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Ever wonder what your wedding photos would be like if they were paired with lyrics from Taylor Swift's new album 1989? Neither did these Oregon couples, but we did it anyway!
Portland's Coolest New Wedding Band
Combining soulful vocals and harmonies reminiscent of Mumford and Sons, Portland's newest and coolest wedding banjo band, the Junebugs, breathe new life into old favorites and radio hits. Decked out in suspenders, spectacles and bow ties, the Junebugs formed as a three-piece in 2014 with a pared-down sound featuring a guitar, banjo and drums. "We don't consider ourselves a cover band, even though we write only 10 percent of the music we play," says singer and banjo player Moses Barrett, "we're applying the jazz idea of 'playing the standard' to the American songbook."
It's hard not to want to get up and dance to their countrified version of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" or Lorde's "Royals" complete with banjo solos. A wedding package with the Junebugs includes learning a new song of the soon-to-be newlyweds' request, which is customarily a couple's first dance song. (Their rendition of Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" rocked a recent wedding.) As evidence of their popularity, weddings are booking about six months out. And for the Junebugs, the feeling is mutual. "When you knock it out of the park," says Barrett, "it's a really special feeling."


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Autumn Greetings from ICORN - and an Important Meeting Alert!
In less than a month from now, the Chinese writer, journalist and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. Arrested in June 2009 and convicted by the Chinese authorities to 11 years of imprisonment, the courage and the destiny of Liu Xiaobo reminds us about the importance and urgency of ICORN's work: Mobilising as many cities of refuge as possible in Europe and beyond, offering persecuted writers a safe haven where they can write and express themselves freely, without fear of being censored or silenced.
So far this year we have received 25 applications from persecuted writers in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, the Far East, Europe and Latin America. Eight writers have arrived in ICORN cities so far this year, and we are expecting two more to arrive safely within the next two weeks. Seven ICORN member cities have invited writers recently, and are working on helping them out by securing visas and safe travel. Another three more cities are ready to invite a new writer shortly. Still, including the writers on their way to an ICORN city, we have more than 40 writers currently on our waiting list.
We are glad also to be able to say that more and more cities are on their way to become ICORN members. At present counting 32 member cities and regions, ICORN expects the cities of Paris, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Krakow and Reykjavik to join in the next months. Other European cities are also considering ICORN membership, while negotiations are ongoing with cities in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. So, within a time horizon of only a few years, ICORN should have the potential to become a truly global organisation.
During ICORN's board meeting in Brussels mid October 2010, the Chairwoman Heidi Hautala of the European Parliament Subcommittee of Human Rights' speech to the Frankfurt ICORN General Assembly was followed up with meetings between the ICORN board and representatives of both the European Parliament and the European Commission. The ICORN board also took the opportunity to ratify the official ICORN documents as elaborated and adjusted by the Frankfurt assembly. The final versions of the ICORN Charter and Statutes are available here.
Also since our Frankfurt assembly, ICORN guest writers have been extensively taking part in literary activities and events in and around their host cities. Many have also (not at least thanks to the "Shahrazad - stories for life" project) been travelling throughout Europe and beyond, performing for instance at the book fairs in Gothenburg and Frankfurt, and at the Tokyo World Congress of PEN International. Just to mention a few upcoming events: Next weekend Danish PEN is mobilising all the Danish ICORN cities and their guest writers for events during the Copenhagen Book Fair, among others featuring the Danish Minister of Culture. On 10 December 2010 the ICORN member region of Tuscany invites ICORN guest writers Philo Ikonya and Mansur Rajih to perform at their Nelson Mandela Forum, where as many as between 8-9000 young people between 14 and 18 years old will be attending.
Then, time has come to announce the major and important ICORN event for 2011, in the capital of Europe. Do mark the dates already: ICORN writers, coordinators, observers and other guests will be invited to take part in the 2011 ICORN membership meeting in Brussels from 24 -27 March 2011.
ICORN member city Brussels/Passa Porta House of Literature will be our official host. The Passa Porta International Literature Festival (festival theme: "On the move") coincides with our meeting, and we will be invited guests to the major festival events. We expect also ICORN writers to be invited to participate in several of the Passa Porta literary events.
Lots of synergies will be drawn from the fact that PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and Halma's network of 26 literary centres in Europe are organising their annual conferences in conjunction with our ICORN meeting. We will all be convening at the major KVS theatre, we will be sharing an opening event and a workshop session, and will be collectively invited to a reception by the Lord Mayor of Brussels.
But most of all, our 24-27 March meeting will be the opportunity in 2011 for all ICORN coordinators, writers, observers and other guests to discuss pressing issues, share vital experiences, meet with old and new friends and colleagues, and gather huge amounts of inspiration for all the fantastic and immensely important work to be performed in and through the ICORN member cities in the future.
The official call for the Brussels membership meeting 24-27 March 2011 will arrive in a mailbox near you before 15 December 2010. Meanwhile, please follow this website for updates, and please do not hesitate to contact the ICORN Administration Centre for any comment, question or inquiry.
Stavanger, 11 November 2010
Helge Lunde, Executive Director, ICORN
Elisabeth Dyvik, Programme Director, ICORN
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Post subject: RL Application process questions....
Potential Rebel Pilot wrote:
OK, I was going to send a private message, but then thought maybe other people would want to know the answers too.
So, if I may ask, how does the approval process work?
Once someone submits their application, are they 'assigned' to the judges?
Or is it geographical?
And I assume that pilot applications are judged by pilots, not just any RL judge .
I'm just curious how the process works
I know, or at least I think I do, that the judges are volunteers with real lives that sometimes take priority over Star Wars .
How many LCJs are there for Rebel pilots?
Also, when I go to the RL "Join" page, at the bottom there is a "Rebel Legion Membership Application" link.
This seems to only go to the RL Forum registration.
Where does one find the "application" to submit with the photos?
Or do you just have to be a registered RL Forum user to submit?
If this is not appropriate for the Forum, please feel free to remove it...
Actually, these are great questions. Hopefully I can give you the answers you need:
Are you 'assigned' to a judge?
No, not exactly. Once your costume submission is in the queue, it's visible to all the Legion's Costume Judges. The judges have an area where they can discuss your submission and make comments. At some point one judge will take lead on your submission. Usually it's the first judge to comment.
Is judge assignment geographical?
No. the LCJ looking at your costume could be around the corner from you, or around the world.
Which LCJ will judge pilot costumes?
Pilot costumes are judged soley by the Legion's Pilot Judges. People who know the costume and standards VERY well. We currently have five (5) Pilot LCJs.
Are the LCJs volunteers with 'real' lives?
LOL, yes. We're all volunteers with real lives that sometimes take priority over Star Wars (gasp!).
The LCJs try very hard to be efficient and responsive with all submissions, but sometimes the ball gets dropped. We're human, not droids ... it happens, but we try to keep it to a minimum. Large-scale events like SDCC, Celebrations, Dragon*Con, etc., may also cause delays in responses.
How does the submission process work?
It's actually very easy - and very hard - at the same time. Once you submit your costume, it goes through the process listed in the first Q&A above. From there one of two things happen. Either your submission passes, or the judges will contact you with items that may need correction (wrong item, missing item, etc.) If you pass, your submission will be photoshopped into a new profile pic. Once that's done, the LCJ in charge of your submission will approve it, you'll get an email, and then your costume will be officially part of the Rebel Legion. If corrections are required, you'll be given a deadline for new photos to be sent in showing the fix. Then, once the LCJs are satisfied, you'll be approved as I mentioned above. If your costume requires EXTENSIVE changes that may take a long bit of time to handle, then your LCJ may suggest that he deny your submission, so you can re-submit once the changes are done. That keeps the submission from hanging out in the queue forever.
If the LCJ requests changes, does that mean they hate me and think my costume sucks?
No, that's not the case at all. The LCJs are charged with upholding the RL Costume Standards as well as providing information so that you can have the most accurate costume possible. Sometimes the changes requested are little tweaks that will make your costume fit or look better. Sometimes the changes are bigger due to misinformation floating out there in the web. The Standards change over time, so what might have been accepted in the past, might not be accepted now. To insure the best reception for your submission, ALWAYS REFER TO THE STANDARDS ... NOT ANOTHER APPROVED COSTUME!
How do I join exactly? On the "Join the Rebel Legion" page of the website, at the bottom there is a "Rebel Legion Membership Application" link. This seems to only go to the RL Forum registration. Where does one find the "application" to submit with the photos? Or do you just have to be a registered RL Forum user to submit??
Well, you're halfway there. That is the link you need to use, and yes, you need to be a registered RL forum user to submit. Once you're logged on the forums, you should see a "My Costumes" link at the top under "Forum and Costume" controls. Click that and then on the next page, click the "Add Costume" link. If it's you're first costume, then the verbiage might be a little different, but not much.
What kind of photos should I sent?
The more the better. Nice, clear and large, against a plain background are best. Ideally the LCJs prefer the following: front, back, right side, left side, and at least one with the helmet off. Detail photos showing item details like pockets, collar mods, etc. are always good too.
How do I join the RLSC (Rebel Legion Starfighter Command - Pilot Detachment) and a Squadron once I'm approved? And how do I know what Squadron to join?
Once approved, all you need to do is request to join the RLSC in this thread:
. Then, you contact the Squadron attached to your Base via their forums and request to join. That's all it takes.
So there you go, hope all this helped make things clearer for you!
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CMCs were held back for some time by lengthy cycle times, high cost and feasibility issues, but in the past year the landscape shifted considerably for two reasons: First, in May, engine maker Rolls-Royce acquired CMC manufacturer Hyper-Therm HTC, signaling its intent to put the material to use in its engines. Then, in June, GE Aviation announced it would build a new plant in Asheville, N.C. for the manufacture of CMC jet engine parts. Both actions signaled serious and substantial commitment of capital to development and commercial application of a material whose time, apparently, has come.
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The story behind this shift is explored in depth this month in the feature article "Ceramic-matrix composites heat up" (click on the title under "Editor's Picks," at top right). Author Karen Wood reveals just how seriously CMCs are being assessed, and where and how they'll be used in next-generation jet engines.
You'll also notice, in the article, that a third player in the commercial jet engine market, Pratt & Whitney, reports that it has decided, at least for now, against use of CMCs due to concerns about the "maturity" of the material. When you read this, you might wonder, as I did, about how to make sense of these decisions.
Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney are multi-billion dollar companies. Each has manufactured quality jet engines for decades. Each employs engineers and material scientists who must have approximately equivalent knowledge and abilities. Each makes business decisions based on careful cost/benefit analysis and prospects for long-term success. So, how is it that Pratt & Whitney deems CMCs a nonstarter, while GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce see the material as a major ingredient of their future engine designs?
It may be that Pratt & Whitney's corporate culture is more risk averse, and perhaps that is the sum total what separates two yes votes from a no vote, here. But I see an additional factor at work: Early adopters become early adapters.
Clearly, GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce see in CMCs real potential for lightweighting their engines. But that does not make them any less interested than Pratt & Whitney in avoiding risk. GE and Rolls-Royce have risked plenty, buying a company and opening a new plant, respectively. But I argue that once a company makes such a decision, the same desire to avoid risk makes these early adopters into energetic and creative adapters. Rolls-Royce and GE Aviation understand clearly that applying CMCs to engines is not a slam dunk. If it were easy, it would have been done already.
With each investment, then, comes a powerful incentive to make that investment pay off. The decision to adopt a new material makes the organization an eager innovator, willing to be more aggressive and think outside the proverbial box — from the lab table to the shop floor — to make the risk worth the taking. When a company invests heavily in a new technology, employees take notice. They see that their employer is venturing into new territory, and they want to make that venture successful. And they want to be a part of that success.
The matrix
The matrix binds the fiber reinforcement, gives the composite component its shape and determines its surface quality. A composite matrix may be a polymer, ceramic, metal or carbon. Here's a guide to selection.
Boeing 787 Update
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Oven-cured, vacuum-bagged prepregs show promise in production primary structures.


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How to Use a Toyota Remote Car Starterby Leonardo R. Grabkowski
Toyota's VIP remote start system is an excellent feature that allows you to crank your engine from a distance, and even pre-set your air conditioning or heat to cool or warm the vehicle. If you didn't get remote start on your vehicle, see your local dealer about adding the feature.
Step 1
Make sure you are no further than 80 feet from your vehicle before using your remote starter. The Toyota remote has a maximum range of 80 feet.
Step 2
Press the "lock" button (which is a symbol of a closed lock) twice quickly, and then press and hold the button for three seconds. The doors in your Toyota will automatically lock and the engine will start.
Press the "unlock" (symbol of an open lock) button to turn your engine off.
- Don't worry about vehicle security. The Toyota remote start feature automatically shuts the engine off if the doors are opened. The vehicle cannot be driven without the key, so there is no risk of theft.
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Prime words. Compelling art. Momentous beginnings. Portal is your gateway to accomplished short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, scripts, interviews, art, and photography by VIU students. Enter Portals literary universe and discover worlds and futures ready to unfold, language and images — provocative, passionate, or playful. What makes Portal so portentous? It is "of ourselves and our origins" — a contemporary portrait of literary talent in the making, a portable guide to VIu from here.
Portal is available for purchase at the VIU bookstore, and on newsstands across the country. It is also available locally at the north and south Nanaimo branches of the Vancouver Island Regional Library. Back issues are $7 respectively, while the 2019 issue is $10. Back issues from 1991 through to 2018 are also available here online as full free PDFs.
Portal is published by students in Vancouver Island University's Creative Writing and Journalism department.


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Enjoy a warm welcome to Torran B & B, detached property with large garden, situated in a peaceful rural location with panoramic views overlooking Lochbroom. Ideal location for staying a few days to explore the area. 2 double ensuite bedrooms.
Welcome to 4 star, Torran Bed and Breakfast near Ullapool.Located in Loggie, 12 miles from Ullapool, At Torran a warm Highland welcome awaits you from Mairi and family, at this traditional working croft, where you'll find yourself immersed in a beautiful setting with all your home-from-home comforts. Fresh Highland air, stunning and spectacular scenery, crystal clear waters, an abundance of wildlife, all these ingredients will make your stay at Torran even more memorable, be it for a day, a week or longer, with excellent facilities and supreme comfort, Torran is the perfect base to unwind and relax during your time in the Highlands. Each morning you'll experience a satisfying breakfast using local produce, award winning local sausages, our own free range eggs, served in the dining room, which benefits from large picture-windows overlooking the loch. Located across the loch from the fishing village of Ullapool, Torran is a leisurely 1 hour drive from Inverness, 2 hours from Isle of Skye, 1.5 hours from Durness. Torran B & B is an ideal stop-over for travellers and tourists intending to travel to the Western Isles as the daily ferries run from Ullapool. Stay 2 nights or more to enjoy the beautiful scenery, taking one of the following tours. Tour 1: Take a leisurely day trip to Lochinver via Achiltibuie. Visit Achiltibuie Hydroponicum, Ardvreck Castle. Tour 2: Take A832 west towards Gairloch. Vist Corrieshalloch Gorge, Inverewe Gardens, Torridon Nature Reserve, Loch Maree, Take a picnic, stop for a pub lunch, and enjoy dinner back in Ullapool before returning home to Torran to relax in our guest lounge to enjoy a glass of your own wine or tea/coffee. Feel free to spend the day at Torran where you are welcome to take a walk around our croft, where we have a flock of North Country Cheviot Ewes, Pedigree Luing Cattle. Feed the hens or take a walk in the hills behind Torran where you can enjoy the spectacular views out over the Summer Isles, and the surrounding hills
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On this day, we drove into Aberfoyle to hire some bikes. You can park at the free car park just behind Aberfoyle Bike Hire or they can deliver the bikes to you, depending on where you are. We didn't know this beforehand but hey ho.
We cycled along to the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park where we'd walked on day two. The tracks were quite up and down in places and very gravelly and stony. In one part there were rough stone cobbles which was hard going! But absolutely beautiful scenery. We had stopped for lunch in the picture below.
Onward we cycled to Kinlochard - which was only up the road from our holiday apartment. There was a tea room there which had been recommended to us. It was called The Wee Blether. It was very quirky, with rows of teapots hanging along the eaves and upturned boats in the garden area. We sat outside on the deck overlooking Loch Ard and had a drink and delicious cake.
We set off again, back the same way initially but then took a slightly different route and ended up on some of the track we'd walked before but going the opposite direction. I knew there was a picnic table at one of the bits of water so I had plans to sketch there. As it happened, the table was taken but I found a root or a rock to sit on nearer to the water. I sketched quickly and didn't finish, as we wanted to get on. So we headed off again, down a smaller track back to the road which took us back to Aberfoyle.
The picture above was what I finished at the time, and the picture below was after I'd added some final details back at the apartment. Mainly some darker shading and the dappled leaves on the middle ground trees.
We cycled 14 or 15 miles and my phone said 13,000 steps...but I think that was all of the bumps from the rocky cobbles!
If you missed any of the previous posts in the series, you can read them here:
A week in Scotland - Travel sketching day one
A week in Scotland - Travel sketching day two, Loch Ard
A week in Scotland - Travel sketching day three, Rainy day
A week in Scotland - Travel sketching day four, Loch Lomond


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Puggsley, on 04 September 2018 - 08:14 PM, said:
I reckon tanks have an offensive and defensive task to do each battle.
Doing damage is very important, but I also think that bouncing damage is important for the team as well. From a mathematical point of view, you start a snowball when your team has more potential to damage the enemy than they do. You can achieve this by killing a tank, or making some of his fire ineffective.
If you are consistently bouncing enemy tanks, you have effectively taken their guns out of the game. Every shot you bounce is potential damage which your team does not have to face. This is less important if you only have one tank shooting at you.
And if you have held up a flank then bouncing for a while so your team can get an overmatch somewhere else might be exactly the right thing to do.
But overall you do have to deal damage, you can not win this game on points.
Just noticed this. Where are you going in your IS7 on Minsk, Puggs?
LT-playing masochist. It's too much fun to be a mosquito.
Dumb0_Duck, on 30 September 2018 - 10:29 AM, said:
China numba wun.
When you show her all 96kw from your mighty 20E
FramFramson, on 29 September 2018 - 01:54 AM, said:
Just noticed this. Where are you going in your IS7 on Minsk, Puggs?
I've had a few battles working that middle road ridge (for some bouncing missions) and will go there if there is no arty cause its just fun hearing that bounce noise.
Otherwise I've had a fair bit of success going across the water and into the hilltop town for a hard push. If you have a few teammates come with you its really easy to isolate tanks and focus fire them down. Having a TX ht there seems to encourage them to get stuck in. Once you win there its relatively easy to clean up the city, or push back to help the tanks holding the city if they are struggling.
TBH winning on the hill seems to be the only place which I've seen allow a fast push to work.
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A. Guy on 02 June 2018 - 12:40 AM, said:
Destroyer of Tier 6 CW... says it all about you.
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Evosite7, on 22 November 2018 - 12:03 AM, said:
What's your performance like in other tier 10 heavies?
Who the [edited] are you? Get Spoofed! "wouldn't be a proper WG balance change if they didn't [edited] something up after all "
>9000 cynicism brought to you by P2W, RIP Balance and the Cartoon Connection
R. Pubbie: "why are all PBKAC players so rude, arrogant and nasty? and why do Mods favor them?"
Evidently nothing judging by the 0 game count.
When you show her all 96kw from your mighty 20E
0games says veri stronk performance.
That asides, I do think the IS-7 needs more pen. Increase its standard rounds to 260 and premium to 320 would just about do it. Tbh I think that the 277 shouldn't have been introduced, and that the IS-7 should have just been given its gun and all would have been fine and dandy.
A. Guy on 02 June 2018 - 12:40 AM, said:
Destroyer of Tier 6 CW... says it all about you.
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Red Cards at a College Showcase?
Red Cards happen. Sometimes to good people. But the leading causes of red cards at a college showcase are stupidity and lack of discipline.
I have watched Referee Assignors do their pre-tournament meetings with their assembled crews on numerous occasions. I have heard them provide showcase-sensitive instructions: To be aware of substitution requests at stoppages, knowing that coaches are already struggling to apportion minutes fairly to all their participating players. To keep the scheduled games on time so that evaluators can see the game they expect when they arrive at a field. To understand that showcases involve primarily older players, and to provide latitude for physical contact accordingly. And, to pull discretionary yellow and red cards out grudgingly, to give players every opportunity to be seen by the coaches that need to see them play.
Notice I said discretionary cards. Sometimes a player takes the discretion away from the referee. By dropping the f-bomb loudly enough for younger siblings three fields over to hear, or by cursing the referee, or by throwing a sucker punch at the back of an opponents head, or by emitting a stream of wet spittle into an inhabited plane, or well, you get the idea. The player has forced the refs hand, and the red one comes out!
Notice that none of the listed examples involve the game on the field. They all involve boorish behavior extraneous to the game. In other words, avoidable behavior! And this point is not lost on any evaluator in attendance. If a player does not have the self-discipline to stay on the field when his or her college future is at stake, what can the coach realistically expect of the player when an NCAA playoff game is on the line?
The red card born of stupidity is also a selfish act. The sanctioned player has not only hurt themselves, but also deprived their substitute of valuable minutes at a showcase, since the team has to finish out the game a man down. Teammates can no longer show as well, since they are now scrambling to cope with a manpower disadvantage. Coaches have to adjust substitution patterns, possibly disproportionately hurting minutes at one position rather than another. In short, the whole team potentially suffers for the stupidity of one.
Ah well its now done, and the player has been sent off. Is there anything the player should do after seeing the red card pulled out?
First, clear the field without additional displays of poor judgment. Staring in display, obscenely gesticulating with ones arms, dramatically ripping off ones jersey and flinging it to the ground are best reserved for the next WWE Wrestlemania broadcast. Such actions will not endear the player with the referees or evaluators present, and probably not even teammates who may be losing valuable showcasing minutes due to a prolonged stoppage of play.
Next, after the game, always check the policy for mandatory sit-out games following a red card. Go to tournament HQ, ask to speak to the Referee Assignor if possible, apologize for your conduct, and inquire about the post-game sanctions. Every once in a while, you may be pleased to discover its less than anticipated. If not, at least its a positive step toward rehabilitating ones self-discipline.
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If you want your education to have big impact, start here. The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC is where you'll uncover your interests and get connected with the global issues that matter most to you. Think of it as an applied exploratory degree. In an LFS degree, you'll work with faculty, professional practitioners, community leaders and peers to drive change in the areas of food security and safety, human nutrition, and the way we lean on our land. You'll build a science foundation that's worthy of pre-med, expand your specialized skills in the systems you choose to study, and round it all out with deep development of your job-ready competencies.
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The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC is one of the world's top-ranking programs in sustainable agriculture, food systems and human health as it relates to food and food production. We rank highest in Canada and #15 among the world's top agricultural sciences programs. There is no other faculty like ours, anywhere. From experts in soil science to practiced analysts of global food markets, our team of award-winning and internationally recognized faculty members and research chairs bring some of the world's best thinking to bear on our current problems. You can study right alongside them. We are shaping the leaders of the future: the people who understand the complex interplay between our land, our resources, our environment and our needs.
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We're not your everyday science faculty. Our small size and intimate groupings — like our Land One cohort — mean you'll get to know your profs and peers better. You'll study across a broader range than just in your own field, and learn to look for solutions in novel ways (hint: that's a BIG plus for employability). For example, you know how establishing a wind farm would involve engineering, geography, economics, IT, design, construction and maintenance? Well, land and food systems work the same way: the problems here require thinking and collaboration among many different minds. At LFS, we understand that, and we look for ways to bring disciplines together as much as we can. Working with other people to address problems sharpens your competencies in curiosity, innovation and collaboration — all very valuable tools in a fast-changing world.
Through your degree program, you'll establish connections with people in your own and other fields, which will strengthen your personal and professional networks — another arrow in your career quiver. LFS offers you tons of career development opportunities as you progress through your studies. Both in and out of the classroom, we're putting you in line with experiences that will set you up for career success. For example:
- when you do a study exchange, you're not just learning content in a different location, you're building adaptability, communication and cultural competency skills that transfer to the working world;
- as you participate in a field study, you're applying knowledge in a hands-on way that adds to your work experience and value to employers;
- when you're working with a community group to solve a problem, you're developing the collaboration and communication skills that organizations so desperately need; and
- completing a co-op term situates you in the professional arena, builds your on-the-ground skills and connects you with people who can move your career along.
So engage with these different kinds of learning experiences as often as you can! You're in the driver's seat, and your LFS degree will be what you make it. Use it as an opportunity to develop yourself and your capabilities as much as possible.
Your Degree at a Glance
Grounded in science. Global in scope. It's how we explain a Land and Food Systems degree. Our programs use a uniquely integrated approach that unites scientific and interdisciplinary studies. You'll begin your studies by building a strong foundation in science, and progress through courses that train your focus more specifically on the bigger issues within your chosen major, be they in food production and global markets, human nutrition, animal and soil sciences, or the complex interplay between resources and world regions.
Curious to know what your first year looks like in LFS? Right this way.
You've Never Learned Like This Before
Land and Food Systems at UBC is a small, tight-knit faculty. Whether it's through a class, a Wednesday Night Dinner or a Research Cafe, you'll get to know your instructors as people and professionals, create meaningful connections with other students on similar paths and meet people outside the faculty who can help you on your journey.
All of our degrees are science-based. But the way we approach science is a little bit different due to our size, our focus on preparing you to be a professional, and our ability to integrate different communities and disciplines. LFS is an awesome place to do your pre-med or pre-vet studies, for example; you'll be taking the same courses, but in an interdisciplinary, collaborative way that's more reflective of the real world.
There is no longer a single path to a given career. At LFS, the subjects, the networking, the small class sizes, the encouragement to study things you're deeply passionate about and the ability to learn science in ways that broaden your understanding of world — all of these set our programs apart. At LFS, you're not just learning. You're contributing.
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At UBC's Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS), we take an interdisciplinary approach to investigating and solving problems, because today's problems are complex. Working through them involves many different areas of expertise. Our interdisciplinary programs power you toward an academic degree and prepare you for the working world.
Land One: A First Year Like No Other
Land One is a limited-enrolment first-year cohort option that LFS offers jointly with the Faculty of Forestry. Land One is a different way of experiencing your first year of university. You'll take your core first-year courses (math, biology, economics and communications) in a small learning community with instructors from different disciplines, diving deep into real-world issues from both Indigenous and Western perspectives. Research shows that students who learn in cohorts tend to do better in the later years of their degree. You should check it out, and learn more about the student experience from those who took Land One in previous years here. Keep in mind: there are application deadlines, and entry is competitive.
Leverage Your Learning
Your core LFS courses will develop your employment readiness by virtue of their interdisciplinary and collaborative nature. But you can take it way further by getting involved in things that carry you beyond the scope of your degree. UBC has queued up hundreds of incredible experiences that'll grow you as a scholar . . . and as a changemaker.
Go Global, do an internship or throw in for a thesis: explore your options on our Classroom page.
Stretch your leadership skills, join a club, or take a career workshop: explore your options on our Campus page.
Life After LFS
Our grads go on to do incredible things. From founding non-profits to starting businesses to figuring out how to help our forests weather climate change, LFS alumni are pushing good change in the world. Explore our undergraduate and graduate programs; at the bottom of each page you'll find a list of where our people have found their purpose after graduation.
Joanne Saunders
Home Economics
The electives that I took to complement my degree really helped to pave the way for the career I eventually fell into.
Albert Chang
Food, Nutrition and Health
The leadership skills I've developed from volunteering in LFS mentoring program have helped with my own career advancement.
Melina Biron
Plant Science
I hope to bring awareness of how plants are engaging with the environment around them, and how that environment is helping to shape their growth behaviour.
Apply to LFS
Ready to jump in? We're so excited that you want to apply to an LFS program at UBC! There's adventure ahead.
Whether you're applying to an LFS program from high school, post-secondary or within UBC, you will be applying through UBC Undergraduate Admissions. Look here for the undergraduate admission requirements.
If you identify as an Aboriginal student, familiarize yourself with UBC's admission policy for Aboriginal applicants. The Faculty of Land and Food Systems takes special care to review applications from Aboriginal applicants. If you are curious about the academic opportunities for Aboriginal students in LFS, you can learn more here. Joel Liman, the Faculty's academic advisor for Aboriginal students, is available to answer any questions you may have before you apply, or once you're here.
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Whether you've got questions about your program, your experience or your next steps, LFS Student Services is here to help. Get in touch.


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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's personnel records have been made public as of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Miller said Tuesday morning that he would not appeal a judge's ruling regarding the release of his confidential personnel files from the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
Miller spoke with Steve Heimel on APRN's Talk of Alaska.
Miller said it is unfortunate that somebody's medical or other information can be released simply because he is running for office.
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate said he had remained mum on the content of the records due to a confidentiality agreement with the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
Several media organizations sued the Fairbanks North Star Borough under the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to Miller's personnel file. Miller had worked part time for the Borough and was disciplined by his employer for having used borough computers for political purposes, violating the borough's ethics policy. Miller has fought the release of the records since mid-summer, but recently admitted that he had been put on a three-day leave and docked pay for his gaff.
The personnel records are now online on the Anchorage Daily News website
On memo from Borough attorney Rene Broker, dated March 26, 2008, notifies Miller of an investigation and possible disciplinary action for being, "dishonest about your conduct and about the reasons for your conduct." Broker refers to Miller's use of borough computers. Broker then tells Miller she realizes that he is under stress, which could be the reason for his lapse in judgment.
Other records contain internal Borough emails regarding Broker's worry about email correspondence regarding TAPS litigation. Others mention Miller's health. Reached by phone a few minutes ago, Broker said she "felt sad" about the release of the records.
"Joe worked here for seven years," Broker said. "We were friends. It's sad."
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The LOFT is partnering with HVCS to hold an event for National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
The LOFT: LGBT Community Center and Project INFORM of HVCS will present a safer sex workshop on Wednesday, September 27th at 7:30 pm at The LOFT Center, 252 Bryant Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605.
This event is free to attend. There will be a Peer Health Advocate onsite for PrEP referrals. Refreshments will be served and there will be plenty of giveaways for attendees.
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A new book charting the role played by Clare republicans in 1917 will be launched next month.
Written by well-known oral historian and author Dr. Tomás Mac Conmara, Days of Hunger, The Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger Strike of 1917, breaks fresh ground on the often overlooked year of 1917 and shines a light on how events in that year in county Clare, helped bring about a new landscape in Irish politics.
Mac Conmara has previously published books on Frongoch internment camp as well as Clare's All Ireland hurling journey in 1914 but is perhaps better known for his work in oral history and folklore collection across the county. In his latest book, Mac Conmara examines in granular detail, events across 1917 and carefully explains their significance in the historic struggle for Irish independence.
In the first year after the Easter Rising of 1916, trepidation may have existed within the British establishment, but it would be only in the summer of 1917 that the confrontation, which had been anticipated began to develop. Mac Conmara argues that in Clare, decisions taken by the Volunteer leadership, engineered an open confrontation of British rule and brought relations to a head.
By September, the ancient conflict between Britain and Ireland was condensed within the walls of Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. There thirty-eight republican prisoners who had been arrested over the summer, faced down the system of British rule within a new and uncertain arena of struggle, the hunger strike. Once the hunger strike began, Mac Conmara explains that there could only be three possible outcomes; surrender by the prisoners, concession by the government, or death.
Five days into the episode, Tomás Ashe, a 32-year-old republican from Kerry died as a result of force-feeding and the political landscape in Ireland seemed to shift. Amongst those on hunger strike were sixteen Clare men, by far the largest number from one Irish county. Days of Hunger charts the role played by those Clare republicans throughout 1917 and illuminates the enduring significance of events in that year for modern Irish history.
The political landscape in the lead up to 1917 is given a robust treatment, revealing a closed and oppressive system of rule. The famous East Clare by-election of July 1917 and the role of Cumann na mBan in leading a confrontational campaign are also explored, as are the increasingly bitter relations between republicans and the Royal Irish Constabulary.
Mac Conmara also deals with the often controversial political weapon of the hunger strike and places it in the context of Irish folklore and mythology, as well as dealing with its legacy for modern Irish history. Historians have been quick to heap praise on the book. Daniel McCarthy, author of Ireland's Banner County commented:
'In accounting for one of the most potent weapon's in republicanism's arsenal of democracy, Mac Conmara looks to his own native county and its role in the hunger strikes of 1917. In its introspection he succeeds in giving insight to the motivations and factors behind the rise of advanced nationalism on both local and national levels. Mac Conmara has devoted his working life to the study and promotion of Irish history and has mastered its deeper, darker realities in this work.'
The Limerick historian and author of the acclaimed tome, The War of Independence in Limerick 1912-1921, was equally impressed;
Days of Hunger is a very important contribution to understanding the Revolutionary period (1914 – 1923). Mac Conmara has produced an excellent work on the understated period of 1917-18 and bridges the 1916 Rising and the General Election of 1918. He deals with the period in painstaking detail and for this, history owes him a great debt.
The book will be launched at the Old Ground Hotel by Limerick historian Tom Toomey on Friday 15 October at 8.00pm and will be available to purchase on the night for €15.


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This is a story about loyalty, dedication and perseverance—the story of Hiroo Onoda. When he was a young man, he enlisted in the Japanese army to fight in World War II. He ended up fighting that war for 29 years long after it ended, purely because he did not know it was over. His faith was so strong that the Japanese could not lose, that he refused to surrender no matter how many times the local people and even his own countrymen begged.
When he was just 20 years old, Hiroo Onoda was working in China at a trading company. When he received a summons to join the Japanese army, Onoda immediately quit his job and headed back to Japan for training. Due to his aptitude and the dedication he displayed at his basic military training, he was sent for specialized training at an Nakano school to become an intelligence officer. There he was specifically taught how to gather intelligence while waging guerilla warfare. This was a training that would make his perceived enemies around him miserable for near 30 years.
In December 1944, Onoda received his first orders. He was being shipped off to Lubang Island in the Philippines, his commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi gave him simple orders:
"You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we'll come back for you. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that's the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you [to] give up your life voluntarily."[1]
It was because of these orders and his loyalty to his country that Hiroo Onoda fought so hard for so long even in miserable circumstances.
After landing on the island, he attempted to persuade the Japanese officers that were already stationed there to help destroy the harbor and the airfield to make enemy invasion more difficult. They refused and because of it shortly after Onoda's arrival in February 1945, Allied forces conquered the island. The remaining Japanese soldiers, Onoda included, headed off into the jungle in small cells of 4 or 5 soldiers.
As one could imagine, jungle life was hard for those not trained in jungle survival and guerilla warfare. Most of the small cells were quickly wiped out from either skirmishes with occupying forces or the ever-present other dangers in the jungle. However, Onoda and his group consisting of Yuichi Akatsu, Kinshichi Kozuka, and Soichi Shimda were not. They, and a few other surviving cells, used guerilla warfare to harry occupying troops while strictly rationing food and ammo. They supplemented their diet with food from the jungle as well as what they snatched from local farms during raids.
After another cell of soldiers ventured down to a farm to kill a cow for food, they happened across a flyer saying the war had ended August 15th and urging them to come down from the mountains. The remaining cells gathered and discussed it at length. From a mix of isolation and faith in their country, the cells deemed this to be Allied propaganda. They refused to believe that Japan had lost so quickly. If it had not been for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that successful ended the war, this would have been true. Japan had been willing to sacrifice every last citizen before they witnessed the devastating might of these new weapons.
The locals continued being shot at and raided by these Japanese cells and after a few more months were understandably frustrated about it. They persuaded a plane to fly over the jungle and drop leaflets to the cells from Japanese General Yamashita. Again, the cells debated these, and again paranoia won throughout. They believed that the Allied forces were sick of their success in guerilla warfare and were using trickery to get them to surrender.
The locals continued to drop these leaflets, and for years, Onoda and his group as well as several others continued to survive in the jungle, skirmishing with the "enemy" and gathering information. Even when the Allied soldiers left the Philippines and everyone started to go about their normal lives, the Japanese soldiers were not persuaded. They let the isolation and hard living of the jungle warp their minds into seeing everyone else as an enemy. Onoda and his group truly believed that the Allied forces had started dressing in civilian clothes to trick them. Even when their own countrymen would drive through the jungles shouting for them on loudspeakers, they assumed they were just Japanese prisoners that were being used to lure them out.
After only five short years in the jungle, one of Onoda's own men, Akatsu, decided to surrender. However, he thought it best not to tell the others. In 1949, he slipped away from the group and began his trek through the forest. Unfortunately, it was no simple walk through the forest, it took Akatsu 6 months to find his way out and successfully surrender to what he thought were Allied troops, but in reality were just Filipino army soldiers. After this Onoda and the remaining men became even more cautious as they believed Akatsu to be captured and tortured for information on their whereabouts.
Five years after Akatsu left, Shimada was killed in a firefight with the Philippines army on a beach at Gontin. Now only Onoda and Kozuka remained. So they went on together for another 17 years. They were convinced that eventually Japan would send troops to retake the island. To get them through the hard times, they daydreamed about that day and how the two of them would train the reinforcements to be experts in guerilla warfare like themselves.
On October 1972, after 27 years of fighting and survival, Kozuka was shot dead by a Filipino patrol. The Japanese had long since thought the pair to be dead; however, after Kozuka's death they believed Onoda may also still be out there alive. They sent search parties, but Onoda was a hide and seek master after 27 years of practice.
In 1974, a youthful college student named Nario Suzuki decided to travel the world in an ambitious chase for adventure. He set off to find "a panda, the Abdominal Snowman, and the legendary Onoda." When he arrived in the Philippines, Suzuki set off into the jungle. Where thousands of others had failed, the young student succeeded! He stumbled right into Onoda's jungle hiding spot, and low and behold, Onoda himself.
Suzuki tried to persuade Onoda to come home with him, but he refused. Before he was deployed, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi promised he would return and get him, no matter what. So thus Hiroo Onoda refused to leave until his commanding officer came and told him so.
Luckily, Yoshimi Taniguchi was still alive, retired and working in a book store. Suzuki cut his trip short and fetched Taniguchi, who travelled to the jungle. In which, Hiroo Onoda officially surrendered. After killing over 30 Filipinos and injuring over 100 other civilians, this surrender and the news that he had fought a non-existent war for most of his life came as a crushing blow to the soldier. Not only had he wasted over 29 years of his precious life but he had hurt innocents for no proper reason.
In his biography, Onoda said this about his surrender:
We really lost the war! How could they have been so sloppy?
Suddenly everything went black. A storm raged inside me. I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here. Worse than that, what had I been doing for all these years?
Gradually the storm subsided, and for the first time I really understood: my thirty years as a guerrilla fighter for the Japanese army were abruptly finished. This was the end.
I pulled back the bolt on my rifle and unloaded the bullets. . . .[1]
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On March 10th, 1975 at the age of 52, he surrendered his samurai sword to Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos. He did so in full uniform, which he had kept in near pristine condition for 29 years. For anyone that knows how destructive the humidity of the jungle can be to clothing, this is almost as great a feat as surviving in it for 29 years. President Marcos pardoned the soldier of all crimes, upsetting the locals because of all the damage and injuries they had sustained.
Hiroo Onoda returned to Japan for the time, but found a completely different country from the one he had left. The whole sense of nationalism was gone, and he felt the nation had lost their once strong pride. Upon return, Onoda was given pay for all his years of service, with this he bought a ranch in Brazil and eventually married.
After reading about a teen killing his own parents in Japan in 1980, he returned to Japan to found a school that takes place in various locations around Japan. It teaches young people various survival techniques to help them be more independent and thus better Japanese citizens.
Eventually, Onoda returned to the island on which he had spent so much of his life. Even though he donated $10,000 to local schools, he was still not very well liked.


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Some of the best browser features aren't even the work of the major browser developers. Instead, independent programmers have taken to the Web in droves, creating amazingly useful add-ons that you can download and install for free. But not all browsers support all the same extensions, and some barely support them in general. As a result, add-on support has become a major differentiator between browsers. When judging the five top browsers, we looked at the types of add-ons each one allows, the selection of available add-ons, and how easy it is to find, install, and remove add-ons.
Internet Explorer 8
IE 8 permits you to install assorted browser toolbars--including those search toolbars that you either love or loathe. IE 8 also includes Web Slices and Accelerators. Web Slices are add-ons that allow you to keep tabs on tidbits of information from around the Web without your having to visit the sites. For example, the eBay Web Slice allows you to track the status of auctions, while the USA Today Entertainment Web Slice lets you quickly view the top showbiz stories. These usually live in your IE favorites bar, and open with a click.
Accelerators, on the other hand, are shortcuts for tasks that you perform in your browser. For instance, if you highlight a block of text, a blue icon appears next to it. If you click on that, you get a menu that lets you translate the selected text, search for the selected text, look it up on a map (if it's an address), and so forth. You can see the entire library of IE 8 add-ons at Microsoft's aptly named Add-ons Gallery.
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Firefox first championed browser extensions several years ago, and though other browsers have played catch-up since then, Firefox retains the add-on crown. Mozilla has a library of thousands upon thousands of add-ons and extensions for your perusal, ranging from security add-ons to social networking tools to stuff for Web nerds, and just about everything in between. By going to Tools, Add-ons in Firefox, you can view and enable or disable installed extensions, themes, and plug-ins, and browse through recommended add-ons.
The one shortcoming of Firefox is that updating extensions can be more obtrusive than I'd prefer. I'd like to see Mozilla make updating extensions something that happens in the background.
Chrome 5
Chrome rolled out extension support late last year, and Google's extension library already has a healthy selection of add-on goodies that can take the form of toolbar icons, notifiers, weather updates, and more. Extension updates happen more seamlessly in Chrome than in Firefox, and the extensions are better integrated into the browser. That said, Chrome can't quite match the breadth and selection of add-ons that are available for Firefox.
Safari 5
Safari is a little late to the extension party; extension support is new to version 5, and as of this writing extensions are few and far between. At least one blog out there posts about Safari extensions, though, and Apple is planning to launch an extensions gallery in the near future--it may be up and running by the time you read this.
Opera 10.6
Opera takes a completely different approach with its widgets. Much like the desktop widgets in Windows 7 or on Mac OS X's Dashboard, these are mini-applications that can provide quick updates on news, weather, sports scores, or what have you. One thing to note is that Opera Widgets aren't add-ons in the classic sense--they don't run within the browser itself. Instead, they're separate, stand-alone applications that run alongside your other software. This means that they stay open even when you close Opera, which can be useful, but they do little to extend the functionality of the browser.
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The exhibition 'WORD.' takes place at kult gallery, Singapore. Topic is the medium of writing in contemporary art. A braille-graffiti is created in collaboration with graffiti sprayer 'SONG' from Singapore.
18 May to 20 June 2018
Exhibition view
It was great to collaborate with the graffiti artist SONG from Singapore! In this way, a new work of art has emerged—an art piece that combines our two approaches, SONG's graphic-design approach and my conceptual way. As an exciting side effect, I thereby was also able to perform 'ethnological' field research: I could observe that urban artists in Singapore work in a very different way than they do for example in Mexico-City (where I recently realized the 'same' project). That's why travelling is so important: to make personal encounters, to collaborate artistically and to be able to make first-hand observations…
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Heres one I did a around Oct and I think it turned out really cute!
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Christmas Nail Art
Hello! I have got tons of unposted manis which I will soon try to post here.
Meanwhile all you lovely people have a Merry Christmas!!
Base: Masura Galaxy Collisions
Decals made with Various BM plates: (L to R)
BM S214, BMS220, BMS219 (middle and ring) and BMS216
stamped using Konad white and Filled in with various colours
Happy Holidays!!
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Shades of Wazowski
So who doesnt remember Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc. A one eyed green spherical monster that everyone liked for being the best bud to Sulley. Dance Legend made a collection of duochrome polishes on these monsters and each is certainly desirable as the other.
Base: Dance Legend Wazowski
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Samsung WB5000 Review
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 12 megapixel JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 5Mb.
The Samsung WB5000 produced images of average quality during the review period. Noise is by far the main problem, being obvious at the relatively slow speed of ISO 100 and then becoming progressively worse at the faster settings of 200 and 400. By ISO 800 the images have become almost unusable, and it's best just to diregard the 1600-6400 settings completely.
Chromatic aberrations were quite well controlled, with some purple fringing effects appearing in high contrast situations. The 12 megapixel images were a little soft straight out of the camera and ideally require some further sharpening in an application like Adobe Photoshop, or you can increase the in-camera sharpening level.
Macro performance is a standout highlight, allowing you to focus as close as 1cm away from the subject. Barrel distortion at the 26mm wide-angle focal length is obvious in our white wall test shots, although there is a Distortion menu option which partially removes this unwanted effect. The built-in flash worked well indoors, with no red-eye and good overall exposure.
Anti-shake works very well when hand-holding the WB5000 in low-light conditions or when using the telephoto end of that huge zoom range. The maximum shutter speed of 30 seconds easily allows the camera to capture enough light for most after-dark situations.
The Samsung WB5000 allows you to record RAW files, but it takes around 10 seconds to write a single image to the memory card, and it automatically limits the ISO range to 64-400.
There are 8 ISO settings available on the Samsung WB5000 for JPEG files, and 4 ISO settings for RAW files. ISO 3200 and 6400 are only available at lower resolutions (5 and 3 megapixels respectively). Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting.
ISO 64 (100% Crop)
ISO 64 (100% Crop)
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 800 (100% Crop)
ISO 1600 (100% Crop)
ISO 3200 (100% Crop)
ISO 6400 (100% Crop)
Focal Range
The Samsung WB5000's 24x zoom lens offers an incredibly versatile focal range, as illustrated by these examples:
Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are soft at the default sharpening setting and benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop. You can also change the in-camera sharpening level.
Original (100% Crop)
Sharpened (100% Crop)
File Quality
The Samsung WB5000 has 3 different JPEG image quality settings available, with Fine being the highest quality option. Here are some 100% crops which show the quality of the various options, with the file size shown in brackets.
|12M Super Fine (5.8Mb) (100% Crop)
|12M Fine (3.8Mb) (100% Crop)
|12M Normal (2.5Mb) (100% Crop)
|12M RAW (17.3Mb) (100% Crop)
Chromatic Aberrations
The Samsung WB5000 handled chromatic aberrations fairly well during the review, with some purple fringing present around the edges of objects in high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below.
Example 1 (100% Crop)
Example 2 (100% Crop)
The Samsung WB5000 offers a Super Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is just 1cm away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop.
Macro Shot
100% Crop
The flash settings on the Samsung WB5000 are Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in flash, Slow sync, Flash off, Red eye fix. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m.
Off - Wide Angle (26mm)
Fill-in - Wide Angle (26mm)
Off - Telephoto (624mm)
Fill-in - Telephoto (624mm)
And here are some portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Auto or the Red eye fix settings caused any red-eye.
|Auto (100% Crop)
Red eye fix
Red eye fix (100% Crop)
The Samsung WB5000's maximum shutter speed is 30 seconds in the Manual and Shutter Priority modes, which is great news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 16 seconds at ISO 64.
Night Shot
100% Crop
Anti Shake
The Samsung WB5000 has an anti-shake mechanism, which allows you to take sharp photos at slower shutter speeds than other digital cameras. To test this, I took 2 handheld shots of the same subject with the same settings. The first shot was taken with anti shake turned off, the second with it turned on. Here are some 100% crops of the images to show the results. As you can see, with anti shake turned on, the images are much sharper than with anti shake turned off. This feature really does seem to make a difference and could mean capturing a successful, sharp shot or missing the opportunity altogether.
Shutter Speed / Focal Length
Anti Shake Off (100% Crop)
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On Friday afternoon, April 5, 2019, calling it "arbitrary and capricious," the New York State Supreme Court struck down Rockland County's "medical martial law" declared by county executive Ed Day, a former police officer. See the full news story here. (H/t Vivian Lee)
NBC4 New York reports that on March 26, 2019, Rockland County, New York, declared a state of emergency, banning children younger than 18 who are unvaccinated against measles from public places, until they receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Anyone found in violation could face six months in jail and/or a $500 fine. Those unable to be vaccinated for documented and confirmed medical reasons are exempt from the ban.
The New York Times reports that the ban "will be enforced retroactively, with parents facing up to six months in jail or a fine of up to $500, or both, if they are found to have allowed unvaccinated children in public spaces."
The emergency declaration defines "public places" as "a place where more than 10 persons are intended to congregate for purposes such as civic, governmental, social, or religious functions, or for recreation or shopping, or for food or drink consumption, or awaiting transportation, or for daycare or educational purposes, or for medical treatment. A place of public assembly shall also include public transportation vehicles, including but not limited to, publicly or privately owned buses or trains, but does not include taxi or livery vehicles."
Law enforcement will not be patrolling or asking for vaccination records but those found to be in violation will be referred to the Rockland County District Attorney's Office.
The ban went into effect at midnight, March 27, 2019, and will expire in 30 days.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican and former NYPD and Baltimore police officer, said at a press conference: "We believe this to be the first such effort of this kind nationally and the circumstances we face here clearly call for that. Rockland will lead the way in service and safety to the people here."
The reason? A local outbreak of measles affecting residents in Spring Valley, New Square and Monsey, which has entered its 26th week — the longest since the disease was eradicated in the United States in 2000, according to New York officials. As of March 19, there were 153 confirmed cases.
Day said the outbreak started after seven unvaccinated travelers with measles entered the county early last October. Although unvaccinated students were asked not to attend school, still county officials have been met with "pockets of resistance" from people unwilling to comply with health department advice and this played a part in the decision to enact a ban.
Measles is a highly contagious disease, transmitted by airborne particles, droplets and direct contact with the respiratory secretions of an infected person. Those at highest risk for severe complications include young children, the immuno-compromised and non-immune pregnant women.
Measles typically presents in adults and children as an acute viral illness characterized by fever and generalized rash. The rash usually starts on the face, proceeds down the body and may include the palms and soles. The rash lasts several days. Infected individuals are contagious from 4 days before rash onset through the 4th day after the rash appears. Those who are ill with a fever, rash, or conjunctivitis (red watery eyes) are urged to stay home, not have visitors and not go out in public. The Rockland Health Department said individuals who have symptoms consistent with measles should contact their health care provider, a local clinic or local emergency department before going in person to prevent exposing the illness to others.
H/t Natural News and Vivian Lee
See also:
- Physicians say aborted human fetal cells used for measles vaccine may cause autism
- Michigan mom jailed for refusing vaccines cultured from aborted babies' cells for her son
- Baylor U. professor & M.D. Carol Baker: 'Let's just get rid of all the whites in the United States' — includes discussion on enforcing childhood vaccination.
- Anti-vaccination nurses in Australia will be prosecuted
- Federal government admits, although required by law, it does not monitor vaccine safety
- New study finds aluminum in vaccines triggers autism, esp. in boys
- New study finds link between child vaccination and autism – CENSORED
- It's not paranoia: Maker of DTaP vaccine admits it causes autism
- HPV vaccines have infertility side-effects
- Flu vaccine linked to significantly higher rate of miscarriages
- Some thoughts on the globalist agenda, vaccines and population control
- German government officials get 'safer' vaccines
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