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NHIAA Basketball: Pinkerton girls answer the bell, top rival LondonderryBy ROGER BROWN
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February 01. 2013 10:37PM
DERRY - Even though the Pinkerton Academy girls' basketball team entered Friday night's matchup against rival Londonderry with a 12-0 record, the Astros had yet to play any team widely considered to be a contender for this year's Division I championship.
For that reason, and because an injury prevented Pinkerton point guard Sam Breslin from suiting up Friday, many considered the Astros to be the underdogs in Friday's contest. So it's probably safe to say more than a few people were surprised at how things unfolded at Pinkerton's Hackler Gymnasium.
Pinkerton scored the game's first 10 points and never trailed en route to an easier-than-expected 55-44 victory.
"This was the first top-four team we've had to play, so I told our girls it was going to be a tough game," Pinkerton coach John Barry said. "This was a very pleasant result."
Pinkerton guard Colleen Fortier led all scorers with 21 points. That total included four 3-pointers. Sophomore forward Valerie Martin added 17 for the Astros, who led 12-8 after one quarter, 22-14 at halftime and 36-29 after three quarters.
Breslin, Pinkerton's leading scorer and leading rebounder, missed the game because of injuries suffered in what Barry called a "minor car accident" earlier this week. Breslin is the only senior on the roster. Barry said he is uncertain when Breslin will return.
"Without her, I assumed they would struggle a little more with who was going to run the show because of the way she settles things down for them," Londonderry coach John Fagula said. "They didn't seem to miss her. I was surprised."
Aliza Simpson and Jordan Marett each scored a team-high 11 points for Londonderry, which slipped to 9-3. The Lancers never got closer than four points after the first quarter.?"We had some girls forcing things instead of letting the game come to them," Fagula said. "And then it was matchups. I didn't play many of my big kids because they have five guards out there who can all shoot the ball from the perimeter and who can all put it on the floor and go by you."
Barry said he told his girls to keep the victory in perspective.
"After the game I told them not to get too excited," he said. "We made a lot of mistakes and we still have a lot of work to do."


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On Wednesday, January 26, 2011, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) conducted a briefing for House and Senate staff designed to provide attendees with an overview of the Agency and the critical role the minority business community plays in the overall national economy.
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MBDA National Director David Hinson, as well as National Deputy Director Alejandra Castillo, spoke to the benefits of a robust minority business community as an engine of economic growth and a driver of job creation. The briefing represents one of many steps MBDA is taking to engage policymakers on the issues of most importance to minority businesses.


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Translation and Content Management vendor SDL has taken a minority stake in privately held Trisoft N.V., a Belgian-based vendor of InfoShare, a component content management system (CCM). There was no fanfare, and in fact no announcement; evidently because it wasn't a full acquisition, the two companies dispensed with any press release. However, I think it's a significant move. When it comes to translation information management, XML; and in this case DITA-based XML, can matter. SDL had previously acquired Tridion, a Web CMS that can be used for component content management, early last year.
I think this is a good move by SDL, which has become quite a consolidator of globalization technology. I haven't looked at InfoShare before, but buying into the XML-based content management market is prescient of SDL since component-oriented content is very useful for creating content that is going to be translated.
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Prosecutor Michael Watson says he received the boys' psychological evaluations Tuesday and needs time to review the findings.
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For two months last spring, as Kermit Gosnell stood trial for murder in a Philadelphia courtroom, the instruments of his work were on display: the rusty, bloody equipment he used on women who came to him for abortions.
Janet Morana, the executive director of Priests for Life, saw it when she attended the trial. She was not surprised when the jury decided on May 13, 2013, that Gosnell was guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of infants — who were born alive when he tried to perform abortions — and one count of involuntary manslaughter of a woman who died after an overdose of anesthesia in 2009. Gosnell, now 73, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Morana also was not surprised to hear anecdotes of reporters and other people covering the trial who changed their minds about abortion and the abortion industry.
"What most people think about abortion is that it happens in the first trimester only," Morana said. "It happens all nine months. It can happen to healthy babies and healthy moms. This raised awareness that late-term abortions are performed. It shone a bright light on what is really going on, and it is moving people in a pro-life direction."
That doesn't mean that everyone who hears about the Gosnell case, Catholics included, immediately falls in line with the Church's teaching on the sanctity of life, Morana said. A Gallup poll taken in the two weeks before the Gosnell verdict was released showed that, on balance, the proportion of Americans who think abortion should be banned in all circumstances has held nearly steady over the last 40 years at about 20 percent, while the proportion of those who believe abortion should be legal in all circumstances has held steady at about 25 percent. The majority, 52 percent, believe it should be legal in some, but not all circumstances.
An Investors Business Daily poll, also taken around the time of the verdict, found that 42 percent of respondents who followed the Gosnell trial said that, as a result, they now lean more toward pro-life views.
Unfortunately, there was a "media blackout," said Arina Grossu, director for the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, with most media not covering the story until after pro-lifers protested.
Pro-life supporters said they were not surprised by the grand jury report on the clinic, which painted a grisly picture of conditions inside the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia, where staff members administered anesthesia, unsterilized instruments spread infections from patient to patient and Pennsylvania's ban on abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy was often ignored.
"Scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains," according to the grand jury report. "It was a baby charnel house."
"Some of us, the local people who had been protesting here for years, heaved a sigh of relief" when Gosnell was convicted, said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. "He absolutely hasn't got a smidgen of concern. He had little to no regard for the mothers."
The grand jury report and the subsequent trial exposed a system where babies are not the only victims, Brown said, because the people who perform abortions for profit are, by definition, valuing their bottom lines over human life.
"If you'll kill a baby, you'll do anything evil," Brown said.
Groups that support abortion rights, such as NARAL, Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, also condemned Gosnell, Brown noted.
"They cannot afford to align themselves with practices like Gosnell's," Brown said.
Morana, who co-founded the Silent No More Awareness Campaign for men and women who mourn the children they lost to abortion, said many women speak of unsanitary conditions in the clinics where they had their abortions.
"In many cases, it's confirming what they already knew," Morana said. "If you read the testimonies of the women, the treatment they received was pretty horrific. Justice was brought to Gosnell, and hopefully, that's put the others on notice." More states have passed laws regulating clinics since Gosnell, and Morana said she has confidence more states will actually inspect clinics and enforce their own regulations — unlike what happened in the case of Gosnell's clinic. "That's the other positive thing to come out of this," Morana said.
Dozens of states have passed more than 200 laws to regulate abortion clinics following the Gosnell case, Grossu said. As of the first quarter of 2014, another 303 provisions have been introduced in 38 states, three of which have been enacted.
"There's definitely a lot of momentum in terms of passing new regulations," she said.The new laws and regulations are designed to require clinics where abortions are performed to meet the same standards as other medical facilities, she said, or restrict abortion to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
While many newly enacted laws are facing court challenges, Grossu said, a law requiring doctors who perform abortions in Texas to have admitting privileges at a local hospital withstood a challenge in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and has led to the closure of 19 abortion clinics in the state.
To keep the momentum going, pro-lifers should continue to use information about Gosnell and the Women's Medical Society to expose the abortion industry. Morana encourages pro-life advocates to quote from and use the photos from the grand jury report, because that cannot be dismissed as pro-life propaganda. It is available in its entirety from the Philadelphia district attorney's website.
"The last thing that the providers of abortion and the culture of death want is for the truth to be out there," Brown said. "That is the long-term greatest aftermath of Gosnell: exposure."
Michelle Martin writes from Illinois.
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Many foreign terror suspects have been held without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba for 12 years.
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Philosophy has played a historic role in the liberal arts tradition. We believe its place in the intellectual development of undergraduate students is essential and, therefore, require Introduction to Philosophy as part of the liberal arts core curriculum. Nyack College has offered the Philosophy major for almost forty years. Over the last ten years the department usually averages between 15 to 25 majors and a number of minors. Furthermore, a number of students majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies have selected philosophy as one of their areas of concentration.
We offer a wide variety of courses, but lean more toward the Continental Tradition rather than the British/American analytic tradition. Since the Continental Tradition still deals with the big questions of philosophy, we often attract non-majors in upper division courses such as Feminist Philosophy, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and Philosophies of Love.
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PHI101 Introduction to Philosophy
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The Seattle Mariners fired hitting coach Chris Chambliss Thursday, Oct. 4. The rest of the Mariners' coaching staff will return next season. Seattle finished the year dead last in batting average (.234), on-base percentage (.296), slugging percentage (.369) and OPS (.665).
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Seattle Mariners hitting coach Chris Chambliss intends to get back to the basics and will not be focusing on teaching his players to hit home runs, according to AOL FanHouse.com's John Hickey. "Just to talk about home runs is not really the answer to overall offensive production. There are teams that have proven that power is not the only factor in scoring runs. You need to get on base. You need to run the bases well, move runners up. We want our hitters to be good hitters first before worrying about (hitting) homers," Chambliss said. The team will be focusing on on-base percentage, two-strike approach and moving runners up.
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As a student, I participated in yearly NYSSMA competitions, performed in recitals and National Music Guild competitions as well. Following my passion made my decision to major in music the obvious choice. I wound up being the recipient of the first Ralph V. Ritchie Music Memorial Scholarship at Nassau Community College (which needless to say was a huge honor). I studied under Rose Tanner, who was a member of the Juliard faculty, performing many piano solo recitals as well as singing madrigals in a quartet. I truly loved what I was doing. I went on as a perfor
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My ESL teaching experience includes having worked with all ages, English levels and with quit
Before working with these adults in Bogota, I worked at an international, bi-lingual school for 1 year, called Anglo-Colombiano, teaching English writing and literature to high school students. At this school, too, the students graduate to the same level of schools as McNair students, in addition to other similar schools found in Canada and Europe.
When I teach ESL, I use the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach, because it is highly interactive and facilitates student communication. In other words it demands that students get a lot of practice in all of the 4 English language skills. In conjunction with CLT, I guide my students towards the use of purposeful, authentic language that is used in daily communication, whether it be for academic or professional purposes (task-based language teaching and learning).
In addition to teaching the 4 English language skills, I also prepare students to sit the IELTS's exams -- both the academic and the general training. Some of my students live throughout the United States and others live outside of the country.
I am also a member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), based in Faversham, Kent, England, and of TESOL International, based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
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Quite recently yet another of Jasper Becker's indispensable dispatches from China appeared in his newspaper, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. "Every year," Becker reported, "about 10,000 of China's five million coal miners meet gruesome deaths underground." He went on to explain that censorship limits news of industrial accidents, but that conditions have certainly gotten worse in the past two decades, during China's breakneck effort at economic growth.
You have to pause a bit to let the impact of this statistic set in, especially after realizing that it does not include deaths from other industrial accidents, including factory fires, explosions and collapsing buildings, only a fraction making it into the pages of the Morning Post. Chinese workingmen and -women are dying at a higher rate than their counterparts in Victorian England or turn-of-the-century America, and, until now, the world has been paying little attention. By contrast, when an explosion at a coal mine in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 361 coal miners in 1907, the single largest such accident in our history, the disaster attracted national coverage.
You won't see much of Jasper Becker's kind of reporting in the American mainstream press. Over the past decade or so, American journalists, along with their ideological elder brothers at The Economist, have focused on the booming Chinese coastal cities, glorifying young entrepreneurial yuppies with cell phones and marveling at the construction burst of shopping plazas, office towers and upscale housing.
Slightly more conscientious reporters may mention, in passing, sweatshops and pollution, but they imply that these are the unfortunate and temporary byproducts of "economic reform," a phrase normally presented without the quotation marks, suggesting a self-evident good instead of a controversial set of economic policies. This uncritical attitude, best described as "market fundamentalism," has taken over much of the US media. Even Paul Krugman, currently the economic columnist at the New York Times and someone smart enough to know better, wrote an article back in 1997 titled "In Praise of Cheap Labor."
Jasper Becker is different. He is British-born but fluent in Chinese, and he has spent the past ten years in China, most recently for the Morning Post, skeptically tramping into areas of the country and listening to people most other Western journalists disregard. His years of work (some of it is also available on the Internet, at www.scmp.com) provide two tremendous services. First, he introduces us to Chinese people we would never otherwise meet. Second, he raises profound doubts about a core belief of market fundamentalism: that Chinese suffering today will be justified by a developed nirvana in the future.
Becker is not inspired by any nostalgia for the now-departed Maoist era; his last book, Hungry Ghosts (1998), was a powerful account of how the Great Helmsman's arrogance and the undemocratic Chinese Communist system caused more than 30 million people to die in a man-made famine during the disastrous Great Leap Forward (1958-61).


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"Rama Tambak": Rare indigenous Betawi show on the great Ramayana Epic
The Office of Tourism and Culture of the province of Jakarta will present a special cultural performance entitled"Rama Tambak" scheduled to take place at the Ismail Marzuki Art Center , Jakarta from 10th to 11th December 2013.
The Ramayana Saga, an epic story which teaches the fights between virtue against evil has been adopted by many of Indonesia's traditional arts and cultures. Especially on the islands of Java and Bali, the epic saga of Ramayana is played in various traditional art forms including the Wayang Golek (Wooden Puppet) shows, Wayang Kulit (Leather Puppet show), and Wayang Wong(Theatrical Plays).
Although the capital city of Jakarta is recognized mostly for its modernity, yet its indigenous Betawi ethnic group also has its own version of the Ramayana epic in its own traditional performing arts. In preserving and revitalizing some of Betawi's disappearing arts, the episode of Rama Tambak taken from the Ramayana Saga will be performed in the traditional form of Wayang Wong Betawi.
The performance will not only involve acting, dance, and music, but will also feature distinct Betawi's masks that match each character of the story. Another special feature of the performance is the musical score and its background ofAjeng Music which is also a rare art in modern Jakarta.
Rama Tambak itself tells the story of Rama Wijaya from the Kingdom of Ayodya in his attempt to rescue his beloved wife, Shinta, who had been kidnapped by the evil giant King Rahwana from the Kingdom of Alengka. In order to reach Alengka, which is located in the middle of the Ocean, Rama built embankments (Tambak) with the help from an army of monkeys led by Sugriwa and Hanoman.
The process of building the embankments met with many obstacles and problems. Later, Gunawan Wibisana, younger brother of the giant Rahwana who had been banished from Alengka, offered aid to Rama to help him in his quest. Wibisana's offer was at first rejected by Sugriwa who suspected that it was a trick from the Alengkans to sabotage the mission. However, Hanoman in his wisdoms and consideration suggested that it would be best to accept Wibisana's offer, which was agreed by Prince Rama. Finally, with the help of Gunawan Wibisana and the monkey soldiers, Prince Rama succeeded in crossing the ocean and reached Alengka where he defeated the giant Rahwana and rescued his beloved wife, Shinta.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jack White has issued a written apology to The Black Keys, his former bandmate Meg White and others over comments he made in a recent Rolling Stone magazine interview.
Last year, his personal opinions about The Black Keys were revealed when his wife included a message from him in their divorce case. He was asked again about the band during the recent interview and told Rolling Stone he felt The Black Keys were capitalizing on a sound he helped make popular.
White explains in a letter dated Saturday on his website that he thought it would have seemed petty if he had declined to discuss the issue with the magazine.
In his letter, he spoke positively of the Black Keys, who are also based in Nashville and got their start as a bluesy two piece like White's own White Stripes.
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Improving Maternal Health in Bangladesh
Editor's Note: On Thursday, Sept. 16, the World Bank previewed renowned model and maternal health advocate Christy Turlington Burns' debut documentary, No Woman, No Cry, a powerful portrayal of at-risk pregnant women in Tanzania, Bangladesh, Guatemala and the United States. In this guest post, Anushay Hossain focuses on the progress that has been made in Bangladesh and what more must be done.
|Screening of "No Woman, No Cry" at the World Bank on Sept. 16th
Bangladesh stood out as the "development star" this month, when countries met at the United Nations in New York to reaffirm their commitments to the UN's Millennium Development Goals. The 2015 deadline is looming on the goals, which include ending poverty, achieving gender equality, and improving world health.
Bangladesh's achievements may be surprising to many, as it is one of the world's poorest and most densely populated countries. But as Women's eNews puts it, a "precocious, gender-sensitive civil society movement stirring in Bangladesh since the 1970s" is largely responsible for the progress the country has been making towards the MDGs. In particular, Bangladesh is doing a great job in poverty reduction, increasing girls' enrollment in schools (though high dropout rates remain) and satisfying the 33 percent quota of women in Parliament.
All admirable accomplishments, considering Bangladesh is still recovering from 2007′s military coup. But the country is far from meeting the fifth UN development goal, which calls for a two-thirds reduction in maternal mortality rates by 2015.
Maternal deaths declined by almost 40 percent in Bangladesh from 1990 to 2006, but the UN reports that the progress has halted. An estimated 15,000 Bangladeshi women die every year from complications in childbirth.


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You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
During high school, I felt like I was the only one with such beliefs, and for the most part, I likely was.
These individuals who are now posting or "liking" christian related items & images on FB were certainly not religious during high school, and it boggles my mind how someone in adulthood can come to believe such supernatural nonsense.
I guess if one doesn't learn, keep and use critical thinking skills in adulthood (and we see an abundance of that all around us don't we?), then I suppose that if they get "loved on" by some Christians and get lured into that sense of community, then it's entirely possible, but I just find it so shocking, and sad. I want to let fly with the arsenal of material I have at hand, but FB is not the right venue for that (for me anyway). Boy I'd like to let fly on this insane page:https://www.facebook.com/JesusDailySo does anyone share my experience of seeing their old friends become hypnotized by christinsanity?
That Jesus page was like a bunch of little grade school kids passing notes," Do you like Jesus, check YES or NO".Enough to make you barf when done by adults.
I don't keep up with most High School friends. I went to a reunion and I didn't hear any of them spouting jesus who weren't in HS.
Let those people know that they're posting on a site owned by an Atheist. It would be interesting to see all the christians' reaction to that.
Why would a Christian care about that? I sure don't.


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Did your milk come in late? A new study says that a delay (defined as 72 hours or later postpartum) puts breastfeeding at risk.
Specifically, the study from Connecticut Children's Medical Center, found that a delay in milk coming in is associated with the cessation of any breastfeeding, and exclusive breastfeeding at 4 weeks postpartum.
This conclusion was reached by reviewing data on nearly 2,500 mothers from the CDC's Infant Feeding Practices II survey. 23% of the mothers surveyed experienced a delay in milk coming in, known as "lactogenesis II."
Why might these two things be related? The authors note that "care providers may advise mothers who report a delay in the onset of copious milk production to give infant formula supplements. This approach may ultimately shorten breastfeeding duration."
The study focused on how to manage delayed lactogenesis II to protect breastfeeding, but I'd like to ask another question: If a delay poses a risk to breastfeeding, is there anything you can do to prevent it?
The answer is yes and no. We can't exactly will our bodies to start producing mature milk (as hard as I tried with my second baby) but research is pretty clear that there are modifiable risk factors related to a delay. Many of these are probably overlapping and interrelated, and the authors note that many of them are independent risk factors for poor breastfeeding outcomes. I've combined a list of these factors from this study and another one into the list below.
To take the "no"s first, here are some things that are very hard or impossible to influence by the time you're pregnant:
- age (oh, how I wish)
- maternal obesity
- parity (which number birth this is)
- diabetes (yes, there are modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes, but they're hard to change by the time you're pregnant)
- hypertension
Now to the factors which you can more easily influence. Again, these are things we can do to give ourselves better odds at they can be influenced. There are no guarantees.
Let's take them by group. In the first group we have:
- having prenatal care
- infant birth weight
- infant Apgar score <8
- preterm birth
Some obvious behaviors related to these are having these risk factors for delayed lactogenesis II are having prenatal care, not smoking, and not using alcohol or illicit drugs.
The next group is related to birth:
- delivery mode
- prolonged second stage labor
- labor pain medication
- exogenous oxytocin (pitocin) use
- stressful labor and delivery
- psychosocial stress/pain
How could you influence these factors? In a word: doula. Doulas have been shown to influence a number of the factors above, including shorter labors with fewer complications, less pitocin use, reduced risk of cesarean birth, and less use of pain medication. Want to know more about how to reduce these factors? Check out my post on birthing practices and breastfeeding.
And here are the neonatal factors associated with a delay in milk coming in:
- supplementation within 48 hours postpartum
- infant excess weight loss
- nipple pain when breastfeeding
- flat/inverted nipples (good support can help you with any problems that arise because of them)
- prelacteal feeds (supplementation before mature milk comes in)
- delayed first breastfeed episode
- low perinatal breastfeeding frequency
- hormonal contraceptive administration first week postpartum
And how can you reduce the odds of these factors? If I had to choose one, it would have to be delivering at a Baby Friendly Hospital. In Baby Friendly hospitals many of these practices don't happen or do so far less frequently (supplementation before 48 hours, prelacteal feeds, delayed first breastfeeding, low feeding frequency). But if delivery at a Baby Hospital is not practical (as it isn't for most women in the U.S.), the next best thing would be to deliver at a hospital which follows as many of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as possible.
If these recommendations sound familiar it's because you've seen them before in posts I've written on ways of avoiding the breastfeeding Booby Traps. For our best advice, see our checklists for pregnancy, birth, and during your hospital stay.
Did your milk come in late (defined as greater than 72 hours postpartum)? How did it affect your breastfeeding experience?


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Not to have to defend Mr Rockwell and some of his mis-information but what he was suggesting was not we recall faces from 15 feet, it was that we "use lenses that place us 15 feet from the subject".This in most cases is probably correct in that "portrait" lenses, as has been expressed here already are roughly in 35mm terms around 100mm for head and shoulders, and 85 for 3/4 to full length. [a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196680\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
The issues raised here are interesting. They seem to me to be connected to the concept, 'the camera never lies'.I've often said myself, 'of course the camera lies'. 'What about the unnatural enlargement of close objects when using wide-angle lenses?'If Ken is right, that our brains process perception of the human face from a perspective of roughly 15 feet away, even when we are standing just 2 or 3 feet away from someone, then perhaps the camera is not lying as much as we thought it was. Perhaps our perceptions are partly a lie.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196790\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
While a person may not appear unnatural when viewd close with both eyes try shutting one eye and one can become aware of 'wide angle' type distortion[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196798\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
.....This is why Ken recommends 200mm to 300mm lens for a head & shoulders portrait, not 100mm.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196782\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
If you want the whole person standing, you can use a 50-70mm lens. If they sit down, a 70-105mm works great. If you want just head and shoulders, you'll want a 200mm to 300mm lens, at least, since you want to stay at least fifteen feet away.
When I was growing up with this stuff, 30-40 years ago, it was common knowledge that you'd take landscapes with the widest lens, most other photos with whatever fit, but for portraits you'd usually opt for 90mm or thereabouts to avoid the facial distortions you'd get shooting close-up. Since when did Rockwell or digital tech rewrite the logic of portrait shooting?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=202584\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
According to the specialist site on vision from which I quoted on the previous page, the logic of portrait shooting has already been rewritten as a result of careful experimentation.The long and short of it is, using a short focal length tends to cause people to look a bit chummy and benevolent; using a long focal length causes people to look smarter and stronger in character, which is the effect one might want to achieve with a formal portrait, and using a lens somewhere between the two extremes, 80mm or 90mm, is a compromise between too chummy and too smart, a sort of bland average or normalcy; the middle way; stay out of trouble.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=202658\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
PLEASE!I have read a few of mr. Rockwell's comments on various topics including equipment. The last straw for me was when I started doing research on a lens that I was considering. I stayed away from his site because of my doubts of his knowledge based on other times I visited his site and found his opinions for the most part to be not founded on fact.On various other sites people were commenting favorably on the lens in question, when all of a sudden, there were comments on Rockwell's "report" on the lens. People on other sites were expressing doubts about the quality and reliability and whether to even bother getting the lens. Such a swing in opinion made me consider seeing what this "report" contained. I should have listened to my gut feeling and ignored going to his site, but I did. His "report" was based on a PREPRODUCTION MODEL that he briefly handled at a trade show-"I tried three samples at PMA 2006". People on other sites were falling all over themselves with doubt about the usability of the lens. Why? Because his "report" would not recommend it due to it's inability to autofocus to his likening. He recommended that people pass on upgrading to this lens based, primarily, on his findings. The lens in question?The 105 f2.8 AF-S VR Micro Nikkor!This site, LL, is indeed for smart people. mr. Rockwell's is for the gullible.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196399\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
It's his opinion the photographer should "want to be at least about 15 feet away when photographing people in order to achieve realistic proportions",[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196235\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
So, to cut to the chase, what have you found to be the best method of maintaing pleasing features?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=196235\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I don't understand why people read Ken Rockwell's site.
All these people on many many forums that continuously bash KR must feel threatened by him.
Misinformation (down right lies) are threatening to those who know better and see this directed at those that don't. The yet misinformed don't deserve Ken Rockwell.
I mean you are actually looking out for the misinformed right? and not just Ken R bashing?
Since there is a team of "internet Photography review police" out there, shouldn't they be patrolling other reviewers too
Or is it the fact that KR makes a ton of money off this stuff that bothers you.


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The following recall has been announced:
DETAILS: Water Balz (round-shape), Growing Skulls (skull-shape), H2O Orbs "Despicable Me" (round-shape) and Fabulous Flowers (flower-shape). These are marble-sized toys that absorb water and grow up to 400 times their original size. They were sold in packages of six in green, yellow, red, blue and black. The toy's packaging includes the word "Dunecraft" and the name of the toy and the model number. They are manufactured in China and the U.S., and imported by Dunecraft Inc. of Cleveland.
Water Balz and Growing Skulls were sold at Bed Bath & Beyond, Five Below, Hobby Lobby, Lakeshore Learning Materials, Microcenter, Urban Outfitters Direct, Wegmans and other stores nationwide, and online at amazon.com, incrediblescience.com, keyporthobbies.com, americantoystores.com and other websites from September 2010 through November 2012. The H2O Orbs "Despicable Me" were sold exclusively at Universal Studios stores during June 2012. Fabulous Flowers were sold exclusively at Milaeger's in Racine, Wis., from June 2012 through November 2012.
WHY: When the toy is ingested, it expands inside the body and causes a blockage in the small intestine, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting and dehydration, and can be life-threatening. The toys, which don't show up on an x-ray, require surgery to be removed from the body.
INCIDENTS: The firm received one report of an 8-month-old girl from Humble, Texas, who had to have a Water Balz surgically removed after ingesting it and suffering an intestinal obstruction in August 2011.
HOW MANY: About 94,700 in the U.S. and 600 in Canada.
FOR MORE: Contact: Dunecraft Inc., at 800-306-4168, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, or visit the company website at www.dunecraft.com .


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Mini-conference, RPLA's New Earlier Open, and This Year's Conference
Announcing the FWA Spring Mini-Conference in Altamonte Springs
Mark your calendar for FWA's 2013 Spring Mini-Conference Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Altamonte Springs near Orlando. We'll have a full day of simultaneous workshops presented by a stellar faculty. If crime writing is your passion, you can opt for Vic DiGenti's all-day workshop, which will run parallel to the others. Perhaps you'd like to book an agent interview. You'll find all these opportunities and more.
Our keynoter is none other than Adrian Fogelin, author of seven successful novels, winner of more than three dozen state and international awards, and highly sought-after speaker. You have to like her style:
"A keynote is an interesting beast. It should make listeners laugh—and maybe cry. It should move them, show them their best selves and give each one something practical to bring home to their classroom or library, something that makes a difference in how they do their job. I try to do all that when I address a group—and I do it with the oldest and best tool in the human toolkit: stories."
—Adrian Fogelin
This is an amazing bargain: $59 registration fee for FWA members, $79 for nonmembers. Agent interviews are $25 if you reserve before March 1, $40 after March 1. Check the FWA website (www.floridawriters.net) for details, then join us on April 20 and be ready to be inspired.
RPLA Opens in Less than a Month
FWA's Royal Palm Literary Awards competition is open for submissions from February 15, 2013, until June 15, 2013. The RPLA will judge in some 37 categories and this year has added a separate Youth Writers component. Also new: Finalists will be determined and notified differently, Published books may now be submitted in galley form (PDF format) or manuscript form, and maximum word counts for book-length entries have been abolished. For details, check the FWA website.
And, Of Course, There's This Year's Conference!
Step right up and mark your calendar for "The Greatest Writers Conference on Earth," FWA's 12th annual conference, to be held October 18-20, 2013, at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary. Edna Buchannan is our keynote speaker for this three-day event where members find their agents, meet their publishers, and get the scoop on the industry. Workshops, networking opportunities, and special events will culminate with the Awards Banquet for FWA's Royal Palm Literary Awards. For additional information, watch for the Conference page on the FWA website (www.floridawriters.net) or contact email@example.com.
Suzanna Crean permalinkJanuary 20, 2013 11:20 am
What are the times of the miniconference and where will it be located?
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Working in Life Sciences his entire career, Brad has a broad background in business advisory and management consulting, IT strategy and solution delivery, and outsourcing operations across Pharmaceutical R&D. His focus is on helping clients drive transformation through innovation, operational efficiency, and cost savings.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Villanova University, with minors in Business and Computer Science. He lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.
Joe Donahue is a managing director with Accenture's global Accelerated R&D Services group, where he leads the life sciences Research practice. He is responsible for growing the practice which helps our clients improve their discovery, research and preclinical functions.
Joe joined Accenture in 2016, having worked in life sciences and healthcare his entire career, partnering with global customers in biotech, large pharma and medical institutions to leverage internal and external data, analytics and technology to help them improve research processes and patient outcomes.
Prior to joining Accenture, Joe gained more than 25 years of executive level entrepreneurial and Board experience in global life sciences and technology companies.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with a concentration in Computer Science from Villanova University. He lives in Central New Jersey with his wife and six children.
Ian Shafer is a managing director in Accenture's global Accelerated R&D Services group, responsible for the Clinical Development practice. He is responsible for developing the domain's overall strategy, offerings, and industry research focus.
Ian has been with Accenture since 2006 and has worked in clinical development for the entirety of his career, bringing together Consulting, Technology, Operations and Digital services to help our clients improve their clinical development organization, operations, and functional capabilities.
Prior to joining Accenture, Ian worked at a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical operations group, as well as for a software company focused on the capture and management of clinical data.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and lives in Tabernacle, NJ with his wife and son.
Seth Levine is a managing director in Accenture's Accelerated R&D Services group leading its global Pharmacovigilance business. He is responsible for growing the business which helps our client's bring safer drugs and safety information about those drugs to market faster. In this role, Seth and his team bring together management consulting, innovative technology and operations services to deliver a step-change improvement in productivity and quality.
Seth has been with Accenture since 1987, focused in Life Sciences for 27 years. He has deep experience in technology implementation and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. He led our Life Science BPO group for eight years and also had responsibility for delivery quality across North America for several years and a multi-year role developing our Life Science Cloud platform for clinical.
He has a degree in Psychology and Decision Sciences from College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives outside of Philadelphia, PA with his wife, two of their five children, and his incredibly wonderful grandchild.
Nicole Cohen is a managing director in Accenture's Accelerated R&D Services group. She is the head of the Management Consulting practice globally, shaping and implementing consulting solutions as well as customizing solutions for R&D clients which bring the best of Accenture from across its business dimensions: Strategy, Consulting, Technology, Operations and Digital.
Nicole has broad experience in designing and delivering transformation programs in R&D, from functional strategy definition, organizational and functional design to implementations of significant change. In addition to working with various life sciences companies, she is also active in the development of thought capital as an author and as executive sponsor of Accenture's industry perspectives content in R&D.
Recently Nicole was honored as a 2015 Luminary by the Healthcare Businesswoman Association (HBA) and recognized as an individual who has made a significant impact on the healthcare industry. She also serves as a role model within Accenture, actively mentors others, exhibits dedication to the industry's focus on human health, and consistently demonstrates exceptional leadership.
Nicole graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. She lives in Wayne, PA with her husband and children.
Rob Saiter is a Managing Director in Accenture's global Accelerated R&D Services group. He has 18 years of experience with Accenture, primarily in the life sciences industry, providing consulting and technology solutions to clients engaged in research and development, enabling them to bring products to patients faster.
Rob leads Accenture's R&D Technology Services practice which has been noted as an industry leader by market analysts. He is responsible for growing and expanding the business that uses technology to improve our client's business. In addition, he manages relationships with key clients and external vendors.
He has a BS in Management from Texas A&M University and an MS in Organizational Psychology from the University of North Texas. Rob lives in Dallas, TX with his family.
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International agency Oxfam has been in the field and talked directly to people affected by continuous rains of hurricane Sandy. After more than 48 hours of rain and some violent winds in the south, Haiti is still under national alert in the 10 departments, and flooding has been registered in many localities in the south.
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