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Take Action During Arts in Education Week - (September 14, 2010)
Take Action During Arts in Education Week
Washington, D.C. - Join with arts advocates throughout the country to raise your voice during Arts in Education Week, September 12-18, 2010. The U.S. House of Representatives has designated the second week of September as national Arts in Education Week, beginning this year. This is an opportunity for orchestras to step up year-round advocacy efforts and to ask their Members of Congress to enact policy reforms that will improve access to a complete arts education for all students.
Ask Congress to Support Arts Education
The League plays a leading role along with a broad range of national arts and education organizations, including the Performing Arts Alliance, in seeking major improvements for arts in education programs, research, policies, and national data collection at the U.S. Department of Education. Together, the arts community has written federal legislative recommendations and a national policy statement, Arts Education: Creating Student Success in School, Work, and Life, explaining how the arts can improve teaching and learning. As Congress moves toward reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and makes annual funding decisions, it is more important than ever not only to keep arts education as a core academic subject of learning, but to actually implement it as one.
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The majority of key education policy decisions are made at the state and local level. Speak up in your community during Arts in Education Week and year-round to improve the status of arts education. More than 200 orchestras nationwide have endorsed a statement of common cause, Orchestras Support In-School Music Education, which reflects their commitment to take individual, community-specific action to improve access to music education in schools. View the statement and accompanying advocacy tips and tools to help make the case for improving access to music education for every child.
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Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela says it has halted communication with a top U.S. diplomat in the South American country in the wake of President Hugo Chavez's death.
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Wednesday that "any type of contact has been postponed" with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, who had reportedly reached out to Venezuela's government before Chavez's death.
Jaua specified, however, that diplomatic and consular relations would remain between the two countries.
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Variants: T12873C A14793G T15287C C16261T
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YFull InfoName: M1a1g
Age: 19400 to 15300 ybp [95% CI]
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Variants: T12873C A14793G T15287C C16261T
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Haplogroup M1a1g is a branch on the maternal tree of humanity.
mtDNA Haplogroup M1a1g Phylotree History
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- Behar, D.M., van Oven, M., Rosset, S., Metspalu, M., Loogväli, E.L., Silva, N.M., Kivisild, T., Torroni, A. and Villems, R. (2012). A "Copernican" reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root. American journal of human genetics, 90(4), 675-684.
- Fan, L., & Yao, Y. G. (2011). MitoTool: a web server for the analysis and retrieval of human mitochondrial DNA sequence variations. Mitochondrion, 11(2), 351-356.
- Fan, L., & Yao, Y. G. (2013). An update to MitoTool: using a new scoring system for faster mtDNA haplogroup determination. Mitochondrion, 13(4), 360-363.
- Pennarun, Erwan; Kivisild, Toomas; Metspalu, Ene; Metspalu, Mait; Reisberg, Tuuli; Moisan, Jean P.; Behar, Doron; Jones, Sacha & Villems, Richard (2012). Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(1), 234+.
- Van Oven, M., & Kayser, M. (2009). Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. Human mutation, 30(2), E386-E394.
Additional Resources
- Ian Logan's mtDNA Pages
- Ian Logan's Instructions for mtGenome Genbank Donation
- James Lick's mtDNA Utility
- The FTDNA Haplogroup Project for Haplogroup M1
- The Wikipedia Article for Haplogroup M1
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The number of houses sold is up. The number of mortgages granted is up. The number of foreign buyers is up. The number of new construction projects is up and yes, in some key areas, the prices are starting to go up too. After a seven year slide...06/09/2014
The newly elected Partido Popular (Conservative) party has introduced a raft of measures relating to the under-performing property market. These measures are directed both at stimulating certain sectors of the market and generating extra tax revenue.08/01/2012
In an unexpected move on Friday of last week, the Spanish government decided to slash VAT on the purchase of new property from 8% to 4%. Applicable immediately, this discounted tax measure will last until the end of the year -31st December 2011.23/08/2011
Many commentators have been looking to call the bottom of the market after the turbulence of the last 3 years and it would now appear that we are there or thereabouts.....19/11/2010
Tinsa, a Spanish property valuation company used by several high street banks,has signalled that house prices will drop a further 20% over 2009. 01/03/2009
The Euribor, which is linked to the Central European Bank's base lending rate, is set to close the month of December at 3.47%.28/12/2008
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Against the trend of bad news in the financial markets, the Euribor fell again to 4.381% (22.01.08). This is well below the rate at the end of 2007 where the rate had spiked to 4.79%.28/01/2008
Despite starting the year well with property prices rising in all Spanish regions,2007 has ended in December with prices 0.28% below where they started in January. According to Facilisimo.com, the region of La Rioja has been the worst affected, dropping 11.08% to 2159€/m2 , Madrid and Barcelona haven't avoided the falls dropping 2.38% to 3479€/m2 and 3.05% to 3777€/m2 respectively. 05/01/2008
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The Euribor, the Central European Bank's base lending rate, is set to close the month of October at 4.65%.12/07/2007
Resale property prices have fallen for the third consecutive month in thirteen Spanish regions including the province of Malaga.12/07/2007
The Deutsche Bank have issued a report on the Spanish economy entitled Spain 2020, the success story continues.12/07/2007
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"Voicing Selves, Voicing Others: Self-Reflexivity and Interdiscursivity in American Political Activists' Discourse."
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — When undefeateds collide. It really doesn't need an explanation. That's why Saturday's Columbus vs. LA matchup is mouth-watering, an early signifier of who the true frontrunner is in MLS.
After this weekend, someone should be unbeaten no more. But this column isn't about the Battle of the Best—let's not forget, the Supporters' Shield winner has gone on to win MLS Cup only five times in the 14-year history of the league.
That's why I've got my eye on another match, one that's flying under the radar right here in my own backyard: San Jose vs. Toronto.
"LA is always going to get the fanfare and Columbus has won a championship recently," San Jose defender Jason Hernandez told MLSsoccer.com earlier this week, "so they deserve it in that respect. But we have no problem being second fiddle to those guys."
But there's nothing second-fiddle about this matchup. Based on their performance a third of the way into this season, both these teams could be headed to the playoffs for the first time in their existence. Let's say that again, this time a little slower for emphasis.
Both teams could be headed to the playoffs.
No, it's not a joke. San Jose and Toronto—both recent punching bags for the rest of MLS—are now arguably the hottest teams in the league.
After leaking goals last season like a sieve, the Earthquakes are one of the best defensive units in MLS—their seven goals allowed is tied for third-best. And they're on a four-game unbeaten streak, tied for second in the Western Conference and playing some of the fundamentally best soccer in the league.
Toronto, a cellar-dweller in their first two seasons and an eventual flop last fall, almost looked like they were going to implode early in Preki's tenure in March. Now the Reds are self-assured, on the same page and capably moving the ball. And on a four-game unbeaten streak of their own and in third in the Eastern Conference.
You're all in a tizzy over the Crew and Galaxy? I'm looking at this showdown between two teams who have their eyes on becoming dark-horse contenders this fall.
"I agree that this is a game that's flying under the radar," said Toronto defender Nick Garcia, who also spent a season-and-a-half in San Jose. "These are two good teams that need points."
How on earth did this happen? How could perennial doormats all of a sudden become twin turnaround stories? Let's be fair: We've still got five months until the playoffs begin. But for both squads, this early success has been several years in the making.
Frank Yallop and John Doyle took a cement truck worth of lumps for the Quakes' first two seasons since their rebirth. They were a classic expansion team, trying to find the right combo of players through drafting, the discard pile and the roulette wheel of international talent. Injuries took their toll—as did some bad gambles.
But now, finally, San Jose have their deepest squad yet. They're solid at almost every position and have a collection of starters and substitutes who are versatile and capable. So Arturo Alvarez and Ike Opara aren't available? In step guys like Chris Wondolowski and Bobby Burling – both mid-career journeyman who finally found their niche.
Airtight in the back and dynamic up front. Two classic wingers in re-motivated Bobby Convey and USL lifer Joey Gjertsen, allowing Yallop's classic 4-4-2 to be run seamlessly. (No offense to Darren Huckerby, fantastic in his short stay in MLS, but not exactly a wing player, either.) These aren't your Quakes of last season.
"We put the work in and the results speak for themselves," said Hernandez. "But in no way are we too high on ourselves. We just have to keep doing what we're doing.
What about Toronto? Sure, those fans just keep coming and coming. Amazing, considering some of the embarrassments of the first three years.
The ignominy of being dumped out of the inaugural Canadian Championship by Montreal in 2008, bookended by back-to-back last-place finishes in the Eastern Conference. Last fall's debacle of being resoundingly thumped from the race on the final day of the season, 5-0 by the lowly Red Bulls.
Now, Preki-ball has come to town. And despite some early soap-opera side plots and controversial cuts and trades, it looks like the Reds are finally buying into the hard-line coach's system.
Recalled Garcia, "From Day 1, he told us, 'You're either going to like it or you're not – If you don't get on board, you won't be here.' It's not like a magical potion, but he's been making sure there's a discipline there we've been lacking. Our young guys may never have had it before."
And discipline is what they're getting. When TFC play well, they comprehend each other's roles perfectly, with a clear idea of positioning and the understanding that they can't overextend. (Well, all except Dwayne De Rosario, who's better without constraints – and Preki knows it).
That's how Toronto took advantage of a disorganized Fire side. It's how they earned a point in LA. And how they're now a team that, hopefully, will not lose focus down the stretch.
So far, it's the same story in the Quakes' corner. And both teams are eager to prove they belong in that upper tier of MLS powerhouses.
So go ahead and keep your glitzy battle of frontrunners at Crew Stadium on Saturday. I'll be at Buck Shaw Stadium, looking for my upset special in this year's title race. If one of these teams is on the pitch at BMO Field on November 21, I'll resist the urge to say I told you so.
Jonah Freedman is the managing editor of MLSsoccer.com. "The Throw-In" appears every Thursday.


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METRO VANCOUVER -- A transient man arrested by Dutch police in a rental cabin at a rural holiday park has been charged in the 2012 death of extorted and cyberbullied teen Amanda Todd.
RCMP confirmed late Thursday they recommended pornography, extortion and Internet luring charges against a suspect in the Netherlands in connection with Amanda's suicide, which sparked international discussion online about cyberbullying and online safety.
The arrest brought relief to Amanda's parents, although little is known yet about the suspect, 35-year-old Aydin Coban according to B.C.'s online court records, or how he preyed on vulnerable victims around the world.
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"What we understand is that he was a drifter, he moved from cabin to cabin in different vacation parks. His lawyer told us that he went from trailer park to trailer park, that he was very to himself and he has no wife or children," said Hessel Rippe, editor-in-chief of the website for Omroep Brabant, the Dutch news agency that broke this story Thursday.
Prosecutors in the Netherlands confirmed a 35-year-old man was arrested in January and made his first court appearance in an Amsterdam court Wednesday, charged with multiple offences linked to luring young girls to expose themselves online and then blackmailing them later.
Prosecutors there have not released Coban's name yet. In the Dutch legal system - even when a case goes to trial - suspects are usually only identified by their first name and last initial.
In October 2012, 15-year-old Todd was found dead in her Port Coquitlam home, five weeks after she posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube detailing how she was harassed online and bullied in real life.
Amanda's mother, Carol Todd, said she has always wished that police would solve the case but she doesn't think there is only one person involved.
"I've always hoped there would be something that came out of it," she said in an interview Thursday. "If this guy is found guilty I hope they don't stop there ... I think there is more."
RCMP said they told Amanda's mother and father, Norm Todd, about the Dutch suspect only two hours before Thursday's news conference to protect the integrity of their investigation.
"I'm very proud to say that it was my major crime team that led this investigation," said Coquitlam RCMP Insp. Paulette Freill. Freill wouldn't elaborate on whether the suspect was first targeted by Canadian or Dutch investigators, but she said the Canadian charges relate to incidents that occurred between Jan. 1, 2010 and Oct. 10 2012.
After Todd's death, up to 30 officers from the Copquitlam detachment helped in the investigation, Freill said.
After Thursday's conference, B.C.'s Criminal Justice Branch released a statement saying it will ask the federal Department of Justice to request the man be extradited to Canada to face the five charges, but it is unclear how long that may take given the charges he also faces in his native country.
The Dutch man is now facing one count each of extortion, Internet luring, criminal harassment, possession of child pornography for the purpose of distribution and possession of child pornography in connection with the suicide death of Amanda Todd.
Carol Todd, now a vocal advocate for stricter security controls on sites like Facebook, gave a short statement at the news conference thanking investigators and wishing her daughter's legacy would contribute to more online predators being caught.
"I always knew deep in my heart that what my daughter told me was the truth," said a teary-eyedTodd. "We respect that while this is a significant development, the judicial process has just started."
"Amanda's story and the challenges she has faced touched many across the world, " Todd said.
She praised the RCMP's efforts and said she hopes her daughter's death will continue to create awareness around how dangerous the Internet can be for young people.
"I'm just really glad that we finally have a suspect arrested, hopefully we can get some justice out of it," Norm Todd said during a brief statement.
In a statement released Wednesday, the National Public Prosecutor's Office in the Netherlands said there could be several dozen victims in multiple countries, including the Netherlands, Greater Britain and the U.S. Dutch police are working with their counterparts in other countries, including the U.K. National Crime Agency.
"The suspicions against the man are that he approached underage girls via the Internet and then seduced them into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam. He is suspected of subsequently (pressuring) them to participate in making new material. The investigation has not revealed any indications that the suspect abused his victims physically," the statement said.
Prosecutors allege the suspect may have also defrauded adult men outside the Netherlands. "These men performed sexual acts in front of the webcam on the assumption that they were in Internet contact with an underage boy. The suspect is thought to have blackmailed the men by threatening to hand the images over to the police," the press release says.
The suspect, arrested in the De Rosep park near Tilburg in the south of the country, remains in custody on charges of indecent assault, the production and dissemination of child pornography, fraud, computer intrusion, and the possession of hard drugs.
According to Rippe, police seized a computer and a router from the suspect's home, and are using the contents to identify as many victims as possible, which is expected to take some time.
A court in Amsterdam ruled Wednesday the man will remain in custody as police continue their investigation. Details of the arrest were kept quiet until this week's court appearance, Rippe said, because of the sensitivity of the case.
Mathijs Pennings, the reporter with Omroep Brabantwho broke the story, said the suspect's lawyer told him the man was born in the Netherlands, though his parents are Turkish immigrants.
Authorities in the Netherlands were tipped off by an American Internet provider and seized computers when the man was arrested, Pennings said.
The suspect's lawyer, Christian van Dijk, said he doesn't believe prosecutors have sufficient evidence to convict his client. He said even if there is evidence of unlawful activity on the man's computer, it may have been hacked.
"Prosecutors seem to think they have a big fish here, but if I see the evidence, it's not much," he said. "Lots of references to IP addresses and such."
In the video Amanda posted on YouTube before her death, Todd does not speak, but instead holds up to the camera pieces of paper on which she has printed her story, one phrase at a time. She documents a painful tale of being harassed through Facebook and shunned at school, leaving her feeling alone and suicidal.
It started in Grade 8, when an embarrassing photo was circulated to her relatives, friends and schoolmates. Todd switched schools, but the extortion - and real-world bullying that it created - continued.
"I can never get that photo back," she writes.
Later, she was confronted by a group of teens in front of her new school and beaten up in an attack that was filmed. Despondent, Todd went home and drank bleach.
Her harassers posted photos of bleach and commented that they wished she were dead.
Near the end of the video, she writes: "Every day I think why am I still here? ... I have nobody. I need someone."
The Todd case has been plagued by false information spread through social media. Shortly after her death, a hacktivist group had identified a Surrey teen as the girl's tormentor, but RCMP later said the claim was "unfounded." The Vancouver Sun interviewed the young man, who said he corresponded with Amanda online but was not one of her tormentors. The man identified by the hacktivist group — whose name was spread around social networks and on Vice.com but was not been published by mainstream media — told The Sun that he offered Todd help to uncover the identity of Amanda's blackmailer.
With files from Gillian Shaw, Chad Skelton, Tiffany Crawford and The Canadian Press
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U.S. stock futures fell, signaling more Standard & Poor's 500 Index losses after the biggest weekly retreat of the year, as the dollar declined while Treasuries and gold rose after American employers added fewer jobs than forecast in March.
S&P 500 futures slumped 1.1 percent to 1,374.90 following the benchmark index's 0.7 percent weekly loss. All stock exchanges in the U.S., western Europe, Canada and Brazil were closed for Good Friday. Russia's Micex Index retreated 1.9 percent at 10:10 a.m. New York time. The dollar lost as much as 1.3 percent to 81.31 yen, the lowest in a month. Yields on 10- year Treasuries fell 12 basis points to 2.06 percent. Gold for immediate delivery rose 0.4 percent to $1,638.20 an ounce.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries dropped the most intraday since January after the U.S. Labor Department said employers added 120,000 jobs, the fewest in five months and less than the median economist forecast of 205,000 in a Bloomberg survey. The amount had exceeded 200,000 for three straight months.
"This is a real shock," Donald Selkin, the New York-based chief market strategist at National Securities Corp., which manages about $3 billion, said in a telephone interview. "Everybody is so hung up on the 200,000 increase."
Equity traders had 45 minutes to react to the jobs report in the U.S. Futures linked to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average stopped at 9:15 a.m. New York time on CME Group Inc.'s Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
While gold traded in London, U.S. commodity markets were shut for the holiday. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommended trading in fixed-income securities end at noon in New York, opting for an early close rather than a complete shutdown because of the jobs report.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent, the lowest since January 2009, from 8.3 percent. Faster employment growth that leads to bigger wage gains is necessary to propel consumer spending that accounts for about 70 percent of the economy. The data also showed Americans worked fewer hours and earned less on average, helping explain why the Federal Reserve says interest rates may need to stay low at least through late 2014.
"This is not a horrible report, but it is weaker than the market has recently become accustomed to," Thomas Simons, a government-debt economist at Jefferies Group Inc., wrote in a note to clients. "This is going to turn up the heat on the debate for QE3 since a deceleration in the economic data has been highlighted as a prerequisite for such a program," he said, referring to a third round of stimulus measures known as quantitative easing.
Before the U.S. jobs report, Asian stocks and South Korea's won fell on concern Europe's debt crisis will weigh on global growth. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 0.4 percent, and the won weakened against all 16 major peers. Taiwan's Taiex Index rallied 0.9 percent after the finance minister said some foreign investors may be exempt from a capital-gains tax.


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Early reports say that Kate Beckinsale will be donning her leather cat suit once again for "Underworld 3D". The same reports also say she's trying to find a way to get out of the film as well.
Michael Rooker will be coming back once again to face off against monsters, this time in an ice fishing trip turned beast battle in "Hypothermia". Let's hope he fares better this time than he did in "Slither".
Hammer Studios continues its rise from the dead by acquiring its next film, a big screen adaptation of Susan Hill's "The Woman In Black".
Director Russell Mulcahy has been tapped to direct the pilot for MTV's recently announced "Teen Wolf" reboot. When you consider Mulcahy directed the classic "Highlander", there is some reason to grow excited. Then you remember he also directed "Highlander 2: The Quickening" and that all goes out the window.
Lakeshore Entertainment and Kevin Grevioux, the team up that brought you "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" are preparing to bring you more of the unique brand of action horror with an adaptation of Grevioux's comic, "I, Frankenstein". At this time, it is still unclear how they will be working in Kate Beckinsale in tight leather.


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I cannot get my skin to stop breaking out! Please help me!
Acne is caused by many things, including genetic factors and hormones. Stress has also been determined to play a big part in breakouts, says dermatologist David Sire, M.D., from Fullerton, CA. While you cannot control whether you have skin that is genetically prone to acne, you can take steps to help clear it up and prevent it.
1. Keep your hands off your face. Try not to pick or squeeze pimples, which can make them more inflamed or cause scars.
2. Don't scrub. Most people with acne and/or clogged pores tend to scrub their face harder, which irritates the skin. Instead, use a gentle cleanser in the a.m. and p.m.
3. Easy on the foundation. Makeup used to cover up pimples tends to clog pores and cause more blemishes. Try using a concealer with a zit-zapping ingredient like salicylic acid.
4. Identify blemish patterns on your face.Look at the way you hold the telephone, whether you sleep more on one side of your face or if you hold your head up with one hand when sitting. Try to avoid doing these things.
5. Start a treatment skincare routine. Cleansers, toners and moisturizers containing ingredients like benzoyl peroxide kill the bacteria causing inflammation.
6. Get serious about it. If you're taking care of your skin and it still doesn't clear up, it may be a good idea to consult a dermatologist, who can prescribe a stronger product, like Retin-A.


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Seems like there is a growing number of out-of-town #12's coming to see the game. I've noticed the trend over the last few years, and it is awesome. So I thought I'd whip up a quick thread with some helpful "local" suggestions for newcomers and visitors.
If anyone would like to add to the thread, it might be cool to get a bunch of helpful info in one place.
Game Prep:
Drink LOTS of tea and honey:
Drinking 4-6 cups of Throat Coat (tea) with a few spoonfuls of real honey the night leading up to, and the morning of the game can be very helpful in preventing the loss of your voice the day after the game. Immediately following the game, a few ibuprofen if necessary and some more tea and honey, and you'll be a little hoarse but able to carry on a conversation.
Bring ear plugs:
If you're sensitive to noise, or have hearing difficulties, make sure to bring some ear plugs. It's going to get loud. Probably louder than you're used to. With a good pair of ear plugs, the volume will be reduced to safe levels (80-90db) and you still get to enjoy the chaos of it all.
Bring a parka if rain is expected:
Your section may be covered, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. Parkas also make good seat covers and will keep your butt dry if the seat is wet.
Bring food and water to the game:
Food and unopened drinks are allowed in the stadium. The food at the stadium is very expensive (~$10 for a slice of pizza or a hamburger, $8-10 for beer, wine and spirits). A 20oz bottle of water will cost you $4, and you can't keep the cap.
Jimmy John's - 102 1st Ave S.
About 4-5 blocks north of the stadium on 1st Ave. Good food, excellent prices ($6 for a large sub), quick service. You can take the sandwiches into the stadium, they come wrapped in paper, and they're better than most food in the stadium. Highly recommended for pickup of food to bring into the game.
Saveway Market - 109 Occidental Ave S
About 3 blocks north of the stadium, between 1st and 2nd Avenue, 1 block north of Occidental Square. The owner does a lot to help the homeless in the area, and prices are reasonable. Worth going to if you are parked north of the stadium.
Uwajimaya - 600 5th Ave S
A very unique Japanese grocery store only a few blocks from the stadium. You can buy sushi, there is an entire Asian food court, a bookstore, etc. It's a pretty cool and unique place to visit and you will be experiencing some Seattle history. Regularly priced groceries, sometimes long lines.
Parking around the stadium is an expensive nightmare. You will pay $40 within 2-3 city blocks of the stadium, and the cheapest about $10-20 if you're further than 5-6 city blocks. Traffic will be a nightmare getting into and out of the SODO neighborhood where the stadium is located.
Various Parking Options:
CPS Parking - 721 1st Ave
http://seattleparking.spplus.com/Seattl ... rking.html
I love this parking garage. It's right next to the ramp onto the 99 South (Alaskan Way Viaduct), just on the northern edge of Pioneer Square. It's a short walk to the Stadium, and you'll pass Jimmy John's and a number of other places to party. This is where I generally park. Insider secret: If you take the 99 South, you bypass all the heinous game traffic and can get on to I-5 Southbound or Northbound, far south of the game, or drive all the way to the Northbound 405. Both routes bypass the heavy game traffic.
Park south of the stadium and walk
There are numerous parking lots about 5+ blocks south of the Stadium that will charge $10-20 for parking. It's a bit of a walk, but there is not much parking at all north of the Stadium, so this is your best bet. Parking is all over the place, it's an industrial area - just find any business with a large lot and they'll have someone collecting parking fees.
Ride the Sound Transit Light Rail to the Stadium!
The Light Rail travels from Sea-Tac Airport (south of Seattle) all the way north to the front door of the Stadium, with a few stops along the way. The Tukwila International Blvd station offers free parking and will get you to the stadium in a few minutes for just a few bucks:
http://www.soundtransit.org/Rider-Guide ... vd-Station
Take the bus tunnel to the Stadium from downtown Seattle
http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/tunnel ... tions.html
If you park in downtown Seattle, or are staying in a hotel in downtown Seattle, there are bus tunnel stations all through downtown. You can catch any bus in the bus tunnel, ride it to the International District Station, and it will drop you off directly in front of the Stadium. A great way to avoid taxis and traffic, especially if you are staying in a hotel.
Park in Downtown Seattle
It's worth noting that many parking lots, such as the Pacific Place parking garage and the Macy's parking garage charge normal rates during Seahawks games - about $10-15 for a full day of parking. You can then walk to a bus tunnel station to avoid traffic, as mentioned above. If you're willing to walk 5-6 blocks, you can sometimes park for free if you park in Belltown. There are free parking spots on Sundays, and you can ride a bus to the Stadium or walk to a Bus Tunnel Station. Surface buses move very slowly on game day, you have been warned.
Getting into the Game:
If you're new to the CLink, you'll want to get to the game a little early. It's best to get to the ticket gate an hour before kickoff if this is your first game. It will take 20-30 minutes to get through the gates, and another 10 minutes to get directly to your seat.
The lines at the gates start getting really long about 30 minutes before kickoff. It can take forever to get through the body check, and you'll want to be prepared.
DO NOT have any open drinks or containers. They will tell you to throw them away. Only small see-through bags are allowed, which can be purchased at the team store or you can find the dimensions at the Policies page for Century Link here:
http://www.seahawks.com/gameday/stadium ... icies.html
Great places to eat, drink and celebrate before or after the game:
Temple Billiards
You can generally catch members of Seahawks.net hanging out here before the games. Pool tables, lots of TVs, cool bartenders, food is mostly pizza and sandwiches.
Slugger's Sports Bar
A 12th Man institution. The Real McCoy. This place is packed full of crazy 12's, before and after the game. Drinks and food are mediocre but if you want to celebrate with fans who've been around since 1976, this is one of the original spots.
FX McRory's
http://www.yelp.com/biz/fx-mcrorys-stea ... se-seattle
Excellent whiskey and beer selection, great food, tons of local fans, right across the street from the stadium's north parking lot. This place gets PACKED on game day and is right in the heart of the action. Great place for a post-game toast.
Pyramid Ale House
By the South end of the stadium, directly across the street from Safeco Field. Huge crowds, quick drink service, decent food, fun place to be before or after the game.
King Street Bar and Oven
Another Seattle classic. This place has been around since Jim Zorn was throwing touchdowns to Steve Largent. Tons of fans before and after games, also across the street from the stadium's north parking lot. The food is mediocre, the drinks are warm, but there's a huge Russell Wilson shrine, and these guys are HARDCORE #12's. If you want to get sloppy drunk after the game, this is a good place to do so.
Fuel Sports Bar
A great little bar right off Occidental Square. Good food, small place but excellent crowd. It's a fun place to grab a drink after the game as well.
Cowgirls, Inc.
This place regularly hosts parties before the game, where you can have shots poured into your mouth from a hot girl's cleavage. It's like a slightly naughtier Hooters, adults only. Great drinks, good food, awesome party. Across the street from the northwest corner of the stadium, on 1st Ave.


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In California, bubbles find their place
"If you want to talk about how we lost a whole generation of know-how in Prohibition," says Morgan Twain-Peterson, "double that for sparkling wine."
Thus California's bubbling conundrum.
The state has been working for nearly a century to rebuild its traditions of winemaking. But a love affair that began in the 1860s with sparkling wine has never quite regained its fizz.
California is admittedly devoted on this front. But even the boom of the 1960s and 1970s - the creation of a handful of houses, both French-sired (Mumm Napa, Domaine Carneros, Roederer Estate) and native-born (Schramsberg) - has settled into a mellow fidelity.
The state's sparkling winemakers no longer use Champagne as a yardstick, but it has been impossible to quite escape the shadow of Champagne's market power, especially as the world's most famous source of sparkling wine has recently been enjoying the seeds of revolution.
And don't forget California churns out endless waves of cheap fizz, made not in a Champagne mode but via cheap, industrial carbonation.
Now, however, comes a new wave.
Later this month, Twain-Peterson and his business partner Chris Cottrell will debut Under the Wire, which will offer something not seen before in California - a winery dedicated to single-vineyard, single-vintage sparkling wines.
These are meant to pose the same question increasingly being asked in Champagne: Can a sense of place be expressed through bubbles?
Cottrell and Twain-Peterson think so. Their view is a salient one: Twain-Peterson's focus at his Bedrock Wine Co. remains on Zinfandel, but he has become a diligent student of California vineyards. And as a wine salesperson in New York, Cottrell has sold a lake's worth of the new generation of terroir-driven Champagnes.
The two became friends while working at the same wine shop in New York. Years later, Twain-Peterson had founded Bedrock, and Cottrell was selling wine at Crush Wine & Spirits in New York. Twain-Peterson wanted to make wine with his old friend; Cottrell, a Champagne fan to the extreme, wanted to make fizz. Eureka.
California wineries have occasionally flirted with the single-site idea; Mumm Napa touted its Devaux vineyard in Carneros, and Iron Horse relies significantly on estate fruit but has opted, in Champagne style, to blend their wines into fancifully named cuvees.
Snapshot of vineyards
Under the Wire has something else in mind: a different snapshot of vineyards already esteemed for their wines. There is sparkling Chardonnay from the Brosseau vineyard in the Chalone appellation, and both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Alder Springs, one of Mendocino's most accomplished sites. Wines from Hirsch Vineyard on the Sonoma coast are in the works.
One more gem: A dry Lambrusco-style sparkling Zinfandel rosé, from vines dating to 1888 in Twain-Peterson's own Bedrock vineyard outside Sonoma. Redolent of Seville orange and licorice, it is a very different sort of love letter to Zinfandel.
Under the Wire is appearing at an auspicious time. California has begun to discuss vineyards with greater specificity than ever before, thanks in part to a good two decades of what we'll call micro-negociants buying small lots of fruit from a range of sites. So why not extend that into the sparkling realm - especially given the rise of a new sort of connoisseurship for Champagne, spurred by a growth in ambitious small producers in the region.
"The conversation has shifted," Cottrell says. "Before with Champagne, you pop it and put it in a flute. Now people talk about opening Champagne a few hours before, decanting Champagne."
In the early days, Paul Masson's winemaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains was focused on reproducing a Champagne facsimile; and large operations at Korbel and Italian Swiss Colony, among others, predated Prohibition. Yet, these fizzy interests were more about style than a specific sense of place. And when the Champenois arrived in the 1970s, they brought with them their beliefs that blending was the path to greatness.
Which is to say: It's not like the Champenois were focused on terroir either. For some 2 centuries, large houses have persuaded the public that blending, not terroir, matters most. With the exception of Krug's Clos du Mesnil and Philipponnat's Clos des Goisses, it was virtually impossible to find a single-vineyard Champagne until the past decade. The power of a brand, from Bollinger to Moët & Chandon, was more important.
Today, however, a raft of small and mostly young Champagne makers is dedicated to the pursuit of terroir. Inspired by the region's grower movement, they have taken the small-is-beautiful mantra one step further: making highly individualistic wines from specific parcels, in a mien closer to Burgundy.
This includes established growers like Alexandre Chartogne of Chartogne-Taillet and Anselme Selosse, who released collections of single-vineyard bottlings to highlight the taste of specific parcels in specific villages. Chartogne's Heurtebise highlights Chardonnay from his hometown of Merfy, while Selosse's La Cote Faron is a snapshot of just a half-acre in the town of Ay (go to: http://is.gd/qvztao).
Alongside them has appeared a band of mostly young renegades, often working in little known corners of Champagne - like Jerome Prevost, who makes wine from a single tiny parcel, Les Beguines, and a single grape (Pinot Meunier) in the town of Gueux.
In addition to Chartogne, the Wire boys were inspired by two such pioneers: Ulysse Collin, with his kaleidoscopically flavored style of wines from the Sezanne, a little-known Champagne subregion, and Cedric Bouchard, who makes Champagne with almost crystalline clarity to the flavors farther south on his tiny estate in the unlauded Aube region.
Adapted to small scale
From them, Cottrell and Twain-Peterson adopted some notions about sparkling winemaking on a small scale: fermenting with indigenous yeasts, for instance, in a mix of steel and oak barrels, rather than the customary large oak tanks. The wines age on their lees in bottle for about two years.
Still, there are limits to the comparison with Champagne. For one, the northerly Champenois climate yields far stingier sugar levels, sometimes 16 or 17 Brix, and often a bit of sugar added to get more flavor. This is not an issue even in California's colder spots, and the two insist that a bit more ripeness helps to show a vineyard's distinct flavors.
"Just given the nature of what California produces," Twain-Peterson says, "there's a lot more sunshine in these wines."
More sparkling wines
Nor are they the only ones to be inspired this way. In the Santa Rita Hills, the Wenzlau family, enlisted Bouchard's assistance to make a sparkling Chardonnay from their estate vineyard; they've acquired space for a small sparkling-wine facility in Santa Barbara. Their neighbors, Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman, made a bit of sparkling Pinot Noir for their Sandhi label, guided by informal advice from Selosse. Other wineries occasionally make sparkling efforts from their vineyards, mostly as a curiosity.
Will these change the conversation about California sparkling wine? I hope so - if only in making a long-awaited case for artisanship. But even in Champagne, the rise of terroir-driven producers remains a fringe effort.
That might be why Twain-Peterson and Cottrell are planning a fizzy version of Bedrock's popular, larger-production Shebang table wine - "She-Bubbles" - likely from old-vine Mendocino Carignane, made with a simple process of carbonation rather than the costlier Champagne method.
The Wire boys know this is all new territory. But if Champagne, with its traditions, can embrace the sparkle of change, certainly California can do the same.
From the notebook
Most of Under the Wire's small initial production will go to customers who sign up for the mailing list at www.under-the-wire.com. Additional wines will be released later this year. The finishing dosage of sugar on the wines is very low, around 1 or 2 grams.
2011 Under the Wire Brosseau Vineyard Sparkling Chardonnay ($50; 12.5% alcohol): From a limestone-granite site high in the Chalone area, this is almost chewy: ripe quince, bay leaf, dried limes.
2012 Under the Wire Bedrock Vineyard Sparkling Zinfandel ($42; 12.5%): Tangy with mineral aspects and dense with spice and fruit flavors - orange, peach, cherry skin. An eye-opening expression of both rosé and Zinfandel.
Jon Bonné is The San Francisco Chronicle's wine editor. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @jbonne


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Hydrate And Protect is my favourite of the two creams. It's light weight and reminds me a lot of a face serum as it's water based and sinks in almost immediately. It has a clean, light Aloe Vera scent that's not too intrusive and provides an quick hit of moisture that has a cooling and soothing effect on the skin. Nourish & Protect is a lot more, well, nourishing than the Hydrate and Protect. It's also water based so still very light but has a slightly thicker consistency and really works well at softening your hands with the help of Vitamin E. Both creams have antibacterial action which adds a great bonus as they keep germs at bay as well as protecting your skin.


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Luxury homes sales across the U.S. continue to perform strongly, but I'm noticing some headwinds starting to appear that are worthy of a closer look. It's often thought that luxury real estate runs totally independent of the overall market, and while this is true in some respects, there are definitely correlations between high-end housing and the rest of the market.
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Olympus SP-550 UZ Digital Camera Review
The Olympus SP-550 UZ certainly made a splash when it was announced since it was the first and only (so far) Point and Shoot digital camera with an 18x optical zoom, wide angle lens. It also features dual image stabilization, a 15fps continuous shooting mode, 7.1 megapixel resolution and a 2.5 inch LCD.
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The Olympus SP-550 UZ is a great choice for someone looking for a long zoom. It's more expensive than some of its competitors, like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8, but if you want that extra zoom reach – the SP-550 UZ is the way to go. The capability of the camera to shoot at ISO 5000 and the ability to take 15fps sequential shots makes it a possible candidate for someone looking to take action shots of their kids on the soccer or football field.
What's New
The SP-550 UZ has several improvements over the previous SP model, the SP-510 UZ. It does have the same capture resolution, but probably the most significant features are the longer zoom (18x vs 10x in SP-510 UZ) and dual image stabilization.
Image Sensor
A 1/2.5" CCD sensor captures 7.1 megapixel images as RAW or JPEG image files. Full resolution images are 3,072 x 2,304 pixels in size. There are various compression levels and aspect ratios (3:2 and 16:9) available as well.
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The 2.5 inch LCD on the back of the SP-550 UZ has 230K pixels of resolution. Colors are generally pretty accurate, and the refresh rate of the screen is high enough to provide smooth viewing. The brightness of the LCD gains up or down depending on lighting conditions. If you have problems seeing the LCD outdoors, there is also an electronic viewfinder with diopter adjustment where you can get all of the information of the LCD, but on a screen hidden from the sun.
The lens is arguably the most significant feature about the SP-550 UZ since it can do wide angle (35mm equivalent of 28mm) and it has an 18x zoom range. So, the entire range (in 35mm terms) is 28 – 504mm. While turned off, the lens is protected by a lens cap that fits snugly around the lens. If you forget to take the lens cap off when you power it up, it is lined with foam so that it doesn't damage the lens. The lens will pop the lens cap off.
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In normal and macro focus modes, you can focus as close as 3.9 inches at wide angle and 47.24 inches at telephoto. In super macro mode, the focus ranges from 0.39 inches to infinity.
As far as focus area – you can let the camera choose from multiple areas with iESP, you can set it to spot mode, or you can choose "area" mode which lets you move the focus point. Manual focus is available.
There is a pretty cool "AF predict" mode that can be enabled via the camera menu. When you have this turned on, you lock the focus with a partial press and then the camera will attempt to stay focused on the subject in the focus point. This would be good for someone walking toward you. It's kind of a middle point between continuous or full-time AF (which sucks battery and does exist on this camera as an option) and single AF that keeps your focus set once it's been locked.
Image Stabilization
The Olympus SP-550 UZ features what Olympus calls "dual image stabilization". It has a mechanical method of image stabilization which counter-acts blur from camera shake by shifting the sensor. It also uses high sensitivity (ISO) capability to increase shutter speeds and counter-act blur from image movement.
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Shooting Modes
Another headline feature of the SP-550 UZ is the capability to shoot continuously at 15 frames per second. In fact, there are several sequential shooting modes in addition to the single shot mode. There is a sequential mode that allows you to take full-res shots. The next fastest mode (Hi1) limits the quality to 2048×1536 with the maximum number of shots at less than 15. Then, Hi2 mode limits the quality to 1280×960 for up to 20 shots, but is faster yet – this is the 15fps mode. There is an additional mode that adjusts the AF for each shot. With normal sequential shooting, the AF and exposure are locked at the first frame so the camera doesn't have to take time to recalculate those things. A bracketing mode is available as well as "pre-capture". When enabled, Pre-Capture starts saving shots to the buffer as soon as you do a partial press of the shutter. This way, if you're late in catching "the shot", the camera might have gotten it for you.
The built-in flash is hidden underneath a pop-up door directly above the lens. A mechanical release pops it up and enables the flash mode selection. At ISO 200 it has a claimed range of 14.8 feet at wide angle, and 9.2 feet at telephoto. If you bump up the ISO, flash range increases. At ISO 1600, the range is 42 feet at wide angle and 26 feet at telephoto. You can leave the flash in auto mode, or one of the following: fill flash (always on), red-eye reduction, fill flash with red eye reduction, slow sync, or off.
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Memory Media
The Olympus SP-550 UZ has 20MB of internal memory and accepts xD-Picture Card memory media in capacities up to 2GB.
Image File Format(s)
Images can be captured as RAW files or JPEG files. When shooting in RAW, you can choose whether or not a JPEG is saved along with it (in varying resolutions).
There is a multi-connector for USB 2.0 Full Speed and A/V out. There is also a DC-in jack so that you can power the camera with an optional adapter.
The camera is powered by 4 AA batteries in a lockable battery compartment. Battery life is very good. I used 2200 mAh rechargeable NiMH batteries and took over 250 shots and the battery meter was still "full".
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Auto/Program Mode
When you want to keep things easy you can use the auto and program auto modes. Auto mode essentially lets you change just the flash mode, timer mode, and focus mode. When you switch to program auto, the camera still does everything for you, but you get the added flexibility to change the white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, drive mode, metering method, and the camera menu becomes available.
Scene Modes
There are plenty of scene modes to keep you happy: Portrait, Landscape, Landscape & Portrait, Night Scene, Night & Portrait, Sport, Indoor, Candle, Self-Portrait, Available Light Portrait, Sunset, Fireworks, Cuisine, Documents, Auction, Shoot & Select1, Shoot & Select2, Beach, Snow, Underwater Wide1, Underwater Wide2, Underwater Macro.
Most of the modes above a fairly self-explanatory, but there is a help button on the camera that will give you a short description of the mode. For example, I wasn't sure what the "Shoot & Select" modes were so I used the help button. They let you take shots at a fast frame rate and then choose the ones that you want to keep.
Manual Exposure Modes
The SP-550 UZ is an advanced camera, so you get a full complement of manual exposure modes – aperture priority (A), shutter priority (S), and manual (M). In aperture priority, you set the aperture that you want and the camera determines the shutter speed. With shutter priority, you choose the shutter speed while the camera determines the correct aperture for a good exposure. In manual mode, you set the shutter speed and aperture to full flexibility. You can also save up to 4 custom modes with your own customized settings.
Movie Mode
The SP-550 UZ can capture movies at up to 640×480 resolution at a 30fps frame rate, but those movies are limited to 15 seconds. If you capture at a smaller resolution or a slower frame rate, you can take longer clips.
The optical zoom can be used during movie capture, but only if you disable audio capture. (You would hear the zoom motor during your movies if you didn't). Also, image stabilization is available during movie capture.
The camera is capable of multi-pattern (iESP), center-weighted, and spot metering. Multi-pattern metering evaluates the entire frame (or most of it, at least) to determine correct exposure. Center-weighted metering examines the entire frame but considers the center area of the frame more heavily. With spot metering, the camera determines exposure by only looking at the center point of the frame.
White Balance
You can let the SP-550 UZ set white balance automatically (iESP2), you can set a custom white balance (one-touch), or use one of the presets: sunlight, overcast, tungsten, and 3 fluorescents.
The ISO range of the SP-550 UZ ranges from ISO 50 – ISO 5000. At ISO 3200 and ISO 5000, capture resolution is automatically bumped down to about 3 megapixels. You can set the ISO manually (if you're not in Auto mode), you can leave it at Auto or High ISO Auto.
In-Camera Image Adjustment
During image capture, you can adjust sharpness, contrast, and saturation from the camera menu. During playback mode, you can apply some effects and fixes, like red-eye fix, black & white, sepia. You can also resize, crop, change brightness, adjust saturation, add a frame, add a title, or make a calendar with your image.
The Olympus SP-550 UZ is not a compact camera, as you would expect from a camera with such a long zoom. It's in the category of cameras that I consider to be the easiest to hold – with a prominent grip/battery compartment. The camera has a very high quality build – it's solid and controls are laid out well. The grip is especially comfortable – with a rubber coating on the front of the camera and on a thumb grip on the back. A comfortable grip is especially critical on long zoom shots to provide a stable platform for the camera.
On the front of the camera, you see the monster lens, the flash (when popped up), the focus assist lamp and the microphone.
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The top of the camera has the shooting mode dial, shutter release, zoom control (ring around shutter), power button, and button to toggle the image stabilization system.
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The back of the camera has the LCD, viewfinder to view the electronic viewfinder, button to toggle between LCD and EVF, menu button, playback mode button, 5 way directional pad, Disp/help button to cycle through display modes or view in-camera help, and delete button.
The right side of the camera has the door to access the xD-Picture Card slot.
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The left side of the camera has a rubber door to access the USB/AV multi-connector and DC in jack. Also, just under the flash, you'll find the button to deploy the flash.
The bottom of the camera provides access to the battery compartment and there is a tripod mount as well.
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4 AA batteries, USB cable, A/V cable, wrist strap, lens cap strap, manual, and CD-ROM with Olympus Master software
Overall, I was very pleased with image quality. Images showed good detail and were sharp across most of the frame (there was some slight softness in the corners if you looked really hard). Colors were accurate. Many of the shots that I took were taken on a gray Midwestern day and the images show that, with subdued colors and lackluster quality of light. When shooting indoors, color casts can happen if the white balance is not set correctly, so make sure that you take some test shots. The SP-550 UZ allows you to set a custom white balance very easily.
Exposure was good overall at the default settings. If the images don't come out the way you want them – it's easy to change the metering mode or adjust exposure compensation to get the results that you want (see the shots below) – one of the joys of digital.
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With such a complex lens (wide angle and long zoom), I noticed above average barrel distortion at wide angle and pincushion distortion at telephoto. Barrel distortion shows up as straight lines bulging outward from the center while pincushion distortion has straight lines bowing in towards the middle of the frame. It's quite common to see this sort of distortion, but it's a bit above average on the SP-550 UZ.
Chromatic aberration (purple fringing) was visible in contrast transitions areas, but only after viewing the image at 200% size or more.
High ISO image quality was very good. The SP-550 UZ is capable of shots taken at a sensitivity of up to ISO 5000 (it bumps resolution down to about 3 megapixels though). The camera also has some built-in noise reduction that can be enabled or disabled. Shots up to ISO 400 would be acceptable for large prints.
Timing/Shutter Lag
Getting that long lens ready to go does take several seconds, so don't expect to win any races with power up or power down times. However, once the camera is ready to go, it does a nice job. This is definitely a camera that you'll want to do a partial press of the shutter before getting a shot (something that should become habit anyway). When you do a full press of the shutter, it takes around 1.1 – 1.3 seconds to capture the shot. If you do a partial press to get a focus/exposure lock first, shutter lag is less than 0.1 seconds. Cycle time (the time between shots) when taking shots, one at a time, is about average and will depend on your memory card speed. While I was testing, I was getting around 3-5 seconds. If you enable the flash, it recharges before the images finished writing to the memory card, so I didn't experience any time waiting for the flash to charge.
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I really enjoyed using the Olympus SP-550 UZ. It's comfortable to hold, has plenty of advanced features and takes great shots. Beyond that, you get the world's first 18x optical zoom in a Point and Shoot digital camera. The dual image stabilization is a must for such long zoom shots and the system in the Olympus does a good job of handling blur from camera shake. While I normally wouldn't use the 15fps sequential shooting capability very often, it is also a nice feature. The camera also has great battery life.
If you're interested in a long zoom camera, the SP-550 UZ is a great choice. Don't be intimidated by all of its features, plenty of in-camera help and Olympus' built-in Guide system do a great job of helping a beginner to get comfortable with the camera.
- 18x optical zoom
- Dual image stabilization
- Comfortable in-hand
- Good battery life
- VGA (640×480) movies at 30fps are limited to 15 seconds
- LCD not great outdoors (luckily, there is an electronic viewfinder)
- Barrel distortion and pincushion distortion may be too much for some


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By Heather L. Traeger
January 12, 2011
We've just filed a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on the use of position limits for derivatives. Our letter urges the CFTC to establish an exemption from position limits for funds that comply with the diversification and leverage requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
This issue arises out of a proposed rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Dodd-Frank Act, pursuing broad objectives of preventing market manipulation and sudden price fluctuations in the commodity markets, requires the CFTC to set position limits "as appropriate" across all markets.
Dodd-Frank, however, also provides the CFTC with the authority to exempt market participants from position limits. The legislative record shows that Congress provided this exemptive authority to give regulators flexibility. For example, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), then Agriculture Committee Chairman, noted that highly-leveraged swaps trading should be distinguished from trading activity that is unleveraged (or fully-collateralized), clearinghouse guaranteed, and not systemically risky.
Our letter walks through some of the benefits of having diversified funds investing in the futures and swaps markets. It explains that diversified funds serve as a stable, long-term source of liquidity and facilitate efficient price discovery in these markets. It also explains that diversified funds are not speculators but rather are long-term investors, and that diversified funds provide small investors with a cost-effective means of diversifying their portfolio and investing in the commodity derivatives markets.
Additionally, the letter details some of the restrictions placed on funds under the Investment Company Act, noting that these restrictions limit the ability of diversified funds to speculate or contribute to systemic risk. For example, a fund is prohibited from taking on a future obligation to pay unless it "covers" the obligation by setting aside assets sufficient to satisfy the potential exposure from the derivative transaction.
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Marinated baby artichokes are not a staple of Turkish cuisine in the way that stuffed grape leaves are. But they are a favorite at Karaköy Lokantasi, owned by husband and wife Oral Kurt and Aylin Okutan. The dressing for the artichokes includes a little invigorating fresh-grated ginger, as well as more traditional Turkish flavors, like lemon juice and chopped dill.
How to Make It
Squeeze the juice from a lemon half into a large bowl of water, and add the half to the bowl. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, cut off and discard the stem. Pull off the dark outer leaves and trim any dark green patches from the base. Using a serrated knife, cut off the top third of the artichoke. Rub all over with the remaining lemon half and add to the lemon water.
Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil and add a large pinch of salt. Drain the artichokes and add them to the boiling water. Cover and simmer over moderate heat until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain the artichokes and pat dry.
Meanwhile, in a shallow serving dish, combine the lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, capers, dill and ginger. Add the artichokes and toss so they're thoroughly coated with the marinade. Cover and refrigerate the artichokes, stirring occasionally, for at least 4 hours or overnight. Let the dish return to room temperature before serving.


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