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Neela Muñoz brings an extensive theatre background to her work as a facilitator with Ignite CSP. Neela is a seasoned actor, director and educator with more than twenty years' experience in professional theatre. Neela's unique training coupled with her passion for coaching and developing clients have allowed her to creatively communicate the art of self-presentation. Through a rich career in theatre, Neela has acquired proven tactics and techniques that have enabled her to lead workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions in presentation skills.
Neela has acted at theatres across the country, including many years as a resident company member at Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina. She has also designed and implemented education programs for the Arts and Science Councils of the counties of Henderson, Buncombe and Mecklenburg in the state of North Carolina. Throughout her career, Neela has taught countless workshops, classes, and residencies, as well as private coaching for adults and students from kindergarten through adulthood in both theatre and presentation skills.
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Cherry blossoms photo tours carry added significance due to the fact that they are one of Japan's cultural emblems. Every year during the spring, many photographers ranging from casual to professional schedule a special trip to their favorite 'hanami' or cherry blossoms viewing spot with camera in hand to capture that year's blossoms.
Your Japan Dreamscapes Photography Tour Leader knows that cherry blossoms bloom at different times, and although the previous year's sakura flourished at a certain time, the whimsies of weather and climate mean nothing can be taken for granted. Over 20 years of experience pursuing the perfect photo on a Cherry Blossom Tour means having a plan for when the cherry blossoms are being fickle in a certain area. Less than 10 km away, the conditions surrounding the cherry blossoms mean they will be in full bloom and the perfect photo op.
Why does the sakura hold so much significance? Part of the appeal is their common association with clouds as part of a natural cycle, similar to clouds, the cherry blossoms existence seems so capricious. The sakura bud, bloom, and then release their leaves on a very short timetable giving the perfect photo op for a small window of time. Also, clouds are heavily influenced by the wind and climate, just as the cherry blossom is. One amazing element is how the cherry blossom resembles clouds with how they bloom. Cherry blossoms bloom in clusters, almost appearing as a cloud does seemingly from nothing. Is there any question why they are so appealing? Chasing the perfect cherry blossom photo on a photo workshop is a JDS specialty, and we have several options in mind to help you take that once in a lifetime sakura photo.
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Join Eos Positioning Systems (Eos) — an Esri Silver Sponsor and ArcGIS Online Specialty Partner — at the 2018 Esri Canada UC in Calgary. Eos will be at the event on Wednesday, May 16. Come by the Eos booth to get a free demonstration of the Arrow receiver for high-accuracy, Esri-compatible workflows.
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A woman has offered up a reward to find the cyclist who she claims knocked her over before cycling off.
Andrea McVeigh, 44, says the collision left her in the hospital, and is offering £2,000 for any information leading to the cyclists arrest.
She claims she was walking along the pavement when a cyclist, trying to beat the traffic, hit into her side at speed.
'Blood was pouring from a gash in my forehead and my finger was bent at a right angle,' said Andrea.
While people were helping her stem the blood the cyclist allegedly told Andrea's husband Patrick that he was going to lock his bike up, before taking off.
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The incident, which occurred in April near Bermondsey, London, will now be recreated for a segment on Crimewatch Roadshow on the BBC, after police released the CCTV footage of the incident and no one came forward to identify the cyclist.
Andrea said: 'As a cancer survivor, this has been the second time I've had to face my own mortality at a young age and I'm angry this this time, it was at the hands of a callous and selfish cyclist.
'I'm disgusted that the cyclist hasn't yet come forward nor has he been identified.'
Andrea, who moved to London from Belfast two years ago, says she now has a very visible scar on her forehead – a permanent reminder of what happened.
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Like the origin of an illegitimate unwanted child. Hunter Class Rifle shooting began somewhere around 1963 when several groups seemed almost simultaneously to develop interest in shooting center fire cartridges on a small bore type target for score from benchrest at 100 yards. Rifles. methods and rules varied as did the course of fire as well as the scoring of the targets but the basic idea was thus conceived. Largely through the efforts of PRECISION SHOOTING the rules became more similar with at least a semblance of balance occurring in the equipment.
During the late stages of that pregnancy. even though it appeared that triplets were a possibility, the exchange of information made possible in the pages of P.S. developed continuity. When it appeared that the illegitimate offspring called Hunter Class might achieve some degree of recognition plus considerable interest not less than three parental sources stepped forward to claim parenthood. It seemed that Midland, Texas, Chippewa, Ohio and Puget Sound, Washington all had considerable interest along similar lines and each had proposed recognition by the National Bench Rest Shooters Association as a benchrest class.
In 1966 the NBRSA adopted Hunter Class with an official Hunter Class target hastily created. Other than the appearance of their official Registered NBRSA emblem on each and every target NBRSA did little else to help their newly adopted offspring preferring instead to kick it out of the picture of State, Regional and National events as well as any prestigious recognition of World Records. Even the targets were a joke having been incorrectly printed. Under the coercion of NBRSA all existing incorrect targets had to be used up before any replacement was possible.
More and more Hunter Class matches were scheduled, new clubs were born and eventually new shooters came into the ranks of the Varmint Classes from their Hunter Class origins. Hunter Class provided a low cost. simple way for new people to learn whether or not the appeal of shooting from a bench motivated them. Those who did improved greatly in both knowledge as well as equipment and soon wanted to try thelr expertise In recognized legitimate matches.
Those to whom the game did not appeal left with very little loss of face or money outlayed for extremely sophisticated equipment having had, rifles that really could be used in varmint hunting as well as informal paper punching.
Original rules specified a Hunter Class Rifle .as one weighing not. over ten pounds complete with a scope that could not exceed 6X magnification. That rule remains unchanged to this day. Each rifle must have a magazine capable of handling two loaded rounds plus the bore size MUST be 6mm or greater. The cartridge must be able to contain powder equivalent to that of a .30-30 case later defined as 45.5 grains of water capacity.
One shot is fired at each of five record bulls eyes with a sixth bull on the target available for as many sighter shots as the shooter desires. A time limit of seven minutes per target with a total of five targets providing an aggregate POSSIBLE score of 250-25X's Which has never been achieved. Scaled up targets are used to repeat the entire match at 200 yards and 300 yards for those clubs having the facilities or expertise to stage such matches. Targets have been approved that today are identical from either of the existing governing bodies.
Waiting to see how their illegitimate adopted offspring grew over the formative years things remained status quo for the first four years. Shooters were enthralled with the new game, it's simplicity caused them to spend all their time upgrading cartridges, barrels, techniques, mounts, and chamberings in their passion to reach the coveted perfect 250 score on the CORRECTED official target. Most competition was on the local level with no thought to interregional match efforts. The .243 Win., 6mm Rem., and .308 Win. were the basic cartridges with Sierra bullets the almost universal choice. *
The only wildcat to gain much popularity was the 6-250 which, though minimal in meeting the capacity requirement, performed well when good bullets could be obtained, providing a low recoil small hole puncher. The .308 however provided the largest bullet imprint giving higher scoring possibilities -for those who could consistently handle it's back talk in a ten pound rifle.
In those days the NBRSA acted as a clearing house of approval, providing a list of legitimate cartridges that WOULD meet the minimum to avoid the necessity of actually checking cases at a match. The bullet availability in the late '60's left much to be desired even a few excursions into the .25, 6.5, .277 and 7mm bore sizes accomplished little with the total absence of any match quality bullet.
Struggling along., content with improvement or experimentation, little was .done toward. Any further recognition of the class on a National basis. In 1969 the devastating Spilt wlthin the NBRSA took place with the seceding Eastern portion forming the International Benchrest Shooters ( I.B.S.) as a sanctioning body in 1970.
The NBRSA retained the less populated western three fourths of the U.S. while the IBS added Canada to it's highly populated eastern block. Resulting membership stayed about equal within two years with over 50% of each body's members retaining dual membership. Well aware of the failings of the NBRSA, the I.B.S. began in their organizational meeting of 1970 by immediately recognizing and encouraging Hunter Class. Recognition was promised in their retained official publication, PRECISION SHOOTING Magazine with the direct result of the first "World" International Hunter Class match being held at Dauphin, PA on Sept. 18-19, 1971 and the results given excellent coverage in PRECISION SHOOTING Magazine.
This was followed in 1972 when the next official I.B.S. Hunter Class Nationals held Sept. 16-17, 1972 saw Guy Green of Hughsville, PA shoot the first perfect score in Hunter Class, a 250-16X effort that stood for some time as an official I.B.S. record. In the aftermath of this achievement, the glowing publicity caused Hunter Class to grow and expand by leaps and bounds swelling the ranks of the newly created I.B.S. much to the dismay of NBRSA officials.
Clubs that had long been reluctant to enter the complicated field of group shooting, installing high priced moving backer systems and scoring devices, found their members and treasuries much more adaptable to the minimal requirements of Hunter Class. The few dollars required for registration plus the privilege of purchasing official targets from either the NBRSA or the I.B.S. lent credence to their efforts and the conduct of their matches. Two target detail people with one official scorer really all the only requirement for even the largest of matches while the labor alone to run a well attended group shooting match in those precomputer days was sizeable. Hunter Class people actually divided the duties, being able to shoot even though scoring the 'off relay' targets. Expenses were minimal, shooter fees low and enticing, trophy and patch awards inexpensive still leaving money to club coffers after the match.
A period of complacency once again came into the Hunter Class game as quasi state and regional matches created interest. The I.B.S., in spite of World Record recognition, lacked the geographical area to claim anything more than local distinction for it's winners while the NBRSA affiliates lacked official sanction of World Records and Registration of matches, failing miserably to develop the potential growth offered by the new illegitimate offspring.
In the spring of 1973 after moving from western Pennsylvania where I had competed in both NBRSA and I.B.S'. competitions in addition to being a life member of both organizations, a chance conversation caused me to contact Tony Hidalgo of Englishtown, New Jersey and challenge his club to a Hunter Class match with the Central Texas Bench Rest Shooters Association of which I was an officer. From this chance challenge a league of Hunter Class shooters competing club by club in postal matches was born quickly developing into the Transcontinental Hunter Rifle League (TCL). It soon encompassed twenty four clubs with some 400+ annual competitors from both NBRSA and I.B.S. In fact no affiliation with either organization has ever been requirea-5Y the Transcontinental Hunter Rifle League (TCL) though rules and targets from one or the other must be followed in the conduct of TCL matches. Recently it became necessary to revise rules because of extreme differences between NBRSA and I.B.S. requirements. Fortunately these are currently on a trend of compatibility, and one set of rules will prevail.
Clubs in the Transcontinental Hunter Rifle League (TCL) exist from the tip of Maine to the desert reaches of Nevada and the bayous of Louisiana to the frozen north of Snow Shoe Alaska. With the Transcontinental Hunter Rifle League (TCL) having today expanded into two Conferences comprising some 44 clubs across the U.S. an excellent geographical representation of Hunter Class now exists. With this rapid expansion of interest, recognition by NBRSA was virtuallyforced by the threat of a separate third organization finally action was forthcoming.
In the winter of 1976 Walt Berger, then President of NBRSA, contacted me, as a result of the hue and cry, inviting me to come to the 1976 National NBRSA meetings in Tulsa, OK to present a plea for Hunter Class. Fearing that my own impassioned pleas were only to be heard then dismissed I conceived the idea of a Nationwide poll of Hunter Class shooters seeking additional backup. I felt that the illegitimate origin of Hunter Class in which I had been privileged to participate had now grown to adulthood, even facing a court martial that could affect it's entire career. only a maximum effort could save it. Fortunately the pollsters backed me up. Briefly summarized, some 160 replies indicated that 100% were in favor of Registered matches, 99% favored recognition of NBRSA World Records and 98% wanted NBRSA Hunter Nationals.
When the appointed date came I arrived in Tulsa armed with the results of the poll, frankly geared for a fight. The meeting turned into a friendly re-acquaintance with many of my former eastern shooting friends and l.mmediate acceptance of two of my three proposals. National NBRSA Hunter Class matches were not to be however.
Beginning in 1977 World Records and Registered matches would exist in NBRSA. Punishment for my part in all of this required acceptance of Hunter Class Chairman NBRSA with the task of consolidating rules, establishing proper but simple measuring devices to score targets and the acquisition of certified 10 pound weights for each Regional NBRSA Director prior to the beginning of the 1977 season. This was duly accomplished, then approved by the Hunter Class Committee NBRSA which I asked to have appointed and which comprised some of the most experienced, knowledgeable Hunter Class shooters there were. Eleven years after the illegitimate birth the errant child finally became adopted and legitimatized.
Another cycle of dominance began. With the advent of Registered Hunter Class matches shooters were keen to compete while travelling to the Registered matches fostered exchanges of information plus increased competition both in equipment and among the participants. The NBRSA Directors had extracted a promise from me that there would be no effort to hold National Hunter Class matches in exchange for the World Records and Registration. Though the two concessions certainly sparked interest the remaining limitation on achievement still hung like a cloud over all our advancement of the class.
It had further been decreed that there would be no progressive transfer of World Records throughout 1977 but rather all high scoring targets and data would be retained until the end of the year at which time the 100 yard, 200 yard and Grand Aggregate World Records would be announced by the NBRSA. On December 29, 1977 Jesse Corder, then NBRSA Measuring Committee
Chairman reported that the 100 yard NBRSA Hunter Class World Record had been set by Francis Broussard of Lafayette, LA on July 10, 1977 with a perfect 250-15X score fired on the Lafayette range. Later in '77 Broussard also set the 200 yard NBRSA Hunter Class World Record with a 246-13X score which combined with an excellent 100 yard score that day gave him the NBRSA Hunter Class Grand Aggregate World Record with a combined score of 494-19X. This set the goals -off went the rest of the pack knowing what they had to beat.
Meanwhile on the I.B.S. Hunter Class front all was not rosy. Interest and participation seemed to be falling off in direct proportion to the gains being shown in the NBRSA areas. In an effort to re-kindle the once popular Hunter Class matches the I.B.S. in a moment of weakening wisdom ruled to accept all of the here-to-for minimum cartridges and calibers in Registered I.B.S. Hunter Class events. The purported objective -to stimulate the participation by wives and youngsters of the shooters who would then be able to shoot the light recoil calibers and cartridges.
Since it was already obvious that wives or youngsters had not participated in large numbers in the Varmint Classes where small calibers had always prevailed one wonders if a few missguided I.B.S. Hunter Class people had not merely diluted the Class in an effort to achieve higher scores than their contemporaries in the NBRSA.
Among most I.B.S. Hunter Class shooters however common sense prevailed -the following two years the I.B.S. National Hunter Class Championship was won with a .308 cartridge; both Roger Gower and Tony Hidalgo disdaining any help from below minimum cartridges. This trend continued as only once in the six years of minimum cartridge competition did a sub-capacity case win the Nationals. The original rules were restored in 1984 and the 45.5 gr. Water capacity case once again legitimatizes all of Hunter Class.
The NBRSA not to be outdone in the lapses of wisdom department, made one sojourn into electronic triggers which was rapidly rescinded but in 1981 they removed the operating safety requirement thus opening the door to the use of 2 ounce triggers. This because some veteran shooters firing in all classes of competition had trouble switching to the heavy triggers mandated by the safety requirement. Since I personally knew of at least five Hunter Class shooters who used their rifle with a light trigger in competition and then switched to a normal trigger during the deer season I could find little fault with the final ruling as it exists today.
Sometime during 1978 Marcy Lyons, on my suggestion, had been named to replace me as NBRSA Hunter Class Chairman thus negating my promises to the NBRSA not to promote National Championship matches. The clamor had already begun among the Hunter Class shooters for national recognition of their class and through the next eighteen months Marcy's dedication and lobbying prevailed. At the NBRSA National meeting in 1979 the hierarchy agreed to permit the first ever NBRSA Hunter Class Nationals beginning in 1980. Finally, after 15 years of total to partial illegitimacy, Hunter Class became legitimate!
Now in 1985 Hunter Class flourishes in both the I.B.S. and the NBRSA areas of the country while there are ongoing efforts in both these organization being directed toward a common meeting ground for an eventual merger. Consolidating the rules, targets, calibers and scoring within the Hunter Class will make this easier. True comparisons can be made between shooters firing in Maine, Alaska and Texas or more importantly when these shooters travel to a National Hunter Class event, be it I.B.S. or NBRSA sponsored they need have no fear of their equipment failing to meet the entry requirements.
Hunter Class, whether informal or registered, still provides the most simple approach to the sport of shooting from bench rest. Hunter Class provides a competition battleground -if you will, for dedicated rifleman to improve their skills and knowledge with a rifle that can still be used in the field and one that has sufficient cartridge and caliber size to kill a whitetail deer with a scope of the proper magnification to make it possible. Such cannot be said about any other class of bench rest. .
Perhaps most important is the opportunity it give a new shooter to try benchrest without the tremendous outlay for sophisticated equipment. It is from the Hunter Class that new shooters, clubs and ranges are born. It is also the only form of bench rest shooting where the participant must hit his specific point of aim in order to score well. That, after all, is what rifle shooting is all about.
If ever a child of creation seemed destined for survival in spite of it's heritage and up-bringing, that child is the Hunter Class of rifle shooting for score. Try it! It is a challenge and fun!!


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Sumioni: Demon Arts Has Gone Gold
As if you didn't have enough to play on your shiny new PlayStation Vita already, XSEED Games informed us today that Sumioni: Demon Arts has gone gold. That means it's done. The last bit of code has been written and it's been submitted for distribution on the PlayStation Network.
The hack-and-slash sidescroller stars Agura, an ink demon who's been tasked with ridding the world of evil. The game plays much like your standard action-adventure game: Use the joysticks to move Agura around and the face buttons to jump and pull off different attacks. The game will, of course, take advantage of the Vita's touchscreen for a few elements, namely manipulating environments and summoning reinforcements. You can grab Sumioni: Demon Arts March 20 for $19.99.


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The Wall Street Journal ran a review of Prof. Jackson Toby's new book The Lowering of Higher Education in its December 23 edition. The reviewer, Ben Wildavsky, unfortunately buys into the standard line that college studies are highly beneficial and the country needs to encourage more students to enroll and graduate.
Wildavsky asserts that keeping ill-prepared students out of college is "one trade-off we should not make" because "the indisputable benefits of college should be spread more widely, not less."
Nonsense. The supposed benefits of attending and (maybe, eventually) graduating from college are highly questionable. Toby shows that many students enter college with feeble intellectual backgrounds and learning tools, then coast through without learning much of lasting benefit. (As I argued here, it's doubtful that students have any human-capital gain from their college experience.) Moreover, there isn't necessarily any financial benefit from going to college, even graduating. Unfortunately, Toby didn't point to the considerable evidence that great numbers of college-educated people end up doing "high-school jobs" that don't pay well. (I have been making that point for years, here, for example.) Perhaps Wildavsky's belief that college confers "indisputable" benefits would have been shaken if he had mentioned the data that we have plenty of college grads working as ticket-takers, bartenders, bellhops, aerobics instructors, and so on.
But even without that, you have to wonder why anyone would say that college has indisputable benefits after reading a book on the pathetic state of what passes for "higher education." With substantial numbers of students graduating who don't have the academic preparation that used to be expected of eighth graders, why assume that they have done anything but waste time and money?


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DJI Updates the Mavic 2 In a Big Way With The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom
The DJI Mavic Pro took the drone world by storm back in 2016. It was small, lightweight and could fold down to fit in a backpack. It's one of the companies most popular drones for a reason. It's so popular in fact that when it came time to upgrade the Mavic Pro, DJI decided to split it into two products: The all-new Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom.
Despite their similarities in size and flight ability, they're both very different. DJI worked with Hasselblad in designing a new camera for the Mavin 2 Pro that could take advantage of the Pro 2's new 1" image sensor. The Mavin 2 Zoom is exactly as it sounds. It has a smaller sensor than the Mavic 2 Pro, and no Hasselblad lens, but it does make up for that by giving you a 2X optical zoom allowing you to change the perspective of your image with a push of a button.
- 4K video up to 100Mbps using H.265 compression codec
- 8G native onboard storage (expandable)
- Compact Foldable design
- 44 MPH top speed
- 31 Minutes of continuous flight time
- 10 new sensors to avoid and maneuver around obstacles
- Hyperlapse
- Active track
- DJI Ocusync 2.0
- Transmits 1080p footage to phone or tablet from up to 5 miles away
- 3 axis mechanical gimbal for stabilization
- Improved Advanced Pilot Assistance System
The new Hyper-lapse is basically an advanced aerial time-lapse shot, which is awesome.
You can also use the DJI GO 4 mobile App, which quoting DJI's press release, allows you to implement fun autopilot programs like:
- Free- pilots the drone manually while shooting a Hyperlapse video.
- Circle- automatically flies the drone in a circular pattern around a subject you select to create a time-lapse video that captures the action.
- Course Lock- keeps the camera fixed on shooting subject while the drone flies in a straight direction to create a unique perspective.
- Waypoint- plans a complex flight path based on both altitude and GPS coordinates to capture complex shots.
They both also feature DJI's improved Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS), which uses 10 sensors to automatically fly around obstacles without slowing down.
One of the big new things that they both have is the ability to live stream full 1080p HD footage back to your phone from up to five miles away. This is footage that you could immediately use and edit with, without having to wait for the drone to land and to download the footage from the hard drive.
Those are all great abilities that enhance reliability and functionality to ensure you get the shots you want. But how are they different?
The Mavic 2 Pro has a 1" 20 MP CMOS sensor that can capture four times as many levels of color per channel as the original Mavic Pro could. This is a huge step in image quality. This is not just for video, either. The quality of the stills from this camera could be strong enough for commercial work.
The problem with portable drones has always been the limitation of the built-in camera. The drones aren't big enough to carry a Panasonic GH5S, so, you're restricted to what DJI gives you. In this case, it's giving you a lot. The camera is pretty fast with an F-stop range of 2.8-11 giving you up to 14 stops of dynamic range. It also has 10-bit Dlog-M, to ensure accurate color reproduction on 4K monitors. This is truly a professional drone in a compact body.
The DJI Mavic 2 Zoom has a smaller sensor than the Mavin pro 2, it's just a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor but it is the first folding consumer drone with a zoom lens. You're getting amazing functionality for the price of this drone. It has a 24-48mm 2X optical zoom combined with 2X digital zoom giving you an equivalent focal length of up to 96mm. It has a lighting fast hybrid focus system of phase and contrast detection that is 40% faster than the original Mavic. But the really fun aspect of this drone is its ability to punch in and crush the depth of field a bit to give you an Akira Kurosawa flat background for your drone shots, upping the production value significantly.
They also implemented a Goodfellas and Jaws Dolly Counter Zoom mode called Dolly Zoom QuickShot which automates the process of flying backward while zooming in at the same rate, creating fun footage like this.
The DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom are both really exciting new drones with capabilities that were limited to professional movie cameras strapped to a helicopter just a few years ago. This is from devices that can fit inside a backpack. It's crazy.
The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom are both available now with the Mavic 2 Pro selling for an MSRP of $1,449 and the Mavic 2 Zoom for $1,249 USD.
August 23, 2018 - DJI, the world's leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today introduced a new era for camera drones with two additions to its iconic Mavic series: Mavic 2 Pro, the world's first drone with an integrated Hasselblad camera, and Mavic 2 Zoom, the world's first foldable consumer drone with optical zoom capability.
The Mavic 2 is the most advanced DJI camera drone ever built, designed for professionals, aerial photographers and content creators. Incorporating the iconic folding design of the world's most popular Mavic Pro, the Mavic 2 is a powerful platform with new gimbal-stabilized cameras and advanced intelligent features like Hyperlapse and ActiveTrack for easier and more dynamic storytelling. With an impressive flight time of up to 31 minutes and a more stable video transmission system, Mavic 2 delivers the optimal flight experience for capturing epic shots.
"When the Mavic Pro was launched two years ago, it redefined the way people looked at a drone and expanded possibilities for creators around the world," said Roger Luo, President at DJI. "Today, we enter a new era of aerial photography with the introduction of DJI's new flagship product, the Mavic 2 series. The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom will enable photographers and videographers to take their inspirations to the air quickly and elevate their creative ideas to new heights."
Mavic 2 Pro: Superior Image Quality with Hasselblad
Co-engineered in partnership with Hasselblad, the leading manufacturer in medium format photography, the Mavic 2 Pro is the world's first drone with an integrated Hasselblad camera for outstanding image quality with superior light and color performance. Housing a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 10-bit Dlog-M color profile, the camera captures four times as many levels of color per channel compared to Mavic Pro to provide maximum flexibility for photo and video editing. The Mavic 2 Pro can capture 20-megapixel aerial shots with utmost color accuracy using Hasselblad's unique Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) technology, while an adjustable aperture from f/2.8-f/11 provides more control across a wide variety of lighting conditions. With 4K 10-bit HDR support, the Mavic 2 Pro can be plugged into a 4K TV with HLG and will play back footage with the right color tones.
Mavic 2 Zoom: A Dynamic Perspective with Optical and Digital Zoom
Powered by a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, the Mavic 2 Zoom is DJI's first foldable consumer drone with zoom, providing a dynamic perspective that ushers in a new era of creative storytelling. With the Mavic 2 Zoom, you can get closer to your subject at a moment's notice by combining two-times optical zoom (24-48mm) with two-times digital zoom to simulate a 96mm telephoto lens that captures lossless video in full HD resolution. Hybrid auto-focus on the Mavic 2 Zoom combines phase and contrast detection for higher focus accuracy with an increased focus speed of up to 40% faster than before. Shoot vivid 12-megapixel photos or take advantage of the new Super Resolution feature that uses optical zoom to automatically capture and stitch nine photos together for a highly detailed 48-megapixel image, making it an ideal option for landscape photography.
Exclusive to the Mavic 2 Zoom, the new Dolly Zoom QuickShot mode opens a new visual language for storytelling that was previously reserved for professional cinematographers. It creates an otherworldly warped perspective by automatically zooming in as it flies away from its subject, keeping the subject the same size while the full background of the scene is revealed.
Mavic 2 Series: DJI's New Flagship Consumer Drone with Powerful Camera Options
Both cameras capture vivid 4K ultra-high definition video with extreme detail, recording at a maximum bitrate of 100 megabits per second using the H.265 compression codec to give you an exceptional degree of latitude in post-production workflows. For photographers, new Enhanced High Dynamic Range capabilities blend a sequence of photos for ghost-free high dynamic range, giving the Mavic 2 Pro an impressive 14 stops of dynamic range and Mavic 2 Zoom up to 13 stops.
New Intelligent Tools For Epic, Cinematic Shots
The Mavic 2 is the ultimate tool for aerial content creation with new intelligent flight modes that make capturing professional-quality results almost effortless. A new Hyperlapse feature[1] produces establishing shots that show the passing of time, which you can share to social media immediately. JPEG and RAW photos can be simultaneously saved on a Micro SD card or the internal storage, leaving more room for post editing. Choose between Circle, Course Lock, Waypoint or Free mode to create timelapses with a simple tap of a button in the DJI GO 4 Mobile App:
- Free- pilots the drone manually while shooting a Hyperlapse video.
- Circle- automatically flies the drone in a circular pattern around a subject you select to create a timelapse video that captures the action.
- Course Lock- keeps the camera fixed on shooting subject while the drone flies in a straight direction to create a unique perspective.
- Waypoint- plans a complex flight path based on both altitude and GPS coordinates to capture complex shots.
Keeping a moving subject in the frame is now easier than ever with ActiveTrack 2.0. This enhanced auto-track feature delivers a powerful combination of autonomous tracking and obstacle sensing capabilities never before seen in a DJI drone. Using the main camera and the front dual vision cameras, the Mavic 2 creates a three-dimensional map of the area in front of it, and uses new trajectory algorithms to analyze motion and predict the subject's path up to three seconds in the future. When tracking a target, the Mavic 2 can recognize and avoid obstacles while shooting your target without interruption. It can stay on target, even if your subject momentarily goes behind an obstacle, and can track the subject at higher speeds of up to 44 mph (72 km/h).[2]
Safer, Smarter and Stable Flight
The Mavic 2 delivers autonomous flight capabilities that help you capture shots with even more confidence in complex environments. A fully upgraded FlightAutonomy[3] system transmits data to a more powerful central processor for more accurate obstacle sensing and safer flight. For the first time ever in a DJI drone, Mavic 2 has 10 sensors on all sides of the aircraft to automatically detect obstacles in its path and help prevent collisions[4], allowing you to focus on capturing the perfect shot.
An improved Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS) allows the aircraft to analyze its surrounding environment and automatically fly around obstacles without stopping. In addition, the Mavic 2 has a Bottom Auxiliary Light that turns on automatically to ensure safe and precise landings in low-light situations.
A newly designed OcuSync 2.0 video transmission system enables a more stable connection between the drone and its remote controller. The system features stronger interference resistance and auto-switching capabilities that support both 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency bands with the capability to use different frequencies for uplink and downlink data streams. It delivers 1080p video transmission feeds at a distance of up to 8 km[5], allowing you to instantly edit and upload Full HD footage directly from the video cache in the DJI app in a wider variety of situations. Original resolution photos in JPEG can be saved directly to your mobile device, so you can immediately share what you create without the need to transfer files from the drone.
Aerodynamic Design and Extended Flight Time
The Mavic 2's redesigned, more aerodynamic airframe reduces body drag by up to 19% compared to the Mavic Pro, allowing the Mavic 2 to fly at speeds of up to 44 mph (72 km/h) in Sport mode. Combined with a more efficient, quieter propulsion system and noise reducing propellers, the Mavic 2 has a maximum flight time of up to 31 minutes.
To ensure crisp photos and smooth, shake-free footage, the Mavic 2 houses an ultra-precise three-axis mechanical gimbal to stabilize its camera even during high-speed motion. Photos and videos can be saved directly to the drone using its 8 GB onboard storage. All DJI users have control over how their data is stored and managed, as part of DJI's commitment to protecting its customers' data.
A redesigned remote controller features detachable control sticks for ease of storage and portability. The Mavic 2 is compatible with DJI Goggles with the gimbal (yaw) control range up to -75°- +75° in Head Tracking mode, offering users a more immersive FPV flight experience.[6]
Price and Availability
The US retail price of a Mavic 2 Pro, including the drone, battery, remote controller, charger, and four pairs of propellers, is $1,449 USD. The US retail price of a Mavic 2 Zoom, including the drone, battery, charger, remote controller and four pairs of propellers, is $1,249 USD. A Fly More Kit, including two additional batteries, a multi-battery charging hub, a car charger, a battery to power bank adapter, two pairs of propellers and a carrying bag, retails at $319 USD. A gimbal replacement service exclusively for Mavic 2 will be available soon.
Starting today, the Mavic 2 is available for purchase at store.dji.com and the four DJI Flagship Stores. For more information on all the new features and capabilities of the Mavic 2, please visit https://www.dji.com/mavic-2.
DJI Care Refresh
DJI Care Refresh is available in select countries and provides peace of mind for new Mavic 2 owners. DJI Care Refresh covers accidental damage to the aircraft, gimbal or camera during normal use for up to 12 months, and for an additional charge, the plan will offer up to two full replacements that are new or equivalent in condition. DJI Care Refresh is available for US $129 before the new Mavic 2 is activated, or within the first 48 hours after activation. For more info or service availability in your country, please visit https://www.dji.com/service/djicare-refresh.
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DJI, the world's leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, was founded and is run by people with a passion for remote-controlled helicopters and experts in flight-control technology and camera stabilization. The company is dedicated to making aerial photography and filmmaking equipment and platforms more accessible, reliable and easier to use for creators and innovators around the world. DJI's global operations currently span across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and its revolutionary products and solutions have been chosen by customers in over 100 countries for applications in filmmaking, construction, inspection, emergency response, agriculture, conservation and other industries.
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THE THREESOME, Janus Theatre, at the Athenaeum Theatre. If this sporadically funny Eugene Labiche play is any indication, farce should not be played on such a small stage--or perhaps the problem is director Terence Domschke's ill use of the space. True, we're drawn in when actors deliver asides since we can't avoid eye contact with the characters. But more often the cramped quarters give this show a sloppy feel, exacerbating the sense that entrances and exits are haphazard. And even though Neil Bartlett's translation suggests the passage of time and new locations, entire acts are played pell-mell and seemingly all in one place.
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Few recipes have made me as excited and eager to get into the kitchen and start peeling four nail-burning heads of garlic as when I saw Rick Bayless stir up some garlic-gold alchemy on public television with his Mojo de Ajo.
Mojo de Ajo, which apparently translates into a bath of garlic, is a traditional Mexican dish with infinitely delicious possibilities, and you can see why. Think of a ton of spicy garlic drowned in fruity olive oil and then kissed alive by tangy lemon juice. It's magic.
Mojo de Ajo is great on almost anything: drizzle a few drops on toast or a salad, stir it into pasta, even toss some root vegetables in it and roast them. And of course, there's a plethora of Mexican dishes you can add it to for some extra mojo at the dinner table.
So here it is, Rick Bayless's incredible Mojo de Ajo, which I used today to spice up an extra-special dish of penne with herbs and roasted mushrooms. It was worth firing up the oven on a near-100-degree day.
Dip these vegan sourdough pretzels into the mojo. Or use it to make these garlicky roasted brussels sprouts.
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- Place the garlic in an 8-inch-square glass baking dish and pour the olive oil over it. Add salt and stir well.
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- Add the lemon juice and bake for another 20 minutes for the flavors to infuse.
- Remove, mash the garlic with a fork or potato masher, cool, and pour it all into an air-tight glass jar. The mojo de ajo keeps for at least three months in a refrigerator.
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I'VE DISCOVERED that Hogmanay in Cumbria (it used to be Westmoreland) is much like the real thing we celebrate in Scotland The Doyenne persuaded me across the Border to see out the old and bring in the New Year and as it meant I could drink my brother-in-law's whisky it seemed an admirable idea!
We were staying in the Lake District, which shares many features with Scotland It has England's highest mountains and deepest lakes, miles of desolation but with tough Herdwick sheep instead of our hardy Blackfaced breed, and I find much of it reminiscent of the Highlands.
We weren't allowed to sit idly around and were entertained to days out here and there' The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a narrow gauge railway which runs from Ravenglass on the coast through two well-wooded valleys (no glens there) to Dalegarth Known locally as €œLa'al (Little) Ratty €, the line was opened in 1875 to transport iron ore and quarried stone.
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The Doyenne and I are collectors of old churches and our walk took us past St Catherine's church which serves the community at Dalegarth Dating back to the 12th century it sits isolated, but not lonely, in a field below the village beside another River Esk Parson's Plod is the name of the track the vicar takes from the vicarage to his church.
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Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo is a true legend and godfather of Brazilian Counter-Strike, having represented his country internationally since 2009 at the highest level. Held back by lack of funding in the Brazilian scene in CS:GO's early years, FalleN has worked to help fund other Latin American teams' dreams of building professional careers. He is widely known as one of the world's best in-game leaders and fastest snipers, and has two Major championships, numerous international tournament wins, and plenty of individual accolades to show for it.
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At present, the development speed of the grinding wheel made in China is relatively fast, no matter from the product's output, quality and variety are growing year by year, especially in recent years has formed a vigorous development trend. Why resin cutting wheel grinding tools will develop So fast? This is inseparable from the unique properties of resin grinding discs. Today, the manufacturers of grinding discs introduce you to the advantages of resin cutting sheets.
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Reaction from Boston victory….
By Matty Paddock - 29/11/2017
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MATT GARDINER was happy to see Harriers complete the job of getting through to the next round of the FA Trophy with Tuesday night's win over Boston United.
After a frantic finish to the original game in Lincolnshire, Harriers were composed and, for the most part, comfortable as they negotiated a 2-0 Aggborough replay win.
Goals from Elton Ngwatala and Joe Ironside were enough and, speaking after the final whistle, Gardiner was pleased with a range of positives.
He said: "It was a very tough game on Saturday and you could see again tonight that with the new [Boston] manager coming in, they are trying to impress.
"But I thought the guys were very professional and the gaffer is very happy with the way we managed the game.
"…they have come out and performed and we had a clean sheet to boot." Matt Gardiner
"We scored two good goals and could have had more, but we were really confident in moving the ball around.
"We could have done things a little bit better in some of the periods of play but, with everything that was asked of the players, they have come out and performed and we had a clean sheet to boot."
Gardiner added: "We controlled large portions of the game, which was what we wanted.
"But the main objective was to get through to the next round against York, which we've managed to do.
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Posted: January 13, 2015||Tags: st coilovers , hre , e39 , c90 , alpine white , 530i , 5-series
Fitted with a set of HRE C90 3-piece wheels, this super clean Alpine White 530i stopped by to get lowered. Wanting the ability to dial in a perfect ride height, this customer opted to have us install the popular ST Speedtech coilovers. Manufactured by KW, the ST coilovers feature preset settings that provide an optimal balance between performance and comfort, while also allowing for independent ride height adjustment. With it's new lowered stance, this E39 proves that even though a BMW might be a couple generations old, it can still look sporty and modern. Enjoy.
Posted: July 15, 2014||Tags: st coilovers , jet black , e46 , 330ci
This Jet Black E46 came to us for a suspension upgrade. Once on our lift, we swapped out the worn OEM shocks and springs and replaced them with a set of ST SpeedTech coilovers. Manufactured by KW, these affordable ST coilovers are ideal for street cars, as they provide a perfect balance between everyday comfort and high performance handling. With the new coilovers installed, this clean 330Ci sits at just the right ride height and gives off a sporty presence.
Posted: July 09, 2014||Tags: white silver metallic , st coilovers , r56 , mini cooper , john cooper works
As it comes from the factory, the John Cooper Works is definitely one of the most fun-to-drive cars that money can buy. With that being said, there is always room for some improvement. In order to stiffen up the handling and lower the center of gravity of this White Silver Metallic R56, we installed the ST Suspensions Speedtech coilover system. Manufactured by KW, and essentially the same coilovers as the Variant 1 system, the height-adjustable ST Speedtech coilovers provide the perfect balance between performance and everyday comfort. With it's new suspension and sportier stance, this MINI is ready to be thrown around like a little go-kart.
Posted: August 13, 2013|Categories: Customer Cars|Tags: wheels , volk , te37sl , st coilovers , magnesium blue , e46 , bmw m3 , alpine white
This super clean Alpine White E46 M3 is running with Volk TE37SLs in the beautiful Magnesium Blue finish (18x9.5 et22 front, 18x10.5 et22 rear) while dropped on a set of ST Coilovers. Not only does this car look great, but the lighter rotating mass of the wheels combined with the lower center of gravity, wider tires and the stiffer ride makes this M3 handle like a dream.
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This 135i came to our facility to have a set of ST Suspensions coilovers installed to both sharpen up the handling and give the car a sportier stance. As you can see from the pictures, the car was instantly transformed and given a much more aggressive look the second it came off our lift. To further improve the sportiness of this E82 we installed Berk Technology's popular full sport exhaust system, bringing this N55 to life.
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Browsing School of Music Concert Programs by Author "N.R.O.T.C. Choir"
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Annual Christmas Program, December 19, 1943 Kirchner, George; Welke, Walter; Lawrence, Charles; Werner, August; Parker, Elsie Merle; Noreen, Al; Hansen, Marvin; Harrison, Dale; Douglass, Marjorie; Bednarik, Adeline; Stendal, Ruth; Hansen, Marvin; Women's Glee Club; Concert Band; N.R.O.T.C. Choir; Symphony Orchestra (1943-12-19)Concert program for Annual Christmas Program, December 19, 1943


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For its new exhibition, Quynh Galerie has chosen one of the great names of the contemporary Vietnamese art: Truong Cong Tung. This is the first complete exhibition of the artist's works since almost a decade.
The exhibition Between Fragmentation and Wholeness refers to The Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980), a book written by David Bohm, a leading physicist in the field of quantum theory. In this exhibition curated by Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, the artist invites viewers to enter into his multidimensional reality through three main axes in the gallery space: vertically – with the ruptures in urban planning and propagated doctrine; horizontally – with mystical human-altered landscapes in agrarian territories; and diagonally – with a mirage of blazing images extracted from the virtual domain. The bodies of works appear in various mediums from collaged sculptures of natural and manmade objects to video installations and layered drawings in light boxes. All contribute to a powerful language of semiotics – of self-indicated signs – which moves beyond the mimesis of nature. Departing from his own personal context of the Central Highlands and Saigon, Vietnam, Truong Cong Tung proposes an understanding of the totality of humanity where our linear modernization unfolds, mimics, adjusts and then disrupts nature – not just the natural world but also the human desire for collectivism and harmony.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Friday 25 May to 30 June 2018 with an Opening on 24 May from 18:30 to 20:30. Visits are scheduled with the curator on Saturday, June 2 at 3 pm (in Vietnamese) and at 5 pm in English and a conference of the artist at the gallery on Saturday, June 23 at 5 pm (bilingual).
Contact the gallery for more information on the educational program HERE
Between Fragmentation and Wholeness – Truong Cong Tung
Opening Thursday 24 Mai from 6.30 pm TO 8.30 pm
Exhibition: 25 May to 30 June 2018
118 Nguyen Van Thu District de Dakao Ward 1 Ho Chi Minh-Ville Vietnam | tél / fax: +84 28 3822 7218 | firstname.lastname@example.com | www.galeriequynh.com


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The global communications leader, Motorola has official announced its two new mobile phones, ROKR E8 and Z10. According to the company, the Moto Z10 slider phone is a mobile film studio packed with next-generation 3G technology, and video editing capability in an effort to appeal to young folks who like to share videos with their friends through sharing web sites including YouTube, Google, Yahoo and Shozu, aiming to edit and share multimedia directly from the pocket-sized mobile device.
Besides, the music-focused ROKR E8 candybar phone will offer a backlit touch-sensitive keypad, along with a cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device.
"At CES 2008, Motorola will demonstrate 'must-have' and intuitive mobile devices that allow consumers to explore and enrich every facet of their lives," said Stu Reed, president of Motorola Mobile Devices.
Key Features Of New Motorola Z10:
- HSDPA, Symbian UIQ and 3.5G technology
- 3.2 megapixel camera, Superfast burst mode delivers 3 shots per second
- 2.2″ QVGA display for 30 frames per second video playback
- 30 frames per second video capture
- Storyboard editing allows for combination of multiple videos, addition of soundtrack, commentary and visual effects
- Future-proofed for up to 32GB microSD card
- Instant media download and streaming at HSDPA 3.6Mbps
Key Features Of New Motorola ROKR E8:
- ModeShift technology transforms the device from phone to music player to imaging device with the touch of a button
- FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with the slide of a thumb
- Innovative haptics technology provides tactile response when a virtual key is pressed
- Microsoft music ecosystem support
- 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, multi-shot feature, video capture and playback
- Airplane mode to play uninterrupted music in the air, even without a SIM card
- Talking phone offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call
- Crystal Talk technology and full HTML browser
The latest Motorola ROKR E8 is expected to be available in Q1 2008 but no words on Z10's availability yet.


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With the rise of the desire to get the perfect shot it's become increasingly difficult for photographers to set themselves apart from other super-creative work.
If you've ever been curious about the physical work behind those beautiful and amazing photographs, then we've put some photo's together here that will make you realize that pretty much everything in your life is a lie.
Check out the before and afters here:
Super awesome cars right?
Wrong! It's just miniatures.
Ah, a lovely splash conveniently coveting this bikini shoot
It's actually pretty hysterical that this guy is just doing belly flops behind her on loop until they get the perfect shot.
Wow! What a lucky couple, their photographer is amazing to get this action shot!
Er…just kidding
Hey, girl. Send me a pic.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
What? It adds flavor!
Ah love
And the awkward things we do in the name of it.
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Are fresh fruits and vegetables getting their "fair share"?
If seen through the lens of consumer expenditures, the answer is no.
Consumer spending on food was up in 2017, but dollars spent on fresh fruit and vegetables were a tick lower than overall food spending.
In midyear tables tracing consumer expenditures from July 2016 to July 2017, statistics showed that overall food spending was up 3% over the previous year, with mean food at home spending unchanged at an average of $4,121 and mean food away from home spending up 6% at $3,286 for the year period.
For consumer expenditures on fresh fruits and vegetables in 2016-17, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported:
- Average spending on fresh fruits for all U.S. households was $295 for the year, down 1% from 2015-16;
- The range in annual spending on fresh fruit ranged from $169 for households with incomes under $15,000 and $619 for those households with incomes over $200,000;
- Average spending on fresh vegetables for all U.S. households was $259 for the year, unchanged from the previous year; and
- The range in spending on fresh vegetables ranged from $148 per year for households earning less than $15,000 to $494 per year for households earning more than $200,000 per year.
TK: Fresh fruit and vegetable marketers need to continually work at loosening consumer attitudes and wallets in the direction of greater consumption.
Considering that the average consumer expenditure on cell phone service was $1,125 per year and more than $600 per year for pets, there is plenty of work to do to sell fresh produce value.
The comparison to cell phone spending to produce is not a fair challenge. I would say look at convenience food and ready to eat meal purchases with that of produce sales and look at trends. Note too, without ad specials, purchasing produce at a traditional supermarkets anymore is the highest cost option on average. Do the produce dollars mention include Farmers Market sales? Farmers Markets and Produce stands generally speaking are your better value for produce as many options include most local items and availability.


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Dr. Robert Musacchio, PhD, is the Senior Vice President of Publishing and Business Services for the American Medical Association (AMA). In this role, Dr. Musacchio is in charge of the AMA's Department of Database Licensing, which sells access to the AMA Physician Masterfile Database. In 2002, sales of licenses to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Physician Masterfile generated $20 million in revenue for the organization. By 2007, sales of the AMA Physician Masterfile had reached $40 million per year.
Although the AMA claims information in its Physician Masterfile has been "de-identified," it is a fact that merging the AMA Physician Masterfile with just one other commercially available database of patient medical info, such as IntelliScript or MedPoint, will cause private patient information to be identifiable.
From Dr. Musacchio directly, here is how the pharmaceutical companies utilize the AMA's Physician Masterfile database:
"[Pharmaceutical corporations] take our data as well as [data from] several dozen other databases and combine them together with information that they receive from pharmacies, and they put together a picture of physicians' prescribing habits — by zip code, by specialty, by individual physician — and they use it for their planning and marketing purposes… It benefits physicians in that they receive targeted visits from pharmaceutical reps as opposed to broad visits, so that physicians don't receive visits concerning therapeutics that they might or might not be interested in. This is not really a patient issue, from our perspective, but I would ask how it would hurt patients if it's designed to provide physicians with information about therapeutics."
Indisputably, the American Medical Association, and its Senior Vice President of Publishing and Business Services are aware that patients' medical information contained in the AMA Physician Masterfile Database is identifiable.
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'It livens the town up' - Annual carnival entertains Great Yarmouth
PUBLISHED: 15:05 21 September 2019 | UPDATED: 15:59 21 September 2019
Copyright: Archant 2019
A parade of bright colours and tropical drums entertained a sunny Great Yarmouth.
The town's annual carnival took place on Saturday with local dance and theatre groups moving through the streets to samba-style rhythms.
Led by the borough's mayor Micheal Jeal and flanked by spectators crowded on paths, the carnival blazed a lively trail from the seafront up a packed Regent Road and around the outdoor market.
The procession then headed along King Street before gathering at the plaza outside St George's Theatre, where the music and dance continued.
Mr Jeal said: "It livens the town up, people on holidays see it, it's a very entertaining show put on by local people and funded by the National Lottery.
"It's a nice carnival atmosphere for the day, I'm really proud to be at the front," he added.
It was a case of second time luck for the organisers, who initially had to call off the carnival in June due to high winds.
Organiser Hugh Sturzaker commended the participants who through three months of workshops had put a lot of time and effort into preparing for the event.
He also praised Pat Howe, member of Great Yarmouth Arts Festival, who brought the carnival together.
Mr Sturzaker said: "Hopefully, for the participants, it brings different groups together, people who have grown up in Yarmouth and people who have come to the town in recent years.
"It's a diverse group."
He added: "I hope it brings people into the town who spend money and help the local economy."
Participants this year included:
- Norwich Samba
- Cobholm Primary School
- Novaturient School
- East Coast College/Creative Collisions
- St George's Primary School
- Dragon Stage School
- Community Roots
- Zumba Angels
- Tin House Arts
- Herring House Drumming Band
- Great Yarmouth Civic Society
- Buzby from Potters
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Shower Thought…
Are edible glass doors the the future!?
Well, no. But here are some things to think about the next time you gaze upon your gorgeous custom glass shower door!
Did you know:
Glass is an amorphous solid. So is cotton candy! Their atoms do not hang out in a stable orderly pattern like a normal solid. Next time you're in the shower, consider all those molecules bopping around. Just don't try to snack on your shower door…
Glass is 100% recyclable. The shower door industry is naturally eco-friendly, and we recycle everything we can as part of our green initiative.
Glass is made from sand. Yeah, you probably knew that, smartypants. Silica + lime + soda ash are the main ingredients of glass. To the naked eye, glass appears smooth, but it actually has microscopic ridges and valleys where soap scum can hang out. Applying sealant to your glass will make it more hygienic and – our favorite part – easier to clean!
Glass is colored by adding minerals. Standard shower glass has a slightly green tint from iron content. Low-iron glass (aka HD or Starfire glass) is more optically clear.
Glass is one of the most versatile materials in construction. In 1950, the English company Pilkington UK Limited crafted an 50x8ft glass window pane, the largest flat pane on record. Please give us advance notice if your shower is 50ft long…
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At Kyoto University, each faculty is responsible for its undergraduate programs (4-year, non-divided education), with courses in specialized education and liberal arts and sciences being arranged in parallel through the first to fourth years.
Within this curriculum framework, the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (hereafter "ILAS") is responsible for the planning and implementation of courses that are common to each undergraduate program, such as courses in liberal arts, foreign languages, or major subjects (introductory courses) in accordance with each faculty's policy for organizing undergraduate programs.
There is a range of opinions on liberal arts and sciences courses, but Kyoto University takes special note of the following two roles that these courses play.
First, they help students make a smooth transition from high school education to specialized education at a university.
The content of foreign language and introductory courses of major subjects lay the foundations for the specialized education that follows. It is also important to help students appreciate the significance and joy of learning, as university education depends on the assumption that students learn of their own volition in order to satisfy their own unique intellectual aspirations. For those who do not appreciate the significance and joy of learning, university education can be dry and colorless.
The second role is to help students broaden their horizons.
A vast stretch of intellectual space lies before each student. By inviting them into an intellectually stimulating world that is unlike anything they have experienced in high school, they can begin seeing the fields that they have chosen in a new light and start expanding their interests into other fields, thus adding greater color to their studies and lives. As classes taught in English have been added from 2014, it is believed that an even more multidimensional approach can be taken toward students.
To plan and implement liberal arts and sciences courses that play the above-mentioned roles, ILAS has invited members from each faculty to transfer to ILAS and form Committee for Planning and Evaluation (hereafter the "Committee"). The Committee will discuss the optimal form that a liberal arts and sciences should take—e.g. courses to be offered, class content and teaching methods, grading, and who is responsible for what duties. Although the liberal arts and sciences courses that ILAS plans basically conform to each faculty's policy for organizing undergraduate programs, ILAS will conduct an independent review of the content of such courses and share any findings with the relevant faculties, so that the University can agree on their content with the cooperation of all faculties.
ILAS offers courses that the Committee has examined with help from the entire University, as well as from its full-time teachers. All of the faculty deans and representatives from independent graduate schools and research institutes and centers will participate in the Council, which is the supreme decision-making organ of ILAS.
In the past, planning of liberal arts and sciences at Kyoto University was coordinated by the Institute for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, and the implementation of such courses was left to the departments/divisions primarily responsible for such implementation or supporting departments/divisions. This arrangement often prevented the courses from being offered as originally planned and gave rise to several problems, including a large number of courses that were too specialized for liberal education.
In fact, ILAS was established to address this kind of issue in the past, and so is designed in such a way to enable the adequate provision of liberal arts and sciences in the manner originally intended. Of course, this does not mean that education is separated from research. Teachers of each course are at the same time researchers in their respective fields and teach classes based on their research findings. We believe that this is the only way that we can satisfactorily fulfill the roles both of liberal and basic education.
From 2013, the Committee began its discussions on future course organization, and reports have been published for each field. Based on the outcome, courses in some fields are subjected to review from 2014, and a full-scale modification of subject organization started in 2016. Meanwhile, discussions will continue at the Committee, so that liberal arts and sciences at the University can be further improved.


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East of Avenue Announce Debut EP
Published Aug 13, 2015Toronto duo East of Avenue earned themselves a minor hit with "Paper Planes," which came out last year and was featured in Walmart's Canadian holiday campaign (and is not to be confused with M.I.A.'s smash of the same name). That success helped the band land a record deal ahead of the arrival of their self-titled EP.
The mini-release will land on August 28 through Fifth Kid Records, the label run by the Watchmen's guitarist Joey Serlin, and Fontana North. The collection was produced by Tim Abraham (Grand Analog, Royal Wood, Peter Katz) and consists of six songs, including "Paper Planes." See the tracklist below and the watercolour-style cover art above.
At the bottom of the page, listen to two previously released tracks: EP opener "Army of One" and the aforementioned "Paper Planes." Both of songs are chipper folk-pop ditties in which soft acoustic chords are supported by simple kick drum thumps, although "Army of One" aims for something loftier and more triumphant.
East of Avenue:
1. Army of One
2. Young Love
3. Paper Planes
4. In His Hands
5. Everything's Good
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Day 341: Diligence and 'Great and Small'
In a moment of realising that what I am seeing with my physical eyes I cannot encompass with my conscious mind – except to make a note that this significance exists for me clearly in itself – like a message for me within it – and so I take the shells of what seems to me to encapsulate this event, and store them as an outline, as a memory – like saying to myself: Ok, later in my life I may be able to see what it is that exists within this, that a deeper part of me has seen, has shown to me, has flagged for me – but seeing and realizing that right now I do not have the tools to be at one with this, therefore I save it, like for sometime later in this life – and right now I keep what I can from this – while what is dear to me, what I cherish – is the fact of this support for me from this deeper part of me – this voice in a way that says to me: Look! Or Listen! See this! Such as the example that I wrote of in 339, a previous post – of a moment of intimacy, sharing with a fly at rest on an undulating leaf of a solitary tree in a wild and stormy landscape – in which the structure in my mind of 'great and small' for that moment had ceased to exist, and within the wildness of the wind there existed for me and the fly and the leaf a quiet moment of the Breath and the gentle impact of being Here – where in looking at this memory again arising in me as I look at what Diligence could contain for me, what essences that I could live within the word as part of who I am, I see this aspect of attention to detail in Diligence both as something that I would want for me, and a strengthening of something that already exists within me that I had not seen before – not because I did not have the tools in a way, but because the tools I did have as my words were all on settings that I had just accepted and allowed and had not asked myself who I was that was existing in them.
Gradually I begin to form a new definition for me to exist in living the word Diligence: and I see that gradually I form a structure of a list of redefined components as words as solutions for me to live: Care and Purpose and Work and Patience, with Diligence as both the 'How' and the 'Way' of the nature of my engagement with the moments that arrive.
What does it mean, this Redefinition and living of words? Self Creation : SOUL
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