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Daily Trojan, Vol. 28, No. 122, April 23, 1937
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oy s Fair Opens Today With Scientific Exhibits in Womens Cym Editorial Offices R|-4111, Sta. 227 Night - PR - 4776 SOUTHERN DAILY CALIFORNIA TROJAN United Press World Wide News Service XXVIII Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 23, 1937 Number 122 xhibit Booths pen Today c Invited To View Scientiiic Displays Women s Gym al 3:30 p.m.; 'Tersily Is Hcst to 1100 Visitors Tomorrow West Coast Canada CMC Colleges Join Strike Settled In Peace Day By Premier Students Atlack War Evils in Pacifist Demonstrations Agreement Reached At Conference Ends Deadlock of 14 Days Commerce Banquet Fetes Business Men Tonight CONFERENCE CHIEFS TORONTO. April 22—U'.Pi— The 14-day strike in the General Motors 1 SAN FRANCISCO, April 22—<l'.P) —Students of Pacific coast unlver-largest array Of scientific exhibits Will be thrown silles and colleges today engaged in compallys main Canadian assembly I campus students and the general public at 3:;i0 demonstrations against war as a plant at 0shawa was settled to- $ ° , part of the national student cele- - ...... today When over 55 U' S' C s ac' ! bratlon of Peace day. Stanford. University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, San Diego 8tate college, and Fresno State college held meetings at which speakers extolled the merits of peace and attacked the evils of war. Stanford university students heard aments in scientific and cultural fields, it's display will serve as a preview for tomorrow after- iJntw Of the exhibits, when*____ a® graduating high school, college students are li the university for annual! of Trojan Knights, | jnd Amazons will conduct HOT students through the -) pm In viewing the pano-< laboratory apparatus pre-•or annual Senior day here S FILM choice campus shots, the ulition of the "Trojan Re-f mpus film, will be dis-fith cinematography stu-b land to answer questions bug color work and camera tions in the way oi stu-fcjaistrations will be offered led tomorrow when dental 'present an improvised den-* ind College of Architec-ed Fine Arts students dis-jmit painting and sculp- DISPLAV , history will be portrayed trophy, and pennant ithen a display compiled unsupervision of Dr. Francis -a. depicts Troy's past in itcomplishments. "tng will present its tesla I upsble of throwing 10-foot! Included among the pre- j i displays will be the Ballona iBtimated by scientists to be | >000 to 50,000 years old, and I SUPERVISOR night at a conference in the office of Premier Mitchell F, Hepburn. The agreement was reached between representatives of the 3,700 strikers and Oeneral Motors executives. First announcement of the settlement was made by J. L. Cohen, counsel for the strikers. He said the agreement reached in Hepburn's office would be submitted Chester Rowell, famed peace leader t0 the strikers' stewards in Oshawa and editor of the San Francisco tonight and that then the terms Chronicle, speak at an assembly, would t,e offered to a mass meeting The students indicated through a ; 0j the strikers for ratification. Stanford campus poll on war prob- Oeneral Motors was represented ^ lems that a large majority of them , Harry J. Carmichael, vice-pres-■ would fight for the United States ldpn( and era, managpr, and ! only if the country were invaded. Jameg B Highfield. manager of the | SANCTIONED FOR FIRST TIME ' University of California at Berke I ley authorities for the first time Oshawa plant. The strikers were represented by ] C. H. Millard, president of the i granted sanction to a student Peace Oshawa local of the United Autoday demonstration. Students at- mobile Workers: J. L. Cohen, union tended a peace meeting Supervising the high school senior day exhibits which will be given a preview by the general public today is Lawrence Pritchard, assistant coordination officer. TrojanReview To Be Shown Picturing choice shots of campus raw prong-horn antelope: highlights during the past few S» U Brea pits which has j months, the third edition of the stored in U. S. C. labora-! "Trojan Review" will be shown to-| day from 3 to 9 p.m. ln the wo-'RAPII SHOWN 1 men's Bym. The fl'm will feature a cinematography exhibit prepared o.ocy will display lie detect- jor high school and junior college nes. latiguc-measuring er- graduates who visit Troy tomorrow and various mechanized for annual Senior day. used in measuring bra.n ^ celluloid" picture M Headm -m r '' I will be directed by Jack McClelland. i fellow in cinematography, under the specimens of marine life as general direction of Dr. Boris Mor-. ' ,,le G Allan Hancock kovln, head of the cinematography l^e of California department. Ellis Yarnell, who has been re- | — commended for a fellow in cinematography next year, will lecture and show pictures on color photography. Yarnell will display two of his films "Alaska" and "Kodocolor," a film which features interchange of color. "How to Splice a Film" and "Polar- debated in the college paper opposing viewpoints on the question "Will peace strikes help outlaw war?" Students opposed to the pcace demonstrations heckled a demonstration of 50 students of the University of California at Los Angeles who gathered on a knoll outside the campus limits to hold their meeting. Frank Scully, noted writer, was among the speakers. Leaders counsel; and four members of the strikers' bargaining committee. Georgia Labor Leader Pledges A.F.L. Support WASHINGTON, April 22—<U.n>— William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, announced tonight that he had received a telegram from Frank Dillon, temporary president of the Georgia Hosts at today's College of Commerce conference day and annual conference dinner will be Ross Wattelet, Dean Reid Lage McClung, and Jack Privett. Wattelet, with Bill Tanner, is co-chairman of the affair: Dean McClung will act as toastmaster at the banquet, and Privett, president of the commerce student body, will greet the guests. At Fresno State college, students j state federation of labor, pledging ma.ssed in an anti-war rally at ful support in the fight with thc which Hubert Phillips, faculty member. announced a petition bearing bly bill that would put, compulsory military training in state colleges. The San Diego State college student body witnessed a one-act tragedy. "Again We Fight," presented as their part of the nation-wide anti-war demonstrations. BUELL SPEAKS AT OREGON At University of Oregon, the smallest group since the peace movement started three years ago heard Raymond L. Buell, New York city, president of the Foreign Policy association, advocate world cooperation of nations to assure peace. At Oregon State an evening meeting was held, with several hundred in attendance. The meeting, sanctioned by the faculty, took the form of a discussion. AWARDS TO BE GIVEN NINE COMMERCE STUDENTS TONIGHT Nine students in the College of Commerce and Business Administration will be honored tonight when Dr. Thurston H. Ross, director of the School of Merchandising, announces Committee for Industrial Organiza- the winners of honorary awards. tion. Prises will be given by the commerce organization to win- names of 300 students and 50 teach- It was the first major struggle of .t"p , during--- ers protesting a California assem- of CIO and the AFL for control of , _ I _ . _ . . a state federation. The split was lhe banquet in the Foyer of Town f^oUnd Tab! 6 almost even, with approximately and Gown. Alpha Kappa Psi and ' half the 200 delegates following Dil- | the Management club have each Ion and half remaining with Nance nsted two awards to be presented, Bowen Cup Winners Out Of Contest a puffer fish, spiney urchins giant sand •nd fan type coral. tod as a means for aiding "i deciding their academic Senior diy will begin with ttri a' 9 a m with Norm ®ASUSC president, offlclat-™°*iii(! the reception and °f students, the visitors an a general assembly in auditorium where Dr. Ruins keinSmid. president of thc will address those in at-* S.ud'nt round tables and jjjn of students with fac-•111 lollow the asseni- while Beta Alpha Psi, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Chi Theta. and the Secretarial club will give one prize each. MEDALLION TO BE GIVEN Alpha Kappa Psi will present a medallion to the male student who ranks highest in scholarship, lead-i ership. and promise of future suc-When thc Bowen Cup tourney for j cess at the end of his Junior year extempore speakers opens Tuesday, in the College of Commerce. Also all undergraduate students but five J under the supervision of Alpha Kap-at U.S.C. will be eligible for the con- ptt psj wjh he the awarding of the test. The five who will not be able j Better Business Girl title with flrst to enter the competition are those ■ an(| second prizes going to the vic-who have won cups in previous j tors, years. | A gold key will be awarded to the Every year three cups are given , graduating student majoring in ac-to the three finalists who have the I counting with the highest scholar-highest ranking after two rounds | ship average in all subjects during of competition. The five undergrad- seven semesters at U.S.C. by Beta uate winners of former contests Alpha Psi. j who are on campus today are Tom Friends and alumni of U.S.C, were Dutcher. George Hill, Fred Burrill. SENIOR TO GKT KKY mailed 1000 invitations by the A Richard Richards, and John Me- J Delta Sigma Pi has promised a ized Light Test Film" are other stu- I Cappella choir for the annual home earthy. All of these men are.mem- ! gold key to the senior ranked higli-dent pictures which will be dis- concert to bs presented in Bovard ! bers 0f the Trojan varsity debate ] est ln scholarship and leadership. Choir Mails Invitations played. Wesley Club To Dine Tonight | Tlie name of the senior student law school there 1 majoring ln management who has Botatists To Make Trip To South Park Today unnpr ins Qir^cuuu ui uumi onmu— i ., .. . . _ . . i Students in botany will trftvel to man will present a wide variety of being h Bowen tournament winner | Plaque, the gift of the Purchas ng ! Soulh k lhi* tt(ternoon at 2:30 'LF is a former vice-president of ASU , Agents association of Los Angeles. Under the Mrs Phyllis ' business and industrial management Norton Cooper, who in addition to will be placed upon a permanent I TRACK P WORKERS auditorium, April 27, at 8:15 p.m. j squad. Gowned in the cardinal and gold J jn the ugc robes, the choir will repeat the three students who are posses- I excelled ln his work ln the field of numbers sung on the recent tour ! nf northern California. The choir, Iiors of Bowe" cu»*' Mrs Phyllls under the direction of John Small f ueiilg H DUWCIl w president . . . ... VHIIUUC5 IlcVtiUUO, o | fmcV, Hnhafo en anU a *-*H A f * I IP.ent Clllb. ThP Other AWD Tf] fit club will attend the annual inter- J sung entirely from memory. collegiate Methodist banquet tonight | choral direction of the 75 mem-, . , i. in the Robert,on Boulevard church ] bers 0f the choir has been under j caPtaln' other CUP wmners ! be ^e student major- at 7 o'clock. Tlie semi-formal af- smaiiman ever since the inception Harold Weeks, varsity debate fair is sponsored by student Meth- | o{ the choir more than a year ago ! manager who is in charge of ar- The assembly concert will be all- I rangements for the tourney, urges university in nature and Paul El- j those Interested ln entering the liott asks everyone interested in contest to sign up on the list that the musical program to attend Ad- I is posted outside the debate office, mission ls free. 427 Student Union. Croups Will Meet Today Affording an opportunity to commerce students to hold round table conferences and ask questions of speakers, 10 panel discussion groups will convene this afternoon. Meeting at 3:30 o'clock, the commercial aviation group will assemble in 103 Bridge hall. Earl W. Hill, head of U.S.C.'s aviation department, is chairman. All other panels are scheduled to convene at 4 o'clock. Meeting in 350 Administration, the accounting assembly will be led by James N. Thayer, divisional comptroller of the southern California division of General Motors. Three southern California bankers will speak to the banking group when they convene in 305 Administration. James R. Douglas, vice-president of the Security First National bank of Los Angeles, is chairman. Informal Discussion To Prevail Climaxing the semester's activities. the program of the annual College of Commerce conference day will be inaugurated this afternoon with discussion group meetings and will terminate with a banquet ln the Foyer of Town and Gown. Panel discussion groups are scheduled to meet at 3:30 and 4 o'clock today, and the banquet will begin at 6:30 o'clock. KOI'K lll'NDKEI) EXPECTED Four hundred reservations have been made which Include thcwe of many prominent businessmen of southern California, Mlss Bernice Rickies, secretary to Dean Reid Lage McClung, said last night. Samuel W. Reyburn, president of the Associated Dry Ooods corporation of New York, will be the principal speaker at thc banquet. His subject Is "Problems of Management ln Commerce and Industry." Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid wUi extend greetings of the university to the assembly whtle Jack Privett, president of the College of Commerce. will greet the guests on behalf of the commerce student body. ROSS 18 EMCEE Dean McClung, as toastmaster, will introduce the speakers of tiie evening. Dr. Thurston H. Rqs* director of the School of Merchandising, is master of ceremonies. Ross Wattelet and William Tanner are co-chairmen of the banquet Other chairmen of student commit, ices ln charge of the banquet are: Reyburn To Be Speaker Dry Goods Association President To Discuss Industrial Problems Speaking on "Problems of Management ln Commerce and Industry,'' Samuel W. Reyburn, president of the Associated Dry Goods corporation of New York, will address .students, faculty members, and , Charles Brust, program; Henry guests tonight at the College of j Flynn, contacts; Lowell Martin, co-Commerce banquet. Beginning at | ordination; Martha Thorne, decora- odist groups from colleges and universities in southern CaUfornia, Dr. W. O. Mendenhall, president '-*um personnel for the ! o{ Whittier college, is scheduled to ^Saturday with U.CLA be the main speaker, while Eliza-"1°,*ced today by Leo Adams. ! beth Burman, US.C. music stu-Up to report to Hal Dorn- dent' will entertain the diners with " ^ a.m. opposite tunnel' barP solos. John Trevor, president of the lo- ■Snen DeIlnis Debate cal Wesley club' wUl head U S C' Stales Gatemen • Char- representatlve8' Also expected to **• Tom WHde Fov Dra - be pr6Senl arP lhe Methodist 1 N°lder Hiiri v Shackle detU KrOUpS from U C L A • L AJ C" ^rardino and Joe Pre- Redlands university. Chapman^ Occidental. Pomona .Whittier, and San Diego State Teacher's colleges. Reservations for the banquet may be made today ln the Religious Conference office, 230 Student Union. Oroman. last year's varsity debate j the Management club ls a cup to be presented to thc student majoring in management with the highest scholastic average. Tlie senior woman ln the College of Commerce who ranks first ln character, scholarship, and personality will be awarded a gold key I by Phi Chi Theta. to study tree vegetation. Under the direction of Dr. George Rufus Johnstone, professor of botany, they will leave from 261 Science building. Students will make a study of the primitive group of seed plants such as pines, cedars, and the maiden-haired tree, which is of particular interest because the survival of the plant ls no longer lound ln Its natural state. ^Section chief to report k? Labriola. Elliot Stein-McIntyre. * !"r 'he game are Tom W S^y' Ralph sian- w Cal'Penter. Paul Vin oJ'lckl' Ra>' George, " hl1 Duboski, Don palvm. Art Dit'.enber- : 8chw "dicim . ar,Zi J°hn Ramsey, "Wv Ray Wehba Boyd J •,Vt O T. Schulpbach, '•Ch. Wavn. ____ - e to report, to Larry to tunnel 29 are Oitk "°ward Smith, Earl jjfcL ™ii' Oeorge Brown. Ijj. Nelson Cullenward, tort'i*rry ^ranek. Stu-Don Gaskill. Cassell, Berg Win Business Titles 6:30 o'clock, the banquet will be held in the Foyer of Town and Gown. As tarmboy, railroad clerk, lawyer, banker, and corporation president, the tale of Mr. Reyburn's life Is a veritable Horatio Alger story. At 14 years of age. the speaker was employed by a sawmill concern in Arkansas. Two years later he was made local agent of the Iron Mountain railroad at Little Rock. STARTS NIGHT SCHOOL Interested in law, Mr. Reyburn and a close friend changed the whole routine of the law school at Arkansas state university by changing all the classes from day to night sessions. Thus the pair could work during the day and attend school at night. The speaker was admitted to the bar when he was 22 years old. To save money that he might hang up his own •'shingle," Mr. Reyburn found employment with Sidney J. Johnson, who owned a real estate, brokerage, and private banking business ln Little Rock. The speaker was later made president, and the firm became the Union Trust company. GOES TO NEW YORK Distinguishing himself among fl nancial circles. Mr. Reyburn was called to New York to straighten out the confusion caused by the "Claflln crash" in 1914, as lt was called. The crash was brought about by the failure of Claflln who owned a large group of department stores. In 1916 two of the Claflln organizations were merged into the Associated Dry Ooods corporation comprising eight large department stores, and Reyburn was made president. tions; Jane Cassell and Sterling Smith, reception; Fred Porter, entertainment; Stanley Rousso, tickets; Katherine Young, commerce Trojan; Dorothy McCune, correspondence; and Richard Bean, publicity. PANELS NAMED Panel discussions will be divided as follows: those Interested ln commercial aviation, accounting, banking. credit and business Insurance, foreign trade and transportation, life lnsuranoe, Industrial management, marketing and retailing problems, office management and secretarial problems, and real estate. Winners of the "Better Huslneas Girl" contest sponsored by Alpha Kappa Psi. national professional commerce fraternity; will be announced and presented with awards. Awards will also be made by Beta Alpha Psi, honorary accounting fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi, commerce fraternity; the American Management association, and the Secretarial club. Classes To Be Excused For Stenotyping Show Classes tn commerce will be excused at 9 o'clock this morning, tn order that students may see Clem Boling, stenotyping wizard, in action during a commerce assembly to be held In Touchstone theater. Regular sessions will be resumed at 10:25 a.m., Norm Johnson, ASU SC president, said yesterday. Boling, the world's champion sten-otypist, will demonstrate his proficiency on the complicated shorthand machine by taking dictation from a School of Speech student. The student to give dictation will read from a text unfamiliar to Boling. who will record the speaker's words as he hears them. Fern Dell Chosen as Religion Breakfast Site t Schulpbach, with Fern Dell chosen a.s the Wayne Hoffman. Spot for Its third annual breakfast. members of the School of Religion will gather May 1 at 7:30 a.m. in j Griffith park. At the breakfast, which is open to School of Religion students ar.d faculty, members of religious classes, and friends of these students, will be presented. Jane Cassell is the ' Better Business Girl" on the Trojan campus for 1937 as the result of winning the annual contest sponsored by Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional commerce fraternity. Runner-up in the contest is Pauline Berg. The two winners will be formally presented at the College of Commerce banquet tonight* Miss Cassell ls president of Mor tar Board, secretary of tlie College of Commerce, president of Beta Oamma Sigma, honorary commerce sorority; vice-president of the Amazons, a member of Gamma Alpha Chl, national advertising sorority; bow, Gertrude Lingren, Phyllis Schneider, Pauline Getz, Helen Waddell, Helen Dunlap, and Mlss Cassell and Miss Berg. The awards were based on scholarship, activities ln the College of Commerce, all-university activities, personality and appearance, and Psulirft Berg and a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi merit of a letter written to Dean social sorority She will receive a Reid Lage McClung applying for a pen and pencil set as a prize fictitious Job in a large department I Miss Berg ls active on the Daily j store. I Trojan business staff, an Amazon, Judges whose task it was to name 1 and a member oi Pi Beta Phi so- the 1937 "Better Business Oirl" were ] cial sorority. She will be awarded ! Dean McClung. Mrs. Olive C. Booth, a Trojan shrine statuette. Dr. Thurston H. Ross, Dr. Benjamin ! Eight senior women participated R. Haynes, and Prof. Paik J. in the contest, Including Jane Ben- [ Ewart. Student Banking Work Offered Advanced undergraduates ln the College of Commerce who are carrying a program of 12 units apiece and have been selected by their college can participate in banking practice at the Bank of America. The latter firm offers the appren-| tlceships at a salary adequate to cover expenses of the students during their university course. This course will be offered to U.S. C. students in the fall of 1937 anu two units of credit will be given to students enrolling. Regular employment ln the sum-| mer, also In banking practice, ls offered the chosen Trojans. On graduation, positions tn the Bank of America are available lor them. U. S. C. Organizations Westminster The Rev. William Hoemer, former student pastor from the University of Missouri, will speak on "World Peace" at a luncheon of the Westminster club today ln 32 Student Union at 12:15 o'clock. Alpha Pi Zela Haile Selassie's .'.peech to the League of Nations will be brought to members of Alpha PI Zela. social sciences faculty fraternity, tomorrow ijlght through the medium of pictures taken in Geneva last summer by Pioi. John haney oi me political science aepaionent.
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|Daily Trojan, Vol. 28, No. 122, April 23, 1937
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s Fair Opens Today With Scientific Exhibits in Womens Cym
Editorial Offices R|-4111, Sta. 227 Night - PR - 4776
United Press World Wide News Service
Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 23, 1937
Number 122
xhibit Booths pen Today
c Invited To View Scientiiic Displays Women s Gym al 3:30 p.m.;
'Tersily Is Hcst to 1100 Visitors Tomorrow
West Coast Canada CMC Colleges Join Strike Settled In Peace Day By Premier
Students Atlack War Evils in Pacifist Demonstrations
Agreement Reached At Conference Ends Deadlock of 14 Days
Commerce Banquet Fetes Business Men Tonight
TORONTO. April 22—U'.Pi— The 14-day strike in the General Motors
1 SAN FRANCISCO, April 22—
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Samsung NX100 Review
The Samsung NX100 is the second new mirrorless compact system camera this year from Samsung, following the more DSLR-like NX10 model. In addition to a lighter and more compact body and a boost in ISO speed to 6400, the biggest innovation is the NX100's lens. The i-Function button on the new 20-50mm and 20mm pancake kit lenses allows users to control the NX100 by scrolling through manual settings (shutter speed, aperture, EV, WB, and ISO) and using the focus ring to change the parameters for each setting. The NX100 also has a special i-Scene lens priority mode, which automatically selects scene options that are optimized for the lens currently being used. Just like the NX10, the NX100 has the same 14.6 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS sensor, 720p movie mode, dust reduction system and fixed 3-inch AMOLED screen. The NX100 also has a fast contrast auto-focus system, wide range of manual controls, a Smart Auto function which automatically selects the best shooting mode, and a Smart Range feature that captures detail in both the bright and dark areas of the picture. The Samsung NX100 is available in black, white and brown and costs around £449.99 / $599.99 with the new 20-50mm kit lens.
Ease of Use
Samsung may not have been first to market in the increasingly popular Compact System Camera category, but they're certainly making a big effort to capture as much share as possible. Following hot on the heels of the DSLR-like NX10 comes the release of the more compact NX100, which is smaller, lighter, less complicated and cheaper than its big brother. It uses exactly the same APS-C sized sensor as the NX10, which is around 1.5x physically larger than the Micro Four Thirds system, theoretically giving it the edge in terms of all-round image quality, whilst still maintaining a small camera body that is very similar to the likes of the comparable Olympus E-PL1. Since the launch of the NX10, things have moved on at a rapid pace, with Sony's NEX system also boasting an APS-C sensor and a much smaller body (although the lenses are bigger) and Panasonic's new DMC-GF2 making the overall size of a Compact System Camera and lens even smaller. With rumours of Nikon joining the fray, it's clear that the so-called CSCs are here to stay.
Just like the NX10, the Samsung NX100 is an unashamedly clear attempt to capture the mass-market, with an all-plastic body and 20-50mm kit lens with a plastic mount, which goes some way to explaining just how Samsung have managed to hit such an aggressive price point - a street price of under £400 / $500 for a pocketable APS-C camera complete with a lens is a real eye-opener, undercutting the main competition by some margin and competing with high-end compacts like the Canon PowerShot G12, Panasonic DMC-LX5 and Nikon Coolpix P7000. Despite this low cost, first impressions of the NX100 are positive, with the usual high build quality that we've come to expect from recent Samsung cameras - there really are no compromises here.
The NX100 sports a more futuristic look than either its main rivals or the traditional NX10, with a two-tone silver and black colour, rounded edges and a pronounced curve which forms the otherwise unadorned handgrip. While its more pleasing on the eye, we missed having something to get a real grip on, with the smooth plastic body proving difficult to hold firmly. On the plus side the NX100 does offer a logical and intuitive interface that belies the fact that this is a first generation product, striking a great balance between providing easy access to the main features and achieving an uncluttered control system whilst still managing to cater for both beginner and prosumer alike.
At 120.5 x 71 x 34.5mm, the NX100 is smaller and slimmer than the NX10, principally through the removal of the latter's electronic viewfinder and built-in pop-up flash. While the NX100's target audience probably won't notice the lack of an EVF, being more used to holding a camera at arm's length than holding one up to their eye, they will undoubtedly miss having a flash. This is provided for by an optional accessory (SEF-15A) which slots into the Smart Shoe on top of the camera, but it's an extra expense, adds to the bulk of the camera, and obviously isn't as well integrated as some of its main rivals. There's also an optional EVF (EVF10) which slots into the same connector, with the same caveats regarding cost and size, and you can obviously only use the EVF or the flash at one time. Neither are provided in the standard kit or were additionally provided for this review, so we can't comment further on their performance.
Two new lenses are being introduced at the same time as the NX100, the 20-50mm F3.5-5.6 and the 20mm F2.8 pancake, and both are available in kit form with the body. The standard zoom provides an unusual 35mm equivalent focal range of 30-75mm, not quite as wide or as long as most kit lenses. It also employs a lockable retracting design a la the Olympus 14-42mm (the Samsung lens is marginally shorter and a little lighter), which makes it easier to store in a coat pocket but slower to start shooting with the camera as you have to remember to unlock the lens (the NX100 prompts you to do this). Note that unlike the existing Samsung 18-55mm lens which shipped with the NX10, the new 20-50mm isn't optically stabilised, and as the NX system doesn't offer in-body stabilisation, this means that the NX100 completely misses out a key feature, something which compromises its effectiveness in low-light and also an important factor to bear in mind when comparing systems.
Both lenses feature the new i-Function button, an innocuous looking addition to the lens barrel which when pressed activates a sub-menu of key options and allows you to change them simply by turning the focus ring. Consecutive presses of the i-Function button moves through the five available settings - shutter speed and/or aperture, exposure compensation, white balance and ISO. The latter two settings can optionally be turned on or off in the main menu, allowing a degree of user customisation. While the i-Function button does provide a quick way of accessing certain key settings, I can't help feeling that the idea is best suited to a camera with an electronic viewfinder where you can hold it up to your eye, press the button and turn the focus ring with your left hand, and grip the camera with your right. Holding the NX10 at arm's length to view the settings while pressing the i-Function button and rotating the focus ring just seems cumbersome, especially when you can also use the rear control wheel to perform the same actions, something that I found myself doing by default.
Large metal neck strap eyelets are located on top of the NX100 at the sides, with the rear dominated by the fixed 3 inch LCD screen. On the left side of the body is a large cover that houses four different ports - DC In, HDMI for connecting the NX100 to a HD television or monitor, Remote socket for use with the optional remote shutter release, and AV Out. Having all of these connections in one location makes perfect sense. Next to this compartment is a small innocuous looking button marked with a C, which actually activates the Optical Preview (essentially a digital Depth of Field Preview) by default and can be alternatively set to either One Touch White Balance or One Touch RAW+, allowing further user customisation of the camera.
On the front of the Samsung NX100 is a small focus-assist and self-timer indicator lamp, lens release button, and the metal NX lens mount. Located on the bottom of the camera is the shared SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card slot and battery compartment, protected by a plastic lockable cover. The BP1310 battery provides up to 420 shots under the CIPA testing standard, on a par with the NX100's main rivals. Also found on the bottom of the camera is a metal tripod mount which is commendably located in-line with the centre of the lens mount.
The NX100 has a built-in dust-removal system that vibrates the sensor 60,000 times per second to remove any unwanted specks from appearing in your images. By default this feature is turned off, something of an oversight by Samsung, so make sure to enable it so that it works every time you start-up the camera (it only takes about one second). You can also perform a manual sensor clean at any point.
The NX100 has a so-called Smart Shoe that will accept compatible Samsung flashguns (currently the SEF-42A, SEF-20A and new SEF-15A models) and other accessories such as the previously mentioned EVF and the new GPS unit (GPS10). Also found on top of the NX100 are the mono mic, on/off switch, a small dial for setting the shutter speed and zooming into and out of images during playback, and a tactile shutter button. There's a traditional round dial with a positive click for the different exposure modes, which is a typical feature of DSLR cameras and enables you to quickly change between the various options. The usual selection of Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual are available for the more experienced photographers, and the more beginner-friendly Scene modes, Smart Auto and i-Scene mode are also accessed via this dial.
When the new i-Scene shooting mode is selected, the NX100 automatically recognise what type of lens has been attached and suggests a list of scene modes to choose from that are tailored to that specific lens. While this helps to narrow down the usual vast number of choices, it would have been more effective if combined with the Smart Auto shooting mode, rather than being a stand-alone mode, as you still have to pick from the scene modes that are presented to you.
Smart Auto is Samsung's equivalent of the intelligent auto modes on competitors from Panasonic (its Lumix range), Sony (the latest T-series Cyber-shots) and Canon (Digital IXUS family). You simply point the NX100 at a scene or subject and the camera hopefully recognizes it from 16 commonly used presets and automatically adjusts its settings to deliver optimum results. This means that it's not necessary for the user to manually delve into scene modes to call up the likes of 'landscape' or 'flower', making the NX100's operation merely a case of point and shoot.
In practice the Smart Auto system works very well, with the NX100 usually picking the most appropriate combination of settings for the current situation. Obviously not all situations are covered by the 16 scene modes that the system uses, but it does work for the majority of the time. It makes it possible for the less experienced photographer to easily take well-exposed, sharp pictures of people, scenery and close-ups by simply pointing and shooting the camera and is more intuitive than the traditional scene modes (which are still available).
Completing the mode dial is the familiar Video icon. The NX100 can record high-resolution HD 720p 1280x720 movies in the 16:9 aspect ratio and standard VGA 640x480 or 320x260 movies in the 4:3 aspect ratio, all using the H.264 format at 30 frames per second. The Movie mode is accessed by selecting the Movie option on the shooting mode dial and then pressing the shutter button to begin recording. Only Mono sound is recorded during video capture via the small internal mic on the top of of the camera. The HDMI port allows you to connect the NX100 to a high-def TV set, but unfortunately Samsung have decided to cut costs and not include a HDMI cable as standard in the box, which means that you'll have to purchase one separately to take advantage of this camera's HD connectivity.
You can shoot movies using the Program or Aperture-priority modes, giving you some control over exposure, and you can also change the aperture during recording, albeit at the expense of recording the mechanism on the soundtrack. The NX100 offers the ability to use any of the 9 Picture Wizard settings during video recording as well as still images, which instantly lends an interesting art-house effect to your home movies, the self-timer can be used, a voice clip can be added, and the Wind Cut function reduces the unwanted intrusion of wind noise.
You can also use a zoom lens during recording with focusing set as for still images by half-pressing the shutter button. On the negative side, you'll find that if you choose continuous auto-focus, areas of the video will be blurred before becoming sharp again as the camera tries to refocus and the noise of the AF system is a little intrusive. Using manual focus is trickier but will ultimately produce better looking and sounding movies. On a more positive note, having the AF system is better than not being able to auto-focus at all, as with most current DSLR cameras that offer video recording. Hand-holding the NX100 during movie recording inevitably leads to obvious shake, so for best results you'll need a dedicated video tripod.
Turning to the rear of the NX100, the NX100's 3-inch, 614,000-dot rear LCD screen is very impressive, incorporating AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that provides a number of key advantages over traditional LCD screens. These include easier viewing in bright sunshine and a very wide viewing angle, 10,000 times faster refresh rate than conventional LCDs, less power consumption and a high contrast ratio of 10,000:1.
Above the LCD screen is a small DISP button which cycles through the various display modes on the LCD screen and the accessory port for connecting the optional Electronic Viewfinder, protected by a removable plastic insert. To the right of the LCD is a familiar round navigation pad with four buttons above and two below. Starting at the top are very handily placed buttons for locking the exposure and setting exposure compensation, then the Menu button.
The main menu system on the NX100 is very straight-forward to use. There are seven main menus presented as a row of horizontal icons, much like Canon's DSLR camera range. Due to the large LCD screen and restricting the number of on-screen choices to six, the various options and icons are clear and legible. If you have never used a digital camera before, or you're upgrading from a more basic model, reading the easy-to-follow manual before you start is a good idea. Unfortunately Samsung have chosen not to supply it in printed format, so you can't carry it with you for easy reference.
The fourth button is the useful Fn, which provides quick and easy access to 7 of the most important camera settings, which are presented as a horizontal row of icons in the EVF or LCD screen. Used in combination with the four directions on the navigation pad that set the Focus type, White Balance, ISO and Metering, you really can access most of the NX100's key options with one press of a button, although changing them takes a couple more presses. Completing the rear controls are buttons for playing back and deleting your images, with the latter also doubling up as the Green button which is used in conjunction with other controls to reset them to default values, for example the exposure compensation.
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Surrounding the four navigation pad buttons is a circular control wheel which is used for, amongst other things, changing the aperture by turning from left to right and back again. As with the shooting mode dial, this is a common feature found on some DSLR cameras, so you'll be right at home if you've used a DSLR before - compact camera users will need to become accustomed to using this dial. In the Shutter Priority and Manual modes things are actually unexpectedly easy, as the Zoom dial on top of the camera comes into play. You simply turn the rear control wheel to to change the aperture and use the Zoom dial to set the shutter speed.
Unlike a conventional DSLR camera which uses a phase detection auto-focus system, the NX100 employs the same Contrast AF system that is commonly used by compact cameras. Experienced photographers will now be tutting loudly at the thought of having to use a traditionally slower system, but thankfully this decision hasn't resulted in a slow and unpredictable AF - quite the contrary in fact. The Samsung NX100's focusing speed is on a par with the speedy Panasonic G1 / GH1 cameras and most DSLRs. This means that it is noticeably quicker to lock onto the subject than the Olympus PEN series which crucially suffer from a 1/2 second lag. There were also very few occasions when the NX100 failed to lock onto the subject, especially when using the centre AF point, which can be usefully set to one of four different sizes.
There are four AF Area modes on offer, including Selection AF with a selectable focus area, Multi AF, Face Detection, and Self-Portrait Tracking, with Single, Continuous and Manual AF Modes available. The NX100 also has a useful AF Priority function that begins focusing as soon as you point the camera. Manual focusing is assisted by the 'enlarged display' function. Once you have selected manual focus mode on the lens barrel, turning the manual focus ring automatically increases the magnification on the LCD display, which is a big help in getting the focus spot on. This is real, non-interpolated magnification, very useful for accurate manual focusing - provided you find a way to steady the camera. The screen cleverly returns to normal magnification when you stop using the manual focus ring for a few seconds. Metering options include Multi, Center-weighted and Spot, while the ISO range runs from 100-6400. There are 6 white balance presets plus Auto and Custom settings and the ability to set a precise Kelvin value, and if you can't make up your mind the white balance, exposure and even the Picture Wizard settings can all be bracketed.
The start-up time from turning the NX100 on to being ready to take a photo is impressively quick at around 1 second. The NX100 successfully achieves focus most of the time with the 20-50mm kit lens, helped by the AF assist lamp - the NX100 doesn't have any notable problems locking onto the subject in low-light situations. It takes about 1 second to store a JPEG image, allowing you to keep shooting as they are being recorded onto the memory card, with a brief LCD blackout between each image. Storing a single RAW image takes around 4 seconds, but thankfully it doesn't lock up the camera in any way - you can use the menu system or shoot another image while the first file is being written to memory. The Samsung NX100 has a fairly good Burst mode which enables you to take 3 frames per second for up to 10 JPEG images at the highest image quality, or 3 RAW images. The interesting Burst mode shoots at 30fps for 30 shots with a single press of the shutter button, but only for 1.4 megapixel JPEGs.
Once you have captured a photo the Samsung NX100 has a fairly good range of options when it comes to playing, reviewing and managing your images. You can instantly scroll through the images that you have taken, view thumbnails (up to 20 onscreen at the same time), zoom in and out up to 7.2x magnification, view slideshows, delete and protect an image and set the print order. The Image Edit option offers a number of different ways to alter the look of an already-captured photo, including redeye fix, backlight, changing the photo style, resizing, rotating, face retouch and apply smart filters. The DISP button toggles detailed settings information about each picture on and off, such as the ISO rating and aperture / shutter speed, and there are small brightness and RGB histograms available.


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Obama, Spare the Lectures and Approve Keystone
It's highly unusual for an American envoy to give interviews interpreting and parsing the meaning of a U.S. president's speech. David Jacobson wouldn't have done that without clearance from the White House.
Jacobson was explaining Barack Obama's many references to climate change in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and the unstated connection to the Keystone XL pipeline project, from Alberta to the Gulf Coast of Texas.
This isn't about the pipeline, it's about the Alberta oilsands, and greenhouse-gas emissions from bitumen. It's about environmental activists in the U.S. making Keystone their line in the sand on climate change. Thousands are expected to demonstrate at the White House on Sunday.
Obama has a decision to make — to approve or not to approve Keystone. Jacobson said it would be helpful if Canada could reiterate its commitment to progress on climate change, striking a balance between the economy and the environment.
"I think there are an awful lot of people who are trying to make up their minds and trying to draw the right balance between these two things," Jacobson said, "who I think will be moved by progress."
Well, it really only matters what two people think, what Secretary of State John Kerry recommends, and what the president decides. As for commitments, Obama and Stephen Harper launched the Clean Energy Dialogue in 2009, and both countries support the emissions reductions targets in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord of 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020.
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Markets dig Janet Yellen's 'loose language'April 16, 2014: 2:07 PM ET
The scene at the Economic Club of New York meeting today had the feel of a rock concert, but instead of T-shirts and sneakers, it was blue pin-stripes and brown wing-tips.
The mood in the lobby outside the room at the Marriott Marquis where Janet Yellen would speak seemed downright giddy.
Blackstone Chairman & CEO Steve Schwarzman was smiling and shaking hands with old friends.
The grin on Former SEC Chief William Donaldson's face looked like he had something funny he wanted to tell an old colleague as he made his way across the room.
There was a genuine feeling of warmth as older Wall Street scions mixed with younger hedge fund hotshots.
They were all there to cheer their diva of monetary policy, Janet Yellen.
And the Federal Reserve Chairman didn't disappoint the crowd with talk of premature tightening or runaway inflation. Instead she kept to her new tune: Interest rates will likely stay at current levels "for a considerable time after asset purchase program ends," she said.
And it was exactly what the room wanted to hear and the rest of Wall Street too.
Going into Yellen's speech, the Dow was up over 100 points. While it dipped into 90-point gain territory during some parts of her comments, it was up almost 120 points by the time she stopped talking.
The markets stayed up for the rest of the day, extending a three-day uptick.
Related: Feel good Wednesday: Markets up 1%
It was a far cry from her performance at her first press conference nearly a month ago when she rocked Wall Street by suggesting that the Fed might begin tightening rates six months after finishing its asset purchases. Yellen later spent a considerable amount of time trying to soothe the markets following what many have called her first big faux pas.
But there was no hint of that in today's speech before the Economic Club of New York, an august group that was founded back in 1907 and has Wall Street's cream of the crop in its ranks.
Related: Fed minutes: Janet Yellen has many friends
Yellen covered many of the things she has been saying even before she became Fed chair: the recovery in the labor force is exceptionally slow, and that the Fed isn't on some pre-set course to adjust the pace of purchases. She said the Fed will adjust policy when it feels it has to.
She also added that she thought much of the recent weakness is related to the harsh winter weather and that she and her colleagues are working to develop a more nuanced judgment about "when the recovery of the labor market will be materially complete."
Some StockTwits traders weren't impressed by the lack of concrete details.
"$SPY never heard so much talking without saying anything," said OutTheBull.
"$SPY Does anyone else find it fishy that Yellen makes these dovish statements every week or two as the market violently swings?," said ink.
Some listeners were also disappointed that there were only four questions in the Q&A period. The two inflation curmudgeon questions came from Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein.
He asked if Yellen would raise the federal funds rate above the inflation rate if she had to.
Yellen sidestepped details and said, "If we get over 2% on the inflation rate as the recovery proceeds it's obvious we will have to change monetary policy so we don't overshoot our inflation goal."
The other question from Feldstein: How will the Fed prevent itself from getting behind the curve on inflation?
Yellen said that the Fed will look at a wide variety of indicators. "One measure of the labor market slack is wage pressures that can translate into price pressures."
Then she added, "There might be surprises".
She would not rule out that inflation levels could rise to where the Fed would have to act on them.
While she said she didn't anticipate that, "there could be a lot of twists and turns."
CNNMoney's Patrick M. Sheridan contributed to this report.


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To help those victims, Henrietta-based EagleView Technologies launched a website to show aerial images depicting what Harvey left in its wake.
Users can enter a street address to see before and after images side-by-side. These images, in some cases just hours old, show areas that have been impacted by flooding and the extent of damage caused by high winds.
"We did something similar in 2008 for Hurricane Ike when that hit the greater Houston area," said Frank Giuffrida, vice president of engineering at EagleView. "Galveston Island was evacuated and basically shut off. FEMA didn't let folks back for several weeks."
EagleView, formerly known as Pictometry, provides aerial imagery and data analytics for local and federal government agencies, most of which is captured by its fleet of planes equipped with specialized cameras and backed by powerful software.
Over the years, the company has captured more than 350 million images, covering more than 90 percent of the most populated areas in the United States.
They're capturing these images for their clients: state and local governments or insurance companies. In this instance, that work can also benefit the general public in a real and immediate way.
"In this case, we have complete coverage of that whole Gulf Coast area," Guiffrida. That meant EagleView already had a library of "before" images, all captured within the last two years.
Aerial photo of Houston neighborhood shows damage to houses after Hurricane Harvey (Photo: Provided by EagleView)
For other major storms when they didn't have that coverage, like Hurricane Katrina in 2005, they could go out and capture it as the storm approached.
It's a huge challenge, of course, to do aerial photography in the days just before or just after a major storm.
The weather is only one of the challenges the pilots face. More difficult are the temporary flight restrictions that get put into place while the Coast Guard conducts search and rescue operations, or when Air Force One brings the president to town.
"Planning and staging are a huge part of this process," Guiffrida said. "As soon as it becomes safe to fly, we'll be opportunistic about where we can go."
EagleView deployed 22 planes to the Houston area in the days before Harvey hit, getting them pre-positioned based on where the impact was forecast to be most severe.
They deployed a similar number to Florida as Hurricane Irma approached a week after Harvey, and they'll be prepared to deploy for other storms that follow.
Once the worst of Harvey passed and conditions were safe, those planes in Texas took to the air and started capturing images.
Within a few days, they had logged more than 350 flight hours and covered roughly 5,600 square miles, capturing about a million images. They're still flying, continuing to record conditions on the ground as they evolve.
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Pictometry was founded by John Ciampa, a former Rochester Institute of Technology professor, and Stephen Schultz, an RIT graduate.
The company and the school have had a long partnership, and RIT's research in the field of aerial imaging has continued to push forward the boundaries of what is possible.
Whether the images are captured by airplanes, remotely piloted drones, or satellites high above the earth, building a library of high-resolution images is just the first step.
"Nobody cares about the pictures anymore," says RIT professor Carl Salvaggio. "A person or even a team of people can't look at a million images. We have to teach computers to look at those batches and tell us what's interesting."
He and his colleagues at RIT's Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory are doing just that. Whether it's evaluating the health of each plant in a cornfield or inspecting gas pipelines in remote areas, the images captured from above are just a means to an end.
"When you talk to a utility company like RG&E, they don't want 8,000 images of power lines," Salvaggio said. "They want to know which poles have broken conductors or wires in need of repair."
Computers use machine learning to do that, analyzing each of the images, understanding what each image shows, and kicking out a report for repair crews with the location of problem spots.
Over the last decade, drones have become cheaper and the quality of pictures they take keeps improving. The weakest link? The humans who pilot them.
"Pilots are not good at keeping the camera aimed straight down, at flying straight, at keeping a consistent altitude," Salvaggio said. "All of those things affect the quality of the images. That's why we're working on totally autonomous flight."
Technology is already pretty good for having a drone fly itself from point to point. The goal would be to have a human launch a drone, have it recognize its surroundings and plot its own course.
"To analyze storm damage, for example, we're teaching the camera to fly up to about 150 feet, begin to understand the geography of a rooftop, and build a 3-D model," Salvaggio explains. "Then it flies 10 feet above the building taking pictures."
And within RIT's drone program is a specialty lab called IPLER — the Information Products Lab for Emergency Response. Researchers there have worked on projects to monitor forest fires and to assess flood and earthquake damage.
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After a massive event like Hurricane Harvey, insurance companies are going to be overwhelmed with calls from policyholders. One of the things that EagleView can do is create a heat map to identify the areas that have been hit the hardest.
"They can't send claims adjustors to every home on day one," Giuffrida said.
While they're doing that, machine learning algorithms can start the process of assessing damage on individual homes. In some cases, that can be done from images captured by manned aircraft. In other cases, they use drones, which can get much closer to the damaged structure.
It's a service EagleView has been offering for several years, and they work with 18 of the top 20 property and casualty insurance carriers in the United States.
They can kick out a report that assesses how much damage a homeowner has endured, and in many cases the imagery is sufficient to allowing adjusters to close claims without physically visiting the property.
Machine-learning applied imagery from Hurricane Harvey. (Photo: EagleView Technologies)
"Machine learning is relatively new technology," Giuffrida said. "It's going to become better and better with time."
One of the other applications for this technology is property assessment.
"An assessor doesn't have the bandwidth to visit every single home in a jurisdiction every year," Guiffrida said. Aerial imagery can capture 50,000 homes, compare it to images from a year earlier, detecting which ones have undergone significant changes.


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Whether you are new to the gym or an experienced weight lifter, the type of rep ranges you train within are a crucial factor when working toward your fitness goals. There are multiple benefits to each specific rep range, which can help you break through strength and size plateaus and allow you to train more effectively in the gym.
Low Rep Range
Let's start on the low end. Between one and five reps is an average low-end rep range, which is mainly used for building strength. If you want to get big, you gotta lift big, right? Progressive overload is truly one of the key factors to encourage long-term growth. That being said, low reps have been criticized for not having enough time under tension for stimulating an effective amount of hypertrophy. Although sets with higher weight and lower reps may not contain as much time under tension as high-rep sets, the strength you build from your low-rep sets will likely transfer into the ability to lift heavier weights for higher reps. This allows for one to break through plateaus and push past previous physical limits.
Moderate Rep Range
After you've worked on your strength, there comes the moderate rep range of around 8 to 15 repetitions. The moderate rep range has shown great results paired with the average lifting tempo due to the amount of time under tension for a working muscle group. Using an average lifting tempo (2-0-2-0), you will usually achieve a time under tension anywhere from 40 to 70 seconds using moderate reps, which is the ideal time for maximizing hypertrophy. Now with the moderate rep range, the first few reps of each set may seem pretty easy. Unlike the low rep range, the muscle group being trained will start to experience a buildup in lactic acid as the reps continue. This effective and sometimes painful process will allow for a surge in the body's testosterone, as well as growth hormone levels. The moderate rep range is the most popular rep range in use today, but has been praised as the best of both worlds to give you a great mix of lifting weight while maximizing the types of muscle fibers being affected.
High Rep Range
Now, high-rep sets can be some of the most painful you've ever experienced. A higher rep range can be considered anywhere from 15 to 20 reps, and even more. This rep range is a challenge due to the similar lactic acid buildup found in our moderate rep range, only amplified. Using a quick lifting tempo (1-0-1-0), you are able to achieve twenty or more reps within the optimal 40- to 70-second range. Although your body will start to fatigue drastically near the end, these rep ranges provide a serious pump, and will not fail in shuttling all the blood into the muscle group being trained. A higher rep set is great for a pre-fatigue set, warm-up set, and even finishing or burnout sets. Higher and explosive rep ranges are a great tool for any serious training program.
When you combine all of these rep ranges in proper phases, you can create a personalized and effective training program that will put you on a fast track toward your fitness goals. The constant change and shock applied to the body when programs and rep ranges change allows for higher success in breaking strength and size plateaus, but ultimately allows you to train with precision towards personal fitness goals!


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The Loser wild flare lets the player declare that both sides lose the encounter. The actual text is:
As a main player, before encounter cards are selected, you may declare that both sides lose, sending all involved ships to the warp.
I am not clear on how exactly to resolve this. The loser flare must be played before encounter cards are played, but it doesn't explicitly state that encounter cards don't get played even though the outcome is already determined. Should the main players still play their encounter cards? This could matter for example for the Oracle super flare:
As a main player, you may end an encounter after your opponent reveals his or her card. Your opponent takes back his or her card, all ships in the gate return to colonies, and play continues as if a deal had been made.
or perhaps for the Vacuum wild flare:
For each main player other than you who reveals an attack card, you may retrieve one ship from the warp.
and the Chosen super flare:
You may keep any non-encounter cards drawn from the deck while drawing for divine intervention.
If cards don't get played, is there still a Reveal phase? I haven't read every card in detail so it's possible that this actually doesn't matter, but I would still like to know.


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Hello, and welcome to Lemonade Tales! Pardon the dust while I get things rolling. I hope you enjoy the stories of inspiration, courage, and grace. I am humbled by each and every person and their personal struggles. This is the …Read More...
The Gift: A baby for only 30 days
We can only imagine what you and your family have been through over the last several weeks and months but we wanted to share how much Baby L has touched our lives as well as so many people we love.
Two years ago, my husband and I found out we could not have children. I have terrible scarring on my tubes from a very serious viral infection, I had when I was 19 years old. We desperately wanted to start a family of our own and soon found our path included foster care – in the hopes of adopting. This was not a decision we took lightly as we spent hours in interviews, filled out stacks and stacks of paperwork, participated in hours of trainings, completed several different types of background checks and had strangers in our home on an almost weekly basis. But we felt called to help children and possibly adopt one or two someday.
About a year and a half ago, we finally received our licensing from the state of North Carolina. We soon were able to attend some matching events and met a 10 year boy – Chris that touched our hearts. He had a younger sister, Sadie. We followed the process of getting to know them and soon they were placed in our home.
It didn't take long to realize how much emotional baggage these children came with. 15 homes and 10 schools in 5 years, has a pretty profound effect on kids. Not to mention what got them into foster care and open for adoption in the first place. We soon realized that they had many serious issues, issues that we simply couldn't take on for our family. Therapy and Psychiatric appointments, stealing, lying, physically trying to hurt themselves or us, issues with food, learning disabilities and so much more. It became very overwhelming and on March 9th, after more than 8 months in our home, it was agreed the children needed to be separated and moved to a higher level of care in therapeutic foster homes. Our dream of adopting them came crashing down. We were heartbroken.
The home we had moved into specifically to grow our family was suddenly empty. The mini van we traded in for my convertible seemed useless. The school buses that went by everyday were reminders of how crushed we were. How does a parent move on without two children they loved? It was an impossible situation that left a very deep hole in our hearts.
Then we got the call about Baby L needing a home. We agreed to take her in even though we didn't have a single thing in our home for babies. We had been prepared for tweens. We put a call out to our community and church and we were bombarded with gifts of lovingly worn hand me downs and baby items. The list is so long of the people who donated and supported us! Within 36 hours our home was ready for a baby. We picked up Baby L from UNC and immediately knew she was special.
Her smile. Her innocence. Her beauty. She is simply amazing. From moment one, she trusted us and loved us. And we loved her. We kept telling ourselves the goal of Foster care is family reunification, so our job was to simply take care of her temporarily. However, we couldn't do that. We couldn't love her just a little. We found ourselves loving her with our whole hearts. She filled our home with laughter, baby things and much needed purpose. She gave us a focus to help her heal and to encourage her growth. We found ourselves totally and completely in love.
And everyone who met her did too. My husband's family in Michigan was going through a very tough health crisis around the time we got the call to pick up Baby L. His father had just been diagnosed with cancer. A very treatable form of cancer, but still very scary. We sent videos and photos of Baby L being cute and sweet to them and that helped them get through his difficult hospital stay with smiles. They were smitten with this baby girl, they never even met and probably never will meet.
Our across the street neighbor found out her 100 year old mother was starting to pass. She watched Baby L for a couple hours while I had meetings for my business for a couple of days during that time and she was a lovely distraction of fun and joy for her. She fell in love with her too.
Everywhere we went, people stopped us to share that Baby L is so beautiful. And we beamed because we couldn't have agreed more. She is beautiful inside and out. We call Baby L our most precious gift, an angel on this Earth. She helped to heal our hearts and brought so much joy into our home. She changed us for the better.
As shared before, we really wanted to keep an open relationship with your family. We would love Baby L to stay in our lives in some way – even small way. Crazy Aunt and Uncle? Family Friend's, whatever. But we understand if it is too hard… to let us in. That this has been a difficult time for you – the family, and we are only reminders of the fact that strangers had your baby. Baby L is family to us. And that makes you all family too. We are here. We would love to help. Babysit. Or just meet up for coffee…so we can give her a hug and just lay eyes on her. We would like to see her grow up and to be a support for you all. At the very least we wanted you to have this letter. We wanted Baby L to know how special she is and how much she positively affected our lives, even though she was just a baby. She has changed us. She helped to heal us in a way noone or nothing else could of. And we are so extremely thankful.
We now have a three-week old baby boy, named Zeke in our home that is open for adoption. We are hoping to make him a permanent part of our family. Baby L helped us cross the bridge of pain and heartache to get to this amazing and very special place in our lives. We are forever grateful and we will never forget her. She has a place in our hearts for eternity.
God Bless.
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The last major version of WordPress; WordPress 3.1 was released back in February and the team had already begun planning for WordPress 3.2 back in March.
It looks like most of those plans are now finally beginning to take shape with the release of WordPress 3.2 Beta 1. WordPress 3.2 will contain several new changes including dropping support for older technologies like PHP4 and MySQL4 among other things. WordPress 3.2 requires PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0 to run.
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Road connecting the city of Alvares Machado, the city of Colonel goulart, both located in upstate sao paulo, brasil.Panoramica fronted the entrance to the Campo Belo Resort. Estrada que liga a cidade de álvares machado, á cidade de coronel goulart, ambas localizadas no interior do estado de são paulo, brasil.Panoramica de fronte a entrada do Campo Belo Resort.
Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.


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When Liz Pride was talking with a friend a few days ago about her ideal man, she found a two-dimensional version close at hand: on the L.L. Bean website.
Pride, a Cape Elizabeth native who now lives in Philadelphia, said those toned and tanned guys clad in flannel and down jackets pretty much fit the picture in her head, prompting her to launch a Tumblr site called "Your LL Bean Boyfriend."
Tumblr is a social networking platform consisting mostly of photos posted by users, usually around a single theme. The "Your LL Bean Boyfriend" Tumblr includes screen shots of Bean models wearing a "Heritage Sweater" or a 'Wicked Good Flannel Shirt." Pride gives the models names and provides what she imagines as snippets of things an ideal boyfriend would say:
"I just saw a Groupon for scuba diving lessons," Thomas told me. "What do you think? We could do them together and then go for a week of scuba diving in La Ceiba."
That's her fantasy conversation with Mr. Wicked Good Flannel Shirt, while she imagines that Mr. Heritage Sweater would fulfill her longing for a better world: "I signed us up to help with the food drive," Damien said. "I know how that's one of your favorite things to do during the holidays."
Pride's musings and the photos of hot Bean models — three words probably not intended to be uttered together — have gone viral on the Internet.
Within a few hours of her first posting Monday, Pride had a few hundred people following her. By Wednesday, nearly 4,500 had signed up to make sure they got regular updates on their fantasy L.L. Bean boyfriends, nearly 1,000 had sent tweets and more than 25,000 had shared the site with friends on Facebook.
Somewhere, Leon Leonwood Bean is scratching his head and wondering what his simple hunting and fishing store has come to.
Pride said that her image of the ideal man was probably shaped a bit by her Maine background, so those pictures of male models in the Maine woods or alongside a lake probably strike some sort of primal chord inside her.
"It's something that I've always known. It's just the concept of a guy who's really outdoorsy," Pride said.
But Bean shirts and sweaters add a certain amount of sizzle, she said.
"The clothing is definitely a part of it," she said. "The flannel shirt is incredibly attractive and a lot of people are commenting, 'Oh my God, I want a man with a cable knit sweater.' I think a lot of guys are going to get sweaters from Bean for Christmas. "
Bean is hoping she's right.
"We're just going to watch it like everybody else," said company spokeswoman Carolyn Beem, recognizing that the publicity is something that would lead a marketing consultant to submit a seven-figure invoice. "We think that it's a load of fun. It's well-written and it's funny."
Beem said amid the holiday rush, it's hard to tell if the site has sent hordes of people to the company's sites in search of Thomas' and Damien's friends, although she said she wouldn't be surprised to see a jump in hits.
Bean, of course, used to use employees as models in its catalogues — Pride said the parent of a childhood friend worked for the company and the family was pictured in one catalog.
But Bean started hiring models at some point, and Beem said the company now goes to modeling agencies in New York and Boston, seeking "people that are like us, but are better-looking."
That translates into good-looking, rugged, casual and outdoorsy types, she said, just like Pride envisions, although she admits to a preference for guys who are "a little hairier."
Pride said she anticipates spending a chunk of her free time tending to her L.L. Bean boyfriends, as long as they hold her interest — likely a pretty long time-frame — and continue to gain followers.
"People are like, 'Bless you for making this,' " she said. "I think it's just sort of a funny fantasy."
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servo.Write(150); // should go one directionservo.Write(30); // should go the other direction.servo.Write(90); // should stop.servo.Write(80); // should go one direction slowly.servo.Write(100); // should go the other direction slowly.
I made a test, really didn't work like I want.
The servo pulses are automatically refreshed every 20mS. If the Speed register is zero (0x00) then the servo is simply set to the requested position. On power up the Speed registers are set to zero to give full speed, so unless you need to slow them down the Speed registers can be ignored. If the Speed register is set to something other than zero then that value is added to the current position every 20mS until the target position is reached. If you wish to move from 1000 to 2000 and the Speed register is set to 10, then it will take 2 seconds to reach the set position. The formula for the time it will take to make the move is:((Target position-Start position)/Speed Reg)*20mSHere are some examples:Start Position Target Position Speed Reg Time for Move2000 1000 10 2000mS (2Sec)1000 2000 10 2000mS (2Sec)1000 2000 1 20000mS (20Sec)1000 2000 100 200mS (0.2Sec)1234 1987 69 220mS (0.22Sec)
That is for a servo modified for continous rotation and not an unmodified servo.
void moveServo(int finalPosition, int stepTime);
Quotevoid moveServo(int finalPosition, int stepTime);The hard part is integrating this thing into the rest of the program, so the updates are made on nice even 20-msec time intervals, but it doesn't impact operation of other routines. Probably needa timer interrupt to call the update code.