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Today, as a followup to our post earlier in the week A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography I want to post a series of posts from Flickr that all illustrate a variation on the same theme – movement.
The following shots are all of moving subjects where the photographer has made the choice to set their camera to capture the movement as blur rather than freezing it. This is in all cases by choosing (or letting the camera choose) a 'slow' shutter speed (although by slow you'll see that the speeds (noted under each image) vary from anything from 1/30 second to up to 40 minutes).
Photo by zane&inzane – Exposure Time – 10 minutes
Photo by PhotoToasty – Composition of 3 images at shutter speeds of between 1.6 seconds and 25 seconds
Photo by Heidi Morton – Taken with a Blackberry! (awesome huh!)
Photo by Sara Heinrichs – Exposure Time: 20 seconds
Photo by Mace2000 – 50 second exposure time
Photo by WisDoc – Shutter Speed – 1/30
Photo by Mace2000 – Shutter Speed – 50 seconds
Photo by Wam Mosely – Shutter speed – 4/5 of a second
Photo by Mace2000 – Exposure Time – 43 seconds
Photo by jon madison – Exposure – photographer estimates somewhere between 30-40 minutes
Photo by thorinside – Shutter Speed – 13 seconds
Photo by tschnitzlein – No Exposure information given
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Great examples. It's hard to find anything as exciting as night long exposure photography :)
First pic is my favorite. =)
nice photos..
and here is mine : http://www.flickr.com/photos/imamtho/6579986299/in/set-72157628585689383/
Check Mine...
This was a hot weekend, I love talking these sorts of photos
This was a hot weekend, I love talking these sorts of photos
This is AWESOME! i want to learn EVERYTHING. haha. well...I have a few decades (hopefully) of life to do that. and the above comment about getting on a merry go round...THAT sounds like fun! Ooh Need to try something like this :0)
@Greg - You would adjust your ISO if you can't manually adjust your shutter speed.
Thank you for including my picture, although this is no simple time exposure. This image wouldn't possibly have turned out like this had I just made one big huge time exposure. In that case, the background would be almost white. :-)
This is a time panorama, i.e. I used about 100 individual, optimized exposures to capture the traffic lights, the background (road), and the individual light trails, which I shot in one continuous session during one night (I had to do a couple of test sessions for this before ...). I compiled them together in Photoshop using lots of individual masks. The overall photoshop work time for this image must have been somewhere around 20 hours.
these photos are excellent.
But i have some queries.
How can i take a photo of a moving object?
should i move with the motion or will i wait for a right moment to come or wat?
how the first pic and the dog running was taken?
if u will move then camera shake will happen.
pls clarify.
Hiya, my group is just establishing our first website, searching and understanding what is needed. This weblog caught out proper away. I'm fired up about this, and adore the design of your site. Can you let me know what "theme" it is?
These are very excellent photos. I love them. Esther
There are some amazing shots on here. Mine doesn't hold a candle, but I will share. This is a picture I took of my mare Georgia one day when she was out romping in the pasture. I was trying to capture power and grace in one shot...
ISO 400; f 5/6; 1/20 sec.
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i like blur
fabulous :)
Amazing photos.. thnx
Taken int he moonlight with slow shutter speed. I dont remember the SS, but I know I got excited when I slowed it down, and got this efect- with a Canon 500D.
From Slow Shutter SPeed
I really like this collection! I haven't been able to master the art of panning yet but I'm working on it. I'm very impressed by some of the images :)
Maybe she wasn't talking about your shots, maybe she was talking about the ones in the main story.
Thanks Carman - but that's strange - I don't see that my shot posted. Where do you see it?
Awesome shots!
Here's one shot from a 50ft. mast with a pan-tilt head at 1/60th. (It was also four images stitched together.)
[eimg url='http://photos.HTPhotographics.com/jakson/e36b5d866' title='e36b5d866']
I'll be interested if the image posted to this reply or not.
good photo'ssssssssssssssssss
I like ones that include people and reminds a bit of Monet. See example below.
Interesting photo, David. Panning definitely gives a feeling of motion. The photo seems a bit flat - m'be because it was taken in direct sunlight. Is this a film photo print that was scanned into a digital file?
Being my first day in school, I thought I'd get my feet wet by submitting a B/W photo taken several years ago. I added sepia toning to give it a vintage look. By "panning", I achieved the effect of motion. I'm open for critique. Happy to be aboard! [eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/djunkie/4410012298/' title='speed' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4410012298_c7bebe0955.jpg']
These photos are very nice and inspire me to try some new fun things.
I've always loved the flowing water photos and over the the last few months played some with zooming while the lens was open, and had some results I was quite pleased with. But just over the past few weeks I've been playing with motion blur by moving the camera on a still subject and had some results I've really enjoyed. I'm going to try posting one here and see if it works. If it doesn't and you would like to see it you will find it by clicking here.
[eimg url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_JNoEA3SWNMI/S4a6og-KwJI/AAAAAAAABv0/UeNKvMe--v0/MotionBlurLayton01.jpg' title='MotionBlurLayton01.jpg']
@Caroline on your Flickr photo, click on the "Share This" button, then on "Grab HTML"
Look out for a piece of code that looks like this:
img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4381427405_16a8d6449c.jpg"
Copy the URL from within it... in this example, the URL would be http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4381427405_16a8d6449c.jpg
Darren - still trying to figure things out....please tell me how I obtain the "actual URL" for my FLICKR photo for this embed process. Also, where do I go to read on your site how photos posted here are copyright protected? This is an incredible newsletter, tutorial, and stimulation.... and I would like to join in on the fun.
Greg - when you put your shutter speed on 15 or 30 or 60, depending upon the speed of the subject and how much blur you want, you adjust your aperture until your meter reads "correct" (or what you want, under exposed, over exposed). If you cannot get your meter bar to that point, lower your ISO. If your ISO is already as low as it can get ND filter, as Darren suggested. If there is still too much light....wait.
Third request...please help. How do I find the "actual URL" of my FLICKR photo? I really like the embed process here. I have been unsuccessful in uploading anything here. Am brand newmember.
Absolutely great Photography. Gave me something new to explore.
Mr Bones, Besides the good push of the Merry-Go-Round, how about putting the camera on Self timer?
Every single image is great!
I specially liked Photo by Mr Bones and Photo by jon madison...
Nice collections!
when they say the exposure time,, is it the same thing with the shutter speed??thnx^^
I submitted a comment and a photo. Don't understand why it all disappeared???
I've taken long exposures (45 seconds and more) with my digital camera but there is a lot of graininess (noise) in the image. Is there a way to shoot and eliminate the noise?
Going east on the 101freeway @75mph + plane flying west out of Burbank @200mph(I assume) + a tree getting in the way + good timing = cool shot!
...click on it to make it a little bigger.
[eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/illmakeyoufamous/4295752167/' title='Jetting' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4295752167_f5c740e8d7.jpg']
I took my CRV's odometer for weekly assignment . After I submitted, I realized I misread the requirement.
[eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/willywangsa/4132867830/' title='Kinetics' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4132867830_bef7c0a9fc.jpg']
with lens open for 30 seconds
Cool pic! Gotta take something like this in the future :D
The third photo is my favorite. A very soft look that i really enjoy, plus the black and white caught my eye.
Last weekend I've taken a shot of a dog like this one. [eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/guaracheitor/4393180676/' title='Carrera' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4393180676_33521b7d4b.jpg']
Here's a recent attempt of mine from Feb 28th as seen on my 365 day photo project at oncemany.com
[eimg url='http://oncemany.com/wp-content/uppers/2010/02/feb28-m3-sm.jpg' title='feb28-m3-sm.jpg']
If this is a repeat idea, I apologize. When my daughter was about 6 or 7 years old, we went to the park with some of her friends and eventually ended up on the merry-go-round. By my getting on the merry-go-round with her, she and I were both able to remain relatively "still" while the background was moving behind her. This made for some very interesting pictures using a slower shutter speed.
So many of the other motion blur shots require panning with the subject which leads to a "hit or miss" result.With the merry-go-round moving but the two of us still relative to each other, it worked out very well.
I used long exposures to achieve some blur in these 3 photos:
1. Chicago Magnificent Mile: f22 for full depth of field, 1/4 shutter speed. I wanted the bus to be blurry yet distinguishable, hence not such a long exposure. Had to wait probably 10 mins between shots for the next bus and the ight was changing fast!
2. Light streaks: This one in fact is a composition of several photos. Each shot had one or two cars, I layered them (Blending Mode: Lighten) to get these many on just one frame. f22 @ 5 seconds
3. Last one, while walking behind my wife. Camera at chest level, no looking through the viewfinder just shooting constantly. The blur has a nice effect since the window looks frozen at the center then blurs on the Z axis. f14 @ 1/5 (compensated +1.3 stops, the sun was right in front and the normal reading threw everything into shadows)
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Here's one that I did...
[eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/israformales/4397794431/' title='The Potter's Hand' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4397794431_f4cc3f8acd.jpg']
Great collection of images! I like the use of blur effect in photography.
this is one of my favs.
[eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/wijew/3223940185/' title='Empress Falls' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/3223940185_fde824f71c.jpg']
Although these photos seem familiar, it is great to see them again.
Here is my example.... Took it last sunday in Hongkong. It is quite fascinating how fast taxis drive in Hongkong... Ironically the sign on the street means "Slow down".
Feel free to comment!
Greetings from China!
these are all so fabulous! i can't pick a favorite!!
I was just working on this recently! Very excited to learn more! I love these effects!
The picture I linked to below is by far one of my favorite photos. It was taken by a high school student in Duluth, MN. He used a 45 minute exposure and did light painting using a spotlight. The picture can be seen here:
Great post. Just another reason for me to get out my trusty tripod!
these are some great photos i espically like the one with the frog, thats is that guys hat near the moon if you know what i mean. i like eating cheese
i just adore the first pic of the teddy bear, omg. i would put that on my wallllllll.
absolutely beautiful HDR photography, nice panning amazing work man....
Thank you so much for the info and samples on timed exposures, I have been sampling around with these a little lately. I live on a small ranch in Arizona way out of the city and I am enjoying taking these types of photos using them on skyscapes at night and time exposed shots of far away towns. It lets the light get into the lense and allows detail not seen anyother way in dark lighting.
i love every single one of them!
I have found that 1/15 works well when panning cyclists in motion in relatively normal outside lighting. I don't know if this also makes sense: I am right handed, and it looks like panning from right to left works better for me. Here are some of my pans (some of them have textures applied to enhance the blur):
I wish there was some description on how to take these shots, cse they are amazing!!!!
DAMN I HAVE TRIED THIS THING and I AM REALLY SURPRISED..........................................YOU KNOW I HAVE NEVER THOGHT OF THAT BUT NOW I HAVE A WHOLE COLLECTION OF THESE TYPE OF IMAGES ....I AM USING A350 SONY....14.2 MEGAPIXEL.............AND ITS GREAT..........
the pictures are great.
Love this site. Great pictures. I am in the market for a new Canon Portrait lens. Anyone have good suggestions?
hey darren excellent one !!!!!!!
the magic is due to servoAF (
auto Focus) , isn't it ?
This images are really stunning. But pls try and analyze it one after the other.
Mark - as I said in my email to you I've removed the image and apologize. I don't know how it happened as we work hard to keep images used on this site CC licensed. The process we use to get images from Flickr stops us from using all rights reserved images - so I'm confused how this happened.
Any chance you changed your licence sine this was originally published in 2007? That's the only explanation I can think of.
I'm glad to find that some people appreciate my photography (markal shot on this page). However, I believe it is customary to ask for permission before using a photograph that has clearly set "All Rights Reserved" in the permissions on the Flickr page. And I see I am not the only one to have a photograph used without being asked first.
I find it completely unnecessary to choose a favorite. These images are all exquisite in different ways.
You don't have to use a fancy camera to achieve this effect. When I was in third grade (in the 1960s) I took a snapshot of my friends while we were on a spinning structure on a playground, which turned out very similar to the teddy bear shot by Mr Bones. I was using a "brownie" type camera - fixed shutter speed, fixed aperture. The key is that I was moving at the same speed as my friends, because I was sitting in the middle of the spinning structure (whatever it's called). So, in relation to my camera, my friends were perfectly still, while the background spun around us.
i like the pictures and also the site.
Love this site, you are doing a great job.
wow, cool!! amazing!!
it is impossible to dislike theese photos.
Impressive images! Thanks for sharing!
I love these shots. I've recently started to get into photography a lot more and found a love for long exposures.
Here's one I took a few weeks back. The settings are underneath the pic. Hope you enjoy!
great selection of motion capture!!! I love them real and not photoshoped, just missing one spinning kid!!! :D ouch, reminds me how it hurts!! :D
Wow, there are so many talented photographers out there it is amazing.
A couple of the posts implied that using Photoshop to achieve the effect would be "cheating" and I guess I can understand that sentiment. But as better cheater than a photographer, I'd be interested in knowing what filter can be used in PS or Photoshop elements to achieve the same effect (I don't think the "blur filter" will create the sense of motion that I am looking for.
Jon - I've emailed you. Very sorry about this - I'm a bit confused as to why we used your image when we originally posted this post a year back - but we'll get to the bottom of it.
long exposure photography is really very interest,the photographs which are amazing to me.definitely i will try to shoot some of moving object.
thanks for sending this article, to me it is a opportunity to think and try
whoever this is didn't get permission from myself, that's for sure.
thanks for the feature, but i'd appreciate if you would at least *ask* before using my photographs.
The pics are really amazing.. I never thought such beautiful landscape shots (the once with moving clouds) can be taken with long exposure. I need to try it
I have a few shots which shows motion.
Please let me know what do you think.
Those shots are amazing. I love the blur effect especially when used at night. Seeing the trails of tail lights and headlights makes pictures look so cool.
Technically, a lot of these weren't "blurred". They were shot with long exposure time & either pan / tilt / zoom.
Blur (or a lot of people mistook for background bokeh) has nothing to do with the above shooting techniques. Blur happens when you introduce camera / lens shakes.
Really awesome shots. I'm particularly happy to see the shutter speeds listed...great bit of info to have.
Another pretty waterfall picture - http://pa.photoshelter.com/img-show/I0000m6e7iykAlKs
Wow, it's so hard to pick a favorite cause they all look really cool, good collection.
@ The Floating frog - That's probably why I was able to get my one in the car.
@ Pete - I really like the waterfalls shots, too. I checked out yours as well, they're great!
@ Steven - That sucks about the restaurant using your images without permission. I hope you get it sorted out.
more story recycling?
Photographs of Sarah Heinrichs is really captivating. Well my first choice would be first photo of Mr. Bones. It's creative enough.
i loooooooooooooooooooove Photo by Sara Heinrichs!!!!
it's toooooooooooo pretty!!!
when i have a dslr i will want to take pix like all of these!!!! yeah!!
Oh, I really enjoyed those even though I got a little motion sick. ;)
WisDoc's is amazing - while other shots are more stunningly beautiful, technically, his capture of a running dog is incredible. First, he had to have a dog running flat out fast, then get the right camera angle, setting etc. so he gets my vote for the best.
Wowee that tree is exquisite. Those images really inspire me.
Achieving movement is pretty easy at night as you can capture the available light. The the day time it's slightly trickier as you can very easily overexpose the shot. A Neutral Density Filter is a great addition to any camera bag kit as you can achieve longer exposure times and still achieve a correct exposure. I'm yet to buy one but it's on my Amazon Wishlist ;)
These are all great examples but I really like waterfall shots.
Here are some I captured this summer.
You could have added some shots with explo-zoom technique, otherwise it was complete and interesting! :)
Great pictures, seeing these and all the comments on the carnival ride, makes me think folks like my shot at this, available on: http://rocket9.net/page2.htm
Halfway down the page is my panoramic picture of the MD State Fair, at night in the rain. Pano is available at 4900x600 pixels or 9800x1200. Besides the ride blur, plenty of moving people blur. All shot hand-held (though a tripod really woulda made it all easier).
Can you elaborate on how you obtained permission for usage of these photos from Flickr?
Many of them, including those from Mr.Bones, Mace2000, WisDoc, and Sara Heinrichs, have the Flickr permission settings to "All Rights Reserved", which means that you may not republish the images without explicit permission from the copyright holder.
Its commonly thought that images on Flickr, on anywhere on the web for that matter, are free for the taking for any purpose.
I'm sensitive to this issue because my images have been stolen many times, so I always watermark them now. Three of my images, in fact, were used without my permission for a commercial restaurant, including their masthead image, and I'm currently preparing an invoice to send them based on research I've done on stock image sites like Getty.
Wow dude you got to admit that is pretty cool stuff.
I actually managed to do one similar to the second one shown (the car) - totally by accident, naturally, haha.
Very nice collection and stunning work with the camera and colors....let alone the images in this fashion!
Fantastic ! especially the circus wheel seems incredible.
It's probably been explained, I just haven't read all the comments.
But the photos with slow shutter speeds aren't overexposed because of the aperture, also known as the fstop. There is a balance of both of them to get a stunning image.
Really nice selection of images... but for me, personally it's Markal's shot that steals the show (Japan street setting / last photo). Very nice movement blur and something I haven't seen before... the other photos are all very nice, just that it's been done a re-done a million times over.
Great photos and an excellent selection to help get the creative juices flowing.
I don't think they are photoshoped as you can make those effect by using a slow shutter speed! I don't know how this image has been done though: https://digital-photography-school.com/blog/blur-movement/
The one of the dog and the bottom one look suspiciously photoshoped. Maybe someone can set me straight.
These pictures are great! when you say "composition of 3 images..." do you then mean that 3 images were put together to form one image?
I have also done some work with slow shutter speeds and panning: www.madsnorgaard.net
Those pictures are great, and at the moment I have a project with slow shutter speeds. I love the effect the water get when you use the slow shutter speeds! amazing...
when you say composition of 3 images, do you then mean that 3 images were put together into one?
Check out my slow shutter speed pictures:
The mind's eye is a pretty amazing feature of the human spirit. These photos are all poetry the way the blur highlights each subject.
Great work with the images. Love the creativity.
Just remember, at the most basic level, everything in photography is a balance of just 3 factors:
1) film speed (how quickly the film records the image from light - also affects detail level/saturation - fast film (ISO 1000) absorbs light more quickly than slow film (ISO 100))
2) shutter speed (how long an opening between the subject and the film is made - smaller value = faster shutter = less light)
3) aperture (the size of the opening between the subject and the film - smaller value = small hole between subject and film = higher f-stop = less light = greater focal range - imagine the camera is squinting)
So if you wanted to have a slow shutter speed (more light), you could balance it out by using slower film (light affects it more slowly) and/or small aperture/high f-stop (less light).
Similarly, when you want to have a very fast shutter speed to catch very quick action (less light), you have to balance it out using fast film (light affects it more quickly) and/or large aperture/low f-stop (more light).
Give up your cheap point-and-shoot digital camera and get an SLR, digital or analog. And learn to interpret your light meter!
hay.. i just want to say all of the 15 shot are amazing i have never tried enything like this before BUT.....i have 2 start because it is part of my next project (shutter speed and apature)it looked soooooo funnnn!!!! i have been inspired by your shot and hopefully u guys wont mind me using it for research..^________^thank u...............*_^
I love these. Especially the Doll!
I love those dogs :) Nice one
That's very cool
Answering to Greg's and Dave's question:
Those pictures aren't overexposed because accordingly to shutter increase, aperture value and/or sensitivity (ISO factor) of matrix (in digital cameras) or film (in analogue cameras) was decreased.
Nice pictures!
The following shots are all of moving subjects where the photographer has made the choice to set their camera to capture the movement as blur rather than freezing it... Very interesting, thank you.
I thought my pics were nice, capturing speed that way...
THEN I've seen these you show in this post... And I changed my mind!
Could be panning but it doesnt look like it and if it is its a little blurry and badly controlled
Hi pyko, the shot by Amnemona was probably done in a car or any moving thing and a slow shutter speed the reason the do was not completely in focus is probably the wind blowing his hair but if it was a car with no windows open the dog would have been in perfect focus.......although the picture would be less dynamic.
I think my fave of the lot is the Photo by thorinside its beautiful
wow..those are amazing shots! especially the one by Amnemona - how would you get such a shot? i'm quite new to photography...but it seems like that one will need a slightly diff technique to the other photos??
also, is it possible to 'set up' for shots like this using simple point and shoot cameras? the only settings i can find on my camera (Nikon Coolpix 4100) is exposure (ranging -2.0 ~ +2.0)...the only time I managed to get a moving shot was when i was on a merry-go-round, though that was a lucky shot!
thanks pinguy - I saw it last night too and emailed them to get them to remove it. Seems it worked.
@pinguy: thanks for the hint. seems like the site is off now.
Just to let you know that someone's stolen your post.
It's been reprinted here: http://weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/stunning-images-using-blur-to-portray.html
Really inspiring shots indeed... now let's try this by ourself =)
Wow that´s a great shot Shaun hod did you pull that off? How could you freeze the driver while all the lights outside the car were moving?
check out this for a car shot
I'm with Greg (a newbie also). Mace2000 had a 43 sec exposure...why is that not totally over exposed?
WOW what great pictures, it's the kind of pictures that really take me somewhere else, I really hope I can get shots like the ones here!
Thanks for showing my pictures here! :-)
Very nice photos and great ideas to try.
I loved the Dog's photo. Excellent Panning. I am an amateur but think thats the toughest technically among the all.
Great shots, loved this post
Excellent shots, thanks MrBones for the explanation :)
Thanks for showcasing my image (teddy bear) here! I was wondering where all the recent hits came from. Since Photoshop ate the EXIF data and some expressed interest in the technical process/settings I'll try to answer here.
This was taken early evening in a fairly shaded area.
27mm effective focal length
0.5 sec exposure
polarizing filter (reduces the light another stop or so; don't have an ND filter)
Set up the camera on the opposite seat, focus, self timer and a good push of the merry-go-round. Off they go. Repeat till you get something you like. Just secure your camera in some way so it doesn't fly off of the seat.
Hey Greg,
Im quite a newbie too but this is what i do when i want to slow down the shutter in a bright environment, just increase the aperture.
WisDoc and Ben McLeod's pictures are awesome!
Ben for managing to hold his camera that still in a car and Wisdoc for moving his camera fast enough to get an *almost* sharp image.
Kudos guys.
You're right Bec - but it's still 'slow' as relative to the speed of the movement in the shot - thus creating the feeling of movement via blur....
The top image looks more like a pan - not necessarily a shot with a very slow shutter speed?
Great post! It's really inspiring to see such a wide range of photos showcasing a particular technique - I'm going to try for a wind-blown-clouds shot.
Greg - good question and one I'll cover in the next 'how to' tutorial on this very topic.
But one of the things that some of them use is a filter called an ND (neutral density) filter which is like putting sunglasses on your camera (so less light gets in).
I would have never thought to use the "slow" shutter speed to achieve some of the effects that they do. Now I've really got to get that darn tripod so I can test some of that out.
OK, I'm giving up photography right now - I'll never be able to do anything like that! Joking aside, what an absolutely stunning collection of photos.
I've found a good easy and fun way to get motion shots is to stand in the middle of a moving merry go round and take someone/something's photo that is also on the merry go round. You get a goos still shot int he middle with a moving background. I suspect the first shot uses this method or something similar.
Okay, so this is probably a dumb question, but I'm a serious newby, so give me a break. When using slow shutter speeds during the day, how is that these photographs aren't extremely over-exposed? When you adjust the shutter speed to this amount, what else do you change to properly expose your photo?
Some of the images are brilliant.
My picks:
Sara Heinrich's photo is excellent!
Those are really great!
I really like the 'Mace2000' one!


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Unlimited-money Democratic outside groups striving to keep within in shouting distance of big GOP outfits like the Karl Rove -conceived Crossroads groups are banking on help from a A-list liberal pols and celebrities like Jessica Alba and culinary legend Alice Waters.
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Donors who give a combined $100,000 to the super PACs backing Obama and Democratic congressional candidates get 50 tickets to a party on Thursday after Obama's acceptance speech featuring Alba and musical entertainment by the Miami rapper Pitbull and the New York pop band Scissor Sisters.
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Waters will prepare cuisine for guests of Wednesday's Celebration of Truthiness, at the Mint Museum that's being thrown by American Bridge 21st Century, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. It boasts a host committee full of lefty all-stars: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, consultant/pundits Begala and James Carville, and David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America and American Bridge.
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Conservative mega-donors have been showered with affection, including at last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, from top party officials and surrogates to Mitt Romney. The GOP nominee has personally appeared at fundraisers for a supportive super PAC called Restore Our Future.
Obama, meanwhile, has vowed not to appear at fundraisers for Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting his reelection campaign. But he has cleared aides to attend on his behalf, and the buzz around Democratic finance circles is that an Obama surrogate may do a Priorities event this week in Charlotte.
The convention presents Democrats a golden opportunity, said Doug Thornell, a former spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who now works as a strategist for a firm that represents one of the Democratic super PACs.
"It's probably one of the best times to ask them for money. This is when the purses are more likely to be open because people are coming in, they are jazzed about the upcoming elections and they are motivated," said Thornell, who does not work with the super PACs. "If it's a super PAC doing a donor maintenance event, this is where you use this as an opportunity to brief them on what you are doing, how what you have been doing up to this point has been successful and have them at a point where they are most likely to give more."

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You'll have to wait until the end of the year to drive and buy a 2015 Ford Mustang. But apparently some people are eating the new Mustang already. Because nothing says "I love you" like a chocolate pony car.
It's not like a dog eating an Aston Martin. This is a 3D-printed chocolate Mustang. It's 4-and-a-half inches of pony car-shaped chocolate, and the first car to come from a 3D printer that you can eat. Which might be an interesting fact as someone special to you bites into the rakish rear deck of the new Mustang. Or maybe you'd start at the hood.
There's no word on availability, which is a shame since this is and old copies of Modern Shitbox are totally a way to a Jalop's heart.


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1 hour to make. that's my personal best time. im so proud of my self. (nah, im not THAT self-centered) enjoy.
YAY! i can't rememeber your name but you should continue doing art!
Human with a tail and catears? hmmm
I can't ever aprove of Sue x McCain!
McCain should have white hair. Otherwise it's awesome :3
Alec strikes me as one with black hair, though white hair would also work. Jasmine has it because of her fur. Lucy because of her albinism, along with consistent blue eyes. (Albino kitties have blue eyes. I think.)
Albinos have reddish eyes, though Lucy does have it because of her species.
My cat (that is looking at me right now) is pure white with green eyes. Also I like how you portray Sue & McCains dry humor.
Based on info from some info-hunting earlier, there are weird albino allele situations when it comes to cats.
...There are 5 known "alleles" * for albinism: blue-eye albino, pink-eye albino, Burman pattern, Siamese pattern and complete color (not-albino)...
Well thar, don't YOU know your genetics.
I was quoting, actually.
sue's right alec Mc Cain is awsome he's my favourite character just like me he's smarter than all the others and always trys to make a large speech but is usually told to shut up by the others he always pops out of no where and corrects one by not saying the proper thing or is
stuck with something not always but when he appears it's so dam funny! xD thats why i think Mc Cain is awsome he may look not so tough but i think he's gonna chase off some teenagers that are trying to bully the others that would be awsome! ^O^
Sue is willing to get emotional, but she is smarter than most. Daisy is a genius and way more likely to be emotional. Daisy has all "A"'s in a mostly of completely Honors schedule, tutored Tess too.


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Today, the new House Republican leadership will spend two hours on the House floor reading the Constitution.
This will be one of many acts from the House Republicans over the next two years which will not create any jobs.
But I am hopeful that those doing the reading – especially those who have been ignorantly screeching that everything from the minimum wage to the EPA is unconstitutional — will actually learn something.
The Founders put some words in, and left some words out, that might surprise those Tea Party conservatives, even though they claim to walk around with the Constitution in their shirt pockets.
Conservatives are often complaining that Congress is bringing up issues not explicitly address by name in the Constitution. So they might be interested to find what other words our Founders did not include.
Apparently, our Founders saw no reason to say that the document serving as the basis of our nation was produced, established, shaped or inspired by a supernatural power.
There's lots of stuff about the rights of people and citizens, but oddly, nothing about corporations having rights of their own.
I guess our Founders didn't see the institution of marriage to be so sanctified that it required a constitutional definition of who was allowed to join it.
That whole concept of a congressional minority having unlimited power to prevent the majority from doing anything at all? Not Thomas Jefferson's idea!
That's right. The Founders never explicitly said Congress could give massive subsidies to nuclear power generators. What, you say it's unfair of me to include a word that wasn't in existence in the 18th century? Hey if the Founders wanted a governing document with broad language that could be adapted to changing times, then they could have, oh, wait…
Meanwhile, conservatives might be very surprised to find out what the Founders empowered our democratically elected Congress to be able to do.
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
Ack! It turns out that the Founders not only empowered Congress to levy taxes, but also to use those tax dollars to "provide" for "general welfare."
It's almost as if our Founders wanted Congress to — *shudder* — spread the wealth around.
"The Congress shall have Power … To borrow money on the credit of the United States;"
Not only did the Founders fail to insist the federal budget be balanced regardless of economic conditions, they expressly empowered Congress to "borrow money," on top of collecting taxes!
I can only presume the Founders thought that borrowed money could also be used for this "general welfare" thing.
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived."
Later on, the country even decided to amend the Constitution and clarify that Congress could tax wealthier people more than poorer people. And the Founders let them do it — by creating an entire process for amending the Constitution long after they were dead!
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States…"
It gets crazier! The federal Congress apparently has the power to "regulate Commerce" throughout the country.
Commerce! Do you realize how big that word is? According the Webster's Dictionary, that means "goods," "wares," "productions" and "property." You can dictate how much wages people should be paid for their services. You can prevent people from refusing to provide services to others based on their race or sex.
And Founders made no attempt to narrow the definition. It's like they wanted a democratically elected Congress to have all this power.
"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers…"
Oy! The nail in the conservative coffin. The Founders said Congress could pass whatever laws it deemed "necessary and proper" in order to "provide" the "general welfare" and "regulate Commerce."
And all of that is mainly in Article I. I'll be curious to see if the conservatives on the House floor make it Article II before they give up and renounce America.


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As banks have cut back on lending in the wake of the financial crisis, the number of people who have turned to their 401(k) accounts as a source of credit has risen. Now, new research by mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments quantifies just how harmful those loans can be to 401(k) participants.
On the surface, 401(k) loans sound benign. After all, 96% of such loans—taken by one in nine 401(k) participants over the past year—are repaid, says Jeanne Thompson, vice president of market insights at Fidelity. (On average, loans at the 20,600 401(k) plans Fidelity examined were repaid over three-and-a-half years.)
But those statistics don't tell the whole story.
First, for the 4% who default on these loans—which average $9,000—the consequences can be ugly. Those who leave their jobs—either voluntarily or not—must typically repay the outstanding balance within 60 days, or face an income tax bill on the defaulted amount. (Those under 59 ½ also incur a 10% penalty.)
But the Fidelity research highlights the hidden costs of such loans even for those who repay them:
• Those who take loans tend to decrease their savings rates—from an average of 8.4% to 6.5%, according to Fidelity. This allows them to better afford the repayments, which are automatically deducted from their paychecks (along with their 401(k) contributions). Fidelity followed people who took out loans and found that it took two years, on average, before their savings rates were restored to the levels that had prevailed before the loans. "Three-plus years of contributions at a lower rate can impact retirement savings," Thompson says.
• When you repay a loan, you do so with after-tax money. The worst part: You must pay tax on the money again when you withdraw it in retirement.
• Many employers assess loan fees.
Fidelity says it has recently noticed a trend towards serial borrowing, which can be especially detrimental to retirement security. The company estimates that someone who contributes 10% of salary to a 401(k) plan will have $364,000 after 10 years, versus $313,000 for someone who contributes 13% but takes $117,000 in a series of loans. Moreover, 10% of borrowers go on to take a hardship withdrawal, which creates a "triple whammy," Thompson says. The reason: Hardship withdrawals cannot be repaid, are subject to income tax (and, for borrowers under 59 ½, a 10% penalty) and impose a six-month moratorium on new 401(k) contributions.
Thompson says some employers are taking steps to discourage serial loans. For example, some now only allow employees to take one 401(k) loan at a time and impose a six-month wait period between loans. Many only allow employees to borrow from their own contributions—the employer match is off-limits.
For employees, the takeaway is "to build emergency savings" to have something other than a 401(k) plan to fall back on in the event of a financial crisis, Thompson says.


text: No hay or carrots to leave in the wooden shoes for St. Nicholas' horse tonight. My father brought these shoes back from the Netherlands sometime after WWII. I dusted them off as they sit by the fireplace, untouched. When we lived in Germany, St. Nicholas came through the neighborhood, bringing candy and little gifts for the children. Matthew's Kindergarten made a St. Nicholas by drawing a face on a walnut and sticking it into an upside down red apple, connecting it with a wooden toothpick inside. The nut had a foil bishop's mitre on top, and a fluffy cotton beard. His story tells of a compassionate and generous man.


text: The Tatuaje Ambos Mundos (in Spanish, Two Worlds) has a more affordable price tag for a Tatuaje cigar without compromising the blend and excellent construction. The filler and binder are Nicaraguan tobaccos and the wrapper is an Ecuadorian Habano, the cigar itself is packed in wooden boxes with a very simple band. This is an earthy toro with a bit of spice and a nutty taste.


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Texas' Whittaker believes in NFL future despite injury
AUSTIN — Fozzy Whittaker said he considers himself a man of faith, and a believer in a bigger plan. But as his workout buddies know, sometimes he can't resist making a plan of his own.
When Buffalo Bills defensive back Aaron Williams returned to Texas this winter, he saw Whittaker come into the weight room day after day on crutches. A carefully considered strength and conditioning program had been designed for Whittaker to help him recover from major knee surgery.
And day after day, Williams watched Whittaker blow through that program and then do extra work for which he shouldn't have been ready.
"His mentality is, he doesn't care what he's supposed to do," said Williams, a former Longhorns teammate of Whittaker's. "He wants to do what he's not supposed to do."
What Whittaker is not supposed to do later this week is be selected by any team in the NFL draft. Considering the devastating fall he took on the beat-up turf in Columbia, Mo., in November — tearing two ligaments in his right knee — he's not supposed to play football at all anytime soon.
But Whittaker, a 5-foot-10, 222-pound running back from Pearland, already has bucked such expectations before. Knee injuries wrecked both of his first two seasons at UT, and the blinding quickness he had once used to become one of the state's top prospects was thought to be gone for good.
Then as a senior he got it back, becoming the key to the Longhorns' "Wild" offensive package and a dangerous special-teams player who had two 100-yard kickoff returns for touchdowns.
Now, even though he still hasn't been cleared to run, much less take contact, he thinks he can come back again.
More Information
At a glance
When: Thursday through April 28
Where: Radio City Music Hall, New York
What: Round 1 — April 26, 7 p.m.; Rounds 2-3 — April 27, 6 p.m.; Rounds 4-7 — April 28, 11 a.m.
TV: NFL Network, ESPN
Top five picks: 1. Colts (2-14), 2. Redskins (5-11), 3. Vikings (3-13), 4. Browns (4-12), 5. Buccaneers (4-12)
Texas teams
Cowboys (8-8): Eight picks — scheduled in rounds 1 (14th overall), 2 (45th), 3 (81st), 4 (113th, 135th), 5 (152nd), 6 (186th) and 7 (222nd)
Texans (10-6): Eight picks — scheduled in rounds 1 (26th overall), 2 (58th), 3 (76th), 4 (99th, 121st), 5 (161st), 6 (195th) and 7 (233rd)
"It's part of the plan," said Whittaker, smiling.
And it's not as crazy as it might sound.
NFL scouts thought so much of Whittaker that even though he couldn't take part in most of the physical drills, he received one of just 327 coveted invitations to the league scouting combine.
NFL decision-makers wanted an up-close look at the man who earned a degree in corporate communications and is closing in on a master's, even while committing to a grueling rehab schedule. He spends hours at a time on a stationary bike, which some would consider punishment, but Whittaker calls "liberating."
"He's the most upbeat human being I've ever seen," UT coach Mack Brown said.
Shortly after Whittaker's knee buckled making an open-field cut at Missouri, ending his season, Brown approached the running back and his mother on the sideline to console them. In reality, they were the ones who told Brown everything would be OK.
Whittaker never watched tape of the injury, because he didn't see the point in dwelling on the negative. Some around him wondered if he would ever play again, but Whittaker insists he didn't.
"I actually never really lost hope like that," Whittaker said. "Whatever my mind tells me to do, that's what I can do. Right now, my mind is telling me I can get right and make (an NFL) team and go from there. And that's what I plan on doing."
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We have exciting news! The next Twestival will be in San Francisco on September 12, 2009. Make sure to mark your calendars, and check back often, we will be updating the blog in the next week with full details of the event and how you can be a part of it!
Should you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please feel free to let us know by leaving a comment below. If you are looking to get a hold of us directly, you can email us at TwestivalSF.
Looking forward to another great event!


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For surviving those long hours in the pickup and tractor cab, a radio provides entertainment, news and makeshift companionship. But like an eccentric friend who overstays his welcome, commercial radio can get on your nerves, too.
Soon, a network of geostationary satellites and ground-based repeating stations could change the way you listen to music, news, talk and weather on the radio. Two companies, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, are set up to bring crystal-clear digital radio signals and extensive program variety to anyone with a satellite radio. It may be the biggest change on the airwaves since the introductio of FM 40 years ago.
In the southwestern United States, XM Satellite Radio is already delivering 100 channels of music and talk for $9.99 a month. A full nationwide launch is set for mid-November. For the listener, the downside of XM is that many of its stations will be subsidized by commercials.
Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast all of its music commercial-free, but charge a monthly fee of $12.95/month, when it rolls out its service nationwide sometime in December.
How it works. Satellites hovering in geostationary orbits above the United States send a radio signal down to Earth. To pick it up, you need a small antenna mounted on the roof of your house or vehicle. Because the signal comes from above, much like a global positioning system signal, it can be blocked by tall buildings, canyon walls or heavy leaf cover. That's not generally a problem in farm country though.
For complete coverage in city and country, XM uses two satellites and 1,000 ground-based repeaters, or mini radio towers, in 70 major metropolitan areas. Sirius uses three satellites and fewer repeaters. Both companies' systems are expected to offer complete coverage across the country, letting you drive coast to coast with no interruption in the audio signal. The digital signal eliminates static, fuzz and background noise on music channels ranging from bluegrass, heavy metal, country and western, oldies, rap, classical, blues, reggae and opera. News/talk programming includes the BBC, Bloomberg, C/Net, CNN, Discovery Channel, ESPN, The Weather Channel and several comedy channels.
Installation. In 2002, many automobile and truck manufacturers will begin offering satellite radio as a factory-installed option. If you don't want to buy a new vehicle just to get satellite radio, getting it installed is similar to putting in a conventional car stereo. The main difference is that a small antenna mounted on the roof or rear window, either magnetically or with adhesive. A wire runs from the antenna to a small receiver that can be hidden under a seat or in the trunk. Another wire runs from the receiver to the car radio. The cost of all the hardware and installation starts at about $400.
A less expensive approach is the "plug-and-play" XM01 satellite receiver from Sony for $299. It plugs into the cigarette lighter for power and has a cassette adapter similar to those that portable CD players use to get sound to a car's audio speakers.
Sony also sells an AC adapter so the XMO1 can be used inside a house, plugged into a wall outlet and a stereo system. Subscribers in rural regions might have to mount an antenna on the outside of their homes.
For more information, contact Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, 212/584-5100, www.siriusradio.com; or XM Radio, 1500 Eckington Place N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/380-4000, www.xmradio.com.


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Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe
Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, to identify one of the farthest and most massive galaxies that once inhabited the early universe. Conventional wisdom is that galaxies should have grown up more slowly, like streams merging to form rivers. But this galaxy appears to have grown very quickly, within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. By contrast, our Milky Way galaxy took billions of years to grow to its current size, through devouring smaller galaxies. The galaxy was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), presently the farthest optical and infrared portrait of the universe ever taken.
Galaxy HUDF-JD2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very distant galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen, appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young universe. This comes as a surprise to astronomers because the earliest galaxies in the universe are commonly thought to have been much smaller agglomerations of stars that gradually merged together to build large majestic galaxies like our Milky Way.
"This galaxy appears to have 'bulked up' amazingly quickly, within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang," says Bahram Mobasher of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency, a member of the team which discovered the galaxy. "It made about eight times more mass in stars than are found in our own Milky Way today, and then, just as suddenly, it stopped forming new stars. It appears to have grown old prematurely."
The galaxy was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small patch of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, this area is captured in the deepest images of the universe ever made by humankind at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It is also within the deepest survey from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (or GOODS). The galaxy is believed to be about as far away as the most distant galaxies and quasars now known. The light reaching us today began its journey when the universe was only about 800 million years old.
Scientists studying the Ultra Deep Field found this galaxy in Hubble's infrared images and expected it to be a very young "baby" galaxy, like others known at similar distances. Instead, they found a "teenager," much bigger than other galaxies known from this young cosmic era, and already quite mature."
Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) does not see the galaxy at all, despite the fact that the Ultra Deep Field is the deepest image ever taken in optical light. This indicates that the galaxy's blue light has been absorbed by traveling billions of light-years through intervening hydrogen gas (imagine trying to see the bottom of a silt-laden pond). The galaxy was detected using Hubble's infrared camera, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), and also with an infrared camera on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory, but at those wavelengths it is very faint and red.
However, the big surprise was how much brighter the galaxy is in images from Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), which easily detects it at wavelengths as much as five times longer than those seen by the Hubble. Spitzer's IRAC is sensitive to the light from older, redder stars which should make up most of the mass in a galaxy, and the brightness of the galaxy suggests that it is quite massive indeed. "This would be quite a big galaxy even today," says Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). "At a time when the universe was only 800 million years old, it's positively gigantic."
The object is also well detected with Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) which covers wavelengths fifteeen times longer than those of the Hubble, making it sensitive to energetic processes in galaxies. This observation is consistent with the object hosting a supermassive black hole at its center, if indeed it is this massive and was formed at this early stage in the history of the universe.
The GOODS Spitzer observations have previously revealed evidence for mature stars in more ordinary, less massive galaxies at similar distances. Lawrence Eyles from the University of Exeter and collaborators, and Haojing Yan of the Spitzer Science Center, working with other members of the GOODS team, have published joint Spitzer and Hubble analyses that identify other galaxies nearly as massive as the Milky Way, seen when the universe was less than one billion years old. The new observations by Mobasher and his colleagues dramatically extend this notion of surprisingly mature "baby galaxies" to an object which is perhaps ten times more massive, and which seemed to form its stars even earlier in the history of the universe.
Mobasher and his collaborators estimated the distance to this galaxy by combining the information provided by the Hubble, Spitzer, and VLT observations. Together, these observatories cover a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from visible to mid-infrared wavelengths (0.4 to 24 microns). The relative brightness of the galaxy at different wavelengths is influenced by the expanding universe, and allows astronomers to estimate its distance. At the same time, they can also get an idea of the make-up of the galaxy in terms of the mass and age of its stars. The team has tried to confirm the distance estimate with spectroscopic measurements from the largest ground-based telescopes, the VLT, Keck, and Gemini observatories, but the object has proven to be too faint for such observations. However, thanks to the many wavelengths at which the galaxy has been observed, the color signature appears to be unique, and the estimates of the distance and mass seem robust. "While we cannot completely discard other scenarios, this appears to be the most plausible interpretation, given the available data," says Henry C. Ferguson, a member of the team.
Astronomers generally believe most galaxies were built up piecewise by mergers of smaller galaxies. However, the discovery of this object suggests that at least a few galaxies formed quickly and in their entirety, long ago, as some older theories of "monolithic" galaxy formation have suggested. For such a large galaxy, this would have been a tremendously explosive event, and the energy from the quick emergence of those stars would have helped reheat the universe very shortly after it cooled following the Big Bang. This early epoch (the first 5 percent of the universe's age) is fertile ground awaiting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will have the infrared sensitivity to possibly look all the way back to the very first stars that ignited after the Big Bang.
Planned for launch in 2013, the JWST will have the light collecting power not only to see more distant objects, but to measure their spectral fingerprints as well, yielding even more reliable distances and chemical composition information.
The Mobasher findings will be published in the December 20, 2005 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Additional findings with Spitzer by Yan will be published in the November 2005 issue of the journal.
NASA, ESA, B. Mobasher (Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency)
Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.,
(phone) 410/338-4514; or
Gay Hill, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.,
(phone) 818/354-0344; or
Douglas Isbell, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz.,
(phone) 520/318-8214; or
Robert Tindol, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.,
(phone) 626/395-3631; or
Lars Lindberg Christensen, Hubble European Space Agency Information Center,
Garching, Germany, (phone) 011/4989-3200-6306


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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev appointed as head of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department of External Church Relations
Moscow (ENI). Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, an Oxford-educated cleric who served as the Moscow Patriarchate's representative to European organizations in Brussels, has been appointed as head of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department of External Church Relations.
The appointment was made on 31 March at the first meeting of the church's synod of bishops chaired by Patriarch Kirill I since his enthronement in February 2009.
As metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Kirill himself led the church's external relations department for nearly 20 years until he was elected patriarch on 27 January following the death of Patriarch Alexei II in December.
Anatoly Krasikov, director of the Centre for Religious and Social Studies of the Institute of Europe in Moscow, described Bishop Hilarion as "a vivid personality", and said the decision "is a gain for the church".
"It shows that Kirill is not afraid to have a strong person next to him," Krasikov told Ecumenical News International. He also noted that Kirill had been a strong personality alongside Alexei.
Hilarion, who is 42, has a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford, and was also educated as a classical musician and composer. In the 1990s, Hilarion served under Kirill in the external relations department.
He is a member of the central committee of the World Council of Churches, and also serves as the Russian church's bishop of Vienna and Austria.
The synod also appointed the Rev. Vsevolod Chaplin, currently the deputy chairperson of the external relations department, to head the new Department of Interrelations of Church and Society. In March, Chaplin expressed vocal support for Pope Benedict XVI's criticism of the use of condoms to stem the spread of HIV.
Commenting in the Russian media, analysts noted that by creating a new department with some functions similar to the external relations department, Patriarch Kirill has ensured that he will remain unquestionably in charge.
In 2008, several prominent priests proposed Hilarion as a candidate to head the Orthodox Church in America, an independent offshoot of the Russian church then hit by high-level financial scandals. Hilarion declined the offer.
Earlier in his ministry, he became embroiled in controversy when he was sent as an assistant bishop to London and came into conflict there with Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, a revered leader of the Russian church in Britain, who died in 2003.
Bishop Hilarion will be watched closely for his handling of relations with the Roman Catholic Church. Critics of Kirill have stepped up their attacks on the new patriarch, who they describe as an agent of Rome.
Krasikov, who reported from the Vatican as a correspondent for the Soviet-era Itar-Tass news agency, dismissed these charges. "It may be the reverse; Benedict may be declared an agent of Kirill," he said. "The Catholics have problems and are counting on support from the Orthodox." Krasikov recalled a conference in 2000 at which Hilarion, then still only a priest, spoke in tough terms about Catholic proselytism in Russia among other issues, while a message from Kirill to the conference was seen as being much more positive.
In other decisions at the synod's meeting, Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, who was Kirill's competitor in the recent elections to the patriarchal throne, was transferred from his post as the patriarchate's property manager to head its publishing department. Observers are interpreting this as a demotion.
Vladimir Legoyda, a layperson and editor of Foma, a glossy church magazine, was appointed chair of a newly created information department.
Posted by padre seraphim at 1.4.09


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Unleash the Power
of the Monado
This legendary weapon is imbued with the power to slice through the Mechons' armor and seems to be growing stronger as Shulk's journey continues. Can he unravel its many mysteries?
Discover Shulk's origin
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Eons later, new civilizations thrive atop the bodies of titans Bionis and Mechonis. The race of humans known as Homs battle against the seemingly endless invasion of the Mechon. Their fate is in your hands.
The war with the Mechons has reached its peak. Now the Homs and their allies seek to end the war once and for all.
You may know him from the Super Smash Bros.™ series. Now see how Shulk got his start. This young weapons researcher is determined to end the war for good.
Shulk's hot-headed friend joins him on his quest to defeat the Mechons.
Fiora is Dunban's younger sister and a close friend of Shulk and Reyn.
Hero of the Homs, as well as Fiora's older brother, Dunban once wielded the mysterious Monado.
A no-nonsense medic with impressive shooting skills.
A member of the High Entia race, she specializes in ether attacks.
A friendly member of the Nopon race, he seems almost childlike…
This mysterious character helps Shulk, but what are his real intentions?
Guardian to Shulk and a comrade of Dunban's.
This legendary weapon is imbued with the power to slice through the Mechons' armor and seems to be growing stronger as Shulk's journey continues. Can he unravel its many mysteries?
These mechanical creatures live on the body of the titan Mechonis, and seek the total destruction of the Homs.
A special (and deadly) type of Mechon who intends to stop Shulk and his allies. Surprisingly, the Monado can't harm this Mechon.
This unusual Mechon can actually talk. Its mission is to stop Shulk and his friends, and it has no memory from before this mission began.
Battle an invading army and customize six unique characters throughout your journey through a vast landscape.
Take out your foes with a unique mix of strategy and real-time combat. Your character can auto-attack as long as you're close to an enemy, but it's up to you to launch special attacks and protect your allies by changing the future.
Special abilities, known as Arts, can make all the difference in battle. Since their power can differ depending on your character's position on the battlefield, you'll need to time your moves perfectly.
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New armor isn't just about good looks (though it does look cool). Each piece of equipment has an impact on a character's stats, so choose wisely. You can shop for equipment, but you can also get it by collecting items as you travel, trading with townsfolk, or winning battles.
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LONGMIRE, Wash. – A Mount Rainier climbing ranger has died during efforts to rescue four injured climbers from Waco, Texas.
Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher says 34-year-old Nick Hall fell 3,000 feet Thursday from the 13,700-foot level of the 14,411-foot mountain. He was dead when other rangers reached him several hours later.
A helicopter plucked two of the injured climbers off the mountain Thursday night while two others were waiting out a worsening storm overnight with the aid of park rangers.
The Texas party includes two men and two women. Bacher says all four have non-life-threatening injuries. None was immediately identified.
The climbers were roped together when they fell on Emmons Glacier. The two women at the end of the rope ended up in a crevasse. Rangers who responded to a cell phone call helped them out of the crevasse.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union High School activities director Sean Farrell said he had a transition plan in place for the school's boys' soccer program: Coach Bret Weekes would complete his third year leading the program, while MUHS math teacher Reeves Livesay would assist this year and then take over for Weekes in 2016.
That plan went by the boards when life threw a curveball at Weekes earlier this month: An illness that struck a family member living in Utah prompted a family decision to move back to that state to help provide long-term care and support.
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BRISTOL — The No. 1-seed Mount Abraham Union High School boys' soccer team struck for two early goals vs. visiting No. 4 Rice in Tuesday's Division II semifinal, and then after surrendering a first-half score put the clamps on defensively to win, 2-1.
As a result, the Eagles (16-1) advanced to the D-II final for the first time since 2004, when Mount Abraham defeated Montpelier in triple overtime for the program's only championship.
ADDISON COUNTY — In local Division II high school boys' soccer playoff action last week, top-seeded Mount Abraham reached the semifinal round, Vergennes pulled off one upset and nearly came up with another, and Otter Valley lost its opener.
BRISTOL — Tuesday's step one for the top-seeded Mount Abraham Union High School boys' soccer team in the Division II playoffs was not a challenge.
Even though Coach Mike Corey went to his bench early and often and played his top players out of position for most of the game, the 14-1 Eagles coasted to a 9-0 victory over No. 16 Bellows Falls (4-8-3).
ADDISON COUNTY — In area high school boys' soccer play late last week, Mount Abraham rallied to preserve its unbeaten record, Otter Valley posted a home win, and Vergennes and Middlebury lost at home.
The Eagles needed to scored three times in five minutes in Friday's second half to wipe out visiting Missisquoi's lead and move to 11-0. It was the second straight game Mount Abe had to rally in the second half to win.
MIDDLEBURY — An opportunistic host Middlebury Union High School boys' soccer team surprised undefeated Mount Abraham by taking a 3-1 lead early in Tuesday's second half, but the Eagles answered with a surge and a 5-3 win that preserved their perfect record.
ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school boys' soccer action on Tuesday, Mount Abraham won on the road to reach the midpoint of the regular season with an unbeaten record, Vergennes won at home in double overtime to reach .500, and Middlebury lost at home. Otter Valley (3-3) was idle earlier this week.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Middlebury Union High School team made most of the local boys' soccer headlines, and for good reason: The Tigers had a dream season, earning the top seed in Division I and winning two playoff games before finishing with a 14-2 record.
MIDDLEBURY — On Friday it became official: 2012 is the best season for the Middlebury Union High School boys' soccer program since the 1970s.
And after the top-seeded Tigers' 3-0 win over No. 9 St. Johnsbury in a Division I quarterfinal, the program is two victories — granted in games that no one in Chittenden County will expect the 14-1 Tigers to win — away from the school's first soccer title.
BRANDON — Visiting Fair Haven on Tuesday gave the Otter Valley Union High School boys' soccer team a tougher challenge than the Otters expected on their Senior Day, but ultimately OV's relentless pressure gave them a 2-1 win.
The victory was the Otters' fourth in five games, including a 6-0 victory over the Slaters in Fair Haven on Oct. 1.
Senior striker and co-captain Jeff Corbett said they didn't play as well this time, despite OV's advantages of 32-8 in shots at goal and 8-1 in corner kicks.
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A rare Thursday night home game highlights USC's 2013 football schedule, which was announced today.
The Trojans play Arizona at the Coliseum on Oct. 13, which is a Thursday. Parking and traffic are expected to be issues for the game and USC previously told the Pacific-12 Conference it preferred to play a weekday home game on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
On an average weekday, 75 percent of the parking spots available for a USC football game are taken by students, faculty and staff.
The Trojans play seven home games, including Stanford (Nov. 16) and UCLA (Nov. 30). USC also plays nonconference home games with Boston College (Sept. 14) and Utah State (Sept. 21). The season-opener is at Hawaii on Aug. 29.
USC does not play Oregon or Washington.
Game times will be announced at a later date. All games will be nationally televised by ESPN, ABC, FOX or Pac-12 Networks.
The Pac-12 Championship Game will be played Dec. 7, at the stadium of the division winner with the best overall conference record.
(all games Saturday unless noted)
Aug. 29 (Thu.) — at Hawaii
Sept. 7 — Washington State
Sept. 14 — Boston College
Sept. 21 — Utah State
Sept. 28 — at Arizona State
Oct. 10 (Thu.) — Arizona
Oct. 19 — at Notre Dame
Oct. 26 — Utah
Nov. 1 (Fri.) — at Oregon State
Nov. 9 — at California
Nov. 16 — Stanford
Nov. 23 — at Colorado
Nov. 30 — UCLA


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By Staff Sgt. Lindsey KiblerApril 14, 2014
FORT BENNING, Ga. (April 14, 2014) -- It is not often that Soldiers are able to take the knowledge learned from their hobbies and apply that knowledge to better Soldiers on a grand scale, but that is exactly what one Soldier has the chance to do as he prepares for a new assignment that will allow him to impact Soldiers throughout the Army.
Capt. Donald Bigham was the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. After relinquishing command, recently, he is now preparing for a position as a team leader for the Master Fitness Trainer Course at the U.S. Army Physical Readiness School in Fort Jackson, S.C.
The Master Fitness Trainer Course, or MFTC, provides the force with certified fitness advisers who have earned Army Skill Identifiers as Master Fitness Trainers. The Soldiers Bigham will train will serve as Master Fitness Trainers, or MFTs, an additional-duty that empowers them to be special advisers to unit commanders - company through division - to facilitate physical training based on the doctrine in Field Manual 7-22, Army Physical Readiness Training, formerly Training Circular 3-22.20.
"For the most part, my primary goal for serving in this capacity is to ensure the Soldiers that come through this course walk away with a lot of 'golden nuggets,' or tools, for their kit bag to ensure our Army is the most physically fit to endure and overcome any challenge in combat and/or garrison, hence a more resilient Soldier," the Clinton, S.C., native said.
Bigham is excited to take on a new, challenging position, but faced another challenge in leaving his Soldiers.
In addition to commanding HHC, 1st Bn., 15th Inf. Regt., Bigham also commanded the battalion's Company B since arriving to the brigade in 2012.
"There is no greater responsibility than leading Soldiers," he said. "It is definitely a double edge sword in that it is humbling and rewarding at the same time. In certain aspects, I feel much relief but on the other hand I feel a great emptiness.
"Commanding Soldiers has always been my passion and I am so blessed to know that God blessed me with two commands and it has been the greatest honor in my 20 year professional career. I am deeply honored to have served with my Soldiers and their families - Baker Boys and Hell Raiser. Can do!"
The role Bigham will take on now, however, will encompass his knowledge as a Soldier, a leader and a fitness expert.
Bigham holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and Master of Science in Sports Management. Prior to his time in the Army, he served in the Marine Corps. It was during his time then, more than two decades ago, that he discovered his love for powerlifting.
"I started powerlifting back in 1992 in the Marines while stationed in Okinawa, Japan. I had the privilege to work out on Sly Anderson's power lifting team, and that was definitely a humbling ad learning experience. After that, I was definitely a competitor for life," Bigham explained.
Bigham participated in local and state competitions until 1998, when he took a break from the sport.
"I stopped competing for numerous reasons - college, children and family responsibilities. After about a 10-year furlough from the platform, I returned last year for a state competition, the Battle of the Borders, in March 2013," he said. "But in between then, I never stopped lifting."
He has won numerous awards and broken many state records in the sport, which has afforded him the opportunity to train and travel around the world. Bigham secured his spot in the International Powerlifting Federation's Raw Classics Powerlifting Championships.
This world competition will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, this June. There will be 33 countries represented in the championship. Bigham will be representing the United States in the middle weight (83 kg, 40 to 44 age group) division. Of the 48 raw powerlifters on the U.S. team, Bigham is only one of two 83 kg lifters.
But it's not just the accolades he gains at these competitions, its knowledge; it's knowledge Bigham strives to pass onto Soldiers each and every day he is in the uniform.
"As a passionate leader, I take every opportunity to teach Soldiers and set the conditions for their success, whether it is developing an individual [physical training] program to be successful at Ranger School or what the best shoe to wear for running is," he explained. "God has blessed me with numerous gifts, it is imperative that I share some words of wisdom and encouragement."
Bigham said he can't thank his family enough for their support - his wife, Tracy, and sons, Dillon and Dereck, as well as his mother, father and brother.
My internal motivation and self-discipline keeps me excited about going to another platform and breaking another record," Bigham said. "I really enjoy a challenge whether it's squatting [three times your] bodyweight or running a half marathon with seven-minute-a-mile pace. God has definitely made our bodies perfect because if you establish a goal and give 110 percent effort there is nothing that you cannot accomplish."
Bigham chronicles his powerlifting competitions on his website. To learn more, visit http://donaldbigham.yolasite.com.


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- The Province of Cebu, through Special Education Fund intends to apply the sum of Three Million One Hundred Fifty Thousand Pesos (Php3,150,000.00) Only being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the Supply and Delivery of 500 copies of Supplemental Reading Materials (Dictionary) to be distributed to the different school libraries of the Province of Cebu under Advertisement No. 19-088. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
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In Reply to: Sweet Jelly Roll posted by R. Berg on July 18, 2001
: : I have come across this line in many blues songs. What does it mean and where does it come from?
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For further discussion, search the archives under "jelly roll." From that earlier discussion: The Ken Burns series on jazz (previously, "jass") is on PBS (public TV) now in the U.S. One of the jazz fathers is Jelly Roll Morton. A person interviewed for the series said "jelly roll" (in addition to sex in general) refers to a particular sexual move, a flourish so to speak. But no further details were given.


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Nastier, more playful, and just as good if not better than the original film.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
It's Roger's birthday and we're celebrating by highlighting our favorite reviews and essays by the master.
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A piece on the premiere of a film about Rodrigo Duterte.
One of our foreign correspondents looks at Cold War.
An interview with the multi-talented Rachel Bloom about the end of her show, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
A review of BBC and HBO's excellent Years and Years.
A film is a terrible thing to waste. For Roman Coppola to waste one on "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" is a sad sight to behold. I'll go further. For Charlie Sheen to waste a role in it is also a great pity.
I stop not: For Bill Murray to occupy his time in this dreck sandwich is a calamity. Of Charlie Sheen, we've seen more than enough, at least until he gets his act together. But there's a sad shortage of Bill Murray performances, and his work here is telephoned in as if Thomas Alva Edison had never been born.
Sheen plays a caricature of his public persona in a production design beyond his wildest dreams. Elliot Hostetter. Remember that name. The feverish colors and images that he conjures up in "Charles Swan" are the reason I kept watching, ready to examine every scene for its look but not its content. At times I caught myself trying to look beyond the actors, annoyed that they were blocking valuable background space.
Every detail has been pushed to 11 on the "Spinal Tap" scale. Take Charles' classic Cadillac. Its seductive curves have been restored not merely to how it looked coming off the assembly line, but to represent how it looked in its designer's imagination. On one side, Charles has painted two eggs. On the other side, two strips of bacon. What were you expecting? A horse and carriage?
Near the beginning of the story, Charles' girlfriend, Ivana (Katheryn Winnick), leaves him. So distraught is he that he packs her shoes in a plastic bag and hurls them over the side of Mulholland Drive. This sets in motion a chain of events that ends with the Cadillac parked in a swimming pool with Charles inside. I pitied the automobile.
Swan the Third owns a design studio, that, in the 1970s Pop Art style, has a giant toothbrush leaning against a wall. The loss of Ivana leads to him indulging an orgy of the sexual hunger that must have inspired her exit through the gift shop. Curiously, although he encounters countless beautiful scantily undressed young women in both life and his fantasies, his primary object doesn't seem to be the stake but the sizzle. Scantily Attired. You remember her. On the old Bob and Ray radio program, she was the never-heard twin sister of Natalie Attired.
After the swimming pool incident, Charles suffers an unspecified chest attack, and experiences hallucinations. One involves Ivana's group, the Secret Society of Ball Busters. In one hallucination, Charles and his best friend, Kirby (Jason Schwartzman), are on horseback in the Old West and come upon Ivana and other almost nude Indian maidens who beckon them forward before warrior women on horseback attack them with bows and arrows.
That's when we see Charles' agent, Saul (Bill Murray), step forward to offer advice. The name Saul is possibly a homage to the great designer Saul Bass, which may be obscure for today's audiences but nowhere near as obscure for them to recall that Charles Swan is the name of the hero of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."
Watching the movie, I found myself thinking at the screen: Give it up, Charlie Sheen. It's getting old. The purpose of this film didn't last long enough for it to justify being released.
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Brown Bag American Relics and the Material Politics of Public Memory 7 November 2012.Wednesday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM Matthew Dennis, University of Oregon
This project assesses American relics—publicly significant mortal remains and related artifacts—that have emerged and persisted since the colonial period. American Relics will analyze the evolving meanings and deployments of American mementos mori and other potent objects. Its interpretive narrative focuses attention on exemplary relics—whether ordinary or extraordinary—placing them in a broader context, using their histories to analyze the means through which Americans have used them to express and authorize their public words by making those words (literally) concrete.close