why do people like F65 so much is due to SONY's cooperation with Panavision in the past, and a lot of their camera design was influenced by the Panavision systems.
Good luck
"Canon is rapidly making inroads into the cinema camera market"
Pasadena, thank you! You cracked me up with this classic quip, really you did.
The only "inroad" Canon is making is into the poor-house. Nobody serious will be using their "EOS cinema" cameras for anything cinematic and/or serious, I predict.
Actually, look how many blockbusters are produced on RED. That gear is rather high-end. I wouldn't agree that F65 stands a better chance.
Anyway, HD is a DV format of today, not tomorrow. Even iPad 3 has higher resolution than HD. It will take a couple of years before 4k becomes a standard. Canon will definitely reduce the price of 4k dlsr as for now it's not a competitor for Scarlet or Epic.
Arri? Panavision? Anyone pushing the edge is far more likely to be using Silicon Imaging or even Red. The real strength of Arri and Panavision is in the accessories and lenses, and there are adapters to use them on other cameras. Their sensors and interfaces are nothing special.
"Stay tuned, Canon Lovers Worldwide. Will be making 4 or 5 more announcements on it -- before the announcements about when/if the actually finished camera will be shipping (if/when)."
Happy shooting, everyone!
Its funny no hypocrite is saying anything about buttons on this thing now. Few days ago when sony released something I could read page full of comments about how it had so many buttons.
I am not sure which camera is uglier, Sony NEX-FS100/700 or Canon EOS C300/500. But the Sony-cams definitely have much more (and smaller) buttons on them.
You're missing the point, Nikon is a nobody in pro video, hoping to get their toe in the door. The C500 is intended to compete with higher end Arri, RED and Sony cameras, i.e. the real pro competition.
It's almost funny, all the trashing that was going on when people were doing D800 / 5Dm3 comparisons, not realizing that Canon had new cameras on the way that play the game on a whole different level than Nikon (for video).
The Nikon / Canon as equals above everyone else paradigm only applies to stills...
10 years ago Red was a nobody in video too, now they are a leader. Nikon could get into it if they really wanted to
RED is a leader? What kind of leader?
If you have sufficient budget, will you use RED?
Everyone would tell you the right choice is Panavision, Arri or Sony.
Nikon is definitely not in the movie industry. Even though Canon (a Fortune 500 company) is so big and their lenses are so popular in the broadcasting industry, Canon is still difficult to enter the movie industry. Nikon is a small company when compared with Canon, how can Nikon go to the movie industry?? No way, at least for the next 10 years,
I must respectfully differ with you, Edmond Leung. 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros and even Sony all have blockbusters in production using RED cameras, and Disney already released one. Their cameras were picked (or at least employed) by Rob Marshall, Bryan Singer, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson and Marc Webb.
In the case of Sony, not only did they have the budget to use another camera, there were initial suggestions by the company to use something from the in-house line-up (at least based on comments Marc Webb made). He chose RED.
Am I saying that the RED cameras are better than the competitors you mentioned? No, I am not addressing that. But they have clearly become a viable choice when a quick survey of the upcoming blockbusters sees more films with them than without them, an area where we usually see the largest budgets.
There is no doubt that RED is doing a good business recently.
What I'm talking is the mainstream of the movie productions are still in favor of Arri and Panavision.
Ah, that is different. I misunderstood what you meant by "If you have sufficient budget, will you use RED? Everyone would tell you the right choice is Panavision, Arri or Sony." I got the impression that you meant the higher the budget, the more likely that those brands would be used, as opposed to that those brands were very popular in professional production.
In that case I have no disagreement - Arri and Panavision are very popular, especially in the TV market where RED cameras have had much lower market penetration.
"This is something that Nikon has to follow."
They better not -- if they have any brain. And compared to Canon and their announcements lately, they must have a lot of brain still left intact.
"The C500 is intended to compete with higher end Arri, RED and Sony cameras, i.e. the real pro competition."
Canon can "intend" all day anything they want, these "EOS Cinema" cameras of theirs are mere dwarfs compared to the makers of real digital film cameras you had just listed. I would also put Vision Research and their various model Phantoms into that latter group.
She ain't the prettiest thing that ever walked down the pike, that's for sure.
It's a way of handling the colors where the resolution is higher for one of the three channels than for the other two. Typically this means a higher resolution for green than the other channels, with the other channels being interpolated to compensate.
DSLRs normally use the 4:2:0 method for their video recording.
Just to clarify, 4:4:4 blows 4:2:0 away.
PP is incorrect. Video is not RGB it is Luma + 2 chroma vectors. You can pitch chroma data with less effect than luma. So think of it as making the chroma pixels bigger than the luma pixels.
No chroma subsampling = 4:4:4.
Briarwoodsman, I have no intention of getting into an argument about it nor do I consider myself an expert on it. I am only saying that the language of the link you present is not the only way of looking at the topic. Here is another one from a technical officer at Panavision that influenced the wording of my original post.
Note the display image used in the presentation for 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 sampling.
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This kind of body makes a lot more sense for the intended market than the newly announced 1D C.
I agree. It will be interesting to see how big a deal the absence of a RAW recording format will be for that market, or whether people opt for cameras with even high FPS options, but this certainly seems like the best Canon option by far. Unless someone strongly prefers the APS-H crop used for 4K on the 1D C to the Super35mm 4K on the C500.
Just to clarify - I meant to say how big a deal the absence of a RAW recording format on the Cinema 1D would be (as the C500 does record 4K to 4:4:4, even if that does not guarantee the flexibility that most associate with "RAW" recording).
Canon "EOS Cinema" C300 is a "slow seller," to put it mildly. So, why would anyone pay double for the C500 than for the C300 then?
EOS C300 in the $5,000 to $8,000 is probably salable in smaller quantities, and for the C500, the sweet spot might be around $15,000, tops.
AT the crazy prices Canon is fantasizing about lately, they are pricing themselves out of the marketplace.
The C500 is trying to compete with the F65, Arri Alexa and RED Epic. In that market, the price speculated undercuts the competition - it is just plain a different market. Only the Cinema 1D suffers from odd pricing.
And despite the price, the C300 appears to be selling better than most of use would expect. Personally, I would be more likely to spend the money on a Scarlet, but to each their own.
I have no idea what this thing does but seeing it, along with Canon's other announcements makes me think that maybe the D800 won't put Canon out of business after all.
Wow it has less buttons than the Sony NEX-FS700 and will be two times the price :)
Didn't you know? Price is inversely proportional to the amount of buttons. This is why Leicas are so expensive.
Hahaha agreed
Gentlemen who own Leicas have finer things to appreciate than oodles of buttons. The best can afford to hire "help" to do the driving, cooking, housework, childcare, camera operations, and other drudgery.
Really, though, the buttonss are there because the user can find them more easily than by navigating a labyrinthine screen menu. Usually there are a few tools or effects one uses all the time, and it's easier to remember where the button is an hit it fast, rather than peer into an LCD and wander through a menu you cannot even see in the sunlight.
That seems a monster.
It's a product development announcement, not a launch - probably too early for a price to be worked-out.
C300 costs $16000 ... This is one would be easily over $20,000
The ceiling would be low enough to make it attractive compared to a RED or film. The price of the camera, per se, is usually only a small consideration in the production cost. Thus Canon could set the price of the camer relatively high, if it offers economies of workflow that lower the overall costs.
Canon has now said it's aiming for around $30,000.
At $15,000, maybe. First they gotta drop prices on their C300s from unsupportable $16,000 to somewhere in the $5,000 to $8,000 range. That way, the Canon EOS C300 will be in the company of its actual product competitors -- Panasonic AG-AF100/101, Sony NEX-FS100, and Sony NEX-FS700.
Consider also that Canon probably expects you to buy them in pairs -- one with the EF-mount and one with the PL-mount, see?
Man the PL market is so crowded nowadays, any have any idea how well the Canon PLs have been selling?
Real cinema lenses makers now, in alphabetical order:
Arri/Carl Zeiss
Canon is last to the table in this game, and good luck to them selling their lenses for about the same prices that the existing PL-mount cine-lens brethren sells theirs.
$50,000 for a 10x range zoom that weighs 12 kilograms? I just dunno....
Finally one with HighSpeed recording. Price indication ? Supporting LANC ?
Instruction manual (C300/C300PL) page 15, subject 19 talks about remote terminal for connecting commercially available remote controlers. What does that mean Canon ?
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Kodak's new Facebook Messenger chatbot is trying to bring back the 'Kodak Moment' by digging up your old social media photos and trying to sell you prints and custom coffee mugs.
Affinity Photo for iPad was touted as "the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet." This update makes it that much more convenient.
Yashica has released a new teaser video, and this one claims they'll be releasing an "unprecedented camera" in October on Kickstarter. Ready... set... speculate!
Storage solutions company Synology has just released its very first 6-bay NAS tower. Combined with the DX1215 expansion units, it can hold and control up to thirty drives.
We're always expanding our collection of product overview content, and we've just added videos for the Canon EOS 6D Mark II, the EOS Rebel SL2 and EOS M6.
The venerable Canon PowerShot G1 was announced seventeen years ago this week, marking the start of a line of enthusiast-focused compacts that's still alive and kicking.
Super macro photographer Can Tuncer captured these incredible close-ups of a single peacock feather using a special setup and three different microscope lenses.
After successfully crowdfunding the Biotar 75mm F1.5, Oprema Jena is at it again. This time they're bringing back the Biotar 58mm F2: the world's only lens with a 17-blade aperture.
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The idea is that by installing a storm-detecting radar system made by Honeywell, flights can literally avoid or bypass powerful storm clouds that can cause flight delays and costly cancellations. This new equipment can detect the menacing storm cell up to ten minutes before the plane would make contact. Jim Cramer and Stephanie Link actively manage a real money portfolio for his charitable trust- enjoy advance notice of every trade, full access to the portfolio, and deep coverage of the latest economic events and market movements. To buy this state-of-the-art equipment would cost an airline between $50,000 and $125,000 per plane. But when one considers that weather-related turbulence costs an average of $275,000 per incident, this technology could save an airline millions of dollars per year in maintenance costs alone. The company claims this is the first aeronautical equipment that detects where hail, lightening and high winds are located in a weather system. Planes can maneuver around storm cell clouds thus avoiding the potential for damaging turbulence and the potential for flight delays and cancellations. So far only Southwest Airlines ( LUV) has purchased the new technology, equipping around 15 of its planes, according to the Bloomberg story. The Director for Compliance and Flight Operations at Southwest was quoted as saying, "The system allows our pilots to fly more efficient, smoother, more accurate routes around weather cells which is essential to operating as safely as possible." Sounds like all airlines need this HON technology. To help us to see how safe it is to get on board Honeywell shares as an investment vehicle, let's look at a one-year chart that tracks the stock's price and cash from quarterly operations. HON data by YCharts
It's been a fairly robust year for both the stock price and HON's profitability. In the quarter ending Sept. 30, year-over-year quarterly earnings growth was a healthy 10.2%. The trailing 12-month gross profit came in at almost $8 billion on slightly higher quarterly revenue growth. Based on a share price of $60, the dividend yield is currently 2.73%, which represents a payout ratio of 50% of earnings. That price-per-share reflects a forward (one-year) PE ratio of only 12.23, and a price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of only 0.97. These ratios suggest the potential for share price growth.
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Congreve Conservancy, Lake Nakuru - The Great Rift Valley, Kenya
With long views over the Eburu and Mau Escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, Mbweha Camp stands on a 6,400 acre private game conservancy, which is adjacent to the southern boundaries of Lake Nakuru National Park. Offering a central dining room, sunken bar, charming lawns and its own small waterhole, the camp features just ten rustic but comfortable cottages.
Mbweha means 'jackal' in Swahili, and reflects the fact that this private reserve offers sanctuary to the side-striped jackal, the silver-backed jackal and the golden jackal. The reserve also offers: 300 species of birds, elands, warthogs, zebras, leopards, grants gazelles, waterbucks, impalas, hyenas, dik-dik, buffalo, giraffes, aardvark and baboons.
Location Lake Nakuru is 160 kms north of Nairobi and lies at the heart of the Great Rift Valley. Nearby are the lakes of Elementaita, Naivasha and Bogoria.
The Background Sunk deep in the cleft of the Great Rift Valley, one of earth's most phenomenal geological features, ringed by shoals of extinct and dormant volcanoes and presided over by the Menengai Crater, one of the largest craters in the world, lie the turquoise-shimmering waters of Lake Nakuru. Flamingo-frosted, salt-encrusted, acacia-haloed and guarded by the prehistoric splendour of a grey-green forest of Euphorbia candelabrum, Lake Nakuru National Park offers sanctuary to some of the world's most endangered creatures.
Kenya hotels and accommodation Amongst the wide range of Kenya hotels, some make the ideal Kenya safari destination. Choose a safari lodge, safari hotel, bush camp, luxury lodge, safari camp, tented camp or bush lodge. National park accommodation usually takes the form of a traditional safari lodge or tented camp, but numerous other options exist on the park boundaries. Luxury lodges and luxury camp options are also offered in the private wildlife conservancies.
Accommodation There are just 10 cottages, built from local volcanic stone and traditionally thatched. Each has its own ensuite bathroom and is charmingly presented.
Dining and bars The camp offers a central dining room and a sunken bar with open fireplace.
Child-friendly Children are welcome.
What to see and do Shimmering mirage, flamingo realm Entitled 'the greatest bird spectacle on earth' thanks to the millions of fuchsia-pink flamingo that flock to feed on the teeming algae of its alkaline waters, the pink-frosted shores and sky-mirrored waters of Lake Nakuru yield some of the most evocatively beautiful photo-images in Africa. Small in size, but high in wildlife, this park makes the ideal day trip, enroute to other destinations and abounds in picturesque lookouts and picnic spots. As Kenya's first and largest rhino sanctuary, sightings of both black and white rhino are almost guaranteed, while plentiful waterbuck, warthog, zebra, gazelle and buffalo graze the shoreline. Echoing to the haunting cries of the numerous fish eagles, this is also the park in which you have the best chance of seeing a leopard.
Wildlife highlights: lion, black and white rhino, waterbuck, hippo, leopard, impala, gazelle, hyena, wild cat, golden cat, hyrax, colobus monkey, and Rothschild's giraffe. Birds: 1.5 million flamingos and 450 other recorded species.
Other attractions • Open vehicle day and night game drives on the conservation area. • Game drives at Lake Nakuru National Park. • Educational bush and nature walks. • Bike rides • Hiking • Bush dinners • Bush sundowners • Hot Air Balloon Rides • Gliding Within easy (half an hour) reach of Nakuru town, with its many restaurants, bars and nightlife, the lodge serves as an excellent base for visits to the town and to the surrounding sights, such as Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site, and the Menengai Crater. Gift shop, laundry, medical services and forex facilities provided. Horse-back riding can also be arranged.
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Most Spey casts involve circular motions with the rod, which have a habit of twisting the line. Some types casts may put a full revolution of twist in your line each cast. As you work down stream through a piece of water, possibly fifty or more revolutions in your line may result. Pretty quick your shooting line is so twisted that executing a cast without tangles becomes nearly impossible.
There are several methods used for un-twisting a Spey line. Undoubtedly you have your method. Some while back, Josh Linn decided to eliminate the problem altogether. After a lot of trial and adaptation, Josh perfected a way of installing a small barrel swivel between the shooting head and the shooting line. This eliminates line twist and make tangles in a shooting line virtually a thing of the past.
My prediction is that the AntiRevolution Spey Swivel will be the most copied Spey innovation of the next 10-years, because if you don't have one in each Spey line, you will have tangles. No one wants more tangles. The AntiRevolution Spey Swivel is the best answer for reducing tangles caused by line twist.
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Vintage photo: Janis Ancīts of Latvia
Pictured is Janis Ancīts of Latvia, circa 1920, Mrs. Marathon Pundit's second cousin. (She thinks.)
Ancīts lived in tumultuous times. He fought in the Czar's Army in World War I, witnessed World War II, and Latvia's annexation by the Soviet Union.
He lived into his 80s. He died mysteriously. He went out for a walk one day and never returned. Mrs. MP's family surmised that he accidentally walked into a nearby bog and drowned.
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Andrea Meislin Gallery Hosts Barry Frydlender, Travelogue in Pictures May 5
Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent and new photographs by Barry Frydlender. This will be the artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday May 5th from 6 to 8 pm.
The exhibition will feature seven large-scale color pictures which record Frydlender's passage through four major cities and one small town in northern Israel. All explore the interpretation of visual facts collected on the move, addressing at the same time larger social questions. The digitally reconstructed scenes from Los Angeles, Paris, New York, London, and Nazareth reveal timely issues of ethnicity, migration, class, consumption, culture, race and, finally, the question of what remains of the promise of "redemption."
This continues the core of Frydlender's practice: that of creating a visual record based on the physical and metaphorical combination of reportage and interpretation, one which allows a link to works of historical fiction and seeks to connect the history of the pictorial tradition to social structures of contemporary life.
Distinguishing the elements that characterize his constructed photographs, the artist says in an interview: "One of photography's great limitations is that because a picture is taken in an instant, you can consume it instantly.... Since my photographs are not made like that, you can't consume them all at once," he continued. "They delay understanding."
Barry Frydlender received the 2011 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art at The Israel Museum and the 2001 Leon Constantiner Prize for Photography at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2007, and his work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Getty Museum, The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. He was born in Israel in 1954 and currently lives in Tel Aviv.
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Osprey Packs, a manufacturer of high-performance outdoor and travel packs, said Monday it has chosen Ogden as the location for its U.S. distribution center.
Osprey's company headquarters, which includes sales, customer service, marketing, finance, returns and other core functions, will remain in Cortez, Colorado, but warehousing and shipping will occupy a new 108,000-square foot warehouse being built for Osprey at Business Depot Ogden. Completion of the building along with retailer shipments from this new location is expected by mid–2015.
The distribution center location was chosen for close access to rail and truck shipping corridors suited for the company's retail base. This move also addresses the space constraints Osprey has faced in recent years requiring the company to patch together several smaller facilities in Cortez.


text: New bass regulations in effect at Stonewall Jackson Lake By John McCoy January 4, 2014 Story Share John McCoy State fisheries officials hope to improve the health of Stonewall Jackson Lake's bass by allowing anglers to keep some of their catch. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's most-anticipated fishing-regulation change in years has gone into effect.Since Jan. 1, anglers at Lewis County's Stonewall Jackson Lake have been allowed to keep some of the bass they catch. The old regulations, which required anglers to release all the bass they caught, are no longer in effect.Bret Preston, fisheries chief for the state Division of Natural Resources, acknowledged that the change might disturb at least some members of the bass-fishing community."It's a significant switch, and it might not be 100 percent popular," Preston said. "Those [catch-and-release] regulations had been in effect since the lake was impounded [in 1989]. A lot of people are used to fishing the lake that way."The catch-and-release requirement helped transform Stonewall from a fledgling bass lake to what is arguably the state's finest trophy-bass destination. In recent years, though, biologists have noticed signs of decline in the once-vibrant fishery."Overall, the condition of the lake's largemouth bass has diminished, and there are far more spotted bass in the fishery than there used to be," Preston explained. "We believe the new regulations will help to counter those trends and maintain really good bass fishing at Stonewall Jackson."Under the new regulations, anglers are able to keep up to six bass a day, and only one of those fish can measure more than 18 inches in length. By restricting the take of large bass, fisheries officials hope to maintain the lake's trophy-producer reputation."We wanted the new regulations to encourage the harvest of smaller fish, but at the same time allow someone who catches a really nice bass to keep it," Preston said. "We don't think allowing people to keep one trophy bass will have any adverse impact on the lake's ability to produce trophy fish."By targeting smaller bass, biologists hope to accomplish several objectives: encourage the harvest of spotted bass, which don't grow nearly as large as their largemouth cousins; thin out the overall bass population to prevent the spread of largemouth bass virus; and promote growth among surviving bass by removing competition for food. Preston said DNR officials put a lot more thought and effort into this regulation change than they do for others, mainly because they hope to preserve Stonewall's reputation as the state's best bass fishery."This wasn't arrived at lightly," he said. "We debated this for quite a while before we went forward with it."Biologists proposed the change last February, at the winter meeting of the state Natural Resources Commission, the seven-man panel that sets hunting and fishing regulations."We then told the public about the proposed change during a series of 12 public meetings we conducted in March," Preston said. "Based on input from those meetings, the commissioners asked us to get additional information. For four to six weeks late last spring, we surveyed anglers and boaters at Stonewall about the proposal. On top of all that, we held an additional public meeting at Stonewall in early July so people could comment."Commissioners approved the new regulations at a late-July meeting. Preston said DNR officials plan to conduct surveys to monitor the numbers and sizes of bass kept and released by anglers, and to closely monitor the overall health of Stonewall's bass population."It generally takes a fishery a while to adjust to a regulation change, so we'll probably leave this regulation in place at least three years to see if it's having the desired effect," Preston said. "If it clearly isn't helping, we'll go back to the drawing board." One significant effect of the new regulations is that organizations will now be allowed to conduct bass tournaments that have official weigh-ins. Under the previous regulations, only "golden rule" tournaments - those in which fish were measured for length and released immediately - could be held.Preston said, however, that the presence of largemouth bass virus is forcing DNR administrators to limit the number of tournaments."We're not going to allow large weigh-in tournaments during June, July or August, when water temperatures are at their highest," he explained. "We want to reduce stress on the bass, and we don't want large numbers of them held in a tank where the virus could be spread."Current plans are to allow only about 10 tournaments a year that attract 10 boats or more. DNR officials have scheduled a meeting on Thursday to draw lots for the allowed tournament slots. 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